:00:09. > :00:14.Tony Nicklinson, who lost the legal battle to allow a doctor to end his
:00:14. > :00:20.life, has died. Paralysed from the neck down for seven years, his last
:00:20. > :00:23.message to the world - goodbye, the time has come. Once, he was a
:00:23. > :00:28.family man with a taste for adventure. He described his life
:00:28. > :00:32.after a stroke as a living nightmare. He made people think,
:00:32. > :00:37.what would it be like if that happened to me? What would I want
:00:37. > :00:42.in those circumstances? He focused attention on these very difficult
:00:42. > :00:47.end of life issues. We will be asking where this case leaves the
:00:47. > :00:52.debate on euthanasia. Also tonight: Asil Nadir, guilty of a further
:00:52. > :00:55.seven charges of theft - he stole nearly �29 million from his Polly
:00:55. > :01:01.Peck business empire. The mother and daughter murdered by
:01:01. > :01:08.her ex-partner - an official report criticises Essex police. There is
:01:08. > :01:11.anger from the family. More could have been done. Her life could have
:01:11. > :01:13.been saved. A living it up in Las Vegas -
:01:13. > :01:18.Prince Harry caught in a controversy over what happened
:01:18. > :01:26.after this pool party. Tyre tracks on Martian soil -
:01:26. > :01:30.NASA's rover passes another crucial test on its mission of discovery.
:01:30. > :01:35.Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, more fun times for
:01:35. > :01:45.Frankel. The colt makes it a 13 wins from 13 races with a stunning
:01:45. > :01:56.
:01:56. > :02:01.Good evening. Tony Nicklinson, who last week lost the legal battle to
:02:01. > :02:05.allow a doctor to end his life, has died. He was paralysed from the
:02:06. > :02:10.neck down since suffering a stroke in 2005 and described his ordeal as
:02:10. > :02:15.a living nightmare. Mr Nicklinson, who had refused food from last week,
:02:15. > :02:19.died from pneumonia. Branwen Jeffreys reports on how a man whose
:02:19. > :02:22.any form of communication was blinking managed to ignite the
:02:22. > :02:27.debate on euthanasia. Just over seven years ago, Tony
:02:27. > :02:30.Nicklinson had everything a man could want - a happy family, his
:02:30. > :02:35.career, his health. He had been married happily for years to his
:02:36. > :02:40.wife Jane. Tony Nicklinson was an active and outgoing man. But his
:02:40. > :02:45.life was changed abruptly by a devastating stroke. He was left
:02:45. > :02:49.paralysed below the neck, unable to speak, living a life he described
:02:49. > :02:54.as miserable and demeaning. Tony Nicklinson wanted a doctor to be
:02:54. > :03:00.able to kill him legally. Last week, his distress was evident after the
:03:00. > :03:04.High Court turned down his request. He stopped accepting food and
:03:04. > :03:14.developed pneumonia. This morning, one of his daughter has posted a
:03:14. > :03:22.
:03:23. > :03:28.message on Twitter. Before he died, Today, the Dickinson family asked
:03:28. > :03:32.for privacy. Their solicitor spoke for them to describe the last week.
:03:32. > :03:36.After Tony received the draft judgment on 12th August refusing
:03:36. > :03:39.his claim, the fight seemed to go out of him. He said he was
:03:39. > :03:44.heartbroken by the High Court's decision that he could not end his
:03:44. > :03:48.life at a time of his choosing with the help of a doctor. No one could
:03:48. > :03:53.lack sympathy for Tony Nicklinson's plight, but some also strongly
:03:53. > :03:57.opposed the change he was asking for. With the help of his family,
:03:57. > :04:01.he used social media to which the public. He is personality shone
:04:01. > :04:07.through. He made people think, what would it be like if that happened
:04:07. > :04:12.to me? What would I want in those circumstances? He focused attention
:04:12. > :04:17.on these very difficult end of life issues. The debate over the right
:04:17. > :04:21.to die has intensified recently. They -- Debbie Purdy's case led to
:04:21. > :04:25.cases in legal guidelines around assisted suicide. Families helping
:04:26. > :04:30.loved ones to travel abroad to die may not face prosecution. Tony
:04:30. > :04:34.Nicklinson took things further with his court case in 2010. He wanted
:04:34. > :04:41.doctors to be able to kill him in the UK, without facing a murder
:04:41. > :04:46.charge. But High Court judges want Parliament to decide, because this
