good morning. welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. our headlines today: plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today to try to contain future outbreaks of coronavirus as nationwide restrictions are eased. the prime minister will be questioned by mps amid calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. back to school for some children on monday. we'll find out how children and teachers are adapting to a new style of classroom. huge amount of produce is going to waste in lockdown because restau ra nts a nd

waste in lockdown because restaurants and pubs are closed. we'll find out today how farmers are coping. the premier league vote today on a return to contact training. if the clubs agree then football will take another step to returning. mist and fog to watch out for thing, but for most, another dry day with a fair bit of sunshine feeling warm, except northern ireland and western scotland, where there's more clout and the odd spot of rain. i'll have all the details at 6:27am —— cloud. it's wednesday the 27th may. future coronavirus outbreaks in england could be controlled by introducing local lockdowns according to the government. health secretary matt hancock said some restrictions, including the temporary closure of shops and schools, could be reintroduced in specific areas if there is a spike in the number of cases. further details will be announced today as part of a plan to boost testing and tracing of the virus. andy moore reports. a testing, tracking and tracing system is regarded as vital

if the virus is to be kept in check, while lockdown restrictions are eased. the fear is that, without it, there could be a second wave of infections. transmission rates are generally coming down across the country, but there are big regional variations. in somerset, the hospital in western—super—mare has been temporarily closed due to a high number of coronavirus cases. there's said to be an emerging picture of large numbers of staff testing positive though they are showing no symptoms. the hospital says it hopes to reopen its a&e department and accept new patients as soon as possible. if there's a high level of infection in a particular area, the government has indicated that local schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed down. at the daily downing street press conference, matt hancock said the nhs test and trace programme would be incredibly important. it will give us the information to have local lockdowns and focus on areas where there may be flare—ups,

and it is very important that people follow those rules and they should do it — not do it for, um, the government, people need to do it for themsleves, for their loved ones, and for their communities. it is incredibly important and it will stop those local flareups from happening. a similar system will be launched in scotland tomorrow. it's called ‘test and protect‘. anyone with symptoms will be urged to get a swab. if it comes back positive, 700 trackers will be ready to trace any contacts, with that number rising to 2000 in due course. andy moore, bbc news. nearly a0 conservative mps have called on the prime minister to sack his chief advisor, dominic cummings, after he travelled from london to county durham during the early days of lockdown. borisjohnson will have to answer some difficult questions from mps, when he appears before the government's liaison committee later today. here's our political correspondent, jonathan blake.

well, throughout the day yesterday, the pressure continued on boris johnson and his senior adviser, dominic cummings, after a ministerial resignation early on in the day, hour after hour, conservative mps came out and said dominic cummings should either be sacked or resign after he made that trip to county durham during the lockdown, and the whole subject overshadowed last night's news conference by health secretary matt hancock in downing street. later today, the prime minister will almost certainly have to find himself defending the actions of dominic cummings all over again. he's facing questions by the house of commons liaison committee, made up of commons liaison committee, made up of senior backbenchers, and that will be something of a grilling for the prime minister. they'll gather by video link and question him for 90 minutes or so on every aspect of the government response to the coronavirus crisis. problems with the supply of ppe, the delay in a test and trace regime being rolled out and also confusion over lockdown

restrictions are, i'm sure, likely to come up. borisjohnson well, once again, have to put his own authority on the line and defend the actions of his senior adviser in the face of continued criticism. that's jonathan blake. president trump has accused twitter of stifling free speech after the social network labelled one of his posts as misleading. mr trump tweeted that plans to expand the use of postal ballots in november's election will lead to voter fraud. twitter urged users to fact check his comments. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. a twitter war about twitter. it started when mr trump, who has more than 80 million followers on the social media platform, tweeted that postal ballot papers would result in a rigged election. mailboxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged and even illegally printed out unfortunately side. mr trump also claims the governor of california will be sending ballots to millions of people.

twitter responded with a blue ex mark underneath the tweets, suggesting readers get the facts about mail—in ballots stories contradicting mr trump. the president later repeated his claims ata president later repeated his claims at a white house news conference. people that aren't citizens, illegals, anyone that walks in california is going to get a ballot. we're not going to destroy this country by allowing things like that to happen — we not destroying our country. this has more to do with fairness and honesty, and really our country itself. twitter introduced a policy earlier this month to combat misleading information, but this is the first time the platform has applied a fact checking label to tweets by the president, who was quick to respond with another tweet.

a potentially rocky road ahead for the president and his social media platform of choice. peter bowes, bbc news, los angeles. south korea has seen its biggest spike in new coronavirus cases in two months, as nearly 2.5 million students return to the classroom. a0 new cases of covid—i9 have been reported in the last 2a hours. we're joined now by our seoul correspondent, laura bicker. laura, how has the country been preparing for today? what's happening? well, this is pe class, as you can probably tell, behind me. 2.5 million students are going back as part of a phased return, so a series of students go back every week. but teachers are on edge because there's clusters of infection popping up across the country. this is all related to an outbreak in nightclubs in seoul's

party district a couple of weeks ago. now, health officials have traced 86,000 people and tested them for the virus, but still these little pockets of infection keep p°ppin9 little pockets of infection keep p°pping up- little pockets of infection keep popping up. and that is why every single student must wear a mask. at the gates, they are having their temperature check — that's the first temperature check — that's the first temperature check — that's the first temperature check of the day. there are many, many temperature checks throughout the day. each of the classes have dividers in them to keep students apart. daily, teachers are telling their students to keep that social distance, but it is extremely difficult, as you can imagine. this is the first time they've seen each other in months. this is the start of the school term, which was supposed to happen in march, so they are very, very exciting. i saw one studentjumped up exciting. i saw one studentjumped up and down desperate to hug her friend but she was told, "no, no," by her teacher. some schools have decided to say no today but this one

has. as you can see, they are enjoying their pe class. they don't know much english but they do have one word that they can say, which is... hello! hello! there you go, hello from them. and hello from us. lovely to them getting back into school. laura, thanks very much. they are clearly enjoying it. the first commercial craft to take people into space is due to blast off from cape canaveral in florida this evening. the spacex rocket and capsule will be the first to take off from american soil since 2011. two nasa astronauts will be onboard the mission to the international space station. here's our science correspondent rebecca morelle. getting ready for launch, a commercial spacecraft facing its ultimate test, carrying astronauts into space. nasa's bob behnken and doug hurley will be at the controls. they have been training for this moment for years. any time you have the first brand—new flight of a new vehicle, it is exciting, it is a bit more risky which is why we are using

people like bob and doug, very experienced test pilots, who can handle anything that may happen that we did not expect but it is what test pilots live for. the chance to be the first one to fly a new, shiny vehicle, is a test pilot's dream. the united states has a long history of space flights, from the apollo missions which took astronauts to the moon, to the space shuttle programme which ferried men and women to low—earth orbit and back. but its flights lost touchdown nearly a decade ago and, since then, nasa's astronauts have had to buy seats on russian rockets instead. this new spacecraft will restore america's ability for human spaceflights. the fact it is owned by spacex, a commercial company, also marks a big change for the us space agency.

nasa has said, "we will give you the money and you give us the spaceflight," and that releases nasa to use its resources to do other things and that's when we can really start thinking big and instead of spending all the time, effort and resources on something we have done now for many years, going into low earth orbit and doing experiments, let's look bigger, let's go further and the ultimate destination has to be mars. last year, a crash test dummy took a test ride in the spacex capsule but now it is time for the real thing, a new era in spaceflight is set to begin. rebecca morelle, bbc news. many couples across the uk have been forced to cancel their wedding plans, but one doctor and nurse from south london were able to tie the knot this week, in the hospital chapel where they both work. after calling off their august wedding because of fears their family would be unable to attend, jann and annalan decided to hold their nuptials early in the grade 2 listed chapel, at st thomas' hospital. they described the day as "intimate" and "lovely", but said it felt "surreal"

getting married at work. that's a beautiful little chapel. didn't realise that was in saint's. beautiful chapel and congratulations to both of them —— saint thomas's. thanks for adding that bit, louise! headteachers in england have told us that preparing schools to welcome more children back from next week has been the toughest challenge of their careers. staff rotas, school systems and physical changes to classrooms, they have all been considered to ensure pupils can return safely under social distancing guidelines. breakfast'sjohn maguire has been to visit a school in north somerset. 0k, theo — can you pack your chair and come and stand on the white line? the children returning to school here at the academy in north somerset next week and everything will be different. each and every aspect of school life has been reassessed. we have a 109 point checklist that we have to go through

and make sure everything is risk assessed to be safe. we have a 45 page risk assessment that has also gone through a hole checking process , gone through a hole checking process, including staff are governors and trustees. but behind that we have the tractor cavities of the day to day, so we have timetables for break time, for lunchtime, for outdoor space, we have timetables for different classrooms and different bubbles within those classes. the school has stayed open for key workers or vulnerable children. social distancing rules mean their desk partners are their siblings. there's a new theme each week — the latest is japan. applause on a normal day, there would be a50 pupils here. and after half term, around 150 will return. class sizes are different. the requirements for children's mixing and interaction is different, the hygiene requirements are at a far higher level than we've ever seen before other risk assessment

process behind that and entering our site is as safe as possible for eve ryo ne site is as safe as possible for everyone in our community is vital. making the physical changes has been very challenging but staff are also preparing to support children emotionally. the decision to reintroduce more pupils hasn't been an easy one — not for parents or staff. for me, being in the classroom is where i belong. i want to be with the children, i don't wa nt to to be with the children, i don't want to be sat on my laptop at home doing things for them. i want to have that interaction and to be there for them as theirjourney continues with their learning. a school is so much more than just a classroom — it's part of a community. in the office, fiona hague has been on hand to reassure anxious families. pa rents a re families. parents are still very worried, so it's pointed them in the direction of all the guidance that's coming out, we're ensuring we're getting as much information out to parents as can via the website, school app,

e—mails, and making sure they're as up—to—date as they can be and they know as much as we know. when the school gates next open, the canteen's shutters will remain closed. mixed feelings, but i'm fine with it, i think i'm fine with it. me and sue have been on our own for a while now, so it's fine. a nice big kitchen to social distance in, so big kitchen to social distance in, so we're lucky really. we're going to do so we're lucky really. we're going todoa so we're lucky really. we're going to do a sandwich selection for them and they're going to be in their classrooms, so we'll prepare it here and it will be going into 0xis in their little bubbles in their classrooms. 0ver classrooms. over the past two weeks, primary schools have had to reinvent the wheel and as these corridors fill in the coming days, there will be much more to learn. so notjust for children, parents, teachers and support staff, every day will be a school day. john maguire, bbc news, north somerset.

some significant preparations under way in various parts of england at the moment. that return will be on monday for many people. let's take a look at today's papers. once again the guardian leads with the ongoing row over dominic cummings' trip to durham. the paper says tory mps have received hundreds of e—mails from constituents calling for him to be sacked. it also features a yougov poll which shows 59% of respondents think mr cummings should resign. the daily mirror also features the story on their front page. the paper claims the government is "in chaos" over the row and describes the "scandal" as becoming "farcical". that is michael gove on the left, who was on this programme yesterday. the front page of the daily express says a "breakthrough drug" that speeds up recovery for coronavirus patients, is the "biggest step forward since the crisis began." the medicine remdesivir has been approved for the nhs following successful trials. and we will talk about that a little bit later on in the programme.

and online, one of the most read articles on the bbc website is the story of an exotic pet cat. you can see it there. it sparked an armed police response in north london. after being spotted in a back garden, animal experts assessed its threat to the public, before deeming it to be a rare crossbreed between a domestic and savannah cat. it looks big, but in that photograph you can't tell. there is a flowerpot. it could be a massive flowerpot. any harry potter fans will be excited to hear thatjk rollings will be treating children to a new children's book called the ickabog, it will be published online in daily instalments, it's herfirst children's story since harry potter,

and she had intended to release it over a decade ago. she said after reading it to her children, she left it part written in her attic. well, if you are a fan of harry potter, the actress who played professor umbridge will be here. they are hosting a quiz, so there is a round on downton abbey and harry potter. the reason we are talking to them together is because they are married. that is a vital piece of information which i decided to leave out. so, in the guardian, there is no turner prize this year because it

has been cancelled, but they will award ten bursaries were £10,000 —— worth. normally they reveal the winner in december, they said we are going to try and give a i—off £10,000 bursary to all of the people we feel deserve it and increase their chance of being greater recognised artists in the future. i think the turner prize will turn out differently to how we first expected. so many changes. it's 6:19am. mums are spending more time combining working from home, childcare and housework than dads during the lockdown. a survey by the institute for fiscal studies found that women were home—schooling and looking after children for an average of ten hours a day — two hours more than their male partners. our business correspondent sarah corker reports.

months of homeschooling and adapting to working from home. some families are now spending 2a hours a day together. and for parents here astin upon mercy, it can be a balancing act. it's a big challenge, both myself and my wife works full—time jobs, so we're both working from home at the moment, doing two hour on, two hour shifts, and that has been hectic. new research shows in some ways women are bearing the brunt of this pandemic, looking after children during ten hours a day on average, that is two hours more than fathers. my husband is out working, so yeah, it is pretty much just me. now we have gotten in a routine with the girls, they do their homework in the morning, then i get on with my housework, then lunch and a cup of tea. one of my children will be going back to school this side of the summer holidays. —— school this side of the summer holidays. — — none, school this side of the summer holidays. —— none, and i find that pa rt of holidays. —— none, and i find that part of today really difficult, so i

tend not to think past the next dinnertime. tend not to think past the next dinner time. a survey of 2500 families found lockdown is taking its toll in different ways. the findings in our reports are just a lot of these consequences are being worn by women, there are mothers who are worn by women, there are mothers who a re less worn by women, there are mothers who are less likely to be working or have left uninterrupted working time at home. these changes have long run impacts on gender wage gap and the development of men and women in the household. despite doing less childcare than their partners, dads are now spending more time with their children than before. dominic has been furloughed from his job their children than before. dominic has been furloughed from hisjob in manchester and is doing the bulk of childcare for four—year—old imogene and two—year—old alfie. childcare for four—year—old imogene and two-year-old alfie. it's going from onejob and two-year-old alfie. it's going from one job and and two-year-old alfie. it's going from onejob and going to a primary school teacher to a nursery carer with alfie, who is two, and keeping

them as stimulative as they can be in the same four walls for 8— nine weeks —— as stimulated as they can be. i carry a lot of guilt because i can hear my children downstairs playing, sometimes fighting, i can hear dom try to referee and help them out but i am upstairs in the spare bedroom doing pre—recorded lessons or zoom sessions. for many women, the economic impact of this pandemic is different. women dominate sectors like hospitality and retail, that have been hardest hit by these restrictions. and research shows they are more likely to have been furloughed or to have lost theirjobs. there recoup is finding homeschooling a nine—year—old tough going. —— sarah coop. it is quite challenging. and she has economic concerns as well.

