was warned more than two years ago that objects from its collection were being put up for sale. the murdered surrey schoolgirl police in pakistan have questioned three members of her widerfamily as detectives try to trace her father. and how a ten minute mri scan could revolutionise the way prostate cancer is diagnosed. on newsnight at 10:30pm. what a night at the museum intense pressure on the british museum after a virtually unprecedented artefact theft. how did it happen, and can the institution recover? good evening. it was a daring rescue that began first thing this morning when this cable car carrying children to school in a remote part of pakistan was left dangling hundreds of feet above a ravine after one of the cables snapped. six schoolboys and two adults spent more than 12 hours stranded inside as the military tried to reach them, first with helicopters, then with zip wires, helped by local people. huge crowds gathered to watch the rescue attempts. tonight, the
on a medal, but a strong field awaits in the 1,500 metres at the world athletics, in budapest later. good evening, and welcome to the bbc news at six. two children and their teacher remain trapped in a cable car that is dangling precariously almost 1,000 feet above a ravine in pakistan. they were on their way to school in a remote mountainous region in the north of the country when a cable snapped. five children have been rescued by the military in a difficult operation, but it s dark there now, and the helicopters can t fly again until the morning. 0ur pakistan correspondent caroline davies has the latest. hanging over a perilous drop, was just a rope to safety. as an army helicopter hovers over the cable car, a leap, then swept away to safety, as the crowd cheers. this was the moment many hoped for, the first rescue after hours. makeshift cable cars are common in the rural mountains of pakistan, taking minutes over ravines while roads take hours. children were on their way
over 3,500 people died of drug poisoning last year a record level in england and wales. and barcelona tell paris st germain they must pay a record breaking £198 million fee in full before they can sign their brazilian striker neymar. our main story at 5. four men from the west midlands have been found guilty of plotting an attack, similar to that carried out on the soldier lee rigby. a gang calling themselves the three musketeers, along with one other man, were thought to be planning to attack police and military targets on british soil. three of the men were convicted terrorists who met in prison. they ll be sentenced tomorrow. 0ur correspondent tom burridge is at the old bailey for us. three of these men had already been jailed for terrorism offences and in fa ct jailed for terrorism offences and in fact they met at belmarsh prison. information on all four of their la pto ps information on all four of their laptops and mobile phones said they we re laptops and mobile p
For about 21, 22 years. for me to get a tenner bag of kit, i would need to go and steal £40 worth of stuff to sell for a tenner, and then get rubbish kit. and i ve not even got a vein you can put it in. so you saw him smoking heroin, what else did you see him taking? codeine. aye. codeine linctus. yen the bottles, aye. he loved that, that was a big thing. anything with codeine in it. mm hmm. he was on methadone which is a heroin substitute for decades. why didn t they try and get him off drugs altogether? my name s claire mackie. i own the pharmacy in dumbarton that tony came every day- to collect his methadone. i i think the reason there s been. so many drug deaths in scotland, most of them, when you look at it, is multiple drug use. yes it s buying street valium, mixing that with cocaine, | and it s not the methadone. when it comes to addiction,
I don t know if you remember, george, but our parents were friends. that s right, aye, you were my babysitter. and i was the babysitter! that s how far we go back. my name s george elliott, i m 55 years of age, and i used to use drugs with tony devine i was an intravenous user for about 21, 22 years. for me to get a tenner bag of kit, i would need to go and steal £40 worth of stuff to sell for a tenner, and then get rubbish kit. and i ve not even got a vein to put it in. so you saw him smoking heroin. what else did you see him taking? codeine. aye. codeine linctus. yep, the cough bottles. the bottles, aye. he loved that, that was a big thing. anything with codeine in it. mm hm. he was on methadone which is a heroin substitute for decades. why didn t they try and get him off drugs altogether?