:00:14. > :00:16.Investigations are continuing into the cause of a fatal
:00:17. > :00:22.Emergency services were called to Derwent Street off
:00:23. > :00:24.Carholme Road in the early hours of yesterday morning.
:00:25. > :00:27.Two occupants of the house managed to escape the building but the body
:00:28. > :00:36.A Lincolnshire council is calling on the Government to offer extra
:00:37. > :00:39.money to GPs who come to work in rural areas, where it's hard
:00:40. > :00:42.In Gainsborough in particular, surgeries have been struggling
:00:43. > :00:44.to replace doctors who've left or retired.
:00:45. > :00:48.When it comes to treating illness, GPs are in the front line.
:00:49. > :00:59.But in some parts of Lincolnshire, that front line is starting
:01:00. > :01:01.In Gainsborough, there are only six full-time GPs,
:01:02. > :01:03.when there should be ten, making it difficult
:01:04. > :01:07.Last time I needed to see the doctor, I couldn't get
:01:08. > :01:09.in so I ended up in the minor injuries department instead.
:01:10. > :01:11.By the time it comes to your appointment,
:01:12. > :01:13.three or four weeks later, even longer sometimes,
:01:14. > :01:27.But district councillors have come up with a solution.
:01:28. > :01:30.They want the Government to offer extra payments to GPs
:01:31. > :01:32.who move to work here, a so-called "rural weighting".
:01:33. > :01:35.I know locally in Lincolnshire we offered a ?20,000 handshake
:01:36. > :01:38.to recruit trainees and, for the first time,
:01:39. > :01:40.Gainsborough's MP is backing the plan.
:01:41. > :01:43.We already have the concept of London weighting and I think such
:01:44. > :01:45.is the crisis in GP recruitment that we should have a rural
:01:46. > :01:48.weighting also for doctors to try to encourage them to come
:01:49. > :01:52.There are 360 GPs in Lincolnshire, but the county should have 420.
:01:53. > :01:55.A salaried GP earns between ?55,000 and ?84,000 a year.
:01:56. > :01:56.That's more than double Lincolnshire's average
:01:57. > :02:09.He says it'll take more than cash incentives alone
:02:10. > :02:15.If anything, Lincolnshire GPs on average tend to earn better
:02:16. > :02:21.So, I'm not convinced that money is the whole story here.
:02:22. > :02:27.In the next few weeks, the NHS is bringing in 25 doctors
:02:28. > :02:29.recruited from mainland Europe to fill vacanies
:02:30. > :02:34.But that alone won't solve the recruitment problem,
:02:35. > :02:36.so initiatives like "rural weighting" could end up
:02:37. > :02:45.A Conservative MP has described the extra money being offered
:02:46. > :02:48.to councils to pay for social care as "putting a plaster
:02:49. > :02:56.The Government is allowing local authorities to raise council
:02:57. > :02:58.tax by an extra 3% this year to pay for the increasing cost
:02:59. > :03:00.of caring for the elderly and vulnerable people.
:03:01. > :03:02.But the Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers says he's
:03:03. > :03:08.People do expect higher standards now.
:03:09. > :03:10.Changes in society mean that the elderly no longer stay
:03:11. > :03:12.with their families, or their extended families
:03:13. > :03:22.So it is a major issue and it's the biggest issue, I think,
:03:23. > :03:23.certainly in cost terms, that governments over
:03:24. > :03:29.the next decade or two are going to have to face.
:03:30. > :03:32.A boat built in Hull will soon be providing a medical lifeline
:03:33. > :03:35.The ?25,000 Wilberforce One will help
:03:36. > :03:37.take doctors and nurses, as well as medical supplies,
:03:38. > :03:44.along the Volta River and work like a floating clinic.
:03:45. > :03:46.The boat's been paid for by Rotary Clubs
:03:47. > :03:52.The hospital's across a river that has crocodiles in and the people
:03:53. > :03:54.don't swim and theonly access they have is wooden boats
:03:55. > :04:04.There is the canoe they used to use and the boat behind it,
:04:05. > :04:10.so hopefully it will work very well out there.
:04:11. > :04:12.In today's football, Hull City were knocked out
:04:13. > :04:19.Marcol Silva made seven changes from the team who beat
:04:20. > :04:22.Manchester United on Thursday, but they were unable to overcome
:04:23. > :04:25.Evandro scored his first goal for the Tigers,
:04:26. > :04:28.but Hernandez missed two penalties in a minute as the home team
:04:29. > :04:34.And Lincoln City's giant-killing run in the FA Cup continues.
:04:35. > :04:37.For the first time in more than a century, the Imps
:04:38. > :04:40.are in the final 16 of the competition.
:04:41. > :04:42.They beat Championship leaders Brighton and Hove Albion 3-1
:04:43. > :04:46.Manager Danny Cowley says they had to live up
:04:47. > :04:50.It's beyond all of my wildest dreams.
:04:51. > :04:55.We watched them queue up, hour after hour,
:04:56. > :05:00.felt like day after day, and we shouldered that
:05:01. > :05:04.We were all aware of it, all of us, as a management group and players,
:05:05. > :05:08.we were aware about how much the fans had committed to be
:05:09. > :05:10.here and we wanted to make sure our performance
:05:11. > :05:18.And the draw for the next round is tomorrow evening at 7pm.
:05:19. > :05:23.Well, a pretty drizzly end to the day.
:05:24. > :05:26.We're just seeing a band of something very light and patchy
:05:27. > :05:30.Within the next few hours, we will be looking at
:05:31. > :05:41.A fair bit of mist and murk and patchy fog and frost
:05:42. > :05:45.Temperatures in towns and cities down around 3 or 4 Celsius.
:05:46. > :05:47.Rurally, though, under any clearer skies, they will
:05:48. > :05:50.So a cloudy, uninspiring start to the working week, I'm afraid.
:05:51. > :05:53.There will be some mist, some patchy fog but this will soon
:05:54. > :05:56.lift just to a little bit of low cloud.
:05:57. > :05:58.We'll see some brightness tomorrow afternoon, a largely dry picture,
:05:59. > :06:00.feeling a touch milder with highs of 7 Celsius.
:06:01. > :06:19.There was some sunny and cheerful weather across the UK today.
:06:20. > :06:24.Scotland and the far north of England, but further south, a rainy,
:06:25. > :06:25.ugly picture, and it's still pouring