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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight... | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
The multi-million pound business boost from the Olympics, but the MP | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
for East Yorkshire says there's little benefit for his area. So it | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
is London centric and the large Olympic legacy will be mainly based | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
in London. A high-level meeting appears to | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
bring lower bridge tolls a step closer. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
A campaign to let rural communities vote on the return of traditional | :00:28. | :00:38. | |
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fox hunts. Let the people who live in hunting country decide how the | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
countryside should be run. And join me live at this new | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
exhibition. It is all about broken hearts and wide disposing of items | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
like this can often bring closer and happiness. | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
And an interesting change in the weather on the way. Much colder as | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
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we head into next week. With exactly six months to go until | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
the start of the Olympics, a local MP has questioned the value of the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Games to our area. Greg Knight, who represents East Yorkshire, claims | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
London 2012 will do little for his constituents. That is despite | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
figures showing businesses in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
rest of the East Midlands have already benefited to the tune of | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
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more than �400 million from the They may not produce running shoes | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
or cycling shorts, but Arco in Hull are busy kitting out the Olympics. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Half a million pieces of safety equipment will leave this depot | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
before the opening ceremony, from fire extinguishers to safety vests | :01:48. | :01:58. | |
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to hard hats. 26 Thursdays, I worked out this morning. That makes | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
it quite close. We are really proud to be associated with what is going | :02:03. | :02:11. | |
to be the biggest event the UK has ever staged. 70,000 volunteers will | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
work as stewards joined the Olympics helping spectators and | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
athletes. They will be kitted out with uniform from this country. It | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
is a top-secret design that has been specially signed off by Boris | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
Johnson. Despite success stories like Arco's, | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
not everyone is convinced there is gold at the end of the Olympic | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
rainbow. Yesterday, East Yorkshire MP Greg Knight questioned the | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
game's value. When that flaming torch goes round the country, is it | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
not the case that the fuel it will be burning his pine sterling? | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
Mr Knight's constituency will be home to one of three national teams | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
training in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The Chinese | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
Pentathlon team are using facilities at Bishop Burton. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Egyptian paralympians will practise across Lincolnshire including the | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
Meridian Leisure Centre at Louth. The Sierra Leone team have been | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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offered sports centres in Hull. each of these teams will get a | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
grant of �25,000. That will be spent on the accommodation and food. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
We are hoping they will cite sea while they are here as well. | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
As well as sightseeing, it is hoped the athletes themselves will pull | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
in the tourists. Attractions including the deep, the Yorkshire | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
Wolds and Lincoln Cathedral are gearing up for more visitors. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
will be decorating the whole square. We have Olympic flags and bunting | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
and we are bringing in flowers and a cafe area. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire's Olympic legacy may be bronze | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
compared to London's Gold. But many businesses here say any boost is | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
welcome in these tough times. Earlier today, I spoke to MP Greg | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
Knight and asked him why he thought the Games would have no benefit for | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
many areas of the country, including his constituency of East | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
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Yorkshire. My concern relates solely to the | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
overrun. I was quite happy when London won the Olympics at a cost, | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
we were told, of �2.3 billion. I am aware that some local firms were | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
given contracts out of that initial budgeting. My concerns are now are | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
that the budget has gone to five times that amount. If you have a | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
builder quote for repairs to your house, you might expect the final | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
bill to be 10% or 15% above the estimate, but not five times the | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
estimate. That is what is happening with the Olympic Games. Far too | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
much of taxpayer's money is being squandered. What about the Olympic | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Delivery Agency? They save firms have won 43 of the most valuable | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
and most important contract work - �74 million. Those contracts, out | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
of the original budgeting. What we are now seeing is money being spent | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
like there's no tomorrow. �335,000 has just been spent four or they | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
sculpture in Dorset. Those taking part in sealing them look at it! | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
This is with hard-earned taxpayers' money. But there are contracts for | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
work for our part of the world. You cannot say there is no benefit for | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
East Yorkshire. I am saying there is no benefit I am aware of from | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
the increase in the Budget in East Yorkshire. I have no difficulty at | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
all with the Abid -- original budgeting of �2.3 billion. That has | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
now bloated to �12 billion. It is the bloating figure, the difference | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
between 2.-1294967284 billion, which I question whether any of it | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
is coming to East Yorkshire. What would you ideally like to see | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
happen? Do you think the Games is a waste of money? I think the Games | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
as originally budgeted was something we could all be proud of? | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Taxpayers' money, once the word Olympics is seen on the Bill line | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
of the Budget, it appears people are saying pay it. Someone has to | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
get a grip. The National Audit Office are not happy, the taxpayers | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
a lions are not happy. When local people are being thrown out of work, | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
when people were being told there is no money for community groups, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
when people were being told their pensions will have to be revised | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
