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The six soldiers killed in Afghanistan are named. All but one | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
was aged 21 or under. They had been in Helmand province less than a | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
month when their vehicle was blown up. Members much the Yorkshire | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
Regiment paid tribute as the men's families talk of their grief. | :00:27. | :00:34. | |
It is such a massive, massive loss, taken away so quickly. He was a | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
legend to us and us all. We are heartbroken. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
As the families grieve, we are looking at what the future holds | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
for Afghanistan after British troops finally pull out. Also | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
tonight: A British man held hostage in Nigeria has been killed after an | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
attempt to rescue him and an Italian colleague. | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
The early indications are clear that both men were murdered bir | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
their captors before they could be rescued. | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
Plans to slash billions from the cost of running the railways, but | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
what about the price of tickets? A year from the Japanese tsunami, one | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
family remembers the mother that they lost and the home that | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
disappeared. And Leicester kicks off the Royal | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Jubilee Tour as the Queen prepares to travel the length and the bredth | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
of the UK. Coming up: Manchester City are one | :01:33. | :01:39. | |
nil down in their bid to reach the quarter fines after a cheeky goal | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
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from the centre back. Good evening. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
More details have emerged about the six soldiers killed in an explosion | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
in southern Afghanistan. Five of them from 3rd Battalion the | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
Yorkshire Regiment were 21 or under. Their sergeant was 33 and from 1st | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. Three of the soldiers | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
were from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, the families have been | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
talking about their loss this evening to our correspondent. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
These are the six soldiers who died when their Warrior fighting vehicle | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
was blown up in Kandahar province. The oldest was 33-year-old Sergeant | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Nigel Coupe from the 1st Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
The others including Corporal Jake Hartley were from the 3rd Battalion | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
the Yorkshire Regiment. He should have turned 21 this | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Saturday. Private Anthony Frampton was 20, | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
described as a true legend in his battalion. Private Christopher | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Kershaw was the youngest at 19 years old. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
Private Daniel Wade was 20 years old from Warrington, he had | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
recently qualified as a Warrior driver. Private Daniel Wilford, | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
known to his mates as Wilf was 21. His Commanding Officer said his | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
smile would light up any room. Today some of their families | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
gathered together in Huddersfield, the town where three of the | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
soldiers lived. We are devastated at the loss of | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
our beautiful, boy, Anton. We are very proud of him. He is a legend | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
to us and all that knew him. We are heartbroken... They were kind, | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
generous, a heart of gold. A wicked sense of humour. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
He loved all of his family and friends. They had such a big group | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
of friends in the army and in civilian life. He is just such a | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
massive, massive loss. These were young men from the | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
Facebook generation. There have been hundreds of messages online to | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the families. How much of a support have the | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
messages been that you have sat and read last night? Fantastic. | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
It has made us cry. I mean, last night reading them, I spent hours | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
crying. But they do help knowing that | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
people out there did love him as much as we did love him. I didn't | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
want him to go to Afghanistan, personally. I didn't want him to go. | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
It was in the back of my mind he would come back in a wooden box. He | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
said, "No, don't be stupid." Like I said, he has come back in a wooden | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
box. Nearby, friends of Private Daniel | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Wilford gathered outside of his home. | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
It is just too soon. It can't sink in. He's been there | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
four weeks. It is not long enough. I don't think he even got to fire | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
his weapon. Like many towns in northern England, | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
hudsstpeeld a well-established recruiting ground for the | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
recruiting army -- huds field. But one sergeant told me that three | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
men were in the same armoured vehicle from the same town at the | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
wrong time. 45 miles away in Warrington, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
tributes were paid to Private Daniel Wade. | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
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He was a life, he will remain so in her heart and for their first child | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
expected in June. The men died when the vehicle was blown up by a huge | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Taliban bomb. They said that they are proud of what they did. The | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
investigation continues as to how they managed it. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Whether they have been effective in spotting patterns set by the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
coalition forces, they understand the ground well. The coalition | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
force tactics well. Even when the tactics change the Taliban have | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
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been quick to adapt their tactics. Today at 3 York's Base, they put | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
out pictures of the dead, the message is clear, gone but never to | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
be forgotten. The soldiers and the families | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
mourning their loss this evening. 2014 is the deadline for British | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
troops to pull out of Afghanistan. Our diplomatic correspondent is | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
looking at the prospects for the stability of the country once the | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
secured is handed to the Afghans themselves. James? In the outset, | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
the response was clear, to go to the Afghanistan, to push out the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
Al-Qaeda but then what, a decade later, Taliban fighters cannot be | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
fought by military pleens alone. It needs a political strategy, but | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
critics say that has ran out of steam. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
I think that we know without a clear and a determined political | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
