some of the biggest names in sport have sent messages of support, including david beckham, signed by sir alex at 16, who tweets: keep fighting, boss. more than 1000 doctors have job offers withdrawn because of a clerical blunder. medics who'd been scored on their suitability for posts as registrars were apparently given the wrong marks. boris johnson is flying to washington to urge the us not to scrap the nuclear deal with iran. president trump has strongly criticised the agreement, which he has called insane. three men have been injured by what's described as a noxious substance in hackney in east london. it followed reports of a disturbance on kingsland high street. the men were taken to hospital. police say no arrests have been made. before the papers, sport, and for a full round—up, from the bbc sport centre, here's holly hamilton. good morning. we have had a huge reaction to the

news that you have been hearing. the former manchester united manager, sir alex ferguson, is in intensive care after undergoing emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage. the 76—year—old was rushed to hospital yesterday morning. he's widely regarded as britain's most successful football manager, winning 49 trophies, including 13 premier league titles. the football association, fifa, uefa and individual clubs from britain and around the world have been sending messages of support. tragic. i'm going to try and find out how he is as soon as i possibly can. obviously i knew it was extremely serious when his son darren didn't even attend his own game, doncaster, today. i hope the operation is a major success because as a personal friend, you know, i hope he has a full recovery. now, we've had plenty of action this weekend, but yesterday it was all about chelsea ladies, who won the women's fa cup for the second time.

they beat their london rivals arsenal 3—1 in front of a record crowd at wembley. jo currie was watching. in women's football, the crowds are growing and the stars are shining. chelsea's manager emma hayes is due to have twins soon but when your team wins the cup, it's hard to stay away. it's the fourth year running that the women's final has come to wembley. new faces at the home of football made it a record attendance. arsenal and chelsea both have superstar quality but it took until the second half to see it. the change of ends brought a change in ambition. for ramona bachmann, this was the start of a cup—winning performance. but if her first was emphatic, her second goal struck lucky. a heavy deflection put chelsea in charge. arsenal briefly made a game of it when they pulled a goal back but fittingly, the season's standout player would decide its showpiece. fran kirby, voted best by her peers, with a strike to seal it. with her individual awards, now her team has the honours.

so, it's one trophy down for chelsea, but they will be hoping to add to it later this month with the league title as well. a record crowd watched this final at wembley this afternoon and the team and the sport will be hoping that that is just the start. meanwhile, it was a day of twists and turns in the battle to stay in the premier league ending in heartbreakfor stoke city, whose ten year stay in the premier league ended following defeat to crystal palace yesterday afternoon. west bromwich albion survived the drop — for now, anyway — after they beat tottenham, and fellow strugglers southampton drew at everton. adam wild rounds up the action. after a decade amongst football's elite, stoke city's stay elite, stoke city's stay in the premier league is finally over. defeat to crystal palace the final blow. reality hitting home in north staffordshire. we have to bounce back up, the club has to bounce back up.

it's too big, the support is too big. and as i said, it is in a really good place infrastructure wise, it can do that, so everybody says it's over and everything is done, and this football club has to bounce back. even with the odds against them, the day had started with just a little hope. win at all costs, now or never. stoke‘s equation could not be clearer. only a win would do and when shaqiri put them ahead, well, feelings were very different. but as so often this season, everything fell apart. first an equaliser, and then the moment everyone knew the game was over. and the trapdoor is firmly staring stoke in the face. for west bromwich, the situation was even more perilous. seconds away from a draw against spurs that would have seen them relegated, another twist in this astonishing tale. and is it in? it is! west bromwich have hope! incredible! and they can barely believe it.

but whilst they celebrated, they knew their future was still not in their hands. a win for fellow strugglers swansea would have relegated west bromwich anyway. but a single goal from bournemouth was enough. and so, attention turned to goodison park. southampton fans in fine voice. victory against everton would have sent west bromwich down. and they would have been fearing the worst when nathan redmond put the saints in front. but a day of extraordinary drama came down to the very final kick. i don't believe it! west brom, incredibly, saved twice in the same day. the fight to stay in the premier league goes on. in the scottish premiership, champions celtic are at hearts later. yesterday aberdeen held on to second place after a 0—0 draw with hibs, while dundee‘s place in the top flight is all but safe for next season — they beat hamilton accies i—0. kevin holt with the goal there.

