:00:07. > :00:12.Three British tourists killed in Egypt after their sunrise balloon
:00:12. > :00:17.flight turns to tragedy. They were among 19 holidaymakers killed in
:00:17. > :00:21.the accident. Eyewitnesses said a fire forced people to jump to the
:00:21. > :00:26.ground. These pictures were taken from a nearby balloon. The
:00:26. > :00:31.photographer described the final moments of the flight. We heard a
:00:31. > :00:36.loud explosion. Then a lot of smoke right behind us. We will look at
:00:36. > :00:40.safety standards in Egypt. Also tonight: Lord Rennard says he
:00:40. > :00:44."refutes" claims of sexual harassment. Senior Lib Dem figures
:00:44. > :00:49.talk to the Met about the allegations. The police officers
:00:49. > :00:58.who encouraged rape victims to drop their allegations. A highly
:00:58. > :01:04.critical report from the watchdog Honouring the tens of thousands who
:01:04. > :01:13.kept the Arctic convoys going. The new medal finally made to mark
:01:13. > :01:22.their bravery and sacrifice. On Sportsday: Rocket Ronnie is back.
:01:22. > :01:32.Ronnie O'Sullivan will defend his World Snooker title after cutting
:01:32. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:41.Good evening. Welcome to the BBC News at Six. Three British tourists
:01:41. > :01:46.have been killed in Egypt after the hot air balloon in which they were
:01:46. > :01:49.taking a sunrise flight plunged to the ground. They were among 19
:01:49. > :01:54.passengers killed in the accident. Eyewitnesses say they there was an
:01:54. > :01:58.explosion and a fire as the balloon flew over the ancient sites of
:01:58. > :02:05.Luxor. Our correspondent, Aleem Maqbool, is at a local hospital in
:02:05. > :02:09.the city. Out of more than 20 people on board that hot air
:02:09. > :02:12.balloon, only two survived. They were the Egypt operator of the
:02:12. > :02:16.balloon and a British tourist. He is said to be in a stable condition.
:02:17. > :02:21.They were brought to this hospital that I'm at now. So too were the
:02:21. > :02:30.bodies of 19 others who were killed. This is a tragedy that unfolded
:02:30. > :02:33.just outside the outskirts of this city. In an Egyptian sugar cane
:02:33. > :02:37.field the broken wreckage of the hot air balloon. Witnesses said
:02:37. > :02:41.there was an explosion and the balloon crashed to the ground.
:02:41. > :02:47.Ambulances were on the scene within minutes, but 19 people were killed,
:02:47. > :02:52.including three tourists from the UK. Another is in hospital.
:02:52. > :02:56.TRANSLATION: As the balloon crashed, the gas canister exploded. The
:02:56. > :03:00.pilot was the first one to jump out of the basket. He was followed by a
:03:00. > :03:05.tourist. The rest of the passengers tried to jump out, but their bodies
:03:05. > :03:09.were on fire. This is how it all looked in the early morning as the
:03:09. > :03:12.balloons took off. The pictures were captured by a tourist in
:03:12. > :03:17.another balloon, who was close by when the accident happened.
:03:17. > :03:26.heard a loud explosion and a lot of smoke right behind us. Our first
:03:26. > :03:34.feeling was, it couldn't be a balloon. It turned out to be.
:03:34. > :03:41.was operated by the company Sky Cruise and was carrying 120 people.
:03:41. > :03:48.It was due to take in some of Egypt's most famous sites. The
:03:48. > :03:52.company says a gas cylinder exploded when it was 1,000 feet in
:03:52. > :03:57.the air causing it to crash into the field. The British passengers
:03:57. > :04:01.were on holiday with Thomas Cook who today issued a statement. What
:04:01. > :04:05.happened in Luxor this morning was a terrible tragedy and the thoughts
:04:05. > :04:09.of everyone in Thomas Cook are west our guests, their family and
:04:09. > :04:16.friends around we are providing our full support to the family and
:04:16. > :04:19.friends of the deseized at this difficult time. -- deceased. There
:04:19. > :04:25.have been concerns about safety on these rides in the past. They were
:04:25. > :04:29.suspended for a time in 2009, following a string of accidents.
