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Shaping up for a Super Saturday with a gold rush for Britain in the | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
Paralympic Games. It's going to be a gold for Great Britain! Richard | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Whitehead's victory in the 200m helps the team to second place in | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
the medals table. An apology from the makers of the | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
drug Thalidomide. Campaigners call it an insult, saying it doesn't go | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
far enough. Max Bygraves, the veteran variety | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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performer and entertainer, dies at the age of 89. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Good afternoon. It's shaping up to be a Super Saturday for Britain's | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Paralympians, with the team taking golds in athletics, cycling, and | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
dressage. It means Paralympics GB are now in second place in the | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
medals table, behind China. -- in third place behind behind China and | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Australia. There was a breathtaking performance from double amputee | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Richard Whitehead in his 200 metre final and cyclist Sarah Storey won | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
her second gold of the games - just hours after her husband, Barney, | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
won one, too. Andy Swiss has all the latest from the Olympic Park. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
He's been dubbed the British Bladeruner, Richard Whitehead about | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
to produce one of the most dazzling moments of these Games. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Whitehead n lane five s a double leg amputee who runs on prosthetic | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
limbs. He began his 200 metres final slowly, last at the halfway | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
stage, surely there was no way back. But just watch this. | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
One of the most breathtaking turns of speed you will ever see. | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
From last to first in the blink of an eye. Gold has rarely been quite | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
so staggering. Whitehead, with 80,000 fans, could scarcely believe | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
it. He is also a top marathon runner. British sport has a new | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
star. Everybody was shouting my name out before, and there's so | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
much support, 80,000 people obviously roaring me for success. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
They were definitely my 12th man on the day and really are a part of | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
this because of that support. The crowd were soon on their feet | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
again for a very different reason. Omar Hussain finishing seven | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
minutes behind the winner of his 1500 metres heat but greeted with | :02:40. | :02:50. | |
one of the day's loudest ovations. Meanwhile, the British medals tb to | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
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-- continue to to roll in at the Velodrome, particularly for the | :03:00. | :03:09. | |
Storey family. There was also another appearance | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
from Jodie Cundy after his disqualification yesterday, there | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
was a happier day for him as he secured bronze in the individual | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
pursuit. In the pool there was a first | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
appearance for one of Britain's most famous Paralympians, Ellie | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
Simmonds as a 13-year-old she won two golds in Beijing, and she made | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
an impressive start here in London, qualifying fastest in the heats of | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
the 400 metres freestyle. Within the next hour Ellie sim Simmonds | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
will be going for gold in the final. She faces stern competition but | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
will be confident of adding to Britain's medal haul. | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
And Paralympics GB had success in the dressage at Greenwich Park. | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Natasha Baker triumphed in the Grade II individual championship | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
this morning. But there was disappointment for Lee Pearson who | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
was going for his 10th gold medal of his Paralympic career. Joe | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Wilson's in south-east London. Great disappointment for Lee | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
Pearson, take us through what's been happening. Absolutely, Great | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Britain have been the outstanding equestrian nation in Paralympics | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
for years but they can't take that status for granted and I think we | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
have seen evidence of that today. This morning Grade II disability | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
section, Natasha Baker is the junior member of the squad but her | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
talent was identified as a child. She broke the Paralympic world | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
record in her class today. Outstanding, because it needed to | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
be. Two German riders coming later got within a whisker of beating | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
that score. Gold for her to start things off. That was something of a | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
surprise. The afternoon, grade 1B disability and that meant Lee | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
Pearson, the outstanding horseman of all time in Paralympic | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
competition. He was quite pleased with his test on board Gentleman, a | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
temperamental horse, pleased with his score. Lee Pearson had never | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
been beat nonthe Paralympics prior to today, but guess what, a 51- | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
year-old from Australia did just that, pipping him by half a | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
percentage point. There's been unprecedented interest in the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
equestrian here and the standard of performance has risen accordingly. | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
Thank you. Today's golden haul and there may be more to come later, | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
leaves Paralympic GB third in the table with a total of eight, behind | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
China and Australia. Victims of the drug Thalidomide | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
have rejected as insulting the first apology in 50 years from its | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
manufacturer. The German company Gruenenthal said it was asking for | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
forgiveness from the thousands of people who were born with birth | :05:50. | :05:58. | |
defects. But British campaigners say they are angry there was no | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
