Started piano lessons at the end of last year, spent lockdown learning, and has just achieved the highest piano grade possible. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Britains largest Higher Education union has called for students to stay home for the autumn term and study online to help prevent a second wave of coronavirus. Face to face learning is an issue universities are grappling with around the world because of covid 19. The universities and College Union say the prospect of more than a Million Students moving from their home towns to campuses across the country is a recipe for disaster. Universities insist theyve spent months planning for a safe start to the new term. Here s our education editor bra nwen jeffreys. Its been quiet on campuses since march, but within weeks, students are due to return more than a million across the uk. The University Lecturers union says t
To their european crown. At this mornings weather. Good morning to you. Another the morning to you both. It is u nsettled good morning to you. Another unsettled day with part two of the another windy one in store. Not as weekend also windy, but not as windy windy as yesterday but we still have as yesterday. A mixture of sunshine low pressure nearby which is going and showers, but a chance of more to bring plenty of showers, we have seen a lot ofjobs across western sunshine today than yesterday. Join scotland, Northern Ireland, western me laterfor all the england and wales over the last sunshine today than yesterday. Join couple of hours. Me later for all the details. These are shower clouds. That man good morning. Its sunday october 25. Our top story pressure is mounting band was what moves through on the government over its decision yesterday. That has cleared off into the near continent and we are into not to fund free meals for Vulnerable Children the near continent and we are into
This is bbc news. Im tim willcox with the latest headlines at 2. University lecturers warn that plans to reopen universities in september will be too dangerous without a coronavirus testing programme. We are really worried that we could see universities becoming the care home of any second wave of coronavirus in the uk. We need to make sure our campus is covid safe. We have taken a lot of measures to protect with Hand Sanitisers and so on. Deep cleaning of our residences when we need to. Thousands of Anti Government demonstrators are gathering in minsk to protest at what they believe is the rigged re election of the belarus Prime Minister. European countries are urged to offer a place of safety to hundreds of migrants rescued by ships in the mediterranean including one paid for by the street artist banksy. The m year old, who started piano lessons at the end of last year, and spent lockdown practising, has achieved the highest piano grade possible. The design of the spitfire and the un
Good afternoon. Well have the latest government briefing from downing street on the coronavirus pandemic, led today by the Health Secretary, matt hancock. That is in about half an hour. But first, ministers say theyre confident of hitting their target for the number of daily coronavirus tests, after the Prime Minister said the uk is past the peak of the outbreak. The government had pledged 100,000 tests a day by the end of april, with more than 81,000 taking place on wednesday. The target was 100,000 tests a day by the end of april. Its just under a month since the Health Secretary announced that deadline. Well find out later whether the ambition was achieved. Are you confident youll meet your testing target . More than 81,000 tests were carried out in the uk on wednesday, after more people became eligible including those over the age of 65 in england who have symptoms, and care home residents and staff who dont. Setting a challenging target was the right thing to do, because it galvan