there were also wins for stjohnstone and rangers. tony bellew beat david haye again in their rematch last night. the former cruiserweight world champion twice knocked down the former heavyweight world champion before the referee stopped the fight in the fifth round. bellew, who was again the underdog with the bookmakers, looked close to tears as he celebrated his victory — while haye‘s future in the sport will now be in doubt after conceding he would have to retire if he suffered another defeat. my first words to him when he hugged me, i was just a bit emotional. i was on my knees on the canvas and he came over to me and he said, brother, you've done me. everything was right and you just beat me. and i said to him, please stop. please stop. this is a very unforgiving sport. it is a young man's game. it is a young man's game for a fighter with the attributes that david haye relies on. mark williams will face john higgins in the final

of snooker‘s world championship. williams beat barry hawkins late last night in sheffield. it finished 17—15 to the welshman, who will be going for a third world title. he faces four—time championjohn higgins after he beat kyren wilson. whoever wins they'll be the oldest winner since ray reardon in 1978. 12 months ago, i was really thinking about retiring, even a couple of yea rs about retiring, even a couple of years ago. what a season. ijust can't believe it. even if i win, it will just topped the can't believe it. even if i win, it willjust topped the best can't believe it. even if i win, it will just topped the best season five had for years, but if i don't win, is still one of the best seasons i've had for years. i've just got to go up there and enjoy it and if it does go close the end, hopefully... the final of the world snooker championship is on bbc one and starts at 2pm this afternoon. that's all the sport for now.

now on bbc news, here's the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to the front pages of the sunday newspapers. with me are david wooding, political editor of the sun on sunday, and ben chu, economics editor of the independent. let's take a look at the front pages now. the sun on sunday leads with the news that dominates most of the front pages — the former manchester united manager, sir alex ferguson, reported to be in a coma. the football world in shock — the mirror follows suit and also carries the news that the manchester united legend is in hospital in salford after undergoing surgery for a brain haemorrhage. next to its coverage of sir alex, the observer carries allegations that aides to donald trump hired a spy firm to dig for dirt on people who worked for barack 0bama's administration negotiating the deal

on iran's nuclear weapons — a deal president trump may repudiate in the coming week. the mail on sunday focuses on allegations about relatives of the newly—appointed home secretary sajid javid. brexiteers threaten may with open revolt — the sunday telegraph's main story, but it has room for a photograph of the newest royal, louis, in the arms of his sister, charlotte, at kensington palace. and the times focuses on britain's knife crime statistics, ith analysis of the latest figures qwith analysis of the latest figures from the home office. it also features an image of sir alex ferguson grasping the 2013 premier league trophy. so, let's begin. will begin with the sun on sunday. then, time to ask the question, are you a united supporter?” then, time to ask the question, are you a united supporter? i am. you can see why the story is absolutely dominating all the front pages.

because love him or dislike him as a football manager, here's a titanic figure in british football. he is a pa rt figure in british football. he is a part of our national consciousness. when something terrible like this happens, it's natural for everyone to be fascinated by it. and the speed of it. only last week he was presenting something to his old adversary, arsene wenger, and that rivalry dominated the newspapers about ten years ago. and looking in rude health. he looked absolutely finds. so the speed at which this happened is absolutely shocking. what can one say apart from one hopes a very speedy recovery. you see all the tributes coming in from the galaxy of superstars who played for him, giving him and his family their well—wishers. what more can one say apart from, hope you get better very soon. and that's the challenge for the papers, david, in

that that is the big thing that if you don't normally buy papers, if you don't normally buy papers, if you see a headline like that you might buy one. but there is only so much you can tell people and it could change any matter of hours. but equally, you have to give product of the man. he is a rear breed. he was in thatjob for 26 years. 25 minutes now and they're out the door. if they're lucky! it makes him a unique character. the trophy haul this man had, basically winning an average of the trophy a year. 24 at least major trophies and two champions league trophy is among them. he is different in that case but he is a strong, passionate fighter on the football pitch and i think those qualities will show through as he faces his toughest battle of all. he hasn't been afraid

