i know how to dress for the weather, and i've bought a blanket. david sillito, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's sarah keith lucas. it has been another cold day out there today. this picture comes from shoreham in west sussex and after being stuck under the cloud and drizzle for two solid days, eventually the sun broke through this afternoon. under clear skies, temperatures falling quite quickly, still in the cold air mass, the blue colour is still with us. this weather front moving into the north is quite a troublemaker this evening and overnight. we have already seen some heavy snow across the north—west of scotland and the weather front will continue slowly south—eastwards across scotland and northern ireland tonight. a of sleet and snow even to low levels, could bea and snow even to low levels, could be a couple of centimetres, ten centimetres across the highlands of

scotland. for england and wales, a cold night and we are likely to see freezing fog developing as temperatures dripped to about —6 in the coldest spots. some freezing fog slow to clear tomorrow morning and also icy stretches on the road as well. the weather front clears out of scotla nd well. the weather front clears out of scotland and northern ireland, pushing some snowfall into northern england but further south across england but further south across england and wales, largely dry with a bit of sunshine breaking through but in places, the freezing fog will linger all day and where it does, temperatures are struggling to get much above freezing. further north, a return to sunnier skies but with some wintry showers from the north. into friday, still slow moving weather front with us. not a particularly active feature but it brings more snowfall during friday, almost anywhere across england and wales, most likely through parts of the midlands and into wales as well. still a few flurries of snow further north. we won't all see them. some sunshine but another cold day with temperatures only 3—4 at their warmest. after all of the wintry

weather, it continues over the weekend but things will turn gradually milder as we move into next week. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me, (pres)evening, we'll start with football because kick off

hello, i'm olly foster, here's what's coming up on sportsday this evening. we're heading to old trafford with kick off approaching in the manchester derby, it will be wembley for the winners whether it was for business or pleasure, a trip to dubai has resulted in a positive covid case at arsenal and a women's super league fixture in doubt exeter chiefs are dealing with a number of cases as premiership chiefs tighten their rules to try and keep the league going

hello and welcome to sportsday. evening, we'll start with football because kick off is just over an hour away in the second of the league cup semi—finals. tottenham are waiting for the winners of the manchester derby at old trafford. city knocked united out at this stage last season but perhaps crucially this is just a straight knockout, just the one leg. let's cross live to the ground and speak tojohn murray, who is commentatting for five live this evening. john it was goaless in the league there last month, and both have been on nice little runs since then. quite a difficult one to call. i think it will be a better match thanit i think it will be a better match than it was less than a month ago when the man the premier league and

i would expect it will become i certainly hope it will be. i think on that day, if you remember about manchester united and manchester city had two men in front of the back for in there was barely a chance in the match. this completely different, this is the cloud semi final and they are both in very decent form and they will be playing very strong sites tonight even though manchester have confirmed another positive covid—i9 test today, one of the goalkeepers self isolating at the moment. team news, city had a patchwork team that beat chelsea over the weekend but should welcome back a couple of players out of isolation. over two legs last season. ido i do not think they will be in the starting line—up, but what self isolating, what effects will will have on them in the preparation for this match tonight, but even with the absentees, i'm sure it will be a strong looking manchester city team.

when they played so well particularly in the first half on sunday. to get to the press box filling up there. unfortunately this city won there, and united won at the etihad it wasn't just that semifinal that united lost last season, there was the fa the europa league city's record in the league cup in recent years is amazing, winners for the last three years, five times winners they do not wanted to be a thing, they do not wanted to be a thing, the three semifinal defeats last season the three semifinal defeats last season and two of the semi final defeats of the only two defeats the manchester united suffered in the past 25 matches of last season, but to discern the hurdle that they have to discern the hurdle that they have to get over under him. the seven semi finals that they plane evening of the plane they have 14—2, and they are the holders and they are

going to attempt to win this for her fourth year running, manchester city. so, i'm just fourth year running, manchester city. so, i'mjust expecting fourth year running, manchester city. so, i'm just expecting it to bea city. so, i'm just expecting it to be a good and tight affair tonight. it's not just be a good and tight affair tonight. it's notjust the three in a row, it's it's notjust the three in a row, its five in the past seven years or so, they will equal the reports record if they go all the way tonight and then beat the spurs, amazingly considered the league cup for the size of city stature, it should be very low down the list of priorities but it is right up there with the truth is they've got. and she is always been very firm on this, they are determined to win every competition that they are and and this happens to be the first competition that is available to win during the course of the season and so, it is quite a high position for manchester city and that is always reflected in the teams that pep guardiola chooses in this competition, they are not short of

