received today. we have got all these pallets here that have come from suppliers' donations. these were all public donations. and it's notjust celebrities getting involved. peter kay will be recreating his famous amarillo video, using clips sent in by key workers from around the uk. lizo mzimba, bbc news. the duke and duchess of cambridge‘s son louis has been photographed to mark his second birthday — making a rainbow tribute poster. a series of images has been released by the family to mark the occasion, including pictures of the prince showing off his brightly painted hands. children across the uk have been creating rainbow pictures as a symbol of hope during the lockdown. time for a look at the weather. here's ben rich.

thank you. i think they are the only rainbows we are going to see today because there isn't many rain out there. it's yet another dry and largely sunny day and any changes in oui’ largely sunny day and any changes in our weather will be slow and subtle over the next few days. this is the view from space, the satellite picture and tufts of high cloud through ports of northern ireland, northern england, down into the midlands, lower cloud plaguing shetland but otherwise it's fine, it's dry, there is a lot of sunshine out there. it's the warmest day of the week. temperatures in the london area up to 2a, maybe 25 degrees. a little bit cooler around the coast, particularly close to some of the north sea coasts. sea breeze is developing through the rest of the afternoon. through this evening and night we stick with like winds and clear skies in most places but an area of low cloud, mist and fog is likely to work in through the north sea through parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire, maybe into east anglia and the midlands. typically between 2-9d and the midlands. typically between 2—9d overnight, parts of eastern scotla nd

2—9d overnight, parts of eastern scotland below freezing and for tomorrow some of the eastern parts of england will start off quite grey, mystic and murky, but that should tend to lift and clear and again you've got lots of dry weather and lots of sunshine. just a chance later in the day with the high ground of wales, say snowdonia, may be the west country moors, we could see the odd shower popping up and temperatures generally 20—22d, a little cooler than that again for some coasts. as we go through friday evening again a chance of one or two hefty showers for parts of wales and the south—west, most places stay dry and they're still going to be a lot of dry weather around this weekend. change is slow and subtle, just the chance of one or two showers and it will slowly turn a bit cooler. you can see the pressure pattern for saturday morning. not many white lines or isobars on the chart. that means that winds are some coasts. as we go through friday evening again a chance of one or two hefty showers for parts of wales and the south—west, most places stay dry and i still going to be a lot of dry

weather around this weekend. change is slow and subtle, just the chance of one or two showers and itt is slow and subtle, just the chance of one or two showers and it t will slowly turn a bit cooler. you can see the pressure pattern for saturday morning. not many white lines or isobars on the chart. that means the there's not much to push the weather around. that's why it will be only shifting slowly so still lots of dry, fine weather some showery rain developing in northern scotla nd showery rain developing in northern scotland but still by this stage plenty of fine a reminder of our top story. the first human trials in the uk for a coronavirus vaccine are expected to get under way at oxford university today. but the government's chief medical adviser has warned it's highly unlikely a vaccine will be available this year. that's all from the bbc news at one. it's goodbye from me. on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are.

hello there, you're watching bbc news. the time is 3a minutes past one, i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre. phil neville will stand down as head coach of the england lionesses when his contract expires next summer. he has been in charge since the beginning of 2018. let's bring in our reporter jo currie who has followed the england team home and away during neville‘s reign. jo, there was a lot of uncertainty over his future because of the olympics moving and the euros now being pushed back to 2022. why do you think they've made this decision now? it appears this is actually phil neville‘s decision rather than the fa's his contract is up next summer and that should have included leading team gb to the olympics this summer leading team gb to the olympics this summerand leading team gb to the olympics this summer and england in those home

euros in 2021. because of coronavirus, those events have been pushed back one year and neither of them are within his contract and while the fa appears keen for him to stay on and do those postponed events and the world cup in 2023, it appears he has decided that by next summer appears he has decided that by next summer he wants to move on and have a new challenge. we are expecting a statement from the fa imminently with the details but you would think the new person would be in charge to look after team gb at the olympics and those home euros in 2022? yes, phil neville's contract is up next july, the olympics will be overjuly and august so he would at least have to extend his contract by a month next summer which you would think would not be too complicated but the general feeling is that whoever leads team gb at next summer would do the euros in 2022 and the world cup in 23 point it might be that they choose to have a separate managerfor team they choose to have a separate manager for team gb, it they choose to have a separate managerfor team gb, it is a

