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three American women who survived a decade in cat vividly. -- captivity.

These were called to a house in Ohio after one of the women managed to

a former school bus driver. Police praised the women's bravery. These

three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of

survival and perseverance. Officers also said there were many unanswered

questions. We will have the latest. Also, David Cameron says he welcomes

a debate on Britain's future in the EU, as more senior Conservatives

demand the UK's X it. For the first time in 40 years the

Queen is to miss a Commonwealth summit as officials review long-haul

travel commitments. The Pakistani politician Imran Khan is injured in

a fall at an election rally. And, 70 years after thousands of Bevin boys

were sent down the mines, a fitting memorial is unveiled.

Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, Bradley Wiggins

finishes down the field in the fourth stage and is dropped down the

Good evening. Police in Ohio have praised the perseverance and bravery

of three women found alive after vanishing nearly a decade ago. They

have apparently been held captive at a house in Cleveland. A former

school bus driver and his two brothers have been arrested, but

lycee there are many unanswered questions. -- police say there are

many unanswered questions. Jubilation last night as word spread

of something miraculous. Three women, long presumed to be dead,

rescued and apparently well. The disappearance of Amanda Berry and

Gina DeJesus just a year apart, ties to the neighbourhood where they both

lived. Stunning, then, to hear Amanda's voice a decade later,

nuts at the door. I said, what is your problem? If you are stuck, open

the door. She said, I can't comment he's got it locked. You could only

reach your hand in to grab the mail and close the door. You couldn't pry

it open, so we had to kick open the bottom. Luckily, it was aluminium.

It was cheap. She came to my house and we called 911. When the police

got here, she dared there were three girls there. They were being held on

Seymour Avenue, not far from the centre of Cleveland, the city where

all three lived and disappeared. Michele Knight vanished into

thousand two at the age of 19. Amanda Berry went missing the

following year on her way home from work. She was 16. The youngest, Gina

DeJesus, was 40 when she disappeared. She was coming home

from school. The police have arrested a school bus driver, Ariel

Castro, and two of his brothers, accused of kidnapping and holding

the women against their will. For the authorities, who pursued

numerous leads over the years, there is a lot to understand. We and our

law enforcement partners continue to work shoulder to shoulder with the

claimant list apartment to answer the many questions that

investigators have. Rest assured, the FBI will bring every resource to

assist our partners and bring the full weight of justice behind those

responsible for this horrific, horrific case. Outside the house on

Seymour Street, a mostly Hispanic community is stunned, wondering how

they managed to miss the horror behind these shabby walls. It looked

suspicious because you could not see through the windows. It was like

plastic, boarding or something like that. The door, you couldn't see, it

looked like plastic wrapped around the door. It didn't look right. But

none of us ever thought something I that was going on in there. There

was more, tantalising glimpses of a small child. When I found out there

was a little girl up there, I questioned it and they said he

shouldn't have a little girl because he doesn't have anybody. So how

would there be a five-year-old in that house? You saw a small child?

They had a window, you would open it when he came back from his school

bus run. He's a school bus driver. He would open the window and let the

little girl look out the window. seems the child was born in the

house, the daughter of Amanda Berry. This photograph of the two of them

was taken in hospital last night. Mother and daughter are both said to

be in good health. Well, let's go straight to

Cleveland. I was hoping to talk to Laura. Tell us about these and

answered questions we heard about from the police. What are they and

what kind of concerns do they have about the narrative so far?

basic concern I am hearing from neighbours on Seymour Avenue is how

was it that these women were, apparently, hiding in plain sight.

They were here somewhere in this neighbourhood for over a decade. The

police are coming in for some very tough questions. There is no doubt

that the police were on the defensive because they did actually

interview Ariel Castro. That is his house behind me that you can see,

now an active crime scene. They interviewed him in 2004. He was a

school bus driver and a child was left alone in his school bus in an

unaccountable manner. He was someone that have come to attention to

police. People want to know how these women, all three of them,

could have been abducted? Why did it happen? Are these three brothers,

who have been arrested but not yet charged, our day behind it? These

are the questions that this shocked community is acting tonight. --

David Cameron says he welcomes the attention being paid to Britain's

future relationships with the European Union, following remarks by

the former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lawson, who said that the UK

should leave. The Prime Minister has pledged to renegotiate membership

terms and has offered a referendum, if he wins the next election, on

staying in a reformed queue or leaving.

