02/05/2012

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:00:11. > :00:15.The mystery death of an Mi6 officer - the coroner says we may never

:00:15. > :00:21.know what happened. Gareth Williams was found dead in a

:00:21. > :00:26.sports bag - the verdict his death was probably unlawful. It's highly

:00:26. > :00:32.likely that a third party was involved in Gareth's death, and I

:00:32. > :00:36.urge anyone who knows Gareth who had contact with him to search

:00:36. > :00:40.their conscience and come forward. Tonight the family accuses Mi6 of

:00:40. > :00:43.failing Gareth Williams. Also on the programme:

:00:43. > :00:53.Tax avoidance at the top of the civil service - senior officials

:00:53. > :00:54.

:00:54. > :00:57.use a loophole to pay less to the revenue.

:00:57. > :00:59.Hundreds of people remember the woman who died at the London

:00:59. > :01:02.marathon. Claire Squires collapsed a mile

:01:02. > :01:10.from the finish line - a million pounds has been donated to her

:01:10. > :01:13.charity. Cardinal Sean Brady refuses to

:01:13. > :01:16.resign. Is there life out there? The green

:01:16. > :01:19.light for an eight year journey to one of Jupiter's moons.

:01:19. > :01:24.Tonight on BBC London, it's the final day of campaigning for the

:01:24. > :01:28.men and women who want to be Mayor. And a show of strength in the skies

:01:28. > :01:38.- the typhoon jets arrive which will protect London during the

:01:38. > :02:00.

:02:00. > :02:03.Welcome to the BBC News at Six. It's a mystery that may never be

:02:03. > :02:06.explained - that was the verdict of the coroner at the inquest into the

:02:06. > :02:08.death of MI6 officer Gareth Williams. Dr Fiona Wilcox ruled out

:02:08. > :02:12.suicide and said Mr Williams was probably killed unlawfully. His

:02:12. > :02:14.body was found in 2010 in a sports bag that was padlocked on the

:02:14. > :02:16.outside. Today Mr Williams' family criticised the Secret Intelligence

:02:16. > :02:21.Service for taking days to raise the alarm.

:02:21. > :02:26.Nearly two years on from the death of Gareth Williams, seen here in

:02:26. > :02:30.his last movements and after a lengthy, detailed inquest, the

:02:30. > :02:34.central mysteries of how and why the intelligence officer died

:02:34. > :02:39.remain. Today the policewoman leading the inquiry made it clear

:02:39. > :02:44.the investigation goes on. The inquest has raised several new

:02:44. > :02:47.lines of inquiry, and the investigation will now refocus and

:02:47. > :02:52.actively pursue all the evidence heard and all the new lines of

:02:52. > :02:56.inquiry. This police reconstruction, with

:02:56. > :03:00.residue of extensive forensic testing, shows how Gareth

:03:00. > :03:04.Williams's body was found in the bathroom of his top floor flat in

:03:04. > :03:08.Pimlico in a locked bag. Could he have got inside and locked it

:03:08. > :03:12.himself? Experts gave evidence in court and this video was shown of

:03:12. > :03:17.them trying. One told the BBC afterwards what he thought. I have

:03:17. > :03:21.tried hundreds of times to look myself inside this bag and couldn't.

:03:21. > :03:31.Even Houdini would have struggled this one. Someone else must have

:03:31. > :03:40.

:03:40. > :03:45.So was Gareth Williams's death linked to his work or private life?

:03:45. > :03:48.The head of MI6 attended Gareth Williams's funeral. Today he issued

:03:48. > :03:53.an unreserved apology for the weeklong delay in reporting Gareth

:03:53. > :03:58.missing from his four-man team, a delay that made it impossible to be

:03:58. > :04:03.certain of cause of death, with poisoning or asphyxiation most

:04:03. > :04:08.likely. The family made clear their distress of this, in a statement

:04:08. > :04:13.read by their solicitor. Our grief is exacerbated by his employers at

:04:13. > :04:18.MI6 to take even the most basic inquiries as to his whereabouts.

