:00:00. > :00:07.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.
:00:08. > :00:10.Farmers react angrily to government claims they should
:00:11. > :00:26.Those ministers should come here on a Sunday morning and try to find
:00:27. > :00:29.those people, because I cannot find them.
:00:30. > :00:32.The woman given the job of running Hull's year as Chty
:00:33. > :00:34.of Culture says she wants to build a lasting legacy.The
:00:35. > :00:37.government hands over ?9 million to fix potholes in East Yorkshhre
:00:38. > :00:39.We're live at the Beverley Folk Festival, where
:00:40. > :00:48.thousands of people are expdcted for a weekend of live music.
:00:49. > :00:55.And a fine weekend on the c`rds but things going downhill next week I
:00:56. > :01:00.will be back later in the programme with all the details.
:01:01. > :01:02.Farmers in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have reactdd
:01:03. > :01:04.angrily to comments by a government minister th`t they
:01:05. > :01:10.Esther McVey says the food industry should find local
:01:11. > :01:16.But producers say local people aren't prepared to do
:01:17. > :01:21.the jobs that migrant workers are willing to take on.
:01:22. > :01:31.More from our political editor Tim Iredale.
:01:32. > :01:39.These freshly picked character being washed and packed, ready for the
:01:40. > :01:42.supermarket shelves. `` carrots are being washed. The vast majority of
:01:43. > :01:49.people carrying out the work from overseas. Without the oversdas
:01:50. > :01:54.workers we could not survivd. This woman came here from Estoni` to find
:01:55. > :01:57.work. She is now an assistant technical manager at this f`ctory
:01:58. > :02:02.and her mother is a seasonal worker here. My mother comes here for
:02:03. > :02:08.winter, she only comes for ` winter because my dad is still in this
:02:09. > :02:12.tourney. She spends half a xear in the factory, last year it w`s for
:02:13. > :02:19.parsnips. There is no slowdown when it comes to workers coming here from
:02:20. > :02:25.other European countries. L`st year saw 27% increase in migration from
:02:26. > :02:30.other nations. But Esther McVey says that farmers should be more willing
:02:31. > :02:36.to take on British`born workers She claims the number of new jobs going
:02:37. > :02:40.to British workers has doubled under this government. No longer hs it
:02:41. > :02:44.only for out of ten British Nationals getting jobs, it hs now
:02:45. > :02:47.nearly eight out of ten. I would like to think that those farmers do
:02:48. > :02:51.feel that they can take on British people, because we have gotten to
:02:52. > :03:00.the standard that they are good enough to employ. `` we havd got
:03:01. > :03:04.them. The ministers that sed that should come here on a Saturday
:03:05. > :03:10.morning and try to find me 050 local workers, because I cannot fhnd them.
:03:11. > :03:20.I spoke to a group of unemployed young men. Would you be willing to
:03:21. > :03:24.take on those jobs? Yes. But foreigners are taking them on, we
:03:25. > :03:29.are sick of them. Even housds. Some say that you are not willing to do
:03:30. > :03:34.the jobs that the foreigners do We would do the jobs, but the
:03:35. > :03:38.foreigners come over and get benefits and houses and do the jobs.
:03:39. > :03:42.Not for the first time, polhticians and employers have clashed over the
:03:43. > :03:47.reality of hiring home`grown workers.
:03:48. > :03:50.Earlier, I spoke to Andrew Wilson from the National Farmers' Tnion
:03:51. > :03:53.and asked him if the ministdr is right that farmers should elploy
:03:54. > :04:04.Farms have certainly tried to employ as many local people as thex can.
:04:05. > :04:09.The use difficulty is trying to find the people that we take the jobs. At
:04:10. > :04:12.the moment it seems that thd migrant workers either one is prepared to go
:04:13. > :04:17.jobs. People are saying that they do not see these jobs advertisdd. The
:04:18. > :04:22.farmers go straight to the foreign market. In reality, that is what is
:04:23. > :04:26.happening. They are not going straight to the foreign market. We
:04:27. > :04:31.have conducted a survey and out of the last survey, after recent job
:04:32. > :04:36.applications, 71% of them actually did not want to take the job. 7 % of
:04:37. > :04:40.reddish born workers did not want to take the jobs. Sort of the local
:04:41. > :04:46.people's fault, they do not want to take the jobs, not the lawydrs
:04:47. > :04:50.favouring migrant workers. We are not saying that the local pdople do
:04:51. > :04:55.not want the jobs, it is a puestion of what type of jobs are on offer.
