:00:08. > :00:10.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight...
:00:10. > :00:13.Senior Humberside Police officers challenge politicians to be honest
:00:13. > :00:23.in their assessment of cuts, warning that services will be
:00:23. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:31.affected. I have to have an honest concert -- conversation with my own
:00:31. > :00:34.people. We have to try and maintain the best of what the public want,
:00:35. > :00:37.but it will deal with these budget cuts.
:00:37. > :00:40.Hopes that Lincoln's Eastern Bypass will ease congestion and bring
:00:40. > :00:43.thousands of jobs to the area. It has been called the most
:00:43. > :00:45.successful Lincoln Christmas market ever - the benefits reaped by the
:00:46. > :00:48.city from the four-day event. And a not-so-happy return for Nigel
:00:48. > :00:57.Pearson, as Hull City's former manager comes back to the KC
:00:57. > :01:07.Stadium. My and a cold start to the week. There could be based on
:01:07. > :01:13.
:01:13. > :01:15.untreated surfaces. A fool forecast Good evening. Frontline jobs will
:01:15. > :01:18.have to goal. A senior detective with Humberside
:01:18. > :01:20.Police is tonight challenging politicians to be honest in their
:01:20. > :01:24.assessment of deep cuts to the Humberside Police budget. The force
:01:24. > :01:30.will lose �30 million and it is leading to tough choices on how
:01:31. > :01:37.best to use resources. In a moment, we will be hearing from Chief
:01:37. > :01:40.Superintendent Colin Andrews, who is in charge of Force Operations.
:01:40. > :01:46.As one of Humberside Police's most senior detectives, Deena Flemming
:01:46. > :01:56.heads up the "cold case" team. She investigates older, unsolved crimes.
:01:56. > :02:02.Crimes she fears will take a back seat under the cuts. My team are
:02:02. > :02:07.dealing with the 18-year-old who was raped in 1984 and we do have
:02:07. > :02:13.the firm DNA profile. That is not a victim of today, but my argument is
:02:13. > :02:16.that she is still a victim and deserves a service.
:02:16. > :02:19.Sherry Kingston believes the cold case team should be protected. 31
:02:19. > :02:21.years ago, a nine-year-old Sherry had walked to wasteland to feed the
:02:21. > :02:23.horses. A paedophile sexually assaulted her and threatened to
:02:23. > :02:31.kill her. Earlier this year, her attacker David Littlewood was
:02:31. > :02:41.sentenced to seven and a half years. They was like winning the lottery.
:02:41. > :02:51.It really was. Just to look at Ten and just to look at what the
:02:51. > :02:59.repulsive man he is. These people will murder and the will rate at.
:02:59. > :03:04.But 20% cuts mean tough decisions ahead. The there is no point
:03:04. > :03:09.pretending the cuts will not have an impact. I have to talk to my own
:03:09. > :03:14.people to work out that difficult choices we make. We have to work
:03:14. > :03:18.out what the public want and deserve while working within the
:03:19. > :03:22.framework of the budget cuts. The government's policing minister
:03:22. > :03:24.Nick Herbert has told us in a statement: "I do not accept that
:03:24. > :03:27.reductions in police funding will impact on provision of frontline
:03:27. > :03:34.services or crime rates. We need to get away from this unhealthy
:03:34. > :03:38.obsession with officer numbers. The issue here is how resources are
:03:38. > :03:45.used." A as a police officer and the last 30 years, may have seen
:03:45. > :03:49.our lot of change. But at the risk of burning out the staff we now
:03:49. > :03:53.have. It is a situation that nobody in
:03:53. > :03:55.the force has asked for, but one they are now forced to deal with.
:03:55. > :03:58.Chief Superintendent Colin Andrews is head of Humberside's Operations
:03:58. > :04:07.branch. He retires at Christmas after 37 years on the force and has
:04:07. > :04:14.been telling me how the cuts will affect him at the sharp end. In any
:04:15. > :04:19.area that Tanni cover, or what we have tried to do is reduce the
:04:19. > :04:29.impact of these cuts, but inevitably, some services will have
:04:29. > :04:32.
