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Hello, this week I am at the home of the famous witches. | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
We also find out the spooky goings on in the region don't end here. | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
Tonight, we investigate the impact the new rush of cockle pickers has | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
on a Lancashire coastline. should we have big boat taking our | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
living? We are not happy. 100 years after Liverpool's Bloody Sunday, | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
the family of one victim calls for his name to be cleared. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
somebody to be shot twice in a -- in the head, by a soldier, that | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
sold in knew what he was doing. why young Jack killer is pumping | :00:47. | :00:57. | |
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new blood into the North West Cockling is back in the headlines. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
It is a story of the thought had gone away after the disaster in | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
Morecambe Bay in 2004 when 23 Chinese cockle pickers died. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Who would have thought that a simple sand bank could have caused | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
so much trouble. I am standing here off the coast of live them. It is | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
cockles that I have been discovering and this is the scene | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
of much drama. Lytham is a quiet town on the | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
Lancashire coast with a small fishing industry. There were full- | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
time fishermen here and tell September, when they experienced a | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
modern gold rush. A cockle bed which had been closed | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
for 20 years were certainly reopened by the Inshore Fisheries | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
and conservation authority. As word got out that the bed had more than | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
�8 million worth of cockles, hundreds of fishermen descended on | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
live them. They have come in a bath tubs. They sailed down there on a | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
plank of wood. Paul has been fishing the coast since he was 16. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
He passed the checks necessary to obtain a permit for fishing for | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
cockles. There was an -- phase normally four or five of us that | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
has worked here. It is an eye- opener for the residents to find | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
hundreds of men on the beach. looks fairly safe and tranquil but | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
this estuary is treacherous. It is tidal and the EC can come in very | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
quickly. There are Sandbanks to navigate and four in experienced | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
cockers, the rescue services have been called out 26 times. Either | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
bodes broken down or overloaded boats that have taken on water. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
People must be taking risks then? Some have. Birds are overloaded | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
with people and cockles. -- boat's. Does that mean that they can run | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
into danger quickly because they are ill equipped? It can go wrong | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
quite quickly for them, particularly if the weather changes. | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
The boat's are low in the water and if the weather picks up, if they | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
take on water, things go down quickly. As the number of rescues | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
increase, the authorities feared a repeat of the 2004 tragedy which | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
happened in Morecambe Bay when 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned. | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
Last Tuesday, they ran exclusive checks on the fishes and their | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
equipment. If you have no life jackets, you will not be going out. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Half of the boats were stopped because they were not safe and the | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
skippers were not qualified. have discouraged a number of | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
illegal cockle us from going out. In doing so, we have improved the | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
safety issue. We are not knowing -- naming them that they come without | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
licences. They go out in little boats and shouldn't be on the river. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
If the bailiffs were here doing their job, they wouldn't be going | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
out. There was more anger on Wednesday when it was announced | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
that the bed would be closed to fishermen and dredgers would be | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
brought in to Hoover up the cockles. The main complaint is with the | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
ecosystem, it will be decimated. don't believe in dredging because | :04:52. | :05:02. | |
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it destroys them. We will have to find something else to do for a bit. | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
Other people will be out of work, not just me. That bed will be going | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
dead. There will be nothing of living of it. Why should we have | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
big boat taking our living. --? We are not happy, that is all we have | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
to say. Rob is a cockle trade here, buying them in love them to export | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
to Spain. He said they would be disastrous for the environment and | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
local jobs. If we were to use that bode for dredging, it would end | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
somewhere towards �1 million in that period of time. I am prepared | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
not to use that boat because it would do that much damage to the | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
cockle bed, not just for now but for the future. It is not the way | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
to do it. On Friday the Minister for Fisheries said he would | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
reconsider this plan. However, the bank would still close. To close it | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
like this, I am sorry. We are not bothered, as long as it opens again. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
Their last fishing day will be on Sunday. The locals were not happy. | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
Very surprised, I was not at the meeting. He indicated three to four | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
