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Good evening. Welcome to Look North. The headlines tonight... | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
As unemployment falls in our area, could culture be the area to | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
creating more jobs? -- the answer. The woman learning to walk again | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
with the help of robotic legs. After five years of sitting down, | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
it is amazing to be on my feet. 200 explosions are weak - residents | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
threaten to withdraw -- would hold their council tax. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
A new study says that we have lost our sense of community. | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
It has been a milder day today with some sunshine at times. To find out | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
what is in store for the rest of the week, joined me later in the | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
programme. -- joined. Tonight, how festivals and events | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
could help create jobs in the future. But on the day that the | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
latest job news is announced, one company says it will be pulling out | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
of Hull. These are the latest job figures. In Yorkshire and the | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Humber of the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance fell | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
by 10,000 to just over a quarter of a million. In the East Midlands | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
there was an increase of 1,000 people, taking the number out of | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
work to 188,000. In Hull, where the number of jobless young people is | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
amongst the highest in the country it is hoped that the arts and big | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
events will create jobs. Our business correspondent Paul Murphy | :01:37. | :01:47. | |
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has been finding out how. They have been several projects in | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
our region but behind the fund and the colour lies the attempt to | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
bring income and at jobs to areas of deprivation and rising | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
unemployment. The festival brought in 75,000 | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
people. The Hockney exhibition, 63,000 people. It brings people in | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
to spend money so it generates income into the economy. When it | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
comes to art school led regeneration, Margate has produced | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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the blueprint. -- Arts lead. More than a third of a million visitors | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
have come to this once dilapidated resort since the gallery opened | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
last April. People are beginning to feel that | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
this is working. We have had more than 360,000 visitors to the Turner | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
and I have noticed young people looking through windows and | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
thinking they will buy properties. Make no mistake, there is | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
deprivation end Margate, it has unemployment levels on a par with | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Hull, but there is much evidence that investments in the arts are | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
creating jobs. The power of increased visitor numbers is seen | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
in the old town. Even in the economic gloom, it has become a | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
warren of pubs and boutiques. before the Turner arrived, we saw a | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
bunch of shops are opening. And since then people have seen how | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
many visitors they have had and have rented out their properties. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
In Hull, the free museum quarter is one of the success stories of the | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
city's cultural economy but there is believes that more can be done. | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
When people come to an area they bring money, they stay in hotels | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
and they spend money in the town centre. | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
In Hull, D city's former fruit market is being reinvented as a | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
cultural quarter in a city notorious for its high youth | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
unemployment. The man behind this project believes that the young | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
have a crucial part to play. We are asking people to push the envelope | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
to come up with new and exciting ideas. When we see the unemployment | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
figures, we are trying to encourage younger people to come up with the | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
next generation of ideas and answers. Of course, there is no | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
quick fix to the high levels of unemployment announced today, but | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the steady transformation of this seaside town is providing a glimpse | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
of what can be done. Professor John Lennon from the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
University of Glasgow is an expert in how culture can regenerate a | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
city. He studied the impact that the Freedom Festival had on the | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
city of Hull. I asked him how arts and culture can revive that part of | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
the world. We have seen this revival in other parts of the UK | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
and Europe. Our cities are shifting from manufacturing to services. We | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
are seeing in Hull the growth of creative and cultural industries, | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
landmark events like the Freedom Festival have really helped to turn | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
around self- belief in places like Hull. Most people will be saying, | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
we want factories, jobs, offices, not a couple of fans in the park. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
If our economy is structurally shifting. We can't go back to where | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
we were. Most of our production has gone overseas and will not return. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
The UK is good at creating cultural industries. Those sectors are | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
growing and exploding across Hull, whether in TV and media or | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
marketing and creative functions. The EU have a lot of good growth | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
there and I think it is a gradual growth that we have seen that comes | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
about with the realisation that Hull can, firstly, be a venue for a | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
world-class event like Freedom Festival but also be a location for | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
