:00:07. > :00:13.Good evening. Welcome to Look North. The headlines: questions over wind
:00:13. > :00:16.farms and the sweeteners being paid to communities. These developers
:00:16. > :00:21.can come along and offer tens of thousands of pounds to local
:00:21. > :00:25.communities - it is verging on bribery. Doubts over the future of
:00:25. > :00:28.North Sea Ferries when new pollution rules come into force.
:00:28. > :00:31.A woman who lost two family members to cancer, calls on the government
:00:31. > :00:41.to improve survival rates. Another council flies into the row
:00:41. > :00:43.
:00:43. > :00:53.over garden flags. And a touch of spring this weekend. You weekend
:00:53. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :00:58.forecast coming up short life. -- shortly. Good evening.
:00:58. > :01:01.It has been claimed that rural communities are being effectively
:01:01. > :01:03.bribed by wind farm developers who are offering large sums of money as
:01:03. > :01:06.compensation. One East Yorkshire village where five giant turbines
:01:06. > :01:12.are being built has received �60,000 from the developers with
:01:12. > :01:15.promises of more cash each year for the next 25 years. The practice is
:01:15. > :01:18.entirely legal and the company behind the scheme says it wants to
:01:18. > :01:28.be a good neighbour, but some residents feel they have been
:01:28. > :01:29.
:01:29. > :01:36.bought out. It is an East Yorkshire village with the brand new hall and
:01:36. > :01:40.rebuilt church and a new children's playground. The �60,000 investment
:01:40. > :01:47.has since been in strings attached - a price to pay which has left the
:01:47. > :01:54.village divided. Many of us feel we had been bought out. Aletta they
:01:54. > :02:00.have money into the they Lench - and that will get used up quickly.
:02:00. > :02:06.-- a little bit of money. We have 25 years at least of the wind farm
:02:06. > :02:12.here, I do not think it is right. It is here that the five giant wind
:02:12. > :02:17.turbines are being built. The developers have paid for that it --
:02:17. > :02:22.the village facelift. Here in the new village hall, the chairman of
:02:22. > :02:27.the village committee says it has been controversial but believes the
:02:27. > :02:32.best deal has been secured for the village. We had no shop, the
:02:32. > :02:38.village hall was derelict we had no playground for the Kents, so in
:02:38. > :02:43.reality they had brought her some very useful money to improve things.
:02:43. > :02:48.-- they have brought us. Cash payments have become accepted ways
:02:48. > :02:52.of working and in the future payments can be made too many more
:02:52. > :02:57.East Yorkshire villages. 11 sites are being built in the county and a
:02:57. > :03:01.further seven are being considered by council planners.
:03:01. > :03:07.acknowledges that the structures do have an impact on the local
:03:07. > :03:13.environment. Yes, there should be some sort of recompense to those
:03:13. > :03:18.local people for that situation. Several windfarms will be sited
:03:18. > :03:24.close to this famous walking writ. Villagers feel they may be
:03:24. > :03:29.compromised by the cash payments. Money should not come into it. If I
:03:29. > :03:33.was to go up to a councillor and offer him �1,000, he would not be
:03:33. > :03:39.able to make a decision on that and yet these developers can come along
:03:39. > :03:44.and offer thousands of McCowans to communities. It is verging on
:03:45. > :03:49.bribery. -- thousands of pounds. Some say Christmas has arrived
:03:49. > :03:54.early but it is at a significant cost. We would welcome your
:03:54. > :03:58.thoughts on this one. Should villagers feel uncomfortable about
:03:58. > :04:08.these payments or should they welcome the investment in local
:04:08. > :04:18.
:04:18. > :04:23.communities? If you have a view on I look forward to hearing from you.
:04:23. > :04:27.In a moment - the Lincoln swimmer Lizzie Simmonds has her last shot
:04:27. > :04:29.at the Olympics. The result of her race is coming up.
:04:29. > :04:33.The ferry operator P&O is warning that its entire Hull operation
:04:33. > :04:36.could be at risk if new pollution laws are passed. The company claims
:04:36. > :04:39.more than 600 jobs and its services between Hull, Rotterdam and
:04:39. > :04:49.Zeebrugge will be threatened, if the EU asks all ferry companies to
:04:49. > :04:52.
