09/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Hello, good evening. The headlines from as this Monday night. Cancelled

operations as our hospitals buckle under the winter pressures. We are

up to 99% for which doesn't leave a lot of room for patients to come in.

Tonight the call for all Humberside Police officers to be given Taser

is, but campaigners say it is not right. I believe all front-line

officers should have access to a Taser. This represents a fundamental

change in the way that we are policed. And be unusable wintry

spell of weather Jamie later with the updated forecast. -- join me

later with the updated forecast. Dozens of operations have been

postponed and hundreds of appointments cancelled

after hospital bosses in Hull admitted they are

running out of beds. Fewer than five emergency beds

are unfilled in the whole of East Yorkshire where there's been

a big rise in the number of very ill people are being

admitted to hospital. It's a similar story in Lincolnshire

where the ambulance service says When a new 24 bed ward was lifted

into place at Hull Royal Infirmary it was promised extra beds

would help to ease winter pressures. But, nearly two years since it

opened, ambulances queue outside a hospital which continues

to struggle to find This year we have had to cancel some

operations and that's regretable. The doctors, nurses and other staff

in the hospital have been working really,

really hard to try and keep things going, but we have to look

after our acutely unwell patients There are 416 emergency beds at Hull

Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill. Almost all of them are

being used right now. There are another 382 beds used

by patients recovering from surgery, but 90% of these

are full and that's why hospital bosses have had to postpone routine

operations to free up beds and consultants for patients that

need emergency care. And there's pressure too

on services in Lincolnshire. The East Midlands Ambulance Service

says it's been its busiest ever New Year and Union leaders say

hospital staff are struggling. We did ask our members today what do

they think would help the situation and do we need more nurses,

and the response we got was we need more of everything,

we need more of everything But this afternoon the Health

Secretary told the House of Commons work is already underway to dissuade

people from using A unnecessarily. NHS England and NHS Improvement

will continue to explore ways to ensure that at least some

of the patients who do not need to be in our A can be given good

alternative options. And for the second time,

one Lincolnshire MP has called for a radical change to the way

the NHS is funded. I just wonder whether we don't need

to start an honest discussion with the people about how

we are going to devote more resources to health in this country,

perhaps through social insurance models or even, God forbid,

and I know people would agree with this, charging people who don't

turn up for appointments. The Government says "distressed"