days that it would take for the emergency by Lars -- by-laws to be | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
put in place. It is something that I don't know about. The decision | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
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has been taken. The leader of the council says it will keep piracy at | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
its utmost. If I see anyone cockling on that bed, I will report | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
them. Very disappointed, I thought they would come up with a better | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
solution and close it. It will put me out of work. Work is hard to get | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
and I will have to go back to the struggling with the shrimps. Many | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
voiced their fear that while licensed fishing -- fishermen will | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
obey the order, many, like these Polish workers, will continue | :07:19. | :07:27. | |
fishing without permits. Have you been here the whole season? Yes. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Yesterday, Rob, the cockle trader, took me out on his boat for the | :07:31. | :07:40. | |
final time. With cockles reaching prices of �600 a tonne, it is a | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
lucrative business and even today, they are still taking risks. I | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
heard that's used one out here. Is that true? Yes, with a wet suit. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Isn't that dangerous? No, if you can swim. We have to see the water | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
before we go. It seems the actions of a few have put hundreds out of | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
work. There is a lot of idiots. Nobody checks in the car park. | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
Nobody is checking the permits. From today, the bank is closed. A | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
decision will be reviewed on 6th December but many believe it will | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
remain closed for months. Do you feel disappointed? Yes and No. | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Disappointed because it is closing but not disappointed in the fact | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
that if there was going to be left open, it would be dredged. | :08:35. | :08:44. | |
Truthfully, it is the better of the two evils. All the fishermen I met | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
covering this story believe they need a permanent workable solution. | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
Every time a bed has been opened. There has been of 500 down here. | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
The fishing is on an industrial scale. All these people have come | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
and massacred the cockles. Then it all goes quiet for a year or two. | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
This has been going on for 12 years and nothing has been sorted out. | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
The Senate set signals the end of another day and Chapter. -- the | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
sunset. Anyone caught here cockling will be issued with a halt -- | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
healthy fine. It remains to be seen if there will act as a strong | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
enough deterrent. Coming Up, a doctor who did it for | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
Cardiff, can Dracula bring in a new generation of tourists to | :09:36. | :09:45. | |
Mention Bloody Sunday and most people think about the killings of | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
13 civilians by the British army in Londonderry in 1972. But in | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
Liverpool, Bloody Sunday is connected with another event 100 | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
years ago. In August 1911 the army opened fire on a civilian protest, | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
killing two men and injuring three others. Simon O'Brien's been | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
finding out more about the incident and new calls for the victims to be | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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This and wasn't -- this wasn't just a crisis. They were actually | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
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shooting and killing people. It was supposed to be peaceful. | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
In the summer of 1911, the nation was in the grip of industrial | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
strife. A strike by transport workers had paralysed the railways | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
and in Liverpool striking dockers and seamen were also blocking the | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
port. In a desperate attempt to keep goods moving, the Home | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
Secretary, Winston Churchill, ordered the army onto the streets | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
to protect freight convoys. In Liverpool, where there was strong | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
support for the strike, there was resentment about the deployment of | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
troops and police from outside the city. It was against this backdrop | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
that a huge crowd gathered in St George's Square on August 13 to | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
listen to trade union leaders. 100,000 people have come to the | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
centre of Liverpool this afternoon. That fella is Thomas Mann, leader | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
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of the Transport Workers' Union. Hundreds of thousands of people | :11:34. | :11:43. | |
gathered to hear them talk. We are gathered here today to win | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
this terrible battle against the employee ing curses and the state. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
But shortly after he's finished talking, this area would resemble a | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
battlefield with hundreds lying bleeding and wounded, Liverpool | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
historian, Ron Noon, says it was no exaggeration when one commentator | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
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wrote that the country was near to Two men were shot dead. This is | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
their story, largely untold for 100 years. | :12:19. | :12:29. | |
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Ron Noon says it was no exaggeration. | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
Wages had declined, they cut wages even further. There was discontent | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
about the extent to which the gap between the rich and poor was | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
widening. One of the things we need to be | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
aware about is the extent to which they were not only troops stationed | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
in Liverpool, there were also police that were brought in, | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
including the Birmingham police. Once you start bringing out side | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Bobbi's, there is a difference in terms of attitudes. The authorities, | :13:04. | :13:14. | |
