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Shareholders' revolt at Barclays in a protest against executive pay. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Over a quarter send a powerful message to the boss as they vote | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
against big bonuses. I think it is exorbitant, what Bob | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Diamond is getting. Too much bonuses, not enough going to be | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
shareholders. We look at what impact it will have | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
on the vexed question of Bankers peer might pay. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Also, a massive manhunt under way in the north-east of England for | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
James Allen, a suspected double murderer. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
People should take precautions, safety-first. Lock the doors and | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
windows and a cheque who is knocking on your door. | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
Did the officer found dead lock himself in a holdall? Officers -- | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
experts try to lock themselves into a similar holdall and fail. | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
A Chinese dissident escapes from house arrest, is he under American | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
protection? She visited after the tragedy that | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
sold -- that stole a generation of children, today, the Queen keeps | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
her promise to return. And coming up in Sportsday, Stephen | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
Hendry rolls back the years at the Crucible, leading up John Higgins | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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Good evening. Angry shareholders of Barclays Bank | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
have staged a protest against executive pay at the annual general | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
meeting. Nearly 27% of investors voted against the pay deals, in | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
particular the pay package of the chief executive, Bob Diamond. The | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
chairman apologised to shareholders for not sufficiently taking on | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
board their views but said that paying zero bonuses is not an | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
option. Berkeley's, profits and share price | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
much lower than they were before the crash, the boss, Bob Diamond, | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
paid �6.3 million last year and some of his colleagues even more. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
At the annual meeting, Berkeley's owners, some of them, were not | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
happy. -- Barclays Bank's owners. They should give the shareholders | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
more than 3p a share in dividends. It is exorbitant, what Bob Diamond | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
is getting for the amount of dividend that we get. The man at | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
the top is very important. If we were to lose him, we would all | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
regret it. At its annual meeting, they make banking history. They | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
suffered the biggest ever protest vote against the re-election of a | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
director and it suffered the biggest ever protest vote against a | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
banker's renumeration policy, what it pays its senior executives. Here | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
is the big reason shareholders are not happy. For last year, they | :03:20. | :03:28. | |
received dividends worth �728 million. A fraction of the �2.6 | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
billion they paid the bankers in bonuses and other incentives. The | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
owners feel they are being short- changed by the managers. There is a | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
reward here for effectively no performance whatsoever. The | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
performance has gone backwards, it is a reward for failure. Another | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
adviser to big shareholders warns it must listen to the protests. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
they did not, I would expect to see changes at the top table by this | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
time next year. This movement against Bankers' pay is going | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
global. Shareholders registering big votes against records in | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
America and Switzerland. The government wants to give | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
shareholders the formal power to block excessive deals. You are | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
getting a real movement of people St, we want to take control of the | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
companies we alone and stop excessive executive pay. They want | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
to see good businesses properly rewarded, absolutely right, but | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
where pay is excessive and unreasonable, shareholders have got | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
to take responsibility and act. Diamond, at a charity fundraiser | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
last night. His current pay will not be affected by the vote, | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
although Barclays says it is paying attention to what shareholders want | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
and hopes they will also have something to toast, bigger | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
dividends, in years to come. A major manhunt is under way in | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
north-east England tonight following the murders of two people. | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
More than 100 officers are in it -- are involved in the search for | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
James Allen. Been known drug-user with convictions for violence. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Police patrolled empty streets. Tonight in Middlesbrough, people | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
have been told to stay inside, close their windows and lock their | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
doors. All because of this man, James Allen. Two people have been | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
murdered and detectives say he is dangerous and violent. We are | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
putting everything into finding him, tracking him down and bringing him | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
to justice. Again, I appeal to people, if you see him, call 999, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
do not confront him. This is an investigation that covers most of | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
the north-east of England. On Monday, Colin Dunford was found | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
dead in his house. On Wednesday, 30 miles away, Julie Davison's body | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
was discovered by her sister. Today, the police said James Avenue Colin | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
Dunford. 12 months ago, he lived next door to him. Detectives still | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
do not know why Colin Dunford was killed. They do not know if he had | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
a problem with James alone. Or if anything has been taken from his | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
house. It was here at his local working men's club where Colin | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Dunford would meet his friends. It was the same friends who called | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
police when he stopped coming in. Until he is caught, you have got to | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
be very wary, and the sooner he is caught, the better. Armed police | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
have joined the search. They had it will end Comley and quickly. -- | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
they hope it will end calmly. The inquest into the death of an | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
