For the lifting of restrictions in england to go ahead onjuly 19th. Nicola sturgeon accuses the mayor of greater manchester, andy burnham, of playing politics, in a row over a scottish government ban on travel to salford and manchester. If you want is a grown up conversation, he only has to pick up the phone, but if as i suspect this is a spat with me over a labour leadership contest of the future, i m not interested. Scotland midfielder billy gilmour tests positive for covid and will miss the euro 2020 match with croatia tomorrow. And the first person in the world to get a covid jab outside of trials, 91 year old margaret keenan, gives her first interview to the bbc. I ve said before, please do have the jab, there s nothing to it, don t be afraid of a needle just to save your life and to save other s lives. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. It s been called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the nhs. The deaths of thousands of people who were given contaminated blood
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are olivia utley, assistant comment editor at the telegraph, and rob merrick, deputy political editor of the independent. Welcome to both of you. Good to have you back with us. You survive the football and you have restrained yourselves on the celebrations or commiseration. Thanks for that. England get the job done, says the telegraph, which features a picture of footballer raheem sterling celebrating after he scored the goal that sealed the win against the czech republic this evening. The metro also features the football on its front page, in particular the 60,000 fans that will be allowed into wembley stadium for the euros final, calling it a lockdown milestone. The financial times focuses on how the pandemic has been a boon for the wealthy, with more than 5 million people becoming millionaires in the last year. The guardian leads on government ministers pushing ahead with proposals to privat
and with one day to go until the world s most famous horse race returns, we ll meet the jockey who s preparing to take on the sport s elite in the grand national, hoping to become the first female winner, and her horse s trainer is her mum. roll trainer is her mum. up, all the fun of the fair. good roll up, all the fun of the fair. good morning from blackpool pleasure beach, where they are preparing to reopen on monday morning for their 125th season, and somehow i ve got the job of testing the rides. good morning, some colder weather on the cards once again of the next few days. some snow showers across scotland today, patchy rain further south, i ll be here all morning with all your weather details. good morning. it s friday the 9th of april. our top story plans to reopen international travel for holiday makers from england have been unveiled with a requirement to pay for coronavirus tests. the government has stopped short of saying if foreign trips can resume next month,
and the uae is over the moon as its first historic mission to mars enters the red planet s orbit after a seven month journey from earth. good afternoon. the health secretary matt hancock has announced a series of strict new border measures for england to attempt to prevent people bringing new variants of the virus into the country. they include fines of up to ten thousand pounds for those who fail to quarantine in hotels on arrival. mr hancock also said travellers will face up to 10 years in prison if they try to hide the fact they ve been to any of the 33 designated high risk countries. and people arriving here will be required to take two covid tests failure to do so will also lead to big fines. the measures will come into force on monday though critics have said they should have been introduced far sooner. here s theo leggett. travel into the uk is about to get even tougher and the rules even more complicated. passengers already need to test negative for covid i9 befor
the union votes in support of a ballot on strike action over the school budgets in england. and in 30 minutes, join us for a weather world, were at belfast international airport, weather world, were at belfast internationalairport, going weather world, were at belfast international airport, going behind the scenes to find outjust international airport, going behind the scenes to find out just what international airport, going behind the scenes to find outjust what it ta kes to the scenes to find outjust what it takes to keep these aeroplanes flying, whatever the weather. good evening and welcome to bbc news. a huge car bomb has hit a convoy of coaches carrying evacuees from government held towns in syria, killing at least 43 people. the powerful explosion caused widespread damage to the convoy on the outskirts of aleppo and dozens more people have been injured. richard galpin reports. a suicide bomber is believed to have carried out this devastating attack. and this is what r