25/11/2011 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight.

The majority of schools in our area are facing closure next Wednesday,

the warning from a trade union ahead of strike action.

Why private security patrols are being introduced to a market town.

Our officers can actually detained people if required if someone is

causing a problem, and that is all done in conjunction with the police.

It may look like a rat but this is the country's most endangered

mammal and it's flourishing in east Yorkshire.

Why this is a sound you won't be hearing in Lincoln for several

weeks. And a very windy weekend to come

It's been called the biggest strike in a generation and next Wednesday

it will affect the majority of schools across East Yorkshire and

Lincolnshire. That's according to a leading teaching union which says

thousands of teachers will take part in the national walkout to

protest against changes to pensions. The strike will also affect

hospitals, colleges, courts and job centres. Our Political Editor Tim

Next Wednesday thousands of public sector workers will march in

protest at proposed changes to their pensions. Emma is a primary

school teacher at Willerby in East Yorkshire. She is unhappy about

having to pay more towards her pension and work longer. They still

want me to work until I am 68, they still want me to pay more into my

pension and at the end of it I will get a poor pension. Teachers on

average get �10,000 a year. I can name staff on a tractor at this

called that as women are looking at a pension of around �8,000.

many parents say next week's strike will be inconvenient. I will have

to get to somebody else to get the children for a couple of hours. Or

we will track them all out with us. I understand they are worried about

the pensions, but wide disrupt the children's education. More than 2

million public sector workers across the country are expected to

join the next Wednesday's walkout. Even their pension negotiations are

still ongoing, the unions have defended their decision to take

strike action. We are expecting that the vast majority of schools

will be closed or partially closed. To those who are inconvenienced and

out of pocket, no teacher wants that to happen. That is not our aim.

The government claims the destruction caused by next week's

day of action will cost the country half-a- billion pounds. But at this

stage, nothing looks set to stop the biggest this strike for a

generation. Joining me in the studio and Graham

Stuart, the Beverley and Holderness MP and Chair of the Education

Select Committe and Brian Swinton of the National Union of Teachers.

David Cameron has called this action irresponsible and wrong, why

are you doing it? Because we have do. There is no alternative. Graham

and his colleagues are not listening. They are not seriously

coming back to be at the negotiating table. More than half

of your members did not ban it -- did not bother to return their

ballot papers. If you look at Graham's constituency results... A

64 % of teachers did not choose to have a strike. Democracy works in

the same way. The 64 % did not vote no, otherwise they would have done.

Why should teachers work until they are 68 years old and increase the

amount they put into their pensions? John Hutton looked into

public sector pensions and he came out with a report which suggested

that need for change. If the situation which makes the strike

call for more than reasonable is of this fact that the negotiations are

run going. The government came forward a few weeks ago with an

even more generous offer. The situation after the reforms has

been described by the pensions adviser to the last Labour

government as hugely generous. They are generous pensions, they are

much better than people in the private sector have and yet they

are going on strike and inconveniencing parents. We regret

any inconvenience to parents. But that is what a strike is about. We

want to know what has happened to more than �6.4 billion. Since the

pension scheme started, there has been a surplus of paying-in over

what the Treasury has paid out. Successive governments have had

that money and lost it, where has it gone? Your disrupting people's

lives next week. Would you say to the parents? But they are with us.

We want to get it right. But we want to get education right for

this country with a secure teaching force who are able to look forward

to a good career. This is the only way they can get their message

across. That is not true. But the negotiations are ongoing. The

result for the teachers will still be generous. I travel agents in

Beverly contacted me, she works longer than teachers for much less

money, why it should she not take a day after next Wednesday? The why

are so many doctors and nurses and paddock -- paramedics also taking

strike action? It is everybody. Government has lost its credibility

on pensions. The previous government spent more money on the

public sector than the country could afford. Now we are forced to

share that Burton and we will still be left with a far better pensions

for than those in the private sector. The teachers' pension

scheme has a made a profit that successive governments has stolen.

