:00:53. > :00:56.The boundary changes which leave these two Tories fighting for their
:00:56. > :00:58.jobs. From East Yorkshire to Afghanistan. The quad bike training
:00:58. > :01:01.being pioneered for troops overseas. The earliest harvest in history
:01:01. > :01:04.that's leaving some local producers with a bumper crop. And we'll be
:01:04. > :01:07.meeting the Lincolnshire business woman who convinced the dragons to
:01:07. > :01:09.don their forensic suits. MPs from all sides have criticised plans to
:01:09. > :01:12.change the areas they represent in Parliament. East Yorkshire will
:01:12. > :01:15.lose a constituency under a proposal to reduce the number of
:01:15. > :01:18.seats in the House of Commons. Senior Conservative, David Davies,
:01:18. > :01:21.has told BBC Look North he expects to remain an MP even though his
:01:21. > :01:27.Haltemprice and Howden constituency will be abolished in its present
:01:27. > :01:32.form. Let's cross live to our political editor who's in
:01:32. > :01:42.Cottingham this evening. What's been the reaction there to the
:01:42. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:50.shake-up? I think many people are struggle to name their MP at the
:01:50. > :01:58.best of times. I got some puzzled looks today when I asked the these
:01:58. > :02:06.people about the proposals. I am at one end of what is due to be a huge
:02:06. > :02:11.new constituency. By the time that clock gets to election day 2015,
:02:11. > :02:17.this will be part of Goole and Cottingham. It is a political match
:02:17. > :02:20.that many believe is not made in heaven. Take two Conservative MPs
:02:20. > :02:22.and only one seat up for grabs. Many familiar faces at Westminster
:02:22. > :02:25.are preparing to play musical chairs, including David Davies,
:02:25. > :02:35.whose Haltemprice and Howden constituency will be redrawn and
:02:35. > :02:36.
:02:36. > :02:41.Andrew Percy whose Brigg and Goole constituency will be carved up.
:02:41. > :02:48.support the principles. You cannot think selfishly and say I agree
:02:48. > :02:55.with the principles and then when it affects you personally see it is
:02:55. > :03:01.a bad idea. So here we have a proposed new constituency with much
:03:01. > :03:06.of north Lincolnshire becoming part of another new seat. Grimsby would
:03:06. > :03:11.remain on the electoral map but Cleethorpes would disappear.
:03:11. > :03:16.Bridlington replaces the current East Yorkshire constituency. The
:03:16. > :03:21.three Hull seats would remain but would take in more daughters.
:03:21. > :03:30.Lincolnshire remains largely unchanged but there is a change at
:03:30. > :03:38.Seaford. King's Lynn would cover north-west Norfolk. This is what
:03:38. > :03:42.voters in Goole feel. I think they were best as we were. I don't think
:03:42. > :03:50.there is any need to change, someone will always lose out.
:03:50. > :03:57.Cottingham is much more of a suburb of Hull really. And here are some
:03:57. > :04:02.views from Cottingham. How do you feel about being linked with Goole?
:04:02. > :04:08.Not at all! I think it should stay as it is. I do not know why they
:04:08. > :04:15.keep messing about with all these things. I do not think they should
:04:15. > :04:19.be merged, they are entirely different. It will be a struggle
:04:19. > :04:25.and at the moment representing an area like Hull North is challenging,
:04:25. > :04:31.there are lots of issues over health, education, housing, jobs
:04:31. > :04:34.and employment. It is going to be a challenge. All voters can have
:04:34. > :04:40.their say on the proposed new boundaries before they are signed
:04:40. > :04:50.off by Parliament new year -- by new year. If they do get the go-
:04:50. > :04:57.
:04:57. > :05:00.ahead, where will we see the big political contexts -- contests?
