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it won't be quite as warm. we will see temperatures perhaps peaking at around 22 degrees, always a risk of a bit cooler and fresher, particularly on exposed coasts. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, that is when the real change is set to arrive, with this area of low pressure gathering out in the atlantic. and this weather front will bring some rain into the south—west, to start off with. first thing on wednesday morning, there will be some heavy rain across cornwall, across parts of south wales and stretching up across that south coast. so, as we go through the morning, that rain will continue to drift its way steadily northwards. we will see the potential for some thundery downpours across the midlands and into the north of england. it should stay dry throughout the day across parts of scotland. here, temperatures peaking at around 18 degrees, but a noticeable difference with the feel of the weather, particularly once that front goes through.
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it will clear and dry up but only highs of around 13—15d. and the wind direction will change, driving in this moist air off the atlantic and cooler air with it as well. so it stays showery for the end of the week and into the weekend and, more importantly, noticeably cooler for all.
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hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm gavin ramjaun. chelsea miss the chance to go third in the premier league. they're held to a 2—2 draw at home to burnley. could a shock be on the cards at the world snooker championships? the amateurjames cahill leads world number one ronnie o'sullivan. and it's been a busy day of rugby league action. we'll round up all the details, including castleford's loss to catala ns. let's start at stamford bridge, where there've been plenty of goals between chelsea and burnley.
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chelsea were hoping to climb to third with a win. austin halewood has been across the action for us. talk us through the match and what happened. a mixed night for chelsea, started pretty badly for them, but they are fourth in the league however they have missed the opportunity to go third. it will be seen as a disappointing result to be held to 2- disappointing result to be held to 2— to draw to burnley. it got off to the worst start for chelsea. look at this. seven minutes in, what a strike from jeff hendrick to give burnley a 1—0 lead inside the opening ten minutes. who did chelsea look to? eden hazard of course. then in goal in
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it looked like they would go on to win it but a few minutes later, a crazy first 2a minutes of the game, ashley barnes was given too much space and chelsea's defending let them down. it finished 2—2. a dramatic first 2a minutes from the rest of the match didn't live up to it. disappointing for chelsea, missing the opportunity to go third. where does that leave chelsea? they are fourth which obviously they have cracked into the top for mac but with arsenal, manchester united and tottenham all losing this weekend, it was a big chance for chelsea to move third and stake a claim for one of those champions league spots. they will be disappointed. they will have wanted to get into third spot. however, they are still in the europa league and they are fourth at the moment but they have played one game more
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than everyone else around them. they are in the semifinals of the europa league. they play frankfurt. if they win that competition, arsenal in the other half of the draw, chelsea would seal a spot. norwich city will have to postpone their premier league promotion party. they could only manage a 2—2 draw at stoke this afternoon. the canaries needed a win to guarantee top flight next season and had to hope that other results went their way. sheffield united are nowjust three points behind norwich after a 3—0 win at hull. meanwhile leeds united's hopes of automatic promotion have taken a blow this evening after they lost 2—0 away at brentford. neal maupay scored the opener in the first half. before sergi canos bundled their second home. leeds stay in third, three points behiond second—placed sheffield united. elsewhere, play—off—chasing middlesbrough and bristol city both
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lost away from home. it means derby are now into the play—off places after two late goals against qpr. towards the bottom, rotherham and millwall are still in big danger of the drop — they both lost. aston villa's win over millwall was their 10th in a row, breaking a record more than a century old. reading should be safe now, they drew with west brom. so here's the top of the championship. norwich still out in front, but they'll have to wait for another chance to secure promotion. they're three points ahead of sheffield united, after the blades‘ win today. leeds are three points further back in third, after that loss at brentford. derby sneak into the play—off places after their late win against qpr. at the bottom it looks as though millwall and rotherham are the two sides most in danger of the drop. they both lost today. millwall though have three points more than rotherham and a game in hand. reading picked up a valuable point at home to west brom. bolton and ipswich are both already down. there's a shock in the making at the world snooker
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championship in sheffield. 23—year—old amateurjames cahill leads ronnie o'sullivan 5—4 in their first round match. cahill is the first amateur to qualify for the event and gave an early signal of his intention as he took the first frame. the world number one fought back but has looked as if his mind is elsewhere at times and has made plenty of mistakes. cahill has created plenty of opportunities and already appears to feel at home in the crucible. he'll return to the table tomorrow with a 5 frames to 4 lead in a best of 19 contest. four—times champion john higgins was made to work hard before finally coming through 10 frames to 7 against england's mark davis. higgins is looking to make it third time lucky after losing the last two finals at the crucible. such a tough game to play mark, and he didn't play great, he let me off
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the hook a few times. i felt the pressure near the end. but great for me because i haven't beaten him in a while so it was good. shaun murphy has completed only the second whitewash at the world snooker championship. the 2005 champion resumed this morning 9—nil up against chinese debutant luo honghao, and rattled off the first frame, to breeze through to the second round. murphy will face another former champ neil robertson in the last 16. snooker is a funny little game. really you can only really concentrate on yourself. i can only work on what i'm doing, worry about my game. if i make the most of the chances that come my way, i won't sit in my seat for 13 frames. i will get chances. if i make the most of them it could be a classic. mark selby has won and is through to the next round.