The 64 % of teachers who did not say yes to the strike, what do you

say to them? Go to work on Wednesday. I do sympathise with the

for teachers. But it is not a right to inconvenience the public.

will leave it there. It thank you. Do you support the teachers and the

strike? We would like to hear from The strikes will be debated on the

politics show on Sunday here on BBC One.

Thank you for watching this Friday night. Still ahead, the author

raising thousands for charity in memory of her daughter.

A council is so concerned about safety that it has decided to

employ its own security staff to patrol the streets at night. Burton

Council is the first in our area to employed a private security teams

and says it is responding to demands from local businesses.

Humberside police say crime figures are down in the town.

It is a small North Letitia market town, but problems at the weekend

are casting a dark shadow over Barton's image. They smashed

windows. A few windows get broken. Now in the run-up to Christmas, the

town council want people to be reassured, so they are spending

�500 on patrols from a private security firm. We have no powers to

arrest. The men we have on actinide are on radios and they have

constant contact with the police. With any issues of they will be

straight on the radio to the police. It is about reassuring local people.

Clare thinks this is a good idea. She has been a victim of crime in

the past. The windows have been broken and at one point I could not

led by children out. It is needed around here. Christopher lives near

to a lot of the trouble. I have seen that shop window over there

being poured through over six times now. We spoke to the owners of the

shop. We have shown them the CCTV camera and they come in all of the

time. They are stealing things and breaking things all of the time.

But there are still questions over whether two wardens will make a lot

of difference. They will be patrolling the street and just

moving the trouble on elsewhere. I do not think it will stop any

trouble. I think they should do it. It by taking the action we have

done, we have freed up the police to focus on other things. We have

the presence we want on the beat. Hopefully that visible presence

will reassure people and help them to feel safe. The scheme will start

at 10pm and run until 2am for the next four Fridays. The people here

hope that this will make a difference.

We asked Humberside police to talk was about Barton but they said that

no one was available. They said that they were aware of the scheme

and they supported the town council. But they added that statistically

over the last five years crime has continued to fall in Barton.

However they said that they recognise that some people's

perception might be different that. Please get in contact with us if

you want to comment on that story. A Hull man has been jailed for two

years after being found guilty of violent disorder during the

spending cuts protest in London in March. Joseph Binney was involved

in the attack on the Santander bank. He was also jailed for three months

for causing more than �20,000 of damage to trains and railway

property with graffiti. The European Union is giving a

million pounds to support East Yorkshire's shell fishing industry.

The money will be used to tell consumers about local shellfish and

to launch apprenticeships. East Yorkshire has the UK's largest crab

and lobster fishery. 50 new jobs are being created in

Goole through a �30 million investment in a glass factory there.

Guardian Industries say the money will be spent in its energy saving

glass department. It was opened in 2003 by an american company and

employs 280 people. A mother from Northern Lincolnshire,

whose daughter died from a sudden asthma attack, is writing a series

of story books to raise money in her memory. Laura McPhee from

Humberston was among almost 24,000 people in Lincolnshire who have

asthma. But unlike so many others, This is how Laura's family remember

her - singing her favourite song. And these moments have inspired her

mum to fund raised in her memory. From her home in Humberston, near

Grimsby, Tracy Murphy has written a series of children's books to raise

Moat -- money for asthma awareness. Had tortured we are at losing Laura,

in a way, if we can help others, by losing her... Hopefully we are

doing something good. Laura was nine when she died. She had had

asthma for years but when the ambulance was called last December,

it got stuck in 10 inches of snow. She told me she could not breathe

and she started to go blue. She had asthma attacks a lot, but you don't

think that it child can pass away from it. With the help of Laura's

grandad, Tracy has written the Laura Bear books. Her inspiration

is the teddy her daughter made just days before she died. She was

making jokes about the adventures of Laura Bear. I asked Tracey why

she didn't frighten children's books and incorporate the inhaler,

and that she was a poorly bare and the rest of it. We thought it would

get it across to the kids to make sure they take their breathers

wherever they go. But family have already raised �22,000 for life-

saving equipment at Grimsby Hospital. She is hoping her new

books will raise even more. We wish the family well. Thank you

for watching. Still ahead: The hunt is on in East Yorkshire for the

country's rarest mammal. And while Lincoln Cathedral's main

bell is falling silent after 175 years. -- wife.

