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Korean ferry capsized. That's all from the BBC News | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. A | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
shortage of sperm donors is forcing some couples to wait longer for | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
fertility treatment. We've got one donor who's currently donating at | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the moment. We don't have anybody else coming forward, so that means | :00:20. | :00:29. | |
we will reach critical point soon. Two children are seriously injured | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
after a car crashes into a ditch in North Lincolnshire. A swan is shot | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
with an airgun in an attack that's been described as "blatant animal | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
cruelty". The Lincolnshire lawn that's been voted the best in | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Britain. And after another lovely day, I'm afraid things take a turn | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
for the worse tomorrow. I will be back with forecast later. | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
Hello. Consultants at a Hull IVF clinic say there's such a shortage | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
of people willing to donate sperm that they've had to turn to using | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
imports from abroad for some patients. The clinic usually gets 15 | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
enquiries a month from potential donors but says recently there's | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
been none. It means couples are having to wait longer and get much | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
less choice during their treatment. Vicky Johnson reports. Having a baby | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
is something many of us take for granted. But Aisha certainly | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
doesn't. Every day is just a blessing. Every | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
single day is just wonderful, having him here. She and her partner Lorna | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
needed a sperm donor to help start their family. | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
He's the most wonderful man in the world. He's given me someone so | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
precious, so joyous, and all I can say to him is thank you. But the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
number of men offering help to the Hull IVF clinic is dropping. The | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
unit here used to receive up to 15 enquiries a month from potential | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
sperm donors, but recently they've had none, which means the situation | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
is becoming critical. We don't have a particularly | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
ethnically diverse range of donors available, and the area within Hull | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
is becoming increasingly diverse, so we have on occasion had to seek | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
donations from abroad. Many potential donors have been put off | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
by changes in the law which means any resulting children can ask for | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
identifying information once they're 18. This donor admits he was | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
initially worried. It sort of put my mind at rest when | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
I realised there's no legal recourse or there's no financial obligations. | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
And on the whole, if you choose to meet with any resulting children, | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
then it's quite a positive experience, so I'd urge people not | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
to let that hold you back. Most egg donations come from women | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
undergoing IVF treatment themselves, but this | :02:57. | :03:09. | |
child, to experience what so many of us take for granted, is just the | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
best thing you can give to someone else. An altruistic donor can donate | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
to two recipients, so that automatically treats two patients, | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
whereas an egg sharer only treats one, so the more altruistic donors | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
that we get, the shorter the waiting list becomes quite quickly. The Hull | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
clinic is one of the most successful in the country, but to help more | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
people experience the joy of family life, they very much depend on the | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
generosity of others. see it differently when they | :03:31. | :05:45. | |
understand it. It was not threatening. Clinic staff are very | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
friendly. There is a lot of support available. Very interesting to chat | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
with you. Thank you for your time. What would put you off coming | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
forward to donate? Are you a couple going through IVF? What would you | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
say to encourage more people to come forward? | :06:07. | :06:29. | |
In a moment: Another state school in Lincolnshire is to take boarders, | :06:30. | :06:39. | |
saying there's a growing demand. Two children are in a serious | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
condition in hospital after the car they were travelling in left the | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
road and went into a ditch in North East Lincolnshire. It happened on | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
South Marsh Road in Stalingrad. The road is closed. `` starling borough. | :06:51. | :07:05. | |
Humberside police have just opened the road. It has been closed for a | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
number of hours. Six people wearing the car. A six`year`old boy has been | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
taken to Sheffield Children's Hospital. His injuries are thought | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
to be serious. The four`year`old girl has been taken to Leeds General | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
Infirmary and she was taken by air ambulance. It is understood her | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
condition is also serious. The rest of the party have been taken to Hull | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Royal infirmary. It is not their injuries are not life`threatening. | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
As you would expect, Humberside police has launched an investigation | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
to establish how and why that can't let the road. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Thank you. We will let you know we get any development on that. | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
The funeral of a GP from Lincolnshire who drowned off the | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
coast of Tenerife has taken place this afternoon. Doctor Barathi | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
Ravikumar died along with another woman when they were swept out to | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
sea. It's thought they got in to difficulty as they attempted to | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
rescue two children. There's been a rise in the number of | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
