until 1960, more than 85,000 from caribbean countries. and one particular story from the daily mirror, banned from britain at the age of 81, asset granny was banned of 81, a sick granny was banned and blocked from returning after she went to jamaica for a funeral. that's all for this evening. but before we go, there was a big british success this week at the sony world photography awards. alys tomlinson won the top prize, photographer of the year. judges described her work as having "beautiful production, technical excellence and sensitive illustration of pilgrimage as a journey of discovery and sacrifice to a greater power". it's on show at somerset house in london at the moment. we went there earlier today and asked her to talk us through it all. good night. so the project is really about connecting people, the pilgrims, theirfaith and nature and the wider landscape. and i was really trying to show the relationship between the three of them, so i visited three different pilgrimage sites. one is lourdes, which is very well known in france. the other one is ballyvourney in ireland. and the third one is grabarka

in the east of poland, near the border with belarus. and i was really trying to evoke a sense of what i felt when i was there, coming very much as an outsider and a nonbeliever. how i felt when i was in these places of great devotion and spirituality. and for me, there was a great sense of timelessness and otherworldliness and a really mysterious atmosphere, which was very intriguing to me. and that was what i was trying to evoke through the imagery. so as soon as i saw her, i knew i really wanted to photograph her. she is orthodox christian and she comes from a convent in belarus but she was in poland at this pilgrimage site called grabarka. and she just had a very intense way of being, she had very piercing eyes and a very strong presence. so i approached her and she was happy to have her portrait taken. i felt that some of the people i photographed, that they had this very powerful presence but they also, it was almost as if they were looking

into my soul, in a sense. it was kind of a strange exchange. and as i was questioning them, they were kind of questioning me, so there was a slightly ambiguous relationship but also a very respectful one. hello, and welcome to sportday. the headlines: the end of an era. arsene wenger steps down after nearly 22 yea rs wenger steps down after nearly 22 years in charge of arsenal. the question now is, who comes next? former captain patrick vieira is among the names being touted. fulham ta ke among the names being touted. fulham take a step closer to getting back in the premier league, beating play—off hopefuls millwall. and

gloucester are on they waited earl bauer, through to the european challenge cup final. —— on their way to bilbao. tonight was mostly about arsene wenger, who despite plenty of speculation still managed to stun the footballing world today by announcing his retirement from managing arsenal football club at the end of the season, a year before his contract runs out. he is the longest serving manager in the premier league, in charge of arsenal for 22 years, winning three league titles and a record seven fa cups. but they are currently six in the table and heading for their worst league finish under the frenchman. so the decision had been coming and the fans were voting with their feet. at the club's chief executive explained to the media this

afternoon that he is not going to be easy to replace. he changed the game. he set a totally new standard, a new ambition. and ambition not just to win, but to win while achieving perfection. —— an ambition. to make art out of football. and he was always brave enough to be true to that extraordinary ambition. and incredibly, he achieved it, with arsenal's invincible season. i'm joined by former arsenal defender martin qian, he was there for all three of his premier league titles. first of all, what is your reaction to the news today? well, it feels like a very sad day and the end of an era. anybody who has worked with arsene will tell you it was an honour to have worked with him, a great man first and foremost, he loved football to be nth degree. he achieved many things. i am indebted

to him as a player because he got the best out of me. simplicity in the best out of me. simplicity in the way he lived his life. he took it on to the foot or feel for the players. 0ne it on to the foot or feel for the players. one of the all—time greats, an incredible manager and an incredible man to be around. was this the right time for him, martin, 01’ this the right time for him, martin, or do you think he should have gone earlier? well, of course, you would like to think that all the great leaders find the right time to go. and clearly it wasn't. i felt perhaps he stayed on a bit too long. i think you can forgive him that. he loved the club. he was emotionally attached. he couldn't detach himself from that, and perhaps he stayed on too long. but i can understand that. leaving arsenal football club was one of the hardest things i ever had to be myself. i'm not sure i'm even over it now. it will take sometimes to come to terms with it. i would like to see him kept at the club. such wisdom and intelligence, he should surely go and work upstairs.

0bviously should surely go and work upstairs. obviously it hasn't been working particularly well for him. sixth place, the worst finished, if they stay there, under arsene wenger. what is it now that isn't working that was working when you were playing? you said he turned your career around. at the moment we have a situation where the fans have stopped coming to the games for the home matches. people will come back in numbers now. they will give arsene that fanfare he deserves. hopefully the players will give him a trophy, because it is an opportunity to win the europa league. it is a huge prize at the end of that to go into the champions league. arsene wenger leaves with an even better opportunity for the new man who comes in. if it wasn't already a fantastic opportunity as it is. so who is that new man going to be? i don't think today is the day for that. to work out who is

coming in, may now need to find the right man to come in and replace arsene. i don't think it is as difficult as it might have been nine 01’ difficult as it might have been nine or ten years ago when all those su ccesses we re or ten years ago when all those successes were coming. or ten years ago when all those successes were coming. yes, or ten years ago when all those successes were coming. yes, there has been recent success in the fa cup. there is an opportunity now, they may be finishing sixth saw seventh in the table, they can build on that for next season. arsene leaves the club in an incredible position. fulham have moved into the second place in the championship after beating fellow promotional hopefuls millwall. ryan says and put fulham ahead before two fabulous goal sealed the victory. the first from kevin mcdonald, from 25 yards. alexander method which made it 3—0 just before the final whistle, his 13th goal in as many games since joining full online. fulham are two

