:00:07. > :00:17.North. The headlines tonight. Calls for a badger cull as farmers
:00:17. > :00:19.
:00:19. > :00:23.criticise government plans to protect their cattle from TB.
:00:23. > :00:25.wants to see rats in the back door or in the kitchen carrying disease.
:00:26. > :00:33.A new chapter for Lincolnshire's libraries as protesters step up
:00:33. > :00:37.their fight against closure plans. Parking charges in some other
:00:37. > :00:44.hospitals are set to nearly double. How a Hull family had a lucky escape
:00:44. > :00:48.after a car crashed into their living room. It is horrific. If it
:00:48. > :00:54.had happened during the day or when I was popping downstairs, who knows
:00:54. > :01:01.what could have happened? The field in East Yorkshire which could be the
:01:01. > :01:11.cream of the crop. It will not be as Wendy tomorrow, I will be back
:01:11. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:15.A cattle farmer in Lincolnshire says the only way to protect the county
:01:15. > :01:21.against the spread of bovine TB is a cull of badgers which carry the
:01:21. > :01:25.disease. The controversial call comes on the day the government has
:01:25. > :01:30.announced what it says are tough new measures to protect Lincolnshire.
:01:30. > :01:33.These include a quarter of a million pounds for a badger vaccine. But one
:01:33. > :01:40.of the county's most prominent figures has told our Rural Affairs
:01:40. > :01:43.Correspondent Linsey Smith it will be a complete waste of money.
:01:43. > :01:48.Alan Hargreaves not only has his own herd of Lincoln Reds - he's
:01:48. > :01:51.president of the county's Cattle Soceity. He believes there's only
:01:51. > :02:01.one way to protect these animals from a disease which would see them
:02:01. > :02:03.
:02:03. > :02:08.slaughtered. Inevitably, the cull will have to come in and it will be
:02:08. > :02:11.extended beyond the south-west and over to the east. You are saying you
:02:11. > :02:14.would like to see one in Lincolnshire? It is inevitable.
:02:14. > :02:18.Tests have shown Badgers do carry TB. They have been filmed sharing
:02:18. > :02:22.water troughs and feed with cattle. Most cases of TB in cattle are found
:02:22. > :02:26.in Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset. But the disease is a growing problem
:02:26. > :02:29.in areas including Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire. It's
:02:29. > :02:32.these counties what the government is calling Edge Areas where they are
:02:32. > :02:40.focusing new measures to stop the disease spreading into Lincolnshire
:02:40. > :02:43.But some scientific research suggests a cull would not work. The
:02:44. > :02:51.changes announced today that come into force on the autumn include
:02:51. > :02:55.changes to movement, but what has caused most debate is the quarter of
:02:55. > :03:02.�1 million for badger vaccinations. It is difficult to capture and
:03:02. > :03:06.vaccinate them. They are already carrying TB. But some research
:03:06. > :03:09.suggests it would not work. It found badgers are sociable animals. When a
:03:09. > :03:18.cull begins and they notice numbers dwindling, they move to join others
:03:18. > :03:24.in a new area. Therefore, spreading the problem rather than solving it.
:03:24. > :03:32.We will extend the cull in due course. We will look at areas where
:03:32. > :03:34.we have a particular problem and a high incidence of the disease. We
:03:34. > :03:38.have no interest in culling badgers that are healthy. That's something
:03:38. > :03:43.that Alison Townsend agrees with. She runs the Weirfield Wildlife
:03:43. > :03:47.Hospital and says a badger cull would spark protests. I do not agree
:03:47. > :03:52.with it. I have seen culling happen in the past and the badgers have
:03:52. > :03:56.gone into those areas and the ones that would move into those areas, we
:03:56. > :03:59.cannot guarantee our clean and at the moment the ones here are clean.
:03:59. > :04:02.28,000 cattle were slaughtered last year because of TB, wasting their
:04:02. > :04:05.potential as a food source. With a growing population, most of whom
:04:05. > :04:12.want to eat beef, doing nothing is not an option.
