24/08/2012

:00:05. > :00:12.Anders Breivik, who murdered 77 people in Norway, is declared sane

:00:12. > :00:19.by a judge and sentenced to 21 years in prison. Breivik smirked as

:00:19. > :00:24.the verdict was handed down, and later made a chilling statement.

:00:24. > :00:29.TRANSLATION: I wish to apologise to all militant nationalists in Norway

:00:29. > :00:32.and you wrote that I was not able to kill more people. -- Norway and

:00:32. > :00:36.Europe. The right-wing extremist is led

:00:36. > :00:40.from court to start a jail term, which may be extended and from

:00:40. > :00:43.which he may never be released. The survivors of the shooting at a

:00:43. > :00:48.youth camp on Utoeya Island say they are relieved the trial is now

:00:48. > :00:52.over. It was kind of empowering and strengthening to be there and

:00:52. > :00:56.experience the fact that he had no power over me any more.

:00:56. > :00:59.Also tonight: New figures show Britain is still in recession. The

:00:59. > :01:03.economy is continuing to shrink but by less than first thought.

:01:03. > :01:08.The controversy over Prince Harry gathers pace. Now 850 complaints

:01:08. > :01:11.over the Sun's decision to publish the naked photos.

:01:11. > :01:16.A man in Jersey who killed six people, including his wife and

:01:16. > :01:19.children, is found guilty of manslaughter.

:01:19. > :01:28.And the US anti-doping agency says it is stripping Lance Armstrong of

:01:28. > :01:34.his seven Tour de France titles and banning him for life.

:01:34. > :01:44.Coming up: Sunderland complete the signing of Adam Johnson from

:01:44. > :01:54.

:01:54. > :01:57.Manchester City for an undisclosed Good evening. Anders Behring

:01:57. > :02:00.Breivik, the man who killed 77 people in Norway last summer, has

:02:00. > :02:04.been declared sane by a judge in Oslo and sentenced to the maximum

:02:04. > :02:10.jail term of 21 years, although it is understood he may never be

:02:10. > :02:12.released. The right-wing extremist carried out a bomb attack in the

:02:13. > :02:18.capital before travelling to a youth camp on the island of Utoeya,

:02:18. > :02:21.where he shot dozens of people. Breivik smirked as the sentence was

:02:21. > :02:29.handed down and tried to deliver a statement to his supporters,

:02:29. > :02:35.apologising for not killing more. From Oslo, here is James Robbins.

:02:35. > :02:39.Anders Breivik says he killed to destroy a liberal, multicultural

:02:39. > :02:44.Norway. Today and Norwegian court demonstrated his failure to achieve

:02:44. > :02:54.that. A unanimous verdict of the five judges: Guilty of mass murder

:02:54. > :02:57.and terrorism, and same, not insane. TRANSLATION: Anders Behring Breivik,

:02:57. > :03:03.born 13th February 1979, is sentenced to 21 years and a minimum

:03:03. > :03:08.period of ten years. That 20 one- year sentence may be extended in

:03:08. > :03:13.practice as long as Breivik is judged to be dangerous. So why was

:03:13. > :03:17.he smiling? Because for him, being judged sane was the priority. He

:03:17. > :03:22.believes it legitimises what he calls a crusade against Muslims in

:03:22. > :03:28.Europe. His killing started in Oslo, with a bomb explosion outside the

:03:28. > :03:32.Prime Minister's office. The emergency services raced to defend

:03:32. > :03:37.the capital city but Breivik was already heading to Utoeya. There,

:03:37. > :03:42.in a fake police uniform, he calmly shot dead young people at the

:03:42. > :03:46.annual camp organised by Norway's governing Labour Party. Legitimate

:03:46. > :03:50.targets, he called them, being trained to promote a multicultural

:03:50. > :03:55.Europe. A few weeks later he was taken back to the island to talk

:03:55. > :03:59.through his actions. You can see their tether the police used to

:04:00. > :04:04.ensure he did not escape. This evening, when Breivik was allowed

:04:04. > :04:10.his moment to speak in court, he apologised to other extremists for

:04:10. > :04:14.not killing more people before the judge cut him off mid-sentence. It

:04:14. > :04:19.didn't stop Breivik throwing a last Nazi salute before he was

:04:19. > :04:24.handcuffed to begin his sentence. Young survivors of the massacre

:04:24. > :04:28.found the trial helpful, even therapeutic. It was kind of

:04:28. > :04:34.empowering a strengthening to be there and experience the fact that

:04:34. > :04:39.he had no power over me, he could not hurt me. So what of Norway and

:04:39. > :04:42.its people? Political parties of right and left now say they will

:04:42. > :04:48.tone down their language over immigration, but not shirk the

:04:48. > :04:53.debate. When the Prime Minister says, let's meet terror with more

:04:53. > :05:00.human rights and tolerance, he speaks on behalf of the majority of

:05:00. > :05:07.us but not all of us, and we have to get that debate come. We have to

:05:07. > :05:13.be able to heal as a nation and to discuss my neck problems openly.

