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shaking your head. That is horrible. That is all from the BBC's News at | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. 19 | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
missed chances to spot a fault which could have prevented the death of a | :00:11. | :00:23. | |
Red Arrows pilot. The inquest into Sean Cunningham's | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
death was told seven people didn't see that the ejection seat handle | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
was in an unsafe position. Cutting the price at the pumps. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Could EU funding reduce the cost of rural fuel? | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
And the pupils planning to build and fly their own plane. The latest | :00:40. | :00:57. | |
forecast comes up shortly. The inquest into the death of a Red | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Arrows pilot has been told seven people missed a fault with the | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
plane's ejection seat. Flight Lieutenant Sean Cunningham died when | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
the seat in his Hawk jet fired as he prepared to take off and the | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
parachute failed to open. Today, experts from the Military Aviation | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Authority told the court that the safety pin on his ejector seat had | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
not been inserted correctly. Caroline Bilton has been in court | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
today. How significant was today's evidence? It was the first | :01:26. | :01:36. | |
opportunity to hear the findings of that report. The aim was to | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
investigate the accident, but to make sure safety was improved | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
following the accident. There have been many twists and turns in the | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
last few weeks of this inquest. Today, we got answers to some of the | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
many questions that had been asked. He was a pilot who had flown | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
thousands of times before, but today, at the inquest into his | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
death, the findings of an inquiry by the Military Aviation Authority were | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
given, headed up by this man, Commander Daniel Stemmbridge. They | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
found that on the day of his accident Flight Lieutenant Sean | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Cunningham had not noticed the handle to his ejection seat ` one | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
that he had sat in hundreds of times ` had been left in an unsafe | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
position. Nor did he realise the safety pin preventing it from firing | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
had been incorrectly inserted. But Sean hadn't been the only one to | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
miss this. The service inquiry concluded that: | :02:34. | :03:08. | |
Commander Stemmbridge will be back giving evidence tomorrow into the | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Military Aviation Authority's findings. It will be another week | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
before the coroner makes his conclusions. We also learned a | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
little about how the Red Arrows operate. The enquiry found that the | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
time is taken from briefing to take off work although entirely | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
appropriate and professional, too short to carry out the relevant | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
safety checks. They were a lot shorter than those carried out by | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
front man squadrons, for example. The service enquiry also found this | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
quadrant had attended less and 50% of safety meetings. The enquiry | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
concluded these may have been contributory factors to the | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
accident. However, I must point out that throughout the inquest as the | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
pilots have been interviewed, none of them said they felt rushed to | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
carry out safety checks whilst in the aircraft. | :04:00. | :04:00. | |
Thank you. In a moment: Prepare for more | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
flooding ` caravan park owners are urged to put evacuation plans in | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
place. A school in Hull and one in North | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Lincolnshire are among the worst` performing schools in the country | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
according to new league tables. In contrast, some schools in | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
Lincolnshire are among the best. The national tables are based on the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
latest GCSE results. Sarah Corker has been looking at the tables for | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
us. The Government target is for 40% of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
pupils to get five GCSEs grade A`star to Cs, including English and | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Maths. But there's a wide variation in performance. | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
Two schools in Lincolnshire feature amongst the best. | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
Kesteven and Grantham Girls school got 100%, as did Caistor Grammar, | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
putting them both into the top 100 schools nationally. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
But two of our academies had some of the lowest pass rates. Scunthorpe's | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
Invenio Academy had a 24% pass rate. In Hull, only 20% of students at the | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Thomas Ferens Academy got the expected standard, putting both in | :05:08. | :05:17. | |
the bottom ten. We only had the students to terms. They joined as in | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
September 2012. The results were very disappointing. We worked | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
incredibly hard with the students. Because we only have them for two | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
terms, there was a limited amount we could do to rectify the situation we | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
inherited. It's a mixed picture too for our | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
local authorities. In Lincolnshire almost 62% achieved the standard, | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
narrowly missing out on a place in the top third in the UK. | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
In North Lincolnshire the figure is almost 57% ` another improvement, | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
but still below the national average. East Riding schools have | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
also seen an improvement, 61% of pupils hitting the target, and | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
moving into the top half of the table. The only authority to see a | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
