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The Great Grimsby Labour MP Austin Mitchell has refused to apologise | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
following a tweet in which he likened an American drugs | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Conservative Mps have called for him to be suspended, | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
but Mr Mitchell says they're trying to distract from the controversial | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
This is the tweet that caused the row. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
The language used in the complaint about the takeover of AstraZeneca | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
has angered his political opponents. This is an offensive tweet. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
The bid is a serious issue but to use the word rapist is | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
completely unacceptable. Ed Milliband has to take control | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
and make Austin Mitchell apologise. One of the definitions of rape in | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
the Oxford dictionary is to plunder. I think that will | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
happen to AstraZeneca. People talk about the rape | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
of the countryside and the rape of the rainforest | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
but it doesn't attack this term of abuse that's landed on my head. | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
The Labour Party tried to defuse the row saying: | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
This evening the 79`year`old made it clear he was | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
standing by his comments. I don't apologise now. | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
I do apologise for inconveniencing Ed Milliband | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
and our Chief Whip because of the reaction it has caused but what | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
I said was essentially the truth. Some Conservative MPs want | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Ed Milliband to suspend the backbencher who will stand | :01:46. | :01:46. | |
down at the next election. Austin Mitchell has refused to | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
apologise for his comments. Is he likely to face | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
any further action? It would appear unlikely that | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
the Labour Party will take this any further. | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
Austin Mitchell is of the belief that the criticism has | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
come from political opponents looking to make capital ahead | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
of next week's European and Council elections and wanting to distract | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
from the row over the takeover of Astra Zeneca by Fizer. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Downing Street has described the comments as just wrong, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
but the Great Grimsby MP retires in just over 12 months time so it's | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
difficult to see what pressure could be brought to bear on him if he's | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
determined to stand by his comments. There's been a fall in the number of | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
people out of work in our region. Unemployment in Yorkshire | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
and the Humber is at 230,000, that's down by 8,000 compared to | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
the previous quarter. In the East Midlands, which covers | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
Lincolnshire, the jobless total is A man who deliberately drove | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
a horse and trap into the sea at Bridlington, causing the horse to | :02:44. | :02:54. | |
drown, has been jailed for 16 weeks. The incident happened in front | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
of holidaymakers last July. In addition to being jailed, David | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
Sean Clancy from Bradford, was The RSPCA has welcomed the prison | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
sentence saying Mr. Clancy subjected Campaigners say speed limits | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
for lorries need to be increased on a major route through Lincolnshire | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
to improve road safety. They want lorries | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
on the A15 to drive at 50 miles a hour rather than 40, claiming it | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
will stop reckless overtaking. But some have argued that the change | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
would make the roads more dangerous. Slow lorries causing long | :03:27. | :03:39. | |
tailbacks on rural roads. It is a daily frustration on the A15 | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
in Lincolnshire for car and lorry drivers. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
There is a car now overtaking on a blind corner. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Richard says if lorries were allowed to go faster on some stretches, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
it would stop dangerous overtaking by impatient motorists. | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
On the long straights where visibility is low, they put it up to | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
50, the cars behind are not frustrated and everything will move. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
The speed limit for heavy goods vehicles over 7.5 tonne of single | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
carriageways is 40 miles an hour. The government is carrying out | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
a consultation on raising it to 45 or 50 miles an hour. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
The change would affect 280,000 vehicles. | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Overtaking me and lorries and they do it on bends. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Lorries are lorries. They can only go certain speeds. | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Lorry drivers using A9 in Scotland will soon be able to travel at 50 | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
as part of a trial, something Alan wants to be tested only A15 after he | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
was caught speeding in his lorry. I have measured on the stretch | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
which is 20 miles on the A15, you will get 12 overtakes | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
in that time from cars, one of which will be over double white lines. | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
It is very dangerous. I thought I would test out how long | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
it takes to get from Lincoln along A15 to Scunthorpe | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
and how much of that journey is spent stuck behind a lorry. | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
It wasn't long before I | :05:15. | :05:58. | |
More than 100 personnel from RAF Coningsby have been deployed to | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
help patrol the skies above the Baltic States. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
It may well be that there is an month and will spend 16 weeks | :06:05. | :06:21. | |
It may well be that there is an aircraft in distress or an air craft | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
that hasn't followed the air plan or military aircraft that needs to be | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
identified. Are you pleased to be here? We have been made to feel very | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
welcome in Lithuania. Now for a look at the weather. | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
It has been a glorious day today. We have some cloud filtering down from | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
the North West. The lowest temperatures down to five Celsius. | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
Tomorrow, generally a dry day with variable amounts of cloud but there | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
will be some decent sunny spells coming through, particularly in the | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
afternoon. A small chance of getting a light shower. Top temperature 18 | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
Celsius. Friday and Saturday is fine and warm. That is all from us for | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
now. Good night. see 21 or so. We keep that going | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
right until the weekend. Here's the outlook. Good evening. Mother nature | :07:34. | :07:42. | |
was kind to us today, sunny skies, the birds and bees were out but not | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
everywhere because one or two places where a little on the cloudy side. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
For example, here on a satellite picture, Northern Ireland and | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Scotland, increasing cloud. To the south, you can see the vast majority | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
of the country, Wales and England, scattered cloud, so lots of find | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
weather. We will turn the heat up in the next few days but in terms of | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
the sunshine tomorrow, you might be surprised that it's more cloudy | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
compared to what we had today. Let's look at the details. Tonight, from | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Wales, the Midlands, and Lincolnshire, they will get quite | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
chilly tonight, maybe three degrees in the countryside. In the city | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
centre is it always a bit warmer. In Scotland, it will stay fairly damp | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
tonight with mist and murky weather. Misty in one or two other places but | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
starting sunny in the south and then, through the morning and | :08:40. | :08:40. | |
afternoon, it | :08:41. | :08:42. |