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Delaying the deal on Britain's first new nuclear power plant in decades - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the French energy firm building it was given no warning | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
The ?18 billion Hinkley Point scheme has been dogged by controversy - | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
some think the current plan is now in jeopardy. | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
I think effectively, what it means is that the deal | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
in its current form is dead in the water. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
We'll be examining the Government's decision and what this could mean | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Also tonight: Police in Scotland charge 77 people over online sex | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
abuse of children after finding more than 30 million images. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
I accept your nomination for president of the United States! | :00:43. | :00:49. | |
Hillary Clinton says the US faces a "moment of reckoning" | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Two British men are jailed for trying to smuggle 18 migrants | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
into the country in an inflatable boat which nearly sank. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
And England's World Cup victory 50 years ago - | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News, | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
Henrik Stenson is the early clubhouse leader at the US PGA, | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
continuing his Open winning form in Baltusrol. | :01:21. | :01:44. | |
The French energy firm EDF says it was made aware only yesterday | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
of the Government's plan to delay a final decision on Britain's first | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
The deal for an ?18 billion scheme at Hinkley in Somerset was meant | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
to be signed today after EDF, which is financing | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
most of the project, approved it yesterday. | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
The Government's announcement has been described as "bewildering | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
Our Business Editor Simon Jack reports. | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
Just when you think you've got there, | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
After EDF's board voted to give this project the green light, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
This tent should have been thronging with officials | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
celebrating the start of construction in earnest, | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
with the on-site workforce growing from hundreds to thousands. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
But the Government said, "Not so fast." | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Deeply disappointed, and I've spoken to many people | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
who are really angry, people who have spent years | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
working to get us to the position that we've got to. | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
There was real celebrations yesterday when EDF's board made | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
and this very much felt like a slap in the face from the UK Government. | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
Option one, pause - think, read the small print | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
Option two, renegotiate - try to save money by offering EDF | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
a lower price for the energy from Hinkley, but this might | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
further delay or risk the project collapsing, | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
Option three, cancel - walk away, save ?18 billion, | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
saying, after a decade of effort from two previous governments, | :03:18. | :03:19. | |
But then where would the electricity everyone agrees we need | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
The Government says it wants to take its time | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
After all, this is a 50-year commitment we're talking about. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
It'll lock us in a contract that could cost consumers ?30 billion | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
That all seems fair enough, but they didn't tell the very people | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
building it until the last moment, and that seems a strange way | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
to treat important trading partners like China, like France, | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
at the very time you're trying to tell the world | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
Remember, EDF is 85% owned by the French state. | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
If one of the governments, one of the sides cancels the deal, | :03:55. | :04:03. | |
it's going to be very bitter on the other side, and, yeah, | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
it could contribute to a souring of the relationships | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
especially in the context of the Brexit. | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
China agreed to put in a third of the money, | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
a result in part of a George Osborne charm offensive, | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
but changing partners or price will be very difficult. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
I think, effectively, what it means | :04:27. | :04:27. | |
is that the deal in its current form is dead in the water. | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
I think the only reason for a review can be one of two factors. | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
First, that the Government don't like the price that is being asked. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Second, that they don't like the involvement of the Chinese | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
I think it's going to be very difficult | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Once again, the decision on this mammoth project | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
this time for the Government to decide the way forward. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Hinkley Point was due to start generating power in 2025. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
But with the project on pause for now, many are asking | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
about the Government's options for making sure the lights stay on. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Here's our Science Editor David Shukman - David, | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
You're right, it is complicated, and the context for this | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
long-running saga is that over the past decade, one government | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
after another has tried to balance three very different aims - | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
keeping the lights on as older power stations are phased out, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
keeping energy bills as low as possible for consumers, | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
and cutting our carbon emissions to help tackle climate change. | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
So Hinkley, which would produce 7% of UK needs with carbon-free power, | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
meets two of those objectives, but it is expensive. | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
Even so, supporters say it's essential. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
When you look at a nuclear plant, the up-front capital cost to build | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
the power station is very high, but you've got to look | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
at the through-life cost, and how long these power stations | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
So Hinkley Point will be generating for probably 50 years plus, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
and for all of that time it's going to be giving secure | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
electricity, reliable electricity and clean electricity continuously. | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
The two reactors planned for Hinkley were picked | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
because they were the most modern design | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
