this is bbc news. our main stories. remembering the duke of edinburgh, services are taking place in honour of prince philip has the united kingdom observes that week of official mourning. the archbishop of canterbury will lead today's services in the uk. he is also expected to officiate at prince philip's funeral next saturday. prince charles has paid a heartfelt tribute to his father. my dear heartfelt tribute to his father. m dear papa was heartfelt tribute to his father. mg dear papa was a very special person who i think above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and attaching things that have been said about him. we attaching things that have been said about him. ~ , ., ~ ., about him. we will be taking a look at the tributes _ about him. we will be taking a look at the tributes paid _ about him. we will be taking a look at the tributes paid to _ about him. we will be taking a look at the tributes paid to prince - at the tributes paid to prince philip around the world. also, new

details emerge about the scale of british government lobbying involving former prime minister david cameron. another record number of new coronavirus cases in india, the latest daily figure crossing the 150,000 mark. thousands of people on st vincent take shelter as volcanic ash rains down. the easing of lockdown in england, nonessential shops will reopen tomorrow for the first time in more than three months. hello and welcome to bbc news. a service of remembrance is being held at canterbury cathedral today in memory of the duke of edinburgh. it will be led by the archbishop, justin welby, he is also expected to officiate at the funeral next

saturday. 0nly officiate at the funeral next saturday. only 30 people, thought to be the children of the duke and other close family, will be able to attend that service. the duke of sussexis attend that service. the duke of sussex is expected to fly in to cash in from america, but his wife, the duchess of sussex, has been advised by doctors not to attend. it will be here that they will pay their final farewells to the duke next saturday afternoon. buckingham palace is at pains to emphasise that the event will be covid compliant. everything will happen within the privacy of the castle to avoid crowds gathering. the funeral will be what is known as a ceremonial royal general. that is one level down from a state funeral.

the duke's coffin will be borne in a ceremonial procession from the castle's state apartments to st george's chapel. members of the royal family, led by the prince of wales, will walk behind the coffin. there will be a national one—minute silence when the coffin reaches the chapel at three o'clock. inside the chapel, the congregation will be limited to 30. the public is being asked not to go to windsor. the best place to watch it all will be on television, said a palace spokesman. from his home at highgrove, the prince of wales paid this tribute to his father. my family and i miss my father enormously. he was a much loved and appreciated figure. and apart from anything else, i can imagine him to be so deeply touched by the number of other people here and elsewhere around the world in the commonwealth who also, i think, share our loss and our sorrow. and my dear papa was a very special person who, i think,

above all else, would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him. and from that point, my family and i are deeply grateful for all that. it will sustain us in this particular loss and at this particularly sad time. 0utside windsor castle people continue to leave flowers, despite the requests not to do so. people want to pay their respects and show their appreciation for a man who gave this country so many years of service. nicholas witchell, bbc news. let us go to windsor castle. people have been laying flowers, even though they have been asked not to. what is the picture there today? l what is the picture there today? i think we will see very much of what is the picture there today? i think we will see very much of the

same. it got steadily busier throughout the day yesterday. the flowers are being laid at cambridge gate, a few hundred yards over that way at the end of the long walk. flowers are being laid then cleared up flowers are being laid then cleared up at the end of the day and taken inside the grounds of windsor castle so that the queen and any other members of the royal family can have a look at them and look at some of the messages that have been left. at the messages that have been left. at the end of the day yesterday i was speaking to security guards there. i asked them whether people were gathering together and they said, no, people are being very socially distant. it is clear no matter what the advices, will still want to come and are still coming. they are sleeping their tributes. yesterday a cricket cap was left. the duke of edinburgh was an accomplished cricketer. also a glass of port. people are leaving messages of

support for the queen, leaving little gifts for the duke of edinburgh. more of that today. it has been a busy morning here outside the castle with lots of large lorries of scaffolding and things going into the castle. i presume that those preparations for the funeral, which is happening next saturday, are already under way. although it will be a smaller event thanit although it will be a smaller event than it otherwise would have been, it will be broadcast fully, so that will require a certain amount of equipments. i think that is starting to arrive. it is useful to go through those details again. it is three o'clock next saturday, a ceremonial role funeral, so not a state funeral. as palace spokesperson said that it will reflect the duke's which is and will celebrate and reflect the life and service. next week there will be a maximum of 30. that is limited to

