:00:00. > :00:00.light rain. It will be damp across the north and west. That's all from
:00:00. > :00:10.the BBC news at six. Goodbye from me.
:00:11. > :00:23.Good evening. Thank you for joining us. The headlines. Claims from flood
:00:24. > :00:27.victims their homes were sacrificed. This village got the brunt of it.
:00:28. > :00:31.Counting the cost ` the businesses that say it will take them months to
:00:32. > :00:38.recover from the impact of the floods. Personally, it has been
:00:39. > :00:43.heartbreaking, emotional, tiling and on a business level it has been
:00:44. > :00:47.completely devastating. Calls for calm from the community
:00:48. > :00:50.leader assaulted in his car as his wife and daughter looked on.
:00:51. > :00:55.Was it a success? Traders disagree with claims that the Lincoln
:00:56. > :00:59.Christmas Market was the best ever. And eyeing the top of the half of
:01:00. > :01:08.the table ` Hull City seek their second away victory of the season
:01:09. > :01:12.against Swansea. No extreme weather this week
:01:13. > :01:22.thankfully. Much more settled outlook, details coming up shortly.
:01:23. > :01:30.Good evening. Some flood victims whose homes were devastated by the
:01:31. > :01:37.tidal surge say they feel that their role `` properties were sacrificed
:01:38. > :01:42.to protect others. Residents in South Ferriby say the worst of ``
:01:43. > :01:47.they suffered whereas Hull was protected by the tidal barrier. In
:01:48. > :01:51.Boston, residents have been told they will have to wait until 2019
:01:52. > :01:59.for a new flood defence barrier to be completed. From there, Anne`Marie
:02:00. > :02:03.Tasker reports. You can see where the flood water came in. Assessing
:02:04. > :02:05.the damage, after the tidal surge swept through homes in South
:02:06. > :02:08.Ferriby. People here have been forced to throw out televisions,
:02:09. > :02:16.carpets, sofas. Some say they've lost everything. We all have
:02:17. > :02:24.terrible stories to tell. We didn't know where our mum was for quite
:02:25. > :02:30.some time. This was Andrews Road on Friday. Today, they're still
:02:31. > :02:35.cleaning away the mud ` outside and inside homes. This morning, North
:02:36. > :02:38.Lincolnshire's council leader came to see the damage ` and offer
:02:39. > :02:46.residents council tax relief and small emergency grants. ?300 might
:02:47. > :02:50.just help with 12 initial things. I was talking to a lady there and all
:02:51. > :02:54.her Christmas presents have gone. She has no shoes for the children so
:02:55. > :02:57.?300 will help a little bit. Today, teams from the Environment Agency
:02:58. > :03:04.continued to check flood defences for damage. We have to learn from
:03:05. > :03:07.the event that took place. There will be a lot of engineering
:03:08. > :03:12.calculations that would go ahead around making sure we have the right
:03:13. > :03:17.sort of defences. We have to be careful not to push the problem
:03:18. > :03:20.elsewhere, we have to have a considered approach. But residents
:03:21. > :03:24.are now asking questions about why the water flowed over South
:03:25. > :03:30.Ferriby's defences. It was exceptional circumstances, but Hull
:03:31. > :03:33.has been protected to a large extent which is why this village got the
:03:34. > :03:37.brunt of it. Indeed Hull was protected ` and this is the
:03:38. > :03:42.structure that did that. The environment secretary says 130,000
:03:43. > :03:48.homes were saved from flooding when the whole tidal barrier was lowered
:03:49. > :03:51.on Thursday. People living in Boston face a longer wait for similar
:03:52. > :03:54.protection. As residents clean up in Boston, some are asking why a
:03:55. > :03:58.planned flood barrier won't be completed until 2019. And in North
:03:59. > :04:02.Norfolk, they're asking what can be done to stop future flooding.
