WORLD BREXIT REVIEW

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AP Television

London, UK - 22 February 2016

1. Wide of UK Houses of Parliament as London bus passes

2. Close of clock face at the top of Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben

AP Television

London, UK - 16 June 2016

3. Wide of Big Ben as seen from Buckingham Palace

4. Wide of Buckingham Palace

POOL

London, UK - 3 June 2012

5. Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Philip (centre), Charles (left) and Camilla (right) on royal barge during Diamond Jubilee celebrations

6. Mid of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry on royal barge

7. Pull out of royal barge sailing down River Thames during Diamond Jubilee celebrations

AP Television

London, UK - 11 June, 2016

8. Mid of Queen Elizabeth II in carriage during the Trooping of the Colour for her 90th birthday celebrations

9. Wide of Guardsmen in ceremonial marching during the celebrations

AP Television

London, UK - 1960s

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10. Close tilt down of man putting shirt in carrier bag

11. Wide of man by scooters

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London, UK - 31 October 1963

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12. Various of Beatles getting off plane in London

AP Television

London, UK - 7 June 2016

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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Johnston, Fashion Director, GQ Magazine UK

"You also think street scene, you think east London, you think hipsters, you think the most vibrant street fashion possibly in the world."

AP Television

London, UK - 3 July 2012

14. Punk and goth street fashion in Camden

AP Television

London, UK - 16 June, 2016

15. Hipster in Brick Lane cafe

16. Pull focus of street sign reading: (English) "Brick Lane E1"

17. Various of curry houses on Brick Lane

AP Television

Margate, UK - 8 June 2016

18. Various of Margate beach and people relaxing in sunshine

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Iain Aitch, Author:

"Everyone might say a Sunday roast or fish and chips, that's a quintessentially British meal, but then suddenly everyone says it's chicken tikka masala."

20. Various of takeaway fish and chips being served

AP Television

London, United Kingdom, April 30, 1973 (MUTE)

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21. Red buses on a London street

AP Television

London, United Kingdom, September 24, 1973 (MUTE)

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22. Tilt down of Ford workers walking out of various plants

23. Wide of Ford cars on a train

24. Various men take part in industrial action at Ford plant

AP Television

United Kingdom, February 10, 1974 - no exact location available

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25. Various of non functioning coal mines during national coal strike

AP Television

London, United Kingdom, June 3, 1975 (MUTE)

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26. Mid of Margaret Thatcher wearing a flags-of-Europe sweater, flanked by women also wearing pro-Europe sweaters

AP Television

Maastricht, Netherlands - 7 June 2016

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27. Clocktower of Maastricht town hall with EU, Limburg and Maastricht flags

28. Wide of streets in the town

AP Television

London, UK - 7 July 2016

29. Various of autistic teenager Rens Van Velzen completing other puzzles with black and yellow blocks against the clock

30. Close tilt down of the psychologist on the autism study at Kings College London timing Rens Van Velzen during test

31. Close of Van Velzen

32. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Declan Murphy lead scientist, EU Aims study on autism, Kings College London:

"Big questions need big populations to come up with the right answers, and we simply cannot deliver the amount of patients for the amount of science from one centre or from one country."

33. Various of Van Velzen being tested in eye tracking unit at Kings College London

AP Television

Southampton, UK - 16 September 2016

34. Wide of Southampton Boat Show 2016, cruise ship in background

35. Tilt down to pontoon, boats and visitors

36. Close of 'Sunseeker' flag

37. Various of Sunseeker 95 Yacht exterior

38. SOUNDBITE (English) Phil Popham, CEO of Sunseeker International:

"We've benefited because of the weakness of the pound, but its all about business confidence."

39. Various of Fairline yacht

40. SOUNDBITE (English) Russell Currie, Managing Director of Fairline Yachts:

"We've had an overnight decrease in the price of our boats in areas such as the European market

41. Zoom out from cruise ship docked near boat show

42. SOUNDBITE (English) Howard Pridding, Chief Executive of British Marine:

"Industry and business need stability and the time it will take to exit from the European Union will be problematic"

AP Television

Mijas, Malaga - October 6, 2016

43. Wide of coastal area of Mijas

44. Pan of typical apartments in the area and people walking by the sea side

45. Various of British pensioners taking Spanish classes in the Parnell School

46. Various of Juan Mayor Carlos Maldonado in his office

47. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Carlos Maldonado, Mayor of Mijas:

"When the results of the Brexit (referendum) were known, a big uncertainty was created."

48. Various of family walking near beach

49. Pan from people walking up steps from the beach to the owner of Royal Beach cafe talking

50. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sergio Morales, co-owner of Royal Beach bar in Mijas:

"Most of our clients here, around 80% of them, are British."

AP Television

London, UK - 1 November 2016

51. Pull focus of bronze Japanese archer

52. Mid of men admiring antique chandelier

53. Art dealer Tanya Baxter showing painting to visitor

54. Close tilt down of painting 'Paper Bride in Waiting' by Zeng Chuanxing (price £120,000/ USD 147,000)

55. Wide of antique clock stand

AP Television

London, UK - 9 November 2016

56. Mid of Tiana Wilson with Santa who is holding a Hatchimal waiting for the toy to hatch

57. Wide of girl playing with toy on chair

58. Mid zoom in to boys playing with Bluetooth Furbys

59. Low mid view of caterpillar going past boys and Furbys

60. SOUNDBITE (English) Frederique Tutt, toy industry analyst, NPD:

"Since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

AP Television

Lundby, Denmark - 22 November 2016

61. Mid tilt up of Christmas tree plantation

62. Wide of plantation through tops of trees

AP Television

Copenhagen, Denmark - 21 November 2016

63. SOUNDBITE (English) Claus Jerram Christensen, Managing Director of the Danish Christmas Tree Association:

"The low exchange rate for the sterling pound makes it more difficult to achieve the same prices."

64. Mid of large container truck filled with trees pulling out of yard stacked with trees

65. Pan across field of Christmas tree saplings for 2018 and beyond

LEADIN:

For decades Britain's discontent over its European Union (EU) membership has simmered on, but then came the June referendum.

Nationalism surfaced and Britain's voted to leave the EU.

Brexit as it became known sent shockwaves through money markets and governments around the world.

STORYLINE:

In the weeks running up to referendum judgement day, the British were busy with a little soul searching.

Mulling over their shared history, the country's pride in their democracy and heritage.

It was a year when Queen Elizabeth celebrated being the longest reigning UK monarch and the country celebrated her ninetieth birthday.

The pomp and ceremony from her recent jubilee were still a source of pride and were reminiscent of the heydays when London style was considered to be world leading.

In the 1960's British fashion and British pop were riding high.

That sense of being at the vanguard of style has continued, according to Robert Johnston the Fashion Director of GQ Magazine: "You also think street scene, you think east London, you think hipsters, you think the most vibrant street fashion possibly in the world."

Author Iain Aitch explained how a variety of heritages were now mixed up, making Britishness a more complex idea to communicate: "Everyone might say a Sunday roast or fish and chips, that's a quintessentially British meal, but then suddenly everyone says it's chicken tikka masala."

But it wasn't this hipster, Brick Lane art and curry house side of Britain that won the vote.

The referendum on June 23rd was to signal the start of a long debate.

Britons for the first time had to absorb what being outside of the EU looked like.

Britain joined what was then called the European Economic Community in January 1973.

This was ratified by a referendum in 1975 with a resounding 67% majority.

By the seventies, Britain was beset by strikes and disgruntled union workers.

Traditional industries such as manufacturing and coal were in decline in the mid seventies.

Unemployment exceeded one million for the first time in March 1975. By the August that figure had increased to 1.25 million.

Some 83,000 immigrants were living in the UK by 1975, mostly from the Commonwealth.

According to Migration Watch UK for the year ending December 2015, net migration to the UK was 333,000.

And the lady had yet to turn. Margaret Thatcher MP (then leader of the opposition) campaigned to stay in the European Economic Community.

Later as prime minister between 1979 and 1990, Thatcher was known for her tough line with Brussels, especially during negotiations for the Maastrict Treaty in 1992.

The city of Maastrict is the home of the treaty which created the EU.

As summer arrived, businesses, leading universities and research establishments were beginning to assess the impact of Brexit.

For science and medicine, concerns were two fold.

Britain had attracted thousands of top researchers as well as billions of Euros in grants.

They went into research like this at Kings College London.

This project is a multidisciplinary look at the potential causes and effects of autism. It's a long term project which is linked to other studies across Europe.

Doctors and scientists aren't worried about losing cash in the short term, but falling behind in the knowledge race in the long term, especially as Britain has sought to place itself as a central base for the new industrial technologies.

The other fear is losing the brains which have been drawn to British research, people who now fear they will need to move to other institutions to keep up with the cash and the research.

Lead scientist at King's College Professor Declan Murphy warned: "Big questions need big populations to come up with the right answers, and we simply cannot deliver the amount of patients for the amount of science from one centre from one country."

The EU's Horizon 2020 budget is 80-billion Euro which funds medicine and science research across Europe.

Britain's split from the EU will leave a funding gap as well as a brain drain, according to Murphy. He argues it will be the children with autism like Van Velzen who will lose out.

As an island nation, boat building and sales have been important to the UK.

The industry fears rough waters may be ahead for Britain's luxury yacht industry, but right now it's riding on a wave caused by the plunge in the pound's value.

Phil Popham, the CEO of Sunseeker International was cautious: "We've benefited because of the weakness of the pound, but its all about business confidence."

Others like Russell Currie, the Managing Director of Fairline Yachts, says he already had cause to worry: "We've had an overnight decrease in the price of our boats in areas such as the European market."

British Marine's chief executive Howard Pridding tried to show more confidence in the course ahead: "Obviously, industry and business need stability and the time it will take to exit from the European Union will be problematic."

An estimated 1.2 million Britons live in other EU countries, mostly France, Portugal and Spain according to Britain's House of Commons library.

But that's a conservative figure because many expats don't bother registering with their embassies or the local authorities.

At Mijas on Spain's Costa del Sol, many Brits don't want to return to Blighty.

Used to the sun, sea and cafe society, some British residents are so concerned that their lives on the Costas are threatened, that after many years they're finally learning to speak Spanish.

According to Mijas' Mayor Juan Carlos Maldonado: "When the results of the Brexit (referendum) were known, a big uncertainty was created."

Local traders are also keen to keep the British on the Costa.

Many are retired and spend their pensions here.

Bar owner Sergio Morales says: "Most of our clients here, around 80% of them, are British."

A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over British expats in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.

And it's possible a string of similar nationality schools for expats may spring up.

Not everyone was bemoaning the onset of Brexit.

The art and antique market experienced a mini boom according to London dealers at this winter fair.

The weak pound against the dollar and Euro has seen American collectors in particular start to snap up bargains with savings of beween 25 and 30 per cent compared with six months ago.

Art dealers are reporting a similar trend.

They say investors see the arts market as a safe refuge in uncertain times.

As Christmas approaches the toy industry is bracing itself and Santa is wondering whether he'll have much to be jolly about.

It's the time of year when manufacturers and retailers count on making their biggest cash bonus of the year.

According to industry analyst Frederique Tutt: "Since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

That's because toy retailers buy stock almost a year in advance and can keep prices stable, but the toy dealers here admit next year the stockings left out for Father Chrismas may have shrunk considerably.

There's nothing as Christmassy as a Christmas tree, but in Denmark the outlook for tree producers isn't quite so evergreen.

According to the Danish Christmas Tree Association, the small Scandinavian country grows around 11.5 million trees a year.

About 9.5 million of those are exported.

But these are challenging times and currency fluctuations are having an effect on trade.

Speaking about his members, Claus Jerram Christensen of the Danish Christmas Tree Association says: "They have experienced that the low exchange rate for the sterling pound makes it more difficult to achieve the same prices."

The true impact of Brexit on Britain and Europe as a whole is still to an extent unknown.

The UK government had announced it was to trigger Article 50 next March to start negotiations to leave EU.

But since then, Brexit has twice been contested in the High Court.

One ruling has already stated Britain's law makers should be allowed a vote in Parliament beforehand.

Breaking up, it seems, really is hard to do.

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Overseas tourists are flocking to the United Kingdom as the holiday shopping season approaches due to the weaker pound and worries about future visa availability following the UK's referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU), known as Brexit, this June.

"In France, because of the Brexit, we think that is better to go in England because it is cheaper. That is why I think there are so many French here, because, in every street, I can hear French people. Thanks to the Brexit," said Neline, a French tourist in London.

Some European residents are also worried it will be harder to get visas to visit the UK after it leaves the EU.

"I really wanted to come to London before Brexit because as I have a European citizenship, so it is easier for me now. But I know that after it will be harder to come, to take a visa will be very hard, so that is why we decided to come," said Sara, another French tourist in London.

British tourism authorities expect that tourists from the United States, EU, and also China will make up a large proportion of the country's overseas customers during this year's holiday shopping season.

"We see data for flight bookings, and we know that from China the flight bookings December through to the end of January are up by 38 percent. Now that is really good because it builds on strong growth from China already. We know how cost-conscious the Chinese visitors are; they get 12 percent more when they come here now because the pound is slightly weaker," said Patricia Yates, the director of VisitBritain.

London, UK - Dec 9, 2016

1. Various of Christmas decorations in the street, stores

2. Pedestrians

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Neline, French tourist (full name not given):

"In France, because of the Brexit, we think that is better to go in England because it is cheaper. And that is why I think there are so many French here, because, in every street, I can hear French person. Thanks to the Brexit."

4. Various of Christmas decorations in stores, pedestrians

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara, French tourist (full name not given):

"I really wanted to come to London before Brexit because as I have a European citizenship, so it is easier for me now. But I know that after it will be harder to come, to take a visa will be very hard, so that is why we decided to come."

6. Various of VisitBritain office, staff working

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Yates, director, VisitBritain:

"We see data for flight bookings, and we know that from China the flight bookings through December through to the end of January are up by 38 percent. Now that is really good because it builds on strong growth from China already. We know how cost-conscious the Chinese visitors are; they get 12 percent more when they come here now because the pound is slightly weaker."

8. Various of pedestrians

The threat of Brexit is delivering a Christmas shopping bonanza to Northern Ireland, where thousands visiting daily from the euro-using Republic of Ireland are finding bargains driven by the battered pound.

In the malls of Newry, a Northern Ireland town barely five miles (eight kilometres) from the United Kingdom's only frontier with an EU partner, the surge in cross-border holiday shopping underscores how far the British currency has fallen amid anxiety over a UK exit.

While the euro these days is unusually weak, the pound is far weaker, boosting price differentials on most goods.

That's been the case since May, when a majority of British voters - including 44 percent of those in Northern Ireland - shocked pollsters by voting to leave the world's largest economic union.

