:00:08. > :00:13.A very good evening to you. Welcome to Look North. The headlines: The
:00:13. > :00:18.controversial children's opera - hundreds of pupils go back on stage
:00:18. > :00:21.after one word comes out of the script. Although it's been a
:00:21. > :00:25.disappointing episode in our collaboration, the important thing
:00:25. > :00:29.is that we have got a performance at the end of it.
:00:29. > :00:34.Four families are made homeless after a suspected arson attack in
:00:34. > :00:38.Hull. Devastated. Just can't put into
:00:38. > :00:43.words. Horrible. Especially when the fire got going and I could hear
:00:43. > :00:48.the roof falling in. The number of migrant workers
:00:48. > :00:52.increases in Boston. There are calls for more money for the area.
:00:52. > :00:57.Why it's a very special day for this East Yorkshire great-
:00:57. > :01:01.grandmother. She's number one in the East Riding.
:01:01. > :01:11.Number two in Yorkshire. I believe she's about 28 in Britain.
:01:11. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:23.I will be back with your detailed Good evening. It sparked a row
:01:23. > :01:27.between its writer, a school and the local council and a opera
:01:27. > :01:37.company. The show with a lead character who is gay will go on.
:01:37. > :01:43.
:01:44. > :01:48.The production of Beached takes place in Bridlington next weekend.
:01:48. > :01:53.Now after 48 hours and a very public disagreement played out in
:01:53. > :01:57.the national media, the writer has agreed to replacing the offending
:01:57. > :02:01.word. It's a row which has been going on
:02:01. > :02:05.behind-the-scenes for weeks. But now the issue surrounding the opera
:02:05. > :02:09.Beached have been resolved. We are thrilled to be able to say we are
:02:09. > :02:15.going ahead with the opera as the writer has agreed to change the
:02:15. > :02:21.words to more age-appropriate as we had asked. Emma Hobbs felt the
:02:21. > :02:25.language was offensive and inappropriate for young children,
:02:25. > :02:29.especially one word in particular. We asked "queer" to be changed to
:02:29. > :02:33.the word "gay. The writer, who is best-known for Billy Elliot, e-
:02:33. > :02:37.mailed Look North to say he had been appalled by the whole process
:02:37. > :02:43.and that he had always been willing to rewrite the script. So although
:02:43. > :02:46.the opera is now going ahead, there is still a lot of unrest. The
:02:46. > :02:52.school hasn't had any direct contact with the writer. Even
:02:52. > :02:57.though he's been on national television to speak about it.
:02:57. > :03:02.character says, "Of course, I'm queer, that is why I left here."
:03:02. > :03:08.Was that the only line that was a problem? There's been all sorts of
:03:08. > :03:13.things that we have worked with the school and with Opera North. That
:03:13. > :03:17.is the only line in question. To me - it is the only line that you know
:03:17. > :03:22.that the character is gay. school has never courted the
:03:22. > :03:26.national media about this or written online about it, or taken
:03:26. > :03:29.it out to a wider forum like that. We have always been happy to
:03:29. > :03:35.discuss this. Despite all the attention, parents are just happy
:03:35. > :03:40.the play is back on. I'm over the moon the play is back on. My son is
:03:40. > :03:45.very excited to be able to do it. I can't wait to buy the tickets. It
:03:45. > :03:49.is the right decision to go ahead. Looking forward to it. Now tickets
:03:49. > :03:57.are able to go on sale, organisers are hoping the seats will be full
:03:57. > :04:03.next week. Well, Richard Mantle is from Opera North. He told me about
:04:03. > :04:06.the changes that have been made to the script. To the opera, there
:04:07. > :04:14.have been a number of small changes to text that have been happening
:04:15. > :04:23.over a number of weeks now. Finally, the changes turned the tide if that
:04:24. > :04:27.is the right word. The character says, "I'm queer" to "I'm gay."
:04:27. > :04:31.did the original line get through in the first place? Anyone could
:04:31. > :04:36.have told you it was offensive? don't think it necessarily - it
:04:36. > :04:40.depends on your audience. You don't think it was necessarily offensive?