:04:03. > :04:08.Visiting there today, the Prime Minister said the government is
:04:09. > :04:13.looking at making improvements. There is always more that can be
:04:14. > :04:17.done. There was lessons to learn, whether that is personal flood
:04:18. > :04:23.defences for householders, new flood defence schemes with government
:04:24. > :04:26.funding, interworking between the emergency services and local
:04:27. > :04:29.authorities, I'm sure there is always lessons to learn. And as the
:04:30. > :04:39.clear up continues, learning those lessons is something many residents
:04:40. > :04:42.will be calling for. I am joined by Mark Robinson from
:04:43. > :04:49.the Environment Agency. Good evening. Did people pay attention to
:04:50. > :04:53.the warnings and do it were told? We just have to look at our lessons
:04:54. > :05:03.learned. A lot of warnings went out. This was about being prepared.
:05:04. > :05:07.If we look to the majority of those people, they paid attention to the
:05:08. > :05:13.warning and took appropriate action. What you say to people like in South
:05:14. > :05:19.Ferriby and other area to feel they have been sacrificed? First of all,
:05:20. > :05:24.it is devastated when people get impacted by flooding. Our thoughts
:05:25. > :05:28.are with them but when we look at the overall defences around the
:05:29. > :05:35.Humber Estuary, they are too good standard. We work in partnership
:05:36. > :05:39.with the Met Office and the flood broadcasting centre and we had the
:05:40. > :05:44.results of the high tides coming through on the Thursday evening. We
:05:45. > :05:50.were expecting to get some spree in the warning was issued so people had
:05:51. > :05:55.to take appropriate action. It is not possible to protect everyone,
:05:56. > :06:00.but our priorities made were some people are protected more than
:06:01. > :06:05.others? This is all about government finances. The government is saying
:06:06. > :06:11.that for every pound spent on flood defences, we are reducing flood
:06:12. > :06:16.risk. Obviously larger communities will get more of return for their
:06:17. > :06:20.money. That is where some of the priorities are levelled at. People
:06:21. > :06:27.in Boston say they are frustrated it is taking so long, why is it taking
:06:28. > :06:31.so long for the flood harrier? We have been working on the barrier for
:06:32. > :06:36.a number of years. We have lots of processes to go through. We think,
:06:37. > :06:44.with all our partners working together, we will start construction
:06:45. > :06:48.around 2016 or 2017. The Prime Minister said there was lessons to
:06:49. > :06:55.be learned, but the Environment Agency learn any lessons? We know
:06:56. > :07:00.that the events and the level that came in was being followed, when we
:07:01. > :07:03.get through the recovery stage we would take that intelligence and sit
:07:04. > :07:08.down and obviously there will be lessons to learn and we will put the
:07:09. > :07:13.appropriate actions in place. Thank you very much.
:07:14. > :07:17.Businesses affected by the flooding are counting the cost of losing out
:07:18. > :07:20.on the lucrative Christmas trade. And for some the damage will take
:07:21. > :07:28.them months to recover from or could even lead to ruin. Our Business
:07:29. > :07:31.Correspondent Paul Murphy reports. High tide this morning in
:07:32. > :07:36.Bridlington was back to its normal level at businesses on the seafront
:07:37. > :07:43.have many months `` difficult months ahead before normality returns. It
:07:44. > :07:47.is a complete mess. Two deep freezes overturned, the counter overturned.
:07:48. > :07:53.Businesses here echo what others have said along the coast, the surge
:07:54. > :07:58.took them by surprise. I think it could everyone out even know lots of
:07:59. > :08:04.people have lived in the harbour for years. It was so calm, there was no
:08:05. > :08:10.storm. We have seen lots of hard weather in the past but it was
:08:11. > :08:17.really calm. This hotel has spectacular Humber views. Now they
:08:18. > :08:23.only serve as a reminder of an event they described him as a catastrophe.
:08:24. > :08:27.On a business level it has been completely devastating. On a
:08:28. > :08:35.staffing level, we have no staff at the moment. We're not open. We have
:08:36. > :08:41.no phone lines, no internet. We have nothing to work with. Staff at this
:08:42. > :08:48.retail park up in what King around the shop to get his shops reopened.
