this is bbc news with the latest headlines. a new test to detect coronavirus and flu that can give results in 90 minutes — is to be rolled out in care homes from next week. this is a game changers, the ability to do this is a game changers, the ability todoa this is a game changers, the ability to do a test in just over one hour, 90 minutes, will make a massive difference to our response to coronavirus. you can contact us on any of today's stories — on twitter it's @bbccarrie —

or hashtag #bbcyourquestions. also this hour... eat out to help out: diners across the uk can enjoy a discount of up to 50% off their bills from this morning — in a bid to boost the struggling hospitality sector. europe's biggest bank, hsbc, sees its half—yearly profits plunge by two—thirds as it battles the coronavirus downturn. institutional racism may have contributed to the disproportionate impact of covid—19 on ethnic minorities in wales, according to a top judge. nearly two years on from the collapse of genoa's morandi bridge, killing 43 people, the italian city prepares to inaugurate its replacement. splashdown! a new chapter in the space race — two american astronauts safely splash down — as the first commerciallly crewed mission to the international space station returns to earth.

new 90—minute tests that can detect coronavirus and flu will be rolled out from next week. currently, most test results are returned within 2a hours, but some can take up to two days. almost half a million new "on the spot" tests will be made available to uk care homes and nhs laboratories from next week — with millions more due to be rolled out later in the year. it comes as authorities in greater manchester insist people should not be alarmed by a decision to declare a "major incident" last night in response to the rising rates of coronavirus there. in scotland, the national clinical director has warned of going "backwards" over easing lockdown after a cluster of coronavirus cases

were linked to an aberdeen pub. local lockdown restrictions are being eased today in leicester, where pubs and restaurants can reopen. the government's "eat out to help 0ut" dining scheme for the uk — which offers up to a 50% discount on food bills — also begins today. 0n the question of testing, the department of health has also announced that 5,000 dna test machines — which analyse nose swabs for the virus — will be rolled out across nhs hospitals from september, with the health secretary matt hancock saying the latest testing innovations will help "to break chains of transmission quickly". as our correspondent charlotte gallagher reports. in the fight against coronavirus and stopping people passing it on to others, testing is vital. but during the pandemic the government has been repeatedly challenged about its capacity to do so, and was sometimes unable to say precisely how many

people had been tested. just yesterday, officials admitted there was a limited number of test kits for care homes, meaning the july target to routinely check all asymptomatic staff and residents has been pushed back to september. now the department of health has announced a deal with two companies based in oxford and london to roll out kits that will provide results in 90 minutes. almost half a million tests will be available from next week across adult care settings, and hospitals are expected to receive them from september. millions more of the tests will be rolled out later in the year. meanwhile, 5,000 dna machines, which analyse those swabs, —— nose swabs, will provide 5.8 million tests in the coming months. whereas in the past, tests have had

to be done by a swab, that has to be sent to a laboratory. what we now haveis sent to a laboratory. what we now have is a test that can be done in the place where the sample is being taken. the test will be able to detect common winter illnesses such as the flu, so it is out it could flag localised outbreaks before they ta ke flag localised outbreaks before they take hold, and regional lockdown is have to be put in place. with concerns about an increase in cases in winter, and the strain that would place on the nhs, there will be calls for even more testing across the uk. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. as we've heard, two companies are producing these new tests, one in oxford and the other in london. professor chris toumazou joins me now, he is founder of the institute of biomedical engineering at imperial college london, professor chris toumazou joins me now, he is founder of the institute and he is ceo and co—founder of dnanudge, who have developed

one of the 90—minute tests, and will be supplying 5.8 million of them over the coming months. congratulations on your test. are you relieved to have this out and active now? absolutely, yes. we have been working for nearly four months with the department of health to validate the test, to run it in a number of key hospitals in london and now we are proud to say we have and now we are proud to say we have a device, that is very small, that is effectively an entire laboratory in this cartridge, and that has been the real key. it is bringing the test to the patient at the point of need, rather than sending swab is off toa need, rather than sending swab is off to a laboratory, having to wait several hours for so—called pcr results, then getting those results to the patient, this is at the point of need, which is really important. it is great you have got it in your hand. can you explain how it works? yes, sure. it is a bit larger than a

printer cartridge. we decided you could either use a very small nasal swab, a paediatric swab, is, or now, we are testing the saliva swab. so the swab just goes in your mouth, just a couple of swabs around various cells, then it goes into the orifice of the cartridge. you then close it, you pull out the swab, you close it, you pull out the swab, you close it, you pull out the swab, you close it, and then the viruses contained. and just buy a simple movement of a little motor, a little box, there is a little motor, the first step is to actually deactivate the virus. if there is virus it gets deactivated... then, you extract from the rna of the virus, purified

dna. and it is that purified dna we are dna. and it is that purified dna we a re interested dna. and it is that purified dna we are interested in, because that will then get spread over these little holes, which are called wells, and these have a number of different covid detectors, it is the chemistry, almost like the fish bait looking for the fish to bite it, we have the various genes of covid—i9, sir, effectively, think of the dna as the fish, so when the fish is spread over these wells, it will bite on the bait identified and if it bites on any one of those genes it bites on any one of those genes it means you have got covid—i9. 0bviously it means you have got covid—i9. obviously the fish are quite small. dna molecules are very small so you have to amplify the fish, and that process is known as pcr, effectively

