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Thank you. Good evening and welcome to BBC Look | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
North. The headlines tonight. Demands for flood protection for the | :00:18. | :00:25. | |
land that grows our food. I think the Environment Agency and | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
politicians need to take it seriously. The biggest fall in | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
unemployment for 15 years ` the Government says thousands more are | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
in work in this area. Short taxi trips for council staff | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
labelled an absurd waste of money. With three Yorkshire B voted | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
among the best in the world, we find out what makes a good one. That | :00:45. | :00:56. | |
detailed forecast comes up in 15 minutes. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
Farmland in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire should be protected from | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
flooding in the same way as homes ` that's according to local farmers | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
who believe food security should be given higher priority. The | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Government has said that protecting houses will come first when flood | :01:14. | :01:24. | |
defences are repaired and improved. But experts have told BBC Look North | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
that the salt water which flooded onto fields in December could have | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
caused long`term damage. With more, here's Linsey Smith. This was Paul | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
Martinson's land in Yokefleet last month. Lying beneath the salt water, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
winter crops he thought would perish. But as he takes soil samples | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
today, there are positive signs. I think the winter crops will | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
survive, it's just the effects of the salt and total progress through | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
spring. But they look fine the moment. But experts at Bishop Burton | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
College say salt can cause untold damage. We have simulated salt water | :02:05. | :02:12. | |
flooding here. We have topped it up with saltwater, which caused this to | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
disburse. The structure is ruined. Your crops do not grow. How many | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
years can it affect it? It could be five years or even longer. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
That's a concern because over 15,000 people are employed on the land in | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The country's larder, it produces 30% of | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
the nation's vegetables and salads. Which is why some argue it should be | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
given a higher priority in flood plans. There is more the Environment | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Agency could do to help farmers would flood defences. It is a | :02:51. | :02:57. | |
two`way stream. It needs to be caught about. The Environment Agency | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
told as they do not decide where defences out bills. That is based on | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
a points scoring system set down by the government. It's something on | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
Bruce Rowle's mind. He watched salt water saturate 450 acres of his | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
family farm in South Ferriby. The tide was three feet higher than in | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
1953. They were the most damaging floods in history and killed 300 | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
people. It had less effect. Flood defences have been improved in that | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
time, but the messages, we have to keep improving them because these | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
events happen. It will be some time before salt as return their results. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
In the meantime ` farmers are hoping this was a freak event ` rather than | :03:45. | :03:58. | |
a taste of things to come. I asked and Macintosh what the priorities | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
should be. The Labour government and in 2005 and made sure that life, | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
people and property at the first line of funding. It is clearly | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
unacceptable if we lose that tracks of land to tidal coastal surges in | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
this way. I suppose the question is, is their money there to protect | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
fields and land and defend them from the saltwater? I think we have to | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
look at new sources of funding, possibly insurance companies. Is it | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
not a government job? Every single department has to look at its | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
budget. What we are looking to do is factor in partnership funding. There | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
is a possibility of farm funds under the new budget. There are a number | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
of funds we can look to. A lot of this land is very close to the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
scene. Maybe we can afford to do anything. I look at food security | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
and take it very seriously. If we are going to lose farmland to the | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
same, obviously the landowner must be compensated. I believe we should | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
become more self`sufficient. Our self`sufficiency needs to be | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
increased. I take the loss of food production through these floods very | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
seriously. We are not going to be out of the Jews food if we do not | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
have fields and plan to do it on. `` we are not going to be able to | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
produce food. I believe there is a way we can work with farmers to make | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
sure if they repeatedly lose land, there has to be some form of | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
compensation for them. I believe there are new funds we could look | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
out for that purpose. Another story we will continue to follow. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
A young mother from Hull who had post`natal depression when she | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
killed her five`week`old baby should have been offered more help for her | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
condition, a report has found. Natasha Sultan, on the right, was | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
given a three`year supervision order for infanticide. A serious case | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
review by the Hull Safeguarding Children Board, found the death | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
