so so is m brilliant! some more so is brilliant! some more animals now. .. here are some cute animals. here are five wolf cubs — who made their public debut at a zoo in mexico city. the cubs — who are said to be in good health — are part of a breeding programme that's kept the species alive. they were declared endangered in 1976 and there have been at many of them that have been bred in captivity. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. it isa it is a reversal of fortunes today, yesterday, we saw more cloud in northern ireland, parts of scotland, and today that with a front has pushed on into england and wales, so he will see some more cloud over what we had yesterday, this is a ridge of high pressure which has been settled weather for large parts of scotland and northern ireland. this afternoon, there could be the odd shower, perhaps into eastern, northern ireland, north—east of scotland, but mostly dry, global cloud, patchy rain for parts of england and wales when the sunshine does come through that cloud, it could set off the odd heavy shower. temperatures lower than yesterday

because of more cloud, 18 to 21 degrees. for monday, we are in between weather systems, a similar story, quite a bit of sunshine around, variable cloud, some heavy showers potentially across parts of central, northern, eastern england. temperature is reaching 22, may 23. around 19 or 2a scotland and northern ireland. moving through the week, in and eastern areas that see the best of the bright and dry weather, but further north and west, there are some weather systems, may be bringing some more cloud and spots of rain.

the travel shows hitting across the uk again in a series of four special programmes. the travel show road to recovery, streaming now on bbc iplayer. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... the uk's health secretary says thejune 21st decision on easing restrictions has become "more difficult" because the delta variant is 40% more transmissible. that does make life more challenging for everybody. and you have seen that the case rates have risen a little. but, the good news is that hospitalisations, the number of people arriving at hospital is broadly flat. vaccinations are being opened up to the under—30s this week in the drive to offer covid jabs to all adults in england.

borisjohnson will tell global leaders he wants the whole world to be vaccinated against coronavirus, by the end of next year. a two—minute silence has been held at the british normandy memorial to honour more than 22,000 members of the armed forces who died after the d—day landings. may god bless our veterans, the families and all those who paid the ultimate sacrifice as a result of the operations around d—day and during the battle of normandy. around a hundred veterans who were unable to travel to france because of the pandemic laid wreaths at the national memorial arboretum. now on bbc news... the travel show is on an epic journey across the uk as it opens up for travel, again. journey across the uk as it opens ade adepitan begins the first of four programmes by navigating the scottish highlands and islands.

you gotta love it! proper british coastline. we are on an adventure across the uk as it opens up for travel again. yes! we're open! from rugged coastlines... ..to breathtaking landscapes. and natural habitats. see that? 0urjourney will take us across the four nations that make up the united kingdom. and we're doing it sustainably in an all—electric revamp of an iconic british motor. this week, i'm in scotland, meeting the conservationists restoring britain's biggest national park. we want to see the forest continue to march right up the hills. zipping through some spectacular scenery... ade screams and whoops.

..and tasting some traditional bakes with a tiktok superstar. how do you say cheers in gaelic? slainte. slainte! i begin my scottish 0dyssey in inverness — the uk's northernmost city and the so—called capital of the highlands. in a normal year, well over a quarter of a million foreign tourists stop off here on their way to exploring the region's rolling vistas of mountains, forests and lochs. it's a city that is used to visitors, but i'm willing to bet they've never seen anything quite like this! i wonder what people make of this when they see me driving around in it. it's definitely distinctive. apparently, we've already made it in the local facebook group.

car horn toots hey, guys! got a little woo there, a little whoop—dee—woo! it's our travel show van! this prototype is a reimagining of an old iconic morris motor — the first vehicle built by the company since the 1980s and it's all electric. now, the original morrisj—type came out in191i8 alongside the classic morris minor, which was the first british car to reach a million sales. so what we've done is stuck some portable hand controls on the car so i can drive it with my hands. and because it's a van and there's plenty of room in there, we've just stuck my wheelchair in the back and away we go, on our uk road tour for the travel show.