you heat the double helix which separates the two strands, then you add some synthetic dna by cooling, you then heat and cool, and heat and cool you then heat and cool, and heat and cool, and each time you do that, you are amplifying the amount of dna. that makes the fish bigger to bite the effective date. that is all done in this device not much bigger than a shoe box called the nudge box. 0nce a shoe box called the nudge box. once you have taken the sample, the sample goes into the nudge box. you can see it closes, and then, each of those heating and cooling episodes ta kes those heating and cooling episodes takes about 30 seconds, so that swipe takes just over one hour to amplify the dna, out and watch the dna is amplified it gets sent to the hospital information system or goes directly via phone or an ipad, to the patient so that is not done in a laboratory, that is the key. it is

all down to miniaturisation and utility. thank you for that demonstration. that was impressive. how did you actually come up with it, we know that the is another test out their coming out today as well in the uk, but does this compare to anything else internationally?” think we are slightly ahead. it is serendipity, because this was repurposed. it was designed for genetic testing for things like the risk of obesity and type two diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol. these are all obesity type medical condition related diseases, where nutrition is very important, so what we effectively did, we invented this cartridge. the retail, we got a shop in cove nt cartridge. the retail, we got a shop in covent garden in london where you can go in and have a genetic test.

it will give you your genetic risks to obesity and type two diabetes and once you have got those, you can wear a once you have got those, you can weara band, or use once you have got those, you can wear a band, or use your phone and scan any food product in any supermarket, i just happen scan any food product in any supermarket, ijust happen to bring something along from the uk because i'm actually in australia right now, so i'm actually in australia right now, so that is red for me, that is green for me, so the whole idea was to make this device actionable at the point of use, so you could shop with your dna, and we took this sort of technology that was developed, for an epidemic, if you like and converted it into something for a pandemic! now, we all see the relationship between covid and obesity and health conditions so it is, as! obesity and health conditions so it is, as i mentioned, serendipity that we brought us together but it took a lot of interdisciplinary work to bring this together, mechanical engineers, from the technology partnership in cambridge, imperial

college, which is my home medical engineers, biochemists, electrical engineers, biochemists, electrical engineers, so it was that interdisciplinary innovation between ingredients that enabled us to make what i think is a world leading kit. and how reliable is it? we did huge validation within the imperial couege validation within the imperial college medical school, at st mary's hospital at charing cross, at chelsea and westminster, at thejohn radcliffe hospital in oxford. sensitivity is around 98%, and specificity, which is key to making sure that we don't get false negatives, around 100%, but the key, one of the reasons the department of health really lacked the technology is the fact that we have got so many of these wells, that we can replicate these genes many times so you can have more than one of those genes, and secondly, because we have

got so many wells, we can actually put the bait, if you like, the human dna, which means we are testing the adequacy of the swab, because of the swa b adequacy of the swab, because of the swab did not pick up any human dna then the sample is not valid, and that actually constitutes about 20% of full is negatives you find with nhs tests, in some of the laboratories, because they don't have this control, therefore an negative might correspond to a negative might correspond to a negative result, but in reality, actually, there hasn't been enough sample, enough viral load, taking on the swab itself so that is, and obviously were hoping to bring it next into ca re obviously were hoping to bring it next into care homes, schools, it has been really useful in maternity wards at the moment. anywhere where you can get close to the patient and you can get close to the patient and you need a quick result. how quickly can you scale that up? how quickly can you scale that up? how quickly can we all have one in every school,

ca re can we all have one in every school, care home, airport, hospital? the good news is that we are using a manufacturer that manufacturers cartridges for printers. that is the beauty of this translational technology. it is not that sophisticated. in fact the technology is reallyjust a matter of pulling together some micro fluids with some plastics and some chemistry and some reagents, and these reagents don't have to be very big because they are all on the micra or the nano scale, so we are using companies that know how to scale, so by september, october we are producing millions of these and by the end of the year we should be producing a million a month, and thenit producing a million a month, and then it will be just normal scaling of manufacturing, so well enough cartridges are available for the flu season cartridges are available for the flu season and that is the other thing i

forgot to mention, because we have got so many wells, we can also put if you like, the g detectors for influenza a, influenza b, and other types of pathogen. it has been fascinating talking to you. we could carry on all morning. thank you so much forjoining us and good luck scaling up. thank you very much, thank you, goodbye. from this week, employers can insist that staff return to the workplace — as long as sufficient safety measures are in place to guard against the spread of coronavirus. it marks a shift from previous government advice, telling people to work from home if possible. jayne mccubbin reports. manchester is welcoming workers back, just as the covid—i9 spike sends a different message. it's a case of i have to. i have no choice really. after four months in lockdown with a health condition, jane hasjust gone back to work as a cleaner. i'm a bit concerned, actually, because they're saying i can't meet

