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the organisers awarded him honorary third place and the same £250 prize money as teagle. i suppose itjust shows, like, massive integrity and, you know, great sportsmanship and, you know, i think people have really taken it to heart. it has gone all over the world and it is incrediblejust to see that and people valuing that sportsmanship. nice to have some good news. let's have a look at the weather. i'm not sure how good that is going to be. here is chris. it will be as good as i can make it. this morning we had low clad, mist and fog. that has cleared to leave stunning blue skies. this was western cornwall earlier this morning. these blue skies are pretty widespread. make the most of it because as we transition to the autumn equinox tomorrow, we will get colder conditions edging in. temperatures starting off well in the 20s, we have much colder weather spreading
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as we head towards the middle part of the week and beyond. eventually, we get northerly winds dropping the temperatures. towards the end of the week, it will be much cooler and particularly in brisk northerly winds. this afternoon, it is dry with sunshine for most of us, a last patch in the thames extra. cardiff and northern ireland, cardiff and north—west scotland, a little rain here for the hebrides and orkney and shetland as well. overnight, the area of rain gets a little heavier, more intense as it slips into the highlands. further south, clear skies initially but mist and fog likely to form. it could get murky in the midlands. low cloud, mist and fog taking most of the morning to them and break and eventually we will get sunshine. at the same time, across the north west, a band of rain moving in and the rain will be accompanied with strong winds for northern ireland, scotland and the
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far north of england. top temperature is 26 celsius in the sunshine in east anglia. tuesday night, the band of rain and cold front continues to push southwards and as it does so, we will see the first signs of colder air arriving in scotland and northern ireland with temperatures dropping into single figures. tuesday night, not so—called for england and wales for the most part, 12 to 15 celsius. the cold i will continue to work southwards into wednesday. cloud and rain on the way for england and wales and an area of low pressure will develop over eastern areas. the rain heavy, quite slow moving and intense across eastern parts and it will become windy late in the day. where for scotland and northern ireland, mostly dry with sunshine but feeling much cooler, temperatures around 12 or 13 celsius. thursday and beyond, the cooler weather spreads to all parts of the uk. notice it will be quite showery and there will be some brisk winds as we end the week which will knock the edge of the temperatures.
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if you are anything like my house, that sets up a battle for the thermostat between me and my mrs. you might have a similar thing by the end of the week as it turns colder. a little too much about your private life there, chris, but thank you very much. this is the bbc news at one. this is the bbc news at one. a reminder of our top story... the government's top scientific advisers have warned the uk could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid—october — unless rapid action is taken to curb infections. you cannot in an epidemicjust take your own risk, unfortunately you are taking a risk on the health of everybody else. it is important we see this as something we have to do collectively. that is all from the bbc news at one. we nowjoin the bbc news bbc news at one. we nowjoin the bbc n ews tea m bbc news at one. we nowjoin the bbc news team is where you are. for me, a very good afternoon. hello, i'm jane dougall with your latest sports news. it was an outstanding performance overnight
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from the american bryson dechambeau who can now call himself a major champion after winning the us open at winged foot in new york. the course is notoriously difficult, but dechambeau made it look easy — finishing a full six shots ahead of the rest of the field. he's widely known as the scientist because he studied physics at university and uses that knowledge to tinker with his game. dechambeau's also massively bulked up recently so he can hit the ball further, and it's really paid off. i think i'm definitely changing the way people think about the game now. whether you can do it, it's a whole different situation. there is going to be a lot of people that are going to be hitting it far. there's a lot of young guns that are unbelievable players, and i think that this generation, the next generation, coming up in golf, hopefully will see this and go, "hey, i can do that, too." there was a great win, too, for britain's georgia hall — she took the portland classic on the lpga tour. hall needed a couple of play—off holes to get over the line,
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but it's a significant victory, as it's her first in the united states. queens park rangers' director of football, les ferdinand, says the message behind taking a knee has been lost. the qpr and coventry city players didn't take a knee before their game in the championship on friday — the first time it's happened in a televised match since football restarted in june. ferdinand says the taking of a knee has "reached a point of good pr but little more than that", adding that taking the knee will not bring about change in the game — actions will. manchester city have confirmed that midfielder ilkay gundogan has tested positive for covid—19. the club say he'll self—isolate for ten days, in accordance with government guidelines. it means gundogan will miss three matches for manchester city, including tonight's premier league game away at wolves. he's also likely to be left out of thursday's carabao cup match against bournemouth and sunday's game against leicester city.
