16/09/2011 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening. Welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines - the race

against time to put up hundreds of students starting life at

university this weekend. To put a freshers in as a bit nerve-racking,

because they are nervous enough already. I think it ruins the

experience of it. I after nearly 120 years, the daily paper that's

going weekly. A Hull man has survived after a metal bolt hit him

in the face as he drove down the M 62. If it had hit the in the eye

could have swerved into the central reservation or anywhere else. I'm

really lucky it hit me where it did. And the rare, old footage capturing

life in our area that's on display this weekend. And that weekend

weather forecast will follow in the In just over 24 hours, thousands of

students will be arriving at the University of Lincoln for the start

of freshers week. For more than 100 of them, these will be their

student digs. Portable cabins, after the University ran out of

space in its normal halls of residence. Leanne Brown has been

for a look around the temporary accommodation. They are just three

metres wide, that's nine ft, but these boxers will soon be housing

200 students. There's no arguing the fact that the cabins are

relatively compact, but they do have two beds in and an en-suite

shower room. They are comfortable, heated and safe. The cabins are

usually used as an upmarket alternative to a tent at festivals.

But they have been used at universities before. The feedback

has been positive from the other universities because they had them

for a number of years. One university has had them on and off

for five years, it's survived peaks and troughs in their accommodation

requirements. But these current students wouldn't have been happy

if they were housed there. wouldn't have felt comfortable, I

wouldn't have wanted to stick around for as long as my whole

course. I would have been looking for somewhere else to go. They are

horrible. You are not going to be very comfortable if all you've got

is this tiny box and you've got to share with someone else. If you are

completely different people, one of you goes out and the other stays in,

you are going to feel awful. Threshers on nervous enough already

coming in on the first day. The sooner they get them out the better,

but they are looking for other places for them so it should be all

right. It's the first time Lincoln University has had this problem.

Student numbers haven't risen but the amount coming from outside the

county has. It's not the fact that the student numbers have increased

so significantly, it's that we are seeing more students coming from

further afield. We find that local students tend to stay at a parental

home, around a quarter of them, and students from further afield to

dump. The reputation of the universe Tycroes and students are

coming from further afield. Students will be arriving on Sunday.

It's perhaps not the start to university life they expected.

Leanne is live at the University now. Why has the University gone

for these temporary units rather than putting students in what

people would be thinking about -- thinking about, a B&B or hotel

accommodation? They didn't want students to miss out on those

important few weeks of university life. Down at the waterfront, where

there are lots of pubs and restaurants, you can see behind me

the student bar. Lots will be going on around here for freshers week.

They wanted to make sure that students felt they were a part of

that. If they'd been placed in B&Bs they'd be disjointed and in various

different places across the city. This way, they are all together in

one local community. Traditionally, they would have been in halls of

residence, so they wanted to recreate that kind of feel. But I

must stress that they do say this is a temporary solution and they

are working with local tenants to find them alternative accommodation

in a shared house. What do you think about that, would you fancy

starting university life in a portable cabin, has the University

Campbell did the best way? You can e-mail us. In Hull, its claimed

that changes to planning laws could force students away from an area of

the city known for cheap accommodation. Hull University

students Union says stricter planning rules would stop houses in

the Newland Avenue area being turned into shared homes. The

council says it's talking to residents and Stevens before a

decision is made. We've got a meeting on the 20 sixth. This is a

day when we get 5000 new students to the city, bringing millions of

pounds worth of economy with them. It's a devastating message to send

out to them, that they are going to be put in student ghettos and not

able to live where they want to live on the thriving streets in the

city of Hull. The Grimsby housewife who wants us to have our say on

leaving Europe. It's been a daily fixture for thousands of people in

Lincolnshire for nearly 120 years. But today, following months of

speculation, it's been announced that the Lincolnshire Echo is to

become a weekly paper. Circulation has fallen to just over 17,000, a

drop of more than 7% since this time last year. That's compared

with a circulation of more than 30,000 a day 20 years ago. Bosses

say that scrapping the daily edition will help to secure the

paper's long-term future. The paper's future was its own front

page story today. After 118 years of daily news, the Lincolnshire

Echo is going weekly. The latest victim, it seems, of our changing

reading habits. People are very busy in their lives and the number

of readers who religiously read a paper six times a week is dropping.

What we want to do is be able to give people everything in one

weekly edition. It's a problem that's been experienced by other

papers. Several weeks ago, the Scunthorpe Telegraph went weekly

following and 9.1 % fall in its circulation. In Hull, the Daily

Mail is down by 8.2 %. Yngling picture, sales of the Ecole have

fallen by 7.6 %. In Lincoln today, people had different reasons why.

