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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight... | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
A month after the budget, the backlash begins over tax on pies | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
and caravans. This is a mistake, it will decimate | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
the industry. We do until the country is in a | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
better position. In the Commons, local MPs are about | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
to put the case for East Yorkshire's caravan industry. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
the Government's holding firm. It is a right that we tried to have | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
a level playing field with an a our tax system. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
By-law be assessing a day of protest and debate live from | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Westminster. Remembering the Lincolnshire | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
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Vulcan's bombing raid on the Falklands 30 years ago today. | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
Why this young musician doesn't have to blow his own trumpet. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
And a wet night developing in places, the Met Office have a | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
warning in places. Some of the rain could be heavy and thundery, | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
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especially at first. Join me for Good evening. The Treasury Minister | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
has told Look North that he is listening to concerns about VAT on | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
static caravans, but at the same time the Government is committed to | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
a level playing field on the whole issue of VAT. Tonight MPs from East | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are raising the issue in a Commons | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
debate. There are fears that it could lead to thousands of job | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
losses. It comes at the end of a day which has seen renewed protests | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
against the Chancellor's plans. We are live at Westminster in a few | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
moments, but first our Political Editor, Tim Iredale, has this | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
report. As MPs prepare to debate the so- | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
called caravan tax, of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, Dodge | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
protesters, as he met with the Institute of Directors in Hull City | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
-- in Hull, a city which many claim will be hit hardest by the measure. | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
The deal was very factual and genuine. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
He has taken that away, there has been an extensive consultation | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
period for the caravans, and he has said proved to me the impact you | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
think it is having, fat Julie, and that is what we will go away and | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
work with partners to put that to him, so we can walk into George | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Osborne and David Cameron and prove our point. A national Caravan | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Council estimates up to 7,000 jobs could be lost in manufacturing, the | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
supply chain and the holiday industry if VAT is levied on static | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
caravans. Labour have accused the Government of underestimating the | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
impact. We are in a double-dip recession. | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
This could be point one of Plan B. Not introducing VAT on static | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
caravans on the head, that is part of Plan B, really. The But today | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
the Treasury minister told Look North that the Government won't | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
ignore its critics. We do think it is right we tried to | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
deal with static caravans fairly and consistently with other | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
products, but obviously we want to listen to concerns about the impact | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
and we want to listen to exactly how this would work, what the | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
border line would be. Earlier in the day, there was a very different | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
VAT protest at Downing Street over the so-called pasty tax. Members of | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
the Lincolnshire-based family bakery Pocklington's travelled to | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
the capital to call on the Government to look again at moves | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
to add VAT on freshly-baked products, such as pies and sausage | :03:53. | :04:03. | |
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rolls. Where it will penalise our | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
customers is when they buy a family steak pie, take it warm and warm it | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
up for their banner. A lot of people are looking at cheaper ways | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
of eating, eating out less and cooking at home, they cumin and by | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
apartheid that has just commit of the oven to eat at night and they | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
will have to pay 20 % VAT on it. Ministers say the controversial VAT | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
changes are about ironing out anomalies in the tax system, but | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
that seems to be little consolation to those who took part in a day of | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
protest at Westminster. Tim is live in the Central Lobby of | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
the Houses of Parliament for us this evening. Where does this leave | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
us over this whole issue of VAT on static caravans? | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
Now, Peter, MPs from different parties and different backgrounds, | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
from different parts of the country, are standing in the Chamber of the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
House of Commons to tell the Government exactly what they can do | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
with their so-called caravan tax. Tonight's debate was secured by | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
Graham Stuart, Conservative MP for Beverley and wholeness. He raised | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
the issue, not just the effect on manufacturing, but also the effect | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
on tourism. A two or three out of every ten | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
people going into the bakery down the road and spending money in the | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