The pound sterling suffered its biggest fall in decades and today is worth less than 1.20 euros, about 15 percent less than a year ago.

Traffic on the approach roads to Newry is running bumper to bumper as Christmas approaches, and the heavy presence of southern Irish shoppers is obvious from the license plates that display names of their home counties.

Once visitors find a parking spot and head inside, they are confronted by a stock market-style ticker display listing each shop's competing exchange rates - right beside the spot where children queue to see Santa on his sleigh.

Many shops offer bank-beating discounts to shoppers paying in euros; a few even take euros on equal value terms to pounds.

Cathal Austin, who has managed The Quays mall for 15 years, estimates that business from Republic of Ireland shoppers is running more than 50 percent higher than last Christmas.

He's spotted customers arriving by chartered bus from as far away as Tipperary, Cork and Kerry in Ireland's southwest, four hours away or more.

But Austin worries that this pre-Brexit party could leave a bitter hangover.

He remembers how smuggling thrived and legal commerce struggled before the EU's common market in the early 1990s abolished customs checks along Ireland's meandering 310-mile (499-kilometre) border.

He fears that Brexit, when it eventually comes, could mean the return of a hard border with enforced import restrictions.

Newry's gain is commonly Dundalk's loss.

Dundalk, barely 14 miles (22 kilometres) down the road, is the nearest Republic of Ireland town and main commercial rival to Newry.

While Newry heaves with shoppers on these December weekends, Dundalk struggles to attract a fraction of the trade.

It's boom time in Newry at the moment, but many are fearful of what the future holds, with the uncertainty of Brexit hanging over the Northern Irish border towns.

Newry, Northern Ireland – 19 December 2016

1. Wide pan right of M1 motorway from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland and the town of Newry

2. Exterior of the Quays shopping centre in Newry

3. Various of information board displaying exchange rates between the euro and the British pound

4. Sign showing one euro to one pound exchange rate

5. Shoppers in the Quays

6. Various set up shots of Cathal Austin, manager of Quays shopping centre

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Cathal Austin, manager of Quays shopping centre:

"We obviously had the Brexit vote and as a result, sterling collapsed to its lowest level for a number of years and it made Newry a more attractive shopping destination for our neighbours in the Republic of Ireland."

8. Various cutaways of Austin

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Cathal Austin, Manager, Quays shopping centre:

"We haven't seen these sorts of numbers since the 'Celtic Tiger' was laid to rest in 2008."

10. Various of Christmas tree

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Cathal Austin, Manager, Quays shopping centre:

"I have bumped into the odd person with rather a lot of vodka in their shopping trolley and wondered if they're still going to be alive in a couple of months time if they drink all that vodka. But one can assume that they're either buying it for friends and neighbours, or else possibly to sell on."

12. Various set up shots of shopper Fiachra MacRaghnaill showing the alcohol he has bought

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Fiachra MacRaghnaill, environmental scientist and Newry resident:

"We were here a couple of weeks ago and it was very busy and you could just tell all the licence plates of the cars were all Dublin, County Louth, County Meath – all the border counties. They were outnumbering the Northern (Irish) cars at least two-to-one."

14. Pan cars from the Republic of Ireland in the car park at the Quays

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Fiachra MacRaghnaill, environmental scientist and Newry resident:

"I don't see the difference between giving the profits to a multinational in one country or a multinational in another country - they're multinational. I would definitely shop local in places that pay their staff more, because I think that's a better way of putting money directly into the economy, but the profits of one rich man, or the profits of another rich man doesn't really sway me either way."

16. Snowman Christmas decoration in shopping centre

17. Shoppers outside clothes store

18. SOUNDBITE (English) Caitlin Doherty, resident of Drogheda, Republic of Ireland:

"Christmas presents, and makeup, and stuff like that, clothes."

Reporter: "How much have you spent and how much have you saved here?"

"I've spent 60 pounds and I've saved at least 30 euro."

19. Set up shot of shoppers loading car

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Simone Gray, shopper from the Republic of Ireland:

"You get a lot of people flock down for drink (alcohol) and there's really not a big difference. I wouldn't be flocking down for drink. You know, I'd buy one or two bottles of wine at home and that would be it anyway, but they do flock for drink, and people are coming from as far as Dublin and Drogheda, and places like that, but the border towns (in the Republic of Ireland) are suffering."

21. Various of man dressed as Santa Claus stacking presents

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Man dressed as Santa Claus:

"Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas - and euros or stirling, Santa accepts anything you like. You come and see me. Merry Christmas."

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Jackson - 24 August 2016

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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee

"This is a great honour for me, I am going right now to invite onto the stage the man behind Brexit, and a man who led, brilliantly, the United Kingdom Independence Party in this fight and won despite all odds, despite horrible name calling, despite so many obstacles, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Nigel Farage."

2. Trump turns to look to his right for Farage, has to turn around as Farage enters stage from Trump's left side, both men shake hands and Farage walks up to microphone

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, former leader of UK Independence party and leading Brexit campaigner:

"Well thank you and good evening Mississippi. I come to you from the United Kingdom with a message of hope and a message of optimism. It's a message that says, if the little people, if the real people, if the ordinary decent people are prepared to stand up and fight for what they believe in, we can overcome the big banks, we can overcome the multi-nationals. And we did it, we made June 23rd our Independence Day when we smashed the establishment."

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STORYLINE:

The former leader of the UK Independence party appeared on stage with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, on Wednesday.

Trump paid tribute to Nigel Farage as "the man behind Brexit... who won despite all odds".

In turn, Farage said he had traveled to the US with a message of "hope... and optimism".

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SHOTLIST:

London, UK - 9 November 2016

1. Close tilt up of Hatchimals egg box the most popular toy

2. Mid of Tiana Wilson with Santa who is holding a Hatchimal waiting for the toy to hatch

3. Various of Tiana Wilson and Santa Claus listening to toy hatch

4. Close of egg showing beak poking through eggshell

5. Close of Santa Claus watching

6. Various of Santa and Wilson releasing the hatching toy

7. Close of Wilson listening to the Hatchimal sing Happy Birthday

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tiana Wilson:

"So it can walk and then it sings Happy Birthday sometimes as well and then the eyes light up in different moods and stuff."

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Grant, retailer, Chairman, Dream Toys selection committee:

"In all the years I've been selling toys, you know we've chased around Tracy Island, we've chased around Care Bears and Cabbage Patch Kids, but this seems to be just gone to another level and the thing is about Hatchimal, it comes as an egg, by nurturing it and keeping it warm the chick inside the egg starts to become warm, starts to become alive, starts to make noises and after a while it starts to spin around inside the egg and it starts pecking and it starts to break the egg open and then literally you hatch the egg."

10. Mid of Hatchimal on the floor being stroked

11. Various of packaged Hatchimals

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Grant, retailer, Chairman, Dream Toys selection committee:

"Something that's really disappointing for me as a parent and as a grandparent is that you've got the speculators involved. You've got people that are buying them when they can and putting back onto a number of the internet channels at nearly double the price, so parents who are desperate to get the toy they want for their own children are buying them from people who never wanted them, they only bought them because they wanted to make money on them, it's really disappointing, but this is going on throughout the world, it's happening in Canada, it's happening in the (United) States, it's happening in the UK, just everybody's chasing around for Hatchimals this Christmas."

13. Mid of boy playing with toy gun

14. Close tilt down of girl playing with the new Bluetooth connected Furby which responds to what she does with her smartphone, or tablet computer

15. Wide of woman showing girl how the new Furby works

16. Low wide angle of the girl tickling the Furby toy

17. Pan from Christmas tree to wide of girl walking her toy dog on a lead

18. Close of toy dog on a lead walking

19. Mid zoom out of a girl seated cuddling an interactive puppy

20. Mid zoom in to boys playing with Bluetooth Furbys

21. Low mid view of caterpillar going past boys and Furbys

22. Zoom out from wrapped Christmas presents in giant sack to reveal Santa Claus walking with analyst Frederique Tutt

23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frederique Tutt, toy industry analyst, NPD:

"Just like Brexit in June we've seen the election hasn't actually traumatised the UK market at all, so since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

24. Tracking shot past model wearing costume of Silly Sausage to boy and girl playing Silly Sausage

25. Various of Silly Sausage toys being played

26. Wide of new range of Barbie dolls

27. Close tilt up of one of the new 'curvy' Barbie

28. Close tilt down from new afro Caribbean Barbie

29. Various of Barbies

30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frederique Tutt, toy industry analyst, NPD:

"Probably ten percent. If we had to put a figure I would say there is a risk toys can increase by ten percent (in 2017)."

31. Close of bendy and stretchy muscle man toy

32. UPSOUND: (English) voice of Darth Vader from Star Wars over tilt up shot of Vader model

"Release your anger. If you only knew the power of the dark side."

33. Wide of Darth Vader model

34. Various of children playing with dog in a bath toy

35. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Grant, retailer, Chairman, Dream Toys selection committee:

"Many decisions that people are considering are on pause until we know the outcome of some of the discussions that are taking place about free passage of goods, movement of people and so on."

36. Zoom in of boy stroking interactive puppy

LEADIN:

Retailers in the UK have just revealed their top twelve 'must have' toys for boys and girls this Christmas.

The toy industry is predicting bumper sales, although it admits the US election of Donald Trump and Britain's EU exit vote earlier this year could lead to higher prices in 2017.

STORYLINE:

This is the toy everyone is raving about in the run up to Christmas.

Hatchimals respond to nurturing and warmth until eventually the egg cracks open and you have a new chick to take care of.

It's one of twelve toys which have made it to the list of Dream Toys which are selected each year by the industry.

Santa Claus and school girl Tiana Wilson are clearly fascinated and the excitement builds up as the chick starts hatching.

Wilson happily lists the toys attractions: "So it can walk and then it sings Happy Birthday sometimes as well and then the eyes light up in different moods and stuff."

A lot of interactive, or responsive toys like Hatchimals are most popular this winter, although the old favourites like Thomas the Tank Engine and Lego have secured places on the top toy list.

Toys like Furby have been updated with new technology so they are connected to computers via bluetooth.

Gary Grant the chairman of Dream Toys' selection committee says: "In all the years I've been selling toys, you know we've chased around Tracy Island, we've chased around Care Bears and Cabbage Patch Kids, but this seems to be just gone to another level and the thing is about Hatchimal, it comes as an egg, by nurturing it and keeping it warm the chick inside the egg starts to become warm, starts to become alive, starts to make noises and after a while it starts to spin around inside the egg and it starts pecking and it starts to break the egg open and then literally you hatch the egg."

Securing a Hatchimal this year might be tricky. According to Grant, there is already a worldwide shortage of the toy because the factory can't make enough of them.

Globally the demand for the Hatchimal is over a quarter of a million units, and the company expects to sell over 100,000 toys at around £60 each.

Grant says the shortage has meant some people are buying them to resell at a profit.

He says: "Something that's really disappointing for me as a parent and as a grandparent is that you've got the speculators involved. You've got people that are buying them when they can and putting back onto a number of the internet channels at nearly double the price, so parents who are desperate to get the toy they want for their own children are buying them from people who never wanted them, they only bought them because they wanted to make money on them, it's really disappointing, but this is going on throughout the world, it's happening in Canada, it's happening in the (United) States, it's happening in the UK, just everybody's chasing around for Hatchimals this Christmas."

One of the less expensive toys making the list this year is the Silly Sausage which tests your dexterity.

This is the new Barbie range developed to reflect the diversity in our societies.

The shape of the dolls is less extreme and more in keeping with natural proportions of young women.

There is even a 'curvy' Barbie, but you have to look closely to tell the difference between them.

There is a great deal of trepidation in the industry.

Analysts say 2015 was a record year with the global market valued at 86 billion dollars with an average growth of 7% across all the major markets.

But the US election and Britain's withdrawal from the EU is creating a great deal of uncertainty, over currency values and more importantly the security of existing trade deals.

Frederique Tutt, a global analyst who's a specialist on the toy industry says we shouldn't assume that it's going to be a gloomy future.

Tutt says: "Just like Brexit in June we've seen the election hasn't actually traumatised the UK market at all, so since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

Toy retailers operate many months ahead so Tutt says there won't be price rises this year.

This is because trading is done in US dollars and most companies will have already stocked up on the currency to hedge against any drastic changes.

Tutt however admits price increases are likely next year and she says: "Probably ten percent. If we had to put a figure I would say there is a risk toys can rise by ten percent (in 2017)."

This Darth Vader is more of an adult toy.

Hidden sensors mean he can call out when you least expect him to.

Although there's the same old excitement about the approach of the winter holidays and the biggest gift buying time of the year, the industry is concerned about what lies ahead.

Grant says: "Many decisions that people are considering are on pause until we know the outcome of some of the discussions that are taking place about free passage of goods, movement of people and so on."

They say a puppy isn't just for Christmas, but sometimes they are.

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Retailers in the UK have just revealed their top twelve 'must have' toys for boys and girls this Christmas.

The toy industry is predicting bumper sales, although it admits the US election of Donald Trump and Britain's EU exit vote earlier this year could lead to higher prices in 2017.

STORY-LINE:

This is the toy everyone is raving about in the run up to Christmas.

Hatchimals respond to nurturing and warmth until eventually the egg cracks open and you have a new chick to take care of.

It's one of twelve toys which have made it to the list of Dream Toys which are selected each year by the industry.

Santa Claus and school girl Tiana Wilson are clearly fascinated and the excitement builds up as the chick starts hatching.

Wilson happily lists the toys attractions: "So it can walk and then it sings Happy Birthday sometimes as well and then the eyes light up in different moods and stuff."

A lot of interactive, or responsive toys like Hatchimals are most popular this winter, although the old favourites like Thomas the Tank Engine and Lego have secured places on the top toy list.

Toys like Furby have been updated with new technology so they are connected to computers via bluetooth.

Gary Grant the chairman of Dream Toys' selection committee says: "In all the years I've been selling toys, you know we've chased around Tracy Island, we've chased around Care Bears and Cabbage Patch Kids, but this seems to be just gone to another level and the thing is about Hatchimal, it comes as an egg, by nurturing it and keeping it warm the chick inside the egg starts to become warm, starts to become alive, starts to make noises and after a while it starts to spin around inside the egg and it starts pecking and it starts to break the egg open and then literally you hatch the egg."

Securing a Hatchimal this year might be tricky. According to Grant, there is already a worldwide shortage of the toy because the factory can't make enough of them.

Globally the demand for the Hatchimal is over a quarter of a million units, and the company expects to sell over 100,000 toys at around £60 each.

Grant says the shortage has meant some people are buying them to resell at a profit.

