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on 10th march, the cheltenham festival commenced.sage the true number of cases in the united kingdom what was to be measured in the tens of thousand, professor ferguson challenged number ten officials that the sage meeting and asked them do you know what an epidemic with 4,000—6,000 deaths per day would feel like? what was the reaction in number ten when that informing was relayed back to you? well it contributed to our growing sense that something had gone horrifically wrong, in the communication between sage, dhsc and the cabinet office notjust about the cabinet office notjust about the scale of the problem but the speed of the problem.— the scale of the problem but the speed of the problem. request was from a reconsideration _ speed of the problem. request was from a reconsideration of _ speed of the problem. request was from a reconsideration of the - speed of the problem. request was i from a reconsideration of the wisdom of allowing mass gathering to continue. it of allowing mass gathering to continue. . . of allowing mass gath

the next week, though, the cheltenham festival was allowed to go ahead. the virus is deadly... home, felt terrible. my temperature was going up and up. my wife was getting more worried. and so the sunday, she called an ambulance. a bbc wales crew filmed geoff in hospital. it's only literally this covid thing, which literally wiped my world. he accepts it was his own decision to go to both events, but says the government should have acted sooner. with the twickenham, yeah. we wanted to go, cheltenham, we wanted to go, but you know, if they'd have said no, which should have been the right decision, yeah, it would have been disruptive for a lot of people, but lives would have been saved. the second part of the covid inquiry will run until christmas and examine key decisions made during the pandemic, including whether lives could have been saved if lockdowns had been imposed earlier or differently, the effectiveness of social distancing, facemasks and other lockdown measures, and public confidence in the government, including the effect of any rule breaches by ministers and officia

speaking the cheltenham speaking at the cheltenham literature burley literature festival, mike burley, says the sport brings a roller coaster of emotions . as i just coaster of emotions. as i just thought it was boring and that's why were depressed. why they were depressed. >> think it's roller >> i don't think it's a roller coaster, i must admit it does. that a bit. it's not that feels a bit. it's not really is it? really that exciting, is it? it's a long, slow grind. >> i don't think it is. it just >> i don't think it is. itjust seems to be a of running and seems to be a lot of running and batting and all that kind of stuff, you know, like waitrose on afternoon. mike on a saturday afternoon. mike bailey form bailey also said that short form cricket the biggest threat to cricket is the biggest threat to the, cricket risks the, to the sport. cricket risks damaging players mental health because dramatic or because loss is more dramatic or drastic . drastic. >> i think the thing it means is and i do understand this a tiny bit, i've had some i don't play cricket, but i've had some experi

mark williams leads mark selby by five frames to four in the final of the british open snooker in cheltenhamscotland's big win over romania at the rugby world cup last night, it's another six days before there's any more home nations action at the tournament in france, with all four playing their final pool matches next saturday. two of them have secured a spot in the quarter finals already, wales and england, and our correspondent katie gornall has been with the england camp today. they had to stay in france and some of them went to the beach and others went with families and children and others decided to stay here and the area and have time to switch off but they are back fully in training and gearing up for theirfinal group gearing up for their final group game gearing up for theirfinal group game against samoa and with that likely quarterfinal with fiji on the horizon, remember, england have qualified for the quarterfinals with a game to spare and that is significantly think back to the start of the tournament when expectations were very low outside of the england camp in the last five

leads mark selby by five frames to three after the first session of their british open final in cheltenham title. after scotland's big win over romania at the rugby world cup last night. it's another six days before there's any more home nations action at the tournament in france. with all four playing their final pool matches next saturday. two of them have secured a spot in the quarter finals already. wales and england and attack coach richard wigglesworth says they won't be making too many changes for their next game against samoa. i don't think there will be a lot of experimentation at this and i do not think the same team will get played day after day and the team picked to be the best team. defending champions south africa take on tonga from eight o'clock, but australia have just beaten portugal in saint etienne. eddiejones' men are third in pool c and needed a bonus point win to keep their faint hopes of reaching the knock out stages alive. fraser mcreight delivered that with their fourth try. australia are leading by 3a points to 1a with just a few seconds remaining. harlequins hel

the next week, though, the cheltenham festival was allowed to go ahead. the virus is deadly...at both events and is sure he caught covid there. i come home, felt terrible. my temperature was going up and up. my wife was getting more worried. and so the sunday, she called an ambulance. a bbc wales crew filmed jeff in hospital. geoff in hospital. it's only literally this covid thing, which literally wiped my world. he accepts it was his own decision to go to both events, but says the government should have acted sooner. with the twickenham, yeah. we wanted to go, cheltenham, we wanted to go, but you know, if they'd have said no, which should have been the right decision, yeah, it would have been disruptive for a lot of people, but lives would have been saved. the second part of the covid inquiry will run until christmas and examine key decisions made during the pandemic, including whether lives could have been saved if lockdowns had been imposed earlier or differently, the effectiveness of social distancing, facemasks and other lockdown measures, and public confidence in the gove

