this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak, the headlines at 5pm. alleges not only how it is lived, but how it draws to a close. —— a life. tributes pour in for dame tessa jowell, who played a major role in securing the 2012 london olympics, after she's died aged 70. she did everything with the same passion, determination, verve, ability and charm. so she was a unique politician, but also a really dear friend. two british tourists abducted by armed militia in the democratic republic of congo on friday have been released. indonesian police say a mother and father and their children carried out three church bombings that killed at least 13 people. theresa may reaffirms her commitment to leaving the eu customs union, as ministers consider options for trading post—brexit. also in the next hour:

the industrialist, sirjim ratcliffe, has been named as the wealthiest person in the uk. the founder of chemical firm ineos, who grew up in a council house near manchester, is the first british—born person to top the list in 15 years. and lewis hamilton extends his lead in the drivers' championship, after winning the spanish grand prix in barcelona. good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. tributes are being paid to the former labour cabinet minister, dame tessa jowell who's

died aged 70. she was diagnosed with brian cancer a year ago, and then went on to campaign for more awareness. a leading light in tony blair's government from 1997, she was also instrumental in bringing the olympics to london in 2012. politicians have been sharing their personal memories. and i think even this morning, even though she has just died, when i think of tessa, it is almost all kind of positive, life—affirming stuff. when i woke up this morning, the first memory i had was actually of her dancing in her kitchen to a piece of music we had introduced her to, a song called "alive". she knew she was dying but that is how she felt and i think she was saying to the people she was going to leave, "you are alive, enjoy it." we went on holiday with her, especially in scotland and sometimes

in france and she is just somebody, my daughter said this, somebody who, whenever tessa is with you, the other person is happy to be there and she just had that ability to make people feel at ease and happy and content with life and that is the approach and she took to politics and how she lived her life. she just had this incredible way with her, something we can all learn from, in terms of how she spoke to anybody and everybody. she would sit and listen, she wouldn't sort ofjump in, you know, with a strong view straightaway, but she would let it be known what she felt about things. and she was incredibly collaborative. i was in the chamber for her last speech and i've never seen anything like it. everybody who was there said exactly the same thing and, you know, there were people who weren't in the country at the time who flew in to make sure

they were there to support her. we didn't know at the time that that was going to be her final speech. you know, the house of lords is quite quiet, there is never a huge amount of emotion shown there, but every single speaker, from all sides of the chamber, talked about how much she meant and that round of applause at the end, nobody can ever remember anything like that happening. i mean, i saw herjust a week ago. she was very serene. i mean, she knew that she had made a huge difference on putting the spotlight on brain cancer and even as she faced the end of her own life, her thought was what can i do for other people? again, it was the personal in political, she made it personal, she brought it to the house of commons and house of lords and internationally as well. i mean, she will be remembered not only globally for what she has done on brain cancer but also all those powerful international leaders

who she reached out to to win the uk's bid for the olympics. she was incredibly loyal but that didn't mean to say that she wouldn't be very frank and honest with me if she disagreed. so she was one of those people whose integrity you could trust completely, say she was never going to be playing games, she was always absolutely straight with you but when it came down to it, and you know, there were many times when i was under pressure obviously as prime minister, she was always there for me, to support me and work for me and stand up for me, even when it was a difficult and unpopular to do so and that is why, i think, quite apart from all of her achievements, one of the reasons she evoked such affection in people was you knew she wasn't a fair—weather friend. whatever the weather, she was there and always there. former prime minister tony blair

there. tributes to dame tessa jowell, who's died at the age of 70. two britons who were held hostage in the democratic republic of congo have been released unharmed. the pair were taken hostage in virunga national park in the east of the country on friday. the park's director says both britons and their congolese driver are now safe, and are receiving support and medical attention. a 25—year—old ranger, rachel masika baraka, died from her injuries after the incident. the park authorities said she was "highly committed showing true bravery in her work". our africa reporter louise dewast gave us this update from the country's capital, kinshasa. foreign secretary borisjohnson thanked authorities and park rangers for working with them to resolve this incident and they did pay tribute to the ranger, one of the rangers that was killed in the attack on friday, and the driver that accompanied the british tourists, who was injured as well in the attack.

