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Question: Schools had been preparing to return with a "blended" model of face-to-face teaching and at-home learning. But the education secretary said "significant progress" had been made in controlling the spread of the virus. Mr Swinney said ministers were now preparing for all schools to open full-time in August. He had previously targeted having pupils spend at least half their time physically in the classroom, leading to concerns from parents. Opposition parties said the move was a "u-turn" and a "climbdown" which had been forced by public pressure. And union bosses said other measures would need to be put in place to keep staff and pupils safe, such as the use of face coverings and routine testing of teachers. Schools have faced difficulty in working out how to bring pupils back in August while maintaining the current 2m (6ft 6in) physical distancing rule, leading to the blended learning plans. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has ordered officials to review whether the distancing rule could be relaxed in some circumstances. Northern Ireland is set to use a 1m rule for school pupils, while England will move to a "one metre plus" rule from 4 July. Mr Swinney said the blended learning plan was a "necessary" contingency plan, drawn up a time when the outlook was "bleak" - but that "the picture looks more positive" now. He said: "When we prepared our plans back in May I frankly would not have imagined we would have made as much progress in virus suppression as we have. "It is this more positive outlook that allows the Scottish government to make this change in planning for schools." 'I was having to consider quitting work under blended learning' Penni Brown from Edinburgh is "so unbelievably relieved" that the Scottish government is now planning to have all schools back full-time from August. She has five children, two of them dyslexic, and she had to give them a lot of support as online learning was too much for them. She told BBC Scotland: "I was having to consider resigning from work under blended learning, as with five kids they would all be at school at different times. I felt passionately enough about it to fight for all of Scotland's children, not just my own. "I don't believe the science justifies "blended learning" or social distancing amongst children. I think it may be suitable for teachers to remain socially distanced while allowing children to interact normally. "My heart was breaking for only children and parents of special needs kids as well as many vulnerable families for whom this is pushing them over the edge." Mr Swinney said full time schooling for all pupils was "the aim the government is now working towards", with no physical distancing rules to be enforced in classrooms. However, he stressed that this was strictly conditional on Covid-19 continuing to be suppressed and "stringent" safety measures being put in place for staff and pupils. And he said that blended learning may still have to be implemented if infection rates rise again, warning that "there are no certainties with this virus". The education secretary also announced an extra £100m of funding over two years to help children return to school and "recover any lost ground". And he said £30m would be spent on laptops for the 70,000 most disadvantaged pupils, amid concerns about the impact of home learning on the attainment gap. Just last Sunday, John Swinney said it was "unlikely" schools would return to normal within the coming school year. Today, he has told MSPs that they could return to normal - or something far more akin to it, with no physical distancing at all - within seven weeks. So in a little over a week there has been a remarkable change of tack from the government. It has certainly been enabled by the progress made in suppressing coronavirus, but a key factor will also have been the increasingly vocal concerns of parents - who during that same week were receiving letters from schools underscoring the reality of the "blended" learning model. But for all the opposition talk of u-turns and climbdowns, what those parents will ultimately care about is what is actually delivered in classrooms come August. If Mr Swinney's vision of a return to normality can be delivered, the politics around it may largely be forgotten. Council umbrella body Cosla said the statement from Mr Swinney was "a significant change in direction". Spokesman Stephen McCabe said local authorities would "work with the Scottish government, trade unions, parent organisations and children and young people representatives to consider the implications and practicalities of a full time return for pupils in August". The EIS union said "a great deal of work at school level has already gone into planning for a blended learning model" and that there would need to be "time to adjust plans and conduct revised risk assessments". General secretary Larry Flanagan said there needed to be "appropriate mitigations" to protect staff and pupils, such as the use of face coverings, "proactive" testing of teachers and physical distancing between pupils and staff. While opposition parties broadly welcomed the move, they were critical of the government's handling of the issue. As recently as 14 June, Mr Swinney had said it was "unlikely" that schools could return to normal within the current school year, suggesting that the 2021 exam diet may need to be pushed back. The Scottish Conservatives said the "screeching u-turn" had been forced on the government by "relentless campaigning from all quarters" and an "outburst of anger from parents". Education spokesman Jamie Greene said: "The sad truth is that until now, recent events have exposed nothing but a complete vacuum of leadership in the handling of this issue." Scottish Labour accused Mr Swinney of "the mother and father of all ministerial climb-downs", with education spokesman Iain Gray saying the government had produced "a completely new plan at the last possible moment".

