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three American women who survived a decade in cat vividly. -- captivity. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
These were called to a house in Ohio after one of the women managed to | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
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a former school bus driver. Police praised the women's bravery. These | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
survival and perseverance. Officers also said there were many unanswered | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
questions. We will have the latest. Also, David Cameron says he welcomes | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
a debate on Britain's future in the EU, as more senior Conservatives | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
demand the UK's X it. For the first time in 40 years the | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Queen is to miss a Commonwealth summit as officials review long-haul | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
travel commitments. The Pakistani politician Imran Khan is injured in | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
a fall at an election rally. And, 70 years after thousands of Bevin boys | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
were sent down the mines, a fitting memorial is unveiled. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
Coming up in Sportsday on the BBC News Channel, Bradley Wiggins | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
finishes down the field in the fourth stage and is dropped down the | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
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Good evening. Police in Ohio have praised the perseverance and bravery | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
of three women found alive after vanishing nearly a decade ago. They | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
have apparently been held captive at a house in Cleveland. A former | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
school bus driver and his two brothers have been arrested, but | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
lycee there are many unanswered questions. -- police say there are | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
many unanswered questions. Jubilation last night as word spread | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
of something miraculous. Three women, long presumed to be dead, | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
rescued and apparently well. The disappearance of Amanda Berry and | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Gina DeJesus just a year apart, ties to the neighbourhood where they both | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
lived. Stunning, then, to hear Amanda's voice a decade later, | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
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nuts at the door. I said, what is your problem? If you are stuck, open | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
the door. She said, I can't comment he's got it locked. You could only | :03:06. | :03:12. | |
reach your hand in to grab the mail and close the door. You couldn't pry | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
it open, so we had to kick open the bottom. Luckily, it was aluminium. | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
It was cheap. She came to my house and we called 911. When the police | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
got here, she dared there were three girls there. They were being held on | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
Seymour Avenue, not far from the centre of Cleveland, the city where | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
all three lived and disappeared. Michele Knight vanished into | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
thousand two at the age of 19. Amanda Berry went missing the | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
following year on her way home from work. She was 16. The youngest, Gina | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
DeJesus, was 40 when she disappeared. She was coming home | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
from school. The police have arrested a school bus driver, Ariel | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Castro, and two of his brothers, accused of kidnapping and holding | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
the women against their will. For the authorities, who pursued | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
numerous leads over the years, there is a lot to understand. We and our | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
law enforcement partners continue to work shoulder to shoulder with the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
claimant list apartment to answer the many questions that | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
investigators have. Rest assured, the FBI will bring every resource to | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
assist our partners and bring the full weight of justice behind those | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
responsible for this horrific, horrific case. Outside the house on | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Seymour Street, a mostly Hispanic community is stunned, wondering how | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
they managed to miss the horror behind these shabby walls. It looked | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
suspicious because you could not see through the windows. It was like | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
plastic, boarding or something like that. The door, you couldn't see, it | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
looked like plastic wrapped around the door. It didn't look right. But | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
none of us ever thought something I that was going on in there. There | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
was more, tantalising glimpses of a small child. When I found out there | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
was a little girl up there, I questioned it and they said he | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
shouldn't have a little girl because he doesn't have anybody. So how | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
would there be a five-year-old in that house? You saw a small child? | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
They had a window, you would open it when he came back from his school | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
bus run. He's a school bus driver. He would open the window and let the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
little girl look out the window. seems the child was born in the | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
house, the daughter of Amanda Berry. This photograph of the two of them | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
was taken in hospital last night. Mother and daughter are both said to | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
be in good health. Well, let's go straight to | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Cleveland. I was hoping to talk to Laura. Tell us about these and | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
answered questions we heard about from the police. What are they and | :05:51. | :06:00. | |
what kind of concerns do they have about the narrative so far? | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
basic concern I am hearing from neighbours on Seymour Avenue is how | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
was it that these women were, apparently, hiding in plain sight. | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
They were here somewhere in this neighbourhood for over a decade. The | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
police are coming in for some very tough questions. There is no doubt | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
that the police were on the defensive because they did actually | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
interview Ariel Castro. That is his house behind me that you can see, | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
now an active crime scene. They interviewed him in 2004. He was a | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
school bus driver and a child was left alone in his school bus in an | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
unaccountable manner. He was someone that have come to attention to | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
police. People want to know how these women, all three of them, | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
could have been abducted? Why did it happen? Are these three brothers, | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
who have been arrested but not yet charged, our day behind it? These | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