drop in results was North East Lincolnshire where all its schools | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
are acadamies, 58.5% meeting the expected standard. In Hull it was | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
50% ` that's above the Government target and an improvement. Six years | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
ago Hull had the worst`performing schools. It's now eighth from the | :06:13. | :06:23. | |
bottom. It is reaching 50% is the first step for Hull in making | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
improvements across the city in terms of educational standards. It | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
was in our minds, we felt it was a target we must try and reach. We | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
have reached that and now we must press on and improve. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
Nationally more schools are achieving the GCSE standard and that | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
performance is mirrored in most, but not all, of our schools. | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
We want to hear from you on this story. What more can be done to | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
improve standards in our secondary schools? | :06:55. | :07:27. | |
An ?11 million technology college is to be built in Scunthorpe creating | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
70 new jobs. The centre will help young people get the specialist | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
skills they need for careers in engineering and renewable energy, | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
and is backed by Able UK, Tata Steel and the University of Hull amongst | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
others. Last month, the Government gave the green light to the ?450 | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
million Able Marine Energy Park. This has been two years in the | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
planning. We're almost there is a skills shortage and that is what | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
we're trying to address. We to be one of the first in this region to | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
give people the opportunity to train for those engineering jobs that | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
businesses are asking for. Parking charges for hospitals in | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Goole, Scunthorpe and Grimsby are to be reduced. Most tickets prices will | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
fall by 50 pence so that parking for an hour will cost ?2, and a day | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
ticket will be ?4.50. The Northern Lincolnshire and Goole hospitals | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
trust says the new charges mean they'll still be able to invest in | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
security and maintenance at the sites. | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
Those campaigning for a cut in the cost of petrol and diesel in parts | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
of rural Lincolnshire say they're encouraged by a response from the | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
Government. Councillors in East Lindsey wrote to ministers asking | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
them to reduce fuel duty. The government has responded saying they | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
may consider applying to the EU for permission to offer a deduction. | :09:01. | :09:14. | |
Jake Zuckerman reports. Customers fill up at the Windmill | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
Garage in Saltfleet on the Lincolnshire coast. In this rural | :09:18. | :09:26. | |
area fuel costs are higher. For local people it's a major issue. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
There is no bus service. Only in the morning, twice a day. Without a car, | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
you are lost. I had to Curzon had to cut down one because it is such an | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
expense. `` I had two cars and Motorists living in the remote | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
Scottish Islands and Isles of Scilly already benefit from a fuel duty | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
discount worth 5p a litre. Had to put down. Chief Secretary to | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
the Treasury Danny Alexander, has applied to the EU to extend that | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
scheme to other areas where there's a high of cost of transporting | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
petrol and diesel, including towns in North Yorkshire, Cumbria and | :10:04. | :10:05. | |
Devon. But Lincolnshire isn't on that list. When you get a big tanker | :10:06. | :10:15. | |
going to Tesco, it is worth it. In Saltfleet today a litre of unleaded | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
costs 132.9p compared to only 130.9 in Settle in North Yorkshire, and in | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Illfracombe in Devon it's 135.9p a litre. East Lindsey District | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
Councillors have asked Danny Alexander to extend the discount to | :10:25. | :10:25. | |
Lincolnshire. His reply reads: I think it would make a trend is | :10:26. | :11:02. | |
difference. I hope Danny Alexander would listen to the people of | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
Lincolnshire. But here they may have to prepare for disappointment. One | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
of the key criteria for success is that towns have to be over 100 miles | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
by road from the nearest refinery. The presence of oil refineries at | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
nearby Killingholme seems to put Lincolnshire out of contention. | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
You might also have a view on this story. Should there be a cut in the | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
price of fuel in rural areas? Still ahead tonight: Ahead of his | :11:32. | :11:51. | |
next fight Luke Campbell joins me to look back on an incredible 18 | :11:52. | :12:03. | |
months. This is a IMing rule, where these schoolchildren are building an | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
aeroplane. `` I am in the. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
Lee Beel has just won second place in the Seasons category of the RHS | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Photographer of the Year 2013 Competition. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
It shows the Waters' Edge Country Park in Barton`upon`Humber in | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
winter. Well done for that. Good evening, young man. | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
When was that taken? In the winter. | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
1963 something? I will cross over that. We have had | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
a lot of comments about Keely Donovan being in Australia. Not one | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
of them was broadcast or. Just do the forecast. | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
You can't brush with all that make`up on. We will look at the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
headlines. More unsettled weather on the way. Perhaps a bright start but | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
there will be rain and drizzle in from the West through the afternoon. | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
