12/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.

Communities try to protect their homes from flooding

as the East Coast prepares for a tidal surge.

I'm upset and I'm frightened. After the last flood, I had a couple of

strokes. I'm alive at the foreshore where residents have been putting up

flood defences and the council has water ponds on stand-by.

Tributes are paid to the the Lincoln City boss

who became England manager - Graham Taylor dies aged 72.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn say he understands people's concerns

about immigration and has policies to deal with it.

I want to end undercutting, I want to end the levels

That indeed will give a fair and reasonable chance to everyone

Ferens art gallery shows off its multi million

pound refurbishment ahead of tomorrow's public reopening.

A stormy 24 hours expected for the coastline, a warning

in place, wind speeds could reach 70 mph.

People living on the East Coast are tonight being warned to expect

flooding tomorrow as high tides coincide with strong winds.

It's the same conditions that led to the tidal surge of 2013

where more than 1000 properties were damaged

At the moment the Environment Agency says there's nothing to suggest this

will be as bad but that people do need to be prepared.

We're live tonight in both East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

but first let's look in detail at the areas at risk.

There are 27 flood warnings across East Yorkshire

and Lincolnshire, covering high tide tomorrow morning

A warning means that flooding is expected.

There are two warnings covering the sea defences

at Humberston and Cleethorpes, another warning for Immingham.

Then if we look at the Humber Estuary on the North Bank

A further two cover the coast at Bridlington and then

the Easington and Kilnsea area is also at risk.

The River Ouse is covered by four warnings and then there's one

at Grimsby and three covering the South Bank at Winteringham,

South Ferriby, New Holland and Barton to Immingham Dock.

There are a further seven flood warnings in Lincolnshire, six

for the sea defences at north and south of Mablethorpe

Jill Archbold is at Hessle foreshore.

Jill, what's being done there to prepare?

A familiar drill is happening here tonight, because this very team and

the kid that they are using is the exact machinery that was down here

-- the kit, in 2013. They are enrolling this pipe. Should it be

needed, it will suck water through and then spit it back through

Internet Humber it using the blue one. -- through into the Humber. It

should be reassurance for residence behind me who were flooded in 2013.

Speaking tried, there was nervous anticipation.

But now that the weather's settle down, I don't feel as though

Because when it was really windy, it whips the waves up.

I think they are being overcautious now.

But then, part of me is saying, "are they"?

You know, is it going to be really bad?

Of course, this isn't the only vulnerable spot in the East Riding,

and the council has scouts and spotters this evening at several

areas, including Bridlington. There is more equipment on stand-by should

it be needed. Those living in errors could be concerned tonight, the

message from Humberside Police is simple, and that is be prepared. --

those living in areas. We are doing everything

that we can to make sure that we are prepared,

and that the local We ask that people are aware

and remain vigilant We want people to look

after the vulnerable I think at the moment,

it is very much, "Let's get everything in place,

and if we don't need it All this kit is just here as a

precaution at the moment, and there is a similar pump just down the

foreshore. The moment to hold your breath is when the high tide comes,

tomorrow morning at 6am and again at 6pm tomorrow evening. There are

three more pumps on stand-by across the East Riding should they be

needed. Thank you very much indeed. With seven flood warnings in

Lincolnshire. The Emergency services

in Lincolnshire have spent the day Our Environment correspondent

Paul Murphy is in Skegness for us tonight, what's been happening

in the County? With in the last hour or so, some

extraordinary scenes. There are hundreds of army and police officers

based in the town, going out into coastal communities, visiting more

than 3000 households to offer advice and reassurance. In the option, if

need be, of evacuation to rest centres. While that is taking place,

there are experts trying to predict the shape and potency of his tidal

surge, which is due sometime tomorrow. There is high time at six

o'clock in the morning and 6pm. A lot of activity in Skegness as

people are trying to reassure those in this committee that there will be

safe, and that there are options for them.

The deployment of soldiers along the Lincolnshire coast has begun

The appearance of the Army is an indication of just how

seriously the threat of a storm surge is being taken.

Working with the police, they're going to offer advice

to thousands of residents along the coast, who have been given

the option to be evacuated to an inland rest centre.

We'll be talking to householders and helping them make decisions

about what is the best course of action for them.

Quite honestly, if you're in a single story dwelling,

a caravan or a chalet, and you're very close

to the sea defences, you might want to think

about spending the evening or perhaps the next couple

But this is a community that lives with the threat of flooding,

All I know is that it's possible tidal surge, sometime this week.

