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The headlines tonight - having to choose between heating and eating. | :00:09. | :00:15. | |
Fuel poverty takes its toll on elderly residents. Not just the | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
amount that the Bill is, but it means that we've got to cut back on | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
our food bills. A late night shopping is dubbed a failure by | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
traders who say it's putting them out of pocket. After nearly 120 | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
years, the first weekly edition of the Lincolnshire Echo goes on sale. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
And the game that has been entertaining crowds for decades | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
celebrate its birthday. And milder conditions on the way in the next | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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A Lincolnshire couple have told Look North that the rising cost of | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
fuel means that they are having to choose between eating or heating | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
their home. It comes as a new report suggests that almost 3000 | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
people will die this winter because -- as a direct result of fuel | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
poverty. A household is said to be in fuel poverty when they have to | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
spend more than 10 % of their income on keeping warm. It is | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
estimated that 18 % of households across the country are in this | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
situation. But in parts of Lincolnshire, it is almost double | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
that at 35 %. Rising fuel bills mean that 4 million households in | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
England now face fuel poverty. The highest number since 1996. 68-year- | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
old Isabelle Vint, from Ruskington, has a tough choice to make. Heating | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
or eating. We are having to cut back on everything. Not just the | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
amount that the fuel bill Innes, but it means we've got to cut back | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
on our food bills. Now we've counted the pennies. More than half | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
of all households in fuel poverty contain someone over the age of 60. | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
Rising prices mean more are experiencing problems. The latest | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
figures show gas and electricity bills rose by 18.3 % over the last | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
year. Whilst food prices rose by 6% and transport costs by 12.8 %. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
is an absolutely vital issue. week, the government held a summit | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
with the big energy providers to talk about what can be done. Their | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
message - switch suppliers and save money. He at Age UK's Activity | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Centre in Lincoln, they are learning the computer skills they | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
need to shop around for the best energy deal. There were several | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
comparison sites you can go on on the internet to find out what | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
prices you can get. But few here believe there's much cash to be | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
saved. They put a price up once you've changed, it's a waste of | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
time. And next year they will put the prices up. You end up paying | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
the same any weight. Barry Earnshaw, from Age UK in Lincoln, says the | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
government needs to do more. What the government should do is | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
actually reinstate the winter fuel allowance, which they have reduced. | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
Secondly, which is more radical, is to start to target the winter fuel | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
allowance, increase it and targeted on those pensioners who are the | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
poorest in society. Last winter, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
experienced particularly harsh conditions. This winter, estimates | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
suggest that 2700 people across England and Wales will die as a | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
A group which advises the government on fuel poverty has | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
tonight said that ministers aren't doing enough to address the problem. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
I asked Derek Lickorish, from the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, to | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
give his reaction to the recent report which says that thousands of | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
people will die this year if action isn't taken. I think it's a very | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
thorough and intellectually rigorous report which should set | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
alarm bells ringing loudly. Alarm bells ringing loudly for the | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
government? For the government, for suppliers, for the regulator and | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
for society as a whole. This report suggests that around 2700 people | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
will die this winter because of fuel poverty. What is the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
government doing, because those figures are terrible? I think the | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
government should be doing a lot more. The first thing I want the | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
government to do is press the suppliers to pay the warm home | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
discount to the broader group. That will be customers who are in | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
receipt of winter payments. So the government aren't doing enough at | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
the moment? Not at the moment. Whilst in 2013 we will have the | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
green deal, it is getting to where we are today to 2013. That is the | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
challenge. That needs more government effort. In Lincolnshire, | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
one in every three households is living in fuel poverty. What do you | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
make of that? It shows the Brett and depth of the problem across the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
country are. In Lincoln, it is one of the most severely affected | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
