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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
The Chancellor cuts the Humber Bridge debt in two as he announces | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
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that tolls will be halved. About time. It is about the highest one | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
in the country. It is still expensive, but it is a lot easier | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
for us to afford. The Chancellor also promises to | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
help Grimsby become a national centre for renewable energy. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Lincoln gets a royal visit as Prince Charles brings Camilla on | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
her first visit to the city. Christmas comes early at the house | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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with more than 10,000 festive lights. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
No detailed forecast is coming BOP. -- you'll detailed forecast is | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
coming up. After a week of leaks and | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
speculation the Chancellor George Osborne today finally confirmed | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
that Humber Bridge tolls for all vehicles are to be cut by 50%. He | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
also announced that Lincoln will get its long awaited Eastern Bypass | :01:04. | :01:12. | |
to ease congestion in the city. Improvements will also be carried | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
out on roads in East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire. And the | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Humber is to become an official centre for the renewable energy | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
industry. More of that in a moment, but first Tim Iredale reports on | :01:24. | :01:33. | |
today's announcements. In Yorkshire and Humber, we will | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
have the tolls on the Humber Bridge. This was the reaction from truckers | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
in Immingham, as the Chancellor made his long-awaited announcement | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
that tolls on the Humber Bridge would be cut in half. At that time. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
It is about the highest poll in the country, I think. -- About Time. It | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
is still expensive, but it makes it a lot easier to afford. It is good | :01:57. | :02:07. | |
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news. Having it. The Humber Bridge debt currently stands at �332 | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
million. That will be reduced by 150 million. From next year, told | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
charges for cars will be reduced from �3 to one pound 50 each way. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
The bridge will be run by a slimmed-down board, with | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
representatives from the four local authorities on the Humber. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Businesses and on their motorists will have a greater say and how the | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
bridges run. -- ordinary motorists. We propose there would be a ten-man | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
board rather than 22 as it is now. Eight local authority members, and | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
two from the private sector. This was the reaction from truckers | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
in Immingham as the Chancellor made his long awaited announcement on | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
reducing the debt outstanding on the Humber Bridge, a move which | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
means tolls will be slashed. The move has been welcomed by MP on | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
all sides, who have long argued that high tolls on the Humber | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
Bridge have been a barrier to creating jobs in the region. It is | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
great news. For people who were looking for jobs, are people living | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
pattern and that kind of area, arts opportunities open up in Hull. | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
government is adjusting its plans. It is saying it is not car but in | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
reality it is. It is good news for So after 30 years of rising tolls, | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
relief at last for the thousands of motorists who've paid a high price | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
for crossing the Humber. The Government also announced it | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
wants to encourage the growth of the renewable energy industry in | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
the Humber. There will be a variety of grants and subsidies for | :03:45. | :03:55. | |
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companies setting-up in Grimsby. Paul Murphy explains. | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
Grimsley's Docklands are changing quickly. These are not trawlers but | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
offshore support vessels, ferrying engineers and electricians and to | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the North Sea turbines. New jobs are being created here nearly every | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
week. There is a lot of work going at the moment. Another two turbines | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
will be built here after this is finished. This will be going and | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
for a few years. Be coming a government enterprise there could | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
accelerate the expansion here. Grimsby is that their area in the | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
Humber to get this special designation. Enterprise zone status | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
brings with it tax breaks and certain planning freedoms. That | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
means this plot becomes much more attractive to investors. That | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
creates jobs. So this traditional dockland is rapidly reinventing | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
itself. Grimsby is the Norman us with fish, and I think it always | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
will be. We have a doubt best business. -- Grimsby is synonymous | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
with fish. It is a great bonus for Grimsby. For these wind energy | :05:05. | :05:15. | |
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apprentices, trained in Hull and Grimsby, the future looks bright. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
It will be a massive thing for future generations for sourcing | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
power. It is Defra again to be a good thing. But a term of grim | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