close family, the children of the duke, the duke of sussex slang over, although meghan has been advised not to come as she is heavily pregnant. we heard yesterday from downing street that boris johnson won't attend, and the reason for that is known to restricted numbers, that he wanted to allow the maximum number of family members to be there. apart from the fact it will be filmed and broadcast, so everybody will be able to watch it, apart from that, it will have much more of a feel of a small private family funeral. friends of the duke had been sent, perhaps that is what he would have wanted. thank you. let's speak to the former press secretary to the queen, charles anson. tell us a bit more about the man had the camera is, if you like. what

tell us a bit more about the man had the camera is, if you like.— the camera is, if you like. what is so striking — the camera is, if you like. what is so striking about _ the camera is, if you like. what is so striking about prince _ the camera is, if you like. what is so striking about prince philip - the camera is, if you like. what isi so striking about prince philip and his life of nearly 100 years is that he made a huge contribution as the queen's consort, constantly by her side on state occasions and walkabouts, but he also carved out very much with the queen's encouragement a life of his own and areas of interest of his own, which have been hugely beneficial to groups of people like the young with the duke of edinburgh award scheme, over 7 million young people, boys and girls have gone through the duke of edinburgh awards all around the world. that was a feature of every state visit that the queen and prince philip made abroad, he always did at least one if not more engagements with young people of that kind. his contribution to the environmental causes, to science, technology, but also a man of ideas.

we think of him as a man of action, but he is also a man of ideas, very interested in theology, religion, faith, tolerance, and wrote about those things quite often as wearers —— as well as chairing conferences. he was a polymath, along the lines of prince albert, queen victoria's husband. he had the ability and energy to translate those ideas into action and make a better world. i think he spanned nearly a century and made a massive contribution, as the tributes that have flown in from around the world have shown. find around the world have shown. and very much — around the world have shown. and very much a _ around the world have shown. and very much a family man, that is the picture that has emerged since his death. l picture that has emerged since his death. ~ . ., , ., , death. i think that was always true. the queen very _ death. i think that was always true. the queen very much _ death. i think that was always true. the queen very much encouraged l the queen very much encouraged prince philip to take a lead on the upbringing of their children in terms of schooling, and so on. in

that sense, a traditional family of their generation, something that he took very seriously and threw himself into. that was the feature that i always notice most as press secretary, that the energy he would devote to a cause and the way in which he was able to bring people in and engage them and fire them up, some of that was his natural temperaments to get things done and to achieve things, but i think also a reflection of his early naval career, which is a career where to succeed you have to get on with other people and you need to take care not only of your fellow officers put all your ratings and everyone down the line. that was his way. on a walkabout he would always pick up a child from behind the railings and let them come over and give a present or flowers to the queen. he was a hands—on man literally in that way under huge

support to the queen, able to be more informal than she could be at and very outgoing, full of camaraderie, ready to make a wisecrack, sometimes got him into trouble, but most of the time he brought a great deal of pleasure. the queen could walk onto a factory floor of a thousand people everyone would go quiet as the head of state walked into that building. thank you so much for— walked into that building. thank you so much for your _ walked into that building. thank you so much for your time. _ there are fresh reports that senior ministers in the british government were lobbied by former prime minister, david cameron, after he left office. the sunday times says the health secretary, matt hancock, went for a �*private drink�* with david cameron and lex greensill, who advised mr cameron's government, and then went on to hire the former prime minister. let's speak to our political correspondent helen catt,

who's with me now. this is an ongoing row over how mr cameron has been using his influence on behalf of greensill capital, the finance firm run by lex greensill. earlier in the month it came out that david cameron had texted rishi sunak on his private phone. the request was made was refused and greensill capital has since collapsed. rishi sunak released his text messages earlier this week. then the sunday times today has these new details about this drink that mr cameron and mr greensill went with the health secretary, matt hancock. this is when mr greensill was trying to get the nhs to use an app was trying to get the nhs to use an app from his firm to pay nurses and doctors. that was looked at and the

