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That is all from the News At Six, goodbye from me and on BBC One we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
join the news Good evening, and welcome to BBC | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Look North. The headlines tonight: Hospitals are told to scrap smoking | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
shelters to make it harder for patients to light up. | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
This guidance aims to change the culture of the NHS. I think people | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
should give up but it easier said than done. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Three people die on their way to work in an early morning crash. We | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
are appealing forward says who may have seen these vehicles at 6am or | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
travelling on this road and they would like them to come forward. | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
A church loved by poets and film`makers may never be rebuilt | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
after being gutted by fire. The big Christmas switch`off ` why | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
some towns are struggling to look festive. We have managed a warm 11 | :00:47. | :00:55. | |
degrees this afternoon, but what about the next few days? Join me in | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
15 minutes. People who smoke outside hospitals | :00:59. | :01:07. | |
in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire could face tougher sanctions after | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
new guidelines were published today. The recommendations come from a | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
group which advises the NHS on health issues. They say smoking | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
should be banned in all hospital grounds, and want shelters and other | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
designated areas removed. Also, patients, staff and even visitors | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
should be encouraged to give up smoking completely. Our health | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
correspondent Vicky Johnson is with me. Vicky, how do our local | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
hospitals deal with the problem of smoking? Despite recent anti`smoking | :01:36. | :01:44. | |
measures, one in five of us nationally still insist on our | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
cigarettes. . It's having a huge toll on our health, causing around | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
80,000 premature deaths a year, and on our finances ` estimated costs to | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
the NHS and our wider society is more than ?16 billion every year. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
But even when they're ill, people are reluctant to kick the habit, | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
even dragging drip stands outside so they can have a cigarette. | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
For people like myself that come in for my children, it is a life`saver | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
to be able to run out and have a cigarette and go back inside and get | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
on with it. There are people who have just had surgery or cancer | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
patients and they have to come outside and smoke in the snow. They | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
have to walk over there. They should be able to sit here and smoke. | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Lincolnshire's three main hospital sites still have designated smoking | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
areas. But a statement has been issued from the trust, saying, "We | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
regularly review our practices and guidelines to ensure our local | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
practices are in line with national guidance, and will be considering | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
the recommendations from the NICE report." Neither the Northern | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
Lincolnshire and Goole nor the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trusts | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
have specific areas for smokers. In fact, in Hull, where almost 30% of | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
the population are addicted, they're aiming to adopt a zero tolerance | :02:59. | :03:09. | |
approach. That's our aspiration, what we work towards. Our staff | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
understand that and try to support patients when they are using our | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
services to try to stop smoking, and we sensitively have a word about the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
blog about moving off the premises, but sometimes they can't do that. | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
They're also supporting patients who smoke to give up before being | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
admitted to hospital for a planned treatment. The important thing of | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
all this is that we follow the patient up when they have gone home, | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
so once we see them in hospital, we carry on support over six or eight | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
weeks after they have been discharged. NICE wants our hospitals | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
to go even further. They're aiming to change the culture so that | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
smoking is no longer acceptable on NHS grounds. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Thank you, Vicky. I'm joined this evening by Professor John Britton | :03:56. | :04:04. | |
from NICE. Isn't this a bit nanny state? People are not breaking the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
law. Hospitals are trying to dissuade people but they can't do | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
any more. They can, because we undress people when they come into | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
use our services, but generally it is on the lines of telling them they | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
have do get `` they could get help. We don't provide support and | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
treatment for people when they come in. Treatments are effective but | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
they are not being used. What do you make of the decision by the | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
hospitals trust in Lincolnshire providing designated smoking areas | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
at its three main sites? That effectively just how smokers | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
clustering in certain parts of the grounds but it maintains that model | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
of smoking being acceptable in the hospital trust, so if you're a | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
patient sitting in bed trying to give up smoking, you have a | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
continuous image of how easy it is to go out and smoke. If we are going | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
