:00:05. > :00:11.Anders Breivik is declared sane. The judge sentences him to 21 years
:00:11. > :00:15.for killing 77 people in attacks in Norway. Breivik smiled as the judge
:00:15. > :00:24.read the verdict. Boy In a statement he said he regretted not
:00:24. > :00:27.killing more. TRANSLATION: I wish to apologise to
:00:27. > :00:31.all militant nationalists in Europe but it was not able to kill more
:00:31. > :00:40.people. Those who survived the shooting at a youth camp on Utoeya
:00:40. > :00:43.island say they're glad the trial is now over. I am very pleased and
:00:43. > :00:45.relieved that the decision that was one I agree with and feel was the
:00:45. > :00:48.right one. Also on tonight's programme:
:00:48. > :00:51.Pictures of Prince Harry naked in a Las Vegas hotel are published by
:00:51. > :00:54.the Sun. The press watchdog says it's had more than 850 complaints
:00:54. > :00:57.from the public. New figures show the economy is
:00:57. > :01:00.shrinking but it's not as bad as was first thought.
:01:00. > :01:03.Murder in downtown Manhattan. Two die. At least ten are injured in a
:01:03. > :01:05.shooting outside the Empire State Building.
:01:05. > :01:08.And the US Anti-Doping Agency says it's stripped cycling's Lance
:01:08. > :01:18.Armstrong of his Tour de France titles and issued a lifetime ban
:01:18. > :01:23.
:01:23. > :01:33.Coming up in a sports day, cannot leads make it third time lucky in
:01:33. > :01:42.
:01:42. > :01:46.the Challenge Cup final? They face Good evening. Welcome to the BBC
:01:46. > :01:49.News at Six. Anders Breivik, the right wing extremist who murdered
:01:49. > :01:54.77 people in Norway last summer, has been given the country's
:01:54. > :01:58.maximum sentence of 21 years. But that can be extended if he's still
:01:58. > :02:01.deemed to be a threat to society. Breivik said he did not recognise
:02:01. > :02:07.the court, would not appeal the verdict and apologised for not
:02:07. > :02:10.killing more. During the trial, he had admitted carrying out a car
:02:10. > :02:14.bombing in the capital Oslo and going on a shooting rampage on
:02:14. > :02:24.Utoeya island. The youngest victim was 14. Our Correspondent, James
:02:24. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:30.The events of a single day in July last year, the 22nd, have been
:02:30. > :02:35.described by the Prime Minister of Norway as a nightmare beyond
:02:35. > :02:42.comprehension. Well, today, this trial tied to make some sense of
:02:42. > :02:46.the actions of a single gunman acting entirely alone.
:02:46. > :02:50.Anders Breivik says he killed to destroy a liberal multicultural
:02:50. > :02:55.Norway. Today and Norwegian court demonstrated his failure to achieve
:02:56. > :03:02.that goal. Briefly, Breivik attended a fascist salute before
:03:02. > :03:09.hearing the verdict of five judges. Guilty of mass murder and terrorism
:03:09. > :03:15.and not insane. TRANSLATION: Anders Breivik, born
:03:15. > :03:22.in 1979, his sentence to 21 years and a minimum period of 10 years.
:03:22. > :03:26.There was a smile, on his face. For him, being judged sane have somehow
:03:26. > :03:30.reinforces his self-image as a political prisoner. But for most of
:03:30. > :03:35.the bereaved and survivors I spoke to, it was the right judgment.
