08/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.

Money for social care and a rate cap for small businesses; the chancellor

I'm at Westminster where both sides have been reacting to the budget.

Some say it didn't go far enough. Businesses here say there is good

news in the budget with pubs being promised a discount

on their rates. Whether it will offset the increases

we were expecting anyway, many customers say it's a slight drop in

the ocean. Also on the programme, a new army

of land girls as more women look Also tonight, people taking to their

bike to search for missing people. And, a new army of land girls as

more women look for a career in agriculture on international women's

day. I think there is no glass ceiling at all within agriculture.

If you want to do something, the opportunities are there. And the

last living British dam Buster call force recognition as he returns to

the spot where he dropped his bomb. 13 degrease today. Will the spring

sunshine last? Join me for the detailed five-day forecast.

It's a budget which, according to the Prime Minister

addresses the key issues facing the country.

The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, today increased the amount of money

available for Social Care by ?2 billion.

He said growth would be higher and borrowing would be lower

But his opponents have accused him of utter complacency.

Local businesses have broadly welcomed his speech and we'll be

hearing from some of them in a moment, but first our political

Editor Tim Iredale reports on the measures the Chancellor hopes

will address the financial challenge of a growing elderly population.

Budget day is the day where we find out whether we'll be better or worse

off. If you were to ask the majority of these women protesting at

Westminster today, they'll tell you they're out-of-pocket due to

previously announced changes which means that some of them who thought

they could retire at 60 will now have to wait until they're 66 to

collect their state pension. The Government have just totally ignored

us. They'll not even entertain talking to us about it. They say

there's no money, we are not going to do anything about it, we have

already given you a six-month extension. But the six-month

transition arrangement they've put in doesn't cover all women. The

Chancellor didn't address the pension concerns but he did tackle

arguably the biggest issue tackling the growing population of elderly

people. Council tax will be increased by 3% in the form of a

levy or precept to pay for social care. Councils said they were facing

a ?2.6 billion short fall by 2020. Today, the Chancellor announced ?2

billion for social care over the next three years. There is an ageing

population, increasing demand for social care, and this is a good step

forward for people in Lincolnshire and everywhere else. Some argue it's

still not enough. It doesn't sound enough. At least it's a contribution

towards a significant problem. What we have is the Government holding

its hands up and saying there is no crisis in our watch on health and

social care and throwing some money at it. We need to look at how social

care works in the long-term. This will be an extra ?1 billion this

coming year and I think that will be good news, I hope, for Lincolnshire

County Council and across the country. The number crunching begins

and councils across Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire will know how much of

that ?2 billion they'll receive towards the growing cost of care.

The chancellor told MPs there'll be extra financial help for businesses

which have been affected by recent rate rises and that

certain pubs would receive a discount on their rates.

