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and the southwest, too. but later in the day, the heaviest of the rain will clear out into the north sea and we'll end up getting some sunshine towards the evening. that's it from me — bye. hello, this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines... anyone arriving in the united kingdom from spain now has to quarantine for two weeks because of a spike in cases there. the short notice change came into force at midnight, some tourists rushed to get home. we was due to arrive about 20 past midnight, we were a bit lucky, we made it by two minutes, eve ryo ne lucky, we made it by two minutes, everyone was just cheering! lucky, we made it by two minutes, everyone wasjust cheering! could not believe it. british holiday—makers plans have been thrown into chaos with some cancelling their trips or deciding to stay in spain for longer. from my experience, everywhere is taking the
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response a lot more seriously here. sol response a lot more seriously here. so i might as well stay here, if it means coming back to the uk will be more logistically difficult. in the united states hurricane hanna has made landfall in southern texas. officials warn of a life—threatening storm surge, strong winds and heavy rain. and spectators will be allowed backin rain. and spectators will be allowed back in to watch live sport later today at a special test event at the oval cricket ground in london. time for the sport, here is catherine downes. good morning. it's the final day of the premier league season today, and while liverpool have run away with the title, there's still plenty to be decided elsewhere. leicester versus manchester united is a huge match for both sides as they try and secure champions league football for next season, but the real drama will come at the bottom of the table. only one of bournemouth,
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watford or aston villa can stay up. bournemouth are three points from safety, while villa go into their game against west ham with the upper hand — but onlyjust. they're outside the bottom three on goal difference from watford. it promises to be a nervy afternoon for the managers involved. it means that we can control our own destiny, you know, and that is what we wanted to have going into the last game. it was looking unlikely. it was looking like we would have to rely on others. but results went our way in the week and we end up above the dotted line at the moment, but the most important thing is to be above that dotted line after the match on sunday. we know we have to win the football game to guarantee that. so we will be going all out to win as we have done. we can only prepare for what we can prepare for, and that is to get ourselves right, in the right frame of mind to try and get a result on sunday. we can't really think about different permutations or try and set up for that. we have got to try and get ready
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for what we need to do. it looks difficult, but it is not impossible, and i think, as i said, just going to that final game with a chance to stay up was where we needed to be. we have that now and we have got to do our bit first and then and see what happens. england are in control of their series deciding test against the west indies heading in to day three at old trafford. day two didn't start well for england though, as they lost 4 early wickets for just 18 runs but stuart broad steadied things with the bat, hitting the 3rd fastest test half—century for england off just 33 balls, taking the home side to 369. and broad got his side off to the perfect start with the ball taking a wicket in just the second over. england then took control with five more wickets, this the last of them from chris woakes, to leave the west indies 232 runs behind on 137—6. it is a really strange environment we are in. we don't really have any match practice, especially as bowlers, behind us.
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i think my last bat in the middle before last week was at the wanderers injanuary. so, there is no real sort of close history to fall back on. but trying to think of positive things that i had done at the wanderers with woody, striking the ball, gave me confidence to go and play that way. and while the match at old trafford has been taking place behind closed doors, today will see the first steps towards crowds coming back to watching sport. the oval will host 1,000 fans in a friendly between surrey and middlesex. let's find out more from katie shanahan, who's there for us this morning. katie, how is it going to work and how is it going to look? yes, this isa how is it going to look? yes, this is a massive day for sport, i'm down here at the oval. as we are expecting to see 1000 fans coming back, welcoming fans back into grounds for the first time in england, since march. as you can see, the covers are coming off, in a
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couple of hours, 1000 fans will take their seats to watch this county cricket match between surrey and middlesex. the first of a number of trials the government is putting on to try and get fans back into stadiums, but, it's going to look different. it's going to be 1000 fa ns different. it's going to be 1000 fans compared to 25,000 capacity, only using this one stand and fans are going to have to make sure they are going to have to make sure they are socially distant at all times. separate households sitting in every other row, plus keeping two seats free either side of them as well. facemasks are also optional, with hand sanitiser stations dotted around the ground. but the good news is the bars are open, the food is available, the public address system is going to be going, the big screens are going to be as if these trials work, if there is a positive sign towards government, hopefully we can get more fans back into the
