08/04/2014 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

That's all from us. A first look at the papers on the BBC news channel.

Now Good evening. Campaigners who are

fighting to save more than 30 libraries across Lincolnshire have

been to Downing Street, dem`nding the government stops the proposed

closures. Lincolnshire County Council wants community grotps to

take over the running of many libraries to save ?2 million. But

some library users say that's not good enough and today took their

fight to Westminster. More from our political editor Tim Iredald.

A special delivery to the most famous front door in the cotntry.

This book handed in to Downhng Street today contains some of the

signatures from a petition `imed at saving Lincolnshire's threatened

libraries. Please ensure th`t libraries can stay open across our

country, so that people can self educate them so people can dnjoy

reading for leisure, so people can access Internet technology `nd

basically make full use of `ll that a library has to offer. Simon

Draper, who's a full`time c`rer to his wife Timber, has secured a

judicial review at the High Court to try to overturn the decision to

close libraries across the county. The higher you go, the more you need

a computer and these kids nded the computers and the computers are

libraries. We need the libr`ries to stay open for the kids. Thex can't

learn everything at home. In June last year Lincolnshire County

Council said it would be reviewing how library services were rtn in an

effort to save ?2 million from its budget. Three months later ` and

20,000 people had signed a petition against closing libraries as a

public consultation came to an end. The council revealed in Novdmber

that 25 of the 30 libraries could be saved if volunteers came forward to

run them. Campaigners said they would go to the High Court to

challenge the decision to ehther closed or asked volunteers to run

the service. We had an extensive consultation and we listened and

came to a decision. It is ilportant now not only for the staff who are

affected but all the communhties who are trying to develop these

community libraries that we move forward, so everybody knows where

they stand. The government says there have been many examplds of

volunteers successfully takhng over the running of local librarhes, but

the word from Downing Street tonight is that it remains a matter for

Lincolnshire County Council. Tim joins us from London. What are

the chances of the campaigndrs having any success here? Well, much

depends on the judicial revhew, which is due to take place hn June

or July. A judge must decidd whether Lincolnshire County Council acted

unlawfully in the way it cale to the decision about scaling back on its

library services. The authority says it has figures showing the number of

people using libraries in the county has dramatically declined in recent

years. Just 18%, fewer than one in five people, we are told, use

Lincolnshire's libraries on a regular basis. Add to that

government figures showing there has been a huge increase in the

volunteers in areas where councils have pulled out of running

libraries. But there is a htge emotional argument attached to the

library debate and it will be a big test of some in Westminster Hall the

big society. The rate of unemployment among young

people in Hull and Grimsby hs one of the highest in the country,

according the a report from the Work Foundation. It claims the 2012

census shows more than a qu`rter of young people in the two are`s who

are not in education are undmployed. The research organisation h`s called

on the government to do mord to help. The Department for Work and

Pensions says the number of young people claiming benefits has fallen

in the last two years. I asked the report's author, Lizzie Crowley

whether these figures showed us anything new.

Well, I mean it does reveal quite a familiar pattern of labour larket

disadvantage, so as you mention cities ` quite often cities in the

North ` cities like Hull, are shown to have very high levels of youth

unemployment. What we are stggesting is a whole range of policy

recommendations that local `reas can use to hopefully start to t`ckle

this problem. So what kind of recommendations are you suggesting?

We suggesting in the report that local authorities can be tasked with

setting up youth transition partnerships. These partnerships

would essentially bring togdther a whole range of agencies at ` local

level to map out and coordinate the employment and training

opportunities, work experience placements and so on for yotng

people. The thing is that the government says the number of

16`24`year`olds claiming job`seekers benefits in Hull has fallen by a

quarter since 2012 and in Grimsby it's fallen by a third, so doesn't

that suggest the government is actually doing something about this?

Jobseeker's allowance figurds only suggest a very small part of the

picture. Only three quarters of young men actually claim jobseeker's

allowance and that falls to around 50% for young women. So yes, we have

seen a reduction, but we should not ignore that this crisis is certainly

not over. Is it helpful using figures and using data that is two

years old? Our data is a colbined number of measures because small

area data is really quite dhfficult to come by, so we've had to combine

a number of ways of the survey to get a robust enough sample to say

something about these local areas. Thank you for joining us thhs

evening. Thank you. Work to build a wind farm off the

East Yorkshire coast will continue in spite of complaints about

excessive noise at night. Pdople living in Withernsea say thdy're

being woken by the noise, and called for a halt to the work by DONG

Energy. The Marine Management Organisation says it will continue

to investigate the complaints with the company and East Riding Council.

An announcement over the future of Kellingley Colliery near Goole is

expected within days. The government is seeing if it can help financially

towards a managed closure of the pit. It comes after UK Coal

announced the closure of ond of Britain's last remaining dedp coal

mines. Cleethorpes Leisure Centre has

reopened this afternoon. Thd pool had been closed for more th`n a

month after people slipped following a ?2 million refurbishment.

In football ` Grimsby Town twice equalised in injury time in a

dramatic final few minutes of their game at home to Woking. The Mariners

remain third in the Conference after the 2`2 draw at

Another fine day tomorrow, some sunshine, variable amounts of

cloud. High pressure is still in charge. Clear out there. Sthll quite

windy, especially across Lincolnshire. The wind will ease a

little bit. Cloud tending to increase from the west later. Lowest

temperature six Celsius. More cloud around compared with today on

Wednesday. Perhaps a little patchy rain first thing. But the elphasis

is on a good deal of dry we`ther. Variable cloud. Some sunny spells, a

moderate south`west wind. Temperature is respectable, 13` 4

degrees Celsius. That is thd forecast. That is all from the late

team. Look North is back at 6:2 am with the latest news, weathdr and

travel. I hope you can join us then. Goodbye for now.

dry. Maybe a bit of light rain on Friday. A quiet spell for us. Not so

on the other side of the world. As you have been hearing, there is not

a great deal happening in the weather over the UK over the next

couple of days. Meanwhile, we have been attacked

thing -- tracking an active spring storm in the US. There have been

reports of flash flooding and tornadoes. You can see a narrowband

which is weakening and heading out to the Atlantic. It is the Atlantic

tonight that will pick up whether funds to the north of the UK,

bringing with them or cloud and outbreaks of rain. Meanwhile,

pressure remains relatively high to the south. There is a small chance

of patchy mist and fog and low cloud by the end of the night. But

temperatures