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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight... | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
She told "a pack of lies" - a judge's verdict of murderer Julie | :00:09. | :00:16. | |
Dixon. "Someone came up and attacked us | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
and set fire to the place." Does it matter who delivers your | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
local public services? Calls for a shake-up of councils in | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Lincolnshire. A seasonal warning about Christmas | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
light safety, as fire ruins one woman's festive plans. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
And the end of a year-long challenge - the whiskery story of | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
the men growing their beards for charity. Under not forget to join | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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me for your Christmas weekend "A pack of lies" - that was the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
ruling of a judge on the stories told by Julie Dixon, as she tried | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
to get away with the murder of her long-term partner. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
It comes at the end of a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court to decide why | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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she had killed 46-year-old David Twigg. The judge decided that when | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
she locked him and his workshop and set it on fire, it was a planned | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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killing. What did the judge say? She showed no emotion as the judge | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
said there was a pre- meditated murder. He said that he her account | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
of how he came to die a was untrue, in fact, I am sure it is a pack of | :01:53. | :02:03. | |
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lies. These lie started the moment she called 999. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
"Someone came up and attacked us and set fire to the place." | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
A 999 call from Julie Dixon, apparently the victim of a | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
terrifying attack. "They were dressed in black with a | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
hoody on and a mask or something." Despite combing the scene, police | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
found no evidence of masked men. It was an elaborate story Julie Dixon | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
told police and David Twigg's family to hide the fact she had | :02:27. | :02:37. | |
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murdered him. The police and emergency services were misled | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
right from the period of the original emergency call and even to | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
this point now, she has not accepted the truth and has shown no | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
remorse and his family were really close to her. They confided in her | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
and the betrayal of their trust that the field is terrible really. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
David Twigg's grieving family were lied to for months. | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
Today, the police gave a statement from his parents outside court. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
This has been a very difficult and emotional nine months for us. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
We've lost our only son David at the hands of someone who we have | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
loved and treated as a daughter. The loss of David is more than we | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
can bear and we have a massive hole in our world." | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
It was Sunday, March 13 when Julie Dixon locked David Twigg inside | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
this tiny store cupboard at their joinery business in Burgh-Le-Marsh. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
She doused the premises in petrol and set them alight. | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Neighbours were surprised Julie Dixon did not come to them for help. | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
And once her lies were exposed, friends who had mourned alongside | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
her felt betrayed. This funeral was massively well attended, because he | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
was a very popular character. quite sickening really, heart | :03:59. | :04:09. | |
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insincerity. The father was distraught at the service. The | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
words that he read it was said in some be the for the women who ate | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
now turns out had murdered him. And people were so shocked at those | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
lies because Julie Dixon and David Twigg had seemed a happy couple. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
She even claimed they were planning to marry and Michael Capes says | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
there was nothing out of the ordinary when they were working for | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
him just before the murder. But in June, police arrested Julie | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
Dixon. Now, she admitted lying and began | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
claiming she had actually made a suicide pact with Mr Twigg because | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
of their financial troubles. David Twigg had been declared | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
bankrupt, something Julie Dixon tried to hide from him. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
And that was not the only secret. Mr Twigg's family say she had | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
hidden the fact that bills had not been paid. They say money was taken | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
from his business account and she had also remortgaged their home | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
here without telling him. Police say because Julie Dixon has | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
told so many lies, they feel they will never know the real why she | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
killed. We really do not know. We do not nor have something has | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
happened a weekend which led to are carrying out this cold-blooded | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
killing. She has never expected excepted full responsibility for | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
the action she carried out. police say because Julie Dixon's | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
told so many lies, they feel they'll never know the real why she | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
killed. She faces a life sentence, but now | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
the judge has ruled it was pre- meditated, he can decide the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
minimum time she will serve in prison when the case resumes on | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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January 3. Thank you very much. In a moment, the damage caused by | :06:09. | :06:18. | |
