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heading our way and wet and windy again. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight: | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Marching on Parliament ` the teenagers call to lower the age we | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
can vote A bid for government money after December's floods in Boston. | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
If people can have sex and families, they should have the right | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
to vote. The fishermen who say new rules are putting them out of | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
business. Despite suffering a heart attack, the man who's determined to | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
reach his sporting goal. He turned his life around and is an | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
inspiration to people who do the training. A gust of 65 mph, a gusty | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
night installed with warnings in place, join me for the latest. | :00:57. | :01:06. | |
Good evening. They can legally smoke, dry a car, join the army and | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
start a family. So is it time that people under the age of 18 were | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
allowed to vote? Teenagers from East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
joined a protest in London calling for the voting age to be lowered to | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
16. At the moment, young people in England have to wait until they are | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
18 to take part in elections, but some MPs including Scunthorpe's Nic | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Dakin want to reduce the age limit. More from our Political Editor Tim | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
Iredale. The teenagers who marched on Parliament today have no direct | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
say on who represents them here. Some, including 16`year`old Thomas | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
from Hull, believe that should change. Young people in East | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
Yorkshire should be able to vote. They are under represented and do | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
not understand that they have the same power. They can influence the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
country and realise that politics plays a part in their lives. While | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
under 18s in England can't vote under rules, 16 and 17`year`olds in | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Scotland will be able to vote in this year's referendum on | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
independence. Some MPs believe the voting age should be lowered across | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
the UK. Why not have votes at 16? As somebody who has worked with 16 and | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
18`year`olds, my experience says they have as much sense as older | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
people at making judgements and they can vote. But would the majority of | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
young people use their vote? It's estimated that in last year's local | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
elections, 32% of 18`14 year olds turned out to vote, compared with | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
72% of over 65s. I asked college students in Goole whether they | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
wanted to see the voting age lowered? The way that teenagers are | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
acting in society, putting how the country runs into their hands, it | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
will go downhill. I think we should decide what happens in our local | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
community. Why'd you not want to vote? I am too young, really. It | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
should stay at 18 years old. Labour and the Liberal Democrats are | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
broadly in favour of lowering the voting age. But many Conservatives | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
are against the idea. So these would`be voters may have to wait a | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
little longer before they have their say at the ballot box. Professor Jon | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
Tonge chaired a commission in 2009 that advised the government against | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
reducing the voting age. He joins me now from Manchester. Good evening. | :03:45. | :03:54. | |
But some 16`year`olds are in full time work paying taxes, don't you | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
think they have the right to elect the politicians who will be spending | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
their taxed earnings? The majority would not vote. Only a minority | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
voted at the last four general elections, so those teenagers | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
marching on Parliament would be better advised having a word with | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
those teenagers who did not vote. The case would be easier to make if | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
they bothered to vote. If you are 16 or 17, you cannot buy alcohol, | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
tobacco, fireworks and you cannot serve on a jury. They can join the | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
Army, should they not be able to hold to account those political | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
leaders who are about to deploy them? They do not see front`line | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
service and they need parental permission, the same as getting | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
married. They are not full adults and are covered by a child laws. The | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
big problem is that they would not vote and it would not be democratic | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
to extend the franchise. The commission that I chaired, the Youth | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
Citizenship Commission, found that every age category was against | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
lowering the voting age and the commission found the same. Why is | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
Labour, in particular, so supportive of the idea? Ed Miliband said they | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
would legislate on this. It has momentum, this idea. Every political | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
party supports the lowering of the voting age, but there is no demands | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
among the 16 or 17`year`olds. They are divided themselves. If you look | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
at the unpopularity of Parliament and political institutions, the one | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
thing they like is the voting age. Four out of five of the general | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
public agree with the voting age being 18. Thank you for joining us. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
Do you think 16`year`olds should get the vote because they're able to pay | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
tax? Or do you think they lack the knowledge needed to make political | :06:06. | :06:18. | |
decisions? It does vary, it is very different on the Isle of Man and in | :06:19. | :06:34. | |
Jersey. In a moment... Clearing the way for a ?10 million development | :06:35. | :06:44. | |
which could create hundreds of jobs. David Cameron's claim that money is | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
no object when it comes to flood recovery is going to be put to the | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
test by communities here that suffered flooding following | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
December's tidal surge. More than a thousand homes and businesses were | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
damaged but there are fears that the people affected may be forgotten as | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
the focus turns to the West Country and the banks of The Thames. Jake | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
