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overnight and into tomorrow morning. overnight, the winds are likely to pick up to reach gusts of around 60 to 70 mph, strong enough to bring some localised disruption. rain at times, too. a few showers across western areas, but it stays quite breezy. a frost free night for all of us. tomorrow morning, strong winds across northern scotland to start the day, gusts still running into the 60 to 70 mph kind of range, but through the morning, the strongest winds will slowly ease away. there will be rain on and off for much of the day here. further west and southwards, we have got the risk of a few showers for northern parts of northern ireland, north—west england, north wales, but otherwise a fair amount of dry weather. quite cloudy for wales and the south—west, the best of the sunshine in eastern england and south—east scotland. that's your weather.
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in the mind of our headlines... former uk prime minister, sirjohn major, accuses borisjohnson�*s government of acting in a "shameful" manner — over the 0wen paterson row. i think the way the government handled that was shameful and wrong and unworthy of this or indeed any government. rapper travis scott says he's "absolutely devastated" by the eight deaths and dozens of injuries at the texas festival where he was performing and pledges "total support" to police investigation after a crowd surge. at least 99 people have died in an oil tanker explosion, in sierra leone after the lorry collided with another vehicle in the capital, freetown. tens of thousands of people march through glasgow — demanding new steps to tackle global warming — one of more than 100 climate protests taking place across the uk.
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time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm gavin ramjaun. derby day disaster for solskjaer. could the manchester united boss be fired on bonfire weekend after defeat to rivals man city? sparks fly in sharjah as england blaze into the final four at the t20 world cup despite defeat to south africa. and a try—fest at twickenham as england are off to a flier in the autumn internationals. hello and welcome to sportsday.
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not at the standards they need to be at — that's the assessment from manchester united boss 0le gunnar solskjaer. his side lost a crucial manchester derby to rivals man city 2—0 earlier, falling further off the pace at the top, with more pressure heaped on the manager. joe lynsky reports. for manchester united he's the coach with the connection, the manager who knows the club in the city but now only gonna show shower is under fire and this was a derby day after his darker state —— 0le gunnar solskjaer. manchester city were here and inside seven minutes were in front. city had started this match with just three points front. city had started this match withjust three points more front. city had started this match with just three points more than united but their first—half felt in a different leave. were it not for david it might�*ve been five again. on his own, united's keeper kept the minute. soon even he was forced into
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a mistake. bernardo silva made the most of static defending and clumsy handling. he was the portuguese player making the difference. 2—0 this was no doubt by the scoreline but the city just as comfortable for united just as bleak. for one coach it may yet decide his future but these were two teams in one city in very different places. joe lenski, bbc news. we have had a couple of difficult weeks, a good result last week but today we have a couple of steps back again after a few steps forward last week but we need to have everyone back fresh in their minds ready to go and we need to look more like what we started to look like towards the liverpool game and i has to say that towards the end of last season we looked a little bit more like what we wanted to.
