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Tonight at 10, Bob Diamond, the former Barclays chief, apologises | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
for the interest rate scandal. He tells MPs we found out about it | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
only recently and blames a small group of Rome traders. I got | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
physically ill, it is reprehensible behaviour, and if you are asking me | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
should those actions be dealt with, absolutely. As questions multiply, | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
the debate rages about the best way to investigate banking culture. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
favour a public parliamentary inquiry rather than a judge-led | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
inquiry. I want us to legislate on this starting next year. If he | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
fails to order a judge-led inquiry, people will come to one conclusion, | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
he simply cannot act in the national interest. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
On the eve of a parliamentary vote, we ask what kind of inquiry is now | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
likely. Also tonight: A milestone in science, experts say they have | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
found the fundamental building block of the universe. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Major changes ahead in the provision of children's heart | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
surgery across England. Kingdoms for... Questions of | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
nationhood as the Queen visits Scotland on the Diamond Jubilee | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
And the ace that took Andy Murray through to the Wimbledon semi- | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
finals. And coming up in Sportsday on the | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
BBC News Channel, Footballer of the Year Robin Van Persie tells Arsenal | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
he is not signing a new contract because the club can't match his | :01:30. | :01:40. | |
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Good evening. Bob Diamond, the former chief executive of Barclays, | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
has apologised for the interest rate scandal which led to his | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
resignation. He told MPs that he had only become aware of the | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
misconduct very recently and that he dismissed suggestions that the | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Bank of England had in effect encouraged Barclays to lie about | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
its borrowing costs. Business editor Robert Peston listened to | :02:13. | :02:23. | |
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the exchangers. Passions running high about bankers | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
and banking, this was the banker who has come to symbolise much of | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
what has gone wrong at Britain's giant banks. Bob Diamond, he | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
resigned from Barclays yesterday, explaining and stopped up to a | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
point to MPs today. Is he bitter? Well... I love Barclays. That is | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
where it starts. I love Barclays because of the people. The bank he | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
loves was fined a record �290 million last week for attempting to | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
rid important interest rates, so how did he feel when he learned | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
that traders who work for him were breaking the rules to maximise | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
their bonuses? When I read the e- mails from those traders, I got | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
physically ill. It is reprehensible behaviour. Tanned and mostly | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
relaxed, he was on first-name terms with the MPs. They were not all | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
charmed. Either you were complicit in what was going on, or you were | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
grossly negligent, or you were grossly incompetent! That is the | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
only conclusion. Sorry, I agree that the behaviour was wrong, it | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
did not get above supervisory level for a period of time, it is hard to | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
give another answer. How long ago did you learn about the rate | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
rigging known as low-balling? did you discover this low-balling | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
which is the subject of the FSA notice? This is one of the reasons | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
you have lost your job, Mr Diamond, when did you discover it was going | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
on? Simple question, approx. findings of the investigation, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
other than things I learned as a witness, please, this is important. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
I should be able to answer. That came to the four times before they | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
were published. What month did you discover the low-balling was going | :04:19. | :04:26. | |
on? This month. And what of his controversial note that Paul Tucker, | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
deputy governor of the Bank of England, said it did not always | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
need to be the case that we appeared as high? Was this an | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
instructional a nudge from the Bank of England that Berkeley should | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
break the rules and lie about borrowing costs? -- Barclays. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
not take it as a director, I took it up as their heads up that you | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
are high. At Barclays, Bob Diamond has pocketed at least �120 million | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
since 2005, first for running the investment bank then the whole | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
thing. Now, he says he was not aware of the scale of the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
wrongdoing at the bank until just a few days ago, but some would say | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
since he was on that kind of money, he should have spotted and fixed | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
the banks broken culture much earlier. Mr Diamond was sorry but | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
all the wrongdoing, he did not know what was happening at the time, and | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
most would say, including Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the committee, | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
that he did not really explain how and why it all went wrong. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
Well, the form of the new inquiry into banking culture will be | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
determined by MPs and a vote tomorrow. That debate dominated | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Prime Minister's Questions today as David Cameron made the case for a | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
relatively swift parliamentary inquiry, while Labour demanded a | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
full judge-led inquiry. The debate also involved claims by the | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
government that Labour must bear some of the blame for the problems. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Political editor Nick Robinson explains. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
It is a toxic legacy, the country still living with the consequences, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
and politicians are still fighting over who was to blame for what went | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
wrong in the banks. This is what he told the City of London on the 28th | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
March 2008. As a free-marketeer by conviction, it will not surprise | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
you to hear me say that the problem of the past decade is too much | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
