:00:00. > :00:00.The headlines from BBC Look North this Wednesday night.
:00:00. > :00:10.As Article 50 is triggered we look at the role Lincolnshire
:00:11. > :00:21.and East Yorkshire played in taking the UK out of the EU.
:00:22. > :00:24.The changing face of a town - we look at how different communities
:00:25. > :00:32.have been affected as Boston prepares for Brexit.
:00:33. > :00:37.I haven't cried as much in my life as I cried since Brexit. I don't
:00:38. > :00:42.know what this Brexit thing will mean for us? There is good to be so
:00:43. > :00:43.much stress among them to lose my friends and stuff like that.
:00:44. > :00:46.And the Brexit winners and losers, we find out how businesses
:00:47. > :00:50.are being affected since we voted leave.
:00:51. > :00:53.It's going to be exceptionally mild over the next 24 hours. Join me for
:00:54. > :01:01.the very latest. Voters in parts of East Yorkshire
:01:02. > :01:04.and Lincolnshire delivered some of the largest votes in favour
:01:05. > :01:09.of Brexit in the whole of the UK. And today, nine months on,
:01:10. > :01:12.the formal process of withdrawing from the European Union began
:01:13. > :01:15.in the form of a letter Our political editor
:01:16. > :01:19.Tim Iredale is in Westminster. Tim, people voted for this in big
:01:20. > :01:34.numbers in places like Boston. Well if you are one of the many
:01:35. > :01:37.people in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire who voted to leave the
:01:38. > :01:42.European Union last year you may be frustrated at being told today that
:01:43. > :01:46.still has to be a lengthy period of negotiation, and the whole process
:01:47. > :01:50.could take another two years, but bear in mind that government has two
:01:51. > :01:56.on pic thousands of pieces of EU legislation, and to decide which EU
:01:57. > :02:01.laws it wants to keep and which EQ laws it wants to ditch. However none
:02:02. > :02:03.of that change is the fact that as of today we are on the road to the
:02:04. > :02:03.EU exit. After years of discussion,
:02:04. > :02:08.debate and division - Britain IS leaving
:02:09. > :02:10.the European Union - the separation finally
:02:11. > :02:12.confirmed today This government has a clear plan
:02:13. > :02:16.for Britain that will change this country, that will see us
:02:17. > :02:18.with a more global outlook, a stronger economy, a fairer
:02:19. > :02:20.society, and the What this triggering
:02:21. > :02:26.of article 50 means today is, it is the first step on the road
:02:27. > :02:29.of Britain taking back control of its immigration policy,
:02:30. > :02:32.and that is exactly what the people of Boston and Lincolnshire have been
:02:33. > :02:35.saying they have wanted for a long time.
:02:36. > :02:38.Today is the day we do it. The United Kingdom became part
:02:39. > :02:40.of what was then called Is Europe stronger
:02:41. > :02:47.with Britain a member? But even then, in the days of
:02:48. > :02:53.flares, big collars and sideburns, many politicians started
:02:54. > :02:57.campaigning to get us out. A referendum in 1975 saw British
:02:58. > :03:00.voters choose to remain part of the European Community,
:03:01. > :03:05.but it would be a different story more than 40 years later
:03:06. > :03:08.when the people were asked We can make tomorrow
:03:09. > :03:14.our Independence Day. It was clear that Lincolnshire
:03:15. > :03:19.and East Yorkshire would be targeted heavily by the Leave campaign,
:03:20. > :03:21.with concerns about the impact of immigration high
:03:22. > :03:25.on political agenda. What would be the impact if we
:03:26. > :03:28.remained in the EU for our NHS and other public services,
:03:29. > :03:32.which are already under huge strain In our part of the world,
:03:33. > :03:38.the verdict was clear. Lincolnshire recorded
:03:39. > :03:42.the country's biggest vote in favour of leaving the EU -
:03:43. > :03:46.but Hull and the East Riding Yet that wasn't
:03:47. > :03:48.the end of the story. A legal challenge led to parliament
