:00:03. > :00:05.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight.
:00:05. > :00:15.As fuel prices soar, one Lincolnshire council looks to
:00:15. > :00:15.
:00:15. > :00:19.negotiate a better deal for its residents. The price of gas has
:00:19. > :00:22.come down for the wholesalers, and the price of oil, but for consumers,
:00:22. > :00:24.it has gone up. Four years on from the floods, East
:00:24. > :00:32.Yorkshire villagers get new defences to better protect their
:00:32. > :00:36.community. It is a fantastic feeling to know you are safe.
:00:36. > :00:41.Why a vote by drivers could mean the end for these speed bumps in
:00:41. > :00:48.East Yorkshire. The Lincolnshire farmers growing
:00:48. > :00:58.those all important crops for Christmas. And it stays mild and
:00:58. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.unsettled. The very latest detailed forecast shortly.
:01:01. > :01:04.A third of people in Lincolnshire will struggle to heat their homes
:01:04. > :01:07.this winter, according to the latest figures. Now, the leader of
:01:07. > :01:10.South Holland Council is trying to use the financial clout of the
:01:10. > :01:17.authority to get all 34,000 households in the district a
:01:17. > :01:21.significant discount on their gas and electricity bills. It's one of
:01:21. > :01:24.the first local councils to try the idea. Tarah Welsh has been to one
:01:24. > :01:29.village near Bourne where residents have already got together to lower
:01:29. > :01:32.their bills. Heating the manor house was never
:01:32. > :01:38.going to be cheap. Especially in Rippingale. There's no piped gas,
:01:38. > :01:46.so most homes use heating oil. When residents got sick of of the
:01:46. > :01:51.high prices, they grouped together to buy energy in bulk. It is an
:01:51. > :02:00.attempt to keep the local suppliers on their toes, and try to get the
:02:00. > :02:04.best price. There are roughly 80 members of this consortium. They
:02:04. > :02:10.will get a reduced rate for filling their times. This type of group
:02:10. > :02:16.buying has saved each person two or three pence a litre.
:02:16. > :02:19.So people here say their buying power has worked. The contractor is
:02:19. > :02:22.a very good deal. Well, now the leader of South
:02:22. > :02:25.Holland District Council wants to do this on a much larger scale. He
:02:25. > :02:33.wants to negotiate a competitive tariff for residents that want a
:02:33. > :02:38.deal. We are proposing to use the council's buying power to stand to
:02:38. > :02:43.negotiate. They are making far too much money on the back of a
:02:43. > :02:46.commodity whose core price is going down. The price of gas has come
:02:46. > :02:50.down for wholesalers, and the price of oil, but for the consumers, the
:02:50. > :02:56.price has gone up. While he doesn't know how much will be saved, he
:02:56. > :03:00.hopes it would cut the average �1,300 bill by 10%. I think it is
:03:00. > :03:03.an excellent idea, definitely. think anything on them lines will
:03:03. > :03:06.be beneficial. The proposal still needs clearance
:03:06. > :03:16.from the government regulator, and it's still unclear how many of
:03:16. > :03:17.
:03:17. > :03:21.South Holland's 34,000 households will buy in. Dedicated to do
:03:21. > :03:31.shopping around for consumers, to make sure you are getting the best
:03:31. > :03:31.
:03:31. > :03:39.deal. People could see more than the temperature going down.
:03:39. > :03:43.I'm joined by Barry Earnshaw, the chief officer of Age UK in Lincoln.
:03:43. > :03:47.What have you done to know why your bills? We have done a couple of
:03:48. > :03:52.things. We have done some price comparisons on our electric, and
:03:52. > :03:58.just changed our supplier. In our village, we have a very proactive
:03:58. > :04:04.parish council. Some time ago, as part of the parish plan, oil was an
:04:04. > :04:13.issue because we were a no gas village. We set upon all syndicate.
:04:13. > :04:19.One man in the village who, as part of his job, was procurement, he
:04:19. > :04:26.runs it and you get a regular reminder about your request for oil.
:04:26. > :04:29.What they do then... What do you think about this idea of 34,000
:04:29. > :04:34.households getting together, grouping together for cheaper
:04:34. > :04:40.bills? His is a non-starter? think it is a good idea. It
:04:40. > :04:45.supports the work that we are doing, in terms of looking at some
:04:45. > :04:48.initiatives which help older people with price comparisons, access to
:04:48. > :04:53.alternative fuels and getting a better deal, bearing in mind that
:04:53. > :04:58.their incomes are under pressure at present. The savings at best are
:04:58. > :05:06.only 5-10%. That will not mean that much, when bills go up at the rate
:05:07. > :05:11.they are. If you are spending �1,000 a year, on fuel, that is
:05:12. > :05:15.quite considerable. For everybody else, they will be slightly jealous
:05:15. > :05:19.if this goes ahead in the South Holland area. We would want that to
:05:19. > :05:29.be shared across Lincolnshire. There are seven district councils,
:05:29. > :05:29.
