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[00:-1.00]A TELEVISION violence is only acceptable to viewers if it is fair and justified,
[00:-2.00]according to research published by Leeds University yesterday.
[00:-3.00]The study found there was "remarkable agreement"
[00:-4.00]about which television violence was serious and which not.
[00:-5.00]Even a group of pensioners agreed that a violent sence in the well-known film
[00:-6.00]Pulp Fiction was tolerable because the dialogue and situation made it funny.
[00:-7.00]Some people said they found the bad language in the film more offensive than the vioence.
[00:-8.00]Viewers were asked to comment on scenes from cartoons like Tom & Jerry,
[00:-9.00]films like Pulp Fiction,
[00:10.00]TV drama series like Channel 4's Brookside and news items about wars.
[00:11.00]Researchers concluded that viewers made a distinciton
[00:12.00]between violence with a purpose and unjustified violence.
[00:13.00]Phil Harding,the BBC's editorial controller,
[00:14.00]said:"Now we will be able to make better decisions about what we show,
[00:15.00]or what we don't show."Sarah Thane,director of programmes at ITV.said:
[00:16.00]The report gives interesting information information
[00:17.00]about attitudes to screen violence.
[00:18.00]But it doesn't mean that we can increase the amount of violence seen on television."
[00:19.00]B  More than 30 pensioners on their way to see Oklahoma
[00:20.00]at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple had an amazing escape,
[00:21.00]after their coach left the road and crashed into a ditch.
[00:22.00]The accident,which took place at Monchard Road on the A377 near Crediton,
[00:23.00]is now under investigation by the police and the Department of Transport.
[00:24.00]Pensioners from the BT and Post Office Veterans Association
[00:25.00]were travelling on a 34-seater coach,hired from Turners Tours of Chulmleigh,
[00:26.00]near South Molton,when the bus went 20 yards off the road and turned over.
[00:27.00]Inverstigating police officer,PC Peter Dockree,said:
[00:28.00]"It's quite amazing that no one was badly hurt."
[00:29.00] He praised the bravery of the pensioners,
[00:30.00]who were helped out of the windows of the overturned bus by firemen.
[00:31.00]He said: "There was no panic at all.
[00:32.00]The pensioners showed what you could call a 'blitz Spirit."
[00:33.00]According to a spokesperson for Turners Tours in Chulmleigh,
[00:34.00]the commpany had given the coach a mechanical inspection
[00:35.00]only three weeks before the accident.She said:
[00:36.00]"This was a very unfortunate incident and we are sorry for everyone involved."
[00:37.00]C Mum Lillian Derbyshire is going to see her four daughters again-
[00:38.00]after a 31-year holiday!
[00:39.00]Shonda(now 38).Shelley(37),
[00:40.00]Sherri(36)and Shirin (34) went on holiday to America
[00:41.00]with Lillian's ex-husband -and never came back.
[00:42.00]Sherri put an advert in a local paper asking her mother contact her.
[00:43.00]Now Lillian,of West Gorton,Manchester,
[00:44.00]is making the 3000-mile journey to California for a reunion.
[00:45.00]"I can't stop crying with happiness."she said

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