:00:05. > :00:11.Calls for a change of direction from within the Conservative Party
:00:11. > :00:14.after they're beaten into third place in the Eastleigh by-election.
:00:14. > :00:23.Despite torrid headlines, the Lib Dems hold on to the seat, though
:00:23. > :00:27.with a reduced majority. This has been a by-election we have had to
:00:27. > :00:30.fight in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our opponents have
:00:30. > :00:33.thrown everything at us. Jubilant UKIP celebrate just how
:00:33. > :00:40.close they came to winning the seat. The Prime Minister acknowledges his
:00:40. > :00:43.party's poor showing. It is a disappointing result for the
:00:43. > :00:47.Conservative Party but it is clear that in mid-term by-elections
:00:47. > :00:50.people want to register a protest. But David Cameron insists the
:00:50. > :00:52.Tories can still win the next general election. We'll be
:00:52. > :00:59.assessing what the results mean for the parties.
:00:59. > :01:04.A court hears the 999 call made by the couple accused of killing six
:01:04. > :01:08.of their children in a house fire. Eight South African policemen are
:01:08. > :01:15.arrested for murder after a man was handcuffed to the back of a van and
:01:15. > :01:18.dragged along the road. And he was on the pitch before some
:01:18. > :01:26.of his team-mates were born - Ryan Giggs prepares for his thousandth
:01:26. > :01:30.In Sportsday: World number one Rory McIlroy says
:01:30. > :01:40.he's "in a bad place mentally", as he pulls out of a tournament with
:01:40. > :01:54.
:01:54. > :01:56.Good evening. David Cameron has insisted that the
:01:56. > :01:59.Conservatives can win the next general election, despite coming
:01:59. > :02:04.third behind the Liberal Democrats and the UK Independence Party in
:02:04. > :02:07.the Eastleigh by-election. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg,
:02:07. > :02:11.described the win as a stunning victory, but the biggest surprise
:02:11. > :02:15.was the share of the vote garnered by UKIP, which came so close to
:02:15. > :02:17.snatching victory. The Prime Minister dismissed the result as a
:02:17. > :02:21.mid-term protest, but it's caused division within the party, with
:02:21. > :02:31.some calling for a change of direction. Labour came fourth. Nick
:02:31. > :02:39.Robinson's report contains flash Ever wondered what relief looks
:02:39. > :02:43.like? It looks like this. Relief that after a campaign marred by a
:02:43. > :02:49.Lib Dem scandal, in a by-election triggered by a Lib Dem scandal,
:02:49. > :02:55.their man had still won. I do hereby declare that Michael
:02:55. > :02:58.Thornton is duly elected. But there was another political winner in
:02:58. > :03:02.Eastleigh last night. The UK Independence Party may have come
:03:02. > :03:12.second, but the smiles tell you they think they have made the big
:03:12. > :03:12.
:03:12. > :03:15.time. So, what of the losers? This is the look of a party coming to
:03:15. > :03:20.terms with coming third in a seat the Conservatives had hoped they
:03:20. > :03:25.could win. The Tory candidate, tearful on stage, left it and the
:03:25. > :03:33.election count unable, or unwilling, to say a word.
:03:33. > :03:38.REPORTER: You can speak, Maria. On the morning after the night
:03:38. > :03:41.before, Nick Clegg was a picture of fist clenched defiance. His party's
:03:41. > :03:45.vote share may have dropped by more than 14% but he believes he has
:03:46. > :03:51.shown that the Lib Dems can still win. This has been a by-election we
:03:51. > :03:55.have had to fight in exceptionally difficult circumstances. Our
:03:55. > :03:59.opponents have thrown everything at us. We hold our nerve, we stood our
:03:59. > :04:09.ground, we worked as a team, we went out and campaigned on every
:04:09. > :04:14.doorstep, we overcame the odds, and we won a stunning victory.
