“I know there is every chance the weather will get in the way and make us wait”
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Czech Republic score two late goals to dump England out of the European Under-21 Championship.
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The judge suggested Arwyn Thomas was sacked for his union activities
Tube workers are to go on strike from 2100 BST in protest at the sacking of a driver.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) alleges Arwyn Thomas was sacked for his union activities and demands his reinstatement.
London Underground (LU) said it will abide by a tribunal ruling due shortly and the strike will “achieve nothing”.
The strike is due to last six hours, but LU claims it will cause little disruption.
LU managing director Mike Brown said: “This strike action will achieve nothing and I urge the RMT leadership to calmly await the outcome of the employment tribunal without any further strikes.
Tube strike dates and timesBetween 2101 BST on 19 June and 0300 BST on 20 JuneBetween 2101 BST on 27 June and 1159 BST on 28 JuneBetween 1200 BST on 29 June and 1159 BST on 30 JuneBetween 1200 BST and 2100 BST on 1 July
Assessing impact of Tube strikes“I have given a cast-iron assurance that if the tribunal rules that we should re-instate or re-engage Arwyn Thomas, then we will do so.
“We have given that assurance in writing before this strike action and I make it again now, so there can be no justification whatsoever for the RMT to continue to threaten Londoners with strike action.”
At an interim hearing a judge suggested a tribunal was “likely” to find Mr Thomas was dismissed for his union activities.
Further planned strikes could affect people travelling to the Wimbledon tennis championships.
An RMT spokesman said: “Unfortunately, management refused point blank to even discuss re-employing Arwyn.
“Therefore, we have no option but to go ahead with our strike action to defend our longstanding rep and activist.”
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Syrian troops are said to be tightening their grip on villages in the north of the country, as people seek refuge on the border with Turkey.
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The Church of England is expected to confirm that openly gay clergy can be made bishops, if they are celibate.
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Jessica Ennis continues her path to full form with a decent display at the Northern Athletics Outdoor Championships in Manchester.
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The European tour is meant to mark a new start for the singer after treatment for alcohol addiction
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Amy Winehouse is to cancel part of her European tour after the singer was booed for appearing to be too drunk to perform at a concert in Serbia’s capital Belgrade.
She is pulling out of shows in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday, and Athens, Greece, on Wednesday.
A spokesman said Ms Winehouse would like to apologise to fans, but “feels that this is the right thing to do”.
The singer has struggled with addiction for some time.
Her spokesman added that Ms Winehouse will return home after agreeing with management that “she cannot perform to the best of her ability”.
Her tour, which was originally scheduled to include 12 performances, is now due to resume in Bilbao, Spain, on 8 July.
The concert in Belgrade was the first of the tour, and for almost 90 minutes, Amy Winehouse mumbled her way through parts of songs, said the BBC’s Mark Lowen.
He added: “She sang a few strained notes, before stumbling across the stage and at one point throwing her microphone to the floor.
“At times she left the stage altogether – her band attempting to fill in.
“She was frequently booed by the crowd. Many had paid up to €45 (£40) to see her in a country in which wages are some of the lowest in Europe, and their anger was clear.”
The Grammy-award winning singer had been under strict instructions not to drink after recently finishing a course of alcohol rehabilitation in London.
Hotel staff on her European tour are said to be under orders to remove alcohol from her room.
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An Ian Bell century puts England closer to victory over Sri Lanka on day four of the third Test at the Rose Bowl.
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Take That are on a 29-stadium tour, with 1.8 million tickets sold
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Take That have topped the album chart once more with their reunion hit Progress, which was the biggest-selling album of last year.
The album, which has been re-released with an extra eight tracks, jumped 10 places to take the number one position.
Take That are currently on an extensive sell-out tour of the UK and parts of Europe.
Dance act Example remained at number one in the singles chart.
Example, whose real name is Elliot Gleave, held on to number one for a second week with his single Change The Way You Kiss Me, despite competition from other dance acts Calvin Harris and Ed Sheeran.
Harris’s single Bounce entered the chart at number two and Sheeran was at number three with The A Team.
Other new tracks in the top 40 were Spaceship from Tinchy Stryder and Dappy, in at number five, and Katie Perry’s Last Friday Night (TGIF), which entered at number 24.
In the album chart, other new entries were So Beautiful Or So What by Paul Simon, who came in at number six, and Hell – The Sequel by Bad Meets Evil, in at number seven.
Nerina Pallot’s Year Of The Wolf came in at number 31 and Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Make A Scene was at number 38.
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Victories for Charlene Thomas and Andy Turner help Great Britain secure fourth place on the final day of the European Team Championships in Stockholm.
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The white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch has sold for $4.6m (£2.8m) at an auction in Los Angeles.
The dress was part of a collection of film memorabilia collected by actress Debbie Reynolds over four decades.
She had hoped to house them in a museum but the project never came to fruition.
Other lots included Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra headdress, a Charlie Chaplin bowler hat and the guitar played by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.