:03:49. > :03:53.having a say on the Brexit process, but MPs ultimately decided
:03:54. > :04:10.the result of last summer's The question being asked here
:04:11. > :04:14.tonight is which area should be prioritised when it comes to
:04:15. > :04:17.negotiations. I don't think the Boston engineers alone when he says
:04:18. > :04:21.immigration should be top of the list. Another Lincolnshire MP spoke
:04:22. > :04:24.in the House of Commons earlier saying it was essential that the
:04:25. > :04:27.government got a good deal for the county's farmers so it seems like
:04:28. > :04:32.everyone has their own idea about what a good Brexit steel should look
:04:33. > :04:35.like so there is a lot of pressure to night Theresa May, and her Brexit
:04:36. > :04:38.secretary, David Davis, to deliver. Many who voted to get out
:04:39. > :04:41.of the European Union say a strain put on public services
:04:42. > :04:45.by immigration was the reason. Kate Sweeting has been back
:04:46. > :04:47.to Boston in Lincolnshire, to find out how people have been
:04:48. > :04:50.affected by the prospect For 12 years Hana has lived
:04:51. > :05:01.and worked in Boston, her son Michael was born here,
:05:02. > :05:03.but they are Czech rather than British nationals
:05:04. > :05:05.and since the Brexit vote she says their future
:05:06. > :05:08.feels less secure. I haven't cried as much in my life
:05:09. > :05:14.as I cried since Brexit. It's like a blank, we don't know
:05:15. > :05:17.what's going to happen. We still don't know what this Brexit
:05:18. > :05:20.thing will mean for us. Do you worry about anything
:05:21. > :05:23.to do with Brexit? It's just like that there's
:05:24. > :05:31.going to be some stress and like, I'm just going to lose my friends
:05:32. > :05:35.and stuff like that. But efforts are being made to make
:05:36. > :05:38.Boston's many foreign residents The town's iconic St Botolph's
:05:39. > :05:43.Church, known as the Boston Stump, now has a multi-lingual chapel
:05:44. > :05:46.to encourage people of all nationalities
:05:47. > :05:49.to worship together. I have seen what has been
:05:50. > :05:54.happening post-Brexit. I've made connections
:05:55. > :05:56.with lots of people from different communities and there is a very
:05:57. > :06:00.positive drive to make this town a community where people
:06:01. > :06:06.celebrate living here. And even some of those who voted
:06:07. > :06:13.to leave the EU want better integration between Boston's
:06:14. > :06:14.different communities. One leave voter has set up
:06:15. > :06:17.a Facebook group called Boston More in Common
:06:18. > :06:18.to encourage that. Boston seemed to me at that point
:06:19. > :06:21.going nowhere and we'd got a lot of people here that
:06:22. > :06:25.were from eastern Europe and I wanted to become friends
:06:26. > :06:30.with those people and try and sort out some of the problems that
:06:31. > :06:33.Boston has with some Here in Boston more than 75%
:06:34. > :06:43.of voters opted to leave the European Union in last June's
:06:44. > :06:46.referendum and today, around nine months on, the process to make that
:06:47. > :06:49.happen has officially begun. For Hana life has certainly not been
:06:50. > :06:52.better since the EU referendum but she hopes that now the official
:06:53. > :06:54.Brexit process has begun, she will at least get some
:06:55. > :06:57.clarity on the future. Kate Sweeting,
:06:58. > :06:58.BBC Look North in Boston. Earlier tonight our main
:06:59. > :07:00.programme was from Boston. But this is what people
:07:01. > :07:04.in the market told me. I think for Boston just
:07:05. > :07:08.to find its own way, I think we're quite accepting that
:07:09. > :07:10.you know we're going to leave the EU but you
:07:11. > :07:13.know the people that to leave the EU but you know
:07:14. > :07:15.the people that are here, Might be a good thing,
:07:16. > :07:22.there's a large amount of So you want fewer
:07:23. > :07:25.foreign people here? Yeah.