:04:12. > :04:19.Linsey is with me in the studio tonight. Why is the government
:04:19. > :04:22.deciding to announce the measures today? The problem of bovine
:04:22. > :04:26.tuberculosis is costing taxpayers money and when an animal tests
:04:26. > :04:31.positive it has to be slaughtered. The government has to pay
:04:31. > :04:35.compensation. The cost of all of that and the cost of developing
:04:35. > :04:42.vaccines has cost �500 million, and imagine what that could have been
:04:42. > :04:47.spent on. With a growing population who needs feeding, most of whom like
:04:47. > :04:54.to eat meat, that needs to be in the food chain and not wastefully
:04:54. > :05:00.slaughtered. Although that opinion may prompt debate, the farmer there
:05:00. > :05:04.is only saying what many think privately is inevitable. It is about
:05:04. > :05:11.what could happen if the test culling she was scientifically that
:05:11. > :05:19.it works. It In a moment. Is a story we will
:05:19. > :05:29.follow. How the scrap for the super league play-off places spilled onto
:05:29. > :05:30.
:05:30. > :05:33.the pitch. A woman is seriously ill in hospital in Hull after being
:05:33. > :05:37.pulled from a pond in the city. Emergency services were called to
:05:37. > :05:40.Pearson Park yesterday morning after reports that a woman in her 30s had
:05:40. > :05:43.collapsed while swimming. She was pulled from the water by a passer by
:05:43. > :05:47.and taken to hospital where she remains in a critical condition.
:05:47. > :05:51.A woman from Hull has described the moment a car crashed into her home
:05:51. > :05:55.in the early hours of this morning. Emergency services had to winch the
:05:55. > :05:58.car out of the living room of Iris Baxter's home in the west of the
:05:58. > :06:04.city. The accident has caused thousands of pounds worth of damage.
:06:04. > :06:07.Sarah Corker reports. They are now too large gaping holes
:06:07. > :06:11.in this living room. A gaping hole and brick work left hanging. It was
:06:11. > :06:17.just after 4am this morning when a car lost control on this straight
:06:17. > :06:23.road in Hull. Iris Baxter was in bed above her living room. Her son Tony
:06:23. > :06:28.accesses the damage. It has set the blue and silver car and come through
:06:28. > :06:38.here missing the trees and gone through the wall, and then gone
:06:38. > :06:39.
:06:40. > :06:46.through and crashed into their windows. I was still asleep but I
:06:47. > :06:55.have been buying and thought it was just a lorry. I did not know what it
:06:55. > :07:04.was. -- a bang. I opened the front door and the man next door said,
:07:04. > :07:08.look at your windows. The driver was taken to hospital but wasn't hurt.
:07:08. > :07:14.The ceiling is propped up inside the house to stop it from Next door, the
:07:14. > :07:22.garden wall is now a pile of rubble. Collapsing. It was as if something
:07:22. > :07:27.had fallen into the road from a great height. Luckily the rest of
:07:27. > :07:37.the Bay stayed up. As she waits for the halls to be boarded up, police
:07:37. > :07:40.are trying to find out how and why the car left the road.
:07:40. > :07:50.Campaigners are stepping up opposition to plans which could see
:07:50. > :07:55.more than 30 libraries closed in Lincolnshire. The county council
:07:55. > :07:59.says the plans will save �2 million and people have until the end of
:07:59. > :08:05.September to put their views forward.
:08:05. > :08:10.The battle to keep the library as it says has started. Lots of people
:08:10. > :08:17.still don't know that the libraries have been marked for closure.
:08:17. > :08:23.could go somewhere else but it means a 45 minute bus ride. It is the same
:08:23. > :08:29.in Birchwood. More views on why libraries need librarians, not
:08:29. > :08:37.volunteers. We shot nor libraries during the First World War or during
:08:37. > :08:41.the great depression. Why are we having to shut them no? I would like
:08:41. > :08:51.to say that the councillors have not been looking at what people use
:08:51. > :08:54.