:05:01. > :05:08.Hull West and Hessle could be one of the most interesting
:05:08. > :05:15.battlegrounds. Traditionally Tory voting place is becoming attached
:05:15. > :05:20.to Alan Johnson's constituency. One national newspaper today suggested
:05:20. > :05:30.that it the last General Election had been fought on these new
:05:30. > :05:34.boundaries Hull would have gone to the Tories. I do not think many
:05:34. > :05:37.people would have predicted that. spoke to David Davies, the
:05:37. > :05:40.Conservative MP for Haltemprice and Howden in East Yorkshire, which
:05:40. > :05:50.under these proposed changes would be split up. I asked him what he
:05:50. > :05:50.
:05:50. > :05:56.thought of the plans. I was always concerned about how they would
:05:57. > :06:04.workout. As you can see in my constituency, some eight years are
:06:04. > :06:10.now being moved into West Hull. Will you be fighting to save the
:06:10. > :06:14.existing boundary? Whether we can do that I doubt. What we will
:06:14. > :06:20.certainly be looking to do is make sure the constituencies have some
:06:20. > :06:27.sort of Keegan's. There are villages who do not feel a part of
:06:27. > :06:34.Hull. Are you in favour, in principle, to the boundary change
:06:34. > :06:44.even if it could lead to you losing your job? I do not think we should
:06:44. > :06:50.
:06:51. > :06:57.do that. The way they should do it is paid at least lip-service to the
:06:57. > :07:07.interests of local constituents. I think where they feel their
:07:07. > :07:13.
:07:13. > :07:22.constituency is is important. you be standing to be the new MP
:07:22. > :07:27.for cool and Cottingham? -- Goole and Cottingham? The most important
:07:27. > :07:31.thing is that my constituents are well represented. Do you think the
:07:31. > :07:37.boundary changes are a cynical attempt by the Tories to reduce the
:07:37. > :07:43.number of Labour MPs? I do not think that is true. What I have
:07:43. > :07:53.said the historically is that the Labour Party had to get around 5%
:07:53. > :07:55.
:07:55. > :08:01.less votes to when. It is right that should be corrected. In a word,
:08:01. > :08:11.is it a good idea or a bad idea as it stands? It is an all key idea
:08:11. > :08:20.
:08:20. > :08:22.but it needs to be modified, I think. -- OK idea. Let me know what
:08:22. > :08:32.you think tonight. In a moment, spreading the word, how
:08:32. > :08:43.
:08:43. > :08:45.Lincolnshire community groups have Over 17,000 British troops are
:08:46. > :08:52.currently posted overseas and some of the most specialised training
:08:52. > :08:55.for them is taking place in East Yorkshire. Hundreds of soldiers are
:08:55. > :09:02.learning to use the army's most up- to-date equipment at the Defence
:09:02. > :09:05.School of Transport at Leconfield. In the second of our reports on the
:09:05. > :09:15.armed forces, our reporter has been to see the final preparations for
:09:15. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:19.deployment. Dusty, unpredictable, unwelcoming. This landscape has
:09:19. > :09:29.been created to prepare quad bikers for a Afghanistan, even though its
:09:29. > :09:37.
:09:37. > :09:44.The primary role is for battle extraction for the casualties. Also
:09:44. > :09:46.for resupplied for the guys out on the ground with the patrol. Some of
:09:46. > :09:56.these students are on top-up training, having already driven
:09:56. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:07.them in Iraq. It is very similar to the ground in Iraq. It is useful.
:10:07. > :10:12.This is the only place in the UK that serves -- trains soldiers on
:10:12. > :10:18.quad bikes. From here they go back to their bases where they are
:10:18. > :10:24.deployed. There are currently 10,000 British troops in
:10:24. > :10:27.Afghanistan, 900 involved in the Libya conflict and 300 in Cyprus.
