this is bbc news. the headlines: from tomorrow, face coverings will be compulsory in shops, supermarkets and transport hubs in england. but venues such as restaurants, pubs and gyms will be exempt. the eu's chief brexit negotiatior says there's a real risk of the uk leaving the eu transition period without a deal. a huge increase in calls to domestic violence charities, during lockdown — mainly from women. borisjohnson said scotland support demonstrates the strength of the union. the shortlist for this year's mercury prize is announced —— and it's dominated by female artists.

the latest guidance for wearing face coverings in england has been released by the government. from midnight tonight, face coverings will be mandatory in enclosed public spaces in england— including in shops, supermarkets, shopping centres and transport hubs. there will be some exemptions — such as in as restaurants, pubs and gyms — where you don't have to wear a face covering. and children under 11 will also be exempt from wearing a face covering — as will people with disabilities or certain health conditions. for those who do have to wear a face covering — breaching the rules could result in a £100 fine. theo leggett has more details: face coverings are already compulsory in shops in scotland and from tomorrow that will be the case in england as well, but in wales you won't need to wear them. and ministers in northern ireland are still discussing the issue.

the government in westminster say face coverings are needed to help limit the spread of covid—19 as the economy opens up after the lockdown and people get out and about more. so how will it all actually work? well, if you want to go into a shop or supermarket you will have to wear a face covering — something like this. on the other hand, if you go into a pub or restaurant you won't have to. and where it gets all a little bit complicated is if you go into a takeaway that also serves food where you can sit down. the difference that people may not have been aware of and what will be outlined in the regulations today is if you are going into a takeaway and you are eating in somewhere that's got a takeaway, then that's like hospitality. you are eating, it's not practical to wear a face mask, we recognise that. but if you are going in to buy a product and leaving again then you are treating it like a shop and you should be wearing a face mask. there will be exemptions from the new requirements. children under 11 and people

with certain disabilities won't be expected to wear face coverings, for example. for the rest of us, though, failing to wear one could mean a £100 fine. but small retailers in particular say they should not be responsible for making sure their customers cover up. we are saying that retailers and their colleagues should not be challenging people if they are not wearing a face covering. last year in the uk there were 50,000 incidents of violence and convenience stores against colleagues and against retailers. we are not going to create another flashpoint through this. we are not going to put those colleagues or retailers in a position where they are challenging people who may then react and create very, very serious incidents. retailers insist they are doing all they can to make sure people are aware of the changes coming in tomorrow, but some customers still seem unsure. as you can see, no one is anywhere near me. i'm maintaining two metres, so i don't see the need in wearing it. so if it costs £5, some people will say that, 0k, i'm not going to wear it, if someone is going to fine me,

that's fine, i'll pay £5. they can do thousands, hundreds, that's the same thing, you have to wear the mask. consumers across the country have already become used to many of the changes we've seen in shops, like socially distant queueing and one—way systems. now ministers hope the wearing of face coverings will simply become another part of the new normal. theo leggett, bbc news. we can talk now to cathy frost, owner of love0ne, a gift and homeware store in ipswich. wearing a mask hasn't been mandatory in her shop up until now but she will be following government guidelines from tomorrow. thank you forjoining us. how ready do you feel giving you only had clear guidance this afternoon for something that comes in at midnight? well we have actually been ready for this since we have reopened in early june. june 15 for nonessential retail started again. we built that into our risk assessment from day

one. we kind of thought that it would come. i wish i would it would happen on the 15th ofjune. it would've been less ambiguous for many customers like you report said, it is kind of spitting opinion on the high street. that splitting opinions. some customers are saying they don't want to wear a mask, they will shop online. that is not great news for the high street. the flip side is some people will say the mask will be more reassuring for them. i'm reservingjudgement mask will be more reassuring for them. i'm reserving judgement on how it will pan out. what will you do people comment and they do not wear a face mask? after all, we are not protecting ourselves by wearing them. where trying to protect the people. i think as you report suggested, we are not going to be challenging people. i have spent 13 yea rs challenging people. i have spent 13 years building up my business. i wa nt years building up my business. i want people to have a good experience of coming into town and commit to my sore as i would imagine most of the retailers would want to do. we will do as we normally do.

