09/03/2012 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening. Welcome to Look North. The headlines: questions over wind

farms and the sweeteners being paid to communities. These developers

can come along and offer tens of thousands of pounds to local

communities - it is verging on bribery. Doubts over the future of

North Sea Ferries when new pollution rules come into force.

A woman who lost two family members to cancer, calls on the government

to improve survival rates. Another council flies into the row

over garden flags. And a touch of spring this weekend. You weekend

forecast coming up short life. -- shortly. Good evening.

It has been claimed that rural communities are being effectively

bribed by wind farm developers who are offering large sums of money as

compensation. One East Yorkshire village where five giant turbines

are being built has received �60,000 from the developers with

promises of more cash each year for the next 25 years. The practice is

entirely legal and the company behind the scheme says it wants to

be a good neighbour, but some residents feel they have been

bought out. It is an East Yorkshire village with the brand new hall and

rebuilt church and a new children's playground. The �60,000 investment

has since been in strings attached - a price to pay which has left the

village divided. Many of us feel we had been bought out. Aletta they

have money into the they Lench - and that will get used up quickly.

-- a little bit of money. We have 25 years at least of the wind farm

here, I do not think it is right. It is here that the five giant wind

turbines are being built. The developers have paid for that it --

the village facelift. Here in the new village hall, the chairman of

the village committee says it has been controversial but believes the

best deal has been secured for the village. We had no shop, the

village hall was derelict we had no playground for the Kents, so in

reality they had brought her some very useful money to improve things.

-- they have brought us. Cash payments have become accepted ways

of working and in the future payments can be made too many more

East Yorkshire villages. 11 sites are being built in the county and a

further seven are being considered by council planners.

acknowledges that the structures do have an impact on the local

environment. Yes, there should be some sort of recompense to those

local people for that situation. Several windfarms will be sited

close to this famous walking writ. Villagers feel they may be

compromised by the cash payments. Money should not come into it. If I

was to go up to a councillor and offer him �1,000, he would not be

able to make a decision on that and yet these developers can come along

and offer thousands of McCowans to communities. It is verging on

bribery. -- thousands of pounds. Some say Christmas has arrived

early but it is at a significant cost. We would welcome your

thoughts on this one. Should villagers feel uncomfortable about

these payments or should they welcome the investment in local

communities? If you have a view on I look forward to hearing from you.

In a moment - the Lincoln swimmer Lizzie Simmonds has her last shot

at the Olympics. The result of her race is coming up.

The ferry operator P&O is warning that its entire Hull operation

could be at risk if new pollution laws are passed. The company claims

more than 600 jobs and its services between Hull, Rotterdam and

Zeebrugge will be threatened, if the EU asks all ferry companies to

switch to a less polluting and more expensive fuel. One million

passengers per year use the ferries from Hull to is a bigger and

Rotterdam. The European Commission is becoming concerned about the

quantities of it air polluting sulphur dioxide which ships like

he's in it. The new rules will require all ferries to switch to a

less polluting fuel, but there are worries that this is costly and

could threaten jobs. We have to fight her corner to keep a viable.

It is a tall order. Overall, it is hard to say what the consequence

will be. We have to fight it and try and keep going but it will be

very difficult. The new laws on clean air sulphur dioxide fuel

coming up in 2015 but he no says it is more expensive and will increase

their fuel costs by �60 million a year. It says that could mean the

possible closure of its Hull operation where more than 600

people are employed. One of the arguments is that if it has to

reduce its operation out of how all, then more freight traffic will be

diverted to the Channel, thus causing more pollution - the very

thing the government is trying to reduce. The UK already has sulphur

emission limits, the European Commission wants to target

passenger ferries. The move is being investigated by the Transport

Select Committee. It is important to reduce emissions. This seems

that emissions from ships go to form the largest part of those

emissions. This action does have to be taking but it has to be

reasonable. It is about balancing the needs for the environment with

the need to protect jobs. Piano or is not the only company to believe

the proposed European legislation has not got this balance right.

What is the background to this legislation? As I mentioned in the

report, there is already European legislation to which P&O have

signed up. It has no problem with this and says it is a responsible

company. What is happening now is that the European Commission is

imposing an extra layer of legislation on passenger ferries

using the North Sea and the Channel ports. Hal is hit the hardest by

this because these ferries make longer ferries and use more fuel.

