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the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
way. That is all from the BBC News steam at six. Good night from me. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight: The | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
homeless woman given compensation after she turned down a council | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
flat. I am not being picky. I have gone | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
right to what I want in my life, and to be happy. They do absolutely have | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
the right to turn it down but must then be prepared for the | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
consequences. The volunteers who say they feel | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
bullied into running Lincolnshire's libraries. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Lifting the limit ` the plans which could mean faster tractors on our | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
roads. Bringing penguins to Hull ` now | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
work's under way to build an Antarctic haven. Don't forget the | :00:41. | :00:55. | |
five day forecast. A homeless women who came to Hull | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
has been awarded compensation after she refused to accept the council | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
flat offered to her which she described as "gorgeous." Hull City | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
Council has been accused of carrying out an "injustice" for the way they | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
handled Ciccone Owen's case. Now, after failing to tell her the | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
reasons why they closed her homeless application, the council has been | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
found to be at fault. Phillip Norton reports. | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Ciccone Owen moved to Hull last year with the hope of better medical care | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
for her mental health problems. She was given a priority status as a | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
homeless woman, but says the bedroom was too small on the property | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
offered by Hull City Council. It was a gorgeous property, I cannot fault | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
the council. It was a brand`new kitchen, the full place was | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
carpeted, but it was the bedroom, you could not get a decent bed in | :01:51. | :02:07. | |
there. I could not live there because I would have felt trapped | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
and it is important for somebody with my health, you have got to stay | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
out of the house, you cannot stay in there, and sometimes when you are | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
quite ill, you confine yourself, so I knew that property would be no | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
good for me. When people register for a council house they are given a | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
level of priority. As Ciccone was homeless she was seen as a "high | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
priority" and offered a property. But as she rejected that offer, Hull | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
City Council wrote, explaining that by doing so she'd be placed in a | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
lower priority banding. But, the investigation found that the local | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
authority didn't explain the reasons for why this decision was made. It | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
also failed to say that Ciccone could appeal against it. The council | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
have agreed to look at anybody else who they may have dealt with in this | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
way. They have not explained what the appeal rights are, so they have | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
agreed to do that, and have identified three other cases are | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
people were not receiving accurate information. They absolutely have | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
the right to turn it down, but must be prepared for the consequences. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
There are people on the waiting list and there will be somebody willing | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
to take that accommodation. If somebody will not, then it must go | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
to Ciccone was offered a new home last week ` but has again turned it | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
down claiming it was unsafe. Someone else who is willing to take it. I'm | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
not being picky, I have just got a right to what I want to do in my | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
life, and to be happy. You know, this is why I have come here, to be | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
happy, to sort my life out. Ciccone Owen ending that report. Phillip | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Norton is at the Guildhall in Hull tonight. We have heard about this | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
case, but what about the other people who might have been affected? | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
The investigation found three other people in a similar situation to | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
Ciccone, they have been written to and made aware of their right. The | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
local authority also visit has reviewed how it will deal with | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
situations like this in the future. There are currently 10,000 people | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
waiting for a council flat or house in Hull. The council says that | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
should they keep turning down properties offered to them, they may | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
be removed from the list for a short time. | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
We want to hear from you on this story. Should the council have | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
handled Ciccone's case better? Maybe you think she should have accepted | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
the first property she was offered? In a moment: Extending free parking | :04:29. | :04:54. | |
to help boost the high street. Campaigners trying to save a | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
Lincolnshire library say they feel "bullied" into taking`over the | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
service. Volunteers in the county have until tomorrow to express | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
interest in running 30 of Lincolnshire's smaller libraries. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
The County Council has already received enquiries from groups | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
wanting to run 29 of their sites. The plans will save the authority | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
more than ?1.5 million. Gemma Dawson reports. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Meet Michael. He's just one of the volunteers here at Waddington | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
library... It's run by the Lincolnshire Co`operative with the | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
help of local residents ` giving villagers the chance to pick`up | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
their prescription while borrowing a library book... We already run a lot | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
