Liverpool face Manchester City in an all-Premier League Champions League quarter-final - but who will head to the last four?

Barrow fail to ease their relegation fears as they lose at home to play-off chasing AFC Fylde in the National League.

Birmingham City claim a third straight win to continue their revival as they hold on with 10 men away at rivals Bolton.

Rochdale move to within a point of safety in League One with victory at relegation rivals Bury.

The sale comes as it is revealed work on two hospitals is being delayed by the firm's collapse.

BBC Sport

Liverpool centre-back Joel Matip is set to miss the rest of the season as the club say he is "likely to require an operation on a thigh injury".

Image source, Getty Images

The 26-year-old suffered the injury during the win at Crystal Palace on Saturday but played the whole game.

A Reds statement said "the operation is likely to end" Matip's "involvement in the remainder" of the campaign.

Here's our full story after it emerged Merseyrail and the RMT union are to begin talks in a long-running dispute over driver-only operated trains.

Image source, Merseytravel

Union members have organised strikes over the issue, which they believe risks passenger safety.

The talks, which will begin on Thursday, come after the rail operator wrote to the union to say it would enter them "accepting the outcome may be a second person on every train".

Merseyrail said all options "will be considered" to end the dispute.

The parents of a three-year-old boy who died after contracting meningitis have paid tribute to their "gorgeous, cheeky, happy boy".

Image source, Family

Hector Kirkham died on 27 March, hours after being admitted to Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

The youngster attended Little Learners (Galgate) Nursery in Lancaster, along with a second child who is "recovering" at home after contracting the infection, Public Health England said.

His parents, Charlotte and Lee, said: "Hector was perfect in every way, our absolute world, our sunshine, our very best friend.

“Hector became very poorly very fast. ([His] symptoms of sickness and a temperature only presented 12 hours before we sadly lost the love of our lives.

“We urge all parents to be vigilant and any signs or symptoms that point towards meningitis being a possibility please please seek urgent medical advice, don’t delay.”

Three-year-old Hector Kirkham attended the Little Learners (Galgate) Nursery in Lancaster.

A young boy from Lancashire has died after contracting meningitis with a second child who attended the same nursery admitted to hospital.

Image source, Google

Three-year-old Hector Kirkham, who attended the Little Learners (Galgate) Nursery in Lancaster, died on 27 March after being admitted to Royal Lancaster Infirmary.

Public Health England (PHE) said all children and staff have been offered antibiotics as a precaution.

The second child later left hospital and is "recovering", PHE said.

Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana could return from injury in "weeks" but centre-back Joel Matip is set to miss the rest of the season.

A man from Liverpool caught in Carlisle with supplies of heroin and cocaine had been told his debts would be cut if he dealt drugs, a court has heard.

Thomas Powell, 23, admitted possessing the drugs with intent to supply.

Beccy McGregor, prosecuting, said Powell had admitted guilt in writing, but that a download report for the mobile phone he was given to use when dealing would be needed before the prosecution decided whether to accept the plea.

Judge Barbara Forrester adjourned the case until 4 May and remanded Powell, from Steers Croft, Liverpool in custody.

Energy firm Cuadrilla has successfully completed drilling the first well at a site in Lancashire, it has confirmed.

Image source, Getty Images

Work will now begin on drilling a second horizontal exploration well at Preston New Road in Little Plumpton, between Blackpool and Preston.

The company said it has planning permission to drill a total of up to four horizontal wells on the site.

Campaigners have lost appeals against fracking at the site after Court of Appeal judges rejected two legal challenges.

Liverpool's new permanent terminal will be able to berth the world's largest cruise liners.

England captain Joe Root will miss Yorkshire's first two games of the season as the ECB announces player availability.

Cloud and showers will move northwards to leave a generally dry afternoon with some sunny spells - feeling milder with highs of 13C.

More from BBC Weather.

Barbara Coombes denies murdering her father, whose body was found in her back garden.

Planning permission for a multi-million pound project to build a new cruise terminal in Liverpool has been granted at a meeting of the city's council.

Image source, Google

The facility will be built at the derelict Princes Jetty and will allow bigger liners to start and end their cruises in the city.

The RMT and Merseyrail will meet to discuss a long-running dispute over driver-only operated trains.

Cuadrilla says it has successfully drilled the first ever horizontal shale gas well in the UK at its exploration site in Lancashire.

Image source, Cuadrilla

The well at the site on Preston New Road in the Flyde has been drilled 2,700m (8,860ft) below ground through the Lower Bowland shale and extends horizontally for 800m (2,600ft).

Cuadrilla wants to start fracking later this year but has to apply to the Secretary of State for permission first.