BBC Look North
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Power in Women, The Night Season, Fabulous Felines, Art from the Tenfoot and WOW Festival.

Just a few local events focusing on work by women.

Hope Bolger
BBC Radio Lincolnshire

A Lincolnshire codeword campaign to help people who feel unsafe while out on a date has now been adopted in Aberdeen.

Image source, Lincolnshire County Council

The campaign suggests that people go to bar staff and ask for Angela if they need help out of an awkward or worrying situation.

The campaign was the brainchild of Hayley Childs, from Lincolnshire County Council, it has since gone viral. 

It's drawn support from across the world, including from Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher.

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Cloud will continue to thin and break to leave a dry and bright afternoon with sunny spells developing from the north. 

Gusty southwesterly winds and a maximum temperature of 11 deg C (52 deg F).

Richard Madden
BBC Radio Humberside

The top stories across East Yorkshrie and northern Lincolnshire this lunchtime include:

• Man seriously hurt in police pursuit crash
• Businesses in Leeds are finding out how they can follow in Hull's footsteps to become a City of Culture
• A rag and bone man is applying to run a horse and cart ride on Cleethorpes seafront

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

The Channcellor Philip Hammond has begun outlining his first budget this lunchtime. 

It's thought he will say the economy has proved resilient after the Brexit referendum.

A director and chartered financial planner in Hessle has told us she doesn't think there'll be many surprises in this afternoon's announcments.

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

Leading business people are meeting in Leeds today to see how they can help in getting the city the title of Capital of Culture - the European version of our City of Culture in Hull.

The title will be awarded to a UK city in 2023.

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

A man suffered serious injuries when a car being followed by police  in Grimsby early this morning crashed, external on Chelmsford Avenue.

Both the occupants of the car were arrested on suspicion of car theft and driving offences.

The passenger, a 31-year-old man, is in hospital in Hull with serious injuries.

The driver, a 29-year-old man, has received treatment and is in police custody.

Phil White
BBC Radio Humberside

We're live in Hessle Square this afternoon. 

Come and say hello if you're passing!

Amanda White
BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

We've been hearing about a mysterious sculpture in Barton so I've been to check it out.

Here's a sneaky peak of a new WW1 memorial which Laurie here has been telling me all about for Burnsy on BBC Radio Humberside .

Amanda White
BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

A new BBC show is going to celebrate the Best of British Takeaways and local chippy Papas Fish and Chips will be featured in the programme. 

So I was set the challenge to see how fast and accurately I could serve a portion of chips just as the teams will have to in the programme:

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

One of the five gold artworks hidden in northern Lincolnshire as part of a treasure hunt will be auctioned off next week.

Image source, North Lincolnshire Museum

The  replica Viking brooch was found by chance  in a wall by Rachel Welch from Grimsby hours after the treasure hunt began last month.

She's now  selling it to raise money, external  for a holiday.

It's expected to fetch up to £1,500. 

Bishop Burton College, external is calling for women in the rural industries to Be Bold for Change in 2017.

They are doing their bit for International Women's Day by holding an event to encourage more women into agriculture, external .

Sally Fairfax
BBC Radio Humberside

The top stories across East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire this morning include: 

• Hull Citizens Advice Bureau welcomes an expected  government crackdown on so-called subscription traps
• Bishop Burton College is holding a Women in Rural Industries conference
• North Lincs Council is considering plans campaigners say could lead to dozens of new houses being built on a playing field

BBC Weather Watchers

Here's a cormorant fishing in Bridlington harbour taken by Weather Watcher Mitch this morning.

Image source, BBC Weather Watchers

Lara King
North East Lincolnshire reporter

A rag and bone man wants to run a horse and cart ride on Cleethorpes promenade.

Not this guy! 

Although you could be forgiven for thinking it's the Brit Award winner of the same name who is everywhere at the moment.

No, I meant the bonafide old fashioned type of scrap dealer.

Sam Norris is part of a long line of rag n bone men in the area and wants to use his horse and cart for rides for tourists.

He's now got his Hackney Carriage driver's licence and has been talking to the highways department about his proposed route. 

He's hoping to find out today if he'll be allowed to go ahead. 

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

Today's budget won't all be good news but it is thought  it will include a crackdown on 'subscription traps' . 

That's where customers sign up for a free trial but then get tied up in a subscription and end up paying for it.

Hull's Citizens Advice Bureau has welcomed this news.

Image source, Reuters

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

Women from East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are joining thousands of others from across the country to protest in London today over the state pension age. 

Changes to the law have meant that women who thought they could retire at 60 now face the prospect of working until they're 66.

It's a move Women Against State Pension Inequality (WASPI) claim has left them short-changed but the government says it has no plans for any compensation.

Amanda White
BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

We all love a good takeaway but it's a bit early for fish and chips even for me!

But anyway, here I am at Papas Fish and Chips in Willbery this morning frying them up.

The team here are about to star in a brand new BBC series - The Best of British Takeaways - celebrating our iconic culinary centrepiece:

Train operator Northern has published details of its revised timetable, external which is due to operate during industrial action on Monday 13 March.

Image source, El Pollock

The RMT union announced strike action last month in a dispute over plans to bring in more driver-only-operated trains.  

Northern says it expects to run approximately 980 services, or about 40% of its normal timetable on many, but not all, of its routes in the north of England.

All services are expected to be extremely busy and the firm's advising customers to give themselves extra time to travel and consider whether their journey is necessary.

Richard Allan, Northern's deputy managing director, says: "We've focused our planning efforts on maintaining a train service on our busier routes between 07:00 and 19:00, and are looking to provide replacement bus services on some routes where trains won't run."

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

A row has broken out about this playing field in Scunthorpe.  

North Lincolnshire Council is considering plans today that campaigners say could lead to dozens of new houses being built here.

They want to build 122 homes on the former Brumby Hospital site but campaigners say it'll include development on greenbelt land. 

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition against the proposal.