BBC THE HEADLINES AT 1800 ON MONDAY 18TH FEBRUARY, 2008

BBC News at six o'clock. This is Harriet Cass. Good evening.

The Prime Minister has defended the decision to nationalise the
stricken Northern Rock bank - saying it was in the best interests of
taxpayers; the Conservatives have called on Gordon Brown to sack the
Chancellor from his job.

Mohammed al Fayed has told an inquest that Prince Charles and Prince
Phillip were involved in a plot to murder Princess Diana and his son,
Dodi.

A man from Birmingham has been jailed for life for plotting to kidnap
and behead a British army Muslim soldier.

The United States and Britain have said they will recognise Kosovo,
which has declared itself independent from Serbia.

A day after announcing that Northern Rock would be nationalised, the
Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has told MPs that the emergency legislation
allowing this to happen will begin its passage through Parliament
tomorrow. Mr. Darling told the Commons that temporary public ownership of
the crisis-hit bank was in the best interest of the taxpayer. But he was
jeered by the Conservatives, who cast him as the "undertaker" in the
"death of Britain's reputation" as a financial services centre. Earlier,
Mr. Darling had appeared alongside the Prime Minister at his monthly news
conference in Downing Street. Gordon Brown insisted that ministers had
taken the "right decisions" on Northern Rock, "at the right time":

BROWN ACT: Our first decision, to isolate the problems at Northern
Rock, has prevented its problems spreading to the rest of the financial
system. We have ensured the stability of our economy. Our protection for
depositors has given assurance that savings of Northern Rock customers can
not only continue as normal but are safe and secure. So over these six
months of financial turbulence around the world, our first two objectives,
set out last summer, have been achieved: stability, our paramount economic
ride objective, and the protection of savers, our promise to the
depositors and savers of Britain. We took the right decisions at the right
time, and for the right reasons.

Mr. Darling stressed that Northern Rock's new management would operate
at arm's length from the Government, "with commercial autonomy for their
decisions". But the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, said Mr. Darling
and Gordon Brown had "dithered their way to disaster". The Conservative
leader, David Cameron, said it was time for the Chancellor to be removed
from his job. From Westminster, here's our political correspondent, Norman
Smith:

SMITH: While at one level this is a tussle over nationalisation - it
has also become a much broader struggle over which party can now claim to
be the party of the economy. For the Tories, the return of the N word is
the moment to paint Gordon Brown as a throw back to what they gleefully
called today "the dark days of the 1970s." For Ministers "temporary public
ownership" - as they carefully describe it - is evidence, of economic
competence and a willingness to take the necessary hard decisions. It
would have been easy said the Prime Minister to take the soft option and
simply hand Northern Rock over to the private sector immediately. Instead,
the Government had taken time to get the best deal for the taxpayer. And
at his monthly news conference, Mr Brown went out of his way to praise his
Chancellor for safeguarding the stability of the economy. The Tory leader,
meanwhile, said Mr Darling should be sacked:

CAMERON ACT: It frankly is no good the Prime Minister saying to the
Chancellor "you must keep your job". I think what will have to happen is
the Prime Minister will have to reconstruct his government, he will have
to move his Chancellor, and he will have to do it - if he has any sense -
within days or possibly weeks, but certainly not months, because I don't
think this Chancellor has any credibility left

SMITH: In the Commons however, there was strong support for the
Chancellor from Labour MPs - particularly from those with constituencies
in the north east - while Mr Darling voiced his anger at what he called
the "petty politics" of the Tories:

DARLING ACT: It is quite clear that the Conservative Party have got
absolutely no idea how to deal with this problem. All they can do is to
come up with proposition after proposition, which shows us cynical
opportunism rather than dealing with a serious problem they've absolutely
no answers whatsoever.

SFX: CHEERING AND JEERING

SMITH: There was though support for Mr Darling's stance from the Lib
Dems, who's Treasury spokesman Vince Cable wryly noted that he had always
backed nationalisation:

CABLE ACT: It was right to decide that temporary nationalisation is a
better option than a bad private sale.

SMITH: Most at Westminster now expect that Northern Rock will probably
have to remain in public ownership for years - which means this row is
almost certain to provide a crucial part of the backdrop to the next
election.