up with family, they can't come to my house, but i can still go to work with people i don't even know, i can still go in a pub. do you feel safe still going to work? not really, no. are you going to stay working then? it's a case of i have to. i've got to work. this is the head office of brentwood, one of the biggest letting agents in the country. they look after 40,000 office desks. only 20% of them are today in use. i'm quite surprised it's been 20%. we thought people would come back quicker and sooner than they had done. are you worried? as long as we continue to reiterate the message that we have covid—secure spaces, which we have been doing, we're really hopeful that people will continue to gradually return to the workplace. we want people to feel safe and secure. i mean, i'vejust spoken to the health and safety executive who have a head office not farfrom here in the north—west, and they say they don't

expect any change from monday. they are still operating on a skeleton staff and that they will continue to do so. what message does that send out? well, we think probably the wrong one. because what we need to do is get people back into the cities and towns. we head out for lunch in the covid—secure lift. this takes some getting used to. and see the impact the virus has had on trade in the city. have you thought about when it might be back to, not new normal, but normal normal? normal normal? oh, i don't know. i think it might be next summer. which is quite sad, isn't it? gareth and emily, sick of working from home, have turned this into their makeshift office. so i'vejust missed being around other humans. you missed people. yeah. your boss isn't knocking on the door saying, "we need you back?" no, not yet. but some are. employment law specialistjill is already handling grievances from employers who want their staff back. if it comes to the stage

where they've said we've made every adjustment we can and we've explored everything and you still don't think it's safe and, actually, we agree that there are risks, we can't continue to employ you because actually we don't see an end point in sight for when you would be able to return. do you think it's going to get quite messy out there with these kinds of cases? it already is messy and i think, at the moment, people are thinking let's not make any immediate decisions about it, but i think come the autumn when the recession is really biting, when we get the furlough scheme coming to an end, employers are going to have to make really difficult decisions. buses are near empty. many premises still shut. in fact, footfall around here was down 75% in the week before the new restrictions were announced. it's like the spinning cycle. we don't know when it's going to stop. for sayed's business, reliant on office suits and pub and restaurant linen, that is devastating. 90% business gone.

wow. i think by the end of next year we would be in a better position. the end of next year?! because so many businesses are reopening, but we don't know how many of them are going to survive. nico is paying rent on two cafes which haven't yet been able to reopen. he was given just one month's grace back in april and tells me he spends days hammering the phones to the local offices. trying to figure out when are you coming back to the office or how many people are coming back to the office? they are saying they might well come back in december. might. in december. how worried are you? pretty worried. if i stay still i think and i worry, i would like to keep going. i'm young and i've got energy.

i have ideas, and i keep moving. this is the only way forward. for some people, today might be the first new normal day back at work. but for many businesses, like nico's, it's just not enough. jayne mccubbin, bbc news. raminta kymantas is an hr consultant at colliers uk. what is your assessment of the back to work move today? good morning, happy monday. the you know what, i think it is business as usual for us. think it is business as usual for us. our place in central london has been covid secure, following government guidelines since june. do you have a sense of how other employees are dealing with this, as in hr consultancy you are in a position tojudge how in hr consultancy you are in a position to judge how people are handling it. my role is

predominantly learning and development, very much engaging people to make sure that they are welcoming through this period of time. what is the level of communication necessary between employer and employee in bridging this moment? absolutely, it is all about communication and engagement. from a social aspect we have done things like quizzes while a lockdown, and we will try to make sure employees are well looked after, we send out e—mails every wednesday and we have had things like virtual bake offs and running groups, and that is very much on the social side for them, and on the corporate side as a business we have made a return to workplace video to make sure that all of employees are well educated about what that meant to them if they are able to return to them if they are able to return to them if they are able to return to the office in a safe and secure

way. people have been away from the office for months. it is a difficult moment. what does it need for them to feel safe and secure? we have had a flexible further, and during that timei a flexible further, and during that time i felt very well communicated with, as an employee. —— a flexible furlough. thank you very much. authorities in greater manchester are urging people not to be alarmed by the decision to declare a "major incident" in the area in response to a rise in the number of cases of oronavirus. —— coronavirus. the announcement last night came just days after the government announced tougher restrictions in the north—west of england. manchester city council has asked residents to stay calm and said the measure will help various agencies to work together and draw on extra resources. as we've been hearing, a new test to detect coronavirus that can give results in 90 minutes is to be rolled out in the uk. two companies are producing

the kits — one in oxford and the other in london. i'm joined now by ewan birney, deputy director of the european molecular biology laboratory. he's a consultant to oxford nanopore, one of the two companies supplying the tests. interested in your kit. we saw the other one, do you have yours? i'm afraid i don't have it on me, apologies. what is the difference? the kit comes in two flavours, one is like a big dvd player and the other is more like a printer box. if you have two of the printer box as you have two of the printer box as you have two of the printer box as you have the same capacity as a lighthouse lab, the dvd box can do about 3000 samples a day. both of them are really compatible with both static installations and hospitals, but also mobile installations in va ns but also mobile installations in vans oi’ but also mobile installations in

