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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
We stand by our decision, a primary-school defends pulling out | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
of a show featuring a gay character. Angry protests at a decision to | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
close care homes for the elderly. Delayed, disrupted and indirect. | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
The train firm struggling to get its services to London. And the | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
football tournament with a difference about to be staged in | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
Hull. And if the weather is now turning much more unsettled. The | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
very latest his later in the programme. The head of an East | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
Yorkshire primary school is tonight defending her decision to pull the | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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plug on children's opera featuring a leading character who's gay. | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
Tonight, the head of Bay Primary had said she never wanted to see | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
that character taking out of the play that the use of the word clear | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
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in the script was something she would never allow in her playground. | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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-- queer. Hundreds of her pupils were due to be involved in the | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
production due to open in Bridlington later this month. Anne | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Marie Tasker has been speaking exclusively to the head of the | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
school. The school said words in the scripts were sexually | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
suggestive. The writer of the opera has not spoken to them but he has | :02:03. | :02:13. | |
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spoken to television. That is the only line that you know that the | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
character is D. What can be wrong with kids being in a play with a | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
gay character, whatever age they are? Thousands of internet users | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
back the writer online but the head teacher of the school say people | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
misunderstand why she has taken her 300 pupils, some as young as four | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
year sold out of the shore. We had no intention to censor a gay | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
character but there was one word that we had trouble with children | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
as young as this saying in a performance. If they said it in the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
playground we would be stopping them and seeing it is not a nice | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
word to use. In the playground many parents back to the head teacher | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
was my decision. To see it is former pop it is ridiculous. I do | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
not think clear is the correct word to be using, it gives children the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
wrong impression. It is not teach appropriate for them. But others | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
who found out about the row in a letter to the school yesterday see | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
it is an over-reaction. children have worked very hard and | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
if the school have a concern they should have got in touch with | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
parents to ask our opinion. You hear worse words in the playground, | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
that is my opinion. There is nothing wrong with it. The row | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
continues to rumble on. Richard Lane is from the gay and lesbian | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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campaign group Stonewall. He gave me his reaction. We are obviously | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
very concerned by the reports that the opera and production has been | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
cancelled due to homophobia. I think it brings up wider issues | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
about schools being able to discuss age appropriate education | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
surrounding gay and bisexual issues within school. Do you think it is | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
right that children as young as four are discussing the issues in | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
drama groups? I do not think it is about eight per se but about | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
discussions in schools that some people have different families, | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
some people have two mums or two dads, some are brought up by their | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
grandparents and it is about having all of that reflected in school. | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
the line he said I am aware of which is why I left here. Well some | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
people be disappointed that children are hearing phrases like | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
that? It's the work with schools across the country and our | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
different families report that speaking to young people who have | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
gay or lesbian parents often feel very isolated within schools that | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
actually their families who support and love them are not reflected in | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
schools. It is about teachers teaching pupils of all ages in the | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
age appropriate ways that are using the word gay as an insult is always | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
wrong. If you are a parent and you have no gay or lesbian people in | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
the family, can you understand why those parents would not be happy? | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
think the skills have to take responsibility and we know that | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
pretty much every school in the country will have a pupil with a | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
gay family member on a gay friend. It is about ensuring that everyone | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
is included in education. Some say this is homophobia in the name of | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
child protection, would you go along with this? I think what is | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
child protection is that our research shows that nine out of 10 | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
secondary school teachers and many primary school teachers regularly | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
hear a homophobic abuse. Were these skills right to call at an day on | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
this and Laura were the wrong? think people need to understand the | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
issues and the language that is being used and to ensure that the | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
curriculum is inclusive for all pupils. Was the skill right or | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
wrong? It is about them having intervention with parents at the | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
earliest possible stage, I will not going to the details of the six | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
that decision but we were with schools and pupils who experience | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
warm-up for be and it is about insuring every school takes their | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
responsibility to communicate these issues seriously. He would not | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
