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We report on the growing nulber of people in the region becoming | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
homeless after losing their jobs. This is where I lived. Hedgdhogs | :00:29. | :00:36. | |
were sleeping on your back. And as Elizabeth Gaskell's home is | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
restored, we discover some of her famous visitors. We had Charles | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Dickens, Charlotte Bronte who hides behind one of the curtains hn this | :00:46. | :00:59. | |
room when the door bell goes. In this region, we have a problem with | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
plutonium. Cumbria is currently sitting on 100 tonnes of thd highly | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
toxic nuclear waste. Instead of continuing to stockpile it, the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
government wants to convert plutonium into power to powdr our | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
homes, but as Chris Jackson found out, some are warning this could be | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
a very expensive gamble. Today I am off to see a chemical element that | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
we spent ?80 million a year keeping safely out of the environment and | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
out of the wrong hands. `` spend. I am one of just a handful of people | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
who have been allowed into the laboratories here to see thd work | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
going on today with our plutonium stockpile and if you have ever | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
wondered what plutonium acttally looks like, it in here, this glass | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
pile of grey powder. It looks harmless, but this highly | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
radioactive plutonium is thd product of years of reprocessing at | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
Sellafield. By 2020, we will have 104 of it, the biggest civilian | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
stockpile in the world. This is where we do all | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
of our current plutonium research and development chemistry | :02:13. | :02:31. | |
and material science. So you are still learning | :02:32. | :02:33. | |
about this material? Yes, | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
it is a unique element and there is still a lot to learn about plutonium | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
and how it behaves in the processes that we have at Sellafield `nd | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
the new processes that are planned. And it's now time to work ott how | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
to deal with this deadly legacy Do we reuse it or do we dechde that | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
we should continue to store it waiting for the world to be | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
a different place and the economics The government's preference, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
the policy preference is to reuse the material and then we have a | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
number of options for reuse one of The government wants to turn | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
the plutonium into mix fuel. Of course we had a mix plant | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
at Sellafield that closed More on that later, | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
now there's talk of another one And that new MOX plant would most | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
likely be built here at Sellafield, costing billions of pounds `nd | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
so the workers are keeping It would be fantastic, it would | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
maintain the skills we've got now and bring in more highly skhlled | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
qualified jobs for the area. And hopefully on | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
the construction side you'rd talking about 6000 jobs just to build | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
the plant itself and 300 to run it. We want West Cumbria to be | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
the centre of excellence But before taking a decision that | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
will cost us billions of potnds is there a lesson to be learned | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
from what's been going This is South Carolina in Alerica, | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
where they're already buildhng They say everything | :03:51. | :04:08. | |
in the US is bigger and when it comes to this nucle`r | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
question, that's absolutely true. Compared to Sellafield the | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
Savannah River Site is masshve, The perimeter is so vast and secure, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
you cannot get anywhere In 2000, | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
the US and Russian governments The aim was to make mix fuel | :04:23. | :04:33. | |
from 34 tonnes of their old Clint Wolfe was involved | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
in the talks, putting the weapons beyond tse | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
and turning it into a useful fuel. You have literally and biblhcal | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
swords to plough shares sittation, we're going to take the weapons | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
and we're going to turn thel into clean energy for schools | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
and hospitals and economies. Construction work is now underway | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
on the MOX plant. Just as in Cumbria the local economy | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
relies on the nuclear industry. More than 10,000 people | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
are employed here. I have a daughter who works out | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
there, a son who works out there, It brings in a lot of revente | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
and income. All | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
the other industries have p`cked up and left town so, yeah, the Savannah | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
River Site is pretty much the I've worked there | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
about 30 years now. And if you weren't doing th`t, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
is there any other work for you So the workers are for the LOX | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
plant, but in the state caphtal Columbia, I realise how | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
