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today at one: the former met police officer serving life for murdering sarah everard is now given 19 months in prison for indecent exposure. wayne couzens carried out the offences in the months before the killing. the court heard that police not following up the incidents meant he believed he could get away with anything. the fact that no police came to find him or his black car to question him about these incidents can only have served to confirm and strengthen in the defendant's mind a dangerous belief in his invincibility. also this lunchtime... police in wales searching for five people missing after a night out, say three are dead and two seriously
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injured after a car crash. the government prepares to set out plans to ban migrants who cross the channel in small boats from ever returning to the uk. in turkey, train carriages provide shelter for those homeless after last month's devastating earthquake. more than 50,000 people are confirmed dead. and, a new discovery, about sir ernest shackleton�*s famous ship, the endurance, in the frozen wastes of antarctica. and coming up on the bbc news channel: novak djokovic pulls out of the first big atp event of the year in california. the world number one's vaccination status at the heart of it. good afternoon.
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in the last hour, wayne couzens, the former metropolitan police officer who murdered sarah everard, has been sentenced to 19 months in prison for indecent exposure. couzens is already serving a full life sentence for ms everard's death, after abducting and raping her in south london two years ago. the court heard that in the weeks leading up to that attack, he committed at least three counts of indecent exposure, including two at a drive—through mcdonald's in kent. one of the offences was while he was on duty. our special correspondent lucy manning was in court for the sentencing, and is at the old bailey. lucy. well this is aboutjustice for lucy. well this is about 'ustice for those mimi lucy. well this is about 'ustice for those victims who _ lucy. well this is about 'ustice for those victims who were- lucy. well this is aboutjustice for those victims who were left - those victims who were left traumatised by the indecent exposure of wayne couzens but it is about so much more than that. it is about the failures of the police to properly investigate him before sarah everard's murder and quite possibly to stop him and that was the theme
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running through the whole of the court hearing today. it was shocking to sit in court and see for the first time the cctv from mcdonald's just four days before he murdered sarah everard, when he exposed himself there. very clearly on the cctv, you can see his number plate, af 12 x x w and that was reported to the police three days before sarah's murder, along with details of his credit cards and nothing was done. and one of his victims, one of the brave mcdonald's workers, was in court. she was in tears when she gave her victim impact statements she was very clear notjust about the impact on her but about what it meant for sarah's murder. i would like to read what she said. she said, "after the indecent exposure, i had no one contact me or ask for a statement. it was only after sarah's murder that i became involved. if he
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had been held accountable when we reported the crime, we could have saved sarah." and thejudge mrs justice may in sentencing was equally damning. all had spoken of their sense of freedom and security taken from them, of feeling vulnerable and fearful for themselves and others going about their ordinary lives. one woman, after discovering who had done this and what he had gone on to do, speaks of a wholly understandable sense of survivor's guilt. the fact that no police came to find him or his black car to question him about these incidents can only have served to confirm and strengthen in the defendant's mind a dangerous belief in his invincibility, in his power sexually to dominate and abuse women without being stopped. it was notjust in the days before sarah's murder that he was committing indecent exposures, it
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was the weeks before and also there was the weeks before and also there was another incident he has not pleaded guilty to but that was years before. one of the women who reported it to kent police, this involves kent and the met police, one of the women in her witness statement said she didn't think kent police had taken it seriously enough and there is, certainly from these women and women in general, a feeling that indecent exposure wasn't and still isn't taken seriously and certainly couzens's victims here feel if their cases had been taken seriously, then it would have stopped it murdering and raping and kidnapping sarah. couzens got 19 months extra in prison. it makes no difference because he is already serving a life sentence. what it does is raise enormous questions about whether enough was done to stop him. about whether enough was done to sto him. . , about whether enough was done to sto him. , ., ~ _ stop him. 0k, lucy, thank you. lucy mannin: stop him. 0k, lucy, thank you. lucy manning live — stop him. 0k, lucy, thank you. lucy manning live at _ stop him. 0k, lucy, thank you. lucy manning live at the _ stop him. 0k, lucy, thank you. lucy manning live at the old _ stop him. 0k, lucy, thank you. lucy manning live at the old bailey. - police looking for five people who'd been missing following a night out in cardiff on saturday have found three of them dead following a car crash.
