thousands of holiday—makers raced to get back to the uk before four o'clock tomorrow morning.” get back to the uk before four o'clock tomorrow morning. i don't have a huge support network and that is the one factor which will put us scupper and quite a fewjob possibilities and working. lockdown restrictions are tightened

in oldham, blackburn, and parts of pendle from midnight on saturday. people are told not to socialise with anyone from outside the household. the bbc understands the government is to extend the ban on rental evictions in england and wales until the 20th of september. a doctor treating the russian opposition activist alex a says no traces of poison have been found in his body. and taylor swift makes a student's wildest dreams come true. the singer's donated £23,000 to an 18—year—old in the uk trying to raise enough money to go to university. to donate more than 5096 of what i needed itjust blew my mind, because i never expected that happen. it was really different.

hello, good afternoon. thousands of british holiday—makers are racing to get home before the new coronavirus travel rules come into fourth in the early hours of tomorrow morning. from liam, anyone returning from croatia, austria, trinidad and tobago will have to isolate for two weeks because of an increase in kvaerner cases in those countries. croatia's and bustard to the uk has called on the government to take a more targeted approach. —— croatia's ambassador. here is a health club respondent, richard galpin. thousands of british tours here in croatia now have a crucial decision to make, whether to head to the airports to return home, or continue their holidays knowing they will

have to quarantine for two weeks on the turn to the uk. uk government's announcement that croatia is now on the quarantine list is called sink dilemmas for many and the need to decide before the deadline tomorrow morning. so i am meant to be back at university starting my final year of medical school on friday. i am meant to be moving into new accommodation but i won't be able to do that so i am in contact with the university trying to make arrangements to start a bit later that i am not sure what impact that is going to have on the best of the year. and this time of coronavirus, croatia has been seen as one of the safer european countries third tourist spot infection rates have been rising, not least as a result of toro or foreigners travelling in and out of the country. croatian officials are frustrated that the uk government and now requires british tourists have travelled anywhere in the country to go into quarantine when they get back home. we regret that

it was not possible for the uk government to consider a regional approach, because in croatia we have, as i said, witnessed these spikes in certain areas, for example in the zagreb and the capital and mainly amongst the young population but in deeper neck and its surroundings there were very, very few cases. and it seems they won't be many good news from the uk for the croatian tourism industry any time soon. whenever island i think thatis time soon. whenever island i think that is something we have said before we will look at and we are looking at but of course then you get down to how good a detail level of information we have got on individual islands which might be pa rt individual islands which might be part of another country with a landmass somewhere else. but there is criticism from tourism experts of the steps taken by the government for british tourists holidaying in croatia. it is also about how much confidence the government has in the

testing programme of the countries, about the health service in the countries. we have asked the government several times to be more transparent about these numbers so people can keep an eye on them because people want to know, they wa nt to because people want to know, they want to have a little bit more notice, but it's for she is to do that so far. and it is notjust croatia for which the government now requires a two week quarantine. austria and trinidad and tobago have also been added to the lengthening list, which already includes spain and france. the one country for which there is good news today is portugal. no longer will you caterers have to self—isolate on their return home. the country is now in the uk government's official list of travel corridors. richard galpin, bbc news. well, i will let gavin lee gave me an update just a short while ago from a croatian time. well, this part of the dalmatian

coast here is actually where there are more british tourists than from any other country in this particular region accounts for about 50% of the economy comes from that industry so it matters here. so that are two things going on. one, you had this almost familiar scramble that we saw last week in france in two weeks before but in spain of people saying what we do to get back before four o'clock? they have got 2a hours when speaking to people here who are saying that they are trying to the brass neck, some people are going over the border to try to fly from another country and the familiar story i am hearing is how difficult it is, how many flights are full, and at least one family say they paid eight times the amount they have already paid so that is on top of the impacts here and we're listening to our interview of the tourism minister here this morning and he says he doesn't believe is fair, he does not believe it is legitimate, and he puts the blame solely on squarely on young people in nightclubs and the party capital of croatia and he says that is ultimately where they are not listening to the rules and he says

by butterfly effect you have a situation where not just by butterfly effect you have a situation where notjust the uk but germany, italy, austria, slovenia at all in the last few days putting restrictions in place and now they are specifically lobbying the uk saying we can sort the situation out, please don't kill what is left of our tourism industry. in the next little while i'm going to be talking to the head of the tourist board. first, let's head to gatwick. have you found many tourists to speak to? that's might jane and we have actually found in arrival from the city of split in the last few hours, which is a hugely popular holiday destination in croatia we have spoken to some passengers were destination in croatia we have spoken to some passengers were on spoken to some passengers were on that plane about how they felt about the new quarantine rules. in croatia we felt extremely safe. felt safer in croatia than we do in the uk. everyone abides to social