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Christmas lights. It acted like a blowtorch. It tall erect that the | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
whole of the inside of the house. Two teachers have resigned after | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
being involved in an internet discussion where people from East | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Hull were called "thick" and "inbred". | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Parents at Hull's Westcott Primary, have been told that headteacher | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
Debbie Johnson and Nyanza Roberts have both left. They were suspended | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
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following the comments on Facebook. The school now needs to move on. It | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
came out of special measures and October of this year. It needs to | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
move on any positive way now. Parents have been delighted that | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
the teachers have decided to call. Associated British Ports says it | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
hopes to have a broken lock gate at Hull's King George Dock fixed by | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
next Thursday. P&O says it has cancelled two ferry | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
crossings over the Christmas weekend because of the problem. | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Tonight's Zeebrugge sailing and the return journey are cancelled. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
It has ignited a debate about who you pay your council tax to and who | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
empties your bin. The leader of Lincolnshire County | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Council has warned a big shake-up is coming. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Martin Hill says the seven district councils in the county could be | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
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scrapped and a new single authority should then take charge. From a | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
team begins to running the local swimming baths, more than 700,000 | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
people are served by Lincolnshire seven district councils. But we do | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
be more cost-effective to of one single authority looking after the | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
whole of the county? The two-tier system of county and district is | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
probably in the minority now. Many other places now have one council | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
and it seems to work better. I have not seen any great problems with | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
that. So, who will people they pay their council tax to for services? | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
I have been asking local people. think they should be left to the | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
people in the places they will have to decide. A but the leader of the | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
city of Lincoln council is not convinced either. Lincoln has a | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
very proud history of governments, going back 2000 years to the Romans. | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
Understandably, they take great civic parade in the people having a | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
council that they feel is accountable to them and them alone. | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
The seven councils could now emerge into a single unitary authority, | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
but the authorities say there is coming no plans to change the way | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Lincolnshire his government. Martin Hill, the leader of | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Lincolnshire County Council, is here now. Martin, who should things | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
not stay as they are now? I am not calling for immediate change. As | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
has just as been said, the government has said there will not | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
be local government restructure in this Parliament or maybe not even | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
the next. It simply needs us to look at ways we could become more | :09:55. | :10:05. | |
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efficient. Lincoln has had a city council | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
since Roman times. Are there not historical reasons | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
for keeping our present local authorities? Yes, I ate not that | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
people care who is looking after their services. But in this present | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
day and age, we have to look at the best way to present services to the | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
public. What they have said is that in the future we have to look at it. | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
Because of financial pressures on us, we are trying to work closer | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
together with other county councils. We are saying later, a year's time, | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
we all have to look at different options in the future. But surely | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
the whole party is all about making things local? Does this not go | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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against this? No, in any sort of the area, we bid still focus on | :11:12. | :11:22. | |
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individual areas which would have the local and packed. The person | :11:22. | :11:31. | |
who is elected by the council will stand up for their area and make | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
sure that the get the services they deserve. What do you think people | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
at home in the county will be thinking about this? I do not know. | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
I need to reassure people that nothing is happening in the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
immediate future, but we need to keep looking at this in years to | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
come, so that we are providing the best services possible. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
I would like to hear your views on this. | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Is it time to scrap the seven district councils in Lincolnshire | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
and allow the county council to provide all services? Or would you | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
prefer to keep the local district councils as they are now. Here are | :12:10. | :12:20. | |
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Firefighters are making an urgent plea for everyone to check the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
safety of their Christmas lights after a house was almost destroyed | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
by fire. It started when the lights came | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
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into contact with an electric heater. Sarah Corker reports. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
