05/12/2011 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight...

Senior Humberside Police officers challenge politicians to be honest

in their assessment of cuts, warning that services will be

affected. I have to have an honest concert -- conversation with my own

people. We have to try and maintain the best of what the public want,

but it will deal with these budget cuts.

Hopes that Lincoln's Eastern Bypass will ease congestion and bring

thousands of jobs to the area. It has been called the most

successful Lincoln Christmas market ever - the benefits reaped by the

city from the four-day event. And a not-so-happy return for Nigel

Pearson, as Hull City's former manager comes back to the KC

Stadium. My and a cold start to the week. There could be based on

untreated surfaces. A fool forecast Good evening. Frontline jobs will

have to goal. A senior detective with Humberside

Police is tonight challenging politicians to be honest in their

assessment of deep cuts to the Humberside Police budget. The force

will lose �30 million and it is leading to tough choices on how

best to use resources. In a moment, we will be hearing from Chief

Superintendent Colin Andrews, who is in charge of Force Operations.

As one of Humberside Police's most senior detectives, Deena Flemming

heads up the "cold case" team. She investigates older, unsolved crimes.

Crimes she fears will take a back seat under the cuts. My team are

dealing with the 18-year-old who was raped in 1984 and we do have

the firm DNA profile. That is not a victim of today, but my argument is

that she is still a victim and deserves a service.

Sherry Kingston believes the cold case team should be protected. 31

years ago, a nine-year-old Sherry had walked to wasteland to feed the

horses. A paedophile sexually assaulted her and threatened to

kill her. Earlier this year, her attacker David Littlewood was

sentenced to seven and a half years. They was like winning the lottery.

It really was. Just to look at Ten and just to look at what the

repulsive man he is. These people will murder and the will rate at.

But 20% cuts mean tough decisions ahead. The there is no point

pretending the cuts will not have an impact. I have to talk to my own

people to work out that difficult choices we make. We have to work

out what the public want and deserve while working within the

framework of the budget cuts. The government's policing minister

Nick Herbert has told us in a statement: "I do not accept that

reductions in police funding will impact on provision of frontline

services or crime rates. We need to get away from this unhealthy

obsession with officer numbers. The issue here is how resources are

used." A as a police officer and the last 30 years, may have seen

our lot of change. But at the risk of burning out the staff we now

have. It is a situation that nobody in

the force has asked for, but one they are now forced to deal with.

Chief Superintendent Colin Andrews is head of Humberside's Operations

branch. He retires at Christmas after 37 years on the force and has

been telling me how the cuts will affect him at the sharp end. In any

area that Tanni cover, or what we have tried to do is reduce the

impact of these cuts, but inevitably, some services will have

to go. Do you think the politicians are been honest enough about this?

Officers can only cut so far without affecting frontline

services. There has been all this talk about a lot of the car has

been in the backroom staff. But we have been hearing across the board

that everyone has to prioritise. Surely the police are no different?

Yes, I do not argue with that. But we simply cannot make, cuts in the

back room. Some from line services will have to be affected. We have

got to prioritise and one of the things is that any other officers

investigating the current spate of metal thefts, but that means that

these officers are having to be taken off other investigations. You

need to understand that we do a lot of things that are not front line.

We do a lot of liaison work which is still very important and needs

to be done as well as the in-your- face policing. You are retiring,

but why can police officers not simply work longer? I ache could

have retired at seven years ago. But is simply does not make

financial sense for me to stay on any longer. I you been asked to do

too much one too little money? I think we are. I won the

operations branch and I have other will say that I do in my own time,

such as a hostage negotiator. But you can only give so which back.

Good to see it and happy retirement to you.

We would like to hear your thoughts on this. Where do you think the

police need to cut their cloth to save money? You can get in touch in

We will not some of your thoughts on this before we finish.

And tonight's edition of Inside Out will take a closer look at the

future of Humberside Police. That is on BBC One at 7.30pm.

In a moment, we will hear from former caravan workers who say they

are still waiting for money they are owed.

It could create as many as 30,000 jobs over the next 15 years with

thousands more predicted for the future. Those are just some of the

economic benefits that could come from the long-awaited Lincoln

Eastern Bypass, according to Lincolnshire County Council. Last

week, the government agreed to part-fund the scheme with �50m,

with the remainder of the money coming from the council. Our

reporter Simon Spark is in Lincoln for us this evening. How

significant is this news, Simon? is very important. Here, they say

the congestion on a daily be travels through here to and from

the city. Not surprisingly, most of the people here are in favour of

the bypass. But in order to pay for it, that needs more development to

be done. It means thousands more houses and thousands more cars. The

question then is will that actually do anything to help the congestion?

According to the county council, the �100 million project will

reduce congestion and create up to 30,000 new jobs over the next 15

years. It is not on the good news for this area, but for the

surrounding parts of Lincolnshire. The bypass will start in the North

and finish in the south. This is a problem they are trying to stop.

The traffic building up throughout the morning and at the rush hour in

evening. We needed to get out of the difficulty of getting access to

work, but we have simply created a system of traffic that clogs

everything up. But in the village there was a lot of support for it.

