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More than a quarter of a century after the Hillsborough football | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
disaster, a jury decides that 96 Liverpool fans were | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
They were crushed to death inside the stadium in the worst | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
# Walk on, walk on # With hope in your hearts... | :00:18. | :00:28. | |
for the past 27 years - said they'd finally | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
We've campaigned for years and years and years and you know, | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
We were determined to stay steadfast and battle | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
on irrespective of the knock backs that we've received. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
On that day in Sheffield, in April 1989, the errors by police | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
and other emergency services caused or contributed to the loss of life. | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
On April 15, 1989 South Yorkshire Police got the policing | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
of the FA Cup semifinal at Hillsborough | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
And the inquest jury, which sat through more | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
than 300 days of evidence, cleared the Liverpool fans of any | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
We'll have the details and the reaction. | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Junior doctors in England take part in the first all-out strike | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
in the history of the NHS in protest at the new employment contract. | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
The Government and the Health Secretary are pushing an already | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Many people will say is it proportionate or appropriate to be | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
withdrawing emergency care for patients. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
The technology giant Apple has suffered its first decline | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: British Cycling announces | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
an independent review, after technical director | :01:57. | :01:57. | |
Shane Sutton is accused of sexism by GB rider Jess Varnish. | :01:58. | :02:21. | |
27 years after the Hillsborough football disaster, a jury has | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
concluded that the 96 victims were unlawfully killed. | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
The decisions follow the longest inquest in British legal history. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
South Yorkshire police admitted they got the policing at the match | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
catastrophicically wrong and that they learned many lessons | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
The jury of nine people found - by a majority - that the Liverpool | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
They found that errors by both police and ambulance staff did cause | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
And they found that the fans' behaviour had NOT caused | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
or contributed to the events that led to the disaster. First tonight, | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
let's join our home editor, Mark Easton, in Liverpool. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
We are reaching the final chapter of a tragedy, which has shaped this | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
city across four decades, a story woven into the folklore of Liverpool | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
and, of course, its people. Outside an anonymous office building in a | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
business park near Warrington where the Hillsborough inquest has been | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
held now for over two years, this afternoon, Hillsborough campaigners | :03:29. | :03:29. | |
broke into their anthem. The road to justice has been 27 | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
years long. # You'll never walk alone... | :03:33. | :03:45. | |
# But today those who walked | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
on with hope in their hearts for all It wasn't an accident, | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
it wasn't the fans. We have been called whingeing | :03:54. | :04:10. | |
Scousers and everything, but now people will understand why we've | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
campaigned for 27 years, because we believed | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
what we were doing was right, and we had to do | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
this to get justice. After two years of evidence | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
and argument, the inquest jury decided the actions of this man - | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
former Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, now 71 and retired - | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
caused the manslaughter by gross negligence of 96 | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
Liverpool football fans. He was the match commander | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
for an FA Cup tie at Sheffield | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium COMMENTATOR: So on a clear sunny day | :04:47. | :04:58. | |
in Hillsborough, the stage is set for a rerun of last year's classic. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
With minutes to go before kickoff, thousands of excited Liverpool fans | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
were still out here, trying to get into the match. At 2. 52pm, chief | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
Superintendent duckenfield ordered an exit gate be opened to let the | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
travelling fans in. But they were funneled directly into two already | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
crowded fenced enclosures on the terraces. There was simply no | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
escape. COMMENTATOR: I can't stress enough | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
the serious nature of what's happened here today. We have | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
unfortunately witnessed a tragedy. The question for the jury - was the | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
decision to open the gate so grossly neglect it amounted to the unlawful | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
killing of 96 men, women and children? Today, the nine-person | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
jury decided by a majority of seven to two, that the football supporters | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
had all been unlawfully killed, prompting cheers and tears in the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
public gallery. You still feel a bit angry about this? My brother, I'm | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
holding my brother, 27 years it's took. It's not finished. We're still | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
all here. We're not going nowhere till the end. With the unlawful | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
