19/03/2014 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel, but now on BBC

One, it's time for the Good evening. The Chancellor, George

Osborne, says his Budget will benefit you if you are a maker, a

doer or a saver. Some big btsinesses in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire

are welcoming a freeze in the pollution tax on their energy bills.

One union leader says it cotld help secure the future of steel laking in

Scunthorpe. Paul Lead reports. The Scunthorpe Steel Works, the town's

biggest employer and a big tser of energy. It means they creatd a lot

of polluting carbon, so this from the Chancellor was welcome. I am

capping the carbon price support rate at ?18 per tonne. It's a very

welcome measure. We are ple`sed that the Government appear to have

finally listened to our representations and that of

industry. We do have a concdrn however that it could be sedn as too

little too late. This East Xorkshire caravan maker also largely welcomed

the Budget. Around four in ten UK caravans are made here at Swift in

Cottingham. But that freeze on taxing highly polluting forls of

energy is causing concern for environmentalists and green energy

businesses on the Humber. It does affect green energy on the Humber,

in that this Government has increasingly taken a more and more

sceptical view of renewable and it has actually sort of put a lot of

pressure on our sector to control costs and that's what they're doing

with the carbon freeze, controlling costs on manufacturing. So ht does

put pressure on. I think thd renewable energy industry as a whole

and offshore wind in partictlar really does have to focus on how it

can actually deliver energy value. In a range of other announcdments,

our local air ambulances and rescue boats like the Humber rescud and

Hornsey rescue will no longdr have to pay VAT on their fuel. Bhngo

halls on the east coast got their wish, tax on their earnings falling

from 20% to 10% after a campaign. There was a grant to the Magna Carta

Trust to support the 800th anniversary of the signing of the

document next year. Lincoln is home to one of only four surviving copies

of the Magna Carta. And for savers, a tripling to ?15,000 a year savings

exempt from tax in a new IS@. On Hull's Osborne Street, this

reaction. I am a GP and most of my patients are probably no more than

15,000. They're not going to benefit from this at all. I ain't got 'owt

to start with, they took it all away already. I'm retired. I havd a fixed

income, so, no, it's not re`lly going to affect me. Our Polhtical

Editor Tim Iredale is in Westminster. What are our local MPs

saying about the Budget? Well some of the measures announced in the

Budget haven't led to a gre`t deal amount of party political

disagreement. Such as the announcements on pensions and

savings and beer duty and bhngo tax. If you think our MPs will stop

scrabbling `` squabbling thdn think again. Labour MPs have launched on

attack what that say is a f`ilure to deal with the cost`of`living crisis

The fact you can now put 15,000 in an ISA, I don't know anyone in my

circle of friends who have got 15,000 quid stashed under the bed,

waiting desperately to stick it into a savings plan. It is about jobs. We

need good quality jobs. People in Hull East are ?1,600 a year worse

off as a result of this Torx Government's policies. . Thd

Government has denied the accusation that they haven't done enough to

help hard`working family. The planning minister and Grantham MP

told BBC Look North that people in Lincolnshire are better off than

they were under Labour If the Labour Government had continued in office,

fuel duty would now be 20 pdnce per litre higher than it is now, because

we have frozen it for sever`l years. In Lincolnshire, we have got a

Council Tax freeze now happdning I think for the fourth or fifth year

in a row. . One measure that was not announced in the Budget which many

MPs hoped for is the confirlation this the Hull to Selby railway line

will be electrified in time for the City of Culture celebration. We have

told the Chancellor hadn't for got about it but there will be `n update

tomorrow. This could happen, the electrification of hull toll Selby

rail link, if the Chancellor hasn't spent all his money on beer and

bingo! Thank you. Research by the BBC has found some supermarket fish

` much of which is processed in Grimsby ` has failed qualitx tests.

The Rip off Britain programle tested fish at major supermarkets `nd

concluded nearly half of it shouldn't be on sale. Amand` White

reports. Sea fresh and sold at Grimsby state`of`the`art fish

market, but how fresh is it when it gets to the supermarket? We asked

people in Hull. At a superm`rket? Well over a week. A couple of days.

Three, four days maybe. BBC current affairs programme Rip Off Britain

decided to investigate. Samples from four supermarkets were testdd by

fish quality expert, Richard Chivers. Bland. There was a little

bit of off odour there. It hs neutral. Yeah, there's something not

nice there. Sorry, it's off. Five of the 12 samples were deemed

unsuitable for sale. ASDA s`id: Sainsbury's, whose scores wdre

acceptable said: If it is coming from Iceland, or

it's coming from Norway, it takes six days on a boat, it will then

spend two days in our fish processing plant in Grimsby and then

it will go to store from thdre. Fish will survive packed on ice for 1

days and can still be eaten after that. We aim to get ours to plate

much quicker than that, less than half that time. Hull fishmonger Paul

Simpson buys his fish at thd same market as the supermarkets, but can

have it on sale just two hotrs later. The perfect cod filldt.

That's what you need to be looking at. It's glistening, it looks fresh,

there is no dullness to it whatsoever. Not surprisinglx, Paul

believes fresh fish is one larket in which the supermarkets just can t

compete. Let's take a look `t the weather with Paul Hudson. Hdllo

well tomorrow will be fine hn the morning, but rain will spre`d from

the west later. For most, mtch of tomorrow will be fine. But this cold

front will bring rain towards the commute tomorrow afternoon. So it is

fine at the moment. It is whndy especially in parts of east

Yorkshire. Temperatures arotnd seven Celsius. Tomorrow morning is bright

with some good spells of sunshine. Through the afternoon clouds will

increase and from mid to late afternoon we will see rain spreading

from the west. But warm across south eastern parts around 15 degrees

around The Wash. That's all from the late team. Look North is back

tomorrow from 6.25. Hope yot can join us then. Bye for now.

night it will be heavy in places. This is the outlook: Bright enough

for Friday and the weekend but much colder and some of the showers could

have a wintry nature. Cloud coming in from the Atlantic.

When it moves through we will get cooler conditions with lively

showers. But mild overnight cooler conditions with lively

south-westerly breeze dragging cloud across England and Wales. As you can

see the heaviest rain and strongest winds overnight are confined to

Scotland and northern Ireland. Wet and windy here but it is an mild

night with the cloud cover and breeze. But, a miserable start