:08:54. > :08:58.libraries for. At the consultations, there have been difficult times. It
:08:58. > :09:04.is a picture repeated across the county because Lincolnshire county
:09:04. > :09:11.council want to save �2 million by asking communities to take on 30
:09:11. > :09:18.libraries voluntarily to save them. We are looking at different ways of
:09:18. > :09:23.running libraries. They have to be more efficient. We can provide a
:09:23. > :09:28.comprehensive service, and we will look at all the options. The council
:09:28. > :09:35.says there has been a 40% drop in borrowing over the last ten years
:09:35. > :09:42.and in the last year, 82% did not use their local library, but every
:09:42. > :09:47.generation of this family have used the Birchwood library. They want to
:09:47. > :09:53.close and restrict funds. They treat a library as if it is the
:09:53. > :09:59.supermarket only business. Is it making enough money? How efficient
:09:59. > :10:02.is it? That is not the point. The council are halfway through the
:10:02. > :10:09.consultation and the challenges to take everything into account when
:10:09. > :10:15.the consultation ends. Simon is in one community tonight were the
:10:15. > :10:20.library is under threat. What is happening there? The meeting
:10:20. > :10:27.happened just a -- started just a few minutes ago and there is a
:10:27. > :10:33.typical car note, with a huge number of people on how to respond to the
:10:33. > :10:40.consultation. North high, are set to lose the library unless there's a to
:10:40. > :10:44.save it. They say they have been encouraged by a lots of positive
:10:44. > :10:49.responses and they say they have been looking at all ideas but are
:10:49. > :10:55.sticking to their guns with the fact that services will have to change.
:10:55. > :11:01.The consultation runs until the end of September. An award-winning
:11:01. > :11:06.children's author is joining me now. Good evening. Do you accept
:11:06. > :11:11.libraries are traded drain on taxpayers and one of the least
:11:11. > :11:16.painful cuts? I do not accept that. Libraries are an organisation that
:11:16. > :11:20.develop literacy and it is one of the key things that will make young
:11:20. > :11:30.people able to compete on the world market. Education is the key to the
:11:30. > :11:31.
:11:31. > :11:36.future. Lincolnshire county council say that fewer than 20% of people
:11:36. > :11:40.borrowed items in the last year. That is still one set of the people
:11:40. > :11:48.and they should look at other areas we the law libraries are being
:11:48. > :11:55.closed. This appears to have been through leadership in that locality.
:11:55. > :12:03.They want to look first at the Royal leadership. They want to look at the
:12:03. > :12:12.Rhone leadership and opening hours. Kerry Deeley has said that libraries
:12:12. > :12:22.have been around too long and are no longer relevant. -- Terry Deary. He
:12:22. > :12:28.is only minority of one. Virtually every writer and author has gotten
:12:28. > :12:30.behind supporting our libraries. Terry Deary likes to be contrary and
:12:30. > :12:39.that is his choice but the overwhelming literary world are in
:12:39. > :12:45.support. They have been around for 150 years and they cost taxpayers
:12:45. > :12:50.and affect the sales of writers and small book shops. It is not true
:12:50. > :12:56.that not many people go. 3 million visits last year. They borrow more
:12:56. > :13:03.than just books, and they use computers and get access to jobs and
:13:03. > :13:10.all sorts of services. It is a cheap service at �900 million out of a
:13:10. > :13:13.huge budgets. The cost to the public if young people are illiterate and
:13:13. > :13:21.disaffected will be much bigger than �900 million.