:05:13. > :05:17.Anders Breivik is now beginning his sentence at Ila prison in Oslo.

:05:17. > :05:21.Most Norwegians believe conditions will never be right for him to be

:05:21. > :05:24.released. Some worry he will be able to exploit access to a

:05:24. > :05:29.computer to write more of the fanatical manifesto he hoped would

:05:29. > :05:34.launch a revolution. Breivik will be in solitary confinement, to

:05:34. > :05:41.protect other prisoners but also to protect Norway's most notorious

:05:41. > :05:45.criminal from have them up. We have heard how relieve the

:05:45. > :05:50.survivors are but how is the rest of Norway reacting?

:05:51. > :05:57.The people of Norway are breathing a sigh of relief collectively,

:05:57. > :06:02.partly because Breivik was found to to be sane. They are pleased

:06:02. > :06:06.because they didn't want him to hide behind the excuse of insanity.

:06:06. > :06:10.They are also pleased because that means there will be no appeal, he

:06:10. > :06:15.said he will not appeal against the finding that he was not insane, and

:06:15. > :06:19.that means it will not have to come to the court again and there will

:06:19. > :06:25.not be further trauma about hearing the evidence and the poison that so

:06:25. > :06:28.often comes from his mouth. There is relief about that. Paradoxically,

:06:28. > :06:33.in a stigma that respect, he absolutely failed because the

:06:33. > :06:37.political parties both Right and Left say they will try to tone down

:06:38. > :06:41.language that was sometimes strident over immigration. The last

:06:41. > :06:46.thing to say is they are relieved they feel Breivik will be in prison

:06:46. > :06:50.for at least 21 years, possibly for the rest of his life, and most

:06:51. > :06:56.Norwegians I have been speaking to, including the bereaved, do not want

:06:56. > :07:00.to see him any more. They don't even want to see his picture any

:07:00. > :07:03.more or hear from him any more. New figures have suggested that the

:07:03. > :07:06.economy shrank by less than first thought in the second three months

:07:06. > :07:08.of this year. The Office for National Statistics originally

:07:08. > :07:14.calculated that the economy contracted by 0.7%, but now

:07:14. > :07:22.believes that the drop wasn't as big as that. Hugh Pym looks now at

:07:22. > :07:25.the reasons behind the revision. Digging down into the data, the

:07:25. > :07:28.statisticians have come up with their latest snapshot of the

:07:28. > :07:33.economy and they say it has not been quite as bad as they

:07:33. > :07:41.thoughtful stop they had said output fell by 0 points at the cent

:07:41. > :07:45.between April and June. Now they think it was 0.5%. Why? Companies

:07:45. > :07:50.like this provides diggers and excavating equipment. It says trade

:07:50. > :07:54.has been difficult but not as bad as the data implies. I was quite

:07:54. > :07:58.surprised by the degree of contraction that was suggested by

:07:58. > :08:05.official figures. We have seen some softening but not the degree of the

:08:05. > :08:13.figures. Here is what he meant. It was estimated that industrial

:08:13. > :08:22.production had fallen 1.3%. Now it is 0.9%. The Construction, 5.2%,

:08:22. > :08:25.that has been revised to 3.9%. What about the consumer side of the

:08:26. > :08:29.economy? Figures show that household spending fell again, with

:08:29. > :08:34.budgets being squeezed because cost-of-living increases were

:08:34. > :08:38.running well ahead of average pay rises, but with inflation predicted

:08:38. > :08:42.to fall further, the pressure can be easing. So it is possible that

:08:42. > :08:46.consumer spending will help the economy to turn around but

:08:46. > :08:52.returning to sustained growth will be a big challenge. Some major

:08:52. > :08:59.economies are on the up. The USA saw growth of 0.4% between April

:08:59. > :09:07.and June and German output was up 0.3%, but the UK contracted by 0.5%