People who run businesses locally have broadly

welcomed today's budget, as our Business correspondent

Subbusinesses eagerly awaited the budget day pose and the start of the

Chancellor's speech. In the first budget since Brexit, it was revealed

the economy is growing and unemployment is falling. But is that

the case locally? Well those that represent businesses in the area say

it's a bright future. We are doing very well at the moment, the City of

culture, the Siemens investment, the council talks about billions of

investment, I'm sure that's more than we've probably ever had at any

single point in the past so we are on a bit of a role. There are

difficulties as we do know about, but broadly good news. Here at

Safety Supplying Clothing, they're expanding rapidly and would have

liked more of a UK strategy from the Chancellor. This is our national

distribution centre and we have outgrown it so we are going to have

to build another one. When it's all finished and up to speed, there'll

be over 300 new jobs for Hull. I was looking for fundamental honesty

about the state of the nation's finances which I got, I would like

to hear a full I haves and strategy. What about small businesses? It was

a sigh of relief for this cafe which business rates won't increase. It

was a sigh of relief. They may have doubled almost. Now the budget's

come out, it's a a relief. This small brewery supplies around 100 in

our area. They welcomed the Government's

recognition of pubs being a part of the community and hopefully, it's

the first time we have seen that in a budget, hopefully that will

continue in the future developments. And we heard there'll be ?90 million

of transport spending for the north. So what would people like that money

to be spent on? More cycle lanes, as flat as Amsterdam. Make roads wider

if possible. More cycle ways. Widen the pavements. A sign on the main

road into Hull reads "what can you do? " It seems with a little help,

rather a lot. Let us know what you think of what

the Chancellor had to say today. There'll be an extra

?2 billion for Social Care, a subject which has been

in the headlines recently. But if you're self employed,

your National Insurance More on the budget from Tim who is

live in London just before 7. Around 200 properties have a fourth

day without water after a pipe burst in the Lincolnshire Wolds

over the weekend. Anglian Water has been involved

in two operations since Sunday, fixing a huge underground water pipe

and getting bottled water I'm really conscious that we've made

several bad guesses about how long it's going to take and I don't want

to make another one. We are hoping to get water back to people tonight

and we are hoping for a solution tomorrow. We should begin to push

this to a conclusion tomorrow. Northern Rail has announced details

of a reduced service next Monday, The RMT union balloted

for the strike over fears that new trains planned for 2018 would no

longer require conductors. Northern Rail says it will run

just 40% of its usual The chairman of Hull

and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust Mike Ramsden has announced

he is to step down at He took on the role as chairman

after widespread bullying was exposed by the Care Quality

Commission. It's hoped a ?3 million investment

into East Midlands Ambulance Service will help improve the care patients

receive. A new electronic record

system will be delivered over the next two years,

giving paramedics quicker access to medical records and allowing

injury information to be sent to the hospital before

the patient arrives. Campaigners trying to save a playing

field in Scunthorpe say they're disappointed that

North Lincolnshire Council has voted This afternoon the council approved

proposals for 122 homes But over 1,000 people have signed

a petition against the plans. My children have played on here and

my grandchildren still do. I think it's really a shame that they're

going to take it off of us. There is no problem in it being built on

brown field site, that needs developing, but it's a useable

space. If it's built on for houses or anything else for that matter,

it's gone and it won't be coming back.

Every year, hundreds of people go missing in Lincolnshire and valuable

police time is spent trying to find them.

Now thanks to a lottery grant, a team of volunteers on mountain

But there are only four bikes for the whole of Lincolnshire -

and the Lowland Search and Rescue team admits it needs more

Laura Foster joined them as they trained in woods

They're like mountain rescue without the hills; the coast guard

without the water; this team is on call 24 hours a day-

Ready to help Lincolnshire Police find people who've gone missing

because of dementia, mental health issues

or because they've run away from home.

I can see it almost like a fourth emergency service. There are times

when the emergency services themselves are pretty stretched.

They need the assistance of volunteers. The mountain bike

element is fairly new to us so we are hitting the ground running, so

to speak, but yes, the element is to get out there as fast as possible.

They're given a meeting point that can be anywhere from Grimsby

Some will go on foot, but this new bike team rides in a four.

The person at the front's in charge of navigating,

the second rider looks left, the third looks right

while the fourth is the team leader and watches over the group.

At the moment the team are being briefed on their drill to find Pete.

He and I were in the middle of the forest. What have you got to do

exactly? Got to run, hide, play a certain type of persona so it

challenges and tests their skills. Yes, hopefully they can find me and

bring me back safe. All right, off you go.

It's not just about cycling, the team are specially trained

in calming down vulnerably individuals and guiding

Lincolnshire Police says their help is incredibly important.

We'd struggle to find the staff. We do rally every available member of

staff, but that extra help is invaluable. Currently they've only

got four bikes for the second biggest county in the UK. We need

more volunteers to be able to join, train up and give a little bit of

timethe community. At the moment, there are no mountain bike search

teams for Yorkshire, it's hoped that will be set up in the future.

They're doing great work there. Maybe they'll get some more

volunteers after tonight. If you have a story you think we

should know about, send me an e-mail. Still to come: The last

living British dam Buster calls for recognition as he returns to the

spot where he dropped his bomb. Now Toonite else photograph is a

real winner. -- tonight's photograph. It was taken at St

Mary's church in Barton upon Humber. Another picture tonight at around

the same time. Good evening, young man.

