11/01/2012 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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

customers say they are shocked and angry after a loans company loses

their personal data. May be nothing will happen with it, but maybe in

six weeks' time or six months' time will get a bill through the

letterbox and it is nothing to do with us because somebody has stolen

my identity. Locked up 22 hours a day - a former

inmate says prisoners in Lincoln face more time in their cells

because of increasing numbers. Residents get their first look at

the plans for a new wind turbine plant on the banks of the Humber.

The saucy side of the seaside - postcards from the golden age of

holidays at home go under the hammer.

A risk of Gayle's late at night. Your latest forecast coming up in

15 minutes. Tonight, customers across East

Yorkshire and Lincolnshire say they are angry that a loans company has

lost their personal data. 1.4 million clients of Welcome Finance

and Shopacheck have been contacted after details including names,

addresses and payment histories were lost when two information

discs went missing. Emma Massey reports.

It's not the news anyone wants to read. Philip Hames is told by

letter that doorstop lender Shopacheck has lost his personal

data. Possibly somebody else could get something in my name, or at

this address. We could get blacklisted through no fault of our

own. To make matters worse was the time

it took for him to be told. I was shocked knowing that this had

happened last year. I could not believe what I was reading without

being informed in that period of time. I am angry now, yes. Parent

company Cattles Group was founded in Hull 85 years ago. It closed its

Welcome Finance and Shopacheck offices in the city nearly three

Cattles Group says it has now employed a specialist firm to

review data security across the group and advise on any necessary

improvements. Our understanding is that the

information contained on this disc is not of a particularly sensitive

nature beyond names and addresses, and so people should not be too

worried about misuse of their personal data. In the meantime,

this whole solicitors says he has already been contacted by over 100

people whose data has been lost. Most of them are annoyed that

personal data has been lost. To see if there is a case for compensation.

Any personal data which has been lost in breach of the principles of

the Act, on the face of it, would entitle people to consult --...

Digital is now the main way of storing personal data and so this

type of security breach is likely to happen more and more. I'm joined

by Nick Pickles from Big Brother Watch, a group which campaigns to

protect civil liberties. This is just names and addresses -

does that really matter? It does seem that until they have recovered

the tapes they can't categorically say what information has been lost.

It highlights a much broader point about how it is a very real and

serious threat that we face in a digital age, how easy it is for

millions of people's information to be lost. It appears that this

happened a couple of months ago and it is worrying that it has taken

this long for victims to find out. In the UK at present there is not a

legal right to be notified if your information is lost or misused. We

have been calling for some time now to encourage companies to take this

seriously. If people's information is lost, they should have a legal

duty to notify them. Havel's tight enough for the storage of personal

data? No, one thing that is clear in our research recently been the

breeches and health service and local authority, it is so easy for

large scale information to be lost, for people to access information

they should not be able to access, and yet you still can't be sent to

prison in the most serious of cases. We are calling for the Government

to bring into effect a power that has already put in the statute book

but which has not be enacted. company has said there is no

evidence the information has fallen into the wrong hands or been used

maliciously. So, there is no problem this time? Well, it hasn't

fallen into the wrong hands yet. Unfortunately, this situation, like

many others, is simply a case of crossing of fingers and hoping that

this information would be used maliciously. It does raise again

this question of what if companies are saying they hope it won't be

used wrongly, and there is a risk that some point in the future that

this will be used maliciously. People need to be confident that

their information is being protected and at present they are

not. Given the way data is stored now, is it inevitable this will

happen more often? Absolutely, looking at the way memory sticks

and laptops are lost every day, and databases containing millions of

people's information are used by people in the public and private

sector as part of their everyday jobs - these kind of issues are

inevitable unless we ensure the protection is put in place now and

is fit and proper. Thank you for joining us.

We would like your thoughts on this. If you have been affected by a

company losing your information, do In a moment: a national charity

says vulnerable people in Lincolnshire are receiving less

money for their care than in other areas.

A former inmate at Lincoln Prison says an increase in prison numbers

mean some are being locked in their cells for 22 hours a day. It

follows recent revelations that prison numbers at the jail have

risen by 20% in the last six months. Phil Connell reports.

