this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm... south yorkshire is the latest region to move to england's top level of restrictions — local leaders in sheffield call for an exit plan the question is, at what point will come out of tier 3? no one's able to answer that question. even the mayor is asking that question and, well, the mayor should have asked that question when he was negotiating with the government for the last ten days. police in gloucestershire begin border patrols to stop nonessential travel as wales begins its first full day of a ‘firebreak‘ lockdown. headteachers in england say they're "bitterly disappointed" that the number of laptops they're given for deprived children has been cut by 80%. president trump casts his vote for the us election in the key state

i voted for a guy named trump. president trump casts his vote for the us election in the key state of florida, where early voting is under way. strictly‘s back — but it's all socially distanced and covid—safe and at 8:30 — how bury fc made it their mission to bring football back to their town, against massive odds. good evening — welcome to bbc news. millions more people are now living under the highest level of coronavirus restrictions in england as the number of cases continues to rise. just after midnight, around 1.4 million people in south yorkshire — including doncaster, rotherham, barnsley and sheffield — joined the tier 3 alert system. no household mixing is allowed and much of the hospitality industry has had to close.

with lancashire, greater manchester and the liverpool city region, it brings the total number of people in england subject to the tightest restrictions to over 7.3 million. the labour mayor of sheffield city region has urged the government to set out precisely how the area will exit the new restrictions. fiona trott reports. nervously watching, and waiting, for what happens next. these days, it's not so different in the human world. it's definitely made us think of where we go and what we do, as a family. we do a lot more outdoor things as opposed to indoor, just so we can be away from people. i think there's a lot of vulnerable people. that could be affected quite hugely by this, so i think if everyone does their part, the sooner we get it over and done with, the quicker we'll be on the other end, ithink. and, in the meantime, this wildlife park is a welcome distraction. but from today strict travel guidance means it can only rely on local people. but is it enough to keep it going?

looking forward, it's a really scary time for us, as you can imagine. all these wonderful animals that were entrusted into our care, we need to make sure they are kept safe and their welfare is not impacted by covid. it's important that people can come to us so the money keeps coming in so we can keep looking after these wonderful animals. how different it feels in the city centre. this pub has been forced to shut. very stressful. and sad. it's notjust the business that is at risk. dave lives here too, but he's still thinking of others. the customers miss us. we miss them. we usually do the shopping for some of them. we're going to be limited now because we can't go to their house. we'll have to leave it outside the door for them. which a lot of people do anyway. but that's the type of person we are. you know, we are a community. you just don't know if you're coming or going. it feels like the world's coming to an end slowly. it really does.

it should never have happened in the first place. we should have stayed in lockdown all them months ago. but for the next month it's about making the most of what they can do. it's just nice to come out and try and have, you know, family time, and a sense of normality, especially for little ones. while some are used to the cold weather, others are now embracing it — the new way to live life in south yorkshire. fiona trott, bbc news, doncaster. more than three million people in wales are being asked to stay mainly at home for the next 16 days after the country began a new national lockdown to try to slow the spread of coronavirus. supermarkets are still open but there's been confusion over rules banning the sale of nonessential items. our wales correspondent, tomos morgan, reports from caerphilly. there's a sense of deja vu in wales today. as the firebreak starts, the country is back under national lockdown for the next two weeks. caerphilly was the first area in wales to be put under strict local measures at the start

of september, meaning it's been illegal for households to mix and for people to enter or leave local lockdown areas without good reason. we need it. if it's going to stop the spreading, 0k, it might hurt the economy, but they're doing it for a reason at the end of the day. ithink, you know, six weeks of a lockdown, itjust seems like a long time, do you know what i mean? it just seems never—ending. the rules now are much like in march. all nonessential businesses have been closed. but, this time around, those that are open have been stopped by the welsh labour government from selling nonessential goods. the new rule, though, has sparked frustration and confusion. we've got things like hardware. there's a little bit of gifting, cards, all the usual things you'd expect to see in a supermarket, and, you know, i'm sure that's replicated up and down the country, so not only are we possibly not allowed to sell those going forward, it's how we would go about doing that. it's estimated that this firebreak could cost the welsh economy a further £500 million.