distancing, a lot of the restaurants and bars open air, and they don't have the mass hysteria that you do over here. we know people that are still there that were trying to get back today and there are no flights or anything so they are not going to get home selects and they think. the beach bars were very busy but apart from that no less safe than in the uk, really. so some bit or mixed emotions there. some airlines from zagreb have actually increased their prices back to london. now, if you are booked on a package holiday next few weeks to go to croatia it is really worth getting in touch with a travel company to see if there any alternative options v. jane. travel company to see if there any alternative options v. jane. our correspondent at gatwick airport. let's speak to the woman from the

dubrovnik tourist board. thank you very much for speaking tours of the bbc. what you think about the change to our quarantine rules here? this changed our life a lot, i can say. we just changed our life a lot, i can say. wejust had a changed our life a lot, i can say. we just had a meeting changed our life a lot, i can say. wejust had a meeting of changed our life a lot, i can say. we just had a meeting of our tourism board council specifically on this subject because as you know the uk market for dubrovnik is traditionally market number one and we can say that since flights started from the 16th ofjuly basically the tourism sector has started in some bigger numbers for dubrovnik so we were just heading into one good direction and now this new restriction really shocked us, so anyway, we are really doing our best to keep a very good situation that we have in dubrovnik. we have a very low number of cases so we believe that at the end they will

still have many tourists were in the uk arriving to dubrovnik. see you are saying that there is actually quite a low number of coronavirus cases in dubrovnik itself? i wonder whether you and your team wish that perhaps the uk government had been a little bit more targeted, that they had implemented this ban in the parts of your country where cases are much higher? yes, actually, we we re are much higher? yes, actually, we were trying to communicate that and some other countries did that, for example germany, so they divided the kind of evaluation and the measurements separated by the county or bya measurements separated by the county or by a specific region because really dubrovnik for months has really dubrovnik for months has really excellent by the situation so we we re really excellent by the situation so we were hoping that somehow we can be excluded from that decision. and also dubrovnik has a very specific

geographical location, so we are quite isolated from the rest of croatia, most of our travellers not only from the uk but also from other countries are arriving by air plane, so we were hoping that there might be some exclusions, but at the end we are all in the same situation. be some exclusions, but at the end we are all in the same situationlj just remind us, and are, how important tourism is your economy, as well. i mean, it was great a lot ofjobs? —— it must create a lot of jobs? yes, it is extremely important to our economy. we say that for every family in dubrovnik early someone from the family is working on the tourism industry so this is a big attack on the tourism economy in general but, as i said, we are hoping that we still have... dubrovnik has quite a long season, longer than maybe the rest of croatia, so we usually have very good results in september and 0ctober good results in september and october as well so we're hoping that the number of cases in croatia in

general now start to go down, especially because of all the new regulations that we have at the moment, and that we will be again excluded from that list and that travellers will be able to come to dubrovnik in september, in october, with any kind of restrictions. but anyway, i would say that... it is a unique time to come to dubrovnik, to experience dubrovnik in one very special light, with no crowds, so i believe this is a perfect time to visit dubrovnik, no matter what the circumstances. all right, anna. many thanks for your time and all the best. thank you very much indeed. and a hearse there who is head of the dubrovnik tourist board. just a reminder that a little after half past two we are going to be taking more of your questions about travel and quarantine as well but for now we will take a look at some of the

stories here and in the last couple of hours we have learned that the attorney general has referred the sentences handed down to the three teenagers who killed pc andrew harper to the court of appeal to consider whether they are too lenient. the officer, who is 28, died last year in berkshire when he was dragged along the road by a getaway car for was dragged along the road by a getaway carfor more was dragged along the road by a getaway car for more than a mile. 0ur getaway car for more than a mile. our home affairs correspondent danny shaw gave me more details. well, what this announcement means, jane, is that there will be a full court hearing at the court of appeal to determine whether or not the sentences were unduly lenient, that is the phrase that is used. the sentences handed down was 16 years to henry long and i3 sentences handed down was 16 years to henry long and 13 years later albert there was an jesse cole. to henry long and 13 years later albert there was anjesse cole. the decision to refer these sentences has been made by the attorney general who said that these were horrific crimes and she had personally considered the details of the cases. she says the offender

