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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Crisis in care - the council leader warning | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
we'll all have to pay more to look after our elderly. | :00:10. | :00:21. | |
It's about making the government recognise it's been an | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
abhorrent failure, their policy on adult social care. | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
Report your neighbours - people urged to watch out | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
for wrongdoing to stop the spread of bird flu. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Police and firearms experts seize weapons and explosives | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
And making an impression - I meet Hull's Debra Stephenson ahead | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Davina McCall for some reason took me ages and I don't know why it | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
took me ages just because it's quite sort of... | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Milder air is on the way. Join me for the very latest in 15 minutes. | :00:46. | :01:07. | |
Good evening. Despite a rise in council tax bills, | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
there are claims tonight that some local authorities will NOT have | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
enough money to pay for the care The leader of North East | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
Lincolnshire council says he's writing to the government to ask | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
for a review of the way Most town halls are increasing | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
council tax by up to 5%, with the majority of that rise | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
going towards the More from our political | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
editor Tim Iredale. Nice to see you. At the age of 91, | :01:30. | :01:48. | |
Irene Racine 's home from carers at her home in Quincy. With talk of | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
care crisis, many families are choosing to pay private for services | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
rather than relying on the council. You hear this about ten minute | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
visits, what can you actually do in ten minutes? An elderly person, you | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
walk into their home, whether issues giving them some medication, you | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
cannot just go here you go, and get out. You need to interact. When we | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
talk about social care, what do we mean? Social care is the spelling | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
peoples lives within their own homes. Becky has worked within the | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
sector for ten years. She says it is not as the elderly who need looking | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
after in their own homes. Those individual people could learning | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
difficulties, they might be paralysed the Road traffic accident. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Have different conditions so we have got customers with Huntington's | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
disease, parking since, all of those conditions that can be safely manage | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
within the home that do make life limiting for the person. They have | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
been limited to 2% but this year the comedy is allowing local authorities | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
to charge an extra 3%, what is going as a precept to help pay the social | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
care. Any rise above 5% must be put to local people in a referendum. But | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
even with that increase, some local authorities say it is still not | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
enough. The leader of north east linkage council is writing to the | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
government urging a total rethink of the way health and social care are | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
funded. Not like the leafy suburbs of Westminster when they have a high | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
council tax base. Because we have got low housing costs, our council | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
tax rate, equate to about two fifths of what they have got. We are double | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
whammy. More deprivation and more need in our area for older people | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
and services that we raise less money than the leafy suburbs of | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Westminster. It is an unfair system. So council leaders appear to be | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
locked in a war of words with the government over the cost of care. | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
With no easy solution in state. -- sight. | :04:02. | :04:02. | |
Joining me now is Lord Porter of Spalding who is the Chair | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
of the Local Government Association and leader of South | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
Is increasing council tax be right way to go? It is one of the right | :04:08. | :04:24. | |
ways to go. Ie Letting down councils by not sorting out the problem and | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
funding it centrally? It is our government, it is not my government. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
The government does recognise that it needs to do more. I'm not here as | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
a spokesman for the government, and a spokesman for local government. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
Local government has been making a strong case. We are ?1.3 billion | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
short in the medium period. Racing to 2.6 billion pounds over the life | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
of this Parliament. We need action direct funding to bid on adult care | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
across the country. The government said it would create a sustainable | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
system for everyone who needs social care. Are they feeling? -- the | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
laden. They are going to try and find more | :05:01. | :05:14. | |
money. If they do, it will worsen. You will probably see more reports | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
over the next three weeks, over a million people not requiring | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
adequate funding for the care that they need. Would you feel | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
comfortable if we had those figures that, if we were talking about 10%, | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
15%, would you be happy about that to go on the council tax bills to | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
pay this and get it sorted out once and for all? Council tax is not the | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
way to sort this problem out. This problem needs to be resolved through | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
