29/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)


29/03/2017

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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

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Tonight - what will Brexit mean for Yorkshire?

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We'll ask how businesses in our region will be

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And protests outside a power station over fears that foreign workers

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A lot of cloud over the next 24 hours, but it will be exceptionally

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Nine months ago, 58% of people in Yorkshire voted

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Today, the two-year countdown to Britain leaving

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Our social affairs correspondent Spencer Stokes has been to one

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company in North Yorkshire with a workforce heavily

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reliant on EU migrants, who don't yet know whether they'll

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I am from Lithuania and came to England six years ago.

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Some of the migrants caught in a Brexit no-man's land.

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Care home workers waiting to find out if they will be able to stay

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in the UK once Britain has left the EU.

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At Anley Hall Nursing Home in Settle, 21 of the 60

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All of them unsure about their future.

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I like this job, I like the residents, I like the people.

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I love to stay here and the Brexit break my heart.

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Ellie was one of the first to arrive here with her husband

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She's considering paying to become a British citizen,

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If we have to go for the naturalisation, it's

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Obviously, we haven't got this money in the pocket,

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but if hard Brexit will come, I have to take a loan and doing

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naturalisation for my family, to make it easier for us to work

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The Government's position on whether EU workers can stay

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But the Brexit Secretary David Davis says it will be a priority,

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If Ellie and her colleagues were to return to eastern Europe,

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then who would fill the vacant posts?

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There certainly isn't an abundance of labour here in Settle.

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The jobless rate is currently around 3%.

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And, according to the Government, that means this area

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The prospect of EU workers losing their right to remain

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is a worry for the manager at Anley Hall.

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She wants to keep her current migrant workforce and recruit

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We don't know what's going to happen.

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We're in a very rural location here and it's

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been historically very, very difficult to recruit.

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And without the staff from eastern Europe,

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we would not be able to function as a business.

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The British people have spoken and the answer is, we're out.

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It all seemed very clear on the morning

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And the talks that will determine their future are just beginning.

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Virtually every business in Yorkshire is affected

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in some way or other by EU rules and regulations.

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So how will things change once we leave?

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Our business correspondent Danni Hewson has been to two

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North Yorkshire food producers to see how they think they'll

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Even a Great British staple like bangers and mash

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Like many other sectors, this potato business relies heavily

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In the packhouse 60% of employees come from EU countries

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The percentage in the business as a whole is much lower.

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Without these workers, the business would struggle to find staff,

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despite paying all employees the living wage.

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But unlike most employers, the boss here is confident a deal will be

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They want to be here for lots of reasons.

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We want them to be here. They do an excellent job here.

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I think it would be crazy if they had to go back.

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I'm pretty confident that sanity will prevail.

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Martin's always been confident that leaving the EU would provide

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the best outcome for his business and nothing that's happened

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since last year's vote has dissuaded him of that.

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There's been a positive impact, but you could argue that's

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fortuitous and it's just short-lived.

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I don't think it is, really, because what we've found

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is that commodity prices, wheat, barley, all the combinable

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Here, they have felt a negative impact.

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The devaluation of the pound has meant more pork is being exported

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which has driven up the price of one of their key ingredients.

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The big concern is whether the kind of grants that typically come

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from the EU and have helped them expand, will continue after Brexit.

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The stuff we have here costs a couple of hundred thousand pounds.

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We need that grant fund money to help us expand so we don't know

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if the pot will be shrunk when we leave the EU.

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The money might be spent in other sectors.

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It's a big waiting game to see what happens.

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Everything is to play for once we figure out the game.

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In large parts of South Yorkshire, more than two thirds of people voted

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in favour of leaving the EU in last year's referendum.

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Here's what some people in Rotherham made of today's Brexit developments.

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Because Europe is going, European Union is going into a bad

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direction, in my opinion, from Polish view.

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It's time it made us own laws and us own rules,

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not have everybody that doesn't belong to us telling us

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I'm really hoping that Britain will do well and we'll get some good

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Because I don't think we're going to get what we expect to get

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I think we'll get as good a deal as we had before.

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I think it's in everybody's interests to do that.

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Next, tonight - there have been protests outside Ferrybridge power

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station in West Yorkshire about foreign workers

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Around 150 construction workers, many of them unemployed,

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gathered at the gates, blaming employers -

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not Brexit - for shipping in cheaper foreign employees.

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Construction workers from across the north of England

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The police were present but this was a peaceful protest.

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They came here to join with local unemployed workers who claim they're

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being overlooked with the use of cheap labour from abroad.

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Let's look after UK workers first and foremost and not exclude

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foreign workers but we, the UK workers, are being treated

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as a top-up of labour to a foreign workforce.

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Ferrybridge Power Station closed last year after 50 years of service.

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It was a blow to the community, but there were assurances

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Its owners, SSE, said it was committed to the site,

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with the construction of a ?300 million multi-fuel

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waste energy plant, which would create local jobs.

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But Keith Gibson, who's been out of work now for eight weeks,

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says there's a severe lack of opportunities.

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We've got companies what we call is a race to the bottom.

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They want you to work as many hours a week

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We're not happy with European employers using European

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labour to undercut our terms and conditions.

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The contract firm HZI is leading this project.

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They're actually based in Switzerland.

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But, in a statement, they told us that around two thirds

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They also said they're working with local businesses and the local

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job centre to make sure that the local community

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But protestors say the industry is in crisis and guidelines

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about using local labour in construction and engineering

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They're calling on European employers to give people

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in the community first refusal on work and say they'll

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continue to protest until their voices are heard.

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The Duke of York returned today to Tadcaster, which was cut in half

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when the Christmas floods of 2015 destroyed its historic bridge.

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In a whistlestop tour this afternoon, he saw a town back

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on its feet after 15 months of desperation.

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The Duke visited local businesses and went to see Tadcaster's

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18th-century bridge, which reopened only a few weeks ago.

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Some spots might get 18 degrees tomorrow. The headline for the next

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24 hours is very mild. Some cloud and the risk of patchy bays but

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brighter skies later in the day heading from the south. As for the

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Saturday means that April will begin Saturday means that April will begin

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with April showers but then there is a ridge of high pressure for Sunday

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and that looks to be the best day of the weekend. Dry, with plenty of

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sunshine. Temperatures in double figures at the moment. It is quite

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loudly and there will be patchy rain but elsewhere it looks -- in the

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West, but elsewhere, it looks fine. Thursday, quite a cloudy day,

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particularly in the morning. There is always the risk of a little

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patchy rain drifting up from the south. But certainly through the

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afternoon, an improvement coming into the North Midlands and then

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South Yorkshire. Brighter skies and patchy rain for north and West

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Yorkshire for a time. Look at those top temperatures. The sunshine as a

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late feature for West Yorkshire but it comes out in the end. More rain

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to come in the West on Friday but that drifts away and Friday looks a

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nice day, dry and mild with sunshine. April showers on Saturday

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and Sunday looks fine with sunny spells. That's it

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far. The outlook for the next few days, temperatures coming down a bit

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but staying decent for this time of year. Here is Darren Bett with the

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national weather. The warm air coming up on a

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southerly breeze all the way from Iberia and across France into

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England

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