vans or trucks, so you can take the testing to the people wherever you need it. we saw the other kit had a kind of mini swab, which was then plugged into a tiny little thing not much bigger than a printer cartridge. is that something of the same procedure and protocol that you are using? it is more like a standard swab, and some of the clinicians are experimentally using saliva, as well as swabbing. it looks like saliva will work in the future as well. but it is the normal way that you do swabbing for the covid tests. then it is a small pep-up covid tests. then it is a small pop—up lab, looks like a large barbecue set up, and that is the place where you can make up to 768 samples to be run at the same time. 0bviously expectations and hopes are huge for these two new technologies. is there a danger that we expect too

much of them? i certainly hope not. 0ne much of them? i certainly hope not. one needs to be balanced but this has been heavily tested over the last two months both by the company and by labs outside of the company. andrew beggs in birmingham, and the phe labs at porton down. so we know it works, and the technology is standard, from japan, about how to amplify sequence, a standard dna sequence are made amplify sequence, a standard dna sequence are made in oxford by 0xford nanopore, so we can be confident that this can work. it will scale to millions of tests potentially a day so that is quite a big step up in testing capacity. when you say step up, that means presumably that we can have these tests in airports, schools, hospitals and turn them around, fast enough to avoid these sledgehammer national lockdown is that are becoming so damaging to everybody‘s mental and economic health.

becoming so damaging to everybody‘s mental and economic healthm becoming so damaging to everybody‘s mental and economic health. it gives a lot more options to the people directing the response. both by having capacity in hospitals and capacity that you can move co mforta bly capacity that you can move comfortably around the country, it gives you options that you did not have before. this does need coordination. as you have mentioned, one exciting thing about this technology is that one can test for a range of viruses at the same time. this will be important in the winter when we expect to see other coronaviruses, food, and other nasties around, and so in a single test, a patient can be diagnosed not just for covid—i9 but also whether it isa just for covid—i9 but also whether it is a different coronavirus or whether it is influenza. what matter it is interesting to hear you talk. we were talking to the team behind dnanudge's option and it sounds similar even if some of the specifics are different. do you

think there's an argument for merging the teams, or keeping going on separate tracks? i doubt that merging makes sense and probably, what happens in these sort of technologies is that one has friendly competition, and then usually there will be different places and different niches where the technology can be used, and what i'm excited about it nanopore is the huge scalability of a pop—up lab, so you can bring a lighthouse lab style capacity into a city, potentially do an entire city in a short space of time. when will we do -- when will we be doing that because matter this is being rolled out, but if you are manchester, blackburn, any number of cities, aberdeen, say, where there are spikes appearing, you want it now. indeed. i'm sure everybody does. this is where working with our nhs colleagues is the critical thing

and a lot of people in the nhs are working hard to work out how to use this technology and how to deploy it. it is up to them to work out that deployment route it gives them a huge number of options. i know that the company 0xford nanopore are excited to work with nhs colleagues if not around the world, around the nation and furthermore, i should say that there is a lot of interest in this technology from around the world. there is quite a long queue for looking at this, and oxford nanopore are really excited about getting this technology out to many other countries beyond the uk. thank you, and good luck. thank you. just before we move on, a line of breaking news on the death of the former sdlp leader and nobel peace prize winner, john hume, the northern irish politician. that announcement from his family. we'll

bring you more and that in the next few minutes. now, back to coronavirus. leicester s local lockdown has been partially lifted allowing some businesses — including restaurants and hairdressers — to re—open. the city had strict restrictions re—imposed at the end ofjune — shortly before the rest of england began to re—open its hospitality and service sectors. some tighter rules will remain in place in the centre of leicester. geeta pendse is in leicester for us this morning. what is happening there? good morning, yes. it is a big moment, particularly for the hospitality sector, as you mentioned. pubs, restau ra nts, sector, as you mentioned. pubs, restaurants, bars and sector, as you mentioned. pubs, restau ra nts, bars a nd restau ra nts can reopen for the first time since march. we will also see the reopening of places like cinemas, museums, and religious ceremonies can take place within the guidelines. there are still some restrictions. leisure centres, gyms and swimming pools will not reopen

just yet, and different households are not allowed to meet indoors, or in the garden at all at the moment. but there is this general sense of easing, as you mentioned. it was five weeks ago when this little lockdown happened in leicester and some of the surrounding areas. businesses i have spoken to this morning that will be reopening for the first time, there is that mixture of apprehension and also excitement. i spoke to the mayor of leicester, who said that he is pleased to this day has arrived, but he was critical of the government, also. it has been very hard on leicester businesses, because we were promised at the outset by the health secretary that there would be proper compensation for our businesses. what we have had is a pittance compared with what is needed. a few hundred pounds per business. and they need much more than that. we are, obviously, as a city, going to have a major struggle now to catch up with the rest of the uk. we will do it but they haven't made it easy for us.