:04:40. > :04:45.Not necessarily, no. But it was - we have responded to the school. We
:04:45. > :04:49.have been trying to get it changed for some weeks because we are there
:04:49. > :04:52.as a sort of broker, we have commissioned a piece for a
:04:52. > :04:56.performance by the school and the school have to advise us what can
:04:56. > :05:01.be appropriate. We have to learn from them. We have taken their
:05:01. > :05:06.steer and achieved the change. writer has told us he would have
:05:06. > :05:09.changed the script at any point. Well... Why do we have this
:05:09. > :05:12.farcical on-off for three days? Maybe you shouldn't believe
:05:12. > :05:17.everything you hear from Lee Hall. Opera North highly regarded track
:05:17. > :05:22.record for commissioning new works for young people. Yeah. That is in
:05:22. > :05:26.your statement. Did you not spot how controversial this would be?
:05:26. > :05:32.think we have known that elements of the piece potentially could be
:05:32. > :05:36.quite controversial. Lee writes in a robust way. The school, who is
:05:36. > :05:40.part of this whole project, have been taken along with us on this
:05:40. > :05:46.and we have worked with them and where they have found a problem we
:05:46. > :05:50.have sort of brokered that with Lee. What we did was run into the
:05:50. > :05:55.buffers last week with Lee when he refused to make any change.
:05:55. > :05:59.Embarrassing few days for Opera North and the writer? No. We have a
:05:59. > :06:03.fantastic project. The kids in Bridlington have been continuing to
:06:03. > :06:07.rehearse, there is a lot of excitement and it will be great
:06:08. > :06:12.next week. Thank you. The story that has run and run this week. Do
:06:13. > :06:17.the changes make any difference? That one word, maybe you are a
:06:18. > :06:27.parent watching tonight in Bridlington. Let me know what you
:06:28. > :06:36.
:06:36. > :06:42.think. E-mail us at In a moment: The first green energy
:06:42. > :06:45.park in the country is switched on in Lincolnshire.
:06:45. > :06:48.Four families on a Hull estate have been left homeless after arsonists
:06:48. > :06:52.attacked a house on their street. Five homes in total have been
:06:52. > :06:54.damaged and the people who live in them have been told that all of
:06:54. > :06:57.those houses may have to be completely knocked down. No-one was
:06:57. > :07:00.seriously hurt, but several of the families are uninsured and face
:07:00. > :07:10.being left with nothing. Kate Sweeting has been to meet some of
:07:10. > :07:20.those affected. I looked out and I saw the glow from the fire. I woke
:07:20. > :07:21.
:07:21. > :07:26.up the wife. I think Liz's house is on fire. I have to go and get the
:07:26. > :07:31.kids out. The flames ripped through their homes in a matter of minutes,
:07:31. > :07:35.leaving the families with almost nothing. Just pure devastation, I
:07:35. > :07:40.don't know where do you start on rebuilding what you have lost? It
:07:40. > :07:44.is not just what you have got in the house, it's all your memories,
:07:44. > :07:47.your personal bits. It is where do you begin? Investigators are here
:07:47. > :07:51.trying to work out what caused the fire but the extent of the damage
:07:51. > :07:54.means that it will be many months before the families are able to
:07:54. > :07:58.return and I am told there is a possibility that this entire row of
:07:59. > :08:04.houses will have to be knocked down. There's only 40% of the people on
:08:04. > :08:09.this row that are insured. The other people have lost everything.
:08:09. > :08:13.They have to be devastated. They are waking up this morning, if any
:08:13. > :08:17.of them have had any sleep, with nothing in the world left.
:08:17. > :08:21.follows a similar attack at the weekend on the same estate. Luckily,
:08:22. > :08:26.the family got out unhurt despite being trapped by the flames. In
:08:26. > :08:29.this latest incident, the arsonists set fire to a bin in a shed outside
:08:29. > :08:33.this house which spread with astonishing speed leaving four of
:08:33. > :08:37.the houses almost totally destroyed. Obviously, we will look at that
:08:37. > :08:41.incident, not in isolation, but ensure we are catching all of the
:08:41. > :08:46.relevant evidence to ensure if there are a link, we will make
:08:46. > :08:50.those links. As the reality of what's happened starts to hit home
:08:50. > :08:58.for these families, many of the residents say they are frightened
:08:58. > :09:03.for their own safety in case the arsonists strike again.
:09:03. > :09:08.Daryl Oprey is from Humberside Fire Service. He is there at the scene.
:09:08. > :09:12.How has this fire caused so much damage? Good evening, Peter. The
:09:12. > :09:18.fire started in the bin shed as the reporter said and as with any fire,
:09:18. > :09:22.if you give it some fuel load and it will take hold quite rapidly.
