:00:11. > :00:18.For Good evening. Warnings of a pay cut for public sector workers as
:00:18. > :00:25.part of one new North-South divide. Everyone in that public sector has
:00:25. > :00:35.a pay cut and that is going to be devastating. The stalemate over
:00:35. > :00:35.
:00:35. > :00:40.cutting the Humber Bridge toll claims the maths don't add up.
:00:40. > :00:44.How a former workers at the docks are about to star in a television
:00:44. > :00:54.documentary. The seal was no sense of direction
:00:54. > :01:04.
:01:04. > :01:09.washers upon the East Coast. That all-important weather forecast.
:01:09. > :01:15.there are claims that teachers, health workers could see their pay
:01:15. > :01:20.cut under government plans. Minister believes salaries should
:01:20. > :01:24.be closely linked to wages and the private sector. That has prompted
:01:24. > :01:31.fears workers will find themselves on the wrong side of a North-South
:01:31. > :01:37.divide. The most public sector workers are subject to the same
:01:37. > :01:41.rates of pay weather in the north or south. That could come to an end.
:01:41. > :01:47.The Chancellor announced that the Government is looking at salaries
:01:47. > :01:53.being negotiated at will local rather than national level. We are
:01:53. > :02:01.trying to make sure that p is clear and right for the local economy.
:02:01. > :02:07.This was done by the last Labour government. It is a move will
:02:07. > :02:16.caused by teachers like this woman. She works in a primary-school.
:02:16. > :02:26.He must be either put in a pay freeze on people in the periods or
:02:26. > :02:30.giving them a pay cut. Critics of national pay bargaining IQ public
:02:30. > :02:40.sector salaries should reflect the cost of living in a place in the
:02:40. > :02:49.
:02:49. > :02:56.country. The average house price here is just over 93,000. The
:02:56. > :03:01.unions are not convinced. We're convinced teachers are doing the
:03:01. > :03:08.same job. It is important they are motivated and they feel they can
:03:08. > :03:14.move to different parts of the community -- country. Following
:03:14. > :03:17.strikes over pensions, the scrapping of national pay
:03:17. > :03:24.bargaining can spark round to two and a fight between the unions and
:03:25. > :03:34.the Government. I asked Kevin Austerberry from the
:03:34. > :03:38.Royal College of Nursing why they were against the government's idea
:03:38. > :03:43.the suggestion that local pay should be introduced in the NHS
:03:43. > :03:48.came as no surprise. It is misguided. A nurse and the North
:03:48. > :03:55.does not have the same living expenses as one and the size.
:03:55. > :04:02.you look at what might lie behind us, it is clear the intention would
:04:02. > :04:07.be to reduce the costs of staff in the NHS. We tried is back in the
:04:07. > :04:17.1990s and it pushes costs up. you are a nurse and you want a
:04:17. > :04:18.
:04:18. > :04:26.house, some places are very expensive. We recognise costs
:04:26. > :04:31.Theory from one part of the country to another. Some p have
:04:31. > :04:35.enhancements. If you did an interview on our programme in
:04:36. > :04:45.London, you have say nurses should earn more because it is expensive
:04:45. > :04:52.to live there. We must insure the best interests of patients is at
:04:52. > :04:57.the forefront. It is uncomfortable that introducing local pay if it is
:04:57. > :05:07.intending to drive pay rates down is not acceptable at a time when
:05:07. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:18.health care staff are under pressure. George Osborne says it is
:05:18. > :05:23.about setting paid which is fair and right for the local economy.
:05:23. > :05:30.if you introduce anomalies, think about what that means for
:05:30. > :05:34.recruitment. If one hospital pays specialist nurses at one level and
:05:34. > :05:44.the one down the road gets paid more, there will be a temptation
:05:44. > :05:48.
:05:48. > :05:53.for staff to move. That will secure the system. You have heard this
:05:54. > :06:03.story. Should periods for public sector jobs be left to local
:06:04. > :06:21.
:06:21. > :06:30.economy? Should a nurse in the This is a subject that will be
:06:30. > :06:40.debated starting this weekend, the Sunday Politics from 12 noon.
:06:40. > :06:41.
:06:41. > :06:46.In a moment, Britain's greatest living in just a -- artist.