Doesn't it say it all about the double standards of this Prime | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Minister?! Well, first of all, Mr Speaker, I'm not going to get a | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
lecture in getting it from a party that was in office for 13 years | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
when all of these things took place! Believe it or not, these two | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
agree on the need for an inquiry into banking. What they disagree | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
about is what sort of inquiry. truth, the whole truth and nothing | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
but the truth. Labour wants a judge to be in charge, like at the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Leveson Inquiry into the press, where a barrister cross-examine his | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
the likes of Rupert Murdoch. The government wants instead the man in | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
charge at today's hearing to chair a new committee of MPs and peers. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Why is it right to have his judge- led approach to the scandal in the | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
press but wrong for the scandal in the banks? Now what is required is | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
swift inquiry, swift action, swift legislation, and that is what | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
you'll get from this Government. His is a party bankrolled by the | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
banks. Hickey fails to order -- if he fails to order a judge-led | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
inquiry, people will come to one conclusion, he simply cannot act in | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
the national interest. Prime Minister! I have his say, Mr | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
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Speaker, everybody can say what is The party opposite want to talk | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
about absolutely everything apart from their record of 13 years in | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
government. Today the Chancellor made an explosive claim, that | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
ministers in Gordon Brown his government were clearly involved in | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
the efforts to keep LIBOR down. We have not, George Osborne added, yet | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
heard the full facts. His predecessor, Alistair Darling, says | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
he was not involved. Brown's City minister said she only talked about | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
policy and not illegal rate fixing. The Tories' real target, of course, | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
is Ed Balls. I had no conversation about the LIBOR market in those | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
periods, and at no point at any time when I was a minister or | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
adviser were concerns raised about the LIBOR markets to me. Today | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
people queued outside the Commons to hear a banker cross-examined by | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
MPs. Many left early when it turned out to be not much of a show. It | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
was meant to be Bob Diamond in the dock today, but in truth it was | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
also the MPs cross-examining him. The Prime Minister insists that | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
they could do a better job than a judge in a public inquiry. The | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
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question is, after today, how many There is more on the Berkeley story, | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
including a timeline of events on our website. -- Barclays. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
A discovery by scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva is | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
already being ranked alongside those of Newton and Einstein. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Scientists say they have found a particle which is vital to | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
understanding how the physical fabric of the universe is held | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
together. The search for the so- called Higgs boson started in 1964 | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
with a British scientist who was there today to celebrate the news, | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
as science editor David Shukman reports. | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
It is a discovery about the fabric of the universe that will go down | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
as one of the greatest in science. In the giant underground laboratory | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
at CERN near Geneva, researchers have found the key to matter. In | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
this circular tunnel, they have identified a new kind of particle. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
As predicted nearly 50 years ago by a British professor, Peter Higgs. | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
Today he was in Geneva, an emotional moment hearing about the | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
particle known as the Higgs boson. Well, I would like to lap my | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
congratulations to everybody involved in this tremendous | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
achievement. For me, it is really an incredible thing that it has | :10:26. | :10:35. | |
The scientists hunted for the Higgs boson by firing particles through | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
the tunnel and forcing them to collide to reveal their inner | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
workings. Ultimately, this is about a very basic question to understand | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
what the universe is made of, how from empty space we get the planets | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
and us. It involves digging into atoms, deeper and deeper to reveal | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
the incredibly small parts inside them, so tiny it is not clear how | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
they have any kind of substance. That is where the Higgs boson comes | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
in, the particle that acts like glue, giving other particles mass. | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
50 years of the eerie, no way momentous discovery unlocking new | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
areas of research. It is like saying we want to explore that | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
ocean but we do not know where the land is to explore. We have now | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
found the land, we know in which direction to go. We do not know | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
what is there yet, but at least we know where it is. Peter Higgs, | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
known as a quiet man, is suddenly in the limelight. The particle he | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
suggested back in the 1960s recognised as fundamentally | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
important. Stephen Hawking is among those offering praise. This is an | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
important result and should end the day the Nobel Prize. I had a bet | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the next article | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
would not be found. It seems I have just lost $100. The giant machines | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
that did the research cost several billion pounds, and no-one knows | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
what spin-offs there might be, but when the electron and DNA were | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
discovered, it took decades to see them as a potential. The Higgs | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
boson could prove the same. The RAF has confirmed that one end | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
and has died and two others are missing presumed dead after two | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
jets crashed in the Moray Firth. -- Emmen. The accident happened | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
yesterday afternoon and some wreckage has been discovered. A 4th | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
man is in a stable condition in hospital. | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