killing decision pointing the finger at South Yorkshire Police, today | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
this statement from the chief scone stab. On -- constable. South | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
Yorkshire Police got the policing of the FA Cup semifinal at Hillsborough | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
catastrophicically wrong. Today, as I have said before, I want to | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
apologise unreservedly to the families and those affected. Former | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
cheept Superintendent David Duckenfield was not at home today. | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
Police say he has been interviewed under criminal caution. As for the | :07:04. | :07:16. | |
fans, today the inquest jury set the record straight - their behaviour | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
did not contribute to the dangerous situation at the ground. Liverpool | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
supporters were not the villains of Hillsborough, they were the victims. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
If anyone's the winner today it's society at large. No matter who you | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
are, how big you are or where you are in the state or organisation, | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
the public will come after you if you do anything wrong. As the | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
tragedy was unfolding, David Duckenfield told FA officials the | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
fans forced the gates open. Police later blamed drunk Liverpool | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
supporters, it was a lie. A quarter of a century too late, Duckenfield | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
admitted to the inquest that his decision to open the gate and not to | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
close the tunnel to the overcrowded pens was the direct cause of the 96 | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
deaths. It was a mistake I shouldn't have made, a mistake I regret | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
bitterly, he said. "I apologise profusely. " I lost my dad, Jimmy in | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
the disaster... Directly after he made his apology, Charlotte | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Hennessey, who was six at the time of her father's death, recorded her | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
reaction for the BBC. I can categorically say now, I do not | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
accept your apology David Duckenfield. I do not accept it. You | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
made us live a lie for 26 years. That is beyond cruel. A majority | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
decision on the key question of unlawful killing, but on every other | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
matter, total agreement in the jury that the seeds of this tragedy were | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
sown years before and that on the day, the emergency services response | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
was so inadequate it cost further lives. The inquest concluded the | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
stadium's design, construction and layout contributed to the disaster, | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
crush barriers missing, the ground safety certificate not up to date, | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
delays by police and Ambulance Services to the tragedy unfolding in | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
front of the them caused or contributed to further deaths. Those | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
supporters now can be remembered for what they were on that day, the | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
heroes of Hillsborough, who tried in the absence of an emergency response | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
to help their fellow men and women. That is what they did. They were | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
then blamed. Today the Ambulance Service accepted mistakes had been | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
made. We fully accept the jury's conclusions that after the crush | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
began to develop, there were failings made by the Ambulance | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Service. Lives could have been saved on the 15th April 1989 had the | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
emergency response been different. There are two ongoing investigations | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
into possible criminal charges relating to the actions of police | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
and others on the day, possible safety offences and the alleged | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
cover up by police following the tragedy. A decision on prosecutions | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
is expected around the end of the year. | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
An entire generation in Liverpool grew up not trusting the police | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
because of Hillsborough. Now that matters today. That matters here in | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Britain. That's why we've got to get to the bottom of this. We've got to | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
get this right. Tonight, Liverpool prepared to mark an important | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
victory in the long fight for truth and justice. Truth, the Hillsborough | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
campaigners, think today took them mighty close. Jus disshall not quite | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
-- justice - not quite yet. After today's verdicts, | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
South Yorkshire Police admitted it had got the policing | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
at the Hillsborough match The jury found that errors | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
by the police caused a dangerous situation at the turnstiles | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
and failures by commanding officers The jury also concluded that | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
defects at the stadium Our special correspondent, | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Lucy Manning, is at There is a stillness here at | :11:08. | :11:21. | |
Hillsborough tonight. This is where the fans stood that day, where they | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
cheered and where they ultimately lost their lives. There are 96 white | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
seats, one for every fan unlawfully killed. And the tunnel behind, where | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
they came through, when the gates were opened. There is a clarity now | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
about what happened that day, but the families have always known what | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
that clarity is, that the fans were not at fault, that the police were | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
