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I'm Ros Atkins in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where an MP has died | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
after being shot in the street outside her consituency. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Jo Cox, a married mother-of-two and former aid worker, | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
was shot and stabbed by her attacker. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
A 52-year-old man was arrested close to the scene. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
He's been named locally as Tommy Mair. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
This picture of Jo Cox was posted by her husband | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
Tributes are being paid at the highest level | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
We've lost a great star, she was a great campaigning MP, | :00:37. | :00:43. | |
huge compassion, with a big heart, and people are going to be very | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Our other headlines: President Obama arrives in Florida | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
to offer his condolences to the relatives of the victims | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Breakthrough as the cockpit voice recorder from the Egypt Air crash, | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
British political leaders have been paying tribute to Jo Cox, | :01:07. | :01:26. | |
a Member of Parliament who's been who's been killed | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
I win this as they sure shot and stabbed. -- eyewitnesses said she | :01:29. | :01:45. | |
was shot and stabbed. An elderly man was also injured | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
in the attack. All referendum campaigning | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
has been suspended The area behind me is cordoned off | :01:52. | :02:05. | |
and there are many people from the town are standing on the pavement in | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
the early evening sunshine are trying to comprehend the devastating | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
murder of their local MEP, Jo Cox. Jo Cox was attacked on a pavement | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
just in front of the local library just a few metres behind where I am | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
talking to you from. Let us begin with a story of what happened in | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
this report from the BBC's Ed Thomas. This morning, Birstall was | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
acquired Yorkshire town and now it is full of armoured police, fear and | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
unanswered questions. Why was the local MP, Jo Cox, shot and stabbed | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
in the middle of the day? I saw him up the gun out and then he went like | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
that with it fired a shot. This man watched the attack on his local MP. | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
It never crossed your mind that she would fall on the four, bleeding. Jo | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
Cox had been stabbed and shot. She was rushed to Leeds General | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
infirmary, but today at 5pm, West Yorkshire Police confirmed she had | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
died, despite the efforts to save a life. Just before 1pm today, Jo Cox | :03:15. | :03:23. | |
M P or the tags in market Street, Birstall. I am now sad to have to | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
report that she has died as a result of her injuries. My heart goes out | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
to Jo Cox's husband, Brendan, their two children and their family and | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
friends. The pain they must now be enduring is unimaginable. Our | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
thoughts and prayers are with them at this terrible time. Within | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
minutes of the attack, this footage was filmed close by. The BBC | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
understands that the man being arrested is: Tommy Mair. All day, | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
police forensic teams searched his home. Neighbours are struggling to | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
understand what has happened. Did you see him this morning? Yes. Did | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
he appear calm? Yes, you just walked straight past. He's normally quiet | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
person who likes gardening. Is he a friendly neighbour? A man of few | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
words, really. Jo Cox had only been an MEP for a year, but her | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
reputation was growing. Accessible and always willing to listen. Just | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
before the attack, she was in the local library talking and trying to | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
help the local constituents. She was very down-to-earth, a loving, caring | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
person. You could ask any question and she would answer you honestly. | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
She was lovely. Now, police need answers. Why did it happen? What was | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
the motivation? Tonight, Jo Cox's husband releases picture of his | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
wife. Not just an MEP, but also a mother to two young children, a | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
reminder of what has been taken. Well, Jo Cox had only been a member | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
of Parliament since the general election of 2015, but she had | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
already forged a formidable reputation. Here is the BBC's Carol | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
Walker. Jo Cox was 153 Labour MPs newly elected in 2015. She swiftly | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
made a name for herself as a rising star, is hugely popular. Friends and | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
colleagues of all parties are shocked and deeply saddened at the | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
news of her death. Tonight, the Prime Minister led the tributes. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
This is tragic and a dreadful news and my thoughts are with her | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
husband, Brendan, and their two children and wider family. We have | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
lost a great star. She was a great campaigning MP with a huge com | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
passion, a big heart and people will be very, very sad at what has | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
happened. Dreadful, dreadful news. It is a year since Jo Cox was sworn | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
in as MP. Border raised locally, she had been to Cambridge and was the | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
first in a family to graduate from university. Before she entered | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
Parliament, Jo Cox was a passionate charity worker who once spent a | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
decade in a variety of roles with the aid agency Oxfam and at | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
Westminster, she continued to campaign on international | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
development and foreign policy. This is somebody who had spent her whole | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
career not in a bubble somewhere, but out in the field, working for | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
Oxfam and absolutely understanding how things work out there in the | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
real world. I share an office with the and Parliament will be a much | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
poorer place. She described herself as a proud Yorkshire lass. In | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
London, she lived with her husband and children on a barge on the | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Thames. I will be zipping down to the House of Commons which is about | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
half an hour from where I live on a boat. From the outset, her honesty | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
and determination won her a huge amount of respect. I decided to | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
