england propjoe marler will miss the first two matches of the six nations.harlequins at the weekend marler was sent off for striking sale sharks‘ tj ioane in the head with his shoulder. there‘s less than a week to go until the first tennis major of 2018 — the australian open. many of the leading contenders are going through final preparatons in sydney, and austin halewood has been looking at some of those who‘ll be challenging for the women‘s title. with so many tennis‘s biggest names looking to hone their skills ahead of the australian open, competition is fierce at the sydney international, so much the so that angelique kerber and venus williams we re angelique kerber and venus williams were meeting in the second round and it was the power of williams from the baseline which ought to take the first set. 2017 was something of a nightmare per angelique kerber, having dropped out of the top 20 but with that behind her, she is finding herform again with that behind her, she is finding her form again and with that behind her, she is finding herform again and on

joe marler is going to miss the first two matches of the six nations.nt off at the weekend for striking a player in the head with his shoulder. he‘ll miss england‘s matches against italy and wales. more bad news for wales, theirflank is upfor more bad news for wales, theirflank is up for the rest of the season. he‘s injured his bicep playing for the ospreys. he needs surgery. wales are already missing sam warburton for the six nations and to repay volatile is a doubt. —— taulupe faletau is a doubt. uk sport has set team gb a target of at least five medals at next month‘s winter olympics in south korea. the current record is four set in 192a and also the last games in sochi. team gb‘s paralympic athletes have been set a target of seven. here‘s our sports correspondent joe wilson has more. everything the winter games means to the host nation, it means more than ever to british sport. an audience gathered to hear the targets. lizzie arnold gold was one of four one in 2014. five at least are expected this time. can we really be winning more medals? it‘s got

as have really england will be withoutjoe marler for their opening two six nations matches.or a dangerous tackle. he'll miss the games against wales and italy. and after his two—goal fa cup heroics for nottingham forest, erik leehigh‘s reward is a brand new dog. his wife kathryn had promised if he ever scored a hat—trick they'd get one. but after pressure from players and fans, she finally relented to let ‘gunner‘ the puppy, join the leehigh family. do know what they called it? it is a french bulldog. he is called gunner because they beat arsenal. it is a great name for a dog. i think he is either a boston terrier or a french bulldog. i can't really talk about this. i have a labrador called ruby. waffle is not keen. not terribly. they can be in the same room now, they have reached a truce. there is a bit of talk involved as well. anyway, it's good that they are making friends. this is lovely. is a dog walking weather? is it? anyway, carol has the weather now. you are quite right. it's also quite nice as well put humans. this morning, once again, rain moving across the countr

and england propjoe marler will miss the first two six nations games after being suspended for six weeksy hospital on 17th april 2016. she died as a result of a mismanaged labour and an independent investigation has just concluded that her death was "almost certainly preventable". harriet‘s fatherjack is a hospital consultant. her mother sarah is a senior physiotherapist. both work for the hospital trust responsible for the death of their baby — theirfirst child. since that day, the couple have campaigned to force the trust to acknowledge it made mistakes, mistakes which they believed had been covered up. you might remember them telling us such last year, but it has taken almost two years for an independent report to reach the same conclusion. sarah had been in labourfor six days. the couple had made ten phone calls and two visits to the hospital. by the time she was finally admitted in the late stages of labour, their daughter had died. it took another nine hours before sarah was able to give birth. sarah hawkins is here and so as jack. we can speak to them both now and their solicitor,