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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The headlines tonight: Figures reveal more than a thousand local | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
children are carers for parents - some as young as five. | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
Tonight, one family open up and tell their story. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
My dad used to help my mum and then because my dad died, | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
I started helping her, and Megan and Maddie. | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
It's not right, they should just be living a normal life and should | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
have Mummy and Daddy, and shouldn't have to | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
And remarkably, one local council told us they don't know the number | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
In other news tonight: They feared no-one would go to the funeral | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
of war veteran Robert Neale, but it was standing room only | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
At the start of today's surface, the minister quoted the hymn, | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
when I needed a neighbour, were you there? | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
A householder catches this six-vehicle crash on camera and says | :00:55. | :01:07. | |
And she was the reporter sent to cover a beauty | :01:08. | :01:17. | |
And with the news of the weekend and potentially some wintry weather, I | :01:18. | :01:32. | |
will be here with the details in 15 minutes. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Figures given to Look North show that children who are younger | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
than five years old are providing care for family members | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
Overall, the number of children known to have caring | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
responsibilities in East Yorkshire and some parts of Lincolnshire has | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
more than doubled in four years and there are now more than 1,600 | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
Local authorities are legally required to assess whether young | :01:57. | :02:04. | |
carers need support And some schools are now training staff | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Eight-year-old Marlee from Scunthorpe is making | :02:08. | :02:15. | |
It is just one of the things that Marlee, his nine-year-old sister | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
Megan and four-year-old Maddie do to help her, because Mum | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
is often confined to bed with painful long-term | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
My dad used to help my mum and then, because my dad died, | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
I started helping her, and Megan and Maddie. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
My eldest, Megan, she can help me in the bathroom, | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
she'll wash my back, she'll help us when I'm | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
restricted with my movements, because I struggle to wash my hair. | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
She will help me with things like that. | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Maddie, my youngest, she will get the washing in and out. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Marlee is very strong, so he will help with lifting things. | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
They should just be living a normal life and should have Mummy and Daddy | :02:56. | :03:06. | |
and they shouldn't have to have the worry | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
But I am proud because they just do it anyway. | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
Research by Look North has found that since 2013, | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
the number of children assessed as young carers by North | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
Lincolnshire Council has doubled from 48 to 97. | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
In North East Lincolnshire the number has gone up from 156 | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
to 332 and in the East Riding, it has risen from 64 to 144. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
In Lincolnshire, the numbers will remain steady at around 1,100 | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
and Hull City Council was unable to tell is how many young carers | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Once carers are identified, there is some support out there. | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
We support them to ensure that they have the same | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
We do this by providing them with a young carers needs assessment | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
using a whole family approach to ensure that there is not | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
excessive levels of care being taken by the child. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Caring at home can mean children miss some school | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
Now some schools like this one have trained teachers | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
to identify and help pupils with caring responsibilities. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
If we do spot those signs, then it means we can invite them | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
along to our weekly young carers group and we can offer them | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
the support in and out of the school to help them with their caring role. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
Back in Scunthorpe, Megan and Marlee have come to a first aid session | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
These children know they might have to use their skills | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
The rise in the number of known young carers is partly due | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
to growing awareness and partly due to changes in the law which entitle | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
them to an assessment, but children's charities say | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
there are still many more out there who we do not yet know about. | :04:48. | :05:00. | |
Earlier I spoke to the Children's Commissioner, Anne Longfield, | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
and I asked her whether these youngsters deserve our | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
They are doing it because they love their family and they want to help | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
And it is usually their siblings and their parents they are helping, | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
so they really are doing amazing things, but they also need support | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
as children and we know that a lot of them don't get that support | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
How worrying is it that the number of young carers in parts | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
of our region have actually doubled in numbers? | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
I would want to look at them and understand them better. | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
There may be some explanations because there were new requirements | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
