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Good evening and welcome

to BBC Look North.

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The headlines from Lincolnshire and

East Yorkshire this Wednesday night.

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Struggling high streets

in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

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will be dead within a decade,

according to a top retail expert.

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The problem high streets, I don't

think they'll be around in ten years

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and I don't think really they should

be around in ten years.

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David Prescott, the son

of Lord Prescott, is suspended

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from his job in the Labour Party.

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Patients say they're

being repeatedly let down

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by a private ambulance service that

has been given a big NHS contracts.

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I said here in trepidation, waiting

to see if it turns

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Mulled wine and machine guns -

armed police will patrol the huge

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crowds at Lincoln Christmas market.

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The local builders giving

ex-soldiers a place to live -

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now appearing on national TV.

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We are here to turn empty houses

into homes for veterans.

More

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sunshine to come. Join me for the

forecast.

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High streets in market towns

across East Yorkshire

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and Lincolnshire will be dead

within a decade.

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That's the claim of a retail expert,

speaking as new BBC research

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suggests the UK high street

is continuing to decline.

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In Market Rasen in Lincolnshire,

which was given a special government

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grant to reverse its fortunes five

years ago, vacancy rates

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have continued to rise.

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Our Business Correspondent Katy

Austin is there now.

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How big is the problem

facing the town?

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Being a Portas pilot town gave

Market Rasen a marketing boost.

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Mary Portas has now gone,

so has this veg shop

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and so has the hope the high street

would be revitalised.

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What is the long-term effect of it?

I don't think the long-term effect

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has been lasting.

Have you seen any

difference at all?

Not really. We

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have lost shops.

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One way you

lost shops.

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could measure success

is the number of vacancies.

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In 2012, there were 71 shop

units in Market Rasen.

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12 were empty.

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Since then numbers have fluctuated,

shops gage come and gone,

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but in 2017 there are fewer shops -

63, but 14 are vacant.

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two more than when the

Portas pilot started.

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The mood among shop owners

and shoppers varies.

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I think that the people here are

rather negative and I think that if

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they actually walked up and down the

high Street and saw how many

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independent businesses they have,

there are towns in Britain who would

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love that many independent

businesses.

Do you think it has got

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better?

No, it has gone downhill.

What is year, it is too pricey for

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the people that live here.

What we

have got is lovely but we could do

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with more.

Mary Portas admits the

scheme she headed up hasn't revived

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high-street fortunes.

It was very

much a nice, shiny, possibly PR

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campaign that looked like, we are

doing something and of course, we

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were doing something and I thought

that was going to kick-start much

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more. But it didn't.

There was an

effect but for me, the problems

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their town centres is much greater

than this. It is infrastructure,

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housing, numbers, etc, but only to

come together to make a real

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contribution, a significant

contribution.

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Although many high streets

continue to struggle,

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nearby Brigg is bucking the trend

with only one empty shop.

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We are helped by two hours' free

parking and all day on a Saturday,

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which is a huge help. That brings

people into the town. And it keeps

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it so busy.

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Traders are proud of the independent

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feel of their high street,

but if you look at vacancy rates

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alone, the Portas pilot hasn't

brought lasting success.

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Harjeet Johal is a retail

expert and commentator,

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who writes for The Independent.

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He's also the former managing

director of a clothing chain.

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I asked him if we are too nostalgic

about our high streets.

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Absolutely.

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I think we are crippled

by our nostalgia and it

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is going to harm us.

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It is going to mean that vital

resources are sent away

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from vital projects.

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You will have said that there won't

be a high street in ten years' time.

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There are different types

of high streets, however.

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There are the Oxford

streets and then there

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are the problem high streets,

which are in the majority

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of the smaller high streets.

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I don't think they'll be around

in ten years and I don't think

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really they should be around

in ten years.

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The customer has decided they'd

prefer to shop in larger high

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streets or out of time and most

crucially online and

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on their telephone.

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So you are saying that the customer

calls the shots and we can't change

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human behaviour and they want to go

to big places and the high

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street just dies?

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Absolutely.

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The customer is always right.

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The customer has told us

with their feet that they don't want

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to go to the smaller high streets.

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So we must respond.

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If the rates and business rates

and parking was different in terms

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of cost by our councils then more

people would open jobs and more

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people would go to the high Street.

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No, not really.

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We are talking about smaller high

streets here and the smaller

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high-street only have small shops

and the customer is telling us that

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if they are shopping on the high

Street, they want the larger shops

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and a smaller high-street just can't

have those size units.

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People want small individual shops

and you're not going to get those

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small individual shops

in massive shopping complexes.

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I don't think they want

small individual shops.

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They can buy boutique things online

and they are buying them online.

