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yellow heart in the window in sheila's memory and then shared a picture of it on social media. within hours, hundreds of other grieving families across the uk were doing the same for their loved ones — every heart representing a victim of coronavirus. we've hit a nerve. as people walked around their neighbourhood they could see the extent of the suffering throughout the general population. soon the family's facebook page was receiving not only photographs of hearts but pictures of those who have died. it's become an online shrine — a place where the grieving can gather, share and support. everybody that met them always said how lovely they were. it's just been devastating. michael and meg died
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with hours of each other. their granddaughter says the yellow hearts have helped her reach out at a time of isolation. itjust means i'm not on my own. i can talk to other people that are going through the same thing and it'sjust a lovely idea. why do you think this is so important at a time like this? because you feel lost and anonymous sitting at home in isolation grieving about your family. here you feel you're part of a different community. itjust shows that this is something that can really help support people and we just hope it will do some good. john kay, bbc news. remembering those lost to coronavirus. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.
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hello to viewers in the uk joining those around the world. it's now time for us to take a first look at the national and international front pages in the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are columnist for the daily mirror — susie boniface, and michael booker— the deputy editor of daily express. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. ‘schools to defy unions and reopen next month' reads the front page of the times — as it reports that four school academy chains are planning to reopen to pupils next month.
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doctors say that reopening schools on the 1st ofjune is too dangerous, reports the guardian. the daily mail leads on news that hospital admissions for coronavirus have halved since the pandemic‘s peak — as revealed by the head of the nhs. a photo on the front page of the telegraph shows a family enjoying ice creams on the beach at scarborough, after the easing of lockdown restrictions in england this week mean people are able to enjoy unlimited time outdoors. thank you both forjoining us. quite a lot of the papers aren't leading with the whole going back to school
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onjune with the whole going back to school on june the 1st issue. with the whole going back to school onjune the 1st issue. susie, your paper, the daily mirror, the front page back to school plan. —— are leading with. it's a borisjohnson faces a revolt against plans to send children back to school in england onjune children back to school in england on june the 1st. children back to school in england onjune the 1st. what is your take onjune the 1st. what is your take on that? all the newspapers got something on the front page about the schools, whether they should or could reopen on june the schools, whether they should or could reopen onjune the 1st. and there are a lot of things to consider about this, the science that supports it is really sparse. meetings between teaching unions and the government appears to have shown there has been no modelling or planning or working out what the risk may be. while the rest for children it might be slight, teachers are not children. they all have families. in charge of the cells are people and their families who are ill or may have i health conditions. —— and children themselves may have people and their families. there are a lot care. but it isa families. there are a lot care. but it is a temptation i think you see
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something like this is a traditional argument between the unions of the government and the workers versus the bosses. and they say no and we say yes and it is bound to be arguing about these things. this is arguing about these things. this is a big matter of vital national importance. whether or not it is safe to go back to anything like our normal lives. normal routines. if the government genuinely does not know, didn't what they are asking teachers to do is to hope for the best. anybody ever at any expense of young children and their families are working life will know that children are basically blocking disease vectors. their biological wa rfa re disease vectors. their biological warfare experiments. they cannot socially distance. they do carry a lot of bugs even if there would not be seriously affected by it. other people could be. if you do not know if it is safe to him are you going to go out? i speak as a parent. i wa nt to go out? i speak as a parent. i want my data to go back into the system as quickly as possible. she is desperate for. —— my daughter. i
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don't want anybody to do it, i think she'll be fine but i don't want to happen for teachers in her schools and herfriends happen for teachers in her schools and her friends and their families will be an in—kind risk for and we are ina will be an in—kind risk for and we are in a situation where we just do not know. if we do not know and not even meeting her own test that boris johnson set out for lifting lockdown we should not be doing it, should we? what is your take, michael? i don't think it was ever going to be in particularly simple thing to do to get the country back into any state that we will recognise. obviously, the school seems to be the first that they would like to make. they said june the ist at the earliest. it seems places like liverpool, they already save the schools will not go back, i think hartlepool, or infection rates in the northeast are still fairly high it seems different to what the other parts of the country. they again as well have said they don't want they children going back to school on june the ist. sol children going back to school on june the ist. so i think will have it originally and it will be split,
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ican it originally and it will be split, i can understand why at the teachers do not want to be like a canary in the cage. you don't want to be like that. we have seen again today that hancock saying he would not recommend this if things were not say. but as soon as as he says, the problem is it is not left versus right. we hope you will not be was that we have the unions are not deliberately doing this. we do believe they have the best interest of the kids and the teachers at heart. but we do not know for certain. and that it is what is holding this back. people are worried, people are still were to go out in the streets. so it is not surprising that there is this residence until there is some proof ability that their schools would not bea ability that their schools would not be a hotbed for this. it looks like they would not be but when there is a chance they still could become then you can understand. susie, some argue that there is science behind this, the government is following the signs. let's look at the daily telegraph front page. it carries the
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same story but it also mentions the children's commissioner and along field, whose published research on nhs and nurseries. this is a nursery where people skids who work in the nhs go to them and apparently, there was a study showing that despite remaining open, no one, none of these nursery suffered any coronavirus outbreaks. during the peak of the outbreak. surely that is reassuring, isn't it? of course it is. it is reassuring to know that children are at less risk are both having the symptoms and of dying or having the symptoms and of dying or having serious complications as a result of covert. we did not know how many of them may have been symptomatic and carried it or transmitted it to others because government decided to stop testing backin government decided to stop testing back in the early days of march. it is all about unknown. some of the science they have been following has been very small studies, may be only 30 people involved in some of them, and as faras 30 people involved in some of them, and as far as the science following, that who has got six very strict criteria for lifting lockdown. in