Salvaging what is left from the charred remains of this home. When | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
Paul arrived at his sister-in-law's house.the fire was spreading fast. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
With the back door open, it acted like a blowtorch. It has wrecked | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
the whole of the inside of the House. Everything in their had just | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
been refurbished over the last couple of years. It is all gone. | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
Within half an hour, it had all gone. The ambulance, police cars | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
all came. We wear all petrified. The fire started yesterday | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
afternoon in the front bedroom and spread throughout the house. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Luckily, the 60-year-old woman who lives here escaped through the | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
front door, unharmed and raised the alarm. It is thought it began when | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
Christmas lights fell onto an electric fire. Please be aware that | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
where you put your Christmas decorations is very important, | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
because of the fall, you have to make sure they are not going to | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
fall on to the naked flame. As loss adjusters arrive to access | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
the scale of the damage inside, one small comfort for the owner maybe | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
that one of the few things that escaped undamaged were this year's | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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Still ahead, how the area's food producers are helping the nation to | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
serve up Christmas dinner. It is nearly time for a close shave | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
for these crimes be men who have reached the end of a year-long | :14:28. | :14:38. | |
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beard growing challenge. -- Grimsby Good evening, young man. How are | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
you? Very well. | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
John Kelly has stuck his neck out and given a forecast for the whole | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
of 2012 in one national newspaper. Karen says, show us what you are | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
made off. He probably has a very good | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
solicitor. Any plans on polling a cracker this | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Christmas? Do you want to give before cost? | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
The forecast is not bad, it looks like tomorrow will be brighter and | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
mostly dry as well. But there will be a chilly wind. We are looking to | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
the West because Christmas Day will be one of the mildest for many a | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
year. It was 10 Celsius this morning but temperatures in the | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
North have dropped back down and we still have rain and drizzle. It has | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
been a miserable day across our region. But the rain will get a | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
move on in the next few hours and we will see a clear sky is. With | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
all of this moisture we have to watch out for the potential of icy | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
patches. Temperatures down to one Celsius in one or two spots. The | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
sun will rise at 8:18am. It will set at 3:44pm. These are the times | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
of high water. A much better day to come, a bright start, chilly, and | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
the cloud will gradually increase from the West so it turns bright | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
rather than sunny. Essentially it is dry but it will tend to cloud | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
over. It will be windy and it will probably feel quite chilly out | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
there, temperatures close to the average by December, around seven | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
or eight Celsius. Seven in Grimsby. The all-important forecast for | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
Christmas Day, it looks very mild and very windy and mostly cloudy. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Apart from the odd spot of rain it should be dry. A similar forecast | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
for Boxing Day. What a con -- contrast with this time yesterday, | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
I mean, this time last year! I don't think you would get that | :17:11. | :17:18. | |
kind of service from John Kelly. He is being modest, he has made a | :17:19. | :17:28. | |
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prediction bet every day of 2012. It is a busy holiday period for our | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
football teams. Unusually this year, though, there are no games tomorrow, | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
though, there are no games tomorrow, so the festive fixtures begin on | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
Boxing Day. Our sports reporter Simon Clark takes a look. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
Christmas gives teams like Scunthorpe a chance to put some | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
impetus into their season, something Hull City seemed to have | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
achieved. The Tigers make the trip to | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
Middlesbrough. Here are two former Premier League sides seeking a | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
return to the big time. It should be a really good game, we | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
are looking forward to it. It might be tough but it is there for us and | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
we have to put on a good performance. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
With home games coming up, Scunthorpe United know that a | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
couple of wins will help them avoid looking over their shoulder at | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
relegation. That game against Bury will see Alan Knill pitted against | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
his former club, something he has been looking forward to. | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
At most of the players are the same, only three or four have been | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
brought in command base still have the same qualities when I was there. | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
At Lincoln City it is non-League derby Day as Grimsby city make the | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
trip to the fallen Lincolnshire big boys. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Most of the vegetables that will be eaten on Christmas Day in the UK | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
have been grown here in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. And the | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
growers say they are enjoying one of their best years. A local | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
