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Welcome to Wales Today - live from the national Falklands monument. It | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
is 30 years since the invasion of the islands - behind me, the 250 | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
names remembered in stone. The men who lost their lives in the | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Falklands Conflict. The single biggest loss of life for the | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
British forces was suffered by the Welsh Guards when their landing | :00:25. | :00:35. | |
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ship the Sir Galahad was bombed. suffer severe nightmares, to this | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
day, my average sleep pattern is for a were sleep. -- is for awards | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
worth of sleep. Tonight, we also catch up with this | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
little boy from Caerphilly who, 30 years ago, was stranded on the | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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A man appears in court, charged with the murders of his wife and | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
two-year-old son near Porthmadog in Gwynedd. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Gavin Henson is sacked by the Cardiff Blues following his | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
behaviour on a flight home from Glasgow. | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
And meet our five new enterprise zones, with five different | :01:20. | :01:30. | |
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specialities - but can they boost Good evening and welcome to the | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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National Falklands War Monument in Cardiff. It is exactly 30 years to | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
the day since Argentina invaded the Falklands. For a conflict thousands | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
of miles away in the South Atlantic, there is a special resonance in | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Wales. The biggest single loss of life among British forces was | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
sustained by the Welsh Guards, who lost 32 men when their landing ship | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
the Sir Galahad was bombed. Tonight, we talk to survivors and the | :02:09. | :02:18. | |
families of those who didn't come home. The images are as powerful | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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today as they were 30 years ago. The fire has spread at tremendous | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
speed. If the shore was not so close, the loss of life may have | :02:33. | :02:43. | |
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been even worse. At least as many as 32 were wounded, and many still | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
carry the scars to this day. Black smoke poured out there as the | :02:49. | :02:58. | |
guards ammunition started to ignite. The closer I've got to that age, | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
when he went down, the more I have thought about it. For the last 30 | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
years, for Gary as well, there have been times when it has been tough. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
John and Gary were children when their dad went off to war. He was | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
one of those who did not come home. As I got to my late teens, her | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
early twenties, I started to think, who was he? What was he about? | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
very proud family man to both myself and Gary, loved his rugby, | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
loved his family, and loved the Welsh Guards and Italian. The Welsh | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Guards stood watching the wreck as the choir sang the Lord's My | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
Shepherd. While in the Falklands, the comrades were mourning the loss, | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
back home in Wales, his family and those of the others who died were | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
having to start to deal with what happened. I remember listening on | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
the news to what I remember of it and seen the should gunfire as the | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
news coverage was going and I was always conscious that it was quite | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
a few days after it happened, that we heard that that was missing. | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
Once we had been used, it was a lot of emotion going on. Mum coped very | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Bell work very well -- mum coped very, very well with it all going | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
on. There were still battles to be fought for the rest. This | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
remarkable film of them has never been shown on television before. It | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
was taken by a young Welsh Guards. He went off to war with a camera | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
and rolls of film packed into his kit. He spoke to me from Australia, | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
where he has now settled. When we went to the Falklands, I thought it | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
would be an ideal opportunity. I thought it would be an idea to take | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
photographs and take the camera, I thought it would be unique. | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
footage taken before and after the battle for Mount Harriet. The Welsh | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Guards played a key role in blocking the route to Port Stanley. | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
On the approach to Mount Harriet, he found himself in a minefield. | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
Escaping it was a slow, painful, painstaking operation. The only way | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
out of there was prod and find them. Eventually, after hours, I had | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
finally cleared a path way to get out of the minefield. The order was | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
simply, followed a man's foot steps in front of you. Shortly after the | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
fall of night Harriet, the Argentines went into retreat. | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
is a white flag flying. Bloody marvellous! The word came through | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
that a white flag had been seen in Port Stanley. After confirmation | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
came through, we were told that the surrender had occurred and that is | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
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when I to Maes -- might come out. - - I took my camera out. There were | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
rumours then coming down the line but a possible ceasefire was on the | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
cards. They had heard there may deflate -- white flight over Port | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
Stanley. It was then confirmed that Port Stanley had fallen and the war | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
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was over, as such. All the British dead are remembered here. They have | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
become places of pilgrimage for those who fought and those who lost | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
loved ones. That was my first part of me read it -- laying some ghosts | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
to rest, pay my respects to Dad. Having that final conversation with | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Dad and saying goodbye. It hurt me when I was young that I did not get | :07:05. | :07:14. | |
her chance to do that. I suffered severe nightmares. To this day, my | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
average sleep pattern is for rowers. I am proud to say I served in the | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
Welsh Guards. -- is four hours. Sadly, the lost men down there. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Would I do it again? I don't see why not. I was in the army and the | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
