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The 4th Good evening. Welcome to BBC Look North. There headlines: | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Rescued from the freezing North Sea. How a woman survived a fall | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
overboard from a ferry. When we head there was a person in the | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
water in the sea at night, I think she was in there for half an hour, | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
chances of survival are normally quite minimal. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
A race against time to save a whale stuck in the mud on the Humber. | :00:38. | :00:46. | |
loaded about Revolver, to be honest, because I thought rubes. One of our | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
functions is to prevent suffering. -- I thought, whoops. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
�19,000 and more will be spent on moving this playground. And the | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
smallest car in the world, made in Lincolnshire. | :01:03. | :01:13. | |
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All the latest coming up on the Good evening. A woman who fell from | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
a ferry off the Flamborough coast has been described as the luckiest | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
woman alive. She managed to keep itself afloat for half-an-hour in | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
freezing water before emergency teams arrived to save her. The | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
incident was 20 miles off the Flamborough coast. The drama | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
happened as the 23-year-old was travelling on a ferry from | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
Newcastle to the Netherlands. Phil Connell has more. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
In dark, stormy conditions, the RAF search-and-rescue helicopter found | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
the ferry 20 miles off Flamborough Head. On board, the woman was | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
winched to safety after being rescued from the sea by a lifeboat | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
crew 30 minutes earlier. It was thought she had fallen 30 ft into | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
freezing water after going on deck to light a cigarette. When we heard | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
the situation, a person in the water in the sea at night, I think | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
she was in there for half an hour, chances of survival are quite | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
minimal. Extremely lucky. Condition as last night were said to be | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
similar to those seen along the East Coast today. How winds and | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
stormy seas. In weather like this, the safe rescue of the woman has | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
been described as nothing short of a miracle. Today, the quick actions | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
of those on board the ferry have been praised for saving her life. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
There is a survivability time in any water, any open-water. The | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
lower the temperature, the survivability time is Low Wood. It | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
is -- it was crucial she was found quickly. A Humberside Offshore | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Training Association is one of seven companies in the country that | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
train people for eventualities like last night. This session today was | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
for those working on oil and gas rigs, but experts say cruise on | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
board the ferry would have been trained in similar ways. They then | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
have to launch boat, how to recover them, how to identify people in the | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
water. When the lady was pulled out of the sea, she will have been very | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
cold. The crew have to know what to do to enhance chances of survival | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
before they even get back to the ship. The one-man has now been | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
released from Scarborough Hospital, returning home to Hertfordshire | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
with a story of survival she will never forget -- the woman has been | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
released. He incredible story. And it has | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
been a very busy 24 hours for rescue crews along the Humber. They | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
were scramble to Immingham docks this morning to help free a 30 ft | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
whale calf stranded on the nearby mudflats. Crispin Rolfe was there | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
as crews battled to save its life. I actually loaded up my revolve -- | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
I loaded at my revolver with bullets, because at one time, I | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
thought whoops. The outcome is unbelievable. They started with a | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
light. Rescue teams from across the region come to the aid of the | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
stranded minky whale. Became more in hope than expectation, after the | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
cat was found trapped on a mud bank. The mud, hazardous to the whale, | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
was a danger to the rescuers as well. That was not the Aironi wife. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
It was quite intimidating, when you first saw it, their weight and size | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
of it. We did not want to get too close to it. We started off by | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
digging a trench to help the water come in. We were told we had | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
reached high tide, and the water still have not floated their whale. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
We started so were the tactics. of theirs was this, using the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
inshore lifeboat to create waves and frightened of whale into action. | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
Eventually, that had some except -- that had some success. We only had | :05:12. | :05:21. | |
about 15 minutes before the animal would drown. It was a simple option. | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
It is now six hours since rescuers came together to try and ease his | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
way of the mud flat. It is estimated to weigh between 12 and | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
15 tonnes. They have managed to get it out into the water. The question | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
now is worried be able to swim for itself and escape to the safety of | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
the Humber? Rescuers held their breath, fearing | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
the worst, that the tide would fall to fast and there were would have | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
to be put out of its misery. Until base. Fins turning, sea churning, | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
and an escaping to the Humber and to its waiting mother. It will be | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
known whether it has made it to the safety of the North Sea in another | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