People often ask me, what does Paul do earlier in the day. A sneak

preview from earlier today. That looks really hard. I knew you were

going to do that! There was a weather conference on. Do you think

anybody actually believes that who is watching? Caught red handed. It's

the last time I'm tweeting pictures like that. The headline for the next

24 hours. It's going to be very nice. Lots of sunshine to come.

Tomorrow it will be a little on the windy side. There's the headline,

sunny, windy and dry. Temperatures around 12 or 13. This warm front

will bring a bit of drizzle for Friday, Friday although a cloudy day

will be mostly dry and should stay mild. There was a bit of a back hang

of cloud for a time. It was fairly cloudy first thing but the afternoon

really made up for it with that sunshine. 13 degrees widely across

parts of our region. So, this evening is fine with clear spells

and very little happening overnight. A weak weather front bringing the

odd shower up to the north-west side of Yorkshire. It's going to be dry

with temperatures five, six or seven. The sun rises at 6. 37. There

might be a bit of patchy cloud around first thing as the weak

weather front moves into the North Sea, otherwise what a lovely day.

Blue skies for many, lots of sunshine. The only downside is it's

going to be windy. It will be a westerly whistling down the Humber.

So Hull and Grimsby perhaps feeling that. Temperatures are above average

for the first half of March. A little further ahead, mostly dry

and cloudy on Friday. Weak weather fronts comed bring patchy rain for a

time over the weekend. That said, there'll be a lot of fine weather on

offer for golf. Tim wrote last night about whether it's a four or

five-day forecast. Nicky says, reviewing the weather of the day is

not a forecast, thens viewer Tim is right, it's only a four-day

forecast. Talking about what we have had today is not a forecast. It's 6.

45, four hours left of today, that's day one, and then another four

there... Love to chat but lost the will to

live! A career in farming and agriculture

is becoming increasingly popular among women in our area,

according to Bishop Burton College. Five years ago 10% of the college's

students were women but that figure Today, as part of International

Women's day, the college has been trying to inspire women to pursue

careers in agriculture. War transformed the status and role

of women; in Britian's fields the land girls proved it wasn't just

men who could drive tractors and harvest crops.But several

decades later; one of the countries biggest agricultural colleges

is still trying to inspire more I think there is no glass ceiling at

all in agriculture. If you want to do something, the opportunities are

there. We used to have one in ten students signing up for ago cultural

courses. We've now got four or five in ten and that's happened in the

last five years. Student Emily Richardson grew up

on an arable farm and always wanted to follow in her fathers footsteps;

she says her gender didn't matter. Hundreds of women gathered today

at the college to hear success It is a man's industry, but it's got

better. Half the course girls and the majority of the teachers are

women, so over time the perception of men in agriculture is getting

pushed aside by women as well in that they can do it.

Hundreds of women gathered today at the college to hear success

stories with the hope of inspiring students like Eve.

When you say you're doing agriculture, people don't believe

it. It's nice to see so many women in the industry and so many women

doing really well many the industry as well. It just shows all the

different things that you can do within agriculture.

Across the world others have used this day to protest

for women's rights - strikes were held in

In Russia, it's a public holiday where the sales

In East Yorkshire - Janine Burley set up her own

business after being made redundant - she's one of a growing number

It's realingly important you encourage other women to do what

you've done because sometimes women get stuck in a rut and feel they're

limited when actually really women are not limited at all. So it's

really nice to be out there saying to women, yes, you can do it too.

As the next generation of young girls grow up -

the organisers of women's day say they hope it's in a world

Jill is at a Boxing Academy where something special

When it comes to sports dominated by men, boxing is one of them. More

than 30 women are here having a go for free today, thanks to

professional boxer Tommy Coyle. Why did you have this idea to open the

doors of the academy? Well, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for a

woman and I love giving stuff away and giving something back, so why

not. Thank you very much. Quickly let's speak to one of the women

having a go. Amanda, do you feel empowered by having a go at a sport

like boxing? Empowered, invigorated, it's a great place to come get your

stress and anxieties out. I was a gym-Phoebe up until last year when

my friend introduced me to coming here. The integration for women

continues into the weekend. Hull hosts the festival the Women of the

World for the first time ever this weekend.