for local authorities to register and assess young carers | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
a couple of years ago, so it may be that more are coming | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
forward, but it is something that really is very important and one | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Hull City Council have told us that they do not know how many | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Is that wrong or can they not know unless these families come forward? | :06:05. | :06:19. | |
They should have a judgment and assessment of how many they know | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
all. I undertook a study last year that estimated that four out of five | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
young carers were unknown and did not get support. That is | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
frightening. And some children want to keep this under the radar, they | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
are worried that there will be implications for the family, but we | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
know there are great inconsistencies around the country. In the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
south-west, around half of young carers get support, in London it is | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
less than 20%. In the region it is 25% but that means 75% do not but | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
that is something that needs to be addressed. In this part of the | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
world, figures doubled in the last five years. It is clearly a problem. | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
What should those young people do if any are watching at the moment? The | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
first thing to do is to say, you are doing a great service to your | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
family. But do talk to others about it, talk to teachers. Schools can | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
make a huge difference in offering support and do talk to other adults | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
that can help. Thank you very much for your time. The commissioner has | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
taken away all figures and is going to study them and get back to us. | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
Let us know what you think of this story. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
Inquests into the deaths of a couple who died earlier this month | :07:46. | :08:19. | |
in Southern Lincolnshire have heard that their son found his father's | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
body hanging in a stable block at their home. | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
The inquests into the deaths of Lawrence William and his wife | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
Our reporter James Zuckerman was there. | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
Police were initially called to the home of Florence and Bernice William | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
on the 7th of April after reports that a body had been discovered. The | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
detective leading the investigation explained this was a body of | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
49-year-old Lawrence William, the first to be discovered at the | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
premises. His eldest son was at home and had been unable to find his | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
father and started searching the property. He found him hanging in a | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
stable block. Police say they are not treating his death as | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
suspicious. At this stage the whereabouts of Bernice William, a | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
50-year-old local primary school teacher, were still unaccounted for. | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
She had been reported missing some two weeks earlier. Police say her | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
sons believed she was away from home, staying with friends, but | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
further enquiries found this was not the case, so officers began a search | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
of the house. Two days later they discovered a second body in a front | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
room hidden under carpet underlay. This was the body of Bernice | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
William. A postmortem proved to be inconclusive, however police say | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
they are treating her death as suspicious. The inquest was told | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
that the police are not looking for anyone else in connection with the | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
deaths. Home Office postmortem examinations and toxicology reports | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
have been ordered and the inquest was adjourned while police carried | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
out the rest of their investigation. This is the moment, | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
captured on CCTV, when a car smashed into five vehicles parked | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
on a residential street It happened yesterday tea-time just | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
seconds after a cyclist had Simon Spark is there | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
for us this evening. What more can you tell | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
us about the incident? This is Barcroft Street in | :10:33. | :10:45. | |
Cleethorpes, a road you would normally drive down very carefully. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
There is a corner shop, cars are parked on either side of the road | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
but yesterday just before 6:30pm, a resident captured some incredible | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
CCTV footage. You can see the speed and impact of a red car smashing | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
into a silver one which in turn hits a white van and stopping only when | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
it hits another car. People rush out there. Two people come out of the | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
car. The van is used by a band. They had equipment in it and they have | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
been checking that today. From a second angle you can see of how | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
perforce of how the silver car is forced into a wall and people are | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
saying how lucky it was that no one was walking down the path at the | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
time. The latest loan from police is that a 23-year-old man and an | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
18-year-old woman have been arrested. The 23-year-old is still | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
in custody and although police have spoken to a lot of people around | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
here, they would still like any more information. | :11:59. | :11:59. | |
Proposals for a new biogas plant in East Yorkshire have been | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