24 hours, but for the rescuers, the result they hoped for but never | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
really believed could happen. are over the moon. It makes you | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
feel wonderful. Crispin is in the studio now. How did the best two | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
teams make sure this had a happy ending? Extraordinary stuff. These | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
things often do not go the way we plan them. It has been a very long | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
day for the rescuers. The whale was stranded at four am. By 8 o'clock, | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
a team of rescuers began trying to free it. By 10am, 20 rescuers had | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
got out to the shoreline, turning up the whale into one upright | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
position. That was critical for its breathing. They began to dig a | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
channel to try and release it. 1:30pm, and high tide. Not high | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
enough to float the wealth, but enough to turn it, so it faced | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
forwards towards the Humber. By 2:30pm, the tide had turned and | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
there was a possibility that they would again run out of water. One | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
told me that they had had half an hour to save the whale at this putt, | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
and it was getting to just before 3 o'clock that they successfully | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
freed the Whale and gutted to swim away into open water. Her plea to | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
the safety of the North's sea. Thank you very much. -- hopefully | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
to the safety of the North Sea. In a moment: Back to school, but | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
not as we know it. New classrooms. It is 40 ft tall and cost more than | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
�90,000 to put up. A climbing frame at a Cleethorpes youth centre is to | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
be taken down and move to a new site after complaints from people | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
living nearby. It could cost a further �70,000 of taxpayers' money | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
to do it. It was meant to improve the lives | :08:10. | :08:20. | |
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It is hoped a private sector partnership will help Shell some of | :08:49. | :08:57. | |
the costs, and they will charge people to use it. A waste of money. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
That money could be put into education or something. I disagree | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
with it, totally disagree. Council officers planned the site under | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
delegated powers, which means councillors did not need to | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
scrutinise plans. Leonor Pidgen was in charge of leisure at the time | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
and she admits it could have been handled better. All the sudden, | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
this sprouting on your doorstep virtually overnight, without really | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
knowing it was coming and how high it would be, I think they needed | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
more consultation and explanation. They new administration said they | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
wanted backing used as soon as possible. Mistakes do happen. We | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
have to correct that now. That is the important thing. Until a | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
private partner comes forward, the question of when people can start | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
using this again is left hanging. I have been speaking to Councillor | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Chris Shaw, the leader of North East Lincolnshire Council. I asked | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
whether he thought the playground was a bad mistake. Not really. The | :10:03. | :10:12. | |
thing is, Peter, we inherited the problem. We were given three | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
choices. The first was to do nothing, which was not an option. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
The second was to scrap the same, which could have been a total waste | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
of taxpayers' money. The third choice was to have it resurrected | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
where people could use it. could any council of any party end | :10:33. | :10:40. | |
up in this situation? It had not been properly checked! I was | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
involved in the decision-making process and it was first erected. | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
It is a problem we inherited. You're dismissing Miss, but it is | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
�92,000 of taxpayers' money for something which are standing idle. | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
Do you want to apologise? I have nothing to apologise for. I would | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
apologise if I had spent �92,000 for it to stand idle. It will be | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
used. It is standing idle now. It will cost another �17,000 to move | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
it. The thing about 80 years we have a choice, we either leave it | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
there or remove it. It was a bad decision made by what was a | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
coalition council. It was one offers a's mistake. A topper said | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
does not work for the authority. you want to apologise for the waste | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
of �92,000? I cannot apologise for someone else's mistake. How sure | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
are you there can be another site found? We are working with people | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
who have expressed an interest in putting it on their side. | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
English language, when will kids be able to pay -- when will could be | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
able to play on it? We hope it will be within 12 months. I will invite | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
you to play on it, and you can even bring Paul Hudson. Thank-you. How | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
do you feel about the amount of taxpayers' money being spent to | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
pull the structure down? Should it have been put up in the first | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
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A toddler who drowned in a lake at a Lincolnshire caravan park has | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
been named as 19 month old high game from Peterborough. The toddler | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
disappeared while his prayers were put in a pretend at Skegness Water | :12:57. | :13:06. | |
Leisure Park. -- the toddler has been named as tight game. - - Kai | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
Game. The father of all when whose home | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
was badly damaged in an arson attack on a Hull estate says the | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
terrace has become a target for thieves and vandals. Dave Allen | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
