:00:08. > :00:11.of murdering four British soldiers in London, won't stand trial because
:00:12. > :00:16.of what's been called a "reckless" police error. Families of those
:00:17. > :00:21.killed in the 1982 attack in Hyde Park, say they feel "devastatingly
:00:22. > :00:25.let down" after a judge threw out the case. The case against John
:00:26. > :00:29.Downey collapsed after an error by police in Northern Ireland meant he
:00:30. > :00:35.was falsely assured that he wasn't a wanted man. Devastatingly
:00:36. > :00:41.disappointing. Incredibly angry and frustrated. We will get reaction to
:00:42. > :00:45.the news amid accusations of secret deals behind-the-scenes. Also
:00:46. > :00:48.tonight: Rebekah Brooks tells the Old Bailey she didn't know
:00:49. > :00:53.phone-hacking was illegal when she was in charge of the News of the
:00:54. > :01:01.World. The British former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, is
:01:02. > :01:04.arresteded in Birmingham by counter terrorist police. Labour's Harriet
:01:05. > :01:08.Harman says she's nothing to apologise for and accuses the Daily
:01:09. > :01:13.Mail of a smear campaign after claiming she was an apologist for
:01:14. > :01:18.paedophilia. And a blow for users of the virtual currency bitcoins, as a
:01:19. > :01:25.major trader goes offlinoing millions. On BBC London: Stabbed 22
:01:26. > :01:28.times after disturbing a burglar. Today, his attacker is found guilty
:01:29. > :01:31.of murder. And, the mother who died after a caesarean, her family is
:01:32. > :01:46.awarded undisclosed damages at the High Court.
:01:47. > :01:53.Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. A judge has ruled that
:01:54. > :01:58.a suspected IRA terrorist, charged with murdering four British soldiers
:01:59. > :02:01.in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing, will not now stand trial because of a
:02:02. > :02:04.mistake made by the police in Northern Ireland. John Downey was
:02:05. > :02:10.arrested at Gatwick Airport in May last year, six years after receiving
:02:11. > :02:13.a letter of assurance as part of the Northern Ireland peace process,
:02:14. > :02:17.wrongly saying he wasn't wanted by British police. Relatives of the
:02:18. > :02:22.four soldiers who died in the bombing say they are incredibly
:02:23. > :02:25.angry and frustrated. Home affairs correspondent, Matt Prodger is at
:02:26. > :02:31.the Royal Courts of Justice for us now. Matt. Sophie, just an hour ago
:02:32. > :02:35.that suspected terrorist walked free from court. The families of soldiers
:02:36. > :02:40.who died in the Hyde Park bombing have been denied justice, in the
:02:41. > :02:44.meantime, the peace process in Northern Ireland has been undermined
:02:45. > :02:49.by the controversy. It's all down to a simple mistake for which the The
:02:50. > :02:55.Police Service of Northern Ireland tonight accepted responsibility. It
:02:56. > :02:59.was one of the IRA's most notorious attacks, a car bomb in Hyde Park
:03:00. > :03:03.which killed four soldiers from the Household Cavalry on a route used
:03:04. > :03:07.for the Changing of the Guard. The bodies of seven horses were among
:03:08. > :03:11.the debris. For three decades police in London had a want for John
:03:12. > :03:16.Downey, wanted in connection with the bombing. He was arrested in May
:03:17. > :03:23.after arriving from Ireland he denied the charges. A judge has
:03:24. > :03:28.ruled he should not stand trial. Afterwards, a Sinn Fein MP spoke on
:03:29. > :03:32.Mr Downey's behalf. John Downey should never have been arrested. It
:03:33. > :03:34.was part of the agreement that was reached in the Good Friday
:03:35. > :03:38.Agreement. I welcome the fact he has now been released and free to go
:03:39. > :03:44.home. The ruling has angered relatives of the victims, one of
:03:45. > :03:49.whom was 23-year-old lieutenant Antony Daly. Devastatingly
:03:50. > :03:56.disappointing, incredibly angry and frustrated. The judgment highlights
:03:57. > :04:03.a number of facts, core facts, which the judge has summarise and the
:04:04. > :04:09.families don't understand how such a catastrophic failure could be
:04:10. > :04:14.allowed to be - to go uncorrected. For more than 30 years, relatives of
:04:15. > :04:17.the soldiers who died here have been waiting for justice. An earlier
:04:18. > :04:21.conviction of another man was overturned because of doubts about
:04:22. > :04:26.the evidence. Now, another prosecution has failed because of an
:04:27. > :04:29.almighty blunder. To underis stand why means going back to the Northern
:04:30. > :04:34.Ireland peace agreement. In the years thatle foed its signing,
:04:35. > :04:37.nearly 200 wanted men were given assurances they were no longer at
:04:38. > :04:43.risk of prosecution for terrorist offences. In 2007, the Northern
:04:44. > :04:46.Ireland Office sent John Downey a letter telling him, "there's no
:04:47. > :04:49.outstanding direction for prosecution in Northern Ireland.
