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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. | :00:04. | :00:08. | |
Hospital staff in Hull are given an extra day off for getting the flu | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
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jab. I am trying to thank staff for taking that right decision. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
The council flights abroad which cost Lincolnshire taxpayers almost | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
�43,000. Charity shops hit back over claims | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
town centres would be improved if some of them were to close. Quite | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
often, once we have opened our shops, independents come in, | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
they're like the fact that we bring in extra foot fault. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
And 100 years after Houdini came to Hull, we find out if this man can | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
recreate his famous tricks. Will it be any better tomorrow? I | :00:56. | :01:06. | |
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will have the forecast later. It's a jab offered every winter to | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
certain groups of people - those over 65, people with serious health | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
conditions, pregnant women, and health workers. And for hospital | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
staff in Hull, if they choose to get the flu jab, this year they'll | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
also get an extra day off work. It's an idea that's come from the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust, to try and encourage more of their | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
workers to protect themselves from the virus. With 8,000 employees, | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
that could mean an extra 8,000 days off, as Gemma Dawson reports. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Preparing to have the flu jab. Jon Leyne Wedd said Castle Hill | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Hospital and will get an extra day off for having the vaccine. -- Je | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
one works at Castle Hill Hospital. That is the bonus, but it is for | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
protection rather than getting the day off. Be able do not want flu. | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
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If you are more informed, they want to protect patients. -- people do | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
now -- people do not want flu. hospital trust employees Nevin and | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
1,000 employees. 3,000 have had the vaccination so far this year. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Hospital bosses denied they are bribing staff to have the job. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
trying to thank staff for taking that decision to do the right thing. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
It works out for those that if a member of staff is off with flu, it | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
is four or five days. It is more economical for them to have the flu | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
jab. At this Lincoln surgery, Charlotte is having a flu jab for | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
the first time. She is pregnant, which is one of the other high risk | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
groups. I want to protect myself so there is no risk of me going into | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
hospital whilst I am pregnant. is what Charlotte is protecting | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
herself from. As well as pregnant women, the NHS recommends people | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
over 65, those with serious health conditions and health workers | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
should all have the vaccine. Hospital bosses back in Hull will | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
have to see if offering an extra day off in exchange for the flu | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
jabs saves them money. And Ray Gray from the area's UNISON | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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Union is in the studio for us now. This is difficult? It is. I | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
appreciate what they are trying to achieve. The more people who have | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
the flu jab, the less chance of infection spreading and less people | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
going off sick, but we think giving a day's clear is too much. 8,000 | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
staff could be 8,000 days off. The Trust is trying to save money. Is | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
it wise? They have got to claw back �95 million over the next five | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
years. This could cost a lot of money. There are other ways to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
reward staff. We think it has gone too far. If they will take fewer | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
days off having sick leave, that is a good thing. I do not dispute that, | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
but they rap other ways of rewarding staff. Do medical staff | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
made an incentive to protect themselves? Why do they not just do | :04:28. | :04:36. | |
it anyway? It needs to be voluntary. Not all staff will volunteer to do | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
it. I think the idea of an incentive that is good, but the | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
incentive itself I have a problem with. It is obviously working | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
because more people are coming forward. Yes, it is working. I do | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
not think the incentive idea is wrong, but we think the incentive | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
could be easier. What is the other way you were hinting at? Other ways | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
they could have rewarded staff is by giving them vouchers, giving | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
them some extra money. There is other ways they could have done it. | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
As well as a person be enough, they have to be replaced at work. Given | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
a voucher is the same. It is a lot cheaper than a day's LEA. What do | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
things staff are thinking? -- cheaper than a day's leap. There | :05:31. | :05:40. | |
really are mixed views. Thank-you very much. It is interesting. Let | :05:40. | :05:49. | |
me know your thoughts. To support the idea? -- do you support the | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
idea? Do you think it will mean fewer sick days? Is it a bit of a | :05:54. | :06:04. | |
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In a moment: It's coming up this weekend, but these haunting | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
costumes are not just for Halloween. A man's been arrested after an | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
incident reportedly involving a crossbow in Lincoln. A section of | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Goldsmith Walk was cordoned off earlier today, after reports of a | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
weapon being fired from an upstairs window. Noone's been injured. | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
A body's been found on playing fields near Gainsborough. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Lincolnshire Police were called to Willingham by Stow around 9.30 this | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
morning. 85 posts are under threat at Hull | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
College after cuts to its funding. An appeal's been made for | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
volunteers, but compulsory redundancies haven't been ruled out. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
The group, which runs sites in Hull, Goole and Harrogate, employs 2,000 | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
people. Lincolnshire County Council says | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
it's tightened its rules after tens of thousands of pounds were spent | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