:08:49. > :08:55.`` around the clock. It is not just retailers who have been affected.
:08:56. > :09:02.The giant cement plants in South Ferriby has suspended production
:09:03. > :09:05.while the damage is investigated. Some businesses make more than half
:09:06. > :09:10.of their annual income during the festive period. For them, the timing
:09:11. > :09:15.of the surge could not have been worse will stop and have obviously
:09:16. > :09:21.had to cancel orders for the next few weeks. I just do not know how
:09:22. > :09:27.long it is going to take to get the shop up and running again. East
:09:28. > :09:32.Coast businesses will now be hoping for a speedy response from insurance
:09:33. > :09:36.companies as every lost day cost them even more. Clearly one night of
:09:37. > :09:43.flooding was still have an impact for many months to come.
:09:44. > :09:50.Paul is in South Ferriby at the moment. How much is the damage
:09:51. > :09:54.likely to cost? The cost to businesses is something as small
:09:55. > :09:59.army of loss adjusters is probably trying to work out. For businesses
:10:00. > :10:06.of all shapes and sizes this has been devastating. The biggest cement
:10:07. > :10:12.works, to the smallest key lock `` kiosk on the seafront. That is also
:10:13. > :10:17.a cost to the reputation of the wider community. They have been
:10:18. > :10:22.flooded and their vulnerability has been exposed. Some will argue that
:10:23. > :10:28.this is a genuine deterrent to inward investment. Thank you very
:10:29. > :10:32.much indeed. Plenty of people have been in touch about the events.
:10:33. > :11:08.Thank you for all the messages. We want to hear from you on this
:11:09. > :11:12.story, are you a business that has had to close because of flood
:11:13. > :11:14.damage? Do you think more could have been done to protect homes, what is
:11:15. > :11:40.your story and your experience? Lincolnshire's new permanent chief
:11:41. > :11:44.constable will be Neil Rhodes after the police and crime panel confirmed
:11:45. > :11:48.they support the decision to appoint him. He'd been temporary chief
:11:49. > :11:50.constable and the only applicant. He was suspended by the crime
:11:51. > :11:55.commissioner, Alan Hardwick, in February but was reinstated after a
:11:56. > :11:59.judge ruled the decision perverse. Mr Rhodes was also cleared of any
:12:00. > :12:03.wrong doing in a separate investigation.
:12:04. > :12:08.A man's been jailed after an explosion at the Bourne offices of
:12:09. > :12:10.the Conservative MP Nick Boles. Paul Liverseidge admitted possessing an
:12:11. > :12:17.explosive substance and was jailed for 15 months at Lincoln Crown
:12:18. > :12:22.Court. People are being asked not to go to
:12:23. > :12:28.hospital in Lincoln and less than absolutely necessary. Managers at
:12:29. > :12:36.the hospital say they are extremely busy and ask patients to get advice
:12:37. > :12:40.from their GP. The religious leader of the whole
:12:41. > :12:43.mosque could lose the sight in one night after he was attacked just
:12:44. > :12:49.over a week ago. Imam Hafiz Salik was driving home on Saturday evening
:12:50. > :12:56.with his wife and daughter when he was stopped and hit in the face. He
:12:57. > :13:00.and his sons are calling for calm but a national organisation says it
:13:01. > :13:11.is concerned about the number of physical attacks on most runs. `` on
:13:12. > :13:13.Muslims. Beaten up in the street. After the blood was coming out like
:13:14. > :13:31.a tart. It was like water. Tap. I try to get away from them. He
:13:32. > :13:35.was driving his family home along Spring Bank West when the attack
:13:36. > :13:39.happened. It was here the attackers ran out, two men and one woman stop
:13:40. > :13:48.one of the mainly in front of the car. It was then that he got up
:13:49. > :13:55.slowly, what ran to the car door slowly and punched Imam Hafiz Salik
:13:56. > :13:59.in the face. I think the doctors are seeing the assailant might have used
:14:00. > :14:04.some sort of ins don't just by the way he was cut. `` some sort of
:14:05. > :14:10.instrument. He cannot see through his eye at the moment so fingers
:14:11. > :14:14.crossed. Although there is no suggestion the attack was racial or
:14:15. > :14:19.religiously motivated, the police are keeping an open mind. The victim
:14:20. > :14:25.was wearing traditional dress but he was in a card and it was night`time
:14:26. > :14:30.so for a person to have seen that in target that, it is difficult to see
:14:31. > :14:36.how that could have occurred. Nothing of a racist nature was said
:14:37. > :14:40.during the attack. He read the mosque, worshippers are concerned
:14:41. > :14:45.about what happened. They were worried that is why we address this
:14:46. > :14:53.issue on the sermon on Friday. The tool the community what is going on.
