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:00:09. > :00:15.Downing Street dinners for Conservative donors, David Cameron

:00:15. > :00:19.reveals who was on the guest list. Inside Number 10, the men invited

:00:19. > :00:23.to the Prime Minister's private apartment for dinner. He insists

:00:23. > :00:26.buying influence was not on the menu. None of these dinners were

:00:26. > :00:31.fund-raising dinners and none of these dinners were paid for by the

:00:31. > :00:35.taxpayer. I have known most of those attending for many years.

:00:35. > :00:40.Anything short of an independent inquiry will leave a permanent

:00:40. > :00:44.stain on this government and this prime minister.

:00:44. > :00:47.We will look at where this leaves calls for the reform of party

:00:47. > :00:54.funding. Also tonight, to British troops

:00:54. > :00:57.shot dead at a NATO base by an Afghan soldier. The latest insider

:00:57. > :01:02.attack. A year ago she was a playful 5-

:01:02. > :01:06.year-old, she is now paralysed in a wheelchair, a victim of gang

:01:06. > :01:11.warfare. Three men found guilty of shooting her.

:01:11. > :01:15.And tanker Vite -- drivers vote for strike action. There are fears of a

:01:15. > :01:23.fuel crisis. And taking the Catholic message to

:01:23. > :01:27.communist Cuba. Pope Benedict hopes Stop coming up on the BBC News

:01:27. > :01:31.Channel, harsh lessons for the cricketers in Sri Lanka, Mahela

:01:31. > :01:41.Jayawardene and it's a brilliant century as England falter after a

:01:41. > :01:49.

:01:49. > :01:51.great start in the first Test -- Good evening.

:01:51. > :01:54.David Cameron has revealed that some of the Conservative Party's

:01:54. > :02:00.biggest donors have been invited to private lunches and dinners at

:02:00. > :02:02.Number 10 and Chequers. It follows the emergence of secret filming, in

:02:02. > :02:09.which the party's former treasurer said six-figure donations would buy

:02:09. > :02:12.access to the Prime Minister. Mr Cameron has launched an internal

:02:12. > :02:16.party inquiry but the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said that would be "a

:02:16. > :02:20.whitewash". Here's our political editor, Nick Robinson.

:02:20. > :02:24.Not everyone can afford to have dinner in the flat over the shop.

:02:24. > :02:28.Not least when the shop in question is Number 10 Downing Street, and

:02:28. > :02:32.your host is none other than the Prime Minister himself. But today

:02:32. > :02:38.came confirmation that David Cameron had, as claimed, hosted not

:02:38. > :02:42.dinner parties, but donor parties for the very, very rich. In the two

:02:42. > :02:45.years I have been Prime Minister, there have been three occasions on

:02:45. > :02:48.which significant donors have come to a dinner in my flat. None of

:02:48. > :02:53.these dinners were fund-raising dinners and none of these dinners

:02:53. > :02:58.were paid for by the taxpayer. is not what those attending a

:02:58. > :03:02.conference on dementia had attended -- had expected, but David Cameron

:03:02. > :03:11.knew he had no choice but to reveal who had attended the trip --

:03:11. > :03:19.attended the shadow we dynasts in which his party treasurer had been

:03:19. > :03:23.boasting about. The guests at the three donor parties contributed

:03:23. > :03:27.nearly �10 million to the Conservative Party. Amongst the six

:03:27. > :03:37.donors were Henry Angest, a Swiss- born banker who also funds groups

:03:37. > :03:46.

:03:46. > :03:49.sceptical about climate change and There was also a big thank-you

:03:49. > :03:55.dinner for donors downstairs at Downing Street, straight after the

:03:55. > :04:00.election. At the end of his speech today, David Cameron left without

:04:00. > :04:08.taking any reporter's questions. And he was no were to be seen in

:04:08. > :04:15.the Commons, when there was a The minister had come to talk about

:04:15. > :04:19.reforming party funding, he was met with derision. As set out in the

:04:19. > :04:25.coalition government's programme, party funding in Britain need to be

:04:25. > :04:29.reformed. The Labour leader was particularly

:04:29. > :04:33.scathing. It shows utter contempt for this House that the Prime

:04:33. > :04:36.Minister can make a statement to the media just three hours ago, but

:04:37. > :04:41.refuses to come here to face Members of Parliament. Ed Miliband

:04:41. > :04:44.condemned what he called the whitewash of an inquiry into the

:04:44. > :04:49.Conservative Party, by the Conservative Party, for the

:04:49. > :04:53.Conservative Party. This scandal speaks to the conduct and character

