01/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.

The headlines in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire this Wednesday night:

Lincolnshire's biggest egg producer says bird flu restrictions have been

lifted too early and the threat hasn't gone away.

We think it's very, very uncertain if the hens will be safe if they're

let out because wild birds at the moment are still everywhere.

The former Mayor of Driffield is told to apologise after liking

So, are you a racist, Councillor Venter?

The household brand that's bringing a hundred new jobs

And Hull's City of Culture babies make their mark as their footprints

In early March is looking very unsettled with a lot of rain to

comment the next few days. Join me for the latest forecast.

Lincolnshire's largest egg producer says bird flu restrictions have been

lifted too early by the Government and it still isn't safe

Restrictions have been in place in the county

for the last few months, following several

Some of those were lifted this morning.

But Fairburns farm, which produces millions of eggs each

week for supermarkets, says it's still not

convinced that the threat of bird flu has gone away.

It's temporarily giving up its free range status to keep its birds

indoors and ensure none are put at risk.

Here's our rural affairs correspondent, Linsey Smith.

That's exactly where these hens will be staying for now.

They belong to Fairburns, who produce 50 million eggs

A family business they say is far too important to risk.

The avian influenza that we have seen has been like nothing that

In areas where we feel that the hens are at risk,

that their welfare is at risk, we will be keeping them in.

At the moment, we think it is very uncertain if the hens will be safe

Wild birds at the moment are still everywhere.

At Drewton's farm shop in East Yorkshire, so much

of the home-made produce uses free range eggs.

From today, all eggs and poultry must show this label showing

that the birds are being temporarily housed to keep them safe.

But does this bother the people who are buying them and eating them?

Categorically, the eggs are absolutely safe to eat.

Feed the chickens have been fair is exactly the same, the water,

temperatures in the building, so those things are no different

so therefore the quality of the product is exactly the same.

30,000 birds have been culled in our area so far

5,000 turkeys near Louth in December.

Two weeks later, 6,000 birds died in Fulstow.

Then near Boston, 19,000 were culled.

In Vietnam, birds are being vaccinated.

There's no such jab available for the strain affecting UK flocks,

but at the University of Lincoln, science is being used

The other primary piece of relevant work we've been doing is to look

at genetic resistance, so we can identify some birds that

are more resistant to getting influenza in the first place,

that will eventually lead to being able to breed

genetically resistant birds, birds that are inherently more

But researchers admit producing immune birds is years away.

So, for now, other farms are following Fairburn's lead

Linsey Smith, BBC Look North, Alford.

I'm joined now by Victoria Atkins, who's constituency covers Alford

which this egg producer says is still not safe from

Are the listing these restrictions to quickly? Well, they have made

this decision using the scientific evidence that it has. It has very

much left that two farmers who know their flocks best, in all the local

area best. I completely understand why the burdens which is a very

important business locally had taken the decision they have taken. But

death this large egg producer says that the matter what the government

says it is not safer births to go outside, if there are highly risky

areas outside, in your constituency, which I gathered there are, why this

advice to let the animals outside? They have taken the decision on the

evidence and scientists have been working on this for several months

and our sympathies of course go to the farmers who have already

suffered with attacks of avian flu, but I will be pressing the Minister

on this point today and tomorrow, I have already spoken to

representatives to see how they have reached this decision, but they have

been very clear that it must begin to an individual farmers who know

best. Do you think that decision could have been premature, when you

have large farms like this one and the British egg Council, who say

that there are better now the advisers remain concerned about the

risk, do you think the government has been premature? The department

is not going to take any risks with the health of poultry or the health

of the local population, of course. There is no evidence to suggest that

humans can be affected by avian flu. They won't take, they don't gamble,

with those kinds of safety considerations, so I will be asking

the Minister to explain why it is the outcome to this decision today.

It is certainly very confusing for poultry farmers at the moment.

