21/10/2016 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening.

People in Hull and parts of East Yorkshire could be `sked

if they want fluoride adding to tap water to reduce dental problems

Four out of every ten young children in Hull have tooth decay.

Phillip Norton reports.

This is what tooth decay looks like and it is a problem

right across the country.

Dentists in Hull say they'rd seeing this too often.

So could adding fluoride to drinking water be the answer?

Peter Riding is a dentist and thinks it could help.

Hull has a very poor record for dental health and adding one

part per million to the watdr would make a big difference.

It would reduce the tooth ddcay in the area by about 40%.

Public Health England say more than 40% of five-year-olds

in Hull have tooth decay.

That's higher than the national average of 28%.

But in Lincoln where fluoride has been added to water supplies,

the figure is 23%.

Water fluoridation can be a divisive topic though with critics arguing

it is a type of mass medication and even dentists can't agrde,

but the ruling Labour Group on Hull City Council has agreed that

plans to introduce fluoride should move ahead.

With supplies in Hull though also running through some

parts of the East Riding, how do people in East Yorkshire

feel about the idea?

Well, I have fluoride in my toothpaste.

I don't know how it affects you if you've got extra.

I don't really know too much about that, I'd have to look

in to see what that would mdan for my family and my childrdn.

Personally I agree with it - I always have.

I've just come from the dentists and I've still got a smile!

Programmes to promote good oral health already exist

in some schools.

Plans to take that a step ftrther and add fluoride to the watdring

hole are still in the early stages with a public consultation dxpected

to be held next year.

A large-scale rescue was carried out after three kayakers got

into trouble in the North Sda near Flamborough this afternoon

They were helped by two lifdboats, coastguards and a search

and rescue helicopter.

No one was seriously hurt.

Two men have been arrested after armed police and a helicopter

were called to an incident hn Lincolnshire.

It happened at Mill Close in Billinghay this morning.

Police surrounded a car after receiving reports that a man

was in possession of a fire`rm.

Tourism leaders in Yorkshird and Lincolnshire say they'rd worried

that Brexit could lead to a shortage of workers.

It's been a good year for tourism across the area.

But around half the industrx's workforce are EU migrants and some

bosses fear staff may leave the UK.

More from our Political Editor Tim Iredale.

Enjoying the sights of historic Lincoln are Canadian

tourists, Megan and Regan.

A record number of visitors are flocking to Lincolnshird,

many from overseas.

What's your impression of Lincoln so far?

It's very impressive. The architecture is unbelievable.

Yeah, I'm just loving the quaint, small old town.

We haven't been into the new area but we've just

started walking around.

The plummeting pound means ht's more expensive for Brits

to travel abroad but, in many cases, it's cheaper

for overseas tourists to cole here.

So will that benefit East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

I'm sure it will, particularly along the coast, I think.

But even here people will bd, if you're only getting

one euro to your pound, you will think, I will

come to Lincolnshire.

The Americans are particularly interested in Magna Carta,

and all the rest of it so wd do get a lot of people from overse`s

but a lot of people now from the rest of the countrx.

Tourism is worth more than ?8 billion a year

to the combined economies of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

It employs around 250,000 pdople.

It's estimated that around half of the workers in the industry come

from other EU countries, which has raised questions

about recruitment after Brexit.

Many hospitality businesses rely upon seasonal labour from Etrope

and from other parts of the world and clearly they want some clarity

as to what the rules will bd and what status those peopld

will be, will they still be able to work in their

businesses going forwards?

I'm a qualified accountant back in Hungary.

I came to England 13 years `go looking for new opportunitids.

I just hope it's going to bd an easy way for me to stay.

They can't send us home, otherwise I think the country

is going to collapse because there are so many

people from East Europe working here and they keep

the country going.

Ministers say talk of a recruitment crisis is premature

but like much of the specul`tion about the post-Brexit

landscape, no one quite knows what's on the horizon.

And the impact of Brexiton tourism will be discussed on this

And the impact of Brexit on tourism will be discussed on this

weekend's Sunday Politics.

That from 11am on BBC One.

Experts have been examining the carcass of a 40-foot fin whale

washed up on a beach in North Norfolk.

Earlier this year the bodies of six young sperm whales were found

on East Coast beaches.

Kim Riley reports

As the tide slipped back from the beach, the lifeless

hulk of the giant mammal was exposed once more.

The fin whale a rare visitor to North Sea shores,

a steady stream of visitors came to see it.

It is really sad and just to see it there in its state of disrepair

it just evokes nothing but sadness and we had to come and see ht.

It is desperately sad on beach like this.

What can you say?

This afternoon a team from the Cetacean Strandings

Investigation Programme basdd at London Zoo arrived to carry out

a postmortem to find out more about the whale and why it died

We can say at this stage it looks like it is a female.

I can't tell exactly because that area is underw`ter

It's obviously a young anim`l.

The females get much bigger than this.

It appears to be pretty thin, nutritionally compromhsed

There is a couple of things we have in the back of our mind

which might be driving that.

We'll hopefully learn more `s we go through the course of the afternoon.

After the postmortem, the body of the whale

becomes the responsibility of Natural England

who lease this land.

It told us it has been in touch with specialist contractors

whole be charged with removing it from the beach.

Now the weather forecast with Keeley Donovan.

Good evening.

The weather remains settled over the next few days.

But over the weekend there should be a little bit more sunshine

than we've been used to tod`y.

At the moment we have got one or two showers pushing in

from the North Sea.

They are hit and miss.

There will be dry weather and clear spells too and mistiness and cooler

out in the countryside.

Down to around five or six Celsius.

So a chilly start tomorrow.

But a lot of dry and bright weather.

There are a few light showers on the graphics,

but they will be hit and miss.

Perhaps a few more into the afternoon.

But there will be a lot of dry, bright weather.

So wrap up warm and head out.

We'll have a lot of fine we`ther through the week.

A similar story for Sunday.

Cooler as the breeze freshens and a misty and frosty start

to the day on Monday.

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