to have a smoke free culture in the NHS, it has to be extended. But | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
aren't they just acknowledging reality, which is that patients and | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
visitors have smoked, do smoke and will | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
do? Know, because we have seen it all. We have seen great progress. | :05:13. | :05:24. | |
Those trust spending money on shelters might spend the instead to | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
help the people they treat to quit smoking completely. If you are a | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
smoker in hospital it may be more stressful. The evidence is | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
otherwise. The important thing is that hospitals treat the problem, so | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
provide medicines for nicotine addiction straightaway, provide | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
behaviour support from admission. Would you like to see a law that | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
banned smoking in hospital grounds altogether? We are suggesting that, | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
which is to make the NHS smoke`free for the people who use it. Thank | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
you, Professor. What do you think about this story? Should smoking be | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
banned right across all hospital premises, and if so, what should | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
hospital staff do to enforce the rules? What do you think when you | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
see people standing outside the hospital having a cigarette? | :06:23. | :06:38. | |
In a moment: Rail bosses in for a rough ride, as they meet with | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
villagers over engineering work this Christmas. | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
An investigation has begun this evening after three people from East | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Yorkshire died and three others were seriously injured in a crash on the | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
border between East and North Yorkshire. Emergency services were | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
called to the B1248 between Driffield and Malton at around 6am | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
this morning. The stretch of road between Wetwang and | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
Wharram`le`Street has been closed for much of the day. | :07:08. | :07:18. | |
Tonight the recovery of three bodies and two vehicles, with two people | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
from east Yorkshire travelling to Malton for an early shift, the other | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
a relay van heading towards Driffield. Its driver and two | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
passengers from the other car or in a serious condition in hospital | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
after a fire at the scene. It is a difficult seem to be present at. | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
There has been a small fire at the scene involving the vehicles and | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
officers are dealing with that as sensitively as they can given the | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
circumstances we are dealing with. Workers at the bacon factory are | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
coming to doubts `` to terms with the deaths of their colleagues. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
Employers say they are offering support to their colleagues. They | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
are a big family so when something like that happens, you have to try | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
and get together. I didn't really know him but there are people in | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
there who did. People have yet to confirm the identities of those | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
involved and are appealing for witnesses. Police investigations are | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
concluding. They have been there since 6am when three people were | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
killed in this collision. People nearby say this road has a history | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
of accidents and they would like to see the parties do something about | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
it. It is shocking but not surprisingly. I have been a couple | :08:43. | :08:50. | |
of fatalities in the last two years, and we are concerned about the speed | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
and overtaking on the road. A woman and two men have lost their lives | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
here are but another two in their mid`30s and the driver of the | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Citroen remain in hospital following this fatal crash. Crispin is just | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
outside the village of Fimber this evening, what do we know about those | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
involved in the crash? We know that most of them were men, | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
apart from one woman who was fatally injured, and that the five Indo | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
forward focus were all from east Yorkshire. They all worked at the | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
Malton Bacon factory and I spoke to colleagues there who told me the | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
factory it is 100 strong, many people there. They knew one of the | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
individuals involved, there are a number of nationalities and the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
feeling among the community of that factory is that those who were dead | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
will be sadly missed. Thank you, Crispin. The defence in the case of | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
a man accused of aiding and abetting an arson attack on a Grimsby Mosque | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
says there is no evidence of his car was near the building at the attack. | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
Daniel Cressey, who's 24 and from New Holland in North Lincolnshire, | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
denies driving two of his cousins to the scene of the petrol bomb attack. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
The defence also says CCTV footage of his car is inconclusive. The case | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
continues. Railway bosses have met with people | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
in a Lincolnshire village whose road will be cut off by engineering works | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
over Christmas. Network Rail is closing a crossing in Saxilby, | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
meaning residents on one side of the tracks will only be able to get in | :10:31. | :10:42. | |
and out by foot. Residents of West Bank in Saxilby are preparing for | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
Christmas, but for them that means attending meetings with Network Rail | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
