Royal Victoria Hospital

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:00:07. > :00:12.100 years ago, this stretch of Southampton water was black with

:00:13. > :00:16.ships. It was the First World War and they were carrying troops

:00:17. > :00:21.back`and`forth from the Western Front. Packed into hospital ships,

:00:22. > :00:25.the thousands of wounded soldiers. They were brought here to Ndtley, a

:00:26. > :00:29.village on the south coast of Hampshire. At the time, it was the

:00:30. > :00:34.location of the largest milhtary hospital ever built. A vast

:00:35. > :00:40.Victorian edifice, sprawling along the shore. For some, it would be a

:00:41. > :00:46.place of peace and recuperation For others, it became a prison, a place

:00:47. > :00:50.of shadows and nightmares. Hn this programme, I will be discovdring

:00:51. > :00:55.previously unseen letters, hospital records and fragile photogr`phs that

:00:56. > :01:00.offer a glimpse into the prhmitive and sometimes brutal world of

:01:01. > :01:04.medicine during the First World War. Our most famous war poet, Whlfred

:01:05. > :01:09.Owen, was a patient here. What happened to him shaped some of his

:01:10. > :01:13.best work. We will find out how With the help of experts, wd will

:01:14. > :01:19.investigate disturbing new dvidence that reveals what really happened

:01:20. > :01:25.here. This is a faked scene. Unbelievable! The story of this

:01:26. > :01:30.hospital reveals the true ilpact of the First World War and its horrors,

:01:31. > :01:51.re`enacted here on the shords of the south coast of England.

:01:52. > :02:02.My name is Philip Hoare. I still swim here.

:02:03. > :02:10.I learnt about this place from my mother. Her father, my grandfather,

:02:11. > :02:15.who served in the First World War, used to take her on Saturdax outings

:02:16. > :02:19.to Netley. She remembered pdering through the gates of this htge

:02:20. > :02:24.military compound, seeing what looked like grown men being wheeled

:02:25. > :02:31.about in prams. In fact, thdy were the paralysed victims of thd war,

:02:32. > :02:38.still languishing here in the 1 20s. Later, as a reprobate teenager, I

:02:39. > :02:42.trespassed in the grim buildings of the hospital's lunatic asyltm. What

:02:43. > :02:48.I saw told me that this place was anything but a playground. Hn fact,

:02:49. > :02:52.it was one of the darkest shghts you could imagine. Its stories,

:02:53. > :02:57.mysteries and ghosts inspirdd me to write a book in which I tridd to

:02:58. > :03:03.bring the building and its history back to life. Because the hospital's

:03:04. > :03:07.been demolished, it is hard to imagine how huge this place was To

:03:08. > :03:16.do that, you need a lot of imagination. Or a little help. One

:03:17. > :03:20.quarter of a mile`long, with 1, 00 beds, this was a tribute to

:03:21. > :03:23.Victorian ambition. 30 millhon bricks were used to build it. It was

:03:24. > :03:30.the largest brick building of its age. Behind the hospital, a Red

:03:31. > :03:36.Cross extension housed another ,500 beds. There were officers' puarters,

:03:37. > :03:41.a railway station, stables `nd gasworks. It was a town in hts own

:03:42. > :03:51.right. And tucked away out of sight was D Block, the first purpose`built

:03:52. > :03:54.military asylum. When I started to work on the history of the hospital,

:03:55. > :03:59.there were few records to document it. Now a remarkable collection has

:04:00. > :04:04.come to light ` a series of rare postcards. Many photographers worked

:04:05. > :04:09.at the hospital, producing postcards which patients could send home to

:04:10. > :04:14.loved ones. These images reveal snapshots of life here, traction

:04:15. > :04:18.wards with rows of shattered limbs, doctors and their surgeries,

:04:19. > :04:24.operating theatres and new therapies such as whirlpool baths for

:04:25. > :04:30.amputees. These poignant photographs helped tell the story of Netley s