places in the UK. But this is not really acceptable in this day and | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
age. People dying. These sorts of projected figures for this winter. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
A It is not acceptable, and that's why I would like to see quite a bit | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
done. I would like to see the regulator be revisiting the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
possibility of a regulated tariff for customers who don't access the | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
market. For many customers, they are over 50 % of them pensioners. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
They are not going to get on the internet and get the best deal. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
They don't necessarily like direct debits. We have to find a way to | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
make sure those customers get the best deal, because many of the fuel | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
poor will not be on the best deal. The target of eradicating poverty | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
for fuel poverty is set at 2016. Is that possible? It's a very faint | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
hope. We should identify those we are going to deal with by then and | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
get on with it as a matter of urgency. A very emotive issue at | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
the moment. I'd like to know what you think of this one. What should | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
the government be doing to help tackle fuel poverty, or should the | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
energy companies be taking more responsibility? Also, what changes | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
would you be making this winter? What do you think about those | :06:23. | :06:33. | |
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figures, the projected lives being In a moment... She wrote about | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
Butlins 25 years ago, now this woman is using her memories to | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
A man from Grimsby who was allegedly filmed mistreating his | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
dog has appeared before magistrates. 36-year-old Jonathan Bloomfield is | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
accused of not taking reasonable care of a Staffordshire bull | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
terrier, and causing unnecessary suffering to the animal. The case | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
was adjourned until the November 10th and Mr Bloomfield was released | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
on bail. A teenager has been given a life sentence for the murder of a | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
67-year-old Lincolnshire man. 18- year-old Aiden Jackson will serve a | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
minimum of 12 years in jail after killing David Cowley near Sleaford | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
last year. Police say the case has affected both families. It's been | :07:27. | :07:34. | |
very difficult for the victim's family. They have lost a loved one. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
In Malaysia to the offender, a lot of his very close family members, | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
his mother, sisters, have had to come to court and give evidence | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
knowing that the evidence could well bring about conviction for | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
murder. High-street traders in Lincoln had hoped that it would | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
attract thousands more shoppers to the city. But four months after | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
being launched, many say that Thursdays late-night shopping has | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
flopped. More than a third of the city's businesses have now pulled | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
out, with many blaming a lack of shoppers. Closing the door on | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Lincolns late night shopping. 15 weeks since it was launched, many | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
say Thursday night shopping has brought little financial gain, with | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
extra wage bills even leaving some shops out of pocket. We didn't get | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
a very good football. Not many people were interested after 6pm. | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
We do get people coming in ban on a 5:30pm, we serve them, but after | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
6pm we had nobody. The city's late night shopping was launched in July | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
by Lincoln's business improvement group, with 101 stores agreeing to | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
open on Thursday night until 8pm. Already, almost 40 of those are | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
closing early. Unimpressed, it seems, with an average football on | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
a Thursday night of around 1000 shoppers. I thought I'd come and | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
have a quick look around the shops but there isn't much to open a toll. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
I'm not impressed. It's a bit rubbish. I've heard a few of the | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
shops have pulled out. There's nothing interesting open. In other | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
cities late night opening has been more successful. In Leeds, the | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
White Rose Centre says 22 % of its Thursday shoppers now arrive after | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
6pm. A significant amount, which business leaders in Lincoln believe | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
can also be achieved. Yes, it is something that takes time. Sunday | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
trading took a long time to get established but now it's a very | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
busy day in the city centre. It takes time for people to get used | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
to it, to get the confidence and to do something different in terms of | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
their normal pattern. More stores, it's thought, will open later | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
during the build-up to Christmas. Many will still need convincing | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
Plans for a biomass power plant near Brigg have been given the go- | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
ahead. The straw-burning station at Scawby Brook will power up to | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
65,000 homes. Many residents were against the plant and North | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
Lincolnshire councillors initially rejected it. But the Government's | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
now backed the application after changes were made to a proposed | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