:06:46. > :06:52.The government's deal with councils on the Bank of the Humber to half
:06:52. > :07:01.bridge tolls may not work, that is a warning from some backing the
:07:01. > :07:11.change. The Chancellor said he wanted a �1.50 charge within months.
:07:11. > :07:11.
:07:11. > :07:15.There is little sign of progress. Has something gone wrong? In the
:07:16. > :07:25.cold light of the new year, some serious questions are being asked
:07:25. > :07:28.about the nitty-gritty of the deal. It is whether it can be made to
:07:28. > :07:36.work in the long term as a sustainable solution for the
:07:36. > :07:40.economy. The Government has written off half the debt. It wants the
:07:40. > :07:47.councils making up the bought to come up with a financial plan to
:07:47. > :07:51.manage their trunk. When George Osborne visited the bridge, he was
:07:51. > :07:57.confident we councils would get back to him with a workable plan to
:07:57. > :08:01.deal with their half of the debt. The Theory says that cutting the
:08:01. > :08:11.bridge tolls and half, there will be a massive increase in the volume
:08:11. > :08:12.
:08:12. > :08:19.using the bridge. The problem is that this is just a theory. No one
:08:19. > :08:22.knows whether it will work. This man as a campaigner on to bridge
:08:22. > :08:29.debt but does not believe there will be a big enough traffic
:08:29. > :08:39.increase. On basic maths, you cannot afford to pay �184 million
:08:39. > :08:48.debt. There are other problems. It needs underwriting. It is suggested
:08:48. > :08:53.the council's divide this. Up I want to make sure North East
:08:53. > :09:03.Lincolnshire Council has a fair deal. I do not see why we should
:09:03. > :09:04.
:09:04. > :09:10.subsidise other parts of the area. We have seen a few shenanigans.
:09:10. > :09:15.There was another fine Humber sunset. Behind the scenes, the
:09:15. > :09:25.negotiations to get the bridge deal to work will not be as pretty.
:09:25. > :09:29.
:09:29. > :09:39.Those are the concerns. Will those tolls behalf by 1st April? People
:09:39. > :09:45.say there is little danger of the deal being withdrawn. It is likely
:09:45. > :09:50.that tolls will be half and the coming months. The bigger question
:09:50. > :09:59.about how to make this reduction work long term will still be there?
:09:59. > :10:04.The row about who will pay for it is also going to get deeper. Three
:10:04. > :10:12.people were taken to hospital after a crash that close to Major wrote
:10:12. > :10:17.in north Lincolnshire. Two cars were involved on the A180. One man
:10:17. > :10:22.was airlifted to Hull Royal Infirmary. Two others were taken to
:10:22. > :10:29.hospital. A jury has started to consider its
:10:29. > :10:38.verdict on the trial of five men of murdering Adam Vincent. His family
:10:38. > :10:43.was at court today. His body parts were found in the water.
:10:43. > :10:49.A shop and Lincoln which sold fake bottles of vodka a containing
:10:49. > :10:54.cleaning fluid has had its Algol licence revoked. Mouldy tobacco was
:10:54. > :11:04.also found during a raid by trading standards on Finest Foods. Other
:11:04. > :11:07.
:11:07. > :11:13.shops have lost their licences. Still ahead, workers starring in
:11:13. > :11:23.the BBC documentary about their heyday of the Humber docks. And
:11:23. > :11:25.
:11:25. > :11:35.2000 miles from home, the seal that keeps getting lost around Europe.
:11:35. > :11:43.
:11:43. > :11:53.If you have a picture EU are proud John said he saw you in the local
:11:53. > :12:05.
:12:05. > :12:15.shop with microwave meals. He was It is a colt and settled on. There
:12:15. > :12:19.
:12:19. > :12:27.is a risk of patchy Menter Iaith in places. There may be more fog.
:12:27. > :12:34.Other than that, it is unsettled weekend. There is hardly a cloud in
:12:34. > :12:44.the sky. There has been cloud on the coastline but it should melt
:12:44. > :12:48.
:12:48. > :12:58.away. It could be down to-five tonight. The sun will rise in the
:12:58. > :13:09.
:13:09. > :13:17.morning at 830. A frosty start and watch out for four Apache fog.
:13:17. > :13:24.Temperatures will struggle. A variable breeze will come up from
:13:24. > :13:34.the south-east. Where the fog lingers through the evening, it
:13:34. > :13:45.
