Gill Sennett
BBC Local Live

...BBC Look North's Abbie Dewhurst seems to think so:

About £6.5m of European funding has been secured to help businesses in seaside towns in East and North Yorkshire.

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The money will be targeted at Bridlington and Scarborough and will be used to help start up new businesses, grow existing ones and give people in coastal area more skills.

The idea is to create more jobs so people can get into work and then develop new skills so they become more employable.

The Yorkshire Coast Community-Led Local Development Programme is expected to run until 2021.

Calls by a Hull MP for a parliamentary debate over the future of the famous Lincolnshire-based Red Arrows aerobatic team, amid long-term concerns about team's future, have been backed by Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom.

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Diana Johnson pressed the government to offer assurances about the Scampton-based Royal Air Force team after BAE Systems announced plans to cut almost 2,000 jobs, including hundreds at the firm's Brough plant in East Yorkshire.

Labour had previously called for the government to consider bringing forward orders, including replacing the Red Arrows' fleet of Hawk aircraft, in a bid to provide additional work for BAE.

Ms Johnson said: "I think this is timely, in light of the announcement from BAE Systems this week, that we have this discussion about the future of the Red Arrows."

Ms Leadsom said: "We'd all pay tribute to the excellent displays put on by the Red Arrows - not least of which at the British Grand Prix in my constituency at Silverstone Circuit where they fly overhead every year.

"I think it's a fantastic sight and they do a brilliant job, so I would absolutely support the honourable lady."

Gill Sennett
BBC Local Live

Police are looking for the family of a 27-year-old man who has died in Scotland, external but has links to Hull.

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Eduardo, or Edvardhs, Silda was just 27 when he died in woodlands in Roslin, Midlothian, in December last year.

His death was not suspicious and since then police have been looking for his family.

He's thought to be from Spain or Portugal and is known to have spent time in Hull in May 2016.

Anyone with information is being asked to contact Police Scotland through the 101 number.

David Harrison
BBC Radio Humberside

Cycling is getting more and more popular in East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire and one local charity is tapping into the success of the sport.

Cottingham based, R-evolution, renovates old bikes which are donated to them, with the help of the long-term unemployed and ex-offenders, then offers disadvantaged children the chance to ride them.

The workshop now turns around about 1,000 bikes a year and children, who outgrow their bikes, can even bring them back and get a bigger one.

R-evolution now plan to take on more people to work on the bikes with the aim of helping them move on to work or a more settled life.

Caroline Brockelbank
BBC Local Live

Prisoners at Full Sutton jail in East Yorkshire are to be able to study degree courses through Leeds Beckett University.

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The prison has signed a memorandum of understanding with the university, which will see university staff go into the prison and to teach inmates.

Earlier this year 12 prisoners completed a three-year criminology course, all of them getting 2:1 grades or better.

Relatives of six British seaman, including two from East Yorkshire, jailed in India four years ago have lobbied MPs to demand the government do more to help secure their release.

The six were arrested in October 2013 for taking weapons into India's territorial waters. They were convicted and jailed for five years in 2016.

The men, including Paul Towers (left), from Pocklington, and Ray Tindall (right), who's originally from Hull, deny any wrongdoing, saying the weapons were properly licensed.

A 405,000-signature petition calling for the "wrongly imprisoned" men to be freed is being handed in at Number 10.

Indian coastguards boarded their vessel, the MV Seaman Guard Ohio, while the men were working as security guards to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Charges against them and 29 other crew members were initially quashed when the men argued the weapons were lawfully held for anti-piracy purposes. However, a lower court reinstated the prosecution.

Police in Hull want to speak to this man after two large pieces of metal were thrown through the window of a taxi firm, external:

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The incident happened at the Hull Cars office on Anlaby Road on 6 July.

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Anyone with information about his identity is being asked to contact police.

Gill Sennett
BBC Local Live

British Steel in Scunthorpe says the pace at which it's growing means it wants to strengthen its long-term future by training the next generation of steel workers.

Image source, Steve Morgan/British Steel

Steel from the Scunthorpe plant has been used in London's Crossrail project, Liverpool's Anfield stadium and at Hinkley Point Power station.

