:30:18. > :30:22.The anti-turbine policies of Good afternoon, welcomed the Sunday
:30:22. > :30:26.politics. As councillors in Lincolnshire clampdown on new wind
:30:26. > :30:33.farm developments, is it time are more authorities to say no at any
:30:33. > :30:40.more turbines? And Dolly's Reading Project expanse
:30:40. > :30:43.in the region, should our children be reliant on it? It was only a few
:30:43. > :30:48.short years ago that we mailed our first book to the children in
:30:48. > :30:55.Rotherham. Our guests, Clive Betts and Andrew
:30:55. > :30:59.Percy. Let's talk about wind power. Is it time to put a limit on the
:30:59. > :31:03.number of new wind turbines in the countryside? I do not think we
:31:03. > :31:07.should have a limit, we need more wind power and wave power, and more
:31:07. > :31:11.tidal power and solar-powered, and more renewables in general. The
:31:11. > :31:16.alternatives are to keep on using gas and oil, and we know there is a
:31:16. > :31:20.limit to how much we can produce in the world, demand is rising from
:31:20. > :31:23.many other countries, prices are going to go up. And if you think
:31:23. > :31:28.where oil and gas come from, the Middle East and Russia are not the
:31:28. > :31:31.most stable countries. We have got to develop renewable energy.
:31:31. > :31:35.Chancellor is preparing to cut the subsidies to wind farm developments,
:31:35. > :31:39.what happened to his claim of being the greenest government ever?
:31:39. > :31:43.want to continue that. We want to get of the dependency on coal and
:31:43. > :31:48.gas, and get on to renewables. We should build more nuclear as well,
:31:48. > :31:53.I think personally. We are developing the offshore wind farms,
:31:53. > :31:58.but we have to accept we have got large numbers of wind farms onshore
:31:58. > :32:00.already. In East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, we have hit our
:32:00. > :32:05.target for 2020. People are legitimately saying, we have taken
:32:05. > :32:11.our fair share, perhaps enough is enough. When they start looking for
:32:11. > :32:15.which -- new site, green energy companies might be crossing
:32:15. > :32:19.Lincolnshire of the list. The county council has adopted one of
:32:19. > :32:22.the most aggressive anti-turbine policies of any authority in the
:32:22. > :32:27.policy to stop what has been described as an unrestrained
:32:27. > :32:31.invasion. Worthy you look, you can hear them
:32:31. > :32:36.and you are aware of them. The noise is worse at night, we will
:32:36. > :32:38.not have a window open. If it is a sunny evening, you get the shadow
:32:38. > :32:44.flicker from the blades going through the House windows and
:32:44. > :32:49.across the lawn. For Martin, turbines are a sensitive issue.
:32:49. > :32:52.Despite spending time and money fighting them, two had been put up
:32:52. > :32:55.collect -- next to his house in Lincolnshire. Would you choose to
:32:55. > :33:02.buy a property with turbines as close as that? I think they look
:33:02. > :33:06.awful, they are expensive and inefficient and it was not for the
:33:06. > :33:11.developers potential greedy landowners, we would not have this
:33:11. > :33:15.infliction of forced upon us. week, if his views were echoed.
:33:15. > :33:18.Campaigners wrote their point on a lorry, while in the building behind,
:33:18. > :33:22.county councillors agreed measures to block future wind farms and
:33:22. > :33:25.fight any being built too close to homes. We have done our share,
:33:25. > :33:30.delivered our target in Lincolnshire, and we do not want it
:33:30. > :33:34.to become a dumping ground for wind turbines. In Lincolnshire, we are
:33:34. > :33:40.unique, we have houses spread across the whole county. I do not
:33:40. > :33:43.be -- and do not want to be in a position where some people have a
:33:43. > :33:49.huge 140 metre structure outside their house. This new policy could
:33:49. > :33:54.pose a problem as the UK needs to clean up its energy supplies. Four
:33:54. > :33:58.renewables Experts, wind place -- wind plays a bigger role. It is a
:33:58. > :34:03.very clean and efficient way of producing energy, it is established
:34:03. > :34:08.technology, it is important part of creating a renewable energy mix we
:34:08. > :34:16.need to keep the light on in Britain. From boiling the kitten --
:34:16. > :34:24.cattle to turning on lambs, we all used electricity. -- from boiling
:34:24. > :34:28.the kettle to turning on a light. But we are facing an energy gap as
:34:28. > :34:31.coal powered stations are turned off. Gas is currently the cheapest
:34:31. > :34:37.way of producing energy but there are warnings prices could rocket in
:34:37. > :34:41.the future. Onshore wind is next but turbines divide opinion.
