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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. A | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
flood expert says some land beside the Humber should be abandoned to | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
the sea. The local council says communities need protected. However | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
small, these communities are important and we will fight to make | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
sure they have the best defence possible. I'm live in the village of | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
built and where woman has been left terrified following a robbery at | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
this post office. Businesses in a Lincolnshire town are told to remove | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
advertising boards from the streets or face legal action. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
And the centuries`old tradition that's under threat in a | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Lincolnshire village. Another mild day tomorrow. I'll be | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
back with the rest of the details. A flooding expert says villages | :00:50. | :01:04. | |
beside the Humber ` swamped by recent floods ` are unlikely to get | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
improved flood defences, and some land should even have to be | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
abandoned to the sea and rivers. Last night people in the village of | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
South Ferriby ` where 120 homes were flooded in December ` demanded | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
answers from the Environment Agency about when flood defences and | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
warning systems would be upgraded, but they say they were given few | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
assurances. Nationally, one in six properties is at risk of flooding. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
5,800 homes have flooded in Britain since December. Despite all the | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
political arguments, research shows spending on flood defences has not | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
fallen or risen significantly in the past decade. I'll be speaking to the | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
expert in coastal flooding who says some land should be abandoned. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
First, Sarah Corker reports. December's tidal surge was much | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
higher and more powerful than anyone predicted. Communities on the banks | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
of the Humber, like South Ferriby, were flooded in a matter of minutes. | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
We have bank would go up to the top of the village. After the storm come | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
the questions. Will there be any money to improve defences here? For | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
the last decade, the policy has been that they will protect properties. | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
Communities like this one are important, and we are going to do | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
the best we can to fight to make sure they have the best defence. In | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
England, more than five million properties are at risk of flooding | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Since December 2013, flood schemes have defended more than 1.3 million | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
homes and businesses. But there's not enough money to help everyone. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
Treasury rules state every pound of investment in defences must produce | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
at least ?8 of economic benefit. The system to calculate the cash looks | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
are a couple of things including the number of properties at risk and | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
also the number of deprived households. Cities like Hull will | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
always do better than smaller communities along the Humber. An | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
issue put to the Environment Agency at a heated public meeting in South | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
Ferriby last night. The government has made some money available | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
straight for repairs and we are already on with those repairs. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
Beyond that we will have to look into the strategy to try and find | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
out where the funding will come from. At a women's group today, | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
residents told me they want public money shared more equally. There is | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
more people in a tone, but I don't think they should get more | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
protection. We all need protecting. But Silvia lives in Barton and has a | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
different argument. They've built a terrific amount of homes down on the | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
river bank, but there are hundreds of people down there now. You have | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
to have a bit of sense. This has been the saviour of our town. And | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
that's because just three miles down the road... The authorities now face | :04:00. | :04:11. | |
tough decisions. I spoke to Professor Rob Duck who specialises | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
in coastal flooding at Dundee University. I started by asking why | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
he believes that some land should be abandoned? That's quite a difficult | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
question. I think we've got to look at what we've done to land in the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
past, particularly land we have claimed from the sea, maybe | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
centuries ago, that was once naturally flooded by the sea, we | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
have to look at where it should be returned to the state it was | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
originally in. If you live in a small village, what chance have you | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
got of getting better protection? If you live in a small village, in a | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
vulnerable area, it is really very difficult indeed. We've got to look | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
at the nature of the flood protection, and that does not | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
necessarily mean it is in bank on this. We have to look at moving to | :05:00. | :05:09. | |
areas that were once flooded but no agricultural land is no longer | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
flooded in order to protect small villages in these vulnerable areas. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
