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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. They headlines: A week | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
on from the Boston explosion, police say they could not have done | :00:11. | :00:17. | |
more to stop the production of illegal what car. I have spoken to | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
the intelligence unit and we had nothing to suggest the premises or | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
was being used. The woman left with a hole in their throat after | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
botched surgery. You want to sit down and cried. It is the life I | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
have lost. Following fans' fury at the club's | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
relegation, the Lincoln City board faces a vote of no confidence. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
thousands of hidden cables that stop the Humber Bridge from sliding | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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Will the fine weather last? Join me A week after an explosion which | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
killed five men in Boston, police have dismissed claims that they | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
should have known about the illegal production of alcohol at the site | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
where the man died. People living in the area say it was common | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
knowledge, but officers say they didn't have any calls from people | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
worried about the problem. It's also emerged that 90 industrial | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
units in Boston have been checked by police as part of their | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
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investigation. Phillip Norton A week on from the fatal explosion | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
which took the lives of five men, the proof of the illegal distillate | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
-- distillery on Broadfield Lane has now been taken away. I spent | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
much of this week in Boston and while the shock is still clear, | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
people have questioned whether enough was done to prevent the | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
tragedy after previous raids on shops selling illegal vodka in | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
March. Why did they not keep them under observation to see where the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
supplier was from? They gossip around town for months as that -- | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
is that it was produced somewhere locally. It doesn't take much for | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
the police or HM Customs. They could have searched the industrial | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
estates. They problem increased dramatically. I did make several | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
people are aware of my thoughts and asked the cash-and-carry is if they | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
had seen a decline in their vodka sales and they said they had | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
dramatically. Today, the police hit back at rumours regulating that | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
they were aware of a distillery. Nothing, absolutely nothing, | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
related specifically to these premises and had we had that | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
information, we would have acted upon it. As we did on recent | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
information. It has been confirmed that 98 industrial units are being | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
searched as part of the investigation. Some businesses were | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
able to open today. It is a case of trying to get back to normal as | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
quickly as possible and let our customers know we are open and | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
trading. One week on and the unit has been cleared and all the | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
evidence taken away. As well as the five Lithuanian men who died here, | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
a six the man is still in a specialist burns unit at a hospital | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
in Birmingham. He is described as critical but stable. Investigations | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
into what caused the explosion and into the production and supply of | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
illegal vodka from the site are continuing. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
We would like your thoughts on this. Do you think enough is being done | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
to deal with the problem of counterfeit alcohol in | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
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Lincolnshire? If you want it e-mail, contact us: In a moment, the young | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
unemployed looking for work in help - one of the toughest places in | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
A doctor whose surgery on an East Yorkshire woman was so bad that she | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
was left barely able to speak, has today been found guilty of | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
misconduct. Jo Roche, who is a mother of two from Bridlington, was | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
due to have a routine throat operation to remove her thyroid. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Instead, she left surgery breathing through a tube. The surgeon | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
responsible will learn his fate in the coming few days, but as Leanne | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
Brown reports, his victim has spent the three years since learning to | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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Jo has been left breathing through a tube in her neck after nerves | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
linked to a vocal chords were severely damaged in error following | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
a routine operation to remove her thyroid gland. I am upset at how I | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
have been blessed and upset he didn't take the time and care to do | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
my surgery and leave me with the life that I had. You want to sit | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
down and cry. It is the life that I have effectively lost. Since the | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
operation, Jo has had to learn to speak again. I had very little | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
voice after the operation. I worked at it and worked at it to get the | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
voice I had, which is nothing like I used to have. But it is some | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
semblance of normality. It has changed every aspect of her life. | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
It has affected everything from what I buy a for cleaning to the | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
activities I do with my children. I was on holiday recently and I was | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
on the edge of the pool and not being in there with them and | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
feeling guilty. The operation was carried out by Naif El-Barghouti at | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Scarborough Hospital. In a second operation a year later he was due | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