:34:41. > :34:49.Nuclear sparks fears, call costs more and can be dirty, and offshore
:34:49. > :34:53.wind is the most expensive but advocates say prices will drop. For
:34:53. > :34:58.Anna, at finding the cheeping sort -- cheapest source of energy is
:34:58. > :35:03.vital. She is recovering from cancer cannot work. More than 15%
:35:03. > :35:06.of her income goes on energy bills. She is officially in fuel poverty.
:35:06. > :35:11.As the bills keep rising, it is getting harder to find the extra
:35:11. > :35:17.money. When we had a cold snap here, I had to borrow some money from my
:35:17. > :35:21.daughter, just to pop an extra fiver in to see us through till the
:35:21. > :35:25.next pay-day. If your bills went up to pay for a different type of
:35:25. > :35:29.energy, would you be able to afford it? No, I would be cutting down on
:35:29. > :35:35.things like food. The very basics. I would probably have to move.
:35:35. > :35:39.Rising bills are not the only concern. Last year, two of many at
:35:39. > :35:46.-- �12 million were paid in wind farm subsidies in Lincolnshire
:35:46. > :35:49.alone. Four critics, their -- that is too much. I think blackouts are
:35:49. > :35:54.a risk in the future. The government has misguidedly decided
:35:54. > :36:02.that wind power is the solution when it is not a solution. It is
:36:02. > :36:06.there because of its cost and lack of rad -- reliability, it is
:36:06. > :36:10.driving fuel poverty. Places like Lincolnshire, low wage economies,
:36:10. > :36:15.they can least afford high energy bills. We are warned time is
:36:15. > :36:18.running out to find a way to bridge the UK's energy gap. If wind is to
:36:18. > :36:23.be part of the solution, the government will have to work hard
:36:23. > :36:28.to silence the growing Corus of critics.
:36:28. > :36:33.We have been joined by Helen Rimmer, the regional campaigner for Friends
:36:33. > :36:38.of the Earth. You heard in that report, concerned about fuel
:36:38. > :36:41.poverty, people worried about paying their bills. If we continue
:36:41. > :36:46.to subsidise the wind farm industry, people's bills will go up even more,
:36:46. > :36:50.went they? There is a lot of misinformation about wind power. If
:36:50. > :36:54.you look at the reasons behind energy bill rises, it is down to
:36:54. > :36:59.rocketing gas prices. Also energy inefficiency of our housing stock
:36:59. > :37:03.which the government is not doing very much to address. Wind power is
:37:03. > :37:08.not a cause of energy bills rising, it is the fossil fuel treadmill
:37:08. > :37:12.that we are stuck on. But wind energy, green energy generally is
:37:12. > :37:21.putting extra money on our bills, isn't it? According to Ofgem, it
:37:21. > :37:28.put on 2p a day, compared to guess which was one of and �50 for the
:37:28. > :37:31.annual bill. -- compared to gas. Which was �150. The cost of wind
:37:31. > :37:35.farm energy is coming down rapidly, and it will come down more as
:37:35. > :37:40.economies of scale get bigger. should the Government's strategy be
:37:40. > :37:47.when it comes to onshore wind farms? Wind energy is working. It
:37:47. > :37:49.is always -- already powering 500 homes across the country. We have
:37:50. > :37:53.to increase the capacity, the benefits will be in cutting
:37:53. > :37:56.emissions, and in the economy, and the thousands of green jobs that
:37:56. > :38:00.will be created in Newt wind industries across the country,
:38:00. > :38:05.particularly in the north of England. It sounds like Helen once
:38:05. > :38:09.more wind turbines, what you say to that? We take a sensible view. It
:38:09. > :38:13.is the case that in renewable energy is subsidised by the
:38:13. > :38:16.taxpayer and bill payers. Everyone is honest about that. I do not have
:38:16. > :38:22.a problem with that because we have to move away from our dependency on
:38:22. > :38:25.fossil fuels, I accept that point. What we should be asking ourselves
:38:25. > :38:30.is what other alternative methods of generation can we be looking at?
