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Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Welcome to the programme. Our | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
headlines - concern over former criminals working as taxi drivers. | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
Is the vetting tough enough? A special investigation. I think a | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
lot of people will be surprised to learn that the people who drive | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
taxies are not always completely honest. Some of them have got | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
criminal convictions. Not a lot, but many. The vast majority are | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
very trustworthy. You always get the rogue element in any trade. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Also, as customers look for bargains, businesses in the area | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
look for opportunities to compete. Treasure trove of memories - | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
thousands of films are given a new home in Lincolnshire. We have got | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
the answer to one of the most Googleed questions in Britain - | :00:54. | :01:02. | |
what is scampi? Ice could be a problem again tonight. Join me for | :01:02. | :01:12. | |
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Good evening. BBC Look North has learnt that former criminals, with | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
convictions, including assault, burglary and affray, are being list | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
cepbsed to operate as taxi -- licences to operate as taxi drivers. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
One operator has told us that he won't allow his daughter to travel | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
with a driver he doesn't know. But the police and council officials | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
insist that licenced taxies are still the safest way to get home | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
during the party season. We have this special report. Christmas | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
revellers enjoying the party season. They are taking their own safety | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
seriously and already planning how they'll get home. Taxi. Taxi. | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
are getting home by taxi. Taxi. Taxi. Taxi. What they probably | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
don't realise is that the taxi could be driven by a convicted | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
criminal, who has been licenced quite legal by Hull City -- Hull | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
City council. It will only grant a licence if they are satisfied that | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
the person is fit and proper. But this driver is concerned that some | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
drivers are far from fit and proper. If my daughter wants to go out, I | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
make sure I'm there to collect her, or make sure I know who will make | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
her up. I will not allow her to use taxi companies. I won't allow her | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
to hail black cabs. Our own investigations seem to bear out | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
some of the concerns. We have learnt that some licenced drivers | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
have criminal convictions spanning more than 20 years. Records show | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
that one licenced private hire driver has 32 separate convictions. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
They are for offences including burglary, assault and sex with an | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
undergauge girl. Despite a recent conviction for affray, his licence | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
has still been renewed. Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act ex- | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
offenders can wipe the slate clean once a period of time has elapsed, | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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but taxi drivers are ex em -- exemp. While this driver couldn't do | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
school contracts there was nothing to stop him carrying children. You | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
could have picked up young boys or girls from the station? Yes. I did. | :03:44. | :03:52. | |
You did? I did, yes. You had to take up any fare, unless they were | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
known prostitutes, drunks or known to be violent. All taxi drivers are | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
subject to checks by the Crimial Records Bureau, but councils can | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
still knowingly and legally licence those who have offended in the past. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
James Button is a solicitor specialising in taxi licencing law. | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
People do reform and change. People do recognise the error of their | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
ways. That's fine. As with all things, it's fine up to a point. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
You do get people who are serial criminals and those are the people | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
who the system should and I emphasise should, prevent from | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
being licenced. This cab firm deals with around 15,000 passengers every | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
week. They insist the overwhelming majority of drivers are safe to use. | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
I would guarantee in our association that 99.9% of all | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
drivers are genuine drivers. If the public has any problems go straight | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
to the Public Protection Department and they'll deal with it. A view | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
echoed by Hull's Hackney carriage drivers, who launched a campaign | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
today. The vast majority of drivers are very trustworthy. You always | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
get the rogue element in any trade. Obviously, it doesn't concern me at | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
all. The Hackney carriage and the private hire industry are very safe. | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
This woman, though, has a different story to tell. She has recorded -- | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
reported to police she endured 20 minutes of terror was a taxi driver | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
allegedly refused to let her out, because he wanted her phone instead | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
of the fare. He was going really fast on the main road, so I knew | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
there was no point in jumping off. We got to the junction and he | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
stopped and he was picking up speed and that was my opportunity then to | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
jump out. I was terrified. During the past two years, at least three | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
taxi drivers from Hull have been jailed. Two of them had sexually | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
assaulted their passengers, but Humberside police say the cases are | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
still very rare. The majority of the drivers in the city are law- | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
abiding and trustworthy in that respect. Where the issues lie is | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
when people get into vehicles that are not authorised to carry out | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
that journey. Despite these reassurances, concerns remain about | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
the licencing of ex-offenders. you think of people working with | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
the public like that and licenced by the council, that they would | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
have more stringent tests to ensure public safety. It's a concern not | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
just for our students, but friends or family members if anything | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
untoward were to happen to them, especially in the hands of somebody | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
who has been given a licence. Despite any concerns raised, the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
