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rain from the east. That's all from the BBC News At Six.

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On BBC One, we now the west. That is all from the BBC

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News at six, so it is goodbye from Good evening and welcome to BBC Look

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North. The headlines tonight: Crime is down in Lincolnshire but small

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businesses count the cost of shop lifting The campaign to make sure no

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ex`serviceman is forced to have a pauper's funeral Protestors who

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ambushed a train at Drax Power Station have had their convictions

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overturned. We have to work thoord cause make a profit.

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We have to work hard to make a profit. . We've had Prime Ministers

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say how proud they are of their soldiers. They gave their yesterdays

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for our tomorrows. We owe it to them.

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Protesters who ambushed a train at Drax Power Station have had their

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convictions overturned. And Sold for their looks, now rescue

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charities say they're overwhelmed by abandoned wolf`like dogs.

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Rain on the way tonight. That detailed five`day forecast follow

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very shortly. Good evening. Crime is down across

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Lincolnshire according to the county's Police and Crime

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Commisioner. But MPs have suggested that police crime figures should be

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taken with a pinch of salt amid claims that some forces are

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manipulating the numbers to try and hit targets. Alan Hardwick says his

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force doesn't have targets and the figures are accurate. Today he's

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announced plans to deal with shoplifting which is one of the few

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crimes on the rise. Simon Spark reports. Stacking shelves but

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keeping a careful watch. Theft and shoplifting has increased by 5% in

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the last year, with an extra 443 crimes, according to Lincolnshire

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police's latest performance report. But that's in surprise to this shop

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in Lincoln. Unfortunately we have more shoplifting. Anything, food,

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alcohol, anything is with people with hardly any income. They are

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desperate for things and they target shops like this but shops like this

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have quite low margins and we have to work as hard as we can to make a

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profit and it really does call financial problems.

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But Lincolnshire police are pleased with their results. They show

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overall crime down by 3%, antisocial behaviour down by 14, and a decline

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in vile bins more than 9%. I'm `` in violence.

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I'm delighted with this report. It just shows that the leanest funded

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force in the country can continue to produce results that are, well,

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let's say, punch well above its weight. The report comes out, of

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course, just when police figures are being questioned generally for their

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be a radioscy. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has written to every

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police chief in the country to ensure they keep accurate figures.

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But what damage does this do to public confidence, in figures like

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this? It makes you wonder sometimes. Obviously it needs to be reported

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more accurately, doesn't it? We encourage our children to talk to

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policemen because they give you an honest answer. Now you think ` do

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they or don't they? A bit sceptical. The whole thing has been grossly

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mishandled. I'm not surprised the public have the wrong idea. All I

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can do is speak for Lincolnshire and say I'm as confident as it is

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possible to be that the way that we record and report crime figures is

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honest and is probust. No questions have been raised about

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the reliability of Lincolnshire's fillings, but they are still having

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to restore public confidence and justify their claims. `

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Lincolnshire's figures. I spoke to the MP, Bernard Jenkin, Chairman of

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an influential #35r789ry committee that has been looking into the

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accuracy of crime figures. `` parliamentary committee. I asked

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them if people in Lincolnshire can trust the figures published today?

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To a degree, yes. But overall the statistics have been downgraded.

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They are no longer national statistics. Lincolnshire is a good

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example. The Police and Crime Commissioner doesn't set targets.

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The overwhelming conclusion we have received in evidence, is that it is

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the targets that distort the figures because the police, with the best

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will in the world, they are trying to meet the targets, not record the

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crimes. If you don't have any targets, Lincolnshire can't fail

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because they are not saying what they are going to do. The targets

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should not be the criteria for success or failure. The question is

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how safe the population feels and whether the overall crime survey

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figures, a different measure of crime, is going down. Do some police

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forces massage figures, or have they done so? Massage is probably too

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strong a word. The problem we have, is after decades of target`driven

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behaviour in police force, there is a habit amongst, you know, the desk

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sergeant punching the numbers into his computer ` oh, I think I'll make

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this a criminal damage, not an attempted robbery or I think we'll

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put this mobile phone down as "lost" rather than "stolen", to make the

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figures look better. It was part of the team effort to present a good

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face. Obviously that's in the what what we want. Changing that

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behaviour in some police force also take a long time. Is the way that

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crime is recorded at the moment, is it clear enough and good enough and

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can we always trust what the police say?

