04/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)


04/01/2017

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throughout the night with the BBC News Channel. Now it is

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A warning about elderly people losing their life savings

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to a growing army of scammers in Lincolnshire, and

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He's now in the state where every day he's out

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at the front of the house, three or four times

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The crew accused of running a cocaine smuggling operation

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After the sacking of Mike Phelan - Hull City look abroad

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Cold conditions continue over the next 24 hours but a big change

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coming through Friday and into the weekend.

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There's concern thousands of people in Lincolnshire

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could lose their savings to scammers who contact them through

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The number of people in the county being tricked is up almost 50%

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to more than 2000 in the last year alone.

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Trading Standards say the elderly, the vulnerable

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Bogus lotteries, fake psychics, Kate Cifildi from Spalding says her

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You fill in an order form and you send them money.

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Then they tell you that you are going to go into a draw.

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He's now in the state where every day he's out

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at the front of the house, three or four times

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The gentleman in receipt of this mail has been known to get

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He, like many others, has found himself on a list

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being passed between fraudsters, a list of people particularly

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vulnerable and it just results in more and more mail.

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Over the past year Trading Standards in Lincolnshire has been working

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to a list of 1500 identified victims of mail marketing scams.

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But during that time the list has grown to more than 2000.

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That includes those targeted over the internet and telephone.

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Some are spending up to ?700 a month.

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But they say these figures are the tip of the iceberg

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and are visiting victims to try and get them to stop.

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Ultimately, people can end up without any money,

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without their home, in care and it does happen in Lincolnshire.

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This man's mother, also living in Lincolnshire,

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has been scammed and he is calling for a bigger police response.

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The police have got to accept that this is a major crime.

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Each ?15, ?20, ?30 cheque is a tiny amount of money

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in the police's terms, I understand that.

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but actually when you add all this lot together, this is happening

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9.4 billion going out of the country.

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That's going towards trafficking, towards drugs, towards terrorism.

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These scams are orchestrated by gangs of criminals, often working

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abroad, but the individual impact is huge.

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We're joined by reporter Jake Zuckerman.

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What's being done to prevent people falling victim

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Well, Peter, taking the lead in the UK's fight against fraud

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is the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau, which is run

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The NFIB collates all the millions of reports of fraud and cybercrime

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and uses them to identify serial offenders and organised gangs.

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Where there's enough evidence for a prosecution,

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it will forward that information to the relevant police force

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The bureau says it doesn't investigate every report of fraud -

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rather, it aims to use its intelligence to disrupt

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This might mean, for example, working with services

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like the Royal Mail to try to stop fraudsters being able to

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They do this by cutting off their mailing contracts.

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A court has heard how a former P crew member bragged to an undercover

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officer that he'd earned ?100,000 from smuggling cocaine

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The jury was told how a worker planned to adapt a high-vis

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Kate Sweeting reports from Hull Crown Court.

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The court heard how 51-year-old Edward Tron described his life

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as a dream when he was earning more than ?100,000 allegedly smuggling

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cocaine into the UK on the Pride of Hull from Rotterdam.

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The jury was played secret filming from inside an undercover officer's

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car in which Mr Tron allegedly confesses to repeatedly

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The court heard that Mr Tron was earning ?20,000 as ship steward,

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but that he banked ?138,000 in four years, and it's claimed these

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were the proceeds of smuggling cocaine which he simply walked off

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the ferry with, unchecked by customs officers.

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He's on trial along with another former P employee, Mark Quilliam,

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seen here covering his face with a newspaper.

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The two are accused of conspiring to import cocaine.

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Edward Tron's wife, Susan, is also on trial for laundering

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You can see her here in the green coat.

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All three deny the charges and the trial continues

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Staff who work for Northern trains are to vote on taking strike action

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The rail union, the RMT, says they received a lower pay offer

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than those working in other areas of the rail industry.

