touch one or two spots could get a touch of frost and fog patches and also slightly chilly across the east scotland. elsewhere, we start chilly with. as scotland. elsewhere, we start chilly as an incentive to be found across southern areas as an incentive to be found across southern areas once we as an incentive to be found across southern areas once we clear any early fog and also in northeast england, north east scotland seeing some sunshine today. temperatures, not bad at all for the time of year. nine, ten, 11 degrees. another quiet day to come on friday. we could see some rain in the north on saturday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm ben croucher. your headlines this evening... a boxing day bonanza at anfield — as liverpool stretch their premier league lead. celtic are moving clear in the scottish premiership too — edging a seven goal thriller at aberdeen. and reigning supreme in the king george. clan des obeaux takes the big race at kempton. good evening to you.

we'll start at the top of the premier league where liverpool are still leading the way but the gap to the rest has grown larger still they won and manchester city lost again. what a week it's been forjurgen klopp and his team. they dismantled newcastle 4—0 at anfield. this time last week they were just a point clear. now that's been extended to six points as they remained unbeaten. their next couple of games mean jurgen klopp isn't getting the party poppers out just yet. we play man city still in eight days or in a week. so if i would be man city, i would think there was only four. because we have to play them and before we play that game, we play against arsenal. so that means absolutely nothing. the only thing that is important to us is the performance, the level of performance, which we obviously can keep in the moment. we have to keep it. that is how it is. and for the moment,

it is obviously good. but that's all. manchester city lost... again. beaten 2—1 at leicester city. twice in five days they've taken the lead and come away with nothing. they're seven points behind liverpool and point now behind spurs. tottenham climbing up to second — continuing their best start to a premier league season. a fab 5—0 win over bournemouth. a fifth straight league win. harry kane, christian eriksen, lucas moira and son hueng min on target at wembley. spurs six points behind liverpool. arsenal have lost ground on the top four. they took an early lead against brighton but couldn't hold onto it as austin halewood explains. still in full festive spirit, it was a boxing day trip to the seaside for arsenal fans. their team knowing they could end the day inside the top four. since the arrival of unai emery, the gunners have started to fire once again. a new—found confidence surging through the team. it's a fact clear to see. pierre—emerick aubameyang looking for a little magic.

only the fingertips of matt ryan enough to keep him out. but with 12 goals already this season, you cannot give him too many chances. just three minutes later, he had already made amends. but for all of their attacking prowess, this arsenal side has issues at the back. a simple long ball all it unlock their defence. an equaliser all too simple, all too easy. and from then on, it was a different game. brighton, the team on the front foot looking more likely to score. arsenal have been the premier league's comeback kings this season, but after starting with a bang, in the end, the gunners will count themselves lucky to come back with a point. austin halewood, bbc news. chelsea started the day level with the gunners but are now two points clear after beating watford 2—1. eden hazard's 100th premier league goal gave them the lead before

roberto peryrera equalised a couple of minutes later — a bit reminiscant of paul scholes that strike. watford had a strong penalty shout denied in the second half before hazard won it from the spot. that's the top taken care of. at the bottom, fulham hauled themselves off the foot of the premier league, but will be left rueing a late wolves equaliser in the lunchtime game. jo currie watched this for us. if anyone can do with a christmas miracle its fulham. bottom of the table and without a premier league win six november, their home match against a spirited wolves side was the perfect opportunity to resurrect their season. and when you're struggling you can always do with a little bit of luck. that is what fulham got as referee andre marriner failed to spot this handball from dennis. at the other end angst of tamara cohen quite their way. alexandra going close, does not close enough. as half—time approached, festive spirits seem to

be in short supply at craven cottage when this tackle i calum chambers only received a yellow card and got tempers flare. after the break fulham refocus their fighting spirit. does it pay off. ryan finally finishing off this scrappy goal which replaced show clearly ross dewar. the home fansjoined we re ross dewar. the home fansjoined were short—lived. wolves were level with five minutes remaining. still time to almost win it not from this last ditched lunch. as they would have to settle for a point even though they deserved —— they felt they deserved all three. three other games to catch you up on. burnley remain in the bottom three, shipping five at home to everton. crystal palace and cardiff was goalless. ole gunnar solskjaer‘s first home game as manchester united caretaker boss ended in a 3—1 win over huddersfield — who slip to the bottom of the table. catch all the goals on match of the day on bbc one now. there was also a full programme of matches

in the scottish premiership — it was quite a game at pittodrie with leaders celtic beating aberdeen 4—3. scott sinclair scoring a hat—trick — this was his second to give brendan rodgers side a 2—1 lead with fifteen minutes to go. the home side levelled to make it 2—2 from the spot thanks to sam cosgrove — that was to be first of four goals in seven minutes. celtic retook the lead before sinclair got his third to make the points safe. lewis ferguson's late consolation wasn't enough for aberdeen — who drop to fourth. well that result extends celtic‘s lead at the top of the table. that's because second placed rangers could only 1—1 with hibs. there were also wins today for saintjohnstone, hearts and kilmarnock. leeds united scored twice in injury time to beat blackburn 3—2 and stay top of the championship — and move three points ahead of norwich who were held by nottingham forest. sheffield united jumped above derby county and up to fourth with a 3—1 win at bramall lane.