to blame, that there were failures from the Ambulance Service, | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Sheffield Wednesday and others and now, that truth is known by | :11:59. | :11:59. | |
everyone. Like today's fans, they were just | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
going to a game and then home. But too many Liverpool supporters didn't | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
make it. Let down by the police, who should have protected them. The | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
emergency services, who could have saved them. And the football ground, | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
that was supposed to be safe. By opening that gate, they opened the | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
gates of hell. Toni was a steward inside the ground. This is his first | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
interview about what happened at Hillsborough. So what did you make | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
of the police behaviour on the day and how they behaved? They were | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
unorganised. No-one knew who were in charge. I seen police stood there | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
talking while people were laying on the floor. I saw police not do owt. | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
The failures started early on outside, not enough turnstiles or | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
police officers here, radios that weren't working and inexperienced | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
match commander and a ground that didn't have a valid safety | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
certificate. As the fans started to be crushed here outside the ground, | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
the disastrous, fateful decision was taken to open the gate. That | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
situation got out of hand early doors. A responsible police officer | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
would have looked at it, assessed the situation and done something | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
about it prior to the build up. William Crawford was a police | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
sergeant working by the lepings lane end. All it needed was someone to | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
pass me a message and say, "We're going to open the gate. Close the | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
tunnel." We were overwhelmed that day. Even the players knew what | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
commanding officers seemed to be ignoring. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
COMMENTATOR: Horrific scenes. I have no way of knowing how many | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
casualties we have here. You saw the faces against the fence and people | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
saying to you, Bruce, can you help us. Please, they're killing us. The | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
ball came back. I asked the person near the gate, please open the gate. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
And they said, "Well, I can't. The steward has the key." I said, "Can't | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
you see they need help? Despite the clear view from the police control | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
box, senior officers did little. The commander David Duckenfield called | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
for police dogs before ambulances. The jury found that not only. Police | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
cause the tragedy, but then they didn't do enough to save fans. I | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
really felt mad because I actually saw police, like, pushing people | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
back into the crowd. I told the police on the day that I seen this | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
and I seen them hitting them on their hands with truncheons and | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
that. They said, you must have been seeing things, you're mistaken. That | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
ate me up for a long time. Some police did help that day. Doug Earls | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
was a year out of training when he tried to rescue fans, while others | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
failed them. How do you feel that the senior officers behaved? I did | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
see two at the fence. But I think they were just frozen with the | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
enormity of it all. I might have shouted them. I don't remember. Some | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
police just stood still, lined up across the pitch to stop any | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
violence. But the fans weren't fighting, they were dying. I | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
personally thought we were very light on man power at this end. More | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
tan 200 people -- than 200 people who raised concerns afterwards, | :15:46. | :15:47. | |
found their accounts had been changed. I was shown my statement | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
and that paragraph had been deleted. It was removed because it was | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
criticism. But serious criticism from the jury also for South | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Yorkshire Ambulance Service. Their errors cost lives. Only three of | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
their ambulances made it onto the pitch. One an hour after the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
disaster started. Most just queued up outside. Peter Wells was one of | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
the volunteers with the St John Ambulance. What about South | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Yorkshire ambulance? I never saw them on the ground. When I got to | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
the fence, it was so obvious that the people were in trouble there. I | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
should think anybody trained, ambulance man or otherwise, anybody | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
who saw it would have known instantly they were in trouble and | :16:36. | :16:36. | |
needed treating. As Peter on the left was pictured | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
running down the pitch to save people, professional ambulance staff | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
failed to declare a major incident but this was a ground, the jury | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
decided, that even before the game just wasn't safe. Sheffield | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Wednesday says football grounds have now changed. Rod Smith was part of | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
the safety investigation team after the disaster. Within half an hour of | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
walking round the ground, I saw so many obvious deficiencies that | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
didn't need rules to tell you that they were deficiencies but common | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
sense would say my God, that's dangerous, something needs to be | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