:04:14. > :04:20.almost got there. UKIP leader Nigel Farage considered becoming a
:04:20. > :04:25.candidate for this election after - -. After Diane James did so well,
:04:25. > :04:28.he must be wondering, what if? is something nobody could have
:04:28. > :04:31.predicted and the remarkable thing is that it happened in a very short
:04:31. > :04:34.campaign indeed. We really connected with voters in his
:04:34. > :04:39.constituency, and that is because we are talking about issues the
:04:39. > :04:42.other parties would prefer to brush under the carpet. The Conservatives
:04:42. > :04:46.are consoling themselves with a group hugging and the fact that
:04:46. > :04:50.their vote dropped ever-so-slightly less than the Liberal Democrats.
:04:50. > :04:54.is a disappointing result for the Conservative Party, but it is clear
:04:54. > :04:57.that in mid-term by-elections, people want to register a protest.
:04:57. > :05:00.But I am confident that at the general election we can win those
:05:00. > :05:04.people back by demonstrating that we are delivering for everyone who
:05:04. > :05:11.wants to work hard and who wants to get on. That is what we will be
:05:11. > :05:15.focused on. That is not the view of the Conservative's vice-chairman.
:05:15. > :05:19.Michael Fabricant tweeted that the UKIP message connects with the
:05:19. > :05:23.electorate, and it is not just Europe, but crime, immigration,
:05:23. > :05:29.etcetera. With UKIP announcing policies the public want to hear,
:05:29. > :05:32.we must do the same. Many Conservative MPs agree. We need to
:05:32. > :05:36.be aware that gay marriage did not play well in terms of activists and
:05:36. > :05:40.supporters, and some of them would directly to UKIP. The Prime
:05:40. > :05:44.Minister needs to think about that. Despite the cheering for the
:05:44. > :05:49.cameras, what Ed Miliband calls one-nation Labour failed to extend
:05:49. > :05:52.its appeal to this part of the nation, getting around one-third of
:05:52. > :05:56.UKIP's vote. Clearly, I would have preferred to have got more votes
:05:56. > :06:00.than we did, but this was always going to be a tough fight for
:06:01. > :06:04.Labour. It is a seat we have never won. It convinces me that we need
:06:04. > :06:07.to redouble our efforts, reach out to every part of the country,
:06:07. > :06:11.including areas where Labour has not traditionally been strong.
:06:11. > :06:16.Those who do well in by-elections tend to tell you that they changed
:06:16. > :06:20.everything. Those who do badly tell you that they change nothing. What
:06:20. > :06:24.was really striking about this one, though, was the more than a quarter
:06:24. > :06:28.of the voters chose to vote for none of the above. And more than
:06:28. > :06:32.half of those who voted UKIP told opinion pollsters that what
:06:32. > :06:36.mattered most to them was immigration. The question that will
:06:36. > :06:42.be asked around Westminster in the weeks and days to come is, what do
:06:42. > :06:45.we do about UKIP? What do we do about immigration? By-elections are,
:06:45. > :06:49.of course, just a little bit different from those in which
:06:49. > :06:52.reaches governments, but Eastleigh will be remembered as the poll in
:06:52. > :06:55.which so many voted for none of the above.
:06:55. > :06:58.Our political correspondent Norman Smith is in Westminster. This
:06:58. > :07:06.result has relieved the pressure on Nick Clegg, but how much will
:07:06. > :07:11.UKIP's strong showing worry the Prime Minister? Well, when you
:07:11. > :07:15.speak to those around David Cameron they say, mid-term by-election
:07:15. > :07:18.protest vote, no need to panic. The trouble is there is a growing body
:07:18. > :07:21.of Conservative MPs who think that is precisely what they should be
:07:21. > :07:26.doing, because they believe this confirms their view that David
:07:26. > :07:30.Cameron is not a winner, that he cannot deliver victory at the next
:07:30. > :07:34.election. They say here you have a choice Lib Dem target seat where
:07:34. > :07:37.Nick Clegg enters the ring wobbly at the knees, having received an
:07:37. > :07:43.uppercut to the cheer Nova Lord Rennard, and still David Cameron
:07:43. > :07:49.makes absolutely no progress, despite throwing everything at it.