:04:53. > :04:57.of the Prime Minister, and the Government. Anything short of an

:04:57. > :05:04.independent inquiry will leave a permanent stain on this government,

:05:04. > :05:08.and this Prime Minister. Having started the day with his aides

:05:08. > :05:13.saying he would not reveal his dining companions, David Cameron

:05:13. > :05:17.produced not one but two lists, at his country residence Chequers, he

:05:17. > :05:21.welcomed another five party donors. Only a few weeks ago, the Prime

:05:21. > :05:26.Minister told visiting schoolchildren about his flat over

:05:26. > :05:29.the shop. I live in a little flat, a very nice flat above Number 11

:05:29. > :05:36.Downing Street, up there. But what I get up to in there, that's

:05:36. > :05:39.private. How he must wish that was still true. What he gets up to up

:05:39. > :05:43.there is private no longer. And Nick is in Downing Street for

:05:43. > :05:47.us tonight. First, David Cameron said he would

:05:47. > :05:51.not release the names, then he did. Where does it leave the question of

:05:51. > :05:56.party funding? 24 hours ago we were told he wanted to maintain his

:05:56. > :05:59.privacy. Then I think he and his aides had to -- decided they had to

:05:59. > :06:05.answer the question, guess who is coming to dinner, because if they

:06:05. > :06:11.did not, this story would have momentum for day after day. There

:06:11. > :06:15.is still the question of the influence that those donors got,

:06:15. > :06:19.and why on tape, the former Tory treasurer seem to be willing to

:06:19. > :06:23.discuss, how a foreign donation, illegal under British law, might be

:06:24. > :06:29.processed in a way that would allow it to go into Conservative coffers.

:06:29. > :06:33.That issue of party funding overall is also back on the agenda. Plenty

:06:33. > :06:39.of people say, why don't they sort it out? The Tories say, we are

:06:39. > :06:43.willing to cap donations at �50,000, if only union donations to the

:06:43. > :06:48.Labour Party would capped as well. Labour say, we will cap union

:06:48. > :06:58.donations but membership are fully earn -- affiliation fees, they are

:06:58. > :07:07.

:07:07. > :07:13.different, they are not a donation Independent no wonder this is a

:07:13. > :07:16.A Royal Marine and a soldier from the Adjutant General's Corps

:07:16. > :07:21.serving in Afghanistan have been shot dead by an Afghan soldier. The

:07:21. > :07:23.Taliban has said it was responsible for the shooting. The men's

:07:23. > :07:27.families have been informed. As our correspondent, David Loyn reports,

:07:27. > :07:30.the attack, at the main British base in Lashkar Gah, is the latest

:07:30. > :07:40.in a growing number of incidents in which Afghan troops have turned

:07:40. > :07:40.

:07:40. > :07:44.This is a tough conflict at the best of times, but for

:07:44. > :07:49.international troops, the risk of being shot by the very men they are

:07:49. > :07:53.training and fighting alongside is the hardest one their face. These

:07:53. > :07:58.two deaths bring to 15, the number of British troops who have died in

:07:58. > :08:03.this way. The news was announced in the Commons. Details of the

:08:03. > :08:05.incident are still emerging but it appears that a member of the Afghan

:08:05. > :08:09.national army opened fire at the entrance gate to the British

:08:09. > :08:17.headquarters in Lashkar Gah city, killing the British service

:08:17. > :08:24.personnel. The assailant was far MacAskill by return fire. -- was

:08:24. > :08:30.killed by return fire. Afghan anger has escalated out reports of a

:08:30. > :08:40.soldier's urinating on corpses, burning copies of the Koran and the

:08:40. > :08:42.

:08:42. > :08:47.attacks by the rogue US soldier. In The news of a third green on blue

:08:47. > :08:52.attack brings to 14, the number who have died at the hands of Afghan

:08:52. > :08:57.forces. Six American soldiers died, including two inside the Ministry

:08:57. > :09:00.of Interior in Kabul. One Albanian was killed close to the Pakistan

:09:00. > :09:04.border, and four French troops were killed by an Afghan soldier in

:09:05. > :09:08.February. We are taking a lot of measures to ensure that these

:09:08. > :09:12.incidents are kept to a minimum and I do not predict that this will

:09:12. > :09:17.result in a shift in policy. It is a terrible spate of attacks, isn't

:09:17. > :09:22.it? It is. Although these attacks are relatively small in number, the

:09:22. > :09:26.effect that they have his severe. The aim is that Afghan forces will

:09:26. > :09:30.be ready to take on the fight against the Taliban for themselves

:09:30. > :09:36.by 2014. There is international resolve to stick to the plan, keep

:09:36. > :09:40.to the timetable of withdrawal by the end of 2014. However strong

:09:40. > :09:44.that maybe, it is hard to see how there can be trust on the ground,

:09:44. > :09:48.between the soldiers of these different nations, after this spate

:09:48. > :09:58.of violent killings. The flags will be flying at half-mast again

:09:58. > :10:03.