of getting involved in politics, which a lot of football managers are quite nervous about, because they worry about alienating a potential area of support. but it has never seem to bother him. he is a passionate labour supporter and as you see, he gives us publicly in a way that most football managers wouldn't. i think david is right to pick up on the as has reigned as pa rt pick up on the as has reigned as part of the importance of this legacy. another element of that is that he didn't win anything for four yea rs. that he didn't win anything for four years. he came into manchester united and didn't win anything until 1990. the idea today that the manager of a top club could go for a barren period for that length of time and be backed by the owners of the club and he was as extraordinary. it is one thing a while now and it is one of the reasons we look at his career and thing, this is from a guy from another era. an astonishing achievement to last as long as he did. we've got that big front page

on your paper, david, fergie fights for life. the sunday mirror has a similar front for life. the sunday mirror has a similarfront page on for life. the sunday mirror has a similar front page on the for life. the sunday mirror has a similarfront page on the images that are prominent there on pretty much all the papers. what do you think of his reputation among journals? because he has not always had an easy relationship with the press. perhaps he will be surprised by some of the once said about him. i think there was a lot of respect for him. in politics, there are some politicians we find a bit aggressive to deal with, but we respect them for what they do and achieve. he didn't suffer. hardly, he doesn't suffer it falls gladly, and if people were writing things about his team he didn't lie, he would front up team he didn't lie, he would front up the journalists and give them a piece of his men. we don't mind that and it was part of the passion of the man. he gave as good as he gets.

let's turn to the subject we can a lwa ys let's turn to the subject we can always rely on even the holiday, brexit. the sunday telegraph, may is receiving, we're told, a warning. the warning is that brexiteers will go into open revolt because they are in revolt now, it'sjust go into open revolt because they are in revolt now, it's just not open. as david knowles, they all happily brief they are not happy with the way to resume a —— theresa may is going, but theyjust haven't way to resume a —— theresa may is going, but they just haven't said she should go in public. they are briefing behind the scenes. that is the threat and obviously, as david and others have been writing today, the latest element of the bust up on the latest element of the bust up on the customs union and what they want to go for after the transition period, whether it is this partnership that theresa may ones or

this massive and facilitation proposal from david this massive and facilitation proposalfrom david davis and this massive and facilitation proposal from david davis and the rest of the brexiteers. this is the struggle between them at the moment. do you see any rumour talk, david, for a compromise on this? —— any room. it doesn't look as if you could merge the two to have something everyone likes, it was most as if they were dislike it even more than before. the brexit purists believe the only way to achieve a clean brexit is to leave the customs union. bhas said she will leave the customs union and the conservative manifesto has said the same thing. but it has not proved as easy as you talk because there are the remainers on the other side who are doing everything to grow frustrated. the lords were voting everything down and the european union would allow

britain to leave the customs union without imposing a hard border in northern ireland. everything is making it difficult for her and she is trying to find a compromise. but the purists say this is not leaving the purists say this is not leaving the customs union. when it was voted down in the cabinet, there are fears 110w down in the cabinet, there are fears now that's what she will do is tweak it, come back with waters being dubbed hybrid 2.0 and twist arms and come through. but it could be thursday if she gets a couple of people in the cabinet committee to change her mind. do you think a couple of people will be receiving phone calls? i think there will be some arm—twisting going on.“ phone calls? i think there will be some arm-twisting going on. if you wa nt some arm-twisting going on. if you want a some arm-twisting going on. if you wanta bank some arm-twisting going on. if you want a bank holiday and you are cabinet minister, make sure you're out of earshot of the phone. but you probably can't get away with that these days in the high office. there are historical stories of politicians make sure in the were not contactable. john major did not

speak to anybody during the leadership election in 1990. it has a adjusting hearing all the foster this morning say, i'm still waiting to hear what will be the government solution. —— arlene foster. even she, who supports brexit. the irony of all of this is the eu side are not happy with either the maximum facilitation solutions are the customs partnership. it is academic about what they choose. the big picture is the eu has a clear view and they have the uk to sign up to no hard border as part of that december deal. the bridge just no hard border as part of that december deal. the bridgejust has not made up their own mind. within the conservative party, what their strategy is. if you have two parties ina strategy is. if you have two parties in a negotiation, one knows what it once, the other doesn't, one side will come over better out of that. i'm afraid at the moment that the eu

side. at the moment, the question is, while the uk side blow up? will she fears an open challenge from the brexiteers? will there be a new conservative election for prime minister are whole general election again before brexit actually happens question mark that is the risk at the moment. where are you putting your money at the moment? there has to be some kind of many compromise. i don't think anything to the full extreme either way will get through parliament is never mind the cabinet committee. but unless she does a complete decoupling from the customs union of some kind then she's in for trouble, because people will feel betrayed. in the sun on sunday today, the prime minister says that she is utterly determined to leave the customs union by the end of 2020, so i think she will be held to those words. you have the front page of the sunday times there, david.

