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Good evening and welcome to crisis continue. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening and welcome to Wednesday's Look North. On the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
programme tonight. The billhon pound cost of repairing Yorkshire's bumpy | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
roads ` we find out how councils are dealing with endless potholds. | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
And we investigate whether roads on the route of the Tour de Fr`nce are | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
being given priority. Also tonight. The search continues. Policd divers | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
have spent a second day searching river for missing Ben Clarkson. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
People are asking if the rivers should be made much safer. @nd a | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
wedding dress with an unusu`l history has landed at a charity shop | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
in Leeds ` can you help revdal its past? And a spectacular sunrise in | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
Sheffield this morning. But what about the next few days? John me | :00:54. | :01:05. | |
later for the forecast. Tonight ` the one billion pound cost | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
of repairing our roads. If xou're a driver or a cyclist, you'll no doubt | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
have noticed the state of them. But with the Tour de France comhng to | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Yorkshire the spotlight's fhrmly on us. We asked all our councils how | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
much it would cost to put them right. Altogether it's more than one | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
billion pounds. And experts reckon it would take 11 years to clear The | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
figure for North Yorkshire County Council, the largest in England is | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
?322 million. They've got the biggest part of the Grand Ddpart | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
route, and they've asked thd Government for an additional ?5 | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
million "towards the cost of averting a crisis on the ro`ds" | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
This from our Tour de Francd Correspondent Matt Slater. There is | :01:48. | :01:57. | |
an old joke about the Queen thinking the world smells like fresh paint. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Tour de France riders would disagree, they think it smells like | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
new tarmac. That is the arola in Harrowgate where road crews have | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
been busy smoothing the highway ahead of the Grand Depart this | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
summer. What we are doing is carrying out these works earlier | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
than we would have done to take advantage of the Tour de Fr`nce | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
coming to North Yorkshire. Good news if you live on the route. Your road | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
will be getting fixed. But not so good if you live anywhere else in | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Yorkshire. There is a road repair backlog of at least ?1 billhon. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
North Yorkshire alone would need to find 320 ?2 million to end ht Oregon | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
romps. The problem with potholes is not unique to North Yorkshire. | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
Sheffield's roads aren't notorious. This is south of the city. There is | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
one patch here of original road A 25 year deal has just signed with a | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
private firm to fix the roads. In the meantime a 4x4 is almost a | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
necessity. They have to do ht right. It has cost me a couple of shock | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
absorbers already this year. Good roads benefit everyone. Apart from | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
car mechanics, perhaps. But they are welcome if you happen to usd them as | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
an Olympic training ground. Like triathlon superstars Alistahr and | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
Johnson Brownlee. We had bedn enjoying riding on smooth t`rmac. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
You can see some changes, definitely. The potholes filled in. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
The French have used the Totr de France as an excuse to upgr`de their | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
roads for years. Yorkshire's road users will be hoping they do not | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
have to wait for the race to come back to get a smoother ride. Well | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
only yesterday North Yorkshhre Council was criticised at an inquest | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
after a cyclist was killed when he rode into a ten centimetre deep | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
pothole and was thrown into the path of a car. Martyn Uzzell was taking | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
part in a charity ride from Land's End to John O'Groats when hd hit the | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
pothole on the A65 at Giggldswick. The coroner said there was "no doubt | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
that the condition of the road was the cause of the accident." We've | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
got John Weighell from North Yorkshire County Council with us | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
now, along with Paul Watters from the AA. John, a man has died. The | :04:38. | :04:48. | |
coroner said the road was to blame. How can it have been left in such a | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
lethal state? The problem whth the roads is there has been such extreme | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
weather conditions. Especially in the past two years. But this was | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
reported to the council one month before. I am not sure that that was | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
the case. I know it was reported before but I do not think it was one | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
month before. Let me bring hn Paul at this stage. What do we p`y road | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
tax for? That is the question. We have seen declining road conditions | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
and the bad winters have made a big difference. One third of AA members | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
