:00:00. > :00:00.Making the journey into Wales from his home in Berkshire
:00:00. > :00:00.is rock'n'roll singer Shakin' Stevens.
:00:07. > :00:11.he's travelled the world with his musical career,
:00:12. > :00:17.and is now home in Wales on the trail of his family ancestry.
:00:18. > :00:24.saw Shaky spent the equivalent of five years in the UK singles chart
:00:25. > :00:28.reaching the top 30 no less than 30 times.
:00:29. > :00:33.Making him the household name he is today.
:00:34. > :00:38.But now, in search of his Welsh ancestry, there is an issue.
:00:39. > :00:43.Although I grew up in Wales, most of my roots are English.
:00:44. > :01:02.to one of the most dramatic events in recent Welsh history.
:01:03. > :01:14.Shaky learns of his grandfather's role in Britain's imperial past.
:01:15. > :01:17.That's quite heavy. In the sands of the Sudan. That's quite heavy, yes.
:01:18. > :01:21.Discovers the tragedies that beset his grandmother's life.
:01:22. > :01:27.Life after that must have been wretched.
:01:28. > :01:32.And learns the final part of a moving family story.
:01:33. > :01:39.It's a horrible thing, war, isn't it? Dreadful.
:01:40. > :01:44.Singer Shakin' Stevens grew up in Ely, Cardiff.
:01:45. > :01:50.a building site foreman who had fought in World War I,
:01:51. > :01:55.and Mum, Florence May Venables, a hospital cleaner.
:01:56. > :01:59.Shaky was the youngest of Florence and Jack's 13 children
:02:00. > :02:10.Now on the road at the beginning of his journey,
:02:11. > :02:17.Nervous, yeah, but I'm excited at the same time. I'm very, very interested.
:02:18. > :02:23.He's travelling with a very special photograph.
:02:24. > :02:28.It's of his maternal grandparents, Charlotte and Herbert Venables.
:02:29. > :02:34.Two people he never got to meet and is very keen to know more about.
:02:35. > :02:39.This is Herbert and Charlotte, my mum's parents
:02:40. > :02:48.I thought you could tell me that as we go along.
:02:49. > :02:56.That's as much as I know about these fine looking people.
:02:57. > :03:00.Shaky's family story begins in the town of Pontypridd.
:03:01. > :03:04.When his family first came to Wales in the 1880s,
:03:05. > :03:08.they headed here in search of work and a better life and,
:03:09. > :03:12.in the centre of town at Pontypridd's Museum,
:03:13. > :03:21.Hi, Shaky. Welcome to Pontypridd Museum.
:03:22. > :03:41.Mike has traced his earliest ancestors to Shropshire and
:03:42. > :03:46.the parish of Mainstone, where the family lived for many generations.
:03:47. > :03:50.It was not until the 1890s that his grandfather, Herbert Venables,
:03:51. > :03:58.He died in 1937, so you wouldn't have known him,
:03:59. > :04:01.because he's obviously died 11 years before you were born.
:04:02. > :04:06.Herbert married Shaky's grandmother Charlotte Quartley.
:04:07. > :04:12.He had come to Wales from Shropshire. She, from Somerset.
:04:13. > :04:15.Now, Charlotte Quartley is the reason why
:04:16. > :04:23.She moved to Pontypridd from Somerset in round about 1889.
:04:24. > :04:25.Herbert and Charlotte had a daughter,
:04:26. > :04:29.Florence May Venables, Shaky's mum, and a son, Leonard.
:04:30. > :04:32.But does Shaky know anything of his uncle Leonard
:04:33. > :04:35.or remember meeting his grandmother, Charlotte?
:04:36. > :04:40.No. I don't remember meeting them at all.
:04:41. > :04:44.Shaky's mother never spoke to him of his uncle Leonard.
:04:45. > :04:54.the times of the day, really. How it was.
:04:55. > :04:59.So, Shaky really is on a journey into the unknown.
:05:00. > :05:02.By revealing the lives of the two people in this photograph,
:05:03. > :05:09.he will unlock so many of the untold stories from his family's past.
:05:10. > :05:12.In search of his grandfather, Herbert Venables' story,
:05:13. > :05:16.Shaky is travelling just across the Welsh border into Shropshire,
:05:17. > :05:20.a place that would have been very familiar,
:05:21. > :05:22.not only to his grandfather, Herbert,
:05:23. > :05:33.At Mainstone's Primitive Methodist chapel,
:05:34. > :05:36.he meets with the Rev Stephen Hatcher.