:10:03. > :10:05.tonight at the base in a Lashkar Three members of a gang from south

:10:06. > :10:08.London have been found guilty of shooting a 5-year-old girl, leaving

:10:08. > :10:11.her paralysed. Thusha Kamaleswaran was playing in her uncle's shop

:10:12. > :10:15.when a masked gunman - looking for a rival gang member - fired into

:10:15. > :10:17.the store, injuring her and another customer. A jury at the Old Bailey

:10:17. > :10:23.was shown CCTV pictures of the attack. Matt Prodger's report

:10:23. > :10:26.contains some of that graphic footage.

:10:26. > :10:30.This is 5-year-old Thusha Kamaleswaran, playing at the back

:10:30. > :10:35.of her uncle's south London grocery store. What follows is the moment

:10:35. > :10:44.in March last year when London's gang wars changed her life forever.

:10:44. > :10:47.CCTV showers staff, Thusha and another little girl rushed to

:10:47. > :10:53.investigate the commotion at the front door. A gun is fired and

:10:53. > :10:57.everyone retreats except Thusha, who has been hit in the chest and

:10:57. > :11:02.is lying on the floor. Seconds later, the intended targets of the

:11:02. > :11:08.shooting walk calmly from the shop. The Kenyan was Nathaniel Grant. His

:11:08. > :11:12.accomplices, Anthony McCalla and Kazeem Kolawole. Today convicted of

:11:12. > :11:18.attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. It is a dreadful case,

:11:18. > :11:22.these people have showed no remorse for what they have done. Haitink

:11:22. > :11:26.they would have worked many hours as it took an for as long as it

:11:26. > :11:30.took to make sure we got a result on this case -- I think they would

:11:31. > :11:36.have worked. One of members -- one member of the attack appeared in

:11:36. > :11:40.this video, posted on the Web, sometime before the shooting.

:11:40. > :11:44.Police identified him from the several hundred hours of CCTV

:11:44. > :11:48.footage that made up the investigation. Here he is mimicking

:11:48. > :11:53.a drive-by shooting as the three left Brixton by bike, to hunt rival

:11:53. > :11:58.gang members. As the gunmen approached the shop where Thusha

:11:58. > :12:03.was playing, two members of a rival gang ran into a shop to take

:12:03. > :12:07.shelter. Nathaniel Grant fired a shot was the bikes were still

:12:07. > :12:17.moving, before stopping and firing again. A camera in a neighbouring

:12:17. > :12:18.

:12:18. > :12:24.store recorded the gunshots. One hit Thusha, another customer was it

:12:24. > :12:27.in the face, both survive. When paramedics arrived, Thusha's heart

:12:28. > :12:31.had stopped but paramedics were able to revive her. It stopped

:12:31. > :12:35.again in an ambulance on the way to hospital, and there, doctors were

:12:36. > :12:39.finally able to save her life. Thusha's mother and father thanked

:12:39. > :12:43.the emergency services for saving their daughter. They said the

:12:43. > :12:53.shooting had been unbearable. Thusha herself had once dreamed of

:12:53. > :12:55.being a dancer. Doctors say she Another high street name has

:12:55. > :12:58.revealed the extent of its financial problems tonight. More

:12:58. > :13:01.than 2,000 jobs will go this week at Game, the UK's biggest video

:13:01. > :13:11.game retailer, after it went into administration. Nearly 300 stores

:13:11. > :13:12.

:13:12. > :13:16.in the UK and Ireland will close Royal Bank of Scotland, the bank

:13:16. > :13:21.that was bailed out by the taxpayer at the height of the financial

:13:21. > :13:25.crisis is at the centre of talks between the Government and state-

:13:25. > :13:29.backed investors in Abu Dhabi. The BBC learned that up to a third of

:13:29. > :13:32.the taxpayer's stake could be sold, but critics say selling now would

:13:32. > :13:37.be selling cheap. We have the details.