:14:54. > :14:56.`` week told the community. We told them not to take the law into their
:14:57. > :15:07.own hands and we told them we don't know why the attack happened full
:15:08. > :15:12.top ``. We are now getting incidents where aggression is far more within
:15:13. > :15:16.the incident is self. Threat to kill, threats to harm, aggression
:15:17. > :15:22.where people feel really frightened that their lives might be at stake.
:15:23. > :15:27.Police are appealing for witnesses of the silent attack to come
:15:28. > :15:31.forward. We wish him well and we will
:15:32. > :15:43.continue to follow that story. Thank you for watching. Still ahead. Was
:15:44. > :15:48.it a success? Some people disagree that it was the best market ever.
:15:49. > :15:57.Hull seek their second win of the season as they travel to Swansea.
:15:58. > :16:02.There have been some fantastic sunsets over the last few days. Lots
:16:03. > :16:11.of pictures then. We have three tonight. Immingham by Linda Ladlow.
:16:12. > :16:28.A nice photograph there. Middle Rasen by Alistair Norburn. Hessle
:16:29. > :16:31.foreshore by Ian Greenwood. Many people spotted you on a day off,
:16:32. > :16:47.shopping at the Christmas market on Saturday. Did not see him put his
:16:48. > :16:52.hand in his pocket ones. Once. You would like it there, Peter. The
:16:53. > :16:59.linking Christmas market was great, we had a fantastic time.
:17:00. > :17:04.Rather cloudy with some sunshine to come tomorrow. The wind up from the
:17:05. > :17:10.subtropics which is why it is so mild. The cloud has come and gone
:17:11. > :17:16.and that will be the same tomorrow. Large amounts of cloud at times.
:17:17. > :17:24.They give you is is it will be fairly settled for the next few
:17:25. > :17:29.days. `` the good news is. Tonight, dry with variable amounts of cloud
:17:30. > :17:37.perhaps a touch of ground frost but no problems. Temperatures around
:17:38. > :17:43.four or five degrees. There is just a chance of a touch of ground frost.
:17:44. > :17:57.High water times... I think tomorrow is another pleasant December day,
:17:58. > :18:04.dry with variable cloud. There will be some breaks in the cloud, some
:18:05. > :18:08.sunny spells and alike Southwest please so temperatures will be a
:18:09. > :18:19.little above average. `` and other light Southwest please. ``breeze.
:18:20. > :18:24.Temperatures slightly above average for this time of year. There could
:18:25. > :18:30.be some mist and fog and low cloud first thing on Wednesday morning. It
:18:31. > :18:36.should clear most places and we see sunny spells developing. Freddie
:18:37. > :18:42.looks fine as well `` Thursday looks fine as well. Cloudy on Friday with
:18:43. > :18:49.the risk of patchy rain. Address your complaints to Peter Hanson.
:18:50. > :19:03.I know you are very tight. Say nothing. I will shut up. Some
:19:04. > :19:06.traders have told Look North they think this year's Lincoln Christmas
:19:07. > :19:10.Market was quieter than previous years ` with fewer visitors.