Zuckerman has spent the day in Boston which is still recovering | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
from the worst conditions seen in more than 50 years. This was Boston | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
town centre little more than two months ago. The highest storm surge | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
in living memory sent flood water cascading through streets, | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
overwhelming homes and businesses. Today, volunteers were helping some | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
of those affected to apply for assistance from the local charity | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
get Boston back on its feet. What is the most urgent? A cooker, please. | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
The organisation has raised ?11,000 pounds, which it wants to use to buy | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
white goods and other essentials for flood victims. People like Kevin | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Storr, who lost almost everything. This was the kitchen, we had the | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
freezer here. We had a Welsh dresser along here. It is kind of hard to | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
imagine that it was a kitchen. Boston saw more than 500 properties | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
flooded in December. While there's no exact figure Boston Borough | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
Council says it's spent tens of thousands of pounds so far, trying | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
to get things back to normal. In North Lincolnshire more than 300 | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
homes and businesses were damaged. The cost is expected to reach ?1 | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
million. While in Hull more than 300 properties were damaged including | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
150 homes. Hull City Council says it's spent ?322,000 and that it | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
doesn't expect to get much of that money back from the government. | :08:24. | :08:31. | |
Yesterday David Cameron made this promise to flood victims. Money is | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
no object in this relief effort. Whatever money is needed for it will | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
be spent. Boston Borough Council plans to hold the Prime Minister to | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
his word. It's bidding for extra money to help those affected. One | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
example is council tax discounts and holidays, particularly where people | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
are living in difficult conditions and some cases, people are not | :09:02. | :09:08. | |
living in their homes. There are 150 families who are not in their | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
houses. Here in Boston they are still clearing up after December's | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
flooding and the community is still rallying around. People are still | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
concerns that their plight may be overlooked. `` concerned. High winds | :09:25. | :09:34. | |
have caused problems across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire this | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
afternoon and conditions could get worse this evening. Our reporter | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
Amanda White joins me now. How bad have things been? The winds have | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
been felt the most on the coast this afternoon. There were gusts of 75 | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
miles per hour in Holbeach and 67 miles per hour at Wainfleet near | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Skegness. Just up the road 1500 homes lost power at Burgh le Marsh | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
near Skegness at lunchtime. They all had power restored within two hours. | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
Further north a woman hurt her head after a number of trees fell on a | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
van and a car in Grimsby. And also in Grimsby fire fighters had to | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
dismantle a chimney that was swaying on a Grimsby rooftop before it | :10:14. | :10:23. | |
collapsed. We have heard tonight's passenger sailing from Hull to | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
Rotterdam has been delayed. It was due to leave at 8:30pm but will now | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
leave at midnight. Your local BBC Radio station will have more | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
information. And Paul Hudson will be here in a few minutes with a full | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
weather forecast for the next 24 hours. A group of Lincolnshire | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
farmers are raising money for people flooded in Somerset. They are part | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
of a group on Twitter called Club Hectare, and they say they've raised | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
hundreds of pounds so far. They've also arranged to send straw and food | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
to farmers in the South West of England. Humberside Police and Crime | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Commissioner Matthew Grove has confirmed that people living in the | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
force area will pay nearly two percent more for policing from | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
April. Mr Grove says the rise will help protect some jobs and allow | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
investment in new technology. He's pressing ahead despite opposition | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
from the Police and Crime Panel. An inquiry looking into the proposed | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
Lincoln Eastern bypass has finished today. Highways and planning | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
officers have been hearing people's objections to parts of the planned | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
road. It's hoped the road will ease congestion in the city. Fishermen | :11:26. | :11:39. | |
say new rules being enforced on the East Coast will put them out of | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
business and damage the local tourist industry. Changes are being | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
made to the way sea fish can be caught, which the Environment Agency | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
says will make fishing more sustainable. But those affected say | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
the rules are unworkable and will destroy their livelihoods. Kate | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
Sweeting reports... They've made their living out of the sea for | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
decades. Shaun Wingham catches the fish and his wife Penny sells it in | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
her shop. But they say if new fishing rules are imposed, their | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
livelihood will be lost. It will put a lot of people out of business. It | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
is very sustainable and it has been going on for years, everything has | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
been working fine, and now they want to put the rules in, which they have | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
no right to do. These pictures show the method Shaun uses to catch | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
things like sea bass. The nets are left overnight for the fish to swim | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
into. The new rules mean he'd have to stay by those nets at all times, | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
something Shaun says is impossible. What they are asking us to do is | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
unworkable and unreasonable. And without the fish that Shaun catches, | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
there'd be nothing to sell in the shop. It would put us out of | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
business, we would struggle. We would struggle terribly, especially | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