He says: "Something that's really disappointing for me as a parent and as a grandparent is that you've got the speculators involved. You've got people that are buying them when they can and putting back onto a number of the internet channels at nearly double the price, so parents who are desperate to get the toy they want for their own children are buying them from people who never wanted them, they only bought them because they wanted to make money on them, it's really disappointing, but this is going on throughout the world, it's happening in Canada, it's happening in the (United) States, it's happening in the UK, just everybody's chasing around for Hatchimals this Christmas."

One of the less expensive toys making the list this year is the Silly Sausage which tests your dexterity.

This is the new Barbie range developed to reflect the diversity in our societies.

The shape of the dolls is less extreme and more in keeping with natural proportions of young women.

There is even a 'curvy' Barbie, but you have to look closely to tell the difference between them.

There is a great deal of trepidation in the industry.

Analysts say 2015 was a record year with the global market valued at 86 billion dollars with an average growth of 7% across all the major markets.

But the US election and Britain's withdrawal from the EU is creating a great deal of uncertainty, over currency values and more importantly the security of existing trade deals.

Frederique Tutt, a global analyst who's a specialist on the toy industry says we shouldn't assume that it's going to be a gloomy future.

Tutt says: "Just like Brexit in June we've seen the election hasn't actually traumatised the UK market at all, so since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

Toy retailers operate many months ahead so Tutt says there won't be price rises this year.

This is because trading is done in US dollars and most companies will have already stocked up on the currency to hedge against any drastic changes.

Tutt however admits price increases are likely next year and she says: "Probably ten percent. If we had to put a figure I would say there is a risk toys can rise by ten percent (in 2017)."

This Darth Vader is more of an adult toy.

Hidden sensors mean he can call out when you least expect him to.

Although there's the same old excitement about the approach of the winter holidays and the biggest gift buying time of the year, the industry is concerned about what lies ahead.

Grant says: "Many decisions that people are considering are on pause until we know the outcome of some of the discussions that are taking place about free passage of goods, movement of people and so on."

They say a puppy isn't just for Christmas, but sometimes they are.

London, UK - 9 November 2016

1. Close tilt up of Hatchimals egg box the most popular toy

2. Mid of Tiana Wilson with Santa who is holding a Hatchimal waiting for the toy to hatch

3. Various of Tiana Wilson and Santa Claus listening to toy hatch

4. Close of egg showing beak poking through eggshell

5. Close of Santa Claus watching

6. Various of Santa and Wilson releasing the hatching toy

7. Close of Wilson listening to the Hatchimal sing Happy Birthday

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tiana Wilson:

"So it can walk and then it sings Happy Birthday sometimes as well and then the eyes light up in different moods and stuff."

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Grant, retailer, Chairman, Dream Toys selection committee:

"In all the years I've been selling toys, you know we've chased around Tracy Island, we've chased around Care Bears and Cabbage Patch Kids, but this seems to be just gone to another level and the thing is about Hatchimal, it comes as an egg, by nurturing it and keeping it warm the chick inside the egg starts to become warm, starts to become alive, starts to make noises and after a while it starts to spin around inside the egg and it starts pecking and it starts to break the egg open and then literally you hatch the egg."

10. Mid of Hatchimal on the floor being stroked

11. Various of packaged Hatchimals

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Grant, retailer, Chairman, Dream Toys selection committee:

"Something that's really disappointing for me as a parent and as a grandparent is that you've got the speculators involved. You've got people that are buying them when they can and putting back onto a number of the internet channels at nearly double the price, so parents who are desperate to get the toy they want for their own children are buying them from people who never wanted them, they only bought them because they wanted to make money on them, it's really disappointing, but this is going on throughout the world, it's happening in Canada, it's happening in the (United) States, it's happening in the UK, just everybody's chasing around for Hatchimals this Christmas."

13. Mid of boy playing with toy gun

14. Close tilt down of girl playing with the new Bluetooth connected Furby which responds to what she does with her smartphone, or tablet computer

15. Wide of woman showing girl how the new Furby works

16. Low wide angle of the girl tickling the Furby toy

17. Pan from Christmas tree to wide of girl walking her toy dog on a lead

18. Close of toy dog on a lead walking

19. Mid zoom out of a girl seated cuddling an interactive puppy

20. Mid zoom in to boys playing with Bluetooth Furbys

21. Low mid view of caterpillar going past boys and Furbys

22. Zoom out from wrapped Christmas presents in giant sack to reveal Santa Claus walking with analyst Frederique Tutt

23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frederique Tutt, toy industry analyst, NPD:

"Just like Brexit in June we've seen the election hasn't actually traumatised the UK market at all, so since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

24. Tracking shot past model wearing costume of Silly Sausage to boy and girl playing Silly Sausage

25. Various of Silly Sausage toys being played

26. Wide of new range of Barbie dolls

27. Close tilt up of one of the new 'curvy' Barbie

28. Close tilt down from new afro Caribbean Barbie

29. Various of Barbies

30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Frederique Tutt, toy industry analyst, NPD:

"Probably ten percent. If we had to put a figure I would say there is a risk toys can increase by ten percent (in 2017)."

31. Close of bendy and stretchy muscle man toy

32. UPSOUND: (English) voice of Darth Vader from Star Wars over tilt up shot of Vader model

"Release your anger. If you only knew the power of the dark side."

33. Wide of Darth Vader model

34. Various of children playing with dog in a bath toy

35. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gary Grant, retailer, Chairman, Dream Toys selection committee:

"Many decisions that people are considering are on pause until we know the outcome of some of the discussions that are taking place about free passage of goods, movement of people and so on."

36. Zoom in of boy stroking interactive puppy

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Britain has voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign.

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Britain has voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign.

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London - 24 June 2016

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Independent Party leader and "Leave" campaigner:

"Let June the 23rd go down in our history as our Independence Day."

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Farage, UK Independent Party leader and "Leave" campaigner:

"I hope this victory brings down this failed project and leads us to a Europe of sovereign nation states, trading together, being friends together, cooperating together, and let's get rid of the flag, the anthem, Brussels and all that has gone wrong."

SOUNDBITE (English) Caroline Lucas, Green Member of Parliament:

"I think it's a devastating result .I think, as many people have said, it does demonstrate the level of division and anger, actually, in the country. It really is a wake up call for Westminster. We've had basically rebellion against the party leaders that represent around 98 percent of MPs at Westminster and I think this is really going to shake up the political system and my hope is from that, I suppose, is that something good can come out of it.

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4040960

LEAD IN

Britons are preparing to vote in a referendum on June 23rd on whether to remain in the European Union.

The last time there was such a vote was in 1975, when the UK was experiencing industrial action, political infighting, maxi skirts and the birth of David Beckham.

STORY-LINE :

In the early 1970s hemlines dropped as inflation grew and economic growth stagnated.

The happy carefree days of the swinging sixties seemed a world away, as angry punks took centre stage.

Jamie Oliver, Russell Brand and that symbol of turn of the century Britain, David Beckham, were all babes in arms in the year that Britain first voted on continued member ship of the EEC.

Brand was just one day old, having being born on June 4, a day before the poll.

In 1975 Microsoft was founded by 19 year old Bill gates and 22 year old Paul Allen, the company would help revolutionised our relationship with technology with its popualr line of personal computers.

Britain joined the European Economic Community, as the EU was then called, in 1973.

But it was a rocky union from the start and three years later Harold Wilson's Labour Party government held a referendum on membership in 5 June 1975.

Wilson had won the British general election on a platform that included a pledge to renegotiate the terms of British membership in the EEC, and the issue split his party.

Wilson led the successful referendum campaign that secured Britain's membership in the European Community under renegotiated terms of membership.

The new leader of the opposition Conservative party, Margaret Thatcher, also campaigned to remain in the European Union in 1975.

She later became prime minister between 1979 and 1990, and as prime minister she became known for her tough line with Brussels.

Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London says the issue of Europe has long troubled British politicians.

"The parties has flipped and flopped over their views of Europe all the way through since the 1960s and in the early 1970s the Labour party was in a way as divided then as the Conservative party is today. "

In 1975 a majority of 67 percent said "yes" to the question: Do you think that the United Kingdom should remain part of the European Community ?

Though membership was secured, the divides within Labour didn't go away, with many leading Cabinet ministers viewing the EEC as incompatible with the aims of socialism.

That fissure, among others, would weaken Labour and pave the way for the election in 1979 of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Times were tough and globalisation threatend traditional British industry. The great powershouses of the industrial revolution were fading away. Industrial disputes were a common occurence.

"Many of the great industries which had been part of Britain's pioneering of the industrial revoultion were being hollowed out. We were pouring a lot of money into them because many of them were nationalised and the tax payer was paying hundreds of millions to keep things like shipbuilding and steel going, but unfortunately we were making the kind of goods that were too expensive and not that well designed and so our car industry for example began to fold" explains Goldman.

The industrial world gave way to a more serviced based economy. But the virtual marketplace was still a long way off says Dejan Sudjic, Director of London's Design Museum.

"The idea that you could have a computing power on your desk was extraordinary, furturistic and mad."

Life was still very traditional says Goldman, family lesiure in the 1970s meant a day at the beach.

"Still very traditional (lifestyle). Still very simple, obviously none of the technologies that we use to fill our time, people went for their holiday and their leisure locally to the seaside whereever that might be, whichever was closest to them. Foreign travel was still quite rare the package holiday was starting but it was really for the more wealthy people."

But a shadow hung in the air, as the threat of terrorism was spreading from neighbouring Ireland and the Middle East.

Irish republicans, who wanted a divided Ireland reunited and a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, had begun targeting mainland Britian.

The pub bombings in Birmingham in 1974 killed 21 people.

" 1974 is the day or the year of the famous Birmingham pub bombings, that was the moment when we realised that terror wouldn't stay in Ulster (Northern Ireland) and Londonderry, it was going to come to London, Birmingham and other places on the mainland as well. Terrorism in the Middle East was also new it was brought home to us in the Munich Olympics in 1972, when terror of course leading to the deaths of athletes reminded us of how vunerable major events are. But all this was relatively new at the time and shocking because of that since then of course we have had to cope with it as almost kind of a normal part of life, the threat that is ever present."

During the 1972 Munich Games, eight Palestinian gunmen, members of the Black September militant group entered the Olympic Village and took Israeli team members hostage.

A day later, all 11 were dead.

The drama started before dawn on Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of a Palestinian terrorist group called Black September clambered over the unguarded fence of the Olympic village.

Wearing track suits and carrying weapons concealed in athletics bags, they burst into the building where the Israeli team was staying, shooting dead wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossi Romano.

Some Israeli athletes slipped through a back door but nine were seized and tied to furniture. The terrorists demanded the release of more than 200 Palestinians held by Israel.

After a day of tense negotiations, the terrorists and their hostages were allowed to leave aboard two helicopters for the Fuerstenfeldbruck military airfield 16 miles away. The terrorists were promised a plane and safe passage to Cairo, Egypt.

Sharpshooters at the airfield opened fire as the terrorists and the hostages prepared to board a Lufthansa jet.

The guerrillas tossed grenades at the hostages, and one of the helicopters was blown up by a terrorist grenade. When the fighting died down, all nine Israeli captives were dead, along with five of their captors and one German policeman.

In the seventies the Soviet American space race was still underway...but by 1975 it had become more co-operative.

Goldman says "If you grew up in the 1960s and early 1970s space was a very exciting element of the kind of public discourse of television and the media of the age because both the Americans and the Soviets were involved in competition to put a man on the moon and develop space through satellites and so forth"

In July 1975, an American Apollo spaceship docked with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

The three-man American Apollo crew docked with a two-member Soviet team in Soyuz and the five conducted the first international manned experiments in space.

Today international teams of astronauts and cosmonauts collaborate onboard the International Space Station high above the earth.

One of the major themes of the current referendum debate is immigration.

The 1960s and 1970s saw large numbers of people moving to Britain from former colonies.

"Immigration was already an issue in Britain. It had been since the mid and late 1960s, so it is not as if some of the questions we are debating today are wholly new..far from it." adds Goldman.

West Indians, people from the English-speaking Caribbean, came mainly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mostly for jobs in public transport. Asian immigration peaked in the 1970s.

Immigrants included Asians from East Africa, fleeing from or expelled by countries that had gained independence from Britain. The largest single group was 27,000 Asians, who were among 70,000 Asians expelled and their property seized by dictator Idi Amin in Uganda in 1972.

The non-white population, excluding those born in Britain, was 418,000 in the 1961 government census and 930,000 in the 1971 count.

Today 8 million people or 14% of the UK population belong to an ethnic minority according to 'A Portrait of Modern Britain' published in 2014 by Policy Exchange, a UK based think tank. The report added that most ethnic people live in urban areas.

In the early 1970s Britain's class system exerted more control over people's lives than now and Europe was another place - an expensive flight or ferry journey away.

Sudjic says times have changed and today the British are less frightened of foreign food and habits.

"The things that we eat, the things we have in our home have been transformed utterly. Britain was suspicious of something called garlic in those days, we drank more beer than we drink wine. Britain was still finding that France was full of exotic stuff like snails and onions. We have embraced all that."

Today Paris is a short (ish) train journey away, Londoners can nip off to the French capital for lunch at a boulveard cafe on the Champs Elysee.

Will Britons continued that awkward embrace or unfriend their neighbours across the sea ?

The EU referendum takes place on June 23, 2016.

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4040960

LEAD IN

Britons are preparing to vote in a referendum on June 23rd on whether to remain in the European Union.

The last time there was such a vote was in 1975, when the UK was experiencing industrial action, political infighting, maxi skirts and the birth of David Beckham.

STORY-LINE :

In the early 1970s hemlines dropped as inflation grew and economic growth stagnated.

The happy carefree days of the swinging sixties seemed a world away, as angry punks took centre stage.

Jamie Oliver, Russell Brand and that symbol of turn of the century Britain, David Beckham, were all babes in arms in the year that Britain first voted on continued member ship of the EEC.

Brand was just one day old, having being born on June 4, a day before the poll.

In 1975 Microsoft was founded by 19 year old Bill gates and 22 year old Paul Allen, the company would help revolutionised our relationship with technology with its popualr line of personal computers.

Britain joined the European Economic Community, as the EU was then called, in 1973.

But it was a rocky union from the start and three years later Harold Wilson's Labour Party government held a referendum on membership in 5 June 1975.

Wilson had won the British general election on a platform that included a pledge to renegotiate the terms of British membership in the EEC, and the issue split his party.

Wilson led the successful referendum campaign that secured Britain's membership in the European Community under renegotiated terms of membership.

The new leader of the opposition Conservative party, Margaret Thatcher, also campaigned to remain in the European Union in 1975.

She later became prime minister between 1979 and 1990, and as prime minister she became known for her tough line with Brussels.

Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London says the issue of Europe has long troubled British politicians.