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borisjohnson has criteria for lifting lockdown. in boris johnson has kind criteria for lifting lockdown. in borisjohnson has kind of ignore all of them and has set is on five criteria which are a lot easier to meet. the last three, i will read them out, the infection rate is manageable, it is not because the infections are out of control and ca re infections are out of control and care homes. the test and ppe are there to meet demand. which it is not if you look that anybody who working care home. and at the risk ofa working care home. and at the risk of a second peak, there has been medicated by the interaction wheat involving a second peak. we don't know that either because the r number is creeping up. it is very wa nt to number is creeping up. it is very want to say you need to plan for a couple of weeks hence as to whether 01’ couple of weeks hence as to whether or not a school or business might reopen come of course you need to get people some morning. but unless we have met even borisjohnson's very feeble requirements for lifting lockdown, their mind whether we met a bhl requirement, we should be thinking about or instructing people to do it. we can perhaps ask school to do it. we can perhaps ask school to say consider how you would do it or how if it works and how the pa rents or how if it works and how the parents feel about it, this is the
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science we have, but to issue an instruction when you have not met your own scientific guidelines never mind the world scientific guidelines is really not the brightest way of carrying on, is it? what do you think, michael? again, going back to what they did say, june the ist at the earliest. obviously they were setting that fairly early from when earlier in the week he was talking about lifting these lockdown restrictions. i do think byjune the ist, if infection rates have come down further to there is more confidence and generally, people going back to work from this monday seems as though there will be more people doing that, i do think it is for many people a confidence issue. and i think we are making these baby steps, i think byjune the ist compliment i have a lot of the schools open, but i think there will be confident to reopen us them soon afterwards. staying with you in the
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times newspaper, the countries biggest primary school changed according to the times are defined teaching unions and reopen to peoples at the start of next month. these are the heads of the four big school change trees to harris and oasis in gep. primary schools, these big primary school chains ox give back to school. yes. i think one of the leaders of one of the chain said the leaders of one of the chain said the argument had been a bit middle—class. they need to give a lot of these kids, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, back into school. back to learning again and backin school. back to learning again and back in the classroom i'm having some structure in the lights because many them who not not live in a house with a loving family and ple nty of house with a loving family and plenty of room to move around in the back garden, they have been suffering during this time. we have to think about that and i think that seems to be the mood music coming from these areas, many of these academies in disadvantaged areas, they want to get the kids back in, and they think that way that they
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are looking at the science come the way they are listening to the advice from doctors and medical communities is that they believed it is a risk worth taking. so you can see why there is this grid split but as i said before, ithink there is this grid split but as i said before, i think the splits will lessen as we go along. a few more weeks, if the r number that's come outcome if the infection rate do correct out and i think we will have more of a correct out and i think we will have more of a consensus correct out and i think we will have more of a consensus but it is understandable, at that moment this think is only lasted a few months in total and there is this rush for us total and there is this rush for us to get back to our normal life. it is understandable why some people are reticent but it is also understandable why some people are desperate to get back to normal. let's go back to susie and look at the front page of the daily mail. the headline, chief of nhs hospital virus cases are pledging. hospital admissions for the virus have happened since the pandemic peak. according to an interview with simon stevens. some good news there?m
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course it is. fewer people going to hospital. unfortunately, not everybody was got coronavirus goes to hospital. we have seen elsewhere today thanks to some fantastic journalism from the manchester evening news was the government has been trying to... that the government is also now with strong funding for his policy programme of housing the homeless in hotels, just eight weeks into lockdown. in saying they need to move on to the next age now for permanent accommodation. in manchester loan that appears to be leaving about 1000 homeless people to go back onto the streets. 400 of them made homeless and see pandemic began. it is all very want to say hospital cases are pledging and how great it is good news, but if the government is doing things, whether it is schools or forcing the homeless back out onto the streets where they have no chance of social distance income where they are prone to every respiratory infection going anyway, all that will happen is that our rate which is already looking shaky will start going back up. we've already got a situation in
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ca re we've already got a situation in care homes for the infection appears to be out of some control, there is not enough testing at not enough equipment. they need to be cracked down on and it needs to be contained before you move onto the next age. and i think some of what is happening is that the government u nfortu nately happening is that the government unfortunately is plain politics to some extent. it is seeing its own legacy and his own future and on history being linked up and tangibly with this coronavirus. and it wants to be able to say we got out of lockdown early and we started this and got the economy going and did the best we could or the rest of it. it is going a little bit to quickly and it needs to be a little bit more considered. you cannot open schools into you have evidence that the schools will be safe with the people would not be seen in the chosen if people would not be going back to work. you need to basically great to say the nhs has got fewer problems on it but if you are facing a potential second massive wave of the pandemic in the winter flu season,
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partly because there may be a co nsta ntly partly because there may be a constantly circulating reservoir of the virus in the homeless population which are in every town and city in this country come in every train station and every bus station, that it is hopeless. everything else they will be trying to do will be a com plete will be trying to do will be a complete waste of time. will be trying to do will be a complete waste of timelj will be trying to do will be a complete waste of time. i don't know if you are doc fans or owners, but the front page of the daily telegraph carries an interesting story about dogs. dogs and are a p pa re ntly story about dogs. dogs and are apparently going to detect asymptomatic coronavirus carriers under a government backed initiative which could lead to hundred 50 people being screened every hour. it sounds really ambitious. —— 250 people. it does. the only thing that is got a man is when my best friend and it is something that that puts a smile on our face. —— anything that has got the man and woman possible best friend. six saw that the moment will be trained in laboratories, cocker spaniel is an elaborate doodle. they will be learning to
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