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sunshine and showers continuing. And that is all from the BBC News at | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
six. It Good evening and welcome to BBC Look | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
North. The headlines tonight: Faster journey times ` MPs say a major rail | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
line in East Yorkshire will be electrified. They assured us that | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
the line would be electrified. Poor exam results ` now an academy | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
school in Lincolnshire is to be handed back to the government. I | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
think this will create a huge amount of instability in the community and | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
a great deal of concern about whether or not their children are | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
getting the education they deserve. A deal is signed for RAF Scampton | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
that could bring jobs and hundreds of thousands of visitors. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
A game away from Wembley ` Hull City are through to the FA Cup quarter | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
finals. And it has been another mile day, | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
temperatures in double figures. Join me for that, coming up shortly. | :00:58. | :01:08. | |
Good evening. The government is backing plans to upgrade the railway | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
line through East Yorkshire to Hull to allow faster, more reliable | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
electric trains on the route. A group of business leaders and | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
politicians met with the transport secretary in London today to put the | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
case forward. Now that the backing of ministers has been secured it is | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
seen as vital that work starts next year so it can be finished by 2017 | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
when Hull becomes City of Culture. Emma Massey reports. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
They're noisy, inefficient and slow. All the trains which service Hull | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
are diesel. In comparison, the rail industry says electrification is | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
cleaner and greener but, most importantly, faster. That's why this | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
delegation is pushing for electrification and today went to | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
see the Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin. He assured us that the | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
line would be electrified, that there is an unanswerable case both | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
in terms of cross Pennine, as well as from Hull to London. So that will | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
happen. What we are seeing is it needs to happen now, it needs to be | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
approved this year so work can commence next year, and it can be | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
finished by 2017. We have got a bankrupt economy and the Humber | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
area. We have got a lot happening in the next three or four years, we | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
want rail to be a part of that, we want as many people in the region as | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
possible. Work is underway to electrified the trans`Pennine route. | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
From Liverpool to Manchester to Leeds. But with no plans to go | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
further than Selby ` today's proposal from first hull trains | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
would see overheard line equipment added to the route between there and | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
Hull opening the city up to the rest of the UK's high`speed network. It | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
would be very ambitious and perhaps unlikely for the work to be ready in | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
time for 2017. The year that how a city of culture. `` Hull is city of | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
culture. But those behind The City of Culture | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
say that needs to be the aim. We anticipate something like an | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
additional 12 million visitors to the city. Good, 21st`century, | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
efficient rail links are an urgent necessity. We need them, we need | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
them by the end of 2016 to be up and running. Rail passengers who | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
regularly use services out of Hull say they feel left behind but are | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
concerned about the potential disruption. I think it is | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
outrageous. I think it would make a tremendous difference to the | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
regeneration of the region if they could improve the travelling | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
infrastructure of roads and railways. Very behind with things, | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
obviously. Trains need to be faster, the railway network needs to be | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
better at this end. And it's promised there'll be minimal | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
disruption to current services when the work goes ahead. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Emma is live in Hull tonight. There is a lot of support for these plans, | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
why is it so crucial the work is finished by 2017? | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Well, Peter, there are two main ways to get into Hull, by rail and by | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
this road, the A63. It is very busy. The Transport Secretary Patrick | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
McLaughlin came here last year and was told an upgrade of the A63 was | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
vital for economic growth. Since then a ?160 million upgrade has been | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
given the go ahead. But that will not happen until 2017, which is the | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
year Hull becomes City of Culture. So getting these overhead lines is | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
more important than ever. Those behind it say that faster rail | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
journeys could be only way to ensure easy travel into the city, which is | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
to attract more visitors. Patrick McLoughlin has told Look North he | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
had a constructive meeting without local MPS and councillors today. `` | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
with local MPs and councillors today. He says his officials are now | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
working with the operator and wider industry to explore the possibility | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
of a more detailed study into the scheme. Thank you very much indeed. | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
Some good news, we will continue to follow that story. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
