andy preston is middlesbrough�*s independent elected mayor.ls here, we work with the police. the police have responded, arrests have been made, and, categorically, the number of offences which i track closely have gone down. so that's good news, but it's not enough. a lot of people are scared to report crime. we need residents, the people who live here, to report crimes. if they don't report it, we don't know about it. we all need to work together and fight this. but some people are afraid to speak out. landlady jo thirkell only discovered the full extent of problems on the estate after her windows had been smashed. everybody was so frightened to say anything. they didn't want to get the police involved because they didn't want their windows going in. and of the people who do know who it is, they're frightened too because they don't want repercussions. filming at night, i soon see why. 0ff camera, a group of teenagers surrounds us, asking what we're doing. all right, lads. soon after, stones are thrown at our car as we drive out of the estate.

the winners of the manchester united—aston villa match on monday will host middlesbrough.sit liverpool. manchester city will host fulham while brighton travel to tottenham and wolves welcome norwich city. so the fixtures coming in thick and fast. no respite at this time of year, and in the last hour, it's been announced that everton�*s premier league match against leicester on tuesday has been postponed. leicester do not have the required number of players available, due to covid—19 cases, injuries and players on international duty at the africa cup of nations. birmingham city pulled off the shock of the season in the women's super league. they beat the league leaders arsenal. libby smith put them ahead afterjust three minutes with this effort before viatriki sarri doubled that lead just before half—time. it's birmingham's first victory of the season while arsenal suffer their first defeat. birmingham are now out of the relegation zone. manchester city thrashed brighton 6—0 to secure a third consecutive victory. vicky losada had the pick of the goals. city leapfrog brighto

blackburn are up to second place in the championship, after beating middlesbrough at ewood park.ht out of their last ten games. hosts cameroon are through to the quarterfinals of the africa cup of nations, after narrowly seeing off tournament debutants comoros 2—1. goals from karl toko ekambi and vincent aboubakar, his sixth of tournament, put cameroon in a comfortable position against a side that had a left—back in goal due to covid cases. but comoros did salvage some pride — a goal of the tournament contender from youssouf m'changama, ensuring that the minnows go home with their heads held high. and cameroon will face gambia in the quarterfinals, after they beat guinea 1—0. musa barrow with the only goal of the game for the scorpions. derby county's administrators are expected to hold talks with the english football league tomorrow. it follows "positive developments" over the championship side's future, with the wealthy us—based binnie family submitting a bid in the region of £28 million to buy the club on friday. let's take you to the australian open, where day nine is about t

andy preston is the independent elected mayor of middlesbrough.t about one in five councils who responded to our questions had never used the community trigger at all. there is a shocking failure, frankly. and it needs to change. it's an important right. the government needs to start driving this agenda big style. the government says it is committed to tackling anti—social behaviour and ensuring that victims get the support they deserve. it says all local councils were written to last year, to remind them of their duties around community triggers and police involvement in them will be monitored. rory carson, bbc news. and you can watch panorama�*s anti—social behaviour: afraid in my own home tonight on bbc one at 7.30pm and on bbc iplayer. the headlines on bbc news — borisjohnson has ordered an inquiry into claims by a conservative mp that she was sacked as a minister — in part — because of concerns about her muslim faith. the uk is withdrawing half the staff of its embassy in ukraine, with growing fears of an imminent russian invasion. covid rest

the winners of the manchester united aston villa match on monday will host middlesbrough. while brighton travel to tottenham and wolves welcome norwich city. birmingham city pulled off the shock of the season the women's super league. —— in the women's super league. they beat the league leaders arsenal. libby smith put them ahead afterjust three minutes with this effort here before viatriki sarri doubled that lead just before half—time. it's birmingham's first victory of the season while arsenal suffer their first defeat. birmingham are now out of the relegation zone. manchester city thrashed brighton 6—0 to secure a third consecutive victory. vicky losada had the pick of the goals. city leapfrog brighton into fifth in the table. so confirmation of those results, then, and that loss for leicester at reading means they prop up the table this evening. the african cup of nations got under way this afternoon with the hosts cameroon opening the tournament with a win. they had to fight hard for it, though, after going behind to burkina faso. gustavo sangare with the first goal.

