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Good evening. Welcome to Look North. On the front line, we hear from a | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Humberside Police officer who faced the rioters in London. It was | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
difficult to digest some of the things we saw and the fear in | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
people's faces. Residents call for these flats to | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
be pulled down because they are not fit to live in. They are ugly. They | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
are dirty. They need to come down. It is like we are put on stand boy | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
falls -- standby. After more than 74 years, the last | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
daily edition of the Scunthorpe Telegraph goes on sale. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
And find out why people in at Skegness are taking extra care of | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
the Jolly fisherman. Cloudy skies to end the day but it | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
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is looking brighter for the weekend. Good evening. A police officer has | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
today described the moment he was thrust into the heart of the London | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
riots. Both the Humberside and Lincolnshire forces have been | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
providing support to the Metropolitan Police since the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
outbreak of violence earlier this week. A unit from Humberside Police | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
has just returned from the capital where specially trained riot | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
officers have been protecting homes and businesses from looters. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
This was the moment a unit from Humberside Police swung into action | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
on the streets of east London. On Tuesday, hundreds of officers from | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
across the country were drafted into the capital to try to prevent | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
-- prevent a repeat of the previous night's violence. One of them was | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
this inspector based in north Lincolnshire. The people were happy | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
we were there, particularly when they found out that we had come | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
from Humberside. They appreciated us coming down. It is difficult to | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
digest when you turn up at a scene and there are police carriers | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
smashed, commercial metal bins in the road to attempt to block them | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
off and bins on fire and police in full riot gear with helmets and | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
shields. It is certainly a scene you would expect to see in Northern | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
Ireland but not on the streets of the nation's capital. Both | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
Humberside and Lincolnshire police say they are looking into incidence | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
of people using social networking websites to stir up trouble at the | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
height of this week's riots in English cities. In Grimsby, a 21- | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
year-old man has been arrested. Here in Humberside we have not seen | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
it back disorder but some people were trying to use social | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
networking sites and same for example, congregate at a shopping | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
centre at a particular time, and there will be trouble. We realised | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
that we needed to do something about that. We monitor the sights | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
and where appropriate we visit someone at their home, tell them it | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
is totally unacceptable and in more serious cases, we are considering | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
prosecutions. Humberside police say they will have extra officers on | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
the streets this weekend. There is nothing to suggest there is any | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
major threat of disorder but the police say it is important that | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
law-abiding members of the public can go about their business piece | :03:25. | :03:34. | |
police. -- peacefully. In a moment, the weed clogging up | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
our rivers and waterways that is costing millions of pounds to | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
remove. People living in tower blocks in Hull have been told that | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
they will have to wait another three months before a decision is | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
made on whether their homes will be demolished. One mum says that her | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
flat is simply not fit to live in. She has started a petition asking | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
the City Council to speed up its decision. At our correspondent is | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
on the Orchard Park Estate now. Why are the residents having to wait to | :04:05. | :04:12. | |
find out about their futures? problem is that Hull City Council | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
were told by the government that they would be given a one-off money | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
to build a 600 new affordable homes -- enough money. The council had | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
told that the people living here that they would have new homes and | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
that these blocks would be demolished a stop with the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
government finances coming under pressure, the money was withdrawn | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
earlier this year and that has left the council trying to decide if it | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
can destroy 8700 council properties when it has no where else to put | :04:42. | :04:51. | |
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tenants. it is damp, the frames are rotten. It is ruined. For Laura | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Patterson, getting out of her flat cannot come soon enough. You can | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
smell the faeces in the rooms. You think that is raw sewage? Yes. My | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
carpet was soaked. I am on benefits. I have got a little one and I am on | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
my own. I cannot afford to do it. She says that the damp aggravates | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
her two-year old son's Asper. She waits and waits for repairs. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
were all supposed to have double glazing before 2010. Where is it? | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
She has started a petition calling for the Orchard Park Estate tower | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
blocks to be knocked down. Those who have signed did say that Hull | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
City Council cannot leave them waiting. They are ugly and dirty | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
and need to come down. We have had a letter saying that everything is | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
on hold. They are doing a review. At the present moment, we are in | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
limbo. One minute they had the money and now we are not allowed it | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
because of the cutbacks. It is putting our state to shame. Power | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
blocks sprang up in the early 60s and where a relatively quick and | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
cheap way to clear slum housing. But instead of solving the | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
country's housing problems, they became the issue. Hull City Council | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
does not know if it can afford to knock these ones down. With the | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
government withdrawing the money, we do believe that we now have to | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
seriously look at improving the flaps and whether or not it is | :06:21. | :06:29. | |