:09:22. > :09:26.The fire will warm up other things in the area which will go on fire
:09:26. > :09:32.and that is how the fire has spread. It is incredible that people got
:09:32. > :09:36.out alive and fairly unharmed. What do you put that down to? It is.
:09:36. > :09:40.There's a couple of things. Ourselves and our colleagues the
:09:40. > :09:44.police and other agencies work very hard in communities to make sure
:09:44. > :09:48.that people are safe so smoke detectors save lives and the Fire
:09:48. > :09:53.Service are here to help and make sure that people are safe in their
:09:53. > :09:58.homes and in fact there is an event running on 16th July where this
:09:58. > :10:02.community itself will be helping itself to keep itself safer. So we
:10:03. > :10:06.all actually help to keep ourselves safe. We have had several suspected
:10:06. > :10:12.arson attacks in the last couple of days. Generally, they are more
:10:12. > :10:16.common. What is in the head of these people? Why do they do it?
:10:16. > :10:21.There are many different reasons, Peter, why people will set fire.
:10:21. > :10:24.Some is just out of fascination. Some is actually unfortunately with
:10:24. > :10:29.intent to harm other people. At this stage, we really don't know
:10:29. > :10:34.what was in the head of this arsonist. Do they think about the
:10:34. > :10:39.consequences of people generally? Clearly, not, Peter. There were
:10:39. > :10:42.people in those homes when they set those properties on fire. So I
:10:42. > :10:45.would say clearly they weren't thinking of the welfare of those
:10:45. > :10:49.people. Some of these people who have done this could be watching
:10:49. > :10:53.tonight. What do you say to them? Well, what I would say to them is
:10:53. > :10:57.just have a look at the devastation you have done to people's homes.
:10:57. > :11:04.Look at the lives you have endangered and please, please
:11:04. > :11:10.reconsider what you are doing. good to talk to you. Thank you. In
:11:10. > :11:12.another suspected arson attack: A woman and her three young
:11:12. > :11:15.children are recovering in hospital after arsonists set fire to their
:11:15. > :11:18.home in Lincoln. The Emergency Services were called to Scorer
:11:18. > :11:21.Street near Sincil Bank in the early hours of this morning. Fire
:11:21. > :11:24.officers say the family owe their lives to their smoke alarm. They
:11:24. > :11:27.have also praised neighbours and passers-by who are believed to have
:11:27. > :11:34.helped fight the fire by breaking down the door and throwing buckets
:11:34. > :11:40.of water onto the flames. We heard a scream. I knew it was her. We saw
:11:40. > :11:42.smoke and ran out and she got the kids out. We got the kids over to
:11:42. > :11:45.my house. The security company Group Four
:11:45. > :11:47.says a crash last night involving a van full of inmates from Hull
:11:48. > :11:50.Prison is being treated as an accident. Three prisoners were
:11:51. > :11:53.taken to hospital in York after the van overturned near Tadcaster. The
:11:53. > :11:57.six other inmates involved were returned to Hull. The driver was
:11:58. > :12:00.also injured in the crash. Four teenagers have been rescued by
:12:00. > :12:05.lifeboat crews after getting trapped against the sea wall near
:12:05. > :12:07.Grimsby Docks. The two boys and two girls were spotted by the
:12:07. > :12:11.Humberside Police helicopter while on routine patrol. The group had
:12:11. > :12:15.not called for help as they thought they could not make 999 calls with
:12:15. > :12:25.no credit on their mobile phones. Their rescuers say they're lucky to
:12:25. > :12:25.
:12:25. > :12:34.be alive. They realised that they was going to get home tonight. It
:12:34. > :12:39.was four youths, two males and two females. The two boys, they seemed
:12:39. > :12:43.really pleased and that. The girls was a bit frightened of the
:12:43. > :12:46.situation to be honest. The power of the sun is now being
:12:46. > :12:50.harnessed in Lincolnshire after the country's first solar energy park
:12:50. > :12:54.went live today. The park in fields at Conisholme near Louth will
:12:54. > :13:04.provide enough electricity to power around 300 homes. The company says
:13:04. > :13:06.
:13:06. > :13:11.the site will operate for 25 years. The big switch-on for a brand-new
:13:11. > :13:15.source of energy in Britain all thanks to the Lincolnshire sunshine.
