:00:05. > :00:07.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight.
:00:07. > :00:12.The majority of schools in our area are facing closure next Wednesday,
:00:12. > :00:22.the warning from a trade union ahead of strike action.
:00:22. > :00:37.
:00:37. > :00:41.Why private security patrols are being introduced to a market town.
:00:41. > :00:47.Our officers can actually detained people if required if someone is
:00:47. > :00:50.causing a problem, and that is all done in conjunction with the police.
:00:50. > :00:53.It may look like a rat but this is the country's most endangered
:00:53. > :00:56.mammal and it's flourishing in east Yorkshire.
:00:56. > :01:03.Why this is a sound you won't be hearing in Lincoln for several
:01:03. > :01:13.weeks. And a very windy weekend to come
:01:13. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:20.It's been called the biggest strike in a generation and next Wednesday
:01:20. > :01:22.it will affect the majority of schools across East Yorkshire and
:01:22. > :01:25.Lincolnshire. That's according to a leading teaching union which says
:01:25. > :01:27.thousands of teachers will take part in the national walkout to
:01:27. > :01:30.protest against changes to pensions. The strike will also affect
:01:30. > :01:40.hospitals, colleges, courts and job centres. Our Political Editor Tim
:01:40. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:57.Next Wednesday thousands of public sector workers will march in
:01:57. > :02:01.protest at proposed changes to their pensions. Emma is a primary
:02:01. > :02:08.school teacher at Willerby in East Yorkshire. She is unhappy about
:02:08. > :02:15.having to pay more towards her pension and work longer. They still
:02:15. > :02:20.want me to work until I am 68, they still want me to pay more into my
:02:20. > :02:26.pension and at the end of it I will get a poor pension. Teachers on
:02:26. > :02:33.average get �10,000 a year. I can name staff on a tractor at this
:02:34. > :02:43.called that as women are looking at a pension of around �8,000.
:02:44. > :02:44.
:02:44. > :02:49.many parents say next week's strike will be inconvenient. I will have
:02:49. > :02:53.to get to somebody else to get the children for a couple of hours. Or
:02:53. > :03:00.we will track them all out with us. I understand they are worried about
:03:01. > :03:04.the pensions, but wide disrupt the children's education. More than 2
:03:04. > :03:08.million public sector workers across the country are expected to
:03:08. > :03:12.join the next Wednesday's walkout. Even their pension negotiations are
:03:12. > :03:20.still ongoing, the unions have defended their decision to take
:03:20. > :03:25.strike action. We are expecting that the vast majority of schools
:03:25. > :03:31.will be closed or partially closed. To those who are inconvenienced and
:03:31. > :03:34.out of pocket, no teacher wants that to happen. That is not our aim.
:03:34. > :03:38.The government claims the destruction caused by next week's
:03:39. > :03:43.day of action will cost the country half-a- billion pounds. But at this
:03:43. > :03:51.stage, nothing looks set to stop the biggest this strike for a
:03:51. > :03:54.generation. Joining me in the studio and Graham
:03:54. > :03:59.Stuart, the Beverley and Holderness MP and Chair of the Education
:03:59. > :04:02.Select Committe and Brian Swinton of the National Union of Teachers.
:04:02. > :04:08.David Cameron has called this action irresponsible and wrong, why
:04:08. > :04:12.are you doing it? Because we have do. There is no alternative. Graham
:04:12. > :04:15.and his colleagues are not listening. They are not seriously
:04:15. > :04:22.coming back to be at the negotiating table. More than half
:04:22. > :04:32.of your members did not ban it -- did not bother to return their
:04:32. > :04:33.
:04:33. > :04:38.ballot papers. If you look at Graham's constituency results... A
:04:38. > :04:48.64 % of teachers did not choose to have a strike. Democracy works in
:04:48. > :04:50.
:04:50. > :04:55.the same way. The 64 % did not vote no, otherwise they would have done.
