after a false start last year, is looks likely that baseball will be coming to london next summer. the new york yankees and boston red sox are "very close" to agreeing a deal to play two regular season major league games at the london stadium, west ham's home ground. plans to host 2019 cricket world cup matches there won't be affected. ryan day's impressive form shows no signs of slowing down — he beat the world number one mark sellby 6—3 in the first round of snooker‘s players championship in llandudno. the welshman has won the last two tournaments in gibraltar and romania, and ended the match with this total clearance of 133 to book a quarter—final meeting with countryman mark williams. so how are we getting on with the badminton? up up to 80 now, pretty impressive so far. let's see how we get on, can it

be three figures? kamilla rytterjuhl and christinna pedersen went on to win the match and their first all england title. if they had gone forjust a bit longer they might have broken the world record but still pretty impressive. that's all from sportsday. you can watch that clip if you like on this board website. we'll have more throughout the evening. let's get more on the breaking news that in the past half hour it's been confirmed that an raf engineer died when a red arrows hawkjet crashed at raf valley in north wales this afternoon.

the jet‘s pilot survived the crash. the commander of raf valley gave this statement a short time ago. the royal air force can confirm the death of an engineer from the red arrows in a tragic accident today. the engineer's family have been informed and are fast for 2h hour cured of grace before further details are released. the pilot of the aircraft survived the incident and is currently receiving medical care. thank you. a brief statement from the raf and we can go now to oui’ correspondence. 0roger pinney is near raf valley. what more do we know? well we know when the accident happened, it was

sometime late this morning. at the moment we know the investigation is under way on the runwayjust behind me. emergency services remain on the site and a vehicle is blocking that ru nway site and a vehicle is blocking that runway reasonably allowing these investigators to get on with their work. it is no surprise that the red arrows should come here to raf valley, they fly hawk trainers for their aerobatics and this is the home of the temple and trainer for the raf. the principalfastjet trainer and this is where fastjet training is carried out. so the red arrows pilots come here to use the simulators here at raf valley. we had some activity late this afternoon, vehicles moving up and down the runway cuesta crash site. presumably that will be part of the investigation. raf valley said this evening that this is a very sad day for them, it will be a very sad day

for them but beyond the welfare of the surviving pilot i think of paramount importance for the raf now would be to discover exactly what happened and why. from eyewitnesses who have been giving their descriptions of what they saw, it seems that the pilot managed to inject and certainly one eyewitness saw a parachute landing from the plane. eyewitnesses have been consistent about that, we certainly have had a number of them saying that this saw at least one parachute. we have heard reports of two parachutes being seen but also heard conflicting reports that the engineer had not managed to project. 0ne eyewitness told me he saw the aircraft appear to wobble in the air and coming is a strange angle. people around here are very familiar with jets landing and taking off at raf valley and know what to expect.

this witness told me what happened was unexpected, the plane coming in strangely. and it wasjust was unexpected, the plane coming in strangely. and it was just around that time that he saw a parachute and shortly afterwards the aircraft hitting the ground close to the ru nway hitting the ground close to the runway and exploding into flames and then smoke seen for miles around. for the moment, thank you very much indeed. and we've just had a statement in and from the police, north wales police, saying that police and crime scene investigators supported by the specialist will beginajoint in supported by the specialist will begin a joint in full investigation now led by the air accident investigation branch to establish what led up to this tragic event. chief inspector in north wales police saying they are appealing for help from the public and local communities and they would ask if anyone saw the aircraft that afternoon for them to get in touch with north wales police to give them whatever information they have about whatever information they have about what they witnessed. that is the

latest on that sad news. we will bring you walk through the evening. in the meantime let's get a look the first day of the astronomical spring today and many areas had a fairamount of spring today and many areas had a fair amount of sunshine. a splendid afternoon across parts of scotland with blue skies throughout the day. for parts of england and wales there was more clout around. staying dry in northampton but some spots of rain and sleet. tomorrow we switch things around, the weather coming in from the atlantic. those clear brea ks we from the atlantic. those clear breaks we had today across scotland and northern ireland moving further east. rain spreading through the hebrides and many western areas frost free into the morning. widely frosty across england and wales and

some of the coldest conditions to wales and the west midlands. so quite a chilly morning commute but quite a chilly morning commute but quite crisp and bright for england and wales. further north some morning brightness cross northern england but already cloudy in western scotland and northern ireland with occasional rain. and the odd spot of rain also in the east of scotland but with cloud brea ks east of scotland but with cloud breaks into the afternoon, it could hit 12 degrees in aberdeenshire. still feeling cool in northern england with the clout in place. on thursday the milder pushes in from the atlantic. cooling down a touch by the end of the week but still by and large the wind coming in from the atlantic. after some patchy rain through the night bragging up on

thursday. clouding over in the west with outbreaks of rain later in the day. just about all of us in double figures by then. rain across the country through thursday night and into friday. showers getting going from the west. some of them could be happy with hail and thunder. some longer spells of rain into west of scotland and the north of northern ireland later. temperature still in double figures. you're watching beyond 100 days. facebook‘s share price continues to slide after revelations revelations of a data breach. the uk authorities are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the british firm that harvested facebook data. everybody wants to speak to mark zuckerberg. there are plenty of questions, so why is he not appearing publicly to give us the answers? president trump calls vladimir putin to congratulate him on his re—election and says the two leaders could meet soon. we will, er, probably get together

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