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A century after the start of the Battle of Passchendaele,

one of the bloodiest of the First World War,

commemorations take place in Belgium.

Remembering the fallen - Prince Charles leads a service

at Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres to honour those who

We remember it not only for the rain that fell,

the mud that weighed down the living and swallowed the dead,

but also for the courage and bravery of the men who fought here.

Among the guests today - descendants of those who fought

here in the fields of Flanders, where hundreds of thousands

18 years in jail for the Royal Marine who supplied

Ciaran Maxwell as a proud commando - but secretly he was making bombs

for a terror group in Northern Ireland.

Undoubtedly I believe that by being caught now,

Number Ten tries to stamp out Cabinet bickering over

post-Brexit immigration, but is the row over

Are you paying too much for your bank overdraft?

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A step towards safe standing in the Premier League,

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Good evening from Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium, where commemorations

have been taking place to mark 100 years since the start

one of the bloodiest battles of World War I.

Over three months, British and Allied troops clashed

with German soldiers in what became known as the Battle

In the fields around this cemetery, around 500,000 soldiers,

on both sides of the war, were killed, wounded

As the battle began, torrential rain fell.

Some are buried here. Many others were never found.

But the names of many are etched in stone

There are few more peaceful places than the gentle slope of Tyne Cot.

Today, among its white headstones, families look back across the years

The battle we know today as Passchendaele would

We remember it not only for the rain that fell,

the mud that weighed down the living and swallowed the dead,

but also for the courage and bravery of the men who fought here.

Tyne Cot overlooks the rolling farmland, streams and fields that

once formed no man's land - a score of liquid mud

Bert Fearns joined the Lancashire Fusiliers

Bert Fearns began his attack here, beside the German bunker that now

The Lancashire Fusiliers made their way uphill

And a spot which Bert later said he would never forget.

We came across what would be about 100 yards square of bodies

that had been caught in an artillery shrapnel attack.

Private Edward Michael Baton, 13th platoon, D Company,

45th Battalion, Australian Imperial...

Private James Monroe, South African Infantry Regiment.

My great, great grandfather, Rifleman Stanley Dorrit...

My great, great uncle, Private Walter Stevenson,

Voices and stories that inspire acts of remembrance.

Like the story of Captain Noel Chavasse -

surgeon and Olympic athlete, he was awarded the Victoria Cross

His great, great niece chose to carry a daily

Perhaps we won't have such big Government-funded

events as this today, but what we will have are stories

that we can pass down the generations in a way that

For something that is so significant.

Flanders means blood and scraps of human bodies.

The story of Passchendaele has been told for 100 years.

Tyne Cot is likely to remain a place of pilgrimage

Among the first over the top when the Battle of Passchendaele

began 100 years ago today were the Welsh Infantry.

Sian Lloyd has been talking to the relatives of two men who went

Marking the moment the battle began, 100 years ago.

Infantrymen of the 38th Welsh Division advanced through

3000 Welsh soldiers were killed or wounded within the

They were sent into battle with the words,

Some of those who made the ultimate sacrifice are buried here in this

cemetery, among them a 30-year-old Welsh poet.

Private Ellis Evans was better known by his pen name.

Inspired by the landscape around his home in Snowdonia, he was a

reluctant soldier, conscripted into service.

He never in his life had a rifle in his hand.

You might as well say he was going to the front

A few weeks later, a poem he had sent

from the front line won the highest honour in Wales,

the Chair of the National Eisteddfod.

His absence at the prize-giving ceremony came to

symbolise a lost generation felt by many farming communities.

All the cream of the young men had been killed.

For what? I don't know.

For me, it doesn't make sense whatsoever.

Hedd Wyn was honoured today in a special service.

Among those taking part, Sian Rees, who has

Her grandfather, Bert Hinder, was 19 when he joined up.

He survived the battle, and made his home in the

He was jolly, he was small, he had a terrible

jokes, and he always used to give me a sixpence on a Saturday morning.

Like so many, Bert never spoke about the horrors that he saw.

The miracle of the First World War is that

although so many millions died, that so many thousands returned home and

nobody knew what heroes they had been.

