04/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.

A warning about elderly people losing their life savings

to a growing army of scammers in Lincolnshire and the

It's become an addiction, he's now in the state where every day,

he's out at the front of the house, three or four times

After the sacking of Mike Phelan, the search for a new head coach

The crew accused of running a cocaine smuggling operation

They refused to pay for permits, now residents in Grimsby

complain they can't park outside their own homes.

If you move, you can't come back in the street.

And the new pilots who say they're living their childhood dream

I called 24-hour to convert all change on Friday, join me for the --

a cold 24 hours to come but all change on Friday, join me for the

forecast. There are warnings that thousands

of people in Lincolnshire, many of them elderly,

could lose their savings and even their homes because they're

being targeted by postal The number of people in the County

who've fallen victim has risen by almost 50% to more than 2,000

in the last year alone. Trading Standards say it's

becoming a huge problem, especially for the elderly,

the vulnerable and the lonely. Our Political reporter

Sharon Edwards has more. Bogus lotteries, fake psychics,

Kate Cifildi from Spalding says her You fill in an order form

and you send them money. Then they tell you that

you are going to go into a draw. He is now in the state

where every day he is out at the front of the house,

three or four times The gentleman in receipt of this

mail has been known to get up He like many others has

found himself on a list being passed between fraudsters,

a list of people particularly vulnerable and it just results

in more and more mail. Over the past year Trading Standards

in Lincolnshire has been working to a list of 1,500 identified

victims of mail marketing scams. But during that time the list has

grown to more than 2,000. That includes those targeted over

the Internet and telephone. Some are spending up

to ?700 a month. But they say these figures

are the tip of the iceberg and are visiting victims to try

and get them to stop. Ultimately, people can end

up without any money, without their home, in care and it

does happen in Lincolnshire. This man's mother, also

living in Lincolnshire, has been scammed and he is calling

for a bigger police response. The police have got to accept

that this is a major crime. Each ?15, ?20, ?30 cheque

is a tiny amount of money in the police's terms,

I understand that. Actually when you add all this lot

together this is happening 9.4 billion going out

of the country. That's going towards trafficking,

towards drugs, towards terrorism. These scams are orchestrated

by gangs of criminals often working abroad but the individual

impact is huge. Joining me now is Marilyn Baldwin,

whose mother Jessica She is joining us now, good evening.

Good evening. You have had first-hand experience about this,

how dangerous is it? It is very dangerous and very serious and very

endemic. My mother was picked him and was targeted by postal fraud 15

years ago, -- she was a victim, she spent the last five years of her

life reading, writing and responding to scams. She became so brainwashed

that the family could not make a see reason. She was not diagnosed with

having any mental incapacity and she continued to be scammed until she

died. Is it unfair to call this almost an addiction? It is not an

addiction because what these criminals are doing is they are

posing as a whole host of additional characters, some of the scams are

clairvoyant scams, they are threatening harm to the family. It

is not an addiction if someone is sending them money every week to

protect themselves. So why do you think so many people are falling

prey to these? The old saying is, if it looks too good to be true, it

probably is, and I'm surprised that people do not pick up on that.

Modern technology has made mailing lists readily available to

everybody, and these criminals will work from mailing lists that

categorise people as being elderly or vulnerable in some way, living on

their own breed, so they know exactly who they are going for. They

are -- living on their own or bereaved, they know they are going

to people who are overly trusting or who are in the early stage of

dementia. These crimes are silent because most people do not recognise

they are being scammed. Advice of people who think they are being

scammed, or think their parents may be being scammed, is what? The first

point of call is trading standards, they are doing some fantastic work

around scams, but in the long-term, the government needs to recognise

the scale of the problem that it is, and get help for victims who, like

my mother, cannot recognise they are being scammed even though they are

accessing all the help available to them.

Less than 24 hours after sacking Head Coach Mike Phelan, Hull City

could be about to replace him with their first

The club say they hope to have the new man in place

Phelan was dismissed after almost three months in the job,

following a dismal set of results which has seen them fall

Our Sports Reporter Matt Dean is at the KCOM Stadium.