The operating concept is the same as for a pressurised water reactor... | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
But projects to build these EPR reactors have struggled. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
I saw one in Finland which is running nine years late, | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
and there isn't yet one working anywhere. | :06:33. | :06:33. | |
Renewable energy produced 25% of UK power in the | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
It is carbon-free, and costs are falling, but wind | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
and solar are intermittent, which really matters | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
It provided 37% of our power earlier this year. | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
It is the cleanest fossil fuel, but either we import it, | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
which creates uncertainty, or get it by fracking - | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
and we've seen the opposition to that. | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
So a serious home-grown supply could be years away. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
A third option is to be more efficient. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
Modern appliances use less power than older ones, | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
so demand fell 6% over the past three years, nearly as much | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
So critics say nuclear power is a costly mistake. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
If you look at the cost of Hinkley to the consumer, | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
astronomical, I mean they're now talking about consumers paying | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
?30 billion above the wholesale price of electricity | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
during its lifetime, a huge sum of money, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
and then you've got to deal with the nuclear waste. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
You've got to store this waste for hundreds of thousands of years, | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
They don't yet know what they're going to do with that waste. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Ultimately, there are no easy options - no single source of power | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
meets all of those objectives of being reliable, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
Big decisions about energy are always hard, and this one | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier is at | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
Are we any closer to knowing why this decision was taken? | :08:11. | :08:19. | |
Well, those around the new Prime Minister want it to be known that | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
she will take her decision once she has made it. Frankly, she is not | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
going to be pushed around. EDF might have wanted the UK Government to | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
make its position clear ahead of their board meeting, but I am told | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Mrs May was not going to be bounced into that. And we no one of her | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
closest advisers has previously raised concerns about Chinese | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
investment in areas that could threaten Britain's security. And of | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
course, a huge project like this would have implications not just for | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
energy policy and national security, but foreign relations as well, so | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
the government thinks it warrants this level of scrutiny. Theresa May | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
has only been in the job just over two weeks. The whole business | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
department is being restructured, and David Cameron's government might | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
have taken a particular attitude and approach to the Hinckley project, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
but it has been pointed out to me that Theresa May's government will | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
not be a mirror image of her predecessor's. In terms of what this | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
looks like for potential foreign investors and whether Britain is | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
still open for business post that Brexit vote, we shouldn't over | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
interpret this review. It's more a case of reassurance rather than | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
policy being ripped up to start all over again. | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
Police in Scotland say an investigation has identified | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
more than 500 victims, or potential victims, | :09:42. | :09:42. | |
At least 77 people have been arrested and charged | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
after a six week police operation in which 30 million | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
Our Scotland correspondent Steven Godden reports. | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
It is the sinister side of the online world. | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
This summer, Scottish police concentrated their efforts | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
on tackling the sexual abuse of children, six weeks that revealed | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
Codenamed Operation Lattise, detectives identified more | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
They recovered more than 30 million images of children as young | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
On one computer alone, 10 million pictures and videos were discovered. | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
These individuals want to be wherever children are, | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
so they're using websites, forums, chat rooms | :10:30. | :10:30. | |
These men, predominantly, are using the profiles of children, | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
pretending to be children, effectively, to communicate | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
with younger children, to groom them online, | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
In this crime lab, the grim task of unpicking | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
In the worst case, it'll take a team of four officers six months | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
By targeting their resources, Police Scotland's aim was to shine | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
As they suspected, the more they looked, | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
So far, the operation has led to more than 70 people being charged | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
Those arrested ranged in age from 14 to almost 90. | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
Behind every image is a crime scene, a child who has been subject | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
to abuse, and every time that image is shared, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
that child is re-victimised, and we need to make sure that both | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
we tackle the crimes that are being committed, | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
but also prevent them from happening in the first place. | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Young people are spending more and more time online. | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
For parents at this gaming festival in Glasgow, | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
My daughter is six, so she's really young just now, but when she gets | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
to that age, who knows where social networking is going to be, | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
online, the internet is not going to go away, | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
it's potentially going to become more of a safety issue. | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Anybody can make up stories, they can kid | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
If you don't hear their voice, if they're just typing, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
You need to constantly check and constantly monitor | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
what your kids are doing, or it will take something | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
wrong to happen for you to figure that out. | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
Your reputation, safety and responsibility... | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
