Lovely to have you with us. Lets start, then, with football, where it has been confirmed that euro 2028 will be hosted by the uk and ireland. The five nation bid ran unopposed and european footballs governing body, uefa, confirmed the selection on tuesday morning. Wembley is set to host the final, with cardiffs Principality Stadium likely to have the opening match. Northern irelands Casement Park is also included and is the only stadium in the bid to be built from scratch. Their Chief Executive says being involved is a huge moment for irish football. This is fantastic news. Weve been part of the bid from the beginning. Were looking forward to hosting part of the worlds third biggest Sporting Tournament in five years time, and it will be transformational for northern ireland. And people would have laughed if, 25 years ago, wed have said, were going to be hosting part of what is a fantastic Football Tournament in our country. So its going to transform our country, its going to be good ne
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Lets start with football, as its been confirmed today that euro 2028 will be hosted by the uk and ireland. The five nation bid ran unopposed and european footballs governing body, uefa, confirmed the selection on Tuesday Morning in nyon. Wembley is set to host the final with cardiffs Principality Stadium likely to have the opening match. Northern irelands Casement Park is also included and is the only stadium in the bid to be built from scratch. Their Chief Executive says being involved is a huge moment for irish football. This is fantastic news, we have been part of the bid since the beginning. We look forward to hosting the worlds third biggest Sporting Tournament and it will be transformational for Northern Ireland. People would have laughed 25 years ago if we said were going to be hosting part of what is a fantastic Football Tournament in our country. It has going to transform the country and were looking forward to it. England were one of the 11 countries to host euro 2020 with we
Time for a look at the weather. Heres ben rich. Good afternoon, yet another day work for most of us it does not feel anything like a typical october, it is already very close to 25 celsius in parts of south east england. Some reminders of autumn, felt across southern and Western Areas earlier and some rain in the north of scotland. You can see that on the satellite radio, low cloud, mist and smoke across South West England into wales, various bands of rain pushing south and eastwards across scotland, Northern Ireland into Northern England and we will see outbreaks of rain through the rest of the afternoon with quite a brisk wind, particularly in the far north. Further south and east, holding onto spells of sunshine and temperatures up spells of sunshine and temperatures up to around 2a or 25. This evening and tonight this band of rain pushing south and east across scotland, Northern Ireland, turning very windy in the far north. Head of the rain band, some areas of mist and murk, simply