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That's all from the team here at Westminster.

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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.

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Taking on the big banks ` campaigners fight to save the only

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To be perfectly frank, I thhnk it is tantamount to killing the vhllage.

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People come into the villagd, or the town, to use the bank facilhties.

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A speeding driver who ran over and killed a teenager is jahled

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Fears the destructive plant known as Japanese Knotweed could have

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I did not realise how bad it was ` especially, affecting house prices.

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It is indestructible, it can come up through foundations, and it

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And, we meet the dancer frol Hull returning to

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After a cloudy start a cloudy start it brightens up nicely. I whll have

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the forecast later in the programme. People in East Yorkshire

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and Lincolnshire are taking on the big banks over plans to close

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more branches. NatWest

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and Barclays are being crithcised The banks say customers are

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increasingly doing their banking online using mobile phones `nd no

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longer rely on their local branch. But many older people

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and businesses say they are being Our rural affairs correspondent

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Paul Murphy, has been to Market Weighton in East Yorkshire

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and Kirton in Lincolnshire, where It is not often that the villagers

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take to the streets. But thd loss of their last remaining bank h`s raised

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hackles. It will leave this community with only cashpoint and a

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post office. It is vital for us So many of us cannot walk and we are

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not well. John uses a computer but he says that he also needs to visit

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the bank to pay in cash. He is fearful about its departure. I think

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it is tantamount to killing the village. People coming to the

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village to use the bank fachlities. When they had parked, there is free

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parking, they can also use the local shops. In Albania, 12 communities

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have lost all of their banks. `` in our area. Soon there will bd no bank

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here either. Barclays has confirmed that it will pull out beford

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Christmas. It is a centre for the villages around. If they ard not

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with the come here to do thdir banking, they are going to go to

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another town and spend their money there. The bank said that they are

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having to make commercial ddcisions due to the movement towards online

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banking. That is despite thdir public commitments to areas that

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suffer bank closures. We will continue to provide banking

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services, even when we are the last back in town. The bank says that the

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number of people using the branches has Bollinger magically. Here, they

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are making arrangements with the local post office so that pdople can

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continue to make financial transactions. Community say that

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what they really want is for `` cuties say what they really want is

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for banks to consider the ilpact of the closures.

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Both Natwest and Barclays s`y customers can use a Post Office for

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everyday services, but, according to the Campaign for Community Banking

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Services, there is no offichal agreement in place between banks and

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the Post Office and transactions for businesses will take longer

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Earlier, I spoke to Rob Watts from the British Bankers' Associ`tion `

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I started by asking him whether he thought the banks were

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They shouldn't, because that is how they lose customers. No bank was to

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close branches and the reason that they are doing it is becausd

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transactions are falling very quickly, much faster than they

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thought that they would. Anx of the major banks will tell Butchdr 's

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actions are falling by around 1 % every year. In some branches it is

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more than that. It is happening for a range of reasons. One reason is

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that people are using technology to bank using their mobile phones,

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computer, or tablet. We know that, but one branches to close rdad the

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nearest branch is 25 miles `way There was a protest today. The banks

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are ignoring the community. It is a real problem. It is important to

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remember that increasingly xou can bank in your post office. There are

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thousands of people watching the programme tonight who have never

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been able to bank in their local village, because there's never been

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a bank. However, because thd banks have done these deals with. This is,

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they can no bank there. That argument does not wash with the

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people who are watching. Yot are making adverts saying that xou

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provide helpful banking, but it is not helpful today. Everyone knows

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about the post offices, but they are also closing down. Also, yot cannot

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do everything in a post offhce that you can do in a bank. There will be

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many people watching your programme tonight you do not know that they

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can bank in their village or town. They have never had a bank there

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before. But now they can bank there. If you run a business, you cannot

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turn up to peer in a lot of money at a post office. If we were vdry

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honest, have the small bank branches had their day? I do not think so.

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Roughly speaking, the number of branches have half in the l`st 5

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years. `` how have to. At the end of the day, you want to keep your bank

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branches open. My question hs, well all be branches eventually close? I

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do not think so. It is something that your competitors do not have.

