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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight: | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
Concerns about how Boston will cope with being one of the fastest | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
growing towns in the country. Schools are overcrowded. Doctors' | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
surgeries are busy. We struggle with Lazar -- leisure. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Back on her feet again - the Lincolnshire pensioner who's the | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
first in England to have groundbreaking heart surgery. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Fears that cuts to defences could lead to a repeat of flooding that | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
struck an East Yorkshire village. And life in a bubble - a museum | :00:36. | :00:46. | |
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dedicated to these classic cars re- And we have had 22 degrees Celsius | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
in East Yorkshire today. We could do one better tomorrow. Your latest | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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A Lincolnshire town is expected to see the biggest growth in | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
population anywhere in the country outside of London in the coming | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
eight years. In 2002 there were 55,000 people living in Boston. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
Today the population is estimated to be 59,000 but new figures | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
suggest that by 2020 it could rise by more than 19% to 70,000. The | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
Government announced today it wants to simplify planning laws to make | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
building new homes easier but in Boston there are still questions | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
over how the town will cope. Building to make room in Boston. | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
This is just one of many developments that will be needed if | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
a huge rise in population happens, as is expected. We have about 50 | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
units that we have completed and we are now moving on to a further | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
phase of about a dozen houses. developer is already well aware of | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
the need to meet a growing demand. We have developed over 500 homes in | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
this area over the last ten years or so. And so we know there is a | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
tutor need in a local towns like Boston for housing. Nick and Nicole | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
have just moved into their new house. They are excited about their | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
future together but I have already witnessed big changes in the town | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
and have concerns about further future growth. It does bother me a | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
little bit. Will it cause overcrowding? Is the market town of | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
Boston actually going to change completely and lose its heritage? | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
suppose it's they expand building rise we can accommodate at but if | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
they do not it will be very crowded. The predictions have already led to | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
investments in new pipelines to shift more besides. Anglian Water | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
have announced plans to speed up this pipeline to counter the | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
effects of any drought in Boston. But then there are those that the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
are the infrastructure of the town just will not cut. We struggle | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
already with hospitals. Schools are overcrowded. Doctors' surgeries are | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
busy. We struggle with leisure. Are we going to put everything in place | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
or are we just going to build apartments? And rather than sweet | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
these warriors under the carpet, Boston Borough Council both | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
acknowledged the scale of the problem and the frustration of not | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
being able to progress plans quickly enough. Of course it will | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
stretch everything. The hospitals, the schools, everything. It is not | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
just for Boston Borough to deal with. It is County Council, central | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Government, NHS. On the day the Government relaxes planning laws to | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
help progress house building, Boston will need more than just | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
houses to cope with the effects. For Simon is in Boston right now. | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
How is the council going to cope with this expansion? What struck me | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
when I spoke to Boston Borough Council earlier was how worried | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
they were now about population in Boston 9am -- never mind in eight | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
to ten years' time. There was that frustration of not being able to | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
develop plans quickly enough, and based at A&P Tees beer was if the | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
migrant population continued to grow they would need urgent | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Government help. There was an additional sticking point with the | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
complication on the decision of the Boston Globe barrage being deferred | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
and until that was in place Boston should not be a development zone at | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
all and although they would like to see many more developments like | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
this and will need to do so, where to put them was another sticking | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
point. But they did insist they were seeking help from ministers | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
and they were hoping to get plans, progress and those urgent plans in | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
place. Thank you. | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
David Rose is from the Campaign to Protect Rural England and he's with | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
us now. A rapidly growing population for Boston. New planning | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
regulations announced today. What will that mean for Lincolnshire? | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
think the new guidelines that have been introduced today are a welcome | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
step in many respects in that they are certainly recognise the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
importance of sustainable development and as you have heard | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
from the report, the one problem that many people recognise is that | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
when there is new housing development, there is frequently | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
insufficient services, said hopefully sustainable development | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
will be introduced as a criteria for new housing developments and | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
that will mean the needs of the local economy and local people are | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
met, but most important, for us, it will meet the environmental | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
concerns people have about building on greenfield sites. Because the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
growing population, new homes are needed. They need to go somewhere. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Yes. We recognise as much as any organisation that there is a | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
