06/12/2011

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:00:10. > :00:17.Tonight at Ten: David Cameron threatens to veto a new European

:00:17. > :00:22.treaty to rescue the single currency. Ahead of this of of this

:00:22. > :00:26.bike's bike -- week's summit. Britain will be insisting on some

:00:26. > :00:32.safeguards too and as long as we get those then that treaty can go

:00:32. > :00:37.ahead. If we can't get those, it won't.

:00:37. > :00:40.A pointed joke by the French about high tax Britain reveals the

:00:40. > :00:43.underlining tensions as the summit approaches. We will be looking at

:00:43. > :00:48.the pressures on Mr Cameron from European partners and from

:00:48. > :00:52.Conservative colleagues. Also tonight:

:00:53. > :00:57.Two suicide bombs in Afghanistan, aimed at Shia Muslims claim at

:00:57. > :01:00.least 58 lives. Police in Moscow detain leading

:01:00. > :01:06.opposition figures as protests continue against Prime Minister

:01:06. > :01:10.Putin. With this Government, with these leaders, with these cheats,

:01:10. > :01:17.these thieves, Russia has no future. The woodland near Huddersfield

:01:17. > :01:23.where a woman was buried alive by her partner and survived.

:01:23. > :01:27.And Westminster Abbey has welcomed a new addition to Poets Corner. In

:01:27. > :01:37.sports Day: All the night's Champions League action including

:01:37. > :01:50.

:01:50. > :01:53.Chelsea's make or break match Good evening. The Prime Minister is

:01:53. > :01:57.threatening to veto any new treaty aimed at saving the single currency

:01:57. > :02:00.if it doesn't protect British interests. In particular, he wants

:02:00. > :02:05.to safeguard London's position as Europe's most important financial

:02:05. > :02:11.centre. The new treaty, being put forward by Germany and France, is

:02:11. > :02:16.due to be discussed at a crucial EU summit in Brussels later this week.

:02:16. > :02:21.Our political editor, Nick Robinson, has the story.

:02:21. > :02:24.He will be just one amongst 27 when the EU leaders meet to save the

:02:24. > :02:29.euro, one representing a country not even in the euro. But today

:02:29. > :02:33.David Cameron insisted he would veto a deal if it didn't protect

:02:33. > :02:36.Britain's interests. What I am saying is that if and eurozone

:02:36. > :02:40.countries do need to come together, do need to do more things together

:02:40. > :02:44.f they choose to use the European treataway to do that Britain will

:02:44. > :02:48.be insisting on safeguards too and as long as we get those then that

:02:48. > :02:53.treaty can go ahead. If we can't get those, it won't.

:02:53. > :02:56.The Prime Minister says he will only sign if all 27EU countries

:02:56. > :03:00.agree to safeguard Britain's interests. To keep the single

:03:00. > :03:04.market fair and open and to protect our financial services industry

:03:04. > :03:09.from damaging new rules. If he doesn't sign, the 17 countries that

:03:10. > :03:13.use the euro could sign a deal on their own, effectively forming a

:03:13. > :03:17.new European club. That was the implied threat

:03:17. > :03:21.yesterday coming from Germany's Chancellor, Merkel when she met

:03:22. > :03:26.France's President Sarkozy in Paris, where the talk is of a superEurope

:03:26. > :03:31.being formed by Europe's new supercouple. Some eurosceptics here

:03:31. > :03:35.want Britain to go back to the future. It was the worst tempered

:03:35. > :03:42.summit Mrs Thatcher or any of the other leaders... When she was Prime

:03:42. > :03:47.Minister, Margaret Thatcher fought and fought get a British rebate.

:03:47. > :03:51.is asking the community to have our own money back. Many Tories now say

:03:51. > :03:55.that it's time her successor demanded not just our money back,

:03:55. > :04:01.but powers, too. But the man who was Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor

:04:01. > :04:05.says different times require a different approach. I think now is

:04:05. > :04:09.the time to make it quite clear we are not going to be a pushover, but

:04:09. > :04:13.clear that we do have perfectly reasonable demands on which we are

:04:13. > :04:17.going to insist but we are not going to try and stop them dealing