cost-effective to retain the flat. We will find that out of. What | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
Laura Patterson and other families want is for the decision to be made | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
sooner. What have the cash source said to be residents about this? | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
-- of what has the council said? ASBO to a council earlier who said | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
that he had sympathy. But this is too big a decision to be rushed | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
through. It involves too much money to make a hasty decision. He says | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
that when it has been through all of the committees, the result of | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
the review will not be known until November. I have been told that it | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
is quite likely that four of these powers will be knocked it down. The | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
other three will have to be renovated because many of the flats | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
have been condemned. Dozens of jobs could be created in | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
Lincoln after a firm won a multi- million-pound government contract. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
Mass will work on an electronic warfare project for the Ministry of | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Defence. It is thought that up to 50 jobs could be created as a | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
result. Preparations are being made by the | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
last weekend of trading at Hull's TJ Hughes stock. The company went | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
into administration in June. The company on Ferensway employs 51 | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
people and will close on Sunday. A Lincolnshire man whose son was | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
killed in Afghanistan has set off on a charity walk. Christine Bonner | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
and her team set off from Gainsborough and was spent the next | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
10 days crossing four candies. They are raising money for the Army | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
Benevolent Fund after Hassan Corporal Darren Bonner was killed | :08:05. | :08:12. | |
in 2007. -- after her son was killed. They took the most precious | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
thing from me. I need to do this. While there are out there in Afghan | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
and those awful places, they know that we are here fighting their | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
corner. After 74 years, the last daily | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
edition of the Scunthorpe Telegraph has been published. From next week, | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
it will become a weekly paper. The company says it has made the news | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
because of tensing reading -- changing reading habits. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
It is the end of an era for Scunthorpe's daily paper but this | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
is about more than sentiment. Newsagents across the local area | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
say it is also going to hit trade. If you make per -- 10 p per copy | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
and you are selling a lot of copies a day, you are looking at hundreds | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
of pounds a week when you have two or three shops. The company that | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
owns the Telegraph has blamed the recession and readers are changing | :09:11. | :09:18. | |
habits. The first 140 page weekly edition comes out next Thursday. | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
is sad that there are going to be fewer journalists are there. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Regional newspapers employ most of the journalists at a local level. | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
There are few bigger names in the history of the paper than this | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
photographer. He was among the first at the scene at an explosion | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
where many people died. It was the only job where I cried for just a | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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few seconds, tears welled up in my eyes. I sobbed a little bit. Then | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
you have to get on with the job. This man has been a loyal reader | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
since he was a boy but is disappointed that the changes. Will | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
you buy it when it goes weekly? Why not? 160 pages, I will be sat | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
there for a week reading. And it will all be its old news. For 74 | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
years, buying the local paper has been a big part of the daily ritual | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
year. The owners of the Scunthorpe Telegraph will be hoping that their | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
weekly edition can command the same sort of loyalty. Losing the daily | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
edition could also mean losing jobs. The company, unavailable for | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
comment today, it has not ruled out compulsory redundancies. | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
I am joined by it John Meehan, the editor of the Hull Daily Mail. I | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
asked him if it was a sad day for Scunthorpe. A it is the end of an | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
era for Scunthorpe Telegraph having its last daily publication but it | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
continues and from next week, genuinely, it will be bigger and | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
better. Staff at three of our local papers | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
have been on strike for several weeks over proposed cuts. Is the | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
local paper itself doomed? Not at all. Reports of our death are | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
vastly exaggerated. You genuinely believe that? I genuinely believe | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
that. We are in good health. The business is challenging -- more | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
challenging than they used to be but mainly a business that is it | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
not more challenging than it used to be. I can talk about Hull and | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
the Daily Mail, we have more journalists on the ground than any | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
other organisation. If a paper is going once a week like Scunthorpe | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
Telegraph, it is going to be old news. It will not be a week old. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Lots of news in the Scunthorpe Telegraph currently is unique. It | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
is published on a daily basis. It will be published on a weekly basis | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
going forward. Much of it is time this. Backed the that is plainly | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
will appear on the website so readers and users of the Scunthorpe | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Telegraph will not miss out. They are going to carry on with the | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
website. People read your website. Why don't you charge for the | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
website? That is something we may do going forward. There is no | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
decision on that. It is not something we are actively working | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
towards. Other media organisations are doing that and we are watching | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
it with interest. Will it be the last of our daily papers that end | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
up going weekly? I do not know. Across the industry, others will | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
follow suit. That is... Locally? don't know. I really do not know. | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
For some newspapers, it is the natural thing for them to do. If | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
that means that they are sustainable and continue to provide | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
