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Good afternoon. The Queen and Prince Charles have been visiting | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
the Duke of Edinburgh in hospital. Buckingham Palace say he's had a | :00:34. | :00:43. | |
good night and is under observation. The Queen en route this morning by | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
helicopter, from Sandringham to Papworth Hospital in visit her | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
husband. The fact she's done so promptly to her husband's bed side | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
suggests this was a moment of real anxiety, albeit one that now | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
appears to have passed. A short time after the Queen's visit, the | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
Prince of Wales also arrived at the hospital. According to Buckingham | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Palace, the Duke who was 90 last June, spent a good night after | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
surgeons performed the operation late last night to relieve a | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
blocked artery in his heart. He had been taken to hospital after | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
experiencing chest pains at Sandringham. After tests, doctors | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
decided that what's described as a minimaly invasive procedure should | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
be carried out under local anaesthetic. Other members of the | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
family, including Prince William and The Duchess of Cambridge are | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
due to arrive at Sandringham today. It's not known at this stage | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
whether they or any other members of the family will also visit the | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Duke. Up to now, the Duke has been continuing with an active programme | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
of engagements. Just two months, he was in Australia at the side of the | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
Queen, doing what he's done for very nearly 60 years, supporting | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
the monarch. He was guiding children through the crowds to meet | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
her and notwithstanding his rather dominant personality content to | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
take second place as he always has. Earlier this year, he did, at the | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
time of his birthday, admit that it might be time to ease up a little. | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now. With | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
less responsibility, less frantic rushing about and less preparation, | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
less trying to think of something to say. On top of that, my memory | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
is going and I can't remember names and things. I'm just sort of | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
winding down. The Duke will be hoping to accompany the Queen as | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
fully as possible next year, as she celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, but | :02:48. | :02:57. | |
that must now depend on how well he recovers. Luisa Baldini is at | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Papworth Hospital for us. What is the latest? Well, we have just had | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
a briefing by the Buckingham Palace press officer. She told us the | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Queen, who visited earlier this morning, was accompanied by other | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
senior members of the family and they were met by the Chief | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Executive of the hospital, as well as the prove sore, who is the chief | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
physician to the Queen. They departed and that's when Prince | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
Charles and cam little la arrived. We were told that the Duke is in | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
good spirits, but eager to leave. That looks unlikely. He may well | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
have to stay in overnight, but he's in have good hands. P Papworth is | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the UK's largest specialised hospital for heart problems and | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
they carry out the stent operations as a routine operation. They carry | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
out around 2500 of them every year. It's routine. It's carried out | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
under local anaesthetic and patients are able to be discharged | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
the very next day. Given the age of the Duke, 90, he is being kept here | :04:02. | :04:09. | |
under observation. Thank you. Nicholas Witchell is with me now. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
What do you make of the stream of visitors and the fact it's such | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
senior Royals? This is a family, which generally takes its time | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
about visiting each other in hospital. They don't like to make a | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
fuss. They have done very, very quickly this morning. I think, as I | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
said in the piece, they've had clearly a real scare on this | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
occasion. As I understand it, the Queen was accompanied in the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
helicopter by the Princess Royal, by the Duke of York and theerly of | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Wessex and we have seen that the Prince of Wales has also been | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
travelling by road from Highgrove with The Duchess of Cornwall, so in | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
other words, all of the Queen's children have been to the Duke's | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
bed side this morning. The good news is that, as we have been | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
reporting, he is in good spirits, so we are told, and he has spent a | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
good night. But this is clearly an upsetting event. Obviously, for the | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Queen, witnessing this last night and she has been there at her | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
husband's bed side this morning. Thank you. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for the founder of the | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
French company, PIP, which manufactured potentially defective | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
breast implants. The French authorities have recommended that | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
30,000 women have the implants removed as a precaution. This is | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
following the scare, but the British Government has ruled out | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
routine removal, saying there is no evidence of a safety concern. | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
Tens of thousands of people are protesting against alleged election | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
fraud in Moscow. Demonstrators are demanding a re-run of the | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Parliamentary elections which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party won | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
earlier this month. It's the latest in a series of protests across the | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
country. The head of the army, General Sir Peter Wall, has been | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
visiting British troops in Afghanistan. He spoke to service | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
personnel at camp bestion, who will be spending Christmas -- Camp | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
Bastion, who will be spending Christmas away from their families | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
and thanked them. That's it for the moment. You can keep up-to-date, | :06:10. | :06:13. |