that led to legal action by middlesbrough and wycombe wanderers, who claim they lost out as a result,e funds to complete the season. with derby facing a tax debt of almost £30 million, this local printing firm is amongst other creditors owed thousands of pounds by the club. we did put them on a payment plan, and then they failed to make the last payment, which, to a small company like this, it's quite significant. many will find it unthinkable that a club with a heritage and a stadium as impressive as this could be facing the threat of liquidation. but derby county's plight has come to symbolise mounting concern over football finance, ownership and governance. meanwhile, the man trying to lead what would be a miraculous escape from relegation told me what was at stake. derby county is much more than just a football club. i it gives everyone in the city hope, it gives kids the right to dream, . so for derby county to be in this isituation is incredible, really. i with three potential bidders interested in buying the club, there is hope that this founding member of the football league c

disallowed for an earlier foul when var became involved as united set up a lith round clash at home to middlesbrough the second successive week. in the seven days up to and including the 9th of january, there were 72 new positive cases out of almost 13,000 tests. 94 new cases were recorded in the previous seven days. covid is still impacting on the league though — everton's premier league home match with leicester city on tuesday has been postponed because the foxes don't have enough players to fulfil the fixture. at the africa cup of nations it was a big day for the comoros, playing in the competition for the first time. the archipelago is one of football's youngest nations — they onlyjoined fifa in 2005. they were up against gabon, and aaron boupendza's first—half finish was the difference, giving gabon a 1—0 victory. two former winners went head to head in the other group c game, where morocco left it late to beat the four time winners ghana. former southampton winger sofiane boufal�*s strike in the 83rd minute sealing the win. elsewhere, guinea opened their campaign with a 1—0 win over malawi. t

time before mansfield's elliott hewitt turned the ball into his own net to gift championship side middlesbroughnished. a big shock with league two hartlepool coming from behnd to beat championship side blackpool. elsewhere wins for coventry and fulham. every goal across the weekend is available on the bbc sport app and bbc sport website. there are 21 ties being played across the day. there are 21 ties being played across the day. now to the cricket... england will need to bat out the final day in the fourth ashes test in sydney if they're to avoid slipping to a fourth straight defeat in the series. jonny bairstow could only add ten more runs to his impressive total before australian batsmen usman khawaja hit another century, helping to set england an unlikely target of 388 for victory. patrick gearey reports. 0nce ashes series are lost, the remaining tests are those of character. yesterday, jonny bairstow fought back. 0h, he's edged it. this morning he was caught behind. 113 runs scored, he had earned this exit. england were all out, trailing by 122, so now their troubled huddle had to slow aus

goals ruled out and only what hitting the crossbar, metadata goes through to a second—tier with middlesbrough are betterat, but have a few things that we are better at, but again, a clean sheet was important today, we worked together, we were trying to play with some small intelligence, but again, still a lot of things to improve. child a lot of things to improve. old trafford. _ a lot of things to improve. old trafford. you _ a lot of things to improve. old trafford, you have to reward yourself— trafford, you have to reward yourself with goals. our execution is to be more ruthless, we need to be tighter. _ ruthless, we need to be tighter, we can't let people into— tighter, we can't let people into the _ tighter, we can't let people into the six yard box or we will— into the six yard box or we will have _ into the six yard box or we will have more problems moving forward — will have more problems moving forward it— will have more problems moving forward. it is quite clear what we need _ forward. it is quite clear what we need to i out and we will do it in_ we need to i out and we will do it i