each country in the uk has decided on its own timetable out of lockdown. in scotland, areas are graded from the most severe, level four, all the way down to level zero. concerns about new variants have slowed the move to level one in some parts, but visitors' attractions and accommodations are allowed to open their doors with rules in place for face coverings and social distancing. here in inverness, they're still finding ways of adapting. at culloden, the site of britain's last pitched battle 275 years ago, the national trust has had to change some of their big anniversary plans. we would normally have an anniversary with around 1500 people here on site,

and clearly that is not possible under covid, at all. we decided to go completely online, which then gave us the opportunity to attract a worldwide audience. you went global. absolutely, we went global! so we were able to offer this event for free because we did it, a lot of it as pre—recorded content. it didn't matter what time zone you were in, and the other side of it is, we had 3,000 people engage with it and more have since the event. it's more than we could've possibly have expected. 0n the banks of the river ness the pandemic forced luxury hotel ness walk to close just eight months after it first opened. now, they're making up for lost time. we effectively risk analysed everything we were doing. fortunately, in this hotel, we have a lot of space so we can manage the social distancing side

of things, but then of course, as everybody knows, the perspex screens, the masks, the visors, etc etc — our operation's much more expensive to run nowadays. 0ur efficiencies in terms of room cleaning is way off the scale from where we were. both katie and tony agree that this summer's going to be crucial in getting the local tourism industry back on track. the reality is, across the whole of the highlands, tourism has been significantly affected. it's a huge part of our economy and if we can have a good summer, if we can tell our stories and sell our scones, and engage people in the story of culloden, it's going to make a big difference. our best guess at this moment in time is that this year will be a staycation year and we really need our uk residents to get behind us and help us because we have

had a very tough time. with things opening up again, i'm going to be travelling across the highlands towards the outer hebrides of scotland's extraordinary west coast. and i'm going to do it with the help of our travel show van, with an occasional break for the odd charge! my first stop is the uk's largest national park, the cairngorms. i've heard there is an ambitious 200 year plan to restore this landscape. but i'm not sure our little van is up to the off—road bits, so unfortunately, i've had to switch temporarily to an old—fashioned gas guzzler.

excellent. it's a long jump down, this. so, dan, where are we? well, ade, we're in the cairngorm national park. we're at the abernethy forest which is owned by the rspb but is part of the cairngorm connect partnership. it is absolutely beautiful, can you tell me what cairngorms connect is? yeah, so it's a partnership between four [and owning organisations and what we're trying to do is restore natural processes, we're trying to get the forest to go back to its natural tree line, we're restoring peatlands that's going to help take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and where we've got rivers that have been altered, we're making them more natural by restoring them to their natural channels. excuse my ignorance, to my untrained eye this looks pretty natural to me. why would you say it needs to be restored?

well, we've been working here for the last 30 years, ade, and if you'd come here 30 years ago you probably wouldn't have been able to see many young trees at all. it's the largest chunk of caledonian pine forest we've got left but it's been constrained by grazing animals and burning and man's intervention for a couple of hundred years, so we want to see the forest continue to march right up the hills and if we're able to come back in a couple of hundred years, we'd hopefully see some trees on the skyline up there as well. wow! the partnership use a range of methods to help restore the landscape, including planting trees and managing deer numbers. this part of the cairngorms is owned by the royal society for the protection of birds. and their on—site visitor centre at loch garten has just reopened after a big renovation. this place looks shiny and new. yeah, it is, yeah, the first month of opening after two years of being closed.

the centre's biggest draw is this observation area, looking out onto a tall platform containing an osprey nest. all right, so you can see the nest in the far distance here. so it's quite a large nest... massive. yeah, it's over a metre wide. and we need that nest to be big because the chicks get really big, really fast. it looks quite far away from here. so, it does look far away but it is actually one of the best spots to see them, even from the windows, and we have our live cameras up there, you can have a really good look at them on the nest. it's incredible to think that they travel all the way from west africa, here, to the highlands of scotland. yes, so they migrate at the end of march, beginning of april, from west africa, senegal, portugal, spain, and it takes them about 1—2 months to come all the way here.

they're beautiful birds and they're the only bird of prey that exclusively feeds on fish. pescatarians, are they? pescatarians, they are, yes, they like their trout! for almost a0 years, in the early part of the 20th century, these birds were hunted to extinction in the uk. conservation work led to their successful reintroduction and over the past few decades, their numbers have steadily grown. today it's estimated there are around 250 breeding pairs across britain. so all the natural processes we talked about, that produces bigger, safer habitats for wildlife to thrive, and the link with ospreys, i suppose, is quite symbolic. the first ospreys to come back to britain came back to loch garten in the 1950s and we're hoping that cairngorms connect�*s going to bring back lots more nature as we move forward through the 200 years. but there's more to the cairngorms

