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An extraordinary meeting, the North Devon meeting about prayer in a | :00:18. | :00:27. | |
castle all over the country. Tonight we will be life in Bideford. | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
And making �20 million worth of savings, Devon said its budget, but | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
some of rural communities to fear it could make them vulnerable. And | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
the South Devon man battered and bruised after messing -- fighting | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
with a monster fish. Councillors in Bideford will | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
tonight decide whether or not to appeal against a decision that | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
means they will be breaking the law if they say prayers as part of | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
their formal meetings. Clive Bone, who is an atheist, challenged it | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
and said that it was unlawful to have a prayers in the meetings. Our | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
correspondent joins us alive from Bideford tonight. | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
-- joins us life. This extraordinary meeting got under way | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
about 20 minutes ago and tonight councillors are seeking legal | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
advice on whether to appeal against that ruling. This case has really | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
set the cat among the pigeons. You might remember that last week the | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Archbishop of Canterbury criticised it. The Secretary of State for | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
local communities and government said that he was planning to bring | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
a bill for a word so that local councils could continue with their | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
tradition. -- forward. However, a West Devon MP said that bringing | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
the case was a waste of money. Today my colleague has been finding | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
out what affects the ruling has had on other councils in the South West. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
The debate and rolling over prayers before meetings in the council -- | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
and rolling over prayers before meetings is affecting other | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
councillors in the meeting. -- in the region. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Normally the first tenants of a council meeting is dedicated to | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
prayers, but it has been decided that Spurs will not be on the | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
agenda. -- that prayers will not be on the agenda. The chairman of the | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
council has decided that if anyone wants to take part in Christian | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
prayers, they can do so 10 minutes before the meeting. That is part of | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
democracy. Not everybody agrees with it. Some people do. The | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
council will have an opportunity to discuss where they want to go. At | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
the moment I believe that if we had prayers at 10:30am despite in not | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
being put on the agenda, I believe we would be breaking the law, and I | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
am not prepared to put the council through that. Today, Devon County | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
Council were holding the budget meeting. They decided to hold their | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
prayers before the meeting officially started so they would | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
not break the law. Torbay Council say they are looking | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
into the ruling and Annie implications it might have for them. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
-- and Annie implications it might have for them. | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
A spokesman for Plymouth City Council says that prayers are said | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
but are not part of the meeting. They say that councillors need not | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
be present and some choose not to the. | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
-- not to be. That meeting is due to finish around 7:00pm and I am | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
told that if councillors decide to appeal against the ruling they will | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
be held out by the Christian Institute. It would not come at the | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
taxpayers' expense because the Christian Institute would foot the | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
bill. What will be interesting as whether councillors did say prayers | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
unofficially. It did not appear on the agenda but they were talking | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
about doing that last week. We will have a report about this with an | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
update on tonight's 10:25pm Programme. | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
Bus routes and libraries will suffer and thousands more street | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
night will be switched off every night as �20 million worth of cuts | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
are made across Devon. The council set its budget today. Politicians | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
are worried that some rural communities will be isolated. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Broil bus routes are being put under review and there will be cut | :04:52. | :05:01. | |
to transport fees for young people. It will affect the young people and | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
vulnerable people. What bus routes, it usually affects a small number | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
of people, but these are very important to them and they need to | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
be able to get from A to B. Libraries were also suffer. None | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
will close, but the budget for buying books will be cut. Thousands | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
more street lights will be cut off. This year it has been described as | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
a steady as you go budget. But next year there will be a turbulent time | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
ahead and I think that for services in Devon. Today's meeting was told | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
that the savings required in Devon would be found from cuts to | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
management and a reorganisation of the council. I think we have | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
protected services. We have protected them to the best of our | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
ability. We are looking after the young and the vulnerable. We are | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
still reducing staff, which is why the corporate side will actually | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
have less to spend this year. But we are at now shaped in a way to | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
face the 21st century. -- but we are now shaped. Roads have been | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
