About the gunman nikolas cruz. Houses in wales shake as an earthquake of 4. 4 magnitude hits the epicentre just north of swansea. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Lizzy yarnold has won team gbs first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in south korea. Shes won the womens skeleton, making yarnold the first british competitor to defend a winter olympic title. Yarnold headed into the final run 0. 02 seconds behind leaderjanine flock, but a poor finish from the austrian saw her drop out of the medal places. Our sports correspondent, David Ornstein, is in pyongchang. An extraordinary day here, one that will live long in british olympic memory. The most successful in british winter olympic history. Thats largely because of Lizzy Yarnold winning the gold medal here in the skeleton and defending her title. Her parentsjoin me now. Clive, can you sum up your emotions . Its unbelievable emotion, that lizzy has achieved what she said she would. She has done it and it is mind blowing. It would
As far as the pleasure. No, no, no, michael, were going right. 0n set, he was easy going, charming, unflappable. The child of musical performers, hed spent his in a fifth round replay. Over his appointment. And the two top welsh snooker players at each others throats in a battle of the baize away from the table. Swansea city are through to the quarter finals of the fa cup after beating Sheffield Wednesday from the championship in a fifth round replay. Two second half goals secured victory for swans boss carlos ca rvalhal against his former club. James burford reports. Swa nsea swansea havent reached the quarterfinals of the fa cup in sa yea rs quarterfinals of the fa cup in sa years and having won all of the last five home games, the players had the liberty in the world to make it six. The less on the first leg, there we re the less on the first leg, there were fears that such freedom of expression would be lacking here too. Not so from sam clucas. Both sides attempted to break the dea
Idid i did notice some poor rivers in swansea had been on a scaffolding and they felt it. I cant imagine how scary it must have been for them. At that height, it must have felt even more of a tremor than you dead. Thank you for talking to us, im glad it was without incident. Beauty you, have a sick euro, calm, quiet evening. Have a save, calm, quiet evening. Have a save, calm, quiet evening. Quiet weather at the moment, but a frost around in some areas after a lovely day with sunshine. Things will change, look at whats coming our away from the atlantic. Milder air, but at whats coming our away from the atlantic. Milderair, but greys at whats coming our away from the atlantic. Milder air, but greys guys for many of us. Showers in the northwest, away from the south west of england, that cloud the enough for brain. Patti on these, especially over the vale of york. Temperatures lowest in these areas. Cards arriving later in the night racing temperatures in the west. The volvo lift through
Should be an easy three points for Northern Ireland but they promise not to be complacent against san marino. And its finals day in the kia super league. The defending champions, southern vipers, have made an imperious start against western storm. Also coming up. The cheaters from south africa. It is a new era in the new pro 14. Cheetahs. Good evening. Lots coming up in the programme to set you up for the weekend. It could be make or break for the home nations over the next few days of world cup qualifying. All four can still make it to russia next summer. Well have the latest from scotland, Northern Ireland and wales in a moment. But england are in malta. Kick off in valetta just over an hour away. Lets hear from Gareth Southgate was that this is the first match in the post wayne rooney era. He decided to retire from international football. Who will wear the captains are bad . We have focused too much on wayne rooney in particular over the last few years and we must start to build a m
Account. The environment secretary michael gove has apologised for a jokey made on air about Harvey Weinstein with former labour leader lord kinnock, who is also under pressure to apologise. Nine crew members on the hms vigilant submarine have been dismissed for illegal drug use, leading to compulsory drug test for all navy crew on all navy submarines. Now it is time to cross to the bbc sport centre. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with Katherine Downes and jessica creighton. The headlines this evening. England are world cup winners a remarkable fightback means the under 17s beat spain 5 2 in the final in india. Its fight night for anthonyjoshua, he defends his two world titles against challenger carlos takam in cardiff. And a world title is at stake for Lewis Hamilton too he could win a fourth tomorrow. Well have the latest from mexico. Also coming up in the programme. Englands women battle to rescue their ashes series. The third one dayer takes place tonight england have lost the fir