official advice remains the same. It's much safer to take a licenced | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
taxi even if the person behind the wheel has a criminal record. | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Vicky is in the centre of Hull right now. What have the City | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
Council had to say about this? They've declined the opportunity to | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
be interviewed by us, but they have issued a statement saying perm | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
safety is of paramount importance and if they discover that any | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
driver has been convicted or charged with any criminal activity | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
then they'll have to appear before the city's committee and | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
appropriate action will be taken. Now, if we had been able to | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
interview them we would have liked to have asked them how robust the | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
wetting procedures are. While our report ha centred on Hull, I must | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
stress that this situation is quite common across the country and in | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
many ways, Hull's more proactive in some of the procedures. For | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
instance, they insist on the annual licencing of their taxies. This is | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
recently been taken up by East Lindsey council, who is following | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
suit. Another thing I have to point out is that a tax on tax I -- | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
attacks on taxi drivers are much more common than the other way | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
round, and the safest way during this party season is by licenced | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
taxi, rather than any bogus or other cabs at all. Thank you. | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
We throw this one open to you tonight. Do you think the law | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
surrounding taxi drivers needs to be toughened up? Do you think they | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
have served their time and should be allowed to get on with earning a | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
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living? Maybe you are a driver More news. Plans to move the Red | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Arrows from RAF Scampton near Lincoln to RAF Waddington have been | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
put on hold. The previous Government had announced the base | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
would be closing, but that was suspended because of the Spending | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Review and operations in Libya. Today the Ministry of Defence has | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
said it will be reviewing the decision to move the Reds. It'll | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
publish its findings in the new year. Former Scunthorpe MP, Elliot | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Morley, has been ordered to pay more than �56,000 in costs, after | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
being convicted of fiddling his expenses. Morley was jailed in May | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
after admitting fraudulently claiming around �30,000 of | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Parliamentary expenses. Today an order's been made by a judge in | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
London for him to repay his Legal Aid and prosecution costs. Snow and | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
ice caused problems for drivers this morning. The A163 in Holme on | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
Spalding Moor in East Yorkshire was closed for several hours after a | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
three-vehicle accident. No-one was hurt. The name of a man who died in | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
this crash near Caistor yesterday morning has been released. Mohamed | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
Azzabi was 43 and from Nettleton near Market Rasen. Four children | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
and a woman who were in his vehicle are still in hospital with serious | :09:53. | :10:00. | |
injuries. The MP for Brigg and Goole has been leading a debate in | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Parliament on his proposals to introduce compulsory money | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
management lessons in schools. Andrew Percy wants young people to | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
get the training to try and stop them getting into debt later in | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
life. More than 100,000 people have also signed a online petition | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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backing his report. It's not about moralising about debt. It's not | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
about that. It's not about educating people never to be in | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
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debt, but providing people with the appropriate skills. Still ahead - | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
painstaking work to preserve the past. The film archive that's come | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
to Lincolnshire. I don't know what scampi is. I've had it in | :10:50. | :11:00. | |
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restaurants. It's very nice. Not a clue what it is. Yes, scampi update, | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
all will be revealed. The photograph tonight is from Horn see | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
Mere. Several people have been writing | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
this afternoon from South Yorkshire saying that they want an apology | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
tonight. What about your feature on scampi? No, about the fact that | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
last night's forecast was a bit - what's the word I'm looking for, | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
what's the word I'm looking for, wrong? I suppose we had a bit of | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
snow in Sheffield. It is snow in December, but we didn't get that | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
one right. We did forecast widespread ice. I'm sure you were | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
going to point that out to your millions of viewers. He has gone | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
quiet. You're on your own. excited about the scampi piece. | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
We'll look at the warning. It's in place. We could have icy patches | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
once again on untreated surfaces. There is the nasty looking area of | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
low, which will push way to the south. The interesting thing is the | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
northern edge of that rain could fringe into the extreme south of | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Lincolnshire. A bit of sleet towards the end of the night. | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
Actually, we have ended the day with plenty of clear weather. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Temperatures will drop away quite smartly. A risk of one or two | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
showers from the west. Then the wind switches to the east. To the | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
end of the night, watch the extreme south. It would bring rain or sleet | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
and patchy, light snow. Elsewhere, watch out for ice on untreated | :12:42. | :12:51. | |
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surfaces. Temperatures around It looks like tomorrow will be | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
quite cold, a bit windy and any sleet and snow with rain pushing | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
away south from south Lincolnshire and quite cloudy skies. There is a | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
risk of a scattering of showers. Mainly of rain. Perhaps a little | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
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sleet. Even a bit of wet snow, but chiefly over the top of the moors. | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
Frosty at night. Wintry showers to Frosty at night. Wintry showers to | :13:29. | :13:39. | |