:03:35. > :03:43.Breivik did not have the excuse of insanity. That is exactly what we
:03:43. > :03:51.hoped for. Sometimes we were afraid they would hesitate to have such a
:03:51. > :03:56.verdict. On 22nd July, I hid in the cafe building. And survived. I am
:03:56. > :04:03.very pleased but decision was one I agree with and I feel it's the
:04:03. > :04:06.right one. His trail of killing started here in Oslo with a huge
:04:06. > :04:13.bomb explosion outside the prime minister's office. Eight people
:04:13. > :04:17.were killed. Much later, this picture of Breivik leaving the
:04:17. > :04:25.scene was found on CCTV. As the emergency services defend the
:04:25. > :04:32.capital city, he was heading to the island of Utoeya. The sound is
:04:32. > :04:37.haunting. GUNFIRE. The sound of him killing young people at their
:04:37. > :04:41.annual camp organised by the Labour Party. Legitimate targets, he
:04:41. > :04:47.called them, being trained as Marxists to promote a multicultural
:04:47. > :04:52.Europe. He had more than one hour before the police arrived. He
:04:52. > :04:58.killed more than 69 people here. shot all my friends when they were
:04:59. > :05:04.trying to swim away from him. And he shot my friends when they were
:05:04. > :05:09.hiding. He shot my friends when they were running away from him. It
:05:09. > :05:13.was horrible. When armed police finally arrived, he surrendered
:05:13. > :05:18.without a fight. A few weeks later, he's taken back to the island to
:05:18. > :05:23.talk through his actions. You can just see the tether the police used
:05:23. > :05:28.to ensure he did not escape. Anders Breivik killed 77 people in the
:05:28. > :05:32.space of four hours, shooting most of his victims at very close range
:05:32. > :05:40.with obsessive precision. Most were young adults, some still children,
:05:40. > :05:44.the youngest was 14. But this evening, when he was
:05:44. > :05:48.allowed a moment to speak in court, he used it to apologise to other
:05:49. > :05:54.extremists for not killing more people that day. Before the judge
:05:55. > :05:58.cut him off mid-sentence. Anders Breivik will begin his 21 years
:05:58. > :06:01.preventive detention at this prison on the outskirts of Oslo. Most
:06:01. > :06:08.Norwegians believe conditions will never be right for him to be
:06:08. > :06:13.released. He will be in solitary confinement in prison cells
:06:13. > :06:17.prepared especially for him to protect other criminals and protect
:06:17. > :06:22.him from them. Most Norwegians I spoke to today are relieved justice
:06:22. > :06:26.has been done. Some are dismayed, thinking possibly Anders Breivik
:06:26. > :06:32.will be too comfortable in prison, where he may be given extra sales,
:06:32. > :06:37.extra space, to compensate him for the solitary confinement he will
:06:37. > :06:41.endure if he has to be protected from other prisoners. It is also to
:06:41. > :06:46.be said, many Norwegians will be disgusted by the fact he was able
:06:46. > :06:50.to use the court this evening as a platform to try and propagate more
:06:51. > :06:54.of his poisonous views, seeking to apologise to other ultra-
:06:54. > :06:58.nationalists, for failing to kill more people that date. But I think,
:06:58. > :07:05.in many ways, the overwhelming feeling, having talked to families
:07:05. > :07:10.and survivors outside the court, it is that he won't be coming out of
:07:10. > :07:14.prison at any time soon. And that, above all, they won't have to see
:07:14. > :07:20.him or hear from him again in the future.
:07:20. > :07:22.James, thank you. James, joining us from Oslo. The Press Complaints
:07:22. > :07:25.Commission says it's received more than 850 complaints from the public
:07:25. > :07:28.about the Sun newspaper's decision to publish photographs of Prince
:07:28. > :07:31.Harry naked in a hotel room in Las Vegas. The paper says they were
:07:31. > :07:33.freely available on the internet and had already been viewed by
:07:33. > :07:43.millions of people. Our Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell,
:07:43. > :07:46.
:07:46. > :07:51.Self restraint lasted rather less than 48 hours. This morning, the
:07:51. > :07:55.frustration felt in Britain's tabloid newsrooms came too much for
:07:55. > :08:00.the Sun newspaper and there inside his pages with the voters of Prince
:08:00. > :08:03.Harry in Las Vegas. The freedom of the press had outweighed the
:08:03. > :08:07.privacy of this particular individual. This is about the
:08:07. > :08:13.ludicrous situation where a picture can be seen by hundreds of millions
:08:13. > :08:16.of people around the world on the internet, but can't be seen in the
:08:16. > :08:19.nation's favourite newspaper. According to the Sun newspaper this
:08:20. > :08:23.morning, there is a clear public interest in publishing the pictures
:08:23. > :08:27.in order for the debate around them to be fully informed. But the rival
:08:27. > :08:31.Daily Mirror disagreed and said -- so did the editor of the
:08:31. > :08:37.Independent. He was at a private hotel room with people he had
:08:37. > :08:43.invited into the room. A private party. Some body betrayed his trust
:08:43. > :08:46.and took those pictures. There is no public interest in those
:08:46. > :08:50.pictures at all. The former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, once
:08:50. > :08:55.a notable victim of the tabloid himself, said there was all about
:08:55. > :08:59.profit. Somebody gets a photograph, makes money, and the others by the
:08:59. > :09:04.pictures and make money again. It's nothing to do the public interest.
