steve l the. steve lthe. is steve l the. is this of the ecb is steve l the. is this the biggest challenge of your career? i have to say it probably is. i think the world cup last year had different challenges. it is a huge global tournament, it is absolutely massive but you can learn from other global tournaments and there have been some incredibly successful world cups prior to that. this is a first and i think everything we are doing is the first time you are doing it. this ground belongs to hampshire county quick equipment they get no direct material benefit from the test match happening, there will be no fans. but the money comes from sky television in return for broadcasting these tests message —— test matches is vital. the money thatis test matches is vital. the money that is coming to the game has increased in recent years. this'll impact that quite severely but managing to get these games away will help. you have to look at things differently in years to come. i think the impact of this crisis is

going to be us senate right across the economy, a massive impact over and this will be no different. —— and this will be no different. —— and we can look forward to hopefully mitigate the impact and some confidence. just time to update you on the erwee kick this evening. just before we go — time to update you on the early kick off in the premier league this evening. norwich against southamptonjust coming up to half time and it's goalless. southampton striker danny ings has had the best chance. his effort hit the crossbar though. totte n ha m tottenham against manchester united coming up later on. but for now, that's all from sportsday. you are watching bbc news, i'm martin croxton. let's get a reminder for the key points of today positive downing street briefing which was

led by the education secondary. gavin willison confirmed all children are to be back in school in september saying school is vital for eve ryo ne september saying school is vital for everyone of our children for some he advice for schools on how to plan theirfull reopening in september will be published in the next two weeks. he set class sizes could increase from the current maximum of 15 pupils to normal sizes of around 30. he did not however confirm whether the current social distancing advice of 2mm would be relaxed. gavin williamson gave more details of a £1 billion covert catchup plan to help children get back to where they should be. the fund would help with catch lessons and tutoring. and he reconfirmed that the coronavirus alert level across the uk has been downgraded to level three which means the virus is still in general circulation but cases are not rising exponentially. he said r, the reproduction number of the virus, remains unchanged from last week and still below one. a

further 173 people have died in the uk after testing positive for coronavirus. we are joined uk after testing positive for coronavirus. we arejoined not uk after testing positive for coronavirus. we are joined not by the labour and co—op and p from nottingham north and shadow public health minister alex noris was up a trigger listening to what galleon —— gavin williamson had to say. what extra restrictions would you like to see being lifted in the coming days and weeks given that we are now down to level number three? we are glad to level number three? we are glad to see that. with a responsible opposition that we are supporting the government to get this right for some i like lots of people would probably like to watch men united spurs and have a point why do. we are not there yet, but where hopefully moving in the right direction. —— men united— spurs. we have to have a testing and tracing operation in there to support it because adding level three there will still be local outbreaks and it will still be local outbreaks and it will be in the general population. before we start thinking about what

is next, we need that effective testing and tracing programme. what are your hopes for getting all children in england, other present uk making their decisions, back to school five days a week in september? i am at share of the governors primary school and we are one of the most challenged communities in the country, every lost day of school is a terrible thing. iwant lost day of school is a terrible thing. i want to see much in back in there five days a week. i don't think setting arbitrary deadlines is hopeful, though sometimes it is a good target. what we need to do is setting a safe environment, having the right social distancing when a consistent mall children and in the environment and supporting our teachers and leaders to get together how much opportunity do think this £1 billion fund is particularly to bring up the right level? children in particular who are disadvantaged at the best of times but who are

also losing out with schools been closed of late? we have to try and help those opportunities. the £650 million non—tutoring element won't go very far. there are 30,000 schools in this project him a 20,000 each which will be welcome but it will not be able to rebuild for more space for reteaching. that tutoring element would benefit my community all year round so we will certainly be hoping to get the best from it and seeing whether that is something we can maintain on an ongoing basis. it is not going to be necessary for all children to be brought back up isn't because some children will have been able to be supported more readily at home? for some it will have been better than others. it won't be dissimilar to the school summer won't be dissimilar to the school summer holidays where community is like mine, a lot of children suffered learning loss because they do not always have the reinforcement of the curriculum that they have had during term time. i am surprised that they are getting many children getting exactly the same level of

education they would had they been in school. so for everybody they are going to need to do more and will be different to putting on what part of the school in and what age they are. the summer is a key time and hopefully back in september getting as close to normal as possible as soon as as close to normal as possible as soon as it is safe to do so. how much about those decisions about extra money is spent should rest with schools? schools and the local authority because they know those schools. some primary schools are tiny village ones with over —— only one hunter people once wasn't mine isa one hunter people once wasn't mine is a big—city with 630. what works for will not necessarily work for the other. this is the message we heard from the government, what we have been seen throughout, we want those to be local decisions based on those to be local decisions based on those local factors so that they can be as safe as they possibly can be. we must trust our teachers who have skipped schools over for —— open for this crisis for key working children, we need to get them back. isn't it a bit mad to be when to

send kids back to school in september when you think of what of entertainment spaces, zoos, cinemas are opening up again and people will be able to conquer get there very readily? i'm not sure the obvious comparison is there when you are dealing with potential levels of contact between children. normality means staying at a normal track, if you try to keep schools open throughout the summer normally during term time then what would be to —— doing september? there is a focus in the meantime on that catch—up and targeting those who need it the most. alex norris, shadow public health minister. thank you forjoining us this evening. time for a look at the weather forecast now with nick. hello. before some rain on saturday night. something

sums out there in england in southern and western scotland. table ease as we get on depot through the night. many places will be dry by saturday norton, a few missing five patches and temperatures 10—13 degrees. it will be sunny and warmer tomorrow and for many it will be dry, not everywhere. one or two showers dotted about south—west england and wales early on where these tend to drift northeast across england during the day, hit and miss at one or two into parts of eastern scotland. northern ireland booking dry, rain gets there saturday evening and the breeze picking up as well, wind will feel fresher as well. certainly warmer, this rain for northern ireland on saturday evening spreads east across the uk saturday night, sun showers on sunday. —— some showers on sunday for

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