professor lawrence young from the university of warwick, take you for your time during university of k, take you for your time during a very busy time. bird flu has been identified in a number of wild birds in southwest england. wild geese in gloucestershire and dorset and black swans in devon have tested positive for the h5n8 strain of the virus. outbreaks of the virus have been reported in germany, the netherlands and south korea in recent weeks. public health england says the risk to public health is very low. a man who launched a knife attack in a park in reading has admitted the murders of three men. khairi saadallah killed james furlong, david wails, and joseph ritchie—bennett during the two—minute rampage in june. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. it was a warm june evening as the first covid lockdown was starting to ease when khairi saadallah launched his extremely rapid and deadly attack. forbury gardens was full of people. the pubs, including the nearby blagrave arms, popular with reading's gay community, were still shut. three friends from the pub — a

griffiths, and dr michael tildesley, who is an associate professor in infectious diseases at the university of warwickhave also spoken to somebody who runs a pub chain who has asked this question. all these decisions have been made by government in the light of advice from sage, and a report was published yesterday in which sage looked at the impact of the tiers on transmission of the disease. the overall scientific judgment is that actually the tiers and the lockdown can make a difference. the real reasoning behind pubs and restaurants is that those are environments where people are talking together closely, so the risk of transmitting the disease is greater than, say, walking outside in the fresh air. it is just as some of the new regulations tighten up numbers of people in homes, homes are also a place where the disease passes most rapidly so research supports the spread of disease in closed social environment like homes, pubs, that is why the restrictions have been brought in in tier 3. su asks: will families living in different tiers be allowed to stay overnight in each other‘s homes after lockdo

university of nottingham, studying english literature. and enoch mukungu is a 2nd year student of history and politics at warwick universit. ience it has never lived up to expectation so i do not know how reliable and how this will work the way they say it will work. so if it does not work, you're not offered testing, would you're not offered testing, would you go home anyway? how would you feel about that? at home my home in london, i have a sister who is asthmatic so i would be very wedded about going home —— are very worried. but i do not want to know be stuck in a deserted university time where everyone else has gone home for holidays. would you be prepared to stay there for christmas? i think... irrationally, i feel like i should say yes, but deep down i feel like i would end up going home because i do not know if i could face the loneliness of it. that is perfectly understandable. holly, what are your thoughts on being able to get a testing go home from the 2nd of december?” being able to get a testing go home from the 2nd of december? i would say there is definitely a kind of aspect of it is a well we'll get tested?

i'm nowjoined by sarah stewart—brown who is a professor of public health at warwick university.ply reassuring for everybody at one level. but i think we have to bearin one level. but i think we have to bear in mind that it is an experiment. nobody has ever tried to control a pandemic in this way before with mass testing. and when you scale these things up, when you ta ke you scale these things up, when you take something that has been done at a smaller scale and try to do them ata a smaller scale and try to do them at a very large scale, it isn't simple. all sorts of things can happen along the way that you are not, that you weren't expecting to happen. and when you scale up testing. this test, the primary test was developed for people with symptoms to see whether they had covid—19 are not and we are planning to test huge volumes of people in the general public who haven't got any symptoms in order to rule out and see if they could be safe to go and see if they could be safe to go and see if they could be safe to go and see their relatives, for example. and when you test on diff