frenchmanjonathan ivair has won stage three of the paris—nice as luis leon sanchez took the overall leaddescent late in the stage to make the most of their break into chatel—guyon, but ivair had the strength to ride away from the rest of the field. his compatriot arnaud demare who held the yellowjersey was fourth as he won the bunch sprint in the chasing peleton, but it wasn't close enough to retain the race lead, which went to sanchez. in the nba, houston looking for 16 wins ina in the nba, houston looking for 16 wins in a row. they haven't won the title since 1995, they are top at of the western conference at oklahoma city leading 32— 30 approaching half—time. until next time, it is by the now. —— bye for now. hello again. it felt like we had two different seasons across the uk yesterday, north to south. across northern areas in scotland, we had heavy snow causing transport disruption again. and temperatures struggled to get much above freezing. whereas further south, 11 degrees celsius and, indeed, we had some cloud breaks. and with the light winds around, it didn't feel too bad at al

and frenchmanjonathan ivair has won stage three of the paris—nice as luis leon sanchez took the overall, where we start with the champions league news that holders real madrid and liverpool are the first teams through to the quarter—finals, after respective aggregate wins over paris st germain and porto. real went through 5—2 on aggregate, with cristiano ronaldo scoring — making it a goal in every game he's played in the competition this year. when marco veratti was sent off it appeared all hope was lost, but minutes later edinson cavani scored to level it on the night, before casemiro made sure of the result and their place in the last eight. translation: i think it all went well, we had a good