:00:00. > 3:59:59That's all from us. A first look at the papers on the BBC news channel.
:00:00. > :00:10.Now Good evening. Campaigners who are
:00:11. > :00:12.fighting to save more than 30 libraries across Lincolnshire have
:00:13. > :00:15.been to Downing Street, dem`nding the government stops the proposed
:00:16. > :00:18.closures. Lincolnshire County Council wants community grotps to
:00:19. > :00:22.take over the running of many libraries to save ?2 million. But
:00:23. > :00:27.some library users say that's not good enough and today took their
:00:28. > :00:32.fight to Westminster. More from our political editor Tim Iredald.
:00:33. > :00:35.A special delivery to the most famous front door in the cotntry.
:00:36. > :00:39.This book handed in to Downhng Street today contains some of the
:00:40. > :00:49.signatures from a petition `imed at saving Lincolnshire's threatened
:00:50. > :00:54.libraries. Please ensure th`t libraries can stay open across our
:00:55. > :00:59.country, so that people can self educate them so people can dnjoy
:01:00. > :01:04.reading for leisure, so people can access Internet technology `nd
:01:05. > :01:07.basically make full use of `ll that a library has to offer. Simon
:01:08. > :01:11.Draper, who's a full`time c`rer to his wife Timber, has secured a
:01:12. > :01:17.judicial review at the High Court to try to overturn the decision to
:01:18. > :01:23.close libraries across the county. The higher you go, the more you need
:01:24. > :01:26.a computer and these kids nded the computers and the computers are
:01:27. > :01:29.libraries. We need the libr`ries to stay open for the kids. Thex can't
:01:30. > :01:32.learn everything at home. In June last year Lincolnshire County
:01:33. > :01:36.Council said it would be reviewing how library services were rtn in an
:01:37. > :01:39.effort to save ?2 million from its budget. Three months later ` and
:01:40. > :01:43.20,000 people had signed a petition against closing libraries as a
:01:44. > :01:47.public consultation came to an end. The council revealed in Novdmber
:01:48. > :01:58.that 25 of the 30 libraries could be saved if volunteers came forward to
:01:59. > :02:02.run them. Campaigners said they would go to the High Court to
:02:03. > :02:06.challenge the decision to ehther closed or asked volunteers to run
:02:07. > :02:10.the service. We had an extensive consultation and we listened and
:02:11. > :02:14.came to a decision. It is ilportant now not only for the staff who are
:02:15. > :02:18.affected but all the communhties who are trying to develop these
:02:19. > :02:20.community libraries that we move forward, so everybody knows where
:02:21. > :02:23.they stand. The government says there have been many examplds of
:02:24. > :02:26.volunteers successfully takhng over the running of local librarhes, but
:02:27. > :02:32.the word from Downing Street tonight is that it remains a matter for
:02:33. > :02:36.Lincolnshire County Council. Tim joins us from London. What are
:02:37. > :02:47.the chances of the campaigndrs having any success here? Well, much
:02:48. > :02:49.depends on the judicial revhew, which is due to take place hn June
:02:50. > :02:53.or July. A judge must decidd whether Lincolnshire County Council acted
:02:54. > :02:58.unlawfully in the way it cale to the decision about scaling back on its
:02:59. > :03:03.library services. The authority says it has figures showing the number of
:03:04. > :03:08.people using libraries in the county has dramatically declined in recent
:03:09. > :03:12.years. Just 18%, fewer than one in five people, we are told, use
:03:13. > :03:15.Lincolnshire's libraries on a regular basis. Add to that
:03:16. > :03:18.government figures showing there has been a huge increase in the
:03:19. > :03:23.volunteers in areas where councils have pulled out of running
:03:24. > :03:27.libraries. But there is a htge emotional argument attached to the
:03:28. > :03:29.library debate and it will be a big test of some in Westminster Hall the
:03:30. > :03:33.big society. The rate of unemployment among young
:03:34. > :03:37.people in Hull and Grimsby hs one of the highest in the country,
:03:38. > :03:40.according the a report from the Work Foundation. It claims the 2012
:03:41. > :03:43.census shows more than a qu`rter of young people in the two are`s who
:03:44. > :03:47.are not in education are undmployed. The research organisation h`s called
:03:48. > :03:50.on the government to do mord to help. The Department for Work and
:03:51. > :03:53.Pensions says the number of young people claiming benefits has fallen
:03:54. > :03:56.in the last two years. I asked the report's author, Lizzie Crowley
:03:57. > :03:59.whether these figures showed us anything new.
:04:00. > :04:02.Well, I mean it does reveal quite a familiar pattern of labour larket
:04:03. > :04:06.disadvantage, so as you mention cities ` quite often cities in the
:04:07. > :04:11.North ` cities like Hull, are shown to have very high levels of youth
:04:12. > :04:14.unemployment. What we are stggesting is a whole range of policy
:04:15. > :04:20.recommendations that local `reas can use to hopefully start to t`ckle
:04:21. > :04:24.this problem. So what kind of recommendations are you suggesting?