:09:07. > :09:11.and it to lead contracted by 0.7%. Canada, the US and Germany have

:09:11. > :09:15.surpassed the peaks before the crisis. The UK is more than 4%

:09:15. > :09:22.dance on that level and the worry is there is no obvious momentum to

:09:22. > :09:27.get the UK catching up and closing the gap. The mood music in the

:09:27. > :09:32.eurozone is important for the UK's prospects. Today the Greek Prime

:09:32. > :09:35.Minister continued his attempts to soften the austerity targets. The

:09:35. > :09:44.German Chancellor gave no commitments but struck a

:09:44. > :09:49.sympathetic note. Greece is part of the eurozone and I want it to

:09:49. > :09:56.remain part of the eurozone. That in the UK, the economy is not

:09:56. > :10:03.sparking normally and the political debate about where growth is going

:10:03. > :10:06.to come from is likely to intensify. The Press Complaints Commission

:10:06. > :10:09.says it has received more than 850 complaints from the public over The

:10:09. > :10:13.Sun newspaper's decision to publish photographs of Prince Harry, naked

:10:13. > :10:16.in a hotel room in Las Vegas. The paper says they were freely

:10:16. > :10:24.available on the internet and had already been viewed by millions of

:10:24. > :10:29.people. Nicholas Witchell looks at the conflict between personal

:10:29. > :10:34.privacy and public interest. Self-restraint lasted less than 40

:10:34. > :10:39.yet hours. This frustration felt in tabloid newsrooms became too much

:10:39. > :10:44.for the Sun, and there on the front page was the photo of Prince Harry

:10:44. > :10:50.in Las Vegas. For the Sun, the freedom of the press had out with

:10:50. > :10:54.the privacy of this particular individual -- had outweighed.

:10:54. > :10:59.ludicrous, the picture can be seen by hundreds of millions of people

:10:59. > :11:09.on the internet but cannot be seen in the nation's favourite to paper.

:11:09. > :11:10.

:11:10. > :11:14.But the rival Daily Mirror disagreed, and so did the editor of

:11:14. > :11:21.the Independent. The Prince was in a private hotel room with people he

:11:21. > :11:24.had invited into the room. Private party. Somebody betrayed his trust

:11:25. > :11:30.and to those pictures. There is no public interest in those pictures

:11:30. > :11:34.at all. The former deputy prime minister, Lord Prescott, once a

:11:35. > :11:39.notable victim of the tabloid himself, said it was all about

:11:39. > :11:43.profit. Somebody gets a photograph, somebody makes money, and the

:11:43. > :11:53.others make money again. It is nothing to do with public interest,

:11:53. > :11:54.

:11:54. > :11:59.it is profit, profit, profit. is happening in the shadows of Lord

:11:59. > :12:03.Justice Leveson's inquiries into the press. He will be considering

:12:03. > :12:08.self-regulation, which editors favour, a new strength and

:12:08. > :12:12.regulator, possibly underpinned by regulation and legislation, or

:12:12. > :12:17.full-scale privacy laws, the editors least favourite options.

:12:17. > :12:23.That is all for the future. Right now, Prince Harry and his advisers

:12:23. > :12:27.must decide whether they will make a formal complaint to their Press

:12:27. > :12:31.Complaints Commission. That is being considered. As I understand

:12:31. > :12:36.it, no decision has been taken. Have read meanwhile has been

:12:36. > :12:41.advised by his family to keep a low profile -- Prince Harry meanwhile.

:12:41. > :12:45.More photographs of his exploits in Las Vegas are now said to be

:12:45. > :12:51.circulating. Prince Harry's dream holiday as well and truly turned

:12:51. > :12:54.into a nightmare. Police investigating the rape of a

:12:54. > :12:59.teenage boy in Manchester city centre have arrested two men. The

:12:59. > :13:02.men, aged 55 and 41, remain in police custody. The boy was

:13:02. > :13:08.approached in early June near the Arndale Centre and taken to the

:13:08. > :13:11.toilets of the nearby Debenhams store, where the attack took place.

:13:11. > :13:15.A man has been found guilty of carrying out a knife attack on his

:13:15. > :13:17.wife, two young children, his father-in-law and two friends.

:13:17. > :13:20.Damian Rzeszowski, from Jersey, admitted manslaughter on the

:13:20. > :13:22.grounds of diminished responsibility. He claimed he had

:13:22. > :13:32.been suffering from depression after his marriage came under

:13:32. > :13:35.