:13:15. > :13:21.On this site we have 5,000 solar panels, each one of them has 48 of
:13:21. > :13:26.these silicon wafers. This is technology developed by NASA a few
:13:26. > :13:30.decades ago to power satellites up in space. This is the UK's first
:13:30. > :13:36.major solar sun park, combined with the neighbouring wind farm the site
:13:36. > :13:40.will produce 17 megawatts of energy, enough to power 10,000 homes every
:13:40. > :13:44.year. Solar technology has been maturing and it's taken off in
:13:44. > :13:48.other countries of the world. Our last Government introduced the
:13:48. > :13:52.feed-in tariff scheme and that enabled us to build these and to
:13:52. > :13:58.put solar-power into the grid. While this is the first UK sun park,
:13:58. > :14:02.the company here says it may be the last. They say the Government's cut
:14:02. > :14:08.support by 75% meaning future developments like this will be
:14:08. > :14:09.unfeasible. It is a great day on the one hand. It is a sad day
:14:09. > :14:13.because it is the last for a little while until the Government has a
:14:13. > :14:21.change of heart. Government says the changes to the feed-in tariff
:14:21. > :14:23.were necessary, speaking last month "Without action, the scheme would
:14:23. > :14:27.be overwhelmed. The new tariffs will ensure a sustained growth path
:14:27. > :14:29.for the solar industry while protecting the money for
:14:29. > :14:36.householders, small businesses and communities and will also further
:14:36. > :14:46.encourage the uptake of green electricity from anaerobic
:14:46. > :14:47.
:14:47. > :14:53.diJession." In Germany, -- Digestion." In Germany - we are
:14:54. > :15:03.falling behind. Ecotricity is celebrating what it believes will
:15:04. > :15:04.
:15:04. > :15:08.one day become a leading renewable energy resource. Still to come: The
:15:08. > :15:18.number of migrant workers increases in Boston. There are calls for more
:15:18. > :15:28.money for the area. Why it is a special day for this East Yorkshire
:15:28. > :15:36.
:15:36. > :15:43.great-grandmother. How are you? Very well. My
:15:43. > :15:47.favourite e-mail comes from Dave who has moved from Hull to the Isle
:15:47. > :15:55.of Sheppy. He has had a satellite installed so he can watch the news!
:15:55. > :15:59.He needs to get a life! Is that down in Essex? It's Kent, I think.
:15:59. > :16:03.Is it?! I think so. Caught me on the hop there! I'm sure it is Essex.
:16:03. > :16:09.I am sure our viewers will let us I am sure our viewers will let us
:16:09. > :16:14.know. The headlines: Very unsettled. We will have more of these
:16:14. > :16:17.thunderstorm clouds. We have had one or two of those in the last few
:16:17. > :16:21.hours. Some big thunderstorms have kicked off because low pressure
:16:21. > :16:31.remains in charge. Tomorrow will be another unsettled day. That said,
:16:31. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:36.many of you will have had a good deal of sunshine. Certainly parts
:16:36. > :16:41.of northern parts of Lincolnshire have seen some thunderstorms and
:16:42. > :16:46.there are still one or two around. The trend will be overnight for the
:16:46. > :16:56.showers to fizzle out and most areas will become dry with clear
:16:56. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:04.spells. The sun rises in the morning at 4.41. Most of us then
:17:04. > :17:07.off to a dry, possibly a bright start but cloud will build fairly
:17:07. > :17:11.quickly through the morning. Possibly longer outbreaks of rain
:17:11. > :17:15.for a time through the morning. The skies will brighten through the
:17:15. > :17:20.afternoon and the heavy showers may well begin to fizzle out towards
:17:20. > :17:27.tomorrow evening. Which ever way you look at it, it will be very
:17:27. > :17:32.unsettled indeed with top temperatures of 19 Celsius in Hull.
:17:32. > :17:35.Now although the weekend is looking unsettled, it is a very
:17:35. > :17:39.straightforward forecast. There will be some decent weather around.
:17:39. > :17:46.There is an ongoing risk of some heavy showers with a risk of
:17:46. > :17:53.thunder. That is the forecast. replica of the Olympic Torch has
:17:53. > :17:59.been in Lincolnshire today. Linda writes in, "You should carry the
:17:59. > :18:04.torch for Lincoln." You will be torch for Lincoln." You will be
:18:04. > :18:07.back again tomorrow night. See you tomorrow.
:18:07. > :18:10.Boston's MP has tonight told Look North that his town will continue
:18:10. > :18:20.to rely on migrant workers to fill jobs because jobless British people
:18:20. > :18:25.
:18:25. > :18:28.are walking away from work they His comments come as officials in
:18:28. > :18:29.Boston say more money is needed from the Government to help with
:18:30. > :18:32.the growing population of migrant workers.