than just walks and wildlife. adventure companies offer zip lining, canyoning and something called white water tubing — riding one of these rubber rings downriver. i was hoping to give it a go but the conditions were a little wild. so what was the issue about the tubing today then? the river's too high, it's in flood, it wouldn't be safe, we couldn't actually stop you, and, you mightjust keep going. where do the rapids end? the north sea. 0k, yeah, that's an issue, isn't it? now lockdown is easing, are you starting to see some pent—up demand? yeah, absolutely. the may bank holiday weekend was sold out, so our first big weekend, but we are in a lucky position because we've got all this space and fresh air. guess you're the perfect activity centre for covid because of all the space? in the past, i would say about half of all clients were coming from the continent. we're not going to have all that this year, but we've been

so busy with uk clients. we were sold out last summer, busiest summer ever, last summer. we're expecting the same this year. well, i might not be able to get out on the river, but kevin insisted i have a go on one of their longest zip lines. i'm feeling a bit more nervous, i mean, i was quite chilled out about this, cos i was like, why everyone does this? you know, kids do it. and now, looking down into the gorge, um... my nether regions have got a little bit tighter! put two hands on top. and then i'll go? yeah, when you lift your legs up, you shalljust head off out here. i don't wanna...| don't wanna do it! you'll be fine, you'll be fine. ade screams and whoops.

next on myjourney across scotland, i'm travelling cross country to catch a ferry to the outer hebrides. look at that! do you know what, i'm getting quite worried, the charge is going down a little bit faster than i thought it would. next time i see somewhere to pull over, i'll pull over, and then, look on the phone, on the app. ok, so it's saying there's a charge point at a place called fort augustus. loch ness? hey, great! i mean, scotland is new to me when it comes to charge points, but it doesn't feel to me like you are going to run out.

there are more than 1500 charge points across scotland, but fully charging the van at one of these stations can leave you hanging around a bit. you know, a lot of people have said this to me, aren't you going to get, like, really bored, sitting at charge points, waiting for the car to charge? but actually, after a long drive, it's nice, itjust makes you take a breath, pause, and enjoy thejourney. the calmac ferries take over 5 million passengers to the scottish islands every year. or at least every normal year! that number was more than halved in 2020. i'm heading to harris, one of the many islands that make up the outer hebrides. they're a collection of 119 islands in all, stretching for 130 miles.

and i arrive in time for that one essential hallmark of the british summer. look at the weather! it's bleak. i guess this is what you get when you come to holiday in the uk! it's a different type of holiday. just a few weeks ago, i wouldn't have been able to do this journey because, for most of the year, travel between here and the mainland hasn't been allowed. to stop coronavirus from taking hold in these closed off communities. and they've been relatively successful. when i arrived in may, they'd recorded less than 300 cases since the pandemic began. to help keep it that way, we've followed government advice and taken two lateral flow tests before coming over. but i'm really interested

to find out what it's been like for the people living out here who've not been able to leave the islands. i'm on my way to meet a resident who was born and raised on neighbouring lewis, and luckily, we catch a break in the weather. if it was raining, i'd be worried. it would be slippery. it's good work. fingers crossed, ade, this is where my house is going to be. it's a wee bit airy at the moment. wow, that's a doer—upper. it is a wee bit of a doer—upper, but i think you can see why. so this wee piece of land, my granny was born in that house down there, and this is a very important croft for the family. you'll find with people from the hebridean islands, we're very proud of where we're from. we are scottish but we're a wee bit distinct with our own language and culture and identity.

the community, you can imagine in a wee village like this, is very, very important. we're social species, aren't we, human beings? as much as you want to come and live somewhere really remote, we do need that contact every now and again. yes, it's been amazing how folk have really made sure that everybody�*s been 0k. that if you're a wee boy who doesn't see his pals any more or an old granny who's not seeing theirfamily, that they're getting a little bit of community feel, even if it's from a distance. as a proud hebridean, coinneach has been sharing videos of island life on his tiktok account where he's become a bit of a sensation. 0ver lockdown, he racked up 10 million views as the hebridean baker, posting dozens of traditional recipes. hello there! ade! welcome to adepitan taxis!

