weekend from a rather gloomy news agenda with the announcement that borisjohnson and his partner carrie symons and expecting a baby in the summer. but not everyone was filled with joy on watching bbc news reporting on that news. trevor webber emailed on sunday: and a twitter user called annie agreed. that charge of excessive airtime and an overexcited tone was also laid a few days later in relation to a very different story. here's emily maitlis on wednesday's newsnight in washington for the latest round of votes in the long contest to choose the democratic candidate for november's us presidential election. the electoral upset of the last few hours is pretty hard to overstate. vice presidentjoe biden is, if you like, the lazarus of this contest. he was left for dead just a few short weeks ago, emerging triumphant from super tuesday, winning ten states and the lion's share of the delegates. david burns was watching and had this response. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news, including its social media and online out

has anyone contracted it and of course, the prime minister himself was there with his partner carrie symonsl have been in parliament so it will raise questions about whether further measures have to be taken in parliament. there is a huge body of opinion in westminster which absolutely does andrew sentance is a former member of the monetary policy committee and is now a senior adviser to cambridge econometrics. judging by what has been said ever, the most important part of that package is to pass on aid to business and do you that that kind of helpful flow readily from the banks? i think the bank of england has two rebels in this kind of situation. the first is to change the macroeconomic environment. that is normally done through reducing interest rates. the problem is they have very little scope to reduce interest rates, so they have used practically all the ammunition by making a 0.5% cut this morning. and then the other role they have is to oil the wheels of the financial system, and that was very important in the financial crisis. the bank of england is lender of last resort. it really

westminster for us. at those pictures of his fiancee, looking at those pictures of his fiancee, carrie symonsbe difficult for him both personally and politically. just as anyone displaying symptoms of covid—i9 and having to self—isolate, it will put a strain on the prime minister's personal and professional life, as you suggest. being holed up in a flat above number 11 downing st is not ideal when you are prime minister at any time, let alone in the grip of a crisis such as this. but, as you saw in vicky's report, the prime minister was at pains to say he was getting on with the job and using technology to his advantage and remains in control and in charge of the government's response to the coronavirus crisis. number ten is saying very little about the situation of the prime minister's fiancee, who is of course pregnant. we know the advice to pregnant. we know the advice to pregnant women is to be especially careful when following the social distancing advice. the prime minister will be on his own in that flat, meals are left outside the door, working remotely, following the guidance that ev

and it is not known, he did not mention, whether e is staying with his fiancee, carrie symons, who istive for the virus. let's go back to james forsyth, political editor of the spectator. from your knowledge of the prime minister is this atypical performance in the face of adversity, that he is in fairly positive, confident frame of mind? he is a naturally optimistic person. i think he has always has possessed the ability to cheer people up. he has always been quite proud of his health. i think this is the kind of upbeat response you would expect from him. it is worth illustrating that everybody who has had illustrating that everybody who has ha d co nta ct illustrating that everybody who has had contact with him in the past 2a was, is saying that the symptoms he seems to possess are fairly mild. an aspect we haven't yet talked about, either with our political editor or with you, is the one we mentioned a moment ago that he does have a fiancee and his fiancee is several months pregnant. and obviously advice to pregnant mothers to be is complex right now. it is to be especially careful

later in the day, we learned he is engaged to be married to his partner carrie symons and they are expectingeir son leo turns 20 this year. the year 2000 seems like yesterday... the northern rail network has been taken under government control this morning, following years of poor performance. the operator, arriva rail north, has been stripped of its franchise but transport secretary grant shapps says there will be no quick fix for the problems. simonjones reports. long—suffering passengers branded the service "northern fail" — delays, cancellation, overcrowding, strikes, and the introduction of a botched new timetable. they wanted change and trains that run on time. it's really unreliable. it's late every day. half of them don't turn up. ijust find that i tend to work from home quite a bitjust to avoid the commute. northern is a huge commuter network, from the midlands to northumberland, from lancashire to east yorkshire. but figures from the office of rail and road found only 55% of northern trains arrived at stations within a minute of the stated timetable in the past year. that compares

she was carried over by biden aide symone sanders there. >> and the victory thanks in part to black voters in several states. according to nbc news' exit polling, black voters, 60% of them backed him. this is also true in virginia, where 63% of african-american voters voted are for the former vice president. 62% of black voters in alabama voted for biden. and 70% of the black voters in that state.th as a whole, biden claimed a significant portion of black votersio in the states where almost two-thirds voted for him yesterday. >> and senator bernie sanders spoke to his home state last night, expressing willingness to win the democratic nomination while going after joe biden's voting record. >> we're going to beat trump because this will become a contrast in ideas. one of us in this race, led the opposition to the war in iraq. you're looking at him. another candidate voted for the war in iraq. one of us has spent his entire life fighting against cuts and social security exploiting to expand social security. and another candidate has been on the floor of the senate calling for cuts to social