:10:27. > :10:29.These Territorial Army soldiers from East Yorkshire have been
:10:29. > :10:37.completing their final exercises in preparation for deployment in
:10:37. > :10:42.Helmand province, Afghanistan. looking forward to it. We are
:10:42. > :10:47.training hard for it. We are looking forward to using our skills
:10:47. > :10:50.out on the ground. Their training, in part, is designed to keep them
:10:50. > :10:53.safe. They hope they are never in a situation to test its worth. Well,
:10:53. > :10:57.for those soldiers deployed abroad, they leave behind family and
:10:57. > :11:00.friends. It can be equally distressing for them. Derek
:11:00. > :11:06.Shakesby is the welfare officer for the 4th Battalion Yorkshire
:11:06. > :11:10.Regiment. We've seen some of the soldiers in your regiment training
:11:10. > :11:18.there ahead of active duty, how difficult a time as that for the
:11:18. > :11:28.soldier and their family? It is very difficult for the soul dear. A
:11:28. > :11:29.
:11:29. > :11:34.lot of them are deployed. You have got soldiers there which are new to
:11:34. > :11:37.ate and also some who have been there for 18 months or so. It is
:11:37. > :11:41.also very difficult for their families, some have not been
:11:41. > :11:47.through the process before and therefore do not know what to
:11:47. > :11:53.expect. How do you get them through that? We have a series of briefings
:11:53. > :11:58.for them. They also bring their families in four briefings giving
:11:58. > :12:02.an introduction to Afghanistan, what the facilities are like, and
:12:02. > :12:07.covering the welfare aspects, communications, what happens if
:12:07. > :12:14.there is a casualty out there. What happens if there is an emergency at
:12:14. > :12:19.home and how to get the soldier back home as well. How can you help
:12:19. > :12:24.families cope when their loved ones are actually away and in very
:12:24. > :12:30.dangerous circumstances? One of the key factors is to keep them
:12:30. > :12:35.informed all the time of what is happening. There are lots of Leeds
:12:35. > :12:43.they can communicate with the soldiers but when they are actually
:12:43. > :12:50.away out on the ground there are difficulties. They can communicate
:12:50. > :12:55.through satellite phones, telephones, the have warfare cards.
:12:55. > :13:01.Better than it used to be? It is better and it is progressing all
:13:01. > :13:07.the time. We have set up family support groups in the areas and we
:13:07. > :13:12.have widened the family support network. We have taking in the mums,
:13:12. > :13:16.dads and Grand parents, we are keeping them informed and forming
:13:16. > :13:26.support groups. That is very interesting. Thank you for coming
:13:26. > :13:39.
:13:39. > :13:49.in. I will be talking to Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary on Thursday
:13:49. > :13:49.
:13:49. > :13:53.night. You can contact us with your A man whose body was found in a
:13:53. > :13:55.garden in Boston at the weekend has been named by police as Janusz
:13:55. > :13:58.Smoderek. A post-mortem examination revealed that the 48-year-old died
:13:58. > :14:01.from stab wounds, and police are now treating his death as murder.
:14:01. > :14:08.Divers have today been searching a waterway near where the body was
:14:08. > :14:13.found. It's quite shocking, I suppose. It's not the sort of place
:14:13. > :14:17.you expect murders. He was killed just round the corner from where we
:14:17. > :14:21.live. I don't know if he was English or whatever but I feel like
:14:21. > :14:24.moving out to the town now. another development, this evening
:14:24. > :14:27.armed police officers have been sent to Boston. They've been
:14:27. > :14:28.deployed to an incident on Skirbeck Road. Police haven't said if it's
:14:28. > :14:32.connected with the murder investigation.
:14:32. > :14:36.On Look North last Thursday, in a story about vacant shops in Grimsby,
:14:36. > :14:41.we showed a picture of Not Just Cards, in Freeman Street. In fact,
:14:41. > :14:44.at the time we filmed, the shop was simply closed for a holiday. As you
:14:44. > :14:51.can see it's now reopened, and remains very much in business.