Will people who live in small places like this have to fend for | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
themselves, have their own stack of sandbags? I think it might be that | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
they have to fend for themselves to a certain extent but I think what | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
they should be able to expect is better flood warning systems in | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
place so that they are aware of when tidal surges are going to take | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
place. It seems like Mrs versus country. `` town versus country. I | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
hope it is not like that but clearly with big cities like Hull that need | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
to be protected, we need to look at the nature of the land that we may | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
perhaps return to flooding. If it is largely agricultural land it can | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
hopefully be done with the minimum of disruption to human lives. Thank | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
you for joining us. Should some land be abandoned if it's too expensive | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
to protect or should we protect all homes regardless of the cost? You | :06:21. | :06:21. | |
can e`mail us. In a moment: The Lincolnshire farmer | :06:22. | :06:39. | |
leading the aid effort for farms flooded in the South. The death of a | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
22`month`old girl in Hull is being treated as unexplained. She was | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
taken by ambulance from this house in west Hull to the city's Royal | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Infirmary but died a short time later. A man and a woman ` both aged | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
20 ` were arrested in connection with her death, and have been | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
released on bail. Police say a postmistress from East Yorkshire has | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
been left terrified after her shop was robbed by two men armed with a | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
sledgehammer. They smashed their way through the reinforced screen that | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
was supposed to protect her at Bilton Post Office. Leanne Brown is | :07:08. | :07:19. | |
in Bilton, how is the postmistress? As you would expect the shutters | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
have been down all day. Although she was not injured it could be some | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
time before she recovers. I'm told it was two men wearing balaclavas | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
and camouflage jacket that went into the shop with a sledgehammer and | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
smashed on the protective glass. She had already cashed up but they left | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
with the contents of the coin dispenser. They came away with a | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
small amount of cash ` and left behind a frightened community. She | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
was terrified when we got here. She is quite shaken this morning. She is | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
not injured but they have used force to smash the glass. Everybody is | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
surprised when something happened like this. It's left the owner of | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
the hairdressers next door worried about the safety of her staff. I | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
feel vulnerable. I've got young girls in here, you never know. We've | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
just thought about it and I said make sure you keep the doors | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
locked. Don't put yourself in that position. And for those who live | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
here ` shock that something like this could happen in their village | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
Police have been conducting an area search today to gather as much | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
evidence as possible. It is scary for some people. You have to think | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
twice about what is going on, look out for each other. It is a quiet | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
little village. They will be devastated. | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
They say the best thing they can do for the victim is to catch the men | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
who did this. This is a very close`knit village and a | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
spokesperson for the Post Office has said today, "Any robbery is not only | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
traumatic for those involved but is also an attack on the local | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
community ` and they're asking anyone who may have seen something | :09:06. | :09:17. | |
to come forward. Thank you. And detectives in North Lincolnshire are | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
trying to trace a man who's thought to be responsible for two armed | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
robberies at the same shop. The man carrying an umbrella and small black | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
gun went into the One Stop Shop on Eton Court in Scunthorpe last night | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
` but left empty`handed. Two weeks ago, it's thought a man robbed cash | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
from the same store. A new tunnel could be dug under the Humber to | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
carry a gas pipeline to supply a large part of Britain. National Grid | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
wants to replace the existing pipeline under the river ` which is | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
in a 30`year`old trench that is being washed away by strong tides. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Work on the tunnel between Paull and Goxhill could start in 2017. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
Shopkeepers are standing firm against threats to confiscate their | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
advertising boards from outside their businesses. The town council | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
in Stamford in Lincolnshire says signs ` which often obstruct | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
pavements ` are dangerous and illegal. But traders say they're a | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
vital way to attract shoppers in tough economic times. Here's our | :10:08. | :10:17. | |
business correspondent, Paul Murphy. High streets are competitive places | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
and for many businesses putting out the board is part of the morning | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
routine. But here in Stamford their proliferation is dividing the town. | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
The council wants rid of them ` businesses are furious. Ridiculous. | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
