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in Cumbria and the alleged cover-up that went right to the top. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
The former head of the health watchdog and her deputy, along with | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
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seven others, accused of suppressing a report into its failings. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
A number of babies died here, but an internal review criticising the Care | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Quality Commission for not investigating properly was | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
suppressed. There has to be accountability | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
inside the NHS for people's actions. And people have to know where the | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
buck stops when something goes wrong. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
We'll be asking where this leaves public trust in such watchdogs. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Guilty of child abduction - the 30-year-old maths teacher who ran | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
away to France with a 15-year-old pupil. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
The Taliban raise their flag in Qatar, upsetting the Afghan | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
government and halting talks with the Americans before they have | :00:52. | :01:00. | |
begun. The Sopranos star James Gandolfini | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
dies suddenly in Italy at the age of And Estimate brings sheer delight | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
for the Queen, as she becomes the first reigning monarch to win the | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
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will play England in the Champions Trophy final on Sunday after bidding | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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should anchor by eight wickets in Good evening. Former managers | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
involved in an alleged cover-up at England's health watchdog, the Care | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
Quality Commission, have been named. This was a day after the CQC said | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
they could not identify them for legal reasons. They include the top | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
three individuals in charge of the organisation at the time. They have | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
been accused of suppressing a report which revealed that it should not | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
have given a hospital in Cumbria the all clear after a number of babies | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
died. At the heart of this, failing at | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Furness General Hospital maternity unit. It was given a clean bill of | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
health by the regulator at those failings led to the death of some | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
babies, including Joshua Titcombe, dead at nine days old from it | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
treatable infection. The report published yesterday found a decision | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
was made to delete a report into what went wrong. It described a key | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
meeting but what happened was disputed. The officials that | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
attended were only given with initials, but today they have been | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
revealed by Cynthia Bower, Jill Finney, her deputy. She is alleged | :03:02. | :03:11. | |
to have added, " Read my lips". Anna Jefferson said she did not say that | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
this could never be in the public domain. You weave in these simply | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
attended the meeting. The new chief executive of the CQC told me despite | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
these different versions, the report had found some evidence to support | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
the claim that the review had been deleted. We are putting all the | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
information in the public domain. One of my members of staff was that | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
lyrically clear she was given an instruction to delete the report. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
She kept notes of that. That has now been published and it is right we | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
bring that out into the open. the Health Secretary said publishing | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
all the information was a welcome step towards openness. That is so | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
important. There has to be accountability inside the NHS for | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
people's actions and people have to know where the buck stops. Some who | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
worked for the CQC are still angry. Heather was a senior inspector and | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
she says the culture became secretive and defensive. In my view | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
it was clear that CQC were in the business of suppressing bad news. I | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
believe they were dancing to the tune of the Department of Health and | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
that there was at least a tacit agreement that there would be no | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
more exposures like that at Mid-Staffs. The CQC has a new | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
management team running it. A chief inspector of hospitals is to lead a | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
bigger team. At the last couple of days have not helped its efforts to | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
move on. This has done further serious damage to an organisation | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
that was already beneath the water. It has been through a torrid time | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
recently and this will do nothing to re-establish its reputation. The CQC | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
wants to leave behind its problems and focus on its job of making sure | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
that all care meets minimum standards, and hardest of all, to | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
win back public confidence. And Branwen is with me now. That is | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
the key. Where does this leave public trust in the NHS and its | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
watchdog? For the families who suffered losses | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
at Furness General Hospital and those at Mid-Staffs, they may never | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
recover their confidence in the regulatory system. There is clearly | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
a big job to be done in convincing the public that the systems are in | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
place to make sure minimum standards are being met. What has happened in | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the last couple of days is part of a wider picture in the last six | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
months, where we have heard claims of gagging clauses, senior managers | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
trying to raise concerns in the NHS, the failings at Stafford Hospital | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
laid bare, the difficulties a whistleblower there had as well. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
What needs to happen now is a real sense that if something goes wrong | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
in the NHS, that patients and their families are listened to | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
straightaway, the regulator act immediately and is entirely open | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
about what it does. A teacher who ran away to France | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
with a 15-year-old pupil has been found guilty of child abduction. | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
Jeremy Forrest, who is 30, was described as a paedophile by the | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
prosecution. They said he had groomed the vulnerable teenager | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
