01/09/2012 BBC Weekend News


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Shaping up for a Super Saturday with a gold rush for Britain in the

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Paralympic Games. It's going to be a gold for Great Britain! Richard

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Whitehead's victory in the 200m helps the team to second place in

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the medals table. An apology from the makers of the

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drug Thalidomide. Campaigners call it an insult, saying it doesn't go

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far enough. Max Bygraves, the veteran variety

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performer and entertainer, dies at the age of 89.

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Good afternoon. It's shaping up to be a Super Saturday for Britain's

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Paralympians, with the team taking golds in athletics, cycling, and

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dressage. It means Paralympics GB are now in second place in the

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medals table, behind China. -- in third place behind behind China and

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Australia. There was a breathtaking performance from double amputee

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Richard Whitehead in his 200 metre final and cyclist Sarah Storey won

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her second gold of the games - just hours after her husband, Barney,

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won one, too. Andy Swiss has all the latest from the Olympic Park.

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He's been dubbed the British Bladeruner, Richard Whitehead about

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to produce one of the most dazzling moments of these Games.

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Whitehead n lane five s a double leg amputee who runs on prosthetic

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limbs. He began his 200 metres final slowly, last at the halfway

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stage, surely there was no way back. But just watch this.

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One of the most breathtaking turns of speed you will ever see.

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From last to first in the blink of an eye. Gold has rarely been quite

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so staggering. Whitehead, with 80,000 fans, could scarcely believe

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it. He is also a top marathon runner. British sport has a new

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star. Everybody was shouting my name out before, and there's so

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much support, 80,000 people obviously roaring me for success.

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They were definitely my 12th man on the day and really are a part of

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this because of that support. The crowd were soon on their feet

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again for a very different reason. Omar Hussain finishing seven

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minutes behind the winner of his 1500 metres heat but greeted with

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one of the day's loudest ovations. Meanwhile, the British medals tb to

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-- continue to to roll in at the Velodrome, particularly for the

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Storey family. There was also another appearance

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from Jodie Cundy after his disqualification yesterday, there

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was a happier day for him as he secured bronze in the individual

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pursuit. In the pool there was a first

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appearance for one of Britain's most famous Paralympians, Ellie

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Simmonds as a 13-year-old she won two golds in Beijing, and she made

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an impressive start here in London, qualifying fastest in the heats of

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the 400 metres freestyle. Within the next hour Ellie sim Simmonds

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will be going for gold in the final. She faces stern competition but

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will be confident of adding to Britain's medal haul.

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And Paralympics GB had success in the dressage at Greenwich Park.

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Natasha Baker triumphed in the Grade II individual championship

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this morning. But there was disappointment for Lee Pearson who

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was going for his 10th gold medal of his Paralympic career. Joe

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Wilson's in south-east London. Great disappointment for Lee

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Pearson, take us through what's been happening. Absolutely, Great

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Britain have been the outstanding equestrian nation in Paralympics

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for years but they can't take that status for granted and I think we

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have seen evidence of that today. This morning Grade II disability

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section, Natasha Baker is the junior member of the squad but her

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talent was identified as a child. She broke the Paralympic world

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record in her class today. Outstanding, because it needed to

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be. Two German riders coming later got within a whisker of beating

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that score. Gold for her to start things off. That was something of a

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surprise. The afternoon, grade 1B disability and that meant Lee

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Pearson, the outstanding horseman of all time in Paralympic

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competition. He was quite pleased with his test on board Gentleman, a

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temperamental horse, pleased with his score. Lee Pearson had never

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been beat nonthe Paralympics prior to today, but guess what, a 51-

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year-old from Australia did just that, pipping him by half a

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percentage point. There's been unprecedented interest in the

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equestrian here and the standard of performance has risen accordingly.

