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US bank Goldman Sachs has reported an extremely strong quarterly profit, with net earnings of $3.46bn (£2.25bn) for the three months to March, up from $1.8bn a year ago.

However, the announcement comes amid news that UK financial regulators have decided to follow their US counterparts in pursuing civil fraud allegations against the company - forcing the issue of investment banking's business model into the UK electoral limelight.

Tonight, Paul Mason looks at what has changed in the banking system since boom and bust left the state picking up the pieces.

And, in a live interview, Jeremy Paxman will be asking Chancellor Alistair Darling whether his party, which was at the helm during the crash, can really be trusted to change the banks.

Plus, as hopes that most UK flights could soon return to the air are dashed by more volcanic ash drifting south from Iceland, Susan Watts examines the science behind the decisions being made and whether the air authorities from another region would have made a different choice.

We will also have the latest on how the plan to use Spain as an extraction point for stranded Britons is faring.

Also tonight, Michael Crick is in Dundee, and we have a live interview with Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond who, when launching his party's manifesto today put the case for a hung parliament and called for Scottish electors to vote SNP and achieve a "balanced parliament".

And we have the next instalment of Motorway Man, which this week sees Margaret Beckett arriving in her caravan and Stephen Smith weighing up the election odds with racing pundit John McCririck.

Join Jeremy at 10.30pm on BBC Two.