the mayor of leicester there. so a little way to go but there is genuinely a sense of relief that many people here will be able to experience some of the freedoms that have become the new normal elsewhere. let's hope so, thank you so elsewhere. let's hope so, thank you so much. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. thank you and good morning, not a bad day where you have the sunshine on yourface but bad day where you have the sunshine on your face but it will feel a bit cool for this stage of august when the cloud comes along and some showers. a few in scotland and northern ireland. a few heavy ones in northern and eastern parts of england, couldn't rule out the old rumble of thunder but for most, a dry day. even if you see a shower, it will only be a small one. a little lower than we normally expect but nice enough when the sun is out. when that disappears tonight, a cool night for england and wales, temperatures in the countryside to single figures. rain spreads into scotla nd single figures. rain spreads into

scotland later on some wet weather first thing in northern ireland and throughout the day in western scotland, the southern highlands seeing rainfall totals topped up. more heavy rain returning to northern ireland later with gale force winds. patchy rain and drizzle in the south, warming up with some hazy sunshine. in the middle part of the week, whilst we see wet and windy weather, for some, heat will return later on. more details on that throughout the day on the news channel. hello, this is bbc news, with carrie gracie. the headlines: a new test to detect coronavirus and flu that can give results in 90 minutes is to be rolled out in the uk, with some care homes having it available from next week. eat out to help 0ut: diners across the uk can enjoy a discount of up to 50% off their bills from this morning, in a bid to boost the struggling hospitality sector. europe's biggest bank, hsbc, has seen its half—yearly profits

plunge by two—thirds, as it battles the coronavirus downturn. institutional racism may have contributed to the disproportionate impact of covid—i9 on ethnic minorities in wales, according to a top judge. nearly two years on from the collapse of genoa's morandi bridge, killing 43 people, the italian city prepares to inaugurate its replacement. john hume — the former sdlp leader in northern ireland and nobel peace prize winner has died. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's jane dugal. good morning. good morning. a hugely dramatic end to the british grand prix, with both world champion lewis hamilton and his mercedes team—mate valtteri bottas suffering punctures in the final two laps.

british fans had their hearts in their mouths as hamilton, incredibly, nursed his car around the track to take the chequered flag, winning the race for the seventh time. 0ur sport editor dan roan was at silverstone. in most races, a puncture like this would have led to retirement but, once again, lewis hamilton proved he is no ordinary driver, with one of the most memorable victories of his career. earlier on, despite the absence of the support he has grown accustomed to, all had begun well for the world champion. but elsewhere, there was less control. first, kevin magnussen and then daniil kvyat both crashing out — the russian's frustration obvious, as was hamilton's impatience. the safety car needs to speed up. but what looked set to be the most routine of victories would become anything but. first, his only real rival team—mate valtteri bottas had a puncture and pitted on the penultimate lap. and then, on the last, hamilton remarkably suffered the same fate. with max verstappen eating into his lead, the world champion was suddenly in trouble.

on three wheels, hamilton just managing to limp home for the most dramatic of wins, with his closest rival looming into view. oh, my god. i was just praying to try to get around and not be too slow. i nearly didn't get around the last two corners but, thank god, we did and, you know, i really owe it to the team. i think ultimately we — maybe we should have stopped! chuckles. this, a record seventh victory here for hamilton, already 30 points up in this most unique of seasons. next weekend, this circuit will host a second grand prix, when lewis hamilton will be expected to strengthen his bid for a record—equalling seventh world championship after one of the most dramatic wins of his career. the only disappointment — that there were no fans here to see it. dan roan, bbc news, silverstone. celtic‘s quest for ten scottish league titles in a row got off to a great start. 0dsonne edouard scored a hat—trick, as they hammered hamilton 5—1, to go straight into their familiar spot at the top of the table.

after turning professional just four years ago, harrogate town have been promoted to the football league for the first time in their history. they beat notts county 3—1 in the national league final at wembley — jack diamond scoring their third goal. that's harrogate's second promotion in three seasons and they have league two football to look forward to, in around six weeks' time. because of the coronavirus, no crowds were allowed at wembley, but manager simon weaver said fans have still been sending congratulatory messages. so grateful of that support because itjust means so much to the people of harrogate, that the club have reached the football league and there's so much pride in the town right now. i feel very privileged to be manager of harrogate town. israel folau's decision not to take a knee before his side's rugby league match was his "personal choice", according to catalans dragons coach steve mcnamara. as the season resumed, the former australia rugby union

international was among a small group who remained standing. dragons were thrashed 3a—6 by st helens. meanwhile, leeds went to the top of the table in stunning style, they recovered from 20 points down at huddersfield. luke gale landed a golden—point drop—goal in extra time to give them victory by 27—26. ronnie 0'sullivan was in devastating form as he began his world snooker championship campaign in sheffield. the five—time champion opened up an 8—1 lead against thailand's thepchaiya un—nooh in a blistering session, hitting two century breaks. the rocket needs just two more frames this morning to reach the second round, where ding junhui is waiting. there's live coverage on bbc two, as well as the iplayer and bbc sport website. andy murray had a damning assessment of his brother's game, after their team, the union jacks, lost the battle of the brits tournament thatjamie had organised. it went down to the final match and the mixed doubles pair ofjoe salisbury and harriet dart beat jamie murray and

