Says the flooding there is the worst Natural Disaster in the countrys history. Now on bbc news sportsday with paul scott. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im paul scott At The Bbc Sport centre, heres what weve got for you. History beckons englands netballers reach the World Cup Final for the very first time. The bhoys are back celtic see off ross county, as they make a winning start to the defence of their Scottish Premiership title. And comfortable wins for spain and japan, who are the first teams through to the Quarter Finals of the womens world cup. Also coming up on sportsday more success for Great Britain, as Charlie Hatton becomes Mountain Bike downhill World Champion. And a remarkable comeback from scotland, as they beat france in their world cup warm up. We begin with bit of history for englands netballers. Theyre through to a World Cup Final for the very first time, after a nerve shredding victory over new zealand in cape town. There was nothing separating the two sides heading
Jimmy anderson could be set to bring the curtain down on his record breaking england career this summer following talks with the head coach, brendon mccullum. Its been reported that mccullum recently made a whistle stop five day visit to the uk, To Meet Anderson and play a round of golf and tell him england are looking to build a pace attack for the future. Its not clear if anderson has played his last test, or whether he could get a farewell in the home summer. Anderson is englands leading all Time Test Wicket Taker in tests with 700 dismissals, all rounder Nat Sciver Brunt will miss englands First T20 International Against pakistan at edgbaston tomorrow, after undergoing a minor medical procedure. Shell return for the Second Match At Northampton next friday. England will play three t20 s and three odis against their opponents, captain Heather Knight is expecting it to be tough. And at some really good results recently and they went to new zealand in the series over there and we will
Move to real madrid. Psgs lost to dortmund this week in the Champions League semi finals. The team face toulouse in ligue un, at the parcs des princes on sunday, which will be mbappe s final home game. It could be a defining weekend in the English Premier League for teams sweating on survival down at the bottom. Sheffield united are already relegated. So now its nottingham forest, luton and burnley in the spotlight. Forest are three points clear of third from bottom luton, so are favourites to stay up. They would have been safe if their appeal against a four point deduction for breaking financial rules was upheld. Its been an eventful season for forest with their owner Evangelos Marinakis outspoken in his criticism of referees. It is not fair what is happened and weve had many decisions and then cost a lot of points and it is something that has been repeated and repeated. But will be expected the Premier League and from the referees is to correct these mistakes and we see that this is
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are arejessica elgot, deputy political editor of the guardian and katy balls, deputy political editor of the spectator. welcome back. let s look at what is in. the metro, which headlines prince philip leaving hospital after 28 days to be reunited with the queen at windsor. an exclusive in the huffington post which says the foreign secretary told officials that britain would seek trade deals with countries that have breached international human rights standards. the financial times follows up on that story which it says have led to accusations from some tory mps that borisjohnson is going soft on china. the vaccine chaos in europe is the top story in the telegraph with brussels blaming eu governments of stockpiling jabs. the guardian headlines the growing pressure on borisjohnson to launch a public inquiry into britain s handling of covid 19. and the mail leads with the con
through the afternoon and the weather system is diving south across the north sea which will bring showers to the eastern half of england and some of those could become extensive. the northerly winds are blowing across the cold north sea where the temperatures are only six celsius and the change in the wind direction will bring lower temperatures to central and eastern england and northern and eastern scotland with typically ten or 12 degrees but still very mild in southern wales on the south west of england. they will be the warm spots. more generally dry weather on thursday, some cloud around but the exception is eastern england where there is the threat of rain coming off the north sea and although it s cloudy for most, there will be breaks in the cloud across the western side of the country. temperatures again around 11 to 14 celsius, something like that and this quiet spell continues on friday and into the weekend beyond. however, there will be chilly winds blowing acros