so you can forget all about those temperatures reaching double figures, it's going to be a much colder day. sunny spells a few wintry showers across western areas, we'll see some snow showers continuing to accumulate over the hills of northern scotland. these are the kind of temperatures will be faced with through the afternoon, 2—7 degrees. it's going to feel a lot colder. that cold weather stays with us into wednesday. a widespread frosts and morning sunshine, then clouds over. and this band of rain working across northern ireland, well, that could also have a bit of snow mixed in it, just on its leading edge, especially over some of the hills. from there, there is a risk of some hail snow again through wednesday night and into thursday across northern england and scotland. but, ultimately, as milder pushes in, that will eventually turn back to rain.

shape good evening, this is your sports news. we start with rugby union and ireland proved just why they're the world's number one—ranked side in the six nations today. they held off a strong scotland side at murrayfield — themselves chasing an outside shot at the championship — to win 22—7 this afternoon. it keeps their perfect record this year intact — as olly foster reports. the confidence comes with being number one in the world, sitting on top of the six nations table, and beating scotland

seven times in a row, but both sides had plenty to play for. there is so much riding on this match. for the irish, it's all about chasing the grand slam. for scotland, they need a win to keep themselves in the title fight. and that would also see them claim their first triple crown in 33 years. stuart hogg's children will be too young to remember, they weren't even born the last time scotland won this fixture. this was the full—back�*s 100th cap and it meant a lot. the first half was punctuated by two brilliant tries. hquones put the scots in front. but as ireland have shown, in this championship, they don't panic. mack hansen touched down in the corner. but did he get it down in time? just. they had a one—point lead at the break. in the space of five minutes, they stretched that. the pressure, the patience, and now the celebrations. and some. james lowe with their second score. before jack conan barged his way over. and conan for the line

and the score! jonny sexton allowed himself a mini celebration after his conversion. that equalled the six nations point—scoring record. he can break it in dublin against england next weekend, where the permutations are simple. the irish are one win away from perfection. olly foster, bbc news, murrayfield. so a good afternoon for ireland — as they close in on the grand slam and post—match, their captain said he and his teammates had to really fight for their victory today. an incredibly tough game. i think any time we come to murrayfield, you know you're in a test match. it was no different today, it was one of the toughest first halves of rugby i have played, the pace it was played at. if you haven't played for four weeks or a lot of guys coming back i was shocked a little bit by the pace, but we will be better for it. the amount of injuries we had

and to stick at it and have kian healy come in and play hooker, he can play low said, tight head and hooker now, it is amazing feat, so fair play to him. he kept as in the game because we would have had to go down to 14 men if he didn't. i would rather talk - about the first—half than the second half because the second half was disappointing. _ we had opportunities - in the first—half and it was a real high energy performance. ireland played well too. what you call a proper test match. and then both teams were a little bit fatigued in the beginning - of the second half and it was there for us to lift — the energy, and we didn't. we weren't accurate enough at times and ireland grew in confidence - and were obviously clearly- the better team in that second half. arsenal restored their five—point advantage at the top of the premier league with a 3—0 win over fulham at craven cottage. all of arsenal's goals came during an impressive first—half performance. gabriel scored arsenal's first, followed by gabriel martinelli and martin odegaard as arsenal continue to edge towards a first league title for 19 years.

really happy. it's a tough place to come. a well organised team and i think we dominated the game. we created so many chances. we kept a clean sheet which was important and we won the game in a convincing way. so, very happy. newcastle have got their champions leagues hopes back on track after a hard—fought win against wolves. they won 2—1 at stjames�* park — miguel almiron with the winner. it's newcastle's first league win since january — and leaves them two points off the top four. elsewhere, manchester united couldn't score at old trafford against bottom side southampton. 0—0 it finished. united midfielder casemiro was sent off in the first half. west ham are out of the relegation zone after their draw with aston villa. holders rangers are through to the semi—finals of the scottish cup after a comfortable 3—0 win over raith rovers. scott arfield rounded off the match

with rangers�* third goal. theyjoin inverness and celtic in the last four, with falkirk and ayr united playing tomorrow. chelsea have taken a bit brighter was defending their women's super league title, after a 5—0 victory over title rivals manchester united. sam carter, with a goal, the victory sees them go two points clear of the game in hand. in the game —— back in the day's other matches... british number one cameron norrie is into the last 16 at indian wells — but not without a scare. he beat taro daniel in florida but the japanese player — ranked 103 in the world — took the first set. norrie, ranked 91 places higher, fought back to win the next two and reach round four.

