Laura Kuenssberg
Political editor

A Greater Manchester source said: "We had costed what people needed. Rather than give us what people needed, they were only willing to give us what they would offer."

But government sources have suggested that Andy Burnham was intransigent. One source said: "Other local leaders in Greater Manchester were more reasonable and constructive but Burnham was too proud to make a deal."

In response, a Greater Manchester source said there had been "unanimity", adding: "They were trying to grind us into submission."

Greater Manchester leaders originally submitted a request for £90m which had been costed by a former Treasury official.

They then discussed £75m with government officials this morning, which would have covered the period until the end of the financial year,,before shifting to a request of £65m.

Rachel Schraer
BBC Health Reporter

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NHS England says it plans to set up a new national support service for critical care staff who are "most vulnerable to severe trauma".

It has pledged £15m in total to get health workers access to faster mental health assessment and treatment.

Most of that will come from within existing local mental health services – the aim is to better connect NHS staff with those services and perhaps fast-track them through the system.

NHS England's mental health director Claire Murdoch said she had asked mental health trusts back in April to look at the psychological needs of other NHS staff in their area.

Most now had a system in place to rapidly assess staff, she said, with the new funding helping to "shore this up and build on it".

But the new critical care support service could mean staff are identified even if they don’t refer themselves, and could be offered specialist trauma treatment if they are experiencing more extreme mental health effects.

It’s been flagged before that NHS staff might need care for years after the trauma of the pandemic – and the health service is having to manage those needs at a time when the trauma is very much still ongoing.

Iain Watson
Political correspondent

Greater Manchester will be the first area in England to have restrictions imposed, says BBC political correspondent Iain Watson.

He says he does not believe they will be imposed "imminently" - with the area being given time to adjust.

He says the government initially offered £55m in business support to help those on lower incomes laid off work. They then accepted that wasn't "entirely proportionate" with the population so increased it to £60m, which was rejected by Greater Manchester leaders.

Then, says our correspondent, in the phone call between Andy Burnham and Boris Johnson, the figure of £65m was put forward by the local leaders - who had initially argued £75m was needed.

But, it seems, the government "wouldn't budge" and there was a £5m gap, leading to a breakdown in the talks.

The reason the government has been sensitive about giving more money is that they are in talks with other regions about restrictions - if it looked like Greater Manchester was being made a "special case", others could ask for more money, or might see the package already offered as unfair.

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You must be familiar with the arguments over the tiered coronavirus restrictions in England by now - and now Scotland is set to adopt a similar plan.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she expects to be able to announce her plans for a tiered system on Thursday or Friday.

At her daily briefing earlier, she said if the plan was approved by the Scottish Parliament, the new system would come into effect on Monday 2 November.

She said some areas may face stricter measures than those currently in force in the central belt of the country - which covers Edinburgh and Glasgow - where licensed hospitality venues have been temporarily closed.

"It's important we get it as right as possible," she said. "It's equally important, given what we're dealing with, that we don't become an absolute prisoner of any framework because we need to retain a degree of flexibility."

Read more from Ms Sturgeon's briefing here.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says she is hearing the government was willing to offer Greater Manchester £60m to support business under tier three measures - but Greater Manchester leaders wanted to push for £65m.

Now limits are being imposed and the region will get less than £60m - although it is not yet clear what the amount on offer will actually be, she adds.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

The Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick says:

“I’m disappointed that despite recognising the gravity of the situation, the mayor has been unwilling to take the action that is required to get the spread of the virus under control in Greater Manchester and reach an agreement with the government. I have therefore advised the prime minister that these discussions have concluded without an agreement."

We understand Tier 3 restrictions - the highest level - will now be imposed. All pubs and bars, unless they are serving substantial meals, as well as betting shops, casinos, bingo halls, adult gaming centres, and soft play areas will be closed for a month.

We don't yet know when this period will begin.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

We were told an hour or so ago that the Prime Minister will hold a news conference at 5pm.

And we've just been told the Health Secretary for England Matt Hancock will give a statement in the Commons at 7pm.

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For people in Greater Manchester, the lack of any announcement over whether an agreement has been reached on the region moving into the highest level of restrictions is hard.

"It's difficult," says Pat, the landlady of the Flying Horse in Rochdale.

She told BBC Radio Manchester that the pub has to "keep reinventing themselves" in line with the restrictions - for example, by doing more takeaways. She suggests a national lockdown would be better.