:04:31. > :04:37.hospital. One which spans 100 years of warfare. The hospital was founded

:04:38. > :04:41.in 1856 after Queen Victori` visited Fort Pitt in Chatham which hs where

:04:42. > :04:46.the Crimean War veterans were being treated. The conditions werd

:04:47. > :04:49.appalling, so Her Majesty ddcreed a splendid new hospital should be

:04:50. > :04:53.built for her brave soldiers. But the building was mired in

:04:54. > :04:57.controversy from the beginnhng. The whole design of the place sdemed to

:04:58. > :05:02.go against modern medical architecture. The long corrhdors

:05:03. > :05:06.separated the men in their wards from the sunny, seaside aspdct of

:05:07. > :05:14.the place. When they showed the plans to Florence Nightingale, she

:05:15. > :05:18.said... , "You might as well take 1,000 men out on Salisbury Plain and

:05:19. > :05:21.shoot them." In fact, history would prove her correct. Fast forward 150

:05:22. > :05:28.years, and the site is a much`loved years, and the site is a much`loved

:05:29. > :05:33.country park. The people who work here are still discovering Netley's

:05:34. > :05:38.past. Richard Gough knows a few of Netley's secrets. What is this

:05:39. > :05:42.building? It used to be the powerhouse. It used to run `ll the

:05:43. > :05:47.electricity to the hospital. We think it was run with steam engines,

:05:48. > :05:51.very big steam engines. Amazing building. What is this

:05:52. > :05:57.horrible`looking contraption? An iron lung. These were used for

:05:58. > :06:04.people suffering with polio? Yes. It looks like a metal coffin! Xou must

:06:05. > :06:07.know the real secrets of thd hospital, working here for ` long

:06:08. > :06:11.time? Some of them. Underne`th us, there is supposed to be half a tank

:06:12. > :06:22.underneath our feet. Whether it is there or not, I don't know. My God!

:06:23. > :06:29.The hospital had its own dedicated pier built in 1856 by a man

:06:30. > :06:32.responsible for the piers at Brighton and Bournemouth.

:06:33. > :06:36.Unfortunately, it was totally useless. It didn't go out f`r enough

:06:37. > :06:40.to receive the troops from the ambulance ships and so a dedicated

:06:41. > :06:45.railway line was built from Southampton Docks into the hospital

:06:46. > :06:50.itself. The pier was a placd of resort and refuge, a place to

:06:51. > :06:55.recuperate. You can see frol these wonderful postcards the vetdrans,

:06:56. > :06:59.the wounded soldiers taking the sun and the sea air, right by the pier.

:07:00. > :07:05.Next to it is this tree and in the image you can see, it is about six

:07:06. > :07:09.foot high. Now, it is a massive fully`grown pine tree, a re`l marker

:07:10. > :07:19.of the passage of time of the years between then and now.

:07:20. > :07:25.During the First World War, the hospital railway station was working

:07:26. > :07:29.at full pitch. Sometimes three trains a day would arrive from the

:07:30. > :07:33.Western Front, bringing the casualties with the mud and blood of

:07:34. > :07:36.war still on them. You can still see the train tracks embedded in the

:07:37. > :07:42.tarmac. But just imagine how busy this place would have been when a

:07:43. > :07:45.train arrived. An alarm bell would go, everyone would run to come and

:07:46. > :07:51.help bring the wounded off the trains. A nurse working herd wrote

:07:52. > :07:56.vividly about the patients `rriving at the station. "Outside thd bad

:07:57. > :08:01.cases were unloaded. The men, men with chunks of steel in thehr lungs

:08:02. > :08:08.and bowels were vomiting grdat gobs of blood. A splendid boy of Black

:08:09. > :08:13.Watch was but a living trunk. Both his arms and legs had been

:08:14. > :08:21.shattered. Men without noses and brains throbbing through opdn

:08:22. > :08:25.scalps." So I have a postcard here which shows the hospital with the

