Re open theIr doors, welcomIng theIr fIrst clubbers sInce march last year. We wIll hear thIs afternoon If the government wIll recommend vaccInatIons for chIldren. The whole of scotland has now moved to the lowest level of covId restrIctIons. But some measures such as mandatory Face CoverIngs wIll stay for at least another three weeks. How are you feelIng about legal restrIctIons In england beIng removed today . Let me know, and are you goIng to contInue wearIng a mask to protect others . vIcderbyshIre on Instagram Or TwItter or emaIl me vIctorIa bbc. Co. Uk. The other headlInes a Data Leak suggests that actIvIsts, polItIcIans and journalIsts Around The World may have been monItored usIng mobIle Phone Spyware desIgned to target crImInals and terrorIsts. SIx brItIsh athletes are forced to quarantIne Injapan, four days before the tokyo olympIcs. Good mornIng. 480 days after they were fIrst Introduced, most legal restrIctIons on socIal contact have been lIfted In england. From today, there
Here in england, a project which Analyses Sewage Water for early signs of coronavirus outbreaks, has been expanded to cover two thirds of the countrys population. Its hoped it could serve as an early warning of new outbreaks. Heres our science correspondent, victoria gill. Early in the pandemic, scientist confirmed that wastewater could be tested for the covid virus. That Sewage Sampling which scientists say can pick up the virus earlier than testing in a population has now been ramped up. Researchers say that 500 locations are being monitored for coronavirus, many of them sampled at least four days a week. It is a sewage based Coronavirus Tracking Programme which was developed from scratch. The Health Secretary said that the approach was being used to monitor the Indian Variantand Being used to monitor the indian variant and track its spread. Wastewater testing has been described as an additional detecting system for covid i9, helping Health Officials to spot early signals of localise
Focus. More before two oclock. Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Two doses of the main covid vaccines used in the uk are found to be highly effective against the indian variant of the virus. Government ministers deny claims, by the former downing Street Adviser dominic cummings, that they pursued a policy of Herd Immunity in dealing with the coronavirus in the early part of last year. The former Bbc Journalist Martin bashir defends his Panaorama Interview with princess diana, but apologises to Princes William and harry. Homes have been destroyed and at least five people have died, as thousands fled in panic after Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic Of Congo exploded. The un Security Council stresses that israel and the palestinians should fully adhere to the ceasefire as the pause in violence enters a third day. The queen visits the royal Navy Flagship, hms Queen Elizabeth, as it begins its first major deployment. And nul point for the uk at eurovision, as italy wins the
Your vision, yourvision, bell ringing, quite the now its time for a look at the weather with helen willets. Good evening. If youre out travelling in the next few hours, theres some pretty wet weather out there wet and windy weather, in fact. This band of rain lasting a couple of hours with some fairly lively winds will finally clear out the way from Eastern Parts of england as we go through the small hours, but we still have that rain sitting across scotland. Itll meander its way northwards. So, where the skies clear away, perhaps A Touch Of Frost for Northern Ireland in the countryside, but you still have the showers already packing behind that Weather Front into southern and western areas. And, yes, tomorrow, were back to heavy and blustery showers with some sunshine, perhaps the best of which may be across the north of england. A bright start in the east for england and wales. It is a day of sunny spells and heavy downpours, some Hail And Thunder. For scotland, that Weather Front be
More now on mr cummings giving evidence to a parliamentary committee in a year of disputes and controversies within government, one of the most talked about events during the first lockdown was Dominic Cummings infamous trip to Barnard Castle in county durham, the purpose of which, he claimed, was to test his eyesight. He admitted he hadnt told the whole story, he apologised for his handling of the matter, but said there were Security Reasons for the trip which he should have been more open about. Our deputy political Editor Vicky young reports. Wed all been told to stay at home, but Dominic Cummings didnt. He, in fact, travelled to his parents home in durham. Before setting off, he was seen rushing out of Downing Street after discovering his wife had covid. Weeks later, in the Rose Garden at Downing Street, he was forced to explain. I was worried that if my wife and i were both seriously ill, possibly hospitalised, there was nobody in london that we could reasonably ask to look after