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in rugby league's super league, leaders st helens ran in 11 tries to hammer hull fc 62 points to 16. adam swift and kevin naiqama scored a hat—trick of tries each. saints are still four points clear of warrington who also had a big win — 511—6 at hull kingston rovers. elsewhere there were wins for huddersfield giants. the beat london broncos. the champions wigan warriors, edged out salford. and wakefield trinity, who beat bottom club leeds. meanwhile castleford tigers slumped to a heavy defeat in the south of france. catalans dragons ran in six tries, as they cruised to 37 points to 16 win. sam tomkins with one of them. that defeat means castleford slip down to fourth behind wakefield. catalans are sixth. boxer kash ali has been given a six—month ban and fined £10,000 for biting david price during their all—british heavyweight fight. ali had his boxing licence suspended and his fight purse withdrawn, after being disqualified in the fifth round of the bout in liverpool last month. he apologised after the fight, saying his behaviour was not a "true
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reflection of who i am". british cyclist teo geoghegan hart has won the first stage of his pro tour career, on the opening day of the tour of the alps. the team sky rider was front and centre of a select group into kufstein. he timed his sprint perfectly on the narrow streets to beat his teammate chris froome, who finished 6th. trainer willie mullins claimed a first irish grand national victory as burrows saint took the win at fairyhouse. the 6—1 shot favourite, ridden byjockey ruby walsh, led at the final fence and had enough to hold off two of mullins‘ other horses in isle—of—hope—n—dreams and acapella bourgeois. mullins‘ historic win comes just a month after winning his first cheltenham gold cup. great britain are celebrating promotion to the fed cup world group for the first time in 26 years after beating kazakhstan. as it stands they‘lljoin the eight—team second tier
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of the world‘s elite, although proposed changes to the competition structure could see them play the very top teams. a former british number one thinks that they will be able to compete. when players sometimes put their home country‘s tracksuit on it brings out different passion, different levels of performance. anything can happen. i think with both konta and boulter, it is a strong team. we have someone injo konta who has beaten some of the strongest champions. she‘s beaten 0sa ka. she‘s beaten kerber, who won wimbledon last year. she‘s beaten venus williams. she‘s beaten wozniacki, who won the australian open. you know, all of the players she has beaten out on the tour, she has enormous self belief. i think this team is very, very strong and i think every time they step out onto court against anybody, i think they probably feel they have a great chance of winning. that‘s all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers.
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hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and journalist rachel shabi and the conservative commentator tim montgomerie. many of tomorrow‘s front pages are already in. the metro leads with the latest from sri lanka after it emerged that opportunities had been missed to prevent terror bombings which left 290 people dead. the guardian has the same story, reporting that sri lankan authorities received warnings over the blasts two weeks ago. the financial times has an image of people weeping over the coffin of a relative killed
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in the terror attacks. however it leads on the news that barclays is cracking down on the pay of its investment bankers as it steps up its defence against activist investor edward bramson, who has amassed a 5.5% stake in the bank. non—disclosure agreements that silence whistle—blowers are to be banned by the nhs, that‘s according to the telegraph, which also features an image of prince louis who will celebrate his first birthday tomorrow. the i writes that tory mps are finalising plans to block borisjohnson from a final leadership ballot, despite the former foreign secretary being a favourite among party members. the daily mail features a story from it‘s investigations unit which says that some of britain‘s biggest supermarkets are filming shoppers, then using the footage to "manipulate" their emotions with the goal of making them spend more.