:05:29. > :05:33.as you know. We would want that expanding. Very good to talk to you.
:05:33. > :05:37.We would like to know what do you think about this. Would you buy gas
:05:37. > :05:47.electricity off your local council if it meant lower bills? Will
:05:47. > :05:58.
:05:58. > :06:01.enough people get involved to make In a moment:
:06:01. > :06:08.Fishermen on the East Coast are urged to work together to make the
:06:08. > :06:11.most of European quotas. They've waited more than four years
:06:11. > :06:13.for their homes to be protected from flooding, and today, a
:06:13. > :06:20.government minister officially opened new defences in Burstwick in
:06:20. > :06:23.East Yorkshire. 120 homes were damaged there in 2007. It's hoped
:06:23. > :06:26.these new measures, operated by the residents rather than the
:06:26. > :06:35.authorities, will stop that ever happening again. Anne-Marie Tasker
:06:35. > :06:40.reports. At Stephen's home in Burstwick, the
:06:40. > :06:47.flood damage still shows. Like many on Trinity close, his home was
:06:47. > :06:51.flooded, causing �90,000 of damage. It is something he hoped he will
:06:51. > :06:57.never face again. The it is peace of mind. We can go to bed and no
:06:57. > :07:04.matter what has happened, the band will protect us. We have the pumps
:07:04. > :07:09.as well, just in case, so it is fantastic. Stephen is among the
:07:09. > :07:12.volunteer flood wardens who will operate the pomps. Today, Mr
:07:12. > :07:17.Richard Benny and met the man said he hoped other communities would
:07:17. > :07:21.follow their lead. They were 5.2 million homes in England that are
:07:21. > :07:25.at risk of flooding. We will protect them all the way we can.
:07:25. > :07:29.With schemes like this, we find that working in partnership with
:07:29. > :07:33.the local community like this, we can get a much better result.
:07:33. > :07:37.Residents hope that these Poms will protect them for decades to come,
:07:37. > :07:43.but the question they are asking is, why did it take so long to get them
:07:43. > :07:46.in the first place? After the 2007 floods, we had communities all over
:07:46. > :07:51.Yorkshire the Web devastated. We have done our best to do it as
:07:51. > :07:57.quickly as we can. We have worked very hard. This is as fast as we
:07:57. > :08:02.could do it. The wardens and his �3 million scheme have reduced best
:08:02. > :08:06.with's flood risk from significant to know. It could bring down
:08:06. > :08:10.insurance premiums. A people want to sell her house, for example,
:08:10. > :08:16.there have not been able to because it is classed as a flood risk. We
:08:16. > :08:19.do not have a problem any more. We just have to wait for databases and
:08:19. > :08:25.so want to get updated. Environment Agency says that should
:08:25. > :08:32.happen soon, and tonight, residents should sleep easier, knowing scenes
:08:32. > :08:36.like this are unlikely ever to be seen again.
:08:36. > :08:39.Plans have gone on display today for a new �74 million flood defence
:08:39. > :08:43.barrier in Boston. People are being asked for their views on the
:08:43. > :08:46.barrier, which will be built just downstream from Black Sluice Lock.
:08:46. > :08:49.It is claimed it will help to protect thousands of homes from
:08:49. > :08:52.tidal flooding. A large team of regional police
:08:52. > :08:55.officers have been brought in to investigate the murder of a 70-
:08:55. > :08:59.year-old Lincoln man. Sonny Grey died after being attacked by three
:08:59. > :09:03.men at his home in Westwick Gardens in the city on Saturday night.
:09:03. > :09:06.House-to-house enquiries are taking place.
:09:06. > :09:10.An 86-year-old man injured when his car was in collision with a police
:09:10. > :09:14.van in Scunthorpe has died. Harold Kilmore was driving on Frodingham
:09:14. > :09:18.Road when the crash happened last month. The Independent Police
:09:18. > :09:21.Complaints Commission has been informed.