:04:18. > :04:22.With no evidence linking his death to his work, was it his private

:04:22. > :04:26.life? Large amounts of women's clothing were found in his flat,

:04:26. > :04:29.but the coroner said this was probably linked to an interest in

:04:29. > :04:33.fashion. She also said visits to bondage sites weren't significant.

:04:33. > :04:39.Many questions remain unanswered, these include if there was a third

:04:39. > :04:42.party, why were there so few traces found in the flat? Why was one of

:04:42. > :04:44.Gareth Williams's phones wiped hours before he died? And did

:04:45. > :04:49.police get all the relevant material from MI6?

:04:49. > :04:53.For Gareth Williams's family, this inquest has involved hearing much

:04:53. > :04:59.painful evidence. Today they said they could not describe the depths

:04:59. > :05:04.of their sorrow, and after all the intrigue and conspiracies, Gareth

:05:04. > :05:07.Williams's death remains both tragic and unresolved, and the

:05:07. > :05:12.coroner today said it may never be fully explained.

:05:12. > :05:17.We can speak to Gordon now at the flat where Gareth Williams's body

:05:17. > :05:20.was found. Where does this police investigation go now? Well, the

:05:20. > :05:24.coroner today said she was convinced someone else was at this

:05:24. > :05:28.flat when he died, but who was it? That mystery still remains and

:05:28. > :05:32.seems no closer to being answered. The police have got a few lines of

:05:32. > :05:36.inquiry. They're looking at some tiny traces of DNA. They're looking

:05:36. > :05:40.at phones. They have made an appeal for witnesses, but those are pretty

:05:40. > :05:44.slim picks, which is why the coroner says it may never be fully

:05:44. > :05:47.explained. Also on the issue of his workplace - today MI6 have issued a

:05:47. > :05:51.statement that say that they have always provided all the evidence

:05:51. > :05:55.the police wanted. They have cooperated fully, and they will

:05:55. > :05:58.continue to cooperate. But that gives you a sense of just how

:05:59. > :06:02.complicated this inquiry has been and will continue to be as it goes

:06:02. > :06:08.forward. George? Gordon, thank you.

:06:08. > :06:11.A BBC investigation has uncovered that over 2,000 senior civil

:06:11. > :06:14.servants are exploiting a legal loophole to reduce the amount of

:06:14. > :06:18.tax they pay. These employees have set themselves up as companies so

:06:18. > :06:21.they can avoid personal tax rates. These latest revelations come from

:06:21. > :06:23.a Government audit set-up after it emerged that Ed Lester, the Chief

:06:23. > :06:30.Executive of the Student Loans Company, had been using the same

:06:30. > :06:33.practice. Newsnight's Peter Marshall has this exclusive report.

:06:33. > :06:37.The tax arrangements at the head of the Student Loans Company, Ed

:06:37. > :06:40.Lester, caused a row earlier this year when the BBC revealed he was

:06:40. > :06:46.being paid by the Government through a private company, allowing

:06:46. > :06:50.him to reduce his tax bill. Now it seems over 2,000 other public

:06:50. > :06:54.servants earning a minimum of over �58,000 a year are doing the same -

:06:54. > :06:59.not paying tax at source. And that does not include the numbers in

:06:59. > :07:03.local Government which must run to a large number - and it doesn't

:07:03. > :07:08.look like it includes the whole of the NHS or the academy schools.

:07:08. > :07:11.it's far worse than 2,000 you suspect? Yes, far worse, and it is

:07:11. > :07:14.extraordinary that we have had a Government in for two years and

:07:15. > :07:19.this has been going on without Ministers having the slightest clue

:07:20. > :07:24.that this was happening. The information has come to light

:07:24. > :07:28.in a letter from the Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander to the

:07:28. > :07:32.Chancellor, George Osborne. Mr Alexander, who signed off on Ed

:07:32. > :07:35.Lester's arrangements suggests he's shocked by the sheer scale of the

:07:35. > :07:39.off-payroll deals. They came to light in a trawl of Government

:07:39. > :07:43.departments. He wants board members and senior officials to be

:07:43. > :07:47.compelled to go on staff. He wants to seek assurances on the tax

:07:47. > :07:51.details for anyone engaged for more than six months on more than �220 a

:07:51. > :07:56.day, and he wants it all brought in within three months.

