Speaking to olly foster there. Finally, the olympic torch has been formally handed over from greece to pyeongchang ahead of the winter games next year. The panathenaic stadium, which hosted the first modern olympics in 1896, provided the backdrop as the torch was presented to the president of the pyeongchang 2018 organising Committee Lee hee beom. Thats all from sportsday. Well have more throughout the evening. This years award for britains best new building the Riba Stirling prize for architecture will be presented at a special ceremony tonight. Among the nominations are a crowd funded renovated sea side pier, a mega campus for students in glasgow and a new Housing Development with wicker balconies. Our media correspondent David Sillito is at the roundhouse in north london where tonights prize will be presented. Good evening. And welcome to the roundhouse. At 8 30pm will have the announcement of the winner of the iba stirling prize this year. But before that lets take a look at the si
And germany is relaxing some of its lockdown measures from today, with the outbreak there, now said to be under control. After a weekend of warnings that some supplies of personal protective equipment for nhs workers are on the verge of running out, a number of hospitals across england say their stocks of gowns are now critically low. It comes as the government is criticised over delays to a delivery of ppe, including 400,000 gowns from turkey, that had been due to arrive yesterday. In other developments scientists are looking into whether the blood of coronavirus survivors can be used to treat people who are ill in hospital with covid 19. Tens of thousands of temporary mortuary spaces are being provided across the uk by the government ministers have described the measure as a precaution rather than a predicion. And from today, businesses can apply for grants to cover 80 per cent of the wages of staff who have been temporarily laid off because of the lockdown. Meanwhile, germany is rel
After raising more than 26 Million Pounds for the nhs by walking 100 laps of his garden, 99 year old war veteran captain tom is now on course for another remarkable achievement. Youll never walk alone. After a first performance with michael ball on bbc breakfast last week their version of youll never walk alone, together with an nhs choir, is now on course to top the uk singles chart. Nearly 36,000 copies have been sold in 48 hours. Time for a look at the weather. Here is chris. Hello, simon. Lots of sunshine on offer in the week ahead, High Pressure firmly in charge, fine weather, if you are able to get out for a socially distant walk, the beachesin for a socially distant walk, the beaches in dorset suitably sparsely populated. The satellite shows clear skies, some rain bearing clouds skirting the north west of france, its going to stay there are the rest of this afternoon, we have dry weather and sunshine but with some gusty easterly winds, gusting 30 odd miles an hour. 0vernight, we