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More violence in Afghanistan, just hours before its historic vote to | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
choose a new president. Two western journalists are shot, one is killed | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
- by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform. Security is extremely | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
tight, after weeks of attacks by the Taliban. We'll be assessing the | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
prospects for a free and fair vote. Also tonight: | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Controversial comments about the badger cull from Princess Anne - she | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
tells the BBC gassing is the humane way to kill the animals to prevent | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
TB. After damaging headlines, the Prime | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Minister again defends his Culture Secretary - ordered to repay | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
thousands in expenses. Round the clock work gets Dawlish | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
back on track - the vital southwest rail link reopens after the February | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
storms. And "it's been nice to see ya" - Brucie announces he's stepping | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
down from Strictly. And coming-up in Sportsday on BBC | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
News: Andy Murray's Davis Cup quarterfinal | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
rubber is stopped due to bad light. Great Britain trail Italy 1-0. | :01:07. | :01:32. | |
Afghanistan is a few hours from its historic presidential election - but | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
today saw more bloodshed. The Taliban has consistently threatened | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
to disrupt the poll, and there are also anxieties about electoral | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
fraud. Tomorrow, people vote in what should be the first democratic and | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
free transfer of power in the country's history. Security is very | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
tight, as voters prepare to elect a successor to Hamid Karzai who's been | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
President for 13 years. After recent killings and bombings by the | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Taliban, every one of the country's 400,000 police and military has been | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
deployed, in an effort to keep the ballot free and fair. But the | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
increased security presence has seen two journalists shot today - one | :02:12. | :02:24. | |
fatally - by an Afghan policeman. Dash-macro by a man dressed as an | :02:25. | :02:25. | |
Afghan policeman. This was the bullet ridden car after | :02:26. | :02:39. | |
a police officer opened fire on doss-macro reporters travelling | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
together, as these doss-macro too often did. Anja Niedringhaus died on | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
the scene, Kathy Gannon is being treated in the US military cost the | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
tall dash-macro military hospital near Kabul. Anja Niedringhaus won a | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
Pulitzer prize for photographs in Iraq, she had photographed conflicts | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
with a passion and a deep sense of humanity. I do my job is simply to | :03:01. | :03:14. | |
report with my camera and with my heart. The biggest military | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
operation since the fall of the Taliban is underway. Afghanistan is | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
locked down ahead of tomorrow's election, no traffic has been | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
allowed into Kabul since noon. If anything, threats from the Taliban | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
have made people more determined to vote. It doesn't only mean to elect | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
a head of state, it is much more. They want to see a peaceful | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
transition of power and to prevent a return to the bad days. I think the | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
level of enthusiasm you see is a reflection of that realisation. The | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
candidates have helped dozens of rallies across this rugged land. The | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
campaign of the man resident cards I -- President Karzai is believed to | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
favour is trailing in the polls. The former Foreign Minister Abdullah | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
Abdullah is ahead in the race, he is strongly opposed to any concessions | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
to the Taliban. Those who are massacring our people, those who | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
violate the rights of the people of Afghanistan, those who want to take | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
us back to the stone ages, the people of Afghanistan will not allow | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
them to do that. Another leading candidate is Ashraf Ghani but this | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
former World Bank economist has less credible at by having a former | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
warlord, General Don Strong, as his running mate. The truth is that | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
fraud could be the big winner in the Afghan campaign. Who pays for the | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
most votes. However hard these candidates fight. A high turnout | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
could be the best way to stop fraud and there is no doubting the users | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
of a country where three quarters of the country are under 25. New voters | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
are excited by the chance to have their voices heard. I feel in myself | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
responsible that this vote is a power. I want to use my vote today | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
for having a peaceful life in the future. The country, which saw the | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
deaths of 448 British troops, could now be seeing its first peaceful | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
transition of power for more than a hundred years. | :05:23. | :05:23. | |
From Kabul our Our chief international | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
correspondent, Lyse Doucet, joins us now from Kabul. What do you think | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
the chances are of this vote progressing peacefully? No one wants | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
