anna eavis is the curatorial director at english heritage. shejoins me now.send dancers out to street parties in different communities across england. how have you adapted to the new circumstances? like many people, we normally would be celebrating this across the country. many of our historic properties were associated with the second world war so we associated with the second world war so we would have had events there as well. but like many organisations we have been trying to find ways where people can participate with us at home. we have put together a pack that people can download. in addition to recipes and the spotify playlist, we are hoping we can get people dancing. to that end, we will be offering a tutorial at midday today online, which people canjoin in with. and that is a lindy hop tutorial. that's right. the photographs of the sera of the patients of ve day, and i'm sure many people will have seen them on our website and elsewhere, have plenty of people dancing. —— photographs of the celebrations of ve day. a really popular dance craze in the 4

let's talk to english heritage. how big an operation was this? enormous.about 30 metres underneath us, had at their seven days to try to organise over 900 ships and boats that were required to make this operation a success. it also to find cruise for them, provision them, backwards and forwards at the right times in the right places. it was an enormous piece of careful organisation. enormous, and one worth there were plans for big re—enactment events today but that has had to be cancelled because of coronavirus, but you're still marking it. we are. we are marking it on social media. we have a big campaign to bring home to people some aspects of the operation. we have done short videos based on a numberof have done short videos based on a number of characters, a royal navy officer, r raine, a little shipowner and a british soldier. we will release little clips of them on social media and that will give you an idea of what this operation is like, and people's personal experiences, because they are all based on real characters. going back 80 years, this was t

the largest visitor attractions in english trust and english heritage through the palaces, historic world. titanic belfast, the scottish historic environment, through ti harry potter. more visits went to the science museum and the national history museum combined then went to venice. in a few years ago, more people went to the british museum than the whole of belgium. so what could attractions do to prepare to reopen? through to chester zoo have very, very detailed reopening operational plans and progress. and that includes everything from supermarket style one—way routes, to adding contacts to operations, just having a card not paying cash, just having a card and i was talking to all my scottish members yesterday through a conference call and they are looking at reopening slightly later than england, but looking at online bookings. even though they are free, online bookings or time slots. coastal tourism has also been hit hard. 7% of businesses closed in many of them permanently. what we're hearing from businesses is that they will reduce capacity over the summer months. 32% of all visit

is a growing number of organisations who say they can make social distancing work, among them english heritageurage visitors to feel come here, to feel comfortable in doing that, so staff can do that as well just knowing what the pinch points out where people are going to pass by each other and handle things and having a good safety regime in that but it is also very much about not overburdening the experience making people feel comfortable, via shared, and able to relax because that is what they have come here for. there is no question that the tourism industry have taken a massive hit from coronavirus. visit britain says the loss runs into billions of pounds. but with us all. swap barcelona for brighton and corfu for cornwall there is hope that a staycation may save not only the great british summer holiday but also many hundreds of businesses across the uk. bbc news in north yorkshire. beautiful scenes. time for a look now at the weekend weather, here is darren. that then starts to push into the uk towards the latter part of the evening tonight and as the winds pick up we see that heading i

among them english heritage, who manage over 400 historic sites.itors to come here, to feel comfortable in doing that, and for staff to feel comfortable as well. what are the pinch points, what are the places where people are going to pass by each other or handle things? and just have a good safety regime in that. but it's also very much about not overburdening the experience, making people feel comfortable and reassured and able to relax, cos that's what they have come here for. there is no question that the tourism industry has taken a massive hit from coronavirus. visit britain says the loss runs into billions of pounds. but with us all forced to swap barcelona for brighton and corfu for cornwall, there is hope that the staycation may save not only the great british summer holiday but also many hundreds of businesses across the uk. sarah corker, bbc news, north yorkshire. the founder of facebook, mark zuckerberg, has defended its record of tackling misinformation during the coronavirus outbreak. speaking to the bbc in his first broadcast intervi

among them, english heritage, he managed over 400 historic sites.le in doing that and for staff to do that as well. what are the pinch points in places where people will pass by and handle things and have a good safety regime in that. but it is also very much about not overburdening the experience, making people feel comfortable, reassured, and able to relax, because that is why they have come. there is no question that the tourism industry has taken a massive hit from coronavirus. visit britain says the loss ru ns visit britain says the loss runs into billions of pounds but with us all forced to swap faster lighter — — barcelona for brighton, it is hoped that a steak asian may save not only the great british holiday but also many hundreds of businesses across the uk — at staycation. sarah corker, bbc news. you are watching bbc news. the headlines this hour: european union tourism ministers have failed to reach common agreement on reopening borders as concerns grow about the economic impact of prolonged closure. several member states called for incr

