knowing what we did, but with hindsight, that is the moment we should have done it, three weeks earlier, and it would have saved many, many lives. alistair darling, the labour politician who was chancellor during the 2008 global financial crash, dies at the age of 70. members of the rmt union except a pay deal ending their involvement in a long running series of rail strikes. hello, i m matthew amroliwala. hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the programme. the pogues frontman shane macgowan has died at the age of 65. he was discharge from hospital last week. his wife confirmed he had died in social media. macgowan fronted the pogues from 1982 until their break up in 2014. the band are best known for the christmas hit song fairytale of new york. our arts correspondent david sillito reports. # it was christmas eve, babe # in the drunk tank # an old man said to me. # happy christmas, your ours, i pray god it s our last. fairytale of new york, a bleak, drink sodden duet
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. police searching for four teenagers who have been missing in north wales since sunday morning have found the bodies of four boys one was 16, two were 17 and one was 18 years old. jevon hirst, harvey owen, wilf henderson and hugo morris had travelled by car from shrewsbury to eryri national park, or snowdonia where it s believed they were camping. police say their car was spotted this morning by a member of the public in the village of garreg. it had left the road and was upside down and partially submerged in water. our correspondent phil mackie is at the scene. yes, sophie, so this police road block has been here all day and there has been a lot of activity since the early hours of this morning. residents living up there told me they were woken up by search lights as helicopter came round the valley which you can t see because it is dark, that is where the car was first spotted this morning, this was first spotted this mor