strategy that binds in all of the tribes of Afghanistan and the | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
neighbours, then the tactical successes of our armed forces will | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
be met by tactical reverses as well. That is what we are suffering. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
So is that right? Britain, the United States and NATO insist there | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
is a clear plan. They point to the training up of | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Afghanistan's own armed forces to take over as foreign troops | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
steadily withdraw. But future stability means talking | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
to the Taliban as well. Persuading them to swap killing for | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
a positive role, sharing power in future governments, so far that | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
negotiation is barely off the ground. Could it mean trading away | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
hard-won rights, including for women as part of the Taliban's | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
price? For most ordinary Afghans, their country is more stable now, | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
less violent. But their President, Hamid Karzai, | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
is widely seen as weak and political progress is very slow. | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
Violence still players -- flares up easily, especially when the Afghans | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
are provoked, as recently when US soldiers burnt the Koran. All of | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
this matters as after the foreign forces leave, any breakdown in | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Afghanistan threatens the entire region it is a tough neighbourhood. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
With Iran and Pakistan next door, any return to Civil War in | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Afghanistan risks spilling across the borders. | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
The worst case scenario is probably not a Taliban takeover, but what it | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
is you have the central government basically collapse into a very | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
ineffective structure. You have the country divided. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
The violent break up of Afghanistan is not inevitable, of course, but | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
strategy is far less ambitious than it once was. Western governments | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
are reducing expectations of what can be achieved in such an | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
impoverished and fragile country. A British man held hostage in | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Nigeria has been killed after an attempt to rescue him and his | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Italian colleague. Chris McManus was captured in May last year, | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
working for a construction company in the north-west of the country. | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
The Prime Minister said that the rescue mission was carried out as | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
the men were in imminent danger. Our Security Correspondent is at | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Downing Street. Gordon, this cannot have been an easy decision? They | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
are among the hardest decisions faced in Government, when to deploy | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
British troops to rescue a hostage, believed in danger. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Chris McManus, a British hostage held for nearly a year in Nigeria, | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
but today, he and an Italian held with him were killed as the Prime | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Minister announced late this afternoon. | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
Preparations were made to mount an operation to attempt to rescue | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
Chris McManus. Together with the Nigerian government, I organised it | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
to go ahead with UK support. It is with great regret that I have to | :10:13. | :10:22. | |
say that both countries and the Italian person he was with are not | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
alive. Both men were murdered by their captors before they could be | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
rescued. The two engineers were working for | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
a construction company when they were kidnapped in Nigeria. Both | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Chris McManus and Franco Lamolinara were taken from a house in May last | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
year. There was little publicity, but a video of the men surrounded | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
by captors emerged last August. It was a first proof of life that led | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
to a belief they were in danger. Another video in December, | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
including a credible threat to kill them. After a long search, new | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
intelligence led to the men being tracked down to a house in soak | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
soak soak. Earlier today the Prime Minister made the decision to | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
launch a military operation. Involving, it is believed, the | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
Special Boat Service, working in support of Nigerian forces. After a | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
fierce gun battle, the hostages were found dead it is believed at | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
the hands of their captors. The group holding the men are believed | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
to be a splinter of bokbok. A increasingly violent Nigeriaiage | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
slammist organisation. They launched this bomb attack in | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Abuja last summer. The group may have developed links with a group | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
who have a history of kidnapping Westerners for ransom in North | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
Africa. This evening, the family of Chris issued a statement: We knew | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
that Chris was in a dangerous situation. However we knew that | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
everything that could be done was being done. Hostage rescues are | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
always risky operations, this case ended tragically. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Officials talk of a pressure of collapsing time frame. Of the fears | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
of the window of opportunity, of the intelligence, knowing where the | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
hostages were, may be closing. Then, the decision must be made to take | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
the risk of going in or the risk of losing the chance of being able to | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
rescue the hostages. I'm told that the British troops were first in, | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
shooting a kidnapper, but by the time they reached the hostages it | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
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Calls for a mansion tax have grown stronger. Ed Balls has told the BBC | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
that any money raised by the new tax should be spent on stopping | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
cuts to tax credits and not on cutting the top rate of tax. | :12:52. | :13:01. | |
Here's Nick Robinson. Thank you very much! Ed Balls is | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
here today for a reason. They do not understand but their parents do. | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
This is getting really messy. is the polite way to describe | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Labour's opinion of Government plans to cut tax credits for | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
200,000 families that work part- time. The Shadow Chancellor says | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
that from next month couples could be better off not working at all. | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
If you do 16 hours to get your tax credits you have to find it more | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
hours. To suddenly ask for eight more hours, they are not going to. | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
I suspect they will not work and they will lose out. The reality is | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