should be punished with a greater severity for such heinous crimes. the decision to refer the cases to the heart of appeal has been welcomed by andrew harper's widow who said this was great news and the sentences did not match their crimes and it was notjustice. in terms of whether or not the court of appeal will raise the sentences, well, in about two thirds of cases, that is what they do. in two thirds of cases which make it to the court of appeal for referral they are increased by the court, but the bar is quite high, the court has to consider whether the judge high, the court has to consider whether thejudge and high, the court has to consider whether the judge and sentencing made a gross ever or whether the sentences outside of the range of reasonable sentences available. —— a gross error. both these men have lost their old appeals against their convictions and sentences, have lodged these appeals in that case will be

heard will be held at the same time. no confirmation of that but it is possible. these are the headlines. tourists are facing a fresh rush to return from holiday as anybody coming from croatia, austria or trinidad and tobago must into isolation. the attorney general has appealed the sentences and under are happy the sentences and under are happy the court of appeal. and lockdown restrictions are being tightened in blackburn, 0ldham and parts of pendle from midnight on saturday. people are not like to socialise with anyone who is not in their household. now, restrictions on household meetings and attendances at weddings and funerals have been tightened as we say in some parts of the north of

england to slow the spread of coronavirus but they feared local lockdown has been avoided. let's get to more details. from midnight on saturday people in oldham, blackburn, and parts of pendle are told that they cannot socialise with anybody on outside the household. residents are also being told to only use public transport for essential travel. birmingham is being added to a watchlist as an area of enhanced support, and also northampton has become an area of intervention. the department of health and social care has said restrictions in wigan, rossendale and darwen will be relaxed, our head of statistics robert croft has been explaining what is happening. infections and homes in england has been pretty stable for about a month which suggest some of the visors we have seen in cases is due tomorrow testing and may be not more infections if we show the data to the audience you can see that they fell very sharply throughout june and then once we hitjuly kind of

stabilises at around 25,000 people in homes in england infected in coronavirus. if you push ahead really close to the telly can see little writers and foals during july and august but release has been pretty that gives a dozen education thatis pretty that gives a dozen education that is not messed up by the value being a mobile testing van into a hot spot because this is a survey thatis hot spot because this is a survey that is testing people abandon the community that tells us infection is not the effect of testing have been doing that tells us that the rise in case we have been seeing is some of it is down to more testing. the number of infections we are seeing is not going down, not filing any more, but it is not shooting back up again so we are probably stabilising nationally. that is interesting nationally. that is interesting nationally because we are hearing restrictions of certain parts of the country, local restrictions. well three very different stories to tell, i think. three very different stories to tell, ithink. if three very different stories to tell, i think. if you live in wigan, rossendale or down when you have got good news because the restrictions

that are going to be lifted so you can now meet with people from outside your home —— or three. good news there. in northampton we have seen a massive spike but that is all due to an infection in one factory there and workers that their families are going to have to stay at home for three weeks, going to have to isolate and that is going to be legally enforced so it is a big intervention there but doesn't affect everyone in northampton, mainly the people working in a factory, and a different story again in oldham, in pendle and in blackburn where infections have been stubbornly high. you know, we have been seeing infection rates there in the 70s and 80s per 100,000 people. most, i mean three quarters of all local authorities in england wing of the uk have infection rates below ten per 100,000 so they have been very, very high for very long time and the announcement has been made that they can no longer socialise with people they don't live with still further tightening of restrictions are there because even

though cases have been going down there in recent days, just not by enough. robert croft there, the bbc‘s head of statistics. the bbc has announced the government will extend the ban on mental evictions in england and wales until the 20th september the charities shelter has warned that more than 2000 tenants are behind with their rent and could be —— are behind with their rent and could be -- 200,000 are behind with their rent and could be —— 200,000 tenants are behind with their rent and could be at risk of losing their homes. it is a fairly short extension, what's of the government been saying about this, nick? there has been considerable pressure over this on the government about this in previous weeks. a lot of homelessness charity is warning that quite frankly if you were to be introduced evictions this month it could lead to tens of thousands of people being flown out of their homes. the government did not look as if it was going to budge on this