:09:04. > :09:07.It is profit, profit, profit. this is happening in the shadow of
:09:07. > :09:12.Lord Justice Leggatt some's inquiry into the behaviour of the British
:09:12. > :09:20.press. Among the options he will be considering our continued self-
:09:20. > :09:26.regulation by a reshaped Press A new strength and a regulator,
:09:26. > :09:30.possibly underpinned by legislation. Or full scope of the laws ball for
:09:30. > :09:34.that is the least favoured option for editors. That is all for the
:09:34. > :09:37.future, of course. Right now Prince Harry and his advisers must decide
:09:37. > :09:41.whether they are going to make a formal complaint to the Press
:09:41. > :09:45.Complaints Commission. That is being considered at the moment for
:09:45. > :09:48.that as I understand it, no decision has been taken about a
:09:48. > :09:55.complete. Prince Harry have been advised by his family to keep a low
:09:55. > :10:00.profile. Because the story may not be over. More photographs of his
:10:00. > :10:03.exploits in Las Vegas are said to be circulating. His dream holiday
:10:03. > :10:05.has well and truly turned into a nightmare.
:10:05. > :10:08.New figures suggest the British economy shrank by less than first
:10:08. > :10:11.thought between April and June. The Office for National Statistics
:10:11. > :10:18.originally estimated that GDP, the total value of goods and services
:10:18. > :10:21.produced in the economy, would contract by 0.7% in that period.
:10:21. > :10:31.But it's now reduced the scale of the fall. Our Chief Economics
:10:31. > :10:33.Correspondent, Hugh Pym, explains. Digging down into the data, the
:10:33. > :10:37.statisticians have come up with the latest snapshot of the economy.
:10:37. > :10:42.They say it's not been quite as bad as they thought. They had said
:10:42. > :10:46.output fell by 0.7% between April and June but now they think it was
:10:46. > :10:49.not 0.5%. So why is that? The answer lies in industries like
:10:49. > :10:55.construction and mining, which things have turned out better than
:10:55. > :11:00.first thought. This company surprised triggers off a bit says
:11:00. > :11:05.trading has been difficult, but not as bad as the data implied --
:11:05. > :11:08.supply is diggers calls up I was surprised by the degree of
:11:08. > :11:11.contracts and suggested. We have seen some softening but not to the
:11:11. > :11:15.degree we have in the figures in the last couple of quarters bought
:11:15. > :11:21.the key is what he meant. Industrial production including
:11:21. > :11:31.mining had fallen 1.3% over three months, it was suggested. Now it is
:11:31. > :11:35.0.9%. For construction, 5.2% has been revised that to 3.9%. So what
:11:35. > :11:39.about the consumer side of the economy? The latest figures show
:11:39. > :11:42.household spending fell again with budgets being squeezed because
:11:42. > :11:46.cost-of-living increases were running well ahead of average pay
:11:46. > :11:51.rises. With inflation predicted to fall further, that pressure could
:11:51. > :11:54.be easing. Consumers are still very nervous but they are spending a
:11:54. > :11:58.little bit more and perhaps the weather has played in to bat as
:11:59. > :12:03.well. The next six months, if inflation continues to come down,
:12:03. > :12:07.it should help households find more money in the budgets and spend a
:12:07. > :12:12.bit more on the High Street. Shoppers we spoke to do they were
:12:12. > :12:17.still cautious about their spending plans. We just 10 to get on with it,
:12:17. > :12:21.buy it, moan about it, because become too much else about it.
