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Another leap in the number of unemployed - it reaches a 17-year | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
high. The latest count is more than 2.6 million - young jobseekers are | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
hit hardest, with more than one in five out of work. There are some | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
new private sector jobs - but they're dwarfed by public sector | :00:21. | :00:30. | |
losses. The central economic claim that he made, that the private | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
sector would fill the gap left by the public sector, has not been met. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
His plans are for more spending, more borrowing, more debt, more of | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
the mess that we started with. We'll be looking at prospects for | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
2012. Also tonight... The euro takes a beating over fears that | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
last week's summitry is already unravelling. The biggest ever sale | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
of bank branches - Lloyds prepares to sell more than 600 to the Co-Op. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
The face of the Liege killer - Belgian police say they've found | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
another body in a shed belonging to Nordine Amrani. Barack Obama calls | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
time on the Iraq war he once opposed but now calls an | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
"extraordinary achievement". And a royal tour like no other - senior | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
members of the family will go to the four corners of the world for | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
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Good evening. Unemployment has risen to its highest level since | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
1994, with Britain's youth, once again, coming out worst in the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
search for work. The latest figures show that the total number of | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
people out of work rose by 128,000 in the three months to October. | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
It's now 2.64 million. As our chief economics correspondent, Hugh Pym, | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
reports, hopes of a resurgent private sector matching job losses | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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in the public sector have yet to It was a promising start to the | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
year for the jobs market, but then it went into reverse. High-profile | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
cutbacks like those in one engineering firm symbolised the | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
growing uncertainty. So did job cuts announced by BAE Systems, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
which are yet to show up in the official figures. In Northern | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Ireland, the jobless total actually fell slightly, but that did not | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
help Kevin Davison in Belfast. He has been looking for work in the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
construction industry, but has had no joy so he is heading to | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Australia, and he is not the only one. Out of our masters course of | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
36 people, about 35 of them will be going to Australia. It is a mixture | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
of architects, engineers and planners. One of the key debates | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
this year has been over the possibility of the private sector | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
taking up the slack as the Government cut back public | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
employment levels. The latest figures suggest that private | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
employers are not creating enough jobs to compensate for losses | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
across the public sector. There was a big gap over the three months to | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
a big gap over the three months to September. Public sector employment | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
fell by 67,000, to the lowest level in eight years. The number of | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
private sector employees increased private sector employees increased | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
by just 5,000 over that time. That provoked fierce clashes in the | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
House of Commons at Prime Minister's Questions. He cannot | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
deny that the central economic claim that he made, that the | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
private sector would fill the gap left by the public sector, has not | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
been met. He has broken his promise. It is this government that has got | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
interest rates down to 2%. That is why we have the prospect of growth, | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
whereas his plans are for more spending, more borrowing, more debt, | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
more of the mess that we started with. But the spectre of | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
unemployment rising close to levels seen in the 1980s is hovering over | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the economy, with analysts predicting continued increases next | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
year. The economy is at best bumping along the bottom. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Employment levels are unlikely to rise, at least for the next year or | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
so. There was some positive news from the supermarket chain | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
Morrisons, which says it will create 7,000 new posts next year, | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
as it opens 25 new stores. But gas has to be set against more gloomy | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
news from the troubled giant Thomas Cook, which increased its target | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
for store closures to 200. More than 600 jobs are at risk. The | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
economy is generating and cutting jobs every month. Workers can only | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
hope the balance is positive. Right now, it isn't. Hugh Pym is with me | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
now. Explain this - the Government says one measure of unemployment | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
has not actually gone up by much. Yes, if you look at the narrower | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
measure, the so-called claimant count, it has not gone up very much | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
at all in the last couple of months, it is stuck at 1.6 million, | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
although that is still relatively high. But I think most analysts | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
would say these figures could have been worse. It is worth pointing | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
out that the unemployment rate here in the UK is still below that of | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
the US and France. It is still an international problem. But that is | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
not much consolation for those people looking for jobs into next | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
year. As we have been hearing, pretty sluggish growth is being | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
forecast by most commentators, not creating enough jobs to bring down | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
unemployment. But if things turn out to be worse than predicted, | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
because of a major eurozone crisis, it could be even worse for | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
