02/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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The team behind Hull's year as UK City of Culture say it's

going to welcome "more visitors than ever" - after 60,000

people came into the city centre on its first day.

As well as those watching the week-long light and sound

spectacular, organisers estimate tens of thousands more also watched

the huge fireworks show from points along the north and south banks

Here's our culture correspondent Anne-Marie Tasker.

Hull's reign as UK City of Culture came in with a bang,

as 15,000 fireworks exploded across the city's sky.

25,000 people packed in, to see a show organisers promised

would be bigger than London's on New Year's Eve.

I thought the show was amazing. It was good to hear the. I can't wait

to see all the other events and I will certainly be going to a lot of

them, great for the city. A lot of work must have gone into that and it

is very impressive and good to see something so spectacular in Hull.

But before the fireworks, another spectacle had

For a week, Made in Hull will look back at a century

of the city's history - the blitz, the dozens

of trawlermen lost at sea and happier times like

Hull City's Premier League promotion.

There are lots of people and apparently there will be 8000 people

coming and going in the next couple of days and hopefully even more. I

can't wait to hear and see how the audience respond. It is the story of

Hull. Elsewhere, crowds experienced

what it would be like to walk out onto the pitch at the Kcom stadium -

experienced installations - and watched other films on some

of the city's iconic buildings. When Hull won the City of Culture

title three years ago, the City Council said it would bring

an extra ?60 million into the city. Organisers hope an extra million

visitors will come during 2017 - this opening event's got them off

to a good start. The reaction has been hugely

positive and it'll will come more visitors than ever and it will

change the city for the better as we look towards what we want the city

to be in the future. Three and a half tonnes of fireworks

got city of culture off to an explosive start -

one organisers hope to maintain You've been sending us your pictures

of the fireworks last night. Thanks to Bob Carter,

for this image captured behind the Deep aquarium -

and this photo taken by Andrew Smith, which shows both

fireworks barges on the Humber in last night's display -

and thanks also to Sarah Sharpe who captured this image

of the city's Maritime Museum And if you want to see the fireworks

display again then just go to Facebook and search for BBC

Look North and you can In other news - The East Midlands

Ambulance Service which covers Lincolnshire says it's

experienced its busiest Staff had to cut meal breaks last

night to help cope with what's been described as an exceptional

number of calls. EMAS says it received

around 50% more 999 calls In the Lincolnshire derby

at Gainsborough Trinity yesterday an injured Boston United player

waited for two hours in the first aid room before being taken by car

to hospital because no For him to be just laid in a room

for two hours in his football kept with his ankle like that with no

painkillers or anything, that could have had serious implications on his

future, not just his footballing career but his normal life. We

actually have more staff on than we normally would have. Over the last

few days we have been receiving an unprecedented demand for the service

and we have actually been receiving a 999 call every few seconds.

One of Lincolnshire's biggest planned new housing developments

is to get "garden village" status from the government.

The site to the south west of Grantham known

as Spitalgate Heath will see almost 4,000 new homes built

as well as schools, offices and a retail developments.

Government money will go towards developing the new community

These fields, at Spitalgate Heath just outside Grantham,

have been earmarked as the site for a new type of development -

It would see a brand new community, complete with facilities

like a school and shops, built in open countryside.

But in Grantham today, the announcement received

We haven't quite seen anything quite like garden villages before, only

garden tones but I don't think they are overambitious and if anything

they add little to housing supply. They are good step in a new concept

but they want alone solve the housing supply problem. I think the

tone can grow and get a bit larger and attract new shops to the town

centres and that is all good. It is probably going to get congested and

affect everyone coming into the town from that end. If you are building

new villages are not prevailing amenities then places are closed.

Plans to build 3700 new homes on this site have been on the table for

a number of years, but today's announcement that the project has

been given garden village status means along with 13 other sites, it

will be able to access government expertise and a ?6 million fund over

the next two years to help accelerate the project and overcome

delays. a new village here will still need

planning permission before it any building can start,

and it may be many years Hull City were beaten 3-1

by West Bromwich Albion despite taking the lead

in the first half. Robert Snodgrass put the Tigers

ahead but West Brom came back Scunthorpe Utd led until the 84th

minute when Peterborough equalised but Grimsby Town had a happier

afternoon winning 3-1 It looks like much of this week will

be dry but with some rain spreading from the West and through Friday. At

the moment clear as a bell with the temperature dropping away fairly

smartly. A cold night with widespread frost rurally and the

temperature down to -1 so take care on untreated surfaces. Tuesday look

set to be fine and dry with probably more in the way of cloud but never

the less it should be bright with spells of sunshine. Numerically, the

temperature should be high compared with today but a fresh west when

should take the edge of the temperature, so HLA-DR and Wednesday

back to the sunny skies. A fine day on Thursday but the risk of rain

spreading from the West. That is the forecast.

We are back later tonight, goodbye for now.

Good evening. It has been turning colder and clearer and

Good evening. It has been turning colder and clearer and our weather

watchers have been capturing the sunshine. Here is the scene in

Derbyshire and where we have had the clear skies by day, we are in for a

cold night tonight. Temperatures already plummeting, particularly

towards the south with some icy stretches across parts of central

and southern England, and into