:04:55. > :04:59.Why should teachers work until they are 68 years old and increase the
:04:59. > :05:03.amount they put into their pensions? John Hutton looked into
:05:03. > :05:09.public sector pensions and he came out with a report which suggested
:05:09. > :05:11.that need for change. If the situation which makes the strike
:05:11. > :05:15.call for more than reasonable is of this fact that the negotiations are
:05:15. > :05:19.run going. The government came forward a few weeks ago with an
:05:19. > :05:27.even more generous offer. The situation after the reforms has
:05:27. > :05:31.been described by the pensions adviser to the last Labour
:05:31. > :05:35.government as hugely generous. They are generous pensions, they are
:05:35. > :05:40.much better than people in the private sector have and yet they
:05:40. > :05:44.are going on strike and inconveniencing parents. We regret
:05:45. > :05:50.any inconvenience to parents. But that is what a strike is about. We
:05:50. > :05:54.want to know what has happened to more than �6.4 billion. Since the
:05:54. > :05:58.pension scheme started, there has been a surplus of paying-in over
:05:58. > :06:04.what the Treasury has paid out. Successive governments have had
:06:04. > :06:12.that money and lost it, where has it gone? Your disrupting people's
:06:12. > :06:16.lives next week. Would you say to the parents? But they are with us.
:06:16. > :06:21.We want to get it right. But we want to get education right for
:06:21. > :06:27.this country with a secure teaching force who are able to look forward
:06:27. > :06:33.to a good career. This is the only way they can get their message
:06:33. > :06:41.across. That is not true. But the negotiations are ongoing. The
:06:41. > :06:46.result for the teachers will still be generous. I travel agents in
:06:46. > :06:54.Beverly contacted me, she works longer than teachers for much less
:06:54. > :07:03.money, why it should she not take a day after next Wednesday? The why
:07:03. > :07:08.are so many doctors and nurses and paddock -- paramedics also taking
:07:08. > :07:12.strike action? It is everybody. Government has lost its credibility
:07:12. > :07:16.on pensions. The previous government spent more money on the
:07:16. > :07:22.public sector than the country could afford. Now we are forced to
:07:22. > :07:30.share that Burton and we will still be left with a far better pensions
:07:30. > :07:35.for than those in the private sector. The teachers' pension
:07:35. > :07:39.scheme has a made a profit that successive governments has stolen.
:07:39. > :07:47.The 64 % of teachers who did not say yes to the strike, what do you
:07:47. > :07:53.say to them? Go to work on Wednesday. I do sympathise with the
:07:53. > :07:58.for teachers. But it is not a right to inconvenience the public.
:07:58. > :08:08.will leave it there. It thank you. Do you support the teachers and the
:08:08. > :08:19.
:08:19. > :08:27.strike? We would like to hear from The strikes will be debated on the
:08:27. > :08:32.politics show on Sunday here on BBC One.
:08:32. > :08:37.Thank you for watching this Friday night. Still ahead, the author
:08:37. > :08:41.raising thousands for charity in memory of her daughter.
:08:41. > :08:46.A council is so concerned about safety that it has decided to
:08:46. > :08:50.employ its own security staff to patrol the streets at night. Burton
:08:50. > :08:54.Council is the first in our area to employed a private security teams
:08:54. > :08:59.and says it is responding to demands from local businesses.
:08:59. > :09:03.Humberside police say crime figures are down in the town.
:09:03. > :09:10.It is a small North Letitia market town, but problems at the weekend
:09:10. > :09:17.are casting a dark shadow over Barton's image. They smashed
:09:17. > :09:21.windows. A few windows get broken. Now in the run-up to Christmas, the
:09:21. > :09:27.town council want people to be reassured, so they are spending
:09:27. > :09:33.�500 on patrols from a private security firm. We have no powers to
:09:33. > :09:37.arrest. The men we have on actinide are on radios and they have
:09:37. > :09:42.constant contact with the police. With any issues of they will be
:09:42. > :09:47.straight on the radio to the police. It is about reassuring local people.
