:00:16. > :00:21.Good evening. State`funded faith schools across the capital light be
:00:22. > :00:23.allowed to remove certain exam questions on religious grounds. A
:00:24. > :00:28.Jewish girls' school in Hackney has been redacting questions on
:00:29. > :00:31.evolution on science exam p`pers. The Examinations body now s`ys it'll
:00:32. > :00:33.allow the practice, which goes against government plans for a
:00:34. > :00:43.compulsory science curricultm. Marc Ashdown reports.
:00:44. > :00:47.Hatorah Senior Girls' School is a strict orthodox girls school where
:00:48. > :00:50.mortar pupils do not have a television or internet. Now it
:00:51. > :00:54.appears that certain subjects are off`limits. In a tub, 52 schence
:00:55. > :00:57.papers were found to have bden tampered with. Questions on
:00:58. > :01:03.pollution were redacted before the exams were sacked. The exams bought
:01:04. > :01:07.was satisfied that there had been no unfair advantage because thd girls
:01:08. > :01:24.lost marks. In future, they might actually allow such changes.
:01:25. > :01:31.We have seen e`mails between the exam board and Ofqual, the regular
:01:32. > :01:34.at, discussing how this is not an isolated case. And the wider
:01:35. > :01:39.significant applications involving other faith schools. One of the
:01:40. > :01:42.issues raised at this free school in Derby was the imposing of Islamic
:01:43. > :01:46.practices. The secondary school was taken over
:01:47. > :01:50.and will now close. Allowing censorship of exams would dhrectly
:01:51. > :01:56.contradict government plans to introduce a compulsory science
:01:57. > :02:02.curriculum. Some are concerned that just because the school does not
:02:03. > :02:04.agree with abolition it tophcs like fossils and skeletons, it does not
:02:05. > :02:08.mean that children should not be taught them. Jordan are being
:02:09. > :02:12.penalised by being denied access to marks. Of course, parents h`ve the
:02:13. > :02:15.right to raise their childrdn in accordance with religious bdliefs
:02:16. > :02:18.and we need to question whether public money should be spent on the
:02:19. > :02:22.belligerence in Caucasian of children, and means calling into
:02:23. > :02:28.question the concept of faith schools. The school was not happy
:02:29. > :02:32.with us filming. But later, they told us that they would not do
:02:33. > :02:35.anything which would comprolise their sincerely held ethos. The
:02:36. > :02:38.Department for Education has asked us for assurances that they will now
:02:39. > :02:41.teach the full curriculum. Marc, as you mentioned therd, there
:02:42. > :02:48.are wider implications in tdrms of government policy? Yes. This is fast
:02:49. > :02:51.becoming a test case for ond of Michael Gove's big reforms. The idea
:02:52. > :02:56.of a new science curriculum which are state funded schools must teach.
:02:57. > :02:59.But will they? The head at this school has made it clear th`t she
:03:00. > :03:03.will not, in a letter to parents which we have seen it went out
:03:04. > :03:08.yesterday. She explains, no matter what, we will never come delise Any
:03:09. > :03:11.faith schools could feel thd same. The problem is, if you allow
:03:12. > :03:15.individual schools to edit dxams, where does it end? Some belheve it
:03:16. > :03:18.will be the thin end of the wedge. Many different groups are ctrrently
:03:19. > :03:22.setting up free schools. Ministers could withdraw funding and they
:03:23. > :03:25.would then have to become private schools or close. They do not want
:03:26. > :03:28.to drive them away but the alternative could be a rethhnk of a
:03:29. > :03:32.big policy. Thank you.
:03:33. > :03:35.A former bodyguard on trial for stealing diamonds from one of the
:03:36. > :03:38.world's richest women has bden cleared by a West London jury. She
:03:39. > :03:41.was accused of taking ?12 mhllion worth of jewels from her employer's
:03:42. > :03:53.Kensington home, replacing them with cheap replicas. Nick Higham reports.
:03:54. > :03:59.Game points to Singapore. F`timah Lim was once a champion badlinton
:04:00. > :04:02.player. There she is winning a silver medal at the Commonwdalth
:04:03. > :04:08.games. Then she went to work for Marian Aziz, a former wife of the
:04:09. > :04:10.Sultan of Brunei. Today, Marian Aziz is an enthusiastic gambler, a
:04:11. > :04:16.regular at some of London's most exclusive cathedrals. She h`s been
:04:17. > :04:20.known to lose up to ?500,000 a night. Fatimah Lim gambled to and
:04:21. > :04:24.the prosecution claimed that she ran up large debts, so she hatched a
:04:25. > :04:27.plot to sell diamond rings `nd a bracelet belonging to her elployer.
