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This is Look North. The headlines... MPs debate the future of hundreds | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
of BAE workers facing redundancy. They are effectively moving to a | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
position where the emblematic British aircraft, the cork, the Red | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
Arrows, will be made abroad. death of William Pleasants should | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
be a warning to all door staff is the advice from a former supervisor. | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
On hold. The plans to drill for oil in the East Yorkshire countryside. | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
Join the crowd in Queen Victoria Square later as the Chuckle | :00:42. | :00:49. | |
Brothers switch on detested light. It should stay -- the festive | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
lights. What will the weather forecast look like? Join me to find | :00:54. | :01:04. | |
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Good evening. It has been described as a human and industrial tragedy | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
in the House of Commons today. MPs had debated the future of hundreds | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
of BAE workers facing redundancy in East Yorkshire. 899 people in total | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
will lose their jobs in Brough by the end of the year. Local MPs have | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
told parliament what effect that will have. Here is our | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
correspondent in Westminster. Will anything changed as a result of | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
this debate? Has anything been achieved? It is true to say that | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
BAE and the government had received a powerful and passionate message | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
today about the company in Brough and the human impact of these | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
potential job losses. The impact on grandfathers, fathers and children | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
and the impact on the community. Questions had been raised about the | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
capacity or closing Braque and what it company is doing during | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
consultation. The potential closures were described as both | :02:08. | :02:16. | |
painful and not necessary. This is a company rooted in East Yorkshire. | :02:16. | :02:24. | |
The impact when it departs will be indescribable. Not just on the | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
workforce but the work they do at schools, universities and colleges. | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
Whether by accident or by design, BAE are effectively in a position | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
where the emblematic British aircraft, the Red Arrows aircraft, | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
is going to be made abroad. That is where a serious part of jobs are | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
going now. The company has reiterated the case that these | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
potential losses are for commercial reasons. The slowdown in defence | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
orders. But it will do all it can to mitigate job losses. I am joined | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
by MP, Alan Johnson or stop do you believe that the company when it | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
offers these --. Do you believe these reassurances? They have taken | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
the decision to end the jobs of hundreds of people to impress | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
shareholders. But they should be saying how honourable state can be | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
a. Everybody in that debate have been very supportive but also | :03:34. | :03:40. | |
Conservative MPs. Yes, we are in troubled times but we must do | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
things differently. It used to be a British company. There was a | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
feeling that unlike other countries, all affected by the slowdown, they | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
are not putting skilled workers out of work and not closing facilities. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
You represent the workforce. What can the Government realistically do | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
to reduce these losses? We must make certain that challenges are | :04:11. | :04:19. | |
made. We must look creatively at the way the consultation is taking | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
place. But it has not been substantial from the company today. | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
They used a role for government. -- there is a role for government. We | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
are looking at putting money into the area to attract business will | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
stop be --. And the drain of resources has already started. | :04:47. | :04:57. | |
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we want highly-skilled jobs for people. We must not have this. | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
is back next week to lobby Parliament against these job losses. | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
We have got one month left before consultation ends. But the feeling | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
is time is running out. We have been talking to residents and | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
Since the cuts were announced in September, workers have fought hard | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
to save their jobs. Today they had the attention of the House of | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
Commons. The closure is an industrial tragedy and 80 human | :05:32. | :05:41. | |
tragedy as well. -- also ate human tragedy. But it offered little | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
comfort to Jackie. She had to sell her house as her and her husband | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
face redundancy. I am not feeling optimistic. We are not being told | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
their rematch. I am hoping to here some news. -- very much. But it is | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
doom and gloom all the time. There is no future. Today's debate comes | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
eight days after a visit by the shadow defence secretary. But | :06:12. | :06:19. | |
despite numerous pledges of support, many people are fearing the worst. | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
The MPs will lobby for anything, I think. But I do not think that they | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
can change business. I cannot see a future for military aircraft | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
production in Brough. I am sure they will do the best that they can. | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
But some staff are positive. Darren and Mark had spent much of their | :06:45. | :06:50. | |
working lives at the site. They spent lunchtime listening as MPs | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
debated the future. After Christmas, whole families will be looking for | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
work. When you have got the local MPs and government debating about | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
the future, it has got to help and we will not give up and we hope the | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
