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Warnings of the worst drought since the Seventies, farmers and wildlife | :00:12. | :00:21. | |
feel the effect. You need weeks of persistent drizzle, persistent rain. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
A minibus carrying schoolchildren has crashed and overturn the are | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Market Rasen. The school yard question from a | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
seven-year-old which has turned into a race row. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
The last minute try it -- the last minute try which robbed Hull K R of | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
a victory, but was this broken clock to blame? | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
And do Skegness and Hull deserve their reputation as some of | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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Britain's bleakest towns? The Government says it will act to | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
minimise the effect of what could be the worst drought in | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Lincolnshire since 1976. The summer between ministers, farmers and | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
wildlife groups has been held in London today. Anglian Water, which | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
supply is Lincolnshire, has already pleaded with his customers to | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
reduce water consumption. What has come out of today's meeting? | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
Inane messages, everyone must work together to save water as suppliers | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
come to be more unpredictable. Customers are being asked to be | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
more careful it, and not to waste water. Taking showers rather than | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
bat. Water companies also have a role. Anglian Water and Yorkshire | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
Water have some of the highest leakage rate. Hosepipe bans are | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
needed early during drought. Farmers are looking at possible | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
water storage. They're looking at plans to combat a dry winter in | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
2013. Drought is already causing big problems. | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
The parched land of 1976. One of the West -- one of the worst | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
drought recorded in the UK. 35 years on, a similar picture is | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
emerging. Normally at this time of year, we would be up to full | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
capacity. It would be full of water. It is quite dry at the moment. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
Drought is beginning to affect the crops being grown. These are last | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
year's potatoes. This year is not looking so positive. For a potato | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
crop, which comes in late May, early June, to get our yield, we | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
have to have the water. If it was tried between now and then, there | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
could be some major problems ahead. This matches the area most at risk | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
of continuing drought. Unfortunately, it includes areas | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
like Lincolnshire, where most of our food is grown. More rain is | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
vital. We need months of torrential rain, they may not be a popular | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
thing to say, but lots and lots of drizzle. If that does not come, and | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
there is no sign of that on the horizon, there is a possibility we | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
will have restrictions, hosepipe bans, for instance, in the not-too- | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
distant future. There are fewer birds of this reserve in Skegness | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
because the water levels are so low. The drought is almost as bad as we | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
have had it here. If it continues, the main effect will be on the | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
breeding bird population. Particularly things like lapwings. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
The Czechs need soft mud to feed them. -- their offspring need soft | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
mud. There were calls for lasting changes to protect our water in the | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
future. Next month, the Environment Agency will publish a list of the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
ad is expected to be in drought in spring and summer in the hope of | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
helping people plan for the year ahead. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
Before we came on air, I asked Richard Benyon what they're doing | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
to help farmers. We have worked out that Corporation across boundaries | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
of water companies is happening. We need that to happen more. We need | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
to be sure we are assisting food producers, wherever they are. Water | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
is available now, they are using that he fell on farm storage for | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
irrigation purposes and that everybody has joined up in what | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
we're trying to do. Environment Agency in government, working | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
closer with water companies, farmers others to make sure that | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
we're using water as wisely as possible. The water companies | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
themselves are not looking after water, are they? Anglian Water and | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Yorkshire Water have some of the worst leakage rates in the country. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
We have seen a lot of improvement on that. 36% of improvement in | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
recent years. What is happening. A lot more needs to happen, I agree. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
What is really important is the water companies are talking to each | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
other and we are able to, where possible, move water through into | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
connectors from areas that are poor in water to areas where it is rich. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
It is taking water from streams and rivers that are already dry. That | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
is not going to work, is it? many parts of England, there are | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
water -- rivers where the water level is beyond any level which she | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
can take water from but others aren't. That is why we are taking | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
action now, to make sure that we are able to take water where there | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
is a surplus in certain rivers and use it over the summer. It is not | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
just about rivers and water companies, it is about everybody, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
how we use water in our household, demand and supply. That is what we | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