:07:56. > :08:01.This all sounds very dynamic and decisive from a Government which

:08:01. > :08:05.these days regards tax avoidance as morally repugnant, but in seeking

:08:05. > :08:09.to overturn the legally agreed pay deals of thousands of its workforce,

:08:09. > :08:13.they could be biting off more than they can chew.

:08:13. > :08:19.A former tax inspector says it will cost millions.

:08:19. > :08:26.On a population of 2,000, which we understand, gives a cost of �60

:08:26. > :08:30.million. That's just if they're earning �58,a 200. If they're

:08:30. > :08:36.earning more... That national insurance cost may go up to �24

:08:36. > :08:42.million. From That's without take into account pensions, holiday pay

:08:43. > :08:48.and various statutory pay rights. The dangerous of it is if it's not

:08:48. > :08:51.handled carefully, recouping the lost tax could cost the country a

:08:51. > :08:58.fortune. And you can see Peter Marshall's

:08:58. > :09:01.full report on Newsnight tonight at 10.30 on BB Two.

:09:01. > :09:03.Claire Squires, the woman who collapsed and died less than a mile

:09:03. > :09:09.from the London marathon finish line, has been buried in

:09:09. > :09:12.Leicestershire. More than 600 people attended the funeral. Since

:09:12. > :09:15.her death thousands of people have been donating money to the

:09:15. > :09:17.samaritans, the charity she was running for. As Claire Marshall

:09:17. > :09:20.reports the total now is more than a million pounds.

:09:20. > :09:25.The theme of today was red, Claire's favourite colour.

:09:25. > :09:30.# You can tell everybody - # Songs she loved played on a loud

:09:30. > :09:36.speaker as friends and family arrived, the day she is buried, and

:09:36. > :09:38.still, people are giving. This from the team she climbed mount

:09:39. > :09:43.Kilimanjaro with last year. Claire Squires was just 30 when she

:09:43. > :09:47.entered the London Marathon. She was less than a mile from the

:09:47. > :09:50.finishing line when she collapsed and died. At the time, she'd

:09:50. > :09:53.already raised �500 for charity, but then something extraordinary

:09:54. > :09:58.happened. Touched by her story, people around the world began

:09:58. > :10:01.donating, and within a week, the total was more than �1 million.

:10:01. > :10:05.Today this was caused an extraordinary response.

:10:05. > :10:12.Claire's sister gave a very moving tribute. She said that Claire fit

:10:12. > :10:17.more into 30 years than most people do into 80 or 90.

:10:17. > :10:21.A huge legacy she's left in our footsteps, well over �1 million

:10:21. > :10:26.raised for charity, and she has become the nation's sweetheart. I

:10:26. > :10:30.am so proud to call her my sister. The charity she was running for has

:10:30. > :10:34.never seen such a wave of giving. Samaritans is the organisation that

:10:34. > :10:38.is used to supporting the nation, and we find ourselves in the last

:10:38. > :10:45.ten days in a position where the nation is supporting us. She has

:10:45. > :10:49.indeed made a huge difference, but those who love her will miss her.

:10:49. > :10:52.The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland has refused to

:10:52. > :10:57.resign over allegation he could have stopped child abuse in the

:10:57. > :11:01.1970s but failed to do so a BBC documentary has uncovered new

:11:01. > :11:04.evidence that suggests Cardinal Keith O'Brien shoe the names of

:11:04. > :11:08.abused children -- Sean Brady knew the names of abused children but

:11:08. > :11:12.failed to tell the police. The priest wasn't jailed until years

:11:13. > :11:18.later. Father Brendan Smith abused

:11:18. > :11:22.children across Ireland for 40 years. It wasn't until 1994 that he

:11:22. > :11:26.was finally jailed, but could he have been caught sooner? And should

:11:26. > :11:32.the man who is now the head of the Irish Catholic Church have done

