:00:00. > 3:59:59first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel, but now on BBC
:00:00. > :00:11.One, it's time for the Good evening. The Chancellor, George
:00:12. > :00:16.Osborne, says his Budget will benefit you if you are a maker, a
:00:17. > :00:19.doer or a saver. Some big btsinesses in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire
:00:20. > :00:24.are welcoming a freeze in the pollution tax on their energy bills.
:00:25. > :00:30.One union leader says it cotld help secure the future of steel laking in
:00:31. > :00:33.Scunthorpe. Paul Lead reports. The Scunthorpe Steel Works, the town's
:00:34. > :00:37.biggest employer and a big tser of energy. It means they creatd a lot
:00:38. > :00:40.of polluting carbon, so this from the Chancellor was welcome. I am
:00:41. > :00:46.capping the carbon price support rate at ?18 per tonne. It's a very
:00:47. > :00:49.welcome measure. We are ple`sed that the Government appear to have
:00:50. > :00:53.finally listened to our representations and that of
:00:54. > :00:58.industry. We do have a concdrn however that it could be sedn as too
:00:59. > :01:02.little too late. This East Xorkshire caravan maker also largely welcomed
:01:03. > :01:07.the Budget. Around four in ten UK caravans are made here at Swift in
:01:08. > :01:10.Cottingham. But that freeze on taxing highly polluting forls of
:01:11. > :01:14.energy is causing concern for environmentalists and green energy
:01:15. > :01:17.businesses on the Humber. It does affect green energy on the Humber,
:01:18. > :01:21.in that this Government has increasingly taken a more and more
:01:22. > :01:25.sceptical view of renewable and it has actually sort of put a lot of
:01:26. > :01:28.pressure on our sector to control costs and that's what they're doing
:01:29. > :01:31.with the carbon freeze, controlling costs on manufacturing. So ht does
:01:32. > :01:34.put pressure on. I think thd renewable energy industry as a whole
:01:35. > :01:37.and offshore wind in partictlar really does have to focus on how it
:01:38. > :01:41.can actually deliver energy value. In a range of other announcdments,
:01:42. > :01:44.our local air ambulances and rescue boats like the Humber rescud and
:01:45. > :01:48.Hornsey rescue will no longdr have to pay VAT on their fuel. Bhngo
:01:49. > :01:51.halls on the east coast got their wish, tax on their earnings falling
:01:52. > :01:55.from 20% to 10% after a campaign. There was a grant to the Magna Carta
:01:56. > :01:58.Trust to support the 800th anniversary of the signing of the
:01:59. > :02:02.document next year. Lincoln is home to one of only four surviving copies
:02:03. > :02:06.of the Magna Carta. And for savers, a tripling to ?15,000 a year savings
:02:07. > :02:14.exempt from tax in a new IS@. On Hull's Osborne Street, this
:02:15. > :02:17.reaction. I am a GP and most of my patients are probably no more than
:02:18. > :02:24.15,000. They're not going to benefit from this at all. I ain't got 'owt
:02:25. > :02:28.to start with, they took it all away already. I'm retired. I havd a fixed
:02:29. > :02:38.income, so, no, it's not re`lly going to affect me. Our Polhtical
:02:39. > :02:43.Editor Tim Iredale is in Westminster. What are our local MPs
:02:44. > :02:48.saying about the Budget? Well some of the measures announced in the
:02:49. > :02:51.Budget haven't led to a gre`t deal amount of party political
:02:52. > :02:57.disagreement. Such as the announcements on pensions and
:02:58. > :03:05.savings and beer duty and bhngo tax. If you think our MPs will stop
:03:06. > :03:11.scrabbling `` squabbling thdn think again. Labour MPs have launched on
:03:12. > :03:18.attack what that say is a f`ilure to deal with the cost`of`living crisis
:03:19. > :03:22.The fact you can now put 15,000 in an ISA, I don't know anyone in my
:03:23. > :03:25.circle of friends who have got 15,000 quid stashed under the bed,
:03:26. > :03:29.waiting desperately to stick it into a savings plan. It is about jobs. We
:03:30. > :03:32.need good quality jobs. People in Hull East are ?1,600 a year worse
:03:33. > :03:36.off as a result of this Torx Government's policies. . Thd
:03:37. > :03:41.Government has denied the accusation that they haven't done enough to
:03:42. > :03:47.help hard`working family. The planning minister and Grantham MP
:03:48. > :03:52.told BBC Look North that people in Lincolnshire are better off than
:03:53. > :03:56.they were under Labour If the Labour Government had continued in office,
:03:57. > :04:00.fuel duty would now be 20 pdnce per litre higher than it is now, because
:04:01. > :04:03.we have frozen it for sever`l years. In Lincolnshire, we have got a
:04:04. > :04:09.Council Tax freeze now happdning I think for the fourth or fifth year
:04:10. > :04:13.in a row. . One measure that was not announced in the Budget which many
:04:14. > :04:19.MPs hoped for is the confirlation this the Hull to Selby railway line
:04:20. > :04:24.will be electrified in time for the City of Culture celebration. We have
:04:25. > :04:29.told the Chancellor hadn't for got about it but there will be `n update
:04:30. > :04:34.tomorrow. This could happen, the electrification of hull toll Selby
:04:35. > :04:41.rail link, if the Chancellor hasn't spent all his money on beer and
:04:42. > :04:45.bingo! Thank you. Research by the BBC has found some supermarket fish
:04:46. > :04:48.` much of which is processed in Grimsby ` has failed qualitx tests.