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Well, what we need is more auditing of crime, recorded crime figures, so

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that there is a more checking up, more policing of the system but

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also, to encourage police ` and this is a real challenge for leadership `

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to put the values of their policing service above whatever targets there

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might be. To put the integrity and honesty and the behaviour of police

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officers above the achievement of any targets for this crime or that

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kind of crime. Very good to talk to you, Mr Jenkin.

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Thank you very much. Your thoughts on this: Do you trust

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the crime figures when they are published. Are targets important or

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do they encourage manipulation of crime records? Do you trust what you

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have heard of figures. If you want to be in touch, you can e`mail, or

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text us. Now, in a moment on tonight's

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programme: The inquest into the death of a Red Arrows pilot hears

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evidence from evector seat experts. Force Protestors who ambushed a coal

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train on its way to Drax Power Station near Goole have had their

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convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal. The 29 activists were

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cleared because an undercover policeman's involvement in the

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protest was kept secret. They're now calling for a public inquiry into

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undercover police work. Jake Zuckerman has more.

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Result is that the convictions are all quashed. The moment a judge at

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the Court of Appeal overturned the convictions of 29 environmental

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protesters. Outside they gave their reaction. We just feel really

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pleased to have been able to continue to shine a light on the

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underhand tactics of undercover police officers in solidarity with

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other individuals and groups that have actually suffered far, far

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greater miscarriages of justice. In 2008, protesters ambushed a train

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carrying coal to Drax Power Station near Goole. 29 were later convicted

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of obstructing railway engines and were given either a conditional

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discharge or community service but what they didn't know at the time

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was that their convictions depended on the secret evidence of Mark

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Kennedy an undercover police officer who infiltrated their group. Today

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the Appeal Court threw out their convictions because the protesters

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should have been told about his involvement.

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Paul was one of those cleared but he remains concerned about the use of

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undercover policing. Undercover policing is being used to support

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operations and support the police and support the status quo rather

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nan protecting citizens from violence and such like. We are

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calling for a public inquiry where we get all this out in the open.

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Mark Kennedy drove the activists to the protests before tipping off

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transport police. If protesters had known he was a policeman, they could

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have argued he'd led them to it and it was because they never had that

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opportunity that the Appeal Court quashed their convictions.

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It was West Yorkshire Police who authorised the use of the undercover

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police officer and in a at the same time tonight it said, "We will look

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at today's judgment in detail before deciding if any action is needed."

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An undertaker from Scunthorpe has appealed to the Prime Minister to

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ensure that war veterans without close family aren't given "paupers"

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funerals. It comes after Sue McLane was asked to cremate a 90`year`old

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ex`serviceman, while all his possessions, including his medals,

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would have been thrown in a skip. She says she wants the Government to

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pay for those who served the country to get a proper send`off.

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For ten years, Michael Clarke was a Royal Marine. He died in a care home

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with no immediate family. His friend barksy Armstrong, was told Michael

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would be given a basic council`funded funeral and that all

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his possessions would be thrown away. I said ` what happens then?

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They said, question get a skip and teleeverything and we deal with the

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funeral. It just didn't seem right. You can't treat a man like that. You

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wouldn't treat an animal like that. It shouldn't happen ever again. And

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funeral director Sue Maclean awith the report of bare and the Royal

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British Legion, she organised Michael Clarke's funeral in

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Scunthorpe. They arranged for more than 160 soldiers to come to pay

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their last respect We had the Piper Piping Men and a bugler play the

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Last Post for me that's the way every serviceman and woman should

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have their final journey. We have had Prime Ministers say how proud

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they are of their soldiers. They gave their yesterdays for our

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tomorrows. We owe it to them. It is not the first time ex`servicemen

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have been honoured by people they never knew. Last year hundreds of

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people attended the funeral of world World War Two veteran Harold

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Percival. Now an MP is backing the campaign to ensure former soldiers

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without families are honoured. It is important that we have people like

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Sue Maclean, willing to champion these issues, so that we can ` you

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know I have written to the Prime Minister, I have written to the

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Royal British Legion to see what sort of response we can get from

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them to address this issue. Sue Maclean has now started a

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petition, calling on the Prime Minister to take her idea on board.

