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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight: | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Why some children starting secondary school in Hull are six | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
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years behind with their reading. have had children about 25 each | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
year that have joined us, with reading ages of less than five. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The tanker driver dispute which started in North Lincolnshire | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
results in a national strike. Hitting out at police commissioners | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
- Humberside's chief constable is the latest senior figure to | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
criticise the changes. This is a system that is untried and untested | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
in this country. It is fundamentally a different style of | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
policing. Taking to the streets for charity - | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
thousands of people run the Sport Summer in March and there is more | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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to come. Your weekend weather BBC Look North can reveal that some | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
children are starting secondary school in Hull with a reading age | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
of five. Levels of reading and writing in the city are still well | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
behind the national average. The city council has given �10,000 to | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
every Hull secondary school to help raise standards. Our correspondent | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
is balls from the serious academy. The average reading age of children | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
entering school here is nine years five months. But a significant | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
number is below that, which means that the struggle with the rest of | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
the curriculum. Why are we going ever these? Some people cannot read. | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
We have had children, approximately about 25 each year, that have | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
drinkers with a reading age of about five. So the school set up a | :02:06. | :02:15. | |
special nurture group. The group is taught by a teacher specialising in | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
primary school methods. There have already been drastic improvements. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Where have put support in two groups have to enable a large | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
number of children to make progress. Every pupil here, whatever their | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
age or level, now takes part in the accelerated breeding programme, | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
which regularly monitors their progress. Quite a few of these | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
people's -- pupils here today had lower levels of reading but with | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
the accelerated reading, things have improved. Literacy is the | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
cornerstone of a good education and around one in five children are | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
simply not making the grade by the age of 11. Even those who do are | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
not guaranteed to pass their GCSEs when they are 16. | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
This group of boys are all currently sitting on a D grade for | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
their GCSE English but they all recognise how important it is to up | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
their game. You are speaking and writing and you will never get a | :03:19. | :03:28. | |
job. If you get the qualification it opens a lot of doors. I want a | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
future with the job I have wanted since I was little. So in a city | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
with some of the lowest literacy levels in the country, there is | :03:36. | :03:45. | |
growing confidence that real progress is now and being mate. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
Councillor Helene M Mallon is responsible for education at Hull | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
City Council. -- Councillor Helene O'Mullane. Why have so many | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
children, literally possibly hundreds, slipped through the net? | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
You have to remember that school, children come in at varying levels | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
of education. We have always had a problem of children coming into | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
school with very poor pre- literacy skills. They perhaps have not had | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
the nurturing at home. Perhaps English is a second language. There | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
are lots of emotional reasons why children do some can start at a | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
disadvantage. The average reading age for an 11-year-old in many Hull | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
schools is around nine. Can parents be confident that Hull's primary | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
schools are digging their job? think they can. The fact they are | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
coming in extra numbers to bring children into school. In secondary | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
schools, they are bringing back children. We have to ask parents | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
and guardians, over the last two years, we have put a lot of extra | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
work into giving children literacy time, giving them support as | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
analysts and at a children's centres. But you think primary | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
schools are doing their job and his is the parents letting the children | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
down? I think it is both. Some children come in and they have had | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
a lot of reading when they were young, talking, communicating, | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
playing with a loss. They come in their the to learn to read. Others | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
do not have that advantage and we have to work with them at much | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
slower levels to make sure the literacy is well implanted in them. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
What can you and the primary schools do to make sure that in the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
future the levels of reading and writing in this city are not be led | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
the national average as they are now? For the last three years we | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
have had a special scheme. Unfortunately, the Government | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
funding for this was pulled this year, but the head teachers | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
themselves have found money for that to continue for another year. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
In Key Stage One last year there was an a % rise in the level of | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
Reading, which is now starting to work through to key stage 2. We | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
have teachers in the schools with extra expertise. It should improve | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
gradually over the years, as it is at the moment. Let's hope so. Thank | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
you. Let's throw this one open. How can | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
reading and writing be improved? How much responsibility should the | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
parents take? Are they doing their bit? Or will more spending in | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