people out of work in our region. The figures for the last three | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
months show unemployment in Yorkshire and the Humber is at | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
238,000, that's up by 3,000 compared to the previous quarter. In the East | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Midlands, which covers Lincolnshire, the jobless total is 163,000, up by | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
14,000. A Lincolnshire head teacher says more parents are wanting to | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
send their children to state boarding schools. King Edward VI | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Grammar school in Louth will take up to 40 sixth form boarders from | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
September next year after demand from parents. State run boarding | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
schools have free tuition, but accommodation has to be paid for. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
Supporters say they can help provide a stable education to children who's | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
parents work long hours or move frequently but critics argue it | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
hampers emotional development. Leanne Brown reports. | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
At De Aston Cchool in Market Rasen there are 80 students that not only | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
study but sleep here. There are currently 36 state | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
boarding schools in England. Sometimes, they could have elderly | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
parents. We get students were parents are working abroad, in the | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
forces with companies. Three are in Lincolnshire, but at the moment | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
there are none in East Yorkshire. At state boarding schools education is | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
free, but students have to pay between ?9,000`12,000 a year to | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
stay. A private boarding school can cost three times that, at an average | :09:51. | :10:02. | |
of ?27,000`?30,000 a year. And it's the cost that means for decades many | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
people have viewed boarding schools as just for the privileged, but | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
would parents in East Yorkshire use boarding schools if they had the | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
option? Possibly. There is more concentration on the education. You | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
like to put your kids to bed, don't you? It is not cost thing. Education | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
is important, but being with your family is important as well. | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
But back in Lincolnshire there's high demand, and from next year | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
students will be able to stay at King Edward VI school in Louth. | :10:41. | :10:50. | |
These our new facilities for sixth form students. The plan is to have | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
the same standards in the boarding house. There is a plan for a fitness | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
suite. It will add to the county's growing demand for bed and board. | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
Hilary Moriarty is the director of the Boarding Schools' Association. I | :11:08. | :11:17. | |
asked her what benefits there are to state boarding schools. | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
I think for many parents these days, a state school offering boarding | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
places at substantially less than would be the case in an independent | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
school means that they can find appropriate boarding for a child | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
which is affordable. Yes, I mean, this isn't private education, but it | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
is still for the elite. It costs ?10,000 a year per pupil. It costs | :11:36. | :11:50. | |
?10,000 per year per pupil, but for many families, that is the price of | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
a good holiday. I wouldn't say that it's elitist at all. What about | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
those that are saying it's parents dumping their children for the week | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
while they both go off and earn plenty of money? I very much doubt | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
if parents would agree with that. I think parents, particularly where | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
both are working and maybe working long hours and with overseas trips, | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
may well think that a child is better off in a boarding environment | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
than coming at three o'clock and, parents not until seven, what are | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
they doing in between? Somebody said to me today, if you can't be | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
bothered to look after your children at tea`time then don't have | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
children. Is that too harsh? You might say that anybody who puts a | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
child in a nursery at six weeks of age. If you're going to put them in | :12:29. | :12:38. | |
a nursery at six weeks of age, don't bother having them at all. The group | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Boarding Concern say that boarding school pupils find it difficult to | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
develop emotional intimacy in adult relationships. Is there everything | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
in that? Not in my experience, and I think that's far more evidence to | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
the contrary than there is in favour of that. There's been a rise in the | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
number of state boarding school places. Why is demand going up? I | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
think because of the changes in society, that mean this business of | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
parents working and children with nothing to do after school. If the | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Government is asking... That's a glorified nursery, then. It is about | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
looking after the children. There is a crossover, isn't there? Boarding | :13:12. | :13:20. | |
is about the after`school and the before`school, rather than the | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
education. The education is a state education. Boarding allows so much | :13:24. | :13:35. | |
more. You have facilities, time, staff, there is time for music and | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
drama and sport, and far more than is possible in a normal school day. | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
This Government is chasing every state school to provide more of | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
that, opening at eight in the morning and closing at seven. It is | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
an interesting one to talk about. We could talk about it for hours. What | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
do you think of this one ` are boarding schools glorified | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
nurseries? Would you pay ten thousand pounds a year to send your | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
child to a state boarding school? Perhaps your children go to a | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
boarding school, what do they get out of it? A swan is recovering | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
