:00:08. > :00:11.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight:
:00:11. > :00:15.To a Mac families wait for answers as the final preparations are made
:00:15. > :00:24.to exhume a body from a halt cemetery.
:00:24. > :00:32.Nobody expects two funerals for the same person. It is like a double
:00:32. > :00:35.whammy. Better protection for our homes -
:00:35. > :00:42.more than �30 million has pledged for flood defences.
:00:42. > :00:45.Two charities - but one has to pay fuel that. Now thousands of people
:00:45. > :00:50.signed a petition calling for the payment to be wait.
:00:50. > :00:56.And to hug are not to hug? As John Prescott admits to never having his
:00:56. > :01:04.sons, we asked if we left affects your softer side. And with rain
:01:04. > :01:08.coming tomorrow, we will find out more about the weather shortly.
:01:08. > :01:13.Good evening. Final preparations are being made tonight to exhume a
:01:13. > :01:18.body from a cemetery and help. Buried by mistake in the grave of
:01:19. > :01:22.Christopher Alder. He died in police custody and 1998 and his
:01:22. > :01:27.family thought they had buried him. It is now believed the grave
:01:27. > :01:34.contains the remains of Grace Kamara, as 77-year-old woman from
:01:34. > :01:38.Nigeria. DNA tests will take place after tonight's exhumation. He
:01:38. > :01:41.preparations for tonight's exhumation have been underway all
:01:41. > :01:45.afternoon. It is now more than three months
:01:45. > :01:50.since the body mix up involving Christopher Alder and Grace Kamara
:01:50. > :01:56.first came to light. I cannot believe it. I thought we had buried
:01:56. > :02:00.him. It was disbelief. For 37-year- old Christopher had died in
:02:00. > :02:05.controversial circumstances in police custody. A high profile
:02:05. > :02:14.funeral was held later in Hull. But the wrong remains were buried and
:02:15. > :02:21.this has had a very personal impact on Richard's family. Her last wish
:02:21. > :02:26.was to be cremated and scatter her ashes on my brother's grave. It is
:02:26. > :02:30.going to be so hard because nobody expects two funerals for the same
:02:31. > :02:35.person. Grace Kamara's friends and family
:02:35. > :02:42.had already gathered her for her family -- funeral when council
:02:42. > :02:47.officials confess they could not find her body. I would like her
:02:47. > :02:53.body to be returned to the grave where she has been laid since it 11
:02:53. > :02:58.years. Her body is already there. There is no need to carry her again
:02:58. > :03:04.to the cemetery. I want her to rest in peace. Exhumations are fairly
:03:04. > :03:09.rare. All they around 1000 licences are granted each year. Tonight's
:03:09. > :03:13.operation is likely to be a painstaking process involving up to
:03:13. > :03:20.30 different specialists. Once you are satisfied you have got the
:03:20. > :03:26.right coffin, the coffin is taken intact and taken to an appropriate
:03:26. > :03:31.mortuary. It will only be opened when it is in the postmortem
:03:31. > :03:34.facility and the body can be inspected, photographed and then
:03:34. > :03:38.removed for whatever procedures unnecessary.
:03:38. > :03:44.To still be from Hull City Council has admitted the last few months
:03:44. > :03:48.have been difficult for everyone involved. -- Trust all day. When we
:03:48. > :03:52.found out, we were devastated. It is nothing to what the families
:03:53. > :04:01.have been through. That was the main concern. As well as
:04:01. > :04:05.distressing, there is a police investigation. There is a milestone
:04:05. > :04:10.we're trying to achieve which is to understand and find out what
:04:10. > :04:15.happened all those years ago when we believed the two bodies had
:04:15. > :04:19.become exchanged. To miked's exhibition will be difficult for
:04:19. > :04:22.the families but it will be closer to them finding out how their loved
:04:22. > :04:26.ones could be mistaken for one another.
:04:26. > :04:32.Fit he is outside the northern cemetery in Hull at the moment.
:04:33. > :04:38.What is this the sequence of events tonight? Close members of Richard
:04:38. > :04:45.and Laura's family are expected to arrive now. They want to be present
:04:45. > :04:50.further removal of the top layer of soil which contains her ashes. They
:04:50. > :04:56.want them for that to be put back on a Christopher's grave. He was
:04:56. > :05:01.buried in a private family funeral on 9th February. After that, around
:05:01. > :05:05.midnight, the digging will begin. It is not that will take around
:05:05. > :05:10.five hours and then a coffin containing the hearse will leave
:05:11. > :05:16.here for a specialist mortuary at around for a five am in the morning.