company and the government understands that. We are a very | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
skilled workforce. The government realised that if we lose the skills | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
it is difficult to get them back. Redundancies are expected next | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
spring. Discussions are ongoing and it is hoped the debate will have | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
helped. But workers will continue to fight to stop the cuts. Coming | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
up... Why the death of William Pleasants should be a warning to | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
all other door staff. Plans to drill for oil in East Yorkshire | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
have been delayed after a meeting in Beverley today. Rathlin Energy | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
wants to sink 1.5 miles of boreholes in the ground between | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
Bishop Burton and Walkington. But people want to understand what the | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
impact will be on the environment. Powering cars and heating houses | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
and switching on lights are. We are reliant on fossil fuel. When it | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
comes to extraction, would you want it to happen next to your house? | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
That was the debate here today. A Canadian company wants to drill | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
outside of the damage To do just that. Despite the fact that | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
environmentally it is not good for this area at all, we could use that | :08:31. | :08:38. | |
to our advantage. I do not think we have got the full story. We must | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
understand more about it. We should encourage it because we need more | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
natural resources and to develop them. But we must make sure things | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
are protected. This is the area where the company is seeking | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
permission to drill. They say they have not got plans to use | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
controversial techniques referred to as "fracking", which might have | :09:01. | :09:09. | |
caused her tremors in the North West of England. -- tremors. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
think we have got rocks present in the sub-surface. We think the fuel | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
has got potential down there. environmental concerns that worry | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
the East Riding of Yorkshire council. His after-dinner they | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
decided unanimously against giving the company began ahead. -- today, | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
they decided unanimously against. - - going ahead. This could actually | :09:39. | :09:46. | |
be a source of pollution for toxins and nasty chemicals. That can be | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
damaging to health and the environment and the whole system | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
will stop a report will be --. report will be commissioned shortly. | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
People will have to wait until the new year for the final decision. I | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
am joined by Professor Afrom Manchester University. He is a | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
professor of Structural Geology. -- Professor macro. -- I am joined by | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
Professor Ernie Rutter. We think that the environmental issues and | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
about the impact on the beat landscape and the potential in | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
stacked on water supplies have been looked at very carefully. We do not | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
think that we will have much of an impact. One correspondent suggested | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
that chemicals might get in the water supply but honestly I think | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
that is nonsense. It will be protected by steel pipes. It will | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
be protected from the greater part of the length and it will not be | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
possible for anything to get sideways into the rocks. But the | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
worry is this is "fracking" by another name and that caused | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
tremors in your part of the world. It is correct that the injection of | :11:21. | :11:29. | |
pressurised to it did cause some small tremors in Blackpool. But | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
that is a different process compared to what has been proposed | :11:31. | :11:40. | |
it. This is about conventional resources. Oil that has migrated | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
and has been collected into reservoir rocks higher up. The | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
quantity of water required for that operation is about 3% of what is | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
required for "fracking". It is completely different. Can we see | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
other villages and areas being targeted like this? You make it | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
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sound like something people. It is -- terrible. But it is for | :12:16. | :12:25. | |
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conventional resources. And indeed not all conventional resources. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Professor, thank you very much indeed. I would be interested in | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
your thoughts about this. Should people in Walkington and nearby | :12:37. | :12:47. | |
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villages be worried about this We will read some of your messages | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
before 7 o'clock. People living on the Ings Road Estate are | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
disappointed with the announcement by the government of �3 million in | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
funding to improve the area. The council says it does not come close | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
to the money lost when plans to regenerate the area was cancelled | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
last year it. It will consult to find out how it should be used. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
Will we get enough money to do something with this area or are we | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
going to be left like this for many more years? These houses are in | :13:26. | :13:36. | |
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such a poor state of repair and it Still ahead: The schoolchildren | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
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getting a close-up look at wartime life. | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
Tonight's photograph was taken by Lulu rose Phillips. This is in | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
Cottingham. You might like to know that, following our Digital | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
switchover a couple of months ago some of you found that you were | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
