04/01/2012

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:00:06. > :00:09.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines: Social

:00:09. > :00:19.networking comes under scrutiny again as a council officer is under

:00:19. > :00:20.

:00:20. > :00:24.investigation for posting an offensive comment on Twitter.

:00:24. > :00:28.You should always be aware that you are a representative of the

:00:28. > :00:32.organisation you are employed by or connected with. You need to think

:00:32. > :00:34.about the consequences of what you post in relation to that employment

:00:34. > :00:37.or those connections. Trying to do better - a council

:00:37. > :00:39.admits they've got work to do to improve care services for older

:00:39. > :00:44.people. Celebrations planned to mark 100

:00:44. > :00:47.years since the official opening of the port of Immingham.

:00:48. > :00:55.A step too far? Why the green figure not the green man will be

:00:55. > :01:00.helping you cross the road in Lincolnshire.

:01:00. > :01:10.Very windy and a wet night ahead. The metaphors have a warning in

:01:10. > :01:16.

:01:16. > :01:20.force for gales. All the details An investigation is under way after

:01:20. > :01:25.an official from the digital inclusion Unit at North

:01:25. > :01:32.Lincolnshire Council posted a comment about pub-goers on Twitter.

:01:32. > :01:36.He referred to users of one local as tattooed chaps. In fact, the pub,

:01:37. > :01:41.the foundry arms, has got a special room for children with special

:01:41. > :01:45.needs. It is the latest in a series of rows about comments posted on

:01:45. > :01:48.line. Another social media row - this

:01:48. > :01:51.time it's brewing over this pub. The Foundry Arms was closed in July

:01:51. > :01:55.after being open two weeks, because of safety concerns about the car

:01:56. > :02:01.park beside it. It's re-opening has been delayed - promoting an online

:02:01. > :02:04.debate over its future. And this is the tweet by a council officer from

:02:04. > :02:09.North Lincolnshire Council that has angered people. It said, "Demolish

:02:09. > :02:17.the dump. It's just a haven for all day boozers and tattooed chavs.".

:02:17. > :02:21.It was brought to Councillor Mark Kirk's attention. I was contacted

:02:21. > :02:27.by a local resident who has got to autistic children. She felt very

:02:27. > :02:30.upset by it. I reported it to the chief executive and a understand

:02:30. > :02:34.that an investigation is to take place. The newly refurbished pub

:02:34. > :02:36.had a children's play area staffed by carers and a room designed for

:02:36. > :02:39.children with special needs. An online campaign is calling for it

:02:39. > :02:46.to be re-opened. Today in Scunthopre businesses and locals

:02:46. > :02:50.had a view. You can't say this because kids

:02:50. > :02:55.used to go there and mums used to go there and have a nice time.

:02:55. > :03:02.brother took all his kids in there every week. I think it was a good

:03:02. > :03:05.idea for him to go there. I think it is, you can't get away from it.

:03:06. > :03:08.It should be opened again because there is no reason why it shouldn't.

:03:08. > :03:11.This isn't the only time social network sites have caused problems.

:03:11. > :03:14.In Hull, two teachers resigned after being involved in an internet

:03:14. > :03:16.discussion where people from East Hull were called "inbred". And,

:03:16. > :03:19.four officers from Lincolnshire police and one from Humberside have

:03:19. > :03:27.been warned over the inappropriate use of Facebook in the past two

:03:27. > :03:30.years. This seems to becoming increasingly

:03:30. > :03:33.common and I'm surprised that people, particularly in

:03:33. > :03:39.organisations and in prominent organisations, have not cottoned on

:03:39. > :03:42.that they need to be very careful. North Lincolnshire Council has

:03:42. > :03:48.launched an internal investigation into what has happened. Meanwhile,

:03:48. > :03:50.the foundry arms's future is still uncertain as the social media row

:03:50. > :03:59.continues. I'm now joined by Twitter and

:03:59. > :04:03.social media expert Mark Shaw. Good evening. Are you surprise that

:04:03. > :04:08.people still make comments like this on social networking sites?