:19:11. > :19:18.But organisers claim it was the best year yet. It finished last night.
:19:19. > :19:21.Thousands of people visited Lincoln ` over the last four days. Here for
:19:22. > :19:30.this. The city's famous Christmas Market. I like it here because I
:19:31. > :19:35.have never been here before. It is really good, better than last year.
:19:36. > :19:42.There is less crowds without the one`way system. It is the best one
:19:43. > :19:45.in the UK, it is fantastic. But the Market had a shaky start. Visitors
:19:46. > :19:52.stopped at the Castle gate. It's opening delayed by nearly five hours
:19:53. > :19:55.` due to strong winds on Thursday. Still organisers claim ` this was
:19:56. > :20:00.the best Market yet. But some traders told me they thought it
:20:01. > :20:07.seemed quieter than previous years. I think this year has been a good
:20:08. > :20:10.year, maybe not for the numbers, but when word gets around that we have
:20:11. > :20:18.got it right again, people will come back. It has not been quite so
:20:19. > :20:21.busy, but that has been great for people because they could stand and
:20:22. > :20:28.have a look instead of being swept along. The park`and`ride is 8% up on
:20:29. > :20:37.my steward so I think people spread out a little over the five days so
:20:38. > :20:40.wasn't so crowded. `` up on last year. Organisers will now review
:20:41. > :20:44.this year's event. And they'll be looking at the results from this `
:20:45. > :20:47.the largest`ever survey of visitors here. We hope to learn what people
:20:48. > :20:52.like about the market. We want to see what they would like to see
:20:53. > :20:54.improved. Traders spent the day dismantling their stalls. But first
:20:55. > :20:57.the clean`up here continues ` this lunchtime. With stalls being
:20:58. > :21:01.dismantled. Over the next few days this area of Lincoln will return to
:21:02. > :21:05.normal ` before planning begins for next year's Market.
:21:06. > :21:08.Plans for a new coal fired power station in Yorkshire have moved a
:21:09. > :21:11.step forward after the government promised more funding to the company
:21:12. > :21:14.behind the scheme. Ed Davey the Energy and Climate Change Secretary
:21:15. > :21:17.made the announcement as he visited Drax power station near Selby to
:21:18. > :21:22.officially open its new biomass plant. The ?2 billion coal`fired
:21:23. > :21:24.power station proposed for site would use the very latest carbon
:21:25. > :21:27.capture technology, where emissions are transported through a tunnel
:21:28. > :21:39.underground in East Yorkshire and into the north sea. This is good
:21:40. > :21:45.news for Yorkshire because the first carbon capture storage is being
:21:46. > :21:49.signed and that will bring investment in hundreds of millions
:21:50. > :21:56.of pounds that we can have another low carbon industry where the carbon
:21:57. > :22:01.is actually captured and stored under the North Sea safely.
:22:02. > :22:05.They were beaten to the City of Culture title so is Swansea ready to
:22:06. > :22:08.take revenge on Hull. Swansea City and Hull City meet tonight just ten
:22:09. > :22:12.years since they were both playing at the fourth level of English
:22:13. > :22:21.football. Our sports reporter Simon Clark takes a look at this tale of
:22:22. > :22:26.two cities. Swansea and Hull, one Welsh and one English but despite
:22:27. > :22:33.those differences the cities share a lot. Their population numbers are
:22:34. > :22:36.compatible and their grounds are similar and shared with their rugby
:22:37. > :22:43.neighbours. But one is a new City of Culture. Both clubs have had
:22:44. > :22:49.meteoric rises. I saw a documentary on them a couple of weeks ago and
:22:50. > :22:53.where they were ten years ago, it is remarkable what they have done and
:22:54. > :23:02.achieved. A big part in the back for all of them. Their play has not
:23:03. > :23:09.changed over the past 56 years. The way they pass the ball and move it,
:23:10. > :23:15.they create spaces. `` over the past five or six years. When we get hold
:23:16. > :23:20.of the ball we are able to keep it as well. Hull City played a
:23:21. > :23:24.considerable role in the history of Swansea six years ago which enabled
:23:25. > :23:30.Swansea to see in the football league. Who would've thought they
:23:31. > :23:36.would meet as mid`table rivals. In this battle of the two cities, it is
:23:37. > :23:43.currently Swansea nil, Hull one. They have two bind a second away win
:23:44. > :23:49.and so will have two play like the whole but played against Liverpool
:23:50. > :23:52.rather than the team that played against Crystal Palace.