damaged by severe weather. Devon's share of council-tax bills will be | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
frozen. This is nothing like the Budget last year, when there was a | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
high profile row over cuts to support for domestic violence | :06:31. | :06:38. | |
victims. Another review will be held in May of next year. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Major disruption is imminent for ferry passengers out of Weymouth. | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
Condor Ferries are trying to search -- which services because of | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
serious safety concerns about their ports in a Poole. Our business | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
correspondent is with me now. What is wrong with the port? | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
De are concerned about -- there are concerns that the masonry could | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
fall apart at the port. This comes after an examination. A diver went | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
down and cracks were seen below the water line. There are problems | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
above that line as well. There are cracks visible. It is an obvious | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
risk to the travelling public. One senior counsellor has told us that | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
this is being treated at the moment as a trip hazard rather than | :07:29. | :07:36. | |
anything more serious. It is uneven. People can trip. If it were to get | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
much worse, which we don't think it will, it could be a real danger. We | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
want to deal with it now. What will this mean for a ferry schedules? | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
The air is one more departure from Weymouth -- there is one more | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
departure from Weymouth at and 30 am. Sunday and Monday will have | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
ferries are going from Poole. -- at 10:30am. Condor Ferries is an | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
important employer. How long will this last's it is the biggest | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
private employer in the area. It is important for Weymouth that this be | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
sorted out as soon as possible. We simply do not know. The statement | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
from Condor Ferries just says that the ceilings for the rest of the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
month will be reviewed this coming week after they have done more on | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
site investigation. More than 100 guests had to be | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
moved out of the Crown Hotel on Torquay seafront while firefighters | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
tackled a chimney fire. -- Grand Hotel. Staff say that there was | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
minimal damage to the four-star Hotel and officers say it was a | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
difficult fire to put out because of the position of the chimney. | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
was assured that the chimney was swept quite regularly. It was last | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
swept in November. It is used on a daily basis and it could be a build | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
up of build up which has decided to catch fire today. New houses built | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
in the Olympic village have been handed over to Games organisers. A | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
handshake marked the moment that the homes, which form the will of | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
the village, will eventually be sold on the open market. The new | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
development would have taken longer to complete had it not been for the | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
Games. I came down here in 2003 when we started the bid. Those days | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
we were working on a cruise ship. To see the village you complete and | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
taking it over, for me, personally, it is a big milestone. Not on the | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
will be amazing during the Games but it will be a great legacy for | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
the community after words. There is a warning to write that the number | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
of applications for single wind turbines in Cornwall will | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
industrialise the countryside. A new organisation called Core mob | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
attack says that there has been a number of fashionable Cornwall | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
Protect says that there needs to be -- and Organisation accord Cornwall | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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Protect says that more needs to be done to protect the area. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Cornwall Protect his concern about the rising number of applications | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
for more single wind turbines. These maps are produced by Cornwall | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
council. You can see all of the lines across here show a massive | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
increase in wind turbine applications. Cornwall has | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
pioneered wind energy but some people are asking how many wind | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
turbines there should be. These days, wind turbines tend to look | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
quite large on the landscape. But the question is whether or not we | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
are killing off the goose that lays the golden egg. Our wind turbines | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
blighting the English -- are wind turbines blighting the English | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
countryside? I am thinking out geothermal and wave hubs and things. | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
All of these are vital alternatives. This man worked for the energy | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
industry. Now he has joined Cornwall Protect. He gave as the | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
figures to show how the terra pak works for wind turbine owners. -- | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
at the tariff works. They have electricity expenses transported to | :11:35. | :11:42. | |
a power company and they can save 13 -- 13p per kilowatt hour. That | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
would net and operator �450,000 per year. But this company says that | :11:50. | :12:00. | |
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wind turbines are good for the countryside. They offer cost | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
effective forms of energy generation which is secured and we | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
can rely on rather than the vagaries of a fossil fuels. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
commercial wind farms agreed, despite their critics. They say | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
that wind energy is efficient. Artists in Bridport are concerned | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
about plans which might paint a very different picture of the town. | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
That to come in a moment. And back in its home county, the painting | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
