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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
The headlines tonight: A shambles and a farce - | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
anger at ticketing confusion as Hull's City of Culture | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
All the things and people s`y negatively about the place, it says | :00:16. | :00:29. | |
they are true. We had the chance to show them we were better th`n that | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
and basically we have screwdd it up. Four days after a virus crippled | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
hospital computers there's lore cancelled operations - | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
but an end to the disruption The row over lattes for birdwatchers | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
- locals dismiss claims people want a new visitor centre on the remote | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
East Coast. To have this research saying that | :00:43. | :00:56. | |
70% of the people want to sde this facility is fantastic to he`r. I | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
don't know where they got the figures from but certainly no locals | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
are up for it. And I am livd as the wildlife trust says it needs to | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
build something fitfully Springwatch generation. We are hanging onto cold | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
air over the next few days. Stay tuned. | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
Thousands of people have bedn left angry and disappointed | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
after the Hull City of Culttre website once again suffered | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
technical problems - this time it was over free tickets | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
for the opening event of 2007, a huge fireworks display. | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
First the website crashed - then some people found | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
they were still queuing even when all the tickets had gone. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
City of Culture blamed too lany people trying to use their website | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
at the same time, but after two previous ticket launches | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
being dogged by technical problems they had promised this one | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Here's our culture correspondent, Anne Marie Tasker. | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
A fireworks extravaganza called In With A Bang but many people | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
fizzled out as they tried to book tickets from 8 o'clock this morning. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Among them was Steve Cook who lives in the City of Culture but won't be | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
When we did get to the front of the queue, which was quite | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
a significant time later, something like 45 minutes l`ter | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
the website did not actuallx allow you to buy the tickets | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
It says all the things that people say negatively about Hull, | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
it says they are true and so we had that chance to show them | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
that we were better than th`t and basically we screwed it up. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
It's now more than 40 minutds since tickets officially sold out | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
but the system is still allowing people to wait in the queue. | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
Although some managed to get hold of tickets others were left in a queue | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
for more than two hours, long beyond when tickets had actually sold out. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Others were told that the p`sswords were incorrect, some got to the top | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
of the queue to find a mess`ge saying page not found, others got to | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
the end of the process to fhnd the book now button had disappe`red One | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
ticketing website told us that long queueing times and pages not | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
refreshing are rarely probldms for other popular events. We have had | :03:21. | :03:27. | |
events sell out in five minttes for big arenas and stadiums across the | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
country. Stuff like Coldplax. In Cardiff a few weeks ago. Th`t was | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
sold out within 15 minutes. And at the O2 Arena recently, a show sold | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
out in over one minute. It hs not the first time that there h`ve been | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
problems with the city of ctlture booking system. When tickets were | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
first made available in Julx the website crashed. When the 2017 | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
programme was announced in September it failed again. And just l`st week | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
promises were made that this time it would be fine. We have learned a lot | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
from what happened over the past few months, we stress tested it, we ran | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
thousands of pretend people from it, so we have confidence we will be | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
fine this time. Nobody from the Citic culture team would be | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
interviewed today. They said some users experience technical | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
difficulties for getting in to the website in the first 20 minttes | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
after which normal service resumed. They say there is a second | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
opportunity to apply this S`turday and advise everybody wanting a | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
ticket to preregister their details. But will people try to get the | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
remaining tickets for the event at the marina? Some are now making | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
other plans. There are thousands and thousands of people watching from | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
all angles, with a good view, so I have tickets. It would be nhce to | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
come to but I don't think I would go to the hassle of getting all the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
tickets and stuff. I kind of get it, if it needs to get it and rdgulated | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
and stuff like that, but maxbe just make sure you do it properlx. For | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
anybody else wanting a ringside seat on January one, the wait gods on. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
And Murray is in the studio with me. Firstly, what is the demand for the | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
tickets, was it a surprise? Not really, this firework show is | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
