andy swiss rounds up on the first lap. andy swiss rounds up the race from silverstone.ring silverstinem lewis hamilton and 140,000 fans hoping for history. -- silverstone. from poll position his chances of a record sixth win here were soon sent spinning. a sluggish start, a collision and in the blink of an eye hamilton was down to 18th, his race seemingly over. but boldly, brilliantly he surged through the field and back into contention before more twists, two crashes interrupting the race thankfully all drivers unhurt. the resulting sha ke—up produced some finish. sebastian vettel taking the lead before hamilton also went past up to second place, but he cannot quite catch sebastian. the german taking the chequered flag ahead of his title run. what drama these fans have seen and what a fight back from lewis hamilton, but his hopes of a record win here have agonisingly ended in frustration. this is the greatest crowd and i'm sorry i was not able to bring it home for you today, but thank you so much for your support. it's oyu guys that helped me get through today so we ta

andy swiss was watching.a sweltering silverstone, lewis hamilton and 140,000 fans hoping for history. but from pole position, his chances of a record sixth win here were soon sent spinning. a sluggish start, a collision, and in the blink of an eye hamilton was down to 18th, his race seemingly over. but boldly, brilliantly, he surged through the field and back into contention, before more twists — two crashes interrupting the race, thankfully all drivers unhurt. the resulting shake—up, though, produced some finish, sebastian vettel taking the lead from bottas, before hamilton also went past up to second. but he couldn't quite catch vettel, the german taking the chequered flag ahead of his title run. well, what drama these fans have seen, and what a fight—back from lewis hamilton. but his hopes of a record win here have agonisingly ended in frustration. vettel now leads the championship by eight points on a day with hamilton's champagne moment did not materialise. andy swiss, bbc news, silverstone. i think it i

andy swiss, bbc news, chingford.e prospects. good morning, we are getting used to things like this across the country and in fact we had some amazing weather watcher photographs sent in yesterday, this is just photographs sent in yesterday, this isjust one of photographs sent in yesterday, this is just one of them through north wales. hardly a cloud in the sky, perfect dog walking weather. subtle changes are coming in the weather story through today, cloudy conditions for many of us and even the chance of a shower. why? the area of high pressure that has been influencing this story is losing its grip and allows this plume of moisture to move into the south—west, where we are likely to see more showers across the channel and south—west england and south wales but as we go through the morning, cloud will gather and pushing into southern england and at the same time from lincolnshire up in the eastern england, we start off cloudy and some of the cloud pushes into scotland as we go through the day. by the mid afternoon t

andy swiss, bbc news, chingford.son are ‘horrendous and chaotic‘. the prison was the scene of a riot involving 600 prisoners in 2016. now, the chairman of its monitoring board says inmates are living in inhumane conditions. g45, which runs the site, insists it is in control and is making improvements. from birmingham, sima kotecha reports. december 2016 and hmp birmingham saw the worst prison riot in decades. it took 12 hours before the authorities were back in charge. this is me having one of my attacks. 18 months later and one of the prison‘s former officers says he's suffering from severe anxiety after working at the jail. his wife recently filmed him having a panic attack. sobs: what have i done? he describes the privately—run jail as being at a crisis point. it was absolutely horrendous. you didn't really have any control of the prisoners. the prisoners were controlling you. the prisoners were running the jail. he says he was dismissed by g4s in october on medical grounds. hmp birmingham... a recent video filmed

andy swiss, bbc news, chingford.t colombia are just singing their national anthem. our moscow correspondent sarah rainsford is outside the ground. not sure if there are any stragglers trying to get in. imagine nobody wa nts to trying to get in. imagine nobody wants to mess. who do you think are the more confident sets of fans?” would have to say that talking to a fair number of them, the england fa ns fair number of them, the england fans are extremely confident. talking to them all day today, i haven't heard one admit england might lose this. lots of them saying it could be close but they think colombia will be no walkover but they cannot admit england might lose. the colombians pretty confident, too. they have been talking about a 2—0, 1—0 victory. they are here in huge numbers, we have just heard their anthem. i think... there we go, god save the queen coming out of the top of the spartak stadium in moscow. both sides determined that this is the match they can and will win. huge expectations, huge pressure on both

