:00:16. > :00:20.The 4th Good evening. Welcome to BBC Look North. There headlines:
:00:20. > :00:25.Rescued from the freezing North Sea. How a woman survived a fall
:00:25. > :00:29.overboard from a ferry. When we head there was a person in the
:00:29. > :00:33.water in the sea at night, I think she was in there for half an hour,
:00:33. > :00:38.chances of survival are normally quite minimal.
:00:38. > :00:46.A race against time to save a whale stuck in the mud on the Humber.
:00:46. > :00:53.loaded about Revolver, to be honest, because I thought rubes. One of our
:00:53. > :00:59.functions is to prevent suffering. -- I thought, whoops.
:00:59. > :01:03.�19,000 and more will be spent on moving this playground. And the
:01:03. > :01:13.smallest car in the world, made in Lincolnshire.
:01:13. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:19.All the latest coming up on the Good evening. A woman who fell from
:01:19. > :01:24.a ferry off the Flamborough coast has been described as the luckiest
:01:24. > :01:29.woman alive. She managed to keep itself afloat for half-an-hour in
:01:30. > :01:34.freezing water before emergency teams arrived to save her. The
:01:34. > :01:37.incident was 20 miles off the Flamborough coast. The drama
:01:37. > :01:43.happened as the 23-year-old was travelling on a ferry from
:01:43. > :01:47.Newcastle to the Netherlands. Phil Connell has more.
:01:47. > :01:53.In dark, stormy conditions, the RAF search-and-rescue helicopter found
:01:53. > :01:59.the ferry 20 miles off Flamborough Head. On board, the woman was
:01:59. > :02:04.winched to safety after being rescued from the sea by a lifeboat
:02:04. > :02:09.crew 30 minutes earlier. It was thought she had fallen 30 ft into
:02:09. > :02:12.freezing water after going on deck to light a cigarette. When we heard
:02:12. > :02:16.the situation, a person in the water in the sea at night, I think
:02:16. > :02:22.she was in there for half an hour, chances of survival are quite
:02:22. > :02:27.minimal. Extremely lucky. Condition as last night were said to be
:02:28. > :02:32.similar to those seen along the East Coast today. How winds and
:02:32. > :02:36.stormy seas. In weather like this, the safe rescue of the woman has
:02:36. > :02:42.been described as nothing short of a miracle. Today, the quick actions
:02:42. > :02:47.of those on board the ferry have been praised for saving her life.
:02:47. > :02:51.There is a survivability time in any water, any open-water. The
:02:51. > :03:00.lower the temperature, the survivability time is Low Wood. It
:03:00. > :03:03.is -- it was crucial she was found quickly. A Humberside Offshore
:03:03. > :03:09.Training Association is one of seven companies in the country that
:03:09. > :03:13.train people for eventualities like last night. This session today was
:03:13. > :03:18.for those working on oil and gas rigs, but experts say cruise on
:03:18. > :03:22.board the ferry would have been trained in similar ways. They then
:03:23. > :03:26.have to launch boat, how to recover them, how to identify people in the
:03:26. > :03:32.water. When the lady was pulled out of the sea, she will have been very
:03:32. > :03:37.cold. The crew have to know what to do to enhance chances of survival
:03:37. > :03:42.before they even get back to the ship. The one-man has now been
:03:42. > :03:46.released from Scarborough Hospital, returning home to Hertfordshire
:03:46. > :03:50.with a story of survival she will never forget -- the woman has been
:03:50. > :03:54.released. He incredible story. And it has
:03:55. > :03:59.been a very busy 24 hours for rescue crews along the Humber. They
:03:59. > :04:03.were scramble to Immingham docks this morning to help free a 30 ft
:04:03. > :04:09.whale calf stranded on the nearby mudflats. Crispin Rolfe was there
:04:09. > :04:13.as crews battled to save its life. I actually loaded up my revolve --
:04:13. > :04:18.I loaded at my revolver with bullets, because at one time, I
:04:18. > :04:21.thought whoops. The outcome is unbelievable. They started with a
:04:21. > :04:26.light. Rescue teams from across the region come to the aid of the
:04:26. > :04:30.stranded minky whale. Became more in hope than expectation, after the
:04:30. > :04:35.cat was found trapped on a mud bank. The mud, hazardous to the whale,
:04:35. > :04:40.was a danger to the rescuers as well. That was not the Aironi wife.
:04:40. > :04:46.It was quite intimidating, when you first saw it, their weight and size
:04:46. > :04:52.of it. We did not want to get too close to it. We started off by
:04:52. > :04:56.digging a trench to help the water come in. We were told we had
:04:56. > :05:01.reached high tide, and the water still have not floated their whale.