This is a pure fluke. Denied's photograph is of Lincoln Cathedral!

It is by Chris in Cottingham, who Cyril says that he watches with his

wife every night in Brittany. They have had several misty mornings

recently, and a white rainbow with no colours.

Perhaps too many glasses of wine! That is not what we expected. Maybe

I am stupid - I don't know the answer to that.

Ahead lie is a very windy one. It looks like November is going out

with a bang. The Met Office have a warning in place for widespread

gales developing later tomorrow, so you have been warned. A very windy

weekend. The weather will not be too bad. Some rain on Saturday

night and then Sunday looks fine with some sunshine, but the weekend

will be spoilt by the strength of the wind. These isobars are tightly

packed. It could get up to 65 mph across the most exposed parts of

the region. Some sharp showers this afternoon but apart from one a two

right now, we seem to be entering a dry night. It will be feeling

chilly. There are a number of lights being switched on this

evening. Cloud does increase later and perhaps the odd spot of rain in

the West. Temperatures will be as low as three or four degrees. The

sun will rise in the morning just before 7:50am. So, windy from the

word go across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, but apart from the

odd spot of rain, it is dry. Cloudy at times but the wind will help to

break the cloud. The best of the sunny spells will be the further

south you go. At the end of the day, widespread gales and temperatures

are looking quite good numerically, but when you add the impact of the

wind, it will feel quite chilly. Wet and windy weather to come on

Saturday Night and Sunday is very windy, but bright with some

Poor old Cyril in Brittany was hoping for a scientific explanation

to restore his credibility with his neighbours!

The wind is quite common. Don't make it worse! Don't make it

worse! I apologise to any wine drinkers.

Thank you for all the responses on the story about concerns over plans

to drill for oil and gas in East Yorkshire. Rathlin Energy wants to

sink a 1.5 mile deep borehole Underground between Bishop Burton

and Walkington. The council voted to delay the plans at a meeting

yesterday, following fears about the environmental impact. Keith in

Hull says that if there is all there, it should be extracted...

Here are some more of your Thanks for all of those. We read

and listen to all of the messages. Nick Barmby takes charge of his

first game at the KC Stadium, where whole city meet Burnley in the

championship tomorrow. He admitted that life had been a bit of a

whirlwind since his appointment last week.

A start -- as a start to your managerial career go, this was a

corker. Nick appreciated his side's defeat after Burnley last week. It

was the best way to answer those who doubted his experience. This is

a new experience and there is one of those every day. Agents are

ringing up bones non-stop. You have got to deal with those things, but

we have got people in place who cannot share the workload. --

bringing up phones. With his experience as a player, he passes

on experience to individuals to help them out. He can do that now

he is manager. A bid is going to be an emotional homecoming for Nick

Barmby - his first game at the KC Stadium as manager of his hometown

club. In Lincolnshire, a tricky game for Scunthorpe United in

League One. They are off to Notts County.

Scunthorpe will be glad to see the back of November. They have not

managed a single win, with losses like this to Hartlepool compounded

by an FA Cup exit. In the non- League world, Grimsby Town head to

Kettering. Lincoln City welcomed Ebbsfleet United to their stadium

for the first time. -- will welcome. Enjoy your football! Next season's

Super League fixtures have been released and Hull Kingston Rovers

will meet champions Leeds on the opening day. Rovers travelled to

Headingley on 3rd February, while Hull FC welcome Warrington to the

KC Stadium two days later. The two Hull sides go head to head for the

first time on Good Friday at Craven Park.