i'm furloughed from the pub, and i'm a self—employed cleaner, so i'm not in anything at the moment, so i'm not working. here, on bad days i feel a bit that up. i hope the pub does reopen. you know, it's a small pub, it might not ever reopen. researchers have warned the economic fallout of covid—19 could increase the inequality in paid and prospects between men and women. sarah corker, bbc news. one of the problems caused by the continued closure of thousands of pubs and restaurants is what to do with the thousands of tons of produce which ordinarily would end up on the plates of hungry customers. sean's out and about this morning at a salad grower in lancashire. good morning, sean, it looks lovely out there. what's happening? good morning. it is glorious but not much is happening. i making the most of this at the moment. i'm in lancashire, where they are growing the food we need to get onto our

play, just like many farmers out this country. —— our plate, but as you mentioned with the hospitality in history, they were providing so much of the food and vegetable and fresh fruit that they would expect to be giving to restaurants and pubs around the country, but they have just not been able to do that. this morning i'm on a lettuce farm, focusing on what they are going to be doing next with all of the lettu ces they be doing next with all of the lettuces they have been going. this is the cause lettuce used in bars around the country —— lettuce, and thatis around the country —— lettuce, and that is pretty good for retail in the last few weeks, but will demand stay high enough over the next few months? will they, as the plan may be at the minute, just chop all of this up and replanted into the ground? this up and replanted into the ground ? they won't this up and replanted into the ground? they won't be putting it in a bin somewhere, they will be reusing it here but they wouldn't be selling it and making the money they normally would. so, problems around

workers as well, not so much an issue here but across the country figures for britain was campaigning to try and get people coming into pick this stuff. just think how to face some of this may be for farmers all around the uk. so, stick with us we will be getting into exactly what kind of lettuce we need to be keeping an eye on on our shelves, what might be in surplus and where we might have problems. thank you. you're making me hungry as well, sean. i am partial to you're making me hungry as well, sean. i am partialto lettuce. that is my only lockdown success, though lettu ces is my only lockdown success, though lettuces i is my only lockdown success, though lettu ces i have is my only lockdown success, though lettuces i have grown.|j is my only lockdown success, though lettuces i have grown. i love my lettu ces. lettuces i have grown. i love my lettuces. you are a proud lettuce grower. i really love them. carol, it's been the most glorious — look, outside here, it's a really beautiful day here in salford. the birds up really early this morning and it is calm and stunning. that

looks amazing, doesn't it? life has been very weird for all of us, hasn't it, the last few weeks. but this lovely weather in many parts of the uk is putting a smile and if you faces, apart from that fog picture you have there! i know! i should start with a sunny picture. i have got one to show you as well. our weather watchers have been doing is proud already this morning. there is some fog to watch out for the first thing as you see in devon, but it is across south—west england and wales in particular. some of it is dense. but move away and look at this beautiful sky income milder in shia, a lovely start of the day. particularly in the south and south coast, the temperature at the moment is 16 degrees. but some parts of england, southern scotland, locally, is as low as two or three, so a bit chilly for you. for the rest of the week it is going to remain mostly dry and be warm or very warm, depending on where you are. yesterday we reached 27 degrees in

london. look at the temperatures across the land, 21 degrees across north—east scotland as well. high pressure is firmly in charge of our weather at the moment, keeping things subtle. we have the remnants ofa things subtle. we have the remnants of a weather front sinking south taking cloud with it. and another one coming in across northern ireland and westerns on them, also choosing some cloud and spots of rain. but away from that you dry and sunny. at times we will see a bit of low cloud coming in close to the north the coastline and temperatures will be a little bit reduced as a result, 18—19. but the temperatures in the south, 23—25, 16 in belfast, 15 in aberdeen. as we head through the evening and overnight, there is a weather front moving in across scotland, taking some of this rain with it. some of it will be heavy at times. comes out, we are under clear skies, some of this low cloud, though, which will have just been on the coastline for most of the date lapping on sure across some eastern areas. as you can tell, it's not

going to be a particularly cold night, some of us saying in double figures. we see the back end of that rain moving away are still some cloud hanging around parts of scotla nd cloud hanging around parts of scotland and northern ireland, but there will be a lot of dry weather and a lot of sunshine to boot as well. temperature—wise we are in pretty good shape, a bit warmer, 26 in cardiff, 25 in liverpool, 20 in belfast and 22 in edinburgh. now, as we move on into friday, still a lot of dry weather around. there is an outside chance, but that is it, of an old shower across north—east scotla nd an old shower across north—east scotland or england. france being kept at bay in the atlantic. these are the kind of temperatures you can expect: 27 in cardiff by the time you get to friday, 2a in edinburgh, 21 in belfast. into the weekend, high pressure is drifting further east over scandinavia, but it is still influencing our weather, effectively keeping this weather

front at bay. some of our models are showing it might get a little bit closer to northern ireland and western scotland, and if it does there's the chance you could see an odd spot of rain. but we think this is going to be the scenario. so quite a lot of dry and very warm weather. it will be a little bit breezy. carol, have you been growing anything in the kirkwood regarding? yes, apples, pears, cherries, tomatoes and basil. however lettuce is going? i'm going to put mine on twitter. i am so excited. well, i've got one and it is looking like a weed. but it is there stop and is this normal behaviour or have you gone full monty don in lockdown? i've gone full monty don. can we have some footage or pictures of your pears and apples and lettuces and all of that? yes! i will try and get some later on. send them in. i

don't even know. i'll put a picture on twitter, but i mix them all up andl on twitter, but i mix them all up and i put them in a tray. i was going to transplant them all, but they have all grown. it's so silly. i hope sally isn't going lettuce as well. i know we work in serious times but what are your lockdown successes in the garden? have you grown something you normally wouldn't? carol is growing everything! have a look that! hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. we'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment, but also on breakfast this morning: has your family been eating their way through lockdown? we'll hearfrom a mum of four from northumberland who has filled a second—hand vending machine with sweet treats and her children can earn money for the machine by doing chores and school work. these were the queues for the loos in lincolnshire at the weekend!

as the options to spend a penny remain limited, we'll look at how public toilets can be made safe for use once restrictions are eased. we'll speak to husband and wife duo, imelda staunton and jim carter as they prepare to host a special harry potter and downton abbey crossover quiz. good morning, here's a summary of today's main stories from bbc news. mini local lockdowns could be introduced in england to contain future coronavirus outbreaks according to the health secretary, matt hancock. schools and businesses in some places would be closed again temporarily to deal with regional spikes in cases, as the current restrictions are relaxed. today, ministers will give more details about the plan, which is part of the government's test, track and trace strategy. donald trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020

borisjohnson will face questioning by senior mps today about how he handled the row as well as the way the government has managed the coronavirus outbreak. the prime minister will appearfor coronavirus outbreak. the prime minister will appear for 90 minutes by video link before the commons liaison committee. donald trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020 us election after the social media company labelled two posts by the president as potentially misleading. mrtrump had claimed that the use of postal ballots would lead to widespread voterfraud. twitter responded by directing readers to a page with news articles and information from fact—checkers debunking the claim. the first manned space mission to take off from us soil in almost a decade is due to launch this evening. two astronauts will set off for the international space station from cape canaveral in florida in the first ever commercial craft designed to take people into space.

it is that time of the day, just on 7.30 am, our regular spot with a gp. now it's time to answer some of your questions with our gp. today we're joined by dr richard bircher. thanks forjoining us. as ever, lots to talk about. we were hearing yesterday from uk health secretary matt hancock saying a drug treatment called remdesivir, hope i pronounced it right, may be used in coronavirus patients. what more can you tell us? you did get the pronunciation right, remdesivir. it's an antiviral medication and certainly something most gps have never prescribed, it is an experimental drug. it's being used in people seriously unwell in hospital, and the initial trial seems to suggest it shortens the length of time in hospital, speeding up length of time in hospital, speeding up your recovery time, but it is an antiviral and as gps we been using antivirals for a long time. remember

ta m iflu antivirals for a long time. remember tamiflu used during the bird flu outbreak? that was about five or ten yea rs outbreak? that was about five or ten years ago. we used a drug called them a cycling. antivirals aren't magic bullets, they support your body to fight infection. magic bullets, they support your body to fight infectionlj magic bullets, they support your body to fight infection. i do remember tamiflu. people, patients, would be benefited from it would be given it. that would make a difference, if you didn't have to spend as many days in hospital?m is part of our armoury, definitely, it is definitely helpful and if it saves a couple of lives, great. we've had lots of questions in, as ever, and related to that, this is from joe cooper, who said i had coronavirus a while ago and nine weeks later i'm still recovering. nothing says how long it takes to recover or regain your taste, so let's talk about recovery. how are you seeing things in your patients? recovery is variable from one person to the next. we don't know much

about coronavirus and some are in the intensive—care unit, so the same virus has different effects on different people. the more serious your infection, the more you are going to take longer to get better. my going to take longer to get better. my heart goes out tojoe. nine weeks is ever such a long time and it's worth questioning at this point whether there's something else as well. not recovering from coronavirus and so is there something going on in your body that you don't know, another illness? there seem to be more and more people talking about this, losing your sense of taste and smell, she says how long does it take to get back and what can be done about it? at the moment nobody has come up with a treatment for that. i've had a number of people report that to me, it is terribly strange when you chomp into your favourite dinner and you just can't taste it! again, that probably suggests you have a very serious inflection that has inflamed parts of your nose —— infection. is

a delicate part of the body so could ta ke a delicate part of the body so could take time to get better. —— it's a. there are still people recovering months after getting coronavirus, it is such a difficult illness. what's your advice if you have had coronavirus and you seem to still be feeling tired, whatever it is, what's your advice to help their recovery? general practices are still opening, it's very different to what it was two months ago. we're doing a lot of work on video or phone systems, but we're still open and still encourage people worried or scared about their symptoms to come to us, phone us up and we'll do our best to find out what it is. that's basically what general practitioners do, we ask questions, do tests, hone in on the possible diagnosis and rule things out and joe could have a long tail of effect because of her coronavirus but she could have a lot of other things as well, antiviral effect, an my lots of other things.

good advice forjo, follow it up if you're feeling great. you were talking about alcohol and mental health, what have using going on? well, there's quite a lot in the news about alcohol and coronavirus. certainly our drinking habits have changed quite a lot because we can't go down to the pub or out for a meal. i remember when lockdown started there were shelves of empty things, so we certainly bought lots of alcohol. there is an organisation called alcohol chains uk that did an attitude study recently and they found that people who drank heavily we re found that people who drank heavily were tending to drink slightly more, the people that don't drink that more tended to goatee total in lockdown, so it is both directions. alcohol is extremely damaging and often done in secret, so the swift pint after work or having bottles... but if you're in lockdown with your

family, the privacy to drink has disappeared and i imagine that has started a lot of family rows, arguments, and that's affected people's mental health. we need to remember in the uk at the moment, there's something close to 200,000 people who live in a household with someone people who live in a household with someone with alcohol dependency. those children are locked down with those adults as well and that can have detrimental effects on them. sorry to interrupt, didn't mean to you, doctor richard cho, thank you for your time on breakfast this morning. —— bucrher. —— burcher. thanks for you sending in your details about the lockdown lettuce. i had details about the lockdown lettuce. ihada details about the lockdown lettuce. i had a little text from sally nugent, and she says, "ask me about lettuce! " nugent, and she says, "ask me about lettuce!" sally, sport to come, but what's going on, what are you growing? several varieties of lettuce, not just one variety! i haven't got a clue what i'm doing, really don't

know. we got a tiny area planted with different types of lettuce, hopefully when they all grow through it looks quite pretty as well. mine look really pretty, i will send you a picture, iwill look really pretty, i will send you a picture, i will put it on twitter. it is delicious. and healthy! have you also planted potatoes and carrots ? you also planted potatoes and carrots? we have different departments, my husband has. have you got a farm? i feel like i lead no need to lift my game. you do need to raise your game, a very pleasant 20 minutes finding things to grow but at least i haven't bought chickens yet! a bit of football news now. premier league clubs are meeting today to vote on whether they should start the second phase of training, which would include contact with between players in small groups. they've been consulting players on the government's decision that elite athletes can resume contact training, as long as the sports deem it safe to do so. we brought you that news on monday. it's been over a week

since premier league teams returned to training ahead of a possible restart next month. liverpool are 25 points clear at the top of the table. and club captainjordan henderson says players are keen to get back playing as soon as it's safe. i have to say the measures that the premier league and obviously the clu b premier league and obviously the club at liverpool, and i'm sure other clubs across the premier league, are doing our amazing really. it's been really good, and i think the majority of players would probably agree in terms of how safe they feel running back in with all they feel running back in with all the measures that have been put in place, and hopefully that can continue right throughout into the next few years and so on and so on. jordan henderson saying he definitely feels safe at training. the biggest game of the season happened in germany last night. bayern munich against second—place borussia dortmund, and it was bayern that ran out winners. that puts bayern seven points clear at the top of the table and on course to win their eighth

bundesliga title in a row. there's still no set date for english rugby union clubs to return to training. the sport's governing body are considering reducing the amount of time in scrums and making players wash hands and faces before the game and at half—time. i know that isn't... it's very serious but i quite like the idea of everybody lining up and washing their hands and face. golf's ryder cup is famous for its atmosphere and world number one rory mcilroy says he can't see this year's event taking place until next year. the tournament was due to take place in september in wisconsin. the pga tour is set to resume next month behind closed doors, but mcilroy doesn't think a ryder cup without spectators would be a viable option. the majority of the players would like to it pushed back to 2021 so they can play in front of the atmosphere that they want to play, they want to play in front of

crowds, that's what makes the ryder cup so special, and if the players aren't on board with it, at the end of the day the players are the ones that make the ryder cup and if they don't want to play, then there isn't a ryder cup. isee don't want to play, then there isn't a ryder cup. i see it being pushed back to ‘21 and honestly i think that would be the right call. it's believed prime minister boris johnson has told his cabinet to make sure two grand prix can go ahead at silverstone this summer, according to people within formula one. that's regardless of the impending quarantine rules on international arrivals. it hopes to hold races behind closed doors onjuly 26th and august 2nd. and finally, germam formula e driver daniel abt has been sacked by his team, audi, after he admitted to getting a professional gamer to play under his name in saturday's esports event. his third—place finish raised suspicions after he failed to score

a single point in the previous four rounds. abt has explained that it was a joke and a mistake and has apologised. he was sacked! yeah, you just can't cheat! well, he has been terrible in all the other races, hired a professional and then... all the other races, hired a professional and then. . ij all the other races, hired a professional and then... i know! oh dear! it reminds me of when we did that cycle race in our homes and i was slightly tempted to get someone else to do my bit of cycling for me and then i realised... wrong! you we re and then i realised... wrong! you were actually really enjoying it, that's what you mean! much to your surprise! i got a dodgy knee off the back of that! thanks very much! to go along with your back!|j back of that! thanks very much! to go along with your back! i forgot my hot water bottle today. it made a difference yesterday.” hot water bottle today. it made a difference yesterday. i lost my control of the sofa, i was leaving things all over the place, the hot water bottle was out for about half—an—hour yesterday so apologies

if you saw that. was it? i left it on the side. ikan see you after in pain. it is fine! -- ikan see you after in pain. drones are being used to deliver medical equipment to a scottish island, as part of a trial to prove the efficiency of the technology. the test flights can carry protective equipment and packages between the hospital in 0ban and the isle of mull, in only 15 minutes. it's hoped that test kits and samples could, in time, be transported in this way. iain macinnes reports. preflight check? preflight check completed. ready for takeoff. this is a drone flight with a difference. medicalsupplies this is a drone flight with a difference. medical supplies carried on board will head 12 miles across the water to the isle of mull in just 15 minutes. anything that im proves just 15 minutes. anything that improves island medical health has to be tried. i think it's extra resilience for our island as well.