:12:21. > :12:28.is tough for everybody and it won't be easy. Are you spending the same
:12:28. > :12:30.as you work? It's extremely difficult. Whether its
:12:30. > :12:34.manufacturing or service industries, the fact is, we are still in
:12:34. > :12:37.recession. The economy is not sparkling normally and the
:12:37. > :12:40.political debate over where growth is going to come from is likely to
:12:41. > :12:44.intensify. Two people have died in a shooting
:12:44. > :12:46.near the Empire State Building in New York. Police say a disgruntled
:12:46. > :12:50.worker had killed a former colleague before being shot dead by
:12:51. > :13:00.police. Nine people were wounded in the exchange of fire. Michelle
:13:00. > :13:04.Fleury reports from Manhattan. What should have been another
:13:04. > :13:08.bustling day in midtown Manhattan took a frightening term. A gunman
:13:08. > :13:13.opened fire in the middle of the city's rush out. In one of the
:13:13. > :13:18.world's best loan landmarks, the Empire State Building. He and one
:13:18. > :13:22.other are dead and nine others were wounded, some by police gunfire.
:13:22. > :13:28.disgruntled former employee of a company at that address shot and
:13:28. > :13:34.killed a former co-worker. Striking him three times. The subject,
:13:34. > :13:41.Geoffrey Johnson, aged 53, then fled eastbound on West 34th Street.
:13:41. > :13:47.To Fifth Avenue. Then he walked northbound along the line with a 45
:13:47. > :13:52.calibre handgun secreted in a black bag he had under his arm. Geoffrey
:13:52. > :13:56.Johnson was laid off one year ago. It's believed he went back to his
:13:56. > :14:00.old workplace to confront a former colleague. In the mayhem,
:14:00. > :14:04.bystanders described the scene. had multiple gunshot and one single
:14:04. > :14:10.gunshot and then it was pretty so real because there was no screaming,
:14:10. > :14:16.just slow motion. I saw girl running next to me going down and
:14:16. > :14:19.that could it be me. She was hit in the leg. Hopefully, she will be OK.
:14:20. > :14:24.It is several hours since the gunmen opened fire and this is
:14:24. > :14:29.still an active crime scene. Police have cordoned off several blocks of
:14:29. > :14:33.midtown Manhattan. Over my shoulder is the Empire State Building. Very
:14:33. > :14:38.popular with tourists at this time of year. The area, though, also has
:14:38. > :14:43.a lot of office blocks. Making this normally and normally bustling part
:14:43. > :14:48.of town. Michael Bloomberg, an outspoken critic of gun-control
:14:48. > :14:52.laws in the USA, spoke from the scene. New York City is the safest
:14:52. > :14:56.big city in the country and we are going to have a record low number
:14:56. > :15:00.of murders this year but we are not immune to the national problem of
:15:00. > :15:09.gun violence. Officials say the incident had nothing to do with
:15:09. > :15:12.The US Anti-Doping Agency says it has stripped cycling's Lance
:15:12. > :15:16.Armstrong of his Tour de France titles and has issued a lifetime
:15:16. > :15:20.ban from the sport. It follows his decision not to fight charges,
:15:20. > :15:23.brought by agency, that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
:15:23. > :15:33.Armstrong said he had grown weary of what he has described as a witch
:15:33. > :15:36.
:15:36. > :15:41.hunt against him. Lance Armstrong's White story is
:15:41. > :15:44.one of the most dramatic sport has ever known. He won the Tour de
:15:44. > :15:49.France seven times in a row, elevating cycling to new levels and
:15:49. > :15:52.his own profile to the American A- list. It was all the more
:15:52. > :15:59.extraordinary because he did it after overcoming life-threatening
:15:59. > :16:04.cancer. But his career and reputation have been dogged by
:16:04. > :16:08.persistent allegations that his achievements were fuelled by banned
:16:08. > :16:15.performance-enhancing drugs. Claims he has always denied. A I try not
:16:15. > :16:22.to let it bother me and just keeps rolling right along. I know what I
:16:22. > :16:27.know and I know what I do and it did. That is not going to change.