:04:17. > :04:20.with the immediate eurozone problems by diverting to these

:04:20. > :04:25.things, that will come later. Prime Minister isn't short of

:04:25. > :04:28.advice on thousand handle this summit, Britain's last Foreign

:04:28. > :04:32.Secretary warns that tough talk could actually lead to less

:04:32. > :04:36.influence. David Cameron faces a real trap from those in his own

:04:36. > :04:39.party who are spoiling for a fight that would bring Britain out of the

:04:39. > :04:43.European Union. The trap is that in the end the other countries will go

:04:43. > :04:47.ahead on their own and not just decide economic policy for the

:04:47. > :04:50.eurozone, they'll end up designing policy for the whole of the

:04:50. > :04:54.European Union and that will put Britain in the second division, a

:04:54. > :04:57.place it's tried to avoid for at least 40 years. Downing Street hope

:04:57. > :05:01.that things have improved since the French President told the Prime

:05:01. > :05:09.Minister we are sick of you criticising us, and telling us what

:05:09. > :05:12.to do. Although today at the launch of tkpwaoble's -- Google's HQ Mr

:05:12. > :05:19.Sarkozy jokes French people were leaving London because taxes were

:05:19. > :05:23.going up. Because... He meant business-friendly and insisted it

:05:23. > :05:26.was just a joke. But asked don't tell David Cameron, because I like

:05:26. > :05:31.him. Friendships and understandings are

:05:31. > :05:38.one thing, this is the week when national interests count and next

:05:38. > :05:44.week parliaments get their say. How meaningful is Mr Cameron's

:05:44. > :05:50.threat given the ability of the eurozone countries to go it alone.

:05:50. > :05:53.Let's tourpb Nick. What's -- turn to Nick. What's your reading?

:05:53. > :05:57.will be people throughout Europe saying it's unlikely that David

:05:57. > :06:01.Cameron would be willing to veto a treaty, particularly if it was one

:06:01. > :06:05.that would stablise the eurozone because after all, he said even

:06:05. > :06:08.though Britain never joined the single currency it's primarily in

:06:08. > :06:11.this country's interests that situation is sorted out and yet

:06:11. > :06:15.Downing Street officials are saying tonight, and the Prime Minister in

:06:15. > :06:20.his own words in the Times, is insisting that he is willing to say

:06:20. > :06:24.no to a treaty of all 27 for a very particular reason, because those

:06:24. > :06:29.countries who might think well forget that, let's go on our own,

:06:29. > :06:32.let's just the 17 in the eurozone form a new set of rules, Mr Cameron

:06:32. > :06:36.has another threat, if you try to do that, he says, we and others

:06:36. > :06:41.will resist the idea of using the officials of the EU, the

:06:41. > :06:44.institutions of the EU, the European Court as well in

:06:44. > :06:49.Luxembourg, in order to support the eurozone. So don't think you can

:06:49. > :06:54.get around us that way. It's all part of the shadow boxing, if you

:06:54. > :06:57.like, ahead of the summit T won't be enough to satisfy British

:06:57. > :07:01.British eurosceptics who say this is a once in a lifetime possibility

:07:01. > :07:05.not to simply get safeguards, but to drag powers back from Brussels

:07:05. > :07:11.and have a referendum on the whole thing. That's one thing that isn't

:07:11. > :07:14.being promised tonight and David Cameron will not deliver.

:07:14. > :07:18.Thank you. The deadliest bombing in the Afghan

:07:18. > :07:22.capital in three years has claimed at least 50 lives. It was a suicide

:07:22. > :07:26.bomb attack on Shia Muslims attending a shrine in Kabul. More

:07:26. > :07:29.than 160 people were injured. President Karzai called it an

:07:29. > :07:33.unprecedented sectarian attack and has now cancelled a visit to

:07:33. > :07:43.Britain where he was due to arrive tonight. From Kabul, Quentin

:07:43. > :07:43.

:07:43. > :07:53.Sommerville sent this report. Afghan Shias in Kabul beat

:07:53. > :07:57.

:07:57. > :08:06.themselves in a traditional mourning ritual. Then this.

:08:06. > :08:09.A massive explosion from a suicide bomber tears through the crowd.