If I'm going to get my news from anything it's usually Sky News or

BBC News on the internet. I don't really read the Lincolnshire Echo

because the information in it doesn't really appeal to me. I

don't think it's aimed at our age group. There isn't enough news to

fill a paper every day. A weekly one would be brilliant. Unlike many

daily papers, the Lincolnshire Echo Sir -- covers a wide and sprawling

counter. Village shops and newsagents have been closing fast,

and now reaching areas -- people in areas like this has become

increasingly difficult. Shops have closed down, the post office has

closed down, that has undoubtedly had an impact on our sales.

years of daily reporting will come to an end on 14th October. A sign

of the Times, with the printed word battling to compete with internet

technology. I spoke to the media commentator Roy Greenslade, who

writes a blog for the Guardian newspaper, and asked him whether he

was surprised that the Lincolnshire Echo is going weekly. Not at all.

It's clear that Northcliffe media have been reviewing the situation

at several evening papers, and this is the fourth in their group that

they decided to turn from a regional evening into a weekly.

That follows one even earlier, the Bath Chronicle, in which it

pioneered this kind of move. circulation of the Scunthorpe

Telegraph has gone up since it has gone weekly. Is this the answer to

save the papers? I think it's an interim stage, because I think we

will eventually end up with no papers at all and will move totally

on screen, but that's a way off yet. So it's a way of ensuring that a

paper which is probably not making a great deal of money, if any at

all, can turn a profit and therefore can survive. What they've

found his by transforming rather thin the daily papers into thicker

weekly papers, it does get a big sales flippered. People get

interested again. The Bath Chronicle has been doing this for a

couple of years and is still a very successful newspaper. Let me go

back to that point you made a few minutes ago. Can you see the end of

papers? Yes. Eventually, we are obviously going to do without

newsprint. That is clearly a big digital revolutionary move which we

are going to want. But it's hopeless trying to put a date on it.

Some newspapers will survive but overall, we will lose newsprint

altogether. Maybe 20 years' time, maybe 30, it may be sooner. What

about more immediately? The Grimsby Telegraph, the Hull Daily Mail - of

a guaranteed to stay daily? For the moment they are. I'm sure

everything will be constantly under review. This is not really about

sales and circulation, it's really about advertising revenue, about

whether you can turn a profit. Advertising is obviously affected

by the number of papers that you sell, but then we've got the

problem of people migrating to the internet. Advertisers migrating to

the internet. And also the overall recession, the government

withdrawing a lot of advertising across Britain. All of this is

having a marked effect on the regional newspaper industry. Very

interesting to talk to you. I'd like to throw this one open to you

tonight. Do you still buy your local paper? If not, why not? Do

you agree that eventually daily newspapers will disappear? Thoughts

on this and the change in the Lincolnshire Echo, you can e-mail

Hull City Council has pledged �5 million to support the proposed

Siemens wind turbines factory. The development to bring thousands of

jobs to the area, but negotiations to gain the contract have currently

stalled. MPs and council leaders met the Business Secretary, Vince

Cable, earlier this week to gain government support for the bid. 18

Afghan men are staging a peaceful protest at a Lincolnshire

immigration detention centre. One of them has told the BBC that they

are afraid of being sent home and says they've gone on hunger strike.

The men are being held at Moreton Hall near Lincolnshire. We are just

here for a strike. We don't want to go for to our rooms. It's raining,

it's cold as well. We are just here, sitting down, no food, no water,

nothing. A 15-year-old girl has been missing from Scunthorpe since

the early hours of Sunday morning. Police are appealing for help to

locate Jamie slight, who was last seen at her home on Tomlinson

Avenue in the town. It's thought she may be with a male friend in

Scarborough, but it's out of character for her to go missing for

this period of time. A mother from Hull says her son is lucky to be

alive after a metal bolt smashed through his windscreen and hit him

in the face as he drove for over the River Ouse Bridge on the M 62.

Adam Davies says if he was left unable to breathe after the bold

hitting in the throat. -- the metal bolt hit him up through the throat.

Just where it came from is a mystery. But for Adam Davis, it's

beginning to sink in just how lucky he is to have escaped serious

injury, after this six inch metal bolt hit him in the throat while he

was driving. If it had hit me in the eye, I could have swerved into

the central reservation or anything else. I'm really lucky it hit me

where it did. Had it come head on, it would have killed him. Adam was

on his way home to Hull on the M 62. But as he was approaching the top

of the bridge near Goole, he saw a sudden flash and his windscreen

shattered. I didn't really know what was happening. It all happened

so fast. All I could do was break and get it across onto the hard

shoulder. He walked away with just cuts and bruising to the neck and

chest. Back at the scene of the accident and he's now trying to

find out where the metal bolt came from. When I managed to get my

breath back and stopped the car, I was stopped at the top of the

bridge. That's where the car stayed until the paramedics came for me.