visitors, the closeness to the European Ferries will help... | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
saw in the film what the Turner Gallery has done full of -- Dunn | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
for Margate's. Could Hull have that kind of success? Hull and the so | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
barring environment has a lot to offer. We have a combination of | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
city, coast and countryside. David have -- David Hockney is your | :06:34. | :06:42. | |
biggest ambassador, selling out in central London with paintings I | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
believe that the tide has turned significantly and I think you will | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
see continued growth, both in civic pride and growth in self-belief, | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
coming out of those industries. Do you agree with Professor Lennon | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the things like the Freedom Festival could bring up jobs to the | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
city or should the focus still be on trying to get employers to build | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
offices and factories? If you were in charge, what would you do? It | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
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We look forward to hearing from you. It has been confirmed this | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
afternoon did a green energy company will close its offices in | :07:40. | :07:48. | |
Hull. -- and that a green energy. Carillion employs 150 people at its | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
site in the west of the city. What more do we know? They have several | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
business interests but it's their solar panel in -- business but has | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
been affected. People have been installing the panel's to generate | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
their own electricity but from the beginning of March the subsidy to | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
do that is being halved and that has had a dramatic impact on the | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
amount of in -- business being generated. The closure of the | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
factory in Hull is being directly blamed on that downturn. There has | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
been a consultation running since last year and the company has made | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
the closure decision final. There are 100th 50 office workers based | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
at this site and this evening one manager has said that every effort | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
will be made to replicate them to other places in the country. -- 150 | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
office workers. Senior police officers are urging | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
the government to set a minimum price level for alcohol. | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
A company from East Yorkshire is helping to develop a robotic suit | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
that will help paraplegic patients walk. There was already a long | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
waiting list for the ReWalk sud and one woman who was told she would | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
never walk again is hoping to prove its worth by walking the London | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
Marathon. It may look like a laboured way to | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
stand but Claire Lomas says that she dreams about held weekly | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
sessions trialling the new ReWalk suit. | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
It is amazing after five years of sitting down to be back on my feet. | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Clare severed her spinal cord during a riding accident. She was | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
told she would never walk again. Now she is working with East | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Yorkshire company Cyclone to test the sued for the UK market. For | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
braces support the lake and help to rotate the joints. -- be braces. | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
Sensors under the feet detect when they are lifted and be back pack | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
contains an eight hour battery. The sensors on the hips are similar to | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
those found in iPhones. It is an external system with | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
motors that persists that the joints to give a walking pattern. - | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
- that assists. Clare can walk 30 steps so far but she has set | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
herself a target of completing the London Marathon in April, 26 miles. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
But there is a bigger challenge awaiting her first. I have the | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
little one's birthday on Friday and we are having a competition to see | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
who can walk further. Young brains learn quicker so I am not sure | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
whether she will overtake me soon! It is an incredible piece of kit | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
with a �43,000 price tag but there was already has substantial waiting | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
list for the ReWalk, which will keep these engineers busy for some | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
time. An incredible story. We wish her | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
all the best. Let's have some more news. A 37- | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
year-old man has been arrested with -- in connection with claims made | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
on the internet about the whereabouts of missing Hull man | :11:18. | :11:27. | |
Stuart kilt and. A man was arrested after police search led to no | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
evidence that he was ever in the area. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
The Humber Bridge Board has approved a plan which could see the | :11:34. | :11:44. | |
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cost of crossing it halved. Now it needs to go before the government | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
for final approval. People are being asked not to | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
attend the A&E department at the Hull Royal Infirmary and less it is | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
an emergency. There is a high demand for beds and the hospital is | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
advising people to seek advice from GPs and walk-in centres. | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
People in a Lincolnshire village are threatening not to pay their | :12:09. | :12:19. | |
:12:19. | :12:20. | ||
council tax owed for what they call a news nuisance. -- over what. West | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
Lindsey District Council said there would be 200 explosions next week. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
The peaceful village of Toft next Newton, but every so often there is | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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this. Sheila says they battle her windows | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
and damage her home and next week she is preparing herself for more | :12:55. | :13:05. | |
than 200 blasts. -- rattle. It brings back the evils of the war. | :13:05. | :13:11. | |