I cannot wait forever. It is absolutely chaotic round here.

will be good for the traders as well, because they complain there

is too much traffic in the city. private investment is found,

construction could begin by a 2014. I am joined by Paul Coatup from

Lincolnshire County Council. 30,000 jobs is a heck of a

prediction. Where are they all coming from? Me think a lot of them

will come from regeneration of the land that is proposed. It will come

from the people living in the new houses and homes that will be

constructed once the road has been got the go-ahead. And it will come

from those employments and local businesses that will go not to

accommodate that extra growth in the housing market. You have worked

for the county council for 20 years and you said last week as the

happiest day. Why was that? I was able to take people round to show

them what this bypass scheme would be like and now it is going to

become a reality. We heard in Simon's report there

that not everyone is happy. Green campaigners say this will be just

another busy road, choking the atmosphere. How much will you

consider the environmental impact when you build the road? But there

is there, we will try and mitigate any impact that this would have any

environment. But we think there will be a lot of good spin-offs in

that respect. The city centre should become all Les Paul muted,

for example. There will be an impact on the land, but we can do a

lot of things to mitigate that. Someone said to me that the Moon

will only be helpful for people to avoid coming into the city. That is

the point of it. It will take about 20 % of the traffic off.

When do you expect the road to be A lorry driver who died after an

accident on the A160 in South Killingholme this morning has been

named by police. 53-year-old Mark Connor from Manchester is believed

to have fallen ill at the wheel of his articulated lorry. The

carriageway was closed westbound for most of the morning to allow

investigations to be carried out. Anyone with information about this

incident should contact Humberside The first public consultation on

what may be the world's largest offshore wind farm has begun today.

2,600 turbines are proposed for the site at Dogger Bank. The

development will require miles of cabling and improvements to

electricity substations in East Yorkshire. A Lincoln based charity

working with homeless people has launched a new appeal. The Nomad

Trust are collecting unwanted furniture from across the city

which will furnish accommodation for people without a home.

Still ahead... As crowds flocked to Lincoln's

Christmas market, we'll find out if the four-day event has become a

victim of its own success? No pre-Christmas cheer for Nigel

Pearson as the former Hull City manager returns to the KC and the

Tonight's photograph was taken by That was a very nice photograph.

James says, can. Using the abbreviations? Just tell him he is

not a teenager. The EC MG is part of the code used in forecasts for

military forecasting so, there, stick that in your pipe and smoke

That was the viewer, not me. The headline for the next 24 hours

is a cold one. We have got a warning out, with icy patches on

untreated services. We have got a few showers rolling through more

southern parts of the region and tomorrow the wind is still in the

West. But it has a less of a flow and many parts of the region will

be dry with some sunshine. My goodness, it has been a cold day

today. There has been a significant wind chill. Can you pick out those

lines of showers? This one is still running through Lincolnshire, and

they could be a wintery flavour to some of these showers, but they

able to sort out gradually and the cloud will clear. Watch out for

those icy patches. They could be some tricky driving conditions and

the gritters are out in force. The sun will rise in the morning at

8:02am. A cold and possibly icy start on the roads. It is mostly

fine but otherwise. There is a risk of some showers, but as you can see,

many places will be dry, if a little on the cold side. A moderate

wind holding temperatures back to around 5 or 6. Wednesday, again, a

few showers. Then, look at that. Temperatures up to 9 or 10 with

some rain for some time. Right your tweeds properly or we

will have some more emails! Oh MG. See you tomorrow.

Workers made redundant from a caravan the company from Hull say

they are still waiting for the money they are owed. 360 employees

won a tribunal in 2010 entitling them to a larger payouts but so far

the administrators of the former Just one of 300 workers made

redundant a week before Christmas at 2008. To work here, I don't know

how many people... Surrey... I am too upset. We are devastated, we

don't know what is going to happen. We will dig deep and seek what kind

of Christmas we can have but the future looks bleak. Sam worked for

Atlas holiday homes for 23 years and he won a tribunal in 2010

entitling him to larger payouts but the administrators have not paid

out. We would like to know where our money is. They are getting

their money, they are getting their fees every three months, they get

their money, why can't we have our my knee? This is one of the old

sites and this is one of the problems for the administrators.

They need to sell these buildings before they can settle up with

former employees and they have told us that the economic climate over

the last three years has made that very difficult. Atlas holiday homes

is not connected with an should not be confused in any way with a

completely separate firm with a similar name operating in the area.

The majority of claims are �4,500, but there is a chance the workers

will not receive this. Employees are unsecured creditors and before

them are people like secured creditors like the bank, so they

will be paid first. And, really, it is a case of whatever is left, if

there is anything left. Unfortunately, it is hard to put a

time frame on that. There is one certainty, the sale of this

property is crucial to insure former employees finally get their

money. It's been described as the most

successful Christmas market that Lincoln has ever hosted. It's

thought the four-day event which closed yesterday saw more visitors

than ever before. Among the options now being considered is the idea of

making it a five-day event instead of the current four. Tarah Welsh

reports. We saw customers every nine seconds.

