Another wonderful, sunny day. As a farmer, we need rain and badly. None is on the horizon at the moment. The fire brigade made a request for some tree clearing to create a better firebreak and I was more than happy to accommodate it. My head forester Terry Adams had already been on site with James Akers and Gavin Boatswain, and my grateful thanks to all three of them for reacting so positively over a Bank Holiday weekend. So, I headed to Wareham Forest and found myself bumping up a recently bulldozed track to find my three foresters. Once found, I was fortunate to bump into Mark Warn, from the Forestry Commission. Together we joined the incident commander on the ground and discussed what further work needed doing. There were still about 70 firefighters on duty just in case the fire flared up again. I was back in the office by early afternoon and began working through constituency matters. The latest news regarding COVID is that a drug treatment called Remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS. Matt Hancock said it was probably the most significant step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began. Remdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola. UK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients. In further encouraging news, the number of people who have died from coronavirus in the UK in the week to 15 May reached its lowest point since the beginning of April. In parliament, the Cummings row continues.