The bank's new executive chairman, Ron Sandler -- who was appointed by
the Government yesterday -- has been answering questions about Northern
Rock's future. Mr. Sandler said he aimed to stabilise and develop the bank
into a profitable business. But shareholders and rival lenders aren't
happy -- as our Business Correspondent, Nils Blythe, explains:

BLYTHE: Ron Sandler is Northern Rock's third chairman in four months.
On a visit to the bank's Newcastle headquarters, he refused to be drawn on
whether he planned to reduce its workforce. But these are anxious times
for Northern rock's six thousand employees. Some of the rescue proposals
which the Treasury have rejected were based on the idea of a smaller bank
with a smaller workforce. And in future, it will have to operate under the
European Union rules on 'state aid' for businesses which ensure that
nationalised companies don't have unfair competitive advantage. Mr Sandler
accepts that Northern Rock will have to cut back on new lending.

SANDLER ACT: This bank will not write as many mortgages as it has done
at times in the past. Exactly the right level that provides the right sort
of balance for this bank will be governed in part by the constraints of
state aid and we have to wait to see how those develop.

BLYTHE: And Northern Rock's rivals will be watching very closely to see
how the bank behaves now it is in public ownership, as Adrian Coles of the
Building Societies Association points out:

COLES ACT: The Chancellor has said that Northern Rock is going to act
in a normal commercial manner, that normally means getting more customers
and getting bigger, that is a competitive threat to those institutions
like building societies that don't enjoy the taxpayer support that
Northern Rock will now have.

BLYTHE: And while Northern Rock's workforce wait anxiously for a
clearer view of their future, shareholders will also have to wait to find
out what compensation they will receive. Robin Ashby who leads a small
shareholders group fears that they will get very little:

ASHBY ACT: They've made mistakes and afterwards they bully small
shareholders; they're trying to kicking us by saying that they're
virtually worthless. I don't agree with that.

BLYTHE: An independent arbitrator will make a decision on the level
compensation. But the bank has powerful City shareholders who are likely
to challenge anything other than a very large payout in a process which
could go on for years. The restructuring of Northern Rock and its planned
return to the private sector is also likely to take several years.

Mohamed al Fayed has spoken of the last 60 minutes that his son Dodi
and Diana, Princess of Wales, spent together before they died in the car
crash in Paris. He told the inquest into their deaths, that before they
got into the car, they phoned him saying they were engaged: they were
going to have a baby, he said. The accident in a French underpass, he
said, was engineered. They were murdered; or slaughtered as he put it.
Those involved in the conspiracy, he said, included MI5; MI6; the French
security services; members of the Royal Family and the former Prime
Minister, Tony Blair. Here's Our Royal Correspondent, Peter Hunt:

HUNT: In Mohammed al Fayed's words: "It's black and white. This was the
murder of the century. A conspiracy to kill Diana and Dodi and then a
cover up." "The slaughter by gangsters", as he putted it involved many
people including the British, French and American secret services, Tony
Blair, Diana's eldest sister, three of Mr al Fayed's former bodyguards and
French ambulance staff. According to Mr al Fayed, two members of what he
called the 'Dracula Family' also participated -- Prince Charles and Prince
Philip. The heir to the throne wanted to clear the decks so he could marry
his crocodile wife, Camilla. The Queen's husband, the court was told by
the Harrods owner, was a racist and a Nazi who couldn't accept a person of
a different religion having anything to do with the future King. The
bereaved father, who was also referred to in court as a buccaneering
businessman, was asked repeatedly for evidence to back up his conspiracy
claims. He said at one point "how can I get the evidence, there was a
steel wall in front of the Security Services". During cross examination,
Mohammed al Fayed was also tackled over his claim that Diana had told him
she was engaged to Dodi and was pregnant. He accused one barrister of
talking out of his backside. Outside the court this evening, I asked Mr al
Fayed, as had been suggested inside the courtroom, whether he was lying
when he claimed the Princess had told him this personal news:

AL FAYED ACT: I am not lying I am always talking the truth. They are
pretending because they try to portray me like that - but I give them
hell.

HUNT: But the evidence doesn't back you up does it Mr Al Fayed?

AL FAYED ACT: The evidence, what evidence? I am not talking to you
because you are bloody idiot. You are part of establishment - you work for
MI6 you idiot.

HUNT: At one stage this afternoon, the Coroner told Mohammed al Fayed
no one doubted the anguished he'd be through and the strength of his
feeling. Lord Justice Scott Baker went on: "at the end of the day we have
to look at the evidence and not at the assertions."