:04:08. > :04:11.it keeps me in business. The sad thing is that typically this

:04:11. > :04:15.happens for for you be -- for reasons. There is no guidance, no

:04:15. > :04:19.guidelines, no support and no training. If those were in place at

:04:19. > :04:21.the beginning of your employment, be it with the council or whatever

:04:21. > :04:25.but you are doing, a lot of the issues that people do would not

:04:25. > :04:30.happen. To be just of think about the consequences of making comments,

:04:30. > :04:35.and the impact that they might have? Exactly that. Far too many

:04:35. > :04:38.times people Tweet Drumquin they shouldn't, tweet out of anger,

:04:38. > :04:41.tweet comments that are completely inappropriate. They need to

:04:41. > :04:45.remember that often they are ambassadors for where they work.

:04:45. > :04:50.They might be celebrities, council officials, MPs, and there are

:04:50. > :04:56.ramifications. Are there any golden rules for those of us who Tweet to

:04:56. > :05:00.keep us out of trouble? Yes, there are. It all stems back to one thing,

:05:00. > :05:05.which is the basic principle of Twitter and the main gold mine is

:05:05. > :05:11.that it allows people to listen, to hear what people have to say. It is

:05:11. > :05:14.not to broadcast medium. To get on it and doesn't your constituents,

:05:14. > :05:18.listen to people that vote for you, listen to members of the public -

:05:18. > :05:22.that is where the real value is. Perhaps MPs and councillors should

:05:22. > :05:26.spend more time listening rather than broadcasting. And employers

:05:27. > :05:31.need to help employees? Absolutely. It is great value for businesses

:05:31. > :05:36.and people to be able to listen to conversations, find out what people

:05:36. > :05:39.are saying, find out what ideas they have, get some great feedback.

:05:39. > :05:42.Imagine as a councillor been able to have a surgery by you ask people

:05:42. > :05:47.what they think of the services, of the issues that are going on in

:05:47. > :05:53.that area. That information is incredibly value. Very interesting,

:05:53. > :05:56.Mark, thank you for talking to us. I'm sure you have a view on this.

:05:56. > :06:00.Should there be more restrictions on the social networking sites like

:06:00. > :06:03.Twitter and Facebook, or should they be used as an open forum where

:06:03. > :06:08.people can freely express their views? Do you work in an

:06:08. > :06:18.organisation where you have been given advice about how to use it?

:06:18. > :06:23.

:06:23. > :06:33.In a moment: Continued uncertainly for hundreds of BAe workers facing

:06:33. > :06:37.redundancy. Detectives in offer cap tonight

:06:37. > :06:41.revealed more details about a murder on the Queen's Sandringham

:06:41. > :06:47.estate. It has now been four days since the body of a young woman was

:06:47. > :06:52.discovered in woodland in the village of Amer. Our reporter Alex

:06:52. > :06:55.Dunlop is there. What is the latest on this case? Police officers have

:06:56. > :06:59.spent all day on a dirt track in a copse behind me, trying to search

:06:59. > :07:08.for clues that might help them identify this victim. What we do

:07:08. > :07:12.know is that behind the scenes police scientists have been trying

:07:12. > :07:17.to match DNA samples to establish the identity of the woman. Within

:07:17. > :07:21.the last hour, police say samples have not provided a DNA profile so

:07:21. > :07:25.they cannot get identify the victim. We know that she was between 15 and

:07:25. > :07:29.23 years of age, described as a young, white female. It is thought

:07:29. > :07:33.she had been there for between one and four months but we don't know

:07:33. > :07:38.if she had died before she came here. They are looking at cold

:07:38. > :07:42.cases, missing persons report. What is crucial is that two factors have

:07:42. > :07:49.highlighted that it could be the remains of a missing that the in

:07:49. > :07:55.teenager. -- Latvian. She is 17 years old, bang in the middle of

:07:55. > :08:00.the age range of the victim who died. Secondly, she was last seen

:08:00. > :08:04.in King's Lynn at the end of August, four months ago, and that falls

:08:04. > :08:11.within the period that the body may have been here. What happens next?

