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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight: | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
Dealing with the drought, the first hosepipe ban in 20 years starts at | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
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midnight. People are now thinking about it seriously, not just it is | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
being mentioned more once. People are setting their minds on it. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Spring snow leaves rush hour drivers stranded in East Yorkshire. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
We had this lovely warm weather and now what is back to winter. I | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
cannot understand it, really. A former hostage says the | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Government should have done more to save his colleagues in Iraq. | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
What's in a place? The white phone boxes helping to define a city. It | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
has been a cold and windy day today, but we will see some sunshine | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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tomorrow. The full forecast later In a few hours' time, Lincolnshire | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
and parts of North Norfolk will come under their first hosepipe ban | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
for 20 years. Lincolnshire has been in drought since last June, in East | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Yorkshire since just last week, but the hosepipe ban applies only to | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
the area south of the Humber from midnight tonight. It comes after | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
two exceptionally dry winters left rivers and reservoirs well below | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
normal levels. After the third driest March on record, these were | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
the conditions facing drivers near Driffield this morning. More on | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
that in a moment, but our first report tonight comes from Crispin | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
Rolfe. Too late. Today, water everywhere, | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
but the cracks are already showing. Winter's trickle has left us with | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
the worst 18 months of rainfall in the last century, with even local | :01:47. | :01:56. | |
fish needing to find water. Farmers have seen it all first hand. Up to | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
the end of the year, we had had three-quarters of the annual | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
rainfall, which has carried on during last three months. I am | :02:04. | :02:13. | |
guessing we are needing a wetter back to where we need to be. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
with low water, tomorrow Lincolnshire says goodbye to doing | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
this. Though despite the squelch, some like Lindum Cricket Club have | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
escaped a complete hosepipe ban. have to look after the water | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
available to us. We are able to water this square and maintain this, | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
but the outfield, it looks like the ban will still remain in force for | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
that. Rain has come in time to fill water butts, but it's watering cans | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
from here on in. Though gardener Mike Stopper is relishing the | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
challenge. His village, Caister is competing in Britain in Bloom. | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
Clearly, the lawns were a concern for people. And one key tactic | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
there is not remote to short, or the grass grow longer, let it grow. | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
And you have a pond? There are a number of fish there. So you are | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
allowed to water it? I think what I will be doing is to try to allow | :03:07. | :03:16. | |
the plants to survive as best they can. By dry resistant plants will | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
containers and let's not make a drama out of the crisis. Absolutely | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
not. At Brigg, the green fingered are also finding ways round. Though | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
the garden centre here has struggled to keep up with demand. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
We have seen an increased number of people coming in poor water butts. | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
But the typical thing is for us to get the stock came to meet people's | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
demands. We have been lucky enough to secure Stock, but it is getting | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
it here in time. Those with water butts are ahead of the game at and | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
tomorrow's ban comes in indefinitely unless, of course, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
water companies see well above average rainfall over the next | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
couple of months. As Norfolk and Lincolnshire prepare to turn off | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
the hoses, East Yorkshire is currently avoiding a ban. But it | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
may not be long before everyone's carrying the can for this drought. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
So, what does it mean for you? It means you can use a hosepipe to top | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
up a pond if there are fish in it. If you're a blue badge holder, you | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
can water your garden. And hosepipes can be used by businesses. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
But you can't use your hose to water your garden. You can't wash | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
your windows with a hose and you can't wash your car. Let's talk | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
about all that now with Chris Featherstone from Anglian Water. He | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
joins me from the Lincoln Water tower. | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
In a nutshell, how much water will this saved? Well, we do not know | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
because it is the 20 years since we had a hosepipe ban here. We | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
estimate about 6-10 % of the water we provide will be saved by people | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
not using hosepipes. You have to understand they are very wasteful | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
and can use up to 1,000 litres an hour. We asked for people to send | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
in their questions. Just a few. How will this be policed? Will people | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
be asked to spy on their neighbours? No, we are not asking | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
that but we are asking people to police it with their conscience. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Everyone has seen in the media that the effects of the drought, how | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
widespread it is, how it is affecting the environment and | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
depleting resources. We think our customers are happy to support us. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
We do not want to enforce it, but we expect people to do it. | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
Katharine wants to know how you can just a fight a hosepipe ban when | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
you have allowed a water leak to go unchecked for several weeks. She | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
says the water is coming up with a road. You do have one of the worst | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
leakage targets on record. Well, our leakage record is very good and | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
we had an exceptionally bad year yesterday -- last year. The Severe | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
