:00:04. > :00:06.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight.
:00:06. > :00:16.Anger from workers in Lincolnshire over claims that people from
:00:16. > :00:19.
:00:19. > :00:23.oustide the EU make better workers. There are some people out there who
:00:23. > :00:26.stay on the dole, but that is a minority. Warnings over beach
:00:26. > :00:29.safety after a family are rescued off the East Coast.
:00:29. > :00:36.More then 20 years after they were married as captives of Saddam
:00:36. > :00:42.Hussein, we meet the couple who's marriage is as strong as ever.
:00:42. > :00:47.Unbelievable. It fears Lakhan telling a story about somebody else.
:00:47. > :00:52.-- it feels like I am telling a story about somebody else. The new
:00:52. > :00:57.arrivals getting used to life in Lincolnshire.
:00:57. > :01:07.A we still have a met Office warning in place. I will have the
:01:07. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:13.details later. There has been an angry reaction to
:01:13. > :01:18.claims made by a juror MP that foreigners work harder than their
:01:18. > :01:22.UK Bonn counterpart. Godfrey Bloom suggested that migrants are
:01:22. > :01:25.generally more reliable than British workers. A number of our
:01:25. > :01:30.viewers have criticised his comments, which followed reports
:01:30. > :01:37.that some Lincolnshire firms were specifically asking recruitment
:01:37. > :01:42.agencies for Eastern European staff. More Onofre Tim Iredale.
:01:42. > :01:48.A warm day in Skegness, and a good time is being had by all. Away from
:01:49. > :01:54.me seafront, many are struggling to find work in this town, including
:01:54. > :02:01.32-year-old Paul. A I am currently unemployed. I just lost my job. I
:02:01. > :02:05.am trying to claim benefits and look for employment elsewhere. I am
:02:05. > :02:09.looking for retail a customer service, but there is not a lot of
:02:09. > :02:15.full-time work. Paul was one of many who contacted us following
:02:15. > :02:19.last night's report about companies which specifically ask recruitment
:02:19. > :02:25.agencies for migrants rather than British-born workers. We had a big
:02:25. > :02:30.reaction to these comments from Euro MP Godfrey Bloom. I have had
:02:30. > :02:35.this feedback a lot, where people say they are more reliable and work
:02:35. > :02:40.harder, and are more likely to turn up on a Monday morning after party
:02:40. > :02:44.than British workers. He called us lazy and had all people on benefits
:02:44. > :02:51.with the same brush. Some people will stay on the dole because it is
:02:51. > :02:54.easy money, but that is a minority. Unlike Godfrey Bloom, UKIP's
:02:54. > :02:58.chairman in this part of Lincolnshire does not accept that
:02:58. > :03:04.migrants automatically make better workers. A lot of people will work
:03:05. > :03:09.but cannot allowed onto the field because they are British. We are
:03:09. > :03:13.paying taxes to keep these people at home, watching daytime
:03:13. > :03:19.television and claiming benefits when the Polish people are doing
:03:19. > :03:22.the job, sending 95 % of their wages back row. Many politicians
:03:22. > :03:28.and business leaders would argue that migrant workers have had a
:03:28. > :03:35.positive effect on the economy here, but there is no doubt that the
:03:35. > :03:40.international job market has become more competitive.
:03:40. > :03:50.A big response from you after Godfrey Bloom accused British
:03:50. > :04:18.
:04:18. > :04:28.It has certainly got you talking. I am joined by Les Dobbs from the GMB
:04:28. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:35.union. What is your reaction to these comments? I think there are a
:04:35. > :04:41.lot of propaganda. It is about saying that one set of workers are
:04:41. > :04:46.better than others. I think it is inflammatory to make those sort of
:04:46. > :04:50.statements in the media. Is the work ethic of migrants better? Than
:04:50. > :05:00.they are happier to work longer hours? A lot of people have been
:05:00. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:06.saying this. In a recent study we have done, and how many hours
:05:06. > :05:11.workers work, that is applicable to everyone. At employers want to ask
:05:11. > :05:16.for Eastern European workers? think that is clearly wrong and
:05:17. > :05:22.against the law. You have to consider why are they doing that?
