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That is all from the BBC News at six so it is | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP politician for Yorkshire and the Humber who | :00:04. | :01:11. | |
referred to some women as "sluts" is quitting as one of the party's MEPs. | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
He will instead sit as an independent in the European | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
Parliament. The party leader Nigel Farage criticised Mr Bloom after his | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
comments overshadowed the UKIP conference last week, but says he | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
shouldn't be thrown out of the party. In a moment, we'll hear from | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Godfrey Bloom, but first here's our political editor Tim Iredale. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
It's goodbye, Godfrey. After being suspended from UKIP following his | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
controversial comments, the outspoken MEP has says he no longer | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
wants to represent the party in the European Parliament. Everybody knows | :01:43. | :01:55. | |
me, they are either a bit like me or they hate me. I have always told it | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
like it is. I am a bit long in the tooth to do political correctness. | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
You have pointed out the colour of peoples's. Disgraceful. This | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
altercation with a Channel four news reporter came on the day that Mr | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Bloom had described a group of UKIP women activists as | :02:15. | :02:23. | |
people in Rotherham what they made of the row. Are you offended by the | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
term? Yes, definitely. I don't think it is appropriate. He comes from | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
another era of about 30 years ago where attitudes towards women were | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
very different to the way they are today It is not very nice, is it? | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
The UKIP party leadership say his use of the word "sluts" was the | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
final straw, after previous controversies which included claims | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
that woman should clean behind the fridge and claims that aid should | :02:49. | :02:59. | |
not be sent to "bongo bongo land". He has developed support and hey has | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
worked hard for us, but it is a great shame that it has come to this | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
as far as him being an MEP is concerned. He says he intends to | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
remain a member of the party, but he will sit and —— as an independent. | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
That is until his term ends next May. Godfrey Bloom admits his | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
political career is almost certainly over, although he hasn't completely | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
ruled out standing again as an independent. In his words, "never | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
say never." Earlier, I asked Godfrey Bloom if | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
—— he regretted referring to party members as slots. It wasn't as | :03:36. | :03:48. | |
simple as that, was it? If you listen to the clip and I know that | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
you have, you will know that it was a joke and it was taken as a joke. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Everyone was there, and everyone took it as a joke. All of our ladies | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
were there and everyone took it in good part and it has been broken —— | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
blown out of proportion. Do you regret saying it? Not really, it was | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
a joke and I think you have no need for many years, Peter, if you cannot | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
have a joke, I think it is a public do. As I always do, on these | :04:19. | :04:28. | |
occasions, I already have 1000 e—mails in support, because I think | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
people in the North of England understand a joke when they hear | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
one. I will be keen to get people's views on that in a moment. You have | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
resigned, is this the end of politics for you? Iraq I shall stay | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
my course as an independent. —— I shall. Never is a long time, but I | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
suspect that I will probably finish in June. It is difficult to commit | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
what may happen in six or seven months, so I will be a bit | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
circumspect, but what I am really after is that I believe in UKIP, I | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
remain a member and I hope that Jane Collins will become our next MEP. It | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
is not right that if you are not an MEP, they haven't chosen you as an | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
independent, they have chosen UKIP, should its not go to the second | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
choice candidate? Well, that might be a point if I had not had and | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
after the speech I made on overseas aid. We have topped over 10,000 | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
messages of support, so I think I have the broad support of the | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
electorate and the membership, I have to say, behind me. The answer | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
is I think I am doing a good job in representing the right people. As a | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
general question, do you think with hindsight you have been too | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
outspoken and to saying it how it is and that has cost you this? I think | :05:53. | :06:01. | |
that is probably true. I have a bit of a dinosaur, I have never | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
pretended anything else. Everybody knows me. You know me well enough. I | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
always tell it like it is, I will continue to do so and I think I can | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
do that with a lots more freedom in my final six months of office. More | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
time to stay at home and clean behind the fridge. Indeed and I will | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
be more likely to be supervising and doing it myself. | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
We want to hear from you on this story, was Godfrey Bloom right to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
resign or do you think we need politicians who speak their mind? | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Was it just a joke as Godfrey just said? Email [email protected], | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
Text on 81333. We will have some responses before | :06:43. | :07:09. | |
we finish at 7pm. There will be more from Godfrey tomorrow lunchtime. | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
