falling to civil servants, and elected officials to decide how northern ireland can balance his books and in a recent budget published by the government in london, there are cuts on the table. so it s really down to senior officials in the light of the packed department of health and the department of health and the department for education who are going to have to decide exactly where cuts are made. officials think that on the whole, northern ireland is going to have to find savings of about £800 million over the next financial year. so what they head of the northern ireland civil service is going to want to talk to politicians about is to get their take on this and if there is going to be a restoration of the devolved government, she would also want to know where politicians were planning on taking policies for the departments that are facing these financial pressures and many pundits and commentators certainly think that after the elections for the local councils which we
about half the health trusts in england are affected by today s industrial action, but the rcn, has guaranteed a minimum level of cover, for intensive care and trauma units. a quarter of the trusts involved have also been given extra exemptions, for services like transplant and cardiac care, which means strikers can be called in, for emergencies. this latest 28 hour action ends at midnight, with the government saying it s pay offer, is fair and reasonable. here s our health correspondent, sophie hutchinson. they say cut back, we say fight back. nurses on the picket line once again. no nhs cuts. determined to have their voices heard, in this dispute over pay and conditions. i ve been a nurse now for 15 years, and it s just got worse and worse. the staffing is cut, our pay is cut, but patient care is always excellent, but we just strive and we give and we get nothing back. we re on strike because i have seen, over my entire career of more than a decade in the nhs, a progressive
up up on sports day, the greatest in the history ofjersey red, they ve won the championship but the premiership a dream. won the championship but the premiership remains a dream. evening, we ll start with football on this bank holiday monday, we ll look ahead to the basement battle between leicester and everton, the championship play offs are also becoming clearer but there is a huge match underway at the emirates stadium, it s a sell out, with arsenal women taking on wolfsburg in the second leg of their champions league semifinal. jane dougall has been keeping across the first half, what s been happening? the first 11 minutes where he was just electric. and they went ahead and it was through and she took advantage of some really poor defending by wolfsburg, a bit of a mix up in the slotted home and she has been immense so far and few more chances since then and getting the equalising the first leg as well for the season so far and they went ahead and the 11th minute and it c
manchester city manager pep guardiola has been heaping praise on his striker erling haaland following their 2 1 win over fulham that moved them back to the top of the premier league. haaland scored his 50th goal of the season in all competitions, something guardiola calls a stunning achievement. nobody s done it for over 90 years. city are top of the table for the first time since february, a point ahead of arsenal who play who play on tuesday and city still have a game in hand. the manner of games, three days and four days the manner of games, three days and four days is the manner of games, three days and four days is a the manner of games, three days and four days is a lot. we knew that after beat arsenal at home, don t. know that winning these type of games today was really, really important and that players behave amazingly. to how arsenal is going to play normally at home is strong, but the important thing is the west ham game. like, it s one game in hand and
low pressure slowly starts moving eastwards into the north sea but there will be showers pretty widely overnight and it will remain breezy. a frost free nights with temperatures between 4 9 celsius. the weekend is going to be dominated by that low pressure. it might be moving out of the way but still close enough to bring in some showers. more rain on the way for the second half of the weekend. saturday s forecast, another showery day with a greater chance of seeing showers across northern ireland, parts of northern england, the midlands and east anglia. across wales and south west england the weather should become drier through the afternoon as pressure rises with a bit more sunshine to end the day. temperatures for most still on the mild side but the second half of the weekend sees some cooler air arriving across the north of the uk whereas in the south we have low pressure moving in, bringing a zone of rain across parts of england and wales. further north, we will see show