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BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced by BBC News for BBC Radio 4 , as well as solely ...
March 2020. 5 March – The first death from coronavirus in the UK is confirmed, [ 9] as the number of cases exceeds 100, with a total of 115 having tested positive. England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, tells MPs that the UK has now moved to the second stage of dealing with COVID-19 – from "containment" to the "delay" phase.
Bibaa Henry (born 1974) and Nicole Smallman (born 1992) were two sisters who were murdered in London, England in 2020. They were stabbed to death by Danyal Hussein in Fryent Country Park, Kingsbury, on 6 June 2020. [ 1][ 2] The reporting and investigation of their killings provoked widespread discussion of women's safety, police misconduct and ...
2019–20 United Kingdom floods. The River Don in Doncaster, South Yorkshire overtops its banks on 8 November 2019; people had to be evacuated due to fear of the banks collapsing. Between November 2019 and February 2020, severe winter flooding occurred across the United Kingdom. The first wave of flooding occurred in November 2019, mainly ...
The UK government had developed a pandemic response plan in previous years. In response to the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in January 2020, the UK introduced advice for travellers coming from affected countries in late January and February 2020, and began contact tracing, although this was later abandoned. [1]
The Bank of England warns that the economy is on course to shrink by 14% in 2020 because of the impact of COVID-19, pushing the UK into its deepest recession on record. [ 281 ] Baroness Dido Harding , chair of NHS Improvement and former CEO of TalkTalk , is appointed to lead the government's programme of testing and tracing, supported by John Newton of Public Health England. [ 282 ]
1 February – Austria, Germany, and Slovenia confirm they will not extradite their nationals if they are accused of crimes in the UK. [33]4 February – In London, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, naturalist Sir David Attenborough, and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte launch the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26), a major UN climate summit to be held in Glasgow in ...
Spouse. Phillip Davies. Children. 3. Website. samanthasimmonds .co .uk. Samantha Rose Simmonds (born 1972 or 1973 [ 1]) is an English newsreader, television presenter and journalist. She was a news anchor for Sky News until July 2016. She returned to presenting for BBC News in March 2017.