harriet durkin, an a&e nurse at the manchester royal infirmary, did just that. and tom got to work painting harriet wearing her ppe. what does it mean to you now to have it? i'll have that picture forever and be able to look back, you know, and remember what a difficult time it had been, but people that i work with, people i call my friends, everybody coming together, i can look at that and think, gosh, you know. it's very emotional. critical care nurse carolina pinto also got in touch with tom, who has been inundated with portrait requests from hundreds of doctors and nurses. he matched her with bp portrait award finalist mary jane ansel, who conducted a virtual sitting. so i'm really excited to paint you and i think this is such a lovely idea. i never had my portrait done before, but it's also good to have like this kind of experience where people are supporting us in a different way.

that must be really difficult when you've got your mask on, because i know that that sort of connection that you have with your patients, that's such a huge part of looking after them. and not being able to have that? they can not really understand your expression. so it's the same if i'm smiling or not, because all they really see is your eyes. most of the time it seems like we are screaming, and we just want them to understand what we are saying. so, yeah, you lost a bit of the human connection. so far, there've been around 500 parings of hospital key worker and professional artist under the hashtag portrait‘s for nhs heroes. the hope is once the lockdown is over to have a public exhibition of them all as the culmination of an initiative that has already been copied in america, spain, belgium and ireland. will gompertz, bbc news. yesterday we told you about baby peyton who was born eight weeks premature and then contracted covid—i9 when she was just three weeks old.

her mother, tracy, isolated in lanarkshire hospital with her for 14 days, and finally, last night, a healthy peyton was discharged to go home for the first time. a new life on its way. time for a look at the weather here's chris fawkes. hi, george. thanks a lot. another day where it's been dry with fine spells of sunshine and a glorious start of the day in the channel islands and this was the scene on the coast ofjersey first thing this morning and the rising sun picked out this cloud. it has been melting away and pushing west as we've gone through the day and most of us have had clear skies throughout. on the beach here, it looks like it could have come from the caribbean with the white sand glistening under the blue sunny skies and many of us have enjoyed that through the day to day. overnight tonight we will keep the brisk, easterly winds and it stays clear and starry for most of us and there will be a few patches of cloud over the pennines in the southern uplands. temperatures like last

night, lows of around four up to seven celsius and a bit older than that in scotland where temperatures might get to about —3 “4. tomorrow, high pressure remains in charge of the weather but the isobars are opening up so although the winds will continue to come in from the east, they are not going to be blowing quite as hard and the early morning cloud will clear quickly with just a bit of high cloud in the sky for northern ireland making the sunshine a little on the hazy side. a warmer day, temperatures of 16, and inland, quite widely in the low 20s and about 18 for northern ireland and western scotland about 18 or 19 for the hive. thursday could see mist and fog patches initially during the morning that these clear off in the strong april sunshine and another fine day coming up sunshine and another fine day coming up on thursday looks like being the warmest day of the week with temperatures around 2a degrees with a hot spot likely across southern areas of england this time. it stays fine, sunny and warm on friday and reasonable weather into the weekend although there will probably be a bit more cloud and temperatures ease

down a little, may be a few isolated showers but the weather is certainly set fairfor the showers but the weather is certainly set fair for the next few days with more warm sunshine on the way. thanks, chris. that's all from news at six goodbye from me and we joined the news team where you are.

