ten o'clock in the morning, i can phone reg. two o'clock in the afternoon, i can phone brian, at the home. i never thought that i would do this, never in a million years, but i'm thankful i've done it now. we're not strangers now, we're all friends, you know? "oh, it's ron. "it's all right, love, it's ron, my mate", when you get on the phone, you know, and you think to yourself, "oh, that's ok, that is", and it is a wonderful feeling, there's no doubt about it. i hope it lasts a lot longer, i do. a heart—warming story there. time for a look at the weather. here's sarah keith—lucas. much of november has been very mild so much of november has been very mild so far but we have a brief coder interlude in the weather not lasting too long. this is the picture in the isle of wight with a lot of blue sky but there are also some showers around as well which will be

gradually easing as we had to this afternoon but there is still quite a cold wind making things feel colder than they are. a ridge of high pressure building on from the west but the wind is rotating around that coming from a north—westerly direction so particularly brisk winds around eastern parts of scotla nd winds around eastern parts of scotland and eastern england and flood warnings with high tide combined with these winds. most area staying largely dry through the afternoon. the brisk staying from the north and higher gusts than that and temperatures lower than in recent days across the board but they will feel cold when you add on they will feel cold when you add on the wind chill particularly for the likes of aberdeen. a sub—0 feel to the weather. some snow flurries in scotland. most places dry particularly for the first half of the night. later tonight the next area of cloud and rain that sent so

vainfor area of cloud and rain that sent so vain for western fringes of britain. in eastern britain the temperatures will fall lowest with perhaps an icy stretch around. tomorrow will feel different to today. milder air from the south—west bringing all the slide. best band of rain will be pushing from west to east followed by further showers so a bit of a great feel to the data model and dampfor great feel to the data model and damp for most of us but temperatures will be back in double figures. towards the weekend, changeable is going to be the word. we have this cold front pushing further south on saturday, quite windy conditions for the north—west of the uk would further showers. cloud and rain stinking further south through the course of saturday. temperatures not as as today. ten to 14 degrees for most on saturday. into the second half of the weekend it looks like the cold front may linger in the side so a little bit cloudier for

parts of southern england and wales and most other areas not a bad day on sunday. they will be some sunshine and still some blustery showers. temperatures a little cooler on sunday compared to saturday but watch out for those fairly chilly conditions especially in the east overnight tonight. a reminder of our top story... more positive news about a coronavirus vaccine — the oxford team says its research is showing good results so far. that's all from the bbc news at one — so it's goodbye from me — good afternoon. it's 1:30pm and here's your latest sports news. hello, i'm john watson live from the bbc sport centre. we'll have breaking news from the premier league in a moment,

but first to the government's £300 million emergency funding package that's been announced for sports impacted by the absence of crowds due to the pandemic. of that sum, just under half has gone to rugby union, £135 million, with £59 million to premiership clubs, £44 million to the rfu, and the rest between championship clubs and below. the funding will largely be made up of loans. here's how the rest breaks down. £40 million goes to horse racing, while the premier league and english football league clubs miss out, with both parties still to agree on a separate deal between them. £28 million goes to those in the national league and women's football. rugby league will get £12 million as a top—up to the existing loan they have. owners of major motorsport circuits, such as silverstone and goodwood, get £6 million. the lta get £5 million. netball, basketball and ice hockey will benefit with £4 million. half that figure goes to badminton england and greyhound racing

will get £1 million. cricket is another sport to miss out. we promised to stand by them when we made the decision to postpone the return of fans, so today i am pleased to announce a £300 million sports winter survival package to see major spectator sports through this very difficult period. the majority of this funding will be given through low interest loans with flexible repayment terms, with gra nts with flexible repayment terms, with grants where organisations are unable to repay loans. this package will focus on those sports severely impacted by the restrictions announced in september, and is the largest announced by any government for its domestic sports sector in the world. football, and manchester city manager pep guardiola has signed a two—year contract extension that will keep him at the club until the summer of 2023. his current deal was set to expire at the end of this season. guardiola has won eight trophies sincejoining the club four years ago,

