us president, joe biden has arrived in the uk, on his first trip abroad since taking office. he's due to attend the g7 summit of world leaders in cornwall, where the agenda will include, covid recovery, climate change and trade. the eu has doubled down on its threat to take action against the uk, after talks about the implementation of post—brexit trading arrangements in northern ireland ended without a breakthrough. delayed border checks are due to start at the end of this month. a buckingham palace source has told the bbc that the queen was "never asked" for permission by prince harry and meghan to name their daughter lilibet, which was the queen's childhood nickname. earlier the law firm schillings, which acts for the couple, wrote to some news organisations saying that claim is false and defamatory.

so the venue for the g7 summit is carbis bay, a small seaside village near st ives. it's now surrounded by a ring of steel and thouands of police. jon kay has been talking to some of the people who live there who can't quite believe their eyes. cornwall you know, that laid—back corner of the country where nothing much happens? st ives doesn't have a police station, but there are now 6,000 officers here from across the uk. they look like they're well prepared and we're putting our lives in their hands. from tomorrow, there will be less of a holiday vibe here. the two hotels, where global leaders will discuss things like the pandemic and the environment, are sealed off.

some consider it a waste of money when we've got children going hungry. charles now looks out on a ring of steel. unbelievable, unbelievable. i mean, this is a quiet, residential area, with a school at the top, you know?! a little bit unusual. what do you make of all this? well, it's just going to be so different, isn't it? we're moving out of home for the weekend! we're moving away. cornwall�*s airborne predators now have some serious competition. there's a radar unit in the national trust car park. and the fishing boats have company. theyjust told me i couldn't go inside a certain area. when this fisherman tried to reach his lobster pots this morning, he was turned back by a warship. were you not given warning about this? none at all, no warning, nothing. we presumed the navy would be coming, for a bit of protection

and i fully understand that they need to do that, but they should've really given us a heads up. but some are benefiting. these sisters are providing hampers of cornish products for the vips. for us, the prospect of one of our items ending up in somewhere like the white house is actually mind—blowing and we can't quite get our head around it. you know, we're only a small shop in st ives, so, for us, this is kind of the biggest thing that could happen for us. spencer just wants to know how he's going to get his car out. he's turned up from scotland on holiday expecting a sea view, not a summit. we didn't know until we arrived. what, you did not know it was happening? no. what do you make of it? pfft ! some do worry about covid and protests. but next door to the summit there is pride, that cornwall�*s big moment is here. it will be ironic if lobster is on the menu at the g7.

now on bbc news, the travel show. you gotta love it! proper british coastline. we're 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 to0ts 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 19805 and it's all electric. now, the original morrisj—type came out in 1948 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 tourfor 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 didn't land 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 19505 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 might just 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 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, �*cause 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...i 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 the journey. 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.

hello. two main points to take from our forecast for the next five days. number one, there is very little rain on the way for the uk as a whole, and number two — temperatures will be sitting above average for the majority of us in the days ahead. the reason for this weather, this ridge of high pressure which extends up from the azores. we will see various weather fronts trying to push their way into the northwest. there'll be some rain for the northern isles on thursday. more cloud around in general and some patchy, light rain possible around western coasts and hills, often quite mucky and murky here with mist and fog as well. best of the sunshine on thursday will be for central and eastern england. quite windy to the north. that could break the cloud up quite nicely across eastern scotland, seeing temperatures up to 23 around the moray firth. further south, 211—25 across central and eastern england. 0vernight thursday into friday, we do start to see a weather

front having a bit more success working its way south across the uk, but not bearing anything significant in the way of rain. it basicallyjust introduces some slightly lower humidity here, so slightly less muggy across the northern half of the uk first thing on friday. to the south, still a warm and humid start, and a cold weather front works its way south through the day, but you can barely make it out. it's essentially a few showers drifting their way south across england and wales. the odd one may be sharper, but certainly, the majority of places will stay dry. ahead of the front, still looking at temperatures in the mid—20s, a little down on thursday thanks to more cloud. to the north, it will feel fresher, but temperatures still into the high teens, even the low 20s. and then, through the weekend, the high pressure plumbs us into a more southerly airstream once again. it keeps things fine and it also bumps those temperatures back up after that brief dip behind the cold front on friday. there's what's left of the cold front heading off into the continent.

here is saturday. aside from a bit of cloud across western scotland and perhaps northern ireland, wall—to—wall sunshine and temperatures above average across the uk. for sunday, just the chance of a little more in the way of rain getting pushed in on the front to western scotland. elsewhere, though, again, a lot of dry weather. sunday, if anything, the warmest of the two days. eastern scotland up to 2a, perhaps close to 30 in the southeast.

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