in the summertime. We would not be here. And if this type of fishing is | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
lost there would be a wider impact. David Nowell runs the restaurant at | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
Tickton Grange in Beverley and says locally caught fish is a big pull | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
for customers. Quality is the issue, and the local source is very | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
important to us, it is what the menus are all about. We would have | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
to completely rethink its if we lost the ability to source locally. In a | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
statement the Environment Agency told us: It's a position which has | :13:34. | :13:50. | |
angered local food experts. told us: It's a position which has | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
angered local It is a box ticking exercise. The fishermen will meet | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
with the Environment Agency on the 4th of March, in the hope they say | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
of saving their way of life. Do you agree with the Environment Agency? | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
If you are a fisher man do you have concerns about getting fresh fish? | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
`` fishermen. If you want to get in touch with us, here is the e`mail | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
address. Thank you for watching, it is good to have you. Still ahead | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
tonight: the mist chances which saw the Tigers drop down the premier | :14:41. | :14:51. | |
league. `` the missed chances. After a suffering a heart attack we meet | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
the man whose turned his life around ` to run the London Marathon. It is | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
6:45pm, keep the photographs coming in. This is Bridlington South Shore | :15:03. | :15:11. | |
by Jean Button. A great picture, thank you for that, Jean. Let's get | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
the weather details from Paul. A wild night to come across | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The strongest winds have been along the | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
coast. The strongest winds have been 75 mph but they have eased a little | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
bit. They will pick back up over the next few hours so there is a warning | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
in place for widespread gales and gusts of 60 to 70 mph, possibly | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
higher than that in exposed places. A deep area of low pressure which | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
you can see with these tight isobars. They will open out a bit so | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
a better day tomorrow. This will bring more wins later on Friday. You | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
can see this, look at that, sweeping its way across this. Now we are | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
looking to the West as the winds picked up once more. Widespread | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
gales developing, and showers as well which may turn wintry later | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
tonight. They tend to ease, though. Temperatures are around two Celsius, | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
36 Fahrenheit. The sun will rise in the morning at 7:26am. Still windy | :16:34. | :16:44. | |
tomorrow but we will have lost the severe gales. A strong | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
south`westerly which will blow some gales in from the west. The showers | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
could gather across the far north of the area. Some of those showers | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
could be wintry. Let's look at the top temperatures, coming in at six | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
Celsius. Warnings in place for severe gales in the next few hours. | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
Thank you, Paul. More than 200 jobs could be created in Immingham after | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
Tesco announced that it had agreed to build a store in the town. The | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
?10 million development at the Kennedy Way shopping centre has | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
finally got under way, after many thought it would never happen. Simon | :17:21. | :17:34. | |
Spark reports. The centre of this town has started to change. The | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Kennedy Way shopping centre has begun its multi`million pound | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
face`lift, and the smiling faces are as much relieved as happy. Even up | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
till last week it was not happening. In till we saw the fencing going | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
up, we thought that. There have been planning and development issues, a | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
lot of things behind the scenes. Let's look forwards and make it | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
right for the future. It is going to be of great project. The rain may be | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
pouring the fact that the safety fencing is up and the demolition has | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
begun will be a ray of sunshine for many people here. Some feared that | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
this day would never come but the whole area will now be transformed | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
before the end of the year. The plans are already up here, our first | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
glimpse of the change ahead. There are going to be 40,000 square feet | :18:34. | :18:43. | |
built. Now it has started, how people feeling? For Immingham, | :18:44. | :18:53. | |
especially, being able to get to Tesco's, will be great. Any | :18:54. | :19:04. | |
supermarket... It is good. They are stores that attract people so | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
wherever they are they will attract people. It has been a long time | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
coming, the sooner the better. Not only will it improve the look, there | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
will be 200 jobs and hopefully, further investment in the future. | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
We've had a big response to the story about NHS plans to store | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
medical records on a new, single database. The NHS insists the system | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
will be secure, but East Yorkshire MP David Davis says it's too risky | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
as the Department of Health has a poor record for keeping data safe. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Thanks for all your calls and emails on this one. Ian in Horncastle has | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
had several medical problems and says: | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
on this one. Ian in Horncastle has John in Hull disagrees: Stamford | :19:58. | :20:26. | |
gave us a call from Burstwick: Hull City came off second best against | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Southampton in their latest Premier League encounter. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
The Tigers lost 1`0 but it was a costly night in more ways than one. | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Here's our sports reporter Simon Clark. The signs that this would not | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
be Hull City's night appeared quite early. Defender Paul McShane was | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
stretchered off with a serious ankle injury. Steve Bruce had to | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
re`organise and that handed the initiative to the opponents. Hull | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
City still had chances, Shane Long with this chance. But into the | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
second half Southampton made their superiority tell with this goal | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