by staff on overseas flights. New figures have revealed more than | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
�42,000 has been spent on overseas travel over the last two years, | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
more than any other authority in the Midlands. On one occasion, more | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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than �6,000 was spent on a trip to America. Siobhan Robbins reports. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
This was the reaction when Lincolnshire County Council | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
announced it was having to cut millions of pounds from its budget | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
earlier this year. Day centres like this one in Grantham could see it | :07:43. | :07:53. | |
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severs is reduced. So news that ten of thousands has been spent by the | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
council on flights hasn't been well-received. Those people are | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
there to represent us. Between 2009 and 2011, Lincolnshire | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
County Council spent �42,000 on flights, the highest amount in the | :08:05. | :08:15. | |
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That includes a �6,000 business class trip to the USA. All this at | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
a council which now has to save �125 million in the next four years. | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
It is an abuse. That individual is no longer with theirs. I cannot | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
justify it. I would not attempt to drive. Sadly, people do abuse | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
positions of trust and that is what happened here. We started when we | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
found out that we have rules in place to make sure these things do | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
not happen again. Tokoyo, New Zealand and Canada were | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
also on the list of buiness or world class destinations. The group | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
behind the research says authorities need to be more frugal. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
When there is not much money, do not travel business-class. Look for | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
the best deal, and if possible, do not take the flight. | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Council leaders say the system's been tightened up to stop further | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
abuse, but it's little comfort to those who's services may be cut. | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
Why was it allowed to go on for two years? | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Workers at BAE systems in Brough have staged a protest today against | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
the loss of up to 900 jobs. Union members binned company "fair play" | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
leaflets outside the main plant, claiming that BAE had treated staff | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
badly in it's handling of the announcement. - - its handling. The | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
focus now is whether the site itself can be saved. We will carry | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
on pushing and saying they should be work coming on this site. We | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
have the work force and the capability, and the right sort of | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
people who can build anything. This facility is fantastic. We do not | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
want to lose it. We will keep pushing the company to put work on | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
this site. We will continue to follow that story. | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
Lincolnshire's famous Vulcan is being honoured this evening as one | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
of the UKs best engineering achievements. The bomber was a | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
familiar sight in the county's skies during the Cold War. It joins | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
the likes of Tower Bridge and the Channel Tunnel in getting the | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
Engineering Heritage Award. Shoppers and businesses in Lincoln | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
have called plans to route more trains through the city centre as | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
"ridiculous." This is currently the scene in Lincoln for up to 40 | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
minutes an hour, as the level crossing shuts to allow trains | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
through. But now, because of work elsewhere on the rail network, an | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
extra 42 trains will also be routed through Lincoln. It will happen for | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
the next three Saturdays. It means the barriers could close for up to | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
90 times a day. On this I'm joined from Lincoln by David Mitchell, | :10:52. | :10:59. | |
who's the secretary of the Lincoln small business action group. David, | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
good evening. A barriers be insured for up to 90 times a day. What | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
impact could this have on the city centre? Good evening, Peter. First | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
and foremost, they are being shut for the next four weekend. They | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
will be 80 trains going through when you include the local services | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
and the 42 diverted trains. We also have major roadworks in Lincoln. | :11:24. | :11:33. | |
The City has been gridlocked since last Friday. It is going to be | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
disastrous. This work has to be done. A few mutterings through | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Lincoln, are you worrying it will affect businesses -- a few more | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
trains through Lincoln. I am also concerned about passengers, people | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
who will be taken from Lincoln to Newark Castle, taken on a bus to | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
new work Northgate, then get a train to London, which will come | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
back to Lincoln. We know what a lovely city it is, but people do | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
not want to see it two or three times. I came on Saturday from | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Doncaster on a journey which took two hours. There was a family with | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
a two-year-old boy, and they had been travelling since half past two. | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
If these trends were not going straight through, you would change | :12:22. | :12:30. | |
your true. -- trains. If a few were stopping, they would be bringing | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
people and I would change my train, yes. When I spoke to you at | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
lunchtime, the gentleman from the council was excellent. He said they | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
possibly would not have done the road works at the same time as the | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
rail works. There is no co- ordination at all. Here at Lincoln | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Central Station, to their shame, they have not even got a poster | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
warning people that they could get to court abandoned. We are second | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
rate here. I said at lunch time we are bottom of the dustbin. | :13:04. | :13:12. | |
Mitchell, thank you. Another one you might want to comment on. | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Still ahead tonight: Calls to cap the number of charity shops on the | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
high street. And he was the world's most famous | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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escapologist who visited Hull 100 Tonight photograph was taken of a | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