housing crisis in this country. What we would argue is that the | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Farwick promise for the changes in the planning law are based on | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
fallacy. There is plenty of housing that is already being designated, | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
planning approval being didn't. The reality is that developers are | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
sitting on a large bank of housing that they have not built simply | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
because of the economic circumstances at the moment. | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
Boston will grow whether we like it or not. 70,000. Isn't it better | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
that it grows without a lot of planning obstacles in the way? But | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
people want to live in nice places? They do, but they also want to live | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
in goods services -- places with good services. We would argue that | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
the need to make sure that the planners get it right so that | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
people do have a nice environment in which to live. The problem is | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
that if the sprawl of the town's, we need to protect the green space. | :06:57. | :07:03. | |
We are very pleased that in the report published today the | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
Government do recognise that 55 % of the country he is on designated | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
countryside and needs to be preserved and looked after. -- IS | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
un-designated countryside. So what do you make of the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
Government decision to relax the planning laws? Is there a | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
development plant near you? Will it be good for your area? We were | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
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talking about one in East Yorkshire looking north. All one word. -- | :07:41. | :07:49. | |
In a moment, a blow for campaigners fighting to stop a new tax on | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
caravans. People living in an East Yorkshire | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
village say thousands of pounds could be wiped off the value of | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
their homes if flood defences are cut. The Environment Agency is | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
reviewing its maintenance plans for a stretch of the River Aire, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
including a bank protecting Gowdall near Goole. Almost 150 homes in the | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
village flooded in the year 2000. This bank is the last barrier | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
protecting Gowdall from the River Aire. Residents anxiously keep | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
watch on the river in the distance. This bank is not good enough to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
support of the full river. In the year 2000 it burst its bank, | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
flooding homes for nearly three weeks. Finally entered the house | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
and came up to the third break here. Laurie Stewart lived in a caravan | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
for almost a year. He's worried plans to stop maintaining the river | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
bank could have devastating consequences. The less the village | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
is protected, the more chance we have of flooding. The more the | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
value of the houses go down, the more the insurance people will not | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
insured. We need to give ourselves maximum protection. If that means | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
marrying the dikes then we man them. Residents are here are worried that | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
if these differences are not maintained, a second bank in the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
distance will not be able to hold back floodwater and their | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
properties could be at increased risk. Without that riverbank, we | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
will be having a full river level all the time and it is guaranteed | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
it will come up through the gardens. The the Environment Agency St no | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
decision has yet been made on the future of the defences. There are a | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
number of different ways we can look at maintaining the banks and | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
here. However, every pound we spent needs to be carefully considered. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Serve with funding full-blooded punches being squeeze, rural | :09:52. | :10:02. | |
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communities fear they will be left left to the most exposed. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
A-level students at the Grimsby Institute will have to leave or | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
change causes after it announced it is going to stop teaching the | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
qualifications since September. They said they want to place | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
greater emphasis on vocational courses and are removing A-levels | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
from the curriculum as well as almost all GCSEs. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
Visitors to his part in Hull have three weeks to tell the council | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
house dogs should be controlled. -- visitors to East Park. The council | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
are carrying out the consultation before deciding if any restrictions | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
should be brought in. The Government has confirmed it | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
believes adding the A82 new static holiday homes is appropriate. -- | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
adding VAT. The Chief Secretary for the Treasury was responding to a | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
question in the Commons from David Davies. He and other MPs from the | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
main parties fear it will lead to job losses in the area. 90% of the | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
country's static homes are made in Hull and East Yorkshire. Tell us | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
more of what Danny Alexander had to say. He his comments come after a | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
question put to him last night about the budget. Danny Alexander | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
has and is at the decision to add VAT is appropriate. He pointed out | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
that the a 18 would only apply to static holiday homes, not the | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
static residential homes. The question came from the MP David | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
Davis. He said today he will not give up without a fight and the | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
industry's body, the National Caravan Council, say they will | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
continue to push for answers about the changes. We have the longest | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
tax code in the world. It is lit with anomalies. We are in the | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
middle of a recession. Why should we do a correction, as they call it, | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
that will cost thousands of jobs? We will lobby is so that they do | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
actually sit up and take notice. It is important to our region and it | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
is important to protect jobs and carry on growing business. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Commons question comes just hours after a visit by the shadow | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
minister for regional growth, who visited Willerby Caravans in Hull | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