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We asked the Government about Sue's campaign. It says it remains the

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legal duty of local councils to provide a burial when that person

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can't provide for themselves. But there should be consideration,

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especially when that person has served their country.

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Sue's now displaying Michael Clarke's medals, that she saved from

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the skip. But she wants change so no soldier without a family is

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forgotten. It raises an interesting debate.

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Anne`Marie Tasker joins me now. Is there any chance of the government

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agreeing to fund the funerals of ex servicemen? As he explained in the

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report, it is the council's responsibility to pay for fun radios

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like this. But should they consider it in the future it would raise

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issues like, for example, for 15 years nearly every man in this

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country did national service, that poses the question ` would all of

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those countes a ex`servicemen. When I spoke to the Royal British Legion

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today they said at the moment, at least, it is very rare that there is

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an ex`serviceman who dies who has no immediate family. We will throw this

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open as well. Do you think ex`service personnel should have

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military funeral paid for by the state or is it asking too much from

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the tax payer? If you want to comment on this, you can e`mail in:

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Police say they're now treating the death of a man in Lincolnshire as

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murder. The body of twenty four`year`old Evans Zanovich was

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found at his home on Etherington Street in Gainsborough last Friday.

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Police say a fire at his house was deliberately started.

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Managers at the world's leading manufacturer of ejector seats have

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been giving evidence at the inquest into the death of a Red Arrows

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pilot. Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham died when the seat in his

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Hawk jet fired as he prepared to take off and the parachute failed to

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deploy. Many of the questions in the inquest

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are about a nut and bolt like this one. They attached to a shackle like

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this, which holds the parachute in place until it's needed but when

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Flight Lieu ten act Sean Cunningham's seat activated when he

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was on the ground, his parachute did not release. The seat manufacturer

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carried out tests after he died. Nicholas Moss, the QC for the

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Ministry of Defence asked why the equipment used in those tests were

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new, even though those used on Sean Cunningham's seats were not new.

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Steven Ru if, f said they used the equipment they had in store. He said

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they were carried out in good faith. It was fact`finding, not to point

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blame. Yesterday the inquest heard that Martin Baker hadn't told the

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MoD about a potential problem with the nut and bolt dating back to the

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1990s. Sean Cunningham's parents have been a regular presence in the

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core beer's court. Before he left the room one of the witnesses from

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Martin Baker passed on the company's condolences. The inquest is set to

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continue on Thursday. Jessica is in Lincoln at the moment. What has been

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said today about the training given to those using the ejector seats?

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Well, much has been made today about the amount of detail given to

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engineers about exactly how to maintain those ejection seats

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without causing damage it the nut and bolt you saw earlier. It's

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emerged during the inquest that the same information was not given to

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ever are I air or even used by Martin Baker and the RAF themselves.

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However one Martin Baker employee said they had been using this

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particular neck nichl for years before Sean Cunningham died and he

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described it as an unexpected and single rogue event. We will follow

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that and continue to do so. Thank you for watching. It is

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6.43pm. Still ahead: A call for tighter regulation as

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wolf`like dogs become the latous status`breed to be bane donned. ``

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the latest. And why this herd of deer are

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bringing visitors to North Lincolnshire.

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Keep your photographs coming N tonight is of Cleethorpes beach.

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Taken by Daniel pat Is son. Thank you very much.

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Dp We got on to the subject of bent bargains last night. I can't

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I "I found two of Paul's books for but

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like everyone else, I wasn'ted tempted by the offer." A

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best`selling author for 50p, come on.

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I'm devastated. In your dreams.