because of covid—19, we were looking at ferry sailings and trying to cut down the risk of transmitting infection, so it will give great confidence to the island. the heavily regulated process has been accelerated by coronavirus but the drone and its carrying abilities can be the latest tool in fighting the virus. i think particularly we are moving into the phase now when we're looking at testing and isolation, the speed of getting a test kit out to some more remote communities or getting that result back will allow us to make those decisions and support the communities in protecting them and keeping them safe and well in their community, and obviously supporting the health service so we can cope with any peak in demand. the health board say other crossings like this could be made to island surgeries and hospitals, and there is no suggestion the west coast weather will cause any issues. within a couple of years, we hope to have multiple drones over multiple routes serving lots and lots of different purposes. of course when

you get to that stage, the economics start to get better for the nhs and other users so you can fly packages out and any goods that need to go over, the mail, so it becomes a really efficient form of transportation. another test flight has successfully made its way back here to 0ban. the hope is if this technology can be proved, we may see drones like this more widespread across the country. that was iain macinnes reporting. i think drones, they have a future, don't they? they made. we've talked about this a few times over the last couple of weeks, haven't we? the haircut? you can't cut your hair with a drone. have you resorted to a home haircut during lockdown or decided to go with the overgrown look until you can book an appointment? this morning, while it was getting ready for this programme, i noticed i have a hair growing over the

yea rs. i have a hair growing over the years. it's getting very serious. —— the ears. either way, you'll be pleased to hear that thousands of hairdressers and barbers across the uk, say they could safely re—open by mid—june. however, government advice in england currently says the earliest this could happen is ath ofjuly. so, over a month. rick kelsey has been to one salon in north london which has spent thousands preparing to re—open. july the fourth, independence day, for hairdressers, the day the government says salons may reopen, but only if they are covid—ready. welcome to our silent, we have changed the was everyone and we had 12 chairs, now we have each as two separate each person. we will be speu separate each person. we will be spell —— sterilising its chair after clients finish. this shop in south london has spent thousands of pounds reconfiguring for a socially

distanced future. in four weeks it has knocked down walls, created new booths and taking out reception space. i'm a bit nervous with cutting people because my care, but we're going to have to deal with it. appointments will be in blocks with clear start times. i was extended and you will receive a tax the night before your appointment to confirm you have had no covid symptoms for a week. staff will work in shifts, to make sure one half of the team will stay healthy if the other become sick. we will wear gloves and face masks, normally we have assistance but i'll be doing everything. as well as changes to the way the staff act, customers are going to have to change their behaviour, too. which could involve turning up at a set time, not waiting around, and even possibly wearing one of these while getting your hair cut stop the uk

has some of the widest social distancing measures in europe, and there will be tighter hygiene checks in place for people working in salons. we could have 30 people here, including staff, so we decided to lose a third, we have taken four mirrors out and spaced everything about two metres along. we have been working quite hard to refit, read a model —— remodel and redesigned the salon. with this affect the glamour of getting your hair done? you will be socially distanced, but you can still have a conversation. it won't be as glamorous, and it won't be as fulfilling, but eventually that will come back. your hairdresser may be one of the few people who actually does get close to you for some time yet. rick kelsey, bbc news.

a hot topic of debate there. very much so. thousands of tonnes of produce is at risk of being wasted as pubs and restaurants remain closed. maybe that's why i was talking about it earlier. i think i've got envy. it looks beautiful. it's so nicely laid out and you have everything you need. i know. i've been hearing you quys need. i know. i've been hearing you guys talk about your gardens and the odd bit of lettuce you're going. this is glorious in lancashire, where they are growing lettuce. you can see the different colours as we go across behind me, they are going to be chopped up and put into packages we see in our supermarkets shelves so often. the sun is out, it has been a warm few weeks, so this is what they are up to now, chopping the lettuce and getting them in the boxes. they have been packed away, and that is what they do here, they package it all up stop at the problem is a third of this field, a

third of the work here goes towards the restaurant, pub and hospitality sector. what are they doing without food? let's talk to john sector. what are they doing without food? let's talk tojohn bragg, one of the people in charge here. shall we get this box here? let's have a look. this is the kind of thing we end up having this letter is put into. this is the finished product. this is what you would normally see. this is what you would normally see. this is what you would normally see. this is that product, what we would normally do here is cut it, back to the farm, gets washed, sliced and diced two however the customer wants, it could be red or green, and thatis wants, it could be red or green, and that is the final product. you can put it down now. let's have a chat. what we are all familiar in being in supermarket shelves, the kind of thing, but isn't the issue for you? no. the issue is that pubs and restau ra nts no. the issue is that pubs and restaurants are closed for weeks. how is that affecting what you're doing here? well, with this crop year, all of this planted before christmas. we had to water the

seeds, grow the plants so we could get them into the ground and we didn't find anything in silver coronavirus —— we didn't know anything about the coronavirus until march. so, people are not going to work, they aren't buying salads or sandwiches. we have all of this product here which basically we don't have any market for. the reality then, what then happens to this? so, basically this will have to be chopped up and turn back into the ground, we don't have anything for it. that hits your business, is that something you can sustain? we can sustain it over a short period, yeah, but not a long period. if we can get some guidance from the government but will say when they will reopen, really, as we mentioned there is a leadtime. if they open next week in two weeks or three weeks' time, then we just don't have it. because we have taken the view

to slow some planting down. nobody knows that. a lot of people are going there is no need to wasted, surely supermarkets could take it off your hands, sell it to us, then couldn't be given to food banks around the country? they need this food. the solutions are available in some way, but this isn't the whole head version. cutting out particular letters and putting it in the supermarket shelf, it doesn't happen as much. it's normally a mixed bag salad. it's not as easy to say there are lots of people in the country with the same issue as us, they are trying to do the same market. and these are apollo lettuces? red oak, these are apollo lettuces? red oak, the lower light, jon dee and red, so the lower light, jon dee and red, so the mixes aren't the same as the supermarket shelf stop thank you very much. the test this morning is

can you get something as luscious and crisp as this? because maybe thatis and crisp as this? because maybe that is contributing to it, growing the odd bit of this at home, they are perhaps getting the same boost in sales as before. but it's a tough situation forfarmers. in sales as before. but it's a tough situation for farmers. we in sales as before. but it's a tough situation forfarmers. we have heard around the country it has been an issue for some farms. so, plenty for people who run these kind of business is to be thinking about in the next few weeks. thank you very much. we will be back later in the morning. we can see the extremely ha rd morning. we can see the extremely hard work. thank you. it was quite mesmerising, wasn't it? it is 6:54 a.m., mesmerising, wasn't it? it is 6:54 a. m., wednesday. many public toilets across the uk remain closed during the pandemic, and without the option of using the loos in restaurants, shops and pubs, day—trippers have been forced to join long queues for toilets which are open. the british toilet association says the lack of facilities is also preventing some vulnerable people from leaving their homes. breakfast‘s tim muffet has more. inconvenience. with lockdown is and,

more people are out and about and needing the loo. that has been a problem in many places, such as skegness. there are no toilet at the beaches. it's a killer. we knew about the toilets. how did you cope? basically, they are not keeping two metres distance and, excuse my language, peeing in the sand dunes. jonathan is a lorry driver from hampshire. it's really difficult for us hampshire. it's really difficult for us lorry drivers out on the road, doing 10— 12—13 hours a day and we are unable to use toilets anywhere. it's just getting worse. places are used to go to the toilet, different businesses, they stop people going. there have been instances where i had to stop somewhere to maybe have a wee ora had to stop somewhere to maybe have a wee or a wash or something like that. but there are people where i work, you know, i have... had had to

have a number two in the back of the lorry, it's not dignified. some public loos have reopened but the british toilet association says the majority are still shut, as of course i cafes and restaurants. and while the site of a closed toilet can bea while the site of a closed toilet can be a nuisance for many, for those with a bowel condition such as crohn's or colitis, it can be much worse. what we want is for local authorities to think about opening back up again, it's really important to prioritise those local conveniences for people with bones or colitis or other disabilities who need them. —— crohn's, is not a luxury for them, it's a necessity. the way we live our lives might have changed, but basic human needs will a lwa ys changed, but basic human needs will always remain. and finding a loo when out and about has become much harder. tim muffet, bbc news. do let us know your

thoughts on that story. and we have been inundated with beautiful pictures of people's produce. who would have thought you, carol and sally would be part of the lettuce army. we know what's going on, don't we, kara? we like to think that, louise, yes! it's a beautiful start of the day, look at this sunrise. and for many parts of the country, it's like that, too. for many of us today is going to be dry and sunny and warm. but not everywhere. we have the mist and fog first thing this morning, particularly across parts of the south—west and the south—east stop most of that will lift. we have a weather front coming in from the west, affecting western scotland, and that is introducing thicker cloud and eventually some rain. so, after a cloudy start in western scotla nd after a cloudy start in western scotland it will brighten up but then be cloudy again later on. for northern ireland, you already have some of the cloud, some spots of

rain, and clear skies across northern england, the midlands and wales, so a chilly start of the day but some sunshine. this cloud is the re m na nts of but some sunshine. this cloud is the rem na nts of yesterday's but some sunshine. this cloud is the remnants of yesterday's front and it will continue to think southwards —— think southwards. as we go through the course of the day we will find some low cloud lapping onshore on the east of england coming in from the east of england coming in from the north sea. meanwhile, the fog we have at the moment around the coastline of south—west england will tend to move away. temperatures, 12 in the north to highs of 25 as we pushed down towards the south. through this evening and overnight there is our weather front moving across scotland, bringing heavy at times rain with it. clear skies in most of the uk, vogue, apart from in the east. we will see some of that low cloud that has been just offshore throughout the day come inland. asa offshore throughout the day come inland. as a result, it's not going to bea inland. as a result, it's not going to be a cold night. that leaves us into tomorrow. tomorrow, while we say goodbye to the rain we see the

odd spot across southern scotland, north—east england, but that will really be the exception rather than the rule. there will be a lot of dry weather around with highs of 11 in lerwick, 15 in stornoway, 82 in glasgow, 26 in cardiff stop so, getting warmer. and friday, it is going to be warm again. a lot of dry weather during friday, high pressure is still firmly in charge of our weather, effectively keeping weather front is that they are towards the west. it is responding accordingly, west. it is responding accordingly, we are looking at 2a in glasgow, for example, 27 in cardiff stop and then as we head into the weekend, it is going to turn busier, nothing drastic. but we will be still looking at a lot of dry weather, variable amounts of cloud. this weather front looks like it has been kept still out towards the west, it's not getting any closer. it may produce the odd spot of rain in northern ireland or western scotland with highs of 26. the headlines are next.

good morning. welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later today to try to contain future outbreaks of coronavirus. the prime minister will be questioned by mps amid calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. with restaurants still closed, what's happening to all the food their space to be using? i'm in a field at a farm in lancashire this morning, where they're looking at chopping up all this lettuce and mulching them back into the field instead of selling them.

premier league clubs vote today on a return to contact training. it's been approved by the government now the players will have their say. and if you're a parent who's fed up with the never—ending snacks your kids are eating, one mum may have found the solution — a vending machine at home. we'll chat to her and herfour children. it's wednesday the 27th may. future coronavirus outbreaks in england could be controlled by introducing local lockdowns according to the government. health secretary matt hancock said some restrictions, including the temporary closure of shops and schools, could be reintroduced in specific areas if there is a spike in the number of cases. further details will be announced today as part of a plan to boost testing and tracing of the virus. andy moore reports. a testing, tracking and tracing system is regarded as vital if the virus is to be kept in check, while lockdown restrictions are eased.

the fear is that, without it, there could be a second wave of infections. transmission rates are generally coming down across the country, but there are big regional variations. in somerset, the hospital in western—super—mare has been temporarily closed due to a high number of coronavirus cases. there's said to be an emerging picture of large numbers of staff testing positive, though they're showing no symptoms. the hospital says it hopes to reopen its a&e department and accept new patients as soon as possible. if there's a high level of infection in a particular area, the government has indicated that local schools, businesses or workplaces could be closed down. at the daily downing street press conference, matt hancock said the nhs test and trace programme would be incredibly important. it will give us the information to have local lockdowns and focus on areas where there may be flare—ups, and it is very important that people follow those rules

not do it for, and they should do it — don't — not do it for, um, the government, people need to do it for themsleves, for their loved ones, and for their communities. it's incredibly important and it will stop those local flare—ups from happening. a similar system will be launched in scotland tomorrow. it's called ‘test and protect‘. anyone with symptoms will be urged to get a swab. if it comes back positive, 700 trackers will be ready to trace any contacts, with that number rising to 2,000 in due course. andy moore, bbc news. nearly a0 conservative mps have called on the prime minister to sack his chief advisor, dominic cummings, after he travelled from london to county durham during the early days of lockdown. borisjohnson will have to answer some difficult questions from mps, when he appears before the government's liaison committee later today. we can speak to assistant political editor norman smith. good morning. iwant good morning. i want some analysis from you with your experience and

what you know of politics, what's going to happen with this, with dominic cummings? the honest truth is borisjohnson dominic cummings? the honest truth is boris johnson has dominic cummings? the honest truth is borisjohnson has decided to hunker down and tough it out in the hope that bluntly we'll all move on, the media will decide to focus on other issues, that tory mps, through gritted teeth, will decide to just let it go because we've got huge covid issues looming up at us and really in the next few days we are going to have to whether schools are prepared to go back, the government will have to use the weather it test and track scheme in time forjune the first, there will be further easing of the lockdown so there will be lots of stuff coming at us very quickly. a0 tory mps is a lot of mps and they are very angry, but there's no co—ordinated plot, this is individual tory mps firing off on twitter and expressing their outrage, but there isn't a sort of

plan to force was to get rid of dominic cummings. added to which, the prime minister has been helped by the fact that parliament isn't sitting, so that would normally provide an environment where mps can gee each other up and that would have further cranked up the pressure on borisjohnson. have further cranked up the pressure on boris johnson. it have further cranked up the pressure on borisjohnson. it seems to me he has decided to take the hit and hang onto dominic cummings come what may, but that does leave us all wondering about what is going to be the impact of this on whether people are in future prepared to go along with some of the restrictions the government is going to ask us to make. thank you very much, norman, good to hear your analysis. on breakfast at 7:30 a.m., we will speak to robert jenrick, housing and community secretary, about lots of things as well as that. and we will speak to lisa nandy in a few minutes' time as well. but before that: president trump has accused twitter

of stifling free speech after the social network labelled one of his posts as misleading. mr trump tweeted that plans to expand the use of postal ballots in november's election will lead to voter fraud. twitter urged users to fact check his comments. a twitter war about twitter. 0ur north america correspondent, peter bowes, reports. many couples across the uk have been forced to cancel their wedding plans, but one doctor and nurse from south london were able to tie the knot this week, in the hospital chapel where they both work. after calling off their august wedding because of fears their family would be unable to attend, jann and annalan decided to hold their nuptials early in the grade 2 listed chapel, at st thomas' hospital. they described the day as "intimate" and "lovely", but said it felt "surreal"

getting married at work. i bet it did! anyway, many congratulations to them. a nice story for a wednesday morning. isn't it? removing the prime minister's most senior advisorfrom his post without further delay is the only way to restore trust in public health advice, that's according to the leaders of six opposition parties. in a letter to borisjohnson, the signatories, which do not include labour, say the issue around the actions of dominic cummings "transcends politics". 0n on that issue, can i ask you why the labor party aren't involved in that joint party statement about dominic cummings? —— labour party. you said he wouldn't resign and the prime minister has full confidence in him and he believes he didn't break the rules, and in all honesty

we aren't interested in the labor party and dominic cummings but what we are party and dominic cummings but what we a re interested party and dominic cummings but what we are interested in is whether the public health guidance the government puts outcomes under public health confidence, and that's what's saved lives over the last few months, and we want to help the government to succeed and it's in the national interest they do. we've asked the prime minister to clarify the events dominic cummings accounted over the weekend, because they raise more questions than they answer. he needs to clarify why he believes his adviser didn't repeatedly break not just believes his adviser didn't repeatedly break notjust the spirit but the letter of the rules that he himself had written, and he's appearing before the liaison committee this afternoon, which is a committee of senior backbench mps. i hope he'll provide answers to that, he needs to do so in order to restore public trust. it would appearfrom your restore public trust. it would appear from your answer that you are interested in the future of dominic cummings and his leader said that he would have sacked him had he been in

that position —— your leader. that's right, because in a public health crisis, confidence is absolutely essential and up and down the country, i, like every mp, has been inundated with people who have made huge personal sacrifices who just cannot understand what was unique about dominic cummings's case. press conference that he held over the weekend actually seemed to make that situation worse. the prime minister has got to take responsibility for this now. he's got to decide whether he can actually account for why that situation was so unique that the rules had to be broken and if he can't, i think it's right that he should take action to restore public confidence but at the moment, we've got a situation where both the prime minister and his own adviser are just refusing to resign or sack him, and also refusing to answer basic questions. that's just not

sustainable — something has got to change, and it's got to change very quickly if the public are going to have confidence. a lot of mps have been saying they've been getting quite a few messages and e—mails about this from their constituents, cani about this from their constituents, can i ask you about that, you mentioned the public health message, from the correspondence you've been getting, from what we've seen in the last few days and the discussion about what dominic cummings did and the response from the government, has that undermined public health message and have you been getting back from the correspondence been receiving? most of the letters and e—mails that i've had over the last few days have just been very, very hurt and very, very angry. you know, people have lost pa rents in very angry. you know, people have lost parents in care homes and haven't been able to say goodbye. there was a case of a couple elsewhere in the country whose child was dying from leukaemia who had contracted covid and had to take the agonising decision about whether to call in for help with childcare for their youngest son, who wasn't able to say goodbye to his brother.