that is the information we have right now, and the ambassador in the drc also announced this on social media just a few seconds ago. we just missed the first part of your answer there, i willjust very quickly ask, do we know the identities of the two britons? we do not know the identity of the two british tourists yet. we do know that the ranger that was killed, the congolese ranger, was rachel masika ba ra ka, but we do not have a name for the british nationals. was there a ransom paid? we do not know, ransoms are frequent in kidnappings in this part of the world and in this country and this part of the country. we do not know, we have no

confirmation yet on whether or not a ransom was paid in this case. that was louise dewast in kinsasha. officials in indonesia say members of a single family were behind suicide attacks on three churches in the city of surabaya, which left 11 people dead. the national police chief said a mother with two daughters blew herself up at one church, while the father and two sons attacked the other two. theresa may has insisted she can be trusted to deliver the brexit people voted for, amid continuing cabinet divisions over new customs arrangements with the eu. in an article for the sunday times, the prime minister says she will ensure the uk takes back control of its borders, money and laws, and promises voters, "i will not let you down". but she also acknowledges there will have to be compromises. the environment secretary, michael gove, has said the idea of a customs partnership with the eu

after brexit is "flawed", because it would require britain to act as a "tax collector" on behalf of the eu. in the past few hours, french police have detained a friend of the chechnya—born man who stabbed and killed a bystander in paris last night. he was arrested in strasbourg. the attacker has been named by french media as 21—year—old khamzat azimov, a french national born in chechnya, who was on an anti—terror watchlist. he reportedly killed a 29—year—old man and wounded four other people in the busy opera district before being shot dead by officers. janey mitchell reports. it should have been a pleasant weekend night out in a popular part of paris. instead, a victim lies stabbed in the street. eyewitnesses reported scenes of panic as the attacker lashed out with a blade. police flooded the area near the opera house and witnesses

say officers first tried to taser the suspect and then fired two shots. the attacker came around the corner of the street with blood on his hands, holding a box cutter, very aggressive, came with his arms open, with an angry gesture, came straight at the policemen. the policemen were shouting for him to put his arms down, "drop your weapon". they tasered him twice. he managed to sort of isolate one of the policemen, i suppose, as the policemen were trying to encircle him and one of them ended up between the car and the street and ended up getting pushed back a bit, and as the attacker went for him, i heard two shots. translation: according to witnesses, the attacker shouted "allahu akbar" when he attacked with a knife. given the aggressor's mode of operation, the paris anti—terrorism unit are investigating. in the southern russian part of

chechnya, but attained —— obtained nationality in 2010. his parents are 110w nationality in 2010. his parents are now being questioned. the islamic state group has now claimed responsibility, saying it was targeting countries of the coalition which fought against it in the middle east. translation: france is absolutely determined not to yield in any way to the threats issued by attackers. our response will be firm and clear. saying it was targeting countries of the coalition which fought over the past three years, a string ofjihadist attacks across france has claimed the lives of almost 250 people. as the investigation continues, the police will remain on high alert. dozens of rough sleepers from eu countries are to receive thousands of pounds in compensation after being illegally detained and deported. figures obtained by the bbc reveal that in the 12 months to may last year, almost 700 people were targeted,

despite some of them being able to prove that they were working. jon ironmonger has more. tomas lusas is from lithuania. for nine years, he has been living, working and paying taxes in england, but a low point in 2016 found him on the streets in west london. basically i was sleeping here... he was woken one morning by immigration officers, and quickly bundled into a van to be deported. it is really hard to stand up after that, you know, because all of those handcuffs, all of this immigration thing, all of those officers who don't even want to help you, chat with you. tomas was detained for 19 days under a home office policy that the high court ruled in december was illegal and discriminatory. what was life like in a detention centre for you? jail. you don't know the end of the sentence. i didn't know i was

going to spend 19 days. he was later awarded £10,000 in damages, but others like him are now entitled to a pay—out. law firms tell us that the home office is in the process of settling at least 45 such claims. the true number is likely to be higher. figures obtained by the bbc reveal that, in the year to may 2017, nearly 700 homeless eea nationals were illegally detained. and removed. but rough sleepers were being targeted even if they were in work, the home office told us it had ceased all action on immigration but rough sleepers were being targeted even if they were in work, even if they had a permanent right of residence in the uk. eu law is very clear, and actually it is very robust. but what the policy was was a very flimsy attempts to misuse the law simply to meet immigration targets. the home office told us it had ceased all action on immigration status of eea citizens because of rough sleeping, and that claims for rough sleeping will be considered