pubs, the importance of rural visitors to the economy away from | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
those directly employed in the manufacture, however important they | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
are, is immense, and I think that is why there was such a groundswell | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
saying this is an issue that should be reconsidered. | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
A Graham Stuart speaking in the past half-hour. Last week's stock | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
the biggest Conservative rebellion since the vote on student tuition | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
fees. The Government won the vote on VAT on static caravans, but only | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
by a slim majority of 25. Four Tory MPs from East you pinch -- East | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire rebelled. MPs say this debate is all about | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
sending a further message to the Government. They believe this is | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
attacks on jobs. The minister today told BBC look north that they | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
believe the Government is listening, and MPs want to see actions backed | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
with words. Health workers in Lincolnshire say | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
they will fight plans which would see them paid less than colleagues | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
in the South of England. The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley says | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
nurses and hospital porters should have higher salaries if they live | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
in more expensive areas of the country. Mr Lansley has been on a | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
private visit to the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston this afternoon. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
Tarah Welsh reports. Other old key protest, but feelings | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
are running high. -- a low-key protest. The Health Secretary did | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
not see their signs, but they told me plans for low wages are run in | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
sold. Nick Charlton from Boston has been a nurse for 15 years. He says | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
his profession is being attacked. We already have the pay freeze for | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
the last three years, we have the attack on our pensions coming in, | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
which will cost us more money and balance that against energy, petrol, | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
food prices going up. The Government proposes healthcare | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
workers input or areas will be paid less. In Greater London the average | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
house price is around �406,000, in Boston it is 135,000. To reflect | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
that, nurses will be paid less in places like Lincolnshire. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
They are doing the same job, so why should they get more money? | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
The tis cheaper to live around here, but it to is a very demanding job, | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
so I think they should be paid fairly. | :07:48. | :07:57. | |
It is all very well, but with zoned pay, fuel is not zoned, shopping is | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
not zoned. The does a lot more expensive than | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
London and we need NHS workers. A some parts of the South will be | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
more expensive than the north. I'd think people should be paid | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
according to their ability to work. Do the man in charge of health in | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
Boston borough council told me the proposals were fair. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
In the inner London area it is very expensive indeed, so pay rates have | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
to reflect the cost of living in what are the area of the country | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
you are living in. We had had a lot of problems recruiting people, so | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
if we bring regional pay to Lincolnshire, I think the people of | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Lincolnshire will be majorly disadvantaged. | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
We will have major problems trying to attract staff from larger cities | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
to Lincolnshire. Nurses say there were wages would | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
bring down their standard of living and the standard of staff willing | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
to come to work here. I'm joined by David Kirwan from | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
UNISON, which represents health workers in Boston. Good evening. | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Why shouldn't you colleagues in the very expensive South be paid more | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
than those in the cheaper at areas of the country? | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
I think all of amid members do the same job and did deserve the same | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
payment. Regional pay would make it almost impossible to recruit into | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
this area of the country. Lincolnshire and Boston in | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
particular are likely to be areas considered to be less expensive to | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
live in and pay would be reduced. By the average house price is | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
�135,000 in Boston, �406,000 in London. You don't think they | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
deserve more in the South? Bar at think you would be hard pressed to | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
find a nurse in London living in afford hundred and �6,000 house. | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
The nurses are priced out of London and have to go to a plain areas to | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
live. I think in Boston other expensive and people's lifestyles | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
counteract the difference in housing costs, such as transport. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
Very good transport systems in London, not sought in Lincolnshire. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
The only a handful of people protested against Mr Lansley today, | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
that shows a lack of interest in the issue, doesn't it? | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
Not at all, that shows that Andrew Lansley kept his whereabouts are | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
very secret and did not reveal any timings for is that it. He actually | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
cancelled the visit overnight and rescheduled it this morning. A lot | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
of our supporters felt the visit had been cancelled. Those on | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
regional pacy it is an effective use of NHS funds. You are good at - | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
