:00:09. > :00:12.Good evening. The headlines tonight: They man demanding the law
:00:12. > :00:21.is changed after being told to prove his dead son was the father
:00:21. > :00:25.of his grandchild. To be denied his birthright seems
:00:25. > :00:29.terribly cruel. An East Yorkshire loan shark
:00:29. > :00:34.escapes jail after preying on dozens of local people.
:00:34. > :00:40.The county roads which are cracking up as drought conditions continue.
:00:40. > :00:43.How the beached whales of our past have shaped the way we treat them
:00:43. > :00:48.today. It has been one of the mildest
:00:48. > :00:58.February days on record along the East Yorkshire coast. The latest
:00:58. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:04.coming up shortly. A Lincolnshire father has described
:01:04. > :01:09.the law as terrible and demanded changes following a fatal car crash.
:01:09. > :01:13.Matthew Anderson died in a crash near Lincoln three days before his
:01:13. > :01:19.fiancee gave birth to their baby. Instead of having time to grieve
:01:19. > :01:24.his death, the family were forced to prove that he was the baby's
:01:24. > :01:27.father using DNA evidence. It is because the couple were not married.
:01:27. > :01:31.It took more than six months and thousands of pounds just to get
:01:31. > :01:41.Matthew's name registered on the birth certificate. His family are
:01:41. > :01:47.
:01:47. > :01:51.calling for a change in the north. -- the law.
:01:51. > :01:56.Cherished memories of a loving son and father. John Anderson was in
:01:56. > :02:02.the car behind his son and witness the moment he was killed in an
:02:02. > :02:06.accident. I'd tried to check his paws. I knew he was dead. A vehicle
:02:06. > :02:12.crashed into the side of the car, killing Matthew instantly. His
:02:12. > :02:15.heavily pregnant fiancee survived the crash, and gave birth three
:02:15. > :02:19.days later to their son. When they tried to register the birth, they
:02:19. > :02:24.were told that because the couple was not married, they needed DNA
:02:24. > :02:30.evidence to prove Massey was the father. They decided to call him
:02:30. > :02:38.Matthew after him, and then John after me, and to deny his son his
:02:38. > :02:43.birthright seems terribly cruel. We had to get a DNA tests done on the
:02:43. > :02:48.baby and use some of Matthew's remains. We had to go to court and
:02:48. > :02:53.get a judge to rule, yes, he is the father. Home Office rules say if
:02:53. > :02:58.the father has died before the birth and the couple is not married,
:02:58. > :03:02.the mother must apply to a court for his name to be on the birth
:03:02. > :03:08.certificate. If parents are married, I'd do one can register the birth.
:03:08. > :03:12.There is a need for the government to look at the legal situation many
:03:12. > :03:16.unmarried couples have to face. It does create unfairness and needs to
:03:16. > :03:21.be reviewed because of the number of people who choose not to get
:03:21. > :03:25.married these days. A we need safeguards around the edges, so you
:03:25. > :03:28.cannot just declare her the father is, but as the law currently stands,
:03:28. > :03:32.this is an added burden for families who have been through a
:03:32. > :03:38.terrible trauma. The family are calling for the law to be changed,
:03:38. > :03:43.and hope they can stop others from going through the pain they have
:03:43. > :03:47.endured. Justine Devenney is from a group
:03:47. > :03:52.which campaigns to raise awareness about your legal rights if you're
:03:52. > :04:00.not married. She told me that this kind of case is not that unusual.
:04:00. > :04:04.It is fairly common. We have been going for 40 years, and one thing
:04:04. > :04:08.we campaigned for his more information for people who were not
:04:08. > :04:12.married. There are lot of mess that exist around common law marriage.