:04:29. > :04:35.Recent passengers have also expressed concerns. Alex Gibbons
:04:35. > :04:40.was on a ride in 2011 when his balloon just missed the top of a
:04:40. > :04:44.high-rise hotel and crashed into the Nile. We were lucky not to have
:04:44. > :04:47.been killed. It was a miracle we weren't killed. It really was that
:04:47. > :04:54.close. Attention is now turning to the one tourist who survived, in
:04:54. > :04:56.hospital after the crash. All hot air balloon trips around Luxor have
:04:56. > :05:03.been suspended while investigators attempt to find out how this
:05:03. > :05:07.tragedy happened. We have spoken to the British authorities in Egypt,
:05:07. > :05:12.they are waiting for the results of that investigation, so too of
:05:12. > :05:15.course will the families of those who died, including two people we
:05:15. > :05:20.believe to have been from Scotland and another British tourist. There
:05:20. > :05:22.will be many who want assurances that those hot air balloon trips
:05:22. > :05:27.don't start again unless there are real changes in the safety
:05:27. > :05:30.procedures here. Thank you very much. The police watchdog has
:05:30. > :05:34.produced a highly critical report accusing officers at a specialist
:05:34. > :05:37.rape unit in south London of encouraging victims to drop their
:05:37. > :05:41.claims so detection rates would look better. In one case, four
:05:41. > :05:49.years ago, a woman was persuaded to withdraw allegations against a man
:05:49. > :05:53.who later went on to kill his son and daughter. June Kelly reports.
:05:54. > :05:58.Sapphire is the name of Scotland Yard's specialist rape teams. Now,
:05:58. > :06:02.it has emerged that officers in one Sapphire unit were putting pressure
:06:02. > :06:06.on women to drop their complaints. Fewer rapes recorded meant police
:06:06. > :06:12.detection rates looked better. In one case a man accused of rape, but
:06:12. > :06:19.not properly investigated, went on to commit a double murder. Jean Say
:06:19. > :06:22.killed his eight-year-old daughter, Regina and ten-year-old son Rolls
:06:22. > :06:26.if the rape had been investigated he might be in jail and his
:06:26. > :06:31.children might still be alived. Something acknowledged by those
:06:31. > :06:35.involved in today's report. There was a shocking and disturbing
:06:35. > :06:39.allegation that should have been taken seriously at the time, and it
:06:39. > :06:48.wasn't. Scotland Yard said the bad practice highlighted in today's
:06:48. > :06:53.report is in the past. Since 2009 rape units have been better managed.
:06:53. > :06:55.Fiona feel nos attempt was made to bring her alleged attacker to
:06:55. > :07:00.justice. I was absolutely devastated because not only was I
:07:00. > :07:04.not going to get any justice, I also knew that the person who did
:07:04. > :07:10.this to me was free to walk the streets and do it to the next woman
:07:10. > :07:14.ta he met. That absolutely terrified me. He has a green light
:07:14. > :07:18.to carry on attacking women. When it comes to the wider picture, the
:07:18. > :07:24.latest figures for England and Wales, show that just over 4,000
:07:24. > :07:33.offences initially recorded as sex offences were later put in the "no
:07:33. > :07:38.crime" category. For rape the rate was: That compares with: today, the
:07:38. > :07:41.focus is back on the country's biggest force where there was this
:07:41. > :07:45.message from a senior officer. have changed. We have improved. We
:07:45. > :07:49.continue to improve and learn. That is why we need to work with victims
:07:49. > :07:52.and victims' groups to make sure the service we provide is even
:07:52. > :07:56.better. This is not the first time that Sapphire officers have been
:07:56. > :08:06.found guilty of serious shortcomings. The police watchdog
:08:06. > :08:07.
:08:07. > :08:10.said today's report was a, "sorry chapter in Sapphire's history."
:08:10. > :08:12.Senior Liberal Democrat officials have been at Scotland Yard this
:08:13. > :08:15.afternoon to discuss the allegations of sexual harassment
:08:16. > :08:20.against the party's former chief executive, Lord Rennard. Detectives
:08:20. > :08:24.say they are working with the party to find out whether any criminal
:08:24. > :08:29.activity has taken place. Lord Rennard strongly denies the
:08:29. > :08:34.allegations. It comes ahead of Thursday's Eastleigh by-election.