- you agree with that? No, it is not, because it means all | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
the best staff will be in the same areas where they can get higher pay. | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
In Boston in particular, if staff go down the road to Cambridge they | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
will be paid more. The by queue for talking to us tonight. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
-- thank you for talking to us. And we'd love to hear your thoughts | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
on this story. What do you think? Is it fair that nurses in Boston | :10:59. | :11:09. | |
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and other rural areas should be People in the fastest growing town | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
in East Yorkshire say they have concerns about a major new | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
development. Hundreds of houses are planned for land near the BAE | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
systems factory in Brough, which is closing down. The plans were | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
discussed by East Riding Council this afternoon. There will also be | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
a new hotel and business park, as Vicky Johnson reports. | :11:42. | :11:48. | |
Housing for jobs? No, very short term. Not strategic at all. I think | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
it is a good thing, yes. It will bring more people to the village. | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
Mixed reaction to a �100 million housing project planned for Brough. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
If approved, around 750 homes will be built on this land near the BAE | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
systems factory. There will also be a hotel, a nursery and shops and | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
offices. Developers say the development should create 700 new | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
jobs. But campaigners are against There are two major objections in | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
terms of schooling and traffic. The education system in this part of | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
the East Yorkshire is already overloaded. These 700,000 houses | :12:24. | :12:32. | |
will probably generate some 1,400 or 1,500 cars. -- these 700 houses. | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
These will probably end up on the main road, which is already heavily | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
congested. BAE Systems, a major employer in the town, recently | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
announced it would end manufacturing at its Brough site | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
with the loss of more than 800 jobs. Rather than create work there are | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
fears the development would in fact adversely affect small businesses. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
It is not just the residential development, it is a big commercial | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
development, and I believe it is too big for this village, and we | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
have a negative impact on small businesses like ours, and like this | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
cafe, for instance. East Riding of Yorkshire Council have this | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
afternoon agreed to the plans but they now need to go to the | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
Secretary of state for final approval. | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
Of course we will follow that story. Thank you for watching. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Still ahead tonight... And the young musician who's | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
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blowing away the competition. Bob Wallis took this of the Far | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
Bob Wallis took this of the Far Ings Natures Reserve at Barton. | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
If you have a picture you are proud of, please send it in. | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
Good evening. Our favourite e-mail from Beaumaris it today, I would | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
like to know why Paul big nose Louth and refuses to name a but | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
fantastic town. -- ignores. Do you are going there next month, | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
our review, Peter? Yes, Monday the 14th, if memory | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
serves. Do you know how to get their? | :14:17. | :14:26. | |
At the you want to give the The warning is in place yet again, | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
especially for parts of Lincolnshire, the Met Office | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
warning it could cause localised flooding. Tomorrow a slow | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
improvement, East Yorkshire could get better, but patchy rain of one | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
on a cross parts of Lincolnshire -- off and on. It will bring patchy | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
rain across Lincolnshire, this front, whereas across East | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Yorkshire we're hoping things will be a little better. Low pressure is | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
very much in charge again. Thunderstorms pushing up from the | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
south-west. It has been bright at times, sunny intervals, but this is | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
an area of heavy rain that will gradually push across most places | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
this evening and overnight. Heavy downpours scattered at first a | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
cross Lincolnshire, rain gathering across East Yorkshire, pushing | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
southwards, reaching most parts with the exception, perhaps, of the | :15:24. | :15:34. | |
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Wash, we will seek temperatures of six or seven Celsius by dawn. Sun | :15:34. | :15:43. | |
rising at 533 am. It is a grey, damp, chilly start with outbreaks | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
of rain across all parts. A bit of a clearance across East Yorkshire | :15:47. | :15:53. | |
trying to get across Lincolnshire, but patchy rain never far away. All | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
probably a little better across the East. -- hopefully. It will be a | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
cooler feel with a moderate, northerly wind. Saturday looks | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
better after a damp start, becoming mostly dry, but then the wet and | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
very windy develop -- weather develops on Sunday. That is the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
develops on Sunday. That is the forecast. | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
The Two people have been seriously injured in a crash in East | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
Yorkshire. A military vehicle was involved in the collision at | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Swinefleet near Goole this afternoon. Our reporter, Emma | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
Massey, is live near the scene. Emma, what can you see? | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