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ground, so there is a real sense of excitement at the oval, this marks the first real step towards getting fa ns the first real step towards getting fans back into the grounds. sport is not sport without the fans, is it? thank you for that. and enable won a record third king george race at ascot. ridden by frankie dettori, the favourite stormed clear to beat sovereign. with only three runners, it was the smallest ever field for this race. it was also a record equalling seventh win for dettori, 25 years after his first. history made for both horse and jockey yesterday. a very wet as got, we hope for better weather at old trafford for that deciding test in series between england and west indies later. thank you. see you later. england test address programme has broken key data protection laws. we ask the public health is more
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important than privacy. and we look at the relationship between fast fashion. discover if it's possible to stay on trend and stay ethical. without breaking the bank. hello and welcome to our look at what the papers are saying this morning. with me are sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times and dawn foster, writer and broadcaster. many thanks to both of you for being with us. let's run you through the front pages. the sunday express says thousands of british holiday—makers have had their travel plans thrown into chaos after spain was dropped from the safe countries list. ‘costa del ouara ntine' according to the sunday mirror — as holiday—makers learn they will need to self—isolate for 1a days upon arrival back in the uk. the sunday telegraph says tens of thousands of british tourists in spain have had their holidays thrown into disarray with
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the new quarantine restrictions. the paper also features a new portrait of the the queen by miriam escofet. the mail on sunday has the duke and duchess of cambridge refuting claims in an new biography that they actively spurned meghan markle. and according to the observer — labour will this week be notified of a batch of potentially new legal actions over anti—semitism days after a warning was issued to the shadow cabinet about the devastating toll the crisis is taking on the party's finances. let's begin. the sunday telegraph. i don't know what summer holidays you've got planned, don? whether that includes spain. this has come asa that includes spain. this has come as a bit ofa that includes spain. this has come as a bit of a bolt from the blue for holiday makers, news that they are going to have to quarantine if they have been in spain? yes, came as a big shock to everyone i think. i think it's interesting all nations
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of the uk and ireland as well, join together so there is a multi—island response very quickly. it was very bad news for spanish holiday—makers. some people on twitter found out at apm and realised there was no way, evenif apm and realised there was no way, even if they drove at 100 miles an hour, they could get back on by 11pm. that means a huge number of people in complete disarray. i think the government at this point needs to make sure people have information, going to be so many people who have booked last minute cheap trips to spain, having been locked inside for so long and we've seen how many people have struggled to get refunds on holidays that were supposed to happen in lockdown, what will happen to these people now. the sunday telegraph story quotes the travel editor of which saying why on earth was this not taken 48 hours earlier, before the friday, when thousands of people were flying out
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for their summer holidays? could there have been a bit more of notice, build to this decision, where the public were aware at least, that it was being considered by the government?” least, that it was being considered by the government? i think that is a fair point to make, the start of the summer holidays, schools have broken up, a lot of people were flying out on friday and so if that decision had been made, 48 hours earlier, a lot of people would not have travelled to spain, they would not now be facing this possibility of having to quarantine for 14 days when they come back sol having to quarantine for 14 days when they come back so i think it's a fair point. apparently the decision was taken after a meeting between michael gove, the cabinet office minister, matt hancock the health secretary and grant shapps. and apparently, grant shapps was dialling in from spain, which is where he himself is. he is now facing the possibility of quarantining on his return. so it seems like a pretty chaotic decision making. very, very unfortunate
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because an awful lot of people who we re because an awful lot of people who were thinking they would be able to travel to spain, are now going to be wondering whether they should aim for a refund, whether they should go, will work let them quarantine? it's a wider disaster for the whole travel industry which was really coming up with these air bridges and list of safe countries, it was ok to travel to and you would not have to quarantine on your return. the travel industry gearing up for quite a bit ofa travel industry gearing up for quite a bit of a surge again in trouble. i think that will be put back by this chaos, this weekend. and the sunday times, highlighting what we just mentioned, the irony, the transport secretary grant shapps himself in spain, sharing the virus pain in spain, sharing the virus pain in spain, that is the headline. interestingly, it says michael gove, mentioned as part of the decision—making process, he was joking he on his way to ibiza soon and he should have possibly fought foran