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premier league champions liverpool beat chelsea in a comfortable 2—0 victory yesterday. sadio mane scored both goals, but the second involved another mistake from chelsea goalkeeper kepa arrizabalaga. the club are thought to be close to signing another goalkeeper, and speaking on match of the day 2 alan shearer said kepa looks to have lost his confidence. they've got no chance of winning the title with him in goal, unfortunately, because his confidence is shot. i actually feel sorry for him, and i'm slightly surprised that frank, after last week — because he should have saved one last week at brighton — and i thought, to try and protect the club's investment, he'd be better off not playing him. that he'd be better off not playing him. ball hasjust that he'd be better off not playing him. ball has just goi you that ball has just got to go there. you are under pressure anyway. just get rid of it, trying to play out. superb from mane again, i know that.
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but his shot has gone to pieces and, asi but his shot has gone to pieces and, as i said, i'm surprised frank is playing him. england women start their t20 series against the west indies in derby this evening. it's the first time they've played international cricket since march because of the pandemic. captain heather knight says it's been a long time coming, and is pleased that one of the games will be free to air. they reach the bbc can give is slightly different, so that's hugely exciting. to have that slot on a saturday is great and hopefully we can go out. inspire some young girls. it's such an important thing to do, that visibility, and women's sport hasn't been as visible this summer sport hasn't been as visible this summer because of the pandemic so i think it's hugely important that women's sport continues to be visible and people are able to see it. looking forward to that. that is your sport. i'll have more for you in the next hour. boris johnson will update mps
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on the covid—19 situation tomorrow, amid mounting expectation that he will announce new measures to curb the spread of the virus. the prime minister's statement comes on a day when he will also chair cabinet and a cobra meeting. it follows a live televised briefing by the uk government's most senior scientific and medical advisers, who have warned there could be 50,000 cases of coronavirus a day by mid—october — and 200 deaths a day in november — if the current rise in infections continues unabated. they said if the uk does too little then the virus will become out of control. at the moment, we think that the epidemic is doubling roughly every seven days. it could be a little bit longer, maybe shorter, but roughly every seven days. if — and that is quite a big if — but if that continues unabated and this grows, doubling every seven days, then what you see, of course... let's say there were 5,000 today, it would be 10,000 next week,
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20,000 the week after, 40,000 the week after. by mid october, if that continued, you would end up with something like 50,000 cases in the middle of october per day. 50,000 cases per day would be expected to lead a month later — so the middle of november — to 200 plus deaths per day. so this graph, which is not a prediction, is simply showing you how quickly this can move if the doubling times stays at seven days. and of course the challenge therefore is to make sure the doubling time does not stay at seven days. there are already things in place which are expected to slow that. and to make sure we do not enter into this exponential growth and end up with the problems you would predict as a result of that. that requires speed, it requires action and it requires enough in order to be able
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to bring that down. one final word on this section. so, as we see it, cases are increasing, hospitalisations are following. deaths unfortunately will follow that, and there is the potential for this to move very fast. a word on immunity. next slide, please. when people have an infection, the vast majority of people get an antibody response, and we know that some of those antibodies are so—called neutralising antibodies. they do indeed protect against the virus. we also know that they fade over time, and there are cases of people becoming reinfected. so this is not an absolute protection, and it will potentially decrease over time. what we see is that something under 8% of the population have been
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infected as we measure the antibodies, so about 8% — so 3 million or so people — may have been infected and have antibodies. it means the vast majority of us are not protected in any way and are susceptible to this disease. there may be other forms of protection that increase that number a little bit, other parts of the immune system. but it does mean the vast majority of the population remain susceptible and therefore you would expect spread throughout them. the number of people with antibodies is a little higher in the city, is a little higher in the cities, and it may be as high as 17% in london. that may confer a little slowing of spread but not much more than that. the uk government's chief medical adviser, professor chris whitty explained how increasing personal risk also increases the risk for the wider population. if i increase my risk, a lot of people say, "well,
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can't people just be allowed to take their own risk?" the problem with a pandemic infection like this is if i as an individual increase my risk, i increase the risk to everyone around me and then everyone in contact with them. sooner or later the chain will lead to people who are vulnerable or elderly. or have a long—term problem from covid. so you cannot in an epidemic just take your own risk. unfortunately, you are taking a risk on behalf of everybody else. it's important we see this as something we have to do collectively. there are broadly four things we can do over the next peiod to get on top of this. the first of which is reducing our individual risk, and this is around the things we all know about — hands, face and space, washing hands and using masks in enclosed environments, public transport and so on — and also in particular having space between people whenever we can achieve it — especially when indoors.