approach being an MEP with a decent, healthy chunk of cynicism. It is | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
very humbling. It's an amazing building, but I won't be | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
intimidated. Can the Prime Minister tell the house whether he thinks he | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
has led public opinion on the refugee crisis or followed it? Away | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
from Westminster, constituency surgeries and open meetings of an | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
essential part of the work of MPs. The referendum campaign was | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
surrendered -- suspended today as a mark of respect and several MPs have | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
said the tragic death of young and colleague must not be allowed to | :07:49. | :07:56. | |
harm the process of democracy. Well, as Carol has been telling us, Jo Cox | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
represented the constituency of Batley and a member of Parliament in | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
between 1983 and 1987 was Elizabeth Peacock and she is joining us live | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
now in a Birstall. Elizabeth, what are your emotions today? Looe-macro | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
great sadness, shock, I couldn't believe when I heard the radio this | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
afternoon. I had to stop my car and pull over, I just felt so sick. I | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
felt so sick of it could happen when a member of Parliament is going | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
about their business that she is elected to do, meet her constituents | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
and take up their problems or views on their behalf. It is a huge loss. | :08:40. | :08:51. | |
She was a bright, lively, very experienced and experienced in | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
different walks of life. She would have been a great asset to | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Parliament. Europe is that the Conservatives, she ripped out of the | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
Labour Party, but it is striking today at how people across the | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
political spectrum helper her in such high regard. I think Parliament | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
does that, and politics does it. You wouldn't think so when you see what | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
is up in an hour over the referendum and people fighting almost. But | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Parliament is like that, it comes together when something happens and | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
I can understand why everybody has, together to speak highly of her, | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
even though she had only been in Parliament for one year. She had | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
made her mark. I saw her make her maiden speech, she was presentable, | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
she made her speech well, it was well crafted. I was very impressed | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
and I sat down and wrote her a letter and said well done. A maiden | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
speech is quite awe-inspiring for the first time and she did write | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
back to me, so we were correspondence. But you don't | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
believe this tragedy. She was here in Birstall to hold a surgery which | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
is something that all MPs do on a regular basis. Would you ever think | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
about your safety when you did them? I didn't, but my husband reminded me | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
a couple of hours ago that we had about four occasions when the police | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
were needed to be in eye surgery, because they knew somebody who was | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
attending, so they were always hidden, I would not have them into | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
view, because people had to feel they could come and see me privately | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
and speak frankly. I held my surgeries in the library down the | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
road where she was today. If members of Parliament can't do that, then I | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
do believe they can fulfil their duties as a member of Parliament. I | :10:43. | :10:49. | |
was going to ask you about that. The zoomable, one of the core elements | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
of being a member of Parliament that you relished was in direct contact | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
with the people you're a present, whether they voted for you or not? | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Yes, I made it clear. This being a Labour seat for 50 years, I made it | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
clear when I was elected that I represented everybody, not just the | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
people who voted for me and I reinforced that fairly regularly for | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
the first 12 months, because people thought that wouldn't happen and it | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
did and I didn't represent everybody. That is what she was | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
doing. Just a few metres away from us, flowers are starting to be laid. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
How else would you like this town and this constituency to remember Jo | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Cox? I think they will remember her, I'm not sure at this stage how, but | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
there is a service tonight in Saint Peter's church and I think there | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
will be others. So many people are still in shock. It is not easy to | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
think other than take flowers and that is just the start. There will | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
be a service, I am sure and people will remember her. She made her mark | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
in such a short time. , Elizabeth, thank you. Elizabeth Peacock was | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
member of this constituency between 1983 and 1997. Let us go live to Tom | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
Bateman in Westminster. I'm sure there has Libya model but the | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
conversations is the terrible news started to come through. Tell us | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
what you have heard from MPs? There is a rare moment in politics causes, | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
comes to a standstill and simply reflects. And here in Westminster | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
tonight, it is a mark of the magnitude of the events, but also | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
the shock, members of Parliament, politicians from across ability to | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
divide have been feeling about this. There was an impromptu vigil taking | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
place and getting under way at the moment in Parliament Square beneath | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Big Ben where candles are being licked and flowers are beginning to | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
be laid. We've heard in the last few hours that flags will be lowered to | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
half-mast at Downing Street and Government departments and right | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
across Westminster. I think it is a sense of the way in which Jo Cox was | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
regarded, despite the fact she was a new MEP as we have been heard. She | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
was elected only last year, describing herself as a proud | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
Yorkshire lass and wanted to represent the seat in which she was | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
aboard. She media Limited mark in Parliament and it is striking the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
number of MPs, but Conservative, Labour and across various colours | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