:16:28. > :16:33.Today, it did change. Faced with a raft of charges from the US Anti-
:16:33. > :16:37.Doping Agency, backed up by as many as 10 the former team-mates, he and
:16:37. > :16:40.characteristically through in the towel. In a statement he said,
:16:40. > :16:46.there comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, enough is
:16:46. > :16:50.enough. For me, that time is now it. Armstrong says this is not an
:16:50. > :16:56.admission of guilt. Despite that, the US Anti-Doping Agency has
:16:56. > :17:00.banned him for life and stripped him of his titles. Those can be
:17:00. > :17:05.appeared but for the man leading the fight against doping, the
:17:05. > :17:09.implications for a Lance Armstrong are clear. Those are very serious
:17:09. > :17:16.charges and it means he is effectively acknowledging that they
:17:16. > :17:20.had substance and that allows you, under the rules, to impose
:17:20. > :17:24.sanctions. Cycling has become accustomed to dealing with major
:17:24. > :17:28.doping scandals but the Lance Armstrong case may be the biggest
:17:28. > :17:32.blow yet to its credibility. The sport says it has cleaned up its
:17:32. > :17:37.act and in this country at least, that is crucial because it is
:17:37. > :17:42.enjoying an unprecedented surge in success and popularity. One of
:17:42. > :17:46.plants and Strang's former team mates says cycling has changed.
:17:46. > :17:54.Just watching the Tour de France, it is a completely different style
:17:54. > :17:58.of racing from 10 years ago. many, Lance Armstrong will always
:17:58. > :18:03.be known as one of sport's biggest heroes and one today's developments
:18:03. > :18:07.leave a lot of questions unanswered, his reputation has been damaged,
:18:07. > :18:10.perhaps beyond repair. Our top story tonight: Anders
:18:10. > :18:18.Breivik who murdered 77 people in Norway last year is sentenced to
:18:18. > :18:21.the maximum of 21 years although he may never be released.
:18:21. > :18:31.Coming up: The man behind the Paralympics - how a Dr's work with
:18:31. > :18:32.
:18:32. > :18:36.injured World War Two soldiers led to the start of the Games.
:18:36. > :18:39.Coming up: The English summer it takes its grip again. The first
:18:39. > :18:48.one-day international between England and South Africa is
:18:48. > :18:50.abandoned due to rain. The Duke of Edinburgh will not
:18:50. > :18:53.attend the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games next week although
:18:53. > :18:57.Buckingham Palace said he continues to recover well from the infection
:18:57. > :18:59.which kept him in hospital for five nights. Today, the first of the
:18:59. > :19:02.ceremonial cauldrons for the Paralympics was lit in London.
:19:02. > :19:12.Others will follow in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff over the bank
:19:12. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:20.holiday weekend. Paralysed from the chest down, it
:19:20. > :19:24.took Claire Lomas 16 days to complete this year's London
:19:24. > :19:33.Marathon. This morning it was a shorter journey to bring the pan
:19:33. > :19:40.and put flame to the host city. do you put that into words? So
:19:40. > :19:45.proud and I feel very privileged to be asked to be involved in today. I
:19:45. > :19:50.have a lot of respect for those you are going to come back bringing the
:19:50. > :19:54.medals for Team GB again! The UK is still suffering from withdrawal
:19:54. > :20:00.symptoms from the Olympics, the Paralympics could be the antidote.
:20:00. > :20:04.More than 4000 athletes are set to compete. We had a few days of the
:20:04. > :20:09.blues after the Olympic Games but people sooner quickly snapped out
:20:09. > :20:14.of it and recognised we were only halfway through. Paralympic sport
:20:14. > :20:18.is just mind-blowing when you watch it. With the flame now in the heart
:20:18. > :20:22.of the capital, the countdown to the Paralympics is truly under way.
