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for millions of homeowners if the government stuck to its plan. here's our political correspondent, tony bonsignore. soaring food prices, sky—high energy bills, rents and mortgages going through the roof. today the prime minister again sought to calm growing fears about the state of the economy. this week you have told people it is going to be ok. do you understand why people looking at their mortgage bills, shopping bills, worrying about keeping the roof over their heads, they will listen to you and think, "it is not going to be ok for me"? i have never said it is not challenging,...

They were landing on the beaches. And i could hear it, i could hear it all. You suddenly thought. This is a war i really had the war in my ears. We had responsiblejobs at a very young age like 19, 18 years old. And we did feel good about the fact we could contribute. Civilians and Service People got together, helped one another. You couldnt look far into the future, you might only have had a fortnights leave and then he might be killedi at the end of it. You had no idea whati was going to happen, so you just put up with it. The advertisement said join the wrens so that you could free a sailor ...

The wrens in march 1944. and when i told them that i was a gpo—trained switchboard operator, i could tell more or less that i'd be accepted. portsmouth in march—april 191m was a hive of activity. but fort southwick, which was our working place, was a very secret communications centre deep — dug deep into tunnels in the cliffs overlooking portsmouth harbour. but to get down into the tunnels,

That went to the guns in big pipes. so remember, we are walking over them pipes — not treading on them, walking over them. sometimes almost falling over. that was ourjob. so, i applied tojoin the wrens in march 1944. and when i told them that i was a gpo—trained switchboard operator, i could tell more or less that i'd be accepted. portsmouth in march—april 191m

Execution of george stinney jr. began in a small town in south carolina. in march, 1944, two white girls, ages 11 and 7, were beaten to death while picking wild flowers along the railroad tracks separating the white and black sections of town. historian george fryerson. >> their bodies were found in a creek bed in this general area, and they had been brutally murdered. >> reporter: shortly afterward authorities arrested george stinney jr. and claimed he gave an oral confession. his family was run out of town and he was tried to murder in this courthouse. ray brown who's producing a movie said ...