that's coming into my car. we will advise customers if they are not wearing a mask if they would wear a mask in the store. we have spare mask. people forget. we have a mask they can wear. i hope this will be self policing. i think the very last resort we would be wanting to call the police. i think will be using all of our tact and diplomacy to work with our customers. wherever we can. you want them to come back after all. you don't want to alienate them. that is the difficulty. yes. it is been a struggle for the high street in recent yea rs. struggle for the high street in recent years. this has been a massive impact on the high street and this is another challenge for us. and this is another challenge for us. so i think most retailers, though his eyes looking to come are going to take it case by case and we will not challenge people. we will work with the public and encourage them to work with us as well. most shops are going to now it is quite standard to have two metres social distancing. sanitisers, gloves, co nta ctless distancing. sanitisers, gloves, contactless payment. i will say the

majority of our customers have to mess with that. they have not been difficult. we are adjusting to what we are calling the next normal. i am hoping this will be able to be self policed. how careful do you have to be asa policed. how careful do you have to be as a business owner if someone has got an exemption because not everybody is compelled to wear one, we know that? yes. it will be difficult. i don't think i will be wa nt to difficult. i don't think i will be want to challenge people on that issue who are coming into the store. i'm a small store. i know a lot of my customers. i know that, i had a lady in today who wears to hearing gaze and she said to me that she finds the mess difficult because she cannot liberate. it will be difficult to challenge people. that hearing aids. i think we will have to make sure that we are kind and empathetic to people, work with the public and get the public to work with us as well is is a two way

contract here. we will do everything we can to make the customer feel safe. and valued. and hope they leave us with a good experience that they will come back and tell their friends they had a nice safe experience as well while they were on the high street. thank you very much. good luck with that. there will be 200 walking senses testing tennis in the fall. —— walking centres for testing. the chair of walking centres for testing. the chairof nhs walking centres for testing. the chair of nhs testing trace says the new advice will be that if anyone is not feeling 0k, they should get tested. she also said there are still areas of concern in england where transmission of the virus is high.> she told our health editor hugh pym the test and trace was making progress. things can always improve but six and half weeks and i think the service is doing a really good job.

there are 180,000 plus people who have been advised to self—isolate to protect their friends and family. that is in a very short amount of time. we are still not to 8096 of those who tested positive to find of the contact. does that suggest you have got more work to do? as you just said, the service is six weeks old. as you can see, circa 75% of people tested positive, we contact. they give us their details. so there is more work to do, but six weeks m, is more work to do, but six weeks in, that is pretty good performance for a brand—new national citizen service. where are your areas of concern and the real worries? we publish the areas of the country that we are most worried about. every week now. so you can see it on

the website from last week. clearly at the top of that list is leicester. we have taken national action to protect everyone in the city and in the county. are you still concerned about leicester, even after the easing? one of the challenges with covid—19 is it takes 14 challenges with covid—19 is it takes 1a days from the time you have taken action to be really confident that the action is making a difference. the encouraging signs and leicester is that the infection rate is starting to go down. but it is still very high. so i don't think the lesson make us completely out of the woods yet. it is really important that anyone living illicic come forward for a test if they‘ re that anyone living illicic come forward for a test if they're in any doubt in this doubt that she come forward. are the towns and cities you are going to talk about. other towns and cities on our areas of concern in areas that are receiving and has support would be places like blackburn, also bradford, who we saw an increase but now i have come down from being an our enhanced support category to bring in our area of

concern category. a number of areas in the northwest that we are working really closely with. do you know why these areas might have been more vulnerable? unfortunately, the virus and give us this instruction manual. we are all learning what makes different communities with different professions, different parts of the country more vulnerable. so i don't think this is a simple answer to say why one place and not another. there area mix why one place and not another. there are a mix of things, certainly, we are a mix of things, certainly, we are seeing a are a mix of things, certainly, we are seeing a very are a mix of things, certainly, we are seeing a very high prevalence in the south asian communities across the south asian communities across the country. so it is really important that people from that part of society are really listening to the advice to have good hand hygiene, to socially distance, to get a test if you are anyway worried. at the follow the instructions of nhs testing trace contact instructions of nhs testing trace co nta ct to instructions of nhs testing trace contact to you. what are your plans for the next few months with walking