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literature festival , cheltenham literature festival, no less.in his films. now i don't know how many fit movies , don't know how many fit movies, sorry, hit movies, i should say. his daughter is responsible for, but i'd suggest that the success of films like four weddings and notting hill would imply that the public don't have a problem with their content, including the thousands who are still the many thousands who are still streaming these movies online, including doubt, many british including no doubt, many british people enjoying the people of colour enjoying the outrageously white notting hill because, well, it's a funny old world out there. so to the fat jokes, one of the offending lines was that bridget jones had an bigger than brazil . that's an bigger than brazil. that's funny. get over yourself. but of course, this new generation of joyless permanently offended thought police want to suck out all of the comedy from the world. they hate laughter. what's wrong with fat jokes? it's not like a disability which is beyond your control. other

literature festival , cheltenham literature festival, he said, i was behind the curve and those jokesunobservant and not as clever as i should have been. but carol, first of all, is he going to hand back all the millions of pounds that he's made from those films? >> no, of course he isn't. and his daughter, who has benefited from the many millions pounds from the many millions of pounds that her father's made, she's not hand it back not going to hand it back either. really gets on my either. this really gets on my nerves. this is utter tosh, because girl, scarlett, because this girl, scarlett, clearly doesn't her dad's clearly doesn't get her dad's genius the genius of richard genius and the genius of richard curtis was he could portray he'd have a character like martine mccutcheon , who was a bit mccutcheon, who was a bit chubby, who did have tree trunk legs and all that. but the whole positive message of that was that the hot prime minister fell in love with and married in love with her and married her. so what? we don't know if her. so what? we don't know if he know he's he married

i wanted to win the cheltenham gold cup and virtually every single said, virtually every single one saidt? but the grand national event. what's that? but the grand natiorand event. what's that? but the grand natiorand and event. what's that? but the grand natiorand and i event. what's that? but the grand natiorand and i would ent. what's that? but the grand natiorand and i would like to yeah. and and i would like to reiterate that , that this has reiterate that, that this has all been industry led. it's not all been industry led. it's not a knee jerk reaction after every national they do have a debrief and even after we won the after i won it with many clouds they debriefed a lot of trainers and got to get a got a consensus of opinion over trying to improve the race every little bit . i the race every little bit. i think it's sad. i'm a bit of a traditionalist to bring it down from 40 to 34, but i see where they're coming from . but they're they're coming from. but they're appeasing a lobby. >> i mean , this race, the do >> i mean, this race, the do gooders, this race has been going sinc

i wanted to win the cheltenham gold cup and virtually every single said, virtually every single one saidt? but the grand national event. what's that? but the grand natiorand event. what's that? but the grand natiorand and event. what's that? but the grand natiorand and i event. what's that? but the grand natiorand and i would ent. what's that? but the grand natiorand and i would like to yeah. and and i would like to reiterate that , that this has reiterate that, that this has all been industry led. it's not all been industry led. it's not a knee jerk reaction after every national they do have a debrief and even after we won the after i won it with many clouds they debriefed a lot of trainers and got to get a got a consensus of opinion over trying to improve the race every little bit . i the race every little bit. i think it's sad. i'm a bit of a traditionalist to bring it down from 40 to 34, but i see where they're coming from . but they're they're coming from. but they're appeasing a lobby. >> i mean , this race, the do >> i mean, this race, the do gooders, this race has been going sinc

at the cheltenham literary festival or whatever it was try fit in? but should was to try to fit in?he next 007 be black or a woman or both, or should we just leave classics like james bond well alone let me know your thoughts by emailing gb views at gb news .uk or tweet me at gb news. and while you're there, go and vote in our poll. i will bring you those results very, very shortly. that is active on twitter. but to debate this, i'm joined by former ukip leader henry bolton, social commentator joanna jarjue and writer and broadcaster anna mae mangan, great to have you all on the show. thank you very, very much. look, henry, i'll start with you. black you. should we have a black woman as the james bond? woman as the next james bond? >> no , i mean, that's not going >> no, i mean, that's not going to be okay. >> henry. to be okay. >> henry bond, is it? look, i think that james bond is an think thatjames bond is an iconic story set of set of books and films. you just can't mess with that. and there are there are there are female heroines around . and, you know, look at around. and, you