:08:11. > :08:16.Police said they will use more judicial measures -- to be shot

:08:16. > :08:21.methods to find that took this victim is -- traditional methods.

:08:21. > :08:25.Mounted police have joined a surge to look for a woman missing from

:08:25. > :08:32.her home in Hull. They have been looking around the fields today and

:08:32. > :08:35.local people are being asked to check their sheds and garages. The

:08:35. > :08:39.47-year-old has not been seen since 20th December.

:08:40. > :08:44.A rail link between Hull and it could get the go-ahead. In October,

:08:44. > :08:47.the Chancellor announced that the route will be electrified. Now

:08:47. > :08:51.ministers want to investigate electrifying of the leads to whole

:08:51. > :08:55.line as well. Hull City Council has admitted

:08:55. > :08:59.today that it has got more work to do when it comes to assessing the

:08:59. > :09:03.needs of the elderly in this city. The comments follow our story

:09:03. > :09:08.yesterday about Clarence Bamforth. His family got in touch with us to

:09:08. > :09:12.tell us that they called social services 20 times to ask for help

:09:12. > :09:22.for -- help. Age UK says everyone has their right to be fully

:09:22. > :09:22.

:09:22. > :10:04.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds

:10:04. > :10:09.assessed by their local authority. Thank you for your comments. One

:10:09. > :10:12.other broke -- person got in touch after last night programme - a 70-

:10:12. > :10:20.year-old who e-mailed us to tell us some of the problems she has had

:10:20. > :10:23.with Hull City Council over the issue of social care.

:10:23. > :10:33.I am sole carer to my husband. He needs everything going for him,

:10:33. > :10:34.

:10:34. > :10:41.from washing, shaving, feeding, toilet, shower... I first contacted

:10:41. > :10:47.Hull City Council for an assessment in the summer of 2010. They came to

:10:47. > :10:52.see us in 20th October 10, but I still have not got, here in January,

:10:52. > :10:56.a proper care package in place for my husband. My biggest fear is that

:10:56. > :11:01.if I don't have the right care package in place, and this creeps

:11:01. > :11:07.ever nearer every day, my husband may have to go into a nursing home.

:11:07. > :11:11.I really am terrified that one day I will have to make that decision.

:11:11. > :11:19.Hull City Council says that new procedures are now in place to

:11:19. > :11:22.improve services. Earlier I spoke to Councillor Rilba Jones, who has

:11:22. > :11:29.responsibility for adult care. I asked her how long she'd be

:11:29. > :11:31.prepared to wait to have a loved one assessed. It would very much

:11:31. > :11:38.depend on the circumstances, but I would definitely want something

:11:38. > :11:41.done soon. I don't think I could put an exact time on it. One, I

:11:41. > :11:49.want to reassure the public that we really are doing everything we can.

:11:49. > :11:53.But you have got some way to go? Yes, but there has been this

:11:53. > :11:57.problem when in June we had many vacancies due to the early

:11:57. > :12:03.retirement... Of oh, you are understaffed, are you? We have been,

:12:03. > :12:08.but I am able to tell you that we are advertising six occupational

:12:08. > :12:13.therapy posts next week, which will be very important. We are trying to

:12:13. > :12:20.work better with partner agencies, and that includes the voluntary

:12:20. > :12:24.sector, Age Concern UK, Hull churches home from housing with...

:12:24. > :12:30.So you accept that there is a problem and you are working on it?

:12:30. > :12:35.There has been a problem, and I am not aware of all the e-mails that I

:12:35. > :12:40.am being told about, and I just wish that people at least would get

:12:40. > :12:48.in touch with their local councillor. People do get in touch

:12:48. > :12:53.with me - I get a regular but small stream of things coming through so,

:12:53. > :13:02.you know, and we are very committed as an administration to the care of

:13:02. > :13:05.the elderly and vulnerable, and I feel very sorry if this is

:13:05. > :13:08.happening. I want them all looked into as a matter of urgency. Thank

:13:08. > :13:18.you for coming in tonight. After we talked about that last

:13:18. > :13:24.