The ringleader of a plot to kidnap and behead a muslim member of the
British Army has been jailed for life. Parviz Khan who's 37 and from
Birmingham has been told he will serve at least 14 years. MI5 bugged his
home and heard him indoctrinating his five year old son with hate, and
demonstrating to him how to kill the enemies of Islam. Four other men
accused of terrorist offences were sentenced to between two and seven
years; a sixth man was found not guilty. Our Home Affairs Correspondent,
Rory MacLean was at Leicester Crown Court:

MACLEAN: A listening device placed in a terraced house in the Alum Rock
area of Birmingham by MI5 produced hundreds of hours of recordings, often
in a foreign language. These were the basis of the prosecution of
thirty-seven-year-old, Parviz Khan. He was overheard planning to abduct
and behead a Muslim soldier in the British army, who would be cut as Khan
put it "like a pig and his head put on a stick". The crime was to be
videoed to cause panic and alarm. The police moved in, according to the
senior investigating officer, Detective Superintendent Liam O'brien, in to
stop the plot coming to the fruition:

O'BRIEN ACT: The threat in relation to this particular plot was real.
Yes, it was chilling; yes it was something that we never dealt with
before. But make no mistake that if we hadn't taken that action, this plot
would have been carried out.

MACLEAN: The judge, Mr Justice Henriques said of Parviz Khan's four co
defendants "every one of them should curse the day they set eyes on you".
He read a transcript of a recorded conversation in which Khan had
questioned his five-year-old son about whom he should kill. The small boy
who was forced to sleep on the floor to harden him to be a moujahid had
replied "he would kill Bush, Blair and non believers". The kidnap and
killing of a soldier would have been a new tactic, according to Doctor
Peter Neumann of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation:

NEWMANN ACT: We know from research that terrorist tactics often
migrate., For example the 80s and 90s suicidal bombings were very rare,
now they're quite common used by groups all over the world. The same is
probably true for beheading. They emerged in Iraq and probably groups all
over the world have seen what was happening, generating a lot of
publicity, they are now trying to imitate it.

MACLEAN: Parviz Khan had also been supplying equipment like camping
gear to terrorists fighting British soldiers in Afghanistan. All but one
of his four co defendants had been involved in that. They received
sentences ranging from two to seven years in prison.

Britain -- and several other major European powers -- have formally
recognised the independence of Kosovo, which broke away from Serbia's
control yesterday. Throughout the day, countries across the world have
been announcing whether or not they'll establish diplomatic relations with
the new state. The United States has said it's in favour of Kosovo's
declaration of independence; Russia has stood by its traditional ally,
Serbia, in opposing it. As our Diplomatic Correspondent James Robbins
reports, the world's newest nation has won some significant backing:

ROBBINS: It's no surprise that Britain and the United States are among
the first to recognise Kosovo as an independent state. Both played
front-line roles in the NATO operation nine years ago to force the Serbian
forces of Slobodan Milosevic out of the province and stop the persecution
of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority. The Foreign Secretary, David
Milliband, called Kosovo the last piece of the Yugoslav jigsaw, echoing a

hope that the terrible violence which followed the disintegration of
Yugoslavia after the collapse of communism is coming to an end:

MILLIBAND: On behalf of the United Kingdom, I can announce that the
British government has decided to recognise Kosovo. We will do so
alongside other European countries, at least half I would estimate from
the discussion today who would recognise the new country of Kosovo this
week.

ROBBINS: It does look as if at least seventeen of the twenty-seven
members of the European Union are now committed to recognition, after a
difficult meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels. Several EU states, led
by Spain and including Cyprus, Slovakia and Romania, are hostile to
Kosovo's independence. They fear it could encourage separatists in their
own countries. Earlier Spain's Europe Minister, Alberto Navarro,
complained that the EU was being pushed by others:

NAVARRO ACT: What I say as a European is that I'm really frustrated
that the future of Kosovo has been decided in Washington and to some
extent in Moscow, but not in Europe. This is not the best way to have a
truly common European policy on foreign affairs.

ROBBINS: That may give some comfort to others, particularly the
Russians, who take the side of Serbia and are deeply hostile to Kosovo's
statehood. But when America's Secretary of State says in a statement: "we
congratulate the people of Kosovo on this historic occasion," it's
confirmation of a tide running in Kosovo's favour and running against
Serbia, whose loss of territory now seems unstoppable.

