tim willcox reporting.nder state control this morning. the east coast line was returned to public ownership after the government ended the stagecoach and virgin franchise. it will now be known as the london north eastern railway, a name last used in the 1940s. the department for transport will run the service until at least 2020. our business correspondent, joe lynam, is with me. as we are hearing, a throwback to many decades, the lner. just give us the background of why we have got to this stage. we have privatised ra i lwa ys this stage. we have privatised railways but you wouldn't know it on the east coast line today. virgin and stagecoach had a consortium and they handed back their franchise because they simply could not make it pay. stagecoach, the majority owner of this service, claimed they had lost £200 million running the service, so they literally handed it back to the government. the government had been promised more than £3 billion until 2023 by these companies, but the companies said, listen, w

tim willcox reporting. 0n the stroke of midnight local time saudi arabia became the last country in thefting of the ban is being hailed as an important step towards modernisation by crown prince mohamed bin salman. but there's been criticism that some of the women who campaigned for the change are in prison on charges of treason. donna larsen reports. just after midnight in riyadh, and a piece of history is about to be made. a perfectly normal act in every other country in the world but, until now, not in saudi arabia. ujdeen al—ateek takes the wheel of the family car and drives into the street. all i can think about, i can still do my own stuff. i don't have to ask for anyone to take me around. that's very important. for us to drive... 0k, maybe a lot of us don't need to drive but, for me, i used to drive, i used to do my own stuff. so i'm not used to someone to drive me around. wow! i'm so excited, i'm so happy. honestly, i can't express my feelings. i haven't been sleeping for two days just thinking about this moment. and today we're actually on the roads, driving. people are waving,