:08:26. > :08:30.station at the back and you can see the train tracks running here, so I

:08:31. > :08:37.guess that's ` that's the lhne of the tracks there, which runs right

:08:38. > :08:42.in to HERE, which must mean ` you can see actually ` yeah, thdre's the

:08:43. > :08:46.tower, rising up through thd pediment of the hospital, the

:08:47. > :08:51.chapel, the back of the chapel, so the railway line and the st`tion

:08:52. > :08:56.must have run straight along THERE. Extraordinary if you can im`gine

:08:57. > :09:04.that coming back out of the past and all those men, all those troops

:09:05. > :09:08.Amazing scene, really. It w`s one of those ambulance trains that brought

:09:09. > :09:14.a young soldier named James Roberts to Netley. Six months earlidr,

:09:15. > :09:22.20`year`old Jim had graduatdd as an officer from Sandhurst. He had had a

:09:23. > :09:26.privileged Edwardian upbringing of horses and cricket. Jim and his

:09:27. > :09:33.sister Hilda had grown up close to one another, having lost thdir

:09:34. > :09:38.mother as children. Hilda's nephew, John Woolmer, discovered his Aunt

:09:39. > :09:45.Hilda's diaries only recently. This is the entry in 1916. Then, Jim had

:09:46. > :09:52.another leave, he said he w`nted to spend it in London and not waste

:09:53. > :09:55.time`travelling to Westoe. We spent it hectically, theatres, me`ls out,

:09:56. > :10:02.anything to forget the horrors of the Front. Jim knew a big b`ttle was

:10:03. > :10:06.planned and he knew he might not come back. I was the only one he

:10:07. > :10:13.allowed to come to the stathon. But not even me on to the platform. Then

:10:14. > :10:18.the Battle of the Somme started and that's where she finished hdr diary.

:10:19. > :10:25.She didn't write anything more although she lived for another 0

:10:26. > :10:30.years. Aged just 20, Jim found himself in

:10:31. > :10:36.charge of defending an infalous area of ground called High Wood. So many

:10:37. > :10:39.men had died here that the troops had nicknamed it the "rottenest

:10:40. > :10:44.place on the Western Front." Jim wrote home to his sister, "What an

:10:45. > :10:50.awful time we just had, it started just as soon as the snow began to

:10:51. > :10:59.melt. Icy cold water poured down the trenches which came over thd top of

:11:00. > :11:05.my waders. Then they started blowing in our trenches. At 2.30am, we were

:11:06. > :11:09.relieved and most of us had to leave our boots behind. How much longer

:11:10. > :11:15.the brigade staff expects the men to carry on like this, I do not know."

:11:16. > :11:19.Hilda wrote back to Jim but he was never to receive the letter. On 14th

:11:20. > :11:26.July, he was ordered to att`ck the Germans. During the battle, Jim was

:11:27. > :11:31.shot in the back. He was taken to a nearby clearing station, bandaged up

:11:32. > :11:37.and rushed back to Netley. The surgeons battled to save his life,

:11:38. > :11:41.but he died six days later. Tucked away in the quiet grounds of Netley

:11:42. > :11:48.Hospital is its cemetery. It was here that Jim was buried, hhs nephew

:11:49. > :11:57.is visiting the grave for the first time.

:11:58. > :12:04.Lieutenant James Thursby Roberts, only son, Major Herbert

:12:05. > :12:11.Robertsliness it's very, very moving. I didn't know a gre`t deal

:12:12. > :12:16.about my half`uncle because my aunt was so shattered by his death, she

:12:17. > :12:23.didn't talk much about him. But yes, it is very moving to come here

:12:24. > :12:29.and to see this and to realhse what the end was for him and so lany

:12:30. > :12:35.many others. The medics who treated Jim on the frontline were trained at

:12:36. > :12:39.Aldershot in Hampshire. This footage filmed 100 years ago shows the Royal

:12:40. > :12:45.Army Medical Corps drilling on the Parade Ground.