schools are really make the difference? Our primary schools the | :06:34. | :06:44. | |
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Start your text with the word Look North, all one word. All follow me | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
on Twitter right now. We will have some of your messages before we | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
finish at 7pm. In a moment, as fans protest | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
against the club's board, businesses claim they are being | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
heat for by Lincoln City's poor form. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
Political pressure is mounting on Chancellor George Osborne to | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
reverse the VAT rise faced on static caravans in the Budget. It | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
is one of the area's largest manufacturing industries. Today | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
Labour politicians visited Willerby Caravans in East Hull and heard how | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
closing a tax loophole would hit sales and jobs. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
The these workers at Willerby holiday homes have already agreed | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
to go down to a four-day week from five days, in order to prevent | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
redundancies. 90% of static caravans sold in the UK are made in | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
East Yorkshire. Now there are concerns that the caravan industry | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
will face further pressure following the Government's plan to | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
add VAT to static caravans, which would make some on average �6,000 | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
more expensive. We are finding it a little bit more contradictory with | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
the Government saying they are trying to get staycations, UK | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
holidays, and here we are making the equipment for those holidays | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
and now we are being penalised. Workers fear this could lead to | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
further caravans being sold and consequently it job losses. This | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
prompted them to get in touch with their local MP, who today brought | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
the shadow minister for regional Price to halt. There has been no | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
consultation. I do not think people in the industry would be adverse to | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
consultation and discussion. But in this case there has been no | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
consultation or discussion and they are introducing it at the worst | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
time of year when we are about to enter the holiday season. | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Government says finally adding VAT would bring sales of static | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
caravans into line with mobile ones. It is an issue that will be raised | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
in the House of Commons, with the Chancellor being asked to look | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
again. That is a story that we will | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
continue to follow here on Look North. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Some more stories tonight. A bad manager has been jailed for 21 | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
months for stealing �100,000 from the accounts of five elderly | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
customers, one of whom was dead. -- a bank manager. Owen Danter from | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Beverley stole the money when he was manager of Santander in | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Driffield. The bank has been as the customers and taken �30,000 from | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
his pension fund. Lincolnshire County Council has | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
asked the Government for more than �6 million to repair drought- | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
damaged roads. More than 150 sites have been identified as priority | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
areas, mainly around Holbeach, Spalding, Boston and Bourne. The | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
council received �5 million following a similar -- similar bid | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
in 2004. Engineering company is investing in | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
Lincoln. Bifrangi says the deal will invest in new jobs and | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
investment. It involves begin one of the world's biggest metal | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
presses to the site to build a tractor axles. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
The industrial unrest among petrol tanker drivers, which started on | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
the south bank of the Humber, has now become a national dispute. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
Drivers who voted for strikes, prompting fears of fuel shortages. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
The dispute is over terms and safety but employers say that many | :10:24. | :10:31. | |
of the drivers earn more than �45,000 a year. Our reporter is a | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
live near the Conoco Philips oil refinery right now. | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
How has this dispute escalated to the stage tonight? Just to explain, | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
it is separate to fuel distribution companies that take fuel from oil | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
refineries like these and distribute it across the UK. The | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
drivers are those vehicles side that it is supermarkets and garages | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
-- as they try to compete for the lowest price, it is affecting them. | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
The companies they work for asking them to work longer hours and meet | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
tighter deadlines and Murray say that health and safety is taking a | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
back seat as a result. -- they say. Drivers he went on strike for a | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
whole week over cuts in their pay at the beginning of the year and | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
that has led to a national ballot. The tankers stood idle. In January | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
of this year, drivers at the Coreco Phillips oil refinery -- Conoco | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
Philips oil refinery went on strike. They are offering us a reduction of | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
�4,000. The other reductions are around our pensions and our terms | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
and conditions. A those protesting said it was a wider problem within | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
the industry and one of their drivers is now in a national video | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
which has been released to highlight their case. | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
This is not about our pay. This is about having a safe environment for | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
the workforce. A whenever we fill up at the pub, it is oil truck | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
drivers working in what the world's most dangerous professions baccy | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
company -- the country on the road. But today, as oil companies push | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
for even higher profits, health and safety is being compromised. I have | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
been driving for 18 years. We go through extensive training. We are | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
constantly monitored by it are companies and health and safety | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