to be in the business of predicting violence but sadly it is certain | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
there will be violence today in Afghanistan. We know that from past | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
practice. The last elections in 2009 saw hundreds of attacks across the | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
country, all of them small, none of them begin us -- big enough to stop | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
the process. It has been marked by far more attacks by the Taliban, | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
even attacking the headquarters of the election headquarters in Kabul, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
even the interior ministry, the heavily guarded Interior Ministry. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Senior intelligence sources tell us they are expecting spectacular | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
attacks, they use this phrase. This is not just an election but a | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
referendum on the Taliban and the defiance on Afghans as such is that | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
every time is an attack, it strengthens their resolve, they want | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
to go out and vote and they are expected to vote in large numbers. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Thank you. Princess Anne has told the BBC she | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
is in favour of gassing badgers as a more humane way of culling them, to | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
limit the spread of TB in cattle. Yesterday, plans to extend the | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
badger cull in England were halted by the Government, after a review | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
found that shooting had been ineffective and sometimes inhumane. | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
The Princess Royal made her remarks in an interview with the BBC's | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Countryfile programme. Tom Heap has this special report from Gatcombe | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
Park Estate. Princess Anne has run the estate | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
here in the heart of Gloucestershire for nearly 40 years. The main | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
farming business is rearing rare breed sheep and cows. Like many | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
farmers in this area, her cattle are frequently infected by TB and she | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
thinks badgers on her land are largely to blame. Like the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
government, she thinks culling could combat the disease but favours using | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
gas, not guns. Most of the people who did it in the pass will tell you | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
that as is a much nicer way to do it, if that is not a silly | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
expression as who did it in the past -- who did it in the past will tell | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
you. It works because they go to sleep, quite simply. This will | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
horrify many people and sparked heated debate. I think gassing is | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
not the right way forward. I think it is not the right way forward for | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
merrily because farmers deserve an effective solution to this problem. | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
The evidence from the 1970s was begat Singh of badgers was not a | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
very effective way of controlling badger numbers. -- degassing of | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
badgers was not. An interest in agriculture stretches back to her | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
youth. Spending time on the farm at Sandringham and Balmoral. Shared | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
family experience does not mean shared views on the future of | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
farming. Her brother, Prince Charles, is famously a to | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
genetically modified cops but she isn't. -- famously opposed to. They | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
allow us to be more efficient users of the land that is good. When you | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
have the prospect of 9 billion to feed, you are going to need some | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
help in doing that, and to do it well. Her other great passion is | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
horses. She was European event in and competed in the Olympics. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Eyebrows were raised when she suggested eating them. There are too | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
many horses in Britain, thousands are neglected. An awful lot of the | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
abandonments are because they don't perceive there to be any value in | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
the animals. So OK, chuck them out, they will survive or die. But the | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
meat trade adds value to the animal, so there is some point in keeping it | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
healthy, if it has got an end point that it can go to. Have the ever | :09:28. | :09:37. | |
eaten horse? Certainly. How was it? Very good. Princess Anne believes | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
are experienced at Gatcombe gives the authority to speak out but that | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
won't stop opponents being alarmed to hear such striking views from a | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
senior member of the Royal Family. And you can see the full interview | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
with Princess Anne on Countryfile, this Sunday evening at seven on BBC | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
One. The Prime Minister has again | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
defended the Culture Secretary Maria Miller over her expenses claims - | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
after she was forced to apologise to the Commons and pay back thousands | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
of pounds. Tonight the Daily Telegraph released a secret | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
recording of a phone call which they say show Government advisers using | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
the threat of press regulation to warn the newspaper against pursuing | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
the story. Here's our political correspondent, Vicki Young. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
She is responsible for bringing in stricter controls on the press and | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
she is embroiled in an expenses scandal. It made unpleasant | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
