The 9 o'clock news from the BBC, with Julia Somerville and John Humphries.
Mr Gorbachev expels five American diplomats and accuses the Americans of impudence.
The lorry first smashed through the heavy steel barrier at the entrance to the floodlit checkpoint.
Then, as claxons went off and guards began firing, it plowed through another two smaller barriers and collided with a checkpoint building.
With a couple of seconds to spare, the lorry batted its way through the final steel gates.
Lawyers in the Crown Prosecution Service take over throughout England and Wales.
The main advantage it said is that close independent vetting of cases will streamline the system.
Then, instead of 43 police forces, one prosecution service will apply consistent standards.
And with fewer police officers in the courts, more will be free to fight crime.
At 7pm London time last night, the White House ordered the USS Saratoga on patrol in the Adriatic to turn south.
The White House ordered the four hijackers and the two Palestinian officials, unknown to them, they were already being shadowed by an American radar plane.
10pm, the 737 radioed ahead to Tunis for permission to land. Tunis refused, telling them,
Our airspace is closed to you. Go away, go away.
The Palestinians decided to head for Greece instead. The 737 changed course.
1030, the 737 approached Athens, but they too turned them away. Permission to land refused.
Leave Greek airspace immediately.
Moments later, the American fighters moved in. Two took up station in front, two behind, flashing their lights and dipping their wings.
The international order to follow me.
The US fighters forced the 737 to turn west and fly to Sicily.
1145, the 737 by now low on fuel, had no choice but to land at the NATO airbase at Sigonella.
The hijacking of the hijackers was complete.
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And Sheena Easton from Glasgow, who's been continuously popular in America, is in for the best female vocals.
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Phil Collins has had a good year in America. His band, Genesis, is also up for the Best Rock Group Award.
Now she don't even know my name, but then she likes me just the same.
The Six O'Clock News from the BBC with Sue Lawley and Nicolas Wichel.
Arthur Guinness made a fortune. In doing so, he laid the foundations for the Guinness dynasty.
A mighty and powerful clan which stood on the very highest rung of Irish society.
Their daughters married into Europe's royal families, their sons ran the country houses,
the vast family estates and the ever-growing Guinness business empire.
That divides into two distinct spheres. On the one hand, the brewing business, on the other, the banking.
John Guinness, the husband in the present drama, is a financier.
The athlete's journey will begin in a relief camp on the Ethiopia-Soudan border
and then will start the hectic tour of Europe, where he'll be met by heads of state and government leaders.
The last stop will be New York a week on Sunday, where he'll signal the start of a worldwide race against time.
As they approach the city at a height of 200 feet and a speed of 600 miles an hour, this is what the F-111 crew would have seen.
The laser target marker would illuminate the centre of the army barracks
and the bombs would home in on the laser beam.
But it seems that at least one stick of bombs fell a long way off, hitting a residential area and four embassies.
32 seconds into the take-off run, the crew heard a thump. They thought it might be a tyre blowing.
They didn't know it was a serious explosion and fire in the port engine.
Almost immediately, take-off was aborted, but to avoid damaging the wheels, the brakes weren't slammed on.
The plane slowed down steadily and turned off the runway to clear it.
Textbook procedure in the situation the crew thought they were in.
For the last general election three years ago, the Conservatives had almost 60% of the vote, the Alliance 30% and Labour 10%.
Now the Tory vote has slumped to 41% while the Alliance have taken half the votes. Labour trails behind in third place.
Instead of using a single high-power transmitter, the country is split into small cells,
each with a low-power transmitter linked to the British telecom phone system.
As the radio phone user moves around, the computer automatically switches the signal from one antenna to the next.
The transmitter in each cell uses the same frequency, so conversations can be continued without interruption or fading.
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The One O'Clock News from the BBC with Martin Lewis.
Hello, good afternoon. Voyager, which set out from California on Sunday, has completed more than a third of its 27,000-mile journey.
Its route during the next week will take it over the Indian Ocean, Africa and the Atlantic, and it's expected to arrive back in California on Christmas Eve.
The trade deficit for November was £232 million. Both the value and volume of imports hit record levels, partly caused by the consumer boom in the high streets.
The price of North Sea Oil has risen slightly, up 5 cents to $17.40 a barrel.
On the currency markets, the police have been searching the Moors above Manchester using specially trained dogs.
They had been working on a strip on either side of the A635 road. Now they're going to concentrate on an area a mile and a half away at shiny Brook.
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