connor gillies, bbc news.le use carrier bags in england is to double from 5p to 10p from next april, and all shops will have to charge for them. the government says it's part of a renewed drive to be greener, and cut unnecessary waste. 0ur chief environment correspondent justin rowlatt has the details. at the moment, the 5p levy only applies to single use carrier bags in large stores, those employing more than 250 people. but, from next april, the charge will double and will apply in all shops. the government says the initiative aims to protect sea creatures by reducing plastic pollution in the ocean. it claims that since the charge was introduced in 2015, there has been a 95% reduction in plastic bag sales in major supermarkets. you know, not long ago the supermarkets were issuing around 7 billion carrier bags a year. that has now been reduced by 95%. now we want to extend this approach to other retailers as well, who between them probably issue at the moment over 3 billion bags a year. we think we can have a

gilly made this clear and the number of his presentations we have made it abundantly clear as well.disproportionately this disease is impacting our diverse communities, disproportionately impacting the latino community, impacting the community in the central valley. and so will we talk about the central valley i hope we can really pay a picture in term of the consciousness of how impactful this has been and that is why our targeted interventions disproportionately are focusing on essential workforce on farmworkers, uncritical workforce and hospitality, retail sector and the like. that is being impacted by this disease. and so, i want to begin today as we left off last week reinforcing the merits of the approach we took in imperial county, recognizing again, good enough never is, recognizing as i do, as we do, that the effort is ongoing, as a constancy to our focus, not just a passing interest in these efforts. they are not episodic. there is a full commitment to follow through, to bend the curve, to suppress the growth and ultimately extinguish this virus. it is indeed our long-term

when i say everything i mean with everything this one man this is fun gillis kettle sauce known as the james dean of. now a 90 years old he's been married twice but he says women just get too jealous that's why he's now living on his own on his farm with his all if we've been. there but his energy is boundless his next project to drain the well on the hill behind his house. we have clean air and clean water. that's the main thing you know. 95 sauces still fighting fit and making plans for the future. because. if you've been married twice you could always try adjustor time. but you can't. especially not on a career. life on this stunning island in the sea is full of passion and free of stress and strife. and perhaps that is the secret behind the. now i'm actually thinking of moving to a carry out when i retire but i still have a few years to decide well that brings us to the end of today's show and thanks for watching and. if you would like to be our fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers everyone of them as apply mcinnis or you should. say nothing is just the ch

alexander gillies—fergusson, here wearing the cap, as a teenager was one of the first to launch a maillda, his story passing down the generations. when he was 1a, in about 1885, he sent one of these st kilda mail boats with a message in it saying that the winter storms had damaged their stores and that the people on the island were getting very hungry, if not getting near starvation. it worked. the message reached help and st kilda was resupplied. their tiny mail boats a unique reminder of a way of life left long ago. lorna gordon, bbc news. what a story. now on bbc news, it's time for witness history. hello, and welcome to witness history, with me, tanya beckett, here at the royal academy in london. today, we present five extraordinary moments from history as told to us by people who were there. coming up, the british alternative to prison that was copied around the world. the moment idi amin expelled thousands of ugandan asians in the 1970s. and the artist couple who wrapped germany's reichstag in fabric. but first, we go back to a defining moment in modern chinese history. in 1989,

alexander gillies—fergusson, here wearing the cap, as a teenager was one of the first to launch a maillda, his story passing down the generations. when he was 1a, in about 1885, he sent one of these st kilda mail boats with a message in it saying that the winter storms had damaged their stores and that the people on the island were getting very hungry if not getting near starvation. it worked. the message reached help and st kilda was resupplied. their tiny mail boats a unique reminder of a way of life left long ago. lorna gordon, bbc news. now on bbc news, covid—19 is posing an unprecedented us election year challenge to the candidates running for president, transforming it into a virtual one. chanting: four more years! the 2020 race for the white house is like no other. history has delivered us to one the most difficult moments we have ever faced. the coronavirus has upended american life. before the plague came in from china, like we had never seen. and transformed the political conventions, launching a presidential campaign which is anything but normal. as you've seen by now, this

alexander gillies ferguson, here wearing the cap, as a teenager was one of the first to launch a mail5, he sent one of these st kilda mail boats with a message in it saying that the winter storms had damaged their stores and that the people on the island were getting very hungry, if not getting near starvation. it worked. the message reached help and st kilda was resupplied. their tiny mail boats a unique reminder of a way of life left long ago. lorna gordon, bbc news. a rescue boat funded by the british artist, banksy, has issued a call for immediate assistance after picking up more than two—hundred drifting migrants in the mediterranean. the german—flagged louise michel said it was overcrowded and unable to move with at least one dead on board. the vessel had earlier rescued another 89 people from a rubber boat on thursday. those are the main stories on bbc news. don't forget, you can keep up—to—date throughout the day with all of the news, national and international, from the bbc as we get it straight to you. its own bbcnews.com. we can take a look at the weather now. —— it is on b