Finally, what would be your message to the producers, should they keep

their birds inside or outside? I wouldn't dream of telling them how

to manage their flocks because they are country leading experts on how

to look after their chickens, but what I will do is take this up with

the Minister to ensure that they are aware of their concerns. Thank you

very much. This is one we'd like to

hear your thoughts on. Do you agree the Government has been

too hasty in removing Will you be happy eating eggs

kept outdoors again? Or would you rather your eggs

weren't free range and kept indoors, Are you a farmer, if so,

do you think the restrictions It's been revealed that 80 jobs

are being cut at the BP The company says the losses

are part of what it calls a "global re-structuring"

of its petro-chemical business. Around 200 jobs will go worldwide,

of which around 80 will be from its Saltend workforce

of around 400. A Hull woman who used a stolen car

to deliberately run over a man during a street brawl in Hull has

had her jail term cut. Estelle Lashley left her victim

with such severe leg injuries Lashley had driven bat wielding

attackers to a street in the west of the city to settle

a row about money. Plans for an ?80 million development

at the University of Hull have been approved despite child safeguarding

concerns being raised The scheme at the Cottingham Road

site includes a new sports centre and accommodation blocks with more

than 1,400 bedrooms. Concerns were raised by the nearby

Newland School for Girls who say the development could put its pupils

at greater risk of The former Mayor of Driffield

in East Yorkshire has been told to apologise,

after admitting she liked several racist and anti Muslim

comments on Twitter. Heather Venter, who is still a town

councillor, appeared in front of a disciplinary hearing today

after several complaints were made Here's our political

editor, Tim Iredale. Driffield isn't a town

with a history of political controversy, but once again it's

comments made on social media which are coming

under the spotlight. Heather Venter is a former mayor

of Driffield who remains Today she faced a conduct hearing

after complaints were made about posts which appeared

on her Twitter feed. She was accused of tweeting a link

to right-wing website which said "White South Africans march

in London Against White Genocide." And she was said to have liked

a comment which said, Today, with the help of a friend,

she defended her reputation. I tend to make any racist tweets

whatsoever. If you look at the tweets themselves, you will see they

have been cut and pasted and they were not her tweets. The only one

tweet was main and that was a headline from the Evening Standard

about all the knife came in London. Following that article about

snickering, she liked a comment that said, it is all the blacks in

London. Are you a racist, Cantor? No, I am not. She was found to have

broken East Riding of Yorkshire Council's code of conduct and she

will now have to make an apology. Now every member of the cancer will

take part in special training on how to use social media. Last year, East

Riding councillor Dominic Peacock was expelled from the Conservative

Party that he posted an offensive comment on Facebook relating to the

murdered MP Jo Cox. All of your activity can be seen on social

media. It is about being more self-conscious about your actions

and being a bit more familiar with the topic of information you are

consuming and how you engage with it. There was no further comment

from the Cancelo Avatar actions on social media. -- from the

Chancellor. -- councillor. Heather Venter forced to apologise

for liking these tweets, was there any other possible action

the council could have taken? Now, it remains the case that unless

our elected representatives have broken the law, they cannot be

removed from auction. In the case of Dominic Peacock who made offensive

comment in relation to Jo Cox, she was asked to resign but chose not

to. The case today is a little different. She will be asked to

apologise in front of our town Council and the matter will go no

further. Many interesting that more and more councils are giving their

staff specialist social media training. The golden rule, of

course, do not see anything online that you would not see on a public

forum. This is another one you might

have an opinion on. What do you think of these tweets

being liked by a town councillor? Do you agree with Heather Venter

having to apologise? Still ahead tonight,

the babies' footprints making up a piece of art to celebrate Hull's

year as City of Culture. From the Yorkshire Coast

to the Chelsea Flower Show - The stones that could be part

of a gold medal garden. Someone said that she bought this

book for a 1p that was signed by the man himself. My dad says I was

ripped off. Was it by one and get one free?

The weather is looking unsettled. Actually tomorrow cross-linking

chart but otherwise it is sunshine. Look at this feature coming up now,

bringing grey and perhaps a little school to the tops of the walled. A

bit of respect on Thursday and then we walked the south and this system

could bring a lot of rain on Friday and persist into Saturday into

Saturday and Saturday night. At the moment, the weekend is not looking

good, I am afraid. Let's have a look at the satellite picture. There is

the weather system with the cloud and rain strung out across Wales,

coming into Cheshire now. It's good to continue on its eastward journey.