:13:46. > :13:50.could be as low as three Celsius. You will be repaid next week!
:13:50. > :13:57.Several e-mails about a story in the news today that in South Africa
:13:57. > :14:01.if they get the weather forecast wrong they face a jail sentence.
:14:01. > :14:08.And one viewer said that Apple should get a shirt covered in
:14:08. > :14:12.Arrows in preparation of this weekend's forecast.
:14:12. > :14:16.As David Hockney prepares to open his latest exhibition about the
:14:17. > :14:19.Yorkshire Wolds, campaigners have been fighting for years to make it
:14:19. > :14:23.an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which would limit what
:14:23. > :14:28.could be built there. They are hoping the new focus on the walls
:14:29. > :14:34.will strengthen their campaign. -- focus on the Yorkshire Wolds.
:14:34. > :14:39.At times, the views of breathtaking, but for many, the Yorkshire Wolds
:14:39. > :14:43.are still a hidden gem. But this man knows them well and once again,
:14:44. > :14:49.David Hockney has found inspiration from the peaceful landscape. There
:14:49. > :14:55.was a very, very good subject here. The landscape itself, which I felt
:14:55. > :15:00.quite strongly attached to. If you are my age and you find a subject
:15:00. > :15:05.that is exciting, stick with it. For this collection, he used his
:15:05. > :15:09.iPad to capture the untouched beauty of the Yorkshire Wolds and
:15:09. > :15:15.it is a characteristic many want to protect. I think it is absolutely
:15:15. > :15:22.stunning up here. When you get on the top you get the panoramic views.
:15:22. > :15:29.Steve Hey is hoping in -- hoping Hockney's latest exhibition will
:15:29. > :15:35.draw focus to this area. Hopefully it will help protect against the
:15:35. > :15:39.industrialisation of the landscape. This will open up the doors to
:15:39. > :15:43.developers. Total development of the countryside. These beautiful
:15:43. > :15:50.areas will be gone forever. others, the wildlife that thrives
:15:50. > :15:54.here is a source of inspiration which needs protection. I love the
:15:54. > :16:01.wildlife in the Yorkshire Wolds but the key to them is the grassland
:16:01. > :16:05.valleys, a fall of wild flowers and orchids. At the moment I can hear a
:16:05. > :16:15.thrush singing. That is one of the first birds of the years singing.
:16:15. > :16:21.New York is difficult, London I find difficult, so I love the quiet
:16:21. > :16:24.of East Yorkshire. On a day like today, it is easy to see why David
:16:24. > :16:29.Hockney finds the Yorkshire Wolds are inspirational, and campaigners
:16:29. > :16:34.hope that by making this an area of outstanding natural beauty, they
:16:34. > :16:39.can protect these views for the future.
:16:39. > :16:46.Some fantastic pictures there of the Yorkshire Wolds. That David
:16:46. > :16:52.Hockney exhibition is about to open. I have been talking to Gary Verity
:16:52. > :16:56.from CPP -- Welcome to Yorkshire about the impact of David Hockney's
:16:56. > :17:00.work on the countryside here. Yorkshire Wolds are the hidden gem
:17:00. > :17:06.of Yorkshire. What the exhibition will do is draw attention to the
:17:06. > :17:09.great things that visitors can see when they come and visit art great
:17:09. > :17:13.county and I think East Yorkshire stands to benefit hugely from the
:17:13. > :17:18.massive profile of the Hochmann exhibition. What is the Hockney
:17:18. > :17:22.trail all about? It will give sides across East Yorkshire where people
:17:22. > :17:26.can see the great man himself has painted his pictures, and see what
:17:27. > :17:34.they look like in real life. It is about giving the visitor the
:17:34. > :17:37.greater experience and the report on country while the other night
:17:37. > :17:42.where Hockney was fantastic, the way he came across, explaining in
:17:42. > :17:46.great detail why he had chosen the sites that he had done, and the
:17:46. > :17:50.benefit to the visitor. Yorkshire Wolds have seen a growing
:17:50. > :17:54.number of wind farm applications. How important is it for the area to
:17:54. > :17:59.be recognised as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Ceri can
:17:59. > :18:02.be protected? I do not know that the Net -- necessarily needs to be
:18:02. > :18:08.recognised as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty but I
:18:08. > :18:10.would say that East Yorkshire are already an Area of Outstanding
:18:10. > :18:18.Natural Beauty and it is important that any development that happens
:18:18. > :18:21.there needs to be sympathetic. you think this will actually bring
:18:21. > :18:27.people into East Yorkshire who have never been before, to come to the
:18:27. > :18:30.trail? Undoubtedly. Our experience over the last three years has been
:18:30. > :18:34.that where we have done thing similar to this there has been a
:18:34. > :18:40.massive upsurge in visitor numbers and I am sure East Yorkshire will
:18:40. > :18:43.benefit from that over the months ahead. Thank you.