national taxation and that does not mean to say we need to pay more, it | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
means we have to spend the money we are spending better. It is taxing | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
somebody, whichever way you do it? The government only has our money. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
The government does not make its own money. It only has money so it is | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
only tax. Local tax may raise the money in the areas that are | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
necessary. What with the local government Association message the | :06:05. | :06:05. | |
two central government tonight on this one? -- what would be? To sit | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
down and workaholic and best deliver this. There is money being wasted in | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the health service tonight as we speak because we did not spend | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
enough money on adult social care yesterday. We have broken people. We | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
need to stop people getting broken. Hospital beds are the most expensive | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
beds that we have. I use the word word crisis, is it? Some people use | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
the word crisis, I would prefer to wait for crisis to come into the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
future. We are at breaking point now. There's ?1.3 billion action | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
needed. Each week that goes by, it is coming out of the private sector. | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
Lord Porter, it was good to talk to tonight. | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
This is one we'd like to hear your thoughts on. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Do you agree the way we fund social care needs totally rethinking? | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Do you think the government should do more to help local | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Would you pay more council tax to ensure services remain in place? | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
East riding is going to garrotte 5%. Bat go up. | :07:06. | :07:30. | |
People are deliberately ignoring rules designed to stop the spread | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
of bird flu and putting millions of chickens and turkeys at risk | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
That's according to farmers - who want people to report | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
neighbours who break the rules to the authorities. | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
30000 birds have died after three outbreaks | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
Our rural affairs correspondent Linsey Smith reports. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Strolling around without a care in the world. | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
But the owner of these guinea fowl should have. | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
The government has ordered that all poultry be kept | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
indoors to stop the spread of bird flu. | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
And for granting these speckled hens their freedom, they could be | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
This lady sells her eggs locally and she is following the rules, and is | :08:17. | :08:31. | |
angry about those who are not. I think they should be named and | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
shamed. I have been doing it with my friends. They say it does not apply | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
to me. Yes it does. It is not fair on their beds that are in welfare | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
but also when the restrictions are lifted a bit, as we are hoping in | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
March, are those birds now carries? -- carriers. | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Jono Dixon is encouraging people to report rule breaking | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
He runs a social media club for farmers. | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Some of whom feared bird flu infecting their flock. | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
I think some of them are totally speechless | :09:07. | :09:08. | |
as to how irresponsible people can be, you know, given the warnings | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
that have been put out by the veterinary, the UK veterinary | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
30,000 birds have been culled in our area so far | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
It was discovered at a farm near Louth in | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
December with 5000 birds were culled. | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
The second case two weeks later was in Fulstow | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
where 6000 were culled and the latest outbreak | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
was last month in Boston, | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
again at a turkey farm, where 19,000 birds were infected. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
One gram of infected bird feed seeds is enough | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
to kill a million birds so | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
that gives you a scale of how serious this disease is which can be | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
spread sort of from a car tyre, it can be spread by a boot, by | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
Well, there are hundreds of poultry farms in East Yorkshire and | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
Lincolnshire employing thousands of people | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
and those jobs rely on the prosperity, | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
the health of those flocks and Defra say that the only way | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
to ensure that at the moment is to keep birds housed. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Shoppers who prefer local, free range eggs could | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
Farms in high-risk zones may lose their free range | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Another reason why keeping this disease contained is so important. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
Linsey is with me in the studio this evening. | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
What have the Government said about the people | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
They say that they are taking this outbreak of bird flu very seriously. | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
Not only because it affects people's jobs but it is affecting the whole | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
countryside. The RSPB has said it is affecting people's attitude to wild | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
birds in the nature reserve. They said that the seriousness is | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
reflected in that penalty, up to ?5,000 fine and up to three months | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
in prison. It is important to the that we do not know who those guinea | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
fowl belong to and that is not the only clip that we have seen, many | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
