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Good evening. The government says it's considering extending the | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
motorway from London into Lincolnshire. It's refused to | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
formally commit to the plan to extend the M11 from Cambridge but | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
says it's one of a number of ideas being discussed for the next round | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
of funding in six years' time. Simon Spark reports from Spalding. | :00:25. | :00:32. | |
Lincolnshire's roads as we know them now. Many single carriageway, slowed | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
by many lorries. No wonder that even the slightest possibility of | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
extending the M11 into Lincolnshire has got people talking. It's bad | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
enough on the rows right now without there being more lorries. Good idea, | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
get down to London quicker! At the moment, the M11 runs from London to | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
Cambridge. Extending it could see it running through Lincolnshire all the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
way to the Humber Bridge. This is only one idea with their proposed | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
plans at present. But an extension is being considered as part of the | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
next round of road funding beginning in 2020. The Department for | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Transport say they are currently working closely with local | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
authorities and enterprise partnerships to study the challenges | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
that exist across the road network. The first stages of these strategies | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
will be published in 2014 with further details announced in 2015. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Many think a motorway could have huge advantages, taking articulated | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
lorries off the single carriageways. Others feel it would boost tourism, | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
giving easy access to the east coast. Others say it would rip | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
through the natural beauty of our rural county, something Lincolnshire | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
has managed to preserve for so long. At this logistics forum in | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
Spalding, where hauliers were meeting to discuss the problems of | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
the road network, the benefits outweighed the consequences. With a | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
new road infrastructure around and the volume of the calls we have | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
going to this area, it would be a huge benefit. At the moment we are | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
one of the areas that are saturated with produce companies. We have a | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
huge number of lorries coming both in and out of South Holland at the | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
moment, so anything to bring dual carriageways or even a motorway, as | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
we are talking about in this instance, would be a huge benefit. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Whether its many people want or not, it would be the backing of the | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
County Council, which it doesn't have. It would be countryside people | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
would be driving through. That is not good value for money. It would | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
take another 10`year is before a motorway would be reality, with | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
plenty of time for debate before then. | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
Inspectors say there have been improvements at a hospital trust | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
which was placed under special measures last July. The Care Quality | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
Commission says standards are better at Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
hospitals. But the increased scrutiny from the government into | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Trust will continue. | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
Petrol stations have reported a rise in the number of people stealing | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
petrol and diesel from forecourts. Police say two van drivers are | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
thought to be responsible for nearly 30 cases of fuel theft in the East | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Riding since the beginning of the year. Two men have so far been | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
arrested and bailed but officers are looking for more. | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Unemployment has fallen across the country, but for thousands of older | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
people in our area, the hunt to find work goes on. One job seeker in his | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
50s says the government must do more to help people, his age and over, | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
back into work. Gemma Dawson has been taking a closer look at the | :03:42. | :03:49. | |
figures. The national fall in unemployment is | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
echoed in our area. In Yorkshire and the Humber, 240,000 people are now | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
out of work, that is a fall of 8,000 on the previous three months. In the | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
East Midlands, which includes Lincolnshire, 162,000 people are | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
unemployed, which is a drop of 4,000. While the figures show that | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
more people are in work, for many, the struggle to find a job | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
continues. He has spent hours improving his | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
computer skills and has travelled to see a business advisor to help him | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
set up his own bitter row each company but this man is hoping this | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
job is fair in Lincoln will help him find part`time employment. I may go | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
home and think that was a waste of time. On the other hand, I might get | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
something positive out of it. I just spoke to one person, he said, yes, | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
I'd like to employ you, but you are a bit too old. Stefan is in his 50s | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
and he used to work in a hotel, and before that, as a care assistant, | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
but he has been out of work for 17 years due to his epilepsy. He was | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
declared fit for work more than a year ago so now needs to find a job. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
I always did say I could work. I am as capable of doing most jobs as | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
anybody. Office work, factory work, but there needs to be more help with | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
opening doors, getting into opportunities, maybe more help | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
getting work experience, qualifications. I also feel there | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
needs to be a little bit more hands`on training. Here, he gets the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
chance to get his points to the Lincoln MP. As the MP, I facilitated | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
the jobs that because I want to put people together, people out of work | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
with companies that are advertising. But some people say | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
they are still struggling to find work. Either the positions I am | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
looking at require experience of qualifications I haven't got, or | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
they are looking for people without any qualifications. It's not easy to | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
find work when you are older if the young ones are not getting the | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
jobs. How are we going to get a job at nearly 60? As opposed the thing I | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
would say that you could take heart from is the fact that employment | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
rates for the over 50s have increased, the fact more people now | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
have got into work, and that unemployment is falling. But for | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Stefan, his search for work continues. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
The Prime Minister says today's figures show the economy is moving | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
forward but critics say that many of these jobs are low paid and | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
part`time and, as we have seen, not everyone is finding it easy to get a | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
job. Time to get the weather now with | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
Keeley. After a pleasant day today, it is | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
going to become more unsubtle Dover night, which is the theme for | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
tomorrow as well. It is becoming breezy out there, becoming dusty as | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
a band of rain pushes eastwards. The main band of rain moves away, so we | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
have drizzly conditions. It is a mild night. It is windy as well. The | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
winds continue tomorrow. Further spells of rain through the morning | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
tending to turn showery in nature but we will see a good deal of dry | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
and bright weather, with some showers heavy and thundery. The | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
temperatures reflect the morning temperatures, tending to drop off | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
into single figures through the afternoon. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
That's all from the late team. Newsnight is on BBC Two now. The | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
latest on the truce in the Ukraine. We're back in the morning just after | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
6:25am. Goodbye for now. Friday, a fine day. For the weekend, | :07:30. | :07:41. | |
here is the BBC National weather. We have got rain and wind in the | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
forecast, but the good news is that it is not severe. Over the next 24 | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
hours, some of us will get rain and the winds will be strengthening Not | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
stormy at this stage. This is the satellite picture, you can see the | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
low pressure in the North Atlantic shunting weather fronts in our | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
direction. It has been raining heavily in parts of western | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
Scotland. Tonight, the rain will be splashing its way across the UK The | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
wind will be freshening as well particularly across western areas. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
Very breezy in land. Most of the rainfall will be across western | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
parts of Scotland, maybe the hills of Wales, into the south-west. The | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
further east you are, the least amount of rain will fall. A very | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
mild night, seven, eight or nine degrees. After a cloudy and wet | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
start tomorrow, the wind will blow | :08:43. | :08:43. |