centres ? for the next few months with walking centres? my team is very focused on how we scale up and prepare for winter. be a priority is to make sure that we have got sufficient testing capacity on the flu season hits and people have flew our covid—19 and we need to test everybody with those sorts of symptoms. so that means scaling up the labourious capacity to process at least 500,000 test a day by the end of october. but it also means making it easier for all of us to get a ccess making it easier for all of us to get access to a test. so by the end of october, we want to make sure that the majority of people living in urban environments are within 30 minutes walk of a walk—in testing centre. walking without pre-booking, needing a phone? without pre-booking and going if you arejust needing a phone? without pre-booking and going if you are just worried come if you have a temperature at come if you have a temperature at come you got a cough, are you just not quite sure that you feel right, the sensible thing to do in this new world is to go and get a test. you will get the answer back the next day. can you convince people it is

all real having five is that the capacity with doing that number of is another matter? -- 500,000 capacity. we will have the capacity to do the test in the capacity to manage the logistics to get the test to the laboratory. much of the biggest worry is making sure people feel comfortable coming forward for a test. it needs to be the norm process in society. if your small child has a temperature i have children, we have all lived with give them a few hours and they bounce back, in this world with covid—19, if you chose and have a temperature come you need to get a covid—19 test. —— if your children have a temperature. the prime minster says the response to the coronavirus pandemic shows the united kingdom is a ‘fantastically strong institution'. speaking on a visit to scotland on the first anniversary of entering number ten, borisjohnson promised to be a prime minister for ‘every corner of the uk'. but latest opinion polls in scotland suggest support for independence is climbing — and there's a significant gap

between boris johnson's approval ratings and those of scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon. here's our scotland correspondent james shaw: the prime minister is coming to one of the most northerly parts of the united kingdom to make the case for the union. borisjohnson is here a year after he became prime minister to highlight the benefits which have flowed from the four nations of the uk working together to tackle coronavirus. but why visit the fishing communities and businesses of 0rkney at this particular time? recent opinion polls in scotland have suggested that support for independence is growing. perhaps partly because of a perception that the scottish government's approach to the coronavirus has been better than that of the uk government, a perception the prime minister wants to counter. the scottish first minister, nicola sturgeon, is not meeting mrjohnson today, but she had this message for him. i don't think any of us,

and i include myself in this, should be trying to use covid and the crisis situation we continue to face as some kind of political campaigning tool. this is a pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 50,000 people across the uk. military testing centres are just one way that uk resources have been deployed in scotland. the treasury's income support schemes are reckoned to have helped a third of the workforce here. whether scotland has coped better with the virus is hard to assess. there have been more than 4,000 deaths, nearly half in care homes, but will the prime minister's visit change perceptions of him and his government in scotland? what you have seen throughout this crisis is the union working together with the money for supporting people through furlough, the army working on the testing, moving people around, but now we need to build back better together with a green recovery.

the tories have done nothing for scotland. it is time for a change. i don't know if he is capable of running the country or not. i don't really know. i can't say anything bad about him and not a lot good either. london has behaved so badly with us over the past 200 years, just progressively got worse and worse. 0pinion polls suggest the coronavirus crisis has had a significant impact on how voters feel about their political leaders. it happens to be the case, despite the fact that in many respects the record looks similar as far as deaths are concerned. at least until recently the scottish government's handling of coronavirus is rated much more highly than is borisjohnson's. that is true south of the border as well. this cartoon from the times newspaper sums up the dilemma

for borisjohnson. this visit is designed to help bolster support for the union, but those in favour of independence will hope his unpopularity in scotland will unintentionally help their cause. james shaw, bbc news. the labour leader sir keir starmer says that the prime minister must listen to communities while visiting scotland. the prime minister in scotland needs to listen, not lecture. and so, he should listen to the communities in scotland, not go up there delivering lectures for them. i think what the coronavirus has shown us is that, actually, we should not be pulling apart the united kingdom. 0n the health response and particularly on the economic response it has been very important that scotland and the rest of the united kingdom have worked together. it's an example of why we shouldn't be pulling apart the united kingdom.