answer that one, maybe you well. Do you think the school was right to | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
pull-out of the production? If you wear a parent would you be happy | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
about language like that being used in a script for those aged between | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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In a moment: A 24 hour vigil against a mobile phone mast reaches | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
its 10th week. A decision to close some care homes in Lincolnshire was | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
today met with angry protests. At a meeting this morning, the county | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
council pushed through a plan which will see five homes shut in the | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
next three months, with another three closing from next year. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Campaigners say the authority is trying to make money at the expense | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
of their elderly relatives. Our community correspondent Vicky | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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Johnson has more. They were not many in number but protesters made | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
loud and clear their opposition to the care home closures. It does not | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
just affect families with people in care homes and the moment but it | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
affects those who will need care in the future. I think it is appalling, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
they are abdicating their responsibility to the frail and | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
elderly people of this county. council executive heard at this | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
morning that changes are needed to modernise the service. These homes | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
were built 40 years ago and they are past their best, we think we | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
can provide a better service in other menus. But those in the | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
public gallery were not convinced. It is all about cuts and finance. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
As it was voted in favour of the closures some claimed it was less | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
about modernisation and more about saving money. It will all produce a | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
capital receipt, that is, money from the sale of the homes between | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
two and four million pounds. idea is that individuals will | :09:34. | :09:40. | |
receive a personalised budget which they can spend how they wish rather | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
than council deciding how they will be cared for. 50% of councils and | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
Lincolnshire currently receive personalised budgets, the target is | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
100% by 2013. This is deeply ironic, it is denying choice, it is giving | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
people a personal budget which they can choose where to spend it accept | :10:05. | :10:14. | |
in their own home. This and another warm will remain open and tell next | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
April at least then it is intended to develop the site as a learning | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
hub for those with dementia. In an unusual move as a High Court | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
hearing has been held at a Lincolnshire farmer Judy. The case | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
will decide whether the couple who live there are the victims of wind | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
farm noise. Two companies and two landowners deny that the couple | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
were forced to leave their home in 2007. Today was simply putting it | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
in context with the judge, where the left, -- where they left. The | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
farmhouse where they were living, the turbines themselves and the | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
character of the general area. There has been a morning of | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
disruption because of problems with First Hull Trains. It caused delays | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
in places like Hull and Grantham as passengers were left waiting for | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
services. First Hull Trains has blamed the disruption on an engine | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
failure. This morning cos my problems were caused by an | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
overnight engine failure in one of the four hull first trains units. | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
By lunchtime the direct service to the capital was back to normal. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
was shocked at first because of all the luggage I have to take with me | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
but fortunately they have told me that my train is running on time so | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
it is fine now. Fortunately we do not have to make a connection at | :12:00. | :12:10. | |
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the other time but often we do so we are very fortunate today. | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
train company has masses of rolling stock sat in the sidelines waiting | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
for something to happen. We have been transferring people over to | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
Doncaster this morning, there are delays of 10 to 15 minutes in most | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
cases. Some say the company is struggling with poor-quality | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
rolling stock. The problem with these trains is the have been in | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
use for over a decade but have never been constantly reliable. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Keeping the fleet rolling is something First Hull Trains has | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
said it is committed to doing. The company pointed out that only last | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
week the top and national poll for customer satisfaction. Our reporter | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
is at a station in Hull right now, why does this keep happening to | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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There are issues with the trains themselves. They have also told us | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
tonight that the destruction experienced it today could | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
potentially travel into tomorrow. There advising travellers to check | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
before setting out their journeys. Still ahead tonight: | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
A 24-hour vigil against a mobile phone mast reaches its tenth week. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
And teams from more than 30 countries prepare for a World Cup | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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with a difference. This is Goodmanham Wold near Market | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
Weighton taken by Jennifer Naylor. Thank you very much indeed. If you | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
have a picture you're proud of, send it in. A story in the papers | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
today about whether forecasters having sleepless nights. One | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
national forecasters said he cannot go to bed until he gets the | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
broadcast rights. Others don't get the Jeremy Paxman style | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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the Jeremy Paxman style interrogation of a new like I did. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
Sunny intervals and scattered showers for tomorrow, a locally | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