We put something on the Facebook page and we had so much response | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
saying how ridiculous this is. It just seems very aggressive. We would | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
like to have a conversation about it rather than just a nasty letter. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Stamford Town Council's letter says it's had numerous complaints about | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
the increasing number of boards and other advertising clutter. It says | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
the boards are illegally placed items in hazardous locations and | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
warns the owners can face legal action if the boards cause an | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
accident. The council says enforcement action could include | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
collection and removal of the obstruction. Kathleen is partially | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
sighted and among those who've complained ` a trip to town, she | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
says, is like going on an obstacle course. You're frightened of running | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
into them, because sometimes you might go down the high Street and | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
somebody has put one out that you don't know about. Then I would not | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
see it. Retailers now have about two weeks to get rid of their boards. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
None from Stamford Town Council wanted to be interviewed or give a | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
statement. But their letter to retailers says that boards are in | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
potential breach of the highways act and they intend to clear the | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
streets. Local businesses accept that the law forbids obstructing the | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
highway ` but say it is possible to use boards if everyone is sensible | :11:51. | :12:03. | |
about it. I think the traders will cooperate. If we can agree some sort | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
of code, then everyone would know where we stood. Then we can police | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
ourselves. We will look into the insurance and | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
make sure we're covered but we will stick together and if they want to | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
take them away we're not going to let them. Revolt? Yes. Picturesque | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
market town or not, an ugly battle could be looming. I asked retail | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
expert Kate Hardcastle if shops gained any benefit by putting out | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
signs. Everybody is trying to do everything they can in retail at the | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
moment to boost sales, to attract attention, to scream to the buyer, | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
please you as `` please use us, but one thing I can tell you if there | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
are far better methods used by retailers that are doing wonderful | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
jobs and wonderful results, someone like John Lewis, not relying on | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
promotional boards. You mention there are better ways. What kind of | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
ways? Working as a retailer, the best way to do it is not to shout in | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
a football crowd, if that makes sense. By putting a board out there | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
and hoping for passers`by to be attracted, it is difficult to | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
attract an audience when they are so wait. It is better to work out who | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
your customer is and when you have done, appealed to them in a language | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
and communication that gets to them, via e`mail lists, social | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
media, perhaps by doing events within the store. They work from | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
time to time but the more there are, the more crowded the message. Has | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
the council got this wrong? The council has sent out a very negative | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
letter and it challenges. The retailers think they need to do | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
something and times are hard. They need business. If the council had | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
gone in and said obviously for health and safety reasons for | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
somebody walking down the street, with a wheelchair or a pushchair, | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
they have challenging things to negotiate, this is difficult, but | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
what we can do is offer support in other ways. Then you can list the | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
ways. You can work with the retailers. You will get a far better | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
response than sending out a negative letter. What do you think? Get in | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
touch. Still ahead tonight: Why Steve Bruce is unhappy about Hull | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
City's FA Cup replay against Brighton. And the centuries`old | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
tradition that's under threat in a Lincolnshire village. | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
Stunning picture of the evening sky at Swanland taken by John Wharam. | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
It has been a dry day today. It is quite nice to see after all the rain | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
we have had. I need to get running again. I am behind on my training. | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
You and me both. We need to practice. I have a personal best in | :15:16. | :15:25. | |
eating chocolate. The next couple of days and not look too bad. It is not | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
too cold out there. Moving into Thursday, it gets a bit more | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
unsettled and windy over the course of the weekend, although it would be | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
quite nice if there was a bit of a breeze. Tomorrow is a bit of a grey | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
start. It will brighten up nicely through the afternoon. You can see | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
from the pressure chart, it is not particularly breezy out there. A | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
light breeze. You will have to wait till Thursday for it to pick up. | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
Looking at the satellite picture, we have variable cloud, some of it is | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
