14/02/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)


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The headlines from BBC Look North this Tuesday night.

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Care in crisis - there are calls for government action to deal

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Each week that goes by, care providers are coming out of

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Police and firearms experts seize weapons and explosives

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Claims that bird flu precautions are being ignored threatening

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And it's set to get milder over the next 24 hours and that will

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I will be back later in the programme

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The man who represents the country's local councils says the underfunding

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of social care is so bad that authorities are at breaking point.

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One council leader in our area says things can't go

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on as they are and the Government needs to address the problem.

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An ageing population means that the demand for adult care

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is likely to increase in the coming years.

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Our political editor Tim Iredale reports.

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At the age of 91, Eileen receives help from carers at her home

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With talk of care crisis, many families are choosing to pay

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privately for services rather than relying the council.

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I mean, you hear this about ten minute visits

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What can you actually do in ten minutes?

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But an elderly person, you walk into their home, whether it's

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just giving them some medication, you can't just,

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"Here you go, medication," and get out.

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When we talk about social care, what do we actually mean?

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Social care to me is fulfilling people's lives

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Becki has worked in the care sector for ten years.

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She says it's not just the elderly who need looking

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Those individual people could maybe have learning difficulties, they

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might be paralysed through traffic accidents, that sort of thing,

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have different conditions so we've got customers

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with Huntington's disease, motor neuron disease, Parkinson's,

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all those conditions that can be safely managed within the homes

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but do make life limiting for the individual sufferer.

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Recent years have seen council tax increases

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limited to 2% but this year, the government is allowing local

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what's known as a precept to help pay the social care.

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Any rise above 5% must be put to local people in a referendum.

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But even with that increase, some local authorities say

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The leader of North East Lincolnshire Council

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is writing to the government, urging a total rethink on the way health

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They're not like the leafy suburbs of

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Westminster where they have got a high council tax base.

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Because we have got low housing costs, our

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council tax raise of 3% will equate to about, I don't know,

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to two fifths of what they're going to bring in.

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We've got more deprivation and more need in our area

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for older people services but we raise less money than the

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leafy suburbs of Westminster so it's an unfair system.

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So council leaders appear to be locked in a

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war of words with the government over the cost of care,

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Tim Iredale, BBC Look North, Grimsby.

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Earlier I spoke to Lord Porter of Spalding who is the Chairman

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of the Local Government Association and the leader of South

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He told me that the government has been told just how

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Local government has been making a very strong case.

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We're ?1.3 billion short in the immediate period,

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raising to ?2.6 billion over the life of this Parliament.

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We need extra direct funding put into adult social care

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So, the Government said it would create a

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sustainable system for everyone who needs social care,

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They've got a cross-department group looking at it at the moment.

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I'm hoping that local government finance settlement

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had been delayed because they're going to try to find some new money.

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But if they don't, the care crisis will worsen.

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I'm almost certain that you'll see reports

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over the next few weeks that give a greater example of how that is.

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There's probably over a million people now not receiving

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adequate funding for the adult care that they need.

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Would you feel comfortable if we heard those figures there, 3%,

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5%, if we were talking about 10%, 15%, would you be happy about that

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to go on the council tax bills to pay this and get it sorted out

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Council tax isn't the way to sort this problem out.

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This problem needs to be resolved through national taxation and that

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doesn't mean to say we need to pay more, it just means

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we need to spend the money we are spending better.

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I used the word crisis, is it a crisis?

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Some people use the word crisis, I'm preferring to

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wait for crisis to come in the future.

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But we're at breaking point now, there is ?1.3 billion extra needed.

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Each week that goes by, care providers are coming out of

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A 46-year-old man has died after it's believed

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he was struck by steel that fell from a van in Hull.

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Humberside Police and the Health and Safety Executive

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are investigating the incident on Vulcan Street off Clough Road

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Police have seized firearms from a firing range and explosives

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The operation is being carried out at Skydock, which is at the former

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RAF Faldingworth base near Market Rasen.

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Police are working with military firearms experts after

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the Home Office withdrew a licence to store weapons.

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There is still a police presence here this evening at Skydock which

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sits on a 1000 acres set of blood which used to be an RAF base. There

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is lots of different facilities here from a firing range to storage or

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weapons and ammunition. And also for explosives to be tested here as

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well. What has happened today released to a specific licence and

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that license covers a range of things normally used by the police

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and the military like automatic guns, missiles, gases. That licence

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has been revoked by the Home Office and Lincolnshire Police said it is

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compared with military firearm experts and it has been removing

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weapons that are stored here in it's own words, to McCain this security

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and to ensure public safety. That is what they said about why they are

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doing it. -- maintain public security.

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How long with the operation take? Today was day two of their

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operation, the joint operation between the police and the military

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experts. Lincolnshire Police has told us there is a lot to do and it

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does expect this operation to go on for many days more. The BBC has

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contacted Skydock for comment today but it declined to say anything.

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Thank you very much indeed. People are deliberately ignoring

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rules designed to stop the spread of bird flu and putting millions

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of chickens and turkeys at risk That's according to farmers -

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who want people to report neighbours who break the rules

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to the authorities. 30000 birds have died

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after three outbreaks Our rural affairs correspondent

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Linsey Smith reports. Strolling around without

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a care in the world. But the owner of these

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guinea fowl should have. The Government has ordered that

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all poultry be kept indoors And for granting these

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speckled hens their freedom, She is following the rules, however

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difficult, and is angry about those

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who are not. I think they should be named

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and shamed and I've been spreading it around my friends,

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you know, one or two has said, "I've only got two, it

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doesn't apply to me." I get quite annoyed

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because one, it's not fair on their birds for their

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own welfare but also when the restrictions

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are lifted a bit, as we're hoping in March,

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are those birds now carriers? 30,000 birds have been

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culled in our area so far It was discovered

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at a farm near Louth in December where 5000

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birds were culled. The second case, two weeks later,

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was in Fulstow where And the latest outbreak was last

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month in Boston, again at a turkey farm, where 19,000

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birds were affected. One gram of infected bird faeces

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is enough to kill a million birds so that gives you a scale of how

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serious this disease is which can be spread sort of from a car tyre,

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it can be spread from a boot, Well, there are hundreds of poultry

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farms in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire employing

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thousands of people and those jobs rely

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on the prosperity, the health

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of these flocks. And Defra say that the only way

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to ensure that at the moment is Shoppers who prefer local,

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free range eggs could Farms in high risk zones may

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lose their free range status Another reason why keeping this

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disease contained is so important. In football tonight,

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Scunthorpe United were held to a 0-0 In League Two, Grimsby Town also

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drew 0-0, away against Newport. Let's get the post as bat forecast

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for tomorrow. Here is Keeley. If you are getting a bit bored

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of it being so cold out there, you'll be pleased to know

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it is going to get milder overnight tonight and then

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that will last over the next three days

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and into next week as well. So a lot of cloud overnight,

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perhaps a little bit of haziness, mistiness,

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and there could be a little bit But frost-free with temperatures

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down to around six or seven Celsius. So, tomorrow, a lot of cloud

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through the morning, there might even be some residual dampness

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but we should see a little bit of Overall though, a lot

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of cloud through tomorrow showery rain spreading up

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from the south but even once that arrives,

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we still could get the odd Temperatures in places

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into double figures. It doesn't look too bad

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for Thursday and Friday. That is it from us tonight. We are

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back in the morning at breakfast and I will be back tomorrow night at

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half past six. Good night. weather into the weekend. A bit of

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fog around to watch out for. Jon Hammond with the national forecast

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now. Good evening. There is

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