:13:21. > :13:25.Thank you for your time. What role do you think libraries should have
:13:25. > :13:35.in our towns and cities? Shouldn't they be top of the list in saving
:13:35. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:45.money? We will have some before we Commissioner says American-style
:13:45. > :13:48."drunk tanks" could be the key to reducing the strain on emergency
:13:48. > :13:51.services. Matthew Grove says having the ability to hold drunk people in
:13:51. > :13:55.cells until they've sobered up would prevent alcohol related crime taking
:13:55. > :14:03.place later in the night, allowing more police to remain on the streets
:14:03. > :14:11.and freeing up ambulances too. with my own eyes how they were
:14:11. > :14:17.reviewing meeting on public places in front of people and falling
:14:17. > :14:21.asleep in front of people's doors. It is not serious crime but it is
:14:21. > :14:22.very damaging for communities and we have to do more to stop it from
:14:22. > :14:25.happening. It's hoped a multi-million pound
:14:25. > :14:31.regeneration project will improve accommodation on a Hull estate - and
:14:31. > :14:34.bring jobs to the area. This was one of two council tower blocks being
:14:34. > :14:37.demolished on Orchard Park to make way for new housing. Councillors say
:14:37. > :14:39.contracts for the redevelopment work should go to local companies. It's
:14:39. > :14:49.hoped a multi-million pound regeneration will improve housing on
:14:49. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:55.a Hull estate, and bring jobs to the area. Keep the economy in Hull. We
:14:55. > :15:00.don't want outside contract is coming down and then driving away.
:15:00. > :15:10.We want to keep jobs for the local people. Still ahead on the programme
:15:10. > :15:13.tonight. Hull FC closes in on the super league play-offs. And the East
:15:13. > :15:20.Yorskhire farmer hoping his bumper crop brings him an official world
:15:20. > :15:23.record. The photos are coming in and I chose
:15:23. > :15:33.tonight's. Belmont transmitter at Donnington on Bain taken by Richard
:15:33. > :15:42.
:15:42. > :15:50.Enderby. Thank you indeed. Twitter, Keeley was wearing some lemon
:15:50. > :16:00.trousers. Where did she get them? This is a news programme. I can't
:16:00. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:14.remember where they are from. sandals! He has a lovely pair of
:16:14. > :16:18.lemon trousers. Tomorrow looks like a slight improvement on today, not
:16:18. > :16:24.quite as windy and not so many showers but there will be a fair
:16:24. > :16:30.amount of cloud. On Wednesday, a very weak warm front and then
:16:30. > :16:36.temperatures will recover, moving from the low teens to the early 20s.
:16:36. > :16:41.We have seen a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers. There
:16:41. > :16:46.has been some heavy rain in the last hour or so and showers will tend to
:16:46. > :16:52.move offshore. Becoming brighter so if you are interested in any meteor
:16:52. > :16:57.sporting it will be a finite. Temperatures in the towns and cities
:16:57. > :17:07.down to around 11 Celsius. In the country said, that little bit
:17:07. > :17:13.
:17:13. > :17:20.cooler. To start tomorrow morning, a little bit of patchy messed and some
:17:20. > :17:26.sunshine. Increasing cloud through the course of the day and although
:17:26. > :17:35.there will be a few showers, not as many as today, so the odd light show
:17:35. > :17:40.about. Temperatures just below average at around 19 Celsius.
:17:40. > :17:45.Looking further ahead, weapons they starts off brightly and there will
:17:46. > :17:51.be some patchy, light rain and Thursday, those showers could again
:17:51. > :18:01.be heavy in nature with temperatures on the rise. Lots of rain in the
:18:01. > :18:04.
:18:04. > :18:07.forecast for Friday and some of that never worn sandals with white socks.
:18:07. > :18:10.A tax on sickness - that's what campaigners from the Royal College
:18:10. > :18:13.of Nursing have called the planned increase in parking charges at
:18:13. > :18:16.Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals. From the 1st of September
:18:16. > :18:18.parking costs will almost double for some patients and visitors to the
:18:19. > :18:28.hospitals, making them the highest parking charges at any hospital
:18:28. > :18:36.within East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Emma Massey reports.