But apart from that, looking where things are,

On the Humber Bank at South Ferriby, the Environment Agency were putting

up temporary defences, and local residents were moving

After the last flood, I had a couple of strokes.

It's stuff that we've got a lot of memories about,

and we saved a lot of it last time, and we like to save it again.

A storm surge requires a complex combination of tide,

It's believed a high tide of tomorrow evening, currently

There are specific concerns about the coastal communities in this part

of the world tonight, because many of them are older people, they live

in retirement communities, some live in bungalows with just one story,

others in static caravans. A lot of vulnerability should the waters

overtop. The floods minister has said tonight it's the government's

absolute priority to protect people here, and that's why the Army has

been deployed. Indeed. Thank you very much indeed.

The emergency services say they don't expect the situation

to be as bad as December 2013 even though it's essentially

the same combination of weather conditions.

Paul is in our weather studio as usual tonight.

These are rare events, what causes them and why can

In the instance tomorrow, we've got exceptionally strong winds

coinciding with a high tide. I will show tomorrow's chart. The wind is

coming in from the north, a storm forced ten, 60- 70 mph. It comes on

the Atlantic and pushes to the North Sea. The two things are adding

together. There are two tides tomorrow -- Times tomorrow. There is

another tide at tea-time, the second tide which may well be the biggest

because the wind will be running all day long. Paul will have the full

forecast in five or ten minutes. Earlier I spoke to James Bevan

who's the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency

and asked him how concerned he was about the next

twenty four hours. What we are looking at tomorrow

is a combination of high tides and high winds,

which are going to produce very high waves, and that does

carry a risk of flooding, possibly significant flooding up

and down the east coast. We're giving advice to people

in the area to follow our flood warnings, to be prepared

and to take care. We're moving up and down

the country, our people into locations where they are ensuring

that flood defence assets are operating to protect communities

up and down the country. The Hull barrier near here will be

operating this evening. Here in South Ferriby,

we're erecting temporary defences and we're doing that in one or two

other places up I suppose people will be worrying

as they watch the telly tonight, that we could see a repeat

of the flooding in 2013. Can you confirm that

that is certainly not the case? Well, no flood is

ever quite the same. There was bad flooding here and up

and down the coast in 2013, I can't confirm exactly what we're

looking at tomorrow. That will depend very much

on the wind speed and wind direction, and we won't know that

until tomorrow morning. Our best estimates are that we're

not looking at an event that is as significant

as what happened in 2013. As I say, we want to be cautious,

we want to take care. So we're operating on the basis

of worst-case scenario and doing everything we can to protect

communities up and down the country. But you are obviously expecting

flooding, otherwise you wouldn't be spending the time and money doing

what you're doing behind you, that we can see there now,

unless you weren't There's often minor coastal flooding

when you get this combination What we're looking at tomorrow

though is a particularly unusual combination of particularly high

tides, potentially very high winds, and that could produce in certain

locations, significant flooding. We don't know where that

will be, we don't know But we think the right thing to do

is to make sure that communities like this one up and down

the country are properly protected In a very brief sentence, your best

advice for people tonight is what? Check your own flood risk

on gov.uk, and check Very good to talk to you tonight,

I wish you well, thank you. The chief executive of the

Environment Agency. We'll have more later in the programme on the

possibility of flooding tomorrow, and a detailed forecast.

Stars from across the world of football have been paying tribute

to the former Lincoln City and England manager Graham Taylor,

He grew up in Scunthorpe and then spent his whole playing

career in Lincolnshire - with Grimsby Town and then

Lincoln City - before going into management at

And that was a path that took him all the way to the biggest job

Our sports reporter Simon Clark has this.

When after his playing career at Lincoln city, he accepted a manager

's career, had changed his life 28. He led them to promotion at a record

points scorer. The pop star Elton John Soros and encouraged him to

join his club, Watford -- Elton John saw this. You have to have a reality

about looking at situations with Scunthorpe. Would we want to see

them again in the championship? Of course we would. Would we expect

them to be doing much more than having to fight relegation? That

their big league for them. Taylor is very much a son of Scunthorpe. This

is Henderson Avenue. He went to the local primary school, just a stone's

away from the pace that would have his biggest impact on young Graham's

mound, -- Graham's mind. A club which would later make him a vice

president. We were so fortunate to have an ambassador like him. The

last time he was here was in October, and he was always telling

us what we're doing right and wrong, very enthusiastic about our

promotion push. He came back in July 20 16th to attend a grand opening of

our new building. We thought it was very reported -- July 2000 16. It

marked the transition from old school to new school, and it was

just lovely because he was so pleased to see the new building.

