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which would be a breach of the uk data privacy code designed to protect young people. good morning and welcome to the bbc news channel. the former health secretary, matt hancock, has denied claims he failed to follow covid testing advice during the early days of the pandemic. thousands of whatsapp messages leaked to the telegraph show mr hancock was advised in april 2020 to test everyone going into care homes. but a message reportedly from mr hancock to an aide said he would rather commit to just testing those going into care homes from hospitals. lord bethall was a junior minister in department of health and social care back in 2020. this morning, he was asked whether matt hancock should have taken the advice of the chief medical officer to test everyone going into care homes. no, ithink no, i think the key phrase here is this is obviously a positive step. it was absolutely crystal clear that we wanted to test everyone who went into social care. that was the ambition. ....
by the chair, which will be its centrepiece. nicholas witchell, bbc news, westminster abbey. time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. chilly today but there is colder weather on the way as we head into next week. today is the first day of meteorological spring, it s also st david s day and it s been pretty cloudy. the cloud is thick enough to give us more showers around today. still got high pressure close by so the really wet weather is being deflected into southern parts of europe. that s the storm that brought all of the rain we saw in majorca, that s moving away. just to the north of that there is clear skies. it looks like we will tap into some of that tonight and tomorrow, so may be some changes on the way. today the winds are coming in from off the north sea, picking up in from off the north sea, picking up a lot of cloud. that s pushing our way. the best sunshine in western scotland. the cloud still ringing quite a peppering of showers in those temper ....
we just wanted to get out as soon as possible, so we tried to break the glass in the windows. what we saw in front of us was chaos. the search goes on for a missing baby whose parents have been arrested on suspicion of gross neglicence manslaughter. how hundreds of six offenders slipped off the police radar just by changing their names. and thousands of volunteers come forward to train up guide dogs after the bbc highlighted a national shortage. and coming up on the bbc news channel, it s been an fa cup fairy tale for grimsby, but can they reach the quarterfinals tonight against premier league southampton? more than 4,000 fans are travelling to the south coast. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the former health secretary matt hancock has been accused of rejecting key advice on care homes during the pandemic. the daily telegraph says it s obtained thousands of whatsapp messages he sent and received at the height of the covid crisis. the paper says the ....
almost a0 people are dead after a passenger train and a freight train collide head on. and the singer ed sheeran opens up about using music to cope with depression last year after his pregnant wife was diagnosed with a tumour. and coming up on the bbc news channel: the long awaited disciplinary hearing following azeem rafiq s allegations of racism in yorkshire cricket club has begun in london. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. fresh questions have been raised about the judgement of the former health secretary matt hancock during the covid pandemic after a collection of his whatsapp messages were released. the messages, dating back to april 2020, published by the daily telegraph, cover issues such as care homes, schools and testing. in one of the most serious allegations the paper claims the messages show mr hancock ignored advice from senior medical officers to test everyone going into care homes in england, something he strongly denies. here s our politi ....
from polar regions, dropping the temperature is in a big way, and it is a case of not packing away your winter woollies just yet, because for some of us, we will be looking at the return of snowfall. the news continues here on bbc one, time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions. we are expecting to hear from the met police and sussex police who together have been searching for a missing baby in brighton. there s been a significant development in this case which is why we re bringing you these live pictures from sussex police headquarters and from sussex police headquarters and from the area that they have been searching in the past few days. i am told that when they do appear before the microphones, they re going to hear from the microphones, they re going to hearfrom louis the microphones, they re going to hear from louis who the microphones, they re going to hearfrom louis who is the microphones, they re going to hear from louis who is from the med pol ....