The Highways Agency, who look after this part of the road, say it would

be nearly impossible to determine how it came to be on the motorway.

What are you going to do with it now? Frame it. Definitely. That

will be a talking point for quite a few years. Sell the family will be

keeping this missile as a lasting reminder of his lucky escape.

Meanwhile, car fixed and injuries healed, Adam is back behind the

Adam's incredible story. Thank you for watching. Still ahead before

the top of the hour. Your chance to catch a glimpse of rare footage of

life in our area from the last 100 years. And the time is 17 minutes

to 7. Tonight's photo was taken by Mark dots worth of the old

lighthouse at Spurn Point. Thank you Mark. Another picture tomorrow,

Monday night. That is the one. That Monday night. That is the one. That

picture didn't look any different! Linda says how sad that Peter got

so excited about the aircraft picture. Ask him will he get his

telescope out this weekend? Please. Just the forecast will do. The

headline San unsettled one. Sunny intervals and scattered showers.

Some of which could be on the heavy side. So a mixed bag this weekend.

There will be drier and brighter interlueds but you can tell how

unsettled t it is going to be. Low pressure driving bands of showers

in from the west. After the showers this morning most parts of East

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have been dry. There has been a bit of

brightness in the last few hour, we have got a very active weather

system. We could see the tail end, the chance of a thundery shower,

some HM Revenue & Customs I have downpour, but it will clear out of

the way, behind a lot of dry weather before showers threaten

again from the south-west, towards the end of the night. We will see

lowest temperatures round 10 or 11 degrees. So the sun will rise in

the morning, at 6.38 setting at 7.13. So there will be some sunny

spells round tomorrow, but at the same time showers probably from the

word go, some of which will be heavy, there could be the odd clap

of thunder rblgt and some hail. There will be some drier and

brighter spells in between those scattered showers, but if you catch

one you will know about it. Temperatures round 16er 17 degrees.

17 in Grimsby and Lincoln is 63F. With a moderate south-west wind,

but if you catch a heavy shower that wind will be gusty. A similar

sort of forecast on Sunday, with again sunny spells, scattered

shower, Monday a final morning, cloudy later patchy rain, Tuesday

at the moment looks mostly dry. at the moment looks mostly dry.

That is the forecast. You need danger money working with you. One

viewer says the weather should be on performance related pay. Paul

would be heavily in debt. I would be bankrupt. At least you admitted

it. Don't go there again. Have a nice weekend. Goodbye. A house wife

from Grimsby is leading a group of campaigners calls for a referendum

on whether the country should leave the European Union. The decline of

the fishing industry and the financial crisis in the Euro done

are two of the reasons why some say there should be a public vote on

the future of membership of the EU. With more here is our political

editor. As European leaders fight to save the single currency, a very

different battle is being fought closer to home. Grimsby house wife

Jo White leads a group of campaigners is who say it is time

for a referendum on whether we stay in or get out of the European Union.

The EU makes so many of our laws these days, I think that in itself

is undemocratic. Mr Cameron, the politicians need to ask what we

think. It is time we were asked. The last time we had a referendum

on our membership of what used to be called the Common Market was

back in 1975. Which means that no- one under the age of 54 has ever

been asked directly whether they want to be part of the EU. Do you

think there should be a referendum? Yes, we pay a lot into it. We get

very little out of it. Except red tape. I would vote to stay in. I

think it is essential we stay in a wired market because we need to

have more contacts to grow our business. -- wider market. With

many blaming Brussels for the decline of the fishing industry,

Grimsby has long been regarded as one of the most Euro-sceptic towns

in the country. But one MEP believes those who want to leave

the EU should be careful what they wish for.N't Look, there is nothing

to say our own economy won't be in dire straits and we might be

looking from help from Europe. We need Europe as much as it needs us.

The Prime Minister has rejected calls for an EU referendum. But a

petition signed by more than 100,000 people supporting a public

vote was recently handed in to Downing Street. And campaigners say

they will be keeping up the pressure on the Government. There

there is more on The Politics Show at 1.35 on Sunday afternoon here on

BBC One. Thanks for being in touch about changes to the planning laws

that we were talking about last night on the programme. The

Government has proposed changes which could see green field land

released for develop: It prompted a row in Stamford where a develop

developer wants to build hundreds of homes on farmland. A big

response. A few here, Wilfred says grabbing green belt land for

development will not ease the housing crisis, the real answer to

the shortage is improving the supply of mortgages to those who

can afford them. Jenny says while there is is a need to build more

home, it isn't planning that is stopping them being built, it is

the economy. If people can't get mortgages developers won't build.

