:00:00. > :00:00.week with snow mainly in the north. That's all from the BBC News at Six
:00:00. > :00:00.so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One
:00:00. > :00:00.so it's goodbye from me and on BBC One we now join the
:00:00. > :00:11.Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight. Plans
:00:12. > :00:26.to breed dogs for animal testing are rejected after thousands of
:00:27. > :00:30.objections. I am over the moon. The row over a wreath ` why some say
:00:31. > :00:34.this tribute was only left for political gain. A turbulent year in
:00:35. > :00:41.charge ` but has Alan Hardwick made any difference to policing in
:00:42. > :00:53.Lincolnshire. Never heard of him. He is an MP? Is there a craze for the
:00:54. > :01:06.over`60s to get tattoos? And a detailed look at the weather.
:01:07. > :01:11.Hello. A company that wanted to breed hundreds of dogs for animal
:01:12. > :01:17.research in East Yorkshire has hit out at protesters who are claiming a
:01:18. > :01:19.victory tonight. The plans for a breeding centre at Grimston near
:01:20. > :01:22.Withernsea were unexpectedly rejected by East Riding councillors
:01:23. > :01:30.this afternoon against the advice of their own planning officers.
:01:31. > :01:34.Councillors were worried villagers would be regularly disturbed by
:01:35. > :01:41.animal rights protestors. Linsey Smith reports. Celebrating a
:01:42. > :01:44.decision they say is the right one. Protests in Beverley were peaceful
:01:45. > :01:47.today. Most attendees were villagers from the quaint hamlet of Grimston
:01:48. > :01:58.where the animal breeding facility would have been based. Absolutely
:01:59. > :02:01.delighted for the residents that the quality of life is not going to be
:02:02. > :02:10.further hampered by this development. Wonderful news. We have
:02:11. > :02:17.lived next door to B for 40 years. It has been a big struggle living
:02:18. > :02:21.next to an enterprise like that. Animals being bred more intensively
:02:22. > :02:26.in the same area would have meant more visits by lorries, all sorts of
:02:27. > :02:30.things. B Universal already have premises
:02:31. > :02:36.in Grimston. They buy puppies in and rear them until required by medical
:02:37. > :02:40.research labs. They hoped to breed dogs onsite in the new extension.
:02:41. > :02:44.The If this had been approved B would have been only one of two
:02:45. > :02:47.companies in the UK breeding dogs for medical research. Home Office
:02:48. > :02:50.figures show that last year more than four million animals were
:02:51. > :02:56.experimented on in the UK with just over 3,000 beagles used. B say
:02:57. > :03:05.following today's decision they will have to think long and hard about
:03:06. > :03:08.their next step. This could include making an appeal, breeding on site
:03:09. > :03:15.without the extension or close down completely and relocate elsewhere.
:03:16. > :03:24.Third option is that we will close and go to a more progressive
:03:25. > :03:26.authority in this country or abroad. It was a lot of work for local
:03:27. > :03:29.contractors lost. Campaigners here may be declaring
:03:30. > :03:33.victory, but it's unclear whether the battle over this site is over
:03:34. > :03:38.yet. Linsey, how big is the animal
:03:39. > :03:43.research industry? It is huge. It is a multi`million
:03:44. > :03:47.pound industry. The number of animals experimented last year rose
:03:48. > :03:51.in the UK by a quarter of a million, despite the government spending
:03:52. > :04:00.millions to try and find alternatives. Last night, we had,
:04:01. > :04:07.Professor ` ` last night we heard from a professor. Planning
:04:08. > :04:10.permission being refused today will not stop animals being tested on,
:04:11. > :04:14.not only because the law demands for medicines, but because there are
:04:15. > :04:19.plenty of suppliers, particularly overseas, who are happy to breed
:04:20. > :04:22.animals for this purpose. On the programme yesterday we looked
:04:23. > :04:24.at the alternatives to testing on animals, and we had a huge response
:04:25. > :05:17.from you. In a moment: Why there was a musical
:05:18. > :05:21.send off for Hull's City of Culture team as they present their bid to
:05:22. > :05:24.the judges. The United Kingdom Independence
:05:25. > :05:34.Party is being criticised after a wreath with the party's logo was
:05:35. > :05:37.left at a Lincolnshire war memorial. A number of South Holland district
:05:38. > :05:40.councillors have complained that UKIP tried to use the remembrance
:05:41. > :05:43.service in Spalding for political purposes. The leader of UKIP in
:05:44. > :05:47.Lincolnshire says his members were not responsible for the wreath.
