for more stories . from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you re live with bbc news. the royal mint is unveiling a new 50p coin marking 75 years since the arrival of the empire windrush, which was one of the first ships to bring large groups of west indian immigrants to britain after the second world war. the new coin depicts two people from the windrush generation against a backdrop of the union flag, as greg mckenzie reports. these are the first pictures of the new 50 pence piece which pays tribute to the many british caribbean and commonwealth citizens who arrived in the uk on board the empire windrush between 1948 and 1973. newsreel: arrivals at tilbury. the empire windrush brings to britain 500 jamaicans. i many are ex servicemen who know england. - they served this country well. injamaica, they.
into the atmosphere, global temperatures will continue to rise. and look at this sea temperatures globally are at record highs. the red line shows how much higher than the long term average they are. in the coming months and are predicting next year 2024 could well be the hottest ever recorded. in the uk, the royal mint is unveiling a new coin marking 75 years since the arrival of the empire windrush, one of the first ships to bring large groups of west indian immigrants to britain after the second world war. the new coin depicts two people from the windrush generation against a backdrop of the union flag, greg mckenzie reports. these are the first pictures of the new 50p piece, which pays tribute to the many british, caribbean and commonwealth citizens who arrived in the uk on board the empire windrush between 1948 and 1973. archive: arrivals at tilbury. the empire windrush brings to britain 500 jamaicans. i many are ex servicemen who know england. - they served this country well. inj
was difficult for us to even come and be the best we could be. however, luckily i had a very strong man who was highly educated because the education system injamaica is very good. so my mum passed that over to me and made sure i knew who i was a history and hence my confidence in what i m seeing about. singing about. my men had to work twojobsjust to get singing about. my men had to work two jobs just to get by and even that didn t work sometimes. i am happy now to say that we can use the strength they gave us and forge new careers and possibilities and do whatever we want. i am proud of that and happy about that hence why i am singing a song which is a
and it took a couple of years before i began doing simultaneous equations, when i was doing those injamaica. so you were educationally much more advanced. i was able to cope. so you were able to cope, but you say that you never really felt that you fitted in when you were at school in england. you say you made friends, but that the atmosphere was also hostile, that you experienced racism. what do you mean? well, when. for my generation, we. we wanted to be british. we wanted. this was a new country. our parents had great expectations for us. we wanted to blend in with the communities and become a part of england, but we were faced with hostility, and. can ijust ask, where did you get that sentiment from? because i know that you were brought up by your maternal grandmother. mm hm. your mother was already working in england. you didn t have much contact with your father. so was it your maternal grandmother who influenced
and novelist andrew salkey. and they were all about autonomy of aesthetics, that they should tease out or rather, we should tease out our own aesthetics rather than seeking validation from our old colonial masters. all right. you said just a little while ago that when you came to the uk thinking you were going to be embraced by the mother country, as you saw it, that actually it made you feel more caribbean, and yet you say you feel at home in england as well as injamaica, so how do you reconcile the two? well, i ve.. england has changed over the years and i would like to think that my generation played a part in changing england. and in changing england, we ve changed ourselves. i have certain emotional ties to jamaica. um. i see myself as a jamaican. i still have. i ve retained my