separate entity from england, a different managerfor the separate entity from england, a different manager for the euros and world cup but i would expect whoever is announced as the next england manager will lead a team gb at the olympics and phil neville will leave without having that string to his bow. and as is always the way when someone bow. and as is always the way when someone leaves bow. and as is always the way when someone leaves a bow. and as is always the way when someone leaves a role, we try to work out who will replace them. casey stoney looks to be in a strong position? yes, i think her name will be mentioned a lot in the coming weeks and months, a former england captain and assistant to phil neville in england when he first started but she is currently manchester united manager and doing well there, a new project for her so it's a question of whether she wants it's a question of whether she wants it at this point in her career. many thanks. uefa's executive committee is meeting today to discuss how european leagues and competitions can potentially resume. non—league football in england and wales is officially over, but what needs to be sorted is promotion and relagation issues is promotion and relegation issues at national league level. barrow are top, and looked like they would automatically

go up to league two. those chasing them, including third—placed notts county, want a chance to get there as well, and there now will be a vote on how to decide the season's outcome. i think all options are probably on the table at the moment and they will hopefully be put to the clubs and what i hope is that everyone, you know, looks at the integrity of the game and finishing the season rather than taking the easy option ofjust, you know, saying, we've got nothing to play for, so let's make the same for other clubs, you know. cricket‘s officials are meeting today to try to work out whether they can stage any domestic competition at all this summer. the ecb have described the current lockdown as the biggest challenge in their history. here's our sports correspondentjoe wilson. cards on the table, what are the chances of some kind of meaningful english cricket season? theoretically, this is the summer of

the capital! hundred. 100 balls, the best players in the world. new format, new teams, new audience? would there be any point in launching it if the games have to be played behind closed doors? in any case, could the star players are signed by the franchises actually get to question here is a perspective from the nottinghamshire director of cricket point of the comp getting back to is the players coming in from overseas. and what little i know of air travel at the moment is there's not a lot going on. it would be difficult for people to get over here and that is a complicating factor for the hundred, definitely, and all forms of cricket. is normally the counties would play most of their summer, either in championship cricket, traditional white kit and red bull, or the t20 are some are shorter games with white ball cricket and if it comes to a choice between these two, i think it's obvious. the t20 would win. the fact that most counties make money from a white ball cricket, the fans come in and

it's more accessible and in the evenings and at the weekend, we have respect that and i think that more white ball would be played than red ball right now. full nixon is wondering if the season could extend into october put it right now the clu bs a re into october put it right now the clubs are trying to adapt. derbyshire have furloughed almost their entire staff for example as they try to protect their business. we have based a lot of our financial modelling on the absolute worst case scenario and hopefully that's not the case but that is that there is no cricket this year. and i think we would be well over £1 million worth of revenue if that was the case. counties provide the players put so much of the cricket income is generated by international matches. it is vital for the counties and the game as a whole that england play at least some matches this summer.‘ lot of big meetings today and sports meetings to keep an eye on.

you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. the womens‘ euros dates have been confirmed, 6th—31stjuly 2022, a slight overlap with the commonwealth games in birmingham. more in the next hour. thank you. could opt new to you, you're watching bbc news. i am jane hilli you're watching bbc news. i am jane hill i will take you through be developed regarding coronavirus in the next few hours. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, has warned that the social distancing measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus may have to remain in place the rest of the year, and possibly beyond that. she told a news conference in edinburgh that a return to the normal life that people knew was not on the cards in the near future. it is only when we are sure that the virus is under control that we can even start to ease any of the restrictions. and it is my next point really that