:09:47. > :09:51.Clare thinks this is a good idea. She has been a victim of crime in
:09:51. > :09:55.the past. The windows have been broken and at one point I could not
:09:55. > :10:01.led by children out. It is needed around here. Christopher lives near
:10:01. > :10:05.to a lot of the trouble. I have seen that shop window over there
:10:05. > :10:14.being poured through over six times now. We spoke to the owners of the
:10:14. > :10:18.shop. We have shown them the CCTV camera and they come in all of the
:10:18. > :10:22.time. They are stealing things and breaking things all of the time.
:10:22. > :10:27.But there are still questions over whether two wardens will make a lot
:10:27. > :10:31.of difference. They will be patrolling the street and just
:10:31. > :10:38.moving the trouble on elsewhere. I do not think it will stop any
:10:38. > :10:46.trouble. I think they should do it. It by taking the action we have
:10:46. > :10:51.done, we have freed up the police to focus on other things. We have
:10:51. > :10:59.the presence we want on the beat. Hopefully that visible presence
:10:59. > :11:09.will reassure people and help them to feel safe. The scheme will start
:11:09. > :11:10.
:11:10. > :11:17.at 10pm and run until 2am for the next four Fridays. The people here
:11:17. > :11:21.hope that this will make a difference.
:11:21. > :11:26.We asked Humberside police to talk was about Barton but they said that
:11:26. > :11:29.no one was available. They said that they were aware of the scheme
:11:29. > :11:34.and they supported the town council. But they added that statistically
:11:34. > :11:38.over the last five years crime has continued to fall in Barton.
:11:38. > :11:45.However they said that they recognise that some people's
:11:45. > :11:50.perception might be different that. Please get in contact with us if
:11:50. > :11:53.you want to comment on that story. A Hull man has been jailed for two
:11:53. > :11:56.years after being found guilty of violent disorder during the
:11:56. > :12:00.spending cuts protest in London in March. Joseph Binney was involved
:12:00. > :12:03.in the attack on the Santander bank. He was also jailed for three months
:12:03. > :12:08.for causing more than �20,000 of damage to trains and railway
:12:08. > :12:11.property with graffiti. The European Union is giving a
:12:11. > :12:14.million pounds to support East Yorkshire's shell fishing industry.
:12:14. > :12:19.The money will be used to tell consumers about local shellfish and
:12:19. > :12:24.to launch apprenticeships. East Yorkshire has the UK's largest crab
:12:24. > :12:28.and lobster fishery. 50 new jobs are being created in
:12:28. > :12:31.Goole through a �30 million investment in a glass factory there.
:12:31. > :12:35.Guardian Industries say the money will be spent in its energy saving
:12:35. > :12:42.glass department. It was opened in 2003 by an american company and
:12:42. > :12:45.employs 280 people. A mother from Northern Lincolnshire,
:12:45. > :12:49.whose daughter died from a sudden asthma attack, is writing a series
:12:49. > :12:51.of story books to raise money in her memory. Laura McPhee from
:12:51. > :13:01.Humberston was among almost 24,000 people in Lincolnshire who have
:13:01. > :13:13.
:13:13. > :13:18.asthma. But unlike so many others, This is how Laura's family remember
:13:19. > :13:22.her - singing her favourite song. And these moments have inspired her
:13:22. > :13:27.mum to fund raised in her memory. From her home in Humberston, near
:13:27. > :13:37.Grimsby, Tracy Murphy has written a series of children's books to raise
:13:37. > :13:38.
:13:38. > :13:46.Moat -- money for asthma awareness. Had tortured we are at losing Laura,
:13:46. > :13:50.in a way, if we can help others, by losing her... Hopefully we are
:13:50. > :13:54.doing something good. Laura was nine when she died. She had had
:13:55. > :14:01.asthma for years but when the ambulance was called last December,
:14:01. > :14:07.it got stuck in 10 inches of snow. She told me she could not breathe
:14:07. > :14:12.and she started to go blue. She had asthma attacks a lot, but you don't
:14:12. > :14:18.think that it child can pass away from it. With the help of Laura's
:14:18. > :14:24.grandad, Tracy has written the Laura Bear books. Her inspiration
:14:24. > :14:30.is the teddy her daughter made just days before she died. She was
:14:30. > :14:33.making jokes about the adventures of Laura Bear. I asked Tracey why
:14:33. > :14:41.she didn't frighten children's books and incorporate the inhaler,
:14:41. > :14:45.and that she was a poorly bare and the rest of it. We thought it would
:14:45. > :14:49.get it across to the kids to make sure they take their breathers
:14:49. > :14:53.wherever they go. But family have already raised �22,000 for life-
:14:53. > :15:02.saving equipment at Grimsby Hospital. She is hoping her new
:15:02. > :15:06.books will raise even more. We wish the family well. Thank you
:15:06. > :15:11.for watching. Still ahead: The hunt is on in East Yorkshire for the
:15:11. > :15:20.country's rarest mammal. And while Lincoln Cathedral's main
:15:20. > :15:26.bell is falling silent after 175 years. -- wife.
