it's a day of sadness because we have lost dame vera lynn.eath will leave a great gap in our community. of course, in the whole nation, she was loved and cherished by so many people. the cortege later moved to a private funeral service near brighton. dame vera's coffin borne by members of the air force, army, and navy. along the coast, in dover, the famous white cliffs have become a canvas of remembrance. a tribute to dame vera lynn — emblem of resilience, voice of hope, inspiration for a grateful nation. duncan kennedy, bbc news. duncan kennedy on the life of dame vera lynn. now on bbc news — our world. brazil has been devastated by coronavirus. more than 1.4 million people have been infected and the numbers are rising fast. our world travels to sao paulo. coronavirus has wreaked havoc on brazil. over 1.6 million have been infected and more than 65,000 have died. it's people are suffering deep economic pain. with the country's millions of domestic maids especially hardest hit. many have lost theirjobs, forcing them to choose between eating a

three passes on behalf of the air force, army and navy, dame vera's life forever intertwined with theas the aching cadence of her sonorous voice that helped vera lynn comfort millions during a moment of supreme national peril. from radio audiences at home... to concert performances before and after the war, her allure was an innocent charm, mixed with songs for the age. it is a day of sadness, because we have lost dame vera, her death will leave a great gap in our community. of course, in the whole nation, she was loved and cherished by so many people. the cortege then moved onto a private funeral at a crematorium near brighton. there, the tri—service solemnity became part of the day. in dover, the famous white cliffs have been turned into a canvas of gratitude. a projection of recollections. dame vera lynn, a symbol of resilience, a voice of hope and inspiration for a nation that today said goodbye. well, the funeral service is continuing to take place in brighton, just a small group of family and friends, socially distanced, for some readings and the music by dame vera herself. the

a tribute to dame vera lynn. of resilience, a voice of hope, inspiration for a grateful nation. duncan kennedy on the life of dame vera lynn. now on bbc news, it's time to click. this week: healing without hospitals. building an e—bike. and would you trust an al to get you fit? that looks exhausting. welcome to click, hope you are doing 0k. now, last week, lara ventured into her garden. this week we have both been let loose into the outside world. lara, how was it for you? it was great, i have been on an electric bike and i managed to not fall off, unlike last time. how was it for you? i have to say, i really enjoyed filming out and about again. we have both done this bike thing, which you will see later in the programme. one other thing i have done this week is i have been to a comedy gig online, which was really funny. and the good thing is that the front row of the audience, if you like, had their mics live throughout, so you could hear some of the laughter which really helped, and i really enjoyed it. that so

it's a day of sadness because we have lost dame vera.loved and cherished by so many people. the cortege later moved to a private funeral service near brighton. dame vera's coffin borne by members of the air force, army and navy. along the coast, in dover, the famous white cliffs have become a canvas of remembrance. a tribute to dame vera lynn — emblem of resilience, voice of hope, inspiration for a grateful nation. duncan kennedy reporting. today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the battle of britain, when the raf defended the country against wave after wave of bombing raids from nazi germany. the young british pilots flew new fighter planes called spitfires and hurricanes, turning the aircraft into iconic symbols of resilience. but what's never been revealed is the role played by a schoolgirl from london in their success, as sophie raworth explains. newsreel: way up in the sky, there are messerschmitts, junkers, heinkels and dorniers, that are going to get the thrashing of their lives... july, 1940, and nazi germany is beginni

it's a day of sadness because we have lost dame vera lynn.e, in the whole nation, she was loved and cherished by so many people. the cortege later moved to a private funeral service near brighton. dame vera's coffin borne by members of the air force, army and navy. along the coast, in dover, the famous white cliffs have become a canvas of remembrance. a tribute to dame vera lynn — emblem of resilience, voice of hope, inspiration for a grateful nation. 0ur correspondent duncan kennedy ending that report. today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the battle of britain, when the raf defended the country against wave after wave of bombing raids from nazi germany. the young british pilots flew new fighter planes called spitfires and hurricanes, turning the aircraft into iconic symbols of resilience. but what's never been revealed is the role played by a schoolgirl from london in their success, as sophie raworth explains. newsreel: way up in the sky there are messerschmitts, junkers, heinkels and dorniers, that are going to get the thrashing

three passes on behalf of the air force, army and navy, dame vera's life forever intertwined with theed vera lynn comfort millions during a moment of supreme national peril. from radio audiences at home... ..to concert performances before and after the war, her allure was an innocent charm, mixed with songs for the age. it is a day of sadness, because we have lost dame vera, her death will leave a great gap in our community. of course, in the whole nation, she was loved and cherished by so many people. the cortege then moved on to the private funeral service at a crematorium near brighton. there, the tri—service solemnity became part of the day. in dover, the famous white cliffs have been turned into a canvas of gratitude. a projection of recollections. dame vera lynn, a symbol of resilience, a voice of hope and an inspiration for a nation that today said goodbye. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. we are ending the week on a much brighter note right across the board. it's been a very gloomy past few days across england and well. a lot of sunny spel