controversial this project hs. It's hit delays | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
and costs have spiralled from 1 And a question mark now hangs over | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
the two thirds built mix pl`nt. Everything you can think | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
of has gone wrong with the plant, over spending mismanagement | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
of the schedule, lack of qu`lity control, lack of trained workers | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
in handling nuclear projects. The design, | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
there is a long list of problems. In fact it's been so expenshve | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
and so controversial even, President Obama ordered a h`lt to | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
construction of the MOX plant. I think if we can get polithcs out | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
of this and just look at technically how do we accomplish the mission the | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
mix project is still the wax to go. The UK government seems to be | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
looking at MOX as a possibility Do you have no more faith that | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
in Cumbria, at Sellafield wd will I kind of chuckle because it seems | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
they are not following what is going on in the states with | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the MOX plant that is being built here it is almost as if thex are not | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
aware of all the mass of problems It's very clear going | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
down this route has been pahnful in South Carolina and even if we choose | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
to ignore the American experience back home, there are harsh lessons | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
to learn from and at the very least Remember the original Sellafield MOX | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
plant I mentioned? The construction of that also went | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
millions of pounds over budget. When worked stopped three ydars ago | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
it was described as one of the most embarrassing fahlures | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
in British industrial history. As you can imagine I wanted to speak | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
to the Government Minister Baroness Verma about this crucial decision | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
that will affect the community here for generations | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
and cost us billions of pounds. For the last three months, | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
I've been trying to have a word with someone from the Department | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
of Energy and Climate Changd. And in all that time, | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
no one has been available to answer The government's left it to | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
the agency responsible We've been there before | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
and what spent ?1.3 billion So I'm not going to stand hdre and | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
say the Sella plant was a stccess it clearly wasn't and we need to learn | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
the lesson from that project. We went to | :08:12. | :08:23. | |
the States and a critic described it as a white elephant, he said look | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
whatever you do, look at wh`t is Yes, work very close with colleagues | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
in US Department of Energy. We talk regularly and | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
so we are learning a lot from them. But you are absolutely right recent | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
history suggests building the plant can be challenging | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
and we need to fully understand that The Fukishima nuclear disaster was | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
the final nail in the coffin The Japanese were the main customers | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
for the original MOX fuel. That all came to an end aftdr | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
the Tsunami wiped out the plant So far no`one else seems | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
keen to buy MOX fuel. The other thing is if you m`ke | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
the fuel, who on earth is going to All the reactors that are bding | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
built in the UK are capable Whether the operators will want to | :09:05. | :09:14. | |
take MOX fuel remains to be seen. With the history of cost ovdrruns | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
can you stand here today and say you think you know what it | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
will cost and not a penny more? Would that be an unrealistic | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
expectation of the public? I can't give you | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
the price tag right now. It is a handful, | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
it seems wrong to use that expression, a handful of a billion | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
pounds for any of the options. One thing is certain, | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
dealing with this radioactive legacy The government said it would make | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
a decision Meanwhile the Sellafield | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
plutonium pile continues to grow. Coming up: Why there's more to | :09:48. | :10:00. | |
Elizabeth Gaskell than her famous book, Cranford. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Just because she had a bonndt on her doesn't mean she isn't almost | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
modern woman. There is | :10:09. | :10:17. | |
a common stereotype that people who have become homeless are either drug | :10:18. | :10:18. | |
addicts or perhaps alcoholics. In some cases, yes, that is true, | :10:19. | :10:31. | |
but now, with austerity cuts and a struggling economy, wd are | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
seeing more people in the rdgion who have become homeless becausd they | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
have lost their jobs and don't have We have been to | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
the Wirral to find out more. This is Steve and Jane | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
from Birkenhead. They spent long periods | :10:45. | :10:45. | |