:05:22. > :05:25.Is it to divide and conquer, to create his plate? Many of the males
:05:25. > :05:30.have been saying that these jobs at once that British workers do not
:05:30. > :05:39.want to do, that the foreign workers will do. That is not the
:05:39. > :05:48.case. Are you sure? Yes. We had the same with construction. There is a
:05:48. > :05:51.long history of people working in Hull in the food industry. But we
:05:51. > :05:56.could have a farmer from Lincolnshire who would say that the
:05:56. > :06:03.British people will not do the jobs. I think they will say that, but I
:06:04. > :06:13.think it is to drive down terms and conditions. What can be done to
:06:13. > :06:18.make British workers more appealing to employers? Certainly, British
:06:18. > :06:28.workers will stand up for their right. So will European workers
:06:28. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:33.once they understand what their rights are. I would say you cannot
:06:33. > :06:40.bring in workers in order to exploit them. Very good to talk to
:06:40. > :06:45.you. One of our councils is among the first to try out a new way of
:06:45. > :06:48.getting people back into work. Almost �2 million of government
:06:48. > :06:52.money is being spent in North East Lincolnshire to subsidise new roles
:06:52. > :07:00.created by small businesses. It is hoped it will help as many as 350
:07:00. > :07:04.people back to work. Sam Gibbs is a single mother from
:07:04. > :07:09.Grimsby with four children. Before getting this job, she had been
:07:09. > :07:15.unemployed for years. It is had been on benefits and having their
:07:15. > :07:19.money. It is a lot easier now. It has made me feel a lot more
:07:19. > :07:24.confident and given me an identity back. I am not just a mother now.
:07:24. > :07:27.It has improved my life. The money has come from a fund in central
:07:27. > :07:31.government designed to help deprived areas like Grimsby. The
:07:31. > :07:37.council is offering to pay half the wages for a new employee in a new
:07:37. > :07:41.role for the first 12 months. It is costing �1.7 million from central
:07:41. > :07:47.government. The local council says it will create up to 350 jobs in
:07:47. > :07:51.the area. As money is provided for only 12 months, is it a short term
:07:51. > :08:01.solution here? It for we thought it was short time, we would not be
:08:01. > :08:03.
:08:03. > :08:06.doing it. It will create long-term sustainable jobs. Some's employer
:08:06. > :08:10.says the extra money to pay for a new member of staff has helped to
:08:10. > :08:17.expand his business. Ever since taking her on, it has been
:08:17. > :08:24.brilliant. She has been assets. It has allowed us to afford to take
:08:24. > :08:30.somebody on. What we can do now is relieve her in the shower room, and
:08:30. > :08:35.her going and meeting clients. businesses have created roles so
:08:35. > :08:39.far, but the council is keen for more to come forward. For Sam Gibbs,
:08:39. > :08:48.it has been a success. She has fitted in so well, she has already
:08:48. > :08:52.been offered a permanent job. Let me know your thoughts on this.
:08:52. > :09:02.Is it the best way of getting people back into work? We would
:09:02. > :09:23.
:09:23. > :09:26.Some more news now. Humberside Police have confirmed that seven
:09:26. > :09:31.people have been interviewed as part of a new investigation into
:09:31. > :09:34.alleged sex abuse at an East Yorkshire care home. It is the
:09:34. > :09:37.third inquiry into St William's care home near Market Weighton,
:09:37. > :09:42.which closed in the 1990s. More than 50 new victims have been
:09:43. > :09:47.identified and several files have been passed already to the CPS.
:09:47. > :09:50.Officials at the Trust which runs Boston's Pilgrim Hospital said they
:09:50. > :09:53.are still trying to get clarification as to why 100 Stream
:09:53. > :09:57.nurses and midwives have been withdrawn. Last week, or student
:09:57. > :10:01.nurses were taken off their placements with immediate effect.