are the questions that this shocked community is acting tonight. -- | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
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David Cameron says he welcomes the attention being paid to Britain's | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
future relationships with the European Union, following remarks by | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the former Conservative Chancellor Lord Lawson, who said that the UK | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
should leave. The Prime Minister has pledged to renegotiate membership | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
terms and has offered a referendum, if he wins the next election, on | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
staying in a reformed queue or leaving. | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
-- EU. David Cameron once warned his party to stop obsessing about | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
Europe. But today's call for Britain to leave the EU, made by a former | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Tory heavyweight, has made that a forlorn hope. Today, Britain is a | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
winner. Nigel Lawson was Margaret Thatcher's Chancellor in the 1980s, | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
the most prominent conservative to call for Britain to quit. And here | :07:45. | :07:55. | |
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is why. The attempt to overregulate and cut down to size the financial | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
services sector, which is extremely damaging to one of our biggest | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
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industries. The economic minus is a very big one. Awkward for the Prime | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Minister, you might think. But today he insisted that this was not a good | :08:12. | :08:22. | |
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day for UKIP, the only anti-minus party. -- anti-EU party. If elected | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
I will hold an in-out referendum, so that everybody can have not just a | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
voice about Britain's future in Europe, but also a vote about | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
Britain's future in Europe. I welcome the attention that is being | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
placed on this key pledge that I have made. Last week, Nigel Farage | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
celebrated the break to his party made in local elections. Today, she | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
welcomed a convert to his view of the EU. The world feels a less | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
lonely place for me today. I think someone of his magnitude saying, | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
look, this thing is gone, the economic argument is we are better | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
off out of it, and anyway the renegotiation is bound to fail, is a | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
huge boost to the Euro-sceptic cause in the UK. Where Lord Lawson lead, | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
other Euro-sceptics in the Tories followed, saying that they also | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
wanted out of Europe. Tomorrow, the Queen will make their way to | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
Parliament to read out the Queens speech. The list of proposed new | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
laws that the government has provided to her. Many Conservative | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
MPs would love one law in particular to be on that list, a law bringing | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
about a referendum on Britain EU membership. But it is not going to | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
be there. The power minister has told his MPs in a letter that | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
coalition partners would stop any such move. My advice to the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Conservative party, as much as they might listen, is to not run after | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
UKIP. It will only strengthen their hand. What I will make sure is that | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
the government remains anchored in the centre ground. Like Harold | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Wilson, Prime Minister the last time Britain had a referendum, David | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Cameron's promised to renegotiate Britain's's relationship first. | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
Nigel Lawson told me it would be as pointless in future as it was then. | :10:12. | :10:22. | |
He hyped up what he had done, but he was so piffling that nobody can | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
remember what it was. It is just a figleaf, I'm afraid. What was once | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
unsayable by any senior Conservative has been said. That means the | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
pressure on David Cameron is mounting. | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
For the first time since the early 1970s, the Queen is to Miss a | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
meeting of the Commonwealth summit. It is due to be held in Sri Lanka in | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
December, a choice criticised by some human rights campaigners. The | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Prince of Wales will attend instead. Buckingham Palace said it was | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
reviewing the amount of long-haul travel the Queen was undertaking. | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
It is a meeting of leaders who, between them, represent nearly a | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
third of the worlds population. For the past 40 years, every one of the | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Commonwealth summit has been opened by the Queen. She is head of the | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
Commonwealth and is sensitive to the Commonwealth's political currents. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
When it was announced two years ago after meeting in Perth, Australia, | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
that the next summit would be in Sri Lanka, the Queen will have known it | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
was a controversial choice. The Sri Lanka authorities have been accused | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
of serious violations of human rights, particularly during the long | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
civil war. Human rights campaigners have condemned the government of the | :11:38. | :11:46. | |
Sri Lankan president. It was a wrong decision to go to Sri Lanka. Sending | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
the Queen, who was scheduled to go, gives a royal seal of approval to | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
the host country. You can imagine the president, a number of | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
pro-Minister's have told me how, at the last conference, ADL bowed them | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
out of the way so that he could be pictured with the Queen. -- he | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
elbowed them. Buckingham Palace insists is that the non-attendances | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
because they are reviewing the long haul travel of the now 87-year-old | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
Moloch. Others who follow Commonwealth politics closely say | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
that the Queen is sending a subtle, but deliberate message. I think she | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
is a very canny operator in Commonwealth politics. She knows the | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
leaders, she often new their fathers and grandfathers. She knows how to | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
send a subtle message. Not going in person, I think, will send that | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
message. For their part, the Sri Lankans accept that the Queen's | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
absence is due to age, rather than politics. From our perspective we | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
would have loved to have have Her Majesty there. But we fully respect | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
and fully understand, we are enormously sensitive to, the fact | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