:08:34. > :08:39.Did it happen, did it not happen is being investigated. This is not
:08:39. > :08:45.the easest time to be a Liberal Democrat, not least here in
:08:45. > :08:51.Eastleigh, there is a by-election in two-days' time. Did your leader
:08:51. > :08:54.know, yes or no? One minute he did, the next minute he didn't? It's
:08:54. > :09:00.being investigated. This former police officer was unimpressed with
:09:00. > :09:03.the party line. Back in London, at Scotland Yard, Metropolitan Police
:09:03. > :09:07.officers met with Lib Dem party officials to discuss whether or not
:09:07. > :09:11.there is evidence of any crime having been committed. Lord Rennard,
:09:12. > :09:16.the man who used to mastermind Lib Dem by-election victories,
:09:16. > :09:23.continues to insist that he's done nothing wrong. One of his accusers,
:09:23. > :09:33.who wanted to become an MP, is now ready to talk to the police. For a
:09:33. > :09:37.start, it's going beyond the pat on a knee who decides whoo is an
:09:37. > :09:46.acceptable and not an acceptable advance. The power dynamics in
:09:46. > :09:53.these situations are scary. Another woman complains of unwanted sex --
:09:53. > :09:58.sexual advances. Susan spoke to BBC Radio on condition of anonymity.
:09:58. > :10:02.This is a man with an almighty amount of power, at the time he
:10:02. > :10:08.held the purse strings for any winnable seat. So, this was a man
:10:08. > :10:12.who could control your future and if he said, "I'm not too sure about
:10:12. > :10:16.this candidate", people listened to him. People still listen to him.
:10:16. > :10:21.The party's big beasts have been sent to Eastleigh, not just to
:10:21. > :10:25.defend a seat the party is desperate to hold, but to defend
:10:25. > :10:30.its reputation. Did I hear anything about Chris Rennard? Not a thing.
:10:30. > :10:32.Not a thing. There are serious allegations. There are serious
:10:32. > :10:37.questions to be answered. They will be answered by the inquiry. You
:10:37. > :10:43.will ask me, so will everybody else, lots and lots of questions, I'm not
:10:43. > :10:48.able to answer them. The right people to answer them are the three
:10:48. > :10:52.inquiries. This story leaves people pretty unmoved. I haven't got an
:10:52. > :10:56.interest. I'm not concerned. not very happy about the scandals
:10:56. > :11:02.and the competitions amongst them all. It's almost as if they are
:11:02. > :11:12.looking for scandals. Which leaves their opponents even the loony ones
:11:12. > :11:13.
:11:13. > :11:18.unable to quite believe what is going on. Here is a full list of
:11:19. > :11:26.all the candidates contesting the BBC by-election, it is on the BBC
:11:26. > :11:30.website at bbc.co.uk/news. It's emerged at the re--trial of Vicky
:11:30. > :11:36.Pryce, who is accused of taking speeding points for her former
:11:36. > :11:39.husband, Chris Huhne, that a part- time judge is being questioned.
:11:39. > :11:47.Police accuse Constance Briscoe of lying about her role in leaking the
:11:47. > :11:53.story of the speeding offence to the press. Ms Pryce admits taking
:11:53. > :12:00.the former Lib Dem Cabinet Minister's points a decade ago. She
:12:00. > :12:03.says he forced her to do it. What more can you tell us about this?
:12:03. > :12:09.Constance Briscoe is a barrister and also a part-time judge. We knew
:12:09. > :12:17.she had been arrested and suspended. Today, what we can reveal for the
:12:17. > :12:21.first time, that is in relation to this case. The court heard that
:12:21. > :12:26.Miss Briscoe helped Vicky Pryce talk to journalists at the Mail on
:12:26. > :12:32.Sunday about the fact she had taken speeding points for her former
:12:32. > :12:36.husband, Chris Huhne, the court heard, in a statement from police,
:12:36. > :12:40.that Miss Briscoe is being investigated for lying to police
:12:41. > :12:43.about this. Police said she told them she had not had contact with
:12:43. > :12:47.the media. As a result she would not appear here as a witness
:12:47. > :12:53.because she could not be trusted as a witness of truth. Thank you very
:12:53. > :12:59.much. Kevin Hutchinson-Foster hutch, the man who supplied a gun to Mark
:12:59. > :13:04.Duggan, minutes before he was shot by police, has been sentenced to 11
:13:04. > :13:08.years in prison at the Old Bailey. The shooting sparked the 2011 riots
:13:09. > :13:12.in London which quickly spread to a number of English towns and cities.