:14:51. > :14:58.We're happy to make that clear, and we're sorry for the mistake. Do
:14:58. > :15:05.love to them. -- good luck to them. Still ahead tonight: The bumper
:15:05. > :15:08.harvest that's boosting some Lincolnshire businesses. Teaching
:15:08. > :15:13.kids to learn through things that interested them rather than just
:15:13. > :15:21.sitting there would have done me a world of good in school. And a
:15:22. > :15:25.Lincolnshire businesswoman who faced the Dragon's last night.
:15:26. > :15:35.Tonight photograph is of Skidby Windmill against a lovely sunset
:15:36. > :15:40.
:15:40. > :15:50.I think we're all hoping for another aircraft landing at Leeds-
:15:50. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:58.Bradford. I didn't say three hours, I said five minutes. Just read the
:15:58. > :16:03.forecast. The headline for the next 24 hours has quite unsettled. Quite
:16:04. > :16:12.a lot of cloud and some sunny spells. Also a risk of some patchy
:16:12. > :16:16.rain on this or collusion. Quite a few places will stay dry. We've had
:16:16. > :16:22.quite a bit of sunshine today and it has once again been a windy day
:16:22. > :16:28.with winds of up to 40 mph. There are a few showers working their way
:16:28. > :16:34.in from the West. We have about half-an-hour's 4th of sunshine left.
:16:34. > :16:39.Overnight, the wind picks up a bit and that weather front could bring
:16:39. > :16:49.in a few spots of rain into western areas. It will be mainly dry
:16:49. > :16:52.
:16:52. > :16:58.weather tonight with temperatures down to 11 Celsius. These are the
:16:58. > :17:03.sunrise and paid times for tomorrow. The variable and often large
:17:03. > :17:08.amounts of cloud. You can see some gaps in the cloud their but the
:17:08. > :17:12.cloud will tend to build and there will be a few showers coming across
:17:12. > :17:21.East Yorkshire and northern parts of Lincolnshire. Eastern areas
:17:21. > :17:26.looks set to be dry for the what will turn quite cloudy. Top
:17:26. > :17:30.temperatures tomorrow around about 17 Celsius and that strong
:17:30. > :17:35.overnight when false slowly ease. Thursday will be the best day of
:17:35. > :17:42.the week with the lighter winds and a risk of showers on Friday. An
:17:42. > :17:49.unsettled weekend. A public service announcement if
:17:49. > :17:53.you're an aircraft spotter and wish to make a complaint... You complain
:17:53. > :17:59.about things like transmitter about things like transmitter
:17:59. > :18:02.pictures. David Cameron has said he wants more of us to give up our
:18:02. > :18:05.time to help others and become part of the so-called Big Society.
:18:05. > :18:08.The idea is that volunteers take the place of government bodies.
:18:08. > :18:11.Well, this week some of the best examples of this in Lincolnshire
:18:11. > :18:14.have been shown to a group of the Prime Minister's key advisers.
:18:14. > :18:17.Vicky Johnson has been to find out if they were impressed.
:18:17. > :18:21.The phrase whistle stop tour could have been invented for the team
:18:21. > :18:25.from the commission for rural communities. Over the past day and
:18:25. > :18:29.a half, they've been to Alford to see how a local church is running a
:18:29. > :18:35.community bank. They've visited the new Caistor arts and heritage
:18:35. > :18:41.centre and taken part in a new age kurling session. All of these
:18:42. > :18:46.projects run with the help of volunteers. What I'm trying to do
:18:46. > :18:50.is to collect some of the best practices around here that I can
:18:50. > :18:53.talk to the government about and that can be replicated. Seven years
:18:53. > :18:56.ago, this was an empty church hall. Now, it's Alford's thriving
:18:56. > :19:03.community centre complete with cafe, citizens advice bureau, and youth
:19:03. > :19:07.groups and it's all thanks to an army of volunteers. In a small
:19:07. > :19:12.community like this, like so many others in Lincolnshire, it is
:19:12. > :19:15.essential that people work together. Going back 200 years, they had to
:19:15. > :19:20.provide their own facilities because there was so little central
:19:20. > :19:23.government. I think we're going back that way with the cuts.