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Thank you. Today's golden haul and there may be more to come later,

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leaves Paralympic GB third in the table with a total of eight, behind

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China and Australia. 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 Gruenenthal 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. Ben Ando reports. The birth defects ranged

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from deformed or missing limbs to blindness and brain damage. The

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cause, Thalidomide, a drug invented by a German scientist and when in

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the 1950s and early 1960s it was given to pregnant women to

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countermorning sickness it caused heart-breaking birth defects. Now,

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half a century later, a statue has been unveiled in the German town

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

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manufacturers. TRANSLATION: We ask for forgiveness for nearly

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50 years we didn't find a way of reaching out to from you human

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being, to human being, instead we have been silent and we are sorry

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for that. Thalidomide was sold in the UK from 1958 to 1961. Around

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2000 babies were born with defects before it was taken off the market.

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There are thought to be around 470 people living with the effects of

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this will that will -- Thalidomide in the UK today. Gruenenthal says

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it followed all drugs testing rules in force at the time and

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regulations were tightened in the aftermath of the affair. But UK

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campaigners said the wording of the apology misses the point. It's not

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even a real apology. The only real apology bit that sounds remotely

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like an apology is they're sorry for being silent for 50 years.

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There is no admittance of responsibility or negligence.

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Victims now want the company to put its money where its mouth is.

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would like to think this is the beginning of the end and we need a

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package of money to help Thalidomide-ers across the world,

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but a meaningful thing, not money picked from the sky to keep us

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quiet. It needs to be thought out of what a care package is. And say

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campaigners this apology comes far too late to be of any use to the

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thousands of children and their parents who have died in the half

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century since Thalidomide was withdrawn.

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Residents have been returning to their homes on Spain's Costa del

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Sol to assess the damage caused by wildfires. Thousands of people -

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including 300 Britons - were forced to flee houses and hotel rooms as

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the flames reached the outskirts of Marbella yesterday. From there, Tom

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Burridge has this report. The aftermath of a Spanish forest

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fire. Large areas of countryside in the Costa del Sol turned to ash.

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The fire started several kilometres from here, but fuelled by high

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winds, it spread quickly. This area is just on the edge of the popular

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holiday resort of Marbella. Strangely, the watered golf courses

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are untouched. But some homes were completely

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destroyed. A British couple lived here. They got out just as the roof

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set on fire, precious possessions were left behind. Flames just

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spared Anthony Marshall's house, he lives near mar Marbella. It was

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horrific, to be honest. I sat there, the - I am on the third floor, the

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flames were as high as my house. The town of Ojen was empty

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overnight as people were kept oupt of their homes but several hundred

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British people affected have gone home or are staying with family or

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friends. Throughout today, helicopters

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continued to drop water on pockets of fire, but since last night the

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emergency services have the situation mainly under control. The

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land, though, is scarred and with the environmental damage there's

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the human and financial cost of yet another destructive forest fire in

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southern Spain. The veteran entertainer, Max

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Bygraves, has died. He was 89. One of the last all-round variety

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performers, his career spanned five decades after winning fame as a

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comedian and singer in the 1940s. He emigrated to Australia in 2005

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and had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. David Sillito

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looks back at his life. # Maybe it's because I am a

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Londoner... Warm, funny, reassuring, those old-

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fashioned songs, jokes and stories about days gone by made Max

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Bygraves a star. The greatest I have ever seen at getting an

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audience in the palm of his hand immediately he walked on. A lot of

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performers it takes five minutes, not with Max, they loved him. He

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was a terrific entertainer. couldn't even afford cutlery.

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became Max after perfecting his Max Miller impression. The radio show

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Educating Archie followed and then the London Palladium. He became a

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wealthy man. He was astute enough to buy the rights to Oliver for

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�350 and those old tunes gave his 27 platinum albums.

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The entertainer of a certain generation has gone and he is one

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of the last still around who is singing songs of that era,

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performing as an all-round entertainer and he was a gifted

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person, a gifted man. On stage the audience will be

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laughing one moment, shedding a tear the next. Max Bygraves, gentle,

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reassuring, and always ready with a song that everyone knew.

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