:20:22. > :20:29.At Paralympics that organisers hope will be the most high profile ever
:20:29. > :20:33.staged. One that it is hoped will transcend sport and help change
:20:33. > :20:38.attitudes towards disabled people. The torch relay is a crucial part
:20:38. > :20:40.of the mission to get the public fully engaged. London is the first
:20:40. > :20:45.of the cauldron Whiting's from the flames which were created on the
:20:45. > :20:50.highest peaks of the UK. Over the next few days there will be similar
:20:50. > :20:54.events in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff. Before flames will then
:20:54. > :20:57.come together at Stoke Mandeville on Tuesday when the start of a 24
:20:58. > :21:03.hour really to Stratford. This afternoon at the English game was
:21:03. > :21:08.taken to the preparations for this week's Notting Hill Carnival. Then
:21:08. > :21:12.on to the Houses of Parliament. The Paralympic symbol now hangs from
:21:12. > :21:16.Tower Bridge, just five days and counting before the next great
:21:16. > :21:26.festival of sport. Later we will hear about the man
:21:26. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:35.who conceived the Paralympics. A man who killed six people
:21:35. > :21:37.including his wife and two young children in a knife attack in
:21:37. > :21:40.Jersey has been convicted of manslaughter. During his trial the
:21:40. > :21:42.court heard Damian Rzeszowski, a Polish National, was affected by
:21:42. > :21:46.what was described as a psychotic symptoms.
:21:46. > :21:51.Damian Rzeszowski, described in court as a hard-working family
:21:51. > :21:55.living man, and man who, one summer afternoon, killed all those closest
:21:55. > :22:01.to him. A Kent only imagine the grief of the families who have lost
:22:01. > :22:06.their loved ones in such brutal circumstances. The events of 14th
:22:06. > :22:11.August 1920 11 have left a very sad, indelible mark on Jersey's history.
:22:11. > :22:15.When emergency services answered frantic calls to the flat innocent
:22:15. > :22:22.Hillier, they were faced with an horrific scene. This is a police
:22:22. > :22:25.plan of the flat. Damian Rzeszowski attacked his father in law in the
:22:25. > :22:34.bedroom and then moved into the lounge in search of his wife and
:22:34. > :22:38.children. Armed with kitchen knives, he turned on his father not as he
:22:39. > :22:45.watched TV. His two-year-old son, his five-year-old daughter and her
:22:45. > :22:49.friend, both aged five, were attacked as they played. Their
:22:49. > :22:55.mother was found critically injured in the street as was Damian
:22:55. > :22:59.Rzeszowski's wife. The first police officers to arrive here found him
:22:59. > :23:02.inside the flat with what were clearly self-inflicted stab wounds.
:23:02. > :23:07.The prosecution rejected his claims that he could remember little of
:23:07. > :23:12.what has happened and he had suffered some mental breakdown. He
:23:12. > :23:15.was a man whose desire for revenge at his wife's affair had exploded
:23:16. > :23:19.into violence. Expert witnesses for the defence argued that his
:23:19. > :23:25.depression over the marriage break- up had made him and mentally
:23:25. > :23:28.unstable and in the end, the court agreed with that view. Outside, a
:23:28. > :23:34.police liaison officer read a statement from the family. This
:23:34. > :23:39.tragedy is even more painful as we have lost our children and
:23:39. > :23:48.grandchildren are. Knowing that we will never be able to play with
:23:48. > :23:52.them again or cuddled them and we can never talk to them again and it
:23:52. > :23:57.makes the pain unbearable. Damian Rzeszowski will be sentenced in a
:23:58. > :24:00.few weeks' time. He has twice tried to take his own life and is now
:24:00. > :24:03.facing the consequences of those terrible minutes on a summer
:24:03. > :24:06.afternoon. The number of measles cases in
:24:06. > :24:09.England and Wales almost doubled in the first half of this year,
:24:09. > :24:12.compared to the same period last year, according to the Health
:24:12. > :24:16.Protection Agency. In total there were 964 cases from January to June
:24:16. > :24:19.with ongoing outbreaks in Merseyside and Sussex. The Health
:24:19. > :24:26.Promotion Agency says it is vital children receive both doses of the
:24:26. > :24:29.MMR vaccination before the start of the new school year.
:24:29. > :24:34.As we have heard, the Paralympics gets under way next week but how
:24:34. > :24:38.did it all begin? It can be traced back to a German Jew who fled the
:24:38. > :24:40.Nazis before the outbreak of the Second World War. When Dr Ludwig
:24:40. > :24:44.Guttmann arrived in Britain, he started a spinal unit for injured
:24:44. > :24:52.servicemen. He soon realised that sport could help rebuild their
:24:52. > :24:56.lives and from that evolved the Paralympics.
