08/07/2014 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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The multi`million pound transformation of the centrd of Hull

that could bring more money to the city.

Flash flooding hits homes and businesses as parts of

East Yorkshire suffer torrential rain Plans to crackdown on

motorbikes that have been d`maging a Lincolnshire beauty spot.

The girl who's been recognised for never missing a day of classes

It's being described as the biggest transformation ever

?25 million will be spent ilproving streets and public places ahead

of the City of Culture celebrations in 2017

People living in the city are being promised street

level fountains, mood lighthng and a less cluttered environment.

It's claimed it could bring tens of millions of pounds into the local

economy although those figures are already being questioned tonight.

We'll hear from the City Cotncil in a moment but first our arts

and culture correspondent Anne Marie Tasker is in Hull.

It is about getting the citx ready. It is a once`in`a`lifetime

opportunity for the city. It is important that the city looks its

best. But of a story that whll come at a price as I have been fhnding

out today. And not everyone thinks it is worth it.

It's not had a facelift for decades `

but within three years this is what Hull City centre could look like.

Street level fountains in Queen Victoria Square,

architecture lit at night and the Fruit Market pedestrianised, with a

Hull City Council's paying the first half of the ?25 mhllion

bill because it believes it will bring in new businesses.

If we can attract big busindss and get more income into the city

through high`quality jobs that will provide more revenue to restore some

of the funding central government has cut from our day`to`day

services. Hull City Council has made no secret

of the fact it needs to save ?48

million over the next two And starting this transform`tion

will cost it more than ?12 lillion. Is it worth that much? No. H think

we need to do what we can to bring tourism in this world.

``and this will.

But it's estimated it will bring an extra ?70 millioninto the chty every

year And that it will support more than 500 new jobs over ten xears But

one group, that analyses our city's economies, offers a note of caution.

The events are often smaller or morphological than the plans may

suggest. They enable people to get closer to our stalker wonderful

heritage buildings in the chty and it is like a gold frame for a

bootable picture that will bring out the beauty of the painting which is

our city. But with pedestrianising

King Edward Street and building performance stages in Queen's

Gardens, too, there's not mtch time before City of Culture year to make

all these plans a reality. Earlier I spoke to Steven B`yes from

Hull City Council and asked him which other cities they'd looked at

to get some ideas. If you look at many northern cities

in Yorkshire and beyond such as Bradford and Leeds. We think it is

quite important we improve the offer that we are giving. Should xou not

be spending the money on jobs and keeping essential services such as

museums open, rather than h`ving a floating stage and some figtre lies?

We helping this proportionately affected by cuts that this hs not

money that we would spend on those things, this is capital invdstment

and we're trying to invest hn the infrastructure to encourage more

private`sector jobs. But however lovely the Fountains maybe, you need

shops here. Unless you're looking for something for the pound you are

trying to borrow money. We're trying to encourage more people. Btt that

is jargon. It is not. You only get shops if you get people. People want

to come and experience life here and that is what we're trying ghve them.

They you think people understand this? I hope so. As a city, we are

trying to betray our best aspect and trying to encourage more retail into

the city. We are in competition with places like Batley and Leeds and

Sheffield. We have to have ` better offer. Are you saying you whll get

retailers are you saying yot will get retailers? It is a way of

reducing the cost for the council. It has spent to save initiative It

is much cheaper. You see 500 jobs will be created. Where are those

jobs? That is in the privatd sector. We are very clear from the

calculation is what they ard about in terms of people spending more

money, so we create employmdnt that way. Is it more important to keep a

library or museum open or Fountains are mood lighting on the City Hall?

That comes back to the issud of revenue and capital funding. Forget

the jargon. It is not jargon. It is not the same sort of funding. It is

always a different sort of funding story. We have revenue fundhng which

pays peoples wages capital funding. We want to do both but we are

limited of what we can do bx the amount of money that is givdn by

central government in terms of revenue. We have is capital to

invest in the city centre. Let us know what you think

of this story. Is this what Hull needs to bring

more visitors and money You will be charged at your standard

message rate for each message. Torrential rain has caused flash

flooding in East Yorkshire this afternoon. The fire service dealt

with around 40 callouts and four homes in Cottingham were flooded.

Parts of the village were under a foot of water before the fire

service was able to pump thd water could only happen one in 200 years.

That prediction has proven to be wrong. There were large hailstones

and the water just came up to the top of my steps so I think we have

been flooded again for the second time in seven years. Within half an

hour of the downpour what w`s running through the doors of at

least four homes in this arda. We have managed to keep it in check. I

believe Upton though there have been 45 homes that have been flooded The

local school was also flooddd as one part of the local hall of rdsidence

at Hull University where sole students could not get out. We have

been trapped in a room for five hours. This was a small scale event.

But it is a reminder of how vulnerable our communities `re

becoming far heavy rainfall. This family are trying to recover what

they can from the garage. Cottingham high school say that this flood

damage has been so severe that they are shut completely to their pupils

tomorrow. Back to you. The Government has been warned that

many lives could be lost in the next big flood to hit

East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Humber MPs met the Prime Minister

at Downing Street today. David Cameron was told

the Government needs to spend almost ?900 million to protect homds

and businesses from flooding on the scale of last Decembdr's

tidal surge. Our Political Editor Tim Irddale

reports from Westminster. It's the ?880 million questhon. Is

the Government willing to spend this amount of money over the next ten

years to protect East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire from flooding?

Dave Mouncey is till picking up the pieces at his home in the flood`hit

village of South Ferriby, following December's tidal surge.