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two others are in hospital with serious injuries. 0ur wales correspondent, hywel griffiths, has more. struggling to comprehend the loss of young lives. flowers that have been arriving near where a car was discovered in the early hours of the morning. crashed in the woods beside a busy dual carriageway. the five people inside hadn't been seen for nearly 48 hours. darcy ross, eve smith and sophie russon had met for a night out in newport on friday. they werejoined by a night out in newport on friday. they were joined by iran and shane loughlin. the group were not seen after 2am on saturday. 0ver loughlin. the group were not seen after 2am on saturday. over the weekend, theirfamilies after 2am on saturday. over the weekend, their families appealed for sightings but it wasn't until sunday that the search began, eventually focusing in on this area. i just focusing in on this area. i 'ust heard aufi focusing in on this area. i 'ust heard all over i focusing in on this area. i 'ust heard all over the i focusing in on this area. ijust heard all over the helicopters| focusing in on this area. inst heard all over the helicopters last night.
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heard all over the helicopters last niuht. . , heard all over the helicopters last niuht. ., , ., , ., _ night. one lady who lives nearby were shocked _ night. one lady who lives nearby were shocked to _ night. one lady who lives nearby were shocked to wake _ night. one lady who lives nearby were shocked to wake up - night. one lady who lives nearby were shocked to wake up to - night. one lady who lives nearby were shocked to wake up to the | night. one lady who lives nearby - were shocked to wake up to the news this morning. were shocked to wake up to the news this morning-— this morning. what they've been throu:h, this morning. what they've been through. you _ this morning. what they've been through, you can't _ this morning. what they've been through, you can't bear - this morning. what they've been through, you can't bear thinking | through, you can't bear thinking about it, can you? they could have been, i don't know, i wouldn't like to surmise what's happened but it's heartbreaking, it could have been anyone's kids, it could have been mine. i can't think what the families are going through. the u-rou families are going through. the a-rou has families are going through. the groun has met _ families are going through. the group has met night here started here a social club in newport, where the three young women came together, joined by the two men it's known they then travelled over 70 miles around south wales before the crash. what the police need to establish now is exactly when that happened and where they help could have reached them sooner. well, in the last half an hour, the car has been taken away from that wooded area just behind the green screens you can see behind me. forensic officers will be examining that. we also know that three bodies have been taken away from the scene.
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of the five people involved in the of the five people involved in the crash, at the moment the only person we know is still alive is sophie, who was one of the three young ladies who was part of that group of five. but we know that the family had an anxious wait over the weekend, launching appeals on social media, asking people for help and for sightings. media, asking people for help and forsightings. so media, asking people for help and for sightings. so the focus now will be on how long it took for the official police urge to be launched and how the car was discovered. we are told it was a member of the public who actually made the first sighting in that woodland early this morning but the police will need to work out whether they did everything they could to search and find these young people. 0k, thank you. hywel griffith there in cardiff. the government is set to annouce plans to ban migrants who cross the english channel in small boats from ever returning to the uk. it's part of a set of new laws which will be introduced in parliament tomorrow. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the proposals are unworkable, while refugees groups say thousands of people
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will be left in limbo. here's our political correspondent, david wallace—lockhart. stopping channel crossings in small boats is one of the government's key priorities. they are set to publish plans meaning anyone travelling to the uk this way will be detained and then deported to their home country or a third country like rwanda and banned from ever returning to stop measures are set to be included in legislation tomorrow. this measures are set to be included in legislation tomorrow.— measures are set to be included in legislation tomorrow. this week, we will be bringing _ legislation tomorrow. this week, we will be bringing forward _ legislation tomorrow. this week, we will be bringing forward additional. will be bringing forward additional legislation which is based on the principle that if people travel here via illegal roots, they shouldn't be allowed to stay, which i think is common sense and right and the correct approach and that this government is really tackling one of the key things that comes up on the doorstep and is coming up from my constituents and around the country. small boat crossing figures were first recorded in 2018, when 299 people made the journey. first recorded in 2018, when 299 people made thejourney. by first recorded in 2018, when 299 people made the journey. by 2020, the figure was over 8000. last year,
