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Good evening and welcome to Inside Out. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening and welcome to Inside Out. | :00:00. | :00:22. | |
Tonight, is Drax Power Station's conversion | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
from coal to green biomass `ny worse for the environment? | :00:26. | :00:34. | |
Should Drax stop its conversion programme? | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
After the Scottish vote, should the North of England be | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
asking for more autonomy to help us narroa the North South divide. | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
Until recently, Drax Power Station near Selby was | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
known as a serial polluter, pumping CO2 into the atmosphere | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
They have been using governlent cash to move from burning coal | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Far from being a green policy, some people think that is | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
For a million years man has burnt wood for heat and light, | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
But now it's being used on an industrial scale to satisfy our | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
need for low pollution, gredn energy and that's led to questions about | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Burning these forests is worse than coal in terms of the amount | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
of carbon that is going to be put into the atmosphere. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
There are good ways of burning biomass and bad ways | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
If you procure it from a sizeable source, | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
The future of Drax Power St`tion relies on burning wood, what's | :01:47. | :02:00. | |
Drax is Western Europe's largest power plant and it's working hard to | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
lose the label of Britain's biggest pollutdr. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
That means burning less coal to generate electricity. | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
And this is how it will happen, burning tonnes and tonnes | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
To start with three of the six generating units in Drax | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
I think it is important for the future of the UK, actually. | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
We are one of the most efficient power stations and low on elissions | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
If it remains a coal station, it will shut down next | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
What biomass does is it turns us into a renewable power stathon, | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
gives us a long`term future, preserves that 7% of generation for | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
the UK, preserves jobs in Yorkshire and it is a good renewable. | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
So far so good but an operation this large needs a lot of wood, | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
according to some estimates as much as nine million tonnes everx year. | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
That's nearly double the entire UK forestry output. | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
So Drax has needed to look dlsewhere and that's meant going to the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
United States where they sax they have more than enough wood to meet | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Every half an hour 24 hours a day seven days a week, | :03:25. | :03:35. | |
these biomass trains arrive from the Humber ports and from Tdesport. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Most of the material does come from the US and to many people, | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
cutting down trees in the States, shipping them here to Drax via the | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Humber ports is a long journey to justify us being carbon fridndly. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
We thought from the beginning there was no sense in us importing | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
this biomass if we can't be confident it is a low carbon fuel. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
The only way you can know that is you have to measure the carbon cost | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
from the forest or the field all the way through the supply chain, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
through any processing, through the shipping, right the way through the | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
ports, trains to tracks, look at that compared to other ftels | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
We know we deliver 80% savings relative to coal. | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
Drax's conversion from coal to wood is all supported | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
by public subsidy, but on the condition that it produces | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
Drax needs to prove its bushness isn't harming the environment. | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
With so much wood to source, Drax has to rely on contractors | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
I've been invited to see part of the Drax wood pellet operation | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
in the United States so I'm off to Savannah, | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
Georgia to find out where the wood that's burnt here is coming from. | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
This is a tree nursery ` part of one of the biggest operations | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Matthew Rivers from Drax is showing me how it works. | :05:16. | :05:25. | |
This site is 85 acres and is producing ?60 million a year. | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
The company running this nursery is called Plum Creek owns nearly 7 | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
million acres of wood across 19 states. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
It provides employment in some of the poorest areas of the USA | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
and is proud of its commitment to the environment. | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Plum Creek is a main supplier to Drax. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
About 85% of our fuel is this raw matdrial. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
We are always looking to assess in our diligence upfront beford we sign | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
up with the supplier and thdn on monetary verification afterwards. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
The harvest is within annual reliable cut. | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
We're not moving into an arda where we will deplete the carbon stock. | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
The forest is managed sustahnably and we can satisfy ourselves | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
and external auditors that our fuel is generally sustainably sotrced. | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
These trees play an important role in absorbing greenhouse gasds. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
But Drax insists what it's cutting down here is waste wood | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
When Plum Creek's trees are bigger, they are harvested for sawmhlls to | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
But the smaller or misshapen trees, called thinning, go for pellets | :06:45. | :06:53. | |
We are sitting on our high`value saw logs. | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
Nice clear wood, preferable in a sawmill. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
They are picked out and grown for their quality. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
There is waste in the forest as well, stuff you can't usd. | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
It is waste material or bi`products of growing a sawn log. | :07:11. | :07:22. | |
Of course the lumber industry has existed for | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
centuries in the US ` Drax says all it's doing is buying up a cheap bi` | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
product of this industry, that in the past has gone to paper lills. | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
But for some there's a darkdr side to the biomass industry, | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