access route. Plans to scrap CCTV in Lincoln city centre have been | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
abandoned. The Council says it's still reviewing the service but has | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
ruled out the option of closing it down completely. The cameras cost | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
nearly �500,000 a year to operate. A council bailout of a Spalding | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
shopping centre has been approved. South Holland District Council will | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
spend nearly �46,000 on the town's Red Lion quarter. The cash will be | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
used to pay off suppliers who are owed money. In the last hour, | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
parents of children at a Hull primary school have met their local | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
MP to discuss concerns that teachers made negative comments | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
about the pupils on the internet. The board of governors at Westcott | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
Primary is investigating the claims. Anne Marie Tasker has been in the | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
meeting, and joins us from there now. Anne-Marie, what was the mood | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
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There was a definite sense of anger. Both that there hasn't been a clear | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
confirmation of the details of these allegations, and also that | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
they feel that the head teacher at the school has an taking more | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
responsibility for the actions of her staff. One of the parents said, | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
we feel disappointed and let down. That was a sentiment echoed around | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
the room. It's been almost two weeks since this incident. Many | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
feel that by now there should be answers to their questions. | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
parents of West good primary, it was the main topic of conversation | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
last Wednesday. Allegations that one of the school's teachers had | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
made derogatory remarks about people from East hole. Some parents | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
said they'd seen a conversation on Facebook, where they'd described | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
people from the area as thick and inbred. Hull City Council says it's | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
still investigating the allegations but added that all schools have | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
been issued with guidance about the appropriate and responsible use of | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
social networking sites, such as Facebook. The school apologised for | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
any offence caused. But for parents and their local MP, that is not the | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
end of the debate. They want action taken against the teacher allegedly | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
involved. Many of the parents also say this has been very awkward for | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
their children. One man in the meetings had her son had come home | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
and asked what inbred meant. It left some very awkward | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
conversations. They also say they are worried that the children | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
haven't been told his school what is going on. They are hoping that | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
the meeting tonight will help shed light on the subject. No teachers | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
have said anything to the parents, nothing. This is what people are | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
probably getting Badat, that nothing has been confirmed. -- | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
getting mad act. If it has one or two bad apples that have performed | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
less than professionally, they need to be weeded out quickly and the | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
school needs to get back on track. The teachers in question don't care | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
enough about the school and about the children that go to the school. | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
We need people who care. Obviously some angry parents there. I gather | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
there was a lot of support for some other teachers at the school. | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
Absolutely. One teacher turned up to the meeting he was applauded for | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
attending. She said, I don't want everyone to think we are all the | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
same at the school. Many backed that, saying the majority of staff | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
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they do do an exemplary job. Still ahead... The first weekly edition | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
of the Lincolnshire Echo goes on sale. And celebrating the game that | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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Tonight photograph is of one of my favourite places. Another picture | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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tomorrow night. What a lovely day it's been. On Twitter, excellent | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
it's been. On Twitter, excellent blog By Paul Hutchison. Did you | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
enjoy that a sage, Peter? I don't think we want to go there at all. | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
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It's been and gone. If you want to The headline for the next 24 hours | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
is not a bad one. Skies will brighten with sunny spells. You can | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
see the weather front there which will try to get across as on Sunday. | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Saturday looks nice and fingers crossed we might get away with | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
Sunday as well. Tomorrow looks OK as well. Start of the half-term | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
holidays so perhaps not too bad. On the satellite picture, a lot of | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
clear weather today with a lot of sunshine. Last night that connects | :15:25. | :15:35. | |
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baby got down to-one Celsius. -- Conigsby. The sun will rise in the | :15:40. | :15:49. | |
morning as you can see. It may well start a bit on the cloudy side but | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
