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

Good evening and welcome to Look North.

A huge fireworks display has marked the beginning of Hull's year

25,000 watched on from the banks of the Humber.

Earlier parts of the city were turned into a giant light show.

Our culture correspondent, Anne-Marie Tasker, has this report.

It took 500 hours to plan but just 12 minutes to perform, the firework

show that City of Culture promised would be bigger than London's on New

25,000 people packed in to see Hull start its year in the spotlight.

It is like being in a completely different city, a foreign city.

Everybody is in really great spirits.

We have come all the way from South Africa to see the fireworks.

It is such an amazing place and the fireworks are spectacular.

It was amazing, all the music that went with it, I am so

happy about it, so happy for Hull, I hope it is

After more than three years of planning City of Culture

is finally here and with 15,000 fireworks

exploding above the Humber it really is starting with a bang.

When you are in my game you love the planning

bit but you love the moment when the show starts.

The team here have worked really hard and the City

Council have planned so hard and got this

stage ready for us so it is

always great to take up the curtain and open.

And this was the curtain raiser, the week-long opening event made in

Hull. A look back at a century of the city's history, light and sound

recreating moments like the Blitz, Hull Fair and Hull City's

Premier League promotion. there is negative stuff in the

papers but if it goes on like this it will be fantastic. In some ways I

want to keep it secret bid in other ways it is great to celebrate Hull

and this is a great night. And from Hull's

history to its future, with the first baby born

in the city in 2017. Little Lincoln's footprint will join

ones taken from every baby born during City of Culture year,

to make a huge picture like this. It is amazing to have the first baby

born in Hull 2017. It is lovely to see the babies' footprints, they

will be able to look back on it when they are older. Three and a half

tonnes of fireworks helped City of Culture get off to an explosive

start. The organisers promised 364 more unforgettable days.

There is more coverage of the fireworks display on our Facebook

page. Humberside Police say they had one

of their busiest shifts last night, after an evening of what they've

described as "alcohol-fuelled Officers in Hull claim that at one

point over New Year's Eve they were dealing with one call

every 47 seconds, after a number The Queen missed the New Year's Day

church service at Sandringham Other senior royals -

including the Duke of Edinburgh - The Queen was forced

to delay her journey from Buckingham Palace

to their Norfolk estate In today's football,

Lincoln City went back to the top of the National League after scoring

twice late on in a 3-1 And North Ferriby United

are off the bottom - And with the weather,

here's Aisling Creevey. Hello there, and a very

happy New Year. Over the next couple of hours

we continue to see those showers Just one or two as we head

through the overnight but it's certainly turning very cold as those

skies start to clear, and we will see lows tonight

of around one Celsius, but certainly much colder than this

away from the towns. The risk of ice first

thing in the morning. There's a good deal

of sunshine around tomorrow. We hang onto those showers

mainly close to the coast, so for most of us it is a dry

but a very cold day in the store, Over the next couple

of days temperatures We see a lot more cloud around

as we head into Tuesday, -- again by the end of the week.

We will be back tomorrow lunchtime at a quarter past one. If you have

any pictures of the fireworks you can put them on our Facebook page.

For many, New Year's Day was a shocker with all of that rain

around. Tomorrow will be sunny, but it is getting colder. This is rain

clearing from the south-east. These specks of white as snow mixed in

with showers across parts of northern England, particularly

across Scotland, low levels here. I say that they hazard in northern and

eastern areas. I would not rule out slippery areas almost anywhere by

the morning, by which time temperatures will be close to or

below freezing in many places. A bright and sunny start, but still

wintry showers, sliding down the North Sea coast. Some snow down at

quite low levels to the north of Scotland. Here, the snow will turn

to rain. Something milder creeping in off the Atlantic as it clouds

over. Further south, despite that sunshine, it will feel cold. 3-5 is

the best I can offer you, briefly, through the afternoon. Then

temperatures fall away like a stone. Through the