29/10/2016 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.

Thousands of people have turned out in Grantham,

to protest against overnight closures at the town's

Residents and local politichans marched through the centre of town

in protest at the closures , which the hospital trust saxs

is because of a shortage of available doctors.

In this town, there are thotsands of people willing to fight to keep

the local A Department opdn 2 hours a day.

But there's a shortage of doctors available to work it.

CHANTING No ifs, no buts, no A cuts.

Health bosses say this is why they've closed the accident

But that response hasn't satisfied campaigners who turned out

in Grantham for their biggest protest yet.

Other hospitals are managing, so why aren't ours?

The people of this area feel passionately about our hosphtal

services and our accident and emergency unit.

Traditionally, more patients use A departments in Lincoln and Boston,

but many here today are amongst the thousands who've used

Grantham's department at times during the night.

We're not as not as young as we were, and things happdn more

We're not as young as we were, and things happen more

So we are more conscious of the fact that the nearest places

are Lincoln or Nottingham, and they are very

Each time as a family we've used the hospital, it's

You don't have a heart attack at ten o'clock in the morning, do xou?

So you've got to support it, we don't want to lose it at all

The United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust says it supports the right

of people protesting today, adding that the decision

to temporarily change the opening hours of A was not an easx one,

but it was made to protect patients and maintain safe services.

When the department's part-time closure was announced this summer,

it was expected to last thrde months, but many here await

a decision over whether it will remain in place for longer -

something clinical directors at the trust are recommending.

Jill Archbold, BBC Look North in Grantham.

And there's been a march in Leicester today,

against the closure of a chhldren's heart unit there.

The ward at Glenfield Hospital, which is used by families

from Lincolnshire, has to close by April due to

Hundreds marched through thd town to protest against the clostre.

She's got congenital heart defect and she had surgery at Glenfield

So we've just got to fight to keep it there for anyone else th`t needs

Armed police have responded to an incident in Scunthorpd

in the last couple of hours, close to the Screwfix

Officers say that the situation was resolved peacefully,

and that there was never any risk to the public.

Two of our MPs are among a group of 90 who are calling for a better

East Yorkshire MP Sir Greg Knight and Scunthorpe's Nic Dakin

want people to be able to roam between different providers

in poor signal areas to improve coverage.

They're part of the British Infrastructure Group

campaigning for the change, which is led by MP Grant Sh`pps

It can't be right that if you have a foreign Sim c`rd,

a French Sim card, you can get coverage in the UK that a Brit can't

These are "not-spots" - places you can't get any

And if we need to do that through national roaming,

well, that has to be the way forward.

Pleasure Island in Cleethorpes says it's last goodbye tonight.

The theme park has been a fixture on the North East

Lincolnshire coast for decades but is closing due to

It had its last full day of operating earlier this wdek,

but will say goodbye with a fireworks display this evdning.

Time for the weather with Abbie Dewhurst.

A largely dry night to come overnight tonight.

It will be quite cloudy thotgh, all this cloud meaning tempdratures

Most places will stay in double figures.

But we could still see a cotple of clear spells and this is where

That fog could be quite dense so take care if you are heading out

The cloud will thin and bre`k up through the afternoon, though.

So we should see the odd brighter spell.

Temperatures at around 15 Celsius, 59 Fahrenheit.

And don't forget to put those clocks back.

We're back early tomorrow evening with all your latest news

Good evening, it has been a rather cloudy but certainly very mild day.

In fact where we did see sunshine breaking through, in Hull for

instance, temperatures rose as high as 19 degrees, more typical of the

middle of August and late October. Things remaining mild and largely

dry down to this big area of high pressure really dominating the

weather. Bringing light winds. Still a lot of ploughed through this

evening and overnight. A few spots of drizzle coming out of the cloud,

three central parts of England and Wales. Scattered showers towards the

far north-west of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Where we see clear

spells we the seat missed. Locally dense fog patches especially across

parts of the south-east of England and East