22/02/2014 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

on the BBC News channel, with all the very latest on the dramatic

day's events in Ukraine. Good evening. Lincolnshire police

say a march by members of the English Defence League against a

proposed Islamic Centre in Grantham was peaceful. 250 officers escorted

a similar number of protesters through the town. A senior officer

would not reveal the cost of policing the event.

Described as an anti`Islam protest by its organisers, demonstrators

were bussed in from across the country. Some here made it clear

they weren't welcome. Take your prejudice away, we don't want it.

Escorted by police, the English Defence League marched through

Grantham town centre. We get a big centre, within two years that town,

that area is dominated Muslim and forcing all the Christians out, all

the Catholics out. We have no problem with the Muslim community.

What we have a problem with is extremism. The fact that the people

of Grantham are not being given a choice over what gets built in their

town is absolutely idisgusting. It is those plans for an Islamic

community centre here that prompted the march.

But celebrating multiculturalism, there was also a small

counterdemonstration. I do not think it was a particularly big issue.

They are preaching to this group. Freedom of religion should be for

everybody. The days when we used to burn people at the stake for having

the wrong religion are over and we want to keep it that way. Separating

the two protests a wall of police, 250 officers brought in from five

police forces across the East Midlands. This is the fourth far

right wing protest in the county in the last six months. It is a real

challenge for us. We are able to organise it sometime in advance

which helps reduce the cost but, as you have seen, we have a significant

number of officers here and that will have an impact on other places.

There were a few minor scuffles. It was a noisy but peaceful

demonstration. The planning application for the community centre

goes before the council next month and, if granted, the EDL says it

will protest here again. Lincolnshire County Council has

confirmed it will freeze council tax for the fourth year. The authority

joins novel into and East Riding Council which are also Conservative

run. In keeping 2014 bills the same as last year.

Hull City have bounced back with a massive away win at Cardiff. The

score was 4`nil. It was Steve Bruce's 100th win. Recent signing

scored two. Hull City move up to 11th in the league. Scunthorpe

United continue their run at the top of league two. They beat

Portsmouth, 5`1 making them joint league leaders.

Lincoln drew 1`1 to Chester and Grimsby are out of the FA Trophy and

will not be going to Wembley. Cambridge were overall winners in

the two legs. Luke Campbell will fight in front of a sell`out crowd

tonight at the whole arena. He is looking for his fifth straight win

as a professional boxer. Standing in his way is a Norfolk man.

Preparations went brilliant. They couldn't have gone any better,

really. We've had some great sparring. All is great. I'm in great

shape and ready to put on a good show for the fans. You can't put a

price on the support you get from the fans. I just hope I can keep

performing and they keep coming back and watching and supporting. We will

have a report from the fight on tomorrow's Look North at 620 PM. For

now let us get the weather forecast with Jennifer Bartram. Hello there,

good evening. For many of us it was a lovely, dry, spring`like day. But

as we get into tomorrow we are going to start to see the winds

increasing, gale force winds at times. That cloud is going to build

from the west as we go through the night. This evening we could see

some spots of rain, particularly in northern and western parts. Most

areas should remain dry and fairly cloudy overnight. That wind picking

up to gale force as we go through the night. The temperatures dropping

back to around seven degrees Celsius will feel fairly mild. For Sunday

morning we start off on a fairly cloudy note. As we go through the

day we are going to feel that wind speed pick up to gale force or

severe gale force winds. Gusts of 35 to 40 mph. A very windy day to come

but it is going to be feeling mild, highs of 12 Celsius. Look North is

back tomorrow, enjoy the rest of your weekend. Goodbye.

Hello. For some places today I am sure it felt that spring is just

around the corner. However, looming large, coming in from the Atlantic,

this broad belt of cloud and this will bring rain to western hills

with rain overnight moving into Scotland, Northern Ireland, trying

to push into England and Wales but many eastern areas will be dry. The

winds will be picking up, 60 miles an hour or so around the Irish Sea

coast but with the wind, cloud and rain it should be mild everywhere,

typically six or seven Celsius. Tomorrow, some windy weather,

especially in the morning around the Irish Sea coasts. A lot more rain

for the western areas, heavy