:05:37. > :05:45.because your great-grandfather William Venables was
:05:46. > :05:51.a Primitive Methodist local preacher and an agricultural labourer.
:05:52. > :05:57.is there a difference between the Primitive Methodist and Methodist?
:05:58. > :06:06.Yes. The Primitive Methodists were a 19th-century revival movement.
:06:07. > :06:12.Primitive Methodists felt compelled by their Christian beliefs
:06:13. > :06:18.to take more direct political action than their Methodist cousins.
:06:19. > :06:22.Their mission to help the working poor made them popular
:06:23. > :06:26.with farm labourers in places like rural Shropshire.
:06:27. > :06:30.Their worship often took place in large open-air prayer events
:06:31. > :06:37.Amongst them was Shaky's great-grandfather, William Venables.
:06:38. > :06:40.And they used to go out to the people?
:06:41. > :06:42.Very much, very much going out to the people.
:06:43. > :06:52.which is, as you'll see, the Primitive Methodist preacher's plan
:06:53. > :06:59.for 1851 for the Bishop's Castle circuit. Ah.
:07:00. > :07:05.This circuit plan shows all the places that he went out to.
:07:06. > :07:09.What we have here is a list of the preachers to start with.
:07:10. > :07:12.And then we come to an on-trial category.
:07:13. > :07:14.That means they're still being tested.
:07:15. > :07:20.And then we, here, have a W Venables.
:07:21. > :07:26.That is without doubt William Venables, your great-grandfather.
:07:27. > :07:30.It's not long before they send him to Mainstone,
:07:31. > :07:36.the very chapel that we're in, and it is your great-grandfather
:07:37. > :07:51.But, what he doesn't yet know is that,
:07:52. > :07:56.whilst one side of this parish is in England, the other half is in Wales.
:07:57. > :08:01.Something that will prove significant in this story.
:08:02. > :08:04.First, he meets with Dr Kathryn Roberts from Cadw,
:08:05. > :08:10.who can explain the historic reasons why there is a border here.
:08:11. > :08:15.Welcome to Offa's Dyke. It's great to be here. Look at that view.
:08:16. > :08:19.And, this is the Dyke itself, just next to us, which is
:08:20. > :08:24.probably the most famous historic monument to run through
:08:25. > :08:27.the parish of Mainstone, which is where your ancestors come from.
:08:28. > :08:30.Today, Offa's Dyke has come to symbolise
:08:31. > :08:33.the border between England and Wales.
:08:34. > :08:38.over 1,000 years ago between two distinct kingdoms.
:08:39. > :08:41.We're standing on the edge of two kingdoms.
:08:42. > :08:46.On that side, the kingdom of Mercia, which was in England,
:08:47. > :08:50.or, where England is now, and on this side, the kingdom of Powys,
:08:51. > :08:53.which was part of Wales. The Welsh kingdoms.
:08:54. > :08:55.And this marks the boundary between them. Ah!
:08:56. > :08:58.Of course, over time, the Welsh-English border has moved,
:08:59. > :09:05.but there are other sections where Wales has expanded
:09:06. > :09:09.and it's moved inland, and there are sections which are, of course,
:09:10. > :09:11.in England, so it still is a border, in a way.
:09:12. > :09:16.My ancestors are from Mainstone, so which side of the dyke would they be?
:09:17. > :09:18.That side, or this side? English or Welsh?
:09:19. > :09:21.Well, Mainstone parish expands across both sides,
:09:22. > :09:25.but the town itself, or the village, is on the English side.
:09:26. > :09:28.So, I suppose if they were born on that side,
:09:29. > :09:31.that places them on the Mercian side, the English side.
:09:32. > :09:38.So Shaky's ancestors were living right on the border with Wales.
:09:39. > :09:42.Something that may prove significant as the story moves
:09:43. > :09:45.even further back into his ancestral past.
:09:46. > :09:50.he's off to the nearby Shropshire town of Shrewsbury.
:09:51. > :09:53.He's here to continue on the trail of his great-grandfather,
:09:54. > :09:59.He had a son, Herbert, Shaky's grandfather.
:10:00. > :10:02.Shaky has always wanted to know about the medals
:10:03. > :10:05.Herbert is wearing in this photograph.