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Northern, which runs services through our area,

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says it's offered workers a guaranteed above-inflation

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pay rise over the next three or four years,

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and is disappointed by the union's reaction.

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Hull City are thought to be looking abroad for a new head coach

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The club say they hope to have the new man in place

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Nobody has won in this, nobody has won whatsoever.

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Everyone in the city of Hull has had a view

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Including the club's greatest ever captain.

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They've made a decision on results, and it's a results business.

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I think he had the backing of the changing room

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I think the lads liked him, I think morale was pretty good,

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even though they'd been struggling for results.

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The decision to sack him now just reflects badly on the owners,

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because they appointed him in the first place and

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they haven't backed him in the transfer market at all.

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In almost two years at the club, Mike Phelan's time

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Appointed in February 2015 as Steve Bruce's assistant,

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he was placed in temporary charge in July after Bruce resigned

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following the club's return to the Premier League.

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In August, a shock start with three wins in league and cup saw Phelan

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before he was eventually confirmed as head coach in October.

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But their winless run by the turn of the year brought his time

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at the club to an end, sparking speculation today

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But one football expert thinks it'll take more than a change of head

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coach to keep Hull City in the Premier League.

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Managerial change tends not to really make too

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much of a difference, particularly when they have

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the control of the dressing room which I think is the case

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So they need to make some really smart decisions about how they might

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strengthen the squad in January, probably need to be gambling

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a little bit and spending 30, maybe even ?40 million to strengthen

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the squad because the benefit of retaining your Premier League

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In a statement issued by the Hull City vice-chairman this

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evening he says the decision to part company with Mike Phelan

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was taken after a great amount of consideration.

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He says it was time for a fresh approach with the team bottom

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of the Premier League, adding that he has the belief that

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with the current squad and maybe two or three additions,

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There's no mention in the statement of who's next year,

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but our expectation is that Marco Silva will become the new head

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coach in time for Saturday's game with Swansea City in the FA Cup.

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The Red Arrows are back in training at Scampton

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They'll now have to learn how to do breathtaking stunts at high speed

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before earning the right to wear the red suits in the summer shows.

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This is the first time we've had a go at it.

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Yesterday was our first time and today was our first time

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as a four-ship so you've got the weight of responsibility

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of making sure you're in the right place with the other aircraft next

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to you, so it's fantastic, to see the red aircraft next

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to you with smoke on as well, it's a dream come true.

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Flying my first nine-ship will be incredible and then

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followed by that is getting my red suit and then displaying

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I can't wait to be on the road through the summer and getting

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A stranded seal pup has been rescued from the north bank

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The underweight infant was saved near Victoria Dock

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He's being looked after at a sanctuary in Scarborough,

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Now let's get the forecast details from Paul.

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The cold weather will continue in the short term but it's all

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Weather fronts getting in from the milder Atlantic.

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It will turn wet from the west for the weekend.

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It looks mild compared with recent days and there should be some

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sunshine on Sunday in particular but at the moment it's cold,

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quite a bit of cloud and one or two showers in coastal areas running

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into Norfolk, the lowest temperatures tonight in western

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areas, Gainsborough, Stamford Bridge down to -2

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One or two showers at first along the coast,

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they will fizzle out, the rest of us look

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All parts look set soon to become dry but feeling cold,

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temperatures around 4 degrees and turning wet from

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And that's it from us. Thank you for watching. We are back in the morning

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with summaries on breakfast from 6:30am and I will be back on Look

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North tomorrow night. Temperatures creeping up a notch or

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two and turning milder into the weekend.

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A guarantee on your journey to work tomorrow, if you are nipping out to

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the shop for a paper, somebody will talk about how cold it is. Looking

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at today, the weather front pushing Southwest, mild air stay in

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south-west, but behind it is colder air from the Arctic. Behind it,

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windy conditions. Bleak across northern Scotland, a cold day with

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temperatures struggling to get above two. If you think that's

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