families have had agonising decisions and they're so bewildered as to why the prime minister would have put his own adviser above them — that's how they feel. the risk is we are about to move into a really difficult phase of trying to ease the lockdown restrictions. people are understandably very anxious, you can see it with the debate about schools. they want to know the advice they're being given is the right advice and they can trust it, but if there's one rule for the prime minister's advisors and another rule for the public, then people will not trust it and that will cost lives, so this is really, really dangerous for boris johnson not to be answering questions about this and sorting this out. we've got to action taken very, very quickly. 0n the other end of things, you've talked about some of the opinions you receive from some of your constituents, there's been people contacting us, and i'm sure they're contacting us, and i'm sure they're contacting you as well, saying this isa contacting you as well, saying this is a witch—hunt that has largely been pushed by those in the media.

what do you say to that? i think there's a very serious underlying point about this, which is that on don was one of the advisers who actually wrote those rules and help the government put those rules into law —— dominic cummings was. the rules and the guidance as families to take difficult personal decisions for the greater good —— ask. a couple in my constituency, both frontline workers, both contracted coded and they have young children, they made a very difficult decision to try to manage and not call in grandparents for help —— covid. that was a difficult thing to do because they're worried about the welfare of their children. right across the country you're seeing families having to make those very difficult decisions, and yet the prime minister's own adviser seems to be allowed to take the opposite approach. that really isn't sustainable. i'm not interested in dominic cummings, who the prime minister appoints as his adviser is

a matter for minister appoints as his adviser is a matterfor him, but minister appoints as his adviser is a matter for him, but that's why labour is saying if the prime minister isn't going to sack dominic cummings, he has to come in front of the liaison committee and he has to clear this up once and for all. and what about... i think it's an interesting point for the labour party because you talked about dominic cummings, you've talked about what keir starmer has said saying he would sack him, but there's a the issue of his own labour mps who have stepped across the line, some would argue, and how you talk about dominic cummings while not reprimanding them. there's a couple of cases where labour mps got it wrong. 0ne a couple of cases where labour mps got it wrong. one of those cases, for example, stephen kinnock, had gone to his parents a couple of days after the lockdown rules were put in place to drop off some shopping and to say hello. he thought it was ok to say hello. he thought it was ok to sit on the drive and chat to them because he was socially distancing — he was wrong, he's acknowledged he was wrong, and to be fair in that case, the police have said it was a

couple of days after the rules were put in place, i understand the rules are being got and used to but they don't think it's in keeping with the rules so don't do it and he hasn't —— gotten. dominic cummings wrote those rules, that's the difference, and he appears to have breached them over and over again and he says he has no regrets and isn't sorry. i don't know what mps... particularly the tory mps who have put their trust in this administration. they now feel very, very angry that they have nothing to say to their constituents who when faced with a similar situation made great personal sacrifices. that's just not sustainable. lisa nandy, thanks for talking to us on bbc breakfast this morning. a test and protect programme will begin in scotland on thursday to try to limit the spread of coronavirus. anyone with symptoms will be required to take immediate steps to be tested and self—isolate along with the rest of their household. if the test is positive, they must provide the details of everyone they have

had close contact with. those people will then be traced and contacted by phone and will need to immediately self—isolate at home for 1a days. we're joined now by the clinical director for the scottish government, jason leitch. good morning, thanks very much for that being with us this morning. morning to both. so, if someone tests positive, and there are symptoms there, what exactly should they do? that it hasn't changed. that bit is the same as as it was last week and this week. go online, you get a test, but also if you are out, out as an essential worker or somewhere else, you go home and use of isolate for seven and your family so isolates for 1a days. if that has comes back positive, which you have then book pretty quickly on the nhs form, and phone number if you don't

have digital access, then a contact race will be in touch, that form is on nhsinform.scot, they will get in touch and then contact race those you have come into proximity with. and i was speaking to matt hancock about civic duty. this does rely upon people taking that responsibility to make sure that they are willing to share all of that information? there are a few things it relies on. and the scottish people and the uk people in general have stepped up for this pandemic. i mean, you couldn't have just reduced the numbers if the british people hadn't done in the mean what they were asked to do. this is a crucial step to removing lockdown measures. the who says this is one of the six key things you have to have in place before you think about too much change in your society, along with suppressing the virus. we are going to rely on

people to tell the truth that we are going to rely on people as far as possible to tell us who they met. 0f course, that isn't an exact science. no contact tracing system in the world is completely watertight. but it will help as if they can tell us things. and people have to trust us as well, we have an obligation of the national health service to keep that information confidential. so your contacts won't know it's you, we won't share your details with them and we won't share details between contacts. it a clinically led process done by public health professionals who will look after your data like they would look after your data like they would look after your medical records. and if this is going to work, then testing, i imagine, isa going to work, then testing, i imagine, is a crucial plank to making this a success. yet those targets a re making this a success. yet those targets are still not being met. isn't that testing capacity in the system to make it work? by the end of this week we will have 15,500 everyday capacity. we had 29 new

cases in scotland yesterday, so that number remains low, contact tracing, although bigger than we would normally do for to be regular doses or chance omitted diseases, we do contact tracing all the time, and every european country has contact tracing. —— for it to be regular doses or transmitted diseases. but if it goes up a bit we are confident we have the tracing and testing available in place. and we're trying to interrupt the viral transmission, as to get to the contact, if they don't get symptoms, you have interrupted the virus. if they get symptoms, you test them and so it goes on. so the whole point is to try and break down the outbreak so you can shut it down and then release society a little bit more as time passes. elisa nandi touched on this on the broader public health concerns on the back of what we were discussing with dominic cummings over the last few days stop do you think, and i'm not trying to get you

to sort of step into political waters here, but i'm just interested in the reaction to that. do you feel that will have an effect on how people view what they themselves can do in terms of isolation and in terms of how they are acting during this period? in the mean, i think populations of the four countries of the uk have behaved impeccably. there are of course edges to that, some people get fixed penalty notices were not obeying the rules, notices were not obeying the rules, not many. and i was with the chief co nsta ble a not many. and i was with the chief constable a few days ago and we have tried in the mean to police this by consent. we have had conversations with people having picnics in the park, when that isn't allowed in scotla nd park, when that isn't allowed in scotland yet. and i think people are sensible. i'm not sure people won't change their behaviour based on what they see others do. i think they change their behaviour because it is the right thing to do at the right time. so i think people in the mean

have done the right thing and test to protect is just the next step up we need them to do to allow us to start to move lockdown, to start to improve the economy and get people seeing theirfamilies improve the economy and get people seeing their families who have really missed them over this period. i'm very grateful to the people of britain for everything they have done to keep the virus numbers down low. thank you forjoining us this morning on breakfast, jason leitch. well that's the situation in scotland. in wales, the government says it wanted its test, trace, protect scheme to be operational by the end of may. while northern ireland began a contact tracing programme last wednesday. in england, 11 areas have been chosen to pilot the test, track and trace service. we're joined now by dr louise smith, who is director of health for norfolk county council, which is part of the pilot

and colin cox, the public health director of cumbria council, which has started its own scheme. louise, you will be part of this pilot system. when will it start, and what have you put in place so far? well, it starts now. what will be doing is working really closely with public health england. we have started with care homes where we are working together with public health experts, with the health service, trying to, as doctor lietch was describing, get tests done early and contact tracing. and i suppose the interesting point was you have been asked, yours was one of the areas asked, yours was one of the areas asked to do this, while colin, you are doing this on your own in cumbria. it is very much a matter of timing. ithink cumbria. it is very much a matter of timing. i think everybody across the country has been trying to get ready for the national system for quite some time now. and in cumbria, we started doing a little bit of work

on testing and tracing system last week. we started getting that up and running before national pathfinders we re running before national pathfinders were announced. cumbria was one of the first places where there was a case of coronavirus. have you been on this from the start? well, cumbria certainly had some of the early cases in the country. it is something we have been very aware of for quite some time stop knowing how important testing and tracing is to easing lockdown, it is one of the critical factors in using lockdown stop we just want to make sure we are hours ahead of the game as we can be in terms of both doing the testing and tracing and piloting something that means when the national system kicks in england, we know what we're doing and are ready to go with it. so for example, if someone to go with it. so for example, if someone tested positive for coronavirus, let's day i did, what information would i have to give to you, for example, and where does that go? -- lets say i did. in the first instance you would probably be

asked to log onto a website and give information about where you had been and who you had been with, what we call in contact with, for two days before you became unwell and seven days afterwards. and when we are asking about who you have been in contact with, we don't put any judgement into that at all. it is simply about where the virus may have come from and where it may pass to. when we got those details from you, we would then contact people, either through the website or from the call centres that public health england are running, get in touch with those people who have been in contact with you, and arrange for them to have a test as well. so that is the basis of how it works. and colin, it's come back to you, if you weeks ago we were speaking to matt hancock about the app being trialed on the other way, which seems to have gone quiet in times. i close to

that are you? we have been keeping an eye on it, of course. we haven't been doing anything about developing our own app. been doing anything about developing ourown app. i been doing anything about developing our own app. i think the norfolk cou nty our own app. i think the norfolk county council is a useful addition, potentially, to the national contact tracing system, but the really important part of it will be done by traditional public health contact tracing with people being telephone and spoken to —— spoken to on the telephone. i think the app is a good addition, though. we heard from matt hancock in that news conference yesterday saying it will be people's civic duty to then, when they have been told they were in contact with somebody, to self—isolate have you had reaction from people yet and what do they make of it, colin? we have seen sofar people dojust self—isolate, people have seen sofar people dojust self— isolate, people take have seen sofar people dojust self—isolate, people take this very seriously. people want to do the right thing and protect their family and friends and they want to reduce the spread of the virus. sol and friends and they want to reduce the spread of the virus. so i think most people who ask to self—isolate for this will be happy to do so.

have you seen a similar reaction as well, louise? yes, absolutely, i com pletely well, louise? yes, absolutely, i completely agree with that. one of the important things when we were developing the pilot, will be how we can locally put measures in place to help people. some people when asked to self—isolate will need a bit of extra help, food deliveries, things like that. that is very much part of what we want to do locally. people won't be able to go to theirjobs, for example. what about families as well? if one person is told to self—isolate, you may not know the a nswer to self—isolate, you may not know the answer to this, in a family, do the children not go to school, for example? what would happen? that's correct. that's the guidelines already. if someone in the household has symptoms, we ask the whole household to isolate. the difference as we move forward will be that we will be getting in touch with them and arranging for everybody in the house to have tests. colin, listening to both of you, you have said the appetite for this is there.

do you think that is because everybody sort of realises that if there is to be is, sort of, life after the lockdown, the way to get there is only through this sort of really careful detail of testing, tracking and tracing, whatever you would like to call back, just to protect, in the uk? yes, absolutely right. we know that the virus is still out there. it hasn't gone away. suppression of the virus has been very successful, lockdown has worked. we need to come out of lockdown, but we need to do it safely. and along with continued physical distancing measures and things like hand hygiene, which remains really important, the testing and tracing is the fundamental way in which we can come out of lockdown safely. and i think people do understand that. the -- good to chat to you both, colin cox and louise smith. if you are a regular watcher of this

programme, you know that we have been speaking to somebody from the government every single day over the last couple of weeks from the government. we have robertjenrick coming up stop and in the meantime, gosh, it has been glorious, carol. what is going on with the weather today? more of the same, actually. look at this beautiful weather watchers picture taken from come out and show this morning. many of us it is going to be dry very warm. for many of us that will be music to our yea rs, many of us that will be music to our years, but for others it won't because there is not much rain in the forecast. not just today but over the next two days stop the warmth continues. we got to 27 in the london area, we won't be far of that today. 23 across north—east england. a pressure has been in charge of our weather this weekend will continue to be over the next few days. look how the colours change, we see yellow is replaced by ambrose, indicating it will get warmer “—

ambrose, indicating it will get warmer —— by ambers as we pull in warmer —— by ambers as we pull in warm airfrom the near warmer —— by ambers as we pull in warm air from the near continent. we have the remnants of our weather front in the near south, not much more than a band of new cloud turning since i'm hazy. we had some fog over the south—east and south—west, a lot of that will lift. weather front is coming in across northern ireland and western scotland, introducing some cloud and the odd spot of rain. temperature—wise we're looking at 12 in their week two highs of 25 as we sweep down once again towards the london area. through this evening and overnight that band of cloud and rain in the west will continue to drift across the north of scotland, but the rain will turn heavier as it does so. for the rest of the uk, it is going to be dry, clear skies and today we will see some low cloud lapping along the shorelines of eastern england. we will see some of the coming land. it isn't going to bea the coming land. it isn't going to be a cold night, most of us staying in double figures. tomorrow we say goodbye to that band of rain as it clears off into the north sea. we

could see the odd spot of rain for south—east scotland and north—east england before it does clear. then we are looking at a lot of dry weather, variable amounts of cloud and a lot of sunshine, gentle breezes. temperature is in 22, 22 in -- 20 breezes. temperature is in 22, 22 in —— 20 in belfast, 26 in cardiff. by the time we move into thursday and friday, high pressure will have drifted a bit further eastwards into the north sea, heading towards kamdyn avia stop so still, a lot of settled conditions. still a lot of dry weather front is being kept at bay in the atlantic. —— high pressure heading towards scandinavia. 21 in belfast, 25 in liverpool, and 27 in cardiff now, as we head on into the weekend we have that high pressure, there it is, anchoring in scandinavia, keeping weather fronts at bay. it will be busier, but still dry, sunny and