because Britain has no money, this sort of spending is offensive. | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
What benefits do you think our area is getting from the Olympic Games? | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
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Or is Greg Knight right to be In a moment... | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
Lincoln rower Emily Taylor and her fight fight for an Olympic place. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
A deal to cut tolls on the Humber Bridge by half appears to have | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
taken a step closer tonight. The Government has already offered to | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
write off �150m of the Bridge debt. Four local councils have been | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
negotiating how they'll share financial responsibility for the | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
remainder. North East Lincolnshire Council had said it wanted to | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
underwrite less debt than the three others. But that stance seems to | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
have softened tonight following what was described as a | :07:51. | :08:01. | |
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constructive meeting. All smiles this evening. The leader | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
of North East Lincolnshire Council was much more optimistic about | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
working with other councils and the Government to reduce tolls. It is | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
now his understanding that the financial burden of the bridge deal | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
with the Government is not as big as first thought. We're not going | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
to be asked to underwrite the debt. We are underwriting the share of | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
the operating costs. That is a different scenario, and very | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
sustainable. The arguments between the consuls have been based on | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
worries that if the plans to cut tolls feels, local taxpayers will | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
have to pick up the Bill for the bridges debts. It now seems that | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
liability has been misunderstood and tolls could sued be cut. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
want want by and 50 tolls as soon as possible. The beginning of the | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
financial year would be great. We don't want it ratcheted up to �3 | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
because the sums add up. -- sums don't add up. If the councils can | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
agree, then that tolls can be have to. For this company, that they | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
can't come quickly enough. Quayside spends �80,000 the year crossing | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
the bridge to deliver fish around the UK. It is very late in the day | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
to start arguing amongst themselves about politics. The politicians | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
really need to look at the economics of North East | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
Lincolnshire. There is a lot of movement over that bridge. We need | :09:31. | :09:39. | |
to get something reduced and have a say in the bridge itself. Despite | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
today's stepped forward, there are nagging questions about whether the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
plan to reduce tolls can work in the longer term and whether tolls | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
will need to go up in future years if insufficient volumes of traffic | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
take advantage of them going down in the first place. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
Joining me now in the studio is Lord Haskins, the Chairman of the | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, which has the task of bringing | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
investment and jobs to both sides of the Humber. These talks are | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
dragging on, aren't they? How worried are you about the fact that | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
the four councils havn't been able to agree? | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
It will get sorted. The figures are still a bit up and the air. They | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
have not let me have other captain yet. But they're going to agree you | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
for us to look at the next week. The business community wants to be | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
sure that these figures are right. Do you get the feeling that they | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
might be flawed? The deal at the moment could be better. More of the | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
loan could be written off, and that is an option if we felt the figures | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
did not work. They have made a certain assumption about volume | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
increases, which business people might be sceptical about. Until I | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
have gone through the figures, I cannot say much more. Were you | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
surprised we appeared to have got the wrong end of the stick over | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
this? It does not look great in London. They have got their heads | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
round at SVRs now. All we get is a tremendous amount of goodwill from | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
London. Why is it important that the tolls are reduced and reduce to | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
soon? They have been very high for a start. Secondly, there is clearly | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
some economic activity, potentially, to be benefited from the word holes. | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
The original idea of the Humber Bridge was there was going to be a | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
huge amount of traffic across it. This is a step in the right | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
direction. How much difference it will make, I do not know. There are | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
a lot of people travelling expensively a cross that bridge. | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
must make your job of attracting business to the area more difficult. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
When it is all done, and we are down to him there were level, that | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
will be a much easier sell. If you want to work in Hull but live in | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
Lincolnshire, you will be able to do so. Given what you know so far, | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
are we still on for April? I should hope so. We will have to go through | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
it in the next week or two. But you are confident? Yes. And if it isn't | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
right, we can go back to the Treasury in two or three years' | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
time and have a renegotiation. Thank you. | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Police divers have been carrying out searches today as part of a | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
murder investigation into the death of man who was discovered in a | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
waterway in Boston. The body of a Polish man was found in the South | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
Forty Foot drain close to the Redstone industrial estate on | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Wednesday. Police have spent the day collecting evidence at the | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
scene and ask anyone with information to come forward. At the | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
moment, we have the site for the man's body was taken from. Either | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
ask that if anybody has seen anything that they feel is | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
suspicious around that site, to come forward and speak to the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
police, no matter how small or insignificant they may feel it is. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
The husband of an East Yorkshire based Euro-MP, who became embroiled | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
in a nepotism row, has said he's not taking her seat. Diana Wallis | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
announced last week she would be stepping down as a Liberal Democrat | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber. Stewart Arnold was the party's | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
second choice candidate, which entitled him to take over the job. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