:07:49. > :07:53.-- an uppercut to the tune over Lord Rennard. Worse, you have UKIP
:07:53. > :07:56.chlorine away great chunks of traditional Conservative support.
:07:56. > :08:00.Their answer is to say to Mr Cameron that he has to adopt a more
:08:00. > :08:04.traditional Tory agenda to win back those UKIP supporters, to talk less
:08:04. > :08:07.about gay marriage and more about things like immigration. So it may
:08:07. > :08:14.only be a by-election, but it could have much longer term consequences
:08:14. > :08:18.in terms of the Tory party direction and unity, or disunity.
:08:18. > :08:22.A court has heard a distressing 999 call made by the couple accused of
:08:22. > :08:25.killing six of their children in a fire at their home in Derby.
:08:25. > :08:29.Details of a secret recording were also released in which prosecutors
:08:29. > :08:37.claim the father Mick Philpott is heard saying, "I didn't mean to do
:08:37. > :08:41.it". The couple deny the charges. This report from Jeremy Cooke.
:08:41. > :08:46.It was a fire which killed six children while they were sleeping
:08:46. > :08:49.in their own beds. Today, a jury was told that their parents, now
:08:49. > :08:59.accused of deliberately starting the blaze, were the ones who raised
:08:59. > :09:24.
:09:24. > :09:29.the alarm. The court was played a Good morning. The jury was also
:09:29. > :09:35.shown footage of the Philpotts at a press conference shortly after the
:09:35. > :09:39.fire. Give me a minute. But two weeks after this, the couple were
:09:39. > :09:43.arrested, and on 31st May they were driven to their first court
:09:43. > :09:48.appearance, unaware that their conversation was being recorded by
:09:48. > :09:52.a police surveillance team. In court today, the jury was told that
:09:52. > :09:56.during this journey, Mick Philpott had told his wife, don't you worry,
:09:56. > :10:03.we will walk through it, I promise you that, unless you want me to
:10:03. > :10:07.blab about it. Mairead says, No. The prosecution also alleges that
:10:07. > :10:13.Mick Philpott so as to Mairead, you are definitely sticking with the
:10:13. > :10:18.story? I didn't mean to do it, on my life. But those words, I didn't
:10:18. > :10:22.mean to do it, are disputed by the defence. A forensic speech expert
:10:22. > :10:26.says he has listened to the tape many thousands of times and he
:10:26. > :10:31.insists the words on that part of the recording are obscured by
:10:31. > :10:37.background noise. Both MIG and Mairead Philpott and their co-
:10:37. > :10:41.accused, Paul Mosley, denies six charges of manslaughter. -- Mick
:10:41. > :10:44.Philpott. The case continues. Eight South African policemen have
:10:45. > :10:48.been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a
:10:48. > :10:51.Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged down a street handcuffed to
:10:51. > :10:54.the back of a police van. The incident was recorded by a
:10:54. > :10:57.bystander and broadcast on television. The man later died in
:10:57. > :11:00.police custody. President Jacob Zuma has condemned the incident as
:11:00. > :11:10."horrific" and "unacceptable". You may find some of the images in
:11:10. > :11:11.
:11:11. > :11:16.Andrew Harding's report disturbing. He was 27, a taxi driver. Tonight,
:11:16. > :11:20.new footage of him in the moments before he died, arrested here by
:11:20. > :11:26.South African police, reportedly because his car was blocking
:11:26. > :11:30.traffic. What happened next has provoked outrage. He resisted,
:11:30. > :11:34.eventually being handcuffed to the back of a police van. And then,
:11:34. > :11:39.exactly why is still under investigation, the van drove off,
:11:39. > :11:44.dragging him along the ground. He died soon afterwards of head
:11:44. > :11:48.injuries and internal bleeding. Today, relatives gathered at his
:11:48. > :11:55.home in a troubled neighbour heard outside Johannesburg, anxious for
:11:55. > :12:02.answers. -- neighbourhood. They must go to jail. We need justice in
:12:02. > :12:07.this. If ever there is no justice for them, let them feel that.