could not have been prevented or predicted but extra support for | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
post`natal depression would have been beneficial. | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
The number of people out of work has fallen again. The latest figures | :06:42. | :06:49. | |
from the Government show that thousands more people are in work in | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
the Yorkshire and Humber Region and also in the East Midlands which | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
includes Lincolnshire. Tim Iredale has been looking at the figures. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
The latest figures show the largest quarterly fall in unemployment since | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
1997. The jobless total in the Yorkshire and Humber region fell by | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
8,000 to 235,00. Meanwhile, unemployment in the East Midlands | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
region ` which covers Lincolnshire ` fell by 28,000 to 149,000. The | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Employment Minister says that means fewer job`seekers in our area are | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
having to get on their bikes to look for work elsewhere. They should not | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
have to leave the area. Employment has gone up, so it shows there are | :07:30. | :07:38. | |
opportunities. There is work across a spectrum of jobs. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
With an unemployment rate of 6.4% the East Midlands is below the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
national average of 7.1%, but the Yorkshire and Humber region still | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
has a unemployment rate of 8.4% and there are pockets of our area where | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
the jobless total remains stubbornly high, such as East Hull. There's not | :07:52. | :08:09. | |
many available jobs in the area. A lot of people have applied and there | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
are no vacancies. I think they're right jobs available. I think a lot | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
of people are stalking the benefits trap. I think a lot of people are | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
brought up to think that sometimes it is easier to stay at home and get | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
benefits, but they're right jobs if people are willing to put themselves | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
out. `` there are jobs. All the main political parties have | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
welcomed today's news. However, senior Labour figures have expressed | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
concern that unemployment in Yorkshire and the Humber isn't | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
falling as fast as other regions in the South. | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
Since last October, we've been following these four ` Teri, Stefan, | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
Josh and Jess ` who're all hoping to find employment. Gemma Dawson has | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
been to find out if the New Year has brought new opportunities. | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
It's a new term, and Jess is back in class. We're playing a game adding | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
numbers together and testing children's mental arithmetic. As | :09:05. | :09:17. | |
part of her traineeship she has been helping out at this primary school | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
for the last few months. I have realised I want to work with | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
children of an older age, but I may start working with children younger | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
and then work my way up, because there are not many teaching | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
assistant jobs available. At college, Jess and Josh are preparing | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
for work. Josh is studying for a skills exam next week and is hopeful | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
he will be able to find a job soon. I'm feeling slightly more confident. | :09:39. | :09:49. | |
There's a new Tesco, so there will be loads of jobs opening up there. I | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
have heard that many other places are starting recruitment. Stefan is | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
continuing computer training in Lincoln. He has been out of work for | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
17 years due to his epilepsy. He was hoping to launch his own literary | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
company next month, but has just discovered he is not eligible for a | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
government scheme which offers money and support to people starting their | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
own business. It makes it harder. Not impossible, and just makes it | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
that much harder. The difference would be, you would have that safety | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
net. In Bridlington, Teri is packing. She has lived in the resort | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
most of her life, but after four years looking for work, she is | :10:26. | :10:34. | |
moving to Doncaster. Brid has really got me down. The fact that I've been | :10:35. | :10:47. | |
running around trying to find work, and I think doing this move to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
Doncaster is going to be a hell of a lot better all`round. So the New | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Year is bringing new challenges for these four people, all hoping they | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
will soon find employment. I've been talking to the Labour MP | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
for Hull East Karl Turrner if he welcomed the latest figures which | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
show that Unemployment is down. We would welcome any drop in | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
unemployment. However, I think this mask the reality of what is | :11:10. | :11:22. | |
happening in places like Hull. This is the biggest fall in unemployment | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
since 1997. That shows the coalition has got it right. Peter, in Hull | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
East, the number has gone down 27 cents last month. I welcome that | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
works I want to know what the judge that, if indeed they are. People | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
coming off benefits does not necessarily mean they are rigged | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
full`time employment. The reality is people on zero our contract, people | :11:48. | :11:55. | |
who are underemployed. Do you agree with M The Who so that young people | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
must be prepared to lower their ambitions and take jobs in coffee | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
shops and they want to get on in life? I think people in my area are | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
lucky to get anywhere. People are desperate for employment. If that is | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
available, I welcome that but I want proper jobs, not zero our contract | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
jobs of part`time jobs. We saw that lad in the film who is excited at | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