-- EU. David Cameron once warned his party to stop obsessing about

Europe. But today's call for Britain to leave the EU, made by a former

Tory heavyweight, has made that a forlorn hope. Today, Britain is a

winner. Nigel Lawson was Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor in the 1980s,

the most prominent conservative to call for Britain to quit. And here

is why. The attempt to overregulate and cut down to size the financial

services sector, which is extremely damaging to one of our biggest

industries. The economic minus is a very big one. Awkward for the Prime

Minister, you might think. But today he insisted that this was not a good

day for UKIP, the only anti-minus party. -- anti-EU party. If elected

I will hold an in-out referendum, so that everybody can have not just a

voice about Britain's future in Europe, but also a vote about

Britain's future in Europe. I welcome the attention that is being

placed on this key pledge that I have made. Last week, Nigel Farage

celebrated the break to his party made in local elections. Today, she

welcomed a convert to his view of the EU. The world feels a less

lonely place for me today. I think someone of his magnitude saying,

look, this thing is gone, the economic argument is we are better

off out of it, and anyway the renegotiation is bound to fail, is a

huge boost to the Euro-sceptic cause in the UK. Where Lord Lawson lead,

other Euro-sceptics in the Tories followed, saying that they also

wanted out of Europe. Tomorrow, the Queen will make their way to

Parliament to read out the Queens speech. The list of proposed new

laws that the government has provided to her. Many Conservative

MPs would love one law in particular to be on that list, a law bringing

about a referendum on Britain EU membership. But it is not going to

be there. The power minister has told his MPs in a letter that

coalition partners would stop any such move. My advice to the

Conservative party, as much as they might listen, is to not run after

UKIP. It will only strengthen their hand. What I will make sure is that

the government remains anchored in the centre ground. Like Harold

Wilson, Prime Minister the last time Britain had a referendum, David

Cameron's promised to renegotiate Britain's's relationship first.

Nigel Lawson told me it would be as pointless in future as it was then.

He hyped up what he had done, but he was so piffling that nobody can

remember what it was. It is just a figleaf, I'm afraid. What was once

unsayable by any senior Conservative has been said. That means the

pressure on David Cameron is mounting.

For the first time since the early 1970s, the Queen is to Miss a

meeting of the Commonwealth summit. It is due to be held in Sri Lanka in

December, a choice criticised by some human rights campaigners. The

Prince of Wales will attend instead. Buckingham Palace said it was

reviewing the amount of long-haul travel the Queen was undertaking.

It is a meeting of leaders who, between them, represent nearly a

third of the worlds population. For the past 40 years, every one of the

Commonwealth summit has been opened by the Queen. She is head of the

Commonwealth and is sensitive to the Commonwealth's political currents.

When it was announced two years ago after meeting in Perth, Australia,

that the next summit would be in Sri Lanka, the Queen will have known it

was a controversial choice. The Sri Lanka authorities have been accused

of serious violations of human rights, particularly during the long

civil war. Human rights campaigners have condemned the government of the

Sri Lankan president. It was a wrong decision to go to Sri Lanka. Sending

the Queen, who was scheduled to go, gives a royal seal of approval to

the host country. You can imagine the president, a number of

pro-Minister's have told me how, at the last conference, ADL bowed them

out of the way so that he could be pictured with the Queen. -- he

elbowed them. Buckingham Palace insists is that the non-attendances

because they are reviewing the long haul travel of the now 87-year-old

Moloch. Others who follow Commonwealth politics closely say

that the Queen is sending a subtle, but deliberate message. I think she

is a very canny operator in Commonwealth politics. She knows the

leaders, she often new their fathers and grandfathers. She knows how to

send a subtle message. Not going in person, I think, will send that

message. For their part, the Sri Lankans accept that the Queen's

absence is due to age, rather than politics. From our perspective we

would have loved to have have Her Majesty there. But we fully respect

and fully understand, we are enormously sensitive to, the fact

that Her Majesty is 87 years old. The Prince of Wales will attend the

summit in place of the Queen. It's an important step for him,

deputising for his mother. Roof, officials say, that no snow but is

intended. -- snowed. Unusually, this is one Commonwealth meeting that

will take place without the Queen. In confirming that, the Palace has,

for the first time, acknowledged that her age is having an impact on

murdering Tia sharp, the 12-year-old girl whose body was found last

summer. The prosecution told the jury at the Old Bailey that Stuart

Hazel had been sexually attracted to the schoolgirl. He denies murder.