:11:33. > :11:37.more to stop him? Back in 1975 when Cardinal Brady was a young priest,

:11:37. > :11:42.records show he and a number of colleagues met one of Father

:11:42. > :11:45.Smith's victims, Brendan Boland. He was an altar boy. He said he told

:11:45. > :11:50.priests at the time he was being abused and that other children were

:11:50. > :11:54.also at risk from Father Smith. There was a boy from Belfast, I

:11:54. > :11:59.gave him his name and address. There was a girl from Belfast. I

:11:59. > :12:02.gave him her name and address. There was another boy. I gave him

:12:02. > :12:07.his name and address. But there is no evidence that the parents of

:12:07. > :12:11.these other children or the police were contacted. Cardinal Brady?

:12:11. > :12:14.The BBC documentary team asked him about the revelation.

:12:14. > :12:20.You had names and addresses, Cardinal, of children who were

:12:20. > :12:26.being abused or at risk of being abused and did not protect them.

:12:26. > :12:29.I... Today he gave an explanation. He said his rule in 1975 had simply

:12:29. > :12:34.been to gather evidence about Father Smith for more senior

:12:34. > :12:41.members of the church to act upon. He said he was sorry they didn't do

:12:41. > :12:46.more. But at all times I was doing my utmost to make sure that the

:12:46. > :12:50.evidence was produced and brought to those who could stop him.

:12:50. > :12:55.But that explanation was not good must have for many abuse victims.

:12:55. > :12:58.He knew whether those parents had been contacted or not. He had free

:12:58. > :13:03.will. He should have had a conscience, and he did not act, and

:13:03. > :13:07.on those grounds, he should not be there any longer. He should not be

:13:07. > :13:13.leading our church. The pressure is building. It's known that Cardinal

:13:13. > :13:17.Brady has considered resigning, but tonight, it's being made clear he's

:13:17. > :13:24.staying on, and it's also emerged that the church will not try to

:13:24. > :13:28.force him out. A man has appeared in court on

:13:28. > :13:34.Teesside charged with two murders. James Allen, who is 36, is accused

:13:34. > :13:42.of killing Colin Dunford in Middlesbrough and Julie Davidson at

:13:42. > :13:44.Whitby. He was remanded in custody to appear at Teesside Crown Court

:13:44. > :13:47.tomorrow. Immigration staff are to hold a

:13:47. > :13:50.one-day strike next Thursday in a row over public sector pensions.

:13:50. > :13:52.Ministers say they have a contingency plan to tackle the risk

:13:52. > :13:54.of queues at border points. Recent delays at Heathrow immigration have

:13:54. > :13:57.led to dozens of extra staff being deployed.

:13:57. > :14:02.It's five years since Madeleine McCann went missing from a villa in

:14:02. > :14:04.Portugal. Today her parents Kate and Gerry said they have "no doubt"

:14:04. > :14:06.that the Portuguese authorities will eventually reopen the

:14:06. > :14:16.investigation into their daughter's disappearance and that Madeleine

:14:16. > :14:17.

:14:17. > :14:22.will be found alive. We know about - there is genuine

:14:22. > :14:25.new information which has come into the inquiry, and secondly, new

:14:25. > :14:28.lines of investigation have been identified from the different bits

:14:28. > :14:32.of information in the file. For example, it's just like two bits of

:14:32. > :14:42.the jigsaw have come together and given a definite lead which hasn't

:14:42. > :14:46.

:14:46. > :14:50.The body of a baby boy, thought to be up to six months old, has been

:14:50. > :14:57.founded a recycling plant in Scunthorpe. What have the police

:14:57. > :15:04.got to go on? Well, it seems that we are not talking about an

:15:04. > :15:10.abandoned newborn, but at BP six months old. Police were called here

:15:10. > :15:16.at 930 yesterday morning when workers found you discovered that

:15:16. > :15:22.baby in the rubbish. Police have had forensic teams in here and it

:15:22. > :15:32.had made and a direct appeal to the boy's parents, especially the

:15:32. > :15:34.