While enforcement continues, so do efforts to warn children | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
Those catching the abusers say prevention is their | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Hillary Clinton has formally accepted | :12:27. | :12:36. | |
the Democratic nomination to run for the White House. | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
In a speech at the party's convention in Philadelphia, | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
she said the election was a "moment of reckoning" for the US. | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
And she laid into her rival, Donald Trump, accusing him | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
of having neither the character nor the experience to be President. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, reports. | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, our next president, Hillary Clinton! | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
She's spent a quarter of a century in public life, | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
but no speech has mattered as much as this one. | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
First, though, the historic formalities. | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
and boundless confidence in America's promise | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
They cheered themselves hoarse, some cried as Hillary Clinton | :13:17. | :13:28. | |
sought to reintroduce herself to the American public. | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
It was personal, but she set out detailed policies too - | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
some influenced by Bernie Sanders' insurgent campaign. | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
Bernie Sanders and I will work together | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
to make college tuition free for the middle class and debt-free for all. | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
by someone who shouldn't have a gun in the first place. | :13:51. | :14:06. | |
And she promised to raise the minimum wage. | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
should have to raise their children in poverty, join us! | :14:13. | :14:21. | |
to make about temperament and experience, | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
why she was fit to be commander-in-chief | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis. | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons. | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
This has been an optimistic and upbeat vision of America | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
presented by Hillary Clinton as the fireworks go off, | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
a sharp contrast to the bleak and dark picture | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Politics is normally conducted in shades of grey, | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
but the difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Oh, my God, that's excellent, it's...! | :15:07. | :15:18. | |
it's the chance of a lifetime to be here, I'm so thankful! | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
We're excited for the first woman President. | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
What did you think of her? I liked her! | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
If conventions and razzmatazz won elections, | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
but with Donald Trump in the fight, they don't - | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :15:41. | :15:53. | |
The charity Save The Children says a maternity hospital that | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
it supports in the Syrian province of Idlib | :15:56. | :15:57. | |
has been hit by an air strike in a rebel-held area. | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
and a number of patients and staff have been injured. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
The US state of Florida has confirmed the first four cases | :16:07. | :16:08. | |
of the Zika infection to be contracted from local mosquitoes. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
The Zika virus, which can cause birth defects, | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
first gained public attention in Brazil last year. | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
have been connected to people catching Zika abroad. | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
BBC News has learned that an NHS trust under scrutiny for failing | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
to investigate the deaths of hundreds of patients | :16:31. | :16:32. | |
to companies owned by associates of its chief executive. | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
The trust says the contracts had provided value for money. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
are being made available to NHS patients in England today, | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
due to the relaunch of a special fund. | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
which had closed because of spiralling costs, | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
will make treatments for lung, bowel and skin cancer available. | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Up to 4,500 patients are expected to benefit. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
The BBC has tonight been given access to key court judgments | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
the six-year-old girl from South London murdered by her father | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
less than a year after she was returned to her parents' care. | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
Her father Ben Butler, who's lodged an appeal | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
against his conviction, is serving a 23-year minimum term. | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
The BBC and other media organisations went to court today | :17:23. | :17:24. | |
to force the publication of these documents. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
Our home affairs correspondent June Kelly is with me now. | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
What is it in these documents that is so significant? | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
Well, Reeta, just a bit of background to this case. Ben Butler | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
was convicted she King Ellie when she was just six weeks old. The | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
conviction was overturned on a technicality, and he and her mother | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
went to the family courts and succeeded in having Ellie returned | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
to them. Within a year, he had murdered a Ellie, and he was jailed | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
last month for the killing, and Jennie Gray was sentenced for child | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
cruelty. This document shows that three months before he kills Ellie, | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
he was up before magistrate and a probation report was done on him, | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
and that report described him as violent. It was a housing benefit | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
offence, I should say. That report described as violent and said he | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
posed a medium risk of causing serious harm to people when he was | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
under stress. Now, tonight, Sutton Council said the report was not | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
shared with them, and they said that the judge in the family courts, Mrs | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
Just as Hogg, was aware of his violent past. | :18:43. | :18:43. | |
Two men, one of them a former British judo champion, | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
for trying to smuggle 18 Albanian migrants into Britain. | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
None of the migrants had been given a life jacket, | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
and they believed they were minutes from death. | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
Our correspondent Duncan Kennedy reports. | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
This was the ghostly image of the migrants' boat adrift, | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
Closer up, you can see the two smugglers in their red clothing. | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
Robert Stillwell and Mark Stribling had life jackets on. | :19:10. | :19:11. | |
including two children and a woman, did not. | :19:12. | :19:20. | |
you can see one migrant desperately trying to bail out water. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
The judge today said that everyone here | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
Stillwell and Stribling were each paid ?2,000 to smuggle migrants in. | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
