alan partridge has got a podcast. thank you. are you going to get a podcast?had better introductions, but thank you anyway. and worst one as well. that was kind of in the middle. are you and alan partridge fan, or is he not really your thing? no, actually, iam. i think i was interviewed by him at an early stage when i was labour leader. 0h... yeah, i was doing that in the old days. i think there is probably some embarrassing interview material around. ifeel a call to the bbc archives coming up. archive: here he is, he's dying to become prime minister, tony blair. applause. he went straight to a rally of young labour party members hosted by the comedian, steve coogan. mr blair blamed the government for the lack of opportunity. they've run it on this narrow basis for a few people at the top, and what we haven't got is a government that's prepared to build us the type of decent civic society for the many and not the few. that's enough alan partridge, because we are going to talk to you about your new passion — which is just getting testing for coronavirus sorted

the comedic character, alan partridge, finally has the recognition he has long craved, with a goldene middle of norwich. the 11 foot statue was designed by sculptors who say it is a gift to norfolk. the pair who say it is a gift to norfolk. the pairwho are fans say it is a gift to norfolk. the pair who are fans of partridge had designed and created the cold cast brass statue between work commitments over the past three yea rs. commitments over the past three years. the statue has gained alan's approval who said, "i grant my consent and will instruct my legal tea m consent and will instruct my legal team to re—sheath their daggers." just to let you know, we will have more on the new measures announced by the chancellor to supportjobs and the economy tomorrow at half past nine in the morning here on the bbc news channel. we will answer your questions. so, do use the hashtag. .. your questions. so, do use the hashtag... 0r e—mail us. your questions. so, do use the hashtag. .. 0r e—mail us. that's your questions. so, do use the hashtag... 0r e—mail us. that's all for me. time for a look

why immortalise alan partridge? what is it about and that makes you such super fans?” partridge?happy at the statue's attitude and stance are correct. that must feel pretty good that you have some endorsement from the man himself. it was a big relief, i must say. what do you think steve coogan might say about this? he was the creator of course, it is his brand his stick, so to speak so what would he say about it? we hope he will be flattered, that it will be good publicity for him, we it will be good publicity for him, we hope so anyway. we can find out because we have a bit of a surprise for you. joining us all on breakfast now from the lake district, steve coogan, good morning! it's not a great signal. what you think of the statue? i think it's fantastic. great signal. what you think of the statue? ithink it's fantastic. i am very flattered. the detail is very good. i appreciated the fact...” think it was appreciating the pullover. while we try to re—establish the line with steve, nic and gavin, i was watching your faces when we introduced steve! tell me about the thinking behi

it all comes with the country already reeling from failures and the government's response ask a partridge reports. it's all about sharp rise in coronavirus cases the government's chief medical advisor chris witty he was also on there with the prime minister as well he said that the cases that come up rapidly over the last few days even and the rates are going up in a certain age group as well it's among the young people and that has been stately rising since the middle of august position. he also had a few sharp words to say about the government's the you case test in-tray system and he said that it was on the verge of collapse what we're seeing now is stories over the past few days that is showing that just the regime is on the verge of collapse heartbreaking stories from people who needed to been told no tests are available or the website is crashing or people are being told to go miles and miles for a test nobody can argue that this is good governance well this comes in due to the fact that the government would claim that they're ramping up testing that it's more widely available now t

the grey partridge, here filmed in a different location, if we have poor air quality, if we have poor and that directly then feeds through to people. humans are managing nature for their own benefit, whether it‘s for grazing animals orfor building on, and it‘s having a dramatic impact all over the world. and scientists say we can see this now by the pandemic we‘re living through. research suggests the emergence of covid—19 could be linked to bats. we‘re fairly confident that the driving forces that have led to the spread of that virus came through a combination

the grey partridge, here filmed in a different location, if we have poor air quality, if we have poorater quality, then we're not going to have high yields of crops and we're not going to have healthy animals, we're not going to have healthy food, and that directly then feeds through to people. humans are managing nature for their own benefit, whether it's for grazing animals orfor building on, and it's having a dramatic impact all over the world. and scientists say we can see this now by the pandemic we're living through. research suggests the emergence of covid—19 could be linked to bats. we're fairly confident that the driving forces that have led to the spread of that virus came through a combination of expansion into habitats, illegal wildlife trade, the removal of wildlife, and we're going to see those threats increase. so we've had a very clear warning that impacts on wildlife overseas directly affect us at home. but the report does say we can stop and even repair the damage, but it will need unprecedented conservation action and radical changes in how we produce and consume fo

days of each record almost 3000 new cases here the details we're joined live by of course bought a partridge in central london kate thanks for joining us. and has been speaking this afternoon what's the latest what they have to say on these new restrictions. i there as i know yes for the 1st time since july the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has addressed the nation with an update about the coronavirus and as you said the new measures coming in to combat it but it also started with an apology. and i'm sorry about that and i wish that we did nor do i have to take this step but as your prime minister i must do what is necessary to stop the spread of the virus and to save lives the whole point of them is to avoid a 2nd national lockdown so i want all the new measures well it's all about the rule of 6 from monday the 14th of september the new regulation will be the new law in england is that you can have no longer have any gatherings larger than 6 let's look at some of the details here gatherings of more than 6 abandoned that includes also indoors as well so if you have a support bubble of mo