before starting a sexual relationship with her. The girl was | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
in court and broke down in tears as the verdict was read out. Forrest | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
mouthed "I love you" to her as he was led away. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
Jeremy Forrest, grinning on his way to prison tonight. The teacher who | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
broke the first rule of teaching. There we even signs of his continued | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
accession with the girl in the courtroom, because as he was found | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
guilty of abducting her, she turned to her and said" I love you" . She | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
mouthed" I'm sorry" . Outside the court, Sussex police read a | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
statement on behalf of the girl's mother. The last nine months has | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
been like living out your worst nightmare. Every aspect of our lives | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
has been affected to some degree. The Crown Prosecution Service added | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
that it brought disgrace to his profession. Jeremy Forrest's love | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
affair deepened as his marriage disintegrated. Yards from the | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
courtroom is one of the hotels where the teacher and the pupil met to | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
carry out their Indesit sexual encounters. It was last September | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Jeremy Forrest agreed to go on the run when the girl had threatened to | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
kill herself, first driving her to Dover and then porting a ferry to | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Calais. They headed to Paris where they dumped the car and her school | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
uniform. They took a train to Bordeaux, where they died their head | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
to escape capture. But this bar owner recognised them from | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
television news bulletins and alerted the police. I looked for his | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
photo online and when I saw that he was definitely the same person, | :08:23. | :08:33. | |
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there was no doubt. It was Jeremy Forrest's musical talent that also | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
seemed to seduce the 15-year-old. But experts say, as the authority | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
figure in the partnership, he should have rejected her. I think it has | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
got to be wrong where the person concerned is a child and the man | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
concerned is a teacher in school in a position of responsibility. It is | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
different if we are talking students and university tutors, it may be, | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
but here we have to say that this relationship of trust is absolute. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Jeremy Forrest's school said it remained shocked by its actions. The | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
teacher had crossed the line from propriety to betrayal and will be | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
sentenced tomorrow. BBC News has been told that local | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
councils in England are facing a 10% cut in the funding they receive from | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
central government, as part of the coalition's spending plans for | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
2015/16. Our deputy political editor James Landale has the story and | :09:31. | :09:40. | |
joins us from Westminster. Another big slice of council budget. | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
It is. The government wants to cut the deficit and has promised to take | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
�11.5 billion out of its spending in 2015 and some of it will have to | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
come out of the money it gives to local councils. It is a lot. More | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
than �20 billion a year. I am told that Eric Pickles is willing in | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
principle to accept a 10% cut to that funding but in return he is | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
expecting to agree a deal that would see his department take | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
responsibility for potentially as much as �3 billion worth of spending | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
from other departments. No final deal has been agreed. But note | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
this. The local government Association said a 10% cut means the | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
average council having to find another �30 million. They say that | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
would mean less for children centres, museums, sports centres and | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
the like. Councils may be facing cuts already but there is clearly a | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
lot more to come. Face to face talks between America | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
and the Taliban over the future of Afghanistan have run into trouble | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
before they have even begun. The controversial discussions involving | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
US officials were supposed to have got under way in the Gulf state of | :10:54. | :11:04. | |
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Qatar today. But after the Taliban set up an office in Qatar and flew | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
their own flag, the Afghan government was so incensed, it | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
pulled out of talks with the Americans. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
The controversial Taliban flag, still flying this afternoon outside | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
their new office in Qatar. It was supposed to be taken down following | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
few reads complaints from the Afghan government. The Caliban plaque has | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
been removed at Afghanistan remains deeply suspicious. US and Afghan | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
governments have been scrambling to come up with a joint statement | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
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today. Raising the Taliban flag on Tuesday in Joe -- in Doha is a | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
reminder of our bloody past from which the country still struggles. | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
The office must not be treated as an embassy representing the Afghan | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
Taliban as an emirate, government is sovereign. The argument is in stark | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
contrast to the ceremonial opening this week. After two years of | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
delicate diplomacy, the Taliban had a public address for negotiations. | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
Hopes were high that peace talks could find a way to end the war in | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
Afghanistan. The new Taliban office that opened here on Tuesday is | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
already looking rather different. There was no sign of life here today | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
and most importantly the plaque on the ward that read" the Islamic | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
emirate of Afghanistan", that enraged the Afghan government, has | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
been taken down. But this is a sign of how difficult the peace talks | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
with the Caliban will be. In Afghanistan, the fighting goes on. | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
America and the Afghan government will be negotiating with an enemy | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
still hell-bent on killing them. think that they have not understood | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
fully how sensitive the issue to do with talking to the Caliban in an | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
