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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight: | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
There's anger at the decision to allow thousands of gallons of water | :00:08. | :00:15. | |
to flow away to the sea in drought hit Lincolnshire. Why can't they | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
set a bit aside for making a reservoir for a certain area and | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
pump the water there? A teenage girl tells the police she's the | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
mother of the baby whose body was found at a recycling plant. Jailed: | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Seven men go to prison for their part in a major drugs operation. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
All the fun the fair - we're with the revellers preparing for an | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
event going back generations. more heavy rain in Lincolnshire | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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tonight. Join me for the latest. month after the hosepipe ban was | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
introduced across Lincolnshire, the Environment Agency is being | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
criticised for wasting water by allowing gallons to flow out into | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
the sea. Despite the fact that the county has been in drought for | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
almost a year, they say it's necessary to prevent flooding. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Critics say the water should be stored on land to help ease the on- | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
going problems. Our Environment Correspondent, Siobhan Robbins, | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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explains. Gallons of water heading out to sea at Boston Lock. As it | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
flows out, up the road, water courses are low and will drop | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
further. It is crazy. Why can't they set a bit aside for making a | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
reservoir for a certain area and pump the water into the reservoir? | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
And then we are keeping some water and it is not going to sea. Why is | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
all this water being pumped out to sea, but we're facing a hosepipe | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
ban? The Environment Agency said this is necessary to protect areas | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
further upstream from flooding in the future. They also say despite | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
all the rain, the land still isn't wet enough to reverse the ban. No | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
one wants homes put at risk of flooding, but some claim during wet | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
weather, we should store the water. During April we haven't used | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
anything from the mains top up. It has all been rain water. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Lincolnshire council saifrs money each year harvesting water in this | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
tank and it ends up in here. We're not flushing mains water. It is all | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
rain water. That helps sustains and to save money on water bills and | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
that the help people pay less rates. Reservoirs are one way to store | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
water. Why can't more be siphoned off and used during droughts? | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
can consider putting in more water storage reservoirs, they're costly | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
to build and take up a lot of land and you need to be certain that is | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
the right way to spend money. The other thing we need to look at is | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
making use of water we have already got. A pipeline is being built to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
move water from near Louth to boston. But some believe we should | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
store the water already flowing into the town, rather than piping | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
it down. In a moment, how a cleaner sea could help some of our resorts | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
to bring in more visitors. A teenage girl is being cared for at | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
Scunthorpe General hospital after a baby's body was found at a waste | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
recycling plant. She contacted police last night after an appeal | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
for information. It's not clear how the baby died and detectives are | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
waiting for the results of a post mortem examination. Amanda Thomson | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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has more. A detailed forensic examination of the recycling plant | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
has kept police officers busy all day. The operation has been on shut | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
down since the discovery of what is unds to be a baby boy yesterday. | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
The buy that -- guy that found the body is distressed. He is being | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
looked after by police. Across town the young mother is being scared | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
for at Scunthorpe General Hospital. -- cared for. In a statement we | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
learned that police received a telephone call from a girl who was | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
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The caller was identified as a local teenage girl. We don't know | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
how the infant came to be at the recycling plant, but locals told me | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
they fear the community might have let this young family down. It is | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
something big that we need to look into and something we need to, I | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
think as you do, it is a good idea and people need to talk to each | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
other and try and find out. If there is people like they should be | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
helped and there should be a community standing together to find | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
why this can happen. It is our children and our future. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
postmortem and detailed forensic investigations like those that have | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
been going on here for most of day will reveal many of the facts. But | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
truly understanding the tragedy that has unfolded here is going to | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
take time. I've been speaking to Alley Lofthouse from the charity | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
Afoundling, which supports mothers who've abandoned their babies and | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
the children involved. She's been assessing the young mother's | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
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emotional state. I think she will be distraught. I think she'll be in | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
shock. I think depending on whether she knew or whether she didn't know | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
she was pregnant, she will have the shock of actually having the baby | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
and then the shock of what she's actually done and the reality of | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
what she has to come to terms with now. What would you like to see in | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
circumstances such as these? Because it is illegal to leave a | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
baby? It is. It is, in this country. Do you think that's right? I don't. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
I think the law is right, but there needs to be an amendment on the law. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
If somebody does leave a baby maliciously, I do believe thigh | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