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it reached more than 45,000. at one point, officials were believed to be preparing for 80,000 arrivals. last year, albanians represented the single biggest nationality seeking asylum, with around 15,000 applications. this was followed by iran, iraq and afghanistan. the labour leader is sceptical changes will be compatible with international law and doesn't think it will bring down the numbers. in april of last year, we had legislation and the government said and i quote, it would break the business model. it would end illegal migration. so that was precisely i2 migration. so that was precisely 12 months ago with the legislation they were proposing to pass and didn't pass them. what has happened since? the numbers had gone up. so i don't think going on with this sort of legislation is the way forward. why not put the money in the resource into the national crime agency and break the gangs are running it? the government is determined to stress the message they want to be tough when it comes to borders but are
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there plans workable? the proposal is that the government _ there plans workable? the proposal is that the government is _ there plans workable? the proposal is that the government is putting i is that the government is putting forward _ is that the government is putting forward saying if you arrive in a smaller — forward saying if you arrive in a smaller boat, you will automatically be considered illegal and we will detain _ be considered illegal and we will detain you and deport you. but where are they— detain you and deport you. but where are they going to be detained? the government doesn't have a lot of detention— government doesn't have a lot of detention space. and to wear are they going — detention space. and to wear are they going to be deported? because they going to be deported? because the government has very few save country _ the government has very few save country agreements to return asylum seekers— country agreements to return asylum seekers too. country agreements to return asylum seekers too-— seekers too. plenty of conservative mps will be — seekers too. plenty of conservative mps will be keen _ seekers too. plenty of conservative mps will be keen to _ seekers too. plenty of conservative mps will be keen to pour— seekers too. plenty of conservative mps will be keen to pour over - seekers too. plenty of conservative mps will be keen to pour over the l mps will be keen to pour over the details of this legislation but this area can be a legal minefield, with obstacles that can ultimately derail any pledges remember, the government's plans to send asylum seekers to rwanda are still tied up in the courts. ministers believe they can deal with smaller boats while staying part of the european convention on human rights. some of the government because my own backbenchers could take some convincing. david wallace lockhart, bbc news, westminster.
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0ur chief political correspondent, nick eardley, is at westminster. enormous pressure on rishi sunak to get this one right? it is enormous pressure on rishi sunak to get this one right?— get this one right? it is absolutely crucial he comes _ get this one right? it is absolutely crucial he comes up _ get this one right? it is absolutely crucial he comes up with - get this one right? it is absolutely crucial he comes up with a - get this one right? it is absolutely crucial he comes up with a proper| crucial he comes up with a proper plan because he has made it one of those five key tests that he wants to be judged those five key tests that he wants to bejudged on at those five key tests that he wants to be judged on at the those five key tests that he wants to bejudged on at the next those five key tests that he wants to be judged on at the next general election. many of his own mps sitting in there are desperate for him to get it right after frankly successive conservative governments failed to get on top of the issue. so what is the plan? we don't know the full thing yet but so far it seems to be based on deterrence, saying to would—be asylum seekers, if you come over on small boats be allowed into the country, you will be deported and banned in the future. rishi sunak hoped that that will send a strong message. but will it work? labour say no, that this is just rehashed policies with some gimmicks as a headline. charities say that it could criminalise genuine asylum seekers and there is a question of, if you do want to claim asylum, how do how do you do
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it? we are told we will get those safe and legal roots, as the government calls them, after it has got control of borders. so that could be several years away. but for rishi sunak, this is an absolute test for his government. it is one that he has to get right and he doesn't have long to do it. {lila doesn't have long to do it. ok, thank yom _ doesn't have long to do it. ok, thank you. nick _ doesn't have long to do it. ok, thank you. nick eardley at westminster there. the trial of a man accused of the murder of nine—year—old 0livia pratt—korbel in liverpool last august is due to begin. 0livia was fatally shot at her home in dovecot while her mother, cheryl, was injured. thomas cashman denies murder and attempted murder, as well as wounding with intent. the man widely regarded as britain's most notorious prisoner, charles bronson, has begun an appeal for his release after nearly 50 years in jail. much of that time he's spent in solitary confinement. a public parole hearing is taking place. bronson was originallyjailed for seven years in 1974, but regular violent behaviour,