head gilly has been at the helm of a mass operation to get the school ready to welcome back all 600 studentshave all their own equipment now. so, we've bought all the children their own pencil case. they've all got their own place to sit. could you sanitise your hands on the way, please? children will be in social bubbles of 30, spending most of their time in one classroom, and then forming a super bubble with their year group during play time. we've just had these put in, just this last week. so all the year groups have outdoor sinks, as well, and they all have automatic hand sanitising. the classes have all been rearranged, so students face forward and sit side—by—side. teachers are advised to keep a 1.5m distance. obviously you can see, with the tables out, it is going to be very different and children will need to learn how to sit at the table. but i think with the right modelling and explaining to the children, hopefully, in time, you know, they'll just adapt to it. we have had to make a lot of changes. we've had to pretty much base all our pe outside now. we've had to completely amend

alexander gillies ferguson, here wearing the cap, as a teenager was one of the first to launch a mailof these st kilda mail boats with a message in it saying that the winter storms had damaged their stores and that the people on the island were getting very hungry, if not getting near starvation. it worked. the message reached help and st kilda was resupplied. their tiny mail boats a unique reminder of a way of life left long ago. lorna gordon, bbc news. doesn't that look spectacular? i don't know what the weather holds for st kilda this weekend, but we can takea for st kilda this weekend, but we can take a look at the outlook for the rest of the uk with nick miller. our last weekend of meteorological summer our last weekend of meteorological summer is giving us a taste of autumn. it is cool. windy with rain and showers across central and eastern parts of england. along the coast, it might be around 12 degrees. some showers for northern ireland, parts of scotland, the final west of wales and cornwall. the further west you are the sunny spells will be there. overnight, keeping showers,

he's funny, he assisted before we left that our cousin gilly was with me that most of us kiss him goodbye and we're talking and i said you must know my father, you lived in this village and the mistake i was making is i was using his name. i was using lewis safran and that wasn't the way people were referred to them and they had nicknames, crazy nicknames, descriptive nicknames and in the book some of them, i put some of them down, not even all of them and somebody strives as your second cousin and somebody described as your girlfriend but it turned out my father's nickname i finally said my father was living in another little village and that became a breakthrough. he told me the village where he lived and i had actually sent you on your first journey to thewrong place . and then the person i was with started making phone calls and at the end of that day i met a woman who knew my father who was able to tell my stories about him that i never heard before that were so precious to me. and she asked me to come back and stay with her for aweek and i never did . i regret that but she gave me m

unemployment hit a maximum of 23% to going by every aspect and every indicator it does not look to gillyonce again to they say it is likely to hinder they say it is likely to hinder the economic growth and that is something that the country can ill afford at this stage. and we will be back with you when those figures come out later. in the wake of the covid—19 crisis, huge numbers of people have been left facing a precarious future — either without a job or with very little job security. small wonder then that training organisations are reporting booming interest in people wanting to learn new skills. but that's creating fertile territory for scammers and con—artists — as theo leggett reports: whether it is from property investment, playing the foreign exchange market or buying and selling shares, the internet is rife with people from missing to teach how to become very rich. it is very easy to see the attraction of all of this. a quick internet research will reveal a ll a quick internet research will reveal all sorts of courses promising to make you millions in six months or one year wi

gilli — i am currently on holiday at my house in a remote area of france. return but the government will not care i am afraid. even if you were to get tested every day and it was negative the government would still require you to quarantine at the moment. as we talked about, it doesn't really matter where you're coming back from in france because the government hasn't introduced that idea of regionalisation. it is a very blunt situation at the moment. coming back from france you will need to quarantine. the government has said this morning perhaps for the first time publicly it is looking at testing. he still has a testing facility in place. even if testing is brought in what is likely to happen is you will take two tests and it will be just the quarantine period from eight to ten days. very important to be clear the government has not said when it is going to introduce it, it is definitely going to introduce it. if you travel abroad plan to quarantine on your return. well my policy because only for cancellation of a holiday booked in the uk after the gover

ruth riley, brenda jones, and then there are the staffers who could never really leave, like jacob gillispt pulling back in as friends and confidantes. although some of you and some people moved on, you could not really because his spirit is in you forever. his voice is always in our head. mindful, be particular. make it plain, naked simple, make it sing. -- make it plain, make it simple, make it sing. working for him was a little bit of a nightmare sometimes. because no matter how hard he worked, -- you worked, he always worked harder. every single day he woke up at the crack of don, a watch -- dawn, watched the news and read the newspapers because his memory was like a living encyclopedia, which meant he forgot nothing i could pull something back from 15 years ago because it was the same staff and we were still there. he expected us to be informed with facts from primary sources, not your say -- not hearsay. and when he walked into the office, he would ask what constituents were writing about and add that information to his and his archives. you learn the hard way or the subtle way beca