Arriving at court, the relatives of Tia sharp, including her step-father

and her mother, Natalie Sharp. She was later to leave the courtroom

several times in tears, because of the harrowing nature of the

evidence. They were hear for -- here for the trial of Stuart Hazel,

accused of murdering her and hiding her body in the loft of a house he

shared with her grandmother. Last August, the police and the community

spent a week searching for her. Stuart Hazel was the last person to

see her alive. The court was shown a TV interview he gave in the house, a

day before police found her body there. I know deep down in my heart

that Tia walked out my house. She walked out there and I know damn

well because she was seen walking down the pathway. I know she made

her way. What happened, I don't know after that. The prosecution told the

jury that Stuart Hazel had a sexual attraction for Tia sharp, that there

was some form of sexual assault, something of that kind and that was

the reason he killed her. The jury was warned it would see and hear

distressing evidence. It was told that images of child abuse had been

found on Stuart Hazel's phone, as had videos of Tia sharp, which the

prosecution alleges Stuart Hazel had secretly recorded without her

knowledge. Finally, the court was shown a violent and graphic image,

which the prosecution says was Tia sharp after she was murdered. Tia's

family will return tomorrow to hear evidence. Stuart Hazel denies

murder. Jimmy Tarbuck has been arrested over an allegation of child

sex abuse dating back to the 1970s. He was released on bail pending

further enquiries, as June Kelly now reports. He's one of the most

enduring names in light encontaiment in this country and here with Jimmy

Tarbuck, some of his contempories, who were also part of the showbiz

establishment. In 1994, the Queen appointed him an OBE, partly for his

charity work. Now, it's been confirmed that he was arrested more

than a week ago. In a statement, there's been no sign today. The

police didn't name him, nor did they announce his arrest. All adding to

the debate over publicity and whether suspects should be

identified. By putting a name out there, whoever it might be, whether

it's a celebrity or a non--celebrity, sometimes that gives

victims an opportunity to come forward and have they suffered at

the hands of the alleged abuser? got his big bake when he was in his

20s. Good evening. My name's Jimmy Tarbuck. I ought to tell you this,

because I'm the only one on here tonight you've never heard of.

came out of Liverpool with the Beatles. The start of a career which

has lasted 50 years. He p hasn't been charged with any offence. He's

on bail as the police investigation continues.

Somalia is making real progress in trying to end more than two decades

of conflict, according to David Cameron. He was hosting a conference

in London today, with the Somali President, to help rebuild the east

African state. Somalia hasn't had a functioning Government since war

broke out in 1991 and although Government forces have taken back

the capital, Mogadishu, the group, Al-Shabab control significant areas

of the country. David Cameron has alleged nearly �80 million in aid

for the country for the next two years. Much of it still looks like a

war zone, but Mogadishu is changing fast these days. Relative peace has

prompted a building boom. After years of anarchy, a new Somali

Government is in place here too, promising to restore order in this

famously failed state. Today, that new government came to London,

hoping to convince foreign donors that it has a cred crible plan to

fix Somalia and that the huge sums of money required won't be stolen.

If we act now to receive the support from the international community,

the Government will definitely deliver the expectations of thesome

Mali people and the international community. Britain seems convinced.