It had been a very good market. You could fill 11 bathtubs with the

amount of mulled wine bought from this tour. The Christmas market has

been here for three decades but was cancelled in 2000 and because of

bad weather. Many welcomed this year's boost. We have taken just

under two weeks' sales in over a period of three days a. The council

estimate 200,000 visitors came to the Christmas market this year.

Record numbers on Thursday and Saturday. They generated appease

�10 million for the local economy. Critics say the event is too

disruptive. The park-and-ride service is too expensive and too

busy. On Saturday, parts of the market closed for health and safety

reasons and some traders say an extra day would ease the crowds.

has been the victim of its own success. It has really grown, and

it is crowded. It opens at 4pm on Thursday and I wonder whether we

could open on 4pm on Tuesday. Then right through to Sunday.

council say extending the opening is just an idea. One of the

problems to consider his it does have an impact on the people that

live up here, things like the local school, so do we balance it with

extending the market, disrupting, or do we manage the crowd

differently? We will look at everything. Businesses hope that

whatever is done, it will make the Christmas as merry as this one.

A great success. 18 days after he left Hull City,

Nigel Pearson was back at the club as Leicester City manager. But if

he thought his inside knowledge about the Tigers would be a route

to success, he was wrong. Here's our sports reporter Simon Clark.

A few days ago, he was the manager of Hull City but Nigel Pearson's

plotting of his old club's downfall did not go to plan. Thanks to an

eagle eyed official, the Tigers and a penalty. The Leicester man was

dispatched from the field. Matty Fryer put City ahead. Even with 10

men, Leicester were dangerous as they proved when they scored a fine

equaliser. The Tigers in the second half pressed for a winner which

proved elusive, until this... 1-1... Left foot, he has done it

again! Aigner, obviously, their strengths and weaknesses. Today

was... We made life difficult for ourselves so disappointing not to

get anything out of the game, but credit to them. How hard was at to

see Nigel? It was strange. It was odd. Like their say, it is when

your professionalism cuts and, and make sure you play the game.

win was the thing they needed before their game with Birmingham.

You look at the atmosphere on Saturday, it was fantastic. And

when this place is rocking, it is intimidating for any a wayside and

we need that, week in, week out. will take him some time but he will

be OK. He is one of our own. experience builds up, he will do us

good and the team will support him as well. That seems enough, then,

for these fans to brave a cold Wednesday night out against

Birmingham. And Hull City could face record

signing Jimmy Bullard in the third round of the FA Cup. The Tigers

have been drawn against Bullard's Ipswich Town. Grimsby Town will

face Sheffield United if they beat Salisbury in a replay. The Mariners

managed a goalless draw against them on Saturday in Wiltshire.

It's been one of the big talking points of the year. The weather's

kept us all guessing over the last few months and brought some

unexpected surprises. November was one of the mildest on record but

now temperatures have dropped and today parts of Yorkshire have seen

their first snow falls of winter. Phil Connell reports on our

In case we had forgotten, December's arrived with a few sharp

reminders of winter. This was the Yorkshire Dales this morning, with

flurries of snow also seen in East Yorkshire. Freezing conditions

which have brought a smile to the face of this coal merchant. I have

been in a coal trade for 46 years. We have had the warmest November I

have ever known. But today the firm has never stopped ringing.

coldest place this morning was Langtoft at minus two, a chilly

contrast of highs of around 12 degrees in November. For the garden,

more confusion. On this allotment, the more seasonal temperatures have

been well come to. It helps to actually get rid of some of the

disease has, it helps to get rid of pests. This time last year, there

was little chance of that. Several days of heavy stone blob of

gritters working round the clock. This year, East Yorkshire gritters

say they are well prepared and until now there has been no chance

to prove it. We have been prepared from the beginning of September. We

are out there, ready to roll, and we are out there today. The first

sight of winter brought a busy day for this shopkeeper. With sledges,

shovels and salt. People see the snow coming down, a bit of a flurry.

There was a bit of a panic. People wanted to get sledges and avoid the

panic of last year for. After last year's wintery weather, preparation

is key. Shovel, sold, and dish Sledge. This is one reporter are

ready for all eventualities. -- shovel, salt and Sledge.

Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines. France and

Germany agreed to any treaty to tackle the eurozone countries --

crisis. They want to deal in a few months prompting a call for a

referendum in a Britain. The Government is called to be more

honest about budget cuts. Tomorrow's weather, a mixture of

sunny intervals, a mixture, with top temperatures of six.

We asked how Humberside police can save money and thank you for the

was by his. On Twitter. But -- I applaud the

honesty. James says, they can still spend �30 million on a new police

station but they could have used that from their budget and done up

some of the old stations and may does saving.

Steve, start with a helicopter - an absolute waste of money. There is

no way the police can justified tracing a �600 stolen car in a

helicopter. On Twitter, Humberside police

should stop buying �58,000 cars, that seems fair to me. Put more

police on bikes instead of spending money on flashy cars.