:10:06. > :10:07.In Shropshire's Shrewsbury Castle, there is
:10:08. > :10:10.a record as Herbert's earlier life as a soldier.
:10:11. > :10:16.In 1885, he found himself in the Sudan, northeast Africa,
:10:17. > :10:19.involved in one of the more unusual adventures of the British Empire,
:10:20. > :10:27.He was in the first battalion of the Shropshire Light Infantry
:10:28. > :10:30.and he's wearing there... Those are the medals. Exactly.
:10:31. > :10:32.Well, these are exactly the same type.
:10:33. > :10:37.Each soldier was given a medal for service in the Sudan.
:10:38. > :10:40.They were out there fighting a tribe called the Hadandawa.
:10:41. > :10:45.Very, very highly-respected warriors.
:10:46. > :10:48.But just why in 1885 did Herbert find
:10:49. > :10:52.himself in the Sudan in the northeast of Africa?
:10:53. > :10:55.A year earlier, Sudan's capital Khartoum
:10:56. > :10:57.was under the command of famous British officer
:10:58. > :11:03.But Gordon badly underestimated the strength
:11:04. > :11:09.Khartoum was overrun and Gordon killed.
:11:10. > :11:12.For the British, it was seen as a humiliating defeat,
:11:13. > :11:16.so an extraordinary plan was drawn up to retake Khartoum.
:11:17. > :11:20.The plan involved building a railway in Sudan from the Red Sea
:11:21. > :11:24.port of Suakin across 300 miles of desert,
:11:25. > :11:27.carrying troops and supplies inland towards Khartoum.
:11:28. > :11:31.Through the tribal lands of the Hadandawa people.
:11:32. > :11:33.Your grandfather would have been out there
:11:34. > :11:36.with the Shropshire Light Infantry as part of the garrison of the port,
:11:37. > :11:40.protecting the railway, going out on patrol to fight these tribesmen.
:11:41. > :11:44.They're not. They were by no means pushovers.
:11:45. > :11:47.Although they were only armed with spears and shields and swords...
:11:48. > :11:52.Well, their reputation as fighters was just second to none.
:11:53. > :11:55.These are some of the weapons that they brought back.
:11:56. > :12:00.These are tribal spears from the Hadandawa in the Sudan. Wow.
:12:01. > :12:04...Sudanese sword, the kaskara,
:12:05. > :12:11.which they used as their main fighting weapon.
:12:12. > :12:13.Brave though the Hadandawa may have been,
:12:14. > :12:17.swords and spears were no match for British rifles.
:12:18. > :12:20.The counterbalance to all that was that your grandfather
:12:21. > :12:22.would have been trained to use one of these,
:12:23. > :12:25.which was the standard British rifle of the period,
:12:26. > :12:32.Very accurate, long range. A really powerful weapon.
:12:33. > :12:34.Your grandfather would have had his fill.
:12:35. > :12:37.Yeah. Carrying that around... That's quite heavy.
:12:38. > :12:43.How long would it take to...? To load?
:12:44. > :12:48.Take out, back in. Off again, do the same.
:12:49. > :12:51.They reckon about 20 rounds a minute.
:12:52. > :12:55.The railway that Herbert was sent to protect was never built.
:12:56. > :12:59.The plan was abandoned, but clearly he was proud of the medals
:13:00. > :13:09.As well as Mainstone in Shropshire,
:13:10. > :13:11.Shaky's earlier ancestors in this area
:13:12. > :13:14.can also be traced to the nearby village of Kerry,
:13:15. > :13:16.and it's to Kerry that he's going to next
:13:17. > :13:20.and a visit to the parish church of St Michael's.
:13:21. > :13:23.But unknown to Shaky, by travelling to this village,
:13:24. > :13:26.he's just crossed the border into Wales.
:13:27. > :13:28.It's here in Kerry that genealogist
:13:29. > :13:33.Mike Churchill-Jones has traced Shaky's family back even further -
:13:34. > :13:35.all the way to his four-times great-grandfather,
:13:36. > :13:46.His name is Richard son of Francis Gwilt.
:13:47. > :13:52.And I'm excited to reveal to you that he was born
:13:53. > :13:55.and baptised in the very church you're standing in.
:13:56. > :13:58.What Mike has discovered is that Richard Gwilt,
:13:59. > :14:01.Shaky's four-times great-grandfather, was Welsh.
:14:02. > :14:05.Born on the Welsh side of the border in the mid-18th century.
