Snowmail: imprisoned for 24 years

Not quite sure what we'll be leading on tonight, but at the moment the Austrian father alleged to have locked his daughter in a cellar room for 20 years and serially sexually abused her, producing seven children, today finds the man admitting it.

Once one has dealt with the appalling story itself on is bound to feel some sensitivity towards Austria, where now no fewer than two of these cases have been revealed.

Sue Turton is on this awful case.

Extra fuel arrives in Scotland

Andy Davies continues to burrow ever deeper into the Grangemouth strike.

The men are back at work but there is still a series of unanswered questions, not the least of which is BP's decision to sell off its refinery in the first place, given that it was the choke point of the vast majority of its North Sea oil wealth, a key pipeline was shutdown once Grangemouth could no longer function.

Age Concern finds poor care for old

A survey of the elderly has revealed that 80 per cent of us are concerned about the quality of care we will enjoy in our old age.

This on top of the prediction that 25 per cent of us will enjoy pensioner poverty by the year 2020.

Victoria MacDonald is on the case.

The other anti-Chinese protesters

We have a blockbuster piece from China tonight. Lindsey Hilsum reports from western Xingjian.

A piece that demonstrates only too painfully that Tibet is not the only troubled land in China.

Here live the Muslim Uighur people and a sorry time they have been having under the Chinese authorities. China believes in some way these unfortunate some Uighur's are linked to Al Qaeda.

Presumably bolstered by the fact that seven or eight Uighurs were erroneously picked up and spirited to Guantanamo in the early days and later revealed to be wholly innocent of any involvement with any kind of extremism.

China would not take them back; it was left to Albania to accept them.

Lindsey Hilsum's piece describes why in amongst the Tibetan protestors dotted across the progress of the Olympic torch, there have been Uighur protests too, notable in Australia and South Korea.

Julian Rush is looking at the restoration of sight in a young boy courtesy of gene therapy. It is not quite a breakthrough, as he describes, but it is neo-miracle science.

A rather intriguing piece out of Bollywood tonight.

I say Bollywood, but actually the whole point of the piece is that it is about two British Asians who've made it in Indian movies despite the very strong prejudice against British Asian actors there.

In short, audiences do not like their Hindi and particularly dislike their accents.

These two, one of whom hails from Wembley, have worked overtime on their accents reminding one of the extent to which many other British actors have had to adapt their accents in order t prevail in Hollywood.

All the news that's fit to print at seven. See you then.

And, from Kylie Morris, on More4 News tonight

We've a special report from Ramita Navai in Argentina, with disturbing detail of a new, highly addictive, cut-price drug, fuelling an epidemic of addiction and crime.

It has a gentle name, Paco, but a devastating effect.

The smokeable cocaine residue, a by product of the manufacture of cocaine, is more addictive than crack and can cause brain damage within six months.

It's a difficult watch, but a deftly told tale of how a low-grade leftover can take hold and transform a community.

And, also from the Americas, Sarah Smith is watching the Reverend Jeremiah Wright tread the boards at the National Press Club.

And we'll be talking to a representative of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) about the impact of the controversial Chicago minister on the presidential campaign of Senator Barack Obama.

That, and all the news from home, at eight.

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