:10:01. > :10:04.There are fresh warnings tonight about the dangers of using
:10:04. > :10:10.inflatables along the east coast. It comes after a mother and her
:10:10. > :10:14.three children were rescued from a dinghy in the Humber. They were on
:10:14. > :10:19.holiday from West Yorkshire, and got stranded near the Haile Sand
:10:20. > :10:24.Fort after the tide pulled them out last night. All four were
:10:24. > :10:30.eventually rescued, a head but badly shaken. Tarah Welsh is in
:10:30. > :10:36.Cleethorpes for us. How did the family managed to get so far out
:10:36. > :10:41.and then get stranded? It was a bad this time yesterday that the family
:10:41. > :10:45.were rescued and brought safely back to shore. They paddled their
:10:45. > :10:52.dinghy at about three miles out in that direction towards Haile Sand
:10:52. > :10:56.Fort. The tide came in around them and they were cut off. It was only
:10:56. > :11:04.because an onlooker called the emergency services and asked for
:11:04. > :11:12.the coastguard, it was just in the nick of time. This family could
:11:12. > :11:17.have been in big trouble. Racing to get to a standard family
:11:17. > :11:21.before the tide does. The family were stockier three miles out on
:11:21. > :11:27.the Humber. Within an hour of the rescue, this area was completely
:11:27. > :11:31.flooded. It was quite apparent that they were in a state of panic and
:11:31. > :11:35.they were extremely pleased to see a lifeboat. When the sun comes out,
:11:36. > :11:40.so does the lifeboat. Many get caught at because they do not
:11:40. > :11:49.realise how quickly the tide comes in. A bit surprised. It was be
:11:49. > :11:52.fairly obvious. There are plenty of signs warning people. You with the
:11:52. > :11:57.mayor would have commonsense. Especially if you have got kids
:11:57. > :12:00.with you. -- you would think they would have commonsense. It is
:12:00. > :12:05.frightening that people put their lives at risk. Holidaymakers are
:12:05. > :12:12.often caught out. Once the weather comes out, it brings visitors and
:12:12. > :12:16.holidaymakers. They want to explore, naturally. Unfortunate, people get
:12:16. > :12:20.caught out. It might be the first time some people have visited the
:12:20. > :12:24.coast and they are not aware of how the tide operate. With a month left
:12:24. > :12:27.to go before the end of the summer holidays, the lifeboat crew here
:12:27. > :12:31.said they are concerned they will see more incidents like this.
:12:31. > :12:37.They're asking, if you visit the seaside, please be vigilant. If you
:12:37. > :12:43.see anything worrying, call 0999 and ask for the coastguard.
:12:43. > :12:53.Joining me is Jack Barlow, from the Aaron Lennon eye in Cleethorpes.
:12:53. > :12:53.
:12:53. > :12:59.What happened last night? Hello. Good evening. As you said, this
:12:59. > :13:08.family was out to see honour the dinghy. The coastguard recovered
:13:08. > :13:16.them. How did they get out so far? Sorry, Peter, I cannot hear you.
:13:16. > :13:22.How did this family get out so far? It was offshore wind, and they blew
:13:22. > :13:32.off to about two miles. Oakley and emergency call to the Coast Guard
:13:32. > :13:33.
:13:33. > :13:37.alerted those. How surprising camera tied be in that area?
:13:37. > :13:43.Especially this time of year, you get the spring tides, the high
:13:43. > :13:53.tides, and you get a high tide every fortnight. The Humber is very
:13:53. > :14:01.
:14:01. > :14:08.strong. Well done in getting them. And select tonight - sharing their
:14:08. > :14:11.memories. We meet the couple married while captive by Saddam
:14:11. > :14:21.Hussein. Where in the Hull City camp ahead
:14:21. > :14:21.