andy swiss, bbc news, la roche—sur—yon.t week sees a spectacular display in the skies over london to celebrate its 100th anniversary. sophie raworth has been taking a look at the life of her own grandfather edwin, who was one of the raf‘s original pilots. it's really heavy! my goodness. it's so heavy! it started with a battered suitcase in my parents' cellar. wow, oh, my goodness, look at that. my grandfather had rarely spoken about his service with the royal flying corps. he'd forged his birth certificate tojoin up at 17, and here, along with his uniform cap, were clues to his experiences in the closing months of the first world war. the role of air power changed dramatically during the war. unarmed tiny machines designed for taking pictures of the battlefields quickly evolved into fighter planes and bombers. amazing, these planes. yeah, absolutely, and here is a be2. that's what my grandfather flew, the be2. absolutely, it's this type here. the construction is amazing. it's a wooden frame around which is stretched the iri

andy swiss, bbc news, silverstone. did not quite materialise. staying with motorsport, some sad news, the northern irish racer william dunlop has died in a crash in dublin. it was taking part in practice the skerry ‘s in dublin. it was taking part in practice the skerry's100 race when the crash happened. it brings more tragedy for the dunlop family, as wm barr ‘s mike father robert and uncle j°ey barr ‘s mike father robert and uncle joey also lost their lives —— wm barr is mike father robert and uncle j°ey barr is mike father robert and uncle joey also lost their lives in motor races. “— joey also lost their lives in motor races. —— william's father. chris froome managed to avoid a crash on the second stage of the tour de france but the defending champion is over a minute behind slovakia's peter sagan, with the black helmet here. slovakia's peter sagan, he won the stage, in this exciting sprint to the finish, to take the leader's yellowjersey. sprint to the finish, froome, who's 84th right now, will hope to make up some ground in tomorrow's team

andy swiss rounds up the race., lewis hamilton and 140,000 fans hoping for history. but from pole position his chances of a record sixth win here were soon sent spinning. a sluggish start, a collision, and in the blink of an eye hamilton was down to 18th, his race seemingly over. but boldly, brilliantly, he surged through the field and back into contention before more twists, two crashes interrupting the race, thankfully all drivers unhurt. the resulting shake—up, though, produced some finish. sebastian vettel taking the lead from bottas before hamilton also went past up to second place, but he couldn't quite catch sebastian. the german taking the chequered flag ahead of his title run. what drama these fans have seen and what a fight back from lewis hamilton, but his hopes of a record win here have agonisingly ended in frustration. vettel now leads the championship by eight points on a day when hamilton ‘s champagne moment did not quite materialise. andy swiss, bbc news, silverstone. it fell a bit flat for him toda

this isn't long—term thinking. 0ur sports correspondent andy swiss followed today's hearing and explainso keen to sell wembley off. martin glenn said he was shocked when the idea of selling wembley was first put to him but he believes selling wembley would allow them to accelerate change rather than waiting around for someone else to give them money to improve grassroots facilities. the fa say they believe this is a transformative they believe this is a tra nsformative opportunity, they they believe this is a transformative opportunity, they say it would allow them to develop a new generation of 3g artificial pitches and improve the current facilities. and a fans representative, katrina ball, from the football supporters federation, she said her organisation conducted a pull that shows fans opinions were split, a 3rd in favour of the sale and a third against and a third waiting for more detail. as for what happens next, any sale would have to be approved by the government and by sport england and by the greater london authority because they put money into the rebuilding of the stadium. b