:15:26. > :15:36.This is a pure fluke. Denied's photograph is of Lincoln Cathedral!
:15:36. > :15:39.
:15:39. > :15:46.It is by Chris in Cottingham, who Cyril says that he watches with his
:15:46. > :15:51.wife every night in Brittany. They have had several misty mornings
:15:51. > :15:57.recently, and a white rainbow with no colours.
:15:57. > :16:01.Perhaps too many glasses of wine! That is not what we expected. Maybe
:16:01. > :16:05.I am stupid - I don't know the answer to that.
:16:05. > :16:12.Ahead lie is a very windy one. It looks like November is going out
:16:12. > :16:17.with a bang. The Met Office have a warning in place for widespread
:16:18. > :16:23.gales developing later tomorrow, so you have been warned. A very windy
:16:23. > :16:27.weekend. The weather will not be too bad. Some rain on Saturday
:16:27. > :16:33.night and then Sunday looks fine with some sunshine, but the weekend
:16:33. > :16:41.will be spoilt by the strength of the wind. These isobars are tightly
:16:41. > :16:46.packed. It could get up to 65 mph across the most exposed parts of
:16:46. > :16:52.the region. Some sharp showers this afternoon but apart from one a two
:16:52. > :16:55.right now, we seem to be entering a dry night. It will be feeling
:16:55. > :17:00.chilly. There are a number of lights being switched on this
:17:00. > :17:05.evening. Cloud does increase later and perhaps the odd spot of rain in
:17:05. > :17:15.the West. Temperatures will be as low as three or four degrees. The
:17:15. > :17:19.sun will rise in the morning just before 7:50am. So, windy from the
:17:19. > :17:25.word go across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, but apart from the
:17:25. > :17:30.odd spot of rain, it is dry. Cloudy at times but the wind will help to
:17:30. > :17:34.break the cloud. The best of the sunny spells will be the further
:17:34. > :17:38.south you go. At the end of the day, widespread gales and temperatures
:17:38. > :17:45.are looking quite good numerically, but when you add the impact of the
:17:45. > :17:48.wind, it will feel quite chilly. Wet and windy weather to come on
:17:48. > :17:58.Saturday Night and Sunday is very windy, but bright with some
:17:58. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:04.Poor old Cyril in Brittany was hoping for a scientific explanation
:18:04. > :18:09.to restore his credibility with his neighbours!
:18:09. > :18:18.The wind is quite common. Don't make it worse! Don't make it
:18:18. > :18:21.worse! I apologise to any wine drinkers.
:18:21. > :18:27.Thank you for all the responses on the story about concerns over plans
:18:27. > :18:30.to drill for oil and gas in East Yorkshire. Rathlin Energy wants to
:18:30. > :18:35.sink a 1.5 mile deep borehole Underground between Bishop Burton
:18:35. > :18:43.and Walkington. The council voted to delay the plans at a meeting
:18:43. > :18:49.yesterday, following fears about the environmental impact. Keith in
:18:49. > :18:59.Hull says that if there is all there, it should be extracted...
:18:59. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:19.Here are some more of your Thanks for all of those. We read
:19:19. > :19:23.and listen to all of the messages. Nick Barmby takes charge of his
:19:23. > :19:27.first game at the KC Stadium, where whole city meet Burnley in the
:19:27. > :19:35.championship tomorrow. He admitted that life had been a bit of a
:19:35. > :19:38.whirlwind since his appointment last week.
