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Good evening. The headlines tonight: the blast at in a legal | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
distillery that cost five men their lives. Tonight, the search for | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
answers continues. Five fatalities in one incident, that is more | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
significant. I am live in Boston as investigations continue into what | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
caused the tragedy. It is believed that the men were making illicit | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
what car. We look at the wider problem of counterfeit alcohol. -- | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
illicit alcohol. We have been advised by the police and council | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
to be aware of it and we are aware of it. Also on tonight's programme, | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
there could be more work properties built on flood-risk areas. And hats | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
off to the man who bot Hull City. We could have a warm day tomorrow | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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and then it will turn unsettled. -- who purchased Hull City. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Good evening. And the legal distillery is at the centre of an | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
investigation in Boston tonight into an explosion which killed five | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
men and seriously injured another man. It happened a on the | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
Broadfield Industrial Estate in the town shortly before 7:30pm. Police | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
found equipment for making alcohol inside the building. The men who | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
died have still not been identified. We can go live now to Boston and | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
our reporter. What has been happening there today? Members of | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the emergency services, police and fire, have been making their way | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
through the cordon here along the road to the scene that you see | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
behind me. That is a major investigation on the goal. It | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
culminated in sombre scenes earlier wrong when a number of dark | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
vehicles made their way along here. Inside were the bodies of those who | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
died. And the legal distillery in the centre Rob Austin. The | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
production of black-market alcohol has let five men dead and another | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
fighting for his life. -- in the centre of Boston. It is now more | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
than 24 hours since emergency services were called to an | :02:40. | :02:48. | |
explosion here. Fire fighters met a rapid and intense fire. When we | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
arrived one casualty had come out of the building. The second group | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
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quell the fire, which was very hot. it had set fire to a car outside. | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
It is believed the blast killed the five men instantly. Some people who | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
lived near by came and told me that they believed that there was | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
illegal alcohol. One came out with his arm on fire. I was told one was | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
smoking a cigarette and threw it behind him. The equipment they use | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
for the brewing of the alcohol exploded and five of them were | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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killed. Among those who attended the scene, the rector of Boston. | :03:42. | :03:51. | |
are very sad about this. Today, police confirmed the unit had been | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
used as a distillery. Her we have found chemicals on the premises | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
which indicate the manufacture or production of alcohol. The bodies | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
have been removed and the other man transferred to a specialist burns | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
unit in Boston. Police say he has been undergoing surgery for up much | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
of the day. The police will now try to identify those who were killed. | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Officers are also working with trading standards and HM Revenue | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
and Customs. At the moment the police have no idea who these men | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
are. There were unconfirmed reports that they were foreign nationals. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
An appeal has been sent out to anyone, perhaps residents, | :04:43. | :04:51. | |
relatives, friends, who had someone who did go out and not come back to | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
get in touch with the police. Keith Owen from Lincolnshire police joins | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
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me light. What progress are you making? -- he joins me now. We have | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
had people working all day bike across -- all across the county | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
looking at what happened. These tragic events have really shocked | :05:18. | :05:26. | |
us, we appreciate that, so we are looking to progress this as quickly | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
as we can. What we are very keen to do as a priority is identified to | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
these men were who tragically lost their lives last night. -- identify | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
the names of these men. How is the victim in a hospital? The last I | :05:47. | :05:54. | |
heard was he was undergoing surgery, and that will run on into the | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
evening. We have not had an update. You obviously want to speak to him. | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
How soon will that be? As soon as he is ready. We have officers there | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
who are monitoring the situation. Hopefully he will shed some light | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
on the situation. The appeal we have for the wider community is if | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
you have any knowledge of what happened last night, please get in | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
touch with Boston police station. You find at the a reminder of | :06:31. | :06:39. | |
evidence of illegal brewing at the site. -- you find a lot of evidence. | :06:39. | :06:48. | |
Yes, we find a lot of equipment. -- we discovered a lot of equipment. | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
There is still work going on at the scene so I cannot go into detail. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
The fire service have been working all day to establish what has | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
happened. Thank you very much. The problem of illegal alcohol in | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Boston has been the subject of a major investigation by the police | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
and trading standards. Many shops were found selling counterfeit | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