:13:35. > :13:39.Described in court as a hardworking, fun-loving man, a man who one

:13:39. > :13:45.summer afternoon killed all those closest to him. When emergency

:13:45. > :13:48.services answered frantic calls to the ground floor flat in Saint

:13:48. > :13:56.Hellier, they were faced with a horrific scene. Armed with two

:13:56. > :13:59.kitchen knives he attacked his father-in-law as he watched TV.

:14:00. > :14:06.Two-year-old Caspar had been at the dining room table. His picture he'd

:14:06. > :14:12.painted still in front of him. Kinga was nearby amongst her toys.

:14:12. > :14:19.Her friend, Julia, also five, in the hall of the flat. Julia's

:14:19. > :14:25.mother Marta had managed to meet the street but was critically

:14:26. > :14:31.injured. Isabella had been unable to escape the flat. She went out

:14:31. > :14:35.the front door as neighbours tried to intervene. Today a police

:14:35. > :14:38.liaison officer spoke of the tragedy. This tragedy is even more

:14:38. > :14:44.painful as we have lost our children and grandchildren knowing

:14:44. > :14:49.that we will never be able to play with Kinga and Julia again or

:14:49. > :14:53.cuddle little Caspar, and we can never talk to Isabella, Marta or

:14:53. > :14:58.Merrick again makes the pain unbearable.

:14:58. > :15:03.The first police officers to arrive here found him inside the flat with

:15:03. > :15:05.what were clearly self-inflicted stab wounds. The prosecution at his

:15:05. > :15:10.trial rejected the claims he could remember little of what happened

:15:10. > :15:15.and that he'd suffered some form of mental breakdown. They said he was

:15:15. > :15:21.a man whose anger and revenge at his wife's affair had exploded into

:15:21. > :15:24.violence but expert witnesses argued his depression over the

:15:24. > :15:31.marriage breakup had made him mentally unstable, and in the end

:15:31. > :15:36.the court agreed with that view. The man who has twice tried to take

:15:36. > :15:40.his own life is now facing those terrible minutes on a summer

:15:41. > :15:43.afternoon. Coming up on tonight's programme -

:15:43. > :15:49.Countdown to the Paralympics: as the first ceremonial cauldron is

:15:49. > :15:51.lit in Trafalger Square, we look back at the origins of the Games.

:15:51. > :15:54.The United States Anti-Doping Agency says it's stripping the

:15:54. > :16:00.cyclist Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles and

:16:00. > :16:02.banning him from the sport, for life. Earlier, Armstrong said he'd

:16:02. > :16:05.grown weary of fighting the constant allegations which have

:16:05. > :16:11.blighted his career. Our sports editor David Bond looks at the

:16:11. > :16:17.cyclist's extraordinary fall from grace. Just a warning - his report

:16:17. > :16:20.does contain some flash photography. Lance Armstrong's life story is one

:16:21. > :16:25.of the most dramatic sport has ever known. He won the Tour de France

:16:25. > :16:29.seven times in a row, elevating cycling to new levels and his own

:16:29. > :16:34.profile to the American A-list, and it was all the more extraordinary

:16:34. > :16:39.because he did it after overcoming life-threatening cancer. It feels

:16:39. > :16:42.good. But his career and reputation have been dogged by persistent

:16:42. > :16:50.allegations that his achievements were fuelled by banned performance-

:16:50. > :16:53.enhancing drugs, claims he has always denied. I try not to let it

:16:53. > :16:57.bother me and just keep rolling right along. I know that - I know

:16:57. > :17:04.what I know, and I know what I do, and I know what I did, and that's

:17:04. > :17:09.not going to change. Today, it did change. Faced with a

:17:09. > :17:15.raft of charges from the Anti- Doping Agency backed up by as many

:17:15. > :17:20.as ten former team-mate, Armstrong, uncharacteristically threw in the

:17:20. > :17:25.towel. In a statement, he said: "There comes a point in every man's

:17:25. > :17:29.life when he has to say enough is enough. For me that time is now."

