:00:07. > :00:09.Now the latest from the Look North newsroom.
:00:10. > :00:12.A local MP caught up in the terror attack at Westminster says
:00:13. > :00:29.The democratic process will not be ported by a terrorist attack.
:00:30. > :00:33.Worries that a ban on using wheat in petrol could lead to job
:00:34. > :00:39.And schools in some of the most deprived parts of East Yorkshire
:00:40. > :00:41.and Lincolnshire lose out under new government funding plans.
:00:42. > :00:44.I will use a lot of fine weather on the way, join me for the updated
:00:45. > :00:53.forecast. The MP for Cleethorpes says that
:00:54. > :00:55."democratic process will not be "thwarted" by terrorism
:00:56. > :00:58.after today's attack Martin Vickers was one of many
:00:59. > :01:05.members of parliament who were Five people, including a police
:01:06. > :01:13.officer were killed, 40 others were injured.
:01:14. > :01:15.Laura Foster joins me now. Laura, what has Martin Vickers
:01:16. > :01:25.been talking about? Martin Vickers was one of the MPs
:01:26. > :01:29.who ended up being trapped outside of the parliament buildings once
:01:30. > :01:32.Westminster went into lockdown. He had been walking from his office to
:01:33. > :01:34.the main parliament chamber in order to take part in a vote when he heard
:01:35. > :01:36.gunshots. He and his colleagues began to ran
:01:37. > :01:39.and security quickly ordered them He said parliament and public
:01:40. > :01:51.buildings are always likely to be would not be cowed
:01:52. > :01:58.by acts of terrorism. Obviously, you are shocked when
:01:59. > :02:01.these sorts of incidents happen, and it makes you likely to be more
:02:02. > :02:08.apprehensive. But we know we are taking risks. That is one of the
:02:09. > :02:12.prices you pay for being in public life. The important thing is that
:02:13. > :02:14.the democratic process will not be thwarted by a terrorist attack.
:02:15. > :02:17.During the attack, many people at the House of Commons were told
:02:18. > :02:19.to run further inside to get away from the attacker.
:02:20. > :02:22.The MP for Brigg and Goole, Andrew Percy, barricaded himself
:02:23. > :02:33.in his office along with his staff and a number of other people.
:02:34. > :02:35.My staff were just leaving, so I shouted at them
:02:36. > :02:39.to get back in the office. We have been trained in all of this.
:02:40. > :02:41."Get in the office, turn your phones, switch the lights off,
:02:42. > :02:44."draw the curtains and barricade the doors," which they did.
:02:45. > :02:46.I took the seven people into my other office, just opposite.
:02:47. > :02:49.One in particular saw the whole thing unfold.
:02:50. > :02:51.They had seen the police officer getting stabbed,
:02:52. > :02:57.That is when they bumped into me and I said, "come to my office,"
:02:58. > :02:59.because they were obviously fairly panic-stricken, and with
:03:00. > :03:06.because they were obviously fairly panic-stricken.
:03:07. > :03:09.Tomorrow, Holy Trinity Church in Hull is going to be holding
:03:10. > :03:12.an extra long service for those caught up in today's tragedy.
:03:13. > :03:14.Back in Westminster, Parliament is going to sit as normal
:03:15. > :03:17.tomorrow and over the next few days, more police officers will be
:03:18. > :03:20.It's important to note that the current threat
:03:21. > :03:23.for terrorism in the UK is at severe, it has been for some
:03:24. > :03:25.time and no doubt will continue to remain there given
:03:26. > :03:32.A man has appeared before Magistrates charged with aggravated
:03:33. > :03:39.36-year-old Clinton Sentance was arrested
:03:40. > :03:42.in connection with an incident on Portland Terrace on Sunday night.
:03:43. > :03:44.He'll appear at Lincoln Crown Court on the 19th of April.
:03:45. > :03:46.Detectives are continuing to investigate two similar crimes
:03:47. > :03:50.involving elderly victims in the Gainsborough area.
:03:51. > :03:53.The trust which runs hospitals in Grimsby,
:03:54. > :03:56.Scunthorpe and Goole has been put into financial special measures.
:03:57. > :04:00.Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust has been
:04:01. > :04:02.struggling to cope with how much it's been spending,
:04:03. > :04:06.and is set to be ?30 million in debt by the end of the month.
:04:07. > :04:09.It says it's determined to reduce its deficit while maintaining
:04:10. > :04:16.More than a hundred jobs could be lost in East Yorkshire
:04:17. > :04:20.if the government changes the rules on green fuel for cars.
:04:21. > :04:24.The petrol we buy contains bioethanol, a chemical made
:04:25. > :04:28.from wheat, and much of it is made at Saltend near Hull.
:04:29. > :04:31.But under new proposals, the Government could ban the use
:04:32. > :04:40.Our Rural Affairs Correspondent Linsey Smith has more.
:04:41. > :04:43.Food or fuel? And what is the cost of clean air?
:04:44. > :04:50.Some of the questions around the use of wheat to make green energy.
:04:51. > :04:52.John Holtby sells all of his crops to Vivergo,
:04:53. > :05:00.his nearby bioethanol plant. A welcome market for his business.
:05:01. > :05:04.We try sometimes to grow wheat for bread, but because this area
:05:05. > :05:08.is quite high yielding, we tend not to get the quality,
:05:09. > :05:12.so it is a bit of a trade-off between quality and yield.
:05:13. > :05:14.Because we're high yielding, we just can't get the quality
:05:15. > :05:22.And this is where John's crops are used to make bioethanol.
:05:23. > :05:25.It's been called the biggest brewery in the north.
:05:26. > :05:28.Bioethanol is like triple-strength vodka.