It might be earlier than that. It looks like the chiefly light rain | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
will come through on Friday afternoon. This is the satellite | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
picture. It is not too bad. Some sharp showers working in from the | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
west. There has been the odd clap of thunder reported. They will quickly | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
move out of the way. Road surface temperatures will be below | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
freezing. Watch out for icy patches on untreated areas. The sun will | :13:38. | :13:54. | |
rise around about eight o'clock. A frosty stand. Watch out for that ice | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
if big routers have not been on the roads. `` if it is have not been out | :14:01. | :14:11. | |
on your roads. There will be a chilly south easterly wind. Top | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
afternoon temperatures, really struggling. For, possibly five | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
Celsius. That is 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind and rain will sweep | :14:27. | :14:43. | |
in from the West. That is the forecast. | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
Paul says, can you ask one of your engineers to look into interference | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
on my television, or ask Paul to take the shirt off. | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
Well, if you were asking, Peter. No, no, I would rather get an | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
engineer and. Last month's tidal surge had a | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
devastating impact on homes and businesses, including thousands of | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
caravan and static home owners along the East Coast. Today, caravan park | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
owners are being warned that they need to prepare for future flooding | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
` and ensure their evacuation plans are in place. Paul Murphy has this | :15:21. | :15:36. | |
report. Said this `` the devastation has been a wake`up call. Many static | :15:37. | :15:45. | |
caravans are in areas of flood risk. Today's conference has brought | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
together Park owners and experts, with only one thing on the agenda. | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
The key thing from today is the safety angle. Should the worst | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
happen, should the water come onto their site, we need them to be able | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
to get out. This coastline is also haunted by the terrible flooding of | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
1953, in which 42 people died in Lincolnshire alone. Warning systems | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
and evacuation systems have improved since then. We have got | :16:16. | :16:27. | |
inflatables, we have got sandbags and everything like that. The most | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
important thing is we have told the occupiers to register for flood line | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
to get the warnings, and then we have got a plan for them and by | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
staff to actually evacuate as the alarms go off. In recent years, | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
there has been a rapid expansion in the coastal caravan industry, but | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
the concern is that this must continue to take place with safety | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
in mind. Do we want our coastline to be safe, yes. We wanted to thrive. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
We want to be aware of what might happen and so be better prepared. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
This could also be a hidden community, knowing who is here and | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
when is also sometimes difficult to establish. Just another challenge in | :17:11. | :17:20. | |
keeping those here safe. Several MPs from our area have been discussing | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
the issue of flooding in Parliament this afternoon. Martin Vickers | :17:24. | :17:36. | |
secured a debate. My constituents want to hear a reassurance that | :17:37. | :17:44. | |
everything possible will be done, and if additional resources are | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
required, they will be made available. There is no price tag on | :17:48. | :18:03. | |
that. Better warnings are provided. Does the honourable gentleman share | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
with me concerned about flood insurance being available to small | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
businesses in particular and other businesses, because they are vital | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
to the economy in our local area, and the new government scheme which | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
will exclude small businesses from the flood insurance scheme the | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
government is proposing? Diana Johnson they're talking about | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
flooding. We will continue to follow that story. | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Thanks to everyone who got in touch about the fall in unemployment. The | :18:34. | :18:51. | |
Government says thousands more people are in work in the Yorkshire | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
and Humber region and in the East Midlands, which includes | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Lincolnshire. The minister for Employment told Look North she | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
believed there were opportunities to help unemployed people back into | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
work locally. They shouldn't have to leave their area. Employment has | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
gone up. There are opportunities. There is work across the spectrum of | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
jobs, IT, leisure, retail. Apprenticeships has gone up. This | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
started the debate. We were also talking to one of our MPs. | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Lots of responses on this one, many disputing the figures. | :19:29. | :20:13. | |
Teaching staff what's up this morning in a dispute over pay. It is | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
the third time they have taken industrial action in the past | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
formance. Trade union say members have had to strike because staff | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
have only been offered a 1% pay rise. We want something reasonable, | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
something more in line with inflation and taking into | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
consideration some catch up for the reduction over the past four years. | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
The Queen has been visiting her local branch of the Women Institute | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
in North Norfolk this afternoon. Her Majesty is the President of | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
Sandringham W`I and likes to attend their January meeting while she's on | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
her Christmas break in the county. The Queen has been a member of the | :20:56. | :21:17. | |