:08:09. > :08:17.It's chaos, hundreds are hurt, dozens dead. The dying and injured

:08:17. > :08:25.are piled up in trucks. At a City Hospital they struggle to cope with

:08:25. > :08:34.wave after wave of victims. And on the pavement outside a mother

:08:34. > :08:41.mourns for her lost son. My heart is broken, she cries. Desperate and

:08:41. > :08:45.in despair, more gathered for news of missing family and friends. This

:08:45. > :08:52.is a day of mourning, said this man, it is an attack against humanity

:08:52. > :08:56.and an attack against Islam. It was part of a co-ordinated assault

:08:56. > :09:03.against Shias. A bomb also exploded in the northern city of Mazar-i-

:09:03. > :09:05.Sharif, but the Kabul attack was much bigger, in the heart of the

:09:06. > :09:12.city outside a shrine near the presidential Palace. The people

:09:12. > :09:16.here are extremely angry. There's long been tensions between Afghan

:09:16. > :09:19.Sunnis and Shias, but this kind of sectarian violence on this scale is

:09:19. > :09:23.unprecedented. President Karzai was due to leave a

:09:23. > :09:31.summit in Germany for Britain, instead, he will be returning to

:09:31. > :09:37.Kabul. It's the first time that on such an important religious day in

:09:37. > :09:44.Afghanistan terrorism of that horrible nature is taking place. We

:09:44. > :09:47.all wish the best for those who are injured and quick recovery and

:09:47. > :09:51.patience to the families of those who have lost their dear ones.

:09:51. > :09:57.the injured were being treated, the Taliban issued a statement saying

:09:57. > :10:01.they hadn't carried out the attack. The Government says they're lying.

:10:02. > :10:05.These attacks turned this Muslim day of mourning into a day of

:10:05. > :10:10.terrible loss, bringing a new kind of suffering to this already

:10:10. > :10:12.fractured country. In Moscow police say they've

:10:12. > :10:16.arrested 250 people during a second day of protests following the

:10:16. > :10:18.recent parliamentary elections. Demonstrators, who defied the

:10:19. > :10:24.official order to stay off the streets, claim the contest was

:10:24. > :10:26.rigged in favour of the prime minister, Vladimir Putin. A leading

:10:26. > :10:32.member of the opposition, Boris Nemtsov, was among those held and

:10:32. > :10:37.later released. Our correspondent Daniel Sandford sent this report.

:10:37. > :10:43.It does contain some flash photography.

:10:43. > :10:47.Driving through the crowd on Moscow's main shopping streets, the

:10:47. > :10:50.city's intimidating riot police. They were there to break up an

:10:50. > :10:55.unauthorised demonstration. More than 1,000 people were protesting

:10:55. > :10:57.once more against what they say was a fixed election and against the

:10:57. > :11:05.Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin. Russia without Putin has become

:11:05. > :11:08.their slogan. It's the second night in a row that

:11:08. > :11:13.the anti-Putin protesters have come out on the streets. Last night it

:11:13. > :11:22.was a legal demonstration. But tonight it hasn't been sanctioned

:11:22. > :11:27.and they all risk arrest. On Twitter and Facebook they're

:11:27. > :11:32.already calling it the Slavic spring even though the bit Irwin

:11:32. > :11:39.ter is -- bitter winter is around the corner. The movement now has

:11:39. > :11:43.some momentum and it's personal. Putin is a thief, they shouted.

:11:43. > :11:49.Russia with this Government, with these leaders, with these cheats,

:11:49. > :11:53.these thieves, Russia has no future. But just yards away there were

:11:53. > :11:58.chants in favour of Vladimir Putin. One of the Kremlin funded youth

:11:59. > :12:05.movement had also turned up. None of them was arrested. But several

:12:05. > :12:11.opposition leaders were rounded up. Former deputy prime minister Boris

:12:11. > :12:15.Nemstov was detained and later released and an influential anti-

:12:15. > :12:20.corruption campaigner was given a prison sentence for disobeying

:12:20. > :12:25.police at a demonstration. Vladimir Putin's official spokesman said

:12:25. > :12:29.anyone who protested legally should be stopped and he has continued to

:12:29. > :12:33.defend the election results despite the growing international criticism.