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the second group of things are things we can do to isolate the virus. so if people have symptoms they must self—isolate and we must find their contacts so they can isolate, and people who have travelled from high—risk areas should also isolate. this means they are taking, on behalf of society, a big step forward to keep the virus out of circulation whilst they are still infectious. this is a critical part of the response. the third one — and in many ways the most difficult — is that we have to break unnecessary links between households because that is the way in which this virus is transmitted. this means reducing social contacts, whether they are at work — and this is where we have enormous gratitude to all of the businesses who work so hard to make their environment covid—secure to reduce the risk — and also in social environments. we have to try to do this
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in the least damaging way, but we all know we cannot do this without some significant downsides. this is a balance of risk between if we don't do enough the virus will take off, and at the moment that is the path we are clearly on. if we do not change course, we will find ourselves in a very difficult problem. labour's health spokesman jonathan ashworth says the government must take some responsibility for the increase. this is clearly a very serious concerning moment. the virus is increasing, it appears to be doubling every seven or eight days. but we didn't have to be here. if the government had spent the summer fixing the testing regime, tracing contacts and giving support to people to isolate, we could have avoided this increase in the virus. so if we do face a second wave, it's because ministers didn't take the advice to fix testing in recent weeks.
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four more counties in south wales will be placed under a local lockdown, following what the welsh government describe as a worrying and rapid rise in coronavirus cases. the health minister vaughan gething made the announcement at the daily goverment briefing. the rise in cases in bridgend, blaenau gwent, merthyr tydfil and newport means we have today made a difficult but necessary decision to introduce local restrictions in all of these areas to protect people's health and to prevent the spread of coronavirus. these measures will be the same as those that are already in place across rhondda cynon taf. they will come into force from 6pm on tuesday and will apply to everyone living in bridgend county borough, blaenau gwent, merthyr tydfil and newport. the restrictions mean people will not able to leave or enter those areas without a reasonable excuse such as travel for work or education. people will only be able to meet
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outdoors for the time being. people will not be able to meet members of an extended household indoors, or to form an extended household for the time being. all licensed premises in these areas will have to close at 11pm. everyone over the age of 11 must wear face coverings in indoor public places, as in the rest of wales. we will also be extending the requirement for all licensed premises to close at 11pm to caerphilly county borough area, following a request from local partners in gwent for such action. it means it is easier to understand what you can and can't do on any of the areas subject to local restrictions because the rules will now all be the same. nicola sturgeon has said that additional restrictions will almost certainly be put in place in scotland within days. speaking in her daily briefing in edinburgh, the first minister said that doing nothing to stop the spread of coronavirus was not an option. because of our collective efforts
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over the summer which suppressed the virus to very low levels, we are in a much stronger position than we would otherwise be in. it is important not to forget that. those collective efforts meant many other people who might otherwise have succumbed to this virus didn't get it, and therefore we collectively saved a lot of lives. however, with the virus on the spread again in scotland, across the uk, across europe, and indeed still accelerating in much of the world, doing nothing in the face of this rapid spread now is not an option. i know that the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for england have just given a televised briefing, and gregor and jason may touch more on the data later on, but we would endorse the overall message that was being conveyed by patrick vallance and chris whitty. in scotland, as across the uk, the r number, which, remember, is the number of people who will on average be infected by one infectious person,
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is again above one. when that happens we know that the virus will begin to spread again. the percentage of tests returning positive results has been increasing and you will have heard that through our daily reports for the last few days. at the weekend it was above 5% across the country. today, with the usual caveat about single day figures, it is 6.3%. in some health boards it is even higher than that. in addition new cases are not confined now to specific clusters, they are happening across scotland, and in particular across mainland scotland, and we must take all of this very seriously. of course, on the other side of this equation, the number of cases is not yet rising as quickly as it was in the spring, and the percentage of positive tests, while rising, is nowhere near as high as it was back then. in those days it was 20% or thereabouts. in addition we are not yet seeing