heavy with the risk of thunder. The low pressure will remain anchored | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
across as for the next few days, bringing showers and even the risk | :15:06. | :15:15. | |
of longer spells of rain. This is a cold front which is introducing | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
change to the west, but it is pathetically weak just now, giving | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
only some patchy rain. The very light and patchy, I think the | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
graphics are overdoing it. It may become more intense as we head into | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
the night, so the chance of some heavy bursts of rain. If I was the | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
pick somewhere that would get the heaviest rain, it would be the East | :15:40. | :15:50. | |
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Yorkshire coastline later tonight. The sun will rise in the morning. | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
Any rain towards the Yorkshire coast, moving offshore, and that | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
there are cloudy start there will be sunny spells. Not a complete | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
washout at all. There will be some days in a brighter spells in | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
between those showers. A moderate south-west wind and top | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
temperatures across East Yorkshire of around 19 Celsius. 20 Celsius in | :16:21. | :16:29. | |
parts of Lincolnshire. The outlook is dominated by low-pressure, | :16:29. | :16:38. | |
meaning scattered showers and in places thundery. | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
Do you: have sleepless nights? I am not making this up it was in the | :16:44. | :16:54. | |
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national news today. A group of Hull residents are so | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
determined to stop a mobile phone mast from being built on their | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
doorstep that they've been camping out 24 hours a day for the last | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
nine weeks. They're worried the transmitter will damage their | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
health -despite experts claiming there is no hard evidence that | :17:08. | :17:17. | |
these masts are a danger to the public. Leanne Brown reports. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
They've been here all day and all night for the past 9 weeks, with no | :17:21. | :17:31. | |
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sign of giving up: We've organised at 24 hours a day sit-in on the | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
site. We have a lot of with people coming for an hour or two at the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
time. If anyone comes to start doing any work at all, we send a | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
warning signal out and get as many people as we can down to the side | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
as quickly as possible. All-too and Vodafone want to build the master | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
idea where this benches. It is in the middle of a residential area | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
and next to a busy junction. Residents like Dave are concerned | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
about the possible health risks, so he's made this tent his new bed. | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
get a bit of company from the foxes. You get all sorts around here. | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Health Protection Agency says there is no hard scientific evidence to | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
suggest it would pose a risk to public health, but Silvia from | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
Horncastle disputes that, and she is undergoing scientific tests | :18:20. | :18:30. | |
after living near one. They radiation is so powerful that you | :18:30. | :18:37. | |
just feel tired for no reason and you cannot sleep. You wake up | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
feeling hot, numb and sometimes there is a ringing in the years. A | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
feeling generally sit at, as if you're about to throw up. 85% of | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
the population owned a mobile, but there are mixed views on the High | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
Street as to whether the mast should be built. We have to think | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
about the school's close by. Anything that improves the phone | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
signal be good for people with more will phones. In a statement the | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
phone companies told us: We have identified that we both need to | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
improve the 3G coverage to customers in Hull, so that they are | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
able to access high-speed mobile broadband services. All our base | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
stations are designed, built and operated in accordance with | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
stringent international guidelines. But residents say they're not going | :19:23. | :19:33. | |
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away until the plans are scrapped. Strong feelings there. Earlier, I | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
spoke to Hazel Nunn from Cancer Research UK. I asked her if people | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
were right to be worried? In terms of scientific studies, | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
there is little evidence letting mobile-phone mast to cancer are | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
other serious outcomes. That does not mean it is not right for people | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
to be worried about their health. It is only natural, and sometimes | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
even though the signs is incredibly good and takes us to a certain | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
stage, we cannot be certain about what sign socialism the future, so | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
I will not condemn anyone for tried to protect their health and the | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
health of their children. Of course, we also don't know what will happen | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
down the line, things could be different and 15 or 20 years' time? | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
With mobile phone Nast, their evidence has only been emerging for | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
the last five or 10 years, and similarly, with mobile phone is, | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
only five years longer than that. The evidence that is coming out is | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
quite strongly suggesting there is no reason to think that mobile | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
phones or their masts should be linked to cancer, but it is a new | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
area. Even if there was a link, people would continue to use their | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
phones. One of the reasons why there is so much hype around the | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
model phones is that it is such a new technology. 20 years ago, | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
hardly anyone had won and now almost everyone does. That is why | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
there is a lot of interest in this area and a lot of study still | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
ongoing. There are a lot of other bigger things to worry about in | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
terms of cancer risks than more will phones. Do we need to be | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
spending what -- or large amounts of money to get proper research | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
done to find it once and for all? There will only be large | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
epidemiological studies, studies that take large groups of people | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
and look at the list of cancer, if there is a biological reason why we | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