:14:06. > :14:10.He was not the only generation of the family from Wales.
:14:11. > :14:14.We've managed to research your Welsh Gwilt line.
:14:15. > :14:17.Back from your four-times great-grandfather Richard Gwilt
:14:18. > :14:22.back to his great-grandfather, who was also a Richard Gwilt.
:14:23. > :14:25.He was born in the early part of the 1600s.
:14:26. > :14:33.Yeah, so a lot more Welsh ancestry for you now to explore. Wow.
:14:34. > :14:43.The story now moves to South Wales and Pontypridd.
:14:44. > :14:46.Shaky's grandfather Herbert came here in the 1890s
:14:47. > :14:51.Charlotte Quartley is Shaky's grandmother.
:14:52. > :14:55.She's the lady in the family photograph he's travelling with.
:14:56. > :14:59.He wants to know more about his grandmother's earlier life.
:15:00. > :15:02.In the 1880s, she came to Pontypridd from Somerset,
:15:03. > :15:07.Ponty's old bridge in the centre of town
:15:08. > :15:09.would have been a familiar sight to them.
:15:10. > :15:14.Historian Dr Louise Miskell has been looking into their story.
:15:15. > :15:17.Your grandmother came here in the late 1880s.
:15:18. > :15:20.At that time, Pontypridd would have been
:15:21. > :15:26.which for Wales was quite a big town.
:15:27. > :15:28.I think the fascinating thing about Pontypridd,
:15:29. > :15:33.It's on the border between the affluent coal-mining areas
:15:34. > :15:39.So it was really on the edge of different cultures.
:15:40. > :15:43.Lots of families like your grandmother Charlotte were
:15:44. > :15:46.coming from exactly Somerset in the southwest of England...
:15:47. > :15:50.That's right. ..at that period, because there was so much work.
:15:51. > :15:53.That's right. They went where the work was, didn't they?
:15:54. > :15:57.They did. You had Albion Colliery just up the road at Cilfynydd,
:15:58. > :16:01.which was one of the many steam-coal collieries in this area.
:16:02. > :16:03.There was such an appetite for Welsh steam coal
:16:04. > :16:09.They were really looking for labour. Work was plentiful.
:16:10. > :16:14.Relatively well paid, although it had its dangers as well.
:16:15. > :16:19.There was an opportunity to move into an industrial environment
:16:20. > :16:22.and come to a town like Pontypridd which not only had employment
:16:23. > :16:25.but it had all the shops and facilities of an urban area,
:16:26. > :16:29.as well as the basic things like grocers and shoemakers
:16:30. > :16:35.and tailors, it had jewellery shops, upholsters, watch and clock makers.
:16:36. > :16:37.There was Turkish baths in Pontypridd in the 1880s,
:16:38. > :16:41.Do you think she might have used those? Possibly.
:16:42. > :16:44.Quite a fashion in the Victorian period.
:16:45. > :16:49.It was just an attractive up and coming vibrant place. Wow.
:16:50. > :16:55.So it pulled them in, and many of the families like them too.
:16:56. > :16:59.Shaky's grandparents Herbert and Charlotte married in 1906,
:17:00. > :17:04.this was not his grandmother's first marriage.
:17:05. > :17:08.At the Rhondda Heritage Centre, Mike Churchill-Jones has been
:17:09. > :17:10.looking into the archives to discover more
:17:11. > :17:14.of Charlotte's earlier life, along with her brother James.
:17:15. > :17:20.You can see James's name on the bottom there, and his wife.
:17:21. > :17:25.I'm afraid, it goes over the next page...
:17:26. > :17:31.Also in the household is a Henry John Bale.
:17:32. > :17:41.Henry John Bale became Charlotte's husband.
:17:42. > :17:45.They married in the registry office in Pontypridd. The second marriage.
:17:46. > :17:48.This is the first marriage. First marriage.
:17:49. > :17:50.Once they married, they stayed there
:17:51. > :17:53.and they moved to Middle Street, which is just round
:17:54. > :17:58.the corner from where Charlotte was living with her brother James.
:17:59. > :18:03.They were working just across the railway track in a colliery
:18:04. > :18:11.In Cilfynydd, little village just on the outside of Pontypridd.
:18:12. > :18:17.Now life was going relatively well for them.