england one—day captain jos england one—day captainjos buttler has defended his team selection after seeing their lose against bangladesh with a much though today. england collapsed, 117 all out after they 20 overs and bangladesh chased down the title with seven balls remaining to take an unassailable 2-0 remaining to take an unassailable 2—0 lead. scottie scheffler has won the golf players championship in florida. a superb final round of 69 left him 17 under par overall, giving him a five shot victory with england's tyrrell hatton his closest competitor. the win means that scottie scheffler returns to the top of the world rankings. you can head to the bbc sport website, but that is all your support for now.

this is bbc news, we would have the headlines and the main news at the top of the other, straight after this programme. guide dogs, for thousands of blind and visually impaired people they are the difference between independence and isolation. he difference between independence and isolation. , , , , isolation. he is my best friend, constant companion, _ isolation. he is my best friend, constant companion, by - isolation. he is my best friend, constant companion, by means isolation. he is my best friend, i constant companion, by means of independence. i cannot imagine my life without rio.— life without rio. since 1931 around 36,000 guide _ life without rio. since 1931 around 36,000 guide dogs _ life without rio. since 1931 around 36,000 guide dogs have - life without rio. since 1931 around 36,000 guide dogs have been - life without rio. since 1931 around - 36,000 guide dogs have been matched with visually impaired people. but, during a pandemic, the breeding programme shut down overnight. the charity lost one third of its puppy raising volunteers and the guide dog service was paused.

people like us are needed, so much, to help people like you. ..leaving more than 1,000 people waiting to be matched. it is really, really difficult not having the dog. practically every step you're thinking, "this is impossible. i don't know how i'm doing with this." but with around 1,100 puppies now in early training, is recovery around the corner? we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer, as these dogs make their way through the system. we visit puppies at the national breeding centre and ask what needs to be done to fix britain's guide dog shortage. archie! good boy. let's go! meet new arrival archie... good boy! are you my little star? ..and his puppy raiser, lisa. hers is one of more than 2,000 households giving their time for free to help raise guide dog

puppies for around a year. it's opened up a whole new world. i've met lots of new friends, i'm part of... i feel part of a community that i wasn't before. not only that, obviously you're doing something very good, at the end of the day. it sounds exciting, but it's a big commitment. puppies like archie live at home and often need attention around the clock. as much as it's your instant reaction, "puppyr puppy. puppy," you know, "let's go for it. a cute little puppy," you've got to remember that it's a lot of work. it's... being a puppy raiser is hard work, especially at the beginning. volunteers take their puppies with them to everyday places, from restaurants to supermarkets and on buses and trains, to help get them ready for their future working lives. at the end of the day, ijust remember i'm doing this to enable somebody who's not as fortunate as me, that can't see, to actually get some independence. archie, touch!

volunteers like lisa are supported by the charity guide dogs, which works across the uk. lovely. just keep doing exactly what you're doing, rewarding on the left there, so he always knows where to come. that's absolutely fantastic. good boy. today, puppy development adviser beth has come to see how lisa and archie are getting on. so the reason that we use hand touch is so when archie is placed with a visually impaired person, obviously they can't see when he's running back, when he's coming, so they can pop out this hand as a target. these routine visits are as much about supporting lisa as they are for training archie, but these are the building blocks he'll need if he's to earn a working harness. good boy! perfect. good boy! learning through play is encouraged... ..but there are some things archie will need to quit before he finishes his training. you're going to have to learn what this is for. but he's just got such a wonderful nature. he's a heart of gold, and hejust loves people.

really loves people. happy times, but every puppy raising volunteer knows that if all goes to plan, the day will come when they have to give them back to guide dogs. later, we'll follow lisa and herfirst pup, fergall, as she hands him in for the next phase of his training. what are the emotions that are going through your head today? if i'm honest, i'd say proud. i think that's my biggest one. so proud of what i've done. really proud of him. voice breaks lisa hopes that both of her dogs will go on to give someone their independence. just proud. forward, rio. forward! go on, then. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. she's so important. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence, of getting about wherever i want to go, whenever i want to go, and living the life i want to lead.

go forward. good girl. ella caulfield is a first—time guide dog user. she was matched with rio in 2018. good girl. well done. she's very open aboutjust how much she benefits from having a guide dog in her life. she gives me that independence that i do kind of need, and i crave, that i need to live the life i want...| want to lead. she's good for a cuddle at the end of an evening if i've had a bad day, and she's an excellent guide. she's very rarely led me astray. it's not a one—way street, though. ella looks after rio's needs and wants. today, she's grooming and cleaning her coat. it's one of the responsibilities ella has as a guide dog user to make sure that rio is loved, happy and well cared for. if they didn't have each other, ella says she'd never have been able to study maths at oxford university. ella started to lose her sight at four years old.