200 bombs going off in one area, it will be horrendous. | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
It is not exactly clear what goes on at this site but it has a | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
licence to store and test weapons and fire despite fireworks. A | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
residents like composer David have been complaining for years but he | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
says 200 is too many and he is taking a stand. | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
We are paying council tax to get a service. If we are customers, we | :13:36. | :13:46. | |
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have customer rights. I am going to There is not anything we can do | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
because the noise that is there is below the level it can be. | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
Residents need to be aware that not paying their council tax is illegal. | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
While the owner of the site was unavailable to come on camera today, | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
he has issued a statement. He says: Exposures are part of important | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
work to counter roadside bombs in Afghanistan and Iraq. He says the | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
25 seconds a day testing is this more inconvenience for saving lives. | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
Whether the residents whose lives have been disrupted for the last | :14:24. | :14:34. | |
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six years agree is another matter. Thank you for watching. Still | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
ahead: Scunthorpe United finally win at home to drag themselves out | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
of the relegation zone. A new study says we have lost touch | :14:46. | :14:56. | |
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with our neighbours. We go in Alf Bunting took this of sunrise | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
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over Barmston Beach in East Yorkshire. Thank you very much for | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
that. Lisa Gallagher, good evening. How are you? | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
Very well, thank you. A picture appeared on Twitter of | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
meet today, half-naked, unfortunately. | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
My eyes! My eyes! She was very quick to draw | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
attention to eight! -- she was very quick to draw | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
attention to it. Tomorrow, we will see sunshine at | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
first. Cloud will increase through the day. Today, we have seen broken | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
cloud. We have seen some sunshine. That is how we end the day. The | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
cloud will tend to melt away out into the North Sea. It will be a | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
cold night. We may see a Trust -- we may see a touch of frost. Let's | :16:14. | :16:24. | |
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look at the Sunday Times now. -- the Sun times now. We will say | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
spells of sunshine. It will stay dry through the morning, but in the | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
afternoon, cloud will increase from the north-west. The thickening | :16:35. | :16:42. | |
cloud will bring some outbreaks of rain. Temperatures, still on the | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
mild side, round about nine or 10 degrees. There will be a moderate | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
breeze from the West. Friday should be frost-free. They will be some | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
spots of rain at times. On Saturday, we will have clearer air. Just five | :17:04. | :17:14. | |
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Do not be fooled by that angelic face! Underneath that face is a | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
very cruel woman! Could buy! | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
Senior police officers in Lincolnshire are urging the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
government to go ahead with proposals to set a minimum price | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
level for alcohol. The Prime Minister says he is considering | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
idea as part of a package of measures to tackle binge drinking. | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
Let's get more details from Tim Iredale, who is in a Cleethorpes | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
pub. What as a reaction been? not think anybody wants to pay more | :17:46. | :17:55. | |
for their drinks? No! These measures are to stop people getting | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
tanked up on cheap lager, cider and vodka from the supermarkets. The | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
government says it is determined to get to grips with this problem, | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
because it cost the NHS to �0.7 billion every year. Drinkers | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
enjoying a quiet pint in Cleethorpes today. This is how the | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
government would like people to enjoy alcohol, not like this. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Health experts believe the problems associated with binge drinking | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
could be reduced if there was a minimum price level for alcohol. | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
think if people knew there was a minimum pricing, they would have | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
the same amount of money, but will not be able to have so much alcohol. | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
They will not be so intoxicated. The Scottish government is in the | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
process of setting a minimum alcohol price. Researchers in | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
Sheffield worked out that a 45p minimum unit would result in an | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
own-brand bottle of vodka or increasing from �8.35 to �11 -- to | :19:04. | :19:14. | |
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These drinkers in Cleethorpes are not convinced it is the right | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
solution. A do not see where the majority of drinkers should be | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
penalised by this system because they are able to restrain their | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
drinking. Stop the supermarket selling very cheap alcohol. I doubt | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
it will make that much difference. One doctor believes the problem of | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
all go all abuse will not be tackled simply by a price rise. -- | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
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alcohol abuse. I do nothing pricing is relevant. It is latent within | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
people. The price will not make any difference. There is a cocktail of | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
opinions about their as the government battles the binge | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
drinking culture. We are live in his pub in | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
Cleethorpes. They brew their own beer here. Bill Parkinson is the | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
boss. What do you think to this proposal for minimum alcohol | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