There are pictures that were seen around the world, but now the

impact of last year's riots in Britain are being felt closer to

home. The arrests which followed the violence have seen more than

800 people receiving custodial sentences, and the impact of that

is now being felt at prisons like Lincoln. For the staff it is

getting a lot more stressful and it is becoming harder work because of

the limited resources. But we do the best we can. At the moment, we

are quite comfortable. Lincoln Prison was built in the 1870s to

accommodate 427 inmates. Today, it is housing more than ever - 688

prisoners. The biggest increase, a rise of 20%, was seen in the last

six months. In 2002 a riot at Lincoln prison left one inmate dead

and was partly blamed on overcrowding. Millions of pounds

worth of damage was caused. 10 years on, the Prison Service is

describing the latest increase in prisoners as challenging, but says

contingencies are being developed to manage the additional population.

But, one former inmate told me how some prisoners are being locked in

their cells for 22 hours a day, and are missing out on rehabilitation

programmes that help prevent further offending. On top of that,

prison cuts last year saw 10 prison officers lose their jobs.

greatest effect is possibly on the more vulnerable prisoners that we

tend to be getting, and people with mental health issues. Possibly they

don't get as much attention as they need. The Prison says it is still

50 places short of reaching full capacity, but with numbers

increasing, the present system is one which some believe is no longer

sustainable. This afternoon I spoke to Juliet Lyon, director of the

Prison Reform Trust, I asked her whether the concerns about the

prison were justified. Well, any overcrowded prison is not

going to work as effectively as a prison that has got the right

number of people in. Lincoln Prison was built to hold 427 men. It is

currently holding 680. It is bound to be under pressure. It is a

difficult environment for both prisoners and staff. The present

says they are 50 places and a capacity, so it can't be that

overcrowded. Well, this is a misconception that is important to

address. There is a number of 729 men which, beyond which, the Prison

Service says it will be dangers to operate Lincoln Prison. That is its

operational capacity. All prisons have that set by the Prison Service.

That means an allowable level of overcrowding beyond which you must

not go. That is what people mean when they still a -- said they have

still got a few places left. But it is way beyond the 400 or so it was

built to hold. Will people say that if they are locked in their cells

for 22 hours that that is what they should be because they are in jail?

Well, it depends what we want prison to do. One of the things the

prison service is good that is preventing escapes, and people can

be comfortable to know that is almost unheard of these days. What

we would be less comfortable to know is that conviction rates are

high - one in two released from jail will be reconvicted within a

year of release. And the stories we have heard about looters and

writers, which is partly why the prison is so busy at the moment,

which would work better - a jail term for these people or a

community sentence? What we have seen from the Ministry of Justice

figures is that a short jail term does not compare well with enforced

community work and pay back. So, if people do get a sentence where they

are supervised by probation in the committee they have to pay -- work

hard to pay back for what they have done and then they are less likely

to reoffend than those held behind bars with nothing to do. So you

would rather these looters were on a community sentence? It depends

upon the level of each offence. The level of seriousness. The public

opinion poll run for weeks after the riots showed clearly that the

public wanted to see people making amends for the harm they have done

to victims. They wanted things to be put right for communities, and

you could argue that by putting people behind bars with nothing to

do, and then releasing them by may appear to get into more trouble, is

not an effective way of proceeding. Thank you for joining us.

This is another issue might have a view on. What do you think the

answer is - more rehabilitation or more places in prison?

Police have begun a murder inquiry after the discovery of a body close

to Humberside airport. The dead man has been identified as a 25-year-

old Latvian who had been living in Scunthorpe. He was reported missing

on 27th December. Police say two men have been charged with offences

in connection with the ongoing investigation.

The missing person has been identified. He was identified this

afternoon as the person we found in the woods behind us. A postmortem

has been conducted this afternoon. This is not a death by natural

causes. It is a murder inquiry and inquiries are continuing in

At post mortem examination on the woman's body confirmed she had died

after a fall. The thirsty six-year- old man remains in police custody.

A cyclist has died after a collision with a van on the A18 at

Croll. The crash happened around 5am today. The cyclist, believed in

his forties, died before he got to hospital.

It is claimed Lincolnshire's most vulnerable people are receiving

less money for their care than other areas according to Age UK.

