(Not) Home Alone
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The news we've all been waiting for... three households can mix over Christmas in the UK. Adam, Vicki and Fergus take us through the festive yules... I mean rules.
And Sacha Lord, the Night Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, tells us why he thinks the stricter tiers system is a disaster for pubs, and why you might need a 'vaccine passport' to get into a festival next summer.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producer: Rick Kelsey (new boy!), Jo Deahl, Georgia Coan Editor: Dino Sofos
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to the opening day of the newscast, Christmas Grotto! |
| 0:11.3 | Well the elves have been busy rewriting the words to the 12 days of Christmas so that |
| 0:15.5 | they're more appropriate, let's see what they've come up with. |
| 0:20.5 | On the first day of Christmas, the UK's four governments gave me permission to bubble |
| 0:24.2 | up with two other households. |
| 0:26.2 | On the second day of Christmas, the UK's four governments gave me permission to continue |
| 0:31.0 | bubbling with two other households. |
| 0:33.6 | On the third day, it's the same on days three, four and five. |
| 0:37.9 | And then on the sixth day of Christmas, the restrictions go back to how they were before. |
| 0:41.8 | Yep, we've just been given the information this very second about how the rules are going |
| 0:46.0 | to be relaxed a little bit over Christmas so you can see your family. |
| 0:49.7 | Me, Vicki and Fergus will answer your questions as best we can with the limited information |
| 0:54.5 | we have. |
| 0:55.5 | We're also going to speak to Sasha Lorde, Nighttime Economy Advisor and Greater Manchester, |
| 1:00.1 | about how pubs are feeling about the new English tier system coming in next week. |
| 1:04.4 | And he's also got some amazing intel about what festivals will be like in the era of the |
| 1:09.3 | Covid vaccine. |
| 1:10.6 | All that on this edition of newscast. |
| 1:12.6 | Newscast. |
| 1:13.6 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:15.1 | What is this virus? |
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