advice from civil servants is that the idea in principle was good, but sources insist that matt hancock wanted other suppliers to be offered the same work and in the end it will be up to local nhs managers to do that. this was then adopted by some nhs trusts. none of this is against lobbying rules, but what it does is add fuel to the fire of critics who say this whole world of lobbying is a bit murky and needs to be more transparent as to who is getting access from home.— election campaigning in the uk will resume on tuesday after a brief pause, following the death of the duke of edinburgh. elections to the scottish and welsh parliaments and for councillors, mayors and police and crime commissioners in england are due to be held on the 6th may. there will be another short break in campaigning on the day of prince philip's funeral next saturday. a man's been charged with murdering one of

britain's richest men in dorset. sir richard sutton was stabbed at his home near gillingham on wednesday. a woman in her 60s, who is believed to be his partner, remains in a critical condition in hospital. 34—year—old thomas schreiber, who also lives in the area, will appear before magistrates in poole tomorrow. india has reported a record number of coronavirus infections, after more than 150,000 people tested positive in a single day. the country is in the midst of a severe second wave of the virus which is being blamed on a reluctance to wear face coverings, a shortage of vaccines and huge crowds gathering for hindu festivals. 0ur india correspondent yogita lamaye sent this report. a hospital in a western city. these are covid patients

and there are no doctors to look at them, says the man filming the video. in the worst affected city in india, people are being given oxygen outside a hospital because it is too full. patients are struggling to get medical care as india is in the grips of a fierce second wave of covid. 73—year—old mary was taken to six hospitals, none of which had critical care for her. she died on her way to the seventh. her son anthony spoke to me from isolation. "all these years she never needed to go to a hospital, and when she did i could not do anything for her. ifailed her," he says. field hospitals built last year to add to existing facilities are already full.

this one is managed by dr kapale, who has been on the front line since the pandemic began. so what is different this time around? right now i am seeing, when a single member is positive, the entire family is positive. the infection rate has gone up. it is affecting young adults, which is quite surprising. last year it took more than six weeks for daily cases to double to the number seen at the worst of the first wave. this year it has taken less than ten days for infections to grow twofold to the current high, which has already surpassed 2020's peak. the government says people not following covid protocols has led to the surge, but many experts believe that is not the main reason. it cannot explain the kind of surge increases that we are seeing currently in india, which clearly suggest that there is a great role

for highly infectious variants of the virus, which are spreading faster. some of them might even have the capacity to escape the immune system. to make matters worse, dozens of vaccination centres in mumbai and maharashtra are closed because of a lack of supplies. india's health minister says there is no shortage of vaccines. this country has been mass—producing them and over the past few months has exported tens of millions of doses, so people who have been turned away from centres like this one are asking where their doses are. the worst hit areas are in lockdown, but cases are rising rapidly in many other parts of india. that has not deterred election campaigns and festival celebrations. it is just the start of an aggressive wave of covid—i9, but this country appears to have let its guard down. very challenging circumstances for their third wave.

non—essential shops in england will reopen tomorrow for the first time in more than three months. it's a big moment for staff who have been on furlough and away from friends and colleagues. nina warhurst has been taking a look at how businesses in bolton are preparing to pull up their shutters and welcome back customers. open the doors! switch on the lights. the whole team is here. nice to see you all. how has lockdown been? it is good to be back. what is it like being back and catching up? it is absolutely fantastic. it is brilliant to see faces and finding out what their experiences have been through lockdown. you don't realise how much you miss the banter until you are away and not seeing people every day.

just getting together and having a laugh and a joke as a relief, to be honest. natalie and barry worked together for 19 years, sharing big nights out, problems on the shop floor and those important moments. she just congratulated us on the birth of one of my granddaughters. so that is good. we have a good relationship. it is like a family. very much so. lisa and anna have, between them, 60 years of experience at this firm. what is it like to see everybody in the flesh? it has been lovely today. everyone has a big smile and they are happy to be back and we are waiting for customers to arrive now and that will be even better. it feels like a long time coming we are excited to open the doors again and welcome customers back to shop with us. ah yes, the c—word. have you missed customers? be honest.

