In the scottish premiership, the league leaders, celtic currently ten points clear taking on aberdeen. Callum mcgregor gave the away side an early lead but ash taylor equalised. Thats one of three matches today, with second placed rangers also in action. The first of the days womens fa cup matches has been called off due to storm dennis thats arsenal against lewes. But there are four more fifth round games scheduled all two oclock kick offs. Check the bbc sport website for updates. Sam skinner and Matt Fagerson have been added to the scotland squad for the rest of the six nations. Theyve both recovered from injury. Glasgow warriors back row fagerson last played a test in august, while skinner missed out on the world cup injapan after sustaining a hamstring problem in the summer test win over france. The lock forward has been impressive for exeter chiefs, helping them to the top of the premiership. After two defeats in the six nations, scotland are away to italy on saturday. Rory mcilro
Much of western europe is being battered by a storm front thats causing severe travel disruption. In britain, winds have been gusting at up to 120 kilometres an hour. In the north of england, troops have been deployed in villages under threat of flooding. A British Asian singer arjun, whos had millions of views on youtube, is warning young people about heart attacks. Arjuns wife died suddenly and unexpectedly six months hes now organising a concert this weekend to raise awareness of the risk of Heart Disease to young people. Its the first time hes spoken about his loss to the bbc Asian Networks shabnam mahmood. Singer arjun has not notched up millions of views on youtube, including his latest video dedicated to his wife ofjust six months. My baby, gone. Can you see me down here . It was the first time ive actually able to been put my feelings onto paper after about a year and a half of trying to work out how to deal with things. Part of my therapy was to write things down in song. The
Been widely criticised for his comments on issues including race and women in sport has resigned. Andrew sabisky had only been in post for a short time. Labour had called for mr sabisky to be sacked for suggesting in the past that black people had lower average intelligence than white people. Our political corrspondent alex forsyth says the episode has led some to question what kind of government borisjohnson wants to run. Andrew sabisky was hired as an advisor, a contractor, in number 10, and that was quickly condemned when these comments made in his name appeared. Among other things that he said, compulsory contraception could be used to stop a permanent underclass, and womens sport is more comparable to the paralympics than to mens. Now, after growing criticism, he tonight said he had quit that downing street role, taking twitter to say that the media hysteria about his past online comments was mad, that he had been a victim of character assassination, that this was a distraction fr
Look at the weather. We have seen significant disruption today thanks to storm dennis. The torrential rain lead to significant flooding and whistle have six severe flooding and whistle have six severe Flood Warnings in force, stretches of the river tapped, the river nene thin south west and the town river tea m thin south west and the town river team normal mac are all affected. Other Flood Warnings in the uk. Team normal mac are all affected. OtherFlood Warnings in the uk. We could see the funny get worse for some before it gets betterfor some and storm dennis its final act is pushing close to the north of scotland, sway the powerful wind gusts here. Gusts of around 75 mph, enough to cause disruption into monday mornings rush hour. For monday mornings rush hour. For monday itself we are working at a day of sunshine and bus reese showers. Most of us will see a downpour to, showers frequent across North Western area where their have and thunder mixing and no one is immune from catching
Who devoted a lot of time for playing with us. Doing arts and craft and going to her greenhouse to do gardening stuff and cooking with us. I try and incorporate a lot of the experiences that she gave us at the time into the experiences that i give my children now. Catherine also talked about her passion for the outdoors where she spent much of her time as a child. That passion was clear from the child centred garden she helped to design at last years chelsea flower show. A garden which was enjoyed by her own three children. Now its time for a look at the weather with ben rich. Hello there. Storm dennis is bringing extremely windy weather across the uk throughout the weekend. But i think of even more concern is the rain associated with this storm. A met Office Amber Warning because some spots are likely to see a whole months worth of rain throughout the weekend. That rain continuing to push its way eastwards throughout the afternoon. Thoroughly soggy in many spots, very windy as well. W