"missing" some channels. Well, the power has been boosted to the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
Belmont transmitter so your reception should be improved from | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
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Sadly, There are still some dodgy pictures from the Belmont | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
transmitter, and there is one of them! | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
Are you sure viewers have not been asked for it to be turned down when | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
you are on? 10 to very much. -- thank-you very | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
much. It will be quite windy, but bright | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
tomorrow. There will be plenty of sunshine, with a few showers later. | :14:43. | :14:53. | |
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You will notice a chill in the earth. - - air. It is definitely | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
changing as we head into December. This weather front here could bring | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
some showers through the course of the after that. It has not been bad | :15:05. | :15:14. | |
today. We have all seen sunshine. The winds will pick up, so a strong | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
and gusty south-west wind. It stays dry until the early hours of the | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
morning. We will see some patchy outbreaks of rain. Lowest | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
temperatures down to six or seven. The sun rises at 7:45am, setting at | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
3:51pm. That overnight rain will be cleared by daybreak tomorrow | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
morning. It looks like a beautiful start, with lots of sunshine. Skies | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
may turn partly cloudy. At risk of a few showers, but I think the | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
exception to that role. Temperatures will take a dip. It | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
will feel quite called out of doors. Nine Celsius is about average for | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
this time of year. Mostly dry on Saturday, some rain Saturday night, | :16:09. | :16:19. | |
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very windy on Sunday. Must be dry I think turning a transmitted down | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
at 6:30pm is a very good idea -- turning the transmitter it down. | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
There are concerns about the training of door staff, following | :16:31. | :16:38. | |
an inquest into the death of a man restrained outside a Lincoln club. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
A jury found that William Pleasants was unlawfully killed in October | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
2008. One of the staff on duty that night has told BBC Look North it's | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
a tragedy that could happen again. Jake Zuckerman reports. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
On the 4th of October 2008, 23- year-old William Pleasants was | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
celebrating his girlfriend's birthday at the Engine Shed venue | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
in Lincoln. He was thrown out following an argument. After being | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
restrained by door staff, he stopped breathing, and died later | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
in hospital. Yesterday, an inquest at Lincoln Crown Court found that | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
he was unlawfully killed. Katie King was one of the door staff on | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
duty that night. She's always maintained that only reasonable | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
force was used. I believe this should be warning to all tall staff | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
that with them their jobs, doing their jobs in the best where | :17:27. | :17:35. | |
possible, this can happen and they can be blamed for it. -- all door | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
staff. To work as a door supervisor, you | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
need a licence from the Security Industry Authority. Since 2010, | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
those applying need to have been trained how to restrain someone | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
safely. But anyone who obtained their licence before that date | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
doesn't need to have any training in physical intervention. Given the | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
state of training in the industry, could something like this happen | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
again tomorrow? I would hope not, for everyone involved, but it could | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
be possible especially in circumstances are for your man with | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
illegal drugs in his system. The inquest into the death of | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
William Pleasants has highlighted the issue of training. Several | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
issues were raised during the inquest. One is the way door staff | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
are trained. Despite the concern raised in court, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
door staff do seem to have a good reputation among the public. But | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
following the death of William Pleasants, the security industry | :18:25. | :18:34. | |
could face further scrutiny. It is a difficult job. I think Eddie when | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
OK job. Hilaire stories about them being too big for their boots, but | :18:37. | :18:47. | |
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I have never had a problem with them. -- you hear stories. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Nearly 20 people who were living on the streets in Lincoln now have a | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
roof over their head thanks to a new homelessness shelter. The Nomad | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
Trust is working with homelessness charity Framework to run the new | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
Pathways Centre on Beaumont Fee. It's one of several ways homeless | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
people in the city are being helped. The festive season gest under way | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
officially tonight as the Christmas lights are switched on in Boston, | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
Grimsby and In Hull. And Anne Marie Tasker's on the balcony of Hull | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
City Hall right now waiting for the big switch-on. There is quite a big | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
crowd there. Yes, absolutely. Thousands and thousands of people | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
are here in Queen Victoria Square, ready for they Christmas switch-on. | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
We have had festive carols and Christmas Parade. The countdown is | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
about to start. Joining me out the chuckle Brothers. Good evening. | :19:57. | :20:05. | |
there. You had a rapturous welcome. How excited are you tibia? | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
brilliant. To be in Yorkshire, it is brilliant. -- how excited are | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
you to be here? Come and see us in the pantomime. You are delighted to | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