unemployment. One thing is building, that unemployment is not going to | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
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European markets have fallen amid fears that the deal negotiated last | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
week to stop the crisis in the eurozone may be unravelling. In | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that sorting out the | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
eurozone's problems would take years, but insisted that Britain | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
remained an important EU partner, despite David Cameron's use of the | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
veto. As our political editor, Nick Robinson, reports, some other EU | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
leaders also have reservations about the way forward. Ever since | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
David Cameron sat alone, without allies, one against 26, the debate | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
has been - was this dangerous isolation, or what in Victorian | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
times they used to call splendid isolation? President Sarkozy seems | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
to be in no doubt. He has been reported as described in David | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Cameron's behaviour as like that of a petulant child. It gave France | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
what it always wanted, a plan for a treaty with no British involvement. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
But Germany's Chancellor Merkel was much more conciliator meet today, | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
telling the German parliament there was still time for Britain to join | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
TRANSLATION: I regret very much that Britain has not been able to | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
join us on this journey. But it is beyond any doubt that Britain will | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
remain a very secure partner in the European Union. Only David Cameron | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
refused last week to sign a new EU treaty, but now others are | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
beginning to express doubts. The Hungarian Prime Minister does not | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
want to lose control of business taxes. The Swedish leader needs | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
opposition support. The Irish might need a referendum, and they are | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
worried about the idea of new taxes which affect Dublin but not London. | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
David Cameron began this week talking of the benefits of standing | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
alone. And yet tonight, he told a meeting of Tory MPs that it might | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
not end up being Britain as one against the other 26 in Europe. He | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
has had a boost with his own backbenches, a boost in the opinion | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
polls, and a boost today at Prime Minister's Questions. Ed Miliband | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
chose today's to play the men, not the ball, mocking coalition | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
divisions. He read out an old coalition document, promising a | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
whole new style of government. more collegiate approach. Mr | :08:32. | :08:40. | |
Speaker, I'm bound to ask, what's gone wrong? No-one in this House is | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
going to be surprised that Conservatives and Liberal Democrats | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
do not always agree about Europe. But let me reassure him, he should | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
not believe everything he read in the papers. It is not that bad. I | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
mean, it is not like we're brothers or anything. Tory MPs, waving and | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
cheering, suddenly like their leader. Labour MPs, sitting in | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
silence, are beginning to have doubts about theirs. His assistants | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
say it is judgments, not jokes, which will count in the end. All | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
the debate about what David Cameron did or did not do may soon be | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
irrelevant. The euro plummeted today on the markets. The agreement | :09:26. | :09:35. | |
he did not sign did not end the Lloyds is preparing to sell 632 of | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
its branches to the Co-operative Bank. If the deal goes through, it | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
would be the biggest of its kind. The sale is being forced on Lloyds | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
under EU competition rules. As our business editor, Robert Peston, | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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reports, it would make the Co-op Britain's seventh biggest bank. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
Lloyds is selling 632 branches, and the preferred bidder is the Co-op. | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
The buyer, unlike the big banks, is owned by its customers, not by | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
investors. People talk about creating a people's bank. Well, | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
look no further, we are the people's bank. We are owned and | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
controlled by 7 million members. That's very different as a business | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
model to the plc world. That is the world in which the current big five | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
banks operate. If the deal goes through, it would be a bit of | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
history, because, for the past 20 years, building societies, owned by | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
their members, the likes of Abbey National, Northern Rock, Bradford & | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
Bingley, the Halifax and Woolwich, became banks, listed on the stock | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
market. But this big chunk of Lloyds looks as though it is going | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
in the other direction, to become part of what is known as a mutual. | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
The Co-op would get a business with �36 billion of customers' deposits | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
and savings, and with a share of the current account market standing | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
the current account market standing at just under 5%. It would be a big | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
enough organisation, many would enough organisation, many would | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
think, to give the big banks a run for their money. If it goes through, | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
it would be good, it would be a strong challenger to the dominant | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
four banks in the high street, but it will leave behind a huge Lloyds | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
bank with 2,500 branches, and a quarter of the current account | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
market, so the Government must make them go further. Among the branches | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
being sold are all 150 for Cheltenham and Gloucester branches. | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
That will pose a dilemma for many of customers. Lloyds will want them | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
to transfer across to the new owner, likely to be the Co-op, but will | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
the customers think that is a great idea? For Lloyds, 41% owned by | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