Thank you for watching. In a moment. I'm live in Scunthorpe as | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
councillors promise to invest in an estate criticised on national | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
television. Bite at a level crossing where a | :07:19. | :07:31. | |
—year—old girl were killed —— was killed were not as bright as they | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
should have been. Emma Lifsey was a passenger in the car driven by her | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
grandmother. It was hit by a train travelling at 60 miles an hour, on | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
the line between Gainsborough and Doncaster. The grandmother said she | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
only noticed the lights when she was close to the barrier. The report | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
recommends similar lamps are replaced at other level crossings. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Lincolnshire Police are investigating the discovery of a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
body in Market Deeping. A dog walker found the body this morning in a | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
field near Northfield Road. Police say they're treating the death as | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
unexplained and appealing for anyone with information to come forward. | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
At least 40 nurses from Spain and Portugal are due to start at | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
hospitals in Lincolnshire in the next few weeks. The hospital Trust | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
says its recent recruitment tour abroad has been a great success. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Several reports have criticised the United Lincolnshire Trust for its | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
low staffing levels. Our Health Correspondent, Vicky Johnson reports | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
from Madrid. Madrid looks busy and prosperous, | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
but the recession has hit hard. Newly—qualified nurses can't find | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
work in Spain, but NHS hospitals are queuing up to recruit them, | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
including the Trust from Lincolnshire. We have candidates | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
that are scheduled in for today. All of the nurses that have been looked | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
at, they have completed four years and have a similar skill set to what | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
we are looking for. Low staffing levels have contributed to poor | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
patient care, according to recent critical reports. This overseas | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
recruitment drive is part of a £3 million investment. We have reviewed | :09:04. | :09:12. | |
all of our board establishments and that is what has led us to have the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
understanding that we need to increase the staffing establishment | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
in all of our wards. The Lincolnshire Trust has targeted | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
Spain because of the fierce cuts to its public services. Poor job | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
prospects are driving more nurses away from their own hospitals. In | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
2010, 247 left to work in British hospitals. By last year, that figure | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
had risen to 918. With 20,000 Spanish nurses out of work, that | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
figure could rise even higher. Salaries too are a factor. A Spanish | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
nurse starts on the equivalent of £12,500. In the UK, it's more than | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
£21,000. Antonio has three years nursing experience, but he's | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
struggled to find work. The main thing to me is to get a permanent | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
job, there are a here to get that. The team have so | :10:05. | :10:18. | |
far made around 50 job offers. All of my family, they are very happy | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
for me. I am very happy, thank you. I cannot believe it. It was the | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
first opportunity of a good contract. It's not just the Spanish | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
nurses who are competing for the best offers. We are aware that there | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
are other NHS Trusts that... We are a direct competition with other | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
trusts. Union leaders in Lincolnshire have welcomed this | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
latest recruitment drive. We have historically struggled to recruit, I | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
have worked for 30 years and in all that time, we have struggled to | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
recruit trained nurses. But for union reps in Spain, there are real | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
concerns. TRANSLATION: we can have problems in the future, especially | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
in terms of our nurse and patient ratios. Our inability will have a | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
impact on the population. 80 local nurses start their training | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
tomorrow. Meanwhile, the recruitment team prepared to fly off to Greece | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
for the third and final leg of their European tour. Send us your | :11:33. | :11:51. | |
comments. What is the best way? Give us your thoughts. Start the text | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
with the work Look North. —— words Look North. | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Residents of the Scunthorpe estate featured on the Channel Four | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
documentary Skint will continue to get help to improve job | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
opportunities. North Lincolnshire Council has already created a task | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
force to help cut unemployment. And tonight it has decided to invest | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
more in the area. Our reporter Simon Spark is live in Scunthorpe tonight. | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
Simon, what's happened there? There were two options at night's meeting, | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
the first was to build on the work started by the task force. The | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
second was to do nothing and that was decided not to be an option. It | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
is not surprising. You must remember that this programme was | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
uncompromising on its focus on some of the most serious issues in the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
town. If the council has said there has been good work done since and my | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
colleague has been back to the estate to see what has changed. Life | :12:51. | :13:02. | |
