until their worst batsman started hitting sixes. last man in, biggest shot of the day. england's team, like an apollo 11, now chased an uncharted target. well, joe, a82 to win. or ten wickets for india. suitable conditions for expert bowlers, it happens everywhere. three wickets here by the close, one of them for that chennai champion. ravichandran ashwin would surely end with a win. ravichandran ashwin would surely end with a win. time for a look at the weather. matt taylor, we are warming up? we certainly are. this was athens in greece this morning and it was a similar picture in turkey in istanbul. the cold air has been

marching eastwards. at lunch time temperatures here were only 2—3 , but at the weekend we had winchell at -10 but at the weekend we had winchell at —10 and in aberdeenshire it is six celsius, the first time above zero in about a month. by saturday we could see temperatures peak at around 17 celsius. a much milder weak compared to last week, but there will be rain at times and snowmelt. we will have to keep an eye on river levels. and even with those dizzy heights of 17 on saturday there will still be some rain around. the shower is pushing northwards across scotland and it feels already springlike with the sunshine where you have got it. temperatures peaking around 13 or 1a degrees. overnight rain will start to return, initially in southern counties of england, then more generally across the west with heavy showers developing through central parts of the country. it is a

south—westerly wind so temperatures tonight no lower than 5—10 . we should be by day seven or eight celsius, so a mild night and a windy day ahead and a windy day in the western isles, where we could see severe gales developed. it will be a damp morning in east anglia and the channel islands before brightening up. elsewhere sunshine and showers developing, some on the heavy side, and a blustery wind. windier than today, strongest to the west of scotland. a couple of degrees cooler than this afternoon, but still very mild for this time of year. on tuesday evening and overnight the next weather system starts to work its way in, again strengthening winds bringing rain quite widely into wednesday morning. that will push through eastwards quite smartly. sunshine will develop for many with showers mixed in, but the cloud could linger in southern counties of england and south wales with further outbreaks of rain in the afternoon. cooler in scotland

with snow on the hills, but overall temperatures well above the levels we saw last week. after a brief dip on thursday, they will climb further. up to 16 or 17 by the time we hit saturday. simon, maybe it is time to dust off that spring wardrobe. or not! a reminder of our top story... pressure is building on the government to say how and when we'll come out of lockdown but the prime minister says he will announce a plan next week. the prime minister will be leading today's coronavirus briefing. now on bbc one it good afternoon, it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news... england's cricketers are heading for defeat in the second test in chennai.

india have a huge lead as they look to square the series. a half century from captain virat kohli then a barnstorming ravichandran ashwin century helped india to 286 all out, setting england a82 for victory. no side in test cricket has successfuly chased that down and they were three wickets down by the close. dom sibley falling to axar patel. rory burns made 25 before he was caught by kohli off ashwin, who now has six wickets in the match. nichtwatchmanjack leach was out for a duck, patel again. england 53—3. the chennai wicket, that is deteriorating fast and will benefit the indian spinners, has drawn criticism, but england say theyjust have to accept the conditions. you are on the subcontinent, wickets turn, they don't seem around as much. it doesn't swing as much. this one has it accelerated a bit quickly? probably so. but it is also

playing on the subcontinentjust when teams come to england or go to other places in the world where it seems around. it is just cricket in different parts of the world. rangers have launched an internal investigation after allegations that a number of players attended a party over the weekend, breaking lockdown rules. police were called to a gathering in glasgow in the early hours of sunday morning and 10 people were given fixed penalty notices. two fringe players at the club were suspended earlier this season for breaching covid protocols. there are two more matches in the premier league this evening. chelsea can move up to fourth if they beat newcastle, but if they slip up then west ham would move into the champions league places if they beat sheffield united at home. we are in the period of the tough run of games again which we had at the start of the season, which we actually turned out was fruitful for us and we got some really good results and points. so if we can come out of this period with a similar point total is what we had i

