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Good evening. Teachers have been giving evidence to MPs in Hull | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
on the effectiveness of academies to improve school standards. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The government wants more primary schools to become academies, | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
where heads are given greatdr control over staffing | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
and what is taught but crithcs say it is no guarantee of stccess. | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
More from our political editor, Tim Iredale. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Recent years have seen crumbling classrooms turned into shinx new | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
schools thanks in large part to the extra money that has been sdcured | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Today members of the Educathon Select Committee left their usual | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
surroundings at Westminster to come here to Sirius Academy in Htll. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
They are on a mission to find out whether the academies progr`mme | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
works as well for primary schools as it does secondary schools. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
What Hull has shown with ne`rly half its primary schools becoming | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
academies is as long as thex work together in groups, then thdy can | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
create the kind of scale th`t makes sense of being an academy. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
As an academy you are responsible for more things. | :01:10. | :01:11. | |
If the local authority takes care of those things for you. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
Academies are free from local authority control. | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
They have the power to choose their own curriculum and the abilhty | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Heads can also change the ldngths of terms and school days. | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
But one teacher told the Colmittee she had concerns about more | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
One of the things I teach, as a primary teacher, | :01:31. | :01:37. | |
is our maritime history and we do Amy Johnson and we | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
talk about, you know, the local characteristics of being in Hull. | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
The people in Hull that makd us proud. I don't want to be p`rt | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
of an academy which is buying a curriculum from America. | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
That's nothing to do with the children of Hull and nothing | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
The Committee's final report on academies will be published | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Hazel Danson is from the National Union of Teachers. | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
I asked her if recent good results proved academies are working? | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
There are good local authority schools | :02:12. | :02:13. | |
There are also equal measurds of less successful schools | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
But they have been very effective, haven't they, | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Michael Gove says they have driven up standards? | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
In fact, if you look at the city challenge, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
which was far cheaper in terms of good sustainable school improvement, | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
that actually been more successful than the academies programmd. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
What you have here are schools as islands and as the piece said | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
itself, you don't get good school improvement across an area | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
That's best done under the local authority. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
In a word, were academies a step forward | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
It's an ideological programle without the evidence to back it up. | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
Hazel Danson from the National Union of Teachers | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
Fire officers have praised the work of the emergency services after | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
It happened as maintenance work was being carried out on a gas main | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
Nearby homes were evacuated and roads in the area are expected | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
to remain closed until after tomorrow's rush hour. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
As you can see the amount of dust that was blown about. | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
The clear`up for residents after a gas mains explosion sent | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
It left one man working at the site injured and forced | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
This was round about 11:15 time and we've got in the house an hour ago. | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
Fortunately my daughter camd and picked us up but we had no news | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Earlier workers had been dohng maintenance work | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
in a two`metre pit when an dxplosion caused a man to become trapped. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
It meant a dangerous rescue operation from the Fire Service | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
Very reduced visibility for our crews to work in, | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
It's a very complex, confindd rescue that the crews had to deal with | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
The man was airlifted to hospital with a broken leg but | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
in a stable condition and, as a precaution, the initial | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
25`metre cordon was extended to 400 metres in the early aftdrnoon, | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
which meant a large evacuathon, including nearby schools. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
I got the phone call as I was leaving work and then wd | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
It's best to be safe than sorry isn't it? | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Others had to go to the Pods leisure centre. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
Elsewhere, the traffic was brought to a standstill though, by 3:30pm, | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
the main had been made safe, bringing to a close an afternoon | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Tonight, one man remains in hospital and overnight works will | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
continue here, resuming at 8am and affecting rush hour. | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
In the meantime, the police and the Health and Safety Executive | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
are trying to find out exactly what happened here. | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Two people, arrested after the body of a newborn baby was found in Hull, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
have been released on unconditional bail. | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
The baby girl was found on Saturday evening close to a cycle path. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
A postmortem examination has confirmed there were | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Councillors in East Yorkshire say the government must do lore | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
to protect the area from future flooding. | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
At a meeting today, East Riding of Yorkshire Council | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
said cutbacks at the Environment Agency prevented | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
it from doing its job properly and put the area at risk. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
The Environment Agency is underfunded by government for the | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
There is a huge, huge econolic risk for the East Riding | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
and Hull, as well, if the protection is not put in place. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Lincoln's historic Magna Carta has been flown to America as part | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
of celebrations for its 800th anniversary. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
The manuscript is seen as the basis for parts of the | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
While overseas it will be painstakingly protected frol heat, | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
daylight and humidity and even given an armed guard. | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Here's Paul Hudson with the forecast. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
It looks like tomorrow will be a mostly fine day with some stnshine. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
There will be quite a lot of cloud at times. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
By the end of the week, Friday into the weekend, we will see | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
quite a high risk of rain spreading from the south`west and a rhsk | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
of an isolated shower as we head through the overnight period. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Most of us will be dry and quite chilly, rurally. | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
Tomorrow an isolated shower is possible. | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
Most of us will be fine and dry variable amounts of cloud, but there | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
will be some decent, sunny breaks. A light north or north`east breeze. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
We are looking at top temperatures around 17 degrdes. | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Fine again on Thursday but ` risk of rain spreading | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
from the south`west, Friday. That's the forecast. | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
We are back at 6:25 tomorrow. Hope you can join us then. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
with the summary. Turning more unsettled as we head towards the | :07:24. | :07:40. | |
Good evening. After what has been a glorious few weeks of summer | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
sunshine for many of us, things are about to change over the next 2 | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
hours. We are seeing the change marked by the weather front on the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
satellite image. To the south of that, 25 degrees, in Bournemouth for | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
instance, but in the north and east, cooler, fresher air. That sets the | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
scene for tomorrow. A cooler day. We will have hazy sunshine on offer, | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
although cloudier skies than we have been used it over the past week | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
Tonight we have thicker cloud bringing more two spots of drizzly | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
rain for some southern areas. Many parts dry, but we have the rain | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
heading in | :08:20. | :08:20. |