when she was 15, she received some devastating news. i think because it happened gradually, it wasn't, like, an immediate shock of "you're not going to see again". i was told i had a retinal detachment, and i definitely broke down then. i was with my dad. i can remember him hugging me and the nurses kind of bringing me a cup of water, just kind of comforting me. and then i got booked in for surgery the next day. doctors operated to see if they could save any sight they could, but those attempts failed. nothing came of it. so i've been left withjust minimal light perception in my right eye. but it's...it's not useful. i can only see light if i, like, look directly into the sun or into a light bulb. for ella, a new reality. she learnt new life skills and how to read braille. she applied for a guide dog in may 2017, and then around a year later an exciting call came. it was actually my mum picked up the call, so... i hadn't got home from school yet. my mum picked up the call.

it was someone from guide dogs saying, "we've got a match for ella." i think ijust got very giggly and very kind of... yeah, very excited. like, "yes, this is happening." ella and rio spent around five weeks training with guide dog mobility specialists. can you tell me what it felt like the first time you were guided by rio? i felt lighter. i felt like i was definitely kind of more smiley, more confident. icould... i could move freely and independently without relying on somebody else being there. like many guide dog users, ella would never want to be without a four—legged friend again. just feeling so much more confident and independent and happy that, like, i had this friend with me who was going to be there permanently with me. rio provides such a kind of welfare support to me. ella and rio are one of 3,695 partnerships currently working in the uk. that's down from around 5,000 before the pandemic.

more than one in five people who had a guide dog before then now do not. i honestly think they are doing their absolute best. like me, kelly nasir is waiting to be matched with a new guide dog. we are among more than 1,100 people on the ready—to—train list. kelly's last dog, river, retired eight months ago. her mobility has been seriously impacted. walking with a cane is like walking with one hand tied behind your back. it makes everything harder. not having the dog, that's what makes you feel disabled. because when you have the dog, you just... you get on with things. kelly keeps a busy social and work diary. she's a barrister, but also a mum. not having a dog doesn't only affect her, but her very young daughter. i'm the one who can't take her out when i want to, i have to say, "well, let's wait for daddy," or, "let's wait till we go

see nanna and grandad." and i can do everything else she needs and i'm her mummy, and i love her and i'm the one that's there when she has her nightmares, and i play with her and it doesn't impact on our relationship, but i think it impacts on how i feel about thejob i'm doing as... ..as a mum. watch the tree. so why do guide dog users like me and kelly find ourselves between dogs? puppy: puppy! the answer lies here at the charity's national breeding centre in warwickshire. bill's been explaining to me that the waiting lists are currently a bit longer than guide dogs would like them to be for life—changing guide dogs. purely for research purposes, you understand, i might have to stroke puppies like bill and many, many other puppies. is this the bestjob in the world or what? this is where a guide dog puppy'sjourney begins_ before the pandemic, as many as 1,500 dogs were bred here in a year.

in 2020, the breeding programme shut down overnight when social distancing was introduced. it was the first time in the charity's 92—year history that the guide dog service was suspended. archive: guide dogs show their paces along one - of the centre's obstacle courses. although training techniques have changed over the years, the aim to match visually impaired people with guide dogs has not. archive: and thousands of blind | people who have benefited from it will agree with her. nowadays, the charity trains more assistance dogs than anyone else around the globe. puppy! little ones like paige spend the first weeks of their life here. for them, they're just having fun... she's currently nibbling the camera at the moment. ..but staff are watching closely to see how suited they are to guide work. she's got the brains, for sure. she air kisses puppy. paige! hi, pup!

are you a good puppy? yes, you are! look how cute you are! look at those big eyes and floppy ears. you're such a good puppy! sniff it. 0k! becky and anna are paying close attention to see how paige reacts to human interaction. right... they laugh they're looking to see how she deals with problem solving. yes, she's... she's... she knows. that's a good sign because a guide dog's ability to find their way around a problem is, well, just part of the job. good girl. that's also interesting that she's... she's been to that one, smelled that one. she's like, "mm, it's not there." and she's actually worked out to go to the other one. so, in itself, that's interesting. during the pandemic, all training and breeding here stopped. guide dogs say they needed to protect their staff and volunteers. so that is our puppy reception. it is really unfortunate.

