:00:09. > :00:14.Good evening. Welcome to Look North. Here are the headlines: Dark times
:00:14. > :00:18.ahead for the families facing fuel poverty this winter. One MP says
:00:18. > :00:23.the energy companies are to blame. They definitely have a duty to be
:00:23. > :00:28.better than they are being. People are suffering fuel poverty. It is
:00:28. > :00:34.very difficult to explain to an auteur to -- an autistic child who
:00:34. > :00:38.is saying, I am cold. The Olympic runner who says he will
:00:38. > :00:42.not be stopped in his tracks by lack of funding. It has sharpened
:00:42. > :00:47.me up. Still blooming - the riot of colour
:00:47. > :00:50.in our gardens, even as the clocks are set to go back.
:00:50. > :00:54.And the pumpkins lighting up Disneyland this Hallowe'en.
:00:54. > :01:04.And it has been a beautiful day, but will the sun continued to shine
:01:04. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:11.this weekend? I will have the There are calls for energy
:01:11. > :01:16.companies to be charged with corporate manslaughter if people
:01:16. > :01:20.die this winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes. The
:01:20. > :01:23.Hull MP, Karl Turner, who was also a barrister, believes many
:01:23. > :01:28.companies could face court action as the number of households
:01:28. > :01:32.affected by fuel poverty continues to increase. Here's our political
:01:32. > :01:36.editor, Tim Iredale. With winter fast approaching, there
:01:36. > :01:40.are concerns that a growing number of households will struggle to
:01:40. > :01:48.afford their energy bills as temperatures plummet. Have you seen
:01:48. > :01:53.this before? Yes. Ros Reynolds lives in what she describes as a
:01:53. > :01:56.draughty farmhouse with her son. She is registered disabled but says
:01:56. > :02:04.she is pay more than half her monthly income to her energy
:02:04. > :02:10.provider. I get �554.60 each month in benefits and out of that I have
:02:10. > :02:17.to pay �311 on an estimated electric reading. She says she has
:02:17. > :02:23.even resorted to candlelight. pretty nice! What I will be doing
:02:23. > :02:27.is wrapping myself in three or four layers of clothing and put in on
:02:27. > :02:33.the coal fire and going to bed early. But trying to explain to my
:02:33. > :02:37.son is something different. definition of fuel poverty is a
:02:37. > :02:42.household where more than 10% of income is spent on keeping warm.
:02:42. > :02:48.That is believed to be around one in five in this country. It is
:02:48. > :02:52.estimated at around 2,700 people will die this year as a result of
:02:52. > :02:57.fuel poverty. All I have said in the House of Commons is that the
:02:57. > :03:02.behaviour of the big six energy companies is tantamount to a
:03:02. > :03:09.corporate manslaughter. The reason I say that is because the profits
:03:09. > :03:13.from these big six have gone from �15 to �125 per consumer. What I
:03:13. > :03:18.say is that they need to be responsible. They have a definite
:03:18. > :03:23.moral duty to be better than they are being. People are truly in fuel
:03:23. > :03:28.poverty. Earlier this month, the Prime Minister met representatives
:03:28. > :03:33.from the big six energy firms. He promised the Government would work
:03:33. > :03:37.harder to try to reduce bills. In the short term it seems that many
:03:37. > :03:44.families will have to make some tough financial choices this winter
:03:44. > :03:48.just to pay the bills. We approached Energy UK, which
:03:48. > :03:53.speaks for the big six, and they declined to comment tonight. Just
:03:53. > :03:59.before we came on the air, I spoke to Derek Lickorish from the Fuel
:03:59. > :04:03.Advisory property group. He ran EDF Energy but now his organisation
:04:04. > :04:08.advises the Government on fuel poverty. I asked him to explain how
:04:08. > :04:12.the companies should take on fuel poverty. I think they should have
:04:13. > :04:19.done for more to have him place a framework that will help the poor.