:24:56. > :25:00.Modern Paralympian is in training at Stoke Mandeville stadium,
:25:00. > :25:07.members of a global sports movement which started here at a makeshift
:25:07. > :25:13.wartime hospital, thanks to the energy and vision of one man. Dr Dr
:25:13. > :25:18.Ludwig Guttmann was a Jewish refugee who fled Germany and helped
:25:18. > :25:23.found the spinal injuries unit. For over 30 years, he inspired his
:25:23. > :25:30.patients, many ex servicemen, to use sport to transform their lives.
:25:30. > :25:37.We started with the soldiers in the war, a simple games first like
:25:37. > :25:42.darts into the wall. We then had snooker and then restarted skittles
:25:42. > :25:49.and then I saw of course how these men reacted, not only physically,
:25:49. > :25:53.but psychologically. On the opening day of the London Olympics in 1948,
:25:53. > :25:56.he organised the first Stoke Mandeville Games. By the 1960s,
:25:56. > :26:03.disabled sports have been accepted into the Olympic movement as the
:26:03. > :26:11.Paralympics. Philip Lewis played table tennis as a Paralympian and
:26:12. > :26:20.was treated by Dr Ludwig Goodman. He was quite a severe man with his
:26:20. > :26:26.staff and with the paraplegics. But, behind it all, there was that sort
:26:26. > :26:36.of tremendous kindness. He made you realise that he wanted to do the
:26:36. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:42.best for you. But you had to put your bit. Here at Stoke Mandeville,
:26:42. > :26:47.be treated many of Britain's Paralympian as and many others who
:26:47. > :26:52.years ago would have been written off as incurable and left to die.
:26:52. > :26:55.The spinal injuries unit here is one part of his legacy. Another
:26:55. > :26:59.part is a commitment to helping disabled people fulfil their
:26:59. > :27:07.potential, whether as athletes, individuals or as members of
:27:07. > :27:10.society. One of Britain's greatest modern Paralympian is says disabled
:27:10. > :27:15.people told Dr Ludwig Goodman agreed debt. He believed disabled
:27:15. > :27:20.people should live normal lives and I think it was his persistence at a
:27:20. > :27:23.time when not so people thought he was slightly mad thinking that
:27:23. > :27:27.disabled people could contribute and he just stood up to everyone.
:27:27. > :27:31.He is now commemorated by a new statute at Stoke Mandeville, a man
:27:31. > :27:35.with a passionate belief in the power of sport to restore it not as
:27:35. > :27:45.disabled people's fitness, but their self-esteem and their dignity
:27:45. > :27:49.
:27:49. > :27:54.as well. There is rain around right now
:27:54. > :28:00.across the more the southern and central parts of your cake. It will
:28:00. > :28:08.edge its way further northwards. The showers across Scotland will
:28:08. > :28:14.dwindle tonight. Not desperately cold with temperatures of 14 or 15
:28:14. > :28:18.degrees. A lot of rain around tomorrow and gusty winds along the
:28:18. > :28:23.south coast. Otherwise, the winners will be fairly light which means
:28:23. > :28:29.that the rain all be a slow moving. There will be a few lucky places
:28:29. > :28:37.which avoid the reins. Northern Ireland and western Scotland are
:28:37. > :28:43.best placed to see some sunshine at. Some thunder and lightning and
:28:43. > :28:48.maybe he'll have mixed in. Southernmost counties are England
:28:48. > :28:54.will have a brisk wind to add to the disappointing feel of things on
:28:55. > :28:59.Saturday afternoon. The low- pressure responsible for the wet
:28:59. > :29:03.weather just eases out into the North Sea as we going to Sunday.
:29:03. > :29:07.They will be a few showers left behind, Sunday looks like the best
:29:07. > :29:10.day. Some sunshine, lighter winds and although temperatures don't
:29:10. > :29:18.look spectacular, it will feel rather more pleasant in the