teams. We drivers across the UK now | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
agreeing to go on strike, there are fears it could lead to the | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
destruction we saw in the year 2000. That was over the cost of petrol | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
and diesel and electric pumps being empty and chaos on the roads. | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
these strikes likely to take place, when? I have spoken to the union | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Unite and they say legally they have to give its seven days' notice. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
So it will not happen soon but they say that what happens here is | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
likely to be the epicentre of any strike action. The Government had | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
said that they are ready and that troops are in place to deliver fuel | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
if necessary. The haulage company in Wincanton who delivers the oil | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
has said that the strike is politically motivated and it is | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
impractical and we cannot do it. Grass years. | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
That is another one you might want to comment on. There is a reminder | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
of our e-mail address and the tax Still ahead tonight... | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
As crowds dwindle at Lincoln City, businesses say they are being hit | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
in the pocket. And raising millions for charity - | :13:39. | :13:49. | |
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people across our area take part in the Sport Relief Mile. | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Tonight's photo is of Grimsby Dock Tower. Thanks to Richard Enderby | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
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for that. Ahir please send us your The I got this letter about the | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Sport Relief Day. This year said you were looking very fit and | :14:25. | :14:35. | |
wondered if you worked it out? Now, it looks as though some are has | :14:35. | :14:43. | |
arrived. As you can see the Airport a a at it was up to 19 degrees | :14:43. | :14:51. | |
Celsius. It has been very pleasant whenever you have been. Tomorrow | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
very similar tomorrow, up with not a cloud in the sky. This high | :14:58. | :15:06. | |
pressure covering virtually all of the British Isles. But that is | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
going to clear by the weekend, when temperatures will back to a more | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
normal. It is dry and clear overnight, but there could be the | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
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odd bit of mist and fog. The low temperature overnight could jot | :15:31. | :15:41. | |
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down to minus Zero degrees at Gainsborough. Any mist and a patchy | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
fog a rapidly dispersing and it will be spot the cloud time. It is | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
going to be clear blue skies with lots of sunshine, with the light | :15:55. | :16:03. | |
variable biddies. On the course, slightly cooler, with the likes of | :16:03. | :16:12. | |
Bridlington probably maybe only getting up to 15 degrees Celsius. | :16:12. | :16:17. | |
On Wednesday, the temperatures even higher, getting up to 21 degrees | :16:17. | :16:26. | |
Celsius, before dropping back as the week progresses. See you | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
tomorrow. It is an easy job for you just now, just saying it is dry and | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
The Chief Constable of Humberside Police has become the latest seeing | :16:38. | :16:40. | |
officer to attack the government's plan for police commissioners -- | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
senior officer. Tim Hollis says the move is not tested in the UK and | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
will bring politics into police and. He is also concerned that the | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
future of the country's police forces will be dictated by the | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
personalities of the commissioners. The government says commissioners, | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
who can hire and fire chief constables, will make the police | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
more accountable. I will speak to Mr Hollis in detail after this | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
report from Phil Connell. He is one of the most experienced policemen | :17:07. | :17:16. | |
in Britain and the latest two raised concerns about the | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
controversy over police commissioners. Today, he said | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
commissioners where untried and untested and called for significant | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
change at a time when the police force does not need it because it | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
is doing well. If the person is there on an elected manifesto, it | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
is where problems could arrive. Of the five people to have expressed | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
interest in the job, most have done that background and politics. The | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
concern is that the candidates may be voted them on their political | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
views rather than their ability to cut crime. The most high-profile | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
candidate is John Prescott, the former MP and Deputy Prime Minister. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Elections will take place in November. The salary is around | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
�75,000, but they will have paid responsibilities. He will have set | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
budgets and priorities and be able to hire and fire chief Constable's. | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
But ministers say there will be no interference in operational matters. | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
Some people think it will leave the stronger and more transparent force. | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
For a I think it will make the police force a lot more accountable. | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
A they will have to account for the way the spend money and their | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
performance. Mr Hollis is standing down at at the end of this year, | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
but says it is a coincidence. Earlier, I spoke to Chief Constable | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Tim Hollis. I asked him what his main concerns were about | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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commissioners? A I do not have a problem with the candidates. I | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
think they will be good people who will want to do their best for the | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
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police force. 180 years of tradition down into the past - does | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
the current system not work quite well? Well, it is very hard to | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
judge these things until you look back on them. | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
What about the cost? At least �70,000 for the Commissioner and | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
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then all the support staff they wall need? If that justified? | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
all a question of how it the money is used to focus on improving | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
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policing in Humberside. N o u years of being the chief, how would you | :20:14. | :20:22. | |
have felt if politicians were telling you how to do your job? | :20:22. | :20:30. | |