here in Westminster of different parties, the way in which people are | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
being being tribute. One called her outstanding. Another called a rising | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
star. And it was the work as a humanitarian aid worker before she | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
came to Parliament that helped her make her mark in that very short | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
time. She was the co-chair of the friends of Syria Parliamentary group | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
and took that fight about her concern for Syrian refugees to | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
Parliament. She felt passionately about it and she was noticed for it | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
in that short time she was an MP. Would I be right in thinking that | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
most MPs will go about their day-to-day work with no security? Is | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
it an issue that is often discussed? We have heard from at least one MP | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
tonight in the way -- about the way in which a decade ago, there was no | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
thoughts about security when it came to constituency surgeries. In the | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
last 16 years or so, there have been at least two incidents in which one | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
member of polymer was attacked and another in which an aide to a member | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
of polymer was attacked. I feel there's more conscious thought was | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
security. We now that MPs take some advice on the police about how to | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
hold their surgeries and the fact members of the public will be coming | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
in. We heard from one Conservative MP who was threatened by a | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
constituent and call the police and this person was found to have a | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
knife on him. I think it tells you about the fact that of course, when | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
people are meeting members of the public on a regular basis, some | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
level of risk, but it really hasn't been a concern I think until today | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
and I think that is why we have had such a shock that these appalling | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
events. You have to go back 20 years or more to find the last time an MP | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
was killed as the result of a criminal like so now was at the end | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
of the dark days of the Troubles of Northern Ireland, but there will be | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
focusing of mind is now about how MPs think about their security. Tom, | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
thank you for joining us from Westminster. Well, he in Birstall in | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
West Yorkshire, the local parish church will be holding a vigil for | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
Jo Cox. The Reverend Paul Knight spoke to me earlier on. She was | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
public, lively, determined to work for her community. A lovely person. | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
When you talk about politicians, they are divisive figure. But I've | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
heard nobody say anything negative about her character or personality, | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
regardless of their politics. I'm not aware of anything. As I say, she | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
was determined to help this community, individuals and groups | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
alike. People watching us all around the world, here in Birstall. Can you | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
tell us about the place? It is a community of 15,000 people, it has a | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
retail Park it has Jacobean houses and gardens. There was the major | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
factory and there are churches here. It is full of good, Yorkshire people | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
with good hearts. Here we are in the market. What would have been | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
happening here around lunchtime on the attack happened? It is market | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
today and that is one of the reasons Joe was here doing her surgery, | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
meeting people in the community. They have the market stalls set up | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
and they would have been doing all the different kind of things and | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
they, once a week and people come to it and the local shop around. Just | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
to explain to viewers, behind any of the local library and that is where | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
she would have been holding her surgery and meeting constituents? | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Yes, it was advertised surgery and anybody could go along to speak to | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
her about whatever their concerns were. Just a moment ago, the record | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
all of 12-year-old girls staring through the cord and to where she | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
was attacked. It is hard to know what to say to them or any of the | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
other teenagers or kids who have been looking on are today. It is a | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
story that is hard to explain. Or to comprehend. So often we are talking | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
about gun crime in America, but when it comes into your own community, | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
the whole issues of life and death are brought home. And those of you | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
watching BBC News I must also remind you of you want to follow the story | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
on line, the BBC newsroom is winning a life page on the front of the BBC | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
News website and also the BBC News app. We will return to Birstall in a | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
few moments. Let's look at some of | :18:07. | :18:07. | |
the day's other news. In the last hour, President Obama | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
has arrived in Orlando to pay his respects to the victims | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
of Sunday's shootings 49 people were killed, | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
and some of the injured Our correspondent Laura Bicker has | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
been speaking to friends The people of Orlando are trying | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
to mend their broken hearts. # Forever he will reign, | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
my God is awesome.# I tried to talk to Luis | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
about what happened in the early hours of Sunday morning, | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
but he just couldn't I later discovered he lost | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
five of his friends. He lost five friends | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
in there This is a tragedy we never | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
thought would happen. This community is hurting and | :18:58. | :19:06. | |
the president is arriving to say he President Obama has seen | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
a more mass shooting during his tenure | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
than anyone before him. Orlando has the grim | :19:17. | :19:26. | |
notoriety of being There's a real need | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
the laughter amid the tears. A chance to forget, if just | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
for the moment. A waiter at this gay-owned | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
restaurant used to DJ at the Pulse. He is overwhelmed by the level | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