Answer: Coronavirus: Scottish schools aim to reopen full-time in August


Question: According to police, a passerby raised the alarm after hearing a "screaming" toddler and a man repeatedly shouting "Why don't you die?" But after arriving at a home in suburban Perth, they found the man had merely been trying to kill a spider. In a tweet, police said there had been no injuries during the incident - "except to spider." "It's just one of those jobs where you go expecting to see one thing and see another," police spokesman Samuel Dinnison told the BBC. "It's great that it's only an incident involving a spider." Western Australia police had initially posted details about the emergency call on Twitter. Mr Dinnison said this was later deleted because it had included a picture of internal police systems. It is not clear what species of spider was involved. Australia has some of the world's most venomous, such as the Redback and Funnel Web. However, AustraliaWideFirstAid points out that there have been no deaths in Australia from spider bites since 1981 and most of the 2,900 species in the country are harmless. What's the worst place to be bitten by a spider?

Answer: Australian police respond to spider death threats


Question: Kamal AhmedBusiness editor@bbckamalon Twitter The "largest modernisation of the railways since Victorian times" was at the heart of the government's long term economic plan. Well, today all bets are off as to how much of the ambitious plan will be delivered. And when. The chief executive of Network Rail, Mark Carne, has told the BBC the challenges of delivering myriad improvement projects - such as the electrification of the Great Western line to South Wales, improved punctuality for millions of passengers and the renewal of hundreds of miles of track - whilst still running a railway seven days a week were simply overwhelming. Some of the projects will be delayed. And costs will rise. "Over the last year it has become obvious that the challenges of operating, maintaining and enhancing the railway are significant," Mr Carne told me. "I think it's time to level with the public and say that some of these extraordinary projects that we absolutely need are going to take longer and are going to cost more than we originally thought. "We are going to take the summer to re-evaluate the extension of the programme - we need to do that properly with the Department for Transport and, of course, looking at the impact on trains as well. "On cost - until we know the exact pattern of the service we will be delivering, we cannot estimate the final cost." As part of the announcement today, the chairman of Network Rail, Richard Parry-Jones, will leave after his three-year term. Sir Peter Hendy, the head of Transport for London and the man who "delivered" the Olympic transport plan for the capital, will take his place. It's all a long way from the words of Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, who said at the launch of the five-year plan: "A key part of this government's long term economic plan is investing in world class infrastructure. "That is why we are putting record amounts of government funding into our railways over the next five years. "That investment will generate growth, create jobs and boost business while delivering faster journeys, greater comfort and better punctuality for passengers across the UK." To be clear, much of the investment will still happen. It will just be slower and more expensive. And significant Whitehall sources have also told me that spending £38bn over five years is still the plan. Which means that, according to those officials, the Conservative Party is not about to break its manifesto pledge to spend that amount. What does appear to be the case - according to senior people in the rail industry - is that the Department for Transport was warned last spring that the five-year plan was at risk. But the government has waited until after the election before announcing the change. Mr McLoughlin said that electrification of the Great Western Line was a "top priority", but added that electrification work would be "paused" on the Midland mainline and on the Transpennine route. Mr Carne, who became chief executive of Network Rail last February when the five-year plan had already been agreed, said that the difficulties of improving Britain's railways had been underestimated. Much of Britain's railway network harks from the Victorian era, and on the Great Western Railway, for example, many of the bridges and tunnels that need to be upgraded to allow for electrification are listed. Wholesale shutdowns of routes are not much welcomed by passengers and so engineers have to cram in the work overnight. That can lead to over-runs. And when that happens, as it did at King's Cross at Christmas (and you can read about that shambles here), Network Rail gets it in the neck. Quite rightly, say Network Rail's critics who point out that the organisation is already miles behind on delivering targets such as improving signalling and track renewal. Mr Carne insists he wants a new approach, working with the regulator and the government to deliver a realistic plan. "The railway as a whole is not meeting the demands that customers put on it," he said. "I'm working relentlessly with my team to improve the infrastructure. "It's important to note that the railway itself is the most reliable it has ever been but because we have so many more passengers using the railway we are at a choke point in some parts of the railway, which is affecting performance. "There are going to be some projects that we will identify during the summer where there will be some delay - and that's partly because of cost and partly because of industry capacity "It was a very ambitious plan. "I think people went into it in the right frame of mind, but over the last year experience has shown that a lot of those targets aren't achievable. "And rather than beating ourselves up over some rather arbitrary target I think we should level with people and reset expectations around what we can deliver "Our railway is a great success story, passenger numbers have doubled in the last 20 years - but it's a huge challenge to transform the performance of our railway while still providing a great service to the four and half million people that use our railway every day."

Answer:
All bets off for £38bn rail plan