:05:48. > :05:51.Here's Tim Iredale. This was the week when the nation
:05:52. > :05:57.fell silent to remember those who died in conflict. But out of the
:05:58. > :05:59.thousands of poppy wreaths laid at ceremonies across the country, one
:06:00. > :06:04.in particular has caused some controversy. It was placed at
:06:05. > :06:13.Spalding's war memorial and bears a UKIP rosette. Some believe it wasn't
:06:14. > :06:16.appropriate. They are a new party with new members, and I am taking it
:06:17. > :06:22.they just did not think about what the implications were, something
:06:23. > :06:25.which the National Day of coming together to commemorate the dead and
:06:26. > :06:29.people who have suffered through the war, and it is completely
:06:30. > :06:31.inappropriate to use it for any political gain.
:06:32. > :06:34.However, the UKIP group leader on Lincolnshire County Council insists
:06:35. > :06:45.the wreath was nothing to do with his members. I thought this was at
:06:46. > :06:49.first outrageous and a one`off. I have done some chasing around, and I
:06:50. > :06:55.was asked to did it, and none of the ten UKIP councillors were
:06:56. > :06:59.responsible. None of the officers for UKIP in this part of the world
:07:00. > :07:03.were responsible. It now transpires the wreath was
:07:04. > :07:07.laid by one of the councillors who was elected as a UKIP member earlier
:07:08. > :07:09.this year, but has since joined a breakaway group on Lincolnshire
:07:10. > :07:13.County Council. There's been a similar row in Plymouth where UKIP
:07:14. > :07:16.have defended the use of the party logo at a war memorial. Every year,
:07:17. > :07:19.politicians come together to remember our war dead, but they
:07:20. > :07:22.remain strictly not political occasions. Although the charity
:07:23. > :07:25.behind the poppy appeal is non political, the Royal British Legion
:07:26. > :07:28.says it's perfectly acceptable for political, religious and cultural
:07:29. > :07:43.groups choose to personalise their wreaths to identify their act of
:07:44. > :07:47.Remembrance. This a political row that some say has overshadowed the
:07:48. > :08:06.tribute to the fallen and made the act of remembrance memorable for the
:08:07. > :08:09.wrong reasons. A book of condolence has opened for
:08:10. > :08:12.the former Hull FC player Steve Prescott, who died on Saturday.
:08:13. > :08:16.Steve raised half`a`million pounds for charity in seven years after he
:08:17. > :08:27.was diagnosed with a rare stomach cancer. The book is at the Hull FC
:08:28. > :08:30.shop at the KC Stadium. His funeral will take place in his hometown of
:08:31. > :08:33.St Helens on Monday. Inspectors say that the East Riding
:08:34. > :08:39.Community Hospital in Beverley has now improved. In June, the Care
:08:40. > :08:42.Quality Commission forced the closure of more than half the beds
:08:43. > :08:44.there because of worries about patient care.
:08:45. > :08:47.Police say three people collapsed in Lincoln, possibly after taking legal
:08:48. > :08:50.highs. Emergency services were called to Lincoln city centre
:08:51. > :08:52.yesterday. Two of the people were treated for hypothermia.
:08:53. > :08:55.This was Scunthorpe fire station at ten o'clock this morning. Fire
:08:56. > :08:59.fighters across the region took part in another four hour strike in a
:09:00. > :09:02.dispute with the government about their pensions.
:09:03. > :09:06.People in Lincolnshire have "gold standard" policing. It's the claim
:09:07. > :09:10.of the county's police and crime commissioner Alan Hardwick as he
:09:11. > :09:13.marks the end of his first year in the job. It's been a controversial
:09:14. > :09:16.12 months in which Mr Hardwick suspended his chief constable. His
:09:17. > :09:23.handling of that was described as an "enormous mess" by MPs and as
:09:24. > :09:25."irrational" by a High Court judge. But Alan Hardwick insists he's
:09:26. > :09:35.making policing better in Lincolnshire. Jo Makel reports.
:09:36. > :09:42.Police and crime commissioners were elected to make the service more
:09:43. > :09:46.accountable to the public. Alan Hardwick says he's spent around two
:09:47. > :09:58.thirds of the last 12 months asking people in Lincolnshire, what they
:09:59. > :10:02.want from the police. I thought it was pretty obvious what the general
:10:03. > :10:08.public want. I mean, the general public want a good police force. And
:10:09. > :10:13.you've got one. More police on the streets. You hardly see a policeman
:10:14. > :10:16.at night, unless he is in his car. It's much easier for me to
:10:17. > :10:19.communicate than it would have been for the police authority. To
:10:20. > :10:25.communicate in a meaningful way and actually get something done. Mr
:10:26. > :10:28.Hardwick has been decisive. Immediately after the election he
:10:29. > :10:30.scrapped controversial plans for new privately run custody suite. But his
:10:31. > :10:34.decisiveness has also caused problems. When he suspended
:10:35. > :10:38.temporary chief constable Neil Rhodes, a court ruled it irrational
:10:39. > :10:50.and perverse. This issue's dominated headlines. He says it hasn't
:10:51. > :10:53.overshadowed his year. So what else has Alan Hardwick been up to? He
:10:54. > :10:56.says he's also spent time visiting Lincolnshire's Police stations,
:10:57. > :11:03.listening to and acting on officers' ideas. One idea was to put livery on
:11:04. > :11:07.PCS overcast. There are new projects on the go he wants to show us. This
:11:08. > :11:12.is a mobile finger printing device, on trial to see if it saves time and
:11:13. > :11:17.resources. It is checked remotely against a national database. The
:11:18. > :11:20.result of that comes back to this device and tells those who the
:11:21. > :11:24.person is. Money is tight. But he says the force is the country's most
:11:25. > :11:31.efficient. He admits it's been a steep learning curve. But so, far
:11:32. > :11:34.Alan Hardwick says he has no regrets.