:12:46. > :12:55.Nowadays, they do things differently.

:12:56. > :13:00.4 Medical Regiment are part of today's Royal Army Medical Corps.

:13:01. > :13:08.They still train here in Aldershot. So what do they make of the 191

:13:09. > :13:14.footage? Stretchers. They are the same. Are they the same? Thdy have

:13:15. > :13:18.evolved slightly. More lightweight material so we can take thel on

:13:19. > :13:21.patrol with us. You would fhnd the casualties would be rolling around

:13:22. > :13:29.screaming. They are just sat nicely for them. That is not going to

:13:30. > :13:33.happen. It is harder. I guess the other key thing is they don't have a

:13:34. > :13:41.Chinook waiting for them? That is a horse and cart! Exactly. From point

:13:42. > :13:47.of injury to a hospital with surgeons, doctors, you are looking

:13:48. > :13:51.at 30 minutes. 30 minutes. During the First World War, it could have

:13:52. > :13:55.taken two days to reach Netley. By the middle of the war, its wards

:13:56. > :14:02.were full to bursting. Even the corridors were lined with bdds. The

:14:03. > :14:04.strict hospital regime varidd on only one day of the week ` on Sunday

:14:05. > :14:24.in the chapel. You had to be almost on death's door

:14:25. > :14:29.if you were to be excused Stnday worship in Netley's chapel. It's a

:14:30. > :14:34.wonderful space, the stain glass windows, the inscriptions, the

:14:35. > :14:43.pulpit. You can imagine the men sitting around us, listening to a

:14:44. > :14:48.sermon. We found graffiti scratched in by bored soldiers whiling away

:14:49. > :14:54.the time. 150 feet high, Netley s tower was once a vast water

:14:55. > :14:56.reservoir. Nowadays, it offdrs great vistas. If you have the energy to

:14:57. > :15:11.climb to the top! It is an amazing view from tp here.

:15:12. > :15:17.The whole of Southampton Water spread before you ` the port and the

:15:18. > :15:22.refinery and the sense of this great water way and this amazing hospital,

:15:23. > :15:27.straddling the whole of this eastern side of the water. It is a kind of

:15:28. > :15:33.counter point to the industry going on around it. Sometimes, actually

:15:34. > :15:38.when the grass goes brown in the summer, it dies away and actually

:15:39. > :15:43.you can see the foundations of the hospital coming up out of the site,

:15:44. > :15:50.almost like a ghostly nucle`r shadow of the building it once was. This

:15:51. > :15:55.sprawling site had expanded in response to the spread of the war.

:15:56. > :16:02.As a result of the desperatd shortage of beds, the Red Cross set

:16:03. > :16:07.up a wooden hutted camp at the rear of the building. The Red Cross

:16:08. > :16:12.hospital was modern, comfortable and offered innovative treatments. Some

:16:13. > :16:16.of these images really tell extraordinary stories. You can see

:16:17. > :16:19.the faces of the men, rather haunted, probably by the experiences

:16:20. > :16:25.they have been through. But here, one gets the impression, colpared to

:16:26. > :16:28.the main brick hospital of ` happier place. A place where there was a

:16:29. > :16:33.kind of a community life. Btt of course, not all the images of this

:16:34. > :16:40.place were happy. This is one of the most gruesome images to my lind A

:16:41. > :16:45.series of sometimes double `mputees perched on chairs and stools,

:16:46. > :16:50.arranged like a fairground side show in a way. This image really speaks

:16:51. > :16:56.to the true horror of the Fhrst World War. Many of the soldhers in

:16:57. > :17:00.the Red Cross hospital were cared for by VAD, short for Voluntary Aid

:17:01. > :17:07.Detachment, or as the troops called them, very adap table dames, as they

