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showery outbreaks of rain running down the north sea coast for a time, and temperatures again a little bit disappointing, 14 20 degrees. fingers crossed sunday is a bit more optimistic, if you are planning a fans own in your garden, we could see highs of 22 degrees, and it will be dry. thanks, louise. now it s time to join our colleagues for the news where you are, goodbye. hello there and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. watkins sends england on their way to berlin. 0ur southgate s site on the way to success? and fans both here and in germany are making their plans to witness a potential moment of history. taking the train up to berlin tomorrow. to berlin we go. here we go. also coming up on sportsday: it s women s semifinals day at wimbledon. jasmine paolini has won the first. we ll be live at the all england club for details of who she ll meet in the final. and a delightful debut at lord s forjamie smith. his half century helps england into a dominant positi ....
coast through the day. other areas seeing sunshine again, with isolated thunderstorms, but signs of a change in the south. the winds will be strengthening, thundery rain showing its hands of the far south west, and cooler than it has been across far south eastern part. through friday evening we will see heavy, thundery rain putting in a southern england, parts of south wales as an area of low pressure approaches and this will take over as the big weather maker through the weekend, turning things much more unsettled, especially for england and wales. some heavy and thundery rain at times which could cause disruption. drier and brighterfor times which could cause disruption. drier and brighter for scotland and northern ireland, coolerfor northern ireland, cooler for everyone. northern ireland, coolerfor everyone. a similar story, drier in the north and wet in the south but we stick with those lower temperatures. many thanks. that s all from the bbc news at six so it s goo ....
of a 3% nhs pay rise in england. a tram crash in croydon in 2016 which killed seven people was an accident, an inquestjury has found. and with one day to go before the olympics opening ceremony, another controversy hits the struggling games. coming up on the bbc news channel what a new study analysing the brains of top rugby players has found, and what it could mean in terms of understanding the long term implications of head trauma. good evening. the number of people being pinged and told to self isolate by the nhs covid app has reached record levels in england and wales. in the week to 14th july, more than 600,000 people received alerts, that s up 17% from the previous week. the vaccines minister nadhim zahawi said that self isolation was the second most important tool after vaccines for fighting covid. but as growing numbers are pinged, supermarkets, hospitality and the transport sector have all reported staff shortages and some shops have said keeping the shelves ....
rugby international takes on his biggest challenge to prove the game he loves has caused his dementia. commentator: look at this - alix popham drives for - the line he s there! alix popham s rugby career seemed timed to perfection. as he started playing, the game went professional. he was able to turn his passion into a well paid job. but he says after more than a decade of putting his body on the line, he s paying a high price. so these are the memories, yeah? that one is my last game for wales, against england in 2008, my last game. do you remember the game? no, nothing. i know we won. i ve seen the jerseys with me with my hands in the air at twickenham, but i can t remember being on the pitch. so you played in the game, you ve got the shirt, but you don t remember the game at all? at all. what i ve been told is my brain was so inflamed at that period. and most.most of my career, i ve said before, i can t remember because we were doing so much contact, my brain wa ....
commentator: look at this - alix popham drives for - the line he s there! alix popham s rugby career seemed timed to perfection. as he started playing, the game went professional. he was able to turn his passion into a well paid job. but he says after more than a decade of putting his body on the line, he s paying a high price. so these are the memories, yeah? that one is my last game for wales, against england in 2008, my last game. do you remember the game? no, nothing. i know we won. i ve seen the jerseys with me with my hands in the air at twickenham, but i can t remember being on the pitch. so you played in the game, you ve got the shirt, but you don t remember the game at all? at all. what i ve been told is my brain was so inflamed at that period. and most.most of my career, i ve said before, i can t remember because we were doing so much contact, my brain was inflamed. so you. the memories weren t storing. so you had an inflamed brain because of the contact you ....