be back here? Yes. It is a great place. We can see Father Christmas | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
and the background. Have you given him your Christmas list? Yes. He | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
said I had been a good boy, but he has been a bad boy. I said to you, | :20:39. | :20:49. | |
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to make. No presents for you, then. The lady who has the honour of | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
switching on a light his here. She has fostered 320 children in the | :20:58. | :21:06. | |
city. I'm excited? Yes. Any second, you get to press the plunger. How | :21:06. | :21:13. | |
pleased I knew? It is unbelievable. Good luck. We were led to step | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
forward. She is about to do the Duke say. -- we will let you step | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
forward. We will hear her the countdown begins. Three, two, | :21:25. | :21:35. | |
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So that's 8. The Christmas shopping will start. People will be here for | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
a few hours, enjoy a in the celebrations. Lovely. Thank you | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
very much. The lights are on in Hull. They also going on in Boston | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
and Grimsby as well. Some more news now. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
A Lincolnshire engineering company has won a 1-million-euro contract | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
to supply wind turbine components to China. BGB engineering, which | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
employs more than 100 people in Grantham, already supplies power | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
conversion units to US and European turbine manufacturers. | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Work is to be carried out in Skegness in preparation for next | :22:13. | :22:20. | |
year's summer season. �600,000 will be spent improving the foreshore | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
and creating a nature and wildlife area. It's hoped it will attract | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
more investment to the area. New Hull City boss Nick Barmby says | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
he hasn't been tempted to tinker with the team much since taking | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
over. Barmby, who led the Tigers to a 2-0 victory at Derby County last | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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week, says he'll take small steps to imposing his ways. This what we | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
have and the players, they want to learn and get better -- the squad | :22:51. | :23:00. | |
we have. There's not a major change. If you are going to do that, you do | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
it with baby steps. On last night's programme, we told | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
you about a Hull grandmother who is suing the council after tripping | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
over a pavement on the estate where she lives. Jean Stephenson broke | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
both of her arms in the fall, and is demanding compensation from Hull | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
City Council. The authority has defended its record after spending | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
more than �1 million fixing pavements in the last year. Thank- | :23:23. | :23:33. | |
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you for the emails and messages. Collecting memorabilia might be a | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
hobby for many people, but one Lincolnshire couple have turned | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
their passion for the Second World War into their very own mobile | :24:08. | :24:18. | |
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museum. Visiting schools with two tonnes of weapons, clothing and | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
toys, they help pupils get a hands- on understanding of life during the | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
war. Simon Spark's been to meet them. | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
If you had enough memorabilia to start your own museum, would you do | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
that? Well, this couple have done. They have set up a mobile museum | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
which tours schools. At this primary school today, the pupils | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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are excited. This is a German egg grenade. This is 100 years old. It | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
started when I was about the same age as their children. I started | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
collecting bits-and-pieces. It grew and grew.. My wife and I have | :25:16. | :25:25. | |
collected and paid for the bulk of this. It is quite a collection. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
children love this. It is hands-on. Most museums they go to, everything | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
is behind glass. We come into schools, transform the hall and | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
they get a real feeling for it. They can pick up things, try things | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
on, they can handle genuine artifacts from the Second World War. | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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They really love it. I got to hold a grenade which was really cool! | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
was shocked. Some of the soldiers from World War II said the best | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
weapon they had was their helmet. The amount of items on display have | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
a weight of two tons and take hours to set up. But at the end of their | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
two-day tour, they will go home for a nice cup of tea and watch some | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
war films, apparently. Let's get a recap of the national | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
and regional headlines. Actress Sienna Miller and author JK | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
Rowling speak out about their treatment at the hands of the press | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
at the Leveson inquiry. MPs debate the future of hundreds | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
of BAE workers who are facing redundancy. | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
And tomorrow's weather. A dry, sunny start. Turing partly cloudy, | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
with a risk of a few showers in the afternoon. Feeling colder. Maximum | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
temperature 10 degrees Celsius. That's 50 degrees Fahrenheit. | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
We were talking about the possibility of drilling for oral or | :26:56. | :27:06. | |
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gas in Walkington. Response coming in -- or oil. This one saying, why | :27:07. | :27:13. | |
are we not drilling for our own oil? We need your industry we can | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
get. Someone else said, there is allegedly lots of coal underground, | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
what is wrong with using it? He said, if there is all at Walkington, | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
yes, it should be extracted and save everybody in the UK a fortune | :27:28. | :27:33. |