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And while many of the cases are associated with travel, or contacts of people who have travelled, there has been some community transmission. the uk—wide situation is encouraging. some intensive care units have no covid patients. for the second successive day, total hospital admissions have been below 100. the question now is whether the variant changes that picture in any way. hugh pym, bbc news. now on bbc news...this week�*s travel show comes from tokyo. coming up on this week�*s show.....

In the morning. bright start across eastern areas, and to be honest, there probably wont be that much in the way of rain across the south—east. northern scotland not faring too bad either. but, otherwise, a lot of rain to come across western areas, with some strong winds blowing into the coast of wales in particular. gusts here around 50—60mph. winds that strong will likely bring down a few tree branches. there could be some localised transport disruption. the low pressures still there on fr...

Environmentalists say the surface of lake titicaca, in the andean mountains, between bolivia and peru — is being taken over by duck—weed algae. the aggressive non—native species of algae blocks sunlight from reaching other life in the lake, suffocating fish and natural vegetation. it feeds on high concentrations of phosphates and nitrates in the lake, caused by pollution, industrial waste and organic erosion from nearby cities — which spill directly into the rivers that fill lake. enviro...

Wales, the south west of england. inland, were looking at gusts about 40 mph and temperatures seven to 14 or 15 degrees. at this stage in may, they should be closer to 15 this is bbc news. the headlines: a new state—owned body, great british railways, will set train timetables and ticket prices in a big shake up. i cant imagine me ever wanting to use public transport over my car, so, yeah, i do think they will have to do something drastic. it goes up and up every year, - and the service, you k...

In the national test and trace system, that provided no details to some local councils from the 21st of april until the 11th of may. that is three weeks without an effective test and trace system. in total 294 positive cases in blackburn alone were not passed on to the local contact tracers. nearly 800 across england. it’s contact tracers. nearly 800 across entland. �* , ., contact tracers. nearly 800 across entland. v ., ., contact tracers. nearly 800 across entland. �*, . . ., england. i...

Working on the roll—out of the vaccine programme. now its time for a look at the weather with carol. hello, again. the weather remains unsettled, notjust today but over the next few days. we got low pressure coming in from the atlantic today, bringing in all those rain, moving northwards and eastwards. bringing in all this rain, moving northwards and eastwards. some of that heavy and persistent. lighter rain across parts of the south—east of england and sunshine and showers across shetland, ...

Swing coach tojust him, hasnt to? he brought this swing coach to just try to break it down for him. here he is on his first hole, which is the tenth, he started on the tenth, just going from bunker to bunker here, finally, those sand areas which are so deep, and a few of them, that one has been raked, but there arent rakes and most of them at the island, so sand everywhere, big swales by the greens, and that sand is such a trap because its flanks all the fairways, and it isnt manicured. so we ha...

I have to report those early birds, have a beautiful morning in the north west. for many starting on a dry and bright note, but it will not last because as we go through the day some rain already in western areas will push northwards and eastwards and be accompanied by windy conditions and gales. dry and bright to start. cloud turning the sunshine hazy and then in comes the rain. it will be patchy in the far south—east but the wind will strengthen. especially through the irish sea and south—...

When i first saw how old beryl was i was shocked, and thought perhaps it was a typo on our database. this is a joy because it isjust 12 blocks down the hill to work. she is a keen hiker and has a boyfriend. he is younger, he is only 77. they might call me a cougar, i guess. beryl�*s part of a study into why people like her have aged so well and what science can learn from her. joel kramer is overseeing that research. we have already seen really significant gains in longevity over the past 20�...

Will bring to an end 11 days of bombardment, in which more than more than 200 palestinians were killed and a dozen israelis were killed. we will continue to update you on the story. hello there. this weeks spring showers were replaced by something a little more threatening, with heavy rain and unseasonable strong winds. as you can see, it brought some rough seas through cornwall and along the welsh coast, as well. and in fact, the area of low pressure is going to stay with us through friday, slo...