:17:08. > :17:12.did almost every job. Can I have a cup of tea? Judy Stokes was just a

:17:13. > :17:16.teenager when she joined thd VADs in the First World War. We had to go

:17:17. > :17:20.through what we called the chambers of horrors. These were photographs

:17:21. > :17:27.of all the worst patients to see if you could take it. Not everx girl

:17:28. > :17:31.could. She probably had taldnts in another direction. So, we jtst had

:17:32. > :17:38.to see whether you could take it without reacting. I mean, these men

:17:39. > :17:42.were already damaged physic`lly so you had to think of what was

:17:43. > :17:47.happening to them mentally. When families came to visit and brought

:17:48. > :17:51.photographs of what these mdn had looked like, heartbreaking.

:17:52. > :17:54.Absolutely heartbreaking. Wd were not only nurses, we were also

:17:55. > :18:10.shoulders to cry on. Sometimes all the nurses cotld do

:18:11. > :18:14.was to comfort the dying men. I personally used to sit and hold

:18:15. > :18:19.their hand, just give the odd squeeze to let them know thdy

:18:20. > :18:24.weren't alone. Some of them of course were so young, they were

:18:25. > :18:30.younger than we were. I was thinking of my own brother.

:18:31. > :18:34.How I would like him to be treated and do the same for somebodx else's

:18:35. > :18:41.brother. In 1917, one of the injured soldiers

:18:42. > :18:47.arriving was Wilfred Owen, desperate to achieve immortally as Brhtain's

:18:48. > :18:53.most celebrated war poet. Jane Potter has been studying his

:18:54. > :18:57.letters. Wilfred had been hht by a shell on the front line. He was sent

:18:58. > :19:03.to Netley, from where he wrote home to his mother. We are on Sotthampton

:19:04. > :19:08.Water, pleasantly placed, btt not so lovely a coast. They kept md in bed

:19:09. > :19:13.all day yesterday. I got up for an hour and went out today, only to be

:19:14. > :19:18.re`caught and put back to bdd for the inspection of a smeshlist. It

:19:19. > :19:25.issant `` of a special list. It is interesting for me having grown up

:19:26. > :19:29.next to Netley thinking of the greatest war poet wandering through.

:19:30. > :19:33.He was absorbing his surroundings and turning that into his ldtters

:19:34. > :19:40.and obviously into his poetry. So, if we look at mental cases, he

:19:41. > :19:47.starts out with, who are thdse? Why sit here in twilight? Droophng

:19:48. > :19:52.tongues from jaws that slob their relish. Bearing teeth that leer like

:19:53. > :20:00.skulls teethes, wicked. He goes on in much more graphic detail and that

:20:01. > :20:05.is his depiction. It was a combination of his own personal

:20:06. > :20:09.experience and those around him Wilfred only spent a few daxs at

:20:10. > :20:15.Netley, being assessed for shell shock. Others were not so ltcky

:20:16. > :20:19.Even now, we know very little about the treatment given to patidnts

:20:20. > :20:24.suffering from shell shock. One piece of surviving footage offers

:20:25. > :20:30.precious clues. In the Pathd archives there is a remarkable film

:20:31. > :20:35.called War Neuroses, shot hdre in Netley. It was produced by Lajor

:20:36. > :20:43.Arthur Hurst, seen here on the right. They show servicemen being

:20:44. > :20:49.treated for a variety of bizarre psychosomatic disorders. Many

:20:50. > :20:55.expecting these victims of laling gering or `` Mallin gering.

:20:56. > :21:00.The Government wanted to make a film showing that shell shock was

:21:01. > :21:05.treatable. In effect it was a propaganda exercise.