an excellent service to their communities, then that is the right | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
thing to happen and I am sure that readers in Scunthorpe will | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
appreciate their new weekly I'd be interested to hear your | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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thoughts on this. Do you still buy a local newspaper? If not, why not? | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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We will have some of your responses on the local newspapers before we | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
finish at 7pm. Thank you for watching this Friday night. Still | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
ahead: How part of the Chinese Olympic squad will be training at | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
this East Yorkshire venue for London 2012. | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
Find out why the jolly fisherman is still smiling after more than | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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We have had fantastic pictures over the years but tonight is a winner. | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
It is taken from the ferry, the pride of Rotterdam looking down | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
spurn Point. Thank you. Another picture on Monday. Lisa, Good | :14:37. | :14:45. | |
evening. How why you? Very good. Kevin says I saw a strange object | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
in Hull, it is always nice to see peter out and about. A strange | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
orange object! It made me giggle. Next week will be so different. | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
Hopefully, it will be Weather-wise. We have seen a lot of rain, | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
tomorrow it promises to be bright. Brightening up through the | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
afternoon. The weather front will cross over us tonight and a damp | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
start with improving conditions The cloud is bringing outbreaks of | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
patchy rain and drizzle and will continue this evening. At midnight | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
there will be clearer spells before cloud thickens again with patchy | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
rain arriving by the end of the night. With the cloud, a mild | :15:36. | :15:46. | |
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tonight, temperatures no lower than 15 degrees. The sun rises in the | :15:47. | :15:57. | |
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So, tomorrow, a mild start, cloudy, dull and damp first thing but | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
clearing out to the North Sea in the morning. It will brighten up | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
from the West. A fair bit of cloud, the cloud will remain broken. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Bright or sunny spells at times. A moderate south-westerly wind with | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
temperatures around 20 degrees. Mild towards the wash. Some patchy | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
rain overnight into Sunday but Sunday, a variable cloud, sunny | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
spells, the risk of occasional showers but many places they drive. | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
Temperatures down to 21 degrees. The rain returns on Tuesday. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
Somebody called Rupert is setting up a tribute site to you. I | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
censored some of the e-mail because none of us want to hear about it. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Have a good weekend. Things will be different next week. | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
Rivers and canals in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have been taken | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
over by this - a blanket of weed. Many of our waterways have seen an | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
increase of algae in recent months brought on by the mild weather and | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
drought. And it's costing millions of pounds to remove. Our | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
environment correspondent Caroline On our rivers. On our canals. A | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
thick green blanket of algae is taking over our waterways and it's | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
not just on the surface. This is what has been scooped up off the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
bottom of the river freshney in Grimsby this week. On one day alone | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
eight truck loads of sludge were removed from just one stretch of | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
the river. I have three machines doing control at the moment, | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
another machine, and a third machine on the river near Market | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Rasen. Numerous factors have lead to the infestation - the mild | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
weather, recent drought which has slowed the flow of water and the | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
heavy rain which has washed fertilisers off the land adding | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
nutrients to the water. But removing it is costly - the | :18:01. | :18:10. | |
environment agency spend �8 million a year removing weed. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
If we leave it to become excessive, it will hold back water flows | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
increasing water levels and putting properties at risk of flooding | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
quicker. This canal in Grantham is almost static which means the weed | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
can thrive. And it acts like a carpet on top of the water. It | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
blocks out sunlight from reaching the canal bed. It effectively | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
starves the water of oxygen. Last year large amounts of fish died not | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
too far from here as a result. British Waterways is another | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
organisation trying to keep things flowing. We are talking about | :18:51. | :18:57. | |
hundreds of thousands of pounds on the Grantham Canal alone we | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
budgeted for �30,000 worth of work to deal with the weed. But where | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
the weed continues to grow budgets are shrinking. In the future | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
clearing canals could rest on the shoulders of volunteers - we may | :19:08. | :19:18. | |
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all need to do our bit to help keep China was the most successful | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
nation at the last Olympic games winning more medals than any other. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
And today the country has announced it will be using East Yorkshire as | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
one of it's training camps. Some of their best athletes will be at | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Bishop Burton college, to train for the modern pentathlon. Here's our | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
Olympic correspondent Simon Clark. It is a combination of fencing, | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
shooting, and show jumping and the pentathlon centre will play host to | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
the Chinese team ahead of 2012. It's taken years of talks to | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
persuade the Chinese to come to Yorkshire. It is so exciting, a | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
fantastic opportunity. It is the end of the journey that started in | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
at 2007 when we heard the news about London and through our cabin | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
to the ring. When the Chinese get hit, they will find a tranquil | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
village of 1000 inhabitants surrounded by farms with the focal | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
point the village green. They could not be more different from China | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
where they are based. The population has grown from a 850,000 | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
to 14 million. The main industries of food and machinery. It claims to | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
be the world's Panda breeding centre. And this woman would be one | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
