the headlines. after days of queuing at the pumps, retailers say there s an improvement nationwide although fuel supplies remain critical in london and southeast england. an american private equity firm is set to take over morrisons the uk s fourth largest supermarket group. the home secretary says police must raise the bar by taking the harassment of women more seriously. thousands of people gather in cities across the united states for marches in support of abortion rights. protests are taking place in all 50 states. the queen officially opens the sixth session of the scottish parliament at holyrood. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday, i m gavin ramjaun. points dropped and opportunties missed manchester united fail to win at old trafford. they re held by everton. late drama in the premiership leicester pour cold water on saracens, and their winning return to the top flight. and history for britain s lizzie diagnan she becomes t
we should have had that cutting edge and we should have done better, of course. and it s a disappointing goal to concede. it s happened too many times. we re in on the attack, or this time it s a corner, and we have well enough organisation behind it, wejust don t deal in a the situation. if we can rely on that feeling, we ve got to do it. we can t say, well, we deserve more points, because when you don t score more goals, you don t. finished goalless as brighton. the best chance of the game fell lewis, don t, but he s guide his efforts six yards away. the draw sees brighton move up to fifth place whilst the gunners moved down tonight. wolves, meanwhile, got theirfirst home win of the season with a 2 1victory over newcastle united at molineux. two goals from hwang hee chan coming either side of a jeff hendrick strike to give bruno lage s side the three points. newcastle drop into the relegation zone, while wolves move up to tenth. elsewhere, leeds have theirfirst win of the
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. a late morning commute with a twist rail passengers in newjersey are delayed due to a bull on the tracks. just a couple of lines of breaking news. we have just heard from the la department of medical examiner that the friends star matthew perry s death has been ruled an accident from the effects of kata mean. you will remember his body was recovered from the jacuzzi in his la home. the examiners are saying that he was suffering acute effects of ketamine. he long talked about his drug problems and addiction, very open about that. we heard from some of his co actors on friends, they said they d spoken to him in the morning he died and he was in fairly good spirits. so something obviously went wrong between that moment and when he was found the next day. and he seemed to have ketamine in his system. and from the bbc, question of sport which has been running for 53 years has been axed due to funding challenge
arsenal are going to nick it by one goal. it was city who struck 1st. kevin de bruyne pouncing. then in errorfrom edelson and arsenal the penalty for the fans desperate for an intervention. but bukayo saka didn t need it. prayers answered. the second saw city take charge. setting up a translate jack grealish. and they are talisman erling haaland made sure of the win. it finished a convincing 3 1 sending manchester city to the top of the sending city to the top of the read and arsenal questioning their title chances. chelsea have still only won once in 2023 after losing the first leg of their champions league last 16 tie at borussia dortmund. despite having a host of chances in germany, chelsea were beaten by karim adeyemi s solo effort on the counter, getting the better of new record signing enzo fernandez as graham potter s side failed to win for the fourth game in a row. the second leg is next month. there was only one english side involved in the champions league tonight,
well, they will, because nicola sturgeon will be remembered as one of the most successful politicians of the most successful politicians of her generation in terms of what she delivered at the ballot box, a string of landslide victories for the snp, and if you take a step back to see where she came from, she talked about the 1980s, growing up in ayrshire, and it could have been pretty lonely in those days to campaign for scottish independence when labour was dominant in scottish politics. to go from there all the way to a scottish parliament and to run the government here for eight years is no small achievement, to say the least. but she has always beenin say the least. but she has always been in politics for one thing above all, and she has not delivered to scottish independence, which leaves her successor with big challenges. first of all, immediately on the issue of gender, what to do about westminster blocking the bill that was passed to try to make it easy to legally cha