28/02/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)


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Welcome to Friday's Look North. tonight. That is all from

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Welcome to Friday's Look North. Our top stories tonight: Big Brother

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is watching. York Council rolls out its latest parking enforcemdnt

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weapon. But is the so`called "spy car" a real deterrent or a cash cow?

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We'll be asking a former tr`ffic officer.

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Also tonight: Harnessing thd elements. The number of wind farms

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is set to double but are thdy an environmental blessing or a blot on

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the Yorkshire landscape? And how letters from the front line

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inspired two Yorkshire musicians to write a timeless love song.

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It is the first meteorological day of spring tomorrow. Join me later

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for the full forecast. Good evening and welcome to the

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programme. Controversial calera cars are to be introduced in York in an

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attempt to crack down on motorists who drive dangerously around

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schools. The City of York Council saxs it's

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been forced to do this after pressure from head teachers. But the

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Government says there are bdtter ways of dealing with bad parking and

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they'd like to see these vehicles banned altogether. In a momdnt we'll

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speak to a former traffic officer, who campaigns against them, but

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first Anna Crossley has this story. It's a waste of taxpayers money It

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gives people the opportunitx to spy on people. It's just another way of

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getting income. Safety cars, parking enforcement cars, spy cars, whatever

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you call them, they are not popular. Even the government wants to ban

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them. It wants to rein in the town hall parking bullies. Despite the

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controversy, York is to become the next place to get its own vdhicle

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because the council says th`t is what people want. School

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headteachers want it. Residdnts who live in congested areas arotnd

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schools want it. I think thdre is a significant amount of peopld who

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think it is a good idea. Crhtics say the cars are about collecting money

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through fines, something thd council denies. It says it is only

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introducing the CCTV cars bdcause of pressure from headteachers. We have

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tried all the approaches we think we can and it has had limited hmpact.

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We felt we had to go down in April at where we actually identified

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those particular offenders lore than other parents who were trying to

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make an effort. It is this kind of parking that pushed her to go to the

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council. There have also bedn complaints about similar parking

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chaos at the start and finish of the school day. When you see those

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pictures do you feel differdntly? If they are illegally parked and cause

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has then they should do somdthing. They should put a PCSO on dtty

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outside the school. It is an intrusion but if it saves one life,

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a child's life then yes. Opponents say there are favourite ways to deal

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with the problem. `` more f`irer ways. Talk to them and help them to

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develop an understanding whx it is important they should park `nd drive

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carefully around schools. The car will patrol the streets frol early

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March. Well, Richard Bentley, who hs a

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former traffic officer, campaigns against the overzealous use of

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camera cars. The council is stuck between a rock and a hard place

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Eight car cannot be at everx school and every afternoon. It can only be

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in one place. Or are they going to drive around and use it to ticket

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people? It doesn't make fin`ncial sense to have a traffic warden at

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every school. It does. Wouldn't want car be cheaper? Southampton got rid

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of their car because it was not cost`effective. If they will use it

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only for schools it will be for 30 minutes in the morning and 30

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minutes in the afternoon. I'll be going to park it and not usd it

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between those times? No. Ard you against it because they are

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indiscriminate in the way they give out fines? Someone could be

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legitimately dropping something of or picking up a disabled person The

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camera car does not give a viewing time or an observation time, it just

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gets a ticket and then you have to justify your actions and invariably,

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most people, `` out of 9000, only one or two people will challenge it.

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Eric Pickles, Communities Sdcretary, said he wanted to stop the

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overzealous use of spy cameras, even potentially banning them. What's the

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alternative that won't break the bank? Balance. Deliver a tr`ffic

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warden or create a facility at the school which allows parents to drop

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off and pick up children. That is a permanent engineered solution. It

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can be done but with investlent The holiday firm Thomas Cook has

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failed in its attempt to stop an inquest taking place into the deaths

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of Bobbi and Christi Shepherd. The youngsters, from Wakefield, died in

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Corfu eight years ago after they were overcome by carbon monoxide

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fumes. Meanwhile the children's parents

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face going to court without proper representation in future because

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they can't afford increasing legal fees. Ian White reports.

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Seven`year`old Christi Shepherd and her brother Bobbi Shepherd died on

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holiday. They were we believe there is an overwhelming

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public interest for the lessons of our tragedy to be learned. Ht is

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extraordinary that Thomas Cook tried to stop the inquest taking place.

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You heard the parents asking the government to help them. It is

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imperative that this case is like that again and that legal ahd

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funding is given to this falily The inquest is now expected to be heard

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in January. Thomas Cook executives left court without comment. ``

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Thomas Cook representatives. Later on Look North: The ro`d to

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Rio. The Look North reporter hophng to

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pedal her way to a paralymphc medal. Next tonight, Look North has

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discovered the number of wind farms in Yorkshire is set to double. There

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are 15 operational wind farls in the region at the moment and another 15

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have either been approved or

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