However Mr Arnold has now decided not to take the post as he wants to | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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support his wife, who is suffering Thank you for watching. Still ahead | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
tonight: The campaigners who say only people in the countryside | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
should get to vote on the future of hunting with dogs. | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
The things people keep when couples split up, going on display for all | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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Tonight picture is of Flamborough lighthouse. Thank you very much. | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Another picture on Monday. Talking of performing creatures. A good | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
evening. Some nice pictures on this week but not one of the Humber | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
Bridge. I don't think we want to go there, you're doing that on | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
there, you're doing that on there, you're doing that on | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
purpose! A lot to talk about tonight. A big departure and what | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
we have had this winter. More on that in a moment. In the short term, | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
a number of showers around right now. There could be a problem with | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
based on some untreated surfaces. Dry with some sunshine is the | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
headline for tomorrow. Into next week, a cold and continental feed | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
means a sharp frost that night but a good deal of fine weather. That | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
is a big change for the winter so far. Tomorrow is fairly nondescript | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
with the land they care tried to get in but defeated. The cold | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
continental air will win for much of next week. In the short term, a | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
number of showers around. They have proved quite heavy through South | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
Yorkshire. They are heading for Lincolnshire and it could be a bit | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
windy with sleet and some snow, particularly over the London -- | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
eventually these heavy showers will slip away south-east. Skies will | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
clear to some extent and that means a fairly low temperatures, close to | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
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freezing point. Some nice in rural areas and untreated services. Those | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
are you're at high water times. A bit of missed first win in the | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
morning, especially across Lincolnshire. That will break-up | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
and then a nice day with some sunshine, a variable cloud and all | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
parts looks set to be dry. Top afternoon temperatures just below | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
normal. Highs of six Celsius. Sunday, mostly dry with the chance | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
Sunday, mostly dry with the chance of one or two showers. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Can you ask him not to look so smug when he says he called it will be? | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
Or Lisa is always apologetic. Have a good weekend. | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
Rural communities should be allowed to decide whether the ban on fox | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
hunting is overturned. That's according to campaigners in East | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
Yorkshire who are calling for a local referendum on the return of | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
hunting with dogs. But animal welfare groups say they'll fight to | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
keep the ban, which was introduced in 2005. More from our Political | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
Editor Tim Iredale. Seven years have passed since | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
hunting with Dogs was outlawed by Parliament. The these hunting | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
enthusiasts and East Yorkshire remain committed to overturning the | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
ban. The hunts have carried on but they just follow a trail and do not | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
catch the talks is any more. Let the people who live in hunting | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
country decide how it it should be run. There should be County | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
referenda across the country and then that would be democratic. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Prime Minister has promised MPs a free vote on the repeal of the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Hunting Act but no date has been set yet. My problem has always been | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
that it was just taking criminal law into any area of activity where | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
it did not belong. We will wait for the House of Commons to the side | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
and then we can decide. The public simply do not want a return to | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
hunting or to turn the clocks back. Even now, there are a number of | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Conservative MPs who have come out and say that -- said they do not | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
support the appeal. Opponents say that public opinion is still firmly | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
in favour of the ban. According to one recent opinion poll, 69% of | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
those questioned whether against the return of hunting wild animals | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
with dogs. Here in Beverley, at traditional hunting town, opinion | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
is divided. I think there is no reason why they should not. I do | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
not agree with hunting a tall and think it is unnecessary. There are | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
more humane ways of keeping the fox population down. Absolutely not. | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
Why should any animal be torn to pieces like that? It is a more | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
realistic way of keeping the fox population down. Overturning a | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
hunting ban does not appear to be a priority for the government at the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
moment. The pro-hunt lobby say they will continue to keep up the | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
pressure for another of vote on this controversial law. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
And the future of the hunting ban will be debated on this weekend's | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
Sunday Politics, that's from noon on BBC One. | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
A pilot from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire has become the first | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
to be authorised to break the sound barrier flying at supersonic speed | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
over land. A Typhoon plane caused a sonic boom heard by thousands of | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
people yesterday. It was taking part in a security training | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
exercise ahead of the Olympic games. The Ministry of Defence says it's | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
still investigating if a plane was responsible for a huge bang heard | :19:37. | :19:47. | |
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over Grimsby last week. They have been some comments on | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
that one. A rower from Lincoln is hoping she can find the form to | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
earn a place in the Olympic squad. A year ago, Emily Taylor wasn't | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
even in the elite squad but now with six months to go, her | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
performances are making selectors sit up and take note. Our Olympics | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
correspondent Simon Clark joined her at training today. | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
Don at a lake in Berkshire named after Olympic heroes Redgrave and | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Pinsent. Already in the water, the woman's elite squad and among their | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
number, Emily Taylor. Emily discovered growing at university | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