admission of wrongdoing. Ben Ando reports. The birth defects ranged | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
from deformed or missing limbs to blindness and brain damage. The | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
cause, Thalidomide, a drug invented by a German scientist and when in | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the 1950s and early 1960s it was given to pregnant women to | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
countermorning sickness it caused heart-breaking birth defects. Now, | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
half a century later, a statue has been unveiled in the German town | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
where the drug was made and with it the first apology from the | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
manufacturers. TRANSLATION: We ask for forgiveness for nearly | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
50 years we didn't find a way of reaching out to from you human | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
being, to human being, instead we have been silent and we are sorry | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
for that. Thalidomide was sold in the UK from 1958 to 1961. Around | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
2000 babies were born with defects before it was taken off the market. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
There are thought to be around 470 people living with the effects of | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
this will that will -- Thalidomide in the UK today. Gruenenthal says | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
it followed all drugs testing rules in force at the time and | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
regulations were tightened in the aftermath of the affair. But UK | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
campaigners said the wording of the apology misses the point. It's not | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
even a real apology. The only real apology bit that sounds remotely | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
like an apology is they're sorry for being silent for 50 years. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
There is no admittance of responsibility or negligence. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
Victims now want the company to put its money where its mouth is. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
would like to think this is the beginning of the end and we need a | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
package of money to help Thalidomide-ers across the world, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
but a meaningful thing, not money picked from the sky to keep us | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
quiet. It needs to be thought out of what a care package is. And say | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
campaigners this apology comes far too late to be of any use to the | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
thousands of children and their parents who have died in the half | :07:54. | :08:04. | |
century since Thalidomide was withdrawn. | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
Residents have been returning to their homes on Spain's Costa del | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
Sol to assess the damage caused by wildfires. Thousands of people - | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
including 300 Britons - were forced to flee houses and hotel rooms as | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
the flames reached the outskirts of Marbella yesterday. From there, Tom | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Burridge has this report. The aftermath of a Spanish forest | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
fire. Large areas of countryside in the Costa del Sol turned to ash. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
The fire started several kilometres from here, but fuelled by high | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
winds, it spread quickly. This area is just on the edge of the popular | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
holiday resort of Marbella. Strangely, the watered golf courses | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
are untouched. But some homes were completely | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
destroyed. A British couple lived here. They got out just as the roof | :08:51. | :08:59. | |
set on fire, precious possessions were left behind. Flames just | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
spared Anthony Marshall's house, he lives near mar Marbella. It was | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
horrific, to be honest. I sat there, the - I am on the third floor, the | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
flames were as high as my house. The town of Ojen was empty | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
overnight as people were kept oupt of their homes but several hundred | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
British people affected have gone home or are staying with family or | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
friends. Throughout today, helicopters | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
continued to drop water on pockets of fire, but since last night the | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
emergency services have the situation mainly under control. The | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
land, though, is scarred and with the environmental damage there's | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
the human and financial cost of yet another destructive forest fire in | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
southern Spain. The veteran entertainer, Max | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
Bygraves, has died. He was 89. One of the last all-round variety | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
performers, his career spanned five decades after winning fame as a | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
comedian and singer in the 1940s. He emigrated to Australia in 2005 | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
and had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. David Sillito | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
looks back at his life. # Maybe it's because I am a | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Londoner... Warm, funny, reassuring, those old- | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
fashioned songs, jokes and stories about days gone by made Max | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Bygraves a star. The greatest I have ever seen at getting an | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
audience in the palm of his hand immediately he walked on. A lot of | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
performers it takes five minutes, not with Max, they loved him. He | :10:39. | :10:49. | |
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was a terrific entertainer. couldn't even afford cutlery. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
became Max after perfecting his Max Miller impression. The radio show | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
Educating Archie followed and then the London Palladium. He became a | :11:06. | :11:13. | |
wealthy man. He was astute enough to buy the rights to Oliver for | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
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�350 and those old tunes gave his 27 platinum albums. | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
The entertainer of a certain generation has gone and he is one | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
of the last still around who is singing songs of that era, | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
performing as an all-round entertainer and he was a gifted | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
person, a gifted man. On stage the audience will be | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
laughing one moment, shedding a tear the next. Max Bygraves, gentle, | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
reassuring, and always ready with a song that everyone knew. | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
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