I will be talking to the British Chambers Of Commerce about their manifesto. The sound of spring, but for how much longer . Wejoin the sound of spring, but for how much longer . We join the the sound of spring, but for how much longer . Wejoin The Dawn Patrol as they go in search of the nightingale. In sport a third Crucible Crown for mark selby. He fights back to Beatjohn Higgins and become only the fourth man in the modern era to successfully defend a world title. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Again today we are looking at a fair bit of cloud coming in across the east of the uk, accompanied a noticeable breeze. There will be a few showers, but for many of us it will be dry. There will be some sunny spells, the lions share of which will be again gcioss lions share of which will be again across the north west of the uk. I will have more details 15 minutes. Inis minutes. Good morning. First, our main story there has been further fallout from last weeks talks on brexit between
Wants his legacy to be overturning those bereaved payment changes. Well talk to campaigners before 10am. And found alive after 32 hours in the sea. The extremely lucky surfer who was rescued off the coast of belfast. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11am. Throughout the morning the latest Breaking News and developing stories and, as always, really keen to hear from you. A little later well hear from Paula Radcliffe who says European Athletics proposals which could lead to World Records being rewritten are cowardly. The Governing Body wants to eliminate any doping doubts. It means radcliffes Marathon World Record from 2003 would be wiped out under the plans. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victorialive and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. Labour is promising to put 10,000 more police on the streets of england and wales if it wins the election. The party said it would fun
leading administrators. he succeeded peter dawson as the boss of the r&a afterjoining the st andrews based organisations in 2015. one of the most charismatic bosses in f1 has left his role. haas team principal guenther steiner, who has been with the team since its inception in 2016, has been replaced by former director of engineering ayao komatsu. mark allen is the latest player through to the quarter finals of snooker s masters for the first time since he won the tournament in 2018. he needed a deciding 11th frame to beatjohn higgins 6 5. hazel irvine is leading the bbc s coverage at alexandra palace. day four at alexander palace in the match between two great former winners of this event, mark allen and john higgins. wow, it wasn t pretty. but now it s allen who was
it was incredible, honestly. he was absolutely incredible. literally, if you broke off a red, it was frame over, every civilframe. towards again, ijust had to laugh to myself because it was like playing a computer game on hard mode. everything i did, it was going wrong. i kept going for my shots, kept positive. i was getting nowhere near with the long pot. in the end, he just missed a couple which he didn t miss a whole game, really. the second semifinal is already under way live on bbc two. ronnie o sullivan is the favourite to beatjohn higgins, having started the evening 15 9 up, needing two frames for victory. but higgins has pulled one back it s currently 15 10 to o sullivan. it s been a record breaking day for former england winger chris ashton. he has become the premierships s