vanessa feltz is on her bbc radio london programme. t restrictions. the whole of london, along with parts of essex and hertfordshire, willjoin tier 3. let's speak to the chief secretary to the treasury, stephen barclay. good morning. iwould good morning. i would like to ask about the news we heard from matt hancock yesterday. how concerned argue about this new variant of coronavirus? i think the concern is whether it is leading to an exhilaration in the spread of the virus, and that is what we are testing with scientists at porton down looking at that but the chief medical officer was more reassuring in terms of the vaccine, that it would be surprising if the vaccine was not still effective against this strain. it is something we are looking closely at and it reinforces why it is important for people to adhere to social distancing, but in terms of the light at the end the tunnel, important to many, in terms of vaccine deployment, we have 800,000 of those and it is positive for the uk 800,000 of those and it is positive forthe uk and 800

for more travel news, you can tune in to bbc radio london who will have updates.r very mild start out there this morning. we start the day widely in double figures celsius, with that, we still have the cloud and further outbreaks of rain. it's largely light and patchy today. breezy this morning but the wind will ease through the course of the day so less blustery than yesterday. butjust as mild, temperatures reaching a maximum of 13 celsius. we will see further outbreaks of rain through this evening. we hang on to the cloud overnight as well. and the mild temperatures, between six and ten, the minimum as we head through to tomorrow morning. as we head into wednesday, the met office has issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain. we are looking at 20 to a0 millimetres of rain falling on saturated ground so it could lead to localised funding. a deep area of low pressure causing this wet and windy weather. could even hear a rumble or two of thunder through the course of wednesday. but for thursday, high—pressure moving in from the west, squeezing that out of the

the rest of the travel news, tune into bbc radio london for updates every 15 minutes.again it isa elizabeth. good morning. once again it is a mild and possibly start to the day. temperatures in high single figures. it could be quite a pretty sunrise. watch out for that. cloud thickening through the morning and a southerly wind strengthening with an approaching weather front, but we should stay dry through the morning and into the first part of the afternoon. then this rain band is moving eastwards, most of the rain on this will be light and patchy, towards eastern areas in particular it will not get to us until after dark. top temperatures this afternoon, around 10 celsius. wet and windy for much of the second half of the day. a rain band clears heading through this evening, so a dry night to come with clear spells, and it will feel a bit cooler into thursday morning. 0n and it will feel a bit cooler into thursday morning. on thursday, it should stay dry or mostly dry, with a small chance of a shower, with some bright, sunny spells. temperatures rising again to around

that's on bbc radio london.ay. hospitals across the uk put their final plans in place ahead of tomorrow's covid vaccine rollout. fans are back — and so are spurs at the top of the league. they extended their unbeaten run to ten games with victory over arsenal in the north london derby. he's a man on a marathon mission. rugby league legend kevin sinfield's about to set off on his seventh marathon in seven days, in support of former team mate rob burrow. just completely blown away by the whole thing. the support has been unbelievable. um, i just want to thank everybody. it's been wonderful. it isa it is a cold start the day and it will be a cold generally, some dense fog and some will lift but some will hang around. the best chance of the brightness will be in wetter areas. all of the details in ten minutes. —— western areas. it's monday the 7th of december. our top story. post—brexit trade talks resume this morning in brussels, following a weekend of tense negotiations. the brexit transition period ends in just o

lennon moved here on a twa flight from london onjanuary 5,1980, to do a temporary stint as a radio news and current affairs producer — much of the time in the bbcetype machines while eating lunch — but it was an exciting time covering the democratic and republican conventions in 1980. in my career with the bbc, i have probably filed some 3,000 reports or packages. i have interviewed nearly every living big—name movie star, but whenever i meet people, all they want to know is "what was it like to cover the death ofjohn lennon?" i never knew the man, but i do feel a real kinship with him. i have often wondered what his last few hours on this planet were like. # john lennon and yoko ono # new york city are your people.# i do know that he and yoko. 0no left the dakota late on that monday afternoon and headed south. they may have gone down central park west, which, today, with its grand apartment buildings overlooking the park, looks much like it did when lennon was alive. to him, new york city was the capital of the universe. lennon's destination that monday afternoon was a now—defunct recording studio called the record plant located at 321 west 44

intensive care doctorfrom london has warned that people who don't follow social distancing rules or wear masks have blood on their hands. professor hugh montgomery told bbc radioeading so rapidly, hospitals were under enormous pressure. huge numbers coming in, so, you know, my heart goes out as well to the emergency departments, i mean, our own one, but everyone else with whom i'm talking, their emergency departments are seeing the tsunami in the last week or two of cases. the wards are flooded. everyone's working at maximum stretch really. we've had to double up or sometimes triple up on consultant staff in. the nursing staff are back to being very overstretched. in some areas, it's one icu nurse to four patients again. and the numbers are still rising. this, quote, new variant, we should be a bit clear on this. i mean, it's severity of illness caused by it is no worse or better than the first one. it's not a nastier type of the virus. and its transmissibility is indeed a little bit higher. but it's making me actually very angry now that people are laying the blame on the virus. and it's not the virus, it's people. people are not washing their hands. they're

intensive care doctor from london that people who don't follow social distancing rules, or wear masks — have blood on their hands. professor hugh montgomery has been speaking to bbc radious, it's people. people are not washing their hands. this is people. people are not doing what they should be doing. 50% or more of people will not even know they have this virus. they'll have such mild disease that they might not even know they've got symptoms and that they're spreading it. but this is very highly contagious. each person can spread this to four to five people in an enclosed space and each of those can spread it to four to five people. so one person can infect hundreds of thousands of people very easily. people just have... i'm really sorry. i know it's horrible. i'm fed up to the back teeth with this virus, too, and i want to see my friends and family and hug someone. but we can't. we just can't do this right now. so i'm really, really sorry that new year's eve is going to be miserable, but it has to be. please don't gather in masses. don't make this the last swansong. don't give it a, "well, it's all going to be locked down so we'll have one more night out" because w