call came. Simon Weston was on the Sir Galahad | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
in Bluff Cove off the Falklands, when the Welsh Guards were bombed. | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
22 out of his platoon of 30 were killed. Simon survived with 46% | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
burns, his face barely recognisable. His was a long journey back to | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
recovery. Simon Weston joins me now from | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
Westminster, where he's been attending a Falklands memorial | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
event. Simon, what do you remember of that day on board the Sir | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
Galahad? It started off beautiful, much like it is right now where I | :08:12. | :08:19. | |
am. Cold, bright blue skies. Quite soon, it was to become hell. It | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
quite literally was hell. The last thing I remember before being | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
injured, hearing, it is red, it is red, get down! The next thing was | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
the crack of a shell coming through, a �500 in bomb. Then it was just | :08:35. | :08:45. | |
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fire and carnage everywhere. -- a 500lb bomb. The Argentinian | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
president has tonight pledged to recapture the Falklands. David | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Cameron says the Falkland islanders are entitled to self determination. | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
Are we back to where we were? things are a lot different. We have | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
more preparation time and more service personnel, we have greater | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
assets down there, hardware. We know that they may come. It is | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
highly unlikely, they do not have the assets themselves. They have | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
not invested in their armed forces. Largely, it is rhetoric. They're | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
trying to bully and coerce people, to acquiesce to their desires, | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
we're not going to do that. The islanders have that right to self- | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
determination and we should not give in to that, we should never | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
give in to their demands, just because they say they wanted, | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
because they say to soul, it does not make it such. History and fact | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
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are important. They have no history of back to prove their point. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Another significant moment in the Falklands conflict for Wales was | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
when HMS Glamorgan was hit by an Exocet missile. 14 of the crew died | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
- John Callaghan from Barry survived. What are your memories? | :10:00. | :10:07. | |
We can see the ship on the memorial behind us. It was hell on earth, | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
really. There was no warning of the missile coming in. The bridge site | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
covered -- coming in, but the officer did not even have time to | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
give a warning. It was, take evasive action, and the next thing, | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
the missile hit. A lot of the guys received horrific injuries. The | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
biggest danger was the fact that the water are being used for | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
fighting the fires was causing -- was filling the compartments below | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
and causing a stability programme - - a stability problem. What effect | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
does it have on the rest of your life? It took a good 23 years to | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
come to terms with it, although I did not realise that. My doctor | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
recognised it and some all right. You've been back to the Falklands. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
A lot of veterans say its helps to come to terms with what happened. | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
It was a life-changing experience and certainly did help me. | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
sacrifice worth making? Without a shadow of a doubt. Having been | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
there and seen how that place now is, it is absolutely bouncing, the | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
economy is good, the people are fantastic and that is the best | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
tribute a memorial that those guys could have. Let me put that | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
question to you as well. 30 years on, was it worth the loss of life | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
and the tragedy we know about and remember? From a personal | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
perspective, I believe so. When you talk to many others, they believe | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
it was. You may find there are families who would not understand, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
because they have lost somebody. But if you look at the legacy, they | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
have turn the economy and the tourist industry around, they have | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
created a thriving environment by themselves. They do not get | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
subsidised by the UK, the only asked for our protection. Approves | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
an awful lot to me. He never sat on their laurels. They did something | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
with the tragedy of the invasion and the aggression shown by a be | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Argentinians. -- that proved a lot to me. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
Later, we'll be catching up with the little boy from Caerphilly who | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
went to visit his grandparents on the Falklands and ended up stranded | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
by the invasion. First, the rest of the day's news. | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
A man has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife and young | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
son near Porthmadog at the weekend. David Jones is accused of killing | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
Suzanne Jones and their two-year- old son William. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
The mother and toddler found dead at their home at Penmorfa Terrace, | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
just outside Porthmadog, on Friday evening. Officers went to the house | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
with paramedics at around 9.20pm and found 34-year-old Suzanne Jones | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
and her two-year-old son William dead. Paying tribute to them, | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
Suzanne's mother Eileen Holt said she was a fantastic mum and | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
daughter and Will was a lovely little boy who will be sadly missed. | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
Family members are being supported by police liaison officers. Flowers | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
and messages were also left outside the house as police guarded the | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
crime scene. Suzanne Jones' husband, 42-year-old David Jones, was | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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arrested and charged yesterday. By David Jones has appeared in court | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
twice today. He is in front of magistrates to confirm his name, | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
date of birth and address. He had the charges being read out. He was | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
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remanded in custody this afternoon. The first Welsh enterprise zone | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
since the 1980s have come into operation from today, companies | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