:14:21. > :14:30.of the new football season. Some photographs taken of rain
:14:30. > :14:40.clouds over the Yorkshire countryside.
:14:40. > :14:41.
:14:41. > :14:51.Good evening. Have you stayed dry today? Yes, I have. You were
:14:51. > :14:52.
:14:52. > :14:57.talking about a frock that today. - - a frock today. What can I do with
:14:57. > :15:01.a frog in my water can? It has been a frog in my water can? It has been
:15:01. > :15:05.a very wet day today and we have had torrential downpours. We end
:15:05. > :15:09.the day with the Met Office's weather warning of further
:15:09. > :15:14.torrential downpours this evening. There have been reports of flash
:15:14. > :15:19.flooding. Torrential showers have gone through a hole in the last
:15:19. > :15:24.hour. The yellow and green show were the heavy bursts of rain have
:15:24. > :15:30.happened. The focus has now moved to East Yorkshire. We are looking
:15:30. > :15:34.at those heavy showers continuing as we head through the evening. Low
:15:34. > :15:41.pressure moves across tomorrow. There is also a cold front, which
:15:41. > :15:45.means we will lose the heat and humidity. The heavy showers dire
:15:45. > :15:53.way through this evening and the rest of the night will be drier.
:15:53. > :16:03.Clear spells and temperatures will hold at 17 degrees. Very mild by
:16:03. > :16:04.
:16:04. > :16:10.the end of the night. The sun will rise tomorrow at 21 of all five. A
:16:10. > :16:14.mile start tomorrow. Cloud will increase from the West and we were
:16:14. > :16:21.seen showers bush eastwards. A longer spell of rain around
:16:21. > :16:25.lunchtime. Starting to clear away from western parts by the end of
:16:25. > :16:32.the afternoon. Feeling cooler and fresher for us tomorrow, we will
:16:32. > :16:36.have lost the humidity. The pretty much average for this time of year.
:16:36. > :16:41.Quite a pleasant day and Friday. The best of the sunshine in the
:16:41. > :16:51.morning. It will stay dry. Temperatures around average. Into
:16:51. > :16:56.the weekend - it is not bad, some showers around and some sunshine.
:16:56. > :17:00.I'm sure someone will have some answers for year.
:17:00. > :17:03.answers for year. See you tomorrow. She was called
:17:03. > :17:06.the bride of Baghdad and this picture of East Yorkshire woman
:17:06. > :17:12.Debbie Kitchen was beamed around the world - used as propaganda by
:17:12. > :17:16.Saddam Hussein during the first Iraq war. She had married husband
:17:16. > :17:19.Leslie while they were held hostage in the City of Kuwait. That was 21
:17:19. > :17:24.years ago and now the couple are still happily married and living in
:17:24. > :17:28.North Lincolnshire. It is 21 years since the war that
:17:28. > :17:34.brought them together. But Debbie and Leslie Kitchen are still
:17:34. > :17:37.happily married and living in Barton-upon-Humber. There's little
:17:37. > :17:47.that is unusual about their lives but their marriage was in
:17:47. > :17:49.
:17:49. > :17:59.extraordinary circumstances. This was their wedding - everything was
:17:59. > :18:02.provided by Saddam Hussein. We had known one another for 18 months.
:18:02. > :18:07.They were taken hostage in Kuwait and used as part of the human
:18:07. > :18:17.shield in the first Iraq war. With the vicar among the captives, they
:18:17. > :18:17.
:18:17. > :18:22.decided on a hasty marriage. To be dubbed the bride of Baghdad was
:18:22. > :18:26.unbelievable. It feels like I'm telling a story about somebody else,
:18:26. > :18:29.not actually as. These pictures were shown around the world - used
:18:29. > :18:38.as propaganda by the Iraqi authorities. It was the first their
:18:39. > :18:43.families knew they were safe. the time, people said it was the
:18:43. > :18:48.most watched wedding since Charles and Diana. It was propaganda but
:18:48. > :18:54.the outcome was good - we got married. I also our families knew
:18:54. > :18:58.where we were. Despite a turbulent beginning, their family -- their
:18:58. > :19:03.marriage has lasted and given them stories to tell their daughters.