:04:50. > :04:53.There are no warrants in existence, nor are you wanted in Northern
:04:54. > :04:57.Ireland for arrest, questioning or charge by the police." The Police
:04:58. > :05:02.Service of Northern Ireland are not aware of any interest in you from
:05:03. > :05:07.any other police force in the United Kingdom." Today's ruling says
:05:08. > :05:12.officials discovered the letter was mistaken. He was wanted in London,
:05:13. > :05:16.but it wasn't corrected. John Downey travelled to the mainland at least
:05:17. > :05:21.four times before he was arrested. It was a very serious error on
:05:22. > :05:25.behalf of the PSNI. It's important now that there is a proper
:05:26. > :05:28.investigation into how it happened, why it happened and what lessons
:05:29. > :05:32.need to be learned to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
:05:33. > :05:36.In the end, the judge concluded that holding state officials to promises
:05:37. > :05:42.they'd made was more important than putting the suspected bomber on
:05:43. > :05:46.trial. Matt Prodger, BBC News, at the High Court.le Our Ireland
:05:47. > :05:48.correspondent, Ireland correspondent, Chris Buckler, is in
:05:49. > :05:53.Belfast. So, widespread anger following this error. Also
:05:54. > :05:55.accusations of secret deals behind-the-scenes Yes, indeed.
:05:56. > :05:59.Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson, has tonight accused
:06:00. > :06:03.the Government of doing a dirty deal with Sinn Fein over the issue of on
:06:04. > :06:08.the runs. These were people who were accused of terrorist offences or
:06:09. > :06:11.suspected of terrorist offences of which John Downey was one. Northern
:06:12. > :06:15.Ireland's politicians had discussed the issue. There have been attempt
:06:16. > :06:19.to come up with some form of legislation am they couldn't come up
:06:20. > :06:23.with a compromise. As a result, we find out, in this judgment today, of
:06:24. > :06:29.years of secret negotiations between Sinn Fein and the Government and
:06:30. > :06:33.also scores of letters sent to paramilitary suspects. Again, secret
:06:34. > :06:38.letters. Unionists are call calling those tonight get out of jail free
:06:39. > :06:41.cards. There is upset from many relatives of victims, including
:06:42. > :06:45.those who were killed in the Hyde Park bombing. They have said tonight
:06:46. > :06:50.that they are bitterly disappointed this trial won't now take place
:06:51. > :06:54.because of a letter sent in error and a process that was mefr made
:06:55. > :06:57.public. The Government is promising to review that process in case other
:06:58. > :07:01.mistakes were made.let Chris, thank you very much. The former editor of
:07:02. > :07:03.the News of the World, Rebekah Brooks, says she didn't know thatle
:07:04. > :07:07.phone-hacking was illegal when she was in charge of the paper. She told
:07:08. > :07:10.the Old Bailey she knew it was possible to access other people's
:07:11. > :07:14.voicemails, but she had never sanctioned it. She also said she
:07:15. > :07:19.knew nothing about the hacking of the phone belonging to the murdered
:07:20. > :07:24.schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, in 2002, and had only found out about it
:07:25. > :07:28.three years ago. Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent, Tom Symonds.