so what retailers, hospitality, cafe, bars and restaurants will want from the welsh government is a guarantee, or at least a strategy for reopening, so they can make some profits again in the run—up to christmas. tomos morgan, bbc news, caerphilly. earlier, i spoke to professor susan michie, who is a member of the government's scientific advisory group for emergencies — sage. she told me what criteria would be need to be monitored in order for restrictions to be eased. there are seven different things that need to be taken into account there are several different things that need to be taken into account when deciding which tier a particular region should be in. so there is the number of new case rates, the number of new infections each day, the number of tests that are actually positive of all the tests that are done. so we know something about the community incidents. we also need to know the rate of increase, how steeply is it going up?

and very importantly, what is the rate of transmission in over 60—year—olds? because this is the most vulnerable group of the population. they're the most likely to end up in hospital, and the key thing is to try and stop the nhs, the hospitals being overwhelmed. i think all of these things will be put together to try and estimate, given it takes two weeks or so from somebody getting the infection to potentially ending up in hospital — what occurrence transmission rates and the rate of increase mean in terms of what level of restrictions of contact between people need to be in place at any one time? but i think this needs to be communicated much more clearly to the population so they understand all the different factors that are going to be taken into account, they're kept updated regularly as to what the situation is, and they know who is going to take

the decision on what basis to bring them down from the tier 3 to the tier 2. we will talk about how things get communicated to the public in a moment, i just want to back—up a second if i can. you said, "i think are the criteria that will be used." that's, unfortunately, doesn't sound as emphatic as a lot of people would like. how clear is it what the criteria are going to be that the government is going to use? i'm not on the inside track of this, but i do watch and observe and listen very carefully, and i think this is one area where there needs to be more certainty, more clarity and more comunication. because i have listed the kind of criteria that one would need to take into account if one is going to think about "how do "we prevent the local hospitals being overwhelmed ? "

but one also has to take into account, "what is the state "of the local hospitals? "how much spare capacity have they got in their general wards, also in their icus, because a certain proportion of those who come into hospital end up nicu. of those who come into hospital end up in icus. what is their level of staffing like within the local hospitals? so, the different criteria i mentioned needs to also be taken into account with the faith of local hospitals. into account with the state of local hospitals. but we all would like to know exactly what are the criteria, exactly who's going to take the decisions on what basis. and then you mentioned the need to communicate all of this clearly and regularly to the public. at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in march and april, we were getting daily press conferences from a senior member of the national government. we don't have those now unless it's a particular reason to do so. how important do you think it is that we have a national and regional press briefings each day?

it's extremely important. when you look at those countries in the world that have done really well, and we shouldn't forget that there are many countries all over the world in several of the continents who are, you know, nearly back to normal because they've really done everything extremely well. one of the things they do extremely well is regular direct communication to the population from the government — informed by scientists. as you say, we no longer have that. this is really necessary for people to not only understand what they are meant to be doing, but why. what is the strategy? what is the planned? and where does their behaviour fit into this? professor susan mickey from the university college, london. the latest government figures show there were 23,012 new coronavirus infections recorded in the latest 2a hour period , which is a rise of nearly 2,500 cases on yesterday. 174 deaths were reported of people who have died within 28 days

of a positive covid—19 test. and that brings the total number of deaths across the uk to 44,7115 and we'll find out how the coronavirus pandemic — and many other stories — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guests joining me tonight are the broadcaster penny smith & the communications expert — iain anderson. the government's continuing to resist growing pressure to provide free school meal vouchers for children during next week's half term in england. local councils have joined many restaurants and cafes in offering to feed those who would otherwise receive free school meals, in response to a campaign by the footballer, marcus rashford. he's said he's overwhelmed and thankful for the support. the government has said it has provided substantial support to families facing difficulties. headteachers in england say they're "bitterly disappointed" that the number of laptops they're given for deprived children

