in 1973, a new career beckoned. theme music plays. he joined forces withjimmy greaves and the tv show saint and greavsie was a huge hit. well, hello and good afternoon. the programme ran for nearly a decade, stjohn winning millions of new fans with his warmth and wit. hello there. well, euro 92 is all over, jim and i are still here in stockholm. among the tributes, sir geoff hurst described him as a great footballer who d been fantastic on saint and greavsie. as the sport remembered both a player and a ground breaking broadcaster. he was the anchor but he was also the straight man but he also had the jokes as well. people said it wasjust a light hearted show, as you know, that s sometimes the hardest thing possible to do. he completely changed the way punditry was done in sport. a man, then, whose versatility was matched only by his popularity. both on and off the pitch, one of football s finest. andy swiss, bbc news. ian stjohn, who s died at the age of 82. time for a look a
holiday firm pontins makes charges after a whistle blower reveals it was routinely discriminating against some families. makes changes. makes changes. back on tv the bbc revives the channel behind normal people, killing eve and fleabag. tributes to ian stjohn, one of liverpool s most influential football players, who s died aged 82. and coming up this hour, a congregation in herefordshire shocked to discover an ordinary looking painting of the last supper is actually a long lost masterpiece. good afternoon. there s new evidence that the battle against covid 19 is being won. the number of weekly registered coronavirus deaths in england and wales has fallen by more than a quarter in a week, to the lowest level since the start of the year. the figures from the office for national statistics suggest that the latest national lockdown and the sucessful vaccination programme are working. there s good news too on hospital admissions, down by 80% for those aged over 80 who ve rec
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are anna mikhailova, deputy political editor at the mail on sunday and broadcaster and author, john kampfner. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the metro looks ahead to the chancellor s budget. the paper says that rishi sunak will extend the furlough scheme until the end of september, to try and ward offjob losses in the wake of leaving lockdown. the telegraph says the chancellor is planning for a slow recovery with his budget spending. it reports mr sunak will approve tens of billions of pounds in extra spending by extending furlough and the universal credit uplift. 18 months of furlough reads the front of the i. the paper also reports that fuel duty will be frozen for another year, with some extra support available to self employed people who didn t qualified for financial help during the pandemic. a graph on the front page of tomorrow s guardian outlines just how much has