:07:26. > :07:26.But you're foreign! It's bad for the people that
:07:27. > :07:30.are scamming the country, yes. They need to be shifted,
:07:31. > :07:33.but the ones that are earning tax for this country should have a right
:07:34. > :07:36.to really have their country. What would you do
:07:37. > :07:38.for those who are not earning tax for the
:07:39. > :07:40.country as you put it? Like, we've survived the first nine
:07:41. > :07:45.months 75% of the town voted to leave.
:07:46. > :07:49.They are desperate to get out. But when you ask them why
:07:50. > :07:52.they can't tell you. You just say we want our country
:07:53. > :07:55.back, and when you say from where or from who you or from
:07:56. > :08:01.when, they don't answer you. With Article 50 triggered -
:08:02. > :08:05.the next two years of negotiations will affect local businesses -
:08:06. > :08:09.and their staff. We've been to two local companies
:08:10. > :08:11.to find out how they're We have just had Mother's Day,
:08:12. > :08:19.so obviously this is The flowers that we sell here come
:08:20. > :08:24.from numerous countries. I would say predominantly we use
:08:25. > :08:29.Dutch flowers and Colombian and obviously we support
:08:30. > :08:30.all the Britain leaving the EU has already
:08:31. > :08:36.affected our business. As soon as we all woke up
:08:37. > :08:39.that morning and found out we were leaving,
:08:40. > :08:42.the pound devalued and My main concern is how
:08:43. > :08:49.we're going to trade directly with European and other countries
:08:50. > :08:52.and also what is going Mark, we need to
:08:53. > :08:56.count the stock now. Have we got nine?
:08:57. > :09:00.Nine in total. 36. I think it is an exciting
:09:01. > :09:03.time for the country. We've just got to stay positive
:09:04. > :09:06.whether we are going through a tough The busiest time is always Christmas
:09:07. > :09:16.but closely followed by Easter. Like baking, or anything else,
:09:17. > :09:19.the proof of the pudding It's somehow or other
:09:20. > :09:22.making it with your hands My son went with the Department
:09:23. > :09:29.of International Trade on a three-day introduction
:09:30. > :09:34.to exporting over to Holland We are looking into the possibility
:09:35. > :09:38.of that at the minute. We don't see that Brexit
:09:39. > :09:41.will hold us up in any way. It is what it is and so we're
:09:42. > :09:44.just going to head Britain is very renowned
:09:45. > :09:49.for quality of its products. That's the news from us on this
:09:50. > :09:59.historic day. Now the weather forecast
:10:00. > :10:10.with Paul Hudson. mild conditions over the next 24
:10:11. > :10:15.hours, and a lot of cloud at first but should turn brighter from the
:10:16. > :10:19.south. Over the weekend we look at high pressure developing on Sunday,
:10:20. > :10:24.Sunday being the best day of the weekend after quite a showery day on
:10:25. > :10:27.Saturday. At the moment though we have patchy rain in places which
:10:28. > :10:33.will clear out of the way and become mostly dry, with mild conditions and
:10:34. > :10:39.temperatures at 11 degrees. Clouds could be thick enough for the odd
:10:40. > :10:43.bucket of light rain tomorrow, that moving northwards, a nice end to the
:10:44. > :10:45.day. Temperatures at 18 or 19 degrees!
:10:46. > :10:53.That will do nicely. We'll see you tomorrow morning from 6:25am. Join
:10:54. > :11:04.me then if you can. Good night. far. The outlook for the next few
:11:05. > :11:07.days, temperatures coming down a bit but staying decent for this time of
:11:08. > :11:12.year. Here is Darren Bett with the national weather.
:11:13. > :11:18.The warm air coming up on a southerly breeze all the way from
:11:19. > :11:22.Iberia and across France into England and Wales. To achieve the
:11:23. > :11:26.high temperatures we need to get into some of this dryer air and
:11:27. > :11:30.sunshine. Even with the cloud today, 17 degrees. Not just about the
:11:31. > :11:32.temperatures, let's not forget there is some rain around as well. Quite
:11:33. > :11:33.wet in