on a case—by—case basis. tomas, meanwhile, has a new place to stay, and a second chance to make his home in the uk. joining us now from our brighton studio is matthew evans, director of the aire centre, a charity which raises awareness of european legal rights thank you forjoining us this sunday afternoon. were you involved in this case? yes, but also to the high court last year, which is the report indicated found that the rough sleeping policy, which the home office have pursued since 27 —— 2015, was unlawful and discriminatory. it was unlawful because rough sleeping could not constitute what is known as an abuse of eu law, it was his crematory because it only targeted eu rough

sleepers, and it was also unlawful under uk and eu law because it operated as a blanket policy in which rough sleepers were automatically detained and removed, irrespective of their individual circumstances. then how is it the uk government thought that they could apply the law in that way? i was very quickly looking at detention grounds, and it lists such that —— things such as public policy, a third public security, public health, personal conduct. in what way was public —— rough sledding a public offence? it was never deemed to be an offence, as you rightly pointed out. the uk government can't refuse entry to eu nationals where there is a current risk in relation to public policy and security —— security health. it can also deport a democrat eu nationals on the same grounds. it is also known to remove the eu nationals where there is

fraud in obtaining documentation allowing eu nationals into the country, or in marriages of inconvenience, adding certain circumstances, you nationals can be removed where they are deemed to be what is known as an unreasonable burden on the security system of the welfare state. what happened in relation to the policy evolving with the initially, rough sleeping was potentially a ground for removal, but that quickly morphed in various versions of the policy into rough sleeping per se being a distinct ground for removal. and as the previous report highlighted, it went from being what is known as an abuse of eu law, which is a defined concept under eu law, to a misuse, although the government accepted during the high courtjudgement that both terms were interrelated and interchangeable. housing campaigners, legal campaigners have long argued that the policy was

unlawful, and the european commission had also expressed a view that rough sleeping did not amount to abuse or warrant removal under eu law. i think the governmentjust ploughed on with their policy in the hope of removing as many eu nationals as possible prior to a distinct and separate legal challenge being brought into the courts. and that challenge eventually stopped that removal process. i understand they have reserved another £9 billion in terms of addressing homelessness. just in terms of the cases going through in terms of the cases going through in terms of the cases going through in terms of compensation, how many people are you representing, and how long you expect the process to take before they their compensation?” think one of the issues, this has had a significant affect on eu

policy. many nationals were detained for many months, a number of them lost jobs that they were doing whilst rough sleeping, and as your report suggests, many several hundred have been removed to countries where they may not have lived for very many year —— many yea rs. lived for very many year —— many years. i think one of the issues will be trying to ascertain how many of those eu nationals, lawyers may still be in contact with, but i would expect these compensation claims to be going along for quite some time, i would also expect the home office to be settling in majority of them for fairly significant compensation claims. matthew evans, director of the aire centre, thank you. a businessman who grew—up in a council house and was the son of a joiner, has topped this year's sunday times rich list. sirjim ratcliffe is worth an estimated 21—billion pounds. he founded the chemical firm ineos which runs the grangemouth refinery near falkirk.

he's the first british—born individual to top the list in 15 years. a little earlier, i spoke to our business correspondent joe lynam who gave us a little more insight into who sir jim ratcliffe is. he grew up in a council house in oldham and that he kind of transformed the chemical and refining business into a multi—billion pound operation in grangemouth in scotland. he is also a triathlete, even though he is in his 60s. he runs an ironman triathlon, so he is pretty fit. he is one of the people behind the daily mile, which if you are a parent of young children, you will be aware of, the idea of getting your kids off their backsides and to run a mile in the school yard every single day, and he is passionately anti—european union and passionately pro—fracking. he also is redesigning and redeveloping the famous

land rover defender, the iconic box shaped one from the 1960s and 1970s movies, redesigning it for the 21st century becausejlr, the owners of land rover, no longer want to produce the vehicle. interesting guy, continuing to do a lot of stuff and enjoying his wealth of 21 billion. very brave man, tampering with the defender, it has a very strong fan base. characteristic of this year's list is the old versus the new money. the sunday times rich list are making a big deal of the fact that it is quite clear that most of the people in the list created their own wealth rather than inherited it, which might have been the case when the list was first devised 30 years ago. sojim ratcliffe is a classic case of that. number two on the list, the gupta brothers, also kind of self—made billionaires. number three, a ukrainian guy. you get the sense the people on the list live or have

residences in the uk, they are not necessarily british, they may not be british for tax purposes either, but if they have a strong connection with the uk, they are on the top 1,000. very quickly, how does the diversity breakdown look? 8.6% is non—white ethnic minority. triple what it was 30 years ago but a small number. the highest—ranking woman on the list is the heineken heiress, in at sixth, worth a mere £11 billion. stars of the small screen are getting ready to find out whether they have won one of this year's bafta tv awards. from blue planet two to line of duty, and from saturday night takeaway to the crown, the best in british television is being celebrated tonight at the royal festival hall in london. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba is on the red carpet.