full strength and that is helped by the fact that manchester city has got such strength and depth as well. enjoy the game and the final score on bbc iplayer bbc sport app or or the buddha from seven kicked off. thank you john. asjohn was mentioning, city's players will all wear number eight shirts before kick—off in tribute to colin bell, following his death at the age of 7a. a dynamic, goal—scoring midfielder, he had 13 years at the club, helping them to the league title in 1968, the fa cup, league cup and cup winners' cup would follow in the next two seasons. austin halewood reports 20 minutes gone and what a goal! what a goal! softly spoken off the

pitch but powerful, creative and graceful on it. colin bell was simply the complete footballer. in the late 60s and early 70s, he was one of the stars of the english game and it is without doubt one of manchester cities all—time greats. it is 13 years, he helped them win the league cup, and fa cup in the first division title alongside fellow greats francis lee and mike somerby. we talk about manchester city and those day, many will say it was a team and it was a team that worked together in the one outstanding player when it came to that was him. he was the one that other teams were afraid of. bell helped manchester city become a force to be reckoned with for a serious injury cut his career short, held in such high regard, they want to name one of the stands at the stadium in his honour, and currency players are just some of them to pay tribute. they said rest in peace legend while saying the king was

someone legend while saying the king was someone he... arsenal women have asked for saturday's super league match against aston villa to be postponed. one of their players has tested positive for covid—19, two others are having to self isolate. this comes after the trio travelled

to dubai over christmas. let's speak to our sports correspondent katie gornall, katie, this trip wasn't sanctioned by the club so it seems a bit rich for them to be asking for the match to be called off. i think you're right in the sense of there's a lot of frustration or of there's a lot of frustration or of the situation and it is true that the situation and it is true that the club did not know about the trip, it was made after london went to tier 4 were in trouble overseas was permitted only for business reasons. they have since investigated this and they're satisfied that the trip was made for business reasons and they don't feel that there has been a role broken although they are reminding the players of the responsibilities and understand that the fa is not reaching any protocol sanctioned over the strip and so, there has not been any real spoken specifically but a huge amount of frustration and notes on the team—mates are having to isolate as a result of this in

players who didn't go are said to be furious about the situation and the fa are looking into whether or not personal can feel 1a players safely —— field and more pleasant been affected and they only have one positive test confirmed at the moment and they have to investigate this and it is that game that does have to be postponed, particularly on aston villa that have already had three games postponed due to covid—19 and adding to an already congested fixture. in the ws so. there's been another case of this recently. there were other players that chose to travel to dubai over the christmas break including four players for manchester city who then later tested positive for coronavirus but the city is slightly

different in that they made the club aware of their plans for the travel and they travelled to when manchester was in tier 3 when travel overseas was permitted but not advised by the government in that situation is also put the fixture at the week in the west end if those games that i mentioned to get postponed, it does mean that the calendar is getting tighter and tighter and leads to a real headache for the fa as they tried to get this season completed and that puts them in jeopardy, season completed and that puts them injeopardy, but the broader question about the two situations that have mentioned is that perhaps no rule specifically have been broken seemingly there's been no breach of protocol that the fa is understand of the situation right now but this raise more questions as to whether ethically or morally this was really the right thing for players to do in the pandemic and the example that sets for the population i have to live through

some really tough restrictions during this pandemic. the football league will introduce twice weekly tests across their 72 clubs from next week following the sharp rise in covid cases across the country. the cost will be fully funded by the pfa. there has been a significant outbreak at league one shrewsbury their derby against crewe was postponed last weekend and it's very unlikely that they will be able to play in the fa cup 3rd round at southampton on saturday. the league game agaisnt lincoln next weekend is also thought to be in doubt. in rugby union, the premiership champions exeter have reported more positive cases this week, but as it stands they still expect their top of the table clash against bristol to go ahead at the weekend. tighter covid protocols around match days and in training have been imposed today to try and keep the league going. here's our rugby union reporter sara orchard yes, they have announced new enhanced measures and they might be

a bit familiar because it came out a lot on the first time round and all spots going to different tiers in stages to actually get back to returning to play is a somerby familiar their split between certain regulation at the training grounds in certain regulations put in place on match day and so when it comes to the training ground, it's not like they want any meetings but they should think they should all have been virtually and everywhere they go and they're not inside the training ground environment. when it comes to match days, i think one thing that's really stood out for a lot of people is that they will no longer be allowed to have any face—to—face celebration so will be very strange if he goes over in schools and other players would be discouraged from going up to them and congratulating them. which i am sure they will find that quite odd. but this is all in reaction to the fa ct but this is all in reaction to the fact that last week, the week seven testing sub 33 positive cases confirmed in 2a of them were players nails triple the number from the week before, so it's all about

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