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come. Dotdot The high streets are struggle in the run-up to Christmas | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
according to figures out today. Retail figures have fallen despite | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
Retail figures have fallen despite heavy discounts. In the third part | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
of our series on the economy, our business reporter looks at how | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
shoppers are spending less and also shoppers are spending less and also | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
shoppers are spending less and also shoppers are spending less and also | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
searching for a bargain. company | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
company behind this pound shop is now opening a new store at the rate | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
of one a week. Here, they are hoping for record Christmas sales. | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
Our Christmas is going to be our best-ever Christmas, but generally | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
speaking people are being very careful in what they are spending | :14:17. | :14:24. | |
and where they are spending it. Poundland's latest store is opening | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
in Lincoln. It's a relatively affluent city, but habits are | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
changing. What is clear, it's rarely been so competitive on the | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
high street and the rise of the pound shop perhaps tells us that | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
shoppers are more than ever seeking value. Also, that there's less | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
money to spend. This shop is a successful independent business, | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
but recently it's been surrounded by discount stores, where | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
sandwiches can cost as little as �1ment It has pushed up to up our | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
game and open a night-time shop next door. We took over that and | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
started to do late-night food. Sales, discounts and offers - shops | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
are working hard to try to bring custom in. Will you spend more this | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
year or less than last year? Less than last year. Why? Because I | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
haven't got it. I feel as though I should look after what I've got. | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
You are cautious? Yeah. With thrift on the agenda, the stores selling | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
the big-ticket eye Emms know they'll have to work hard for their | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
money. People are searching round for the bargain and value out of | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
the product. There's no doubt about that. There are smaller items being | :15:44. | :15:54. | |
sold. Different kinds of a feel to this year. In east Yorkshire and | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
Lincolnshire average salaries are continuing to be outstripped by | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
inflation and the high street is just one place where the pain is | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
continuing to be felt. Paul's been following this story all week. It's | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
been a pretty grim week of economic news. Is there any cause for hope? | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
You are right. It's been gloomy. We have seen inflation at 4.8% and | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
average annual salaries are falling and unemployment is going up here. | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
If there is a glimmer, it's the Christmas shoppers, because the | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
high street has rarely been as competitive as it is. Every shop is | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
undercutting the next. Some of the discounts out there now are | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
unbelievable. The problem is they are unsustainable too. Many | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
retailers are going to have a very tough time if they don't shift | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
their produce in the run-up to Christmas. Thank you. | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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Thanks to every who -- everyone who got in touch about a new shopping | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
centre to be built on the outskirts of Scunthorpe. There were a -- an | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
equal number of votes yesterday. I'm thrid for Scunthorpe, bringing | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
money back -- thrilled for Scunthorpe, bringing money back | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
into the area. People will be able to come into town and get the rest | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
of their shopping and it will be jobs and money in our area. | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
traffic is unbelievable, so with them being there it's terrible. | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
It's disgusting. We have both sides on the radio earlier today and | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
again, a huge response. Thank you for the messages after last night's | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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programme. Just a few. First, John Because of the response, we'll have | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
more on this tomorrow lunch time on the radio, if you can join me. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
Plans for a �50 million development in Mablethorpe have been turned | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
down by councillors. Developers had wanted to build 180 new homes, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
together with a supermarket, garage and pub and restaurant, but | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
campaigners had argued it would increase the chance of flooding. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
BAe Systems say they are more optimistic about their future, | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
after a meeting with David Cameron. Staff from the site in Brough | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
arrived back in east Yorkshire last night, after going to see the Prime | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Minister about plans to mothball the site. David Cameron said he | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
would put pressure on the company to rethink its proposals, to make | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
almost 900 people redundant. Hull City boss, nick Barmby, says | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
he hopes the few days off will make the players feel refreshed. They | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
recovered before their game this weekend. Barmby has now won four of | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
his six games since taking charge. City are fifth in the championship. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
That is their highest position since falling from the Premier | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
League. Then we have the Leicester game and Birmingham and then | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
Coventry, as in the way they play and got the ball forward, that was | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
quicker. Then the big teams and two centre forwards, so it's been a | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
demanding week. They deserve a couple of days off. They've rested | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
and done the right things and been looking sharp. We'll have | :19:46. | :19:55. | |
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commentary of the match on Saturday on the radio. Lincoln City FC has | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
been spreading Christmas cheer at the county hospital. The squad | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
visited the children's wards to meet some of the youngsters and to | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
hand out gifts. The manager, David Holdsworth, says that getting into | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
the community is important for the club and the players. It's a very | :20:11. | :20:19. | |
pleasant surprise. It's very nice. Enjoyable. It's very nice. It was a | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
big surprise. We recognise we are in a community and to give just a | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