He fears it could happen ag`in They see it as an event that happens

one in 200 years. It came over there in 1954 and this is 2014. Come on,

let us do something. Today Humber MPs met the Prhme

Minister to set out their c`se for We were lucky it was that it was not

more catastrophic and nobodx died this time. On there are hundreds of

millions of pounds going into road defences, we need more. ``flood

defences. We have been looking at the docks,

looking at Immingham and thd facilities there and making sure

that our structure is resilhent The Government this week colmitted

an extra ?48 million towards flood defences on the Humber. But some MPs

believe almost double that `mount should be spent on an annual basis,

if householders and businesses are to be fully protected from ` flood

event most of us hope we'll never Tim is live at Downing Stredt this

evening. Is the Government likely to commit to this extra money for flood

defences? I would love to say that thd Prime

Minister has persuaded the Chancellor of its checker to a

cheque for ?880 million. In the meantime, we hope we do not have

another one in 200 year flood catastrophes, otherwise we will not

be talking about whether we can afford to spend that money but why

we cannot afford not to spend that money.

Plans for an Eastern Bypass for Lincoln have been rejected by the

Transport Secretary. They'vd been turned down because of a safety

issue regarding one of the bridges that was due to be built between

Cherry Willingham and Reefh`m. Lincolnshire County Council will now

An undertaker has gone to Westminster to ensure that

ex`servicemen are given a ddcent funeral. The amount of ex`sdrvice

people that die with no farl is this minute but each one deserves a

dignified final journey and we will not go away until we get th`t. Still

ahead, the damage being dond to a nature reserve in Lincolnshhre and

the schoolgirl who has never missed a day of classes. It is not just

been east Yorkshire and Lincolnshire that has seen heavy downpours, we

have had very heavy rain for the Great Yorkshire Show this afternoon.

There are still heavy downpours to come. As we head whose evenhng, they

will fizzle out and overnight it looks to set into a try spell. We

will see the lowest temperatures down to around 12 Celsius which is

50 45 height. It will be cooler than that in countryside idiots.

The wind from the North may well reach eight gale force by tomorrow

night which means there will be quite unsettled weather to come so

on Thursday there will be r`in around from the morning but we hope

that will tend to clear on Thursday afternoon and on Friday and Saturday

there will be warm air coming in from the near continent but some

stable ear as well which me`ns that there is likely to be a scattering

of heavy showers with the stnshine. But not a bad day tomorrow.

More than 300 families in Htll have had their blue recycling bins

confiscated by the council, for putting the wrong sort of rtbbish in

them. The City Council says it gave people plenty of warning before

seizing the bins and needs to stop the contamination of recycl`ble

waste. However critics say the council should be educating

offenders, not punishing thdm. Jake Zuckerman reports.

On Compass Rd in Hull the bhn men are coming. And they're checking

every blue bin they empty. Since January more than 300 blue

bins have been confiscated due to repeated contamination.

The council says it does give plenty of warning.

We send letters and for intdrviews and do not just take these bins

away. With each household generathng

around one tonne of waste. If they take them away they will

just leave them in bags on the street.

Hull City Council says the vast majority of households do a good job

of recycling. And that the number of blue bins

confiscated represents less than 1% of the total in use in the city

This is another story we'd like your thoughts on. Is the City Cotncil

right to take these bins aw`y as a punishment for people who

persistently put non recycl`bles in them?

It's home to rare wildflowers and many species of songbirds and

butterflies but the Drift n`ture reserve in Lincolnshire is being

destroyed by off road vehicles. According to the Police and Natural

England the site is being ttrned into a muddy wasteland and now

offenders are being told if they're caught they WILL be prosecuted.

Simon Spark reports. This is how the drift on thd Viking

way near Grantham should look. A plethora of plants and wildlife

protected under its designation as a site of special scientific hnterest.

But a lot of it now looks lhke this, churned up and rutted because it's

This is being used for what is cold green leaning with bikes behng

written across the land and destroying it. This is protdcted

land and ignoring the signs is bad. We are trying to send a message that

we will catch you and if possible we will take your vehicles frol you.

This should be level and should be covered in grass and wild flowers

and has been restored beford in 2009 but as soon as it was opened, the

problem is returned. It was damaged again by frequent forward drive

access. We are reluctant to implement anything until we are able

to get rid of the vehicles that are destroying habitat here. We have

Dragon's TV. ``dragon's teeth here. The message is to find another sport

that is not such an important part of this and she countryside. ``of

the countryside. A girl from Hull has been honoured

for having never missed a d`y of school. Paris started at Stockwell

Primary in 2007 and has a 100% attendance record. It's belheved to

be the first time that's bedn achieved in the school's history.

Tolu Adeoye reports. pupils alike think its quitd frankly

miraculous. I would not be able to do that

because when I am Pooley, I am pulling. Quite outstanding `nd

shocking. It is like she cannot catch anything. I have been teaching

a long time and I have never come a long time and I have never come

across that for, it is a re`lly incredible achievement.

Try not to break any bones `nd if you have a problem speak to someone

who can sort it out for you. A special certificate arrived today in

honour of her achievement. Now everyone is looking to see hf she

can carry it on when she st`rts senior letters have a coupld of the

national two British men pldad guilty of fighting in Syria and it

is claim that a multi`million pound transformation of the centr`l file

could lead investment in thd city. It will become cloudy later on

tomorrow with top temperatures around 19 Celsius. We were talking

about the transformation of Hull at the beginning another correspondent

asks if the this one comes from John Lewis store in New York bec`use last

and decided they no longer wanted to shop there as it looked tirdd and

shoddy. In short, this was not Nikki says the plans for Hull citx centre

are fantastic and will give a much`needed boost to the city

centre. Mourners should This is the first example we know of

of infrared communication. Imagine if you could

talk to the animals. Zoologist Lucy Cooke

is going to show us how.