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Good evening. Welcome to Look North. The headlines: questions over wind | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
farms and the sweeteners being paid to communities. These developers | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
can come along and offer tens of thousands of pounds to local | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
communities - it is verging on bribery. Doubts over the future of | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
North Sea Ferries when new pollution rules come into force. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
A woman who lost two family members to cancer, calls on the government | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
to improve survival rates. Another council flies into the row | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
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over garden flags. And a touch of spring this weekend. You weekend | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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forecast coming up short life. -- shortly. Good evening. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
It has been claimed that rural communities are being effectively | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
bribed by wind farm developers who are offering large sums of money as | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
compensation. One East Yorkshire village where five giant turbines | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
are being built has received �60,000 from the developers with | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
promises of more cash each year for the next 25 years. The practice is | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
entirely legal and the company behind the scheme says it wants to | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
be a good neighbour, but some residents feel they have been | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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bought out. It is an East Yorkshire village with the brand new hall and | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
rebuilt church and a new children's playground. The �60,000 investment | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
has since been in strings attached - a price to pay which has left the | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
village divided. Many of us feel we had been bought out. Aletta they | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
have money into the they Lench - and that will get used up quickly. | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
-- a little bit of money. We have 25 years at least of the wind farm | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
here, I do not think it is right. It is here that the five giant wind | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
turbines are being built. The developers have paid for that it -- | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
the village facelift. Here in the new village hall, the chairman of | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
the village committee says it has been controversial but believes the | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
best deal has been secured for the village. We had no shop, the | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
village hall was derelict we had no playground for the Kents, so in | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
reality they had brought her some very useful money to improve things. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
-- they have brought us. Cash payments have become accepted ways | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
of working and in the future payments can be made too many more | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
East Yorkshire villages. 11 sites are being built in the county and a | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
further seven are being considered by council planners. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
acknowledges that the structures do have an impact on the local | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
environment. Yes, there should be some sort of recompense to those | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
local people for that situation. Several windfarms will be sited | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
close to this famous walking writ. Villagers feel they may be | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
compromised by the cash payments. Money should not come into it. If I | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
was to go up to a councillor and offer him �1,000, he would not be | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
able to make a decision on that and yet these developers can come along | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
and offer thousands of McCowans to communities. It is verging on | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
bribery. -- thousands of pounds. Some say Christmas has arrived | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
early but it is at a significant cost. We would welcome your | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
thoughts on this one. Should villagers feel uncomfortable about | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
these payments or should they welcome the investment in local | :03:58. | :04:08. | |
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communities? If you have a view on I look forward to hearing from you. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
In a moment - the Lincoln swimmer Lizzie Simmonds has her last shot | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
at the Olympics. The result of her race is coming up. | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
The ferry operator P&O is warning that its entire Hull operation | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
could be at risk if new pollution laws are passed. The company claims | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
more than 600 jobs and its services between Hull, Rotterdam and | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Zeebrugge will be threatened, if the EU asks all ferry companies to | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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switch to a less polluting and more expensive fuel. One million | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
passengers per year use the ferries from Hull to is a bigger and | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
Rotterdam. The European Commission is becoming concerned about the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
quantities of it air polluting sulphur dioxide which ships like | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
he's in it. The new rules will require all ferries to switch to a | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
less polluting fuel, but there are worries that this is costly and | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
could threaten jobs. We have to fight her corner to keep a viable. | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
It is a tall order. Overall, it is hard to say what the consequence | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
will be. We have to fight it and try and keep going but it will be | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
very difficult. The new laws on clean air sulphur dioxide fuel | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
coming up in 2015 but he no says it is more expensive and will increase | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
their fuel costs by �60 million a year. It says that could mean the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
possible closure of its Hull operation where more than 600 | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
people are employed. One of the arguments is that if it has to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
reduce its operation out of how all, then more freight traffic will be | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
diverted to the Channel, thus causing more pollution - the very | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