:04:19. > :04:23.-- done far more. There is a case for energy reform and the
:04:23. > :04:27.Government should intervene in the market. I would like to see the
:04:27. > :04:31.same determination to be applied to something like a regular tariff for
:04:32. > :04:36.consumers who do not access the market because they don't have IT,
:04:36. > :04:41.and of the 6 million homes we have in fuel poverty, many of them will
:04:41. > :04:45.be on the worst deal. That is where I am critical. And if more dive
:04:46. > :04:55.from the cold, is that a case of corporate manslaughter, as the MP
:04:55. > :04:59.is suggesting? -- if it more die? do understand but it becomes a
:05:00. > :05:03.distraction. There is a framework in which this market operates and I
:05:03. > :05:13.would like to see MPs talking about the number of things that would
:05:13. > :05:16.improve the plight of the fuel poor. Should the Government force the
:05:16. > :05:20.companies to do something? I think they should do something that would
:05:20. > :05:24.enable the energy companies to do something. If we look at the warm
:05:24. > :05:29.hands discount that is about to be introduced, that is a good
:05:29. > :05:33.initiative. But it is only going to pensioners on credit. We want to
:05:33. > :05:37.see people in receipt of cold weather payments get that and that
:05:37. > :05:42.would require legislation, which is a matter for government. You are an
:05:42. > :05:47.adviser to government on this issue. It sounds like they have some way
:05:47. > :05:52.to go? They have a long way to go. In addition to the warm homes
:05:53. > :05:57.discount, we are about to have the green deal, which will add another
:05:57. > :06:02.billion pounds to people's accounts, and we want to see that money spent
:06:02. > :06:06.on insulation for the fuel poor. The only long-term sustainable
:06:06. > :06:10.solution is insulating allow homes. Despite the fact we have some of
:06:10. > :06:14.the best gas prices compared to northern Europe, we use too much
:06:14. > :06:20.because too much of our heat escapes through the walls and
:06:20. > :06:25.Windows. Thank you. We would love your thoughts on this
:06:25. > :06:28.one and I will be reading them out before 7pm. Should energy companies
:06:28. > :06:38.be held criminally responsible for people dying from a lack of
:06:38. > :06:51.
:06:51. > :06:56.Does the Government have a duty to Rising energy bills will be the
:06:56. > :07:01.talking point on this week's Politics Show. That is at 12pm.
:07:01. > :07:06.Guests will include Karl Turner and Martin Vickers.
:07:06. > :07:12.Coming up later, capture your life through a lens and help to create a
:07:12. > :07:16.picture of Britain in just one day. An athlete from Grimsby who is
:07:16. > :07:20.hoping to compete at the Olympics has been told he has lost its
:07:20. > :07:24.funding from the UK Athletics. Richard Buck found out this week he
:07:24. > :07:31.will not be supported in his bed but he has vowed to overcome the
:07:31. > :07:37.problem. -- in his bid. Richard Buck is a determined young
:07:37. > :07:40.man. The Grimsby-born athlete who spent part of his childhood growing
:07:40. > :07:46.up near Hull received a hammer blow this week when his funding was
:07:46. > :07:51.withdrawn. Give up? Not a chance. The fact I have not got that
:07:51. > :07:57.backing just means every decision I make has to be the right one. It is
:07:57. > :08:02.almost life and death so it has sharpened me up. Richard Buck
:08:03. > :08:05.looking strong! Despite winning a medal at the European indoor
:08:05. > :08:12.championships, rigid found himself up against a number of talented
:08:12. > :08:19.runners when the money was handed out. -- Richard. Nonetheless, the
:08:19. > :08:24.decision was unexpected. With all the other guys improving in the
:08:24. > :08:34.event, it became difficult and tight and not through any fault of
:08:34. > :08:46.
:08:46. > :08:53.Richard, he got squeezed out. It is not all gloomy news.
