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