flock of geese at Witton in of Lincolnshire. A stunning picture. | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
It's now time for the weather. you have a nice lunch time? Dave | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
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spotted you looking at a bigger book about airplanes. When is he | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
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back? It can't be too soon for me! You can't do a single things -- a | :14:16. | :14:25. | |
Mist is going to clear first thing tomorrow and will see plenty of | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
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sunshine. It is not going to be a breezy day at all. All the cloud | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
we've had, it has been given as spots of rain. It won't be long | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
before the rain clears out into the North Sea and the cloud will break | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
as well. We will have light winds and clear skies overnight. This is | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
a risk of a touch of ground frost across parts of each -- East | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
Yorkshire. The sun will rise tomorrow morning at 750 3am and | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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will set at 5:36pm. It will be a chilly start tomorrow and there | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
will be some dense mist and fog in places. It will list -- lift in the | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
morning and the rest of the day will be dry and fine. Light winds, | :15:29. | :15:39. | |
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variable nature and temperatures are going to be just below average. | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
As we head through the weekend, Saturday sees the best of the | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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bright this at first but cloud will I showed three pictures or a rather | :16:01. | :16:08. | |
than the usual one and that did the damage. See you tomorrow. | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
A charity in Lincolnshire has hit back at suggestions that capping | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
the number of charity shops would help revitalise town centres. | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Retail expert, Mary Portas, is advising the Government on | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
improving our high streets and says that's one way to breathe life into | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
them. Across the whole of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
there are currently 339 charity shops. In Hull city centre alone, | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
there are 44, while in Lincoln there are 26. Anne-Marie Tasker | :16:29. | :16:37. | |
reports. Lincoln's High Street is home to | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
some of the city's 26 charity shops. And they all get a discount in | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
their rates, boosting the charity's coffers. But one charity says its | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
23 shops in Lincolnshire aren't damaging town centres, but helping | :16:51. | :17:01. | |
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them. Charity shops bring foot fall into an area that is generally | :17:01. | :17:08. | |
quite quiet. We take over units that have been empty for a number | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
of months and was the have opened our shops, we have found that other | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
independent shops come in. But the role of charity shops is being | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
questioned by this retail guru, Mary Portas. I could not imagine | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
anybody buying anything of those shelves. She's famous for boosting | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
businesses, even charity shops themselves. And now the | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Government's asked her to do the same for the High Street. One of | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
her suggestions is capping the number of charity shops to allow | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
other businesses to prosper. But do shoppers think it would really make | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
a difference? It is a difficult one. Charities need the money anyway. I | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
don't really buy into that. I would spend it elsewhere if the charity | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
shops did not exist. It helps the local people. But charity shops | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
don't seem to be doing any harm here. Louth has 10 of them, but is | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
still busy and bustling. And the town centre manager says giving | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
other businesses rate relief would be more useful than limiting | :18:05. | :18:13. | |
charity shop numbers. That would lead empty units in certain towns. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
That is not getting rid of the problem. We need to look at | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
business support for all sectors of businesses. Those that are starting | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
up and doing well. That need to be looked at. Another idea is to | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
shorten charity shop leases, so towns aren't overrun by them for | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
years at a time. But in these hard economic times, not all shoppers | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
think that's a bad thing anyway. I'm joined on this now by Tim | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
Danaher, the editor of Retail Weekly magazine. Charity shops on | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
our high streets keep money in the local economy and often take the | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
place of shops which have been standing empty. They're surely a | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
good thing for our high streets? Charity shops to a great job but if | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
there are too many of them, there's a problem because any high street | :18:57. | :19:07. | |
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needs a good mix of retailers. The key issue here is that there is not | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
a level playing field. If somebody wanted to start a new shop, he has | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
to pay the full rates, whereas a charity shop could be run by an | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
enormous international organisation like Oxfam and it only has to pay | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
20 %. The danger is, if you have lots of charity shops, it might | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
reduce the attractiveness of a high street shoppers and get in the way | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
of independent businesses run by local people on a commercial basis. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
But if you take away the charity shops, you will have even more | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
boarded and vacant shops? But if you create the conditions where | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
people can start entrepreneurial retail services. If somebody was | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
told, you can have this shop for a few years and pay a fraction of | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
business rates, maybe those people may be encouraged to going to those | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
empty shops instead. To you think people are scared to say there are | :20:06. | :20:13. | |
too many charity shops? Charity shops to a brilliant jobs and there | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
are a lot of shops that are unattractive mix on the high street | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
but the key thing is having that next. We want a variety of shops | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
and our high-street. What can be done to stop the number of boarded- | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
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up and bacon chops? -- vacant shops? We need to reduce the risk | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