set to a soundtrack by local musicians and bands so you need to | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
be at the marina to get the full experience. To be honest thd | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
complaints we got were not that people were disappointed not to get | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
tickets, they expected that, the problem was that they were left | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
hanging for hours. I have jtst received an e-mail from somdbody who | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
complained about the website? | :05:27. | :05:45. | |
We asked the city of culturd that question but it is not something | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
they would answer today. Thdy said about in the system because they | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
thought it was fair and transparent and that it would advise people | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
where they were in the bookhng process. They say that at its height | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
there were 27,000 people on the site today which highlights once again | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
the enormous interest in thd 20 7 event, but for people watchhng | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
tonight who are unsuccessful getting those tickets, I sure they will be | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
wanting to know if that sitd is being reviewed before the rdst of | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
the tickets are made available. There was a big response on this | :06:14. | :06:14. | |
story, just a few,... There was a huge response not just | :06:15. | :06:53. | |
this morning but throughout the day, well, I have heard people h`ve had | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
to say, and no one from the city of culture wanted to come on to be | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
interviewed tonight. If thex are watching there is a chair and we | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
would love to see you in it to have a chat with us on the progr`mme it | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
is not too late, you can cole on, maybe an hour late programmd at | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
10:30 p.m.. Meanwhile, if you want to get in touch here have... -- here | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
is how... After hundreds of cancelled | :07:19. | :07:38. | |
operations over three days , caused by a cyber attack - | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
it looks like patients could get a normal service | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
at Grimsby, Scunthorpe Such technical failures | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
are a growing menace and tonight we understand | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
that the police are involved. For many people, the question | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
is how can the NHS be so badly affected | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
and so ill prepared? Although nobody has confirmdd it | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
thus appears to many observdrs in the health world to be one of the | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
most disruptive cyber attacks the NHS has ever seen. There have been | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
at least two full days of c`ncelled operations at Scunthorpe, Grimsby, | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
and Google hospitals. All other Lincolnshire hospitals are `ffected | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
in some way. Hundreds of opdrations are being cancelled and appointment | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
is bound. What is a computer virus? How does it affect hospital systems? | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Why does it mean doctors cannot see patients? A virus is a small | :08:37. | :08:48. | |
computer programme that has been written to deliberately do something | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
inappropriate, there are many ways a virus can get into a computdr, I | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
mean, somebody can plug in ` memory stick, or their phone, their iPhone, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
their music player. Plug it into a computer, it is just the sale as | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
when they have various kinds of people viruses in wards of | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
hospitals. They have to close the watered-down, to disinfect ht, to | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
clean it, so that patients cannot be infected, it is the same colputers. | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
With an increasing reliance on digital systems in the NHS | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
acknowledges that cyber att`cks are a growing problem. It says ht is | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
trying to boost its defences with new specialist cyber security units. | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
We have looked into whether police have been | :09:21. | :09:39. | |
contacted, and refer to West Yorkshire Police, who said they are | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
working closely with the NHS Trust over the incident. In the l`st hour | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
it has been announced that computer systems are back up and running so | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
operations and appointments are back on tomorrow, but questions `re being | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
asked about how a multi-million pound health operation could be | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
brought down by something pdrhaps as trivial as one UL. | :09:53. | :09:53. | |
A former carer from East Yorkshire has appeared in court this lorning | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
accused of fraudulently takhng nearly 300 thousand pounds | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
from the elderly woman she was caring for. | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
58 year old Julie Sayles is accused of taking the money | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
from 102 year old Edith Negts in 2014 when she was her | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
Sayles pleaded NOT guilty to all charges and will go | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
New trains worth ?60 million are set to run | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
Hull trains will roll out the five-strong fleet in 2009. | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
The company has made the investment after they secured track access | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
Last night BBC Look North w`s out at RAF Waddington near Lincoln | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
marking the hundredth year of the base, along with | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
Lincolnshire was famously rdferred to as Bomber County | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
during the second world war and was home to the Dambustdrs. | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
Today the county is home to Typhoons, | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
due to be deployed on NATO duties as a show of strength to Russia | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
And drones operated remotely from Waddington, | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
on surveillance and bombing duties, against so called | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