:18:18. > :18:24.Mike has discovered that both Charlotte's new husband, Henry Bale,
:18:25. > :18:26.and her brother James were coalminers
:18:27. > :18:33.In the 1890s, they were working at the Albion Colliery.
:18:34. > :18:35.To learn more of the jobs they were doing,
:18:36. > :18:39.Shaky goes underground at the Rhondda Heritage Centre,
:18:40. > :18:48.so he was working in a roadway like this.
:18:49. > :18:50.A ripper's job would be to keep the roadways open.
:18:51. > :18:55.Henry was a labourer, removing debris,
:18:56. > :19:02.who were setting roof supports, pit props.
:19:03. > :19:10.Henry and James were working underground in the Albion Colliery.
:19:11. > :19:13.A fateful day in Welsh coal mining history.
:19:14. > :19:16.So they were underground on a Saturday afternoon
:19:17. > :19:19.and at about ten to four in the afternoon,
:19:20. > :19:22.just under two hours after the shift started,
:19:23. > :19:28.people on the surface heard two loud explosions.
:19:29. > :19:32.The blast could be heard in the main high street of Cilfynydd.
:19:33. > :19:35.Hundreds of people would soon rush to the pit head.
:19:36. > :19:38.The men were 500 odd yards underground,
:19:39. > :19:42.but the blast could be felt up on the surface.
:19:43. > :19:47.A cloud of smoke came up one of the shafts.
:19:48. > :19:51.Huge gas explosions deep in the pit shaft signalled what would
:19:52. > :19:56.become one of the worst mining disasters in Welsh history.
:19:57. > :20:01.In all, 290 men and boys would lose their lives.
:20:02. > :20:09.Dust, debris everywhere. Coal dust, debris.
:20:10. > :20:13.They found bodies strewn everywhere. Terrible.
:20:14. > :20:20.The bodies were taken up, the following day
:20:21. > :20:26.they were laid out in a hay loft of the stables on the pit top.
:20:27. > :20:29.They were so badly mutilated and covered with dust that people
:20:30. > :20:34.were mistakenly identifying the wrong bodies.
:20:35. > :20:37.Shaky's Grandmother Charlotte would have had to identify
:20:38. > :20:42.the bodies of both her brother James and husband Henry.
:20:43. > :20:45.Henry would never get to see their first child,
:20:46. > :20:52.Cilfynydd took many weeks to bury their dead.
:20:53. > :20:54.This photograph shows Phillip Jones,
:20:55. > :20:57.who was the manager of the mine on the day of the accident.
:20:58. > :21:01.Charges were laid against key members of the management.
:21:02. > :21:06.The major charges were dropped by a local jury full of local mine
:21:07. > :21:15.The manager and one of his key officials were fined a total of ?12.
:21:16. > :21:22.For Shaky, this is the first time he's learned of his family's
:21:23. > :21:25.involvement in this dark day in Welsh history.
:21:26. > :21:34.In one fateful day, she lost all her family.
:21:35. > :21:46.Her life after that must have been wretched.
:21:47. > :21:50.Shaky was too young to remember his grandmother Charlotte.
:21:51. > :21:53.She died when he was only a year old.
:21:54. > :21:56.But being one of 13 children means there are others in the family
:21:57. > :22:03.who do remember, including Shaky's older sister Aileen.
:22:04. > :22:09.I do remember Charlotte, my grandmother.
:22:10. > :22:13.It's the first time Aileen's seen this photograph of her grandparents.
:22:14. > :22:30.Later, Aileen will be meeting up with little brother Shaky,
:22:31. > :22:33.but now the family story moves forward to 1914
:22:34. > :22:40.Shaky's Grandmother Charlotte had remarried to Herbert Venables,
:22:41. > :22:42.amongst their children was a daughter -
:22:43. > :22:48.But Shaky's mother had never spoken about her brother Leonard.
:22:49. > :22:54.At Pontypridd's museum, Shaky meets with historian
:22:55. > :22:58.Dr Jonathan Hicks, who's been researching Leonard's story.
:22:59. > :23:01.Leonard enlisted, as you can see from the papers here,
:23:02. > :23:06.in August 1914 in the Welsh Regiment.
:23:07. > :23:10.He did. Mm. They did that a lot, didn't they?
:23:11. > :23:14.because they wanted to join up. He wanted to fight at the front
:23:15. > :23:23.In 1914, Leonard tried to enlist, but was deemed unfit for duty.