:12:07. > :12:10.Outside, a small protest. The man came from Mozambique, prompting
:12:10. > :12:19.some to accuse the police of deliberately targeting foreigners.
:12:19. > :12:24.It would not be the first time. the police must kill us? 100% wrong.
:12:24. > :12:27.I think the government must do something about this. Must act.
:12:27. > :12:30.South Africa's international reputation has taken quite a
:12:31. > :12:35.hammering in recent months, and this incident is not going to help.
:12:35. > :12:38.President Jacob Zuma has weighed in today, describing the police
:12:38. > :12:43.brutality as horrific and unacceptable, but the authorities
:12:43. > :12:46.are struggling to break the culture of violence here. Today, it was
:12:46. > :12:51.announced that eight police officers initially suspended have
:12:51. > :12:55.now been arrested in connection with the incident. A senior
:12:55. > :13:01.government official visited the relatives, or offering condolences
:13:01. > :13:04.and some context. This is quite an embarrassing act that has been done
:13:04. > :13:09.by our police. It is something that could have been avoided. It should
:13:09. > :13:17.not have happened, and it cannot actually be justified by in
:13:17. > :13:21.whatever manner. A memorial for the dead man, plenty of grief and
:13:21. > :13:31.outrage here, but in an enduringly violent country, no great sense of
:13:31. > :13:37.
:13:37. > :13:40.The pound has fallen to its lowest level against the dollar for more
:13:40. > :13:43.than two-and-a-half years. It follows speculation about what
:13:43. > :13:48.measures the Bank of England may take to boost the economy.
:13:48. > :13:50.Economists say the figures are a setback to hopes the economy can
:13:50. > :13:52.return to growth in the first quarter of this year.
:13:52. > :13:58.Lloyds Banking Group has reported better-than-expected figures for
:13:58. > :14:02.2012. The group, which is 39% owned by the British Government, did lose
:14:02. > :14:04.�570 million, but that's still a much better return than last year.
:14:04. > :14:07.Lloyds shares have more than doubled over the last year, and
:14:07. > :14:11.there's now speculation about when the Government could sell its
:14:11. > :14:17.shares and claw back billions of taxpayers' money. Huggh Pym's
:14:17. > :14:22.report contains flash photography. It's a story about a leading
:14:22. > :14:27.British bank, Lloyds, when the boss should get a bonus, and when we,
:14:27. > :14:31.the taxpayers, will get back the �20 billion pumped into the bank to
:14:31. > :14:34.bail it out. We asked Lloyds' customers how confident they felt
:14:34. > :14:39.about their bank repaying the taxpayer. The idea that our money
:14:40. > :14:43.would come back to us after bailing out the banks - to actually see
:14:43. > :14:49.something tangible, is beyond the realms of all possibility. Whether
:14:49. > :14:52.we'll get our money back, I do hope so. I don't see why the taxpayer
:14:52. > :14:57.should lose out. I'd like to see the money because because I'm a
:14:57. > :15:03.taxpayer. It's our money. Lloyds' overall losses last year were
:15:03. > :15:06.reduced, and there is renewed speculation about the sale of the
:15:06. > :15:09.Government's 40% holding in the bank. We need to get the banking
:15:09. > :15:14.system back into health. The only way it's going to be properly back
:15:14. > :15:20.to health is when it's in private hands, but equally, the taxpayer
:15:20. > :15:25.mustn't lose the hundreds of billions of pounds we would lose in
:15:25. > :15:29.a quick sale. It's revealed Lloyds' boss worth won't get this year's
:15:29. > :15:34.bonus until the bank is in a position for shares to be sold off.
:15:34. > :15:38.He has been awarded a �1.5 million bonus but it's deferred until 2014.
