Summary
So here it is... Merry Maskmas. As England's new Covid rules start to take effect, the Daily Mirror’s Pippa Crerar, who first broke the news about last year’s Downing Street Christmas gatherings, brings us up to date on the controversy.
Meanwhile, the BBC’s Ed Thomas tells Adam about the impact of the pandemic on poverty and mental health in Burnley, where he has been following communities in some of the town’s most deprived areas over the past year.
And Brit Awards’ Rising Star winner, Holly Humberstone, talks about becoming famous during lockdown and why she supports mask-wearing at her gigs.
Today’s Newscast was made by Daniel Wittenberg with Ben Cooper and Alix Pickles. The studio director was Emma Crowe. The assistant editor was Alison Gee.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, now the BBC is a public service broadcaster, so we like to do our public duty and help people |
| 0:10.5 | out now and then, and we're going to help out some newscasters who are in quarantine near |
| 0:17.1 | Gatwick Airport after coming back from South Africa after it got put on the red list. |
| 0:22.4 | And it does sound like it's been a slightly stressful time for Martin Cameron Clark and |
| 0:28.5 | his wife, Sanya. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, you two. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello. |
| 0:32.5 | Well, I'm glad we could keep you entertained on date. |
| 0:34.5 | What is it? |
| 0:35.5 | Day three, after a moment. |
| 0:36.5 | Oh, so still, it must feel like there's still quite a long way to go. |
| 0:39.5 | It feels like it's, yeah. |
| 0:40.5 | We're still going up the mountain. |
| 0:41.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.5 | After a month, yeah. |
| 0:43.5 | Did you have a nice time in South Africa? |
| 0:46.2 | We did. |
| 0:47.2 | It was to visit my parents and for them to see our kids, their grandkids, and it was, yeah, |
| 0:52.0 | it was really lovely. |
| 0:53.3 | But the journey back, what just tell me when it started to get a little bit dicey? |
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