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Always Take Your Tiers With You

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

As Lancashire becomes the latest area to move into the ‘very-high’ restrictions tier, the Prime Minister has warned that he may ‘intervene’ if new measures for Greater Manchester are not agreed. Adam is joined by Vicki and James to talk through the latest.

And, could ‘No Deal’ be on the cards…? We hear the latest on the Brexit negotiations, as the UK say trade talks with the EU are ‘over’.

Also on the podcast, Rambler and Broadcaster Stuart Maconie tells us about the joys of a good walk.

Studio Director: Michael Regaard Producers: Ben Weisz, Frankie Tobi Assistant Editor: Emma Close

Get in touch at newscast@bbc.co.uk

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Hello, I'm recording the star of today's podcast on my phone, on my walk from home in

0:10.5

North London to the newscast studio in central London.

0:14.8

And I am doing this because we're going to talk a bit about walking on today's episode

0:19.0

because the ordnance survey, the map people are doing this project to encourage people

0:23.6

to take interesting routes from place to place.

0:28.3

Now my route to work is quite an interesting one because there's lots of little kind of

0:32.4

clues about coronavirus on it.

0:35.4

There's some supermarkets which have gone from having cues of people outside to basically

0:39.7

being normal.

0:41.0

There's quite a few bars which have gone from being well closed to open for takeaways

0:46.4

to then quite busy, but from Saturday at one minute past midnight, we'll probably become

0:52.4

less busy because London will go into tier two.

0:56.1

And you've got this huge new office development at King's Cross that I'll walk through which

0:59.8

is still pretty quiet, which makes you think loads of people are still working from home.

1:04.9

And also some of the buildings are really new and might not be occupied for a while.

1:09.4

And then you get to King's Cross in St.Panquist train stations.

1:12.5

Now I remember at the height of the lockdown then being totally deserted and if you even

1:17.2

saw one other person it was amazing.

1:20.8

But now they're quite busy and almost as busy as you would expect, maybe in the middle

1:26.3

of the day, not a rush hour.

1:29.1

And then opposite St.Panquist you've got the Crick Institute where they do lots of medical

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