:04:56. > :04:59.The jobs are not permanent, UK and British`born people overcamd for
:05:00. > :05:04.permanent jobs. Isn't that just an excuse? Do farmers simply rtle out
:05:05. > :05:15.British workers because thex prefer migrant workers? Farmers do not have
:05:16. > :05:22.preference at all. Are you sure 100% sure. They look for thd best
:05:23. > :05:25.people and the people that `re willing to the remote locathons and
:05:26. > :05:31.work long hours and put in the work on the manual labour side that is
:05:32. > :05:35.required. What people at hole will be seeing who are watching the
:05:36. > :05:39.television is that employers will be paying very low wages and that is
:05:40. > :05:43.what is happening, migrant workers will work for less. Isn't that the
:05:44. > :05:49.reality? We have is leasing the demise of their Agricultural Wages
:05:50. > :05:56.Board, which means that workers will get the minimum wage. Farmers need
:05:57. > :06:04.people who are willing to work in remote locations, long hours, and do
:06:05. > :06:10.manual labour. At the moment it is migrant workers to willing to do
:06:11. > :06:14.that. And what you say to those who say that picking cabbages is beneath
:06:15. > :06:18.them? We're not saying that anybody is saying that it is beneath them.
:06:19. > :06:22.You are saying that local pdople do not want to do those jobs, H am
:06:23. > :06:27.drawing a conclusion that you think that they do not want those jobs.
:06:28. > :06:30.The if people want those jobs then those jobs are available to them and
:06:31. > :06:34.there are many farmers that would likely employ local people to do
:06:35. > :06:38.those jobs. Thank you very much.
:06:39. > :06:42.Should farmers be forced to use British workers?
:06:43. > :06:44.Or do you understand why farmers are so resistant to
:06:45. > :07:06.And you can see more of this story on BBC1's Sunday Politics from 1am.
:07:07. > :07:12.Guests include the Hull East Labour MP Karl Turner
:07:13. > :07:17.A new badge for Hull City, but some Tigers fans are unhappy
:07:18. > :07:27.The author and journalist Rosie Millard will lead the team
:07:28. > :07:29.organising Hull's City of Ctlture celebrations in three years? time.
:07:30. > :07:32.She studied at the city's university and will be in charge of delivering
:07:33. > :07:41.In a moment Rosie Millard whll be joining me in the studio,
:07:42. > :07:50.but first Sarah Corker has lore on today's announcement.
:07:51. > :07:55.After an eight`month nationwide search, the broadcaster Roshe
:07:56. > :08:06.Millard started her new job today. She is now in charge of Hull's City
:08:07. > :08:09.of Culture programme. She h`s worked all over the globe, from thd red
:08:10. > :08:13.carpet in Hollywood to London Fashion Week. It is not the first
:08:14. > :08:27.time she has been on this programme either. It is all a world away from
:08:28. > :08:33.this week's walkabout on hunger `` Humber Street. Hopefully thhs can
:08:34. > :08:40.leave a wonderful legacy of work and of the joy that comes from great
:08:41. > :08:46.cultural production. Rosie Lillard graduated from the University of
:08:47. > :08:50.Hull in 1987. She was the BBC's arts correspondent for over a decade and
:08:51. > :08:54.today writes for several national newspapers. She lives in Islington
:08:55. > :08:59.and has four children. She has a lot of knowledge of Hull, let she also
:09:00. > :09:07.has a lot of national content. We are trying to get Hull known
:09:08. > :09:12.nationally. Business owners in Hull's fruit market had thehr own
:09:13. > :09:18.ideas about what priorities should be. It would be great to brhng up
:09:19. > :09:22.festivals like the BRIT Awards and the Turner prize. She could consult
:09:23. > :09:30.with those about how places like ours should flourish in 2017 and
:09:31. > :09:35.beyond that. She will be pahd ?25,000 a year. First on thd to`do
:09:36. > :09:39.list would be to recruit other senior members of the team to help
:09:40. > :09:43.to work on those big events. She started by reacquainting herself
:09:44. > :09:48.with a city she has describdd as inspirational.
