12/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

The headlines from BBC Look North this Thursday night.

Soldiers tell homeowners to prepare for flooding as the East Coast

And after the last flood, I had a couple of strokes.

We are doing everything that we can to make sure

that we are prepared and that the local

He was the Lincoln boss who went on to the biggest job

in the English game - tributes tonight to Graham Taylor.

What Graham did was to connect the football club and the community.

And some pretty severe weather to come over the next 24 hours.

Stay tuned, I will have a full forecast shortly.

Soldiers have spent tonight knocking on doors telling homeowners

A combination of strong winds and high tides could bring

widespread flooding all along the East Coast.

Thousands of properties could be affected from Bridlington to Boston.

Some schools have said they'll be shut tomorrow

as the authorities do all they can to protect coastal communities.

Jill Archbold is live in Hull tonight.

The tidal barrier might be up now, but it has already been down once

this evening, and it is likely to be lowered again, at least another

twice in the next 24 hours. It's not just people in Hull who will be

watching the weather carefully. There are 27 flood warnings

across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire covering high tide

tomorrow morning A warning means that

flooding is expected. There are two warnings covering

the sea defences at Humberston and Cleethorpes, another

warning for Immingham. Then if we look at the Humber

Estuary on the North Bank A further two cover the coast

at Bridlington and then the Easington and Kilnsea area

is also at risk. The River Ouse is covered by four

warnings and then there's one at Grimsby and three covering

the South Bank at Winteringham, South Ferriby, New Holland

and Barton to Immingham Dock. There are a further seven flood

warnings in Lincolnshire six for the sea defences both north

and south of Mablethorpe Because of these warnings,

precautions have been taken right across our region.

Along Lincolnshire's coast, the threat of a storm surge led

Soldiers deployed to Skegness to help the police by knocking

on doors and tonight warning residents of the risks.

They've asked for our assistance in warning and informing the local

And the residents, to ensure that they are prepared for the flooding.

If it does arise, that they've got somewhere to go.

And if they are vulnerable and need our assistance,

that we are prepared to give it to them.

Thousands of people living near the east coast are being given

the option of being evacuated to an inland rest centre.

If you are in a single story dwelling, a caravan or a chalet

and you are close to the sea defences, you might want to think

about spending the evening, or perhaps the next couple

On the Humber bank at South Ferriby, the Environment Agency have put up

temporary defences and local residents were moving

And after the last flood, I had a couple of strokes.

It's just, it's stuff that we've got a lot of memories about.

And we saved it last time, a lot of it.

On the North bank, water pumps were on stand-by and residents who'd

been flooded before put up their own defences.

But now that the weather has settled down, I don't feel as though

Because when it was really windy, it which the waves up.

I think they have been overcautious now.

But then, part of me's saying, "Are they?"

East coast communities and those living near the Humber have been

told to be prepared - it's believed a high tide tomorrow

evening currently poses the greatest threat.

water pumps have been on stand-by. water pumps have been on stand-by.

Vulnerable points at the north bank. They'll be back in the early morning

and back again for high tide tomorrow

Ben Hocking is from the Environment Agency and joins me now

Good evening. How concerned are you about the next 24 hours? Good

evening. As your colleague's just been explaining, we have a large

number of flood warnings across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. And

flood warning means that there is an immediate risk of flooding, so we're

really keen for people to heed those warnings. If they want to see which

areas they are in, whether they might be affected by one of those

warnings, they can visit their website and type in the flood, that

will give them all the information they need on the government website.

