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we will perhaps eastern scotland. we will have the cold northerly winds diving southwards on temperatures on the east coast struggling. 5 degrees in places. it does turn milder but with the cloud it will be drizzly and mist and hill fog patches forming over a high ground as well. for the middle part of the week on wednesday, we see a cold front pushed southwards and eastwards gci’oss pushed southwards and eastwards across the uk and the air gets progressively colder from then on through the rest of the week. a lot of cloud for england and wales with patches of rain sliding southwards and eastwards, brightening up with sunshine and blustery showers but it is starting to turn colder. temperatures five or six celsius gci’oss temperatures five or six celsius across scotland. but it will get even colder than that through thursday and friday, with those temperatures struggling there will be plenty of showers around, longer outbreaks of rain across england and wales with a colder air arriving by friday. with temperatures this low it will be cold enough for seeing a bit of snow, particularly over the high hills by the end of the week. a
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reminder that winter is just around the corner. a reminder of our top story... less tha n less than three weeks after its last lockdown, new restrictions in wales mean pubs and restaurants can open but they cannot serve alcohol. that's all from the bbc news at six. so it's goodbye from me and on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are.
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hello, i'm olly foster. here's what's coming up on sportsday tonight. football is urged to improve its concussion protocols. temporary subs could be on the way, but is that really the answer? and romain grosjean says he is loving life after his f1 escape. we hear from the doctor who helped pull him from the flames.
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it's pull him from the flames. a matter of grabbing hin pulling it's a matter of grabbing him and pulling him over but things were melting. and who are non—league fa cup dreamers? we're half an hour away from the third round draw. good evening. there are fresh calls for football to introduce more stringent concussion protocols. it follows a clash of heads at arsenal yesterday. wolves‘ rauljimenez was left unconcious and taken to hospital, where he had an operation for a fractured skull. the medical response there isn't in question. but the gunners‘ david luiz, after being bandaged for a gash on his head, was allowed to play on. arsenal medical staff say they did everything by the book, but he was substituted at half—time. joe lynskey reports.
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even at the very top, football is never far from even at the very top, football is neverfarfrom one of even at the very top, football is never far from one of the sport's great dangers. the you can tell from the concern of the players that this is serious. just four minutes and at arsenal, wolverhampton watch a team—mate go off unconscious. roe will him and as with given oxygen and taken to hospital. he fractured his skull. on the pitching in the stands the match less important. you see everybody was in panic. everybody seeing red to come a code red came a code red. the faces of the team—mates and everybody at arsenal, it was a very serious situation. wolverhampton say he is now comfortable after surgery. he has seen his partner and is now resting and will be observed for the next few days. the collision happened with arsenal's david luiz. he cut his habit stayed conscious when the match restarted, luiz was patched up and played on. arsenal
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said they followed the protocols but 40 said they followed the protocols but a0 minutes later, he went off at half—time. a0 minutes later, he went off at half-time. did he take a turn for the worse or what? he was in pain. he could not had the ball. he was uncomfortable doing that so we decided to take them off. football needs to get real and wake up and get serious. not next year, month but now. the protocols and football are not equitable. how on earth as he allowed to come back onto the pitch with a wound that is bleeding through the bandage and dripping down his face? talking about player welfare here. it'sjust not equitable. it's going on for far too long. i was ok. equitable. it's going on for far too long. iwas ok. i equitable. it's going on for far too long. iwas 0k. iwanted equitable. it's going on for far too long. i was ok. i wanted to get back into the game. players are being told not to take risks with concussion but now critics want real solutions. teens can be given an extra side for head injuries. a trial could start injanuary in the fa cup but for top leagues, they may
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not change the rules midseason. the big thing is what is required in football is this immediate decision. it takes more than a couple of minutes to properly diagnose a concussion. the big thing is substitutions and allowing sufficient time to do a proper diagnosis of a patient. we've got to get away from this idea that the business of the game is more important than player welfare. this collision has shocked the sport. now football waits to see if it brings permit change. let's get more on this now from peter mccabe, chief executive at headway, the brain injury association. good evening to you. left to get this incident in isolation. you don't feel david luiz should've played on? no, ithinki don't feel david luiz should've played on? no, ithink i find don't feel david luiz should've played on? no, i think i find myself agreeing with alan shaver and i think this is an issue of common sense. i was really concerned about
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rauljimenez and i send my best wishes and from all of us here to him and his family for a quick and speedy recovery. but should david luiz have continued ? speedy recovery. but should david luiz have continued? i don't think so. the arsenal doctor who treated luiz, gary o'driscoll, has a rugby background. he knows his way around concussion protocols. he said they did everything fine. he admitted last month on social media that football still has a long way to go to "match the advancements in concussion management and research in other sports". i have met gary and i have the utmost respect for him and i'm sure that he will have follow the protocols and done his best for the player. but i just protocols and done his best for the player. but ijust think protocols and done his best for the player. but i just think the protocols need changing and need changing quickly. because it seems to me that he cannot take chances with the health of a player. and for so with the health of a player. and for so long, we have been calling for
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concussion substitutes. and what that means and it's just like they have another sports including rugby union, and it means that players can leave the field and doctors and people on the sidelines can make assessments without feeling rushed into making a decision. and that is really important. the team is not penalised and it is just all about health and safety. we have been calling on this change for years and every time there's an incident, the football authorities say we are looking at it, talking about it, having a meeting, going to do a trial but nothing ever happens. and like alan, on the time is come to get this sorted out once and for all. do you think the medical teams at clubs should be independent, just to avoid any suggestion that the club medics might turn a blind eye to a few things to keep their best players on the pitch? well, again, i have the utmost respect for the arsenal team, the