think we will be in a really good position. and i don't see any reason why we shouldn't but we are going to have to work hard. the games are difficult and i think people maybe getting a wee bit more aware of west ham than they were right at the start of the season. we're into the second week at the australian open, quarter—final places at stake today. rafael nadal is through. the spaniard, who is chasing a 21st grand slam singles title, is yet to drop a set at this year's tournament — his latest victory coming against fabio fognini — nadal responding brilliantly to the hard—hitting of the italian. and that took him through to a quarter—final against stefanos tsitsipas. and the world number one and home favourite ash barty is through. a no—nonsense straight sets win against the american shelby rogers. karolina muchova in the quarters. there hasn't been an australian winner in melbourne since christine o'neil in 1978. two british players are on course to meet in the semi—finals of the men's doubles, afterjamie murray and bruno soares maintained their unbeaten run since they resumed their partnership.

they're through to the last eight, as are the defending champions joe salisbury and rajeev ram. and alfie hewett is through to two wheelchair finals — the singles, and the doubles with gordon reid. chester racecourse has drawn up plans to allow up to 15,000 spectators to attend their three—day may festival pending the governments road map announcement and a possible easing of lockdown. they have proposed lateral—flow mass—testing for racegoers with results available within 20 minutes and with only 5,000 allowed in daily, they say social distancing could still be observed. the track is currently being used as an nhs mass—vaccination centre. that's all the sport for now but there's more on the bbc sport website, including live coverage from the welsh open snooker. i'll be back with more later.

shaun murphy has just taken the lead. let's get more on the prime minister's comments after the uk has given 15 million people coronavirus vaccines. he was at a vaccination centre in south—east london. he started by thanking all those involved in the vaccination effort. i think everybody who has been involved in the vaccination programme can be incredibly proud of what has been achieved. and i thank all kinds of people. obviously, i thank the scientists who came up with the vaccines. i thank the people who got it all together, who organised it. but if you look at what has happened in the last few weeks, it has been an unbelievable effort by the nhs and by doctors and nurses, the gp

surgeries, the hospitals. of course, the army has been fantastic, the pharmacists have done a greatjob. they have been assisted by legions of volunteers. but i think one of the most striking things about the uk vaccination effort has been the centrality of gp surgeries, of the nhs, and they have done the lion's share of the work, and it has been really very moving to see it. if there is anybody at all in the 70—plus category who thinks they have not been offered a jab, what should they do? of course, the numbers are very good for the over 80s, the over 70s, the 75 to 79 group, you are looking at 95% that have been done. but there are some people who still are to come forward, and i really do urge people to come forward. these jabs, these vaccines are safe, they're efficacious, and they will help protect you against disease and against death.

they are a wonderful thing to have. they'll protect you, yourfamily, your neighbours, and i think people get that, and that is why they are coming forward in such numbers. but if you haven't yet had a letter and you think that you need one, and you think you are in the categories concerned, get onto the nhs or dial 119 and we will fix you up with a jab. now, you can't say too much today about the future in terms of lockdown lifting, but the one thing we seem to be being told by lots of people in whitehall is that you will attempt to open schools all as one, primary and secondary schools all at the same time, posssibly 8th march, if the data allows. can you confirm that one thing? no decisions have been taken on that sort of detail yet, though, clearly, schools on march the 8th has

for a long time been a priority of the government and families up and down the country. we will do everything we can to make that happen, but we have got to keep looking at the data. we have got to keep looking at the rates of infection. don't forget, they are still very high. there is still 23,000 or so patients with covid—19 in the nhs. more than at the april peak last year. sadly, still too many people dying of this disease. infection rates, although coming down are still relatively high. so we have to be prudent. what we want to see is progress that is cautious but irreversible, and i think that is what the public and people up and down the country will want to see. progress that is cautious but irreversible. over this week, where you study the data and work out what you are going to do next. can you say a bit about your approach? you want to drive down infection rates and protect the nhs. once they are low and the vulnerable have been vaccinated, what do you do then?