headlines formerly a Miller. She has apologised but something she has got | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
off lightly -- headlines for Maria Miller. Maria Miller should resign, | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
she has failed to apologise or take responsibility for her actions and I | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
think numbers of the cabinet should be halted the highest standards, and | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
it is a standard she has not -- should be held to. The prime | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
minister has tried to draw a line under the episode. It was found she | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
has made mistakes, she apologised unreservedly to the House of Commons | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
I think she should -- we should leave it there. The inquiry centred | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
on her home which she shared with her parents. She was cleared on | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
breaking rules on claiming expenses for relatives but she was ordered to | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
repay almost ?6,000 she had over claimed four on the mortgage, much | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
less than the 44,000 suggested by the independent watchdog. From the | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
outside it still seems as if MPs are pleasing themselves when it comes to | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
expenses and the system is not always transparent. There is another | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
element to this. Maria Miller is overseeing a plan for tighter | :11:43. | :11:44. | |
controls of the press following the Leveson Inquiry and that has put the | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
government on a collision course with many newspapers. When Telegraph | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
reporter 's first investigated Mrs Miller's expenses, they say senior | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
government adviser 's expenses, they say senior government advisers's | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
responsibility. -- senior government advisers phoned them. There was an | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
anti-press is doing of the Leveson. When advisers warn up newspaper | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
editors and warn them in that fashion, they are bound to take | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
those threats seriously. The Telegraph released a recording of | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Maria Miller's adviser speaking to a reporter. Maria has been having a | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
lot of editor's meetings around Leveson at the moment. I am going to | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
flag up that connection for you to think about. That adviser, Joanna | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Hindley, said she was planing about the way the Telegraph had approached | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Mrs Miller's elderly father and was making it clear the culture | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
secretary would raise this with the paper's bosses. Some colleagues at | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
it the culture secretary could have handled this better crucially, she | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
has support from the top -- some colleagues admit. Trains ran again | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
today along the Devon coast after the line was closed for nearly two | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
months because of extensive storm damage. Network Rail says it that | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
taken 300 workers 54 days to rebuild the wall at Dawlish after a collapse | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
which left the rails standing in mid air. This report contains flashing | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
images. A railway re-opened, a region | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
reconnected. Normal service resumed. 5. 00am and we were on the first | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
journey across the route, with commuters who had waited two months | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
for a train. I know you've got the roads and other forms of transport | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
but the railway is the main link. We slow down the cross the new section | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
of track. It has all cost ?35 million. Hard to believe this is how | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
it looked eight weeks ago. The main line in and out of the West Country. | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Since then, hundreds of engineers have worked around the clock, often | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
in terrible conditions, to fill in and then reenforce the embankment. | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
It is only when you look at the Victorian sea wall there that you | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
realise exactly what's happened here. There's a section which is | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
modern, made of new materials. It's been bolstered and they say it is | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
now stronger than when Brunel built it in the 180 #0s. Three cheers for | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
the orange Army... Among the first passengers to arrive by train was | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
the Prime Minister. It has been a Herculean effort, 56 days and 56 | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
nights, ten,000 tonnes of concrete, 150 tonnes of steel. A huge task | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
carried out not on time but before time. So thank you for that. How | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
much of a challenge has it been to get to this change? A tremendous | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
challenge. We've had landslips, holes in the wall to repair, 650 | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
metres of track to replace. A tremendous challenge but I'm proud | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
of the achievements of the whole industry. Business leaders say the | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
closure cost the South West economy ?2 million a day, so relief as the | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
tourist season gets under way. We're back on the map. We're back in | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
business, and that's what's really important to us. And, of course, now | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
you can actually get to Cornwall. But at Cornwall's biggest | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
attraction, they say the region's infrastructure needs a bigger share | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