and encourage people to be entrepreneurial and help them out | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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with a business costs. And this might be another one you | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
want to comment on as well. Do you think that too many charity shops | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
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are bad for the high street? Text and e-mail us in all the usual ways. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
And thanks for your response on the views to the changes to North East | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
Lincolnshire's recycling scheme. The council wants to charge �25 a | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
year to anyone who's got a brown garden waste bin. The authority | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
currently collects 50,000 brown bins. We had an enormous response | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
on this. John tweeted, "I thought the council wanted people to | :21:36. | :21:43. | |
recycle more! Charging �25 to collect bins is not going to make | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
people use them". Trish got in touch with her view. "I think it is | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
disgusting, wanting to charge us for recycling our garden waste. The | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
council get money from the garden waste we recycle and still want to | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
charge us!" And Nathan texted, "Why not use what would go in the brown | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
bins as compost? Save yourself a bit of money and grow your own | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
veg." Hull City's unbeaten run comes | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
under threat this weekend against Nottingham Forest, who haven't lost | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
since they changed their manager. The Tigers themselves are unbeaten | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
in eight league games following their dramatic win over Watford, | :22:14. | :22:22. | |
which included a first goal at the KC for Aaron Mclean. It is good | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
form and we need to keep that going. All we can do is worry about | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
ourselves. We just need to make sure that we keep the consistency | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
and keep the performances and will be fine. | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
It all started when a North Lincolnshire woman couldn't find a | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
Halloween costume to flatter her curves. But now, Dawn Lancaster | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
from Winterton has turned a dress making hobby into a successful | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
business. With Halloween and Whitby's Gothic Weekend looming, | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
she says she's never been busier. Amanda Thomson has more. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
They look like they've stepped through time, but these gowns have | :23:01. | :23:11. | |
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been created in a North Lincolnshire conservatory. Dawn | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Lancaster's gowns are all one offs and they can be found at every | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
medieval pageant, historical re- enactment and even the famous | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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Whitby Gothic, due to take place this weekend. It has been really | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
crazy. October is the best month for me but it's the busiest. I am | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
constantly sewing and doing stuff. I have been inundated for | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Hallowe'en costumes and Gothic Austens. I have been really busy | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
but I have enjoyed every minute of it. What started as a hobby eight | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
years ago is now an online business, satisfying a demand for dresses for | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
all occasions. I feel really good in it and the fact that nobody else | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
will have a dress like this makes me feel better. I phoned me and | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
asked her to her and make one for me and raised some money for the | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
local castle. It is wonderful and I really feel the part. It is amazing. | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
Dawn's now looking forward to the end of October and a well earned | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
rest. Amanda Thomson, BBC Look North, at Winterton near Scunthorpe. | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Tonight marks a rather unusual anniversary. It's exactly one | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
hundred years to the day since the famous escapologist, Harry Houdini, | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
first performed in Hull. He had strong ties to the city, even doing | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
one stunt when he jumped, shackled, into the Humber! Tonight, a group | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
from the Magic Circle will be attempting to re-create one of his | :24:41. | :24:51. | |
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famous routines. Simon Spark has the story. | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
As far as escapologists go, Houdini is the undisputed icon. But he also | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
had strong links with hell. This film even finch -- featured the | :25:04. | :25:11. | |
city. The Magic Circle are celebrating 100 years since he came | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
last to hell. He started off as a king of cards. It was the | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
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sensationalism of his escapes. Despite worldwide fame, Harry | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Houdini performed here in Hull five times during his career and each of | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
those performances will have been near to where I'm standing now near | :25:40. | :25:49. | |
the Palace Theatre. The theatre was demolished in 1966 and it has now | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
disappeared into the Deeney style. For tonight's celebration, a modern | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Houdini will himself be challenged to escape Houdini style. He just | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
doesn't know what's in store for him yet. Houdini said never get | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
into something you can't get out of. That is my motto was well. I am | :26:07. | :26:16. | |
really hoping that my skills will rise to the challenge. This is a | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
straight jacket used to restrain the criminally insane. I am going | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
to be put inside of this and the difficult part is getting out. | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
100 years on and Houdini's legacy and association with Hull and as | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
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tight as ever. -- are as tight. Let's get a recap of the national | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
and regional headlines. Relief as European leaders strike a last | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
minute deal to tackle the debt crisis. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
And hospital staff in Hull are given an extra day off for getting | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
the flu jab. And tomorrow's weather: Mist and | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
fog will slowly clear to leave a dry day. Plenty of sunshine, top | :26:59. | :27:09. | |
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temperatures of 13C. Tracey has said, I work for the NHS | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
and do not need -- need in the centre to have a flu jab. If staff | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
don't have the flu jab and are off sick, why don't you stop this sick | :27:19. | :27:26. | |
pay? Michael says staff should look after their own health. Ryan on | :27:26. | :27:34. |