tiny little bit back to the community means a lot. Something to | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
listen out for on your own BBC local radio in the morning, when | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
you get a chance to put questions about key local services. Stephen | :20:36. | :20:44. | |
Parnaby, the leader of East Riding of Yorkshire council, will be on | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
radio and Kieron Nelson of Anglian Water will be taking your questions. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
It's the feature we call Hot Seat. If you are concerned about council | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
tax in east Yorkshire or worried about your water bill in | :20:56. | :21:06. | |
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Lincolnshire then listen in: Lincoln has become home to a huge | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
archive of films. Thousands of items from across large parts of | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
the country. The collection based at the university, aims to preserve | :21:14. | :21:19. | |
films like this one, from Skegness in the 1960s, for generations to | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
come. Phil has the story. It's a treasure trove of memories. Films | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
which tell family stories and remind us of days gone by. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
first call was alSkegness weather station, where we could watch the | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
weather recorded as it happens. Of course, it was a beautiful, sunny | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
day. It always has good weather. This family's memories were filmed | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
for the council. The year is 1961 and shows many sites still around | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
today. Here we are driving along South Parade, around the clocktower | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
to the Embassy Ballroom. It's not always so much what is happening in | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
the foreground. I think this is what people need to understand. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
They think it's not going to be of interest to anybody, but them, but | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
it's Whapping behind, which gives us so much information about -- | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
what is happening behind and which gives us so much information about | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
what is going on. The university has 70,000 films, the oldest of | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
which dates back 114 years. Handling these films is of course a | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
delicate job. As we can see here, many arrive in the poor state of | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
repair. For the team responsible, there's often weeks of work to make | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
sure they survive. People who haven't seen the films maybe since | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
they shot them and if they had a projector and they haven't seen it | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
since then, it's a great thing to get a note back from a depositer, | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
saying how happy they are that they've got to see the films. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
centre already receives around 20 new films a week and today this | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
lady brought in her collection. don't know what they are. The fill | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
pldz are believed to have recorded life at Stoke-on-Trent's theatre | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
and could have early performances from two well-known actors. | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
actors were a young Ben Kingsley and Robert Powell. They were in the | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
documentary plays at the theatre. They may well be here in more | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
scenes that have never been seen. lovely garden here and lot of roses. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
All the films stored here can be viewed by the public, so if you've | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
got treasured memories in the loft, donating them cob the -- could be | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
the best idea and ensuring their survival for future generations to | :23:49. | :23:59. | |
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enjoy. As advertised, out of all the questions typed into Google | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
this year, this the second-most popular - what is scampi? No-one | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
seems to know why so many people want to know, but what we do know | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
is that half of all the UK's scampi is produced right here in east | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The Royal Wedding, celebrity gossip and | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
cheap flights. All popular topics that internet users have been | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
gooingling this year, but the second-most -- gooingling this year, | :24:38. | :24:48. | |
but the second-most asked question was about scampi. Scampi is | :24:48. | :24:56. | |
Langersteen and it can be known as Norwegian lobster and it's a hard- | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
shelled crustation. They don't realise it's the Langersteen tail. | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
Scampi was developed during World War II. German U boats and a | :25:06. | :25:12. | |
shortage of trawlermen means that they became popular. Now, thousands | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
of tonnes of it are produce inside Grimsby. It's an industry worth 62 | :25:17. | :25:27. | |
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million a year. 50% of squam my is produced here. -- scampi is | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
produced here. The question is, do people know. Yes, it's very nice, | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
but I've not a clue what it is. Fish and it's in batter. It's a | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
fish. I'm not quite sure. I'm quite ashamed. The most popular question | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
asked was what is AV, but Google says it was closely followed by | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
what is scampi? It also surprised us a lot. To be honest, we don't | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
know why it is that interesting. It's really unusual. It may be a | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
popular choice on today's menu, but across the country many still | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
aren't exactly sure what it is. Norwegian lobster in a basket. A | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
recap of the main national and regional news - more than 13,000 | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
troops are drafted in to provide extra security for the Games in | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
London. Concern over former criminals working as taxi drivers. | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
A special investigation looked at whether vetting is tough enough. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
The weather for Friday - cloudy at times and further showers of rain | :26:34. | :26:42. | |
and sleet. Some snow possible over higher ground. A response coming in | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
on the subject of taxi drivers, after that report from Vicky | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
Johnson earlier. One here, "Surely it should depend on the nature of | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
their offence. Violent crime is a no-no, but non-payment of tax is | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
less of a problem." And this from Morgan, "Once a criminal, always a | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
criminal. They'll not change. This is an exact reason why I am | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
frightened of taxies." This from Sheila, "You should make sure there | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
is more than one person in a taxi. Especially if living near each | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
other." This from George, "Any taxi driver prosecuted for serious | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
offences should have their licence taken away for life." Just finally, | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
this from Kerry, "If they have a criminal record then I think no, | :27:25. | :27:29. |