after surgery to remove a pellet lodged in its neck after it was shot | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
with an air rifle. The male bird is one of a nesting pair on a canal | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
near Crowle in North Lincolnshire. It's being cared for by the | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Yorkshire Swan Rescue ` which has described the shooting as an act of | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
blatant animal cruelty. Jessica Lane reports. This report shows images of | :14:30. | :14:40. | |
the Swan's injury. Recovering after surgery to remove the pellet from | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
its neck. Staff at the Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital shocked but not | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
surprised, as they say shootings are on the increase. Swans are a target | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
because they are so visible. They are quite friendly to people. They | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
are so used to people feeding them. Usually when they see a person, they | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
will naturally go up to them. The swan was found near Crowle. People | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
who use the canal are worried about the attack John found another swan a | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
few weeks ago This is a mobile phone video of the rescue Swans are | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
protected and property of the crown So injuring one is criminal damage | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
as well as animal cruelty Still ahead tonight: it had a fishing line | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
round it. It is very sad. It is a nasty thing to do. I don't | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
understand it. This is a mobile phone video of the rescue. Swans are | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
protected, and the property of the Crown, so injuring one is criminal | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
damage as well as animal cruelty, and could mean a court appearance. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
The swamp that was shot is one of the nesting, breeding pair that | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
lives on the canal. Staff hope it can recover, leave the reserve and | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
return to its made in the next month. | :15:57. | :16:07. | |
Thank you for watching. Still ahead: The group claiming success in an | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
attempt to get more teenagers into theatres. | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
The green`fingered couple from Lincolnshire who've won a nationwide | :16:13. | :16:13. | |
gardening award. Sunset taken from South Ferriby be | :16:14. | :16:37. | |
Lee Wilson. `` by Lee Wilson. Another one tomorrow. Possibly the | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
last word about the trip to London. Tell her to give me a call any | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
time. That is from when in Lincoln. Just send the numbers through, | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Peter. You are incorrigible. | :16:56. | :17:05. | |
You have to get them first. We will seize on changes in the weather. We | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
have had a lovely day. Temperatures got up to 16.2. Tomorrow will be | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
cooler. A week weather front passing down from the north. I pressure is | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
still in charge but it will slip to the East for a time to allow this | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
week weather system to bring some patchy rain possibly. For most | :17:27. | :17:55. | |
places, a lot more cloud. The be a breezy night. We will not have | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
problems with Frost. We start with the sun rising just before 6am, and | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
setting just after 8pm. A lot more cloud around compared with today. | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
The spot of light rain. Most places, it will be dry. Temperatures not | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
doing as well as they have today, getting up to around ten. 13 is 55 | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
Fahrenheit. It will feel cooler than that. Friday and Saturday look like | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
the better days of the weekend, with plenty of sunshine. Sunday will be a | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
bit soggy. 's Wayne has been back in touch | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
saying, we will go undercoat and stop at Peterborough on the way. You | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
are in there. Thanks, Peter. I will find you a | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
date and we will go together. Teenagers have taken over the | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
running of many of Lincolnshire's theatres this week as part of a plan | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
to try to get more young people interested in the arts. They've been | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
looking after the venues, booking acts and sorting out the lights and | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
sound. The group behind it says 500 young people | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
Here's Anne`Marie Tasker. Teenagers learning to dance at Stamford Arts | :19:28. | :19:37. | |
Centre. But this course wasn't organised by the venue, but by seven | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
young people who've taken over the centre for two days. They're | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
offering technical lessons too, like sound mixing, hoping to give young | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
people the skills to put on future showsand attract people in who | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
wouldn't usually come to theatres. I've only been a couple of times | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
before. I'll probably come back again, definitely, cos with this, | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
I've learnt a lot. I didn't think things would be appealing to my age | :20:02. | :20:14. | |
` more like older. The takeover is part of a two`year youth project | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
being run by ten arts centres in Lincolnshire. They says it's brought | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
a third more under`25s into their theatres. It's seen more than 1,000 | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
young people involved in programming events. And it's brought 500 new | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
young performers and artists into its centres for the first time. It's | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
really about training up the next generation, so making sure that | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
things going on in the arts centres are relevant to young people and | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
that they are going to keep coming to the arts centres for years to | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
come. The participation of these young people doesn't end this week, | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
though. Year`round, they're helping book professional acts here, and the | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
theatres say that's increasing ticket sales. People tend to think | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
because it's an old building, that it's only the old audiences, and we | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