Graham Taylor's servers earned him an OBE, but here it's the

transformation of Lincoln city that is best remembered. What he did was

connect the football club with the community, more than any other

manager was doing at the time for a long time afterwards. Graham Taylor

used to joke that he was the only man I've revered by all three big

Lincolnshire rivals. And revered he was.

Paying tribute to Graham Taylor, who has died at age 70 two. -- 72. Thank

you for being there. Still ahead on the programme...

Still ahead tonight: Unveiling the most expensive painting ever

shown at Ferens Art Gallery as it prepares to reopen.

It feels amazing and brilliant to have finally reached this point.

It's been a really long journey, it had lots of ups and downs.

Don't miss that in a few minutes' time. Keep pictures coming in,

tonight's photograph is the centre of hole. Nice picture, thank you for

that. Keep photos coming in. Another one on tomorrow night at about the

same time. It's nice to see a man earning his money. A weather

forecast. It will be a wild 24 hours, as we

have already discovered. There were two mornings tonight, one is for

wind and the other is for ice. -- two warnings. Ice could be quite a

problem if you're not in coastal areas. I showed this child, but it

is worth showing again. The run of unusual strong northerly winds. We

have a storm forced ten tomorrow, on a scale which runs from one to 12.

Harry Kane storms are right at the top end. The weather front sliding

southwards -- hurricane storms. That could exacerbate icy roads towards

the end of the night. There could be quite a difficult commute first

thing. The main weather system today has been tracking across the South,

snow currently across the south-east, but it is beginning to

pull its cloud away southwards, and I think fairly shortly ice will be

forming, first across parts of East Yorkshire and then eventually across

Lincolnshire, as skies turn player. Then we look to the north towards

the end of the night, and narrow band of rain, sleet and potentially

a bit of 's note -- the skies turn PDF. The all-important high water

times... The second high tide, which could be bigger than the first one,

is at tea-time tomorrow. Weather-wise, first light, we should

be shot of this narrow band of rain, sleet and slow, watch out for ice in

its wake. When severe gales, storm force winds, all day long. Inland,

it just looks set to be gold Gill cold and mainly sunny. Fairly

academic, significant wind-chill, highs of three or four matter

degrees as of Saturday looks fairly sunny, Sunday looks cloudy with a

risk of patchy rain. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has

told BBC Look North he understands why many voters are concerned

about immigration in Mr Corbyn has responded to criticism

about his leadership following Labour's poor performance

in last month's Sleaford He's been speaking to our

Political Editor Tim Iredale. Some say it's a relaunch of his

leadership. This week, Jeremy Corbyn has been trying to set out where he

stands on a number of issues, including immigration, traditionally

a weak area for Labour. Those that have come from the European Union to

make their homes in Britain have also made a great contribution here.

Our hospitals rely on them. Indeed, the NHS is at this very moment

desperately trying to recruit doctors from other parts of Europe.

The issue in many parts of Lincolnshire is about unskilled

workers. Are you saying you want to see fewer unskilled migrant workers?

The point making is that an skilled migration, where people are brought

in by agencies, forced to live in poor conditions, even pay of their

wages is read to the same employer. That is wrong, that is gang master's

operation. His leadership divides opinion. Just ask these voters. His

principles are his principles. As 60, 70% of the Labour ticket holders

have said, we want you. Everyone else should be behind him. He

doesn't come across as a new vote for to be pro-minister, he doesn't

seem to have that strength. Labour were not serious contenders in last

month's by-election -- to be Prime Minister. They fell to fourth place.

Whether it is in Lincolnshire putting two fingers up to you in

your party? Are not pretending it was a good result. It's at a party

we have been strong in in the past, I hope to have done better. Do you

expect more results like that? Surely you can't stay on as Labour

leader. We want better results, we're ready for the elections in May

and the mayoral elections in various parts of England. Jeremy Corbyn is

hoping to appeal to the voters he believes have been ignored by the

main committee will judge whether political parties. He'll be judged

by results, which surely must improve if he is to continue leading

his party. Keen to get your views on this one. Do you think Mr Corbyn has

it right on migration? Here is how to be in touch...

If you are in the area with the election, do you think he is right

on immigration? Tweet me on the subject of Jeremy

Corbyn and his views on immigration and migrant workers.

