23/02/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight:

A narrow escape for a driver as a major storm hits

Road and rail services are disrupted and high winds

It felt like something from a war film.

You know when you watch a war film and you are hearing walls crashing

Backing for a Sugar Tax as concern grows about the increasing number

A woman whose life was saved because of a lung transplant

makes friends with her donor's family.

From a Yorkshire park to Wembley Stadium -

the assistant referee heading to the League Cup final.

An improvement is expected over the next few hours under tomorrow looks

much better. Join me the details. Thousands of homes have been left

without power tonight and dozens of trees brought down by strong

winds that have ripped through Roads have been blocked

and public transport disrupted One driver in Spalding had a lucky

escape after a tree fell just in front of him while a car

was crushed by a falling wall Our correspondent Paul Murphy

is in Lincoln tonight. Southern Lincolnshire has borne the

brunt of Doris. In Spalding, this driving instructor witness first

hand the power of a winter storm. Waves whipped up by the wind have

meant it has been go slowing -- slow going free shipping on the Humber.

And for those crossing the river, there have been the safety concerns.

The bridge has been close to high sided vehicles, but that closure is

only advice and many have made the journey. If you are driving,

particularly good vehicle, but you probably drive day in, day out,

you're going to know how it is affected by the wind. When you are

crossing these bridges, that is going to amplified and I think

really you should be thinking, if I need to think about this, then I

probably shouldn't be crossing this bridge. At one point, Lincolnshire

police said trees were falling faster than they could tweet about

them. We have been sent dozens of your photos from around the county.

In the centre of Lincoln, the wind was strong enough to bring down

wall, damaging a car, but thankfully no one was injured. There was a big

gust of wind and we slowly saw the wall crashing down. It all happened

slow motion. Then you just hear this really loud bang. We have had strong

winds before, but to witness something like this, it is quite

scary. Later this afternoon, it was estimated that up to 4,000 homes

were without power in Lincolnshire. As darkness falls, this could prove

to be the biggest challenge facing the county.

Paul Murphy with the report and thanks to those people who thought

of us and sent in the pictures, some very good photos that we have had

during the course of the afternoon. Let's get the latest, Caroline is in

the studio. What is the best advice, especially when it comes to

travelling? Hull trains have tweeted saying that due to the storm, they

are asking customers not to travel today but they are telling customers

that tickets will be be able to be used on the services tomorrow. East

Midlands trains also saying that. East Midlands ambulance service are

warning people not to dial 999 to tell them that trees have collapsed.