that some parents will be better off not working. That is what I am | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
doing. The cost of reversing the cuts to tax credits is high. Half a | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
billion pounds a year. Where would Labour find the money? For people | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
working here at the moment, these are great job. | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
Ed Balls insisted in Birmingham at a factory that it would help the | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
economy grow more. He also said he would back the idea for a brand new | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
tax. Do you like the idea for a mansion tax, tax on the most | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
expensive properties? I have supported it in the past. We need | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
to look at it carefully. If the Chancellor wants to go down that | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
road, I will support him. What is the purpose? If the purpose is to | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
help families facing higher tuition fees, higher VAT and higher fuel | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
bills, for instance boosting their tax credits, then yes. But George | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Osborne seems to be saying that the priority is to use the mansion tax | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
only to help people on a highest incomes of over �150,000. I say | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
that is out of touch with the struggle that families are facing | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
and will not get people into jobs, which is what we need. At GKN, | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
which makes parts for aeroplanes and cars, Ed Balls was told the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
company can see green shoots of recovery. He says that banks to | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
Government austerity they are not growing fast or strong enough and | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
Britain still needs the stimulus. I think it is essential right now. | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
George Osborne has cut too far and too fast. The VAT rise was too fast. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
The idea that stimulus the cause economic borrowing is a nonsense. | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
Are you saying that the Chancellor could afford to cut VAT and avoid | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
the cuts in tax credit that you do not like and avoid the cuts in | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
child benefit and deal with fuel duty? Where will he find the money? | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
He can deal with the tax credits changed by closing the stamp duty | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
loophole for properties above �1 million. If he is looking at Manton | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
tax, that could pay for support for child benefit and tax credits. -- | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
mansion tax. Growth has flat lined and unemployment has gone up and he | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
is borrowing more. The economy is not growing and unemployment is | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
rising and that costs us more. Balls and Ed Miliband used to help | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
Gordon Brown write his budgets but they cannot write this one. They | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
are trying to influence it. Coming up on the programme: What | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
caught the Queen's attention on the catwalk at the start of the Diamond | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
Jubilee tour of Britain? One year ago this Sunday, a huge | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
earthquake shook the sea bed 40 miles off the coast of Japan. The | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
country is still struggling to deal with the consequences. 15,000 | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
people were killed in the Sugiyama that followed and thousands are | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
still unaccounted for. -- the tsunami. We have been too Yuriage | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
to speak to one family that were caught up in the disaster. | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
Shadows on the landscape, all that is left of Yuriage. Avoid full of | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
memories. For Tatsuya Suzuki it is the memory of the smile that his | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
wife gave him as he left for work. I wish I could go back in time, he | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
says, to go back to that day. If only I could have saved her. He is | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
burdened by guilt that he survived and his wife did not. As the | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
tsunami swept into Yuriage, he managed to get their two children | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
to save places inside buildings. Seconds later his wife was carried | :17:28. | :17:38. | |
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away by the waves. Today Hikaru, seven, and Hibiki it has taken one | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
year, says Tatsuya. A sometimes they cry out in their sleep. When I | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
see the sadness I struggle to know what to say. My heart aches. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Alongside his wife, the tsunami killed 1000 of the 7000 people | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
living here, according to the final tally. One year on and the | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
Government is now burning the little that remains of Yuriage. | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
They want to raise the ground three metres higher and build this Town | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
again, and for hundreds of miles along the coast it is the same | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
story. Dozens of communities that were raised are planning to start | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
anew. -- erased. First, the unfinished task of accounting for | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
everybody. More than 3000 are still missing. At this school in Okawa, | :18:31. | :18:41. | |
70 children were swept away and four have not been found. Nothing | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
moves on. I have been following police teams like this all year. I | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
cannot find any trace of my daughter. Hibiki and Hikaru used to | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
be inseparable from their mother. Hikaru is doing well in a new | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
school. Their father feels trapped by the past. Even though one year | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
has gone by, nothing has really changed. Time has stopped for me. | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
We are still grieving. His children never want to live in this Town | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
again, but one day Tatsuya says that he will move back. He says | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
this place still feels like home. The envoy appointed by the United | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
Nations to help resolve the conflict in Syria has said the | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
country's opposition should sit down with its Government and reach | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
a political solution. Kofi Annan warned that further militarisation | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
of the conflict would worse than a desperate situation. His comments | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
have been criticised by Syrian opposition leaders. They said they | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
would encourage President Assad in his use of force. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
The Greek Government has indicated it is confident of completing a | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
crucial deal with private investors to bring down its debt and secured | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
a second international bail-out. Investors have until 8 o'clock this | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
evening to secured the deal. It will see them making losses of 50%. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Does that look like most of the private investors are accepting the | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
deal? We will not get the precise figures until tomorrow morning but | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
Government sources are saying that 85% of private investors, even as | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