The migrants each paid ?5,000 to make the journey. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
We often see that people smugglers treat human beings as a commodity. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
In this instance, they were treated as cargo. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Robert Stillwell was a former British judo champion | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
and was today given four years in jail. | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
Mark Stribling also received four years. | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
The court heard the two men were given the boat as hired hands | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
who aimed to make around ?90,000 from this one single trip. | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
Today's sentencing brings to an end one of the biggest people-smuggling | :20:11. | :20:12. | |
cases ever to reach the British courts. | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
There have been warnings for months | :20:17. | :20:17. | |
about the vulnerability of the UK coastline, | :20:18. | :20:19. | |
given the numbers of migrants reaching northern France. | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
The Government says it's aware of the problem | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
and is now increasing the number of maritime patrols. | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
In a separate but almost identical case today, | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
this man, Steven Jackson, was also jailed | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
for people smuggling along the south coast. | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
to bring in 17 Albanian migrants into Chichester Harbour. | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
35 migrants were involved in today's two cases. | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
All but nine have now been sent back. | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
This has been a success for the Home Office, | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
but also a warning about British coastal defences. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
Pope Francis has visited Auschwitz, the death camp in Poland | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
where more than a million people were murdered by the Nazis. | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
He spent much of his visit in silent contemplation. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
The Catholic Church has faced criticism | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
against the persecution of Jewish people and other minorities. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
The Pope met Holocaust survivors, and Polish Christians | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
who risked their own lives to protect Jewish neighbours. | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
Russia's weightlifting team has been banned | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
from competing at the Rio Olympics because of doping offences. | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
The International Weightlifting Federation described | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
the team's record as "extremely shocking and disappointing". | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
The Olympics' governing committee, the IOC, | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
has told individual sport federations to rule on whether | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
Russians can compete at the Games, which begin in a week's time. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
It's considered to be a masterpiece of the English Renaissance, | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
and now, for the first time, it will be owned by the public. | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
This historic portrait of Queen Elizabeth I | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
celebrating the defeat of the Spanish Armada | :22:05. | :22:06. | |
will be kept in Britain after a successful fund-raising campaign. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
It will hang in the Queen's House in south London, | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
since England won the football World Cup. | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
But despite the expectations of millions of fans, | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
the team have never come close to repeating the feat since. | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
Our special correspondent Allan Little reports for us now | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
on the significance of that victory, and what it revealed | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
about the sort of nation that England was in the summer of 1966. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
Why does this moment still resonate so powerfully | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
50 years on, it looks like a moment of transition - | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
from the monochrome grime of post-war recovery | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
to the Technicolor explosion of '60s modernity. | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
Post-war Britain was a country in retreat from global power. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Internationally, there had been little cause to cheer. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
There's a different stadium now as well, mind, | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
without the twin towers. Yeah. | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
Alf Howe and Brian Jones, brothers-in-law from Teesside, | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
walked down Wembley Way to that match half the century ago. | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
When you come back here now and think of that day, | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
I think just the elation. The success. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
The fact that we won something, the elation, yeah, definitely. | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
I came out and stood against one of the twin towers and just | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
slid down like a cartoon figure, completely drained, and I thought, | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
You know, that's it, what have we achieved now? | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
with a by then fading sense of British greatness, | :23:50. | :24:01. | |
the idea that this was still an exceptional nation. | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
This replica of the original World Cup | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
was used by the team doing the victory celebrations in 1966. | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
It is now in the National Football Museum in Manchester. | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
To my generation, children who grew up in the 1960s, | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
the Jules Rimet Trophy was probably the most glamorous, | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
most thrilling 12 inches of metal anywhere in the world. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
There was something almost mystical about the power of it, | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
and five decades on, I can still feel it, even now. | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
It had seemed like we had done nothing but lose, | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
it was defeat after defeat, whether that be out in the Empire, | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
you know, getting reports from Malaya, | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
somewhere in Africa, Borneo or whatever. | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
The British were on the retreat, and the same went for football. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
The flags in the stadium that day were Union flags - | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
English and British identity were still fused, | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
All the players were white and mostly working class. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
They lived the same lives as those who cheered them from the stands, | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
for this was the tail end of an older Britain, | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
not yet the age of the super-rich sporting celebrity. | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
Geoff Hurst's third goal secured victory. | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
The next day, he went home and mowed his lawn. | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
After his football career, he took a job selling insurance. | :25:20. | :25:32. | |
Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :25:33. | :25:34. |