takes us to the hard part. when we do reach that stage, the virus will be under control only because of the severity of the restrictions we are all living with just now but the virus will not have gone away. as we start to lift the restrictions, the real risk, and it is a very real risk, is that covid—19 runs rampant again. so a return to normal, as we knew it, is not on the cards in the near future and it is really important that i am upfront with you right now about that. what we will be seeking to do is find a new normal, a way of living alongside this virus but in a form that keeps it under control and stops it taking the toll we know it can do. social distancing and limiting our contact with others will be a fact of life for a long time to come. certainly until treatments and ultimately a vaccine offer different solutions,

so that means possibly for the rest of this year, and maybe even beyond. and that is why talk of lifting the lockdown, as if it is a flick of a switch moment, is misguided. our steps, when we take them, will need to be careful, gradual, incremental and probably quite small to start with. we will need to assess them in advance and monitor them in action. sometimes, as i said before, we might even need to reverse things. as we go, we will apply ourjudgment to the best scientific advice possible, we will continue to collaborate closely with the other governments across the uk and we will learn from international experience. the fact is that different countries are at different stages of this pandemic but none of us are anywhere near through it yet and we all face the same challenges. as we make these decisions here, careful balances will have to be struck. for example, it may be that certain businesses

in certain sectors can reopen, but only if they can change how they work to keep employees and customers two metres distant from each other. similarly, with schools, classrooms might have to be redesigned to allow social distancing, so maybe not all children can go back to or be at school at the same times. some limited outdoor activity might be able to restart earlier than indoor activity but let me be clear, big gatherings and events are likely to be off for some months to come. we will also consider whether different approaches would make sense for different areas although our preference, not least for ease of understanding, will be for as much consistency as possible. and of course, given how severely this virus is affecting older people and those with other health vulnerabilities, some form of shielding will almost certainly be required for the foreseeable future. let me stress that what i have set out there are not firm decisions but they do illustrate the kind of options that we

will be assessing. as we do so, we will consider not just the health imperatives but also issues of practicality, sustainability, fairness and equity, ethics and human rights. lastly, as well as changes to how we live, we will use public health interventions and technology to the maximum possible to help us control this virus. in the next phase, extensive testing, tracing of the contacts of those who test positive, and isolation of symptomatic people to break the chain of transmission will be essential parts of the approach we take. and the preparations to make that possible are already under way. we will also discuss with the uk government, for this is a reserved responsibility, the need for stronger surveillance measures for those coming into the country from elsewhere. in short, this paper sets out the difficult decisions we face and the way in which we will go about preparing for them, making them and also assessing their impact.

i want to stress again, because it is important that i am frank, the path ahead is not an easy one, it is paved with complexity and uncertainty but with openness and transparency and frankness along the way, i believe that together, we will be able to navigate it. it is for me and for government to work through and lead that process. but this is about all of us, hence this discussion that we are opening up with all of you today. the paper we have published is available on the scottish government website, i will post a link to it on twitter later this afternoon. so please, even if, like i suspect most of the population, you're not in the habit of reading government documents, have a look at it. and if you have views on it, please let us know. these views are important and will be helpful. scottish first minister speaking in

the last hour or so. a reminder of the last hour or so. a reminder of the headlines. the first human trials in the uk for a coronavirus vaccine are due to begin at oxford today, a stage which can often take yea rs today, a stage which can often take years to reach. uk government scienctific advisers look set to say the public should not wear medicalface masks but should feel free to cover their faces with scarves. germany's angela merkel says her country should be prepared to pay more into the eu's budget to help foster economic recovery — as european union leaders prepare to thrash out a huge financial rescue package worth over half a trillion euros. the government confirmed yesterday that large scale contact tracing will be a crucial part of any easing of the lockdown restrictions. a smartphone app which is currently being developed

to help the process. but how does contract tracing actually work? deb cohen has been investigating. people would come forward as volunteers... it appears to be a zoom chat like any other, old friends catching up the only way they can. but there is no idle passing of the time here. these were all senior doctors. after friends fell ill with covid—19, they felt it wrong that nothing was being done to trace who they had been in contact with to help snuff out the outbreak. all of them were really concerned that first of all, there was no particular support for them, and secondly, that nobody was interested in looking to see where they had got it from, or who they might have given it to. that really didn't seem right to us. public health has always done infectious diseases and we know that if you have got a serious infectious