:04:52. > :04:57.switch to a less polluting and more expensive fuel. One million
:04:57. > :05:01.passengers per year use the ferries from Hull to is a bigger and
:05:01. > :05:05.Rotterdam. The European Commission is becoming concerned about the
:05:05. > :05:10.quantities of it air polluting sulphur dioxide which ships like
:05:11. > :05:15.he's in it. The new rules will require all ferries to switch to a
:05:15. > :05:22.less polluting fuel, but there are worries that this is costly and
:05:22. > :05:29.could threaten jobs. We have to fight her corner to keep a viable.
:05:30. > :05:33.It is a tall order. Overall, it is hard to say what the consequence
:05:33. > :05:40.will be. We have to fight it and try and keep going but it will be
:05:40. > :05:44.very difficult. The new laws on clean air sulphur dioxide fuel
:05:44. > :05:50.coming up in 2015 but he no says it is more expensive and will increase
:05:50. > :05:54.their fuel costs by �60 million a year. It says that could mean the
:05:54. > :05:59.possible closure of its Hull operation where more than 600
:05:59. > :06:04.people are employed. One of the arguments is that if it has to
:06:04. > :06:09.reduce its operation out of how all, then more freight traffic will be
:06:09. > :06:14.diverted to the Channel, thus causing more pollution - the very
:06:14. > :06:18.thing the government is trying to reduce. The UK already has sulphur
:06:18. > :06:23.emission limits, the European Commission wants to target
:06:23. > :06:28.passenger ferries. The move is being investigated by the Transport
:06:28. > :06:32.Select Committee. It is important to reduce emissions. This seems
:06:32. > :06:36.that emissions from ships go to form the largest part of those
:06:36. > :06:41.emissions. This action does have to be taking but it has to be
:06:41. > :06:46.reasonable. It is about balancing the needs for the environment with
:06:46. > :06:52.the need to protect jobs. Piano or is not the only company to believe
:06:52. > :06:58.the proposed European legislation has not got this balance right.
:06:58. > :07:01.What is the background to this legislation? As I mentioned in the
:07:01. > :07:07.report, there is already European legislation to which P&O have
:07:07. > :07:12.signed up. It has no problem with this and says it is a responsible
:07:12. > :07:16.company. What is happening now is that the European Commission is
:07:16. > :07:21.imposing an extra layer of legislation on passenger ferries
:07:21. > :07:28.using the North Sea and the Channel ports. Hal is hit the hardest by
:07:28. > :07:33.this because these ferries make longer ferries and use more fuel.
:07:33. > :07:39.How serious a threat is this to jobs? There is no threat of
:07:39. > :07:43.imminent job losses. Piano is saying it wants time to explore
:07:43. > :07:50.things like technology and reduce its emissions and to lobby the
:07:50. > :07:56.European Commission. There are hopes to get the introduction of
:07:56. > :08:00.this legislation pushed back to 2020. If it is still in place in
:08:00. > :08:04.2015, the company is saying there will be a genuine risk of job
:08:04. > :08:06.losses. Thank you very much. A Lincolnshire charity says more
:08:06. > :08:09.than 300 jobs are under serious threat because vital funding has
:08:09. > :08:11.been withdrawn by the local authority. Linkage Community Trust
:08:11. > :08:14.provides education for students with learning disabilities but they
:08:14. > :08:24.say the county council is now drastically cutting back on the
:08:24. > :08:24.
:08:25. > :08:28.numbers of students it sends to their Linkage colleges. The county
:08:28. > :08:33.council say they are committed to providing the service for students
:08:33. > :08:37.but are reviewing where they spend their budget. I'm joined by a
:08:37. > :08:44.member of the trust. Good evening. How likely is it that some jobs
:08:44. > :08:49.will go? It is extremely likely at the moment. We're in A90 day
:08:49. > :08:53.consultation with her staff. Unless we see a change in policy by the
:08:53. > :08:58.local authority, it is likely that a large number of staff will be
:08:58. > :09:06.leaving as. If they're sending fewer students, you do not need as
:09:06. > :09:10.many staff, is that no right? funding has not been cut. The local
:09:10. > :09:15.authority makes decisions about which students can come to us. They
:09:15. > :09:18.understand they said earlier it is about parental choice. Parents will
:09:18. > :09:22.be delighted to know there is a return to parental choice because
:09:22. > :09:28.we have worked with a large number of parents over the last year who
:09:28. > :09:32.have been told there is no choice for that their children. The county
:09:32. > :09:42.council have tonight issued a statement - young people continue
:09:42. > :09:49.