frankly but they will confirm that the ban on evictions in england and wales is being extended until the 20th of september. that gives people some breathing space, although not everybody, because some people have already begun to look at moving home in the last few weeks, a head of the date which was due to be sunday. i think it is a sticking plaster, quite frankly. it is not a long—term solution. it is designed to get the government to the next few weeks. this place is supposed to come back in the 1st of september, so i suppose it gives mps a chance to debate and talk about potential medium or long—term solutions. it's not as long as the extensions that have been put in place in scotland and northern ireland. both of them have said that you won't be able to evict people until march. but it does, as i say, give that bit of breathing space and later this afternoon my understanding is that ministers will confirm the ban stays

in place on evictions until the 20th of september. all right, neck, thank you for now. a doctor treating the russian opposition activist alexei navalny has said no traces of poison have been found in his body. mr navalny is in a coma in hospital after collapsing during a flight from siberia to moscow. his supporters say he fell ill after a substance was added to his tea at the airport. his wife has written to president putin asking permission for him to be flown to germany for treatment. from moscow, here's sarah rainsford. alex in the valley was carried off his flight alex in the valley was carried off his flight unconscious. the russian opposition activist had collapsed in agony, forcing an emergency landing. so at the siberian hospital where he is still in a cobra anxious friends and family have gathered. best back ina coma. and family have gathered. best back in a coma. the family are convinced this was a deliberate attack, and

furious that doctors who tell them he is too unstable to be flown abroad for treatment. translation: we think it is done so that the chemicals they found disappear from his body. aleksei is not in a very good state, and of course we can't trust this hospital. we demand they give him to us, so we can take him to doctors we trust. they had called in this airambulance to doctors we trust. they had called in this air ambulance from germany. for now, it's in this air ambulance from germany. for now, its is standing by. the family want independent toxicology tests a nd family want independent toxicology tests and the best treatment but his russian medics insist that flying is too risky. they are still testing for toxins but say so far they have found nothing. translation: our main working diagnosis is a metabolic imbalance which may have been caused bya imbalance which may have been caused by a sudden drop in his blood sugar levels in the plane which could have caused him to lose consciousness. at

this point, doctors are doing everything possible to bring mr novelli out of his coma. mr navalny is the most effective challenger to bush power here. is the only opposition figure who can bring big crowds of protesters out onto the streets. he has been arrested and washed multiple times because of it but right now he is fighting for his life as his friends and family fight to find out what is happening to him. several entered, bbc news, moscow. we can speak now to sew andrew wood he was bitten's ambassador to moscow from 1995 to 2000. very good afternoon. when we hearfrom doctors at the hospital but no trace of poison have been found in his body, is that credible, do you feel? not very. whenever something like this happens the kremlin ensures that multiple stories go out, but they

are never responsible for anything, and that no traces of poison can ever be found because there weren't any. i think that is absolutely standard procedure and it is going through now. the dangerous thing about it is that one of their objectives, assuming there was poison, would be to ensure that it was never verified by any other foreign doctors, and they are keeping alexei navalny at the risk of his life as they refused to allow to fly him to germany, so i don't think in russia anybody believes this new version. in russia, people believe that he was poisoned. and not for the first time,, so that i rest my case really. and someone is prominent as navalny surely must have tried to take precautions all the time? i mean, he must have been

aware. . . the time? i mean, he must have been aware... he had spent time in prison, i mean he knew how vulnerable he was, surely? well, yes, but that doesn't stop successful poison is to get to work. the clearest example is that of anna... who also took tea on an aeroplane and lost consciousness within ten minutes. she did survive but then she was shot anyway. navalny has been attacked in this sort of way before including by the use of some substance, and that was excused on the grounds that he had allergic reactions to something. he has never had a history of allergic reactions to anything. so i see no reason this time to believe what is now being said. the doctors themselves of course are under considerable pressure. the hospital is stuffed well with... with police

and what they say is accountable to the regime as a whole. i think we can confuse ourselves by saying the word putin too often. i doubt whether putin gave a written order for any such thing to happen but he is responsible for a regime under which the sorts of things do happen quite regularly. are, and that is really interesting. you have anticipated my next question, because at what point then, assuming this was some form of state sanctioned poisoning, how fab does that go? hill actually, sanctioned poisoning, how fab does that go? hillactually, effectively, gives the go—ahead for that? —— how farup does gives the go—ahead for that? —— how far up does that go? nobody was order a poisoning of that nature without being sure that putin would approve of it, to put it like that. u nless approve of it, to put it like that. unless putin has no more power, which would be a bold assumption. and this is about crossing or

