05/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

A woman from Hull, who successfully campaigned for better safety aboard

North Sea Trawlers in the late 1960s, has died at the age of 79.

Mary Denness was one of a group of women from the city dubbed

"The Headscarf Revolutionaries", who started lobbying the Government

after three trawlers sank with the loss of 58 lives.

They captured the public's attention with their determined

and hard fought campaign, as Victoria Holland reports.

She was the skipper's wife who changed lives.

Mary Denness joined three other women on a revolution in the 60s,

to make their men's lives safer on North Sea Trawlers.

That build build-up of anger, of frustration, and then two

It was the fuse that caused the explosion.

A lot of women said we had no right to be

interfering in the men's work, that the fish stocks were the men's

territory - it was very misogynistic in those days.

Mary and the other headscarf revolutionaries

started a petition, marched on the docks and eventually met

Their work meant that safety improved on trawlers and it

also inspired other artists, authors and Hull campaigners.

Today, flowers had been left at a bench which had

been unveiled in her honour two years ago.

Mary became a very eloquent spokesman then and later.

It is quite apt that we are here remembering this remarkable

without whom countless thousands of lives would have been lost.

The campaign meant the industry was regulated, with a trained radio

And Mary's bench serves as a reminder of the effect these

four women from Hull had on the lives of their husbands

A man has been charged following a series of car thefts

in Hull and East Yorkshire that took place on Friday.

One attempted theft took place in Hedon.

23-year-old Leon Ndenu has been charged with four counts

of robbery, four counts of attempted robbery, two counts of assault,

possession of an imitation firearm and possession

He'll appear before magistrates tomorrow.

A man has been found dead in Grimsby.

Police were called to an alley off David Street at about 6:30am this

His death is not being treated as suspicious.

There are calls for the Chancellor to use Wednesday's Budget

to increase the amount spent on social care in parts of our area.

The Government has allowed councils in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

to increase bills by an extra three per cent this year to meet

the growing cost of care, but some MPs say that's still not enough.

I'd like him to provide proper funding for social care,

particularly in areas like how were we know that the precept

increase that Government have announced, the

3% that were going to have in Hull, will not generate the amount of

It is 56% more in the East Riding than we'll be able to generate here.

So I'd like him to do something specific about the poorer

areas that are really having a social care crisis because of the

More than 300 members of Hull's Jewish community have come together

to mark 250 years of Jews living in the city.

I gained my culture from this community. This loving, giving

community. Hull-born actress Maureen Lipman

was guest of honour at a special And she and others paid tribute

to how Hull had welcomed In a way, it's a sort of miracle

that a community has survived 250 years of the trials

and tribulations, from one or two early settlers,

and is still here. I had a fantastic, both Jewish

and secular, education here. 250 years of the Jewish

people coming into and being welcomed

by the great city of Hull. The Hull City boss Marco Silva

says his team have to fight The Tigers lost a big match

against fellow strugglers It keeps them second from bottom

in the Premier League. Marco Silva says while it doesn't

look good for his team, he needs his players

to keep on pushing. As it stands, a couple of victories

could potentially lift them It's clear we need to come to be

strong and to fight like we But the most important is,

when you get a chance to score you need to score, because these make

the difference during the matches. And finally, it's been a good

afternoon for Hull KR They've just thrashed

Sheffield Eagles at home. A more than comfortable

win for Rovers - Just time for your weather forecast

then - Abbie Dewhurst We will see a few showers pepping up

through the course of the night, but a settled

day to come tomorrow. So, here they are - quite heavy but,

as we head to the early hours of tomorrow morning, they will

start to fragment and lose We will see some really good

breaks in the clouds, These will be the temperatures

in towns and cities. Rurally they will

drop a little lower. It will be quite

a chilly start tomorrow. Quite cloudy as well,

but we will see some really decent breaks and some nice,

bright, sunny spells, We are also risk of seeing one

or two showers, and the winds will be so light tomorrow

that these showers may At this time of year, though,

temperatures in the sunshine will be Then, as we head through the next

few days, Tuesday might get off to a decent enough start but then

we will see some rain, That's all from us for now,

but we will be back later on this evening with all your latest news

updates - that's right after the national news

here on BBC One, at 10:20pm. Hello, as was the case on Saturday

there was a lot of whether around today. Showers for some, some saw

the staff of postcard material, for others it was more Christmas card

material. We had pictures like that quite widely across the Midlands and

Wales as well. This