内容摘要：He urged anyone heading to the hills over the next week to take care and avoid lighting camp fires or naked flames.

He urged anyone heading to the hills over the next week to take care and avoid lighting camp fires or naked flames.

But first this year, he hopes to retain his karting world title."It was such a beautiful day," recalls Bradford-born commentator John Helm, who was working for Yorkshire Television that day.

"The sun was shining and everybody in the city was happy."A home game at Valley Parade against Lincoln City was due to mark the end of a memorable season which had seen the hosts top the Third Division, their first title since winning the same league in 1929."Bradford City had already won promotion and were due to receive the trophy in front of their adoring fans," Helm adds.

"Lincoln had nothing to play for, so you couldn't possibly imagine anything wrong."For centre-half and club captain Peter Jackson, leading his hometown club to the title was a source of triumph.

"Particularly for me being a local lad and having lived and gone to school locally, it was a proud day," says Jackson, now 64.

"It was supposed to be a special day, but it turned into a disastrous day."In Montreal, Louis Plouffe is picking up groceries at the city's Jean-Talon market.

He tells the BBC that he thinks the Bloc "defends Quebec's interests well" as an opposition party in Parliament. Still, "it's not being in power", the 65-year-old says, and he wants a government with a strong mandate "ready for the wave that's coming" from the US.And while Mr Plouffe has reservations about the Liberal leader, he believes Mark Carney has come across as credible and confident in interviews. He too will vote for the party.

"Canadian patriotism is on the rise in Quebec", said Émilie Foster, an adjunct professor in politics at Carleton University. "We prefer to be part of Canada instead of being part of the United States, if we have to choose," she says.Sébastien Dallaire, a pollster with Léger, puts it this way: "It's hard to say now is the time to talk about Quebec sovereignty, or now is the time to do things specifically to defend Quebec, when clearly there's a national crisis and everybody is staring not at Ottawa as the adversary, but as Washington as the clear opponent."