"The parties has flipped and flopped over their views of Europe all the way through since the 1960s and in the early 1970s the Labour party was in a way as divided then as the Conservative party is today. "

In 1975 a majority of 67 percent said "yes" to the question: Do you think that the United Kingdom should remain part of the European Community ?

Though membership was secured, the divides within Labour didn't go away, with many leading Cabinet ministers viewing the EEC as incompatible with the aims of socialism.

That fissure, among others, would weaken Labour and pave the way for the election in 1979 of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Times were tough and globalisation threatend traditional British industry. The great powershouses of the industrial revolution were fading away. Industrial disputes were a common occurence.

"Many of the great industries which had been part of Britain's pioneering of the industrial revoultion were being hollowed out. We were pouring a lot of money into them because many of them were nationalised and the tax payer was paying hundreds of millions to keep things like shipbuilding and steel going, but unfortunately we were making the kind of goods that were too expensive and not that well designed and so our car industry for example began to fold" explains Goldman.

The industrial world gave way to a more serviced based economy. But the virtual marketplace was still a long way off says Dejan Sudjic, Director of London's Design Museum.

"The idea that you could have a computing power on your desk was extraordinary, furturistic and mad."

Life was still very traditional says Goldman, family lesiure in the 1970s meant a day at the beach.

"Still very traditional (lifestyle). Still very simple, obviously none of the technologies that we use to fill our time, people went for their holiday and their leisure locally to the seaside whereever that might be, whichever was closest to them. Foreign travel was still quite rare the package holiday was starting but it was really for the more wealthy people."

But a shadow hung in the air, as the threat of terrorism was spreading from neighbouring Ireland and the Middle East.

Irish republicans, who wanted a divided Ireland reunited and a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, had begun targeting mainland Britian.

The pub bombings in Birmingham in 1974 killed 21 people.

" 1974 is the day or the year of the famous Birmingham pub bombings, that was the moment when we realised that terror wouldn't stay in Ulster (Northern Ireland) and Londonderry, it was going to come to London, Birmingham and other places on the mainland as well. Terrorism in the Middle East was also new it was brought home to us in the Munich Olympics in 1972, when terror of course leading to the deaths of athletes reminded us of how vunerable major events are. But all this was relatively new at the time and shocking because of that since then of course we have had to cope with it as almost kind of a normal part of life, the threat that is ever present."

During the 1972 Munich Games, eight Palestinian gunmen, members of the Black September militant group entered the Olympic Village and took Israeli team members hostage.

A day later, all 11 were dead.

The drama started before dawn on Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of a Palestinian terrorist group called Black September clambered over the unguarded fence of the Olympic village.

Wearing track suits and carrying weapons concealed in athletics bags, they burst into the building where the Israeli team was staying, shooting dead wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossi Romano.

Some Israeli athletes slipped through a back door but nine were seized and tied to furniture. The terrorists demanded the release of more than 200 Palestinians held by Israel.

After a day of tense negotiations, the terrorists and their hostages were allowed to leave aboard two helicopters for the Fuerstenfeldbruck military airfield 16 miles away. The terrorists were promised a plane and safe passage to Cairo, Egypt.

Sharpshooters at the airfield opened fire as the terrorists and the hostages prepared to board a Lufthansa jet.

The guerrillas tossed grenades at the hostages, and one of the helicopters was blown up by a terrorist grenade. When the fighting died down, all nine Israeli captives were dead, along with five of their captors and one German policeman.

In the seventies the Soviet American space race was still underway...but by 1975 it had become more co-operative.

Goldman says "If you grew up in the 1960s and early 1970s space was a very exciting element of the kind of public discourse of television and the media of the age because both the Americans and the Soviets were involved in competition to put a man on the moon and develop space through satellites and so forth"

In July 1975, an American Apollo spaceship docked with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

The three-man American Apollo crew docked with a two-member Soviet team in Soyuz and the five conducted the first international manned experiments in space.

Today international teams of astronauts and cosmonauts collaborate onboard the International Space Station high above the earth.

One of the major themes of the current referendum debate is immigration.

The 1960s and 1970s saw large numbers of people moving to Britain from former colonies.

"Immigration was already an issue in Britain. It had been since the mid and late 1960s, so it is not as if some of the questions we are debating today are wholly new..far from it." adds Goldman.

West Indians, people from the English-speaking Caribbean, came mainly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mostly for jobs in public transport. Asian immigration peaked in the 1970s.

Immigrants included Asians from East Africa, fleeing from or expelled by countries that had gained independence from Britain. The largest single group was 27,000 Asians, who were among 70,000 Asians expelled and their property seized by dictator Idi Amin in Uganda in 1972.

The non-white population, excluding those born in Britain, was 418,000 in the 1961 government census and 930,000 in the 1971 count.

Today 8 million people or 14% of the UK population belong to an ethnic minority according to 'A Portrait of Modern Britain' published in 2014 by Policy Exchange, a UK based think tank. The report added that most ethnic people live in urban areas.

In the early 1970s Britain's class system exerted more control over people's lives than now and Europe was another place - an expensive flight or ferry journey away.

Sudjic says times have changed and today the British are less frightened of foreign food and habits.

"The things that we eat, the things we have in our home have been transformed utterly. Britain was suspicious of something called garlic in those days, we drank more beer than we drink wine. Britain was still finding that France was full of exotic stuff like snails and onions. We have embraced all that."

Today Paris is a short (ish) train journey away, Londoners can nip off to the French capital for lunch at a boulveard cafe on the Champs Elysee.

Will Britons continued that awkward embrace or unfriend their neighbours across the sea ?

The EU referendum takes place on June 23, 2016.

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London, United Kingdom, April 3, 1973 (MUTE)

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1. Mid of model wearing brown suit by Mary Quant

2. Mid of model wearing turquoise wool skirt by Donegal Designs

3. Mid of model wearing printed chiffon evening dress by Ossie Clark

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January 9, 1978

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4. Punk group (Sex Pistols) playing and singing.

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5. Jennifer Aniston, poses with Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools at a film premiere

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New York, 9 September 2014

6. Various shots David Beckham at clothes event

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7. Arrival of Russell Brand at an event

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Rome, Italy, 3 September 1995

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8. Bill Gates enters conference room

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9. In this 1984 file photo, Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp., is shown.

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10. Close-up Gates

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11. Various of shoppers and supermarkets

12. Cars on London street

13. Harold Wilson and wife pose for press at country home.

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14. Mid of Margaret Thatcher wearing a flags-of-Europe sweater, flanked by women also wearing pro-Europe sweaters

15. Mid of Thatcher trying to light a candle / torch

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16. Set up Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"The parties has flipped and flopped over their views of Europe all the way through since the 1960s and in the early 1970s the Labour party was in its way as divided then as the conservative party is today. "

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, April 26, 1975

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18. Wide of Labour Party Conference

19. Harold Wilson addressing conference

UPSOUND : (English) Harold Wilson, Labour Party Leader and Prime Minister in 1975

" On this very fundamental test I know I will not convince those who take a different view, nor will they convince me in the light of my practical experience. But I believe it will be on this question above all others that a decision is finally taken by the people as a whole." Cutaway Michael Foot MP.

AP TELEVISION

United Kingdom, Feburary 10, 1974 - no exact location available (MUTE)

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20. Various of non functioning coal mine during national coal strike

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"Many of the great industries which had been part of Britain's pioneering of the industrial revoultion were being hollowed out. We were pouring a lot of money into them because many of them were nationalised, and the tax payer was paying hundreds of millions to keep things like shipbuilding and steel going, but unfortunately we were making the kind of goods that were too expensive and not that well designed and so our car industry for example began to fold."

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, September 24, 1973 (MUTE)

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22. Ford workers walking out of various plants

23. Wide of Ford cars on train

24. Wide entrance to a Ford plant, minimal activity

25. Mid sign Gate 1 Engine Plant

26. Tracking shot along halted production line of Ford engines

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dejan Sudjic, Director of Design Museum

" Computers were still the size of a room. The idea that you could have a computing power on your desk would have seemed extraordinary, furturistic and mad."

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 3, 1975 (MUTE)

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28. Various of people in an office

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"Still very traditional (lifestyle). Still very simple, obviously none of the technologies that we use to fill our time, people went for their holiday and their leisure locally to the seaside whereever that might be, whichever was closest to them. Foreign travel was still quite rare the package holiday was starting but it was really for the more wealthy people."

AP TELEVISION

Bournemouth, United Kingdom (undated 1973) (MUTE)

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30. Various of people at the seaside

AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/BROADCAST USE ONLY/STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE

Birmingham, United Kingdom, 22 November 1974

31. STILL showing a general view of wreckage inside The Mulberry Bush public house, one of two pubs bombed in Birmingham in 1974

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, December 27, 1973 (MUTE)

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32. Various of aftermath of IRA bombing of Stevedore pub

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

" 1974 is the day or the year of the famous Birmingham pub bombings, that was the moment when we realised that terror wouldn't stay in Ulster (Northern Ireland) and Londonderry, it was going to come to London, Birmingham and other places on the mainland as well. Terrorism in the Middle East was also new it was brought home to us in the Munich Olympics in 1972, when terror of course leading to the deaths of athletes reminded us of how vunerable major events were. But all this was relatively new at the time and shocking because of that since then of course we have had to cope with it as almost kind of a normal part of life, the threat that is ever present."

AP IMAGES

34. In this Sept. 5, 1972, file photo, a member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage.

35. West German policemen wearing sweatsuits, bullet-proof vests and armed with submachine guns, take up positions on September 5, 1972 on Olympic Village rooftops where armed Palestine commandos were holding Israeli team members hostage

36. Ankie Spitzer, widow of the Israeli fencing coach, Andre Spitzer, who was slain by Arab terrorists Sept. 5, surveys the room where the incident occurred at Munich's Olympic Village in West Germany on Sept. 8, 1972. The chalk circles on the wall were made by West German police to trace the impact of the bullets.

NASA

Date and location unknown (1975)

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37. Rocket launch

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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38. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"If you grew up in the 1960s and early 1970s space was a very exciting element of the kind of public discourse of the television and the media of the age because both the Americans and the Soviets were involved in competition to put a man on the moon and to develop space through satellites and so forth"

NASA

Date and location unknown (1975)

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39. Soyuz and Apollo join together, astronauts and cosmonauts meet

AP TELEVISION (MUTE)

no exact dates or locations available, UK 1974

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40. Wide of building site

41. Man working on building site

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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42. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"Immigration was already an issue in Britain. It had been since the mid and late 1960s, so it is not as if some of the questions we are debating today are wholly new..far from it."

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, September 24, 1973 (MUTE)

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43. Various men take part in industrial action at Ford plant, ethnic minorities amongst them

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, April 30, 1973 (MUTE)

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44. Various of rail station during national strike

45. Various of street scenes, buses

AP TELEVISION

Ascot, United Kingdom, June 17, 1974 (MUTE)

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46. The Queen in a carriage

47. Wide of racegoers in top hats

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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48. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dejan Sudjic, Director of Design Museum

"The things that we eat, the things we have in our home have been transformed utterly. Britain was suspicious of something called garlic in those days, we drank more beer than we drink wine. People were still finding that France was exotic, full of dangerous stuff like snails and onions. We have embraced all that."

AP TELEVISION

Cannes, France - May 11 1973 (MUTE)

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49. Various of Cannes

50. Mid tilt up of woman sunbathing

AP TELEVISION

Paris, France - October 20, 1970 (MUTE)

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51. Wide of Eiffel Tower

AP TELEVISION

Paris, France - July 26, 1975 (MUTE)

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52. Various of models showing off clothes by designer Ted Lapidus on Parisian street at boulevard cafe

LEAD IN

Britons are preparing to vote in a referendum on June 23rd on whether to remain in the European Union.

The last time there was such a vote was in 1975, when the UK was experiencing industrial action, political infighting, maxi skirts and the birth of David Beckham.

STORY-LINE :

In the early 1970s hemlines dropped as inflation grew and economic growth stagnated.

The happy carefree days of the swinging sixties seemed a world away, as angry punks took centre stage.

Jamie Oliver, Russell Brand and that symbol of turn of the century Britain, David Beckham, were all babes in arms in the year that Britain first voted on continued member ship of the EEC.

Brand was just one day old, having being born on June 4, a day before the poll.

In 1975 Microsoft was founded by 19 year old Bill gates and 22 year old Paul Allen, the company would help revolutionised our relationship with technology with its popualr line of personal computers.

Britain joined the European Economic Community, as the EU was then called, in 1973.

But it was a rocky union from the start and three years later Harold Wilson's Labour Party government held a referendum on membership in 5 June 1975.

Wilson had won the British general election on a platform that included a pledge to renegotiate the terms of British membership in the EEC, and the issue split his party.

Wilson led the successful referendum campaign that secured Britain's membership in the European Community under renegotiated terms of membership.

The new leader of the opposition Conservative party, Margaret Thatcher, also campaigned to remain in the European Union in 1975.

She later became prime minister between 1979 and 1990, and as prime minister she became known for her tough line with Brussels.

Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London says the issue of Europe has long troubled British politicians.

"The parties has flipped and flopped over their views of Europe all the way through since the 1960s and in the early 1970s the Labour party was in a way as divided then as the Conservative party is today. "

In 1975 a majority of 67 percent said "yes" to the question: Do you think that the United Kingdom should remain part of the European Community ?

Though membership was secured, the divides within Labour didn't go away, with many leading Cabinet ministers viewing the EEC as incompatible with the aims of socialism.

That fissure, among others, would weaken Labour and pave the way for the election in 1979 of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Times were tough and globalisation threatend traditional British industry. The great powershouses of the industrial revolution were fading away. Industrial disputes were a common occurence.

"Many of the great industries which had been part of Britain's pioneering of the industrial revoultion were being hollowed out. We were pouring a lot of money into them because many of them were nationalised and the tax payer was paying hundreds of millions to keep things like shipbuilding and steel going, but unfortunately we were making the kind of goods that were too expensive and not that well designed and so our car industry for example began to fold" explains Goldman.

The industrial world gave way to a more serviced based economy. But the virtual marketplace was still a long way off says Dejan Sudjic, Director of London's Design Museum.

"The idea that you could have a computing power on your desk was extraordinary, furturistic and mad."

Life was still very traditional says Goldman, family lesiure in the 1970s meant a day at the beach.

"Still very traditional (lifestyle). Still very simple, obviously none of the technologies that we use to fill our time, people went for their holiday and their leisure locally to the seaside whereever that might be, whichever was closest to them. Foreign travel was still quite rare the package holiday was starting but it was really for the more wealthy people."

But a shadow hung in the air, as the threat of terrorism was spreading from neighbouring Ireland and the Middle East.

Irish republicans, who wanted a divided Ireland reunited and a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, had begun targeting mainland Britian.

The pub bombings in Birmingham in 1974 killed 21 people.

