Good afternoon - infact, what a horrid afternoon! A very good reason to stay with your tele' from 6pm for an hour of news and a bit of light-hearted banter to raise your spirits and keep you up to date with all you need to know.
Or, go out for a stuff walk and get cold and wet.
No, thought not.
So, we start on the serious side with two amazing challenges to the forces of law and order.
A muslim copper in the Diplomatic Protection Squad tells his boss he's not happy standing guard outside the Israeli Embassy. The boss says OK and moves him to other duties. His wife is Lebanese, his dad's Syrian, he's got more family in Lebanon and Israel is pumping rockets, tanks and soldiers into the battle zone while Hezbollah are pumping rockets back at Israel.
But none of this is happening in Knightsbridge. The Israeli Embassy has always been one of London's most secure buildings. He wears uniform.
But he says he was frightened.
Or did he, as some have suggested, have another agenda? A moral objection?
Met' Commissioner Sir Ian Blair is investigating and so are we: we also wants your thoughts on this one, tonight at 6.
The second dilemma has been unfolding in Windsor these last couple of nights: the muslim owner of a dairy wants to put a mosque in his factory so his workers can pray. This has met with some serious local objections and a fair bit of opportunist racism. But its a tough one to police as Marcus Powell will explain.
Equally difficult to explain is why a mum, who contacted an out of surgery hours health service with tummy pains, saw 2 doctors, spoke with 6 others and still died. She was told she had all sorts of things but that she was getting better. She wasn't, she had septicaemia and it proved fatal.
No connection, I promise, but on Day 2 of Ken Livingstone's appeal we also report on the publication of the follow up to Peter Pan's Adventures in Wonderland...
Some Kung Fu monks seem the only way to round that lot off: so we'll be asking them to do just that.
See you at 6.
A and K