goes on 24/7 for some people. Millions tuned in to watch this TV | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
documentary about people living on this Scunthorpe estate. Thanks so | :13:05. | :13:12. | |
much for the people who have turned up. After their area made headlines, | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
residents held meetings to discuss ways to improve life here. But four | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
months on, has anything changed? The community spirit | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
there, it's just been enhanced with more people getting involved in | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
activities. You always get the odd one, whatever | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
estate you're on. But we've got a closer knit community than we had | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
before. A number of local organisations have now formed the | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Westcliff Task Force and have put together an action plan. But the | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
local council claims there have already been a number of positive | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
achievements for the area, including the enforcement of an alcohol | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
restriction zone on part of the estate. Money management training | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
for a group of local volunteers and the creation of paid work experience | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
placements for 26 of the town's unemployed young people. For those | :13:57. | :14:05. | |
people who have got issues, we are there to support them. And I think | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
they realise we are there listening and working with them. And it's not | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
just going in for one time, but we're there continually working | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
through different issues. There has been some speculation here in the | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
town that Skint would return to our screens, but in a statement Channel | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
four says discussions about further plans are at an early stage and | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
nothing is confirmed. I think quite a lot of people would watch it, even | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
though a lot of people complain about it, everyone watches it. I | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
wouldn't watch it. We've seen it, we wouldn't bother looking at it again. | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
Four months after it was first broadcast, many here say they | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
community is stronger than ever. There are positive feelings from the | :14:49. | :15:00. | |
area and what the council has approved could transform the area | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
even further. They are calling it a can —— community investment project | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
which could see the building of a new community hub which would house | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
help for various things. It would not just be continuing the work | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
already started, it would be significantly investing. | :15:20. | :15:28. | |
Still ahead tonight. Peter Gentle leaves Hull FC after a disappointing | :15:28. | :15:39. | |
end to the season. From the rugby field to another stage, the team | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
that has inspired airplay. The iMac on one hand, you have eloquent | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
women, on the other hand, sees you get on the pitch, they will take | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
your head off. —— as soon as you. Keep the photos coming in. | :15:54. | :16:09. | |
Good evening, young man. People want to know... That it is useful to | :16:09. | :16:23. | |
clean behind the fridge though, isn't it? No, you just read the | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
forecast. It is a quiet one. cloudy, but there will be some | :16:26. | :16:34. | |
brighter spells in places. It was obvious from this game last | :16:34. | :19:09. | |
Thursday that Peter Gentle was unlikely to survive with his job. | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
Hull FC conceded a record number of points. Despite talking about the | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
future... Something about the body language suggested it would not be | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
with this club. We are making progress. You would not think so on | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
the night's performance, but we are. Ultimately, this decision is about | :19:32. | :19:42. | |
bums on seats and making sure FC have success in the future. I | :19:42. | :19:59. | |
want to know what the fans think. Everybody thought he was the answer | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
to the questions, but he has never done it, so he had to go. Put | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
someone in with experience. Someone who makes sense. To sack him and put | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
someone else with no experience makes no sense. Get someone there | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
who can put a good side together. They have the ground and the | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
support. Hull have not had a grand final win since 1996 and yet in | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
terms of attendance, we are still one of the sport's leading clubs. | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
How do you marry this discrepancy between a lack of trophies and a | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
substantial fan base? This is the view of one rugby league observer. | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
They need to get in a situation where players want to come and play | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
for the club. If and when they can do that, the sky is the limit for | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
Hull FC. They have so much potential. They just need to show | :20:53. | :20:59. | |
that they can fulfil it. Is the last to pay with his job. One of his | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
deputies is tipped to replace him. —— he is the last. | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
Swimming coach Jon Rudd, who's originally from Hull, will manage | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
the England swimming team at the Ruta Meilutyte to gold at both the | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
London Olympics and World Championships this summer in Russia. | :21:20. | :21:30. | |
We wish him well with that. Hull City are favourites to go through to | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
the Capital One Cup as they entertain Huddersfield town. The | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Tigers' game will be live on local radio. Sports talk is on the air now | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
with Bill. His —— Grimsby Town's game against Dartford will be on AM | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
and digital. That is from 7:45pm. BBC Radio Devon and has commentary | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
on Lincoln city's trip to Hereford. The kick—off will be at 7:45pm. | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
Enjoy the football. A group of motor home owners are | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