:21:06. > :21:12.Professor Edgar Jones of King's College has been studying the

:21:13. > :21:16.footage. One of the ideas w`s that shell`shock patients were adjust

:21:17. > :21:21.table. You could reeducate them using the theatre at a stagd I was

:21:22. > :21:26.his power as a doctor, laying on hands, would allow these men to get

:21:27. > :21:30.better. We can see where he has got the man to remove most of hhs

:21:31. > :21:35.clothes. One of the ideas bdhind it is it is more scientific, so you can

:21:36. > :21:42.see the outline of his body against a plain screen. Another ide` is to

:21:43. > :21:48.make the man vulnerable, so he's more suggest table and more able to

:21:49. > :21:52.be `` suggestible and more `ble to be reeducated in this vulnerable

:21:53. > :21:58.state. He discovered it was not quite what it seemed. This scene

:21:59. > :22:03.apparently shows a Sergeant in a state of invalidity. He is bent

:22:04. > :22:08.double, walking with sticks. The title says it is September 0917 In

:22:09. > :22:14.the next scene, he is descrhbed as being almost cured two months later.

:22:15. > :22:19.But if we look very carefully at the background we can see the s`me group

:22:20. > :22:24.of nurses ` the same column of smoke coming out of the chimney from the

:22:25. > :22:30.hut behind. So, Hurst has ordered him to rece yats his illness to ``

:22:31. > :22:35.recreate his illness. This hs a faked scene. Unbelievable!

:22:36. > :22:39.Many of these seemingly mir`cle cures were only temporary and did

:22:40. > :22:45.not last. What we think is happening hs that

:22:46. > :22:49.in 1918, he was able to prolise these servicemen that if thdy got

:22:50. > :22:53.better he could discharge them from the Army. So it was in their

:22:54. > :22:58.interest to say that their symptoms had gone away because then they

:22:59. > :23:01.could get a much better paid job in a munitions factory and thex weren't

:23:02. > :23:08.haunted by the fear that thdy would have to go back to the front line,

:23:09. > :23:14.possibly be killed. That is absolutely extraordinary. Soldiers

:23:15. > :23:23.suffering from shock got mixed treatments at Netley to say the

:23:24. > :23:28.least. Those suffering complex and misunderstood mental illnesses fared

:23:29. > :23:35.worse. They were in a unit, set away from the hospital, known as by the

:23:36. > :23:41.sinister name of D Block. It was a block where the fate would be

:23:42. > :23:48.decided between going home, going to a dreaded lunatic asylum, or worse,

:23:49. > :23:51.being sent back to the front. In charge was Captain Frederick

:23:52. > :23:56.Clindening. He had no psychhatric training. Author Peter Barnham

:23:57. > :24:01.discovered some of the notes Clindening made on his patidnts He

:24:02. > :24:08.is dull, playive and stupid. Speech`thick. He was, if yot like,

:24:09. > :24:13.old army. He was almost in his 0s when the war started. He is

:24:14. > :24:17.intensely dull and stupid. His attitude and manner are not

:24:18. > :24:22.convincing. Much of this is put on. That is classic Clindening. Much of

:24:23. > :24:32.this is put on. Yes, he had that sense that even stupidity is put on.

:24:33. > :24:39.In 1914, a German prisoner of war named Otto Scholz arrived in Netley.

:24:40. > :24:42.What happened to him is a mxstery. Indeed we would not know anxthing

:24:43. > :24:47.about him and his links to Clindening if it were not for the

:24:48. > :24:51.man I am meeting today. Lawxer Simon Daniels was so intrigued about the

:24:52. > :24:57.stories surrounding the death that he spent 20 years trying to uncover

:24:58. > :25:01.the truth. On 6th September, 19 4, this incredible advance by the

:25:02. > :25:10.German army, which everybodx thought was unstoppable and certainly the

:25:11. > :25:16.Germans did, were finely halted They were painfully pushed back

:25:17. > :25:21.Otto was at the forefront. His horse fell on to him. It was not ` serious

:25:22. > :25:26.wound, but sufficient for hhm to get stuck there and the French for

:25:27. > :25:32.immediately upon him. Is thd next records of being at Netley then The

:25:33. > :25:39.next record is of him tying at Netley. 16th December, 1916, two

:25:40. > :25:43.years after he was injured, Otto was buried here in Netley's cemdtery.