have told us that their cars have been damaged by potholes. And it is | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
a public manifestation of a declining road and said that we | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
really do need to invest in. You have the chance to speak to North | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Yorkshire county council here. What needs to be done in North | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
Yorkshire? The government is not minded to hand out extra cash. We | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
did have some following bad winters but I'm not sure that they will do | :05:59. | :06:06. | |
it again. You do not get as much for your money and you have to spend | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
quite a bit to get a bit. Btt I think we do need to press the | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
importance of road networks on all councillors, elected offici`ls, | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
local officials. Because thd road assets are declining and it is | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
costing us money as drivers as we hit the potholes. And it can also | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
risk accidents. The backlog is enormous. You're putting in an extra | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
?4 million to put things right for the Tour de France. Should we be | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
stating something as big as this when we cannot get the roads right | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
in the first place? We have two considered the benefit to the | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
economy of North Yorkshire which is going to be massive. `` havd to | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
consider. When it last came to this country, to London and the | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
south`east, the estimate was that it brought ?100 million to the economy. | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
We are putting ?4 million, largely into the roads of the Tour de | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
France. But if you're not on the route, you can tell where it the | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
route is going because the roads are great. But if not you are at the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
back of the queue. The monex we re using for the Tour de Francd roads | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
is just a small percentage of what we spend every year on the roads in | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
North Yorkshire. We spend about ?28 million every year on road | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
maintenance. We have put in an extra ?5 million out of the capit`l | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
surpluses that we have generated on the budgets for recent years. I went | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
to see the Secretary of State last week and said I have got ?5 million | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
extra, will you match it? And if you would give me ?10 million extra I | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
will match it. And what was the outcome of that? We do not know You | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
never do when you go to see ministers, they always smild sweetly | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
and offer some kind of comfort. But we would expect the results shortly. | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
And if you've got any pothole stories, please let us us know. You | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
can post a comment on our F`cebook page at BBC Look North Yorkshire or | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
you can send us an email ` our address is [email protected] And | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
you can tweet us at BBC Look North, where you can follow us as well | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
Later, 30 years on, the nathonal miners strike became a battle of | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
epic proportions, but was the legacy worth the fight? | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
Next tonight ` underwater sdarches have been continuing today for a | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
missing 22`year`old in York. Ben Clarkson disappeared after ` night | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
out at the weekend. There are concerns he may have fallen into the | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
River Foss. He was last seen outside Fibbers nightclub in the early hours | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
of Sunday. L Charlotte Leemhng is in York for us now. Good evening. | :09:05. | :09:13. | |
Specialist police divers spdnt a second day here at the River | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
searching for missing 22`ye`r`old Ben Clarkson. He was last sden in | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
the early hours of Sunday morning. This search of the river is just one | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
line of enquiry by North Yorkshire Police. It comes a few days after | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
the discovery of the York 's judgement Megan Roberts. Her body | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
was found on Sunday. It has caused a lot of concern about the safety of | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
rivers and whether they shotld be barriers. Especially among the | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
student population. A coupld of them are here. You had the idea of an | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
awareness campaign when Meg`n Roberts went missing? Being from | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
York I understand that not lany people who are students herd are | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
aware of the river. So I wanted to make it known to the students how to | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
be safe on a night out especially around the river. Now barridrs can | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
be controversial. What is your idea about those? I'm not sure whether it | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
would be a good thing to annoy the locals in any way. But I do think it | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
would be interesting to put up temporary barriers. Even on nights | :10:26. | :10:33. | |
like freshers week. And when there is flooding on the path. Karen was | :10:34. | :10:42. | |
president of the student unhon. What are students feeling in York at the | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
moment? I think people are shocked and upset for the families hnvolved. | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
It is making people think more about the current provisions in place | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Taking people question things that we might take for granted when | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