:04:28. > :04:33.The prosecution alleged that Fatimah Lim brought the baseless and rings
:04:34. > :04:37.to a jeweller in Hackney, at the centre of London's diamond trade.
:04:38. > :04:42.The court was told that he `rranged to have two buckets made of the
:04:43. > :04:48.rings, cheap fakes that cost her ?300. And then he helped her sell
:04:49. > :04:53.the originals in Switzerland. The bracelets, for $5.5 million, the
:04:54. > :04:57.rings for $7.7 million, less than the true value. This jewelldr says
:04:58. > :05:01.it is not easy to sell diamonds if you cannot supply proof of
:05:02. > :05:04.ownership. It is not unusual for a stone purchased for one amotnts to
:05:05. > :05:11.be sold to the trade at a lower amount. What would be unusu`l is for
:05:12. > :05:17.a dealer to buy that sort of stone without supporting document`tion.
:05:18. > :05:21.The jury was told that the real diamonds were replaced with cheap
:05:22. > :05:25.fakes. Fatimah Lim told the court that she had told the jewels not for
:05:26. > :05:30.her own cancelling debts but to pay her employers. Fatimah Lim that has
:05:31. > :05:33.been to court once and lost heavily. In 2012 she was sued by Marhan Aziz
:05:34. > :05:40.formally into dollars and the return of the diamonds. In his judgement,
:05:41. > :05:43.Mr judges limber loom in th`t case described Fatimah Lim's evidence as
:05:44. > :05:48.not capable of belief, entirely lacking in credibility, wholly
:05:49. > :05:52.unconvincing, bordering on the absurd, fanciful and nonsense.
:05:53. > :05:58.Tonight, Fatimah Lim walked out of court a free woman but pennhless.
:05:59. > :06:02.Everything has been returned to marry Aziz, so I am left with
:06:03. > :06:07.nothing. But I have my freedom. `` Marian Aziz. The think the verdict
:06:08. > :06:12.would have been different if the jury had known you have lost that
:06:13. > :06:15.earlier action? I have no comment. `` do you think the verdict would
:06:16. > :06:18.have been different. I cannot wait to be back. You would like to say
:06:19. > :06:23.thank you to my friends and family for their support. Fatimah Lim may
:06:24. > :06:28.have lost the civil case but today a jury decided it was not cle`r beyond
:06:29. > :06:32.reasonable doubt that she h`d acted criminally.
:06:33. > :06:33.That's all from me, so I'll wish you a very good night, and hand you over
:06:34. > :06:39.to Wendy for the weather. a very good night, and
:06:40. > :06:44.It is quite nice, actually. Not a bad week ahead of us.
:06:45. > :06:49.Going through this week, it will stay miles. Turning cloudy `s we go
:06:50. > :06:58.through the week. `` mild. The skies are clear and it is turning cold out
:06:59. > :07:01.there. Light wind, and we are expected frost, widespread `cross
:07:02. > :07:05.the Home Counties. In the countryside, temperatures could be
:07:06. > :07:14.down to two for three. And the London suburbs will be closd to
:07:15. > :07:17.freezing. Shallow fog patchds possible tomorrow morning btt lots
:07:18. > :07:22.of sunshine. Continuing into the afternoon with more cloud in the
:07:23. > :07:28.sky. Temperatures up to 12. Here is the outlook. More cloud, and a few
:07:29. > :07:30.brighter spells on Thursday. And it will stay miles into the wedkend.
:07:31. > :07:33.And with more on that, will stay miles into the weekend.
:07:34. > :07:38.And with more on that, here is the National forecast.
:07:39. > :07:44.Good evening. The skies across England and Wales are clearing. It
:07:45. > :07:51.will turn cold once again. A different story for Scotland and
:07:52. > :07:55.Northern Ireland. But ahead of that, the skies are clearing for England
:07:56. > :08:02.and Wales. It will turn cold, so we will start tomorrow with a frost and
:08:03. > :08:07.will also be some fog around. The frost will set in, getting down to
:08:08. > :08:10.three below in rural spots. It is not until the latter part of the
:08:11. > :08:15.night where we will see the fog thickening up. All while, the wind
:08:16. > :08:18.is increasing. And we will see some rain setting in by dawn. That
:08:19. > :08:23.combination will keep temperatures above freezing. In rural spots,
:08:24. > :08:27.areas will be below freezing.