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Six decades later, a special service at Westminster Abbey to mark the | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
Queen's Coronation. She was accompanied by more than 20 | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
members of her family as well as 2000 guests are some of whom were | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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involved in the Coronation in 1953. And a trip down memory lane for one | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
street that was declared best decorated 60 years ago. | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
The other headlines: Back in court, Oscar Pistorius makes a brief | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
appearance in South Africa accused of murdering his girlfriend, Reeva | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Steenkamp. Two British soldiers add meat | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
abusing Afghan civilians at a court-martial hearing in Germany. -- | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
add meat. Waiting times in a and B reach a | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
nine-year high. -- A&E. And severe flooding now threatens | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
the north of the Czech Republic. At least seven people have died and | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Southern's -- citizens are put on high alert. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
Later on BBC London: Drinking and driving? The Wetherspoons chain | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
defends its decision to open a pub at a service station on the M40. And | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
licensed sex shops win a legal battle, but Westminster Council | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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warns of a boom in illegal Good afternoon from Westminster | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
Abbey, where a special service to mark the Queen's 60 years on the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
throne has just taken place. 2000 guests were invited this morning, | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
although that was a fraction of the 8000 people who packed in here back | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
in 1953. The service this morning was full of echoes of the past, but | :02:10. | :02:20. | |
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it was also a celebration of the A day to reflect and remember. A | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Thanksgiving designed to evoke the original Coronation service, a day | :02:32. | :02:42. | |
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of deep spiritual significance to members of the Royal family, | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, seem to have their first | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
child. A son or daughter who will have their own Coronation here one | :02:52. | :03:02. | |
day. The procession through the abbey was | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
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a more sober entrants than 60 years full of pomp and pageantry. But at | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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its heart was one woman dedicating During today's service, a flask of | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
aromatic oil was taken to the high altar via group of people | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
representing different generations and walks of life, from six years | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
old to in their 90s. -- by a group. It was placed alongside the | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Coronation crown, the St Edward's crown, brought here from the tower | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
of London for the first time since 1953 in recognition of the Queen 's | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
dedication during her reign. Her Majesty knelt at the beginning | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
of a path of demanding devotion and utter self-sacrifice, a path she did | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
not choose yet to which she was called by God. Today, we celebrate | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
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60 years since that moment, 60 years The hymns sung today were also some | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
60 years ago. But the service included something new - a poem | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
written for today by Carol Ann Duffy and read by Claire Skinner as she | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
stood alongside the newly restored Coronation chair. | :05:03. | :05:10. | |
My whole life, whether it be long or short, devoted to your service. Not | :05:10. | :05:20. | |
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Today's service was a reminder of the splendour and symbolism of the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Coronation. The Queen left alongside the Duke of Edinburgh, seemingly | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
recovered after feeling unwell in recent days, and the rest of her | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
family, here to honour the Queen's fulfilment of what she sees as her | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
sacred duty. I'm joined here by our royal | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
correspondent. That service was beautiful but also filled with | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
symbolism. It was. The Coronation itself is hugely symbolic. They | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
made, I thought, clever use of some of the key components of the | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
Coronation service itself. The Crown on the altar, the first time it has | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
left the Tower of London. The use of the holy oil being brought up the | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
altar by 11 representatives of the people of the UK. The fact the | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
Coronation chair was seen. The poem, the throne, read by the actress, | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
Claire Skinner. Of course, what it did was to remind us of what the | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
Coronation is. It has no real legal significance. A king or queen is | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
monarch, regardless of whether they are crowned here. What it is is the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
consecration of that person, a commitment to a life of service to | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
his or her people, hence the importance given to the application | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
of the holy oil and the importance it had this morning. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
The congregation has this burst but the Queen is still here, isn't she? | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
She is with the Dean of Westminster and 100 other guests. She is in the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
college hall. She is, I would imagine, enjoying a little | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
refreshment after that. Very pleased to have the Duke of Edinburgh with | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
her at her side. We are told he was slightly unwell known up -- last | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
night. No sign of it this morning. The crowds are still here to see the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Queen when she leaves the Abbey. We will be back with more legs in the | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
