13/01/2012 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

For Good evening. Warnings of a pay cut for public sector workers as

part of one new North-South divide. Everyone in that public sector has

a pay cut and that is going to be devastating. The stalemate over

cutting the Humber Bridge toll claims the maths don't add up.

How a former workers at the docks are about to star in a television

documentary. The seal was no sense of direction

washers upon the East Coast. That all-important weather forecast.

there are claims that teachers, health workers could see their pay

cut under government plans. Minister believes salaries should

be closely linked to wages and the private sector. That has prompted

fears workers will find themselves on the wrong side of a North-South

divide. The most public sector workers are subject to the same

rates of pay weather in the north or south. That could come to an end.

The Chancellor announced that the Government is looking at salaries

being negotiated at will local rather than national level. We are

trying to make sure that p is clear and right for the local economy.

This was done by the last Labour government. It is a move will

caused by teachers like this woman. She works in a primary-school.

He must be either put in a pay freeze on people in the periods or

giving them a pay cut. Critics of national pay bargaining IQ public

sector salaries should reflect the cost of living in a place in the

country. The average house price here is just over 93,000. The

unions are not convinced. We're convinced teachers are doing the

same job. It is important they are motivated and they feel they can

move to different parts of the community -- country. Following

strikes over pensions, the scrapping of national pay

bargaining can spark round to two and a fight between the unions and

the Government. I asked Kevin Austerberry from the

Royal College of Nursing why they were against the government's idea

the suggestion that local pay should be introduced in the NHS

came as no surprise. It is misguided. A nurse and the North

does not have the same living expenses as one and the size.

you look at what might lie behind us, it is clear the intention would

be to reduce the costs of staff in the NHS. We tried is back in the

1990s and it pushes costs up. you are a nurse and you want a

house, some places are very expensive. We recognise costs

Theory from one part of the country to another. Some p have

enhancements. If you did an interview on our programme in

London, you have say nurses should earn more because it is expensive

to live there. We must insure the best interests of patients is at

the forefront. It is uncomfortable that introducing local pay if it is

intending to drive pay rates down is not acceptable at a time when

health care staff are under pressure. George Osborne says it is

about setting paid which is fair and right for the local economy.

if you introduce anomalies, think about what that means for

recruitment. If one hospital pays specialist nurses at one level and

the one down the road gets paid more, there will be a temptation

for staff to move. That will secure the system. You have heard this

story. Should periods for public sector jobs be left to local

economy? Should a nurse in the This is a subject that will be

debated starting this weekend, the Sunday Politics from 12 noon.

In a moment, Britain's greatest living in just a -- artist.

The government's deal with councils on the Bank of the Humber to half

bridge tolls may not work, that is a warning from some backing the

change. The Chancellor said he wanted a �1.50 charge within months.

There is little sign of progress. Has something gone wrong? In the

cold light of the new year, some serious questions are being asked

about the nitty-gritty of the deal. It is whether it can be made to

work in the long term as a sustainable solution for the

economy. The Government has written off half the debt. It wants the

councils making up the bought to come up with a financial plan to

manage their trunk. When George Osborne visited the bridge, he was

confident we councils would get back to him with a workable plan to

deal with their half of the debt. The Theory says that cutting the

bridge tolls and half, there will be a massive increase in the volume

using the bridge. The problem is that this is just a theory. No one

knows whether it will work. This man as a campaigner on to bridge

debt but does not believe there will be a big enough traffic

increase. On basic maths, you cannot afford to pay �184 million

debt. There are other problems. It needs underwriting. It is suggested

the council's divide this. Up I want to make sure North East

Lincolnshire Council has a fair deal. I do not see why we should

subsidise other parts of the area. We have seen a few shenanigans.

There was another fine Humber sunset. Behind the scenes, the

negotiations to get the bridge deal to work will not be as pretty.

Those are the concerns. Will those tolls behalf by 1st April? People

say there is little danger of the deal being withdrawn. It is likely

that tolls will be half and the coming months. The bigger question

about how to make this reduction work long term will still be there?

The row about who will pay for it is also going to get deeper. Three

people were taken to hospital after a crash that close to Major wrote

in north Lincolnshire. Two cars were involved on the A180. One man

was airlifted to Hull Royal Infirmary. Two others were taken to

hospital. A jury has started to consider its

verdict on the trial of five men of murdering Adam Vincent. His family

was at court today. His body parts were found in the water.

A shop and Lincoln which sold fake bottles of vodka a containing

cleaning fluid has had its Algol licence revoked. Mouldy tobacco was

also found during a raid by trading standards on Finest Foods. Other

shops have lost their licences. Still ahead, workers starring in

the BBC documentary about their heyday of the Humber docks. And

2000 miles from home, the seal that keeps getting lost around Europe.