The firm says that more than 500 people have joined since it launched in 2016 and now the company produces 2.8 million tonnes of steel every year.

With 33 new starters joining the company this week, it says it's now looking for 25 new trainees to work in the manufacturing side of the business, external.

Natalie Glanvill
Reporter BBC Radio Humberside

Figures show nearly half of all people at particular risk of flu in Yorkshire and the Humber region were vaccinated against the bug last year.

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Also, about 72% of over-65s were given the jab.

Flu and complications associated with it cause, on average, about 8,000 deaths a year in England every year.

Another way of protecting vulnerable adults is to vaccinate children, who are so-called "super-spreaders" of the virus.

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For the first time, Year 4 children - who are about eight-years-old - are being offered the vaccine in school in the form of a nasal spray.

Public Health England says there's a bigger take-up of children getting the flu vaccine in schools and has started its winter campaign to give people the free jab.

David Harrison
BBC Radio Humberside

Gary Barlow is to play at Hull City Hall next year, it's been announced.

The Take That star is due to perform two solo gigs on 23 and 24 April and will be supported by KT Tunstall.

Gill Sennett
BBC Local Live

Work to demolish two dangerous buildings on the corner of May Street and Ryde Street is affecting traffic in Hull at the moment.

The nearby bus lane's been temporarily suspended and a lane's closed until next Wednesday:

Sarah Sanderson
Political Reporter East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Relatives of six British men, including two from East Yorkshire, are stepping up their campaign to free them from an Indian prison.

They will lobby parliament later and hand in a petition with over 400,000 signatures of support.

Paul Towers (left), from Pocklington and Ray Tindall (right), who is originally from Hull but now lives in Chester, are among six who were arrested four years ago today.

They've always said they are innocent and their lawyer Stephen Askins says the legal process in India is taking far too long.

David Harrison
BBC Radio Humberside

It could cost Hull City Council £100,000 to get rid of old chewing gum that's been spat out.

Hull Councillor Alan Clark isn't happy about the amount of gum on the new paving in the city centre.

New litter enforcers could soon have the power to fine people.

Jason Bowers, from Creative Briefs who are trying to change people's attitudes to spitting gum on the floor, says 73,000 tonnes of old chewing gum goes into landfill.

Instead it could be recycled to make things like welly boots and guitar plectrums.

David Harrison
BBC Radio Humberside

Part of Hull's Beverley Road will be closed until next Wednesday, which is causing traffic delays into and out of Hull.

Two buildings on the corner of May Street and Ryde Street are dangerous and need to be demolished.

It means there will only be one lane open on that part of the road heading out of Hull.

The bus lane is suspended while the work is under way.

Abbie Dewhurst
Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

Morning, it's looking like a dry, bright, breezy day but there may be the odd chance of rain later.

Here's my full forecast:

Gill Sennett
BBC Local Live

Good morning,

Gill here with all the latest updates on your news, sport, travel and weather across East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire.

If you were up early enough you might have seen the lovely red skies this morning. Here's a picture from one of our Weather Watchers of the colourful sky over Beverly.

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More than 400 jobs are to be lost at the BAE aircraft factory in Brough, East Yorkshire.

Gill Sennett
BBC Local Live

That's all from me for today.

I'll be back tomorrow morning from 08:00 but all your breaking news will continue to be posted here overnight.

Before I go, here's five things we didn't know this morning:

• No new Hawk jets for Red Arrows, government confirms
• A new organisation could soon be running Goole Academy
• Grimsby's fishing industry is on the up
• The future of farming - going underground
• And could you be a pantomime dame for Children in Need?

Victoria Holland
BBC Look North

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A couple from Withernsea whose honeymoon plans were up in the air after the collapse of Monarch Airlines have managed to get away - thanks to a loan from a family member.

Mark and Amanda Damms are currently in Zante after Mark's new brother-in-law lent him money to book a last minute deal after the holiday company failed to help following the airline's administration.

Mark says the break is well-needed after the stress of the ordeal.