alcohol containing cleaning fluid. For some time, customs officers and | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
police have been it confiscating illegal alcohol from off-licences | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
around the time. Today, these two shops had their licences revoked | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
for selling counterfeit vodka. Pub landlords have been warned not to | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
buy and sell it. Some of the fake bobcat contains potentially lethal | :07:44. | :07:52. | |
chemicals. -- vodka. We have been warned by the police to be aware of | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
it and we are aware of it. Anyone who finds dodgy alcohol must | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
reported. -- report it to us. Lincolnshire Police strongly | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
suggest that illegal alcohol was being produced. This man, who work | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
near by, describes the victims as young Eastern Europeans. | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
surprises me because there was no signs of any illegal goings-on. It | :08:27. | :08:35. | |
was just a warehouse that was used for storage. For some time there | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
has been concern about the illegal manufacturing of alcohol in | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Lincolnshire. The potato fields provide plenty raw-material, and | :08:43. | :08:52. | |
there is a large market as there is a large eastern European Community. | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
It is alcohol but it is cleansing fluid and is not fit for human | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
consumption. Illegally producing alcohol has long been linked to the | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
black market economy and organised crime, and now to the tragic loss | :09:08. | :09:18. | |
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of the likes of five men. -- lives. Where does this leave the | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
investigation into the vodka? Clearly there is a possibility that | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
the board can we saw seized earlier in the year was manufactured. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Questions have to be asked about whether there are other | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
distilleries. Clearly the evidence of the 6th man who was injured is | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
very important, we do not know whether he will be able to give | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
evidence. What began as a counterfeit inquiry has overnight | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
gain a much bigger sense of importance. As we have heard, | :09:56. | :10:06. | |
Austin is at the centre of a major investigation. -- Boston. Much of | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
that is centred on the migrant workers in the town. The identities | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
are not known but there is a great deal of sadness. Tributes paid in | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
the tone for the five who died and prayers for the one who survived. - | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
- paid in the village. For some, at they claimed it was an accident | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
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waiting to happen. It was monitored months ago, this happened today | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
because of what people have been saying. It is speculation, but in | :10:46. | :10:54. | |
the 10 people do not believe it was an accident, -- believe it was an | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
incident that Boston could have done without. People are talking | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
about immigration issues, it does raise problems, but we are a | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
multicultural society, so we must live with it. It is very tragic, it | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
is a loss of life. Whether they are foreign nationals are not, it is | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
tragic. They can learn from this tragedy, but in many parts of the | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
town, there is horror at a loss of life. It is a cause of concern | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
across society, and it is an issue that we face here. There may be | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
questions for the future of Boston and how it reacts, but today is all | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
about the lives of five men and how they were killed. | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
Earlier I spoke to the MP for Boston, I questioned him about how | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
he feels about what happened. initial reaction is one of shock at | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
the terrible tragedy where five people lost their lives. We need to | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
initially allow the police to get on unhindered and do a thorough | :12:09. | :12:18. | |
investigation to establish the facts. Many people have been | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
talking about this illegal brewing which may have caused the explosion. | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
Early in the year you know that counterfeit alcohol was on sale. | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
Have you been a weird when talking to your constituents about this? -- | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
have you been made aware. Certainly the problem seems to be alcohol | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
going wrong, although the full investigation must be completed. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Some months ago there were a series of raids, by Lincolnshire police, | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Customs and Excise, and trading standards, and they confiscated | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
significant sums of alcohol. The sale of illegal alcohol was quite | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
well known about in the Boston area. Until the tragedy last night, there | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
was no evidence of production of illegal alcohol in Boston. It looks | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
like that has changed. Is there anything you can do to tackle this | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
issue? The first thing we need to do is allow the police to do their | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
investigation thoroughly. Once the facts are established about what | :13:30. | :13:38. | |
happened here and who the poor people were who died, their | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
respective agencies need to sit down, learned the lessons, and make | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
sure we eradicate the sale illegal alcohol, the production of illegal | :13:48. | :13:58. | |
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alcohol, and make sure that similar We would like to hear from you. Did | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
to see what happened? Have maybe you heard about the illegal alcohol | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
being made all sold. Maybe you bought some without realising it. | :14:15. | :14:25. | |
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Hero on BBC One, thank you for watching. The Hull City owner is | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
honoured for his contribution to the city and its university. And | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
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the teenagers competing in the Tonight's photo was taken by Robert. | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
