:00:20. > :00:24.North. The headlines tonight: Months after a fall-out at the top.
:00:24. > :00:31.It seems to be a rather farcical process. Calls to speed-up the
:00:31. > :00:34.report into the management of Lincolnshire Police.
:00:34. > :00:44.A large rise in parents being fined for taking cheap holidays in
:00:44. > :00:44.
:00:44. > :00:48.term-time. I have had a letter saying I might be fined up to �240.
:00:48. > :00:55.How a view like this is down to the planning of a man known as England's
:00:55. > :01:05.greatest gardener. I will be back later in the
:01:05. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.Good evening. A former senior police officer has
:01:12. > :01:18.criticised the time its taking for a report on the future of
:01:18. > :01:20.Lincolnshire's Chief Constable to be completed. It's four months since an
:01:20. > :01:23.investigation started into the decision by the Police and Crime
:01:23. > :01:26.Commissioner, Alan Hardwick, to suspend his Chief Constable, Neil
:01:26. > :01:29.Rhodes. Gemma Dawson has been looking at why that report still
:01:29. > :01:31.hasn't been published. For months now, Lincolnshire's
:01:31. > :01:38.Police and Crime Commissioner and his Chief Constable have been
:01:38. > :01:42.waiting to hear the results of this investigation. The report was
:01:42. > :01:45.expected to be published two months ago. Neither Alan Hardwick or Neil
:01:45. > :01:48.Rhodes has been willing to speak to us about the length of time it's
:01:48. > :01:57.taking for this investigation to be concluded. But one former senior
:01:57. > :02:02.officer has told Look North, he's surprised it's taking so long.
:02:02. > :02:06.wouldn't have thought it was a particular complex investigation. I
:02:06. > :02:08.am surprised. This all began in February when Mr
:02:08. > :02:12.Rhodes was suspended by Alan Hardwick - "because of potential
:02:12. > :02:14.conduct matters." On March 14th, Mr Hardwick appointed the Chief
:02:14. > :02:21.Constable of Greater Manchester Police to investigate the
:02:21. > :02:24.suspension. But just two weeks later, Neil Rhodes went to a
:02:24. > :02:27.judicial review, which was successful, and he was reinstated as
:02:27. > :02:29.the force's temporary Chief Constable. Then in May, Alan
:02:29. > :02:39.Hardwick told the Home Affairs Select Committee the investigation
:02:39. > :02:41.
:02:41. > :02:51.should be complete within a month. spoke to said Peter yesterday. We
:02:51. > :02:51.
:02:52. > :02:54.are confident the matter, or the decision, that will come from his
:02:54. > :02:56.investigation will be with me within four weeks.
:02:56. > :03:00.It's business as usual for Lincolnshire Police. But nearly
:03:00. > :03:03.three months on, still no report. Chris Underwood-Frost used to be a
:03:03. > :03:06.member of the Lincolnshire Police Authority - the group that was
:03:06. > :03:16.replaced with the Police and Crime Commissioner. He says this wouldn't
:03:16. > :03:17.
:03:17. > :03:22.have happened under his watch. would have taken professional,
:03:22. > :03:26.outside information and got on with life. This is something we would not
:03:26. > :03:28.have allowed to carry on like this. In a statement, the group now
:03:29. > :03:38.responsible for scrutinising the actions of the Police and Crime
:03:39. > :04:01.
:04:01. > :04:05.positions within a few weeks time. We have a lot of weight in the
:04:05. > :04:15.senior officers, don't get me wrong. It is just that lack of continuity
:04:15. > :04:19.
:04:19. > :04:22.and clarity. Nobody has been able to give as any indication when this
:04:22. > :04:25.report will be published. So for now, Neil Rhodes continues as
:04:25. > :04:27.temporary Chief Constable, alongside the man who suspended him earlier
:04:27. > :04:30.this year. Earlier I spoke to Dr Julian
:04:30. > :04:35.Huppert, a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee, and asked
:04:35. > :04:40.him whether the delay was acceptable.
