the second round of the fa cup continues tomorrow, and it's an extra special occasion for merseysideteams left in the competition, hoping to get a potential draw with a premier league side. they're also one of only two teams to get special dispensation from the government to play during the second national lockdown in england. austin halewood reports. for much of england, it is like time has stood still over the second round of the fa cup continues tomorrow, and it's an extra special occasion for merseyside based club marine. they're one of only a handful of non—league teams left for much of england, it is like time has stood still over this second lockdown. grassroots sport had to grind to a halt, but in this part of merseyside, the magic of the fa cup has still shone through. and marine cause the biggest fa cup upset of this year's competition! that was marine beating colchester united, a team 89 places above them, to reach the second round for the first time in 28 years. can't describe the feelings that were going through everyone. even when the penalty went in, you could probably

marine, the merseysiders who play in the northern premier league, have been drawn to face the premiercked out two league one sides in wigan and peterborough, get to pit their wits against wayne rooney and derby next. and stockport county of the national league will face west ham. but it's marine against mourinho that's got everyone talking: we just wejust plain as we just plain as best as we can. usually with his teams, he puts up a pretty strong out in every competition. it is a great high for us. competition. it is a great high for us. it didn't get much more difficult but as i said, a remarkable achievement to win seven cup games and this is the reward for the football club. two more non—league sides were in action tonight, fighting for a place in the third round. and it's boreham wood who go through after a 3—0 win at canvey island. their reward is a home tie against millwall of the championship. and a few more of the picks here. the fa cup holders arsenal begin the defence of their trophy at home to newcastle. league one bristol rovers will play the premier league's bottom side s

bbc radio merseyside. liverpool's city mayor has exclusively revealed gyms will now be able reopen.'s no longer breaking the law by keeping his gym open. how does it feel to have your door open? it means everything, notjust to myself but to our community, you know. it's incredible. i've experienced no feeling like it before in my life. you know, it's a victory, not just for me, not just for our region, but for the country as a whole. this is a good day, it's a really good day for all of us. a victory for nick and the gym, but there's bad news for liverpool. liverpool's hospitals are now treating more people for coronavirus than they did in the peak in april. hospital beds are filling up fast. the virus is out of control and takes no prisoners... so concerned is the council, it's sent cameras into the city's main hospital, the royal. the mayor gives the public a stark message. i'm telling you that your actions can and will make a difference. our wards are becoming very, very full. so many people are dying of covid across the liverpool region, so many families affected by the tragedy.

of recognition and popularity that came with angel of the north, and another place, the piece in merseysideng which seems to me sometimes happens to artists that, when they become really celebrated and awarded and everything else, there are critics who then say, they are bland, they have ceased to challenge, they have fallen into a trap of seeking popularity, when critics — and some do say that of you... there is an absolute difference between "popular" and "populist". the fact that people engage with my work, so far as i am concerned, is a tribute to its relevance. i think we live in a very strange world in which, in a way, the recondite in art has become sellable because its difficulty and uniqueness is somehow a selling point for certain areas of the market. i am not interested in those games at all. i think the space of art is precious to us in a time in which both religion and politics have failed in terms of allowing us to be contributors to a collective future. do you feel that some of your work maybe is getting increasingly political? personally, i looked at, for example, a couple o

our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports from knowsley on merseyside, one of the worst effected carefully managed. a school hit hard by coronavirus, teachers and pupils having to isolate. in yearten we in year ten we have had to have bubble closure, an entire bubble closure in year 11. we have had a partial bubble closure. this is a significant number of days that have been lost as part of that. across year 11 just since september, more than 700 days in the classroom lost. even now, we're stilljust catching up with work that we missed in lockdown. so there's still a lot of content that we need to catch up on before learning the content that we should be right now. i don't think it's really fair because at the end of the day, we're all sitting the same exam and some have had more time in school than others. and it could affect people differently. as someone who herself isolated already i think it's really stressful to even think about the fa ct we stressful to even think about the fact we have got to do exams in a few months' time. it will not only affect your gcses but also coll

in this part of merseyside, as many as four out of ten teenagers have been out of secondary school at very slightly, but those are still days in the classroom those teenagers won't get back. and schools are worried that if there's more disruption after christmas, they simply won't be able to cover all of the content of their gcses. plans for exams promised soon. one suggestion — grades could be more generous than usual across england. it's exactly the same as reducing the content for everybody. what we need is a more localised approach to take into account the exact nature of the disruption that we've faced. with one more baby we could have managed, but not with two... in english, pupils will have more choice in exam questions. some want it allowed in other subjects. you could have different papers that covered different parts of the content, or you could have a single paper that would guide pupils through the questions that they should answer based on the content they've studied. how high would you put the risk of the government getting itself into a very difficult position again? at