:15:38. > :15:43.The share prices more than doubled over the last year to 50p, but it
:15:43. > :15:46.will have to get back to 74p, roughly what was paid for the
:15:46. > :15:50.taxpayers' stake, or the Government sells a third of its shares if the
:15:50. > :15:54.boss is to get a bonus. The key question now is what's the earliest
:15:54. > :15:58.the Government can hope to start shelling off its share many in
:15:58. > :16:01.Lloyds? Investors will have to be satisfied the finances are in good
:16:01. > :16:05.order and there is a need to ensure taxpayers get a reasonable return
:16:05. > :16:09.on the money they put in. Some analysts think there is a lot more
:16:09. > :16:13.work to be done at Lloyds. For the Government to be able to sell its
:16:13. > :16:17.its shares at anything it regards as a fair value you need to have
:16:17. > :16:20.Lloyds to be close to a position where it can generate normal
:16:20. > :16:25.returns. In my view that doesn't happen before 2016 even with a
:16:25. > :16:31.following wind. Getting the timing right for Lloyds' share sale will
:16:31. > :16:34.be a big call, so too the decision on a taxpayers' stake in RBS, the
:16:34. > :16:39.other bailed out bank. It will be up to whoever is in Government at
:16:39. > :16:43.the time. Coming up on tonight's programme:
:16:43. > :16:47.To Giggs - 2-0. In a world where sporting stars are
:16:47. > :16:55.retiring as young as their early 20s, Ryan Giggs proves age is no
:16:55. > :17:02.The Food Standards Agency has said four more products have tested
:17:02. > :17:04.positive for traces of horsemeat in its latest round of tests. They
:17:04. > :17:09.include two Bird's Eye ready meals, minced beef used by the American
:17:09. > :17:15.food chain Taco Bell and a product sold by the catering supplier
:17:15. > :17:20.Brakes. All have been withdrawn from sale. Emma Simpson reports.
:17:20. > :17:24.The horsemeat scandal - today four contaminated products were added to
:17:24. > :17:29.the list, from the food giant Bird's Eye and two of its ready
:17:29. > :17:36.meals to contaminated ground beef at the Mexican food chain Taco Bell
:17:36. > :17:40.and then Brakes, the food supplier. Horse DNA was found in a spicy beef
:17:40. > :17:45.skewer. These last three weeks, a vast testing programme has been
:17:45. > :17:48.under way on behalf of the food industry. Samples from more than
:17:49. > :17:53.90% of beef products have been analysed. Today saw the last big
:17:53. > :17:59.batch of results. The Food Standards Agency asked for
:17:59. > :18:05.a whole range of beef products to go under the microscope. More than
:18:05. > :18:13.5,400 tests were done. The result: 17 products tested positive for
:18:13. > :18:16.horsemeat at levels of above 1%, but overall, 99% of test results
:18:16. > :18:19.proved negative, so will consumers start buying processed beef
:18:19. > :18:24.products again? Not right now, but my son, who
:18:24. > :18:29.still lives with me, will eat anything, and he says, well, it's
:18:29. > :18:33.not killed me so far. Not really. I just don't trust them. I'm sure
:18:33. > :18:38.that result reassuring for those people that do buy processed food.
:18:38. > :18:43.They lied about it. I'd have been fine if they would have said on the
:18:43. > :18:47.back in small print, "May contain horse." Trouble is they didn't. Now
:18:47. > :18:49.the FSA has to find out how all this mislabelling happened. Wells
:18:49. > :18:54.the investigation is key, and that's the main part of our work
:18:54. > :18:56.from here on in, so for each of those cases where we or the
:18:56. > :19:01.industry have identified gross contamination with horsemeat, we
:19:01. > :19:05.want to trace it all the way back through the supply chain. So after
:19:06. > :19:09.weeks of controversy, the vast majority of beef products have been
:19:09. > :19:18.given the all-clear. What's less clear is how long it will take to
:19:18. > :19:22.The Queen has cancelled a visit to Swansea tomorrow because of illness.
