28/12/2016 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder

Disability sports groups in Hull say there needs to be easier

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of

ways to obtain funding - if they're to guarantee

Clubs say they've seen a big increase in attendance

since the Paralympics, but the demand means they now need

Paralympics GB had one of their best games ever in Rio,

with great success for athletes from East Yorkshire

Inspired by them, more people have been

trying things like this - sledge hockey.

But to provide the specialist kit new members need,

groups in Hull now have to raise ?30,000

you're looking at special sports chairs the cost ?3000 to up to

?5,000. Disability Sports Humber also

helps Hull's members of Great Britain's sledge hockey

team cover the cost They worry they'll lose

out through the funding It would make international

competition very difficult and we have two fund our ice costs and

travel costs to train some not having that funding the preventers

tonight. Disability sports groups get money from applying to patchwork

of grounds that the system can become congregated and it is not a

consistent source of funding. Groups like

East Riding Electric Eels, powerchair football team,

already pay charges to compete And there's a worry putting up

prices to cover the funding shortfall would force people

out of sport. It costs a lot to be disabled. You

can't go out and just buy a pair of football boots. You're looking at

five thousand 6000 ?7,000. It cost so much money. Without the funding

we would not be able to help people live as much of a normal life as

they can. Sport England is the public body

that distributes funding "We've been working really

hard to make it easier to apply for funding,

including offering people support Disabiliy Sport Humber

is still hoping for changes that would secure

a long term future. For now they're focusing

on fundraising to bring Police believe a 63-year-old man

who died following a crash in North Lincolnshire may have

suffered a "medical episode" behind The white van he was driving

crashed into a parked car on Thornton Road in Goxhill

at around 11.30 yesterday morning. The road was closed off

for most of the day - and police are asking anyone

who might have seen The east-side foot path

on the Humber Bridge will be closed on New Year's Day,

to stop people using it as a viewing platform for the City

of Culture fireworks display. say it's being done as a safety

measure, as it can't cope with the hundreds or thousands

of people who may turn up to view the fireworks over

the Humber that evening. Six tower blocks in Grimsby will be

demolished over the next year. Shoreline Housing, which owns

the flats off Freeman Street, says it's unclear whether the buildings

will be blown up or taken All the buildings

are currently empty. The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire

Air Ambulance crew says it's responded to nearly 1000

incidents this year. They've been called out

to around 400 serious crashes on the roads,

and also attended heart attacks, sporting injuries

and farming accidents. Anti-fracking protesters have set up

a camp near a village in Yorkshire. It's close to Kirby Misperton,

where the council's been given permission to extract gas

using the controversial Last month, protesters had

a judicial review of the decision The HGV traffic has to come this way

and we will do our utmost to peacefully and slow walk the

traffic, making its way to the site and to make it as difficult

as possible for them to do anything. Figures obtained by BBC Look North

show that more than 10,000 houses have been standing empty

for six months or more That's despite of thousands

of people still being on housing Laura Foster has been

looking at some of the ways From the smiles on their faces,

you would not know that just a few months ago pregnant Stephanie

was almost made homeless. All the private landlords said

I needed at least ?1,000 just to The council said that there was

a six-month waiting list, minimum, and that was a month before

I was due to give birth. Thankfully for Stephanie and baby

Hayden, they were helped by a charity in West Hull called

Giroscope which fixes up homes so The amount of people

that we have coming We can't help everybody

but we try and There are more than

three quarters of a million homes in East

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. 10,000 of them have been empty

for more than six months but that is a better situation

than how it was four years ago. There are now 2,600

fewer empty homes than There are financial

incentives for councils to bring homes back into use which can

be passed on to property developers. We are offering a grant

of up to ?5,000. It's an encouragement to home

owners, or developers, to bring that house back onto

the rental market. The idea is that for three years

the rent they charge is an It brings properties back

onto the market at a The hope is that come

next year, people will not have to wait

so long for a home. A vintage Second World war Plane

could fly again, thanks to a cheese This Lancaster bomber

is being renovated at the East Kirkby

Aviation Heritage Centre. Skegness cheesemakers Lymn Bank Farm

have created a cheese named after the aircraft 'Just Jane'

and donated more ?8000 And now the weather

with Jennifer Bartram. Another cold and frosty night ahead.

The fog will be widespread and locally could be whispered invisible

time get it tomorrow morning. It may be foggy start in some areas should

stay full page in the day that it will in some places give Sunny

spells with quite a cloudy day attempt is around to three or 4

degrees which is a light breeze. As we head through Thursday and on into

Friday it states clearly settled and ultimate mother finally quite a bit

of code around and the wind is still fairly light but by the time we

start to was New Year's Eve and New Year's Day breeze picks up on things

will gradually start time much colder as we get to New Year's Day.