anyone in exeter can download those books at any point.courage that person to make sure they make that request and get in touch. thank you so request and get in touch. thank you so much. and thank you very much as everfor so much. and thank you very much as ever for your questions. let's turn our attention to scotland. scotland's first minister — nicola sturgeon — has been outlining more details of her route map out of locked. speaking during the scottish government's daily briefing today the first minister said some restrictions in scotland would be eased from 28th may — that's next thursday. but she urged people to respect the current stay at home message over the bank holiday weekend. here's some of what she had to say. there is a strong emphasis on the first phase in the work cavity. —— mike outdoor activity. because one of the things we are learning about the virus is that the risks of transmission outdoors, although not zero — absolutely not zero — are nevertheless lower than the risks of transmission indoors. so you will be able, in

here to help answer your questions is sir steve smith, vice—chancellor of the university of exeter andalsojoined by courteney sheppard who is customer experience manager at ucas. good morning to both of you and thanks forjoining on bbc news to a nswer thanks forjoining on bbc news to answer our questions. we begin straightaway with a question from rachel, and i will start with you, sir steve, if classes are to be virtual as the government going to subsidise this by letting universities reduce fees? the answer is no, the government is not going to do that. the minister has said that as long as we can guarantee the standard, the quality of the education experience, that it is roughly the same, not identical but roughly the same, not identical but roughly the same as in traditional delivery then fees should not be reduced. what you will find, rachel, is that every university in the country is currently working out how to deliver high quality lectures, and they are the real problem online, because you can't put so many people in a lecture theatre, but the rest of activity, laboratories, li

i'm in exeter.s been happening the last few weeks. i've just arrived at exeter custody. i've come up here cos a male's been arrested for spitting in a paramedic‘s face. the gentleman's in the cell here with four officers in ppe, after he's kicked off. he's been restrained for a period of time. he's assaulted a couple of officers, causing injury to them. he's attempted to spit at officers as well as paramedics at the scene. we've had an absolute flood of reports from the public, who are saying there are street—attached people, people who are street drinkers, drug takers. we have struggled a little bit, because in the law it allows for someone to be homeless and to be out, because obviously they've got nowhere to get back to. but there are, as i've said, lots of people who are housed, who are currently going out every day, congregating in groups, drinking, taking drugs, causing anti—social behaviour, who are really causing a sort of problem. so we've had a report of a group of six people drinking and

it would still be exeter, cheltenham, colchester and northampton.o club gets relegated which means that stevenage bottom of the table and will still be bottom of the table under the new system would survive for another season, almost those still needing to be ratified by a football league meeting next week. why have they decided to curtail their season? they decided playing behind closed doors would be too costly, they do not have the tv deal the premier league have and rely on ticket sales so no fans in the stadium is a problem for them and a lot of clubs have furloughed their players, so they will not be able to use that scheme any more and clubs would have to pay for the testing of their players for coronavirus. stevenanage said it would cost them £145,000 and said they decided completing the season was not financially viable. meanwhile a decision to end their scottish premiership season will not be finalised until next week after a meeting of clubs, discussions were held by video conference today and early end would mean leaders, celtic are cham

we have given them a lot of assessment and support in exeter, all our careers abroad has gone online,ents are taking exams remotely today. what we are doing is absolutely trying to make sure that although it is different we are trying to make sure the quality is what the stu d e nts sure the quality is what the students rightly expect. you are on a ministerial task force, looking at international students who bring in a great deal of money for uk universities and that's going to be a real issue, isn't it? everyone is expecting lower numbers, perhaps vastly lower numbers. international stu d e nts vastly lower numbers. international students are worth about £7 billion a year to the uk. and, therefore, what we've got to do is to find a way whereby we can work with government on the task force to make sure that the rewards that come financially at universities can come from another source. the key point is international students in part, besides doing many other things, subsidise the research base of the uk. the group i am on is focused on trying to make sure we continue to invest in res

so, i've got offers from st andrew's, glasgow, ucl and exeter as well.ke the big year 11 summer, you get a long time off. i'd booked tickets for festivals and just to have that time after all the exam stress tojust do nothing, kind of, but to be able to have that choice to do nothing. my plan were, you know, revise, sit my exams and then i was planning to go on holiday with my friend. now i've got a job at tesco for the time being. are you bored? yes. i was wanting to shave my head but i was going to wait until after prom, probably. but since that's not happening. i willjust, like, do it now. if i don't like it no one is going to see me for six months anyway. so... it is 2:20 in the morning right now. i have been painting this duck. my sleep schedule is just completely messed up by quarantine. it is 4am now and i've just finished the painting. i'm going to give it to my grandma when we go and see her tomorrow. it's my nan's birthday today so we are going to walk up to her house. but we're not actually going to go into the house, we'll just stand at the e