:07:29. > :07:33.The mobile phone of a schoolgirl who had been abducted and murdered,
:07:34. > :07:36.hacked into by a tabloid newspaper. Who at the News of the World knew
:07:37. > :07:40.Milly Dowler had been targeted? Rebekah Brooks was the paper's
:07:41. > :07:45.editor. The prosecution says not only did she know, so did Andy
:07:46. > :07:49.Coulson, her deputy, because they discussed it by phone. Rebekah
:07:50. > :07:53.Brooks questioned for a third day denies it. Central to her defence is
:07:54. > :07:58.the fact that while this was going on in 2002, she was not at the Helm
:07:59. > :08:03.of the newspaper. In fact, she was here on holiday in Dubai while
:08:04. > :08:06.journalists in London worked on the next Sunday's edition of the News of
:08:07. > :08:11.the World. The she was asked by her barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC did
:08:12. > :08:16.she know anything about the decision to access Milly's messages. Her
:08:17. > :08:19.answer, "absolutely not." The messages had made reporters think an
:08:20. > :08:24.employment agency was trying to offer Milly a job. It was just a
:08:25. > :08:29.mistake. They thought it might be a hoax call. The paper published this
:08:30. > :08:36.article, including a transcript of the message. By the time the second
:08:37. > :08:39.edition was printed the transcript was removed. The prosecution said
:08:40. > :08:44.she called Mr Coulson from her hoe toll to discuss the change. The jury
:08:45. > :08:48.was shown line lie line records of her calls back to the office and to
:08:49. > :08:53.Mr Coulson. She said she could not remember ever discussing Milly
:08:54. > :08:59.Dowler. Earlier, her barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC had said, "were
:09:00. > :09:04.you ever asked to sanction accessing another's voicemail as part of an
:09:05. > :09:09.investigation or as a technique more general" her answer "no
:09:10. > :09:12.phone-hacking would have been an invasion of privacy, at the time I
:09:13. > :09:18.don't think anybody, me included, knew it was illegal." She told the
:09:19. > :09:22.court she found out about the Milly Dowler hacking in 2011 her reaction
:09:23. > :09:25.was, in her own words "shock, horror." This week Rebekah Brooks is
:09:26. > :09:30.being questioned by her own barrister. Then it will be the turn
:09:31. > :09:34.of the prosecution to interrogate her. She continues to deny all the
:09:35. > :09:38.charges against her. Tom Symonds, BBC News, at the Old Bailey. A
:09:39. > :09:42.British former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Moazzam Begg, is among
:09:43. > :09:46.four people who have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences
:09:47. > :09:50.relating to Syria. He was detained at his home in Birmingham and is
:09:51. > :09:54.facing allegations of attending a terrorist training camp and
:09:55. > :09:59.facilitating terrorism overseas. Here's our home affairs
:10:00. > :10:05.correspondent, June, Kelly. Moazzam Begg is a well-known, campaigner,
:10:06. > :10:09.commentator and in the years after 9/11 detainee, held by the
:10:10. > :10:12.Americans. Today, a decade on, he was arrested by counter-terrorism at
:10:13. > :10:18.the detectives at his home in Birmingham. There were vehicles
:10:19. > :10:20.parked up in the road opposite. The little cul-de-sac. I was surprised,
:10:21. > :10:24.they seemed to be blocking that road. There were several people at
:10:25. > :10:28.the front door, blue gloves on, it didn't mean anything to me. A few
:10:29. > :10:34.minutes later a low loader arrived and took both cars away. Moazzam
:10:35. > :10:37.Begg was in incars rated in Guantanamo Bay at the height of the
:10:38. > :10:42.US war on terror. He had been arrested initially in Pakistan in
:10:43. > :10:46.2002. Then in the custody of the Americans, he was transported to
:10:47. > :10:51.Afghanistan. Then moved to Guantanamo Bay where he was held for
:10:52. > :10:56.two years. A US military document said, "detainee has been identified
:10:57. > :11:03.as being affiliated with three extremist organisations including
:11:04. > :11:07.Al-Qaeda. " "Moazzam Begg denied this. When he was freed and arrived
:11:08. > :11:12.back in the UK he was held by British police and released without
:11:13. > :11:16.charge. He now works for a campaign organisation and has visited Syria.
:11:17. > :11:21.He, as I, have been concerned about the use of black sites, so-called
:11:22. > :11:26.black sites in Syria, Libya and elsewhere used for torture. I know
:11:27. > :11:31.that was one of the things he was investigating. Around 300 people are
:11:32. > :11:37.estimated to have gone out to Syria from the UK. Earlier this month this
:11:38. > :11:41.footage emerged of Abdul Waheed Majid from Crawley, said to have
:11:42. > :11:47.blown himself up in a suicide bomb attack on a prison. Today's police
:11:48. > :11:51.operation is the latest in a series of Syria-related investigations.