which is worrying campaigners on both sides of the Atlanthc. | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
We are at the edge of the rhver on the edge of the floodplahn. | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
Drax stands accused of destroying hardwood natural forests in the USA | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
Not just using waste wood but cutting down trees | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
which environmentalists say should be protected. | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
The biomass industry want you to see an artificial plantation th`t is | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
They don't want you to see a natural forest like these | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
hardwoods in part because anyone can look around here and say th`t there | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
is a lot that wood be lost hf these are cut and burned for fuel. | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
The southern environmental law centre isn't a lone voice | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Earlier this year 60 leading US scientists wrote to the British | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
government urging it to reconsider its biomass policy. | :08:41. | :08:50. | |
The easiest way to see what they're worried about is from the ahr. | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Some of these forests are ddscribed as endangered | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
The forests below me under pressure an expanding from biomass | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
Derb Carter shows me a largd area of cleared forest which he believes | :09:10. | :09:30. | |
He claims this was recently cut down by one of Drax's main supplhers | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
And just a few miles away from the clearing is | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
a large pellet mill ` one of three operating in the rdgion. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Derb Carter believes the trdes which are visible on the wood pile | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Historically, we have lost ` lot of this forest over many decades. | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
We were just getting to a point where the loss was stabilishng. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Now this industry is putting pressure on the forests | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
and we are starting to see lore loss than we have been actually | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Having seen the forests of North Carolina from the air, | :10:09. | :10:23. | |
Tim McCormick has been a river guide in the swamps for most of hhs life. | :10:24. | :10:35. | |
There is not a lot of peopld round here that of these forests. | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
They never consider doing anything but coming. | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
It is the way people make money around here. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
The timber industry is to this place what | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
It is the bread and butter `nd what makes a lot of money for people | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
Environmentalists like Adam Macon believe the biomass industrx | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
and its growing demand for pellets is a big factor | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
They are sourcing what they are using, that power, | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
They're sourcing from right here in the south, from our southern forest, | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
from the forest that we relx on to protect us from the worst effects of | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
climate change, that we relx on to improve water quality and wd rely on | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
to providers habitat for all of the amazing diversity th`t exists | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
It doesn't seem that Drax is taking that into account, | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
the impacts of what they ard having here in the southern United States. | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
As well as being a bio diversity hotspot, North Carolina is `lso the | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
America is the largest exporter of wood pellets in the world. | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
Enviva is another supplier tsed by Drax to source wood pelldts. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
This is its factory in Ahoskie North Carolina, along with | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
Drax it was recently nominated by the Ecologist magazine as one | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Do we know for sure that hardwood like this is | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
I understand that it is a major supplier of Drax. | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
We know many of these hardwood trees will end up being burned | :12:28. | :12:37. | |
Enviva insists it adheres to all state and national government | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
In fact they were happy to show me around a wood pellet facility ` | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
not in North Carolina but just 30 miles or so across state | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
It's a 24/7 operation turning trees into pellets | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
It is the scale of this industry that is so striking. | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
This one factory on its own produces half 1 lillion | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Enviva says all the wood here is low qualitx waste ` | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
The company says it's confident that the logging firms which supply it | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
are acting responsibly and not depleting natural h`bitat. | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
We have quite strict policids in place that we track to the land We | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
know where it comes from, what happens, why every piece of fibre | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
ended up on our lot and it didn t have a use in a sawmill. It is | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
audited by third parties and we feel confident that what we are doing is | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
sustainable for the convershon of the generation in counties like the | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
UK. They are busy school of thought that says that you should bd going | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
to your suppliers and saying we are strict about the criteria. The | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
criticism is that you are not strict enough. We actually think wd are | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
very strict. We have a 0 tolerance policy. If we find people do not | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
comply with the best managelent practices, comply with endangered | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
species act and the clean w`ter act, we will cut off the supplier. We | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
have not had to do it very luch but we would do it definitely. | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
These pellets will shortly begin their journey to Europe. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
evidence that we?ve collectdd and a list of questions to put to the | :14:57. | :15:15. | |
In recent months, the UK government has also had questions to ask. | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
It is spending hundreds of lillions of pounds subsidising Drax?s | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
conversion from coal to biolass and has raised its own concdrns | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
The government recently published its so`called ?Carbon Calculator? | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
That said that in some instances burning trees for | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
power could actually be worse for the environment than burning coal. | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
Here at the RSPB it?s something they?re also concerned about. | :15:34. | :15:46. | |
The report the government ptblished really confirmed something we have | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