and the logistics of being cut off over the entire festive period. | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
Today there were a lot of unanswered questions. It might be a lot longer | :10:55. | :11:04. | |
than they say. We thought it was going to be closed for a fortnight | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
before and it took a month. I would just like to know what is going on. | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
It will be inconvenient but we have to adapt to it. My freezer is full. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
We have been trying to get both parties together so they can have | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
those discussions. Improvement works mean the crossing will stay closed | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
from the 20th of December until the 3rd of January, cutting off the West | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
Bank. Residents will have to walk along this path and use courtesy | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
buses to get to their cars which will be held in a temporary car | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
park. Everyone we can think of who needs to be informed about these | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
works, we are in engaging with and we will continue to do so. It is a | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
massive job that this is an inconvenience. We are at affecting | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
people 's lives at a sensitive time. We want to recognise that and do | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
everything we can to minimise it. The atmosphere was calm but with the | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
odd expected burst. Why haven't you put a bridge across? There isn't any | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
space to land at. There is. I think you are talking rubbish. And little | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
that appointed but these things are going to be done. Everyone was able | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
to air their views and that went well. This meeting proved the scale | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
of upheaval the works will cause and the scale of the task ahead to keep | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
it to a minimum. And Simon Spark is in Saxilby for | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
us. Is there a feeling that these meetings have helped appease | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
residents who face having their road cut off over Christmas? As far as | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
the meetings can help, I believe they have, but I got the general | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
feeling a resigned feeling from residents today just how | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
inconvenient Christmas will be for them now, with no shift towards any | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
alternative in place. Network Rail spoke about how they will make | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
improvements to the footpath, how they have liaised with every | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
emergency service and how they will help every person as much as they | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
can, but right now the second of those meetings is taking place and | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
whether this one is going any more smoothly then this afternoon, we | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
will find out soon. If you're in Saxilby you may have a view on that | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
one. Send me an e`mail or text and let me know. | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
Still ahead tonight: Odds change on who'll be Scunthorpe United's new | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
manager after two shock wins. We have a name in the betting, in Mr | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Paolo di cameo, which may be a bit of interest for someone. Towards | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
Bridlington from the bottom of Danes Dyke, taken by Barbara Baldwin. Keep | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
your pictures coming in. NICE and mild. Let's get the | :13:59. | :14:17. | |
forecast. It has been a lovely late autumn day. A bit chilly towards | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
Friday or Saturday but the emphasis on dry weather looks set to | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
continue. Tomorrow more cloud, maybe some drizzle but brighter spells | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
should develop later as this week front pushes away southwards, but | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
things certainly, Thursday night we could see patchy rain. It clears | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
first thing on Friday morning and then skies brightened with Saturday | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
looking cold but sunny. You can see gaps on the cloud which list | :14:48. | :14:54. | |
temperatures to 11. We had 11 in the Vale of York, so not a bad day. We | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
have cloud across east Yorkshire this evening, which will push south | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
and we could see drizzle working in from the west although many places | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
will stay dry, just a chance early, especially across parts of | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
Lincolnshire, temperatures in the countryside down to two or three | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
degrees but in the cities near four or five. The sun rises at 7:50am. | :15:17. | :15:26. | |
Generally a lot of cloud around first thing, thick enough for some | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
drizzle in places but we should see some breaks pushing down from the | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
North with the emphasis on a lot of fine weather developing, more cloud | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
than today but there should be bright for sunny intervals. Top | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
temperatures not as mild as today but still mine Celsius, close to | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
average for late November, looking ahead, first thing Friday morning, | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
otherwise sunshine, a few showers, Saturday looking cold and windy but | :15:56. | :16:06. | |
sunny. A few messages here just focusing on the left eye. Someone | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
says your wife has clocked you one again. I have an eye infection but | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
we battle on and don't complain. You were complaining last night on | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
Twitter. See you tomorrow. Keep taking the drops. | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
One of the country's most historically and culturally | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
important churches may have been destroyed forever by a fire. St | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
George's in Goltho is a very rare example of a Tudor church which | :16:32. | :16:33. | |
housed irreplaceable medieval artefacts. It's also credited with | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
