2000: Murdered schoolgirl's life celebrated
The family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has been joined by friends and hundreds of members of the public for a memorial service.
Sara and Michael Payne arrived at Guildford Cathedral with their children, Lee, Luke and Charlotte, to hear friends and family give readings and sing Sarah's favourite hymns.
Sarah's naked body was found dumped in a field in West Sussex in July more than two weeks after she disappeared from fields near her grandparents' home in East Preston.
The family insisted the service should be open to the public after the massive national outrage to the eight year old's murder in West Sussex last month.
Officers from Sussex Police also attended the service at the cathedral.
They included the man leading the murder hunt, Detective Superintendent Peter Kennet.
" Our little Sarah has gone from us, but she will live in our hearts forever"
by Fiona Crook, Sarah's aunt
Sarah's uncle, Keith Payne, read a poem about his niece, describing "her warmth, her charm, her indomitable spark".
Her aunt Fiona Crook recalled when Sarah was her bridesmaid.
She said: "Our little Sarah has gone from us, but she will live in our hearts forever and will always be remembered as `Sarah, our little princess'."
After the service, Sarah's parents released 12 white doves outside the cathedral.
Mr Payne, 31, said: "I can't think of words to say. It was fantastic and a lovely turnout."
Members of the public wept as they formed a queue to offer their condolences.
A private funeral service is expected to be held for Sarah after her body is released by the West Sussex coroner.
In Context
After Sarah's murder a tabloid newspaper began a controversial "name and shame" campaign in which the names and locations of 200 paedophiles were published.
Mr and Mrs Payne also lobbied the government for tougher laws to clamp down on sex offenders.
But they urged the public to stop the outbreaks of vigilante violence which followed the newspaper's campaign.
In December 2001 Roy Whiting, 41, from Littlehampton, West Sussex was found guilty of Sarah's murder and jailed for life.
After the trial it was revealed that Whiting was already a convicted paedophile and on the Sex Offenders register before he killed Sarah Payne.
>>August 11, 2003 at 6:52:57 PM GMT+8
1999 年 8 月 16 日 星期一 【晴】
Large sections of the town were flattened
1999: Turkey hit by huge earthquake
The most powerful earthquake ever to hit Turkey has left at least 1,000 people dead.
The earthquake measuring six-point-seven on the Richter scale struck the industrialised town of Izmit in western Turkey at just after 0300 on Tuesday local time.
Many residents of the heavily populated town were asleep in bed and had no chance of escape.
Few of Izmit's buildings were built to withstand earthquakes and whole districts collapsed.
Buildings were also destroyed in Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, about 50 miles (80 km) north west of Izmit.
Parts of the motorway between Ankara and Istanbul buckled, causing cars to crash into each other.
" May God help our country and its people" ~ Bulent Ecevit, Turkish Prime Minister
Within two hours of the initial earthquake there were 10 powerful aftershocks causing more damage and loss of life.
Rescue teams have found some people alive underneath the rubble but hopes are fading of finding many more.
Desperate relatives have also been digging with basic tools or their bare hands.
Local hospitals have been unable to cope with the flood of injured people.
Turkey's prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, has visited the devastated area and said the earthquake was the worst he had experienced.
Mr Ecevit said "The loss is huge. May God help our country and its people."
In Context
Turkey is plagued by earthquakes - generally minor - because of its location on the North Anatolian fault line.
The death toll as a result of the Izmit quake eventually reached more than 17,000.
Three months later another devastating earthquake hit the same region of Turkey killing at least 550.
>>August 17, 2003 at 3:51:34 PM GMT+8
1998 年 8 月 14 日 星期五 【晴】
1998: Dozens die in Omagh bombing At least 27 people are feared dead in the worst paramilitary bombing since the start of the Northern Ireland conflict three decades ago.
The blast in the market town of Omagh, County Tyrone, at around 1500 BST on Saturday, left more than 100 people injured or maimed.
People who survived the car bomb blast in a busy shopping area of the town have been describing scenes of carnage with the dead and dying strewn across the street.
Police received a telephone warning approximately 40 minutes before the blast.
But the location of the bomb was unclear and the wrong area was evacuated, with people being directed towards the danger zone.
By 1830 BST the number of confirmed dead had risen to 21.
"This appalling act was carried out by those opposed to the peace process" ~ Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein
Political leaders have been joined by the Queen in expressing their sympathy for the bereaved and those injured in the explosion.
Martin McGuinness, the chief negotiator for Sinn Fein, said: "This appalling act was carried out by those opposed to the peace process.
"It is designed to wreck the process and everyone should work to ensure the peace process continues."
Ulster Unionist security spokesman Ken Maginnis described the bombing as "a dreadful crime against humanity".
No group has yet admitted planting the bomb which was found to have been planted in a maroon Vauxhall Astra.
Northern Ireland's police chief Ronnie Flanagan said they would be focusing their attention on a republican splinter group calling itself the "Real IRA".
He said: "It is possible and probable that they carried out this attack.
"These are people who have murdered here today because they want to murder."
In Context
The death toll eventually reached 29. The dead included nine children and a woman pregnant with twins.
The Real IRA - a breakaway group formed after the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire - admitted planting the bomb.