:05:01. > :05:05.We started so were the tactics. of theirs was this, using the
:05:05. > :05:12.inshore lifeboat to create waves and frightened of whale into action.
:05:12. > :05:21.Eventually, that had some except -- that had some success. We only had
:05:21. > :05:25.about 15 minutes before the animal would drown. It was a simple option.
:05:25. > :05:29.It is now six hours since rescuers came together to try and ease his
:05:29. > :05:35.way of the mud flat. It is estimated to weigh between 12 and
:05:35. > :05:40.15 tonnes. They have managed to get it out into the water. The question
:05:40. > :05:43.now is worried be able to swim for itself and escape to the safety of
:05:43. > :05:46.the Humber? Rescuers held their breath, fearing
:05:46. > :05:53.the worst, that the tide would fall to fast and there were would have
:05:53. > :05:59.to be put out of its misery. Until base. Fins turning, sea churning,
:05:59. > :06:04.and an escaping to the Humber and to its waiting mother. It will be
:06:04. > :06:07.known whether it has made it to the safety of the North Sea in another
:06:07. > :06:15.24 hours, but for the rescuers, the result they hoped for but never
:06:15. > :06:21.really believed could happen. are over the moon. It makes you
:06:21. > :06:25.feel wonderful. Crispin is in the studio now. How did the best two
:06:25. > :06:30.teams make sure this had a happy ending? Extraordinary stuff. These
:06:30. > :06:37.things often do not go the way we plan them. It has been a very long
:06:37. > :06:44.day for the rescuers. The whale was stranded at four am. By 8 o'clock,
:06:44. > :06:50.a team of rescuers began trying to free it. By 10am, 20 rescuers had
:06:50. > :06:56.got out to the shoreline, turning up the whale into one upright
:06:56. > :07:03.position. That was critical for its breathing. They began to dig a
:07:03. > :07:08.channel to try and release it. 1:30pm, and high tide. Not high
:07:08. > :07:12.enough to float the wealth, but enough to turn it, so it faced
:07:12. > :07:17.forwards towards the Humber. By 2:30pm, the tide had turned and
:07:17. > :07:22.there was a possibility that they would again run out of water. One
:07:22. > :07:29.told me that they had had half an hour to save the whale at this putt,
:07:29. > :07:33.and it was getting to just before 3 o'clock that they successfully
:07:33. > :07:39.freed the Whale and gutted to swim away into open water. Her plea to
:07:39. > :07:44.the safety of the North's sea. Thank you very much. -- hopefully
:07:44. > :07:51.to the safety of the North Sea. In a moment: Back to school, but
:07:51. > :07:56.not as we know it. New classrooms. It is 40 ft tall and cost more than
:07:56. > :07:59.�90,000 to put up. A climbing frame at a Cleethorpes youth centre is to
:08:00. > :08:06.be taken down and move to a new site after complaints from people
:08:06. > :08:10.living nearby. It could cost a further �70,000 of taxpayers' money
:08:10. > :08:20.to do it. It was meant to improve the lives
:08:20. > :08:49.
:08:49. > :08:57.It is hoped a private sector partnership will help Shell some of
:08:57. > :09:00.the costs, and they will charge people to use it. A waste of money.
:09:00. > :09:06.That money could be put into education or something. I disagree
:09:06. > :09:09.with it, totally disagree. Council officers planned the site under
:09:09. > :09:13.delegated powers, which means councillors did not need to
:09:13. > :09:17.scrutinise plans. Leonor Pidgen was in charge of leisure at the time
:09:17. > :09:21.and she admits it could have been handled better. All the sudden,
:09:21. > :09:26.this sprouting on your doorstep virtually overnight, without really
:09:26. > :09:31.knowing it was coming and how high it would be, I think they needed
:09:31. > :09:38.more consultation and explanation. They new administration said they
:09:38. > :09:45.wanted backing used as soon as possible. Mistakes do happen. We
:09:45. > :09:47.have to correct that now. That is the important thing. Until a
:09:47. > :09:55.private partner comes forward, the question of when people can start
:09:55. > :09:59.using this again is left hanging. I have been speaking to Councillor
:09:59. > :10:03.Chris Shaw, the leader of North East Lincolnshire Council. I asked
:10:03. > :10:12.whether he thought the playground was a bad mistake. Not really. The
:10:12. > :10:16.thing is, Peter, we inherited the problem. We were given three
:10:16. > :10:21.choices. The first was to do nothing, which was not an option.