to repair an aneurysm on Wilfred Taylor's left leg but he play it -- | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
bled to death after a series of mistakes. You never think it will | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
happen to a member of your family. It boils down to left and right. He | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
was to be operated on his left side and he tied the right side. What I | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
wanted to know was how could that happen? At the inquest into Mr | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Taylor's death, the surgeon lied under oath about the size of the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
aneurysm. The disciplinary panel said it damaged the medical | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
profession's reputation. Hopefully, at bay willow and then used to be | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
more supervision and lessons will be learned to bring in better | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
training and avoid major problems occurring again. Nothing will bring | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Wilfred back but Jo is determined not to let what happened ruin her | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
life. Leanne, What will happen to this | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
surgeon to make sure that other patients don't suffer in the way | :07:11. | :07:18. | |
that Jo Roche did? Now that the General Medical | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
Council has decided that Mr Salmond's fitness to practise has | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
been impaired, they will have to decide on a punishment. They could | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
strike him off so that he could not practise again. The most lenient | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
response would be to caution him for up to five years or they could | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
let him continue to practise as long as he feels some conditions | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
and that could mean they give him more training before he is allowed | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
to operate again. The final option would be to suspend him from | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
surgery for a period of time. The GMC hearing is continuing and his | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
professional future should be decided by a disciplinary panel | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
tomorrow. More news tonight in brief: Staff | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
at a Co-op in East Yorkshire have been threatened by a robber who has | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
made off with an amount of cash. It happened at this store on Market | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Street in Pocklington just before two o'clock. Police are searching | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
the area by air and foot and appealing for witnesses. | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
A charity in Scunthorpe says the number of families asking for | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
emergency food parcels to help them is rising every month. The Foodbank | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
has been open for a year and has already helped more than 1,000 | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
people living in poverty. Volunteers say the rising price of | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
food is making their work even more important. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Unemployed people in Hull are living in one of the toughest | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
cities in the country to find a job. Over the last five years, people | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
looking for work have made up a greater percentage of the | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
population in Hull than anywhere else in the country. Now, there are | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
concerns that people are having to take jobs that they are | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
overqualified for just to pay the bills and this is knocking some out | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
of the jobs market completely. Our Business Correspondent, Paul Murphy, | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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This lottery-funded project in Hull is trying to give these young | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
people some of the skills needed to apply for jobs and to market | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
themselves. But they know the job market in the city has rarely been | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
tougher. Most places are looking for experience or licences and if | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
you haven't got them it is a struggle because you haven't got | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
the money -- money all licences. have been looking on website and | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
handing out see beats and it has been horrible. One person through | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
my CV in the bin because I was under 18. From 16 to 64, the rate | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
of joblessness in the city has increased more than anywhere in the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
UK. Why does Hull have these problems with unemployment? Experts | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
analysing the figures say it is the lowest skilled workers who are | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
being driven out of the jobs market as it becomes ever more competitive. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
The problem with Hull, they say, is that it has far too many low- | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
skilled workers. This recruitment specialists says the impact of | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
recession means employers will no longer take a risk on employee in | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
the Blair was killed under- qualified. Companies are desperate | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
to recruit as they recover from the recession but they need people with | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
relevant skills and experience to encourage them to take people on. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
But gaining vital experience is difficult for those with few | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
qualifications. It doesn't mean they are low-quality workers or | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
less dedicated it is just that they are less academic. We try to chain | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
-- train them to a point where their skills are improved so that | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
employers think they are worth taking on. In an employer's market, | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
getting on the first run it is perhaps the toughest step of all | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
but these young people are not giving up hope. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
Diana Johnson is the MP for Hull North and joins me now. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Unemployment in Hull is the highest in the country and your | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
constituency is suffering particularly. Why are things so bad | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
in Hull? First, it is disappointing to hear those figures and I think | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
you describe some of the problems in Hull with skills and | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
qualifications and attracting businesses to the city. It is a | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