It may look like a rat, but this is, in fact, Britain's most endangered

mammal. Water voles have been dying out as their habitat has been

destroyed. Now, special wildlife cameras have been fitted as a farm

near Goole to track their movements. -- track their movements. Sue

Vaughan has been to find out more. Looking for East Yorkshire's Most

Wanted. Since April, these special cameras have been recording the

movements of this elusive creature on a farm near Goole. Once

commonplace, the water vole is now fighting for survival. The water

vole is Britain's most endangered mammal, so we have got to act now

to stop the decline and hopefully, as well as halting the decline,

start to build up the numbers. Water voles' numbers have dropped

90% since the late 1980s. The introduction of mink, which kill

and, is one problem. The destruction of habitat is another.

This is one of the main areas we found them in. To give them a

fighting chance, this farmer has changed the way he works to protect

the ditches they live in. We are cleaning out one side of the drain

every two years. It is better for the water vole because they have

overhead cover to protect them Prom predators. Now they know whether

voles live, it is easier to protect them. What sort of things have you

been looking for? What we are looking for is, for example in the

bank here, Burrows. We also look for remains of where they have been

eating, so you can see here where they have cut it off at the end.

is strange to think that just a few decades ago, water voles would have

been a common sight in drains like this. Those days have now long gone

but it is hoped that projects on farms, like this one, the in the

Yorkshire Water vole can once again go from strength to strength.

Members of the public are being invited to help plan to 3,000 trees

near Boston this weekend. The Boston Woods Trust now has around

100 acres around the town, including the latest, planted by

school children in Wyberton. 40,000 trees have been planted in the past

10 years to create the new wood. Sunday's event is at Jenny's Wood.

Two more towns have switched on their Christmas lights. Grimsby's

decorations were turned on by the mayor of North East Lincolnshire,

Susan Pickett, last night. And crowds gathered in Boston to see

the unveiling of the town's new lights, which replace ones that

were in use for 40 years. It has been running in the new year

since 1835 but now, Lincoln Cathedral's main bell is to fall

silent just ahead of this year's festivities. Great Tom, as it is

known, needs repairs - and that means that 2012 may be wrong in it

Its chimes have been echoing through the streets of Lincoln

since 1830. But now the Cathedral's largest bell, known as Great Tom,

stands silent. This is the main hammer that rings are the our

Balfour great Tom. It has cushioning strings. -- the hour

bell. Those strings are to cushion the blow on to the bell, like shock

absorbers on your car. Without those, the integrity of the Bell

could be compromised and it could crack. This Bell weighs 5.5 tonnes,

the equivalent of five small cars. Getting it down would be a huge job,

as that would mean descending a winding stone staircase of 150

steps. Master craftsmen will remove the broken parts and use them as

templates to craft new ones. They will work against the clock to

avoid having to use a recording of the chimes to see him at the new

year. -- to see inner. The Cathedral's smaller Bells,

which ring every 15 minutes, are still working. It is the our

accounts that will be missed, especially during Lincoln's

Christmas markets. Starting next week, it attracts thousands of

visitors from across the world. Nobel's! They are broken! They are!

Not a shame. It seems a shame because they are beatable. It is

the sound of England. I was having a tour round, looking at the towns

and cities. I am going to find a pub now. The priority is preserving

this ancient bell for the future, which might be in this new year

will sound a little different. -- might mean a.

A recap of the main headlines: Heathrow tells passengers to expect

delays of up to 12 hours on a day of the public sector strikes next

week. It comes as a trade union wants the

majority of schools in our area will be affected by the walkout

next Wednesday. Cloudy and mostly dry tomorrow,

with sunny intervals. Top temperatures around 12 Celsius.

After a discussion about teachers, Lesley says she has worked all her

life and can't retire enters she is 67. She asks what is so important

about teachers that they should strike and how they dare ask so --

that so irresponsibly. Another view asks how a travel

agents' wages can be compared with teachers' wages. He they say it is

a ridiculous comparison. Another woman says that teachers

should be happy with the pension they have got. She says they should

be happy they have a job. Rachel says public sector workers