the prime minister has imposed tier
three restrictions on greater manchester
from friday england's highest
coronavirus alert level
after talks with local leaders collapsed
as they wrangled over money
the government offered to give the
region 60 million pounds to help people
through the new measures
but the mayor andy burnham wanted five
million more and refused the offer
saying it wasn't enough hours later
boris johnson went ahead and
imposed the toughest restrictions saying
not to act now
would put the lives of manchester's
residents at risk
but from midnight on thursday all pubs
and bars that do not serve
substantial meals will have to close
there'll be no household mixing anywhere
indoors or in private gardens
casinos and betting shops will shut the
region will receive 22 million pounds to
help
with test and trace among other things
but talks are expected to resume
with the government and local leaders
about how much more will be given
as an economic support package for
businesses the government's offer
of 60 million pounds is still on the
table first tonight our deputy political
editor
vicky young for more than a week the
politicians have argued
for businesses that's meant uncertainty
and anxiety
today chris's worst fears became reality
his pub in wigan
has to close we sort of knew it was
coming so
it could be bad news for the business
and the struggle
but it's good news to finally get some
information to finally know
right okay we can start planning now we
start making plans for the business for
the staff
and start figuring out what we're
actually going to do we've been waiting
in limbo for
10 days feels like a month greater
manchester's leaders have been demanding
more money to help workers whose income
will fall because of closures
they were given until midday to accept a
final offer from the government
but there was no agreement and ministers
in london said they'd impose
tougher restrictions we made a generous
and extensive offer
to support manchester's business i want
to stress
this offer was proportionate to the
support we've given merseyside
and lancashire le mayo didn't
accept this unfortunately and given the
public health situation i must now
proceed
with moving greater manchester as i say
to the very high
alert level and here
is the mayor finding out scraps of
information during his own press
conference
it's going to be 20 million pounds only
and they are going to try and pick off
individual councils
news that didn't go down well here it's
brutal to be honest isn't it what
this isn't a way this is no way to run
the country
in a national crisis it isn't this is
not right
they should not be doing this grinding
people down
trying to accept the least that they can
get away with
his team calculated that 90 million
pounds was needed until the end of march
eventually he said he'd accept 65
million
the government offered 60. is this a
game of poker are they playing poker
with places and people's lives through a
pandemic is that what this is about
the people who drive those taxis who
work in the pubs many of them who may
have voted for them
they said to them they would level up
what we've seen today
is a deliberate act of leveling down
so what help is there for areas in the
very high
alert level tier three the government
offers financial support amounting to
eight pounds per head of the local
population
so for greater manchester that would
mean 22 million pounds
this is just to fund contact tracing
enforcement and helping the clinically
vulnerable
on top of that lancashire and liverpool
city region also agreed extra economic
packages worth millions
but talks on similar funding for greater
manchester have stalled
are you withdrawing the extra what you
called
generous offer is that now off the table
and what do you say to the mayor of
greater manchester who has accused you
of grinding down
communities through these negotiations
i bitterly regret
any restrictions that lead to damage to
businesses and to people's lives of
course i do the funds are there
they're they're massive and
what we couldn't do i hope people
understand was
do a deal with greater manchester that
really would have been uh
out of kilter with the uh the agreements
we'd already reached with
with merseyside and with lancashire
later downing street clarified that the
offer of 16 million
was still on the table other areas
including t
side and south yorkshire are locked in
their own battle with the government
over money
it's an urgent situation but progress is
slow
vicki young bbc news westminster well
greater manchester is one of the largest
local authority areas in the uk
it's made up of 10 separate boroughs all
of which will move to the highest
alert level affecting around 2.8 million
people
greater manchester will join the
liverpool city region and lancashire in
the very high
or tier 3 alert level bolton in greater
manchester has the fastest rising number
of coronavirus cases
it was already under some of the
toughest covid restrictions
on north england correspondent danny
savage is there for us now danny
sophie there's already a high profile
campaign here in bolton telling people
what to do
and what the restrictions are at the
moment there are these signs in the town
center and during the day
there are loud speakers which broadcast
messages telling people
where to go and how to get a test if
they need one now the idea of these
tier three restrictions are to drive
down the number of crate cases
and stop the spread of coronavirus but
will they work well we've been talking
to people here today
and they are met some of them doubtful
that they will work
bolton has been under some sort of