:04:49. > :04:51.The Rip off Britain programle tested fish at major supermarkets `nd
:04:52. > :04:54.concluded nearly half of it shouldn't be on sale. Amand` White
:04:55. > :04:57.reports. Sea fresh and sold at Grimsby state`of`the`art fish
:04:58. > :05:04.market, but how fresh is it when it gets to the supermarket? We asked
:05:05. > :05:11.people in Hull. At a superm`rket? Well over a week. A couple of days.
:05:12. > :05:17.Three, four days maybe. BBC current affairs programme Rip Off Britain
:05:18. > :05:20.decided to investigate. Samples from four supermarkets were testdd by
:05:21. > :05:28.fish quality expert, Richard Chivers. Bland. There was a little
:05:29. > :05:33.bit of off odour there. It hs neutral. Yeah, there's something not
:05:34. > :05:34.nice there. Sorry, it's off. Five of the 12 samples were deemed
:05:35. > :05:42.unsuitable for sale. ASDA s`id: Sainsbury's, whose scores wdre
:05:43. > :05:56.acceptable said: If it is coming from Iceland, or
:05:57. > :05:59.it's coming from Norway, it takes six days on a boat, it will then
:06:00. > :06:03.spend two days in our fish processing plant in Grimsby and then
:06:04. > :06:07.it will go to store from thdre. Fish will survive packed on ice for 1
:06:08. > :06:11.days and can still be eaten after that. We aim to get ours to plate
:06:12. > :06:14.much quicker than that, less than half that time. Hull fishmonger Paul
:06:15. > :06:18.Simpson buys his fish at thd same market as the supermarkets, but can
:06:19. > :06:21.have it on sale just two hotrs later. The perfect cod filldt.
:06:22. > :06:24.That's what you need to be looking at. It's glistening, it looks fresh,
:06:25. > :06:30.there is no dullness to it whatsoever. Not surprisinglx, Paul
:06:31. > :06:38.believes fresh fish is one larket in which the supermarkets just can t
:06:39. > :06:44.compete. Let's take a look `t the weather with Paul Hudson. Hdllo
:06:45. > :06:48.well tomorrow will be fine hn the morning, but rain will spre`d from
:06:49. > :06:52.the west later. For most, mtch of tomorrow will be fine. But this cold
:06:53. > :06:58.front will bring rain towards the commute tomorrow afternoon. So it is
:06:59. > :07:04.fine at the moment. It is whndy especially in parts of east
:07:05. > :07:09.Yorkshire. Temperatures arotnd seven Celsius. Tomorrow morning is bright
:07:10. > :07:13.with some good spells of sunshine. Through the afternoon clouds will
:07:14. > :07:18.increase and from mid to late afternoon we will see rain spreading
:07:19. > :07:24.from the west. But warm across south eastern parts around 15 degrees
:07:25. > :07:27.around The Wash. That's all from the late team. Look North is back
:07:28. > :07:33.tomorrow from 6.25. Hope yot can join us then. Bye for now.
:07:34. > :07:35.night it will be heavy in places. This is the outlook: Bright enough
:07:36. > :07:36.for Friday and the weekend but much colder and some of the showers could
:07:37. > :07:59.have a wintry nature. Cloud coming in from the Atlantic.
:08:00. > :08:01.When it moves through we will get cooler conditions with lively
:08:02. > :08:05.showers. But mild overnight cooler conditions with lively
:08:06. > :08:12.south-westerly breeze dragging cloud across England and Wales. As you can
:08:13. > :08:15.see the heaviest rain and strongest winds overnight are confined to
:08:16. > :08:21.Scotland and northern Ireland. Wet and windy here but it is an mild
:08:22. > :08:22.night with the cloud cover and breeze. But, a miserable start