If you have a picture EU are proud John said he saw you in the local

shop with microwave meals. He was It is a colt and settled on. There

is a risk of patchy Menter Iaith in places. There may be more fog.

Other than that, it is unsettled weekend. There is hardly a cloud in

the sky. There has been cloud on the coastline but it should melt

away. It could be down to-five tonight. The sun will rise in the

morning at 830. A frosty start and watch out for four Apache fog.

Temperatures will struggle. A variable breeze will come up from

the south-east. Where the fog lingers through the evening, it

could be as low as three Celsius. You will be repaid next week!

Several e-mails about a story in the news today that in South Africa

if they get the weather forecast wrong they face a jail sentence.

And one viewer said that Apple should get a shirt covered in

Arrows in preparation of this weekend's forecast.

As David Hockney prepares to open his latest exhibition about the

Yorkshire Wolds, campaigners have been fighting for years to make it

an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which would limit what

could be built there. They are hoping the new focus on the walls

will strengthen their campaign. -- focus on the Yorkshire Wolds.

At times, the views of breathtaking, but for many, the Yorkshire Wolds

are still a hidden gem. But this man knows them well and once again,

David Hockney has found inspiration from the peaceful landscape. There

was a very, very good subject here. The landscape itself, which I felt

quite strongly attached to. If you are my age and you find a subject

that is exciting, stick with it. For this collection, he used his

iPad to capture the untouched beauty of the Yorkshire Wolds and

it is a characteristic many want to protect. I think it is absolutely

stunning up here. When you get on the top you get the panoramic views.

Steve Hey is hoping in -- hoping Hockney's latest exhibition will

draw focus to this area. Hopefully it will help protect against the

industrialisation of the landscape. This will open up the doors to

developers. Total development of the countryside. These beautiful

areas will be gone forever. others, the wildlife that thrives

here is a source of inspiration which needs protection. I love the

wildlife in the Yorkshire Wolds but the key to them is the grassland

valleys, a fall of wild flowers and orchids. At the moment I can hear a

thrush singing. That is one of the first birds of the years singing.

New York is difficult, London I find difficult, so I love the quiet

of East Yorkshire. On a day like today, it is easy to see why David

Hockney finds the Yorkshire Wolds are inspirational, and campaigners

hope that by making this an area of outstanding natural beauty, they

can protect these views for the future.

Some fantastic pictures there of the Yorkshire Wolds. That David

Hockney exhibition is about to open. I have been talking to Gary Verity

from CPP -- Welcome to Yorkshire about the impact of David Hockney's

work on the countryside here. Yorkshire Wolds are the hidden gem

of Yorkshire. What the exhibition will do is draw attention to the

great things that visitors can see when they come and visit art great

county and I think East Yorkshire stands to benefit hugely from the

massive profile of the Hochmann exhibition. What is the Hockney

trail all about? It will give sides across East Yorkshire where people

can see the great man himself has painted his pictures, and see what

they look like in real life. It is about giving the visitor the

greater experience and the report on country while the other night

where Hockney was fantastic, the way he came across, explaining in

great detail why he had chosen the sites that he had done, and the

benefit to the visitor. Yorkshire Wolds have seen a growing

number of wind farm applications. How important is it for the area to

be recognised as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Ceri can

be protected? I do not know that the Net -- necessarily needs to be

recognised as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty but I

would say that East Yorkshire are already an Area of Outstanding

Natural Beauty and it is important that any development that happens

there needs to be sympathetic. you think this will actually bring

people into East Yorkshire who have never been before, to come to the

trail? Undoubtedly. Our experience over the last three years has been

that where we have done thing similar to this there has been a

massive upsurge in visitor numbers and I am sure East Yorkshire will

benefit from that over the months ahead. Thank you.

Let's hope that we protect those areas in the future.

For Hull Marina is closed for six weeks because of maintenance work.

Boats cannot get in or out while repairs to the gates' seal is

repaired. A statute in honour of scumbled

steelworkers has been proposed for the town centre. This is a scale

model. The finished sculpture would be 17ft tall and made from

Scunthorpe steel. The group behind the idea is trying to raise �40,000

and hopes the statue could be in place by October. We are working on

this as a project to give some recognition to the steel workers

and their families. Let's hope that Scunthorpe gets the statue.

Hull City's new manager, Nick Barmby, hopes he has the signed to

make a serious challenge for promotion. The Tigers are in a

Championship play-off position as they take on Peterborough United.

