:00:08. > :00:09.Good evening. stay with us on BBC One,
:00:10. > :00:12.Hamerton Park Zoo in Cambridgeshire has confirmed that a female
:00:13. > :00:16.zookeeper was killed in what's been described as a "freak
:00:17. > :00:22.Police were called to the zoo, near Huntingdon, this
:00:23. > :00:25.morning to reports of a "very serious incident".
:00:26. > :00:29.The incident is not believed to be suspicious.
:00:30. > :00:33.As one of the zoo's tigers paces along its enclosure fence,
:00:34. > :00:36.investigators were briefed on the events surrounding
:00:37. > :00:38.what unfolded in this part of the park just hours earlier.
:00:39. > :00:41.The Magpas air ambulance landed at Hamerton Zoo just
:00:42. > :00:47.East of England Ambulance paramedics were also there,
:00:48. > :00:51.along with Cambridgeshire Police and forensic teams.
:00:52. > :00:54.As the park was evacuated, eyewitnesses spoke of an attack
:00:55. > :01:00.By early evening, two staff members, too upset to speak, handed
:01:01. > :01:03.a statement to the waiting media in which they spoke of the incident
:01:04. > :01:06.as a freak accident and expressed their sympathies for the victim's
:01:07. > :01:16.Police said that a tiger had entered enclosure with a keeper and that,
:01:17. > :01:18.sadly, the female zookeeper had died at the scene.
:01:19. > :01:20.Hamerton is home to a number of big cats.
:01:21. > :01:23.These pictures, shot for BBC Radio Cambridge's Facebook
:01:24. > :01:27.page, show a tiger in a pool that had just been built at Hamerton Zoo.
:01:28. > :01:31.It has kept the animals since 2001, when it acquired its first pair
:01:32. > :01:39.It has also worked with the Malaysian government to bring
:01:40. > :01:41.over a critically endangered Malaysian tiger.
:01:42. > :01:44.As staff this evening tended the attraction's other animals,
:01:45. > :01:57.the zoo said at no point members of the public at any risk.
:01:58. > :01:59.But, it will be closed tomorrow as investigators try to establish
:02:00. > :02:01.how the femle keeper was fatally attacked.
:02:02. > :02:03.Police in Essex have launched a murder inquiry
:02:04. > :02:06.after a man was found in Harlow with fatal head injuries.
:02:07. > :02:10.Minutes before midnight, a 39-year-old man found
:02:11. > :02:14.inside a parked Volvo here on the Milwards
:02:15. > :02:20.The alarm was raised and police arrived on the scene.
:02:21. > :02:23.The victim, who hasn't yet been named, was rushed
:02:24. > :02:28.to the Princess Alexandra Hospital, where he died early this morning.
:02:29. > :02:32.About one o'clock this morning, the police turned up, ambulances,
:02:33. > :02:37.They cordoned off the entire area, so that bit down there,
:02:38. > :02:40.was all taped off, the bottom of Milwards was all
:02:41. > :02:43.That's when I realised there was something going on.
:02:44. > :02:45.Detectives say they are unclear on the events that
:02:46. > :02:50.If anybody heard anything shortly before midnight
:02:51. > :02:54.and the period just before, then please contact Essex Police
:02:55. > :02:59.Three men, who were aged 24, 35 and 40, have all been arrested
:03:00. > :03:08.The estranged mother of a man who made headlines around the world
:03:09. > :03:13.of the Manchester bombings has been reunited with her son.
:03:14. > :03:16.Chris Parker, from Norwich, was begging at Manchester Arena
:03:17. > :03:20.He looked after a young girl and cradled a woman
:03:21. > :03:27.and was reunited with him at the weekend.
:03:28. > :03:29.It's definitely an explosion because there's nuts
:03:30. > :03:34.This is how a homeless man came back into the life of his mother 200
:03:35. > :03:50.Danny Blum, Chris Parker rank of debt.
:03:51. > :03:55.all I heard was bang, and I mean a big bang,
:03:56. > :03:56.Next thing you know, the
:03:57. > :03:59.whole place was filled with smoke and people crying and everything.
:04:00. > :04:01.I've seen people run out that way and I've
:04:02. > :04:03.gone back in to try and help
:04:04. > :04:05.His mother, Jessica, has childhood photos, but none of a son
:04:06. > :04:09.Their contact has been sporadic, but this
:04:10. > :04:12.week then she met him for the first time in five years.
:04:13. > :04:15.It was heart-wrenching, absolutely heart-wrenching to know that he
:04:16. > :04:20.He just told me, very matter-of-factly
:04:21. > :04:25.He just said, "Mum I've just done with anybody else
:04:26. > :04:28.And I went, "I don't think so, Chris.
