16/08/2013 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

warmer. That is it from us. Now the news teams where you

are always there for us. I suppose they are more like friends. The

Minimum Practice Income Guarantee is a top up payment given to some GP

practices. In East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, 63 surgeries receive

it, getting a total of £2.3 million. The NHS is phasing it out to create

a fairer system of funding for GPs with money shared out more

equitably, depending on the numbers of patients and their needs. The

government is choosing to take away from doctors a large sum of money

that we use to pay for our staff. It is inevitable this is going to

affect patient services. It's several tens of thousands of pounds

per year, per practice. GPs are going to struggle to keep going with

this sort of loss. Villagers here in Rippingale in Lincolnshire know what

effect closures can have. The doctors' shut in March, its school

and full—time post office have gone, too. Awful, another service gone.

There will be people, possibly, isolated in their own homes, who we

don't know about, who might be suffering. It's an attractive place

to live but come winter some parts of the countryside can be completely

cut off. That's when the true value of rural surgeries is felt, but they

are expensive to run. Some getting twice the amount of money, per

patient, than city practices. The government says that has to stop.

It's starting in 2014. They're taking seven years to allow GP

practices to adjust to the fact they're only going to get paid for

the patients they actually have. So some surgeries will actually get

more money, others will have to find a way to provide the same service

with less. I'm joined by Dr Richard Vautrey, who represents the British

Medical Association who speak on behalf of GPs. Good evening. What

effect do you think getting rid of these top up payments will have on

smaller GP practices? It could have a major impact. It is a direct

result of a government imposing unacceptable contract changes

against the will of GPs and against the advice of the BMA. They simply

did not listen to us about how damaging these changes could lead if

they did not implement them in the right way. Isn't this just GPs

saying that they want more money? It is not about more money, it is about

how the money is distributed. There will be some practices the game as a

result of this process but there will inevitably be some outliers and

it might well be that some small, rural practices would not be

sustainable on a national contract will need that additional money to

enable services to continue. If you see more patients, you should get

more money, it is as simple as that, surely? We should ensure that

practices can be sustainable but there are some special

circumstances. Some practices will not be sustainable. We have to look

at each individual practice very carefully. There will be those

outliers that need to be looked at. People will be interested in this

from rural places. Could some GP surgeries have to close down because

they cannot be sustained? I hope that is not the case, but it could

be, if the Government does not work with us closely and come up with

answers quickly. Practices need—to—know, because this is

starting from April next year, and at the moment the Government and NHS

England, charged with putting these plans in place, are simply not

giving us answers to the questions that we are asking. I'm sure you

will have a view on this story, should rural GPs continue to receive

extra funding from the Government? Or maybe you think these rural

services don't need protecting? We have lost post offices and village

shops. Should GP surgeries be ring fenced? You can contact us.

In a moment, no guarantees on the future of Lincolnshire's Police

commissioner as investigations continue into why he suspended his

Chief Constable. It's the busiest time of year for our seaside resorts

but one of the main sea front car parks in Skegness will be closed

over the weekend after more than a hundred travellers set up camp. East

Lindsey District Council says it started legal proceedings as soon as

they arrived and hopes to minimise disruption. The travellers who say

they've come to Skegness for a celebration, thought to be a wedding

could now be forcibly removed. Jessica Lane reports. It is a

300—space car park on the seafront with no room for holiday—makers. It

has become a travellers site for 100 people and more are expected. The

local government secretary Eric Pickles said that councils must act

quickly to clamp down on all authorised travellers sites. When

this issue happened, the relative is that there was a clear process that

we have to go through, in law, and we cannot deviate from that,

otherwise we will get nowhere. They have to get court permission to

serve the travellers with notice and if they do

days they can be forcibly removed. We have spoken to some of the

travellers. None wanted to be interviewed but they said they are

here for a family gathering and say that they are not planning to stay

long—term. One business owner says he welcomes custom from everyone. We

had the bar for last night from locals and the travelling community

and they got on fantastically well, no problems at all. Townspeople say

they are concerned about the possibility of trouble. They have a

pitch, they should keep to it. I would have thought they could have

picked a better place than a seaside town. The police told me that

travellers come every year but there is no increase in crime connected

with their visit. They put extra officers on patrol during the summer

months but are not concerned about trouble over the weekend. The

council says that there will be 24—hour security around car parks in

the town to make sure that the rest remain open. Jessica is that the

travellers camp in Skegness at the moment. Is there any indication how

long they are going to stay? The travellers I have spoke to said they

don't expect to be here much longer than the weekend, but this is quite

a sensitive issue for Skegness. In 2000, as some people might

remember, hundreds of travellers came over Christmas and New Year. It

meant some of the bars and clubs closed for a short time. Everyone I

have spoken to has said they do not expect anything like that to happen

this time round. The police expect this to be a peaceful visit and they

expect the travellers to be leaving early next week. A reminder of the

ways that you can contact us. Thank you for watching. A children's

paddling pool in Hull — believed to be source of a bacteria that made

children ill — is to stay closed for the rest of the summer. 18 children

from Hull and East Yorkshire had the cryptospiridium bug. Hull City

Council says the pool at East Park is still being tested for bacteria.