:04:12. > :04:16.People wrongly believe they have the same rights whether they are
:04:16. > :04:20.married or cohabiting. Is it fair for a couple who might have been
:04:20. > :04:25.together for many years, that they are not treated the same way as a
:04:25. > :04:31.married couple, like in this particular story? I am sure when
:04:31. > :04:35.you were going through a tragedy, it feels very unfair. What we have
:04:35. > :04:41.in this country is a huge problem with getting people to access
:04:41. > :04:46.information at the right time. We would like people to be better
:04:46. > :04:50.armed with knowledge when they go into their relationship. When they
:04:50. > :04:55.decide to move in together, or decide to get married or not get
:04:55. > :05:05.married, that they go into that with the knowledge about the
:05:05. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:16.differences in law. Of course, that is not terribly romantic. A big
:05:16. > :05:21.cultural shift is needed to get people to get the right information.
:05:21. > :05:26.In this day and age, does something need to change legally? I do not
:05:26. > :05:30.know if anything needs to change legally, but we have to get
:05:30. > :05:36.complicated legal information to people in a simpler way, so they
:05:36. > :05:41.can make informed choices. Very good to talk to you.
:05:41. > :05:51.I would like your thoughts on this one. Have you or your partner
:05:51. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:13.suffered legally simply because you Coming up: Why has it taken so
:06:13. > :06:19.long? Work starts to replace BT cable to three weeks after a fault
:06:19. > :06:22.was reported. The mother of a baby who was
:06:22. > :06:26.seriously injured after being attacked by her partner has
:06:26. > :06:30.described him as a monster whose crimes will stay with them for the
:06:30. > :06:35.rest of their lives. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons,
:06:35. > :06:40.was speaking after a report into the case of Adam Hewitt from
:06:40. > :06:45.Bridlington. He was jailed for five years after fracturing her baby's
:06:45. > :06:48.skull, and leaving her second baby with permanent brain damage. A
:06:48. > :06:57.serious case review says East Riding Social Services and the
:06:57. > :07:01.police failed to co-ordinate what they knew about him. This report
:07:01. > :07:09.begins with the words of one of the mothers. We have changed her voice
:07:09. > :07:12.to protect her identity. Words distress as Mazda has inflicted
:07:12. > :07:17.upon our family. He not only assaulted my chart, but then went
:07:17. > :07:21.on to point fingers at close family members and friends. My son is not
:07:21. > :07:27.aware of the injuries he sustained, or why he lives apart from his
:07:27. > :07:32.mummy and siblings. This woman's baby, who has been referred to as
:07:32. > :07:37.Chardy to protect his identity, was left with a fractured skull in 2007
:07:37. > :07:46.after being assaulted by her boyfriend, Adam Hewitt. After 10
:07:46. > :07:51.days, police closed the case. In 2000 Nurmi, -- in 2008, additional
:07:51. > :07:56.information emerged but Humberside Police failed to properly assess it.
:07:56. > :08:00.In 2009, Adam Hewitt squeezed and shook another baby. It was left
:08:00. > :08:05.with permanent brain damage. Several members of police staff
:08:05. > :08:09.faced disciplinary action and two social workers lost their jobs. The
:08:09. > :08:13.authorities are sincerely apologised for their failings. New
:08:13. > :08:16.social workers have been appointed and police have tightened up their
:08:16. > :08:20.record-keeping. But we were told there is no guarantee it will not
:08:20. > :08:26.happen again. When you get people like Adam Hewitt, dangers people
:08:26. > :08:29.who were determined to injure children, it makes it very
:08:29. > :08:33.difficult for social services and the police to prevent these things
:08:33. > :08:40.from happening, and even to detect them. They ran a guarantees these
:08:40. > :08:43.things will not happen, but we have learnt lessons -- there are no
:08:43. > :08:48.guarantees. The mother of Hewitt's first victim said she approached
:08:48. > :08:53.the authorities with fears about his violence. I can't explain what
:08:53. > :09:03.I feel about it. I was treated disgustingly. If they had listened
:09:03. > :09:08.
