fly into the fine city of halifax and spend a couple of days there.articularly interesting. and you'll also not need a car in the city, which means you will be able to save money, paticularly on the airport pick—up. head along to digby for the ferry to saintjohn, new brunswick — an appealing city and good for one night. charlottetown is a lovely place to stay before making for the ferry to pictou. next, though, begin what i think is the highlight of the route — cape breton. do keep sending in your questions — i'll do my very best to supply the answers. bye for now, and see you next time. this week, i'm exploring argentina's ibera wetlands. my guide, omar, has offered to show me how paisanos navigate the waterways. woo, ok! a different experience to having a saddle on, let me tell you that right now. woo! omar, there's a crocodile right there, should we be worried? un cocodrilo, una caiman... no importa, eh? "don't worry about it." "don't worry about it, that's what we do." as the river deepens, and the horse can't reach the bottom, the trick is to sli

fly into the fine city of halifax and spend a couple of days there.ritime museum is particularly interesting. and you'll also not need a car in the city, which means you will be able to save money, paticularly on the airport pick—up. head along to digby for the ferry to saintjohn, new brunswick — an appealing city and good for one night. charlottetown is a lovely place to stay before making for the ferry to pictou. next, though, begin what i think is the highlight of the route — cape breton. do keep sending in your questions — i'll do my very best to supply the answers. bye for now, and see you next time. this week, i'm exploring argentina's ibera wetlands. my guide, omar, has offered to show me how paisanos navigate the waterways. woo, ok! a different experience to having a saddle on, let me tell you that right now. woo! omar, there's a crocodile right there, should we be worried? un cocodrilo, una caiman... no importa, eh? "don't worry about it." "don't worry about it, that's what we do." as the river deepens, and the horse can't reach the bottom, t

in—form striker gozie ugwu got the only goal of the match after 16 minutes, meaning that halifax missonceded more goals than any team in the league, but they managed to keep a clean sheet and take all three points at the shay. that's four wins in six games now. but a number of matches did go ahead in the national league, with third—placed notts county closing the gap on the leaders barrow to seven points with a 4—0 win over eastleigh. while fylde moved to within four points of safety as they beat aldershot 1—0. now, as you can imagine, there's plenty of doubt over whether the olympics and paralympics will go ahead this summer in tokyo. the games are meant to start on the 24th ofjuly and the prime minister ofjapan insists that his country will not postpone the event. japan has recorded more than 11100 cases of the virus. translation: going forward, we will continue to coordinate well with the ioc and, of course, the ioc will coordinate with the world health organization. forjapan, we have to overcome the spread of the infection and we want to hold the olympics and paralympics as planne

in—form striker gozie ugwu got the only goal of the match after 16 minutes, meaning that halifax misse. ebbsfleet have conceded more goals than any team in the league, but they managed to keep a clean sheet and take all three points at the shay. that's four wins in six games now. now as you can imagine, there's plenty of doubt over whether the olympics and paralympics will go ahead this summer in tokyo. the games are meant to start on the 24th ofjuly and the prime minister ofjapan insists that his country will not postpone the event. japan has recorded more than 1,400 cases of the virus. translation: going forward, we will continue to coordinate well with the ioc and, of course, the ioc will coordinate with the world health organization. forjapan, we have to overcome the spread of the infection and we want to hold the olympics and paralympics as planned. among the sport going on today is the all england open badminton championships in birmingham, with the semi—finals under way. england's marcus ellis and lauren smith lost in the mixed doubles. the pair took it to a decider, but it was

and it's half—time between halifax and ebbsfleet, ebbsfleet 1—0 up at the moment.r olympics and paralympics in tokyo. the games are due to open on the 24th ofjuly and japan's prime minister insists his country will not postpone the event. the country has recorded more than moo cases of the virus. translation: going forward, we will continue to coordinate well with the ioc and, of course, the ioc will coordinate with the world health organization. forjapan, we have to overcome the spread of the infection and we want to hold the olympics and paralympics as planned. a number of olympic qualifying events have been cancelled, some are still going ahead. britain's caroline dubois won her first bout in the ring at the european olympic qualifying tournament at the copper box, beating ana staradub of belarus. with six qualifying spots up for grabs in the lightweight division, it is the first of three bouts she will have to win to book her spot to tokyo. she next faces the number—one seed mira potkonen of finland, who, at 39, is more than twice her age. she's obviously the n

i am now joined by colin pickles — who travelled from halifax to enjoy his holiday in spain and is nowrrived yesterday afternoon, we spent a lot of time on the website and there was no information about not travelling to spain, we arrived in the afternoon about 330 pm, got a taxi and the taxi driver informed us bars, restaurants, shops and schools will close down, we were not allowed to go onto the beaches. we have been to go onto the beaches. we have been to the supermarket today, there is no fresh meat, they are out of meat, vegetables, people are panic buying really bad over here. we are unlucky in the fact that we came as independent travellers, we flew by ourselves, we rented a place to stay and we don't have any contacts. we we re and we don't have any contacts. we were on the phone tojet2, our airline last night, unfortunately week spent an hour on the phone and couldn't get through to them when we try to change our flights. we got through this morning after about three quarters of an hour, we changed the flight to friday and then an hour later we got a message from the uk from