The charity has examined how much councils spend on providing people

with Personal Budgets, where those in need get a lump sum to buy their

76 year old Brian Waters has Parkinson's Disease. Based in Hull,

a council funded Personal Budget means he is able to buy and

organise his own care. At 8am they come and get me out of bed and help

me get dressed, and make a cup of tea and breakfast if I need it,

then they have to go because they have other clients. At 9pm, they

come and put me to bed. Under government plans, buying our own

council funded private adult social care will become the norm by 2013,

but according to the charity Age UK, how much individuals get is not

just down to need but a postcode lottery. This is the big but here.

We have seen huge differences in the care people are able to access

and by with the money they are allocated. Personal Budgets are

being introduced nationwide in a system which means councils are

assessed and give individuals the money they need to buy their own

care services, but according to Age UK, Lincolnshire County Council's

average weekly Personal Budget is just 100 per ounce compared to a

national average of �175 per week. But the council disputes these

figures. You cannot compare London boroughs or Sheffield, Manchester,

with Lincolnshire, and that is why I think these figures are flawed.

You must compare with a comparative group of county councils. Certainly

government figures put Lincolnshire in a better light when compared

with areas like Norfolk or North Yorkshire, and councillors claimed

at lower Personal Budgets reflect the counties to the care costs.

By April half of those qualifying for support in Lincolnshire will

have their own Personal Budgets, and with an announcement expected

on the future of three council care homes tomorrow, it is a significant

shift as people are forced to turn to private companies to provide

Thank you for watching this Wednesday night. The time is

exactly it 6:45pm. Still ahead, residents get their first look at a

new wind turbine factory on the The Humber. And thousands of

Two nights photograph is the sunrise behind the black tower on

Beverley Westwood, a lovely picture taken by Campbell Whyte, thank you

for that. Good evening.

He should be a politician... As he cannot give a straight answer to a

straight question. Just read the weather because I am not engaging

with you tonight. You can't comment further after the

You can't comment further after the weather, how about that? The

headline for the next 24 hours is a mild one at first with brighter

skies later tomorrow, but the main feature may well be the strength of

the wind later tonight and into tomorrow morning, gales are

expected, but that is out of a cold front which will introduce a big

change, I think. Frost on this tonight for all of us then on

Friday and the weekend very nice, cold, crisp weather but drive. This

weekend will be put that -- pleasant if you wrap up warm. 12

degrees Celsius at Commons be today, very nice for the middle of January

-- Conisbee. The cloud will come and go this evening, but the trend

is for it to thicken later and it may bring a patch of light rain and

drizzle, more especially to East Yorkshire towards the end of the

night. The gale-force south- westerly wind expected by that time,

temperatures around seven degrees Celsius for the commute, so frost

free once more. The sun rises at 8:40am and said that Faure's 6pm.

High water in Cleethorpes 734 tomorrow morning -- 7:34am. A while

start, watch out for gale force winds, patchy rain as well, at the

front moving quickly southwards and the sky brightening through the

morning, then the afternoon should turn fine with a good deal of

sunshine, and the wind will ease considerably through the afternoon.

Top temperatures will peak in the morning, 10 or 11 in Beverley, 52

degrees Fahrenheit, similar values through Lincolnshire, a frost

Thursday night, then Friday and the weekend cold and crisp but dry with

some sunshine. What about this, April says I

further her -- heard the first cuckoo of the year?

It is right, we have had sightings Thank you for the weather talk. See

you tomorrow night. People living in Hull have had

their first chance to view the plans for a proposed wind turbine

factory as a mobile exhibition takes to the streets tonight. ABP

submitted planning applications to Hull City Council last month for

what has been called the Green port project -- the Greenport Project.

Pork is at the exhibition. What can people see tonight? -- Paul.

steady stream of people turning up to this information bus to look at

the maps and DVDs and get a picture of the scale and ambition of this

project. We have to remember that this is a new industry for Hull and

a very big investment indeed, so naturally, it will generate a lot

of interest from local people. Between them, ABP and Siemens are

investing more than �200 million on the site in Alexandra Dock in Hull.

A planning application for the wind turbine factory has already been

submitted to Hull City Council and the plans are going on public

display today and will be toured around the city until the end of

this week. We still maintain, and the wider community understand, but

this is a wonderful opportunity for the city, but we need to reflect

people's views. It is a great opportunity for the city and region

but people have comments to make now they have seen the details,

which is important for us to here and listen to. Hull City Council

will meet to determine the application in March. If successful,

the operator would begin construction on site this year. The

hope is to have the wind turbine factory open and operational by

late 2014. This is a really good opportunity for people to firstly

find out more about the project, but also reflect any concerns of

questions they might have about the budget, so we look forward to

answering people's questions and hearing what they have to say about

the project. If permission is granted, this facility will create

many hundreds of jobs, so there is pressure to make it happen, but

those involved say there will be no People are looking at the plans.