:04:46. > :04:50.is a moral and ethical debate for society. His wife Jane said today
:04:50. > :04:54.that she had lost the love of her life. Tony Nicklinson had planned
:04:54. > :04:59.to carry on his legal battle. Instead, he was embraced by the
:04:59. > :05:03.death he wanted, leaving his family to grieve the man only they really
:05:03. > :05:09.knew. Branwen is with me now. Where does
:05:09. > :05:13.this leave the debate on euthanasia? For a man that could
:05:14. > :05:17.not speak, Tony Nicklinson had an incredibly loud voice in this
:05:17. > :05:21.debate, really raising its public profile. But because the courts
:05:21. > :05:25.pushed it back to Parliament, that is where we will see campaigners
:05:25. > :05:29.focus their efforts. Both those that say that because of Tony
:05:29. > :05:34.Nicklinson's suffering, the law should change on voluntary
:05:34. > :05:37.euthanasia, and those who are against that change, both some
:05:37. > :05:42.medical organisations and disabled lobby groups who do not want any
:05:42. > :05:45.change on that or assisted suicide. It is worth remembering that
:05:45. > :05:49.attempts in Parliament to change the law in England and Wales before
:05:49. > :05:54.have not been successful, and nor have more recent attempts in the
:05:54. > :05:58.Scottish parliament. Asil Nadir, the man who ran the
:05:58. > :06:01.massive Polly Peck business in the 1980s, has been found guilty of a
:06:01. > :06:06.further seven counts of theft. The jury at the Old Bailey heard that
:06:06. > :06:09.he stole nearly �29 million from his own company. On Monday, Mr
:06:09. > :06:19.Nadir was convicted of three charges and has been cleared of
:06:19. > :06:19.
:06:19. > :06:24.three others. Arriving at court, the man who once
:06:24. > :06:28.reigned supreme over a vast business empire. Two days ago, he
:06:29. > :06:34.was found guilty of three counts of theft amounting to nearly �6
:06:34. > :06:37.million. Today, another nine counts will be decided. Asil Nadir
:06:38. > :06:42.remained impassive as the verdicts were delivered. Afterwards, he put
:06:42. > :06:46.his hands together in front of his face, almost as if in prayer, as
:06:46. > :06:50.the judge thanked the jury for their stamina in what has been a
:06:50. > :06:55.gruelling seven-month trial. The Serious Fraud Office's pursuit of
:06:55. > :06:59.Asil Nadir has finally been vindicated. We are pleased that we
:06:59. > :07:04.were able to bring it to court and we are pleased with the result. Mr
:07:04. > :07:11.Nadir is an intelligent man, and he had a complex network of companies
:07:11. > :07:16.and trusts in order to route the money out of the jurisdiction.
:07:16. > :07:23.Leaving court, the toll telling on Asil Nadir's wife. I am not going
:07:23. > :07:28.to comment. Will you appeal? Yes. Asil Nadir was found guilty of 10
:07:28. > :07:33.counts of theft amounting to around �29 million. He stole 1.3 million,
:07:33. > :07:40.partly to pay for the Baggrave Hall, a stately home and farm in
:07:40. > :07:45.Leicestershire, and 5 million which benefited his family. In 1980, he
:07:45. > :07:52.paid nearly �300,000 for a stake in a small textile company called
:07:52. > :08:00.Polly Peck. Ten years later, it was worth �2 billion and had 200
:08:00. > :08:04.subsidiaries including the fruit giant De Monte. In 1990, following
:08:04. > :08:11.raids by the Serious Fraud Office on his and Polly Peck's offices, he
:08:11. > :08:15.was arrested and charged with theft on a vast scale. In May 1993,
:08:15. > :08:21.months before his trial was due to start, he fled the UK for northern
:08:21. > :08:25.Cyprus. 17 years later, he returned to face justice, saying he finally
:08:25. > :08:33.want to clear his name. The collapse of Polly Peck took
:08:33. > :08:37.shareholders' like Robin hillier by surprise. I had a brilliant and
:08:37. > :08:44.your report from the accountants, which gave you no reason to think
:08:44. > :08:48.they would be bad, that it would suddenly go broke. A few days later,
:08:49. > :08:52.complete collapse. When I spoke to Asil Nadir before the trial, he
:08:52. > :09:01.remained defiant. Did you still that money?
:09:01. > :09:05.Absolutely not. It makes you wonder, a man worth millions of pounds,
:09:05. > :09:09.spending dozens of millions of pounds a year and charity, what
:09:09. > :09:15.motive does you have? Asil Nadir's reputation is now in tatters.
