04 March 2018

Sunday

2018-03-04

Events

 * Italy national and Fiorentina captain Davide Astori is found dead in his hotel room ahead of the Serie A away match against Udine. He was 31 years old. All Serie A and B matches were suspended for the day.
 * General elections in Italy.
 * 90th Academy Awards Oscars ceremony held in Hollywood.
 * Two people, an elderly man and a younger woman, are found unconscious on a bench in a shopping centre in Salisbury. The pair are later identified as former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia Skripal, 33. Both had been exposed to a poisonous nerve agent and remain critically ill.
 * Actress Carmel McSharry (Beryl's Lot) dies, aged 91.

90th Academy Awards

 * Best picture: The Shape of Water
 * Best actor: Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour)
 * Best actress: Frances Mcdormand (Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri)
 * Director: Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
 * Visual effects: Blade Runner 2049
 * Animated feature film: Coco
 * full list here

Radio

 * BBC Radio 4 11.15 am Desert Island Discs: Matt Smith.