grassroots sport had to grind to a halt, but in this part of merseyside, the magic of the fa cup hasrough. marine has caused the biggest upset of this year's fa cup competition! that was marine beating colchester united, a team 89 places above them, to reach the second round for the first time in 28 years. you can't describe the feelings that were going through everyone, even when the penalty went in. you could probably tell by my celebrations, i still couldn't believe it went in! water everywhere, everyone was jumping over everyone. there was videos going on. it was a great atmosphere. the first round began just two days after the lockdown started, with marine and nine other non—elite sides granted special dispensation by the government to play. well, only canvey island and marine here in crosby made it through. and since, they have become the only non—elite football teams in all of england to be allowed to train during the second national lockdown. well, marine play havant & waterlooville on sunday, butjust making the game happen hasn't been easy. we have to make sure everyone is t

yesterday, we told you about marine, the merseyside club from the eighth tier of english football givenin during lockdown. they were playing hava nt and waterlooville. it was 0—0 at the end of normal time, so it went to extra time and it all came down to this free kick. the captain niall cummins managed to get his head on the end of it somehow, diving into the goal. and just look at those celebrations! it means that they could now face the likes of liverpool or manchester united in the next round. congratulations to them. ijust got a glimpse of it coming over, and i thought, i can attack this. and i seen the seven whiting to do something like a bicycle kick. and i thought, i'm getting one in the mush here. went in that direction, it hit me in the back and, fortunately, it has gone in. it was a lucky goal. i will take it. it's the last minute and they're not going to reply in that time. stockport county are another non—league team into the hat for round 3. this was another game which also went to extra time after finishing 2—2 after 90 minutes. but connorjennings got the winner for the n

yesterday, we told you about marine, the merseyside club from the eighth tier of english football giveney were playing hava nt and waterlooville. it was 0—0 at the end of normal time... ..so it went to extra time — and after 120 minutes of football, it came down to this free kick. the captain niall cummins managed to get his head on the end of it somehow, diving into the goal. and just look at those celebrations! it finished 1—0. that means the eighth—tier side are through to the third round for only the second time in the clubs history. incredible scenes! ijust got a i just got a glance ijust got a glance of it coming over, and i thought, i can attack this. i was doing the wind—up and thinking, iam this. i was doing the wind—up and thinking, i am going to get a mushy year. went in that direction, it hit me in the back and, fortunately, it has gone in. it was a lucky goal. i will take it. they were unable to reply in that time. stockport county are another non—league team into the hat for round 3. this was another game which also went to extra time after finishing 2—2 after 90 minutes,

over recent hours, and you can just make out this little line of rain just coming into parts of merseyside, although there were plenty of showers here. we also had some sunshine, too, in the north east of england. overnight tonight, those clearer skies will continue to push southwards, so good parts of wales, most of england and much of eastern scotland having that clearer weather. it's going to be cold with some patches of frost developing in the countryside, but thicker cloud in northern ireland, where there'll be some drizzle, and temperatures here mostly staying above freezing. tuesday, cold air in place, then, but eventually we'll see this warm sector, this milder air pushing into the north west, but quite late in the day. now, for eastern areas of scotland, eastern areas of wales and most of england, there should be some sunshine around, but we'll have cold northerly winds and those temperatures around the east coast struggle. highs 5—7 degrees for some. turns milder in the north west, but with that a lot of low cloud and again probably some mist and fog over the high ground and cert

our education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports from knowsley on merseyside, one of the worst affectedhool hit hard by coronavirus, teachers and pupils having to isolate. in year ten, we have had to have bubble closure, an entire bubble closure in year 11. we have had a partial bubble closure. there's a significant number of days that have been lost as part of that. across year 11 just since september, more than 700 days in the classroom lost. even now, we're stilljust catching up with work that we missed in lockdown. so there's still a lot of content that we need to catch up on before learning the content that we should be right now. i don't think it's really fair because at the end of the day, we're all sitting the same exam and some have had more time in school than others. and it could affect people differently. as someone who isolated already i think it's really stressful to even think about the fact we have got to do exams in a few months' time. it won't be learning all the content on your exams. it will not only affect your gcses but also college. in this part of merseyside, as

nina is at a printing firm in merseyside to get their take. nina?mily, i have been learning about printing this morning. shaun up there has been teaching me everything there is to know. these are the dip sticks where you check whether or not there is enoughinkin you check whether or not there is enough ink in the printer, over here we have anti—microbial stuff. this goes on the tearily that makes its way to places like alder hey hospital because they serve the public and private sector here when the wider economy takes a hit so do they. let us remind ourself what we learned about the health of the economy. so far this year we borrowed nearly £400 million. that translates to nearly 7,00 pounds for every person in the uk, a lot of money. and so the contraction of the economy, which is expected to be more than 1196 which is expected to be more than 11% will translate, they think, to more than 2.6 million people out of work by next year. this was the figure that struck me most, in five yea rs‘ figure that struck me most, in five years‘ time by 2025, the