health trusts will be able to take In busy hospitals like Hull such

action has already been taken. Jill is outside the Hull

Royal Infirmary tonight. What are health bosses

telling people tonight? The trust which runs this hospital

says it had to cancel around 60 operations last week in order to

give its staff some breathing room so that they could cope with an

influx of acutely unwell patients, and that decision, the trust said,

was regrettable but it's only made in scenarios where it's deemed safe

to postpone an operation. The message from the health trust here

and echoed nationally by NHS England is that people who do become unwell

should think very carefully about where they access health care and

that people who come to hospitals like the one behind me and I'll

should only be here if their condition is serious or

life-threatening. The Humberside Police Federation

is calling for all front line It's being claimed the use

of Tasers, which use an electric shock to instantly immobilise

an offender, is less The union which represents

officers also claims they help keep their members

and the public safe. A whole range of incidents,

so from violent domestic incidents in the home to people out

on the streets carrying weapons. We go out to protect

the public every day, 24/7, so I am calling for the introduction

of Tasers to all front-line officers to adequately protect themselves

and members of the public from dealing with these

sort of incidents. That what was the chairman of the

Humberside Police Federation. Iain Gould is a solicitor

who specialises in claims Tonight I asked him

whether he agreed with the Humberside Police Federation

that all officers should No, I think this represents

a fundamental change in the way I don't think it's necessary

and I think what we should be looking at is more officers

on the beat rather than simply Why are you against something

that the police themselves, themselves they will keep the public

safe and keep the police safe. Well, I don't necessarily

agree with that. I think that in my experience

when an officer has a Taser gun it's I think that when an officer

confront a situation he should be using first and foremost his

best efforts to disarm If somebody is not doing anything

wrong to prompt it than a Taser Maybe not, but unfortunately my

experience there are too many times when a Taser has been deployed

in inappropriate circumstances, causing unnecessary pain

and discomfort to the individual concerned and I think in that

situation that is only going to damage the reputation

of the police and the confidence In many cases they are pulled

and they are there as a deterrent, not necessarily fired,

but as soon as they brought out You could argue that giving each

and every officer a gun I just don't think it's necessary

in this day and age. As I say, I think we live in a less

violent society and our police force Don't say about more police officers

because I except that you said that, Well, I don't have a problem

with certain officers being deployed with Taser guns but they should be

deployed to specially trained officers and in my experience

there are too many officers out there who lack the proper

temperament to carry such a weapon. That a criticism of

the police, isn't it? It is a criticism of the police

and it is a criticism of the training of those officers

because unfortunately in my experience there are too many

officers who seem to feel the use of the Taser is no different

from laying your hands on an individual when in reality

they are a dangerous weapon and that's recognised by the police

and the IPCC themselves. Hull is the most popular

tourist attraction in 340,000 people have visited Hull

in the first week of it becoming City of Culture to see things

like the giant wind turbine And the city and it's

attractions are being talked The Norwegian people,

when I mention Hull, they say very positive

things about it. They know the colour of the T-shirts

for the football team and they know about it being famous

for its fishing as well, so in Norway people have been

very positive about Hull One of Hull's biggest

tourist attractions The Deep is looking for someone

to look after the day-to-day Whoever takes over will

get a ?100,000 salary. Hull City will play Fulham

in the next round of the FA Cup. While Lincoln City could also

face a Championship side The Imps got Brighton

at Sincil Bank in tonight's draw. They still have to beat Ipswich

though to get there after the two Obviously, Brighton,

top of the championship. obviously we've got to get past

a very good Ipswich team so we're not getting too carried away

here but we enjoyed the draw. I think we'll be looking

forward to playing Brighton if we can beat Ipswich,

I think we'll fancy We were hoping for

Manchester United or It's all right, could be

better, we could have got an Arsenal or Man U way, that

would've been nice, but, you know, we're just enjoy the

ride at the minute. Let us get the forecast for Tuesday

with the details from Paul. Good evening. A cold snap on the way

the second half of the week. It will be windy with snow showers towards

Thursday and Friday for some of us. This is what is happening. A broad

westerly at the moment with the airflow coming down from the north

or the north-west. It brings a scattering of sleet and snow showers

are quite a few areas. It is mostly fine and we will have the odd shower

coming in from the West. We will have the lowest temperatures tonight

or three or 4 degrees. Tomorrow it is a fairly dry and bright morning

with sunshine around and I suspect cloud may increase later in the day.

It could be thick enough to produce some spots of rain but for most of

us it is fine and we will have the top temperatures of eight. The main

feature of the weather is the very strong west or south west wind.

Wednesday doesn't look too bad but it is much colder on Thursday and

Friday with a cold wind and sunshine and scattered sleet and snow

showers. When you wake in the morning don't forget the BBC local

radio stations are on the air. Don't forget Park Street Bridge in

Hull is closed to traffic for the next three months which could cause

you some problems in the morning. Radio Humberside will have all

precipitation we get will be of a wintry nation and Thursday is one we

have to watch out for. The wintry nation and Thursday is one we

have to watch out for. The weekend outlook, it stays chilly with a

northerly wind and possibly frosty nights. The national weather

forecast now. Wet and windy weather across the

western side of Scotland. Blood-pressure is in charge of the

weather, lots of isobars and it remains windy overnight across

northern and western parts of Scotland. It will blow a gale here.

That is the north-west quadrant of the UK, that is where we expect most

of the overnight rain. Within north-westerly breeze it is chilly

and by the end of the night it is three or 4 degrees in major towns

and cities, rural spots lower than that, and a risk of icy patches in

some places. Across the eastern side of Scotland not much rain, more on

the west, still breezy but not as windy as it is now. Northern Ireland

will be fairly cloudy with some rain in the morning, not much in northern

England but some in the Pennines, but for the it will be