only run events for that, but we don't. So, it is nice to encourage | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
young people. But it's not just about ticket sales. Young performers | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
are starring in shows at the end of the takeover days. Building not just | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
audiences, but the talent of the future too. | :21:13. | :21:25. | |
The Director General of the BBC has been in Hull today to meet | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
representatives involved with the city's successful bid to be City of | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Culture. Tony Hall, seen on the right, met those involved in | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
promoting Hull over the next three years. There are hopes major events | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
like Radio 1's big weekend could come to Hull in 2017. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Hull Trains will put on an extra service to bring Hull City fans back | :21:42. | :21:55. | |
from Wembley after the FA Cup final. It'll leave Kings Cross at 09.11. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
East Coast Trains will also run extra services to and from the | :21:59. | :22:06. | |
capital. Sunday evening, we was emailing, requesting for trains to | :22:07. | :22:14. | |
be hired in. We've had to go to extreme lengths to get signallers to | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
stay on, boxes to open. It's been pretty challenging but that's going | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
to go into the system tomorrow. They're world record breaking and | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
sitting at the top of League Two. This weekend if results go their way | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Scunthorpe United will be heading back up the Football League. Two | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
wins will guarantee them promotion after what's been a remarkable | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
season for the club. Amanda White has been looking at their chances. | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
Happy days. In 2009, the Iron were heading to the Championship. Tough | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
times have followed but the Scunthorpe faithful are due a | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
celebration. You walk past and the big pictures are on the walls in the | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
tunnels. They are very special moment that a lot of players never | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
get. To hopefully be a part of that this season will be very special. | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
United are seven points clear of the play`offs, with four matches | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
remaining. Two wins will make them uncatchable, but if they win on | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
Friday and Fleetwood lose then they could be promoted on Saturday if | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Burton Albion lose. But better still would be a victory over Oxford on | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
Easter Monday to seal promotion in front of a home crowd. We need to | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
get back to championship. That is the aim of the club. I think it is | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
going really well. I am happy. It's thanks to this man, manager Russ | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
Wilcox, who's stepped out of the shadows and into the record books | :23:38. | :23:49. | |
this season with 26 games unbeaten. The feeling around the town is great | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
for me to see. It has been three tough years. Three really tough | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
years, so it is important we get over that line and make it special. | :23:58. | :24:06. | |
Russ Wilcox has been here before. These pictures from 2005. Wouldn't | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
it be wonderful if come next Tuesday, they had to order a new | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
poster? They are a husband and wife team | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
with very different views on what makes the perfect lawn. His half is | :24:22. | :24:34. | |
perfectly manicured, hers a wild meadow. But together their garden | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
has been named the Best in Britain. Simon Spark has been to find out | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
more. This is Malcolm. He likes his garden | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
to look pristine and organised. I like to see stripes in my lawn, | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
cos it takes my eye to somewhere else. Lovely, nice edges, clean. The | :24:59. | :25:10. | |
lawn is the backdrop for any garden, so to me, it sets everything off. | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
That's the base that you start from. And this is Sandra. Her garden | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
preference is meadow`like as nature intended. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
As you can see, this is the spring meadow. Malcolm likes his stripes | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
and everything very neat and tidy. I like things to be a little bit more | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
on the wild side, let nature take its course, you know, with the | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
butterflies and the bees and that sort of thing. But when you have a | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
married couple with two different tastes, what you end up with is a | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
tale of two halves. But between themselves, this combination of | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
manicured versus wild has itself propagated success. They now own | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
Britain's best lawn, and today they were toasting their recognition. | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
We've been running this competition for nine years, and we've always | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
looked for contrast within a single entry. We've never had a his and | :26:01. | :26:10. | |
hers entry! That's quite unique. It's proof indeed that even together | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
our individuality needs space to grow. If you have a story you think | :26:14. | :26:33. | |
we should know about, get in touch. Let's get a recap of the national | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
and regional headlines. Hundreds of schoolchildren are feared dead after | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
a ferry capsizes off the coast of South Korea. Consultants in Hull set | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
a shortage in sperm donors mean people are going to have to wait | :26:50. | :26:50. | |
longer for fertility treatment. On the subject of sperm donation, | :26:51. | :27:05. | |
Sarah e`mails saying, following IVF twins, I enquired about becoming a | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
donor as I wanted to help other women in a similar situation, but | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
the change in the law has stopped me, because I don't want subsequent | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
children tracing me when they are 18. We talked about that change in | :27:20. | :27:27. | |
the law. Also, boarding, state boarding. Dean in Beverly says, the | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
cost works out at ?192 a week. Who can afford such a price in Yorkshire | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
when the wages are so low? Some people don't even earn that much per | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
week. Thank you for watching. See you | :27:42. | :27:43. | |
tomorrow. | :27:44. | :27:45. |