MI6 officer has heard it would have been almost impossible for him to | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
lock himself inside a sport back. Gareth Williams's body was found in | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
a holdall in his bath in second August years ago. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
Gareth Williams, the officer found in a back. The inquest has been | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
tracing his final movements. A central question, did he get inside | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
himself or was he put there? Today, evidence, including this video, | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
from experts. One shows how hard it is to climb into a holdall in a | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
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The experts looked at whether it could be locked from the inside. | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
One witness said he tried 100 times, another, 300 times. Neither managed. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
One said it might be theoretically possible, the other said even | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Houdini would struggle. The inquest heard the score from Gareth's | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
employers, after he failed to turn up to work for a week. I wanted to | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
report one of our members of staff as missing. When police entered his | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
flat in Pimlico, they found a red sports bike. Gareth Williams's body | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
was found curled up inside in a foetal position, with no sign of | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
him having struggled to get out. Inside and underneath, a set of | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
keys for a padlocked. It was padlocked on the outside in a way | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
that experts found impossible to recreate from inside. The police | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
have said that from early on, they thought someone else was involved | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
in the death here at his flat. The evidence does seem to point to that, | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
but it is still not clear who it might have been. When police | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
examined phones and computers found in the flat, they found a large | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
amount of material on women's designer clothing as well as traces | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
of a small number of visits to websites looking at bondage and | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
people tied up. The inquest is expected to finish hearing evidence | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
next week. One of China's most prominent human | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
rights activists has made a remarkable escape from house arrest. | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
He had been confined to his home after years in prison for exposing | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
forced abortions and sterilisations are. The BBC has been told his | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
escape led to a car chase which ended at the American embassy in | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
Beijing. Blind since he was two, Chung won | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
Chong has become an icon in China. On the internet, hundreds copied | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
his image, appalled that a sightless man had been locked up | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
for the past seven years for exposing it uses light forced | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
abortions. -- exposing abuses. He was under illegal house arrest. Up | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
to 100 guards watching his every move. He smuggled out this video | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
last year, so they beat his family savagely. Western nations had | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
called for his release. Today, out of the blue, this. I have escaped, | :10:14. | :10:21. | |
he announced, on the internet. He demanded that those who had | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
imprisoned and assaulted his family, denied them food and medical | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
treatment, be punished. He said he feared his wife and child left | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
behind could face court retribution. When the BBC tried to visit him a | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
few months ago, we could not get near, so how did a blind man escape | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
all of these watches? We have been given this photograph of him | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
meeting another activist in Beijing. He spoke to us tonight. First, he | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
said, he tried to dig a tunnel, it failed. When a court was not | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
looking at, he scaled the series of falls. He called a supporter, and | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
was driven hundreds of miles to Beijing. The authorities giving | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
chase to the American embassy. From American officials, no comment. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
Hillary Clinton is due here next week to meet with China's leaders. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
They are mired in their infighting and scandals ahead of a major -- | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
major league if it changed. This estate is a new embarrassment for | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
them. He may be safe, but there are reports his relatives and those who | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
might have helped him are being rounded up. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
The Liberal Democrat leader has defended the coalition government, | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
which he says is doing very controversial and in some cases | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
downright unpopular things. He has also insisted his party remains | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
distinct from the Conservatives, despite being in coalition. He was | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
speaking at two Nick Robinson in the third of his interviews with | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
the main Westminster party leaders ahead of the English local | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
elections. Getting in touch, it is what any | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
political leader has to do. Not least when people feel Westminster | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
is a million miles away from the world they live in. He learned a | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
lot more than how to make bread on a visit to the Bradford HQ of the | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
supermarket Morrisons. It is quite grim, it is not unusual for me to | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
cry at the end of a focus group. The Deputy Prime Minister heard | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
about the sacrifices some customers are making it just to be able to | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
afford their weekly shopping. have had 20% of mothers telling us | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
they are missing in meal a day in order to provide for the children. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
That stock fact was preying on his mind when he travelled to his next | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
election stop. I spoke to him at Cardiff City's football ground. We | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
Ewshot? Of course, you would have to be made of stone, not to be | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
shocked about the pressures some families are under, it has a one of | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
the reasons I have been so focal for making the tax system fairer, | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
taking people out of income tax, giving it over 20 million basic | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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rate taxpayers several hundred But direct she -- the rich are | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
getting a tax cut? Let's not repeat some kind of fiction. We actually | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
