planet gets underway. grabbing the world s attention. good evening and welcome to bbc news. jill saward, the first survivor of rape to waive her right to anonymity has died. she was 51. in 1986 she suffered a violent assault by two men during a burglary at her father s vicarage in west london. at the end of the trial of the rapists, thejudge said her trauma had not been so great . jill saward went on to become a tireless campaigner and many believe her efforts changed the way we now deal with sex crime and its victims. our home affairs correspondent june kelly looks back at her life. jill saward was 21 when, in 1986, she became the victim of a crime which caused revulsion across the country. there was horror that, in a suburban vicarage in ealing in west london, a young woman was dragged into a bedroom at knife point and raped repeatedly by two men. it began to be serious when man 2 took me upstairs and brought me into this room, the spare room, basically. and told me to
how living near major roads could put you at higher risk of developing dementia. and six letters from princess diana to a buckingham palace steward are sold at auction for more than £15,000. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news, sir andy murray s through to the qatar 0pen semi finals after beating spain s nicolas almagro. he ll face eitherjo wilfried tsonga or tomas berdych in the last four. good evening. american intelligence officials have given a stark warning about the threat posed by russian cyber attacks. the outgoing us national intelligence director, james clapper, told a senate hearing he hasn t come across a more aggressive campaign to interfere with an american election than russia s actions in last year s race for the white house. mr clapper who will brief donald trump about his findings tomorrow said the hacking of democratic party emails had been ordered by the kremlin. washington is investigating what could be the biggest political break in since waterga
Harry Greenway, who has died aged 89, was an inner-city deputy head with a passion for equestrianism; as Conservative MP for Ealing North for 18 years he pressed for a strong moral ethos in schools and condemned the Church of England’s “appalling dereliction of duty” toward the young.
It shocked not just Britain but the world. And even today, 26 years on, the senseless death of Princess Diana exerts a powerful hold on the nation s memory.