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including nine attempted prison sieges where 11 people were taken hostage, have seen his sentence extended multiple times. tony danker, the head of the cbi the uk's biggest business group, has stepped down after allegations of misconduct. in a statement, the cbi says it took all matters of workplace conduct extremely seriously but stressed that until an investigation was complete, the allegations remained unproven. mr danker denies any wrongdoing. russia is continuing its all—out assault to capture the eastern ukrainian city of bakhmut, suffering the loss of many thousands of men — despite the pentagon saying victory is of little strategic importance. the kremlin wants control in what has become one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war so far. from kyiv, here's our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. after more than six months
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of fighting, much of bakhmut now lies in ruins, yet the fighting remains hard. street by street, house by house. for those few civilians who remain in the city and in villages nearby, conditions are terrible, with little access to water, heat or power. translation: iwant peace, silence, calmness, and just to be _ at home in our own land. the ukrainian army still holds the centre of bakhmut. they can get in and out from the west. but... this ukrainian soldier says the situation is tense, tanks are shelling the road and bridges are broken. defending this city is coming at a high price in ukrainian lives. translation: i would like to pay . special tribute to the bravery, l strength and invincibility of the warriors fighting in donbas. it is one of the toughest battles —
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painful and challenging. russian forces continue to bombard the city and their troops continue to make small advances from the north and south, but at great cost. british military officials say some russian soldiers are even being forced to attack with little more than their spades. and while russia's defence ministry shows images of paratroopers supposedly making an assault, russian mercenaries at the heart of the fighting complain they are not getting enough ammunition. translation: what if they want | to set us up, calling as scoundrels, and then that's why they don't give us ammunition? they don't give us weapons and they don't let us recruit more people from amongst prisoners? if wagner retreats from bakhmut now, the whole front will collapse. there is not much left to win or lose in this city but ukrainian forces are defending these streets hard and many russian soldiers are dying trying to take them.
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and that is the puzzle. lloyd austin the us defence secretary said both sides are fighting hard. the kremlin once victory and once a stepping stone for future potential territorial gains and ukraine wants to weaken its enemy, kill russian soldiers. president zelensky had a meeting this morning with senior commanders and they said they wanted to continue the defensive operation and strengthen their positions further. clive, back to you in the studio. james, thank you. it isjust shy of 18 minutes past one. our top story this lunchtime. the former met police officer, wayne couzens — serving life for murdering sarah everard — is given 19 months in prison, for indecent exposure. coming up: a warning that rail passengers in the north of england face losing more than 20,000 services this year if cancellations continue
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coming up on the bbc news channel — criticism continues to pile in on manchester united following their 7—0 hammering at the hands of rivals liverpool. captain bruno fernandes in the line of fire after their heaviest defeat since the 1930s. it's a month now since the earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria. many of those who survived are homeless, living in tents and even train carriages. 0ur corrrespondent, anna foster, who's been covering the tragedy from the beginning, joins us now from southern turkey. just look at this. for weeks on and the devastation is clear to see and it gives you an idea of why around 1.5 million people have nowhere to go. these buildings will never be left in again and the only future
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for them is to be knocked down and that leaves people and families in a desperate search to find some kind of safe shelter. these trains haven't left the station for a month. their homes instead now, to earthquake survivors. yilmaz and five of his family live in this carriage. they sleep on the seats, the few possessions they have around them. translation: they wanted to provide tents to us, but i refused. _ afad — the turkish disaster management agency — says around 2—million people have left the quake zone altogether. 1.5—million more are still here, and struggling. there's anger too, that so many buildings were allowed to have design features that struggled to withstand an earthquake. more than 160,000 either collapsed or were badly damaged. and it wasn'tjust the old ones. this is a well—to—do area. it's close to the park and there
