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phil chapman, bbc news, staithes. after she first took to the skies, the uk's last airworthy vulcan is looking for a new home. she's spent the past decade at doncaster sheffield airport, but the site's future is now uncertain — as david rhodes reports. fanfare. archive: the avro vulcan, - britain's revolutionary v-bomber, goes goes into service with the royal air force. for many it was once the technological pinnacle of british aeroengineering, but the yorkshire trust that preserves this piece of living history has been told it must now find a new home. whilst it's a difficult day for us to tell the world this, i do believe this aircraft has got an important role in the future, and potentially a very successful role in the future of education and history. the vulcan has been grounded since 2015 but it remained on display at doncaster sheffield, an airport which its owners say may no longer be commercially viable. there are two potential sites where the vulcan could be rehomed. one of those sites is understood to be in
phil chapman, bbc news, staithes. after she first took to the skies, the uk's last airworthy vulcan is looking for a new home. she's spent the past decade at doncaster sheffield airport, but the site's future is now uncertain — as david rhodes reports. fanfare. archive: the avro vulcan, - britain's revolutionary v-bomber, goes goes into service with the royal air force. for many it was once the technological pinnacle of british aeroengineering, but the yorkshire trust that preserves this...
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phil chapman, bbc news, staithes. say something needs to be done to help landlords. the latest figures show 200 pubs in england and wales closed in the first six months of this year, with the west midlands the worst affected region. from there, laura may mcmullan reports. meet andrew smith. he's been the licensee of the plough inn in stourbridge for 16 years. like many pubs, he says the pandemic has hit them hard, and they've been haemorrhaging money. we're probably trading around about £75,000 a year we're down than we were pre—pandemic. utility bills and everything have gone up, but yet trade has gone down, and that can only lead to one way, really. here in the west midlands, almost 100 pubs have shut in the last two years. in the first six months of this year, 28 establishments have called time. it means the region has the highest number of pub closures in the country. andrew believes the breweries need to be more flexible with their tenancy and lease agreements. it needs to change, because it needs to reflect how
phil chapman, bbc news, staithes. say something needs to be done to help landlords. the latest figures show 200 pubs in england and wales closed in the first six months of this year, with the west midlands the worst affected region. from there, laura may mcmullan reports. meet andrew smith. he's been the licensee of the plough inn in stourbridge for 16 years. like many pubs, he says the pandemic has hit them hard, and they've been haemorrhaging money. we're probably trading around about...
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my name's lee jackson, helmsman at staithes lifeboat. hi, i'm elena and i'm his daughter.ways had a big passion for the lifeboat. and hopefully, if i stay in the village, i'd like to carry it on with my family. we've got to try and keep it going in the village. obviously the village is quite a touristy place now, with the holiday cottages and the holiday homes, so we need the local people that are here to come along and train and be crew. i'm colin harrison - and these are my twins. it has kind of brought us together as a family in a different way as well. it's nice just to see them, especially at the station that there are multiple families consistently involved. i think it's important to help save people, because quite a lot of people underestimate the tides or weather conditions and get trapped. if no one's there to save them, then who knows what could happen? generations that have gone from here — as i was, going to sea before we could walk — but so many of the crew around the country now are not, and the minority have got a maritime experience, and with all the new te
my name's lee jackson, helmsman at staithes lifeboat. hi, i'm elena and i'm his daughter.ways had a big passion for the lifeboat. and hopefully, if i stay in the village, i'd like to carry it on with my family. we've got to try and keep it going in the village. obviously the village is quite a touristy place now, with the holiday cottages and the holiday homes, so we need the local people that are here to come along and train and be crew. i'm colin harrison - and these are my twins. it has kind...
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phil chapman, bbc news, staithes.mer. the measure grants authorities special, temporary powers such as barring people from woodlands. it's a response to forecasts of temperatures above a0 degrees celsius in what could be the country's third heatwave this summer. alison roberts is in the portuguese capital lisbon and has more. here in lisbon the temperatures are in the low 30s, but we've seen considerably higher temperatures in the interior. that itself is not so unusual in august, but it does come again as the third heatwave this summer on top of a severe or extreme drought in the whole of main land to portugal. that means particularly in the interior there was an extreme risk of wildfires in the countries forests and that is expected to continue at least until tuesday. i continue at least until tuesday. i was reading about the fires in the national park, big fires lasting several days there and they have been brought under control now, haven't they? but there are concerns they could flare up again. yes. they could fl
phil chapman, bbc news, staithes.mer. the measure grants authorities special, temporary powers such as barring people from woodlands. it's a response to forecasts of temperatures above a0 degrees celsius in what could be the country's third heatwave this summer. alison roberts is in the portuguese capital lisbon and has more. here in lisbon the temperatures are in the low 30s, but we've seen considerably higher temperatures in the interior. that itself is not so unusual in august, but it does...