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

An elderly lady, a care worker and a binman have been praised

as heroes for wrestling what they believed to be an armed

Witnesses in Hedon in East Yorkshire say the man forced a driver out

of his car at gunpoint early this morning.

Police say it was one of at least four attempted carjackings

involving two men in Hull and the East Riding,

It was a dramatic start to the day on normally-quiet Fletcher Gate.

The driver of this car was on his way to work as usual

A guy came from that red Audi over there with a gun in his hand,

pointing the gun at me, and shouting to get out of the car.

I didn't comply straightaway because I was in a bit

He hit the gun on the window of the car, and told me

So I got out of the car, moved to the back of

He couldn't drive it away because he couldn't

operate an automatic, so he was just revving it.

As he realised the car wasn't going anywhere,

he tried to get out of the car, and opened the door just as this

lorry came past to block him in, and the lorry hit the door.

The driver of the bin lorry was actually filling

in for a colleague who was away on holiday and took a split-second

He's not going anywhere, sort of thing.

Let's get in front of him and he can't escape.

Then at that point when we'd stopped the vehicle,

People were dragging him out of that 4x4 and wrestling him to the ground,

The binmen who thought they had seen the man brandishing a gun,

but still rushed to help people who had pushed into the ground.

This care worker says she and another lady

Some old woman ran across, and then I ran across,

and then the next thing I knew we are all piling

Everyone rallied round, everyone that was walking

Everyone jumped out, and everyone was really good.

The morning's events are the talk of Hedon.

We asked people what they thought of those who rushed to help.

Brave. Very, very brave, honestly.

They shouldn't do it. Really?

By lunchtime the street he was back to normal,

the vehicles removed, car window glass swept off the road,

but it's a morning that people round here won't forget.

Humberside Police have this evening told us more about what has

happened across Hull, Hedon and Hessle, they've had four

reports of cars being stolen, including a possible van by two men

There have also been some reports of attempted thefts as well,

and a 23-year-old man has been arrested and remains

Katie Austin, BBC Look North in Hedon.

Lincolnshire's Police and Crime Commissioner

has given his backing to a new taser stun gun.

The Government has authorised police to be equipped with the more

powerful tasers, which carry two stun probes instead of one,

Marc Jones welcomed the move, saying it's vital officers have

the right tools to protect themselves and the public.

Thousands of women who thought they would be able to retire at 60

are to protest in London, after changes left them

waiting till they reach 66 to get the state pension.

The Government says it has no plans to compensate them.

Now a campaign called Waspi is taking women from East Yorkshire

and Lincolnshire to hold a demo on Budget Day.

More from our political editor Tim Iredale.

When the welfare state was created, it promised a guaranteed pension

for everyone who paid National Insurance throughout

but a number of women in their 60s claim they've been short-changed

by changes to the way their state pensions are calculated.

Rosemary Jordan, a former teacher from Scunthorpe, is one of them.

Somebody who is a year younger than myself has already

My sister-in-law was born in May '53,

and she got her state pension in November.

I was born in February '54, I've got to wait another 2.5 years.

The issue mainly affects women who were born in the 1950s.

Traditionally, the retirement age was 65 for men and 60 for women,

but in 1995 the Government decided the state pension age should become

equal for both men and women - this would be phased in

But in 2011 it was decided to raise the state pension age again,

and some women who originally thought they could retire at 60

are now facing the prospect of working until they're 66.

For many of the women in Hull Waspi Voice,

some women actually took redundancy and early retirement and then

discovered they weren't going to get their pensions from the state.

Some of them are talking about the physical and mental strain

of carrying on working in the roles that they've been employed in

for six more years, when they never thought

You pay out! We paid in!

The Government says everyone was told about these changes -

If I had been properly informed I would have done additional

financial arrangements for my pension.

But many campaigners are determined to make their voices heard

and they are planning the biggest protest so far to coincide with

One of Lincoln's oldest stores is to close,

blaming internet shopping and Brexit,

but, it says, mainly a lack of parking in Lincoln.

Ruddocks is a family business that's over 150 years old.

It's been on the High Street in the city for more than a century.

If Lincoln City Council actually did have a strategy...

I don't think they do, but if they did have a strategy

for strangling the centre of Lincoln, it wouldn't look much

The City of Lincoln Council says it's sad to see Ruddocks close,

but doesn't accept that that parking in the city is the

Now let's take a look at the weather.

Hello again. Good evening.

We are seeing that very heavy rain track up towards the north,

still a couple of heavy outbursts, though,

and not ruling out the rumble of thunder overnight as well.

But, as we head through to the early hours, it will have largely cleared

and we will be looking at quite a bright picture.

Quite cloudy, though, and those temperatures will only

So, through the morning, it may be a cloudy start.

We could even see some rain, particularly along the east coast,

but, I think, through the afternoon, a largely dry afternoon with some

decent sunny spells for this time of year.

Temperatures will get up to around 10 Celsius.

We'll be back tomorrow afternoon at 5.50pm.

Until then, have a very good weekend.

Good evening, mixed fortunes this weekend. Today we saw a fair share

of rain. This is the view one of our weather watchers in Doncaster. Not

particularly inspiring. This weekend there will be some rain, but some of

us will get away with a dry start. This is the satellite and a lovely

day in northern Scotland. But cloud and rain and thunder and lightning

in this area. Our main area of rain is stuck across Northern Ireland and

Scotland. Some snow over higher ground. And windy.