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an increase in hospital admissions on anything like the same scale that we saw back in the spring. and that is partly because the highest proportion of new cases in recent weeks have been in people under the age of a0. however, we know that transmission in the community cannot rise indefinitely without it starting to increasingly affect older people too. we are now seeing an increase in the number of people admitted to hospital and intensive care, albeit from a fairly low level. and if the number of new cases continues to rise, that rise will continue as well, and unfortunately we will also see the number of people dying increasing too. in fact in many ways, as i indicated on friday, the position scotland is now in is similar to the position that, for example, france might have been in around four weeks ago. and we don't want to reach the position france is in now with case levels four times higher than in scotland, and with significant numbers of people now in hospital, in intensive care,
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and with deaths rising. nicola sturgeon. universities are welcoming students on campus for the first time since lockdown. social distancing is in place but the movement around the uk is causing concern. forjodie. .. i was so sure it wasn't going to fit in. and forjosh and nathan... today is independence day. their first day of a new life in leeds. oh, i can't wait. instead of counting down for it for three months, i've been counting down for it for six ever since our exams got cancelled, so ijust can't wait for it to really get started now. i've been waiting for years for this! you want to get rid of him? that's it! no, we will miss him...| think. really excited, yeah. she's going to hopefully do well. how many people will you be living with? i just live with three others. the problem is, they're your bubble now. mm. what if you don't get on with them? i have a group chat with them already, i'm already chatting with them, it's going to be ok.
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it's going to be ok! when they're that age, they're just eternally optimistic, aren't they, so... there are nearly 40,000 students moving in to leeds this week, a city which hasjust recorded its best ever increase a city which hasjust recorded its biggest ever increase in covid infections. for families like these, there are more than the usual worries as they prepare to wave their kids off. yeah, there's a little bit of concern but they seem to have a lot of things in place around here which are safety oriented. you're reassured by that? yeah, i think it's pretty reassuring, yeah. could do with having a bit more teaching time but i don't know whether that's going to happen. it's a bit annoying because it's harder to meet people if you're trying to meet people in a course, you can't go to lectures and sit next to new people. sebastian's mum says she's packed all the essentials. hand gel, lots of masks everywhere we go, as you can tell, he's not wearing a mask. laughs. so much of what happens now will depend on students following all the rules and regulations. mohammed tells me the council is working with bars and pubs to make sure they police their venues.
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people have been given information and if somebody isn't obviously doing their bit, isn't playing their part, then we could actually take further action which could actually lead to closure of the premises. the worry isn'tjust about what happens in bars and pubs but in homes and halls. aston tells me most students are complying. yes, obviously been impacted by the new rule with six people, so you can't really plan to do big things, you have to keep it quite low—key. more than 19,000 fines have been issued for non—covid compliance so far. david says bars like his won't be the problem. i'd like to think everybody will be really on it. normally at this time of year, you would get house parties on in every house on every street within probably a mile radius of us. any so far? there's certainly been a few. getting infection rates back down requires everyone to act. matt hancock yesterday warned, follow the covid rules or they will get tougher.
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there are calls for more targetted care for asian and black families living with dementia. one area of interest is music therapy which has been shown to ease symptoms of the condition. and to mark world alzheimer's day — the bbc has created a catalogue of world music to help people from all cultures living with the condition. bbc asian network's shabnam mahmood has more. mama, do you like music? music. i realised she was feeling quite low and not really responding. she was almost shutting down, like she didn't want to remain on this earth. i thought, let's play some music for her. and i immediately saw the difference. listening to an old bollywood song brings back happy memories for sajitha choudhury who was diagnosed with dementia four years ago. the majority of the services we get, it is more generic, isn't it? so it is like a one size fits all. any other music she would probably enjoy but not as much.