looking rather sharpen there! what should we be looking out for today? we are expecting to see a lot of people here from the netflix drama at the crown, expecting to see claire foy and vanessa kirby who play the queen and princess margaret. black mirror also has a few nominations, that comes from charlie brooker. interestingly five yea rs charlie brooker. interestingly five years ago, online broadcasters were not even eligible for the bathtubs, but five years later thanks to the huge budgets dummett they have become major players. but most of the awards are expected to go to line of duty. two of the stars are up line of duty. two of the stars are upfor line of duty. two of the stars are up for best actress and best supporting actor. do nominations go to set and i take away and britain's .com. a month after his

drink—driving, we are not expecting to see andrew parkwood. david attenborough, the face of 2017's most watched programme, blue planet too, is up for a couple of awards. jodi whitaker is up for best critique —— for best tv moment of the year. the highest award in actor can get is going to dictate at key. i think you need an award there for continuing to talk with that music behind you. well done, and we'll speak to you later. i've barely scratched the surface! thank you very much. a picture of the queen's official consent for prince harry's marriage to meghan markle has been released. the formal record is handwritten by one of the crown office's own artists, and signed "elizabeth r" by the queen. it will be presented to the couple after their wedding next weekend. and with less than a week to go until the royal wedding, some children at an american school

here in the uk are offering meghan markle advice on the best to adapt to life in britain. i have never seen a princess or a prince before. now i have. meghan markle comes from here, and she's moving to hear. a lesson in culture. in a moment, we'll bejoined by bbc one viewers for a full round up of the day's news with mishal husain, and at 5.45pm, it'll be time for meet the author. but now it's the weather with ben rich. for some of us it was a slow start this sunday, with some clout and outbreaks of rain, but most of us ending the day on a fine note, it certainly looked beautiful out there their weather was early on. plenty more fine weather to come through the week ahead, lots of dry weather,

spells of sunshine, it will feel warm. however the middle part of the week will bring something a bit cooler. satellite pictures show the strength of cloud, which brought some rain to the first part of the day, still somewhat weather across the far northeast of scotland to ta ke the far northeast of scotland to take us into the evening. but for the most part —— bar, we ended the day fine, and overnight we will see long and clear spells that allow it to get chilli. a countryside could have a bit of frost. certainly this lump of cloud in northern scotland by the end. this cloud world roll across western scotland, may be producing the odd spot of patchy rain, and this area of cloud infringing across east anglia and the southeast to produce the odd shower, feeling quite cool close to the coast. but in between, lots of sunshine to be had, and after that decidedly cool start, temperatures will climb nicely to 19—20d. high

pressure in charge of our weather story this week, but this frontal system will do a fly in the ointment on tuesday, clouds into western scotland, a band of rain quite like this and patchy. some misty and murky conditions around the coasts of the irish sea, but in lens we are expecting large amounts of sunshine around england and west of scotland. lifting temperatures up to 22—23d, but a bit cooler towards the northwest where we have that weather front and the patchy rain. now that frontal system will work its way south tuesday into wednesday. will build back end, the western —— whether we'll stayed mostly fine, bringing so much cooler air. no more signs of 23 degrees on wednesday, a very different feel to the weather. there will still be some spells of sunshine, but have a look at these temperature values at best between

12-16d. that's temperature values at best between 12—16d. that's all from me, bye for 110w. the former cabinet minister tessa jowell — who helped bring the olympics to london — has died. she campaigned for better treatments for brain cancer after being diagnosed a year ago — today, tony blair lead the tributes. her impact on politics was enormous. everything she touched she turned to gold in some way. attacks on three churches in indonesia kill at least 13 people — police say six members of the same family were responsible. theresa may says brexit supporters will get what they voted for — as another of her senior ministers publicly questions a key customs proposal. and it's farewell to the most famous coat in football asjohn motson hangs up his mike and sheepskin after 50 years. good evening.