warm. interesting few days ahead in terms of the weather. hello, this is breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. mini local lockdowns could be introduced in england to contain future coronavirus outbreaks according to the health secretary, matt hancock. schools and businesses in some places would be closed again temporarily to deal with regional spikes in cases, as the current restrictions are relaxed. today, ministers will give more details about the plan, which is part of the government's test, track and trace strategy. nearly a0 conservative mps have called on the prime minister to sack his chief advisor, dominic cummings, after he travelled from london to county durham during the early days of lockdown. borisjohnson will face questioning by senior mps today about how he handled the row, as well as the way the government has managed the coronavirus outbreak. the prime minister will appear for 90 minutes by video link before the commons liaison committee. donald trump has accused twitter of interfering in the 2020 we're joined now from westminster by housing secretary,

robertjenrick. good morning, thank you very much for watching us. there's a lot to get through this morning, so let's try and do some of that. 0ver a0 of your own conservative mps have called for dominic cummings to resign, should he? no, you shouldn't. he's given his explanation to the prime minister, who listened and concluded he'd acted reasonably and legally. the prime minister then asked him to give that statement on monday to the public and to answer questions from journalists. he answered them for over an hour. and i think now is the time for us all to move on. that's not to say this isn't an important issue or people don't care a great deal about it, but i think there's a lot more we need to focus on now — the virus, the economy and the other things we all care about, and that's certainly my focus as a minister. 0ver10% of the parliamentary party are talking about this and want him to resign, and this is one example and there's obviously many. caroline

nokes says there can't be one rule for one of us and wiggle room for others, my inboxes rammed with constituents puss puss complaints andi constituents puss puss complaints and i don't blame them. another said his position is untenable —— constituents'. can you understand people's anger? it isn'tjust mps but members of the public who are very upset. i can, and many people would disagree with the decisions dominic cummings made, both members of the public and members of parliament, but he set out why he made those decisions and his motivations, which were to protect his unwell wife and his young child, and to self—isolate as a household somewhere where he believed he could get the childcare and support that they needed. i think that that's a reasonable explanation and it's a legal one, it

doesn't look as if any of the guidelines or the rules have been broken, and so my view is now we accept that and we move on because there are many, many more important issues that we need to be talking about, some of which you've already alluded to, like the track and trace system, for example, that's going to have a big impact on millions of people's lives. i'll come to test my track and trace ina i'll come to test my track and trace in a moment. are you one of those who disagree with his decisions? i think the restrictions we have had to live through have posed great challenges for everyone in this country, particularly for families. i'm not going tojudge how individuals have made those decisions. it's important obviously that everyone sticks to the rules and acts within the guidelines, and dominic cummings did do that. people will disagree with the decisions that he made, many people do, but he

did stick to the guidelines. it was within the law, and that's the most important thing here. he's spoken to the prime minister, the prime minister supports him, the cabinet supports him and i think it is now for him to go about hisjob and more importantly for the rest of us to get on with hours, which is helping to move the country forward through the virus. we could go on and one last comment, jeremy corbyn, jeremy hunt said dominic cummings broke lockdown rules in three different ways but doesn't believe he should be fired. to that point, we saw yesterday in the news conference reverent bull of st luke's in preston bill asking the government, "will the government review all penalty fines imposed for families travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown?" travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown? " matt travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown?" matt hancock said he would have to talk to his treasury colleagues before he a nswe rs treasury colleagues before he answers in full and he will look at it. well the government review those fines? no, there isn't going to be a

formal review. it's for the police to decide whether or not to impose fines under the law. they have the guidance that we've provided and the national release chiefs have provided their own guidance, which does give officers a degree of discussion no discretion to use their common sense, again reflecting their common sense, again reflecting the fact all of our circumstances are different and families have particular challenges. they are encouraging officers in the first insta nce to encouraging officers in the first instance to explain and resort to fines only when necessary absolutely. in most cases, that's what's happened. dominic cummings didn't break the guidelines. the police haven't chosen, as far as i'm aware, to impose a fine on him. so we have to leave it there. can we talk about trust? there's been poles out this morning, one of them, for example, says the trust in what the government is saying about the virus is falling. in early

april, 78 cent trusted official information, now it's fallen to 59% -- 78%. information, now it's fallen to 59% —— 78%. can you see there's been an undermining of trust? it would the very concerning to me if people were losing faith in the core messages that the government, backed by medical and scientific opinion, are encouraging people to follow. the m essa g es encouraging people to follow. the messages inevitably are becoming more nuanced because we are moving out of the first phase where the message was a very simple one, which most people, to their great credit, followed. we' re most people, to their great credit, followed. we're now into a phase where asking people to use much more of their own personal discretion, personal responsibility as they begin to get back to a degree of normality — returning to work if it's safe to do so, going out for much more exercise, going about other daily activities, which previously people might not have done — so the messaging will become more complex and will rely on people

increasingly making their own judgements and using common sense. let's talk about test, track and trace. we heard about the app, which appears to have been delayed. is that ready? well test, track and trace be ready on the first ofjune? it will be ready next month. we've got 24,000 it will be ready next month. we've got 2a,000 contact races. the app has been piloted on the isle of wight —— tracers. i don't want to emphasise the app, that's one element in an armoury of tools. the most important thing is the people on the ground working with local councils, such as the specialist you spoke to earlier on, and the purpose of this system if we can get it right is the vast majority of the population can go back to a degree of normal life, and only if you have come into close contact with an individual who has the virus, who is symptomatic, would you then need to do the right thing and self—isolate

at home for two weeks. so the potential that this system has is enormous for all of us to be able to get back to work, get back to school, go about all the things we ca re school, go about all the things we care about in our daily lives. you talk about next month, the first of june, is it ready for the first of june? i don't want to pre-empt what is going to be said later today, but it is ready and the health secretary is going to be talking about it later, laying out how the plan is going to work. it's going to have a very local element to it, which will mean that if there is a flareup in one particular community, and that could be on quite a small—scale, like a particular workplace or school, then measures can be introduced which hopefully the public will get behind, enable us to control the virus in that locality and enabled the rest of the population to have much more freedom to go about its daily business, which i think is what we desperately need now as a society. with your

responsibility for housing and communities, you talk about local, will you be locking down towns, will it be housing estates, will it be schools, what are you looking at? the health secretary will say more shortly, but if the system works as we hope, it will be on quite a micro level, as you say, so it will be trying tojudge if level, as you say, so it will be trying to judge if there are fla reu ps trying to judge if there are flareups in particular places, whether that parts of towns, schools, hospitals, workplaces. and by doing that, we inconvenience a very small number of people and we protect the wider population. that's the goal and it will require all of us the goal and it will require all of us to play our part in that, obviously, and it will require a big army of people that we are already recruiting and working in particular with local councils who got a great number of people and expertise in public health who will help us roll out the system really fast

nationwide. you could be asking a lot of people, couldn't you ? for example, you could be asking a lot of people, couldn't you? for example, if i was diagnosed with coronavirus, i imagine dan would be contacted and told to self—isolate for 1a days. this is an enormous amount to ask of people when on the other hand some people when on the other hand some people might think, "hang on, some of those making the rules aren't exactly following the rules". you're absolutely right that everybody should be following the rules. nobody should be above the law. but with respect to track and trace, the trade off here is for a relatively small number of people abiding by the rules, being inconvenienced in some cases, staying at home and self—isolating, the rest of society gets to enjoy far more freedom than we all do today because of the great restrictions we're living under. so the potential is huge to help us to get back to all the things we care about in life. you been talking about ppe

throughout this whole coronavirus pandemic. —— you've been. there's been very serious issues with ppe both in hospitals and care homes. how can people trust that that is now under control? lol, it has been a huge challenge, particularly challenge, particularly in some settings like care homes —— it has been a huge challenge, particularly in some settings like ca re particularly in some settings like care homes. it seems to be stabilising, and i don't want to overstate that because supply is strained, but we have a large number of suppliers both internationally and increasingly domestic. we have signed contracts for 2 billion further items, we have over 100 further items, we have over 100 further suppliers. and we're using a range of different systems to get the ppe to it different matters —— matters. we are using resilience forums and a phone line, which is 2a/7, and local organisation to get

it out in extremis and we're rolling out a system using the company clipper which enables people to place orders online, as you would for many other goods and services, and for them to be delivered to your ca re and for them to be delivered to your care home, gp surgery or other setting very swiftly. that system has been piloted in the south—west of england and is now moving out across the country. it does feel as if we are moving to a better place with ppe, but i appreciate it's been very challenging indeed for a lot of people over the last few weeks. can ijust also ask people over the last few weeks. can i just also ask you about something that i'm sure you will have seen in the times this morning, reporting you unlawfully approved a planning development for 1500 homes in east london after you were accused of apparent bias because the person behind it was a conservative party donor. is that true? no, that's not correct. a lot of planning decisions pass the desk of the secretary of state for housing. we took the decision, we don't believe there was

any bias. but to ensure there was com plete any bias. but to ensure there was complete fairness, we judged that it was right for the decision to be re—determined by another minister should the applicant in that case wa nt should the applicant in that case want it to be determined again, and i assume that will happen, but i don't know. just briefly on that point, so the planning inspector advised you against approving the scheme, so why did you approve it? that's not uncommon. the housing minister has to look at applications on their merits and make a determination as to whether they feel it's the right thing to proceed, and that's what i'd in this case. robert jenrick, thank you for your time here on breakfast this morning —— what i did. sally has been listening to that and waiting carefully to talk to us about... are we talking premier league training again? good morning! good morning, everyone. remembera couple of days ago the government

approving contact training? premier league clubs are meeting today to vote on whether they should start the second phase of training, which would include contact with between players in small groups. they've been consulting players on the government's decision that in small groups. basically tackling and other things as well. they've been consulting players on the government's decision that elite athletes can resume contact training, as long as the sports deem it safe to do so. it's been over a week since premier league teams returned to training ahead of a possible restart next month. liverpool are 25 points clear at the top of the table, and club captainjordan henderson says players are keen to get back playing as soon as it's safe. i have to say the measures that the premier league as sooner everybody is comfortable, as soon as as sooner everybody is comfortable, as soon as it's safe to do so, and we are guided by the experts and the doctors and what they have deemed safe to do so, i think that's what we are following really and like i said, the measures that have been put in place so far has been fantastic and hopefully that can just carry on throughout until we get to the point where back playing

games again. —— we are back playing games again. —— we are back playing games again. golf's ryder cup is famous for its atmosphere and world number one rory mcilroy says he can't see this year's event taking place until next year. the tournament was due to take place in september in wisconsin. the pga tour is set to resume next month behind closed doors, but mcilroy doesn't think a ryder cup without spectators would be a viable option. the majority of the players would like to it pushed back to 2021 so that they can play in front of the atmosphere that they want to play. and they want to play in front of crowds, that's what makes the ryder cup so special, and if the players aren't on board with it, you know, at the end of the day the players are the ones that make the ryder cup and if they don't want to play, then there isn't a ryder cup. i see it being pushed back to ‘21 and honestly i think that would be the right call. it's believed prime minister boris

johnson has told his cabinet to make sure 2 grand prix can go ahead at silverstone this summer, according to people within formula 1. that's regardless of the impending quarantine rules on international arrivals. it hopes to hold races behind closed doors onjuly 26th and a week later on august 2nd. there's still no set date for english rugby union clubs to return to training. the sport's governing body are considering reducing the amount of time in scrums and — get this — making players wash hands and faces before the game and at half—time. all very sensible, but it rains me a little bit of school. thank you, sally. it was like my argument with the children. have you watched it with soap? —— washed. thousands of tonnes of produce

is at risk of being wasted as pubs and restaurants remain closed. sean is at a salad grower near lancashire for us this morning. good morning, sean. you are enjoying the sunshine, no doubt? good morning. it's beautiful here. the sun beamed out from behind the cloud briefly. this has been perfect for growing letters in the past few weeks and consuming it as well. —— growing temp —— growing lettuce. the third of this is to be produced for the pubs and hospitality sector, but they don't need at the moment was that they could be closed for weeks or months. and this is an issue for brain salads, who has been packaging it up —— byran salads, they would normally be selling it to the hospitality sector but the demand isn't there at the moment. linda, let's socially distance two lettuce

beds apart. is there anything that could be done to minimise you chopping it all up on the field and ploughing it back into the ground as ways ? ploughing it back into the ground as ways? to be honest, at the moment i don't think there is anything we can do. because, asjohn said previously, the orders are a lot less and we are not doing as much as we would do normally at this time of the year. and when you, the workers on the tractor, there is still stuff to be done, because you are selling to be done, because you are selling to supermarkets and fast food places that we are starting to see reopened. do you have the issue we are hearing from a lot of farmers, that they haven't been able to get the work in to do the picking? we are ina the work in to do the picking? we are in a pretty good situation, we haven't been struggling regarding to staff this year and regarding all of this covid—19 issue. but i have heard a lot of farmers around have been struggling and some people are

not able to come back from their holidays and work on their normal work place, where they would do. but we are in quite a good situation now, i would say, at the moment. you have any expectations? you have staff from all around the european union. so when flights start up again, they may not be able to get those flights to get back home. could there be a pinch point? to be honest, i think all of our staff, they are very overwhelmed with the situation and worry they can't get back home, because like you mention, the flights have been cancelled and ‘ or, the flights have been cancelled and — or, those who have already been on holidays or travelled back to their countries before this all started, they are not able to get back stop and they are kind of start. and that feeling you can't just and they are kind of start. and that feeling you can'tjust get and they are kind of start. and that feeling you can't just get online and buy the ticket and the next day go back home, it overwhelms them and

they feel like they are kind of trapped. they don't know what is going to happen. so, talking about the emotions and feelings involved, you know, all of the effort that goes into going all of this, have you ever had to go through this before? what is it like to feel a third of this might never be eaten? it's an awful situation. all of this effort, all of these workers, you know, some of them really, really enjoy work on the field, even if some people will think who would enjoy working on the field? but they prefer to be outside in fresh air than being stuck in the factory. but you know that they enjoy theirjob and now all their effort will go to waste. it's just and now all their effort will go to waste. it'sjust an awful feeling. well, linda, thank you for having us this morning and we will see whether we will get any more of those dates and how this goes. knowing when

restau ra nts ca n and how this goes. knowing when restaurants can reopen and for that whole supply chain to get going again will be pretty crucial. but i mean, it's a gorgeous morning here. you can see the produce looks fantastic. it's just whether we will get a chance to eat it this summer. it does look lovely. sean, we will be back with you in a little bit later. and that has inspired you to talk about your lettuce growing and carol and sally have been involved in that. not my lettuce growing. you so in that. not my lettuce growing. you so much role of the pictures of things you are growing in your gardens. they have been quite cheery this morning. they might have been if you are eating lettuce, but what about other snacks? are you getting tired of your children eating you out of house and home during lockdown? 0ne mum of fourfrom northumberland was so sick of arguments

about snacks she came up with an ingenuous plan of buying her very own vending machine. her children can now earn money to buy treats by doing chores and schoolwork. let's take a look. have you finished all of your schoolwork? what would you like? have you finished all of your schoolwork? what would you like ?i curly whirly. put your pennies in. yeah! push. good boy. are you happy? yeah! push. good boy. are you happy? yeah! 5—1. yeah! push. good boy. are you happy? yeah! 5-1. press the button harder. genius idea! let's speak to the sarah balsdon. she's joined by her children, shannon, who's nine, eight—year—old lucy, jack, who's 5, and 2—year—old elijah. this is shown in, lucy, —— shannon,

lucy, jack and elijah. why did you side to get a vending machine?” lucy, jack and elijah. why did you side to get a vending machine? i was sick about the comments about unhealthy snacks, you know, them sneaking things to their bedrooms. so they can still have healthy snacks like rice cakes and fruit and cheese, but if they want a sugary snack, then they will have two new their schoolwork and clean their bedrooms and stuff like that. and sarah, it's proof you can find anything on the internet these days. 0h, anything on the internet these days. oh, yes. vending machines are quite expensive, so where did you get it? it was on facebook marketplace. somebody had a shop that closed down and they didn't have a use for it anymore. who is at the most money out of all of them? the products?