Oscar Pistorius has been back in court this morning in South Africa. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
It is his first court appearance since being released on bail, having | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
been charged with premeditated murder following the death of his | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home in fabric. He claims he missed | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
a couple an intruder. Let's cross to the court for more. Andrew. | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
It was a very brief appearance in court today, less than 20 minutes in | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
all, for Oscar Pistorius. It was interesting for what the magistrate | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
had to say about the media frenzy surrounding this trial. Interesting, | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
too, that he was seen in the flesh, the first time for most people since | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
February. This report contains flash photography. | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
He has been a virtual recluse for three months. Today, Oscar Pistorius | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
had to face the crowds once again. No special treatment at Pretoria | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
Magistrate's Court. The murder suspect out on bail, now obliged to | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
tag the front door like anybody else. Inside, the same courtroom, | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
the same document in during February's bail hearing. But note | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
here today. South African prosecutors are still building their | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
case against the limbic and paralytic athlete. The fact that he | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
shot dead his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp, is not disputed. | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
But was it premeditated? The prosecution is banking on forensics | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
and ballistic evidence from the bathroom where she died. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
If you use the bullet in the doorway, you can either use a laser | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
or put it through the door. You can see the part of the bullet. And that | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
is crucial? I believe so, yes. This case is also being tried in the | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
South African media. The victim's mother now alleges the couple had | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
been arguing. She phoned me. We chatted about this | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
and that. Little girl things. She said they had been fighting. She | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
didn't elaborate on what they were fighting about. But she said, we are | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
fighting a lot. In court today, the magistrate | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
criticised the media and urged witnesses to respect South Africa's | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
of the tuition. At the main business of today was the prosecution's | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
request to delay the proceedings for three months. So, minutes later, | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
watched by his family, Oscar Pistorius was on his way home again. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
After the tears and sobbing in February, today Oscar Pistorius | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
looks like a man determined not to betray a single emotion as he stood | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
in court and stared at the magistrate, telling him the case | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
would now be postponed until August Even then, expect further delays as | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
the blade runner prepares his defence. In fact, many people | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
connected to the case believe we will not see Oscar Pistorius being | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
cross-examined and this case going to full trial until early next year. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
Before then, we should get some key, crucial evidence from the | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
prosecution's case. Two British Army soldiers have | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
admitted abusing Afghans civilians during a tour of duty. Their patrol | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
commander was cleared of failing in his duty to deal with the fences. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
All three have been granted anonymity because it is feared | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
naming them could endanger their lives and those of their families. | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
Our Europe correspondent is in Russells. | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
-- Brussels. Because of that ruling, these | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
soldiers were referred to as X, Y and Z in the court-martial taking | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
place at a British Army base in Germany. Soldier X admitted | :11:17. | :11:26. | |
indecently assaulting, or, rather, behaving, towards an Afghan boy. He | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
said while on patrol, he grabbed a boy's hand and placed them on his | :11:30. | :11:39. | |
crotch. Soldier why was accused and admitted racially abuse if language | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
towards an Afghan mail. It is said he hung a sign around or was part of | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
a group that photographed this Afghan man, who had a sign which | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
contained racially abusive language on it. Then, soldiers led was their | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
patrol commander. -- soldiers leave. He was in Italy charged with fences | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
because -- he was initially charged with offences because he failed to | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
act. But because they admitted their guilt, he had his charges dropped. | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
Diana stand soldier X is a former private in the British Army. -- I | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
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understand. Waiting times for accident and | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
emergency departments are at their longest for nearly a decade, | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
according to research for the King's Fund. It says that in the first | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
three months of the year, 6% of patients had to wait at least four | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
hours. The government said that in the last few decades, accident and | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
emergency waiting times have been back on target. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Everybody from the walking wounded to the seriously ill arise at Royal | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
Bolton Hospital. Accident and emergency if the front door to most | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
services. Here, they see around 300 patients every day. Over the winter | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
months, A&Es saw pressure on already busy department increase. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
Figures from the King's Fund health think tank showed how waiting times | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