done about that. For those who were there that day who did help, it | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
stays with them. It was a case of picking the worst ones out. The two | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
girls at the front, I was convinced they had died. Their eyes rolled up | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
into their head and I thought that's it, they have gone. It wasn't until | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
I went to Warrington afterwards I found out they had survived. You | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
only found that out at the inquest? I went 25 years not knowing. Tony | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
still remembers those he helped, more than a dozen, and those he | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
couldn't save. I picked him up and physically carried him in my arms. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
All the time I was pinching his ear, talking to him, telling him someone | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
was waiting for him up in heaven. Obviously I found out who he was, it | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
was so upsetting. To not know his name. Most of the people I helped, I | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
know their names. The former Sheffield Wednesday | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
steward Tony Garratty As we've heard, today's | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
outcome prompted a wave of emotion for relatives, | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
who'd always refused Two years after the disaster, | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
in 1991, an inquest jury returned a majority decision | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
of accidental death. After years of campaigning, in 2009, | :18:49. | :18:50. | |
the Labour minister, Andy Burnham, agreed that all documents relating | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
to the disaster would be published. That led to the formation of the | :18:53. | :19:02. | |
Hillsborough Independent Panel. Our correspondent, Jeremy Cooke, | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
has been speaking to three women who've made countless journeys | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
to the inquests in Warrington over The last miles on the road to | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
justice for a daughter who This is it, Dad, this | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
is our final moment. A long, dark journey for a sister | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
who lost her brother. This road has been 27 years long | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
for a mother who lost her son. Justice would automatically | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
follow Clearly something has | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
gone badly wrong... The news from Hillsborough left | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Liverpool with overwhelming grief, and a burning | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
sense of injustice. Henry Burke was 47 when he | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
died at Hillsborough. He loved his family, | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
he protected us, He died in the most | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
appalling circumstances. My dad didn't deserve | :20:08. | :20:17. | |
to die like that. There is many times I've | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
gone in the cemetery, Down the years, they have shared the | :20:26. | :20:40. | |
grief for fellow fans who died. Among them was Stephen Joseph | :20:41. | :20:50. | |
Robinson. Stephen was 17, he was my middle son. We had a life before | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Hillsborough and a life after Hillsborough. I always remember | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
thinking from that day on, I will never be happy again. We are not | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
winners, we have been losers since the 15th of April 19 89. Liverpool | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
remembers. But so many died at Hillsborough that this was and | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
remains a national tragedy. Andrew Mark Brooks travelled to the match | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
from the family home. He was just a decent human being. I lost my family | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
that day. I lost everything that day. Everybody, and I mean everybody | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
who has been involved in the lies and the cover-up, they should be | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
ashamed of themselves. They have no idea what they have put us families | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
through. And so today, finally the truth. Bittersweet for families who | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
have always kept the faith. Time for celebration and relief but also | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
anger, frustration, and heartbreak. What we have achieved today will go | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
down as a defining moment in British social legal history when the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
establishment were taken on by the ordinary people, and the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
establishment lost. I don't care about apologies, 27 years too late | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
as far as I'm concerned. The hell these people have put these families | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
through, appalling. This justice will be empty if we don't get | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
accountability. What does that mean? The CPS to press forward with | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
criminal charges and I would like to see that. Today the jury decided the | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
Hillsborough 96 were unlawfully killed. Tonight their families say | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
those who were responsible must face justice. | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Our correspondent, Judith Moritz, has been following the inquests | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
for the past two years and is in Liverpool tonight. | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
Can you describe the moment when these decisions were announced | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
today? Yes, it was incredible in the court room because for the last two | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
years the families who have been sitting there every day felt anger | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
but they have not been able to show it. They have not been able to | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
display any emotion whilst in the confines of that court room. Today | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
when the unlawful killing announcement was made, it was like a | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
cork coming out of the bottle. They leapt to their feet, yelling and | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
