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Good afternoon. It's been a golden start to the | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
weekend for Paralympic GB, with the team getting two more golds this | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
morning, bringing the tally to six. Partially sighted Neil Fachie and | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Barney Storey won in the one kilometre tandem time trail at the | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
Velodrome, while Richard Whitehead has just won the men's 200 metres | :00:32. | :00:42. | |
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T42 final. Andy Swiss reports. In the Velodrome, another day of | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
agony and ecstasy. First the joy, Neil Fachie, who has a visual | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
impairment, at the back of a tandem, piloted by Barney Storey, husband | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
of Sarah Storey. Going second from last in the time-trial, they tore | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
around the track, and brought on by the home crowd, and they raced to a | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
new world record. Only one pair could now deny them gold, for | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Britain's Anthony caps and Craig MacLean, the favourites, but twice | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
at the chain -- at the start their chain broke. Frustration for them. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
In Nepal, her first race for one of the stars of these games, Ellie | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
Simmons. -- in the Poole. As a 13- year-old she won two gold medals in | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Beijing. One of her fastest-ever times as she cruised into tonight's | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
final of the 400 metres freestyle. In the last hour, more British | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
success in the athletics. Watch Richard Whitehead come charging | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
through. The Dublin at amputee racing past his rivals to win the | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
200 metres. An unforgettable moment for him and the 80,000 fans. For | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Paralympics have yet another star. Victims of the drug thalidomide | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
have rejected as "insulting" the first apology in 50 years from its | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
manufacturer. The German company Grunenthal said it was asking for | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
forgiveness from the thousands of people who were born with birth | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
defects. But British campaigners say they are angry there was no | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
admission of wrongdoing. Keith It was a drug given in the 1950s | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
and 60s to pregnant women to combat morning sickness, but Thalidomide's | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
side effects were crawl and catastrophic. Babies were born with | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
severe deformities, blindness and brain damage. 50 years after it was | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
withdrawn, at this that you have been unveiled in the German town | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
where the drug was made and with it the first apology from its | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
manufacturers. TRANSLATION: We ask for forgiveness that for almost 50 | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
years we did not find a way of reaching out you. Instead we've | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
been silent and we are very sorry. But the company sticks by its | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
assertion that it acted according to the status sigh of thick -- | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
scientific knowledge and industry standards at the time. Around 6,000 | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
people are still living with the effects of Thalidomide, 400 in the | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
UK, but for every baby that survived, 10 died. Compensation is | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
being paid, but campaigners say it is not enough. It would take | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
�110,000 a year for me to get 24 hour care, for someone to assist me | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
to the toilet, to dress me, wash me, brush my teeth. Everything I do, I | :03:30. | :03:38. | |
need somebody with me. This is an insult. Campaign days have there | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
ought to if continue the fight for better compensation and to find out | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
just how much the company knew about the drug's devastating side- | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
effects. Firefighters in Spain have been | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
working throughout the night to tackle fires that threatened | :03:56. | :03:58. |