should be charged and prosecuted. But if you have somebody in such a | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
distraught situation that they have no option but to leave a baby, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
whether it's left out to be found or not, then they should be you | :06:40. | :06:49. | |
know they shouldn't be prosecuted. In many countries abroad, there are | :06:49. | :06:59. | |
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baby hatches, what are these? baby hatch is like an incubator, it | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
is somewhere, normally attached to a hospital, where people can go in | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
through a separate door and they leave the baby in the incubator. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
And just leave the baby and walk away? Yes. There is an alarm set | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
off. There is information inside them, they can leave as much or as | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
little as they want. Would you like to see that here? And there is no | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
breaking the law. No there is an amendment to the law that says | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
they're free from prosecution if they surrender their child safely | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
that. It is classed as a safe situation. Would that be ideal for | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
here. It would be. I think you need a mixture. Because there is a cost | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
implication and the way we're at the moment financially, I think you | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
need two parts. You need the baby hatches and you need what the | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
Americans have which is a safe haven. Very interesting to talk to | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
you. Thank you very much indeed. Train drivers in Lincolnshire are | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
on their second day of strike action in a row over pensions. East | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Midlands Trains says it wants to resolve the disagreement as soon as | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
possible. It's the second time in a week that ASLEF members have walked | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
out. The union says their action is not aimed at upsetting travellers. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
I apologise for any inconvenience they're experiencing today, but | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
they must understand that we don't take this action lightly. This is | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
the last resort and we don't want to alienate the customers. The | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
customers will be with us as train drivers, they have been all my | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
career and they will be even after these trains have gone. We're not | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
trying to do that, we're trying to inconvenience the employer. A year | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
after a series of arson attacks at a house in Castle Bytham and police | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
are again appealing for information. Peter and Sylvia Cox are in their | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
70s and 80s and were forced to move away and live in hiding. One of | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
their dogs was killed the fourth time their cottage near Grantham | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
was targeted. Lincolnshire police say they would like to hear from | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
anyone with any information. Two farmers have today each been | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
sentenced to 11 years in prison for running a major drugs operation | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
across the East Midlands and Yorkshire. It's been described as | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
the biggest operation by Lincolnshire police in more than a | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
decade. Drugs with a street value of �1.1 million was recovered. Our | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
correspondent, Vicky Johnson, was in court today, she joins me now | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
from the newsroom. On the face of it they were two hard working | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
family men who lived in the Louth area. Philip Cox ran the Joy of Koi | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
fishing lake, while Stephen Payne helped run his family's farm. But | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
they became the ring leaders of a huge wholesale drugs operation - | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
supplying drugs to mainly to the Grimsby area, but also to the rest | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
of Lincolnshire and parts of the Midlands and Yorkshire Timothy | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Louth, from Wyberton near Boston was described in court as a | :09:37. | :09:47. | |
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talented musician and charity fund raiser. But he was sentenced to | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
nine years for his role in the drugs operation. Another four | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
defendants - Simon Godwin, Jamie Milne, both from Lincolnshire, and | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
Liam Buckley and Rashpal Singh, from Yorkshire - were all jailed | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
for between 12 months and three years. Today's convictions were all | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
down to Lincolnshire Police's Operation Atlanta which began in | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
late 2009. Around 100 covert operations were carried out during | :10:13. | :10:22. | |
the long investigation. Police today released some of their | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
surveillance footage, showing packages of drugs being left in | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
remote location and being retrieved by another member of the gang. The | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
police said the success of the operation was down to joint working | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
with the East Midlands special operations unit. It has been a big | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
police operation. I followed it personally since it started in 2009 | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
and it has been the biggest operation of its kind in recent | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
years and the sentencing we have seen today shows the amount of | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
effort that has gone into the investigation. Seven men have been | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
jailed and another six are expected to appear in court tomorrow. And a | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
further two men will be sentenced at a later date. So as we have said, | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
this has been a major and very successful Lincolnshire police | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
operation. Thank you. Still ahead tonight: How the Diamond Jubilee | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
celebrations have grabbed the imagination of people across East | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. All the fun of the fair - The Lincolnshire | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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town preparing to enjoy an event dating back almost 1,000 years. And | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
we were excited by this photograph taken. This is bluebells at Lund. | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
Thank you Jeff for that. Another picture tomorrow night. Roger says, | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
do you think it is right a presenter like Paul Hudson should | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
appear not only not wearing a tie, but a ski jacket two sizes two | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
small. Can you turn side ways, you're getting the old Michael Fish | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
corporation. What did you think? enjoyed every second. You were | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
washing your hair - or taking it washing your hair - or taking it | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
off! It is unsettled, with more of that useful rain, but some of us | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
are sick of it. Some more patchy rain and this weekend it is colder | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