:09:15. > :09:18.Tomorrow morning, he will be sentenced.
:09:18. > :09:21.Essex police have been severely criticised for the way they dealt
:09:21. > :09:24.with a man who went on to kill his ex-partner and their daughter.
:09:24. > :09:28.Christine Chambers had been complaining about violence from
:09:28. > :09:35.David Oakes for two years before the murder. The Independent Police
:09:35. > :09:39.Complaints Commission says the force's response was inadequate.
:09:39. > :09:44.Many times during her daughter Shania's short life, Christine
:09:44. > :09:48.Chambers has sought help from the police, fearful of the child's
:09:48. > :09:52.father, she finally separated from him. Two months later, a custody
:09:52. > :09:55.battle ended with both mother and child murdered at their home.
:09:56. > :10:01.Christine Chambers' elder daughter escaped by jumping out of a window
:10:01. > :10:05.of the house in Braintree in Essex. After shooting his ex-partner and
:10:05. > :10:10.child, David Oakes turned the gun on himself, but despite his
:10:10. > :10:18.injuries, he survived. As those who knew Christine heard the news, one
:10:19. > :10:26.man shouted, you knew it was going to happen again. Today her family
:10:26. > :10:29.were critical of the Essex force. am so angry, because you are so
:10:30. > :10:34.frustrated that more could have been done. Lives could have been
:10:34. > :10:37.saved. Today's report by the Independent Police Complaints
:10:37. > :10:43.Commission contains a litany of failings by Essex police, among
:10:43. > :10:46.them the evidence of David Oakes' violence tendencies was not taken
:10:46. > :10:50.into account. Action taken to arrest him was inadequate, and
:10:50. > :10:53.Christine Chambers' reluctance to give evidence against him was a
:10:53. > :10:58.sign that she was vulnerable. Although the police responded to
:10:58. > :11:03.each of the calls and did invest resources in those responses, they
:11:03. > :11:08.dealt with each incident as if it was isolated. They did not join the
:11:08. > :11:13.dots and see the whole picture. force says it now has more officers
:11:13. > :11:21.specialising in domestic violence. I met Mr and Mrs Chambers last week
:11:21. > :11:25.and offered my condolences and apologies. We owe it to Christine
:11:25. > :11:29.and Shania to learn from the lessons and recommendations of this
:11:29. > :11:33.report. David Oakes is now serving a life term for events here last
:11:33. > :11:37.year. The judge at his trial said he should remain in prison for the
:11:37. > :11:41.rest of his life. Meanwhile, the police have to reflect on their
:11:41. > :11:45.failings in this case. The report says it is impossible to say if
:11:45. > :11:53.Christine and Shania would still be alive today if things had been done
:11:53. > :11:57.differently. The UK's second largest energy firm,
:11:57. > :12:01.SSE, is to increase its charges from October. The company blamed
:12:01. > :12:06.the rise on wholesale energy prices. The move will see bills going up by
:12:06. > :12:10.an average of 9%, hitting nearly 8.5 million customers with an
:12:10. > :12:14.increase of just over �100 a year for a standard dual fuel bill. The
:12:14. > :12:17.company says it will cap its bills until at least the second half of
:12:17. > :12:23.next year. Other big energy suppliers are also expected to
:12:23. > :12:27.increase prices this autumn. A series of high-level meetings
:12:27. > :12:31.this week could once again expose the fault-lines at the heart of the
:12:31. > :12:35.Eurozone crisis. The Greek Prime Minister is asking for more time to
:12:35. > :12:38.implement the tough spending cuts imposed on the country. Today the
:12:38. > :12:48.head of the euro group of finance ministers said Greig was facing its
:12:48. > :12:51.
:12:51. > :12:55.It's the latest act in this Greek drama. A plea for more time to
:12:55. > :13:00.bring down the Government's borrowing. The economy's on its
:13:00. > :13:04.knees. Unemployment is at nearly 25%. Empty shops tell their own
:13:05. > :13:08.story and many feel their country can't take any more spending cuts
:13:08. > :13:12.or tax rises. The Greek Prime Minister, Antonis
:13:12. > :13:17.Samaras, today met the leader of the eurozone's lenders to ask for
:13:17. > :13:27.breathing space with the austerity programme it. Includes 11.5 billion
:13:27. > :13:30.euros of cuts over two years. Trans Sonic The only thing that this
:13:30. > :13:36.government and the Greek people and reason want is to remove to
:13:36. > :13:39.recovery as soon as possible. a deepening recession it is getting
:13:39. > :13:44.harder for Greece to raise tax revenues. The International
:13:44. > :13:49.Monetary Fund predicts a 4.8% contraction this year and no growth
:13:49. > :13:55.next year. Though many experts think that's too optimistic.