where we are the moment is you have to put out an outline of where they see the season being. for leaks to complete, to restart injune and their competitions, the champions league and the champions league and europa league, to either run with them as what happened normally order to conclude after the leagues have finished so we are looking at august. but either way, they hope ua for to have a champions league in

istanbul on the 29th of august and the year league final in good angst on the 26th of august. now as we —— as with that, there is hope for the season as with that, there is hope for the season to finish but also ua for exerting a note of caution i suppose because for the first time, they have accepted that they will listen to in their words in special cases any league that thinks that it has a good reason to finish early. so on one hand, we've got the positivity of what they see as a season that will conclude in june, july and of what they see as a season that will conclude injune, july and by the end of august and on the other, an understanding that this may not be possible and for some leaks, they may want to get out of this earlier than others. uefa are also set to announce that next year's women's european championship will take place in july 2022. the tournament, which will

be held in england, has been pushed back a year after the men's european championship and the tokyo olympics were both postponed until 2021. the plan is to use the same venues as the original tournament. moving the euros to 2022 will avoid two women's tournaments in the same summer. the government has rejected claims that it was too slow to cancel major sporting events in the days leading up to the lockdown. the cheltenham festival and liverpool's champions league match against atletico madrid were both allowed to go ahead. over 3,000 fans from the spanish capital were amongst the crowd. joe blott from the spirit of shankley supports association says there were concerns among the fans about fixtures continuing. we raise the issue with the club because other for all measures have been post—post both in madrid but also other cities. we had i think on the same evening liverpool playing and psg they play behind closed doors. in the following day i think

another match was played behind closed doors. so we were concerned at the time. clearly what was happening was that there was clearly no indication from central government or other authorities other than there is a massive football match here and that is taking place. some of the other sports stories making the news today. and barcelona have agreed to sell the title rights to their stadium for one year in an effort to raise money for the fight against the coronavirus. the spanish club's said they'll donate the entire fee raised by selling the title rights to the camp nou to fighting the global pandemic. european ryder cup captain padraig harrington says there's no appetite on either side of the atlantic to play the competition behind closed doors. it's scheduled to be played at whistling straights in wisconsin in september. super league's magic weekend is the latest event to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic.|t‘s one of the major events in the rugby league calendar, and was supposed to be held at st james' park in newcastle at the end of next month. now, we've seen some creative fund—raising ideas over the last few weeks. but how about this? former rugby player

ed jackson is climbing the height of mount everest by going up and down his staircase. it's an even bigger challenge because three years ago, he was told that he might never walk again. andy swiss reports. imagine recreating the world's highest climb on a staircase in somerset. jackson knows all about challenges. he used to be a professional rugby player but three yea rs professional rugby player but three years ago he broke his neck in a swimming accident and was told he might never walk again. remarkably he defied his injuries and within a year was climbing mountains and now in lockdown he is tackling the biggest of the lot. hi, how are you doing? my stairs. ifirst biggest of the lot. hi, how are you doing? my stairs. i first was going to try the how —— heide snowden but my brain works, i'd tried everest

andi my brain works, i'd tried everest and i don't know if i will regret it or not but i suppose he will find out this week. the curveball is i'm doing it all with one leg pretty much because it only got one functioning leg. so that portland does not know what it is and for, i don't think. it is certainly a tall order. mount everest is nearly 9000 metres high while ed's staircase is just over three metres so he will have to go up it 2783 times, around 89,000 steps to reach the summit. he has raised money for charity in previous crimes and with this one he is supporting three medical causes including the nhs. they saved my life three years ago and they are saving a lot of lives at the moment. i was resuscitated three times after my accident and hopefully i can repay them in some small way over the next four days. ed says he hopes to become the first quadriplegic to climb the real everest but for the next few days, the top of the world

lies at the top of the stairs. and we end with some sad news from the world of sport today — the former performance dirtector of uk athletics, neil black, has died at the age of 60. he was a physiotherapist with the organisation before moving through the ranks to take the top job in 2012 and left the position last year. among those paying tribute today — olympic champion denise lewis who said " the news has rocked our athletics community, humble, hard working and committed.. tirelessly giving his time to make others better. neil black who's died at the age of 60. that's all the sport from me for now. from everyone here, enjoy the rest of your evening. you were watching bbc news. health secretary matt hancock has defended