have been sent to the BBC over recent days. Defra told us that it | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
is local training going to deal with rule breakers, they are encouraging | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
anyone who wants to report a neighbour to contacted the local | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
trading standards. Defra Sadie eases way to avoid getting her back flocks | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
filmed and being named and shamed in social media is to check the | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
website, know the rules and stick to them. | :11:23. | :11:22. | |
Thank you. A 46-year-old man has | :11:23. | :11:23. | |
died after it's believed he was struck by steel that fell | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
from a van in Hull. Humberside Police and the Health | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
and Safety Executive are investigating the incident | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
on Vulcan Street off Clough Road A Hull shop owner filmed two men | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
using this public phone box to, allegedly, use hard drugs | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
in broad daylight. He says he was shocked this | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
could happen in a residential It's hard because it's a public | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
phone box so Many times I've found | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
syringes around here. You know, recently, I've | :11:55. | :12:02. | |
seen a few people... They go in the phone box | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
and use it for drugs. There's places for people to go | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
and do whatever they're going to do, you know, | :12:08. | :12:09. | |
I don't think things like that Within the last hour, | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
Hull City Council have They say, "We will not tolerate this | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
kind of behaviour and will work closely with the police | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
to tackle anti-social behaviour." This is another story we'd | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
like your thoughts on. Is drug taking in public now part | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
of everyday life or can something be The police say no complaint | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
was made to them in this instance so no action | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
has been taken. Maybe there's a problem | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
in your area. Six men have been arrested | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
in connection with a petrol bomb attack on a house in Scunthorpe.A | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
woman was treated in hospital for burns following the fire | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
in the town last week. Officers say they carried out a raid | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
in Scunthorpe today and detained the men who are aged | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
between 18 and 32. Police have seized firearms | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
from a firing range and explosives The operation is being carried out | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
at Skydock, which is at the former RAF Faldingworth base near Market | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
Rasen. Police are working with military | :13:14. | :13:14. | |
firearms experts after the Home Office withdrew a licence | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
to store weapons. This has Ben dei two of a joint | :13:17. | :13:37. | |
operation between Lincolnshire Police and military firearms experts | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
and the police say it could take a number of days yet. They are seizing | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
firearms at this site here because the Home Office has revoked the | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
company's licensed under section five of the firearms act. The | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
company is called Skydock, they have a firing age, explosives testing | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
facilities and in the past, people have complained about the noise from | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
here. That has been resolved. I have been speaking to people nearby to | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
see what they think of what is happening now. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
The community here, I personally do not think it affects, it has not | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
affected our lives at all. I think there are people locally, they do | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
have concerns about it. Something has gone wrong somewhere. But the | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Home Office to react like they have. Something must have come to light | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
but I have no speculation as to what I could be. Like I say, I did not | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
know anything about it. It is news to me. We have spoken to | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
Skydock who have declined to comment. The police have released a | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
statement. They say the following the relocation of the license, we | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
are seizing the weapons to maintain security and to ensure public | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
safety. Those are the only details they have given us so far and no | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
arrests have been made. Peter. Thank you very much. It is nearly | :15:02. | :15:02. | |
quarter to seven. I meet Debra Stephenson - | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
the Hull actor and impressionist who's returning to perform | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
in her home city. Davina McCall for some reason | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
took me ages and I don't know why it took me ages just | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
because it's quite sort of... Like this beautiful photograph of | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
Hull. It is a lovely picture. Somebody who was not busy on | :15:19. | :15:43. | |
Valentines night. The only way I can get you to work on a Tuesday. Roses | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
are red, the weatherman is cute, kiss him, I wish he would let me, | :15:51. | :15:52. | |
that gorgeous Darren. A bit of an unpleasant surprise | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
having me tonight. You are the reason why I do not wear ties any | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
more. You bought you that? Was at the Valentines present? Let us have | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
the forecast. The milder air on the way from the south-west over the | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
next 24 hours. It is going to be with is not just for the second half | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
of the week but I suspect much of next week and I would not be | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
surprised next Monday afternoon, a long way off, temperatures of 16 | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Celsius. I think Thursday and Friday look mostly fine and pleasant. We | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