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massive compliment to the players and they— massive compliment to the players and they are real artists for the way they— and they are real artists for the way they played at the result is so important — way they played at the result is so important and you know why and to come _ important and you know why and to come here — important and you know why and to come here to old trafford with our rivals _ come here to old trafford with our rivals of— come here to old trafford with our rivals of the city and our neighbours and to play the way we need _ neighbours and to play the way we need some way we played it was really _ need some way we played it was really good. city's win closes the gap on chelsea to three points. the leaders were left to rue a number of missed chances — as they were held at home to burnley. the game finished 1—1 at stamford bridge. matej vydra with burnley�*s equaliser 11 minutes from time — after kai havertz had given chelsea a first half lead. i'm v ery , i'm v e r y, v e w i'm very, very happy how we played, how we created chances. if you play burnley you need to do a lot of invisible work. you need to be very, very alert, very concentration, never lose focus. you need to work out up front to not allow the bolts to come into your box. we did everything right. instead of scoring. we could have scored the second one, third one. the second one could have closed the game and
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we left the door open and that's why it can happen sometimes. but football is not deserved, it is ok. but it can happen in football and only happens in football and that is wave one of the game. —— that is wave one of the game. —— that is wave one of the game. —— why everyone loves the game. it wave one of the game. -- why everyone loves the game. it gives ou a everyone loves the game. it gives you a platform — everyone loves the game. it gives you a platform to _ everyone loves the game. it gives you a platform to build _ everyone loves the game. it gives you a platform to build from - everyone loves the game. it gives you a platform to build from yet l you a platform to build from yet plays _ you a platform to build from yet plays like — you a platform to build from yet plays like that. we hung in there, slaved _ plays like that. we hung in there, stayed in — plays like that. we hung in there, stayed in there, find a really good -oal stayed in there, find a really good goal and — stayed in there, find a really good goal and then weirdly three or four minules— goal and then weirdly three or four minutes towards the end he gets a little lob _ minutes towards the end he gets a little lob and you never know. it would _ little lob and you never know. it would have been a strange day but you never— would have been a strange day but you never know. it's taken until november but norwich finally have their first win of the season after beating brentford 2—1. they scored twice in the opening half an hour, with goals from mathias normann and a penalty from teemu pukki. rico henry pulled one
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back for brentford — but daniel farke's side held on. they're still in the relegation zone, but are no longer bottom of the table. to have the first win under the belt is a big relief for the whole club and also for the players who are working on it was a pretty young group of players and the result was a bit of criticism and pressure after what, let's be honest, was appalled star of the first ten games and now the next part 20 games of pressure is lost and we need to win many, many points and feels good to be there with these points. 50 a be there with these points. so a confirmation _ be there with these points. so a confirmation of _ be there with these points. so a confirmation of these _ be there with these points. so a confirmation of these results and also another win for crystal palace are unbeaten in six in the league now after they won against wolves 2-0. so, confirmation of those results, then, and also another win for crystal palace — they're unbeaten in six in the league now after beating wolves 2—0. goals from wifried zaha and conor gallagher. and newcastle — who are now bottom courtesy of that norwich win earlier — are in action at brighton. i—0 brighton. middlesbrough have parted company with neil warnock minutes after their 1—1 draw at west bromwich albion. the point leaves boro 14th in the championship. warnock broke the record for the most english matches as a manager in mid—week.
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in the fa cup first round the big shock of the day came at the stadium of light as sunderland lost 1—0 to league 2 strugglers mansfield. 2008 winners portsmouth avoided a shock exit. the league one side edged past harrow borough — who are 83 places below them in the league pyramid. it finished i—0 — marcus harness with the goal. all of today's results can be found on the bbc sport website. three games to bring you in the scottish premiership. hearts go 2nd — at least until tomorrow — with a dominant 5—2 win over dundee united. motherwell won away at aberdeen, and it was goalless between stjohnstone and st mirren. celtic and leaders rangers both have games tomorrow. and chelsea kept up the pressure on league leaders arsenal in the womens super league. they beat aston villa i—0, jessie fleming's close—range strike proving the difference. england's place in the final four of the t20 world cup is confirmed — despite losing their first match
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of the tournament to south africa in sharjah. an explosive batting performance from their opponents playing for their place in the latter stages proved a thrilling watch but ultimately wasn't enough for them. joe wilson reports. as cricket in yorkshire undergoes the most serious scrutiny in the england team in sharjah based, the captain says, and inclusivity and diversity. internationally they have a team to beat, which was south africa's plan. hitting 6/2 dozen is in an unstoppable 94 helped south africa to 189. when england batted the chase ended like this forjason roy, that searing pain from his leg tough to watch. whenjoss butler mis—hit the ball yet, really, south africa had eight wicket priced above any in world cricket. but there is ali and 100 metres for the spell with the same boatjealous. they hit six consecutive sixes. then in the