of support he has received. And now everyone is | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
throwing rainbows out One act of violence | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
does not And sometimes, just sometimes, | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
it can help people realise they have The Egyptian team investigating last | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
month's airliner crash in the Mediterranean say they have | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
recovered the plane's The search team said the instrument | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
had been damaged but its The Egyptair flight came down | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
during a flight from Paris to Cairo. Sally Nabil has been telling us | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
what it means for Yes actually, this is a major | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
breakthrough in the search What we understand now | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
is that the black box has been retrieved and will be transferred | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
from the search vessel in the Mediterranean to the Egyptian | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
coastal city of Alexandria where it will be picked up by members | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
of the investigation committee. After they receive it, | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
they will start analysing the data stored | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
on the voice recorder. The statement issued | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
by the committee a short while ago did not say how long this analysis | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
is expected to take. It did not say if the | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
recorder will have to be transferred outside Egypt where | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
there are people who can specialise The investigators now | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
have a much better clue into what exactly happened | :21:02. | :21:15. | |
and caused this plane to crash. Perhaps the black box will not say | :21:16. | :21:17. | |
exactly what caused the plane to crash into | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
the Mediterranean but at least it will lead the investigation team | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
in a much better direction so they can find out what was the reason | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
behind this tragic plane crash. Last night as well | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
the search vessel managed wreckage and we understand | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
the search teams are drawing a map of the wreckage which has been | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
spotted in different areas of the | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
Mediterranean. Both sides in the European | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
referendum have suspended their campaigns after a British MP | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
was shot and critically wounded in her constituency | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
in the north of England. Back to my colleague | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
Ros Atkins is near the scene of the attack in Birstall, | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
West Yorkshire. There is disbelief and all around me | :22:02. | :22:16. | |
are TV news reporters, but also groups of locals talking to each | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
other, some of them eating pizza, all of them trying to comprehend | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
what took place just behind where I'm speaking to you from, because in | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
front of the local library where Jo Cox was going to be holding a | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
surgery to meet constituents and hear about their concerns, she was | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
attacked. She was shot and she was stabbed and she subsequently died of | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
her injuries. Well, Jo Cox represented the opposition Labour | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
Party. Its leader is Jeremy Corbyn and he has been paying tribute to | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
her. The whole of the Labour family are devastated to night. Jo Cox has | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
been killed doing her duty, her work as a constituency MP. She is | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
somebody who dedicated her life to human rights and justice. She worked | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
for anti-slavery campaigns, she worked for Oxfam and she became an | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
MEP for the area where she was born and grew up and loved. -- MP. In | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
polymer, she was respected across the house is somebody with deep | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
commitment and passion for human rights and justice. Sadly, today, | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
she died. She was killed on the streets of her constituency, doing | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
her duty as a local member of Parliament, helping people. She | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
leaves behind a husband, a wonderful man who, likewise, spends his life | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
campaigning for human rights and justice. And she leaves behind two | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
young children. Two young children who will never grow up to see their | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
mother again. They can be proud of what she was, they can be proud of | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
what she did and they can be very proud of everything that she stood | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
for. We come together at a time like this to support the family and to | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
mourn. And also to reflect that the violence is not an answer to | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
anything. We need to come together and express our deepest condolences | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
to Jo Cox and her family. We've lost a wonderful woman. We've lost a | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
wonderful member of Parliament. But our democracy will go on. Her work | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
will go on as we mourn her memory, we will work in her memory to | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
achieve that better world she spent her life trying to achieve. Earlier | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
in the afternoon, Jo Cox's husband, Brendan, posted a picture of her in | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
London and then a couple of hours later, he released a statement in | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
which she talked about her zest for life and the joy and love that he | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
brought in to his family's life and he repeatedly emphasised the need to | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
bring up their children with the love which she showed them and he | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
reiterated his commitment to doing that. Meanwhile, the police have not | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
commented in any way on a possible motivation for this attack. They | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
have both said they are not looking for anyone else as part of their | :25:17. | :25:22. | |
investigation. Remember, they are already holding a 52-year-old man | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
who was arrested shortly after the attack. I will also remind you that | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
if you online as you are watching the coverage here on television, you | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
can get a life page from the BBC newsroom which has collected all the | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
very latest information on the story. You can get that through the | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
BBC News app or through the BBC News website. The main story here from | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Birstall in a west Yorkshire is that this town's local member of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Parliament has been killed. Stabbed and shot in the street. | :25:56. | :26:09. | |
Good evening. Scotland and Northern Ireland have | :26:10. | :26:11. |