Good evening, well, given that table position of Hull city and the fact

they have gone eight games without a win, probably not. But performances

have been good recently, but the team's inability to match the

performances with points of Medlycott Mike Phelan his job last

night. -- ultimately cost Mike Phelan his job.

Nobody has won in this, nobody has won whatsoever.

Everyone in the city of Hull has had a feeling

Including the club's greatest ever captain.

They've made a decision on results, and it's a results business.

I think he had the backing of the changing room

I think the lads liked him, I think morale was pretty good,

even though they'd been struggling for results.

So a difficult one to take, really, for all the fans.

But ultimately he's been sacked, he's got to move forward.

The signings he got at the end of August weren't earth-shattering.

He spent the budget, none of those players have

So the decision to sack him now just reflects badly on the owners,

because they appointed him in the first place and

they haven't backed him in the transfer market at all.

In almost two years at the club, Mike Phelan's time

Appointing in February 2015, as Steve Bruce's assistant,

he was placed in temporary charge in July after Bruce resigned

after the club's return to the Premier League.

In August, a shock start with three wins in league and cup saw Phelan

Before he was eventually confirmed as head coach in October.

But their winless run by the turn of the year brought his time

at the club to an end, sparking speculation today

The former Olympiakos boss Marco Silva has emerged

as a strong favourite, whilst the firm former Birmingham

city manager Gary Rowett had been linked earlier today,

but there has been no approach for his services.

One football expert thinks it'll take more than a change of head

coach to keep Hull City in the Premier League.

Managerial change tends not to really make too

much of a difference, particularly when they have

the control of the dressing room which I think is the case

So they need to make some really smart decisions about how they might

strengthen the squad in January, probably need to be gambling

a little bit and spending 30, maybe even ?40 million to strengthen

the squad because the benefit of retaining your Premier League

It remains to be seen if any money is made available

The club says they hope to make an appointment ahead of the weekend.

In the last hour and a half, the vice-chairman of Hull city has

issued a statement by the club's website, saying that after a great

amount of consideration, they took the decision to part company with

Mike Phelan. He says, we sit bottom of the Premier League table and I

thought now was the right time to give this club and squad of players

fresh approach and a chance to retain its Premier League status.

BBC radio Humberside are debating this right now.

Let us know what you think of this story.

Have the owners of Hull City made the right decision

Marco Silva is already installed as the bookies'

A court has heard how a former P crew member bragged to an undercover

officer that he'd earned ?100,000 from smuggling cocaine

The jury was told how Edward Tron planned to adapt a high visibility

Kate Sweeting has been at Hull crown court.