raising five times more money from the rich than they are getting back | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
in any change of the upper rate of income tax. You know people, I | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
certainly do, who will be thousands of pounds better off. I wonder why, | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
in moral terms, you didn't say, no, I can't do this? I think it is very | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
obvious to people that my priority has been there many, not the few. | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
That is what we have delivered in his book -- budget. I don't believe | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
that would have happened without the Liberal Democrats in government. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Being in coalition means that the Lib Dems have to back the Blues, an | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
uncomfortable position for Nick Clegg when the Tory Culture | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Secretary is facing allegations that he got much too close to the | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
Murdoch family. Unless anyone has a better idea, I think having a judge | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
where a Cabinet minister needs to give evidence under oath is about | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
the best context to get down and find out what happened or did not | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
happen. Is this a sleazy government? I don't believe it is. | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
You know why people ask, though? course I accept that when you get | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
controversy in politics you get a lot of people attaching labels to | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
governments. I'm very proud of the fact that, unlike other parties, | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
big parties in British politics, the Liberal Democrats have never | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
and will never be in anybody's pockets. Are you not in the Tories' | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
pockets, is that not why you're doing so badly in the polls? People | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
need to make up their mind. People need to decide whether we are too | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
conservative or not conservative enough, the dastardly Liberal | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
Democrat are holding the Conservatives back. I'll tell you | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
exactly what it is, we are a coalition government, exactly what | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
it says on the tin. That is the Lib Dem dilemma. How to demonstrate | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
that all of the coalition are aiming for the same goal, while, at | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
the same time, convincing the electorate that the blues and | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt says he will hand over to the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Leveson Inquiry the text messages and e-mails that he sent his | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
special adviser, who resigned over his conduct during News | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
Corporation's bid for BSkyB. Mr Hunt insists he acted with total | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
integrity. In a development tonight, Lord Leveson is refusing his | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
request to bring forward the date he is due to appear before the | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
inquiry. Let's go to Westminster and Iain Watson. This delay may be | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
uncomfortable for the Culture Secretary. How difficult is it for | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
the Prime Minister? Potentially bad news for the prime minister, for | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
two reasons. First, there have been calls by Labour and buy some Lib | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Dems for a separate inquiry into whether Jeremy Hunt broke the | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
ministerial code. Downing Street say, no need for that, let's wait | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
for the Leveson Inquiry. Any delay will make those unwelcome calls for | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
a second inquiry grow louder. More bad news, Lord Justice Leveson is | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
making it clear he will not be the arbiter of Jeremy Hunt's political | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
future. He says that is a job for the Government. He is handing that | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
political hot potato back to them, because he does not want to be seen | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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Coming up: House space travel could change from this, to this. The | :16:54. | :17:04. | |
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space plane, which can take off Almost a quarter of Spanish workers | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
are now unemployed, the highest rate for nearly 20 years. It is the | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
highest in the eurozone. The country's credit rating has also | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
been downgraded. The Spanish foreign minister says that the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
country is facing a crisis of huge proportions. Gavin Stewart is with | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
me now. This is very serious for Spain, isn't it? Well, the Spanish | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
economy is in deep trouble. The Government is trying to slash the | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
deficit with the country in recession. The markets doubt it can | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
be done and have forced up the country's borrowing costs, raising | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
fears that Spain could be heading for a bail out. | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
More bad news today. The unemployment queues are getting | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
longer. Unemployment reached 24.4%. Youth unemployment is at 51%. The | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Government expects the figures to go higher. TRANSLATION: I keep | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
looking and looking, but there is hardly anything. I am living day to | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
day. I am single, I have a daughter that is studying and I am almost on | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
the streets. The economy has been devastated by the bursting of the | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
property bubble. The banks are nursing billions in bad loans. The | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
economy is expected to shrink by 1.7% this year, while the | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
Government is having to cut its budget. TRANSLATION: At this time, | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
we are living in one of the worst moments for the Spanish economy. | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
Spain needs bailing out, it will be no easy task. Its economy is twice | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
the size of the combined economies of those countries already bailed | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
out. And Spain would severely test the EU's rescue fund. The risk is | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
that the crisis could then spread to Italy. Across Europe, a | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
political backlash against austerity has started. It led to | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
the collapse of the Dutch government. Francois Hollande, the | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
favourite to win the French election, says he will make wrote | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
his priority, not austerity. After months of protests in Greece, it is | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
anti austerity parties that looks set to do well in the forthcoming | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
elections. There is a new focus on money to try to generate growth. A | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
lot of the problems, not just for Spain but for others European Area | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