has been cut by 80%. the government says the devices will be sent to the areas of greatest need. one school says it will receive 13 computers, rather than the 61 it was promised. we got an e—mail at six o'clock last night from the lovely guys at the dfe, at the start of half term which has been such a challenging, the most challenging half term probably on education record, celebrating the fact that the government had secured another 100,000 laptops but they were changing the way they were allocating them. so, excitedly i logged on to see if my allocation had gone up from 61 — i actually needed 168 — so i logged on expecting to hopefully see my 61 had gone up and it destroyed me. it flattened me when i seen that it's actually been cut to 13. 13 laptops for, in a worst—case scenario, to share amongst 380 children. i thought it was absolutely scandalous. mary bousted is the joint

general secretary of the neu teaching union — she called the department for education "inept and chaotic". just two weeks ago, the government wrote into law that if children are at home they have to be given remote education. they've made a huge point about online learning, so our calculations are from, you know, the government, there are now something like nearly half a million children and young people at home who either don't have access to the internet with a device which can support learning like a laptop or a tablet, and 60,000 don't have access to the internet at all. so, on the one hand, we have the government making it into law that, you know, remote learning must be provided, and then giving the directive with one hand and taking away the means to fulfil that directive, particularly for schools in poor areas with deprived pupils. that makes it, the requirement that they provide remote learning and takes away the means to do it. it's just another example of

the chaos and ineptitude surrounding this government's education policy. we did ask the department for education for an interview — no one was available but they did give us this statement. the headlines on bbc news... south yorkshire is the latest region to move to england's top level of restrictions — local leaders in sheffield

call for an exit plan police in gloucestershire begin border patrols to stop nonessential travel as wales begins its first full day of a "firebreak" lockdown. headteachers in england say they're "bitterly disappointed" that the number of laptops they're given for deprived children has been cut by 80%. the spread of the coronavirus in europe continues and new restrictions will be imposed in many countries to curb the infection rate. poland's president duda has tested positive for the virus, and is quarantining, he said in a video message that he has no symptoms. the country has imposed a partial lock down amid a record rise in covid cases. in spain ten of 17 regions have asked the central government for an emergency decree to limit people's movements in the country and give powers to impose curfews. meanwhile new daily records were seen in the czech republic, in germany, where the death toll has now surpassed 10,000 and in italy. here in the uk, more than

23—thousand cases were reported, up from friday's total. and from monday, in brussels, masks will be mandatory in all settings and a curfew will be enforced from ten in the evening until six in the morning. david campanale has this report. alarm bells are ringing right across europe. the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the czech republic, which has registered its worst daily figure yet for new infections — more than 15,000. over the past week, more people with the virus have died there, as a percentage of the population, than anywhere else in the world. but, for top health agencies, concern extends to all but a handful of eu countries. they have declared now to be a critical moment. too many countries are seeing an exponential increase in cases and that's now needing two hospitals and icus running close or above capacity and we are

still only in october. we urge leaders to take immediate action. a string of countries, including russia, poland, italy and switzerland, have again seen their worst daily figures yet for coronavirus infections. poland's second wave is far bigger than its first. their number of new cases is 22 times higher than the highest number of cases in the spring, and deaths there over the past 2a hours have been the highest since the pandemic began. with the president admitting to testing positive, poland has moved to impose the highest level of restrictions across the whole country. work is under way to set up temporary hospitals. 500 beds are being installed in the conference rooms of the country's biggest arena, warsaw's national stadium. translation: we have an exceptional situation this year. i call for visits to the cemetery and family reunions,