thing the government is trying to reduce. The UK already has sulphur | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
emission limits, the European Commission wants to target | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
passenger ferries. The move is being investigated by the Transport | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Select Committee. It is important to reduce emissions. This seems | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
that emissions from ships go to form the largest part of those | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
emissions. This action does have to be taking but it has to be | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
reasonable. It is about balancing the needs for the environment with | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
the need to protect jobs. Piano or is not the only company to believe | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
the proposed European legislation has not got this balance right. | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
What is the background to this legislation? As I mentioned in the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
report, there is already European legislation to which P&O have | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
signed up. It has no problem with this and says it is a responsible | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
company. What is happening now is that the European Commission is | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
imposing an extra layer of legislation on passenger ferries | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
using the North Sea and the Channel ports. Hal is hit the hardest by | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
this because these ferries make longer ferries and use more fuel. | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
How serious a threat is this to jobs? There is no threat of | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
imminent job losses. Piano is saying it wants time to explore | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
things like technology and reduce its emissions and to lobby the | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
European Commission. There are hopes to get the introduction of | :07:50. | :07:56. | |
this legislation pushed back to 2020. If it is still in place in | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
2015, the company is saying there will be a genuine risk of job | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
losses. Thank you very much. A Lincolnshire charity says more | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
than 300 jobs are under serious threat because vital funding has | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
been withdrawn by the local authority. Linkage Community Trust | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
provides education for students with learning disabilities but they | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
say the county council is now drastically cutting back on the | :08:14. | :08:24. | |
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numbers of students it sends to their Linkage colleges. The county | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
council say they are committed to providing the service for students | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
but are reviewing where they spend their budget. I'm joined by a | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
member of the trust. Good evening. How likely is it that some jobs | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
will go? It is extremely likely at the moment. We're in A90 day | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
consultation with her staff. Unless we see a change in policy by the | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
local authority, it is likely that a large number of staff will be | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
leaving as. If they're sending fewer students, you do not need as | :08:58. | :09:06. | |
many staff, is that no right? funding has not been cut. The local | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
authority makes decisions about which students can come to us. They | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
understand they said earlier it is about parental choice. Parents will | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
be delighted to know there is a return to parental choice because | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
we have worked with a large number of parents over the last year who | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
have been told there is no choice for that their children. The county | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
council have tonight issued a statement - young people continue | :09:32. | :09:42. | |
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What is wrong with them doing that? If that was the situation, there | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
would be nothing wrong with that but as I have said, we work with a | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
large number of families whose parents had been told there is not | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
a choice for their children. We are an outstanding college which | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
specialises in meeting the need of young disabled people. If this | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
means that you and students with learning disabilities are going | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
into mainstream schools, we should be welcoming that, should we not? | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
For many young people mainstream education is absolutely appropriate | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
and we would not question that. But families with young people | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
themselves are telling us that for a certain young people, mainstream | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
colleges are a challenging environment in which they do not | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
thrive. We had a large public consultation event last week when a | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
young man told us he had found mainstream totally confusing. | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
must leave it there, thank you for joining us tonight. If you want to | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
be in touch, you know what to do. One of the government's top | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
ministers has told Look North the Humber can be one of the world's | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
leading sites in offshore renewable enemy. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury has visited the area to launch the | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
new Humber local Enterprise Partnership. He says the government | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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is committed to seeing industry develop here. The Humber has | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
everything you need to be a world leader in this business. The port | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
facilities, the businesses, the skills, they all come together in | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
this region. It is one of the best places in the UK to do this work. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Police say the lorry driver who was injured in a crash on the A180 near | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Immingham has died. The lorry driven by Mark Edgar from Suffolk | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
crashed into the central reservation yesterday lunchtime. | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
The road was closed between Europarc and Stallingborough for | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
several hours. A workman has been airlifted to hospital, after a | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