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and he should have possibly fought for an exemption for the spanish islands but he decided not to fight for that. i think the fact grant shapps is actually in spain, may give some reassurance to people who feel government could have told them earlier, could have had better information, this happened very quickly. i agree. information, this happened very quickly. iagree. it information, this happened very quickly. i agree. it happened so fast, people will feel very upset about this. i think there needs to bea about this. i think there needs to be a balance about whether or not we ta ke be a balance about whether or not we take these decisions very quickly, to stop the virus spreading or whether we make sure the public are fully aware they do go abroad there is the chance based on the virus right, the changing nature of the news in that country, they may actually be quarantined. they don't particularly think the joke from michael gove will go down well for many people, especially many families who really struggled throughout the crisis, struggling financially, will have gotten a very cheap package holiday and won't be
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able to afford to get a last ditch flight able to afford to get a last ditch flight out of spain. let's go to the sunday error. the corona crisis holds shock. that is their front page. —— the sunday mirror. the deputy chief medical officer for england jonathan van—tam says there is no magic time when you make a decision like this. once you have the data, you cannot try and fit in around people's holiday plans but this is going to be devastating for the airline industry, once again, the airline industry, once again, the aviation industry, tourism industry, especially the spanish tourist industry who are so reliant on british tourists. i think something like 20% of the tourist economy is british holiday—makers. yes, that's right. there has been talk spain may make uk holiday— makers quarantine on arrival. in retaliation, almost, at the move that we have just made. so
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the move that we have just made. so the whole thing is descending into chaos but actually, individuals, really think about —— think before you travel, my brother was caught on a filipino island, he went on holiday, all of a sudden lockdown happened a week later and he was stuck on an island for about two months before he could be flown home. it can be really serious if you go somewhere and there is a big lockdown and you are stuck. i think for most european destinations, that is not the case but if you go somewhere remote, you could be facing serious problems. i think we should all staycation the summer, i am from wales, i am thinking, you know, go to wales, it has fabulous beaches, cornwall has fabulous beaches, cornwall has fabulous beaches, support the uk hospitality industry this year. it's also been very, very badly hit. you are not working part time for the welsh
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tourist board, are you, by any chance, ? tourist board, are you, by any chance,? i went on holiday to wales a couple of weeks ago and it was beautiful. of course, it is beautiful. of course, it is beautiful. now, the front page of the observer, some beautiful pictures of synchronised swimmers, talk of easing lockdown in england. with pools opening, gymnasiums opening, it was quite a momentous weekend for many people. in the leisure industry. yes, obviously the leisure industry. yes, obviously the leisure industry. yes, obviously the leisure industry has suffered tremendously, there is a pool near me that i go to a couple of times a week. i haven't been able to at all, devastating to walk past it and think about how many children are facing a summer without any form of swimming, how many older people rely on it for mobility. to slowly but surely get back into these things, will be a huge relief for people, not just will be a huge relief for people, notjust in terms of physical health but their mental health, you know, the mental health of so many people
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has really struggled with lockdown and we know exercise is one of the best things you can do to lift your mood, make sure that your mental health is a little bit better. so, it will be a huge relief for a lot of people individually but also, for people who work in pools, a work gems, so many different areas, this is probably beginning. moving away from coronavirus. also in the observer, anti—semitism, labour ones of cash crisis as cases grow. it's interesting, the change of tone now that sir keir starmer is leader, taking over from jeremy corbyn but what does this mean for the labour party and its finances, potentially. he has come a very interesting story. the headline anti—semitism, labour ones of cash crisis as cases grow, it's about the fact a batch of new legal action over anti—semitism is likely to be presented to the
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labour party this week, nine cases, apparently, of current and former labour members who are being represented by a manchester firm who have lodged cases. the difficulty for labour is to settle it will cost, to fight the claims will cost, this is going to be a very expensive, i think, this is going to be a very expensive, ithink, few this is going to be a very expensive, i think, few months for the labour party, as it pursues this strategy that keir starmer could so firmly in place last week. that is a break with the past. and you know, the last week —— lastly, the labour party apologised to former labour staff members and the journalist john ware. this whole anti—semitism row within the labour party is going to take some time to resolve. and settle, even with this new approach keirstarmer is settle, even with this new approach keir starmer is following. briefly, on that, do you think keir starmer is going to be rewarded,