shouting. One woman cried out, God bless the jury. They broke into | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
spontaneous applause and for once the coroner a them to show their | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
feelings, and he said to them later, you did all you could for your loved | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
ones, you have certainly done your duty by them. You can see at Anfield | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
tonight the flowers and tributes, they have continued to arrive here | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
all day. A small measure, if you like, of how the 96 are remembered. | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
So we have this momentous decision today, what is the next stage for | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
the relatives? There are two criminal investigations which have | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
been running alongside the inquest since 2013. They will continue to | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
gather evidence. I have spoken recently to those inside the | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
investigations who say they are making good progress but there is | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
more work to do. David Duckenfield and others can expect to be | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
interviewed again by investigators in the coming weeks and that will be | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
under criminal caution. There are prosecutions possible but I'm told | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
no decision will be made on holding trials until some point next year. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
There is still that work to do and therefore for the families watching | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
the progress of those criminal investigations, there is still a way | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
to go. I'm told they will be kept informed throughout the process, | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
possible charges down the road could include manslaughter, perverting the | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
course of justice or misconduct in a public office. The families know | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
that this is the end of one very significant chapter, but the whole | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
story still has some way to run. Thank you. | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
Let's have a look at some of the day's other news. | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
Thousands of junior doctors in England have taken part | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
in the first all-out strike in the history of the NHS. | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
Doctors, who would usually be staffing accident | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
and emergency wards, were on the picket lines protesting | :25:37. | :25:38. | |
against the imposition of a new employment contract. | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
The British Medical Association, which called for the action, | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
has over 37,000 junior doctor members in England. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
NHS England says 78% of those expected to work today | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
didn't report for duty, and there will be another | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
Our health editor, Hugh Pym, reports. | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
Once again, junior doctors gathered outside hospitals in England, | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
Their strike affected emergencies as well as routine care, | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
For many, it seemed the only way to show their anger | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
I'm scared that the Government and the Health Secretary are pushing | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
an already stretched NHS to breaking point. | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
I think the changes that are being planned and that he is threatening | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
to implement will result in a demoralised, exhausted | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
But for this doctor, it was going too far and she wasn't | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
prepared to walk out on emergency patients. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
Part of being a doctor is providing emergency care. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
It is sort of a red line for me to say that I won't | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
The day I don't provide emergency care is the day I don't consider | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
Many hospitals like this one in Milton Keynes said | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
they were coping well, with consultants and senior nursing | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
staff covering gaps in the rota left by the striking junior doctors. | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
A was said to be quieter than usual. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
But thousands of routine operations and appointments | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
across England were cancelled, and there were calls | :27:11. | :27:12. | |
for both sides to get back to the negotiating table. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
The NHS simply cannot continue with the now tens of thousands | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
of patients who have been cancelled across the country. | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
The cumulative effect that that has on our ability to provide | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
The junior doctor contract has proved highly controversial. | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
The Government view is that it allows hospitals to get more doctors | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
It means higher basic pay but lower payments for unsocial hours, | :27:37. | :27:41. | |
The BMA says the contract has inadequate safeguards on working | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
hours and long-term pay growth will be affected. | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
I think many people will say you can disagree with the Government's plans | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
but to withdraw emergency care from patients is not proportionate, | :27:58. | :28:01. | |
is not appropriate and is not a line that doctors should cross. | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
Junior doctors have been given no choice in this. | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
The Secretary of State has announced the imposition of a contract that, | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
as a group and as individuals, they do not trust and that nobody | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
really thinks is the solution to the NHS's problems. | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
If the strength of feeling on picket lines like this one | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
is anything to go by, the level of support amongst doctors | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
