stephen maguire has lost the first frame against yan bingtao.defending champion stuart bingham in the semis. you can watch this match on the iplayer, as well as the bbc sport website and app. that's all the sport for now but there's more on the bbc sport website, including the latest from today's premier league news conferences. and we've heard in the last few minutes that wayne rooney has been appointed permanant derby county manager on a permanent basis in the championship. i'll be back with more later. stricter rules for supermarkets are to be introduced in wales to help prevent the spread of the new strain of coronavirus. the first minister, mark drakeford, made the announcement at today's daily briefing, where he also said �*marginal easements' to the rules may be possible if rates of the virus continue to fall. last week, i said we would be working with major supermarkets and retailers to make sure that staff are safe and that we are safe whenever we go shopping. and that we would be strengthening protections in workplaces more generally.

yan bingtao is through to the semi—finals of the masters snooker in milton keynes after beating stephen maguirelex sanderson has left saracens after 17 years to take over as director of rugby at sale sharks. he replaces steve diamond, who stepped down in december. the rain fell in sri lanka on the second day of the first test. only 53 overs played today. but in that time, captainjoe root moved from 66 to 168 not out, making good on his promise to bring in some big scores. and there was an impressive debut for dan lawrence, too. joe wilson was watching. from sri lanka to everywhere, the world hopes this year might be better than the last. well, forjoe root, it already is. sublime, 100 number 18 forjoe root. in 2020, he never got to 100. in his first test innings of 2021, the captain made it. it's alljust numbers, but look how it changes the mood. now, watch this shot closely. crucially, root hits it into the ground, so even though it bounces up off his glove and is caught, it is not out. the sri lanka coach saw it differently. mickey arthur wears his heart on his sleeve, near that bottle. englan

is out one of the pre tournament favourites he failed to get out of this snooker as he lost to stephen maguireabout his own mental health, and the effect that his father's death had on him at the age of 16. ijust had a friend of the family who was sort of my coach as well for a period of time when i was younger who took me under his wing when my father passed away. i moved in with him at the time. to be fair, for the first six months, i didn't want to play snooker and ijust killed into a ball and i was not in a good place, almost to the point of ending my own life as well. —— ijust curled into a ball. to today's action ronnie o'sullivan up against ding junhui, first to six frames, in their first round match. by by the looks of it, bame is ahead at the moment. —— ding is ahead at the moment. ronnie, with seven titles, nobody has won it more. i'll have more for you in the next hour. scotland's first minister, nicola sturgeon, has set out new restrictions designed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. from saturday, only shops selling essential items will be allowed to offer click and collect

stephen maguire lost the first two frames. layer as well as the bbc sport website and app. that is all the sport for now, back later. news just newsjust in news just in about the number of covid—19 vaccinations in the months to january 14, and the total now the nearly 3.2 million people have received, the majority of that the first dose, of the vaccine, but almost 3.2 million vaccinations have taken place in england, between december eight and january 14, so an increase in let�*s get some context for that and let her correspond it now, because government figures, we will talk also about the our number, the rate at which infections are growing, is between 1.2 and 1.3. with me now is our health correspondentjim reed. 3.2 million, it puts the government roughly on track to hit the first target is looking at, so by the middle of february they have said they want to vaccinate everyone in they want to vaccinate everyone in the top four priority groups with one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. those groups, just remind you, our anyone

stephen maguire takes on yan bingtao in the quarter—finals of the masters snooker in milton keynes thisliant, of course, on the ons for keeping track of the data around coronavirus and prevalence. we are just hearing from the ons which are saying that delays in laboratory tests means they need to conduct further quality assurance on data in this week's infection survey statistics. it essentially means a delay, we are not going to get the statistics we normally get on a weekly basis and have not been given a date as to when that information might come through saying we want our latest figures to be the highest quality so more investigation needs to be done on that in terms of tracking covid and the spread, so if you might have been expecting some figures today, it would appear they are not coming from the office for national statistics and assuming i have read that correctly, we do not know when they are coming but we will keep an eye on that. the mayor of greater manchester says the current coronavirus restrictions do not need toughening up in the region — as long as people follow the r