:09:21. > :09:25.East Coast fishermen should be prepared to work together to save
:09:25. > :09:27.their industry. That's the message from the Government tonight as many
:09:27. > :09:32.fishing communities in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire fight
:09:32. > :09:37.for survival. The controversial system of EU quotas, limits the
:09:37. > :09:40.amount of fish that can be caught off our shores. Now, ministers are
:09:40. > :09:47.urging boat owners to join forces to maximise their catches. More
:09:47. > :09:55.from our from Tim Iredale. - - more from Tim Iredale.
:09:55. > :10:04.Dawn breaks over the East Yorkshire course. Our fishermen are hard at
:10:04. > :10:07.work. Like many skippers in this part of the world, Dave Wilkie now
:10:07. > :10:10.specialises in catching crab and lobster. European Court has
:10:10. > :10:18.severely limited the amount of white fish, like cod, that these
:10:18. > :10:21.boats are allowed to land. Organisations which have nothing to
:10:21. > :10:26.do with fishing can own quote and lease quota out to fishermen.
:10:26. > :10:35.British fishing fleet has 160 small boats. According to latest figures,
:10:35. > :10:38.they are allocated just 3% of the UK's total fish total. That is just
:10:38. > :10:48.1% of what they were allowed to catch before 1997 when the present
:10:48. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:52.quota system was introduced. The government recommends one way to be
:10:52. > :11:02.the gritters would be for more boat-owners to join together to
:11:02. > :11:08.form new corporate sense -- one way to beat the quotas. 15 years ago,
:11:08. > :11:18.there were 20 active trawlers act - - operating out of Bridlington. Now,
:11:18. > :11:18.
:11:18. > :11:25.they ran on, and many acute of fishing port need an agent lifeline.
:11:25. > :11:30.If people could pool resources, it could improve the situation.
:11:30. > :11:34.Fishermen had desperate to diversify from shellfish. Many
:11:34. > :11:39.skippers argued that without wholesale reform of the European
:11:39. > :11:49.fishing policy, they will be little or no industry left on the east
:11:49. > :11:50.
:11:50. > :11:53.coast for future generations. We will continue to follow that story.
:11:53. > :11:56.Thank you for getting in touch about the increase in the number of
:11:56. > :11:58.people using their mobile phones whilst driving. The number of
:11:58. > :12:01.drivers caught on their phones behind the wheel has more than
:12:01. > :12:03.doubled in the last year according to Humberside Police. Officers say
:12:03. > :12:13.they consider the practice as dangerous as drink driving.
:12:13. > :12:15.
:12:15. > :12:25.Lots of you have been getting in touch about this. Thank you for all
:12:25. > :12:25.
:12:25. > :13:08.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds
:13:08. > :13:13.Still ahead tonight: Why it could be the end of the road for these
:13:13. > :13:23.speed bumps in East Yorkshire. The Lincolnshire farmers making
:13:23. > :13:30.
:13:30. > :13:36.sure their crops are ready for Tonight's picture was taken by
:13:36. > :13:46.Richard Davidson. If you have a picture you are proud of, send it
:13:46. > :13:56.
:13:56. > :14:06.We have an e-mail here which says, I am an insomniac and I peered the
:14:06. > :14:22.
:14:22. > :14:27.Peter Levey so on, and it gets me It will be miles further next 24
:14:27. > :14:34.hours. It is also one settled. There is some rain around. This
:14:34. > :14:39.huge area of low pressure affects us. The breeze will still be in the
:14:39. > :14:42.South and temperatures will stay above average for the time of year.
:14:42. > :14:47.Cloud is increasing from the West and there will be some patchy
:14:47. > :14:55.outbreaks of rain on the way in the next few hours. It looks like
:14:55. > :15:05.amounts will be small. Some rain might be persistent later on.
:15:05. > :15:15.Eastern areas will not see much at all. 11 or 12 degrees Celsius. The
:15:15. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:27.sun rises in the morning at 7:05am. It will be a cloudy start and
:15:27. > :15:31.perhaps damp as well. Any overnight rain will move northwards. A bit of
:15:31. > :15:37.sunshine but later on cloud will build again. Further rain may push
:15:37. > :15:47.up from this out later in the day. The top temperatures, quite chilly
:15:47. > :15:47.
:15:47. > :15:52.along the coast. 13 or 14 degrees. Inland, 16 degrees. Friday will be
:15:52. > :15:57.mild with scattered showers. At changed over the weekend as the
:15:57. > :16:04.wind turns from the North East and temperatures are back to normal. A
:16:04. > :16:14.cloudy weekend with the rest of some rain.
:16:14. > :16:17.