including two premier league titles, and led the club to an unprecedented clean sweep of all domestic titles in 2019. football's world governing body, fifa, could impose transfer bans on clubs who don't meet their new rules around maternity cover. players will be entitled to at least 14 weeks of maternity cover on at least two thirds of their salary. it is less than what uk law outlines but has been described as "an essential step" for the sport in protecting female players. the proposed regulations need approval next month. after making history last weekend by equalling michael schumacher‘s record of seven world titles, lewis hamilton's been speaking about the critics who predicted he'd never make it in the sport. in an exclusive interview with the bbc, he says he plans to remain with mercedes and endeavour to make the sport more diverse. he's been speaking to my colleague, sally nugent.

i remember as a kid adults, teachers, parents of other drivers and youngsters telling me that i would not make it, you are not good enough, there is no way you are going to make it, go back to your country, all these horrible things, andi country, all these horrible things, and i remember, i'm going to prove you wrong! really, the message was for all the kids out there who might feel that they don't have a voice, might be dreaming something or want to dream big. what's next? i would love to stay. i still feel young and energised and hungry. it is crazy as i have won my seventh title, but we have another big fight to win, and thatis have another big fight to win, and that is for racial equality across the board. and diversity within my sport, which i thought would have shifted just by my being there and i realise that's not the case.

the grandson of former england cricketer ian botham will make his debut for wales this weekend. cardiff blues flanker james botham will start in saturday's autumn nations cup game against georgia. he was only called up to the squad on monday, as head coach wayne pivac makes 13 changes to the side that lost last weekend — their sixth straight defeat. fly—half george ford will start on the bench for england's match with ireland, as he returns from injury. head coach eddie jones is maintaining captain owen farrell at 10 while maro itoje, tom curry, sam underhill, mako vunipola and kyle sinckler return to the starting 15. ollie lawrence will make his second england start in an unchanged back line from the 40—0 win over georgia. and, in the women's side, fly—half katy daley—mclean will captain the team against france on saturday at twickenham. it'll be her 116th cap, making her the third most capped england player of all time. british tennis number two

kyle edmund has split with his coach afterjust one season together. edmund won the new york open in february alongside franco davin. but, since the tour resumed in august, has won just one of his seven matches. edmund said covid travel restrictions had made "working together quite difficult", with davin living in the united states. and, before i go, it's that time of the year when the top basketball stars are picked by the teams in the nba, and it was an emotional moment, when anthony edwards paid tribute to his late mother and grandmother, as he was named the number one draft pick, with a move to minnesota timberwolves. both family members died of cancer and the georgia guard, 19, sat next to paintings of the pair as the announcement was made. a very moving moment for the player. that's all the sport for now.

more on all those stories and build—up to the atp finals on our website, with rafael nadal taking on defending champion stefanos tsitsipas tonight for a place in the semis. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. i will be back with another update at around i will be back with another update ataround 2:30pm. thank you very much. good afternoon, you are watching bbc news. i'm jane hill to take you through the next few hours of coronavirus coverage and much more. nicola sturgeon has said she hopes there will be a four—nations agreement next week on how to ease coronavirus controls at christmas. speaking in holyrood, scotland's first minister said she and colleagues from across the uk are working to draw up a joint plan. i took part yesterday late afternoon inafour i took part yesterday late afternoon in a four nations discussion with

michael gove from the uk government, the first minister of wales and the first minister of northern ireland, and amongst other things we discussed the christmas period and how we could come to a sensible, and i stress sensible, and safe plan that will allow people not 100% normality over christmas but a greater degree of normality and, in particular, the ability to spend some time with loved ones. from that meeting yesterday, we charged our officials, advised by our respective chief medical officers, to put together a concrete proposal that we will then consider, and hopefully announce the detail of in the coming days. i would announce the detail of in the coming days. iwould hope, although announce the detail of in the coming days. i would hope, although we need to wait to see what that proposal was, i would to wait to see what that proposal was, iwould hope to wait to see what that proposal was, i would hope we can share that with the public next week. we are all determined, if possible, that we come to a four nations agreement, given family and patterns across the uk, and we are determined, as best as we possibly can, to strike the right balance between the