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medical team. but there are pressures and we all know that there are pressures and we all know that there a re pressures pressures and we all know that there are pressures that have been applied in the past on club doctors. it's not so long since the chelsea club doctor actually left the club following an attempt to intervene in an injury to a player. so it's well—known that that has happened andi well—known that that has happened and i think having an independent doctor as indeed the football authorities promised back in 201a would take that kind of pressure away and an independent person has only one thing in their mind. peter, chief executive at headway, thank you for your time this evening. you'll have probably have seen that horrendous formula i crash yesterday when roman grosjean ploughed into a barrier at the bahrain grand prix, his car splitting in two and he was engulfed in a ball of fire. but then the miracle as he made his way out of the wreckage, burns to the back
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of his hands his only major injury. the frenchman posted this from his hosiptal bed today... he certainly thanked the marshals who were on the scene in seconds, and dr ian roberts, who helped him to safety. i spoke to him earlier. as we came out from into turn 3, the fireball and then arriving on this area of flame with the rearmost portion of the car present but pointing in the wrong direction, we drew up turning to my right. i could see through the gap in the barrio of the rest of the car and romain was a tipping to get himself out. obviously as you can see, the flames
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we re obviously as you can see, the flames were pretty much everywhere and i described it just like were pretty much everywhere and i described itjust like looking into the doorway of a furnace. the heat must‘ve been immense. the doorway of a furnace. the heat must've been immense. my face was pretty much esteemed. but no other issue than that for me. a matter of grabbing him and pulling issue than that for me. a matter of grabbing him and putting them over, but things were melting. and his protective clothing was very much on the borderline in terms of its time expiring. from your heart sinking when he saw the extent of the damage to see movement within the cockpit and then for him actually clambering out and over, what was your reaction then to see that? obviously maybe understatement to say i was very pleased. yeah, that he had got up and it was a chance than to go in.
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the fire marshal had given us a few seconds to push the flame back a little bit and to move forward. any longer, the flame would have been coming back and we would have had zero chance to do anything with him. can you member what his first words we re can you member what his first words were to you or anybody else around him? part of it wasjust talk to me normally because i was a bit concerned as most people would be that he may have had injuries because i could not see into his helmet. there was no way to lift his visor, it was fused. so once his helmet was off and i can check that helmet was off and i can check that he had gotten no other life—threatening injuries to his face or airway, then he was incredibly lucid considering the sight of the impact. everyone's gut feeling is that the halo proved to be the real life—saver there. of
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course we await to see the city department investigation into it to see what protection it did give, what improvements could be made. pretty traumatic for you it must've been as much as anything else? of course. we are dealing with people and we always want to see the very best outcome. and i don't really wa nt to best outcome. and i don't really want to think about what would've happened if we could not and have got to him. but yeah of course it's a good feeling. you help somebody out and you get a positive outcome for the day. so a good day at the office all around. right, let's get more on this from oui’ right, let's get more on this from our reporter. an incredible account from doctor roberts, one of the first in the scene. and now we will getan first in the scene. and now we will get an investigation, a very important one and probably going to
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focus on why there was a fire to such a degree because that's very rare. i think you have to go back to the late19805 rare. i think you have to go back to the late 19805 for the last time that we saw a big fire like this happening on track it was not just an engine blow out or something like an engine blow out or something like a refuelling in the pit lane. it is very rare for these to happen and bearin very rare for these to happen and bear in mind that a car has very rare for these to happen and bear in mind that a car ha5100 kilos of fuel at the start. that'5 two hours with of energy that just we nt two hours with of energy that just went up in a matter of moments. so went up in a matter of moments. so we will have to look exactly what happened and why it managed to get fire and igniting what has been described by those who were there as some sort of hollywood scene. it was spectacular for all the wrong reasons. but there are a lot of points he will have to look into, notjust a fire points he will have to look into, not just a fire but they will have to look at why the barrier split and look at the car in front at exactly why it veered off so strongly to the right. and there are many things that will have to be looked at in very thorough work to try to understand it more. you mentioned
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the barrier there. barriers are there to absorb impact but clearly this one split. and romain grosjean's car got lost in it and that should not have happened. these are incidents both with the fire and the barrier splitting that we have not seen in formula 1 for such a longtime. it used to be kind of a regular thing and sir jackie longtime. it used to be kind of a regular thing and sirjackie stewart was one of those drivers who fought so was one of those drivers who fought so hard to make sure that safety standards were raised so they will look at that barrier and try and work out exactly what went wrong. the person in charge of formula 1 said the first tory was the split of the barrier. and he went on to say barrier splitting was a classic problem many years ago would normally resulted in fatality but there is no doubt the halo was a factor that saved romain grosjean. sol factor that saved romain grosjean. so i think a lot of things went wrong but you have to look at the positives as well and say some things really did go right. certainly did. many thanks indeed. let's have a quick look at some of the other headlines today.

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