Most others are fine for the moment but we will see rain spreading in

from the west. There could be a bit of sleet or snow but as a roommate

to come. I chance of one of the A/C packages and the wind will pick up

Roslyn Genscher and Norfolk later in the night. The sun rises at 6:48am.

Some rain and sleet across Lincolnshire. This patchy rain will

clear ways with words. We Genscher improves into tomorrow afternoon,

all those ending up and try and break with some sunshine. It will be

a cold wind and let's have a look at the top temperatures. Top

temperatures eight Celsius. The odd name as possible. Radius is after

you dry start by grain towards the end of the day. Beware the day on

Saturday with that rain petering out into Sunday. That is the forecast.

It's been a household brand for almost a century and now

the company that makes Ryvita is investing ?50 million

into a factory at a tiny village in Lincolnshire.

It's being built in Bardney in West Lindsey, near Lincoln

and when it's finished it will employ 100 people.

Our business correspondent Leanne Brown is there for us now.

How have people there reacted to the news?

There is a neighbourhood watch meeting about to start in the

village, so no doubt they will be talking about it.

This is where the factory is being constructed, on the site

In it's heyday at the hight of the sugar beet season,

coachloads of workers were shiped in.

But that is gone because the factory closed 16 years ago. Now there is

the hope that it will return to the glory days.

They're a worldwide brand that have been producing cracker bread

since the 1930s and now this healthy snack company will be making

-- Work on the multi-million pound factory has just begun on the site

of a former sugar factory and they are building this bakery

We'll end up processing food at this end and then baking it and then

We've seen huge growth in export, so we really want to produce more

and more, so we need extra capacity to do that.

We're looking to create 100 jobs here across operations,

We're looking particularly in the local area for some

of the great skills that we know are here.

It was a huge blow when the sugar factory here ceased processing

in 2001 after more than 70 years in business.

This photo taken in 1973 shows the strength of the workforce.

In the days of the sugar factory, there used to be lots of lorries

coming and queueing to get into the factory in the morning,

they would stop at the local shops and buy their newspapers,

buy their sweets, dare I say it, cigarettes, and their various

With the shutting of the facotry, there was just a void.

Ryvita will hopefully bring locals jobs for local people.

And there is certainly excitement from businesses about the future.

The young ones will have somewhere to go to work if they can

and the people who have probably been made redundant can go

And some say they are already seeing an impact.

We have actually already started getting business

Because we do cakes and things, they have just been coming

Anything that brings, that's starting to bring the village

The building will be complete by the summer with equipment

And the hope of crackers for their customers

There are some concerns about traffic movements but planning

regulations mean heavy lorries shouln't disturb

They might be producing a low-fat snack here,

but it's still sugary sweet for the village.

Lincoln City fans have been snapping up tickets for their FA Cup

Supporters queued overnight, with one fan arriving at three

in the morning just to be first in line.

The club has been allocated almost 9,000 tickets

for the game which takes place a week on Saturday.

I got here about three o'clock in the morning,

I'm really keen to get tickets to see the Arsenal game,

We've had quite a few tough seasons and this is the icing on the cake.

To get to this is something you dream of, isn't it?

A Lincolnshire radio station is celebrating its 25th birthday.

Lincs FM started broadcasting on the 1st March 1992.

The station covers Lincolnshire and Newark and today listeners have

been sharing their memories of the last 25 years.

For any radio station to be on air for 25 years is just amazing,

but the listeners have stuck with us for all of that time

and there are so many people have called in this morning wishing us

well, big birthday greeting, and they have stuck

Hundreds of babies are born in Hull each month and now,

to document their arrival, hospital staff are taking

The prints will be taken throughout 2017, and are being brought together

to create a piece of art called Born In A City of Culture.

The idea has turned out so popular, that some parents are now choosing

Hull over their local hospital, just so their baby can be included.

At Hull Women and Childrens Hospital, thousands of babies

are born every year and for those born in 2017, there's the chance

to be part of a very special art project.