Women's Institute since 1943. She is a pilot on Lincolnshire are | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
featuring in a new film at the Science Museum in London showing | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
visitors what it is like to fly a typhoon. `` pilots from | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
Lincolnshire. It was shot last summer. I would love to see that. | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Hull City have signed right`back Elliot Kebbie until the end of the | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
season. Hull boxer Luke Campbell is hoping | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
to fill Hull Arena again when he fights his fifth professional | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
contest next month. Luke tops a bill which includes fellow East Yorkshire | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
fighters Tommy Coyle and Curtis Woodhouse. | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
He's the golden boy with the magic gloves and life has been good to | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
Luke Campbell since the Olympic Games. In four professional fights | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
so far opponents have come and they have invariably fallen. Next up, | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
26`year`old Norwich fighter Scott Moises ` will he go the way of the | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
rest? I trying to put a great performance on. People come back and | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
watch again. The bout in Hull also sees the farewell of | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
footballer`turned`boxer Curtis Woodhouse. But the Driffield | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
destroyer could bow out with a British title at Light Welterweight | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
against Darren Hamilton. I am really excited about it. 28 fights. I aim | :22:36. | :22:48. | |
to go out as a champion. We are delighted to be back in Hull. It is | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
becoming our most popular visit to `` our most popular city to visit. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Starved of top boxing for years, Hull's become a new centre for the | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
professional ranks led by golden gloves Luke. We will see fee can win | :23:06. | :23:13. | |
that fight. It is on February the 22nd. Hull City have signed | :23:14. | :23:25. | |
right`back Elliot Kebbie until the end of the season. The 27`year`old | :23:26. | :23:42. | |
joined the Tigers in 2012. Lincolnshire will have its first | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
representative of the Winter Paralympics. J Hetherington, seen | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
carrying the Olympic torch, so is one of the visually impaired skiers. | :23:49. | :23:58. | |
The games begin in March. Pupils at a school in Goole are | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
building a full sized, fully operational aeroplane. When it's | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
finished, it'll be used to teach young people in East Yorkshire how | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
to fly. Sarah Walton has been to see how they're getting on. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
It's not your average class project. Goole High is one of just four | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
schools across the country taking part in a plane building project, | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
led by a former RAF pilots. We are all getting older. We have got a | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
generation gap. We need to get engineers in now to replace as old | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
folk that are retiring soon. This is what the planes will look like. When | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
it is done, it will teach people in East Yorkshire how to five. | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
Biplanes were championed by the Wright Brothers in the early 1900s. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
And by the First World War, they were being used by the RAF. But with | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
the development of faster planes they gradually fell out of use. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
These pupils are bringing them back. The plane comes in a kit. This is | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
part of the few is a large. This is part of the wing. Pupils are having | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
to learn specialist skills. We put it on the plane then put it | :25:21. | :25:30. | |
together. I come every Monday and Saturday is on Thursdays if I can | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
make it, but I can't always make it. It is a good opportunity to come | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
and do engineering stuff. They are making something that will | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
contribute to the community. It is an important thing for them to | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
develop as they get older. Do you trust them? Would you go in it? I | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
have said I will do. They are still raising the money needed to make the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
plane. They hope to have it in the air by the end of that year. | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
That is great. Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines. | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
NHS waiting times are branded unreliable ` the National Audit | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
Office says delays are not being recorded properly. | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
An inquest is told there were 19 missed chances to spot a fault which | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
could have prevented the death of a Red Arrows pilot. | :26:21. | :26:35. | |
We were talking about whether people who live in rural areas should get a | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
reduction in the cost of fuel. Phil says, you choose to live in the | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
countryside, nobody makes you, the government should cut fuel prices | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
for everyone, not the favoured few. Ian says, I don't know where people | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
get the idea that people in the countryside are wealthy, we cannot | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
all live in towns and cities, I live in a large village but I have to | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
travel to work the same as 90% of the people who live there. Another | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
one saying, people choose to live in the countryside, why should they get | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
a cut? I can't afford to live in the countryside. Sean says, it would be | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
really helpful as we have to drive further distances to get to decent | :27:19. | :27:27. | |
shops. Finally, Pete Jones says, no, there should be no cuts. Those | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
others who live in and cities have to drive, but nobody ever talks | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
about giving his money. If you don't like it, move. Thank you for | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
watching. Join me for the radio if you can. Have a nice evening. Good | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
night. | :27:46. | :27:48. |