well, it's been quite an adventure, ade, to say the least. it's been really quite special to be able to promote the islands. i do gaelic lessons, but mostly baking, my favourite ones are when i have a classic bake, maybe it's like a tiramisu, but i give it a wee scottish twist. how would you give it a scottish twist? go on. well, there's no harm in throwing a wee bit of whiskey in! ah, yes! so, where are we heading now? so, we're going to make the traditional bake called a duff. 0n the mainland, they call it a clootie dumpling. nice. but our first stop is a very important stop because my aunt, who's 92, makes the best duff on the island. coinneach�*s aunt entrusts us with her special ingredient

for a perfect pudding. her own home—made three—fruit marmalade. a spoonful of this in the duff! a spoonful of that? and that will make itjust perfect? yes, it would. how do i say thank you in gaelic? ta padh leat. tapadh leat! and with that, we get to work on making some duff. it starts off really easy. this traditional scottish dessert is made with fruits and spices, then wrapped in a cloth and steamed. look at that! this is baking gold! service with a smile and a scottie dog. wherever food goes, the dog goes as well. so here is our duff.

the texture is slightly different. i thought it would be like a typical fruitcake. but it's a bit wetter. i think it's absolutely lovely, it's delicious. i think the marmalade has made a difference. i was going to say, if it wasn't for your aunt's marmalade... but, what are your feelings about the island opening up again for tourism? are you not worried about covid potentially taking hold of the community, like it's never done before? i think we have to stay and be conscious for a long time yet. but i think the island has done really well in making sure that people are safe, the vaccination programme has gone really, really well, but also, for us hebrideans who haven't been able to venture very far, for us to be able to see other parts of the uk would be nice as well.

how do you say cheers in gaelic? slainte. slainte! the main town on the outer hebrides is stornoway, home to around 6000 people. and it's here that the first leg of our british roadtrip comes to an end. i think with all the covid rules and restrictions, a lot of us have just got used to staying at home. but then i've come out here and immersed myself in all of this nature and got to meet actual real people, notjust faces on a laptop or phone screen. i think it's fair to say that nothing will ever be the same again after the pandemic. but if it teaches us to cherish more moments like this and to travel in a more mindful and responsible

way, then maybe we can make it a change for the better! and in two weeks' time, ourjourney across the uk continues. for the second leg of our road to recovery tour, i'm crossing england's biggest county — from seaside to countryside. yes! we made it! to see how the people and places of north yorkshire are emerging from lockdown.

good afternoon to you. reverse the fortunes of weather today to northern ireland and scotland, which will see the best of the sunshine, yesterday's weather front has moved to england and wales. a gorgeous serene picture behind me here, blue scots there. this ridge of high pressure building here across scotland and northern ireland, we should see increasing sunshine over the next two hours. bringing more cloud to england and wales, not completely cloudy, there are some holes in there, some sunny spells. and when the sunshine does break through, it lists the temperature and we are likely to see heavy showers developing across england and wales. the temperatures will be and wales. the temperatures will be a degree or so down on yesterday's value because we have more cloud, the high teens, perhaps 22 degrees in some spots. high teens in scotland and northern ireland. the showers continue this evening, maybe through first parts of the night, then drier through the second half

of the night, clear spells, variable cloud and mist here and there. temperatures dip into single figures across scotland, but double figures for england wales and northern ireland. for monday, a similar story to today, variable cloud, sunny spells around, as the sunshine breaks through the cloud, the temperatures lift a bit and could set up some have and andre showers through wales, the midlands down towards east anglia, but most places should stay dry. temperatures could be up, 22—23 could be the height through the south. monday through tuesday, things change, high—pressure holes on across england wales, but low pressure in the atlantic which will send weather fronts our way. and that will bring thicker cloud at times through scotland, northern ireland, into northwest wales possibly. more breeze and some showers here, but for easter scotland some warm sunshine, and for england and wales it is a dry story, close to the high

pressure and it will feel warm. temperatures around mid—20s celsius. through the week you can see low—pressure continuing through the northwest of the uk, higher pressure on south, that will bring thicker cloud, operates a rain, mist, stronger winds to parts of scotland and northern ireland, particularly to the northern areas, the closer you are to the high—pressure, you'll see the best of the sunshine. and into the following weekend, high—pressure will building with a lighter winds and we should see more sunshine and it will turn a little bit warmer.

this is bbc news with the latest headlines. the uk's health secretary says thejune 21st decision on easing restrictions has become "more difficult" because the delta variant is 40% more transmissible. that does make life more challenging for everybody. and you have seen that the case rates have risen a little. but, the good news is that hospitalisations, the number of people arriving at hospital is broadly flat. vaccinations are being opened up to the under—30s this week in the drive to offer covid jabs to all adults in england. borisjohnson will tell global leaders he wants the whole world to be vaccinated against coronavirus, by the end of next year.

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