we do have some really lovely and loyal customers. the best thing about a day at work here is where you meet somebody for the first time and you have a good conversation and you almost forget what you were doing and you just chat about holidays and where you live and where they have been and that kind of stuff. it is therapeuticjust having a chinwag. but with physical shields and barriers, things will be different. do you think you can still have that intimate experience? i know we can because we had it after the previous lockdown. once we have gone through the covid security, it was a lovely experience for everyone. everyone was friendly and warm and just as exciting as it has always been. are you concerned that consumer behaviour will have changed, that people will not necessarily be as keen to come into a store? what we see is that we have a touchy—feely product. the previous lockdowns, whenever we have reopened there has been a sense of people wanting to get

back out and back onto the high street and the shops and we have seen a spike in business after the lockdowns so we hope the same will happen again this time. if you are hitting the high street, enjoy it. who are the biggest gossips in store? that would be telling. is that because it is you? we do all like to have a chat. as much as they will enjoy seeing you, and each other. as well as shops, hospitality can reopen tomorrow in england, provided it's outside. i'm joined now by rita cox, she's the landlady of the white hart in wadworth near doncaster. rita, thanks for being with us. you have a big outdoor space. we have. we have seating _

have a big outdoor space. we have. we have seating for _ have a big outdoor space. we have. we have seating for over— have a big outdoor space. we have. we have seating for over 100 - have a big outdoor space. we have. i we have seating for over 100 people, which we are very fortunate to have. we can't wait to open tomorrow. 11 o'clock on the dot, we will be pulling those paints, long waited for. ~ . , _ , ., pulling those paints, long waited for. . , for. what is the system, two people have to book? _ for. what is the system, two people have to book? first _ for. what is the system, two people have to book? first come _ for. what is the system, two people have to book? first come first - have to book? first come first served. have to book? first come first served- i _ have to book? first come first served. ithink— have to book? first come first served. i think that _ have to book? first come first served. i think that is - have to book? first come first served. i think that is the - have to book? first come first served. i think that is the way | have to book? first come first i served. i think that is the way to go forward for us. our regulars will hopefully come in early. first come first served. we do want to put reservations on tables outside. we do for indoors, which from the 17th of may, but for outdoors, no, first come first served. we are hoping to get some nice sunshine. you come first served. we are hoping to get some nice sunshine.— get some nice sunshine. you might have queues _ get some nice sunshine. you might have queues around _ get some nice sunshine. you might have queues around the _ get some nice sunshine. you might have queues around the block! - have queues around the block! hopefully! it would be nice. i suppose it is weather dependent if you are serving outdoors.- you are serving outdoors. yeah, definitely- _ you are serving outdoors. yeah, definitely. but _ you are serving outdoors. yeah, definitely. but fingers _ you are serving outdoors. yeah, definitely. but fingers crossed. l you are serving outdoors. yeah, i definitely. but fingers crossed. the last few years, april has been

glorious, so we hope and pray that we get good weather.— glorious, so we hope and pray that we get good weather. looking ahead into the future, _ we get good weather. looking ahead into the future, what _ we get good weather. looking ahead into the future, what are _ we get good weather. looking ahead into the future, what are your- into the future, what are your thoughts about covid passports, people having to prove they have been vaccinated or had a negative test or had antibody —— antibodies before they come into the pub? l before they come into the pub? i don't want to go down that way. before they come into the pub? i don't want to go down that way. the government say they are going on scientific evidence, and the scientists are saying it is safe to go into pubs, shops and hairdressers, i think that is suffice. we have more than 30 million now vaccinated. unfortunately, we have had a lot of deaths, but that is going down now. it is a disease that unfortunately we are going to have to live with. the economy is desperate to open. it brings in millions of revenue, the hospitality trade, and we just need

to get open. d0 hospitality trade, and we “ust need to get open.— hospitality trade, and we “ust need to get open. do you think you have been close — to get open. do you think you have been close to _ to get open. do you think you have been close to long? _ to get open. do you think you have been close to long? absolutely. i to get open. do you think you have i been close to long? absolutely. over a ear been close to long? absolutely. over a year now- — been close to long? absolutely. over a year now. great _ been close to long? absolutely. over a year now. great for _ been close to long? absolutely. over a year now. great for us _ been close to long? absolutely. over a year now. great for us because - been close to long? absolutely. over a year now. great for us because we | a year now. great for us because we do through trades, and we have stayed open and on takeaway food, which has been fabulous. ifeel for the wet trade pubs only, and also for the ones that don't have outdoor space. they are in limbo. it is so desperate. the hospitality trade creates huge employment and we need to get these pubs open. we have gone through all the measures of covid, safety measures, it is one of the safest places to go and drink and eat, so why are we the last to open? it amazes me. i have experience going to a week and there there were

