that s coming up in the 100 days programme at seven. in france pressure grows for francois fillon to withdraw from the presidential race we ll find out if he s likely to fight on. and 30 years after the zeebruge ferry disaster we ll hear from relatives of the 193 people who lost their lives. that s all ahead on bbc news. hello and welcome to sportsday i m john watson and here s what s coming up on tonight s programme. west ham will try to end the latest unbeaten run of chelsea. it looked cordial in training, but arsene wenger was forced to deny alexis sanchez was dropped after a row with his team mates. and why britain s laura muir is ready to carry the hopes of british athletics. hello and welcome. chelsea will look to re establish a ten point lead at the top of the premier league table tonight when they take on west ham at the london stadium. second placed spurs trimmed the gap to seven points with victory over everton yesterday, but as emma jones now reports, with
them, valtteri did a greatjob. it is great for us for mercedes. i m looking forward to the race and it is close between us all. sir bradley wiggins has promised to shock a few people , once the uk anti doping investigation into alleged wrong doing at team sky is over. they re looking into the delivery of a package to wiggins before the 2011 tour de france. speaking on sky television, wiggins said the claims were the worst thing to be accused of, for a man of his integrity . he said he couldn t go into detail, but there would be a lot to say. the scottish challenge cup final is about to get under way. the players are on the pitch. it is dundee united against st mirren. it is taking place at fir park. we will other updates later. we will have updates. republic of ireland captain seamus coleman will have surgery today on the broken leg he suffered in their world cup qualifier with wales. it was a tackle from neil taylor that caused the injury to coleman. it wasn t a malicio
walk hand in hand with his new party and its leader. maybe you need a fresh faced approach sometimes. you need a fresh face and an optimistic message. we ve got one person who happens to be an mp who consistently privately and publicly challenges my leadership. the answer is very simple mr carswell put up or shut up. even the common purpose of the eu referendum campaign saw key ukip figures and douglas carswell taking different approaches to campaigning and whilst there was shared joy at the outcome, many in ukip saw their only mp as a source of division who should quit the party. he is now doing that. ukip says there should again bea doing that. ukip says there should again be a by election, but this time mr carswell disagrees. in his online blog he says, as he is not recrossing the house of commons floor, he doesn t need to put himself before voters once more. article 50, the membering chaen ym for leaving the eu is set to be trigger on wednesday and mr carswell is full
tweet on health care. also in the next hour, the european union turns 60. leaders from 27 eu countries gather to mark the anniversary, as theresa may prepares to formally declare the uk s intention to leave the club. and lewis hamilton will be on pole position for tomorrow s f1 curtain raiser, after out qualifying sebastian vettel in melbourne. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk independence party s only mp douglas carswell has announced he s leaving the party. mr carswell said that he was quitting ukip in the knowledge that his goal of leaving the european union had been achieved. he will now be sitting as an independent mp. in a statement ukip‘s leader paul nuttall said that the party has not benefited financially or organisationally from having douglas as an mp, while former leader nigel farage tweeted that mr carswell had jumped before he was pushed. in mr carswell‘s first television interview, my colleague reeta chakrabarti began by asking him more ab
the decision by the party s only mp douglas carswell to leave the party as no surprise. mr carswell says he ll carry on sitting as an independent mp and is leaving ukip amicably and cheerfully . lord blair a former head of the met police has called for changes to security at westminster, following wednesday s terror attack. the investigation into the attack continues and one man is still in custody. donald trump s tweeted that obamacare will explode and that a great healthcare plan will replace it. the president had to abandon his healthcare bill because of lack of republican support. european leaders have marked the 60th anniversary of the european union, signing a new declaration in rome. theresa may wasn t there, as the anniversary comes days before she ll trigger article 50. time to cross to the bbc sport centre now for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday with me karthi gnanasegaram and jessica creighton. the headlines this evening: faster, better looki