the sports minister, nigel huddleston.r watching. i do hope you canjoin me at the same time tomorrow for the week in parliament. until then, bye for now. hello. thursday offers up the promise of a dryer day for the majority of the uk in comparison to wednesday. there should be some decent sunshine and the winds will be a little light as well. how are we managing that when our weather is dominated essentially by this massive area of low pressure for the coming days? one with actually seven centres — but we are getting quite close to a little hill in the isobars. that is a brief ridge of high pressure that we will sit in through thursday. it's not plain sailing though, there will still be some more persistent rain across northern and eastern scotland through the day and coming into the south—west through the afternoon, some sharper showers that will push into wales, some for northern ireland, perhaps some more generally across southern britain later on in the day. but in contrast to wednesday, lighter winds, and the rain now

is hoped that it will help people get active at a really important time over the winter and nigel huddlestone the game, then bristol bears, who lost to wasps in the semi—finals, will take their place. there‘s one more game we‘ve got to go for, potentially, when that‘s confirmed. so we‘ve started that process, the boys were just about to open some beers, they were stopped and now it‘s about flicking the switch and waiting to see what‘s going to happen wednesday, so all we can control is prepare as best as we can now and we‘re either going to get the thumbs up, we can go holiday, or we get into it. looking ahead to this evening. the champions league is back. manchester united and chelsea play in the group stages tonight. chelsea take on europa league champions sevilla at stamford bridge. the blues spent £220 million during the recent transfer window, but have won only two of their opening five premier league games. i think when i mentioned before about concentration, focus and discipline, in our results last year i think it becomes even more important than at any other kind of football because