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Now look at the headlines for the next 24 hours. Unsettled. Quite a

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bit of rain around in the morning T does improve slowly through tomorrow

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afternoon. Hopefully it does brighten up. This weather front

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making slow progress, it eventually clears, with showers spreading in

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from the west through Thursday. More rain by the end of Friday. So as I

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say looking unsettled. Many of us have been stuck in fog, particularly

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across Lincolnshire. The current temperature at Waddington lifted up

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to 2 degrees as the fog now is lifting but it has been a cold, day

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grey. It is chilly this evening, a touch of ground frost but the wind

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will continue to increase, as the rain eventually pushes in from the

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west. After midnight for most of us, but it looks as they it'll be a

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fairly wet second half to tonight. Lowest temperatures around now, one

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or two Celsius. The sun will rise just after 8.00am

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tomorrow: A miserable, cold, cloudy, wet, dank morning across all parts

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with outbreaks of rain. Persistent rain at that. It'll slowly edge out.

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Not clearing the coast until early afternoon. Hopefully brideness

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spreading in from the west. Tomorrow morning looks dreadful with a

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moderate south or south`east wind. Temperatures eventually up to six,

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probably seven. But certainly for much of the morning it'll feel

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pretty cold. Looking further ahead. A showery day on Thursday, sunny

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intervals, scattered showers. Friday, a bright morning, it clouds

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over with rain towards the end fted day. The weekend increasingly windy,

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with a risk of more rain. Peter, that's the forecast. #7

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Best`selling author. I can't believe you said that. I remember you rang

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me up last year saying you got five barbecues for ?1.

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I think 50 pction is pushing that book.

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Aer North Lincolnshire dogs home say they have seen a large number of

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wolf`like dogs, particularly huskies, made fashionable by films

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like Twilight, bane donned. It is claimed that breeders are cashing in

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on this late etc status symbol dog and selling the puppies.

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This is Loki. His owner couldn't look after him any more so. Home for

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now is this dog rescue centre in Brigg. Huskies and crosses with

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malamute. Lots of people are ringing up asking us to take them. We don't

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have the space. We see them coming n when they hit at lessens and stop

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being so pretty and need to run. That's what they are breed to do,

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pulling sleds over long distances as seen here at the annual UK sled dog

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races in Scotland but the dogs trust has seen a 61% rise in these breeds

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being abandoned I think it is a slit fashion thing and #23i678s like

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Twilight have made them popular. There is no getting a I way from the

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fact that they are good`looking dogs and they are nice, people need to do

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a lot of research before taking that responsibility on.

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It is scenes like this, Jacob Black's half`man half`wolf character

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in Twilight, blamed in part for the trend. A decade ago you had to go on

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a it with aing list to get a husky or malamute in the UK now, throw,

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animal welfare chaurts warn you can go online, and get it delivered to

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your door that day. Further north, Kay has four huge and energetic

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malamutes. She is a Kennel Club`assured breeder and wants

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tighter breeders. We have people ring up and say ` would a malamute

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sit in the front seat of my sports car. No is the quick answer to that.

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There seems to be a continual churning out of puppies, three,

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four, litters a year without thought for their futures. Back at the dogs'

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home, Loki has been looking for two months now for the right owner with

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the time and energy to look after him.

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The MP for Grimsby has written to Channel 4 asking them to ` not to

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film a new series of Skint in the town. The broadcaster has confirmed

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it is carrying out research in Grimsby but Austin Mitchell says he

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is worried the show will only demonise the poor. Last year it

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caused caused controversy over its portrayal of Westcliffe estate in

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Grimsby. From the 3rd February, driving tests

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will be taken place at the Craven Park Training and Enterprise Centre.

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There is criticism of plans for a new Kew on the Humber that would

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stop the building of a new energy park. Ai'l UK has been granted

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permission to develop the line but the association of British ports has

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aplayed to build a quay on the site and the council say that would

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scupper the creation of thousands of jobs. Thanks to everyone who got in

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touch about the worries about fracking and the industry from a

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leading engineer we talked to last night. Hundreds of gas exploration

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licences are already in place already in Yorkshire and

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Lincolnshire, Mike Hill worked on the fracking rig which caused a

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minor earthquake in Blackpool. He says that although underground

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monitoring would take place there, there are other dangers, including

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to the water supply. We were talking to Mike last night on the programme.

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After that, again, second time we talked about fracking in a couple of

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weeks, a big response, just a few. Simon says: It's all well and good

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giving councils extra money: Thank you very much indeed for all

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of those. Hull Kingston Rovers say they are

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hoping for a big crowd for their gym against Hull FC this weekend. The

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club's new stand will be open for Sunday's derby which will act as

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preparation for the Super League season which starts next month.