"To me a lockdown would be a better idea because it's not going anywhere, this virus is going nowhere."

But she says more financial help from the government would help - saying the job support scheme that pays 67% of workers' wages is not really enough.

Isaac from Stockport agrees, adding: "I think we should have just gone into a full lockdown.

"I think we should all be singing from the same hymn sheet, it's the only way we're going to deal with this pandemic."

Meanwhile Chris in Atherton, believes local leaders should agree to enter tier three. "The Manchester leaders are putting the moral argument for the people on low pay which I don't disagree with," he says.

"But there's no one putting the argument for the people in my age group, 70 and up. I'm 74, coming up for 75 in December. All those people, we are going to be in the front line.

"All we can do, I think when you get to the situation we've got, the government says, 'right, this is what we're doing, get on and do it. And do it'."

It seems there is some movement on the impasse between Greater Manchester and Westminster.

BBC Newsnight's policy editor Lewis Goodall tweeted in the past half hour , externalthat he understands a second phone call between Boris Johnson and Andy Burnham was arranged and it has indeed been taking place.

He explains: "It seems an offer was made to Greater Manchester in the first call which Burnham has discussed with GM leaders and is now giving PM their view about it."

Our correspondent has since followed that up with further news that Burnham has since spoken again to Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick.

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We've heard a lot from Manchester today - but there's also some resistance to the restrictions that have been introduced in the Liverpool City Region.

Thousands of people in Halton have asked for their area to be removed from tier three - the highest level.

The petition - backed by 3,400 - argues Halton and the wider Runcorn area should be governed by Cheshire's rules.

It asks the government to "take us out of the Liverpool City Region and put us in medium lockdown where we belong".

There's more on this story here.

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Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, has called for the 22:00 early closing time for pubs and restaurants in the capital to be scrapped.

He says now the city is under tier two coronavirus rules - high alert - those businesses should be supported by being allowed to stay open later.

"I have said for a while that the current curfew rule needs to be rapidly reviewed," he said in a statement.

"We saw the worrying consequences of increased social mixing on the streets and on public transport in the capital around 10pm immediately after its introduction.

"Now London and other parts of the country have moved into Tier 2 and higher restrictions, which prohibit household mixing, the current 10pm curfew policy makes even less sense and should be scrapped.

"Immediately scrapping the 10pm curfew would allow more sittings of single households in restaurants throughout the evening, helping with cashflow at a time when venues need all the support they can get."

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He's been dubbed "the King of the North" by one of Manchester's bars, but who is Greater Manchester's mayor Andy Burnham?

Well, we've got a potted history of Mr Burnham - who was once a rising star in New Labour and twice a defeated contestant for the party's leadership.

He joined the Labour Party aged 15, having partly been politicised by the miners' strikes of the 80s as well as the TV series Boys from the Blackstuff - a drama about unemployed men in Liverpool.

He served in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet, but stepped down to run for the mayoralty of Greater Manchester - a position he won in 2017 with 63% of the vote.

Read more about the mayor here.

BBC Radio Guernsey

Public health officials are tracing the origins of a new case of Covid-19 identified in Guernsey.

They said it was not immediately clear where the case had come from but it was the only known active case on the island at present.

The employer of the person had chosen to close their premises temporarily, in line with their own policies as a precaution, they added.

Director of Guernsey Public Health Dr Nicola Brink said while it was unusual to not have an immediately obvious source, health bosses had a robust test and trace team so they hoped to have a clearer answer soon.

Branwen Jeffreys
Education Editor

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Almost half of secondary schools in England had at least one pupil self-isolating last week after contact with a coronavirus case in the school.

Pupils had to isolate in 46% of secondary and 16% of primary schools.

The latest national figures show that overall attendance was just slightly down to 86% of secondary pupils across the whole country.

Overall attendance across both primary and secondary schools was 89% in England - but the figure is likely to be lower in areas where coronavirus cases are higher.

In Liverpool the city council said attendance across all its schools had fallen to 77% by yesterday.

Read the full story here.

Back at Nicola Sturgeon's daily Scottish briefing, she took time to stress how important it is for people to book tests as soon as they develop Covid symptoms - rather than waiting to see if they persist, as people might do with other illnesses.

She called for people to "err on the side of caution" if they have any symptoms and book a test immediately. That is to allow Test and Protect to begin the process of tracing as soon as possible.

