:00:09. > :00:13.Good evening. The headlines tonight: the blast at in a legal
:00:13. > :00:22.distillery that cost five men their lives. Tonight, the search for
:00:22. > :00:29.answers continues. Five fatalities in one incident, that is more
:00:29. > :00:34.significant. I am live in Boston as investigations continue into what
:00:34. > :00:40.caused the tragedy. It is believed that the men were making illicit
:00:40. > :00:45.what car. We look at the wider problem of counterfeit alcohol. --
:00:45. > :00:53.illicit alcohol. We have been advised by the police and council
:00:53. > :01:00.to be aware of it and we are aware of it. Also on tonight's programme,
:01:00. > :01:05.there could be more work properties built on flood-risk areas. And hats
:01:05. > :01:15.off to the man who bot Hull City. We could have a warm day tomorrow
:01:15. > :01:16.
:01:16. > :01:20.and then it will turn unsettled. -- who purchased Hull City.
:01:20. > :01:23.Good evening. And the legal distillery is at the centre of an
:01:23. > :01:29.investigation in Boston tonight into an explosion which killed five
:01:29. > :01:36.men and seriously injured another man. It happened a on the
:01:36. > :01:40.Broadfield Industrial Estate in the town shortly before 7:30pm. Police
:01:40. > :01:46.found equipment for making alcohol inside the building. The men who
:01:46. > :01:53.died have still not been identified. We can go live now to Boston and
:01:53. > :01:56.our reporter. What has been happening there today? Members of
:01:56. > :02:04.the emergency services, police and fire, have been making their way
:02:04. > :02:09.through the cordon here along the road to the scene that you see
:02:09. > :02:12.behind me. That is a major investigation on the goal. It
:02:12. > :02:18.culminated in sombre scenes earlier wrong when a number of dark
:02:18. > :02:24.vehicles made their way along here. Inside were the bodies of those who
:02:24. > :02:28.died. And the legal distillery in the centre Rob Austin. The
:02:28. > :02:35.production of black-market alcohol has let five men dead and another
:02:35. > :02:40.fighting for his life. -- in the centre of Boston. It is now more
:02:40. > :02:48.than 24 hours since emergency services were called to an
:02:48. > :02:53.explosion here. Fire fighters met a rapid and intense fire. When we
:02:53. > :03:03.arrived one casualty had come out of the building. The second group
:03:03. > :03:04.
:03:04. > :03:11.quell the fire, which was very hot. it had set fire to a car outside.
:03:11. > :03:15.It is believed the blast killed the five men instantly. Some people who
:03:15. > :03:22.lived near by came and told me that they believed that there was
:03:22. > :03:27.illegal alcohol. One came out with his arm on fire. I was told one was
:03:27. > :03:31.smoking a cigarette and threw it behind him. The equipment they use
:03:31. > :03:41.for the brewing of the alcohol exploded and five of them were
:03:41. > :03:42.
:03:42. > :03:51.killed. Among those who attended the scene, the rector of Boston.
:03:51. > :03:55.are very sad about this. Today, police confirmed the unit had been
:03:55. > :04:04.used as a distillery. Her we have found chemicals on the premises
:04:04. > :04:08.which indicate the manufacture or production of alcohol. The bodies
:04:08. > :04:16.have been removed and the other man transferred to a specialist burns
:04:16. > :04:22.unit in Boston. Police say he has been undergoing surgery for up much
:04:22. > :04:26.of the day. The police will now try to identify those who were killed.
:04:26. > :04:32.Officers are also working with trading standards and HM Revenue
:04:32. > :04:38.and Customs. At the moment the police have no idea who these men
:04:39. > :04:43.are. There were unconfirmed reports that they were foreign nationals.
:04:43. > :04:51.An appeal has been sent out to anyone, perhaps residents,
:04:51. > :04:56.relatives, friends, who had someone who did go out and not come back to
:04:56. > :05:06.get in touch with the police. Keith Owen from Lincolnshire police joins
:05:06. > :05:06.
:05:06. > :05:13.me light. What progress are you making? -- he joins me now. We have
:05:13. > :05:18.had people working all day bike across -- all across the county
:05:18. > :05:26.looking at what happened. These tragic events have really shocked
:05:26. > :05:32.us, we appreciate that, so we are looking to progress this as quickly
:05:32. > :05:38.as we can. What we are very keen to do as a priority is identified to
:05:38. > :05:47.these men were who tragically lost their lives last night. -- identify
:05:47. > :05:54.the names of these men. How is the victim in a hospital? The last I
:05:54. > :06:04.heard was he was undergoing surgery, and that will run on into the
:06:04. > :06:11.evening. We have not had an update. You obviously want to speak to him.