Yorkshire pudding maker and a cheese producer will also be | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
helping fill our festive plates, as Crispin Rolfe has been finding out. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Shopping for seasonal veg or even a cheese platter? Chances are this | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
year it has come from either East Yorkshire or Lincolnshire. East | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
Anglia may be Britain's breadbasket, but our area is certainly its main | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
source of Christmas veg. This year around three-quarters of seasonal | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
produce comes from here. Quite a contrast to 2010, when wintery | :19:45. | :19:55. | |
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weather crippled producers and saw imports grab a market share. | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
The weather has been with us, compared to last year when we had | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
temperatures down to minus 12. Today it has been 11 degrees. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Trading is also up for this Lincolnshire cheese producer. Their | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
supplies have been maturing for months and are selling fast. | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
Business this year has been very good but Christmas particularly has | :20:20. | :20:27. | |
been good for us, with sales up by over 50 %. Very exciting times for | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
And the cows are also being kept busy by Hull's Yorkshire pud | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
producer, currently making 20 million paddings a week, for which | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
they get through 2 million litres of milk a year. | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Here at Aunt Bessie's we produce up to half a million Yorkshire | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
puddings every year and it really takes a hike in the run-up to | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Christmas so at the moment we are producing up to 20 million | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
Yorkshire puddings a week. So, despite the downturn, it seems | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Aunt Bessie's goods are still selling like hot cakes. But the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
real boost for our region has been this year's healthy vegetable crops, | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
with farmers hoping this season will more than make up for the | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
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white wipeout they had to overcome in 2010. | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
The star of the night is the man who stands at the side of the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
Yorkshire puddings. They have been growing their beards | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
for a year and have raised thousands for charity. Now Dave | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
Clixby and Richard Wall in Grimsby are itching to shave them off after | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
enduring a year of teasing and funny looks. Simon Spark has been | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
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$NEWLINE they have been growing their beards for a year to raise | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
money for Help For Heroes, and now they are just a few days away from | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
shaving them off. The wife is doing it with a cut- | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
throat wait -- cut-throat razor. It has been an ever lengthening | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
year and, while Richards has gone for the goatee look, Dave's gone | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
for the full bush and kept a photo diary of his growth. It started | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
sensibly but got progressively out there, with his latest snap as you | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
would expect. But family and friends are getting ready for the | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
new look. Some days you don't notice it is | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
there. I have grown these for the last couple of months, not to be | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
too overshadowed by him. It will be so weird. He will look | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
much younger than he does. If he picks me up from school I usually | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
look at his beard. It will look so weird without it. | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
With just a few days before they shave that such a festive time of | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
the year, what can we do with what they have grown. | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
We think they should dress up as Santa Claus. | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
With a Santa and a sparrow, it was time to catch the thoughts of | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Grimsby. It might need to be died a bit more. | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Is that grey hair? It looks good, especially with the white on it. | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
Mine is natural! From a festive bet to new year | :23:33. | :23:43. | |
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relief it will be all change on This from Alan, what a good idea | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
for one not overall council. This should include parish councils. | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
John says, in some towns there are three municipal authorities and I | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
feel this is a waste of council tax. Next says you can't have a | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
councillor from Lincoln determining decisions in Leicester. Richard | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
says it is ridiculous that taxpayers should have to fund | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
district councils as well as the county council. Jo says we need | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
districts to represent the different needs of each area. If it | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
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is not broken, don't fix it. We will end tonight's Look North | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
with the children from Victoria Dock Primary School in Hull. They | :24:48. | :24:51. | |
were the winners of our Children In Need choir contest, and they are | :24:51. | :25:01. | |
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# In the bleak mid-winter frosty wind made moan. | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
# Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone. # Snow had fallen, | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
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snow on snow, snow on snow. # In the bleak mid-winter, long ago. | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
# Our God, heav'n cannot hold Him, nor earth sustain. | :25:55. | :26:05. | |
# Heav'n and earth shall flee away, when He comes to reign. | :26:05. | :26:15. | |
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# In the bleak mid-winter, a stable-place sufficed. | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds | :26:25. | :27:11. | |
# The Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ. # What can I give Him, poor | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
as I am? # If I were a shepherd, I would | :27:18. | :27:27. |