national economic news, there is a sense that the new industries of | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
the Humber can give the country cause for hope. -- it is definitely | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
going to be a good thing. Tim Iredale joins us now from | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
Westminster. Is this all good news for the area? Plenty of good news | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
against a pretty bleak economic backdrop. The reduction in the | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Humber Bridge toll will be welcomed, following a campaign that has been | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
going on as long as I can remember. Some surprises today. New road | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
schemes, many of which we thought have been put on the back-burner. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
The new Lincoln eastern bypass will go ahead. It will be partly funded | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
by the government. The county council welcomed that news. The 164 | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
at Beverley to the Humber Bridge Road will be up graded. Part of | :06:21. | :06:30. | |
that will become a new dual carriageway. Traffic will be | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
congested in Immingham by a new road. People are asking where will | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
this money come from. Some has come from government savings. Some of | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
the money is coming from private pension funds. They may not realise | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
it, but there will be people watching tonight whose retirement | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
could be funded by the Humber Bridge. Who would have thought it? | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
Who would have thought it? The man tasked with bringing jobs | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
and wealth to our area is Lord Haskins. He's with me in the studio | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
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now. Is this an important they? is momentous. I can remember the | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
day the Humber Bridge was announced, 45 years ago, and thinking what a | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
wonderful opportunity it was. We have been bedevilled with these | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
tolls for years. Making it a centre for renewable energy, if this is | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
the path we are going down, it has to work. Do you think we are | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
putting too many eggs in one basket? It is not just one basket. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
I think the estuary can do a lot. Renewable energy is going to be a | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
big one. If we get it right, and I am optimistic we will, it will have | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
a significant impact on the way the economy on both sides of the river | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
performs in the years to come. people watching are interested in | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
is, will thus create jobs? There are some people without jobs at the | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
moment. They will be jobs. They will take time to come through. In | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the meanwhile, we are working in a desperate economic situation. There | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
will be jobs lost as well. Matching the jobs lost with the jobs gained | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
is going to be difficult. There are skills involved, all sorts of | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
issues. For most people, cutting the bridge toll is what is most | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
important. Why could not have happened straight away? You would | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
have to ask the Treasury. They give concessions very meanly and slowly. | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
It is a big step forward. government has focused a lot of | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
attention on the Humber area today. Why has it taken so long? It has | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
been partly because we have not been as well organised in the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
politics in the past. I have been very impressed. By every be doing | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
this job for two was three weeks. I have been impressed by local MPs | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
from different parties commit together and making a case for the | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
Humber, on the government has listened -- coming together. Thank | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
you very much for coming in tonight. And many of you have already been | :09:06. | :09:16. | |
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getting in touch about the issue of For thank you for those. | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
In a moment. As thousands of public sector | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
workers prepare for strike action, we look at how schools and | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
hospitals will be affected. Prince Charles brought The Duchess | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
of Cornwall to Lincoln today for her first visit to the city. The | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
couple spent the morning at Lincoln Cathedral seeing the renovation | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
work there. They then went their separate ways before meeting up to | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
finish their day in a community pub. Tarah Welsh's report contains flash | :10:04. | :10:14. | |
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photography. RN welcome on a very windy day. -- | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
a warm welcome. The royal couple started their trip touring both | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
cathedral. Inside, they met their staff here and a fine silverware | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
came out. Today, the Prince of Wales was led the patron of the | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
fabric fund, the on going fund- raising arm of the cathedral. It is | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
hoped his visit will boost trade. losing the Christmas market in 2010 | :10:51. | :11:00. | |
was a tragedy for the area. His high-profile visit is very good. It | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
is showing that Lincoln is a good place, the cathedral is a good | :11:04. | :11:14. | |
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place. The Prince of Wales on the Duchess of Cornwall are here to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
view the restoration work here at the cathedral. It is a �2.5 million | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
project. They wanted to meet everyone aboard, including the | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