being homeless. Two years ago they got | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
the chance to rebuild their lives and they have taken it, makhng | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
a home together in a small flat For years before that, | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
their lives were chaotic. All of a sudden you are homdless | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
and dossing on the streets. It is not the only dysfuncthonal | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
part of my life but certainly it Steve used to be a church p`stor who | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
helped people with drug problems but his life changed forever | :11:09. | :11:19. | |
when he started taking the drugs he His marriage ended and he moved to | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Ireland but eventually returned to accommodation but the company he was | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
keeping made life unbearabld. I d use to have a flat at the b`ck of | :11:29. | :11:41. | |
fear. It was the answer to `ll my dreams. It became a very unsafe | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
place to be. People used to come round to use and abuse. I h`ve | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
precious stuff stolen, I was stabbed at one point and almost died. I am | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
not ashamed to hold my hands up and I was glad to get out | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
and start again somewhere else. The place he found | :12:02. | :12:16. | |
for them was extraordinary. This is the den | :12:17. | :12:29. | |
Jane and I lived in two years ago. It is a sad state of affair to | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
what it was but it was a wonderful I had built it up with all | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
the polythene and the materhals so we had all straw underne`th, | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
quilts and everything. Then there was a separate room | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
divided off was like a kitchen area where I had a stove and occ`sionally | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
did an open fire to cook on. Then we had a bedroom area for Jane | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
and myself which was very, I could read until the earlx | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
hours of the morning and no one We didn't have a choice, | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
we were homeless and we didn't want to be with everybody cos yot were | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
either getting into trouble or you It was out of this world ` | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
I felt more safe in there whth Steve than I had anywhere in a long, | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
long time even in a house. They were just | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
yards from a busy railway station and lived off food from the adjacent | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
supermarket's skips ` but Steve It was lovely being | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
in here with hedgehogs sleeping on the small of your back, | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
you'd wake up to things likd that. I was pleasantly surprised `s I | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
arrived. Steve and Jane are living | :13:48. | :14:02. | |
in this den and I thought Bdar had built this den because ht was | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
immaculate and well hidden. Jane was un`well at that | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
particular time as well. It seemed prudent that | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
she should be moved on. Steve and Jane got help | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
and were able to make a new start. But those involved in the fhght | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
against homelessness are facing Wirral Council has spoken | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
of unprecedented challenges And it's a charity, | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
The Birkenhead YMCA, which provides a key facility in the process to get | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
people out of homelessness. We have got 56 beds here whhch are | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
full ` if one person leaves we can The room we are in | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
at the moment is for our clhents of the hostel to drink in a safe, | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
sensible, social environment. The safe drinking room doubles | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
as a night shelter where up to 3 emergency beds are provided | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
for urgent cases. 13 people is a lot | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
of people to be homeless. It may be that they are just here | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
for one or two nights, but some people may stay | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
on 15 to 20 nights until thd room becomes available in the hostel | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
and we will accommodate thel. There's also been a shift | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
in the profile I think the stereotype, the drug and | :15:23. | :15:23. | |
alcohol users, that myth has been completely smashed now, bec`use with | :15:24. | :15:37. | |
the so`called austerity measures, we are seeing people who ard moving | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
into homelessness who would never have thought of that ` one because | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
they get made redundant, lose their jobs and therefore they havd no | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
source of income to sustain them. YMCA residents have included former | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
members of the Armed Forces, a fully trained chef and another | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
catering worker, 32`year`old Craig. I unexpectedly lost my job, | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
cannot really afford my rent and like I say, you are a p`ycheque | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
away from being homeless. My parents, they live in Sp`in, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
they are retired, My sister, she is married, | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
she has a little daughter. You do not want to put your drama | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
on top of people. Luckily enough, I got the room after | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
two nights in a night sheltdr. People can have everything, then it | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
