fulham and middlebrough drew i—i.n their first league game since being relegated last season. but boro left craven cottage with a point thanks to marc bola's second—half equaliser. coventry came from behind to beat nottingham forest 2—1 at the cbs arena. kyle mcfadgzen scored the winner deep into injury time. four matches in the scottish premiership, celtic bounced back from their opening day defeat at hearts by thrashing dundee 6—0. new signing kyogo furuhashi with a hat—trick. it's two wins out of two for hibs, this time they beat ross county 3—0. jack mackenzie scored an injury time winner as aberdeen beat livingston 2—i. stjohnstone drew with motherwell. an emotional lionel messi broke down in tears today, as he spoke publicly for the first time since announcing his departure from barcelona. the 34—year—old revealed he didn't want to leave the spanish side — where he won ten league titles, and the champions league four times crowns but the club cannot afford to keep him. reginaldo rosario has this report. applause

in the championship, fulham have extended their lead at the top of the table after beating stoke 3—0t claimed their first point of the season, but they had to come from behind at derby after tom lawrence thumped the hosts into the lead. but brennanjohnson equalised with eight minutes remaining in the game to clinch the draw and relieve some of the pressure on manager chris hughton. queens park rangers are keeping up with the leaders, fulham — they go second, after beating coventry 2—0. reading's poor start continues. they were beaten 4—0 by huddersfield — who go fourth. elsewhere, wins for bristol city, preston and millwall. west brom kick off against peterborough in a few minutes — a win and they go level at the top. both the edinburgh sides are the early leaders in the scottish premiership. hearts and hibs both won 2—0 today — against dundee united and livingston respectively. rangers and celtic play in the old firm derby tomorrow lunchtime. to drama in qualifying for the belgian grand prix now, which was brought to a halt after a massive crash in treacherous conditions at one of t

football, and fulham are the early pace setters in the championship after beating millwall at the denhe lead, with aleksander mitrovic poking home from fabio carvalho's cross. and the youngster then went from provider to goal—scorer himself just five mins later. benik afobe scored late on for millwall but it finished 2—1 with fulham staying at the top of the league. and huddersfield claimed theirfirst league win of the season, beating preston north end at the king smith stadium thanks to an own goal from sepp van den berg. elsewhere in the championship stoke city's promising start to the season continued as they claimed an impressive 3—1 victory at swansea city, theyre in second. while there were also wins for luton town, coventry city and bristol city the chelsea striker tammy abraham has completed his move to italian serie a side roma for a fee of 34 million pounds. he's signed a five year deal which is understood to include a buy—back clause set at £68m. abra ham was chelsea's joint top scorer last season but found his opportunities limited after thomas tuchel took over mid season

two matches to tell you about in the championship as fulham and middlebrough drew 1—1 at craven cottage london with a point thanks to marc bola's second—half equaliser. coventry came from a goal behind to draw 1—1 with nottingham forest at the ricoh arena. —— to beat nottingham forest 2—1. kyle mcfadgzen scored the winner deep into injury time. four matches in the scottish premiership. celtic bounced back from their opening day defeat at hearts by thrashing dundee 6—0. new signing kyogo furuhashi with a hat—trick. it's two wins out of two for hibs, this time they beat ross county 3—0. jack mackenzie scored an injury time winner as aberdeen beat livingston 2—1. stjohnstone drew with motherwell. an emotional lionel messi broke down in tears today as he spoke publicly for the first time since announcing his departure from barcelona. the 34—year—old is leaving after 21 years at the club because they can't pay his desired wages. a six—time ballon d'or winner, messi saysjoining paris st—germain is now a possibility, but nothing is agreed. reginaldo rosario reports. applause it was the farewel

greg mckenzie reporting there from fulham.e causing supply chains. the manager of a poultry firm in abergavenny says a combination of the pandemic and brexit means they're getting around a tenth of the job applications they used to receive. and the boss of a welsh supermarket chain says the shortage of drivers is the central problem, as our economics correspondent sarah dickins has been finding out: so, this is the distribution centre for ck supermarkets based in llanelli. they've got 31 stores across wales, so i'm really interested in how the shortages are affecting them. joining me is chris kiley, who owns the business and set it up. chris, these shortages, how are you feeling them? well, we have got a lot of shortages going on but we have got got a lot of local suppliers, so, fortunately, we are doing a good job of it getting to our shops, but there is a lot of such shortages in the supermarket tray for sure. and what of the products that you are finding hardest to get from the big manufacturers? well, i think the big boys