:18:32. > :18:34.Last year 22% fewer overseas workers registered for National
:18:35. > :18:38.Insurance in Lincolnshire compared to three years ago. The drop in
:18:38. > :18:46.England as a whole was the same. But in Boston the numbers have gone
:18:46. > :18:50.up. Over the past decade, migrant workers have become increasingly
:18:50. > :18:55.crucial to Lincolnshire's agriculture and food processing
:18:55. > :18:59.industries. More than 60% of the workforce here at this vegetable
:18:59. > :19:03.producers originate from overseas and the company says they simply
:19:03. > :19:08.couldn't compete without them. It's thought up to a quarter of the
:19:08. > :19:12.town's population could now be made up of immigrants. People go where
:19:12. > :19:16.there's jobs, don't they? If there wasn't work, they wouldn't be here.
:19:16. > :19:20.I understand the people who are coming in are contributing a great
:19:20. > :19:23.deal to the economy. How many properties did we let? The town's
:19:23. > :19:28.letting agents would certainly agree migrant workers have been
:19:28. > :19:35.good for business. Over the last five years, rents have increased
:19:35. > :19:42.quite easily by 20-25% depending on the type of property that you are
:19:42. > :19:48.looking at. The town properties have improved the best. Five years
:19:48. > :19:52.ago, around 5% of Park Primary's population was international. Now
:19:52. > :19:56.it is more than 50% and that stretches the school's resources to
:19:56. > :20:00.the limit. It is not easy. We do receive a bit of extra funding from
:20:00. > :20:06.the local authority. By no means enough. We have got a very skilled
:20:06. > :20:10.and committed staff. We have hired some Polish-speaking translators
:20:10. > :20:15.and teaching assistants. Yes, it is a challenge. Local council
:20:15. > :20:20.officials agree that it is time the Government took notice of this
:20:20. > :20:23.trend. All Boston Borough Council has ever sought is its fair share
:20:23. > :20:31.of resources to deliver our servicess to our local community
:20:31. > :20:34.and once we know hopefully from Census figures what our population
:20:34. > :20:39.is, the national allocation system will give us our fair share which
:20:39. > :20:43.is all we have ever been seeking. So while migrant workers continue
:20:43. > :20:52.to toil for our economy, local officials will also be working hard
:20:52. > :20:57.to secure more funding for the area. Mark Simmonds is the Conservative
:20:57. > :21:00.MP for Boston and Skegness. He told me why he thought the number of
:21:01. > :21:04.migrant workers in Boston is still on the increase. It is difficult to
:21:04. > :21:07.gauge. Nobody has an accurate indication of how many migrant
:21:07. > :21:10.workers there are in the borough of Boston. There are some significant
:21:10. > :21:15.estimates that have been made both through numbers that have
:21:15. > :21:24.registered with GPs or those on the electoral roll, I don't think that
:21:24. > :21:30.counts for any of the real numbers there are there. We must welcome
:21:30. > :21:35.migrant workers and the public sector funding needs to reflect the
:21:35. > :21:38.number of people living in the Boston area. They don't at the
:21:38. > :21:43.moment. Taking the ringfencing off the way that local authorities
:21:43. > :21:49.should spend money should go to some way to helping with that.
:21:49. > :21:52.you had those employees with those jobs, would British workers do
:21:52. > :21:56.those jobs? That is a very good question. That is the crux of the
:21:56. > :21:59.problem, really. What is the answer? I think some of them should.
:21:59. > :22:04.I think that some of the changes that we are going to make to the
:22:04. > :22:09.benefits system where making work pay will be a key part of that and
:22:09. > :22:12.it should enable some of those British workers to go back into the
:22:12. > :22:17.workforce. Derek Clarke has said it is all about British jobs for
:22:17. > :22:21.British people. What happened about that? Well, I am afraid to say some
:22:21. > :22:24.sections of British society - and it is true in Boston - have decided
:22:24. > :22:27.there are certain types of jobs that they don't want to do. I can
:22:27. > :22:31.have these peculiar conversations with groups of people who say,
:22:31. > :22:36."When are you going to get these migrants out of our town?" When I
:22:36. > :22:40.say to them, "When you are prepared to go into the fields" and they say,
:22:40. > :22:45."That is migrant work." It is not until we change that perception
:22:45. > :22:49.that we will change the problem. What about those people who refuse
:22:49. > :22:53.to do those jobs, should their money be cutback? That is what the
:22:53. > :22:57.proposals are. If there is one thing that's struck me since the
:22:57. > :23:00.general election, it is the number of people who have said it is the
:23:00. > :23:02.right thing that the Government is doing to change the system of
:23:02. > :23:07.benefits to make sure that work pays, which it doesn't at the
:23:07. > :23:17.moment. It is not paying at the moment? It is not always paying at
:23:17. > :23:17.
