now it's time for a look at today's sport with will perry. hello from the bbc sport centre. chelsea say they're delighted to welcome frank lampard back to the club as caretaker manager until the end of the season. his return comes a little over two years after he was sacked and replaced by thomas tuchel. the former chelsea midfielder has been out of a job since being dismissed by everton injanuary. he held his first press conference ahead of saturday's game against wolves in the premier league and says the opportunity came as a bit of a suprise. ididn't i didn't think i'd never be in this seat, i'm a confident person, i want to work hard, i understand the game and this club i have a big connection with, but if i'm honest, it wasn't my thought that one day i'll be back as chelsea manager because myjob is to be as good a

manager as i can be. unfinished business sounds a bit hollywood, it sounds like you are looking for a great line. i want to work and help this club as much as i can. let's get more on frank lampard's cheslea return with olly kay, senior football writer at the athletic. some chelsea fans will be questioning the direction of the club and might feel this is a backward step.— club and might feel this is a backward ste. �* , , ., backward step. i've been questioning the direction — backward step. i've been questioning the direction of _ backward step. i've been questioning the direction of the _ backward step. i've been questioning the direction of the club _ backward step. i've been questioning the direction of the club for - backward step. i've been questioning the direction of the club for 12 - the direction of the club for 12 months, i think they've made a number of terrible decisions with the transfer market and a lot of this has come from sacking a manager at the start of the season which i don't think they needed to do but despite being a serial critic of this regime or cereals cynic —— serial cynic, i think this gives them breathing space where they look for a new manager, it's an interim appointment and he knows the club well and the immediate task. i don't see a downside to it. i see a lot of

people getting hysterical about it but i think it's the most sensible thing they've done in the 12 months they have been there. do you think the likes ofjulian naglesman and luis enrique still in the long term picture? there have been various reports about them approaching various candidates already, notjust them but perhaps pochettino and other surprising names. i don't quite know how many they are going to talk to but it makes sense, if you're going to be talking to all these candidates and going through a thorough process, it would be very hard to do that without a permanent manager in situ. it hard to do that without a permanent manager in situ.— manager in situ. it would be a great dilemma but _ manager in situ. it would be a great dilemma but what _ manager in situ. it would be a great dilemma but what if _ manager in situ. it would be a great dilemma but what if he _ manager in situ. it would be a great dilemma but what if he does - manager in situ. it would be a great dilemma but what if he does a - manager in situ. it would be a great i dilemma but what if he does a robert di matteo and wins the champions league? it’s di matteo and wins the champions leauue? �* , ., di matteo and wins the champions leauue? �*, ., ., di matteo and wins the champions leauue? ., , , league? it's a remote possibility, i don't think chelsea _ league? it's a remote possibility, i don't think chelsea are _ league? it's a remote possibility, i don't think chelsea are going - league? it's a remote possibility, i don't think chelsea are going to . league? it's a remote possibility, i| don't think chelsea are going to win the champions league. they didn't

when they appointed robert di matteo in 2012 as an interim and their champions league wins have generally come in seasons where you wouldn't have thought they would happen so i suppose there is that as a norman but i can't see that happening, it would be a very nice position for them to be in and have that kind of choice but i cannot see it happening. the dp world tour has today won its legal battle against liv golfers. an arbitration panel has sided with them determining that they were correct to impose sanctions on 12 liv members for leaving the tour to play in saudi arabia—funded events. i believe the dp world tour acted reasonably, it has a legitimate and justifiable interest in protecting the rights of its membership, the sanctioned members committed serious breaches of the code of behaviour and they also said that the fines imposed of hundreds of thousands for

the players who breached the code of conduct must be paid within 30 days. 18 liv players including six former champions will compete for the green jacket at the masters which is offically underway at augusta. the pga tour's tiger woods is the next big name to tee off in around 30 minutes. rory mcilroy will get his campaign underway in the penultimate group. the northern irishman, is attempting to become the sixth player to win the career grand slam. he follows defending champion scottie scheffler. and that's all the sport for now. buckingham palace says it is cooperating with an independent study into the links between the british monarchy and the save trade in the 17th and 18th centuries. the palace is granting researchers from the university of manchester full access to the royal archives and the royal collection. the study will be completed in 2026. live now to professor trevor burnard, the director of the wilberforce institute for the study of slavery and emancipation at the university of hull.

what did you make of this move today by buckingham palace?— by buckingham palace? firstly i think it's a _ by buckingham palace? firstly i think it's a very _ by buckingham palace? firstly i think it's a very welcome - by buckingham palace? firstly i think it's a very welcome move. by buckingham palace? firstly i l think it's a very welcome move. i think it's a very welcome move. i think it's a very welcome move. i think it is overdue and it's a very welcome a move and it talks about and shows how we are increasingly realising how important slavery is in the making of this nation and its empire in the 17th and 18th century. it's part of a trend among many institutions like the bank of england, the church of england, the guardian, lloyd's insurance, many other places to look hard at their history and how it was involved with slavery. it talks about how slavery wasn't something that just slavery. it talks about how slavery wasn't something thatjust happen somewhere else overseas but had a direct impact on people here and it was a majorfoundation direct impact on people here and it was a major foundation of wealth and prosperity in the 18th century. i would also say that the royal family should go further than what they have done, they've been rather slow