:19:23. > :19:29.Hickson is typical. He does up to 40 hours unpaid work at the centre
:19:29. > :19:37.every week. I think anyone would do that if they had the same passion
:19:38. > :19:41.we have to see the community develop. They were also interested
:19:41. > :19:44.in seeing how young people overcome barriers to get into jobs. This
:19:44. > :19:50.place does not only offer apprenticeships to young people
:19:50. > :19:54.excluded from school but also help solve transport problems. I have
:19:54. > :20:01.learnt a lot since I came here. I now know how an engine works where
:20:01. > :20:05.I did not know much before. I did not really enjoy a school so to be
:20:05. > :20:09.more hands-on has taught me a lot. The commission's visit has been
:20:09. > :20:12.used on many ways. Not only have they learned more about the
:20:12. > :20:16.problems faced by our rural communities, they have also seen
:20:16. > :20:22.some of the solutions. Positive solutions which might work
:20:22. > :20:25.elsewhere in the country. Thanks for getting in touch about
:20:25. > :20:28.the proposals for a new mosque in Lincoln. Residents opposed to the
:20:28. > :20:30.mosque in the Boultham Park area insist their objections are nothing
:20:30. > :20:33.to do with racism, and insist they're worried about traffic
:20:33. > :20:42.levels. But the Islamic Association says it urgently needs bigger
:20:42. > :20:52.premises. Here are just some of your responses: Dan says it's
:20:52. > :21:14.
:21:14. > :21:17.preposterous having a development Thank you for all of those.
:21:17. > :21:23.It's the earliest harvest in years and for some its producing apples
:21:23. > :21:25.that are bigger, juicier and sweeter than ever. For one
:21:25. > :21:28.Lincolnshire orchard, they've got so many apples they don't know what
:21:28. > :21:34.to do with them all. As our rural affairs correspondent Caroline
:21:34. > :21:38.Bilton reports. Things are looking pretty rosy at
:21:38. > :21:44.this tortured. A family-run pick your own business that had had a
:21:44. > :21:50.bumper crop, not just in quantity but in quality as well. This is a
:21:50. > :21:54.family orchard. As you can see, we are laden with Bramley apples this
:21:54. > :21:59.year and they are considerably larger than most years. The long
:21:59. > :22:03.hot spring and cool late summer has, for some, led to the biggest,
:22:03. > :22:07.juiciest, sweetest apples, and they are already for the picking earlier
:22:07. > :22:12.than usual. Last year he would have had to wait
:22:12. > :22:18.another two weeks before you had to pick your apples. This year's
:22:18. > :22:23.harvest his earliest and 25 years. They say, over the next 10 weeks,
:22:23. > :22:27.200,000 tonnes of apples will be picked in the UK. For this orchard
:22:27. > :22:34.that relies on the passing trade of the public, a bumper crop does not
:22:34. > :22:38.mean a bumper business. If we have a lot, everyone else has a lot, so
:22:38. > :22:44.it does not always work in our favour. These fallen apples do have
:22:44. > :22:49.a definite home to go to. They are picked up by local cider maker who
:22:49. > :22:59.marshes them up and presses them to produce local brew that he thinks,
:22:59. > :23:03.this year, could be one of the best yet. This tank is no of over 2000
:23:03. > :23:10.litres, and this one has over 1000 litres. We have never seen this
:23:10. > :23:14.much for it and it is very good for it, very early. We're expecting
:23:14. > :23:18.record volumes and the best side of we have ever made. For the next few
:23:18. > :23:24.weeks, he will be working round the clock, squeezing the goodness out
:23:24. > :23:28.of this plot of apples. Sander is hoping people will avoid the
:23:28. > :23:31.supermarkets and helper picked her prize apples.