of community services, food stalls in the community, pharmacies, post | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
offices in particular are a vital community service, so we felt this | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
was an extension of our role as a co`operative. They have been running | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
this library alongside the pharmacy since November 2012 and has now | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
expressed an interest in running five other libraries across linking | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
share. `` Lincolnshire. The County Council currently runs 45 static | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
libraries, but that will drop to just 15. Of the remaining 30, the | :06:05. | :06:20. | |
Council has now received expressions of interest for 29. People in | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
Scotter have until tomorrow to submit a bid or risk losing their | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
library. The Council's also received interest from seven communities who | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
want to start`up new libraries. This library is one that could now remain | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
open. Market Deeping Town Council Deeping St James Parish Council have | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
teamed`up to try and save it. As you can see ` people here are passionate | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
about their library. But some say they feel "bullied" into taking`over | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
the service. Finding the volunteers is difficult enough in itself, and | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
then you have to keep them motivated all the time. It is just not viable. | :06:51. | :07:04. | |
Volunteers help to run this library. They admit it was hard work at first | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
but is a big benefit for the village. It takes time and effort. | :07:09. | :07:26. | |
It is worth doing. It is volunteers like Michael who keep this service | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
running. I'm joined now by the leader of Lincolnshire County | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
Council Martin Hill. Good evening. The mayor of market beeping said he | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
felt bullied into showing an interest in running the library. We | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
are not trying to bully anyone but we do appreciate volunteers who have | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
come forward. I think with the support of the county council, it | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
will save money, save time and we will end up with more libraries and | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
we started with. 82% of people in Lincolnshire do not borrow from the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
library, so the chances are the volunteers come from this other 18%. | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
What do you think makes people think they can run a library? They will | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
get support. It is not just the library, but all sorts of local | :08:22. | :08:31. | |
parish facilities could be run from any building. I think it is | :08:32. | :08:43. | |
something people are well up for. What if a group came forward and you | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
do not think they are up to it? Would you turn them down? . Yes. We | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
have a rigorous process. We just heard about if an interest is not | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
put in by tomorrow. Would the library be closed? Possibly. The | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
alternative is a mobile service. We hope they will put something | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
forward. This is all to save money. Some people will say tonight that | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
the volunteers are saving money so will they get council tax rebates, | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
and what service next would you like people to do? Saving money is part | :09:25. | :09:37. | |
of its. It is a good thing. Government and local councils are | :09:38. | :09:46. | |
trying to encourage people. We are already doing a youth service. We | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
will look at working in partnership with local communities and | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
volunteers. We are seriously looking at that. Very good to talk to you. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Keith Opray in Hull. The 51`year`old was found dead at his home on | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
Wareham Close in Bransholme on Saturday. A 28`year`old man is being | :10:09. | :10:23. | |
questioned by the police. Yesterday 40`year`old Duncan Keith Heaton from | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
Hull appeared before magistrates charged with murder and robbery. Two | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
other men remain on police bail. An investigation is underway into an | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
incident at Lincoln Prison which left a prison officer with a serious | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
injury. Lincolnshire Police say four officers were assaulted on the 25th | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
of January. They haven't revealed the nature of the injury, but say | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
the Prison Service is helping with their inquiries. | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
The Football Association has charged former Goole AFC captain Karl Colley | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
with improper conduct after he confronted a fan at the weekend.The | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
thirty year old was sacked by the club after this incident when he was | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
sent off in their game against Coalville on Saturday. He has seven | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
days to respond to the charge. Free parking is to be extended to | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
all council car parks in North Lincolnshire. The council says it | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
hopes the move will revive town centres. The new measures which will | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
mean the first two hours are free will come into force in all car | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
parks in the area in May. Here's our business correspondent, Paul Murphy. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
For some time, many businesses in Scunthorpe have claimed that a lack | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
of free parking has been driving customers away. Today, the council | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
announced it is finally going to give them what they want. It is a | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
positive message for North Lincolnshire and for shoppers. To | :11:37. | :11:46. | |
our free parking. We're working very hard with retailers. Other | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
councillors are softening their approach `` other councils are | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
softening their approach, including East Lindsey. In Horncastle, they | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
say they must fight hard not to lose trade. Because we don't have big | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
names in our town anyway, people think, I can't be bothered, I will | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