:04:32. > :04:35.to go. Do you think the politicians are been honest enough about this?
:04:35. > :04:41.Officers can only cut so far without affecting frontline
:04:41. > :04:50.services. There has been all this talk about a lot of the car has
:04:50. > :04:58.been in the backroom staff. But we have been hearing across the board
:04:58. > :05:05.that everyone has to prioritise. Surely the police are no different?
:05:05. > :05:11.Yes, I do not argue with that. But we simply cannot make, cuts in the
:05:11. > :05:21.back room. Some from line services will have to be affected. We have
:05:21. > :05:22.
:05:23. > :05:26.got to prioritise and one of the things is that any other officers
:05:26. > :05:36.investigating the current spate of metal thefts, but that means that
:05:36. > :05:38.
:05:38. > :05:42.these officers are having to be taken off other investigations. You
:05:42. > :05:47.need to understand that we do a lot of things that are not front line.
:05:47. > :05:57.We do a lot of liaison work which is still very important and needs
:05:57. > :06:05.to be done as well as the in-your- face policing. You are retiring,
:06:05. > :06:11.but why can police officers not simply work longer? I ache could
:06:11. > :06:19.have retired at seven years ago. But is simply does not make
:06:19. > :06:29.financial sense for me to stay on any longer. I you been asked to do
:06:29. > :06:29.
:06:29. > :06:37.too much one too little money? I think we are. I won the
:06:37. > :06:47.operations branch and I have other will say that I do in my own time,
:06:47. > :06:53.such as a hostage negotiator. But you can only give so which back.
:06:53. > :06:56.Good to see it and happy retirement to you.
:06:56. > :07:00.We would like to hear your thoughts on this. Where do you think the
:07:00. > :07:10.police need to cut their cloth to save money? You can get in touch in
:07:10. > :07:18.
:07:18. > :07:22.We will not some of your thoughts on this before we finish.
:07:22. > :07:26.And tonight's edition of Inside Out will take a closer look at the
:07:26. > :07:29.future of Humberside Police. That is on BBC One at 7.30pm.
:07:29. > :07:37.In a moment, we will hear from former caravan workers who say they
:07:37. > :07:41.are still waiting for money they are owed.
:07:41. > :07:47.It could create as many as 30,000 jobs over the next 15 years with
:07:47. > :07:49.thousands more predicted for the future. Those are just some of the
:07:49. > :07:56.economic benefits that could come from the long-awaited Lincoln
:07:56. > :07:58.Eastern Bypass, according to Lincolnshire County Council. Last
:07:58. > :08:02.week, the government agreed to part-fund the scheme with �50m,
:08:02. > :08:05.with the remainder of the money coming from the council. Our
:08:05. > :08:15.reporter Simon Spark is in Lincoln for us this evening. How
:08:15. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:22.significant is this news, Simon? is very important. Here, they say
:08:22. > :08:28.the congestion on a daily be travels through here to and from
:08:28. > :08:35.the city. Not surprisingly, most of the people here are in favour of
:08:35. > :08:43.the bypass. But in order to pay for it, that needs more development to
:08:43. > :08:53.be done. It means thousands more houses and thousands more cars. The
:08:53. > :08:57.
:08:57. > :09:03.question then is will that actually do anything to help the congestion?
:09:03. > :09:08.According to the county council, the �100 million project will
:09:08. > :09:15.reduce congestion and create up to 30,000 new jobs over the next 15
:09:15. > :09:25.years. It is not on the good news for this area, but for the
:09:25. > :09:28.
:09:28. > :09:36.surrounding parts of Lincolnshire. The bypass will start in the North
:09:36. > :09:40.and finish in the south. This is a problem they are trying to stop.
:09:40. > :09:50.The traffic building up throughout the morning and at the rush hour in
:09:50. > :09:54.