:12:33. > :12:39.But the authorities are bracing themselves for further unrest in

:12:39. > :12:48.the days ahead. This is a critical moment for Vladimir Putin. Will the

:12:49. > :12:52.protests peter out or will the British Airways says it has

:12:52. > :12:59.abandoned plans to create 400 jobs, blaming the Government decision to

:12:59. > :13:05.press ahead with an 8% increase in air fuel duty. The Government says

:13:06. > :13:08.that airlines must play their part in reducing the deficit. But Willie

:13:08. > :13:12.Walsh says that it will do more harm than good.

:13:12. > :13:17.The row between airlines and the Government has been ticking over

:13:17. > :13:22.for a while. Today it gained a lot more momentum. The boss of BA has

:13:22. > :13:26.accused ministers of harming economic growth by imposing a steep

:13:26. > :13:31.increase in Air Passenger Duty. This is a huge opportunity lost as

:13:31. > :13:36.a result of the actions of the Chancellor. It is making the UK and

:13:36. > :13:41.competitive. It is making it impossible for us to compete on a

:13:41. > :13:44.global scale and is damaging the UK economy. It is damaging job

:13:44. > :13:47.creation and it is the wrong thing to do. The Treasury said the move

:13:47. > :13:52.had been announced in the Budget in March and airlines had plenty of

:13:52. > :13:57.time to prepare for it. The duty will go up by 8% next April, after

:13:57. > :14:01.a freeze this year. BAE says it will scale back the planned

:14:02. > :14:06.creation of 800 jobs down to 400, and it will postpone a plan to

:14:06. > :14:09.bring an extra Boeing 747 into service. The announcement comes at

:14:09. > :14:13.an awkward time for the Government, because it is on the same day that

:14:13. > :14:21.ministers have been launching the latest phase of the growth strategy,

:14:21. > :14:26.with more than �100 million for investment in manufacturing. The

:14:26. > :14:28.Business Secretary Vince Cable was visiting a Birmingham-based company,

:14:28. > :14:33.Bromford Industries. It makes components for the aerospace

:14:33. > :14:38.industry. He was unveiling the Government plan to encourage more

:14:38. > :14:43.investment in hi-tech UK suppliers. I put to him BA accusation that

:14:43. > :14:47.other government policies might be damaging to growth. We have got to

:14:47. > :14:53.raise revenue, as well as public spending. What the airlines are not

:14:53. > :14:58.pointing out, of course we have passenger duty, but they do not pay

:14:58. > :15:02.VAT on their flights, nor do they pay fuel duty. The head of the CBI

:15:02. > :15:07.was also on the tour with the Secretary of State. He welcomed the

:15:07. > :15:10.new manufacturing initiative, but came down on BA's side on Air

:15:10. > :15:15.Passenger Duty. I think the Government has to be very careful

:15:15. > :15:19.with its tax-raising measures. We know it needs to bring in tax, even

:15:19. > :15:22.with the deficit-reduction cuts. It has got to balance the books. But

:15:23. > :15:26.Air Passenger Duty is a tax on travel. It is paid for by the

:15:26. > :15:30.travellers, it weakens the airline's ability to service the

:15:30. > :15:33.economy and I hope the Chancellor will think again. With the latest

:15:33. > :15:36.figures from the high street revealing a picture of subdued

:15:36. > :15:38.spending and the run-up to Christmas, it is clear that the

:15:38. > :15:45.Government will not find it easy to boost growth across the whole

:15:45. > :15:48.economy. At Leeds Crown Court, a woman whose

:15:48. > :15:51.partner is accused of burying her alive has described how she

:15:51. > :15:55.struggled to get out of the cardboard box in which she had been

:15:55. > :16:01.bound and gagged. Michelina Lewandowska was giving evidence at

:16:01. > :16:06.the trial of two men accused of attempted murder.

:16:06. > :16:11.Michelina Lewandowska lived here, with her son, Jacob, and his father,

:16:11. > :16:15.Marcin Kasprzak, the man she accuses of firing a Taser at her

:16:15. > :16:25.inside the house and trying to bury her alive. Speaking in court from

:16:25. > :16:33.

:16:33. > :16:39.behind a screen to protect her The prosecution say this man,

:16:39. > :16:43.Patryk Borys, her partner's friend was also there and helped carry

:16:43. > :16:49.Michelina Lewandowska out of the house in a computer box, up these

:16:49. > :16:54.steps and into a car. The jury heard how she was taken here. She

:16:54. > :16:57.was taken inside the box, to be buried. When the men reached the

:16:57. > :17:02.top of the hill, the court was told how they dug a hole using two

:17:02. > :17:05.shovels and placed the box, with Michelina Lewandowska, into the

:17:05. > :17:11.ground. The prosecution say they are then covered her with soil

:17:11. > :17:21.before placing a branch on top. But she managed to escape using her

:17:21. > :17:31.