and now, it just a few years later, she could be at the Olympic Games. | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Next week we're doing some testing on the water in pairs and we have | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
to do really well and that. That will determine who or pairs partner | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
for the final Olympic team trials as. In this part of the world, you | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
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don't need to go far to find it roars. -- rowers. Matthew Pinsent | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
has been watching Emily's progress and says that making the squad is | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
an achievement in itself. I am not saying she cannot do it, but it is | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
already a massive achievement to get to the level she has made | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
already. If she does make -- not make part of London, she will be | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
part of the real generation in 2016. Everybody in London has been very | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
helpful and I cannot be that sociable because I am training all | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
the time but all my friends are very supportive of that. My mum and | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
her husband have been absolutely amazing. I know that they are | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
behind me 100%. It may be six months before we can cast our eyes | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
on the Olympic Games but for these athletes, it is the next six weeks | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
that are all-important. They have to be at their physical and mental | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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best for the Olympic trials, the a pathway to London 2012. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Fingers crossed for Emily. Hull City are preparing to meet the | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
leaders of League Two, Crawley Town, in the fourth round of the FA Cup | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
tomorrow. The Tigers will be hoping to continue their good run of form | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
in the Championship. City have a fully fit squad to pick from as | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
they look to make it through to the fifth round draw. All we want it is | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
a big team. We're fully focused on Saturday and will be leaving | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
nothing in the changing rooms and going for it. You can hear full | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
commentary on that match tomorrow. BBC Radio Humberside's coverage | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
gets underway at 1:30. They will also have commentary of Grimsby | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Town's match against Telford. And BBC Lincolnshire will be on air | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
from 2pm tomorrow for Lincoln City's match at Kettering. | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
This year marks the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and we'd like your help to | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
celebrate this landmark event. 60 years ago, the former Princess | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
Elizabeth became Queen on the death of George VI. These are the first | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
pictures of the young Queen returning to the UK in 1952 after | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
learning of her father's death. We'd like your memories of that | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
moment and let us know if you've ever met the Queen. We'd like to | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
hear what the Queen means to you. Here's how you can get in touch | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
with us. You can ring one of our hotlines with your memories. The | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
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We look forward to hearing from you. Have you ever had a broken heart or | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
been through a painful relationship breakup? Haven't we all? Well, you | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
might find some comfort in an unusual exhibition of objects going | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
on display in Sleaford which all tell their own painful story. Phil | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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Connell is there for us this evening. What can we expect to see? | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
It is possibly one of the most bizarre exhibitions you might have | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
ever seen. It's the opening night here at Sleaford's National Centre | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
for craft and design, and the room is full of stories of broken hearts | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
and damaged dreams. These are the objects for which -- which for many | :24:17. | :24:25. | |
people over the years have made things worse. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
It is a travelling exhibition from Croatia that has arrived in | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Sleaford with 73 often sad but extraordinary stories. An eclectic | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
mix of objects that tell of tears, damaged hearts and broken | :24:38. | :24:47. | |
relationships. This leg it was donated in Zagreb by a war veteran | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
who fell in love with his social worker during the 1990s, during the | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
war in Croatia. He finishes in a funny way saying that a lead lasted | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
longer than the relationship because it was made a sturdier | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
material. During the course of its travels, this moving museum has got | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
bigger and bigger. Wherever it stops, vocals can offload at | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
objects which may have been at constant reminder of painful times. | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Here in Sleaford, this 1974 record by 10 Ajax is one of several items | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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already handed in. -- Terry Jacks. He had gone away so this is my son | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
to him. It was very poignant at the time. This is a good way to get | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
over it? It is. I have fond memories of my teenage love but 30 | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
years on it is time I handed it over. After over 30 years, Jane's | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
broken teenage heart could soon be on the mend. Memories perhaps best | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
forgotten but now for people to learn from. | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
The first people to see the exhibition here tonight have | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
discredit a bit like going for therapy. The good news is that if | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
you have had a broken heart, the exhibition is here it right through | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
April. A lady has donated this book on getting thin. The boyfriend who | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
bought it, she says, is just a distant memory. | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
If you're going, enjoy a! Let's get a recap of the national and | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
regional headlines. The Royal Bank of Scotland's chief | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
executive is under pressure to turn down his bonus of just under a | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
million pounds. An East Yorkshire MP criticises the | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
cost of the London Olympics and claims it will have little benefit | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
for this area. Tomorrow's weather - a low cloud and mist at first then | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
bright with sunny spells. Top temperatures around six Celsius. | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
Big response on the subject of the Olympics. One tweeted to say that | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
this far is benefits go, none. We pay taxes so that rich southerners | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
can watch sports. Rachel disagrees. I am carrying the | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
torch and running across Europe. We have raised the profile of Hull. | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
I agree with everything it said about the Olympics - what a waste | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
of money! All the other countries must be laughing that they do not | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
have the expense. Greg is a rate - �10 billion would | :27:33. | :27:37. |