# Tell him we will meet again... #.

The Welsh Division did achieve their goal of pushing back the

Here in Tyne Cot there are almost 12,000 graves, but the vast majority

of them have no names. The men who are buried here were never

identified. Tyne Cot has come to symbolise the true horror of the

Battle of Passchendaele. We'll have more from Tyne Cot

Cemetery later in the programme. A serving Royal Marine who made

and stashed potentially deadly bombs for a dissident republican terror

group in Northern Ireland has been Ciaran Maxwell, who's now been

discharged, led a double life - a proud commando training hard

with his brothers-in-arms, while at the same time

supplying Continuity IRA Soon after he signed up,

Ciaran Maxwell became the enemy The seemingly proud commando

was an opponent of the On Facebook, he posted this

video of his training exercises, as he was supposedly

serving Queen and country. In reality, his six-year career

was spent servicing the dissident Irish republican

group the Continuity He was a very accomplished

and sophisticated bomb maker who could have supplied these

devices over a long period of time Undoubtedly, I believe that

by being caught now, Maxwell came from Northern

Ireland, and four of his by the Continuity IRA

in residential areas. No one was hurt, but Maxwell built

14 bombs, and he knew those he was working for were intent on attacking

police stations and killing officers It was near his hometown

of Larne that police uncovered the first of a series

of hides he used to store his lethal These included timers

and antipersonnel mines. Fertiliser recovered

here could have been the base for a bomb bigger than the one

that caused carnage at Enniskillen As a member of the Royal Marines'

elite 40 Commando Unit, Ciaran Maxwell was based

here in Somerset, and this is where he

was For years, without ever

being caught, he had been systematically stealing British

military ammunition and adding it to As well as the locations

in Northern Ireland, Maxwell had a further

network of hides in the West Country, close

to his home This picture was recovered

after his arrest. And he was smuggling it

into his base, along with LSD. A former Army officer

and Northern Ireland politician, Doug Beattie, is amazed

at what Maxwell got away with. We could have been

looking at a loss of life perpetrated by a serving

soldier of the British military. And if we don't have a look at our

security checks and how we vet people before they join

the military, then we are going The Ministry of Defence

said all personnel are subject to regular checks, but

Ciaran Maxwell, who once gave his fellow commandos a talk

on the security situation in Northern Ireland,

has severely embarrassed Former bosses of the charity

Kids Company could be disqualified from running businesses,

following a Government probe into its collapse.

The Insolvency Service says it's bringing court proceedings

against Camilla Batmanghelidjh In all, nine of the charity's former

directors are facing bans Kids Company closed in 2015,

despite receiving a grant Family and friends of Princess Diana

have urged Channel 4 not to betray her privacy

by broadcasting controversial tapes in which she

discussed her marriage. The footage, which first came

to light in 2001, was recorded by her voice coach during sessions

to help the late Princess Many of the recordings have already

been aired on US TV. Downing Street has stepped

in after days of public disagreement between Cabinet ministers over

what migration rules The Prime Minister's office insisted

freedom of movement will end Our Political Correspondent, Vicki

Young, is with me in the studio. Here we are, Vicki, at the start of

complex negotiations. And it feels as if ministers still don't agree on

what they want. Yes, it certainly is not the end of the argument. What

they do agree on is that freedom of movement ends at the end of March 20

19. That is really a technicality, that is the moment when Britain gets

back control of its borders. The odd, that is raging amongst cabinet

ministers and MPs is what they then do with this new power -- the

argument that is raging. The Chancellor is focused on jobs, and

the economy. He thinks that if you just stop EU workers coming here

overnight that would be bad for business. As he puts it, it all

could look very similar to what we have now. On the other side you have

Cabinet ministers who think that people who voted for Brexit will

feel betrayed if what happened is that nothing changes. They think

ministers should immediately try and get the numbers of immigrants down

to the tens of thousands, that promised that has been broken for so

many years. There certainly is no Cabinet agreement on any of this.

They are arguing in public, playing. Those are committed in public, which

shows a certain lack of discipline -- playing out those arguments in

public. Downing Street is failing to assert its authority at the moment.

