the olympic curling champion, eve muirhead has announced her retirement from the sport.l be a step closer to finding out which uk town or city will host next year's eurovision song contest. 13 places have already shown interest — but they'll be whittled down to a shortlist, which will be announced tomorrow. and the final winner will be revealed in the autumn. eurovision's most recent host was turin, and our correspondent, daniel rosney, has been to hear some of the advice on offer from there. three months ago sam ryder gave an out—of—this—world performance. 183 points. the country that wins normally gets to put on eurovision the following year, but the uncertainty of what the situation will be in ukraine meant it was offered to the bbc instead. a uk city will now take on the role after turin's success this year. 0ur city has been known all over the world. we had an increase of visitors and especially we had a 40% increase of visitors from abroad. turin spent more than £10 million on the event, but officials acknowledge rising costs we're seeing globally would make that m

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and eve muirhead has announced her retirement from curling.british women's team to gold at this year's beijing winter olympics. it was her fourth games, having first led the team at vancouver in 2010. muirhead took to social media to thank her team—mates, friends and family for their support, saying she was looking forward to exploring more opportunities and getting her golf clubs out. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. let's go back to the current hot weather and dry spell in the uk. the body representing water companies says it appears inevitable that a drought will be declared in britain. water uk says firms are working to repair leaks and prevent water wastage. jess langton is a dairy farmer in derbyshire. she's also a student and a young farmer's ambassador. earlier she told my colleague lukwesa burak about the impact the weather is having on herfarm. normally at this time of year they would be outside but due to the dry weather we have had to keep them in

and coming up on the bbc news channel: eve muirhead calls time on her curling career. skip retires as an olympic champion and hopes her success inspires girls in years to come. good evening. an amber extreme heat warning has come into force until sunday with temperatures expected to reach 37 celsius in some places over the weekend. a drought could also be declared tomorrow for some parts of england, with government officials, the water companies and groups including the national farmers�* union due to meet to discuss the prolonged dry weather. the met office alert for southern, central and some of northern england, and also parts of wales, runs until sunday. the met office has also issued its highest alert for fire severity, warning there's an "exceptional" risk of blazes spreading. this was the picture today, with high temperatures stretching to the north of england and into scotland, although the north of scotland is much cooler. our correspondent sarah campbell reports. earlier today in west sussex, one of two fires which destroyed acres of crops. there were similar

olympic curling champion eve muirhead who led team gb to gold in beijing earlier this year — has announcedmentous moment for muirhead. i don't think anything made the decision easy and i had to make the right decision mainly for myself and i do think that this was the time and this was the time to hang up my curling shoes from the elite level and as you say, i've had such a stellar season it's always nice to go out on the top. it was the hardest decision i ever had to make because it's hard to say goodbye to the kind of training aspect of going into the national curling academy every single day and travelling the world and living out of a suitcase and there is left on the side of curling, isn't there and that's what i want to explore. there's been so many eyes, two olympic medals, three road medals there's been so many eyes, two olympic medals, three world medals and ten european metals at senior level. i think but the favour highlight is so many fantastic to my career and standards and top of that podium at the olympic gold—medal was the highlight. they have got the gold. i think my emoti

eve muirhead says the decision to call time on her career was the toughest of her life.team at vancouver in 2010, but she has today announced her retirement from the sport. i made the decision and i stuck with it. a lot of time, it was like, are you sure you are doing the right thing? and, yeah, i knewi you sure you are doing the right thing? and, yeah, i knew i was. someone said to me several years back you will know any time is right, when you want to stop, and i remember waking up one day and thinking, do you know what? i think it is time. i spoke to my mum and dad, i spoke to close friends, and it wasn't long until i decided that this definitely was the right time. in the men's hundred, 0val invincibles are giving chase in their match with northern superchargers at the 0val. we can dip into some live pictures. the visitors made 157—7 in their innings, after being put in to bat. captain faf du plessis was caught off the bowling of hilton cartwright for nine. adam lyth went on to make 79. in reply, as you can see, 49 more runs are needed with 27 balls left, and you can

eve muirhead says the decision to call time on her career was the toughest of her life.s beijing winter olympics. it was her fourth games, having first led the team at vancouver in 2010. but she has today announced her retirement from the sport. i made a decision and i stuck with it. a lot of the time it was, "are you sure you're doing the right thing?" and i knew i was. someone said to me several years back that he will know when the time is right when you want to stop. i remember waking up one day and thinking, "you know what? i think it is time." i spoke to my parents and close friends, and it wasn't long before i decided that this was definitely the right time. the busy summer of sport continues, after the world athletics championships and the commonwealth games. it's time for another multi—sport event to take centre stage. the european championships are under way in munich. over the next 11 days, medals will be won across nine different sports. and team gb already have a silver medal in the gymnastics. alice kinsella was on the podium. she picked up two gold medal m

eve muirhead has announced her retirement from curling.uver in 2010. muirhead posted a thank you on social media to her teammates, friends and family for their support, saying she was looking forward to exploring more opportunities and getting her golf clubs out. that's all the sport for now. paul, thank you very much for that. we are going to head to ukraine now. it is difficult to calculate accurately how many people have been killed since russia invaded the country. the challenge of identifying and repatriating the bodies of soldiers means that only about 400 fighters have been returned home. 0wen davies reports from eastern ukraine on the efforts to find ukraine was mcfarlane. at the very start of this war, russian soldiers were filmed entering the suburbs of kharkiv. some of the fiercest fighting took place in and around this eastern city of kharkiv, and while the russian troops were eventually repelled, kharkiv came under relentless shelling and rocket attack. some occupied villages between kharkiv and the nearby russian border have

i am looking forward to talking to eve muirhead.or 50 years. a chance to reconnect with the past or practice for the future. so out they come into the arena. fun and games outside, but inside, a battle to see who the present belongs to. so this is her big acrobatic... the women's all around final, and great britain'sjessica gadirova saw her chances of a medal fall away early on. she's ok, that's the main thing. here it comes. her team mate, alice kinsella, meanwhile, was a picture of calm until the curse of the beam struck again. she fights so hard, and she stays on her feet. still, a near—flawless routine on the floor ensured she'd end with a silver medal to go with last week's commonwealth games gold. commentator: well! my body's tired. i'm mentally tired. but it has been a dream of mine to come away of an all around medal. so that is always in the back of my head. and now i can finally say i have one. 0ne gold down here in munich, 176 to go. and, look, gymnasts do defy gravity, but if you want to take things up a notch, why not a

and eve muirhead has announced her retirement from curling.'s all the sport for now. see you later, paul. thank you very much. thank you very much. new research by the bbc has shown that dozens of swimming pools have closed across the uk in the past three years. the local government association has warned that families on limited budgets are disproportionately affected by the closures as opportunities for learning to swim and taking exercise disappear. the government says it has provided a billion pounds to ensure the survival of grassroots and professional sport. emily unia reports. learning life—saving skills on the beach. great in fine weather, but in winter, the water's too cold. and falmouth now has no public swimming pool. we're surrounded by water. we should, you know, it's really critical in cornwall that kids can learn to swim, because a, obviously in terms of future lifeguards, but, b, just having the confidence and knowing what to do in the water is so critical. i was tiny when i started swimming. and it used to be my favourite plac