David Cameron arguing that without help, Somalia will remain a

dangerous breeding ground for militants. Radicalism is poisoning

minds and breeding terrorism and extremism. This is a threat to our

security and if we ignore it we'll be making the sill mistakes in

Somalia that we made in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Al-Shabab has been

pushed out. Foreign military support has been crucial. Off the coast,

piracy is also becoming less of a menace, with armed guards now on

many ships and there have been no successful attacks reported this

year. Britain promised more help today. And so, at a cafe this

afternoon, we found plenty of optimism. It's getting better. It's

getting a little bit better. I know the generosity of the British people

and the leadership of the British people and the whole of the

international community. We are very much positive and I do believe that

it will be the beginning of a new era for Somalia. There is a lot that

can still go wrong here in Somalia. Full storms are something of a local

speciality, but a credible government backed by sustained,

massive international support just might keep the ruined nation on

right track. The jury in the trial of Mark

Bridger, who denies kidnapping and murdering April Jones last October,

has heard from a friend she was playing with, just before she went

missing. We have this report. On the day she disappeared, April Jones had

been to school, been to swim and moments before she went missing, was

playing on her bike. Only one person was with her to see what happened

next. Comforted by her teddy, April's seven-year-old friend gave

her evidence via a videolink. She can't be identified for legal

reasons. In her police interview the accidently ran over April and that

he had to pick her up from under its wheels. He listened to court as the

seven-year-old was asked if she was certain of what she had seen, hadn't

April been lying on the ground. She was sure, she replied, April was

standing up and talking to the man. The jury then heard from the girl's

mother, who described how April's mother had dropped to her knees when

she learnt of her daughter's disappearance. She said she was in a

complete state of panic and gasping for air. The search that followed

became the largest in UK police history. Officers found blood

matching April's DNA in his home and fragments of skull in the fire

place. He denies the charges of abduction, murder and perverting the

course of justice. The trial will continue in the morning. Imran Khan,

one of Pakistan's most prominent politicians is recovering in

hospital after being injured at a rally. He suffered a head injuriy,

after falling from a -- injury after falling from a platform. He makes

his ascent and he balances on an overcrowded platform, ringed by

security guards. Then this - he tumbles head-face in full view of

shocked supporters. The cricketing hero was crushed away, bleeding from

the head. And apparently unconscious. He was taken to the

hospital he founded. Doctors say he's in no danger. From his hospital

bed, he appealed directly to the voters, sounding weak and looking

exhausted. On election day, he said, remember what the Koran says - God

helps those who help themselves. Go out and vote for change. Khan's main

rival has sent his sympathies and his prayers for a speedy recovery.

The front-runner to be Pakistan's next Prime Minister has cancelled

his election rallies tomorrow. But this was another day of bloodshed in

an increasingly deadly campaign. Bomb attacks in the north-west

claimed 17 more lives. Tonight, many here are gripped by concern about

Imran Khan's condition. He's a national hero, as well as a key

candidate in the election. Doctors say he's in good spirits and can

move all his limbs. They are keeping him for observation, but they want

him to rest. Aids -- aides say he won't want to do that for long.

Years after the Bevin boys were sent down the mines, a memorial has been

dedicated to them. Thousands of young men were concrypted to work in

the mines. The new Mel -- concrypted to work in the mines. They gathered

today as old men, but with clear memories of when they were Bevin

boys, named after the minister of labour. Like the rest of the

generation, they were ordered to serve. Their duty was to bring

little glory or recognition. Young men are drafted into the mines.

1943, 10% of those called up, some 48,000 young men, were ordered to

serve not in uniform, but in the coal mines. The rashal was simple -

without coal there could be no war production and without guns or

fighter planes, there could be no victory. Today then, finally, the

unveiling of a memorial. For Harry Parks a triumphant moment. He's been

a leading voice calling for his fellow Bevin boys to be recognised

for their service. Today he felt the embrace of a grateful nation.

Countess of Wessex is doing us the great honour to dedicate the

memorial I designed. She will give us back our dignity, that says we

served our country and that's what has been lacking. It was all smiles

for the war-time newsreels. In truth, it was desperately hard,

dirty work. Dangerous too, with an estimated 700 deaths in the first

year alone. Essential zuTy, but a thankless task. -- duty, but a

thankless task. Being called cowards was very hard to take, because we

weren't. It wasn't our fault. We had a hard hat and a pair of

steel-toe-capped boots. Today has been about the restoration of pride

and many former Bevin boys take quiet satisfaction that their