:08:53. > :08:59.Lincolnshire Paralympic throwers here get some funding, as does
:08:59. > :09:02.hammer throw Alex Smith, from Hull. By this time next week, which it
:09:02. > :09:05.hopes to have a part-time job to make ends meet. With central
:09:05. > :09:12.funding or not, this is a man determined to make it to London
:09:12. > :09:15.2012. Some more news in brief. Six
:09:15. > :09:19.Tornados from RAF Marham in Norfolk are to be withdrawn from operations
:09:19. > :09:24.over Libya. The jets are, is stationed in Italy but will return
:09:24. > :09:28.to their base near King's Lynn tonight. 10 Tornados will remain at
:09:28. > :09:31.the Italian military base of the time being. Three remaining
:09:31. > :09:36.Lincolnshire surveillance aircraft are to return of the weekend.
:09:36. > :09:41.Two men have died in a car crash in Lincolnshire. The accident happened
:09:41. > :09:46.on the A52 Fen Road near Donington last night. -- two women. Pamela
:09:46. > :09:50.Moore and her sister, Eileen Williams, were both killed.
:09:50. > :09:54.Teaching staff at Hull College are being asked if they want to take
:09:54. > :09:57.voluntary redundancy. Up to 85 posts are said to be under threat.
:09:57. > :10:02.The college has bases in Hull, Goole and Harrogate and says the
:10:02. > :10:07.job losses are down to government funding cuts. The union says the
:10:07. > :10:10.job losses are unnecessary. It is a question of whether or not they can
:10:10. > :10:15.make salving -- savings elsewhere to carry the college forward
:10:15. > :10:19.without the need to make further job losses and redundancies. There
:10:19. > :10:26.has got to be natural wastage. People will be leaving in any case,
:10:26. > :10:29.through retirement, changing jobs. Can we manage in a different way?
:10:29. > :10:32.The Butterfly and Wildlife Park at Long Sutton is due to close because
:10:32. > :10:37.of a drop in the number of visitors which has been blamed on the
:10:37. > :10:41.economic downturn. The attraction will reopen in February for a short
:10:41. > :10:45.period to include next year's spring and summer seasons. However,
:10:45. > :10:49.30 staff will lose their jobs when the doors finally close next August.
:10:49. > :10:55.Thank you for being in touch about how a story on the health workers
:10:55. > :10:59.being given an extra day off for having the flu jab. 3,000 members
:10:59. > :11:03.of staff have taken up the offer at the Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle
:11:04. > :11:07.Hill Hospital compared to just 600 at the same time last year. The
:11:08. > :11:12.Trust says it will save lost working days in the long run.
:11:12. > :11:21.We had a big response. Not surprisingly! Thank you for all
:11:21. > :11:31.your texts and emails. James phoned in and said they were in a hospital
:11:31. > :11:52.
:11:52. > :11:58.runaways are we should be mandatory Thank you for those. Still ahead,
:11:58. > :12:02.why the flowers think the clocks have already gone back to spring.
:12:02. > :12:12.And taking the mickey. The specially grown Lincolnshire
:12:12. > :12:14.
:12:14. > :12:19.pumpkins lighting up Disneyland Don't forget, if you have got a
:12:19. > :12:25.picture, do send it in. This was taken by Paul. A fabulous sum rise
:12:25. > :12:35.at Sutton Bridge in Lincolnshire. And the light has you can see was
:12:35. > :12:36.
:12:36. > :12:40.lived in by Peter Scott. Good evening, Peter. You have been
:12:41. > :12:47.very mean to me, but just to show there are no hard feelings, I will
:12:47. > :12:52.give you some sunshine and you can top up your tan! Your all heart!
:12:52. > :12:55.is going to be a lovely weekend. We are looking at variable amounts of
:12:55. > :12:59.cloud but we are looking at sunshine as we have through
:12:59. > :13:04.Saturday and Sunday. The pressure chart shows us we have some weather
:13:04. > :13:09.runs over us on Saturday. It will not bring as much in the way of
:13:09. > :13:17.rain until the afternoon, they you can see the eyes are bars closing
:13:17. > :13:23.in, so we will turn rather breezy. -- the isobars. We will have plenty
:13:23. > :13:28.of sunshine, so to end the day, we are looking at clear conditions. We
:13:28. > :13:35.could have the odd spot of drizzle overnight tonight. East
:13:35. > :13:42.Lincolnshire will stay dry and many of us will be dry overnight. Where
:13:42. > :13:48.we have bigger cloud, we will have high is of 10 degrees. The sun will
:13:48. > :13:58.rise at 8am tomorrow and set again at 5:40pm. These are the high ward
:13:58. > :13:59.