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It's not that I'm anti-shock,

is just that I'm a realist and I'm

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excited about the future of retail.

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The retail scene in the UK

is growing year-on-year but just

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not on the high street.

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It was 14% up last year online.

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And those kind of are

to be celebrated.

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And those kind of figures

are to be celebrated.

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So in a word, Mary Portas'

idea was doomed to fail.

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Absolutely.

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I think it shows that you shouldn't

turn a TV show into policy.

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Very good to talk to you tonight.

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Thank you very much indeed.

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Thank you.

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We'd like to hear your

thoughts on this one.

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Here's how to get in touch...

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The son of former Deputy Prime

Minister and Hull MP,

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Lord Prescott, has been suspended

from his job in the Labour Party.

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David Prescott is a key

advisor to Jeremy Corbyn

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and a former BBC employee,

who in recent years has

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attempted to become an MP

in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

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Our reporter Kate Sweeting has been

following the story.

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What else do we know

about the suspension?

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A senior Labour source has told

the BBC that David Prescott has been

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suspended from his post

in the Labour Leader's office

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following allegations received.

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He has not been suspended

from the party.

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We understand the suspension

happened a few days ago

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and that he is being investigated

by the Labour leader's office.

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It comes amid widespread allegations

of misconduct at Westminster.

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No formal complaint has been made

to the Labour Party,

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which declined to give details

on the reason for the suspension ,

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saying "We do not comment

on staffing matters."

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And why is his suspension

significant?

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Mr Prescott has become

quite a significant

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figure behind the scenes

in the Labour leader's office.

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He's a former BBC producer

who joined Jeremy Corbyn's

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office over a year ago,

initially as a speechwriter before

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becoming a communications manager

to the shadow cabinet.

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He has tried to get

into front line politics.

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He stood as Labour's

candidate in Gainsborough

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in the 2015 election,

but lost to Conservative's

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Sir Edward Leigh.

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Earlier this year, he failed

to become an MP for Hull West

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and Hessle after former home

secretary Alan Johnson

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announced he was standing

down in June's election.

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Mr Prescott has been approached

by the BBC for a comment

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but hasn't responded.

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An 86-year-old man has

died, after being hit

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by a van in East Yorkshire.

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It happened just after 11 this

morning on The Balk at Pocklington.

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Police say the pedestrian

died at the scene.

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The A15 north of Lincoln

was closed for hours this

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morning after a crash.

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One person was seriously

injured in the incident,

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just north of RAF Scampton.

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A Hull charity says it's been

inundated with donations,

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after a suspected arson attack

destroyed its main base.

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Men In Sheds, which uses woodwork

to bring lonely people together,

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lost its tools and equipment

in a fire yesterday.

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Patients relying on transport

to and from hospital say they've

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been repeatedly "let down"

by the private company

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paid to provide it.

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Thames Ambulance Service,

which is employed by clinical

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commissioning groups across Hull

and Lincolnshire, has already come

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under fire from volunteer drivers

for the way it pays expenses.

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Now patients and former office staff

are adding to that criticism.

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Our Health Correspondent

Vicky Johnson has more.

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Sheena lives just north of Lincoln -

but has to go to Castle Hill

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hospital in East Yorkshire twice

a week to have her leg seen to.

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She relies on Thames for patient

transport, but has been left

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stranded several times.

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Every time I know I've got

transport, I sit here in

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trepidation, waiting to see if it

turns

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are delaying her recovery clip

Sheena's experience is not unusual -

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Sheena's experience is not unusual -

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judging by the number of disgruntled

patients who get in

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touch with Look North.

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A spokesman for Thames has

offered their apologies

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in a statement, saying "TASL

delivers a reliable quality service

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to the huge majority of our patients

across Greater

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Lincolnshire and Hull.

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Regretfully there are occasional

disruptions to our service

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and patients may be inconvenienced.

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Former Thames staff say

their working life became

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increasingly stressful,

especially after many

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volunteer drivers walked out

in a row over expenses.

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Once they've gone, we just haven't

got the resources to do it. We

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feel... We are ultimately deciding

who is making the appointment and

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who isn't, which is an awful thing

to do. It had a massive detrimental

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effect on the staff in the office.

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The military breaks people

to build them up but Thames

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are just breaking people.

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This woman served in the armed

forces, but says that was nothing

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compared to working

as a manager with Thames.

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We've changed her

voice to protect her identity.

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They were crying in cupboards or

just generally wanting to walk out

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on a scale that I've seen over the

past few weeks.

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Thames insist they do have

enough people and vehicles

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to run the service,

and Sheena is full of praise

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for the drivers, when they turn up.