:09:49. > :09:51.Well, we saw her there in S`rah s report, and I'm pleased to say that
:09:52. > :10:02.Congratulations. Are you excited? I am absolutely thrilled. Walking on
:10:03. > :10:07.air. I read an article last year that said that you adored this
:10:08. > :10:10.unloved city. Why have we bden unloved? I don't think that
:10:11. > :10:14.everybody has understood Hull. It is not on the main roads north, people
:10:15. > :10:20.have to have a reason to cole here, that is one of its great assets But
:10:21. > :10:25.for many people they have ndver been here and they do not understand its
:10:26. > :10:29.quirky, charming nature. It has been hit by recession and some pdople
:10:30. > :10:34.just only got that message from it. When you are talking to the trendy
:10:35. > :10:40.Islington set in London, do they turn their nose up? They do not get
:10:41. > :10:46.it, do they? They are starthng to a bit more. When I worked at the BBC,
:10:47. > :10:53.people would say, we're dightal to university? I would say Hull. And
:10:54. > :10:57.they would say really? Apart from Anthony Minghella, who was here at
:10:58. > :11:04.university and loved Hull. People who know Hull love it. A big job.
:11:05. > :11:09.What transformation and the City of Culture bring to our economx?
:11:10. > :11:15.Colossal. It can really represent... I think that a rebirth
:11:16. > :11:23.of Hull was on the way. With the Siemens contract. That is f`ntastic.
:11:24. > :11:31.It can happen. Look at Glasgow, City of Culture, reborn. Liverpool,
:11:32. > :11:34.reborn. The time is right for Hull. It will be a different
:11:35. > :11:39.infrastructure, a different city, it will have a huge effect. And what
:11:40. > :11:45.about those who say to me, H do not have a job. I am not botherdd about
:11:46. > :11:49.it, this will not affect me. What you say to those people who are
:11:50. > :11:54.watching tonight? I see that the City of Culture will providd, will
:11:55. > :11:58.life memories, it will get xou then switch our transformative stop it
:11:59. > :12:07.will provide spectacle and ht will provide a grassroots love of culture
:12:08. > :12:11.and of jobs. It will open pdople's eyes and hopefully train people up
:12:12. > :12:15.into different skills. I wish you well with it, I know that wd will
:12:16. > :12:21.see you. You will be fantastic in the role. When you read university,
:12:22. > :12:26.you wanted to be a cancan d`ncer? I did a little bit of cancan dancing
:12:27. > :12:32.at a restaurant! It is now sadly not there any more. What a shamd, we out
:12:33. > :12:36.of time! Thank you for coming in. Millions of pounds is to be spent
:12:37. > :12:40.fixing potholes, but will it be Big Crowds gather in Beverldy as the
:12:41. > :13:18.town's folk festival gets under way. Mark says, please do not tell your
:13:19. > :13:29.weather forecaster, but somdtimes I read watch her forecast durhng the
:13:30. > :13:34.week. Sad or what? He probably has a beer arm fetish! Ill like it is no
:13:35. > :13:47.wonder that people think th`t I get the forecast wrong.
:13:48. > :13:54.It looks like a warm weekend. The weather continues to be domhnated by
:13:55. > :13:59.high pressure, it will deteriorate next week, a lot of uncertahnty but
:14:00. > :14:05.we are expecting it to go downhill. Showers, or eventually long spells
:14:06. > :14:08.of rain. It has been very pleasant today, you can see on the s`tellite
:14:09. > :14:13.picture, not much in the wax of cloud to speak about. There could be
:14:14. > :14:18.the odd shower into this evdning, but generally it looks try `nd find.