, developing symptoms and getting admitted to hospital but some of the effects we are seeing in merseysideortant we do notjust plateau at a high level, it is important that infection rates go down so stabilising the r around one is helpful but it really needs to get below one and that is what the current national restrictions are designed to do. we will see over the course of the next weeks how that plays through, but as i said, in the north—west i think we are seeing some of the effects of the tier 3 measures that will put in place on merseyside. thank you so much for your question. now to the daily express ? your question. now to the daily express? thank you. a question to you both about the hopeful vaccine. have there been any discussions within the government about the possibility of compulsory vaccination as was used in this country against smallpox for many years and what work has been done if any on creating a certification syste m any on creating a certification system to ensure people can prove they have had the jab? thank you for that question. the first issue of course is to mak

in this part of merseyside as many as four out of ten teenagers have been out of secondary school ate teenagers wa nt in the classroom those teenagers want get back. and schools are worried that if there is more disruption after christmas they simply will not be able to cover all of the content of their gcses. plans for exams promised soon and one suggestion grades could be more generous than usual across england. it is exactly the same as releasing the content for everybody. what we needis the content for everybody. what we need is a more localised approach. taking into account the exact nature of the disruption that we face. this is 0utside source live from the bbc newsroom. 0ur lead story is the us president—elect, joe biden, has introduced his senior members of his new cabinet — saying it would be a team to re—unite america, and lead the world, not retreat from it. we‘ve been talking a lot about vaccines over the past few weeks — with positive results from pfizer, moderna and 0xford—astrazeneca. well, russia says its vaccine — named sputnik v — is 95% effective after taking two d

merseyside police have set up a dispersal zone to prevent people from gathering in the city centre andnd 350 people marched through the city. gatherings of more than two are currently not allowed under coronavirus restrictions. alice bouverie reports. defying the lockdown and defying the police advice not to gather. i am very wary of what's going on. i'm not happy about it. i'm a peaceful, peaceful citizen. never been in trouble with any of the police, and have no intention to be so. i will not stand by and let my civil liberties be eroded. her nan's petrified to see it, it's wrong. they've lied for months and months, people are tired, they've had enough, suicides are going through the roof. this needs to stop, and it needs to end. around 200 people started off at college green, but as the march went on, the numbers grew steadily. as far as we know, there are about 350 people in this march. we don't know where the march is ending, and it may be that the police don't either. they're tracking them all the way. 11! people have so far been arrested — one for assaulting a police officer. am

no side will be dreaming of that more than merseyside club marine, who play in the eighth tier of english third round for the first time in 28 years. their manager says he hopes fate deals them a short trip to anfield to play liverpool next. and finally back to our top story — romain grosjean has taken to social media to provide an update on how he's doing after leaping for his life from his formula one car at the bahrain grand prix. he says the halo protection structure, made from titanium, which sits above the car's cockpit and was introduced to protect the driver's head despite many criticising it — saved his life: ijust i just wanted to say ijust wanted to say i am 0k. well, sort of 0k. thank you very much for all the messages. i think it is the greatest thing and without it i wouldn't be able to fix it these days so thank you to everyone, and hopefully i can write you soon some messages and tell you how it's going. a lucky man. there's more reaction to that story on the bbc sport website but from me chetan pathak and the rest of the team that is your monday sport briefing. a mysterio

some here say that the evidence on merseyside means it is too soon to be used as a working example thatr reservations, too. newsnight understands that local authorities across the north of england have been pushing back against the government because my clients to write wider mass testing. they have argued that a better approach would be to use the rapid testing being piloted here in liverpool to target specific groups, for example key workers or people in high—riskjobs. the society that represents local authority chief executives told newsnight the best way to deliver more testing is for the government to work with councils to target it at those groups. it says liverpool style testing of all populations would the enormous extra funding and manpower councils are yet to see. with the prime minister announcing a surge of mass testing, it appears they are losing that argument. as we've been hearing, people in england face an anxious wait to see how restricted they will be in the run—up to christmas, but news that the national lockdown will end next wednesday has at least brought some early