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are lots of modern buildings. all of them should have stayed up. but look, this one is so new that you can still see the stickers in the glass on the top floor. nobody had even moved in there yet, and yet it has still toppled to the ground. the scale of the task ahead is enormous. there isn't enough mechanical equipment in the country to clear the rubble quickly. so places like iskenderun's collapsed hospital wing stay as they are. personal medical notes litter the ruins. there are smashed pieces of equipment and medicines lying on the floor. it's a moment frozen in time. people across southern turkey simply don't know how long they'll be living like this for. some, like muzeyyen,
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want to stay as close to home as they can. she's sleeping in a tent right outside her damaged house. translation: my valuable articles are in there. - thieves are roaming around. the police are barely keeping them away. lots of thieves. how can i leave here? sprawling tented camps are the new towns. big promises have been made for a programme of permanent rebuilding. but it won't happen quickly. anna foster, bbc news, antakya. elected mayors in the north of england, say rail users face losing more than 25,000 services this year, if cancellations continue at their current rate. 0ne operator, transpennine express, has failed to run a quarter of its scheduled trains in recent months. the mayors have been meeting in newcastle today, to discuss the issue, and danny savage went along.
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7.50 this morning at northallerton. the train supposed to be at platform 1 hasn't turned up. my first train this morning is supposed to be a transpennine express service to york. but it's been cancelled. another service operated by a different company soon follows, but it's standing room only. people are fed up. terrible. it's just useless. the other night, i was stuck in york for three and a half hours waiting for a train home, and i ended up having to get my wife to come and pick me up from york. because transpennine had cancelled all the services? transpennine had cancelled all the services. every evening, transpennine express publish a list of services which are going to be cancelled the following day. their pre—amended timetable is a fantasy. i've come to york to travel up to newcastle with the mayor of west yorkshire, but she's not here because her transpennine express service was cancelled too. 45 minutes later than
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planned, she arrives. tracey, hhello, hi. hello — so good to see you! we jump on a service north and discuss transpennine woes. government must hear what is happening in the north and as the chair of the m10, ten mayors, in england, we were able to get a meeting with the transport secretary and tell him, from our lived experience, the chaos and the cancellations and how its holding us back. he's heard what we've said and now it's a political decision, obviously, for the government. finally, we arrive in newcastle. so how typical was thatjourney? as someone that goes to work monday to friday, i have this most days. it's frustrating and depressing. transpennine express acknowledged things aren't good enough, but say they are pulling out all the stops to make things better, including doubling their overtime offer to drivers. rail passengers across northern england say things have got to get better, but change isn't certain. danny savage, bbc news.
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so what is the solution? government could take the contract from trans— pennine away from them but would it make things better? it is unclear about what commuters would say is it really cannot get any worse. elise. really cannot get any worse. clive, back to yom _ really cannot get any worse. clive, back to you. danny, _ really cannot get any worse. clive, back to you. danny, thank - really cannot get any worse. clive, back to you. danny, thank you. . a year ago, the ship belonging to the explorer, sir ernest shackleton, was discovered beneath the ice of antarctica, frozen in time for more than 100 years. now the leaders of the expedition that found the wreck, have made another discovery, locating the entry for her sinking, in the archives of lloyds of london. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle, has that story. it was the shipwreck they thought would never be found, but a year ago. sir ernest shackleton's lost ship,
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endurance, was discovered, lying 3,000 metres down in the antarctic deep, almost perfectly preserved, frozen in time. but this remarkable find has set the expedition team off on another quest. this time at lloyds insurers in the city of london. whenever a large ship is lost to the sea, it is recorded in pen and ink in a loss book. it's a tradition that still happens today but it goes back to 1774 and the hope was that they would find the shackleton ship on the day she sank. we have come to where the archives are stored. there are 140 loss books going back hundreds of years. shackleton's endurance sank in november 1915 so you would expect the record to be in this loss book here for 1915. but the news of the sinking in antarctica took a while to reach london, and in fact, the record has been discovered in this book here, injune 1916. and now a century after it was written, the book is being opened up again.