:38:30. > :38:34.We need to be looking at carbon captor and storage. Helen is wrong,
:38:34. > :38:38.the of -- the government is doing an awful lot to tackle energy
:38:38. > :38:41.inefficiency in our homes. We have done pretty well on that in recent
:38:41. > :38:45.years, and I pay tribute to the other party when they were in
:38:45. > :38:48.government for that. There is a lot we can do. What people are saying
:38:48. > :38:53.to me is, we support this diversification of the energy mix,
:38:53. > :38:59.but it cannot all be one way, we cannot pepper the home of Lord --
:38:59. > :39:03.Yorkshire and Lincolnshire with wind turbines without having people
:39:03. > :39:08.having a say. Do you think it new developments should be railroaded
:39:08. > :39:10.into our countryside even if local residents do not warn them? There
:39:10. > :39:14.are inappropriate places for turbines but in the end, we will
:39:14. > :39:18.have to have more of them. We need the alternatives, we need a wave
:39:18. > :39:24.power and tidal power to be developed, and solar power. We need
:39:24. > :39:27.nuclear as well. You cannot exclude wind power, it is a very important
:39:27. > :39:30.part of the future of the energy mix so you cannot say we are not
:39:30. > :39:35.going to have any more wind turbines. We have got to be
:39:35. > :39:38.sensitive about it but we are going to need more. We asked -- also need
:39:38. > :39:46.a consistent long-term policy from government. It keeps changing its
:39:46. > :39:48.policy, so when we do put in wind turbines, what happens is the parts
:39:48. > :39:54.and manufacture or come from abroad and that is what has happened from
:39:54. > :39:57.abroad. We have imported the spot on Denmark. If we had a consistent
:39:57. > :40:01.long-term policy we would manufacture these parts in the
:40:01. > :40:06.country. Can you understand why people are suspicions of wind
:40:06. > :40:09.power? You see these turbines, they are often not going round. If we
:40:09. > :40:13.have other carbon three nuclear sources, nuclear power has been
:40:13. > :40:21.suggested today, why can we not be pumping money into that? If you
:40:21. > :40:28.look at opinion powers -- opinion polls around wind, it is about 60%
:40:28. > :40:30.is support. None of that is near their homes. It might be down to
:40:30. > :40:35.the way developers engage with communities we should not have been
:40:35. > :40:39.done as well as it should have been done. They need to engage with
:40:39. > :40:43.communities. Countries like Spain and Germany, there is a large --
:40:43. > :40:47.much larger proportion of energy for budget -- Becker produced by
:40:47. > :40:51.wind, there is higher community ownership.
:40:51. > :40:55.Dolly Parton is known for her two greatest assets, I am of course
:40:55. > :40:59.talking about her singing and acting abilities. What did you
:40:59. > :41:03.think?! The world's most famous country-music star has also been
:41:04. > :41:07.praised for her educational charity which helps children increase their
:41:07. > :41:11.reading skills. It is four years since dollars's programme came to
:41:11. > :41:18.Yorkshire and now it has arrived in one of Bradford's poorest housing
:41:18. > :41:22.estates. Snake in the trees? You and I just
:41:22. > :41:28.four years old, these children in Rotherham a love books and reading.