People will be worried we could see a repeat of 2013. Are you sure that

we couldn't be again tomorrow? We have been preparing for the

potential for flooding since Monday this week, when the forecast

indicated that this was a possibility. And we've been working

really hard with our partners in local authorities, the emergency

services, and as you have reported, the Lib military, to the best job we

can warning people. I accept that -- the military. How sure are you that

it is not going to be like 2013? Well, we think that there's less of

a risk of that happening this time around. But obviously, we want

people to take all the precautions that they can to protect themselves

and their property from risk of this. That is quite telling. If

there isn't a problem of high tide at the morning, it does that mean it

wouldn't be at tea-time? It could be was in the afternoon. Tidal peaks

come twice a day, so the tidal barrier at Hull was close this

evening and will be closed again for high tide in the morning. And a

tomorrow evening. Certainly, we're focusing at the moment on that high

tide tomorrow morning. But there'll be another high tide that could also

be affected by that storm surge to my evening as well. So people do

need to across those flood warnings. Thank you much indeed. Most grateful

to you. Keep up to date on all the latest

on the weather and the storm surge BBC Radio Humberside is on air

from five o'clock tomorrow morning, while BBC Radio Lincolnshire

is on air throughout the night. Stars from across the world

of football have been paying tribute to the former Lincoln City

and England manager Graham Taylor, He grew up in Scunthorpe and then

spent his whole playing career in Lincolnshire -

with Grimsby Town and then Lincoln City, before

going into management at And that was a path that took him

all the way to the biggest job Our sports reporter

Simon Clark has this. When after a modest playing

career at Grimsby Town and Lincoln City Graham Taylor

accepted the manager's job at Sincil Bank aged 28,

it changed his life. He led them to promotion

with a record points score. Pop star Elton John spotted

this and encouraged him to join his club Watford,

who he took from fourth That brought him the biggest job

of all with England. But the team nearest his heart,

home-town club Scunthorpe United. You have to have a reality

when looking at the situation Would we want to see them again

in the championship? Would we expect them to be doing

much more than having Graham Taylor was very much

a son of Scunthorpe. He went to the local primary school,

and that's just a stone's throw away from the place that

would have the biggest impact on young Graham's mind,

the old Showground now a supermarket, the former home

of Scunthorpe United. A club which in later life

would make him a vice president. We were so fortunate,

to be honest with you, The last time he was here

was back in October, and he was always telling us

what we're doing right, Very enthusiastic

about our promotion push. He came back in July 2016

to attend the grand opening We felt it was really

important that he came back, because it marked the transition

from the old school to the new school, and it was just

lovely because he was so pleased Graham Taylor's football

service earned him an OBE, but here it's his transformation

of Lincoln that best remembered. Most of all I think what Graham did

was to connect the football club with the community,

more than any other manager was doing at the time,

or for a long time afterwards. Graham Taylor used to joke

that he was the only man alive revered by all three big

Lincolnshire ruivals, Remembering Graham Taylor. Now,

let's get the forecast. Many of us have seen the severe weather

conditions today and tonight we do have another weather warning in

force. It's a warning for snow. This is mainly further inland, a couple

of showers here. Elsewhere, it will turn largely dry. You can see the

whole map is turning blue, a couple of showers along the coast there.

Lows of about 0 Celsius, it will be a cold one. Try warning, ice inland.

-- tomorrow morning. Gale force winds, large waves as well. Do take

care if you're heading to the east tomorrow. We will see some pretty

nasty conditions there. Again, a couple of snow showers possible and

likely to fall to lower levels. The pressure chart for tomorrow night,

that weather system moves away. You can see the map is turning blue. A

very cold night, leading us into a very cold day on Saturday. Another

warning in force. On Saturday. The rest of us, I think it'll be a dry

day, very cold. Stay tuned to the latest forecast taken. High tide in

Hull tomorrow is at 6:34am and 6:50pm tomorrow night. They you for

watching. Take care. note. If that's not your sort of

thing, Sunday will be cloudier and milder.

Good evening. It was such a mild December, wasn't it, but winter has

arrived. Tomorrow morning, again, could be prising the wipers off the

frozen windscreen. Yes, it's going to be cold tonight, whether it is

liquid,/ or snow, it will freeze solid late at night with

temperatures close to or below zero in many places. This was the early

snow which pushed across the south-east, a few centimetres over

the high ground. Now we concentrate on the showers, which feed in over

the north and west of the UK. Some getting into the Midlands, giving a

further coding in places.