in general, a lot more clout than today. It should be at Friday and | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
as the wind freshens from the south-west, it will reveal sunny | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
spells in places. Temperatures to Celsius higher than today so around | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
normal for up this time of year. Saturday looks like a lovely day, | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
when they but bright. A question mark over Sunday with the risk of | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
some showers but eastern areas should be dry. Monday should be dry | :16:25. | :16:32. | |
should be dry. Monday should be dry as well. I saw Paul's brick and a | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
bargain bin on Sunday. There's a bit of publicity for you! -- book. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
It's been a daily paper since 1893, but today, the very first weekly | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
edition of the Lincolnshire Echo has gone on sale. The paper's seen | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
a steady decline in sales over the last few years, and says the move | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
to a weekly is needed to secure its long term future. It comes after | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the Scunthorpe Telegraph went weekly earlier this year. Here's | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Vanessa Clarke. With 192 pages, the Lincolnshire | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
Echo is four times bigger than it was. But it will now be published | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
just once a week, and today the new edition hit the shelves for the | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
first time. I had mixed reactions this morning. Some people are | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
saying it is old news and they will not bother buying it but other | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
people are buying it because it is the first edition. It's a new | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
chapter for the company who decided to make the change because of | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
falling revenue. It is happening to papers all over the country and we | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
looked at what we had here and said that so that we could have a strong | :17:44. | :17:53. | |
product going forward, we are going weekly. It has made a difference as | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
I am reporting football games that happened on Tuesday and it is | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
coming out on Thursday. We also have the website as well. | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Lincolnshire Echo has been a daily paper since 1893 when it was on | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
sale for just a ha'penny. And throughout the years, the paper has | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
kept the people of Lincolnshire up to date, even during the World Wars. | :18:11. | :18:20. | |
Today in Lincoln, readers had their first look. I think it is better. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
They used to have a weekly paper where I used to live. I will miss | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
the Daily one, I must admit. Now that I am retired I read it every | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
morning but everything is in there. By the time you get the news once a | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
week, a lot of it is old hat. paper is following the lead of | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
others like the Scunthorpe Telegraph which went weekly in | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
August. It says its readership has increased since the change. The | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
team at the Lincolnshire Echo will be hoping their new paper will do | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
just as well. And this might be another story you | :18:52. | :19:02. | |
want to have your say on. What do you think of the Lincolnshire Echo | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
going weekly? Maybe you have seen the edition today and had agreed. | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
There's the email and text details for you now. | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
And thank you for getting in touch after we told you about figures | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
showing that people living in Lincolnshire are facing some of the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
longest hospital waiting times in the country. It comes as one woman, | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
left waiting for more than ten months, says it's like having your | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
life on hold. More than 700 people in the county have been on a list | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
for over a year. Paul Fields says I have been waiting for an operation | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
at Lincoln County Hospital for 14 months already and have been told | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
it could be another year before I get the procedure done. I am in | :19:42. | :19:52. | |
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Thank you for all of those. Children in Hull are getting a | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
chance to get hands-on experience which could help them to get jobs | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
in the future. A new Skills Academy is designed to give them an insight | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
into the building and engineering industries. Several local companies | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
are offering expert advice and guidance to a wide range of young | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
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people. You get to learn a lot of stuff. Getting experience of it. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
is better than being sat in a classroom. You get two more hands- | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
on and paint and things. I would like to be an electrician, that's | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
the main one for me. It is here for the use of the whole community to | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
use the idea is, I used it as they wish, but with the aim of raising | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
the skills base and the capacity we have. Memories written of a holiday | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
in Skegness 25 years ago have been re-discovered and are now being | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
used in a Boston secondary school! Kimberley Alvelda was just 12 years | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
old when she wrote about her trip to Butlins back in the 80s. Now a | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
teacher, she'd long forgotten about the diaries, until the BBCs | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
Domesday Project uncovered them. Simon Spark can explain. | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
We live in a fast-moving society, where even the world is at our | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