trench collapsed on him in Lincolnshire this afternoon. | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Police were called to help the man, in his forties, who was working for | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
Anglian Water in Holbeach. He was taken to the Pilgrim Hospital in | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Boston with a suspected broken leg. The Health and Safety Executive is | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
looking into the incident. An agreement has been reached over | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
who will fit the bill for directing traffic during parades in Grantham. | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
Last night we heard from an organiser of the Remembrance Day | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
parade who said she would rather go to prison than have to pay to hold | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
the event. Today at a meeting with their local councillor, | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
organisations agreed to stick to a parade route that requires minimum | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
policing and the council will fund cost of traffic signs. We have | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
agreed to have a common writ, all of the organisations will stick to | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
it. They will go down the high street. We were seriously | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
considering cancelling the pay part of St George's Day and just having | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
a service. -- the parade part. But as a result of this meeting, piece | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
seems to have broken out. They prefer watching. Still ahead - | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
another council warns a member of the public not to fly a flag in | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
their garden. We're back at the swimming pool in | :13:12. | :13:22. | |
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London to seek Lizzie Simmonds Keep your pictures coming in. Thank | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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you for that. Apparently there is someone else in | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Scunthorpe who does not have a son called Darren! Were they talking | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
about you last night? about you last night? | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
Here is the weather: There is a touch of spring across East | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
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Yorkshire. This high pressure will drift up towards us. Most of next | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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week will be dry as well. There is a complication in the next few | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
hours. There is a band of drizzle coming down from the north-west. A | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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mild night to come. The sun will rise in the morning at 6:27am. | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
There might be the odd bit of drizzle first thing tomorrow. Good | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
sunny breaks coming through. Temperatures will respond. The | :15:16. | :15:26. | |
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average for this time of the year is nine Celsius. It will be 15 | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
across Lincolnshire. What ever you are it will feel like spring. | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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Lesson breeze on Sunday. -- lesson I like that line, dry for the whole | :15:49. | :15:58. | |
of next week! Have a good weekend. A woman from Scunthorpe who has | :15:58. | :16:02. | |
lost two family members to one of the most aggressive forms of cancer | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
is looking at ways to improve survival rates. Maggie Watts' | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
husband died from pancreatic cancer three years ago, 40 years after his | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
mother died from the same illness. A cancer charity says that survival | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
rates have hardly improved in recent decades. | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
Kevin Watts was a fit and healthy 45-year-old. When he started | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
getting stomach pains nobody thought it was serious. Just weeks | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
later he was told he was dying from pancreatic cancer. I have lost a | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
husband. We then found out that his mother | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
had also died of pancreatic cancer. It is often termed the silent | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
killer. We wanted to be a cancer that people survive. Typically | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
people have just six months to live after diagnosis. Only three % of | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
patients are still alive five years later. There were 8,000 deaths in | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
2009. That is nearly 22 people per day. | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
Actor Patrick Swayze's public battle with their illness a couple | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
of years ago highlighted how tough the disease is. | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
Maggie Watts is now try to collect 100,000 signatures to force MPs to | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
debate the condition in Parliament. Survival rates have hardly changed | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
within the last 40 years. I am happy to support her in her | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
campaign to raise awareness. Sandwiched between the stomach and | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
the spine, by the time malignant cells are detected, it is often too | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
late. The pancreas is quite deep in the | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
body, so you cannot actually see it. By the time it has been diagnosed | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
it may have spread to the liver and lungs. | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
He did not crumble when he was dying. Kevin fought to stay alive | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
as long as he could. In his memory Magee is determined to improve the | :18:19. | :18:29. | |
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chances of survival for others. Thank you for everybody who got in | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
touch regarding regional assemblies. Campaigners say and regional | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
assembly would lead to more government money being spent in our | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
region. We want a regional development agency. The Tories have | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
scrapped that. We are left with small bodies that do not have the | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
resources or the powers to make a difference. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
That was John Prescott talking to me last night. | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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We have had some a reaction from Thank you for all those. Within the | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
last few minutes Lizzie Simmonds has been swimming for a place in | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
the Olympic Games. She was in the final of the 200 metres backstroke | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