:05:16. > :05:20.It is that to identify the remains? I have been talking to the police
:05:21. > :05:25.about this and they say they have dental records of Grace Kamara and
:05:25. > :05:30.this process should happen very quickly and efficiently. So they
:05:30. > :05:34.are expecting to know that by close of play tomorrow. They will inform
:05:34. > :05:41.the family's first of all and then the wider public probably the day
:05:41. > :05:45.after. But all very quick. In a moment on tonight's programme:
:05:45. > :05:51.The one-woman campaign to try and make life better on one of our most
:05:51. > :05:55.deprived estates. The amount of money used to protect
:05:55. > :06:00.homes in East Yorkshire from flooding will almost be doubled in
:06:00. > :06:04.the coming year. The Environment Agency says that more than �33
:06:04. > :06:09.million will be spent on flood defences in East Yorkshire and
:06:09. > :06:10.Lincolnshire in order to protect thousands of homes and businesses.
:06:10. > :06:16.Our environment Correspondent has more.
:06:16. > :06:22.Whether it was water pouring into houses and Louth, streets filling
:06:22. > :06:26.up last year or large parts of Hull being left devastated in 2007. All
:06:26. > :06:32.over the last few years, floods have left their mark on his part of
:06:32. > :06:37.the world. Where we are now, the water was at least a fit deep. In
:06:37. > :06:42.some parts it was up to the waist. This man helped people on this
:06:42. > :06:46.estate get back on their feet in 2007. For physically you cannot see
:06:46. > :06:51.anything that has been done. People are worried that when we do have
:06:51. > :06:55.prolonged rain, we are going to get flooded again. But from April the
:06:55. > :07:00.amount of money being spent on flood defences is doubling to �8
:07:00. > :07:05.million. And includes work in the estate. It is rising in
:07:05. > :07:10.Lincolnshire to nearly �26 million. This business is one of the
:07:10. > :07:14.businesses hoping to get some benefit. It was badly flooded and
:07:14. > :07:19.2007. But now work is being done at the nearby river in the hope of
:07:19. > :07:23.cutting the risk. Any work that is being carried out, that will
:07:23. > :07:27.protect the residents of the village and the surrounding area,
:07:27. > :07:32.the assets of the charity. Therefore any work that is going on
:07:32. > :07:36.is really important to us. Other improvements from April include
:07:36. > :07:41.shoring up defences on the Humber and pumping more sand into beaches
:07:41. > :07:46.near Mablethorpe. But with thousands of homes at risk from
:07:46. > :07:52.flooding, protection as a monumental Russ -- monumental task.
:07:52. > :07:57.We have done some important work since 2007. Approximately a third
:07:57. > :08:01.of Lincolnshire is below sea level so it is essential we do continue
:08:01. > :08:06.was the maintenance to tenure the defences that we already have and
:08:06. > :08:11.to provide improvements that we can in the future. Despite all the hard
:08:11. > :08:15.work, the main problem in this area is the scale of the rest. We have a
:08:15. > :08:20.risk of flooding from the sea, from rivers and from unprecedented
:08:20. > :08:30.amounts of rain. And protecting against all of those factors is
:08:30. > :08:34.almost an impossible task. A story we will continue to follow.
:08:34. > :08:39.An East Yorkshire man believed to be in his forties has died in a car
:08:39. > :08:43.crash on the M60 to. The motorway was closed for several hours this
:08:43. > :08:47.morning's rush hour. The road is now reopened and the investigation
:08:47. > :08:53.into the crash is underway. The postmortem is taking place on
:08:53. > :08:57.the body of a man found dead early this morning. The 44-year-old was
:08:57. > :09:02.discovered in the city's Birchwood estate. Two men have been arrested
:09:02. > :09:08.in connection with the death which has been described as an ex plained.
:09:08. > :09:15.The former MP has become the latest applicant for the police of --
:09:15. > :09:19.position of Police Commissioner. He will compete for the Labour
:09:19. > :09:24.nomination alongside the former deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott
:09:24. > :09:30.and Hull's Mayer calling Inglis. There are elections will take this
:09:30. > :09:34.in November. The air ambulance could save money
:09:34. > :09:40.each year if they could avoid paying VAT on the fuel they use. At
:09:40. > :09:43.the moment they're forced to pay the tax under European Union rules.