:09:08. > :09:13.to me, it would never have happened. We have had more social workers
:09:13. > :09:18.commander caseloads in the East Riding out very manageable. We have
:09:18. > :09:21.quite low caseloads. Adam Hewitt is serving a five-year prison sentence.
:09:21. > :09:29.The family of one of his victims say their pain will remain with
:09:30. > :09:35.them forever. Joining me is Ray Gray from the
:09:35. > :09:39.union Unison, which represents social workers. Good evening. What
:09:39. > :09:44.more can social workers do to protect children in this area?
:09:44. > :09:49.think one of the key things was picked up in that report. At the
:09:49. > :09:55.time, social workers were under a lot of pressure. They now have
:09:55. > :10:02.seven new social workers. One of the key things is that we learn
:10:02. > :10:07.from it and do not make the same mistakes again. It could happen
:10:07. > :10:12.again? The police constable was right. Behind closed doors, you
:10:12. > :10:16.never know what goes on. Unless somebody tell someone and they act
:10:16. > :10:23.on it, things like this will continue to happen. Is it your
:10:23. > :10:27.experience that they are not overstretched? I think social
:10:27. > :10:33.workers still have a difficult job to do. There will never be enough
:10:33. > :10:38.of them. Their workload will increase. The agency is not working
:10:38. > :10:48.together has been bled. Is that the experience of social workers, who
:10:48. > :10:50.
:10:50. > :10:55.work as part of 18? -- who work as part of 18. Hindsight is a
:10:55. > :11:00.wonderful thing. They could have been better liaison between the
:11:00. > :11:05.agencies. I think a lesson has been learned. What do cases like this do
:11:05. > :11:12.for morale or more on social workers? The job is bank Close, in
:11:12. > :11:15.a way. People do not become social workers because of the money. They
:11:15. > :11:21.do it because they believe they can make a difference. Things like this
:11:21. > :11:30.does affect morale and it affects recruitment. People see the impact
:11:30. > :11:34.on social workers. Thank you very much for coming in tonight.
:11:34. > :11:39.Unregulated exploitation. The words used in court today to describe the
:11:39. > :11:43.activities of an East Yorkshire loan shark. 37-year-old Lea Bates
:11:43. > :11:47.from Cottingham was sentenced to a two-year community order for
:11:47. > :11:56.illegally lending money. His unlicensed loan company is believed
:11:56. > :12:03.to have preyed on dozens of local people. The full extent of Lea
:12:03. > :12:07.Bates's money-lending may never be known. As he was unlicensed, very
:12:07. > :12:12.few records were kept. Hull Crown Court head how his victims were
:12:12. > :12:16.never given written agreements as they were drawn into murky deals.
:12:16. > :12:20.We are angry. We did not realise how much money we owed him. It is
:12:20. > :12:26.so hard, to be dragged into something like people like that,
:12:26. > :12:31.you do not realise because they come across as a friendly.
:12:31. > :12:36.court was told that Lea Bates used to work for a licensed lender, and
:12:36. > :12:41.when he left that company, he purged former clients. In
:12:41. > :12:46.sentencing him to a two-year community order, the judge
:12:46. > :12:51.condemned him for what he described as unregulated exploitation. People
:12:51. > :12:55.wouldn't understand what they had to pay back. That is what
:12:55. > :13:00.legitimate firms are there for. You have paperwork, you know how much
:13:00. > :13:06.you have to pay and can make informed choices. With illegal
:13:06. > :13:10.lenders, they abuse the system. number of illegal lenders has
:13:10. > :13:20.doubled nationally in the last three years. The court heard how
:13:20. > :13:21.
:13:21. > :13:24.Lea Bates was motivated by nothing Hundreds of residents in Scunthorpe
:13:24. > :13:27.still cannot use their telephone or internet three weeks after a fault
:13:27. > :13:31.was reported. British Telecom have only just begun to lay new cables
:13:31. > :13:41.on the A18. Our reporter Leanne Brown is there now. Leanne, why is
:13:41. > :13:44.
