harrogate town have been promoted to the football league for the first time in their history, beatingue promotion final at wembley. harrogate controlled the first half and were 2—0 up at the break, thanks to goals from george thomson and connor hall. county struck back in the second half through callum roberts, before jack diamond restored his side's 2 goal advantage. 3—1, it finished, sparking wild celebration among

i feel very privileged to be manager of harrogate town.dragons coach steve mcnamara. as the season resumed, the former australia rugby union international was among a small group who remained standing. dragons were thrashed 3a—6 by st helens. meanwhile, leeds went to the top of the table in stunning style, they recovered from 20 points down at huddersfield. luke gale landed a golden—point drop—goal in extra time to give them victory by 27—26. ronnie 0'sullivan was in devastating form as he began his world snooker championship campaign in sheffield. the five—time champion opened up an 8—1 lead against thailand's thepchaiya un—nooh in a blistering session, hitting two century breaks. the rocket needs just two more frames this morning to reach the second round, where ding junhui is waiting. there's live coverage on bbc two, as well as the iplayer and bbc sport website. andy murray had a damning assessment of his brother's game, after their team, the union jacks, lost the battle of the brits tournament thatjamie had organised. it went down to

harrogate town manager simon weaver says he is incredibly grateful to the club's fans for the supporthough they weren't able to be at wembley to watch them reach the football league for the first time in their history. they beat notts county 3—1 in the national league final. that's harrogate's second promotion in three seasons and they have league two football to look forward to in around six weeks' time. it's a remarkable rise for a team that only turned professional four years ago. a combination of good people behind—the—scenes and young aspirational footballers that are all driven, in aspirational footballers that are alldriven, ina aspirational footballers that are all driven, in a good culture of the clu b all driven, in a good culture of the club that is pretty old school values. we all want the same thing at there are no egos allowed in the building, we don't stand for that. it isa building, we don't stand for that. it is a bit ofa building, we don't stand for that. it is a bit of a throwback at times, the culture, because everyone is honest, everyone is punctual. i think that

feel very privileged to be manager of harrogate town. your father bought the club in 2011.club where it is pretty old school values. we all want the same thing and there are no egos allowed in the building. we don't stand for that. asi building. we don't stand for that. as i say, a bit a throwback at times, the culture, because everyone is honest, everyone is punctual and no egos and i think that is at the heart of it. very briefly, league 2 sta rts heart of it. very briefly, league 2 starts in a few weeks' time, are you going to give the players any time of? we are, actually. the next fortnight, people can have a bit of closure from this season because it has dragged on a lot. and we had a preseason schedule of training, really ha rd preseason schedule of training, really hard and intense training to get them fit for the play—offs so they are warranted a bit of family time and we trust them. we trust them throughout the months of lockdown to keep themselves in top nick and they have done just that and proved it, so that warranted this time now and closure to the season and

harrogate there looks beautiful. good morning to you all.rature trend towards the end. the wind switches from westerly to southerly, the heat will return across parts of the country particularly across the eastern half with temperatures above 30 degrees again. keep an eye on that over the next few days. it will not feel anywhere near as hot as that today especially as the showers go through but pleasant enough when you have sunshine on your back and there will be some of it around as well, especially through the afternoon. cloudy across parts of scotla nd afternoon. cloudy across parts of scotland and northern england where we have the bulk of the showers showing up on our radarfrom the last few hours, but she rain through wales, south—west england as well and a showers to the north of northern ireland to all that shifting eastwards so that will allow the cloud to break up with more sunshine and a few down pause. showers across the southern half of england and wales but some will stay dry throughout, similar to yesterday. it will feel cooler

we can see what it‘s like in parts of north—east england, harrogate, one of our weather watchers picturesorth—west england. that will move northward through the course of the day. we hang on to the low cloud, mist and day. we hang on to the low cloud, mistand murk day. we hang on to the low cloud, mist and murk in the north—east of the country but really from the word go we have a lot of showers. becoming more widespread through the afternoon. these showers will be slow—moving, heavy and thundery. could lead to some issues with localised flooding. as we move northwards the met office has a weather warning across the central swathe of scotland for heavy thunder downpours, but we can see a lot of them in the north—west. again they could prove be problematic. in between them there will be some sunshine and as mentioned some will miss them altogether. together. temperatures 15 in the north to 23, possibly a bit higher as we push down towards the south—east. through this evening and overnight, we will lose many of those thundery downpours. they will be some clear skies developing but watch wha

he was appointed honorary colonel at the harrogate college, and was shown around before meeting somewelcome for the honorary colonel, the honour given to captain tom moore, now sir tom, two mark his 100th birthday. you couldn't be in a better place than when you come to yorkshire, but i have been very, very, very fortunate to have this honour given to me. at nearly six times their age, he watched the newest generation of soldiers training. thejunior soldiers training. thejunior soldiers training here today will go on to become members of either the infantry, royal artillery, the royal logistic corps, all the royal armoured corps, like sir tom himself did. when he enlisted and served in the second world war, his training experience was very different. when i was recruited, time was very short and we were expected to be turned from civilians into soldiers in a very short time. so we only got basic things, and i think they are very fortu nate basic things, and i think they are very fortunate to have the facilities here. the juniors here feel fortunate to have him as a role model. it has

harrogate town manager simon weaver says he's incredibly grateful to the club's fans for the supporth them reach the football league for the first time in their history. they beat notts county 3—1 in the national league final — that's harrogate's second promotion in three seasons and they have league two football to look forward to, in around six weeks' time. it's a remarkable rise for a team that only turned professional four years ago. a combination of good people behind—the—scenes and young aspirational footballers that are all driven, in a good culture of the club that is pretty old school values. we all want the same thing and there are no egos allowed in the building, we don't stand for that. it is a bit of a throwback at times, the culture, because everyone is honest, everyone is punctual. i think that is at the heart of it. england will be without bowler reece topley for tomorrow's third and final one day international against ireland because of injury. topley has a groin strain and will miss the match in the southampton, having played in saturday's four wicket victory which