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Any game is Rugby League is anything but a friendly, I suppose. Being

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Hull FC, adds a little bit of spice, I suppose but we are going to use

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all 28 players from our young ones to our eldest, they will all be

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given a chance to show what they've got. The East Yorkshire`based tennis

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player, Kyle Edmund has been named in the Great Britain Davis Cup squad

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which will face the United States later this month. The teenager from

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Tickton near Beverly has been brought into the squad ahead of the

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British number two, Dan Evans, in spite of being ranked more than 200

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places below him. Selectors say he has more experience of playing on

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the clay. Well done to Kyle.

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After their game at Braintree on Saturday, was postponed because of a

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water`logged pitch. Lincoln City play at Macclesfield tonight. BBC

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Radio Lincolnshire has commentary of the game. The build`up starts from

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7.00pm. By the way, BBC Sport relief is only

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two months away. We are all being encouraged to take part. This year's

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event will feature, cycling, running and swimming as a way of raising

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money for good causes in this country and overseas. If you want it

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get involved in Sport Relief this year, you can find out what is

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happening by going to the website and looking there. The address is on

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the screen: Now nature lovers in North Lincolnshire have been

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attracted to the grounds of a stately home in the area by a rare

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sight. Normanby Hall's herd of deer are already popular, of course, but

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it's two unusual members of the group that have been bringing in the

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extra visitors. Among friends near Scunthorpe, but

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noticeably different to his fellow fallow deer. This is a rare glimpse

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of the two white deer that now call Normanby Hall country park their

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home. They are just one end of the range

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of fallow deer. You get the fallow deer, traditional and brown with the

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white spots, right through to the pale ones which look almost white

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which is what we have got and then they go through to the dark, almost

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black colour. They pop in other places, I konted say how many as a

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percentage but not too common. The first white deer was born here five

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years ago, the youngest is now 18 months old. It is possible that the

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first white deer to appear here may have been purely down to genetics

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due to two brown deer. But it is also known that there was a white

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male deer living on community woodland adjacent to the park. It is

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possible that he found his way in here and then made his escape. They

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are sometimes referred to as Judas deer because they can make their

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fell yes herd easier to spot by hunters. Although, being such emit I

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had animals, visitors have little chance it getting up close. I have

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not seen the white deer but there are quite a few deer around, so I

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have quite enjoyed watching them. We are going to go and have a look it

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see if we can see them. I think they might be down near the pond. A load

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of food can help but there is no special treatment from Wendy on her

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daily rounds be they white deer, red deer or fallow deer. We are not too

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fussed about the colour, as long as they are healthy.

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Now, the time is 6.55pm. The main headlines tonight: New claims that

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you thousands of prisoners were scarf starved, beaten and executed

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by Government forces in Syria and Lincolnshire police's Commissioner

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defends the falling crime rate, while other forces are accused of

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putting targets first It's the targets that dis`Stott the figures.

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The police, with the best will in the world, they are trying to meet

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the tafrgts, not record the crime. Bernard general tin on the programme

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tonight. Wednesday whether. Cloudy and cold with outbreaks of rain in

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the morning, dry and brighter in the afternoon. Top temperatures at best,

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around 7. 7 is 45 Fahrenheit. The response on the subject of skriem

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figures. Thank you for all the messages. A big response. Sarah has

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tweeted ` why should crime figures matter? Surely for the important

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thing is for the police to do their jobs successfully and deal with the

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indents. Bob says ` people don't bother about reporting crime.

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Nothing gets done. I have seen unreported crimes with no response

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from the police. I don't bother any more. Less says ` it is how safe we

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feel, not what the figures might pour tra. At the moment there is

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probably too much fear and we need the police to make us feel safer.

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This is an interesting one, anonymous. : I recently retired as a

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police sergeant. For balance, I would point out that often I had to

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educate officers who had recorded a crime when the circumstances did not

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amount to a crime in law. Interesting. Join me tomorrow lunch

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time as usual. Good evening. See you tomorrow, take care. Good night.

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