:11:52. > :11:57.Like Moazzam Begg, the others arrested are the suspect of
:11:58. > :12:04.facilitating terrorist -- terrorism there. Labour's Deputy Leader,
:12:05. > :12:07.Harriet Harman, is refusing to apologise over links bean between an
:12:08. > :12:11.organisation she used to work for and a group that campaigned for the
:12:12. > :12:15.rights of paedophiles. She has accused the Daily Mail of making the
:12:16. > :12:19.issue headline news to try and smear her. The Labour leader, Ed Miliband,
:12:20. > :12:23.has offered her her his 100%ed support. She's been he at the heart
:12:24. > :12:26.of British politics for more than 30 years, Harriet Harman is being
:12:27. > :12:31.forced to answer questions abouts her work for a civil liberties group
:12:32. > :12:36.back in the 70s. It's connections to a paedophile organisation. The
:12:37. > :12:40.Paedophile Information Exchange was controversial. Its meetings targeted
:12:41. > :12:45.by protesters outraged with the way the group spoke up for adults
:12:46. > :12:50.attracted to children. It joined the NCCL where Ms Harman worked. I'm not
:12:51. > :12:55.going to apologise, I've nothing to apologise for. I very much regret
:12:56. > :12:59.that this vile organisation PIE, ever existed and that it ever had
:13:00. > :13:04.anything to do with NCCL, but it did not affect my work at NCCL. They
:13:05. > :13:12.have been pushed to the margins before I went to NCCL. In 1975, the
:13:13. > :13:17.group affiliated to the NCCL, the following year the NCCL campaigned
:13:18. > :13:21.to lower the age of consent to 14. Harriet Harman joined the
:13:22. > :13:25.organisation in 1978 as a Legal Officer. Paedophile Information
:13:26. > :13:31.Exchange were finally expelled in 1983. So how did a paedophile group
:13:32. > :13:39.get close to campaigners like NCCL? One journalist who opposed them in
:13:40. > :13:42.the 70s ex-- explained PIE targeted lib tearian left groups who might
:13:43. > :13:46.have been fighting for abortion rights, to troops out of Ireland to
:13:47. > :13:50.give themselves legitmacy. This was the same tactic indeed as militant
:13:51. > :13:54.or some other political groups like that. Trying to get inside
:13:55. > :13:59.presenting themselves as respectable. The link came to light
:14:00. > :14:05.in Daily Mail articles focussing on Harriet Harman, her MP husband, Jack
:14:06. > :14:09.Dromey, and former Cabinet Minister, Patricia Hewitt who all worked at
:14:10. > :14:13.the NCCL. The paper denies it's unfairly singling out these Labour
:14:14. > :14:17.MPs. When we looked into the archive there were pages and pages and
:14:18. > :14:22.pages. It's all the more remarkable that a woman of such high office
:14:23. > :14:26.never saw once fit to say, I don't think this can be right. Labour's
:14:27. > :14:32.Deputy Leader is clearly furious, tweeting she wouldn't take lessons
:14:33. > :14:40.on decency from the Mail which printed this photo of an American TV
:14:41. > :14:44.star when she was 12. Miss Harman is not prepared to do anything to
:14:45. > :14:49.encourage the view that she somehow turned a blind eye to paedophilia.
:14:50. > :14:54.Ed Miliband has given her a full-backing. He believes this is a
:14:55. > :15:00.politically motivated story from the Daily Mail. Our top story this
:15:01. > :15:05.evening a suspected IRA terrorist accused of murder in the 1982 Hyde
:15:06. > :15:08.Park bombings won't stand trial after what has been called a
:15:09. > :15:15."reckless" police error. Still to come: Is it the end of an era,
:15:16. > :15:40.Andrew loyal Webber's new musical is to close after four months.
:15:41. > :15:45.It is a virtual currency which only exists on the internet. It coin
:15:46. > :15:50.bypasses the traditional banking system and has become increasingly
:15:51. > :15:55.attractive as it does not involve exchanging currencies. -- bitcoin.
:15:56. > :16:01.It has seen a sharp fall in its value today, because one bitcoin is
:16:02. > :16:06.currently worth around ?315, down on its peak of almost ?700 in December.