english heritage, which runs the site, says the sunrise will be streamed online for anyone who wantsype calls or even being alone in a television studio. but one man and his dogs have turned it into an art form and taken twitter by storm. these videos have been viewed about 25 million times. andrew normally does sports commentary, tennis, golf. the latest was done last night. have a look at this. right, guys. thanks forjoining us. just keen to have a chat about where we are, the situation at the moment. i think you're both there. 0live, hi, thanks forjoining us. mabel, you are connected but you need to start your video. down at the bottom of the screen. it's a camera, looks like a biscuit, just nudge it with your nose. there we are. you don't have to be so close, you want to move back a bit? all right, thanks. basically, an update as to where we are. i can see you both look worried, but the good news from head office is that neither of you is going to be furloughed. but we have to try and repay that loyalty with some of our own. i know that's supposed to be a strength of yours. so wh

among them, english heritage, who manage over 400 historic sites.s to come here, to feel comfortable in doing that, for staff to feel comfortable as well. what are the pinch points, what are the places where people are going to pass by each other or handle things? and just have a good safety regime in that. but it is also very much about not overburdening the experience, making people feel comfortable and reassured and able to relax because that is what they have come here for. there is no question that the tourism industry has taken a massive hit from coronavirus. visit britain says the loss runs into billions of pounds. but with us all forced to swap barcelona for brighton and corfu for cornwall, there is hope that the staycation may save not only the great british summer holiday but also many hundreds of businesses across the uk. sarah corker, bbc news, north yorkshire. we can speak now to the head of visit britain, patricia yates, whojoins me now via webcam from kent. good morning. social media yesterday evening, the front pages of many newspape

the charity who run the event, english heritage, say the occasion will be live streamed on their social to work before coronavirus will remember the problems of late, cancelled and overcrowded services. so how will it work when passenger numbers creep back up and there are even fewer buses, train and trams — with just a fraction of their previous capacity? breakfast‘s tim muffett has been talking to commuters, as some of england prepares to go back to work this week. avoiding public transport, easier said than done. this was canning town tube station in london yesterday. adelaide filmed his commute for us. he's a security guard. compared to other jobs, compared to otherjobs, men working in security have the highest death rate from covid — 19 according to research released yesterday by the office for national statistics. later we met eric who is also a security guard. there were more people on the train than usual. how did you feel about that? uncomfortable. two metres instance. the information is not clear. so we don't know who to follow, what to listen to. for people who avoid public t

let‘s get more from english heritage.y. it was his job, assigned commanded by vice admiral ramsey. it was hisjob, assigned to him by the british government, to get these resources of ships together in a few days and get them across to dunkirk. it was quite a task. initially they thought they had only managed to get out and about 30,000 or so and they got out 300,000? that is correct. the best estimate was 45,002 days. it took them nine, he also entered ten days —— 45 in two days. it took them nine, he also entered ten days -- 45 in two days. we talk now of dunkirk spirit, that phrase was coined because of this operation. that is correct, it was coyne really because a lot of people thought it was a bit of a medical to have achieved so much and so little time. —— a bit ofa medicalto achieve so much. it has entered the language as the spirit of those involved in the operation to do so much and so little time, that is where it comes from. churchill said you can truly call the retreat of british troops to be a victory, but it

english, he has a master's in finance. us have, you know, marine backgrounds. i mean, we got into oysters as a way to kind of remember our grandfather, to kind of reconnect with our heritaget think we got into it, necessarily, with this great business plan. it really was more of a passion project. >> at the time, both ryan and travis have steady, well-paying jobs at a bank in richmond. as they begin to talk about the possibility of dipping a toe back in the family oyster biz, their dads ask them to reconsider. did your father tell you, "i want you to stay in banking and have a real job"? >> he definitely didn't tell us to go into oysters. and when we kind of broached the idea, they thought we were a little crazy. >> crazy because decades of overfishing, pollution, and disease all but wiped out the oyster population in the chesapeake bay. the cousins keep their day jobs, but in their spare time, begin researching the ins and out of 21st century oyster farming. >> we started finding people local in our community who were doing some really cool, innovative stuff. >> one of those people is the local oysterman and marine scientist tommy leggett, whom we met earlier. leggett an