:13:44. > :13:49.it taking so long to get this fixed? You can just about make out
:13:49. > :13:59.of the Vance behind the. Engineers working to fix the problem. About
:13:59. > :14:02.
:14:02. > :14:07.250 people are without services. Water damage to a cable caused loss
:14:07. > :14:11.of service in the area. The cable was damaged beyond repair and when
:14:11. > :14:13.BT went to run a new cable, they were unable to because the duct had
:14:13. > :14:16.collapsed. Now, our cameras were here earlier
:14:16. > :14:19.when 90 metres of new duct was built to house the cable. Traffic
:14:20. > :14:25.management was needed. It is a busy route, so it has caused some
:14:25. > :14:30.disruption. You can see for yourself, this is a busy roundabout.
:14:30. > :14:34.BT has released a statement saying that a new cable is being run
:14:34. > :14:44.through the dock today and they will begin at restoring services in
:14:44. > :14:48.
:14:48. > :14:58.They expect all customers to be back up and running by the weekend.
:14:58. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:02.Thank you. Still ahead tonight: Cracking up -
:15:02. > :15:04.how the ongoing drought is causing millions of pounds damge to our
:15:04. > :15:14.roads. And how a beached whale on our
:15:14. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:18.coastline helped inspire one of our most famous novels.
:15:18. > :15:26.Tonight's photograph. Cleethorpes Pier taken by Patrick
:15:26. > :15:36.Cheeseman. It has been a beautiful day.
:15:36. > :15:38.
:15:38. > :15:48.It has. But I have had a tweed from you. Anybody who knows are female
:15:48. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:52.going to propose tomorrow, please get in touch with me!
:15:52. > :15:58.Top temperatures this afternoon in Bridlington. That is where the
:15:58. > :16:08.excitement has been. Just short of excitement has been. Just short of
:16:08. > :16:15.a record set in 1960. But just well in Lincoln. Tomorrow, variable with
:16:16. > :16:20.some large amounts of cloud as well. High pressure is still in charge.
:16:20. > :16:28.Lincolnshire is desperately in need of some rain, but there is nothing
:16:28. > :16:38.in the forecast until later in the weekend. You can see that clear
:16:38. > :16:38.
:16:38. > :16:42.patch there. Over the next few hours, we will keep these gaps in
:16:42. > :16:46.the cloud. But the cloud will push him from the south-west, that means
:16:46. > :16:55.it will be a very mild night for the time of year. Temperatures
:16:55. > :17:05.around eight or nine Celsius. The sun will rise in the morning at
:17:05. > :17:13.
:17:13. > :17:23.around about 6:51am. A milder -- a milder day tomorrow. Most places
:17:23. > :17:26.
:17:26. > :17:29.should have some sunshine. Temperatures of 13 or 14 Celsius.
:17:29. > :17:35.Similar on Thursday. Friday looks over cast with the risk of some
:17:35. > :17:45.drizzle. Possibly some rain over the weekend.
:17:45. > :17:55.On Twitter, they are saying that they knew why you would be a
:17:55. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:04.gloating. I did not get lucky!
:18:04. > :18:07.More than 150 roads in Lincolnshire have been damaged by the current
:18:07. > :18:10.drought conditions and now the county council is asking the
:18:10. > :18:14.Government for extra cash to repair them. It says it is unclear what it
:18:14. > :18:20.would cost to fix all of the damage, but the bill could amount to
:18:20. > :18:23.millions of pounds. Jake Zuckerman They've been appearing in roads
:18:23. > :18:33.across Lincolnshire. Huge long cracks, caused by the recent
:18:33. > :18:33.
:18:33. > :18:38.drought. This crack is so big you can fit your hand inside it.