named edward montgomery who's irish wife isabella had come to boston on the same ship the first to halifax but traveled with jane. they didn't get along particularly very well. earlier that night montgomery shouted loudly enough for people to hear the town was too proud and many would be laid low by morning. the bostonians she was talking to shot back i hope your husband will be killed. but not all bostonians wished death on the montgomery's. on th the street that night wasa carpenter named wilkinson. for a few months they rented a house and had become friendly. in the 18th century equivalent to running to a neighbor for a cup of sugar, they send his kids for cold to start a fire. so, when walk-ins involve as he asked his neighbor what was happening. he wasn't afraid of him. of course what was happening that night is the big question. there's only a few points to the eyewitnesses agreed. when they came to support this entry to captain does order them to disperse. all he knows when the smoke cleared there were people dead and dying and we know when people looked around, they knew that the s

then he moved to halifax, nova scotia and possibly received some land. he continued working for alexander robinson publishing the royal american gazette until 1786 when robinson decided he was going to leave and move to prince edward island. poppy again disappears from the record and appears again in 1791. he departed for sierra leone which is a colony the british loyalists tolack resettle in west africa. i'm comfortable saying this but preface it with circumstantial evidence suggests he was the first printer and sierra leone. [laughter] it is a really neat story. you can see in which the forces of the revolution move enslaved around the atlantic. because of stories like poppy fleet and the story of the heads of household in connecticut that chapter on the american revolution ends on a cautiously optimistic note. by the 1780's, slavery had no legal standing. enslaved people were rapidly becoming free -- in theory. the slave trade had been a abolished -- in theory. free people could become equal members of the new united states -- in theory. is muchogue o

after the war, he moved to halifax, nova scotia, and it appears he may have received some land. he continued working for alexander robinson, publishing the royal american gazette until 1786, when robinson decided he was going to leave and moved to prince edward island. pompey once again disappears from the records, and then he appears again in 1791. departing for sierra leone, which was a colony for loyalists to resettle in west africa. and circumstantial evidence -- i was theference --pompey first printer in british sierra leone. is a really neat story. -- it is a really neat story. his andof story like connecticut, that chapter on the american revolution ends on a cautiously optimistic note. by the mid-1780's, slavery had no legal standing in any of the new and going states. in theory. and slave people were rapidly becoming free. in theory. the region's slave trade had been abolished. in theory. and they were real possibilities for free people to become new members of the new united states. in theory. the epilogue of the book is much, much less optimistic and examines all of t

thing relevant was that sometimes tea that was turned away from ports in new hampshire was sent to halifax where in fact itwas accepted . it was not turned away. so no, the maritimes were simply not involved. they were involved back in the opposition to the stamp act in 1765 they weren't involved in 1754. 74questions over here. don't know where the mic is. just a minute. take someone in the back. i'll get to youin a minute . can you have the mic up here, just a minute. go ahead. >> 1774 being the year that you write about, how pivotal were the associations. >> the question is how critical were the articles of association. they were in fact very critical. because basically the association adopted by the first continental congress in , just before the adjourned in october, the association for the creation of local committees in every city, county and town to enforce the association and the association is the economic boycottagainst britain . those locally elected committees become crucial in the next month, because they become in effect the government of the colonies. people obey whatthey sa

michael says, "i can't decide if i'm more worried about the grim reaper coming for me or the halifaxecause they can't get out due to health reasons. they are elderly and vulnerable. i'm sure there are lots of people in this situation but how can we prioritise these people?" "without sounding unkind, maybe you will need to do it for them if you live nearby or someone else live nearby. i'm going to ask my elderly neighbours if there's anything i can do to help them". blair from west sussex contacted us and said she was fobbed off by 111 when she called for information about her son who is ill. professor hugh pennington is in our aberdeen studio this morning. we are also going to talk to a doctor who is an associate professor in public health at the university of southampton. thank you for joining us. claire, can i start with you? you e—mailed us and you called one last night because your son who is 11 has a high temperature, a cough and shortness of breath and a headache. what did they say to you? initially, the first two questions, i spoke to two operators, the first one asked me if h

sounds very much and halifax mind, grants next job was in the trans mississippi's and if it wasn't that it would be an advanced on mobile. nobody is talking about making grant general-in-chief until after chat to new gun. after that victory there suddenly let's make rent general and chief. so chatter new gosh elevates grant to supreme command looks over meets shoulder and gets gross grants fired sherman in charge of all the army heading towards atlanta. if there is no federal victory and should an idea which third would not have been -- there's no see-through chat new gutter idiom it means that in 1864 rows grants takes on the drive towards atlanta and needs left alone to assume the offensive in virginia and grant is either in arkansas louisiana are moving against mobile. ultimately what does that mean? we do not know. we can't know. it doesn't happen. a counter factual history is fun, and the first step we've taken to it is on solid ground but everything after that is quicksand. but we do know things would have been different. so at the end of the day, counter intuitively, and is easy

several big banks, including rbs, tsb, lloyds and halifax say they‘ll allow customers to defer mortgagee rules are designed to stop airlines buying up slots, just to prevent rivals using them. we have just done five minutes on it. i said, if you havejust heard. just to remind people. let‘s pick up on coronavirus. it is hitting markets but a better day than yesterday. what a difference 24 hours make. the figure, down 7.7%. what the markets are doing is taking a step back and thinking what is actually happening. we are seeing how it affects business as day—to—day. we are talking about people not travelling or leave where they are, italy being a case. now we get a sense for individual workers. ba e—mailing their staff saying, if you want to take leave, please do. then you get an effect on the rest of the economy. it will make up back on spending and lots of businesses may file on the remit of this. that is why markets are doing that. all day they have been up and down. the ftse has been closed. markets are doing better in the us than they we re doing better in the us than they were this ti