:14:19. > :14:24.Overnight, dry with long cldar spells. Temperatures will stay in
:14:25. > :14:37.double figures. Down to arotnd 1 or 12 Celsius. The sun is setthng in
:14:38. > :14:40.the evening. We will start the day with clear skies. The coast will
:14:41. > :14:46.hang on to the best of the long sunny spells. Inland, the cloud will
:14:47. > :14:52.bubble up. Although there is a very small risk of showers, most places
:14:53. > :15:05.will stay dry. Temperatures will be sent as well. Along the coast,
:15:06. > :15:11.getting up to 16 or 17 Celshus. A very similar outlook for Sunday
:15:12. > :15:16.Variable cloud, dry, some ddcent spells of sunshine. The temperatures
:15:17. > :15:29.could be a degree or so higher than this. The risk of some showdrs on
:15:30. > :15:34.Monday. Increasingly unsettled. Gin`clear is whether term, hs it? Or
:15:35. > :15:45.is that just your drink? Both, actually! Have a nice weekend.
:15:46. > :15:48.The government has given cotncils in our area more than ?9 million to
:15:49. > :15:51.The money should mean 150,000 potholes will be filled in,
:15:52. > :15:54.but those responsible for m`ny of our roads say much more hs needed
:15:55. > :16:05.Cold winters and heavy rains mean that potholes have been a growing
:16:06. > :16:10.menace, and everyday hazard driving motorists mad.
:16:11. > :16:20.They are hazard, they are d`ngerous. This town, same as every other time,
:16:21. > :16:23.they are all over the place. But now money is being handed out from the
:16:24. > :16:28.government to councils across the country to help with the problem. It
:16:29. > :16:35.will be used to repair potholes and damaged roads, like this ond near
:16:36. > :16:40.Beverley today. We put unprdcedented amounts of money and to get ahead of
:16:41. > :16:45.the game. If we have had a bad winter, a frosty winter, whdre it
:16:46. > :16:48.breaks up the road, where ground water may bubble up, that ghves
:16:49. > :16:53.councils additional challenges and that is why this money has been made
:16:54. > :17:00.available. East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been given ?2.5 million.
:17:01. > :17:09.Hull and North East Lincolnshire has been given ?250,000. But thd biggest
:17:10. > :17:20.grant was to Lincolnshire. @lmost five 5p to fix potholes in the
:17:21. > :17:26.county. `` ?5.5 million. Thd government says it is an incentive
:17:27. > :17:30.to do more themselves. But some councils say it is not enough to
:17:31. > :17:34.repair the road infrastructtre. It is well received, but it only was a
:17:35. > :17:38.very small way to fixing will problem. But by targeting the money
:17:39. > :17:45.correctly we can get the best value out of it. ?6 million is a decent
:17:46. > :17:49.bit of money, but we could do with it again next year and the following
:17:50. > :17:54.year. What I would like is ` consistent high budget, not just one
:17:55. > :17:58.year. Pressure groups say that it will only be good if roads `re
:17:59. > :18:27.resurfaced, not just quick fix repairs.
:18:28. > :18:30.Plans to build 12 turbines on the Yorkshire Wolds have been
:18:31. > :18:33.EDF Energy Renewables wants to build a wind farm on farmland south
:18:34. > :18:35.of Driffield, which could power 13,000 holes.
:18:36. > :18:41.Some people living nearby s`y they are against the plans.
:18:42. > :18:44.Thanks to everyone who got hn touch about the suggestion that wd could
:18:45. > :19:22.Hull City has today unveiled the club's new crest for next sdason.
:19:23. > :19:24.They have taken away all naled references to Hull City
:19:25. > :19:26.and the Tigers, replacing it with a tiger?s head and
:19:27. > :19:36.Our sports reporter Simon Clark has been asking people
:19:37. > :19:55.The Hull City will has been through many transformations, but at its
:19:56. > :19:57.heart has always been the Thger And the big cat remains. For
:19:58. > :20:05.few years, this has been thd badge. But the club promised that they
:20:06. > :20:09.would change for this coming season and that they would consult fans on
:20:10. > :20:16.the way. That consultation process never took place, but this hs what
:20:17. > :20:25.has been produced. Apart from the 1904, this is very much the badge
:20:26. > :20:32.that has adorned the strip back in the 1960s. I preferred the old one.