have crept up. In the first three months of this year, nearly six in | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
100 patients in end and waited more than four hours, the equivalent of | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
313,000 people. Four out of ten hospitals reported reaching the | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
government's target. People go into accident and | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
emergency departments. There is a target that they should not wait | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
more than four hours. The proportion of people waiting more than four | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
hours has now totalled more than 300,000 people in the last quarter. | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
That is the highest it has been for nearly a decade. | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
This is a typically busy A&E department. But here, they did | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
manage to hit the target. 95% of patients were seen and treated | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
within four hours. But what happens here in A&E has repercussions across | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
the hospital. The financial watchdog, Monitor, warns that knock | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
on effects are being seen with some hospitals cancelling planned surgery | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
to cope with busy emergency departments. Ministers have promised | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
a review of A&E but say there are problems abiding care outside normal | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
working hours. -- providing care. We need to make sure we do all we | :14:35. | :14:45. | |
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can to stop the ball from going into A&E who do not have the availability | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
of seeing their GP. -- stop people. The underlying concern is what will | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
happen next winter, when pressure will inevitably build again. | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
The riots in Turkey over the past five days have claimed their first | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
lives. One protester was shot at near the border with Syria, although | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
it is not known who fired the shot. Another died when a taxi drove into | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
a group of demonstrators. In the early hours, in Istanbul, | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
demonstrators confront the police near the Prime Minister's office. | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
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Some cheer them on. But others in this country see them as vandals. | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
Five days into the protests, the demonstrators hold their ground. | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
These barricades, set up at every junction, mark the new unofficial | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
borders in the city. On this side, life goes on as normal. Here, coming | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
past the barricade, into Taksim Square and Gezi Park, the protesters | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
do what they want. Here the demonstrators run their own informal | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
mini Republic. It has its own shops and even a chemists and it is an | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
open air hotel. This is unbelievable to see such a | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
scheme here and people are here and they are finding their lifestyle. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
The Government offered to meet environmental campaigners. It was | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
their attempt to stop this park's development which sparked the | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
country's protests. Those campaigners have their own demands. | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
We want that they declare that the park will stay as a park and for the | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
public use, but not only that, but at this moment, we want the police | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
violence should stop. Outside the square, on Istanbul's | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
golden horn, life appears to be untroubled. The protesters may have | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
challenged the Government. But at this point, their demonstrations | :17:06. | :17:16. | |
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It is 1. 17pm: The Queen has celebrated the 60th | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
anniversary of her coronation at a special service at Westminster | :17:23. | :17:32. | |
Later on BBC London, we report on the expansion of Southend Airport. | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
The cloud-like steel structure gracing the Serpentine. We have a | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
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pre-view of this year's exhibition. Now, the River Danube reached its | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
highest level for over 500 years because of the rain that caused | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
flooding across Europe. At least eight people have been killed and | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
the moss serious flood threat is in the Czech Republic. Thousands of | :18:03. | :18:10. | |
people have been forced to flee their homes. Christian Frazer sent | :18:10. | :18:20. | |
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this report. The swollen Vltava River flolg at -- | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
flowing at its peak this morning. So. Much rain has fallen, Czech | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
authorities have been forced to open the flood dams to avoid reservoirs | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
bursting. A decision with implications for everyone | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
downstream. This is a village two hours north of the capital. It sits | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
on a valley. 1,000 people were evacuated last night. By daylight it | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
was cut off. We have passed factories marooned in the rivers and | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
docksides that have all, but disappeared. You can see here the | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
river is starting to overflow the kerb. It is rising at 15 centimetres | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
an hour. People further down the valley are cut off and all they can | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
do is sit and wait. It is still raining and it is predicted to rise | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
another two meters. This family were emptying a ground floor workshop as | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
the river lapped at their gate. This is your kitchen? Anthony showed me | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
photos from the floods in 2002. Now he is faced with more of the same. | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
The forecasts are changing, but gifble the rate at which the -- | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
given the rate at which the river is rising, the family believes the | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
river will rise to their first floor window by this evening. Some of the | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