thick enough to produce showers. The showers will tend to use a way, | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
becoming largely drive. `` die away. There will be some breaks in the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
cloud and we will see some patchy rain developing. The sun will rise | :16:12. | :16:20. | |
in the morning at 7:13am, setting at 5:19pm. Tomorrow morning, bit of a | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
grey start to the day, low cloud about but it will tend to left. The | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
greatest risk of catching a shower is first thing this morning but it | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
will be a dry day, brightening up nicely into the afternoon. Some | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
bright or sunny spells. It will go up to about ten or 11 degrees. | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
Similar values tomorrow. It will be up to 50 Fahrenheit. Feeling pretty | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
springlike out there. As we move into Thursday, the breeze will | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
pick`up, it will be breezy with outbreaks of rain spreading in from | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
the west. It will get wetter as the day goes on. Blustery at the weekend | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
with a fair few showers on Saturday. We will do a marathon. We | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
can do it. We need to start training. See you soon. A | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
Lincolnshire farmer has taken on the job of leading the aid effort for | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
farmers whose land is under water in the West Country. Farmers across | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
Britain have been sending animal feed and bedding to parts of | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
Somerset which have been cut off for weeks. Andrew Ward from Leadenham | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
near Grantham was asked by the government to run the relief effort. | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Here's our rural affairs correspondent, Linsey Smith. Carrots | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
and hey, I welcome meal for the flood hit animals of Somerset. Much | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
of this has been donated by farmers in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Andrew Ward was directing aid to the most needed. It is absolutely tragic | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
when you see the water and what they are having to go through. We all | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
have water and problems in farming, it is one big risk management | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
operation, but you cannot imagine what they are going through with the | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
families and emotionally. Last year, the charity helps farmers affected | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
by heavy snow in England and Wales. He was initially invited to advise | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
government ministers but this week he has got hands`on. Seems like this | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
went on throughout the day. Our animals are literally knee deep in | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
their own mess. It is a godsend. Now they can have tidy bets. There was | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
not this level of flooding years ago because water management was totally | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
different. Do we want to feed the nation? Do we want to look after | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
people? Are we going to forget about human beings and look after | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
wildlife? As pumping continues, Ed Miliband was the latest politician | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
to visit. For Andrew it is not politics but pulling together that | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
is important. Two paintings by Yorkshire`born artist David Hockney | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
are to go on sale. Room With A View is of Bridlington ` where the artist | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
has a house and studio. It's been valued at between ?150,000 ` | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
?200,000. The second work called Tyger is expected to reach between | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
?40,000 ` ?60,000. The Red Arrows have revealed a new tail fin design | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
` to celebrate their 50th display season. The engineers ` known as the | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
Blues ` unveiled the new`look aircraft at RAF Scampton near | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Lincoln. It features the union flag and is the most significant change | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
to the colour scheme in the team's history. I always had this idea for | :19:52. | :20:01. | |
a union Jack on the tail but it was colleague that came up with the | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
final design and I was really impressed with it. If you look at | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
the detail, it has the aircraft. It really captures the spirit of the | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
past 50 years. Hull City manager Steve Bruce says it's ridiculous | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
that UEFA has forced the club's FA Cup replay with Brighton, which is | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
to be held next Monday. Europe's governing body doesn't want a clash | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
with their Champions League competition. They sounded like they | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
had plenty to celebrate but in truth their side had salvaged a replay | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
from this game. The Championship side went ahead with this. Seconds | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
later, Curtis Davies hit the bar, one of two chances off the woodwork. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
Steve Bruce must've thought the cup run was over, when five minutes from | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
time, they equalised. Now they have a replay on Monday, as UEFA Cup band | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
televised games as the same `` at the same time as the Champions | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
League. I find it ridiculous. I have to tell you. Surely we could play on | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
the same night at the Champions League. You would have thought. I | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
think it is a UEFA rule. UEFA rules that nobody plays on the night of | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
the Champions League. We have to take it as it is and deal with it as | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
it comes. Those who faced the journey back to Yorkshire had | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