connor gillies, bbc news.what is the head teacher, alison mitchell. alison, what will this change mean in practice? in practice, from today, all students and staff should be wearing a face covering when they enter the school in busy areas, a communal area here, and when moving from class to class. some choose to wear them in classes. very important to remember how to wear your facemask properly, because if you are taking it off and on seven times a day between lessons? yes, students have been shown how to store it properly, they know they have to cover the nose, the mouth and the chin. there are some medical exemptions. what categories of stu d e nts exemptions. what categories of students may not need to wear a face mask? there are some who will have exemption for medical reasons and others who have additional support needs. we have had conversations with many students and families around issues of anxiety and will work individually with these students to make sure they are all feeling —— not feeling singled

head gilly has been at the helm of a mass operation to get the school ready to welcome back all 600 studentsve all got their own place to sit. shall we go inside? oh, yes, of course. could you sanitize your hands on the way, please? children will be in social bubbles of 30, spending most of their time in one classroom, and then forming a super bubble with their year group during play time. you've got these stations, as well, i notice. we've just had these put in just this last week. so all the year groups have outdoor sinks, as well, and they all have automatic hand sanitizing. the classes have all been rearranged, so students face forward and sit side by side. teachers are advised to keep a 1.5m distance. obviously you can see, with the tables out, it is going to be very different and children will need to learn how to sit at the table. but i think with the right modelling and explaining to the children, hopefully in time, you know, they'll just adapt to it. of course, pe is a very popular subject, but like everything else, it has had a massive overhaul, and archery seems to be winning here

gilli gillian.l that damage you saw there in casey's report still being assessed now in louisiana. local lawmakers are working overtime to try and get their communities all the help that they show direly need. joining us now is republican louisiana state representative blake, thanks so much for taking time out of the recovery efforts to join us today. i understand your district is just a little bit east of lake charles. what's it make for you and your constituents there on the ground? >> thank you so much for having me on the show. that's right i represent a district on the south coast of the parish in louisiana. hurricane laura has been one of the strongest storms to strike the coast in modern history and the recovery efforts more due to the covid-19 shutdown. our local oil and gas industry which employs many of our workers have been struggling for many years, a lot of families and small businesses have gone through their savings recently just to survive. here on the ground there's a lot of wind da

head gilly has been at the helm of a mass operation to get the school ready to welcome back all 600 studentsurse. could you sanitize your hands on the way, please? children will be in social bubbles of 30, spending most of their time in one classroom, and then forming a super bubble with their year group during play time. you've got these stations, as well, i notice. we've just had these put in just this last week. so all the year groups have outdoor sinks, as well, and they all have automatic hand sanitizing. the classes have all been rearranged, so students face forward and sit side by side. teachers are advised to keep a 1.5m distance. obviously you can see, with the tables out, it is going to be very different and children will need to learn how to sit at the table. but i think with the right modelling and explaining to the children, hopefully in time, you know, they'll just adapt to it. of course, pe is a very popular subject, but like everything else, it has had a massive overhaul, and archery seems to be winning here at kibworth. harrison, you're deep in cleaning mode at the moment, y

alexander gillies—fergusson, here wearing the cap, as a teenager was one of the first to launch a mailarely seen archive and interviews with people who met him in the 19705. this is the story of bob marley's time in britain, and how he changed the lives of the people he met here. we still go back and talk about bob marley going to our school. some of him is still there. we never realised we was in the presence of someone who would transcend worldwide. bob looked back and said, "you ready, then? " he just went, "yeah." and the adventure began. and we can now talk to bbc radio manchester's karen gabay, who was a producer on the documentary, and paulette morris who features in it. paulette, i want to start with you first. i love the stories about people who have met someone, a moment in time, you've met someone who is very significant. you had one of those moments with bob miley when he was here in the uk. tell us what happened. -- bob marley. good morning. me and my sister travelled toa morning. me and my sister travelled to a celebration in manchester, which was held by the tribes of is

alexander gillies—fergusson, here wearing the cap, as a teenager was one of the first to launch a mailfrom st kilda. his story passing down the generations. when he was 1a, in about 1885, he sent one of these st kilda mail boats with a message in it saying that the winter storms had damaged their stores and that the people on the island were getting very hungry if not getting near starvation. it worked. the message reached help and st kilda was resupplied. their tiny mail boats a unique reminder of a way of life left long ago. lorna gordon, bbc news. a military dog who was shot and injured during a british special forces raid in afghanistan is to be awarded the animal equivalent of the victoria cross. kuno — who's a belgian shepherd malinois — was on a night raid when he charged through a hail of gunfire to tackle an al-qaeda insurgent. he was wounded in both his hind legs and had to be given life—saving treatment. he'll be awarded the dicken medal later this year. whether now, here is phil. it has been a pretty decent start to what for many is the holiday weekend of course. probably a