understandable desire, which i share, to see family over christmas, a period so special to so many of us, but also to do that in a way that does not lead to increased loss of life and increased harm to health over the january period. that is not going to be an easy balance to strike, and already i hear people expressing concerns that we are even considering that kind of relaxation, but it's important we try and get that balance right and we will continue to do that work. the first minister also said she was anticipating positive developments in relation to scotland's r number, the figure used to measure the virus's ability to spread. we expect that it will show the r number now to be very slightly below one. that indicates that the current tough measures that have been in place have had an effect. however, the overall national situation, which the r number reflects, masks some regional variations. in those

parts of the country with the highest prevalence, we have not yet seen a significant or as rapid a full in cases as we need to. that is why we have taken the decision to move i! why we have taken the decision to move 11 local authority areas into tier 4from 6pm move 11 local authority areas into tier 4 from 6pm tomorrow until friday 11th december. that decision was a difficult one but even more difficult for many businesses and individuals to hear. in the situation we face, in common with much of the rest of the world, the job of government must to do what is necessary to save lives and protect health, even when we know these decisions will not be welcome. in oui’ decisions will not be welcome. in ourjudgment decisions will not be welcome. in our judgment and that decisions will not be welcome. in ourjudgment and that of the experts who advise us, these temporary measures are necessary to reduce loss of life and serious illness, to ensure hospitals and intensive care facilities are able to treat covid and non—covid patients over the winter and to allow people, albeit ina limited winter and to allow people, albeit in a limited and careful way, the prospect of being able to spend some time with loved ones over christmas. difficult though it is, i ask people

to abide by the rules, to keep themselves and their family safe and, as part of their collective efforts, to get through the rest of this pandemic with as little harm to health and loss of life as possible. anyone in any doubt about the regulations that apply in their area should visit the scottish government website and use the postcode checker, but let me close with a summary of the advice and rules in place, with the exception of people in orkney, shetland and the western isles, nobody should visit others and motorhomes at the moment except for essential purposes. outdoors, we should meet no more than six people from a maximum of two households. it is likely more relaxed rules will come in today in level one errors but the basic rule remains six from 24 top travel restrictions are vital right now, and some of those will become law from tomorrow evening. more detailed information about them can be found on the scottish government website. finally, i ask eve ryo ne government website. finally, i ask everyone to remember the facts

advice, face covering, avoid crowded places, keep a two metre distance from others and self—isolate and get tested immediately if you have covid symptoms. scotland's first minister speaking at holyrood. a bbc news investigation has uncovered failures in the diagnosis of serious medical issues during private baby scans. more than 200 studios across the uk now sell ultrasound scans, with hundreds of thousands being carried out each year. but the bbc has uncovered evidence of women not being told about serious conditions and abnormalities. the care quality commission says there is good quality care in the industry but it has a "growing concern". rianna croxford reports. on our high streets, one business is booming. early in the pandemic, the nhs asked women not to bring partners to scans, leading some to turn elsewhere. but more than 200 businesses

now offer a solution. reassurance scans. hope thought she'd struggle to have children because of previous ill health. hey, how are you doing? she says it made her especially anxious when she became pregnant. ijust couldn't believe it, it was like such a big gift and then i thought, what if this doesn't last? she is now six months pregnant and has had five private scans, costing between £60 and £100 each. it has been the most relieving experience ever. i'd had the most sleepless nights before just with pure worry, so when you come out of that and know everything is ok, you're like, "phew!" you feel pretty relieved for maybe a good couple of days up to a week and then the cycle starts again. scans are carried out by sonographers. it is not a regulated profession like being a midwife. but the growing popularity of gender reveal parties is a big draw for many couples.

we have spoken to one woman who attended a scan with window to the womb in salford to record her baby's genderfor a party and check its well—being. we have learned the company identified a serious abnormality incompatible with life. but rather than refer her to hospital immediately and provide a medical report, the woman was told the baby's head couldn't be fully seen and recommended to book an nhs anomaly scan. it was absolutely immoral, it was disgusting. they let this poor girl leave and go to a gender reveal party, name the baby, open gifts and that baby couldn't live. the woman only found out when she showed the scan images to a family friend who is an experienced sonographer. i had to break the news that that baby couldn't live and i had to do that over the telephone, and. . .they were hysterical. the company apologised at the time. it says the sonographer left shortly afterwards and the incident led to best practice being reinforced.