fingertips. The BBC Domesday project is about taking a snapshot | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
of how we live now so that it can be recorded and future generations | :21:41. | :21:46. | |
can learn from it for ever. It is to be a survey of modern Britain... | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
It was launched 25 years ago with 1 million volunteers taking part. | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
will use one of these. A video disc. One of the people who put her story | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
on one of those video discs was Camberley. Before 1930, but once | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
had a fair where the County Hotel is now. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
I chose to do but wins because my grandmother was Billy Butlin's | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
cousin. I spoke to her about her memories of Butlins when it was in | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
Skegness. Now in 2011, she has seen her work for the first time since | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
then on the internet. I was watching the BBC and saw that they | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
had uploaded it. I went on line to see if my story was there and it | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
was and I was very excited. It took me back to my 12-year-old self. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Because she is a teacher, C is asking her pupils to do what she | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
did. These are wireless and when you move around, it is connected to | :22:51. | :22:57. | |
the computer. We have her own phones and black berries and I | :22:57. | :23:06. | |
phones. You can still get involved as well. The doomsday clock is | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
ticking. You have only tell 31st October until it is locked away | :23:12. | :23:22. | |
:23:22. | :23:23. | ||
again. -- Domesday clock. And as Simon says there, you've got until | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
the end of the month if you want to get involved. The web address is on | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
the screen. For one week only, at bingo halls | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, it's been out with | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
legs eleven and two fat ladies and in with number seven Harper | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Beckham! Mecca Bingo is celebrating its 50th birthday, and has created | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
some new bingo calls to celebrate. But what is it about the game | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
that's seen it last over the decades? Linsey Smith has been to a | :23:48. | :23:58. | |
:23:58. | :23:59. | ||
hall in Hull to find out. It has entertained crowds for | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
decades. The this week, one of the country's oldest bingo chain | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
celebrates its anniversary. years ago, we opened our first club | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
and we have to celebrate. We have a special game today for the | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
customers and that is going back to what we did when we first opened | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
the doors. We have bingo lingo updated for the modern reader. | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
Recently, it is winners of the National Lottery which have | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
snatched a big cash wins. This couple from East Yorkshire won over | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
�2 million. That is 1000 times more than most Bingo jackpot. What keeps | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
the punters coming? It is not so much the winning, which we all like | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
to do, but it is the social aspect. We come several days a week and we | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
have different friends with is a very day. I bet we have lost more | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
than we won but it is a day out. gives me something to do. Some | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
people in here take the game very seriously. One person has won | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
�50,000 today and �2,000 last week but they would not talk to his | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
first here people might see and they would have to share their | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
winnings. From bouncing bowls to a high-tech | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
operation, bingo has moved with the times. This man was the runner-up | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
in the bingo caller of the Year competition. He says it is a very | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
competitive affair. You're trying to pick up on things and listen to | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
things but it is about all round entertaining. The job of bingo | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
calling us for some, a pastime for later in life, after retirement. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
You will have to bear with me on this because this is a first for me. | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Don't give up the day-job! He did all right. I am getting the hang of | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
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it. He has a long way to go. Top of the shop, 90. He did good. He's | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
fired, you had it, Gary. Good job for my retirement. Don't say next | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
week, please! Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines. | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
Celebrations erupt in Libya after Colonel Gaddafi is shot dead. | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Having to choose between heating and eating - fuel poverty takes its | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
toll on elderly residents. Tomorrow's weather. A cloudy damp | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
start, becoming dry with sunny intervals. Top temperature 14 | :26:35. | :26:45. | |
:26:45. | :26:51. | ||
Celsius. Responses coming in on the subject of fuel and this winter. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Judy says it is not just the elderly who are finding the cost of | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
heating bad. They get help but I don't and I suffer from rheumatoid | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
arthritis and if I am not war may suffer. Another says the Government | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
should make companies pay back profits to low pay bill payers an | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
increase benefits to the second disabled. Adams says it is cold but | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
have people not heard of jumpers? Hilary says the key word is target. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
Many people with generous pensions get this payment. I gave 90 charity | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
last year. Finally, it is not just pensioners who need help. Energy | :27:30. | :27:33. |