natalie, david, stay with us, because we will have the papers at 11:30 p:m., but thank you very much indeed, but we will be back at 11:30pm dojoin us for that. goodbye for now. good evening. good evening, i m chetan pathak with your sports news. celtic, hibs and motherwell have called upon the spfl to bring forward the league s winter break to avoid fixtures being impacted by capped capacities. under new covid measures in scotland, outdoor sporting events can have a maximum of 500 people attending from boxing day for three weeks. that includes the old firm derby at celtic park on the 2nd of january. the winter break s scheduled to start on the 4th of january but clubs say it should be brought forward so that more fans can hopefully attend matches at a later date. wales had already made the decision to ban spectators from sunday which means horseracing s welsh grand national at chepstow will be held without spectators.
in scotland, outdoor sporting events can have a maximum of 500 people attending from boxing day for three weeks. that includes the old firm derby at celtic park on the 2nd of january. the winter break s scheduled to start on the 4th of january but clubs say it should be brought forward so that more fans can hopefully attend matches at a later date. wales had already made the decision to ban spectators from sunday which means horseracing s welsh grand national at chepstow will be held without spectators. there are so many people looking forward to that because last year we didn t have spectators, and, yeah, it s really, well, frustrating, deflating, disappointing, tough on the staff, a lot of works gone into preparing it. we ve been working on preparing the site for at least a month, six weeks.