:13:59. > :14:04.at times. -- high water at times. A cloudy and Pam start tomorrow. We
:14:04. > :14:08.will see the sky clear ring tomorrow, leaving us with plenty of
:14:08. > :14:13.sunshine. Through the afternoon, cloud will increase from the north-
:14:13. > :14:18.west, but this band of rain will not arrive until after dark.
:14:18. > :14:27.Temperatures are not too bad until Saturday. We are looking at about
:14:27. > :14:37.12, 13 degrees. Sunday, again, we will see variable cloud and sunny
:14:37. > :14:38.
:14:38. > :14:46.spells, but 10 in milder, at 16 If that goes horribly wrong, we
:14:46. > :14:56.will have half a dozen pictures! We will have to retrain our other
:14:56. > :15:00.As one of the warmest October is on record comes to the end this
:15:00. > :15:07.weekend, Hallowe'en revellers cannot look towards spring time
:15:07. > :15:10.temperatures. So far there has been no serious frost to kill off the
:15:10. > :15:16.summer blooms and that has led to some surprising results in our
:15:16. > :15:20.gardens. It is the time of year when our
:15:20. > :15:30.gardens should be looking scary, but as Hallowe'en approaches, hot
:15:30. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:38.autumn's mild weather is bringing Dennis Shaw's award-winning garden
:15:38. > :15:45.is completely confused, these bedding plants should not be
:15:45. > :15:50.flowering until spring. I am 68 and I have never seen it as good and as
:15:50. > :15:58.happy as it is now in a garden. It looks beautiful. But at this time
:15:59. > :16:05.of the year, it shouldn't. Some small back gardens, to beat
:16:05. > :16:11.stately-home us. The weather is confusing everyone. Spring
:16:11. > :16:16.daffodils are even curious to see what is happening. We have lots of
:16:16. > :16:20.buds there still to come. Down here we have lovely flowers that are
:16:20. > :16:24.still going strong. Normally we would have these indoors at this
:16:24. > :16:28.time of year. It is not just the professionals who were rubbing
:16:28. > :16:32.their heads, it is the end of October and the gardeners rule book
:16:32. > :16:36.has been thrown out. The these were about to be pulled up because I
:16:37. > :16:41.thought they had finished flowering, but when you look at them there are
:16:41. > :16:47.lots of new buds on. It seems a shame to pull them out. I would
:16:47. > :16:53.leave them a bit longer. The advice is to enjoy it while it lasts. As
:16:53. > :16:56.the first serious frost, things could change overnight. I am
:16:56. > :17:04.wondering why I have got flowers at this time of year, but that is
:17:04. > :17:08.nature. But we will have to leave it at that. It looks nice. With
:17:08. > :17:14.temperatures climbing higher towards Halloween, the colour of
:17:14. > :17:19.summer shows no sign of ending just yet.
:17:19. > :17:24.The world has gone mad. Some proof now that we are heading towards
:17:24. > :17:28.winter because of the clocks go back in the early hours of Sunday.
