organisers said 57 thousand people took part in the event. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. the next news on bbc one is at 6.35. bye for now. now on bbc news, a special report following the windrush scandal. a story about the history between the two islands. her report contains terms some viewers may find offensive. this is jamaica, where my family's from. i love my caribbean heritage, but i was born and raised in britain. both islands are in my blood. so when this happened...

this is a day of national shame! the prime minister insists the windrush generation will get help. i didn't see it as a systemic issue. ..it left me questioning everything. given all that we went through, given all that our parents went through and their parents, what does that count for? after world war ii, members of my family were among those who rebuilt the mother country. i wasn't a jamaican. you are prone to be british. on the journey, some people lost more than they gained. oh, my gosh! this is what they're talking about! that's my father. but the story began long ago. i suppose i always knew, deep down, that he was white. there's a lot more to the story. our connection to britain began with the brutality

of the transatlantic slave trade. my great—great—grandmother, helen, was the last person in my family to be born as a slave. when my mum was a little girl in jamaica, she helped to look after her. she was 110 when she died, and she was born in slavery. so she was a child? and she was a child in slavery. i know she told me that she used to pick peas. i used to ask her so many questions like, what did you do? where did you go to school? well, she didn't, really. and to get what she had to offer from her experience in slavery. i thought that was... you can't take that away from anyone, can you? i have a big, colourful caribbean family. my father was one of eight children. this is the house in london where they grow up. oh, my gosh!

it's really tall, isn't it? yeah, it's quite big. it's the only time that they all lived together. i shared with one of my sisters. which one? jean. you shared with auntiejean? yeah. 0h, 0k. auntjean went to study in jamaica in the 1960s. when she wanted to return to london, they told her that she had lost her right to live in the uk. you expected her to come back? jean? yeah. yeah, we expected her to come back. we didn't think it was going to be a problem. did you miss her when she went? yes! obviously. when she went to apply to come back, they were saying that she couldn't come back because she hasn't got a british passport. the separation of windrush families isn't a new thing. it's been going on for decades. for all that our parents have done over their life, living in this country, contributing to this society, it's not fairfor her to be there and all her siblings are here, and she's not able

to be here with us. arrivals at tilbury. the empire windrush brings to britain 500 jamaicans. full of hope, they sail for britain. citizens of the british empire coming to the mother country with good intentions. when i watched the coverage of the windrush scandal, it almost felt like this is not our home, this isjust some country that we migrated to. there's a lot more to the story. i feel like that story has to be told. jamaica has such a strong identity. it's hard to imagine this was once british. first up on this journey, my dad's family home in kingston. it looks so much smaller. because you were younger!

the rag and bone man, you still have those people, that go around and collect allthings, buy allthings. it's kind of evolved, i think. yes, yes, yes. these guys were wearing ties! wow, really? when i started school around there, there was probably... i think there were five black kids, probably less than that. they would call you blackie. just as you were walking on the street or in school? well, normally, what would happen, you wouldn't make contact until you got closer. it's not that you accept people hurling abuse at you across the road, it's only when you come in contact. you didn't know what they went through, i guess we didn't talk about it. it's difficult to hear, but this was part of the windrush experience. it's just so cool that everyone can express themselves with their colours on their house. i guess it kind

of goes with the sun. the next day, i went to see jean again. she's the aunt that couldn't come back to the uk. so i took out all my albums. and, as i say, i'lljust show you a passport. yeah, yeah. you need to take a look at this one. tell me what it is. oh, it's a british passport! it's hard to understand whyjean wasn't allowed to come back into the uk when her dad had a british passport. it was thursday that i went to the trunk and pulled it out, expecting to find those blue ones, and then i found this one because, when people ask me, did he have citizenship? the first thing i say, i don't think so! what does it say? it does say he was. jean has a great life injamaica, but she had a great life in the uk, too.

that's at battersea park. in england? yes. there was a big outing there. you can see us all in the same dress. that's daddy? yeah, that's him. he looks tiny! what was he like? he was funny, he was a sportsman. but he was really good. so quite a cool big brother? yeah, yeah. whenjean was separated from the family, i know my dad took it really hard. so when she decided to get married, he was so excited to be going to her wedding. i was there waiting and waiting and waiting, and they couldn't come back, they couldn't come back. and when they came back, they didn't come back with your father. it was really sad. and it was really a shock, something that i can never forget. my dad died unexpectedly soon

after he arrived injamaica. jean never got to see him again. that was the first time that we saw you, wasn't it? was that the first time we met you? because you were smaller in england, yeah, that's the first time, you would remember. all of this, the racism, the separation, it's what makes the windrush scandal so hurtful for families like mine. why did they make the journey at all? i'm going to see my mum's uncle. he was one of the first people in my family to go to the uk. you all right?

yeah. do you know the edmonton cricket ground ? no. no? no. i was the first black guy to play cricket at edmonton. oh, wow. i had to become a member of the edmonton cricket ground. during that 11! years, there was one other guy, so it was only two of us blacks that were there. britain was in a shambles, and if you have 17 countries in the caribbean, who are financially probably worse off because jobs, they don't have. so theyjust come and say, there arejobs to be had in england. there are railways to be built, there is the underground to be built. and things like that. if the mother nation is in trouble and the country has been broken... the mother nation being the uk?

the uk, yes. because they used to call themselves the mother nation? the mother nation, right. so there wasn't a concept of being jamaican? it was a concept of being british? right, it was british. i didn't realise that. it was a concept. we weren't a nation. our mother country was england. i find it odd that, back then, britain was seen as the mother country, given the part it played in the transatlantic slave trade. my uncle is taking me to see my great—great—grandmother helen's grave. she was a child in slavery. do you remember her? if i remember her? yeah. yeah, man. what was she like? she went through slavery, you know. yeah, i know. so she couldn't read or write. oh, wow. none of that. so this is queen anne? and helen mcguinness.

