Proven his innocence. 22 year old liam allan spent two years on bail, before his trial at Croydon Crown court was halted, when it was revealed his accuser had sent him thousands of text messages. Hes been speaking exclusively to clive coleman. The day after the case against him was dropped, liam allan is coming to terms with the end of a two year nightmare. I was relieved for notjust myself, but everyone thats been with me every step of the way, and everyone its impacted. It wasjust a huge, huge relief. You sort of get your life back. You dont realise that youve lost parts of your life, until you actually have it completely done. The trial may be over, but the strain it caused remains vivid. Ill be honest, i did start to suffer from panic attacks, a couple of weeks before court, which is why i said it was probably my worst time. Because you just where it has to be internal, where you have to have your own reaction, panic attacks are an internal reaction that you cant help yourself. But
Developing once again. The west will start to see changes as a weather system start to see changes as a weather syste m m oves start to see changes as a weather system moves in, bringing increasing cloud, wind and outbreaks of rain. Ill start here, but cold further east. We start the morning with the cold start, drier in the east. The weather will eventually reach in the south east in the afternoon but the mild airwill south east in the afternoon but the mild air will move in behind it. And it will brighten up. Hello. This is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines a leading supporter of brexit has said the uk cannot become a colony of the eu during the expected two year transition period after britains withdrawal in march 2019. The Canadian Pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife, honey, have been found dead at their home in toronto. Police have described the deaths as suspicious. Wildfires in california are continuing to burn out of control, scorching an area larger than
The event by the British Film Institute celebrates the discovery of programmes which were believed to have disappeared from the archives. Our entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson has had a preview. Could learn a lot of things from you. You shine at everything you do. Cilla black and dudley moore on the bbc variety show, this episode has not been seen since it first transmitted in march 1968. A copy has turned up in the house of a formerfairground owner has turned up in the house of a former fairground owner at in blackpool, whose dad was a film collector. Today it will be shown in full at the bfi in the southbank as pa rt full at the bfi in the southbank as part of their believed to be missing series. Including a crackly recording of the first ever tv appearance by Pete Postlethwaite at the age of 29. I still like it, sometimes. Come on, local loonie hears voices from out of space. Lets get on with it. One was a half hour bbc play broadcast in 1975, in which he played a journalis
Despite the presence of some brightness towards the east you will end up with a temperature around three, four, 5 degrees. A little bit going on with the weather and particularly on that monday night into tuesday. More details can be found on the bbc website. Hello. This is bbc news with ben brown. The headlines. Six people have died in a serious crash on one of birminghams main roads. A0 firefighters and five ambulances were sent to the scene, which the fire service said was spread over some distance. We were called at 1 11 this morning to the report of a serious collision on lee bank middleway. Three vehicles were involved in the collision in the underpass involving at least 9 people. The government wants to lower the age for automatic enrolment in Company Pension schemes from 22 to 18 in a move to offer more people Financial Security in retirement. South africas governing anc is due to vote for a new leader today, in a close contest that has exposed deep divisions in the party. Now
We are all connected, and this is what im trying to do with arabic calligraphy, to connect people. Yeah, baby and i discover that santa makes it look easy when i hop on a sleigh for an early slice of christmas in finnish lapland. Lets go, son, lets go but first this week, were going to georgia. With its black sea coastline, forested landscape and world famous wine, its not hard to see why tourism is booming in the once soviet state. But one city there is attracting tourists for a very different reason. In many ways, gori is an unremarkable post soviet town. If it wasnt for a former resident, it might not be so firmly on the tourist trail. But tourists do come, and in their tens of thousands every year, and today that includes me. In 1939, my great grandfather, a polish official, was arrested as the soviets invaded under the leadership ofjoseph stalin. Like so many other poles, my great grandfather was sent to a forced labour camp and died, leaving my family to flee, eventually reaching