weather conditions meant that, unfortunately, we must our target. | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
No leakage is good, and we are working very hard to address all | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
the leaks that we can find out their. Or have got another 60 | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
people out and about looking for leaks. We are spending �40 million | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
at the moment finding and fixing leaks as soon as we can. As we | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
cannot use our hosepipes, will be get a rebate on our high beat -- | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
high bills? Around 70% of customers are metered and they will seek a | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
saving automatically. -- they will see a saving. We ask people to work | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
with us to conserve water and support us in this in what we feel | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
are manageable restrictions. knee people are not on metres, | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
though, are they? -- many people. About 70% of people are meted and | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
the remaining 30% are not. We are not planning to give a rebate at | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
the moment but we feel people understand the issues. Your | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
priority these days is to keep your shareholders happy with higher | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
premiums and customers have to put up with under investment, Steve | :07:15. | :07:24. | |
says. Mare, not true at all. We are a private company. -- no, not true | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
at all. Our investors invest in us. Over the half of the investment we | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
have put into our infrastructure to supply water to our customers has | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
come from investors and if we did not have investors, customer bills | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
would be higher. Briefly, several people wanted to know why you are | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
not building desalination plants to turn salt water into pure water. | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
have looked at that. We do not feel that is needed at the moment. | :07:55. | :08:05. | |
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Desalination is an energy expert -- energy expensive process. It | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
requires so much energy and carbon. We want to be a growing company. | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
Thank you for joining us. We'd love to hear your views on | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
what you've just heard. Are Anglian Water right to introduce the | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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Drivers had to be rescued in East Yorkshire following unseasonable | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
snowstorms during this morning's rush hour. Vehicles were pulled out | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
of the snow at Garrowby Hill near Wetwang as people were caught out | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
by the snowy conditions following last week's heat wave. Emma Massey | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
reports. Stuck in the snow. This was the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
scene this morning in East Yorkshire. The accident happened in | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
freezing temperatures on the road near Garrowby Hill. It caused long | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
delays for drivers. So much for April showers. In this area at | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
least there was a blanket of snow. Driving conditions were so bad that | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
even see snow ploughs and gritters were out. It was a similar picture | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
a few miles down the road. There is certainly a good covering of snow | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
here. Who would have thought it but this time last week, the villagers | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
were basking in temperatures of around 20 degrees. From those that | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
I have spoken to, this sort of change in temperature is not out of | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
the or ordinary. We get it every year. Fog, snow, bad weather. We | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
see little. I was watching a programme about global warming. We | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
have had this lovely weather, and now back to winter. I cannot | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
understand that. What was it like here last week? 23 degrees. Just | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
the height, I think, we are a pair fought at you don't have to go far | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
before you see the signs of spring. Five minutes down the road, and the | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
next village along his Wetwang. It is cold and wet, and is very windy, | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
but no snow has fallen here. Two neighbouring villages, both facing | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
the return of cold weather, but one bearing the brunt of wintery | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
conditions. A flood alert is in place on parts | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
of the river Bain in Lincolnshire where a local hotel had to have its | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
cellar pumped out by the fire brigade. We had these pictures sent | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
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in by viewers this afternoon of the scene in Horncastle. Thank you for | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
those pictures. Earlier this morning, here were | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
restrictions for high sided vehicles on the Humber Bridge and | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
Ouse Bridge earlier today. And a number of trees were blown over and | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
had to be cleared from roads, including this one near South Cave | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
in East Yorkshire. Lisa will be here shortly with the | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
forecast, but first onto some of the days other news. | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
A mother of four from East Yorkshire went from being a good | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
mum, to cruel and neglectful after she became obsessed with a gypsy | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
fortune teller, Hull Crown Court has heard. Linda Clappison denies | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
charges of child cruelty to her daughter and her son, Andrew, who's | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
now 18. He claims their mother punched and hit them and regularly | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
left them locked in their bedrooms without heating or lighting. The | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
trial continues. One of Britain's leading charities | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
is warning that unemployment among young people in Lincolnshire and | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
East Yorkshire will continue to rise unless more is done to improve | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
transport links to rural areas. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
is a housing charity based in York, says the cost of rural transport | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
has now become a massive issue and could force young people away from | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
the countryside. Sarah Corker reports. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
Amber Roberts relies on the bus to take her the 18 miles from her home | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
in Baumber to Lincoln for work. But this week, fares went up by nearly | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
40 pence, blamed on Government cuts and fuel costs. But for Amber it | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
means nearly a quarter of the wage she earns at this solicitor's now | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