:16:07. > :16:09.You by bitcoins through an online exchange and one of the biggest,
:16:10. > :16:14.Mount Gox, unexpectedly shut down today, owing hundreds of millions of
:16:15. > :16:20.pounds and wanting the fall in the value of the currency. Robert
:16:21. > :16:23.Preston explains. In the world of the internet, the
:16:24. > :16:28.virtual world, there is a currency that does not belong to any nation
:16:29. > :16:31.called bitcoin. Like all currencies, it can be exchanged into more
:16:32. > :16:36.conventional currencies like dollars or pounds except one of the biggest
:16:37. > :16:40.exchange houses, Mount Gox, has gone off-line. It seems to have vanished
:16:41. > :16:48.apparently losing customers hundreds of millions of dollars. I've had 311
:16:49. > :16:55.bitcoins, which was worth around $300,000. It looks like that has
:16:56. > :16:58.disappeared. Mount Gox did 80% of bitcoin trading in the early days
:16:59. > :17:05.but has been in difficulty for some time. Do think there has been
:17:06. > :17:10.fraught here? I think of the is a strong likelihood of that. -- there
:17:11. > :17:13.has been fraud. The fact that they are not talking about what is going
:17:14. > :17:21.on and they have deleted the sweet s, something is suspicious. -- they
:17:22. > :17:25.are tweaked this. Others suggested that Mount Gox was an exception and
:17:26. > :17:31.the other ex-changes are robust. You cannot hold bitcoin in your hands,
:17:32. > :17:36.it is just blips on a screen. And the price is volatile. Look how much
:17:37. > :17:44.the exchange rate has fallen in just the last 24 hours. If the pound is
:17:45. > :17:47.it that, Britain would be bankrupt. But what is really interesting about
:17:48. > :17:52.bitcoin is the way that it poses a challenge to the big banks, in that
:17:53. > :17:54.it has the potential to become a really cheap global network for
:17:55. > :17:59.transmitting or shunting money anywhere at any time, so it could be
:18:00. > :18:06.as dangerous to the traditional banks as Amazonas has been to shops.
:18:07. > :18:12.It is more interesting as a way of moving money around. -- hammers on
:18:13. > :18:17.has-been. At the least, these brokers, which turn bitcoin into
:18:18. > :18:27.money or vice versa, should be readily to? I think it would help
:18:28. > :18:31.bitcoin. -- regulated. I think there are all legitimate concerns about
:18:32. > :18:36.bitcoin crushing legislation. But people want safeguards around their
:18:37. > :18:40.money. Exchanges would be a good place to introduce regulation.
:18:41. > :18:45.Bitcoin, an online revolution in global money or a bubble about to be
:18:46. > :18:52.popped? Brats, like the internet in its early days, both. -- perhaps.
:18:53. > :18:56.One of the largest chains of academies in England is to lose
:18:57. > :18:59.control of ten schools. The Department for Education says that
:19:00. > :19:03.the move was made after Ofsted inspectors raised serious concerns
:19:04. > :19:07.about the performance of some of the schools. Officials are now trying to
:19:08. > :19:15.find a new sponsors for the academies.
:19:16. > :19:18.An Academy chain in trouble. This is one of hundreds of education
:19:19. > :19:22.charities to have taken over the running of England's state schools
:19:23. > :19:27.but today it has become the first to have to give up a string of them.
:19:28. > :19:30.This school is one of those that learned today that it is being
:19:31. > :19:38.handed over to an as yet unknown new sponsor. The head says it is
:19:39. > :19:41.unsettling. We are reacting to Ofsted and working flat out to make
:19:42. > :19:45.things better. We have been doing that for two years and we will
:19:46. > :19:48.continue do that. To be distracted eye something beyond our control, in
:19:49. > :19:56.which we have had no part, is frustrating. Ofsted inspected half
:19:57. > :20:01.of their schools in the last three weeks and that has triggered this
:20:02. > :20:05.move. This school is being let go because the struggling chain needs
:20:06. > :20:08.to focus on fewer schools. Academy schools in England were started
:20:09. > :20:12.under Labour but have mushroomed under the coalition government. They
:20:13. > :20:19.are state funded schools but have been run free of local authority
:20:20. > :20:23.control. The majority are run by education trust is. In 2010, there
:20:24. > :20:25.were just 223 academy schools but this year, the number was over 3500.