:06:11. > :06:15.How soon will that be? As soon as he is ready. We have officers there
:06:15. > :06:20.who are monitoring the situation. Hopefully he will shed some light
:06:20. > :06:23.on the situation. The appeal we have for the wider community is if
:06:23. > :06:31.you have any knowledge of what happened last night, please get in
:06:31. > :06:39.touch with Boston police station. You find at the a reminder of
:06:39. > :06:48.evidence of illegal brewing at the site. -- you find a lot of evidence.
:06:48. > :06:54.Yes, we find a lot of equipment. -- we discovered a lot of equipment.
:06:54. > :06:57.There is still work going on at the scene so I cannot go into detail.
:06:57. > :07:04.The fire service have been working all day to establish what has
:07:04. > :07:08.happened. Thank you very much. The problem of illegal alcohol in
:07:08. > :07:16.Boston has been the subject of a major investigation by the police
:07:16. > :07:23.and trading standards. Many shops were found selling counterfeit
:07:23. > :07:28.alcohol containing cleaning fluid. For some time, customs officers and
:07:28. > :07:33.police have been it confiscating illegal alcohol from off-licences
:07:33. > :07:39.around the time. Today, these two shops had their licences revoked
:07:39. > :07:44.for selling counterfeit vodka. Pub landlords have been warned not to
:07:44. > :07:52.buy and sell it. Some of the fake bobcat contains potentially lethal
:07:52. > :08:00.chemicals. -- vodka. We have been warned by the police to be aware of
:08:00. > :08:09.it and we are aware of it. Anyone who finds dodgy alcohol must
:08:09. > :08:15.reported. -- report it to us. Lincolnshire Police strongly
:08:15. > :08:21.suggest that illegal alcohol was being produced. This man, who work
:08:21. > :08:27.near by, describes the victims as young Eastern Europeans.
:08:27. > :08:35.surprises me because there was no signs of any illegal goings-on. It
:08:35. > :08:39.was just a warehouse that was used for storage. For some time there
:08:39. > :08:43.has been concern about the illegal manufacturing of alcohol in
:08:43. > :08:52.Lincolnshire. The potato fields provide plenty raw-material, and
:08:52. > :08:57.there is a large market as there is a large eastern European Community.
:08:57. > :09:04.It is alcohol but it is cleansing fluid and is not fit for human
:09:04. > :09:08.consumption. Illegally producing alcohol has long been linked to the
:09:08. > :09:18.black market economy and organised crime, and now to the tragic loss
:09:18. > :09:20.
:09:20. > :09:25.of the likes of five men. -- lives. Where does this leave the
:09:25. > :09:33.investigation into the vodka? Clearly there is a possibility that
:09:33. > :09:37.the board can we saw seized earlier in the year was manufactured.
:09:37. > :09:41.Questions have to be asked about whether there are other
:09:41. > :09:46.distilleries. Clearly the evidence of the 6th man who was injured is
:09:46. > :09:51.very important, we do not know whether he will be able to give
:09:51. > :09:56.evidence. What began as a counterfeit inquiry has overnight
:09:56. > :10:06.gain a much bigger sense of importance. As we have heard,
:10:06. > :10:10.Austin is at the centre of a major investigation. -- Boston. Much of
:10:10. > :10:17.that is centred on the migrant workers in the town. The identities
:10:17. > :10:23.are not known but there is a great deal of sadness. Tributes paid in
:10:23. > :10:29.the tone for the five who died and prayers for the one who survived. -
:10:29. > :10:39.- paid in the village. For some, at they claimed it was an accident
:10:39. > :10:41.
:10:41. > :10:46.waiting to happen. It was monitored months ago, this happened today
:10:46. > :10:54.because of what people have been saying. It is speculation, but in
:10:54. > :11:00.the 10 people do not believe it was an accident, -- believe it was an
:11:00. > :11:04.incident that Boston could have done without. People are talking
:11:04. > :11:10.about immigration issues, it does raise problems, but we are a
:11:10. > :11:14.multicultural society, so we must live with it. It is very tragic, it
:11:14. > :11:21.is a loss of life. Whether they are foreign nationals are not, it is
:11:21. > :11:28.tragic. They can learn from this tragedy, but in many parts of the
:11:28. > :11:33.town, there is horror at a loss of life. It is a cause of concern
:11:33. > :11:38.across society, and it is an issue that we face here. There may be
:11:38. > :11:44.questions for the future of Boston and how it reacts, but today is all
:11:44. > :11:50.about the lives of five men and how they were killed.
