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it is a loss to everybody, because you've got the community, you've got the cafes and everything where people go and eat and drink and everything, so it is a big blow to us all. unlike other sports, football has been told it is rich enough to largely look after itself, but agreement is proving elusive. despite a lifeline for the national league tonight, for other clubs, time is running out. dan roan, bbc news. during the all—out lockdown earlier this year many local authorities introduced restrictions on cars to help social distancing for pedestrians and to encourage cycling. now there are plans to make some of the changes permanent. but as our home editor mark easton reports, feelings are running high on both sides of the debate. in south norfolk, there's a power struggle going on. amid the strangeness of the pandemic, the motorcar is having its dominance challenged. so what's the situation here? they've pedestrianised
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the road due to the virus. the thoroughfare of the ancient market town of harleston has provided almost free access to wheeled vehicles for over 1,000 years. not now. the need for social distancing has seen the council divert all but essential traffic around the high street, giving control of the public realm to pedestrians. i'm not anti—car or anti—trader. footfall is up. two new shops have opened in the last month. something's working here, but this isn't about extreme positions for or against the car, this is about everyone compromising and having market towns that are fit for the future, not stuck in the past. it's a scene repeated in high streets across the country, communities divided over whether emergency traffic restrictions to combat coronavirus should now become the new normal. no, i'm not happy. it's caused such upset in this town. people row on the streets about it. it's horrible. very happy about this!
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i really am, lam really, really positive about it and we're just getting busier. in london, fears that the virus will see people switch to cars rather than risk public transport are seeing councils now actively discourage driving. boroughs are also deterring car use by blocking scores of residential roads, creating what are called low traffic neighbourhoods, or ltns, with fines for anyone who defies the new rules. give us back our streets! there have been protests like this for a number of weeks now, a sign of the passions that lie behind an issue that some see almost as a culture war, a fight to be king of the road. if you want to drive a car, you should be allowed to choose if you want to drive a car. that's what roads are built for. it's all stress. everywhere you're going, it's a trafficjam. everywhere in hackney, there's traffic. people are very angry. people are angry, but there's a lot of other people who are very pleased
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as well, so it has split opinion. what always happens with these things... look, he'sjust gone straight through, this guy. well, he will get a fine and hopefully, he won't do it again. the virus is changing the way we have lived their lives. all certain things that are not certain any more, swifter century of urban pre—eminence, the carfinds itself ata pre—eminence, the carfinds itself at a crossroads. mark easton, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night.
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viewers it's time for us to have a look at the national and international from look at the national and internationalfrom pages in the pictures. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the director of thejohn smith centre and former leader of the scottish labour party, kezia dugdale and also matt dathan who's deputy political editor of the sun newspaper. tomorrow's front pages, starting with the telegraph says conservative rebels are on the brink of winning their fight for votes
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on covid restrictions after boris johnson was forced to apologise for not knowing the rules himself. the mirror says the prime minister's gaffe — when he was unable to explain new rules — sparked anger among two million in the north east who face fines if they break local restrictions. the daily mail says a million women have missed out on breast cancer screening as a result of lockdown. the huge backlog means the killer disease may have gone undetected in around 8,600 of them. the guardian goes with a warning from a government minister that whitehall has been "infantilised" by an "unacceptable" reliance on expensive management consultants — according to a leaked letter. the financial times says the home secretary, priti patel,
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asked officials to explore the construction of an asylum processing centre on ascension island, a british overseas territory more than 4,000 miles from the uk in the south atlantic for migrants coming to britain. in france, le figaro leads on fears for university students as they return to campus amid a rise in coroa nvirus cases. and the irish times goes with a warning from officials that people should prepare for another six months of covid—i9 restrictions, involving repeated waves of the virus. so, let's begin. shall we start with the mirror. a lot of papers and got these pictures of him scratching his head looking like a schoolboy this place is undone and in his suit sagging in all the wrong place. it still
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confused? it is clear that boris johnson was confused in this is a story that we are going to see across the papers and it's not the one that he wanted us to be talking about. this is the day with their unfailing the grand plan to increase the scale and uncapping the people going to college and the story is now, why does the prime minister not know the covid—i9 rules? it is a really boring message and its only adding to the fire of tory mps at the government of the pandemic. matt, giving them both barrels. prophetic pm cannot explain the rules. downing street must be disappointed that this whole thing has been hijacked by his one answer about how the rules are going to apply. a disastrous day and quite frankly it is the david journalist
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love, full of calamity and people make mistakes on the radio and tv stations and sadly, we are a global pandemic. in just hours, stations and sadly, we are a global pandemic. injust hours, minutes after he made that gaffe and sink exactly the opposite of what is in place in the northeast, he had to tweet his apology, admitting he got it wrong and coming out hours after the minister made exactly the same mistake but in a way, even worse because she excused yourself by saying, i do not represent the northeast. that is a gift to labour and all the opposition parties becomes to the next election. the tory government not represent your area. being able to work out, had he been briefed carefully on this matter, was this just one extra piece of information that he just couldn't quite recall at the last minute, or had no one actually toured and specifically with these new lockdown restrictions are going to involve? this is what is so
