in central bedfordshire perhaps not such an issue that some of the coastal areas have seen peaches aret private ownership or public ownership and the confusion over rules in relation to that. do these new powers give those local councils the tools they need to deal with such events? clearly if we are talking about shafting something very major, and we saw those scenes in bournemouth on a sunny bank holiday, that would be a more complex issue to —— about shutting. address. we are hoping to avoid that type of thing and we are focusing on smaller localised proportionate response. if, and i hope it doesn't happen, but something on a regional scale happens, that would reside with government. daily data has been getting concern, getting timely data to pinpoint problems as soon as they arise. are you getting the data you needin arise. are you getting the data you need in as much detail as you need as quickly as you need? data-flow has improved significantly in the last few weeks. two or three weeks ago we started getting postcode level data on a weekly basis. this week it is on a daily basis.

as i say, he left bedfordshire earlier on today.orfalling just so here this afternoon. no tripping up or falling just so they could make it here in one piece. but he looked incredibly smart. he was clearly moved and very honoured by this ceremony today, and i think we should hear from ceremony today, and i think we should hearfrom him perhaps a little later on hopefully with how he felt and what he said to the queen and what she said to him. many thanks. aber correspondent helen at wilkinson there in windsor forest. —— hour. let us get more now on our top story. the prime minister has announced a fresh timetable for the easing of coronavirus restrictions in england, saying he hoped there could be a more significant return to normality by november in time for christmas. he said that by august the 1st, the government will give employers more discretion on how staff ca n employers more discretion on how staff can return to the workplace instead of telling them to work from home. our political correspondent ian watson reports. even as t

thank you very much indeed for all of that as well professor good to run from the university bedfordshire told me earlier that the government had facilitated a sense of complacency. i think the key challenge is the one asked we all understand the need to reopen the economy we also need to focus on public protection and that's only going to happen with far more assertive in the way we give out publicly of messages to their all of britain's a society and at the moment we've seen for example the stepping back of government of their daily broadcasts so in a sense the public opinion if you like rella and maybe too relaxed about crime are us a mind suggestion would be a is that as a band minima we should be doing our early coronavirus forecasts a bit like all our weather reports should be our having hourly coronavirus for the show mark of the u.k. and showing where the hot spots are but how do we can we make the public really pay attention to this is an element of complacency in that we do have compulsory musk's now in shops a lot of public transport and of course one metre plus distancing but

is mixed as we go through the course of the day, but look at this beautiful picture, the sky in bedfordshireat is happening is we have got this little amount of weather fronts here, if you follow this trickle along for the atlantic, you can see what i'm talking about, and they are all going to be bringing rain for the next couple of days. here comes the next couple of days. here comes the rain pushing steadily eastward through the day. as you go north, we look at a mixture of bright skies, with cloud around at times, sunny intervals and sharp showers. the rain pushing out of parts of northern ireland through the day, heavyin northern ireland through the day, heavy in places. if you are travelling, they will be surface water on the roads. the further south you travel, the more likely you are to run into some sunny skies. the south midlands, southern parts of wales, hanging on to a fair bit of cloud. temperature's, looking at 11 in the north, highs of 21 further south. through this evening and overnight, the weatherfront producing all this rain, takes further south, taking this cloud with it,