hello i m olly foster and welcome to sportsday a crunch week for manchester city s treble hopes, we are ninety minutes away from their champions league semi final. george north says he s heartbroken, he s out of the lions tour with a serious knee injury. and injury might have ended her career but katie ormerod tells us how she can reach the top of the olympic podium in beijing next year. evening, what a game we ve got coming up in the champions league. manchester city taking on paris st germain in their semi final, the first leg is in paris. so many similarities between the two. since they were taken over by rival gulf states, both dominating their domestic leagues and cup competitions, but they have never cracked europe. in a moment we ll speak to a european cup finallist and star of french football back in the day but first here s adam wild on tonight s tie. all of the money in the world cannot always buy what you really want. for all the extravagant spending of paris and
manchester city could meet arsenal in the semifinals of the champions league. first, city will need to beat real madrid and arsenal, bayern munich. good afternoon. the chancellorjeremy hunt says the conservative party good afternoon. the chancellorjeremy hunt says the conservative party is absolutely transparent about the donations it receives. but so far the party has neither confirmed nor denied reports it s been given another £5 million by the businessman frank hester, on top of the ten million he s already donated. mr hester has been widely accused of racism after allegedly saying the mp diane abbott makes him want to hate all black women. the tech boss apologised for making what he said rude comments about her. here s our political correspondent hannah miller. learning to use a camera on a visit to the university of sunderland, the chancellor and prime minister can t escape the glare of scrutiny over donations to the party. this week, they said that comments made by o
lizzie greenwood hughes is there for us. once again, willie mullins has triumphed in the sport ofjump racing at the cheltenham gold cup, for in six years for the irish maestro and two in succession although his margin of victory was not as great as last year, this was our ghibli a more impressive performance from the horse because the ground is testing soft but heavy and places for more than 30 years where the word heavy has been in the official going here at cheltenham. but he saw off is hugely talented competitors, so it was another poor day for the bookmakers here, but a great day and great week for the cheltenham festival s most successful winning trainer, willie mullins. here he is speaking to laura scott. it mullins. here he is speaking to laura scott- laura scott. it has been extraordinary, - laura scott. it has been extraordinary, our - laura scott. it has been i extraordinary, our horses laura scott. it has been - extraordinary, our horses were in such extraordinar
at a funeral directors in hull that is at the centre of a major police investigation. the national crime agency has been called in to assist. detectives have received more than 1,500 calls in the past week from people who have used legacy independent funeral directors and are now worried about what happened to their relatives bodies. danny savage has heard from some of them. this is rita shaw. she died last october after a short illness. her husband has her ashes at home. i don t know if i ve got rita s ashes at all. it could be anybody s, i think. but like so many people in the hull area who used legacy funeral directors, he s now wondering if they really are her ashes. you get over the initial part of rita passing away, it s hard, but it s on top of it, if they aren t rita s ashes, it s like torture for the rest of your life, i would have thought. police have taken 35 bodies from this funeral home in hull. they now say they have contacted the families of those people. but