republican political party, sinn fein, is on track to become the largest party in local government that calls for the return of local rule in stormont. now on bbc news it s sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday this saturday night, i m chetan pathak. coming up the programme. all eyes on nottingham can forest beat arsenal to move closer to premier league survival, and send the title to manchester city. spurs are beaten by brentford and they re not the only team who s european hopes are dented on the penultimate weekend. can england s callum tarren keep his momentum? we ll be in new york as the leaders and the chasing pack prepare to tee off on day three of the pga championship also coming up on sportsday before 7. wigan show their warrior spirit coming from behind to knock leeds out of the challenge cup. and katie taylor prepares to make history on her homecoming night as big time boxing returns to ireland: i m just excited to be here, really excited to have a chance
Time now for some of the day s other sport stories. there was an uphill sprint finish at the four day vuelta a burgos feminas, and the race leader lorena wiebes came from behind to win stage three. that extends her lead to ia seconds with one stage to go. it s the first weekend of the english t20 competition, the vitality blast three sixes from luke wells helped the lancashire lightning on their way as they beat the derbyshire falcons by four wickets at old trafford. wells top scored with 66 off 35 balls. in tennis, holger rune the man who knocked out novak djokovic is into the final of the rome masters after coming from a set down to beat last year s french open finalist casper ruud. he ll play the winner of the other semi between daniil medvedev and stefanos tsitsipas it s a big night of boxing, as the light weight world champion ireland s katie taylor hopes to become only the second
Extra trains will run between central London, Northumberland Park, Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire on the weekend for the Betfred Challenge Cup final.