:41:28. > :41:37.They have had a helping hand since birth, and it has come from the
:41:37. > :41:43.unlikeliest of people. Four years ago, in a blaze of publicity, Dolly
:41:43. > :41:49.Parton came to Rotherham. Look at that beautiful hair?! Not as the
:41:49. > :41:53.world's most famous country singer, but as an ambassador she -- or her
:41:53. > :41:57.idea about boosting skills for children under five, posting each
:41:57. > :42:04.one a book a month. This week, her Imagination Library library sends
:42:04. > :42:11.out its 500,000 book. Four it was only a few years ago we e-mailed
:42:11. > :42:16.our fat -- it was only a few years ago week mailed our first book. We
:42:16. > :42:19.have got a long way to go. As we celebrate the master in, I wanted
:42:19. > :42:26.personally thanked our local sponsors and Palmers that work so
:42:26. > :42:33.hard to make this work. -- partners that works so hard. The idea came
:42:33. > :42:36.from Dolly Parton's own impoverished up bringing in East
:42:36. > :42:39.Tennessee. Launched in 1996, it spread to communities across
:42:39. > :42:46.America, bent Rotherham council heard about it and invited her to
:42:46. > :42:49.bring it here. The idea is simple. From birth, parents are encouraged
:42:49. > :42:54.to register their child and every month, they are sent a book in the
:42:54. > :42:59.post. The first book, the introductory book is the tale of
:42:59. > :43:02.Peter Rabbit. This has a little for word on it from Dolly Parton.
:43:02. > :43:07.parcel is personally addressed to the child. They can keep and build
:43:07. > :43:12.up their own library and it does not cost the family at any. We have
:43:12. > :43:18.looked at the profiles and compared those children who are receiving
:43:18. > :43:21.anti-turbine -- Imagination Library books to those who are not, and in
:43:21. > :43:24.the area of literacy, there is a 5.2% difference in performance
:43:24. > :43:29.which is really encouraging. I have always enjoyed looking at books
:43:29. > :43:32.with my children, and when Dolly Parton was doing it, I thought, was
:43:32. > :43:38.it just a publicity stunt? But now I think it has been fantastic for
:43:38. > :43:42.them. Once upon a time, there were three billy goats gruff.
:43:42. > :43:46.Canterbury estate on the edge of Bradford wants to be the 31st
:43:46. > :43:49.community in the UK to start a Imagination Library scheme. Like
:43:50. > :43:53.the rest, they know it will be a struggle to raise the sponsorship
:43:53. > :43:57.for the �2 per month per child costs, but the organisers believe
:43:57. > :44:01.that with some studies showing one in five homes here do not have a
:44:01. > :44:04.single book in the House, it is one -- worth the effort. Books are
:44:04. > :44:09.expensive. If you are of limited income there are difficult choices
:44:09. > :44:12.to be made, and books can be seen as a luxury. This is a means of
:44:12. > :44:16.getting books into homes where they might not normally be able to
:44:16. > :44:21.access books. There are many that find it astonishing that after
:44:21. > :44:26.decades of government and other home-grown initiatives, so many
:44:26. > :44:30.communities are turning to a scheme set up by Dolly Parton to improve
:44:30. > :44:35.the reading skills of our children. But a lot of people know this but
:44:35. > :44:38.Andrew Percy is a country music fan, he was singing along! He is also a
:44:38. > :44:42.teacher and you have taught primary-school children, what do
:44:42. > :44:48.you make of this programme? I hope it gets more people interested in
:44:48. > :44:51.new country, we need more of that! It is a brilliant programme. The
:44:51. > :44:55.kids who are receiving this are doing much better, in literacy
:44:55. > :44:58.skills. We would like to see this sort of programme expanded across
:44:59. > :45:02.the country. The key thing is getting kids at home reading with
:45:02. > :45:06.their parents. I knew from a kid I used to teach, if their parents
:45:06. > :45:10.spent the time going to go -- books with them, they did better in
:45:10. > :45:13.school. There was a worrying statistic in that report, one in
:45:13. > :45:19.five of the poorest households in Yorkshire do not have a single book
:45:19. > :45:21.in their home, what you make of it? It is very worrying. Let's give
:45:22. > :45:26.credit to Dolly Parton and Rotherham Council for pioneering
:45:26. > :45:29.this, well done to them. I would be worried about those households
:45:29. > :45:35.without the books in them, the books come through the post, do
:45:35. > :45:37.they still believe -- read them to the children? I am worried there
:45:37. > :45:41.are still parents who would be worried themselves because their
:45:41. > :45:47.literacy is not very good and they were never read to by the Rev
:45:47. > :45:49.parents. What we have also done in this country is develop Sure Start
:45:49. > :45:53.centres to encourage parents to come in and work with their
:45:53. > :45:57.children to get into the habit of reading. The tragedy is, in the
:45:57. > :46:01.first three years of this Parliament, there will be �1.5
:46:01. > :46:06.billion cut from these centres. All of -- over half will have a
:46:06. > :46:09.reduction in service. It is a great scheme but at a time when all these
:46:09. > :46:15.cuts are going on to children's services, they could damage those
:46:15. > :46:18.families. It depends what local councillors to mind -- decide
:46:18. > :46:22.themselves. In my area, they have taken out costs in senior
:46:22. > :46:26.management levels to protect services such at that. It is a
:46:26. > :46:32.cheap point, we know the public finances where they are but they
:46:32. > :46:36.have to be reductions. Councils can manage this manage this. When you
:46:36. > :46:40.have got to cut a quarter of your budget, you just can't take that
:46:40. > :46:50.out just senior management. Come to East Yorkshire and we will show you
:46:50. > :46:54.