representatives from the royal british legion stood with flags as they waited to honour dame vera.don had a hand in the raf‘s victory in that aerial fight. she helped to improve the firepower of the air force's new fighters, the spitfire and the hurricane, which were key to defeating the german luftwaffe. sophie raworth explains. newsreel: way up in the sky there are messerschmitts, junkers, heinkels or dorniers that are going to get the thrashing of their lives! july, 1940, and nazi germany is beginning the first of many bombing raids in what became known as the battle of britain. but the raf‘s pilots managed to fight off the luftwaffe and defend these shores in their spitfires and hurricanes. it is the most famous plane from world war ii. it played a crucial role in the battle of britain. but what we didn't know until now was the role that a 13—year—old girl played in this design. this new generation of fighter plane had originally been designed with just four machine guns. but this man, captain fred hill, a scientific officer in the air ministry, became convinced that four guns

a sound dame vera lynn would have known very belt. —— very well. fitting tribute to dame vera lynn whoseexperiences and here she was part of the community. when her health wasn't so good she wasn't around quite so much but talking to her neighbours, great personal sadness that they have lost one of their own. that they have lost one of their own. in terms of the nation i think she was a great survivor and that is pa rt she was a great survivor and that is part of it, her contemporaries had gone and she represented that very significant historical period and a spirit if you like which helped to hold the nation together, brought people together and she had managed to capture that sense of communication, that link between it be people so far away and the families at home. we saw the commemorations of ve day and we are coming up to the 75th anniversary of vj day and it all happens as people across the world have been facing a difficult time, i suppose the closest in terms of personal difficulty we have had since the second world war. yes and how interesting that dame vera chose for the onlin

now, margaret, you spent much time with dame vera.test respect because she is an icon and she isjust a respect because she is an icon and she is just a very lovely and warm person. earlier you were telling me she would often pull out her photo albums. a special moment. we would look through and i think one of her disappointments was that she did not have more of the photos. lots of her boys sent her photos over time and obviously she did take some herself because it is not like today when we all had a phone and could snap away. it was wartime. and she was a role model. she was. after the war, many women were meant to go back to the home and take care of family and husbands and she had family and a husbands and she had family and a husband but she went out and worked. a wonderful person. thank you very much for letting us come here this morning. let‘s peek through this window here. the streets of ditchling will be lined today as the residents of the village come out to pay their last respects to this wonderful woman. it pay their last

people have gathered to pay their respects at the funeral of the world war ii forces' sweetheart dame veraaccompanied by a battle of britain fly—past as it travelled through her home village of ditchling in east sussex. that's it for now. stay with us on bbc news. hello there. despite there being more sunshine around across the uk as a whole today, there were some pretty hefty showers across northern and eastern parts of the country. behind me, you can see the heavy shower clouds there in redcar and cleveland, some rumbles of thunder heard, but through tonight, most of the showers will fade away as the pressure continues to build. as the winds turn light with a cooler air mass under the clear skies, turning quite chilly. high pressure continues to build in. it kills off the showers, which will eventually fizzle away, leaving clear skies with barely any cloud. there will be a bit more cloud across the north and west of scotland. here, a bit more of a breeze, one or two showers at times, but elsewhere, it will be drier and much cooler as well. lows of six to nine degrees quite widely. pretty

people have gathered to pay their respects at the funeral of the world war two forces' sweetheart, dame verartege was accompanied by a battle of britain flypast as it travelled through her home village of ditchling in east sussex. representatives from the royal british legion stood hello. if you were hoping to stay during friday, in many parts of the uk, the weather had a different idea. there were some heavy downpours to be dodged, and actually, over the last few days, you can see on the satellite picture all these different clumps of cloud that have worked through, bringing outbreaks of rain. but now, a gap appearing between the clouds. an area of high pressure building its way just in time for the weekend. that means it is looking dry for the vast majority. there will be some areas of patchy cloud with one or two showers, but most places will be fine with some spells of sunshine. saturday morning getting off to a rather chilly start. some spots down in single digits, but through the day, we're looking at long spells of sunshine. i think we'll see a bit of patchy clouds tending to bubble u