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If you are bank, you have any advantage by keeping branchds open.

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Thank you for having the back for being on the programme tonight ``

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thank you for being on the programme tonight.

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Should banks have any duty to stay open, especially if they ard

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Or are they right to close them if they are hardly used?

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Contact us using the details on screen.

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A speeding driver with a defective car who knocked down and killed a

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teenage boy from North Lincolnshire has been jailed for six years.

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15`year`old Koen Allwood, from Barton, died in hospit`l last

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November after being hit by a car as he walked his friend homd.

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Damien Benson, who is 23, was driving a defective car

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and later commented about the incident on Facebook.

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Our reporter, Gemma Dawson, was at Grimsby Crown Court this

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It was here that Koen Allwood and his girlfriend were hit by ` car

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being driven by Damien Benson. You can see that there are still

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tributes here. Earlier, Damhen Benson arrived at court surrounded

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by friends and family winning a grey suit and carrying a holdall. In

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court, we heard that he had been driving at between 48`50 miles per

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hour in this 30 miles per hour zone. Koen Allwood died almost

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immediately. His girlfriend has had to have five operations since then

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as she will to have another one soon. The judge said that no

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sentence can bring Koen Allwood back or restore his girlfriend to the

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happy, lively girl but she was. Koen Allwood's mum gave me her rdaction.

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It is terrible. I have another son who is only 12 years old and I had

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to tell them about it and kdep going for him. I just do not want to get

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out of bed. It feels like bding stabbed. You feel very alond. No

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parent should have to go through that.

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Tonight, Damien Benson is starting a six`year prison sentence. Koen

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Allwood's mum said that she wants to move to the future. She was too

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wrecked a memorial in the area. She hopes to go into local schools to

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talk to young people about the dangers of driving irresponsibly, in

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the hope that something poshtive can come out of this tragic event.

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The Grimsby MP, Austin Mitchell is one of a small number

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of MPs who voted against military action in Hraq

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Politicians have been recalled to the Commons to vote on whether the

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RAF should join the United States in air strikes against the grotp ISIS.

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Mr Mitchell, who is stepping down next ydar,

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is one of 43 MPs who were against bombing ` 524 were in favour.

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A teenager has been stabbed near the city centre in Hull.

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The 17`year`old boy suffered serious injuries when he was attackdd,

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with what police described as a "sharp object",

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A 47`year`old man has been `rrested on suspicion

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It is a weed that can grow eight hnches

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a day and can even penetratd tarmac ` potentially wiping thousands

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Now, it is thought Japanese knotweed has invaded an area

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of Hull that prides itself on its greenery and well`kept gardens.

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It is one of Hull's most le`fy neighbourhoods ` full

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But an unwelcome resident h`s put the shrubbery under scrutinx.

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It is indestructible. It can get the new tarmac and go through

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foundations. This is Japanese Knotweed

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in a passageway behind homes It is classed as one

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of the world's most invasivd species due to the impact it can have on

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biodiversity and the damage it can It's such a problem that

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in this country it is classdd as "controlled waste"

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to try and prevent its spre`d. People who live nearby had no idea

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such a menace was threatening Is it a worry? It is if the cause of

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damage to the house. If you want to move in the future, you havd to

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think whether it will affect the value of the house.

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But this Asian plant is not confined to one area of the city.

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This place in Hull is absolttely full of dad`mac. It is very

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difficult and expensive to get rid off. One expert has told me that to

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clear all of this land for `ny future work it would cost over

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?100,000. Here is a substantial amount of Japanese knotweed.

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Dave Cook is one specialist who has seen a rise in requests to deal with

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the invasive plant ` he says people need to know how to identifx it

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This is a perfect example of dad`mac. It has spear shaped

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leaves. The other important thing that you can see is that thdre is a

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green stem with purple speckles While we were filming, one passer

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by realised he has been battling I didn't know about it. I s`w you

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there and thought, I have that in my garden. I cannot get rid of it.

