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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight - what will Brexit mean for Yorkshire? | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
We'll ask how businesses in our region will be | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
And protests outside a power station over fears that foreign workers | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
A lot of cloud over the next 24 hours, but it will be exceptionally | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
Nine months ago, 58% of people in Yorkshire voted | :00:21. | :00:34. | |
Today, the two-year countdown to Britain leaving | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Our social affairs correspondent Spencer Stokes has been to one | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
company in North Yorkshire with a workforce heavily | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
reliant on EU migrants, who don't yet know whether they'll | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
I am from Lithuania and came to England six years ago. | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
Some of the migrants caught in a Brexit no-man's land. | :00:58. | :01:12. | |
Care home workers waiting to find out if they will be able to stay | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
in the UK once Britain has left the EU. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
At Anley Hall Nursing Home in Settle, 21 of the 60 | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
All of them unsure about their future. | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
I like this job, I like the residents, I like the people. | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
I love to stay here and the Brexit break my heart. | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
Ellie was one of the first to arrive here with her husband | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
She's considering paying to become a British citizen, | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
If we have to go for the naturalisation, it's | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
Obviously, we haven't got this money in the pocket, | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
but if hard Brexit will come, I have to take a loan and doing | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
naturalisation for my family, to make it easier for us to work | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
The Government's position on whether EU workers can stay | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
But the Brexit Secretary David Davis says it will be a priority, | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
If Ellie and her colleagues were to return to eastern Europe, | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
then who would fill the vacant posts? | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
There certainly isn't an abundance of labour here in Settle. | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
The jobless rate is currently around 3%. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
And, according to the Government, that means this area | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
The prospect of EU workers losing their right to remain | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
is a worry for the manager at Anley Hall. | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
She wants to keep her current migrant workforce and recruit | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
We don't know what's going to happen. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
We're in a very rural location here and it's | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
been historically very, very difficult to recruit. | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
And without the staff from eastern Europe, | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
we would not be able to function as a business. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
The British people have spoken and the answer is, we're out. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
It all seemed very clear on the morning | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
And the talks that will determine their future are just beginning. | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
Virtually every business in Yorkshire is affected | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
in some way or other by EU rules and regulations. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
So how will things change once we leave? | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
Our business correspondent Danni Hewson has been to two | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
North Yorkshire food producers to see how they think they'll | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Even a Great British staple like bangers and mash | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
Like many other sectors, this potato business relies heavily | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
In the packhouse 60% of employees come from EU countries | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
The percentage in the business as a whole is much lower. | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
Without these workers, the business would struggle to find staff, | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
despite paying all employees the living wage. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
But unlike most employers, the boss here is confident a deal will be | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
They want to be here for lots of reasons. | :04:18. | :04:31. | |
We want them to be here. They do an excellent job here. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
I think it would be crazy if they had to go back. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
I'm pretty confident that sanity will prevail. | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
Martin's always been confident that leaving the EU would provide | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
the best outcome for his business and nothing that's happened | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
since last year's vote has dissuaded him of that. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
There's been a positive impact, but you could argue that's | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
fortuitous and it's just short-lived. | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
I don't think it is, really, because what we've found | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
is that commodity prices, wheat, barley, all the combinable | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Here, they have felt a negative impact. | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
The devaluation of the pound has meant more pork is being exported | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
which has driven up the price of one of their key ingredients. | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
The big concern is whether the kind of grants that typically come | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
from the EU and have helped them expand, will continue after Brexit. | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
The stuff we have here costs a couple of hundred thousand pounds. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
We need that grant fund money to help us expand so we don't know | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
if the pot will be shrunk when we leave the EU. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
The money might be spent in other sectors. | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
It's a big waiting game to see what happens. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Everything is to play for once we figure out the game. | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
In large parts of South Yorkshire, more than two thirds of people voted | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
in favour of leaving the EU in last year's referendum. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Here's what some people in Rotherham made of today's Brexit developments. | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
Because Europe is going, European Union is going into a bad | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
direction, in my opinion, from Polish view. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
It's time it made us own laws and us own rules, | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
not have everybody that doesn't belong to us telling us | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
I'm really hoping that Britain will do well and we'll get some good | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
Because I don't think we're going to get what we expect to get | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
I think we'll get as good a deal as we had before. | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
I think it's in everybody's interests to do that. | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Next, tonight - there have been protests outside Ferrybridge power | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
station in West Yorkshire about foreign workers | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
Around 150 construction workers, many of them unemployed, | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
gathered at the gates, blaming employers - | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
not Brexit - for shipping in cheaper foreign employees. | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Construction workers from across the north of England | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
The police were present but this was a peaceful protest. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
They came here to join with local unemployed workers who claim they're | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
being overlooked with the use of cheap labour from abroad. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Let's look after UK workers first and foremost and not exclude | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
foreign workers but we, the UK workers, are being treated | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
as a top-up of labour to a foreign workforce. | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Ferrybridge Power Station closed last year after 50 years of service. | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
It was a blow to the community, but there were assurances | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Its owners, SSE, said it was committed to the site, | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
with the construction of a ?300 million multi-fuel | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
waste energy plant, which would create local jobs. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
But Keith Gibson, who's been out of work now for eight weeks, | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
says there's a severe lack of opportunities. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
We've got companies what we call is a race to the bottom. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
They want you to work as many hours a week | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
We're not happy with European employers using European | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
labour to undercut our terms and conditions. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
The contract firm HZI is leading this project. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
They're actually based in Switzerland. | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
But, in a statement, they told us that around two thirds | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
They also said they're working with local businesses and the local | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
job centre to make sure that the local community | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
But protestors say the industry is in crisis and guidelines | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
about using local labour in construction and engineering | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
They're calling on European employers to give people | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
in the community first refusal on work and say they'll | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
continue to protest until their voices are heard. | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
The Duke of York returned today to Tadcaster, which was cut in half | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
when the Christmas floods of 2015 destroyed its historic bridge. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
In a whistlestop tour this afternoon, he saw a town back | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
on its feet after 15 months of desperation. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
The Duke visited local businesses and went to see Tadcaster's | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
18th-century bridge, which reopened only a few weeks ago. | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
Some spots might get 18 degrees tomorrow. The headline for the next | :09:27. | :09:41. | |
24 hours is very mild. Some cloud and the risk of patchy bays but | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
brighter skies later in the day heading from the south. As for the | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Saturday means that April will begin Saturday means that April will begin | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
with April showers but then there is a ridge of high pressure for Sunday | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
and that looks to be the best day of the weekend. Dry, with plenty of | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
sunshine. Temperatures in double figures at the moment. It is quite | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
loudly and there will be patchy rain but elsewhere it looks -- in the | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
West, but elsewhere, it looks fine. Thursday, quite a cloudy day, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
particularly in the morning. There is always the risk of a little | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
patchy rain drifting up from the south. But certainly through the | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
afternoon, an improvement coming into the North Midlands and then | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
South Yorkshire. Brighter skies and patchy rain for north and West | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Yorkshire for a time. Look at those top temperatures. The sunshine as a | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
late feature for West Yorkshire but it comes out in the end. More rain | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
to come in the West on Friday but that drifts away and Friday looks a | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
nice day, dry and mild with sunshine. April showers on Saturday | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
and Sunday looks fine with sunny spells. That's it | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
far. The outlook for the next few days, temperatures coming down a bit | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
but staying decent for this time of year. Here is Darren Bett with the | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
national weather. The warm air coming up on a | :11:12. | :11:21. | |
southerly breeze all the way from Iberia and across France into | :11:22. | :11:22. | |
England | :11:23. | :11:23. |