:19:38. > :19:45.A start -- as a start to your managerial career go, this was a
:19:45. > :19:52.corker. Nick appreciated his side's defeat after Burnley last week. It
:19:52. > :19:59.was the best way to answer those who doubted his experience. This is
:19:59. > :20:02.a new experience and there is one of those every day. Agents are
:20:02. > :20:07.ringing up bones non-stop. You have got to deal with those things, but
:20:07. > :20:14.we have got people in place who cannot share the workload. --
:20:14. > :20:19.bringing up phones. With his experience as a player, he passes
:20:19. > :20:23.on experience to individuals to help them out. He can do that now
:20:23. > :20:27.he is manager. A bid is going to be an emotional homecoming for Nick
:20:27. > :20:32.Barmby - his first game at the KC Stadium as manager of his hometown
:20:32. > :20:37.club. In Lincolnshire, a tricky game for Scunthorpe United in
:20:37. > :20:40.League One. They are off to Notts County.
:20:40. > :20:44.Scunthorpe will be glad to see the back of November. They have not
:20:44. > :20:50.managed a single win, with losses like this to Hartlepool compounded
:20:50. > :20:56.by an FA Cup exit. In the non- League world, Grimsby Town head to
:20:56. > :21:05.Kettering. Lincoln City welcomed Ebbsfleet United to their stadium
:21:05. > :21:07.for the first time. -- will welcome. Enjoy your football! Next season's
:21:07. > :21:11.Super League fixtures have been released and Hull Kingston Rovers
:21:11. > :21:16.will meet champions Leeds on the opening day. Rovers travelled to
:21:16. > :21:21.Headingley on 3rd February, while Hull FC welcome Warrington to the
:21:21. > :21:24.KC Stadium two days later. The two Hull sides go head to head for the
:21:24. > :21:28.first time on Good Friday at Craven Park.
:21:28. > :21:32.It may look like a rat, but this is, in fact, Britain's most endangered
:21:32. > :21:36.mammal. Water voles have been dying out as their habitat has been
:21:36. > :21:41.destroyed. Now, special wildlife cameras have been fitted as a farm
:21:41. > :21:47.near Goole to track their movements. -- track their movements. Sue
:21:47. > :21:51.Vaughan has been to find out more. Looking for East Yorkshire's Most
:21:51. > :21:55.Wanted. Since April, these special cameras have been recording the
:21:55. > :22:00.movements of this elusive creature on a farm near Goole. Once
:22:00. > :22:05.commonplace, the water vole is now fighting for survival. The water
:22:05. > :22:10.vole is Britain's most endangered mammal, so we have got to act now
:22:10. > :22:15.to stop the decline and hopefully, as well as halting the decline,
:22:15. > :22:19.start to build up the numbers. Water voles' numbers have dropped
:22:19. > :22:23.90% since the late 1980s. The introduction of mink, which kill
:22:23. > :22:27.and, is one problem. The destruction of habitat is another.
:22:27. > :22:31.This is one of the main areas we found them in. To give them a
:22:31. > :22:35.fighting chance, this farmer has changed the way he works to protect
:22:35. > :22:38.the ditches they live in. We are cleaning out one side of the drain
:22:38. > :22:42.every two years. It is better for the water vole because they have
:22:42. > :22:46.overhead cover to protect them Prom predators. Now they know whether
:22:46. > :22:51.voles live, it is easier to protect them. What sort of things have you
:22:51. > :22:57.been looking for? What we are looking for is, for example in the
:22:57. > :23:00.bank here, Burrows. We also look for remains of where they have been
:23:00. > :23:04.eating, so you can see here where they have cut it off at the end.
:23:04. > :23:08.is strange to think that just a few decades ago, water voles would have
:23:08. > :23:12.been a common sight in drains like this. Those days have now long gone
:23:12. > :23:20.but it is hoped that projects on farms, like this one, the in the
:23:20. > :23:24.Yorkshire Water vole can once again go from strength to strength.
