bute house, the official residence of scotland's first minister, was once home to men who owned slave plantations in the west indies. today, nicola sturgeon said it is time to take a hard look at the way our streets continue to honour those who profited from human misery. i live in glasgow. i represent a constituency in glasgow. and i've heard both opinions — rename all of the streets on the one hand, which i got a lot of sympathy for, but on the other hand, don't brush under the carpet, history — the shameful part of our country's history. the people who put henry dundas on his column 200 years ago wanted future generations to know that, in his day, he was revered, that the values he embodied and defended were regarded by his contemporaries as great public virtues. many argue that it is precisely to remember that that's what our country used to be like, that he should stay where he is. if you take the statue down, you will be removing

some of the evidence of the history of scotland. it's that serious. my view is, i would rather have a plaque on it to explain what he did. and i would hope that tourists or the general public can learn something about our history by going over there and looking at his plaque. in edinburgh, the city council said it would put a plaque on the dundas column, explaining henry's role in prolonging the slave trade. when we put up a statue, we are signalling to posterity something about the values of our age. but posterity will make its ownjudgement in the light of its own values. allan little, bbc news, edinburgh. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.

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chief political correspondent chief executive of centre left think tank demos. thank you vote forjoining us. the express, which leads on the government's ‘support bubble‘ plans for some households in england. the measures allow single adult households, or single parents living with under 18—year—olds, to meet and stay with one other household without having to socially distance. the metro's front page also features that story, celebrating the fact that some couples are now able to stay overnight together. the times adds that the changes may also mean that grandparents will be able to see their children too. and the i also looks at that story, saying "pick a family", that choice now being faced by many. meanwhile, the international edition of the financial times has a picture of george floyd's brother philonise floyd, who testified

at a housejudiciary committee hearing on police brutality and racial profiling in washington. and the daily telegraph says that borisjohnson is aiming to scrap the two—metre distancing rule in schools by september. it also has a story onjk rowling, who revealed she is a victim of sexual assault while explaining her stance on women's rights, following her controversial tweets this week about trans women. so let's begin... christopher and polly, great to have you with us. let art with the metro. crack open the bubbly. when it comes to that support bubble, this idea that single people can group up. probably, this will be a funny headline, but for many, this will be really, really important. absolutely. a lot of people who live

on their own have been incredibly isolated during the lockdown period. just as other people like me or like chris, who have families, but frankly chris, who have families, but fra nkly love chris, who have families, but frankly love a bit of isolation. i guess what's problematic here is honestly, i just lost track of exactly what the rules are, and i watched the briefings and try to keep up. but the shops are opening on monday, and we can go gambling and horse racing and yet, the idea is that we're still supposed to be so is that we're still supposed to be so restricted that we aren't allowed to go within two metres of her next—door neighbour. it just to go within two metres of her next—door neighbour. itjust feels like we are swimming in a soup of rules that no one can understand. are the rules too complicated? are we just knock it to be able to follow them? you're cleverer than that! this social bubble will allow

families to mould with a second household of only one person, the shops are opening on monday. it means one of the most widely front page is talking about partners visiting someone else for the first time since march means lucky for many on saturday. a different tabloid, parsley. —— possibly. you see how different papers are steering the information. which leads us to the times. their focus is on the grandparents who must have been missing their grandchildren so much. are we clear on how this will

work, grandma it might grandparents now allowed to —— grandparents allowed to have children over? help me with this.” think it's —— when there's so much complexity in so much other things and go on buses, so if you are a single grandparent, you are allowed to go around to your children's house to see your grandkids and go into the house. you are allowed to cuddle the grandkids. if however, you still have a partner, you are not allowed to go, or sit in the garden and don't hug anybody. it just feels like expecting full enforcement when clearly, the government's other messages about the rates coming down, we're all