with the helm will then peak Darren Johnson. He said yesterday that | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
more discussion was needed. The Treasury today said they were still | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
listening and would taken, it's right up until the start of May. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
A woman from Lincolnshire has become the first in England to have | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
a new operation on her heart using keyhole surgery. The 89-year-old | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
from Holbeach has been able to have the procedure without having open- | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
heart surgery. This has led to a significant reduction in her | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
recovery time. Aetna is 89 but also number one. | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
The first patient to have a new type of heart valve fitted in | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
England. Today it was all smiles as she met it -- the doctor again he | :13:13. | :13:22. | |
fitted it. I am well. The latest Ralph builds on this design, | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
allowing surgeons to reposition it or even reposition it using keyhole | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
techniques, something that was not possible in the past. Now we have | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
this option to reposition into a satisfying it final position. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
was being BAFTAs before the operation. Her aortic valve was not | :13:42. | :13:50. | |
functioning well. Three weeks on and she is on the mend. I have not | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
had any pain, just a little discomfort. Otherwise, I am feeling | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
that I am on the mend. This footage shows how procedure. It is very | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
clear to see the metal framework of the heart valve here. That is now | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
in perfect position across the old one, which was quite narrow and not | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
working properly. She has more of a spring in her step and hopes to | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
return to one of her passions. hoping to do a little more than I | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
have been able to do. I used to go dancing quite a bit. I do not know | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
whether I will manage that again but... She is following a woman who | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
five years ago was the first UK patient to have a minimally | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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We wish her all the best. Thank you for watching. Still to | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
come on the programme, have hundreds of Victorian homes have | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
been saved in Gowdall France to green technology. And also, will | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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all car enthusiasts who want the I know someone who would be ideal | :15:14. | :15:24. | |
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Thank you for the photograph. Good evening. How are you? I will stick | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
with my Robin Reliant. A viewer says, I recently wrote to the BBC | :15:35. | :15:43. | |
to ask them what time Paul's Bank Club Med. They said, what time can | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
you get here? -- what time Paul's fan club met. | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
Temperatures have not been as high inland but it has been a stunning | :15:55. | :16:05. | |
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day on the beach. Inland, the Hot Spot East... 22 degrees, way above | :16:08. | :16:18. | |
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In the sun, it has been very pleasant along the coast. About | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
three-and-a-half weeks ago you asked for a pressure check. It is | :16:26. | :16:33. | |
over 1000 millibars and conditions will remain warm. The emphasis in | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
the next few days is still on a lot of dry weather. Not a cloud in the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
sky on the satellite picture. Wherever you are this evening, it | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
is absolutely beautiful at BET. It is warm and sunny and overnight | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
there will be clear skies and very little wind to speak of. No wind | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
either. A touch of air frost in low-lying rural parts of our region | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
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It looks like tomorrow will see a repeat performance of today's | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
fabulous weather conditions. Dry without a cloud in the sky. All | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
parts will be sunny. The breeze will be a light westerly, so the | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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coast will be every bit as warm as Somewhere, perhaps western parts of | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
Lincolnshire, could get up to 23 tomorrow. Temperatures drifting | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
A new scheme which has seen hundreds of Victorian homes covered | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
with several inches of cladding could now be copied across the | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
country. The terraced properties have been clad in insulation to | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
make them more energy efficient and has saved them from demolition. Now | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
the Government says more areas The Victorian streets of Goole re- | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
clad with insulation. These homes have all been made over by the East | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
Riding Council alongside a local charity shop. This is the | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
difference Government funding made before it ran out three years ago, | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
an extra layer, which Hettie Walker says has benefited both the shop | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
she runs and her home next door. is much improved, both in the | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
heating... It is wonderful in winter. When the snow was on the | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
ground and you walked in, the heat from the first-floor room was | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
unbelievable. The price of my electricity has gone down. | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
Edinburgh Street's improvements could be replicated across the | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
country by a Government keen to show its green credentials. The | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
only issue is who is paying. Funding for the scheme ran out | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
under the last administration. How will the Government role -- a role | :19:04. | :19:14. | |
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at this example to the rest of the country? I think I think that the | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
people here are really happy with what we have done for them. If it | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
can be continued across the country it will be good for everyone. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
Particularly the type of properties we are tackling here, which are | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
hard to treat. Goole of course has largely beaten the funding cut. But | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
paying for future schemes is not the only option. There could be a | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
problem of smothering buildings with insulation and affecting the | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
external appearance. Nice Victorian or Georgian brickwork can be | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
covered over. So Goole may have pioneered the way but there are | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
obstacles to overcome if the Government wants to see further | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