:46:54. > :47:00.have to do it. The allegations have been coming
:47:00. > :47:05.thick and fast for Baroness Darcy, the latest is that the Jewsbury
:47:05. > :47:09.born peer failed to declare a shared business interests with a
:47:09. > :47:12.relative who accompanied her on official visit to Pakistan. The
:47:12. > :47:15.Hull MP who referred her to the police things she is now more
:47:15. > :47:20.likely to be out of the path for -- cabinet and the embattled Jeremy
:47:20. > :47:25.Hunt. He has chosen to sacrifice the Baroness but he is protecting
:47:25. > :47:29.Jeremy Hunt, I suspect the truth or all of this will come out in due
:47:29. > :47:33.course. As the body of 20 year-old private
:47:33. > :47:37.Greg Stone from East Yorkshire was repatriated, it emerged the
:47:37. > :47:41.Yorkshire Regiment may be facing cuts. Defence secretary Philip
:47:41. > :47:45.Hammond confirmed whole units could be lost or merged.
:47:45. > :47:48.And they were amused! Politicians from across Yorkshire and
:47:48. > :47:56.Lincolnshire ignited beacons and took part in the celebrations to
:47:56. > :48:00.mark the Queen's diamond jubilee. Andrew Percy, what you make of that
:48:00. > :48:05.claim by Karl Turner of that David Cameron is trying to sacrifice the
:48:05. > :48:11.Baroness to save Jeremy Hunt? a mate of mine, he is playing a
:48:11. > :48:15.political game. The to situations are different, they are completely
:48:15. > :48:19.separate. Mixing the two together seems a little cheap. That is not
:48:20. > :48:22.true. The baroness has been referred on two point, one on
:48:22. > :48:26.expenses and one on a potential breach of the ministerial code
:48:26. > :48:30.which is what Jeremy had has been charged with as well by politicians
:48:30. > :48:33.in the House of Commons raising concerns about his behaviour. It is
:48:33. > :48:37.interesting that Jeremy Hunt is seen as one of the posh boy club
:48:37. > :48:40.members along with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, he is
:48:40. > :48:45.protected by David Cameron but when it comes to the baroness who is not
:48:45. > :48:49.a member of the posh boys club, she is immediately referred for an
:48:49. > :48:53.inquiry. What makes me laugh about all of this, the one thing the
:48:53. > :48:58.Labour doing is saying, we have to do something about the baroness.
:48:58. > :49:05.The moment the Prime Minister does something and refers to, they pop
:49:05. > :49:12.up saying, isn't that disgusting? Jeremy Hunt, his appointed special
:49:12. > :49:14.adviser said 150 e-mails, but he is as far as well for his special
:49:15. > :49:20.adviser. We are not saying he is guilty, we are saying they should
:49:20. > :49:24.be a proper inquiry by the poise of -- peasant appointed to inquire
:49:24. > :49:29.into ministerial breaches of code. So the point is, one is related to
:49:29. > :49:36.a special adviser who lost his job, this is a far -- an issue related
:49:37. > :49:42.to personal Macias. Both are good at -- ministerial codes, one is
:49:42. > :49:47.referred a one is not. We have got to stop throwing this posh boy or
:49:47. > :49:56.argument around. One of your MPs did it! It was Nadine Dorries!