:09:49. > :09:54.What is wrong with them doing that? If that was the situation, there
:09:54. > :09:57.would be nothing wrong with that but as I have said, we work with a
:09:57. > :10:04.large number of families whose parents had been told there is not
:10:04. > :10:11.a choice for their children. We are an outstanding college which
:10:11. > :10:13.specialises in meeting the need of young disabled people. If this
:10:13. > :10:18.means that you and students with learning disabilities are going
:10:18. > :10:22.into mainstream schools, we should be welcoming that, should we not?
:10:22. > :10:27.For many young people mainstream education is absolutely appropriate
:10:27. > :10:33.and we would not question that. But families with young people
:10:33. > :10:35.themselves are telling us that for a certain young people, mainstream
:10:35. > :10:41.colleges are a challenging environment in which they do not
:10:41. > :10:45.thrive. We had a large public consultation event last week when a
:10:45. > :10:52.young man told us he had found mainstream totally confusing.
:10:52. > :10:57.must leave it there, thank you for joining us tonight. If you want to
:10:57. > :11:00.be in touch, you know what to do. One of the government's top
:11:00. > :11:02.ministers has told Look North the Humber can be one of the world's
:11:02. > :11:05.leading sites in offshore renewable enemy.
:11:05. > :11:07.The Chief Secretary to the Treasury has visited the area to launch the
:11:07. > :11:17.new Humber local Enterprise Partnership. He says the government
:11:17. > :11:19.
:11:19. > :11:24.is committed to seeing industry develop here. The Humber has
:11:24. > :11:28.everything you need to be a world leader in this business. The port
:11:28. > :11:33.facilities, the businesses, the skills, they all come together in
:11:33. > :11:37.this region. It is one of the best places in the UK to do this work.
:11:37. > :11:40.Police say the lorry driver who was injured in a crash on the A180 near
:11:40. > :11:44.Immingham has died. The lorry driven by Mark Edgar from Suffolk
:11:44. > :11:46.crashed into the central reservation yesterday lunchtime.
:11:46. > :11:49.The road was closed between Europarc and Stallingborough for
:11:49. > :11:51.several hours. A workman has been airlifted to hospital, after a
:11:51. > :11:54.trench collapsed on him in Lincolnshire this afternoon.
:11:54. > :11:57.Police were called to help the man, in his forties, who was working for
:11:57. > :12:00.Anglian Water in Holbeach. He was taken to the Pilgrim Hospital in
:12:00. > :12:07.Boston with a suspected broken leg. The Health and Safety Executive is
:12:07. > :12:10.looking into the incident. An agreement has been reached over
:12:10. > :12:13.who will fit the bill for directing traffic during parades in Grantham.
:12:13. > :12:17.Last night we heard from an organiser of the Remembrance Day
:12:17. > :12:20.parade who said she would rather go to prison than have to pay to hold
:12:21. > :12:23.the event. Today at a meeting with their local councillor,
:12:23. > :12:32.organisations agreed to stick to a parade route that requires minimum
:12:33. > :12:38.policing and the council will fund cost of traffic signs. We have
:12:38. > :12:45.agreed to have a common writ, all of the organisations will stick to
:12:45. > :12:49.it. They will go down the high street. We were seriously
:12:49. > :12:56.considering cancelling the pay part of St George's Day and just having
:12:56. > :13:03.a service. -- the parade part. But as a result of this meeting, piece
:13:03. > :13:07.seems to have broken out. They prefer watching. Still ahead -
:13:07. > :13:12.another council warns a member of the public not to fly a flag in
:13:12. > :13:22.their garden. We're back at the swimming pool in
:13:22. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:42.London to seek Lizzie Simmonds Keep your pictures coming in. Thank
:13:42. > :13:45.
:13:45. > :13:50.you for that. Apparently there is someone else in
:13:50. > :13:55.Scunthorpe who does not have a son called Darren! Were they talking
:13:55. > :14:04.about you last night? about you last night?
:14:04. > :14:14.Here is the weather: There is a touch of spring across East
:14:14. > :14:17.
:14:17. > :14:27.Yorkshire. This high pressure will drift up towards us. Most of next
:14:27. > :14:33.
:14:33. > :14:42.week will be dry as well. There is a complication in the next few
:14:42. > :14:52.hours. There is a band of drizzle coming down from the north-west. A
:14:52. > :15:01.
:15:01. > :15:08.mild night to come. The sun will rise in the morning at 6:27am.
:15:08. > :15:16.There might be the odd bit of drizzle first thing tomorrow. Good
:15:16. > :15:26.sunny breaks coming through. Temperatures will respond. The
:15:26. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:32.average for this time of the year is nine Celsius. It will be 15
:15:32. > :15:42.across Lincolnshire. What ever you are it will feel like spring.