official capacity is and how this undermines Hamid Karzai -- that live | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
bands. The US Secretary of State has been scrambling to assure the Afghan | :13:17. | :13:25. | |
government that they have not been sidelined. Here in tranquil Qatar, | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
the Taliban has largely gone to ground. The peace talks are due to | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
start soon but no one is expecting them to be easy. | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
The UK and Europe risk being left behind as the rest of the world | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
begins to accept genetically modified food. That was the warning | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
from the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson today. He claims that GM | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
products are even safer than conventional food, and says in | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
motion rather than evidence is putting people off them. Last year, | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
about 170 million hectares of GM crops were cultivated in 28 | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
countries. Apart from the US, the world's leading growers are Brazil, | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
Argentina, Canada and India. But across the whole of the European | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
Union, only one GM plant is grown commercially. | :14:19. | :14:25. | |
Under lock and key, one of the most closely guarded fields in Britain. | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
This is a research centre in Hertfordshire. Today, we were | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
allowed in to film the trial crop of genetically modified wheat. The | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
plants here look normal, but they have extra genes added to give the | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
wheat a particular smell which is meant to scare tearaways greenfly. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
It is a sign of the controversy about GM that this small field needs | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
so much security. But trials like this have attracted the hostility of | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
a few and made a fair number of people uneasy. For that reason, | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
ministers over the years have preferred not to speak up the GM, | :15:03. | :15:12. | |
until now. Today, the Environment Secretary Owen Paterson came here to | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
see the genetic research. Britain has pioneered major innovations in | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
plant science, but progress is slow on GM full stop supermarkets will | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
not stock GM food because there is no demand for it, and many European | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
governments are posed as well. a safe, proven... Speaking to a | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
selected audience of GM supporters, Mr Paterson said growing in a food | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
was so important that there was a moral case to turn to genetic | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
technology. Europe will just slip further behind. That will damage our | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
farming industry, our environment and also, down the road, it will not | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
help those millions who are hungry in developing countries. When GM was | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
first introduced, protesters tried to destroy the crops. Since then, it | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
has flourished in many other countries. But campaigners here say | :16:06. | :16:14. | |
it is risky and not worth it. benefits that they claim to deliver | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
like less pesticides and less chemical sprays, after a few years | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
of doing that, things get worse, not better. You get super weeds and | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
insects which are resistant to the crops, and you end up using more | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
sprays. The government faces a battle on this. GM was once called | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Frankenstein food. The image stuck, so there is deadlock in Europe. Even | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
though the European Commission's top scientist says GM food is safe, | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
would she eat it? Yes. There is no difference between eating GM food | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
and conventionally farmed food. I don't have a concern about that. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Today the government launched its most concerted efforts so far to | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
convince people that GM has a future. There is a long way to go. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
At least nine people including five children have been injured after a | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
car overturned outside aid primary School in south Wales. The injured | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
include a nine-year-old girl, who remains in intensive care. The | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
driver, who is ex-D1, is thought to have lost control after suffering a | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
coughing fit. Just yards from the school gate, a | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
car lights flicked on its roof, surrounded by all the signs of a | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
terrifying accident and those it harmed. It is believed the driver, | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
named locally as Robert Bell, had a coughing fit, causing him to hit the | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
accelerator pedal and mounted the curb. There was a hell of a bank, | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
and then all the children were screaming and shouting. We just took | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
the children into the classroom. I just know that three children were | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
injured, and also the lollipop lady. The lollipop woman was Karen | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
Williams, who patrolled the school for nearly 20 years. She is one of | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
three women being treated for broken bones and fact is. The youngest of | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
the children was a five-year-old. A nine-year-old girl is being treated | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
in intensive care. The driver was also injured. He has been helping | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
the police with their investigation, but they believe this was an | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
accident. At this stage, it is important to emphasise that this is | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
a rare, but distressing incident, and we are not treating it as a | :18:35. | :18:44. | |
deliberate act. It is the end of the school day, but the feeling here is | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
still far from normal. There are lots of extra staff and police to | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
make sure everything passes off normally. Parents are anxious to get | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
their children home. An educational psychologist has been helping the | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
pupils and supporting families here. I have seen some mothers quite | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
upset, crying. That sense of shock will take some time to fade as | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
everyone here waits the news of friends and classmates who remain in | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
hospital. Stock markets around the world fell | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
sharply today after America's Federal reserve signalled that a key | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
policy aimed at stimulating economic growth could be scaled back within | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
months. The prospects of an end to quantitative easing in the US helped | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
push down Wall Street's Dow Jones by more than 2%. In London, the FTSE | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
100 closed down 3%. Now, it is bigger than eBay and | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