after an hour. And it could have been worse. Former Scunthorpe United | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
player Jack Cork so near. 1`0 it finished and no complaints from the | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
Tigers. We kept possession too cheaply, in my opinion. We went too | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
long with the strikers. We kept giving the ball back to Southampton. | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
They enjoyed possession and they have three or four gifted | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
footballers, and on that performance they will have a wondrous career. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
The result leaves the Tigers perilously close to the relegation | :21:39. | :21:40. | |
zone despite victory at Sunderland on Saturday. It's the tightest | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
battle for years. We have just got to worry about ourselves. We had a | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
good result at Sunderland but a disappointing one tonight. We need | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
to keep positive and picked points up where we can. We knew it was not | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
an easy league. It is the best league in the world. Steve Bruce | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
gets respite for the League with a Monday trip to Brighton in the FA | :22:03. | :22:16. | |
Cup. Australian Aaron Finch who won the Man of the Series award joins | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
the club. Yorkshire's captain believes it is a fantastic coup. He | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
had a fantastic one day 2020`macro series for Australia. That someone | :22:30. | :22:39. | |
on board like that is very special. Former prop Gareth Carvell has | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
re`joined Hull FC after five years away. The thirty two`year`old prop | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
will be in the squad to play Catalan at the KC Stadium on Friday. Carvell | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
spent time at Warrington and Bradford between his two Hull | :22:52. | :22:53. | |
spells. Paralympic wheelchair sprinter Jamie Carter from Market | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
Rasen has been at a school today trying to youngsters involved in | :22:57. | :23:12. | |
sport. The 17`year`old, who took part in London 2012, shared his | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
story with pupils at Witham St Hughs Primary in Lincoln. He also | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
encouraged the children to set themselves a challenge for Sport | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
Relief. It is massively important to raise awareness of sport, and be | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
able to fund them and allow them to do what they want to do. You can | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
take part in Sport Relief which takes place next month. If you want | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
to get involved you can go to the Sport Relief website. The address is | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
on screen now. A runner from Hull who had a heart attack in 2012 is | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
preparing to take part in this year's London Marathon. Lee | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
Popplewell has been given the all clear to take part in the challenge | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
and says he won't let his health scare stop him from taking part in | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
one of country's biggest sporting events. Jo Makel has been to meet | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
him. This is warrior training. It's tough, it's intense and it's all the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
more remarkable that Lee is doing it. Because just 15 months ago he | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
was in hospital after a heart attack. I went out for a run but I | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
started getting chest pains, and I thought it was indigestion. I tried | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
turning it off but after 500 metres, it spread to my arms and they felt | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
like they were in vices, and I thought it was something serious. | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Before his attack he'd lost about four stone in weight and had started | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
to get fit. He feels sure if he'd still been in this shape before his | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
fitness regime, the outcome may not have been so good. Now he trains | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
nearly every day. As you hate, sync your hips! Former Hull KR player | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
Iain Morrison puts his though his paces. He has followed the advice of | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
medical professionals, he could have easily pulled on his slippers and | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
dressing gown and polls the curtains shot, and that would've been him for | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
the rest of his life. `` shut. Lee's raising money for the RNLI. Having | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
completed the Bridlington half marathon last October, he's now | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
entering the London Marathon, raising money for the RNLI. I | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
remember watching it and being overwhelmed by people's efforts and | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
seeing young lads coming out from Afghanistan and Iraq and is see them | :25:22. | :25:28. | |
doing it, and I thought I would never be able to do that. It is kind | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
of something I set myself as a challenge. The marathon's in April. | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
So for now it's back to the warrior training. But getting back his | :25:37. | :25:44. | |
health is a battle he's already won. A great story, we wish him well. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines. The Met | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
office has issued its first ever read warning for the winter as for | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
McCain winds batter the country. Local teenagers have marched on | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Parliament calling for a lower voting age. The weather is bright | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
with some voting age. The weather is bright | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
sunshine but a few wintry showers are possible. I have just heard that | :26:11. | :26:25. | |
the Ouze Bridge is closed on the M 62 to all vehicles. A response on | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
the question of voting. Sarah says, I did not have a good understanding | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
of politics at 16 to be able to vote. If we have the rights to start | :26:40. | :26:48. | |
a family at 16, why can we not vote? Surely starting a family is a bigger | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
responsibility than voting for something we would like to see | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
happen. Paul says, I do not think they have the political knowledge | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
until adult hood. Matt says that the professor does not know what he is | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
talking about. I am 16, Peter, and I would vote. Give us the opportunity. | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
This is from Abbey: I am a politics student and I think we should focus | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
on getting more 18 to 24`year`olds to vote before lowering it earlier. | :27:22. | :27:31. | |
Bunty says: The most difficult decision a 16`year`old makes is | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
which fast food restaurant to use that date, no matter which political | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
party should rule the country! Hanky for those. Join me tomorrow. Siewert | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
6:30pm, good night. `` thank you for those. | :27:46. | :29:02. | |
Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex | :29:03. | :29:03. |