:15:42. > :15:49.
:15:49. > :15:58.Lesson breeze on Sunday. -- lesson I like that line, dry for the whole
:15:58. > :16:02.of next week! Have a good weekend. A woman from Scunthorpe who has
:16:02. > :16:07.lost two family members to one of the most aggressive forms of cancer
:16:07. > :16:12.is looking at ways to improve survival rates. Maggie Watts'
:16:12. > :16:17.husband died from pancreatic cancer three years ago, 40 years after his
:16:17. > :16:22.mother died from the same illness. A cancer charity says that survival
:16:22. > :16:27.rates have hardly improved in recent decades.
:16:27. > :16:31.Kevin Watts was a fit and healthy 45-year-old. When he started
:16:31. > :16:38.getting stomach pains nobody thought it was serious. Just weeks
:16:38. > :16:44.later he was told he was dying from pancreatic cancer. I have lost a
:16:44. > :16:49.husband. We then found out that his mother
:16:49. > :16:55.had also died of pancreatic cancer. It is often termed the silent
:16:56. > :17:00.killer. We wanted to be a cancer that people survive. Typically
:17:00. > :17:05.people have just six months to live after diagnosis. Only three % of
:17:06. > :17:14.patients are still alive five years later. There were 8,000 deaths in
:17:14. > :17:17.2009. That is nearly 22 people per day.
:17:17. > :17:23.Actor Patrick Swayze's public battle with their illness a couple
:17:23. > :17:27.of years ago highlighted how tough the disease is.
:17:27. > :17:33.Maggie Watts is now try to collect 100,000 signatures to force MPs to
:17:33. > :17:38.debate the condition in Parliament. Survival rates have hardly changed
:17:38. > :17:43.within the last 40 years. I am happy to support her in her
:17:43. > :17:48.campaign to raise awareness. Sandwiched between the stomach and
:17:48. > :17:53.the spine, by the time malignant cells are detected, it is often too
:17:53. > :18:01.late. The pancreas is quite deep in the
:18:01. > :18:08.body, so you cannot actually see it. By the time it has been diagnosed
:18:08. > :18:13.it may have spread to the liver and lungs.
:18:13. > :18:19.He did not crumble when he was dying. Kevin fought to stay alive
:18:19. > :18:29.as long as he could. In his memory Magee is determined to improve the
:18:29. > :18:31.
:18:31. > :18:38.chances of survival for others. Thank you for everybody who got in
:18:38. > :18:42.touch regarding regional assemblies. Campaigners say and regional
:18:42. > :18:47.assembly would lead to more government money being spent in our
:18:47. > :18:53.region. We want a regional development agency. The Tories have
:18:53. > :19:00.scrapped that. We are left with small bodies that do not have the
:19:00. > :19:03.resources or the powers to make a difference.
:19:03. > :19:13.That was John Prescott talking to me last night.
:19:13. > :19:42.
:19:42. > :19:45.We have had some a reaction from Thank you for all those. Within the
:19:45. > :19:50.last few minutes Lizzie Simmonds has been swimming for a place in
:19:50. > :19:52.the Olympic Games. She was in the final of the 200 metres backstroke
:19:53. > :20:02.at the British Swimming Championships. Our correspondent
:20:02. > :20:08.has been watching her. How did she This is live. You could find it on
:20:08. > :20:15.the red button right now. This is the final of the 200 metres.
:20:15. > :20:22.That lady out in front goes by the name of Lizzie Simmonds. There she
:20:22. > :20:30.is qualifying for the Games. You can see the big smile on her face.
:20:30. > :20:37.Look at that. She has qualified for the Games.
:20:37. > :20:43.The person beside her beta at the start of the week. -- defeated her
:20:43. > :20:47.at the start of the week. Ms E Simons is now one of three
:20:47. > :20:56.former Lincoln Vulcans to have qualified for the Games. -- Lizzie
:20:56. > :21:02.Simmonds. It was all allies on the 100 metres
:21:02. > :21:06.breaststroke when Kate he would an Sophie Allen went for glory.
:21:06. > :21:15.It was an opportunity to cement an Olympic place.
:21:15. > :21:19.A place in the top two was required. She did it. Sophie Allen was third.
:21:19. > :21:26.This is all lot of other moment. They will be so many more people in
:21:26. > :21:32.here. It will be awesome. She has put everything into training to get
:21:32. > :21:42.to the Olympics and she has done it. Sophie Allen's big chance came in
:21:42. > :21:45.