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dementia charities in the uk recognise the need for a more tailored support for people from ethnic minority backgrounds and their families. many of whom are still battling with the stigma around the condition. there is no word for dementia in any of the main south asian languages. using music, it might not help somebody get well. but it takes that individual back to something that they've enjoyed. before the pandemic, this group in leeds met weekly for their music class. now they are relying on zoom for a singalong. joining them today is music artist naughty boy, whose mum also has dementia. thank you, mummy. there were a few ladies in the zoom call that reminded me of mum. whenever mum hears a song or sings it's like a firework. she sings. i can't help mum physically but spiritually i can help her every day because i love music.
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i make music. he is now supporting the launch of a project by the bbc called world service music memories. it's a collection of songs from around the world to help everyone living with dementia. it showcases how important culture is. i'm proud to say i'm british. but at the same time i have to respect where my parents came from. for abida, having a personalised playlist of her mum's favourite songs is vital to her dementia care. even though mum was in the uk in the ‘60s, so whatever the music was in the ‘60s isn't that strongly linked to her as her bengali or indian music is, you know, because that's what she grew up with. that's what she identifies with. the music represents happy times. nice? shabnam mahmood, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather.
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hello. most of us have sunny skies to look forward to through the rest of the day today. this was earlier on. clear blue skies in west cornwall. looking at the weather over the next few days, though we have sunshine today things will take a turn stop it will turn much cooler as we head towards the middle part of the week. temperatures well up into the 20s today and for some of us into the 20s today and for some of us tomorrow. as we head through the autumn equinox and into the middle pa rt autumn equinox and into the middle part of the week we see the colder airarriving, part of the week we see the colder air arriving, northerly winds and, by the end of the week, temperatures much lower. just 9 degrees for some in scotland, around 1a to parts of south—east england. enjoy the warmth while it lasts. you can see the extent of the sunshine through the rest of the day today. while cloud across the north west and for the scottish islands, particularly into shetland. some fairly persistent outbreaks of rain here. top temperatures 2a, 25 across eastern england. overnight, outbreaks of
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rain turn heavierfor a time england. overnight, outbreaks of rain turn heavier for a time across northern areas of scotland and the rain edging into the highland as well as a go for the night. further south, if you mist and fog patches to watch out for across england and wales with poor visibility and low cloud to start the day on tuesday. for many, it will brighten us a day goes by but we will see more rain affecting the north—west of scotland and three tuesday afternoon it will become windy over to the east of the pennines and generally for northern ireland and scotland, quite a blustery day three tuesday. top temperatures 26 degrees across east anglia, still feeling warm. however, this cold front is going to be pushing eastward through tuesday night and this will really start to drop temperatures. three tuesday night, we will see cooler air arriving across scotland and northern ireland. england and wales at this stage still relatively mild with temperatures around 12 to 15 degrees. into wednesday, colderair will continue to swing in. for
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scotla nd will continue to swing in. for scotland and northern ireland, a fine day on wednesday with sunshine. outbreaks of rain for england and wales and on this where front we expect an area of low pressure to develop, so the rain is slow to move away from eastern england and it could turn windy later in the day. i've not cleared through, we will be left with a mixture of sunshine and showers but much cooler conditions across the whole of the uk.
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this is bbc news, i'm simon mccoy. the headlines: a second wave of coronavirus — the country's top scientists say failure to act could lead to 50,000 cases a day by the middle of next month. you cannot just take you cannotjust take your own risk, u nfortu nately you cannotjust take your own risk, unfortunately you're taking a risk on behalf of everyone else. it is important we see this as something we have to do collectively. boris johnson will update mps on the situaiton tomorrow amid mounting expectation that he will announce new measures to curb the spread of the virus. the secret banking reports that reveal how the uk is a hub for international money laundering. and the leaked documents show the husband of a conservative party donor who got to play tennis with top tories received millions from an ally of president putin. the ultimate in sportsmanship — the spanish triathlete who stopped at the finish line to let a british rival through
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