tributes have been paid to tessa jowell — the veteran labour cabinet minister and peer — who has died after spending herfinal months campaigning for better treatments for brain cancer. she was 70 — and was diagnosed with a brain tumour a year ago. today, she was remembered for a long career in public service, including setting up sure start children's centres and helping to bring the olympics to london. nick robinson, who interviewed her during her illness, looks back on her life. tessa jowell knew she had just weeks to live. when she launched one last campaign to improve cancer care for all. i am not afraid. i feel very clear about my sense of purpose and what i want to do. and how do i know how

long it's going to last? baroness jowell. a public servant to the very last, dame a public servant to the very last, da m e tessa a public servant to the very last, dame tessa spoke to a packed tearful house of lords about how those with brain tumours like hers could be treated so much better. i hope that this debate will give hope to cancer patients like me. a friend and ally of tony blair, tessa, as she was referred to by most people in politics was popular even with those who didn't much like her boss. her impact on politics was enormous. she turned to gold in some way whether it was advancing equal pay for women starting sure start, which was an immense program for four —— for women starting sure start, which was an immense program for

children in our country and bringing the olympics to britain. and she did everything with the same passion determination verve ability and charm. when london won the contest to host the olympic games it was a personal victory for the woman who championed the bid from the very start. i am tessa jowell olympic minister. she oversaw the often troubled preparations for the games laying the foundations for a moment that brought the country together. without her i absolutely don't think we would have had a chance of winning the games nor deliver the games to that level. they were because she just demanded everything. tessa jowell never sought sympathy.

she did demand change — change to allow cancer patients to switch from one trial to the next. rather than waiting months — months she didn't have. there'll be people listening to you who think why don't you curl up on the sofa and be with your family and friends look after yourself? absolutely impossible. and you know i have so much love for my family my children and my close friends. brave and inspiring words often used of those whose lives are cut short by cancer. they're not nearly enough to describe her. in the end what gives life meaning is not only how it is lived but how it draws to a close. dame tessa jowell — who's died at the age of 70. at least 13 people have been killed and more than a0 injured in bomb attacks

on churches in indonesia. police say the attacks were carried out by six members of the same family — including four children — who blew themselves up at the 3 sites in the city of surabaya. our correspondent jonathan head reports. placing motorbikes mark the site of one of the three attacks, all suicide bombers, said indonesian police, and all from the same family, including a motherand police, and all from the same family, including a mother and two daughters aged nine and 12. a known islamic state media outlet claims it was the attack of its loyalists. the police believe the family had recently returned from fighting with is in syria. the president visited the site and called for indonesians to fight the scourge of extremism. translation: this morning we've ordered the police to track down the networks of the perpetrators at

source. we will not accept this type of cowardice. i'm calling on everybody to fight terrorism, which is against the values of all religions, and our values as a nation. indonesia is the world's most populous muslim nation. tracking and containing a dangerous radical fringe has been a challenge for its security forces for the past two decades. they've had many successes. but this attack by a single family isa but this attack by a single family is a reminder that with hundreds of indonesians returning from the war in syria, the threat is still a very real one. jonathan head, bbc news. ——jonathan head, bbc news. theresa may says people who voted to leave the eu will get the brexit they wanted — but that compromises will be needed on all sides. while the prime minister has reaffirmed her commitment to leaving the customs union, one of her senior ministers said

today he had doubts about one of the alternatives she favours — a customs partnership. our political correspondent chris mason reports. once again with her cabinet divided the prime minister is defending her approach to brexit, telling voters and her mps, in a sunday times article you can trust me to deliver. adding, on the most difficult issue, we will leave the customs union but acknowledging in the overall settlement there will have to be compromises. the prime minister has laid out a very very clear flight path for us. michael gove, who campaigned for brexit, sounding very diplomatic today but hang on a minute. while he wasn't quite as colourful as boris johnson, who described the option of a customs partnership with the eu as crazy, mr gove did say it was flawed. boris pointed out that because it's novel, because no model like this exists, there have to be significant question marks over the deliverability of it on time. more than that, what the new customs partnership requires the british government to do is in effect to act as the tax collector and very possibly the effective

delivery of regulation for the european union. the reason these technical arrangements matter is because all sides want to avoid the introduction of customs checks here at the border between northern ireland and the republic. to achieve this option one is the so—called customs partnership, option two is to rely on technology, but while plenty in the cabinet don't like the first idea the irish government doesn't like the second. we just simply think it won't work. the only way we can find a solution here that means that we have a fully seamless border with no physical infrastructure, or related checks and controls, is to maintain alignment in terms of rules and regulations on both sides of that border. labour is divided too over how to approach brexit but is committed to staying in a customs union, and says the government's approach is a shambles. we are in a farcical situation at the moment. nearly two years after the referendum the cabinet is fighting over two customs

