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southwark cathedral is one of those who have set one up. 2016. there will be special prayers here tomorrow. at this time of pandemic, when there has been so much loss, i think people are feeling the loss of everybody who has died very keenly. so it doesn't matter whether it's an ordinary person or a prince, the pain of loss is the same and i think people need to be able to talk about that. saying thank you and goodbye to prince philip can't be the big in—person public affair that may once have been envisioned, but the sentiments are still so heartfelt, as his life and service are remembered. meanwhile, football grounds across the capital observed a moment of silence today before matches kicked off as they paid tribute to the duke of edinburgh. it includes the game at selhurst park where crystal palace are playing chelsea. all of the teams wore black armbands as a sign of repsect. i particularly wanted to say that my father, i suppose the last 70 years, has given the most remarkable, devoted service to the queen, to my hello, and welcome to

the archbishop of southwark has paid a visit to the parish.the easter celebrations will go ahead, so today being holy saturday in the christian calendar, tomorrow easter sunday. they say that the services will go ahead. they do make the point that communal services are allowed under the coronavirus regulations and reiterate the fact that the church has made a complaint to the police. in france, a third national lockdown has begun this evening after the number of covid cases has risen dramatically over the past two months. non—essential shops will close and schools will be shut for three or four weeks over the easter break and anyone travelling will need to justify a journey that takes them more than six miles from home. round three of the great national lockdown. and the same measures which have applied here in paris and other covid hotspots for the last two weeks will be extended across the country. now, we're on paris, we're on the champs—elysees and, quite evidently, it's not lockdown as you might conventionally understand the term. we're n

the whole of lambeth and wandsworth were asked to get tested, and those living in the se16 area of southwark, they've been reminding shop—owners and customers of what they need to do and they can threaten businesses with closure if they repeatedly fail to comply. what we are after is basically the people to abide by the rules, hands, face, lots of distance, social distancing, two metres distancing. we've got people who are blatantly flouting the rules and it's gone from business advice, it's gone to enforcement actions. it's gone all the way up to closures. a village pub near luton airport is vowing to reopen this morning despite a fire yesterday which destroyed its new outdoor area designed to comply with covid rules. £25,000 had been spent on creating the space at the white horse at tea green before it was devastated in an arson attack. customers have been raising money to help. let's take a look at the travel situation now. 0n the tube, there are minor delays on the hammersmith and city line this morning, as well as the ongoing closure of the waterloo and city line of course. there's disr

home testing kits will be delivered to some residents in southwark, south london. with elderly residents may be required to get a coronavirus jab. a five—week consultation has been launched by the department of health and social care, to consider whether to make covid vaccination a condition of employment for care home workers. here's the vaccine minister, nadhim zahawi. a number of providers have made it a condition of deployment of staff, as part of their duty of care, of course, to the most vulnerable. what we want to do is consult now with all stakeholders, five week consultation, to see whether it does become a condition of deployment and we want to hear from everyone as to how they feel, how we can make this work properly, rather than it being adopted ad hoc by different care providers. our social affairs correspondent alison holt has more on the consultation. it will be a five week consultation, the details will be published at some point today on the government website. what they are saying is they are consulting on whether or not it should be a condition o

home testing kits will also be delivered to some residents in southwark, in south london.in the ward of rotherhithe. it's a controversial issue, and now the government is launching a consultation into whether care home staff in england should be required to get a coronavirus vaccine. it's now a year since care homes were struggling to cope with the peak of the first wave. april 12th, 2020 saw a95 deaths of care home residents from covid alone. a further 800 plus residents died from other causes. those combined figures were more than three times the number who died in total from other causes on the same day in 2019. many families and care providers argue that only a public inquiry will explain why residents weren't better protected. here's our social affairs correspondent, alison holt. this is david's way of seeing more of his wife, anthea. he volunteers as a gardener at her care home. hello, sweetheart. hello! snatched moments at the window keep on going. the window keep him going. i'm here. particularly precious, as, a year ago, anthea had covid and was fighting for her l

southwark council is sending letters to 2,000 homes in south bermondsey asking residents to take a testndemic. research by the finance company — aviva — found a growing number of people want to learn new skills, gain more qualifications or switch to a differentjob. the most popular change listed was the desire to work from home. an 11 year—old from east london is raising money to help young people catch up on education they've missed during the pandemic. dj zel has been performing with her classmates and is hosting a special community event. her school is in newham — the borough with the highest covid—19 death rate anywhere in the country. that song is a song to give somebody, someone who listens to that song, courage, and to know that they should never give up. let's take a look at the travel situation now. there's a good service3 on the tubes apart from a part closure on tfl rail between liverpool street and stratford. bus strikes continue today affecting london united services across west and south—west london. in whitton — one lane is closed for gas works into town on great chertsey

there is frost this morning, quite a widespread frost at that and the weather watchers picture from southwarkl develop across central and southern scotland through the course of the afternoon, so that will turn the sunshine hazy. pollen levels, if you have an allergy to birch or ash or you are sniffily today, you can see a lot of us have high pollen levels. temperature wise it's not going to feel too bad at all because we have only got light breezes, perhaps stronger breezes coming on across the english channel and at times along the north sea coastline, just knocking back the temperatures a bit but we will still see 16 in glasgow, 11i a bit but we will still see 16 in glasgow, 1a in belfast, 15 in birmingham and 17 in cardiff and the average north to south is roughly between 11 and 15. through the evening and overnight, temperatures will fall away quickly and again we have the breeze coming in across the english channel, still a fair bit of cloud across the far north of scotland but at least it will help maintain temperature levels but elsewhere whether cloud remains broken it will be cold e

time now and of course we've had cases there in lambeth and wandsworth that have spread, a case in southwarkp it first to get into cells more easily which might make it more infectious and secondly, may help it to avoid immunity from the vaccination. we have now got about 73 cases in england confirmed and about four cases in scotland and surge testing is going on in all of the places where it has been identified. $5 the places where it has been identified.— identified. as well, lots of speculation _ identified. as well, lots of speculation about - identified. as well, lots of speculation about who - identified. as well, lots of speculation about who is l identified. as well, lots of _ speculation about who is vaccinated. 0ne speculation about who is vaccinated. one of the concerns was because of the trials and data for pregnant women not being available that there was doubt about who and when could receive the vaccine in terms of pregnancy, and that has changed now? it has indeed. there has never been any suggestion that the vaccine does make that we knew the vaccine was not safe for pregnan

they really detected cases in southwark now, through analysing the waste water, so that's identifiedhe very specific genetic typing. but it has not been linked to the cases in lambeth and wandsworth as of yet.— scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, has brought forward the easing of some covid restrictions, ten days earlier than expected. our correspondent, lorna gordon, is in glasgow. some become significant changes coming earlier than expected and it's all to do with that stay local restriction here in scotland that was meant to stay in place until april 26, so a little under two week's time, it would have been a week's time, it would have been a week on monday it was lifted, but nicola sturgeon today announcing that because the data, the number of cases were moving in the right direction, the case numbers are falling and falling quite fast and dramatically, in part because of that vaccination programme, she says they're bringing forward, accelerating the route map out as lockdown and the stay local restriction will be lifted on friday. at that point family and friends can tra