new news from northern ireland. the executive agreed to further relax more of this lockdown restrictions. bars, pools, bowling alex and community centres can all reopen. spectators can be present at outdoor sporting venues or axes spectators can be present at outdoor sporting venues 01’ axes can spectators can be present at outdoor sporting venues or axes can be controlled and social distancing can be maintained. the number of people who can gather indoors in a home is increasing from six to ten. gatherings can include people from four different households. a ban on overnight stays in other peoples homes is also being lifted. northern ireland further easing their restrictions. you stately remain off. uk chief negotiator david frost say there we re negotiator david frost say there were gaps in the most difficult

areas but a deal could still be reached in september. he outlined the main sticking points in the negotiations. when we began this intense negotiating process a month 01’ s0 intense negotiating process a month or so by the prime ministers set out the principles to the commissioner president that we are intrinsic to oui’ president that we are intrinsic to our state status and future as an independent state in the eu has heard some of that and it has not heard some of that and it has not heard all of it. the big underlying difficulty is the eu that has not recognised that it needs to adapt this position to those principles before going to reach an agreement. did i need to change their mandate to get there? i don't know if you need to change the formal mandate. i wouldn't comment on the process. it is clear if into the eu has internalised and accepted that we will be an independent state with the right to determine our own laws and control on fishing grounds, and will be difficult to reach an agreement.

michel barnier says the two sides are still far away in time is running out. the two points i mentioned, developing field and fisheries, this week again the uk did not show a willingness to break the deadlock. 0n the level playing field, the uk still refuses to commit to maintaining high standards in a meaningful way. 0n state aid, despite a clear wording of the political declaration — very clear — we have made no progress at all. this is all the more worrying because we have no visibility on the uk's intention on its future domestic subsidy control system and regime. we will respect the uk political debate. the time for answers is quickly running out. chris morris is our reality check correspondent —

he explained to me a little earlier what we might expect from the talks that will continue throughout august. how closely they will be aligned with the eu. it is about sovereignty. we have left the eu and a separate country. that sovereignty has to be respected. for the eu, it is about the sanctity as the colour of the single market. we have left and therefore there is a price to pay for that. you don't have the same pay for that. you don't have the sa m e a ccess pay for that. you don't have the same access to the market. both sides are saying you're moving you have to move first if a deal is to be done. in the end they probably both got the compromise to some extent and it is a question of come september probably talks will continue through all of this but in september really decisions will have to be made on both sides how and when they will compromise or are they going to be prepared to walk away. on fisheries and rules on competition where these considerable gaps exist? is that the say all the

other elements are dry? not all of them. a large portion of the deal is probably ready to go but there are things. for example, the role of the european court of justice. things. for example, the role of the european court ofjustice. mr frost said that he believes that the eu had listened to the uk this week and this sensitivity again about having the european court ofjustice playing a role in policing any future agreement and the uk are saying we have left the eu so we shouldn't be beholden to the european court of justice shouldn't be beholden to the european court ofjustice any more. he suggested there may be flexibility from the eu on that. and from the uk, perhaps some sign of movement on the overall structure of the agreement. they talked about a series of separate agreements and the eu said we want to put all in one. little steps of progress would a lwa ys one. little steps of progress would always the last bit is the most difficult bit and it is the last bit. the differences are substantial. there is pressure on both sides for a deal to be done. particularly from business and the

state of the economy and the uk and across europe. because of the coronavirus. for across europe. because of the coronavirus. foi’ some across europe. because of the coronavirus. for some companies there was a sudden abrupt change in there was a sudden abrupt change in the rules of the uk border that could be the straw that breaks the camels back. they are looking to the politicians for leadership on that. but whether there is a deal or not, there will be changes come the end of this year. 0nce there will be changes come the end of this year. once the uk is that a side of the single market, even if there is a trade deal emplaced, there is a trade deal emplaced, there will be new checks and bureaucracy in the border. johnny depp possibly xbox have finished giving evidence in person by the libel action. —— ex—wife. the court that evidence from her sister. johnny depp is suing to publish other son over a article that labelled him a wife beater. giving evidence at the libel case brought by the hollywood actor against the sun over a report which claimed he was a wife—beater. allegations he strongly denies. 0ur entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba is at the high court in central london. tell us more about what is been happening today. the day began with

amber heard giving herfinalfew hours of evidence in the witness box. she was being re—examined by the sons barrister qc and she was taken through various incidents and also about her opinions ofjohnny depp. she described him as a remarkable man when he was clean and sober. but said that when he was income he could become a munster. she also describes some of the violent incidents that she set occurred including one when he held a bottle up against her face. the afternoon was taken up with her sister, whitney and rick has come in the witness box. she was cross—examined by the johnny the witness box. she was cross—examined by thejohnny depp's qc, eleanor lost qc come on various issues and a lot of time was spent on the reasons that whitney had changed the date of one of the incidents of violence that is allege occurred from what she originally said in herfirst official witness statement given to the court. if was statement given to the court. it was

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