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They are amazing because they have

to put up with everybody having a

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good moan at them and they can only

do the job they are doing.

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All the different health groups

with a stake in patient transport

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are now urging people like sheena

to get in touch with them

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so they can get a more

complete picture of how

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the service is running.

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What have the clinical

commissioning groups,

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the ones who actually employ

Thames Ambulance Service,

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had to say about this?

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Thames ambulance runs patient

services right across our area and

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the responses we have reserved today

is received today indicate they are

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far from happy. Their neighbours in

North East Lincolnshire Ramdin

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ligature say they are working

closely with Thames and the local

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hospital trust to see what is and

isn't working. The advice is if you

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have got any comment or criticism

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make about Thames then inform Thames

but also inform your local CCG

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because if they don't know about it,

they can't act on it.

This story, we

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have followed right from the start

and we will continue to do so. If

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you have an experience or maybe you

worked or work for them and you want

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to get in touch then drop us an

e-mail and give us the details.

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Still ahead tonight:

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Lincoln Christmas market,

which attracts hundreds

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of thousands of people,

will have armed police on patrol.

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The local builders giving

ex-soldiers a place to live -

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now appearing on national TV.

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Keep the photos and pictures coming

in. We are halfway through the

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programme. We like that one.

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in. We are halfway through the

programme. We like that one. Is it

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true that he checks on the cows

before giving his accurate forecast?

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We have got a satellite.

Would you like to just do the

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forecast, please?

Let's have a look at the next 24

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hours. It is not looking too bad.

Increasing amounts of sunshine

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tomorrow. A few spots of rain at

first. A heads up for the weekend,

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lots of sunshine but it could well

be a few showers across the coast on

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Sunday.

What a beautiful day it has been.

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The cloud is beginning to increase

from the West. Already we have had a

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touch of frost.

I think basically speaking what will

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happen is the cloud will come across

and the breeze will pick up and the

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temperatures were level of. The

cloud may well produce one or two

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spots of rain. Temperatures two or

three degrees across Lincolnshire.

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Rising across those valleys. The sun

rises at a roundabout seven.

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A bit of cloud from the overnight

period. This cloud breaking up from

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the North through the course of the

morning. It is going to feel a bit

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milder. The breeze a moderate west

to south-westerly. Temperatures have

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struggled into double figures.

Tomorrow, 12 and 13. Should feel a

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little bit better.

Tomorrow night, patchy rain

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spreading from the Northwest again.

Friday looks fine, increasingly

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sunny. Saturday and Sunday, the

whole weekend looks cold, sunny and

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windy.

That's the forecast.

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I wish to discuss the up myself... I

don't know how you get away with it.

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Don't say any more.

Sciver tomorrow.

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A greater visible number of armed

police officers will patrol

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Lincoln's Christmas Market this

year, with extra road

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blocks in place to ensure

the safety of visitors.

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The market, which attracts hundreds

of thousands of people

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to the city every year,

starts in a month's time.

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Victoria Holland is in Lincoln now.

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Is the extra security in response

to a particular threat?

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No, organisers met with

counterterrorism officers today and

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they say they received no particular

intelligence about Lincoln but

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they say they received no particular

intelligence about Lincoln but these

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extra measures are being put in

place at big events across the

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country. The UK threat level remains

at severe. I spoke to organisers

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today to see what sort of measures

they are putting in place this

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Christmas.

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Lincoln's Christmas market is one

of the biggest in the country-

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last year it attracted

260,000 visitors.

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But for organisers, the challenge

is to keep those visitors safe.

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This year, extra armed police

officers and road barriers

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are being brought in.

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This will be the first time they

will be regularly deployed across

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the whole market for the whole

weekend and they will be visible. We

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hope people feel reassured that we

are taking extra measures to keep

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everything safe and sound for the

visitors and everyone attending.

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It follows terror attacks

like the one on the Berlin

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Christmas market last year,

where a lorry was driven

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at a crowd of shoppers,

killing 12 and injuring 56 others.

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Since then, armed police have become

a more common site at big events.

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And across cities concrete

barriers have been put in,

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like these ones in Hull,

to make it impossible for cars

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to drive across pedestrian areas.

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There will be barriers surrounding

the site this year. There will be a

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mixture of concrete blocks and

police vans. Organisers mean it

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would stop a hostile vehicle driving

into the crowd.

There is so much bad

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stuff happening when there are big

events, it is necessary. If it means

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we have to go overboard then we have

to look. Safety comes first.

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Personally I am not very comfortable

with armed police. It is only too

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easy for them to attack themselves

and somebody else then getting hold

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of it done.

It is a good idea to

have extra security. It makes

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everyone feel more comfortable.