stone makers. This trip was about more than preserving buildings. It | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
was about securing the future of rural communities. As the Prince | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
discussed the future of farming at a local college, the Duchess of | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
Cornwall joined members of the Women's Institute for lunch. After | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
their busy day, they managed to fit in a pint. This pub near Grantham | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
is part of a scheme which encourages communities to work with | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
landlords to keep services inside the pubs. Really vital. Three | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
couples have been sent to us who were struggling, or Hull are | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
looking at opening farm shops to try to get trading. Those later the | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Princess Lincolnshire is close to his hat, and his charities he will | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
be hoping the visit today will provide a boost. -- close to his | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
heart. A couple who claim they were driven | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
out of their Lincolnshire farm by wind turbine noise have had their | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
case settled out of court. Jane and Julian Davis from Deeping St | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Nicholas were seeking over two million pounds in compensation, | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
saying they'd been forced to move into rented accommodation. Their | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
High Court case was due to resume tomorrow, five years after the | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
turbines were built. Lincolnshire Police are | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
investigating reports of racial abuse towards England footballer | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
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A lorry has overturned a St Andrews came. It is understood it hit a | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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lamp-post, which has also come down onto the carriageway. A body that | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
has been discovered has been identified as Marlene Wagstaff. She | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
was formally identified yesterday. Lincolnshire Police are | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
investigating reports of racial abuse towards an England footballer. | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Fans contacted the force after a comment was posted on the 23-year- | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
old defender's Twitter page. It is believed the offender may be from | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
the Lincolnshire area. Two Humberside policemen have been | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
praised for saving a man's life after rescuing him from a burning | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
car. PC Stephen Caulfield and PC Daniel Hermann found the man | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
unconscious in the vehicle near Northfield Road in Hull. They | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
pulled him to safety and he's now made a full recovery. PC Hermann | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
suffered burns to his hand in the incident, but says he was just | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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doing his job. It sounds cliched, but I went into what a pilot. He | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
joined the police and a prime responsibility is to protect life. | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
Still ahead: Clearing up after the metal thieves - charity workers | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
count the cost of another break-in. You wouldn't want the electricity | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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bill - the house with 10,000 lights It is the 29th November. Sun set | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
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over Louth canal. On Friday night we had a white | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
rainbow from our friends in France. We don't go there again. White | :14:47. | :14:54. | |
rainbows result from sunlight hitting fog droplets, which are so | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
light they can't act as prisms. You can bore us but you didn't manage | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
to say it on Friday night. I had to say it on Friday night. I had | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
run out of time, of course. It is very unsettled over the next | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
24 hours. Some places may stay dry. A strong westerly. We do get a lot | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
of protection. There is tomorrow's weather chart but this system will | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
come across us on Wednesday night, bringing further spells of rain. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
That was a very active cold front that came through this afternoon. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
We had a report of a tornado in East Yorkshire. Very squally winds. | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
A short spell of heavy rain. Thankfully that cold front, that | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
winter-time cold front, is now in the North Sea. We are losing the | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
strong gusts. A windy night with a few showers perhaps getting through. | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
But on the whole, a good deal of dry weather. Lowest temperatures | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
down to 3-4 degrees Celsius. The sun will rise in the morning at | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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7.54, setting at 3.46 pm. It should be a reasonably bright start with | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
sunshine. It will tend to clout over at time. Sometimes large | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
amounts of cloud. The best of the sunny broex in Norfolk and parts of | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
-- breaks in Norfolk and parts of Lincolnshire. It is going to feel | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
chilly, even though temperatures aren't far from where they should | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
be at this time of year. 9 in Grimsby, 48 Fahrenheit. | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
Rain on Thursday night. That is out of the way first light Thursday | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
morning. Apart from one or two showers, it is dry with sunshine. A | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
frost on Friday morning and then an unsettled weekend to come. After | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
last night I had to endure loads of jokes about the '80s all through | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
