think congratulations to this years coil carrying championships. if switch kicked off in a second half still losing to southampton, they're looking to return to the top of the table, leeds united can do that later as well. go to that on your bbc sport app but for me and the rest of the team goodbye. a boxing club in north yorkshire is helping people with parkinson's disease to improve their strength and mobility through specialist fitness classes. westway boxing club in eastfield has eight students with the degenerative condition, who've been training for six months and have seen an improvement in their symptoms. our reporter carla fowler has been to meet the boxers. five, four, three, two, one.

fighting to keep fit for as long as possible. westway club has been training boxers for three decades in scarborough, but this is a new group of fighters facing a different kind of battle. everyone here has parkinson's. it's a heavyweight opponent, but they're slowing down its progress through boxing. you start to learn your balance quite early on. you get the coordination and the strength builds up. of course, once you can do that, you can punch harder. so i think it affects all of those things. and they're very important because what parkinson's does is take away the ability of the mind to control the body, basically. and so you need to find new ways of doing it. feet, hands... we haven't recreated the wheel, we're just doing boxing training. i think it's the rhythm. it's got everybody strong, everyone's improved. my granddad had had parkinson's, and through my training, through boxing, i'd seen other clubs

and people doing similar things. and i turned up to one of the people's coffee mornings and offered my services and we went from there. parkinson's is a neurological condition with many different symptoms, but a growing body of evidence suggests boxing specifically improves balance, coordination and agility. all things impacted by parkinson's. my footsteps have got much better. the strength, certainly in my left arm, is very much better. it keeps the body working, keeps the mind working. even the consultant thinks it's one of the best things that's happened for all of us. well done. for many, it's a chance to release the daily frustrations their condition brings. it isn't how i foresaw my life panning out. i've always been interested in sport, always kept myself fit, never done drugs or...rarely drink. and, you know, it's kind of... you need to keep going.

you know, i live on my own, so i need to be able to look after myself for as long as possible. i hope we can continue building on this and showing people the power of boxing used for parkinson's is quite a special thing. at the moment, there is no cure for parkinson's, but boxing could be the best therapy. the first part of a brand new series from peaky blinders creator steven knight aired on bbc one last night. �*this town�* is set in 19805 birmingham, and follows the formation of a band and the rise of the two tone music genre. two tone became one of the most famous sounds of the 80s with bands such as the specials and the selecter, and it all started in the west midlands. our reporter ben sidwell can tell us more.

music. i don't think we were a political party, we were a pop group, but we had this political message. what i thought was odd at the time was if somebody could have a record out in that period and not mention what was going on outside in the street. # i bought my baby a red radio. # he played it all day, go—go a—go—go. i've always felt very, very strongly that the two—tone movement was bigger than all of us. that's why it survives. it was that moment in time, at the time nobody saw. - but it was unique. coventry, 1979. a backdrop of rising unemployment, social unrest and racial tension that gave birth to a genre of music that seemed to sum up the feel of the city and the country — two—tone. it was the only reason i wanted to write songs was the enormities that were going on. we were only singing about what was being talked about in every pub

and at every bus stop. it wasn't just about the music, but that was the backdrop to our lives. so whatever you're bringing to the stage, you're bringing part of your life too, part of your thinking, part of your way of interpreting the world at that time. bands such as the selecter and the specials from coventry and the beat from birmingham were at the forefront of two—tone, made up of both black and white musicians, sending a very visual message to a divided nation. it was just great to look out at a sea of people and see yourself reflected in it. and, you know, you were fronting to a whole load of people, some of which actually didn't like you very much. they liked the music, but they actually didn't like it. we were very different people and i think that was the, for me, that was the interesting thing about the specials.

lynval golding was the first black person that i'd ever sat down and talked to in my life. the thing that i think that we all get wrong about the specials is their songs are of a moment. they were bob dylan, they were political... they were political hand grenades. you know, too much too young was a generation. within a few years, despite all the success, all three bands had split. but 45 years on, two—tone is still going strong and the music it created seems just as relevant. ben sidwell, bbc news. it's fair to say that winning the lottery is something many have dreamed of, so it's no surprise that the tv show �*the syndicate�*, about five people who hit the jackpot, was a popular series. now the story — crafted by the late scriptwriter, kay mellor — has been adapted for the stage