:18:38. > :18:47.Ligature county council says there are so -- a Lincolnshire County
:18:47. > :18:53.Councils says there were 150 sites across the country are. They are
:18:53. > :18:59.asking for more money to repair the damage. This will have to be
:18:59. > :19:03.resurfaced. How much do you need for that? How long it is a piece of
:19:03. > :19:11.string? We do not have sufficient funds to put this matter right on
:19:11. > :19:13.our own. But the Government may take some convincing. It says
:19:14. > :19:16.Lincolnshire has already been allocated �100 million for road
:19:16. > :19:26.repairs between 2011 and 2015. In a statement Transport Minister Norman
:19:26. > :19:34.
:19:34. > :19:37.Monica Lees runs a cat shelter in Moulton Chapel.
:19:37. > :19:40.Just a few hundred yards away from her home, the road is breaking up
:19:40. > :19:45.and becoming dangerous. Like many living in the area she's worried.
:19:45. > :19:51.It is a bit like a roller coaster. If you go too fast, the front
:19:51. > :19:54.bumper of your car will hit it. You can damage your motor.
:19:54. > :19:57.The county did experience similar drought damage in 2004 and then it
:19:57. > :20:00.received just over �5 million. But this time, the problem is worse,
:20:00. > :20:10.and money is far harder to come by. Jake Zuckerman, BBC Look North,
:20:10. > :20:12.Moulton Chapel. A new service for people who care
:20:12. > :20:15.for dementia sufferers has been launched in Hull today. The
:20:15. > :20:18.Dementia Academy will be a single point of access for family members,
:20:18. > :20:21.carers and professionals in the city. It is hoped it will reduce
:20:21. > :20:25.admissions to residential care and A&E through better carer support
:20:25. > :20:31.and training. It is really about raising
:20:31. > :20:37.standards, improving training to help the lives of sufferers of
:20:37. > :20:39.dementia are, but also of their carers and families.
:20:40. > :20:45.On last night's programme, we talked about calls for better care
:20:45. > :20:48.for people suffering from the early onset of dementia. Steve Borjak's
:20:48. > :20:51.wife Michelle was diagnosed with a form of Alzeihmer's at just 28
:20:51. > :20:54.years old. He struggled to find a suitable care home for her as most
:20:55. > :20:58.of them would not take someone so young. He is calling for more
:20:58. > :21:01.services for people like her who get the disease earlier in life.
:21:01. > :21:11.Thanks for getting in touch on this one, many seem to have had a
:21:11. > :21:38.
:21:38. > :21:41.Thank you very much for all of those.
:21:41. > :21:44.Hull City's manager Nick Barmby has been giving his support to the
:21:44. > :21:46.BBC's Sport Relief today. He's been at the KC Stadium seeing how money
:21:46. > :21:56.raised is helping to end the discrimination surrounding mental
:21:56. > :22:04.health. Our sports reporter Simon It was straight from our Hull City
:22:04. > :22:09.training session to this for Nick Barmby. He was lending support to a
:22:09. > :22:14.project backed by the club's community department called Imagine
:22:14. > :22:18.your goals. It is funded from cash you raised for Sport Relief and is
:22:18. > :22:22.aimed at getting those with mental health issues back into the
:22:22. > :22:28.committee. People do not realise what great work is done in the
:22:28. > :22:32.community. In the background. We are not privy to that sort of thing.
:22:32. > :22:37.There are some great people working behind the scenes. Every week,
:22:38. > :22:47.these young men and women turn up on these artificial pictures for a
:22:48. > :22:48.
:22:48. > :22:54.game of football. We used the money from sports relief -- Sport Relief
:22:54. > :23:03.for people to come down and access the pictures for free. You can get
:23:03. > :23:09.involved in this year's event. Choose your Ram, and walk or run
:23:09. > :23:16.the 26 miles. More details on the website. Mick has been a supporter
:23:16. > :23:23.of the charity for a long time, and even coach a BBC team are several
:23:23. > :23:27.years ago. But clearly, he had better success today.