:13:12. > :13:17.Three teenage boyes who kicked and punched a homeless man to death
:13:17. > :13:24.have been convicted of murder at Liverpool Crown Court. Kevin
:13:24. > :13:29.Bennett, who was 53, was attacked for a dare as he slept rough
:13:29. > :13:36.outside a supermarket last August. The teenagers, two aged 14 and 17,
:13:36. > :13:41.cannot be named for legal reasons. The results of Italy's weekend
:13:41. > :13:45.election are in and they signal another bout of political
:13:45. > :13:48.instability and uncertainty for the eurozone. A populist anti-
:13:48. > :13:52.establishment movement, led by a former comedian, got more votes
:13:52. > :13:56.than any other single party, but so far it refuses to pack in
:13:56. > :14:02.negotiations to form a coalition government. That leaves parties on
:14:02. > :14:05.the left and right trying to reach an agreement. Meetings were held at
:14:05. > :14:13.the Italian's Prime Minister's officer today after the election
:14:13. > :14:16.ended in deadlock. The markets took fright as the prospect of political
:14:16. > :14:20.instability. It became apparent that neither the centre left or
:14:20. > :14:26.centre-right could form a stable government. It was 24-hours after
:14:26. > :14:30.the polls closed that the leader of the centre left, Pier Luigi Bersani,
:14:30. > :14:34.announced Italy faced a dramatic situation.
:14:34. > :14:39.TRANSLATION: The problem was the remedy we came up with for the
:14:39. > :14:44.financial crisis. It was based just on austerity and rigour and had a
:14:44. > :14:49.deep impact on public opinion. for Silvio Berlusconi, he said
:14:49. > :14:52.Italy cannot be ungoverned and we have to reflect. All these tin inn
:14:52. > :14:56.tensions were complicated by the extraordinary success of Beppe
:14:56. > :15:01.Grillo, the comedian who wants to tear up Italy's political system.
:15:01. > :15:06.Today, he was dismissive of the main parties., "we are in a period
:15:06. > :15:16.of epic change, cultural, political and economic. It's not about making
:15:16. > :15:20.alliances, that's over." Not surprisingly, some papers declared
:15:20. > :15:25.Italy ungovernable. There is a big void. The system has fallen.
:15:25. > :15:30.Another one must be built up from the very bottom. Now, we have this
:15:30. > :15:36.void to be filled by somebody. the streets, the mood is anxious.
:15:36. > :15:42.Here is a financial consultant. TRANSLATION: Surprised. I didn't
:15:42. > :15:49.expect we would be in a situation where we would be ungovable. Here
:15:49. > :15:52.is a nurse. I'm convinced we will go back to the polls in a few
:15:52. > :15:57.months. Here is a psychologist. TRANSLATION: We were already badly
:15:57. > :16:00.off. Now, what lies ahead for the young and the families?
:16:00. > :16:03.indication of the level of concern in Europe about what is happening
:16:03. > :16:08.here was the fact that today ministers from three European
:16:08. > :16:12.countries, Spain, Germany and France, all called for stable
:16:12. > :16:16.government here as soon as possible. There is another problem, these
:16:16. > :16:23.election results were a rejection of the very austerity measures
:16:23. > :16:33.Championed by Brussels. The midst of a recession Italy faces
:16:33. > :16:36.
:16:36. > :16:40.political instability. The tremors Our top story: Three British
:16:40. > :16:50.tourists have been killed in Egypt after their hot air balloon plunged
:16:50. > :16:51.
:16:51. > :16:55.to the ground. And the Broadway musical that
:16:55. > :16:59.Mormons that is already selling out. Later on the news channel: UK
:16:59. > :17:09.supermarkets suffer a tough start to the year. Shares in Sports
:17:09. > :17:14.
