Summary
The prime minister has announced a new three-tier system of restrictions in England to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. Adam, Laura and Fergus are joined by Claire Hamilton, the BBC's political reporter for Merseyside, to discuss what the new rules mean. And Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham, explains why the support in place for businesses won't be enough.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Frankie Tobi, Jo Deahl Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, the big news today, the government has written down in black and white |
| 0:10.4 | in legislation called a statutory instrument, the definition of a meal eaten in a pub, known as a table meal. |
| 0:19.0 | Here's what it is. It's a meal eaten by a person seated at a table or at a counter or other structure |
| 0:27.4 | which serves the purposes of a table and is not being used for the services |
| 0:31.7 | of refreshments for consumption by persons not is not |
| 0:35.0 | seated at a table or structure serving the purposes of a table. |
| 0:40.0 | In other words, not a bar, I think is what they're getting at. |
| 0:43.0 | Anyway, don't worry, we will explain why this has had to be done on this edition of Newscast. |
| 0:50.0 | Newscast. |
| 0:51.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:52.0 | What is this virus? How does it spread? How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 0:57.0 | No one's got to have a fucking clue what Brexit is. |
| 1:00.0 | There have been 300,000 and 34, 974,000 tests carried out across the UK. |
| 1:07.0 | The reason we could never be who we wanted is you kept your knee on our neck. |
| 1:13.6 | We're not out of the woods yet. |
| 1:16.6 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:18.2 | And it's Laura in a different studio. |
| 1:19.6 | Hello. |
| 1:20.6 | And it's Ferguson, the Windsor Bureau. Hi. |
| 1:23.0 | And we're going to go to the Merseys Bureau to introduce you to Claire Hamilton, |
| 1:27.0 | the BBC's political reporter there. |
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