The company behind the plans for an anaerobic | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
digester near Leven said it would use the latest | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
But protesters argued the development would be too | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
A World War Two veteran has been given an honourable send off thanks | :12:15. | :12:24. | |
Robert Neale, from Belchford, had no family and few friends, but that | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
didn't stop his funeral being well attended this morning. | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
They were expecting just a handful of people at this funeral, | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
but that was before the Royal British Legion | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
He had enlisted at 18 and served his country in Tripoli. | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
Bob outlived his wife Joan and they had no children. | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
But today, the Forces Family honoured his passing. | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
Bob's few friends were moved by the turnout. | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
Very special, truly deserved this today. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
I think he would have been amazed by the amount | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
of people here and very honoured, very honoured. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
A private person was Bob, but the turnout is very nice. | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
He would have liked the lady walking in front of the coffin. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
It is thanks to Bob's neighbour Sam that today's service | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
Living in a rural area like a Lincolnshire, | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
people get isolated and do become lonely and I felt it is important | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
that we all get together, we all come together to say thank | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
you to this very generous man and the Forces Family, | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
Not knowing if anybody was going to turn up, | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
you could tell how she felt during the service that she thought | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
that people do care about somebody who had nobody, but he has not got | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
At the start of today's service, the minister quoted the hymn, | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
when I needed a neighbour, were you there? | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
The funeral of Robert Neill and the lovely neighbours. Thank you for | :14:05. | :14:23. | |
watching this Thursday night. Still ahead: Three big prom concerts | :14:24. | :14:35. | |
coming to Hull, their first time the event has left London in 70 years. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
And she was the reporter sent to cover a beauty pageant and ended up | :14:42. | :14:42. | |
winning it. Tonight's photo is taken by Lucy of | :14:43. | :14:54. | |
Stanford. Another picture tomorrow night. You will not like this one. | :14:55. | :15:03. | |
Paul's comb over didn't quite work last night. His bald patch was | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
clearly visible. Turn around then. And there it is. You will find this | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
is all mine though, Peter! Give it a target and see what happens. The | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
headline is looking fairly quiet in the short time. Some interesting | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
weather to come next week. Tomorrow looks cloudy. Temperatures today | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
have reached 16 degrees despite the fact there has been a lot of cloud | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
around. There is the chart fortunes do, a real plunge from the Arctic. | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
Some sunshine but also scattered showers, hail, sleet, snow and | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
thunder and lightning and there is the risk of a bit of frost. In the | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
short term it is pretty mild. There has been a lot of cloud around but | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
decent brakes have developed this afternoon. It is fairly present this | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
evening and then overnight looks set to be fairly quiet with variable | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
amounts of cloud but more parts will be dry and we will see temperatures | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
tonight nearer eight across countryside areas. The sun rises at | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
5:48am. Your next high water times in Skegness at 2:25am. Tomorrow will | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
be a fairly cloudy day but it does look dry. That breeze picks up a | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
little, we will see decent brakes developing across east Yorks, | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Lincolnshire and into North West Norfolk as well. Temperatures on the | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
mild side of normal. Highs of 15 degrees in Hull and Beverley with | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
similar values across Lincolnshire. We can looking colder but brighter | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
with sunshine and it should mostly dry. Rain to come on Monday. Behind | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
that cold front, those showers fall turned wintry. People are e-mailing | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
in saying they prefer it the other way round, the back of you. See you | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
tomorrow. It's one of the biggest | :17:21. | :17:22. | |
music events in the world and this summer, The Proms | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
are travelling outside London for the first time | :17:26. | :17:26. | |
in more than 75 years Three open-air concerts | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
are being held in July as part of the eight-week-long festival, | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
as our culture correspondent The Proms are one of the big estates | :17:33. | :17:46. | |
in the musical calendar. 90 concerts spread across eight weeks that take | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
classical music to a huge audience. Although there are Proms in the park | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
events outside London, this summer, the Proms are coming to Hull with | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
every piece of music played about or connected to water. This is the | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
first time we have taken a prom out of London so I hope it will be | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
special. We are marking the anniversary of handle's water music. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
It was performed on the River Thames on barges and we are moving it up | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
North. That is because the venue for the concerts and looks out onto the | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
Rivers Humber and Hull. Sage of the top has staged the freedom Festival | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