will work in practice is very much down to the personal relationships. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
How much is your decision to step down to do with police | :20:33. | :20:43. | |
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commissioners? It would be unfair to say that was a major part. I | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
will have been it eight years in charge of police and Humberside by | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
that point. It is a good time to hand over the baton to someone else. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
There are changes nationally and locally, so it is time for some | :21:01. | :21:11. | |
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fresh blood and fresh ideas. Now, all an update on a story we brought | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
you on Friday. Ticketholders and caterers who had paid money to | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
attend a cancelled music festival in Lincoln have been promised they | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
will get their money ban. -- money back. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
Future Entertainment cancelled plans for the festival at the | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Lincolnshire Showground earlier this year, but tickets were still | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
on sale at the end of last week. Danny Brewster, who says he has | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
sold the company, has promised to refund the money. | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
A driver had a lucky escape today after his lorry overturned in | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
Goole.The accident happened this afternoon near to the river which | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
runs through the town. The driver was uninjured, but traffic was | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
disrupted after the load he was carrying fell out of his trailer. | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Businesses in Lincoln say the decline of the City football team | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
is hitting them in the pocket. The Imps, who fell out of the Football | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
League last season, are now just two points above the Conference | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
drop zone. On Saturday, fans protested Ed of the match against | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
Newport over how the club is being run. | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Seven years have passed since Lincoln City's glory days, when the | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
team reached the League Two play- offs twice in three seasons. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Now relegated to the Conference, the Imps sit six places from the | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
bottom of the Blue Square Premier. Fans chose Saturday's game against | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
Newport County to call for the chairman to resign -a protest which | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
was daubed disgraceful by the board. If we have got good going, there is | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
not going to be any club life. We need to sort it out now. In are the | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
years I have been coming to watch the team, I have never seen at this | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
bad. A 2-0 win over Newport was little | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
consolation to local businesses, who say they are suffering because | :22:44. | :22:52. | |
of Lincoln City's decline. We when they were doing well in the league, | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
they could get crowds around the 5,000 mark. But all this there, | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
with the cows going down, or profits drop. | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
And a return to League football still looks a long way off. They | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
have not adjusted well to non- League football and are struggling | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
with the finances. There are simply not good enough and there is a long | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
way to goal. The chairman condemned the process the protest, saying | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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that this was the time for everyone to stick together. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Scunthorpe United hit the bar twice, but had to settle for a draw | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
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Portsmouth to get back in the play- off places, after losing 2-12 | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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Leicester city. -- 2-1. Our passing was a bit sloppy and we simply did | :24:13. | :24:23. | |
not do enough to win the game. In rugby league, Hull FC are up to | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
third in the Super League after their fourth straight win. The | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Black and Whites beat Castleford yesterday. Hull KR beat second | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
place Huddersfield at Craven Park. Hull KR stunned Huddersfield with a | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
dominant second-half performance to end their two-match losing run and | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
deny the visitors top spot in Super League. The scores were level at | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
half time 18-18, both sides scoring three tries in the perfect | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
conditions. After the break though it was a different story and Rovers | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
ran in four second-half tries from Josh Hodgson, Scott Taylor, Sam | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
Latus and Mickey Paea. At Castleford, Danny Tickle helped | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
inspire Hull to their fourth straight victory. Tickle was one of | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
six try scorers and kicked six goals for the Black and Whites. He | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
has now scored more than 2,000 points for the club, who are third | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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Too many tries to show in David's report, but you can see them all on | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
the Super League Show here on BBC One later this evening. | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
Thousands of people are recovering from taking part in Sport Relief | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
events across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. More than 30 of the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Sport Relief Mile events took place yesterday and helped raise over �50 | :25:26. | :25:36. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 47 seconds | :25:36. | :26:24. | |
We have had a lot of fun and raised money as well. He is "the youngest | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
and I'll probably the oldest. people of the city always come | :26:32. | :26:39. | |
together for this. I am really proud of them. Well done to | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
everyone who took part in the events. We get a lot of people at | :26:43. | :26:49. | |
in the centre of the city yesterday. Now let us get a recap of the | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
national and regional headlines. The Prime Minister has admitted | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
that some of the party's biggest donors have been to private parties | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
at Number 10 Downing Street. Tomorrow's weather - mist and | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
patchy fog quickly clearing, then another dry, sunny and very warm | :27:07. | :27:17. | |
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day expected, with a high of 20 Celsius. Now, back to this problem | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
about illiteracy. If we do not educate youngsters to basic levels, | :27:23. | :27:32. | |
there is a chance they will turn to crime. Another says, parents are | :27:32. | :27:36. |