:17:31. > :17:35.Michelina Lewandowska then said that she staggered onto the road

:17:35. > :17:38.and managed to flag down a calf. The prosecution claimed what

:17:38. > :17:43.happened inside this house was well planned, because her boyfriend

:17:43. > :17:53.wanted to start a new life with their son. But both defendants deny

:17:53. > :17:59.

:17:59. > :18:07.Drogba! And in early strike by troubled Chelsea in tonight's

:18:07. > :18:12.Champions' League match. But was it 18 of British scientists has built

:18:12. > :18:17.the clearest picture yet of an area of the South specific known as the

:18:17. > :18:23.rim of fire. They used sonar technology to create images of the

:18:23. > :18:33.ocean floor. They will observe the activity of underwater volcanoes

:18:33. > :18:33.

:18:33. > :18:39.and the Toon Armys often led to Volcanoes erupting in the Pacific

:18:39. > :18:48.Ocean. This was Tonga two years ago, one of the most volatile regions on

:18:49. > :18:54.earth. Nearby, a tsunami sweeps ashore on Samoa, the result of an

:18:54. > :18:57.earthquake, also two years ago. The seabed beneath the Pacific is often

:18:57. > :19:02.violent and we don't know much about it. A British research team

:19:02. > :19:05.went to investigate last summer, using the latest sonar technology

:19:05. > :19:10.it built up an unprecedented picture of the seabed and the huge

:19:10. > :19:15.forces at work. The research was in part of the so-called Pacific Ring

:19:15. > :19:20.of Fire, the four points and volcanoes circling the ocean. The

:19:20. > :19:27.focus was to the north of New Zealand. Here are the volcanoes

:19:27. > :19:31.near Tonga, and here is Samoa, where that tsunami struck. The

:19:31. > :19:35.plate moving westwards is colliding with the Indo-Australian plate. The

:19:35. > :19:38.researchers wanted to know what happened when this long line of

:19:38. > :19:44.underwater volcanoes approaches that fault line. Each of them is

:19:44. > :19:46.several miles high. Ahead is one of the deepest chasms on the planet.

:19:46. > :19:52.For the first time, they have captured had these huge mountains

:19:52. > :19:57.are destroyed as they fall into the abyss. The chasm is nearly seven

:19:57. > :20:00.miles deeper. Mount Everest would easily fit inside. The researchers

:20:00. > :20:05.from the universities of Oxford and Durham say the next volcano doesn't

:20:05. > :20:09.stand a chance. In its ultimate fate is to be carried down into

:20:09. > :20:14.that trench that you can see here, carried deep down into the earth.

:20:15. > :20:19.It cannot avoid that? It cannot avoid it. Once that one is gone,

:20:19. > :20:23.there is another one in line and that will be next. A close-up image

:20:23. > :20:27.of the volcano that is right on the edge, about to be destroyed.

:20:28. > :20:31.Remember, this is a mountain several miles five. This is the

:20:31. > :20:38.next one out, the one that is right on the lip, going down into the

:20:38. > :20:41.trench. You can see the way it is getting sly step, the parallel

:20:41. > :20:47.fractures cutting up this immense mountain like it was a loaf of

:20:48. > :20:52.bread. This matters anywhere that tsunamis can strike. The great wave

:20:52. > :20:55.that hit Japan last March was the result of an underwater earthquake.

:20:55. > :21:03.The more they are understood, the better chance of early warning for

:21:03. > :21:07.Britain's biggest banks could be forced to reveal what their tops

:21:07. > :21:10.that are paid under proposals from the Treasury to curb big bonuses.

:21:10. > :21:14.The plans would require the eight highest paid executives outside

:21:14. > :21:17.board level at each bank to disclose their salaries. The

:21:17. > :21:23.Treasury says it would allow shareholders to hold senior

:21:23. > :21:26.management to account over pay and bonuses.

