Summary
As two Royal Navy ships are deployed to protect Jersey from a protest by French fishermen, Adam speaks to our reporters on both sides of the short-lived cod war.
Our second catch of the day is the head of HR at AVIVA and our Business Editor, Simon Jack, to discuss “hybrid working” and what it means for our 9 to 5s.
Today’s Newscast was made by our Editor, Dino Sofos, with Danny Wittenberg, Alix Pickles and Rick Kelsey. The Studio Director was Emma Crowe.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, we are expecting the government very soon to publish its list of countries that will |
| 0:09.4 | be on the green list for international travel. In other words, you will be able to come back to the UK from |
| 0:16.4 | them and you will not have to quarantine at home or in a hotel. And there's lots of speculation about what countries will be on the list. |
| 0:25.0 | I've been told that we shouldn't get our hopes up, |
| 0:28.0 | which makes me think it's going to be quite a short list. |
| 0:31.0 | But this is just the first version. It's going to be reviewed again in June and |
| 0:36.1 | July. So it could get longer, which means there might be more places on it. But to mark this moment we're going to do our new feature, Wish I |
| 0:45.8 | was there, where you tell me where you wish you could go. Greenlist or no |
| 0:51.2 | green list. Here's our first note from Chris Parker. |
| 0:55.0 | Hi Adam, I wish I was in Borneo. |
| 0:59.0 | We'd booked our holiday to Borneo last January, but of course everything was cancelled last spring and we've re-booked for this year |
| 1:04.7 | leaving in mid-July. Obviously we don't expect it to happen sadly but we're |
| 1:08.9 | still keeping our fingers crossed for a small miracle between now and then. On the plus side though we do have a camping |
| 1:15.2 | weekend booked with friends in August at a site with extremely nice toilets. |
| 1:20.6 | So it swings in roundabouts. Best regards Chris Parker. |
| 1:24.0 | Chris I love that that's what counts as luxury on a holiday now in this era. Nice |
| 1:30.0 | toilets on the campsite. Let's have another wish I was there. |
| 1:33.4 | Hi Adam, it's Spencer from Corby here. |
| 1:36.0 | Our 2020 American Road Trip was cancelled last year due to COVID and now having another |
| 1:42.1 | year of planning it has become an epic road trip booked for the end of July fingers crossed |
| 1:48.0 | We plan to start in Washington DC following the Appalachian Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains to the |
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