go to Lincoln. That is what they do, I am afraid. Empty shops are a | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
familiar sight on most high street and Scunthorpe has been badly hit. | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
Marks Spencer, but Donald and TJ Hughes. There has been an exodus of | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
retailers from Scunthorpe in recent years. The reason that complex, but | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
many believe that parking charges have played a big part. Retailers | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
here are facing further competition when this out of town shopping | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
centre opened in the autumn. This businessman welcomes the council's | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
free parking announcement, but he has frustrations as well. It has | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
happened too late, far too late. We have been campaigning for years | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
relentlessly. There is not going to be many authorities that will give | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
free parking throughout all car parks. Are you responding too late? | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
We are responding when we can afford to respond. Councils bring in big | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
revenues from car parking. The change in policies reflect a real | :13:16. | :13:18. | |
concern for the help of this town centre. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
You might also like to be in touch about this story. What difference do | :13:24. | :13:37. | |
you think two hours' free parking will make? | :13:38. | :13:46. | |
Still ahead tonight: The teenage tennis star who could be lining up | :13:47. | :13:57. | |
with Andy Murray. I have definitely put in hard work and the best I can | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
to prepare. Building an icy wilderness ` but who | :14:05. | :14:06. | |
will live in a house like this? Only double picture. Are you asleep? | :14:07. | :14:36. | |
No, no. I was going to tell you about how somebody came in the | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
street and stared at me and said, your eyebrows have gone light. | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
I think we will draw a veil over it. The headline is very unsettled. It | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
is going to be cloudy tomorrow. By the end of the afternoon, wet and | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
windy weather will be spreading in from the West. I think the community | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
tomorrow tea`time will be particularly white. Another deep | :15:07. | :15:14. | |
area of low pressure. The weekend, unsettled but a lot brighter, plenty | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
of sunshine and a few sharp and wintry showers. A lot of cloud | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
around. A bit of light snow was reported in Waddington. A lot of | :15:27. | :15:38. | |
cloud. Further patchy rain and perhaps a bit of sleeved over the | :15:39. | :15:47. | |
tops of the walls. We are looking at close of around three Celsius. The | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
sun will rise in the morning around six. In the morning, cloudy with | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
some brighter spells. A bit of brightness coming through. By the | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
end of the afternoon to the evening, it will be very wet indeed. A rotten | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
commute at tea`time. Top temperatures around five or six | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
degrees. That is the forecast. You make it worse for me. You go and | :16:27. | :16:44. | |
where the same shirt and tie combination as I did. | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
By one, get one free. We do not share clothes, by the | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
way. Let us nip that in the bud. Farmers in East Yorkshire claim that | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
new plans to speed up tractors on our roads won't stop drivers getting | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
frustrated, but will improve farm efficiency. The Government wants | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
speed limits increased from 20 to 25 miles an hour, and will allow | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
tractors to carry more. But as Crispin Rolfe reports from | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
Driffield, some motorists say that's still too slow. Greater efficiency, | :17:12. | :17:26. | |
less frustration. Cars overtaking on these roads do it almost as a way of | :17:27. | :17:42. | |
life. The government is looking at increasing tractor speed limit from | :17:43. | :17:51. | |
20 open to 25 mph, and increasing the load they can take. We need to | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
get this corn and vegetables off the land and into storage, using | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
tractors and trailers. Does five miles an hour really make a | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
difference? If attractor drives 3000th of an it | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
the difference is the amount that the tractors carrying. There is an | :18:19. | :18:27. | |
increase of potentially seven tonnes. It gets it off the road. For | :18:28. | :18:39. | |
some people, it is too wet, too fast. They say 20 miles an hour is | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
an appropriate maximum speed for many. | :18:44. | :18:54. | |
40 mph. I would hope 50. They could definitely increased to 30. Muddy | :18:55. | :19:09. | |
roads remain a key concern. Mostly, this brings Britain into line with | :19:10. | :19:10. | |
Europe. The Police and Crime Commisioner for | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
the Humberside force has proposed that people pay just under 2% more | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
for policing during the next financial year. Matthew Grove says | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
the rise will cost about six pence per week on average and will help to | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
minimise the loss of police officers and PCSOs. He says his plans have | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
been backed by a public consultation. | :19:40. | :19:48. | |
Plans have been approved for a new footbridge over the railway line in | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Lincoln.This design has been accepted by the City Council. It's | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
hoped the bridge will end delays for pedestrians waiting at the level | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
crossing on the high street. Network Rail says people regularly run | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
around or climb over the current barriers. | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Thanks for getting in touch about fresh calls to ban smoking in cars | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
with children. The House of Lords voted in favour of the move | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
yesterday, so the Government has now told MPs' they can have a free vote | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
on the issue when it is debated next month. Health experts from East | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Yorkshire say they would welcome a ban. | :20:20. | :21:05. | |
Teenage tennis star Kyle Edmund will learn in the next couple of hours if | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
he's to partner Andy Murray in the first round of matches at the Davis | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
Cup. The 19`year`old from Tickton near Beverley is hoping to be picked | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