Reaction to the declaration of independence is being closely watched
within Kosovo. As our Europe Correspondent, Mark Mardell, reports from
Mitrovica, its Serbian population has reacted angrily to the stamp of
approval independence has received from many powerful countries:

SFX: CHANTING

MARDELL: We will not give up Kosovo they chant. Waving Serbian flags,
around eight thousand people marched through the streets of Mitrovica, a
city divided on ethnic lines. To these Serbs, Kosovo is not merely home,
not merely a part of Serbia, but an essential holy heartland. Each speaker
had an easy to understand message:

CLIP: Kosovo Serbia

SFX: CROWND CHEERING

MARDELL: Among the crowd, one Serb, Joyko Rachavitch, who showed me his
British passport and said by backing independence, Britain had brought
shame on itself:

RACHAVITCH ACT: What you're doing at the moment is discrediting the
history of Great Britain, the proud British nation which always was
supportive of justice.

MARDELL: After stopping to hear the speeches, the marches carried on
down the main street to the bridge, which divides their part of town from
the ethnic Albanians in the south. The line of United Nations police
stopping them from going any further, the demonstrators burned an American
flag, lit flares, threw firecrackers, but there was not need unfurl the
razor wire or call up the riot squad who waited in vans in the back
streets. Serbian dismay is heart-felt but anger has not translated in to
either violence or serious political action that would destabilise this
new nation.

SFX: CHANTING

You are listening to the six o'clock news on BBC Radio Four. The main
news so far:

Mohammed al Fayed has told an inquest that Prince Charles and Prince
Phillip were involved in a plot to murder Princess Diana and his son,
Dodi.

A man from Birmingham has been jailed for life for plotting to kidnap
and behead a British army Muslim soldier.

But the main news concerns Northern Rock. Emergency legislation to
nationalise the bank will be introduced tomorrow. The Chancellor, Alistair
Darling, says it's the best option for the taxpayer; the Conservatives say
it's time for the Chancellor to go.

.Our Political Editor, Nick Robinson, considers the political fallout
for the Government and for Gordon Brown:

ROBINSON: "An economic calamity has taken place". So claimed the Tory
leader today drawing, he said, on his own experience of working at the
Treasury on Black Wednesday. Yet somehow, at least in Westminster, it's
not felt like that sort of day. Of course, nationalising Northern Rock is
something this Government did not want to do. Of course, Gordon Brown
hoped that the "N word" would never again be used in the same sentence as
"Labour Government". Of course, the risk ministers are taking with vast
sums of taxpayers money is still there. That, though, is the point -- the
risk is STILL there - as it was last week and as it would have been even
if ministers had today announced not the nationalisation but the sale of
the Rock or, as the Tories recommend, putting it into administration.
There is clearly political damage to a government that's constantly
proclaimed its capacity to deliver economic stability and reputational
damage to Britain as a financial centre. But the scale of this will not
become clear until we know the answer to what is now the hundred billion
pound question -- how much, if any, of this unprecedented subsidy will
actually be lost? In other words, unlike on Black Wednesday, we do not
know that billions have been lost. If they are, though, David Cameron will
not be alone in using the word 'calamity' to describe this day.

News of the crisis engulfing Northern Rock was broken last September by
our Business Editor, Robert Peston. Here's his assessment of its prospects
under public ownership:

PESTON: What is the future of Northern Rock as a state-owned bank? Well
its new chairman, Ron Sandler, has told the existing management of the
troubled bank that he likes their rescue plan and intends to nick many of
their ideas. So, he's expected to rapidly shrink the Rock's mortgage
operation. That would be achieved by putting up the cost of mortgages -
which would encourage borrowers to repay by taking out loans with other
banks, with the proceeds of these redemptions reducing the loans to the
bank from taxpayers. As a consequence, the value of mortgages on the
Rock's books could be reduced by up to fifty billion pounds over four
years. The Rock would become a much smaller business - and would need to
employ many fewer than the existing six thousand staff - perhaps half that
number. But if the bank is to have a profitable long term future, so that
it can be privatised in a few years time, it needs to attract billions
more in retail deposits. The Rock's managers were aiming to almost double
these by 2012. What does it all add up to? First, that rivals may cry foul
about what they may claim is unfair Government-subsidised competition for
savings. However, other banks will be pleased that one of the most
aggressive discounters of mortgages in recent years could be almost out of
the market - which would allow them to put up their mortgage rates. And
that could be painful for millions of homeowners, not just the Rock's
customers.