the prospect of a job in Tesco in Lincoln. She is saying many people | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
think these jobs are beneath them and don't want to do them. How about | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
is the evidence for that. Certainly not my experience. People I see on a | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
regular basis at desperate for proper work. What they don't want | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
and cannot afford to do is have a zero our contract were their | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
employer is taxing them and expecting them to turn up in an | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
afternoon, work two hours then travel fans. She has also said young | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Britons are less prepared in the world of like the migrant and need | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
to learn the basics like turning up on time. Our young people let | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
themselves down? I doubt whether there is any evidence. It might be | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
headlined travelling. It proves how out of touch this government is. | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
They are complacent on this issue. There is a cost of living prices | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
they need to address. It's in my area are ?1600 a year worse off as a | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
result of the government policy. Women in my area and ?1900 a year | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
worse off. You the governments are not in touch and they leave to | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
address it. Thank you. We want your thoughts on this story. | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
What are your experiences of the employment situation at the moment. | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
Is Esther McVeigh right when she says young people should be prepared | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
to set their sights lower to get into the jobs market or is it the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
case that the jobs simply aren't there? | :14:00. | :14:19. | |
Still ahead tonight: Rugby returns ` Hull's super league teams prepare, | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
with more than a dozen new players. Nice clouds at Middleton on the | :14:24. | :14:47. | |
Wolds taken by Nelly Naylor. Oh, yes. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
Thank you for that. You were putting me off then. Margaret wants to know | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
what has happened to Keely Donovan. She is lying on a beach in | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
Australia, presumably trying to get a tan like yours. She will be back. | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
I am working this Friday. She will be back next week. We will look at | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
the headlines for tomorrow. Short, sharp bursts of heavy rain around | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
nine o'clock in the morning. That will be out of the way and skies | :15:29. | :15:37. | |
will brighten up from the West. That was the weather fronts that brought | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
the rent from overnight. As it's looks like it will be a fairly | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
straightforward night across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
Norfolk. There will be a few showers pushing in from the west. Watch out | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
for icy patches on untreated surfaces. Roundabout dawn, it will | :15:59. | :16:21. | |
be dry. A very short active weather front. It will last about an hour or | :16:22. | :16:34. | |
two. The afternoon looks quite nice. Sunshine with one or two | :16:35. | :16:45. | |
showers. Highs of six Celsius. Unsettled outlook Friday. | :16:46. | :16:56. | |
Potentially heavy rain later on Sunday. | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
I would love to stay and chat but good night. | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
It's a journey of just 500 feet but it's cost local tax payers ?42,000. | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
Lincolnshire County Council has spent the money on taxis shuttling | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
workers to a call centre from a parking area to a nearby call centre | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
because of safety concerns. But it's been called an absurd waste of | :17:20. | :17:29. | |
public money. Sarah Corker reports. An early morning taxi picks up | :17:30. | :17:47. | |
council workers in Lincoln today. Nothing unusual there you might | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
think. But their journey to the office is just one tenth of a mile. | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
It's because some staff say the short walk is unsafe in the winter. | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
It is intimidating. There are people who come up behind you, you can see | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
they are, on bikes. People have been mugged around here. It is a | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
dangerous, intimidating place. It can get very dark, especially around | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
this area. It is not particularly safe, especially for young ladies. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Employees are shuttled 524 feet from the Spa Road car park over the river | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
to a call centre. A service costing ?7,000 a year ` that's been running | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
for six years. Others who use this area, like the rowing club, told me | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
it's a waste of money at a time of council cuts. | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
And the shuttle runs between November and March, morning and | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
night. Maybe they should improve the public transport facilities. I don't | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
know. They are making cuts everywhere else but they are | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
ferrying staff unnecessarily. The problem is, pedestrians are not | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
supposed to use as bridge. There is no footpad. It is a 20 minute walk | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
along an unlit route by the river. The council said it has a duty of | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
care to make sure its employees get to work safely. How can you justify | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
spending less money on taxes when the council has to make savings of | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
?39 million? We do understand that. It was not a decision we made | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
lightly. We looked at lots of options. The difficulty we have is | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
that everyone is different shifts, so they do not all come to work | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
together or leave work together. We had to look at a cost effective way | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
of getting people to. ?? new line As the light fades ` the evening taxi | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
arrives. But there's not much demand for it tonight. The council is | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