disease, you have to contact trace. the government says contact tracing is not for now but the former doctors say it is and now they are starting their own contact tracing service. their focus is the meares brooke and healy areas of sheffield. their plan is to train up a network of people who can contact trace. so what is contact tracing? covid—19 is a virus that has spread at speed across the uk, the whole country has been affected. but experts, including the chief medical officer, chris whitty, say that rather than covid being one big, uk—wide outbreak, in reality, it is a whole series of smaller, localised ones. that is where contact tracing comes in — work out who has covid, who they might have passed it to, then you can start to break the chain and snuff out the virus. in the commons today, the health secretary made clear the government believe there are still too many covid cases to start contact tracing. we are ramping up our testing

capacity and our capacity for contact tracing in a matter of weeks and we will have it ready to make sure that we can use that as and when the incidence of transmission comes down. today, at an raf base in yorkshire, the nhs demonstrated the app that matt hancock hopes will be central to contact tracing. using bluetooth technology, the hope is it will be able to tell someone when they have come into close contact with a person with covid. but even if millions download the app and the technology does work, there is a lack of evidence about how effective it will be. oxford university researchers estimate over 56% of the general population must use the app to halt the outbreak. contact tracing is still likely to require humans to do a lot of heavy lifting. the smartphone app is confined to those who carry smartphones

and we know the people that are dying most from this illness are the poorest and the elderly, and they're not known for being the biggest smartphone users. so if we go with an app, we are giving up on the most vulnerable people. greig fell is director of public health in sheffield. he says it is about more than just an app. personally, yet to be convinced that they can wholly replace skilled humans to do contact tracing, because it is a skilled job. and i'm happy to be convinced, i've an open mind, so i think where we will end up will be a combination of a national approach led by public health england, augmented by the local capacities and capabilities that we can bring to bear in local authorities and local nhs, organised in a way that makes sense for each of those places. what is interesting

is that san francisco, which is a very hi—tech city, has gone for low—tech human resources to do the contact tracing and has not used apps, because in a hi—tech city, you've got people who are very savvy and very suspicious and worried about using apps. so i think the message is you need the people on the ground, you need some technology, you need telephones, but you don't need a lot of sophisticated apps. when covid first broke out in places such as brighton, we were contact tracing, but on march 12th the government stopped it altogether when the uk moved from trying to contain the virus to trying to delay it. some argue contact tracing should never have been stopped. you may not have been able to do it in london at that stage, because you had so much going on, but you could have been starting it off and having a plan and the manuals and the training and the volunteers and ramping it up in areas like the north—east, in the borders, in rutland,

in areas where there were very few cases, you should really have been, you should have been getting going. there is still much to be done to build up that capacity. local authorities are still yet to hear detail of what will be expected. but it is likely to be much more than just an app. one of my fears is there's a government announcement at the press call that we will be starting this tomorrow and we won't be prepared. what one of the directors of public health have asked of government is involve us at the outset of the formation of the policy, because then we can prepare and we can, we are running to prepare now, because we know, we know this is coming. we don't quite know the look and feel of it yet, but we are preparing and working out what staff we can bring to bear and how we can help develop the right system. so the more time we have got to do that, the better. the government does say there will be a number of people involved in contact tracing.

but there are clearly high hopes for the app. among the things we don't yet know is whether it will be widely adopted and the extent to which it can accurately gauge risk of likely exposure to covid. many are getting their information about coronavirus on social media. but not everything that is being shared online can be trusted. here's our reality check correspondent, chris morris, with the latest health claims that you should ignore. countries around the world are in lockdown, but dodgy claims about coronavirus are still spreading fast across the internet. so here are a few more that are worth checking. claim number one: 5g mobile networks transmit coronavirus. well, 5g was a favourite target of conspiracy theorists long before the new coronavirus appeared. now the myths have just been tweaked a bit. some claim 5g can suppress