Eye among the A-road 61, a long straight road with deep ditches on | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
either side. I am around 400 yards away from the accident. -- the A61. | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Sorry about that, the line to Swinefleet was not very good. We | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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will get more to you later. One of the longest distance bombing | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
missions in aviation history has been remembered today. 30 years ago, | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
during the Falklands war, the RAF's Vulcan bomber flew from RAF | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
Waddington in Lincolnshire - almost 4,000 miles - to bomb the runway at | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Port Stanley. This morning crew members from that mission gathered | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
at Robin Hood Airport, where the last flying Vulcan is based. Dan | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
Johnson reports. The Vulcan bomber, on show today to | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
remember a Mark -- remarkable mission. 30 years ago it was months | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
from being scrapped when the Falklands war brought a new lease | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
of life. It was to fly to the Falklands and bombed the runway at | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
Port Stanley saw it could not be used by Argentinian jets. It would | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
be the longest bombing raid in history. | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
Suddenly to be called up to drop conventional bombs on a | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
sophisticated, modern enemy in a big, slow, vulnerable Vulcan, the | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
bombing Agassi was abysmal, really. We did not think we would be called | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
upon to do it. But they did. At RAF Waddington | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
plans were furiously drawn up. Planes were a degraded and at the | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
crew had to be trained. The Royal Air Force had never been | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
a to the fore once in its life. There were no maps of how to get | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
their! They use a base at Ascension Island | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
as a staging-post, but the distance was still beyond the Vulcans' range, | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
so a set of 11 tanker planes were needed to refuel in the air. | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
There was a crew of five in the cramped Cockpit and it is a journey | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
of 8,000 miles to the Falklands and back. It was a 16 hour round trip. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
The buyer was not aware of feeling particular retired because it was | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
all new and quite exciting. It was not until they had all gone and | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
suddenly we were on our own that the realisation came that we were | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
going into attack an airfield, which we had never done before, | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
that we were starting off the Laura, if you like. And they started on | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
the front foot, making it to Port Stanley, dropping their bombs and | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
hitting the runway. Few the airport buildings were skeletons blown | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
apart by British bombardment. It was an incredible aviation | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
achievement and made it more difficult for the Argentinian jets | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
to attack British ships that were heading to the Falklands. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Today, there is just one from -- Vulcan left flying. The mission has | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
changed, but the same Pru is still at the controls. When you hear it | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
is a unique sound, a particular hole only this aeroplane does. To | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
hear that is what generations ought to be able to hear in the future. | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
The key being at flying costs millions every year. Today's test | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
flight means thousands more can enjoy that the unique sound at beer | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
shows this summer. -- air shows. The lot of people interested and | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
remembering that bombing raid at Port Stanley 30 years ago today. | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Thank you for all your emails, texts, tweets and messages after we | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
told you that Hull City council had been forced to apologise to parents | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
across the city for any confusion over primary school places. Emails | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
have been sent to some parents in error, telling them which school | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
their children will go to, while other parents are still waiting for | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
news. One mum has said she is so angry she might home-school instead. | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
We talked about this on the radio, as well, and there was a big | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
response. A big and mixed response response. A big and mixed response | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
from you on this. Steve in Hull says, "My daughter is due to start | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
in September and we have an email saying she has not got into the | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
same school as her older brother. This means that one child will be | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
late for school everyday and one child will be left waiting at home | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
time until I get there." And Rob in Louth agrees. He says, "I think | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
it's unacceptable the way parents have been kept in the dark over the | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
school places and certainly coming down to having to have third choice | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
school should never happen." But Lee from Hull thinks, "Parents | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
really need to stop moaning about what school their kids go to. Their | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
kids will get free education. And having a little tantrum about it is | :20:52. | :21:02. | |
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Baku for all of those e-mails and texts after the programme last | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
night. -- thank you. The music pupil from Hull is at -- | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
has been given the chance to see his composition turned into an | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
orchestral arrangement. He is one of 10 winners of a national | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