fulham re the very early leaders after a thumping 5—1 win at huddersfield.outh, relegated last season, got their first win with a 2—1 victory at nottingham forest. you can see all the other results on a busy day in the efl on the bbc sport website. no scottish premiership action today, but there were three games in the second round of league cup. livingstone, who reached the final last season, are through to the last eight, beating st mirren on penalties. it finished 1—1 in normal time. dundee and dundee united also made it through. time now for some of the day's other sport stories. and 0lympic silver medallist cj ujah has denied any wrongdoing after a positive drugs test, having been provisionally suspended following great britain's 4 x 100 metre relay in tokyo. ujah said in a statement, "to be absolutely clear, i am not a cheat". toyota's takamoto katsuta had a lucky escape after crashing during stage ten of rally belgium. the force of the impact causing extensive damage to the japanese driver's car. his british team mate elvin evans is lying third overal

elsewhere in the championship, fulham beat hull city 2—0 to head to the top of the table.tively. sheffield united's terrible return to the championship continues though. were beaten by huddersfield town at bramall lane. there were also wins for cardiff, coventry, preston and birmingham. just two games in the scottish premiership today — but plenty of goals. most of them from celtic — they thumped 10 man st mirren 6—0. david turnbull with his first career hat trick. meanwhile livingston stay bottom of the table after losing 2—1 to motherwell. to rugby now, and hull fc narrowly beat hull kr by 23 points to 22 in a thrilling superleague derby. the two sides were level with just over half an hour's play remaining, when bureta faraimo crossed over to put hull 4 points ahead. but marc sneeds crucial late drop goal proved to be the difference after a late kr try. still to come tonight, castleford host wakefield at 7 oclock sonnyboyliston won the ebor handicap in a photo finish at york. the 10—1 shot, ridden by ben coen, and trained byjonny murtagh, edged out quickthorn with aloun

football, and fulham are the early pace setters in the championship after beating millwall at the denhe top of the league. and huddersfield claimed theirfirst league win of the season, beating preston north end at the king smith stadium thanks to an own goal from sepp van den berg. elsewhere in the championship stoke city's promising start to the season continued as they claimed an impressive 3—1victory at swansea city, theyre in second. while there were also wins for luton town, coventry city and bristol city. the chelsea striker tammy abraham has completed his move to italian serie a side roma for a fee of 34 million pounds. he's signed a five year deal which is understood to include a buy—back clause set at £68m. abraham was chelsea's joint top scorer last season but found his opportunities limited after thomas tuchel took over mid season and even more so with the big money arrival of romelu lukaku from inter milan. abraham has won six england caps and scored 30 goals in 82 appearances for chelsea, having joined them at the age of seven. to tennis — johanna konta has been beaten in

at little waitrose, sainsbury�*s local and tesco express on fulham palace road.t on the 24th of september. —— we willjust pause and take a look at the weather prospects now. here is stav danaos. hello there. tonight is going to be mainly dry. lengthy clear spells. light winds here, turning to see some of that sea fog missed running back into coastal parts of scotland, northern ireland, and patchy cloud for central and eastern parts of england. more of a breeze in the southeast. temperatures hold up in double figures, single figure values elsewhere. see function tend to burn back, and across the southeast, we had onto the priest, just the outside chance of a shower. 0therwise mostly dry. patchy cloud again across most of england and wales. top temperatures close to the mid—20s for central scotland. the close to that for... saturday looks like the warmest of the weekend. similar story for sunday and into monday. feeling a touch cooler than saturday. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... two of those killed in yesterday's attacks at kabul airport where british n

