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about half hour's time, could overtake them with a large | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Good afternoon. North Lincolnshire Council has been accused of sucking | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
the lifeblood out of Scunthorpe town centre by allowing out of town | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
shopping centres to be built. Today another major retailer is leaving | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the town, one of several big names to close its doors in the last four | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
years. But the council says it's created six hundred new jobs in the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
last 18 months by attracting new business. Kate Sweeting reports. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
It's a familiar story in many towns across the country. But in | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Scunthorpe today this major retailer will close its doors for good. | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
Further proof, some say, that this town is in irreversible decline. It | :00:43. | :00:54. | |
is a dead town. They need to open more shops. Everything is on the | :00:55. | :01:04. | |
outskirts now. In the last three years several major names have left. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Marks Spencer is closed its doors in 2011. Exports chain in 2012. | :01:11. | :01:21. | |
McDonald's in 2000 13. `` 2013. Marks and Spencers is returning to | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Scunthorpe in the Autumn albeit as part of this new out of town retail | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
park, create 300 new jobs. But Des Comerford, who's traded in the town | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
for 31 years, says it'll pull shoppers away from the centre, and | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
should never have been approved. This council has done nothing but | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
sucked the lifeblood out of our town centre. Hundreds have jobs `` | :01:40. | :01:50. | |
hundreds of jobs have been lost. But the council insists it is committed | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
to the town centre. These are difficult times. But I'm pleased we | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
have been able to attract more business. Over the last 18 months we | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
have created 600 new jobs. Jobs were people earn the money to spend on | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
our shops. While some are fighting to keep the town centre humming, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
others believe it is already a losing battle. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Firefighters and members of the public have been taking part in a | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
protest march in Grimsby, over plans to merge two fire stations in the | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
town. Cromwell Road and Peaks Lane station will merge next month as | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
part of budget cuts, with the loss of one fire engine. Humberside Fire | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
and Rescue says it will still be able to meet response standards, but | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
some claim the changes will put lives at risk. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Football, and Hull City are in action in under an hour's time. You | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
can hear coverage of their game against Manchester City on BBC Radio | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
Humberside from 12.45. That's on all frequencies. At 3pm you can hear | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
Scunthorpe United's match at Plymouth on FM. And Grimsby Town's | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
game with Wrexham is on AM, digital and online. And BBC Radio | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Lincolnshire have Lincoln City's match with Braintree. The programme | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
starts at 2pm. And now the weather. Lots of cloud | :03:12. | :03:26. | |
as we head into the afternoon. The breeze will pick up from the West. | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
Temperatures, highs of 12. The ceiling and overnight the cloud will | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
thicken. That should keep temperatures from falling. `` this | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
evening. A mild start on Sunday. Sunny spells and breezy. | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
We were back with a full round`up this evening. Goodbye. | :03:52. | :04:10. | |
Following on from what has been largely dry and settled week with | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
high pressure in charge, the weekend weather continues on that theme, | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
too. Things are looking largely dry, not everywhere, but there will | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
be some warm sunshine on offer, particularly through the afternoons. | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
It will be feeling fairly breezy as well. The satellite image shows the | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
cloud has been thinning and breaking this morning, across Northern | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Ireland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In terms of the Six Nations | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
rugby matches today, it should stay dry for all the | :04:41. | :04:41. |