:13:24. > :13:28.night's, there was a big response The Prime Minister will hold a

:13:28. > :13:32.meeting with BAE Systems after they agreed to extend its consultation

:13:32. > :13:37.period on redundancies, which should have ended on Boxing Day.

:13:37. > :13:43.There has rarely been an uneventful year at BAE Systems. Defence

:13:43. > :13:46.contracts are fickle at the best of times. 2011 was one of the toughest.

:13:46. > :13:51.Frank Melton police negotiations over the coming weeks will be

:13:51. > :13:55.crucial for him and colleagues. The company has agreed to extend its

:13:55. > :14:00.consultation period on the redundancies, and that gives a

:14:00. > :14:06.glimmer of hope to many, though it is mixed with uncertainty. Do I

:14:06. > :14:12.jump, if on offer comes up? For me and everybody, it is just not

:14:12. > :14:18.knowing. Some people have decided to go, younger ones, shall we say

:14:18. > :14:26.people below the age of 50. They think, I haven't got a future here,

:14:26. > :14:34.I will move on. The autumn and winter campaign to save the jobs

:14:34. > :14:38.has been energetic and sustained. The cycling to party conferences

:14:38. > :14:43.kept this high on the agenda, as did lobbying of Downing Street. One

:14:43. > :14:47.of the hopes is that the private investor can be brought in to

:14:48. > :14:51.takeover the Brough site before these skills are lost forever.

:14:51. > :15:01.There are companies that could invest here. We have a brilliant

:15:01. > :15:04.

:15:04. > :15:08.white voice -- a workforce. It led coming weeks, the chief executive

:15:08. > :15:12.of BAE Systems will meet with the Prime Minister. At the very least,

:15:12. > :15:20.hundreds of local families will be hoping that these talks give them

:15:20. > :15:24.some clarity about their futures. That is a story we have followed

:15:25. > :15:29.from the start, and we will continue to do so. Thank you for

:15:29. > :15:39.watching. Still ahead: Planning centenary celebrations for the port

:15:39. > :15:40.

:15:41. > :15:43.of Immingham. Looking back at the official opening 100 years ago. And

:15:43. > :15:53.we are like that the European premiere of the Iron Lady, a film

:15:53. > :15:58.

:15:58. > :16:08.Tonight's picture is of the rainstorm over Skegness beach,

:16:08. > :16:14.

:16:14. > :16:24.taken last night by Simon Wilkinson. Christopher said, last night's move

:16:24. > :16:31.

:16:31. > :16:38.was only half illuminated, but there can run a lot different.

:16:38. > :16:43.Let's look at the where bet for the next 24 I was. -- let's look at the

:16:43. > :16:53.where there for the next 24 are was. The there is a warning for gales

:16:53. > :16:54.

:16:54. > :16:57.fairly widely across Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire. There will be

:16:57. > :17:03.rain as well, and that will be about first thing in the morning,

:17:03. > :17:08.but it will turn brighter in the afternoon. This little pomp of high

:17:08. > :17:17.pressure means Friday should be better -- born poor of high

:17:17. > :17:26.pressure. Look at this shield of cloud. It is thickening all the

:17:26. > :17:30.while. I think we will see spots of rain turning into outbreaks of rain.

:17:30. > :17:39.A wild and wet night developing across our region. Temperatures

:17:39. > :17:49.will be about five Celsius. The sun will rise at 8:18am, setting at

:17:49. > :17:50.

:17:50. > :17:57.3:56pm. Quickly, I think that rain will clear away, just affect in

:17:57. > :18:02.Lincolnshire for a time. The afternoon will have some sunshine.

:18:02. > :18:07.Most places should be dry through the after them. Still very windy,

:18:07. > :18:14.and top temperatures close to normal. That is seven, possibly

:18:14. > :18:24.eight. That is 45 Fahrenheit. A better day on Friday. The weekend

:18:24. > :18:29.

