Inspiring journey. Remembering the man who shouldve been englands first black player. Jack leslie was the victim of racism, now fans want to see him honoured with a statue outside his club. Good morning. Its going to be a fairly cloudy day today. Having said that, there will be some sunny intervals but there will also be quite a lot of showers, and some of those will be heavy and thundery. Ill have all the details at 6 27am. Carol to come a little bit later on but. Its wednesday 1st of july. Our top story the Worlds Largest aircraft manufacturer, airbus, has announced plans to cut 15,000 jobs including 1,700 in the uk. The Aerospace Giant said it doesnt expect air traffic to return to pre pandemic levels until 2023, calling the Current Situation the gravest crisis the Aviation Industry has ever faced. Andy moore reports. Its a global Aerospace Giant manufacturing a fleet of aircraft, but airbus is being hit by coronavirus like every part of the aviation sector. Thousands ofjobs will be
Good morning, after a showery end to the week it looks like our weather will settle down a little for the weekend. Nothing too warm to come just yet, we will save that for the end of the week ahead. More details a little later. Its saturday 2 may. Our top story the us authorities have approved the use of an anti viral drug which they believe may help to treat covid 19. Its called remdesivir, and is already used on ebola patients. Here in the uk, the government says it has beaten its target of 100,000 coronavirus tests in england per day but that includes 40,000 home tests being posted out with the results yet to be processed. John mcmanus reports. A moment of hope. Dane hardwick hugging his partner after spending five weeks being treated for the coronavirus at thameside General Hospital. His life, like so many others, saved by an nhs working at near full capacity. But with 27,510 people in the uk now having died with coronavirus, other families are grieving. This is 60 year old Deliver
Even presenter Tim Lovejoy expressed surprise Sir Keir was appearing on the light entertainment show rather than face serious policy questioning as other politicians were doing.