were looking at today in the summit. What would be a long-term plans? So | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
that we are not in this mess next year and the year after? There is a | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
pattern forming here. We agreed this morning that there are some | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
emergency matters to take forward to deal with the problem this | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
summer. We recognise that we could be facing an issue next year if we | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
had a third dry winter in a row, we want to make sure that we are | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
taking every step we can to use water has wisely as possible but, | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
where possible, move it from areas which have led to areas which have | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
not. At his record nation through government comes in. -- that is | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
where co-ordination through government comes in. Thank you. | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
Richard Benyon. The government says we all need to work together to | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
conserve water. Will that be enough to avoid drought measures in the | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
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summer? Your thoughts on the Coming up - the crew of HMS Grimsby | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
say they fell 10 ft-tall marching through their adopted port. | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
A minibus carrying schoolchildren has crashed through a hedge this | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
afternoon and overturned in a ditch. The bus was from the Aegir | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
Community special school in Gainsborough. The accident happened | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
on Top Road near Market Rasen. We have been following the story. What | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
can you tell us? The accident happened at just after | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
3pm. It is not known whether any other vehicles were involved. No | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
children were hurt. The driver and his passenger were airlifted to | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
hospital by the Yorkshire air ambulance. All parents have been | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
informed and the pupils from the Aegir Community special school are | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
now say. Lincolnshire County Council have told us an | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
investigation have been launched into what happened. -- has been | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
launched. This will spark fears amongst parents, coming just days | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
after a bus crash in France. A grandmother who drowned along | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
with her grandson in a Lincolnshire lake has been described as a | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
wonderful neighbour. Dawn Mullany was found dead with her seven-year- | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
old grandson, Laurence Mills. His head teacher said he was a star | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
pupil he will be sadly missed. Flowers were the only sign of the | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
tragic accident that happened here. Described as a lovely needed a -- a | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
lovely neighbour who doted on her grandchildren, Dawn Mullany died | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
after a visit to the lake to feed the ducks with her grandson, | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
Laurence Mills. Our neighbours, Pat and Terry saw her just before she | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
left. We saw her at 10 o'clock in the morning. She was of is the | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
going off with the little boy to feed the ducks. I have never seen | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
her sad. There must be really tragic. Her daughter and her | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
grandchildren were her life. She loved gardening and worked in local | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
nurseries. She would do anything for you. A post-mortem has revealed | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
that they both drowned. Some local residents think that she may have | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
been trying to save our grandson when she drowned. Police are | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
continuing to give their support to the family involved. They lost to | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
loved ones in this tragic accident. Today, his head teacher said he | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
would be sadly missed. He had a wonderful sense of humour, he was | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
chatty, sociable and had impeccable manner -- Becker will manners. He | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
loved everything about school and was the first here every morning. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
An inquest will take place later this week. There are still no clear | :10:24. | :10:32. | |
answers as to how a special day out ended in tragedy. | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
A Lincolnshire MP has been forced to apologise to Parliament after | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
failing to declare his interests and a private health company. The | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
MPs' register of interests shows that Mark Simmonds, who represents | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
Boston and Skegness, has paid �50,000 a year as an adviser to the | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
health care form. -- was paid. He has apologised for not mentioning | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
that when speaking on the debates in the Health and Social Care Bill | :11:01. | :11:07. | |
last year, as he should have. inadvertently admitted to draw the | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
House's attention -- inadvertently omitted to draw that pays attention | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
to my capacity as an adviser for a local health care can bide -- | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
provider. I would like to take this opportunity to correct the record | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
and to apologise. Two unexploded little bombs -- | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
World War Two bombs have been found near Louth. The area has been | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
evacuated and bomb disposal experts have been at the scene -- will be | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
at the scene tomorrow to make it safe. | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
Still ahead - the crew of HMS Grimsby fire up new friendships in | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
their adopted port. The people of ghoul fightback | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
against claims that they live in one of the UK pause my bleakest | :11:56. | :12:06. | |
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As soon as you went away the weather improved. | :12:20. | :12:29. | |
I am nearly as Orange as you! This is real. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
They headline is quite a mild one for this week. On Thursday, we | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
could see 15 Celsius across parts of our region. And compare that | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