marine the merseyside is play in the northern premier league have been drawn to face the premier league the national league will face west him. it‘s marine against marini oh that‘s got eve ryo ne marine against marini oh that‘s got everyone talking. we just play on his best we can. it usually with those teams you every competition through chelsea to tottenham or wherever it‘s been manchester united. it‘s a great time for us. it doesn‘t get that much more difficult but as i said, it‘s a remarkable achievement to win seven cup games to get here. this is a reward for the football club. meanwhile tomorrow non—league sides of an accident tonight fighting for a place in the third round. would go through after a three nail win at academy island. they are rewarded home tie against the championship. a few more pics here at the fa cup holders arsenal began defence of their trophy home to newcastle week eight lee one bristol rovers will play bottom side chef sheffield united. liverpool got aston villa where they lost seven —— two early the season. markham travelled to sta mford the season. markham

aintree in merseyside. instead of horse racing, it's got a very different fixture now. the mass testing of people without symptoms here is part of the government's hugely ambitious scheme to sweep a whole city, liverpool, for covid—19. it's a bit uncomfortable, but it's a bit variable... it's been a military operation. yeah, i suppose they're important. yeah, it's ok. the fact that we have identified, you know, over 700 of our residents who were positive, didn't know it, were a risk to their fellow citizens, is a hugely encouraging thing. liverpool city's neighbour, the borough of sefton here, is one of more than 90 local authorities which is going to start mass testing now but unlike liverpool, which has had the support of around 2,000 soldiers, sefton — which is about half the city's size — says it's been offered no support at all and has a team ofjust 12 people. this evening, the government's plans to expand mass testing in england were criticised by the uk's most senior public health officials. they told me testing should target those most at risk and that mass test

over recent hours, and you can just make out this little line of rain just coming into parts of merseysidethere were plenty of showers here. we also had some sunshine, too, in the north east of england. overnight tonight, those clearer skies will continue to push southwards, so good parts of wales, most of england and much of eastern scotland having that clearer weather. it's going to be cold with some patches of frost developing in the countryside, but thicker cloud in northern ireland, where there'll be some drizzle, and temperatures here mostly staying above freezing. tuesday, cold air in place, then, but eventually we'll see this warm sector, this milder air pushing into the north west, but quite late in the day. now, for eastern areas of scotland, eastern areas of wales and most of england, there should be some sunshine around, but we'll have cold northerly winds and those temperatures around the east coast struggle. highs 5—7 degrees for some. turns milder in the north west, but with that a lot of low cloud and again probably some mist and fog over the high ground and certainly some

council who are in tier3 west lancashire district council who are in tier 3 but their neighbours in merseyside much lower than their neighbouring authorities in cumbria or in tier 2. so the movement across the batteries is going to happen and that would happen wherever you draw the batteries, but the argument that is i made to government and clearly i didn't have much success with that. —— draw the boundaries. didn't have much success with that. -- draw the boundaries. you will continue to make the representation or will you wait for the 16th of december deadline when the next review will take place? december deadline when the next review will take place ?|j december deadline when the next review will take place? i shall keep making the point spread and obviously we will carry on with the restrictions that are there, we're not going to rebel against them in any shape or form, not going to rebel against them in any shape orform, we not going to rebel against them in any shape or form, we would not going to rebel against them in any shape orform, we would our not going to rebel against them in a

over recent hours, and you can just make out this little line of rain just coming into parts of merseysides where we had some proper sunshine working in across scotland, although there were plenty of showers here. we also had some sunshine, too, in the north east of england. overnight tonight, those clearer skies will continue to push southwards, so good parts of wales, most of england and much of eastern scotland having that clearer weather. it's going to be cold with some patches of frost developing in the countryside, but thicker cloud in northern ireland, where there'll be some drizzle, and temperatures here mostly staying above freezing. tuesday, cold air in place, then, but eventually we'll see this warm sector, this milder air pushing into the north west, but quite late in the day. now, for eastern areas of scotland, eastern areas of wales and most of england, there should be some sunshine around, but we'll have cold northerly winds and those temperatures around the east coast struggle. highs 5—7 degrees for some. turns milder in the north west, but with that a lot of low cloud and

