Ahead 50,000 Police Officers are deployed across france, as security is tightened ahead of the first round of voting in the countrys president ial election. We put them in the sport because it is quiet. They will be happy. And they have access to our garden and oui they have access to our garden and our neighbour s garden. In this spot. A helping hand for hedgehogs how a village in East Yorkshire has take on their closes rivals tottenham, in the first of this weekends fa cup semi finals at wembley. And ben has the weather. A decent weekend in prospect. Plenty of dry weather. Even some sunshine. But there is a big change on the way for the start of next week, something much colder on the way. All of the details in about 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. The conservatives are attempting to play down speculation that they will raise taxes if they win the general election. Yesterday, the chancellor, phillip hammond, hinted that the government might abandon the pledge made at
for england to win the series, they now need to win five of the six games. it is a big ask. australia are the best team in the world. england have not won the ashes since 2014. it is a big ask, but not impossible. they will take a few days to rest, and they went play much test match cricket in the next couple of days, but they will recoup, and potentially make mick potentially much up the starting team, and go against at edgbaston on saturday. white thank you very much. mix up. ryan reynolds and rob mcelhenney, the american actors who bought wrexham football club four years ago, are branching out. they re taking a stake in formula 0ne s alpine. whose parent company renault confirmed the sale of a 24% stake earlier, to a group that the hollywood pair are involved with. jane dougall here to tell us more. diversification, as they like to call it in the business world, what can this investment mean? the actors
week. as you say there, it was unexpected. i week. as you say there, it was unexoected- week. as you say there, it was unexpected. i think it will give a lot of confidence unexpected. i think it will give a lot of confidence in unexpected. i think it will give a lot of confidence in team - lot of confidence in team competition and individually as well. if you look at harriet dart, she is now a top 100th player, she really backs herself, she has had some really great wins, but these were two great wins for our country and she very much seems to be on the right trajectory when you look at barnett and nicholls onlyjust inside the top 200 in the world at the start of the year in doubles and now with the chance to push into the top 50 relatively early in their careers because they went down the academic shoot, one studying at university w wthe in the in the us, and from a team other in the us, and from a team perspective a lot of confidence. britain will have to qualify in april to
that, full of history and tradition. we stand on that proud but i ve always said, let s try and create the next positive chapter. and we ve managed to do that. they call this football s richest game, 170 million the estimated value of promotion. but for the nottingham forest fans, this means far more than money. it signals the end of the wait, it signals the start of their new premier league era. adam wild, bbc news, at wembley. celtic won the women s scottish cup, and with it, ensured that glasgow city finished a season trophyless for the first time since 2005. izzy atkinson got the winning goal in extra time, making it 3 2, against city at tynecastle. they beat the same opposition to lift the league cup earlier in the season. formula 0ne s monaco grand prix was badly affected by heavy rain. the start was delayed by over an hour after heavy downpours
for saving his dad s life before the game last night. cook said his dad had suffered a cardiac arrest at the stadium, but that paramedics managed to bring him back to life. he said he ll forever be grateful for their actions. emma raducanu is out of the madrid 0pen, after losing her third round match to world number 37 anhelina kalinina. the ukrainian took the first set 6 2, but raducanu, having taken a medical timeout for a back injury, forced a decider. kalinina, who hadn t beaten any players ranked inside the top 15 prior to this week, found her poise in the decider, winning 6 4 and sending the british number one out of the tournament. fellow brit andy murray had a better night. he produced a spirited performance to beat canada s denis shapovalov in three sets. murray s reward for the victory is a match with world number one novak djokovic in the third round. and tony brooks, one of formula 0ne s defining drivers of the 19505, has died. he was 90.