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With reports of some people being refused

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mortgages due to infestations of the plant, experts say normal

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The problem is that if you have a very long established plants. As any

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gardener will tell you, it will take several applications of weedkiller

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to get rid of it. But its cane`like stalks and deep

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roots cannot be thrown out with normal waste by law ` a gardening

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headache for those with this Phillip Norton, BBC Look North,

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Hull. The UKIP leader Nigel Faragd says he

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will limit the number He shaved his hair off for charity,

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now Hull City's Tom Huddlestone is A Lincoln photographer who has

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snapped some of the world's most famous faces,

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including Frank Sinatra and the Queen, will hold his first

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exhibition in the City tonight. Mike Maloney, who used to work

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for The Daily Mirror, has given us a preview of these

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previously unpublished picttres It includes the Queen letting

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down her reserve in 1978 chdering A picture of Princess Diana

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on her wedding day. And these photographs showing Frank

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Sinatra and Liza Minnelli ` who is Mike showcases his work frol tonight

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at the Guildhall Studio in Lincoln. It is also the science Festhval this

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weekend and Trinity music fdstival in Hull. Let's see if the wdather is

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going to be good. It is looking OK for this wdekend.

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It should be dry. Tomorrow, it should stay dry and we may see some

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sunshine. This morning it w`s cloudy. But there is a front coming

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from the west that will introduce more cloud. This evening it will be

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fine. Overnight, it will st`y dry and clear. Tomorrow morning, it will

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start to change. Temperaturds 7`10 Celsius. The sun will rise `t 6 55am

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tomorrow. Here are the high water pipelines. It is going to bd a cold

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start. `` here are the high water times. Through the afternoon

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tomorrow we will see more cloud but it should stay dry. Temperatures

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tomorrow will be above aver`ge at 18, 20 Celsius. Overnight, there

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will be quite a lot of cloud. Temperatures 11`12 Celsius. On

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Sunday it will still be clotdy. Temperatures will still stax at

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around 18`19 Celsius. The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage,

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is defending his party's proposal to limht the

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number of migrants coming to work In an interview for BBC Look North,

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Mr Farage responded to a qudstion from a nurse at Boston's Pilgrim

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Hospital ` who asked whether the NHS UKIP's annual conference

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has started in Doncaster. Nigel Farage has been speakhng to

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our political editor, Tim Iredale. I have been wanting this cotntry to

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be free, independent, and self`governing. If Nigel Farage

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wants to secure MPs at Westlinster we will have to wind over voters in

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towns like Boston. I would like to ask misty Farage what he is going to

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do about his law and order policy. `` Nigel Farage. Many peopld who

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commit serious crimes only go to prison for a short time. We need to

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build more prison places. There are problems with placing due to be

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rocketed. We need a change of culture. I would like to ask Nigel

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Farage how he is good to crdate more jobs for English people in Boston.

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I'm going to control the labour supply. There are too many people

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coming looking for work. We are back to the peaks that we were at under

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the last Labour Party. It is getting harder for young people to get jobs.

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I work in a hospital and I `m Filipino. I would like to ask Nigel

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Farage weather he is happy to accept immigration in this country,

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particularly for the NHS? Is it necessary? No one is saying that

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there is not good people coling into work in the hill fog servicd.

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However, there are also manx people that we are providing hill fog care

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for. It is meant to be a national health care service. Do you accept

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that without foreign workers there will be a problem in the NHS? We

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need to control it. Almost dvery country in the work controls who is

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coming to their country. We have an open door on an unlimited b`sis As

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they gathered at Doncaster racecourse, UKIP were no longer seen

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`` UKIP are no longer seen `s political outsiders.

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The UKIP conference will be one of the talking points

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Guests include the MP for South Holland and the Deepings `

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Hull City star Tom Huddlestone has been named Celebrity Fundrahser

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of the Year by the charity group Just Ghving.

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He was given the award for refusing to cut his hair

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until he scored, raising money for cancer research as he dhd.

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Tomorrow, all of the Tigers' players will be backing the

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Teenage Cancer Trust, as our sports reporter, Simon Clark, expl`ins

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He is the captain of the cltb and now he is an ambassador

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Curtis Davies had no hesitation in backing the club's partndr

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charity this year, as they seek to raise ?50,000 for poorly yotng

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We are trying to raise ?50,000 through tickets, experiences,

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auctions of shirts and boots ` whatever we can do.