with the use of drones - with some campaign groups | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
And with a major review of the whole RAF underway will all | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
They were concerns I put to the most senior officer in the Royal | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
Will there be a role for thd pilot and playing in, in the future or | :11:14. | :11:27. | |
will the drones and unmanned aircraft become more and more | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
prominent? They are becoming more prominent already, we have | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
significantly more than we had ten years ago. But there is still a | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
vital role for the manned ahrcraft at the moment, technology at the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
moment can only take so far. What do you say to those who feel | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
uncomfortable and uneasy about unmanned aircraft? What I would say | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
is that the rules of engagelent that we employ are exactly the s`me rules | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
of engagement between unmanned systems and unmanned systems. Those | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
are the things which place the boundaries and the constraints on | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
her by force. So it is exactly the same, regardless of what pl`tform it | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
is. What I would also say is that those who are operating the unmanned | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
systems, they are qualified aircrew, they have been through an extensive | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
training programme, a rigorous programme, to ensure that they | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
continue to apply exactly the same judgment and discipline and | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
experience to the problems. How important to the overall history of | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
the RAF is the county Lincolnshire? It is immensely important. H was | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
flying in here this morning and as we came in to land here at | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Waddington I looked out the window and I could see the cathedr`l and I | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
thought to myself, well, th`t's what the bomber crews of the Second World | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
War used to do, when they could see Lincoln Cathedral they knew they | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
were home and safe. And just last week I was at dinner with some of | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
those veterans who had flown from Lincolnshire in Lancaster bombers in | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
the Second World War, that connection is there, it is ` living | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
connection with our history, Lincolnshire is just so closely tied | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
to everything that the royal air force has done, is doing now, and | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
will do in future. And all of our bases are and secure? We're going | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
through a process of looking at our estate overall. As an organhsation | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
we need to make sure that wd are as efficient and effective as possible. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
The MoD has been doing some work on footprint strategy over the last | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
several years, and our aim hs to look at all our bases across the UK | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
and make sure that... That hs not quite the answer I was expecting. So | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
they are not unnecessarily secure? You cannot say hand on heart that | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
bases are secure and Lincolnshire at the moment? It would be wrong to | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
pre-empt the outcome of the review before we announce it but what I | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
would underline is, as I mentioned earlier, Lincolnshire is hugely | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
important to the royal air force, and will continue to be in the | :14:14. | :14:14. | |
future. Thank you very much. Another one you might want to | :14:15. | :14:31. | |
comment on. Still ahead... Locals dismiss claims that people want a | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
new visitor centre on the rdmote east coast. To have this research | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
saying 70% of people want this facility is fantastic. They are | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
destroying habitat. I don't know where they get the figures from but | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
they're certainly no local support for it. | :14:47. | :15:00. | |
Philip took tonight's picture, another one tomorrow night `t the | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
same time. Owen, good evening. This is my last day for a while but | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
hopefully you can pull some strings and I will be back soon. | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
We will see about that! It is not such a bad weather story | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
but it is pretty chilly. Thdre was a frost over some parts of | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Lincolnshire, and a similar start tomorrow, bright with patchx rain | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
later on. Coastal parts, hanging onto showers. But they will fizzle | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
out. The sky clears as well. Under clear skies the temperatures go | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
down. We are probably talking around two or three Celsius, in towns, | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
rural parts, even lower than that. The Sunrise is tomorrow at 7:06 | :15:58. | :16:13. | |
a.m.. And in southern part of Lincolnshire, for more likely, but | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
sunny spells to kick things off It does not last too long now, this | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
riverfront makes its way across introducing patchy rain and more in | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
the way of cloud. Tomorrow starts OK, cloudy later with some rain | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Let's have a look at how thhngs are at 5pm in the afternoon. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Temperatures, eight, nine, laybe 10 Celsius, feeling disappointhngly | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
cool. But in a south-westerly wind there will be a chill, but the rain | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
will continue, it will come and go, but gradually ease. That is all | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
thanks to this area of low pressure pushing away this area of hhgh | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
pressure which has been in charge, this brings the weather front our | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
way, you can see a cold front introducing patches of rain, pulling | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
in cold air from the North, we are still into the blue colours. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Certainly still need to wrap up with a couple of showers on the way. | :17:09. | :17:19. | |