:17:14. > :17:16.Direct take a tumble as the founder Veterans of the Arctic Convoys of
:17:16. > :17:19.the Second World War will finally receive medals recognising their
:17:19. > :17:22.bravery. Described by Winston Churchill as the worst journey in
:17:22. > :17:24.the world, merchant seamen who kept open the crucial supply route
:17:24. > :17:34.between Allied countries and the Soviet Union will be honoured along
:17:34. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :17:39.with veterans of Bomber Command. Robert Hall reports.
:17:39. > :17:46.This is the moment that veterans of sea and air have awaited for most
:17:46. > :17:50.of their adult lives. Production of the Arctic Star and clasp finally
:17:50. > :17:54.under way at the Royal Mint in South Wales. The Royal Mint has a
:17:54. > :17:58.long tradition of making Ministry of Defence medals, back to the days
:17:58. > :18:02.of the Battle of Waterloo. It's a great honour that the Royal Mint
:18:02. > :18:08.has been asked to produce the first batch of the Arctic Stars and
:18:08. > :18:12.Bomber Command clasps. RAF heavy bombers aries... Two campaigns
:18:12. > :18:16.fought at a high price. The pilots and air crew who flew bombers
:18:16. > :18:24.across Europe and into Germany rarely survived their tour of 30
:18:24. > :18:28.missions, more than 55,000 failed to return. The largest convoy ever
:18:28. > :18:37.taeupb to -- taken to Russia... men who made the worst journey in
:18:37. > :18:44.the world to northern Russia, lost over 3,000 of their shipmates.
:18:44. > :18:48.Year after year, a dwindling number of veterans stood on a hill-side,
:18:48. > :18:52.the Assembly point for the convoys, here to remember friends and to
:18:52. > :18:58.express their anger at the lack of formal recognition. Some of the
:18:58. > :19:01.veterans are still a Bitsevskier about it -- are a bit bitter about
:19:01. > :19:06.it and many of us have died, particularly recently and one
:19:06. > :19:09.friend, in fact, one good good shipmate died a week ago, which is
:19:10. > :19:19.really very, very sad. We could have done with this medal a long
:19:20. > :19:21.
:19:21. > :19:24.time ago but we have got it and we are all all happy. The MP who has
:19:24. > :19:29.championed their cause says the quick decision will bring comfort
:19:29. > :19:33.to many families. First and foremost medals will be given to
:19:33. > :19:36.surviving veterans and their widows and next of kin will be able to
:19:36. > :19:40.apply for medals for family members no longer with us. In the years to
:19:40. > :19:46.come these memorials will remind visitors of events and losses long
:19:46. > :19:53.ago but the old men who still remember dark times will, at last,
:19:53. > :19:56.share their pride with today's generation.
:19:56. > :19:59.A senior official for the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland says
:19:59. > :20:01.the resignation of Cardinal Keith O'Brien - coming just days before
:20:02. > :20:04.the Pope resigns - has taken the church into uncharted territory.
:20:04. > :20:06.Cardinal O'Brien stepped down after allegations that he behaved
:20:06. > :20:11.inappropriately towards priests under his care during the 1980s -
:20:11. > :20:19.allegations he denies. Our religious affairs correspondent
:20:19. > :20:23.Robert Pigott reports. With Cardinal O'Brien gone and a
:20:24. > :20:26.care caretaker yet to be named the Church remains in turmoil. The
:20:26. > :20:30.Cardinal stayed out of sight again today, said by one senior Catholic
:20:30. > :20:34.to be very upset and like a vulnerable adult.
:20:34. > :20:38.Meanwhile, others have been assessing what's been described as
:20:38. > :20:42.the worst crisis to strike the Church since the reformation.
:20:42. > :20:47.been a tremendous catastrophe for the Church in Scotland. In terms of
:20:47. > :20:52.a public event, probably the most significant serious development
:20:52. > :20:56.since the reformation, never before has a person of this rank been
:20:56. > :21:00.accused in this way. A senior Church official acknowledged that
:21:00. > :21:03.might well turn out to be true. But he insisted ordinary Catholics
:21:03. > :21:08.looked more to God than their Bishops. I would distinguish
:21:08. > :21:12.between the faith which will be in tact and people will be calling on
:21:12. > :21:15.that faith, and their sense of external confusion, which is
:21:15. > :21:20.probably inevitable at this time. Sources inside the Church said
:21:20. > :21:24.today that Cardinal O'Brien remains unaware of who his accusers are and
:21:24. > :21:27.exactly what they claim he did. But another senior Catholic
:21:27. > :21:33.acknowledged that even as they stand the allegations are deeply
:21:33. > :21:37.damaging. Cardinal O'Brien, who is a very honest man, will also -
:21:37. > :21:41.whoever goes in, will look at the allegations that have been made and
:21:41. > :21:45.he himself, as I have said, has contested them, so I think we have
:21:45. > :21:50.to leave it like that. Potentially the greatest lasting effect of the
:21:50. > :21:54.crisis could be changes in the way the Church is run. Some senior
:21:54. > :22:00.Catholics want fundamental reform. A leaner, more business-like
:22:00. > :22:04.structure, fewer Bishops and less hire arcal approach. This confusing
:22:04. > :22:10.time for Catholics could turn out to be their big opportunity.
