29/03/2014 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Hello, welcome to Look North. The first marriage in Hull between a

couple of the same sex has been held this afternoon, after a change in

the law came into force at lidnight. Sammy Spence and Jenna Middleton

planned their wedding to cohncide with the new law, a move whhch has

already been repeated by hundreds of couples across England and Wales.

Jill Archbold reports. Every wedding needs a photographer `

but there were a few extra `t this one in Hull. Now declare th`t you

are a wife and wife. Sammy Spence and Jenna Middleton became the first

same sex couple to marry legally in the city ` and were both left lost

for words... You can't put ht in words. Fantastic. It finallx

happens. Five years. That's it really. It's five years to the day

since the pair started their relationship ` and change in law

meant their plans for a civ`l partnership could become a wedding `

which they would share with hundreds of same sex couples across the

country. Even everywhere ard several partners, it wouldn't have lattered

but now it is official, it hs one of the best feelings. We never really

thought it would happen. Falily and friends could turn up, everxbody.

Obviously it was going to bd civil partners and men we found ott it was

going to be managed, we still can't believe that ourselves. It's

unlikely confetti will be thrown for gay couples outside religiots

settings ` no organisations in East Yorkshire or Lincolnshire h`ve

applied to hold ceremonies, but staff at the Guildhall were proud to

host their first. The coupld today were really happy, they are very

much in love and it was nicd to be part of their day and do thd

official duties for them. And from the doors of one of the

city's most historic building ` the couple whose now shared namd has

made history in Hull. Firefighters have held a protest

march and rally in Hull over a cut of more than ?2 million frol the

service. East Hull Fire Station will lose one fire engine and each fire

engine will have four firefhghters, instead of five. The chief fire

officer says the public will kept safe, but the Fire Brigades Union

says the changes are risky. Taking that individual of the applhance,

there are few circumstances which will allow a firefighter to enter a

burning building. We will sde five engines having to wait for `nother

pump to come and attend so xou see the significance of losing the pump

and dropping from five to four across the city.

One of the darkest days for Lincolnshire bomber crews in World

War Two is being marked. Tolorrow is the seventieth anniversary of the

Nuremberg raids in which Brhtain lost 94 planes and 537 airmdn. 9

squadrons from 16 Lincolnshhre bases were part of the raid. This evening

a remembrance event is being held at the East Kirkby aviation centre

which was set up by the sons of one of the men who died that night, in

memory of their father. A group of dancers and actors

performed in Hull this mornhng to promote the start of the wedk`long

Hull and East Yorkshire Festival of Tourism. They did three seaside

themed dances in city centrd locations in a style known `s

flash`mob ` where members of the public are taken by surprisd by an

apparently impromptu perforlance. Now for the football.

A draw for Scunthorpe United, says their manager, Russ Wilcox, breaks a

125`year`old record for a ndw manager at a club ` by going 24

games unbeaten. Today Scunthorpe drew 0`0 with struggling Wycombe

Wanderers, leaving them firlly in the league two promotion pl`ces

Hull City lost one`nil away at Stoke, pushing them down to 14th

place in the Premier League. In the conference.

Grimsby won 1`nil on their trip to Hereford.

Lincoln had a goalless draw away at Tamworth.

Now the weather forecast with Jennifer Bartram.

Good evening. The clocks spring forward an hour tonight. Spring is

certainly in the air this evening and into tomorrow. A drying cloudy

night in store for all of us. and into tomorrow. A drying cloudy

night in store for all of It has been a decent D and we have had

plenty of sunshine. Cloud whll start to build and we could icy p`tches of

mist and fog by tomorrow morning. It will be a mild night. We do have

some patches of mist and fog initially. They will lift and we

will have easy sunshine. More Cloud tomorrow, but temperatures `re still

decent. Another decent day for East Yorkshire as well, perhaps ` little

cooler. Goodbye for now. Good evening. We achieved 20 degrees

in the sunshine today but, in contrast, under the cloud in

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