Good Afternoon to you...
Tamzin and Ben will be 'out front' once again this evening. At the moment though they're struggling to comfort Catherine, the programme editor, who's most perplexed to hear that Pluto is no longer a planet. It's official: the International Astronomical Union says it ain't big enough. Catherine sees this as a bitter blow to her view of the universe. The rest of us thought Pluto was Mickey Mouse's dog. Anyway, planet, rock, or dog, Pluto is just outside our news patch - so we'll leave that there.
However, a story that will move everyone in the London area is the murder of Peter Woodhams, shot dead outside his own home. He was slashed with a knife 7 months ago but his distraught finacee claims the police never took enough interest in their complaint - and that had they done, he may be alive today. This evening, in her first and only in-depth TV interview, Peter's fiancee talks Ronke Phillips, and tells her what she makes of that apology.
Meanwhile, Phil Bayles has been playing with dolls. Not just any dolls, mind, but little figures dressed in different Premier League-style team-strips. They're called 'Little Hooliganz'... and the Premier League is looking into whether they've breached clubs' rights. See what you think of them.
Now, last week, it was A-level students on the edge of their seats. Today it's been the poor blighters opening their GCSE results. We've all seen TV pictures of the successful kids, screaming with delight after they see a long list of 'A's. (Congratulations, if that's you, by the way.) However, Piers Hopkirk will also report on teenagers whose results fell short of the mark LAST year, and how a Prince's Trust course has left them a lot happier THIS year.
And if it's happy endings you're after, you'll love the story of a mechanic from Blackpool who, next month, takes centre-stage at the Royal Albert Hall. Not bad, when you consider that in the meantime he found himself sleeping on a park-bench... right over the road from the Albert Hall. Liz Wickham will tell us the whole story.
Finally, after listening to cows mooing yesterday, Chrissie has been chasing a pelican today - in Kent, of all places. She'll tell us all about that... before telling us all about the weather.
From Pluto to pelicans - in one e-mail. Not bad is it? We'll try the same trick at SIX... without Pluto, of course.
T&B