:11:50. > :11:55.Earlier I spoke to the MP for Boston, I questioned him about how
:11:55. > :12:03.he feels about what happened. initial reaction is one of shock at
:12:03. > :12:09.the terrible tragedy where five people lost their lives. We need to
:12:09. > :12:18.initially allow the police to get on unhindered and do a thorough
:12:18. > :12:22.investigation to establish the facts. Many people have been
:12:22. > :12:28.talking about this illegal brewing which may have caused the explosion.
:12:28. > :12:33.Early in the year you know that counterfeit alcohol was on sale.
:12:33. > :12:38.Have you been a weird when talking to your constituents about this? --
:12:38. > :12:43.have you been made aware. Certainly the problem seems to be alcohol
:12:43. > :12:48.going wrong, although the full investigation must be completed.
:12:48. > :12:53.Some months ago there were a series of raids, by Lincolnshire police,
:12:53. > :12:57.Customs and Excise, and trading standards, and they confiscated
:12:57. > :13:05.significant sums of alcohol. The sale of illegal alcohol was quite
:13:05. > :13:10.well known about in the Boston area. Until the tragedy last night, there
:13:10. > :13:18.was no evidence of production of illegal alcohol in Boston. It looks
:13:18. > :13:26.like that has changed. Is there anything you can do to tackle this
:13:27. > :13:30.issue? The first thing we need to do is allow the police to do their
:13:30. > :13:38.investigation thoroughly. Once the facts are established about what
:13:38. > :13:44.happened here and who the poor people were who died, their
:13:44. > :13:48.respective agencies need to sit down, learned the lessons, and make
:13:48. > :13:58.sure we eradicate the sale illegal alcohol, the production of illegal
:13:58. > :14:04.
:14:05. > :14:09.alcohol, and make sure that similar We would like to hear from you. Did
:14:09. > :14:15.to see what happened? Have maybe you heard about the illegal alcohol
:14:15. > :14:25.being made all sold. Maybe you bought some without realising it.
:14:25. > :14:47.
:14:47. > :14:51.Hero on BBC One, thank you for watching. The Hull City owner is
:14:51. > :15:01.honoured for his contribution to the city and its university. And
:15:01. > :15:04.
:15:04. > :15:11.the teenagers competing in the Tonight's photo was taken by Robert.
:15:11. > :15:17.He took office of Skidby Windmill. Another one tomorrow night. Let's
:15:17. > :15:22.get the forecast. It has been a lovely day. Everyone
:15:22. > :15:26.is asking me about the rest of the summer holidays. Everyone can see
:15:26. > :15:31.summer holidays. Everyone can see it from my blog. I am afraid it is
:15:31. > :15:36.looking very unsettled. The message is enjoy this evening and tomorrow
:15:36. > :15:41.if you can. The weekend is looking quite poor at times with heavy rain
:15:41. > :15:46.for a time on Saturday. And so tomorrow, bright and warm with
:15:46. > :15:52.temperatures up to 24 degrees. This week Front could bring patchy rain
:15:52. > :15:58.late on tomorrow. Then we look set to bring in a number of Atlantic
:15:58. > :16:03.weather systems over the coming 10- 14 days. Things will go downhill
:16:03. > :16:08.for the second half of July. We have ended on a lovely note. Lots
:16:08. > :16:12.of sunshine across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. This evening
:16:12. > :16:17.should be fine with the chance of the isolated shower in the West.
:16:17. > :16:27.Overnight will be dry with clear spells. Lowest temperatures down to
:16:27. > :16:28.
:16:28. > :16:32.ten Celsius. The sun will rise in the morning at 4:50am. It looks
:16:32. > :16:39.like much of the morning will be bright and mostly dry. The chance
:16:39. > :16:44.of a shower. Through the afternoon, most places stay dry it was just
:16:44. > :16:49.the a chance of a shower late in the day. The cloud will thicken.
:16:49. > :16:58.Respectable temperatures and a moderate south-west wind. Notably
:16:58. > :17:02.warmer on the coast. Highs of 23 degrees. As for the weekend, heavy
:17:02. > :17:09.rain to come through Saturday. That will clear later two showers and
:17:09. > :17:11.quite showery with blustery windss on Sunday. More houses are being
:17:11. > :17:17.on Sunday. More houses are being built in flood prone areas in East
:17:17. > :17:21.Yorkshire despite a rise in risk of flooding according to a new report.