bought and sold as a scene of London. | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
And the city of Exeter might up to excite and inspire. -- lights up to | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
excite and inspire. Police say they believe that the | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
bones found by contractors in a house... They are being analysed at | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
the moment. It is not clear how significant they are, but there is | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
evidence that they could be from the Iron Age. It is not every day | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
to be called by the police on a case such as this. People have been | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
living around Dorset for many thousands of years and so it is not | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
unexpected to find remains of individuals who have been buried | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
The number of people sleeping rough in and around Truro has more than | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
doubled. The charity St Petrocs says it's helped 91 people at its | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
shelter this winter as opposed to 36 during the same time last year. | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
The organisation is blaming the economic downturn. | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
It has been revealed that Dartmouth will play host to an international | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
sailing competition later this year. The J80 World Sailing Championships | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
will be a joint venture hosted by the Britain -- Britannia Yacht Club | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
and the Royal Dart Yacht club. Around 80 teams from all over the | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
world will be competing in the event at the beginning of June. | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Described as Notting Hill-on-Sea, Bridport has been build -- building | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
a bit of a national reputation in recent years. And for a coastal | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
town in Dorset, there is a colourful cultural scene. But some | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
argue that part of it is now under threat because of redevelopment | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
plans for an area close to the artists and their studios. It may | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
be a run-down industrial estate, but hidden away here are plenty of | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
businesses. It is no coincidence that these sorts of traders have | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
set up in Bridport. They appealed to art lovers who come from far and | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
wide to spend their money. Bridport is building a cultural name for | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
itself, and the galleries, studios have a closely linked marketplace. | :14:41. | :14:48. | |
Some believe they will be a real loss to the economy if the plans go | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
ahead. Not only are about 100 jobs at this, but the move could eat | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
away at what has become a well- known art scene. I personally would | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
move on. I couldn't stand the thought of an ugly housing | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
development in the middle of a conservation area. The Heritage we | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
are losing his incredible. Plans for the site include demolishing | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
buildings and putting up about 100 homes. The owners say there will | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
also be spaces for legitimate tenants already here to set up shop, | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
and that -- but other traders always knew it would be a short- | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
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term deal. We let them in to help them out, and they have all agreed | :15:36. | :15:45. | |
-- and they all agreed to leave when the time was past. Economic | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
growth is the holy grail in Britain at the moment, and one gallery | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
owner says art is the key to success here. People come down to | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
Bridport just to see the galleries. Most of what by self goes to places | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
like Surrey, home counties. We need people to come into Bridport. They | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
have to come reasons to come to Bridport. The art scene here really | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
has taken off over the last 10 years, and businesses clustered | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
together. Someone coming to buy at the painted -- to buy a painting | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
here, may also buy something else. What happens next is up to the | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
district council. They need to take all views into account. A painting | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
brought -- bought and sold as a view of old London has been brought | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
back to Cornwall after it was revealed to actually portray Truro. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
The picture is a view of the Cornish city long before the | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
cathedral was built. The picture is thought to have been painted more | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
than 200 years ago, perhaps as early as 1790. It shows the high | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
cost area of Truro and the odds and there is church. It is full of | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
fascinating detail. There is a woman washing clothes. Their cars | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
in the street, and the building on the left is an Ironmongers -- There | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
are COWEs in the street. The painting was originally bought | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
unsold as a fear of Kensington in London, but recognised it as Truro | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
in the late 19th century. Today, the scene for the artist's | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
viewpoint is very different. The cathedral has been built on this | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
site of the old church. But the Assembly of rooms are still here, | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
and this is where the woman was washing the clothes. You wouldn't | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
want to do that today. And out here, there is not an animal in sight. | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
was from before photography, so nobody else knows exactly what the | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
place looked like. It is prices, a view of the lost, vanished world. | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
Other same time, you can see what is there today. -- it is priceless. | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
The artist remains a mystery, and the price tag is �7,500. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
Fascinating to see how things have changed. I'm coming from Truro, few | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
people have asked if I remember it looking like that but the lad. I | :18:25. | :18:33. | |
