nile rodgers there. and that's it for me for another week. but dojoin me on bbc parliament on monday night at 11pm for the latest news from westminster, as mps grapple with our post—brexit future. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there. friday was another unsettled day, a day that brought many of us outbreaks of rain. the rain was most persistent in aberdeenshire but, equally, there were a few brighter moments — for example, here in cornwall to allow these rather stunning rainbows to develop. we have at the moment a very slow—moving area of low pressure crossing the country. further patches of rain moving generally slowly eastwards and with the winds very light, again, we're starting to see some dense patches of fog form particularly across eastern england. visibility is already down to 100 metres in places with the foggy weather really from essex northwards into the east midlands, perhaps east anglia, lincolnshire, and yorkshire. that's where the poorest visibility is likely to be. whereas further west, the skies t

nile rodgers there. and that's it for me for another week. but dojoin me on bbc parliament on monday night at ”pm for the latest news from westminster, as mps grapple with our post—brexit future. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there. it's quite chilly for a while overnight. temperatures could be close to freezing for a while before the weather then starts to change. we've got all this cloud coming in from the atlantic, replacing the clearer skies. and the main driver is an area of low pressure and these weather fronts. and they will bring some rain into western areas and then that rain will move northwards and eastwards through the day and the winds pick up too. as we get the wetter weather arriving in northern ireland, wales and the south—west, temperatures here will be much higher by morning, but with some clear skies ahead of that, away from the north—east of scotland, it will be quite a bit chillier. as we head through the morning though, this cloud will quickly move northwards and eastwards and it will brin

nile rodgers there. and that's it for me for another week. but dojoin me on bbc parliament on monday night at 11pm for the latest news from westminster, as mps grapple with our post—brexit future. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there. it was a wet day across the country on sunday, and there's more unsettled weather to come over the week ahead as well. the more persistent rain, that has been sweeping away out into the north sea and instead, we are seeing more showery sort of airstream filtering into the uk. that's coming in around that area of low pressure, and that's not going to move very far over the next few days. so lots of showers, actually, coming in at the moment, particularly across western areas. but because we've got a blustry southerly wind, it's a very mild start to monday. temperatures have been rising, actually, in scotland and the northeast of england. those temperature probably won't change much through the day. good start though with some wetter weather in scotland, and we will continue to feed in qui

and music maker nile rodgers joins calls for artists to paid more fairly for songs streamed online. let's pay these people what they should've been making all along, and we're going to be one big happy family. bingo and done. but first — a 90—year—old woman from coventry has become the first person in the world to receive a clinically authorised vaccine against coronavirus. margaret keenan said she'd spent most of the year self isolating, and could now look forward to seeing family and friends. in the commons the health secretary told mps it was a momentous day. this simple act of vaccination is a tribute to scientific endeavour, to human ingenuity, and to the hard work of so many people. today marks the start of the fight back against our common enemy, coronavirus, and while today is a day to celebrate, there is much work to be done. the first 800,000 doses of the pfizer biontech vaccine are already here in locations around the uk. and the next consignment is scheduled to arrive next week. this week, we will vaccinate from hospitals across the uk. from next week, we will expa

the disco pioneer, nile rodgers, accused major labels of witholding money from artists. he described the current system as "ridiculous" and called for it to be changed. —— of withholding. we absolutely need to have a place at the table to see what's going on with these deals, to see what we create, what that's worth, what that's actually generating. and once we know what those numbers are, i believe that we can all sit down at the table and come up with formulas that are beneficial to all parties. crispin hunt is a multi—platinum selling songwriter and record producer. he was in the band the long pigs and has written songs for florence and the machine and ellie goulding. he's also chair of chair of the ivors academy and director at the performing rights society along with the broken record campaign. just the man to talk to, thanks very much for your time. millions of people around the world subscribe to streaming services like spotify, amazon music, apple music, where is that money going? well at the moment if you pay your £10 subscription, about £3 of that goes

nile rodgers there. and that's it for me for another week. but dojoin me on bbc parliament on monday night at 11pm for the latest news from westminster, as mps grapple with our post—brexit future. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello, it is a soggy sunday out there and there is more rain we have a windy night to come with showers for monday but there will be some sunny showers for monday but there will be some sunny spells around. the persistent rain were clear away north and east is go through this evening persistent rain were clear away north and east is go through this evening but look at the showers that will follow, a summer breeze going to be heavy with possible thundery and a of the data temperatures rising of innate. it'll be a mild start for monday. there will be further showers which will affect all parts of the day, but there will be some spots east of a couple of showers and the rest of the day will be dry and sunny spells. it'll be windier than today across the northern islands such as for example, 60 miles per

next tuesday, chic‘s nile rodgers is hosting a virtual carol service, with appearances from the likes of sir cliff richard, florence welch and the who's roger daltrey. he was speaking to simon mccoy. when i was first introduced to them, i went to one of their centers and i was so touched, and itjust so happened that that was the year that my mom was diagnosed with alzheimer's, and we had gone through a very powerful experience with her sister with alzheimer's. she laid in a coma for five years, but when we went to visit her, we would sing beatles songs, and she would jump right in, she come out of the coma. even though i know it was really just to make us feel better, i do believe deep down inside, she was enjoying it too. and nordoff robbins works on the basis of music touches people in a way that not nothing else can. yes, true, because science tells us that the parts of the brain that remembers music and is more robust, it works better than anything else. it remembers music more than it remembers language. looking ahead to this concert, it's virtual, i will talk to about how that w

and the disco and soul legend, nile rodgers is to host a virtual christmas concert — featuring a few of his musical friends — we'll talk to him live at 3.45 the fightback has begun. the first person in the uk to be given a coronavirus vaccine outside of a clinical trial is a 90 year old woman. margaret keennan received the historicjab at university hospital in coventryjust after half six this morning. that was just the start, hundreds of other patients have been given the jab in the past few hours — as the biggest vaccination campaign in the history of the nhs gets underway. borisjohnson has thanked health workers and scientists — but urged people to remain cautious. the uk has an initial supply of 800,000 vaccines to administer over the next few weeks. they'll be given to people on the high priority list — including the over—80s, care home workers and nhs staff. sites where the jab will be administered. in scotland, there will be 23 vaccination sites, including all major hospitals and in the highlands. the welsh government is promising to administer six—thousand doses of