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a government minister says he can't understand why, as the risk of transmission is low to those working outside. so when will coastal resorts and beauty spots be prepared to welcome people back? this is phase one, coming out of lockdown. phase three, hopefully, will be the first week in july, and that's when many of our businesses will be open, and we hope to be able to have some summer season and to welcome all our visitors back. across england, the message from many popular bank holiday destinations continues to be, please stay away for now. danny savage, bbc news, scarborough. a quiz contestant missed out on a huge cash prize becausejudges claimed he mispronounced the name of singer tony hadley. muhammad shalehan was denied the $10,000 prize — but the spandau ballet star lent him his support to help him strike ‘gold'. colin paterson reports.
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# you are gold... # never has there been so much interest in how to say the name of spandau ballet's lead singer. tony hadley. muhammad shalehan works in singapore's underground railway and has a number of loans to pay off, so he decided to try a long—running "name the celebrity" voice competition worth 10,000 singaporean dollars — that's around £5,700 — on his local radio station, gold 905. for weeks, people have been trying to identify the 1a people. he was pretty sure he had worked them out, but on air was told he had got one wrong. two weeks later he was baffled to hear another contestant give exactly the same names and win. the station told him that his answer... tony hadley. ..was a mispronunciation. infuriated, he e—mailed a recording of his on—air appearance to tony hadley‘s manager, and received this video message back. i have listened back to the tape and as far as i'm concerned,
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you pronounced my name absolutely correctly. tony hadley. you might have said it with a slight accent, but as far as i am concerned, you said my name correctly. after originally offering muhammad a $5,000 goodwill gesture, gold 905 have now backed down and given him the whole $10,000 prize. thanks to help from tony hadley. it has been so great to even talk to him. what does it mean to you to get justice? to go with what you believe the money will come in handy, as he and his wife are expecting a baby later this year. they know it's a boy and have not completely ruled out giving it the names tony and hadley. colin paterson, bbc news. time for a look at the weather, here's tomasz schafernaker. i've never had any problems with my name! anyway. it has been a real bluster across the uk today, howling
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gales across western parts of scotla nd gales across western parts of scotland and northern ireland. tomorrow, another blustery day but a lot of sunshine around. there has been today and there is more on the way tomorrow. this storm, which has been side sweeping us the worst of the weather out to sea, has been bringing some of these rough conditions the coasts of scotland and northern ireland, some very heavy rain here, so two extremes with the bad weather in the north west and the slightly better weather to the south. that is what will be happening. the rest of the country is going to have clear spells foot of the breeze will be picking up because this low pressure is with us through that we can, at least to much of saturday. eventually it will pull away but by the time it does it will have left a lot of rainfall across western parts of scotland, maybe even 100 millimetres in some spots. 0n maybe even 100 millimetres in some spots. on top of that, 50 or 60 mil per hour gusts tomorrow across spots. on top of that, 50 or 60 mil per hour gusts tomorrow across some northern areas. in the per hour gusts tomorrow across some northern areas. in the south, a0 mph. this time of year, with the
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trees in full leaf, it gives a very blustery day, twigs flying around. a fairly warm day despite the win, 19 to 15 degrees. but the good news is, as we go through the weekend, saturday into sunday, the low pressure m oves saturday into sunday, the low pressure moves into scandinavia. the winds will get lighter, in fact changing direction, coming in from the south, so it will start to warm up. the current thinking is that next week, temperatures will rise even further, possibly into the high 20s. even further, possibly into the high 205. i even further, possibly into the high 20s. i wasn't meant to be blown away their! that's it. so it's goodbye from me and time for the news from where you are.
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—— why he believes fans could be in stadiums next season. season. the premier league won't be back to being itself. the perm really at its best, until we get fa ns really at its best, until we get fans back to the turnstiles. away from the top flight, lower league clubs are facing an even more uncertain financial future. we speak to the ceo of afc wimbledon. and with the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on people from minority ethnic backgrounds, we hear from the sports people wondering whether it's safe to return to theirjob. welcome to the programme. thank you forjoining us. first, then, to an exclusive interview with the premier league's chief executive, who's told us there's growing momentum the season will resume next
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month and that fans could be back watching matches inside stadiums at some stage next season. speaking to our sports editor dan roan, richard masters says he's confident the successful return of the bundesliga in germany can be repeated here. we are very close to our european colleagues, in germany and spain and italy, etc, and so it was a confidence building proof point that the germans can get there, they can put their lead back on the pitch and back on television. we were interested to see it. if a player was sat here now, what would your message be to him about resuming training, especially when it contacts training begins? what would you say to that player?” contacts training begins? what would you say to that player? i would say we're doing everything we possibly can to make the return to training as safe as possible for you and therefore for you and your family. we put in place testing programmes,
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