:04:40. > :04:43.No, I don't think it is. It is another element in what seems to be
:04:43. > :04:49.a farcical process. We had the suspension of the chief constable,
:04:49. > :04:55.then the legal case, then the reinstatement. We had the
:04:55. > :04:59.resignation of the chair. It is not a great advert for the commission,
:05:00. > :05:04.for the constabulary or the system. Neither the Greater Manchester
:05:04. > :05:10.police, who are writing the report, the police scrutiny committee in
:05:10. > :05:15.Lincolnshire can say it - - can say when it will be ready. Might it be
:05:15. > :05:19.more serious than we thought? hard to know. It does not seem like
:05:19. > :05:26.it should be such a big issue. One man decided to suspend one other
:05:26. > :05:30.man. It is hard to see how many details there would be. A High Court
:05:30. > :05:34.judge has already described it as perverse, anyway. It is incredibly
:05:34. > :05:38.strong language for a judge to use. It does seem like a farcical
:05:38. > :05:41.situation. I would have thought it would be in the best interest of the
:05:41. > :05:47.Commissioner and the constabulary for this to be dealt with, rather
:05:47. > :05:54.than hanging over. Can you see why there are claims that this is
:05:54. > :05:58.leading to instability in the Lincolnshire force? Absolutely. You
:05:58. > :06:03.have a chief constable who has been suspended then reinstated. You have
:06:03. > :06:08.a Commissioner that is being criticised. You have the chair of
:06:08. > :06:14.the panel who has resigned. It is not a good situation. I hope it will
:06:14. > :06:18.not affect the morale of police on the ground. Your committee said it
:06:18. > :06:22.will be investigating the police and Crown Commissioners before the end
:06:22. > :06:32.of the year. What do you think you will find in Lincolnshire? I don't
:06:32. > :06:34.
:06:34. > :06:44.want to prejudge. One thing that is clear, there are not the checks and
:06:44. > :06:54.balances. We have situations where there seemed to be inappropriate
:06:54. > :06:58.processes without proper analysis. We will be having a look at that. We
:06:58. > :07:02.mainly to update the legislation. Thank you very much.
:07:02. > :07:05.What do you think about this tonight? If you work for the force,
:07:05. > :07:15.or rely on the services of the force, what impact is the ongoing
:07:15. > :07:36.
:07:36. > :07:38.uncertainty of the last few months There's been a significant jobs
:07:38. > :07:42.boost for Northern Lincolnshire today with the news that a national
:07:42. > :07:46.firm is to make its new headquarters at the former Kimberly Clark site in
:07:46. > :07:50.Barton Upon Humber. Wren Kitchens - founded in East Yorkshire - says it
:07:50. > :07:52.will create up to 500 jobs in the town over the next five years.
:07:52. > :07:58.Caroline Bilton reports on the impact the investment could have in
:07:58. > :08:01.the town. An East Yorkshire company that's
:08:01. > :08:03.fast becoming one of the UK's biggest kitchen retailers, already
:08:03. > :08:09.owning plants in Howden and Scunthorpe, Wren, now plans to
:08:09. > :08:18.expand further. It's coming here to the former Kimberley Clark factory
:08:18. > :08:23.in Barton upon Humber. It as being one of the area's biggest employers
:08:23. > :08:27.for over 20 years. When Kimberly-Clark announced it would
:08:27. > :08:32.close operations here, it was a huge blow to Barton and the surrounding
:08:32. > :08:36.areas. The fact that a buyer has been found but if we soon for this
:08:36. > :08:40.massive site here is fantastic news. People living in this area are
:08:40. > :08:44.pleased. Janet Oxley is the mayor of Barton
:08:44. > :08:48.now and she was mayor when Kimberley clark first came to this town. She
:08:48. > :08:50.knows what impact a big company can have on a local economy like this
:08:50. > :08:54.and how significant today's announcement is. This is massive,
:08:55. > :09:00.absolutely massive. It is massive news for Barton and for the
:09:00. > :09:10.community. It is gone to massively increase the economy and Barton,
:09:10. > :09:14.massively improve things. Rent started out in business in 2009. It
:09:14. > :09:20.employs 1200 people in the UK, over half in the Humber region. This
:09:20. > :09:23.latest investment will see a further 500 jobs being created in Barton.
:09:23. > :09:31.They're planning to make this their headquarters, creating both
:09:31. > :09:34.manufacturing and customer service jobs. We have about 2000 people
:09:34. > :09:38.employed in North Lincolnshire. This is nearly a quarter of that
:09:38. > :09:45.workforce that will be able to take up these jobs. We will be able to
:09:45. > :09:51.get them qualified. There are plenty of people that need work, because
:09:51. > :09:53.there are not many opportunities. is good. There are a lot of people
:09:53. > :09:57.on the door. They won't be waiting long. It's
:09:57. > :10:01.hoped 100 of these new jobs will become available within the next six
:10:01. > :10:09.months. Scunthorpe Steelworks has won a
:10:09. > :10:17.60,000-tonne order from Saudi Arabia. The order for steel track
:10:17. > :10:21.will be made for a transport network in the Saudi desert. Tata Steel,
:10:21. > :10:25.which owns the factory, announced financial losses back in May.