:18:36. > :18:41.Parking charges at hospitals have always been a subject for debate.
:18:41. > :18:46.Parking at these hospitals is about to become more expensive. For
:18:46. > :18:56.patients like this, who comes on a regular basis with her son, it'll
:18:56. > :19:00.hit her hard. Not just visiting, actual scans and appointments and it
:19:00. > :19:08.adds to the cost and time to get here. There are lots of restrictions
:19:08. > :19:13.on the parking, so it is a strain on finances. When the charges come into
:19:13. > :19:22.force the will no longer be a free 20 minute periods. It will instead
:19:22. > :19:27.be charged at �2 50 for the first hour. From first September, two
:19:27. > :19:35.hours of parking will increase to �3 50. Over four hours will increase to
:19:35. > :19:40.�5. Campaigners say most outpatients and visitors need to use the car
:19:40. > :19:47.park for between two and four hours and it is the best charge and that
:19:47. > :19:56.is increasing by 50% which they say is unacceptable. They are putting
:19:56. > :20:01.car parking charges up by 50% which is a tax on sickness. It will make
:20:01. > :20:05.parking in North Lincolnshire hospitals by far and away the most
:20:05. > :20:13.expensive parking anywhere on the south bank of the Humber.
:20:13. > :20:18.hospital trust say the charges are essential. Disabled people parking
:20:18. > :20:22.for longer than two hours will be paying much less, and all the income
:20:22. > :20:31.goes towards operating the car parks and the security system, and also
:20:31. > :20:34.investing in new lighting. We will also be putting in more parking.
:20:34. > :20:38.Whatever patients and visitors think, they will have no option but
:20:38. > :20:43.to pay them if they want the convenience of parking directly
:20:43. > :20:47.outside the hospital. Another controversial one. I'm sure
:20:47. > :20:50.you'll have your thoughts about this story too tonight. The trust says
:20:50. > :20:59.the new charges will help pay for improvements to car parking, but how
:20:59. > :21:03.will they affect you? Let me know what you think.
:21:03. > :21:06.We've had a big reaction to reports that Hull City football club is
:21:06. > :21:10.changing it's name. As fans prepare for life in the Premier League,
:21:10. > :21:13.owner Assem Allam has announced Hull City AFC will now be called Hull
:21:13. > :21:18.City Tigers, and says the name could eventually be shortened again to
:21:18. > :21:21.just Hull Tigers. He says it will make the club easier to market
:21:21. > :21:31.abroad. There were plenty of responses to this. Dave in Hull
:21:31. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:54.says, As a season ticket holder, the whenever there's a change some
:21:54. > :21:58.
:21:58. > :22:03.Sport now and both Hull Kingston Rovers and Hull FC are counting the
:22:03. > :22:08.cost of yesterday's derby after key players limped off injured. Hull FC
:22:08. > :22:10.won the match but both clubs are in with a great chance of making the
:22:10. > :22:18.play-offs after the defeat of Bradford Bulls. Our sports reporter
:22:18. > :22:21.Simon Clark explains. Both Hull Kingston Rovers and Hull FC are
:22:21. > :22:27.counting the cost of yesterday's derby after players limped off
:22:27. > :22:37.injured. It is the only city derby in the British game. It can be very
:22:37. > :22:38.
:22:38. > :22:48.intense at times. Scrum-half Jacob Miller scored but not before a bad
:22:48. > :22:49.