that Her Majesty is 87 years old. The Prince of Wales will attend the | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
summit in place of the Queen. It's an important step for him, | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
deputising for his mother. Roof, officials say, that no snow but is | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
intended. -- snowed. Unusually, this is one Commonwealth meeting that | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
will take place without the Queen. In confirming that, the Palace has, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
for the first time, acknowledged that her age is having an impact on | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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murdering Tia sharp, the 12-year-old girl whose body was found last | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
summer. The prosecution told the jury at the Old Bailey that Stuart | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
Hazel had been sexually attracted to the schoolgirl. He denies murder. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Arriving at court, the relatives of Tia sharp, including her step-father | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
and her mother, Natalie Sharp. She was later to leave the courtroom | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
several times in tears, because of the harrowing nature of the | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
evidence. They were hear for -- here for the trial of Stuart Hazel, | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
accused of murdering her and hiding her body in the loft of a house he | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
shared with her grandmother. Last August, the police and the community | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
spent a week searching for her. Stuart Hazel was the last person to | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
see her alive. The court was shown a TV interview he gave in the house, a | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
day before police found her body there. I know deep down in my heart | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
that Tia walked out my house. She walked out there and I know damn | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
well because she was seen walking down the pathway. I know she made | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
her way. What happened, I don't know after that. The prosecution told the | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
jury that Stuart Hazel had a sexual attraction for Tia sharp, that there | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
was some form of sexual assault, something of that kind and that was | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
the reason he killed her. The jury was warned it would see and hear | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
distressing evidence. It was told that images of child abuse had been | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
found on Stuart Hazel's phone, as had videos of Tia sharp, which the | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
prosecution alleges Stuart Hazel had secretly recorded without her | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
knowledge. Finally, the court was shown a violent and graphic image, | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
which the prosecution says was Tia sharp after she was murdered. Tia's | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
family will return tomorrow to hear evidence. Stuart Hazel denies | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
murder. Jimmy Tarbuck has been arrested over an allegation of child | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
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sex abuse dating back to the 1970s. He was released on bail pending | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
further enquiries, as June Kelly now reports. He's one of the most | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
enduring names in light encontaiment in this country and here with Jimmy | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Tarbuck, some of his contempories, who were also part of the showbiz | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
establishment. In 1994, the Queen appointed him an OBE, partly for his | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
charity work. Now, it's been confirmed that he was arrested more | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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than a week ago. In a statement, there's been no sign today. The | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
police didn't name him, nor did they announce his arrest. All adding to | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
the debate over publicity and whether suspects should be | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
identified. By putting a name out there, whoever it might be, whether | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
it's a celebrity or a non--celebrity, sometimes that gives | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
victims an opportunity to come forward and have they suffered at | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
the hands of the alleged abuser? got his big bake when he was in his | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
20s. Good evening. My name's Jimmy Tarbuck. I ought to tell you this, | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
because I'm the only one on here tonight you've never heard of. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
came out of Liverpool with the Beatles. The start of a career which | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
has lasted 50 years. He p hasn't been charged with any offence. He's | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
on bail as the police investigation continues. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Somalia is making real progress in trying to end more than two decades | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
of conflict, according to David Cameron. He was hosting a conference | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
in London today, with the Somali President, to help rebuild the east | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
African state. Somalia hasn't had a functioning Government since war | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
broke out in 1991 and although Government forces have taken back | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
the capital, Mogadishu, the group, Al-Shabab control significant areas | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
of the country. David Cameron has alleged nearly �80 million in aid | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
for the country for the next two years. Much of it still looks like a | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
war zone, but Mogadishu is changing fast these days. Relative peace has | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
prompted a building boom. After years of anarchy, a new Somali | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
Government is in place here too, promising to restore order in this | :18:14. | :18:23. | |
famously failed state. Today, that new government came to London, | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
hoping to convince foreign donors that it has a cred crible plan to | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
fix Somalia and that the huge sums of money required won't be stolen. | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
If we act now to receive the support from the international community, | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
the Government will definitely deliver the expectations of thesome | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
Mali people and the international community. Britain seems convinced. | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
David Cameron arguing that without help, Somalia will remain a | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
dangerous breeding ground for militants. Radicalism is poisoning | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
minds and breeding terrorism and extremism. This is a threat to our | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
security and if we ignore it we'll be making the sill mistakes in | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
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Somalia that we made in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Al-Shabab has been | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
pushed out. Foreign military support has been crucial. Off the coast, | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
piracy is also becoming less of a menace, with armed guards now on | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