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extraordinary. after zone minister failed to explain the rules just hours before, you would think that his aides would've made sure he was fully briefed and it really exposes something much bigger and the calamity from boris johnson something much bigger and the calamity from borisjohnson but it really does expose something that was true of boris johnson and his apartments always painting a mess, someone apartments always painting a mess, someone who always makes these mistakes and he may well been briefed, and be surprised if he was not briefed over the details of the northeast restrictions of the very least and it well could've been something that he wasn't over himself. the local regions in the northeast, they had pushed for tighter lockdown and wanted more from the government several months ago and speaking to a few counsellors now or so ago saying they are disappointed that it had come so they are disappointed that it had come so late and delivered this care. come so late and delivered this ca re. let come so late and delivered this care. let us look at the telegraph because the same picture of him
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scratching his head. confusion overrules quickens tory revolt and interesting that according to one tory court here, the gap strengthens the argument for more policies scrutiny and so, the government is lost on both fronts. this will be called the brady amendment, the amendment, is not a natural rebel but it's really cutting to the forum what he wants is there to be greater parliamentary oversight votes of what they call secondary legislation in the details of bills at the moment during an urgent national emergency, the government is put through so much legislation with little scrutiny, no democratic processes around it and after six months of the pandemic, some tory mps really fed up with this and they wa nt to mps really fed up with this and they want to bring the issue back to the house of commons and say ok, some things are urgent and will at the prime minister get on with that, but somethings can be given such a
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little bit more time and if they have that scrutiny and accountability, then they would have the support of mps and we would not be in this difficult situation of the government finds itself in now. soa the government finds itself in now. so a day of confusion estes added new fuel to this campaign to and it's also in the telegraph that they wa nt it's also in the telegraph that they want this being hugely, forcing people into the streets, very u nsuccessful people into the streets, very unsuccessful and perhaps even increasing the speed of covid—i9. but matt hancock has offered her, are you clear on social media, suggesting that yes, they would be given scrutiny unless it was so important that it had to be enacted quickly that they would do it.|j spent most of the day myself trying to work out what was being agreed,
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offered between the health secretary and the tory rebels. the truth is, what we were told tonight is that they are still in talks about 7pm and talks are ongoing, no sign of no deal tonight and there is a meeting tomorrow morning we are told with the chief hammering out the final agreement. i think it all boils down to, getting into the weeds of the procedure, it falls to the government retrospectively on measures that come to force, but for mps, that is not enough. they want to say before they come under threat. but the same argument is, we do not, what we want to act swiftly, as you say but we do not want to hand the labour party and other opposition parties a mechanism by which they could tie the governments hands in the future. so, this is about the procedure and this time
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la st about the procedure and this time last year, the opposition parties used congregated parliamentary procedures over brexit and they fear the same may be used in the future but on this occasion, over covid—19. just below the confusion story here. ca re just below the confusion story here. care homes. facing long waits for test results as backlog grows and this is alarming. just talk us through how long some of these care homes are having to wait. this is deeply alarming and set against the backdrop of perhaps the greatest scandal of the pandemic which has been discharging patients from hospitals in the care homes of the tests right at the start of the pandemic and that has changed now. that would not happen. i think you have to have two negative tests for some to be discharged from hospitals in the care homes what is happening is the amount of time it's taken for these tests to come back is increasing in the report and the telegraph that on average it can
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ta ke telegraph that on average it can take three to seven days for a care home tests to come back and during that time, the person in the care home is in pretty much isolation. no contact from family and no kind of communication with the outside world and there's a real fear that people in care homes are asymptomatic and infected in the disease is spreading while this test results are waiting to come back and telegraphing one place in sheffield that we three weeks or test results. where are we on the test? the who, the white house yesterday announced this nasal rapid response test, millions of those being produced. are we still sticking with the saliva, the spit test here? do you know where we are? ido test here? do you know where we are? i do not know the exact details but behind the us and the european neighbours. the testing and testing saliva and swab test role without and a day by december, if not
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earlier, and obviously the moonshot target which is only about a couple weeks ago and announced to be running a 10 million a day and we can't even test care homes we are 1 million miles away from doing the moonshot test which before we go to the theatre. this would be politically devastating if the same problems occurred in care homes that we saw the start of the pandemic of this country. absolutely and the chief of care in consists we should be waiting minutes, not dates for these tests and with more than 16,000 deaths in care homes are ready, the government will not be forgiven by voters or anyone, really, if this lack of testing and ca re really, if this lack of testing and care homes leads to a further spike a real surgeon deaths in care homes. this is something that is notjust affecting england and the care home

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