especially with the elderly, to be limited as much as possible. in spain, the government will consider on sunday whether to bring in a new state of emergency. just days after registering more than 1 million confirmed virus cases, their regions responsible for managing public health care have been heaping pressure on the government to give them the legal right to impose tighter restrictions. as in the first way the providers, the challenge is to ensure hospitals as in the first wave of the virus the challenge is to ensure hospitals everywhere are not overwhelmed. but there are increasing reports of intensive care units under severe strain. in one particularly hard—hit area area of belgium, liege, doctors have been likening the situation to trench warfare. in paris, a senior hospital administrator said the current second wave risks being worse than the first. second wave risksed being worse than the first. restrictions across europe are being tightened,

but many on the front line feel it's too little, too late. david campanale, bbc news. first minister of wales has been posting on twitter because, of course, now wales is in this fire break lockdown. he said that the welsh government will review how the weekend has gone with supermarkets and take sure that's common sense is applied to the ban on selling nonessential items during this fire break lockdown. he tweeted," thank you for all your efforts over the last 20 bars to stay at home. we know people are fed up." "it's not easy, but we all have a responsibly to stop the virus spreading." he he goes on to say... president trump has cast his vote in the upcoming us election. early voting has begun in the states

of new york and florida — where mr trump voted. coronavirus fears have driven a record 50 million american voters to cast early ballots, in person or by mail. it was a very secure vote. much more secure than when you send in a ballot, i can tell you that. everything was perfect, very strict. right by the rules. when you send in your ballot it could never be like that, it could never be secure like that, but they've done a fantasticjob over here, great people inside. but it's an honour to be voting, it's an honour to be in this great area, which i know so well. i hear we're doing very well in florida and we're doing very well, i hear, every place else, so thank you very much and you're going to be very busy today because we're going to work you hard. who did you vote for today? i voted for a guy named trump. laughter. thank you very much, everybody. donald trump's democratic challenger joe biden is making two stops in the battle ground state of pennsylvania today.

speaking at a drive—in rally in bucks county he attacked mr trump's record in the fight against covid—19. there's going to be a dark winter ahead unless we change our ways. experts tell us we're going to lose nearly another 200,000 lives nationwide in the next several months. all because this president cares more about the stock market than he does you. because he refuses to follow the science. it's estimated that if we just wore masks, just wore masks over the next few months, experts in his own administration say we'd save 100,000 lives. 35 of the uk's leading cultural organisations and venues will be the first to receive grants between one and three million pounds from the government's coronavirus culture recovery fund. the money is intended to protect some of the nation's most significant stages including newcastle theatre royal, birmingham hippodrome and sha kespeare's globe.

margaret casely—hayford is the chair of the board of trustees for sha kespeare's globe — she said she was delighted and grateful to have been awarded 2.98 million pounds. (sot even though we've been really prudent, we'd trimmed our costs dramatically — well, not trimmed, we'd cut them dramatically — we had basically chomped through our reserves, and we were basically in a desperate state. so it really is vital, and i can't say how much of lifeline it is, because, essentially, we are going to have to think long and hard about how we prepare to reopen in due course when we can open, because we don't have state funding. and i don't think many people realised that before we started to make our case to the dcms, that we are independently funded. if we don't open, we don't have any revenue, so as soon as lockdown hit, that was it.

that was the end of our revenue. so it's been a very tough time for us. margaret casey—heyford from sha kespeare's globe. during the last few months, many of us have probably wished we could escape into a fantasy world. now, a museum in oxford is letting families do just that. the story museum was due to reopen in april but the pandemic forced it to postpone. today it finally reopens its doors — fiona lamdin reports. this is...a magical place. in this whispering wood with a flick of the wand the trees tell you a tale. my favourite tree is the one with a sword in it because it looks ancient and it's really cool. it makes you feel like you're really in a wood. next you can step into eight storybooks in the enchanted library. here in winnie the pooh's hundred acre wood you can play poohsticks. i've now fallen down into alice's rabbit hole but the only way out is with the golden key.