:13:37. > :13:42.It is the bank we bailed out when it was about to go bust four years

:13:42. > :13:47.ago. Now we could be selling some shares in Royal Bank of Scotland to

:13:48. > :13:52.Abu Dhabi. Talks have been ongoing, on the table is a stake of at least

:13:52. > :13:57.10% and perhaps as high as 30% in Royal Bank of Scotland, but should

:13:57. > :14:01.the taxpayer consider a sale? The Treasury injected �45 billion into

:14:01. > :14:05.Royal Bank of Scotland to prevent it from collapsing. The price at

:14:05. > :14:09.which the Government gets its money back is 50 pence a share, that is a

:14:10. > :14:14.long way off the closing price of 28 pence. Meaning a sale would mean

:14:14. > :14:18.a loss. We will look closely as the terms

:14:18. > :14:23.of the sale to ensure it holds good value for money for the taxpayer as

:14:23. > :14:29.we have looked at all other aspects of the enforced nationalisations,

:14:29. > :14:32.but it does strike as sensible to take an opportunity if it is there.

:14:32. > :14:37.But Labour says it is too soon to sell.

:14:37. > :14:40.If we have a hasty approach by the Chancellor, there is a risk we may

:14:40. > :14:44.lose billions of pounds of taxpayers' money, that would be

:14:44. > :14:48.wrong and it would be better if we waited for the economy to recover

:14:48. > :14:52.for the share price to recover, so that we got better value for money.

:14:52. > :14:58.There are advantages to the Government selling, even at a loss.

:14:58. > :15:02.It sends a signal it does not want to be in the banking business which

:15:02. > :15:06.deflects pressure when it comes to bankers' bonuses, but the market

:15:06. > :15:10.watchers say it is crucial that the Government sells to a buyer

:15:10. > :15:13.interested in long-term investment. If it turns out that the buyer

:15:13. > :15:19.doubles the money and thin sells the stock into the market. There

:15:19. > :15:23.will be a feel, that is a profit that Abu Dhabi made, but maybe it

:15:23. > :15:27.should have been for the taxpayer. It is the subject of talks between

:15:27. > :15:31.the Government and Abu Dhabi, Royal Bank of Scotland had no say in the

:15:31. > :15:35.outcome. That is ironic, the people who benefit the most are the

:15:35. > :15:37.bankers who work there. The senior guys are paid mostly in shares.

:15:37. > :15:41.They could be set to recover strongly.

:15:41. > :15:45.The Government said that it was talking to a range of investors.

:15:46. > :15:52.That the priority was to generate value for the taxpayer. Also

:15:52. > :15:57.ensuring stability for the bank. Coming up:

:15:57. > :16:02.Fans to the rescue. The limb pick athletes who could not get tickets

:16:02. > :16:07.to their own events. British aid agencies working in

:16:07. > :16:10.Niger are warning of a food crisis after severe crop failures across

:16:10. > :16:16.the impoverished country. The West African nation is the seventh

:16:16. > :16:20.poorest in the world. More than one in five children die before the age

:16:20. > :16:25.of five and as the desert spreads to the south, there is even less

:16:25. > :16:30.land for agriculture. As Andrew Harding reports, the aid agencies

:16:30. > :16:37.say that the action now could prevent humanitarian disaster.

:16:37. > :16:43.We need an armed escort to venture into the baron fringes of the

:16:43. > :16:50.Sahara. Islamist militants are growing threat in Niger. So is the

:16:50. > :16:56.hunger. In the tiny village of Kasi Tondi, 50-year-old Maya pounds the

:16:56. > :17:01.grain. In recent years she has lost her husband and six children to

:17:01. > :17:05.disease and poverty. Now the rains have failed. This year's pittiful

:17:05. > :17:09.crop fed what is left of the family for a week.

:17:09. > :17:15.TRANSLATION: Of course we go hungry. The rain did not come. It's been

:17:15. > :17:18.getting worse for years. There are almost no men left in the

:17:18. > :17:24.village now. All have gone abroad in search of work.

:17:24. > :17:28.There is a food crisis, pretty much every year in this village now, but

:17:28. > :17:33.2012 is going to be tough. The harvests have failed, the prices

:17:34. > :17:41.are shooting up. There is growing insecurity across the region.