the government over its criticisms of the handling of distribution of personal protective clothing or ppe for front line personal protective clothing or ppe forfront line nhs personal protective clothing or ppe for front line nhs staff. personal protective clothing or ppe forfront line nhs staff. he personal protective clothing or ppe for front line nhs staff. he said offers from uk —based companies to help are being investigated and that out of 8000 firms making offers around hundred 59 are now working with the government. he also tried to clear up confusion over why the uk did not initiallyjoin an eu joint procurement scheme. saying there been no political decision not tojoin in the uk was now a member. can you just clear exactly what the eu equipment scheme involves?|j don't eu equipment scheme involves?” don't know the exact details of that scheme, i do know this frustration

from those of us on the front lines that feel as though the government have let down nhs and care workers with regards to having the personal protective equipment that they have needed. we've had the first case of cova 19 injanuary. three months later now and we still have staff who are feeling absolutely underprepared. and to know that they we re underprepared. and to know that they were potentially schemes that could have stopped us needing to bury our collea g u es have stopped us needing to bury our colleagues is simply quite difficult for some of our colleagues to handle. the government would argue this is a global pandemic that spanned out in a way that no one could have predicted, and this is a global shortage of ppe. everyone is competing for it. we had our first case in january, and competing for it. we had our first case injanuary, and i personally have been raising my concerns and the houses of parliament and from

the houses of parliament and from the front line saying where is the preparation for the ppe that we need on the front line? the answers that we got word that we have the ppe that need, it's in the uk and all that need, it's in the uk and all that will require is a herculean effort to deliver it to the front line. we estimate will be enough, things kept changing and we found was still short on the front line. now we are told that it's actually down to a global pandemic and a global shortage when in fact we know that we have had people from the textile manufacturing industries offering to support months ago while we we re offering to support months ago while we were stepping up the manufacturing of ventilators we should have been doing the same for ppe. what you make of the suggestion from the government that trials of a vaccine are going to be taking place in humans as early as thursday?” think that's brilliant, i think it's

a credit to the scientific community we have here in the uk who are working so hard around the clock to save lives. i think it's really important to get everything that they need from the government, i welcome the fact that they are able to start trials so soon and i hope there will be working with collea g u es there will be working with colleagues around the globe to share best practice. government announced another £20 million will going to help and that trial from an oxford laboratory. what about the suggestion as well that came out today that the numbers of people in hospitals with coronavirus in london is actually beginning to come down now? i think that's real testimony to just how hard the public have worked to make sure that they adhere to social distancing measures. i really welcome these figures, but i would caution that by saying we have seen would caution that by saying we have seen alarming figures regarding the

numbers of patients in care homes who have coronavirus. the numbers of deaths that potentially have not yet even been reported from there. i think we must apply caution while being really proud of the community is really coming together during this time and to collectively try and save lives. the national care association said today that care homes were left out of the initial planning for this pandemic at the very beginning. there's a sense that if testing it taken place, if more thought have been put into the situation and care homes we might be in the situation we are in now.” have to agree. so many of the death that we are going to see in care homes and death that we had already seen homes and death that we had already seen could have been prevented. there's a number of things they could have helped us here if we had ruled out testing in care homes for staff and for patients that we have been able to get on top of this

virus. we had ensured the care staff had the personal protective equipment they needed we would have been able to protect people. when the government, when all this is said and done they will have difficult questions to answer. thank you forjoining us. a pregnant junior doctor says that she feels unsafe going to work because the rules over the use of protective equipment keep changing. meenal viz wanted to speak out after the death of mary agyapong a pregnant nurse from luton who died from covid—19 last week. more than 70 frontline nhs staff have died during the coronavirus pandemic. kate bradbrook reports. and one—woman protest outside downing street by a pregnant doctor with a clear message. it was my call to all fellow doctors that it's ok to all fellow doctors that it's ok to speak up, and i cannot explain how scary it is to walk into an environment which is so highly infectious, i