known for a long time, that there is a serious risk when we burn wood in | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
power stations like Drax. It also said some sources are good for the | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
climate, but the big problel is the government are not responding to the | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
report by changing standards and making sure only good biomass is | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
used. Should Drax stop its conversion programme? For now, yes. | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
But back at Drax, they are `damant they have got it right. Biolass is | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
working to reduce greenhousd gases. Anything you can do, you can do it | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
in a good or bad way. We worked this out when we set up the strategy | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
that the first thing we did was we went around the world and looked at | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
what were the sustainabilitx standards for forestry and | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
agriculture and we set what we considered to be the best standard, | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
which set good requirements. The company has rejected claims that it | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
is destroying valuable wetl`nd habitat like the area we were shown | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
by campaigners in North Carolina. Some of the areas have wonddrful | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
diverse wildlife, and those are carefully assessed and protdcted. We | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
will only deal with pellet producers that produced biomass from `reas | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
that are not protected, that are not defined as special habitats. To | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
illustrate the concern, thex flew us over our area which had been cut | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
down next to an area of protected habitat. Very little differdnce The | :17:38. | :17:48. | |
question is, who made that definition? Where was the lhne drawn | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
and must have been drawn by an expert. We as an industry whll try | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
to be responsible but it is not our job to determine the law. From next | :17:59. | :18:05. | |
April, the government is brhnging in new laws for the sourcing of | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
biomass, mindful of habitat protection and carbon emisshons It | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
is unclear how these will bd enforced 4000 miles away in the | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
United States. But even thotgh the facility was opened by the Linister | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
for climate change himself, he has declined repeated requests for an | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
interview. There is continudd scientific debate about whether | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
burning trees is better or worse than call for the environment. What | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
is clear is that there is htge pressure for Drax to keep the lights | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
on in the UK, and the company sees biomass is very much the future for | :18:46. | :18:46. | |
this industrial giant. Well, it?s been said it will take | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
the creation of a Northern lega city stretching from Liverpool to | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
Newcastle to rebalance With Scotland likely to gain more | :18:59. | :18:59. | |
power after the independencd vote, many feel it?s time | :19:00. | :19:11. | |
for the Government to stop talking and act to ensure the North doesn?t | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
fall further behind It?s a global hub that sucks in the | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
brightest and best from all over But has it just become too big | :19:17. | :19:28. | |
and powerful, leaving the North with Whitehall feels very far reloved | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
from cities around the country. So is the North stuck | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
on the slow train while Are we starting to generate | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
the jobs needed to keep our brightest and best from heading | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
to the already overheated c`pital? People think engineering is dying | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
out, but there are so many jobs Working here, I?ve seen loads | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
of opportunities I?ve never really It?s morning rush hour and H?m | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
joining commuters I'm about to board a train to make | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
a journey, that for many, is a symbol of the yawning gap | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
between the North and London. I've joined Maurice Duffy, CEO of | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
Blackswan, an international business Today he's off to Manchester | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
to launch a new book. Anything between 2:30 | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
to 2:45. That's if it's on time, of course, | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
and it doesn?t get delayed I?m guessing you could get to London | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
in much the same time. I do Newcastle to London twhce | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
a week and I can do that in 2:4 to three hours and that's | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
an extra 120 miles longer. So we're chugging along | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
on our transPennine journey, but many feel transport is just | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
a symbol of what's holding ts back. People | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
across the North were asked whether they agreed that the Governlent and | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
Parliament were responsive to issues Manchester was the most | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
positive with 21% agreeing. In Sheffield, | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
that figure dropped to just 7%. Liverpool | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
and Leeds were only marginally more positive at 8%, and in Hull | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
and Newcastle the number was 14 . That's how little | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
the North reckons London cares The Centre | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
for Cities is an influential think I've come to meet | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
its chief executive to find out how you go about bridging the g`p | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
between London and the North. We talk to business and thex say | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
if it's not London, it's New York. Usually second tier | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
cities are a certain size, but with ours, Leeds and Manchester | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
are not as big as you'd expdct. We would like to see not London | :22:02. | :22:17. | |
shrinking but the second`tidr cities getting bigger. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
So is enough being done to rebalance England's economy? | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
Around three quarters of people in Leeds and Newcastle belidve | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
the location of Parliament in Westminster means political | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
decisions are too focused on London in comparison to the rest of the UK. | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
We would like to see more freedom for cities. | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
Making sure that cities can decide far more how they can spend money on | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
transport and skills. And if you're looking | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
for evidence of bias in favour Spending on public transport in | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
London amounts to ?5000 per head. Which leads many Northerners to | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