:13:55. > :14:01.economy is almost dead and a lot of economists here, Samaras is one of
:14:01. > :14:05.them, feel that if you just squeeze a little bit more, then that will
:14:05. > :14:09.be the death certificate. Nothing will be moving any more.
:14:09. > :14:13.Events in Athens and the latest developments in the Greek financial
:14:13. > :14:18.crisis are being watched closely in Europe's financial markets. I think
:14:18. > :14:23.the Greek situation is very serious today. This economist told me she
:14:23. > :14:27.thinks Greece won't be able to meet the tough borrowing targets, set by
:14:27. > :14:30.lenders, as part of the bailout deal. I don't think Greece will be
:14:30. > :14:33.able to achieve the targets as they are set out today. I think
:14:33. > :14:37.ultimately Greece will need more money but I think it's also a
:14:37. > :14:40.decision that will come in the medium-term. If we are looking in
:14:40. > :14:44.the immediate issues for the euro area, there are other issue that is
:14:44. > :14:50.need to be addressed but Greece will need more time, they will need
:14:50. > :14:54.more money. As the Greek Prime Minister left today's meeting, he
:14:54. > :14:57.was no clearer whether he'd get an extension on the deficit reduction
:14:57. > :15:02.programme. He'll meet the German Chancellor on fri, and the next day
:15:02. > :15:09.the French President. -- on Friday. Two key players, he really needs to
:15:09. > :15:12.get on side. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:15:12. > :15:20.On the highest peaks in the United Kingdom, lighting the Paralympic
:15:20. > :15:23.flame, despite the weather. A website in the United States has
:15:23. > :15:27.published photographs showing Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas
:15:27. > :15:31.Hotel room. The pictures were apparently taken at a party with
:15:31. > :15:34.friends in his hotel suite, during a private weekend break. St James's
:15:34. > :15:44.Palace has confirmed the photos are of Harry but won't comment any
:15:44. > :15:48.further. Please stand for His Royal Highness,
:15:48. > :15:51.Prince Henry of Wales, representing Her Majesty the Queen. He was last
:15:51. > :15:55.seen in Britain at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, with
:15:55. > :16:00.the world looking on, Prince Harry was there as the Queen's personal
:16:00. > :16:04.representative. A few days later and a very different Harry was on
:16:04. > :16:09.display, in Las Vegas in a swimming pool in a nightclub. He was there
:16:09. > :16:14.with friends on what officials say was a short break from his military
:16:14. > :16:18.duties. But what was what happened later, in his hotel suite that's
:16:18. > :16:21.causing acute embarrassment to the third in line to the British throne.
:16:21. > :16:25.An American gossip website published photographs of Prince
:16:25. > :16:29.Harry, naked, apparently playing strip billiards. A woman companion
:16:29. > :16:33.also appears to be naked. The mainstream media here in Britain
:16:33. > :16:37.has so far chosen not to publish the photographs, mindful, no doubt,
:16:37. > :16:41.that Lord Justice Leveson is currently writing his report on the
:16:41. > :16:45.British press. For Harry, the episode is an unfortunate reminder
:16:45. > :16:49.of earlier times when his judgment was called into question. But more
:16:49. > :16:53.recently the image of a partying Prince has been replaced by
:16:53. > :16:57.something more level-headed. A caring Prince, fulfiling his
:16:57. > :17:01.military duties and bringing a sense of fun to his work as a
:17:01. > :17:05.central member of the Royal Family. Those who know Harry, say the
:17:05. > :17:11.pictures are a real setback for him. It really undermines, you know, the
:17:11. > :17:15.work he has been doing in the last six months. His char constable work
:17:15. > :17:18.in South Africa and even his military career. -- his charitable
:17:18. > :17:21.work. And that has taken off in a
:17:21. > :17:26.fantastic direction. "Queen and much of her family trying to relax
:17:26. > :17:29.up in Balmoral, it has been left with royal officials in London to
:17:29. > :17:32.deal with the kind of attention the Royal Family could do without.