he's being interviewed by his daughter, the cheltenham literature festival, and he said he admitted thatlly actually made him feel uncomfortable and i just want to agree with him . not for the same agree with him. not for the same reason , no, because it's reason, no, because it's rubbish. >> all the rest of it is my family's favourite film every time. i'm so sorry. can they be mine? oh i mean, there were a couple of bits in it when i first watched it that i thought were okay, but it does feel icky to me now. so mawkish. he got into a lot of trouble from notting hill for just being into a lot of trouble from notting hill forjust being so notting hill for just being so middle class and white at the time and at the time i was like in that area in particular, it's like ridiculous. think to some like ridiculous. i think to some extent probably of extent he is probably guilty of some things, but this some of these things, but this idea of fat, fat jokes, that's one of good bits. he says. one of the good bits. he says. well, says fat jokes. jokes well, he says fat jokes. jokes about women aren

cheltenham literature festival, as he said, yeah, this is a good idea. are of course two people seeing themselves as representations of themselves as representations of themselves in those roles is more likely to lead to an uptick and you can absolutely argue too, that having a diverse spy service to be able to go into different parts of the world makes total sense. you know, i can totally see if you regard bond as a recruitment tool first and foremost. >> i suppose that's the question. paul well, it's a fiction for a start. >> so it can be anything. it could be rabbit for all care. >> well, they've killed bond himself, back himself, so whatever comes back as in the next one as james bond in the next one won't actually james bond. no won't actually be james bond. no and probably. it's probably and it's probably. it's probably going purist going to lose 75% of its purist followers, it? as a result ? >> you know what? i don't want to be that but at the end to be that guy, but at the end of the day, if this was a matter of the day, if this was a matter of t

year career in the foreign office , told audience members at office, told audience members at the cheltenhamctor or actress as james bond would cause an uptick in applicants from black, asian and minority ethnic backgrounds . so minority ethnic backgrounds. so that obviously is a is a white bond, that's another another white bond that we're to going see a lot of white. james bond's aren't we, apparently in terms of boosting recruitment for mi6, though? me, but though? now, forgive me, but that much the foreign that is very much the foreign element of our intelligence service, isn't it? so i would imagine that there is no shortage of recruiting people who are literally from other countries and loads of different ethnicities and all of that stuff. i would have thought that i don't really think most mi6 agents, if they were white, white, upper middle class men , white, upper middle class men, would no doubt stand out like a sore thumb in the vast majority of the countries that we send our mi6 agents to go and operate in. but there we go. so we are going to be having that discussion next in the

the welshman rolled back the years to beat iran's hossein vafaei six frames to three in cheltenham tobody knows me and i know everybody. i like the community spirit here and i never thought twice about moving anywhere else. his legendary hymns and arias captured people�*s imaginations and is ever popular with welsh rugby supporters. but side by side with the laughter, there�*s emotion and sentiment in his music and words. i remember mornings with nobody about come at the shops are closed like sundayjust about come at the shops are closed like sunday just as about come at the shops are closed like sundayjust as the tide went out. as he celebrated his birthday in a special bbc radio wales programme there was a chance to relive fond memories with some of his closest friends and admirers from the world of rugby. you can see from the way audiences react— you can see from the way audiences react to _ you can see from the way audiences react to him. — you can see from the way audiences react to him, the humour, and the sincerity. — react to him, the humour, and the sincerity, the _ react to

interviewed by his daughter, lovely scarlett, who is 28 years at the who is 28 years old at the cheltenhamf his films , in many, many of his films, which, as you know, 20, 30 years ago, some of them . and she is ago, some of them. and she is saying you can't use the word fat anymore, dad . so he is now fat anymore, dad. so he is now saying, right, okay, i have told my daughter i will stop telling fat jokes in films now this comes back to the age old debate at the moment is like, can you joke about anything or are there some subjects that are off limits and, you know, some he goes, well, fat isn't funny anymore. and i sort of like just reading stuff from reading some of the stuff from four and funeral here four weddings and a funeral here with very emotional with the very the very emotional funeral scene where matthew, played by john hannah, says that the funeral of his partner. i rang a few people to get a general picture of how gareth was regarded. seems be was regarded. fat seems to be a word most people connected with him, find quite funny. him, which i find quite funny. >> yeah, but yo

he beat mark selby by 10 frames to 7 in the final in cheltenham.antwerp, becoming the first woman to land a move that will now be named after her. the move is rated the most difficult and put her into first place in all—around qualifying. the move will now be named after the biles 2. she was competing internationally for the first time since taking a two—year break to work on her mental health, having suffered from the twisties at the tokyo olympics. so, really impresive stuff from biles there. great to see her back and she is obviously in the right head space at the moment, clearly in the right space to be performing a routine that no one else can do and that bodes well. that no one else can do and that bodes well-— bodes well. that's the most incredible _ bodes well. that's the most incredible comeback, i bodes well. that's the most incredible comeback, to i bodes well. that's the most. incredible comeback, to have bodes well. that's the most i incredible comeback, to have had that whole episode she had where she became as you say it was so diffi