taxpayers, it was a busy day. The board announced it was confident | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
that its chief executive, who had taken a leave of absence because of | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
their Georgian, will be fit enough to return in January. -- because of | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
exhaustion. But this deal is not done yet. There are hurdles, | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
approval by the regulator, integration of computer systems, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
and possible objections from customers. But if it does go | :12:16. | :12:26. | |
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through, it would change banking as The mother of one of the men | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
accused of killing the black teenager Stephen Lawrence 18 The | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
mother of one of the men accused of killing the black teenager Stephen | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
Lawrence 18 years ago says Gary Dobson was at home at the time. | :12:45. | :12:54. | |
Years ago says Gary Dobson was at home at the time. His mother | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
insisted that her son was in all evening. Gary Dobson, on the left, | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
and his co-defendant, David Norris, A minute's silence has been held in | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the Belgian city of Liege to remember the victims of yesterday's | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
gun and grenade attack. Today, the body of a woman has been found | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
close to the home of the gunman, Nordine Amrani. It takes the number | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
killed to six. From Liege, here's our Europe correspondent, Matthew | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
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They came to pray and to mourn. To contemplate at the focus of so much | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
misery. To try to comprehend the incomprehensible. It was here that | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
a 33-year-old gunman showed so much blurred. Here that one of his | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
bullets hit a school boy, whose friend was killed. | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
TRANSLATION: Everybody ran. Everyone was panicking. I heard | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
gunshots. I had been hit. I managed to get onto the bus. These were the | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
scenes moments after one of the grenades had exploded. At least one | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
teenager died on the spot. More than 120 people were injured. 24 | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
hours ago, he chose this vantage point for himself. He knew he had | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
the potential to kill and injure bus numbers of people. He threw | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
three grenades and started firing on the crowds below. Just up there, | :14:37. | :14:44. | |
the police say he shot himself. This is the killer. He was the gun | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
fanatic, now turned mass murderer. His killing spree started earlier | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
than first thought. It was in his garage that the body of a cleaner | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
was found. Police said he had shot her. Up the road, his home, with a | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
string of weapons, drug and sex offences, the police knew him well. | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
So do the pupils at the school of two of his victims. They paused to | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
remember and to reflect. The bullet scars are a cause of fascination | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
and horror. The glass will be repaired and the buses are moving | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
again. Life goes on. Not for the victims they are remembering this | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
evening. Not for 17 month-old Gabriel. His mother heard a bang | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
and saw his eyes rolled back in his head. I wish I had died, instead of | :15:44. | :15:52. | |
him, she said. Coming up on tonight's programme: 30 years ago, | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
the Queen visited Tuvalu. Now, as part of the Diamond Jubilee, the | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
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It is harder to end a war than to start one. That was the message | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
from President Obama today, as he welcomed home American soldiers | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
from Iraq. Mr Obama, who opposed the war at the outset, said Iraq | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
was not a perfect place. After nine years of fighting, American troops | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
had helped to turn the tide towards peace. The last US soldiers are | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
expected to withdraw from Iraq within days. Mark Mardell sent this | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
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report from Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The President of the | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
United States. The president and first lady came with lavish praise | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
for the troops. He said they were incredible. Their hearts had been | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
touched by fire. This war ended with a march towards home. I am | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
proud to finally say these two words. I know your family's degree. | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
Welcome home. -- families agree. Welcome home. This was a tricky | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
speech. President Obama had to praise the military. He did so the | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
sacrifice meant Iraq was now sovereign, stable and self-reliant. | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
It is harder to end a war than begin one. Everything that American | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
troops have done in Iraq. All the fighting, the dying, the bleeding, | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
the building, the training and partnering, of all of it has led to | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
this moment of success. This speech is intended to draw a clear line | :17:40. | :17:48. | |
under a wall that divided America and divided America from its allies. | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
The foreign policy of President Obama has been driven by the desire | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
to rehabilitate America in the eyes of the world. A war based on the | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
false premise that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
began in shock and all and what looked like an easy victory. It was | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
ill thought-out and descended into a turmoil of violence. This has | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
changed America. The fact the war did not go well, after Saddam | :18:22. | :18:29. | |
Hussein got removed, has, I think, made Americans, at least for the | :18:29. | :18:36. | |
time being, more reluctant to consider military action. As long | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
as no military action of any significance is required, that is | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
fine. If our obligations get triggered, and there is a question | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
of our reliability as an ally, that is not fine. For some, the price is | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
more personal. 4500 American troops have been killed in Iraq. The | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
operation has cost United States one trillion dollars. Many ask, for | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
what? Matt went to Iraq wanting to change the world. He left thinking | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