whole number of things and that is why we need to redouble our efforts | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
to ensure our youngsters get the qualifications and skills they need | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
and they get some experience. That is what is so disappointing about | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
the future jobs fund which has been scrapped. In 2008, the figures for | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
jobseeker's allowance were higher than they are now so how much blame | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
does your party need to take? worries me now is that we are | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
seeing massive cut by this government and they are starting to | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
come through. I have a feeling these figures will get worse and | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
that will be really trouble some for people in Hull. In the last | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
couple of weeks in Parliament, we had a vote it to use some of the | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
bankers bonus money to levy to pay to get more youngsters into work. | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
Unfortunately, my party put that forward but it was voted against. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
It is just showing an example of what we need to do. We have just | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
seen that people have to take on jobs they are over-qualified for. | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
What impact will this have on those who have fewer or less | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
qualifications or no qualifications? That is a difficult | :12:45. | :12:53. | |
position for them. That is why it is so important that education and | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
getting qualifications and skills is so important to our youngsters. | :12:57. | :13:04. | |
The investment that has gone into education and the grants to keep | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
youngsters on at school was vital to the future of Hull. I am worried | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
that university fees are trebling and allowances are being scrapped | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
so we are putting youngsters in a difficult position in preparing | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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them for the jobs market. We would You can get in touch using the | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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Still to come - we are live at Sincil Bank as the Lincoln City | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
board face a vote of no confidence. This is a part of the Humber Bridge | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
most people have never seen. I will show you how what is happening down | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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here will preserve of the bridge If you have got a photograph you | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
are proud of it then send it in. Here is two nights. Thank you very | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
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much indeed. -- here is the picture I have noticed that you can spell | :14:49. | :14:59. | |
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in sob now on several of your tweeds! -- insomnia. Anyway, on to | :14:59. | :15:07. | |
the weather. Apart from a few showers most of the region should | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
stay dry tomorrow. A glorious end to the after noon today. Beautiful | :15:14. | :15:22. | |
conditions. North Lincolnshire should be bright now and the cloud | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
further south should break up soon. A fine ended to the day for most of | :15:27. | :15:35. | |
us. Try with clear spells overnight. -- a fine end. The sun will rise in | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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the morning at five m and set at -- 5 am. Showers tomorrow should be | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
hit and miss. The breeze in the north means that temperatures will | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
not be so good along the coast. But it does not feel so bad in the | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
sunshine. Farther west, up towards 19 Celsius. There is some | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
uncertainty as regards Saturday's forecast. Patchy rain in coastal | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
areas but further west it should stay fine. Saturday and Sunday | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
looks pleasant, mostly dry with some sunshine. That is the forecast. | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
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We will join you again tomorrow Shareholders angry at the where | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
Lincoln City has been the run will attempt a takeover tonight. An | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
extraordinary general meeting has been called after �1 million was | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
lost during a spell in which they dropped out of the Football League. | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
It was one of the most painful days in club history. Relegation crept | :17:09. | :17:16. | |
up on the club on the final day of the season. Since then, costs have | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
been slashed and painful off-field decisions have been taken. Now some | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
unhappy shareholders have forced an extraordinary general meeting to | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
hold the direct us to account. We feel that we could effect | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
serious change. -- holder of the directors to | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
account. The members of the board should to | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
consider their position and realise it is untenable. | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
One man believes that the board will win the case tonight because | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
of their block vote but that the overall issue is not cut and drive. | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
This comes down to two things. The losses of recent years and the | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
financial position that has resulted from it, and the fact that | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
being in the conference is not good enough. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
Relegation is never good enough for but at this club it has led to | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
bitter recriminations. How are those in charge of the club | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
reacting to this opposition? They see the meeting tonight as an | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
inconvenience. Certainly they want to move on with the signing new | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
players and preparing for the new season. Their meeting is likely to | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
take several hours. Both sides however believe they can find fresh | :18:50. | :18:57. | |
ideas, new solutions, a means of taking the club for work in the | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
brave new world for them of non- League football. | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
Hull City's record signing, Jimmy Bullard, has been suspended for a | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
breach of club discipline. He will be suspended for a fortnight during | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