points ahead of cardiff in third, but they have to games in hand. m illwa ll but they have to games in hand. m illwall spa cex but they have to games in hand. millwall spacex in final play—off place. on to rugby union and gloucester are through to the final of the european challenge cup. they beat newcastle falcons 33— 12 tonight, scoring four tries to newcastle's two, with some martial‘s first half score the best of them. they will meet either cardiff blues 01’ they will meet either cardiff blues or the french side po in the final in bilbao in three weeks. wasps player ashleyjohnson has in bilbao in three weeks. wasps player ashley johnson has been suspended after failing a drug test. 31—year—old south african is suspended for testing positive to a prohibitive substance, believed to bea prohibitive substance, believed to be a diuretic. he is a key player for wasps, third in the table, aiming forthe for wasps, third in the table, aiming for the play—offs. diuretics can act as a masking agent for other substances. the club have released a statement saying that ashley is investigating the possible source of the substance and they are fully supportive of him. now, there are a

few rug by supportive of him. now, there are a few rugby league super league games to tell you about this evening. leaders saint helen ‘s crushed huddersfield 66— four but wigan beat castlefield to keep the pressure on them. wigan centre 0liver gildart scored two of warriors five tries to seal castleford, while sam tomkins kicked four dolls in the 28— 12 victory. wigan are just two points behind saint helen ‘s. elsewhere, salford eat wakefield 38— four. tennis, and rafael nadal has thrashed austria's dominic thiem to reach a record 1a monte carlo masters semi—final. world number one is bidding for his 11th victory in the clay—court event. p1 6—0, 6—2 in just under an hour. he will play grigor dimitrov tomorrow. the world snooker championship is back tomorrow, ronnie 0'sullivan taking the early headlines as he looks to become the first player to win six ranking titles in one season. it won't be easy for him. jamie broughton‘s report has flash photography from the start.

the world's top players are here, and ready for the drama to begin on snooker‘s greater stage. the defending champion, mark selby, is trying to win a fourth world title and would love to play ronnie 0'sullivan in the final. to play ronnie in any final is always a massive match. to play him at the crucible, the pinnacle of the sport, is stuff you dream of. playing on the biggest stage in the world, on the biggest occasion. if that is the case, i will relish it. no surprise ronnie 0'sullivan is the bookies' favourite to win, he has won a record equalling five ranking events this season, but insists it doesn't give him any extra belief coming into the crucible. i don't really rely on confidence, i believe in your belief and ability in again, if it is good enough in the day, so be it, if not, go home, watch it on tv and watch the other guys sweating it out. the tournament lasts 17 long and gruelling days, but the winner will not be complaining if they get their hands on this special trophy.

well, that's all from sportday for 110w. well, that's all from sportday for now. we will have more sport through the weekend for you, but from the end of the rest of the team, good night. —— from me and the rest of the team. hello, good evening. it was another beautiful day of doubt, wasn't it? another warm one as well, temperatures reaching a high of 27 in kent, which was the hot spot. you could see skies like these. just as we we re could see skies like these. just as we were getting used to that warm and toasty weather it will cool down as we get towards next week. look at the drop in temperatures. this weekend london sees a high of 26 but by monday it is down to 17 degrees. yes, that change will be taking place as we go through this weekend.

nevertheless, still some warm spells of sunshine to look forward to. temperatures will be easing down and we will start to see thunderstorms developing. some of those storms could be with us as early as saturday afternoon, rumbling away through saturday night as well. if all we get there, a few mist and fog patches, potentially around parts of east anglia, down towards south—east england and the chilterns. some of those could take a while to shift. but for most of this it will be another beautiful day, plenty of sunny spells out and about, and it will feel warm as well. temperatures, well, for eastern scotland, we are looking at highs of 18 degrees also in edinburgh and about 26 towards london and the south—east. it is later in the afternoon, down towards the evening and overnight, that we will start to see thunderstorms are breaking out, drifting off the north of france and working their way north and east. they could be across wales and the midlands, may be across east anglia and north—east england, but some of them will be pretty lively, with lots of bondarenko lightning mixed in. most storms will tend to clear away in the second part of the

night. we have this band of rain moving in, a cold front which will be dropping the temperatures significantly. so on sunday, the weather looks like this. a band of rain to northern ireland in scotland to start today. as it wishes east across england and wales it will break up and turn showery in nature. —— washers east. there will be further showers in the north—west of the country. temperatures coming down, cooler and pressure across the north—west. temperatures still in the low 20s across east anglia and south—east england. that means it will be quite warm for the runners taking part in the london marathon. things are set to be cooler next week. temperatures dropping away across the board. across the north—west of the country it will turn increasingly unsettled with rain at times. so we can forget about temperatures into the mid—to high 20s like we have seen over the last few days across the south—east

of england. instead we will be looking at temperatures into the mid—to high teens as we head into next week, with the threat of rain across north—west. so make the most of the sunshine that we have tomorrow. that's your weather. keeping it in the royalfamily. commonwealth leaders choose prince charles to take over from queen elizabeth as their figurehead as the summit draws to a close. #wake me up when it's all over... one of the world's biggest dance music stars, the swedish dj avicii, who collaborated with madonna and coldplay, has died at the age of 28.