:00:08. > :00:14.David Coleman, the veteran television sports broadcaster, has
:00:15. > :00:19.died. It is sunny Gunnell with one to go... For almost half a century,
:00:20. > :00:23.he said the standard in the way sport was covered.
:00:24. > :00:26.The body of the British doctor who died in a Syrian jail is returned to
:00:27. > :00:38.his family in neighbouring Lebanon. And memorial services to mark 25
:00:39. > :00:56.years since the Lockerbie bombing in which 270 people lost their lives.
:00:57. > :01:06.Hello, good evening. The veteran TV sports broadcaster David Coleman has
:01:07. > :01:09.died. He was 87. For almost half a century, he brought some of the
:01:10. > :01:14.biggest sporting occasions into living rooms, covering 11, Olympic
:01:15. > :01:20.Games and six football World Cups. The BBC director-general called him
:01:21. > :01:30.one of the country's greatest and most respected broadcasters. David
:01:31. > :01:35.Bond takes a look back at his life. And Sebastian Coe... It is Linford
:01:36. > :01:40.Christie! His voice was instantly recognisable, and for more than four
:01:41. > :01:44.decades the company meant to British sport's greatest moments. David
:01:45. > :01:51.Coleman started his career as a newspaper reporter before joining
:01:52. > :01:55.the BBC. He first presented Sports Special in 1955, but it was as the
:01:56. > :01:59.anchor of the pioneering Grandstand that he really made his name,
:02:00. > :02:03.delivering major sporting occasions like the Grand National into
:02:04. > :02:07.people's living rooms. The show became a huge hit, and as technology
:02:08. > :02:14.was starting to change Taliban, is less formal style took sports
:02:15. > :02:24.broadcasting into the modern era. -- -- change television. Whatever it
:02:25. > :02:30.was, nowadays, with multi and everything else, somebody does one
:02:31. > :02:35.thing and that is it, but he did everything. He was the lead
:02:36. > :02:42.commentator on Match Of The Day. Can he do it? He surely must! He was
:02:43. > :02:46.famed for his knowledge and attention to detail, often providing
:02:47. > :02:52.instant analysis of football results as they came into the studio. He
:02:53. > :02:55.went on to cover six World Cups. But athletics was his greatest love, and
:02:56. > :03:00.his Olympic commentaries became iconic. His talents, though,
:03:01. > :03:05.extended beyond the sports reporting. In 1972, he anchored the
:03:06. > :03:10.unfolding horrors in the Olympic Village in Munich, where Palestinian
:03:11. > :03:15.gunmen held hostage and then killed a group of Israeli athletes. There
:03:16. > :03:19.was some shooting, and the only other details since then is that
:03:20. > :03:22.when they arrived, there appeared to be about six to eight minutes of
:03:23. > :03:26.shooting, then everything went quiet, and apparently there has been
:03:27. > :03:32.shooting since. He could also provide a lighter touch and four
:03:33. > :03:36.years fronted A Question Of Sport. Despite his fame, he never enjoyed
:03:37. > :03:45.the limelight and closely guarded his and his family's privacy. He was
:03:46. > :03:49.also prone to the old gaffe, and he was a popular target for
:03:50. > :03:56.Impressionist and comedians. But he could not be emulated. He was, quite
:03:57. > :04:02.simply, the voice of sport. David Coleman, who has died aged 87.
:04:03. > :04:06.The body of a British surgeon who died in a Syrian prison has been
:04:07. > :04:10.handed over to his family in Lebanon. Dr Abbas Khan was within
:04:11. > :04:13.days of being released when Syrian authorities said he committed
:04:14. > :04:18.suicide, a claim his family do not believe. Speaking shortly after
:04:19. > :04:22.seeing her son's body, Fatima Khan broke down in tears, accusing the
:04:23. > :04:26.Syrian government of killing her baby. This report is from Lyse
:04:27. > :04:32.Doucet. Fatima Khan insisted on going to the
:04:33. > :04:36.hospital in Beirut today. Hard as it is for a mother to receive her
:04:37. > :04:41.son's body, this was the day that she expected to bring him home after
:04:42. > :04:47.he spent 13 months in a Syrian jail. She had been told he would be
:04:48. > :04:52.freed. Instead, he left Syria in a coffin.
:04:53. > :05:01.They killed my baby, they killed him! It is a murder!
