Few others. Hello again. Welcome along to sportsday this evening. With the new Champions League Formatjust bedding in, tonights match at Villa Park is one that conjures up memories of what europes top Club Competition used to be. Its aston villas first Home Game since it was just called the European Cup, and villa had just won it. How fitting then that the team theyre up against tonight was the one they beat to lift the trophy in 1982 Bayern Munich. Players like captain dennis mortimer, nigel spink, and Goalscorer Peter Withe became heroes that night in rotterdam but now their modern counterparts take on a team that have had a blistering start to the season under new manager Vincent Kompany, and scored nine goals in theirfirst Champions League Match. So, lets head to Villa Park and speak to our correspondent nesta mcgregor. It could barely be a more significant set of circumstances tonight. Yes, sport is a funny way of throwing up these incredible narratives, doesnt it . More than four
The uk, unemployment rose to 4. 2 in the uk, unemployment rose to 4. 2 in the three months tojune, up from 3. 9 in the previous three months. Average wages, not including bonuses, grew at a record rate of 7. 8 during that same period, which is almost the same as the latest uk Inflation Measure of 7. 9 , which was recorded injune. It means average pay has almost caught up with price rises. Lets discuss that now with jane foley, who is head of strategy at a bank. It sounds good that wage growth has caught up with inflation, but is there something more complicated at play here . There is alwa s a complicated at play here . There is always a sting complicated at play here . There is always a sting in complicated at play here . There is always a sting in the complicated at play here . There is always a sting in the tail complicated at play here . There is always a sting in the tail with always a sting in the tail with economic data. What it does mean is that it economic data. What it does m
good evening. we start tonight with the escalating legal battle between rishi sunak s government and the independent public inquiry, into the handling of the covid pandemic. government officials in the cabinet office missed a deadline, earlier today, to hand over all of boris johnson s private messages and papers, to the inquiry. what s more, the government is now launching a legal challenge, arguing that some of the material is not relevant to the inquiry s work. the chair of the inquiry, baroness hallett, a formerjudge at the court of appeal, says it s for the inquiry to decide what is or is not relevant. and she s hinted that the inquiry could launch its own legal action against the government. labour has accused the government of undermining the work of the inquiry, as our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. the covid pandemic had a huge and lasting impact. now a public inquiry is examining what happened, the decisions taken in government that affected so many l
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o clock tomorrow morning. thanks very much, amol rajan. police in bournemouth have ruled out suggestions that a 12 year old girl and a 17 year old boy, who died after being pulled from the sea yesterday, had been hit by a vessel. a man in his a0s was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, after a total of ten swimmers got into difficulty. police confirmed the man, who has now been released under investigation, was on the water at the time of the incident. our correspondent duncan kennedy is in bournemouth tonight. well, this is very much a family resort and everyone you speak to here is in a state of some disbelief over what has happened. what we now know is that these swimmers were not hit by a boat, they were not hit by a jet ski and they didn t get injured byjumping off this peer behind my shoulder here. apart from that everyone including the families