:21:45. > :21:52.the medley event. The nation concentrated on the talented leader,
:21:52. > :21:57.but Sophie Allen finished second. Sophie Allen is a new member of the
:21:57. > :22:06.British Olympic team. I knew I could do it. I knew I had the nerve
:22:06. > :22:14.to do it. I am chuffed. Now they hoped to repeat the
:22:14. > :22:23.achievement at the Olympic Games. We should also give credit to the
:22:23. > :22:28.coach. He coached all three youngsters.
:22:28. > :22:33.Another Olympic hopeful has been an action in the last few minutes.
:22:33. > :22:35.Richard Buck just failed to make the final of the 400 metres at the
:22:35. > :22:40.World Indoor Championships in Istanbul. He finished third in his
:22:40. > :22:48.semi-final. Tomorrow Hull City welcome Ipswich
:22:48. > :22:58.Tomorrow Hull City welcome Ipswich Town to the KC Stadium. There is
:22:58. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:10.live commentary of that on the radio.
:23:10. > :23:10.
:23:10. > :23:15.radio. Grimsby Town's batch is OnDigital.
:23:15. > :23:22.Hull FC face one of the hardest challenges of the season when the
:23:22. > :23:28.challenge -- win in the face St Helens.
:23:28. > :23:34.They still have work to do according to their coach. I am
:23:34. > :23:44.happy with our defence. We have put a lot of work into that. We have
:23:44. > :23:46.
:23:46. > :23:53.got a long way to go obviously. could follow that game at live on
:23:54. > :23:57.BBC Radio Humberside from 8pm deceiving. -- tonight.
:23:57. > :24:03.The flying of pirate flags has become something of an issue over
:24:03. > :24:07.the past two weeks. Someone else has now fallen foul of the lot.
:24:07. > :24:13.This time it is a pub owner from East Yorkshire. He has been told to
:24:13. > :24:19.take down his Jolly Roger flag from a children's play area or face
:24:19. > :24:29.action from the council. Remember Anthony and his private
:24:29. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:36.flag? He received a full apology from East Lindsey District Council
:24:36. > :24:41.after they conceded that they were too heavy handed. It was an
:24:41. > :24:51.unnecessary approach. I am very happy that I can take the flak up.
:24:51. > :24:55.But there is another problem now. Meet Vito. He runs a pub. He has
:24:55. > :25:01.been flying a Jolly Roger flag in that the children's played area for
:25:01. > :25:11.the past year. Be said to me that a complaint has been made about the
:25:11. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:20.flag. They said they will have forced it if we do not take it down.
:25:20. > :25:25.I question that. It was for real. The council has given the same
:25:25. > :25:30.reasons as the reasons given by East Lindsey council. Only certain
:25:30. > :25:34.flags are permitted to be flown. To recap, the only facts that can
:25:34. > :25:41.be flown our national flags, the flags of the Commonwealth, the
:25:41. > :25:45.European Union, the United Nations, any English county, and the flag of
:25:45. > :25:51.any seemed. The fact that Vito cannot fly a Jolly Roger is winding
:25:51. > :25:58.up the locals. It is supposed to be a free country. It is a waste of
:25:58. > :26:03.public money. This country has gone mad. This man is a flag expert. He
:26:03. > :26:13.has been tried to get things changed. It is silly. There should
:26:13. > :26:13.
:26:13. > :26:18.be some kind of flexibility. There is now a stand-off. I will not take
:26:18. > :26:26.it down. Until the law is changed it seems that this problem will
:26:26. > :26:33.keep getting flagged up. AB vexillologist. We have all
:26:33. > :26:37.AB vexillologist. We have all learned something new.
:26:37. > :26:42.A round-up of the headlines. Italy condemns Britain's decision
:26:42. > :26:46.to try and rescue the hostages in Nigeria.
:26:46. > :26:50.Whether for Saturday - dry and bright with sunny spells. Very mild.
:26:50. > :26:54.Top temperatures in the brighter spots around 15 Celsius.
:26:54. > :26:59.spots around 15 Celsius. That is the weather.
:26:59. > :27:06.A big response on the subject of sweeteners and wind farms. Somebody
:27:06. > :27:09.said, why not cheap electricity for life from cheek turbine?
:27:09. > :27:19.Another person has said it is a good idea for villages to get money
:27:19. > :27:20.
:27:20. > :27:26.from wind farm companies. Somebody else said, their energy
:27:26. > :27:30.company is coming in with 30 pieces of silver, betraying the national
:27:31. > :27:34.beauty of our countryside. Somebody else says, villagers and