is it ok for the virus to circulate among the 20s and 30s and 40s? do you learn to live with coronavirus like flu, as matt hancock was saying? we would like to see the infection rates come down very low indeed, and that is why we have tough border regimes to stop infection coming in. as we get ever better with testing and tracing and enforcing fights against the new variants, we will want to see that those rates are really low, because the risk is that if you have a large, as it were, volume of circulation... if you've got loads of people, even young people getting the disease, a couple of things happen. first of all, you have a higher risk of new variants, mutations, within the population where the disease is circulating. secondly, there will also be a greater risk of the disease spreading out into the older groups again.

and although the vaccines are effective and great, of course, no vaccination programme is 100% effective. so, when you have a large volume of circulation, a lot of disease, inevitably, the vulnerable will suffer. so that's why we want to drive it right down and keep it right down. you are going to set out more about lifting lockdown on monday. can you tell us what kinds of decisions you will be making then? for instance, will you be able to give us dates for when things will reopen? sam, if we possibly can, we will be setting out dates. just to help people think about what we are trying to do on the 22nd, remember what we did around about this time last year, or a little bit later. we set out a roadmap going forward into the summer and looking a little bit beyond. that is what we are going to be trying to do. and the dates that we will be

setting out will be the dates by which we hope we can do something at the earliest, if you see what i mean. so, that is the target date by which we hope to do something at the earliest. if, because of the rate of infection, we have to push something off a little bit to the right, to lay it for a little bit, we won't hesitate to do that. i think people would much rather see a plan that was cautious but irreversible, and one that proceeds sensibly in accordance with where we are with the disease. finally vaccine passports, the bottom line is that companies are going to require proof that you have been vaccinated, foreign countries may need proof to let you in. you are going to end up facilitating process are you? i are going to end up facilitating process are you?— are going to end up facilitating process are you? i think inevitably there will be _ process are you? i think inevitably there will be great _ process are you? i think inevitably there will be great interest - process are you? i think inevitably there will be great interest in - there will be great interest in ideas like can you show that you have had a vaccination against covid

in the way that you sometimes have to show that you have had a vaccination against fever or other diseases in order to travel somewhere. i think that is going to be very much in the mix down the road. i think that is going to happen. what i don't think we will have in this country is, as it were, vaccination passports to allow you to go to, say, the pub or something like that. i think that that would be... just looking at the future, what we hope to have is such a high proportion of the population vaccinated that when you couple that with rapid testing, rapid flow testing you start to get the sort of answer that you're talking about. so i think it is in the context of a really having vaccinate a lot of the population as we are already doing and we will do a lot more of in the next few months. the rapid test

approach will start i think to come into its own. in scotland, the first minister has given the daily coronavirus briefing. nicola sturgeon spoke about the new quarantine rules for travel which come into force today. let's have a listen to what she said a little earlier. our new rules on overseas travel have come into force from today onwards all international travellers arriving directly into scotland by air from outside the rest of the uk, ireland, or other parts of the common travel area will be required to stay in a specially assigned hotel for a 10—day period of managed isolation. people arriving from ireland will also be required to follow these rules if they have come from a high risk country, so if they have travelled to scotland via ireland, a country that is classed as high risk. during the ten day period of managed isolation, travellers will be tested for covid twice on day two and the importance of that early test, given that we are trying to avoid the mutation of new variants so that genomic sequencing can potentially be done and then they will be tested again on day eight

after their arrival. the purpose of that later test is to try to make sure people don't have covid before they are released from the isolation. now, the approach we have taken here in scotland, as i have set out before, goes a bit beyond the measures that have been announced by the uk government so far. we are choosing to require travellers from all countries to isolate, whereas the uk government is only applying this restriction to travellers coming from designated high—risk countries. it is of course up to every government to make their own judgment and take their own decisions but at the moment anyone who lands at an airport elsewhere in the uk and then travels on to scotland won't be put into a hotel for managed isolation if their flight is from a destination outside the uk's list of high—risk countries. they will instead be required to quarantine at home for ten days on return to scotland and also be required to book a testing package so that they will be tested on day two and day eight as well.