with frost at night. But importantly it looks much brighter | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
and in fact not too bad a weekend. More of that in a moment. You can | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
see how much cloud is on the satellite. The thickest is running | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
still through central and southern parts of Lincolnshire, some heavy | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
rain in Skegness and it will continue to run in from the east. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
There could be some decent rain fall in Lincolnshire. Getting as | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
far north as the Humber. Yorkshire should be dry with temperatures | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
around six Celsius. So the sun will rise in the morning at 5.19. Your | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
high water time at 10 to 6 tomorrow. So mostly cloudy, still some patchy | :13:23. | :13:30. | |
rain in Lincolnshire. Sinking southwards for for Evers Yorkshire | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
A dry morning, but in the afternoon some rain and drizzle. Not too | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
clever, still a cold day, it has been a cold day today, we're | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
looking at single figures temperatures tomorrow, nine Celsius | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
is just 48 Fahrenheit. But then skies clear on Friday night and we | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
should wake up to blue skies and sunshine on Saturday morning. But | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
that will be with a frost. Sunday very similar. So all in all a cold | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
weekend with some wintry showers. But the emphasise is on -- emphasis | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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is on fine, bright weather before See you tomorrow. Now the bridge -- | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
the beach at Bridlington has been given top marks for the quality of | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
its water in a new survey. Last year, the town's 0 beach was | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
criticised for reaching the minimum legal requirement, but now | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
standards have improved. Our reporter is there now. How big an | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
issue is the water quality there? Considerable. When you think that | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Bridlington is the birthplace of British surfing, it is an issue. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Last year, the beach at last it's blue flag because the water quality | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
was not good enough. This year though, the Marine Conservation | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
Society says these beaches are to be recommended. That is good news | :15:13. | :15:21. | |
for businesses, who rely on money generated from the tourist trade. | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
Although in 2015, those water quality standards are due to double. | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
Let us find out what Bridlington is doing about it. What are you doing | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
to make sure Bridlington complies? We are looking to the future and | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
are hoping to achieve the higher standards in water quality. We are | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
investing for �2 million. What will that money deliver? It will allow | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
us to deal with storm water flows. And are you confident you can do | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
that in time to bring Bridlington up to standard by 2015, this | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
crucial date? We are confident. We are looking to start work at the | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
end of the Year and complete for the 2014 bathing season. And you | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
are asking people to contribute to this process. We have a concept and | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
we are keen to get feedback from people who live in Bridlington. We | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
are holding an open day where people can come and look at our | :16:27. | :16:37. | |
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plans. Businesses are hoping that Yorkshire Water will deliver for | :16:42. | :16:52. | |
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the 2015 deadline. Please send us your thoughts on the hour beaches. | :16:57. | :17:07. | |
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We look forward to hearing from you. Voting has been taking place in the | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
council elections in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Voters in hole, | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
North East Lincolnshire and the City of Lincoln are going to be | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
polls to elect councillors. Our political editor will be here with | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
all of the news from away election battle during a special programme | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
tonight called Vote 2012. It begins at 11:35pm. | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
There are just a few weeks left to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Councils are reporting an increase in the application for street | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
parties. Almost 150 have been made so far. Many local communities have | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
plans well under way. It may be their first experience of | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
the Jubilee party, but at this school in hole, the children are | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
well aware of what is required. Bunting is being made here at the | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
rate of knots and be just a few weeks left to will the Jubilee, | :18:17. | :18:26. | |
these tiny fingers had been busy. - - left to the Jubilee. We are going | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
to send out was to Buckingham Palace. On 31st May we are going to | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
have a street party. Local residents will be aware something | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
is going on when the tables and bunting go out. But what we wanted | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
to foster is part of this a real idea of community that we have lost | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
over time. Across our area, applications for street parties | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
have exceeded all expectations. 144 have so far been made, more than | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
double the amount for the royal wedding last year. In Hull and East | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
Yorkshire, 67 parties had been planned. Across the whole of | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
Lincolnshire, celebrations will take place in 77 towns and villages. | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
Make your plans early, get your application in as soon as possible | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
because we do not want to run out of time. Have a great events, but | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
plan for it and plan early. Are we going to taste each cake? And in | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
this village, or the residents had big plans for the Diamond Jubilee | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
with a four-day festival. We have the crowning of the Carnival | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
Queen... In it is a village with a lot of experience. There have been | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
celebrations here for the Queen's silver and golden jubilees and a | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
street party for the royal wedding. It is just an excuse to have a | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
really good party. So with a Royal plans in place, it is the day these | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
children will always remember. Stories which may be recounted to | :20:05. | :20:15. | |
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their own grandchildren in years to If you are doing something for the | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
diamond jubilee, do let us know. Bosses at BAe have confirmed there | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
will be no compulsory redundancies at its Brough factory this year. | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
