katie gornall, bbc news.ester city can only benefit the home nation ahead of the upcoming euros. it is great for our national team so that we have a lot of our players playing in those games. that is what we want. we want them getting exposed to the biggest games around the world. i'm sure it'll be a great final. two teams deserve to be there. they have played really well. i will be excited to watch the game and see who comes out on top. newcastle united have been cleared of tax fraud, after a four year criminal investigation by hmrc into alleged �*secret�* payments to agents, for former players including demba ba, pakiss cisse and moussa sissoko. meanwhile, owner mike ashley has accused the premier league of blocking the sale of the club last summer and is seeking damages for the collapse of the £300 million deal with a saudi arabian—backed consortium. the british and irish lions head coach warren gatland says his squad selection for their tour of south africa was the most challenging he had ever been involv

katie gornall, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are.ood night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are social commentator, joanna jarjue, and political commentator and nonresident fellow at new york university, faiza shaheen. faiza was a candidate for the labour party for chingford were welcome to both of you. joanna, your first outing with us so lovely to have you with us. let's take a look at some of tomorrow's front pages already in, starting with... the telegraph which leads on what it describes as the prime minister's defiance of pressure from teaching unions. quoting souces, the telegraph says that the pm is to announce next week that secondary school students won't need to wear facemasks in the classroom from later this month. the metro's front page is dominated by the the post—brexit fishing row — and the protest by french fishermen in jersey's territorial waters. the daily mail describes the same a story, and the decision by french fishermen to return to their ports,

katie gornall, bbc news. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett.te picture, a lot of these showers particularly in the south will start to fade away this evening, we have got this band of wet weather moving away from scotland heading into northern ireland which will continue to work its way south this evening and overnight. a lot of the rain tending to die out. further north we will head skies clearing but increasingly wintry showers coming into northern parts of scotland. not as windy tonight, not as wet so it will be colder than last night. clearer skies were longer in scotland and northern england is where we are likely to have frost, tomorrow will star sunny and now faces but wintry showers moving down across scotland, showers moving down across scotland, showers were northern ireland and wales in the morning, pushing their way through the middle towards east anglia and the south—east, would turn heavy with some hail and thunder. not too many showers for northern england and not much of a rising temperature. another chilly day. temperatures of

katie gornall, bbc news.rs playing in those games. that is what we want. we want them getting exposed to the biggest games around the world. i'm sure it'll be a great final. two teams deserve to be there. they have played really well. i will be excited to watch the game and see who comes out on top. newcastle united have been cleared of tax fraud, after a four year criminal investigation by hmrc into alleged �*secret�* payments to agents, for former players including demba ba, pakiss cisse and moussa sissoko. meanwhile, owner mike ashley has accused the premier league of blocking the sale of the club last summer and is seeking damages for the collapse of the £300 million deal with a saudi arabian—backed consortium. the british and irish lions head coach warren gatland says his squad selection for their tour of south africa was the most challenging he had ever been involved in. he left out some big names including johnny sexton, billy vunipola and kyle sinkler, but there were a few surprise inclusions. along w

one of those is at kingston park where newcastle play northampton, katie gornall is there. d evening. we'll come to how the fans are feeling in a moment. butjust give us a sense of what steps are being taken to allow fans back in? this game was originally scheduled for the weekend and it has been moved today to enable fans to be here at kingston park. a lot of hard work has gone on behind—the—scenes in a short space of time to get this under way. the fans have been given a arrival times, lots of social—distancing measures in place and they are spread out around the stadium here, it's a capacity of 10,000 but there is only 1750 fans at the moment, they have to wear masks inside, temperature checks, and are spread out. that limit i mentioned was set by the local safety advisory group. they will be here tonight watching everything that goes on. if they are happy with the procedures, the hope is that there will be bigger crowds to come here at kingston park. that gentleman _ here at kingston park. that gentleman looked - here at kingston park. that gentleman looked like - here a