Sunset time, you said 1836, it should have been 1636 last night. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
Consider yourself reprimanddd. Slap on the wrist, I am so sorry. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
Unions have criticised a decision to allow a private company to take | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
over running some ambulance services in Hull. | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
The Thames Ambulance Servicd has recently taken over the pathent | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
transport contract across northern Lincolnshire from the NHS | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
and now looks set to run a similar service in Hull. | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
But unison say it'll be bad for staff and bad for patients. | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Our health correspondent, Vicky Johnson is outside | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
What more can you tell us about this deal? | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
It is the clinical commissioning group which is the health | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
organisation which has put this contract out to tender. But neither | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
they nor the Thames group would confirm the deal, because of a | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
confidentiality clause. The CCG has told us in a statement that their | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
main focus is always on high-quality services for patients, but tnion | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
leaders have questioned thehr decision. There are some thhngs that | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
should be in the public's rhght to control and the NHS is one. And the | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
Ambulance Service is an important part of that. So giving thel to a | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
private company must have the right place. Not a company that ndeds to | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
make a profit. Whenever you put it to somebody who wants to make a | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
profit it is not being done for the right reasons. Last month the same | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
group took over the running of non-urgent patient transport right | :18:45. | :18:58. | |
across northern Lincolnshird. They transport patients to and from | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
Grimsby and Scunthorpe hosphtals for routine appointments. Say, like | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
dialysis. They are currentlx contracted to carry out 140,000 | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
patient journeys every year. They employ about 90 staff to do so and | :19:06. | :19:07. | |
have recently moved their headquarters from Essex to Lincoln. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Management told me today thd intention is to bid for the contract | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
in the area. If you are intdrested in this one we will have more on it, | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
we are talking to a local MP at 10:30pm on the late look North. It | :19:19. | :19:31. | |
is one of the last wildernesses in Britain but according to thd people | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
who run Spurn Point not havhng a visitor centre means that anyone who | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
has watched Springwatch will not tolerate a centre that does not | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
serve a latter day and provhde a public toilet. Our correspondent | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
spent the day they're making a film, this debate over a visitor centre, | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
it seems to be getting incrdasingly bitter. I'm going on a bit. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Indeed. It certainly feels like the wilderness denied here as wdll but | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
the Yorkshire wildlife trust has upped the ante by suggesting that | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
70% of the people interviewdd here on Spurn during the summer wanted a | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
visitor centre. Local peopld will tell you they believe it is the last | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
thing that Spurn need, it whll cause irreparable damage to sensitive | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
habitats. The trust say that it is time to accept that the Sprhngwatch | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
generation is on its way. Hdre is just one of the reasons why Spurn it | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
is so popular. Birds of all shapes and sizds | :20:35. | :20:35. | |
are seen here in their thousands. But this group of experts who today | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
were catching and ringing these creatures for research belidve | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
a new visitor centre could `ctually We have a pristine heritage site. | :20:42. | :20:55. | |
And the first principle of conservation management is to | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
encourage visitors but the second is to keep the site, the centrd, on the | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
periphery. So it minimises the impact on a fragile environlent | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
Plans for the centre have already been objected to once on thd grounds | :21:09. | :21:09. | |
of flood risk and visual impact But the wildlife trust | :21:10. | :21:11. | |
believes its new research stggests We have seen excellent investment | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
over the last few years in these kind of centres. Really, for us an | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
area like this is the missing link in this network of facilitids, to | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
have this research that says 70 of people want to see a facility like | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
that is fantastic to hear. than ?15 million a year | :21:34. | :21:34. | |
to East Yorkshire's economy. The trust refers to what it calls | :21:35. | :21:52. | |
the Springwatch generation, new visitor is driven by curioshty after | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
watching popular television programmes, expecting | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
state-of-the-art facilities and a degree of interpretation of the | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
wilderness they find around them. I wholeheartedly endorse the | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
introduction of this fine vhsitor centre... The trust has gained the | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
support of the well-known Springwatch presenter, Simon King. | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
Many local people say they `re not opposed to a visitor centre, per se, | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
but believe existing buildings, away from sensitive habitats, should be | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
used instead of building and new. They have been offered an existing | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
building. They could extend the current building. It is a | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
no-brainer. That is what people are against, they are not listening We | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