heather watson, to win it for the british bulldogs. afterwards, andy was appreciative of the workjamie had put in... ..sort of. can everyone say thank you to jamie for his effort in putting these events on? cheering and applause. shame he had a stinker today but, um... laughter brotherly love! now, when you play golf you need quite a lot of kit, a bag of clubs, ball and some tees. but one pro on the european tour needed a boat. joel sjoholm hit his ball onto an island on the penultimate hole at the hero open in birmingham. if that wasn't bad enough, the swede then had to move some signs in order to hit his ball. not great for his backswing with

those trees in his way. perhaps unsurprisingly the swede dropped a shot at that hole. but he avoided the penalty and came joint 22nd. notice, his caddie didn't get in the boat with him, just handed him his clubs. that's all your sport for now. from today, diners across the uk will be able to enjoy a discount of up to 50% off their bills. the government scheme known as eat out to help 0ut will be valid from mondays to wednesdays throughout august in an attempt to boost the struggling hospitality industry. our business correspondent, ben thompson, has been in watford this morning. the eat 0ut the eat out to help 0ut scheme the latest from the chancellor to try and kick—start the economy. the idea, in its basic form, you will get 50% off a meal if you are eat out ina get 50% off a meal if you are eat out in a restaurant on a monday, tuesday or wednesday. 72,000 firms have signed up for the scheme up and down the country and it is the

government that will pay the other half of the bill. but what difference will it make and make enough to save our struggling hospitality industry? with me is nick, the boss of this place. good morning. you have 160 of these places around the country. what difference will this eat 0ut places around the country. what difference will this eat out to help 0ut scheme make for places like yours? i think it is a great initiative by the government, actually. the way it is structured, monday— wednesday, the quieter days of the week for the hospitality sector, it will encourage more people to come out to visit our premises and sites and i think we will be able to demonstrate how safe isa will be able to demonstrate how safe is a sector we have made eating and drinking out across the uk. let's be clear how it works. if it is a monday, tuesday or wednesday, i come out with three friends and we spend £100 on a meal, a £20 bottle of wine, how much will it cast? you had spent £100, we take off the £20 for

the wine because it doesn't fly, £80. a maximum of £10 of each. the £80. a maximum of £10 of each. the £80 becomes £40, adam £20 for the bottle one, £60 in total. so a significant difference and the government pays that. talk to me about peoples perceptions right now because we know hospitality relies on people feeling confident about the money in their pocket coming out to spend, what are they telling you? we are finding our customers are behaving normally. they are coming in and using us as they have done. there is perhaps a degree of nervousness when we first opened but i think the fact we can demonstrate that we have taken their safety very, very seriously. we have got processes in place and listen to government guidance. 0nce processes in place and listen to government guidance. once they have come back, they realise it is normal. i think that's normal. we are in the hospitality industry and we wa nt are in the hospitality industry and we want people to come out and enjoy themselves like they did pre—lockdown and i think they are doing that. a word on lockdown, do you worry when you see headlines

about local lockdown is the potential of pubs and bars may be closing in september and october so schools can reopen, what does that mean? it would be a hammer blow for the hospitality industry if we had to close again. it has been hit very ha rd to close again. it has been hit very hard during lockdown already. we employ over 3 million people in this sector and if we had to lock down again, we would see many, many more businesses struggle and there are already lots of businesses struggling as a result of the lockdown we have experienced. talk of the second lockdown is terrifying and it really can't happen. one for us all to watch. thank you for now, nice to see you. there you have it. nick explaining some of the implications of this. it's about getting us feeling confident enough to go out and spend again on high streets up and down the country. quite clearly, one scheme that could help us do that but big question is, of course, about what it means for all of us. we know the economy and economic growth relies on all of us feeling confident and safe

again to go out and spend. ben thompson. it's emerged that a woman who s alleged to have been raped by a conservative mp complained about his behaviour to the party's chief whip four months ago. the conservative mp and former minister — who hasn't been named — was arrested on saturday and then bailed by police investigating allegations of sexual offences and assault. it's now understood the chief whip, mark spencer, spoke with the complainant four months ago, but insists she didn't make an allegation of serious sexual assault. a spokesman for mr spencer has said he takes all allegations of harassment and abuse extremely seriously. let's get more on this now with our political correspondent, nick eardley, who's in westminster. what is the conservative party saying about these allegations and about the arrest? good morning to stop the conservative party says it ta kes all stop the conservative party says it takes all allegations of this nature are extremely seriously. but at the moment it is not removing the whip

from this mp. there has been some criticism of that, quite frankly. the labour mp jess phillips criticism of that, quite frankly. the labour mpjess phillips says it sends the wrong message. there has also been some criticism from the lib dems leadership challenger layla moran. the argument the government is making is that it needs to wait until there has been a full police investigation into this. remember, somebody has been arrested but hasn't been charged yet. have a listen to the business minister this morning. these are very serious allegations. there is a police investigation, charlie, taking place. i think it's only right that we wait for that investigation to conclude before you'll be hearing from the chief whip as to the action the conservative party will take. i think it is wrong to speculate before we see the police investigation completed. you will be aware there are others that take the opposite view, which is, by way of a statement,