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take us to the front of the guardian and its coverage of events in sri lanka. even as sri lanka and the world is still reeling from these terrible attacks on easter sunday in which now 290 people have been killed, the accusations are coming out over what the authorities did and did not know about these attackers. it turns out that they knew a fair bit about these attackers. they received warnings before the easter sunday attack about these people, according to the guardian, on the 9th of april the chief of national intelligence issued a letter in which some of the names of these attackers were cited. the new york times reports that at
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some stage in told sri lankan authorities that this terror group was potentially planning an attack ona was potentially planning an attack on a church. so obviously this will cause huge upset and anger amongst the population already heartbroken and devastated from this attack, just the thought it might have been prevented is going to be incredibly painful. these terrible attacks happened close to the ten year anniversary of the civil war and you would have thought this would be a time when the authorities would have been extra vigilant for this kind of warning and risk. perhaps they did not expect it from the alleged source, the perpetrators of the attack. still this will be a huge issue. just as everyone remembered after 9/11, it was the lack of cooperation between the fbi and cia
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that meant that warnings were not heeded. yet again, the intelligence authorities have seemingly not done their job authorities have seemingly not done theirjob and the loss of life is heartbreaking. what is striking is that sitting in this seat as i was last night, expert commentators all said it came out of the blue and the implication is perhaps it did not. write that quite a lot of the potential attackers had been on a watch list for some time. their behaviour was being monitored. also it seems that they could not have acted alone. this is an incredibly coordinated attack, eight attacks in one day. the theory is that this would not have been possible without some kind of international involvement from outside although it
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is not clear from where it might have been. the intelligence authorities always say it is difficult to control for a lone terrorist but this would have required a lot of coordination and communication and when either intelligence authority misses it or has information and does not act on it, this will cause huge ructions in a society which thought it had got the better of terrorism. coordination within and without sri la nka coordination within and without sri lanka which spreads the net further. i wonder how newspapers decide on the image they used to convey the story. the guardian has gone with this image of groups of people distraught because another bomb had gone off, albeit one involved in some sort of defusing of another potentially dangerous piece of
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equipment. it is difficult for papers to pick an image to tell the story. i think the guardian has done really well with this image. just because obviously the terror that would invoke in a community already terrorised and just that image of this tiny baby as well. it really ca ptu res this tiny baby as well. it really captures the preciousness of life and how terrifying it must be to be there right now. well done, the guardian, the express and the mirror with human angles. what strikes me as this is one of the worst terrorist incidents of its kind for some time and it is part of a growing pattern of christian and other religious groups being persecuted fatally and otherwise and
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other papers have moved on very quickly from this story. there are other important stories happening in the world but i would have thought just after new zealand quite rightly was in the headlines for days because of the significance of that, this is a huge story as well and persecutions of christians and religious minorities is hugely underreported. it is an opportunity to realise other people in the world do not enjoy the religious freedom reader. there is a lack of religious literacy in a lot of the british media andl literacy in a lot of the british media and i think in this slightly quick moving on from this story i see that illiteracy bearing out.|j think it is important that this is grounded in sri lanka, this front page, and other fronts grounded in sri lanka, this front page, and otherfronts have telling stories of british people involved,
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and that is devastating, but it is important to say that... the guardian has got it right.|j important to say that... the guardian has got it right. i think so. let's go to the i talking about tory mps and this boris campaign.|j will tory mps and this boris campaign.” will try not to bore the viewers with the processes of the tory leadership race but the basic thing is our next prime minister will ultimately be decided by tory party members. once theresa may goes, if she ever does. they will choose between two mic candidates and it will be tory mps, just over 300 of them, who will thin that down. tory mps, quite a lot of whom are anti—boris, they don't think it was anti—boris, they don't think it was a good foreign secretary, questioned his morals, all sorts of objections,
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and if boris gets through to the final two, and if boris gets through to the finaltwo, i'm sure he win and if boris gets through to the final two, i'm sure he win the country. there is a very brexit sporting tory grassroots and i think they would have him over anyone else. dangerous to make predictions in politics but that is the one i would make. an organised attempt to stop boris seems to be under way. of course that might improve his credentials in the country amongst tory members. that idea here is the outsider trying to change the system. that sort of fits in with their popular sentiment of our times. we have not mentioned brexit for a few days, do feel free to go back there. it has been such a relief not to be talking about it. this story speaks to the disconnect between the tory party grassroots,