options, neither of which, frankly, are workable, neither of which are acceptable to the eu. and if either of which were put to the vote in parliament they probably wouldn't carry a majority. the prime minister will discuss brexit with her most senior ministers on tuesday as she tries to find a solution that her cabinet, parliament, and the eu can accept. chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. dozens of eu nationals are suing the government for damages amounting to hundreds of thousands of pounds, after they were illegally detained and deported for sleeping rough. two years ago the home office began systematically removing european nationals sleeping rough in this country, despite many having the right to be in the uk and being in work. the high court ruled last year that the policy was illegal. two british tourists who were taken hostage in a gorilla sanctuary in the democratic republic of congo have been released. they were kidnapped by gunmen in virunga national park on friday. a female park ranger was shot dead and a driver was injured.

police in paris say a 21—year—old man who killed one person and injured several others in a knife attack last night was on a list of people thought to be a threat to national security. so called islamic state has claimed responsibility for the attack — police say the man is a french citizen born in chechnya. the best of british television is heading to london's royal festival hall for this year's bafta tv awards. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba is on the red carpet now. lizo, talks us through some of tonight's favourites. we are expecting to see claire foy and vanessa kirby, the stars of the crown, which is netflix. black mirror also has a good hope. they

have become huge players at ceremonies like this around the world. line of duty also get a nomination, starring adrian dunbar and tandy newton for best actress and tandy newton for best actress and best supporting actor. declan donnelly arrived not long ago. we are not expecting to see and mcpartlin. we shall see sir david attenborough, the face of the most watched tv programme this year, and the most prestigious honour, the fellowship, goes to a face very well known to most of us, the bbc journalist kate adie. thanks very much. with all the sport, here's lizzie greenwood—hughes at the bbc sport centre. thanks very much, mishal. good evening. manchester city are being hailed as the greatest side in premier league history after becoming the first team to reach 100 points. they finished on a high — as the final day of the season

produced plenty of entertainment. as well as an emotional goodbye for arsene wenger. our correspondent david ornstein reports. after nine months and 380 games one tea m after nine months and 380 games one team stood head and shoulders above the rest. pep guardiola's manchester city, champions of england, a celebratory end to a record—breaking season. celebratory end to a record—breaking season. jesus lobbing a stoppage time winner at southampton. city became the first side in premier league history to amass 100 points. with manchester united and tottenham guaranteed a four finish, the remaining champions league place came down to the final day and it was taken in style by liverpool. player of the year mo salah again among the scorers to cap an incredible campaign with his 32nd goal and the golden boot. that meant chelsea would have too subtle for europa league football next term, heavily beaten at newcastle,

speculation will inevitably focus on antonio conte's future. the blues do still have the fa cup final to come, though. swansea were all but relegated after a ball was kicked, needing a sporting miracle to survive it didn't arrive. they joined stoke city as well as west brom in dropping down to the championship. the afternoon also marked the end of arsene wenger‘s 22 year reign as arsenal manager. given a reception at huddersfield fitting of his letter status. arsene wenger oversaw one last victory to make it a fond farewell. here at huddersfield there was a party atmosphere. survival secured against all of the odds, it was time to celebrate as the arsenal fans saluted arsene wenger for one last time. there were also wins for bournemouth, crystal palace, manchester united, west ham, and totte n ha m manchester united, west ham, and tottenham who edged leicester in a nine goal thriller at wembley, a spectacular way to bring the curtain down on the 2017, 2018 season, and it all gets going again on the 11th

of august. thanks very much. it wasn't just the end of the season forjohn motson — but the end of an era as he hung—up his microphone at crystal palace today. for half a century motty has been the voice of bbc football, commentating on more than 2000 games including ten world cups. known for his humour and famous sheepskin coat, he delivered some of the most memorable lines in the sport's history. and there it is. the crazy gang have beaten the culture club. so many people were unexpectedly coming up to me and saying all the best. so many people this morning where texting me i thought it was my first match, not my last. are you nervous? and all of that. 47 years later i couldn't believe it! celtic finally got their hands on the scottish premiership trophy — two weeks after winning their seventh title in a row. but their league season ended in defeat to aberdeen who secured second place in the table. celtic are still on for an historic — double — treble.