quashing descent that comes from. is this about sending out a message to anyone else who might be thinking about dissenting? well, yes, because there is quite a margin of dissent growing up in russia against putin, the most obvious example is the continuing protests in khabarovsk in eastern siberia against the arbitrary removal of their government because in effect he was too successful. it is partly as a result of the standing falsification of the popular vote on the consultation all changes which took place at the end ofjuly. there is no doubt at all that that was a false result and there is no doubt at all that what putin is trying to do is to research your his control over russia. his control over russia is at risk. —— the sixth year. given

that this specific circumstance that we are talking about today appears to be an internal event, is there anything that britain could or should do, or western democracies could or should do about this. i think the obvious to do is to treat russia, in a famous phrase, as it really is. not to pretend that it is run bya really is. not to pretend that it is run by a trustworthy and honest regime. i don't think there is anything direct we can do about it. the germans have sent in air ambulance, as they have done before, and that is a proper and good thing to do, but at the moment the kremlin is being pretty hypocritical in wishing alex a navalny a speedy recovery but preventing his leaving to go to germany or somewhere else where he can trust the doctors. sir

andrew wood, very good to hear your perspective. that is there and wood who was bitten's ambassador to moscow from 1995 to 2000. much more coming up in the next half an hour. time to pause and will catch up with the weather prospects. here is leah. widespread gales all tied into an area of low pressure that is anchored off the north—west of the uk. bringing some persistent rain into scotland and the strongest of the wind in the southern flank of that low, gusts likely to continue across england and wales. some of the rain heavy and persistent into scotland, frequent showers into northern ireland, north—west england and wales accompanied the dough might by gusts of wind in excess of 50 miles an hour which could lead to some disruption. hayes valley is a 24, the some disruption. hayes valley is a 2a, the air is still quite warm with us 2a, the air is still quite warm with us at 75 fahrenheit. the staff at

the weekend, however, we continue to see some showers, particularly into the north—west, drifting down into northern england and north wales. the wind is still a feature but not quite as strong and the temperature is not quite as high either. highest values in the afternoon of 15 to 22 degrees.

this is bbc news. the headlines: thousands of holiday—makers race to get back to the uk, before new quarantine rules come into force early tomorrow. people returning from places including croatia and trinidad will have to isolate for two weeks because of a rise in coronavirus cases. the sentences given to the three teenagers who killed pc andrew harper are referred to the court of appeal to assess whether they're too lenient. lockdown restrictions are tightened in oldham, blackburn and parts of pendle from midnight on saturday people

are told not to socialise with anyone from outside their household. the bbc understands the government is to extend the ban on rental evictions in england and wales until 20th september. and, taylor swift makes a student's wildest dreams come true the singer's donated £23,000 to an 18—year—old in the uk trying to raise enough money to go to university. we will be answering your questions about travel and quarantine in the next few minutes before that here is the sports news withjohn watson. good afternoon. england have lost two wickets since lunch on day one of the third

and final test with pakistan including that of captainjoe root. he had steadied the ship for england who were 12—1 before departing, but it's zak crawley who's pushed on, looking for a maiden test 50. he's on 67, ollie pope hasjust gone. england are 127—11. and lead 1—0 in the series and looking for a first series win over pakistan in ten years. those two wickets have certainly evened things up in blustery conditions down in southampton. manchester united say they're aware of an alleged incident involving captain harry maguire on the greek island of mykonos last night. our football reporter simon stone has more details. details are a little bit sketchy at the moment. we know harry maguire is on holiday in the greek island of mykonos, where he went after

manchester united's europa league defeat by sevilla last sunday. there are social media pictures of maguire out and about, now reports have emerged in greece of an incident involving british tourists last night which led to three people being arrested. manchester united have released a statement this morning saying they have spoken to maguire, who is co—operating fully with the greek authorities, but they are aware of the incident but are making no further comments at this time. the former barcelona forward henrik larsson is back at the nou camp after being appointed to ronald koeman's coaching staff. larsson — togther with former hoffenheim head coach alfred schreuder have signed deals until 2022 after koeman replaced quique setien who was sacked following barcelona's 8—2 champions league defeat to bayern munich. larsson spent two years at barca as a player, winning

the champions league, two laliga titles and the spanish super cup. play is under way on the second day of the women's open at royal troon. england's georgia hall — who won it in 2018 — is now into her second round. she had a double bogey on the second hole, and has dropped to three over par, that's four shots behind the leader, sweden's dani holmqvist. catriona matthew remains the leading brit, she teed off a short time ago and is on level par, two shots behind. the organisers of the london marathon have come from the fulfils for the men and women's event. mo farah as for the men and women's event. mo farah - as pacesetter race.