out with an old new manager at the helm of the champions and first victoria now alberta, the commonwealth games has no future hosts right now as another pulls out with cost concerns of course we want to hold on and secure commonwealth games which is held so closely to everyone s hearts and has fantastic memories. also coming up on sportsday. we hear from six time world motogp champion marc marquez who rides into silverstone this weekend in a rare position. out of contention for title number seven. and the playing has taken a rest but the anticipation hasn t. we look ahead to the women s world cup last 16 hello again. doesn t august come around quickly each year? while a world cup continues on the other side of the world, here, anew football league season is about to start. hillsborough will host the opening game in the championship as two teams that last season were two divisions apart kick things off tonight. tomorrow celtic, under new management, begin the defence of their
that the 4.7 billion pounds saved by axeing the northern leg of the project will instead be redirected towards electric charging points and the refurbishment of things bus stations. henri murison is chief executive of the northern executive of the northern powerhouse partnership. even as i read that, it feels, as a northerner, that i was promised a porsche and i am getting a people carrier. but i suppose 4.7 billion is not to be sniffed out. it carrier. but i suppose 4.7 billion is not to be sniffed out.- is not to be sniffed out. it would be very exciting is not to be sniffed out. it would be very exciting news is not to be sniffed out. it would be very exciting news despite i is not to be sniffed out. it wouldl be very exciting news despite the fact it is not a porsche. if it were actually news. because this was actually news. because this was actually announced back in october last year and on this programme, you did a finejob of last year and on this programme, you di
time for a look at the weather. here s elizabeth rizzini. shamelessly i am going to start off reaching for the book of little weather cliches, it will be a mixed bag of weather ahead. it will be unsettled, particularly to the north and west but lots of dry weather rourd as well, especially today. some frost and fog for many over the next couple of nights, then it will turn milder, but today we are still in that colder feeling air. in fact, the driest and the sunniest weather todayis the driest and the sunniest weather today is out to the west, such as here in swansea, a loly beach day here, further east, some sunny spells but showers blowing in from the north sea. it is more of the same through the rest of the afternoon. thaterly through cloud, rain is clearing away front bench sussex and kent. the winds will ease down here, some of the showers reaching as far west as east wales perhaps but driest. but a brisk north easterly wind blowing for north sea facing coasts so here pl