:05:29. > :05:36.It is blended with the petrol we buy at the forecourt, making it more
:05:37. > :05:41.The government wants us to increase green energy in transport to 10%.
:05:42. > :05:43.Electric cars are one of their big focuses and developing alternative
:05:44. > :05:49.But they want to limit the amount of green energy
:05:50. > :05:56.that is made from crops - or even ban it altogether.
:05:57. > :06:00.If the government were to cap the crop at zero, I don't have any
:06:01. > :06:02.feedstock that I could produce the bioethanol or high-protein
:06:03. > :06:05.animal feed, so that would mean we would have to shut
:06:06. > :06:07.and the industry in the UK most likely would go with it.
:06:08. > :06:15.We employ 150 people, highly skilled engineers, on this site.
:06:16. > :06:28.If we were to close, clearly those jobs would be lost.
:06:29. > :06:32.We believe that using crops to their word for fuel
:06:33. > :06:36.It is simply not sensible for the priority of increasing food
:06:37. > :06:40.In a statement, the Department of Transport says: Responses that
:06:41. > :06:44.In a statement, the Department of Transport says:
:06:45. > :06:57.Responses that Vivergo staff eagerly await.
:06:58. > :06:59.Linsey is with me here in the studio.
:07:00. > :07:07.What do Vivergo plan to do now with this impending change?
:07:08. > :07:13.They are not just sitting back, but actually campaigning to double the
:07:14. > :07:25.amount of Vivergobioethanol in petrol. -- ethanol in petrol. They
:07:26. > :07:28.being met at the moment and that the being met at the moment and that the
:07:29. > :07:31.transport of the worst in the area. They say in their own words that the
:07:32. > :07:36.government is scoring a huge own goal by not embracing bioethanol
:07:37. > :07:39.more, because all the structure is there to produce it. Such
:07:40. > :07:43.infrastructure does not exist, for example, with electric cars, so they
:07:44. > :07:47.are tackling the government had on, shall we say, on this. They say it
:07:48. > :07:49.is not only to protect those jobs, but also to help the environment.
:07:50. > :07:49.Thank you. There's a warning that pupils
:07:50. > :07:52.in some of the most deprived parts of our area will lose out
:07:53. > :07:55.in the shake-up of how Grimsby and Cleethorpes look set
:07:56. > :07:59.to be the biggest losers in the government's proposed
:08:00. > :08:00.new funding formula, but many schools in rural areas
:08:01. > :08:03.will get MORE money. Here's our Political
:08:04. > :08:06.Editor, Tim Iredale. How many quarters do we need
:08:07. > :08:10.to make a whole one? School budgets have been the subject
:08:11. > :08:13.of fierce debate for decades, but the latest proposed shake-up
:08:14. > :08:19.of the way schools are funded has prompted many to ask the government
:08:20. > :08:22.to look again at its sums. It is having a deleterious
:08:23. > :08:25.impact across all schools, Schools in rural areas have long
:08:26. > :08:33.argued they don't get as much money per pupil as those in urban areas,
:08:34. > :08:36.but we dressing the balance per pupil as those in urban areas,
:08:37. > :08:38.but redressing the balance According to education researchers,
:08:39. > :08:41.Lincolnshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull
:08:42. > :08:43.will all have a greater number of schools that
:08:44. > :08:45.gain from the proposed But North Lincolnshire
:08:46. > :08:50.and North East Lincolnshire have more schools that will lose funding
:08:51. > :08:53.compared to the number That has prompted the North East
:08:54. > :08:57.Lincolnshire councillor who is in charge of children's
:08:58. > :09:00.services to write to the government, warning that local schools will lose
:09:01. > :09:05.?1 million next year, and it is the most deprived
:09:06. > :09:10.areas that will suffer. This Academy,
:09:11. > :09:12.which has 2,200 students, Cleethorpes, our other secondary
:09:13. > :09:18.academy in this area, by a ?30,000 cut, and our primary
:09:19. > :09:26.by the equivalent of about 40,000, Earlier before today's tragedy
:09:27. > :09:33.at Westminster and folded, Earlier before today's tragedy
:09:34. > :09:35.at Westminster unfolded, the Prime Minister defended the need
:09:36. > :09:38.to look again at the way There has been a general acceptance
:09:39. > :09:42.that the current funding formula That is why this government
:09:43. > :09:45.is looking to find a formula, The proposals have been open
:09:46. > :09:51.to consultation, which ended today. Some hope the government will now
:09:52. > :10:10.go back to the drawing board. Let's get the forecast now. A lot of
:10:11. > :10:12.fine weather on the way across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
:10:13. > :10:17.Increasingly sunny tomorrow, though will be pretty windy. There is a
:10:18. > :10:21.chart we all enjoy. Lots of sunshine this weekend, although there could
:10:22. > :10:24.be frost at night. We have got some patchy outbreaks of rain to push
:10:25. > :10:30.across our part of the world. Largely clearing later on. We will
:10:31. > :10:36.see those temperatures around 4-5 . Cloud first thing, the odd spot of
:10:37. > :10:39.rain possible, otherwise, dry and increasingly bright. Dry air coming
:10:40. > :10:46.in from the North Sea, so lots of sunshine throughout Thursday. Quite
:10:47. > :10:50.the key in north-east wind. Top temperatures, 11th Celsius. Friday
:10:51. > :10:52.and the weekend, more sunshine to come. That is the forecast. And
:10:53. > :10:58.that is it from us tonight. Thank you for watching. We are back in the
:10:59. > :11:00.morning and tomorrow night at half past six. Join us if you can. Good
:11:01. > :11:03.night. decent day. Saturday could be a much
:11:04. > :11:05.better day, with some