:17:29. > :17:33.Armstrong says this is not an admission of guilt, but the US

:17:33. > :17:37.Anti-Doping Agency has banned him for life and stripped him of his

:17:37. > :17:44.titles. Those sanctions must still be confirmed by World Cycling, but

:17:44. > :17:49.the man leading the fight against drugs says the implications for arm

:17:49. > :17:54.strong are clear. His failure to rebut and those very serious

:17:54. > :17:59.charges means he's effectively acknowledging they had substance

:17:59. > :18:03.and under the rules he always subjected himself to to impose

:18:03. > :18:06.sanctions. Cycling has by now become accustomed to dealing with

:18:06. > :18:10.major doping scandals but the Lance Armstrong case may be the biggest

:18:10. > :18:13.blow yet to its credibility. The sport says it has cleaned up its

:18:13. > :18:20.act. In this country, at least, that's crucial because it's

:18:20. > :18:23.enjoying an unprecedented surge in success and popularity. One of

:18:23. > :18:28.Armstrong's former team-mates says cycling has changed. Just watch the

:18:28. > :18:31.Tour de France. It's a completely different style of racing to ten

:18:31. > :18:35.years ago. I think that's the biggest vindication that cycling is

:18:35. > :18:39.getting cleaner as the years go on. For many Lance Armstrong will

:18:39. > :18:42.always be sued as one of sport's biggest heroes, and while today's

:18:42. > :18:49.developments leave a lot of questions unanswered, his

:18:50. > :18:52.reputation has been damaged perhaps beyond repair.

:18:53. > :18:55.Rush hour commuters in New York were caught up in crossfire today

:18:55. > :18:58.as a gunman, thought be a disgruntled worker fired from his

:18:59. > :19:02.job, shot and killed a colleague in a street near the Empire State

:19:02. > :19:05.Building. The murder in downtown Manhattan happened this morning.

:19:05. > :19:13.The man was killed by police. Nine other people were injured. From New

:19:13. > :19:16.York, here's Michele Fluerie. Mayhem surrounded one of the

:19:16. > :19:20.world's best-known landmarks, the Empire State Building today after

:19:20. > :19:24.the third mass shooting in the US this summer. A construction worker

:19:24. > :19:28.who witnessed the incident described the chaos. We could see

:19:28. > :19:33.right down - we saw everything. We saw all the bodies laid out. We saw

:19:33. > :19:38.all the cops coming. We saw all the bullets on the floor, everything.

:19:38. > :19:42.Others were relieved just to be alive. I heard multiple gunshots

:19:42. > :19:46.and one single gunshot, and it was pretty surreal because there was no

:19:46. > :19:50.screaming. It was just slow motion. I saw the girl running next to me

:19:50. > :19:54.go down, and that could have been me. She was hit in the leg. A

:19:54. > :19:58.Dressed in a business suit, 53- year-old Jeffrey Johnson shot dead

:19:58. > :20:04.a former colleague before being killed by police in a shoot-out in

:20:04. > :20:08.which nine others were injured. pulled his 45-calibre semiautomatic

:20:08. > :20:12.pistol from his bag and fired on the officers who returned fire

:20:12. > :20:18.killing him. The former accessories designer was laid out about a year

:20:18. > :20:23.ago from Hasan Imports, whose offices are located in the shadow

:20:23. > :20:26.of the famous skyscraper. On a typical day, 10-20,000 visitors

:20:26. > :20:31.pass through the doors of the Empire State Building, but this

:20:31. > :20:34.wasn't a typical day. Tourists and office workers on this street

:20:34. > :20:38.corner ran for cover as gunfire rang out. The scourge of gun

:20:38. > :20:44.control has been at the forefront after shootings this summer at a

:20:44. > :20:54.temple in Wisconsin and a cinema in Colorado. This morning, midtown

:20:54. > :20:58.Manhattan had a dramatic firsthand Buckingham Palace has announced the

:20:58. > :21:03.Duke of Edinburgh will not attend next week's opening ceremony of the

:21:03. > :21:11.Paralympic games while he recovers from a recent infection. The

:21:11. > :21:15.announcement came as preparations for the Games continue. Today the

:21:15. > :21:19.ceremonial caldron was lit, and others will follow in Belfast,

:21:19. > :21:22.Edinburgh and Cardiff. Paralysed from the chest down, it

:21:22. > :21:26.took Claire Lomas 16 days to complete this year's marathon.

:21:26. > :21:31.Today it was a shorter journey to bring the Paralympic flame to the

:21:32. > :21:35.host city. How do you put that into words? Very proud, and I feel very

:21:35. > :21:39.privileged to be asked to be involved in an event today for the

:21:39. > :21:46.Paralympics, got a lot of respect for them all out there next week

:21:46. > :21:50.and the week after bringing back the medals for Team GB again.