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andy swiss, bbc news, chingford.on brighton beach where fans have gathered to watch the game. tell us about the atmosphere. it looks pretty relaxed. yes. as you can imagine, the excitement is on, pubs filling across the country, huge screens erected up and down the country like the one we have here on brighton beach. as you point out, rather quiet. people are still starting to arrive, but we are expecting more than 2500 people on the beach here in brighton to witness england go up against colombia at seven tonight. it's a match in which england cannot afford any mistakes. a lot of the people who are coming here tonight have already been here for the three previous matches and they want to see another england win. of course, if england lose tonight, that's the end of the road for them in this world cup. but people think and they are already saying that they will be back on this same beach on saturday night, when england go into the quarterfinals and play sweden after sweden won against switzerland earlier today 1—o. s

andy swiss was at silverstone.lton and 1a0,000 fans hoping for history. silverstone, lewis hamilton and 140,000 fans hoping for historym is lights out and away we go. from pole position, his chances of a sixth win were sent spinning. bush sluggish start, he was sent spinning and then he was down to 18th, his race open. but boldly he surged through the field and back into contention. before more terse, two crushes interrupting the race. tha nkfully crushes interrupting the race. thankfully nobody was hurt. the resulting shake—up produced some finish. sebastian vettel taking the lead from valtteri bottas before lewis hamilton went to second. he couldn't catch that. the german taking his chequered flag ahead of his title rival. what a fightback from lewis hamilton book is hopes of a record win here have ended in frustration. vettel now leads the championship by eight points on a day when lewis hamilton's champagne moment didn't quite materialise. the defending champion, chris froome avoided a crash on the second stage

our sports news correspondent andy swiss reports. booths, whistles and jeers.pular with many french fans, and a recent investigation into a reading fan asthma drug used to have sealed that hostility. this week, he was cleared of any wrongdoing, and had this message to those booing him. you are coming toa message to those booing him. you are coming to a sporting event, it is fair enough if you don‘t support me, we don‘t support team sky, but put the jersey of honour someone who you do support, stand there and do that something positive. well, chris froome has even written a message into dave‘s le monde newspaper, reiterating that he has been cleared of any wrongdoing, and praising the french fans as the most passionate in cycling. what happened here last night, suggest he could be in for a rough ride. at previous tours, froome has been abused, is that it, and even had your in thrown at him. he says he is not worried about his 50. despite recent controversies and criticism, they have never done anything wrong. i am absolutely 10096 confident that we did everythin

our sports correspondent andy swiss is here to tell us more — what's the fa's plan?the select committee this afternoon arranged specifically to talk about the wembley issue, and for the fa it is really a chance for them to outline the benefits as they see it that selling wembley would have the grassroots game. the fa see at the moment only one in three pitches at grassroots level is of adequate quality. one in six matches, they say, are called off due to poor pictures. at the moment the fa and its partners invest around £30 million a year in community facilities and they say by selling wembley it will enable them to more than triple that figure to around £100 million a year. they have called it a transformative opportunity. they say the investment would allow them to create new artificial pitches so every team would be able to train on 3—d pictures, it would enable them to improve training, referees, coaching, so they see as a huge opportunity for the grassroots game. what will happen at parliament this afternoon? we will hear a range of viewpoints, funnily enough, t

i spoke to andy swiss our sports correspondent, who explained the stance of the fa.at grassroots level is of adequate quality, one in six matches they say are called off because of poor pitches. at the moment the fa and its partners invest around £30 million a year in community facilities. they say that by selling wembley would unable them to more than treble that figure to around £100 million a year. so what will happen at parliament this afternoon? we will hear a range of viewpoints, the former international gary neville will be giving evidence. he was particularly outspoken back in april, when times this potential sale first came to light. he said back in april the idea was absurd, he said it was short—term play that would be regretted forever. we will also hear evidence from the fa chief executive martin glenn, also from sports minister tracey crouch. obviously the potential sale of the home of ingush football is a pretty emotive issue so we could be in for a pretty lively afternoon. in the last half hour or so we've been hearing from the new chelsea manager maur