nick hancock, if i can come to you first this morning.bout this was he wanted to encourage people who might be feeling anxious or self—conscious or not particularly confident to talk about their feelings. i think that is something he would want me to make very clear to you. having given that full apology that you have just now. but he also talked about signing an autograph for you when he was playing for stoke and the circumstances around that. do you remember that? i had forgotten it. but i read one of his interviews about this. and it did come back into my mind. obviously you are a lwa ys into my mind. obviously you are always slightly aware when you do a programme like they think it‘s all over. there are lots of it i am very proud of. and definitely this is an incident that i‘m not so proud of. you worry about these things. you know you are going to meet mike gatting, you know you are going to meet will carling, all these people you talk the mickey out of. luke came to stoke city and did a wonderfuljob. and i remember saying to some of

his admission led to a public apology from tv host nick hancock today — who often made fun of chadwickpeaking to sally nugent, he says the abuse at the time left him anxious and nervous. it was a golden era and a glorious time for manchester united. beckham, scholes, giggs and a young lad called luke chadwick. but his time in the spotlight was not always easy. he was vilified, not for the way he played, but for the way he looked. it was quite childish, things around spots on my face, teeth sticking out and that sort of thing. although, i think it's more the repetition of being said over and over again, more than one specific thing which probably, in the end, it sort of lowers your self—esteem a lot and feels like that's all that i'm known for. it wasn't just fans at the game, the humiliation went further in online forums, doctored pictures and national television. there's a tv show called, "they think it's all over", that was on years ago that was really popular and i sort of became a picture of fun on that, on most episodes. still, it's not the first time a man united photograph has b

hancock. let's speak to our health correspondent, nick triggle, who's here with me now.strategy, this is going to be key as we ease out of lockdown, to contain local outbreak, people who test positive, a team will contact them, to try and identify their close contacts to see if they need to self—isolate, if they are at risk of being infected. we heard from the nhs confederation which erepresents health leaders thatty are concerned there is no collar strategy. the prime minister said we will have a programme if place by 1stjune. we understand the app which is part of this programme will not be ready by 1stjune. that is still being piloted in the isle of wight. peel are being asked to download it and identify close contacts they have had going about their every day life. thank you very much. don't go away because the briefing is to start fairly shortly. for the time being i want to go back to jonathan blake for the time being i want to go back tojonathan blake in westminster, for us, a big story this afternoon, are u—turn from downing street? . yes e after 24 hours or so o

nick mentioned the health secretary. we'll be joined by health secretary matt hancock at 7:30am.ut the track and trace app and facemasks, the easing of the lockdown, lots of questions for the health secretary at 7:30am on breakfast. there are warnings of a growing gap between disadavantaged pupils and those from a wealthier background as a result of coronavirus. with no clear timetable for reopening schools yet in place, charities and school leaders are worried about the long—term implications for the most vulnerable children. john owen reports. for weeks now, schools that are usually a hive of activity have looked more like this. and for most schoolchildren, the new normal looks like this. with the exception of the children of critical workers and some vulnerable children, most young people are attempting to continue their education at home with schools relying heavily on online resources. but now school leaders and charities to have warned of a growing gulf between disadvantaged pupils and their more affluent counterparts, and the long—term consequences that could follow for th

hancock. our health correspondent nick triggle is here with me now.n the community, peaked in the second week of april, and they are coming down. there will be plenty of questions about care homes, we are trying get a handle on the scale of the outbreaks there, and i‘m sure we have questions about testing. obviously they hit 100,000 tests on friday. but yesterday, when we got the figures, dropped to 76,000. the government have said we shouldn‘t expect to hit 100,000 every day but the capacity is there for that and much more to be honest. where are we with ppe? we know it‘s so important for the front line health workers and care workers. the government says it is working hard to ensure that those supplies are coming in. it‘s beginning to bring more and more equipment in from international suppliers. i heard from one doctor today that said one of the advantages of falling numbers of the advantages of falling numbers of patients with coronavirus in hospital is, actually, we are going to less protective equipment that we we re to less protective equipment

nick eardley, bbc news, westminster. the health secretary has again defended the government's testing strategy. matt hancock also denied that the government had left people in care homes more vulnerable to the virus by prioritising hospitals. our health correspondent anna collinson reports. 100,000 daily tests by the end of april was the promise. and last friday the government said the deadline had been met. i can announce we have met our goal. the number of tests yesterday, on the last day of april, was 122,310. but over the last three days, the government has failed to hit its target, most recently reaching around 85,000. testing capacity has increased in recent weeks with kits available to order online and testing sites popping up all over the uk. but the government and its advisers admit it should have happened sooner and faster. this morning the health secretary for england spoke to sky news. it would have been wonderful if we had gone into this crisis with a global—scale diagnostics industry, yes. but, you know, in the way that for instance germany did. but we went in more like other countries like fr