blackburn are up to second place in the championship, after beating middlesbrough at ewood park.had a left—back in goal due to covid cases. but comoros did salvage some pride — a goal of the tournament contender from youssouf m'changama, ensuring that the minnows go home with their heads held high. and cameroon will face gambia in the quarterfinals, after they beat guinea 1—0. and cameroon will face gambia in the quarterfinals, after they beat guinea 1—0. musa barrow with the only goal of the game for the scorpions. derby county's administrators are expected to hold talks with the english football league tomorrow. it follows "positive developments" over the championship side's future, with the wealthy us—based binnie family submitting a bid in the region of £28 million to buy the club on friday. let's take you to the australian open, where day nine is about to begin — rafael nadal among the star acts on show in the coming hours. daniil medvedev is into the last eight, after taking more than three—and—a—half hours to beat maxime cressy in four sets. stefanos tsitsipas was also put

that led to legal action by middlesbrough and wycombe wanderers, who claimed they lost out as a result last payment, which, to a small company like this, it's quite significant. many will find it unthinkable that a club with a heritage and a stadium as impressive as this could be facing the threat of liquidation. but derby county's plight has come to symbolise mounting concern over football finance, ownership and governance. meanwhile, the man trying to lead what would be a miraculous escape from relegation told me what was at stake. derby county is much more than just a football club. i it gives everyone in the city hope, it gives kids the right to dream, . so for derby county to be in this isituation is incredible, really. with three potential bidders interested in buying the club, there's hope that this founding member of the football league can be rescued. but with talks designed to break the deadlock ongoing tonight and more players likely to be sold to make ends meet, time and money could still run out. dan roan, bbc news, derby. and that's all the sport for now. hello. after the

that led to legal action by middlesbrough and wycombe wanderers, who claim they lost out as a result,ands of pounds by the club. we did put them on a payment plan and then they failed to make the last payment, which, to a small company like this, it's quite significant. many will find it unthinkable that a club with a heritage and a stadium as impressive as this could be facing the threat of liquidation. but derby county's plight has come to symbolise mounting concern over football finance, ownership and governance. meanwhile, the man trying to lead what would be a miraculous escape from relegation told me what was at stake. derby county is much more than just a football club. it gives everyone in the city hope, it gives kids the right to dream, so for derby county to be in this situation is incredible, really. with three potential bidders interested in buying the club, there is hope that this founding member of the football league can be rescued. but with talks designed to break the deadlock on going tonight and more players likely to be sold to make ends meet, time and money could s

disallowed for an earlier foul when var became involved as united set up a 4th round clash at home to middlesbroughch with leicester city on tuesday has been postponed because the foxes don't have enough players to fulfil the fixture. at the africa cup of nations it was a big day for the comoros, playing in the competition for the first time. the archipelago is one of football's youngest nations — they onlyjoined fifa in 2005. they were up against gabon, and aaron boupendza's first—half finish was the difference, giving gabon a 1—0 victory. two former winners went head to head in the other group c game, where morocco left it late to beat the four time winners ghana. former southampton winger sofiane boufal�*s strike in the 83rd minute sealing the win. elsewhere, guinea opened their campaign with a 1—0 win over malawi. the only goal coming in the first half from full back issiaga sylla — only his third goal for his country. in the day's early game sadio mane converted a 94th minute penalty to give one of the favourites senegal a 1—0 win over zimbabwe five supporters have been arrested for incidents

times, are up against aston villa in their third round tie at old trafford with the winner to host middlesbroughnd seeing tom and tom and i get to the end of it to head past emiliano martinez. these are live pictures now on bbc one, there are about 22 minutes played. philip coutinho who signed from barcelona on loan from aston villa for the remainder of the season is going to be eligible to play in the premier league game against the same opponents on saturday. new figures from the premier league show the number of positive covid—i9 tests among players and staff have fallen for the second successive week. in the seven days up to and including the 9th of january, there were 72 new positive cases out of almost 13,000 tests. 94 new cases were recorded in the previous seven days. covid is still impacting on the league though — everton's premier league home match with leicester city on tuesday has been postponed because the foxes don't have enough players to fulfil the fixture. heartbreakfor zimbabwe in their opening africa cup of nations match — they were beaten by one of the tournament favourites,