prices? I think if you can make alcohol more expensive, There is a | :20:31. | :20:41. | |
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fair chance drinking in a pub will be more interesting. Some say it | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
will benefit the pub trade and that it will affect the supermarkets | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
more. They row two schools of thought. By making it less | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
attractive to buy from a supermarket, they will spend more | :20:57. | :21:04. | |
in the pub. The other idea is that if people have a limited amount to | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
spend, and are buying the same at a more expensive price in the | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
supermarket, they will have less to spend in the pub. The government | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
have not committed to any firm new laws as yet. That is the picture | :21:17. | :21:27. | |
here this evening. Never let it be said that Look North cannot | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
organise a live broadcast in a brewery. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Thank you very much! This is another one you might have an | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
opinion on. Is it the minority of drinkers forcing prices up for the | :21:42. | :21:52. | |
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rest of us? Is the minimum price a Huge response on a was story about | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
the call centre where bosses have started timing trip to the toilet. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
The arm -- the employee said anyone who spend too long had to make up | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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the time at the end of their shift. Tests are going on at the | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
University of Lincoln to uncover the origins of a museum exhibit | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
which looks like a mummified mermaid. This picture might not be | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
to everyone's taste! The staff and students have already discovered | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
that the mysterious men made's hair is human, and they are testing the | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
DNA of the mermaid's tail to see what fish it came from. The exhibit | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
is thought to be from Japan or the 4 -- Japan or the Far East, and | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
possibly date back to the mid- nineteenth century. | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
On to football, I'm Hull City held out for a draw at Birmingham City | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
last night. They have not conceded a goal in | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
five League matches. Their attack could not break through. The match | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
ended goalless and City are 7th in the Championship table. A | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
Scunthorpe United moved out of the relegation places after defeating | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Rochdale. Gary Thompson scored just after the | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
hour as the eye and got their first home win since October. A in the | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
Blue Square Premier, Lincoln City took the lead in the very first | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
minute, but had to equalise in the final few seconds against Braintree. | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
A survey has found that neighbours in Yorkshire at the most unfriendly | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
in the country. The research says nearly half of those do not know | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
our neighbours's names, let alone where to find a community centre. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Is that really true? Anne-Marie Tasker has been searching for | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
streets were there really is still a community spirit. | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
Get off my steps! If Nora Batty is anything to go by, Yorkshire | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
neighbours are not friendly. Luckily, we are not all like that. | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
Hello. In West Hull, the residents of Ella Street are proving that | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
survey Iraq. I love living round here. It is very friendly. I do not | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
think we will be leaving any time soon. They do more than say hello. | :24:58. | :25:04. | |
They organise a community festival and plenty more. Neighbours popping | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
for a cup of tea and lots of people go out on the streets digging up | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
the snow and helping each other. People popping for an egg if they | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
are baking and have forgotten to buy something, so it really is very | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
friendly. The map makers Ordnance Survey asked 2000 people if they | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
knew the names of their neighbours. Here in Yorkshire, 41 % said they | :25:28. | :25:37. | |
did not, make make the joint worst place in the country, alongside | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
London. On Ella Street, they know who is here. A our friend Bernard | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
lives next door. He has been there longer than others. Another friend | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
lives directly opposite. Bennett, John, Dean, McClure -- Claire. We | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
got together in the summer and painted our houses. We had good fun | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
doing it. The survey has been done to try to find ways to make us all | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
more friendly. Charity Streets Alive says that is vital. You may | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
not need your neighbours, but people find it nicer to live in a | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
street where it is a bit friendly. You do not have to be friends. You | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
want to know you were part of that street. That could make it just | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
like the good old days. In part of Hull, it seems those good old days | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
never went away. Finally, a recap of the headlines. | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
The jobless count goes up by nearly 50,000. The unemployed total is | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
over 2.6 million. In our area, unemployment has fallen slightly, | :26:43. | :26:51. | |
but one company is pulling out of Hull, where it employs 150 people. | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
Top temperatures tomorrow still mild at 11 Celsius. Response coming | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
in on a culture. Someone said, events like freedom and great for | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
attracting visitors but empty shops and lack of restaurant will not | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
impress people. Factories and offices can be found anywhere. | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
Festivals are fun. Any festival in Hull is a good thing. I think the | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
bridge will have a great impact. Chris says, at an toads will not | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
bring jobs and prosperity to this city. We need to think bigger than | :27:30. | :27:34. |