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Hull to Hollywood: Scrap This Year’S City Council Elections Could Be Made Next Week 8Thursday January 2 2014 hulldailymail.co.uk MAI-E01-S2 MAI-E01-S2 hulldailymail.co.uk Thursday January 2 2014 9 In Brief Scrapping of 2014 council elections to be discussed HULL: A decision on whether it is possible to Hull to Hollywood: scrap this year’s city council elections could be made next week. Scrutiny councillors at Hull City Council are due to hear from town clerk Ian Anderson over the legal issues surrounding such a move. The idea of scrapping the annual election to select about one-third of the councillors on the how a fun-loving authority has been mooted as a way of making a one-off saving of about £121,000. An alternative would be to switch to a system of all-out elections held every four years, which is favoured by East Riding Council. Hull’s current system features elections every year with no election in the fourth year of the cycl e. city boy made the In a report for next week’s meeting, Mr Anderson says the rules only allow for a full council vote on the issue after the authority’s annual meeting, which is normally held after an election. JOINT Plans for housing project leap to working P R O J E C T: EAST HULL: Proposals to convert a former Simon Pegg, social club into new housing have been pictured in Hot submitted for planning approval. Fuzz, is The scheme earmarked for the former working with Belmont Club in New Bridge Road also includes s c re e n w r i t e r two neighbouring properties in Rosmead Street. Gavin Scott, COMIC GENIUS: Former If given the go-ahead, the new development who was born Monty Python star, writer and with film greats in Hull. would include five three-bedroom properties film director Terry Jones following the partial demolition of an existing building and the construction of two-storey extensions at the site. THERE has always been an adven- Hull-born Hollywood G av i n’s artistic interests are shared turousness to Gavin Scott, the by his family. Ideas for dock property Hull-born Hollywood screenwriter. screenwriter Gavin Scott As kids, we would roam the city. We His brother, Gus M Scott, is a HULL: City councillors representing the As a child he dug a tunnel under the is working with Monty Vienna-based artist and his sister, Drypool ward have been asked to come up with fence at his Summergangs Road home in weren’t held in like children today, we Fiona Maxwell, runs the British Film ideas for the future use of the old Winding east Hull to make a shortcut into East Python star Terry Jones Institute’s film digitisation pro- House on Victoria Dock. Pa rk . on his latest film. Will explored all of it gramme, which is restoring Britain’s The last remaining original dockside building “As kids, we would roam the city,” film heritage. in the area had been earmarked as a possible Gavin said. “We weren’t held in like Ramsey finds out more Gavin Scott The three siblings grew up in Sum- community centre, but a funding bid to get the children today, we explored all of it.” mergangs Road, leaving in 1961 for New project off the ground proved unsuccessful. That sense of freedom has typified his things but never gets round to them. He has been shaped via e-mail, Skype and Terry, to keep the fans informed of Zealand, after Duncan, Gavin’s father, The council’s property contractor NPS is l i f e. is someone we can all identify with.” a few meetings each year between the prog ress. was made redundant from his job at advertising the building on a potential 99-year As a teenager he spent a year in the G av i n’s friendship with Terry began f r i e n d s. Absolutely Anything marks Gavin’s Wa d d i n g t o n’s glove factory. leasehold deal. Borneo jungle, teaching English to a more than 20 years ago, when they met When Terry is visiting America, he latest foray into American film and “It was a blow, but they said ‘Let’s go tribe of head-hunters, no less, and is through the George Lucas TV series The will stay with Gavin and his family, T V. to New Zealand and start a new life’,” now, decades on, an established writer Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. who have lived in California since His previous scripts include Small said Gavin, who was 11 at the time of Free help to lose weight in Los Angeles. A former journalist, Gavin was work- 1993. Soldiers, an action sci-fi film about the move. HULL: Free 12-week weight-loss courses are The 63-year-old’s latest project has ing on Channel 4 News when he decided “We have been working on it for warring factions of toys, which was “It was very bold of them –both were starting this month for women in the city. seen him working with Terry Jones, of to pursue script-writing full-time. Tak- ye a r s, ”said Gavin. “It has been a produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin in their 40s, with three children. Hull City Council is running the free courses Monty Python fame, on the comic sci-fi ing what he recalls as “a deep breath”, labour of love. Because we enjoy work- Enter tainment. “They did not know what it was going at a number of venues, including the Guildhall, film Absolutely Anything. Gavin quit his job and, through his ing together, it has been fun. Gavin was also the co-writer on the to be like but thought it would be better Costello Stadium and Craven Park Stadium. Set to start production in March, the agent, landed the chance to work with “It is about human ability to change big screen production of The Borrow- for us.” Anyone with a Hull postcode is eligible to join film will star Simon Pegg as a teacher L u c a s. the world, which is an interesting ers, starring John Goodman and Jim The family settled in Hawkes Bay, a in the YourShape programme, which follows a granted supernatural powers, the abil- Gavin joined a team of writers at the theme, but are we wise enough to B ro a d b e n t . region on New Zealand’s North Island, 12-week structure delivered by nutrition and ity to do “absolutely anything”, after an d i re c t o r ’s palatial Skywalker Ranch, a handle that power? His other projects in development where Gavin, as reported in the Mail on physical activity experts. alien visitation. sprawling estate near to San Francisco, “Because Terry is a comic genius, it is include Dunkirk, set to be directed by October 13, 1961, had his first taste of It focuses on integrating exercise into people’s The comedy ponders whether his to work on the series. incredibly funny.” Oliver Parker, whose CV includes the b ro a d c a s t i n g . daily routine, either at home or outdoors, and new-found gifts can be used for good or Following the early life of Indiana The film will feature the voices of films Dorian Gray and St Trinian’s. Having got himself involved in New also learning about nutrition for weight control. ill. Jones, a gung-ho archaeologist, Terry three of the other Pythons, Michael Produced by Working Title, Dunkirk Zealand Broadcasting Service’s Chil- To enrol for free, call 01482 224545. “It was an idea that Terry had and got was one of the directors drafted in to Palin, Terry Gilliam and John Cleese, will tell the story of the British civil- d re n’s Hour, he co-starred in a 13-part me to help shape up,”said Gavin, speak- work on the series. radio serial, The Wishing Ring. EXCITING TIME: Hull-born Hollywood screenwriter Gavin Scott. as the extraterrestrial visitors. ians who, in May 1940, used hundreds Team is nation’s best ing to the Mail from his Santa Monica “He liked the script and we got on from When filming begins, Gavin will be of small boats to cross the English Later, having completed his degree in h o m e. the beginning,”said Gavin. on the set in case any last-minute Channel and save the lives of hundreds New Zealand, he returned to England EAST YORKS: Specialist health workers have BACK THEN: Below, Gavin Scott’s family in 1961, outside their “The character of the teacher is that “We ’ve been pals ever since.” rewrites are required and pen a daily of thousands of British and French to work as a print journalist and then been named as part of the country’s best cancer Summergangs Road home in Hull. From left, Gus, mum Doris, classic person who dreams of great The script for Absolutely Anything blog, something he was asked to do by t ro o p s. as television news reporter and doc- team. Fiona and Gavin. Below right, a report about Gavin’s radio debut. umentary maker. The Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Service G av i n’s dad died in 1974. His mum, (Yorkshire and Humber) was named as Quality Doris, remains in New Zealand, where in Care’s Cancer Team of the Year. she worked as a primary school prin- The judge’s decision was based on the team’s cipal.
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