the evening on Twitter, so thank you for that. And the fact that | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
your hair hasn't changed! None of us can work it out, Peter. See you | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
us can work it out, Peter. See you tomorrow. We were not going there! | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Tomorrow, thousands of public sector workers in East Yorkshire | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
and Lincolnshire will walk out in a strike over changes to their | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
pensions. The dispute, which has been called the biggest for a | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
generation, will see hundreds of schools and public buildings closed. | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
Lindsey Smith has the details of what is being affected. One of the | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
biggest disruptions tomorrow will be the closure of schools. Across | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
our area at least 300 schools will be closed and councils are advising | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
parents that this number is likely to rise. They should check their | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
local authority website in the morning before leaving for school. | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
But it is not just teachers that are walking out. In the schools it | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
is not just teachers. We have kitchen staff, lunchtime support | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
assistants, who only work a very short period of time in the week. | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
Admin staff, school care takers. We are all on low-grade salaries. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
parents will be expected to find childcare tomorrow at short notice | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
but not all the parents we spoke to were against the strikes. It is | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
hard, but I do agree that the reason why they have to strike. | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
I've got two children and both of them are out of school for it, | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
which means having to take days off and take a pay cut, lose pay | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
because of it. At this time of year in a recession it is ridiculous. | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
The way things are, something needs to be done. I think they've got a | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
right to say for their rights really. It is not just schools that | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
will be disrupted. Healthcare workers are also expected to walk | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
out. United Lincolnshire hospitals trust will try to avoid cancelling | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
operations and appointments. Hull and East Yorkshire trust say some | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
procedures have been cancelled but those patients affected have been | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
informed. They say people should try to avoid using A&E departments | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
tomorrow as they expect to be under pressure. We expect Serge non- | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
essential appointments at clinics, X-ray departments, outpatients, to | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
be cancelled because of lack of staffing. Transport to and from | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
hospitals supplied by balances will be affected, as again urgent care | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
will take priority. But there are many other services that will be | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
put on hold. Libraries, council-run leisure clubs, daycare centres, bin | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
collections, police control centres, even crematoriums could be | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
disrupted tomorrow. Many organisations have told us think | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
don't know how many staff will strike until they look at the | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
picket lines. For more information check your local authority website | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
or listen to BBC Radio Humberside or BBC Lincolnshire. | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
Thank you. How is the strike going to affect | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
you? Are you taking unpaid leave from work tomorrow maybe to look | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
after the children or make extra provision for childcare? Maybe a | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
hospital appointment has been cancelled. If you want to get in | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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I look forward to hearing from you. We'll hear from some of new a | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
moment. The Government is to spend �5 | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
million tackling the growing problem of metal theft. The money | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
will be used to target both the thieves and the dealers who | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
illegally trade in stolen metal. But the scheme comes too late for a | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
charity shop in Market Rasen, where staff are still clearing up after | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
metal thieves caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. Simon Spark | :20:40. | :20:48. | |
has the latest of our special reports on metal theft. When I came | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
on Sunday I was devastated. Two inchs of water, water coming down | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
on my precious furniture, as I call it. This is is the sad reality of | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
the dep. Depths criminals will go to for copper theft. This charity | :21:07. | :21:13. | |
shop raises money for the air ambulance. Copper from a heating | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
system from the flat above was the target, which flooded the shot and | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
ruined their stock. Most of the copper had been replaced with | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
plastic pipe from the first theft. I can't put it into words how I | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
feel. Absolutely gutted. It's soul destroying. It is just destructive. | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
We are all devastated. What could only have been a few pounds worth | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
of copper is �6,000 worth of damage to the charity. Unfortunately, the | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
effect to homes and workplaces is just one area. Hundreds of | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
thousands of passengers using the rail network are affected every | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