now, the reason why we have decided to adopt stricter rules is because we think it is important to go far as we can. for example, just having this policy apply to high—risk countries doesn't provide protection when people travel from a high risk country via a third country or perhaps when a new variant is present in a country which isn't yet on the high risk list. so our measures are designed to reduce those risks scotland as much as we possibly can. but we do recognise and we have always recognised that a common four nations approach to travel restrictions is always going to be preferable. for a policy like this to work effectively it requires people to isolate as close to the point of arrival in the uk as possible rather than, for example, travel from england to scotland before isolating because, as you can imagine, it would then be possible that somebody would have taken the virus quite a distance. so for that reason we want to continue to work with the uk

government and we will try to persuade it to adopt a more comprehensive measures. orfailing comprehensive measures. or failing that comprehensive measures. orfailing that to help us ensure that people arriving at airports in england but who intend travelling to scotland are required to isolate in hotel accommodation at the point of arrival. but of course, for all that this is important, we wouldn't be doing if we didn't think it was important, the most important message of all right now is that we are saying to everybody that you shouldn't travel at all right now unless it is absolutely essential. almost all travel to and from scotland is currently against the law, there is only a small number of essential purposes for which travel is permitted. so the managed isolation rules are an important additional safeguard but the most important safeguard of all at the moment is the fact that you shouldn't be travelling at all unless it is essential. the ministerfor health in wales, vaughan gething, has been giving an update on the vaccination programme there. he hailed the programme as a huge success and praised the nhs in wales for theirfantasticjob

in vaccinating 1 in four people already. we've now vaccinated almost 785,000 people. that is the equivalent of one in four people here in wales. i would thank everyone who has been working so hard over the last couple of months to achieve this. every vaccine really is a small victory against this awful virus. we have hit our first milestone on time, ahead of time, but we won't rest there. we will keep on checking to make sure that no one is left behind. take—up has been incredibly high amongst the first four priority groups. if anyone wasn't sure about having the vaccine when they were first asked and has now changed their mind, it is not too late to get an appointment. there are contact details on every health board website and on our welsh government website too.

today, we begin the next big effort to vaccinate people in priority groups five to nine. at the same time as we are providing second dose appointments to all those in the first four priority groups. we will start by offering appointments to people in groups five and six. this includes people aged 65 to 69, people aged 16 to 64 with an underlying health condition, younger adults in residential care settings and a great many unpaid carers who are looking after people who are vulnerable. this is another massive logistical effort and we will be using all of the resources we have available to use in the days and weeks ahead. including local pharmacies to make sure we can vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible. but we do have to factor in a temporary slowdown of vaccine supply across the uk to our plans over the next couple of weeks.

i want to be clear that we have worked this into our plans and this will not delay anybody�*s second dose appointment. it's the 50th anniversary of the other d—day today — decimalisation day. that's when our old system of pounds, shillings and pence was replaced by the coins and notes we know today. but the transition wasn't straightforward — as tim muffett explains. bloody new money, i don't want it. what's wrong with it? no, i want the old. no, i don't want it. all change. goodbye, shillings, half crowns and thrupenny bits. hello to a radical new concept, 100 new pence to every pound. decimalisation. d—day, as it became known, was the 15th of february 1971. the new decimal money will be with us on d—day. decimal day.

we changed from old money to what we know as new money. it was a very big deal for the uk because it changed the way that everybody valued money. old money included things like shillings and farthings and then moved to 100 pennies to the pound. the old system had links going back for more than 1000 years when a pound of silver was first divided into 240 coins. that's why there were 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound. it was hoped decimalisation based on multiples of ten would make things simpler. this is a ten new penny piece with a lion on it. it was a very interesting time for the nation and there was a lot of education packs that were issued, there was advertising in newspapers to again educate the communities. it is perhaps correctly and more accurately a reeducation campaign and of its kind is the most massive that's ever been mounted in this

country, requiring an intense and concentrated effort. sometimes, very intense and very concentrated. you look at both your hands palm upwards. when we come to the new coins, these i put round the base of the fingers. seven becomes three, eight becomes three and a half, 9p and 10p become four new pence. it's easy, isn't it? some worried there'd be chaos in the shops or that old coins would instantly be worthless. fortunately, john humphrys was at hand to reassure the nation. the message the boys are so desperately anxious to get across is that you can use the two lots of currency together. to mark the 50th anniversary, the royal mint has issued a special 50p coin featuring old money.

