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FORMER scout leader, Ian Stowers, was reminded of a classic Two Ronnies sketch - the one set in a hardware shop and involving ‘fork handles’ - by one of our recent ‘then and now’ nostalgia pictures. Ian says he was taken back to the 1980s and one of his regular camps in the Yorkshire Dales when he saw the old picture of Manby’s shop in Skipton (pictured) - the site of which is now occupied by women’s clotheswear shop, Phase Eight. He writes: “ As a scout leader of more than ...

Be on tv every night. >> white bystanders harassed us with homemade clubs, cursing us and blaming the press as the cause of the demonstrations. >> standing against them are the segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, an...

Demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we dont have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do harm to. >> of course there was danger. but ...

Segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we dont have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do ha...

Segregationists. >> i covered a nighttime demonstration in marion, alabama. somebody walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. somebody came up and asked me, he said, "do you need a doctor?" i put my hand behind my head, it was all bloody, and i said, "yeah, i think so." and he thrust his face right into mine, and he said, "we dont have doctors for people like you." it was personal. it was you. it was not bullets flying in the air that could hit you. it was you that they wanted to do ha...

Now, the other point about that martha people overlook is it was conceived after a black civil rights worker was shot and killed by a state trooper in marion alabama three weeks earlier. and the march was not only to demonstrate in favor of voting rights but to protest the killing of jimmy lee. >> a lot of voices wanting to be heard. you were attacked and injure indeed a protest a few weeks before selma? >> yeah. >> you were hit in the head with an axe handle. i want to show you a picture of you...

Cameras so youre sticking out. >> reporters, they didnt know who they were. so you knew you were always sort of looking over your shoulder. and a lot of photographers got hit. this guy came up. first of all we knew we were in trouble that night because local citizens had sprayed black paint on the lenses of our cameras. and the state troopers did nothing to prevent that. and when the march started -- the police waited. some guy walked up behind me and hit me with an axe handle. i stag erred. the...

Romney looks like a scary guy. thats the danger thing to democrats. he doesnt scare people. he doesnt look like, you know, a guy with an axe handle. >> his policies will hurt a lot of people. >> yeah, i mean, so you kind of have to do both. if his policies are scary, you have to make him a scary guy. >> well, he aint going to do it. >> but you have to give this positive, forward-looking view. this is why its -- >> theres so much to do in three weeks for the obama team. >> in two hours -- >> toni...

Churches and other catholic institutions. harry reid blocked the vote on the measure last week before the president blocked accommodations for religious groups. theres an uproar among catholics and they say the changes still violate their religious freedom. >> meanwhile for the first time, we are hearing from a woman who says she was nearly murdered by the so-called speed freak killers. weve been telling you about this week. heidi adams says she was driving one night in california back in the 19...