They may have lost their last league game to this goal but

Saturday's Cup victory over Ipswich Town has given Hull's City manager

Nick Barmby the belief that his side Arab force to be reckoned with.

These players have as good a chance as any other team, as long as they

keep believing what they are to link, they remain positive, you are

going to set -- get setbacks but it is how you handle them. So far they

have done that well. I want to get better and better. I want to prove

to a lot of people what I can do. So if I have the chance now, I want

to grab it with two hands. Scunthorpe United return to action

at Colchester United, coming after the splendid win at the weekend. In

not make it his FA Trophy date with The real-life stories of the people

who worked on the docks at the Humber port will be shown in a

documentary this weekend. It will be broadcast exclusively here on

BBC One in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The programme, called

How the Humber Changed our World, involves lots of local people and

tells the story of the history of the docks through their eyes.

You was either a strong woman or you wasn't. It made you strong.

was first shown in cinemas in Hull, Goole and Grimsby, and some in the

audience, like Jim Williams, had taken part in the film, to share

their own personal memories. There is three weeks' money. You have two

days. I knew so many of those

personalities that were filmed. They all put it across as it was,

to give our children and grandchildren memories of the

heritage of they grew up with. Brylcreem in my hair, three-day

millionaire... The film delves into the working life of the Humber

ports, through the good time when fishermen when it meant freedom

millionaires, to the troubled cod wars and the turbulent days of the

dock strikes. First-hand accounts, family photographs and amateur

video were all vital. These are the stories that people would hand down

to their sons, daughters and grandchildren. People generally

were very candid in the stories they were prepared to tell us. If

you look at the dock workers, it put their militancy in context

because they told us about how bad conditions were when they first

started. What we often get is the official sanitised version, the

story about the great and the good, and this one actually tells us the

story of working people. If you do not recall that now, it is gone

forever. There was so much interest in the film last summer that

tickets were oversubscribed and an extra screening had to be put on

but now many more people will get to see it as it transfers to

television. Jim hopes it will help more people appreciate the reality

of life on the docks. Looking forward to seeing that one.

That is this Sunday at 3:05pm here on BBC One. On BBC Radio Humberside

from 9am on Monday, there will be a chance for you to talk about the

She is a seal with a poor sense of direction, more than 2000 miles

from home, and less than a year old. Eve was found on a Lincolnshire

beach. Staff at Natureland in Skegness are using tracking

technology to keep an eye on her. With her special track of it did,

this breed of hooded seal is rarely seen around here. This one is badly

lost and in desperate need of good directions. They come from regions

like Ice land in the East, right across to Newfoundland and Canada

in the West. So she is one and truly lost. This particular seal is

thought to have been born in Icelandic waters. Just ten months

old, weak and confused, she has now been rescued from the beach here in

Lincolnshire. Normally by this age they are really fat. She was weak

and underweight for so we thought we would bring her back. That was

when we noticed the transmitter on top of her head as well. Staff have

named their new edition Eve and have quickly discovered her poor

sense of direction has already been recorded by colleagues in Europe.

She was first discovered of the German coast last summer and it was

here when the tracking device was fitted. She was then traced heading

north back home to Iceland but near Scotland things again went wrong.

She turned around and was found a few weeks later on a beach at

Chapel St Leonards. To now guarantee has said return home, the

best plan of action is transportation. That means an

expensive flight and for that to happen, financial backing will be

needed. If it did come to that, we would probably be looking for

sponsors to help us do that but that is in a few months' time, when

she has been putting on weight. Whatever happens, he's still needs

to gain a further 30kg in weight. Wherever she goes, she will still

be fitted with the special Tracker, enabling the staff here to monitor

her progress and make sure that this time she is heading in the

right direction. It's the cost of transporting her back home would be

thousands of pounds but with a face like this, there could be shared

brought financial offers over the coming weeks. -- several financial

offers. If you have a story you think we

should know about, senders and Emap. A recap of the main headlines. The

Government says it will press ahead with controversial child benefit

cuts. There are fears public sector workers in East Yorkshire and

Lincolnshire could see their pay cut under Government plans. Any fog

patches would be clear to -- slow to clear. Otherwise dry and with

sunshine tomorrow. Response coming in on the subject

of local pay. Annabel says, having passed election, I was offered a

post of a prison officer but had to decline due to not being able to

live in Cambridge on �14,500 a year, the same had I think offered a post

in Hull, with a much lower cost of living. I support localised pay.

Another viewer, at any pace in based on house prices will just

make the poor poorer. And from Clare, watched the number of

vacancies in the lower-paid areas go through the roof and standards