:10:25. > :10:35.In a moment: A thirst for success. Even the physio's dog is backing
:10:35. > :10:54.
:10:54. > :11:02.Grimsby Town as they prepare for the Howard sent this in. Thank you very
:11:02. > :11:09.much for that. Another picture tomorrow. My favourite e-mail was
:11:09. > :11:14.from lives. My husband James watches every night to see Keeley Donovan.
:11:14. > :11:21.He likes to see what she will work. Sad.
:11:21. > :11:28.That is uncalled for examination mark he clearly has good taste.
:11:28. > :11:36.Tomorrow will start off a bit cloudy. It brightens up nicely. We
:11:36. > :11:43.should all see some sunshine. You can see on the pressure chart that
:11:43. > :11:49.will bring us some patchy rain. Behind it, temperatures might be a
:11:49. > :11:55.little bit down on today. It has been a pleasant day. We will see an
:11:55. > :12:03.increase in cloud. A few showers in the short-term, then outbreaks of
:12:03. > :12:10.rain and drizzle will spread eastwards overnight. It will be a
:12:10. > :12:20.mild night. Temperatures down to 14 or 15. Temperatures not as low as
:12:20. > :12:28.
:12:28. > :12:31.they were last night. It may be a cloudy start to the day. We could
:12:31. > :12:38.see the odd shower continuing through the day, but generally an
:12:38. > :12:48.improvement. We should have some smells of sunshine. Temperatures
:12:48. > :12:49.
:12:49. > :12:56.will reach around 2122 degrees. It is about average for the time of
:12:56. > :13:06.year. Through the weekend, Saturday is probably a better day. It will be
:13:06. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:18.and I am marking off the days. Until his Lordship returns. Do you
:13:18. > :13:26.think his dress sense is better than mine?
:13:26. > :13:30.Lincolnshire parents being fined if their children fail to attend
:13:30. > :13:33.school. Fines starting at �60 can be issued in cases of truancy or if
:13:33. > :13:36.parents want to go on holiday in term time. The county council says
:13:36. > :13:44.it's fair, but some claim that the system isn't targeting the real
:13:44. > :13:49.problem. Sharon Edwards has more. Mother of two client is looking
:13:49. > :13:53.forward to a holiday in Tunisia next June. She is not looking forward to
:13:53. > :13:58.the prospect of a fine for taking her children out of school. I have
:13:58. > :14:04.received a letter saying it is unauthorised and I may face a fine.
:14:04. > :14:12.In half-time, we would have had to pay �900 per child. To go when we
:14:12. > :14:16.had going in turn time, we only have to pay �500 for one child. Parents
:14:16. > :14:20.in Lincolnshire are being fined for allowing children to skip school.
:14:20. > :14:27.The county council says parents looking for a cheap holiday will be
:14:27. > :14:32.challenged by schools. We always take each family's case and decide
:14:32. > :14:36.whether they could authorise that. They are not keen to authorise if it
:14:36. > :14:40.is just cheap flights. If you want to take your children away during
:14:40. > :14:45.the holidays, it is likely to cost you a lot more. According to one
:14:45. > :14:48.website we looked at, and all-inclusive family break for four
:14:49. > :14:54.in Majorca is �1000 more expensive in August and it would be next
:14:54. > :14:59.month. The same is true for flights. We found a flight going from East
:14:59. > :15:09.Midlands to Corfu was nearly half price in September than it would be
:15:09. > :15:18.now. Persistent truancy is also driving up the figures. The council
:15:18. > :15:22.says families are offered support before fines are issued. When
:15:22. > :15:29.support does not work, other strategies have to be looked at.
:15:29. > :15:36.number of penalty notices issued to parents has more than doubled, from
:15:36. > :15:43.67 to 156. The rise coincides with a tougher stance ordered by
:15:43. > :15:48.government. The council insist that find I use proportionately, but many
:15:48. > :15:53.more parents are paying the price of their - - if their children do not
:15:53. > :15:57.attend school. Nick Raine is from the National
:15:57. > :16:07.Union of Teachers. I asked him if it was acceptable for parents to take
:16:07. > :16:07.
