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
Hello, youre watching bbc news, this is a sportsday, heres whats coming up. England kick themselves back into six nations Title Contention, beating ireland at the death at twickenham. There are tears ofjoy for the azzurri italy celebrate a rare six nations win in rome, as the scots titles hopes are dashed. In the late winner for arsenal, their back on top of the Premier League for at least 2a hours. Another late winner. But its all over for englands cricketers a 4 1 test Series Defeat as they disintegrate in dharmashala inside three three days. Also coming up on sportsday. Teenager 0llie Bearman makes history by becoming the youngest briton to start an f1 race. And after a knockout win for anthonyjoshua, hes gunning for fury or usyk. I think both of them are very credible fighters and i would love the opportunity to face them at some stage. Welcome. Wow, its been an incredible day in rugby unions six nations, and the championship is going down to the final weekend. That certainly wasnt