Thanks, Vicki. The Government wants to recruit

an extra 21,000 mental health workers in England over

the next four years. The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt,

says it's time to end what he called between mental and physical

health services. But the Royal College of Nursing has

questioned whether enough new staff As a teenager, Hope had

a serious eating disorder. She thought she had got

through it after treatment. But last year, a family bereavement

triggered a relapse. She was offered therapy

but was told there would be a 12-week wait, news

she said was devastating. The way I was treated

last year wasn't right. There were points when

I did want to kind of end everything and when I never

thought I would ever be well again. that I was so angry

and annoyed at the system. When you cry out for help

and you already feel guilty because telling you that you shouldn't be

eating, so when you do call out for

help and you get turned away, no one does understand what you

are going through. To cut down waiting times and expand

mental health services, the government has announced

an expansion of the workforce. We have worked out how many more

doctors, nurses, therapists we need. We have worked out where we think

we can get them from. Like all plans, it will be

challenging to deliver it, but we are determined to hold true to our

promise to transform mental health

services. The plan for mental health

staffing involves an extra 21,000 posts in England

by the 2020 financial year. This will include children's

services, adult talking But official figures

show there was a fall of more than 5000 in the number

of mental health nurses in England between March 2010

and March this year. The move has been welcomed

by the Royal College of Nursing, though its leaders are sceptical

about what can be delivered. How are we going to do that

in such a short time scale? Other government policies

are actually getting So we already know we have

got one in ten post So we have got to fill

those as well as putting Critics argue that capping public

sector pay rises and abolishing free tuition costs for trainee nurses

in England will make it harder Hope says she has pulled through her

latest mental health setback. But she believes a lot more needs

to be done to ensure people get the care they need,

when they need it. Weigh top story this evening:

Commemorations take place to remember the dead on the 100th

anniversary of the battle of Passchendaele- one of the bloodiest

of the First World War. And, still to come: Donald Trump shows off his

new chief of staff - but can he bring order to

A blow for the World Championships that start in London on Friday,

David Rhodesia has pulled out. It may have happened

to you at some point, that moment when you realise you've

gone over your overdraft limit. Now the Financial Conduct Authority

is calling for fundamental changes to the way banks respond,

especially their high charges. Most recent figures show

a quarter of customers with an overdraft agreement went

beyond that limit. In total ?1.2 billion in charges

and fees were paid to banks for

unarranged overdrafts. Our Personal Finance Correspondent,

Simon Gompertz reports. VOICEOVER: Meet one of the millions

who has fallen into a financial trap which we are now told has no place

in modern banking. Oliver, telephone engineer from Milton Keynes, did not

just go into overdraft, he was allowed to go beyond his limit into

an arranged overdraft with extra charges, and it has happened several

times. I think the banks allow you to go over your overdraft

intentionally because they know they will make money from it. Personally,

you should not be allowed to go past it, banks should put processes in

place so that when you have reached your limit, you have reached your

limit, and then not charge you. If you stray into an arranged

overdraft, charges range up to ?10 a day, and ?15 each time your anchor

refuses or pays a direct debit, and up to 19% of interest to pay. So you

went just a bit more than pounds into the red 16 days, the RBS select

account would charge ?80, including one refused payment. And at

Santander, ?95. -- back out compare with the price of taking out a

payday loan, which you would expect to be a lot, some banks are charging

many times what payday lenders charge. The charges are very high on

an arranged overdrafts and secondly they are opaque and complex, people

do not necessarily recognise what they are paying because they are not

taking a conscious decision to say, let me take out an arranged

overdraft, that does not happen. Some banks have seen the writing on

the wall, Lloyds is telling its customers that from November, if

they stray over their overdraft limit, they will not face any fees

at all. It is a sign that profits from people going into the red are

going to have to be cut. The clock is now ticking for banks to change

their ways, as in industry, they have urged to make overdraft costs

zero, at least, but the CIA has promised a clamp-down by next

spring. -- the FCA. STUDIO: The High Court has blocked

an attempt to prosecute former Prime Minister Tony Blair over

the Iraq War. A former Iraqi general alleged

Mr Blair committed "the crime of aggression" by invading

Iraq in 2003. But the court said that no such

crime exists and ruled there was "no An optometrist who failed to spot

symptoms of a life-threatening brain condition in a child has

had her conviction for Court of Appeal judges agreed that

Honey Rose could not have been expected to know that

eight-year-old Vinnie Barker The footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has

