And record breaking joe root makes history as england continue to dominate the second test against sri lanka. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us the latest on a history making day forjoe root to come we start tonight with football and manchester city who are looking to maintain their hundred percent start to the season. They re away at west ham in the late game where it s half time and they currently lead 21. Both goals coming from that man erling haaland. The norwegian opened the scoring after ten minutes before a ruben dias own goal made it 11. But this strike has pep guardiola s side ahead with the second halfjust about to get under way. Earlier, last season s runners up, arsenalfailed to make it three wins from three. As did brighton. With both sides sharing the points at the emirates. The defining moment of the game came early in the second half as declan rice was sent off. Arsenal were made to pay thereafter as alex fletcher reports. The end of the transfer window and teams
At the emirates. Gold rush in the pool for paralympics gb in paris as alice tai wins her first individual title. And record breaking joe root makes history as england continue to dominate the second test against sri lanka. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us the latest on a history making day forjoe root to come we start tonight with football and manchester city who are looking to maintain their hundred percent start to the season. This one finished a short while ago for that 31 against west ham for the all scores by holland a week on from his hat trick for the seven goals now in cities first three games league games. Yes, west ham managed to pull one back for the early heartland here making sure that it was job well done for manchester city, back at the top of the premier league with three wins from three or pep guardiola your side. Earlier, last season s runners up, arsenalfailed to make it three wins from three. As did brighton. With both sides sharing the points at the emirat
she won t stop asking questions. well, it makes me very sad, and 80 years is a long time, and by the time 100 years comes, i won t be here, so i ve got a limited time to find these men. dame mary richardson finishing that report from hugh pym. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. hello. most of us had a decent day of weather. there was plenty of sunshine around, light winds and sunny skies. this fine weather was down to an area of high pressure, here it is. we reckon this is the first one we ve had for over three weeks, and it is already set to push off. looking at tomorrow, we are already back to the unsettled theme with more rain on the way. there are already places in the uk that have seen well over double the average rainfall this month and there is loads more to come over the next few days, so a change back to unsettled weather conditions i m afraid. overnight tonight, although we start with clear skies and dry weather, as we go through the night this rai
pressure. lots of isobars on the charts, hence the strong winds, and outbreaks of rain. it is pushing its way eastwards and some heavy showers follow on behind it. you see flashes of lightning there and this rain band becomes confined to england and wales and the south east towards the end of the night. the wins are a real feature, end of the night. the wins are a realfeature, gusting 50 or 60 miles an hour on the irish coast, after 70 on the coast of western scotland. that becomes confined to the south and it stays very wet in scotland. but the ones eased down for part two of the night. a cooler feel two things across the north and the west. double figure values in the south east where it will remain wet into tomorrow morning. as we head through thursday that whether frank clears away and the next feature runs into the southern half of the country in the afternoon. a wet start for east anglia and the south and the rain is slow to clear, but eventually it will. elsewhere it i
That in itself is a struggle, never mind having the added factor of being away from your family. The super agers cheerleading in their 70s and 80s so whats the secret to a long and healthy life . And coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news the last of the League Cup Quarterfinals with championship bristol city getting ready to face the holders Manchester United. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Britains Biggest Police force, the metropolitan police, is reviewing all its current sex offence investigations after the collapse of two rape cases in the space of a week. Both prosecutions were halted because the police had failed to disclose key evidence which might have helped the defence. Several legal experts are now warning that this may reflect a wider issue across england, wales and Northern Ireland. Heres our Legal Correspondent clive coleman. Are the scales ofjustice being u nfa i rly are the scales ofjustice being unfairly kicked against defendants, becau