disappointment for alfie hewett. that is it from sportsday. next it is time for meet the author.as been having a long love affair with greece and her bestselling novels have led her army of readers from island to island and into the greek experience. in ca rtes postales, she takes a new step. you see the pictures, from the mysterious postcards that begin to arrive one by one for ellie from she knows not by whom at the start. and it is the story of a journey of discovery to greece and its past, its culture, its whole history that unravels the secrets of the cards. welcome. this is a novel about postcards, or at least it begins with the arrival of postcards. and we actually see them on the page! now, what made you decide to do that? i wanted to give my readers real, live images of greece. when i'm researching i always take a lot of photographs myself, so when i'm back in england writing i'm surrounded by them. you put them on your wall? your desk? put them on the wall! i print them out in a very old fashioned way. you're in greece? i am in greece! i thought why can't i share images

the bbc sport website, including the british wheelchair tennis championships, where britain's alfie hewettrld athletics championships — with reaction to usain bolt‘s race. many thanks for that. that's it. you can see more today's stories on the bbc news channel. firmino wrestler team, have a very good night. hello, this is bbc news. millions of rail passengers are facing three weeks of disruption, as work to update the uk's busiest railway station got underway earlier today. the revamp of london's waterloo station is costing £800 million. ten of the station's i9 platforms are being closed, which means a significantly reduced service while it is carried out. this phase of the upgrade is due to be finished by the 28th of august. our correspondent simonjones has spent the day at waterloo. this work is going to last more than three weeks. this is already the busy station in the country, it will get even busier, with 30% more capacity. how will they do that? they have already started the work. this is one of the platforms that they will lengthen so they can take longer trains in future, and tha

alfie hewett is to do the final of the british open wheelchair tennis championships in nottingham forbeat gordon reedin semifinal and hewitt beat gordon reed in three sets. he will face the world number one argentinian tomorrow. in the first round of by tomorrow. in the first round of rugby league super eight qualifiers, featherstone rovers were beaten by 38 points to 12, gregg mcnally scoring the two tries there. and in france, catalan dragons came from behind to beat london broncos by 20 points— 18, lewis anderson scoring what turned out to be the winning try there. moto gp returned from its mid—season break with world champion mark marquez taking pole for tomorrow's czech grand prix, there we re tomorrow's czech grand prix, there were mixed fortunes for british riders. he ignored medical advise not to take part in qualifying after hurting his back during this 180 mile an hour crashed in practice. remarkably, he shrugged off the paint to qualify in the first, keeping his hopes alive of repeating his historic victory here. sam lowes was not so fortunate. he is 22nd on the grid. alist