of national funding. When I see the investment that's about to take | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
place on HS2, we do say, give us a couple of billion, guys. ?50 | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
billion, do you want it all up there? How about us joining the | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
human rice down here. Some say the time has come to reroute this line | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
inland. For now, job done, but future uncertain. | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
A look at some of today's other stories. A Chinese businessman faces | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
extradition to the United States in connection with allegations that he | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
tried to supply Iran with equipment for use in its nuclear programme. | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
Sihai Cheng was arrested in the UK in February. He made a second court | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
appearance today and has been remanded until June. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
The former Formula One champion, Michael Schumacher, has shown | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
moments of consciousness after months in a coma. He suffered head | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
injuries after a skiing accident in the French Alps last year. | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
Tributes are being paid tonight to the Scottish politician Margo | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
MacDonald, who's died at the age of 70. A committed supporter of | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
independence, she came to prominence after a historic by-election win for | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
the Scottish Nationalists in Govan in 1973. She had suffered from | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Parkinson's disease for nearly 20 years and campaigned for a change in | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
the law to allow assisted suicide. Our Scotland Political Editor, Brian | :17:01. | :17:12. | |
Taylor, looks back at her life. To the end Margo MacDonald was a | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
committed campaigner for Scottish independence. And today that | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
lifelong political effort drew praise. Over the last few years | :17:20. | :17:24. | |
she's been at the centre of all the political developments of Scotland. | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
Very much part and one of the great driving forces behind Scotland's | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
home rule journey. She will be hugely missed. She had a spectacular | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
political career and she will be greatly missed. So close to the | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
referendum in September. Deeply serious, occasionally coquettish, a | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
political partisan who chafed within party constraints. But above all | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
charismatic and hugely popular. The SNP have won the constituency of | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
Govan. In 1937 3 Margo MacDonald won Glasgow Govan. I'm the MP for Govan, | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
can we get that straight first of all? She was to spend just 112 days | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
in that role, ousted in the general election. Feisty ander energetic she | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
was the SNP's deputy leader during the nationalist honeymoon of the | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
1970s, but political divorce followed. She quit the party in the | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
internal conflict which followed defeat in 1979. She built new | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
careers in the voluntary sector and as a respected broadcaster. In 1999 | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
the rebirth of the Scottish Parliament brought her back to front | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
line politics. Scotland seemed happy to see her and today her passing was | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
mourned. While we disagreed profoundly on the question of the | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
constitution, actually most of what motivated Margo seemed to be | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
something that motivates most politicians, a desire to make a | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
difference, to see a world where children can achieve their full | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
potential, where people feel safe this their old age. In 2003 she quit | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
the SNP again and triumphed as a party of one. More lately a new and | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
controversial cause, backing assisted suicide for the terminally | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
ill face tag intolerable strain. And it was personal. She coped with a | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
degenerative disease. I don't want to burden any doctor. I don't want | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
to burden any friend or family member. I want to find a way in | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
which I can take the decision to end my life in case I'm unlucky enough | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
to have the worst form of Parkinson's near the end of life. | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
That rare being, a politician known to the public, simply by her first | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
name. Intelligent, driven, witty, passionate. Just Margo. | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
The politician, Margo MacDonald, who has died at the age of 70. The | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
department store chain House of Fraser is set to be taken over by a | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Chinese company in a deal worth ?450 million. The company, Sanpower, will | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
take on an 9% share, making the deal China's largest foreign retail | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
investment in the UK. Hugh Pym is here. Part of a trend here with the | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
Chinese? Indeed, Jane. House of Fraser is a really well known | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
British name. More than 150 years old with 61 stores in the UK and | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Ireland. It has had a slightly difficult recent history. It was | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
owned by an Icelandic group, which went under during the financial | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
crisis. Half the shares are owned by Icelandic banks and the rest by | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
British investors. The owners want to move it on and now we know who | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