at the British Swimming Championships. Our correspondent | :19:53. | :20:02. | |
has been watching her. How did she This is live. You could find it on | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
the red button right now. This is the final of the 200 metres. | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
That lady out in front goes by the name of Lizzie Simmonds. There she | :20:15. | :20:22. | |
is qualifying for the Games. You can see the big smile on her face. | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
Look at that. She has qualified for the Games. | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
The person beside her beta at the start of the week. -- defeated her | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
at the start of the week. Ms E Simons is now one of three | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
former Lincoln Vulcans to have qualified for the Games. -- Lizzie | :20:47. | :20:56. | |
Simmonds. It was all allies on the 100 metres | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
breaststroke when Kate he would an Sophie Allen went for glory. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
It was an opportunity to cement an Olympic place. | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
A place in the top two was required. She did it. Sophie Allen was third. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
This is all lot of other moment. They will be so many more people in | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
here. It will be awesome. She has put everything into training to get | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
to the Olympics and she has done it. Sophie Allen's big chance came in | :21:32. | :21:42. | |
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the medley event. The nation concentrated on the talented leader, | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
but Sophie Allen finished second. Sophie Allen is a new member of the | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
British Olympic team. I knew I could do it. I knew I had the nerve | :21:57. | :22:06. | |
to do it. I am chuffed. Now they hoped to repeat the | :22:06. | :22:14. | |
achievement at the Olympic Games. We should also give credit to the | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
coach. He coached all three youngsters. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Another Olympic hopeful has been an action in the last few minutes. | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Richard Buck just failed to make the final of the 400 metres at the | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
World Indoor Championships in Istanbul. He finished third in his | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
semi-final. Tomorrow Hull City welcome Ipswich | :22:40. | :22:48. | |
Tomorrow Hull City welcome Ipswich Town to the KC Stadium. There is | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
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live commentary of that on the radio. | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
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radio. Grimsby Town's batch is OnDigital. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
Hull FC face one of the hardest challenges of the season when the | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
challenge -- win in the face St Helens. | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
They still have work to do according to their coach. I am | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
happy with our defence. We have put a lot of work into that. We have | :23:34. | :23:44. | |
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got a long way to go obviously. could follow that game at live on | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
BBC Radio Humberside from 8pm deceiving. -- tonight. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
The flying of pirate flags has become something of an issue over | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
the past two weeks. Someone else has now fallen foul of the lot. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
This time it is a pub owner from East Yorkshire. He has been told to | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
take down his Jolly Roger flag from a children's play area or face | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
action from the council. Remember Anthony and his private | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
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flag? He received a full apology from East Lindsey District Council | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
after they conceded that they were too heavy handed. It was an | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
unnecessary approach. I am very happy that I can take the flak up. | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
But there is another problem now. Meet Vito. He runs a pub. He has | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
been flying a Jolly Roger flag in that the children's played area for | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
the past year. Be said to me that a complaint has been made about the | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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flag. They said they will have forced it if we do not take it down. | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
I question that. It was for real. The council has given the same | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
reasons as the reasons given by East Lindsey council. Only certain | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
flags are permitted to be flown. To recap, the only facts that can | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
be flown our national flags, the flags of the Commonwealth, the | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
European Union, the United Nations, any English county, and the flag of | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
any seemed. The fact that Vito cannot fly a Jolly Roger is winding | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
up the locals. It is supposed to be a free country. It is a waste of | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
public money. This country has gone mad. This man is a flag expert. He | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
has been tried to get things changed. It is silly. There should | :26:03. | :26:13. | |
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be some kind of flexibility. There is now a stand-off. I will not take | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
it down. Until the law is changed it seems that this problem will | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
keep getting flagged up. AB vexillologist. We have all | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
AB vexillologist. We have all learned something new. | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
A round-up of the headlines. Italy condemns Britain's decision | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
to try and rescue the hostages in Nigeria. | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Whether for Saturday - dry and bright with sunny spells. Very mild. | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
Top temperatures in the brighter spots around 15 Celsius. | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
spots around 15 Celsius. That is the weather. | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
A big response on the subject of sweeteners and wind farms. Somebody | :26:59. | :27:06. | |
said, why not cheap electricity for life from cheek turbine? | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Another person has said it is a good idea for villages to get money | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
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from wind farm companies. Somebody else said, their energy | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
company is coming in with 30 pieces of silver, betraying the national | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
beauty of our countryside. Somebody else says, villagers and | :27:31. | :27:34. |