:22:49. > :22:58.injury. 8-6 at the break, it was Hull who responded with the
:22:58. > :23:06.quickfire tries. Two more tries and it was settled in favour of Hull but
:23:06. > :23:12.at a cost. They are saying we can compete with the top sides in the
:23:12. > :23:19.competition, so we want to be there in the semifinals and today was very
:23:19. > :23:24.important. We are very happy. It is a disappointing loss and we feel we
:23:24. > :23:28.could have won today but it was not to be. What does all that pushing
:23:29. > :23:35.and shoving add up to? Let's look at the league table where we can see
:23:35. > :23:39.that both Hull and Rovers are four points clear with the games to play,
:23:39. > :23:48.so they could be just a victory away from securing a place in the
:23:48. > :23:55.play-offs. But at a crossed. Greg Eden is out for the rest of the
:23:55. > :23:58.season and it? Over Tom Lionel. And you can see highlights and
:23:58. > :24:01.discussion from the derby on tonight's Super League Show. That's
:24:01. > :24:06.here on BBC One at 11:20. Scunthorpe United drew away at
:24:06. > :24:09.Bristol Rovers to remain unbeaten in Legaue Two. -- League Two. The Iron
:24:09. > :24:12.hit the post twice but couldn't get the breakthrough. It finished
:24:12. > :24:15.nil-nil which leaves them fifth in the table.
:24:15. > :24:20.East Yorkshire tennis star Kyle Edmund has won his first competition
:24:20. > :24:23.since playing at Wimbledon. An East Yorkshire farmer looks on track to
:24:23. > :24:26.enter the Guinness Book of Records for growing the World's biggest
:24:26. > :24:29.yield of barley. If successful, John Porter who farms near Aldborough
:24:30. > :24:38.will have beaten some of the worst weather conditions in years. Phil
:24:38. > :24:43.Connell joined him this morning as the record breaking attempt began.
:24:43. > :24:50.20 acres of the finest barley, but could this field produce a
:24:50. > :24:55.record-breaking crop? Here on the ground, there was only one way of
:24:55. > :25:03.finding out. After months of careful nurturing, this was the moment of
:25:03. > :25:08.truth. We all strive to do the best we can. If you grow the best crop,
:25:08. > :25:15.that is a good thing. The existing record goes back 24 years and to be
:25:15. > :25:22.that, it would have to be the cream of the crop with more than 12 tonnes
:25:22. > :25:27.for every hectare of land. Could this be the worst kind of year to
:25:27. > :25:34.break this record? In autumn the ground was wet and soggy and in the
:25:34. > :25:39.spring, temperatures were they coldest they'd been 50 years. To
:25:39. > :25:44.become a record-breaker, it needs to meet required standards in things
:25:44. > :25:49.like moisture. It is the rigorous testing process and the Guinness
:25:49. > :25:54.book of records leaves nothing to doubt. We have very tight
:25:54. > :26:00.regulations to make sure that all our clients. This is a big one sort
:26:00. > :26:05.is very exciting. I think it will be very close and if we achieve it it
:26:06. > :26:11.will be good. We will find out by the end of the week it has attempt
:26:11. > :26:16.has been successful. Too close to call tonight for the farmer aiming
:26:16. > :26:20.to put this small part of Yorkshire in the spotlight.
:26:20. > :26:23.Good luck to John. Let's get a recap of the national
:26:23. > :26:26.and regional headlines. Labour finds itself in hot water
:26:26. > :26:31.after it takes on two of Britain's biggest retailers over jobs for
:26:31. > :26:33.foreign workers. Farmers call for a badger cull to
:26:33. > :26:36.protect their cattle, saying government plans for a vaccination
:26:36. > :26:40.against TB are a complete waste of money.
:26:40. > :26:43.Tomorrow's weather and a dry and a bright start with good spells of
:26:43. > :26:53.sunshine. Cloud spreading later with the risk of a few light showers.
:26:53. > :27:02.
:27:02. > :27:07.Some responses coming in on the libraries. Libraries are a vital
:27:07. > :27:12.part of our community. I take out at least five books every week which I
:27:12. > :27:18.could never afford to buy. Libraries are not just about
:27:18. > :27:22.borrowing books. I visit mine as a peaceful haven where a person can
:27:22. > :27:29.sit and relax with no noise. Also talking about raising parking
:27:29. > :27:33.charges. A ridiculous idea, it will force more cars to park on nearby