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it is not nice to know derbyshire. it is not nice to know all my family were watching and i could make them proud because i would not be here without. five minutes before the ceremony i was thinking i cannot go on stage with 25 cameramen with their flashing lights. we got the doctor to stand by and thankfully it was brilliant. they told all the cameramen to turn off theirflashing they told all the cameramen to turn off their flashing lights. they told all the cameramen to turn off theirflashing lights. i do not know if many people noticed but that's something i have to to keep myself safe. the new commonwealth re cord myself safe. the new commonwealth record holder... it does not matter if you have epilepsy, you can do anything. you have got to be in control, not let epilepsy control you. incredible inspirational story. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. and you can follow champions league
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football on radio 5 live and the bbc sport website. well let's get more now on tonight's premiere of ‘bohemian rhapsody‘ — the film charting the music of queen, and its frontman freddie mercury. our entertainment correspondent, lizo mzimba is on the red carpet at the wembley arena, with some very special guests. brian may is with me. this film must have evoked so many memories. absolutely. it has been an amazing
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journey full of twists and turns. but life is like that. we started nine years ago to look at ideas and every time we got in script writer roger and i would just see what they made of it. but we are here and we have a film and i think it will speakfor have a film and i think it will speak for itself. how much responsibility did you feel to make sure that the story was told well with the u and freddie and of course roger taylor as well? yes, i guess you could say we are trying to make everyone fulfilled. we want to stay true to the character of freddie. and we hope it is going to bring a lot of joy. the film finishes with
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that performance at live aid of course. spoiler alert! that performance at live aid of course. spoileralert! is that that performance at live aid of course. spoiler alert! is that we lead the performance that you think to find the band with you and freddie and that people really remember? it certainly was one of the pinnacles of the and maybe his finest hour in many ways so yes, a fitting way to end the film. there isa fitting way to end the film. there is a lot of truth in this movie about life and about freddie and a little bit about us as well. but it isa little bit about us as well. but it is a movie about freddie. as for both of you, you knew him so well, what would he have made homeless, the movie, the focus on him so much? he would have said not enough fuss! he would have said not enough fuss! he would have said not enough fuss! he would be very happy, i feel he is happy. brian may there and roger taylor. speaking just a few minutes
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ago and the premier is due to begin at seven o'clock. the world's oldest intact shipwreck has been discovered, more than a mile deep in the black sea. a team of british and bulgarian researchers has carbon—dated the greek trading vessel to around 400 bc — and says its shape hasn't been compromised, despite spending more than two thousand four hundred years underwater. lucinda adam has the story. deep down in the black sea, archaeologists have been discovering dozens of wrecks almost perfectly preserved in the dark waters where there is little oxygen. this wreck is from the byzantine period, about a thousand years old. but deep down, beyond the reach of human divers, are much older ships. this, the oldest ever found, a classical greek trading vessel that has laid here on the sea bed for 2&00 years, from the time when aristotle was still alive. the first thing we saw when we came along the hull was
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this quarter rudder. and this is diagnostic in the sense that rudders weren't used in this way before the 1300s, and then this particular style goes back to the classical world. and then we actually excavated down the shaft of the rudder until we got to the end of the blade and that said it's greek and not roman. this and more than 60 other wrecks were discovered and mapped by rovs, or remote operated vehicles, delving more than two kilometres below the surface, where organisms that would normally eat the wood can't survive. we've got this just astonishing preservation, an entire ship with its rudders in place. what's amazing about it is when you look at the pictures of it, you kind of recognise it. we've seen these ships before and we've seen them in paintings. the wreck looks something like this image, on a greek vase held by the british museum. the ship has a mast and a sail and a single row of oars. it's about 30 metres long.
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but it's unlikely that it will ever be raised. its timbers are much too fragile to be brought to the surface. because of that, preservation by recording means that, yeah, we are able to get all of this information up and we are able to leave the wreck so that future generations with better technology are able to come and use their skills to find out even more. for now, these wrecks will remain deep underwater but marine archaeologists will work to bring the history they hold to the surface. lucinda adam. nasa scientists flying over antarctica have spotted a vast rectangular—shaped iceberg. the iceberg — seen on the right — was seen floating among just off the larsen c ice shelf in the antarctic. scientists say the sharp angles and flat surface indicate that the iceberg probably recently broke off from the ice shelf. it almost looks like it has been
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manufactured. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell. good evening. 0nce good evening. once again we have had some decent autumn sunshine. this was the picture in norfolk this afternoon. it was quite a breezy story across the board. and in the north and west some grey skies around. we do have this weather front to the north—west, feeding in more cloud and rain. we tend to lose that rain as we move further into the evening and overnight. still quite a bit of cloud in northern england and across northern ireland and much of scotland. the crowd and the breeze however keep things mild. temperatures in double figures in many spots. still the chance of some
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missed is that they get under way. wednesday once again high—pressure the dominating force, and still the chance of some patchy rain for the northern isles and highlands but for scotla nd northern isles and highlands but for scotland and the whole dry hazy sunshine and some high cloud pushing in one north westerly breeze. temperatures around average for the time of year. feeling quite pleasant in the sunshine. 0n time of year. feeling quite pleasant in the sunshine. on thursday is likely clueless feel, the air mass just changing a little bit. but the big change in the way that things feel coming in with this heavy rain in the far north—west of scotland and is cold front starting to move south. the biggest difference it
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will bring is introducing colder air straight from the arctic. we have beenin straight from the arctic. we have been in this warm atlantic air mass but suddenly we are getting this polar blast to finish off the week and through the weekend. notjust the cold air, but a biting northerly wind as well. so we need feeling that chill, feeling colder with that win. you're watching beyond 100 days. the turkish president promised to reveal all on the kashoggi murder. but he didn't deliver. and so we are left with alot of questions. where's the body? is there an audio tape and did the saudi crown prince order the attack? in a rather chilling move, the saudi palace released this photo today, it's jamal khashoggi's son called in to meet mohamed bin salman. and this is that same crown prince being greeted like a rock star at the saudi investment conference which opened today. also on the programme... as the british prime ministerfaces increasing pressure over
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brexit negotiations, we hear from the longest—serving member of the house of commons on whether an acceptable deal is possible in the coming weeks. and what would you do if you won a staggering one point $6 billion? that's what's up for grabs in the mega millions lottery

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