:23:17. > :23:21.the moment. Very good to talk to you. Thank you. Are some British
:23:22. > :23:31.people too choosy when it comes to what work they will do? Your
:23:32. > :23:34.
:23:34. > :23:38.thoughts on this one - look.north@bbc.co.uk. There is a
:23:38. > :23:42.longer interview with Mark Simmonds tomorrow lunch time.
:23:42. > :23:44.Thanks for getting in touch with us over our story of a mother calling
:23:44. > :23:47.for higher penalties for reckless drivers. Her son, William
:23:47. > :23:50.Horncastle, was left in a coma for three days following the crash in
:23:50. > :23:53.East Yorkshire. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, is supporting moves
:23:53. > :23:59.by the Hull Labour MP, Karl Turner to increase the maximum sentence
:23:59. > :24:03.for dangerous driving from two to seven years.
:24:03. > :24:05.Bob in Grimsby texted to say, "I was injured six weeks ago because
:24:05. > :24:09.an impatient driver could not wait in single-file traffic. Careless
:24:09. > :24:13.drivers should be banned and re- tested."
:24:13. > :24:14.Virginia tweeted to say, "It's a good idea to increase sentences.
:24:14. > :24:18.Dangerous driving and careless driving costs lives."
:24:18. > :24:21.And Loren has also been a victim of careless driving. She says, "We
:24:21. > :24:24.have had to live with the scars and mental reminders of that day,
:24:24. > :24:34.knowing no action was taken against the driver who caused the
:24:34. > :24:36.
:24:36. > :24:39.incident." She's the oldest woman in East
:24:39. > :24:41.Yorkshire and the 28th oldest living Briton. Today her family
:24:41. > :24:44.came to help Elizabeth Riley celebrate her 109th birthday at the
:24:44. > :24:53.care home where she lives in Hedon. And although she rarely speaks,
:24:53. > :25:03.Crispin Rolfe spoke to her sons about her milestone. This report
:25:03. > :25:04.
:25:04. > :25:10.does contain some flash photography. # Happy birthday to you... #
:25:10. > :25:16.She came to this nursing home aged 90. Now it is helping Elizabeth
:25:16. > :25:23.Riley celebrate her 109th birthday. Today's a landmark for a lady now
:25:23. > :25:28.one of Britain's oldest living. Let's say if we had a Premier
:25:28. > :25:33.League, she would be in that league. And fairly well up it. She is
:25:33. > :25:38.number one in the East Riding. Number two in Yorkshire. I believe
:25:38. > :25:44.she's about 28 in Britain. Royal Party will begin their
:25:44. > :25:54.inspection... Born in 1902, Elizabeth took her sons here to the
:25:54. > :26:03.Festival of Britain in 1951. Today, it was easy to see that she enjoyed
:26:03. > :26:10.all the attention. Her sons claim that long life is in the genes.
:26:10. > :26:18.the moment, I have found 5th Generation on my grandfather's, my
:26:18. > :26:28.mother's father, on his side, going down to 1768 and that guy was 83
:26:28. > :26:34.years old. So a party - and by this time next year, Elizabeth won't
:26:34. > :26:39.just be a great-grandmother, but a great-great-grandmother.
:26:39. > :26:44.Happy birthday to Elizabeth. Let's have a recap of the headlines:
:26:44. > :26:48.After almost 170 years, the News of the World is to close, a victim of
:26:48. > :26:52.its own phone hacking scandal. The last edition will be this Sunday.
:26:52. > :26:56.The children's opera is back on in Bridlington after the writer
:26:56. > :27:00.changed one word in the script. The forecast for tomorrow - cloudy with
:27:00. > :27:05.outbreaks of rain spreading from the south.
:27:05. > :27:11.Top temperatures of around 19 Celsius.
:27:11. > :27:16.A response coming in on the story of the opera in Bridlington. "The
:27:16. > :27:22.word can't have been that offensive, it was said four times on your
:27:22. > :27:29.show." "Changing the word queer to gay goes to show how mad the PC