are just keeping an eye on this weather front that is bringing cloud | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
from the south-west. A beautiful day. You have that picture from | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Hull. The clear blue skies. They will give way to the cloud pushing | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
up from the south-west. A little bit of drizzle and mist. We will see | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
temperatures about four or five Celsius. Generally six or seven | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
Celsius by the end of the night with a moderate south-east wind. The sun | :17:02. | :17:13. | |
rises, just before nine o'clock. -- seven o'clock. A bit of drizzle at | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
first. Skies may well brighten for a time and then we have got another | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
weather front which will later tomorrow afternoon bring some patchy | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
outbreaks of rain in from the south-west. It looks like it is | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
going to be quite wet tomorrow evening. Top temperatures, into | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
double figures just about everywhere, 10 Celsius. Possibly the | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
order 11. 52 Fahrenheit. A bit further ahead into Thursday and | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
Friday, not too bad at all, quite breezy on Thursday but mostly dry | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
with sunshine. Temperatures in double figures and we keep that | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
Malden theme into the weekend. -- mild. | :17:56. | :18:04. | |
Thank you to Louise for the poem. Have a nice evening. I know you have | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
got absolutely nothing on. Nothing at all, Peter. Good night. | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
Researchers in Lincolnshire are trying to find ways to make art | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
more accessible to people who are blind and partially sighted. | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
A university professor has enlisted the help of gallery staff | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
in Sleaford for three months, to test ways galleries could be made | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
Do not touch is a rule in galleries worldwide. | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
The National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford is | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
researching how to make visual arts more accessible for people who are | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
The London galleries, they could easily just have | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
this kind of simple table in front | :18:43. | :18:43. | |
of some of the most amazing pieces of work. | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
Claire Lawrence started losing her sight in childhood but as an artist, | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
With art, it's up to the viewer to take | :18:49. | :18:58. | |
whatever they can from it so I still go to that, | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
but I must admit, I never feel like I get as much out | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
of it as a regular person and for me to be able to walk into this | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
environment and freely be able to walk around because of the path, | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
everything's laid out, you can touch things, | :19:12. | :19:13. | |
it just gives you a sense of freedom that I've rarely | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
Exhibits like this are worth tens of thousands of pounds. | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
So the centre's made copies that can be touched. | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
More than that, with researchers from the University of Lincoln, | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
they designed the whole show from scratch with contrasting colours, | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
large text, and magnifiers and audio description. | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
What is unique about this exhibition on an international | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
scale is the way that we've joined up all of the elements. | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
We don't have the audio separate, we're not doing | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
a petting zoo, we're not just doing a separate touching table. | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
It's actually fundamental to the design of the exhibition. | :19:40. | :19:50. | |
We live in a world where you can't go and touch things | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
that are expensive or fragile so we have got an ongoing research | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
project to work out how, if it is a piece of glass, | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
it would shatter, how do you make that more accessible? | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
The three months of research will be shared with other | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
galleries to open up more art to those who can't see. | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
Anne-Marie Tasker, BBC Look North, Sleaford. | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Thanks to everyone who got in touch following last night's story | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
abouthow a strike by Icelandic fishermen is having an impact here. | :20:24. | :20:33. | |
"Why are we relying on Icelandic fishermen to provide our fish? | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Another example of why we should be looking to provide for ourselves | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
without relying on others - that's why we should be leaving | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
when we leave the EU, we can start fishing our own waters | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
again with success instead of relying on Iceland. | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
We can use the boats that we have around the country." | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
But Mike disagrees, he says "The people | :20:55. | :20:56. | |
we will get our own fishing fleet back and we can go to Iceland | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
There is a 200 mile exclusion zone around Iceland. | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
The only ones who can fish there are the Icelandic people." | :21:07. | :21:14. | |
Subject to fishing and what is going on in Grimsby. Thank you for all of | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
those. Grimsby Town are hoping they can | :21:19. | :21:18. | |
recover from a heavy defeat when they travel to Newport County | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
in League Two tonight.Mariners boss Marcus Bignot made a point of saying | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
sorry to supporters in person on Saturday after his | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
team lost 5-0 at Crewe. He's expecting a tough | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
match tonight. For me, it's going to be | :21:35. | :21:36. | |
