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Welcome to Friday's Look North. tonight. That is all from | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Friday's Look North. Our top stories tonight: Big Brother | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
is watching. York Council rolls out its latest parking enforcemdnt | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
weapon. But is the so`called "spy car" a real deterrent or a cash cow? | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
We'll be asking a former tr`ffic officer. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Also tonight: Harnessing thd elements. The number of wind farms | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
is set to double but are thdy an environmental blessing or a blot on | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
the Yorkshire landscape? And how letters from the front line | :00:26. | :00:42. | |
inspired two Yorkshire musicians to write a timeless love song. | :00:43. | :00:50. | |
It is the first meteorological day of spring tomorrow. Join me later | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
for the full forecast. Good evening and welcome to the | :00:55. | :01:06. | |
programme. Controversial calera cars are to be introduced in York in an | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
attempt to crack down on motorists who drive dangerously around | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
schools. The City of York Council saxs it's | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
been forced to do this after pressure from head teachers. But the | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
Government says there are bdtter ways of dealing with bad parking and | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
they'd like to see these vehicles banned altogether. In a momdnt we'll | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
speak to a former traffic officer, who campaigns against them, but | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
first Anna Crossley has this story. It's a waste of taxpayers money It | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
gives people the opportunitx to spy on people. It's just another way of | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
getting income. Safety cars, parking enforcement cars, spy cars, whatever | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
you call them, they are not popular. Even the government wants to ban | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
them. It wants to rein in the town hall parking bullies. Despite the | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
controversy, York is to become the next place to get its own vdhicle | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
because the council says th`t is what people want. School | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
headteachers want it. Residdnts who live in congested areas arotnd | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
schools want it. I think thdre is a significant amount of peopld who | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
think it is a good idea. Crhtics say the cars are about collecting money | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
through fines, something thd council denies. It says it is only | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
introducing the CCTV cars bdcause of pressure from headteachers. We have | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
tried all the approaches we think we can and it has had limited hmpact. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
We felt we had to go down in April at where we actually identified | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
those particular offenders lore than other parents who were trying to | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
make an effort. It is this kind of parking that pushed her to go to the | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
council. There have also bedn complaints about similar parking | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
chaos at the start and finish of the school day. When you see those | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
pictures do you feel differdntly? If they are illegally parked and cause | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
has then they should do somdthing. They should put a PCSO on dtty | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
outside the school. It is an intrusion but if it saves one life, | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
a child's life then yes. Opponents say there are favourite ways to deal | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
with the problem. `` more f`irer ways. Talk to them and help them to | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
develop an understanding whx it is important they should park `nd drive | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
carefully around schools. The car will patrol the streets frol early | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
March. Well, Richard Bentley, who hs a | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
former traffic officer, campaigns against the overzealous use of | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
camera cars. The council is stuck between a rock and a hard place | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
Eight car cannot be at everx school and every afternoon. It can only be | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
in one place. Or are they going to drive around and use it to ticket | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
people? It doesn't make fin`ncial sense to have a traffic warden at | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
every school. It does. Wouldn't want car be cheaper? Southampton got rid | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
of their car because it was not cost`effective. If they will use it | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
only for schools it will be for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
minutes in the afternoon. I'll be going to park it and not usd it | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
between those times? No. Ard you against it because they are | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
indiscriminate in the way they give out fines? Someone could be | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
legitimately dropping something of or picking up a disabled person The | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
camera car does not give a viewing time or an observation time, it just | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
gets a ticket and then you have to justify your actions and invariably, | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
most people, `` out of 9000, only one or two people will challenge it. | :05:45. | :05:53. | |
Eric Pickles, Communities Sdcretary, said he wanted to stop the | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
overzealous use of spy cameras, even potentially banning them. What's the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
alternative that won't break the bank? Balance. Deliver a tr`ffic | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
warden or create a facility at the school which allows parents to drop | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
off and pick up children. That is a permanent engineered solution. It | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
can be done but with investlent The holiday firm Thomas Cook has | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
failed in its attempt to stop an inquest taking place into the deaths | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
of Bobbi and Christi Shepherd. The youngsters, from Wakefield, died in | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
Corfu eight years ago after they were overcome by carbon monoxide | :06:27. | :06:27. | |
fumes. Meanwhile the children's parents | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
face going to court without proper representation in future because | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
they can't afford increasing legal fees. Ian White reports. | :06:34. | :06:45. | |
Seven`year`old Christi Shepherd and her brother Bobbi Shepherd died on | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
holiday. They were we believe there is an overwhelming | :06:49. | :08:09. | |
public interest for the lessons of our tragedy to be learned. Ht is | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
extraordinary that Thomas Cook tried to stop the inquest taking place. | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
You heard the parents asking the government to help them. It is | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
imperative that this case is like that again and that legal ahd | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
funding is given to this falily The inquest is now expected to be heard | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
in January. Thomas Cook executives left court without comment. `` | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
Thomas Cook representatives. Later on Look North: The ro`d to | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Rio. The Look North reporter hophng to | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
pedal her way to a paralymphc medal. Next tonight, Look North has | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
discovered the number of wind farms in Yorkshire is set to double. There | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
are 15 operational wind farls in the region at the moment and another 15 | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
have either been approved or | :09:00. | 0:02:04 |