Hello and welcome to sportsday im gavin ramjaun. Gold for graham who kicks off paralympics gb S Haul of medals, on the penultimate day in paris. So close for Alfie Hewett. He fought back in the Wheelchair Tennis final, but lost out in a dramatic deciding set. A Debut Wicket Forjosh hull, the england new boy impresses against Sri Lanka, as they search for a Summer Series clean sweep in the third test. And a new regime, but familiarfaces england under interim Boss Lee Carsley are taking on ireland in dublin, in the Nations League. Also coming up on sportsday. Just A Matter Of Time Forjack Draper who says grand Slam Success Isnt far away, after his defeat in the finalfour of the Us Open. When you play the top players the intensity is different. It is a step up. Hello there and welcome along to the programme. The latest from the football with ireland hosting england, in their Nations League opener. Where they lead 2 0. A Big Day also in paris, where its the penultimate day of the paralympi
Longer spells of rain will continue across england and wales on sunday. Further north again, a lot of dry weather, but more cloud from scotland and Northern Ireland, so temperatures are not going to be as high, quite a drop Northern Ireland and generally further south, temperatures could sneak up with some sunshine into the low 20s. But low pressure and the rain will move away, but for next week it is a North Westerly wind that will come our way. Temperatures will drop, and it will feel cooler everywhere. Down, thank you. Time now to get the news, Travel And Weather where you are. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. Im tanya arnold. Its Gold Number 19 for Sarah Storey as the Medal Rush continues for paralympicsgb in paris. Jack draper is preparing to take on World Number one Jannik Sinner is his first grand Slam Semifinal at the Us Open. I have had No Doubt that he can play at this level and we want to go higher and higher and keep pushing alone. Along. Craig bellamy takes charge of his f
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the author and journalist mihir bose, and former pensions minister, baroness altmann. Lets start with a look at some of those front pages for tomorrow. The metro leads with the vaccination programme. It says there are hopes that all over 50s could have covid jabs by the end of march. According to the daily mail, ministers are hoping to ease restrictions in may. But the guardian carries an interview withjeremy hunt, the former Health Secretary, who advises against lifting lockdown until coronavirus cases fall to 1,000 a day. When lockdown does ease, Outdoor Sport and Socialising Are Set to be among the first activities to return thats according to the times. The telegraph focus on the Hotel Quarantine plans, for people arriving from Coronavirus Hotspots it says ministers are racing to reserve more than 28,000 hotel rooms, in preparation for that Scheme Starting in mid february. The mirror l
And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it