In a moment: Our World War One At Home series continues, with a | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
special look at the battalion known as the Grimsby Chums. | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
Control of a Lincolnshire school could be removed from the Academy | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
chain that runs it after serious concerns were raised over its | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
education standards. Ofsted inspectors say only 36% of pupils at | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the Trent Valley Academy in Gainsborough got five good GCSEs | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
there last year, well below the national average. Now E`Act, the | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
academy chain that runs it, is being urged by the government to hand over | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
control of Trent Valley and nine others across the country. Sarah | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
Corker has this report. They are flagship government policy, | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
academies publicly funded but outside of local council control. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
One of the country's biggest Academy chains is to be stripped of control | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
of ten schools because of poor performance. One of them is Trent | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
Valley Academy in Gainsborough. Something of a surprise to some | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
parents here. It is quite shocking. Just wondering what is going to... | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
How it is going to affect every child. Haven't had any concerns with | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
my granddaughter at all. It is up and down all the time. As a year | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
seven, he has had to put up with a lot of things. E`Act today said its | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
pupils, parents and staff deserve strong support and leadership. It | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
will now focus on where that can be provided. That focus will not be | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
here. Educational standards have been so low the Academy must now | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
find a new sponsor. Schools are not being run properly. There are | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
questions about the bodies, the trusts that are running the schools. | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
There has been a previous investigation into E`Act. The | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
Academy was rated inadequate by Ofsted last year. Only 36% of | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
students achieved five good GCSEs, significantly below the national | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
average. Attendance is also below the average. Across east Yorkshire | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
and Lincolnshire, seven academies are among the 100 worst performing | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
schools in the country for GCSEs. Today, the Education Secretary said | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
it was vital Academy chains be held to account. We need to make sure | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
that when underperformance shows, we take the action required in order to | :07:28. | :07:36. | |
improve education. This man is a Lincolnshire County Council and | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
taught at the Academy until he was made redundant. It is utterly | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
unacceptable, and the community of Gainsborough will be upset about | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
that. It has had a negative effect on the standards of education in our | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
area. Pupils and parents have been reassured that standards are | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
improving. I spoke to Alistair Smith from the | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
anti`academies Alliance, and asked why his group is so against | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
academies. We are not against academies per se, we are against | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Academy chains. There are real aim is to make profits out of education. | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
`` their real aim. Shouldn't we welcome a dressing underperformance? | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
I am very concerned that the Department of Education has had to | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
take ten schools of the chain. Having not had their eye on this | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
problem already? It beggars belief that a chain with 40 schools, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
suddenly ten of them are found to be wanting and the chain cannot cope | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
with it. This is good for E`Act, they can focus on raising standards | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
in the remaining academies? Then the education doesn't suffer? It may be | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
good in that sense, but E`Act have too many schools and they cannot | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
cope. But are they good enough? We were told that Academy chains would | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
run schools better than local authorities. This has now been | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
disproved. There are plenty of poor performing schools and local | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
authorities plodding on without the luxury of someone knew coming into | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
back then? There are schools and local authorities that have been | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
failing, but local authorities do not walk away. They are | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
democratically accountable, and when a school goes into special measures | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
the local authority has decided out. Academy chains just drop their hands | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
and walk away. `` throw up their hands and walk away. We will have | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
hundreds of schools down the road who will not have anybody to help | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
them. Thank you very much indeed. We would like to know what you think | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
about this one. Maybe you go to an academy, or your child does. Your | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
thoughts on this one, if you want to be in touch, the e`mail address: | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
Follow me on Twitter, if you want to tweet. And also the text number. | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
Start the texts with the words programme Mac `` Look North. Maybe | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
your child goes to the Academy concerned. Look forward to hearing | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
from you. Some more news now. Plans for 6,000 houses on the | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
outskirts of Scunthorpe have been put on hold. North Lincolnshire | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Council have taken a decision to delay consultation on the | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
Lincolnshire Lakes scheme while they discuss flood risks. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
The Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner is calling for a total | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
ban on street drinking in North East Lincolnshire. Matthew Grove says | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
there is a "significant problem" with people drinking alcohol in | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
public in the area. North East Lincolnshire Council will consult on | :10:42. | :10:49. | |
the matter. Lots of things are very difficult to police. The current | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
proposal to ban smoking in cars, where there is a child, is almost | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
impossible to police. That is not necessarily a reason not to | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
introduce it. We want the police to use discretion in this, and use it | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
as a tool in the box. If you're taking a bottle of wine in a picnic | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
basket down to the local park, fine. If you're taking 48 cans of beer to | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
cause a problem, then you've got an issue. | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
You might have a view on this story as well, the email and text details | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
are the screen now if you want to be in touch. | :11:26. | :11:27. | |
Thanks to everyone who got in touch about the new series of Channel 4's | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
Skint, which follows people who are out of work, and is due to start | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
filming in Grimsby. We talk about it last night on the programme. Thanks | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
to everyone who got in touch. Abi in Cleethorpes sent this by text: | :11:41. | :11:52. | |
thank you very much indeed for that one. One of the major roads through | :11:53. | :12:23. | |
east Yorkshire remains close this evening after a serious accident. | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Humberside police say that two vehicles were involved in the | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
collision on the A1079. One person has been taken to hospital by air | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
ambulance. It is not known when the road will reopen. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
Lincolnshire has some of the strongest links with the RAF | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
anywhere in the country and now a new heritage centre at Scampton has | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
moved a step closer today. The Royal Air Force Museum near London and | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
Lincolnshire County Council have signed a deal which will see them | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
work together to build the visitor attraction. If it goes ahead it | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
could create 100 jobs, and bring 200,000 tourists a year to the | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
county. Jake Zuckerman has been to the RAF museum and sent this report. | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
With exhibits spanning the history of flight, the RAF Museum in North | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
London is a mecca for aviation enthusiasts. And today's visitors | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
included a group from Lincolnshire County Council here to sign a | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
cooperation agreement. It is the first step in a process that could | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
transform RAF Scampton, the Red Arrows' Lincolnshire base, into a | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
major tourist destination with a multi`million pound heritage centre | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
looking something like this. I think it could be hugely important. In | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
2018 it is the 100th anniversary of the RAF, we are determined | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Lincolnshire plays a central part in the celebration. And we believe that | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
alongside the castle and the Cathedral, we will then have three | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
world`class attractions that will bring people from all over the world | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
to Lincolnshire. That is all still a long way off, today's agreement is | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
about building the links that will allow Lincolnshire County Council | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
to: The expertise of the RAF Museum. We are very keen to loan or | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
artefacts, we have a significant amount of aircraft, but it is | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
important that we allow everyone across the country to share in those | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
stories. If we are able to loan aircraft, we already loan is craft | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
`` artefacts to Scampton. Aviation tourism is already worth more than | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
?4 million a year to Lincolnshire's economy. Attracting thousands of | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
visitors. The county council estimates that a visitor centre at | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Scampton could add another 200,000 visitors to that number. With dozens | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
of historic aircraft on display, the RAF Museum attracts millions of | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
visitors a year, putting it in a unique position to be able to help | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Lincolnshire achieve its own ambitions. Great news, let's hope we | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
get the centre at Scampton. Thank you for watching this Tuesday night. | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Still ahead tonight: Closing in on Wembley ` Hull City are through to | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
the FA Cup quarter finals. Why can it not be us? We haven't belief that | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
it can be as us `` we have a belief that we can do it. | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
Keep your pictures coming in. Thank you very much indeed for this one, | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
another picture tomorrow night around about the same time. | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
We've made the news ourselves today, If you were watching Look North | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
yesterday lunchtime you might have seen this happen during one of our | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
reports. A fault with a camera gave the impression that Caroline | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Bilton's chair was collapsing. It's all now been fixed. So far the clip | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
has been viewed more than 400,000 times on YouTube. Caroline is | :15:56. | :16:07. | |
starting out we salute her. `` is a star tonight. | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
You are on your own, sunshine. The headline for the next 24 hours | :16:13. | :16:33. | |
is a mild one, it looks as though it is going to be bright with variable | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
cloud and some sunny intervals. Showers across more northern parts | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
for a time, but basically it is not looking too bad. This weather front | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