:10:21. > :10:28.The second was to scrap the same, which could have been a total waste
:10:28. > :10:33.of taxpayers' money. The third choice was to have it resurrected
:10:33. > :10:40.where people could use it. could any council of any party end
:10:40. > :10:43.up in this situation? It had not been properly checked! I was
:10:43. > :10:52.involved in the decision-making process and it was first erected.
:10:52. > :10:55.It is a problem we inherited. You're dismissing Miss, but it is
:10:55. > :11:03.�92,000 of taxpayers' money for something which are standing idle.
:11:03. > :11:09.Do you want to apologise? I have nothing to apologise for. I would
:11:09. > :11:15.apologise if I had spent �92,000 for it to stand idle. It will be
:11:15. > :11:22.used. It is standing idle now. It will cost another �17,000 to move
:11:22. > :11:27.it. The thing about 80 years we have a choice, we either leave it
:11:27. > :11:32.there or remove it. It was a bad decision made by what was a
:11:32. > :11:38.coalition council. It was one offers a's mistake. A topper said
:11:38. > :11:45.does not work for the authority. you want to apologise for the waste
:11:45. > :11:51.of �92,000? I cannot apologise for someone else's mistake. How sure
:11:51. > :11:59.are you there can be another site found? We are working with people
:11:59. > :12:03.who have expressed an interest in putting it on their side.
:12:03. > :12:09.English language, when will kids be able to pay -- when will could be
:12:09. > :12:14.able to play on it? We hope it will be within 12 months. I will invite
:12:14. > :12:19.you to play on it, and you can even bring Paul Hudson. Thank-you. How
:12:19. > :12:22.do you feel about the amount of taxpayers' money being spent to
:12:22. > :12:32.pull the structure down? Should it have been put up in the first
:12:32. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:53.A toddler who drowned in a lake at a Lincolnshire caravan park has
:12:53. > :12:57.been named as 19 month old high game from Peterborough. The toddler
:12:57. > :13:06.disappeared while his prayers were put in a pretend at Skegness Water
:13:06. > :13:13.Leisure Park. -- the toddler has been named as tight game. - - Kai
:13:13. > :13:16.Game. The father of all when whose home
:13:16. > :13:20.was badly damaged in an arson attack on a Hull estate says the
:13:20. > :13:24.terrace has become a target for thieves and vandals. Dave Allen
:13:24. > :13:28.says residents fear for their safety as these move in to take
:13:28. > :13:33.copper piping from the homes. is a chap who lives in the end
:13:33. > :13:38.house on his own, and he is terrified. He's frightened it gets
:13:38. > :13:42.set on fire again, which could happen. Nothing is getting done
:13:42. > :13:45.since the fire. To two Lincolnshire care centres
:13:45. > :13:48.for adults with learning difficulties could be close to
:13:48. > :13:53.privatise. Lincolnshire County Council says the review is needed
:13:53. > :14:03.in light of use has been given their own budgets. And 90 day
:14:03. > :14:03.
:14:03. > :14:11.consultation period will begin on they two centres, among others.
:14:11. > :14:16.Thank you far watching. Still ahead, their new coach to take charge of
:14:16. > :14:26.policy from next season. And the smallest car in the world now of
:14:26. > :14:31.
:14:31. > :14:36.the production line and on the road Tonight's photo is of straw bales.
:14:36. > :14:41.A lovely picture, perfect September colours.
:14:41. > :14:44.A quick update now on the digital switch-over. If you live in certain
:14:44. > :14:47.parts of the area, you may have seen adverts advising you to retune
:14:47. > :14:50.on September 7th. But, because you are seeing this programme right now,
:14:50. > :14:52.it means you are getting your pictures from the Belmont
:14:52. > :14:55.transmitter which has already switched. The advice is, if you
:14:55. > :15:05.like what you are seeing now, no need to retune again, just keep
:15:05. > :15:21.