don't know what i'm exposing myself to, i don't know what i'm exposing my unborn child two. she is six and a half months pregnant, and although not working on a designated covid ward sheath says she feels that risk. knowing that i might not even have the ppe to see my patients is even scarier because we don't know what we are walking into every day. we might have ppe today and tomorrow we are told something else. the death of the nurse over easter it was the catalyst for her protests. she does the very same hospital that she was saving lives. that is not 0k. she was saving lives. that is not ok. that is injustice. she left a young baby behind who will never know who her mother is and it makes my heart, and that could be me or anybody else. her story really inspired me. her story really made me feel that i had to speak up for everybody else. because who is going to be her voice now? according to

the royal college of obstetricians and gynaecologists pregnant women up to 28 weeks should practice social distancing, but can choose to continue to work in a patient facing role. they advised where possible to avoid caring for patients with suspected or confirmed coronavirus, if not possible to use ppe. and undertake a thorough risk assessment. patients who are coming and make turn out to be covid positive a few days later. initially we we re positive a few days later. initially we were told that would require the full ppe in terms of when we see it covid patients, now even when we see covid patients, now even when we see covid patients, now even when we see covid patients we are told a surgical mask is enough. the gardens are being changed based on supply, not been changed according to our safety. some people arguing you broke government guidelines and potentially put lives at riskjust by going to downing street. potentially put lives at riskjust by going to downing streetm potentially put lives at riskjust by going to downing street. if you think i am unsafe coming to downing street just holding a think i am unsafe coming to downing streetjust holding a sign where i'm not even around anybody where eve ryo ne not even around anybody where everyone is practising social

distancing, if you think that's u nsafe, distancing, if you think that's unsafe, how do you think i feel when i walk into a hospital when i'm surrounded by people? and hospitals it's very difficult to practice of group distancing because the architecture and rooms and awards, and on top of that you're telling me to go in to see a patient with a piece of plastic. tributes have been paid to the accident and emergency consultant manjeet singh riyat, who died yesterday at the royal derby hospital where he worked. mr riyat was the uk's first sikh a&e consultant. colleagues described him as "the father of the current emergency department", who was widely respected across the nhs. dr taj hassan is an emergency medicine consultant at leeds teaching hospitals and is also the immediate past president of the royal college of emergency medicine. he had known riyat for 25 years. let's speak to him now. hello to you and thanks very much indeed for being with us. how would

you describe mr riyat? how would you remember him? he was a remarkable person. i have known him for 25 yea rs person. i have known him for 25 years since he was a junior doctor. he had a natural warmth, a remarkable kindness to all whether it was patients or colleagues alike. that's what resulted forming great teams and all the fantastic work he was able to do. as the milestone, the benchmark that he sets becoming the benchmark that he sets becoming the first senior doctor from the sikh religion. the milestone that he managed to reach and attain in his life of becoming the first sikh senior doctor in this regard. yes, i mean he was a very proud to and it

was a great achievement. ever since he was a junior doctor it was his passion for emergency medicine at his compassion towards his patients which really stood out. that resulted in him continuing to succeed both in derby and at a national level. he was lead examiner for a royal college when he sadly died and so i think it's a great loss for derby, it's a great loss for the royal college and of course for the royal college and of course for his family. we send our deepest condolences. collect describe him as the father of the current emergency department. a centralfigure in making the operation work. he was a natural leader. and he pulled people around him and got the very best out

of them. that was really visible even when there's a junior doctor it when he engaged with people. i'm not surprised she achieved such success in derby. thank you very much for joining us. paying tribute to his friend and colleague. with shortages and delays to the arrival of personal protective equipment, many people are looking for ways to help nhs workers through the coronavirus pandemic. it's led to an army of more than 40,000 volunteers, from every corner of the uk, producing scrubs for workers on the frontline. hywel griffith reports. hi, i'm terri. hello, i'm vicky. i'm christina. from stitchers in somerset. i'm in edinburgh. from scarborough. cornwall. cutters in cumbria. i'm in south london. i'm in bristol. in belfast and brighton too,