but performing here has hazards. You cannot do much about it if an | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
ambulance goes past, but the two real ones are high winds because | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
then the music flies away but we will all have clothes pegs so that | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
will be fine, and if it is hot and sunny, it tends to melt the violins. | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
And for the city's classical music fans, this is a big deal. Paula | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
plays with the Hull filament on the strap and says the news is just as | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
thrilling. It is exciting for classical music fans. Their big | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
weekend has Katy Perry and other artists that are really famous and | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
successful, but for classical music fans knowing the Proms will come | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
here, we will witness some high-quality classical music and it | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
is not something we get often. The Proms may be an annual event but | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Hull's concerts I once that are to be held outside of London for more | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
than seven decades. Tickets go on sale on the 13th of May. | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
The Lego daffodils have been snapped up, but there is still lots to see - | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
with all the details of what's on in the UK City of Culture, | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
This week's Challenge Hull is to ask someone who speaks a different | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
language to teach you a new word or phrase. | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
That was me trying to say, "Hello, how are you?" | :20:02. | :20:03. | |
Sea of Hull was officially the largest nude | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
installation in the UK and you can see the long-awaited photos at the | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
Ferens Art Gallery from Saturday, along with works by Ron Mueck and | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
Next Thursday, Run for the Line at Holy Trinity Church uses | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
word and song to tell the story of one of the First World War's | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
deadliest battles with the help of rugby league legend Sammy Lloyd. | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
On Saturday, bring the family to Beverley Treasure House for the | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
They will show you how to take great pictures | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
And don't miss out on the Narnia Trail | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
You must have been very brave indeed to | :20:44. | :21:01. | |
come here, because I know that you have an evil king | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
that rules Look North, is this true? | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
And if you want to see more from this year so far, | :21:09. | :21:22. | |
go to our City of Culture website at bbc.co.uk/hull2017. | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
Thank you to everyone who got in contact with the programme | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
after MPs unanimously voted in favour of calling | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
A newspaper reporter from Lincolnshire is getting | :21:36. | :22:06. | |
attention from around the world after she ended up winning a beauty | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
Laura Gooderham, from New Waltham, was spotted | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
when interviewing contestants at the Miss Great Grimsby | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
As part of her day job, Laura Trott force across north-east Lincolnshire | :22:20. | :22:31. | |
writing stories and doing interviews. But when she was sent to | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
cover the audition stages of the Miss Great Grimsby contest, things | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
went differently. She was spotted and convinced to take part. I had a | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
perception of pageants, I thought it was about girls competing with each | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
other on how good-looking they are and I thought that is not me, but | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
the girls have come away feeling more confident and we have raised | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
thousands for charity. She ended up winning. I was thinking, that is it, | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
that is done, second later I heard my name. Her colleagues couldn't | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
believe them either. You are dead to find out what the people are | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
therefore and see who will win, so to find out one of the reporters | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
with taking part is remarkable. The event is a heat for the Miss England | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
competition. Today the organisers said: | :23:30. | :23:43. | |
Do you feel bad for the other girls considering you are not meant to be | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
in the competition to begin with? Are part of me does, but I have won | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
and it is my chance to prove everyone I can do this. Laura will | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
compete for the title of Miss England in July. Her story has made | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
headlines around the world, but going forward, Laura says the only | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
headlines Hsia concerned with are the ones she will write for her | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
employer. Let's get a recap of the national | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
and regional headlines. As the election campaigning begins, | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
Jeremy Corbyn establishes himself as the antiestablishment candidate. | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
than a thousand local children - some as young as five - | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
Tomorrow's weather, dry and cloudy with some sun. Top temperatures of | :24:34. | :24:46. | |
15 Celsius. On the subject of young carers, Graham says, it is nice to | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
see the government recognising the work young carers do. Dot says, | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
while should any child be carers for their parents? The pressures must be | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
overwhelming. Where is the welfare state. And Steve says, I am | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
astounded that Hull does not know the numbers of young carers. I | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
assume they are not helping anyone otherwise they would have an | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
indication of numbers. These children need help. Thank you for | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
watching. Join me later. Goodbye for now. | :25:26. | :25:27. |