we are heading up to merseyside with bill esterson. to the millions of people who have had no financial support, about how they should put food on the table for their families? mr speaker, i am grateful to him, because he raises a very important point. we have put another £9 billion into the welfare system, principally by upgrading universal credit, and that will go through to next year, as he knows. thank you, mr speaker. this lockdown since march has been devastating for so many people, and only very relu cta ntly many people, and only very reluctantly will i be supporting the latest lockd own reluctantly will i be supporting the latest lockdown measures when they come to this house on wednesday, but does my right honourable friend agree with me that the real problem here is for people because mac mental health, whether it is elderly people who are in care homes, or who are desperately missing their families around them, whether it is business people who are seeing their life ‘s efforts just ruined around them, and also of course fam

our business correspondent nina warhurst has been speaking to staff at a printing firm in merseyside.s. what happens to the wider economy matters here. yesterday, we learned about the shape that it's in. so far this year almost 400 billion pounds have been borrowed to cover covid, and that translates to about £7,000 for every person. the contracting economy means that by next year it's predicted that more than 2.5 million people will be unemployed, and this is really striking — a prediction that by 2025 the economy will still be 3% smaller than was expected in the march budget. a small glimmer of hope, though — the chancellor found the funding for four billion pounds to help level up the economy. and that message means investing in an economy that creates more opportunity outside of london and the south—east. something that, too many, sounds painfully familiar. we've heard it all before in business and, you know, previous administrations, and we are hoping that it does work and it does hopefully do what it's supposed to do and level up, but, you know, time will tell, and hopefully a l

they're now in the third, so the merseyside club could get drawn against everton or even liverpool. eh, so ijust thought of my body in that direction and luckily, he didn't get a flush connection on it and it's hit me in the back and it's gone in. i've just seen the replay and it's a lucky goal! but i'll take it. it's the last minute and they're not going to be able to reply in that time. and, how do you celebrate? send the keeper to the local co—op to buy the drinks. bayleigh passa nt dispatched in full kit. it was his brithday as well, so happy brithday for yesterday. good on him. ronnie 0'sullivan suffered a shock defeat at the uk snooker championship. the seven times winner farfrom his best, beaten by the world number 66, switzerland's alexandser ursenbacher, in a deciding frame. 0'sullivan looked like he would edge through after going 5—4 up, but lost the last two frames. and finally, a touching tribute from one of the greatest number tens to another. lionel messi's gesture to maradona yesterday, after scoring for barca he revealed a number ten 'newells old boys' jersey, messi'

greater manchester police handed out the most penalties. 309 tickets since 5th november. 0n merseyside. leicestershire police issued only 30. police chiefs believe the significance, the difference between the areas may be down to the willingness of people to comply with requests to break up a gathering, along with the amount of police time that has been allocated to investigations. so 24,993 fixed penalty notices have been issued in england and wales since they came into force in march. we will have a closer look at that later. now the weather. another murky start to the day across southern counties, but since then, we have seen this rain moving southward, washing the mist and fog out of the atmosphere. visibility has been picking up. for most of us, it stays pretty cloudy with patches of rain around. brighter weather in scotla nd of rain around. brighter weather in scotland with a mixture of sunshine and heavy showers. these brighter conditions could spread to northern ireland and the north of england for a time, but overnight, this guy is really clear. east scotland across much of en

greater manchester, liverpool city centre, ora manchester, liverpool city centre, or a bigger part of merseyside the emergence, perhaps in the next hour or so, of a compilation of lots of us doing the punching the postcode thing in so that we can drop a definitive of england to determine who is in which tier. and until we have done that, there is clearly a danger that there isa there is clearly a danger that there is a whole lot of noise, which i am contributing a little bit to, and a lack of clear information. but that is going to emerge now in the coming minutes, and if your phone or laptop is feeling lucky, you might get through to be able to put your postcode in. and if you‘re using a dud like yours, maybe he won‘t. but relatively soon, that england wide picture should emerge. the basis of all of the argument seven conversations they come in the next couple of weeks. i will try not to ta ke couple of weeks. i will try not to take that personally, thank you. honestly... theatres and pantomime producers have been waiting anxiously to hear which tier of restrictions they will be in, because the

everybody in liverpool city itself, not merseyside, not the wider region, just the city that is pa rt aim of the project is to work out notjust how to get virus numbers down in liverpool but whether this can be rolled out across other cities across the country, a huge effort involving 2000 army soldiers who will put this in place. they say this is the key to getting things sorted here. thanks. students at the university of manchester have torn down security fencing that was put up around parts of the campus accomodation on day one of england's lockdown. the university has since apologised and say all the barriers, which were put up without any warning to the residents, will be removed this morning. andy moore reports. the moment when students tore down what they call a wall. the erection of the barriers had generated enormous anger, with crowds of students marching through the fallowfield campus. the university said the fences were meant as a security measure to help avoid what it called the mixing of households. but construction started before residents were informed. students saw th