competition. He will get to work with professional musicians before | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
it is played at the Royal Opera House in London. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
It is a normal Thursday lunchtime orchestra practice at St Mary's | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
College in Hull. One member of the class has composed a piece of music | :21:38. | :21:47. | |
that will be performed for a completely different stage. 15- | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
year-old de Gaulle has composed a fanfare for the Royal Opera House | :21:51. | :22:01. | |
in Covent Garden, London. -- Diego. It will be played to modify people | :22:01. | :22:11. | |
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when a performance is about to That started it as a tango, but it | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
developed into a fanfare. A pittance and South American guitar, | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
and summed some of -- trumpets like you would expect in a tango. It is | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
mainly for full orchestra. But, the exciting bits is yet to come. This | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
is the third here of the competition, and as part of the | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
price he will get to work with renowned composer Duncan jump and, | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
who incidentally lives in look and -- Lincolnshire. They will get the | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
arrangement ready to be recorded by the full orchestra of the Royal | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Opera House. The I can't get it into my head I am working with | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
someone that fairness. I think it is brilliant, it will be | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
inspirational for him to see his own work in the hands of | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
professionals, the music technicians as well as the expert | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
composers. It will be wonderful to see it coming through in a | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
professional standard. This is just the beginning for him, really, at | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
what a start. It is onwards and upwards and we will offer as much | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
support as we possibly can, and hopefully we have a top composer on | :23:17. | :23:25. | |
our hands. All 10 it will finish their recordings on tenth June. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
Fantastic, a great story, well done to him. If you have a story you | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
think we should know about, they of as first, send me an e-mail and let | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
us know. -- think of us first. Let's look at the main regional and | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
national headlines tonight. Rupert Murdoch tells the Leveson | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
Inquiry he did not know about the phone hacking scandal because his | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
staff hid the extent of the illegal behaviour. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
Banned the Treasury minister has told the BBC look north he is | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
listening to concerns about VAT on static caravans. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Back to that story, and tonight a debate is being held on the issue | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
in the House of Commons. Amid political editor is back with us. | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
What has been said so far? Per in the past hour a procession | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
of MPs from all sides have stood up to criticise their caravan tax. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Let's hear from former Labour Cabinet minister, Alan Johnson, the | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
MP for Hull West. There are a number of caravan manufacturers in | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
his consistency, and he was talking about fears voiced by the business | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
community. Da I spoke to Lord Haskins this | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
afternoon, the chair of the Local Enterprise Partnership, the | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
business leader in Hull. His view is the damage from this measure | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
will act, at -- will, at a stroke, remove all the advantages of our | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
two Enterprise Zones and Local Enterprise Partnership. Should not | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
the voice of business take precedence in this debate? Alan | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Johnson speaking in the Commons in the past half-hour. The Treasury | :25:00. | :25:08. | |
minister, David Koch, did respond to MPs, and he said he believes the | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
attacks on static caravans -- the tax on static caravans are fair -- | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
is fair. He says it is a boat ironing out anomalies on at the tax | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
system. He does not see why VAT should be levied on touring or | :25:23. | :25:30. | |
mobile caravans, but not on static caravans. I tell you what, he and | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
other ministers here have a real job on their hands convincing MPs | :25:35. | :25:43. | |
at Westminster. Our next news tonight is at 10:25pm. Talking | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
about regional pay a few minutes ago, one Twitter, I don't think it | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
is fair to expect people who did the same job but work in a | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
different region to be paid any more or less. As a nurse myself, I | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
might pay should reflect our skills, experience and abilities, not | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
demographic location. A live 20 miles away from where I work in a | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
rural area. It costs me much more to get to work than someone who can | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
hop on a train. Another viewer says, I thought this country had equal | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
opportunities legislation, just to ensure people were paid the same | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
for doing a job. But another viewer says, the NHS must review the cost | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
of the country will go bust. The best healthcare already goes to | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
private -- is through private providers, so why are the unions up | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
in arms? Another viewer says, the Tories and Lib Dems want to expand | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
the north-south divide. They will not increase the pay in the south | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
so workers there will not be better off, but they do want to cut pay in | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
the north. Because they are typical Tories, they want to rush policies | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
because they know they will not be in Government much longer. Big | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
response of all of those, thank you for that. Join me on the radio with | :27:02. | :27:09. |