that was enough to see them jump ahead of fulham at the top on goal difference. of an hour to win at birmingham. a first win of the season for derby, whilst qpr spent most of the second half a man down, but still managed to beat middlesborough 4—3, while nottingham forest are still without a point after losing to blackburn. tennis — and andy murray is out of the cincinnati masters, after losing to ninth seed and wimbledon semi finalist, hubert hurkacz. it was the first meeting on the tour between the two players, with two—time champion murray losing a tie break before beaten in straight sets 7—6, 6—3 by the 24—year—old pole. british number two heather watson is also out. she lost to world number one, ashleigh barty, in straight sets. it was the australian's first match since losing in the first round at the tokyo olympics, and she needed a tie break to beat watson. to golf — and the final women's major of the year gets under way tomorrow. and this year's aig women's 0pen will be extra special for the winner at carnoustie. an increase in prize money means the cham

, sainsbury�*s local and tesco express on fulham palace road.e uk government says it's stopping civilian evacuations from kabul after today — and admits some people will be left behind. following yesterday's terror attacks at the airport, hospitals in kabul are overwhelmed with the wounded. president biden promises to hunt down those responsible. and a new study finds that the risk of blood clots from catching covid is nearly nine times than from having the vaccine. five years ago this weekend, the last bhs store closed forever — and since then other department store chains have also disappeared from the high street. in 2016, our main department store chains had a67 stores across the uk. but now — just 79 are left. more than 200 premises are still empty — however, some have been reborn — as our business correspondent emma simpson reports. look at all these lockers. yeah, this is a measure of the human scale of what's happened to bhs. there are 250 lockers in here. five years on, brand—new hotel bedrooms. the old bhs staff canteen, now a bustling

he�*s accused of visiting branches of tesco, waitrose and sainsbury�*s in fulham and contaminating amove extra universal credit payments this autumn. the mps say the £20 a week increase, originally brought in because of the pandemic, should be made permanent. they say taking it away would jeopardise the government�*s levelling up agenda. nick eardley reports. the number of endemic and since last march they have been getting an extra £20 a week, a temporary measure to help people through the pandemic. that is due to come to an end in october. for people like anthony, losing £80 a month could have a significant impact. i anthony, losing £80 a month could have a significant impact.— have a significant impact. i have to -a the have a significant impact. i have to pay the bills _ have a significant impact. i have to pay the bills and — have a significant impact. i have to pay the bills and once _ have a significant impact. i have to pay the bills and once i _ have a significant impact. i have to pay the bills and once i do - have a significant impact. i have to pay the bills and once i do

that was enough to see them jump ahead of fulham at the top on goal difference.tennis, and andy murray is out of the cincinnati masters, after losing to ninth seed and wimbledon semi finalist, hubert hurkacz. it was the first meeting on the tour between the two players, with two—time champion murray losing a tie break before beaten in straight sets 7—6, 6—3 by the 24—year—old pole. british number two heather watson is also out. she lost to world number one, ashleigh barty, in straight sets. it was the australian's first match since losing in the first round at the tokyo olympics, and she needed a tie break to beat watson. to golf, and the final women's major of the year gets under way tomorrow. and this year's aig women's 0pen will be extra special for the winner at carnoustie. an increase in prize money means the championship will become the most lucrative one we've seen on the women's calendar. craig templeton reports. don't be fooled by the scenic views — there's a reason why they call it "car—nasty". it has deep bunkers, fast fairways, and, when the sea breez

officers in forensic suits were seen in three shops in the fulham area of london following the incidents numbers of cases of the delta strain. the manchester city footballer benjamin mendy is to appear in court charged with four counts of rape, and one of sexual assault. police say the charges relate to three complainants aged over 16 and are alleged to have happened between october last year and this month. the 27—year—old has been suspended by the premier league club, which hejoined back in 2017. it's five years this weekend since the last bhs store closed its doors for good, and since then other department store chains have also disappeared from the high street. bbc analysis shows that more than 200 premises that were once occupied by those big stores are still empty. but some have been reborn. emma simpson reports. look at all these lockers! this is a representation of the human— this is a representation of the human scale of what has happened to be hs~ _ human scale of what has happened to be hs. there were 500 locus year. —— bhs _ five years on, brand—new hotel bedrooms. the old bh