:16:07. > :16:10.their children out of school to go on holiday. You can we do not think
:16:10. > :16:17.it is a good idea for children to miss school at all, but we
:16:17. > :16:24.understand that sometimes it is inevitable. Do you agree with fining
:16:24. > :16:27.parents? No, we do not. We think taking money out of family budgets
:16:27. > :16:32.is not good for children and we do not think it is a solution. It is a
:16:32. > :16:38.cheap headline. Lincolnshire county council is not sympathetic to
:16:38. > :16:42.parents of them for cheap holidays. Have they got it wrong? I think
:16:42. > :16:46.individual schools try and do their best. We are faced with a situation
:16:46. > :16:49.where the government dictates the action of parents and teachers. We
:16:49. > :16:54.do have sympathy with parents who cannot afford holidays during normal
:16:54. > :16:59.holiday times. We think that is different from children who are
:16:59. > :17:09.persistently truancy. How do you tackle those who were persistent
:17:09. > :17:15.offenders? That needs to be tackled at a much earlier stage. It needs to
:17:15. > :17:25.be addressed by various agencies. Fining parents later on has not
:17:25. > :17:26.
:17:26. > :17:31.proved to be a solution. It is simply a headline. If you have lots
:17:31. > :17:34.of persistent offenders, then you have a much lesser number of those
:17:34. > :17:39.taking kicked out of school for a cheap holiday, can you understand
:17:39. > :17:43.why those parents feel annoyed? can understand why parents are
:17:43. > :17:49.angry. In these tough times, people want family holidays, and sometimes
:17:49. > :17:52.they can only afford to do it during term time. That is different from a
:17:52. > :17:55.situation where people allow children to miss large amounts of
:17:55. > :17:58.their education, which can be detrimental to their future. Thank
:17:58. > :18:02.you very much. What do you think? If you're quick
:18:02. > :18:05.with an email or text on this one, I'll have your thoughts before the
:18:05. > :18:09.end of the show. Is fining parents the right approach at all to
:18:09. > :18:19.tackling school absences? Have you been fined for taking your child out
:18:19. > :18:22.
:18:22. > :18:28.Thank you to everyone who got in touch with us about the Yorkshire
:18:28. > :18:31.MEP Godfrey Bloom's comments on foreign aid. Mr Bloom said he
:18:31. > :18:34.regretted any offence that was caused by his use of the phrase
:18:34. > :18:44."bongo bongo land," but stood by his claim that too much government money
:18:44. > :18:45.
:18:45. > :19:28.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 43 seconds
:19:28. > :19:30.is being spent on overseas aid. Non-league football's top
:19:30. > :19:36.competition The Football Conference begins on Saturday with both Lincoln
:19:36. > :19:39.City and Grimsby Town hoping to make their mark. Grimsby narrowly missed
:19:39. > :19:49.promotion last season whilst Lincoln fought a season-long battle against
:19:49. > :19:53.
:19:53. > :19:56.relegation. Simon Clark has more. On a clear and beautiful day, they
:19:56. > :20:00.are expecting brighter times ahead at Lincoln city. Under their latest
:20:00. > :20:05.manager, Gary Simpson, they have recruited heavily from far and wide
:20:05. > :20:10.this summer. Seven players live under the same roof. That is one way
:20:10. > :20:19.to get a team bonding. At one stage, I think there were three in one
:20:19. > :20:29.bedroom. I think they have sorted out now. I mean, you know, it is a
:20:29. > :20:33.
:20:33. > :20:40.big house. Seven, I think, of those. It has been good. Will their high
:20:40. > :20:45.spirits be enough for the Imps? achieve, you do need a good spine.
:20:45. > :20:50.Gary has been superb in the way he has gone about his business. It
:20:50. > :20:56.looks to have paid off. Last season was difficult for the Imps, until
:20:56. > :21:00.Simpson pulled them up. Neighbours Grimsby looked like they would be
:21:00. > :21:03.promoted but stumbled in the closing weeks. Last week was a struggle for
:21:03. > :21:11.Lincoln city, but there seemed to be a bounce in their step this time
:21:11. > :21:14.around. They seem capable of being better. What about their friends and
:21:14. > :21:21.rivals at Grimsby town? Remember, they never got promoted last season.
:21:21. > :21:27.Can they go one step further? Like Lincoln, there have recruited well,
:21:28. > :21:35.with a number of players joining. Last year, we lost in the play-offs.
:21:35. > :21:40.It is a big season for risk season. We have a smaller squad. I think
:21:40. > :21:49.they have deeper quality in it. If you look at the squad and compare
:21:49. > :21:59.it, it is an improvement. Like Grimsby physio Dave's Labrador, both
:21:59. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:04.teams have a thirst for success. The draw has been made for the
:22:04. > :22:11.second round. The Tigers have been drawn away to league one side Leyton
:22:11. > :22:14.Orient. It's been a fantastic summer so far
:22:14. > :22:16.and gardens everywhere have thrived. So tonight we're beginning a series
:22:16. > :22:20.looking at some of the most impressive and interesting gardens
:22:20. > :22:23.we have in this area. Jo Makel's been to Burghley House, near
:22:23. > :22:33.Stamford, where work is under way to restore an 18th century vision of
:22:33. > :22:35.