What are they saying about them? think the reaction I have been

hearing tonight, Peter, has been marginally positive -- positive.

Here are the thoughts of the chairman of the local residents'

association. Since the patterning Commission came in I think

everybody has been happy that it seems it is all going to happen --

planning permission. It is good for jobs and good for Hull. Busy on the

bus tonight, the next big date in the diary is 7th March, when Hull

City Council expects to determine this big planning application.

Thank you very much indeed. On the programme last night we told you

that a paramedic in East Yorkshire says lives are being put at risk in

Yorkshire because of overwork ambulance staff. He says crews are

regularly being asked to work well but days without brakes, but the

Yorkshire Ambulance Service denies the claim. I have to say there was

a big response to the story, including many Ambulance Service

Employees who prefer to remain, understandably, anonymous. This

came from an East Midlands Just finally, this e-mail blames

As I say, there was a big response. Thank you for those.

Steal from Scunthorpe is being used to build a rocket in -- and jet-

powered car which will attempt to trouble at record-breaking 1000

miles an hour next year. The Tartar plant in the town is providing

metal for the car's chassis which will house three separate engines

including one from the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft. The Bloodhound

Supersonic has to travel faster than this book -- than a speeding

bullet to break the record. Thanks to those who got in touch

with their memories of the Ritz Cinema in Lincoln following our

report last night about the renovation work there. These

remarkable photos were taken by Michael Firth in 1970 when the

cinema was part of the Odeon chain. The film "The Battle of Britain"

came to Lincoln, and to advertise it, a fighter plane, there it is,

was installed on the cinema roof. Michael was 16 at the time and took

the voters with a Brownie box camera. It was quite a sight, and

they used to make model kits when I was young, so I knew all the world

war two aeroplanes by ship, and I am sure that was a Hurry came. It

was quite something to see its to cut their above the high street --

Hurricane. Great memories. They are cheeky reminder of years

ago, and now more than 2000 saucy seaside postcards like this one

have gone under the hammer at an auction near's in Hull. It is

unusual for such a large collection to go for sale, and they have

attracted bidders from across the They are an icon of seaside

holidays past. Saucy postcards but were a staple of a brake on the

British coast. And today, a dozen albums packed full of them sold in

Hull for more than �3,000. Phone bids came in from as far afield as

the south coast, and one bidder spent �1,700, adding to his 20,000

strong collection. They are timers. You can get a postcard from 1912

and it will still be funny today, so it is great to look through your

collection, and you haven't seen a card in a few years, and it will

still make you laugh today. From the early 19 hundreds, a trip to

the seaside wasn't complete without buying a postcard made by the

Yorkshire company bum thirds. Nowadays, they are harder to find -

- bam thirds. One gentleman has been collecting them for years, and

listening to the dealers collecting them, they have pointed out little

gems but there are keeping them close to their chest! And at the

auction it wasn't only the saucy cards causing a stir. 24 albums of

postcards of Hull and East Yorkshire fast -- fetched almost

�15,000, and amongst the buyers, his dealer from Bridlington.

you're not in the post a business or a collector, people are very

surprised. There are some antique dealers here who was surprised,

they never realised. They are looking for postcards in the attic

now. So today a handful of bidders went home happy owning a slice of

Let's have a recap of the main national and regional headlines

this Wednesday night. A private company which fitted more low-grade

breast implants than any other refuses to replace them, saying the

implants were approved by the medical watchdog. Customers in East

Yorkshire and link to say they are angry that the loans company has

lost their personal dated -- data. Tomorrow's weather, cloudy with

patchy rain in places, clearing through the morning, the afternoon

dry with plenty -- plenty of sun sign, top temperatures 10 or 11

Response coming in and a story that prisoners are spending up to 22

hours in their cells at Lincoln jail. Daniel text of, I think there

is nothing wrong with locking people up so long, they knew what

to expect. This from Kevin, you do the crime, you do the time, they