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