Good evening. Welcome to sports day, i met sarah stone. Shane lowry is the open champion. The irishman extended his overnight lead to finish six shots clear of Englands Tommy Fleetwood to win his first major amid raucous scenes at royal portrush in northern ireland. Lets get more from our reporter adam wild. Yeah, despite the rain and wind here at royal portrush, the party is starting. We have seen some quite extraordinary scenes on the links this afternoon, as shane lowry became the 2019 open championship winner. In fact, the celebrations began long before he reached the 18th, once he sunk that birdie putt at 15, i think there was never any doubt that anyone would catch him. Tommy fleetwood, the closest man, but six shots behind. Some extra ordinary scenes as shane lowery walked down those final holes, 20 deep, the spectators were from t to fairway to green, the open championship in its 148th addition, i dont think has ever seen scenes quite like the ones we saw this afternoon. And a
Thats what i said in the tweet, which i guess some people think is controversial. A lot of people love it, by the way. More than 50 hours of surgery a special report on the extraordinary skill of the great ormond street team as they start to separate these twins. And the Second World War code breaker alan turing is chosen as the face of the new £50 note. And coming up on sportsday later in the hour on bbc news, the england roses maintain their unbeaten record at the netball world cup as they upset the sunshine girls. Good evening. The Prime Minister has hosted a reception for englands cricketers tonight after their incredible victory against new zealand yesterday in the mens world cup final. The celebrations continued this morning when they met fans, young and old, at the oval ground in south london. The england team have dramatically turned around their fortunes, after a dismal world cup four years ago. Eight Million People watched them win at lords on television yesterday. The hope
For the sunshine girls. Desperately trying to find fowler, but their hopes of a victory were slipping. The roses continued their domination, even in the final seconds, take the victory 56 48. Now that celebration says it all. We knew this would be a tough game, four games we knew this would be a tough game, fourgames ina we knew this would be a tough game, four games in a row, we knewjamaica would be coming for this win so it was going to be one of the toughest games of this round. Really pleased for the girls. New talk about heroes on the court and i think we had seven on that court today, and four on the bench semifinals, though, are beyond scotland after a third defeat in a row. Lost to south africa 66 38, they are bottom of the group. The South Africans have moved level on points with england at the top. The other group, Northern Ireland lost to malawi. Lets round up ireland lost to malawi. Lets round up some of the other headlines. They good day for defending champion Geraint Thom
good evening and welcome to the programme. england s three match series againstjamaica gets under way in the next hour. the series is part of both sides preparations for the world cup in south africa this summer. england enjoyed their first series win overjamaica for eight years when the sides last met in 2021, and will be looking for more of the same against the sunshine girls tonight. jo currie is at manchester s a0 arena for us. jo, a big yearahead for england s netballers? it s a big game without world cup in south africa this summer. both teams have travelled that tournament hoping to medal, and all about the preparation and doing everything they can do to book their place in that squad. jamaica will prove a real test for england this week. they play them in manchester than two times more in london this weekend. jamaica will surprise were surprise silver medallist last games in birmingham. england come here with a little bit to prove. they walked away and forth as en
a few weeks when he is back for the scottish open- time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. i want to focus on temperatures because over the weekend our heat came to an end, but we still have record breaking temperatures for a while in spain and france and that pushed its way across austria, switzerland, the czech republic and germany. but how things have changed because today we are forecasting 22 degrees, a drop of 20 degrees in san sebastian in biarritz and france. not only is it much cooler across good parts of europe, but we have got clusters of rain and thunderstorms affecting some areas as well. in the uk we are seeing more clout over the next few days, but ahead of that there is strong sunshine and light winds and temperatures will be rising, perhaps not quite reaching the 33 degrees we peaked at last week. but untiljust recently those high temperatures were in hampshire in the sunshine. a very pleasant 22 or 23 degrees in southern parts of england and wal