relegation after sam gallagher scored a second—half winner to send them second as they edged past middlesbroughe was cruising two sets up, only to drop the next two against canada's denis shapovolov. he had the trainer out, and said afterwards he was feeling sick. but he was back out for a thrilling winner—takes—all in the fifth which he recovered to win. his first five setter of the tournament so far. ruffin nadal marching on. i was completely destroyed. very warm. honestly, ididn't i was completely destroyed. very warm. honestly, i didn't practice for it, i am not 21 any more. it is great to have to days off. i thought i felt quite good physically in terms of movement but it is true the conditions here have not been that hard for the last week—and—a—half. it was a little bit of straightforward thorough ash barty. she beatjessicca pegula in straights sets in her bid to become the first australian to win the singles title in 44 years. and she will face madison keys, who's into is into her first grand slam semi—final for four years after beating french open champion barbora krejcikova. tournamen

andy preston is the independent elected mayor of middlesbrough.one at 7.30pm, and on iplayer. coming up on breakfast this morning... whether you're a fan of the line of duty or the bay, there's no shortage of police crime dramas on our screens. the bbc�*s latest offering, the responder, is written by a former police officer. we'll be speaking to him about life on the beatjust before eight this morning. do you think it was a baddie or goody? we will find out. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning, i'm sonja jessup. nhs workers in west london say they're under huge pressure — and fear staff burn—out. it comes as some national healthcare leaders call on the government to delay compulsory covid vaccines for frontline staff from this april. at ealing hospital the team believe they do have enough workers to cope, but they say the past two years have been tough. the workforce issues have been around with slightly lower numbers of staff as people have become infected themselves, so that affects morale. we still see death

i work for middlesbrough council and taking vulnerable children to school and covid's very rife in thece. we don't know once we get covid virus how you're going to react. what we know is that the covid vaccine works, there's plenty of data now for the last one year, so come along, and we know that people who are getting the vaccine especially when they've had the second and the booster, they're getting a milder form of illness so come along and get the vaccine. there's a similar push in scotland for everyone aged 12 and over to get vaccinated in an effort to bring case numbers under control and make sure hospitals aren't overwhelmed. dan johnson, bbc news. later today novak djokovic's legal team will appeal a decision by australian authorities to revoke his visa, over a row about his covid vaccination status. it's after documents were released suggesting the tennis star had been granted a vaccine exemption to enter the country because he had tested positive for the virus last month. simonjones reports. serbian music plays. supporters of novak djokovic gather outside the immigration det

united face championship side middlesbrough next.nice to see fire from england in the last test. is it was nice to see fire from england in the last test.— in the last test. is there a way back? how — in the last test. is there a way back? how does _ in the last test. is there a way back? how does that - in the last test. is there a wayj back? how does that happen? in the last test. is there a way - back? how does that happen? exactly. joe root is back? how does that happen? exactly. joe root is the — back? how does that happen? exactly. joe root is the right _ back? how does that happen? exactly. joe root is the right man _ back? how does that happen? exactly. joe root is the right man to _ back? how does that happen? exactly. joe root is the right man to stay - back? how does that happen? exactly. joe root is the right man to stay as - joe root is the right man to stay as captain, buti joe root is the right man to stay as captain, but i think he needs cricket people around him, experienced hardened cricket people, not data, about m

middlesbrough fought back, and ended chesterfield's dreams in a replay.hesterfield again. notjust the die—hard fans in the club shop... come on, spireites! are you ready for saturday? ..and the 6000 who will leave on coaches from pubs and their homes this morning, but the one glow is being felt right across the town, giving businesses a new year boost and lifting the spirits of the whole community. everyone's buzzing about it, everyone's talking about it. i can't believe that, you know, we are competing with chelsea. 0h, itjust brings everyone together, you know? friends, families and all the young people from young ages and all over. you know, we are all talking about what we are going to do on the weekend and probably go for a and not after. it is the history of the fa that makes it so special. there's plenty of that here. this is a programme from 1950 when chesterfield took chelsea to a replay. go back to 1905, and chesterfield with a first away team ever to win at stamford bridge, where they return today. it means everything. it means everything to th