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looks at the knock on effect of people not getting help, for example diagnoses with cancer treatment and how that will affect death rates going forward. they look 50 years ahead and then they also look five yea rs ahead and then they also look five years ahead then of course i am seeing people being terrified to go to hospital and people have had many strokes and slight heart attacks and we re strokes and slight heart attacks and were too scared of going into hospital. i think we have learned oui’ hospital. i think we have learned our lesson now. i hope it does nightingale hospitals are still there and i think there should be certain hospitals, perhaps not every area has the amount they can do it, they are non—covid—i9 and certain hospitals that will deal with the pandemic. but we did not know how bad it was going to be. it is very easy to talk about it now but i think in the future if they can say in any area if possible you can have one that is dealing with covid—i9 and one that won't, i think that will help people in the future and i
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do believe that if people are worried about their health, go now because now is the time to do it, you can get to hospital where he is oi’ you can get to hospital where he is or may not be any covid—i9 in it. and have yourself checked out. all people like me should not go all the time. it also has a positive line, say 2500 lives may have a say because people adopting a healthier lifestyle during lifestyle and also because of a decrease in pollution so because of a decrease in pollution so that is the upside. let's move onto the financial times and their headline at restaurants facing crisis besides big boost from discount dining scheme and this is as we know the dining and restaurant industry devastated as so many have been during this crisis. but this looks at the very stark reality for many despite the heat out to help out regime that we have seen introduced in the past week or so. this is the popular scheme that the chancellor in the uk unveiled where
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you go out for dinner or lunch or breakfast on a monday, tuesday or wednesday in august, you can get up to £10 a head off your meal. say ashley is being hugely popular in a house in a pub around the corner earlier of the day and they were saying they did really good trait on monday, tuesday and wednesday. people wanted to eat there and they we re people wanted to eat there and they were having to book but one of the problems restaurants are raising is that they are doing great trade and some of the figures show that they we re some of the figures show that they were doing double the trade they we re were doing double the trade they were doing double the trade they were doing on the monday before. one of the problems is it isjust shifting trade in the weeks of people whom might have gone out for lunch ordinnerona people whom might have gone out for lunch or dinner on a saturday or sunday but then get to a monday or tuesday, it might not be leading to a massive increase in terms of total sales across the week. have you been out to take up the skiing? the interesting thing is i did go out to support a restaurant that we like and is owned by friend of ours. and of course it was wonderful to go out
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for a meal. i of course it was wonderful to go out fora meal. i had not of course it was wonderful to go out for a meal. i had not cooked myself and many women was it with eyes with that and many men, too. but the truth is i think that we have been very well indoctrinated by what has happened around the world and by the government. and so even going out to have fun seems to be a bit naughty, so have fun seems to be a bit naughty, soi have fun seems to be a bit naughty, so i went out for one meal and it was delightful. it was a lovely treat. but whereas before in the old days i would go out perhaps three or four times a week, i now feel perhaps i don't want to go out, i'm not sure about that person sitting next to me. and also frankly if you are in london, londoners absolutely —— london is empty. there are few people who seem to be here altogether. so maybe things will look up in september when people i think will have to come back and perhaps more it will feel that they can go back to work. but if people are not coming to the office, i think they are worried about their
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person will not want to spend money ona person will not want to spend money on a meal and they will not be in the right places. and i can see that restau ra nts the right places. and i can see that restaurants pay rent and pay the staff and i would bring in food and in the rest of it and i don't see how they will manage. very difficult times ahead for many in the restau ra nt times ahead for many in the restaurant business. now the times and there headline the pushback on migrants and this is an article looking at an australian style plan to intercept boats in the english channel after a record number of migrants came to the uk this week. tell us more about this. increasing numbers of people trying to cross the english channel. there were 235 people who tried to cross on thursday which was the biggest number we've ever seen thursday which was the biggest numberwe've everseen in thursday which was the biggest number we've ever seen in a single day and that picture shows on the times, people are doing in a dangerous way. they have a picture there are people with shovels. i think part of the problem here is if this continues in the numbers continue to rise, then is much as
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the weather is a right at the moment, the conditions could get worse. it guzzled like we could end up worse. it guzzled like we could end up like some other places in the mediterranean ended up seeing people dying at sea. and so the difficult thing for the government here is what can they do and the home secretary has repeatedly talked tough on this and she actually when this has happened a couple of years ago it was one of the tory backbenchers it was very vocal saying action must be taken. but now she is in office and there are quite limited things that you are able to do when some of the ideas that may people feel simple and get tied up in legal problems and said that she is tweeting say they are pooling in the numbers in the french need to help make sure that they are taking action in france and also the most about the number of people we would return to france and look at whether we can stop people getting into england. but the tricky thing here is we kind of have boats in the english channel try to stop people crossing and it can all get quite
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messy ended up with confrontations at sea in the key thing the government needs really is the french government to get on board. they are the ones who have the power to come sit people in france that you need to seek refuge here and kind of seek asylum or you need to go back to your home country. at the moment, not many signs from the french that they will actually saw people leaving france which is the big thing. no easy answers here, is there? know and what you have to know is everybody he was been to those camps where immigrants live in france, they are very inhospitable and the french do not welcome immigrants like the british do. they do not find them safe places for their children to live and do not look after them. they are living in really bad conditions. and in fact the french say, live in these awful conditions and of course nobody is attending to stop the guys who were