Hello, Claire, is it OK if I come and do baby's footprint?

This morning, at just four hours old, baby Lana is already

Makes it more exciting, more magical a little bit.

Something to look back on, definitely.

It's all the idea of midwife Sally Ward.

When I found out that Hull was going to be

the City of Culture 2017, I thought what better

idea than to start right at the very beginning of life,

so babies that are going to be born in the City of Culture,

so that's how we came up with the name for the project.

There are an average of 15 to 20 babies born

in this hospital every day, so that's around 400 footprints

being taken by these midwives every month.

By the end of 2017, they expect to have a collection of more

This is all of January's, 381, and each scan is placed on a piece

Colin Wilson runs the Gencor design company in Hull which is tasked

with pulling together the baby images into a piece of art that

Month by month we go along to build up the art work.

Yes, there is a good reason for that.

There are two spikes of babies being born, one at March time

The size of footprints vary from large babies,

to the tiny prints of those which haven't survived.

We felt that it was important that it's not just a celebration

of birth, it's a celebration of remembrance as well.

We want all babies to be included for 2017.

Mums get a choice if they would like their babies to be included,

and even if the baby is tiny or unfortunately stillborn,

we will still do that footprint and it will go on the artwork.

Baby Theo is the latest to join the Born In The City

We couldn't wish for anything better.

His print will now be added to the collection.

the first panel was put up in the hospital this morning,

but thousands of babies have yet to be born before this

And a reminder, you can follow all of the City of Culture events.

The beauty of the Yorkshire coastline will be recreated

for a garden at this year's Chelsea Flower Show.

And to do it, they're taking TONNES of pebbles from Flamborough

The designer behind it took home a gold medal

at a previous flower show, as Jo Makel reports.

Its cliffs and pebbles are formed from the most northerly

But now, with the help of local school children,

We love the stones with the holes in, so some of those

Garden designer Tracey Foster needs the children to collect pebbles

for a Yorkshire coast garden at Chelsea.

It includes cliffs, a beach and even a ruined abbey.

It is just overwhelmingly beautiful and I desperately wanted to use that

Various different elements of it are going to be

included in the garden, from the cliffs to the pebbles

on the beach that are so different and unusual,

They're also important in terms of sea life.

So each pebble has to be carefully checked for sea creatures.

We found that there is a snail in it, it's just there

It digs a hole into the rock to make a little chamber.

Up to two tonnes of pebbles have been collected from here and taken

They have had special permission to do this.

Because this is such an important place in terms of its ecology,

all the pebbles will be brought back.

It's really important they are brought back to maintain

the ecology and so we have as little impact as possible.

As you can see, it is a stunning location, really unique

in terms of the chalk, and to have that showcased

down in London is going to be really fantastic.

Chelsea is the present show and she has previously won gold

here, soit is hoped these authentic pieces of Yorkshire will help

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

The Government suffers its first setback over Brexit with a defeat

in the House of Lords backing the rights of EU citizens

Lincolnshire's biggest egg producer says they're concerned that bird flu

restrictions have been relaxed too quickly.

Tomorrow's weather: Scattered showers at first otherwise

mostly dry and bright with some sunny spells.

We have had positive feedback about the new fight the opening. On a

board with, -- on Burke to follow -- 'Why don't we have our chickens

vaccinated from bird flu From now on I will only be buying

eggs imported from Vietnam.' Barry, 'I would go with farmers

who look after there chickens and eggs and keep them in house

until Bird flu is 100% clear.' Paul, 'Fair enough,

If the councillor apologises, but don't we have a freedom of speech

act?' This an anonymous text message:

"politicians should wise up Brian says: "Training councillors

on how to tweet properly that offer no, goodbye. -- at all

for now, goodbye. I think my political beliefs are

really quite straightforward. I believe that our country needs to

work for everyone. Not just for the rich,

not just for the privileged, not just for those who know

the right people or who've got the loudest voices, but a country

that really works for everyone, has the opportunity to be

who they want to be. In order to make sure that the

country works for everyone,