and if you push through the fur coats at the back of the wardrobe you will find yourself in cs lewis's narnia. and next door you will find horrid henry in his bedroom. i like this room because it's so free and you can really be a child again here. oh, it's so much fun. definitely the fart bed is my favourite, definitely brought back so many memories of when i used to read horrid henry. it's magical because you're stepping into a scene that until now has existed in your head and on the pages of a book. alongside the classics, the last story in this enchanted library, the art of being normal, was chosen by children in oxford. so walking through here there's loads of authors i read as a kid, stories that were important to me like narnia and the snowman and then i've got philip pullman next door and then there's my book, which feels very surreal.

i think a lot of young people now are having conversations about gender identity. it's not binary any more, it's not male and female and i feel really proud and pleased that the story museum have incorporated a room and a book that explores those sorts of issues. and their parents seem just as excited. so we really want to do something special and because we cannot have halloween, we can't go trick or treating, we want there to be something that's really unusual and out of the ordinary for her and this is just the bee's knees. it's such a relief after such uncertain times, staying home for very, very long, it's an amazing feeling. they have spent the last two years redeveloping the museum and were just about to reopen when covid stopped them. financially it was pretty catastrophic, i can't say there weren't several do or die moments where i got to a monday and thought, not sure how we will get to friday

but we are here by the skin of our teeth. do you feel safe now? we will get there. like the best story there has been some jeopardy but we have got some plucky protagonists, they're very clear on their quest, we have had a couple of fairy godparents step out of the wings to help us on our way and we are heading towards a happy ever after. but takings will still be down. instead of 600 they can now only take 100, but at least the next chapter of this story can finally begin. ben rich has the weather. good evening. don't forget the clocks go back and hour during tonight. you'll get an extra hour in bed, but it does mark the end of british summer time, but as far as the weather goes, it feels as if we've left summer a long way behind. very autumnal weather to take us through tonight, heavy rain continuing its journey eastwards across england, clipping into scotland for a time, plenty of showers following on behind, although there will be some clear spells. the winds easing a bit compared

with the daytime today but it stays quite blustery, temperatures generally between 4 and 10 degrees, and then for tomorrow, a blustery day with a mix of sunny spells and heavy showers. the showers most plentiful across western areas, so through western scotland, northern ireland, north—west england, wales and the south—west. some will also blow in from the english channel into southern counties of england. further north and east, north—east england, eastern scotland may well avoid most of the showers and stay predominatly dry with some sunny spells. it's a windy day for all, and a fairly cool one with top temperatures between 10 and 1a degrees.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines: south yorkshire is the latest region to move to england's top level of restrictions — local leaders in sheffield call for an exit plan. the question is at what point will become of tier 3? no one is able to answer that question. even the mayor now is asking that question, well, he should have asked that question when he was negotiating with the government for the last ten days.

police in gloucestershire begin border patrols to stop non—essential travel as wales begins its first full day of a ‘firebreak‘ lockdown. the first minister of wales thanks people for their efforts in staying at home and says ‘we all have a responsibility to stop the virus spreading.‘ headteachers in england say they're "bitterly disappointed" that the number of laptops they're given for deprived children has been cut by 80%. i voted for a guy named trump. president trump casts his vote for the us election in the key state of florida, where early voting is underway. strictly‘s back — but it's all socially distanced and covid—safe. now on bbc news, when bury fc collapsed last august 2019, a group of locals made it their mission to bring football back to their town — against massive odds. bury fc is one of the oldest clubs in english football. cheering but in august 2019, it was expelled from the football league.

we were heartbroken. bury till i die! just gutted. one group of fans decided to do something about it. i want my kids to be able to grow up with a football club. come hell or high water this is, you know, it's the right thing to do. we would kick ourselves if we didn't. this is bury. with complete access for 12 months, we see what it really takes to build a football club. it's the most stressed i've ever been. it was a dream. you know, it's now becoming a reality. we are very impressed with the candidates. we're too nice. not getting paid anywhere near as much as the premiership players. everyone here is doing it for the love of it. i know we didn't, but we've got to say we did... with divisions in the fan base... thieves, looters. ..and in a year where football has faced its biggest crisis...