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TED HUGHES MEMORIAL SERVICE:; ITN ENGLAND: London: Westminster Abbey: EXT LA Statue with golden cross in b/g LA Church spire with flag flying on flagpole in b/g PULL FOCUS leaves on tree Family of Ted Hughes along to church for memorial service GMS Queen Mother (wearing black suit) accompanied by Prince Charles and Bishop SIDE Lady Helen Windsor along to service with man PAN (Royal = 11 secs) SIDE MS Poet Andrew Motion along with woman to service PAN SIDE MS Millennium poet Simon Armitage with woman arriving at service SIDE MS Craig Raine arriving at service with woman SIDE CMS Irish poet Seamus Heaney arriving at Abbey (Poets = 21 secs) Irish poet Seamus Heaney interviewed SOT - He was a great blesser of all endeavours, at the most intimate personal level, as a friend of our family, as a storyteller to our children, as the voice that came up out of the depth of his being and anchored in everybodys ear - Also as a great poet, He is the heir of Shakespeare, a great Poet Laureate - made poetry a force within national life / irreplaceable really SLOW MOTION Hughes widow Carol arriving with Freda and Nicholas, Hughes children by Poet Sylvia Plath