:04:25. > :04:26.We suggesting in the report that local authorities can be tasked with
:04:27. > :04:30.setting up youth transition partnerships. These partnerships
:04:31. > :04:33.would essentially bring togdther a whole range of agencies at ` local
:04:34. > :04:35.level to map out and coordinate the employment and training
:04:36. > :04:42.opportunities, work experience placements and so on for yotng
:04:43. > :04:44.people. The thing is that the government says the number of
:04:45. > :04:48.16`24`year`olds claiming job`seekers benefits in Hull has fallen by a
:04:49. > :04:52.quarter since 2012 and in Grimsby it's fallen by a third, so doesn't
:04:53. > :04:57.that suggest the government is actually doing something about this?
:04:58. > :05:02.Jobseeker's allowance figurds only suggest a very small part of the
:05:03. > :05:05.picture. Only three quarters of young men actually claim jobseeker's
:05:06. > :05:11.allowance and that falls to around 50% for young women. So yes, we have
:05:12. > :05:16.seen a reduction, but we should not ignore that this crisis is certainly
:05:17. > :05:21.not over. Is it helpful using figures and using data that is two
:05:22. > :05:24.years old? Our data is a colbined number of measures because small
:05:25. > :05:28.area data is really quite dhfficult to come by, so we've had to combine
:05:29. > :05:35.a number of ways of the survey to get a robust enough sample to say
:05:36. > :05:40.something about these local areas. Thank you for joining us thhs
:05:41. > :05:42.evening. Thank you. Work to build a wind farm off the
:05:43. > :05:46.East Yorkshire coast will continue in spite of complaints about
:05:47. > :05:49.excessive noise at night. Pdople living in Withernsea say thdy're
:05:50. > :05:53.being woken by the noise, and called for a halt to the work by DONG
:05:54. > :05:56.Energy. The Marine Management Organisation says it will continue
:05:57. > :06:01.to investigate the complaints with the company and East Riding Council.
:06:02. > :06:04.An announcement over the future of Kellingley Colliery near Goole is
:06:05. > :06:08.expected within days. The government is seeing if it can help financially
:06:09. > :06:12.towards a managed closure of the pit. It comes after UK Coal
:06:13. > :06:17.announced the closure of ond of Britain's last remaining dedp coal
:06:18. > :06:19.mines. Cleethorpes Leisure Centre has
:06:20. > :06:23.reopened this afternoon. Thd pool had been closed for more th`n a
:06:24. > :06:28.month after people slipped following a ?2 million refurbishment.
:06:29. > :06:32.In football ` Grimsby Town twice equalised in injury time in a
:06:33. > :06:35.dramatic final few minutes of their game at home to Woking. The Mariners
:06:36. > :06:43.remain third in the Conference after the 2`2 draw at
:06:44. > :06:49.Another fine day tomorrow, some sunshine, variable amounts of
:06:50. > :06:53.cloud. High pressure is still in charge. Clear out there. Sthll quite
:06:54. > :06:57.windy, especially across Lincolnshire. The wind will ease a
:06:58. > :07:02.little bit. Cloud tending to increase from the west later. Lowest
:07:03. > :07:05.temperature six Celsius. More cloud around compared with today on
:07:06. > :07:12.Wednesday. Perhaps a little patchy rain first thing. But the elphasis
:07:13. > :07:16.is on a good deal of dry we`ther. Variable cloud. Some sunny spells, a
:07:17. > :07:21.moderate south`west wind. Temperature is respectable, 13` 4
:07:22. > :07:26.degrees Celsius. That is thd forecast. That is all from the late
:07:27. > :07:29.team. Look North is back at 6:2 am with the latest news, weathdr and
:07:30. > :07:32.travel. I hope you can join us then. Goodbye for now.
:07:33. > :07:39.dry. Maybe a bit of light rain on Friday. A quiet spell for us. Not so
:07:40. > :07:42.on the other side of the world. As you have been hearing, there is not
:07:43. > :07:45.a great deal happening in the weather over the UK over the next
:07:46. > :07:50.couple of days. Meanwhile, we have been attacked
:07:51. > :07:54.thing -- tracking an active spring storm in the US. There have been
:07:55. > :08:01.reports of flash flooding and tornadoes. You can see a narrowband
:08:02. > :08:04.which is weakening and heading out to the Atlantic. It is the Atlantic
:08:05. > :08:07.tonight that will pick up whether funds to the north of the UK,
:08:08. > :08:11.bringing with them or cloud and outbreaks of rain. Meanwhile,
:08:12. > :08:16.pressure remains relatively high to the south. There is a small chance
:08:17. > :08:18.of patchy mist and fog and low cloud by the end of the night. But
:08:19. > :08:19.temperatures