that war was never the answer. lost my first friend in an IED | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
attack and another friend to a suicide attack. This war will be | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
with us, the soldiers who served and the Iraqis who endured, for a | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
very long time to come. They are home quicker than many expected. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
The President tango into an election without quibbles or | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Cabinet. -- can go. The former legal manager of the News of the | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
World said today that he told James Murdoch there was direct and hard | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
evidence that phone hacking at the paper extended beyond a single | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
reporter. Tom Crone told the Leveson Inquiry into press ethics | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
that he showed the News International chairman a printout | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
of a key e-mail at a meeting three years ago. James Murdoch has always | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
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claimed he did not know phone The formal legal manager of News | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
International, Tom Crone, told the inquiry that James Murdoch was | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
briefed about the extent of phone hacking. The executive chairman of | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
News International has always claimed he was not told the full | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
story. Yesterday he conceded he was sent e-mails which she did not | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
fully read. Tom Coke -- Tom Crone recalled a meeting with Mr Murdoch. | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
He claims they discussed the severity of the situation. This | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
document clearly was direct and hard evidence. The inquiry also | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
heard from the former editor of the News of the World, Colin Myler. He | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
was asked about the publication of parts of the diaries of Kate McCann, | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
which she said left her feeling violated. He thought the | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
representative of the McCanns had given them the go-ahead. They paid | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
a significant sum into the Madeleine McCann fund. There was an | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
acceptance and acknowledgement that there had been a misunderstanding. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
We made it very clear that the last thing we wanted to do was to cause | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Kate any more distress. Another bereaved family were spoken of - | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
the Dowlers. Following revelations the News of the World may not have | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
been responsible for deleting voice mails on the phone of their | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
daughter, counsel for the victims told the inquiry the solicitor for | :21:49. | :21:58. | |
the dam or family was telephoned yesterday. -- Dower. In few of | :21:58. | :22:05. | |
these revelations, will be Dowlers be giving their money back? - In | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
view. They refute the allegation it attacked the Dowlers. They said it | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
was a legitimate journalistic inquiry. With regard to the | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
deletion of the boys rows of Milly Dowler, Lord Justice Leveson says | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
he wants the issue clarified as quickly as possible. -- voice mails. | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
The Government has given the go- ahead for badgers to be shot in two | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
areas of England next year to try to stop tuberculosis spreading | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
among cattle. The British Veterinary Association has welcomed | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
the decision, insisting that culling reduces cases of bovine TB | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
by 10%. Opponents believe there should be a greater focus on | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
developing vaccines. A similar badger cull was approved in Wales | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
but the decision was overturned in the High Court. Actress Elizabeth | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Taylor's famous jewels went for �75 million at an auction today. That | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
is more than double the record for a single collection. Christie's | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
sale of 80 items included pearls, colourless diamonds and Indian | :23:06. | :23:15. | |
jewels. They had expected to raise some �13 million. The Queen and the | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
Duke of Edinburgh will travel widely around the United Kingdom | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
next year to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. To mark 60 years since the | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
Queen came to the throne, other members of the Royal Family will | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
tour the world, visiting the countries where the Queen is head | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
of state and some others in the Commonwealth. Nicholas Witchell | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
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reports. The golden jubilee of 2002 brought out the crowds and took the | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Queen and her husband to different parts of the United Kingdom. The | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
programme for the Diamond Jubilee is said by Buckingham Palace to be | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
more extensive. The Queen will concentrate on the United Kingdom | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
across four months starting at the end of March, she and her husband | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
will go to different parts of the country. It will be a test of | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
stamina for a couple who, by next summer, will be 86 and 91 years old. | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
She has been doing it for of six years. That is what keeps her going. | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
Her entire devotion to duty. It is what she gave her life full. She | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
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has given her love for it. Outside the UK, the visits will be led by | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall. Most focus will be on the Duke and | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
Duchess of Cambridge. They will be going to the South Pacific to visit | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu, which last had a royal visit when | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh went there 30 years ago. They were | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
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carried ashore by islanders sitting in Kunduz. -- canoes. William and | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Kate can expect something similar. Prince Harry will be travelling | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
next year as well. He is going to Billy's, Jamaica and the bombers. | :25:17. | :25:26. | |
It will be his first foreign visit representing the Queen. -- the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Bahamas. More than a century after Queen Victoria, Britain will have | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
another opportunity to express feelings for another long-lived | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
Queen. The programme for next year will be carefully paced. The Palace | :25:39. | :25:45. |