the children. who has had the most suites? shannon is definitely had the most but she is the oldest. elijah might be a close second. and, shannon, what do you think of the vending machine? at first i liked it, but now i don't because i don't wa nt it, but now i don't because i don't want to have too much. and, sarah, have you joined in? so, want to have too much. and, sarah, have youjoined in? so, one of want to have too much. and, sarah, have you joined in? so, one of the things i heard from the kids was they wanted to make it fairer. shannon thinks it's great, but obviously i use it as well. i'm interested in the pricing structure. ican see interested in the pricing structure. i can see you have a twirl, how much is that? 30 p. that's a bargain! i

buy them from the supermarket. sarah, we're losing the line little bit. but you are working on the front line at the moment. tell us what you are doing? yeah, things have been very different. so,... you area have been very different. so,... you are a respiratory nurse? inaudible surgery where i, have a fantastic team. thank you so much, but we can't hear you, sarah. the line has gone a bit funny. i will tell everybody at home she works in the hospital in her community and is really at the frontline of the fight

against covid—19. she is working extremely hard at the moment, and i'm talking for her now, but she says her children aren't allowed to hug her in still all of her clothes have been washed. thank you all very much indeed. take care. thank you to shannon, elijah, jack and lucy. it's nice to see the family. £20 for a 12, what a bargain! i think she must get them in bulk? i know there are a lot of chocolates available, but the last time i went to a service station it was 65p for a freddo. hello, carol. a lot of us waking up

to blue skies, we have had clear skies overnight and it has been cold, particularly in southern scotla nd cold, particularly in southern scotland and northern england where temperatures fail in parts by two or three degrees —— temperatures fail. it may not be good news if you're looking for some rain but it will be drove the next 2—3 days and it will be warm as well. —— it will be dry for the next 2—3 days. not much rain during the day, we will see more at night. first thing this morning we have a fair bit of cloud across scotland, now, eastern scotland and the north—east seeing brighter skies. later you will see some spots of rain coming in and the same across northern ireland, the cloud coming in followed by some rain. clear skies for southern england, wales and the midlands. the weather front is weakening of the time and not doing much more than turning the sunshine hazy through the day. the

latter pa rt sunshine hazy through the day. the latter part of the afternoon, we are more likely to see some cloud lapping onshore coming in from the north sea, the temperature—wise, 12 in the north to 25 in the south. through this evening and overnight, there goes the rain moving across there goes the rain moving across the north of scotland, now, some of this will be happy. but for northern ireland, the rest of scotland, england and wales, it will be a dry note with some clear skies —— dry note with some clear skies —— dry note —— note. most of us will stay in double figures. we say goodbye to the rain tomorrow morning before we see the odd spot of rain across north—east scotland and scotland, and as all of that rain clears away, taking part with it, we're looking ata dry taking part with it, we're looking at a dry day with a lot of sunshine and temperatures starting to climb. 22 in glasgow, 20 in belfast, 25 in liverpool and 23 in london. now, as we head into friday, if anything it is going to be a woman at more

widely. a lot of dry weather around. high pressure still in charge and a lot of sunshine. the high pressure effectively keeping france at bay in the atlantic. look at those temperatures, 27 cardiff by the time we get friday, 2a in glasgow. as we head into saturday we have high pressure firmly in charge, still keeping this weather front at bay. if anything changes in the next few days, this weather front might make an approach into northern ireland and western scotland. and as it does so, there is going to be much rain in it. but for saturday, a bit busier and warmerfor in it. but for saturday, a bit busier and warmer for many with highs of 26 or 27. the headlines follow me.

good morning welcome to breakfast with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today. plans to impose localised lockdowns in england will be unveiled later, to try to contain future outbreaks of coronavirus. the prime minister will be questioned by mps amid calls for his top adviser dominic cummings to resign. it's back to school for some children on monday. we'll find out how teachers and pupils are learning to adapt to a new style of classroom. premier league clubs vote today on a return to contact training. it's been approved by the government already — now the players will have their say.

it's wednesday the 27th may. in the last half an hour the housing secretary has outlined plans to control spikes in coronavirus infections in england, by introducing ‘local lockdowns‘. mrjenrick also told this programme that the government‘s test, track and trace strategy will be ready to be rolled out in england by next month. ready to be rolled out let‘s speak to our assistant political editor, norman smith. norman, morning to you.” norman, morning to you. i know you we re norman, morning to you. i know you were listening closely to what robertjenrick was saying earlier and talking about controlling the virus going forward. yes, we are getting a sense of how the lockdown is going to be eased and what that will mean when there is an upsurge in some parts of the country where perhaps the virus will re—emerge as people start to go out and about their business more. the risk that that will spread the infection. what the government is talking about is this idea of localised lockdowns. what that means is if there is a sudden surge in the

virus they might reimpose all the old lockdown conditions, in other words, obliging people to self—isolate for up to 1a days in those particular areas if the virus suddenly begins to start re—emerging. have a listen to what mr robertjenrick said. re—emerging. have a listen to what mr robert jenrick said. with respect to track and trace, the trade—off here is that for a relatively small numberof here is that for a relatively small number of people abiding by the rules, being inconvenienced in some cases, staying at home and self— isolating, cases, staying at home and self—isolating, the rest of society gets to enjoy far more freedom than we all do today because of the great restrictions we are living under. so the potential is huge to help us get back to all the things we care about in life. and also today, norman, there will be a bit more scrutiny over zaki what the prime minister has done over the last few weeks. he is going before mps today, isn‘t he? he is going to have a 90 minute grilling by some of parliament‘s

most senior mps virtually, of course. the whole section devoted to covid—19, 20 minutes to dominic cummings, no sign of the government backing down even though there are around a0 tory mps who have all expressed their dismay demanding that dominic cummings is forced to walk the plank. he hasn‘t in part because boris johnson walk the plank. he hasn‘t in part because borisjohnson is standing by him. but also because they calculate that we in the media and tory mps will just that we in the media and tory mps willjust decide that we in the media and tory mps will just decide we‘ve that we in the media and tory mps willjust decide we‘ve got to move on and there are other important covid—19 issues to deal with. added to which so far no really big beast has broken ranks, no cabinet minister has come out and demanded he go. the biggest we have had as jeremy hunt the former health secretary who last night said that his conduct was a clear breach of the rules. although he didn‘t actually demand his resignation. and no surprise robertjenrick this morning insisting the cabinet was

standing behind dominic cummings. morning insisting the cabinet was standing behind dominic cummingsm is important obviously that everybody sticks to the rules and acts within the guidelines. and dominic cummings did do that. people will disagree with the decisions that he made. many people do. but he did stick to the guidelines. it was within the law. and that's the most important thing here. he has spoken to the prime minister. the prime minister supports him, the cabinet support him and i think it's now for him to go about hisjob, and more importantly for the rest of us, to get on with ours, which is helping to move the country forward through the virus. what we don't know, dan is how this all plays with the public and weather people, when asked to make further restrictions may be they are part of these localised lockdowns, they say, maybe i‘m going to do a cummings, i will do my own thing. the danger is of course that people refuse to abide by further restrictions that the government seeks to impose on them.

so there are big policy issues around the prime minister‘s decision to cling on to dominic cummings. very interesting, norman. thank you very much as ever. meanwhile, in scotland a "test, trace and isolate" programme will begin tomorrow, to try to limit the spread of the virus. people with symptoms will be asked to have a swab test immediately, and if the result is positive, anyone they have come into close face—to—face contact with, will be traced and told to isolate for 1a days. earlier, national clinical director of the scottish government, jason leitch explained how it will work. we are trying to interrupt the viral transmission, so you get to the contact, if they don‘t get symptoms you‘ve interrupted the virus. if they get symptoms you test them and so it goes on. so the whole point is to try and break down the outbreak so you can shut it down and then you can release society a little bit more as time passes. donald trump has accused twitter

of interfering in the 2020 us election after the social media company labelled two posts by the president as potentially misleading. mr trump had claimed that the use of postal ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud. twitter responded by directing readers to a page with news articles and information from fact checkers debunking the claim. tensions have flared again in hong kong, with police firing pepper bullets at demonstrators. protests have been taking place as legislators debate a bill that would criminalise china‘s national anthem. dozens of people have been arrested. the first commercial craft to take people into space is due to blast off from cape canaveral in florida this evening. the spacex rocket and capsule will be the first to take off from american soil since 2011. two nasa astronauts will be on board the mission to the international space station. here‘s our science correspondent rebecca morelle. getting ready for launch. a commercial spacecraft facing its ultimate test — carrying astronauts into space.

nasa‘s bob behnken and doug hurley will be at the controls. they‘ve been training for this moment for years. at any time you have the first flight of a brand—new vehicle, it‘s exciting. it‘s a bit more risky, which is why we‘re using people like bob and doug, who are very experienced test pilots, they can handle anything that maybe happens that we didn‘t expect. but it‘s what test pilots live for, you know, the chance to be the first one to fly a new, shiny vehicle is a test pilot‘s dream. lift off, we have a lift off. the united states has a long history of space flight. from the apollo missions, which took astronauts to the moon, to the space shuttle programme, which ferried men and women to low—earth orbit and back. the shuttle has cleared the tower. but its last flight touched down nearly a decade ago. since then, nasa astronauts have had to buy seats

on russian rockets instead. this new spacecraft will restore america‘s ability for human space flight. the fact it‘s owned by space x, a commercial company, also marks a big change for the us space agency. nasa said basically, "we'll give you the money "and you give us the space flight" and that releases nasa to use its resources to do other things. and that's where we can start really thinking big. and instead of spending allthe time, effort, resources on something we've done now for many years, going into low—earth orbit, doing experiments, let's look bigger, let's go further and the ultimate destination has to be mars. last year, a crash test dummy took a test ride in the spacex capsule. now, though, it‘s time for the real thing. a new era in space flight is set to begin. rebecca morelle, bbc news. that‘s fascinating, isn‘t it? lots to look forward to with regards to that tonight. an anti—viral drug, pioneered to treat ebola, will be made available to some hospital patients with covid—19.

health secretary, matt hancock, says this is probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began. it‘s called remdesivir, it works by blocking virus production within the cells. early data from uk trials suggests that it can cut recovery time by about four days for those hospitalised with coronavirus. for the time being, and due to limited supplies, it will only be available on the nhs for those receiving oxygen and most likely to benefit from the treatment. let‘s speak to virologist tom solomon, who has been advising the government throughout the pandemic. nice to see you. i know you are a regular on bbc breakfast when we have various updates to talk about on things like this. how excited are you about this potential drug?” think this is really good news, it‘s really the first good news story we have had in the last three months in terms of treatments and at last we have a drug that is showing that it does have some benefit. it is not a pa na cea , does have some benefit. it is not a panacea, it is not a cure all, it is

not a magic bullet, but it does show some improvement in some patients and that‘s the first time we have had it and now it‘s going to be available on the nhs so it is a positive story. is it on particular patients that it is particularly effective? the study was an international study and did include some uk patients and it was on about 1000 patients. what it showed was that on average the time for recovery reduced from about 15 days down to about 11 days. so that‘s a modest effect. and also the patients that it was most effective in were actually not those who were so severe they were in intensive care and not those that were very mild but it was the in between patients who needed oxygen. it‘s a step in the right direction. but it‘s not going to change everything dramatically. and there are ongoing studies which are also really important. on those other studies as well, we mentioned you are advising the government in which area of research, are there other drugs on the horizon that could have an impact as well? there is about 150

trials going on around the world looking at other drugs and other combinations in different populations. 0ne combinations in different populations. one of the biggest ones is actually in the uk, the biggest trial of all with more than 5000 patients and this is one that has been supported by the uk government. this is looking at a range of different treatments and has the ability to change the treatment during the trial depending on how different drugs are doing. the other exciting drugs that are in development are using patients‘ serum, you may have heard about that, because that has been talked about quite a lot recently, so this is using the blood of people who have recovered from the virus to treat other people. that‘s quite an exciting approach as well. though studies are ongoing. we talked to somebody yesterday who had an extraordinary amount of antibodies and his blood plasma was being used, so we and his blood plasma was being used, so we have talked about that. can you also tell us about a vaccine because there is so much hope relying on a vaccine. i‘ll be

getting any closer to one? the vaccines are continuing to be developed. they always take longer to develop than treatments are especially because the drug trials that have been happening so far are largely using drugs we already have for other conditions. so the vaccine studies are progressing. the study on the vaccine from oxford has moved on the vaccine from oxford has moved on to the next stage which is meaning there are thousands of people going into the trial including in liverpool, where we are recruiting people into the vaccine studies here. they always take longer because you have to give the vaccine and then you have to see what effect it has had on people‘s immune response and ultimately you have to see whether it has reduced the number of people who get the disease. although it is great that the number of cases are coming down nationally because of all the social distancing measures, what it does mean is that these kind of studies ta ke mean is that these kind of studies take longer because you have less disease around. i'm conscious of not giving our viewers false hope this morning but it seems they are a

number of reasons to be positive looking into the future in terms of the number of treatments available and where we will be weeks and months down the line. you are absolutely right, i think we should be positive, i always thought from the start of this that we would get treatments quite quickly because there is such an enormous international effort. pretty well all other research has stopped and everybody is researching coronavirus in one way or another. so i think we will get treatments. i have always thought we would get treatments before vaccines will stop i think the vaccine will be a longer story. the fact we have treatments, we have the first positive news about one which will be available on the nhs, andi which will be available on the nhs, and i think more will come, so i do think that ultimately we will have ways of treating this disease and hopefully also vaccinating against it in the future. it is really lovely to have some optimism, actually, isn‘t it? i‘m going to bring it down now! just looking ahead, and we are beginning to see things beginning to be eased, we know things change in england on the 1st ofjune quite considerably and

then on the 15th as well going forward in other areas, how concerned are you that we need to stick by guidelines and that there could be, for example, a second spike? 0rdo you could be, for example, a second spike? or do you think we have done enough so far? i think what we have done so far as a nation has been great. we have really followed the lockdown measures and it has meant that there has been less contact and on people so the virus has had less places to go so that‘s why the number of cases has dropped. from here it is going to be really important to see what happens to disease transmission, this all—important letter are number, the reproduction number, as long as we keep that below one of the disease will continue to disappear. —— the r number. it is a juggling act is in the lockdown and seeing what that does to transmission. but hopefully we will be able to ease the lockdown without too much new transmission, and that will mean we will slowly return back to some kind of normality without large numbers of

cases. especially if we do have the treatments for the cases that come, again, that will make things a bit easier to manage. thank you for the positive news, professor tom solomon, lovely to talk to you. i remember so many times you use to visit us in the studio. 0ne i remember so many times you use to visit us in the studio. one day, perhaps, again. those were the old days, very different times! thank you very much. headteachers in england have told us that preparing schools to welcome more children back from next week, has been the toughest challenge of their careers. staff rotas, school systems and physical changes to classrooms, have all been considered to ensure pupils can return safely under social distancing guidelines. breakfast‘sjohn maguire has been to visit a school in north somerset. 0k, theo, can you tuck your chair and come and stand on the white line. the children returning to school here at the whitehook academies in north somerset next week, everything will be different.

