cloud will stick most of the day. it s tuesday, the 2nd of march. our top story. communities could be given up to a quarter of a million pounds to take over struggling pubs in their area under plans expected to be announced in the budget tomorrow. the chancellor will unveil a community ownership fund, which is also expected to cover sports clubs, theatres and other venues at risk of closure. our political correspondent, chris mason, has the details. how do you save your local pub? many were already closing permanently before the pandemic. how many more might follow now we are out of the habit of propping up the bar? in the budget tomorrow, the chancellor will announce that community groups across the uk could be given up to a quarter of a million pounds to help take over struggling pubs. they will be helped, too, to buy into theatres and sports clubs. rishi sunak will also say he will spend £300 million of taxpayers money to help summer sports such as tennis, horse racing a
in 1973, a new career beckoned. theme music plays. he joined forces withjimmy greaves and the tv show saint and greavsie was a huge hit. well, hello and good afternoon. the programme ran for nearly a decade, stjohn winning millions of new fans with his warmth and wit. hello there. well, euro 92 is all over, jim and i are still here in stockholm. among the tributes, sir geoff hurst described him as a great footballer who d been fantastic on saint and greavsie. as the sport remembered both a player and a ground breaking broadcaster. he was the anchor but he was also the straight man but he also had the jokes as well. people said it wasjust a light hearted show, as you know, that s sometimes the hardest thing possible to do. he completely changed the way punditry was done in sport. a man, then, whose versatility was matched only by his popularity. both on and off the pitch, one of football s finest. andy swiss, bbc news. ian stjohn, who s died at the age of 82. time for a look a
suffered with andy murray over the years, there was so much that was familiar. the first set setback, the second sets, come back. then a triumph of will to finally defeat robin in the third. murray rising under pressure once more. we know the story, but do we really understand it? it s not easy, like, every time i lose a match, you know, it s. everyone thinks that i m getting told to retire, that i should stop playing, that, you know, that i m finished and, you know, i ve got nothing left or whatever, and it s sad. all of these things, and it s like, it s not easy. feel like i m playing for my careerjust now. each time i step on the court, which you know commits a motivation in some ways, but it s also adding a bit of, yeah, extra stress, there is a bit of extra doubt there. you know come on top of that, i m playing with a metal hip. on top of that, i m playing with a metal hi -. ., on top of that, i m playing with a metal hip- on top of that, i m playing with a metal hi. .,
the south west we have showers developing from a low pressure point here. it looks as though temperatures will sit close to freezing in many places so a chilly start and before i look at wednesday, let s look ahead and see the general trend and a couple of weather fronts to clear away, and this one will allow another area of high pressure to drift down from the north and that will be quite significant because a north easterly flow will drive in a cooler air mass across the country and a noticeable difference to the feel of the weather over the next few days. back to wednesday, however, it looks likely it will start off with showers around across parts of cornwall, devon and into south wales and they will gradually drift north and they will gradually drift north and east along the m4 corridor. the low cloud, mist and murkiness perhaps just drifting but lingering along the north sea coast and some brighter skies out to the west, but a difference to the feel of the weather furth
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are olivia utley, assistant comment editor for the telegraph and uk political editor at politico jack blanchard. welcome back to you both. we have a few more titles in. let s just flick through some of them. the telegraph s front page focuses on the uk s covid vaccination roll out with figures showing the number of over 80s being admitted to high dependency units falling sharply. it s a similar lead for the i. it reports that the pfizer and oxford vaccines cut the risk of hospitalisations from covid by 80% for over 80s. the guardian says the health secretary used today s downing street briefing to challenge other countries scepticism of the oxford/astrazeneca jab, as it revealed by some measures it is slightly more effective than the pfizer vaccine. for the front page of the times brussels has pledged a vaccination passport scheme which will be open to british travellers in tim