" 1974 is the day or the year of the famous Birmingham pub bombings, that was the moment when we realised that terror wouldn't stay in Ulster (Northern Ireland) and Londonderry, it was going to come to London, Birmingham and other places on the mainland as well. Terrorism in the Middle East was also new it was brought home to us in the Munich Olympics in 1972, when terror of course leading to the deaths of athletes reminded us of how vunerable major events are. But all this was relatively new at the time and shocking because of that since then of course we have had to cope with it as almost kind of a normal part of life, the threat that is ever present."

During the 1972 Munich Games, eight Palestinian gunmen, members of the Black September militant group entered the Olympic Village and took Israeli team members hostage.

A day later, all 11 were dead.

The drama started before dawn on Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of a Palestinian terrorist group called Black September clambered over the unguarded fence of the Olympic village.

Wearing track suits and carrying weapons concealed in athletics bags, they burst into the building where the Israeli team was staying, shooting dead wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossi Romano.

Some Israeli athletes slipped through a back door but nine were seized and tied to furniture. The terrorists demanded the release of more than 200 Palestinians held by Israel.

After a day of tense negotiations, the terrorists and their hostages were allowed to leave aboard two helicopters for the Fuerstenfeldbruck military airfield 16 miles away. The terrorists were promised a plane and safe passage to Cairo, Egypt.

Sharpshooters at the airfield opened fire as the terrorists and the hostages prepared to board a Lufthansa jet.

The guerrillas tossed grenades at the hostages, and one of the helicopters was blown up by a terrorist grenade. When the fighting died down, all nine Israeli captives were dead, along with five of their captors and one German policeman.

In the seventies the Soviet American space race was still underway...but by 1975 it had become more co-operative.

Goldman says "If you grew up in the 1960s and early 1970s space was a very exciting element of the kind of public discourse of television and the media of the age because both the Americans and the Soviets were involved in competition to put a man on the moon and develop space through satellites and so forth"

In July 1975, an American Apollo spaceship docked with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

The three-man American Apollo crew docked with a two-member Soviet team in Soyuz and the five conducted the first international manned experiments in space.

Today international teams of astronauts and cosmonauts collaborate onboard the International Space Station high above the earth.

One of the major themes of the current referendum debate is immigration.

The 1960s and 1970s saw large numbers of people moving to Britain from former colonies.

"Immigration was already an issue in Britain. It had been since the mid and late 1960s, so it is not as if some of the questions we are debating today are wholly new..far from it." adds Goldman.

West Indians, people from the English-speaking Caribbean, came mainly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mostly for jobs in public transport. Asian immigration peaked in the 1970s.

Immigrants included Asians from East Africa, fleeing from or expelled by countries that had gained independence from Britain. The largest single group was 27,000 Asians, who were among 70,000 Asians expelled and their property seized by dictator Idi Amin in Uganda in 1972.

The non-white population, excluding those born in Britain, was 418,000 in the 1961 government census and 930,000 in the 1971 count.

Today 8 million people or 14% of the UK population belong to an ethnic minority according to 'A Portrait of Modern Britain' published in 2014 by Policy Exchange, a UK based think tank. The report added that most ethnic people live in urban areas.

In the early 1970s Britain's class system exerted more control over people's lives than now and Europe was another place - an expensive flight or ferry journey away.

Sudjic says times have changed and today the British are less frightened of foreign food and habits.

"The things that we eat, the things we have in our home have been transformed utterly. Britain was suspicious of something called garlic in those days, we drank more beer than we drink wine. Britain was still finding that France was full of exotic stuff like snails and onions. We have embraced all that."

Today Paris is a short (ish) train journey away, Londoners can nip off to the French capital for lunch at a boulveard cafe on the Champs Elysee.

Will Britons continued that awkward embrace or unfriend their neighbours across the sea ?

The EU referendum takes place on June 23, 2016.

LEAD IN

Britons are preparing to vote in a referendum on June 23rd on whether to remain in the European Union.

The last time there was such a vote was in 1975, when the UK was experiencing industrial action, political infighting, maxi skirts and the birth of David Beckham.

STORY-LINE :

In the early 1970s hemlines dropped as inflation grew and economic growth stagnated.

The happy carefree days of the swinging sixties seemed a world away, as angry punks took centre stage.

Jamie Oliver, Russell Brand and that symbol of turn of the century Britain, David Beckham, were all babes in arms in the year that Britain first voted on continued member ship of the EEC.

Brand was just one day old, having being born on June 4, a day before the poll.

In 1975 Microsoft was founded by 19 year old Bill gates and 22 year old Paul Allen, the company would help revolutionised our relationship with technology with its popualr line of personal computers.

Britain joined the European Economic Community, as the EU was then called, in 1973.

But it was a rocky union from the start and three years later Harold Wilson's Labour Party government held a referendum on membership in 5 June 1975.

Wilson had won the British general election on a platform that included a pledge to renegotiate the terms of British membership in the EEC, and the issue split his party.

Wilson led the successful referendum campaign that secured Britain's membership in the European Community under renegotiated terms of membership.

The new leader of the opposition Conservative party, Margaret Thatcher, also campaigned to remain in the European Union in 1975.

She later became prime minister between 1979 and 1990, and as prime minister she became known for her tough line with Brussels.

Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London says the issue of Europe has long troubled British politicians.

"The parties has flipped and flopped over their views of Europe all the way through since the 1960s and in the early 1970s the Labour party was in a way as divided then as the Conservative party is today. "

In 1975 a majority of 67 percent said "yes" to the question: Do you think that the United Kingdom should remain part of the European Community ?

Though membership was secured, the divides within Labour didn't go away, with many leading Cabinet ministers viewing the EEC as incompatible with the aims of socialism.

That fissure, among others, would weaken Labour and pave the way for the election in 1979 of Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.

Times were tough and globalisation threatend traditional British industry. The great powershouses of the industrial revolution were fading away. Industrial disputes were a common occurence.

"Many of the great industries which had been part of Britain's pioneering of the industrial revoultion were being hollowed out. We were pouring a lot of money into them because many of them were nationalised and the tax payer was paying hundreds of millions to keep things like shipbuilding and steel going, but unfortunately we were making the kind of goods that were too expensive and not that well designed and so our car industry for example began to fold" explains Goldman.

The industrial world gave way to a more serviced based economy. But the virtual marketplace was still a long way off says Dejan Sudjic, Director of London's Design Museum.

"The idea that you could have a computing power on your desk was extraordinary, furturistic and mad."

Life was still very traditional says Goldman, family lesiure in the 1970s meant a day at the beach.

"Still very traditional (lifestyle). Still very simple, obviously none of the technologies that we use to fill our time, people went for their holiday and their leisure locally to the seaside whereever that might be, whichever was closest to them. Foreign travel was still quite rare the package holiday was starting but it was really for the more wealthy people."

But a shadow hung in the air, as the threat of terrorism was spreading from neighbouring Ireland and the Middle East.

Irish republicans, who wanted a divided Ireland reunited and a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland, had begun targeting mainland Britian.

The pub bombings in Birmingham in 1974 killed 21 people.

" 1974 is the day or the year of the famous Birmingham pub bombings, that was the moment when we realised that terror wouldn't stay in Ulster (Northern Ireland) and Londonderry, it was going to come to London, Birmingham and other places on the mainland as well. Terrorism in the Middle East was also new it was brought home to us in the Munich Olympics in 1972, when terror of course leading to the deaths of athletes reminded us of how vunerable major events are. But all this was relatively new at the time and shocking because of that since then of course we have had to cope with it as almost kind of a normal part of life, the threat that is ever present."

During the 1972 Munich Games, eight Palestinian gunmen, members of the Black September militant group entered the Olympic Village and took Israeli team members hostage.

A day later, all 11 were dead.

The drama started before dawn on Sept. 5, 1972, when eight members of a Palestinian terrorist group called Black September clambered over the unguarded fence of the Olympic village.

Wearing track suits and carrying weapons concealed in athletics bags, they burst into the building where the Israeli team was staying, shooting dead wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossi Romano.

Some Israeli athletes slipped through a back door but nine were seized and tied to furniture. The terrorists demanded the release of more than 200 Palestinians held by Israel.

After a day of tense negotiations, the terrorists and their hostages were allowed to leave aboard two helicopters for the Fuerstenfeldbruck military airfield 16 miles away. The terrorists were promised a plane and safe passage to Cairo, Egypt.

Sharpshooters at the airfield opened fire as the terrorists and the hostages prepared to board a Lufthansa jet.

The guerrillas tossed grenades at the hostages, and one of the helicopters was blown up by a terrorist grenade. When the fighting died down, all nine Israeli captives were dead, along with five of their captors and one German policeman.

In the seventies the Soviet American space race was still underway...but by 1975 it had become more co-operative.

Goldman says "If you grew up in the 1960s and early 1970s space was a very exciting element of the kind of public discourse of television and the media of the age because both the Americans and the Soviets were involved in competition to put a man on the moon and develop space through satellites and so forth"

In July 1975, an American Apollo spaceship docked with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.

The three-man American Apollo crew docked with a two-member Soviet team in Soyuz and the five conducted the first international manned experiments in space.

Today international teams of astronauts and cosmonauts collaborate onboard the International Space Station high above the earth.

One of the major themes of the current referendum debate is immigration.

The 1960s and 1970s saw large numbers of people moving to Britain from former colonies.

"Immigration was already an issue in Britain. It had been since the mid and late 1960s, so it is not as if some of the questions we are debating today are wholly new..far from it." adds Goldman.

West Indians, people from the English-speaking Caribbean, came mainly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mostly for jobs in public transport. Asian immigration peaked in the 1970s.

Immigrants included Asians from East Africa, fleeing from or expelled by countries that had gained independence from Britain. The largest single group was 27,000 Asians, who were among 70,000 Asians expelled and their property seized by dictator Idi Amin in Uganda in 1972.

The non-white population, excluding those born in Britain, was 418,000 in the 1961 government census and 930,000 in the 1971 count.

Today 8 million people or 14% of the UK population belong to an ethnic minority according to 'A Portrait of Modern Britain' published in 2014 by Policy Exchange, a UK based think tank. The report added that most ethnic people live in urban areas.

In the early 1970s Britain's class system exerted more control over people's lives than now and Europe was another place - an expensive flight or ferry journey away.

Sudjic says times have changed and today the British are less frightened of foreign food and habits.

"The things that we eat, the things we have in our home have been transformed utterly. Britain was suspicious of something called garlic in those days, we drank more beer than we drink wine. Britain was still finding that France was full of exotic stuff like snails and onions. We have embraced all that."

Today Paris is a short (ish) train journey away, Londoners can nip off to the French capital for lunch at a boulveard cafe on the Champs Elysee.

Will Britons continued that awkward embrace or unfriend their neighbours across the sea ?

The EU referendum takes place on June 23, 2016.

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, April 3, 1973 (MUTE)

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1. Mid of model wearing brown suit by Mary Quant

2. Mid of model wearing turquoise wool skirt by Donegal Designs

3. Mid of model wearing printed chiffon evening dress by Ossie Clark

AP TELEVISION

United States (no exact date and location available)

January 9, 1978

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4. Punk group (Sex Pistols) playing and singing.

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, February 18, 2004

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5. Jennifer Aniston, poses with Jamie Oliver and his wife Jools at a film premiere

AP TELEVISION

New York, 9 September 2014

6. Various shots David Beckham at clothes event

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, 26 March 2015

7. Arrival of Russell Brand at an event

AP TELEVISION

Rome, Italy, 3 September 1995

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8. Bill Gates enters conference room

AP IMAGES

9. In this 1984 file photo, Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft Corp., is shown.

AP TELEVISION

Rome, Italy, 3 September 1995

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10. Close-up Gates

AP TELEVISION

no exact dates or locations available, UK 1974

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11. Various of shoppers and supermarkets

12. Cars on London street

13. Harold Wilson and wife pose for press at country home.

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 3, 1975 (MUTE)

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14. Mid of Margaret Thatcher wearing a flags-of-Europe sweater, flanked by women also wearing pro-Europe sweaters

15. Mid of Thatcher trying to light a candle / torch

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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16. Set up Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"The parties has flipped and flopped over their views of Europe all the way through since the 1960s and in the early 1970s the Labour party was in its way as divided then as the conservative party is today. "

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, April 26, 1975

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18. Wide of Labour Party Conference

19. Harold Wilson addressing conference

UPSOUND : (English) Harold Wilson, Labour Party Leader and Prime Minister in 1975

" On this very fundamental test I know I will not convince those who take a different view, nor will they convince me in the light of my practical experience. But I believe it will be on this question above all others that a decision is finally taken by the people as a whole." Cutaway Michael Foot MP.

AP TELEVISION

United Kingdom, Feburary 10, 1974 - no exact location available (MUTE)

++4:3++

20. Various of non functioning coal mine during national coal strike

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

++16:9++

21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"Many of the great industries which had been part of Britain's pioneering of the industrial revoultion were being hollowed out. We were pouring a lot of money into them because many of them were nationalised, and the tax payer was paying hundreds of millions to keep things like shipbuilding and steel going, but unfortunately we were making the kind of goods that were too expensive and not that well designed and so our car industry for example began to fold."

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, September 24, 1973 (MUTE)

++4:3++

22. Ford workers walking out of various plants

23. Wide of Ford cars on train

24. Wide entrance to a Ford plant, minimal activity

25. Mid sign Gate 1 Engine Plant

26. Tracking shot along halted production line of Ford engines

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

++16:9++

27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dejan Sudjic, Director of Design Museum

" Computers were still the size of a room. The idea that you could have a computing power on your desk would have seemed extraordinary, furturistic and mad."

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 3, 1975 (MUTE)

++4:3++

28. Various of people in an office

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

++16:9++

29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"Still very traditional (lifestyle). Still very simple, obviously none of the technologies that we use to fill our time, people went for their holiday and their leisure locally to the seaside whereever that might be, whichever was closest to them. Foreign travel was still quite rare the package holiday was starting but it was really for the more wealthy people."

AP TELEVISION

Bournemouth, United Kingdom (undated 1973) (MUTE)

++4:3++

30. Various of people at the seaside

AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/BROADCAST USE ONLY/STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE

Birmingham, United Kingdom, 22 November 1974

31. STILL showing a general view of wreckage inside The Mulberry Bush public house, one of two pubs bombed in Birmingham in 1974

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, December 27, 1973 (MUTE)

++4:3++

32. Various of aftermath of IRA bombing of Stevedore pub

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

++16:9++

33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

" 1974 is the day or the year of the famous Birmingham pub bombings, that was the moment when we realised that terror wouldn't stay in Ulster (Northern Ireland) and Londonderry, it was going to come to London, Birmingham and other places on the mainland as well. Terrorism in the Middle East was also new it was brought home to us in the Munich Olympics in 1972, when terror of course leading to the deaths of athletes reminded us of how vunerable major events were. But all this was relatively new at the time and shocking because of that since then of course we have had to cope with it as almost kind of a normal part of life, the threat that is ever present."