Would you believe people have been doing that? The ambulance service

have been turning out to discover there is no one injured, it is just

a tree collapsing there. So they are advising people to not use that

service to tell them about that but they are telling people to be

careful when leaving their homes and also to check on their elderly

neighbours. We are hearing the storm is starting to move away and

hopefully things will be back to normal tomorrow. Caroline, thank you

very much. There will be more on the late bulleting, which is on BBC One

at 10:30pm, if you can join me later and of course, BBC Radio 4

Humberside and BBC radio Lincolnshire has more on the weather

and the traffic and travel. A motorcyclist has died following

a crash in North Lincolnshire. The 37-year-old man was travelling

on Holmes Lane in Bottesford yesterday evening when his bike came

off the road. And a 31-year-old cyclist died last

night in Lincolnshire after a collision with a car

on the A158 near Burgh le Marsh. Police are asking for any

witnesses to come forward. Fire crews are currently tackling

a blaze at a business in Lincoln. Six fire engines were called

to a storage building for Dynex Semi-Conductors

on Doddington Road. It started just after four

o'clock this afternoon. Lincolnshire Police have

crushed a car suspected The force have seized a number

of vehicles which were used to chase It actually shows people that we,

in a very, very real way, that we will seize vehicles

as a result of the legislation, the law that we have in order

to deal with this type of criminality, that

we will destroy them. MPs from our area are warning that

jobs at a Hull-based firm could be lost as the Government reviews

a green energy scheme. Vivergo is the largest supplier

of biofuels in the UK. Currently a percentage of fuel sold

at petrol stations needs to come from biofuels but Ministers have

been consulting on plans The Minister of State will recall

that our meeting in December, with representatives from Vivergo fuels,

where jobs are under threat, the are TfL concentration has now closed,

can the Minister in lighten us as to when he will make the decision and

lift the threat of redundancy? -- the consultation. One in five

children leaving primary schools in parts of East Yorkshire in

Lincolnshire are obese. The problem is so bad

that the Government says it must act to stop people developing

complicated problems It wants to tax companies that make

sugary drinks to force them Our health correspondent

Vicky Johnson reports. Sugar has become almost as big

an enemy to our health, according to some experts,

as alcohol or tobacco. Fanta, do we think that is higher

or lower than the Slush Puppy? Part of the Get Going programme

in North Lincolnshire aims to educate families about nutrition,

especially the sugar We do a task around ketchup and also

other sauces and people don't realise how much sugar

is in your sauces, your ketchups. The Volvic one really

surprised me when I posted this. The Volvic one really

surprised me when I first did this. I used to drink quite a few of them

and now I am like, what? I understand that sometimes you have

got a have sugar in these things I understand that sometimes you have

got to have sugar in these things but I think the amount they put

in can be a bit excessive. More than 20% of children who leave

primary schools across Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire are classed

as obese and the Sykes family say they wanted to tackle

their weight problems together. I know the implications

of the health issues, diabetes, etc, and I didn't want them,

going forward, Last year, the then

Chancellor weighed in with I can announce that we will

introduce a new sugar levy The soft drinks industry levy

will be introduced in 2018, allowing companies time

to change their recipes. The amount of tax will depend

on the amount of sugar in the drink. Pure fruit juices and milk-based

drinks will be exempt. The Government says it expects

to raise more than half a billion pounds from the tax

in the first year alone. Much of that will fund things

like breakfast clubs and sports, to encourage children to eat

and be healthier. I think fizzy drinks are a good

thing to target and it's probably an initial initiative

that there are going to be things which follow

on from that, and other foods. Sugary drinks don't contain

any other nutrients. But those involved in

the sugar industry doubt it Consumption per head of sugars has

dropped by 15% and since 2001, Others argue that the focus

of reducing our sugar intake should be on public health campaigns,

rather than through tax, and the Sykeses are just one family

who have already started changing their diet

to a low sugar one. Tam Fry is from the National Obesity

Forum. Mr Fry, good evening. Good evening.

In North Lincolnshire, 20% of those who leave primary school are obese.

Do parents have to take the blame when you are talking about children

that age? They have to take some of the blame, but the blame should be

apportioned also to government, because government is creating the

playing field upon which everybody is operating and at the moment, we

have what is called and a piece generate environment, which is

heavily shouldn't -- sugar laden. The best parent will try to do is

sometimes self-defeating, because we are in an environment which is

contrary to good health. I'm assuming that you will be in favour

of sugar tax. Are you relaxed that the poorest will be hit hardest, is

what will happen? I would take issue with that. What is happening with

the sugar levy, as it should be called, is that the companies, the

manufacturers, are going to be levied, and they are expected to

subsume all that cost. The brilliant thing about the sugar levy is that

from the moment it was announced by the Chancellor last year, the sugar

companies have said, we don't want to pay this levy and they have all

started to bring their sugar levels down, and that has been a dramatic

effect. We are now seeing companies bringing their sugar levels down by

as much as 40%, which is way over what was asked, so the fear of God

has been put into the companies that unless you bring your sugar down, we

will tack chut, we will let the EU and the finance people in the

companies are saying we are not having any of that, we will bring

the levels down -- we will levy you. I think it will be a win-win

situation, the sugar content will come down, the consumption of sugar

will come down and it will be assumed by the retailers and by the

manufacturers and not the punter. And would you extend this to other

products, including, you know, the drinks that people can buy at a copy

shop, for example, that can contain up to 15 teaspoons of sugar and,

again, young people and others are drinking those? Absolutely and I

think you will see that coming. It won't come immediately because the

fizzy drinks are the first target, but it has been made absolutely

plain, and you have rightly quoted the Coffey and the amount of sugar

that goes into it, that all those that were originally excluded when

the Chancellor got on his feet are now going to come into the frame and

anything that has got a sugar in it, at whatever level, will be addressed

and I think the same thing will happen with that and I look forward

to the occasion in 2025 where we are actually starting to consume what is

good for us, rather than what the manufacturers would have us consume.

Very interesting, thank you very much indeed. We would like to throw

this opened. Is it down to the

Government to step in? Or is it - as some say -

an example of the nanny Or maybe you agree with Mr Fry, that

the manufacturers will be forced to put less and less sugar in their

products and we will get used to it. If you want to get in touch, here is

how to do so... You might agree with one

Conservative, who said a few days ago that the sugar tax is

patronising. We will have some before we are done

at 7pm. A woman whose

life was saved by an organ donor tells of her friendship with the

donor's family. After more than 25 years in the job,

an East Yorkshire assistant referee Don't miss that. Still to come.