david mcgoldrick‘s clever lop and leon clarke's late strike. manager chris wilder said the performance showed everybody what the blades are all about. there were also wins for birmingham and bolton. sheffield wednesday and millwall were both one—nil winners. confirmation too of norwich's draw with forest. 3 goals in the last 13 minutes at carrow road. also wins today for hull city, qpr, aston villa and west brom. clan des obeaux was the winner of the big boxing day race at kempton park — the king george the sixth chase. another success in the race for trainer paul nicholls as our racing correspondent cornelius lysaght reports. paul nicholls won his tenth staging of the king george is the sixth chase, jumped to midseason championship in 20 years. the horse partly owned by sir alex ferguson. this follows success five times. two

each for seymour business. the horse was moving best throughout the closing stages of the race, but the jockey was only 20 was as cool as you can imagine, holding on and not really committing the horse until the last fence when given away... bob mickelson was champion trainer for most of the early years of the century —— paul mickle. he has lost the title in recent years. he has talked often about rebuilding his team. with forces like this, will probably be at the cheltenham gold cup, you can see that happening. of the others it turned out to be a dramatic race. the favour was last of the seven finishers. waiting patiently who had been lowering before the race was brought down at the knife. less than an hour to go before the start of the second day in melbourne with india looking to drive home their advantage in the third test against australia. after dropping both openers — hanuma vihari nearly an hour

and a half forjust eight. debutant mayank argarwal made an impressive 76 before becomingt pat cummins second victim. chestwar pujara and second test virat kohli will return to the crease shortly with india 215 for 2. the series is tied a 1—1. and finally.... gianluigi buffon is getting on a bit. not quite got the grey hair and beard yet so he had a little help when surprising a group of school children dressed as... you guessed it — let's see what happened when a footballing legend surprised a group of school children by dressing up as who else but santa claus. the paris st germain goalie had a rather low budget transformation — complete with big belly. he was laterjoined by teammates angel di maria and thiago silva to spread some festive cheer for the youngsters — who seemed blissfully unaware at the great man standing before them. buffon that is. a joyeux noel for them. that's all from sportsday.

coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentator, jo phillips, and nigel nelson, who's the political editor of the sunday mirror, and sunday people. welcome to you both and thank you very much for being with us. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the financial times says retailers had little reason for cheer on boxing day, as the christmas sales season got off to a disappointing start.

the telegraph says schools and parents are being urged to play their part in helping to preserve the environment — as the government is to double the 5p charge for plastic bags to 10p. the daily mail reports that almost half of nhs hospitals in england have put up car parking fees, despite the government pledging to crackdown on charges. the same story is covered in the mirror, which has campaigned on the issue. it says that some hospitals have even doubled their parking prices. the guardian claims that parents are abandoning attempts to maintain contact with their children, because of deep cuts to legal aid which, it says, have caused disarray in family courts. and the times carries a warning from the defence secretary, gavin williamson, who is concerned about the apparent threat of spying from chinese telecoms giant huawei ahead of a 5g roll—out in the uk. the company strongly rejects any suggestion that it is a secuirty threat. so, a varied set of front pages — let's see what our reviewers make of it all.

let's start with the telegraph. it lasted in a few of the front pages. don't wrap your child's syllogism plastic. that is one message. but also the charge for plastic bags in shops going up. from five feet to tempe, notjust shops going up. from five feet to tempe, not just the shops going up. from five feet to tempe, notjust the supermarkets but all stops. three strands here, really. three grams of plastic. first of all we have damian hinds the education secretary, talking about that at stopping children's syllogism in the lunchbox being wrapped up in cling film. this is not something he is legislating for. he'sjust saying that not something he is legislating for. he's just saying that we shouldn't do it. then we get the next age which is michael gove, where he will legislate which is to put the plastic bag charge up from 5p and double it to tempe. also the third

strands is to extend that to all stops. so 253,000 shops let the moment do not charge for plastic bags will charge for them. i have always been against this. not that i ama always been against this. not that i am a bit —— against the back charge, but it simply does seem to me to be too easy a target. if michael gove was doing something about apples wrapped up like they are in space suits and cucumbers and plastic, which seems ridiculous to me, they don't to tackle the things in the supermarket that the supermarkets don't want them to tackle. so charging five before a plastic bag ortempe is charging five before a plastic bag or tempe is just too easy. charging five before a plastic bag or tempe isjust too easy. so charging five before a plastic bag or tempe is just too easy. so what would you be more concerned about? packaging of food? packaging of food in supermarkets and especially fruit and vegetables which could be sold loose. and the supermarkets do it to make their food more attractive. and michael gove has done nothing to

force them to do something about that. doesn't come down to consumers as well? that is up to the consumers. but at the moment i have i'io consumers. but at the moment i have no choice because it is to be legislative for, to go to the plastic badge. you could get your fruit and veg in a paperback. plastic badge. you could get your fruit and veg in a paperbacklj don't fruit and veg in a paperback.” don't have any fruit and veg that i could actually... stop making excuses. laughter another paper is suggesting that the public‘s use of plastic bags has fallen by a decent person. astonishing. 86% in three years. fallen by a decent person. astonishing. 86% in three yearsm was the beginning of it. of people did not want it for the reasons are that michael has just said. they didn't want the nanny state interference. max lee astound people thinking, oh, idon‘t interference. max lee astound people thinking, oh, i don't need a back and then the next thing sure, you encourage people to buy things in brown paper bags or paper bags or ta ke brown paper bags or paper bags or take their bags and by their vegetables. there are more and more places where you can do it or you

can buy dry goods lose as well. surely you can do both. could you put up the price of plastic carrier bags but also try and stop the supermarkets packaging and all their food? this is my point. why is that not being done? what is the government have to legislate?