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We're in northern France marking the centenary | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
A crowd of 10,000 - including heads of state | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
and government - and members of the royal family - | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
joined descendants of those who fought 100 years ago. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
They heard the words of those who went over the top on July 1, | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
1916, a day of huge losses for British and French forces, | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
trying to break through German defences. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
I was frightened, I don't mind telling you. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
You did a job out there and I never realised that there was | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
The day was also marked across the UK with guns fired | :00:47. | :00:56. | |
to signal the time when the troops were ordered into battle. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Also on the programme this evening: The Government pledge | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
to cut the budget surplus by 2020 is scrapped. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
The Chancellor says post Brexit we can't afford it. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Michael Gove pledges to leave the EU single market, as he sets out why | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
he believes he should be the next Prime Minister. | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
And they were last in a major tournament in the 1950s, | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
but tonight, could Wales make it through to the semis of the Euros? | :01:22. | :01:33. | |
At 6. 30pm on BBC News, it's euro 2016 Sportsday with much more build | :01:34. | :01:43. | |
up to that Wales game and also a update from Wimbledon on the fiveth | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
day at the All England Club. Good evening from Thiepval | :01:46. | :02:05. | |
in northern France, where earlier today a crowd of 10,000 came | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
together, including heads of state and government and members | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
of the royal family, to mark the centenary | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
of the Battle of the Somme, It was the bloodiest battle | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
in the history of the British armed forces and the battle that came | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
to define the brutality and horror The ceremony was held in the shadow | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
of the famous memorial here at Thiepval, which bears | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
the names of 72,000 British and South African troops, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
whose bodies were never found. The Prince of Wales, | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
David Cameron and President Hollande were among those who took part | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
in the presence of hundreds of descendants of those who fought, | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
as our special correspondent, It is the largest First World War | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
memorial anywhere, its scale commensurate with the loss of life | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
in these fields. It is a memorial to | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
the missing of the Somme. The names of 72,000 men with no | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
known graves are carved here. Its plea to posterity, | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
to us, is plain - never forget. Heads of state and government, | :03:06. | :03:17. | |
present and future, listened to Clive Adlam as he read | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
the words of his father, Lieutenant Tom Adlam, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
who fought and survived. You did a job out there | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
and I never realised that there was anything | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
unusual about it. There was a job to be done | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
and you just got on and did it. I was more frightened going up | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
to the trenches, sitting, I was very frightened then, | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
very frightened indeed. We were taught we had to be | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
an example to our men and that, if we went forward, | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
they would go with you, you see. And you'd sort of lose your sense | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
of fear, thinking The nurse Olive Dent | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
treated the wounded. Here, her words described that | :04:04. | :04:19. | |
first week on the Somme. I am too tired to sleep, | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
too tired to shut out of sight and mind the passionate appeal | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
of two dying eyes and the low faint whisper of, "Sister, | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
am I going to die?" A week after Britain voted to leave | :04:39. | :04:47. | |
the European Union, David Cameron took his place beneath the memorial | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
to the enduring alliance between the UK and France, | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
and described a moment of mutual respect between enemies as a British | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
major risked his life to rescue a wounded soldier | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
from no man's land. He walked as though | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
he was on parade. The Germans never fired a shot | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
at him as he went. They never fired a shot | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
as he went back. And they cheered him as he lifted | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
the man onto his shoulders. The poppy and, in France, | :05:19. | :05:29. | |
the blue cornflower are the emblems of the sorrow of war marked | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
in two minutes of silence. In these moments of remembrance, | :05:34. | :05:50. | |
the dead cry out their warning In the words of the poet | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
Siegfried Sassoon, recited here today, "Do you ever stop | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
and ask, 'Will it all happen again?' Look down and swear | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
by the slain of the war that There have been many events | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
organised today to mark the centenary of the first day | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
of the Battle of the Somme - some in France, but many | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
in different parts of The national commemoration in the UK | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
was held in Manchester, reflecting the fact that | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
so many of the so-called Pals' Battalions, the volunteers | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