:21:50. > :21:53.the UK is still suffering Olympic withdrawal symptoms, the

:21:53. > :21:58.Paralympics could be the antidote. We had a few days of the blues

:21:58. > :22:01.after the Olympic Game, but people soon quickly snapped out of it and

:22:01. > :22:05.recognised we were only halfway through just an extraordinary

:22:05. > :22:09.summer of sport, and Paralympic sport is just mind-blowing when you

:22:09. > :22:13.watch it. With the flame now in the heart of the capital, the countdown

:22:14. > :22:18.for the Paralympics is truly under way, a Paralympics that organisers

:22:18. > :22:23.hope will be the most high-profile ever staged.

:22:23. > :22:26.The hope is that the performance of elite athletes such as Ellie

:22:26. > :22:29.Simmons could even help improve attitudes towards disabled people

:22:29. > :22:34.generally. As with the Olympics, the flame is

:22:34. > :22:38.seen as an important part of engaging the public's interest. Its

:22:38. > :22:42.journey today included a trip to the Houses of Parliament. But this

:22:42. > :22:45.is just one of four Paralympic flames. The other three are being

:22:45. > :22:50.displayed in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh. They'll come together at

:22:50. > :22:54.Stoke Mandeville on Tuesday And tonight, it's been revealed

:22:54. > :22:59.that the wheelchair tennis veteran Peter Norfolk will be the

:23:00. > :23:07.flagbearer at the opening ceremony. He has been chosen by his fellow

:23:07. > :23:10.British Paralympians. Well, as we heard, the four

:23:10. > :23:12.national flames will eventually come together at Stoke Mandeville

:23:12. > :23:16.Hospital on Tuesday, where the Paralympics began, 64 years ago.

:23:16. > :23:18.The Games were the idea of a doctor who started a spinal unit for

:23:18. > :23:21.servicemen injured during the war. Ludwig Guttman was an exiled Jew

:23:21. > :23:27.from Germany who realised that sport could help the men rebuild

:23:27. > :23:31.their lives, as Nick Higham reports. Modern Paralympians in training at

:23:32. > :23:35.Stoke Mandeville stadium, members of a global sports movement which

:23:35. > :23:43.started here at a makeshift wartime hospital thanks to the energy and

:23:43. > :23:46.vision of one man. Ludwig Guttman bullied, cajoled and inspired his

:23:46. > :23:52.paralysed patients, many originally ex-servicemen, using sport to

:23:53. > :23:59.transform their lives. We started with these soldiers in the war with

:23:59. > :24:05.simple games first - darts, playing in the ward, then we had a billiard

:24:05. > :24:11.and snooker, and then we started skittles, and then I saw, of course,

:24:11. > :24:15.how these men we act not only physically, but psychologically.

:24:15. > :24:21.On the opening day of the London Olympics in 1948, he organised the

:24:21. > :24:28.first Stoke Mandeville Games. By the 1960s, disabled sports had been

:24:28. > :24:31.accepted into the Olympic movement as the Paralympics. Phillip Lewis

:24:31. > :24:38.played table tennis as a Paralympian. He was treated by

:24:38. > :24:44.Ludwig Guttman, known to his patients as "Popa." He was quite a

:24:44. > :24:50.severe man with his staff and with the paraplegics, but behind it all,

:24:50. > :24:58.there was that sort of tremendous kindness. He made you realise that

:24:58. > :25:03.he wanted to do the best for you, but you got to pull your weight.

:25:03. > :25:09.Haven't much hope? No. Look here. Cut that out, will you? Here at

:25:09. > :25:12.stoke Mandeville, they have treated many Paralympians and many others

:25:12. > :25:16.who in the days before Ludwig Guttman would have been written off

:25:16. > :25:22.as incurable and left to die. The spinal injury unit here is one part

:25:22. > :25:25.of Ludwig Guttman's legacy. Another part is a commitment to helping

:25:25. > :25:30.disabled people fulfil their potential whether it's as athletes,

:25:30. > :25:35.individuals or members of society. One of Britain's greatest modern

:25:35. > :25:39.Paralympians says disabled people owe him a huge debt. He believed

:25:39. > :25:43.that disabled people should be living normal lives, and it was

:25:43. > :25:46.sort of his persistence I think that at a time when lots of people

:25:46. > :25:51.probably thought he was slightly mad for thinking that disabled

:25:51. > :25:56.people could contribute, he just stood up to everyone. Ludwig

:25:56. > :26:02.Guttman is now commemorated by a statue at stoke Mandeville, a man

:26:02. > :26:07.with a passion to restore not just people's fitness, but their self-