:20:33. > :20:38.Old one is better. I would still like to see the name Hull Chty on
:20:39. > :20:42.the badge and the name Tigers. But we will have to get used to it. If
:20:43. > :21:47.he wants to put a pink tiger on there, let him do it, because
:21:48. > :21:50.In sport, Hull Kingston Rovdrs travel to Bradford Bulls tonight
:21:51. > :21:53.BBC Radio Humberside will h`ve commentary of the match
:21:54. > :21:58.Our tennis players have found out who they'll be playing at Whmbledon.
:21:59. > :22:00.Lincoln's Dan Cox will face Jeremy Shardy and Beverley's Kyle
:22:01. > :22:03.Edmund plays Andreas Haider`Maurer in the first round of the tournament
:22:04. > :22:12.In Swaton, near Bourne, it's the World Egg Throwing Championships.
:22:13. > :22:14.Lincoln hosts the national Tug of War Championships and powerboat
:22:15. > :22:19.Some of the country's fastest boats will be taking part in a series
:22:20. > :22:25.Locally run boat Hull Speed Ahead will be taking part.
:22:26. > :22:28.And Tonight, this year?s Beverley Folk Festival gets under
:22:29. > :22:30.way with thousands of peopld expected at the town's racecourse.
:22:31. > :22:38.Over the years there have bden some stars perform `
:22:39. > :22:55.This year it is Billy Bragg and Chas and Dave. It is really shaphng up to
:22:56. > :23:02.be a great festival. Music lovers have been coming here for over 0
:23:03. > :23:06.years. You can see Tom here who is already getting everybody in the
:23:07. > :23:09.mood for this fantastic event. A sound check ahead of his appearance
:23:10. > :23:16.at the Beverley Folk Festiv`l. Billy Bragg has been performing shnce the
:23:17. > :23:22.1970s. He says that Beverlex Folk Festival is one of his favotrites.
:23:23. > :23:25.Beverley allows me to come here and pick up a lot of people frol all
:23:26. > :23:31.over East Riding. That is why I ve come to do it. It is not just one
:23:32. > :23:36.odd evening in a hole somewhere The festival brings people from all
:23:37. > :23:45.over. It gets people from Lhncoln, from Grimsby. Chas and Dave are also
:23:46. > :23:50.playing this weekend. It is not just the music that attracts the crowd.
:23:51. > :23:57.Organisers say that there are lots of arts and cultural activities for
:23:58. > :24:01.people to enjoy. Lots of coledy literature, authors, poets. Lots of
:24:02. > :24:08.events for children as well, it is great for kids and young people It
:24:09. > :24:14.is quite relaxed environment, quite chilled place to come to enjoy the
:24:15. > :24:20.weekend the family. It is a nice small size and they have sole good
:24:21. > :24:26.acts here. It is a very fridndly festival. Entertaining and vibrant,
:24:27. > :24:35.organisers will be hoping that the festival lives up to its billing.
:24:36. > :24:40.Either any act that you havd got your eye on?
:24:41. > :24:47.If you would find me, the w`rm up act is on. Billy Bragg is dte on and
:24:48. > :24:54.on our's time. On Sunday we have Chas and Dave, Barbara Dickson, the
:24:55. > :24:59.organisers have said that they want the sun to keep shining and that you
:25:00. > :25:05.want an appearance from you. They are going to miss out on that!
:25:06. > :25:12.But they have got Chas and Dave It is 7:55pm. If you are owing this
:25:13. > :25:22.weekend then enjoy it. Letters have recaptured. Im`ges sure
:25:23. > :25:29.that `` images show that Brhtish men have joined militants in Ir`q.
:25:30. > :25:34.Top temperatures of 19 Celshus tomorrow.
:25:35. > :25:40.A big response to British pdople not working in farms. One viewer says,
:25:41. > :25:43.it is easy to stop farmers tsing the agencies which employ migrant
:25:44. > :25:47.workers. The British want the living wage whereas the migrant workers are
:25:48. > :25:52.driving wages down and are happy with minimum wage more or ldss.
:25:53. > :26:01.Simon agrees. It is because they want the work done on the cheap and
:26:02. > :26:06.us Brits refuse to be explohted Have a great weekend. Goodbxe.
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