:22:35. > :22:42.its grounds. It is one of the country's greatest
:22:42. > :22:45.Elizabethan houses. And the grounds surrounding Burghley are also of
:22:45. > :22:53.historical significance designed by one of the most famous names in
:22:53. > :22:55.gardening, Lancelot Capability Brown. He is considered to be one of
:22:55. > :22:59.the country's greatest landscape gardeners, but his ideas were
:22:59. > :23:02.radical. He had such an impact and changed everybody's view of what
:23:02. > :23:07.surrounds a great house in the country. Brownlow, who was ninth
:23:07. > :23:10.Earl inherited in 1754. He employed Brown straightaway. He had a man
:23:10. > :23:13.called John Hames to draw every angle of the park in the house
:23:13. > :23:23.before Brown to make a record of what was here. Formal gardens were
:23:23. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:34.going out of fashion and labour was becoming expensive. Brown's redesign
:23:34. > :23:37.reduced the number of gardeners needed from 26 to ten. He did his
:23:37. > :23:41.normal thing and put in a park landscape. He took away the gardens,
:23:41. > :23:44.the reflecting ponds, the maze, the wilderness, all of that went. Sad in
:23:44. > :23:48.a way because they must have been fantastic gardens. Brown the vandal,
:23:48. > :23:51.or Brown the creator, depending on your view. This was a job which
:23:51. > :23:54.really built Brown's reputation. In the end he was here for 23 years and
:23:54. > :24:04.at �1,000 a year, that was an enormous 18th Century investment in
:24:04. > :24:15.
:24:15. > :24:20.his vision. I would have this vision of Mr Brown leaving, among a sea of
:24:20. > :24:24.mud, saplings growing, and Mr Brown leaving, saying, it will be good,
:24:24. > :24:31.your grandchildren will like it. That generation will never see the
:24:31. > :24:37.effect. The Capability Brown parkland is all about views and
:24:37. > :24:41.vistas. And giving tantalising glimpses of the house. This is one
:24:41. > :24:47.of the best views of Burghley House from the south. Look how it's framed
:24:47. > :24:50.between the trees. I think we have the most intact example of a
:24:50. > :24:54.Capability Brown parkland and I think you've only got to look at the
:24:54. > :24:58.landscape here to see, I think, he was a star, a bit of a legend,
:24:58. > :25:01.really. It is a really wonderful vista and view we have got here.
:25:01. > :25:03.While much is unchanged since Brown's day, work is now underway to
:25:03. > :25:13.restore one of the fuse which over the last century has become rather
:25:13. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:25.obscure. - - restore one of the reviews. It is at the bottom of
:25:25. > :25:28.
:25:28. > :25:35.almost like an amphitheatre. We're trying to get these views are.
:25:35. > :25:42.house, recently created a garden. It is formal, contrived. It is a darkly
:25:42. > :25:52.what he did not want. Yet his garden was equally design. It was driven by
:25:52. > :25:57.
:25:57. > :26:04.his vision. It looks brilliant there. You can
:26:04. > :26:12.see the second part of the service next week. We can have a recap of
:26:12. > :26:22.the headlines. The largest baby-boom sees the population growing
:26:22. > :26:34.
:26:34. > :26:40.Thanks for the responses on the subject of the late into the report
:26:40. > :26:46.of the suspension of the police chief constable. This was an
:26:46. > :26:49.anonymous. I work for Lincolnshire police and I can say the issues have
:26:49. > :26:55.had no impact whatsoever on officers on the ground. We continue to
:26:55. > :27:02.perform well and offer Lincolnshire a professional service. Alan says,
:27:02. > :27:05.it is nothing but a farce. We were also talking about whether parents
:27:05. > :27:11.should be fined for taking their children out of school to go on
:27:11. > :27:17.holiday. Andrea tweeted to say: "If they want to fine us for taking kids
:27:17. > :27:23.out of school we should have a say on when to have holidays." Andrew
:27:23. > :27:29.says, parent does not have a right to withhold education. Finally,
:27:29. > :27:32.Allen in Cleethorpes said, if teachers had four or five weeks
:27:32. > :27:37.instead of 14 per year, like everybody else, they might perhaps