:23:24. > :23:28.Members of the public are being invited to help plan to 3,000 trees
:23:28. > :23:32.near Boston this weekend. The Boston Woods Trust now has around
:23:33. > :23:38.100 acres around the town, including the latest, planted by
:23:38. > :23:44.school children in Wyberton. 40,000 trees have been planted in the past
:23:44. > :23:47.10 years to create the new wood. Sunday's event is at Jenny's Wood.
:23:47. > :23:50.Two more towns have switched on their Christmas lights. Grimsby's
:23:50. > :23:54.decorations were turned on by the mayor of North East Lincolnshire,
:23:54. > :23:58.Susan Pickett, last night. And crowds gathered in Boston to see
:23:58. > :24:04.the unveiling of the town's new lights, which replace ones that
:24:04. > :24:08.were in use for 40 years. It has been running in the new year
:24:08. > :24:13.since 1835 but now, Lincoln Cathedral's main bell is to fall
:24:13. > :24:19.silent just ahead of this year's festivities. Great Tom, as it is
:24:19. > :24:29.known, needs repairs - and that means that 2012 may be wrong in it
:24:29. > :24:33.
:24:33. > :24:39.Its chimes have been echoing through the streets of Lincoln
:24:39. > :24:45.since 1830. But now the Cathedral's largest bell, known as Great Tom,
:24:45. > :24:52.stands silent. This is the main hammer that rings are the our
:24:52. > :25:02.Balfour great Tom. It has cushioning strings. -- the hour
:25:02. > :25:02.
:25:02. > :25:05.bell. Those strings are to cushion the blow on to the bell, like shock
:25:05. > :25:11.absorbers on your car. Without those, the integrity of the Bell
:25:11. > :25:16.could be compromised and it could crack. This Bell weighs 5.5 tonnes,
:25:16. > :25:20.the equivalent of five small cars. Getting it down would be a huge job,
:25:21. > :25:26.as that would mean descending a winding stone staircase of 150
:25:26. > :25:29.steps. Master craftsmen will remove the broken parts and use them as
:25:29. > :25:34.templates to craft new ones. They will work against the clock to
:25:34. > :25:41.avoid having to use a recording of the chimes to see him at the new
:25:41. > :25:46.year. -- to see inner. The Cathedral's smaller Bells,
:25:46. > :25:48.which ring every 15 minutes, are still working. It is the our
:25:49. > :25:52.accounts that will be missed, especially during Lincoln's
:25:52. > :25:58.Christmas markets. Starting next week, it attracts thousands of
:25:58. > :26:03.visitors from across the world. Nobel's! They are broken! They are!
:26:03. > :26:08.Not a shame. It seems a shame because they are beatable. It is
:26:08. > :26:14.the sound of England. I was having a tour round, looking at the towns
:26:14. > :26:18.and cities. I am going to find a pub now. The priority is preserving
:26:18. > :26:25.this ancient bell for the future, which might be in this new year
:26:25. > :26:29.will sound a little different. -- might mean a.
:26:29. > :26:32.A recap of the main headlines: Heathrow tells passengers to expect
:26:32. > :26:35.delays of up to 12 hours on a day of the public sector strikes next
:26:35. > :26:38.week. It comes as a trade union wants the
:26:38. > :26:42.majority of schools in our area will be affected by the walkout
:26:42. > :26:49.next Wednesday. Cloudy and mostly dry tomorrow,
:26:49. > :26:54.with sunny intervals. Top temperatures around 12 Celsius.
:26:54. > :26:58.After a discussion about teachers, Lesley says she has worked all her
:26:58. > :27:02.life and can't retire enters she is 67. She asks what is so important
:27:02. > :27:08.about teachers that they should strike and how they dare ask so --
:27:08. > :27:15.that so irresponsibly. Another view asks how a travel
:27:15. > :27:21.agents' wages can be compared with teachers' wages. He they say it is
:27:21. > :27:24.a ridiculous comparison. Another woman says that teachers
:27:24. > :27:28.should be happy with the pension they have got. She says they should
:27:28. > :27:31.be happy they have a job. Rachel says public sector workers