will be offered a series of measures to help them expand. But | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
the Welsh government is still in talks with the UK Treasury about | :14:24. | :14:33. | |
rolling out a key tax break. Can enterprise zones make the Welsh | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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economy fly? There are a number of enterprise zones in Wales. There's | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
not a lot of money on offer but companies in these areas will | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
receive business rate relief, the aim in the medium term is to relax | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
planning rules and talks are under way between the was government and | :15:06. | :15:14. | |
the Treasury to fully roll-out tax- breaks for expansion. Business | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
minister Edwina Hart launched at the five enterprise zones at | :15:18. | :15:28. | |
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British Airways. People like the fact that the focus is on something. | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
It has made a difference to the company's. If these enterprise | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
zones are to be successful, they have to bid -- give companies what | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
they want with limited resources. Companies after different things. | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
British Airways benefit from training grants. But for many other | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
companies, the big prize is the tax breaks being negotiated would be | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
Treasury. Swansea had the first enterprise zone in the 1980s but | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
critics say all it did was a truck companies from other parts of the | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
city, rather than generate growth - - attract. You can create other | :16:10. | :16:17. | |
activities of that. It is an aviation the zone but it is also | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
advanced materials, systems, other things that can go into other | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
sectors of the economy. But it is a tough environment, but Italy for | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
Anglesey. It is targeting jobs in energy. Will Gavin Henson ever play | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
professional rugby again? That's not clear tonight, after he was | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
sacked by the Cardiff Blues. Henson had apologised for his drunken | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
behaviour during a flight from Glasgow to Cardiff on Saturday. But | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
the Blues' management decided to terminate his contract with | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
immediate effect, describing his actions as totally unacceptable. | :16:49. | :16:57. | |
Here's our sports reporter, Ashleigh Crowter. Gavin Henson is | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
going to get his chance. He did not know it at the time that this was | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
Gavin Henson's final appearance in a Cardiff Blues shirt. It was short, | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
much like his career at the region which was terminated abruptly this | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
afternoon after eight appearances. This photo was taken by a fan at | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
Glasgow airport on Saturday morning, just before Gavin Henson boarded | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
the flight to Cardiff with his team-mates. He had been drinking | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
all night and had bought a bottle of vodka in duty-free. Once on | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
board, he through ice cubes around the cabin and that led to | :17:32. | :17:39. | |
complaints. Today, the region's management sacked him, less than | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Alvechurch School -- two months before his contract was due to | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
expire. In a statement, they said their decision sent out a clear | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
message that such behaviour would be tolerated. -- would not be | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
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He has not really perform. If he was performing at the top of his | :18:04. | :18:14. | |
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game, maybe they would have been under severe pressure, but I do not | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
think the choice was very difficult. Gavin Henson has now lasted a few | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
months in each of his last three clubs. His previous employer in | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
France decided not to expect -- extend his contract after a trial. | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
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He was suspended for an altercation with team-mates in a nightclub. | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
Everyone has offered him every possible opportunity to come back | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
into Welsh rugby. Warren Gatland maintain in the Welsh squad. He has | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
thrown it back at them. He clearly cannot handle alcohol. He has | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
become a destructive personality. Gavin Henson was not available for, | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
today. It is not clear where his future lies. If it is outside Wales, | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
he will not be able to fly with this company as they have banned | :19:10. | :19:20. | |
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him from travelling with them for the next six months. Football and | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
Spurs manager, Harry Redknapp says Swansea City's style of play should | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
be a blueprint to all other sides in the UK. The Swans lost 3-1 at | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
White Hart Lane in the Premier League yesterday but Redknapp says | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
he can't speak highly enough of how the Swans are playing. They're | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
currently eleventh in the table. She's not home very often, but | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
today children in Merthyr Tydfil had the chance to get some tips, | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
from a real live Olympic star. Sarah Thomas is a member of the | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
Team GB hockey squad, and hoping for selection for this year's Games. | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Rhodri Lewis went along too. A rapturous welcome for the girl from | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
Merthyr who's at top of the hockey world. Sarah Thomas had come home | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
to inspire young players to raise their game. They have been really | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
enthusiastic. It is night to call round. They are all set out in | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
different countries. They have that inspiration. They are really keen | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
to learn some skills this afternoon. I have met some wonderful children. | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Watching from the sidelines her parents, who know how demanding | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
playing first class hockey can be. Words cannot express how proud we | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
are off her. Absolutely amazing. She thoroughly deserves it. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
have to give everything and Sarah has given everything. In the past, | :20:36. | :20:43. | |
she moved to Holland. She gave up her family and friends. For the 200 | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
or so children here today, a huge thrill to get a master class from a | :20:47. | :20:56. | |
player at the peak of her talents. She taught us skills to do with the | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
hockey stick and picking it up and controlling it. It is good to get | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
out of the house and do something worth doing. I am normally be | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