:19:22. > :19:27.Buckingham Palace says she's suffering from gastroenteritis. The
:19:27. > :19:30.Queen had been due to visit the 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh to mark
:19:30. > :19:32.St David's Day. She'll now spend the weekend at Windsor.
:19:32. > :19:40.US political leaders have left last-minute talks at the White
:19:40. > :19:43.House without agreeing a deal to avoid deep budget cuts of over �56
:19:43. > :19:48.billion. President Barack Obama blamed the Republicans' refusal to
:19:48. > :19:50.allow any tax rises and called the sweeping cuts "unnecessary" and
:19:50. > :19:55."inexcusable". Washington sure isn't making it
:19:55. > :19:58.easy. At a time when our businesses have finally begun to get some
:19:58. > :20:04.traction, hiring new workers, bringing new jobs back to America,
:20:04. > :20:07.we shouldn't be making a series of dumb, arbitrary cuts to things that
:20:07. > :20:09.businesses depend on and workers depend on. Our North America editor
:20:10. > :20:13.Mark Mardell is in Washington. Strong worlds from President Obama.
:20:13. > :20:17.What does this mean for the US economy? Well, you would think it
:20:17. > :20:20.would be pretty bad. After all, these cuts were designed to be
:20:20. > :20:24.really horrible, so terrible that the politicians would be forced
:20:24. > :20:28.into doing a deal. You might remember me going on around the new
:20:28. > :20:31.year about the fiscal cliff. They sorted out one bit of it about
:20:31. > :20:34.taxes. They didn't sort out the other bit. This is the spending
:20:34. > :20:39.cuts that have now come in, so President Obama says that there
:20:39. > :20:43.won't be pain immediately, but it will be gradual and grinding, that
:20:43. > :20:46.thousands of people will lose their jobs that growth will be damaged,
:20:46. > :20:48.and he's telling the American people every time you hear a bit of
:20:48. > :20:52.good economic news, remember, it could be better. But the
:20:52. > :20:55.Republicans are saying, that's scare-mongering. Actually, the
:20:55. > :20:58.economy can stand cuts. The Government needs to make some cuts,
:20:58. > :21:02.even though they're not the best designed of ones. You look at Wall
:21:02. > :21:06.Street today, and shares are up. They seem to think that the
:21:06. > :21:08.recovery can withstand these sort of cuts, but it must damage
:21:08. > :21:11.consumer confidence. Mark Mardell in Washington, thank you.
:21:11. > :21:17.Kenyans go to the polls on Monday in a closely fought election that
:21:17. > :21:21.has divided the east African nation and raised fears of a repeat of the
:21:21. > :21:24.bloodshed five years ago. More than a thousand people died when
:21:24. > :21:29.militias supporting rival candidates went on the rampage.
:21:29. > :21:36.This report from Gabriel Gatehouse. In Kenya, elections are as fiercely
:21:36. > :21:43.fought as they are colourful. But in these final days of the campaign
:21:43. > :21:47.beneath the veneer of exuberance, many people are afraid. This is
:21:47. > :21:52.Kibera, Nairobi's biggest slum. Supporters of rival presidential
:21:52. > :21:57.candidates live here side by side. Five years ago, tensions between
:21:57. > :22:02.these communities over resources, jobs and land turned violent. Now,
:22:02. > :22:07.as polling day approaches, businesses are closing down in
:22:07. > :22:10.anticipation of more trouble to come. Charles runs a scrap metal
:22:10. > :22:15.dealership. He lost everything in the violence that followed the last
:22:15. > :22:18.election when his business was torched. Like many of his
:22:18. > :22:23.neighbours, he is clearing out before the vote. He didn't want to
:22:23. > :22:28.show his face on camera. I am wondering, why are they moving? Why
:22:28. > :22:34.are they scared. They are scared. Why am I not be scared... You can
:22:34. > :22:38.see they're scared, so you're scared too. Yeah. It was these kind
:22:38. > :22:43.of machetes, pagers, as they're known here, that did a lot of the
:22:43. > :22:48.damage five years ago. They're ordinary household implements in
:22:48. > :22:55.Kenya. People use them for chopping firewood and the like, but when the
:22:55. > :22:58.violence started they became instruments of war. The purchase of
:22:58. > :23:01.these has dramatically increased in the run-up to the election. More
:23:01. > :23:06.than a thousand people were killed when rival ethnic communities
:23:06. > :23:08.turned on one another following the last disputed election. Over half a
:23:08. > :23:12.million fled their homes. Prosecutions at the International
:23:12. > :23:15.Criminal Court say the violence was deliberately orchestrated.