Amazon combined, but you may never have heard of it. Ali Barber is | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Chinese and the world's largest e-commerce company. Now it is | :19:46. | :19:56. | |
helping British companies break into the world's second-largest economy. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Afternoon tea in Shanghai. With rising incomes, the new middle class | :20:01. | :20:08. | |
in China is beginning to enjoy some of the luxuries of life, getting a | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
taste of a truly British tradition. This team may have been grown in | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
China, but it is blended and packaged by a UK company and then | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
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sold back to China. We create spoke lens using a range of hundreds of | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
teas and spices. Because of the size of the economy there, we are set for | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
a good future. One way for small businesses to access the Chinese | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
market is online. You have probably heard of eBay and Amazon, but | :20:41. | :20:48. | |
believe it or not, this company is bigger than both of those combined. | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
This is the European headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company Ali | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
Barber. Ali Barber operates in almost every country and region in | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
the world. 240 markets. They have over 500 million registered users on | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
their website, and there are 800 million products on offer. No wonder | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
this company selling its shares on the stock market is the most | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
anticipated event since faced. is Marks & Spencer's storefront. | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
is not just small businesses. Each one like M&S and Mothercare are | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
trying to get into China as well. The rise in Chinese consumption is | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
incredible. Between 2015 and 2017, Chinese total retail online | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
consumption will surpass the US and Europe combined. This is a | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
tremendous shift, where the Chinese consumer probe provides a great | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
opportunity for businesses around the world. But there are challenges, | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
especially in selling online. not for the faint of heart, and it | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
is not for everyone. I do not want to portray China as a dangerous | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
jungle for foreign investment. If you do the deals happily, in | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
accordance with Chinese law, with due diligence, you will eliminate a | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
lot of trouble is, but not all of them. There are certainly obstacles | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
in tapping the fastest growing consumer market in the world. But if | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
a British company can sell Peter China, surely anything is possible | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
-- if a British company can sell tea to China. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
The award-winning American actor James Gandolfini, best known for his | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
role as a Mafia boss in the television drama The Sopranos, has | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
died at the age of 51. He suffered a suspected heart attack while on | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
holiday in Italy. This report contains flash photography. | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
The Sopranos is recognised as one of the all-time great TV shows. James | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
Gandolfini was its staff. He was known to millions as the New Jersey | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
mob boss juggling his criminal empire with the demands of family | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
life. I teach him love and respect and to appreciate his mother. | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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about your mother? It ran for six seasons, won him three Emmys and | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
made him world-famous. He had been on holiday in Italy, where he was | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
due to attend a film festival, when he had a suspected heart attack at | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
his hotel. The hotel notified the emergency crews, who responded and | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
first aid was and ministered before James Gandolfini was taken to | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
hospital, where he died of a heart attack. Our prayers and can -- | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
condolences go to his family and friends. James Gandolfini's | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
popularity in The Sopranos did not just underline his status as a major | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
star, the success of the series both on TV and especially in box set | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
sales helped the show's network HBO, become one of the most powerful in | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
broadcasting. He was more than a TV performer, though, enjoying a | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
successful film career. His breakthrough role was in cult hit | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
True Romance. This imposing physical presence meant he was often cast in | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
authority roles. Earlier this year, he played the CIA director in the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
hunt for bin laden movie, zero Dark 30. Today, other Hollywood stars pay | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
tribute. The beautiful thing about Jim is that he was a people person | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
first, and then work. He was a consummate actor, but apart from | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
that, a generous and good man. was only last October that his wife | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
gave birth to his second child. He will be remembered as a larger than | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
life figure who brought sympathy and humanity to even the most violent of | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
characters. Now, the horse is called Estimate. | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
It is owned by the Queen and this afternoon, they both made history as | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
the horse turned the Queen and to the first reigning monarch to win | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
the Gold cup at Royal Ascot, to the obvious delight of the royal party. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
Few punters arrived at Royal Ascot like this, but then Queen Elizabeth | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
is not your average racegoer. Apart from anything, Her Majesty owned the | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
favourite for the Gold cup, Estimate. The four-year-old filly | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
was well backed, but in another sense, the odds were against the | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
Royals did. No reigning monarch had won this race is its darted. George | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
III was on the throne then. Racing pays no heed to history, though. It | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
is a question of meticulous timing. Jockey Ryan Moore got everything | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
set, now for the big finish. A Royal Winton! No matter who you are or how | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
old you are, there is something about backing a winner that makes | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
you forget everything else. The Queen wished the celebrations with | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
her racing and adviser, John Warren, and went to meet her jockey. Vista | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
more will not be racing again for a couple of days. He has been banned | :26:23. | :26:28. |