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>>> In three to one seven things you probably didn't know. I think this is the small stuff. Good morning, everybody. It's Monday, the 19th of October, and a big happy birthday to Michael Gambon. Let's go. Somehow Luddism to me to. There were sixteen thousand nine hundred eighty two new cases of coronavirus announced yesterday, and while London has moved to tier two, a battle still rages over Manchester. As Mayor Andy Burnham says the government need to provide more support if they're going to enforce tier three, the places they're trying to close in tier three pubs, bookies, gyms, these are places where people are on low wages. And what we're saying is you cannot take away their place of work and not give them support. So an 80 percent furlough of the kind that we have back in back in March. Think of the taxi drivers, the people who work on the doors in those pubs, many of them self-employed, 80 percent self employment support scheme, while the.