28/12/2016 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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Disability sports groups in Hull say there should be an easier

way to obtain funding if they're to guarantee

Clubs say they've seen a big increase in attendance

Paralympics GB had one of their best games ever in Rio,

with great success for athletes from East Yorkshire

Inspired by them, more people have been trying things

But to provide the specialist kit new members need,

groups in Hull now have to raise ?30,000 in the next year.

You are looking at specialist sports chairs that cost around ?3000,

to power chairs, you are looking at around ?5,000.

There are several clubs in the area that are facing financial ruin,

and without funding from us urgently, they

Disability Sports Humber also helps Hull's members

of Great Britain's sledge hockey team cover the cost

They worry they'll lose out through the funding shortage.

It would make the national competition very difficult.

We have two fund our ice costs, travel costs,

everything like that, just to train.

So, not having that funding would prevent us doing that.

Disbility sports groups get money by applying for a patchwork

of grants from sporting organisations, local

But, the system can be complicated and it is not

Groups like East Riding Electric Eels, powerchair football team,

And there's a worry putting up prices to cover the funding

shortfall would force people out of sport.

It costs a lot to be disabled, you can't just go out and buy

a pair of football boots, you are looking at five, seven,

?8,000 cheque to play sport, but this could be the only thing

It's hard to stay in the sport because it costs so much money.

Without the funding we would be not able to make disabled people live

as much of a normal life as they can.

Sport England is the public body that distributes funding

Disabiliy Sport Humber is still hoping for changes that

For now they're focusing on fundraising to bring

Police believe a 63 year old man who died following a crash

in North Lincolnshire may have suffered a "medical

The white van he was driving crashed into a parked car

on Thornton Road in Goxhill at around 11.30 yesterday morning.

The road was closed off for most of the day

and police are asking anyone who might have seen

The east side foot path on the Humber Bridge will be

closed on New Year's Day, to stop people using it as a viewing

platform for the City of Culture fireworks display.

Bridge officials say it's being done as a safety measure,

as it can't cope with the hundreds or thousands of people who may turn

up to view the fireworks over the Humber that evening.

Anti-fracking protesters have set up a camp near a village in Yorkshire.

It's close to Kirby Misperton, where the council's been given

permission to extract gas using the controversial

Last month, protesters had a judicial review of the decision

The HGV traffic has to come this way, and we will do our upmost

to peacefully, and slow-walk the traffic making its way

to the site and to make it as difficult as possible for them

Figures obtained by BBC Look North show that more than 10,000

houses have been standing empty for six months or more

That's despite thousands of people still being on housing

Laura Foster has been looking at some of the ways

From the smiles on their faces you wouldn't know that just a few months

ago pregnant Stefanie was almost made homeless.

Because I wasn't working they, all the private

landlords said, that I needed at least ?1000 just to set up.

Then, the council said that there was a six

month waiting list minimum and that was a month before

Thankfully for Stephanie and baby Hayden, they were helped by a

charity in West Hull called Gyroscope, which fixes up homes so

The amount of people we have coming to us for housing is immense.

We can't help everybody but we try and

There are more than three quarters of a

million homes in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

10,000 of them have been empty for more than six months.

That is a better situation than how it was four years ago.

There are now 260,00 fewer empty homes than

There are financial incentives for councils to bring

homes back into use which can be passed on to property developers.

We are offering a grant of up to ?5,000, and encouragement to

homeowners, or developers to bring that house onto the rental market.

The idea is, for three years, the rent they are charging is an

affordable rent, so it brings properties back onto the market at a

And the hope is that, next year people won't

Well, let's get the weather now with Jennifer Bartram. A cold and frosty

night ahead. There is a yellow warning for fog. Eventually the

file. To lift an break and we should see some brighter spells although

some spots may well hang on to the fog. The top temperature of around

three or four Celsius. Throughout the week things are generally

settled penning windy towards the weekend.

As we have seen today, the weather can be a thing of real beauty, but

also a real menace. Lovely shot taken this afternoon in Berkshire,

the sun lighting up the hillsides, with dense fog. And that fog is

dangerous. It is becoming up right now, with warnings out from the Met

Office. -- it is thickening right now. Not a pretty sight across

England, East Wales tomorrow morning. Dense patches of freezing

fog. Nor for all. Slippery surfaces. Take it easy on the roads. In the

far north of England, and Scotland and Northern Ireland, not so chilly.

And some drizzly rain across the Western Highlands and the islands.

These continued through the day on a brisk wind. Elsewhere, the winds

will be liked and that is