will bring more rain in from the west tomorrow night, that should be | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
clear first light Thursday morning. We had unexpected rain late this | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
morning, heavy bursts across parts of Lincolnshire. That works into the | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
North Sea, and the afternoon has been pleasant. Temperatures, 10 | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Celsius at Waddington, 50 Fahrenheit. Showers bushing and from | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
the West tonight, overnight it is try. If you have got shelter from | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
the wind, there is a chance of a touch of ground frost ruefully `` | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
rue relief. The Sun will rise in the morning, at 6:57am, your next high | :17:24. | :17:33. | |
water time. It is not a bad day, the emphasis on a fine and bright spell | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
of weather. Just for a time there is a risk of a few showers bushing into | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
East Yorkshire. Most places will be dry with some sunshine, at another | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
mild one for the time of year, the average is seven or eight degrees. | :17:53. | :18:00. | |
50 Fahrenheit, well above average. More rain expected on Wednesday | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
night, it might be around first thing Thursday morning, at around | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
breakfast time it clears up, sunshine with a few showers, and it | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
looks unsettled and quite showery on Friday. Into the first weekend of | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
March. That is the forecast. So many people ask me, is your mate with | :18:19. | :18:28. | |
you? I absolutely do not. Knock that on the head straightaway. See you | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
tomorrow. World War One claimed the lives of | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
millions of soldiers, and the impact on their home towns and villages was | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
devastating. Many had joined up with their friends and colleagues in what | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
became known as "pals battalions". Tonight, as we continue with the | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
BBC's World War One at Home series we look at one of those battalions | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
which was known as the Grimsby Chums. Jo Makel tells their story. | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
When war was declared Britain only had a small army. Lord Kitchener, | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
the Secretary of War, cold for 100,000 men to join up. It was the | :19:04. | :19:14. | |
birth of the pals battalions. `` called for 100,000 men to join up. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
Kitchener's trump card was the fact that he promised that if you joined | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
up together, you would serve together. People who worked | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
alongside each other on the docks in Grimsby joined up together. Charlie | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
had been doing voluntary work, and it is a tragic thing, he was such a | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
good leader, most youngsters joined up with him. This rare footage shows | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
the men of the 10th Battalion of the Lincolnshire regiment. The Grimsby | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
Chums. They trained initially on the Brocklesby estate using make do | :19:47. | :19:53. | |
uniforms from the post office. They were quite interested in having a | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
challenge, doing their bit, as it were. Nobody had a clue what they | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
were getting into. Richard's uncle Charles was in his early 20s and | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
became a captain. He still has his will, written in the last hours | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
before leaving for France in January 1916. We are going through a | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
terrible strife, and I hope to be one of the ones to return. If it is | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
not God 's will that I returned to you all, you will know I have tried | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
to do my duty as a man. Over the next six months they they | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
experienced real life in the trenches. Charles wrote in June: so | :20:29. | :20:35. | |
much rain in the trenches and everything is so wet. If I pull out | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
all right, I hope to have a company, which my ambition. It was to be his | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
last letter. The Allies were trying to break through enemy lines spent | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
days bombarding the Germans with artillery fire. On July first at | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
7.30am the Chums were among a line of infantrymen who went over the | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
top. But the deep German trenches were largely untouched. The German | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
machine gunners came out of the dugouts, troops like the Chums, they | :21:09. | :21:20. | |
were an easy target. Leading men across and encouraging them to their | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
own deaths must have been a horrific situation. When he was | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
machine`gunned, lying there are wounded, in mud and filth and | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
things, he must have wondered, what have I done? About 840 Chums went | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
over the top that day. Around half were killed or injured. But Peter | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
Stele has in the past spoken to some of those who survived. They said | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
things like, well, you just did it because you did not want to let your | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
mates down. They were going over the top and you wanted to be with them. | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
Charles Bellamy is remembered with his fellow soldiers in Grimsby | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
Minster. They all joined up together and they were all killed together, | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
it wiped out a whole echelon of society, and in a small place like | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
Grimsby, it must have been absolutely devastating. All the | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
young men of that generation just wiped out. The "pals" experiment was | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
not repeated. The suffering in tight communities like Grimsby was too | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
much to bear. And if you want to hear more about | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
the untold stories from the Home Front then go to the BBC website | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
where you'll be able to discover more World War One history from | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
across the UK. We are looking for people to have | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