He took office of Skidby Windmill. Another one tomorrow night. Let's | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
get the forecast. It has been a lovely day. Everyone | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
is asking me about the rest of the summer holidays. Everyone can see | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
summer holidays. Everyone can see it from my blog. I am afraid it is | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
looking very unsettled. The message is enjoy this evening and tomorrow | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
if you can. The weekend is looking quite poor at times with heavy rain | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
for a time on Saturday. And so tomorrow, bright and warm with | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
temperatures up to 24 degrees. This week Front could bring patchy rain | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
late on tomorrow. Then we look set to bring in a number of Atlantic | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
weather systems over the coming 10- 14 days. Things will go downhill | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
for the second half of July. We have ended on a lovely note. Lots | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
of sunshine across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. This evening | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
should be fine with the chance of the isolated shower in the West. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
Overnight will be dry with clear spells. Lowest temperatures down to | :16:17. | :16:27. | |
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ten Celsius. The sun will rise in the morning at 4:50am. It looks | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
like much of the morning will be bright and mostly dry. The chance | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
of a shower. Through the afternoon, most places stay dry it was just | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
the a chance of a shower late in the day. The cloud will thicken. | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
Respectable temperatures and a moderate south-west wind. Notably | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
warmer on the coast. Highs of 23 degrees. As for the weekend, heavy | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
rain to come through Saturday. That will clear later two showers and | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
quite showery with blustery windss on Sunday. More houses are being | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
on Sunday. More houses are being built in flood prone areas in East | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
Yorkshire despite a rise in risk of flooding according to a new report. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
Development in at risk areas in Hull and East rising has increased | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
over the past decade which could cause a repeat of the 2007 floods. | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
Who could forget the floods of 2007? At the time, we were told it | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
was a freak event but there were warnings it could happen again. | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
What is an abnormal event may become more frequent in the decades | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
to come. And those warnings are mentioned in this report out today | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
by the Committee on climate change. And so also is this from our local | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
authorities. For not taking the warning seriously enough and for | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
continuing to build on areas that are at high risk to flooding. | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
are under pressure to build new homes, they have to put them | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
somewhere. What we're saying is that local authorities should be | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
quite transparent about how they are balancing different risks. We | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
need to be more aware and clear how we are factoring in these long-term | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
changes in our climate. The council says preventing flood risk is that | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
the top of the list of their priorities when it comes to | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
planning. We are going through a process which looks set all the | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
various sites that landowners and the council have put forward as | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
sites for the future. One of the fundamental first steps in that | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
assessment of their sides is what are the flood risks? If they cannot | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
be mitigated four, cross it off. The problem is increasing demand | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
for new homes. It is estimated that by 2026, the population in Hull | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
will rise by 10,000 meaning that 15,000 new homes will be needed. In | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
the East Riding, the population is set to rise by 47,000. Creating the | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
need for 20,000 new homes. But with large amounts of Hull and East | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Yorkshire line in flood risk areas, it means greater effort is needed | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
to make sure that any new homes can withstand flooding in the future, | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
something the council say they are confident of achieving. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
The government has announced that the coastguard station at Great | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Yarmouth in Norfolk will close. However, the Transport Secretary | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
has said the base in Bridlington will continue to operate 24 hours a | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
day. Plans to open it during daytime hours only have been | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
scrapped, but there will still be some job losses. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
The Olympic gold medal winner Jonathan Edwards has been meeting | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
young people in Lincolnshire today. The world triple jump champion was | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
encouraging students to take part in an Olympic style schools | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
competition. It is hoped it will help children tackle obesity by | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
getting more active. The Science and television | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
presenter Maggie Philbin has brought her Science Roadshow to | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
Hull. 300 school children from both sides of Humber had been given | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
access to the latest cutting-edge technology. The former Tomorrow's | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
World presenter hopes it will encourage them to take up careers | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
in science and technology. This is the most important thing I have | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
ever done because we are bringing technology, putting it in front of | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
teenagers, we are showing them the engineers and scientists behind it | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
and rear explaining the struggle as they have had to make that | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