:20:26. > :20:29.were just 223 academy schools but this year, the number was The
:20:30. > :20:33.Education Secretary says that academies drive up standards but a
:20:34. > :20:39.chain giving up ten schools is a blow. Did he allow E-ACT to expand
:20:40. > :20:42.too fast? We always know that there will sometimes be failure in the
:20:43. > :20:45.education system, whether it is that academy level or local authority
:20:46. > :20:49.level. The important thing to do is to make sure that when
:20:50. > :20:55.underperformance shows, that we take the action required. No one at E-ACT
:20:56. > :20:58.was available for comment but they put out a statement saying that they
:20:59. > :21:03.wanted to focus on the schools that they still control. Today's
:21:04. > :21:07.development has renewed questions about why individual academy schools
:21:08. > :21:11.can be inspected at Ofsted, but not the overarching Academy chain. The
:21:12. > :21:15.chief inspector of England's schools has publicly said he wants to
:21:16. > :21:20.inspect chains and not just schools. Labour says it would help avert
:21:21. > :21:25.problems. We think the government should allow Ofsted to inspect
:21:26. > :21:29.academy chains so we do not end up with a piecemeal failings that we
:21:30. > :21:31.have seen today. We need to get to grips with the culture of these
:21:32. > :21:37.chains rather than dealing with individual problem schools.
:21:38. > :21:40.Ministers will not budge, saying the resume is tough enough. Meanwhile,
:21:41. > :21:44.E-ACT schools around the country are wondering what they are
:21:45. > :21:49.shareholders. -- what their future holds. Peter
:21:50. > :21:54.Bone has said that he and his wife are totally innocent of allegations
:21:55. > :21:58.of fraud relating to the care of his mother-in-law. The Times says that
:21:59. > :22:01.the Crown Prosecution Service are looking into claims that assets
:22:02. > :22:05.belonging to her work and sealed so that Northamptonshire County Council
:22:06. > :22:10.would fund her time in eight home. The trial of Oscar Pistorius for the
:22:11. > :22:14.murder of his girlfriend is to be partly televised when it begins next
:22:15. > :22:17.week. A judge in Johannesburg ruled that lawyers statements and some
:22:18. > :22:22.prosecution evidence can be broadcast live, but evidence from Mr
:22:23. > :22:29.Pistorius himself will not be shown. The athlete denies murdering Reeva
:22:30. > :22:35.Steenkamp last year. Remember this? The media interest in
:22:36. > :22:41.Oscar Pistorius's case was frenzied enough at his bail hearing last year
:22:42. > :22:45.and that was not even televised. Now comes the trial itself and today a
:22:46. > :22:50.ruling that the cameras will be allowed in so the world can see
:22:51. > :22:54.South African justice in action. In my view, it is in the public
:22:55. > :22:58.interest that, within allowable limits, the goings-on during the
:22:59. > :23:02.trial be covered as I have come to decide. Oscar Pistorius stands
:23:03. > :23:06.accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day
:23:07. > :23:12.last year. The athletes where is he thought he was shooting an intruder.
:23:13. > :23:16.Cameras will not be allowed to film Pistorius giving evidence but there
:23:17. > :23:21.will be a live audio transmission to feed a global audience. It is
:23:22. > :23:28.precedent-setting and it is a victory for open justice. We could
:23:29. > :23:31.not be happier. This is where the trial will be held. Oscar Pistorius
:23:32. > :23:34.will stand in the dark here. Following the ruling, the outside
:23:35. > :23:40.world will be able to watch some of it and listen to the entire
:23:41. > :23:45.proceedings live. It is a first for South African justice and not
:23:46. > :23:50.everybody is thrilled. They like to expose him and they are already
:23:51. > :23:57.seeing him as guilty. It is unfair. It is not fair on him. It is not.
:23:58. > :24:00.Pistorius was be met lawyers say that they feared that the cameras
:24:01. > :24:09.will impede a fair trial. It will start in earnest on Monday.