looking for a cheaper alternative until improvements to the roads are | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
planned. There could be up to 14 new players | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
on the pitch when Hull FC welcome neighbours Hull Kingston Rovers to | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
the KC stadium on Sunday for a pre`season friendly. You Both teams | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
have recruited heavily in the winter hoping to improve their fortunes. | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
Here's our sports reporter Simon Clark. See when Hull FC and Hull | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
Kingston Rovers meet this week in a friendly, fans will be introduced to | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
a number of new players. They have both built extensively. Key signings | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
include: we had a few friendlies last year. | :20:21. | :20:45. | |
We are missing one with Sean Gleeson. We will play whoever | :20:46. | :20:59. | |
performs the best will be there. We are carrying a decent sized squad | :21:00. | :21:08. | |
this weekend. When they say Hull Kingston Rovers and Hull FC are | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
neighbours, it is quite literally true. When come to the league | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
campaign and to this friendly match at the weekend, will they be close | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
together far apart? Peter Stevenson was once a leading Everton player | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
until serious injury robbed of his career. He has graduated as a | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
journalist. Who better to offer an objective view of the Derby? Is the | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
body needs to get prepared for that sort of contact. New blokes have | :21:41. | :21:54. | |
never experienced it. Whoever wins on Sunday, don't read too much into | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
it because there is a long way to go until now and the end of the super | :22:02. | :22:02. | |
league. The annual pantomime performed by | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
BBC staff in the region looks set to reach a fundraising milestone of | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
?100,000. His This year, people from BBC Look North and BBC Radio | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Humberside donned wigs and glitter for Mother Goose, their 12th festive | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
production. All the money raised from ticket sales and donations over | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
the years has been given to local charities and Children in Need. | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
A bed and breakfast just over the East Yorkshire border has been named | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
the second best in the world. First place went to a B in Dorset in the | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
Travellers' Choice awards by the website, Trip Advisor. But what | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
makes a B so special and do we have the competition in the East | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Riding to rival it? Simon Spark has been finding out. So here we are in | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
Filey, North Yorkshire looking at the second best Bed Breakfast in | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
the world, apparently. You'd hardly know, except for the peppering of | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
five star awards outside, and its perfectly presented frontage. I | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
don't think we need to plug it more than that. If this has got world | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
attention now, we need to capitalise. So come on, East | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
Yorkshire. Pull your socks. But first we need to know how and for | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
that market research in nearby Bridlington. We can be better. What | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
would make the world's best bed and breakfast? A good breakfast. A | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
comfortable bed. Value for money in this day and age. Good food and good | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
bets. The attitude of people who own it and how clean it is. When we put | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
all these ingredients together we think we've found a suitable | :23:51. | :23:52. | |
sparring partner for Filey. The Wolds village in Bainton. This is | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
the main staircase. We have been put forward to the finals for visit | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
Britain. It means we are in consideration for one of the top B | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
and bees. I will take you to the Gothic Victorian room. For a long | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
time, North Yorkshire has been the destination. We I think we have | :24:17. | :24:23. | |
proved we are perhaps the best in the walls and we need to go on to be | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
the best in the world. So the gloves are off. Watch out, Filey! | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
It is not just East Yorkshire but Lincolnshire as well. If you have a | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
story you think we Let's get a recap of the national and regional | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
headlines. Should know about, let others know. | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
The biggest fall in unemployment for more than 15 years. | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
Tests to see if tidal floods have seriously contaminated some of the | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
most productive farm land in this area. | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
I believe we should become more self`sufficient. I'd take the loss | :24:56. | :25:05. | |
of food production through these recent floods very seriously indeed. | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
And Macintosh. The weather tomorrow: big response on the subject of jobs. | :25:08. | :25:26. | |
John says, I am not on job`seekers but the agency I am with have only | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
give me one day was of work this week, and that does not pay the | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
rent. Steve says, I think people are happy to be on the dole. I was made | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
redundant today at one o'clock and by four o'clock I had got a new job. | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Jordan says, I am 17 and will take any job because I am not going to | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
achieve my ambition is due to the lack of jobs available here in Hull. | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
Thank you for those. We read and listen to them. Good night. | :26:00. | :26:21. | |
We all have hopes and fears for the future | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
and for the lives our children and grandchildren will lead. | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
I want to build a Britain where everyone feels secure, | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
so our long-term economic plan is building a stronger, | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
more competitive economy and securing our country's future. | :26:36. | :26:40. |