:22:10. > :22:14.For the Roman Catholic Church's one billion members, the upset in
:22:14. > :22:22.Edinburgh may turn out to be just a ripple but for this small, intimate
:22:22. > :22:25.branch of the Church it's a devastating episode.
:22:25. > :22:27.Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are unwittingly laundering
:22:27. > :22:30.money for criminals, according to fraud experts. They're being
:22:30. > :22:34.recruited as so-called money mules - allowing their bank accounts to
:22:34. > :22:40.be used to disguise the proceeds of crime, all for a cut of the cash.
:22:40. > :22:43.Our personal finance correspondent Simon Gompertz explains.
:22:44. > :22:47.They're innocent sounding admin jobs but they're a front for
:22:47. > :22:51.something sinister. The pay's tempting, suspiciously though, they
:22:51. > :22:56.need access to your bank account. In fact, it's fraudsters wanting to
:22:56. > :23:01.use your account to launder cash from crime, making you their money
:23:01. > :23:05.mule. It was saying it was an entry level job, I didn't need much
:23:05. > :23:08.experience. They're targeting students like Leanne at Bournemouth
:23:08. > :23:13.University because a 5th of students who get the offers usually
:23:13. > :23:17.by e-mail agree to become money mules. Leanne was fooled into
:23:17. > :23:22.thinking it was a proper job but her mother warned her off. They
:23:22. > :23:26.were offering just over �1,000 per month. It was so tempting because
:23:26. > :23:31.as a student you are not earning money, and if you are, you are
:23:31. > :23:36.probably only doing bar work which doesn't give much income and
:23:36. > :23:40.everyone wants extra cash. Dirty money from credit card fraud and
:23:40. > :23:44.other rip-offs is paid into the account to disguise its criminal
:23:44. > :23:49.origins, the mule takes a cut and transfers the cash to an overseas
:23:49. > :23:52.bank. It's classic money laundering and it's illegal. It's a risk, in
:23:52. > :23:57.fact, you are taking almost all the risks on behalf of the criminals,
:23:57. > :24:02.that's why they tried so hard to get people to do this for them,
:24:02. > :24:07.they're most likely to be caught. Criminals hone in on the unemployed,
:24:07. > :24:14.as well, like Kayleigh. They found her after she sent her CV to a jobs
:24:14. > :24:19.website. She even signed a contract, and then, luckily, pulled out.
:24:19. > :24:23.makes you feel sick. I feel I have to go to these sites and take my CV
:24:23. > :24:29.off, I don't want to be caught in it again. These students are being
:24:29. > :24:32.told that mules risk having their bank accounts frozen, or even a
:24:32. > :24:36.prison sentence. There's such concern about the danger of
:24:36. > :24:42.becoming money mules that Crimestoppers is warning students
:24:42. > :24:47.up and down the country not to be duped into becoming involved. The
:24:47. > :24:51.internet's made it easier for criminals to recruit. Fraud experts
:24:51. > :24:59.say there are already hundreds of thousands of money mules and the
:24:59. > :25:02.numbers are growing. The story of two missionaries sent
:25:03. > :25:05.to a remote village in Uganda to spread the word may not be
:25:06. > :25:09.traditional territory for a West End musical, but The Book of Mormon
:25:09. > :25:11.- a satire written by the creators of South Park - comes to London
:25:12. > :25:14.after an award-winning spell on Broadway. Our arts editor Will
:25:15. > :25:19.Gompertz has been finding out what the secret of its success is.