AP IMAGES

34. In this Sept. 5, 1972, file photo, a member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage.

35. West German policemen wearing sweatsuits, bullet-proof vests and armed with submachine guns, take up positions on September 5, 1972 on Olympic Village rooftops where armed Palestine commandos were holding Israeli team members hostage

36. Ankie Spitzer, widow of the Israeli fencing coach, Andre Spitzer, who was slain by Arab terrorists Sept. 5, surveys the room where the incident occurred at Munich's Olympic Village in West Germany on Sept. 8, 1972. The chalk circles on the wall were made by West German police to trace the impact of the bullets.

NASA

Date and location unknown (1975)

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37. Rocket launch

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

++16:9++

38. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"If you grew up in the 1960s and early 1970s space was a very exciting element of the kind of public discourse of the television and the media of the age because both the Americans and the Soviets were involved in competition to put a man on the moon and to develop space through satellites and so forth"

NASA

Date and location unknown (1975)

++4:3++

39. Soyuz and Apollo join together, astronauts and cosmonauts meet

AP TELEVISION (MUTE)

no exact dates or locations available, UK 1974

++4:3++

40. Wide of building site

41. Man working on building site

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

++16:9++

42. SOUNDBITE: (English) Professor Lawerence Goldman, Director of Institute of Historical Research, University of London

"Immigration was already an issue in Britain. It had been since the mid and late 1960s, so it is not as if some of the questions we are debating today are wholly new..far from it."

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, September 24, 1973 (MUTE)

++4:3++

43. Various men take part in industrial action at Ford plant, ethnic minorities amongst them

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, April 30, 1973 (MUTE)

++4:3++

44. Various of rail station during national strike

45. Various of street scenes, buses

AP TELEVISION

Ascot, United Kingdom, June 17, 1974 (MUTE)

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46. The Queen in a carriage

47. Wide of racegoers in top hats

AP TELEVISION

London, United Kingdom, June 9, 2016

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48. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dejan Sudjic, Director of Design Museum

"The things that we eat, the things we have in our home have been transformed utterly. Britain was suspicious of something called garlic in those days, we drank more beer than we drink wine. People were still finding that France was exotic, full of dangerous stuff like snails and onions. We have embraced all that."

AP TELEVISION

Cannes, France - May 11 1973 (MUTE)

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49. Various of Cannes

50. Mid tilt up of woman sunbathing

AP TELEVISION

Paris, France - October 20, 1970 (MUTE)

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51. Wide of Eiffel Tower

AP TELEVISION

Paris, France - July 26, 1975 (MUTE)

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52. Various of models showing off clothes by designer Ted Lapidus on Parisian street at boulevard cafe

LEAD IN

Brexit uncertainty has led to some jitters within the travel industry ahead of the traditional getaway to tourist hotspots like Lapland.

Some are noticing later bookings than usual, but the delay in Brexit has been welcomed by others serving the UK market.

STORY-LINE

Santa doesn't have to worry about renewing his passport to travel the globe and visit UK children this year.

He was saved at the last minute by the latest January Brexit extension.

The UK is due to leave the European Union by the end of January, while Finland, the official home of Santa Claus, remains a member.

It's been three years since Brits voted in a referendum to leave the EU, and an air of uncertainty has hovered over many industries ever since.

Kirsi Jokela is originally from Lapland and now works in London for the Nordic travel company, Best Served Scandinavia.

She says one thing she has noticed since the referendum is that Brits are booking holidays to Lapland much later in the year than previously, a possible result of economic uncertainty.

However she says the quantity of bookings is still high:

"We are actually looking forward to one of our best Decembers yet, we still have a few rooms available."

She adds that due to counter currency exchange fluctuations and the weakening of the pound, they are now offering price guarentees.

"We've been offering a Brexit price guarantee which means that we will honour the exchange rate at the time of booking, which seems to be encouraging people to book."

Ilkka Lankinen is the chief experience officer at one of Lapland's main tourist attarctions, Santa Park.

Speaking in London he says the Brexit extension is " definitely good news for us, and also because the UK market is great for us, we love the UK guests and they love us. Now we have snow, now we have cold and now we have no Brexit at least at the moment so it's looking good for Christmas."

Sean Tipton from the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) agrees that economic uncertainty around Brexit doesn't seem to be putting off the average Lapland tourist.

Firstly, he says, many choose package deals which are paid for in sterling and secondly most are aware that it is not a cheap holiday destination to begin with.

However he adds that there are two major practical considerations to take into account once Britain is no longer a member of the EU.

"First of all your European health insurance card gives you access to state medical care which is very good in Finland, you won't be able to use that, so you need to have decent travel insurance," he says.

"And check your passport, because you'll need at least 6 months validity left on the end of your passport, which currently you don't, but again that's only an issue if your passport is due for renewal. So if it is check it and renew it now, it doesn't take very long, it's a pretty efficient process."

Tipton advises that during these uncertain times, which have also recently seen major travel group Thomas Cook collapse, it's always safer to book a package holiday.

Rovaniemi, Finland - 12 December 2018

1. Low shot of Santa walking through forest at Santa Claus Village

2. Santa arriving at sleigh

Rovaniemi, Finland - 16 December 2018

3. Tracking of reindeer pulling sleigh at Santa Claus Village

4. Various of tourists taking reindeer sleigh rides

London, UK – 17 October 2019

5. Tilt down from World map to Kirsi Jokela, Scandinavia Product & Trade Sales Manager, 'Best Served Scandinavia'

6. Close of Best Served Scandinavia brochure where Jokela is looking at images of Lapland

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirsi Jokela, Scandinavia Product & Trade Sales Manager, 'Best Served Scandinavia'

"I think what we've noticed is that people are booking a lot later than they used to, which might sometimes mean that they don't get their first choice of holiday, but we are actually looking forward to one of our best Decembers yet, we still have a few rooms available."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 12 December 2016

8. Pan right of sunrise on River Kemijoki

9. Close of frozen branch

10. Tilt up of snow-covered tree

11. Wide of sunrise on River Kemijoki

London, UK – 17 October 2019

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirsi Jokela, Scandinavia Product & Trade Sales Manager, 'Best Served Scandinavia'

"So one thing that could change post Brexit is the currency exchange and we've been offering a Brexit price guarantee which means that we will honour the exchange rate at the time of booking, which seems to be encouraging people to book."

Rovaniemi, Finland – 9 December 2017

++NIGHT SHOTS++

13. Wide of Santa Claus Village

14. Tilt down of Santa Claus Village entrance

15. Santa Claus and elves packing presents

London, UK - 4 November 2019

16. Tilt down people dressed as Finnish characters at Visit Finland stand at World Travel Market at ExCeL London

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilkka Lankinen, Chief Experience Officer, Santa Park, Arctic World, Finland:

"Since Brexit is now at least postponed for some time, that's good news, and I think that the market feel at the moment at least that we are getting is that it's kind of a stand still because everybody is waiting to have a decision one way or another way."

18. Mid of people dressed as Finnish characters posing for photos with WTM visitor

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilkka Lankinen, Chief Experience Officer, Santa Park, Arctic World, Finland:

"It's definitely good news for us, and also because the UK market is great for us, we love the UK guests and they love us. Now we have snow, now we have cold and now we have no Brexit at least at the moment so it's looking good for Christmas."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 10 December 2016

20. Low shot of child on ice slide at Snowman World ice bar

21. Pan left of children using ice slide

22. Pull out of corridor in ice bar, chandeliers hanging from ceiling

23. Pull focus between chandeliers

London, UK – 17 October 2019

24. Pull focus from orchid on desk to receptionist and sign reading (English) ABTA The Travel Association

25. Close of sign reading (English) ABTA The Travel Association

26. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"If you look at the ways that people get to go to Lapland on these trips to see Father Christmas they're generally packages. Now one of the advantages of a package is you pay it in Sterling, so you don't have to worry about fluctuations of exchange rates, obviously there will be maybe day to day expenses when you get there but people are aware of the fact that it's not the cheapest destination to travel to so I don't think budget is really a problem for most people going, and again once you are there it's a pretty magical experience and it's not something you're going to do every year it's probably a one off when your kids are very small."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 16 December 2018

27. Various of tourists melting marshmallows by fire

London, UK – 17 October 2019

28. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"First of all, your European health insurance card gives you access to state medical care, which is very good in Finland. You won't be able to use that. So you need to have decent travel insurance. And the chances are you are not going to fall ill but it's always a possibility so have decent travel insurance."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 10 December 2016

29. Wide of Santa and sleigh

30. Close of reindeer

London, UK – 17 October 2019

31. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"And check your passport, because you'll need at least 6 months validity left on the end of your passport, which currently you don't, but again that's only an issue if your passport is due for renewal. So if it is check it and renew it now, it doesn't take very long, it's a pretty efficient process."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 12 December 2018

++NIGHT SHOTS++

32. Wide of lights at 'Santa Claus Village' at night

33. Pan from Christmas tree to building

34. Pull focus of lights on Christmas tree

35 . Various of Santa Claus reading letter

London, UK – 17 October 2019

36. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"By Thomas Cook going that's created opportunities for the travel companies that are left so that is a way is a form of boost to them. But I can't deny there might be other travel companies going out of business, that's why it's important that you book a package holiday, because as we saw with Thomas Cook if you've got a package you will continue with your holiday as normal, if they go out of business while you're there and they'll bring you home free of charge. And if you're due to go you'll get a full refund. So don't worry about it in that sense, but the chances of you being personally affected by a travel company failure are pretty small."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 10 December 2016

37. Various of Santa Claus riding away on sleigh

LEAD IN

Brexit uncertainty has led to some jitters within the travel industry ahead of the traditional getaway to tourist hotspots like Lapland.

Some are noticing later bookings than usual, but the delay in Brexit has been welcomed by others serving the UK market.

STORY-LINE

Santa doesn't have to worry about renewing his passport to travel the globe and visit UK children this year.

He was saved at the last minute by the latest January Brexit extension.

The UK is due to leave the European Union by the end of January, while Finland, the official home of Santa Claus, remains a member.

It's been three years since Brits voted in a referendum to leave the EU, and an air of uncertainty has hovered over many industries ever since.

Kirsi Jokela is originally from Lapland and now works in London for the Nordic travel company, Best Served Scandinavia.

She says one thing she has noticed since the referendum is that Brits are booking holidays to Lapland much later in the year than previously, a possible result of economic uncertainty.

However she says the quantity of bookings is still high:

"We are actually looking forward to one of our best Decembers yet, we still have a few rooms available."

She adds that due to counter currency exchange fluctuations and the weakening of the pound, they are now offering price guarentees.

"We've been offering a Brexit price guarantee which means that we will honour the exchange rate at the time of booking, which seems to be encouraging people to book."

Ilkka Lankinen is the chief experience officer at one of Lapland's main tourist attarctions, Santa Park.

Speaking in London he says the Brexit extension is " definitely good news for us, and also because the UK market is great for us, we love the UK guests and they love us. Now we have snow, now we have cold and now we have no Brexit at least at the moment so it's looking good for Christmas."

Sean Tipton from the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) agrees that economic uncertainty around Brexit doesn't seem to be putting off the average Lapland tourist.

Firstly, he says, many choose package deals which are paid for in sterling and secondly most are aware that it is not a cheap holiday destination to begin with.

However he adds that there are two major practical considerations to take into account once Britain is no longer a member of the EU.

"First of all your European health insurance card gives you access to state medical care which is very good in Finland, you won't be able to use that, so you need to have decent travel insurance," he says.

"And check your passport, because you'll need at least 6 months validity left on the end of your passport, which currently you don't, but again that's only an issue if your passport is due for renewal. So if it is check it and renew it now, it doesn't take very long, it's a pretty efficient process."

Tipton advises that during these uncertain times, which have also recently seen major travel group Thomas Cook collapse, it's always safer to book a package holiday.

Rovaniemi, Finland - 12 December 2018

1. Low shot of Santa walking through forest at Santa Claus Village

2. Santa arriving at sleigh

Rovaniemi, Finland - 16 December 2018

3. Tracking of reindeer pulling sleigh at Santa Claus Village

4. Various of tourists taking reindeer sleigh rides

London, UK – 17 October 2019

5. Tilt down from World map to Kirsi Jokela, Scandinavia Product & Trade Sales Manager, 'Best Served Scandinavia'

6. Close of Best Served Scandinavia brochure where Jokela is looking at images of Lapland

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirsi Jokela, Scandinavia Product & Trade Sales Manager, 'Best Served Scandinavia'

"I think what we've noticed is that people are booking a lot later than they used to, which might sometimes mean that they don't get their first choice of holiday, but we are actually looking forward to one of our best Decembers yet, we still have a few rooms available."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 12 December 2016

8. Pan right of sunrise on River Kemijoki

9. Close of frozen branch

10. Tilt up of snow-covered tree

11. Wide of sunrise on River Kemijoki

London, UK – 17 October 2019

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Kirsi Jokela, Scandinavia Product & Trade Sales Manager, 'Best Served Scandinavia'

"So one thing that could change post Brexit is the currency exchange and we've been offering a Brexit price guarantee which means that we will honour the exchange rate at the time of booking, which seems to be encouraging people to book."

Rovaniemi, Finland – 9 December 2017

++NIGHT SHOTS++

13. Wide of Santa Claus Village

14. Tilt down of Santa Claus Village entrance

15. Santa Claus and elves packing presents

London, UK - 4 November 2019

16. Tilt down people dressed as Finnish characters at Visit Finland stand at World Travel Market at ExCeL London

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilkka Lankinen, Chief Experience Officer, Santa Park, Arctic World, Finland:

"Since Brexit is now at least postponed for some time, that's good news, and I think that the market feel at the moment at least that we are getting is that it's kind of a stand still because everybody is waiting to have a decision one way or another way."