:25:44. > :25:48.His family were told he had died from a stomach illness. The truth

:25:49. > :25:53.was rather different. His relatives had no idea that a

:25:54. > :25:59.radically different course of death had been recorded on Otto's death

:26:00. > :26:07.certificate. I was stunned to read that the cause

:26:08. > :26:13.of death was "acute mania." And the complication was comugs.

:26:14. > :26:18.Nobody in the history of thd human race has died from being insane

:26:19. > :26:24.Exhaustion in 1916 frequently referred to loss of blood.

:26:25. > :26:29.It was actually that which subsequently led me on to ftrther

:26:30. > :26:33.research. When we discovered that experiments were carried out here in

:26:34. > :26:41.Netley into blood transfusions. Are you telling me that Otto was a human

:26:42. > :26:47.Guinea pig? I am suggesting that the circumstance cup stan shall evidence

:26:48. > :26:55.is there were Guinea pigs hdre. If he had `` circumstantial evhdence is

:26:56. > :26:58.they were human Guinea pigs. The name here is Clindening. Th`t is

:26:59. > :27:06.interesting because we have heard that name already. Is that so? For

:27:07. > :27:13.not being particularly symp`thetic towards the prisoners/patients in

:27:14. > :27:18.this place. Right. This is ` startling significance in this case.

:27:19. > :27:23.Really? Because we just don't have satisfactory evidence about the

:27:24. > :27:29.conditions in which Otto was held. It is bizarre that somebody who was

:27:30. > :27:35.apparently lightly wounded when his horse was shot and fell on top of

:27:36. > :27:44.him would be here in a military hospital for two and a quarter years

:27:45. > :27:49.and then dies of acute mani`. There's no doubt Netley has some

:27:50. > :27:53.dark secrets. Ones which max remain forever hidden.

:27:54. > :27:57.We shouldn't forget that ovdr 100,000 soldiers were treatdd here

:27:58. > :28:02.during both world wars. Most of them made a full recovery

:28:03. > :28:08.due to the care and attention they received here. Almost in sphte of

:28:09. > :28:12.the antiquated building. After the Second World War, the

:28:13. > :28:16.hospital fell into disuse and in 1966, the order was given to

:28:17. > :28:22.demolish the building. Some people regretted the loss. Nature began to

:28:23. > :28:26.heal the scars of warfare and the past and now only the lingering

:28:27. > :29:10.memory of this vast militarx hospital remains.

:29:11. > :29:13.Hello, I'm Ellie Crisell with your 90 second update.

:29:14. > :29:15.Reports of alleged abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile

:29:16. > :29:19.NSPCC research found most victims were aged between 13 and 15,

:29:20. > :29:29.A new phase in the Madeleine McCann inquiry.

:29:30. > :29:31.Police are searching scrubland near where the toddler went missing

:29:32. > :29:38.Football's governing body, FIFA says its investigation

:29:39. > :29:40.into corruption claims around Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid

:29:41. > :29:42.will have gathered all its evidence by next week.

:29:43. > :29:48.It comes amid fresh allegations which officials vehemently deny

:29:49. > :29:50.He's been on the throne for almost 40 years, but now

:29:51. > :29:54.Juan Carlos says the time has come to hand over to

:29:55. > :30:00.He had to go deep into the Amazon rainforest, but David Beckham has

:30:01. > :30:03.found people who had absolutely no idea who he was.

:30:04. > :30:09.In the South: on Brazil.

:30:10. > :30:10.Who has access to your personal details?

:30:11. > :30:13.An investigation is launched as Basingstoke and Dean Council

:30:14. > :30:16.admits it accidentally gave out data on nearly 2,000 people.

:30:17. > :30:20.A new law's been passed to tackle the problem of guide dogs