:00:09. > :00:10.Investigations are continuing into the cause of a fatal
:00:11. > :00:14.Emergency services were called to Derwent Street off
:00:15. > :00:17.Carholme Road in the early hours of yesterday morning.
:00:18. > :00:20.Two people managed to escape the building but the body
:00:21. > :00:27.A Lincolnshire council is calling on the government to offer extra
:00:28. > :00:30.money to GPs who come to work in rural areas, where it's hard
:00:31. > :00:34.In Gainsborough in particular, surgeries have been struggling
:00:35. > :00:36.to replace doctors who've left or retired.
:00:37. > :00:44.When it comes to treating illness, GPs are in the front line.
:00:45. > :00:47.But in some parts of Lincolnshire, that front line is starting
:00:48. > :00:53.In Gainsborough, there are only six full-time GPs,
:00:54. > :00:55.when there should be ten, making it difficult
:00:56. > :01:00.Last time I needed to see the doctor, I couldn't get
:01:01. > :01:02.in so I ended up in the minor injuries department instead.
:01:03. > :01:04.By the time it comes to your appointment,
:01:05. > :01:07.three or four weeks later, even longer sometimes,
:01:08. > :01:12.But district councillors have come up with a solution.
:01:13. > :01:14.They want the Government to offer extra payments to GPs
:01:15. > :01:19.who move to work here, a so-called "rural weighting".
:01:20. > :01:24.I know locally in Lincolnshire we offered a ?20,000 handshake
:01:25. > :01:26.to recruit trainees and, for the first time,
:01:27. > :01:32.Gainsborough's MP is backing the plan.
:01:33. > :01:35.We already have the concept of London weighting and I think such
:01:36. > :01:38.is the crisis in GP recruitment that we should have a rural
:01:39. > :01:41.weighting also for doctors to try to encourage them to come
:01:42. > :01:50.There are 360 GPs in Lincolnshire, but the county should have 420.
:01:51. > :01:56.A salaried GP earns between ?55,000 and ?84,000 a year.
:01:57. > :01:57.That's more than double Lincolnshire's average
:01:58. > :02:06.He says it'll take more than cash incentives alone
:02:07. > :02:12.If anything, Lincolnshire GPs on average tend to earn better
:02:13. > :02:19.So, I'm not convinced that money is the whole story here.
:02:20. > :02:24.In the next few weeks, the NHS is bringing in 25 doctors
:02:25. > :02:26.recruited from mainland Europe to fill vacanies
:02:27. > :02:31.But that alone won't solve the recruitment problem,
:02:32. > :02:33.so initiatives like "rural weighting" could end up
:02:34. > :02:42.A Conservative MP has described the extra money being offered
:02:43. > :02:44.to councils to pay for social care as "putting a plaster
:02:45. > :02:50.The government is allowing local authorities to raise council
:02:51. > :02:54.tax by an extra three per cent this year to pay for the increasing cost
:02:55. > :02:56.of caring for elderly and vulnerable people.
:02:57. > :03:06.But Cleethorpes MP Martin Vickers says he's worried it's not enough.
:03:07. > :03:16.People expect higher standards now, changes in society mean the elderly
:03:17. > :03:23.no longer stay with their families or extended families during the end
:03:24. > :03:29.in their dying years. It is a major issue and it is the biggest issue in
:03:30. > :03:31.cost terms that governments over the next decade or two will face.
:03:32. > :03:34.A boat built in Hull will soon be become a medical lifeline
:03:35. > :03:37.The twenty five thousand pound Wilberforce One
:03:38. > :03:39.will help take doctors, nurses and medical supplie,
:03:40. > :03:43.along the Volta River and work like a floating clinic.
:03:44. > :03:45.The boat's been paid for by Rotary Clubs
:03:46. > :03:49.Championship leaders Brighton and Hove Albion.
:03:50. > :03:51.In today's football, Hull City were knocked out
:03:52. > :03:55.Marco Silva made seven changes from the side that beat
:03:56. > :03:58.Manchester United on Thursday, but they were unable to overcome
:03:59. > :04:03.Evandro scored his first goal for the Tigers,
:04:04. > :04:06.but Hernandez missed two penalties in a minute as the home team
:04:07. > :04:14.And tomorrow night Lincoln City are in the draw for the fifth
:04:15. > :04:15.round of the competition, after beating Brighton
:04:16. > :04:31.Hello, the majority of the drizzle is making it out dashed way out. A
:04:32. > :04:36.couple of showers may pep up but low cloud and mist and murk and patchy
:04:37. > :04:43.fog. Overnight temperatures in towns and cities around three or 4 degrees
:04:44. > :04:47.but ruefully lower. A cloudy, uninspiring start the day but the
:04:48. > :04:50.fog will be patchy and will lift into low cloud. Some brightness in
:04:51. > :04:57.the afternoon and temperatures around seven Celsius. We are back
:04:58. > :05:08.from 6:25am. Have a good night. Bye-bye.
:05:09. > :05:15.Good evening. Very soggy down south today. A wash-out of the day for
:05:16. > :05:20.some of us. Scotland, northern parts of England, had sunshine. It's going
:05:21. > :05:24.to be cold. Already is. This is what is heading our way for the week
:05:25. > :05:30.ahead. We need our brollies out and it'll turn Wendy later in the week.
:05:31. > :05:33.The rain is clearing. I wouldn't say necessarily particularly drying out
:05:34. > :05:38.after this rain band boost towards the east, it'll stay damp but cloudy
:05:39. > :05:43.and murky in the north. Maybe freezing fog in places. It will be
:05:44. > :05:48.cold in the glands of Scotland. It could be down to -10 degrees, it's
:05:49. > :05:54.already about -5 or 6 degrees right now. Monday we've got another band
:05:55. > :05:59.of rain heading our way. Most of the West Country, Wales, spots into
:06:00. > :06:01.Northern Ireland. Most of southern England overcast with some rain.
:06:02. > :06:02.Looks like some