:23:15. > :23:21.One of the front-runners in the race this time around, Uhuru
:23:21. > :23:25.Kenyatta, is due to go on trial at The Hague later this year. Mr
:23:25. > :23:31.Kenyatta denies any involvement, and he has strong support.
:23:31. > :23:38.majority of the Kenyans want him to leave our country. We like Uhuru
:23:38. > :23:43.Kenyatta, and we believe in him. Ken ia is the region's most
:23:43. > :23:46.important economy. It's also at the centre of joint British and EU
:23:46. > :23:49.efforts to combat terrorism and piracy in the Horn of Africa. A
:23:49. > :23:55.president in the dock of an international court could put those
:23:55. > :23:58.efforts in jeopardy. And so the world is watching. What
:23:58. > :24:02.happens on polling day will have consequences for the region and
:24:02. > :24:09.beyond. For now, though, most Kenyans are simply praying for
:24:09. > :24:15.Now, he's fit, almost 40 and could be about to play his thousandth
:24:15. > :24:19.professional game - Ryan Giggs has had his Manchester United contract
:24:19. > :24:23.extended by a year, proving that age is no barrier in top-flight
:24:23. > :24:29.sport. His manager, Alex Ferguson, described Giggs as a "a marvellous
:24:29. > :24:33.player and an exceptional human being". Dan Roan has more. He's
:24:33. > :24:38.football's fan for all seasons. For more than two decades now, Ryan
:24:38. > :24:41.Giggs has been scoring goals and breaking records, and after
:24:41. > :24:46.extending his long stint at Manchester United for yet another
:24:46. > :24:56.year, the veteran midfielder has ensured he'll still be playing when
:24:56. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:01.he turns 40. His game is unique, of course, but I think it's more than
:25:01. > :25:04.that. It's something that won't ever be achieved again, one
:25:04. > :25:09.incredible career, absolutely fantastic. These are special times
:25:10. > :25:15.in a very special career. If Giggs plays here at Old Trafford tomorrow
:25:15. > :25:18.afternoon against Norwich City, it will be the 1,000th appearance of
:25:18. > :25:23.his senior club for both club and country. Football's marathon man
:25:23. > :25:33.has played in each of the last 22 seasons and scored 16 goals for
:25:33. > :25:37.
:25:37. > :25:43.United along the way. He's also won The moment Giggs made his senior
:25:43. > :25:46.debut for a club he's never left - March 1991, when some of his
:25:46. > :25:50.current team-mates weren't even born. He has been compared to the
:25:50. > :25:54.young George Best. One of the men who played alongside him that day
:25:54. > :25:57.says his talent was clear from the very beginning. Straight away
:25:57. > :26:01.didn't really want to mark him because he was so fast and agile,
:26:01. > :26:04.he was one of those players you didn't want to play against. I
:26:04. > :26:08.think that's what stood him in great stead for so many years. The
:26:08. > :26:12.problem you have with other players is you lose your pace, but one
:26:12. > :26:17.thing Ryan hasn't done is lost his pace or ajilt. It's unbelievable
:26:17. > :26:20.what he's achieved. He remains as popular as ever at Old Trafford
:26:20. > :26:25.despite two years ago when he was the subject of newspaper headlines
:26:25. > :26:29.over his private life, but on the pitch his career remains