:00:18. > :00:21.Good afternoon. It's been a golden start to the
:00:21. > :00:26.weekend for Paralympic GB, with the team getting two more golds this
:00:26. > :00:29.morning, bringing the tally to six. Partially sighted Neil Fachie and
:00:29. > :00:32.Barney Storey won in the one kilometre tandem time trail at the
:00:32. > :00:42.Velodrome, while Richard Whitehead has just won the men's 200 metres
:00:42. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:49.T42 final. Andy Swiss reports. In the Velodrome, another day of
:00:49. > :00:53.agony and ecstasy. First the joy, Neil Fachie, who has a visual
:00:53. > :00:58.impairment, at the back of a tandem, piloted by Barney Storey, husband
:00:58. > :01:02.of Sarah Storey. Going second from last in the time-trial, they tore
:01:02. > :01:08.around the track, and brought on by the home crowd, and they raced to a
:01:08. > :01:12.new world record. Only one pair could now deny them gold, for
:01:12. > :01:19.Britain's Anthony caps and Craig MacLean, the favourites, but twice
:01:19. > :01:23.at the chain -- at the start their chain broke. Frustration for them.
:01:23. > :01:28.In Nepal, her first race for one of the stars of these games, Ellie
:01:28. > :01:33.Simmons. -- in the Poole. As a 13- year-old she won two gold medals in
:01:33. > :01:39.Beijing. One of her fastest-ever times as she cruised into tonight's
:01:40. > :01:44.final of the 400 metres freestyle. In the last hour, more British
:01:44. > :01:48.success in the athletics. Watch Richard Whitehead come charging
:01:48. > :01:54.through. The Dublin at amputee racing past his rivals to win the
:01:54. > :01:59.200 metres. An unforgettable moment for him and the 80,000 fans. For
:01:59. > :02:02.Paralympics have yet another star. Victims of the drug thalidomide
:02:02. > :02:05.have rejected as "insulting" the first apology in 50 years from its
:02:06. > :02:08.manufacturer. The German company Grunenthal said it was asking for
:02:08. > :02:13.forgiveness from the thousands of people who were born with birth
:02:13. > :02:22.defects. But British campaigners say they are angry there was no
:02:22. > :02:27.admission of wrongdoing. Keith It was a drug given in the 1950s
:02:27. > :02:31.and 60s to pregnant women to combat morning sickness, but Thalidomide's
:02:31. > :02:37.side effects were crawl and catastrophic. Babies were born with
:02:37. > :02:40.severe deformities, blindness and brain damage. 50 years after it was
:02:40. > :02:44.withdrawn, at this that you have been unveiled in the German town
:02:44. > :02:50.where the drug was made and with it the first apology from its
:02:50. > :02:53.manufacturers. TRANSLATION: We ask for forgiveness that for almost 50
:02:53. > :02:58.years we did not find a way of reaching out you. Instead we've
:02:58. > :03:02.been silent and we are very sorry. But the company sticks by its
:03:02. > :03:05.assertion that it acted according to the status sigh of thick --
:03:05. > :03:09.scientific knowledge and industry standards at the time. Around 6,000
:03:09. > :03:14.people are still living with the effects of Thalidomide, 400 in the
:03:14. > :03:20.UK, but for every baby that survived, 10 died. Compensation is
:03:20. > :03:25.being paid, but campaigners say it is not enough. It would take
:03:25. > :03:30.�110,000 a year for me to get 24 hour care, for someone to assist me
:03:30. > :03:38.to the toilet, to dress me, wash me, brush my teeth. Everything I do, I
:03:38. > :03:41.need somebody with me. This is an insult. Campaign days have there
:03:41. > :03:45.ought to if continue the fight for better compensation and to find out
:03:45. > :03:54.just how much the company knew about the drug's devastating side-
:03:54. > :03:56.effects. Firefighters in Spain have been
:03:56. > :03:58.working throughout the night to tackle fires that threatened