:23:53. > :23:59.We'll have full commentary of Hull City's trip to Swansea. The build up
:24:00. > :24:11.is already underway on Sports Talk. Kick off is at 8pm.
:24:12. > :24:14.Tickets go on sale on Wednesday for Grimsby Town season ticket holders
:24:15. > :24:20.wanting to watch their side's FA Cup match with Huddersfield Town next
:24:21. > :24:24.month. The Mariners reached the third round with a two`nil win over
:24:25. > :24:27.Northampton. It's Grimsby's second win over league opponents having
:24:28. > :24:32.beaten Scunthorpe in the first round.
:24:33. > :24:35.Grimsby's Strictly star Kevin Clifton and dance partner Susanna
:24:36. > :24:38.Reid have thanked the public for getting them through to the
:24:39. > :24:41.semi`finals of the competition. They received the lowest score on
:24:42. > :24:44.Saturday's show for this Argentine Tango, but were spared the dance off
:24:45. > :25:04.last night thanks to the public vote. Susanna and Kevin! If it was
:25:05. > :25:09.allowed ad like to go around to every single person who voted in
:25:10. > :25:13.thank you personally. Honestly, the public support getting us through
:25:14. > :25:23.Israel the amazing and I really appreciate it. `` is really amazing.
:25:24. > :25:29.Well done to them. Good luck for the next round. Camilla Dallara up is in
:25:30. > :25:35.Bridlington at the moment and she will join me on the radio at midday.
:25:36. > :25:45.She is in pantomime here. That's it for now. Amazon convert admits
:25:46. > :25:50.killing Sergeant Lee Rigby tells it all really this is all water. Some
:25:51. > :25:55.flood victims claim their houses were sacrificed during the tidal
:25:56. > :26:04.surge last week. It will be bright and sunny at times with top
:26:05. > :26:09.temperatures around nine Celsius. This is from re in Beverley, all
:26:10. > :26:13.these so`called flood defence schemes are worthless. Defence in
:26:14. > :26:18.one area moves the problem to another. The answer is to dredge the
:26:19. > :26:27.river and cleared out ditches and dikes. Dave in Hull says people who
:26:28. > :26:29.said they were sacrificed, are they aware that some residents in Hull
:26:30. > :26:36.did get flooded despite the barrier? It is a natural disaster
:26:37. > :26:42.and one of the worst for 60 years, coming up with conspiracy theories
:26:43. > :26:49.is crazy. Strong words on knees. All it says, Debussy has to go
:26:50. > :26:56.somewhere. `` this CD has to go somewhere. Time for people to get
:26:57. > :27:00.real. Yes, my property was flooded in 1953. Terry says should the
:27:01. > :27:06.government be looking at a tidal barrier for the Humber, similar to
:27:07. > :27:11.the Thames barrier. This would protect barriers north and south of
:27:12. > :27:18.the Humber Estuary. Finally, this is from Jenny, to the people of Boston,
:27:19. > :27:22.we are so grateful for their generosity in helping all of us out
:27:23. > :27:28.as flood victims by donating items to help us. Many thanks to the Red
:27:29. > :27:33.Cross, the emergency services and everyone else involved and also the
:27:34. > :27:38.borough council. Heartfelt thanks to all. Thank you all very much indeed
:27:39. > :27:45.for your flood stories. We are very grateful. Join me on the
:27:46. > :27:53.radio tomorrow lunchtime. Enjoy your evening. Goodbye.