:09:54. > :09:58.evening. We needed to get out of the difficulty of getting access to
:09:58. > :10:08.work, but we have simply created a system of traffic that clogs
:10:08. > :10:08.
:10:08. > :10:16.everything up. But in the village there was a lot of support for it.
:10:16. > :10:20.I cannot wait forever. It is absolutely chaotic round here.
:10:20. > :10:28.will be good for the traders as well, because they complain there
:10:28. > :10:33.is too much traffic in the city. private investment is found,
:10:33. > :10:36.construction could begin by a 2014. I am joined by Paul Coatup from
:10:36. > :10:43.Lincolnshire County Council. 30,000 jobs is a heck of a
:10:43. > :10:48.prediction. Where are they all coming from? Me think a lot of them
:10:48. > :10:52.will come from regeneration of the land that is proposed. It will come
:10:52. > :10:57.from the people living in the new houses and homes that will be
:10:57. > :11:02.constructed once the road has been got the go-ahead. And it will come
:11:02. > :11:12.from those employments and local businesses that will go not to
:11:12. > :11:15.accommodate that extra growth in the housing market. You have worked
:11:15. > :11:25.for the county council for 20 years and you said last week as the
:11:25. > :11:25.
:11:25. > :11:31.happiest day. Why was that? I was able to take people round to show
:11:31. > :11:39.them what this bypass scheme would be like and now it is going to
:11:39. > :11:42.become a reality. We heard in Simon's report there
:11:42. > :11:44.that not everyone is happy. Green campaigners say this will be just
:11:44. > :11:52.another busy road, choking the atmosphere. How much will you
:11:52. > :11:56.consider the environmental impact when you build the road? But there
:11:56. > :12:02.is there, we will try and mitigate any impact that this would have any
:12:03. > :12:10.environment. But we think there will be a lot of good spin-offs in
:12:10. > :12:19.that respect. The city centre should become all Les Paul muted,
:12:19. > :12:26.for example. There will be an impact on the land, but we can do a
:12:26. > :12:36.lot of things to mitigate that. Someone said to me that the Moon
:12:36. > :12:40.
:12:40. > :12:49.will only be helpful for people to avoid coming into the city. That is
:12:49. > :12:58.the point of it. It will take about 20 % of the traffic off.
:12:58. > :13:01.When do you expect the road to be A lorry driver who died after an
:13:01. > :13:04.accident on the A160 in South Killingholme this morning has been
:13:04. > :13:07.named by police. 53-year-old Mark Connor from Manchester is believed
:13:07. > :13:10.to have fallen ill at the wheel of his articulated lorry. The
:13:10. > :13:12.carriageway was closed westbound for most of the morning to allow
:13:12. > :13:22.investigations to be carried out. Anyone with information about this
:13:22. > :13:27.
:13:27. > :13:30.incident should contact Humberside The first public consultation on
:13:30. > :13:33.what may be the world's largest offshore wind farm has begun today.
:13:33. > :13:35.2,600 turbines are proposed for the site at Dogger Bank. The
:13:35. > :13:42.development will require miles of cabling and improvements to
:13:42. > :13:46.electricity substations in East Yorkshire. A Lincoln based charity
:13:46. > :13:49.working with homeless people has launched a new appeal. The Nomad
:13:49. > :13:56.Trust are collecting unwanted furniture from across the city
:13:56. > :14:00.which will furnish accommodation for people without a home.
:14:00. > :14:03.Still ahead... As crowds flocked to Lincoln's
:14:03. > :14:06.Christmas market, we'll find out if the four-day event has become a
:14:06. > :14:09.victim of its own success? No pre-Christmas cheer for Nigel
:14:09. > :14:19.Pearson as the former Hull City manager returns to the KC and the
:14:19. > :14:39.
:14:39. > :14:48.Tonight's photograph was taken by That was a very nice photograph.