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final over took three consecutive wickets. this is england going through? net run rate ensures that a jason boy help that. a cruel time to be injured. joe wilson, bbc news. earlier today, australia had no trouble against the reigning champions west indies as they qualified for the semi—finals, josh hazlewood taking 4 wickets in the west indies' innings of 157—7. and the aussies comfortably knocked it off in reply — david warner with an unbeaten 89 as they chased it down with 22 balls to spare. former england spin bowler phil tufnell was commentating on the games for 5live and said england needed a tough test like they faced against south africa to test their temperament. it was a little bit sloppy for me, england, especially in the field gave away to have dozen overthrows and if few missed fields and weren't quite on it with the ball as well and obviously missing some on the backend to blow those lovely 90 mile an hour is short balls and back of the hand bounces injust a little
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bit sloppy but it is good to get one of those out of the way in the group stages then they can regroup, come together, and perhaps there might be a little bit of finger waving and then they got away with that needs a level. jason boy, look pretty bad. i feel for him because he has had a couple of injury problems in the last world cup as well and missed out on a hamstring. it looked bad and we saw him at the end of the game on crutches. it was strapped up and, yeah, ithink game on crutches. it was strapped up and, yeah, i think he is probably going to rule himself out in the next couple of games. when you are looking ahead to the semifinals looks like it is going to new zealand for england and pakistan and australia in the next two. semifinals, one of games, who knows? something some of the right size and got themselves into it of the fallen sides got themselves into this position. england will be confident against new zealand but they are a
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very, sort of, you know... they are fighters new zealand and they will scrap and we had so england have to be on top of their game and australia never rule out australia but england and pakistan for me are looking strongest. yorkshire county cricket club have launched an investigation after another former player alleged he was subjected to repeated racial abuse at the club. there was also a peaceful gathering outside their headingley ground today by people angry at yorkshire's response to a report's findings of "bullying and racial harassment" towards azeem rafiq. lets have a quick look at some of the day's other sports news. novak djokovic will finish as the men's tour year end number one for a record seventh time. he made sure by beating poland's hubert hurkacz in three sets to reach the final of the paris masters, where he'll face daniil medvedev. the win means djokovic overhauled pete sampras' record. francesco bagnaia has claimed pole position for the fifth motogp race in a row. the italian set a new all—time lap record in qualifying
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for sunday's algarve grand prix in portugal. he'll be joined on the front row byjack miller and joan mir. and sergio perez delighted the crowd at the aut dromo hermanos rodr guez as he clocked the quickest time in final practice ahead of qualifying for the mexico city grand prix. red bull team mate and championship leader max verstappen was second with lewis hamilton more than half a second behind in third place. it's a busy weekend of rugby union in the autumn internationals. all four home nations are in action over the next two days. (ireland got things under way with a comfortable win overjapan in dublin. veteran fly—halfjonny sexton starred for the irish in his 100th cap, scoring a try, four conversions and a penalty as ireland won 60 points to 5 in dublin. and things were just as comfortable at twickenham... as england got their autumn off to the perfect start. they ran in 11 tries as they thrashed tonga by 69 points
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to 3, despite having to make a late change to their line—up before kick—off. austin halewood reports... a new start for a new look england with two years to go until the world cup eddiejones has decided this is the time to ring the changes. 0ne cup eddiejones has decided this is the time to ring the changes. one of them out of his control as captain 0wen farrell had to withdraw after a positive covid—19 test but the new look line—up didn't take long to gel, burrowing over early on but then england's tried and tested names came to the fore. firstjamie george and then who else butjonny may, the flying wing sweeping into the corner, england in total control, notjust with the ball in hand. courtney was captain for the day with a covering tackle as good as a try. and england kept piling on the point with marcus smith lighting up the point with marcus smith lighting up looking for the first time and probably not the last. scoring one and setting up another forjamie as england cruised to victory and an ideal start to the awesome but the
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biggest test yet to come. austin hayward, bbc news. wales have the toughest task of them all today but they were leading against the world champions south africa — at the principality... 12—9 the score at half time... dan biggar�*s boot keeping them just ahead... that's all from sportsday. you can get all the latest sports and reports on the bbc sports website. next up on bbc news ros atkins on tree planting. it's no longer controversial to say humans are causing climate change but what we should do about it is less settled. borisjohnson is hosting the cop26 climate summit in glasgow,
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