coronavirus restrictions for months
longer than most places
but the infection rate is still high
testing stations are busy
there were 1300 confirmed cases last
week
people here think something more is
needed
people have become blase and so now what
you've got is
that they say no it won't affect me
while they had the fear factor
people stuck with it some people are
just carrying on
as normal and the rest of us are trying
our best to
abide by the rules and that's not
helping anybody
tier three restrictions will not turn
places like bolton
into ghost towns many businesses will
remain open schools will continue to
operate
and advice to make fewer journeys is
just that advice not the law
and as a result many people we've spoken
to don't believe the tier three
restrictions
will have the desired effect here
do you think people will follow the
rules this time i don't think people
will
follow the rules as strictly as they did
in march and april the thought of
christmas
being cancelled if it's going to be that
you can i think people will break
break the rules to see the family we've
done the stint of the full lockdown
thinking that this would wear off and
nothing's changed and now it seems like
it's getting worse
vicky is self-employed she supported
andy burnham's efforts to get the best
deal
but can't see how many people will now
make ends meet
your bills aren't going to stop being
paid are they you know if we could live
on 80 percent
then we would work 80 percent what we
can and
it's going lower now so that's another
worry isn't it being able to
afford everything because nothing's
going to change the economy's still
rolling isn't it still got some things
to pay
so yeah it's just a worry
it's taken a long time to get to the
point of restrictions being imposed
there's a weariness though you don't
feel that the measures so far this year
have worked at all well obviously not no
we're we're not getting any closer to an
end result so far
seems to be getting like further and
further away from an end result at the
moment
once more into tougher restrictions goes
greater manchester
to the relief of some so follow the
rules wear a face covering and the
annoyance of others
keep your two meter distance danny
savage bbc news bolton
our deputy political editor vicky young
is in westminster so all this wrangling
over money over the last 10 days a poker
game
is what the mayor of greater manchester
called it yeah and if you just think
that the government has spent hundreds
of billions of pounds during this
pandemic and now they're haggling over
five
million it doesn't feel like very much
but the government says it wouldn't be
fair on other areas and they don't want
to get into this
bidding war where the costs do keep
escalating but just imagine tonight a
business
in greater manchester in the last few
hours you've been told by the prime
minister
that you will have to close in two days
time and you don't know yet
the extent of the compensation that you
are going to receive
all you can hear is politicians arguing
and that is continuing tonight six
conservative mps from greater manchester
have written to the mayor andy burnham
accusing him of failing in his duty
and putting his ego before the people of
the area of course there are plenty of
others who've described him as a hero
for standing up
for the lowest paid but there is one
thing that both sides do agree on they
are both urging people to follow
those rules when they come in after all
the bickering
they'll have to hope that people are
still listening vicky young thank you
the latest government figures show there
were 21 331 new coronavirus infections
recorded in the latest 24-hour period
the average number of new cases reported
per day in the last week is now 18
235. 877 people have been
admitted to hospital on average each day
of the week
to last friday 241 deaths were reported
that's people who died within 28 days of
a positive covid19
test and that is almost 100 more than
this time
last week it means on average in the
past
week 136 deaths were announced every day
it takes the total number of deaths so
far across the uk to 43
967 our health editor hugh pim is
here now and that is a big jump in the
daily deaths
recorded today yes sophie it looks
pretty surprising 241 daily reported
deaths in the uk up from 80
the previous day you do have this
weekend effect whereby sometimes
reported deaths are delayed till tuesday
pushing that figure up
even so professor jonathan van tam
england's deputy chief medical officer
said at the briefing
he expected the trend to go on upwards
he also said though
when questioned that he thought a
national lockdown in england at the
moment was inappropriate because of the
big variations
in regions infection rates there was a
lot of focus on the north west of
england not surprisingly
charts were shown with hospital
admissions going up the numbers in
hospital with covid
the highest in the northwest of any
region
but hospital figures and deaths relate
back to cases which were first diagnosed
a couple of weeks ago
so what a case is doing now in the
northwest well there was one interesting
chart which was shown
which looks at the trends first of all
you've got uh this is for the north west
of england
the top two lines uh the younger age
groups are teenagers and those in their
20s going up and then falling
back again that could because there was
a lot of testing a few weeks back
but then at the three older age groups
the 60s 70s and 80s you see them going
up
quite uh substantially but then
beginning to flatten out
in just the last few days could that
possibly be
a slightly more encouraging sign for the
northwest of england
schubert thank you