After more than a year of work, at a cost of ?4.5 million,

Inside the Ferens' will be new lights, new air conditioning

and the most expensive painting the gallery has ever bought.

Our culture correspondent Anne-Marie Tasker has

Unveiled after years of renovation, a painting by the Italian

At ?1.6 million it's the Ferens gallery's most expensive purchase.

And for art experts - it's a truly significant work.

He is a painter that works in Tuscany around 1300. That is the

very beginnings of the Renaissance, which is so important for the

development of art throughout Europe. It really does look very

wonderful. It's an important picture, the only picture by that

artist in this country. And this is where the painting was brought back

to its former glory. At the conservation Department at the

National Gallery. It has undergone hundreds of hours of work air. When

it arrived, it looked like this, but the team have transformed it was

scientific study and robe moving centuries of varnish, even a calcium

compound found in gallstones. You're always managing the changes that are

inevitable, consequences of time and agency, and all I can say is that I

think you are closer. The biggest change, colours have faded, things

have happened that can't be reversed. Certainly less between you

and the artist than there was. But it is just one new feature at

holed's Ferens. -- at Hull's. It has undergone several changes, but now

it is ready to host the world's finest artworks. We have had some

exhibitions, and it is work of that kind and calibre, the very best for

Hull. So we very much hope to continue in the same vein. Having

had the investment in the building was absolutely critical to being

able to go on and do that. The Gallery reopens to the public

tomorrow at noon, another big moment in Hull's year as city of culture.

From fireworks to light shows to wind turbines and drawings -

it has been a busy start to Hull's year as City of Culture.

Kofi Smiles has been looking at what's coming up over

Last week was made in Hull, this week there's a blade in Hull!

The first of the series of billboards are on show

as local artists get showcased through REDboard.

As you can see behind me, it's pretty spiffing.

These pieces of work are going to be changed every four weeks for Hull's

You have until the 24th of February to come down to the Hull

History Centre to witness the free Charters exhibition.

It is a closer look at some of the documents that have allowed

Hull to become the great city that it is today.

If you've got kids between the ages of eight and 11, there

is a creative workshop happening at Hull Central library.

Now, it's going to be taking place over the next three Saturdays,

and if they attend all three, they can have earned

themselves and official arts award qualification.

Contact the Central Library and book your free place.

And making its City of Culture debut, the Bridlington Contemporary

Gallery opens its doors for the very first time.

This week's Challenge Hull is called the Hull hoedown.

Now, all we have to do is dance to your favourite song

in your favourite place, and share it using the hashtag.

Now, here's how mine played out with a local band.

And there are plenty more clips and articles

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

A former MI6 spy, Christopher Steele, is at the centre

of the latest allegations against Donald Trump.

27 flood warnings are in place across East Yorkshire

and Lincolnshire as the area prepares for a predicted

Tomorrow's weather: Most places cold, windy and mainly sunny,

coastal areas at risk from wintry showers, with severe

Back to our main story tonight, preparations in the East Yorkshire

and Lincolnshire for the tidal surge tomorrow. Our environment

correspondent is in Skegness. How concerned should people actually

beat tonight? Looking at the map with all those flood alerts and

warnings, it is looking pretty grim. The Environment Agency has pointed

out that at this stage at least, it does not think this tidal surge will

be as potent as the one we saw in December 20 13. It is also seem to

remember that they have spent millions of pounds on flood

defences, particularly in the Humber area since that tidal surge. For

people who want to keep up to the speed with what is going on

overnight, the breakfast show starts an hour earlier tomorrow morning at

5am. Radio Lincolnshire is on the air throughout the night with advice

and information for all from the Army and police HQ here in Skegness,

back to you. Thank you very much. Just a reminder that tomorrow

morning in Hull, high tide is at 6:34am, and high time tomorrow night

is at 640 9p. Those are the crucial tides. Does Mr Corbyn can write

about immigration? Someone says he doesn't think there is another

immigration yet, hypocrite, Labour is unelectable. Louis says she

doubts many Brits will get up at stupid o'clock to pick fruit if they

can get more in benefits. One says Corbyn is wrong to promote

immigration, we voted Brexit to tighten up. So many unskilled jobs

in Lincolnshire, not enough workers to fill them. Have a nice evening.

Join us later if you can attempt to be, if not I was yet 6:30am

tomorrow. ..and keep telling yourself

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you have to keep on going... ..drink as much as you can... Please

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over and over, "This will end."