At the rugby world cup. And coming up, dateline london reflects on what was another momentous week in westminster. That is in half an hour here on bbc news. Good morning. Downing street has reacted angrily after borisjohnson was referred to the Police Watchdog over his friendship with an american businesswoman. The independent office for Police Conduct will look at whether a criminal investigation should be launched into allegations thatJennifer Arcuri was given favourable treatment, including financial grants, when mrjohnson was mayor of london. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Daniel Sandford reports. Come to london. Build your businesses here. The mayor of london supports you. The american tech entrepreneur Jennifer Arcuri received £11,500 sponsorship for events run by her company innotech from organisations linked to borisjohnsons office while he was mayor of london. She then went on three overseas trade missions with borisjohnson all of which shed originally been turned down for. T
all four teaching units in england say they will coordinate strikes if members vote for industrial action. the mood could the move could lead to widespread school closures. this is bbc news. now on bbc news, it is time the sports day. for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. grand slam champions again. the red roses seal the six nations title in front of a record crowd. seven goals at selhurst park, palace should be safe but the hammers are still looking over their shoulders. it got feisty at formula one s first sprint race of the season in azerbaijan as world champion max verstappen clashed with britain s george russell. also coming up on sportsday. the blitz on the blaze, the biggest comeback in crucible history. luca brecel is through to his first world final. it isa it is a really busy one today, let s start with the rugby. england s women are six nations grand slam champions once again, lifting the trophy in front of a world record crowd at twickenham. the re
fleet. all four teaching unions in england say they will coordinate strikes if members vote for industrial action. this is bbc news. now on bbc news, it is time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m olly foster. grand slam champions again. england s red roses seal the six nations title in front of a record crowd. seven goals at selhurst park, crystal palace should be safe but defeat for west ham means they still looking over their shoulders. it got feisty at formula one s first sprint race of the season in azerbaijan as world champion max verstappen clashed with britain s george russell. also coming up on sportsday. the blitz on the baize from the belgian bullet the biggest comeback in crucible history. luca brecel is through to his first world championship final. good evening. it was a really busy saturday, let s start with the rugby. england s women are six nations grand slam champions once again, lifting the trophy in front of a world record crowd at twicken
and the oscar goes to everything everywhere all at once. and it really did win everything, everywhere as the film scoops seven oscars including best film and best actress. michelle yeoh becomes the first woman from an asian background to win best actress at the oscars i m here getting all the latest reaction. brooke shields has been waiting half an hour to get into the vanity party. how ireland moved to within one win of six nations clean sweep. we reflect on all of the weekend s action. good morning. for most of us it will be a mild day with showery spells of rain. the exception is across the north of scotland, which will have snow and will be colder with gales developing. all the details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday the 13th of march. our main story. junior doctors in england are about to start a three day strike which is expected to cause major disruption to nhs services. they ll walk out at seven o clock this morning in a row over pay and conditions
if you haven t played for four weeks or a lot of guys coming back i was shocked a little bit by the pace, but we will be better for it. the amount of injuries we had and to stick at it and have kian healy come in and play hooker, he can play low said, tight head and hooker now, it is amazing feat, so fair play to him. he kept as in the game, because we would have had to go down to m men if he didn t. i would rather talk about the first half than the second half, because the second half was disappointing. we had opportunities in the first half and it was a real high energy performance. ireland played well, too. what you call a proper test match. and then, both teams were a little bit fatigued in the beginning of the second half, and it was there for us to lift the energy, and we didn t. we weren t accurate enough at times, and ireland grew in confidence and were obviously clearly the better team in that second half. arsenal restored their five point advantage at the top of the