says residents fear for their safety as these move in to take | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
copper piping from the homes. is a chap who lives in the end | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
house on his own, and he is terrified. He's frightened it gets | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
set on fire again, which could happen. Nothing is getting done | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
since the fire. To two Lincolnshire care centres | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
for adults with learning difficulties could be close to | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
privatise. Lincolnshire County Council says the review is needed | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
in light of use has been given their own budgets. And 90 day | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
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consultation period will begin on they two centres, among others. | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
Thank you far watching. Still ahead, their new coach to take charge of | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
policy from next season. And the smallest car in the world now of | :14:16. | :14:26. | |
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the production line and on the road Tonight's photo is of straw bales. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
A lovely picture, perfect September colours. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
A quick update now on the digital switch-over. If you live in certain | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
parts of the area, you may have seen adverts advising you to retune | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
on September 7th. But, because you are seeing this programme right now, | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
it means you are getting your pictures from the Belmont | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
transmitter which has already switched. The advice is, if you | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
like what you are seeing now, no need to retune again, just keep | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
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watching. The headline is a very unsettled | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
one as we said yesterday. Autumn has already arrived. We have had | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
gusts of 50 miles an hour. You can see the number of isobars for | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
tomorrow suggests it will be a windy day. It offers some | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
protection from the showers that will be packing into western parts | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
of the country. Some places will actually stay dry despite the fact | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
that it is a very unsettled section. Here is this morning's rain, this | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
vivid cold front, it has left behind and mix of cloud and | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
sunshine. Some shares have been getting across but most cases it | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
right now are dry with some sunshine. Overnight, the risk of a | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
few blustery showers Cushing in from the West but they should be | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
few and far between. Quite a few places will stay dry but very windy | :16:13. | :16:21. | |
- that is the main feature of the weather. Temperatures down to 11 | :16:21. | :16:31. | |
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degrees. The sun will rise in the Another very windy day to come but | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
it should be fairly bright. It looks set to the summit at times | :16:37. | :16:44. | |
but a few blustery showers cannot be ruled out. Later, a cloud may | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
well increase from the West. But there will be a fair amount of dry | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
weather in between those scattered showers. The winner will be strong | :16:54. | :17:03. | |
and from the West, we are looking at highs of holiday in 17 degrees. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Patchy rain at first on Thursday, brighter later and a similar story | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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Hull FC have announced coach Richard Agar is to leave the club | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
at the end of the season. He has described working at the KC Stadium | :17:35. | :17:45. | |
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as an honour. Richard Agar has been with the | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
Black and Whites since 2005, initially as assistant coach before | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
being put in the hot seat on May 2008. A Challenge Cup final | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
appearance in 2008 was the highlight of his reign. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Challenge Cup final, obviously be didn't get the result but for any | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
coach to take his team to Wembley is a major honour. His departure | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
comes six weeks after the club was taken over by Hull City's Adam | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
Pearson. At the time, he said Agar was going nowhere. In a statement | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
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All the best for the future. We recognise the exciting new chapter | :18:42. | :18:51. | |
in the club's history. We're looking forward to the search for a | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
new head coach. The first couple of seasons was all right but all he | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
has done since then his lose games. A I think it is sad because of are | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
the last couple of years he did well, getting a good team together | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
and then sometimes it changes for people. In a statement earlier | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
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Agar is now being heavily linked with the vacant job at Wakefield | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
and it's expected that Peter Gentle will be confirmed as next coach of | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Hull FC but with at least two games left in the season, fans here in | :19:33. | :19:43. | |
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West Hull hope it won't cause any We have just heard that all schools | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
across Lincolnshire have today been urged to become academies by the | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
county council. Hull's newest Academy building has thrown open | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
its doors to pupils for the first time. Sirius building incorporating | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
Ganton special school has cost more than �48 million. Archbishop | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
Sentamu's new building across in East Hull opens next week. They are | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
part of the huge �400 million Building Schools for the Future | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
programme in the city. The serious Academy certainly has | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
an impressive looked, with facilities ranging from a 3 D | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
interactive hall and a demonstration Lab. Tell me what you | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
