For so many, it is being said that he had to get a good start, and when the opening site if not against somebody like djokovic, with the experience like him, the match could run away, run away, and it looks like djokovic is in control at the start of this. It could be a short time on court for bearing teeny unless he can step it up. He has a powerful serve, unless he can step it up. He has a powerfulserve, he unless he can step it up. He has a powerful serve, he won the queen has not powerful serve, he won the queen cosmic tournament, ii mansions matches on grass, going onto this final, can you come back? we wait and see, but djokovic is in control. Never has the weather been more important today. Let s get the latest. He was darren. Good afternoon. We have got the sunshine at wimbledon and may well have some rain at wembley this evening. I m sure it will not dampen the enthusiasm one bit. Let me shower you the radar picture. Your as the rain coming to wales and the southwest. So
Of the week s proceedings in parliament. Hello and welcome to the week in parliament. The week ministers decided to change england s covid rules. We will revoke all social distancing guidance, including the two metre rule. Hallelujah! but labour refused to join in the hallelujah chorus. Once again, instead of a careful, controlled approach, we re heading for a summer of chaos and confusion. Also in this programme a minister calls for more women lorry drivers. It is a very white male sector, and i think there are huge opportunities for the sector to diversify. And could brexit save the british hedgehog? an mp says a new farming policy. Should aim to secure and restore hedgerows and habitats to give our hedgehogs a bit of a brexit dividend. But first. It had been trailed as england s freedom day the day people could throw away their masks, party with more than five friends and even perhaps plan a foreign holiday. But with infections continuing to rise, and predictions they could reach 10
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the political writer and academic, maya goodfellow, and the scottish political editor for the times scotland, kieran andrews. Let s ta ke let s take a look at tomorrow s front pages. The i leads on borisjohnson s warning that some precautions may still be needed following the lifting of covid restrictions in england on 19july but those who ve been double jabbed may be able to travel abroad more freely. But the telegraph suggests the european covid passport scheme may not recognise millions of astrazeneca doses administered in the uk which were manufactured in india. The paper also carries borisjohnson s call for parents to be patient over the ending of the bubbles system in schools. The metro dedicates its front page to the reunion of princes william and harry, who put aside their differences to unveil a statue in kensington palace of their mother, princess diana, on what would have been
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
Mps and peers call for long covid to be recognised as an occupational disease, but the bbc has been told key workers may face a year long wait for a decision on compensation. Police searching for the remains of mary bastholm, missing since the 1960s, are to excavate a gloucester cafe linked to serial killer fred west. President biden says the us is working to secure a ceasefire, after more than a week of violence between israel and palestinian militants. He urges both sides to protect civilians. And coming up this hour: just 20 companies produce more than half of all the single use plastic thrown away around the world, according to a climate change report. Ministers are stepping up calls for people to accept a covid vaccination as soon as they re offered one. There are fears the spread of the india variant could jeopardise the end of lockdown restrictions next month and a review into social distancing expected next week may be delayed. There are now 2,323 confirmed cases of the strain