Children's heart surgery will no longer be performed at hospitals in | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
Leeds and Leicester and at the Royal Brompton in London, the | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
result of a major review meant to create a network of centres of | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
excellence across England. It was set up in response to the death of | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Jill who had had heart surgery in Bristol back in the 1990s. -- the | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
deaths of children. Cheers in Newcastle as parents | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
learn their surgery unit is saved. Hopes of condolence in Leeds as | :12:59. | :13:08. | |
nurses are told that theirs will close. -- oaks. This is why it all | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
matters, 3,500 children have heart surgery each year. The aim is to | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
improve outcomes by creating bigger units, sharing expertise. Ayesha | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
has already had four heart operations at Liverpool's Alder Hey | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
hospital, which will continue to operate. Her family lives 60 miles | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
away, but that does not bother them. Travelling is absolutely not an | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
issue at all. Even if we had to go to Bristol, wherever we needed to | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
go, it would not be an issue providing we get the best care. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
is more than a decade since the Bristol heart surgery scandal when | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
many babies died needlessly. The inquiry chairman says that today's | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
changes are long overdue. What we have got to do is replace | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
mediocrity with excellence, and when this reconfiguration goes | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
through, we can be confident that we are bedding in excellence in the | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
centres that are chosen. proposals will mean more surgeons | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
per unit, each will now have four. Each centre will do more surgery, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
500 operations a year. Successive reviews say this will raise | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
standards, surgical and medical bodies agree. At present there are | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
10 hospitals across England which do children's heart surgery, also | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
covering patients in Wales. In future, Leeds, less than the Royal | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
Brompton in London will no longer do surgery. -- Leicester and the | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
Royal Brompton. Leeds will continue to provide day-to-day care for | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
patients as specialist cardiology centres, but parents there do not | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
want to travel to Newcastle for surgery. I am angry that the case | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
that we presented has still not been looked at properly. We | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
presented such solid arguments about the location, where Leeds is, | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
and the stuff that most annoys me is that they have disregarded the | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
evidence on travel. The surgery proposals may face a legal | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
challenge from London's Royal Brompton, which will also lose its | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
children's intensive care unit. It warns this would destroy its | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
renowned service for cystic fibrosis and asthma. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
D BBC has appointed a new director- general. George Entwistle will take | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
over from Mark Thompson in September. The chairman of the BBC | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Trust, Lord Patten, has challenged in to make the corporation 20% | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
better than it is. Nick Higham has the details. BBC director general | :15:45. | :15:52. | |
to not make programmes, but as its new boss the BBC has opted for a | :15:52. | :16:01. | |
man steeped in the business of The new director-general with the | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
chairman of the BBC thrust was outside the BBC's brand new | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
Broadcasting House. He takes over in September. I'm pleased that the | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
chairman and the trustees think I'm the right person for the job. It's | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
a privilege to be asked to lead the greatest broadcasting in the world. | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
And a privilege to continue to serve. The BBC's chairman told me | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
the new man's skills go beyond programme-making. It seemed to us | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
George are the creative profile and had a grafrpl of the changes that | :16:46. | :16:53. | |
need to be made. He joined in 1989 as a trainee and worked as a | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
producer on Panorama before becoming editor of Newsnight and | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
launching The Culture Show. He was responsible for scores of | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
documentaries and series. Over a year ago he was given overall | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
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charge of television. He signed off on the river pageant. He would not | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
have applied for the job if he had not have thought he could do it. | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
Everybody knows this is the hardest job in world broadcasting and the | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
most rewarding. He will have to renegotiate the BBC's Royal charter | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
which runs out at the end of 2016. He will have to run an organisation | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
whose income is largely fixed and he will have to deal with the new | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
digital technologies which is radically changing the way the | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
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public consumes the series. He will be paid �4350,000 with no bonus -- | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
450,000. Coming up tributes to the comic actor and wire Eric Sykes who | :18:12. | :18:21. | |
has died at the iing of 89. The Queen's diamond Jubilee tour | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
reached Glasgow today where more than 1,000 people attended a thank | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
giving service at the cathedral. Alex Salmond said if Scotland | :18:31. | :18:39. | |
eventually gained npdz the Queen would remain head of state. It was | :18:39. | :18:47. | |
Scotland's tribute to their monarch to someone who has fulfilled her | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
commitment to Scotland as part of her role was Queen of the United | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
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she first came to Scotland in the early 1950's, the crowds were huge. | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
Then and for years afterwards the idea that Scotland would no longer | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
wpbtd to be part of the United Kingdom seemed far fetched. In this | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
year's diamond Jubilee is a change. Alex Salmond wants Scotland to vote | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
for npdz in two years' time. What would be the position of the Queen? | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
She would continue as a constitutional monarchy and Her | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Majesty would continue as Elizabeth Queen of Scots. Didn't Mr Salmond | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
feel it would be a distress for the Queen? Not in the slightest, the | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
Queen is too wise to be engaged in the political process. The Queen | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
