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They learned that the airmen's aim was to head west to reach the RAF station at Woodhall Spa, a further 10 miles or so away.

But in the last five years or so, the rise of streaming has essentially done the opposite — poaching cable subscribers, edging out episodic programming with bingeable on-demand series and cutting writing jobs in the process.

"I've been doing this maybe 15, 20 years or so," she says.

It has won over 630 council seats from around 1,500 declared so far, with results from a further 100 or so still to come in.

Well, one former frontbencher predicted a "bloody battle" over the disability benefit cuts when MPs vote in a month or so.