In a statement the organisation apologised to the civilian casualties claiming its intended targets had been "commercial".
Its subsequent announcement of a "suspension of violence" was rejected by politicians on all sides.
In January 2002 Colm Murphy, 49, was sentenced to 14 years in jail for conspiracy to cause an explosion.
On 6 August 2003 Michael McKevitt, said to be the leader of the Real IRA, was convicted of directing terrorism and membership of an illegal organisation.
Two days later, in an unprecedented move, the British Government said it would contribute ?00,000 of public money to a civil case launched by the victims' families against those they believed to be guilty of the bombing.
>>August 17, 2003 at 4:31:11 PM GMT+8
1997 年 9 月 4 日 星期四 【陰】
Mother Teresa dies
Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87.
She died of a heart attack at the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta shortly before 1700 BST.
The Albanian nun had been battling ill health for some years, and in March stepped down as head of the order of nuns she founded.
She was revered by many around the world as a living saint for her work with the dispossessed.
The Pope often praised her work and a Vatican spokesman told reporters he was "deeply hurt" by the news of her death.
"The Pope believes she is a woman who has left her mark on the history of this century," he said.
The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales, Cardinal Hume, said she was an "enormously significant figure - everyone knows who Mother Teresa is".
Conservative stance
Born Agnes Bojaxhiu in the village of Skopje, then in Albania, she took the name Sister Teresa in Ireland, where she began her training as a nun with the Loreto Sisters.
She founded her order in 1948 and went out to work in the slums of Calcutta.
She was sometimes accused by Hindus in her adopted country of trying to convert the poor to Catholicism by "stealth" and criticised by liberals who disliked her conservative stance on abortion and contraception.
But her biographer and friend Navin Chana said she would be remembered as someone who "gave the word compassion a new dimension".
Tens of thousands of people lined the route of Mother Teresa's funeral procession in Calcutta a week later.
Her successor as head of the Missionaries of Charity was Sister Nirmala.
In 1997 the order which Mother Teresa had run for almost half a century was 4,000-strong and established in 130 countries.
It cared for 7,000 children and treated about four million sick people each year.
LINKS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/audio/38515000/rm/_38515749_7507_05_09_1997_wooldridge.ram ~
BBC's Mike Wooldridge: "She was showered with the world's honours
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/audio/38515000/rm/_38515799_7509_05_09_1997_hume.ram
Cardinal Hume: "She showed what it is to be a good human being"
>>September 5, 2003 at 1:53:31 PM GMT+8
1997 年 6 月 30 日 星期一 【颱風】
回歸前後數日
淚灑當場 不堪回首 1997: Hong Kong handed over to Chinese control Hong Kong has been handed back to the Chinese authorities - ending more than 150 years of British control.
當年今日 ~ by BBC 01:41:45 02:08:29
>>December 11, 2005 at 6:09:19 PM GMT+8
1997 年 6 月 29 日 星期日 【雨】
THE BRITISH NATIONAL ANTHEM
Like "Rule, Britannia" the National Anthem of Great Britain "God Save the King / Queen " was composed by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) and first sung in 1745 during the Jacobite invasion of England. It was performed after the staging of Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist at the Theatre Royal, London.
In an attempt to restore the Scottish House of Stuart to the throne Jacobite forces, under the leadership of Charles Edward Stuart, also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender, invaded England in 1745. They managed to defeat George II's army at Prestonpans. Bonnie Prince Charlie was proclaimed king in the market square of Preston and eventually reached the city of Derby.
The invasion constituted a serious threat to the monarchy at that time and this explains why the words of the National Anthem have the form of a prayer of petition for the safety and well-being of the monarch. The Jacobites were later defeated at Culloden 16th April 1746.
The invasion of England also explains the following anti-Scottish words that had also been inserted into the song:
Lord, grant that Marshal Wade,
May by thy mighty aid,
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush and like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush,
God save the King.
Marshall Wade, referred to in the above lines, was an officer in the army sent to halt the advance of the Jacobite troops in the north. The lines were appropriately omitted when the song was adopted as the British National Anthem.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and Glorious,
Long to reign over us;
God save the Queen!
O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
Oh, save us all!
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign;
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
Not in this land alone,
But be God's mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world over
From every latent foe,
From the assassins blow,
God save the Queen!
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!
FROM http://www.know-britain.com/songs/national_anthem.html
http://www.know-britain.com/songs/rule_britannia.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=www&start=2&go=homepage&q=god+save+the+king&scope=all
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=god+save+the+king&tab=www&go=homepage
>>March 7, 2004 at 1:32:01 PM GMT+8
1997 年 6 月 29 日 星期日 【颱風】
"God save the King/Queen"
Melody - Text & tune may date back to the 17th century first publicly performed in London, 1745
1. God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us;
God save the Queen!
2. O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all!
3. Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign;
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
4. Not in this land alone,
But be God's mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world over.
5. From every latent foe,
From the assassins blow,
God save the Queen!
O'er her thine arm extend,
For Britain's sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!
6. Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the King!
04年8月7日 星期六
Large sections of the town were flattened
Mother Teresa dies
淚灑當場 不堪回首
當年今日 ~ by BBC
THE BRITISH NATIONAL ANTHEM
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