that the conservative party should suspend first and await then what happens next. well, look, as i said, this is a really serious allegation. there is a police investigation. sometimes with these things, when we then find out the details after an investigation has concluded, people begin to understand why the conservative party, the chief whip, has taken decisions the way he has taken those decisions. i think it's only right that we wait for that police investigation to be completed and then you'll be hearing from the chief whip. it would be completely wrong for me to speculate any further. so that is the view in government. the complainant is quoted in this morning times saying she is devastated this person hasn't been removed from the party at the moment and she thinks it shows the party doesn't really care. as you were also mentioning, it has also emerged that the chief whip for the

government, mark spencer, did speak to the complainant back on the 1st of april but he says that these allegations, these serious sexual allegations, these serious sexual allegations, were not made at the time. he advised her then that she could make a formal complaint to the releva nt could make a formal complaint to the relevant authorities. a spokesman for the chief whip as well saying he ta kes for the chief whip as well saying he takes this really seriously. the mp in question is out on bail at the moment and is due to speak to the police again in mid—august. moment and is due to speak to the police again in mid-august. top headline this morning around testing. all kinds of problems for the government over the recent days and communicating messages in dealing with local lockdown is but good news this morning on the coming availability of two very fast tests? yes, absolutely. it is one of those things the government has always said it wanted as a speedy test, so if you are feeling sick, you can find out that day if you have the virus, potentially allowing you to

go back to work, go back to school or go back to wider society if you test negative. 0ne or go back to wider society if you test negative. one of the problem is that we have had over the last while is although the capacity to do tests has increased rapidly, it takes off in two or three days to get the result. sometimes those results are inconclusive, so it can take up to a week to do a couple of results. the hopein week to do a couple of results. the hope in government is this is a game changer, that allows them to test people a lot quicker. we have, of course, have some issues with tests in the past so as ever with these things, the proof will be in the pudding once we actually see how they work. but it all comes in the backdrop of a kind of strange situation today, where ministers are telling us all to go out and eat and use this eat 0ut telling us all to go out and eat and use this eat out to help 0ut scheme to help boost our local restaurants and cafe is an pubs but, at the same time, there has been a notably more cautious approach from ministers

over the last weeks also with the easing of restrictions being paused on friday with local restrictions being brought in in huge parts of the north of england. i think the government would say, look, if you go to government would say, look, if you gotoa government would say, look, if you go to a restaurant, it is supposed to be covid secure, there are mitigations in place to make sure things are safe but we are certainly ata things are safe but we are certainly at a complicated part of the messaging here, where we are all being asked to go out and spend money on to make sure that local businesses can survive but at the same time, there is real caution and real concern in government about the way the virus is spreading. nick, thank you. europe's biggest bank, hsbc, has seen its half—yearly profits plunge by two—thirds as it battles the coronavirus downturn. it posted pre—tax profits of £3.3 billion down from almost £9.5 billion for the same period last year. the bank says plans to cut 35 thousand jobs worldwide

will be accelerated. the australian state of victoria has declared a state of disaster and imposed new lockdown measures after a surge in coronavirus infections. under the new rules, residents of the state capital melbourne are subject to a night—time curfew. australia has been more successful than many other countries in tackling covid—19, but cases are rising in victoria. we can talk now to abc melbourne correspondent, lisbeth gorr. elizabeth, what is the situation tonight matt kelly the situation tonight matt kelly the situation tonight is i am at home. there is what may be an hour and a bit before all of us in metropolitan melbourne need to be locked up safe and secure in our homes. it was like that, the decision yesterday. we would be subject to a curfew, which is like, what? what? we are subject to a cu rfew? what? what? we are subject to a curfew? yesterday was all about how his newest stroke —— restrictions would affect our lives which would

mean our child care centres would close. vulnerable children needing special schooling could still go to school but everyone else would be home—schooled, although there was an opportunity for kids from families of essential workers to still go to school, to be supervised, but they would still be doing online working. today, we learned that industries would be shut down. it's less than two hours since our premier gave that media conference explaining which industries would survive and which industries would survive and which ones needed to shut down and which ones needed to shut down and which ones needed to shut down and which ones could work on a slower basis with less people on site. it's all aimed towards keeping a million people home, plus the students, to stop these what they call mystery cases getting out of control. and of course the backdrop to this is melbourne has already gone through weeks of attempting to get these cases under control? i know, and people are very frustrated. i can't begin to tell you the sorts of phone calls that have been coming through

to my radio station. people are bewildered. it's almost like they are hit from behind because whilst we saw it coming, it's not like it hasn't been mooted for a good weekend i have now that tougher restrictions would be coming. i do not think the extent of this actual shutdown was expected. i have in front of me a dossier that goes for ten or so pages that outlines all the different industries and different ways in which they will be affected by these new rules and regulations. it's rather surprising and shocking to think that the government has decided we have to shut things down with such an extreme... with such extreme measures but i mitigate that by saying they said very clearly our health, your health to the constituents, is more important to us at this stage than the economy. we are putting it first. we know we are going to damage the economy but

we reckon we can get it back but there will be no economy or people to work in the economy if we don't get covid under control. it is a grim picture but thank you for joining us. best of luck to all of you. there is lots of netflix to watch! good. now to the us. two us astronauts "splashed down" in the gulf of mexico last night — nine weeks after they set off to the international space station on a rocket provided by the commercial firm, spacex. the company, owned by the technology billionaire elon musk, will now start charging nasa for a so—called "astronaut taxi service". dallas campbell has presented stargazing and the sky at night and is the author of ad astra: an illustrated guide to leaving the planet. thank you so much for talking to us. what is your impression, has it been an entire success? yeah, well, i watched the landing yesterday and it was rather beautiful, i thought.