takes one thing to kick it `ll off. It could happen | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
at any time to anybody. According to official figurds, this | :16:36. | :16:36. | |
time last year, there were just We have three main hostels | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
on the Wirral. The individuals who are | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
in those hostels, equating to about 100 people, they would be considered | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
as not being homeless, becatse they The irony of it is, | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
they would not need to live in a hostel if they were not | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
homeless in the first place. For me, homelessness is much more | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
than not having a roof over your head, it is one product, it is | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
about having a social structure in place, having good relathonships | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
with family and friends. For Stephen and Jane, | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
rebuilding family ties is crucial. She was seriously ill at ond stage, | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
but is now battling back. On a rare trip out, she rec`lls | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
her life on the streets. I used to sleep, live, | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
doss wherever around here. Sometimes the benches were one | :17:35. | :17:48. | |
of your beds. Me and my friend Kenny actu`lly | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
stayed under the steps therd. We had no option, | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
nowhere else to go. Steve has now returned to | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
his faith with the help of the Life Church near his old den | :18:03. | :18:13. | |
in Bebington and through thd Wirral Christian Centre in Birkenhdad where | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
he and Jane are regular vishtors. My faith has got me through this, I | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
could not have done it without that. Whilst I know God forgives, | :18:22. | :18:33. | |
people remember and yet thex have accepted me with open arms, but I am | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
sure that they still look at me It was | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
like the prodigal son coming home. It has been an amazing journey, | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
but the real Steve got lost, Jane and Steve at last feel settled | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
and are building for the future We hope | :18:49. | :19:02. | |
and pray to get our families back. When we look back, 10 years ago | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
this is a palace, isn't it, really? Once that door closes, that is it, | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
who can hurt us in here? Fans of Elizabeth Gaskell h`ve | :19:16. | :19:35. | |
flocked here to visit this, the childhood home | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
of the famous Victorian author. The town was the inspiration | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
for her most famous novel, Cranford, but in fact, most of the work was | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
written in Manchester, in a house that has just recently been restored | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
to its original beauty and H have Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford has | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
captured the imagination of millions Elegant economy, | :19:52. | :20:05. | |
as they say in Cranford. Now, following a ?2.5 million | :20:06. | :20:12. | |
restoration, fans of the Victorian writer will be able to visit | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
the house on Plymouth Grove in Manchester where she lived with her | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
husband William and four datghters Work to restore the house h`s taken | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
over five years, back in thd spring, the final phase of the restoration | :20:21. | :20:32. | |
got underway and in May, I went to see how it was going and to meet | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
the man overseeing the projdct. It is not what you expect | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
in the middle of Ardwick. What a building | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
and with all the development around, It was quite | :20:45. | :20:46. | |
an astonishing thing and I think it I think people simply did not have | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
enough money, the owners of it, to It was kind of left and if xou | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
remember it, from a few years ago, it was actually pink and thhs house | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
is still known by a lot of people Even though we have spent a lot | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
of money making it not pink. First impressions, though, | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
what a grand property. This is not a grand house | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
for the period. This is the family home | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
of the Gaskells. Well, it is very typical | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
for a mid`19th century housd. It was built in 1830, the G`skells | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
moved in in 1850 and believd it or not, even though there are four | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
daughters, two parents and five live`in servants, Elizabeth herself | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
describes it as a small household. Who would be received | :21:41. | :22:00. | |
in the drawing`room? Friends and people they knew | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
who they wanted to entertain. Who would their friends be, | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
who came to the house? Because she is a writer, shd has | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
some particularly interesting friends and some of those pdople | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
come here, so we have Charlds Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
Charlotte Bronte, who hides behind one of the curtains | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
in this room apparently when the doorbell goes, because she was kind | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
of a bit scared of lots of company. We have got Charles Halley coming | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
into this room to teach the girls how to play the phano | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
on the piano that Elizabeth bought and which you can see in thhs 1 90s | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
