Promising a games to remember. After covid saw no fans in tokyo and rio was dogged by financial issues, the pressure is on for paris to rival, or even better, london 2012. Beyond just the sport however, those involved say they re mindful of a secondary purpose for the games. It is always important, we are here hoping on winning at least medals but we are part of the incredible global movement, the paralympic movement which on and off the field want disabled people to be realised in society. Those performances on the field can only help us in that cause. England and sri lanka are making theirfinal preparations before the second test at lord s tomorrow. England beat the visitors by five wickets in the first test at old trafford last week, chasing down a fourth innings target of 205. England captian 0llie pope says he s expecting another challenging game from sri lanka who impressed with their tenacity in manchester. For the guys to put together some good scores, and set us a chase from 1
And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it