:18:29. > :18:34.See you tomorrow. We are expecting high winds again this evening and

:18:34. > :18:39.into later tonight. Siobhan Robbins is at the Humber Bridge. There are

:18:39. > :18:45.problems for commuters last night. What is the situation like? We have

:18:45. > :18:51.lost the line to the Humber Bridge. We will try again. What is a

:18:51. > :18:57.situation like? As you can see, it is pretty windy. The water behind

:18:57. > :19:00.me is very choppy. On the bridge, there are warnings about the winds.

:19:00. > :19:05.It is not as bad as it was yesterday when I was crossing the

:19:06. > :19:10.bridge. The rain and wind was hammering on my car. If this gets

:19:11. > :19:15.worse, there are plans in place to keep everything going. East Riding

:19:15. > :19:22.Council have got three teams on standby, so if any trees come down

:19:22. > :19:30.overnight, you can get in touch. Trains are looking better at. East

:19:31. > :19:36.Coast Main Line have been up and down the lines moving fallen trees.

:19:36. > :19:44.The guidelines are to stay out of their rain and wind. Listen to a

:19:44. > :19:48.radio station for updates. Thank you. Now, a year-long celebration

:19:48. > :19:54.is being planned to mark 100 years since Immingham Dock was officially

:19:54. > :20:01.opened. In July 1912, King George V and Queen Mary perform the ceremony.

:20:01. > :20:09.Jo Makel has been looking back at its remarkable history. It is the

:20:09. > :20:15.UK's largest port by tonnage. Its 1,200 acre site handle a lot of

:20:15. > :20:19.goods last year, and its creation changed Immingham forever. In the

:20:19. > :20:26.early 1,900, it was still a tiny village of green lanes and marshy

:20:26. > :20:30.meadows. Its population was little more than 100. The railway wanted

:20:30. > :20:35.to expand Grimsby docks, and realise that at Immingham Creek,

:20:35. > :20:43.which is what it was, there was a deep-water channel. They decided

:20:43. > :20:48.that they would build, instead of expanding at Grimsby, they would

:20:48. > :20:55.build a dock at in them. Immingham's first import was more

:20:55. > :20:59.than 1,000 navvies, living in a community of hot. Six years later,

:20:59. > :21:09.their work was complete and the official opening of the dock was a

:21:09. > :21:09.

:21:09. > :21:17.grand affair. The King and Queen came into the dock itself, and

:21:17. > :21:20.schoolchildren whether. -- schoolchildren work there. Each

:21:20. > :21:25.child was given a special commemorative badge. Over their

:21:25. > :21:35.lifetime, they would see the dock change and grow. Cull and oi have

:21:35. > :21:43.been a constant, but the First World War... Coal and oil have been

:21:43. > :21:48.a constant. They will be a public open day in the summer. The porter

:21:48. > :21:51.operates every day, and we have to be strict about public access, but

:21:51. > :21:56.we do not celebrate 100 years that often. It is important to show the

:21:56. > :22:00.community what we do here. Through that be, exhibitions and events

:22:00. > :22:08.will mark the centenary and celebrate the growth of the dock

:22:08. > :22:13.and town together. Many know him as a little green man that helps you

:22:13. > :22:18.cross the road safely, but now five of these new signs have gone up in

:22:18. > :22:24.Lincolnshire that remain him as a green figure. It has caused a

:22:24. > :22:27.debate, with some claiming it is political correctness gone mad.

:22:27. > :22:33.There is never usually much of a debate about crossing the road,

:22:33. > :22:39.until you think about what it is that tells you it is safe to cross.

:22:39. > :22:42.Green crossing man. It has always been the green man. Not according

:22:42. > :22:47.to Lincolnshire County Council. They have some new signs on

:22:47. > :22:52.crossings, like this one in Boston, to only cross with the green figure.

:22:52. > :23:00.It is a bit of madness, I think. We have been used to the green man.

