?Professor Lockdown? Steps Down

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Professor Neil Ferguson?s advice played a big part in the government imposed lockdown. But he?s now quit after the Daily Telegraph reported he allowed a woman to visit his home.

Also, as Scotland considers introducing social bubbles, the stars of the TikTok house tell us what it?s like to live in one. And football legend, John Barnes and Radio 1 legend, Chris Stark, on when the football season should return.

Sound Engineer: Emma Crowe Producers: Harriet Noble, Nick Rotheram, Ben Weisz and Natalie Ktena Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.9	Never has the Isle of White been in the centre of the news so much.
0:09.2	Yesterday, we heard that they're going to trial the new NHS coronavirus app this week,
0:14.9	and we chatted to former Olympian and Isle of White born Kelly Southerton. And she said this fairly tongue-in-cheek statement.
0:24.0	I mean, there's 140,000 people live there. I mean, I bet 100,000 of them are old.
0:29.5	Now, that prompted quite a reaction amongst the colch heads, as we must call them. And one of them
0:34.4	is 21-year-old, and I'll say that again, 21 year old,
0:38.8	Isle of White resident Willoughby Matthews. Hello, Willoughby. Hello, Adam. What did you think
0:43.5	when you heard Kelly Southerton say that? It was just a bit outdated, really. I mean, it's a bit of
0:49.3	the Isle of white stereotype, but we get enough of that most of the time. Okay, so we did look at the stats, and the 20% of the Isle of White population are over 70,
1:02.4	which is quite far above the English average of 13%.
1:06.3	Yeah, that's true, but just because people are old doesn't mean they don't use a phone.
1:11.6	Fair enough. I think she was talking more about her family and her personal experience.
1:15.0	So how is the Isle of White finding, how is the young population of the Isle of White to be in the sleepy little Ardivite, aren't we? Not used to not used to be in the centre of attention. Everyone's getting on with it and just a bit worried
1:34.0	about all the new apps and data and what's going to happen next. Willoughby, thank you very much.
1:38.6	Thanks for getting in touch. Thanks for setting the record straight about the population structure
1:42.7	of the Isle of Wites. And thank you all for joining us on this episode of the coronavirus newscast.
1:47.9	The coronavirus newscast from the BBC.
1:50.4	What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones?
1:55.2	I got some test results back for coronavirus and it came back positive.
2:00.4	We're just kind of trying to feel our way into this
2:02.7	new normal. I must level with you, level with the British public. More families and many more
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