wants to buy it, Sanpower of China, taking 9% for ?450 million. We've | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
seen Chinese businesses buy up Weetabix, Sunseeker, the yacht | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
maker, and stake in Thames Water. It is a sign of the times. Here you | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
have a Chinese business who wants to take a well known British brand and | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
grow it outside the UK. Thank you. There is good luck and outrageous | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
fortune. A scrap metal dealer in the American Midwest bought a gold egg | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
for ?8,000, thinking he could sell it or melt it down. It was only | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
after reading a newspaper article he discovered it was in fact an | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
imperial Faberge Easter egg, one of just 50 made for the Russian Royal | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
Family. It has just been sold to a private collector for ?20 million. | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
A lost treasure, remarkably rediscovered. Set with diamonds and | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
sapphires this sumptuous golden egg is among the rarest artworks in the | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
world. Tsar Alexander III had money and Palaces in abundance but when he | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
wanted to give something unique too his Empress, he turned to the most | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
sought after jeweller of the day, Faberge. | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
Many of the imperial treasures were sold to the West by the Bolsheviks. | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
How rare sit? Is it is beyond rare, if you can say that. It is so | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
unbelievable that this has been discovered and saved. It is a time | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
capsule that we will never ever see again. The egg was last seen in | :22:23. | :22:30. | |
public in 1902 at an exhibition of imperial Faberge treasures in St | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
Petersburg. It wasn't seen again until 1964, when it was auctioned in | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
New York for ?2,500, then ?870, but it wasn't identified as Faberge at | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
the time. It reappeared last year when the egg was bought by a scrap | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
metal dealer in a flea national in America's Midwest. He paid just | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
?8,000 and cabinet it here in his kitchen. It was only when the new | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
owner opened up the egg and found the inscription inside, the name of | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
the watchmaker, he looked it up online. He found an article about | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
the hunt for a missing Faberge egg and discovered this lump of gold was | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
worth ?20 million. What was it like for this jeweller to verify the egg | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
as Faberge? It was like Indiana Jones being presented by the lost | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
ark. This is the high point. The man who discovered the ultimate golden | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
egg wants to remain anonymous. It will soon disappear into the vaults | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
of a private collector and this historic jewel may never be seen | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
again. Sir Bruce Forsyth has announced that | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
he's stepping down as the regular host of Strictly Come Dancing. The | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
veteran entertainer, who's 86, has co-hosted the programme since it | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
began a decade ago. Sir Bruce said it was the right time to withdraw | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
from the rigours of presenting a live show. Here's our media | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
correspondent, David Sillito. Sir Bruce first appeared on BBC | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
television in 1939. 75 years on he's finally decided to give up on the | :24:05. | :24:13. | |
rigours of live TV. It's sad. I've loved the show, I've loved doing it | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
but there always comes a time when you have to look yourself in the | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
mirror and say should you be doing this any longer? I will miss it but | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
I will watch it intently. He's been part of our Saturday nights since | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
the '50s. Nice to see you, to see you... Nice! However, the decision | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
in 2004 to revive Come Dancing raised a few eye row rows -- | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
eyebrows. The question is the future without its now 86-year-old host. | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
Who wants to follow a guy who's been at the top of his game for a long | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
time at the BBC. I know what that's like. This is an important show. BBC | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
has sold the format to 48 countries around the world. And also, if you | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
want to justify the licence fee, you've got to be popular. Having the | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
number one show on a Saturday night is really important. Hit shows often | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
wilt after eight or nine years. Both Strictly and its arch-rival X Factor | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
are into double figures. X Factor is hoping that Simon Cowell may perk up | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
its ratings but execs hate messing with winning recipes. Shows this | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
successful are rare. They are really hard to find these days. Really hard | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
to achieve, so when you do come across one such as Strictly you want | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
to look after it, cherish it and make sure you're keeping it as | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
successful and the show that people enjoy. Sir Bruce's suggestion for a | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
replacement is Boris Johnson. He will though still do a few one-off | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
recorded shows. Even at 86, he says he's not yet walking into the show | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
business sun set. | :26:01. | :26:06. |