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on the BBC News Channel. We are back with the latest News | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Good evening. Investigations are continuing into how a fire destroyed | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
two businesses in Hull. It started at a plastics recycling plant on a | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
Saltend industrial estate. At its height, huge plumes of black smoke | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
could be seen for miles around. Now fire crews say they're likely to | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
spend two more days there, as Caroline Bilton reports. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
24 hours on and still burning. These are the charred remains of two | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
businesses, a plastics recycling plant and a forklift truck company. | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
Both completely destroyed. Hundreds of tonnes of paper and plastic went | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
up in flames, the fire so intense it melted the perimeter fence, which | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
made for challenging conditions for the fire crews trying to bring it | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
under control. Once it catches fire, the risk for us is not only the | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
smoke, but it spreads very rapidly. So it's a case of balancing the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
safety of our own crews with extinguishing the fire as quickly as | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
we can. So really challenging. It started yesterday lunch time, | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
captured on camera by those working nearby. The black plumes of smoke | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
could be seen from miles around. Everybody ran out into the street | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
and saw the black smoke. It was just like a big black mushroom in the | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
sky. It was really, really black. In the village of Preston, the fire | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
caused a power cut. For this local pub, it couldn't have come at a | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
worse time, right in the middle of lunch service, and it lasted for 11 | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
hours. Luckily, a customer went home and brought me a massive, big box of | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
candles. I'm running to the old neighbours to take them them, | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
because nobody had matches, even. ?? WHITE It also started during a | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
five`hour walk`out by firefighters in a dispute over pensions. The fire | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
service said it tested their contingency plans did but not affect | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
the way they fought the fire. Their work at the site is expected to | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
continue into tomorrow. In other news, Six people have been | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
injured in a three`vehicle crash near Skegness. The A158 Burgh Road | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
has been closed for most of the afternoon. None of the injuries are | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
thought to be life`threatening. Earlier, the A15 near Lincoln | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
reopened after a man was airlifted to hospital following a collision | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
between a car and a motorbike. Probation officers say plans to | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
privatise part of their service will put people at risk. The Government | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
wants to outsource the care of medium`to`low`risk offenders and | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
says reforms are being rolled out in a way that maintains public safety. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Unions disagree and have held a series of strikes to show their | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
opposition to the plans. Emma Massey reports. | :02:48. | :02:48. | |
Offenders on community orders working with the probation service, | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
making sure they don't get into trouble again. New changes to the | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
service will mean offenders who've served sentences of less than a year | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
will now also be given support. It's been a glaring gap within criminal | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
justice, and successive governments have done nothing about it. This | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Government has introduced provision for it, and on that basis, I welcome | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
it wholeheartedly. The current probation trust will be split. The | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
National Probation Service will remain in place to manage high risk | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
offenders, but the responsibility of low`to`medium`risk offenders will be | :03:26. | :03:27. | |
privatised, leading many probation workers to take industrial action, | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
saying reforms could put the public in danger. The group of people who | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
make up the low`to`medium`risk tend to be domestic violence | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
perpetrators, robbers, burglars, gang violence, alcohol`fuelled | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
violence. How can we be sure or confident that the public are going | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
to be safe? We are fundamentally against any privatisation, but we | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
would understand a pilot, because that would actually show whether it | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
would work, whether there's any evidence based on what the new | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
projects will do, whether there are any difficulties and flaws, which is | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
what we anticipate. The Ministry of Justice says: | :04:11. | :04:24. | |
The unions argue that these changes could have happened without | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
privatisation. They say they'll continue to fight against them. | :04:31. | :04:43. | |
Veterans from Hull have received a special torch from the Dutch to | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
thank them for their efforts during the Second World War. The Flame of | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Liberation was handed over during a ceremony overnight. The veterans, | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
who helped free Holland from German occupation almost 70 years ago, will | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
bring the torch back to Hull later this week. At last, we have | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
accomplished what we set out to do. Now we have got to accomplish the | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
second part, which is to get it back home. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
The Hull City manager, Steve Bruce, has admitted his side can now look | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
forward to the FA Cup Final, after securing Premier League survival. | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
Norwich City drew at Chelsea yesterday, meaning the Tigers cannot | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
be relegated. Arsenal's win also means Hull City will be playing in | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Europe for the first time in their history next season. An FA Cup final | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
is something to look forward to, but it has been around the corner now | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
four weeks. It has been difficult to focus everybody. Thankfully, the | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
season is now coming to a close and we are safe, which is a fantastic | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
achievement. We can look forward to the cup final, and of course, the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
added reward of being in Europe, too, is quite remarkable. The | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
weather. What a lovely day it has been. Very | :05:53. | :06:05. | |
similar tomorrow. Sunny spells, feeling born, just an isolated | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
shower. Patchy rain will push in from the West later this evening. It | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
will be heavy and persistent for a time, just about clearing the coast | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
from dawn. Just a bit of rain around the coast at first light but that | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
will soon be into the North Sea and then sky is bright. It looks to be a | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
lovely day. Fine, bright, some sunny spells and just a small chance of | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
catching a shower. Moderate South West wind. 17 Celsius is 63 | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
Fahrenheit. Wednesday is not looking too bad. Sunny intervals with a view | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
scattered showers but it turns much more unsettled for those I am | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Friday, with some heavy downpours expected. That is the forecast. | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
We are back at around 10:20pm tonight. | :06:57. | :07:09. | |
The sunshine today for the bank holiday produced the highest | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
temperature of the long weekend in eastern England today, at 20 | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Celsius. But to the west, the cloud has been gathering. We have seen a | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
bit of rain in Northern Ireland and western Scotland, but the thicker | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
cloud now pushing into the south-west of England is delivering | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
more rain. It will become more extensive over the next few hours. A | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
ragged area of rainfall will move east as the night goes on. If you | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
have yet to make your journey home from the bank holiday weekend, you | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
may encounter sums are a. -- some spray. Temperatures are not too bad | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
. The good news is that most of the rain | :07:52. | :07:53. |