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which is, not being rude, but it is shrinking, certainly compared to the labour party, and it is also older compared to the labour party, and it seems very much out of kilter with the population at large. it is not really grounded in the population at large and where the public mood is that in terms of the kind of leader they might want and the kind of policies they might want. let's talk about the other story on the i. extinction rebellion. the second week of protests. going into the second week and i think it has been incredible. it has done a greatjob in this last week of bringing protest about the climate emergency to the public eye. its capacity to
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peacefully hold public spaces and engage a wider population in that conversation and that cause. and also it gives us a glimpse of what bits of london look like when they are not congested, when they are car free and pedestrianised. apparently air pollution went down strikingly in those areas in the week where they managed to remove cars from those areas. so credit to them for what they have managed to organise. they certainly don‘t look like they show signs of abating going into the second week. i have come from the climate camp at marble arch, thought i would have a look, and they are very much in planning and organisation mode for what is to come. i agree with pedestrianisation. parts of parliament square, world heritage site, if we could make it a pedestrian zone it would be a
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wonderful thing. the easter weekend sun has got to me ididn't mean the easter weekend sun has got to me i didn't mean pedestrian free. i walked here tonight, being very green tonight. it is interesting how many extension rebellion protesters are around —— extinction. a lot of the young people are idealistic but i think if they continue to target public transport, the greenest form of getting around that we have, they will do damage to their cause. i think targeted protest in organisations like shell, where the protest began last week, or heathrow
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airport where hollywood actresses fly in from california to take part, thatis fly in from california to take part, that is the more sensible protests where they will win hearts and minds. our brief word, you mention to pedestrians, and they feature on the front of the telegraph because some traffic lights do not allow them to cross the road in anything other than a state of agitation. we could give you half an hour on this. less tha n could give you half an hour on this. less than ten seconds to cross the road. iam less than ten seconds to cross the road. i am not elderly, less than ten seconds to cross the road. iam not elderly, i less than ten seconds to cross the road. i am not elderly, i can cross, thankfully, i do not have a pram or carrying children or heavy shopping. that is still not long enough to make it. in my pedestrian free parts! you don't need traffic lights when there are no cars. thank you both for the time being. that‘s it for the papers this hour.
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rachel and tim will be back for a longer look at the front pages at 11.30. next it‘s the weather. good evening. for most of us, it has been the perfect easter holiday, hasn‘t it, really? lots of blue sky and sunshine. yesterday was a little bit disappointing in the far north—west of scotland, not so on bank holiday monday, hardly a cloud in the sky. a few subtle differences though, a veil of high cloud arrived in the afternoon, it turned misty and murky as you can see across the south coast in falmouth. it was still dry and you were able to get on the beach. this high cloud will continue to spill its way steadily north and west overnight tonight, and we run the risk of a few isolated showers across the channel isles into cornwall and maybe through south wales as well. so, cloud and showers an issue overnight, that will prevent temperatures from falling too low. elsewhere, we will see
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clearer skies, temperatures down perhaps 6—8 degrees. we start off tomorrow morning again on a dry, chilly note, a little more cloud, and double digits in the south west, and that high cloud could be more of an issue tomorrow. again, a good deal of dry weather, with a few isolated showers fading away in the south—west, but with the sunshine turning increasingly hazy, a bit more of a breeze picking up. it won‘t be quite as warm. we will see temperatures perhaps peaking at around 22 degrees, always a risk of a bit cooler and fresher, particularly on exposed coasts. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, that is when the real change is set to arrive, with this area of low pressure gathering out in the atlantic. and this weather front will bring some rain into the south—west, to start off with. first thing on wednesday morning, there will be some heavy rain across cornwall, across parts of south wales and stretching up across that south coast. so, as we go through the morning, that rain will continue to drift its way steadily northwards. we will see the potential
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for some thundery downpours across the midlands and into the north of england. it should stay dry throughout the day across parts of scotland. here, temperatures peaking at around 18 degrees, but a noticeable difference with the feel of the weather, particularly once that front goes through. it will clear and dry up but only highs of around 13—15 degrees. and the wind direction will change, driving in this moist air off the atlantic and cooler air with it as well. so it stays showery for the end of the week and into the weekend and, more importantly, noticeably cooler for all.
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this is bbc news. the headlines at 11:00: sri lankan authorities blame a local islamist extremist group for the series of co—ordinated bomb attacks that killed 290 people. amongst the dead were eight britons, including a mother and her two children, and a retired firefighter, who was killed along with his partner. firefighters have been trying to tackle a moorland fire at marsden in west yorkshire. it‘s thought the blaze, which broke out last night and extends to over a square mile, was started by a barbecue. police say more than a thousand people have been arrested after seven days of climate change protests.

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