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electorally, eventually, by this change of stand ? electorally, eventually, by this change of stand? i don't think he will until he actually looks at the labour complaints process. i think this at the moment, is bugging him down and he can settle out of court with as many people as he likes but until he changes the complaints process and make sure people who feel they have been subject to hatred within the party feel they are properly represented by the party, nothing will actually change for him. the telegraph, britain building up defences against chinese space weapons. so much talk of china is the new threat, while bay, hong kong, human rights issues. what do you make of that? this is a really interesting story. it's a story based on an article that ben wallace the defence secretary has witnessed in the sunday telegraph. —— huawei. he says defensive space weapons may be developed, russia has been accused of testing a weapon project
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out that could target satellites in russia has denied this, he says the ministry of defence in the future is going to move away from looking at conventional warfare to look at these new domains of space and cyber and subsea warfare and there is an interesting quote from the president of uk space who says if you fire missiles at satellites that could mean the end of space because what'll happen is a space will get completely full of these massive pieces of shrapnel and that will be the end of space. but it's interesting, there is an ongoing review at the moment into the ministry of defence and where it should be targeting its resources. this looks like a whole new arena for warfare which is probably not a good thing. let's go to warfare in the royalfamily, good thing. let's go to warfare in the royal family, if good thing. let's go to warfare in the royalfamily, if you believe this latest book that is being serialised in the sunday times. liam behaved like a snob when harry fell for megan is the headline. ——
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william. this royal story dominating the front pages along with the spain quarantine story so what do you make of this? have you had a chance to read through some of the claims are you not really interested?” read through some of the claims are you not really interested? i haven't had a look yet. i think, essentially, personally, ithink especially the younger members of the royal family deserve a bit more privacy than they have. i think the fa ct privacy than they have. i think the fact meghan markle and prince harry decided to leave the royal family because they wanted to protect the child, they wanted more privacy, they weren't happy with the way things were going means they deserve more privacy but of course, the public will always want to know essentially because we pay for the royalfamily, essentially because we pay for the royal family, many, many essentially because we pay for the royalfamily, many, many people want to know exactly what is happening. they feel they are essentially the highest public servants. so, i think theissueis highest public servants. so, i think the issue is none of us know the veracity of these claims. people will side with one brother, or the other. it becomes very, very much
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like a classical myth in many ways. i think like a classical myth in many ways. ithinka like a classical myth in many ways. i think a lot of people, we will never really know how much is true. who was ron, who was right etc but you fully understand why the public is interested. and unfortunately harry and meghan don't want to be a pa rt harry and meghan don't want to be a part of that anymore. this is your paper of course, the serialisation of the book and you are splashing big time today. yes, it is gripping reading. weather, we don't know, we don't know the veracity of the claims because the duke and duchess of sussex have said they haven't given interviews to the authors of the book, they haven't authorised sources to speak to the authors of the book, nevertheless, the claims seem, they are backed up by other reporting that has been done. and
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they are just extraordinary. i mean, apparently, the reason, one of the key reasons that led to harry and meghan leaving the country, the royal rift actually began apparently ina royal rift actually began apparently in a heart—to—heart conversation between harry and william, the brothers, when william apparently told harry to take his time over his relationship with meghan, to take time to get to know her who he called apparently, this girl and harry took offence at this. and with the difficulty between the brothers, this was a kind of keep moment. there were other claims in the book, you know, some, ithink, quite serious in a way, leading royal membersaid serious in a way, leading royal member said described meghan as a showgirl, which is, you know, offensive, it is snobbish, if it is true. although it seems almost like a soap opera, i think it goes to the heart ina
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a soap opera, i think it goes to the heart in a way of our british attitudes about class and about race. and for those reasons, even though the claims seem that they could belong in an aristocratic east enders, the detail of them, i think the details, underlining them are very serious attitudes that we would do well to think about. aristocratic eastenders, i love that. sitting above it all, serenely, as ever, her majesty the queen, pictured in the sunday telegraph, new portrait of her. and apparently, she observed the only thing wrong with it was that the cup of tea next to her it needed a refill! that is what she pointed out to the artist. do you like the picture? it's quite interesting. there have been some really, i cannot remember the artist andi really, i cannot remember the artist and i will not shame them on air, but there have been some horrific portraits of royals in the past,