:18:43. > :18:47.Let's hope that we protect those areas in the future.
:18:47. > :18:54.For Hull Marina is closed for six weeks because of maintenance work.
:18:54. > :18:58.Boats cannot get in or out while repairs to the gates' seal is
:18:58. > :19:01.repaired. A statute in honour of scumbled
:19:01. > :19:05.steelworkers has been proposed for the town centre. This is a scale
:19:05. > :19:10.model. The finished sculpture would be 17ft tall and made from
:19:10. > :19:17.Scunthorpe steel. The group behind the idea is trying to raise �40,000
:19:17. > :19:19.and hopes the statue could be in place by October. We are working on
:19:19. > :19:29.this as a project to give some recognition to the steel workers
:19:29. > :19:34.
:19:34. > :19:39.and their families. Let's hope that Scunthorpe gets the statue.
:19:39. > :19:44.Hull City's new manager, Nick Barmby, hopes he has the signed to
:19:44. > :19:47.make a serious challenge for promotion. The Tigers are in a
:19:47. > :19:51.Championship play-off position as they take on Peterborough United.
:19:51. > :19:55.They may have lost their last league game to this goal but
:19:55. > :19:59.Saturday's Cup victory over Ipswich Town has given Hull's City manager
:19:59. > :20:03.Nick Barmby the belief that his side Arab force to be reckoned with.
:20:03. > :20:08.These players have as good a chance as any other team, as long as they
:20:08. > :20:13.keep believing what they are to link, they remain positive, you are
:20:13. > :20:17.going to set -- get setbacks but it is how you handle them. So far they
:20:17. > :20:25.have done that well. I want to get better and better. I want to prove
:20:25. > :20:29.to a lot of people what I can do. So if I have the chance now, I want
:20:29. > :20:38.to grab it with two hands. Scunthorpe United return to action
:20:38. > :20:48.at Colchester United, coming after the splendid win at the weekend. In
:20:48. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :20:57.not make it his FA Trophy date with The real-life stories of the people
:20:57. > :21:02.who worked on the docks at the Humber port will be shown in a
:21:02. > :21:05.documentary this weekend. It will be broadcast exclusively here on
:21:05. > :21:09.BBC One in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The programme, called
:21:09. > :21:17.How the Humber Changed our World, involves lots of local people and
:21:17. > :21:25.tells the story of the history of the docks through their eyes.
:21:25. > :21:28.You was either a strong woman or you wasn't. It made you strong.
:21:28. > :21:32.was first shown in cinemas in Hull, Goole and Grimsby, and some in the
:21:32. > :21:38.audience, like Jim Williams, had taken part in the film, to share
:21:38. > :21:45.their own personal memories. There is three weeks' money. You have two
:21:45. > :21:52.days. I knew so many of those
:21:52. > :21:56.personalities that were filmed. They all put it across as it was,
:21:56. > :22:00.to give our children and grandchildren memories of the
:22:00. > :22:04.heritage of they grew up with. Brylcreem in my hair, three-day
:22:04. > :22:08.millionaire... The film delves into the working life of the Humber
:22:08. > :22:12.ports, through the good time when fishermen when it meant freedom
:22:12. > :22:16.millionaires, to the troubled cod wars and the turbulent days of the
:22:16. > :22:21.dock strikes. First-hand accounts, family photographs and amateur
:22:21. > :22:25.video were all vital. These are the stories that people would hand down
:22:25. > :22:28.to their sons, daughters and grandchildren. People generally
:22:28. > :22:32.were very candid in the stories they were prepared to tell us. If
:22:32. > :22:36.you look at the dock workers, it put their militancy in context
:22:36. > :22:42.because they told us about how bad conditions were when they first
:22:42. > :22:46.started. What we often get is the official sanitised version, the
:22:46. > :22:50.story about the great and the good, and this one actually tells us the
:22:50. > :22:55.story of working people. If you do not recall that now, it is gone
:22:55. > :22:58.forever. There was so much interest in the film last summer that
:22:58. > :23:02.tickets were oversubscribed and an extra screening had to be put on
:23:02. > :23:07.but now many more people will get to see it as it transfers to
:23:07. > :23:16.television. Jim hopes it will help more people appreciate the reality
:23:16. > :23:22.of life on the docks. Looking forward to seeing that one.