health secretary matt hancock cautions figures tend to be lower after the weekend due to a lag in reporting and that number will likely rise. nickon walsh is watching all of this in london. hi, nick. what can you tell us? >> reporter: robyn, as you said, 288 extraordinarily low. they're not counting positive tests but people who have died in the hospital and people across the country they're aware of. as we see quite regularly. after weekends the number goes down and then it goes back up. this week the government have to renew restrictions on social movement around the united kingdom. they're expected though to probably introduce some lessening of those as the weekend approaches towards us. we're hearing also, too, some more of the detail as to how the u.k. government is beginning to inform itself here. now we know, for example, that they believe the infection rates, the chief scientific officer has been saying to parliament, they believe that the scientific infection rate, which has to be well below one for them to be relaxed enough about reducing the lockdown here, may be as low as 0.6% possibly for london, possibly higher els

nick eardley, bbc news, westminster. the health secretary has again defended the government's testing strategy. matt hancockd that the government had left people in care homes more vulnerable to the virus, by prioritising hospitals. 0ur health correspondent anna collinson reports. 100,000 daily tests by the end of april was the promise. and last friday the government said the deadline had been met. i can announce we have met our goal. the number of tests yesterday, on the last day of april, was 122,310. but over the past three days, the government has failed to hit its target, most recently reaching around 85,000. testing capacity has increased in recent weeks with kits available to order online and testing sites popping up all over the uk. but the government and its advisers admit it should have happened sooner and faster. this morning the health secretary for england spoke to sky news. it would have been wonderful if we had gone into this crisis with a global—scale diagnostics industry, yes. but, you know, in the way that for instance germany did. but we went in more like other countries like france, whic

hancock. good afternoon and welcome to downing street for the daily coronavirus briefing i'm joined by the deputy chief medical officer jenny harry's by and just england's medical director for primary care dr nick economic 1st i want to take this chance to update you on the latest coronavirus data. 2353078 tests for corona virus have now been carried out in the u.k. including 133784 tests yesterday 236007 111 people have tested positive for the virus an increase of 3560 since yesterday. 10024 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus this is a 13th across all settings 33998 people have now died that's an increase of 384 since yesterday and we mourn each one. the number of deaths is falling each day in all settings thankfully and we are past the peak of this virus and i just want to take a moment to remind everyone about our plans for this 2nd phase if we have slide one please we've set up the new covert alert level system that's the 5 levels of threat based on the r. value and the number of new cases the alert level in turn guides the social distancing rules which are vital in our efforts to control the virus a higher alert level means strict rules throughout the lock down we've been at

health secretary matt hancock has said pupils will only be allowed to return to school when it is safe to do so. our political correspondent nickde the uk will be quarantined for 14 days. we will speak to our political correspondence a bit later in the programme. the queen urged us to "never give up, never despair" as she spoke to the nation, 75 years since herfather made his address to mark the end of the second world war in europe. commemorations we scaled down with socially distanced street parties taking place across the country to mark ve day, as holly hamilton reports. newsreel: his majesty, king george vi. 75 years on from her father's ve day address, the queen marked a defining moment of british history in the midst of another. today it may seem hard but we cannot mark this special anniversary as we would wish. instead, we remember from our homes and our doorsteps. but our streets are not empty. they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other. # land of hope and glory... the street parties may have been scaled back — restricted, of course, under lockdown. but still as heartfelt. any occasion, sain

following nick hancock's appearance on breakfast yesterday, luke has been innundated with messages ofay what i had said has helped then, and there is no better feeling in the world than feeling you have helped someone. the reaction i have had from your story yesterday was very humbling. what is the positive message you want to get across?” think the message from the start was just to talk about your feelings. it is easy to say that, me or anybody saying that will not make it easier, but that was my story when i went through a turf period or have been sued to have periods in my life, i have got through it better by opening up and talking to people. that was the real message i wanted to send out. as i mentioned, you had an apology from gary lineker, we saw nick hancock on the programme yesterday. what was it like to hear from them about something which happened such a long time ago? to be completely honest, i watched nick hancock on the telly yesterday and i felt a little bit guilty myself, it was never really about getting an apology or anything like that, and obviously full credit to