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Louise Minchin and Bill Turnbull

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Cold front comes back from Thursday.
BLACK RATS? BUBONIC PLAGUE? OR WHAT?
"Bubonic plague caused by bacteria carried by fleas that lived on black rats. "

"For centuries rats have been blamed for spreading the Black Death, helping to consign millions of people to an agonising death.
"But, according to one archaeologist, the rodents are innocent. Instead, the blame for passing on the disease that wiped out a third of the population of Europe could lie with the victims themselves.
The Black Death is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by bacteria carried by fleas that lived on black rats. The rodents spread the plague from China to Europe and it hit Britain in 1348."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2027347/Black-Death-backtrack-Dont-blame-rats-plague-spread-PEOPLE.html#ixzz3Se1fTX2L
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LIVING HISTORY:
70 Anniversary " Living through World War 2. "

Bill asks: "What was the daily struggle like, attempting to live through every day in war time? A daily struggle in a wartime environment that effected everyone. Fear, things were done very differently. People learned to live through their fear, to endure the position they found themselves in and to get on as best they could. No matter what.