:04:29. > :04:33."I think you did something really wonderful and you need to
:04:34. > :04:36.Many have been moved by Chris Parker's actions.
:04:37. > :04:39.More than ?50,000 has been raised through an
:04:40. > :04:42.online campaign to help the man who helped others.
:04:43. > :04:46.Jessica has told her son she doesn't want a penny, but
:04:47. > :04:50.does want him to get good advice and help how to spend it.
:04:51. > :04:53.Today, it's just beginning to hit home a little bit
:04:54. > :04:58.as to what I can do from here for him and to process that
:04:59. > :05:04.You know, and he's going to be all right.
:05:05. > :05:06.He's going to be all right, I know he is.
:05:07. > :05:09.For now, it's small steps taken carefully
:05:10. > :05:13.She is planning to visit him next weekend.
:05:14. > :05:22.Something good coming from something terrible.
:05:23. > :05:24.Thousands of poppies were dropped over the American war
:05:25. > :05:26.cemetery at Madingley, near Cambridge for the first
:05:27. > :05:31.It was the finale of the annual Memorial Day service,
:05:32. > :05:35.held to commemorate the thousands of US service personnel based here
:05:36. > :05:45.It's a ceremony which, in its solemnity and symbolism,
:05:46. > :05:48.never fails to stir emotions and, today, extra special in this
:05:49. > :05:50.the 75th anniversary year of the "Friendly Invasion".
:05:51. > :05:56.A tribute to those who lost their lives.
:05:57. > :06:01.A time for proud and painful memories among the audience
:06:02. > :06:04.of veterans, families and military personnel.
:06:05. > :06:07.These were not spectators to life, they were warriors that climbed
:06:08. > :06:11.into the arena and chose to live a life of value, a life of service.
:06:12. > :06:15.They were willing to fight and die for freedom,
:06:16. > :06:17.for the values both our nations share and for each other.
:06:18. > :06:20.I do want to acknowledge the difficult week our British
:06:21. > :06:23.allies have had and, although not nearly sufficient,
:06:24. > :06:29.please know that you all are in our thoughts and prayers.
:06:30. > :06:34.More than 8,000 men and women are commemorated here
:06:35. > :06:38.and for this year's ceremony, a new poignant touch.
:06:39. > :06:41.Beside the names on the wall of the missing, photographs
:06:42. > :06:44.reflecting the human cost, the tender years.
:06:45. > :06:47.Well, behind every picture there's a story.
:06:48. > :06:50.Take Ben Barnes, he was from South Dakota and flew from the Martlesham
:06:51. > :06:56.His remains were only found last year in Germany and this signifies
:06:57. > :07:02.More than 100 floral tributes were laid.
:07:03. > :07:05.Also this year, for the first time since the 1960s,
:07:06. > :07:11.a petal drop provided a canopy of colour above the graves.
:07:12. > :07:13.The theme running through today's event was "forever young",
:07:14. > :07:17.a reminder of the toll of war and the lives which were cut
:07:18. > :07:31.With ten days to go until the general electio,
:07:32. > :07:33.With ten days to go until the general election,
:07:34. > :07:36.our Gets My Vote series has been finding out what issues
:07:37. > :07:39.Today, it's the turn of students at East Bergholt
:07:40. > :07:43.If I could vote, I would vote for a party that is for defence.
:07:44. > :07:47.I think knowing that we have a safe and secure NHS for the future.
:07:48. > :07:51.I think that we need more support for education.
:07:52. > :07:56.Educational resources for schools, because I think that would solve
:07:57. > :07:58.some of the problems moving on in life.
:07:59. > :08:01.What would get me voting is no more tuition fees.
:08:02. > :08:14.I have Michelle Obama, because I think she's a strong
:08:15. > :08:16.female voice and she would just get things done.
:08:17. > :08:19.I would have Batman, because he could, we wouldn't need
:08:20. > :08:24.Honestly, I wouldn't wish the job of Prime Minister
:08:25. > :08:30.Coming up next, the weather with Julie Reinger.
:08:31. > :08:39.Alex thanks very much. I'm going to start with the radar sequence
:08:40. > :08:43.showing the showers over the last few hours. The green indicates the
:08:44. > :08:48.heaviest downpours, but they occurred to the North Sea. We could
:08:49. > :08:52.see a few charity acting through tonight, but the rest of us dry
:08:53. > :08:57.night but with some rainy intervals at times. Rather warm, with 13-15dC
:08:58. > :09:03.temperatures. Like south-westerly winds. Tomorrow were going to get a
:09:04. > :09:07.cold front pushing in from the north-west, but we start a dry,
:09:08. > :09:13.quite a lot of cloud around, but hopefully it will thin and break.
:09:14. > :09:14.When the sunshine we could get a gig