Plenty of rain, but some Great Success for a very familiar sporting face today. Success for a very familiar sporting face toda. ,. , success for a very familiar sporting face today face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened here face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened here at l heavens have opened here at cheltenham, but little down dampen the spirit of sir alex ferguson. He hasnt had a Festival Winner before today, and that he had one with him on morale at the start of the day, and that he had second in the ryanair chase. You could see the look on sir Alex Fergusons face when he celebrated those two winners. It looked like the joy that we were used to seeing when he was a football manager. I asked dan skelton if he had ever spoken to sir alex about the impact of being a winning owner and what it means to him. Of being a winning owner and what it means to him means to h
Time for a look at the weather. Heres sarah keith lucas. A bit of spring sunshine. Of us. This is the picture in east sussex. A little bit hazy if you have blue skies. For most, sky is a little bit more like this, the picture in cumbria. A lot of cloud and for the rest of the day producing showery outbreaks of rain drifting east, but quite mild. Particularly in the south and south east. We could see 17 degrees this afternoon, down to the fact the winds are coming from the fact the winds are coming from the south westerly direction, so we have the warmer air mass and weather fronts continuing to produce rain particularly across parts of Central Scotland, quite persistent here, and Northern Ireland. Heavy showers across parts of england and wales. Temperatures, 16, possibly i7 across parts of england and wales. Temperatures, 16, possibly 17 in the east of england. Typically single figures in Central Scotland with more persistent rainfall. This evening, still got the rain in Central Scotl
Welcome to the programme. Lets start with the europa league, where west ham have comfortably beaten freiburg to reach the last eight of the competition. West ham were 2 0 up at half time, to take a 2 1 lead on aggregate in the tie, then went on to win 5 0 on the night Mohamed Kudus with a brace to help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarterfinal for the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and the level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. We were really unhappy from the first game. All the staff, the players, we felt we shouldnt have come out with the result we had. We had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. There were remarkable scenes as Bayer Leverkusen kept their unbeaten season alive late on to beat qarabag. The visitors were 2 0 up, 4 2 ahead on aggregate, but xabi alonso s side went on to win 3 2 on the night, thanks to two stoppage time goals from patrik schick. Elsewh
Then went on to win 5 0 on the night Mohamed Kudus with a brace to help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarterfinal for the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and a level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. We were really unhappy from the first game. All the staff, the players, we felt we shouldnt have come out with the result we had. We had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. There were remarkable scenes as Bayer Leverkusen kept their unbeaten season alive late on to beat qarabag. The visitors were 2 0 up, 4 2 ahead on aggregate, but xabi alonso s side went on to win 3 2 on the night, thanks to two stoppage time goals from patrik schick. Elsewhere, rangers are out after being beaten 1 0 on the night by benfica at ibrox. Liverpool are comfortably through, beating sparta 11 2 on aggregate. Brightons European Journey is over that 4 0 defeat in the first leg against roma too mu