with a cast of famous faces. our reporter abi jaiyeola has been backstage. theyjust rolled down that little tube, one after the other. the syndicate tells a story of a group of supermarket staff who win the lottery. it was a huge hit on tv. now, remember, as soon as i make the announcement, the cameras will go off. so big smiles. the show ran for four series from 2012 and now it's making its theatre debut. the script was written by leeds playwright kay mellor shortly before she died two years ago. now her daughter gaynor has stepped in to bring her mum's work to the stage. coming to leeds grand, she's had band of gold here, she's had fat friends the musical here, and they were huge hits. so for her to bring the syndicate here is ultra special, and to keep her words alive is really important for us and her legacy going forward. well, there's the ticket. you can check the numbers if you like. in rehearsals backstage at the leeds grand, the production is a real family affair.

oliver is gaynor�*s son, and he plays the role ofjamie. i've been a part of it since the start, so to be able to be a part of it on the stage in such a great place like the grand with gaynor directing me, you know, it's an honour. and to be able to speak kay's words every day is an honour to me. i call her kay because professional sense but she's my lovely grandma, but, yeah. the cast includes some otherfamiliarfaces — brooke vincent from coronation street and emmerdale�*s samantha giles. i had a little bit of a taster of going back on stage at christmas when i did panto at bradford, so i feel like i remembered, i remembered what it's like because i hadn't been on stage for 14 years. and it is very exciting having a live audience and the reactions there, but it's also quite scary. one of kay's qualities was to just get you laughing and crying within seconds, and i think that really, really does come through in the play as well. we've had so much fun

laughing at different lines in the rehearsal room. there's just over two weeks of rehearsals left, and audiences will be able to share what has been a very special project for kay's family. everybody says, "oh, god, if i only won the lottery, if i won the lottery, i'd do this, if i won..." she explores all that, the good, the bad and the ugly. it's that theme of money, is it good for us? and i think it raises that question but all in a wonderful, amusing, sad, you know, dramatic way. the show will start in leeds on the 18th of april, then head to sheffield and bradford. abijaiyeola, bbc news. and the race is on to be top of the penguin pecking order... lizzie — a seven—year—old gentoo from the deep aquariam in hull — is hoping to be crowned the world's best penguin. but she faces tough competition in the quarter finals from littlefoot — a king penguin from kansas.

the vote, run by penguins international, closes at six o'clock tomorrow morning. lizzie is currently trailing by around 500 votes. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. after a very wet march for some, we've got more rain to come this week for the early part of april — dominated by low pressure. that's been bringing the showers today. that weather front has been moving very slowly northwards and is really coming to rest overnight across scotland, particularly across the north—east. it should turn drier in northern ireland. the showers in the south, across england and wales, becoming confined more to southern counties of england where there'll be a stronger wind through the english channel. but with the cloud breaking up eventually in the north—east of england after a chilly, wet day today, temperatures could be down to two celsius overnight tonight. still some patchy rain affecting scotland, especially the north—east. those heavy showers will move away from south—east england and then we'll see some sunshine for a while on tuesday. but the cloud will build up. we'll get a few april showers

developing and some wetter weather comes into the channel islands and the south—west of england during the afternoon. but ahead of that, temperatures widely 14, 15 celsius in the midlands and eastern england, but still quite a bit chillier than that in northern and eastern scotland where we've got that north—easterly wind. we've got rain, though, coming into the south—west. that's coming on those weather fronts. that rain will move northwards on tuesday night, and we're left with another area of low pressure over us on wednesday. not terribly windy around that low, but we will find showers or longer spells of rain running northwards across england and wales into scotland and northern ireland. southern parts of england and wales maybe cheering up a bit in the afternoon, some sunshine which will help those temperatures rise a bit higher. but it's going to be particularly cold in scotland with cloud and rain and a north—easterly wind. now these are the upper level winds, and this is the jet stream pattern over the next few days. and with that sort of pattern, we pick up areas of low pressure from the atlantic, drive them up from the south—west and take rain northwards across much of the country. so that's the sort of

pattern that we're seeing. a bit of rain left from overnight across northern scotland and some rain moving northwards across england and wales, and then a brief respite before it turns wetter and windier more widely later in the day across southern parts of england and south wales. those temperatures aren't really changing too much. still quite cold air that we've got across many parts of scotland. and the pattern over the next few days keeps those north—easterly winds then across scotland, but the rest of the uk will be milder, south—westerly winds — but this is where all the wet weather is going to come over the next few days to the end of the week.

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