WHY THE CAMERAS DIDN'T GET TO HULL

Think about it. Why did Doncaster get the oxygen of television publicity while Hull drowned.

Easy. A cameraman could drop the kids off at school in Pimlico, catch a train from Kings Cross, (90 minutes) and a taxi to Bentley (10 minutes) and be back in London to pick them up. Crews paddled for a while but not as far as Hull.

It took senior Labour politicians like Alan Johnson and John Prescott to get them to travel the extra sixty miles.