but these leaked internal documents show that three spina bifida cases were also missed in a single week in may. the company's directors described the cases as a pattern of similar and serious errors. the company says it conducts more than 100,000 scans a year and human error can occur. some companies say they are not medical and do not diagnose problems. meet your miracle advertises reassurance scans, which it says visualise well—being. we have been passed these messages from the company's whatsapp group, which show sonographers and management sharing and discussing customer scans, sometimes during appointments. any ideas at all? i have asked her outside. one sonographer told the group she had to let a woman leave without informing her of a possible abnormality. i feel terrible at saying nothing. the company says its scans are largely recreational and under its registration it can't discuss any concerns unless they are relevant

to the baby's heartbeat. it says it advises women bleeding or in pain to attend the nhs. the government says it is committed to appropriate regulation and the care quality commission inspects studios. but experts in interpreting imagery say regulation of sonographers is also needed. staff working as radiographers and midwives will be regulated, so why does any of this matter? it matters now because of the massive increase in these companies. if you said to most members of the public, "do you realise some "of the people scanning you actually don't have an easy way "of demonstrating that expertise?" i think the mums would be surprised. problems in pregnancy are rare, but women who have experienced them say it's vital private scans don't lead to false reassurance. rianna croxford, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news... the team behind the oxford coronavirus vaccine says trials had a promising immune response

in people over 60 — offering hope to the age groups most at risk of the virus. a boost to the defence budget, as the government announces the armed forces are to receive an extra £16.5 billion over the next four years. prince william says the bbc investigation into how panorama secured its interview with his mother is a step in the right direction. one of the uk's biggest food retailers has said the abuse its staff are receiving from customers has reached a n "u na cce pta ble level". new figures from the co—op show attacks on workers have risen by 36% this year to nearly 40,000 incidents. our consumers affairs correspondent, sarah corker, reports. bodycam footage from a co—op store in northamptonshire. the customer becomes aggressive.

get out, right now. he repeatedly tries to rip off the facemask off the shop worker. take it off. the abuse against retail staff is escalating. this is what happened in surrey when a customer was asked to follow the shop's one—way system. shelves of wine destroyed and staff threatened. the co—op says one in four of their front line staff have faced anti—social behaviour or been attacked this year. in manchester, store manager matthew says it is happening on a daily basis. there was a gentleman causing trouble because he was refusing to follow the social distancing measures and was approached by a member of staff and asked to leave the store and in doing so he spat at a member of staff several times. it puts the fear into you so you won't go near anyone or approach them. retailers have spent time and money

making stores coronavirus secure. staff say some customers are growing increasingly frustrated with the rules and incidents of verbal and physical abuse are rising. and this level of violence is absolutely not acceptable. some of the uk's leading retailers are now calling for stronger penalties for those who abuse shop workers. tougher sentencing and legislation sends a really important reset message that this is not acceptable behaviour. people are coming to work to earn money to support their families and they deserve to be treated with the same respect that we would all want to be treated with ourselves. reminding customers to wear a facemask or to observe social distancing can be triggers for abuse. julian owns two convenience stores and says tensions are rising. people are just becoming agitated about it and cannot see an end to it, are frustrated. from our perspective, when you look at our staff, they have now been working

tirelessly for the best part of nine months in difficult circumstances. back in northamptonshire, this man was charged with common assault and fined. in surrey, this woman was given a caution for criminal damage. a "witchhunt" — that's how influential union leader len mccluskey has described labour's decision to not allow jeremy corbyn to return to the commons as a labour mp, even though he's been reinstated as a member of the party. mr corbyn was suspended because of his remarks about a critical report on anti—semitism in the party. here's mr mccluskey speaking a short time ago. if this is keir starmer‘s idea of unity, then he has a different perspective than i do. the reality is that we were told that a process needed to be gone through. that process went through, through various stages,

and an nec panel, a unanimous nec panel of five individuals made a decision. and, let me just make this clear, out of the five, in case there is any dubiety, there are only two out of those five who could be described as corbyn supporters, yet it was a unanimous decision and now, for keir to have disregarded process and stepped in with this extraordinary decision, it looks to me very much like a witchhunt and persecution of a decent man. people can disagree with corbyn on a whole host of things but i think most people regard him as a decent, honest individual, and to be persecuted and witch—hunted in this way is not the labour party way of doing things. i would appeal to keir to try to resolve this.