people are going out and about overnight. What plans have xou got | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
for students starting later in the year? Well but I still unofficial | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
nights with cheap drink offdrs. But we are looking at having a version | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
of Street Angels which would see students going around the chty on | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
officials to do nights, givhng out water and food, making sure people | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
get home safely. Because soletimes people are too drunk to get a taxi | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
but not drunk enough to merht an ambulance. There is that dangerous | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
middle ground. The family of Ben Clarkson have said it is out of | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
character for him not to be in touch. The police have said that the | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
search teams will be back in the morning. They said it was | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
painstaking, as you can imagine The river is very murky. The se`rch will | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
continue tomorrow. In the rest of the day's news. A | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
local MP has asked the Primd Minister to look at providing legal | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
aid for a family from Wakefheld so they can give their account to an | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
inquest into their children's death. Bobbi and Christi Shepherd died in | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
Corfu while on holiday in 2006 after they were overcome by carbon | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
monoxide fumes. Their parents face going to court without propdr | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
representation because they can t afford the legal fees. They fear the | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
inquest won't hear the full details of the case. | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
Will the Prime Minister meet with me and the parents to hear why it is | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
imperative that they are legally represented at the inquest so the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
full facts are meant. It is appalling that it has taken so long | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
for the inquest to take place. When you have lost a child you w`nt to | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
know the answers of whether it could have been prevented. So I al content | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
to arrange the meeting is that she talks about to help in this case. | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
Care workers in Doncaster h`ve ended seven days of strike action with a | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
rally. Members of Unison, who work for the private company Card UK | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
walked out of work last week. They say the company is cutting benefits | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
for working anti`social hours. Care UK provides support for people with | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
learning disabilities in thd town and says while it needs to cut | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
costs, it will protect basic pay and jobs. | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
A house in Ripon which was damaged when a 25 foot wide sinkhold opened | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
has been demolished. Residents of the property in Magdalen's Close had | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
to be evacuated, along with people in two other homes when the hole | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
appeared last month. Yesterday the 100`year`old house was demolished. | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Residents of the other homes were able to return last week, btt are | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
concerned the area is susceptible to sink holes appearing. | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
It has been distressing, tr`umatic for the residents of that property | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
and a warning for other loc`l resident. I think they will | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
investigate to find out the cause and what the future might bd. So it | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
is still the case of being inconclusive and waiting for final | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
answers. Next tonight ` a jtdge has defended his decision to order a | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
15`year`old sex abuse victil to be locked up overnight to ensure she | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
gave evidence against her attacker. The 15`year`old girl had ch`nged her | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
mind about speaking up in court So a warrant was issued and shd was | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
held in police cells for 20 hours. Ed Thomas has been following the | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
story. This case is about a man who groomed girl in Bradford. She was | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
due in court last Wednesday to face her abuser" but when she arrived she | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
was kept waiting for hours. Before she left the courtroom she refused | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
to give evidence. The policd and Crown Prosecution Service got | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
together and asked a judge to issue a warrant for her arrest. She was | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
detained for almost 20 hours before coming back to court to givd her | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
evidence. Today the man was jailed for seven years for his abuse. Well | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
what has the judge said abott the decision? There was a clear message | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
from the court today. The jtdge said that without the evidence of the | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
victim the case would have collapsed and the police and the CPS found | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
there was no alternative. Hd went on to say that justice had been served. | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
There has been a lot of criticism. Has anything been put in pl`ce to | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
stop this happening again? Well this is not best practice, clearly. Today | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
the NSPCC said all elements of the justice system let the girl down. | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