tech giant microsoft, and a partridge in a pear tree. we brought together the best team possible to do this in schools, because as you said, we have to be able to provide information to people so that we can control and isolate the virus. that's the only way back to schools. we all want students and teachers back in schools in the safest way possible, and this is that way. >> andy, you've been saying this in one way or another the entire time we've been dealing with this every time the issue of schools, and, frankly, any community activity comes up. why is it taking so long? >> well, we used the testing capacity that we have created that we should have been using for schools for people going to bars, for people getting sick, for people doing the activities they wanted to do over the summer. and we didn't make the sacrifice and the -- and the task force took about a month and a half off. so if we had actually decided, you know what, we're going to prioritize schools, do what the superintendent wants to do as the most important thing and w

the grey partridge, here filmed in a different location, has declined by 85% since 1970 but is thrivingfe habitat. he believes agriculture has to be balanced with nature. if we have no fertility in our soil, if we have poor air quality, if we have poor water quality then we are not going to have high yields of crops and we are not going to have healthy animals and healthy food and that directly feeds through to people. oil pours from a tanker shipwrecked off mauritius last month. this is about people destroying systems that we ourselves depend on rather than just wildlife. humans are managing nature for their own benefit, whether it's for grazing animals orfor building on and it's having a dramatic impact all over the world. scientists say we can see this now by the pandemic we are living through. research suggests the emergence of covid—19 could be linked to bats. we are fairly confident that the driving forces which have led to the spread of that virus came through a combination of expansion into habitats, illegal wildlife trade, the removal of wildlife, and we are going to see those

i was born in chicago read that's where i turned to partridge. >> howlong did you live in park ridge ? >> we moved there when i was four and my parents moved to arkansas to be with us after my father had a stroke back in 87 so they were there for 37 years. >> what did both of them do for a living. >> my father had a small business that printed and sold and he was usually the only paid employee and sometimes had day labor that he hired and became close to one man who became kind of a employee but my mother would help out, my brothers and i would help out. >> you had two brothers. >> two younger brothers. >> how much younger where theythen you . >> q was four years younger and tony was seven years younger. >> how did you get alongwith them ? >> they would say when i wasn't buzzing them around, we got along pretty well. >> did your parents treatthem any differently ? >> eyes i say in the book my father was harder on them. he was a real man's man and he was an athlete and he was a guy who didn't talk a lot and wasn't into reading books very much unlike my mother. so i think he was much h

i can't hear the phrase north norfolk without hearing mr partridge. to the far north of scotla nd confined to the far north of scotland to the afternoon. many places will become dry. low cloud returning. they should have a fine afternoon, sunny spells, warm day for scotland and northern ireland. damages a bit more widely into the low 20s. low to mid 20s the most of western england and wales, high 20s, low 30s, eastern england, 31 degrees. apache missed fog will form. some outbreaks of rain. turning southwards with a few showers on it. it will bring a change to weather conditions. as it works its way southwards, temperatures will drop widely. the second half of the week, cool of the many. most places will still stay dry. the odd isolated shower possible towards the south—east corner. maybe some drizzle for the west coast of wales. this is of thicker cloud through scotland pushes southwards into north—east england. a bit of drizzle over the hills. temperatures dropping quite market today across the north. staying warm across the south even though temper

the grey partridge, he filmed in a different location, has declined by 85% since 1970 but is thrivingly feed through to people. oil pours from a tanker ship wrecked off mauritius last month. this is about people destroying systems that we ourselves depend on rather thanjust wildlife. humans are managing nature for their own benefit, whether it's for their own benefit, whether it's for grazing animals or for for their own benefit, whether it's for grazing animals orfor building on and it's having a dramatic impact all over the world. scientists say we can see this now by the pandemic we can see this now by the pandemic we are living through. research suggests the emergence of covid—19 could be linked to bats. we are fairly confident that the driving forces which have led to the spread of that virus came through a combination of expansion into habitats, illegal wildlife trade, the removal of wildlife, and we are going to see those threats increase, so going to see those threats increase, so we've had a clear warning that impacts on wildlife overseas directly affect us at home. about the

the comedic character alan partridge finally has the recognition he has long craved — with a golden statueomorrow and friday the worst of the weather will be along the north sea coast around east anglia and the south—east. a really cold, biting wind, gale force winds around the coasts gusting to around 60 mph in some areas, 40 inland, and add that to the disappointing temperatures of around 12 or 13 degrees, it really is going to feel nippy. the best of the weather tomorrow, and sunnier and lighter winds in the west. hello this is bbc news. i‘m rachel schofield. the headlines: the chancellor rishi sunak announces a newjob support scheme lasting six months from november, but admits that he can‘t promise that "everyone can go back to the job that they used to have". a planned rise in vat has also been cancelled and businesses will now have longer to pay back government loans. labour believes rishi sunak should have acted sooner — unions say the measure will save hundreds of thousands of jobs. after months of delay, the nhs covid—19 contact tracing app goes live in england and wales — anyone