Please can you help with answers to the following :
1. Mr. Brown made a turn almost in the middle of this place (7 letters)
2. Heard that a girl lives here (5 letters)
3. Blustery storm from the North-East to ship (9 letters)
4. Colloquially this is a broken-down urban area (8 letters)
AND FINALLY THE ONE WHICH HAS US ALL STUMPED........
5. Is this a rice-growing area ? (5 letters)