Network Rail says is doesn't know when it will be able to lift a new

railway bridge into place in Hull. Engineers say they're being delayed

by ground conditions as they try to dig concrete piles. Traffic on

Spring Bank is still disrupted. An influential committee of MPs is to

visit Lincolnshire as part of its investigation into the role of

police and crime commissioners. The Home Affairs Select Committee has

criticised the way Lincolnshire's Chief Constable was suspended by the

force's commissioner, Alan Hardwick. Yesterday, a report into that

suspension cleared the chief constable Neil Rhodes of any

wrongdoing. However, the select committee believes questions still

remain about the way the matter was handled by the commissioner. It is

very clear that there are lessons to be learned as a result of what

happened over this issue and I think that Peter Fahey's report draws a

line under this issue but people need to learn the lessons that come

out of this sorry state of affairs. This story has had a lot of response

after we talked about it last night. That is a reference to the crime

commission. —— commissioner. Alan Hardwick is also under scrutiny from

the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel. I spoke to Chris Cook who's

leading their investigation and asked him whether they had full

confidence in the commissioner. We are looking at the investigation

from Sir Peter Fahey. We are carrying out a full review, and we

cannot comment on it until we interview the Commissioner, himself.

Some viewers have said that Alan Hardwick has lost all credibility.

the Commissioner is a waste of time, and that he must now resign. There

are two issues, the suspension and the investigation. He was right to

launch that investigation. We are looking at the suspension, as a

panel. Is it working for him as a Commissioner? It is too early to

say. It was new territory for the Commissioner. We are looking at

that, as part of our review —— as part of our review. That is not a

ringing endorsement. It is still too early to say. Your department's

handling of this has been described as shambolic by Keith Vaz MP. Is

that right? We have got full control of the situation. You think that the

legal bill of £37,000 is money well spent when police budgets are being

cut? We look at all the costs, we need to look at the costs of Neil

Rhodes, as well in this. We'll Alan Hardwick the Commissioner in a year

from now? He was elected as Commissioner last year and it is not

in my remit to say that. Will you want Neil Rhodes for this job after

everything he has been through? This has been an open, transparent

process and if Neil Rhodes applies for that, he will go through this

process accordingly. And the story goes on. Coming up on the programme.

Setting off on a Premier League journey, Hull city are back in the

big time. And we're celebrating the Wolds Way — which after more than 30

years — still brings a million people to East Yorkshire each year.

Some fantastic pictures coming up in a moment. If you have got a good one

to send to us, this one is of the Yorkshire walls near Driffield. ——

Wolds. Good evening, Keeley Donovan. One viewer has said that they would

like a calendar that will count down to the next holiday for Paul, and if

you could put it on the back of a signed photograph, that would be

better. Thank you very much for that. I want see you for another

week, Peter, how will you get by? Temperatures rose to 24 Celsius

today, and it will be more unsettled tomorrow. We'll be breezy with rain

at times. You can see those isobars tightly packed. On Sunday it will be

breezier still. We have had some good spells of sunshine today.

Temperatures reaching It will stay dry tonight. Cloud will

tend to thicken with temperatures falling back to around 13 Celsius.

Tomorrow morning, that Breeze will pick up.