don't, quite! It has changed a bit. Thousands of people are expected to | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
attend Animated Exeter this year. The annual festival showcases high- | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
quality animation and allows the general public to give in - give it | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
a go. More than 100 animated films will be shown in the city over the | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
eight day event. We went to see some of the workshops helping young | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
animators learn their craft from the professionals. The report | :18:49. | :18:59. | |
contains some flashing images. You need to look at this from all | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
the way round. Learning from the best. This woman is a model maker. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
She has worked on characters for the order -- for an award winning | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
company, which makes models for films like chicken run and Wallace | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
and Gromit. She is now passing on her skills to the next generation | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
of animators. It is always good to get professionals to teach you. You | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
can get the low-down on how to get into the industry itself. I love | :19:31. | :19:40. | |
animation, I love filming. I love taking on new skills. It is | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
wonderful to do -- to do that here. This model making classes just one | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
of the many workshops happening to help people learn their own skills. | :19:50. | :19:59. | |
This year's festival is very much focused on people skills. There are | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
a lot of workshops for young people and also a lot like this one behind | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
us for all the people. They are quite specialised workshops. These | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
young animators are helping to project pictures on to inanimate | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
objects. His polystyrene box comes to life and becomes a teak -- TV | :20:23. | :20:31. | |
screen when the projection is rolling. We are painting objects of | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
light. The professionals have a much bigger canvas to play with. | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
Over the next three nights, animated films will be projected | :20:40. | :20:49. | |
onto the walls of the city's Cathedral. It took 30 minutes to | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
land but little did Devon angler Chris Proctor suspect that he had | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
landed what could be the biggest cod ever caught by rod in the | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
English Channel. And that's not all. It happened on his first ever sea | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
fishing trip. The drama unfolded off Pevensey Bay and Chris tells us | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
he's since had pan fried cod, cod in batter, a fish stew and a fish | :21:09. | :21:19. | |
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Celebrating their record-breaking catch. Chris and his friends can | :21:31. | :21:40. | |
hardly believe their eyes. Not bad for their first trip catching cod. | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
That is the magic moment, when you see this huge creature surfacing. | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
Until it is in the boat, you haven't caught it. That is the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
exciting part of it. The sense of the unknown is all part of the fund. | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
I was lucky enough to catch a �21 card, but Chris had this bigger | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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fish. -- �21 cod. By the time Chris reached the shore for the official | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
landing way in, rumours were already causing a stir in Pevensey | :22:21. | :22:31. | |
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Bay. People were filming yet. It went to 43.9. It is the biggest cod | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
that fishermen here have ever seen. It is a spate of several catches | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
larger than average, so much so that the angler's down -- I was 10 | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
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now has a wall of fame of colossal cods. -- anglers' den. How is the | :23:12. | :23:21. | |
weather? Tonight, it is mild, generally cloudy and generally | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
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quiet for all of us. There may be a few showers. The cloud will become | :23:32. | :23:42. | |
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a bit more active on Saturday. A cold front will push through on | :23:46. | :23:54. | |
Saturday, so it could be quite wet and windy. We then get a big change. | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
Saturday night into Sunday, the cold front introduce is much colder | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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air, with the risk of some wintery showers -- introduces. There are | :24:10. | :24:20. | |
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already a few trips and drabs of showery rain. Low temperatures of | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
:24:34. | :24:38. | ||
four or five degrees. Quite misty developing over the moors. Tomorrow, | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
we have got a lot of cloud for much of the day. There's little chance | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
of seeing much of the way of breaks in that cloud. Every now and then, | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
the odd shower will drift by. A change in wind direction. We may | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
get slightly higher temperatures because of that. Maximum control of | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
10 or 11 degrees. Those winds will be Westerleigh, and then back | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
south-westerly later in the day. They will pick up into the early | :25:11. | :25:21. | |
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For those who have not had much surf for the last few days' cover | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
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it does Pickup. -- pick up. Coastal As for the outlet, there is a big | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
change. Saturday becomes quite a wet. Still relatively mild, but ten | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
degrees the top temperature. Some very blustery winds. Down to seven | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
degrees on Sunday. The further east you are, the lower the temperatures | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
will be, because we will have a frosty start on Sunday morning and | :26:43. | :26:53. | |
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the risk of ice after that rain. Monday, a frosty start and it | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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clouds over again and become stamp. Wet, windy and mild by Tuesday. | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
David Cameron makes the new offer for the devolution debate. And here, | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
North Devon councillors discuss appealing against a ban on players | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
in council meetings. -- prayers. We would give the the outcome of that | :27:23. | :27:28. |