the immune system. others, that the mobile technology somehow transmits the virus. for the avoidance of doubt, scientists have told the bbc that both claims are absolute rubbish. 5g radio waves are nowhere near strong enough to affect immunity. the idea that technology can transmit the virus is biologically impossible. claim number two: steam inhalation can cure coronavirus. a social media post about a doctor who allegedly recovered from covid—19 after inhaling steam has been widely shared. now, people do inhale steam to deal with things like a blocked nose. but there is no evidence that it works as a treatment for coronavirus. high—temperature steam cleaning of surfaces is used to kill viruses in places like hospitals, but any attempt to inhale industrial steam that hot would be incredibly dangerous. claim number three: skin colour can

protect you from covid—19. there have been persistent suggestions on social media about skin colour and the resistance it might give you to falling ill with covid—19. there have been rumours in africa that people with black skin can't catch coronavirus. but itjust isn't true. medical professionals are adamant that skin colour makes no difference. black people have been catching the virus and dying from it. claim number four: vaccines to combat covid—19 are already available. no, they aren't. loads of scientists are working on a vaccine, but it will take a long time to develop, test and distribute them. at the moment, there is no vaccine to prevent covid—19 and the world health organization says products claiming to be a vaccine, often found on unregulated websites, should be considered fake, and they may pose a significant risk to public health.

so beware claims that offer quick fixes or remedies for coronavirus. many of them are probably too good to be true. and think twice before you share them. chris morris there. coming up from 2p, we will talk about everything nicola sergent has said about potential easing of the lockdown black nicola sturgeon. we will have more on that. now it's time for a look at the weather with ben rich. good afternoon. changes in our weather over the next few days will tend to be very slow, very subtle and certainly today has turned into yet another dry and largely sunny one. you can see from the earlier satellite picture some clumps of cloud, there's been some high cloud turning the sunshine hazy in places, and some quite low cloud lurking close to the northern isles, and i think as we go through this evening and into tonight we will develop some low cloud close to some of these north sea coasts,

which will roll in across parts of yorkshire, lincolnshire, east anglia and maybe getting down into the midlands as well, could be some mist and fog around in these areas. temperatures typically overnight 3—9d, some parts of eastern scotland maybe getting just a bit colder than that. could be a touch of frost for some. so a fairly cool start for tomorrow, this lump of cloud and mist and fog affecting parts of eastern england, but that will tend to lift and clear and for most parts it is yet another fine, dry and mostly sunny day, patchy cloud turning that sunshine hazy at times. not quite as warm as it has been today, but still temperatures peaking between 14—22d, the coolest weather for some of those north sea coasts. and later in the day, just the chance of seeing the odd shower breaking out across high ground of wales and the south—west of england. and as we go into the weekend, we do see the increasing chance ofjust one or two showers. still a lot of dry weather around, but it will start to feel a little cooler as well. look at this pressure chart. barely any white lines, barely any

isobars on the weather map. that means there is not much wind, there's not much to push the weather around. that is why any changes, any shifts, will only be slow and subtle. so i think on saturday, yes, a little more cloud around for some and maybe the odd shower for wales and the south—west later. still plenty of sunshine to be had, and then this cloud might bring some patchy rain into the far north—west of scotland later in the day. temperatures continue to fall back a little bit, but still well into the teens or early 20s for some and then as we move through saturday night into sunday, we see this very weak area of low pressure sinking into the picture and a frontal system as well. that will introduce a band of cloud, perhaps some showery rain pushing southwards across the uk, ahead of it one or two showers breaking out. in northern scotland we could well see some showery rain working into the picture, but still a fair amount of dry weather. still into the 20s towards the south, but it will turn quite noticeably cooler across northern areas.

this is bbc news. the headlines... scotland's first minister sets out how the lockdown might be eased, but says now is not the right time. our steps will need to be careful, gradual, incrementaland our steps will need to be careful, gradual, incremental and probably quite small to start with. the first human trials in the uk for a coronavirus vaccine are expected to get under way in oxford today. i benefit too. it's not a selfless act. i am part of the community and if we find a vaccine then we all benefit. 20,000 households in england are being contacted from today, to take part in a study tracking coronavirus in the general population.