goes on transport costs. It is frustrating to think that at the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
bus fares carry on rising, it might come to a point there is no point, | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
no incentive for me to carry on working. That isn't what I want to | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
do. It may be green and pleasant, but rural communities are crying | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
out for help. If we want our villagers to be thriving | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
communities with young people, young families, primary-school is, | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
we have got a look at issues like transport, housing and affordable | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
child care in rural areas, too. Some feel they are losing out at | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
the expense of urban areas. If you live in the East Riding of | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
Yorkshire or Lincolnshire, the most recent figures show the average | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
amount of Government money spent per head is around �300. But in | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
Hull, that figure's almost double at around �600. And people living | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
in the countryside need to earn over �1,000 a year more than urban | :13:41. | :13:51. | |
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counterparts to afford the same standard of living. Here in this | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
village, there is no bus route and the local Post Office has been | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
closed for years. It is a similar story for many rural communities | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
disappearing services and a limit to transport meaning it is more and | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
more difficult for people to live in the countryside. Urban areas | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
benefit from the fact that commercial bus services can run to | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
proffered without subsidies from the local authority. However, that | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
is not often the case in rural areas, we need to focus on the | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
rural areas. But Amber's worried if transport costs continue to rise, | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
she could be faced with the tough choice - to quit her job or move to | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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Thank you for watching. Still ahead: The excited eight-year-old | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
making final preparations to meet the Queen. And familiar images of | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
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Act but do they represent what it Thank you very much for that Jenas | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
there. Now the weather Department have | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
been busy today, probably. Well, they are always busy. Good evening. | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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You picked the right week, didn't Bin t? Yes, indeed. We had | :15:30. | :15:40. | |
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Tomorrow promises to be a lot calmer so that is great news. It | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
looks like we are going to have a ridge of high pressure that will | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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settle the weather will down but it will head towards us around Easter. | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
Rain is clearing away from the South now. It is a slow process but | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
it will do so after midnight. The wind it is easing as well. We will | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
see a frost tonight. With wet surfaces, they could beat ice on | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
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untreated services by the end of A cold and frosty start tomorrow | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
but it will be dry and bright. Variable amounts of cloud, probably | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
sickest around Lincolnshire but soon melting away. A decent amount | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
of sunshine and not as windy as today so it will not feel as cold. | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
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Temperatures will be higher but Another frost overnight into Good | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
Friday. The best of any brightness at first in the morning. Most of | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
the weekend will be tried maybe seeing a bit of rain later on | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
Thank you very much. You always work hard! | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
Did you have your fingers crossed behind your back! | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
A former hostage from Lincoln who was held for more than two years in | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Iraq says the government could have done more to save the security | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
guards with him. The IT consultant, peter macro, was kidnapped but his | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
four guards were kidnapped -- killed by his captors. He made his | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
first public speech about the ordeal last night. I remember | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
thinking, you have made it! Memories of freedom after 946 days | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
of imprisonment. I have been held here at... Peter macro has been | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
free now for almost as long as he was held hostage. Yesterday, he | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
shed his story in public for the first time. I didn't want the | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
torture to be dragged out, beaten and killed. In 2007, he was working | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
at this building as an IT consultant in Baghdad. Dozens of | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
armed men from a militia group pulled up and ambushed him and his | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
for guards. He was the only survivor. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Good evening. Peter Moore is said to be in good health this evening | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
after two years of active - back captivity in Iraq. Two years on, he | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
think -- things things could have been done differently. Fork out of | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
five people are dead. The Foreign Office obviously needs to do -- | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
look at what they did do. There was a media blackout and I wondered | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
whether that made us look like like something... It made us look like | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
we were doing something secret. Foreign Office says all foreign | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
hostage cases are different and decisions are based on expert | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
advice. Peter out recalled the low points and the lack of high ones | :19:26. | :19:34. | |
but at times still managed to raise a laugh. It was pointing at my | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
groin and I was thinking, it is really going to hurt! He has spent | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
time travelling since his release and he will travel in America fire | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
motorbike in May. He says that Lincoln will always be home. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
A young girl from Hull is getting ready for one of the biggest days | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
of her life because tomorrow she meets Her Majesty the Queen. Elysia | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
is just eight years old and she's one of four children who have been | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