:17:41. > :17:45.And so, the familiar warning signs. Ten severely malnourished children

:17:45. > :17:49.arrived in the local clinic. The United Nations fears that 400,000

:17:49. > :17:57.children could be in this condition in Niger within months. Almost one

:17:57. > :18:02.in ten is likely to die. It is much worse already this year,

:18:02. > :18:11.says this nurse. That they are seeing more children arriving in a

:18:11. > :18:17.state of complete exhaustion. Yet, Niger is not without hope.

:18:17. > :18:23.At Maya's village, a scheme to trap rainwater and revive the fields.

:18:23. > :18:27.Niger has finally a democratic government acknowledging the crisis

:18:27. > :18:31.and co-operating with the outside world, the key eto avoiding a

:18:31. > :18:35.famine. So now Maya now gets a small wage from the United Nations.

:18:35. > :18:40.TRANSLATION: Bus of this work we can feed our families and maybe in

:18:40. > :18:45.the future these fields will recover.

:18:45. > :18:50.But that does not change the fact that the village well is drying up.

:18:50. > :18:57.Maya needs a longer rope each year. As a child she remembers life was

:18:57. > :19:01.wonderful here. Not anymore.

:19:01. > :19:05.Fuel tanker drivers have voted in favour of strikes in a dispute

:19:05. > :19:08.about pay, working conditions and safety. With fears that industrial

:19:08. > :19:13.action could affect the Easter break, ministers are saying that

:19:13. > :19:19.they are making contingency plans. We have this report.

:19:19. > :19:24.It was the day that Britain stood still. Well, several days, actually.

:19:24. > :19:29.The fuel protests of 2000, choked up roads, tense picket lines, the

:19:29. > :19:33.army on the streets. Today's vote to strike by hundreds

:19:33. > :19:38.of tanker drivers raises the spectre of the protests. The Unite

:19:38. > :19:41.union say it is does not want to take action, but the promotional

:19:41. > :19:45.video insists that safety is at stake. ADVERTISEMENT:

:19:45. > :19:51.contracting process has created a beat the clock culture. Drivers

:19:51. > :19:56.pushed to go faster and cut corners... If you have the volatile

:19:56. > :20:02.fuel being distributed by people not properly trained, rewarded. If

:20:02. > :20:07.there are contracts undercutting and undermining without this being

:20:07. > :20:09.taken into account, there is a danger of a major incident.

:20:10. > :20:16.This is denied by the tanker companies who say that the drivers

:20:16. > :20:21.get a good deal. The drivers are paid about �45,000

:20:21. > :20:26.per year on average. We want to engage with the union on the health

:20:26. > :20:30.and the safety. There are worries over fuel

:20:30. > :20:34.reserves. Thousands of petrol stations have shut over the years,

:20:34. > :20:40.that means that less is stored under ground. That is why soldiers

:20:40. > :20:42.will be brought in to drive the tankers and to keep the petrol

:20:42. > :20:47.flowing. The training began today.

:20:47. > :20:49.We are looking at how to use the army to help us, to work to ensure

:20:49. > :20:54.that as much fuel gets through as possible.

:20:54. > :20:58.The union is very keen to stress that it has not actually set a

:20:58. > :21:04.strike date yet, that it will take a couple of days to digest the

:21:04. > :21:08.ballot information. So we eare some distance away yet from the

:21:09. > :21:13.nightmare scenario of pickets at fuel terminals like this one, of

:21:13. > :21:17.soldiers driving the trucks and of forecourts running dry.

:21:17. > :21:21.The Foreign Office has asked the Chinese authorities to

:21:21. > :21:25.reeinvestigate the death of a British businessman in China.

:21:25. > :21:30.Neil Hayward died in the city of Cong Ching in November in what is

:21:30. > :21:36.now reported to be a suspicious circumstance. He had business links

:21:36. > :21:40.with a very prominent politician, ousted lags month.

:21:40. > :21:44.Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in Cuba at the start of the first

:21:44. > :21:47.Papal visit to the communist country in more than 14 years.

:21:47. > :21:53.Relations between the church and the state have eased, but the Pope

:21:53. > :21:56.has been critical of the regime. Yes this report from Havana.

:21:56. > :22:00.There are five communist countries left in the world. This is one of

:22:00. > :22:04.them. Still froze no-one a Cold War with

:22:04. > :22:09.its superpower neighbour, where the same men and the same party have

:22:09. > :22:15.ruled for more than 50 years, but make no mistake, Cuba is slowly

:22:15. > :22:19.changing. Catholics and communists may answer

:22:19. > :22:24.to different masters, but after years of owe epression, religion is

:22:24. > :22:27.now toll rated. The pius and the political live side by side.