:21:26. > :21:30.Chelsea and their am baffled manager face a vital match against

:21:30. > :21:38.Valencia to qualify for the Champions' League. -- embattled

:21:38. > :21:41.manager. They needed a win or goalless draw to qualify. I can

:21:41. > :21:46.report to you it is almost like the old days at Stamford Bridge, with

:21:46. > :21:51.Chelsea strolling to a 3-0 win, which means they do go through.

:21:51. > :21:54.Their manager, Andre Villas-Boas, did it his way, leaving Frank

:21:54. > :21:59.Lampard on the bench. If they had gone out at this stage, it would

:21:59. > :22:03.have waved goodbye to weigh potential �80 million. For their

:22:03. > :22:07.owner, the Champions' League means much more than that. Paul Roman

:22:07. > :22:11.Abramovich, the European Champions' League is both inspiration and

:22:11. > :22:16.frustration. His empire has never extended beyond England. Even a

:22:16. > :22:21.draw against Valencia could have seen the end of another manager.

:22:21. > :22:25.After all the agonising, success in football sometimes falls at your

:22:25. > :22:31.feet. Didier Drogba or transformed the mood after three minutes. Be

:22:31. > :22:35.under pressure manager, well, that is him. Still, with Andrei Villas-

:22:35. > :22:38.Boas in charge, Chelsea have rarely looked secure. They needed Petr

:22:38. > :22:44.Cech at his best. Calamitous defending came from the Spanish

:22:44. > :22:48.side. You should never let an opponent come between you. Ramires,

:22:48. > :22:54.2-0, suddenly it seemed like child's play. If Chelsea are

:22:54. > :23:01.building towards a new era, bear in mind that their outstanding player

:23:01. > :23:05.in this match is in sight of his 30th birthday. He is on his sixth

:23:05. > :23:08.Chelsea manager, but he has done this one a very good favour.

:23:08. > :23:18.Andre Villas-Boas has earned himself that money cannot buy, a

:23:18. > :23:19.

:23:19. > :23:22.British poet Ted Hughes, who died in 1998, has been honoured with a

:23:22. > :23:27.memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His name can now

:23:27. > :23:31.be seen alongside writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare. The

:23:31. > :23:40.memorial stone was dedicated this evening by Nobel laureate Seamus

:23:40. > :23:44.I don't know exactly what duties the poet laureate has. But I don't

:23:44. > :23:48.think writing to order is one of them. The charismatic and deeply

:23:48. > :23:53.thoughtful Ted Hughes, speaking shortly after being made the poet

:23:53. > :23:57.laureate in 1984. He died 14 years later, at the age of 68. This

:23:57. > :24:00.evening, at a service in Westminster Abbey, his outstanding

:24:00. > :24:07.contribution to literature was marked with the unveiling of a

:24:07. > :24:12.memorial stone bearing his name. You can come to Poets' Corner,

:24:12. > :24:20.where the word is celebrated. Juliet Stevenson read his poem,

:24:20. > :24:25.full moon and little freedom. cool, small evening, a dog bark and

:24:25. > :24:30.the clink of a bucket, and you, listening. Seamus Heaney, his

:24:31. > :24:36.friend and fellow poet, gave the address. What he created is a

:24:36. > :24:41.phantasmagoria. An arc of animals and Ella mantels. An Al-Marwah

:24:41. > :24:45.knack for all seasons and astrological science. He said that

:24:45. > :24:50.Ted Hughes meant everything to him, describing his writing as high-

:24:50. > :24:56.voltage. He has no doubt that his friend deserves his place among the

:24:56. > :25:06.greats. He belongs in Poets' Corner, I think, not just as a poet

:25:06. > :25:09.

:25:09. > :25:14.laureate, because of his achievements in English poetry. For

:25:14. > :25:21.the power of his poetry. The power of his presence in culture. When

:25:21. > :25:26.men got to the summit, words for sick them. The voice of Ted Hughes,

:25:26. > :25:31.who believed his poetry should be heard, as well as seeing. As his

:25:31. > :25:38.daughter, it is a marvellous thing to realise that he is being

:25:38. > :25:42.remembered in such a permanent way in a place that, hopefully, will

:25:42. > :25:49.carry him and the other poets forever. Here is a newly installed

:25:49. > :25:57.memorial stone to Ted Hughes, around which is an extract from his