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