The question is, how things develop from here if the dispute | :28:23. | :28:26. | |
You don't want to be there for us, you're out of order. | :28:27. | :28:37. | |
Anti-doctor feeling seems to be in the minority. | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
Some passing drivers gave their backing. | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
The latest polls suggesting that more than half of those surveyed | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
A march at Westminster followed the return to work by junior | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
They will be back out on strike again tomorrow. | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
For more information about what the dispute involves | :28:59. | :29:08. | |
and how you could be affected, there's a special section | :29:09. | :29:10. | |
A brief look at some of the day's other news stories. | :29:11. | :29:25. | |
The president of the Japanese car-maker Mitsubishi has admitted it | :29:26. | :29:27. | |
cheated fuel economy tests for 25 years. | :29:28. | :29:29. | |
Tetsuro Aikawa said he was sorry that customers had bought vehicles | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
Shares in the company fell by nearly 10% today. | :29:33. | :29:37. | |
Scottish Power is being fined ?18 million for providing | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
It's the third-biggest penalty imposed on an energy firm. | :29:40. | :29:45. | |
The regulator Ofgem found that call handling, billing and complaint | :29:46. | :29:47. | |
The BBC has learned the owner of BHS tried to move money out | :29:48. | :30:04. | |
It's understood Dominic Chappell transferred ?1.5 million | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
into a Swedish firm, before returning most | :30:10. | :30:10. | |
of the money on the request of the Chief executive. | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
The High Street chain went into administration yesterday | :30:14. | :30:15. | |
The Labour MP Naz Shah has stepped down as a Parliamentary aide to | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
the Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell, over comments she made | :30:20. | :30:21. | |
In a Facebook post in 2014 before she became an MP, she appeared | :30:22. | :30:26. | |
to suggest relocating Israel to the United States. | :30:27. | :30:31. | |
The technology giant Apple has released its latest results. | :30:32. | :30:38. | |
They show the company's experienced its first sales | :30:39. | :30:40. | |
Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is here. | :30:41. | :30:48. | |
What are the figures tell us? It has been a remarkable run for Apple, | :30:49. | :30:56. | |
which has had some extremely successful products, but it seems | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
that run may have come to an end. Last year it made sales of 58 | :31:02. | :31:07. | |
billion dollars in the first three months. In the same period this | :31:08. | :31:19. | |
year, that fell to $50.6 billion. Last year the figure for iPhone | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
sales were 61.2 million and that has fallen by 10 million, 251.2 million | :31:25. | :31:30. | |
in the first three months of this year it has to be said last year | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
there was a new iPhone, the iPhone six which was very popular | :31:37. | :31:40. | |
particularly in China. Apple said it has been hit by what it calls macro | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
economic headwinds, obviously some problems in China, but it has got to | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
be said a lot of investors will be wondering where the next new | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
blockbuster product comes along to replace the iPhone. Thank you. | :31:54. | :31:59. | |
Manchester City held Real Madrid to a goalless draw in the first leg | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
of their Champions League semi final this evening. | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
City goalkeeper Joe Hart made two vital saves to deny | :32:05. | :32:06. | |
Manuel Pellgrini's side now face a tough trip to Spain next Wednesday | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
to qualify for a place in their first ever final. | :32:12. | :32:17. | |
Next on BBC One it's time for the news where you are. | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
And Newsnight will be on BBC Two at 11.30pm | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
talking to some of those seeking justice for the past 27 years | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
So, we leave you tonight with some of the relatives and their personal | :32:28. | :32:33. | |
tributes to the loved ones who were lost on that | :32:34. | :32:35. | |
This story is about my beloved brother Vincent. | :32:36. | :32:44. | |
My dad, Eric Hughes, was born in Liverpool | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
I am the father of the late Eric Hankin Junior. | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
Christian, sportsman, serviceman, family | :32:54. | :33:03. | |
I used to take him every Saturday and I would put him on my | :33:04. | :33:10. | |
We would go for chips together on the way home. | :33:11. | :33:19. | |
I tickled his ear and told him he was starting to go grey. | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
He laughed and said, "no, not grey, just distinguished." | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
Paul was brought up to be a law-abiding citizen. | :33:30. | :33:33. | |
He was not a hooligan, he was not drunk. | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
So, on a beautiful spring day, 15th of April, 1989, Dan and I set | :33:39. | :33:43. | |
I kissed him goodbye and watched him go. | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
He waved from the car for a really long time. | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
It was more important to us than anything else in the world. | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
Neither of us envisaged witnessing hell before our eyes, | :33:57. | :33:58. | |
nor did we expect to be fighting so desperately for our lives, | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
The very last words I said to my father, "you will be OK". | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
On the 15th of April, our world fell apart. | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
It did not occur to me that he could have died | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
and I refused to believe it even when I was told. | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
Both my brother and I had to be taken into care by social services | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
and became wards of court as a result of losing our only | :34:27. | :34:28. | |
Michael was not just one of the 96, and he was not body number 72. | :34:29. | :34:37. | |
He was our Mike, much loved and much missed. | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
You simply learn to live with your grief. | :34:42. | :34:48. | |
I never even got to buy my dad a pint. | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
I will forever miss you dad, you will never walk alone. | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
And if I was to be granted one wish, it would be to have a few more | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
minutes with him to tell him how much I love him. | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
He will never be grey, just distinguished. | :35:06. | :35:10. |