29/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

The headlines from BBC Look North this Wednesday night.

As Article 50 is triggered we look at the role Lincolnshire

and East Yorkshire played in taking the UK out of the EU.

The changing face of a town - we look at how different communities

have been affected as Boston prepares for Brexit.

I haven't cried as much in my life as I cried since Brexit. I don't

know what this Brexit thing will mean for us? There is good to be so

much stress among them to lose my friends and stuff like that.

And the Brexit winners and losers, we find out how businesses

are being affected since we voted leave.

It's going to be exceptionally mild over the next 24 hours. Join me for

the very latest. Voters in parts of East Yorkshire

and Lincolnshire delivered some of the largest votes in favour

of Brexit in the whole of the UK. And today, nine months on,

the formal process of withdrawing from the European Union began

in the form of a letter Our political editor

Tim Iredale is in Westminster. Tim, people voted for this in big

numbers in places like Boston. Well if you are one of the many

people in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire who voted to leave the

European Union last year you may be frustrated at being told today that

still has to be a lengthy period of negotiation, and the whole process

could take another two years, but bear in mind that government has two

on pic thousands of pieces of EU legislation, and to decide which EU

laws it wants to keep and which EQ laws it wants to ditch. However none

of that change is the fact that as of today we are on the road to the

EU exit. After years of discussion,

debate and division - Britain IS leaving

the European Union - the separation finally

confirmed today This government has a clear plan

for Britain that will change this country, that will see us

with a more global outlook, a stronger economy, a fairer

society, and the What this triggering

of article 50 means today is, it is the first step on the road

of Britain taking back control of its immigration policy,

and that is exactly what the people of Boston and Lincolnshire have been

saying they have wanted for a long time.

Today is the day we do it. The United Kingdom became part

of what was then called Is Europe stronger

with Britain a member? But even then, in the days of

flares, big collars and sideburns, many politicians started

campaigning to get us out. A referendum in 1975 saw British

voters choose to remain part of the European Community,

but it would be a different story more than 40 years later

when the people were asked We can make tomorrow

our Independence Day. It was clear that Lincolnshire

and East Yorkshire would be targeted heavily by the Leave campaign,

with concerns about the impact of immigration high

on political agenda. What would be the impact if we

remained in the EU for our NHS and other public services,

which are already under huge strain In our part of the world,

the verdict was clear. Lincolnshire recorded

the country's biggest vote in favour of leaving the EU -

but Hull and the East Riding Yet that wasn't

the end of the story. A legal challenge led to parliament

having a say on the Brexit process, but MPs ultimately decided

the result of last summer's The question being asked here

tonight is which area should be prioritised when it comes to

negotiations. I don't think the Boston engineers alone when he says

immigration should be top of the list. Another Lincolnshire MP spoke

in the House of Commons earlier saying it was essential that the

government got a good deal for the county's farmers so it seems like

everyone has their own idea about what a good Brexit steel should look

like so there is a lot of pressure to night Theresa May, and her Brexit

secretary, David Davis, to deliver. Many who voted to get out

of the European Union say a strain put on public services

by immigration was the reason. Kate Sweeting has been back

to Boston in Lincolnshire, to find out how people have been

affected by the prospect For 12 years Hana has lived

and worked in Boston, her son Michael was born here,

but they are Czech rather than British nationals

and since the Brexit vote she says their future

feels less secure. I haven't cried as much in my life

as I cried since Brexit. It's like a blank, we don't know

what's going to happen. We still don't know what this Brexit

thing will mean for us. Do you worry about anything

to do with Brexit? It's just like that there's

going to be some stress and like, I'm just going to lose my friends

and stuff like that. But efforts are being made to make

Boston's many foreign residents The town's iconic St Botolph's

Church, known as the Boston Stump, now has a multi-lingual chapel

to encourage people of all nationalities

to worship together. I have seen what has been

happening post-Brexit. I've made connections

with lots of people from different communities and there is a very

positive drive to make this town a community where people

celebrate living here. And even some of those who voted

to leave the EU want better integration between Boston's

different communities. One leave voter has set up

a Facebook group called Boston More in Common

to encourage that. Boston seemed to me at that point

going nowhere and we'd got a lot of people here that

were from eastern Europe and I wanted to become friends

with those people and try and sort out some of the problems that

Boston has with some Here in Boston more than 75%

of voters opted to leave the European Union in last June's

referendum and today, around nine months on, the process to make that

happen has officially begun. For Hana life has certainly not been

better since the EU referendum but she hopes that now the official

Brexit process has begun, she will at least get some

clarity on the future. Kate Sweeting,

BBC Look North in Boston. Earlier tonight our main

programme was from Boston. But this is what people

in the market told me. I think for Boston just

to find its own way, I think we're quite accepting that

you know we're going to leave the EU but you

know the people that to leave the EU but you know

the people that are here, Might be a good thing,

there's a large amount of So you want fewer

foreign people here? Yeah.

But you're foreign! It's bad for the people that

are scamming the country, yes. They need to be shifted,

but the ones that are earning tax for this country should have a right

to really have their country. What would you do

for those who are not earning tax for the

country as you put it? Like, we've survived the first nine

months 75% of the town voted to leave.

They are desperate to get out. But when you ask them why

they can't tell you. You just say we want our country

back, and when you say from where or from who you or from

when, they don't answer you. With Article 50 triggered -

the next two years of negotiations will affect local businesses -

and their staff. We've been to two local companies

to find out how they're We have just had Mother's Day,

so obviously this is The flowers that we sell here come

from numerous countries. I would say predominantly we use

Dutch flowers and Colombian and obviously we support

all the Britain leaving the EU has already

affected our business. As soon as we all woke up

that morning and found out we were leaving,

the pound devalued and My main concern is how

we're going to trade directly with European and other countries

and also what is going Mark, we need to

count the stock now. Have we got nine?

Nine in total. 36. I think it is an exciting

time for the country. We've just got to stay positive

whether we are going through a tough The busiest time is always Christmas

but closely followed by Easter. Like baking, or anything else,

the proof of the pudding It's somehow or other

making it with your hands My son went with the Department

of International Trade on a three-day introduction

to exporting over to Holland We are looking into the possibility

of that at the minute. We don't see that Brexit

will hold us up in any way. It is what it is and so we're

just going to head Britain is very renowned

for quality of its products. That's the news from us on this

historic day. Now the weather forecast

with Paul Hudson. mild conditions over the next 24

hours, and a lot of cloud at first but should turn brighter from the

south. Over the weekend we look at high pressure developing on Sunday,

Sunday being the best day of the weekend after quite a showery day on

Saturday. At the moment though we have patchy rain in places which

will clear out of the way and become mostly dry, with mild conditions and

temperatures at 11 degrees. Clouds could be thick enough for the odd

bucket of light rain tomorrow, that moving northwards, a nice end to the

day. Temperatures at 18 or 19 degrees!

That will do nicely. We'll see you tomorrow morning from 6:25am. Join

me then if you can. Good night. far. The outlook for the next few

days, temperatures coming down a bit but staying decent for this time of

year. Here is Darren Bett with the national weather.

The warm air coming up on a southerly breeze all the way from

Iberia and across France into England and Wales. To achieve the

high temperatures we need to get into some of this dryer air and

sunshine. Even with the cloud today, 17 degrees. Not just about the

temperatures, let's not forget there is some rain around as well. Quite

wet in