:14:48. > :14:54.James says, can. Using the abbreviations? Just tell him he is
:14:54. > :14:58.not a teenager. The EC MG is part of the code used in forecasts for
:14:58. > :15:04.military forecasting so, there, stick that in your pipe and smoke
:15:04. > :15:10.That was the viewer, not me. The headline for the next 24 hours
:15:10. > :15:13.is a cold one. We have got a warning out, with icy patches on
:15:13. > :15:17.untreated services. We have got a few showers rolling through more
:15:18. > :15:24.southern parts of the region and tomorrow the wind is still in the
:15:24. > :15:29.West. But it has a less of a flow and many parts of the region will
:15:30. > :15:35.be dry with some sunshine. My goodness, it has been a cold day
:15:35. > :15:40.today. There has been a significant wind chill. Can you pick out those
:15:40. > :15:45.lines of showers? This one is still running through Lincolnshire, and
:15:45. > :15:51.they could be a wintery flavour to some of these showers, but they
:15:51. > :15:55.able to sort out gradually and the cloud will clear. Watch out for
:15:55. > :16:05.those icy patches. They could be some tricky driving conditions and
:16:05. > :16:05.
:16:06. > :16:15.the gritters are out in force. The sun will rise in the morning at
:16:16. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:21.8:02am. A cold and possibly icy start on the roads. It is mostly
:16:21. > :16:28.fine but otherwise. There is a risk of some showers, but as you can see,
:16:28. > :16:38.many places will be dry, if a little on the cold side. A moderate
:16:38. > :16:39.
:16:39. > :16:44.wind holding temperatures back to around 5 or 6. Wednesday, again, a
:16:44. > :16:50.few showers. Then, look at that. Temperatures up to 9 or 10 with
:16:50. > :16:59.some rain for some time. Right your tweeds properly or we
:16:59. > :17:02.will have some more emails! Oh MG. See you tomorrow.
:17:02. > :17:07.Workers made redundant from a caravan the company from Hull say
:17:07. > :17:13.they are still waiting for the money they are owed. 360 employees
:17:13. > :17:23.won a tribunal in 2010 entitling them to a larger payouts but so far
:17:23. > :17:30.the administrators of the former Just one of 300 workers made
:17:30. > :17:36.redundant a week before Christmas at 2008. To work here, I don't know
:17:36. > :17:41.how many people... Surrey... I am too upset. We are devastated, we
:17:41. > :17:46.don't know what is going to happen. We will dig deep and seek what kind
:17:46. > :17:52.of Christmas we can have but the future looks bleak. Sam worked for
:17:52. > :17:55.Atlas holiday homes for 23 years and he won a tribunal in 2010
:17:55. > :18:01.entitling him to larger payouts but the administrators have not paid
:18:01. > :18:05.out. We would like to know where our money is. They are getting
:18:05. > :18:11.their money, they are getting their fees every three months, they get
:18:11. > :18:15.their money, why can't we have our my knee? This is one of the old
:18:15. > :18:20.sites and this is one of the problems for the administrators.
:18:20. > :18:24.They need to sell these buildings before they can settle up with
:18:24. > :18:29.former employees and they have told us that the economic climate over
:18:29. > :18:33.the last three years has made that very difficult. Atlas holiday homes
:18:33. > :18:41.is not connected with an should not be confused in any way with a
:18:41. > :18:47.completely separate firm with a similar name operating in the area.
:18:47. > :18:52.The majority of claims are �4,500, but there is a chance the workers
:18:52. > :18:56.will not receive this. Employees are unsecured creditors and before
:18:56. > :19:01.them are people like secured creditors like the bank, so they
:19:01. > :19:06.will be paid first. And, really, it is a case of whatever is left, if
:19:06. > :19:10.there is anything left. Unfortunately, it is hard to put a
:19:10. > :19:15.time frame on that. There is one certainty, the sale of this
:19:15. > :19:18.property is crucial to insure former employees finally get their
:19:18. > :19:21.money. It's been described as the most
:19:21. > :19:23.successful Christmas market that Lincoln has ever hosted. It's
:19:23. > :19:28.thought the four-day event which closed yesterday saw more visitors
:19:28. > :19:32.than ever before. Among the options now being considered is the idea of
:19:32. > :19:42.making it a five-day event instead of the current four. Tarah Welsh
:19:42. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :20:01.reports. We saw customers every nine seconds.