The court heard how 51-year-old Edward Tron described his life as a

dream when he was earning more than ?100,000 allegedly smuggling cocaine

into the UK on the pride of Hull from Rotterdam. The jury was played

in secret filming from inside and undercover officer's car in which

Edward Tron allegedly confesses to repeatedly smuggling drugs. The

court heard that he was earning ?30,000 as ship steward, but that he

banked ?138,000 in four years, and it is claimed these were the

proceeds of smuggling cocaine which he simply walked off the ferry with,

unchecked by customs officers. He is on trial along with another former

P employee, Mark Quilliam, seen here covering his face. The two are

at queues to conspiring to import cocaine. Edward Tron's wife, Susan,

is also a on trial for laundering her husband's money. All three deny

the charges and the trial continues. Northern train staff are to vote

on taking strike action Rail union the RMT says

they received a lower pay offer than those working in other areas

of the rail industry. Northern, which runs

services through our area, says it's offered workers

a guaranteed, above inflation, pay rise over the next

three or four years, and is disappointed

by the union's reaction. An order to house poultry

indoors has been extended It came into force last month

following an outbreak of bird flu Last month, thousands of turkeys

either died or had to be culled after the disease was found

at Austen Fen Farm near Louth. People living in Grimsby say parking

on the streets where they live has A group of householders in Grimsby

has said ?80 to pay for parking is too much. They claim there is

nowhere for them to park and the opening of a new office development

will make things worse. Christine has lived in this

street near Grimsby town She's now got a problem,

though, parking. The problem started after the cost

of residence permits was hiked from ?15 to ?80 in 2013,

so streets like these rejected them. Since we lost our permits,

when the ?80 increase If you move, you can't

come back in the street. You can't park, people

won't want to come and live here. It's difficult for elderly people,

it's difficult for young families, difficult to bring your shopping

home. That ?80 price tag in

North East Lincolnshire is more than the ?52 charged

for a residents' permit in Lincoln, Some in Grimsby now feel

priced out of permits, just as local business developments

like the prominent Cartergate People are deciding, well,

we don't want to pay for car parking spaces,

we'll park in residence areas, that means residents have

problems getting in and out, I would like to see people get

back their parking space scheme, but only pay a reduced rate similar

to what it was in the past. North East Lincolnshire Council sent

us a statement saying the Cartergate development is very important

for Lincoln's economy, and saying there is plenty

of parking available in the area. It told us, though, that nobody

has the right to park outside their own home,

although there is still a residence only parking permit scheme available

if people want to apply for it. It says the old scheme, though,

had become unaffordable as it was highly subsidised,

which is why the pricing These residents say

that's not good enough. They want a cheap rate

for parking where they live. This is another story

we'd like your views on. Do you have sympathy

with the people who live around They want the right to park

on their own street but they say ?85 There is the e-mail and the text

number, and if you have a story that you think we should know about, let

us know. Still ahead tonight:

Could beavers make a return And the pilots who say they're

living their childhood dream Keep your photos coming in,

tonight's is from messing. Another photo tomorrow night. Even you

should not show a weather graphics with a picture of Christmas Eve when

it is not Christmas Eve, even you are not that bad. I saw that and I

thought, I bet you would not to a have a go at Keeley like you would

at me! Cold and frosty tonight, a few

showers in coastal areas, a bit of a wintry flavour. It is says they's

chart, a ridge of high pressure, for many of us, it looks like a fine and

sunny day. All change on Friday as the Atlantic winds come through and

we see cloud and rain and wind coming in from the West. The latest

satellite picture shows you where the wind is coming from, it is

northerly, pulling the clouds down from the north, and I think the

skies in eastern parts will be quite cloudy at first night. That is thick

enough to produce a few showers. A little bit of wintry mess if those

showers clip into Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, the main problem in

eastern parts will be that of ice. Further west, widespread frost,

rural temperatures down to minus three degrees.

Tomorrow morning, one or two showers possible along the coast, running

into Norfolk. Elsewhere a lovely start, the wind will become light

and variable so many of us will see clear blue skies, especially as we

head through the course of the afternoon. Temperatures struggling,

maximum temperatures tomorrow around for Celsius, 39 Fahrenheit. We will

quickly go back into our frost tomorrow night evening. It turns wet

and windy from the West over Friday, mildly at the weekend, cloudy and

dry, nine or mildly at the weekend, cloudy and

dry, nine or 10 degrees. Lots of people told me that you were filming

around the corner from my flat but you never said hello. I think you

had another appointment. The line has gone dead! See you tomorrow.

Centuries ago they were a common site in the British countryside,

but the beaver was hunted to extinction.

Now it's being reintroduced in parts of Scotland,

But could it ever return to Yorkshire and to Beverley

which gets its name from the furry mammal?

Our Environment Correspondent Paul Murphy has been to investigate.

New projects in Devon and Scotland have reintroduced this

The beaver was once a familiar sight on the lakes and rivers

of East Yorkshire, thriving in their thousands

By the 16th century they had been hunted to extinction,

This was a commercial fish farm, it had 90 ponds across the site.

East Yorkshire wildlife expert Jon Traill has his doubts

that the creature would survive if it was returned to the county

East Yorkshire, indeed, did have beavers but you need

When they were here, we are talking a long, long time ago.

The landscape of East Yorkshire was vastly different to today.

There are still some areas of East Yorkshire that

have that relic habitat, and we're here on our nature

reserve, and we're trying to recreate habitats like this

wetland, but the big thing that would be a limiting factor

for beavers in East Yorkshire is the lack of woodland.

This wooded corner called Burton Bushes is all that is left

of a woodland that once surrounded Beverley.