:17:28. > :17:34.Some relish the extra hour in bed but the East Yorkshire MP told the
:17:34. > :17:39.House of Commons that it was a depressing ritual. Many millions of
:17:39. > :17:44.people will be less happy than they could be as Britain is plunged into
:17:44. > :17:48.darkness by early afternoon, following us putting our clocks
:17:49. > :17:53.back. If we cannot have a debate, can we have action in future to end
:17:53. > :17:57.this a necessary and depressing ritual. Just before it got dusky
:17:57. > :18:02.this evening, I asked Greg Knight why he thinks that putting the
:18:02. > :18:06.clocks back was so depressing. is depressing about it is how the
:18:06. > :18:10.country has plunged into darkness by early afternoon. What I am
:18:10. > :18:15.saying is that even if we have to change the clocks once the year,
:18:15. > :18:19.let's move the hour on one hour so that we have an extra hour of
:18:19. > :18:24.daylight in the evening. In Central European Time or what would that
:18:24. > :18:33.basically mean to people watching tonight? It would mean that instead
:18:33. > :18:36.of it getting dark at about 5:50pm in Bridlington it would get dark at
:18:36. > :18:40.6:50pm. It would mean that people could do their shopping in the
:18:40. > :18:45.daylight, children leaving school would have more playtime before it
:18:45. > :18:49.gets dark. It would be a boost to tourism. But it would mean darker
:18:49. > :18:55.mornings as children were going to school? It would indeed. That is
:18:55. > :18:59.the downside of the coin. The Royal Society for the Prevention of
:18:59. > :19:04.accidents say that they should not be a problem. Most morning journeys
:19:04. > :19:08.are predictable, they are from home to work or home to school. It is
:19:08. > :19:11.the afternoon and evening journeys which are unpredictable. People may
:19:11. > :19:17.go shopping on their way home and therefore go on a stretch of road
:19:17. > :19:20.they are not used to. Because of this, the Royal Society for the
:19:20. > :19:30.Prevention of accidents say we would save about eight T Livesey
:19:30. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:36.year. -- 80 Livesey year. Some people that this would -- some
:19:36. > :19:42.people say this would affect the North of England and Scotland very
:19:42. > :19:45.badly. I think it would be a great benefit to the East Coast.
:19:45. > :19:50.Bridlington get starker 40 minutes before places like Bournemouth, it
:19:50. > :19:55.is not just Scotland it is the west of the country. I think we should
:19:55. > :20:03.try it as an experiment and if I am proved wrong, I would say that we
:20:03. > :20:10.should go back. I think there are benefits for of the body.
:20:10. > :20:14.-- for everybody. Do you like it the way it is or do
:20:14. > :20:24.you back the change to Central European Time? Let me know what you
:20:24. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:31.If you have ever thought about capturing your life on camera, then
:20:31. > :20:34.a film that the BBC is making may inspire you. Britain In A Day aims
:20:35. > :20:42.to capture a slice of life of people across the UK on November
:20:42. > :20:46.12th. Capturing a private moment in time.
:20:46. > :20:50.Here in China, it tie Chan and his dad a lighting incense in memory of
:20:50. > :20:56.his mother, in Hampshire and meanwhile a journey to meet his dad
:20:56. > :21:04.for a pint is what Jack chose to film for the life in a day project
:21:04. > :21:12.on 24th July last year. Now you can get involved in Britain in a day --
:21:12. > :21:17.Britain In A Day. The exciting thing about this project is that it
:21:17. > :21:21.is normal people, it is not celebrities, it is not a glossy.
:21:21. > :21:25.People will get a chance to upload their films and be a part of
:21:25. > :21:30.something quite unique. The idea is to get as many people as possible
:21:30. > :21:37.across the UK to film what they're doing on 12th November. I might do
:21:37. > :21:40.an interview with my grandad, he is turning 90 near 12th November.
:21:40. > :21:46.Hopefully if my little boy makes his first steps that will be one
:21:46. > :21:51.thing. I would like to buy myself one of those little flip cameras,
:21:51. > :21:53.they are about �30 now. The great thing about Britain In A Day is
:21:53. > :22:03.that you do not need a posh television camera to take part, one
:22:03. > :22:04.
:22:04. > :22:09.of these will do. The pictures can be just as good. The most important
:22:09. > :22:14.thing is to get a story of a person's Dave. It is an emotional
:22:14. > :22:18.project, reflecting life across Britain. Britain In A Day is for
:22:18. > :22:21.everyone, your chance to be part of a national archive or maybe a
:22:21. > :22:28.special film of the best bits to be broadcast ahead of next year's
:22:28. > :22:38.Olympics. For more information you can go to
:22:38. > :22:39.