Tonight's photograph, thank you very much indeed for that, keep the

pictures coming in. As I said earlier on, we have had some great

photos. It has been a lively day weather-wise, let's get the details

from Paul. Thank you, yes, it has been very

lively, here are some of the highest winds through southern parts of

Lincolnshire, and this sums the situation up very nicely. Not very

strong winds across East Yorkshire, the focus across Lincolnshire

towards the coast and right now, winds are picking up across North

East Lincolnshire, Cleethorpes currently around about 62 mph. Storm

Doris is on its way out, I think the coastal Gaels will ease over the

next few hours. There is still a warning in place, it dies away at

8pm. Tomorrow, high pressure in charge, all part will be dry with

storm Doris, the Hook of cloud off into the North Sea and pressure is

raising quite strongly, that is why we are getting a squeeze along the

coast but in the next few hours, those coastal Gaels will ease. The

number of showers feeding down from the north-west, but eventually,

Allport will be dry, easing considerably. Just a chance if you

have some shelter of a touch of ground frost, temperatures down to

one or two Celsius. So the sun rises in the morning at 7:02 a.m.. The

next high water in Cleethorpes just after four a.m.. So there will be

areas of cloud around, perhaps just the odd shower, but the emphasis is

on a good deal of dry and bright weather tomorrow, and some sunshine

and crucially, it will be much less windy. Let's have a look at those

afternoon temperatures across East Yorkshire. Closer to normal, around

about 7 degrees. One or 28s across Lincolnshire. A lot of fine weather

over The Weeknd, but the emphasis is on a good deal of it. That is the

forecast. -- the weekend. I have to apologise, for people at home, you

sounded like you were in a broom cupboard, so you might need to look

at your microphone issues! I will get my personal assistant

onto that. I don't know why it is not working. Would you like me to do

the forecast again? Or do you have more important things to do?

I would like you to go away now. Thank you very much. I apologise for

that, we obviously have some sound issues tonight.

A woman from Hornsea is encouraging other people who've been donated

organs to get in touch with the people who

Jane Holmes says she's gained a new extended family in the process

and together they are raising money to help her daughter walk.

Tish Murtha died of a bleed on her brain four years ago.

Her organs saved the lives of the four women, women

If I've made this decision to offer the gift of life to people and,

do you know, it is up to them, they don't have to have contact,

but for me personally to know that I've made the right decision,

I just hoped every day that I would hear, even just

a piece of information, just to know that they were OK.

And an extraordinary friendship grew with two of the organ recipients.

Thanks to Maisie from Hornsea, her mum Jane got new lungs

and she sent a Christmas card to Ella because she was worried

Thank you for letting your mummy save my mummy's life.

Do you know, for a little girl, who has never even met me,

to have so much empathy for another person, we've got a bond for life.

Today, Jane, Maisie, Ella and Teresa, who has Tish's

kidney and pancreas, all appeared on the Victoria

Derbyshire show to encourage other donors and recipients

I did want to say thank you, this is what your decision has enabled,

a mum of four to go on living and being a mum.

The initial meeting, I mean, it was putt it would have been Tish,

The initial meeting, I mean, it was... It would have been Tish,

whose lungs I've received, Ella's mum, it would have been her

They say they are like sisters now, but this tale of friendship

Maisie needs an operation to help her walk,

something the three friends are now busy fundraising for.

Moving and incredible story and plenty of publicity earlier today.

We wish them all well. And don't forget, if you know the story you

think we should know about, get in touch. Drop me an e-mail at the

usual address and give me a telephone number as well. Thanks to

everyone who got in touch after we talked about the city council in

Hull charging people for replacement bins.

The authority has been criticised by some council tax payers

for making people pay ?33 for a new bin if theirs is stolen.

And ironically after the weather this morning, even more people have

been writing about the subject of rubbish bins either being blown away

all being taken if they blow down the road and somebody thinks, I'll

have that, and take it in. Just a few.

Time to look ahead at what's planned over the next week or so as part of

Hull's year as the UK City of Culture. Here's Kofi Smiles.

it is your weekly what's on guide. Time for some culture! As part of

the Women Of The World Festival, there is a series of workshops for

revolutionary makers. It is all about crafts for gender equality.