picked to help the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at the Royal Maundy | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Service. The event, where - traditionally - Maundy money is | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
given out, takes place tomorrow at York Minster. Jo Makel caught up | :20:15. | :20:25. | |
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with her before the big day. I am delighted to inform you that | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
allies there has been chosen to be one of the Fort... | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Her mum had to keep it secret for weeks. But when the letter from | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Buckingham Palace came, Elysia was told she was going to meet the | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
Queen. Her reaction went something like this... Really excited and | :20:46. | :20:53. | |
fantastic. What do you think she will be like. In a hat. They'll be | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
lots of hats. As last year's event shows, the Royal Maundy Service is | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
a very grand affair and a tradition which dates back hundreds of years. | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
So, what does one do when one is a Royal Almonry child? I'm going to | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
talk to her, walk around with a piece of nosegay in my hand. It is | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
fresh herbs and flowers. Preparations are under way at York | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Minster where the service is being held this year and Elysia has her | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
own preparations. Getting her school uniform just perfect for | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
tomorrow, helped, of course, by her proud mum. I didn't sleep for a | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
week when we got the letter because I was so excited and nervous | :21:38. | :21:44. | |
thinking, it is she going to be good, will she be frightened? And | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
she is not. She is taking it in her stride. | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Elysia feels lucky. Her name was picked out of a hat to get to do | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
this. And meeting the Queen in her Diamond Jubilee year gives her the | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
chance to ask what lots of children want to know. What will you say to | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
the Queen? Will you get an Easter egg for Easter? An exciting day | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
lies ahead. What Elysia and her younger brother and sister need now | :22:14. | :22:24. | |
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is a good night's sleep. No chance! Fantastic! Good luck to her and I | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
hope she has a great time tomorrow. People can get tickets for a | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
special jubilee service at Lincoln Cathedral. The free service will | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
take place on May 19th and will be a celebration of the Queen's 60 | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
years on the throne. People who want to attend need to apply for a | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
ticket. Emily Taylor has moved a step | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
closer to a Olympics election. She has been named in the Great | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Britain's Women's Eight squad for the World Cup in Serbia. It is seen | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
as a pointer for who is likely to make it into the Olympic team. Good | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
luck to have. Forty fibreglass toads which were | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
hidden around Hull are in line for a national award. The Larkin Toads | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
have been shortlisted in the Best Tourism Event category for the | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
Visit England awards. They were on show as part of events to mark the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
25th anniversary of the death of the poet Philip Larkin. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
And we are, of course, delighted that the two toads named after | :23:26. | :23:32. | |
myself and Paul Hudson have helped to win that award. | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
For some people the essence of Hull is its white phone boxes, its | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
traditional fair or its distinctive accent. Now, a new exhibition is | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
giving people the chance to hear what the city is all about from the | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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mouths of those who live there. What is unique about Hull? | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
people. The people. What makes it what it is? What gives it its | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
character, it's Hullness. We are friendly and we welcome strangers. | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
Well, this new exhibition hopes to answer these questions and end any | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
disputes. Over a year's worth of research and �50,000 worth of | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
lottery funding has gone into building an archive of Hullness. | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
They asked the people rather than experts. So, what did they find | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
out? Some of the things we imagine GROUP MACRO is about didn't come | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
through as strongly as I thought. It didn't matter quite so much to | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
their people of the city. Like the Guildhall, for example. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
exhibition is interactive. His telephone is playing recordings of | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
the debate we held about what is special about hell. And GROUP MACRO. | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
:25:16. | :25:19. | ||
We have tried to use buildings that Of course we've done a bit of our | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
own research. Here's the newly- crowned Miss Hull and her thoughts. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
You have to come to Hull and see it for yourself. There a big open | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
spaces, shopping centres and I love it. For me, it is the way people | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
speak. The accent does it for me every time and I have thought of a | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
couple of phrases. I have bought a pan of -- can of Coke with a five | :25:52. | :26:02. | |
:26:02. | :26:03. | ||
per note. You see, most of us know what gives people it's "Hullness" | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
and we love it. Let's have a recap of the main | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
national and regional headlines. Thousands are left without power as | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
heavy snow hits Scotland and the North of England. Anglia Water have | :26:18. | :26:26. | |
denied poor leakage rates has lent -- meant that we have the first | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
hosepipe ban in years. We're working hard to address the links - | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
- leaks. We have another 60 people looking for leaks and we have spent | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
�40 million finding them and fixing them as soon as we can. Thursdays | :26:42. | :26:52. | |
:26:52. | :26:54. | ||
we don't -- weather is dry with the On the subject of the hosepipe ban, | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
responses are coming in. One says, why are we not getting a rebate? It | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
is due to privatise money-making companies not conserving water well | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
enough. The loser is the customer who pays their bonuses. | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
Another: Time we had a National Grid. And, I work away for three or | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
four weeks and are many here for one week so I am saving more water | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
than most. I will use my hosepipe still and | :27:29. | :27:34. |