:17:32. > :17:35.Nothing is being said here about the photographs. There's probably
:17:35. > :17:38.very little that can be said. However it is being pointed out
:17:38. > :17:42.that everyone should have a reasonable expectation of privacy
:17:42. > :17:46.in their own hotel room. Friends of Harry say this was a
:17:47. > :17:51.young officer, letting his hair down before returning to military
:17:51. > :18:00.duty. But of course it's never as straightforward as that, when
:18:00. > :18:05.thatster is third in line to the British throne -- when that officer.
:18:05. > :18:08.Amnesty International says there is evidence that civilians are facing
:18:08. > :18:15.indiscriminate attacks in the battle for Aleppo and it is warning
:18:15. > :18:20.of an increase in the Ilic treatment of soldiers. -- ill-
:18:20. > :18:25.treatment of Today one of their tactics emerged. Filmed by New York
:18:25. > :18:31.Times journalists, it shows them trying to turn a captured soldier
:18:31. > :18:35.into a suicide bomber. The battle a month old, with no end
:18:35. > :18:39.in sight. These men form one of the many units fighting the Assad
:18:39. > :18:42.regime in the city. The group's leader a former accountant,
:18:42. > :18:46.prepares his men for battle and this film, shot by New York Times
:18:46. > :18:56.reporters, who joined them for five days, shows how far they are
:18:56. > :18:58.
:18:58. > :19:08.willing to G-force force The journalists show them rigging a 300
:19:08. > :19:10.
:19:10. > :19:17.Kyle yo bomb. Inside there is a prisoner, said to be a member of
:19:17. > :19:22.the government militia accused of massacres.
:19:22. > :19:25.Rebels say one confessed to beatings and rape.
:19:25. > :19:30.This man is offered significant relts and a shur and he is told he
:19:30. > :19:34.will be released as part of a prisoner exchange -- he is offered
:19:34. > :19:38.cigarettes and a shower. He is told all he has to do is
:19:38. > :19:40.drive on to a government checkpoint. What he doesn't know and the
:19:40. > :19:45.reporters say they didn't realise, is that he would be transferred
:19:45. > :19:48.into the truck, carrying a bomb, which rebels plan it detonate
:19:48. > :19:52.remotely as he approaches the checkpoint. He is being tricked
:19:52. > :19:58.into being an unwitting suicide bomber. In the moment the rebel
:19:58. > :20:03.fighters return disappointed, when they press the detonator, the bomb
:20:03. > :20:07.failed to explode. What essentially is happening there, it seems, is
:20:07. > :20:11.the attempted murder of a captive which would be classed as war crime.
:20:11. > :20:15.Certainly the scale of the abuses happening in Syria right now, by
:20:15. > :20:18.the armed opposition, do not match the crimes against humanity
:20:18. > :20:24.happening from the Syrian government. What this video does is
:20:24. > :20:27.provide a new insight into some of the tactics employed in the pivotal
:20:27. > :20:30.battle that's under way for Aleppo. Neither side can afford to lose, so
:20:30. > :20:34.the tactics are becoming more extreme. It's here that the
:20:34. > :20:38.Government has first started using fighter jets to bomb built-up areas
:20:39. > :20:45.and it is also here that some rebel units have been accused of the
:20:45. > :20:51.summary execution of prisoners. As the fighting continues, the level
:20:51. > :20:54.of brutality is increasing. The Government responsible for the
:20:54. > :21:04.lion's share but it is the civilians who are bearing the brub.
:21:04. > :21:07.Tonight David Cameron has spoken to the US President, brak and the
:21:07. > :21:12.French President, Francois Hollande, and Gordon joins me now. What has
:21:12. > :21:16.emerged? The conversations? Well in conversations with the French and
:21:16. > :21:19.American Presidents, the Prime Minister talked about how to build
:21:19. > :21:22.on existing support to the opposition forces in Siria. It is
:21:22. > :21:26.non-lethal support, so they are not supplying arms it the kinds of
:21:26. > :21:29.rebel groups we saw in the report. The other thing that I think is
:21:29. > :21:32.significant is that Downing Street said both David Cameron and the
:21:32. > :21:37.American President ray greed that the use or threat of chemical
:21:37. > :21:42.weapons was "kpwhreetly unacceptable" and would force them
:21:42. > :21:46.to revisit their approach. -- "completely unacceptable." That
:21:46. > :21:51.echos language that President Obama used when he warned the Syrians
:21:51. > :21:57.about chemical weapons, it was a redline saying, that they were to
:21:57. > :22:06.use the weapons, then perhaps their calculus about intervening might
:22:06. > :22:12.change. In a seas' Mars Rover has made its first test drive, moving
:22:12. > :22:18.just a few metres. -- NASA's Mars Rover.