Victim support said the girl was treated in a grotesque manndr of. We | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
also heard from the police `nd Crime Commissioners for west Yorkshire who | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
said there was a serious fahlure here and he wants answers. Today the | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
judiciary provided some of those answers and said it once Br`dford | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
Crown Court to look again at Howard schedules these kind of casds and | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
especially how it deals with vulnerable people. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Some breaking news now and police have sealed off the main ro`d | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
through Penistone after the discovery of what's believed to be | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
an arsenal of World War II weapons. The bomb squad are there now, along | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
with Tom Ingall. Tom, what can you tell us? What an extraordin`ry | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
story. This is Sheffield Ro`d and it seems that one man's hobby has | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
become a worry for hundreds more. The only people at home right now at | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
the bomb squad. `` are the bomb squad. I understand that nehghbours | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
became concerned because thdy had not seen one resident on thd street | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
for some time. The list werd called and they unfortunately discovered | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
the body of a man and also found his extraordinary collection of World | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
War II ammunition. I got an update a few minutes ago. Having been to the | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
address it is clear there are a number of World War II relics. | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
Purely as a precautionary mdasure at the moment we are investigating what | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
they are stop we believe he may have been a collector of World W`r II | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
relics. We have got the Armx bomb disposal team investigating that. At | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
least 100 houses have been dvacuated tonight. One of the residents joins | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
me now. How much notice did you get? We had a couple of hours. They | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
told us the possibility of evacuation. And do you know how long | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
you will be out? They said ht could be all might. There is a significant | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
amount of explosive down thdre. Was it a great surprise? Absolutely Not | :17:57. | :18:04. | |
what you expect your neighbours to beekeeping! Well I hope you get home | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
at some stage tonight. Police say they will let residents know when it | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
is safe to come back home. Before seven o'clock. Things are hotting up | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
in South Yorkshire. Sheffield United were on winning form again last | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
night meaning a South Yorkshire promotion race could be on the | :18:22. | :18:30. | |
cards. And what can you tell us about this | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
unusual wedding dress? It's 30 years today since the first | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
picket lines were set up outside a Yorkshire pit threatened with | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
closure` an event which led to the year long national miners' strike | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
being called a few days latdr. But with now just two collieries left in | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
Yorkshire, was it worth that epic fight? Our Political Editor Len | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
Tingle reports. Every day for a year the news was filled with | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
confrontations like this. The government sought as the | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
unacceptable face of trade tnion power. But for thousands of miners | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
it was a fight to stop it closures and save their communities. 30 years | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
on it is clear that the mindrs failed. This used to be the gateway | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
to the colliery. The very fhrst picket line was set up here in 984 | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
affect ugly the strike started here. But have a look at what is on this | :19:30. | :19:36. | |
site right now. Today it is seen as a retail park. There is not a trace | :19:37. | :19:43. | |
of the pit here. At the start of the miners strike in 1984 there were 56 | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
pit in Yorkshire alone employing around 85,000. Today there `re just | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
two pits left with a workforce of under 800. Membership of wh`t was | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
once Arthur Scargill's mighty union is now thought to be less than 00. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
Since then the fight has bedn to replace all those jobs. Somd areas | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
have done better than others. This colliery near Barnsley, mord people | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
now work in the new businesses here that ever worked underground. We are | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
looking at 61 units. 700 men and women working in those units. But | :20:24. | :20:32. | |
other areas have not fared `nywhere near as well. I have come about 20 | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
miles east and this barricaded Lane used to lead to a colliery. In this | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
part of South Yorkshire it was really the road to prosperity. But | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
these days even 30 years after the miners strike, it is simply the road | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
to nowhere. The pit top has been bulldozed. The site remains | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
derelict. The effect is still being felt in nearby villages. All this | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
was ruined. It shattered he`rts and dreams. From where we are positioned | :21:09. | :21:15. | |
geographically, we are forgotten. Development would be fantastic to | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
create jobs. Plenty of areas locally do need development to create more | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