countries, are that governments are trying to cut deficits at a time | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
when economies are in recession. The debate is gathering pace in | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
Europe as to whether countries... Are cutting too fast at a time when | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
there was almost no growth, with the risk that countries like Spain | :19:41. | :19:49. | |
are being trapped in a spiral of A British soldier has died in | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
southern Afghanistan. The soldier, from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
were shot and killed while on patrol in the Nahr-e Saraj district | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
of Helmand province. His family had been informed. | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
A large part of central London wash it down today at Braemar and | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
threatened to blow himself up. Armed police sealed off roads, | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
evacuated buildings and closed tube stations for several hours. The | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
security scare comes just three months before London plays host to | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
the Olympics. Central London in broad daylight. | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Armed police rushed towards a reported hostage situation. From | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
the 5th floor of this building, computers and office equipment, | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
thrown onto the street below. It started at lunchtime when a man | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
entered the offices of a company that offers courses for would-be | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
HGV drivers. An employee there said he was a previous client, with a | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
grievance. He appeared to have explosives strapped to him. He just | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
turned up, strapped up in gasoline, gasoline cylinders, basically he | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
threatened to blow up the office. He doesn't care about his life, he | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
doesn't care about anything. As a large part of Tottenham Court Road | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
was cordoned off, workers in neighbouring offices fled to safety. | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
Then, suddenly, it was over. A man was led out of the building in | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
handcuffs. So, a few hours after it began, this incident has been | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
brought to a successful conclusion. But with the Olympics just three | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
months away, the last thing the organisers will have wanted to see | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
is a huge security alert in the central London. Tonight, police are | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
still questioning the man arrested at the scene. | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
It is known as the Skylon and it could one day revolutionise space | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
travel. It is a space plane, which scientists believe could take off | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
from a runway into orbit. Developed in Oxfordshire, it is now being put | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
Main engines, start. We have main engine starter. For 16 years there | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
has only been one way to reach space, on a rocket blasting | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
straight up. And it is always expensive. Imagine taking off from | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
a runway and flying in to orbit. Meet Skylon, a British design for a | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
space plane. It has not yet been built, but the project has reached | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
a crucial stage. The key is a completely new type of motor, an | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
ingenious concept for a jet engine and rocket rolled into one. The | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
engineers go through the tracks. This has to work if the space plane | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
has a chance of flying. Because of a high pressures involved in this | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
revolutionary jet engine, everybody has to wear protection. It is | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
designed to go five times the speed of sound. When it is going that | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
quickly, the flow of air becomes so intense it reaches 1000 degrees | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Celsius, which would normally melt everything inside. But this unique | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
device called the heir to well below zero. -- court the air. It | :23:05. | :23:13. | |
should make space travel easier. The tests are now under way. This | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
is one of a series of experiments to check if the idea is viable. | :23:19. | :23:26. | |
This small band of engineers has worked with very little funding. So | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
far, so good. The designers are thinking big. It's like going to | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
New York. You go to an airport, get on an aeroplane. It's all pretty | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
invisible. Getting into space will be like that with this type of | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
technology. The Skylon is a long way from wanting. But the European | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
Space Agency checked it over and found nothing wrong. It might be | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
something for the future, but looking at the technology today, | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
this should work. So it could fly? It could fly, yes. But billions of | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
pounds are needed. Clad Engineering is not enough to make this British | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
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space dream a reality. -- clever The Queen has visited Aberfan. Many | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
children were killed there, when a slag heap collapsed on to their | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
school. Many memories will be rekindled in | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
this jubilee year. He will have the tragic resonance of this village in | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
the valleys of South Wales. This was Aberfan on the morning of the | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
21st October, 1956. A colliery waste tip had collapsed on to the | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
village. A junior school was engulfed. Local people, many of | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
them miners from local pits, dug frantically to try to rescue their | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
children. But it was too late. 116 children and 28 adults had died. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
Britain was stunned. Initially, the Queen's response was hesitant. | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
Aides urged her to visit, but it was nine days before she did so. | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
She has been back several times since. Today, she spoke to some of | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
those who, nearly 50 years ago, lost their sons and daughters. The | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Queen opened a new primary school, a place for today's children and a | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
reminder of the generation which was lost. The Queen has never | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
forgotten about fan. Mindful, perhaps, of that initial, slight | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
hesitation, she particularly wanted her Diamond Jubilee tour to include | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
the village. Geoff Edwards gave the Queen a book about the disaster. In | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
1966, he was the last child to be rescued from the debris. It brings | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
back poignant memories of what happened to me on that day. But it | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
also, with the support of the Queen, it has helped us get through very | :25:56. | :26:03. |