who joined up with friends and colleagues, came | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
from the north of England. So let's join our correspondent, | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Judith Moritz, who's Yes and those men, known as the Pals | :06:35. | :06:50. | |
came from towns and cities like Preston, Grimsby and here in | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Manchester. This city took time out today to stop, to remember that | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
moment 100 years ago. The events of the day began very early this | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
morning in London. 100 seconds of gunfire. To mark 100 | :07:01. | :07:18. | |
years of history. The noise of battle reverberating and then fading | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
to the silence of remembrance. At 7. 30am exactly whistles blown to | :07:22. | :07:49. | |
significant fall the very moment the order was given to send the men over | :07:50. | :07:59. | |
the top. For Manchester, the Somme has special significance. A | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
cathedral service honoured the Pals' Battalions of northern Britain, | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
groups of work mates, friends and neighbours, who signed up to serve | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
together. The boys in khaki were friendly, cheery and full of pluck. | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
The goodbyes were manly and warm. There was a sense of hope and | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
exhilaration in the air. Parting is such sweet sorrow. On this day, we | :08:25. | :08:37. | |
remember before you all who experienced the battle on the Somme, | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
those who faced the terrible waste and devastation. Outside, a thousand | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
people marched in memory, veterans paraded with volunteers and amongst | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
them walked Louis Roscol, whose father Alf fought at the front after | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
joining up in Manchester. I'm proud to be here and to see them all | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
around. My dad was a retiring sort of chap. He wasn't the sort of guy | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
to push himself forward. So I feel in a way I'm doing it for him. I | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
want to demonstrate that he was there and that he was very much part | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
of it. Connecting the past to the present here in Manchester and | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
across the UK today, the soldiers of the Somme have been rubbing | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
shoulders with commuters and shoppers, bringing a flavour of 1916 | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
into the 21st century. The Somme is sown into the identity of this city | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
and into the family histories of many thousands of people who turned | :09:46. | :09:46. | |
out to remember it. The site here at Thiepval is visited | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
by around 300,000 people a year. It wouldn't be at all surprising | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
if those numbers didn't rise, It really is an impressive site | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
on the Somme, looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
Commission. We'll be back at Thiepval later | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
in the programme, but, for now, The Chancellor, George Osborne, | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
has abandoned one of his principal economic targets, that of restoring | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Government finances It's been one of the Chancellor's | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
key austerity pledges, but Mr Osborne said the UK must now | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
be realistic in the light Our economics editor, | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Kamal Ahmed, reports. He said it again. We will fix the | :10:25. | :10:36. | |
roof when the sun is shining. And again... We are going to fix the | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
roof when the sun shines. And again... Fixing the roof when the | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
sun is shining. Repairing the public finances while the economy was in | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
better shape. Today, a very different tone, many predict the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
post Brexit sunshine will be weaker for the UK economy. Time to rethink | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
that 2020 pledge. It's incredibly important we maintain fiscal | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
credibility, that we are tough on the deficit while being realistic | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
about achieving the surplus by the end of the decade. That is exactly | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
what our fiscal rules provided for. They explicitly acknowledged the | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
impact of a significant negative shock. The Chancellor insisted he | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
wasn't breaking his own budget rules. The austerity target on | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
cutting public spending and raising taxes was flexible. It does mean | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
there is now likely to be an easing of the Government's long-term | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
austerity plan. Since 2010, the Government has cut public spending | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
by 10%. The amount the Government boar rows has fallen from ?137 | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
billion a year to 75 billion, that's a lot of cuts and tax rises. Now the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Chancellor has suggested ending the Government's central target of | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
balancing the books by 2020, which could mean fewer cuts over the next | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
few years. In some ways I'm pleased, he's acknowledged the reality that | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
it's not working. What we need now is a clear investment programme so | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
we can counter the recessionary trend we have in the economy, but | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
also, we can start investing in the areas that felt left behind and | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
therefore voted to leave. Pain deferred for the country is not pain | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
cancelled. Chancellors have choices about what they do into the future, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
but it looks like we'll be borrowing quite a lot more in 2020 than we | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
thought we would be. That will have to be paid down at some point. It | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
may well be that we get more austerity through the 2020s. It may | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
not be just one decade, but a decade-and-a-half of austerity. | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