:05:02. > :05:06.The Syrian government says that he killed himself in prison. The
:05:07. > :05:10.British surgeon went to work in a hospital in an area controlled by
:05:11. > :05:15.rebels. They arrested him for entering Syria illegally. It was his
:05:16. > :05:26.profession, to give life, not to take life. He was so good to
:05:27. > :05:31.people... Fatima Khan spent five months in Damascus trying to free
:05:32. > :05:36.her son. She filmed these videos on her phone. She visited the prison as
:05:37. > :05:40.often as they let her. She even swept the floor at a Muslim shrine.
:05:41. > :05:47.She was told it would bring her luck. And she wrote lots of letters,
:05:48. > :05:52.including this one to David Cameron. Everyone in the family did, even 's
:05:53. > :05:58.six Abbas-year-old daughter, who wrote to William Hague. The family
:05:59. > :06:02.says that the government failed them. The Foreign Office says they
:06:03. > :06:11.did what they could. My brother has been failed by both his government,
:06:12. > :06:18.by the Syrians, and by a lot of people who said they would help and
:06:19. > :06:30.did not. A British doctor's death in Syria is a very political story, but
:06:31. > :06:33.today it is about a mother's loss. Here, the head of the Care Quality
:06:34. > :06:37.Commission has criticised the effect of the target culture in the NHS,
:06:38. > :06:42.particularly in accident and emergency departments. He said that
:06:43. > :06:46.the health service had become too powerful to criticise, with even the
:06:47. > :06:49.most senior staff afraid of speaking out.
:06:50. > :06:58.Reeves have been laid by the families of the victims of the
:06:59. > :07:02.Lockerbie bombings. -- reads. A service was held in the Scottish
:07:03. > :07:05.town later, and there will be services later in London and the
:07:06. > :07:11.United States, where most of the victims were from. James Cook is in
:07:12. > :07:15.Lockerbie for us now. James. Yes, and tonight the governments of
:07:16. > :07:19.the United Kingdom, the United States and, quite extraordinarily,
:07:20. > :07:23.Libya as well have joined together in offering the deepest condolences
:07:24. > :07:28.to the families of those who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103 and on the
:07:29. > :07:30.ground here in the little town of Lockerbie. And no more
:07:31. > :07:35.extraordinarily, those governments have joined together in pledging to
:07:36. > :07:39.continue their investigation to get to the bottom of what exactly
:07:40. > :07:44.happened in the skies above this town a quarter of a century ago. But
:07:45. > :07:50.today, here in Lockerbie itself, the focus was not on politics. It was
:07:51. > :07:55.far more personal. The 21st of December, 1988, the
:07:56. > :08:00.shortest day of the year, and for Lockerbie the longest and darkest
:08:01. > :08:04.night. Even now, it is too distressing to show much of what
:08:05. > :08:05.happened here. For this little town, it was the night it rained
:08:06. > :08:13.fire and worse. Today, those who have never
:08:14. > :08:18.forgotten and of those who only now are being told came back to
:08:19. > :08:22.Lockerbie, many from across the Atlantic. The grief was undimmed,
:08:23. > :08:28.the bonds unbroken as the people of the town again opened the doors and
:08:29. > :08:33.their hearts. We welcome you once again to this place, and in doing so
:08:34. > :08:39.we seek to comfort and consoled you, to offer what healing we can in
:08:40. > :08:46.the touch of friendship to those who have also experienced suffering. The
:08:47. > :08:52.suffering spans the globe. Of the 270 people who died, 189 were
:08:53. > :08:57.Americans. Raymond's father was one of them. He was just 13 when his
:08:58. > :09:03.father was murdered. I still miss my dad everyday, but you know, I
:09:04. > :09:08.learned a lot from my father, and I have plenty of good memories, and
:09:09. > :09:15.that keeps me going. Did you take any comfort from this service? Yes,
:09:16. > :09:20.I did. The people of Lockerbie have kept the memory alive. And today was
:09:21. > :09:24.about remembrance and grief, but there is an awkward feeling here,
:09:25. > :09:30.too, a sense of questions still an unsaid. There has to be justice and
:09:31. > :09:34.truth, and we have never had that, we cannot go forward until we face
:09:35. > :09:38.the full reality of something, and the reality of this is knowing who
:09:39. > :09:43.the murderers were. The central question, who did this and why?
:09:44. > :09:48.Abdelbasset al-Megrahi died a convicted mass murderer, but the
:09:49. > :09:51.Libyan's family say they are planning another appeal, and police
:09:52. > :09:55.say they are still looking for accomplices.
:09:56. > :10:01.There comes a point were any tragedy moves from news to history. But even
:10:02. > :10:09.after a quarter of a century, the Lockerbie bombing is not yet in the
:10:10. > :10:12.-- there. That is it for now, I will be back
:10:13. > :10:13.with the late News At Ten