worst hit areas are in Germany. The water is flowing six times higher | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
than its normal level. Power lines down and bridges are washed away. In | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
Austria, Switzerland, and Poland and Hungary, flood warnings are in | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
place. It will be days before the rivers subside. | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
Stephen Evans is in Lower Bavaria and the situation there, Stephen? | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
Serious, but probably getting better. The Danube is behind me. The | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
thing about this city, it is surrounded by rivers really. Three | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
rivers meet here and it is a low lying spit of land which is | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
inundated, but being here at midnight last night, there were | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
posts sticking up which were underwater and looking this morning | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
they are above the water. So the sense is that the waters are pulling | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
back, are falling, but people here don't under estimate the weather. A | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
lot of cleaning up has got to be done and a lot of homes remain, | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
their ground floors are filled with water. So bad, serious damage, but a | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
sense, a hope that it will get better. | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
Stephen, thank you. Could RBS be split in two? The BBC | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
learned that is being recommended in a draft report by the Parliamentary | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
Commission on Banking Standards into the bank which is more than 80% | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
owned by the public. Let's get more from Robert Peston who is with us | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
now as you can see. The aim is to divide it into what a good bank, bad | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
bank? That's right. What I have learned is that the Parliamentary | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
commission set up by the Government to come up with ways of cleaning up | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
the banking system has included in its first draft of what it will be | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
saying, this controversial recommendation that the bad loans, | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
the toxic loans that RBS made should be lifted out of the bank, kept on | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
the public sector balance sheet which would in theory for those who | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
believe this is the right baying to go, give RBS more confidence, | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
therefore it might provide the credit that the economy so badly | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
needs and also it will give more confidence to investors. So perhaps | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
the privatisation which the Government wants would also be an | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
easier thing to carry out. Now, I should point out that the Chancellor | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
and the Prime Minister don't think this is a good idea. They think it | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
would be expensive and they don't believe it would bring much in the | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
way of benefit to taxpayers and the economy. And as it happens, not | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
everybody on the commission has yet signed up to this proposal. It is in | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
the draft report, but there is going to be some intensive lobbying by the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Government to get it watered down and I think there will be one or two | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
members of the commission who will also be arguing against it. So we | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
have got about a couple of weeks to see how this goes. It is not a done | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
deal. If it does happen, it will be the biggest change forced on a | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
British bank well actually since they were nationalised. | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
Robert, thank you. Political lobbyists with | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
unrestricted access to Westminster could have their security passes | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
withdrawn in the wake of the recent allegations about lobbing at | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
Parliament -- lobbying at Parliament. | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Let's get more from Norman Smith. What is being proposed then, Norman? | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
Kate, well the Speaker unveiled measures to clamp down on lobbyists | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
access to Parliament. Where I am at the moment Central Lobby, anyone can | :23:35. | :23:42. | |
come here to lobby their MP. Professional lobbyists have gone | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
getting access to beyond here. This is my Parliamentary pass which | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
enables me to go whichever I want. For a lobbyist this is like gold | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
dust. They have been getting hold of them by this. This is a list which | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
MPs set up but entitles them to a member of staff who is entitled to a | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
pass. Only some MPs it is alleged have been giving the pass not to | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
members of staff, but to lobbyists. The Speaker called for a halt to the | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
issuing of all passes. A review of who has got the passes and to demand | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
there are tighter controls and more information demanded before people | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
get passes to come into Parliament. Norman, thank you. | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
And we return to our main story. The Queen has marked the 60 0th | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
anniversary of her coronation with a special service at Westminster | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Abbey. Sophie. Kate, thank you very much. Well, 60 | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
years ago, the focus was here at Westminster Abbey with the streets | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
around us here packed with people. But all over the UK people were | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
celebrate. There were street parties and bunting. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
Jon Kay is in a street in Bristol where they have been having | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
something of a trip down memory lane, haven't they, Jon? | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
They have, Sophie. This is Mansfield Street in the bed minister area of | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
Bristol and 60 years ago this was ablaze with red, white and blue. | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
Everyone of the 67 houses got involved. Now as you can see a lot | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
has changed in the intervening decades, but with the help of ale | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
