cloud will stick most of the day. it s tuesday, the 2nd of march. our top story. communities could be given up to a quarter of a million pounds to take over struggling pubs in their area under plans expected to be announced in the budget tomorrow. the chancellor will unveil a community ownership fund, which is also expected to cover sports clubs, theatres and other venues at risk of closure. our political correspondent, chris mason, has the details. how do you save your local pub? many were already closing permanently before the pandemic. how many more might follow now we are out of the habit of propping up the bar? in the budget tomorrow, the chancellor will announce that community groups across the uk could be given up to a quarter of a million pounds to help take over struggling pubs. they will be helped, too, to buy into theatres and sports clubs. rishi sunak will also say he will spend £300 million of taxpayers money to help summer sports such as tennis, horse racing a
suffered with andy murray over the years, there was so much that was familiar. the first set setback, the second sets, come back. then a triumph of will to finally defeat robin in the third. murray rising under pressure once more. we know the story, but do we really understand it? it s not easy, like, every time i lose a match, you know, it s. everyone thinks that i m getting told to retire, that i should stop playing, that, you know, that i m finished and, you know, i ve got nothing left or whatever, and it s sad. all of these things, and it s like, it s not easy. feel like i m playing for my careerjust now. each time i step on the court, which you know commits a motivation in some ways, but it s also adding a bit of, yeah, extra stress, there is a bit of extra doubt there. you know come on top of that, i m playing with a metal hip. on top of that, i m playing with a metal hi -. ., on top of that, i m playing with a metal hip- on top of that, i m playing with a metal hi. .,
the south west we have showers developing from a low pressure point here. it looks as though temperatures will sit close to freezing in many places so a chilly start and before i look at wednesday, let s look ahead and see the general trend and a couple of weather fronts to clear away, and this one will allow another area of high pressure to drift down from the north and that will be quite significant because a north easterly flow will drive in a cooler air mass across the country and a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather over the next few days. back to wednesday, however, it looks likely it will start off with showers around across parts of cornwall, devon and into south wales and they will gradually drift north and they will gradually drift north and east along the m4 corridor. the low cloud, mist and murkiness perhaps just drifting but lingering along the north sea coast and some brighter skies out to the west, but a difference to the feel of the weather furth
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are olivia utley, assistant comment editor for the telegraph and uk political editor at politico jack blanchard. welcome back to you both. we have a few more titles in. let s just flick through some of them. the telegraph s front page focuses on the uk s covid vaccination roll out with figures showing the number of over 80s being admitted to high dependency units falling sharply. it s a similar lead for the i. it reports that the pfizer and oxford vaccines cut the risk of hospitalisations from covid by 80% for over 80s. the guardian says the health secretary used today s downing street briefing to challenge other countries scepticism of the oxford/astrazeneca jab, as it revealed by some measures it is slightly more effective than the pfizer vaccine. for the front page of the times brussels has pledged a vaccination passport scheme which will be open to british travellers in tim
nicolas sarkozy is sentenced to three years in jail after being found guilty of corruption. lessons in yemen the blind nine year old taking classes near the front line as an entire generation faces losing an education. and before nine o clock there may not be gold in them hills but there might be fragments of meteorite somewhere in gloucestershire. good evening, there s fresh evidence that the vaccination programme is having a dramatic effect on the numbers of people being admitted to hospital or dying. in the government s daily briefing, the health secretary matt hancock hailed as seriously encouraging . data that shows that a single dose of the pfizer or astrazeneca vaccine works against severe infection with a more than 80% reduction in hospitalisations of older patients. the news comes as almost 20.3 million people in the uk have had their first dose of a vaccine. and public health england data showed the effect kicked in around 35 days after vaccination. our medic