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be police over-reacted. By nightfall, 95 people had been | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
arrested and hundreds hospitalised. Bloody Sunday, triggered outbreaks | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
of violence which resulted in the army opening fire two days later, | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
killing two and wounding three others. | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
The shooting happened in North never pull when an angry mob | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
attacked soldiers as courting prisoners arrested on Bloody Sunday | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
to jail. A large crowd gathered here on the | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
corner of a Prince Street and Foxhall Road. | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
Word spread that they prison convoy was passing through. The mob pelted | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
it with bricks and missiles. Two men lay dead, three others were | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
shot and 10 were hospitalised. The only thing that marks this scene is | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
what was once the local pub. The shootings provoked an outcry. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
There were calls for an investigation into the deaths of | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
John Sutcliffe and Michael Prendergast. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
There was a dispute. Any sector workers were re instated and the | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
threat of revolution disappeared with the heatwave. What about those | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
deaths? A public inquiry? An emergency debate? Nothing, except | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
an inquest where it took a jury three minutes to return their | :14:39. | :14:47. | |
verdict of death by a homicide. One man, Professor Sam Davies, has | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
investigated the case and is convinced both men were innocent | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
victims of an unofficial shoot-to- kill policy. | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
John Sutcliffe lived around the corner here. He had come out to | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
close the shutters on his house. He was shot on this corner. Two shots | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
to the head. He died in hospital. The other fatality occurred further | :15:12. | :15:21. | |
up the road. He lived over the other side of the canal. I imagine | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
he must have come out on the bridge, came out like other people. He | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
shouted at the troops. He said, "soldiers, women and children, stop | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
to it --. Shooting.". There was another shooting in Plan A Aspley | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
days later. They cast fresh doubts about the official version of | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
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events in Liverpool. -- plan They said he deserted because he | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
refused the shoot to kill. They were going to court martial him for | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
this offence. I went to the National Archives and looked at the | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
Home Office record. Mr Churchill, the deputy... We should make as | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
little as possible of this case. We do not want it to be. He was only | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
court-martialled and tried on a military offence and given two | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
weeks in prison. He was also surprised to discover that many of | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
the original documents about their shootings have since been destroyed. | :16:38. | :16:46. | |
It is interesting that a lot of the evidence, there was in those files, | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
has been destroyed. I wonder whether there was a certain things | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
that were too incriminating and not released. We asked civil liberties | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
lawyer, Pete Weatherby, to re- examine some of the evidence, to | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
find out whether he thought the verdicts were surprising. They hint | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
that the authorities were concerned about losing control and the | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
possibility of there being a general strike, which was talked | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
about in a public rally of the day. One thing they should have been | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
investigated is whether that influence the actions of the | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
authorities and effectively led to them taking the gloves are off. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
centenary of Bloody Sunday was commemorated in August and wreaths | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
laid at the scene of the shootings in Liverpool. Sam Davies traced the | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
descendants of one of the victims, John Sutcliffe. We knew that | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
somebody in the family had been shot dead that was innocent. We | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
knew he was only 20. We were told from a young age that he was shot | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
closing their shutters. We have known that from being very young. I | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
personally think, for somebody to be shot twice in the head, by a | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
soldier, that soldier knew what he was doing. Now all this time has | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
passed, one question that comes to my mind, this is a personal family | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
tragedy but 100 years ago. Do you feel that the past is better left | :18:26. | :18:34. | |
alone for now it is coming out into the public domain, do you feel you | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
would like to see more done about this? I think we would like to see | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
his name cleared. It is important that people know what has gone on | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
with our history because we have to stop it happening in the future. It | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
is only thanks to things being brought a light, that the | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Government have to think twice before they put the heavy hand in. | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
Like many of the poor at the time, John Sutcliffe, who was to have | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
been married three weeks later, was buried in an unmarked grave. They | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
are now plans for a memorial plaque to be put up where he was killed. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
Normally when I researched history, you don't get emotionally false but | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