:24:10. > :24:14.-- Pistorius's lawyers. One critic has told it and end of an era for
:24:15. > :24:17.Andrew Lloyd Webber and his hold on theatre. Lloyd Webber has announced
:24:18. > :24:22.that his latest offering is closing after less than four months on the
:24:23. > :24:25.stage. Poor ticket sales have helped turn Stephen Ward into one of his
:24:26. > :24:29.biggest West End flops, in contrast to be successful Phantom of the
:24:30. > :24:40.Opera which has netted almost ?2 billion worldwide. -- V successful.
:24:41. > :24:44.Still open for business, for now. Stephen Ward, Andrew Lloyd Webber's
:24:45. > :24:51.newest musical. It opened in December and will close at the end
:24:52. > :24:54.of March. The show is based around the Profumo
:24:55. > :25:01.affair of the 1960s. But not enough came to see it. Despite significant
:25:02. > :25:05.ticket discounts. The man who once dominated musical theatre is
:25:06. > :25:11.struggling to find a new hit. In an increasingly competitive market. It
:25:12. > :25:18.is a similar story for his songwriting partner, Tim Rice. His
:25:19. > :25:24.show will also close next month. I think it is an end of an era. With
:25:25. > :25:29.Tim Rice's project closing on the same night, the Giants who dominated
:25:30. > :25:33.edition musicals for 40 years are leaving the stage. Literally. In a
:25:34. > :25:37.statement, the producer said he was proud of the show and the strong
:25:38. > :25:41.reviews that it received. He said he was sad to see it close in London
:25:42. > :25:47.but believed it would be seen by many audiences in the future.
:25:48. > :25:52.The Andrew Lloyd Webber back catalogue still sells. Phantom of
:25:53. > :25:57.the Opera remains one of the most successful musicals of all time. As
:25:58. > :26:04.does Josef. # I look Hansen, I look smart. But tastes are changing.
:26:05. > :26:08.Opening this weekend, the comedy musical, I can't saying, written by
:26:09. > :26:14.Harry Hill and produced by Simon Cowell. It is based on the X factor.
:26:15. > :26:20.It brings a notoriety to it. But the proof of the pudding is in the
:26:21. > :26:27.show. None of those things will help you if you do not have a good show.
:26:28. > :26:31.I think we do have a good show. Andrew Lloyd Webber's appetite for
:26:32. > :26:34.musical success shows no sign of waning. He is currently working on
:26:35. > :26:43.new songs for his next major project.
:26:44. > :26:47.Susan Powell is here with the weather. Quite a few showers around
:26:48. > :26:51.the British Isles today, particularly in the West, but now
:26:52. > :26:55.beginning to ease. We should see skies clearing overnight as the wind
:26:56. > :26:58.becomes lighter. The temperatures will slide. If you are a gardener,
:26:59. > :27:03.it might be time to cover tender plants because we will see a patchy
:27:04. > :27:10.frost developing in many areas by the morning. Here is the chart for
:27:11. > :27:12.overnight. For Northern Ireland, by the end of the night, heavier,
:27:13. > :27:19.persistent showers and rain arriving to start us off on Wednesday. These
:27:20. > :27:23.are the lows in the towns and cities. In rural areas, there will
:27:24. > :27:30.be patchy frost. In Northern Ireland, some wet weather pushing in
:27:31. > :27:33.from the west. And that is snow you see behind me, perhaps as low as 200
:27:34. > :27:39.metres through the morning rush hour. But we should see it becoming
:27:40. > :27:43.confined to about 400 metres and above as the morning goes on.
:27:44. > :27:55.Further south, clearer skies and morning sunshine. Some early showers
:27:56. > :27:59.across southern England. Northern Ireland, much drier by the afternoon
:28:00. > :28:03.with sunshine to come. And the showers will gradually fade across
:28:04. > :28:07.England and Scotland. The top temperatures for Wednesday between
:28:08. > :28:11.eight and 11 degrees. Fringing into the frame behind me, you can see the
:28:12. > :28:15.makings of a band of rain that is going to whip across the British
:28:16. > :28:21.Isles like last night, West to East. On a positive note, the worst of the
:28:22. > :28:27.wet and windy weather will move to the East on Thursday. For Thursday,
:28:28. > :28:31.look out for heavy showers with a focus on the South and West. A
:28:32. > :28:35.cooler feel as we get towards the end of the week with a mixture of
:28:36. > :28:40.sunshine and showers continuing. And that is all from the BBC News at
:28:41. > :28:41.six. It is goodbye from me