appeared in court in Spain accused of defrauding the authorities

of millions of pounds in tax. Prosecutors claim the

Real Madrid player used Ronaldo allegedly evaded paying

more than ?13 million President Trump has sworn

in his new chief of staff, After a turbulent week

of infighting at the White House, Kelly is expected to bring a more

disciplined approach than his predecessor, Reince Priebus,

who was fired on Friday. I'm joined by our North

America Editor Jon Sopel. How much of this is about

a new chief of staff, how much about the man

at the top...? Great question, general John Kelly,

45 years in the Marine Corps, you would expect him to want to impose

that kind of discipline into the White House, proper chain of

command, processes for who goes to meetings, who gets to see the

president, who does not. All things lacking in the past six

months, but the real question is, will Donald Trump let him in that

discipline? If you think of when Donald Trump was a candidate, there

were various times where we saw a change of campaign manager, and

speculated about whether this would mark a change in the style of the

Donald Trump operation, it did not really, things carried on much as

they were. There will be those that say, the proof will be in the

pudding about whether Donald Trump will allow him the latitude to

impose this discipline. The other thing, Donald Trump seems to quite

like some of the chaos and noise and fast that surrounds him every single

day, and, you know, Donald Trump would say, if you look at the stock

market, which is at a record high, if you look at unemployment, at a

low for 17 years, things are going pretty well. If you are an American

not focused on the circus and pantomime here, and looking at what

is happening in wider America, you may be thinking, things are pretty

good. All right, thank you. Cricket, and a spectacular Moeen Ali

hat-trick helped England to a comfortable victory,

in the third test against It means England lead 2-1,

going into the final VOICEOVER: ?20 got you into day,

for the kids, a quid, the very best of Test

cricket was on offer, with luck, South Africa could not

rely on the weather, Next ball, Vernon Philander gave him

his next wicket. Batsman miscalculation. Now, Rowland Jones

going both barrels for the hat-trick. The debutant. Not for him

today. South Africa needed to bat out the day to draw, Dean Elgar

fought to 100. Chris Morris was out just before lunch, Moeen Ali was in

the game. That dismissal left England needing

just three more wickets to win the match and when they came, they came

in a rush. First, brave Dean Elgar fell... Rabada out first ball, nine

down, could Moeen Ali win the match with three wickets in three balls,

eventually, the computer, and the umpire, said yes. There is no bad

way to win a test but as finishes goes, this was one of the best. --

as finishes go. STUDIO: The playwright and Hollywood

actor Sam Shepard has died. He was nominated

for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yaegar in The Right Stuff,

and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for

his play Buried Child. We'll be rejoining Sophie in Belgium

shortly, but first, time for a look at the weather. There was some

sunshine to be had today, that is only half the story, also a lot of

showers out there, Northern Ireland there, and through tomorrow, it is

going to be a similar day, sunny spells and showers around. Some rain

through the middle of the week, and then we are back to where we

started, breezy and showery conditions, low pressure still in

charge, staying with us, keeping things unsettled.

In the south-east, Scheuer showers few and far between, closer to the

area of low pressure. -- showers few and far between. The odd rumble of

thunder, hail mixed in, the eastern side of the UK becomes generally

dry, we have further showers coming in, so it remains pretty unsettled,

fresh night, 11 to 13 or 14 degrees, rural spots a few degrees lower,

showers from early on across the western side will drift east, some

of them could be heavy with rumbles of thunder, you are likely to see

showers in East Anglia than today. Mostly dry with sunshine. Top

temperatures similar to today. 18, 23, 24 towards the London area. We

look to the west, this next area of low pressure to head our way, ice

bars mean that there will be a fair old breeze, rain springing into the

south-west, that will move its way into Northern Ireland, moving north

and east, but the further north you go and the further east you go, you

will not see the rain until late on in the day, into the early evening.

That rain crosses Scotland, and then, on Thursday, for the most

part, back to where we started, a fair bit of cloud, and some showers

at times. Let's return now to Tyne Cot

Cemetery in Belgium, where, 100 years on from the Battle

of Passchendaele, the Prime Minister and members of the Royal Family

joined 4,000 others to remember the sacrifice made by so many

in a battle that has come to symbolise

the horror of World War I. Among the 4,000 people

here this afternoon They were brought to

Belgium as volunteers by the youth programme

the National Citizen Service. 18 years old, explain why you were

so keen to come. Although I already knew I had a relatively, actually

coming here made me want to do so much more research into them, my

relative here is my grandmother's uncle, he died at Passchendaele, 26

September, 1917. He survived several weeks during one of the bloodiest

battles of World War I. Wearable to picture what he went through but the

fact he managed to survive for so long was very warming. One of the

tasks you have her body have been here is to escort some of the

descendants of those that have fought here, incredibly moving. Some

young people were asked to escort the descendants, such a moving

experience, it allowed us to connect with the different generations, so

interested to hear our stories, and desperate to share ours with theirs.

One woman was so emotional about her own story, lovely to have such a

connection with her. You are one of 100 young people here, Centenary

now, your job now, to continue this act of remembrance, to remember the

stories of what happened here, do you think that will happen in such a

way and continue in your lifetime. I hope the young people of today can

carry this on, it is amazing that we are able to work with different

generations. I have been able to make such a connection because I am

the same age as the soldiers who fought, if young people can see that

and young people can see people like me on television working at such

amazing events, hopefully we can work together and make sure nothing

like this ever happens again. So, it's goodbye from me,

and on BBC One we now join the BBC's