for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. i will speak to shallow brexit secretary keir starmer. shadow brexit secretary. from 7 o clock, we ll have ongoing coverage of theresa may s speech on brexit including reaction from westminster and brussels. what does the brexit blueprint mean for british businesses? i ll be discussing the potential implications with the federation of small businesses at 7.30. and at10.1i0, we ll look at tomorrow s main headlines in the papers. that s with this evening s guests media commentatorfrom the telegraph, neil midgley, and the former labour advisor and comedian ayesha hazarika. that s all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello, i m 0lly foster, these are our sportsday headlines this evening. wales make alun wynjones captain for the six nations and warburton has to fight for his place. konta is one of 5 british players into the australian open second round, the most in
everyone back home tonight. their holiday is over thousands of british tourists flown back from the gambia after warnings of unrest. last year was the warmest on record. scientists say it s climate change and we re to blame. coming up in sportsday later in the bbc news, tributes to the pioneering baroness rachael heyhoe flint. the former england captain who helped transform women s cricket has died at the age of 77. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. eu leaders meeting in strasbourg have been giving their first formal reaction to theresa may s brexit speech. the prime minister of malta, which holds the eu presidency, said any deal had to be inferior to the relationship britain enjoys at the moment. with both british and eu politicians trying not to antagonise each other borisjohnson has been blamed for doing the opposite. he s been accused of inappropriate language when he appeared to compare france s president hollande to a world war ii guard administering
is celebrating the best win of his career, knocking the seventh seed marin cilic out of the australian open. and we had some shocks in the cup last night, plymouth will be looking to join the list against liverpool tonight. good evening. baroness rachael heyhoe flint has died at the age of 77. one of the finest women s cricketers in a 22 year england career, she captained her country for 12 years and was the first woman to be elected onto the full mcc committee. the ecb says cricket was hugely enhanced by her fearless approach and pioneering spirit. earlier i spoke to clare connor, director of women s cricket at the ecb. she obviously left an enormous mark on the sport for everything she has done as a player, everything she has done for the lady taverners, the charity, the mcc and latterly as an ecb board member. the game has progressed hugely in recent years and rachael paved the way for a lot of that progress. we use the word kind of pioneers and trail blazers quite lightly
definitely the situation and the ranking, definitely the best. with evans through, andy murray was just getting started. he beat russian teenager andrey rublev in straight sets, but it was not without drama. for a while, it looked like the world number one s chances were gone. while murray has an appointment with an ice pack, dan evansis appointment with an ice pack, dan evans is unlikely to be feeling any aches and pains not a bad day s work for a player that the papers once described as the most wasted talent in british tennis. katherine downes, bbc news. the british athletes james ellington and nigel levine won t compete this year after both were seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in tenerife where they have been winter training. ellington posted this picture on social media, saying, i truly am blessed as i do not know how me or my training partner nigel are still alive. the pair, european relay sprint champions, say they were struck head on by a car travelling
Kidderminster manager Jan Molby tried to bring Neil Midgley to Aggborough prior to yesterday s transfer deadline. Midgley spent some time on loan to Kidderminster last season when the Midlands side won the Football Conference and their place in the League.