many ships and there have been no successful attacks reported this | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
year. Britain promised more help today. And so, at a cafe this | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
afternoon, we found plenty of optimism. It's getting better. It's | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
getting a little bit better. I know the generosity of the British people | :19:50. | :19:58. | |
and the leadership of the British people and the whole of the | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
international community. We are very much positive and I do believe that | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
it will be the beginning of a new era for Somalia. There is a lot that | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
can still go wrong here in Somalia. Full storms are something of a local | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
speciality, but a credible government backed by sustained, | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
massive international support just might keep the ruined nation on | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
right track. The jury in the trial of Mark | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
Bridger, who denies kidnapping and murdering April Jones last October, | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
has heard from a friend she was playing with, just before she went | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
missing. We have this report. On the day she disappeared, April Jones had | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
been to school, been to swim and moments before she went missing, was | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
playing on her bike. Only one person was with her to see what happened | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
next. Comforted by her teddy, April's seven-year-old friend gave | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
her evidence via a videolink. She can't be identified for legal | :20:59. | :21:09. | |
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reasons. In her police interview the accidently ran over April and that | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
he had to pick her up from under its wheels. He listened to court as the | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
seven-year-old was asked if she was certain of what she had seen, hadn't | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
April been lying on the ground. She was sure, she replied, April was | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
standing up and talking to the man. The jury then heard from the girl's | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
mother, who described how April's mother had dropped to her knees when | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
she learnt of her daughter's disappearance. She said she was in a | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
complete state of panic and gasping for air. The search that followed | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
became the largest in UK police history. Officers found blood | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
matching April's DNA in his home and fragments of skull in the fire | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
place. He denies the charges of abduction, murder and perverting the | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
course of justice. The trial will continue in the morning. Imran Khan, | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
one of Pakistan's most prominent politicians is recovering in | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
hospital after being injured at a rally. He suffered a head injuriy, | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
after falling from a -- injury after falling from a platform. He makes | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
his ascent and he balances on an overcrowded platform, ringed by | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
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security guards. Then this - he tumbles head-face in full view of | :22:53. | :23:00. | |
shocked supporters. The cricketing hero was crushed away, bleeding from | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
the head. And apparently unconscious. He was taken to the | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
hospital he founded. Doctors say he's in no danger. From his hospital | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
bed, he appealed directly to the voters, sounding weak and looking | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
exhausted. On election day, he said, remember what the Koran says - God | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
helps those who help themselves. Go out and vote for change. Khan's main | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
rival has sent his sympathies and his prayers for a speedy recovery. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
The front-runner to be Pakistan's next Prime Minister has cancelled | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
his election rallies tomorrow. But this was another day of bloodshed in | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
an increasingly deadly campaign. Bomb attacks in the north-west | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
claimed 17 more lives. Tonight, many here are gripped by concern about | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Imran Khan's condition. He's a national hero, as well as a key | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
candidate in the election. Doctors say he's in good spirits and can | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
move all his limbs. They are keeping him for observation, but they want | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
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him to rest. Aids -- aides say he won't want to do that for long. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Years after the Bevin boys were sent down the mines, a memorial has been | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
dedicated to them. Thousands of young men were concrypted to work in | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
the mines. The new Mel -- concrypted to work in the mines. They gathered | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
today as old men, but with clear memories of when they were Bevin | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
boys, named after the minister of labour. Like the rest of the | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
generation, they were ordered to serve. Their duty was to bring | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
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little glory or recognition. Young men are drafted into the mines. | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
1943, 10% of those called up, some 48,000 young men, were ordered to | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
serve not in uniform, but in the coal mines. The rashal was simple - | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
without coal there could be no war production and without guns or | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
fighter planes, there could be no victory. Today then, finally, the | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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unveiling of a memorial. For Harry Parks a triumphant moment. He's been | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
a leading voice calling for his fellow Bevin boys to be recognised | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
for their service. Today he felt the embrace of a grateful nation. | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
Countess of Wessex is doing us the great honour to dedicate the | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
memorial I designed. She will give us back our dignity, that says we | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
served our country and that's what has been lacking. It was all smiles | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
for the war-time newsreels. In truth, it was desperately hard, | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
dirty work. Dangerous too, with an estimated 700 deaths in the first | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
year alone. Essential zuTy, but a thankless task. -- duty, but a | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
thankless task. Being called cowards was very hard to take, because we | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
weren't. It wasn't our fault. We had a hard hat and a pair of | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
steel-toe-capped boots. Today has been about the restoration of pride | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
and many former Bevin boys take quiet satisfaction that their | :26:46. | :26:50. |