The first minister said any delay in going for a test makes it harder for Test and Protect to ask people to self-isolate before they potentially spread the virus to other people.

She also ran through other ways people must play their part - including wearing masks, and not visiting others' homes other than in very specific circumstances.

She said: "That's a tough restriction, possibly the toughest of all, but it's a really important way we can stop the virus jumping from one household to another."

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

Us political reporters have just had our daily briefing with the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman.

We learned that - within the last half-hour - the Prime Minister has spoken to the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.

We were also told that Boris Johnson will hold a news conference at 5pm today, with Stephen Powis, the national medical director for NHS England and Prof Jonathan Van-Tam, one of England's deputy chief medical officers. Expect to see that on BBC One.

Dan Johnson
BBC News correspondent in Manchester

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We're not hearing anything here.

No sign that there's been a deal and the word from Robert Jenrick, the communities secretary, last night was that if there wasn't an agreement with local leaders by midday then he would put the issue back to the prime minister.

It would then be the prime minister's decision whether to actually impose local restrictions without an agreement across Greater Manchester.

So we presume that is the conversation that is now taking place but no result has filtered through to people here.

Just outside Manchester's central library, there are actually people standing here gathering, perhaps waiting to see whether if any of the local politicians are going to make an appearance and perhaps address them.

We know that Andy Burnham, the mayor of the city regions, has been meeting with other local council leaders from the boroughs across Greater Manchester this morning.

They were discussing what sort of financial package they thought would be acceptable to accompany these measures.

Now we don't know if they were able to agree a figure that they could then put to the government and say 'if you can come up the money, we will agree to the restrictions'.

We've not had any word yet on whether they reached that sort of agreement, whether that's even been put to the government

The lack of any sort announcement or clear way forward, having passed that midday deadline, would suggest there has been no sort of agreement made just yet.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is giving her daily update on coronavirus.

A further 1,456 people have tested positive for Covid-19, but this number of tests includes some test results delayed over the past few days, a backlog which will also affect tomorrow's numbers and make them seem higher than would be expected.

It takes the total number of positive cases in Scotland to 49,164, she says.

There are currently 824 people in hospital, up 70 from the previous day, including 69 in intensive care. That's eight more than yesterday.

There have been another 15 deaths of people who'd tested positive within 28 days previously, bringing the total number of deaths to 2,625.

Ms Sturgeon says this figures remind us of the "devastating impact this virus is continuing to have" on families across Scotland.

She also says she will always highlight any delays or backlogs in reporting the test numbers, saying that is why she has been "talking at length" about it.

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It's fair to say that, amid the row between Manchester's local leaders and the government over whether the city will move to the top tier of lockdown rules, people are feeling uncertain.

The BBC is receiving lots of questions about the differences between the tiers and what you can and can’t do.

Some of them are coming in from people in Manchester.

"I’m due to go on holiday to Cornwall on Friday. Should I pack my suitcase or shouldn’t I?" asks Lynsey.

"Living in Manchester, when will the tier three restrictions come into force? If they are from midnight on Friday and I’ve already arrived at my holiday destination at the point am I OK to stay on holiday?"

Meanwhile, Barry Fitzgerald asks: "I live in Scotland, and I'm getting married there on Saturday. Can my son attend from Greater Manchester if they go into tier three?"

We've got answers to thoee and other questions here. One of them addresses whether, if you live in tier two or three where household mixing is banned, you can meet someone who lives in tier one in a restaurant in their neighbourhood.

Spoiler alert: the answer is no.

Chris Mason
Political Correspondent

Let's explore - in broad terms - the numbers being crunched in the negotiations between Greater Manchester and the government.

In his letter to the city region's leaders last night, the Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick promised "Greater Manchester authorities will receive over £22m (£8 per head) additional funding, to fund additional support for vulnerable people and redouble efforts on compliance and enforcement."

But the row is not about this.

It's about another line in the letter: "We are open to looking at additional funding which would allow you to do more to support local businesses as well, proportionate to the approach we have taken in the Liverpool City Region and Lancashire."

If you do a few sums on a bit of paper, that would mean around £56m extra for Greater Manchester.

My colleague Iain Watson now learns , externalthat Greater Manchester is looking for a minimum of £75m -- which isn't far from adding together our calculation of £56mi and the already agreed £22m.

Prepare for an afternoon of more head-spinning numbers.