that whirring is the sound of tens of thousands of people doing what they can to protect the nhs. so this is my temporary workroom i've set up at home. the pandemic has meant many more health workers need scrubs. cotton uniforms which are simple to clean and quick to change. within half an hour i'd already received a request for 150 scrubs. marcel set up one of the teams in the midlands. it's just been a complete whirlwind, even people who are not able to make the scrubs are making ear guards for us, they're making scrub bags. somebody has even created labels saying superhero cape. you know, to put on the front of the scrub bags. the clothes you wear determine the way people see you. it's notjust enthusiastic amateurs. blue is quite your colour. the costume makers from the bbc‘s his dark materials and other tv drama teams have made over 6,000 sets of scrubs between them. the world of opera is helping too. adding a little flair as they sew. we are putting fun pockets, we've got some prints so it's notjust plain,

boring cotton scrubs. they are saying how much they love the little personal touch, of having a dragonfly or a bumblebee on their pocket. the basic pattern is simple to share and print. the material, bought using donations. even sewers in self—isolation are helping. when they are ready the scrubs are packed up and delivered directly to the hospitals, hospices and care homes who need them. hi. are you ok? yes, grand, thanks. i've got your scrubs here. taking them straight to staff as a way of trying to cut through bureaucracy. and meet the demand. thank you. absolutely amazing they are thinking of us. in their time, making the effort, it's just fantastic. people are just overwhelmed, they want to give us money and i keep saying no, this is free. the desire to make a difference in such difficult times is the thread that runs through every set of these. thanks very much. thank you. as people pull together

to protect the front line. hywel griffth, bbc news, cardiff. hello again. for most of us has been another day of clear blue sunny skies, but it did start off with a little bit more cloud in the sky and it's the stunning start of the day. the club also brought a few pasty morning showers the aisles here, moved out of the way quickly for the morning and for the rest of the day dry and sunny. the highest temperature in northwest wales where highs get up to 21 celsius which is 70 in fahrenheit. underneath this process is pretty stunning up and down the country from one of our weather watch pictures showing the white sandy beach in the western aisles of scotland. overnight tonight we are going to keep that clear whether initially. the second half of the night may see patchy cloud form over the pen nines and

southern uplands. to last night with four to seven celsius for many of us. four to seven celsius for many of us. trust again for the shelter valleys of scotland. could get down to about —3 or 4 degrees. the isobars are opening out and so that means the winds are still blowing from the easterly direction they wa nt to from the easterly direction they want to be blowing as strongly. in a cloud initially of the southern uplands will clear off weekly and another day of almost unbroken sunshinejust a another day of almost unbroken sunshine just a bit of high cloud moving across the skies of northern ireland. temperatures higher across the border, a warmer day with more by the across england and wales and temperatures for the low 20s. it was about 18 for northern ireland, 18 or 19 for scotland. thursday looks like the warmest day of the week. mystify patches to start off with, those temperatures could beat 23 or 2a celsius with the warmest areas across southern england. that's thursday's whether and what about the end of the week? just a few

mystify patches around, little of role change for most of us. still smells of sunshine and very warm or just about all of us. however start to get northerly winds blowing in across the north of highland, orkney and shetland. didn't turn cooler. temperatures around nine celsius in that we can set fair for the most part. but more cloud and temperatures coming down just a few degrees but still on the warm side. isolated showers and more especially on sunday.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. deaths in england and wales hit a 20—year high. more than 1000 covid—related deaths recorded at care homes in the week before easter. it's been, you know, a very lonely experience. that's all i can say. we don't feel as though we've been prepared or led through this. human trials for a potential coronavirus vaccine will begin in the uk this week. president trump is criticised after promising to stop all immigration into the us because of the pandemic. he says it's to protectjobs, but has given no indication of when the ban will start or how long it will last. british dentists say they haven't got the protective