think there might be a link. For mobile phone is a mobile phone base | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
stations, there isn't really any plausible biological mechanism by | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
which we think they could cause cancer. That said, formal will | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
phones there is a lot of research going on at the moment, and in | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
children, there is not very much research at the moment, so there is | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
a lot of Mark -- work being put into this. We will have to wait | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
longer to find out what that shows. On the basis of the good research | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
we have at the moment, there is no real cause for concern, and it is | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
only a pragmatic approach that would invite people to be cautious, | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
perhaps to ask their children to limit their call times and only use | :22:08. | :22:18. | |
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their mobiles for emergencies. Thank you for talking to us. | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
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If you want it e-mail about that, contact is the usual way. Lots of | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
you have been in touch with us on the subject of bringing back | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
smoking in pubs. The East Yorkshire MP Greg Knight wants a change in | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
the law to allow pubs and clubs to provide areas for people to light | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
up. He claims the smoking ban is behind a record number of pub | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
closures across the country. Trevor called us to say, We should | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
definitely not go back to having smoking in pubs. It is a disgusting | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
habit and they want to keep it the same as it is. Peter says, I'm a | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
reformed smoker and I think they should bring back smoking rooms in | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
pubs. With proper extraction and air conditioning, it would bring | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
life back to pubs which are dying, Rick on Twitter says, smoking is a | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
disgusting habit. Has anyone thought about the health of the | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
staff that have to clean the smoking room out? Craig also | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
tweeted, I don't agree with smoking in pubs and clubs, I like going | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
home smelling fresh after a night out, not like a used ashtray! | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
Vanessa on Twitter says, I welcome smoking rooms as a smoker. They | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
should remove groups of smokers from pavements. There were loads of | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
those and thank you very much. Grimsby Town and Lincoln City today | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
received their fixtures for next season's Blue Square Premier | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
campaign. The Mariners open their season at home to Fleetwood Town on | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
the 13th of August while the Imps are away at Southport. The | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Lincolnshire derbies are in the space of a few festive days, with | :23:52. | :24:02. | |
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the teams going head-to-head on Boxing Day and New Year's Day. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
This Sunday, a unique version of the World Cup will be held in Hull | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
to bring together and different nationalities from across the city. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Football crosses many boundaries, and here in Hull, players are | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
training for a special World Cup. The Holland East Yorkshire version, | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
which aims to bridge differences in culture and language. We have had a | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
huge influx of new faces and new communities within the city of are | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
the last few years. This event is about promoting integration, making | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
sure people get on and understand each other's cultures. This unique | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
football tournament will bring together 32 definitions. Those | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
playing are either foreign students here or have moved to the area | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
permanently. Football, it seems, is the one language it they all | :24:55. | :25:04. | |
understand. As with any World Cup, an official | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
football song has been written. It has been penned by the former House | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
martins member, Ted keen. It has the most important thing: eye- | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
catcher one-line chorus. There are a lot of countries that rhyme, so | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
it has not been too difficult. The ethos of the song is that football | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
should be for everyone. It is the tournament's second year with the | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Kurdish team last year clinching victory over Iraq. This time, 12 | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
law countries are playing, including Sudan, China and Ghana. | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
We want to score, we want to win, but apart from that, it is about | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
the team spirit. The World Cup takes place at the KC Stadium on | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
10th July. Football and singing an effective and the easy way to unite | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
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communities. Let's get a recap of the national | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
and regional headlines: The parents of murdered schoolgirls | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman have been contacted by police | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
investigating the News of the World phone hacking scandal. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
The head of a primary school has defended her decision to pull out | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
of an opera because of explicit language about a gay character. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Overnight rain towards the Yorkshire coast soon clearing, then | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
all areas seeing a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers, | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
locally heavy with a risk of thunder. Maximum temperature of 20 | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
Celsius. Now, not surprisingly, a big | :26:46. | :26:54. | |
response to our top story: the head teacher said there was no problem | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
with children discussing homosexuality. It was the use of | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
the word clear she objected to, and I completely agree. It is as | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
acceptable to use that word because children will then use it in the | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
playground without knowing why it is wrong. It seems everyone has | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
missed the point including the writer of the play. The head | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
teacher did say to is that the school talks to his children about | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
homosexuality and also the issues around it. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Another one here: when it comes to the problem of children hearing | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
that line within the play, most children would not understand or | :27:26. | :27:32. |