How serious a threat is this to jobs? There is no threat of

imminent job losses. Piano is saying it wants time to explore

things like technology and reduce its emissions and to lobby the

European Commission. There are hopes to get the introduction of

this legislation pushed back to 2020. If it is still in place in

2015, the company is saying there will be a genuine risk of job

losses. Thank you very much. A Lincolnshire charity says more

than 300 jobs are under serious threat because vital funding has

been withdrawn by the local authority. Linkage Community Trust

provides education for students with learning disabilities but they

say the county council is now drastically cutting back on the

numbers of students it sends to their Linkage colleges. The county

council say they are committed to providing the service for students

but are reviewing where they spend their budget. I'm joined by a

member of the trust. Good evening. How likely is it that some jobs

will go? It is extremely likely at the moment. We're in A90 day

consultation with her staff. Unless we see a change in policy by the

local authority, it is likely that a large number of staff will be

leaving as. If they're sending fewer students, you do not need as

many staff, is that no right? funding has not been cut. The local

authority makes decisions about which students can come to us. They

understand they said earlier it is about parental choice. Parents will

be delighted to know there is a return to parental choice because

we have worked with a large number of parents over the last year who

have been told there is no choice for that their children. The county

council have tonight issued a statement - young people continue

What is wrong with them doing that? If that was the situation, there

would be nothing wrong with that but as I have said, we work with a

large number of families whose parents had been told there is not

a choice for their children. We are an outstanding college which

specialises in meeting the need of young disabled people. If this

means that you and students with learning disabilities are going

into mainstream schools, we should be welcoming that, should we not?

For many young people mainstream education is absolutely appropriate

and we would not question that. But families with young people

themselves are telling us that for a certain young people, mainstream

colleges are a challenging environment in which they do not

thrive. We had a large public consultation event last week when a

young man told us he had found mainstream totally confusing.

must leave it there, thank you for joining us tonight. If you want to

be in touch, you know what to do. One of the government's top

ministers has told Look North the Humber can be one of the world's

leading sites in offshore renewable enemy.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury has visited the area to launch the

new Humber local Enterprise Partnership. He says the government

is committed to seeing industry develop here. The Humber has

everything you need to be a world leader in this business. The port

facilities, the businesses, the skills, they all come together in

this region. It is one of the best places in the UK to do this work.

Police say the lorry driver who was injured in a crash on the A180 near

Immingham has died. The lorry driven by Mark Edgar from Suffolk

crashed into the central reservation yesterday lunchtime.

The road was closed between Europarc and Stallingborough for

several hours. A workman has been airlifted to hospital, after a

trench collapsed on him in Lincolnshire this afternoon.

Police were called to help the man, in his forties, who was working for

Anglian Water in Holbeach. He was taken to the Pilgrim Hospital in

Boston with a suspected broken leg. The Health and Safety Executive is

looking into the incident. An agreement has been reached over

who will fit the bill for directing traffic during parades in Grantham.

Last night we heard from an organiser of the Remembrance Day

parade who said she would rather go to prison than have to pay to hold

the event. Today at a meeting with their local councillor,

organisations agreed to stick to a parade route that requires minimum

policing and the council will fund cost of traffic signs. We have

agreed to have a common writ, all of the organisations will stick to

it. They will go down the high street. We were seriously

considering cancelling the pay part of St George's Day and just having

a service. -- the parade part. But as a result of this meeting, piece

seems to have broken out. They prefer watching. Still ahead -

another council warns a member of the public not to fly a flag in

their garden. We're back at the swimming pool in

London to seek Lizzie Simmonds Keep your pictures coming in. Thank

you for that. Apparently there is someone else in

Scunthorpe who does not have a son called Darren! Were they talking

about you last night? about you last night?

Here is the weather: There is a touch of spring across East

Yorkshire. This high pressure will drift up towards us. Most of next

week will be dry as well. There is a complication in the next few

hours. There is a band of drizzle coming down from the north-west. A

mild night to come. The sun will rise in the morning at 6:27am.

There might be the odd bit of drizzle first thing tomorrow. Good

sunny breaks coming through. Temperatures will respond. The

average for this time of the year is nine Celsius. It will be 15

across Lincolnshire. What ever you are it will feel like spring.

Lesson breeze on Sunday. -- lesson I like that line, dry for the whole

of next week! Have a good weekend. A woman from Scunthorpe who has

lost two family members to one of the most aggressive forms of cancer

is looking at ways to improve survival rates. Maggie Watts'

husband died from pancreatic cancer three years ago, 40 years after his

mother died from the same illness. A cancer charity says that survival

rates have hardly improved in recent decades.

Kevin Watts was a fit and healthy 45-year-old. When he started

getting stomach pains nobody thought it was serious. Just weeks

later he was told he was dying from pancreatic cancer. I have lost a

husband. We then found out that his mother

had also died of pancreatic cancer. It is often termed the silent

killer. We wanted to be a cancer that people survive. Typically

people have just six months to live after diagnosis. Only three % of

patients are still alive five years later. There were 8,000 deaths in

2009. That is nearly 22 people per day.

Actor Patrick Swayze's public battle with their illness a couple

of years ago highlighted how tough the disease is.