so, i've got offers from st andrew's, glasgow, ucl and exeter as well.s like the big year 11 summer, you get a long time. i'd booked tickets for festivals and just to have that time after all the exam stress tojust do nothing, kind of, but to be able to have that choice to do nothing. my plan were, you know, revise, sit my exams and then i was planning to go on holiday with my friend. now i've got a job at tesco for the time being. are you bored? yes. i was wanting to shave my head but i was going to wait until after prom, probably. but since that's not happening. i willjust do it now. if i don't like it no one is going to see me for six months anyway. so... it is 2.20 in the morning right now. i have been painting this duck. my sleep schedule is just completely messed up by quarantine. it is 4am now and i've just finished the painting. i'm going to give it to my grandma when we go and see her tomorrow. it's my nan's birthday today so we are going to walk up to her house. but we are not actually going to go into the house, we will stand at the end of the

expert in communicable diseases at the university of exeter. thank you.om monday. the bank of england warns that the uk is heading for its deepecst recession on record with economic output likely to fall by 14% this year due to coronavirus. hundreds of thousands of surgical gowns, ordered from turkey last month, haven't been given to nhs workers because they don't meet british safety standards. millions of workers have been furloughed across the country since the government's lockdown came into force. a new scheme has now been launched to get people stuck at home working again by connecting them with voluntary organisations. the platform furlonteer.com works by matching volunteers with charities according to the skills they are looking for. so far, more than 2,500 people have already signed up. we can speak now to sam tasker—grindley who is one of the founders of furlonteer.com. and also lucy rickett, one of the volunteers who has signed up to the scheme. thank you for your time this morning. first of all, how did this idea come to you and how did you go

today in exeter, dr matt masoli is trying to recruit coronavirus patients for a trial of five existingming on the ward for us. right. i've come to see the gentleman. dr masoli's work is part of the world's biggest drug trial. more than 5,000 nhs patients are taking part, and the numbers are growing. so this is a gentleman in his 805. normally fit and well, no significant past medical history. can walk two miles on the flat. on a bit of oxygen. can i have a quick look at his x—ray? they're testing an hiv drug, a malaria drug, an antibiotic and two anti—inflammatory treatments to see if they help. a leading expert on infectious diseases is overseeing the trial. so these drugs, we know how they work, we've got a very good idea of the safety profile and they're available, they're kind of off the shelf. so if they work, you know, we can use them straightaway in a large number of patients. this x—ray shows this gentleman has got severe covid pneumonia. dr masoli has found another potential patient for the trial. so he's asking if he wants to participate. he actually looks a lot better than h

we can now speak to dr bharat pankhania from the university of exeter medical school.s a former infectious disease doctor for public health england. dr pankhania joins us now from bath. doctor, is the uk now testing properly? no, no. no, not at all. i'm so sorry to be saying that in such blunt terms, we cannot test without contact tracing, and the two have to be conducted together. furthermore, we need a strategy of who you are going to test, and how you are going to test. so there are a numberof you are going to test. so there are a number of hurdles. furthermore, to say that we are testing, when actually, the tests have gone out in the post, is not the same as having tests in the laboratory done today. they are in the post. that's not testing. so, the attention on the figure of 100,000 is not worth it? it's not. because what we need to do is horses for courses. in other words, we need to test where needed, and as much is needed, rather than have an arbitrary figure of 100,000, and we need to identify who are the highest risk people, and test them first. test them pro

again there'll be no change to the four teams in the playoff spots, they would still be exeter, cheltenham and northampton. the other big proposal would be that no clu b gets other big proposal would be that no club gets relegated, so what that would mean is that stevenage, who are bottom of the table, would still put bottom of the table and the new system. they would survive for another season, although those still need to be ratified by the football meeting next week. why lead to, why they decided to curtail the season? they essentially decided that playing behind closed doors would simply be too costly, they don't have the bundled tv deal that the premier league have. also, a lot of clu bs premier league have. also, a lot of clubs have furloughed their players so clubs have furloughed their players so they wouldn't be able to use that scheme any more. also clubs would have to pay for their testing of their players for coronavirus. steve na g e their players for coronavirus. stevenage said today that they testing would cost them £1a0,000, so they decided that completing the season they d

i'm in exeter.or spitting in a paramedic‘s face. the gentleman's in the cell here with four officers in ppe, after he'd kicked off. he's been restrained for a period of time. he's assaulted a couple of officers, causing injury to them. he's attempted to spit at officers as well as paramedics at the scene. we've had an absolute flood of reports from the public, who are saying there are street attached people, people who are street drinkers, drug takers. we have struggled a little bit because in the law it allows for someone to be homeless and to be out, because obviously they've got nowhere to get back to. but there are, as i've said, lots of people who are housed, who are currently going out every day, congregating in groups, drinking, taking drugs, causing anti—social behaviour, who are really causing a sort of problem. so we've had a report of a group of six people drinking and congregating in an area just down here. so where are you guys off to then? are you going to taser me? i don't want to tas

he works in exeter. hejoins me now from his home in east devon.ually. we were looking for it and expecting to have some news on being able to show people around homes, which is slightly more logical and easier to deal with. it's good news for us, obviously commend it's particularly good news for home buyers and sellers and the chancellor of the exchequer, i'm sure. so people, a lot of people are going to be nervous, a lot of people have been locked down and not being able to leave their homes, and suddenly this prospect of going into other people's homes for more people coming to their homes, what sort of sense are you getting from clients that you have already? well, firstly, i was really pleasantly pleased and slightly surprised this morning to see on the two main industry online magazines the vast majority of estate agents are very concerned about this. we have rules and regulations now, the instructions from the government on exactly how we should show people around properties. we are concerned for all of the people, the sellers, the buyers, t