:23:22. > :23:26.That is this Sunday at 3:05pm here on BBC One. On BBC Radio Humberside
:23:26. > :23:36.from 9am on Monday, there will be a chance for you to talk about the
:23:36. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:41.She is a seal with a poor sense of direction, more than 2000 miles
:23:41. > :23:45.from home, and less than a year old. Eve was found on a Lincolnshire
:23:45. > :23:51.beach. Staff at Natureland in Skegness are using tracking
:23:51. > :23:57.technology to keep an eye on her. With her special track of it did,
:23:57. > :24:03.this breed of hooded seal is rarely seen around here. This one is badly
:24:03. > :24:07.lost and in desperate need of good directions. They come from regions
:24:07. > :24:11.like Ice land in the East, right across to Newfoundland and Canada
:24:11. > :24:15.in the West. So she is one and truly lost. This particular seal is
:24:15. > :24:20.thought to have been born in Icelandic waters. Just ten months
:24:20. > :24:24.old, weak and confused, she has now been rescued from the beach here in
:24:24. > :24:28.Lincolnshire. Normally by this age they are really fat. She was weak
:24:28. > :24:33.and underweight for so we thought we would bring her back. That was
:24:33. > :24:36.when we noticed the transmitter on top of her head as well. Staff have
:24:36. > :24:40.named their new edition Eve and have quickly discovered her poor
:24:40. > :24:44.sense of direction has already been recorded by colleagues in Europe.
:24:44. > :24:49.She was first discovered of the German coast last summer and it was
:24:49. > :24:53.here when the tracking device was fitted. She was then traced heading
:24:53. > :24:58.north back home to Iceland but near Scotland things again went wrong.
:24:58. > :25:02.She turned around and was found a few weeks later on a beach at
:25:02. > :25:05.Chapel St Leonards. To now guarantee has said return home, the
:25:05. > :25:09.best plan of action is transportation. That means an
:25:09. > :25:14.expensive flight and for that to happen, financial backing will be
:25:14. > :25:17.needed. If it did come to that, we would probably be looking for
:25:17. > :25:23.sponsors to help us do that but that is in a few months' time, when
:25:23. > :25:30.she has been putting on weight. Whatever happens, he's still needs
:25:30. > :25:34.to gain a further 30kg in weight. Wherever she goes, she will still
:25:34. > :25:38.be fitted with the special Tracker, enabling the staff here to monitor
:25:38. > :25:43.her progress and make sure that this time she is heading in the
:25:43. > :25:47.right direction. It's the cost of transporting her back home would be
:25:47. > :25:51.thousands of pounds but with a face like this, there could be shared
:25:51. > :25:55.brought financial offers over the coming weeks. -- several financial
:25:55. > :26:01.offers. If you have a story you think we
:26:01. > :26:03.should know about, senders and Emap. A recap of the main headlines. The
:26:03. > :26:08.Government says it will press ahead with controversial child benefit
:26:08. > :26:11.cuts. There are fears public sector workers in East Yorkshire and
:26:11. > :26:17.Lincolnshire could see their pay cut under Government plans. Any fog
:26:17. > :26:22.patches would be clear to -- slow to clear. Otherwise dry and with
:26:22. > :26:27.sunshine tomorrow. Response coming in on the subject
:26:27. > :26:32.of local pay. Annabel says, having passed election, I was offered a
:26:32. > :26:38.post of a prison officer but had to decline due to not being able to
:26:39. > :26:47.live in Cambridge on �14,500 a year, the same had I think offered a post
:26:47. > :26:51.in Hull, with a much lower cost of living. I support localised pay.
:26:51. > :26:56.Another viewer, at any pace in based on house prices will just
:26:56. > :26:58.make the poor poorer. And from Clare, watched the number of
:26:58. > :27:04.vacancies in the lower-paid areas go through the roof and standards