would never interfere in the constitutional process. As to his | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
claim the Queen would not be bothered by the break-up of the | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
United Kingdom that would seen less certain. This was the Queen at the | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
time of her silver Jubilee in a speech written at Buckingham Palace. | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
I can't forget I was crowned even of the United Kingdom of Great | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
Britain and Northern Ireland. Queen, of course, will accept | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
whatever Scotland decides in the referendum in two years' time and | :20:26. | :20:35. | |
as always she will keep her personal thoughts to herself. | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
Americans are celebrating npdz day amid growing concern of the state | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
of the US economy. The International Monetary Fund risks | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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that the economy is at risk. Our reporter reports from stack ton in | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
California, the biggest city N to declare itself bankrupt -- Stock it | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
is ton. At a California racetrack, a celebration of America's strong | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
sense of self-. These days there's an unease edge to the pride and | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
patriotism. Some generally worry about the country's place in the | :21:26. | :21:34. | |
world. I think it's going in the toilet. Why? Economy is shot and | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
government sucks. People don't cherish what they have here. They | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
don't cherish it. Some fret that America is dropping behind as other | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
countries show more energy and ambition. One underlying worry that | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
America is broke and deep in debt is particularly heart-felt here. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Stockton the largest city in the United States to declare itself | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
bankrupt. Politicians here in this river port had California sized | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
braeplgs that turned into a nightmare. Ideas like this turned | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
them into the red. The impact has been dramatic. Police numbers and | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
the pay of officers have been cut. The murder rate has spiralled. 34 | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
killings so far this year. It's a picture repeated all over America | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
as spending has slashed. I lived here until 7th grade. A really, | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
really normal decent middle class neighbourhood. Now it's a park for | :22:46. | :22:52. | |
drug dealing and gang problems and drugs shooting. Less visible is the | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
long-term decline of income in America. For many, the prospect of | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
prosperity has evaporated. This time, some argue is different. This | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
time decline will lead to eventually fall. Life has always | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
been hard for some. The funnelled - - fundamental belief that anyone | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
can make it in America might not now be true. The American dream no | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
longer exists. The American model the country that offers equality of | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
opportunity, a country of class mobility that soft power that you | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
would associate with America, the universal attractiveness that's in | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
head-long decline. I find optimism in an unlikely place. The Mayor of | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
Stockton thinks her city and her country will find a way out. | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
think we have a good future. I think we're still figuring out how | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
we play that future. What role we have and how we resume our | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
prominence and innovation in manufacturing and a lot of those | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
industries. It's a matter of evaluating who we want to be when | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
we grow up, truly. There's no doubt America has taken a bit of a | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
battering recently. Others are catching up. But that may spur this | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
competitive country to look for ways to stay out in front. Nool | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
tributes are being paid to Eric Sykes the actor and comedian who | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
has died at the age of 89. He is best known for a long-running | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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comedy with haty. Eric and haty, the allegedly identical twins. The | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
show was a popular show for 20 years. Ever week a disaster. Here, | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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rogue handcuffs. But it won a life- time achievement award fen -- ten | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
years before this. When Peter Seller appeared on the show it was | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
a reminder of ten years earlier. had the privilege of working with | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Eric, caught in the net, at the Lyric Theatre. The man was a genius. | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
The son of a mill worker had a love of silent comedy and slapstick. | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
This, the plank won awards. Through it all he was gradually losing his | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
hearing and his sight. He continued to work. Everything from | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
Shakespeare to Harry Potter. Eric was a lovely man. An amazing man. A | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
man full of generosity and affection. All Eric's humour was | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
gentle. It says for the -- says for the swimmer to become acclimatised | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
he has to wear this every day. Comedy, he said wasn't work. Few | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
worked harder at it. Eric Sykes more than 60 years of making people | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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laugh. Rangers will not be able to play in | :26:41. | :26:51. | |
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the Premier League -- it has been barred by rival teams. It's not | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
clear which division tele-- they'll be playing in. It took three tie | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
breaks, but Andy Murray has made it through to the semifinals, beating | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
David Ferrer. Now, facing Andy Murray, David Ferrer, a man they | :27:17. | :27:25. | |
call apparently as a compliment Little Beast. He was certainly | :27:25. | :27:35. | |
irrepressible. Dogged, leading to a break. Murray unleashed himself, | :27:35. | :27:44. | |
breaking back. After an hour, a tie-break and it was Murray muzzled. | :27:44. | :27:52. | |
His overreliance on the drop-shot making the most kproz composed face | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
wince. First set to Ferrer. The second set and Murray had to pound | :27:58. | :28:06. | |
and pound all the way to a tie- break. It was tennis that made you | :28:07. | :28:15. | |
hold your breath, not dare speak... After almost two-and-a-half hours | :28:15. | :28:23. | |
it was one set all. The second set went with serve until Murray | :28:23. | :28:29. | |
remembered when he was meant to be best at, returning. The fourth set | :28:29. | :28:35. | |
swung back and -- and forth to another tie-break. And now Murray's | :28:35. | :28:45. | |
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time to show the Little Beast who was the alpha male. Next point, | :28:49. | :28:57. |