single day. Cable theft for us here in the North East is an epidemic. | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
We were seeing theft on a daily basis and sometimes three or four | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
thefts in one day. It is a really big problem to us and the single | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
biggest cause of delay. National Grid is another prime | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
target. When you look at the incidents in 2007, we had probably | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
400% increase in the number of incidents. So in terms of the | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
amount of copper they get when they steal the equipment don't bear any | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
resemblance to how much it costs us. All of these are asking for the | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
same thing. Somebody's got to be accountability. We do believe that | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
a change in legislation is required to the scrap metal dealers' Act. | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
we had major controls on scrap yards, that should slow the theft | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
down really. Today the Government has promised �5 million towards a | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
national task force to target the thieves and the dealers. But in the | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
meantime the disruption goes on and this charity shop will have to wait | :22:56. | :23:05. | |
until the new year before they can We wish them well. Our report | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
tomorrow will focus on the impact of metal theft on churches. | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
Yesterday there were nine calls made to Lincolnshire police about | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
metal theft and seven to Humberside police. That means there are 54 | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
incidents so far this week in Lincolnshire and 12 in Humberside. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Moratorium night. Hull City manager Nick Barmby says | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
his side are hoping to move on after Saturday's defeat. The Tigers | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
travel to league leaders Southampton, who are pushing for a | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
second successive promotion under ex-Scunthorpe boss Nigel Adkins. | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
We'll treat it just as much as any other game. We respect them, they | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
are doing really well, it is a great challenge for us. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
There is coverage of tonight's games on your local BBC Radio | :23:51. | :24:01. | |
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All of the games kick off tonight at 7.45pm. | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
The former Olympic athlete, Dean Macey, has been in Grimsby today | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
opening a new sports complex. The decathlete cut the ribbon on Toll | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Bar Academy's new quarter million pound gymnasium extension in New | :24:20. | :24:30. | |
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Waltham. He said it's one of the best of its type. I think Great | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
Britain in general has as much talent athletic-wise as any other | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
country on the planet. We just litz somewhere. Facilities like this are | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
going to enhance the amount of people we bring into the sport, | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
which can only enhance our results. Christmas lights have been going on | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
in our towns and cities over the last few days. Beverley tomorrow | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
night. Can they challenge the display from one home in | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
Lincolnshire? Derek and Jean Turner have 10,000 lights on their home in | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
Wragby. Crispin is there. Is it as spectacular as it sounds? It is | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Peter. We've all seen a few over the years, but 10,000 light bulbs | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
really makes a difference. Normally people put their Christmas lights | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
inside their homes on their trees, but this this instance this garden | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
has been decorated on the outside for a very particular reason. To | :25:34. | :25:44. | |
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tell us more, Derek tells me. years ago we got two house cats and | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
there were too interested in the lights inside and they wouldn't | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
leave them alone. So to protect them and the lights we put them | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
outside. It is certainly impressive. How long does it take tow put all | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
these 10,000 bulbs in place? Object three weeks to sort them out and | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
test them and get them strung up. It is certainly impressive stuff. | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
Derek and your wife Jean, long- suffering I'm sure. At the end of | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
the day the Turners have been doing this for 11 years. They have a top | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
tip. If you fancy making this garden of unearthly lights, | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
effectively go and buy your lights in January. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
A recap of the main national and regional headlines. The Chancellor | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
admits the UK economy face as difficult time ahead. George | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
Osborne says it will take longer than plan to do so balance the | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
books. Tolls are halved as the Government | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
cuts the Humber Bridge debt the two. Tomorrow: bright and windy with | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
sunny intervals. The risk of a few showers. 10 Celsius, 50 Fahrenheit. | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
The response after our top story. The Government starts the new | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
prices from midnight on the day of the announcement. Outthe bridge | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
toll won't start until next year. Lee says I'm having to take a day | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
off to look after my child. I will be taking unpaid leave. | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
Richard said why can't they drop the toll to �1.50 today, as it | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
costs far too much in fuel without having to pay �3 to cross the | :27:30. | :27:32. |