when Great Britain play the United States in San Diego. Our sports | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
reporter Simon Clark looks at his chances. 2013 was quite a year for | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
Kyle Edmund. A year which included a senior Wimbledon debut, junior | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
doubles titles in France and America, and this first ranking | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
success at Eastbourne. That is what caught the eye of Leon Smith. Two | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
partner Andy Murray in the singles, sweat has to decide between the more | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
experienced James Ward and the young chap from Teton. I had a good | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
pre`season with Andy. I have put in the hard work and done the best I | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
can to prepare. I can't say I haven't done as best as I could. | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
After a winter practising with Andy Murray, Kyle has just won a | :22:07. | :22:16. | |
tournament in America. I did three with Andy. I coped admirably `` he | :22:17. | :22:24. | |
coped admirably. He has worked hard. Both him and James Ward, they are | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
both doing a really good job. There is some tactics in it. The captain | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
has to make a decision what is best for his team. It all started here in | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
Beverly, where his former mentor Tom Davies marvels at his progress. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
There is a fine line between being a good player and making it. He seemed | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
to be do the right things and doing the right training, winning the | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
right matches and tournaments. If Kyle should be selected tonight, he | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
becomes the second member of this club after Colin Gregory in the | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
1950s to have played Davis cup tennis. There are not too many clubs | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
in the country outside of Wimbledon that can claim that distinction. | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
We will follow that with interest. A record`breaking journey across the | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
Atlantic has now raised more than ?300,000 for charity after adding | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
more than ?100,000 to the total in the last three days. 21`year`old | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
Luke Birch from Doddington and his friend Jamie Sparks rowed more than | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
3,000 nautical miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua. They finished | :23:40. | :23:52. | |
their journey earlier this week becoming the youngest pair ever to | :23:53. | :24:00. | |
row across the Atlantic. The finishing touches are being put | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
to a three`storey swimming pool, diving area and beach complex in | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Hull. Sadly, it's not for you and me to enjoy but a family of penguins, | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
due to arrive in a month's time. The Jentoo penguins are joining the | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
sharks at the Deep, as Amanda White reports. | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
It's the mystery of the ocean depths that's been bringing people here for | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
more than ten years. But now the Deep is surfacing to welcome some | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
altogether livelier lodgers. These Jentoo penguins live in Edinburgh. | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Hull will soon have its very own colony. A bit like an expectant | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
father, really, so excited and worried at the same time. They are | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
now over in Texas and we're waiting, praying that they start to mould in | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
time. Everyone is working 16 hours per day trying to get everything | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
ready for them. We cannot wait, just wish we had more, really. To make | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
the new residents feel at home, the team here is sculpting ice cliffs | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
from polystyrene. As part of a special programme to be broadcast | :25:13. | :25:14. | |
later this year BBC wildlife reporter Mike Dilger has been | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
getting stuck in. We have got viewing windows so that people can | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
see down and watch them swimming. There are icebergs, there is a | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
balcony that they can go outside on, and behind us, we have got another | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
beach section where we will hopefully get them nesting at some | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
point. A fascination for the weird and wonderful creatures here has | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
kept people coming back for the last 12 years. You have to admit, there | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
is something rather more appealing about the new kid in town. The | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
penguins are due to arrive from Texas in the next few weeks. We'll | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
be able to see them and their swanky new pad in March. Let's get a recap | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
of the national and regional headlines. | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
As part of the country are still under water after the wettest | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
January for more than a century. Compensation for a homeless woman | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
after she turned down a flat from the council. | :26:16. | :26:32. | |
Big response on that story for the compensation for the homeless woman | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
who turned down a flat. Jen in Lincoln says, I sleep on the settee | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
to let my kids have a bed, sometimes what we want and what we get takes | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
some time. Patricia says, Ciccone needs to realise because cannot be | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
true is as. Graham says, the council have left themselves wide open by | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
not fully correct procedures, but talent offered accommodation should | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
not be able to attend and parameters on a whim. Somebody in Hull says, I | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
suffer from depression and been made homeless, and I am lucky to have | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
been given a place but I would never have dreamt of turning the place | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
down, when you are homeless, roof is still a roof. | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
Powerful message there. Briefly, Daniel says, no wonder councils have | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
no money if they pay compensation to people who turned down a house. It | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
is ridiculous. Thank you for those and thank you | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
for watching. Goodbye. | :27:38. | :27:40. |