no measures whatsoever, nobody on the door is checking how many was going into the shop, it was packed, there was no sanitising stations, well there were but they were empty. there were lots of people in the shops with no face coverings and i couldn't wait to get out of the shop, and i have had my vaccine. it was really disheartening to think that's the pubs are behind is, absolutely behind. but that's the pubs are behind is, absolutely behind.— that's the pubs are behind is, absolutely behind. but you have survived, absolutely behind. but you have survived. you — absolutely behind. but you have survived, you are _ absolutely behind. but you have survived, you are one _ absolutely behind. but you have survived, you are one of - absolutely behind. but you have survived, you are one of the - absolutely behind. but you have i survived, you are one of the lucky ones. ., , ., �* , , ones. lots haven't. the brewery has been fantastic, _ ones. lots haven't. the brewery has been fantastic, really _ ones. lots haven't. the brewery has been fantastic, really supportive. i l been fantastic, really supportive. i have held a license for 38 years. i love the job, well, have held a license for 38 years. i love thejob, well, it's not a job, it's a way of life. i can't wait to get the doors open tomorrow. well, reall tood get the doors open tomorrow. well, really good look _ get the doors open tomorrow. well, really good look when _

get the doors open tomorrow. well, really good look when you _ get the doors open tomorrow. well, really good look when you do. rita cox, landlady of the white hart pub, good luck for tomorrow.— good luck for tomorrow. thank you, t oodb e. thousands of people have been evacuated from the eastern caribbean island of st vincent after a volcano on friday sent a cloud of ash and smoke high into the air. the prime minister said evacuees had been temporarily housed on cruise ships and on safer parts of the island. 0ur central america correspondent will grant reports. it is an awe—inspiring, frightening sight, captured by the islanders of st vincent as they fled the affected areas. huge, thick plumes of smoke and dust were sent shooting several kilometres into air, as la soufriere unleashed its incredible explosive power. it was bright. but then the light began to deteriorate. it wasn't at a slow pace, it was rapidly deteriorating.

it was just darkness. and then what happened, you began to feel something hitting your skin — ash. and as the ash filled the sky and blocked out the sun, these were the scenes as daytime on the island turned dark as night in moments. these eruptions are rare — just a handful in 200 years. the last was some a0 years ago, with no casualties, and the government on st vincent are trying hard to avoid loss of life this time too. the bafta film awards are being split over two days for the first time.

the main awards are being presented this evening, but last night saw many of the technical prizes handed out. including two for the movie ma rainey�*s black bottom about a 1920s blues band. both halves of the ceremony are being presented from the royal albert hall, but winners are appearing virtually. nomadland, and the a low—budget british film rocks, lead the overall field with seven nominations each. yet another dose of winter for some of us in the last day. her fresh dusting of snow in places, particularly on the hills and mountains, but not exclusively. more of that to come through the course of that to come through the course of the afternoon. it doesn't mean just snow, it could be sleet or hail in places. you can see the wintry

showers in the north, east, around the manchester area, and northern parts of northern ireland. through this afternoon, apart from the wintry showers here and there there are plenty of sunny spells around, as well. the winter coming in from the north. temperatures only around five or 6 degrees for our northern towns and cities, briefly touching double figures in plymouth and london. through tonight, we will see a weatherfront sneaking london. through tonight, we will see a weather front sneaking in out of the atlantic. it will bring some slightly milder air, but with that also the possibility of some snow across parts of wales, maybe into the midlands, the peak district, possibly. these are the early morning temperatures on monday. there could be a bit of fresh snow here and there. this is the cold outbreak on monday, you can see the code are spreading into europe. slightly milder air coming back round to it, that is a weather front approaching us. you can see the

cloud and increasing amounts of rain into northern ireland and out towards the western fringes of wales. broadly speaking, monty is looking fine for most of us with plenty of crisp sunshine. the temperature is just ever so slightly picking up their out towards the west up to around i! picking up their out towards the west up to around 11 degrees in cardiff. he was the weather map for tuesday. high—pressure is in charge, but we are expecting april showers to form on tuesday. broadly speaking, across the northern half of the uk, so in the south he should just stay dry. temperatures are picking up to around ten or ii, just stay dry. temperatures are picking up to around ten or 11, so the colder air is now in the far north. temperatures will rise through thursday up to around ia degrees, but then it does look as though there will be another change in the wind direction and it could turn colder again.