the characteristics I want to see in the team because they're | :21:37. | :21:38. | |
going to have to bounce back mentally and it's | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
going to be challenging. Newport are going to | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
throw everything at us, we stand up to that and I'm looking | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
at their characters. Good luck to Grimsby and Scunthorpe | :21:46. | :22:03. | |
United tonight. They both have matches. | :22:04. | :22:05. | |
She is one of Hull's most famous stars, appearing | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
in Coronation Street and Bad Girls among many TV shows over the years. | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
Now Debra Stephenson is bringing her one woman stage show | :22:11. | :22:12. | |
"Night of a 100 voices" to her home city. | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
It'll be on at the City Hall in March. | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
In a moment we'll hear from Debra, but first Katy Austin has been | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
looking at some of Debra's career highlights. | :22:21. | :22:21. | |
Remember Frankie Baldwin from Corrie, well, you have | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
Born and raised in Hull, the actor has become a familiar face | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
She played tough bully Shell Dockley in | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
ITV's Bad Girls while her talent for impressions has seen her | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
I'm Nancy Dell'Olio, I'm here to help. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Yes, that's not actually Nancy Dell'Olio, it's Debra. | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
She has done the Impressions Show with | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
Culshaw and Stephenson, Radio 4's Dead Ringers and ITV's Newzoids. | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
She's also a singer and has showed off her talents | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
Off-screen, Debra returns to Hull from time to time, including helping | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
the Dove House Hospice celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2016. | :23:02. | :23:13. | |
Today, she's been back in town enjoying a | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
certain City of Culture exhibit and Debra will be hoping to make | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
a good impression with her show at City Hall in March. | :23:20. | :23:21. | |
This afternoon I spoke to Debra and asked her | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
I went to school at South Hunsley and Wolfreton, both. | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
So, your big break was at 40, it was Op Knocks, wasn't it? | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
Opportunity Knocks, yes, with Bob Monkhouse. | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
Can you remember what you did on that? | :23:37. | :23:49. | |
It really laid the foundation for the act that | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland, I think, were on it it. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
As long as you say that a lot, you can't go | :23:57. | :24:09. | |
Well, after that, of course, Coronation Street, Dead Ringers, Bad | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
A great honour to be here in city of culture | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
You talk about 100 voices, who are some of | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
Seeing as I have a rather nice desk to allow myself to put my | :24:26. | :24:41. | |
"And probably Sarah Millican because who wouldn't laugh | :24:42. | :24:44. | |
"Paloma Faith's sort of, like, got quite, like, | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
an interesting, like, voice because it sounds a bit silly | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
But luckily I don't sing the way that I, like, speak." | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
She also sounds about four, doesn't she? | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
Well, John Culshaw gave me a tip and just said | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
do David Beckham but in your voice and maybe it's going to sound a | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
little more like her so I added a little lisp... | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
How long does it take to perfect a voice? | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
Sandi was just by accident while I was chopping vegetables. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
"One day when I was chopping vegetables, I made the | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
But then Davina McCall for some reason | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
took me ages and I don't know why it took me ages because it's quite sort | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
I think there was almost too much going on with her. | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
Well, listen, it's a fantastic Hull success story | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
so good luck for the night of 100 voices. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Joe Longthorne was a great inspiration, wasn't he? | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
And I loved to watch him when I was growing up as a child so, | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
Well, city of culture year, it's great to have you | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
And we wish you well for the March the 17th. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
Trouble for Trump - less than a month in office | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
Security adviser - Michael Flynn resigns. | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
Council leaders warn the government must face up to a crisis | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
Tomorrow's weather and it will be mostly cloudy and damp at first, | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
turning brighter later before rain spreads in the afternoon. | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
The subject of funding social care. Mandy says when will the government | :26:36. | :26:52. | |
get it? We should be looking after our own elderly and vulnerable. And | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
the NHS. Send less money abroad. Our own deserve care that we are paying | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
for. Disgraceful. A social work in adult care, I have been for nine | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
years. The system is broken and we are not managing to help you service | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
users. John says you cannot expect | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
Scandinavian levels of social care on North American levels of | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
taxation. 1% on all levels of income tax would raise 5.5 billion, the | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
choice is ours, says John. How much is being spent on HS2? 55 billion. | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
There's is a money force NHS and social care. HS2 won't do a good | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
deal. A big response to this story. Have a nice evening. Join me later | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
at 10:30pm. If not, see you tomorrow. Goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:47. |