:15:21. > :15:29.watching. The headline is a very unsettled
:15:29. > :15:34.one as we said yesterday. Autumn has already arrived. We have had
:15:34. > :15:38.gusts of 50 miles an hour. You can see the number of isobars for
:15:38. > :15:41.tomorrow suggests it will be a windy day. It offers some
:15:41. > :15:45.protection from the showers that will be packing into western parts
:15:45. > :15:50.of the country. Some places will actually stay dry despite the fact
:15:50. > :15:55.that it is a very unsettled section. Here is this morning's rain, this
:15:55. > :15:59.vivid cold front, it has left behind and mix of cloud and
:15:59. > :16:03.sunshine. Some shares have been getting across but most cases it
:16:03. > :16:07.right now are dry with some sunshine. Overnight, the risk of a
:16:07. > :16:13.few blustery showers Cushing in from the West but they should be
:16:13. > :16:21.few and far between. Quite a few places will stay dry but very windy
:16:21. > :16:31.- that is the main feature of the weather. Temperatures down to 11
:16:31. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:37.degrees. The sun will rise in the Another very windy day to come but
:16:37. > :16:44.it should be fairly bright. It looks set to the summit at times
:16:45. > :16:50.but a few blustery showers cannot be ruled out. Later, a cloud may
:16:50. > :16:54.well increase from the West. But there will be a fair amount of dry
:16:54. > :17:03.weather in between those scattered showers. The winner will be strong
:17:03. > :17:07.and from the West, we are looking at highs of holiday in 17 degrees.
:17:07. > :17:17.Patchy rain at first on Thursday, brighter later and a similar story
:17:17. > :17:30.
:17:30. > :17:35.Hull FC have announced coach Richard Agar is to leave the club
:17:35. > :17:45.at the end of the season. He has described working at the KC Stadium
:17:45. > :17:47.
:17:47. > :17:49.as an honour. Richard Agar has been with the
:17:49. > :17:58.Black and Whites since 2005, initially as assistant coach before
:17:58. > :18:06.being put in the hot seat on May 2008. A Challenge Cup final
:18:06. > :18:09.appearance in 2008 was the highlight of his reign.
:18:09. > :18:13.Challenge Cup final, obviously be didn't get the result but for any
:18:13. > :18:16.coach to take his team to Wembley is a major honour. His departure
:18:17. > :18:23.comes six weeks after the club was taken over by Hull City's Adam
:18:23. > :18:33.Pearson. At the time, he said Agar was going nowhere. In a statement
:18:33. > :18:42.
:18:42. > :18:51.All the best for the future. We recognise the exciting new chapter
:18:51. > :18:58.in the club's history. We're looking forward to the search for a
:18:58. > :19:03.new head coach. The first couple of seasons was all right but all he
:19:03. > :19:06.has done since then his lose games. A I think it is sad because of are
:19:06. > :19:11.the last couple of years he did well, getting a good team together
:19:11. > :19:21.and then sometimes it changes for people. In a statement earlier
:19:21. > :19:26.
:19:26. > :19:30.Agar is now being heavily linked with the vacant job at Wakefield
:19:30. > :19:33.and it's expected that Peter Gentle will be confirmed as next coach of
:19:33. > :19:43.Hull FC but with at least two games left in the season, fans here in
:19:43. > :19:46.
:19:46. > :19:49.West Hull hope it won't cause any We have just heard that all schools
:19:49. > :19:51.across Lincolnshire have today been urged to become academies by the
:19:51. > :19:54.county council. Hull's newest Academy building has thrown open
:19:54. > :19:59.its doors to pupils for the first time. Sirius building incorporating
:19:59. > :20:02.Ganton special school has cost more than �48 million. Archbishop
:20:02. > :20:04.Sentamu's new building across in East Hull opens next week. They are
:20:04. > :20:10.part of the huge �400 million Building Schools for the Future
:20:10. > :20:16.programme in the city. The serious Academy certainly has
:20:16. > :20:20.an impressive looked, with facilities ranging from a 3 D
:20:20. > :20:26.interactive hall and a demonstration Lab. Tell me what you
:20:26. > :20:29.see. The pupils certainly seem to impress. Everything is brand new
:20:29. > :20:35.and of the range, it is great to have such an opportunity to be in
:20:35. > :20:41.such a fabulous environment. should be better for the grades.
:20:41. > :20:45.Before we had a uniform and everyone will now get down to
:20:45. > :20:48.learning and everyone will concentrate a lot more. This new-
:20:48. > :20:56.build is regarded very much as the icing on the cake, progress already
:20:56. > :21:00.achieved here at the Academy. For instance, in 2008, just 18%
:21:00. > :21:06.achieved five GCSEs including English and maths. By this year,
:21:06. > :21:10.that had risen to 46%. Staff are confident these new facilities will
:21:10. > :21:15.help improve attainment even further. It is investing in young
:21:15. > :21:21.people and it has an impact in raising standards and showing that
:21:21. > :21:24.they are valued and giving children the opportunity to study in a 21st
:21:24. > :21:30.century environment means that they are prepared for the future. Across
:21:30. > :21:36.the city, last minute preparations are underway at another academy
:21:37. > :21:42.which opens next week. When we opened today, everybody was so
:21:42. > :21:47.surprised. The facilities are a truly spectacular here. We have a
:21:47. > :21:53.fully professional theatre, we have a wonderful cybercafe and basically,
:21:53. > :21:55.if the student has an interest in something, they can follow it here.