something to cling onto. We didn't deserve it but they pay the fans | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
back. The replay is on. We are still in the cup. Replay. Of course, but | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
that is all right. Hopefully we can win at home. What a hectic week for | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Hull City, who play Cardiff City on Saturday, before that cup replay on | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
Monday. Where the wheel of Fortune will spin for Hull City or writing | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
as they bid for a place in the quarterfinal. Grimsby Town are in | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
action in the Conference Premier tonight The Mariners travel to | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Barnet. Kick`off is at quarter to eight, with build up on BBC Radio | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
Humberside now. She's one of this area's most successful sportswomen, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
and today England cricket star Arran Brindle has spoken of her decision | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
to retire. The 32`year`old announced yesterday that she wouldn't join the | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
team's tour of Bangladesh, and would instead focus on family and her | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
teaching career. But, as she told Crispin Rolfe, she's enjoyed her | :22:28. | :22:43. | |
time at the top. It was very special. Not just winning the test | :22:44. | :22:53. | |
but scoring runs was great. Ashes victory this winter is built on the | :22:54. | :23:03. | |
batting of Arran Brindle. For this cricketer, beating Australia home | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
and away was her final hurrah. She has called time. It is the fact that | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
it is 15 years. You go through life with different challenges, things | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
that keeps you inspired. I am at that stage, with my teaching and my | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
family. England's loss is Lincolnshire's game. She is still | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
keen to support local talent. They have put a massive amount of sport | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
money in. To benefit from that shows the standard that can be achieved. | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
Not all of her achievements have been about cricket. In 2012, she | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
carried the Olympic torch. The chances are that her tone will still | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
carry a torch for her. `` town. They're men ` and women ` | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
brandishing sticks, bells and handkerchiefs. Morris dancers are an | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
English tradition dating back 600 years. But a group near Grantham in | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Lincolnshire has started an urgent recruitment drive to find new | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
dancers in time for its summer performances. Simon Spark has been | :24:13. | :24:24. | |
along to a practice section. There is something about Morris dancing | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
that lifts the spirit. Jolly music, jingling bells, waving handkerchiefs | :24:32. | :24:40. | |
and rhythmic stick knocking. No wonder the appeal dates all the way | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
back to the 15th century. When you're dancing, it feels like you've | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
got the world at your feet. You are something else, you are a superior | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
being. Another superior being is Ashley Jones, who talks us through | :24:57. | :25:08. | |
one of the dancers. Then we do this. It is a strange movement. These | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
Morris dancers have troubled minds behind the smiles. They are worried | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
about how long they can keep their group going. As long as we have | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
enough people to dance. To be able to dance fully through the summer we | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
really need more people, we need younger people as well to keep the | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
side going. To compare it with football, you need 11 players for a | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
team, you need six dancers for a dance. They have enough at the | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
moment but there is no new ones coming through. We are worried. It | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
is a tradition, if you have injury or illness we cannot even turn up | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
and do it, because we haven't got enough people. They have had one | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
recruit recently, Jimmy, he is now in his second week. He is learning | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
his robes, and sticks. In six years I might be able to do it. If you | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
fancy a way to keep warm without the heating bills and keep fit, and you | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
don't mind looking the part, this is it. Your new destiny, keeping a | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
tradition alive. Let's get a reach of the national | :26:20. | :26:31. | |
and regional headlines. Inflation falls below the Bank of England | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
target for the first time in four years. Swamped by the recent tidal | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
surge ` now a flood expert says some land beside the Humber should be | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
abandoned to the sea. Tomorrow's weather will be a cloudy start with | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
a risk of a shower. It should brighten up through the day. High | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
temperature of ten. We have had quite a lot of response about the | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
flood defences. It is the south`east against the rest of the country. The | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
vast majority of funding will be used to protect those settlements. | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Jenny says we live near Stamford and the boards are needed because so | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
many shops are down small alleyways that otherwise would not be known | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
about. David says praise to Stamford Council for cracking down on these | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
signs. Hopefully they are well insured against any claims. Thanks | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
for getting in touch with us tonight. I shall be on the radio | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
tomorrow. Join me then if you can. We will have plenty more news and | :27:32. | :27:34. | |
weather in the late bulletin tonight. That is at 10:25pm. Get in | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
touch with me if you can. Goodbye. | :27:40. | :27:41. |