:23:31. > :23:33.Scunthorpe United striker Andy Barcham has failed in his effort to
:23:33. > :23:37.have a three match ban overturned. He received the suspension
:23:37. > :23:40.following this challenge against Sheffield United. It means that the
:23:40. > :23:49.Iron must seek their first league win of the season, against Rochdale
:23:49. > :23:53.tonight, without him. It's frustrating but we're at the start
:23:53. > :23:57.of the season, not the end, so you have to have a bigger picture and
:23:57. > :24:00.an idea of where you want to be at Christmas and that the end of the
:24:00. > :24:03.season, and I think we're progressing. And don't forget you
:24:03. > :24:06.can get the full coverage of tonight's match. BBC Radio
:24:06. > :24:10.Humberside will have commentary on its FM frequency. The build up has
:24:10. > :24:13.started on Sportstalk, which is on air now.
:24:13. > :24:17.It was an unusual business idea but still failed to win investment from
:24:17. > :24:20.the dragons last night on the BBC programme Dragons Den. Jacqui
:24:20. > :24:28.Thompson from Lincolnshire wants to get more children interested in
:24:28. > :24:31.science by using techniques developed by forensic experts. Phil
:24:31. > :24:40.Connell has been to meet the entrepreneur who says she's
:24:40. > :24:45.undeterred by the rejection. The Dragons Den found itself
:24:45. > :24:50.embroiled in a different kind of inquiry. It's one of the more
:24:50. > :24:57.unusual business ideas they have seen. What we have Asif vitality
:24:57. > :25:03.has happened. This was created in 2008 as a way of engaging children
:25:03. > :25:07.into liking signs and a fun way. Jacqui Thompson's police themed
:25:07. > :25:11.workshops is based around forensic science. Despite an entertaining
:25:11. > :25:16.pitch last night, her idea failed to persuade the dragons to part
:25:16. > :25:21.with their cash. It is not a scalable business at all because it
:25:21. > :25:26.is wholly dependent on yourself. If you get knocked down tomorrow, bang
:25:26. > :25:29.goes a our investment. Back home today, she said the Dragon's Bach
:25:29. > :25:34.had been worse than their bite. She has taken on board their comments
:25:34. > :25:38.and bullies her business is stronger than ever. It is maybe 1-1
:25:38. > :25:44.to a lot more schools to deliver this concept, because I know it
:25:44. > :25:48.does make a difference. It teaches the children that if there
:25:48. > :25:56.considering a life of crime, they will get caught. Every contact Lisa
:25:56. > :26:04.trace. While Jacqui came home with no investment, these three
:26:04. > :26:07.entrepreneur's from Hull had more success last night. They are now it
:26:07. > :26:12.exporting to 10 countries with endorsements from several
:26:12. > :26:17.celebrities including one of the judges on at the X Factor. For our
:26:17. > :26:22.latest entrepreneur, it is back to the drawing board. Undeterred by
:26:22. > :26:25.rejection and determined to succeed with or without them. I am not
:26:25. > :26:33.defeated and I will certainly take this business to the heights that
:26:33. > :26:37.they wanted to go to. Just watch this space. She is nearly as scary
:26:37. > :26:44.as Hillary. We wish her well. Let's get a recap of the national and
:26:44. > :26:50.regional headlines. Soaring energy bills and record increases in the
:26:50. > :26:52.price of clothing have pushed inflation to a three you hide. The
:26:52. > :26:55.boundary changes which leave these two Tories fighting for their jobs.
:26:55. > :26:58.Tomorrow's weather will be rather cloudy at times with some sunny
:26:58. > :27:03.intervals and a risk of scattered showers. Maximum temperature of 17
:27:03. > :27:09.Celsius. Response on the subject a boundary
:27:09. > :27:15.changes. Sarah says we need fewer MPs but a fairer way of
:27:15. > :27:20.representing people, the current system does not work. Mike says it
:27:20. > :27:24.is silly to change the boundaries just to benefit the Tories. He says
:27:24. > :27:28.we have more people than ever but we are reducing the number of MPs,
:27:28. > :27:33.madness. Steve says we have an increasing population and should