with the Saturday 11th February when we were down to minus 15. They | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
headline is dry and mild with variable amounts of cloud. Very | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
variable amounts of cloud. Very little of that rain to help the | :12:56. | :13:03. | |
drought. In general, it does not promise too much for the next two | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
weeks. This is a dry direction for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
will also be mild. We have had a week weather front slipping down | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
from the north-west which has produced some patchy rain but most | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
places have remained dry. Just a bit of patchy rain - small minds. | :13:24. | :13:34. | |
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It will clear up and all parts will become dry. The sun will rise in | :13:35. | :13:45. | |
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the morning at 714 A M. A day of the variable, sometimes large | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
amounts of cloud. The odd spot of rain to start with. Some sunny | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
spells coming through. It will feel milder than it has done it today. | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
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Top temperatures... The 60 forecast - rain on Wednesday but lookout | :14:17. | :14:27. | |
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Thursday! 15 degrees. -- look at the first if. -- first day. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
the first if. -- first day. See you tomorrow. Education | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
officials say they are working to resolve claims of a racist incident | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
in a school playground in Hull. It is being reported that parents were | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
called to Griffin Primary school in East Hull. It was after a seven- | :14:46. | :14:55. | |
year-old boy asked a younger pupil about his skin colour. Go it was | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
that this school where a seven- year-old boy asked a five year-old | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
if his brown skin meant he was from Africa. | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
This school reported it as a racist remark and launched an | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
investigation after the younger boy told his mother what happened. | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
my view, the child was not racist but simply being inquisitive and | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
QEGS and doing what a young, bright child would do - ask questions. | :15:24. | :15:30. | |
school says areas a legal duty to report any incident perceived to be | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
racist. The mother involved was asked to sign a document saying he | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
had made a racist remark, she refused saying he was been curious. | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
The school said they were following council guidelines. The guidelines | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
are drawn up with the help of Ofsted. One teaching union says the | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
need to be applied more flexibly. understand why they would want to | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
pass it on in, but I think the judgment as to whether something is | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
racist is something which will need clarification. Other regions of the | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
city had seen a different -- at influx of diverse nations but East | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
Hull remains a diverse region. not think that is racist at all, it | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
is perfectly natural for a child to want to know why someone is black, | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
brown or whatever. We have lots of mixed-race children Penair school. | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
What do you think of the remark? Yes, it is racist. It is just a | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
curious question. It is quite normal really. An innocent question | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
or racism? The parents involved have met with the council to try | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
and get a resolution to this. I am joined by Abel Rivera from a | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
group that promotes the well-being of black and ethnic minority | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
communities throughout Hull and the Humber. Them Good evening. Neither | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
mum thinks this is racist. A local MP has described it to me on the | :17:12. | :17:21. | |
radio as crazy. Is it racist? not. It is curiosity. Children of | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
this age Arona process of learning. They want to know what about others. | :17:28. | :17:36. | |
-- are in a process. We believe this is not racism but curiosity. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
It is an opportunity for us to learn from this incident, as | :17:40. | :17:47. | |
parents, as a school and as a wider community. When we talked about it | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
on the radio today, everyone said the same as you. Has the school got | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
this wrong? The school has its own policies and I do not want to | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
comment on those. From what you have heard, does that seem rather | :18:04. | :18:13. | |
heavy-handed? At this age, there is no racism. There is curiosity. We | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
need to encourage his curiosity. We need to use this opportunity to | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
take this as a learning curve for our communities and area city. | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
There are many communities in this city. How would you have dealt with | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
this? Which you have used it as at discussion.? Of course. That has | :18:38. | :18:46. | |
happened. There is a great debate about this. It is quite knew how | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
this works, a place for a many diversity is, we are in the | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
learning process. The important thing is the welfare and safety of | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
the children. Thank you very much indeed. | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
Some sports now. Hull Kingston Rovers secured a | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
hard-earned draw with St Helens at Craven Park in a fiercely contested | :19:16. | :19:26. | |
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fixture. The Black and Whites held on to win. The docking points from | :19:35. | :19:41. | |
both matches will be discussed on the Super League show. -- the | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
talking points. In football, Scunthorpe United | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
earned back-to-back wins to ease their relegation worries at the | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
foot of League One. They came from behind at Leyton Orient when Josh | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Walker equalised with a precise finished. Then Andy Bartram made it | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
two when he stretched to put the ball past the keeper. It was then | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
new boy Jon Parkin who secured a 3- 1 victory near to the end of the | :20:03. | :20:13. | |
game. The pressures of management are explored on late kick-off | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