:09:44. > :09:47.Even though they are charities and make no churches. Now a Yorkshire
:09:47. > :09:54.MP is calling for changes. -- no charges.
:09:54. > :09:58.Two lunches of emergency service vehicles. Also entirely funded by
:09:58. > :10:02.charitable contributions without a penny from the Government. But as
:10:02. > :10:09.one of them has to pay VAT on the huge amounts of fuel used every
:10:09. > :10:13.time they set out to save lives. Under European Union rules,
:10:14. > :10:18.Yorkshire's two air ambulances have to pay 5% VAT on the �10,000 worth
:10:18. > :10:24.of fuel they use every month. But another EU role says charity
:10:24. > :10:30.emergency vehicles working at sea, another word lifeboats, can be like
:10:30. > :10:34.-- tax-exempt. This is the sort of battle their EU often gets itself
:10:34. > :10:39.into. We are saying that they have their Government collects the VAT
:10:39. > :10:44.and then gives it back to the air ambulances. Hugh Bayley has laid
:10:44. > :10:48.down a motion in Parliament. He wants the Government to reimburse
:10:48. > :10:52.VAT and now and the petition is being watched calling for a House
:10:52. > :10:58.of Commons debate on the matter. They are doing a great job for this
:10:58. > :11:05.Government. They have been saving the Government's for successive
:11:05. > :11:09.years millions of pounds. They should be able to get back the VAT.
:11:09. > :11:17.The petition is really taking off. 1000 people a day signing on since
:11:17. > :11:26.its launch last week. 100,000 are required to trigger a debate by MPs.
:11:26. > :11:29.If you have a view on that, send your views for that.
:11:29. > :11:38.Still ahead tonight: We ask whether hugging your children depends on
:11:38. > :11:43.where you live. I hugged her every day. It shows them that they are
:11:43. > :11:53.cared about and it makes them happy. And why we are turning to auction
:11:53. > :11:54.
:11:54. > :12:02.houses to try and get quits then in 2012. -- pounds in.
:12:02. > :12:09.It tonight's picture is a Bridlington harbour taken by Met --
:12:09. > :12:16.by Barry Mainprize. Good to see the Red Arrows practising early on.
:12:16. > :12:20.I thought I would humiliate you by sharing this. I thought you might
:12:20. > :12:29.like to know, my car thermometer has reached seven Celsius this
:12:29. > :12:36.afternoon. When you read it out of context, it sounds extremely dull.
:12:36. > :12:40.It will be wet for the next 24 hours. I am not so sure it will be
:12:40. > :12:44.anywhere near enough to alleviate the dry conditions. Just look at
:12:44. > :12:49.where the air is coming from. Through the sub tropics. This is
:12:49. > :12:55.why on Thursday afternoon, once we get that rain out of the way, if we
:12:55. > :13:04.could have temperatures of 16 Celsius across parts of our region.
:13:04. > :13:09.Right now, there is variable amounts of cloud. Around 13 Celsius.
:13:09. > :13:16.It has been very mild and it will be reasonably mild tonight. Quite
:13:16. > :13:25.breezy. The cloud will come and go. Temperatures drifting to around
:13:25. > :13:32.five or six Celsius around the Wash. So the sun will rise in the morning.
:13:32. > :13:37.You high water times. We are off to a dry start on Wednesday, perhaps
:13:37. > :13:42.some brightness around the Wash. It will not last long. The cloud
:13:42. > :13:47.thickens by the end of the morning. Rain spreading across. The
:13:47. > :13:52.afternoon, wet and windy. The wind will be strong, occasionally gale
:13:52. > :13:56.force from the south-west. So a miserable day developing after war
:13:56. > :14:06.will be a dry start. Temperatures around 11 degrees Celsius in
:14:06. > :14:06.
:14:06. > :14:11.Grimsby. The further out -- Thursday looks pleasant. 15 or 16
:14:11. > :14:21.Celsius Enmore favoured locations. There will be some rain on Friday.