:20:01. > :20:05.It had been a very good market. You could fill 11 bathtubs with the
:20:05. > :20:10.amount of mulled wine bought from this tour. The Christmas market has
:20:10. > :20:16.been here for three decades but was cancelled in 2000 and because of
:20:16. > :20:21.bad weather. Many welcomed this year's boost. We have taken just
:20:21. > :20:25.under two weeks' sales in over a period of three days a. The council
:20:25. > :20:30.estimate 200,000 visitors came to the Christmas market this year.
:20:30. > :20:35.Record numbers on Thursday and Saturday. They generated appease
:20:35. > :20:38.�10 million for the local economy. Critics say the event is too
:20:38. > :20:43.disruptive. The park-and-ride service is too expensive and too
:20:43. > :20:47.busy. On Saturday, parts of the market closed for health and safety
:20:47. > :20:53.reasons and some traders say an extra day would ease the crowds.
:20:53. > :20:58.has been the victim of its own success. It has really grown, and
:20:58. > :21:03.it is crowded. It opens at 4pm on Thursday and I wonder whether we
:21:03. > :21:08.could open on 4pm on Tuesday. Then right through to Sunday.
:21:08. > :21:11.council say extending the opening is just an idea. One of the
:21:11. > :21:18.problems to consider his it does have an impact on the people that
:21:18. > :21:22.live up here, things like the local school, so do we balance it with
:21:22. > :21:26.extending the market, disrupting, or do we manage the crowd
:21:26. > :21:31.differently? We will look at everything. Businesses hope that
:21:31. > :21:41.whatever is done, it will make the Christmas as merry as this one.
:21:41. > :21:42.
:21:43. > :21:46.A great success. 18 days after he left Hull City,
:21:46. > :21:49.Nigel Pearson was back at the club as Leicester City manager. But if
:21:49. > :21:51.he thought his inside knowledge about the Tigers would be a route
:21:51. > :21:54.to success, he was wrong. Here's our sports reporter Simon Clark.
:21:54. > :21:59.A few days ago, he was the manager of Hull City but Nigel Pearson's
:21:59. > :22:04.plotting of his old club's downfall did not go to plan. Thanks to an
:22:04. > :22:12.eagle eyed official, the Tigers and a penalty. The Leicester man was
:22:12. > :22:18.dispatched from the field. Matty Fryer put City ahead. Even with 10
:22:18. > :22:22.men, Leicester were dangerous as they proved when they scored a fine
:22:22. > :22:29.equaliser. The Tigers in the second half pressed for a winner which
:22:29. > :22:36.proved elusive, until this... 1-1... Left foot, he has done it
:22:36. > :22:40.again! Aigner, obviously, their strengths and weaknesses. Today
:22:40. > :22:44.was... We made life difficult for ourselves so disappointing not to
:22:44. > :22:51.get anything out of the game, but credit to them. How hard was at to
:22:51. > :22:55.see Nigel? It was strange. It was odd. Like their say, it is when
:22:55. > :23:03.your professionalism cuts and, and make sure you play the game.
:23:03. > :23:07.win was the thing they needed before their game with Birmingham.
:23:07. > :23:11.You look at the atmosphere on Saturday, it was fantastic. And
:23:11. > :23:16.when this place is rocking, it is intimidating for any a wayside and
:23:16. > :23:23.we need that, week in, week out. will take him some time but he will
:23:23. > :23:28.be OK. He is one of our own. experience builds up, he will do us
:23:28. > :23:31.good and the team will support him as well. That seems enough, then,
:23:31. > :23:34.for these fans to brave a cold Wednesday night out against
:23:34. > :23:37.Birmingham. And Hull City could face record
:23:37. > :23:42.signing Jimmy Bullard in the third round of the FA Cup. The Tigers
:23:42. > :23:45.have been drawn against Bullard's Ipswich Town. Grimsby Town will
:23:45. > :23:55.face Sheffield United if they beat Salisbury in a replay. The Mariners
:23:55. > :23:58.managed a goalless draw against them on Saturday in Wiltshire.
