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

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?25 million is to be spent giving Hull the biggest facelift

People living in the city are promised street

Our Culture Correspondent Anne`Marie Tasker reports.

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 pedestrianising the Fruit Market,

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

because it believes the changes will bring in new business.

If we can attract those big companies, and get

more jobs, higher quality jobs, more income into the city, then that, in

turn, will provide more revenue to restore some of the funding that

central government has cut from our day`to`day services.

Hull City Council says that it feels that the

city is looking tired. But do people living here feel that that will be

They need to make it look more attractive, so

that it looks like people actually care about the place.

The council are going to spend 12 within pounds. To do this? We need

to do so much to bring tourism in. And I think this will.

Hull City Council has made no secret of the fact it needs to save ?48

And starting this transformation will cost it more than ?12 million.

But it's estimated it will bring an extra ?70 million

And that it will support more than 500 new jobs over ten years.

But one group that analyses our city's economies,

We hear a lot of big numbers associated with big cultural events

and sports events but the evidence suggests that the benefits are

smaller and more local than the announcements suggests.

But business aside, these plans will help highlight Hull's history `

possibly moving the William Wilberforce statue and giving more

It will enable people to get closer to our wonderful stock of heritage

buildings in the city and these lands, like a gold frame and a

beautiful picture, will bring out the beauty of the painting which is

our city. But with work not due to start

until Autumn, there's not much time to make all

these plans a reality by 2017. Tonight I spoke to Steven Bayes from

Hull City Council, and asked him where the hoped for 500 jobs would

come from. What we're trying to do is ensure

that we have The calculations in terms

of bringing in more footfall so that more people spend money

and we can fund it that way. What is more important,

keeping a library or museum opened, or pavement fountains or

mood lighting on the City Hall. We have to work with revenue funding

which pays people's wages We want to do both

but we are limited by the amount of money that is given to us by central

government in terms of revenue. We have this capital to invest

in the city centre to try Torrential rain caused flash

flooding in areas of

East Yorkshire this afternoon. Parts of Cottingham were under

a foot of water before the fire

service was able to pump it away. Here's our correspondent,

Paul Murphy. Badgers Wood in Cottingham

is no stranger to flooding. Residents were told that that was

a one in 200 years event, a prediction that was proved wrong

this afternoon. By the time I got wellingtons

and things on the water had covered my air bricks and I was looking

for them under water. The water just came up to the top

of my step We are probably flooded for

the second time within seven years. Within 30 minutes

of the downpour water was running through the doors of at least four

homes in this neighbourhood. In a matter

of minutes it was swamped. We managed to keep it

in check to stop any other houses flooding but up until now

about four or five have flooded. Elsewhere, a town centre cafe owner

recorded the moment that The local school was also flooded,

as were parts of the Hull University halls of residence where

some students could not get out. The waters began to rise

and we got trapped. This was a small`scale event,

devastating for a few, This neighbourhood is going to spend

this evening having It is hard to believe that all

of this damage, thousands of pounds worth,

was caused in just a few minutes. Plans for an eastern bypass

for Lincoln have been rejected It's been turned down because

of a safety issue regarding one of the bridges that was due to be

built between Lincolnshire County Council will

now have to submit new plans. A legal hearing into the future

of Lincolnshire's library service The campaign group,

Save Lincolnshire Libraries, want a judge to review the

County Council's decision to hand An undertaker from Scunthorpe has

taken a petition to Downing Street today calling for the Government to

pay for funerals of ex`servicemen

who die without family. Sue Maclean wants to stop ex`service

personnel having a

so`called paupers' burial. The Government says it's up to local

councils to provide a basic funeral. Time now for your local weather

forecast. Good evening. It will be a largely

fine night that come with broken cloud for most and some mist and fog

patches developing. Temperatures down to around 12 Celsius. Tomorrow

is not going to be a bad day for most of us. Dry and bright with hazy

sunshine. As we head through the afternoon, cloud in the far East and

on the coast will begin enough to give some patchy rain or drizzle.

Very windy on the coast. By then the breeze waft pression elsewhere with

three Inland reaching 20 Celsius, and some heavy rain to come on

Thursday. We would be back with the first bulletin of the day tomorrow

at 6:25am. See then. weekend. Hot on Saturday with

thundery showers. Good evening, the rain in Rio is

matching the mood, I suspect, this evening. Here, we will take a day

off from the rain tomorrow, at least most of us. There will be sunshine

around. The showers will be back for the end of the week. Dry over night

virtually everywhere. Winds easing down in many places except towards

the North Sea coasts. The south-west will keep a breeze going. Not a cold

night, temperatures holding 12-14 degrees typically. A dry day

virtually everywhere tomorrow. Cloud breaking up to allow good spells of

sunshine