Votes are being counted in Pakistan following parliamentary elections.
It's the first test at the polls for President Pervez Musharraf, since he
imposed emergency rule at the end of last year. Fears that the day would
be marred by widespread violence proved relatively unfounded, but turnout
at the polls is said to be low. Our correspondent, Chris Morris has been
out on the streets of the northern city of Rawalpindi:

SFX: CROWD CHEERING

MORRIS: The first results are only just trickling in, but they seem
confident that they've won. These are supporters of opposition parties
celebrating on the streets of Rawalpindi. They believe the opinion polls
were right and supporters of President Pervez Musharraf are heading for a
heavy defeat. Earlier in the day the President, whose popularity has
declined dramatically over the past year, cast his vote here in
Rawalpindi. He urged all politicians to work for the sake of the country:

MUSHARRAF ACT: Politics of confrontation must give way to politics of
reconciliation. Not in anyone's personal interest, in the interest of
Pakistan. We must come out of this confrontationist approach and get into
a conciliatory mould.

MORRIS: There is a long way to go as votes are counted especially in
rural areas. But the biggest relief on election day was the lack of any
major incidents of violence. Several people were shot dead as rival
parties clashed. There were also reports of ballot boxes going missing and
many people couldn't find their names on the electoral role. Not ideal,
but it could've been a lot worse. Now, Pakistan is searching for political
stability to allow it to tackle problems of Islamist militancy and
inequality. But before it can turn to long-term challenges there is a more

immediate issue at hand -- will the losers in this election be prepared to
accept the results.

An interim report into the crash of a British Airways jet at Heathrow
last month says damage has been found within the plane's fuel pumps. The
Boeing 777 suffered a loss of engine power less than a minute before
landing and came down short of the runway, near a busy road. None of the
152 people on board was seriously injured. Here's our Transport
Correspondent, Tom Symonds:

SYMONDS: This investigation is proving to be among the most challenging
Britain's air accident investigators have ever faced. This afternoon, in a
six page update, they revealed damage had been found within both the left
and right pumps which provide fuel to the engines. It may have been the
result of pressure caused by bubbles in the fuel -- evidence possibly the
supply was restricted in some way -- or that it contained too much air.
But the investigators draw no further conclusions other than to say the
pumps should have been able to operate normally. The team has found
fragments of tape, plastic and paper, inside the fuel system - their
relevance is still being considered. The report does say the aircraft had
enough fuel, and samples show no signs of contamination. No faults have
been found in mechanical and electrical systems and there was no evidence
of either birds or ice being sucked into the engines. The report makes one
recommendation -- a change in pilot procedures after a crash landing, to
ensure that engines can be properly shut down, even if the plane is
damaged.

Two soldiers from the Royal Regiment of Scotland have appeared at
Folkestone Magistrates Court charged with possessing explosives for
unlawful purposes. Another soldier from the same regiment is expected to
appear in court in Glasgow. The men were arrested on Friday on suspicion
of stealing ammunition and passing it to people in the Strathclyde area.
Our Scotland Correspondent, Colin Blane, reports:

BLANE: The investigation into the theft of munitions focused on the
barracks of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Canterbury, where a
raid was carried out by officers from Kent, the Royal Military police and
Strathclyde. The inquiry stretched across the border to Scotland because
that's where police suspected the material was going. In all three
soldiers were arrested. Earlier today, two of the three,
thirty-six-year-old, Colour Sergeant Garry Graham, from Kilmarnock, and
Sergeant Kieran Campbell, who's twenty-seven, appeared at Folkestone
magistrates Court and were remanded in custody. A woman who was detained
by Kent police has been released on bail. A third soldier was arrested in
Canterbury by Strathclyde police and was brought north to appear at
Glasgow Sheriff Court. Two other men, aged twenty and twenty-five, were
arrested on Friday in the Strathclyde area.

A judge at Ipswich Crown Court has begun summing up the evidence for
the jury in the case of the man accused of killing five women in Suffolk.
Steve Wright denies killing the women - who worked as prostitutues - in
2006. Mr Justice Gross told jurors not to allow sympathy for the women and
their families to sway their verdict. He also said the lifestyles of those
involved were irrelevant.

A High Court judge has ruled that the brother of a senior policeman,
who's thought to have killed himself and his mother-in-law while awaiting
trial for the murder of his wife, will not forfeit his 200-thousand pound
bail money. Mr Justice Calvert-Smith agreed with Geoffrey Weddell's
argument that he could not have known that his brother, Garry, would take
his own life.