:23:58. > :24:01.It's been one of the big talking points of the year. The weather's
:24:01. > :24:04.kept us all guessing over the last few months and brought some
:24:04. > :24:07.unexpected surprises. November was one of the mildest on record but
:24:07. > :24:11.now temperatures have dropped and today parts of Yorkshire have seen
:24:11. > :24:21.their first snow falls of winter. Phil Connell reports on our
:24:21. > :24:25.
:24:25. > :24:30.In case we had forgotten, December's arrived with a few sharp
:24:30. > :24:33.reminders of winter. This was the Yorkshire Dales this morning, with
:24:33. > :24:39.flurries of snow also seen in East Yorkshire. Freezing conditions
:24:39. > :24:43.which have brought a smile to the face of this coal merchant. I have
:24:43. > :24:48.been in a coal trade for 46 years. We have had the warmest November I
:24:48. > :24:54.have ever known. But today the firm has never stopped ringing.
:24:54. > :24:59.coldest place this morning was Langtoft at minus two, a chilly
:24:59. > :25:03.contrast of highs of around 12 degrees in November. For the garden,
:25:03. > :25:07.more confusion. On this allotment, the more seasonal temperatures have
:25:07. > :25:16.been well come to. It helps to actually get rid of some of the
:25:16. > :25:21.disease has, it helps to get rid of pests. This time last year, there
:25:21. > :25:24.was little chance of that. Several days of heavy stone blob of
:25:24. > :25:27.gritters working round the clock. This year, East Yorkshire gritters
:25:27. > :25:32.say they are well prepared and until now there has been no chance
:25:32. > :25:39.to prove it. We have been prepared from the beginning of September. We
:25:39. > :25:45.are out there, ready to roll, and we are out there today. The first
:25:45. > :25:52.sight of winter brought a busy day for this shopkeeper. With sledges,
:25:52. > :25:56.shovels and salt. People see the snow coming down, a bit of a flurry.
:25:56. > :26:02.There was a bit of a panic. People wanted to get sledges and avoid the
:26:02. > :26:08.panic of last year for. After last year's wintery weather, preparation
:26:08. > :26:15.is key. Shovel, sold, and dish Sledge. This is one reporter are
:26:15. > :26:21.ready for all eventualities. -- shovel, salt and Sledge.
:26:21. > :26:27.Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines. France and
:26:27. > :26:31.Germany agreed to any treaty to tackle the eurozone countries --
:26:31. > :26:34.crisis. They want to deal in a few months prompting a call for a
:26:34. > :26:39.referendum in a Britain. The Government is called to be more
:26:39. > :26:49.honest about budget cuts. Tomorrow's weather, a mixture of
:26:49. > :26:52.sunny intervals, a mixture, with top temperatures of six.
:26:52. > :26:59.We asked how Humberside police can save money and thank you for the
:26:59. > :27:05.was by his. On Twitter. But -- I applaud the
:27:05. > :27:09.honesty. James says, they can still spend �30 million on a new police
:27:09. > :27:12.station but they could have used that from their budget and done up
:27:12. > :27:17.some of the old stations and may does saving.
:27:17. > :27:22.Steve, start with a helicopter - an absolute waste of money. There is
:27:23. > :27:25.no way the police can justified tracing a �600 stolen car in a
:27:25. > :27:31.helicopter. On Twitter, Humberside police
:27:31. > :27:36.should stop buying �58,000 cars, that seems fair to me. Put more
:27:36. > :27:41.police on bikes instead of spending money on flashy cars.