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Lincolnshire police say that

many Christmas markets

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across the country are taking

similar precautions, and people

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should speak to armed officers

if they see anything suspicious.

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They hope the extra security means

people can enjoy Christmas cheer,

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confident that they're safe.

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As well as Lincoln Christmas market,

which begins on the 7th December,

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there'll also be extra security

at Lincoln's Christmas light switch

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on, which is next Friday.

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Once again they'll be using those

blockades around the area to keep

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Organisers insist they don't

want to alarm anyone,

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but they also need to make

sure visitors are safe.

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Lots of you got in touch

after last night's story,

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about cyclists riding on pavements.

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There have been complaints

about the number of cyclists

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using pavements in Lincoln,

with calls to fine anyone

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riding irresponsibly.

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Police say fines are not the answer.

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Thanks for all the messages on this.

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Chris in Lincoln says:

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Elsbe in Lincoln says:

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And this from Steve

in North Hykeham:

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A charity which renovates homes

for military veterans in Hull says

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it's helped dozens of former

soldiers since it was

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set up two years ago.

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Tonight the work of Hull 4

Heroes will be featured

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on the DIY SOS programme.

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The charity was started by local

tradesman Paul Matson,

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who got the idea after volunteering

on the BBC show, on a special street

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for veterans in Manchester.

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It's hoped that soon similar

communities could exist in our area.

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Jo Makel reports.

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We're here to turn empty

houses into for veterans.

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The Veterans Street in Manchester

was the biggest project DIY SOS

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had ever undertaken,

even involving Princes

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William and Harry.

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We've got the same name.

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Tell them what our name is.

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The Prince of Darkness.

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Paul Matson volunteered on that

first round of building work.

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It inspired him to start

the Hull4Heroes charity.

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And on tonight's programme

we see him back on the street,

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but this time with a gang

of volunteers from East Yorkshire.

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You decided to try and make

a difference where you live.

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Tell us about that.

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I really didn't think that

lots of veterans were in need.

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I felt down when I left

the Army and then came here,

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seeing what we were doing

here and went back to Hull,

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seen some derelict houses

and thought, why not?

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House renovations have been a large

part Hull4heroes' work.

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This house in Beverley was adapted

for Dan Allinson, a veteran who has

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motor neurone disease.

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He's now become part of the team

and is spearheading the charity's

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latest shoebox campaign to send

gifts to soldiers in Afghanistan.

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The aim of it is really just to let

the lads in theatre know

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that we are thinking about them.

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When I was in Afghanistan,

I received a shoe box and it made

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just such a difference.

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Chris Ashton, who was badly injured

by a grenade launcher in Iraq,

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has become patron of the charity

and says the emotional support it

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offers is also important.

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They are like my family.

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I get along with really well.

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And there's a lot of respect there.

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And since meeting them,

DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles has

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offered his support.

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At various stages I've tried to stay

in contact to give them some advice

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along the way that they need very

little advice from me.

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We've come up with some new ideas.

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It's going to expand

and get bigger and bigger.

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And they are kind of

an unstoppable force.

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They should be very much

appreciated from the city

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of Hull because they are

doing extraordinary things.

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While renovations remain its focus

for now, the charity has always

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had a long term aim.

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Eventually it wants to build streets

of new homes for veterans in Hull,

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creating something similar

to Manchester, a special

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community for the future.

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And you can see that special episode

of DIY SOS, Veteran Street,

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on BBC One tonight at 8 o'clock.

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Let's get a recap of the national

and regional headlines.

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Priti Patel was ordered to fly back

to London in the middle of an

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official trip.

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Struggling high streets

in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

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will be dead within a decade -

according to a top retail expert.

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Tomorrow's weather, a cloudy start

but turning brighter. Top

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temperatures getting up 13 Celsius.

Now, we were talking about the high

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streets and our guests saying the

high street would be dead within ten

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years, certainly prompted a big

response.

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Empty shops are also a problem in

cities. You only have to walk

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through Hull, there are 20 empty

premises and that does not include

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vacant office accommodation.

The main problem is the introduction

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of parking charges by the council.

Several people saying the same with

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the parking charges.

The pilot was a failure and a waste

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of taxpayers money right across the

country. The only thing it promoted

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was Mary Portas. Hoover some unknown

reason is still being described as a

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retail guru. Not a fan of my

reporters, I don't think. -- Mary

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Portas.

We don't need any fancy strategies

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and plans. And this one from John,

Jeff Somers who we saw in the film,

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to care about the future of market

raisin, it might have been useful to

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ask him why his own council decided

recently to start charging for the

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previously free car parks that were

there.

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The kiss of death for market raisin.

Thank you for those you for

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watching.

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