inspiring one of the country's best`known poets. From a distance, | :16:37. | :16:46. | |
this little church still looks peaceful and inviting, but up close | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
the damage is clear, so different from how it used to be. We had pale, | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
cream walls, the chancel at the end, stunning but simple. It is thought | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
this place inspired one of the country's greatest poets. Someone | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
was up here and my father came up to see who it was. They had a talk | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
about how lovely and peaceful it was around here, and then we learned it | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
was John Betjeman. Grass is drowning the headstones, sloping this way and | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
that. Cathedral glass in the windows, a roof of slate, restored | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
with a vengeance for certain about 1888. In its heyday, it was used as | :17:34. | :17:42. | |
a film set for a period drama. But on October the 21st, there was a | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
fire here, bringing down there and destroying almost everything on the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
inside. It is not know what started the fire but it is thought it could | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
have been lightning. Despite firefighters' efforts, hundreds of | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
years of history was destroyed. It is a huge loss. We have never had a | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
church burns down before. It is rare because it was built from brick, | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
most rural churches are built from stone. That brought around 4000 | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
visitors a year to Goltho, most welcomed at the nearby coffee shop. | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
We had people come in here and ask about it and B would say, knit up | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
there and have a look. It is open. While the church was not used for | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
local services, it was still an important place for the village to | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
gather. It was a warm church where people felt cared for and safe. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
People wanted to come here to worship, it meant that much to them. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
Engineers are still deciding if it can be restored but much of what has | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
been lost here cannot be replaced. A woman who was closely involved in | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
exposing a serious mix`up at a mortuary in Hull has died. Christine | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Omoregie campaigned for an apology from Hull City Council, Hull Royal | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
Infirmary and funeral directors after her friend Grace Kamara was | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
buried in the wrong grave and had to be exhumed. | :19:10. | :19:22. | |
A dad from Lincolnshire has spoken of his joy after his son came out of | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
his coma for months after a road accident. Ryan Smith, who's 16 and | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
from Chapel St Leonards, wasn't wearing a cycle helmet when he | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
collided with a van in July. He's now being treated at a specialist | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
brain unit in Surrey. His dad Mark Smith is now campaigning for all | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
cyclists to wear helmets. He said it was a special moment when Ryan spoke | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
for the first time. We never expected any vocal to medication | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
because we were under the instant understanding he would have to learn | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
to talk again, and cheekily, on Friday when we went to visit, I | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
asked him if he could say hello. Big, deep breath, and a very slow | :20:03. | :20:15. | |
hello came out. He `` I finally knew what it was like to cry for joy. It | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
is a remarkable story. Mark Smith will be talking to me tomorrow | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
lunchtime on the radio. And we'll carry on to follow Ryan's recovery. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Former servicemen, who say their health was affected by British | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
nuclear testing in the South Pacific in the 1950s, have handed in a | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
petition at Downing Street, asking for a special fund to be set up to | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
help them. Douglas Hern, from Spalding in Lincolnshire, believes | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
exposure to radiation while serving as a cook in the Navy left him with | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
health problems. The Ministry of Defence has denied negligence. | :20:49. | :20:57. | |
Problem is, over the years we have never been able to nail an absolute | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
statement that can be backed up that whatever it is we are querying is | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
down to Christmas Island. When you get as many illnesses and as many | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
problems in the family line, there must be something that is not quite | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
right there. Cannabis, large amounts of dog waste | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
and even a whole caravan are some of the items that have been illegally | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
dumped across East Yorkshire in the last year. The council is trying to | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
track down the owners of this caravan, which has been abandoned in | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
a ditch near Wawne. Officials say they're now increasing fly`tipping | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
patrols. It is one of the most unusual cases we have seen. It will | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
be very difficult to remove but we are bringing the Environment Agency | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
in to get it removed. This time last week they had suffered an FA Cup | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
defeat against their rivals Grimsby town. Tonight, Scunthorpe United lie | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
just three points from the top of league two. The sacking of manager | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Brian laws and the four nil victory over Rochdale last night made it a | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
mixed week. What does it take to become the | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
manager of a Football League club? Well, performances like this | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