the british public do not like a divided party. i hope keir becomes our next prime minister, i genuinely do, but with a divided party that will never happen. and the other thing that the british public do not like is the persecution of an individual. so the whole situation needs to be resolved as quickly as possible. len mccluskey of the unite union. a doctor whose twins were delivered while she was in a coma with covid—19 says she struggled to believe they were hers when she awoke two weeks later. perpetual uke, who's a hospital consultant in birmingham, is now recovering at home with her baby son, pascal, and daughter, palmer. they were delivered by caesarean section atjust 26 weeks old in april. iwas... all through the period, i was on the intensive care unit. i didn't know when the kids were delivered on the 10th of april.

i was in a coma — i didn't know. and waking up two weeks after their delivery was so unbelievable. we thank god we are strong and we are getting there and getting better as the days go by. well, we are very glad they are. now, we've all had times when we've eaten too much — a feeling shared by this dormouse. it could not believe its luck when it managed to squeeze inside a bird feeder for a feast — only to fall asleep and get stuck. the nocturnal creature had been "plumping up for hibernation" on seed mix when it was spotted. the hampshire dormouse group advised the isle of wight resident to ease it out and release it into a hedgerow.

we are all overeating. now it's time for a look at the weather. we have a brief colder interlude in our weather before things turn mild and more changeable from tomorrow. today there is some blue sky with colder air around. a few shower clouds here and there and some snow showers over the high ground of scotland early in the day but, for the rest of today and the evening, we keep that fairly cold winter. most of the showers will ease to leave a largely dry day, because we have a ridge of high pressure with us. waiting in the wings, the next warm front, introducing mild air from the west tonight. for this afternoon and this evening, temperatures around 3 or 4 degrees for many of us, but feeling colder when you add on that wind chill, particularly in eastern parts of scotland and eastern england — feeling as cold as —3 in aberdeen. temperatures will dip quite quickly once the sun sets this evening and it will remain clear across central and eastern parts of the uk for the longest. the cloud increases from the west

with some rain for northern ireland and the western fringes of england and wales and south—west scotland first thing tomorrow. under clear skies in the east, a cold night, and we could see a touch of frost and the odd icy stretch first thing tomorrow. fairly quickly that cloud and rain spreads across all parts of the uk, so some wet weather spreading west to east through the day. it should clear for northern ireland and wales through the afternoon, but still the odd light shower. milderair moving in, so temperatures return into double figures for many. it stays a cool in the east after a chilly start. as we move through the course of friday night and into saturday, quite a lot of isobars. it will be quite a windy spell of weather, and then this cold front follows behind the warm front, bringing a change for saturday. initially that cold front issues in some rain in scotland and northern england. that heads south, so cloudy conditions with outbreaks of rain moving south across england and wales. scotland, northern ireland and northern england, we see the return of some sunshine,

but some strong and gusty winds. temperatures on the mild side for the time of year. on sunday, we are likely to see a bit of cloud and perhaps the odd shower in the far south on that cold front, but for most of us, a day of sunny spells, scattered showers and quite blustery, with temperatures around 8 to 12.

this is bbc news. iamjane i amjane hill. the headlines: more positive news about a coronavirus vaccine — the oxford team says its research is showing good results and has had a promising immune response in people over 60. what we've demonstrated is that in the lab we can measure good immune responses in adults of all ages, including those over the age of 70. what we need to do next is to see whether or not this translates into actual protection from infection, so protection from getting the disease in the first place. artillary fire. a boost to the defence budget — the prime minister says a new four—yearfunding deal would protect "hundreds of thousands" of jobs and create 40,000 new roles. prince william says the bbc investigation into how panorama