Snowmail: five Britons killed in Ecuador crash

Last Modified: 13 Apr 2008
By: Samira Ahmed

On tonight's show...

Samira here... Looking ahead to our 6.45pm bulletin tonight. A terrible road accident involving many British gap year students dominates our bulletin. The prime minister has offered his condolences to the families of five young British women killed in a bus crash in Ecuador. Another 12 Britons have been injured in the incident, in which a coach full of gap year students collided with a truck near Jipijapa, between Quito and Puerto Lopez at about 6pm local time last night. The young women were travelling with the Warwick-based gap-year specialists VentureCo. Victoria Macdonald will have the latest.

We look at the developments out the Lusaka summit of southern African leaders, trying to end the impasse over Zimbabwe's still undeclared election results. One view is that South African President Thabo Mbeki's guiding principle has been to allow Mugabe to resign with dignity, whatever the cost to the dignity of ordinary African people. So, with the summit breaking up with an urging of all sides to accept the result, and the Zimbabwe Electoral commission declaring a recount in 23 constituencies, where's the progress? Jane Dodge reports.

The London Marathon, through April showers and sunshine today saw 35,000 people take part. C4 News programme editor Ben Monro-Davies was among them, setting out with only one aim, to beat the time set by our economics correspondent Faisal Islam last year. Maybe you'll pick out someone you know from the crowd. In the sport... all eyes on the top of the Premier League as Manchester United take on Arsenal, still reeling after their European exit last week from the Champions League.