:19:03. > :19:09.You cannot imagine what it was like. If it is like something you read in
:19:09. > :19:14.a book or a magazine, not your parents. You can either be positive
:19:14. > :19:23.or negative and we have two beautiful daughters and it has been
:19:23. > :19:29.21 years so, I have covered up the grey ear! It may not have been the
:19:29. > :19:34.start they dreamed of but it gave them a wedding video like no other.
:19:34. > :19:39.What an incredible story. Send me any male if you think you have an
:19:39. > :19:42.incredible story to tell. -- and E mail.
:19:42. > :19:45.After months of preparation, some analogue television signals in East
:19:45. > :19:48.Yorkshire and Lincolnshire had been switched off today and digital TV
:19:48. > :19:51.boosted to reach all areas. The BBC 2 signal was switched off overnight.
:19:51. > :20:01.Later this month the other four analogue channels will also become
:20:01. > :20:03.
:20:03. > :20:08.digital only, which means some TVs will need retuning. You on the
:20:08. > :20:14.installation menu, find first time installation and sometimes default
:20:14. > :20:17.settings. You're cleaning the memory of the box so it goes to the
:20:17. > :20:23.transmitter and gets all new information and stores the new
:20:23. > :20:30.signals. The switch off was last night so when we put it on today,
:20:30. > :20:36.we will find out what the problems are. Tonight we were trying to
:20:36. > :20:41.reset the TV. Then in two weeks' time, we have to do it again.
:20:41. > :20:50.you have a built-in freeview in your television, do you have to
:20:50. > :20:55.change it again? I did my retune at 6am this morning.
:20:55. > :20:59.If you are having trouble picking up BBC channels and digital format
:20:59. > :21:09.or have any questions about the switch off, you can contact the
:21:09. > :21:10.
:21:10. > :21:13.Anything less than the play-offs will be a disappointment. So says
:21:13. > :21:15.the manager of Hull City, Nigel Pearson, as he outlines his hopes
:21:15. > :21:20.for the new championship season this afternoon. The team's first
:21:20. > :21:26.game is on Friday against Blackpool. They have just been relegated from
:21:26. > :21:32.the Premier League. The waiting and training is almost
:21:32. > :21:34.over. Hull City's season starts in two days' time, as the team kicks
:21:34. > :21:43.off this year's Championship at home to Blackpool. New signing Jack
:21:43. > :21:48.Hobbs has only one thing on his mind - Premier League promotion.
:21:48. > :21:52.is our minimum target really - to make the play-offs. Ready to get
:21:52. > :21:55.back to the Premier League. Confidence is high and the lads are
:21:55. > :21:58.in good spirits. We're ready for the season.
:21:58. > :22:01.But the Tigers go into the campaign with some unanswered questions.
:22:01. > :22:04.Jimmy Bullard's future and his wages for one. As yet, no word on
:22:04. > :22:11.who will be club captain. But the manager says his main concern this
:22:12. > :22:19.season is consistency. There were occasions last season when we
:22:19. > :22:23.underperformed. Very badly. We were thumped. That gives you an
:22:24. > :22:29.indicator as to what this League is all about. It is probably the
:22:29. > :22:33.toughest one to get out of, especially to go up words. I do not
:22:34. > :22:40.think the play-offs, really, I do not think they're ready for going
:22:40. > :22:46.up to the Premiership again. Play- off - not a question I hope, I hope
:22:47. > :22:50.it is a straight promotion. Hardly, but we will give it a go.
:22:50. > :22:53.There will be some long winter nights along the way but by this
:22:53. > :23:02.time next May, Nigel Pearson's men insist they will be playing for
:23:02. > :23:09.promotion. BBC Radio Humberside will be at all Hull's games this
:23:09. > :23:17.season. On Friday the play Blackpool. Good luck to them. --
:23:17. > :23:20.they claim Blackpool. -- they play Blackpool.