:15:34. > :15:44.mother, who they believe she will needs support. In police are hoping

:15:44. > :15:45.

:15:45. > :15:48.that someone will come forward and give them the information they need.

:15:49. > :15:51.Our top story tonight: The MI6 worker who was found dead in a

:15:51. > :15:54.padlocked bag was probably unlawfully killed, according to a

:15:54. > :16:01.coroner's verdict. Coming up: Why picking up this

:16:01. > :16:05.penguin landed two British tourists in an Australian court.

:16:05. > :16:11.The government says it can't rule out a return to standpipes in the

:16:11. > :16:21.street as the drought continues. Plus, confused about how to vote in

:16:21. > :16:26.the London elections? We will make It's an 18 year mission to seek out

:16:26. > :16:31.new life and to go where no man has gone before. A new probe to one of

:16:31. > :16:34.Jupiter's moons is getting the green light. The European Space

:16:35. > :16:38.Agency is calling it Juice, and it comes with a billion euro price tag.

:16:38. > :16:44.So, what will it find and is it worth the money? Here's our science

:16:44. > :16:51.correspondent, Pallab Ghosh. The moons of Jupiter or, some

:16:51. > :16:55.encrusted in ice, others fiery and volcanic. They are amongst the most

:16:55. > :17:00.fascinating of worlds and remained largely unexplored. Some of these

:17:00. > :17:04.moons are now the destination of Europe's next major space mission.

:17:05. > :17:10.It is a really exciting prospect, to think we will be going off and

:17:10. > :17:17.exploring did Jupiter's system, these moons that have water under

:17:17. > :17:20.East - underneath their crusts. Until now Nasa has led the way but

:17:20. > :17:26.because of budget cuts the Americans have had to scrap many of

:17:26. > :17:32.its missions. European nations are still prepared to fund what - fund

:17:32. > :17:35.research. Jupiter's is much further from the sun than the Earth with

:17:35. > :17:40.the Sun's rays are weak and temperatures are well below

:17:40. > :17:45.freezing. Orbiting around Jupiter or are more than 16 moons and it is

:17:45. > :17:53.thought some of them, including Ganymede and Joe Robuck, may be

:17:53. > :17:59.able to support life. Europa has an icy surface that could be up to 100

:17:59. > :18:03.metres deep. But underneath the ice is warmed and melted. This is

:18:04. > :18:10.caused by a three huge gravitational force of Jupiter's.

:18:10. > :18:16.So, below the frozen crust there is thought to be a vast ocean which

:18:16. > :18:23.might be home to simple life forms, or even if strange kind of alien

:18:23. > :18:27.fish. To have life, you need to have water. Where else to go in the

:18:27. > :18:32.solar system other whites and places that we know there is liquid

:18:32. > :18:39.water. Is there a possibility that there might be life on one of these

:18:39. > :18:43.worlds? I would be very surprised that there wasn't life of some kind.

:18:43. > :18:50.In the far future our son will expand and Jupiter's moons will

:18:50. > :18:53.warm. Some scientists say that they may one day become humanity's new

:18:53. > :19:02.home as the species looks to colonise other parts of the Solar

:19:02. > :19:04.System. A blind Chinese dissident is at the

:19:04. > :19:07.centre of a major diplomatic row between Beijing and Washington.

:19:07. > :19:11.Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest last week and took refuge in

:19:11. > :19:14.the US embassy in the Chinese capital. He's now left, but said he

:19:14. > :19:16.was forced to leave after learning that his wife would have been

:19:16. > :19:23.killed if he didn't. Here's our Beijing Correspondent, Damian

:19:23. > :19:29.Grammaticas. Tempers fray. This is one of

:19:29. > :19:31.Beijing's biggest hospitals this afternoon. Chinese security agents

:19:31. > :19:36.desperate became one of the country's best known human rights

:19:36. > :19:45.activists hidden from us. At the end of the corridor in the Weald

:19:45. > :19:54.Child - in a wheelchair, we glimpsed him. Chen Guangcheng. He

:19:54. > :19:58.was brought here find a US diplomat, they said they had negotiated a