tonight. You have to bring in new players. All the best players went | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
last year, so that is a tough one. Hopefully the fans can see that and | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
stick with the boss and the team. It has been difficult because you | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
want to walk in and have a success right away, but we had not been | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
able to do that. That is off on late kick-off tonight. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Grimsby athlete Richard Buck found great form at the weekend to keep | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
alive his Olympic dream. Richard, who works in a supermarket to make | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
ends meet, was first in the 400 metres with a personal best at the | :20:53. | :21:02. | |
Birmingham grand prix. After the success of the recent David Hockney | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
exhibition in Hull, drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are to go on show | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
in the city. The 10 joins will be exhibited at the Ferens Art Gallery | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
later this year. -- 10 drawings. They belong to the Royal Collection | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
and are touring the country to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee. | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
think it is the first time Leonardo has ever been to Hull. They are | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
some of the greatest works of art in European culture. They are | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
normally kept in Windsor Castle. The only really come out on | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
exhibition. For a venue like Hull to have them is really quite | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
special. Fantastic! The crew of HMS Grimsby say they | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
felt 10 ft tall as they marched through their adopted port at the | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
weekend. Thousands of people turned out to watch the parade and | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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hundreds queued to get a look round I think the link with Grimsby is | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
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important. It is something for the town to associate with. | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
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We are proud to have them on this You feel 10 ft tall walking through | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
the town centre. It is nice to have that feeling of being appreciated | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
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Now, he claims to have been to the bleakest towns and stayed at the | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
shoddiest hotels and eating questionable food. Tynan Moore's | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
latest book includes Skegness, Hull and cool but is all bad news for | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
those destinations? Crispin Rolfe reports on some redeeming features. | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
You are awful but I like you! some other towns feel a bit 70s at | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
times - do they really need reminding of it? Skegness, cool and | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
Hal all feature in a bit -- in a book by 10 Moore. -- 10 nil if. | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
Goole is one of the few places I struggled to find a silver lining. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
I cannot say was the right time of year, it was a wet Wednesday at the | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
end of November. I was looking out at this wasteland before me. 1926 | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
saw the construction of the most famous landmark - built above a | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
thriving court. Has the view from the water town got better or worse? | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
Here is the town mayor. We are sitting in at I 165 sitting arts | :24:26. | :24:36. | |
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venue. -- 165 seatubg arts venue. You can walk round cool without any | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
fear, it is very safe. It is not a bad town and it is getting better. | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
Not everyone is convinced the town had a lot to offer right now. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
not a big fan of cool, I would rather go to Doncaster. There is | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
nothing here. It is rubbish to be fair. There is nothing here. | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
name of Goole derives from the Anglo-Saxon for open sewer - surely | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
that means it needs all the extra love it can get. There is no such | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
thing as bad publicity however. Let us get some chat from Crispin | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
now. What is the chance of a change of image? Proposing a day trip to | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
go for Valentine's instead of Venice, is probably where I had | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
been going wrong. Look at the water weighs however, they are | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
spectacular even if industrial. This town is now bidding for city | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
status as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. If he should get | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
that, it would make a massive difference. Local Vettel businesses | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
say they can see massive potential for business coming here. -- local | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
hotel business. This could make a real difference to this East | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
Yorkshire time. Thank you very much. Let us recap the main headlines: | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
There has been a damning report on border security of the UK. The | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
government warms of the worst drought since the 70s, farmers and | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
wildlife in Lincolnshire feel the wildlife in Lincolnshire feel the | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
effects. Tomorrow's weather - dry with sunny spells. Top temperatures | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
of 11 Celsius. Response coming in on the subject of water and how to | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
save it. John says we used to live in the north-west Highlands and | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
there was an enormous surplus of water - surely we can pipe water | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
from a violence to eastern England? There should be a priority for her | :26:58. | :27:00. | |
There should be a priority for her water companies. -- from the | :27:00. | :27:08. | |
Highlands. Water companies should be able to deal with the demands. A | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
typical response from profit-takers and politicians from Stephen. I | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
would be happy to lose -- use less water if the water company reduce | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
my belt. Richards says - the first thing to | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
do is fix the pipes. Do not lose water down a broken pipes. Finally | :27:30. | :27:35. |