calling on Lincolnshire County Council to remove a barrier blocking | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
them from a seaside car park. The council says it installed the | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
barrier at Huttoft car terrace, near Sutton on Sea, because some people | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
were camping there illegally. But the motor home owners say they're | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
being discriminated against. Bus to be able to go up in the daytime, | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
obviously, we have camped up there, but we have never been challenged or | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
told we couldn't. People have selfishly been living on the site. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
Last bank holiday in May, people could not get onto the site as there | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
were so many of these fans. The Bishop of Grantham says he has | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
some surprises ready for tonight's farewell service. The Right Reverend | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
Dr Tim Ellis is leaving his post this week. He's been vocal about a | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
number of controversial issues in the past, including the cost of Lady | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Thatcher's funeral. A special service will be held for Bishop Tim | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
at Lincoln Cathedral this evening. We have the youth choir from | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
Grantham, the parish church, we have images been projected by the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
luminous community. We have the hospital chaplains involved and we | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
will have a jazz setting for the Eucharist itself. | :23:21. | :23:32. | |
We wish him all the best. A women's rugby team from Hull is | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
the inspiration of a new play which opens tonight in Hull. Muddy Cows, | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
written and directed by John Godber, tells the story of the Hull ladies | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
and an important match between them and an unbeatable side from New | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Zealand. Emma Massey reports. Ready for action. The team's been | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
scrumming and crash tackling for five years. But now their game is | :23:51. | :23:59. | |
being played on a different stage. Call it. At the back. Inspired by | :23:59. | :24:06. | |
the Hull—based club, Muddy Cows tells the story of a woman's | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
courage, passion and commitment of their male counterparts but none of | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
the cash, back—up or kit. It makes me feel proud that we had such an | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
input into the play and the subject and the stories that are in there. | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
They feel close to home. And it should do because John Godber, who's | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
written and directed the play, researched the in and outs of the | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
team thoroughly for over a year. I thought they were fantastic. They | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
were straightforward. They were very eloquent, but on the other hand, | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
they will take your head off on the pitch. That seemed to me to be a | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
great subject to investigate. And up. They are a scary bunch and if | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
they work as a unit, if they wanted to have a line—out competition in | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
the bar, we are acting it and they are really into it. | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
On seeing the play, the film felt it portrayed them perfectly. We were | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
turning to each other going, oh, that is you. He got a good idea of | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
us as people. He betrayed us well. One of the characters is loosely | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
based on my character as a social worker. By trade. Hull ladies are | :25:20. | :25:28. | |
hoping it will not only raise their profile but also encourage more | :25:28. | :25:35. | |
women to get involved in the game. Good luck to the cast. | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
The Mayor of Boston has thanked four men caught on CCTV mending a bike | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
rack in the town. The group were given certificates of commendation | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
in a special ceremony and then went for a meal at a local kebab house. | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
Their good deed has become an internet hit, with more than two | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
million people watching the footage online. It shows that we have young | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
people who with a bit of banter have which I think has humoured the | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
people of Boston and we know it has humoured the people of the world. I | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
thank them again and know that it is something that will live with them | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
for the rest of their lives. Well done to the lads. I hope they | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
enjoyed their kebabs. It is 6:55pm. Ed Miliband tells the Labour | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
conference he will freeze gas and electricity bills if they win the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
next election. Godfrey Bloom resigned as a MEP after a row. | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
Tomorrow's weather, cloudy with sunny intervals, a chance of drizzle | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
in places. Top temperatures of 19 Celsius. That | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
is 66 Fahrenheit. Someone said that they believe it is | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
political correctness gone mad, a support Godfrey Bloom. Richard says | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
that we need more people like him who speak it like it is, we are too | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
politically correct. Tom asks whether Godfrey Bloom has no moral | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
fibre at all? Dave says, taken out of context, | :27:12. | :27:19. | |
shame on you and the media, Peter, jumping on the bandwagon. Bet this | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
one does not get to read out. Wrong, it's dead. It seems that no one can | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
take a joke these days. I am female and wish more people | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
could be like him. Finally, this is from Paul, he says, I think | :27:31. | :27:38. | |
Godfrey Bloom should lose his job, calling women sluts is this | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
respectful. As I said, there will be more from Godfrey Bloom tomorrow at | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
lunchtime. Enjoy your evening, take care, | :27:46. | :27:46. |