:22:39. > :22:47.All about football teams are playing this weekend, he rather
:22:47. > :22:53.details. Hull City travelled to Nottingham Forest. You will also be
:22:53. > :22:58.able to hear about Scunthorpe United. The build-up to me both
:22:58. > :23:07.matches starts at 1:30pm. Grimsby Town a take on Ashington at home.
:23:07. > :23:12.Coverage of that will be on tab and also on the Web. Lincoln City's FA
:23:12. > :23:22.Cup qualifying game is away at Alfreton Town. Coverage starts at
:23:22. > :23:24.
:23:24. > :23:29.2pm. The players are showing that they have the appetite and really
:23:29. > :23:33.we need to build a platform for the successes.
:23:33. > :23:37.Enjoy your football this weekend. The time is running out for you to
:23:37. > :23:43.nominate people in your community to you think make a difference of
:23:43. > :23:47.three sport. Last year, Julie Norman who runs the Acorn Judo Club
:23:47. > :23:55.in a Lincolnshire took the honours. The closing date for the entries
:23:55. > :24:05.this year is on Sunday. There is not much time left to put someone
:24:05. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:19.Yesterday on Look North week marked the 100 anniversary since Harry
:24:19. > :24:23.Houdini performed in Hull. Here is what happened when a very modern
:24:23. > :24:29.Houdini attempted to recreate one of his famous routines and he got
:24:29. > :24:34.out alive. He grows 3 million pub in the year,
:24:34. > :24:44.but this year David Bowman has been given a special task. He is to grow
:24:44. > :24:44.
:24:44. > :24:51.pumpkins in the shape of some well- The pumpkin, it has been a symbol
:24:51. > :24:58.of Hallowe'en for centuries. It has a bumpy, flesh like exterior and
:24:58. > :25:05.perfect evil head Cobbing shape. Now, and you, contorted pumpkin has
:25:05. > :25:12.been grown in the fields of Spalding, so scary it looks like...
:25:12. > :25:16.A pumpkin shaped like a Mickey Mouse head. It is not scary at all.
:25:16. > :25:20.There is good reason for it not to be too scary because pumpkin farmer,
:25:20. > :25:25.Dave Bowman, has been asked by Mickey Mouse himself to grow the
:25:25. > :25:30.pumpkins for Disneyland Paris. we have got here is a genuine
:25:30. > :25:35.Mickey Mouse shaped pumpkin. It has been grown in a special mild. It
:25:36. > :25:43.has been left to get on with it. This is a plastic mould, you place
:25:43. > :25:51.the pumpkin in their and then you put the top on. Then you just
:25:51. > :25:58.bought the whole thing together. Here is David collecting the
:25:58. > :26:03.pumpkins from his fields. You can see Mickey Mouse's reaction. But
:26:03. > :26:11.but are they convincing enough for the people of Spalding? It looks
:26:11. > :26:21.like Minnie Mouse's head. It is Mickey Mouse. It is Mickey Mouse.
:26:21. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:27.Is that natural? Big cheeks. Yes, they are. It is possible that we
:26:27. > :26:35.could be looking at the start of a new period -- at the start of the
:26:35. > :26:39.New Era of pumpkin growing. Finally, let's recap the main
:26:40. > :26:47.national and regional headlines. Sentenced to life, a Vincent Tabak
:26:47. > :26:50.is a jailed for the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates.
:26:50. > :26:53.There are calls for energy companies to be charged with
:26:53. > :26:58.corporate manslaughter if people die this winter because they cannot
:26:58. > :27:02.afford to heat their homes. The Wood for tomorrow, mostly dry
:27:02. > :27:10.and sunny spells throughout the morning. There may be rain later in
:27:10. > :27:13.the day. On the subject of fuel bills,
:27:13. > :27:16.hammered says that we will all suffer this winter because the
:27:16. > :27:23.reluctant -- the government is reluctant to impose any fines on
:27:23. > :27:27.the energy companies. Paul says, I work for one of the
:27:27. > :27:30.big six companies and your coverage infuriates me. The cost of fuel has
:27:30. > :27:34.increased substantially and it has to be passed on to the customer.