this is the knife crime story. we've talked about knife crime during the course of this year because of the terrible statistics not least in london, a particular problem in london, a particular problem in london with fatal knife attacks. president trump and sounding off about knives at the national rifle association conference in dallas yesterday, saying, you can ban guns as much as you like but people will still go around with knives attacking people. these new figures, what do they suggest? do they give us what do they suggest? do they give us any clues to what is going on? for the sunday times as saying is that knife crime epidemic is not just confined to london, it is hitting every far—flung corner of the united kingdom. ifind this hitting every far—flung corner of the united kingdom. i find this a bit baffling anyway because we were first out of the blocks on the knife crime story some weeks ago and the sun on sunday, we covered it and edit asa sun on sunday, we covered it and edit as a national story. but the sunday times seem to be seeing london has now overtaken new york

and focusing on the london centric element of it. the figures here now they've gotten on to them, outside london, isjust as bad or even worse. 274% increase in north wales, foregoing the sick. hertfordshire, 160%, hampshire, 120%. that could be from the 60 whatever, you don't know. —— six. from the 60 whatever, you don't know. -- six. butl from the 60 whatever, you don't know. -- six. but i looked around the country for incidences and there we re the country for incidences and there were cases all over the country. and one in your home city only this morning. and it's because young people feel they have to go out. it is notjust a fashion people feel they have to go out. it is not just a fashion accessory, they feel they are safer with a knife and have to get the message through that it is not safe, it's far more dangerous to carry a knife. i personally think you have to be a bit careful with these stories

because officer there has been a spike in knife crime, no one is denying those statistics, in london and the shires according to this data. i don't think the uk is an incredibly dangerous place to live, london or the shires, and this is the date of the danger with how it gets filtered through. we are so donald trump was seeing, he is implying londoners who was on, which isa implying londoners who was on, which is a spurious and false impression on to he has been rightly castigated for using the uk and london situation to further his own domestic and is about sucking up to the nra, effectively. yes, we should ta ke the nra, effectively. yes, we should take it seriously and delve into the figures and try and work out what is happening. the sunday times some interesting stuff about why this might be happening, but we should also take a step back and remember the uk is not a very unsafe place to live and that london, new york and paris and was actually a bit of statistical jiggery—pokery paris and was actually a bit of statisticaljiggery—pokery because it was over one month. if you look

over the last few years, new yorkers still way ahead. the real story is that new york is becoming a much more safe place. a helpful warning about the risks of using statistics and how you use statistics and understanding what they are telling you. the contest is very important. let's look at the observer. this is about the various ways it has been suggested the trump administration is trying to discredit the iran nuclear deal. david. dirty tricks, who would have thought it? aids to donald trump have hired and is really intelligence agency to run this dirty tricks campaign. it is about the iran arms deal. boris johnson has flown today to washington to try and prop up that

arms deal that was done a cause they need to stop nuclear proliferation in iran, it's as simple as that, and donald trump is all about ripping it a lot. but what they seem to have done here is rather than discrediting the deal, he seems to be going for the man rather than the deal and he has gone for the big national security advisers to the former president, barack 0bama. it's ha rd former president, barack 0bama. it's hard not to see this story in light of trump's almost pathological need to overturn the 0bama legacy. as david said, if you think the deal was flawed, let's see the evidence and the arguments there. this is a personalised attack on 0bama's national security advisers, saying they leaked information, they were in the pay of her ever. it seems an odd line of attack and it is hard,

you have to see it as him wanting to overturn everything about 0bama's regime. i think that's the context we need to see this story. regime. i think that's the context we need to see this storylj regime. i think that's the context we need to see this story. i wonder if 0 ra cle we need to see this story. i wonder if 0racle bama is privately regretting the mockery of donald trump at the washington press correspondents dinner a couple of yea rs correspondents dinner a couple of years back. he was totally merciless after trump had attacked him and suggested that he wasn't actually a natural born american. 0ne suggested that he wasn't actually a natural born american. one that question of iran, interesting that president macron, when he went to washington, said you don't get rid of the deal until you have something better to put in its place. but not so much effort seems to be made on trying to find an alternative. and there's only five or six days until this deadline comes up. i think borisjohnson will be this deadline comes up. i think boris johnson will be putting a lot of effort in when he's over there.