reminiscent of the old apollo landings. i'm obviously too young to remember those but wonderful parachutes when they opened at the capsule coming down and splashing into the sea. they will spend weeks and weeks now looking over the data because this whole mission was really... it was called demonstration mission two, to really validate the technology and hardware for future validate the technology and hardware forfuture missions. but looking at it just from an observer, forfuture missions. but looking at itjust from an observer, everything seemed to go according to plan. there is nothing ever routine or easy about space flight but it did seem... easy about space flight but it did seem... mission one, get them up there and back safely which they did. it did look very smooth indeed. and a commercial project, taxi service as we were saying, is at the beginning of a new era? it definitely is. gone, well not gone, but the monopoly of governments owning access to space and beyond is now changing. it is now very much becoming a commercial venture as

well. we see spacex and also other billionaire entrepreneurs, people likejeff billionaire entrepreneurs, people like jeff bezels billionaire entrepreneurs, people likejeff bezels and blue origin, richard branson and virgin galactic. moving into that particular space. and having a taxi service run by companies like boeing, who also have a spacecraft coming online soon as well, and spacex doing thatjob has freed up nasa for the big ticket stuff. nasa has the big artemis project coming up, which is returning humans to the moon again in the next 5—10 years. they can concentrate on that and then spacex and boeing and others can worry about getting astronauts up and down. we had president trump celebrating this as an american success. is there something particularly american about it? absolutely. there is a lot of theatre involved in rocket launches anyway, especially when elon musk gets involved. it is a bit of a

theatrical event. i think for america, there is a great sense of pride because there has been no american astronauts flying from american astronauts flying from american soil since 2011, since the space shuttle was grounded. all astronauts have had to rely on russian law kit —— rocket launching from kazakhstan. so having a new bus stop back in florida, back on pad 39 a, the launch pad itself is very historic because it's where the apollo missions were launched from and the space shuttle as well. it has that sense of national pride to it. i can understand why they made a big thing of it as well. and it also looked very flash, the spacecraft looked very flash, the spacecraft looked new and shiny. they had new shiny spacesuit. it was all a bit of razzmatazz as well. very quickly, will you be going up there so? yes, if you could lend me a couple of hundred thousand dollars, i will be up hundred thousand dollars, i will be up there like a shot! we will be

fundraising for you. i will root around at the back of the sofa. thank you. the italian city of genoa is inaugurating a new bridge today — almost two years since the collapse of the morandi bridge, which killed 43 people. the new structure is designed by the architect renzo piano, who s from the city — he also designed the shard in london and the pompidou centre in paris. an investigation into the cause of the disaster is due to finish shortly, with a trial expected next year. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. a bit of a temperature turnaround on the way again this week. we start on a fairly cool node for the stage in august anyway. temperatures usually should peak at around 23—24 on in early august afternoon. this afternoon, about 21. but by friday, a surge of heat is back for some of the at least, 35 could once again be achieved. that is on the back of those very hot conditions last friday. today, we

have been sandwiched between weather systems. a little window ahead of cloud gathering into next week. a few showers dotted around in the afternoon and they could be on the heavy side, particular in parts of scotland, northern and eastern england. many will spend if not all day dry, the bulk of the day dry with some more sunshine than yesterday. the wind light, it will feel nice enough when the sun is on yourface. 0ut feel nice enough when the sun is on yourface. out of feel nice enough when the sun is on your face. out of it, feel nice enough when the sun is on yourface. out of it, in cloudier moments and where rain is falling, it will feel cool. this evening and overnight, fresher night for england and wales under clear skies that wind and rain set to spread its way across northern ireland and into western scotland, lifting temperatures here to take us into tuesday morning. it is this weather system here. notice high—pressure and low—pressure fairly close together. when they are closer together, the stronger the winds, they will touch gale force at times in northern and western areas in the second half of tuesday. rain to begin within scotland and rain later again in northern ireland but wettest of all will be the south islands. some patchy rain and

drizzle with low cloud around the western coast of england and wales. but much will be dry, the further south and east you are, the sunnier it will be in the light of the winds and a bit warmer, 23 or 24. sitting in the teens in scotland, where the rain is relentless. the rain remains in place across western scotland through tuesday night. rain at times for northern ireland. some heavier bursts later. as we go into daytime on wednesday, it looks like we will gradually see some wetter weather return across wales, western england and western scotland. it means many eastern areas will stay dry, reasonably bright and getting warmer. temperatures more widely to the 20s, may be a lot of the rain will ease on thursday and friday. the capital city forecast to give you a flavour. the wind is falling lighter and it will turn warmer. there you go, confirmation for friday, 35 possible. warming up a little bit for scotland and northern ireland.

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