:14:21. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:36.The weekend is looking nice. Dry Dear Sir, Are there any vacancies
:14:37. > :14:42.available in the weather Department? Good night! Nice to
:14:42. > :14:47.talk to you. John Prescott has sparked another debate following
:14:47. > :14:54.comments he has made about hugging. I Yorkshire psychologist has told
:14:54. > :14:59.Look North he is saddened to hear that Lord Prescott does not hug his
:14:59. > :15:05.children. He made the comment in an interview where he said it is not
:15:05. > :15:14.part of British culture. He has never been far away from the media
:15:14. > :15:20.spotlight. He is known for throwing a punch, when he got an egg thrown
:15:20. > :15:25.at him in 2001 but this week, Lord Prescott of Hull showed us his
:15:25. > :15:32.softer side, talking on Desert Island Discs about his relationship
:15:32. > :15:39.with his children. I cannot put my arms around my sons. I do not know
:15:39. > :15:44.where it comes from. I think it is part of British culture and it is
:15:44. > :15:49.reflected in me and I am sad about that. Men a father's will actually
:15:49. > :15:55.share this concern because for some of them to hug their child is
:15:55. > :16:01.difficult. It may also be something about a certain generation.
:16:01. > :16:07.some it is an awkward moment but is it anything to do with where you
:16:07. > :16:12.live or your background that holds Faber's back? This father and
:16:12. > :16:18.daughter work together in Hull but they do not hug. I do not have a
:16:18. > :16:25.problem with it but I just think it is a bit weird. I show affection
:16:25. > :16:30.with a punch on the arm! Down South are the more likely to show
:16:30. > :16:37.affection than as northerners? hug her every day before I leave
:16:37. > :16:43.for work and when I get home from work. It's made them feel loved.
:16:43. > :16:51.always give them a hug hello or goodbye. The modern man everywhere
:16:51. > :16:57.is hugging more than ever. Every one needs a good cuddle! You have
:16:57. > :17:02.got to just get out there and give people a cuddle. Definitely.
:17:02. > :17:12.Friends and family all the time. The being have Italian it is in the
:17:12. > :17:21.
:17:21. > :17:27.blood. A hug makes you feel better. I asked a professor what he made of
:17:27. > :17:32.John Prescott's statement. exudes the northern macho man so
:17:32. > :17:35.probably not surprising but it is quite sad in one way that someone
:17:35. > :17:40.like that too is such a public figure went forward and said that
:17:41. > :17:48.sort of thing. It will have major repercussions in some areas. He is
:17:48. > :17:53.presumably not on his own. Many fellows of that generation will not
:17:53. > :18:01.hug their sons, how do the mess out? I think it is a generational
:18:01. > :18:06.thing but there is also an north/south divide issue here. I
:18:06. > :18:15.think generally surely men of his age, unfortunately I am almost
:18:15. > :18:25.close to his age, but I am a great Hauger. -- I think generational
:18:25. > :18:27.
:18:27. > :18:32.wave. -- I am again eight Hauger. How do the mess out? Today we hear
:18:32. > :18:37.a great thing about the emotional intelligence. I'd really do believe
:18:37. > :18:43.that if you do not have a physical connection with your parents then
:18:43. > :18:48.you really will miss out. I would not say kids would be deprived, but
:18:48. > :18:53.if you do not have that sort of physical real connection that
:18:53. > :18:57.presents a really positive image for children from their parents
:18:57. > :19:03.then the likelihood of not being able to do that as you enter adult
:19:03. > :19:09.food is clearly there and we should be a bit concerned about that. --
:19:09. > :19:16.adult food. And finally, is it ever too late to start? The longer you
:19:16. > :19:22.go on it will be more difficult to express yourself. We should all at
:19:22. > :19:30.least tried to hug one person a day. I will go home and tried to hug
:19:30. > :19:40.one! What do you think about this one? Do you hug? Is it a
:19:40. > :19:50.
:19:50. > :19:55.generational thing or and 35 apprentices are to be taken on
:19:55. > :20:00.by a steel company in Scunthorpe. The apprenticeships will begin in
:20:00. > :20:10.September. Last Jean-Claude Junckers the company announced job
:20:10. > :20:20.
:20:20. > :20:30.losses. There will be a controlled explosion carried out on two --
:20:30. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:40.items found by a bigger. -- the bigger. And a big response on the
:20:40. > :20:44.issue of Lincolnshire facing its worst drought since 1976. Yesterday
:20:44. > :20:53.there was a meeting to discuss minimising the impact. Customers
:20:53. > :21:03.have been asked to reduce water use. One man says we should be imposing
:21:03. > :21:03.
:21:03. > :21:06.hosepipe and -- hosepipe bans now, not later. Barry asks: "If the
:21:06. > :21:09.water company are restricting my water are they also lowering my
:21:09. > :21:11.bills?" And finally Mark asks "What's wrong with desalination of
:21:11. > :21:14.sea water? Egypt and similar countries don't run out every year
:21:14. > :21:17.despite lack of rainfall" People in one of Scunthorpe's most deprived
:21:17. > :21:25.areas are now enjoying a better life thanks to the work being done
:21:25. > :21:27.by one local woman who's turned her own life around. Linsey Rouse from
:21:27. > :21:37.the Westcliffe Estate is offering new hope to people with
:21:37. > :21:39.