many as 90%, have agreed to take steep losses on their holdings of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
Greek Government debt. What does this mean? For the first time | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
almost since the crisis in Greece began, Greece's debt will not | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
continue to go up and as a result of this deal it will go down by 100 | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
billion euros. Almost certainly, the EU and the IMF will approve a | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
second Greek bail-out, staving off Greek bankruptcy. What does this | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
mean for the overall crisis here? I think it provides a breathing space. | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
It does by some time for Greece. Even after today's deal, as | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Greece's debt remains high and this country is in its 5th year of | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
recession with no growth in sight and appalling unemployment figures. | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
This question remains unanswered, where will the growth come from to | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
deal with the remaining debt? you. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
The cost of running Britain's Railways is one-third higher than | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
most European countries according to the Government, so they have set | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
out plans to cut inefficiency and waste to save �3.5 billion a year. | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
Will it succeed in stopping the inflation-busting train fare rises? | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
The UK railway network costs too much to run and needs to be more | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
efficient. That is the Government's key claim after a report found that | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
some European networks were 30% less expensive to operate. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Ministers say that big savings will ensure a brighter future. | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
railways are too expensive in the first place. There is a huge amount | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
of inefficiency there. I am challenging the industry to work | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
together more effectively so that they can take out �3.5 billion of | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
inefficiencies that we are all playing for. Ministers want some | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
savings used to keep a lid on flowers and an end to inflation- | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
busting increases within the next few years. Some fares at peak-time | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
may rise, while others fall to try to spread demand. It is certainly a | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
controversial issue with passengers. I am shocked by how much railway | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
travel costs in this country now. Frankly, it is simply not worth it. | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
I think we need to look at what transport means for the economy of | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
this country. Like in other countries, we see it as a public | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
good rather than a profit-making machine. Other changes anticipated | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
by the Government include fewer ticket offices with more scope to | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
buy tickets elsewhere including Post Offices. Smart ticketing will | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
see greater use of pre-paid swipe cards and there could be fewer | :23:00. | :23:08. | |
train guards, as operators cut costs. One railway union has | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
threatened industrial action, claiming that thousands of jobs are | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
at risk. They have said that passengers will lose out. There | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
will be stationed with no staff whatsoever. No ticket offices using | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
smart ticketing. People will turn up at stations and they will be | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
muggers' paradises. One of the aims of the policy is to have more | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
joined the management of the railway system, for example getting | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
train operators to work more closely with Network Rail managers | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
in their area to try to ensure minimal disruption for passengers | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
in the event of engineering work. But delivering these changes, which | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
apply to England, Wales and routes between Scotland and England, would | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
not be easy. Delivering efficiency savings never is. | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
The Queen began her Diamond Jubilee tour of the UK with a visit to | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Leicester today. Crowds lined the streets to welcome Her Majesty, | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duchess of | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Cambridge. Over the next four months the Queen will travel across | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
the UK. This report contains flash recover -- flash photography. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
10 years ago the Golden Jubilee got off to a comparatively slow start. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
That was not the story today are. The people of Leicester, a | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
culturally diverse city in the heart of England, came out in their | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
thousands to welcome the Queen and her guest companion for the day, | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
the Duchess of Cambridge. It is that cultural diversity that made | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
less to the place to begin the Queen's Diamond Jubilee visits. -- | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
Leicester. Few places demonstrate the changes that have occurred in | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
British society over her reign. At Leicester Cathedral, the Queen | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
attended a special service where representatives from different | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
faith communities joined Christian leaders. Prayers were said for the | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
six British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. We pray for those that | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
died in Afghanistan yesterday, from the Yorkshire and the Duke of | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Lancaster's Regiment. There were also prayers for the Queen in her | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
:25:26. | :25:27. | ||
jubilee year. Your gift of love and joy and peace. Outside the | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
cathedral the Queen and the duchess stood side-by-side to receive | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
bouquets of flowers. The fact that the Queen invited the Dutch is to | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
join her today is a public endorsement of her importance to | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the royal family now. At times they worked as a team, the Queen taking | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
one side of the crowds and the Duchess the other. They went | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
together to a fashion show at De Montfort University. Their | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
relationship appears to be easy, the younger woman leaning across to | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
chat. Then in the city centre, the Queen hoping perhaps that the | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
newcomer will absorb a few lessons. But there is something more to the | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Duchess's presents today. It is also a subtle signal that after 60 | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
years the Queen recognises the importance of bringing on someone's | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
who will be so central to the monarchy of the future. -- someone. | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
There is no doubt who is the star of the show. Not everybody is a | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
monarchist, that is for sure, but this monarch appears to be as | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
popular as ever. She is the Queen of our country and I am proud of | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
her. Coming to last as part of the Jubilee tour is just fantastic. We | :26:35. | :26:41. |