21/12/2016 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)


21/12/2016

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Good evening, the headlines from BBC Look North:

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Campaigners say they'll fight on as a court orders

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the Catholic Church to pay compensation for child sexual abuse.

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Illegal cigarettes could have played a part in the death of three

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Despite protests, Grimsby's ice rink is to close for good

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after the council said it can't afford to run it.

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And with some very strong winds expected for Friday

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and into the Christmas weekend, join me for the latest forecast.

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A judge has ordered the Catholic Church to pay ?14,000

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to a man abused as a child at a residential school

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More than 200 men are making claims against the Church.

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Today, as one case was successful and three were rejected,

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campaigners said they would continue to fight for justice.

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Caroline Bilton reports from the court in Leeds.

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They are a group of more than 200 men suing the Catholic Church over

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claims they were abused at a children's home

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Today judgment was delivered for the first four cases.

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Only one claimant was successful - not the outcome these

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Absolutely feel sick to the guts of what's happened today.

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Not just for myself but for the other 248

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victims of St William, and probably many more.

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It's not about compensation, it's about justice and recognition

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Decades of abuse took place here at the St William's-approved

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The home was run by the diocese of Middlesbrough and

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It is these two organisations that these men are now suing.

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249 men are carrying out this litigation but it has started

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Judgments were handed down here at the High Court in Leeds

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The judge found only in favour of one of the claimants.

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Today's judgment does not reflect on the other 245 cases that

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Those acting on behalf of victims say they will appeal.

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It's become a bit of a war of attrition, has this case,

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and I'm confident that the evidence that I've heard, the men crying

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in my office about their cases, means that we will succeed

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I still have to live the nightmares of all this.

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It's the worst feeling you can have to be called a liar

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Nigel Feeley was 13 when he was sent to the St Williams approved

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His case for compensation's still to be heard.

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He was one of the boys that the former principal,

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He's been jailed three times now for physically and sexually

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The former chaplain was jailed in January

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Today's judgment hasn't given Nigel hope he will ever be compensated.

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Deflated, disappointed, but they remain determined

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and hopeful that the last judgment in this case will rule in their

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Illegal cigarettes could have played a part in a house fire that

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killed three Polish men in Spalding in Lincolnshire.

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Investigators say it's likely that a carelessly dropped cigarette

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On the night of the 30th April this year, fire

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devastated Leathercote House on Tower Lane in Spalding.

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The 18th-century listed building was being rented out

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It's one of the worst fires I've attended in terms

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Witnesses say the men who died had been drinking heavily all day.

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The inquest heard that the three men were all more than four times over

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the legal drink-drive limit when they died.

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Witnesses said the men would regularly cover the smoke

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detectors in their rooms to stop the alarms going off

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so they could smoke indoors, something that was against

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The building was so badly damaged, little evidence of how the fire

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But investigators believe it's likely a carelessly dropped

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These illegally imported cigarettes were found in one

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of the men's bedrooms, and all were known to

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To be sold legally in the UK, cigarettes must stop

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Those that were recovered failed the safety tests.

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It's not definitive, there's no such thing as,

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"Can a fire-safe cigarette cause a fire?"

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But the likelihood is a lot less by using shop-bought

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Lincolnshire Trading Standards says it's a continuing problem.

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Trading Standards do work really hard to partner

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with Lincolnshire Police to tackle the issue, but it is one

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that we currently have seven investigations pending for.

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South Lincolnshire Coroner Murray Spittal told the inquest: "The blood

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The coroner's conclusion was that the men died by misadventure.

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But by habitually disabling smoke detectors, they may have denied

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themselves early warning of the fire that claimed their lives.

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All of the residents of a Lincolnshire care home

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which announced its closure after a bad inspection have been

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The Limes, at Scopwick near Lincoln, is being shut by its owners

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following a critical report by the Care Quality Commission.

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The last of the 19 residents moved out today.

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Grimsby's Ice Arena is to close for good, ending more than 80 years

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The decision was taken at a meeting this afternoon,

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with councillors blaming the increasing costs

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They've been talking about this since 2009,

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Well, it's finally come down to money - as simple as that.

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There's been an ice rink at that site in Grimsby since 1975.

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But over the last few years, it's become clear it's not

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bringing in enough money, so it's costing too much to run.

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Now, if we look back at some of the events of recent years,

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in 2009 there were plans to knock it down.

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That was stopped by a petition with more than 32,000 signatures.

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Later that same year, while they were still

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debating its future, the ice rink received

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official recognition for the quality of its lessons

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from the National Iceskating Association.

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But in June 2014, the ice rink's cooling system failed,

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At that stage, the council did put in a temporary ice

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pad costing ?200,000, and they said they were looking for

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They haven't found anyone who can take over without

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And they say that at the same time as they've been dealing

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with government funding cuts, this means the ice rink

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There's just no money to be found, we just didn't have the funding,

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and I've said earlier on, because of the Government taking

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such large amounts of our funding now, and I'm talking

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about 70 million now in the last six years,

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we're just finding it very difficult now to provide the services

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What do people think the impact of this decision will be?

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There's a lot of sadness amongst people who use the ice rink.

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There was a protest today before the council meeting.

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100 or so people went along to try to convince

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But in the end it was a unanimous decision.

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Thousands of people visit the rink every year and those that will be

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most affected by this are probably the hockey clubs for both children

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There's at least four or five ice hockey teams that

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And it's a long way to go to the nearest

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ice rink from here - the nearest one

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You can't expect people to travel there two or three times a week.

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So basically, you close down the rink, you deprive

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them of their sport and their recreational activities.

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So the protesters say they'll continue to fight this.

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They're hoping the scrutiny committee will overturn

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And to be fair to the council, they say they will keep looking

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for someone to take over the rink and run it commercially.

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But if that doesn't happen, the rink will have to close

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We've certainly had a big response to that story tonight. We will

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report back on that tomorrow. Hull's Ferens Art Gallery now has

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an opening date following its ?4.5 Visitors will be able to see

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the gallery's collection Paintings and sculptures started

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being returned to the building two weeks ago following 15 months

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of work to improve lighting Not a bad day to come tomorrow. Most

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of us dry with some sunshine. The Christmas Day, a number of isobars,

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meaning fairly widespread gales. Temperatures into double figures, so

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feeling mild as well. Just one or two isolated showers in the West,

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otherwise dry with clear periods overnight tonight. A few icy patches

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possible on untreated services tomorrow. A lovely sunny start and a

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breezy day with one or two showers. -- untreated surfaces. Mostly fine

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with a good deal of sunshine. Feeling chilly with temperatures up

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to six or seven. A very windy day on Friday with heavy rain later on.

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That's it from us. We are back tomorrow morning as always at

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6:25am. See you then. Good night. good for us. Mild by the time we

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reach Christmas Day. Hello there, there is wet and very

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windy weather on Hello there, there is wet and very

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windy weather on the way in the run-up to Christmas. The worst of

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the weather to the northern half of the UK. We have a strengthening jet

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out of North America that is propgating across the Atlantic.

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Rushing our way. Picking up low pressure, deepening them, tracking

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them to the north-west of Scotland, hence the wind and rain. Tonight, we

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have gale force winds in the north-west of Scotland. Wintry

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showers here. There is still come rain to clear from the south-east.

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It will go. The skies will clear. We get patchy fog in the south-east of

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England. Chilly where skies clear, particularly in the countryside, not

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far away from freezing. Further north we keep the showers going

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through the night and into

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