technology. Then a say in the want to be a part of this? Then queue to | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
everyone who got in touch about a story about police officers to join | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
colleagues from across the country to protest against the latest cuts | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
to their police budget. Just a few, Sue from Grimsby texted to say, to | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
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Thank you for all of those. He escaped tyranny and he he became | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
one of Britain's top businessmen and today Hull City owner Assem | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Allam was recognised at Hull University. Mr Allam he used to | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
study in the city was given an honorary doctorate. | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
He is best known to thousands as Burford board chairman after taking | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
control of Hull City earlier this year. But Assem Allam has been | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
supporting good causes in Hull for far longer. Egyptian by birth, a | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
whole is though much his home. did not catch the wrong train. I | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
came here because Mike sister was married to a doctor who worked here | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
and I came to stay just for a few weeks initially and then I went to | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Hull University, manage to do a postgraduate and have stayed. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
Allam has made an enormous contribution to business and the | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
community here. He is an excellent example of how you can overcome | :22:36. | :22:42. | |
adversity and be successful in life. But his journey to Hull was far | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
from easy thanks to this man. He became President of Egypt in the | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
1950s and for the next 15 years was a central figure in Middle Eastern | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
affairs. Better homey had enemies and opponents and one of these was | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
a young Assem Allam. I was doing my masters and I used to take | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
advantage of the lecturers making speeches against the dictator. I | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
was arrested and I had no option but to leave. I was under pressure | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
from the family to leave the country. Assem Allam gave an | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
impassioned speech to the new graduates, urging them to put | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
something back in the community when they can just as this | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
remarkable man has. Yorkshire have won their latest | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
county championship match at Scarborough. They bowled out | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Worcestershire for 332 in their second innings and started today | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
needing 34 runs to win and they quickly got those to win by six | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
wickets. A group of teenagers from northern | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
Lincolnshire are making waves in the world of windsurfing. Emma, Max | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
and Lewis who trained near Barton are jetting off to San Francisco | :24:00. | :24:10. | |
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this weekend to take part in the At just 14, and that is being | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
touted as the finest young female windsurfers in the country. She | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
already has this evolve medal to her name but it has taken a lot of | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
hard work. I usually trained two or three times a week. It is hard | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
because it is after school and my mum and dad are at work. On the | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
weekend I get four or five hours. I like winning and that is what her | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
do it for. And it is Emma's passion that could see how making waves in | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
future Olympics. Emma has huge potential. She is an absolute star | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
and she shows a determination to go a long way in the sport. It would | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
not surprise me if we saw her going to the Olympics and the future. | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
also gets to practise with some of the top boys in the UK. I have | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
prepared loads, like today, I came here at 4:30am. But after all the | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
training, there are some perks. am looking forward to this one. It | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
is meant to be really good out there but sailing under the Golden | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Gate should be good. The fact I get to all these places, I am looking | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
forward to it. I am getting nervous but used to international | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
competitions now. With three windsurfers heading to America, it | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
seems the team are certainly on a crest of a wave. | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
Good luck to them. Let have a recap of the main news headlines. The | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
murders are summoned to Parliament. They face a grilling from MPs next | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Tuesday. The bodies of five men killed and | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
an explosion at an illegal distilleries in Boston are taken | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
away. Police do not know their identities. | :26:12. | :26:22. | |
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Fridays forecast, a bright day. Top temperatures around 23 Celsius. | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
Philip Norton has been in Boston since last night. How soon are the | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
police hoping to find out who these men were? The police really are now | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
relying on members of the public to get in touch. They are hoping | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
people have cinder broadcasts and the coverage throughout today and | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
hopefully that will bring them to get in touch with the police. The | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
initial shock is only just sinking in. There is a real sombre | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
atmosphere here in Boston. It has to be said, this is the single | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
worst loss of life in any separate fire in Lincolnshire. Even the | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
fire-fighters will be offered counselling. A sad day for Boston. | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
You have been writing in on twitter. First of all, how can they say | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
there was no intelligence? Everyman knows where it is being sold. This | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
is from Sophie, there must be a link between illegal selling and | :27:25. | :27:31. |