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this is quite traditional but it's interesting from an artistic point of view. if she seems quite happy with it apart from the cup of tea, thatis with it apart from the cup of tea, that is a very, very good sign. i cannot remember the one, a few years ago, it was absolutely horrendous. but you know, i haven't been to the national portrait gallery for months, understandably. you wander through and there are so many different portraits of royals, especially from 500 years ago, really interesting, we won't know, it will be interesting to think about how people will view these portraits in the future, how they will look at the story we have just discussed. whether or not they will have the same opinions on which portraits we think are very, very talented, really capturing the heart of the royals and which they actually don't like that much. i'm not sure if you are a fleetwood mac fan, your paper featuring not sure if you are a fleetwood mac fan, your paperfeaturing quite a lot about peter green, one of the originalfounders of lot about peter green, one of the original founders of the band,
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lot about peter green, one of the originalfounders of the band, who has died at the age of 73. interesting, a lot of fleetwood mac fans, i suspect, interesting, a lot of fleetwood mac fans, isuspect, especially interesting, a lot of fleetwood mac fans, i suspect, especially the rumours era, may not heard of peter green because he was a founder but then left the band. yes, i am not a fan but i did find this piece really, really interesting. he is known as a key british blues guitarist, he founded, as you say, fleetwood mac, died at the age of 73 and he led that quite classic rock and he led that quite classic rock and roll lifestyle. it was a life style and roll lifestyle. it was a lifestyle marred by drugs and unfortunately by mental illness. but, you know, they left us those amazing songs. that sadly, he left the band. are you a fleetwood mac fan? i am a big fan. it's sad he has died. i will cause controversy and say that i prefer task to rumours,
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but he was a fantastic guitarist, i don't think the band would have been the band it was unless he was there at the very beginning, setting the tone for the music. really, really gelling with other members, and he is fantastic, so many tributes to him. ithink is fantastic, so many tributes to him. i think it is exactly as was said, a very, very hard life for him, especially with mental illness but he will be remembered, his music is just fantastic. thank you both so much. we are running out of time. that's it from the papers for this morning. hello. yesterday, the rain was torrential across some parts of the country — even a tornado near northampton. today a lot, lot better — just a few scattered showers. on the whole, a pretty good day on the way. now here's the latest satellite picture.
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and you can see yesterday's rain clouds moving away towards the east. and we're in this gap between weather systems through today, so a lot more sunshine on the way. so far today, there have been showers across western parts of the uk. most of them have been actually across scotland. through the morning, they'll become more scattered, so fewer of us will catch the showers and there'll be more dry weather around. now, the temperatures today will reach around 20 to 23 degrees across the south of the uk, and more like 14 to 17 in the north of the country. now we're in for a fine end to the day — probably a beautiful sunset out there — but then towards the night we'll see clouds increasing across western parts of the uk and we're expecting the next area of rain to move in. in fact, it could be pretty wet by the end of the night across parts of wales, the north west of england, into northern ireland as well. really soggy there in belfast. this is the next low pressure that will be moving over us through the course of monday. it'll take time before
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it clears away. so monday, for many of us, will not feel like july at all — in fact, the rain will be quite heavy, broadly speaking, across the sort of central section of the uk. to the south of that, we've got strong winds along some of the coasts. it could be gusting up to around 40, maybe even 50 miles an hour in some isolated locations. 21 degrees — so below parfor the time of the year in the southeast. in the north, around 15. but the end of the day actually shouldn't be too bad at all on monday, for example, in belfast, glasgow or even cardiff. tuesday, we're expecting this smaller area of high pressure to move over us. that means that the weather will calm down. there'll be sunshine around. but look at this. the winds are coming in out of the northwest — that's quite a cool source, so the temperatures aren't going to be spectacular. we're talking around 13 in stornoway — barely 13 there — 16 in belfast and, again, below average across the south of the country. but talking about the temperatures, they are expected to rise significantly. at this stage we could be hitting the high 20s or even 30
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this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. anyone arriving in the uk from spain now has to quarantine for two weeks because of a spike in cases there. the short notice change came into force at midnight in the uk. some british tourists rushed to get home. we were due to arrive at about 20 past midnight, but then we made it two minutes and the pilot announced it and everybody was cheering. couldn't believe it. british holiday-makers' plans have been thrown into chaos with some cancelling their trips or deciding to stay in spain for longer. from my experience everywhere is taking the response a lot more seriously here, so i might as well stay here if coming back to the uk is going to be a lot more logistically difficult.
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