The son of Northern Ireland's First Minister, Ian Paisley Junior, has
announced he'll resign from the government at Stormont. Mr Paisley has
been the subject of allegations that he lobbied on behalf of a property
developer. He says the claims, while untrue, are distracting him from his
job. He'll remain a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. It's the
first resignation from the power-sharing executive since devolution was
restored in May last year. Our Ireland Correspondent, Denis Murray, has
more details:

MURRAY: Ian Paisley Jr was one of two junior ministers in the Office of
the First and Deputy First Ministers in the executive, or cabinet, of the
devolved assembly. His father of course is the Rev Ian Paisley, who is
First Minister. The resignation comes after a series of allegations about
Ian Jr's dealings with a property developer in his North Antrim
constituency, Seymour Sweeney. Initially, there was criticism over the
proposed re-building of the Giant's Causeway visitor's centre - and then a
multi-million pound property development. Ian Jr also annoyed party
colleagues when it was discovered he'd lobbied a Northern Ireland Office
minister about constituency issues during talks on the province's
political future at St Andrew's in Scotland in 2006. Mr Paisley said he
had been the subject of unfounded criticism and innuendo, but was not
resigning for any wrong doing on his part:

PAISLEY ACT: I accept that there are those who wish for me to be a
convenient distraction of the DUPs political message. I will not serve
that purpose. I refuse to be a convenient excuse to attack the position of
the leader of my party. I will not serve that purpose or the purpose of
those who would seek to undermine him, one of Ulster's finest sons.

MURRAY: Mr Paisley's resignation will take effect when a successor is
appointed, in a few days time.

In the City, the one hundred share index closed up 159 points -- or 2
point 8 per cent -- at 59-47.

In New York, the Dow Jones was trading down 29 points at 12-348.

In the currency markets, the pound was down seven-tenths of a cent
against the US dollar, at one dollar 95 point 2 cents. Against the euro,
sterling was trading down one-third of a cent, at one Euro 33 cents,
making the Euro worth 75 pence.

Football: Barnsley, the Championship side who scored a surprise victory
over Liverpool on Saturday are to host the FA Cup holders, Chelsea, in the
quarter finals. Manchester United will play Portsmouth at home, and
Sheffield United or Middlesbrough will meet Cardiff City. Bristol Rovers
have been drawn against West Bromwich Albion.

An electronic work of art that turns thousands of internet text
messages into sounds and images will receive its UK premiere at the
Science Museum tomorrow. "Listening Post" is by the American artists, Ben
Rubin and Mark Hansen, and has been bought for the museum with a grant
from the Art Fund charity. Our Correspondent, Torin Douglas, has been to
listen in:

SFX: MACHINE

DOUGLAS: Hundreds of four-letter words - predominantly clean ones, such
as skin and bone - are rotating rapidly on electronic screens, like a
railway departure board. The words have been plucked, live and uncensored,
from online chatrooms and bulletin boards:

CLIP

DOUGLAS: Other text messages find a voice through
computer-synthesisers, in what's being called a dynamic portrait of online
communication:

CLIP

DOUGLAS: Listening Post has been displayed in American galleries for
five years. It's now been bought by the Science Museum with a grant of a
hundred-and-ten-thousand pounds from the Art Fund. Hannah Redler is the
museum's head of arts projects:

REDLER ACT: As the texts float across the screen, they look quite
watery, they sort of move, so it's an immerse of an experience that start
to introduce you to online communication in a very physical way.

DOUGLAS: Mark Hansen, who created the work with Ben Rubin, is a
university statistician as well as an artist. He's delighted it's being
displayed alongside exhibits such as the early Babbage computer.

CLIP

The French novelist and film-writer, Alain Robbe-Grillet has died. He
was 85. Robbe-Grillet was a pioneer of the "noveau roman" movement, which
held that traditional notions such as plot and character should be
discarded. In 1961, he wrote the screenplay for the film "Last Year in
Marienbad."

The headlines again:

The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has told Mps that emergency
legislation to nationalise Northern Rock will be introduced tomorrow. He
said temporary public ownership of the bank was in the taxpayer's
interest. But the Conservatives say it's time for Mr Darling to be sacked.

Mohamed Al Fayed has told the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana
and his son, Dodi, that they were the victims of a plot that involved
Prince Philip, Prince Charles and the former prime minister, Tony Blair.

The ringleader of a plot to kidnap and behead a Muslim British soldier
has been jailed for life.

The United States, Britain and several other European powers have
recognised the independence of Kosovo. Russia is continuing to oppose it.

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