each and every aspect of school life has been reassessed. we have a 109—point check list to go through to make sure everything is risk assessed to be safe. we have a as—page risk assessment that has also gone through a whole checking process, including staff, governors and trustees. but behind that, we have the practicalities of the day to day. so, we have timetables for break time, for lunch time, for outdoor space. we have timetables for different classrooms and different bubbles within those classes. the school has stayed open for key workers or vulnerable children. social distancing rules mean their desk partners are their siblings. there‘s a new theme each week. the latest is japan. they applaud on a normal day, there would be a50 pupils here, and after half term, around 150 will return. class sizes are different. the requirements for children's mixing and interaction is different. the hygiene requirements are a far higher level

than we've ever seen before. also, the risk assessment process behind that, ensuring that our site is as safe as it possibly can be for everyone in our community, is vital. making the physical changes has been very challenging but staff are also preparing to support children emotionally. the decision to reintroduce more pupils hasn‘t been an easy one. not for parents or for staff. for me, being in the classroom is where i belong. i want to be with the children, i don‘t want to be sat at home on my laptop doing things for them. i want to have that interaction and to be there for them, as their journey continues with their learning. a school is so much more than just a classroom. it‘s part of a community. in the office, fiona hague has been on hand to reassure anxious families. parents are still very worried, so it's pointing them in the direction of all the guidance that's coming out. we're ensuring we're getting as much information out to parents as we can via the website,

school app, e—mails. and making sure they're as up—to—date as they can be and know as much as we know. when the school gates next open, the canteen‘s shutters will remain closed. mixed feelings. i‘m fine with it. i think i‘m fine with it. we‘ve been... me and sue have been on our own for a while now, so it‘s fine. it‘s a nice big kitchen to social distance in, so, we are lucky, really. we‘re going to do a sandwich selection for them and they‘re going to be eating in their classroom, so we‘ll prepare it here and it will be going over in boxes into their little bubbles in their classrooms. over the past two weeks, primary schools have had to reinvent the wheel. and as these corridors fill in the coming days, there‘ll be much more to learn. notjust for children, but for parents, teachers, so notjust for children, but for parents, teachers, and support staff, every day will be a school day. john maguire, bbc news, nailsea in north somerset.

lots of things being put in place. we‘rejoined now from bristol by headteacher rupert maule. thank you forjoining us. you have a large amount of pupils. tell us what kind of school you‘ve got. we have an all through school here so we have nursery children aged three going up to gcse is at 16, just under 1000 in the school and we are part of a multi—academy trust of four schools across the city. that's an awful lot of stu d e nts to city. that's an awful lot of students to have to cope with with all the new regulations. when are you going to be ready and who do you think you will be able to accept in the school? we will be ready for nursery, reception, year one and year six children from the 8th of june which is what we are planning for and we june which is what we are planning forand we are june which is what we are planning for and we are making plans for year ten students to come in on a part—time basis, a few of the stu d e nts part—time basis, a few of the students at a time from the 15th of june. in terms of interaction with pa rents, june. in terms of interaction with parents, what has that been like?

are some of them saying, why aren‘t you opening on the first? 0r are some of them saying, why aren‘t you opening on the first? or is there an appreciation of a school of your site is having to run through so your site is having to run through so many protocols and get things physically ready? understandably across the community a whole mix of views. we surveyed our parents a couple of weeks ago just to get a sense of what they were feeling and what the biggest anxieties were to help inform our planning process. roughly, it is split three ways, a third of the parents are keen for their children to come back to school as quickly as possible, a third are saying may be, we have to look at the provisions and how circumstances change, and a third are very anxious and often because they have vulnerable health conditions themselves, or children close to family members with underlying health conditions, and they are worried. lots of anxiety out there. have you got a sense of how many pupils will be returning in

all those different classes? we are expecting probably about 50% of those students who could come back in to do so. that‘s the figure we are expecting although obviously we are expecting although obviously we are having to plan for 100% because we need to make sure that we are keeping the class sizes and group sizes as small as possible so that we are limiting the contact and doing all we can to safeguard the welfare of our staff as well as the children and their families. i'm interested as well, because when you speak to mps about it, they have been adamant that it‘s possible to use social distancing particularly at primary level, and it is trying to find that balance between making sure that you can open a school, but also making it a friendly and a learning environment for children without feeling super medical camorra like there is so many restrictions, which have to be there, but making it a nice place to

be at the same time. exactly command thatis be at the same time. exactly command that is especially a challenge at the younger years were all the soft toys, for example, have got to be taken out. toys, for example, have got to be ta ken out. anything toys, for example, have got to be taken out. anything that can‘t be wiped down and cleaned needs to be removed from classrooms. so they become, as you say, a very sterile, almost clinical environment. it is less case when it comes to the secondary classroom environment because the tables, textbooks, all of those things, can be wiped down nice and easily. 0ther of those things, can be wiped down nice and easily. other than the fact that the tables will be spaced two metres apart, it will look very different as a layout, but the material sort of look of it won‘t be that different. and as you say, children need to feel safe, they need to feel happy before they can learn effectively. that‘s why, as i think was mentioned in your vt piece earlier, the students‘ emotional well—being is going to be paramount

when they come back in. it is not just students as well, to staff as well. in year ten they will have up to ten different teachers, presumably. what we have chosen to do is to allocate a single member of staff to a very small group of students and that member of staff will be with those students as a bubble. broadcast interrupted by interference. specialist teachers will come in to deliver their lessons from the front sure they will keep at least two metres, we will keep a three metre boundary between the board and the nearest student of that specialist teacher. it is also why the first couple of weeks and i suspect it may be the same family schools, will focus on the subject that every student studies, maths, english, science, and wait to see what happens over the first couple of weeks before we then try and tackle harder issue around those specialist

subjects like humanities. how do you think you will be the night before on the 7th ofjune before everything goes back? are you feeling nervous about it? are you worried? you are nodding along. talking through this morning what you are trying to put in place, i imagine it is a position every head teacher and teacher will be in. absolutely, and when you see on social media at the moment the pressure that staff are under in schools and across the country and other professions, i‘m not saying we are alone in this. but, you know, that weight of responsibility to safeguard everyone at the same time with the uncertainty of that unknown, how many students will come backin unknown, how many students will come back in through the doors, what little scientific guidance has been shared by the government and the updates that come to head teachers, it is very difficult to navigate through and to understand. i was looking at some of that last night.

even as someone with a science degree, plenty of experience working in data, i found degree, plenty of experience working in data, ifound it difficult degree, plenty of experience working in data, i found it difficult to go through and get any sense of confidence or security from it, and certainly none that i feel i can pass on through to staff and families of our local community. so there is very much that step into there is very much that step into the unknown which always raises anxieties. rupert maule, really appreciate your time here, head teacher of bridge learning campus. if you have just switched on your telly, it is 8:25am. we spoke to the housing secretary about an hour ago on this programme. he has told breakfast this morning that there will be no formal review into penalty fines given to families who travelled for childcare reasons during lockdown. there are questions around how restrictions in england should be enforced, after the prime minister‘s chief adviser, dominic cummings, made that 260—mile trip from london to county durham. yesterday, reverend martin poole raised the issue of fines with the health secretary, matt hancock, during the daily downing street press conference. let‘s take a look.

will the government review all penalty fines imposed on families travelling for childcare purposes during lockdown? thanks. well, thank you, martin. that's a very good question. and we do understand the impact and the need for making sure that children get adequate childcare. that is one of the significant concerns that we have had all the way through this. and so i think, especially coming from a man of the cloth, i think that is perfectly reasonable to take away that question. i will have to talk to my treasury colleagues before i can answer it in full. and we will look at it. and if we can get your details we will make sure that we write to you with a full answer and make an announcement from this podium. i think we can make that commitment. thank you, martin.

we have a bit of an update for you. in the last hour the housing secretary robertjenrick told us the government wouldn‘t be waiving fines for parents who had travelled during lockdown. no, there is not going to be a formal review. it is for the police to decide whether to impose fines under the law. they have the guidance that we have provided and the national police chiefs have provided their own guidance which does give officers a degree of discretion to use their common sense. again, reflecting the fact that all of our circumstances are different, and families in particular face particular challenges. they are encouraging their officers to engage in the first instance to explain, and to resort to fines only where absolutely necessary. if the door was opened yesterday, it seems to have been closed today. let‘s now speak to reverend martin poole, who‘s in brighton this morning. he asked that question yesterday. lovely to have you on the programme. you ignited quite a debate. i wonder

what your reaction was first to what you heard from matt hancock yesterday and now from robert jenrick on breakfast about an hour ago. yes, it has been quite a bit of ago. yes, it has been quite a bit of a storm, hasn‘t it? i was pleased matt hancock was able to be honest about not knowing, not giving a direct answer straightaway, and that he pledged to go back and talk to his colleagues. a little bit disappointed that it appears they are rowing back from that a little now. but, you know, i understand how government works and i understand that it may not be possible to look at these kind of things. i would appreciate that they be honest, if they want to say actually we are not going to review it, and that is our response, we all know that is a clear response and that helps us to form opinions about how the government is working. have they beenin government is working. have they been in touch with you? said he would get back to you. presumably

not yet? not yet, i have had very little contact. the process is quite straightforward. any member of the public can put in question, which i submitted to the website of the weekend and the only contact i had was when the cabinet office called yesterday morning to say to your question has been selected, please send us a video. i know there is a serious issue in there as well, but what is that moment like when the eyes of the world are on you to ask the question that obviously was a burning one for you and many others? yeah, i mean, obviouslyi burning one for you and many others? yeah, i mean, obviously i have a little bit of time to think about these things. one of my slight frustrations is sometimes these press co nfe re nces frustrations is sometimes these press conferences there are long waffling questions that don‘t necessarily go to the heart of what i would like to hear politicians respond to, so it‘s great to have the opportunity to be able to put something kind of clear and succinct with a very specific ask. tell us about the reaction from your

parishioners. presumably you can still speak to them even if you can‘t be near them. what has their reaction been to the last four or five days or so? notjust the last four or five days, i five days or so? notjust the last four orfive days, i can five days or so? notjust the last four or five days, i can tell you about how we all feel. through the last ten weeks of lockdown we have all been doing everything we possibly can to stick to the rules as we saw them and to help those who are in need and struggling. since the press briefing yesterday, i haven‘t spoken to any of my parishioners directly. i‘ve had a number of messages of support, hundreds of messages of support, actually, and a feeling this has just helped to express something i think many of us are feeling. i think many of us are feeling. i think that‘s important that the government hears how the public is stop they clearly are. so many people are writing to their mps at the moment their thoughts about this whole issue. can i ask about something a bit more broadly? you

talked about your parishioners there. i was reading an article last week about lots of people accessing online services. i‘m sure your church and many others as well. in your line of work it is very much based on that contact you have with people on a sunday but also throughout the week as well. how much of an impact is a lack of that having on you and also on a number of people you would see week in and week out? 0n me, personally, communicating through media like this, it is more difficult, but it‘s also opened up new avenues for us to difficult, but it‘s also opened up new avenues for us to talk to people. interestingly, we‘ve found that running small groups, prayer groups, bible study groups on zoom has meant the numbers of people engaging with them has increased. suddenly, i started streaming services every day. i am really amazed at the number of people who

seem amazed at the number of people who seem to be watching at least part of that, if not all of it. so, this crisis has forced us, as the church, to think about other ways of communicating what we‘re doing. which, of course, is not the same as being in the same space to worship together. but i think it will up with us being a more mixed economy, mixed media form of church, once this all stops. it's lovely to speak to you, thank you very much. thank you for asking that question yesterday. and hopefully we will come back. if they get in contact with you, we will come back to you to see if there is a follow—up at all. thank you. it isjust after half past 8. we are a little bit late with the weather. sorry, carol! she has a full update on what is happening. good morning, i don‘t mind, not going anywhere anyway. lovely weather watcher pictures sent in.

this was north tyneside this morning, bit of cloud but you can also see some blue skies. further north into scotland, more cloud around this morning, certainly in edinburgh buta around this morning, certainly in edinburgh but a break in the east, the west will hang on and we are likely to see a bit more thick cloud coming away later. more on that in a jiffy. for the rest of this week, dry conditions and warm or very warm weather. that‘s because high pressure still firmly in charge of our weather. see the cooler blues being usurped by the yellow and warm amberas being usurped by the yellow and warm amber as the drifts east, we will pool in much warmer conditions from the near continent. this morning, yesterday‘s week weather front moving south, a band of cloud turning the sunshine hazy. many have a dry day with fair sunshine. weather fronts coming in across northern ireland and western scotland, which is why you‘re going to have thicker cloud. it could be

thick enough for just the to have thicker cloud. it could be thick enough forjust the odd spot of rain in northern ireland, western scotland, through the afternoon but nothing too heavy. 11 in lerwick, 19 in liverpool, 20 in norwich, 25 or 26 towards london. this evening and overnight, the weather front moves across northern scotland. this rain will turn heavy for a time. as we move south, for the rest of the uk, there will be some clear skies where we have some low cloud close to the north sea coastline, that will come in and tonight some of that. it won‘t be a cold night, many parts staying in double figures. tomorrow, we say goodbye to that band of rain, it moves away. the odd splash across south—east scotland and north—east england before it clears and it leaves us with a dry day and a lot of sunshine. hazy at times with some fair weather cloud but not much more than that. we are looking at temperatures 23, possibly 2a in glasgow and edinburgh, 25 and

possibly 26 in cardiff. friday, a lot of dry weather and high pressure has pushed over towards scandinavia, warm continental air will be reflected in temperatures. belfast 21 and glasgow 2a. the weekend remain settled, dry, sunny and warm. and a bit breezy. gosh, look at that. is it scorchio? anything over 25 is! good to know where the limit is! you will stay with us for a moment or so. all morning we have been talking about gardening. i mentioned my letters, what are you growing, carol? everything! —— my lettuce in the garden.” growing, carol? everything! —— my lettuce in the garden. i have cherries, apples, tomatoes, basil.

brilliant! you are not alone. you have been sending us some of your pictures, here are a few of them. gareth evans sent us this of pink 0yster mushrooms growing in his bath. does he use the bath at the same time? i don‘t know! gareth, we need more information, please! sara got in touch, she said, this is my lockdown veg patch featuring rocket and lettuce. i work in a hospital. thank you for your hard work. and this is my perfect escape. catherine in tunbridge wells says this is her lockdown scarecrow, guarding her lockdown lettuce. brilliant. very impressive. chris says he‘s growing tomatoes, french beans, shallots, garlic, swiss chard, spring onions and lettuce. lovely letters in the garden. thank you very much for all of those. ——

lovely lettuce. thanks for all of those and good luck with your veg, and anything else you are growing. will you stick with it afterwards? it's will you stick with it afterwards? it‘s a really good fun but my lettuce looks like the base of a dandelion, it isn‘t looking particularly good but it might flourish, you never know. in my experience, which is very new, by the way... lettuce expert over here! three weeks and she knows everything! it‘s been ten weeks! that‘s why they are looking like they are! ijust put loads of seeds in, carol, but i am notan they are! ijust put loads of seeds in, carol, but i am not an expert. lots watching bbc breakfast. enjoy your lettuce when you eat it. something completely different... many public toilets across the uk remain closed during the pandemic, and without the option of using the loos in restaurants, shops and pubs, day—trippers have been forced to join long queues for toilets which are open. the british toilet association says the lack of facilities is also preventing some vulnerable people from leaving their homes. breakfast‘s tim muffet has more.

inconvenience. with lockdown easing, more people are out and about and needing the loo. and that‘s been a problem in many places, such as skegness. so, how are you coping, then? there‘s no toilets down by the beach. yeah, it‘s a killer and i got a water infection. we knew about the toilets. and how have you coped? just won't have to have too many of them. she laughs. they're basically not keeping two metres' distance, they're going into the sand dunes and, excuse my language, peeing in there. it‘s notjust trips to the beach that have been affected. jonathan‘s a lorry driver from hampshire. it‘s really difficult for us lorry drivers. we‘re out on the road, doing ten, 12, 13 hours a day and we‘re not able to use toilets anywhere. it‘s just getting worse. places i used to go to the toilet, different businesses, they‘ve stopped letting people go there. there‘ve been instances where i‘ve had to stop somewhere and maybe have a wee in a bush, or do something like that. but there‘s people where i work, you know, that have...