it's also been sending reminiscence boxes to hundreds of care homes, such as this one in abergavenny. could you tell me what they are? that's two and six. did they used to call it half a crown? half a crown, yeah. well, it'sjust magical, - really, what they've done, because with dementia, - we do a lot of reminiscence work. to try and help people i to engage to be present. these memory boxes have invoked such a response. i not only are they present, it's sparking conversationsj going on from what the memory box are showing them. _ lollipops on sticks, i thought i was king of the castle because i could go in and buy sweets. you get a lot with your sixpence, didn't you? you certainly did. no one under 50 experienced the pre—decimal world. for some a little older, it doesn't seem that long ago. how much did one of them cost? one and six. one and six? yeah. tim muffett, bbc news.

those were the days, you willjust have to take it from me! now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. our weather has undergone a big turnaround in the last a8—hours. last week, temperatures were well below average. that shows up as blue on this chart here. those blue colours, mainly across eastern europe. this week, we've got the warmth of above—average temperatures with us, most notably as we head towards the end of the week and into next weekend. in fact, by the time we hit saturday, some parts of eastern england could see temperatures as high as 17 degrees, compared to the subzero wind chill of last saturday. so, overall this week, it will be much, much milder than last week. there will be some rain at times, though, coupled with snow melt, flooding will be a risk and it is going to be fairly windy. fairly breezy out there at the moment, but that breeze is coming in from the south—west. you can see how the cloud is tracking from south—west to north—east. we are in between this one which will arrive with some rain tonight, and one clearing away from the east. so, with south—westerly winds, these are the temperatures

through the afternoon. we will have seen 1a degrees in the south—east corner, even up to eight or nine celsius in parts of north—east scotland. many will finish the day dry, but into tonight, we will see further rain return across england and wales initially, then to northern ireland and across parts of scotland. some heavy bursts of rain in the west later in the night, and the breeze will be picking up, especially to the west of scotland. it does mean that temperatures tonight well clear of frost levels, around five to around 10 celsius to start tomorrow. a windy day, though, across the western isles of scotland with outbreaks of rain at times. rain initially across central and eastern parts of england confined to east anglia, south—east of the channel islands clearing into the afternoon, and then sunshine and showers. showers in the west could be heavy and thundery. a breezy day across the board, but the strongest of the winds will remain across the far west of scotland. temperatures may be down a little bit on today's values, but still above the 7 or 8 degrees we normally expect at this stage in february. the mild run continues through tuesday night into wednesday. after a fine night, it looks like another weather system

will push in later on to bring a bit of a wet start to wednesday across many areas, particularly across scotland. that will clear through. sunshine and showers for many, but more persistent rain looks likely to develop across the southern half of england and wales as we go into wednesday afternoon. maybe a little bit of snow on the scottish mountains, but temperatures still above where we should be for the time of year. and watch them climb further as we go through the next few days. parts of eastern england at 16 or 17 by saturday.

this is bbc news, i'm simon mccoy. the headlines... england's covid vaccine roll—out is officially entering a new phase today — with over—65s and the clinically vulnerable now being invited to get their firstjab. as some tory mps say vaccination programme success means restriction can be lifted by the end of april, the prime minister says he will announce a plan next week. i think people would much rather see a plan that was cautious but irreversible and one that proceeds sensibly in accordance with where we are with the disease. the first travellers required to stay at quarantine hotels have begun arriving at heathrow airport. they'll have to pay £1,750 for a 10—day stay. i think all in all it might be a bit expensive, but i guess i understand the reason behind it, trying to save lives.

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