:22:27. > :22:34.Some now see a chance to push for reform.

:22:34. > :22:37.Like the Woman in White, the head of a group of actists who want to

:22:37. > :22:40.meet the Pope. TRANSLATION: We are going to pray

:22:40. > :22:44.for the freedom of political prisoners and political rights and

:22:45. > :22:49.we ask the Pope to give us a moment of his time. This is a very

:22:49. > :22:57.important moment. We want to tell him there is no respect for human

:22:57. > :23:02.rights or political prisoners Cuba. Daring to speak out is still a risk

:23:02. > :23:09.in Cuba. Most of their husbands were in prison for doing just that,

:23:09. > :23:14.but the Ladies in White still meet each week to pray and protest. This

:23:14. > :23:17.is a small but important display of public defiance. When the ladies

:23:17. > :23:21.were arrested last week, they were specifically ordered to crease

:23:21. > :23:24.their protest, they have decided to defy that ban. The message to the

:23:24. > :23:30.Pope is clear: To heed their call for freedom and human rights in

:23:30. > :23:37.Cuba. Perhaps Pope Benedict XVI is

:23:37. > :23:45.list.ing. As he estepped slow -- is listening. As he stepped slowly on

:23:45. > :23:49.to Cuban soil with Raul Castro. He may be here to rally the faithful,

:23:49. > :23:55.but calling for sense of consciousness, saying that Marxism

:23:55. > :23:59.no longer works. Embarrassing when the host sk carries a card saying

:23:59. > :24:02.the Communist Party. TRANSLATION: Freedom is amongst the

:24:02. > :24:06.most important values of our country. We respect all opinions

:24:06. > :24:11.and welcome an exchange of ideas. We will listen to what the Pope has

:24:11. > :24:15.to say. What Cubans ask for a is better

:24:15. > :24:18.life. Relief from poverty and appalling housing. Crippled by the

:24:18. > :24:23.US embargo and a system that has failed to bring wealth to the

:24:23. > :24:33.masses. It is a prayer neither the Pope nor the party are likely to be

:24:33. > :24:37.

:24:37. > :24:43.Now, if you have had trouble buying limb pick tickets bare a thought

:24:43. > :24:49.for the -- Olympic tickets, bare a thought for the families in a

:24:49. > :24:53.difficult situation. Now, self-less sports fans have stepped in to help.

:24:53. > :24:57.Training hard, Dai Greene's one of Britain's best hope force gold at

:24:57. > :25:02.the Olympics, but he shared a problem with everybody else.

:25:02. > :25:07.Getting hold of tickets. Until somebody he had never met read

:25:07. > :25:12.about his frustration online. Matt De Monte tracked down tickets from

:25:12. > :25:16.an official foreign seller, contacted Dai Greene and spent

:25:16. > :25:21.�1,500 to buy them for him. Dai Greene paid him back, now they are

:25:21. > :25:25.meeting. Great to meet you. 7 You too. The

:25:25. > :25:29.man who saved my Olympics. When Dai Greene won the

:25:29. > :25:34.Commonwealth Games in Delhi, getting hold of tickets was not an

:25:34. > :25:38.issue, but the demand in London is so great, athletes are limited to

:25:38. > :25:42.two each. Not fuf.

:25:42. > :25:51.You don't hear many stories like, this but someone going out of their

:25:51. > :25:56.way to help others, this is what the Olympic spirit embodis and it

:25:56. > :26:01.is thanks to someone you have never met before. Anything we can do to

:26:01. > :26:05.help, especially Dai Greene, with the events at the Olympics by

:26:05. > :26:09.getting his friends, family, supporters there, this is fantastic.

:26:09. > :26:13.Dai Greene is not the only British athlete to have been helped out.

:26:13. > :26:18.Around the country others have clubbed together in the same way to

:26:18. > :26:24.assist some of their favourite Olympians.

:26:24. > :26:28.Third man down here is Olympic rowing champion, Zac Purchase,

:26:29. > :26:33.alongside him the people who have managed to find him an astonishing

:26:33. > :26:37.14 tickets for the final. I have had so many people who have

:26:37. > :26:41.gotten behind me. It is really nice to help them out and reward them to

:26:41. > :26:45.say we can help you get tickets, come and watch. We would like you

:26:45. > :26:48.to be there. These are Zac Purchase's family and