awarded to a company which had no ships, has been scrapped. seaborne freight would have earned £118 million under a deal with the department for transport, intended to provide extra capacity in the event of a no deal brexit . the transport secretary, chris grayling, had defended the deal, saying he would make no apologies for supporting a new british business . his department says it s cancelled the contract, because the company s irish backer pulled out. our business correspondent, rob young, reports. preparations have been under way for weeks. dredging started at ramsgate port at the beginning ofjanuary. the work was meant to ensure the port would be ready at the end of march, should britain leave the european union without a deal. the plan was for seaborne freight to run regular services to ostend in belgium once it managed to get it hands on some ships, but now the company has now been stripped of its contract. the government says seaborne freight‘s main backer has p
as victory over fulham moves them into the top four. also coming up in the programme. emotional scenes at southampton as cardiff pay tribute to emiliano sala. and another collapse? england s top order fails once again on the first day of the third test in st lucia. good evening and welcome to the programme. a week on from their six nations defeat to england in dublin last week, defending champions ireland travelled to edinburgh to put their campaign back on track. they had to deal with a stubborn scotland though, who hadn t been beaten at murrayfield in a championship game since 2016. our sports correspondent katie gornall was there. the six nations is a serious plate at gale force where momentum could blow one night way and that the next. after the opening we can scotla nd next. after the opening we can scotland have it, i really don t. a bruising defeat to england last week meant eileen arrived at murray fail with hopes of retaining their six nations title on the lie. scotl
partick thistle are also through. welcome to bbc london news. a london the structure will be replaced by a new branch of a different design. carolyn rigby has more. if the demolition project described by italy s transport minister as the image of the country s revival. thousands of tonnes of steel and concrete work removed from the bridge in order to make it lighter before a huge crane began to carefully lower the first section to the ground. decked out in a red hard the ground. decked out in a red hard the italian prime minister looked on. translation: it s an important day because this is the first step of a path that i hope will be the quickest possible. but we can say today, and i spoke with all the demolition companies, is that the new bridge will be up by the end of the year. the deconstruction process is expected to last around six months. and engineers will draw on heavy machinery previously used to write the cruise liner which capsized off the coast of tuscany in 201
at this stage down toward south west england and probably south wales where we could see some 23s. the weather cooling down a bit across northern areas but still in the may sunshine it ll feel ok. from bank holiday monday, bit more of a breeze around for england but with the high pressure dominating it is a dry picture with most of us seeing some fairly lengthy spells of sunshine. 21 in glasgow, that ll feel nice. further south, temperatures coming down a few degrees, but still pleasant in that strong may sunshine. you can keep up with all of the latest developments on the website. from us it is goodbye but the news continues here on bbc one as it is now time tojoin continues here on bbc one as it is now time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. three into two doesn t go. leicester leeds and everton are hoping they are the one that doesn t go down in the
thanks forjoining us. it s been a busy evening of european football most notably in the english premier league with four matches taking place. the big match of the night didn t really live up to expectations. chelsea in theirfirst match since sacking graham potter could only draw 0 0 with liverpool at stamford bridge. the home side did have two goals disallowed but that was the best of the action in what was a sobering night in west london. the draw leaves chelsea 11th, liverpool are 8th seven points off the champions league qualification places. it s football, those other laws and the referees, they try to take the best decisions that they can. strictly for the players because we are creating chances. scoring offside. it will come, because they deserve it. they keep pushing. we asked them to play with their heart, they did it stop just focus on they did it stop just focus on the next day. we came here, i didn t expect now we came here, i didn t expect now team