Maggie Watts is now try to collect 100,000 signatures to force MPs to

debate the condition in Parliament. Survival rates have hardly changed

within the last 40 years. I am happy to support her in her

campaign to raise awareness. Sandwiched between the stomach and

the spine, by the time malignant cells are detected, it is often too

late. The pancreas is quite deep in the

body, so you cannot actually see it. By the time it has been diagnosed

it may have spread to the liver and lungs.

He did not crumble when he was dying. Kevin fought to stay alive

as long as he could. In his memory Magee is determined to improve the

chances of survival for others. Thank you for everybody who got in

touch regarding regional assemblies. Campaigners say and regional

assembly would lead to more government money being spent in our

region. We want a regional development agency. The Tories have

scrapped that. We are left with small bodies that do not have the

resources or the powers to make a difference.

That was John Prescott talking to me last night.

We have had some a reaction from Thank you for all those. Within the

last few minutes Lizzie Simmonds has been swimming for a place in

the Olympic Games. She was in the final of the 200 metres backstroke

at the British Swimming Championships. Our correspondent

has been watching her. How did she This is live. You could find it on

the red button right now. This is the final of the 200 metres.

That lady out in front goes by the name of Lizzie Simmonds. There she

is qualifying for the Games. You can see the big smile on her face.

Look at that. She has qualified for the Games.

The person beside her beta at the start of the week. -- defeated her

at the start of the week. Ms E Simons is now one of three

former Lincoln Vulcans to have qualified for the Games. -- Lizzie

Simmonds. It was all allies on the 100 metres

breaststroke when Kate he would an Sophie Allen went for glory.

It was an opportunity to cement an Olympic place.

A place in the top two was required. She did it. Sophie Allen was third.

This is all lot of other moment. They will be so many more people in

here. It will be awesome. She has put everything into training to get

to the Olympics and she has done it. Sophie Allen's big chance came in

the medley event. The nation concentrated on the talented leader,

but Sophie Allen finished second. Sophie Allen is a new member of the

British Olympic team. I knew I could do it. I knew I had the nerve

to do it. I am chuffed. Now they hoped to repeat the

achievement at the Olympic Games. We should also give credit to the

coach. He coached all three youngsters.

Another Olympic hopeful has been an action in the last few minutes.

Richard Buck just failed to make the final of the 400 metres at the

World Indoor Championships in Istanbul. He finished third in his

semi-final. Tomorrow Hull City welcome Ipswich

Tomorrow Hull City welcome Ipswich Town to the KC Stadium. There is

live commentary of that on the radio.

radio. Grimsby Town's batch is OnDigital.

Hull FC face one of the hardest challenges of the season when the

challenge -- win in the face St Helens.

They still have work to do according to their coach. I am

happy with our defence. We have put a lot of work into that. We have

got a long way to go obviously. could follow that game at live on

BBC Radio Humberside from 8pm deceiving. -- tonight.

The flying of pirate flags has become something of an issue over

the past two weeks. Someone else has now fallen foul of the lot.

This time it is a pub owner from East Yorkshire. He has been told to

take down his Jolly Roger flag from a children's play area or face

action from the council. Remember Anthony and his private

flag? He received a full apology from East Lindsey District Council

after they conceded that they were too heavy handed. It was an

unnecessary approach. I am very happy that I can take the flak up.

But there is another problem now. Meet Vito. He runs a pub. He has

been flying a Jolly Roger flag in that the children's played area for

the past year. Be said to me that a complaint has been made about the

flag. They said they will have forced it if we do not take it down.

I question that. It was for real. The council has given the same

reasons as the reasons given by East Lindsey council. Only certain

flags are permitted to be flown. To recap, the only facts that can

be flown our national flags, the flags of the Commonwealth, the

European Union, the United Nations, any English county, and the flag of

any seemed. The fact that Vito cannot fly a Jolly Roger is winding

up the locals. It is supposed to be a free country. It is a waste of

public money. This country has gone mad. This man is a flag expert. He

has been tried to get things changed. It is silly. There should

be some kind of flexibility. There is now a stand-off. I will not take

it down. Until the law is changed it seems that this problem will

keep getting flagged up. AB vexillologist. We have all

AB vexillologist. We have all learned something new.

A round-up of the headlines. Italy condemns Britain's decision

to try and rescue the hostages in Nigeria.

Whether for Saturday - dry and bright with sunny spells. Very mild.

Top temperatures in the brighter spots around 15 Celsius.

spots around 15 Celsius. That is the weather.

A big response on the subject of sweeteners and wind farms. Somebody

said, why not cheap electricity for life from cheek turbine?

Another person has said it is a good idea for villages to get money

from wind farm companies. Somebody else said, their energy

company is coming in with 30 pieces of silver, betraying the national

beauty of our countryside. Somebody else says, villagers and