:25:19. > :25:23.Already the hottest ticket on Broadway, The Book of phorpl has
:25:23. > :25:31.open -- Mormon has opened in London. If the near �8 million already
:25:31. > :25:35.spent on advanced ticket sales is a sign, to its future success, then
:25:35. > :25:39.you can expect this mission from America to be around for a long
:25:39. > :25:48.time. The show is the creation of Matt
:25:48. > :25:53.Stone and Trey Parker, the team behind South Park. Why the Mormons?
:25:53. > :26:02.They make for great musical characters, because the
:26:02. > :26:05.stereotypical Mormon has a a happy- go-lucky, about to bounce into song.
:26:05. > :26:11.They're nice and easy target, there's something not as brave
:26:11. > :26:14.about that, as going after another subject. There is an offensive
:26:14. > :26:20.implication that question even makes about Islam, Muslims,
:26:20. > :26:24.Catholics, anybody else, but also it's not just what we wanted to do.
:26:24. > :26:28.Mormons in the UK appear to be taking a positive approach to the
:26:28. > :26:32.musical. They've placed three full page advertisements in the show's
:26:32. > :26:36.programme. Our only hope is that people will not base their
:26:36. > :26:41.understanding and perception of our Church and our people and our
:26:41. > :26:47.practices on a piece of entertainment, but that if they
:26:47. > :26:51.want to learn more they'll come and they'll speak to missionaries.
:26:51. > :26:54.Book of Mormons reputation is based around its crude humour, of which
:26:54. > :26:58.there is plenty. Having seen the show I suspect at least part of the
:26:58. > :27:02.success is down to its rather conservative nature. Strip away all
:27:02. > :27:09.the vulgarities and what you are left with is a feel-good musical
:27:09. > :27:13.with plenty of catchy show tunes. # I believe that the Lord God
:27:13. > :27:20.created the universe #... Not all shows survive an
:27:20. > :27:24.Atlantic crossing but judging from the audience's reaction The Book of
:27:24. > :27:32.phorpl has arrived -- Mormon has arrived in rude health.
:27:32. > :27:41.You can see the full story on The Mormons Are Here, a Culture Show
:27:41. > :27:46.special tomorrow night at 10.00pm. A day of huge differences today.
:27:46. > :27:49.Spring has sprung in Scotland. 13C in the Highlands, could be close to
:27:49. > :27:54.a record that but temperatures are falling sharply now and could get
:27:54. > :27:57.as low as minus 7 tonight. A frost developing in Northern Ireland, and
:27:57. > :28:01.possibly the far north of England, as well. Temperatures will change
:28:01. > :28:05.very little across the bulk of England and Wales because we have
:28:05. > :28:15.this blanket of cloud again. That cloud will be spilling up into
:28:15. > :28:16.
:28:16. > :28:20.Northern Ireland towards the end of the night. A frosty start in
:28:20. > :28:24.Scotland. Freezing fog will take a while to clear. A cold start across
:28:24. > :28:28.Cumbria, but across the rest of England and Wales temperatures will
:28:28. > :28:32.be nearer two or three, because of all the cloud. Low cloud, so could
:28:32. > :28:36.be misty over the hills and a few spots of light drizzle here and
:28:36. > :28:39.there and winds will be light, as well. Two main themes to the
:28:39. > :28:43.weather tomorrow. The first is that for England and Wales it will be
:28:43. > :28:48.much drier than today. The brighter, sunnier weather in the north will
:28:48. > :28:52.start to push south. A sunny start in Scotland, frosty start, as well.
:28:52. > :28:57.We see the sunshine developing across parts of northern England.
:28:57. > :29:00.Then brightening up in North Wales through the Midlands and East
:29:00. > :29:03.Anglia. Southern Counties of England likely to stay cloudy and
:29:03. > :29:09.across Northern Ireland cloudier than today, probably feeling cold,
:29:09. > :29:12.too. In Scotland, it won't be as coal
:29:12. > :29:16.tomorrow night but it will be colder for England and Wales with
:29:16. > :29:19.much thinner cloud and mist and fog, too. That will lift on Thursday. A
:29:19. > :29:22.bright day for England and Wales with sunshine, as well. But
:29:22. > :29:26.probably more cloud for Northern Ireland and certainly much more