see. The pupils certainly seem to impress. Everything is brand new | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
and of the range, it is great to have such an opportunity to be in | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
such a fabulous environment. should be better for the grades. | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
Before we had a uniform and everyone will now get down to | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
learning and everyone will concentrate a lot more. This new- | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
build is regarded very much as the icing on the cake, progress already | :20:48. | :20:56. | |
achieved here at the Academy. For instance, in 2008, just 18% | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
achieved five GCSEs including English and maths. By this year, | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
that had risen to 46%. Staff are confident these new facilities will | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
help improve attainment even further. It is investing in young | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
people and it has an impact in raising standards and showing that | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
they are valued and giving children the opportunity to study in a 21st | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
century environment means that they are prepared for the future. Across | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
the city, last minute preparations are underway at another academy | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
which opens next week. When we opened today, everybody was so | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
surprised. The facilities are a truly spectacular here. We have a | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
fully professional theatre, we have a wonderful cybercafe and basically, | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
if the student has an interest in something, they can follow it here. | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
The �400 million schools for the Future programme will see every | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
secondary and special school in Hull either rebuilt or remodelled. | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
We have a real chance now of making an impact because we have the | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
facilities and these are not just facilities that are bench marks, | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
they are the best in the country. These are the first academies to be | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
completed, the rest should be finished by 2014. Children | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
attending the schools are certainly the lucky ones as there is unlikely | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
to be the school's building programme on the scale for decades | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
to come. We have had a big response to our | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
story about speed cameras in Lincolnshire being vandalised. More | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
than �300,000 has been spent this year in the county, fixing | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
vandalised cameras. The Road Safety Partnership says 16 sites have been | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
targeted since the start of the year including speed cameras in | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
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Lincoln, Grantham, Louth and Colin Dexter has received an | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
honorary degree from the University of Lincoln today. He brought us one | :23:32. | :23:39. | |
of TV's most loved detectives, Inspector Morse. He told the | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
audience today that he still is proud to be a yellow belly! | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
I thought it was extraordinarily clever Lee organised because there | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
was an awful lot to get through. I think the audience must have been | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
extremely happy that there was only one honoree, me, because if they | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
had had to listen to have a dozen, that might have had been too long. | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
Take a look at this - the smallest car on the planet. It's just 1.5 | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
metres long and fits just one person. And it's made in | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
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Our love for the small car has continued through the years with | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
models made it all over the world. But how small would you be prepared | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
to go? For instance, which you go this small? Comfort doesn't come | :24:45. | :24:53. | |
into it! But it is re-engineered, automatic gearing, reverse, a | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
weight distribution system to make it stable. It has conforms to all | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
the current loss for motorcars. is a fully roadworthy replica of | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
the world's smallest production car. It was promised last time we spoke | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
to Alan and Emma about their scale model German bubble cars and now it | :25:13. | :25:21. | |
has arrived. It is 1.5 metres long, has a 50 cc engine and will cost | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
�7500 plus VAT. I love it because it makes even me look tall. Five | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
have already been sold to an American collector and this | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
interest from Europe, too. I was away at the weekend that a major | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
exhibition of Micra cars and people commenting and it is a pat on the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
back for all the cold long nights in the workshop. The big difference | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
from what Alan and Emma have made before is the fact that this one | :25:50. | :26:00. | |
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can go anywhere except motorways. I think it's absolutely stunning! | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
It really is, what a fabulous little thing! They're very | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
economical but no, I think there will stick to the one I've got. | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
Still a little more attractive for collectors only but a two-seater | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
version could follow soon. A reminder of the stories making | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
the headlines: There have been renewed claims that News | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
International chief James Murdoch knew phone hacking went beyond a | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
single reporter. And a whale calf swims to safety | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
six hours after becoming stranded on mud flats at Immingham docks. | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
The weather, blustery showers with some places staying dry. Top | :26:53. | :27:00. | |
temperatures around 18 Celsius. Response on the subject of the | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
adventure playground that we spoke about earlier. Roy says, can | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
someone tell us how the pay structure was made up, what do the | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
council spend our money on? Another one says it is not ugly and is very | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
important for children's development. Finally, James says, | :27:21. | :27:26. |