The multi-million selling electric string quartet Bond, featuring

Hull-born Gayee Westerhoff, will complete the lineup

of the Women of the World festival in Hull which starts this Friday.

Bond will join fellow Hull performers Lucy Beaumont

and Maureen Lipman on the opening night at the City Hall.

WOW is a festival of culture and debate which aims

to ensure women and girls realise their potential.

Thanks to everyone who got in touch after we told you how the Lincoln

University Student's Union had suspended the social media account

Dan "These students have too much time on their hands.

I studied veterinary medicine at university and was too busy

working my socks off to be offended by decisions made by

Alistair "Universities have long been breeding grounds

for the extreme left wing brainwashing of young students.

Woe betide anyone with their own political opinion on campus.

They will find themselves censored or gagged.

PJ from Hull "Can someone please tell the Lincoln students

that there is no such thing as a right to not be offended,

and that genuine rights like freedom of speech are not just 'values'.

They flew daring missions from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire

during World War Two, but today the last surviving

Dambuster has renewed his calls for his unit to be recognised more

George 'Johnny' Johnson served with 617 squadron.

In a special report the BBC's Michael Buerk has taken

Johnny back to Germany, to the spot where

George Osborny Johnson may be looking at the present, but he's

seeing the past. He's back three quarters of a century to a moon lit

night and almost impossible mission. It was a thrilling experience. As a

young man, he was part of RAF bomber command, part of the sustained

lethal campaign against the Nazi's war machine that all but destroyed

many of Germany's cities. Jonnie flew on 50 missions. One stood out.

This is a huge lake held back by the great dam. It's a tourist resort

these days. Out of season it's quiet and peaceful. 74 years ago, it was

the target for the most famous bombing raid in history.

The mission involved dropping specially invented bombs designed to

destroy the three targets, the dams captured in the 1950s film the

Dambusters. As a bomb aimer, Jonnie Johnson's job was to hit the Zorpa

dam. Our briefing was to fly across the dam to drop the bomb as near as

possible to the centre of the dam. It was something we hadn't practised

at all in training, that type of attack. So it was practise,

practise, practise here until you got it right. Go did you, on this

raid or any other, is any thought for the people underneath? No, not

during operational times. This 14-year-old was hiding in a tunnel

under the dam that night. The doors inside the dam burst open. All the

children were screaming. It was chaos. Jonnie's bomb was spot on,

but not enough to breach the Zorpa. But the other Dambusters blew great

holes in the Morna and Ada dams. The war's supreme feat of flying dealt

Hitler the most dramatic of blows. Now his two old men at the side of a

lake where they nearly died long ago, they're the only ones left

remembering. We talked about this a few weeks bag, there's now 308,000

people signed a petition for Jonnie to get a Knighthood. The main and

national headlines: 2.5 million self-employed people will pay higher

national insurance contributions. Businesses here say there is some

good news with the promise of rate cuts for pubs and small companies.

Let's two back to the budget. Our Political Editor Tim Iredale is in

Westminster. What's been the reaction to the budget?

I'm live at the Treasury here tonight where the bean counters will

be hoping for some good press following the announcements made

today. Lincolnshire county council is one of the authorities that's

been given a cautious welcome to an extra ?2 billion which will be spent

on social care over the next three years. Other Cowan sails say it

falls far short though and there's ?90 million to be spent on transport

-- other councils. So-called pinch point. To put that into perspective,

?90 million doesn't even cover the cost of Lincoln's eastern bypass and

it's half the cost of the A63 in Hull. That money will have to be

spread very thinly. This wasn't a give-away budget and I don't think

anyone really will be feeling massively better off tonight.

Thank you very much. Reading some of the e-mails and texts coming in. Ian

is in Skegness, we have extra money for social care, does this mean that

we'll not be paying the extra few percent on council tax? I doubt that

very much, Ian. Thank you for these, keep them coming in, more tomorrow

night. Thank you for watching. See you at 10. 30. Bye.

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