that's andy fordham who's died at the age of 59.ecutive stage to tighten his grip on the yellowjersey with three stages to go. today's 18th stage was the last mountainous one in the pyrenees, and it was a race to the line between the top three in the overall standings. pogacar beatjonas vingegaard and richard carapaz who remain second and third. the slovenian extended his lead to 5 minutes and 45 seconds. and that's all the sport for now. hello again of full uk forecast in a moment but let's cast an eye on what's been going on in europe and not severe weather. this is the radar picture from wednesday that we chose a line of severe thunderstorms just walked in the same areas for ourfun hour upon hour. we think the heaviest rain was towards the southwest of bonn were hundred and 50 mm of rain fell in 20 for eight hours that looks to be three times the amount of rain would normally see in the hole in the mouth ofjuly —— 24 has resulted in catastrophic floods. thejet —— 24 has resulted in catastrophic floods. the jet stream was largely

that's andy fordham who's died at the age of 59. pogacar beatjonas vingegaard and richard carapaz who remain second and third. the slovenian extended his lead to 5 minutes and 45 seconds. and that's all the sport for now. hello they are our son jane hello they are our sonjane that hello they are our son jane that was seenin hello they are our son jane that was seen in the uk believe it or not is linked to the extreme weather that were seen across other parts of europe flooding germany for example. these links by the jet stream, this is the pattern that we see, a very undulating jet stream, it means slow—moving weather. we had high pressure across the uk, low pressure bringing the rain across central europe. that low pressure will move eastwards across your potentially taking new rain away from germany. high—pressure building bringing a lot of dry weather in the next few days. with the sunshine that we had on thursday temperatures in northern ireland reached 26 degrees making it the warmest day of the year so far across the country.

that's andy fordham who's died at the age of 59.e stage to tighten his grip on the yellowjersey with three stages to go. today's 18th stage was the last mountainous one in the pyrenees, and it came down to a race to the line between the top three in the overall standings. pogacar beatjonas vingegaard and richard carapaz — who remain second and third. the slovenian extended his lead to five minutes and 45 seconds. just one line boxing. deontay wilder's match against iceland yearly will now take place on the 9th of october. —— against tyson fury. that's all the sport for now. we'll have more for you on the bbc news channel later on. let's get more now on the statement issued this afternoon by england footballer bukayo sa ka. in it he addressed the racist abuse he received on his social media accounts following his penalty miss in the euro 2020 final. we can speak now to tute melaku, who's originally from ethopia but lives in reading. she runs a restaurant. she took to twitter to express her sadness and fear that there would be racist

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