@SomersetCCC on Twitter: Sun is shining @leicsccc and the lads are out warming up. Play starts at 13:45, team news to follow. #wearesomersetpic.twitter.com/R440LyOVXS
12:36pm - Ervine has now accounted for both overnight batsmen as Brown is strangled down the leg side for 58. That double blow could be a decisive check on Lancashire's momentum.
@LancsCCC on Twitter: Lancs 136-4, leading by 173. Brown 58, Croft 4. 75 overs left in the day.
12:15pm - Hampshire all-rounder Sean Ervine strikes to end the prospect of a couple of landmarks. Agathangelou cut to point where George Bailey held a low catch. He was on 49 and the fourth-wicket stand with Brown was worth 99. Those two have put Lancashire in the box seat but can they capitalise? The score is 124 for four and the lead 163.
@SussexCCC on Twitter: YB40 - Bright, warm and sunny from Horsham.! Ready for YB40 action v Kent Spitfires. Gates open 12:15pm, tickets still available! #YB40
12:05pm - Incidentally, 40 of Brown's 54 runs have come in boundaries. He's clearly happy for the Hampshire fielders to do most of the running underneath the bank holiday sunshine.
12:00pm - Having stalled somewhat, Brown finally has his third half-century of the championship season. Agathangelou stands just six shy of that landmark and will be keen to mark a fine individual performance by lifting his bat once more. The stand between these two is worth 88 and, with the lead at 152, perhaps Lancashire will look to accelerate in the hour before lunch.
11:30am - Brown has scored three fours from four James Tomlinson deliveries at the Ageas Bowl and the Lancashire batsman is approaching a stylish fifty. He's on 45 and the visitors will be pleased with their morning's work so far; the score is 96 for three and the lead 133.
11:24am - The game is moving along quickly at Headingley. Trent Boult has a five-wicket haul and England are all out for 354 in their first innings. Follow all the action with our man in Leeds, Matthew Sherry, here.
@WorcsCCC on Twitter: The sun is out, so come down to New Road this afternoon for @WorcsCCCvs @NorthantsCCC in YB40 action. Match starts at 1-45. #BringSunCream
@leicsccc on Twitter: Summer is officially here, it's going to be a glorious day as two YB40 100%ers go head to head! Please come down to Grace Road! @SomersetCCC
10:55am - Lancashire hold a slight advantage after three days, thanks in no small part to Glen Chapple. The redoubtable Red Rose skipper claimed a five-wicket haul yesterday afternoon, including a run of 4-0 in six balls, and but for some hearty wagging of the Hampshire tail a third consecutive first-class victory would be well within his team's reach. First-innings centurion Andrea Agathangelou will resume an unbroken partnership of 36 for the fourth wicket with Karl Brown this morning looking for quick runs, but early wickets for the hosts will give the match an entirely different complexion.
10:45am - Here's a full summary of what's on the agenda for today so you can plan barbecues and trips to the ice cream van accordingly.
Division Two
Lancashire (295 and 63 for three) lead Hampshire (258) by 100 runs ahead of the final morning at the Ageas Bowl
Yorkshire Bank 40
Nottinghamshire Outlaws v The Netherlands
Sussex Sharks v Kent Spitfires
Worcestershire Royals v Northants Steelbacks
Scottish Saltires v Derbyshire Falcons
Gloucestershire Gladiators v The Unicorns
Leicestershire Foxes v Somerset
10:25am - Good morning everybody and welcome to live coverage of today's domestic action on ecb.co.uk. In just over half an hour, Hampshire and Lancashire will begin the final day of a finely poised LV= County Championship Division Two clash at the Ageas Bowl. The visitors are 100 runs to the good with seven second-innings wickets in hand.
If you think that makes for a sparse morning, then fear not - in the early afternoon six Yorkshire Bank 40 matches will get under way on this glorious bank holiday weekend.
Oh, and then there's the small matter of the second Investec Test match at Headingley, where Joe Root brought the locals to their feet yesterday.