I think reality bit today for the Chancellor and his officials here at | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
the Treasury. An economic reality and political reality. Few | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
economists would want to be raising taxes and cutting spending in the | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
teeth of a possible contraction in the economy. And politically, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Theresa May, the favourite to be the next Prime Minister, has already | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
said she wants to consign George Osborne's pledges on spending to the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
waste paper basket. Frankly, George Osborne had nowhere else to go. He's | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
been the hard hat, high vis Chancellor, warning of economic | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
shock, but we haven't had any post referendum economic data yet and the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
markets have recovered their pre-referendum mojo. Whatever | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
happens Mr Osborne wants to be prepared for fixing that tricky | :13:25. | :13:25. | |
roof. Michael Gove has spoken | :13:26. | :13:26. | |
of his "burning desire" to transform Britain at the launch of his bid | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
to be the next Tory leader. A key figure in the Leave campaign, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
he vowed to leave the EU single market and to cut EU immigration | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
if he wins. But already there've | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
been calls for Mr Gove to stand down as a candidate | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
from within the Conservative Party. Our deputy political editor, | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
John Pienaar, has the latest. Doesn't look like a political | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
assassin, but he is to a lot of Tory The man who stabbed his friend | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
Boris Johnson in the back. I'll be giving a speech at 11am this | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
morning at Policy Exchange and I look forward | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
to seeing you there. Charming as ever, but launching his | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
own leadership campaign, he painted his main rival | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
for the Premiership, Theresa May, as the safe, | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
maybe even dull option. He was out to win Tory | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
heads and hearts. What this country needs | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
is a Prime Minister, not just with a cool head in office, | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
but a heart burning with a desire for change, not just a plan to make | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
do and mend, but a vision to transform our country | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
for the better. His cheerleading section of MPs is | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
smaller than Theresa May's though. Some can't forgive him | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
for what they see as treachery, backing Boris Johnson, | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
then deserting and running himself. I stand here and I'm | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
standing for the leadership, not as a result of | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
calculation, certainly not I'm standing because I | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
have a burning desire There was plenty of policy, | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
a points system to pick and choose No need for Scottish independence, | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
more devolution of power instead. To build that new union, | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
the United Kingdom matters so much And another ?100 million | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
a week for the NHS. I'll put my heart and soul | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
into making sure that the care your son, daughter or mum or dad receives | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
is the same I would want You were very clear that | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Boris Johnson does not have what it Does Theresa May have what it takes | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
to be Prime Minister? Theresa did not argue | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
for and did not put the case for Britain | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
leaving the European Union. That is a fundamental division | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
of principle between the two of us. Your assassination of Boris Johnson, | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
if I can put it that way, has cost you a lot in kindness | :15:45. | :15:46. | |
and respect among your colleagues. You'll know that. | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
Can you possibly recover from that? If you're the sort of person | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
who worries about personal criticism, if you're the sort | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
of person who allows the attacks from others to get under your skin, | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
you shouldn't be leader. Theresa May has strong support | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
in a contest where Tory leaders will pick their leader | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
and Britain's Prime Minister in He has proved himself to be | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
a very devicive figure. I don't think he's conducted | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
himself very well. I would hope that he might now take | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
the right decision over Among MPs, Theresa May | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
is the favourite. She's the safe pair | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
of hands candidate. That may appeal to Conservatives, | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
with so many doubts The perception of treachery | :16:30. | :16:31. | |
will hurt Michael Gove. It will make it harder for him | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
to touch Tory hearts and minds, after his successful operation | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
to destroy one of Britain's most Today Boris Johnson | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
was pondering his future, thousands have gathered | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
in Northern France for a memorial service marking 100 years | :16:47. | :17:06. | |
since the start of the And, still to come, | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
the farmers asking - Away from the Euros, it's been a | :17:09. | :17:24. | |
rainy day at Wimbledon but two British players have set out to see | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
if they can pull off a couple of major upsets. | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
In under two hours' time, Wales faces its biggest football | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