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there's a lot of anxiety and we feel we've been working on this exet getting it right from the beginningng in our judgments and assessments and that's why we've been doing it in a slow and thoughtful manner. >> i'm sure you can appreciate this as somebody who lives in new york city. driving into the hudson valley and getting to these areas is not hard. a lot of people are going to be doing that on the weekends. are you concerned that this patchwork approach may set us back a little bit as people begin to move out of the city. there's no reason why somebody wouldn't be able to go to that flower shop that we just showed there and buy and maybe as we've known and seen in the past spread the virus. >> what we're saying, we're not prepared to open restaurants and bars and places where people are going to come in close contact with each other. that's a later phase. what we're talking about is limited retail that you're talking -- that you showed and i saw the video. it looks like a very nice shop, by the way. i helped start a small business, a flower shop, so i appreciate that. but it's mostly

after ninth-grade, went down to exeter and had three years there. after that i entered dartmouth in the fall of 1940 and once my freshman year was behind me, it was apparent by that time that we were not yet in the war, we might be drawn into it because the germans were sinking ships in the atlantic including american ships. britain was in bad shape. looked like if we did not get in, the nazis would take over europe and south america. so i was unsure whether i wanted to volunteer or wait to be drafted. i decided i would volunteer, which amusingly enough give you a slightly different army serial number than if you were drafted. the west point officers, recent graduates from training but they were training us in officer candidate school. they tended to look with favor -- they didn't say that but it was apparent. i became a second lieutenant. i was a corporal in basic training. i had the amusing experience in my first -- my iq was perfectly normal, adequate to become an officer but not unusual. but the colonel came into my barracks a day or two after t

but we did have one or two others come from exeter, a ten or 15 minute drive away, nobody at that has when we were here that are part up. when we were here a month ago, there was none. it does seem as though some more people are coming out, there are families on the beach, people trying to make sand castles, and loads of dog walkers are now out, although some of the restrictions that are already in place for the summer season are now being slightly relaxed in some places, but here they have all gone to the far end of the beach. i have also been talking to tourism leaders who are quite concerned about what this easing of restrictions might mean for some people, they may decide to come here and will be perfectly within their rights, travelling to places like this. the tourism leaders are very concerned that people will come expecting pubs and clubs and camping areas being open. the message for them is not to come for that reason as these facilities are not open. they say, don't come yet, we will welcome you with open arms when all restrictions are lifted. people will come and they will

strategy is being implemented dr bharat pankhania is a senior clinical lecturer at university of exeterout. that is fundamental, the bread and butter, of infection control, outbreak management. we are not succeeding because on the one hand, we have built up capacity to test, albeit at a central level, therefore, at a local level the gps etc, do not know the test results and to make it worse, we haven‘t got the contact tracing that should kick in at the same time simultaneously to pull out all the contacts. we could do better, we must do better, this is urgent. it is not too late to try to rapidly increase the system to try to rapidly increase the syste m now ? to try to rapidly increase the system now? it would still bring some benefit if that was done, in your opinion? it has to be done because we have no other alternative. we went into shutdown for a reason, we wanted to reduce a surge of the number of cases going to hospital and at the same time do our homework and built up the momentum of doing contact tracing and testing simultaneously when we left the shutdown. if you left the shu

i have spoken to one or two who have travelled a bit further, coming from exeter, and they talked about when i asked them about how they would feel perhaps about people coming further afield, may be taking a few hours in their car to come down here, that was a mixed picture. some were very down here, that was a mixed picture. some were very concerned down here, that was a mixed picture. some were very concerned about the fa ct some were very concerned about the fact that by coming that sort of distance, they could possibly overwhelm a place like exmouth, and some were quite concerned about this coming weekend. 0thers some were quite concerned about this coming weekend. others were quite pragmatic and said, they are perfectly entitled to do that. but the overriding concern was what they might bring. so if in fact large numbers came and perhaps brought the virus with them, this region has been very fortunate to have very low numbers of people who have died. every death, of course a tragedy for those involved. but looking at all the graphs there have been in recent weeks and in the last co

i was in my little hospital in exeter for 11 days, loudly.y because of them that i'm alive. i wasjust died. it's only because of them that i'm alive. i was just saying thank you in my own way, and it has served its purpose, it's made a mark and its purpose, it's made a mark and its effect will be weaker if we carry on. tonight at 8pm, we'll gather again and clap for the 10th time, and for some, the last. tim muffett, bbc news. it is 6:27am. we will talk to matt and find out what's happening with the weather in a minute. although some restrictions may be lifting, hairdressers doors still remain firmly shut, and the prospect of no appointment for at least another month has driven many to take matters into their own hands. have you had a home haircut? send your pictures to us. have you been resorting to that? some home hairdressing has happened. this is a fact. you have actually cut that? i don't know why you find that so odd, it is an absolute necessity, but there is evidence you've done the same. necessity, but there is evidence you've done th