of those heading here. She is the 2009 winner. She was incredibly | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
quick then so I expect her to be a very good. Certainly by the | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
Olympics. News of China's choice has been delighted -- met with | :20:57. | :21:06. | |
delight. I like it. I want to see everybody to come here to eat. I am | :21:06. | :21:16. | |
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very pleased. I hope they will see me. When you consider the team will | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
be training here in a few months' time in preparation for the Olympic | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
Games, that is a cause for celebration in east Yorkshire. | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
Good news for Bishop Burton. The former British tennis number one | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
Katie O'Brien has announced her retirement. Katie from Hessle in | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
East Yorkshire has been competing for seven years as a professional. | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
She lost in the first round at Wimbledon this year and says the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
World Team Tennis event in America last month was her final | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
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competition. Retiring at 25. A happy retirement to her X-Men --! | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
. Hull FC are putting speculation about coach Richard Agar's future | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
behind them ahead of tonight's match against Catalan Dragons. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Eighth-placed Hull need a win to keep their play-off hopes intact - | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
after a home defeat against defending champions Wigan in their | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
last league match two weeks ago. And you can hear the game live on | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
BBC Radio Humberside tonight - Sportstalk is on air right now. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Elsewhere, and Grimsby Town start their second season in the Blue | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
Square Premier league tomorrow with several new signings but without | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
last season's star striker. Bookmakers have given the Mariners | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
seven to one odds of being promoted back to the Football League, as | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
Phillip Norton reports. It's been a difficult few seasons | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
for the Mariners - the painful memories of relegation from the | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
league last year are only just starting to fade. After a mediocre | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
first season in the Blue Square Premier, there's a new team in town | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
- management duo Paul Hurst and Rob Scott are hoping to bring stability | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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and success to Blundell Park. or nine teams genuinely feel they | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
have a good chance of promotion and we are one of them. You want to be | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
in the mix. That is what we joined the club. And when I say it's a new | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
team - it pretty much is. No less than nine new players signed up | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
over the summer. But those going out included last season's top | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
scorer Alan Connell. In his place, new strike force Anthony Elding and | :23:21. | :23:29. | |
Liam Hearn. I know a little bit about Liam from a non League so I | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
like to keep a lookout and we have done really well. Hopefully, we | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
have got a fair share of goals. management team haven't ruled out | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
further signings over the next few weeks either. But what can the fans | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
expect? Most fans will... There have been false dawns before so | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
they will see how it goes. A difficult summer with new managers | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
coming in and there has been good results pre-season and some not so | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
good. We will wait and see what happens. The Mariners haven't won | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
an opening day fixture at home for five years - they'll be looking to | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
change that against Fleetwood Town tomorrow. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
And Scunthorpe United have been drawn against Premier League side | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
Newcastle United for the second round of the Carling Cup. The Iron | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
beat Accrington Stanley in Round one and will play Newcastle at | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
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Glanford Park in two weeks' time. This man might be 103 years old, | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
the famous jolly fisherman Ascot. It can often be seen roaming around | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
the resort entertaining visitors. Now, someone you to look after him. | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
As the mayor he has any responsibility. They've become the | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
latest custodians of this iconic figure. The famous the Jolly | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
Fisherman, the slogan has been selling Skegness for 103 years. | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
never said anything about looking after an old fisherman but I'm sure | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
he would do an excellent job. He is a real magnet. One of the best | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
things we have got. Responsibility for the famous faces fall into East | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
Lindsey District Council. The decision to say goodbye is down to | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
financial savings. People love him. Just walk around the town. John is | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
a local historian and says the image created is as important now | :25:32. | :25:38. | |
as it was when it was first commissioned in 19 08. It was | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
putting bums on seats. They had to produce something that poke you in | :25:42. | :25:49. | |
the eye and it did. At the time, 19 08, it was art nouveau period, more | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
elitist. It was a breath of fresh air. You see him on the tourist | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
guides, he is the symbol of Skegness. He seems to attract | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
everybody. It's amazing. One symbol like that can mean so much. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
transference of care for the famous old man will be gradual. Already, | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
his new guardians are ushering people they have no plans to change | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
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him and why would they? After 103 Let's get a recap of the national | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
and regional headlines: The Prime Minister visits police as officers | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
hit back at criticism of their tactics during this week's riots. | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
A Humberside police officer who faced the rioters in London says it | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
was difficult to accept the scenes on the streets of the capital. A | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
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damp start with patchy light rain. Response on the subject of the | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
Scunthorpe Telegraph going weekly. Mark says it is a shame for their | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
readers and employees. Information on the internet is costing jobs. | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
Another, we read more on the internet. The echo is a habit. No | :27:14. | :27:23. | |
one will buy it any more, rest in peace, the Telegraph. Sarah, not | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
worried about the Telegraph, it will be full of weekly rubbish | :27:27. | :27:32. |