energy savings without people having to find alternative ways to | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
Last night we revealed that some children are starting secondary | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
school in Hull with a reading age of five. Levels of reading and | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
writing in the city are still well behind the national average. The | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
city council has given �10,000 to every Hull secondary school to help | :20:13. | :20:23. | |
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raise standards. Lots of differing opinions on this subject. We had a | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
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big response to this after the Meanwhile, adult learners in Hull | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
say they are benefiting from new schemes were designed to improve | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
their education. Hull has some of the lowest rates of adults | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
qualifications in the country, with a fifth of people in the city | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
having no formal training at all, but new ideas, such as dads' clubs | :21:19. | :21:29. | |
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in local schools, are helping. This farmers' club at this school | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
was set up to encourage local fathers to have fun with their | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
children. But they have already noticed a big improvement in their | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
children's learning and behaviour since they started getting involved. | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
He would play up a little bit but since we have been doing this, he's | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
not doing it. Danny and the rest of the fathers are among 5,000 adults | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
across Hull every year trying to improve their literacy. At the | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
beginning I could hardly read or write but I can read and write | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
better now. I spend more time with my son, doing his homework because | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
I can read it and understand it more. Around �1.3 million is spent | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
in adult education in Hull every year at the service, like many | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
others, is facing cuts. It is about being much cleverer with the money | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
we have got. Around 15 % of the National adult population struggle | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
with reading and writing. They will always struggle in the jobs market. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
So the challenge today is to try to encourage more young people to see | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
the point of getting qualifications while there are still in education. | :22:48. | :22:54. | |
To this end, Hull's children's university is using a visit to the | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
RAF to help develop literacy skills. The thrills and spills of live here | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
at RAF Leconfield throws up lots of phrases, adjectives, creative | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
writing, reported writing. Fabulous spin-off which they can take back | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
into the classroom. This sergeant admitted to the children that he | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
had to work hard to get his English skills up to scratch before he | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
could join the RAF. 4th I spent a lot of time on my English GCSE and | :23:25. | :23:33. | |
have to put in a lot of hard work. Back at the bar was' lap and two of | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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them have recently banned new jobs. In football, Hull City will move | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
back into the Championship play-off places with a win tonight. The | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Tigers lost to Leicester on Saturday, leaving them two points | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
outside the top six play-off places. Tonight they are away to bottom | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
match as well as Grimsby away to Tamworth on Radio Humberside | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
tonight. SportsTalk is already under way. And BBC Lincolnshire | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
will have all the action from Lincoln City's game against Hayes | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
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and Yeading. The coverage begins at They were regarded as the comedy | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
cars of the 1950s and 1960s and now they're back on show in | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
Lincolnshire. The Bubble Car Museum has more than 30 models of all | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
shapes and sizes and they have had to move to new premises near Boston | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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Arriving in style, the Cooper family have brought their | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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collection of bubble cars to this small Lincolnshire village. It was | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
a hobby that got really badly out of hand. It grew into a museum. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
There is a collection of 30 cars, ranging from the small to the very | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
small. There is even one donated by the late Sir Jimmy Saville. But us | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
from several countries comes the evidence of a trend for smaller and | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
smaller cars... The bubble car emerged in the 1950s and the demand | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
for small, economical cars continued to grow as did the | :25:22. | :25:32. | |
variety of models. This one cells in Germany for about �90. And the | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
new museum is in keeping with the era. We get a lot of crime parents | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
who bring their grandchildren and say, this is what Gran Dedryck. -- | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
we get a lot of grand parents. now that the mammoth move is | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
complete, there is some time for Mike to do what he does best. | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
stepping back in time. Forget your parrot steering. None of that is | :26:04. | :26:14. | |
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there. It is basic motoring. -- power-steering. Now everyone can | :26:15. | :26:24. | |
see for themselves what life is like in a bubble. | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
A recap of the headlines: The report into last year's riots | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
claims a lack of opportunities for young people. There are concerns | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Boston will not be able to cope with being one of the fastest- | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
growing towns in the country. Another dry and sunny, very warm | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
day for when step. Top temperatures in the afternoon getting up to 22 | :26:45. | :26:54. | |
Response coming in on the subject of Boston after that discussion | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
about houses and developments. Robert says, Boston is struggling | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
with its infrastructure now. Roads are cracked and have excessive | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
potholes, and putting more housing in place without dealing with this | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
is stupidity. Adrian, we need a larger hospital | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
and better roads before new homes. Catherine, Boston's public | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
transport connections meet improvement. | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
Chris, where are all these people going to move when they -- the work | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
when they moved to Boston? Finally, Boston needs its road and | :27:31. | :27:34. |