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actually getting the boats and charging these people a fortune for what is a very dangerous crossing in a very dangerous, very busy waterway. and if john a very dangerous, very busy waterway. and ifjohn rightly says, while the weather is nice in the next week or two, it will be very easy to cross but you will get to september and october and the weather will not be so good and the disaster will be to have a terrible accident on our hands and i think this has got to be a worldwide thing of helping immigrants if they come to your country and perhaps being rather more uniform and that. because the french from what i have seen don't and certainly not having to take... not having these gassy people who were trafficking these people, charging them a fortune to go and basically what is a glorified lilo across the english channel will stop tiny children, pregnant women and allowing them to make a fortune off of it because the french know
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this is going on. let's look at the front page of the guardian and this is about results for a levels and 40% of teachers predictions for a levels art to be lowered. which is going to be devastating news for all of those a—level students who have been denied the opportunity to do the exams and have to rely on what it is that those teachers say. this is the guardian reporting i think it is the guardian reporting i think it is 300,000 individual a—level results they are saying had been downgraded by the exams regulator ahead of them being revealed to students next week and we have seen in the last few days difficulties in scotland where the first minister has faced criticism for students losing their opportunity to get to the university because that is the key thing here. notjust people being upset that they did not get the grade they wanted. for a lot of them is having an impact on what they get to do next and the kind of choices for the rest of their life. and so i think you will see an
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almighty row this week and ijust don't know the government is going to be able to do to kind of keep a lid on it. eve. strangely badly organised because there was a system i think more people would come and they were also very worried about social distancing. they know what it is like when six former saga back to school to get the results will stop they get emotional. they talked for moment, they hug, they cry. and of course parents moment, they hug, they cry. and of course pa rents are moment, they hug, they cry. and of course parents are not allowed to go with them which i would find very frustrating. but the terrible thing is as you say the whole of your life could be coloured by this one result. and people who are not writing a but almost a and that is a vast majority of them people doing exams who will always feel that they have lost and this and i don't know what to say but i suggested to a friend of mine that let them have another year at school. they would have gone on a gap year and let them have gone on a gap year and let them have another go. that's presuming
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that life goes back to normal next year and let them take their exams and show that they can do well if possible. how was school to accommodate is the issue there? let's get the front page from the independent. a boiling hot day here in the uk, crowded beaches, brighton, bournemouth. always and to focus on brighton and bournemouth andi focus on brighton and bournemouth and i wonder why people had to just those two beaches. we are an island and have thousands of beaches. i don't really get it. john, what do you think? i am from coldwell and hope to go back there for couple of days next week but a lot of these places like cornwall are not made for social distancing although there isa for social distancing although there is a lot of countryside. some of the smaller towns and small cornish pups are not made for low to be able to, and one of the worry things for businesses in places like cornwall if you want to bring in tourists. they did not get an easter season and want to make up the money but there is also concern that these people who will not go abroad will
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now go to cornwall. we have seen the pictures of crowded streets in cornwall. thank you very much for taking us through the papers. that's it for the papers. if you're in the uk, john and eve will be back in just over half an hour to look at more of the stories being covered by newspapers and websites here. goodbye for now. hello again. well, we've been talking about extreme heat here at the weather centre for a number of days. and friday certainly delivered on that hot promise. the kind of temperatures we saw friday afternoon made it the hottest august day we've seen for 17 years. you have to go back to 2003, when we had temperatures of 38.5 at faversham in kent, to find a hotter august day. so, it has been really quite extreme, although not quite record—breaking. now, looking at the weather picture this evening, very hot. these are the temperatures at 11pm. we're still up at 28 degrees or so in london,
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so very uncomfortable for the night's sleep ahead. and we've got some of these tropical nights to come over the next few days. that's where temperatures stay at or above 20 degrees celsius for parts of the uk. now, these tropical nights used to be really rare here in the uk. in a 30—year period between 1961 and 1990, there were just eight of these. and yet over the next several nights, we've got several candidates for tropical nights, and these are becoming more frequent. and that's as a result of climate heating, globalwarming, so we are seeing changes to our weather here in the uk. this weekend, we've got more of the same in many respects, some hot and humid conditions for england and wales. fresher for scotland and northern ireland, with some warm spells of sunshine. there'll be a few isolated showers dotted around, but for many of you, we are looking at a dry weekend. now, a subtle change in the wind direction, more of a north—easterly coming down around the coastline of yorkshire, lincolnshire, into northern parts of norfolk, willjust drop the temperatures a little bit across some of these eastern areas. but come inland, another hot and humid day, temperatures 29 for cardiff, 35 in london.
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there'll be more sunshine for scotland and northern ireland and a fresher feel to the weather, temperatures about 22 or so. and then as we go through saturday evening, again, those temperatures stay uncomfortably high, really, as we go through the night. 2a, 25 degrees celsius or so for a time in cardiff and london as well. well, that takes us on into sunday's forecast. and, again, there could be a few showers around, maybe an odd isolated storm. most of you probably having another dry day with sunshine. again, it's relatively fresh in the sunshine for scotland and northern ireland, but it's hot and humid for england and wales, temperatures again reaching the low 30s. we'll keep the hot weather into next week. there's a much greater threat of thunderstorms. they could bring some localised flooding.
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