THE Spice Girls helped launch Britain's new Channel 5 yesterday Britain's charttopping feisty five attracted hundreds of spectators to London's Marble Arch for the video screening of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: The Power of Five the station's theme tune.
The song, based on Manfred Mann's hit tune, contained the, lyrics "guaranteed to be a sensation". The video introduced Channel 5 at 6 p.m. last night.
About 40 per cent of viewers - mainly on the south coast of England but also in pockets in the south west, East Anglia Wales and Scotland - will either see fuzzy screens or get bad reception.
Channel 5 believes about 80 per cent of Britain will be able to tune in by the and of next year.
The Archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Frederic Etsohou, appealed yesterday for government forces and rebels to end the fighting in eastern Zaire.
In an Easter Day meeting with journalists, the cardinal said his greatest wish was for an end to the war because people were suffering so much.
His appeal came against a background of reports that rebels, led by Laurent Desire Kabiln, who control much of eastern Zaire are grabbing more territory in the mineral rich Shaba region of the south ahead of peace talks.
The Spanish Foreign Minister Abel Matutes was recovering yesterday after suffering a mild heart attack in the holiday island of Ibiza. Doctors said his condition was stable, and the prognosis favourable.
He was admitted to hospital with chest pains on Saturday and suffered a "small magnitude" heart attack while in intensive care.