coming to this particular point and they've been certainly slow at taking personal responsibility for their role in the save trade. when william prince of wales went to jamaica last year, he was saying sorry is if slavery had nothing to do with the royal family. but there's more to do with this country being directly involved, charles ii set at the royal african company, james ii was its governor, and both james ii was its governor, and both james ii was its governor, and both james ii and william iii were involved in making money from it in the 17th century. the royal african company transported more enslaved africans to the american apple mac than any other institution in history. queen and negotiated a deal with the spanish king to ship and —— ship enslaved people and george the first and george ii is not only made personal investments in slavery but a considerable amount of money from

those investments, and william iv who ironically was the king after whom the abolition of slavery occurred in 183a, but in 1807 when they were talking about the abolition of the slavery trade, he was very loud as a principle defender of slavery in general. 0ne defender of slavery in general. one of the things the royal family should do, and it is welcome that they are doing this and opening the archives and providing ways in which we can look at slavery and the links between slavery and the monarchy in the nation, but we need to be thinking about their own responsibility as a family and that's what places like the caribbean will be looking at to see that it's not only something that's just happened but something that the royal family was closely involved with. i royal family was closely involved with. ., , royal family was closely involved with. , , w royal family was closely involved with. ,, .,~ ., .,

with. i was speaking to someone in granada -- — with. i was speaking to someone in granada -- grenade _ with. i was speaking to someone in granada -- grenade are _ with. i was speaking to someone in granada -- grenade are early - with. i was speaking to someone in| granada -- grenade are early thinks granada —— grenade are early thinks prince charles was an outlier and could be the monarch to change the narrative around this. do you have that same faith? i narrative around this. do you have that same faith?— narrative around this. do you have that same faith? i do, the things he is doinu that same faith? i do, the things he is doing shows _ that same faith? i do, the things he is doing shows he _ that same faith? i do, the things he is doing shows he is _ that same faith? i do, the things he is doing shows he is on _ that same faith? i do, the things he is doing shows he is on an - that same faith? i do, the things he is doing shows he is on an onward l is doing shows he is on an onward journey, learning about this particular institution, just as people in the country are learning about how british people were involved in slavery in all sorts of ways. i think it's a first step and a journey he is on to connect the royal family directly to slavery and i think it would be good for the british royal family and it will be very good for this country and for the peoples of the commonwealth to really deal with something which was such an important part of our past, such an important part of our past, such an important part of how britain and its empire was made and

which has such a direct impact on all sorts of things in the present. thank you, trevor. here in the uk, an investigation into claims that a conservative mp was sacked as a government minister for being muslim is expected to clear the former party chief whip of breaking the ministerial code but identify lessons to be learned. nus ghani claimed she was told her "muslimness was raised as an issue" when she lost herjob as transport minister in february 2020. let's get the latest from our political correspondent jonathan blake. can you give us the background to this report? it goes back to a claim from nus ghani, a conservative mp who says that when she was sacked as transport minister under boris johnson in 2020 she was told by the then chief whip mark spencer in charge of party discipline that her muslimness had been raised as an

issue. she went public with her concerns and borisjohnson ordered his ethics adviser to begin an investigation. rishi sunak as prime minister subsequently appointed a new adviser and picked up this inquiry which has now been published. the report of which has now been published in the last hour and the six pages of it detail the claims and counter claims involved. but it essentially concludes that while both nus ghani and mark spencer, the two key players in this dispute, are convinced of what they say, they hold a very different and have given very different accounts of key meetings involved, particularly that crucial meeting between nus ghani and mark spencer where those comments are alleged to have been made. no breach of the ministerial code but it does say lessons need to be learned.

stay with us on bbc news, matthews here next. bye—bye. hello, it may be hard to believe that there is going to be a first across many parts of the country tonight. it follows the rain over most parts of the country, just clearing in england but this ridge of high pressure will tend to build, killing off the showers, giving us clearer skies and dropping temperatures. these are the temperatures as we head towards the early part of the evening, nothing to write home about. still some showers around across the east of the uk, a lot of those tending to fade but we will keep some cloud pushing down some of the eastern coasts into east anglia, keeping temperatures here higher

but elsewhere, clear skies and light winds so for the rest especially in northern ireland we will have a slight frost, temperatures —2 or —3. a chilly start to good friday, we start sunning in most places. as temperatures rise through the day, that will generate some cloud, especially across eastern parts of england with cloud coming from the north sea, could bring one or two spots of rain in the north—east of england and temperatures typically around 11—13 celsius, near normal for this time of year. heading into the weekend, the high—pressure keeping these weather fronts at bay for the time being, the second push will be more significant as we head towards easter monday. for saturday, i think we'll start chilly, there will be some sunshine around, probably seeing cloud developing through the day. probably more of a southerly breeze especially in the west of the uk but those temperatures are not changing a great deal, could make ia degrees in glasgow and

a top of 15 in london. into easter sunday, we start dry with a good deal of sunshine, again we see some cloud developing through the day and maybe some rain coming towards northern ireland by the end of the afternoon. it could be that easter sunday is the warmest of the next few days with temperatures around 15—17 . for easter monday, the rain that we have coming into northern ireland pushes eastwards, it may well hang on across east anglia and the south—east for a while but otherwise, it will be followed by sunshine but also some showers, a breezy day and temperatures likely to be a little bit lower.

live from london. this is bbc news big protests on the streets again in france — over the change to the pension age. this is the scene — as disruption continues to rock the capital emmanuel macron urges china's president to help stop the war in ukraine — asking china to �*bring russia to its senses�*. buckingham palace says it's co—operating with an independent study into the british monarchy�*s links to the slave trade.