18. Mid of people dressed as Finnish characters posing for photos with WTM visitor

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Ilkka Lankinen, Chief Experience Officer, Santa Park, Arctic World, Finland:

"It's definitely good news for us, and also because the UK market is great for us, we love the UK guests and they love us. Now we have snow, now we have cold and now we have no Brexit at least at the moment so it's looking good for Christmas."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 10 December 2016

20. Low shot of child on ice slide at Snowman World ice bar

21. Pan left of children using ice slide

22. Pull out of corridor in ice bar, chandeliers hanging from ceiling

23. Pull focus between chandeliers

London, UK – 17 October 2019

24. Pull focus from orchid on desk to receptionist and sign reading (English) ABTA The Travel Association

25. Close of sign reading (English) ABTA The Travel Association

26. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"If you look at the ways that people get to go to Lapland on these trips to see Father Christmas they're generally packages. Now one of the advantages of a package is you pay it in Sterling, so you don't have to worry about fluctuations of exchange rates, obviously there will be maybe day to day expenses when you get there but people are aware of the fact that it's not the cheapest destination to travel to so I don't think budget is really a problem for most people going, and again once you are there it's a pretty magical experience and it's not something you're going to do every year it's probably a one off when your kids are very small."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 16 December 2018

27. Various of tourists melting marshmallows by fire

London, UK – 17 October 2019

28. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"First of all, your European health insurance card gives you access to state medical care, which is very good in Finland. You won't be able to use that. So you need to have decent travel insurance. And the chances are you are not going to fall ill but it's always a possibility so have decent travel insurance."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 10 December 2016

29. Wide of Santa and sleigh

30. Close of reindeer

London, UK – 17 October 2019

31. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"And check your passport, because you'll need at least 6 months validity left on the end of your passport, which currently you don't, but again that's only an issue if your passport is due for renewal. So if it is check it and renew it now, it doesn't take very long, it's a pretty efficient process."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 12 December 2018

++NIGHT SHOTS++

32. Wide of lights at 'Santa Claus Village' at night

33. Pan from Christmas tree to building

34. Pull focus of lights on Christmas tree

35 . Various of Santa Claus reading letter

London, UK – 17 October 2019

36. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Tipton, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) spokesperson:

"By Thomas Cook going that's created opportunities for the travel companies that are left so that is a way is a form of boost to them. But I can't deny there might be other travel companies going out of business, that's why it's important that you book a package holiday, because as we saw with Thomas Cook if you've got a package you will continue with your holiday as normal, if they go out of business while you're there and they'll bring you home free of charge. And if you're due to go you'll get a full refund. So don't worry about it in that sense, but the chances of you being personally affected by a travel company failure are pretty small."

Rovaniemi, Finland - 10 December 2016

37. Various of Santa Claus riding away on sleigh

UK BREXIT CHRISTMAS

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London, UK - 29 October 2018

1. Close of British Lion Christmas decoration, by Aerloom London, at the Spirit of Christmas Fair 2018 at Olympia London

2. Mid of crown Christmas decoration being placed between two British Bulldog decorations

3. Wide of display featuring various Christmas decorations by Aerloom London

4. Founder of Aerloom London Ania Zankowska speaking to customer

UPSOUND (English) Customer: "Are these sprouts or cabbages?"

Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London: "Sprouts. The idea was to create a Brussels Sprout"

5. Mid of stand of Brussels Sprout decorations next to Aerloom London gift bags

6. Top shot of Brussels Sprouts decorations next to cracker decoration reading 2018

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London

"It was just natural to go with the British theme to celebrate the fact that I live in the Kingdom, which obviously was very unusual for me coming from Poland. So the first collection comprised of typically British pieces and they are very popular now, not just in Britain but all around the world."

8. Mid of Queen decoration in front of Corgi decoration

9. Pull focus on side angle of Queen decoration

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London

"I'm not feeling it (Brexit) yet, of course we're all very much curious about what's going to happen in the future. I'm remaining very positive. I work very closely with the Department of Trade and Investment, who assure me that the situation will be well monitored and the support I've received will be continued."

11. Mid of stand of Brussels Sprouts decoration

12. Top shot of Zankowska organising boxes of decorations

13. Tilt down wreath with decorations

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London

"The best sellers in my collection are the Queen ornaments, the bulldogs and the lions and this is very much supported by the sales with the British retailers and I think everyone feels immensely proud to be British during Christmas time."

15. Close of bow being tied on gift bag

16. Wide of visitors walking past Christmas tree at Spirit of Christmas event

17. Tilt down from ceiling of Olympia to stands at Spirit of Christmas

18. Wide of visitors walking past Village Workshop stand

19. Tilt up of gingerbread Big Ben

20. Wide of gingerbread Big Ben

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Itet Radcliffe, Founder, Village Workshop

"I was really looking for something iconic that will relate to England, and if you see Big Ben then immediately it's London, it's England."

22. Mid of Radcliffe arranging gingerbread houses on stand

23. Mid of gingerbread items on stand

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Itet Radcliffe, Founder, Village Workshop

"We sell through online shops and they distribute to Europe and they haven't given us any indication that things will be changing. For this year definitely we haven't seen any change, no repercussions at all."

25. Tilt up gingerbread Big Ben

26. SOUNDBITE (English) Itet Radcliffe, Founder, Village Workshop

"Well I think people like to associate what they are buying as made in England. I think on that line, yes, here people are quite aware of where it's coming from, so made in England is quite a lot of difference."

27. Close of top of Big Ben

28. Wide of Eadie family members working on The Oxton Liqueur Company stand

29. Mid of customer trying flavoured liqueur

30. Various of flavoured liqueur bottles

31. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Eadie, Owner, The Oxton Liqueur Company

"Well in the run up to Brexit we've seen the currency move from about 140 to about 110 (British pound to Euro), so we've seen an increase in the price of goods that we buy from Europe of about 25 per cent. So that for us is all our glass, that comes from Italy, from Germany and from France. So already there's been a huge impact, what will happen after Brexit we'll have to see, but time will tell."

32. Mid of flavoured liqueur bottles

33. Customer trying flavoured liqueur

34. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Eadie, Owner, The Oxton Liqueur Company

"You know the exchange rate swung 25 percent, it may turn around, there may be a movement in the other direction, that would be good. Obviously for people exporting it's been incredibly beneficial. So it depends on which side you're on as to whether you've benefited or whether you haven't."

35. Mid of flavoured liqueur bottles on front of stand

36. Wide of visitors climbing stairs in event hall with shopping bags

37. SOUNDBITE (English) Stuart Hunter, Portfolio Director, Clarion Events (Organisers of Spirit of Christmas Fair)

"At the moment in terms of Brexit having any impact to us and the show we're not seeing any, but obviously we do have a lot of conversations with our exhibitors and obviously there's some nervousness, I think certainly probably overall this year in terms of the trade side of business, there's been a bit of a sluggish approach to some of the retail elements."

38. Mid of packaged Christmas puddings

39. Mid of Christmas pudding in front of wooden boxes reading (English) "Made in the UK"

40. SOUNDBITE (English) Stuart Hunter, Portfolio Director, Clarion Events (Organisers of Spirit of Christmas Fair)

"It remains to be seen whether the spend will be the same as we are on site this week, we'll find that out, exhibitors will tell us. We measure that post show as well so we do lots of research. But on the evidence of today it's felt busy, buzzy, lots of shopping bags going out of the doors, so it feels like it's business as usual for us."

41. Mid of bauble on Christmas tree

LEADIN:

The UK is preparing for its final Christmas before leaving the European Union.

Retailers at the annual Spirit of Christmas event in London have mixed feelings about how Brexit will affect future trade.

STORYLINE

The British lion: a symbol of pride and patriotism in the UK.

But as Britain prepares to leave the EU there is ongoing uncertainty about the country's future - not least about how it will affect trade.

At this year's Spirit of Christmas Fair at Olympia in London, retailers and exhibitors are showcasing their goods for the festive period.

Ania Zankowska, the founder of Aerloom London, has an array of quintessentially British looking Christmas decorations. As well as a lion she has the Queen, corgis, crowns and British bulldogs.

And as we approach Brexit she's even got "Brussels" Sprouts.  

As someone who originated from Europe - she was born in Poland - her British pieces were originally a celebration of her move to the UK.

She says they remain incredibly popular to this day: "Not just in Britain but all around the world."

With business still booming Zankowska says she hasn't suffered any negative effects from Brexit yet:

"I'm remaining very positive. I work very closely with the Department of Trade and Investment, who assure me that the situation will be well monitored and the support I've received will be continued," she says.

Another exhibitor selling iconic British images this Christmas is the founder of Village Workshop, Itet Radcliffe.

Amongst her traditional gingerbread houses stands a large, gingerbread Big Ben, with Santa hanging off the top.

She says unless the online sites she sells through change their rules, after Britain officially leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, her business should remain stable:

"We sell through online shops and they distribute to Europe and they haven't given us any indication that things will be changing. For this year definitely we haven't seen any change, no repercussions at all," she says.

And she believes there is something about British made goods which still gives people the confidence to buy:

"Well I think people like to associate what they are buying as made in England. I think on that line, yes, here people are quite aware of where it's coming from, so made in England is quite a lot of difference."

While decorations representing British culture look to become a trend this Christmas, another product which will be popular is flavoured spirits and liqueurs.

The Oxton Liqueur Company is a family run business which hand makes fruity liqueurs from a farm in Nottinghamshire.

This year, alongside their Elderflower Gin and Bramble Whisky, they are showing off a Christmas Vodka.

But while the drinks themselves are very much made in Britain - the glass they sell them in comes from Europe. Owner of The Oxton Liqueur Company Christopher Eadie says Brexit related fluctuations in currency have come at a cost for him:

"We've seen an increase in the price of goods that we buy from Europe of about 25 per cent. So that for us is all our glass, that comes from Italy, from Germany and from France. So already there's been a huge impact, what will happen after Brexit we'll have to see," he says.

The Spirit of Christmas Fair is all about shopping and often a good indicator of consumer confidence and spending power.

Organisers say this year was a record year for visitor and exhibitor attendance.

Stuart Hunter is a Portfolio Director at Clarion Events which organises the Spirit of Christmas Fair.

He says Brexit is hot topic: "We do have a lot of conversations with our exhibitors and obviously there's some nervousness,"

However he adds:

"On the evidence of today it's felt busy, buzzy, lots of shopping bags going out of the doors, so it feels like it's business as usual for us."

The Spirit of Christmas Fair 2018 is on at Olympia London from 29 October to 4 November 2018.

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LEADIN:

The UK is preparing for its final Christmas before leaving the European Union.

Retailers at the annual Spirit of Christmas event in London have mixed feelings about how Brexit will affect future trade.

STORYLINE

The British lion: a symbol of pride and patriotism in the UK.

But as Britain prepares to leave the EU there is ongoing uncertainty about the country's future - not least about how it will affect trade.

At this year's Spirit of Christmas Fair at Olympia in London, retailers and exhibitors are showcasing their goods for the festive period.

Ania Zankowska, the founder of Aerloom London, has an array of quintessentially British looking Christmas decorations. As well as a lion she has the Queen, corgis, crowns and British bulldogs.

And as we approach Brexit she's even got "Brussels" Sprouts.  

As someone who originated from Europe - she was born in Poland - her British pieces were originally a celebration of her move to the UK.

She says they remain incredibly popular to this day: "Not just in Britain but all around the world."

With business still booming Zankowska says she hasn't suffered any negative effects from Brexit yet:

"I'm remaining very positive. I work very closely with the Department of Trade and Investment, who assure me that the situation will be well monitored and the support I've received will be continued," she says.

Another exhibitor selling iconic British images this Christmas is the founder of Village Workshop, Itet Radcliffe.

Amongst her traditional gingerbread houses stands a large, gingerbread Big Ben, with Santa hanging off the top.

She says unless the online sites she sells through change their rules, after Britain officially leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, her business should remain stable:

"We sell through online shops and they distribute to Europe and they haven't given us any indication that things will be changing. For this year definitely we haven't seen any change, no repercussions at all," she says.

And she believes there is something about British made goods which still gives people the confidence to buy:

"Well I think people like to associate what they are buying as made in England. I think on that line, yes, here people are quite aware of where it's coming from, so made in England is quite a lot of difference."

While decorations representing British culture look to become a trend this Christmas, another product which will be popular is flavoured spirits and liqueurs.

The Oxton Liqueur Company is a family run business which hand makes fruity liqueurs from a farm in Nottinghamshire.

This year, alongside their Elderflower Gin and Bramble Whisky, they are showing off a Christmas Vodka.

But while the drinks themselves are very much made in Britain - the glass they sell them in comes from Europe. Owner of The Oxton Liqueur Company Christopher Eadie says Brexit related fluctuations in currency have come at a cost for him:

"We've seen an increase in the price of goods that we buy from Europe of about 25 per cent. So that for us is all our glass, that comes from Italy, from Germany and from France. So already there's been a huge impact, what will happen after Brexit we'll have to see," he says.

The Spirit of Christmas Fair is all about shopping and often a good indicator of consumer confidence and spending power.

Organisers say this year was a record year for visitor and exhibitor attendance.

Stuart Hunter is a Portfolio Director at Clarion Events which organises the Spirit of Christmas Fair.

He says Brexit is hot topic: "We do have a lot of conversations with our exhibitors and obviously there's some nervousness,"

However he adds:

"On the evidence of today it's felt busy, buzzy, lots of shopping bags going out of the doors, so it feels like it's business as usual for us."

The Spirit of Christmas Fair 2018 is on at Olympia London from 29 October to 4 November 2018.

London, UK - 29 October 2018

1. Close of British Lion Christmas decoration, by Aerloom London, at the Spirit of Christmas Fair 2018 at Olympia London

2. Mid of crown Christmas decoration being placed between two British Bulldog decorations

3. Wide of display featuring various Christmas decorations by Aerloom London

4. Founder of Aerloom London Ania Zankowska speaking to customer

UPSOUND (English) Customer: "Are these sprouts or cabbages?"

Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London: "Sprouts. The idea was to create a Brussels Sprout"

5. Mid of stand of Brussels Sprout decorations next to Aerloom London gift bags

6. Top shot of Brussels Sprouts decorations next to cracker decoration reading 2018

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London

"It was just natural to go with the British theme to celebrate the fact that I live in the Kingdom, which obviously was very unusual for me coming from Poland. So the first collection comprised of typically British pieces and they are very popular now, not just in Britain but all around the world."

8. Mid of Queen decoration in front of Corgi decoration

9. Pull focus on side angle of Queen decoration

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London

"I'm not feeling it (Brexit) yet, of course we're all very much curious about what's going to happen in the future. I'm remaining very positive. I work very closely with the Department of Trade and Investment, who assure me that the situation will be well monitored and the support I've received will be continued."

11. Mid of stand of Brussels Sprouts decoration

12. Top shot of Zankowska organising boxes of decorations

13. Tilt down wreath with decorations

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ania Zankowska, Founder, Aerloom London

"The best sellers in my collection are the Queen ornaments, the bulldogs and the lions and this is very much supported by the sales with the British retailers and I think everyone feels immensely proud to be British during Christmas time."

15. Close of bow being tied on gift bag

16. Wide of visitors walking past Christmas tree at Spirit of Christmas event

17. Tilt down from ceiling of Olympia to stands at Spirit of Christmas

18. Wide of visitors walking past Village Workshop stand

19. Tilt up of gingerbread Big Ben

20. Wide of gingerbread Big Ben

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Itet Radcliffe, Founder, Village Workshop

"I was really looking for something iconic that will relate to England, and if you see Big Ben then immediately it's London, it's England."