:17:22. > :17:29.Development in at risk areas in Hull and East rising has increased
:17:29. > :17:34.over the past decade which could cause a repeat of the 2007 floods.
:17:34. > :17:39.Who could forget the floods of 2007? At the time, we were told it
:17:40. > :17:43.was a freak event but there were warnings it could happen again.
:17:43. > :17:48.What is an abnormal event may become more frequent in the decades
:17:48. > :17:54.to come. And those warnings are mentioned in this report out today
:17:54. > :17:59.by the Committee on climate change. And so also is this from our local
:17:59. > :18:04.authorities. For not taking the warning seriously enough and for
:18:04. > :18:07.continuing to build on areas that are at high risk to flooding.
:18:07. > :18:11.are under pressure to build new homes, they have to put them
:18:11. > :18:15.somewhere. What we're saying is that local authorities should be
:18:16. > :18:20.quite transparent about how they are balancing different risks. We
:18:20. > :18:25.need to be more aware and clear how we are factoring in these long-term
:18:25. > :18:28.changes in our climate. The council says preventing flood risk is that
:18:28. > :18:32.the top of the list of their priorities when it comes to
:18:32. > :18:36.planning. We are going through a process which looks set all the
:18:36. > :18:41.various sites that landowners and the council have put forward as
:18:41. > :18:46.sites for the future. One of the fundamental first steps in that
:18:47. > :18:50.assessment of their sides is what are the flood risks? If they cannot
:18:50. > :18:56.be mitigated four, cross it off. The problem is increasing demand
:18:56. > :19:01.for new homes. It is estimated that by 2026, the population in Hull
:19:01. > :19:08.will rise by 10,000 meaning that 15,000 new homes will be needed. In
:19:08. > :19:13.the East Riding, the population is set to rise by 47,000. Creating the
:19:13. > :19:16.need for 20,000 new homes. But with large amounts of Hull and East
:19:16. > :19:22.Yorkshire line in flood risk areas, it means greater effort is needed
:19:22. > :19:27.to make sure that any new homes can withstand flooding in the future,
:19:27. > :19:31.something the council say they are confident of achieving.
:19:31. > :19:35.The government has announced that the coastguard station at Great
:19:35. > :19:40.Yarmouth in Norfolk will close. However, the Transport Secretary
:19:40. > :19:44.has said the base in Bridlington will continue to operate 24 hours a
:19:44. > :19:47.day. Plans to open it during daytime hours only have been
:19:47. > :19:51.scrapped, but there will still be some job losses.
:19:51. > :19:55.The Olympic gold medal winner Jonathan Edwards has been meeting
:19:56. > :20:00.young people in Lincolnshire today. The world triple jump champion was
:20:00. > :20:04.encouraging students to take part in an Olympic style schools
:20:04. > :20:09.competition. It is hoped it will help children tackle obesity by
:20:09. > :20:14.getting more active. The Science and television
:20:14. > :20:18.presenter Maggie Philbin has brought her Science Roadshow to
:20:19. > :20:23.Hull. 300 school children from both sides of Humber had been given
:20:23. > :20:27.access to the latest cutting-edge technology. The former Tomorrow's
:20:27. > :20:31.World presenter hopes it will encourage them to take up careers
:20:31. > :20:36.in science and technology. This is the most important thing I have
:20:36. > :20:40.ever done because we are bringing technology, putting it in front of
:20:40. > :20:45.teenagers, we are showing them the engineers and scientists behind it
:20:45. > :20:50.and rear explaining the struggle as they have had to make that
:20:50. > :20:55.technology. Then a say in the want to be a part of this? Then queue to
:20:55. > :20:57.everyone who got in touch about a story about police officers to join
:20:57. > :21:06.colleagues from across the country to protest against the latest cuts
:21:07. > :21:16.to their police budget. Just a few, Sue from Grimsby texted to say, to
:21:17. > :21:39.
:21:39. > :21:43.Thank you for all of those. He escaped tyranny and he he became
:21:43. > :21:48.one of Britain's top businessmen and today Hull City owner Assem
:21:48. > :21:53.Allam was recognised at Hull University. Mr Allam he used to
:21:53. > :21:56.study in the city was given an honorary doctorate.
:21:56. > :22:01.He is best known to thousands as Burford board chairman after taking
:22:01. > :22:06.control of Hull City earlier this year. But Assem Allam has been
:22:06. > :22:11.supporting good causes in Hull for far longer. Egyptian by birth, a
:22:11. > :22:16.whole is though much his home. did not catch the wrong train. I
:22:16. > :22:21.came here because Mike sister was married to a doctor who worked here
:22:21. > :22:26.and I came to stay just for a few weeks initially and then I went to
:22:26. > :22:31.Hull University, manage to do a postgraduate and have stayed.
