derby are still well adrift at the bottom of the table, west brom are three points off second.embleton scored the second for sunderland who are a point above third placed wigan. the latics do have two games in hand though. there's one match in rugby union's premiership, it's fourth v fifth, northampton saints are taking on harlequins in the "big game" at twickenham where 70,000 tickets have been sold. and earlier at twickenham, reigning champions harlequins women comfortably beat wasps by 29 points to 5. heather cowell scored the pick of the four quins tries with this brilliant run, almost the entire length of the pitch. it was the first premier 15s match to take place at the ground. time now for some of the day's other sport stories and 0nly five horses finished a gruelling welsh grand national. it was won by the 13 to 2 shot i will do it, ridden by sam sheppard and trained by sam thomas. there were no fans for the second year in a row due to welsh government covid rules. dirk van die—vun—bode staged a remarkable comeback to reach the last 16 of the pdc world darts championshi

derby are still well adrift at the bottom of the table, west brom are three points off second.hird in the table after they beat northampton saints by 41 points to 27 in the "big game" at twickenham. quins were 21—7 down at the end of the first half but came from behind to comfortably win it it the end. louis lynagh finished off the pick of their 6 tries. it was a good day all round for harlequins fans, earlier their women's side comfortably beat wasps by 29 points to 5. heather cowell scored the pick of the four quins tries with this brilliant run, almost the entire length of the pitch. it was the first premier 15s match to take place at the ground. there were no fans at the welsh grand national for the second year in a row. the welsh government's introduced covid rules which prevent more 0nly five horses finished a gruelling race which was won by the 13 to 2 shot i will do it, ridden by sam sheppard and trained by sam thomas. that's all the sport for now. you can follow their live coverage of the ball. kick off at eight p:m.. more for you later. goodbye. they have secretaries

earlier, west brom lost ground in the championship title race.side derby county a vital 1—0 win. colin kazim—richards with the winner. the premier league's released its latest figures showing a record 103 players and staff tested positive for covid in the seven days up to and including boxing day. some managers have questioned why games are still going ahead at speed. watford have only held one full training session in over two weeks, and their last three games have been called off because of covid in their squad. their manager cladio ranieri's been talking ahead of tomorrow's game against west ham. it's about moment now. it's my moment now because the players cannot train properly. and i hope nobody will suffer some injury because you know when they don't train and they are right at the end, is very difficult for them to play. but that's it. they are like a formula i car. when you don't make any training session, it's difficult. it's difficult, and i hope and i cross my fingers nobody has some injury. there was one match in rugby union's premier

the west brom midfielder received an offensive message after losing a game against manchester city.hink it would be a mistake to separate the real world, if you like, from the virtual world, because before lockdown, we were seeing probably over the last four seasons, an increase in hate crime in stadiums. i think one of the hypotheses was that people were engaging in the sort of language on social media, on the internet, that they would not normally have engaged in in real life and that was then reaching over into the stadiums. one of the issues we sometimes face, the offenders are often in a different country, so we will try and engage with countries to see if they will prosecute. the other block that we have been finding is getting the information from the social media companies, so for us, some of the offences will be under the malicious communications act. some of those we need to lay a summons or a charge within six months. now, on occasions, it has taken us six months orjust short of to get a response from a social media company about who has done this, who's the owner? and of

down the road at the west brom food bank, referrals are up on a year ago, a regular stream of new peopleilliams, he was waiting on a hip replacement operation before returning to work as a lorry driver. in the meantime, the £20 a week cut to universal credit had hit hard. i don't get paid, i think, until the end of the month. i think i have about a penny to my name. i've never been this bad off in my life, to be honest. dean was confident, however, of being back at work injanuary once he'd had his surgery. in this part of the west midlands, wages are lower than the british average, so changes to universal credit allowing people to keep more of their earnings do help, but many still struggle. kate runs a cleaning business but uses the pantry to make ends meet. for £4, she can choose about £20 worth of food, helping the mum of three get through the week. you just need to think about what we're buying, what we eat and how we manage ourspending, really. back in west bromwich this week, moments of christmas cheer and happiness. sa nta! santa, say hello. but unfortunately, dean is back. how ar

down the road at the west brom food bank, referrals are up on a year ago, a regular stream of new peoplee returning to work as a lorry driver. in the meantime, the £20 a week cut to universal credit had hit hard. i don't get paid, i think, until the end of the month. i think i have about a penny to my name. i've never been this bad off in my life, to be honest. dean was confident, however, of being back at work injanuary once he'd had his surgery. in this part of the west midlands, wages are lower than the british average, so changes to universal credit allowing people to keep more of their earnings do help, but many still struggle. kit runs a cleaning business but uses the pantry to make ends meet. for £4, she can choose about £20 worth of food, helping the mum of three get through the week. you just need to think about what we're buying, what we eat and how we manage our spending, really. back in west bromwich this week, moments of christmas cheer and happiness. sa nta! santa, say hi. but unfortunately, dean is back. how are your finances? pfft, what finances? his operation was postpon

earlier, west brom lost ground in the championship title race. seven days up to and including boxing day. some managers have questioned why games are still going ahead at speed. watford have only held one full training session in over two weeks, and their last three games have been called off because of covid in their squad. their manager cladio ranieri's been talking ahead of tomorrow's game against west ham. it's a bad moment now. it's a bad moment because the players can't train properly. and i hope nobody will suffer some injury, because you know when they don't train and they are right at the end, it's very difficult to play. but that's it. they are like a formula 1 car. and when you don't make any training session, it's difficult. it's difficult, and i hope, i cross my fingers nobody has some injury. there was one match in rugby union's premiership. harlequins moved up to third in the table after they beat northampton saints by a1—27 in the big game at twickenham. quins were 21—7 down at the end of the first half, but came from behind to co

me that 47 years of labour control in sandwell has done nothing but level down my constituency of west bromader of the opposition, _ possible. we now come to the leader of the opposition, keir _ possible. we now come to the leader of the opposition, keir starmer. - of the opposition, keir starmer. thank— of the opposition, keir starmer. thank you. _ of the opposition, keir starmer. thank you, mr speaker. i heard what the prime minister said at the beginning of the session but frankly, it raises more questions than answers. last week, i asked the prime minister, was there a christmas party in downing street for dozens of people on december 18? the prime minister, the government, spent the week telling the british public there was no party. all guidance was followed completely. millions of people now think the prime minister was taking them for. and that they were lied to. and they�*re right, aren�*t they? mr they're right, aren't they? mr speaker. _ they're right, aren't they? mr speaker, i think the right honourable gentleman probably missed what i said at the beginning. but i apologised, i