this is terrible what happened here, this is not right and it has been | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
hidden from history. -- emotionally involved. Something has to be done | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
to compensate these people who I absolutely believe were innocent | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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bystanders who were shot. The north-west has a reputation for | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
all things supernatural. Sums say it began here in Pendle with the | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
famous witches. As a gem has been discovering in | :19:58. | :20:07. | |
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Liverpool, there is a new arrival on the horror scene. -- as Gemma. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Liverpool's famous The Liver Birds may have a rival attraction. | :20:12. | :20:22. | |
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Reports are coming in at that a vampire is looking in in this case, | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
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You should behave in accordance off the noble tradition of the | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
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Dracula's. You happy to come further forward? This is the former | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
hall which used to help children with learning difficulties. Now it | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
is home to the BBC children's flagship series which has moved its | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
entire production to the city. It is a major coup for Liverpool and | :21:06. | :21:15. | |
shows the pulling power. We relocated to the north-west. | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
They have a highly skilled production based as well as an | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
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interesting range of locations. 2006. Young Dracula became a hit. | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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Being a vampire is your destiny. The show has now been revamped. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
The filming of the series began in Liverpool in May and has been | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
created -- a new jobs have been created. Our previous regular cast | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
were already established in the show. They are from all over the UK. | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
Our crew on North West based and split between Liverpool and | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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Manchester. The former school has a great role | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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to play. Can you tell us your character names? I played five -- | :23:13. | :23:23. | |
Vladimir. I play Erin. What is it about? You do it because I will | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
give too much away. It follows Vladimir who is the son of Count | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
Dracula. In the first series, it was about fitting into society and | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
trying to get my dad are to have trouble. In this series, we have | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
settled down and he is a fully fledged a vampire. He has taken on | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
responsibilities of being be chosen one. There is a lot of weight on | :23:54. | :24:03. | |
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his shoulders. I am quite enjoying it because a lot of my family live | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
up here. For me, it has been great because I can get a good Sunday | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
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lunch when I am a peer. I get to see my family a lot. The studio is | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
so large and we have all the quarters here. The only thing we go | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
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out for is the exterior shots. We got very lucky coming here. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
You can't tell me what to do any more. You can't define my eight -- | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
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define me, I am your father, don't The team are hoping their arrival | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
in the Liverpool will have a similar impact on the local economy. | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
It happened in Cardiff when the BBC moved torch would and Dr Who to the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
city. It is a creative investment and get | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
jobs in the media sector. When a big film comes to town, they can | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
spend half a million pounds in a couple of days. That wealth goes | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
across the city. Days catering facilities, right the way across | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
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the board. It brings money into the economy. This is the exterior of | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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the school. By the magic of television, we come out here. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
outside was too small, was on a main road and it didn't have that | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
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impact. We were lucky to find this close by. What other Liverpool | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
locations have you used during filming? During the filming we have | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
used the Stanley Docks, that is a huge docks, one of the biggest | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
tobacco warehouses. We have used that as the slayer's lair. You call | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
yourself a slayer? Have you actually killed a vampire? Yes. | :27:30. | :27:36. | |
COMPUTER: True. In this series, most of the narrative lent itself | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
to being at the school, with the exception of Stanley Docks in | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
Liverpool and also the centre of Liverpool. In future series, we | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
would like to get the narrative to have our vampires out and mixing | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
amongst the community, so we can see more of the famous Liverpool | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
sights. In terms of working on the show, you're drawn to the | :27:54. | :27:56. | |
mysterious and slightly darker architecture that Liverpool has to | :27:57. | :28:06. | |
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offer. Walking around as a tourist or a newcomer to the city, I am | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
very much struck by the massive range of architecture the city has | :28:18. | :28:26. | |
to offer. That is what we would like to capitalise on next time | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
around. It is not quite Transylvania yet, but it is | :28:30. | :28:40. | |
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seriously getting there. Put them away. I am back next Monday. Have a | :28:41. | :28:45. |