:21:39. > :21:45.homelessness, alcohol and drug addiction as Amanda Thomson reports.
:21:45. > :21:53.It is a warm place to relax and meet friends but it is a way from
:21:53. > :21:59.this region which attracted disenfranchised locals for years.
:21:59. > :22:03.used to come and hang about and have a laugh and I thought if I am
:22:03. > :22:08.bored, other people might feel the same so I thought we should have a
:22:08. > :22:18.drop-in centre and I look for some funding. This is what she has
:22:18. > :22:24.created. Three times a week she opens the police and attracts up to
:22:24. > :22:29.30 users per time. I come here, I used to get up to all sorts. Now it
:22:29. > :22:35.is something better to do with my life. I have got a shared house now
:22:35. > :22:40.and I am sorting my life out. better than standing here freezing
:22:40. > :22:44.all the time or going over to sit on the wall. You need places like
:22:44. > :22:47.that to go. Scunthorpe's Westcliffe is an area with its share of
:22:47. > :22:57.problems. So very welcome is help with homelessness, alcoholism, drug
:22:57. > :22:58.
:22:58. > :23:03.addiction and its health implications. What we have got our
:23:03. > :23:11.chronic leg ulcers that you have had four at nine years now? I have
:23:11. > :23:21.been treating you for nine months. I look at the palm to people's
:23:21. > :23:25.general health caused by drug use. Hectares -- it is a way to get
:23:25. > :23:31.people in for treatment, they will not go to their GPs for things like
:23:31. > :23:41.dressings. Recovery exists within communities, not just within
:23:41. > :23:42.
:23:42. > :23:52.mainstream centres but there are other assets. Nurse Linsey has
:23:52. > :23:57.
:23:58. > :24:00.Further funding has been secured Another step to a better future.
:24:00. > :24:03.Scunthorpe United have a chance to move further away from the
:24:03. > :24:06.relegation zone, if they beat Walsall tonight. Alan Knill is set
:24:06. > :24:09.to name an unchanged side for the match at Glandford Park. If they
:24:09. > :24:17.win this evening it will be their third successive victory. And you
:24:17. > :24:27.can hear commentary from be Iron's match on Radio Humberside tonight.
:24:27. > :24:39.
:24:39. > :24:45.The build-up begins in Sportstalk. They are on air now. Auction houses
:24:45. > :24:50.attract all goes one time prized possessions. Here in Lincoln at
:24:50. > :24:56.this auction house they are noticing an unusual trend where
:24:56. > :25:02.people are offloading rare and unusual items for a quick return.
:25:02. > :25:07.This is a blunderbuss. Something like this comes up very really,
:25:07. > :25:13.every five or seven years. Nowadays they are coming up every year
:25:13. > :25:21.because people are having to update their finances in order to do other
:25:21. > :25:31.things. This is alluded on trunk which in itself is very valuable.
:25:31. > :25:36.
:25:36. > :25:41.It came from the wife of a man has rasher in India. Even after 40
:25:41. > :25:47.years in the business, there are more surprises happening now for
:25:47. > :25:53.this owner. It makes people stop and think that the it may be things
:25:53. > :26:00.of value in their wardrobes. Take this trunk, we have had many that
:26:00. > :26:09.always make a lot of money, but never won by -- from a princess in
:26:09. > :26:15.India. That itself will make a lot of money. And how about this
:26:15. > :26:23.acquisition, a whole bucket full of unusual coins. Just one is all it
:26:23. > :26:33.takes to make a fortune. This vehicle was driven here and it was
:26:33. > :26:41.
:26:41. > :26:48.taxed until the end of June. It is worth a couple of grand. Now a cap
:26:48. > :26:56.of the headlines. A eurozone bail- out of 130 billion euros seems
:26:56. > :27:06.Greece. A body will be exude from a cemetery in Hull. And the weather
:27:06. > :27:16.tomorrow is wet, windy and very mild. Now 1 beat subject of hunks,
:27:16. > :27:17.
:27:17. > :27:23.someone text in to say we live in the south and our love is not gone.
:27:23. > :27:31.We hug every day. Another woman says we hug every day and we are