rangers finish third — after drawing at hibernian in a ten goal thriller. jamie mclaren scoring an injury—time equalizer for hibs for his hat—trick. lewis hamilton extended his lead in f1 to 17 points after a comfortable victory in the spanish grand prix. starting from pole, he avoided the first lap carnage. and was in a class of his own in barcelona. finishing more than 20 seconds ahead of team mate valterri bottas, while his title rival sebastien vettel was fourth. british cyclist simon yates won the gruelling ninth stage in the giro d'italia. doubling his overall lead to 32 seconds in the grand tour. chris froome continues to struggle, he's more than two minutes behind. there are 12 stages left. there's more on the bbc sport website but from me for now, back to you, mishal. by this time next week, prince harry and meghan markle will be married after a wedding ceremony that will include an address from the most senior african american bishop in the us episcopal church. meghan markle herself is mixed race — her mother doria is african american — and her heritage has been the source of much comment even before the engagement. colleen harris has been exploring how some in britain's black community view the newest addition

to the royal household. two cultures uniting the royal family in modern britain. this was a moment that captivated the world and some corners of the internet. mock videos appeared online celebrating the news and meghan‘s heritage. i've come to coventry, my home city, and the birthplace of two—tone music, which promoted a black and white unite stance during the 80s. one of its leading faces was pauline black from the selecta. well i'm certainly not a royalist. i think the monarchy is outmoded, outdated. and has a colonial past. and here is a young black woman who's about to marry into the royal family. how she will change it, i don't know, but i think that she will probably be given a fairly difficult ride, and she might find that she's bitten off a little bit more than she can chew.

i hope not. so why does meghan‘s ethnicity resonate with some black britons? i don't know. i think that is her real hair. do you think so? yeah. this was the first afro—caribbean hair salon in coventry. and here meghan is a fascination for the clients. it's nice to see the royal family accepting someone of black heritage into the family. do i think that it changes the face of them, and makes people from outside of england think differently? yes, i do. i actually like the monarchy. i think they're very good for the country and i think with meghan coming into the royal family, i think it'sjust a reflection of society. it's nice to see her dress and how the hair is going to be. i'm sorry she didn't call on me to do her hair, you know? tv announcer: thousands ofjamaicans give a warm welcome to her majesty the queen. the relationship between britain and the commonwealth is a complex one. jamaica, which gained independence in 1962,

is one of several islands that's flirted with the idea of removing the queen as head of state — severing its colonial ties for good. so does meghan markle's presence in the monarchy today represent significant change? for someone like me growing up, had there been someone like her in the royal family at that level it would have changed my relationship with britishness, and made it that much easierfor me to understand that i can be black and british. and that the two things are not fundamentally in conflict. for some people harry and meghan‘s marriage is not simply challenging royal tradition — it's a love story reflecting a more modern british society. colleen harris bbc news. there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel, we are back with the late news. when you call a book ordinary people, you might be tempted to wonder why we'd want to read about them. but diana evans takes two families who do live ordinary lives and invests them with endless interest — in their race, their class, their midlife

worries and weariness, their love lives and their hopes. this is london early in the 21st century, how people live now, a book about what makes them all much more than ordinary. welcome. it is interesting, i think readers will find it interesting, that you find ordinary lives, as they're lived every day, more intriguing and more the stuff of a novelist‘s trade than melodrama. yes, what i'm trying to do with this book is to present an accurate picture of the kind of ordinary british lives that i know. it's not necessarily huge dramatic moments, or a storyline in this book.

it's more about the quieter but very piercing inner moments in people's lives. it's more about human psychology. there are piercing moments. there are two families that become entangled for reasons that everyone will be familiar with. the boredom of a midlife marriage, all that kind of thing. you're also going into questions of race, which many of your readers won't be familiar with. they won't think that is an ordinary life. and you're taking them into lives which they won't know day in, day out. yes, exactly, that's exactly what i'm trying to do. i think theme of race has been connected in a very direct way to black writers. i don't think there has been enough visibility of black lives and characters in their ordinariness. i think there's been this mass

dehumanisation of black lives through things like the legacy of slavery and the continuing realities of racism and mainstream representations of blackness in the media. what i'm trying to do is draw attention to the ordinariness, to reclaim that ordinariness. we cover the reality of lives that most black people live in one form or another. in this case in a fairly sort of middle—class kind of way — setting. that's the milieu you have chosen. yes, of course, i mean, the black middle class is something that some people don't even know exists. i think we've never really seen it in fiction. i'm very influenced by the writer john updike, who presents a picture of middle america in middle life, and that's exactly what i'm trying to do, but what is new about this is that i'm expressing it from a black perspective and that hasn't really been done before.

