Crimewatch

Among tonight's appeals is the mysterious disappearance of a man from Newcastle upon Tyne. Michael Straughan was last seen outside a pub on the evening of 19 June. The following morning his car was found, but there has been no trace of him since. Also, an appeal for help in identifying three armed men who robbed a bank in Bolton on 23 October.

Tonight: a reconstruction of an attack on a woman in Ludlow, Shropshire. Following midnight mass on Christmas Eve, churchwarden Muriel was raped in the grounds of Dinham House, close to Ludlow Castle, as she walked home. Plus an appeal to find a gang of robbers who fired at security guards in Doncaster.

Tonight: the murder of Arthur Brumhill, a 76-year-old pet shop worker, in Northampton. Also, an armed robbery on a sub-post office near Reading.

Tonight: an attack by an armed gang on a couple in Cowdenbeath, Fife, one night last December. Among the clues that the police hope will jog someone's memory are the northern English accents of the robbers and the white transit van and red Ford Escort they used.

Crimewatch UK also reconstructs the murder of Doris Shelley two months ago. She lived alone in a 17th-century mill house in Suffolk and a man had been seen on two occasions hiding in her garden.

Tonight: the raid by two armed men on the Poole Unigate dairy in Dorset, on Grand National day, Saturday 3 April. They made their getaway with the dairy's takings in a stolen Sierra Cosworth, injuring two police officers who tried to intercept them. Crimewatch UK appeals for anyone who can put a name to the videofit face of one of the thieves, and asks for help in finding out where the stolen black Sierra Cosworth was stored in the weeks prior to the raid and who supplied its false number plates.

Tonight: the murder of 42-year-old Londoner Bulic Forsythe who was last seen leaving his office at Lambeth Council on the evening of Wednesday 24 February. The next day he failed to turn up for work. Then in the early hours of Friday, witnesses heard shouts and footsteps running away from the block where he lived. Soon after, fire was discovered spreading through his flat and his battered body was found in the bedroom. Crimewatch UK has artists' impressions of two men seen with him.

Back after a summer break, the first programme reports on a 67-year-old woman and her 64-year-old husband who were found dead at their farmhouse home near Llanharry, Mid-Glamorgan in July. Both had been killed by a single shot to the head. Crimewatch reconstructs the couple's last day and asks what could be the possible motive for the murder of this quiet couple.

Also this month, a young woman gives her account of the rape which nearly led to her death. She was attacked by a man as she walked home from a riding stables on a July afternoon in Darlington, County Durham. Police are linking the attack with another incident in which a woman reported being spied on as she changed after a game of squash. And there's a security video from a raid on a Halifax jewellers, where the armed robbers got away on a 1,000cc motorbike.

On 30 July, the body of a man in his late 30s was found on a waste tip in Surrey. He had been stabbed three times. His clothes, wallet and rings had been removed but his tattoos helped police identify him. He was 37-year-old George Leitch from south London, who had been reported missing by his family four weeks earlier. Tonight's programme reconstructs the events surrounding his disappearance and murder in the hope that new information will emerge.

Police also need to catch a rapist who attacked and robbed a woman in London on 16 August; and they are also seeking the gang leader in an armed robbery at a Hull factory in late July.

Just before 6am on 27 September an anonymous call was made to the emergency services. It led police to the Park Tavern in Brentford, west London. There they found the body of publican Trevor Thomas, asphyxiated. Burglars had bound and gagged him and then robbed the pub of the week's takings. But someone saw that 999 call being made. It was recorded and Crimewatch UK will be playing the tape, asking whether anybody can recognise the voice and the description of the caller.

Tonight there's also a detailed look at the Metropolitan Police's investigation into the rape of a woman in April this year. Detectives are convinced it is linked to an unsolved case from 1991, and reveal for the first time tonight a psychological profile of the attacker.

Why would anyone want to kill family man John Reynolds? He lived in Rushden, Northamptonshire, and was gunned down early in the morning on Monday 18 October as he walked his dog in a quiet country lane. His death is still a mystery, but perhaps you hold the vital clue to his killing. Police urgently need to trace the motorcyclist seen at the scene moments after the murder. Maybe you've seen the distinctive motorcycle before, or can recognise the man who rode it?

In Shropshire, two security guards were attacked and subjected to a terrifying ordeal as they tried to make a delivery on 21 September. Police need your help to identify four men they believe were involved in the raid. Locals recall seeing strangers in the town about a month before the attack, and Crimewatch has impressions of their faces and descriptions of their getaway cars in the hope you might remember something.