:23:00. > :23:04.has always been a green man. could be pink! It has caused some

:23:04. > :23:09.politicians to blame political correctness. You wait for the green

:23:09. > :23:13.man, that is what people have done for generations. There is no sexism

:23:13. > :23:17.in that. They are not just in Boston. Look at these brand new

:23:17. > :23:21.ones in Bracebridge Heath, a little bit more confusing as this

:23:21. > :23:25.particular green figure did not work. Other examples of signs that

:23:25. > :23:30.did not work include the lollipop man who was stopped from using a

:23:30. > :23:34.thank you sign, the cycle lane that it cyclist into trees and the

:23:34. > :23:41.roundabout that tells you not to park on it with double yellow lines.

:23:41. > :23:46.There is logic behind these recent measures. It was deemed that in the

:23:46. > :23:51.Highways bible of traffic signs that figure would be used. It has

:23:51. > :23:54.been around since 1994, but only just been noticed. He if we are

:23:54. > :23:59.going to refer to it as a figure, maybe we should not change the

:23:59. > :24:04.reference but changed their signal itself. Make it in touch with

:24:04. > :24:12.today's society. Maybe one day have a man, the next day a woman, the

:24:12. > :24:17.next a figure family. Then we would all be happy. Simon has come up

:24:17. > :24:22.with a diplomatic answer! Now, the life of Grantham's most famous

:24:22. > :24:25.daughter is being given its premiere tonight. The Iron Lady

:24:25. > :24:31.stars Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, with her husband played

:24:31. > :24:41.by Jim Broadbent. The Right Honourable Gentleman knows very

:24:41. > :24:43.

:24:43. > :24:50.well that we have no choice but to close the school. His union

:24:50. > :24:54.paymasters have called a strike deliberately to cripple our economy.

:24:54. > :24:58.Teachers cannot teach when there is no heating, no lighting in their

:24:59. > :25:04.classrooms, and I ask the Right Honourable Gentleman, whose fault

:25:04. > :25:09.is that? There we are. We went to Grantham this afternoon and asked

:25:09. > :25:12.people how interested they are in the former prime minister's story.

:25:12. > :25:16.Whether you like her politics are dislike her politics, she has the

:25:16. > :25:19.honour of being the first ever Prime Minister to be a woman.

:25:19. > :25:26.think there will be a bit of interest. When her book came out,

:25:26. > :25:30.there was a great queue to buy it. I would love to see it. I deduce

:25:30. > :25:36.the left Mayor where she was born. I do not really know much else

:25:36. > :25:41.about this and I probably wouldn't watch it. -- I used to live near

:25:41. > :25:47.where she was born. Lizo Mzimba is at the British Film Institute. What

:25:47. > :25:52.has been a reaction so far? It has been quite next. I think that's a

:25:52. > :25:56.fair way of saying how the reviews have gone. One thing most viewers

:25:56. > :26:02.seem to be universal on is that Meryl Streep gives an astonishing

:26:02. > :26:07.performance. She really inhabit the character of Margaret Thatcher the

:26:07. > :26:11.way people remember her, and also the way she is in later life when

:26:11. > :26:19.she is suffering from dementia, which is a major part of the move

:26:19. > :26:28.it. Margaret Thatcher Self is quite a divisive figure in, and the movie

:26:28. > :26:38.is like that. -- Margaret Thatcher herself. Meryl Streep is being

:26:38. > :26:43.tipped to be nominated for an Oscar and to win. Thank you very much.

:26:43. > :26:48.They have a blue carpet rather than a red carpet. The film is on

:26:48. > :26:54.general release from Friday. What's have a recap of the headlines. The

:26:54. > :26:57.men who murdered Stephen Lawrence are jailed. The social networking

:26:57. > :27:07.comes under scrutiny as a council officer is under investigation for

:27:07. > :27:09.

:27:09. > :27:13.posting inappropriate comments. The Response coming in on the subject

:27:14. > :27:23.of Twitter. Chris says, people should be allowed to tweets how

:27:24. > :27:24.

:27:24. > :27:27.they see fit. People can play: Follow if they do not want to. --

:27:27. > :27:33.people can not follow people if they do not want to. Someone else