..had to have a number two in the back of a lorry, which is not good and it‘s not dignified. some public loos have reopened, but the british toilet association says the majority are still shut, as, of course, are cafes and restaurants. and whilst the site of a closed toilet can be a nuisance for many, for those with a bowel condition such as crohn‘s or colitis, it can be much worse. what we want is for local authorities in thinking about opening back up again, it's really important to prioritise those local conveniences for people with crohn's or colitis or other disabilities who need them. it's not a luxury, it's actually a necessity. the way we live our lives might have changed, but basic human needs will always remain. and finding a loo when out and about has become much harder. tim muffet, bbc news. we‘re joined now by toni kelly who lives with crohn‘s disease,

and also raymond martin from the british toilet association. good morning, bows, thank you so much forjoining us. tony, this must be tough times for you. tell us how it‘s affecting you. be tough times for you. tell us how it's affecting you. i've had my large bowel removed 20 years ago and i also developed crohn‘s recently. my i also developed crohn‘s recently. my normal daily toilet needs are six to seven times a day on average. i‘ve been out for walks and had to rush home. i am prohibited where i can go out at the moment because there are no public toilets. i have a radar key and can‘t wait card but evenly disabled toilets are closed at the moment. it can cause me lots of discomfort if i can‘t get to the toilet. it is a bit of a downer, i wa nt to toilet. it is a bit of a downer, i want to have a walk and a picnic but i can‘t be out for too long because i need to get home to the toilet.

everything you do is quite clear, when you need the toilet that regularly, everything is governed about where they are and having access to them, i would imagine. about where they are and having access to them, i would imaginem normal life, i plan my trips around a toilet. 0bviously, now this has become a realfor a toilet. 0bviously, now this has become a real for me. a toilet. 0bviously, now this has become a realfor me. i do feel quite limited at the moment as to where i can go, what i can do. going out for a nice stroll and a nice walk and having to suddenly rush home because there is no facilities open. tough times, isn't it. raymond martin, there are so many closed, are you putting pressure on people to start reopening public toilets? good morning, louise and dan. we are talking with the policy makers and government and we are working with local councils and local authorities all the time to try and find if we can get these toilets back open again. so many have been close, particularly for covid—19 but even before that. we need government to step up to the mark and put some

serious thought into regulation and legislation on public toilets. we need them to bring in some funding because these toilets are going to have to change. we will have to find a different way of cleaning them and keeping them hygienically clean. we will have to find things we need to do and different sort of ways of attending the toilet.” do and different sort of ways of attending the toilet. i was going to ask about that. will there have to be significant changes because a lot of these public toilets are very old buildings, quite small and have been around for a very long time. you're absolutely right. with the austerity measures that came in in 2011, councils have been forced to cut down services and many have fallen them behind the standard we would have expected. —— fallen behind. we need to look at how people will attend the toilet, communal areas, how will we do that with social distancing? how will we clean surfaces? because there are many different surfaces, wood, plastic, glass. we know that covid—19 land is full some time and can stay for up

to three or four days and maybe even longer on some of these services. we need them serviced and cleaned regularly and we need to think about the cleaners. god bless them, they are going in almost as an invisible army keeping us safe. we need a complete rethink on public toilets stop will work with local authorities to do that. —— we will work. some talk about only cubicles might be what changes? we have seen up might be what changes? we have seen up and down the country a number of places where they are introducing cubicles which have wash basins and baby change beds and wheels for people with mobility issues. coming into the future, we think that many, many toilets will start to change and we will see individual cubicles, like you have at the top of your stairs. an independent bathroom where you can go in, relieve yourself, wash your hands and make sure you are ready to come out and enjoy your day and enjoy your trip. those sort of toilets we will need to look at and research them and

think about how we will clean them, cleanse them and keep them open. toni, what will your message be to your local council? you are nodding along to what raymond is saying. i imagine you would love to see everything on the way we consider the importance of public toilets? definitely. i stand the importance of public toilets? definitely. istand in the importance of public toilets? definitely. i stand in the gap for those with disabilities as well because i feel like they are the ones that are really suffering. there are people with bladder incontinence, 0lly 0sterley bags. i have had and 0sterley bag before and if you need to empty your buy, there is no way to empty it —— i have had a bag before. you need to do it in a private space in a public toilet. 0bviously, private space in a public toilet. obviously, this very important. something needs to be done about it sooner something needs to be done about it sooner rather than later. does it make you feel more stressed, the fa ct make you feel more stressed, the fact that you don‘t know where you will be able to find a toilet? yes. i have to plan my day. i went out the other day and i made sure i didn‘t eat a lot of food and i had to ta ke

didn‘t eat a lot of food and i had to take lots of tablets to try and bung me up. i was trying to not have that urge to go. it‘s not very co mforta ble that urge to go. it‘s not very comfortable having to do that and go out and feel hungry because i‘m scared to eat in case i need to go to the toilet. toni, thank you for talking about it on bbc breakfast. it isn‘t what we talk about much but it is important to people, isn‘t it, raymond? very much so. toilets are about health and well—being, and social inclusion. and equality for people with accessibility issues, like toni is talking about. they are about public dignity and public decency. we can't have the sights and sounds we have seen over the la st and sounds we have seen over the last while, people going into gardens and hedges. we are not a third world country, we are the united kingdom and we need good, clean hygienic and public toilets. it isa clean hygienic and public toilets. it is a human right and a human need. thank you for being part of a really interesting discussion. your flowers, toni looking magnificent! i

do try! tony, are you growing any lettuce ? do try! tony, are you growing any lettuce? no, carrots! first time ever, let see how they turn out. raymond, what about you, anything going on in the garden? we have spent a bit of time over the last while but mostly i have been writing reports for government policymakers. laughter i haven't had that much time to spend on my petunias. important work! thank you very much indeed. 8:a6am. we will catch up with sally. for the last few weeks, sally has been downstairs and we haven‘t been able to see her. you have lovely guests coming up? i do. premier league clubs are voting today whether to extend their training to include contact. we‘re joined now by two former england internationals emile heskey and eni aluko. good morning to you both. good

morning. lots to talk about about your own awards getting —— your books getting awards. emile firstly your former club liverpool on the verge of a first league title in 30 years, it would mean a lot but is there a danger of players being pushed to play too early? yeah, ithink yeah, i think this has been the talking point, hasn't it? notjust players but referees as well. we keep forgetting about the referee but he is a key component to getting the game started as well. with what's going on, the death toll and people very worried, especially when it to the bma community —— community, they need to be reassured that everything will be safe for them and theirfamily that everything will be safe for them and their family while they play. it is enough being done to protect bame players? we haven't had

any information, any concrete information, to be honest with you about why bame are more susceptible to this. that would be nice because that would put yourself at ease and you can make a conscious decision on what you're actually doing going forward. at this moment in time, just feels like a lot of players are being pushed into a situation. we know football can have peer pressure and you just follow the crowd. eni, we saw the women‘s season called off, how difficult was that for you to see? it was a decision made in the interests of women's football. we wanted to continue to play as long as it was safe. we are in a context where safety is of paramount

importance. it was a decision that was made for the best of the game. we have to respect that. you have both been nominated for telegraph sports book awards. eni, you watched emile play and michael owen, what is it like to be on a shortlist with both of those men? it is very weird and surreal, it is a full—circle moment. you grow up watching the same people that you are nominated ona same people that you are nominated on a list with, i feel very proud. emile heskey, i used to watch when i was young and michael owen. he was quite similar, quite small and pacey. absolute privilege to be in the same nomination. very proud of the same nomination. very proud of the book. thank you to the telegraph for the recognition. emile, your book is called even heskey scored, you better explain that to everybody. do you feel now you are a little bit under appreciated during

yourtime? little bit under appreciated during your time? obviously the title from the book was from the famous game against germany. i think there was a chance going that even a meal husky scored. it is a great want to put on the but —— even heskey scored. i wouldn't have had the career i did ifi wouldn't have had the career i did if i wasn't appreciated. where it mattered, i was. if i wasn't appreciated. where it mattered, iwas. and if i wasn't appreciated. where it mattered, i was. and where it didn't, i wasn't really that bothered. i got on with what i knew i could do. i played from 17 until 38. it wasn't too bad. not bad at all! eni, you had an incredible international career with england but it didn‘t end where you wanted it to end, the fa apologise for racist remarks from the then manager sampson and you had to go back into that place for the book, what was it like having to relive all of that? it was like therapy. it was very

cathartic for me. i dealt with a lot of frustrations that i had maybe sort of kept down and didn't really deal with. equally, i sort of kept down and didn't really dealwith. equally, i had a sort of kept down and didn't really deal with. equally, i had a lot of closure, as well. not every negative experience is actually negative. you can turn it into a positive. one thing i really wanted to do with the book is make sure that a lot of disputed facts were corrected. it was the unreserved truth. hopefully i have achieved that with regards to that case you are talking about. i am very proud of the book and very proud of how it made me feel. hopefully a lot of people can take great life lessons from it, given it is called they don't teach this.” think that is the perfect note to end on, thank you very much indeed. thank you. louise, you may have some knowledge of these books?” thank you. louise, you may have some knowledge of these books? i may judge! yes. it is probably better that you interviewed them, sally, to be fairto

that you interviewed them, sally, to be fair to everybody else. we wish them all the very best, said the judge! thanks, sally. thank you very much, thank you. 8:51am. do you know your lord voldemort from your lord grantham? i hope so! i think so! quite different. can you remember the minor details of hogwarts and downton abbey? some of them. yeah, yeah... well you might be on to a winner. the latest marie curie virtual pub quiz takes place tomorrow, and this week‘s hosts are actors and married couple imelda staunton and jim carter. they join us now. thank you for being with us on bbc brea kfast. thank you for being with us on bbc breakfast. is it entirely harry potter and downton abbey or have you thrown in some general knowledge as well? we love a pub quiz, we dropped ina bit well? we love a pub quiz, we dropped in a bit of general knowledge just to warn people up, a potluck around. hopefully, the downton abbey and harry potter rounds, which we have written ourselves, aren‘tjust for superfans, written ourselves, aren‘tjust for super fans, it is written ourselves, aren‘tjust for superfans, it is for

written ourselves, aren‘tjust for super fans, it is for people who enjoy the programmes. i don‘t necessarily know the tiny details. imelda, did you write or your own harry potter questions? we discussed it, jim has written questions before, he is better than me. we discussed when it was difficult. it was annoying, me sitting there, going, "i don't know that!" i have to look that up. it was good fun getting it together. we had to do research on our own programmes, i have to say. both of them, there's quite a lot of back catalogue, isn‘t there? does the quiz cover the whole of downton abbey and the whole of harry potter? well... the quiz would la st harry potter? well... the quiz would last until next year! if we did that. no, we had to really narrow it down. what we kept in the front of our brains is that this has got to be fun for everybody. we have got downton abbey, harry potter and a mixture of downton abbey and harry potter. how often does mr carson meet dolores and bridge? —— dolores

umbridge. he would remember! i live infear umbridge. he would remember! i live in fear every day! we would all be in the same situation. lots of people have been quizzing on zoom with their friends and taking part in this sort of thing over the last few weeks. imelda said you like quizzes, have you been taking part with other members of your wider friends circle? a little bit but not a huge amount. i love the live atmosphere of a quiz. my daughter‘s for drama school group at a quiz together. we were a bit too old for that. i have checked in and out of some of them and i want to marry qe online quizzes, alison steadman did a great one on gary and stacey —— marie curie. it has been good fun.

to be able to do this and know we have been able to, fingers crossed, raise a lot of money for this wonderful cause is a double whammy. as you are sitting here together, how has lockdown been? i will ask imelda first. it has been great because our daughter has been here with us, it has been wonderful. we are lucky to have an outside space. idid are lucky to have an outside space. i did some work that will come up for the bbc, actually. oh, right. alan bennett's talking heads, which will be on towards the end ofjune. that was hard work, doing that on the sumac that sort of thing. a mixture of working hard in the garden —— on zoom, that sort of. working hard and doing a programme that will be put out for people and i hope it will be entertaining.” have been growing a beard! i have been hard at work with that. you talk about the garden, i have become slightly obsessed because louise has

been growing lettuce for the last ten weeks. carol and sally have been involved as well. have you been growing anything unusual in the garden? we haven't been doing veg. we are very keen gardeners. i spend every minute of every day in the garden, because we have been blessed with good weather. we grow a lot of...a with good weather. we grow a lot of... a vast amount of colour. it is gaudy, our garden! laughter we get spectacular success with roses this year and now the poppies are bursting and the peony is coming out. zandra rhodes lying down in the front of the garden, that‘s what it looks like. sounds wonderful. the favoured things we have done during lockdown is watch lots of things including the whole of harry potter, for example. we watch it in random order as well. you maverick! i know! do you two watch things like that? box sets? are you too busy? no, we‘ve been watching...

box sets? are you too busy? no, we've been watching... isn't that funny, you go blank, blank, you go, yeah... gardener's world. what was that thing we loved? we have loved a few things, haven‘t we? my mind has gone completely blank! we are just starting on normal people a bit later than most normal people and we are loving that. absolutely. unorthodox, we watched that. yes. we are watching less tele— rather than more, i think. are watching less tele— rather than more, ithink. for are watching less tele— rather than more, i think. for me, are watching less tele— rather than more, ithink. for me, it‘s are watching less tele— rather than more, i think. for me, it‘s a slight blessing that sport isn‘t on the box —— less television. otherwise i would be lying on the soap at the whole time! i am enjoying a break from it, i have to say —— lying on the sofa. our lovely viewers... do you want to take on a downtime question, jim? you want to take on a downtime question,jim? —— you want to take on a downtime question, jim? —— downton question. ka rsa has question, jim? —— downton question. karsa has what position in the downton household? —— carson has.

gamekeeper, head chef or butler? that is a very tricky one. i think carson might be a bit more testing andi carson might be a bit more testing and i will take a punt and go for butler. you are correct! well done. while we have you here, it is such a pleasure to see the pair of you, do you watch each other‘s were? being actors in a competitive industry, do you watch with interest and what is your reaction? i suppose we do watch, but also, remember, once you are watching it, there ain't nothing you can do about it! laughter it's not like watching someone rehearse. you are watching the finished product. to be honest, we've always been very... you enjoy other people... we don't necessarily involve each other when we rehearse and prepare for something. recently, imelda did a thing flesh and blood andi imelda did a thing flesh and blood and i didn‘t know anything about it

—— thing called flesh and blood. you have forgotten about it because it has been sliced and diced and cut together and we sit down together and watch it in a supportive manner. good luck. that is so nice to hear. good luck. that is so nice to hear. good luck. that is so nice to hear. good luck with the quiz, i am sure it will be fantastic. tomorrow! tomorrow night! raising marie for marie curie. get on the website and you can find out for that —— raising money for marie curie. that‘s all from us for today. we‘ll be back tomorrow from 6:00. until then, enjoy the rest of your day. goodbye. same as the quiz, tomorrow night, goodbye.

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