:23:20. > :23:22.Hull Kingston Rovers have signed to the key players for another two
:23:22. > :23:25.seasons. Michael Dobson has extended his contract until the end
:23:25. > :23:33.of the 2014 campaign. His half-back colleague Blake Green has also
:23:33. > :23:37.signed a new contract. Today hardly any Humber sloops remain in working
:23:38. > :23:41.condition. Today the restored vessel the Spider T is sailing to
:23:41. > :23:51.for Scotland for a festival. Crispin Rolfe joined the board for
:23:51. > :23:55.
:23:55. > :24:02.the start of the voyage. -- the boat.
:24:02. > :24:10.My grandfather built these vessels. They were used for industrial
:24:10. > :24:15.purposes but now, they're like a listed building. They East slips
:24:15. > :24:21.were once the mainstay of local industry but today only a handful
:24:21. > :24:26.remain. -- these Humber slips. A bygone here of Industry that time
:24:26. > :24:35.has sailed by. There used to be thousands of them but is talking to
:24:35. > :24:40.a halt in the 1960s - very quickly. This was because of lorry transport.
:24:40. > :24:45.This is a 1926 vessel and the on the one remaining. It is the start
:24:45. > :24:50.of a journey from Grimsby to Scottish sea festival in Arbroath.
:24:50. > :24:57.She is the last one in the world and I thought how sad a war is that
:24:57. > :25:00.she is ready to be cut up and scrapped. She was launched as one
:25:00. > :25:06.of two it super slips for delivering bricks up and down the
:25:06. > :25:13.east coast. She was able to tackle the horrible conditions that
:25:13. > :25:18.sometimes faced a Humber approaches and the North Sea. The vessel is
:25:18. > :25:25.expecting a warm welcome in Arbroath. Her heyday and that of
:25:25. > :25:33.the family which built her has passed. You could see numerous
:25:33. > :25:40.boats and barges sailing craft going up there ever. It is like a
:25:40. > :25:50.dead world now. Fortunately, some ghosts remain to remind us of these
:25:50. > :25:50.
:25:50. > :25:52.legendary boats which were once the heartbeat of the Humber.
:25:52. > :25:55.Three baby meerkats have become the favourite attraction at a wildlife
:25:55. > :25:57.park near Lincoln. Two females and one male have been born at the
:25:57. > :26:00.Woodside Wildlife Park in Langworth. It was a surprise for the keepers
:26:00. > :26:07.as the parents only arrived there in spring. The park is now asking
:26:08. > :26:13.the public to suggest names for the trio.
:26:13. > :26:16.People spend a lot of time here. They are amazed. Everyone has seen
:26:16. > :26:22.them on the TV but this is putting the real-life animal together with
:26:22. > :26:32.the TV. People find them amazing. Do I think they're quite funny the
:26:32. > :26:39.way they stand on two feet. They are different. Their cue it. They
:26:39. > :26:43.have patterns on their backs. Let us have a recap of the
:26:43. > :26:47.headlines. The Arab uprising delivers his first major trial -
:26:47. > :26:50.the former Egyptian president appears in court.
:26:50. > :26:54.People in Lincolnshire react angrily to claims that foreign
:26:54. > :26:59.workers make better employees than British workers.
:26:59. > :27:05.Showers tomorrow, feeling pressure, top temperatures around Chelsea --
:27:05. > :27:11.20 Celsius. Responses coming in on the subject
:27:11. > :27:15.of foreign workers. I can tell you one British workers does not want
:27:15. > :27:21.the work. The Polish workers are the best you can find.
:27:21. > :27:26.This is from May - my sons are unable to get an interview for work,
:27:26. > :27:29.even after the attended university. My husband and I were both born in
:27:29. > :27:36.this country but because the inherited a Polish surname, they