:23:27. > :23:31.There is a strong maritime tradition is our part of the world.
:23:31. > :23:34.And part of that tradition used to be whaling. In a series of films
:23:34. > :23:36.this week, we're looking back at that industry. Tonight Jo Makel
:23:36. > :23:39.reports on how we treated stranded whales and the East Yorkshire
:23:39. > :23:45.beaching that helped inspire the novel, Moby Dick.
:23:45. > :23:47.The whales that washed up on our coast caused surprise and confusion.
:23:47. > :23:51.And while we still don't really know what really brought these
:23:51. > :23:56.creatures to our shores, the over- riding feeling is that this was a
:23:56. > :24:05.tragedy. But 200 years ago, stranded whales were viewed very
:24:05. > :24:08.differently. They brought excitement and the promise of money.
:24:08. > :24:17.In 1825, a sperm whale stranded on Tunstall beach. Local woman Sarah
:24:17. > :24:20.Stickney wrote in her journal. "You will doubtless have heard of the
:24:20. > :24:30.monster washed up on this shore. The bustle it occasioned in the
:24:30. > :24:32.
:24:32. > :24:35.neighbourhood was marvellous. There were crowds flocking to see
:24:35. > :24:42.it. People started hacking into the blubber straight away. There were
:24:42. > :24:45.scientific people dissecting it. He smell, after a day or two
:24:45. > :24:48.particularly, was horrific. You can imagine it was both gory and a
:24:48. > :24:57.carnival atmosphere. It had been a profitable exercise in the past,
:24:57. > :25:01.especially with a sperm whale. The oil would be used to make candles,
:25:01. > :25:07.to burn in oil lamps and then, of course, there is the blubber.
:25:07. > :25:11.this whale was also to have a scientific significance. It was
:25:11. > :25:14.dissected on the beach. And then the Constable family, who owned the
:25:14. > :25:22.rights to anything that washed up on the Holderness coast, kept the
:25:22. > :25:25.whale's remains. It was the first scientific study of a sperm whale
:25:25. > :25:30.ever recorded. We still have a copy of the publication with detailed
:25:30. > :25:33.drawings. The skeleton also was studied by other scientists. Of
:25:33. > :25:43.course, all this was source material for Herman Melville when
:25:43. > :25:46.
:25:46. > :25:49.he was in England carrying out research for his book Moby Dick.
:25:49. > :25:52.But our ancestors were not content with just making use of the whales
:25:52. > :26:02.like this one that washed up naturally on our coastline. In our
:26:02. > :26:02.
:26:02. > :26:06.area, we were active hunters. At its peak Hull was at the centre
:26:06. > :26:12.of the whaling industry. Tomorrow we'll see how it made the city an
:26:12. > :26:16.early energy port and turned its captains into heroes.
:26:16. > :26:20.Some great pictures there. Join us again tomorrow night, round about
:26:20. > :26:27.the same time. If you have a story you think we should know about, get
:26:27. > :26:30.in touch. Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines. A
:26:30. > :26:33.wounded British photographer trapped in Syria for days has been
:26:33. > :26:36.smuggled out of the country. Paul Conroy was carried on a stretcher
:26:36. > :26:39.by Syrian activists. A Lincolnshire father is calling for a change in
:26:39. > :26:44.the law after being told to prove his dead son was the father of his
:26:45. > :26:47.grandchild. Dry with variable, often large,
:26:47. > :26:55.amounts of cloud, but with sunny breaks again developing in places.
:26:55. > :27:04.Maximum temperature 14 Celsius. Light southwest wind.
:27:04. > :27:08.Response coming in on a story about the Lincolnshire family calling for
:27:08. > :27:15.a change in the law. Far distressing for the people in this
:27:15. > :27:20.case, the law has to stop unscrupulous false paternity claims.
:27:20. > :27:30.Why should the person prove her partner is the father? When you
:27:30. > :27:36.