:22:31. > :22:36.Allam has made an enormous contribution to business and the
:22:36. > :22:42.community here. He is an excellent example of how you can overcome
:22:42. > :22:47.adversity and be successful in life. But his journey to Hull was far
:22:47. > :22:52.from easy thanks to this man. He became President of Egypt in the
:22:52. > :22:56.1950s and for the next 15 years was a central figure in Middle Eastern
:22:56. > :23:01.affairs. Better homey had enemies and opponents and one of these was
:23:01. > :23:08.a young Assem Allam. I was doing my masters and I used to take
:23:08. > :23:14.advantage of the lecturers making speeches against the dictator. I
:23:14. > :23:19.was arrested and I had no option but to leave. I was under pressure
:23:19. > :23:22.from the family to leave the country. Assem Allam gave an
:23:23. > :23:26.impassioned speech to the new graduates, urging them to put
:23:26. > :23:35.something back in the community when they can just as this
:23:35. > :23:40.remarkable man has. Yorkshire have won their latest
:23:40. > :23:43.county championship match at Scarborough. They bowled out
:23:43. > :23:47.Worcestershire for 332 in their second innings and started today
:23:47. > :23:51.needing 34 runs to win and they quickly got those to win by six
:23:51. > :23:56.wickets. A group of teenagers from northern
:23:56. > :24:00.Lincolnshire are making waves in the world of windsurfing. Emma, Max
:24:00. > :24:10.and Lewis who trained near Barton are jetting off to San Francisco
:24:10. > :24:15.
:24:15. > :24:21.this weekend to take part in the At just 14, and that is being
:24:21. > :24:24.touted as the finest young female windsurfers in the country. She
:24:24. > :24:31.already has this evolve medal to her name but it has taken a lot of
:24:31. > :24:37.hard work. I usually trained two or three times a week. It is hard
:24:37. > :24:41.because it is after school and my mum and dad are at work. On the
:24:41. > :24:46.weekend I get four or five hours. I like winning and that is what her
:24:46. > :24:53.do it for. And it is Emma's passion that could see how making waves in
:24:53. > :24:57.future Olympics. Emma has huge potential. She is an absolute star
:24:57. > :25:01.and she shows a determination to go a long way in the sport. It would
:25:02. > :25:07.not surprise me if we saw her going to the Olympics and the future.
:25:07. > :25:14.also gets to practise with some of the top boys in the UK. I have
:25:14. > :25:20.prepared loads, like today, I came here at 4:30am. But after all the
:25:20. > :25:25.training, there are some perks. am looking forward to this one. It
:25:25. > :25:30.is meant to be really good out there but sailing under the Golden
:25:30. > :25:34.Gate should be good. The fact I get to all these places, I am looking
:25:34. > :25:40.forward to it. I am getting nervous but used to international
:25:40. > :25:48.competitions now. With three windsurfers heading to America, it
:25:48. > :25:57.seems the team are certainly on a crest of a wave.
:25:57. > :26:01.Good luck to them. Let have a recap of the main news headlines. The
:26:01. > :26:04.murders are summoned to Parliament. They face a grilling from MPs next
:26:04. > :26:08.Tuesday. The bodies of five men killed and
:26:08. > :26:12.an explosion at an illegal distilleries in Boston are taken
:26:12. > :26:22.away. Police do not know their identities.
:26:22. > :26:22.
:26:22. > :26:27.Fridays forecast, a bright day. Top temperatures around 23 Celsius.
:26:27. > :26:33.Philip Norton has been in Boston since last night. How soon are the
:26:33. > :26:39.police hoping to find out who these men were? The police really are now
:26:39. > :26:44.relying on members of the public to get in touch. They are hoping
:26:44. > :26:48.people have cinder broadcasts and the coverage throughout today and
:26:48. > :26:52.hopefully that will bring them to get in touch with the police. The
:26:52. > :26:57.initial shock is only just sinking in. There is a real sombre
:26:57. > :27:02.atmosphere here in Boston. It has to be said, this is the single
:27:02. > :27:07.worst loss of life in any separate fire in Lincolnshire. Even the
:27:07. > :27:14.fire-fighters will be offered counselling. A sad day for Boston.
:27:14. > :27:20.You have been writing in on twitter. First of all, how can they say
:27:20. > :27:25.there was no intelligence? Everyman knows where it is being sold. This
:27:25. > :27:31.is from Sophie, there must be a link between illegal selling and