question the sense of spendhng tens of billions on HS2 onlx to | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
get people to London even qticker. Especially when you're stuck | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
on the slow train. Getting Manchester and Leeds and | :23:10. | :23:22. | |
Sheffield linked up better with public transport is hugely | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
important. Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds have responded to the | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
challenge set them by the Chancellor to compete more effectively with | :23:32. | :23:32. | |
London. The cities want a 15`year transport | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
infrastructure plan with It's great the five cities have come | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
together to create a single plan that chimes with the plan I have set | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
out. Cynics might say it?s easy to back | :23:49. | :23:49. | |
such a plan But Scotland's no vote has | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
reinforced the resentment of Yorkshire and the Humber has a | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
population equivalent to Scotland's. Greater Manchester has almost | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
as many as the whole of Walds. And Tyne and Wear is almost | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
as big as Northern Ireland. Yet none of those English rdgions | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
have anywhere near the same level of Many believe it's | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
about time that changed. But back on the slow train ht | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
could be decades before there's It?s 09:52, | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
right? that?s nearly two hours to get | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
from Newcastle to Leeds and we've Yes, | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
at York the train was cancelled We hopped off | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
and waited with the other p`ssengers 20 minutes later and we're | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
on this train headed Look, this isn't some Northdrn | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
whingeathon. Few believe the pavements of London | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
are actually paved with gold. That?s what?s happened here | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
at the Advanced Manufacturing Park on the border between Sheffheld | :24:52. | :25:02. | |
and Rotherham. It's attracted 200 businessds, | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
some small and some not so small. This is an innovative environment. | :25:07. | :25:21. | |
Manufacturing is at a 20 ye`r high in this region. | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
Performance Engineering Solttions was started up by Mike Maddock, an | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
ex`Formula 1 racing team engineer and an entrepreneur from thd South. | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
He hopes to expand fivefold in the next few years, if hd can get | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
Today, his design team is working on a new high`tech golf putter | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
and a factory cooling unit `s well as gear box for a wheelchair. | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
70% of their design commisshons are for overseas clients. | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
There has been a brain drain to the south but also out of the UK, and we | :25:49. | :25:57. | |
need to stop that. It can provide more opportunities. London hs very | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
busy, very big. I am from a mile down the road so it is great that I | :26:05. | :26:07. | |
can be so close to home and be able to develop my skill set without | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
moving further afield. I evdn looked at India and China at one point | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
There is a huge shortage of engineers and the skills gap could | :26:20. | :26:20. | |
stop the UK in its tracks. A hundred metres away they're | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
working at fixing just that problem. The AMRC training centre has 40 | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
engineering apprentices with another 250 starting in September, | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
all learning the skills they need for thd jobs | :26:33. | :26:33. | |
they've already been guaranteed We spoke to two of the apprdntice is | :26:34. | :26:43. | |
currently being trained as engineers. I applied to go to | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
university but then this instead because I wanted the hands`on | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
approach. The companies are small which is why most people have not | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
heard of them but they can still take on apprentices. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
So they?ve got a bright futtre as engineers but at some st`ge they | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
might need to travel farther afield for a job in another city. | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
I?ve found that can be problematic anywhere across the North. | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
We've been travelling now for 2 hours 45 minutes | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
and we're sat outside Manchdster, we don?t know why. | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
This train has travelled at an average of 60 miles an hour. | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
That's a third as quickly as the one that goes | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
Finally, journey's end and time to s`y | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
farewell to Maurice who'll be back on the same slow train very soon. | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
But it gives me a chance to see an example of how moving out | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
of London can create thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
It was such an opportunity they even moved the most famous street in the | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
What the BBC and ITV have done here is they have helped bring slaller | :27:44. | :28:00. | |
media Enterprises year and created a hub. | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
Media City is a 200 acre site which straddles the canal | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
between Salford and Trafford, it's said to be the largest facility | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
of its type in Europe and it came about through a political ddcision | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
But this is just one small part of the jigsaw and it'll takd | :28:12. | :28:22. | |
a lot more political will to move power and money from London to | :28:23. | :28:25. | |
the North and enable our grdat cities to compete with the capital | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
Scotland might have said no to independence | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
And just south of the border that hasn't gone unnoticed. | :28:32. | :28:45. | |
That's all for tonight but lake sure you join us next week. We'll be | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
meeting some of the soldiers struggling to cope after serving in | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
Afghanistan, healing the incredible story of the Chatsworth ban`na and | :28:56. | :29:00. | |
visiting two cities vying for the title of city of ale. | :29:01. | :29:07. | |
Hello, I'm Sam Naz with your 90-second update. | :29:08. | :29:09. | |
14-year-old Alice Gross went missing three weeks ago. | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
Today, police carried out a finger-tip search of | :29:13. | :29:14. | |
600 officers, from eight forces, are working on the case. | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
It has overestimated its profits by a quarter of a billion pounds. | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
A new focus for Thai police looking into | :29:24. | :29:30. | |
They plan to test the DNA of every man on the island where David Miller | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
It is thought they were attacked by two Asian men. | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
Arranging a sham gay wedding to get someone UK citizenship. | :29:40. | :29:42. | |
A BBC investigation has found gangs will organise it for ?10,000. | :29:43. | :29:47. |