an incident during a pre-season trip to Slovenia. The club have not | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
yet commented. Thank you for your comments about | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
last night's Hull Trains story. The train operator has lost half of its | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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fleet due to maintenance issues. A huge response last night. James | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
says, I really used those trains to get to London because they are so | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
unreliable. John got in touch to say, I am a regular user and | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
they're great when they are working well but they are not delivering | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
the reliability. Andrew rates, I think it is one of the best | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
companies in Hull. Good customer service and cheerful staff. Thank | :20:20. | :20:30. | |
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There is just a fortnight until a big change takes place in local | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
television broadcasting. The digital switch over. A health | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
scheme is still available to the vulnerable and anybody over the age | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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of 75. I wonder if you might help us today. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
We are asking people to give a helping hand. | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
Maggie Philbin is on a mission to help people effect the switch over | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
from analogue to digital and insular that nobody who is | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
vulnerable will be left without a signal. -- and make sure. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
There is no way of telling unless people tell us how they are | :21:21. | :21:29. | |
watching. We are asking people, lend a helping hand, learn about | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
the switch-over help scheme. But for Selby Vision at team has | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
been on hand to help explain how people have to make sure of their | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
televisions will still work next month. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
I was given some help by the Government because of my age. A | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
date was organised and someone has come and given me a digital box for | :21:58. | :22:04. | |
my second television. My main one was already digital. | :22:04. | :22:12. | |
But you do not need to splash the cash. Add digital box will help | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
convert most televisions. But you will need to convert before 17th | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
August before analogue signals are switched off for ever. If you want | :22:26. | :22:36. | |
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to learn more you can contact Some of the biggest names in jazz | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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will be performing in Hull over the next few days. The city's | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
International Jazz Festival starts this evening. Unlike previous years | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
there will be no open air performances because of rising | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
costs. Being at Glastonbury was a great | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
thrill of but coming here to perform my own music is what I | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
really love for. -- what I'll live for. | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
We have been celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Humber Bridge. | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
That might be relatively young but it has had much work done. All to | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
make sure that it remains in safe condition for the thousands of | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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motorists who use it every day. Technology has come at a long way | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
since the bridge was first built. Over the years methods of | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
maintaining it have seen some big changes. | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
We need to maintain decent access. We have ways to get through with | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
comparative ease. Peter Howell overseas a team of 96 | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
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a workers who keep the bridge in tip-top condition. This a machine | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
that records acoustic sounds on the bridge and locks any unexpected | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
movements like this cable breaking. It instantly alert engineers to any | :24:36. | :24:46. | |
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potential problems. This may not look as impressive as | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
it suggests. But it is crucial for monitoring the performance of the | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
bridge. At the 30 years old the bridge is | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
said to have a lap -- reached its level of maturity but it is planned | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
to last 120 years. And if properly maintained, perhaps even longer. | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
This a general maintenance worker has seen some surprising sides. | :25:16. | :25:23. | |
It is amazing what you find on the footpaths. Bottles, bricks, I even | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
found a Jacuzzi which had fallen off a wagon!. It is a fantastic | :25:30. | :25:36. | |
place to work. For 30 metres of the low ground as | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
the most important part - and Anchorage on which everything sets. | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
It holds thousands of cables which keep to the bridge from sliding | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
into the Humber. I get the wow factor every time I | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
am down here. Most people imagine that this is where the bridge of | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
finishes but in fact it is where the work starts. | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
Protecting the cables from rust is one of the biggest jobs. �14 | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
million was spent doing so last year. Just one measure to protect | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
it from the elements and safeguard its long-term future. | :26:26. | :26:35. | |
Fascinating. A recap of the main headlines - another death at | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport. Five are now being investigated as | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
part of a murder inquiry. Police have dismissed claims they | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
could have done more to stop the production of illegal bobcat at the | :26:51. | :27:01. | |
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Boston gas explosion site. -- illegal vodka or. | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
One reviewer claims that if it was common knowledge -- claims it was | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
common knowledge where the illegal of what car was being made. People | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
in Boston knew that the distillery was there - and why did they not | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
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