:16:17. > :16:20.See you tomorrow. It was one of the first villages in
:16:20. > :16:25.East Yorkshire to get speed bumps and could be the first to get rid
:16:25. > :16:30.of them if some residents get their way. People in Walkington are being
:16:30. > :16:36.asked if they want their humps flattened. An online petition has
:16:36. > :16:42.been started to save them. Our correspondent is there. Why are the
:16:42. > :16:45.speed bumps a problem? If you drive through Walkington you
:16:45. > :16:52.rather in for a bit of a bump because there are seven sets of
:16:52. > :16:55.speed bumps and five sets of speed ramps. Drivers claim their cards
:16:55. > :17:05.are being damaged so the parish council are asking villagers to
:17:05. > :17:10.
:17:10. > :17:14.vote on whether to save them. Workington's speed humps are not
:17:14. > :17:18.always pleasing for drivers. There will be a vote on whether to keep
:17:18. > :17:26.them. There it does a lot of damage to
:17:26. > :17:30.your suspension, ruins your Ipsos system. I am not for them.
:17:30. > :17:36.believe if we take these be the bombs away, the speed will increase.
:17:36. > :17:41.I liked the idea of children being able to walk to school.
:17:41. > :17:46.They are a nuisance. The chicane at one end of the
:17:46. > :17:51.village remains popular but opinion is divided over the speed humps and
:17:51. > :17:57.the parish council will look at alternatives if villagers vote for
:17:57. > :18:04.change at the end of November. Official statistics suggest that
:18:04. > :18:09.speed humps to reduce accidents and injuries by up to 60%. However,
:18:09. > :18:14.there are alternatives. Light here, where there are no
:18:14. > :18:20.speed bumps, just an electronic sign.
:18:20. > :18:27.How important is it too slow rural traffic? Nationally, over 1,000
:18:27. > :18:34.people were killed on rural roads last year. That is over double that
:18:34. > :18:38.killed in Arden rots. -- on on urban roads.
:18:38. > :18:44.Beforehand, there their injuries including a fatality within the
:18:44. > :18:49.village. Now, speeds in the village are relatively low. I have looked
:18:49. > :18:57.at pollution data for the past five year and there have been no
:18:58. > :19:03.collisions. What happens next? The answer is
:19:04. > :19:08.that villagers have until 30th November to register their vote. If
:19:08. > :19:12.the vote goes against the humps, the council will have to look at
:19:12. > :19:16.whether there should be alternatives. East Riding council
:19:16. > :19:20.will ultimately make the decision and in terms of road safety, they
:19:21. > :19:26.will probably argue that if it is not broken, they want want to fix
:19:26. > :19:32.The chief instructor from the Institute of Advanced motorists is
:19:32. > :19:37.with us. Good evening. Should be bumps stay or go?
:19:37. > :19:41.If there is not a replacement that will work for them it should stay.
:19:41. > :19:47.Walkington is a lovely village. It should look to the driver that they
:19:47. > :19:52.should go slowly. Humps do not always do that. Other things can do
:19:52. > :19:58.it better. Are they are a must for safety?
:19:58. > :20:04.It will they from place to place. The big thing is to make the rot
:20:04. > :20:10.look to the driver as if the need to go slowly. If you put chicanes
:20:10. > :20:14.in our banking, and make it feel as if you have to go slowly, because
:20:14. > :20:20.it is natural, without spoiling the lovely view, and the lovely
:20:20. > :20:23.appearance of the place, then you will win. If you cannot find a way
:20:23. > :20:27.to do that, then you have to keep the humps.
:20:28. > :20:30.What people have said to me is that it actually makes some people drive
:20:30. > :20:34.worse because they try to dodge them.
:20:34. > :20:41.You will get people who tried to dodge them and people who
:20:41. > :20:44.accelerate hard in the gaps between them. And you will get some people
:20:44. > :20:50.who have to have a built-in getting over them with some types of
:20:50. > :20:57.vehicle because the bottom of their car is very low. There are other
:20:57. > :21:01.ways to do it, and if there are better ways, then use them.
:21:01. > :21:06.The flashing lights and anything at the side of the road to push people
:21:06. > :21:10.to slow down, would they be better? Some of those work very well. It
:21:10. > :21:15.does depend on where they are and what type of traffic you are
:21:15. > :21:21.dealing with. Commuter traffic tends to travel at the speed it
:21:21. > :21:24.wants to. If it is people going to bed early races and they are not
:21:24. > :21:29.familiar with the road, they are more likely to do what they thing
:21:29. > :21:34.says. Thank you very much. Is this the
:21:34. > :21:43.end of the road for speed bumps? Do they make driving worse? Do they
:21:43. > :21:49.work? If you are in the Walkington area, please get in touch.