have seen a real shift change in the type of activities when it comes to | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
nature -based tourism, that traditional sense of a bird, with a | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
slit and a darkened room is very much moved on and we are not talking | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
about light, airy, family friendly, Springwatch friendly type cdntres. | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
Perhaps the truth is that everybody has their own idea of what Spurn | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
should be. Opinions as varidd as the bird life in this East Yorkshire | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
wilderness. A second planning application will be heard bx the | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
council just after Christmas. But the smart money is addressed this | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
bitter row could go all the way to the planning inspector before it is | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
decided. From high tide, back to you. It is not too late if xou want | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
to comment on that story. Should there be a visitor centre, xes or | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
no? Drop me an e-mail, let le know. After World War Two, | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
Winston Churchill warned of an Iron Curtain descending across | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
Europe. It was the start of five decade long | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
Cold War with Russia. And in a show of strength | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
to the Russians - the United States stationed some | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
of its most deadly B29 But even though the planes had | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
dropped atomic bombs on Jap`n it's reported their presence | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
here was a bluff - with the aircraft having no | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
nuclear capabilities. Gemma Dawson has this | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
little known story. It was the year Prince | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
Charles was born... But in Germany in 1948 - | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
tensions with Russia were rhsing. The Soviets had blocked | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
off part of Berlin - and so Western Allies' | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
started flying-in supplies. While the Americans | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
sent their B29 bombers - here - to RAF Scampton - | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
with the superfortresses also based at RAF Waddington - | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
and Marham in Norfolk. They would take off in largd | :24:26. | :24:38. | |
formations and fly down to the Cornish peninsula. And then up | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
through Wales to Scotland, `round Scotland, and back down to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
Lincolnshire, carrying out simulated attacks. The bombers were actually | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
deployed to Europe, starting around 1947. As a show of force. The same | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
way we do it today, or forw`rd presence, if you will. | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
in Buckinghamshire - but was doing his national | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
They seemed a very nice bunch of people I thought. They, of course, | :25:04. | :25:16. | |
thought that anything American was very good. And maybe as far as the | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
B-29 was concerned, that was true. Because they were bigger, they had | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
greater firepower, they werd faster, altogether it was a very good | :25:31. | :25:31. | |
aircraft. To see one for myself - | :25:32. | :25:31. | |
I've come to the Imperial W`r The B29 here was used | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
in the Korean War by the sale unit that had been deployed to R@F | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
Waddington in 1948 and its `lmost identical to those aircraft that | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
landed in Lincolnshire. But while those B29s | :25:42. | :25:50. | |
soon returned home the Americans maintained | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
a presence in the UK. In 1948 with this redeploymdnt, the | :25:54. | :26:06. | |
US air force was redeployed back to Europe and has, in effect, had a | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
presence here ever since, in terms of American support for the | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
independence of the democracies of Western Europe. | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
arrived in Lincolnshire - nearly seventy years ago - have now | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Fascinating story. Ending otr coverage this week of the R@F in | :26:21. | :26:36. | |
Lincolnshire. It is 6:55 p.l.. A reminder of the headlines: prison | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
officers issue a warning about jails in England and Wales as offhcial | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
figures show that violence hn prisons continues to rise. Ticketing | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
confusion as the city of culture website fails again, organisers | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
blamed high demand. The weather Chile but bright start tomorrow | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
eastern parts hanging on to the brightness, other places clouding | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
over, top temperature, eight Celsius. Sean says, we should | :27:04. | :27:11. | |
showcase the city in a positive way. But this farce has left me puite | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
cynical and negative. I am one of the lucky ones who got a ticket | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
after two hours of waiting. I got on with the housework while I was in | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
the queue. Another viewer, this is a typical response to a feel-good | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
story, well done city of culture team, a fantastic job. And finally | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
another one, we have known ht would be city of culture for thred years, | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
obviously still not enough time for the website to be sorted out. Don't | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
forget the city of culture chair is there, come and tell us what | :27:44. | :27:44. | |
happened. Goodbye for now. If you trust me not | :27:45. | :27:53. | |
and I trust you not, then what is the point | :27:54. | :27:55. | |
in this marriage at all? Life holds very few things | :27:56. | :27:57. | |
which are genuinely worth having. If you don't possess them, | :27:58. | :28:00. | |
everything else is worthless. BBC One presents a special evening | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
with Michael Buble... I think of it as an excuse | :28:05. | :28:20. | |
to throw a party. ..featuring new and classic songs... | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
# Cry me a river... # "holding a hair brush | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
in front of the mirror." HE SINGS | :28:27. | :28:32. | |
IN DISGUISE | :28:33. | :28:37. |