very much so, because you open the book with a party that is being held to celebrate obama's election in november 2008. so the motif with which the book opens is one of celebration about that particular moment. it was a huge moment, it was universal and there was this element of real celebration and i wanted to capture that. i wanted to be able to, many years from then, to be able to open a book and remember what that felt like. it was also a dichotomous moment, because there was this darker aspect to it. london was in a moment of crisis. knife crime statistics were very high. we had also just entered a recession, so even though it was a very celebratory moment, it was also anti—climatic, so i was trying to capture both sides of that. there is a sense, which is strong in the book, that after a high

like that, as far as the characters in the book are concerned, anyway, there is bound to be inevitably, because life is life, disappointment. and, you know, a retreat from the mountaintop. yes, of course. the couples go through various smaller crisis points in their own lives but i think essentially it's quite hopeful book. it is hopeful because they are not bad people. there is no sense of creeping evil, or great mischief making or wickedness in the book. no. i think they're ordinary people trying to cope with points in their lives where they feel like they're losing a sense of self, and that's what i do in all of my books, really. my first book was about the loss of a twin, what happens beyond that loss. the second book was about the loss of the dancing body in a dancer's life. what happens beyond, and in this book it's ordinary people wondering what happens to them beyond the massive changes of parenthood and marriage.

one of the couples at the centre of the story is, i suppose, a classic suburban couple. it is part of suburbia, a very sort of common idea of how life is lived — going off to work in the morning, coming home on the same train or tube. a lot of people might look at it and think, oh, my goodness, am i going to get interested in this, am i going to get drawn into...? what is it, do you think, that draws people into a story like this, what do you have to do as a writer to make it sing? it's all about the characters. you have to inhabit your characters as the writer. their good aspects and their bad points. you have to present characters who are immediate. also description and language is important to me. i appreciate writing that shows an interest in language, in the potential of sentences.

i think when you bring those two together — character and language and description — you can create so much drama. you've got a kind of soundtrack running through the book. we can hear songs. it's a neat device, isn't it? yes, the title is taken from a john legend song, from his album get lifted. music is a big part of my life and it's very important to me. it's a big part of the characters' lives. i was trying to do something beyond literature, to bring in this other dimension. i'm always trying to do something a little bit different to push the boundaries of sentences a bit more. you talked about how you are trying to present a picture of london, really, or how lives are lived in london. at this juncture in our story, our national story, what is your view of the state of london? people moan about house prices,

busyness and dirty air and all the rest of it. what is it you feel about the place you're trying to capture? i'm a londoner. i've lived in london all my life. it's such a rich and fascinating, wonderful place. it's so full of stories and history and beauty, but there's also another side to it that is quite ugly. it's a very difficult place to live. it's increasingly difficult — financially, socially. yet there is this desire in londoners to remain in london and there is this sense of this is our home. you say this story of ordinary lives, ordinary people and their lives, is a hopeful story, why? it is a hopeful story, because it's about the endurance of the human spirit and about the insistence on the human spirit to claim life and to claim a sense of fulfilment.

so i'm trying to celebrate that in the book, as well, at the same time as acknowledging that it's difficult. diana evans, author of ordinary people, thank you very much. thank you. sunday started raining places, particularly towards the east and north of the uk, but foremost we are ending the day with sunnis guys. they translate into clear skies overnight, that will allow it to turn chilly. towns and cities down around three or four celsius. could get to freezing in the countryside. a touch of frost here and there. extra cloud in the far south—east

and also into northern ireland and the west of scotland by the end of the west of scotland by the end of the night. these two areas of cloud will try to close in across the country doing tomorrow, so quite grey and cool around the coastal east anglia and the south—east. a lot of cloud into northern ireland and scotland, producing rain. in between some decent spells of sunshine. a fairly chilly start by para meters sunshine. a fairly chilly start by parameters will climb to 19 or maybe 20 celsius. attempt is climbing further on tuesday, could get 23, looking mostly dry with some sunshine. coolerfor the looking mostly dry with some sunshine. cooler for the middle looking mostly dry with some sunshine. coolerfor the middle part of the week. this is bbc news.

i'm lukwesa burak, the headlines at 6pm. tributes pour in for dame tessa jowell, who played a major role in securing the 2012 london olympics, who's died aged 70. she did everything the same passion, determination and charm. she was a unique politician, but also a dear friend. two british tourists abducted by armed militia in the democratic republic of congo on friday have been released. indonesian police say a mother and father and their children carried out three church bombings that killed at least 13 people. theresa may says people who voted to leave the eu will get the brexit they want, but compromises will be needed on all sides. also in the next hour: the industrialist,

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