:21:55. > :22:00.The �400 million schools for the Future programme will see every
:22:00. > :22:04.secondary and special school in Hull either rebuilt or remodelled.
:22:04. > :22:10.We have a real chance now of making an impact because we have the
:22:10. > :22:16.facilities and these are not just facilities that are bench marks,
:22:16. > :22:20.they are the best in the country. These are the first academies to be
:22:20. > :22:23.completed, the rest should be finished by 2014. Children
:22:23. > :22:26.attending the schools are certainly the lucky ones as there is unlikely
:22:26. > :22:34.to be the school's building programme on the scale for decades
:22:34. > :22:38.to come. We have had a big response to our
:22:38. > :22:40.story about speed cameras in Lincolnshire being vandalised. More
:22:40. > :22:48.than �300,000 has been spent this year in the county, fixing
:22:48. > :22:51.vandalised cameras. The Road Safety Partnership says 16 sites have been
:22:51. > :23:01.targeted since the start of the year including speed cameras in
:23:01. > :23:28.
:23:28. > :23:32.Lincoln, Grantham, Louth and Colin Dexter has received an
:23:32. > :23:39.honorary degree from the University of Lincoln today. He brought us one
:23:39. > :23:44.of TV's most loved detectives, Inspector Morse. He told the
:23:44. > :23:52.audience today that he still is proud to be a yellow belly!
:23:52. > :23:57.I thought it was extraordinarily clever Lee organised because there
:23:57. > :24:04.was an awful lot to get through. I think the audience must have been
:24:04. > :24:09.extremely happy that there was only one honoree, me, because if they
:24:09. > :24:13.had had to listen to have a dozen, that might have had been too long.
:24:13. > :24:16.Take a look at this - the smallest car on the planet. It's just 1.5
:24:16. > :24:26.metres long and fits just one person. And it's made in
:24:26. > :24:33.
:24:33. > :24:38.Our love for the small car has continued through the years with
:24:38. > :24:45.models made it all over the world. But how small would you be prepared
:24:45. > :24:53.to go? For instance, which you go this small? Comfort doesn't come
:24:53. > :24:57.into it! But it is re-engineered, automatic gearing, reverse, a
:24:57. > :25:03.weight distribution system to make it stable. It has conforms to all
:25:03. > :25:07.the current loss for motorcars. is a fully roadworthy replica of
:25:07. > :25:13.the world's smallest production car. It was promised last time we spoke
:25:13. > :25:21.to Alan and Emma about their scale model German bubble cars and now it
:25:21. > :25:26.has arrived. It is 1.5 metres long, has a 50 cc engine and will cost
:25:26. > :25:29.�7500 plus VAT. I love it because it makes even me look tall. Five
:25:29. > :25:35.have already been sold to an American collector and this
:25:35. > :25:42.interest from Europe, too. I was away at the weekend that a major
:25:42. > :25:45.exhibition of Micra cars and people commenting and it is a pat on the
:25:46. > :25:50.back for all the cold long nights in the workshop. The big difference
:25:50. > :26:00.from what Alan and Emma have made before is the fact that this one
:26:00. > :26:08.
:26:08. > :26:14.can go anywhere except motorways. I think it's absolutely stunning!
:26:14. > :26:17.It really is, what a fabulous little thing! They're very
:26:17. > :26:22.economical but no, I think there will stick to the one I've got.
:26:23. > :26:29.Still a little more attractive for collectors only but a two-seater
:26:29. > :26:33.version could follow soon. A reminder of the stories making
:26:33. > :26:36.the headlines: There have been renewed claims that News
:26:36. > :26:40.International chief James Murdoch knew phone hacking went beyond a
:26:40. > :26:48.single reporter. And a whale calf swims to safety
:26:48. > :26:53.six hours after becoming stranded on mud flats at Immingham docks.
:26:53. > :27:00.The weather, blustery showers with some places staying dry. Top
:27:00. > :27:06.temperatures around 18 Celsius. Response on the subject of the
:27:06. > :27:11.adventure playground that we spoke about earlier. Roy says, can
:27:11. > :27:16.someone tell us how the pay structure was made up, what do the
:27:16. > :27:21.council spend our money on? Another one says it is not ugly and is very
:27:21. > :27:26.important for children's development. Finally, James says,