22. Mid of Radcliffe arranging gingerbread houses on stand

23. Mid of gingerbread items on stand

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Itet Radcliffe, Founder, Village Workshop

"We sell through online shops and they distribute to Europe and they haven't given us any indication that things will be changing. For this year definitely we haven't seen any change, no repercussions at all."

25. Tilt up gingerbread Big Ben

26. SOUNDBITE (English) Itet Radcliffe, Founder, Village Workshop

"Well I think people like to associate what they are buying as made in England. I think on that line, yes, here people are quite aware of where it's coming from, so made in England is quite a lot of difference."

27. Close of top of Big Ben

28. Wide of Eadie family members working on The Oxton Liqueur Company stand

29. Mid of customer trying flavoured liqueur

30. Various of flavoured liqueur bottles

31. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Eadie, Owner, The Oxton Liqueur Company

"Well in the run up to Brexit we've seen the currency move from about 140 to about 110 (British pound to Euro), so we've seen an increase in the price of goods that we buy from Europe of about 25 per cent. So that for us is all our glass, that comes from Italy, from Germany and from France. So already there's been a huge impact, what will happen after Brexit we'll have to see, but time will tell."

32. Mid of flavoured liqueur bottles

33. Customer trying flavoured liqueur

34. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Eadie, Owner, The Oxton Liqueur Company

"You know the exchange rate swung 25 percent, it may turn around, there may be a movement in the other direction, that would be good. Obviously for people exporting it's been incredibly beneficial. So it depends on which side you're on as to whether you've benefited or whether you haven't."

35. Mid of flavoured liqueur bottles on front of stand

36. Wide of visitors climbing stairs in event hall with shopping bags

37. SOUNDBITE (English) Stuart Hunter, Portfolio Director, Clarion Events (Organisers of Spirit of Christmas Fair)

"At the moment in terms of Brexit having any impact to us and the show we're not seeing any, but obviously we do have a lot of conversations with our exhibitors and obviously there's some nervousness, I think certainly probably overall this year in terms of the trade side of business, there's been a bit of a sluggish approach to some of the retail elements."

38. Mid of packaged Christmas puddings

39. Mid of Christmas pudding in front of wooden boxes reading (English) "Made in the UK"

40. SOUNDBITE (English) Stuart Hunter, Portfolio Director, Clarion Events (Organisers of Spirit of Christmas Fair)

"It remains to be seen whether the spend will be the same as we are on site this week, we'll find that out, exhibitors will tell us. We measure that post show as well so we do lots of research. But on the evidence of today it's felt busy, buzzy, lots of shopping bags going out of the doors, so it feels like it's business as usual for us."

41. Mid of bauble on Christmas tree

LEAD IN:

For decades Britain's discontent over its European Union (EU) membership has simmered on, but then came the June referendum.

Nationalism surfaced and Britain's voted to leave the EU.

Brexit as it became known sent shockwaves through money markets and governments around the world.

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In the weeks running up to referendum judgement day, the British were busy with a little soul searching.

Mulling over their shared history, the country's pride in their democracy and heritage.

It was a year when Queen Elizabeth celebrated being the longest reigning UK monarch and the country celebrated her ninetieth birthday.

The pomp and ceremony from her recent jubilee were still a source of pride and were reminiscent of the heydays when London style was considered to be world leading.

In the 1960's British fashion and British pop were riding high.

That sense of being at the vanguard of style has continued, according to Robert Johnston the Fashion Director of GQ Magazine: "You also think street scene, you think east London, you think hipsters, you think the most vibrant street fashion possibly in the world."

Author Iain Aitch explained how a variety of heritages were now mixed up, making Britishness a more complex idea to communicate: "Everyone might say a Sunday roast or fish and chips, that's a quintessentially British meal, but then suddenly everyone says it's chicken tikka masala."

But it wasn't this hipster, Brick Lane art and curry house side of Britain that won the vote.

The referendum on June 23rd was to signal the start of a long debate.

Britons for the first time had to absorb what being outside of the EU looked like.

Britain joined what was then called the European Economic Community in January 1973.

This was ratified by a referendum in 1975 with a resounding 67% majority.

By the seventies, Britain was beset by strikes and disgruntled union workers.

Traditional industries such as manufacturing and coal were in decline in the mid seventies.

Unemployment exceeded one million for the first time in March 1975. By the August that figure had increased to 1.25 million.

Some 83,000 immigrants were living in the UK by 1975, mostly from the Commonwealth.

According to Migration Watch UK for the year ending December 2015, net migration to the UK was 333,000.

And the lady had yet to turn. Margaret Thatcher MP (then leader of the opposition) campaigned to stay in the European Economic Community.

Later as prime minister between 1979 and 1990, Thatcher was known for her tough line with Brussels, especially during negotiations for the Maastrict Treaty in 1992.

The city of Maastrict is the home of the treaty which created the EU.

As summer arrived, businesses, leading universities and research establishments were beginning to assess the impact of Brexit.

For science and medicine, concerns were two fold.

Britain had attracted thousands of top researchers as well as billions of Euros in grants.

They went into research like this at Kings College London.

This project is a multidisciplinary look at the potential causes and effects of autism. It's a long term project which is linked to other studies across Europe.

Doctors and scientists aren't worried about losing cash in the short term, but falling behind in the knowledge race in the long term, especially as Britain has sought to place itself as a central base for the new industrial technologies.

The other fear is losing the brains which have been drawn to British research, people who now fear they will need to move to other institutions to keep up with the cash and the research.

Lead scientist at King's College Professor Declan Murphy warned: "Big questions need big populations to come up with the right answers, and we simply cannot deliver the amount of patients for the amount of science from one centre from one country."

The EU's Horizon 2020 budget is 80-billion Euro which funds medicine and science research across Europe.

Britain's split from the EU will leave a funding gap as well as a brain drain, according to Murphy. He argues it will be the children with autism like Van Velzen who will lose out.

As an island nation, boat building and sales have been important to the UK.

The industry fears rough waters may be ahead for Britain's luxury yacht industry, but right now it's riding on a wave caused by the plunge in the pound's value.

Phil Popham, the CEO of Sunseeker International was cautious: "We've benefited because of the weakness of the pound, but its all about business confidence."

Others like Russell Currie, the Managing Director of Fairline Yachts, says he already had cause to worry: "We've had an overnight decrease in the price of our boats in areas such as the European market."

British Marine's chief executive Howard Pridding tried to show more confidence in the course ahead: "Obviously, industry and business need stability and the time it will take to exit from the European Union will be problematic."

An estimated 1.2 million Britons live in other EU countries, mostly France, Portugal and Spain according to Britain's House of Commons library.

But that's a conservative figure because many expats don't bother registering with their embassies or the local authorities.

At Mijas on Spain's Costa del Sol, many Brits don't want to return to Blighty.

Used to the sun, sea and cafe society, some British residents are so concerned that their lives on the Costas are threatened, that after many years they're finally learning to speak Spanish.

According to Mijas' Mayor Juan Carlos Maldonado: "When the results of the Brexit (referendum) were known, a big uncertainty was created."

Local traders are also keen to keep the British on the Costa.

Many are retired and spend their pensions here.

Bar owner Sergio Morales says: "Most of our clients here, around 80% of them, are British."

A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over British expats in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.

And it's possible a string of similar nationality schools for expats may spring up.

Not everyone was bemoaning the onset of Brexit.

The art and antique market experienced a mini boom according to London dealers at this winter fair.

The weak pound against the dollar and Euro has seen American collectors in particular start to snap up bargains with savings of beween 25 and 30 per cent compared with six months ago.

Art dealers are reporting a similar trend.

They say investors see the arts market as a safe refuge in uncertain times.

As Christmas approaches the toy industry is bracing itself and Santa is wondering whether he'll have much to be jolly about.

It's the time of year when manufacturers and retailers count on making their biggest cash bonus of the year.

According to industry analyst Frederique Tutt: "Since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

That's because toy retailers buy stock almost a year in advance and can keep prices stable, but the toy dealers here admit next year the stockings left out for Father Chrismas may have shrunk considerably.

There's nothing as Christmassy as a Christmas tree, but in Denmark the outlook for tree producers isn't quite so evergreen.

According to the Danish Christmas Tree Association, the small Scandinavian country grows around 11.5 million trees a year.

About 9.5 million of those are exported.

But these are challenging times and currency fluctuations are having an effect on trade.

Speaking about his members, Claus Jerram Christensen of the Danish Christmas Tree Association says: "They have experienced that the low exchange rate for the sterling pound makes it more difficult to achieve the same prices."

The true impact of Brexit on Britain and Europe as a whole is still to an extent unknown.

The UK government had announced it was to trigger Article 50 next March to start negotiations to leave EU.

But since then, Brexit has twice been contested in the High Court.

One ruling has already stated Britain's law makers should be allowed a vote in Parliament beforehand.

Breaking up, it seems, really is hard to do.

AP Television - From story 4024631

London, UK - 22 February 2016

1. Wide of UK Houses of Parliament as London bus passes

2. Close of clock face at the top of Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben

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London, UK - 16 June 2016

3. Wide of Big Ben as seen from Buckingham Palace

4. Wide of Buckingham Palace

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London, UK - 3 June 2012

5. Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Philip (centre), Charles (left) and Camilla (right) on royal barge during Diamond Jubilee celebrations

6. Mid of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry on royal barge

7. Pull out of royal barge sailing down River Thames during Diamond Jubilee celebrations

AP Television

London, UK - 11 June, 2016

8. Mid of Queen Elizabeth II in carriage during the Trooping of the Colour for her 90th birthday celebrations

9. Wide of Guardsmen in ceremonial marching during the celebrations

AP Television

London, UK - 1960s

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10. Close tilt down of man putting shirt in carrier bag

11. Wide of man by scooters

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London, UK - 31 October 1963

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12. Various of Beatles getting off plane in London

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London, UK - 7 June 2016

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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Johnston, Fashion Director, GQ Magazine UK

"You also think street scene, you think east London, you think hipsters, you think the most vibrant street fashion possibly in the world."

AP Television

London, UK - 3 July 2012

14. Punk and goth street fashion in Camden

AP Television

London, UK - 16 June, 2016

15. Hipster in Brick Lane cafe

16. Pull focus of street sign reading: (English) "Brick Lane E1"

17. Various of curry houses on Brick Lane

AP Television

Margate, UK - 8 June 2016

18. Various of Margate beach and people relaxing in sunshine

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Iain Aitch, Author:

"Everyone might say a Sunday roast or fish and chips, that's a quintessentially British meal, but then suddenly everyone says it's chicken tikka masala."

20. Various of takeaway fish and chips being served

AP Television

London, United Kingdom, April 30, 1973 (MUTE)

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21. Red buses on a London street

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London, United Kingdom, September 24, 1973 (MUTE)

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22. Tilt down of Ford workers walking out of various plants

23. Wide of Ford cars on a train

24. Various men take part in industrial action at Ford plant

AP Television

United Kingdom, February 10, 1974 - no exact location available

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25. Various of non functioning coal mines during national coal strike

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London, United Kingdom, June 3, 1975 (MUTE)

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26. Mid of Margaret Thatcher wearing a flags-of-Europe sweater, flanked by women also wearing pro-Europe sweaters

AP Television

Maastricht, Netherlands - 7 June 2016

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27. Clocktower of Maastricht town hall with EU, Limburg and Maastricht flags

28. Wide of streets in the town

AP Television

London, UK - 7 July 2016

29. Various of autistic teenager Rens Van Velzen completing other puzzles with black and yellow blocks against the clock

30. Close tilt down of the psychologist on the autism study at Kings College London timing Rens Van Velzen during test

31. Close of Van Velzen

32. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Declan Murphy lead scientist, EU Aims study on autism, Kings College London:

"Big questions need big populations to come up with the right answers, and we simply cannot deliver the amount of patients for the amount of science from one centre or from one country."

33. Various of Van Velzen being tested in eye tracking unit at Kings College London

AP Television

Southampton, UK - 16 September 2016

34. Wide of Southampton Boat Show 2016, cruise ship in background

35. Tilt down to pontoon, boats and visitors

36. Close of 'Sunseeker' flag

37. Various of Sunseeker 95 Yacht exterior

38. SOUNDBITE (English) Phil Popham, CEO of Sunseeker International:

"We've benefited because of the weakness of the pound, but its all about business confidence."

39. Various of Fairline yacht

40. SOUNDBITE (English) Russell Currie, Managing Director of Fairline Yachts:

"We've had an overnight decrease in the price of our boats in areas such as the European market

41. Zoom out from cruise ship docked near boat show

42. SOUNDBITE (English) Howard Pridding, Chief Executive of British Marine:

"Industry and business need stability and the time it will take to exit from the European Union will be problematic"

AP Television

Mijas, Malaga - October 6, 2016

43. Wide of coastal area of Mijas

44. Pan of typical apartments in the area and people walking by the sea side

45. Various of British pensioners taking Spanish classes in the Parnell School

46. Various of Juan Mayor Carlos Maldonado in his office

47. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Carlos Maldonado, Mayor of Mijas:

"When the results of the Brexit (referendum) were known, a big uncertainty was created."

48. Various of family walking near beach

49. Pan from people walking up steps from the beach to the owner of Royal Beach cafe talking

50. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sergio Morales, co-owner of Royal Beach bar in Mijas:

"Most of our clients here, around 80% of them, are British."

AP Television

London, UK - 1 November 2016

51. Pull focus of bronze Japanese archer

52. Mid of men admiring antique chandelier

53. Art dealer Tanya Baxter showing painting to visitor

54. Close tilt down of painting 'Paper Bride in Waiting' by Zeng Chuanxing (price £120,000/ USD 147,000)

55. Wide of antique clock stand

AP Television

London, UK - 9 November 2016

56. Mid of Tiana Wilson with Santa who is holding a Hatchimal waiting for the toy to hatch

57. Wide of girl playing with toy on chair

58. Mid zoom in to boys playing with Bluetooth Furbys

59. Low mid view of caterpillar going past boys and Furbys

60. SOUNDBITE (English) Frederique Tutt, toy industry analyst, NPD:

"Since the Brexit vote the toy market has been faring really well with an increase of three percent."

AP Television

Lundby, Denmark - 22 November 2016

61. Mid tilt up of Christmas tree plantation

62. Wide of plantation through tops of trees

AP Television

Copenhagen, Denmark - 21 November 2016

63. SOUNDBITE (English) Claus Jerram Christensen, Managing Director of the Danish Christmas Tree Association:

"The low exchange rate for the sterling pound makes it more difficult to achieve the same prices."

64. Mid of large container truck filled with trees pulling out of yard stacked with trees

65. Pan across field of Christmas tree saplings for 2018 and beyond