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so these were the loss books from lloyds. and this is the loss book. john shears, who discovered endurance in antarctica has brought alexandra shackleton, ernest shackleton's granddaughter, to see the record. as you can see... amazing. endurance, british, crushed by ice. in the weddell sea and afterwards foundered. he would never have seen this, would he? do you know, that's a good question. it was an amazing experience. i know very little about the loss book, it's all part of the amazing pattern, more and more information surfaces. these were the final moments of endurance. captured in footage restored and released by the bfi. we know from shackleton's diary that the ship sank beneath the ice on november 21, 1915. it took the endurance crew six months and a trek of hundreds of miles to get to safety. incredibly they all survived, so shackleton was only able to send a telegram back to a newspaper
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in london at the end of may 1916. your grandfather sent a report on may 31st from the falklands. as reported by the chronicle on their late edition on the 1st. shackleton's ship, endurance, was the first ship to be insured...what lloyds called 'into the ice zone'. at that time, she was one of the strongest wooden ships ever built, so lloyds actually thought that she was a very good risk. but of course he lost the ship and lucky for him he had the insurance policy and we now know the insurance policy paid out. shackleton was paid £15,000 by the insurers weeks after the loss book entry was made. in today's money that is more than £1 million. so what will happen to the wreck now? i think she should be left as she is. it is miraculous she still exists in the wonderful beautiful form that she is. she should be left there. i've even had people come and say to me it's better if you never discover more about it but i'm very
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happy she has been discovered but i never thought there'd be images, let alone beautiful images. for now, the ship will be left, resting in the darkness of this remote corner of the world. but her stories and the discoveries will keep on coming. rebecca morelle, bbc news. apologies for the technical problems at the start of that report. a group of ten—year—olds in stockport wanted to show solidarity with one of their friends, who lost his hair during treatment for a brain tumour. so this morning, they've all turned up for school, with their heads shaven. ian haslam has more. applause. this is oliver's army arriving on stage for a school assembly with a difference. the difference being that a group of heads are about to be shaved by oliver and a team of local hairdressers. how are you feeling ahead of all this we're doing for you this morning? it's nice to know that my friends at school are supporting me. what's weird is before i had my hair
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fall out, my hair was longer than any of these. now that these guys are getting theirs shaved, i'm going to be the only one with hair! the boys themselves came up with the plan, including oliver's twin brother, george. i was, of course, devastated when i heard the news that he had cancer, and instantly ijust knew that i had to do something to help. and now we're here. what do you think of your brother doing this for you? i think he has just helped me through this so much. and so before an enthusiastic audience, it was haircut time. cheering and applause. zach and reuben, you've gone bald here. straight down the middle. how does that feel? it's crazy. yeah, i don't even - know what i look like. you look so weird. it's been a devastating time for all of us. but events like this really
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do make a difference. they describe themselves as a wall of friends around 0liver. theyjust want to protect him. they want to look after him. and they want to do everything they can to just help us get through this. is it really that bad? yes. the children have just really thought about how it must feel for 0liver at the moment. we've got such amazing examples of youngsters today and what they're able to achieve. no head shaving for you, but a lovely pink do. thank you very much. i got up very early to do this. yeah. after ten minutes or so, the cuts were complete. applause. they've supported me through all of this and i think they were just brave to do it. so you're feeling good now, boys? yep, yep. bit cold on my head, but. and how do you think you'll look now? like me. and that's good, isn't it? yeah. unless, of course, parents take the wrong children i home after school.

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