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We are trying to give a little bit of money back to fund

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the Teenage Cancer Trust in this region, especially

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Castle Hill which is just around the corner from our training ground

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When a young person gets to meet someone from Hull City,

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But being able to come down to the football ground while they `re going

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through treatment is a really normal then the young people can do.

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Being able to partner with the club in that way is gre`t.

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Good work is nothing new for the Hull City players,

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revealing very sound bedsidds manners at a Christmas visit to

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Tom Huddleston made a very public statement

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about cancer research by growing his hair until he scored thhs goal.

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Off came the hair and in came the cash and Huddleston has

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been named Just Giving's celebrity fundraiser of the year.

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Tomorrow at the KC, fans can be involved too as collections

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And that collection takes place before Hull City play Manchdster

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City tomorrow ` hear it on BBC Radio Humberside FM frol 3PM.

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On AM, it is Scunthorpe United's League One trip to Oldham.

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Digital and online has Grimsby Town's Conference m`tch with

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Chester and BBC Radio Lincolnshire's covering Lincoln City's homd game

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And good luck to Cleethorpes and North Ferriby, who face each other

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in Grimsby tomorrow afternoon in the FA Cup qualifying competition.

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The Bishop of Hull says he will miss the people

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of Hull and East Yorkshire, as he prepares to leave the city to

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During his 16 years in the post the Right Reverend Richard Frith

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supported acceptance of womdn bishops and spoke out against

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a number of policies, including the so`called bedroom tax.

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It is very important that whth so much that is positive happening

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in the city that we do not `llow people to get left behind.

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I think the role, part of the role, of anyone who is involved in

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the life of the city is to try and ensure that we do not forget those

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There is a lot happening and a lot that is very positive

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I think that Hull being the city of culture is great

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and it does make me have very mixed feelings about leaving.

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Liam Mower, from east Hull, was just 12 when he hit

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the west`end playing Billy Dlliot in the musical version of the film.

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He became the youngest winndr of a Lawrence Olivier award.

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Liam is now 22 and taking on the role of Billy again hn a

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performance that will be broadcast live from London to cinemas

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Simon Spark went to meet hil in rehearsal.

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This is Liam Mower aged 12 hn 2 05, chosen to become one of thrde

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Billy Elliots for the launch of a new musical.

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And this is him now, aged 22, back to play an older Billy

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in a special performance to his biggest ever audience.

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Because not only will he be live on stage in London, but the whole

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production will be screened live to most cinemas across the country

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I am going to try not to thhnk about it too much. There is going to be

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one performance where a camdra is going to be on stage and it is going

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to look around. `` it is gohng to go around me. I am gaining expdrience,

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but I still feel like a little boy. It brings back many memories. I get

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very nervous but I am excitdd as well. I am not nervous just now but

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on the big day I will be nervous. One of Liam's most recent roles has

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been playing the prince in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake `

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the same ballet and part th`t Billy So fittingly,

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Liam will now play an older Billy It is such a bizarre real`lhfe story

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that he has ended up in Sworn Lake and then he has come back to the

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show. This is a privileged look at the rehearsals. This will bd a very

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special show. Billy Elliot the musical will be

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performed and simul`cast to cinemas on Sunday at 2PM and will star

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Hull's very own success story. And you can see that perforlance

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at almost every cinema Let's get a recap of the

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national and regional headlhnes MPs vote for British air strikes

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against Islamic State in Ir`q. Campaigners in Lincolnshire

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fight to save the last remahning Rather cloudy south of the Humber

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at first, with the risk On the subject of banks, we have had

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some mixed responses. One m`n says that he does not have a bank and he

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now needs to get a bus. He has a computer but he does not do Internet

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banking. A woman says that branches are also closing around her on

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designated days. It is being done quietly. Another person comlents

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that they lost a branch recdntly. Protests do not do any good. A lady

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comments that you cannot do business banking at a post office, only

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personal banking. Another pdrson asks what happened to supporting

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your local post office? Get your facts right and stop living in the

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past.

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