goalkeeper. Have you been hit a lot? Yes. It is called to meet a | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
real and pick star. You do not get to meet her every day. Sarah's | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
still waiting to hear whether she'll be part of the squad in | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
London. Her fans in Merthyr are in All change this week on the weather | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
front. Derek's here. If you've put the winter woollies away, then it's | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
time to dig them out again. A cold snap is heading our way. Arctic | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
winds bringing a little rain, snow and some frost. Now, I'm not | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
expecting loads of snow and not everywhere will have snow. Farmers | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
keep an eye on your lambs and if you have a delicate plants in the | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
garden, it would be wise to cover them up or bring them indoors. This | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
evening, scattered showers will die away. Most of the country dry | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
overnight. A few showers in the north later. Lowest temperatures | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
around 5 Celsius with light winds. Tomorrow's chart shows low pressure | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
on our doorstep pushing a cold front south across Britain. Behind | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
it, cold air from the Arctic. So tomorrow morning most of the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
country will start dry and cloudy but it won't be dry everywhere. | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
Some rain is likely in Cardigan Bay and in the north. During the day, | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
rain and showers will spread across the rest of the country. And in the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
north the showers will turn wintry by end of the afternoon. Top | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
temperatures 10 Celsius. The wind picking up later and turning colder. | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Tomorrow night cold and windy. A little sleet and snow in places, | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
especially on the hills and mountains in the north and east. | :22:35. | :22:44. | |
Temperatures falling close to freezing or below. By Wednesday | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
morning, the hills of Powys, the Berwyn Mountains, Brecon Beacons | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
and Black Mountains could have a dusting of snow. Wednesday cold and | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
windy. A little sleet and snow in the south and east. Brighter in the | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
north and west with showers. Wednesday night, a widespread frost. | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
On Thursday and Friday, it will turn less cold. The wind easing as | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
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well. Let me hand you back to Jamie now for the final word, as we mark | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
30 years since the Falklands We'll have many different stories | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
from the Falklands this week. But one that we first brought you on | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
Wales Today back in 1982 was that of 12-year-old Darren Clifton, from | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
Bedwas, near Caerphilly. He'd gone to visit his grandparents on the | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
Falklands. They were from the islands and ran a B&B there. | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
Unfortunately for him, his stay was interrupted by the Argentine | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
invasion and he was stranded there for the duration of the war, | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
leaving his parents desperately worried at home. Nick Palit caught | :23:55. | :24:05. | |
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up with the Clifton family. Darren arriving back to an excited | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
welcome. This is how we reported Darren Clifton's return from the | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Falkland Islands in 1982. He had been staying with his | :24:21. | :24:29. | |
grandparents. Back home, his parents were frantic with worry. | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
But the 12-year-old took it all in his stride. They said, act normal. | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
But there were meant walking around on the roads armed and you could | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
not. If you went out, you had to carry a white flag. Were you | :24:45. | :24:52. | |
frightened? Yes. What was the worst time for you are out there? | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
actual invasion. We didn't know what was happening for to him. We | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
have a party for him tomorrow. He does not know that yet. Darren's | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
older brother had been in the Royal Navy task force sent out to | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
liberate the Falkland Islands. 30 years gone -- 30 years on, they are | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
both police officers. The brothers readily speak via the | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
internet and Darren's memories remain vivid. I think it was quite | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
exciting as a young boy. When you get older, you realise the loss | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
that people took by coming to the Falkland Islands and liberating the | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
people there. But at the time, I thought it was one bit exciting | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
adventure. As an adult, it is a tragic waste of life. People came | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
all that way to liberate us from the Argentines. A lot of good | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
people gave up their lives for us. Their memory is never forgotten. I | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
think it will always stay British, the Falkland Islands, because of | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
the memory of those who lost their lives. | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
The planes flew in and bombed the ships and took off again. One was | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
shot down. It was the Welsh Guards. And you saw the wounded afterwards? | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
Yes, coming off the boats will stop it was a hugely significant event | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
in the family's history. Both brothers return to the Falkland | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Islands to live for a time. actually arrived back in the | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
Falklands on 14th April, 1988. It was more or less a couple of years | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
after the Falkland conflict had been finished. We decided when we | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
left the forces, it was a place to go to. What did you like about the | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
way of life? The Falklands are such a comfortable place to live. An | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
amazing place to bring up children. People are friendly. We have been | :26:56. | :27:02. | |
back 17 years now. I would go back tomorrow. If Australia had not come | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
off when it did, the Falkland Islands were definitely on the | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
cards. It is the crime free lifestyle, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
easy-going lifestyle, outdoor lifestyle, it is something that is | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
in your blood. With renewed tensions between | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, the family hopes | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
history will not be repeated. This will have numerous relatives living | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
on the islands and they do not want them to go through what they | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
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experienced back in 1982. It is the 30th anniversary of the invasion of | :27:47. | :27:54. |