The announcement follows the company's Annual General Meeting in | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
London yesterday, which saw hundreds of staff gather outside to | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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take part in a rally to protest against job cuts. We are confident | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
that there is interest in the skills on site. The plan is to | :20:46. | :20:54. | |
convert that into actual contracts. We are further on in that process. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Well lots of you got in touch about this. One viewer who calls herself | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Mrs J texted in. She says more than just the BAe staff will be affected. | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
There are another 300 sub- contractors who will also lose | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
their jobs.' Martin Credland emailed us saying | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
he's a former BAe worker. The government wants the best value | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
from all its defence contractors, so why does it let a manufacturing | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
complex like Brough go to the wall? But Tony telephoned to say, a lot | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
of the armed forces are cutting back. If there are no armed forces | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
then there's no need to make planes. That's life, unfortunately. Thank | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
you for all of your responses. There has been a call to make a | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
former Bishop of Lincoln into a saint. A leading academic in the | :21:35. | :21:37. | |
city has written to the Vatican asking for 13th Century Bishop | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Robert Gross-Test to be canonised. Lincoln Cathedral say he was an | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
important figure. Bishop Robert Gross-Test is important in Lincoln | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
and the country. He was bishop here at the beginning of the 13th | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
century, but more important than that, he was one of the greatest | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
scholars of the medieval period. Nick Barmby's future as manager of | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
Hull City remains unclear this evening. The BBC understands that | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
Barmby was suspended by the club's owners on Monday and head of | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
football operations Adam Pearson was sacked. It's thought Barmby met | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
with the club's owners this afternoon, but his position remains | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
unchanged. Gainsborough Trinity have kept | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
alive their hopes of meeting Grimsby Town and Lincoln City next | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
season. In front of their biggest crowd of the season they drew with | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
FC Halifax in the first leg of the play-off semi-final as they bid for | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
promotion to the Football Conference. Here's our sports | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
reporter Simon Clark. It was a match that caught the public's | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
imagination, so instead of the usual few hundred, there were a few | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
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1,000 people they are hoping to see history being made. The manager and | :22:59. | :23:05. | |
chairman must have been dreaming of money-spinning clashes when, struck | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
again. Se Halifax, who finish the season on the same number of points | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
as Trinity, scored a vital goal before the break. In the second | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
half, Gregory was the scourge of an erratic Trinity defence. He | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
equalised to set up a second leg semi. This goes down as probably | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
avoid game. We go there now in a one of the shoot-out. They | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
supported ours, there was a buzz around the town and everyone seems | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
to be enjoyed the football. Hopefully that can last and we can | :23:43. | :23:53. | |
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go up there with a big fan base and get the results we want at Halifax. | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Well done to them and BBC Lincolnshire will have for | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
commentary of the second leg at Halifax on Sunday afternoon. The | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
game kicks off at 3 o'clock. If you live in Boston, you may have | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
noticed a piece of history returning to the town. The May Fair | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
was brought in to entertain the local people. These days, the main | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
focus is on fairground rides, but they is plenty of history to the | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
whole thing in Boston. It is called the made fair and it started in the | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
early 1100s. Let's get a recap of the national | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
and regional headlines. America says it's found documents | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
that show Osama Bin Laden wanted to assassinate Barack Obama. | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
There are claims that thousands of gallons of water are being wasted | :24:49. | :24:57. | |
in drought hit Lincolnshire. That outlook for tomorrow - another | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
cloudy day with a little patchy light rain or drizzle in places. | :25:02. | :25:10. | |
Feeling cold, top temperatures of ten Celsius. As I said, if you live | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
in Boston, you may have seen this bit of an your history returning to | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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the town. -- Annual history returning to the town. | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
Despite the cold and rain, preparations are in place for the | :25:31. | :25:39. | |
annual fair. It has had to change with the times. This Market Place | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
would have been fought of shows. You would have the menagerie show - | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
20 cages of wild animals and 50 horses. There were theatres, | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
illusions, but with the invention of steam and the steam engine, the | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
bigger rides came and we would have seen the early signs of the | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
gallopers and other rights such as that. This man prides himself as | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
being the last local showman of the fair. He has had a stall here for | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
the last 25 years. It is in my blood and the people of Boston are | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
fickle. They will come out rain, hail or shine. With the fair been a | :26:19. | :26:29. | |
charter, it is granted to the people of Boston. This is that very | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
Chartered that establishes the right for the Boruc of Boston to | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
hold an annual fair. Drawn up in 1545, with the seal of King Henry | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
VII. It gave the right for self governance of the borough and for | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
asked today it incorporates the writer had an annual fair. It is an | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
important document for giving context to the evolution of the | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
fair. It does not sustain a fair itself, but it gives us that | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
fantastic tie in to the authority to continue that great tradition. | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
And continue it well. It starts today with its official opening | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
tomorrow. Over the next nine days, it will adds a colourful beat to | :27:19. | :27:29. | |
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