01/09/2012 BBC Weekend News


01/09/2012

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Good afternoon. It's been a golden start to the

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weekend for Paralympic GB, with the team getting two more golds this

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morning, bringing the tally to six. Partially sighted Neil Fachie and

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Barney Storey won in the one kilometre tandem time trail at the

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Velodrome, while Richard Whitehead has just won the men's 200 metres

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T42 final. Andy Swiss reports. In the Velodrome, another day of

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agony and ecstasy. First the joy, Neil Fachie, who has a visual

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impairment, at the back of a tandem, piloted by Barney Storey, husband

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of Sarah Storey. Going second from last in the time-trial, they tore

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around the track, and brought on by the home crowd, and they raced to a

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new world record. Only one pair could now deny them gold, for

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Britain's Anthony caps and Craig MacLean, the favourites, but twice

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at the chain -- at the start their chain broke. Frustration for them.

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In Nepal, her first race for one of the stars of these games, Ellie

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Simmons. -- in the Poole. As a 13- year-old she won two gold medals in

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Beijing. One of her fastest-ever times as she cruised into tonight's

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final of the 400 metres freestyle. In the last hour, more British

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success in the athletics. Watch Richard Whitehead come charging

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through. The Dublin at amputee racing past his rivals to win the

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200 metres. An unforgettable moment for him and the 80,000 fans. For

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Paralympics have yet another star. Victims of the drug thalidomide

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have rejected as "insulting" the first apology in 50 years from its

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manufacturer. The German company Grunenthal said it was asking for

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forgiveness from the thousands of people who were born with birth

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defects. But British campaigners say they are angry there was no

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admission of wrongdoing. Keith It was a drug given in the 1950s

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and 60s to pregnant women to combat morning sickness, but Thalidomide's

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side effects were crawl and catastrophic. Babies were born with

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severe deformities, blindness and brain damage. 50 years after it was

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withdrawn, at this that you have been unveiled in the German town

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where the drug was made and with it the first apology from its

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manufacturers. TRANSLATION: We ask for forgiveness that for almost 50

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years we did not find a way of reaching out you. Instead we've

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been silent and we are very sorry. But the company sticks by its

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assertion that it acted according to the status sigh of thick --

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scientific knowledge and industry standards at the time. Around 6,000

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people are still living with the effects of Thalidomide, 400 in the

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UK, but for every baby that survived, 10 died. Compensation is

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being paid, but campaigners say it is not enough. It would take

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�110,000 a year for me to get 24 hour care, for someone to assist me

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to the toilet, to dress me, wash me, brush my teeth. Everything I do, I

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need somebody with me. This is an insult. Campaign days have there

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ought to if continue the fight for better compensation and to find out

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just how much the company knew about the drug's devastating side-

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effects. Firefighters in Spain have been

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working throughout the night to tackle fires that threatened

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