:19:58. > :20:07.deal with the Chinese are authorities. The silhouettes are

:20:07. > :20:12.his wife and children. We have seen him inside, and his wife. Cheatle

:20:12. > :20:18.the BBC that he was fine. You can see, we are being moved out of the

:20:18. > :20:22.hospital. Declined Goya became an icon of human rights lawyers in

:20:22. > :20:27.China after he exposed how thousands of women had undergone

:20:27. > :20:32.forced abortions. He was held for seven years under illegal house

:20:32. > :20:38.arrest. He escaped last week, even though she had nearly 100 guards

:20:38. > :20:42.watching him. His desire he said was to ensure that his family could

:20:42. > :20:48.live free from harassment and beatings they had endured. He made

:20:48. > :20:57.this video appeal to the leaders in China. His escape has embarrassed

:20:57. > :20:59.them. Chinese state television today said that America's actions

:20:59. > :21:04.amounted to unacceptable interference in the affairs of

:21:04. > :21:09.China and demanded an apology. America has said there won't be one.

:21:09. > :21:17.Hillary Clinton is now in Beijing for scheduled talks with Chinese

:21:17. > :21:21.leaders. This evening, the dissident has said that Chinese at

:21:21. > :21:26.Berkeley said that they were threatening to beat his family to

:21:26. > :21:30.death. He said that the threat to his family was the reason he quit

:21:30. > :21:37.the embassy. If I didn't leave, the Chinese are authorities were going

:21:37. > :21:43.to put my family in danger, adding I need help now. Tonight's game and

:21:43. > :21:50.his family are in the hospital under guard with no US diplomats

:21:50. > :21:53.protecting him, again feared - fearing for his safety.

:21:53. > :21:56.In Egypt, attackers armed with guns, clubs and firebombs have killed as

:21:56. > :21:58.many as 20 people who have been demonstrating for several days

:21:58. > :22:01.outside the country's Ministry of Defence. More than 100 people have

:22:01. > :22:09.been injured in the violence in Cairo. Some observers have

:22:09. > :22:12.suggested that the Government may have orchestrated the attacks.

:22:12. > :22:14.Tomorrow voters will head to the polls in local elections across

:22:14. > :22:17.England, Scotland and Wales. As well as electing councillors,

:22:17. > :22:21.voters in Liverpool, Salford and London will be voting for directly-

:22:21. > :22:26.elected mayors. As ever, Jeremy Vine will be tracking every move.

:22:26. > :22:30.He's been looking at what's at stake.

:22:30. > :22:35.Thigh let me show you first of all the map of England and colour in

:22:35. > :22:40.all of that councils in the colour of the party that controls them.

:22:40. > :22:46.These are the ones in play in the next day. This is Birmingham,

:22:46. > :22:53.coloured black because it is under no overall control. His Birmingham

:22:53. > :22:58.going to turn red? Portsmouth, this speck of orange, can do little

:22:58. > :23:06.Democrats hold off their opponents? Scotland is a different story. All

:23:06. > :23:13.the councils here are Rupp. So, these are the largest parties in

:23:13. > :23:19.these areas. The SNP is in yellow. The Liberal Democrats in orange.

:23:19. > :23:26.Labour is very strong in the middle of Scotland, and the Conservatives

:23:26. > :23:31.in the south. In Wales all but one of the council to rot. Purple is

:23:31. > :23:37.the independent counsellors. Down in this out, much less red than

:23:37. > :23:43.they would have been say 10 or 15 years ago. In the north, the green

:23:43. > :23:46.of the Welsh nationalists. This is the grass from last year, I will

:23:46. > :23:50.show you the percentages the parties would have got eight the

:23:50. > :23:57.council elections had taken place across the whole country. Labour in

:23:57. > :24:03.the league. The Conservatives quite a strong second. Then you see the

:24:03. > :24:07.Liberal-Democrats, terrible result for them, and the others 13 %. This

:24:07. > :24:13.result was better than the Conservatives had feared, and not

:24:13. > :24:18.as good as Labour might have hoped. There are other elections. The for

:24:19. > :24:25.London mayor, Boris Johnson won with this so called Boris go nuts.