the victims commissioner, dame vera baird, says the statistics are "utterly shameful".g hard to reverse the trend. our home editor, mark easton, has the details. in the year before lockdown, police in england and wales recorded 55,000 allegations of rape — one of the highest figures ever. in the same year, fewer than 1500 people were convicted following a rape case — the fewest ever recorded. the message it's sending to rapists is that you can basically rape with impunity, because your chance of seeing a day in court, let alone jail, is almost zero. courtney — not her real name — made an allegation of a serious sexual assault in 2016, but she says the detectives investigating the incident told her of their frustration at how crown prosecutors were setting the bar on evidence so high she felt forced to abandon the case. they felt that the crown was trying to make it as dehumanising as possible for victims to continue their case, so they would drop out, so that they can look good in statistics, and that is verbatim what the officer told me. they basically have so underfun

the victims commissioner, dame vera baird, says the statistics are "utterly shameful". editor mark easton has the details. in the year before lockdown, police in england and wales recorded 55,000 allegations of rape — one of the highest figures ever. in the same year, fewer than 1500 people were convicted following a rape case — the fewest ever recorded. the message it's sending to rapists is that you can basically rape with impunity, because your chance of seeing a day in court, let alone jail, is almost zero. courtney — not her real name — made an allegation of a serious sexual assault in 2016, but she says the detectives investigating the incident told her of their frustration at how crown prosecutors were setting the bar on evidence so high she felt forced to abandon the case. they felt that the crown was trying to make it as dehumanising as possible for victims to continue their case, so they would drop out, so that they can look good in statistics, and that is verbatim what the officer told me. they basically have so underfunded the criminaljustice system that the

the victims commissioner, dame vera baird, says the statistics are "utterly shameful".wn prosecution service says its working hard to reverse the trend. our home editor mark easton has the details in the year before lockdown, police in england and wales recorded 55,000 allegations of rape — one of the highest figures ever. in the same year, fewer than 1500 people were convicted following a rape case — the fewest ever recorded. the message it's sending to rapists is that you can basically rape with impunity, because your chance of seeing a day in court, let alone jail, is almost zero. courtney — not her real name — made an allegation of a serious sexual assault in 2016, but she says the detectives investigating the incident told her of their frustration at how crown prosecutors were setting the bar on evidence so high she felt forced to abandon the case. they felt that the crown was trying to make it as dehumanising as possible for victims to continue their case, so they would drop out, so that they can look good in statistics, and that is verbatim what the officer told

joining me now is the victims commissioner for england and wales, dame vera baird.t, but first of all, if you could reflect on this record low in conviction rates and what that means for victims of rape who are considering coming forward to the police and by extension, the cps? the cps figures are shameful and there is no other word to describe it. the victim sector has been pointing to this cut in prosecutions now for over three yea rs. prosecutions now for over three years. the dpp has been in post for 18 months. there was a deliberate policy change in 2016—17, which needs to be changed back because it has proved disastrous. and that is? they change their policy according toa they change their policy according to a document written by mr mcgill, the dpp's closest adviser, to take out, as he put it, we can cases to increase the conviction rate, that is to say, remove cases that they are not certain will produce a conviction so they're charge a conviction so they're charge a conviction rate looks better. the problem with that is they have stopped prosecuting huge nu

doddie, vera and captain, named after scottish rugby legend doddie weir, the forces' sweetheart dame veraall its uk villages, with strict social distancing and other safety measures in place. we're joined now by the company's chief executive martin dalby, to tell us how it'll work. joining us from harrogate, good to talk to you. give us an idea of the sort of things you put in place to make sure you are safe and able to open. we have been working over the last six weeks on the government guidelines to make sure we can apply all the things that are required, and we have a whole list of things we will introduce from today. first of all, we open with reduced occupancy, it's important to make sure guests can socially distance safely. we usually run at around 95% but we will open at 65% to make sure there is lots of space for people. social distancing, two metres apart, queueing systems and we will change arrival and departure times so you can arrive a little bit later and depart earlier to give more space in between for a much deeper and thorough cleaning. we have a reduced activity programme

it's a day of sadness because we have lost dame vera lynn.eath will leave a great gap in our community. of course, in the whole nation, she was loved and cherished by so many people. the cortege later moved to a private funeral service near brighton. dame vera's coffin borne by members of the air force, army, and navy. along the coast, in dover, the famous white cliffs have become a canvas of remembrance. a tribute to dame vera lynn — emblem of resilience, voice of hope, inspiration for a grateful nation. duncan kennedy, bbc news. duncan kennedy reporting on the funeral of dame vera lynn. coming up at six o'clock, breakfast with naga munchetty and charlie stayt. but first on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show, i'm in norway, because i've heard of what must be one of the world's most unique music festivals, where the stage and the instruments are made of ice. so, i am taking the chance to head off from oslo to bergen on a musical journey on one of the world's most spectacular railways. i'm going to look deep into norway's