manchester united move to within a point of the champions league places after marcus rashford sent them on their way to a convincing win over nottingham forest. we have heavy rain sweeping in from the south west, pushing north east through the day. behind it we see a return to sunshine and showers but wherever you are, it will be windy. good morning, everybody. it s wednesday the 28th of december. our main story: relatives of a 23 year old man stabbed to death on the dance floor of a birmingham nightclub have described him as their best friend . cody fisher, a non league footballer and school sport coach, was fatally injured on boxing day, as greg mackenzie reports. 23 year old cody fisher was in the prime of his life, but his life was cut short, stabbed to death on a dance floor ofa birmingham nightclub on boxing day. described by his family as a best friend, the semi professional footballer and sports coach was fatally injured at the crane nightclub in digbeth. police beli
at the top of tennis for 311 weeks. federerjust one week fewer. that is five years and nine months. many have been sending their congratulations to the 33 year old serb. a message on wimbledon s official twitterfeed reads. a lifelong dream achieved. congratulations to novak traffic djokovic. djokovic has spoken exclusively to the bbc s lee james about his achievement, saying he s very lucky to have played in an era with federer and rafa nadal. the new generation of top men s tennis players are all really tall, they are very powerful, they have big serves and everything happens very quickly on the court. i think rafa, roger, myself, we had to adjust to that. i feel like we have been able to do that very well and the rivalries that i had with fedor and nadal over the years have made me also a stronger and a better player. of course, they also keep motivating me even more to keep going and, of course, each one of us has their own unique journey and it is wonderful to share the
he later described winning the race in his home nation as absolutely incredible . the defending champion peter wright has fallen to a shock defeat at the pdc world darts championships. he s been knocked out by the belgian kim huybrechts in the round of 32. snakebite, as wright is known, went a set up, but was off his game and huybrechts took full advantage, reeling off four sets in a row to stun alexandra palace and eliminate last year s winner. still on football, christmas fixtures are coming thick and fast. manchester city play leeds later and there is a full fixture list in scotland, six games there tonight. you look happy that it s back. it never really went away.
who went missing a week ago have found the body of a woman. the ministry of defence says russia has been forced to merge and redeploy some of its forces in ukraine, because of failed advances in the north east of the country. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s isaac fanin. .. it s advantage liverpool in the race for the premier league title, for now. they beat newcastle i o away to go top by two points clear of manchester city. the only goal of the game came in the first half, scored by naby keita. liverpool had plenty of chances to add a second, but couldn t take any. still, 1 0 is enough to send them top for a few hours at least. that s because manchester city play leeds in the tea time kick off. if they win at elland road, they will go back to the top.