certainly help. Fresh from victory over Portsmouth, the Irons' Niall | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Canavan put the first past Rochdale last night. After Jamie Spencer was | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
brought down in the box, Sam Winnall made it two. Spencer himself got the | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
third, and David Syres sealed the 4`nil victory. But caretaker boss | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Russ Wilcox was shy about his chances of a permanent appointment. | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
I don't think I need to apply. The chairman has seen what he has seen | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
and the board have seen what they have seen over the last few games, | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
so I don't think we need to touch on it any more. A couple of good | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
results mean it is short odds on an 's victory this weekend, but I want | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
to know where the smart money is going and it comes to the next Aaron | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
's manager. The odds on Ross Wilcox have tumbled but it is between the | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
two for the next bit, we do have a name in there, Mr Howley cameo, | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
which may be an interest for someone, it is 66`1. So, who is the | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
man on the street's favourite? I would like to think it would be | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Nigel Adkins. Gary Maxon, that's the only one I have heard mentioned. I | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
heard Gary Maxon was due. How could it be? Results are good and the odds | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
are tumbling, maybe it's time for Russ Wilcox to step out of Brian | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
Laws' shadow and make Scunthorpe United his own. | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
With less than a month to go before the big day, many people are | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
starting to get into the Christmas spirit. But in Boston the festive | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
feeling is lacking, after it was announced the town's Christmas | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
Market has been cancelled, just two days before the event was due to | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
take place. And the Lincolnshire town isn't the only place in our | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
area where Christmas cheer is hard to find. Boston, filled with festive | :24:14. | :24:24. | |
fun. This was last year's Christmas market, a hit with visitors and | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
traders, but what a difference a year makes. Today few people here | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
were feeling festive after it was announced this year's market has | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
been cancelled because organisers ran out of time to complete the | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
necessary safety requirements. All the businesses wanted it. We feel so | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
sorry for the people in the market, a lot of whom had bought stalk to do | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
this market and now it isn't going ahead. The safety aspect of it | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
outweighs what we can do. In the market base, traders were feeling | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
fed up. Many stallholders had been due to be back for the Christmas | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
market on Friday and Sunday. Some told me they had already bought | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
stock and its cancellation could cost them thousands. Fortunately I | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
got to know in time and I haven't put in a good order for stock which | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
I was about to do. As soon as we hit the December, everybody starts | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
thinking about Christmas and we have lost that. I've ordered a lot of | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
extra stock in ready for a busy weekend. Now we don't know what's | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
going to happen. But it is not just here that Christmas cheer is hard to | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
find. In Hull, Newland Avenue won't be lit up this year. The Christmas | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
lights are too expensive. So shops have been trying to restore some joy | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
by putting up their own decorations. It costs about ?45 to put them up | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
and due to lack of funding this year we could not afford to get them up | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
in time. `` ?40,000. Back in Boston, the Christmas lights will still be | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
switched on this Friday. They certainly will on Friday night. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
Switched on by two stars of Emmerdale. Now a re`capped of the | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
national and regional headlines. 35 days to go before Bulgarians and | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
Romanians are free to work in the UK, they're told they'll face | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
restrictions on housing and other benefits. Hospitals are told to | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
scrap smoking shelters to make it harder for patients to light up. | :26:42. | :26:43. | |
Tomorrow's weather, cloudy with a risk of drizzle at first. Most bases | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
Tomorrow's weather, cloudy with a risk of drizzle will be dry with | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
sunny spells throughout the day. Top temperatures mild, getting up to | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
around nine Celsius. On the subject of smoking, Joe once says, I was | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
recently in hospital with a serious chest complaint. I had a window open | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
and patients would smoke outside the window which came into the room. I | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
believe smoking should be banned on hospital but rounds. Dawn says, my | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
mum was dying of cancer. All she wanted to do was have a cigarette | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
because it made her feel better. I am an ex smoker but I feel people | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
who smoke are punished. Dave says it would not be tolerated if they were | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
drinking alcohol. Adam says taking away smoking shelters takes away | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
people's free will. Smoking is legal, so smokers should be able to | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
smoke in public. We will have more on this tomorrow. Join me if you can | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
on the radio from midday. | :27:45. | :27:52. |