their say about what we do here at Look North by joining our audience | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
panel. The group meets three times a year, some paid although you would | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
receive expenses `` it is unpaid. Visit the website for details. You | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
need to do it by March the 7th. We look forward to hearing from you. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
Scunthorpe United could go top of League Two if they continue their 16 | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
match unbeaten run tonight. The Iron are second on goal difference to | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Chesterfield and take on Bristol Rovers at Glanford park this | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
evening. This side are yet to lose since manager Russ Wilcox took over | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
in November. Grimsby Town will try to move closer | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
to the Conference play off places when they take on Southport tonight. | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
The Mariners have a number of games in hand on their promotion rivals | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
after their FA Trophy campaign. They're currently eighth and have | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
won once in their last six league matches. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
And both those games will be on BBC Radio Humberside tonight | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
Scunthorpe's match at home to Bristol Rovers is on FM, the build | :23:39. | :23:53. | |
up is on air now in Sportstalk. Hull City are just one game away | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
from a trip to Wembley after reaching the quarterfinals of the FA | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Cup for just the sixth time in their history. They'll meet Premier League | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
rivals Sunderland on March ninth ` a team the club has beaten twice this | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
season already. Our sports reporter Simon Clark has the story of Hull | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
City's progress. The Tigers are just minutes from a | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
second trip to Wembley. Last night against Brighton Hove Albion the | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
club asserted its superiority against Championship opponents in | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
the FA Cup with Curtis Davies squeezing home the first. Robert | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Koren was then credited with a second though it was far from clear | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
cut. The men in amber and black were cruising through when Leo Ulloja | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
reminded them they were in a cup tie but they held on to win. I thought, | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
shall I get a ticket or shall I watch it in the comfort? And I | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
thought, I have got to be there. And after Saturday, it was the best | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
decision I made. The second half, they were quite poor. But we are in | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
the quarterfinals. Thought it was absolutely excellent. We have got a | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
chance, we are in the last eight, we are a Premier League team. We are a | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
threat to anybody. It's only Hull City's sixth visit to the quarter | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
final of the cup. This was their third time ` a replay at Boothferry | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
park against Chelsea. Chelsea scraped through. Ken Wagstaff played | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
on that day in 1966 and again in the quarter final in 1971 against Stoke. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Baby`sitting his grandson, Waggy says today's team have to seize the | :25:10. | :25:18. | |
day against Sunderland. You're playing in the sixth round, not far | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
from Wembley, it is really exciting for the supporters. The supporters | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
get behind you, and I just want them to go for the supporters, really. | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
What a great opportunity for Hull City in this competition, a | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
competition that has not been kind to them over the years. If they can | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
beat Sunderland, it is a date at Wembley Stadium, and the semifinals. | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
One game away, fantastic news for Hull City. We will continue to | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
follow their success. It is five minutes to seven, let's get a recap | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
of the national and regional headlines: a suspected IRA terrorist | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
accused of murdering four British soldiers in London will not stand | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
trial because of what is being called a reckless police error. | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Faster journey times ` MPs say a major rail line in East Yorkshire | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
will be electrified. Tomorrow's weather, bright and breezy with some | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
cloud and sunny intervals. A few showers as well, many places staying | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
dry. Mild in the afternoon, getting up to around 10 Celsius. | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
We were talking about academies and the Trent Valley Academy a few | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
minutes ago. A big response on this. I am a student at the Trent Valley | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
Academy, and there is poor quality teachers. Since we started back in | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
September, we have had four different timetables, they have | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
stopped activities week and work experience. I am not happy with the | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
quality of education at the Trent Valley Academy. That is from a | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
student there. Karen says, I have two children attend the Trent Valley | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
Academy, one of whom left last year with good exam results. During both | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
my daughters' time there, they were extremely happy, and the staff go | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
above and beyond the cold duty to assist. As a parent, I could not | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
praise and thank the staff enough. And Angelina, a retired teacher | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
says, of course the results are below the national average. The top | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
candidates go to grammar schools. And another person says, it is a | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
no`brainer. It has to compete with the Gainsborough high school, which | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
creams off the more academic students. Blame it partly on | :27:37. | :27:44. | |
selection. Join me if you can on the radio tomorrow lunchtime. Have a | :27:45. | :27:45. | |
nice evening. Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:49. |