the tragedy is, he won't be speaking to the president himself, who is the man who is dug in on this one. and the policies were quite interesting, certainly for the brexiteers and conservatives more generally, in that the hope had been that president trump would be a really sympathetic figure in the white house and that obviously, with all the other entrance, they could also hope that he might excel at retail trade dealfor when we hope that he might excel at retail trade deal for when we leave the european union. the american trade deal is the thing they have been hankering after the most. but all around, the europeans have a lot invested in this around deal. —— around deal. as you mention, nicolas maduro saying to get rid of it without something viable willjust create regional instability. the israelis were very critical of the dealfrom the moment it israelis were very critical of the deal from the moment it was signed. i think there is an element of an operation there were the israelis

are operation there were the israelis a re really operation there were the israelis are really firing two unpack it. but without putting something in its place. so i think i wish boris johnson all the best in trying to keep this issue on the road must be no trump is very difficult to steer around. this is one thing he has been talking about for a very long time. when he was campaigning to be president, he was criticising the iran deal, saying it is an example of the bad deal making of the previous regime. so how is he going to climb down from this one? it's ha rd to to climb down from this one? it's hard to see. interesting week ahead. thank you very much for being here. i hope you will get out and enjoy some sunshine. you have it. that's it for the papers this morning. don't forget, you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, seven days a week, at bbc.co.uk/papers. and if you miss the programme, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. i will be back with more at the top

of the art. we have some beautiful late spring weather to take us through the rest of the spring break. blue skies here and in many parts of the country we will keep with that theme, blue skies and sunshine passing through the day, things warming up. but most places, not everywhere. it is a fly in the ointment in terms of the front moving in from the north—west of scotland. this will bring more cloud and rain later on. high—pressure holds on elsewhere but through the irish sea there's still quite a lots of low cloud, mist and mark. some of that for just quite a lots of low cloud, mist and mark. some of that forjust reading onto parts of pembrokeshire and cornwall and up to the isle of man and facing galilee. but away from these close your much more likely to see that sunshine. light winds, too. we have the rain affecting the far

north—west of scotland, 11 degrees in its ordinary. further south, 24-25. a faint in its ordinary. further south, 24—25. a faint day, a beautiful evening if you have plans for a barbecue. it will remain largely dry overnight. a few months patches cropping up in land and again around the irish sea we will have some local adult. temperatures in the east falling into single figures. a fresh start a bank holiday monday here. see another fine day, fresh start a bank holiday monday here. see anotherfine day, glorious conditions across many parts of the country. more cloud towards the north and west around some coast of wales. i think less extensive as today. temperatures getting up to 26-27, today. temperatures getting up to 26—27, making it the warmest early may bank holiday on record. a bit cooler for eastern scotland and in north—east england. tuesday, a front moves on from the west with some patchy rain across northern and western parts. still sunny and warm

towards the south—east, temperatures 26-27 towards the south—east, temperatures 26—27 months again on tuesday. another one days to come. cooler conditions through the middle of the week as low pressure rose from atlantic. the start of wednesday is not bad, another front moves on. it will call in through the week ahead. things stay sunny and warm in the south—east. this is bbc news. the headlines at 10. sir alex ferguson is in intensive care after emergency surgery for a brain haemorrhage. messages of support from the game's big names — including david beckham, signed by sir alex at 16, who tweets, "keep fighting, boss", and everton manager sam allardyce. i hope he is in good hands and the operation is a major success. he is a personalfriend. i hope he has a full recovery. more than 1000 doctors have job offers withdrawn because of a clerical blunder. borisjohnson flies to washington,

trying to persuade the white house not to pull out of the nuclear deal with iran. i'm shaun ley and in the next hour... a baby prince at home. kensington palace release new family photos of prince louis, including one with his sister princess charlotte,