That was the last time they were in a major tournament. | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
Tonight they face Belgium, and the prize is a place | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
in the semi-finals of the European Championships. | :17:48. | :17:48. | |
There must be some very excited fans there. | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
Excited, elated, I don't think the rain here in Lille is going to | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
banish any of those emotions. Wales have achieved something pretty rare | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
in tournament for the old. They have looked as if they are enjoying | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
themselves on and off the pitch. Can they go one step further and surpass | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
the achievements of the team of 1958 and find themselves one game away | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
from a final? Loud, proud and ecstatic | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
still to be in Europe. Few Welsh fans dared | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
believe their team could make it this far but diaries have been | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
cleared, life savings spent. It's been 58 years | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
since the last time. You've got to make | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
the effort, really. The atmosphere is amazing, | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
absolutely amazing. Cancellations at the Eurotunnel left | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
fans the wrong side of the Channel, There were very few Welsh fans | :18:46. | :18:55. | |
there to see the last and only time In the 1958 World Cup, | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
they also made it to the quarterfinals, only for a rising | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
star to send them home. Wales' own Galactico knows this | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
is the biggest game since, but if there is pressure, | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
he seems to take in his stride. It's amazing to be in | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
the quarterfinals of the European Championships, | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
first and foremost. But to be the only home nation | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
left in the competition For Gareth Bale's team-mates, | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
Lille's Stade Pierre-Mauroy is the biggest stage they have | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
ever played on. But they may feel their opponents | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
have something of a home advantage. The Belgian border is just | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
eight miles away. Ranked second in the world, | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
their team has an array of stars. Some of their performances suggest | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
they are sometimes better on paper Even if they are not | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
the sum of their parts, Eden Hazard was ravenous | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
against Hungary. But, like many of the favourites | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
in this tournament, the weight of expectation is heavy | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
on their shoulders. It's a game now, or you go on, | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
or you stay in the tournament, and you feel the pressure | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
and attention. Novices at tournament football, | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
Wales have shown it's OK to simply Where England failed | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
and Northern Ireland faltered, Wales have shown team spirit can | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
take you a long way. Hywel Griffiths, BBC News, | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
Lille. And Wales versus Belgium | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
is here on BBC One - A man who raped and murdered | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
a 15-year-old schoolgirl after holding her prisoner has been | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
jailed for life - and will spend Kayleigh Haywood was battered | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
to death on farmland in Leicestershire after being | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
groomed on Facebook and other Stephen Beadman lured her | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
to the home of his neighbour Luke Harlow, who was | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
also jailed for life. The National Farmers Union | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
is calling on the government to match the support farms receive | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
from the European Union - Many farmers are heavily dependent | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
on subsidies from Brussels and there's huge uncertainty | :21:23. | :21:36. | |
about what Brexit could mean for the whole agriculture sector | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
as Sian Lloyd reports: Jacob Anthony, one of a new | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
generation of farmers This 23-year-old says he is looking | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
forward to a future for British Let's look at the whole world | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
is a bigger picture. Let's try and infiltrate | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
some markets in Asia, Let's get in there and get | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
new contracts sorted where we can get paid a better price | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
for our fantastic produce The face of farming has been | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
revolutionised in a lifetime. It said the result of this | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
referendum will see the biggest shake-up in the industry | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
in a generation. For the past 40 years, | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
Europe has been woven Through regulation, | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
its subsidies and access We've got all this instability, | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
what is happening politically and economically, | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
it's going to affect Livestock farmer | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
Caroline Jenkins feels uncertain European subsidies have been | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
a lifeline for this hill farm about where the industry goes | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
from here. If we're not sure about what loans | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
are going to be available to us, what EU money is going | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
to be available to us, how can we try to put | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
this in some kind of investment? What is going to happen when we have | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
trade tariffs put on our stock? Are Europe going to | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
want to buy our stock? But change is on its way | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