:23:24. > :23:26.He's not going to take no for an answer,
:23:27. > :23:32.because in January the following year, 1915,
:23:33. > :23:36.And he does become successful on this occasion,
:23:37. > :23:40.and he joins the Royal Field Artillery.
:23:41. > :23:44.Leonard was trained as a gunner and served on the Western front.
:23:45. > :23:48.Millions and millions of rounds fired on the Western Front
:23:49. > :23:53.And quite piercingly low, though, you'd figure.
:23:54. > :23:57.It would have been absolutely horrendous.
:23:58. > :24:01.He goes through all of that, absolutely horrendous experience.
:24:02. > :24:05.He's home on leave the following year, 1917.
:24:06. > :24:22.So he has a bit of happiness in his life,
:24:23. > :24:25.that up until that time has probably been absolutely awful
:24:26. > :24:28.in terms of his service on the Western Front.
:24:29. > :24:34.Also for Charlotte, after the many trials in her life, a moment of joy.
:24:35. > :24:36.She could witness her son's marriage.
:24:37. > :24:39.But soon Leonard would return to the front line,
:24:40. > :24:42.and Charlotte would never see her son again.
:24:43. > :24:49.he then goes straight into the Battle of Passchendaele,
:24:50. > :25:01.that the British fired in the last two weeks of July 1917.
:25:02. > :25:10.Something like 4 million shells were fired.
:25:11. > :25:15.Your uncle Leonard was one of the gunners firing those shells.
:25:16. > :25:20.You can't really imagine what they went through, really. Not at all.
:25:21. > :25:25.It's a horrible thing, war. Dreadful. Absolutely awful.
:25:26. > :25:31.By Christmas 1917, Leonard, who was now aged just 21,
:25:32. > :25:37.was about to face his final assault on the enemy.
:25:38. > :25:43.they begin the move back into the front line.
:25:44. > :25:47.This time he's posted right at the edge of the Ypres Salient,
:25:48. > :25:52.one of the most dangerous places on earth at the time.
:25:53. > :25:56.Between the fifth and the seventh of January 1918,
:25:57. > :25:59.there was an awful lot of artillery fire going from the British
:26:00. > :26:02.to the German lines, and the Germans were responding.
:26:03. > :26:15.He's then taken out of the front line to a casualty clearing station
:26:16. > :26:23.but unfortunately, he passes away on the 15th of January 1918.
:26:24. > :26:29.He's buried in the cemetery just west of Ypres in Belgium.
:26:30. > :26:38...his wife having had the letter from the war office informing
:26:39. > :26:44.her of her husband's death gives birth to their son,
:26:45. > :26:47.who she names Leonard Samuel Venables,
:26:48. > :27:01.Shaky began this journey with a single photograph -
:27:02. > :27:05.a photograph of his grandparents Charlotte and Herbert,
:27:06. > :27:13.But why is he being so moved by what he's learned?
:27:14. > :27:16.More than anything because of Charlotte.
:27:17. > :27:22.She lost a husband, a brother just in one day.
:27:23. > :27:35.Shaky has learnt so much on his journey that he'd like to
:27:36. > :27:44.He's about to meet up with older sister Aileen and brother Les.
:27:45. > :27:48.I don't call him Shaky because I've always called him Michael.
:27:49. > :27:53.But in recent years now I've gone down to Mike,
:27:54. > :28:01.Shaky has quite a story to share with them.
:28:02. > :28:15.At times, this has been a difficult journey for Shaky.
:28:16. > :28:20.It's been very emotional and sometimes very difficult.
:28:21. > :28:24.But, of course, I'm really glad I did it.
:28:25. > :28:29.the story starts with their grandmother Charlotte Quartley.
:28:30. > :28:39.At the start, Shaky believed he had little Welsh ancestry.
:28:40. > :28:46.It's funny, really, you know, I've thought of my ancestors as English.
:28:47. > :29:18.Hello, I'm Riz Lateef with your 90-second update.
:29:19. > :29:21.Stuart Hall has been cleared of raping two young girls. But the
:29:22. > :29:23.veteran broadcaster was convicted of one indecent assault charge. He's
:29:24. > :29:28.already serving 30 months for other sex offences.
:29:29. > :29:32.Bomb blasts in Kenya have killed at least ten people. They came as
:29:33. > :29:36.hundreds of British tourists were being flown home after the Foreign
:29:37. > :29:37.Office warned there was a 'high threat' of terrorist