photograph of the drawing`room. This is where William would have | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
stood, like this, very unlikely you would have stood like this, because | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
your make`up would have melted. You would have stood with | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
your crinoline here. She was very socially aware, she was | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
active in her community, shd was She was also an author, | :23:02. | :23:10. | |
but you still had to adhere to all One of the interesting things | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
about her work is that she does in fact address issues | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
which were not socially accdptable, She was not always flattering | :23:23. | :23:24. | |
about the big factory owners in Manchester, she was symp`thetic | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
with the plight of She also deals with the sochal | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
issues which people did not really She is, in every aspect, soleone, | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
who if you come across them today, Just because she is in a crhnoline | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
with a bonnet on, it does not mean Growing up in Knutsford helped to | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
inspire Elizabeth Gaskell's wonderful portrayal of rural society | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
in her novel Cranford. It was | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
the experiences that she had living in industrialised Manchester, the | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
suffering of the poor that shaped Manchester is still home to some | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
of her original writings, kdpt here This is the only surviving | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
manuscript of a novel by Elhzabeth Gaskell, it is Wives and Datghters, | :24:18. | :24:31. | |
the final novel that she wrote. She was not very well | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
while she was writing this book so there were times when shd found | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
it very difficult to write, but when she had the energy, shd wrote | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
it quickly, but you can see on this She almost writes as | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
if she has a story in her hdad The sadness about this manuscript | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
is that it is unfinished. It is unfinished, so if we turn to | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
the final page here, you can see how the writing simply finishes | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
mid`paragraph, so to speak, she put pen down, left the house to go | :25:02. | :25:04. | |
on a trip and she never camd back, The book was virtually finished but | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
not completely and it was fhnished And if I had neither conscidnce or | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
prudence, I should be delighted It is not very far from herd | :25:17. | :25:32. | |
in Plymouth Grove. You must come and see us in it, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
dearest Tottie, and make me see it is right to spend | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
so much on ourselves, on so purely It was nearly four months | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
since we were here last and John and the team had | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
a massive amount of work lahd out, Come on into the drawing`room | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
and have a look This is Elizabeth's passport, | :25:56. | :26:12. | |
the actual passport that shd took when she went travelling | :26:13. | :26:27. | |
and it is lovely, because it says Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell, | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
British subject, accompanied by four daughters travelling on the | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
continent with her maid servant It was somewhere where people came | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
and sat down, the girls would have played in this room, Elizabdth would | :26:42. | :26:50. | |
have been entertaining people with it is very much | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
like a family home today. The members of the | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
Manchester Historic Buildings Trust, the restoration of the Gaskdlls | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
house is the culmination of years of fundraising to save | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
the Grade 2 listed property. People will be coming here | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
from all over the world to see this Our hopes are that it will be | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
a centre for the study of Also, not only the study of her | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
but all the things that she and It is not only writing, | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
it is education, it is art, it is music, it is all thosd other | :27:32. | :27:42. | |
things, it is basic education. That is what the Gaskells | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
and Unitarians were very involved with in the mid`19th centurx | :27:50. | :27:51. | |
and we still need that todax. I will not listen to reason, | :27:52. | :27:59. | |
reason always means what soleone I think that must be | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
an hereditary quality, for ly father And the Elizabeth Gaskell house | :28:02. | :28:11. | |
opens to the public on Sund`y. We are back next Monday, until then, | :28:12. | :28:25. | |
goodbye. Next week, we discover the `mazing | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
range of wildlife making thdir I bet it becomes | :28:33. | :28:35. | |
completely addictive. Hello, I'm Sophie Long with | :28:36. | :29:11. | |
your 90 second update. A freeze on working-age benefits | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
for two years. That's among the Chancellor's plans | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
to cut welfare and the nation's debt if the Tories | :29:17. | :29:18. | |
win next year's general election. Pensions, | :29:19. | :29:21. | |
disability and maternity pay wouldn't be affected but Jobseekers | :29:22. | :29:22. | |
Allowance and child benefit would. Ann Maguire was stabbed to death | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
at a Leeds school in April. Today thousands attended | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
a memorial service for the teacher. Her family say they've been | :29:32. | :29:33. | |
comforted by the community. Jailed for sending | :29:34. | :29:35. | |
abusive tweets to an MP. | :29:36. | :29:38. |