jobs. So 30 years on, the mdssage from these former coal commtnities | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
is there has been quite a bht of progress. But there is still a long | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
way to go. Let's have a look at last nhght s | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
football now. And The Blades are going from strength to strength | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Last night Sheffield United scored their eighth consecutive win. And | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
with Rotherham United firmlx in the promotion race already, the South | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
Yorkshire neighbours could be going head`to`head for a place in The | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
Championship before long! P`ul Ogden reports. Is anyone else havhng | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
trouble believing that this really is the same season, where Sheffield | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
United once sat bottom of the league one table before appointing Nigel | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
Clough as their manager. Thd fans now see the dark days of last autumn | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
as a bygone era. Ben Davies delivered the opening with ` | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
blistering free kick. Chris Porter crowned with a second goal two | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
minutes from time. They are now decision 10th in the league one | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
table. Rotherham United havd been there for a while. It is a leasure | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
of how demanding their standard now are that they were disappointed to | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
come back from Colchester whth just a point. Rather stay fit in the | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
table but in south Yorkshird alone we are heading for a memorable final | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
phase of the League one prolotions. What's an inspired appointmdnt Nigel | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
Clough was. Now spring's traditionally the time | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
of weddings. And if any brides out there are looking for an untsual | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
wedding dress ` maybe one whth a bit of history attached ` we thhnk we've | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
found it. A 1950s silk weddhng dress was handed in at a charity shop in | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
Leeds ` but before it goes on sale volunteers are desperate to find out | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
more about the dress and its original owner, as Spencer Stokes | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
reports. A wedding dress from an age when White was for the wealthy. This | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
is make do and mend. It rem`ins something of a mystery. It was | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
donated to a shop in Headingley by an elderly man who recently lost his | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
wife. He was such a kind man and he said there was not enough money for | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
off`white dress. This is wh`t they could afford at the time. Staff were | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
overwhelmed by the donation and they did not ask for details frol the | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
anonymous donor. But inside the box was a photograph of the wedding day | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
and a note explaining that the groom paid eight guineas for the dress | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
from a shop in Leeds. The fhrst thing you notice is just how small | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
the dress is. 25 inches, thd waste. Suggesting that in the 1950s women | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
were slightly more petite. @nd it was not just food that was rationed | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
for several years after the war Some fabrics were difficult to | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
obtain, especially silk. So this dress may have been made from a | :24:35. | :24:41. | |
parachute. During the Second World War it anyone found a parachute they | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
would use it to make clothing and more specifically underwear. It was | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
a luxury. If you found silk it was quite a big deal and it would be | :24:53. | :24:59. | |
reused. The dress will now go on sale at before it finds a ndw | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
owner, even a new bride, st`ff would like to find the groom who handed | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
over what must've been a trdasured memory. Absolutely beautiful. And 25 | :25:08. | :25:21. | |
inch waist! That is tiny. So eight guineas, how much was that? Probably | :25:22. | :25:35. | |
?20,000. No, stop it! 25 inches even smaller than you! We h`ve some | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
beautiful pictures of the stnrise this morning. And this one hs also | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
fantastic. Keep those pictures coming in. And there is a blog which | :25:54. | :26:07. | |
details the first prolonged period of high pressure since Decelber | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
That is developing for next week. More details on that later. Mostly | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
cloudy and a little patchy rain tomorrow. Clearing on Fridax | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
morning. Friday afternoon looking fine with some sunshine. And then an | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
improving picture for the wdekend. We have had temperatures of 11 | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
degrees today despite of th`t cloud. So it is mostly find this evening. | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
But the cloud will thicken slowly. There will be some patchy r`in in | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
places. And frost`free tonight. So the sun will rise at 6:44am. A | :26:55. | :27:03. | |
mostly cloudy day tomorrow, some patchy rain around at times. Eastern | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
areas brightening up at timds. But further west there is always the | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
risk of a little rain at tiles. Temperatures will be in double | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
figures in spite of all that cloud. And a moderate and dusty | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
south`westerly wind. The wedkend looks mostly dry with quite a bit of | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
cloud at times. Next week, `lmost spring`like. | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
Quite a prolonged forecast! Good night. | :27:47. | :27:49. |