Rachel says we don't need more new houses, we need to make mortgages

more accessible for first-time buyers so they can buy the houses

that are already for sea. We will have more on the radio on Monday if

you can join me from midday. Fans of Hull Kingston Rovers could be

forgiven for having a feeling of deja vu as their side prepares for

their second match in France in as many weeks, they play the Catalan

Dragons tomorrow night. The last time Rovers won but only just.

Rovers are hopping to -- hoping to continue their winning run Feeling

confident. You I know, you coach and the players train for 27 rounds

to play in the big game, and it is finally here. The first part is

over and now ut it is the exciting part. We look forward to going down

and there getting the victory. you can hear that game of course on

BBC Radio Humberside tomorrow. The coverage is from Simon Clark and

Mike white on FM and online and 24 hours later, Hull FC will be

heading to Leeds for their play off tie where they will have to perform

better than last week. The black- and-whites lost 12-34 in front of a

home crowd. Having lost Super League encounters against the

Rhinos this season they will hope to put past performances behind

them on Sunday. Looking at going out and getting the win. We feel

that we have worked very hard for each other this year, to put

ourself in this position. I think, you know, when you look at the

competition at the moment, Wigan and Warrington are probably the

favourites. When you look down from that I think most teams can beat

each other. And coverage of the game also on Radio Humberside. The

Leeds Rhinos versus Hull is at 5.00 and on FM and online. Hull City

will continue to look to continue their winning run when Portsmouth

are the visitors. The commentary on the Tigers game will be on AM from

3.00. If you want to follow scuant's progress against Walsall

that is on FM. Grimsby is on DAB and on line. And Lincoln city's

game is on BBC Lincolnshire, with a build up starting from 2.00. Enjoy

your rugby and your football this weekend. Here is a nice one. The

Queen Mary II will sail past the Yorkshire coast tomorrow morning,

on a round Britain voyage. If you want to see the ship she will be

off Flamborough Head land at 9.is a tomorrow morning. An East Yorkshire

man who has spent 15 years trying to grow squashs in his back garden

has finally had some success. Keith from Driffield has spent his

retirement trying to find a variety that will cope with the climate.

am not doing it for any commercial reason, I just enjoy doing it. I

enjoy success, and that is success. And people like James Martin would

drool at a crop like that. In fact I may send him one, because he

loves his butter nut squash and this is better. James Martin will

be pleased with that! A rare screening of film footage soil. 100

years old has been taking place in Grimsby. It is part of a project

giving people an insight into the past through the lens of amateur

Boston in 1904. A day when the town was out in force, to celebrate the

opening of its new municipal buildings, and a day captured

forever, because someone cared to film it. Footage like this is still

finding new audiences and today you could step inside a tent in Grimsby

and transported back to the past through the world of film. Scenes

of Butlins in Skegness in the '50s, brought back treasured memories.

One of the red coats said do you want to meet Billy Butlin. I was

talking to him and he said are you enjoying it. We both fell in the

boating lake because we were too big for the canoe -- canoe, the

male times were fantastic. They could dispense about 300 meals in

15 minutes flat. It looked different. Do think it looked fun?

No. Not as fun as it is now. the fact that Harley and her school

friends can see what their holidays might have been like half a century

ago is thanks to the amateur film- makers like John Turner. People are

very nice. That is a big close up. She doesn't mind. John made his

films while a student at Hull university. He hasn't watched them

for 50 years. It is amazing isn't. It is quite amazing. First thing

that comes to mind why did it take it all? The street scenes were

engrossing, engrossing really, so, I, and also they were a way of

talking to people, and I was fascinated and a lot of poverty. It

sounds wicked to say interesting but it was, there was a certain

horror by it. Horror is better than interest. I used to wander round

with a camera and talk to people and film them. And now people are

grateful he didment some of the footage has been used by the BBC

programme which runs alongside the history project. The tent is up

again tomorrow ready for old films to spark fresh memories of the past.

And as I remember those old picture, here is living proof. That QM2

isn't this weekend it is on Monday morning at 9.15. My fault. Sorry

about that. Now a recap. The bodies of all four miners trapped

underground in South Waless have been found. More than one hundred

students heading to Lincoln will start their university careers

living in portable accommodation. The weather bright and breeze which

with sunny intervals. Top temperatures 17C On the soufbt the

Lincolnshire echo going weekly. Sharon says doesn't have enough

news for daily so makes sense. I don't buy it any more because it

has nothing new to say. Another one says there is not enough news to

fill a daily paper so it will repeat itself. A weekly paper with

everything in is better. And Emma says I feel sorry for the smaller

shops that sell papers and the paperboys and girls who will lose

income and finally this from Brian who texted in to say I don't buy

newspapers any more, I read the Mail every morning on the internet.

That way, I don't have to get the car out, so I don't have to pay for