scottish democracy. the electric car battery maker britishvolt has gone into administration, leaving hundreds of staff redundant. more rail strikes train drivers will walk out on the 1st and 3rd of february, after union bosses rejected a pay offerfrom rail companies. a double decker bus overturns in icy conditions in somerset. 56 people are injured. and after 31 years presenting his weekday mid morning show, broadcaster ken bruce announces he is leaving bbc radio 2. hello, good afternoon. for the first time, the uk government has announced it is blocking a law passed by the scottish parliament. the scotland secretary alisterjack told the commons he was blocking introducing reforms that would have made it easier for people to legally change gender. he said transgender people deserved respect and understanding, but he believed the bill would interfere with uk equalities law. the first minister, nicola sturgeon, says her government will take legal action against the decision,
Eastern areas, cloud, Light Rain In The South East and a cool wind along the south east and a cool wind along the north sea coast. More later. Its tuesday the 23rd of april. Asylum seekers who enter the uk illegally could be sent to rwanda after a Government Bill finally made it through parliament in the early hours, after months of delays. It declared the african country to be safe. The bill will become law within the next few days and the Prime Minister has said the first flights will leave the uk in ten to 12 weeks. Human Rights Groups described the plan as shameful. Our Political Correspondent ben wright has the details. Long after most people had gone to bed, parliament carried on working, wrestling with the issue of sending Asylum Seekers to rwanda. The governments plan had faced strong resistance in the House Of Lords. They voted for changes mps kept rejecting. My lords, this bill has now been scrutinised a number of times. The government have rejected this amendment several tim
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please, if you haven t had your first, second or third jab, it s time to come forward. help us keep this success story going and protect the incredible progress we have all made. i would like to hand over to susan who will talk us through some of the latest data. of the latest data. thank you. first slide please- this slide highlights the number of cases we have seen testing positive in the uk. two important points. 0ne in the uk. two important points. one is you can see that in december and january we had a threefold higher number of cases detected than we did in a similar period last year in the middle of the alpha wave. the most recent seven day average is 93,210 cases per day and that has come down quite substantially from a peak on
will see some people, particularly the elderly, dying within 28 days of a case of covid. we look very carefully at the 0ns data, released weekly, in the last two weeks it has always liked because the death registrations need to come through. it has always lagged. we need to monitor the number of deaths we rc and andy 0ns are monitoring that are on the death certificate, related to the death in some way. if those diverged we will discuss it further and highlight the reasons. 0n the components of face coverings aren t working from home, case numbers have declined, it is behaviour that will make the difference over the next four weeks face coverings and working from home. clearly when you are working from home you have less social contact but we are already seeing some people going back to the