Chamorro, cloud will continue to thicken. It will not be washed out,

but it will be quite breezy, so it could feel cooler, and we will have

spells of rain pushing in from the west. The breeze is going to pick up

later tonight and into tomorrow, it could become gusty at times with

temperatures tempered by that breeze. Sunday is going to be

brighter. You cannot rule out some showers across parts of

Lincolnshire. It will still be correct breezy. It will be variable

cloud and more breezy weather on Monday. Some fine weather to come as

pressure builds next week. I was cruel reading out that letter from

Keith, and embarrassing him. It is Keith Taylor of Laceby Road,

Grimsby. He likes you! Have a nice weekend. A farmer from East

Yorkshire has narrowly missed out on a place in the Guinness Book of

Records, for growing the world's biggest yield of barley. John

Porter, who's farm is near Aldborough, had a crop which

measured at 11.9 tonnes for every two and a half acres but needed 12.2

tonnes for a place in the record books. It's just 48 hours before

Hull City step out on to football's biggest stage. The Tigers kick—off

their Premier League campaign at the pre—season favourites Chelsea who

have Jose Mourinho back in charge. Our sports reporter Simon Clark has

been talking to the fans about The Tigers' chances for the coming

season. They were taking time out from the harvest at this east

Yorkshire farm today. The lifelong Hull City fan was looking ahead to a

Premier league season starting at Chelsea. Looking at the game on

Sunday against Chelsea, that is a day out, and we will have a hard

graft to get points at home, so survival is key. The Premier league

is going to be harder than the last time, but we have got better players

and a better manager, so hopefully we will be all right. Obviously

playing all these big teams again, hopefully, we can stay in the

Premier league longer the last time. Nobody knows what the players are

feeling better than Dean Windass. He is confident that the club can

progress. I think anything is a bonus, if you stay up, if you finish

fourth from bottom, that is a massive achievement. Mike Morgan has

written about the Tigers for three decades for national newspapers. He

thinks that they will do OK this season. It is the younger guys who

could be a surprise package that I am looking forward to. And this is

the man plotting the downfall of the Tigers. He is called Jose. Teams

come from the lower divisions with the fantastic mentality. These are a

team that we have to look at these matches. All roads lead to Stamford

Bridge, it seems, but this one will take you to your. This will be

watched in 183 different countries. Millions of people around the world

will be watching Hull City this weekend. So, the Tiger nation is on

the move. Destination, Premier League. Someone

to Stamford Bridge by mistake. BBC Radio Humberside will have full

commentary on Hull City's first match back in the Premier League on

Sunday, the coverage starts from three o'clock. Before that they will

have commentary on Scunthorpe United's match against Dagenham and

Redbridge tomorrow on their FM frequency. Grimsby Town's match at

Welling will be on AM, DAB and online. BBC Radio Lincolnshire will

have full commentary of Lincoln City match against Forest Green.

After their derby win, Hull FC play Salford where another victory could

guarantee a place in the play—offs. Both teams suffered injuries to

players in the game, but Coach Peter Gentle says his side is fully

focussed on tonight's match despite their Challenge Cup final only a

week away. I think that they will be a dangerous proposition. Ryan

McGoldrick will come back to haunt us. We are expecting them, so we

will try and protect ourselves. We have got to go at it full tilt. And

you can hear commentary of Hull FC's game tonight on BBC Radio

Humberside. Kick—off in that match is at 8pm. And they've also coverage

from Hull KR's match with Leeds Rhinos from eight o'clock as well.

140 tribute acts will arrive in East Yorkshire this weekend for a music

festival. Tribfest, which is in its seventh year will feature groups

paying homage to acts like Pink Floyd and the Kings of Leon at

Sledmere House near Driffield. When we first started out, we could not

afford it, and now we are in the ideal place, miles from anywhere, a

beautiful sight. It is the Knebworth of the North! For more than 30 years

the Yorkshire Wolds Way has been one of our most scenic and inspiring

walks. These days its enjoyed by almost a million people every year

but despite that many parts remain largely undiscovered. Over the next

four weeks our Environment Correspondent Phil Connell will

explore the walks future and meet some of the people who live and work

on this dramatic landscape. Tonight he looks at the history of the Wolds

Way and how this special part of Yorkshire became a designated

National Trail. It could be Yorkshire's best kept secret. After

30 years as a recognised tourist attraction, the Wolds Way still seen

as an undiscovered gem. It is a journey that starts at the Humber

Bridge and winds its way through 79 miles of countryside, ending in the

seaside town of Filey. To walk it comfortably takes five or six days.

In the 1960s, the story of the Wolds Way began. A group of local ramblers

were to have this, their favourite area, recognised as a designated

walk. It took 14 years of campaigning but in 1982, the Wolds

Way was created and the rest, as they say, is history. These days,

around 800,000 people walk parts of the Wolds Way every year. Each of

them grateful to those early campaigners, who fought to establish

a legal right of way. It was violent at times. The gamekeepers were a bit

hard. They had sticks on them. Put people in hospital, and in court,

and in prison, but it is a good legacy. Today, preserving the legacy

has fallen to a new generation of walkers. These ramblers from Market

Weeton walk here at responsibly. —— at least once a week. Do you feel

selfish keeping this as a well—kept secret for Yorkshire? A little bit,

yes. The distinctive landscape enjoyed by

ramblers is also steeped in history. Ancient churches are often

at the centre of village life and a long the Wolds Way there is one

local family to thank for their survival. This church was pretty

much derelict and required a massive amount of work because it had been

neglected. employed to renovate 19 local

churches. Saint Edith's at Bishop Wilton is a fine example. The floor

is an exact copy of one you would find in the Vatican. It is work that

today would have cost millions of pounds, and all that was paid for by

Sir Tatton Sykes and his son. What would have happened to this church?

It would have been derelict. It has been completely reconstructed. That

is what would have happened. These churches were not just built for

worship, but the people to do all kinds of social things, to have

parties, this was the community centre, if you like. Along the

route, there are many more secret gems to be found. Behind this

beauty, hundreds of years of history is waiting to be discovered. The

beautiful place that we live in. We are very lucky. We should never take

it for granted. Some fantastic shots from cameraman, Peter Thompson.

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

bloodshed in Egypt — at least 38 people have been killed today in

clashes between protesters and security forces. People have been

warned that they could lose GPs surgeries in rural areas because of

changes to funding. And the weather, Ted Richards getting up to around 20

sources, with breezes and showers. You have been getting in touch about

GP surgeries in rural areas. Daniel has said, it is always rural areas

that suffer. We are paying higher taxes than ever. The government

gives billions of money to overseas aid whilst standards of living

decline. And talking about the travellers arriving in Skegness.

John says why don't the police get down there and check their vehicles

and move them on? Philip says, why do the councils allow these people

to park up and upset locals? Thank you for getting in touch not just a

night but this week. Have a good weekend.