being told it's safe to go back to work. the idea, really, those grandparent couples are not to have a data hug their kids strikes me as a data hug their kids strikes me as a bit implausible. probably knows, stay alert save lives. borisjohnson uses common sei'ise to stay alert save lives. borisjohnson uses common sense to his most senior adviser and their interpretation of the rules. that's dominic cummings, for those who didn't pay attention la st for those who didn't pay attention last month. this idea, even boris johnson mentioned there would be anomalies with this. it will be quite hard to enforce it because to grandparents, the idea is that if you allow household to come together, you increase the possibility of the r number going up that's the big concern. the

government is calling for a degree of common sense. it's only england, not scotland, wales or northern ireland. absolutely crucial to outline that. thank you so much. the daily telegraph. a picture ofjk rowling, just to focus on this two metre rule to be cut for the new school year. we heard during the briefing that most children will hopefully, if progress continues, return to school into september. there was a buzz on this idea of schools applying this to me to rule. —— two metres rule. idea of schools applying this to me to rule. -- two metres rule. one of the challenges of getting more children back to school, they have openedin children back to school, they have opened in the last couple weeks, there's simply not enough space to

keep children in these small groups. the average class size is only 15 kids, there's just not space for more kids. the telegraph was pushing really ha rd more kids. the telegraph was pushing really hard saying it's a scandal that schools are reopening because of the impact on so many kids who may miss six months of proper schooling. we would have to lose some of those restrictions for september, and there is also growing calls for more innovative ways to create more space. can you use other facilities? we managed to built the amazing nightingale hospitals, how can we amazing nightingale hospitals, how can we make it safe for all the kids to get all their education? i'm not sui’e to get all their education? i'm not sure if you can see it closely. children will be allowed to go to safari parks. the animal saying that

they hope they don't get out of the ca i’s they hope they don't get out of the cars they carry so much disease. of course, if an outside space, but up until september, schools will not be open for all. yes. i wrote this front page piece. the concern has got to be that even as, i was watching your news bulletin and they we i’e watching your news bulletin and they were saying they were going down —— that was nowhere near a full class of 30. all the children can meeks and group of 15. if they went to 20 or 25, that would help yet more children in. the problem is these schools are not built for having class sizes of 15 or 20 only. what's your starmer class sizes of 15 or 20 only. what's yourstarmer —— class sizes of 15 or 20 only. what's your starmer —— keir starmer is calling for is for more museums to

be opened up and maybe more teachers outside of the teaching community who can help try and teach these young children. will be enough though? six months is a long time to bea though? six months is a long time to be a away and children who are less advantage will be hit harder. the guardian picking up on those thousands of lives could have been saved by an earlier lockdown. this is according to the leading scientist, neil ferguson. itjust brings, it's very tough to hear this. yeah. neil ferguson was a member of the sage committee

advising the government during that period of march, when the question was when we should lockdown the country in order to contain the numbers. the government was clear at the time that they were following my dipping advice. if you look at the minutes i have been released from those committees, that seems to absolutely stack up —— that have been released. the reality is looking back at the advice. the reality is if we had taken some of those measures earlier, we could have saved half those lives that had been lost. upwards of 60,000 at this point, so after that —— half of that, 30,000. other countries could have done the same if they had been locked earlier. i don't think we should, we should look at this in detail. all of the interesting having resigned from that role is

because he did follow common sense by allowing someone to visit him at his home. he doesn't feel any sense of loyalty, and it was quite a kind of loyalty, and it was quite a kind of daring moment in front of the parliamentary committee to say this and basically, even it feels quite iq and basically, even it feels quite io story. and basically, even it feels quite iq story. something that came up during the daily briefing —— accusatory. boris johnson was asked about this. he said now is not the time to look back. i have some sympathy with him. let's not forget the inquiry will be the mother of all inquiries. that took several years. the inquiry will be massive.

very —— it's very hard to try and learn lessons when you are trying to save itioi'e learn lessons when you are trying to save more lives going forward. neil ferguson had some very big forecasts and now he saying if we had done it and now he saying if we had done it a bit earlier, we would've have to the death rate. 40,000... there'll be a cloud for these conversations. i do think the scientists have a degree of between the two groups. at some point, the blame game will start. as professor patrick vallance said in the briefing, we are not through this yet. the figures... are so high.

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