let's get more from our sports correspondent katie gornall. they only reform the 20 18th a few but the squad and face the race of its time to do so for the race of its time to do so for the first season in thatjimmy ship and she had an immediate impact. she won promotion to the top—flight in herfirst season and won promotion to the top—flight in her first season and then back to back top four finishes in the wsf was also recruited brilliantly in the transfer window, bringing world—class talent to the club in the form of tobin heath and christen press from the usa. in developing young talent in the likes of lauren james as well who is an exceptional player. so also this season there's been talk of a title as well. they began credibly well. top of the table in january and began credibly well. top of the table injanuary and then just began credibly well. top of the table in january and then just fell away a bit due to injury and finish thisjust outside of away a bit due to injury and finish this just outside of the gym places. but even so she is

director of women's footabll, baroness sue campbell, has been speaking to our sports correspondent katie gornallwe do some really good learning about how we reach those communities that we have not always successfully reached in women's football. we are working in inner—city areas a lot of the time and working with people locally, so really looking at how we reach people, how we empower different communities to play our game, enjoy our game, watch our game. so, for me, it was a big learning curve, a massive increase in participation, which is terrific, but hopefully we see a real uptake in fans coming through the door to watch the women's game and that carries on through to the european championship post the tournament. in through to the european championship post the tournament.— post the tournament. in the past we have seen a — post the tournament. in the past we have seen a new _ post the tournament. in the past we have seen a new broadcast - post the tournament. in the past we have seen a new broadcast deal - post the tournament. in the past we j have seen a new broadcast deal with the wsl,

katy gornall, bbc news. metre breaststroke title, james wilby took bronze. there was also gold for the mixed 4 x 200m freestyle relay team. as for peaty, he says with the tokyo olympics approaching, he's getting better and better. that's all the sport for now. we are just going to take you now to a house fo commons committee hearing, it's the transport committee of mps and they are discussing the roll—out and the safety of smart motorways you and the safety of smart motorways may know, smé the you may know, smart motorways are the ones that don't use any hard shoulder. they are already in place in large parts of the 20 in kent, the m 23 in sussex. the government is looking to roll that out to others but there are concerns about the safety of those motorways. evidence will be heard today from the president of the aa, i believe thatis the president of the aa, i believe that is who is speaking right now, heads up the roads policy at the rac and the chief constable of west midlands police, so lots of controversy

katie gornall, bbc news.the end of the season. devastated. we had so much enthusiasm to be in that final. we know how much it meant to the club, to our fans, to ourselves to be in that final and have the chance to win the title and be in the champions league next season. it's a huge blow. now relief for newcastle — the four—year criminal investigation, which has been looking at transfer payments for former players, has been dropped by hmrc. in a separate move, owner mike ashley has accused the premier league of blocking the sale of the club last summer, and is seeking damages, for the collapse of the 300 million pound deal with a saudi arabian—backed consortium. newcastle face leicester tonight. looking to all but, guarantee their place next season. it's all over for british number one dan evans at the madrid 0pen. evans came into the match against germany's alexander zverev on a roll. but he lost the first set to the number five seed 6—3, and then the match on a tie—break. zverev will face world number two r

katie gornall, bbc news.see them flown in and out of porto in 2a hours. city say they have sought to remove the most significant financial barrierforfans the most significant financial barrier for fans attending the final. and what a night for britain's swimmers at the european championships in budapest with more gold medal success. adam peaty won a fourth consecutive european 100—metre breaststroke title, while james wilby took the bronze. there was also gold for gb's mixed ax200m freestyle relay team. as for peaty, he says he's getting better and better with the olympics on the horizon. i've never, ever been this fast in season, so, you know, it's a testament to obviously the hard work that i'm putting in, but also where i'm at and, you know, come olympics, it's the same with me and james — we'll both be properly prepared. always — coming into a competition like this is always a bit difficult because, you know, people are going to be taking this seriously and there's nothing wrong with that but, you know, w