reel of film and of memories of people who live around here, we can | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
now look back of what it was like here that day. | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
More than 100 miles from Westminster Abbey, the people of Mansfield | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
Street in Bristol were making their own coronation plans. And they | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
filmed as they prepared yards of bunting and thousands of paper | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
flowers for a giant arch way. on the wall there and up there and | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
it was 30 foot off the ground. Colin hur ford was 16 at the time | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
and remembers the street party like it was yesterday. They were trying | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
to win a local competition to have the best decorated neighbourhood and | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
they spent weeks getting ready. There is Colin in the crowd when the | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
big arrived. This is the house I was born in. We had flags coming out of | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
the centre window going across into the house across the road and there | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
was a big Union Jack out the window to the right and there was a big | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
Union Jack out the window to the left. | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Back then, hardly anyone in Mansfield Street had a television so | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
most people didn't actually see the Coronation. They spent the day | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
outside making their own entear inment. Fun, fancy dress, feasting | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
and it won them first prize. �75 for being the best decorated street. | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
What did you do with the money? hired a train. Hired a train?A | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
complete train yeah and they took the street to Weymouth actually for | :26:59. | :27:08. | |
�75. You don't go far on 7 a �5 now. Among the judges was Natalie Wilson, | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
newly crowned herself as scmap miss Bristol. This is the -- Miss | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
Bristol. This is the actual dress I wore. | :27:16. | :27:23. | |
Now in her 80s, it not just the dress she kept, but icing from a | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Coronation cake and her cigarettes. What was the atmosphere like around | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
that time? Well, it was a joyous time. We had not long been | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
recovering from the horrors of the war and the rationing, food | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
rationing and clothes rationing. Even sweets were still rationed | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
then, but then suddenly, we had this lovely young queen and it looked as | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
though, you know, we were going forward to another new era. Everyone | :27:53. | :27:58. | |
was so excited and keen to do what they could to celebrate. | :27:58. | :28:04. | |
The young queen they celebrated that day is still on the throne six | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
decades later, but in all that time, Mansfield Street has never gathered | :28:09. | :28:17. | |
and partyied in quite the same way Having said that, talking to people | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
here, they have a big party a year ago for the Jubilee and among the | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
older residents there is respect and affection for the Queen and indeed, | :28:26. | :28:35. | |
interest Sophie in what is going on I am sure there is. Jnl, thank you | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
very much -- Jon. 60 years ago when the he Queen was crowned it was | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
pouring with rain. Today, it is rather different. Blue skies and | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
Thank you, Sophie. Well, so far so good this week. Take a look at the | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
UK. Somewhere to the west of London could have highs of 23 Celsius. It | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
is lovely to see UK temperatures on a par with some of the major | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
Mediterranean cities. Prague a disappointing 15 Celsius. Still the | :29:04. | :29:08. | |
potential for rain. In Central Europe, it is an improving weather | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
picture at the moment with the area of low pressure that has been the | :29:12. | :29:18. | |
dominant feature drifting east. High pressure really stays with us and | :29:18. | :29:22. | |
quietening things down. For the rest of the afternoon, it is a case of | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
dry and warm with sunny spells around across the UK. A little bit | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
of cloud across the far north and that will come and go this | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
afternoon. Still the risk of an isolated shower into Scotland. | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
Sheltered western areas fairly nicely indeed. Highs of 20 Celsius | :29:36. | :29:42. | |
possible. A cooler feel to things along the North Sea coasts. A | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
disappointing 12 Celsius for Aberdeen and more sunshine for | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
Northern Ireland than yesterday. Just the chance of a a shower as | :29:51. | :29:56. | |
well. Temperatures more subdued with an on shore breeze, but to the west | :29:56. | :30:01. | |
of London we could have highs of 22 or 23 Celsius. . | :30:01. | :30:06. | |
The winds circulating around that area of high pressure. They could | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
just draw in a little more cloud off the North Sea overnight tonight and | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
certainly more coastal fog drifting down from the north through the | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
night. So a cloudier night to come. Temperatures on a par for the last | :30:18. | :30:25. | |
couple of nitsz, eight to -- nights, eight to 12 Celsius. Hopefully the | :30:25. | :30:31. | |
cloud across England and Wales will burn away rapidly staying persistent | :30:31. | :30:35. | |
persistent across North Sea coasts. Showers likely up into the far north | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
of Scotland. Temperatures down on today because of cloud around. 19 | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
Celsius and maybe 20 Celsius is our highest values and subdued across | :30:45. | :30:52. | |
Eastern Scotland and England. Temperatures start to climb up. 20 | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
or 21 Celsius the high. As we move towards the end of the week, take a | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
look at this, England and Wales, dry, sunny and warm. Just a little | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
more cloud up into the far north. So it bodes pretty well for the end of | :31:03. | :31:09. | |
the week. I am going to tell you again, let me indulge. It has been a | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
while! Warm and sunny with light winds and just a few showers. Dust | :31:13. | :31:22. | |
off the barbecue. I suspect you will Thank you very much indeed. | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
Now, the Queen has celebrated the 60th anniversary of her coronation | :31:27. | :31:30. |