and at a meeting of farmers leaders today, the talk was of shaping | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
a new approach for British farming. It's going to be so | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
important that we can deliver and agricultural, domestic | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
policy that is there, fit for purpose that can deliver | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
competitiveness, innovation, profitable farming so farmers | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
can go ahead and produce the food But a recognition too that | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
Europe is likely to remain their biggest trading partner | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
for some time to come. Sian Lloyd, BBC News, | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
Bridgend. More now on the 100th | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
anniversary of the start Huw is in Thiepval | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
in northern France. It's true that this memorial | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
at Thiepval dominates the landscape for miles around - | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
but there are plenty of other British and Irish cemeteries | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
and memorials dotted Nearly one in ten of the soldiers | :23:53. | :23:53. | |
who died on the first day of the battle were from | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
the 36th Ulster Division - and this afternoon members | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
of their families were among those who gathered at the | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
Ulster Memorial Tower, around half a mile away, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
built close to the front line Our Ireland correspondent | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
Chris Buckler watched the ceremony. The Ulster Tower stands close | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
to what was, a century ago, Here, a generation only learning | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
of war came together with relatives | :24:23. | :24:32. | |
who knew the true horror of it. Instead of the dreadful noise | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
of battle, today there were the sombre signs of remembrance | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
for Irish soldiers. Many of the body still lie | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
in this once-contested land. The loss never forgotten | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
in the towns and villages they left. 1,600 yards was the front | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
of the Ulster division and The casualties included | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
men injured but those who followed them out of | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
the trenches soon discovered I think from the second attack, | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
the men looking out across no man's land | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
and seeing their mates lying dead and wounded | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
it must have been a horrendous Some of the trenches | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
are still here in these woods and it was from here | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
that battle was fought. Line after line of German troops | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
were waiting, not that you could see them, | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
unless you put your head They came over the top of | :25:34. | :25:35. | |
the trenches, somewhere around here. Quite near where the | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
cemetery is right now. James Quigley left Ireland | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
before the island had a border. He would never return to Donegal | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
to see his country changed. The whole village would have lost | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
their sons of a certain age. You know, of those 200 | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
who were with Jimmy, all from the same part | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
of East Donegal, so a whole, almost | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
a generation of boys is lost. It scares me, obviously, | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
that if I was living back in that time | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
I could have headed off to war soon. It's easier for me just not to think | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
about the whole war but I think it's What happened on the edge | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
of Thiepval wood In Belfast, there's a pride | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
in keeping a connection It is where deals to division went | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
to serve and for so many that Evening here in France, it's very | :26:33. | :27:01. | |
calm. The crowds have gone. It's lovely. There were 600 children, | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
young people lined up at these gravestones, 300 from the UK, 300 | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
from France. They placed flowers at these gravestones. Crucially, the | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
weather was good because we have had to wrench will reign over the last | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
few days, including today, we were very pleased that we had good | :27:25. | :27:27. | |
You were not alone. We've had some torrential rain across the poppy | :27:28. | :27:45. | |
fields of Lincolnshire. Last year on the 1st of July we had | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
record-breaking heat with 37 Fahrenheit. Showers Silver | :27:50. | :27:57. | |
threatening. Most will die back towards the coast. Temperatures down | :27:58. | :28:05. | |
into low double digits, maybe single figures. Starting with sunshine | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
across central and eastern areas. But like the last couple of days, | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
showers blown in by an easterly breeze will continue to penetrate | :28:15. | :28:22. | |
inland. Some of them heavy with top temperatures around 14 or 15 in | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland. In England and Wales, down into the | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
South West, into the afternoon, showers becoming fewer and lighter | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
in nature. We might see temperatures squeezed between 19-20d. Hopefully, | :28:37. | :28:46. | |
the showers will be few and far between at Wimbledon. Into Sunday, a | :28:47. | :28:53. | |
frontal system could bring cloud and drizzly rain into the south coast | :28:54. | :29:01. | |
first thing. Generally speaking you should have fewer showers across | :29:02. | :29:06. | |
England and Wales. A smattering in Northern Ireland and Scotland. We | :29:07. | :29:15. | |
can't rule out a fuchsia as. Into the weekend, cool and breezy with | :29:16. | :29:16. | |
sunny spells and scattered showers. That's all from BBC News at Six | :29:17. | :29:21. | |
in northern France on the day | :29:22. | :29:23. | |
we remembered the one million men killed or injured | :29:24. | :29:25. | |
during the Battle of the Somme. | :29:26. | :29:28. |