The trees were used for shipbuilding and for housing and so the beaver

lost its habitat, even here in the town which

Beverley-based historian Barbara English says hunting

also played a big part in the beavers' demise.

All through the Middle Ages they used some sort

of special scent gland stuff that they got from beavers.

They used it for medicine and later on for cosmetics and also beaver

fur was very desirable because it was a large

The reintroduced beaver continues to thrive in parts of the country

But after a 500-year absence, it's return

A stranded seal pup's been rescued on the banks of the Humber.

The underweight seal was rescued from Victoria Dock with help

from Humberside Fire and Rescue and the RSPCA.

Works from some of the world's most prominent artists are on display

at the University of Hull as part of the City of Culture year.

Lines of Thought, in partnership with the British Museum,

will feature 70 drawings spanning 500 years.

The exhibition can be seen free of charge until the end of February.

Thanks to everyone who got in touch after we told

you about the disappointment expressed after Johnny Johnson,

the last surviving British veteran of the Dambusters was ignored

There have been calls for him to be knighted for his role in the raids

which flew out of RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and

Campaigners have written to the Prime Minister

I shall feel honoured if I do get it.

It won't be just for me, it won't be for me at all.

It will be for the squadron, and for the, those who gave

We had a lots of comments on this, here are just a few.

We will continue to follow that story and if there are any

developers, we will let you know. The two newest Red Arrows pilots say

that flying the famous jets Flight Lieutenants Toby Keeley

and Dan Lowes have just started their winter training at RAF

Scampton, alongside Flight Lieutenant Chris Lyndon-Smith

who has re-joined the team. The Red Arrows, back training in the

skies above Lincolnshire. And flying the famous jets, two new pilots, and

one who has been here before. I have always wanted to come back but

normally that is not possible. But with the red arrows doing a tour to

the Far East, and promoting British industry, they have cut short the

training period that it made sense to help out the training. The team

is known for its breathtaking stunts at high speed, as this footage from

their recent overseas tour shows. How do the newest recruits feel

about learning to do this? This is the first time we have had a go at

it, if today was our first time and today was our first time as a four

so you have got the wake of spontaneity making sure you were in

a right place at the other aircraft. It is fantastic, to see the aircraft

next see with smoke on comedy dream come true. Flying my first will be

incredible, and then getting my red suit and getting to the British

public, I cannot wait to be on the road during the summer. They appear

at the country's biggest events, like last summer's National Armed

Forces Day in Cleethorpes. 2017 is inspected to be another busy year.

As well as a packed schedule of displayed, it is hoped they are

performing here at RAF 's captain, home to Lincolnshire's new airshow

which are taking place in September. But first the team will go through

months of training before they earn the right to wear their red suits

ready for summer shows. Good luck for their new season and

we will get plenty of pictures during the course of the year. When

it was announced, it seemed like a long time ago, but the airshow is

actually this year in Lincolnshire, looking forward to that.

Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines.

Britain's top EU diplomat launches a stinging attack on government

A warning about elderly people losing their life

savings to a growing army of scammers in Lincolnshire.

Tomorrow's weather, any coastal showers soon dying out,

We were talking about the sacking of Mike Phelan, as the head coach of

Hull city, and the response coming in, Simon says, I am gutted, he was

a legend, I will always be a Hull city supporter. And Elliott says,

why do clubs sack managers? It is not the manager playing on the

pitch, it is the players, and this one says, they should have sorted

this out before Mike Phelan was left with a skeleton squad. He tried his

best for the club without much support. This is only going to make

the anti-donor protest stronger now. I have heard that -- anti-- owner

protest stronger. This one says, Hull city have no chance of

remaining in the Premier League unless some serious money is spent

on players immediately. But then again, no quality play would place a

Hull city as they would be relegated this year. A slightly depressing one

there from David. Finally, Robin is in West Hull, she says, if they

purport Jose Mourinho or Jurgen Klopp, we would still be in trouble.

The owners need to buy themselves out of trouble. The squad is not

good enough, just spend, spend, spend. That is it from me, join me

at 10:30pm. as he explores Naples,

Venice and Florence. It's like we're walking through

a giant's armpit. We can follow the escape route

of Michelangelo.