:24:25. > :24:30.There were votes in the suburbs. Will that happen again? Also, the

:24:31. > :24:36.London assembly, 25 seats. This is how they were arranged the last

:24:36. > :24:41.time they were contested. Across England, in 11 different places

:24:41. > :24:45.there will be referendums on whether people want at mayor. In

:24:45. > :24:50.Doncaster, Birmingham, Sheffield and so on. The really big thought,

:24:50. > :24:54.how much of this book can the Conservatives hang on to give and

:24:54. > :24:57.that when these seats were last one in 2008 they were in a very strong

:24:57. > :25:00.position? Jeremy Vine reporting there. David

:25:00. > :25:05.Dimbleby will have all the results in Vote 2012, tomorrow night at

:25:05. > :25:09.11.35pm on BBC One and the BBC News Channel.

:25:09. > :25:12.It started as a drunken prank and ended with a court sentence. Two

:25:12. > :25:18.British tourists in Australia have been fined after they broke into a

:25:18. > :25:21.theme park, swam with dolphins and stole a penguin. Rhys Jones and

:25:21. > :25:24.Keri Mules released the bird into a canal the following day, but were

:25:24. > :25:26.arrested after they posted updates about their antics on the web.

:25:26. > :25:31.Duncan Kennedy reports from Sydney. Early-morning and a group of

:25:31. > :25:39.friends with a hangover week to find this site in the living room.

:25:39. > :25:46.I can't believe I have at Penguin in my apartment. Taken by the men

:25:46. > :25:54.last month during have late night prank at Brisbane's Sea World. Now

:25:54. > :25:59.two of those involved, Rhys Jones and Keri Mules have been fined

:25:59. > :26:05.$1,000, about �600 for removing him. The boys understand that this can't

:26:05. > :26:09.happen. They are pleased that in the end then no pay England was

:26:09. > :26:15.can't and it has had a happy ending for the Penguin. That is not all

:26:15. > :26:25.they did last - that night. They also stripped of to swim with the

:26:25. > :26:29.

:26:29. > :26:34.dolphins. Do you guys want to say an apology? A little more sheepish

:26:34. > :26:39.here perhaps, but they did offer a more fulsome apology earlier.

:26:39. > :26:45.are all three of us so sorry for Sea World and the time lost

:26:45. > :26:51.searching for the Penguin. I am glad he is all right. Dirk is now

:26:51. > :27:01.doing fine back at the Park, reunited with his friend, peaches,

:27:01. > :27:11.treating the whole experience like Let's take a look at the weather

:27:11. > :27:13.

:27:13. > :27:17.now with Matt Taylor. Do not take your eye off the ball, because this

:27:17. > :27:21.massive cloud will bring more rain tonight. You can see we have got

:27:21. > :27:28.clusters of intense rainfall, thunderstorms working out of the

:27:28. > :27:35.Low countries. They will continue to push their way westwards. Some

:27:35. > :27:44.of that rain could be torrential with rumbles of thunder. There

:27:44. > :27:48.could be some minor flooding. Further north it will stay dry.

:27:48. > :27:55.It'll be a cold start to a Thursday morning. Still some wet weather

:27:55. > :27:59.around for the morning in Wales. Lighter, patchy rain will start to

:27:59. > :28:08.move away from the Southern Counties and it could brighten up

:28:08. > :28:13.your earlier on. Into the Midlands, outbreaks of rain. For North Wales

:28:13. > :28:22.and north-west England, Western Scotland, Northern Ireland, and

:28:22. > :28:32.generally dry and bright, if not sunny start. This area of cloud and

:28:32. > :28:37.

:28:37. > :28:45.rain will ease off. It will be a fine afternoon north of this rain

:28:45. > :28:50.band. All change on Friday with cold winds from the north. Cloudy

:28:50. > :28:53.with outbreaks of rain across England and Wales and its the

:28:53. > :28:58.thicker cloud will linger in Southern areas on Saturday and

:28:58. > :29:01.Sunday. A reminder of tonight's main news.