:21:49. > :21:54.The MP for Beverley has had a meeting with the Prime Minister for
:21:54. > :21:58.improving rural services. He claims that people living in the
:21:58. > :22:03.countryside often pay more but have less money spent on them. He wants
:22:03. > :22:08.the Prime Minister to make things fairer.
:22:08. > :22:18.This is typical, where residents pay more but receive less, in rural
:22:18. > :22:18.
:22:18. > :22:24.areas. Will the Prime Minister made with me to discuss this?
:22:24. > :22:28.I am happy to meet with my honourable friend. There are big
:22:28. > :22:34.differences in the use of retained firefighters. But I am happy to
:22:34. > :22:42.meet to discuss this issue. A mother from Scunthorpe is
:22:42. > :22:45.receiving an award for a film she made about her family. She has won
:22:45. > :22:50.the People's Choice Awards. More than 500 people watched the film on
:22:50. > :22:56.YouTube and it was praised by Stephen Fry on Twitter.
:22:56. > :23:03.Hull City's 9 game unbeaten run came to an abrupt end last night
:23:03. > :23:09.with defeat to Barnsley. A first- half penalty and a this proved
:23:09. > :23:12.costly. Hull City surrendered their
:23:12. > :23:19.unbeaten run last night after a frustrating display inside
:23:19. > :23:26.Yorkshire. It started well for the Tigers. This effort was deflected
:23:26. > :23:36.wide early on. The visitors were then awarded a spot-kick when
:23:36. > :23:36.
:23:36. > :23:46.Robbie Brady was brought down in the box. This LMS proved costly. --
:23:46. > :23:48.
:23:48. > :23:56.early mess. Ten minutes later, a mistake was capitalised on to
:23:56. > :24:06.double Barnsley's lead. A late goal in the 79th minutes was
:24:06. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:12.not enough. It was nine games unbeaten. They
:24:12. > :24:17.will have to build again. The Tigers remain six then this
:24:17. > :24:22.table, but with a tough test against second-placed West Ham on
:24:22. > :24:26.Saturday, the pressure is on to bounce back quickly.
:24:26. > :24:31.Thank you very much. With Hallowe'en out of the way and the
:24:31. > :24:36.pumpkins consigned to the bend, growers in their area are preparing
:24:36. > :24:41.their latest season of crops. Getting there produce onto the
:24:41. > :24:45.shelves in time for Christmas takes hard work and careful planning.
:24:45. > :24:51.We have at least a month until we have to think about decorating our
:24:51. > :24:55.Christmas trees, but they have been planning it for years here.
:24:55. > :25:03.The trees that had been marked for sale this year will be cut.
:25:03. > :25:09.It is a big job when you have 20,000 to be ready to sell.
:25:09. > :25:15.You can see all the labels. Our use operations will carry on but we
:25:15. > :25:19.will drop back into finally marking the trees. Getting ready for
:25:19. > :25:23.deliveries, really. Elsewhere, Lincolnshire farmers are
:25:23. > :25:32.getting ready with their vegetables. What Christmas lunch would be
:25:32. > :25:39.complete without the sprites? Here they are more interested in
:25:39. > :25:45.the romantic side. He is selling trees with mistletoe
:25:45. > :25:53.already growing from the park. Just copy what the birds do. Pick
:25:53. > :25:59.an nice ripe berry, squeeze the seat out, stick the seat on, and it
:25:59. > :26:05.will glue itself in place. Come around March time, that will start
:26:05. > :26:11.to germinate. It will attach to the tree.
:26:11. > :26:21.You would be for Devon that Lincolnshire's pumpkin growers had
:26:21. > :26:24.
:26:24. > :26:32.cornered the market, but I think The people of Waddington are
:26:32. > :26:35.certainly in the spirit of Christmas early. The producers are
:26:35. > :26:40.looking to forward to being in the swing of it as well.
:26:40. > :26:45.The time is five minutes to seven. A recap of the main headlines.
:26:45. > :26:49.Unions say the government's latest offer on pensions for millions of
:26:49. > :26:53.public sector workers is not good enough.
:26:53. > :27:02.As school prices -- fuel prices soar, one Lincolnshire council is
:27:02. > :27:08.trying to cut the cost of fuel for its residents.
:27:08. > :27:14.Responses coming in from you. Carl in Cleethorpes says it should not
:27:14. > :27:18.be up to councils to get a better deal for people. It should be up to
:27:18. > :27:23.the government to sort out the scandal as energy companies.
:27:23. > :27:30.And another person says this is a good idea.