Women of words is a monthly events for female performers of prose,

spoken word and drama. Do you know a budding artist between the ages of

11 and 14 who would want their work displayed alongside a prize-winning

artist? There is a great competition that is perfect for them, open until

the 4th of March. Check out all of the details at the website. You

might remember that the deep has a different artist in residence every

month. Coming up, it is the return of Nick O'Neill. His paintings are

experienced by a lifetime -- influence by a lifetime of deep sea

diving. I went to see the new gallery at the

weekend and saw the deadbolt on the wall, the whole fruit market as the

area is buzzing. and more from Kofi, go to our City

of Culture website at We will have some more next

Thursday. Hull singer Calum Scott missed

out on a Brit award. He was beaten by Little Mix

for the Best British Single award. He had been nominated

for his song Dancing On My Own. Remember, we were talking to him, a

lovely lad, earlier in the week on the programme. He just missed out

but to get nominated even for a Brit award is a real achievement and he

will be singing as part of Hull 2017 at the City Hall.

Hull Kingston Rovers have been fined ?25,000 following crowd

trouble after their game against Salford last season.

Defeat saw Rovers relegated from Super League and rival fans

The club will have to pay ?5,000 immediately,

Hull FC will move to the top of the Super League table

The Black and Whites are at home against the Catalans Dragons.

Lee Radford's side will be keen to make it two wins

Tomorrow is your last chance to come and share your memories

of Bransholme Estate in Hull for its 50th birthday.

All week, the team have been at the North Point Shopping Centre

looking for people to feature in a new film about the estate.

When we first moved in here, there was no boundary, so this room, our

living room, was in certain, where we could have a cup of tea and then

we could walk through, follow me... Into the kitchen. This is where we

could have our dinner and our take, because this is Bransholme. Great

memories of Bransholme over the last 50 years.

And, tomorrow, I'll be joining the team at North Point Shopping

Centre in Bransholme between 11am and 1pm, so come and say hello.

On Sunday, Richard West has to perform in front of nearly

100,000 people without any mistakes, while also being

Richard, from East Yorkshire, is the assistant referee -

or linesman to you and me - at the League Cup Final

at Wembley between Manchester United and Southampton.

Our sports reporter Simon Clark has been to meet him.

It's a blowy midweek night in Hull and Richard West

is joining his fellow East Riding referees in their weekly

This is Costello Park, where on the adjacent playing field,

a 15-year-old Richard took his first tentative steps as a referee.

I think it has now been 13, this is my 13th year

in the Premier League, so it has been quite a trek.

I have had my ups and downs but I've finally got there after 27 years.

Those Hull playing field's are distant memory.

Anfield and Old Trafford are Richard's usual work places -

last Saturday it was here at Millwall in the FA Cup.

So how'd you get from the rough and ready playing fields

of East Yorkshire to Wembley Stadium?

It'll cost you a fiver, it is the Laws of the Game,

there are 17 to learn and you need to get yourself onto a referee's

course, either at the Lincolnshire FA or here in Hull at the East

Steve Lazenby looks after recruitment in the East Riding.

He says everyone could have a route to Wembley.

Well, everyone begins in a room like this one.

Howard Webb, Mark Clattenburg, Mike Oliver and Richard

We will give you the support you need to get you to the next

level and dependent on your own desire and how far you want to climb

up the ladder, we will give you every opportunity.

Back at Costello, Richard's demonstrating some of

the new training disciplines elite officials undertake at FA

Just the very fact that he comes down with the lads on a Wednesday

night, I mean if we can't learn off lads like him,

It is great to see a success story, especially a local one,

someone who can follow through and hopefully

League Cup final recognition for Richard West is a welcome boost

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

A woman is killed by flying debris in the West Midlands as

In Lincolnshire, there's a close shave for one driver as high winds

A much quieter day than today , most places dry and bright

talking about the sugar tax earlier on on some products. Peters has

sugar tax would do no good, it is like petrol, if you wanted you bite.

Gemma says I agree we need to tackle the obesity problem in the area but

what about type one diabetics that HMO? Liz says no one forces people

to drink them. James says they should educate the parents, as they

are the ones that are buying and giving children these drinks. And

this from Gemma, who says the problem with obesity is that if you

go to the supermarket and buy fruit and veg and meat, it costs a

fortune, but you can pick up five pizzas for less than ?10. Cheryl

says bring back proper school meals with meat and veg and nothing to

drink but water. Maureen says it is a sad judgment of the state has to

intervene with a sugar tax because the population cannot control

itself. Big response, thank you very much

for those for watching. Join me later at 10:30pm and don't forget,

if you are around Bransholme tomorrow, from 11 a.m., I will be at

Northpoint shopping centre, come and say hello. Goodbye for now.