:22:18. > :22:22.Pallab Ghosh has the latest details on the mission. Tyre tracks on a
:22:22. > :22:26.distant planet. Curiosity has just taken its first short journey on
:22:26. > :22:33.the martian surface. The day began with a little wiggle of its wheel.
:22:34. > :22:38.Then, at mission control, engineers sent instructions for the Rover to
:22:39. > :22:42.roll. If this operation failed, the long journey to Mars would have
:22:42. > :22:47.been in vain. Straight to the good stuff and put
:22:47. > :22:50.up the image from today. The very beautiful image. I'm pleased to
:22:51. > :22:59.report that Curiosity today had our first successful drive on Mars.
:22:59. > :23:05.APPLAUSE And this is what Curiosity will be
:23:05. > :23:09.exploring. Will - a vast crater who's rocks the Rover will spend
:23:09. > :23:14.the next two years studying in incredible detail. Curiosity here
:23:15. > :23:19.is the most sophisticated piece of equipment ever to have land on
:23:19. > :23:23.another planet. Its laser can assess the chemical composition of
:23:23. > :23:28.nearby rocks. It is the first Rover on the surface of Mars to be able
:23:28. > :23:32.it drill and analyse samples. All this data can then be sent back to
:23:32. > :23:36.Earth, along with the most detailed images yet of the martian surface.
:23:36. > :23:41.We will be driving only short bits in the beginning but eventually we
:23:41. > :23:44.will be able to go maybe 100m each day. There will always be new
:23:44. > :23:47.science targets and new questions coming up river time we stop the
:23:48. > :23:52.Rover and look around. The science can now begin. By studying the
:23:52. > :23:59.crater, layer by layer, scientists hope to learn whether this now dead
:23:59. > :24:03.planet could once have supported life, billions of years ago.
:24:03. > :24:07.A week to go before the biggest Paralympics ever get under way in
:24:07. > :24:10.London, and the flames for the torch relay have been lit in poor
:24:10. > :24:14.weather on the highest peaks of England, Scotland, Wales and
:24:14. > :24:19.Northern Ireland. James Pearce reports from Snowdon.
:24:20. > :24:24.Four flames lit on the highest peaks of the four nation up the
:24:24. > :24:29.United Kingdom. Next week they'll be merged to form London's
:24:29. > :24:34.Paralympic flame. At Snowdon, Lord Coe was lead big example, choosing
:24:34. > :24:38.a three-hour climb, rather than a leisurely train ride to the top. I
:24:38. > :24:44.might have wondered if he'd made the right decision, as the clouds
:24:44. > :24:51.began to roll in. But eventually he and his team of scouts made it to
:24:51. > :24:56.the top. A well-earned warm cup of tea. While Wales' Paralympic torch
:24:56. > :25:00.was lit from the flame. Then, just a few does more steps to Snowdon's
:25:00. > :25:04.summit. The contrast could hardly be
:25:04. > :25:08.greater, with the sunshine of ancient Olympia for the lighting of
:25:08. > :25:12.the Olympic flame back in May but the symbolism is similar and the
:25:12. > :25:17.organisers hope the end result will be the same, one of the greatest
:25:17. > :25:20.games ever staged. He was on top of Snowdon but after the success of
:25:20. > :25:23.the Olympics, probably feeling on top of the world and now in
:25:23. > :25:27.confident mood. We get the Paralympics in this country. You
:25:27. > :25:31.know, a lot of our competitors are household names. This is just a
:25:31. > :25:35.great way of really starting the flame on its journey to the
:25:35. > :25:38.Paralympic stadium. The weather was little better at the other
:25:39. > :25:44.locations around the UK. This was the lighting at the top of Ben
:25:44. > :25:53.Nevis in Scotland. In Northern Ireland, there were numerous failed
:25:53. > :25:57.attempts before eventual success. And in England, they had to use a
:25:57. > :26:02.tarpaulin for shelter. It was pretty difficult. It did take a
:26:02. > :26:08.little longer than expected. It did start hailing at one point and was
:26:08. > :26:14.very windy but with a bit of tender, loving kai, we managed to get the
:26:14. > :26:17.flame lit. -- loving care. Meanwhile, thousands of
:26:17. > :26:19.Paralympians arrived in London. More than three-quarterings of