Summary
England's lockdown easing has been delayed in England until the middle of July. What will it mean for weddings? And gigs? And why has government pushed things back in the first place? Laura, Fergus and Adam talk it all through... And also, this weekend, Israel got a new prime minister for the first time in 12 years! The BBC's Jeremy Bowen explains why the new government is such an unusual coalition and why we might not have seen the last of the unseated Benjamin Netanyahu.
Today’s Newscast was made by Sam Bonham with Danny Wittenberg and Georgia Coan. The Studio Director was Danny Cox. Sam Bonham is the Assistant Editor. Dino Sofos is the Editor.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, I'm back from the beach and the G7 and back in the studio and it really is back to reality |
| 0:10.7 | because we've just had a press conference from Boris Johnson updating us on |
| 0:15.6 | COVID and the news isn't that great depending on your perspective. |
| 0:21.0 | The step four of the roadmap for lifting the lockdown in England when basically everything was going to be lifted is being delayed from the 21st of June to the 19th of July and it's all because of this delta variant. |
| 0:34.1 | Also today though, to sort of sweeten that bitter medicine |
| 0:37.8 | a little bit, there's been a relaxation |
| 0:41.0 | of the restrictions on weddings in England, which will be big news for |
| 0:46.9 | soon to be newlyweds. Although what do you call soon to be newlyweds? |
| 0:50.9 | Well let's find out from some soon to be newlyweds? Well let's find out from some soon to be newly |
| 0:53.4 | words. We've got Alice and Mark from Tumbridge Wells. Hello. Hi Adam. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, what do you refer to yourselves as? Soon to be words? An engaged couple I guess. |
| 1:02.4 | Nearly words. Nearly words. Yes, that's it. That's going to catch on. |
| 1:06.4 | So Alice, talk me through kind of basically the saga of your delayed wedding so far, and then we'll |
| 1:12.0 | check what the new rules might mean. |
| 1:14.0 | We had planned the wedding for August 2020 but as it became evident that everything wasn't |
| 1:19.3 | going to get back to normal by the summer we decided to postpone by a year which is especially tricky for us because as a Christian |
| 1:28.7 | couple we won't live together until we're married so it was an extra year |
| 1:31.8 | living apart. |
| 1:33.6 | And our date is the 3rd of July, so when we got the roadmap with restrictions lifting on the 21st of June, |
| 1:40.6 | we couldn't believe that all the restrictions are going to be |
| 1:43.4 | lifted by then so that was really exciting but of course everything's been |
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