Reynolds, 79, was in tears as the auction on the iconic Seven Year Itch dress closed, CNN reported.
Auction house Profiles in History had expected it reach around $2m.
It was bought by an unidentified buyer bidding by telephone.
A red sequined dress and feathered headdress worn for Monroe’s role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes reached $1.47m and a saloon girl costume from River of No Return for $510,000.
Many of the items had been given to Reynolds by her close friend Dame Elizabeth Taylor, who died earlier this year. The horse racing outfit worn by Taylor as a child in National Velvet sold for $73,800.
The trademark bowler hat worn by Charlie Chaplin in several films, including The Little Tramp, reached $135,300 while a dress and pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the filming of The Wizard of Oz sold for $1.75m despite not having appeared in the film.
Keya Morgan, a collector of memorabilia and author of a book on Monroe, said the auction was “totally crazy, especially in this recession”.
She told CNN Monroe would have been amazed to see her old outfits sell for so much.
Reynolds began collecting props and costumes in 1970 and had amassed some 3,500 items.
Speaking before the auction, she said the cost of maintaining them had become too high and that by selling them “I won’t have quite so much responsibility and I can rest a little more”.
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John McCain (right) said the US border must be made secure
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US Senator John McCain has blamed illegal immigrants for starting some of the huge wildfires that have devastated the state of Arizona in recent weeks.
Arizona’s Republican senator said migrants “set fires because they wanted to signal others… to keep warm” and also to distract border agents.
The comments by Mr McCain prompted a sharp rebuke from Latino rights advocates, CNN reported.
The fires have already gutted some 700,000 acres (283,279 ha) of land.
Mr McCain’s comments came during a news conference in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday.
The senator said: “There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally.”
However, he did not provide any details of the evidence he cited.
Firefighters have lit controlled burns in Arizona in the hope of reducing fuel available to the wildfire
Mr McCain also suggested that “the answer to that part of the problem (fires) is to get a secure border”.
In response, Latino rights campaigner Randy Parraza called his comments “careless and reckless”, CNN reports.
He said the senator “should know better” than to make such an accusation without presenting any facts, adding: “It’s easier to fan the flames of intolerance, especially in Arizona.”
In May, the US Supreme Court upheld a controversial law in Arizona that imposed penalties on businesses that hired illegal immigrants.
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The BBC’s Matthew Price says residents of Bdama have fled to the Turkish border as that is where they feel safest
Turkey is for the first time supplying food across the border to people displaced within Syria as the Syrian army tightens its grips on restive areas in the north of the country.
Syrian forces have cut off the village of Bdama and closed its bakery, the only source of bread for thousands.
Witnesses say Syrian forces have set up checkpoints and are making arrests.
Turkey says more than 10,500 people have crossed over to its territory but more are camping on the Syrian side.
“Distribution of humanitarian aid has begun to meet the urgent food needs of Syrian citizens waiting on the Syrian side of our border,” Turkey’s emergency situations agency said in a statement on Sunday, the AFP news agency reported.
Analysis
The number of people living here, squeezed up along the Syrian Turkish border, has been growing. Over the weekend, more people have come to this particular camp from the town of Bdama, which Syrian forces went into early on Saturday morning.
I have spoken to a number of people here who have described hearing shots being fired in the town. One man said that while the army was in the town, it had tried to reassure people that they were indeed safe. Then he said that he knew of a number of people who had gone back to Bdama, believing the words of the soldiers, and they had then been arrested.
So it is clearly, as far as the people here are concerned, a very frightening situation and they are living out here among the fig trees and the olive groves, out under the baking sun during the day in makeshift camps.
They all say they don’t know when they will return to their homes.
Activists said the army had surrounded Bdama with checkpoints and was stopping people attempting to flee towards the border.
Nonetheless, hundreds have managed to escape and are living in makeshift camps on the Syrian side.
The local Turkish governor’s office said some Syrians were collecting food at the border to take to the stranded families, the Associated Press reported. The governor’s office said there was no question of Turkish soldiers crossing into Syria.
Raka el-Abdu, 23, told AFP that his family fled Bdama on Saturday but he went back on Sunday morning to get bread. He reached the village using mountain routes and found it all but abandoned.
“They closed the only bakery there. We cannot get bread any more,” he said. “I saw soldiers shooting the owner of the bakery. They hit him in the chest and the leg.
“The army is controlling all the entrances to the village and checking identities to arrest protesters,” he added.
Turkey has condemned the crackdown by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a three-month-old uprising by protesters demanding greater openness and an end to corruption.
Good relations between the Turkish government and President Assad have been severely strained by the crisis.
The UN says that at least 1,100 people have died since protests began, but Syrian rights groups put the overall death toll in Syria at 1,297 civilians and 340 security force members.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has sent its president to Syria for talks about the humanitarian crisis.
ICRC president Jakob Kellenberger has repeatedly asked Syria to grant the ICRC and the Syrian Red Crescent access to those wounded or detained.
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The total number of UK service personnel killed in Afghanistan stands at 374 