our breeding programme is fantastic, it's world—class and it's always been able to produce the number of puppies that we've required to meet our service users' needs. and unfortunately, that pause in our breeding programme has really affected us. and there's been other combinations as well. bearing in mind that obviously our puppies, when they were out with our amazing puppy—raising volunteers, weren't able to experience the environments that they would experience with a guide dog owner as yourself. so unfortunately, it's been a combination of things that have meant that we haven't produced the number of guide dog partnerships that we really want to. breeding numbers are getting back to normal. in the past year, around 1,000 puppies have passed through here. we are in recovery mode and we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer as these dogs make their way through the system. as you said, these little puppies here that we saw today, it will take about two years for them to make partnership. around 1,100 puppies are currently in early training. guide dogs says what it needs now is volunteer fosterers who can look

after dogs in advanced training, dropping them off and picking them up from the charity's offices on weekdays. our volunteers are our lifeblood. guide dogs could not do what we do without our volunteers, across the board, across all of our services. and unfortunately, after the pandemic, we did lose a lot of volunteers as people wanted to have a break, being the situation, we also kind of reduced the numbers that were reapplying. so we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we've been very lucky that a lot of people have been so generous with their time. come on then, sam. let's go. head. good boy! reporter: after more than eight years of working with sean, - guide dog sammy is set to retire, and sean may have to wait two years for his next dog. that was six months ago. when sammy leaves me, it will leave a huge hole in my heart. a few hours later, sammy left me to retire with family. much of my confidence and mobility left me too that day.

sammy is more important to me, and you always will be, sammy. i know you'll always be my boy. a month later and it's clear i was still in trauma. you are actually quite moved today, aren't you? you know, we... sharing my story is by far the hardest thing i've ever done in my career. the impact, though, has been huge. i would like to say to bbc breakfast viewers, thank you so much to everyone who's already applied to volunteer at guide dogs. since coverage, we've seen a peak in applications. so in january alone, we received almost 3,000 volunteer applications. 2,500 of those were to raise puppies, compared with 2,000 for the whole of 2019, the last pre—pandemic year. for lisa's first pup, fergall, it's the end of one journey, but the start of another. all this, i'm packing the three trays up from home.

his biscuits that i always give him, half a biscuit at bedtimes. they've been together forjust over a year. this, i've had it made and had his name put on it, and his id number. she's packing up things that she hopes will remind him of their time together. and his christmas present. i can't tell you what it is — he'll hear! sean laughs the day has come for fergall to start his advanced training. that means lisa must say a painful goodbye. hello! hi! i want him upset as little as possible. they're his toys, he's got his biscuits that he has half a one at night. i mean, if she's generous, she might like to give him one at first, because he deserves it. any time he's not with shelly, working and learning, learning what he's got to do, he'll be in there having a good rest. and then we've got some fab free—running sandpits out the back as well, so we'll show you them, where he can have his downtime

and have some good sniffs. yeah. nice doggy hotel and playground, fergall. this may be a sad time for lisa, but for fergall, a new adventure awaits. here you go, you get big boy lead now. bye—bye, sweetheart. many guide dog users stay in touch with their puppy raisers, but many do not. tearfully: thanks for that. you're welcome. i'll ring you tomorrow. lisa knows this could be the last time she sees fergall. crying: i am fine. woman: you've set me off, anyway. the one question that i get asked all the time or people say to me, all my friends, family, people i meet in the street, "i'd love to do what you're doing, but i couldn't do it, "because i couldn't give the dog back." he's ultra cute. he's a good boy. if i can do it, anybody can do it. as a guide dog user of more than 23 years, i know the theory of what volunteers like lisa go through, but being there for the moment of handover

was as beautiful as it was poignant. it's hard, but you've got to remember why you're doing it. you know, people have to help people. there's not enough of it in this world. we're needed, people like us are needed so much to help people like you. the tears are worth it. hello there. it's been a much milder day today. yesterday in edinburgh we had highs of five, but today we've seen temperatures push up to 13 degrees. and overnight tonight, those mild south—westerly winds will continue to blow across most parts of the country. but quite a windy night

with outbreaks of rain at times. but those temperatures staying well up into double figures for northern ireland, england and wales, frost limited to northern scotland. here, a risk of some icy patches first thing tomorrow morning. now, broadly speaking, it's a day of sunny spells and blustery showers, although those showers merging together across western areas through the day. gale force gusts of wind could bring down one or two tree branches, but the mild air still withers for the most part. however, in scotland, it's starting to turn colder once again, and through monday we're likely to see some further accumulations of hill snow above 200 metres elevation. some of the higher hills here could see around 5 to ten centimetres. and then as the colder air pushes southwards monday night, there is a risk of seeing a bit of snow across the hills of northern ireland, northern england

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