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