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A woman is found stabbed in the eyes and incinerated in her car, in the second story of the ninth and final series of the cold case crime drama. The woman is identified as Claire Somers, a neglected child who was taken into care, then abducted from her care home in 1986, aged seven, and missing ever since. The same night as her abduction, the care home manager, Robert Fenchurch, also had his eyes stabbed out as the abductor fled the scene. The cold case squad must discover if the same killer has struck some 25 years later.

The team discover that, prior to her murder, Claire had abducted 15-year-old Abigail Harding, who was found locked in a hotel room. When pressed on whether Claire had any accomplices, Abigail recounts a nightmare vision from a fairytale – a masked and eyeless child-stealer, the Bag Man. Her family can't shed any light on why Claire targeted Abigail, and insist the Bag Man was just a scary story they used to tell each other...

Piecing together Claire's recent life, the team track down a doctor who had been treating her, and are shocked to discover it is Teresa Harding, the elder sister of the kidnapped Abigail.

Finally, the team get a break. Trish Somers, Claire's mother, attacked a man called Terry Reid in a pub, but came off worst. Terry was ruled out of the initial investigation, but he was a known pimp who ran seaside trips for the young residents of Endsleigh Lodge. Terry admits the care home was a den of iniquity, and that he and the murdered manager, Fenchurch, profited from prostituting the children.

As the focus of the investigation turns to the care home, Spencer suspects its manager, Peter Broading. As he goes out for the night, Teresa Harding returns to her lonely flat. There, utterly terrified, she is stalked by phone calls. A ghoul from childhood nightmares ... or has the Bag Man himself come to get her?

Claire Somers is played by Anna Hope, Robert Fenchurch by Tim Parker, Abigail Harding by Charlotte Hope, Teresa Harding by Georgina Rich, Trish Somers by Mary Jo Randle, Terry Reid by Martin Herdman, DI Spencer Jordan by Wil Johnson and Peter Broading by Philip Wright. Care also stars Trevor Eve as Det Supt Peter Boyd, Sue Johnston as Dr Grace Foley, Tara FitzGerald as Eve Lockhart, Eva Birthistle as Det Supt Sarah Cavendish, Alice Krige as Karen Harding, Steve John Shepherd as Max Harding, Iddo Goldberg as Tom Harding and Nicholas Jones as Leo Harding. Care is written by Richard Warlow.

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MotoGP – Losail

Sunday 20 March

6.30-8.00pm BBC TWO

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Matt Roberts presents live coverage of the opening race of the 2011 MotoGP season, which revs into action in Qatar this weekend. Reigning champion Jorge Lorenzo will be looking to pick up where he left off in 2010, which he ended in fine style in Valencia by winning his ninth race of the season to finish on a record 383 points.

One of his chief rivals will undoubtedly be seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi, who won at the Losail track in 2010 but whose season was wrecked by a broken leg suffered in practice for the Italian MotoGP last June. The charismatic Italian has warned that he may not be at his peak in Qatar as he is still returning to fitness after shoulder surgery, but he will still be the focus of attention – especially as it is his first race ride for Ducati, whom he joined from Yamaha at the end of last season.

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Professor Brian Cox takes on the story of the force that sculpts the entire universe – gravity – in the third episode of his ground-breaking series.

Gravity seems so familiar, and yet it is one of the strangest and most surprising forces in the universe. Starting with a zero gravity flight above the flatlands of Florida, Brian experiences the feeling of total weightlessness and, as he floats around a plane that cancels out the effects of gravity on the body, he considers how much of an effect gravity has had on the shape and geology of the world around us.

Looking upwards, Brian explains how gravity is responsible for Earth's relationship with the moon, and explains why we only ever see one face of our closest neighbour. But gravity also acts over much greater distances. It is the great orchestrator of the cosmos; it dictates our orbit around the sun, our relationship with the other planets in our solar system and even the way in which our solar system orbits our galaxy.

Yet the paradox of gravity is that it is actually a relatively weak force. Brian takes a face-distorting trip in a centrifuge to explain how gravity achieves its great power.

Over the centuries man's quest to understand gravity has revealed explanations for some of the true wonders of the Universe.

At Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, home to the Chacoan civilisation, Brian unveils one of his favourite astronomical stories. Almost 1,000 years ago it's believed that the Chacoan people experienced and recorded one of the most spectacular events in the cosmos – the death of a star. It was an explosion so bright that it was visible in the daytime. Today we can still see the remains of that explosion – a vast, expanding cloud of stellar debris called the Crab Nebula. At its heart is one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the universe – a neutron star. It is just a few kilometres across, but it is so dense that its gravity is 100,000 million times as strong as on Earth. If you jumped onto its surface from just a few metres up, by the time you hit the ground you'd be travelling at more than six million km per hour.

Finally, Brian uses a dramatic waterfall to explain Einstein's most beautiful theory – the theory of general relativity. Just as the water of a river flows at different speeds as it edges closer to the peak of the waterfall, space and time speed up as they approach the epicentre of a black hole. But, like much of science, Einstein's theory of gravity remains incomplete – and Brian reveals that it is scientists' continuing search to explain the mysteries of gravity that inspire his own sense of wonder in the universe.

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Colin Murray presents highlights from today's two Premier League matches, as well as all the goals and talking points from yesterday's eight games. Today's fixtures include Liverpool's visit to the Stadium of Light, where they suffered a controversial 1-0 defeat to Sunderland last season when Darren Bent's winner found the net after deflecting off a beach ball thrown onto the pitch by a Reds fan.

Also in action today were Chelsea, who hosted Manchester City at Stamford Bridge. City have a good recent record against the Blues, winning the last three meetings, with their talisman Carlos Tevez finding the net in all three games. The Argentine scored twice in this fixture last season, when City came from behind to win 4-2 in a lively encounter, which Chelsea ended with nine men after both Juliano Belletti and Michael Ballack were sent off.

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