one of the first people to sign that letter was paralympic legend baroness tanni grey thompson. assuming you've seen the arts and culture recovery fund of 1.5 billion and thought sport should get the same — why? yes, we are in difficult times, we have to recognise that, i think if you look at the beginning of the pandemic him everybody welcome hospitality and tourism sector getting a 5% reduction down. but some sectors didn't get that and is uniquely placed. i understand with the prime minister is saying to think about the economy but the leisure sector helps build the economy and think about the health of the nation which is incredibly important right now. with lots of things that are going gone, the sector has just been sort of forgotten and all the discussions in the base. how precarious would say the base. how precarious would say the industry is in, and how precarious is the situation? very precarious. 35% of local leisure provision is not open. there is a printer to the 4a8% of local provision to disappear, we cannot keep going. —— there is a chance to 48%. not all of the

one of the first people to sign that letter was paralympic legend baroness tanni grey thompson.onomy and think about the health of the nation, which is incredibly important right now. so it does seem with lots of things that are going on that the sector has just been forgotten. it's very precarious. there's a potential for 48% of local precision —— provision to disappear. not all of those centres are in places where people from poor backgrounds come from, but a significant number of them are. looking at the sector, it has 600,000 people. because it's not may be immediately that the size and scale of the sector is not immediately known, people don't realise the impact this could have on the health of our nation. it has massive long—term implications for the health of everybody. finally, england'sjofra archer was in sparkling form in the indian premier league this afternoon, but this time, it was his batting rather than lightning quick bowling that did the damage. archer hammered four sixes as he made 27 not out, from just eight balls for his side the rajasthan royals. he later to