campaign underway in paris on friday night. wherever you're watching around the world. we start with the europa league, as lazio and athletic bilbao qualified in first and second with the league stage drawing to a close. that means avoiding the play—off phase. with kobbie mainoo providing the assist. in bucharest.

but then 20—year—old substitute dane scarlett opened the scoring. sealing the victory, meaning they finish fourth. to ensure they avoided the play—off round it all fell into place.

lazio and athletic bilbao first and second, level on points. frankfurt were beaten 2—0 by roma and so dropped from second to fifth. at nice, as did anderlecht, who lost 4—3 to hoffenheim. roma started the day in 21st, but with that win moved up to 16 seeded for the draw for the play—off phase. away at macabi tel—aviv. chelsea have signed barcelona midfielder keira walsh, with the deal reportedly worth close to $1 million including add—ons. earlier, i spoke to bbc women's

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that they give a very clear that is it from me. see you again soon. goodbye. hello. compared with some of the rather turbulent weather things for the next few days look a good deal quieter. so we've got this frontal system pushing its way

tending to clear away. of cloud as well across central and eastern england, across the southwest of england, wales, northeast scotland not doing badly either, temperatures around 6—10 degrees. but a fair bit of cloud i think will linger there could be some mist and murk around as well, and another zone of cloud pushing in towards northern ireland later in the night.

now, high pressure to the east of us, frontal systems trying this really is the setup for the weekend. so a lot of dry weather around on saturday, but a fair bit then we will see some sunshine, but all the while out so watch as we go through saturday night and on into sunday, this weather front just weakens, just breaks apart — and so what will be left with for sunday is, yes, a band of clouds and bits and pieces of rain, but nothing too significant. around once again.

but many places seeing some decent spells of sunshine.

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