that's a reallyjamaican name! slavery was abolished in 1838. but then it was still carried on. it was still carrying on. i feel proud that she made it through. of course. but i feel, like, upset as well that she had to go through that. well, yes. yeah. you might be upset, but it was a thing. yeah. and it was a thing worldwide. it almost want to know her, i want the kind of see her and hug her. just what she achieved, she birthed a family, and here i am now because of her. it's just amazing. i can be who i am and do what i do because she survived and she made it through. helen's daughter was called queen anne shattuck and, because of queenie‘s fair skin in contrast to her mum

helen's dark complexion, the family have always suspected that queenie‘s father was white. for the first time, i feel i'm ready to find out more. it's my last day injamaica. i've decided to go to the birth and deaths registry in spanish town to see if i can find out more about my mother's great—grandmother, helen, and her daughter, queenie. that really wasn't what i was expecting. i didn't even think i would find queen or helen, and ifound so much more, but it's almost like i've got more questions. the more i find, the more i need to ask. i'm not quite sure how i feel about it, really. i'm heading back to the uk. my mum was queenie‘s favourite granddaughter, and now i'm going to tell her what i found out about queenie‘s dad. hello! oh, you're so dark!

so you visited queenie‘s tomb, then? yeah. 0h. i said hello from you. what did helen look like? from my memory, she was quite dark. she was darker than i was with really striking features, really striking black features, which my grandmother, which queenie, didn't have. so, yeah. so we knew, because of the contrast, there was a possibility that he was white, and that she was mixed—race, queenie was mixed—race. we actually did find queenie‘s dad, john shattock, and this is his death certificate. 0h. thisjohn shattock, who died injamaica,

was my great—great—grandfather, queenie‘s dad, but what i wasn't prepared for was what i found out about his grandfather, who was also called john shattock. sojohn bellott shattock senior was a merchant during the slave trade, and he owned slaves. so he would travel betweenjamaica and the uk, and he was based in somerset. so there must be some shattocks in somerset. yeah, there is. my ancestry comes full circle back to the uk. i knew i have a right to be here, as much right to be here as the shattocks who are in somerset, basically. yeah. the windrush is notjust about politics, it's not just about immigration. jamaica and the uk are bound together by blood. we are two branches of the same family tree. my kids generally feel british, and comfortable about saying that.

absolutely. it's not a thing for them. yeah. and part of me thinks, well, that's great, even though i think i need to explain the history, so they understand. they need to be aware because the system, the government, needs to change the rules, just like what we've seen with the windrush. we still have to be on our guard. and why have you come to england? to seek a job. you're ex—air force, aren't you? yes. are you going back into the air force again? yes. i'm trying to help myself and also help my mum. # london is the place for me! # london, this lovely city!# i wasn't part of the slave trade, i didn't come over in the windrush generation, but those journeys are in me, they are part of me, and my experience, as a black british person, is always going to come back to that — just how the two countries are connected.

it's notjust my history, it's all of our history, and it's a history that we need to talk more about. # well, believe me, i am speaking broad—mindedly # i am glad to know my mother country # i've been travelling the countries years ago # but this is the place i wanted to know # darling, london # this is the place for me.# it is looking brighter this afternoon for many of us, brighter than yesterday across parts of england and wales is that rain moved through. it is an afternoon sunshine and showers are most of the showers across northern areas. this area of low pressure is passing between iceland and the north of scotland

and will bring very gusty winds to scotla nd and will bring very gusty winds to scotland later on today in the evening. showers will get going, already frequent across the west of scotland, but further south, the detail of a lot of sunshine. windy around southern and western coasts and blustery england in the sunshine, 20 celsius for much of wales in england, 23 perhaps in the south—east, one of two showers, the shower frequency increases the further north you are. and western scotland, called the strong winds. it could make 20 celsius in aberdeen there with shelter. those winds pick up there with shelter. those winds pick up into this evening, out wrecks rain or persistent, gusty with wrens reaching 50 must per hour in exposure so an area of reaching 50 must per hour in exposure so an area of low reaching 50 must per hour in exposure so an area of low pressure speaking across northern scotland the night but elsewhere are quite it with lengthy clear skies. cooler thanit with lengthy clear skies. cooler than it was last night too. we start monday morning on a windy note across northern scotland is that eric low pressure clears way. most of the showers will be here as well

but elsewhere bright sunny start the day and the cloud will increase through the day as the next weather system pushes into the north—west, bringing windy weather with cloud and rain into northern ireland and western scotland. further south than the sunshine not too bad but not as warm. our weather front across the north—west corner of the country sinks south—eastwards and then grinds to a court in central parts of the country through tuesday. this weather front is a dividing line with cooler and fresh air for the northern half of the country, something warmer and more humid to the south. on tuesday, we tap into some of the warmth across france for the mid part of this week. given some sunshine to the south, 23 or 2a celsius. to the north of it, wet with temperatures high teens and, in scotland, northern ireland and northern england, quite cool, sunshine and showers. that weather front sinks south—eastwards, pushes back into the net continent, a

cooler feel for all including the south—east on wednesday, sunshine and showers, as we head into the state blustery and another eric low pressure sweeping in. quite u nsettled pressure sweeping in. quite unsettled to end the week. this is bbc news. the headlines. boris johnson attacks the prime minister's brexit plans saying she has wrapped the country in a suicide vest and handed the detonator to brussels. high drama at the us open as serena williams loses her cool and the final. north korea stages a huge military display to celebrate it's 70th anniversary. but the country's long range missiles weren't part of the display of power. voting is under way in the swedish general election, with an anti—immigration party

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