:11:35. > :11:38.I spoke to Alan Hardwick about his year in charge. I started by playing
:11:39. > :11:42.him some clips from people in Lincolnshire. We asked them if they
:11:43. > :11:56.knew Alan Hardwick, and what job he did. Never heard of him. Alan
:11:57. > :12:00.Hardwick? He is not an MP is free? Is either look North presenter?
:12:01. > :12:09.Here's the police commissioner. The police thing. What difference has
:12:10. > :12:18.been made? I cannot see he has done anything to improve the police
:12:19. > :12:28.force. The commission is with me now. How concerned are you by those?
:12:29. > :12:33.Well, it is fair to say, and I found out myself over the past year, some
:12:34. > :12:37.people couldn't care less who their commissioner is. They choose not to
:12:38. > :12:43.engage, and that is fine. It is what democracy is about. All I want is
:12:44. > :12:48.what I want which is the police to be there when they need them. They
:12:49. > :12:51.do not need to know the names at the top of the organisation. What do you
:12:52. > :12:57.sick your biggest achievement has been? I have engaged in spoken to
:12:58. > :13:03.people across Lincolnshire throughout the past year. I have
:13:04. > :13:09.attended dozens of meetings, and also, visited nearly every one of
:13:10. > :13:17.our police stations and spoken to police officers and staff. I am
:13:18. > :13:20.engaging with people. MPs who investigated the suspension of a
:13:21. > :13:25.chief constable say it damage the reputation of the force. How much if
:13:26. > :13:28.at all to you regret suspended Neil Rhodes? It did not damage the
:13:29. > :13:41.reputation of the force. Crime is down in Lincolnshire. They are
:13:42. > :13:46.motivated officers and staff. That dispute had dominated most of your
:13:47. > :13:51.time in charge. You must agree? It has been a distraction. I will agree
:13:52. > :13:58.with you there. For the last four or five months, nobody has mentioned it
:13:59. > :14:10.at the meetings I have been to. It is not on people 's radar. The
:14:11. > :14:18.policing is more than up to scratch. It is the gold standard.
:14:19. > :14:22.You have to interview the my new suspended next Monday is the only
:14:23. > :14:28.candidate for chief constable. You will probably have to give him a
:14:29. > :14:32.job. It is not unusual for there to be one applicant for a chief
:14:33. > :14:49.constable post. Last time it happened in Lincolnshire, there was
:14:50. > :14:58.one applicant. It is all quite. Questions ` ` it is awkward. Had
:14:59. > :15:02.there been a drag is worn ` ` back a strong relationship between is, it
:15:03. > :15:06.would be, but I can assure you we get on very well and are
:15:07. > :15:17.professional. We do not avoid one another. So what you are saying is
:15:18. > :15:24.he will get the job? I am saying that the process is ongoing, and it
:15:25. > :15:33.would not be appropriate for me to comment any further. Commissioner,
:15:34. > :15:39.thank you. It's Lincolnshire the gold standard of policing? At the
:15:40. > :15:42.police doing a good job where you live And tomorrow on Look North I'll
:15:43. > :15:44.be talking to the Humberside Police commissioner Matthew Grove about his
:15:45. > :16:07.year in charge. ? Thoughts on this.
:16:08. > :16:13.Tomorrow, I will be talking to Matthew go about his first year in
:16:14. > :16:17.charge. Thank you for watching. ?? new line Still ahead tonight: Tattoo
:16:18. > :16:28.parlours say there's an increase in customers over the age of 60. Think
:16:29. > :16:34.what you want. Anybody who thinks, silly devil, so what?
:16:35. > :17:01.Gulls at Hornsea taken by John Frith. Good evening. Kevin said, we
:17:02. > :17:06.know that Paul is always on holiday. This is Tuesday night show turn into
:17:07. > :17:11.a deckchair? This part`time stuff you keep coming
:17:12. > :17:16.out with is damaging. I do for days, more often than not. The headlines:
:17:17. > :17:22.It is cold, windy and sunny tomorrow. You will have to wrap up
:17:23. > :17:34.warm because the wind will be pretty keen. There will be a cold wind,
:17:35. > :17:39.with the bright and cheery day nonetheless. We are looking to the
:17:40. > :17:55.west where this cold front is steadily bringing cloud in, and that
:17:56. > :17:59.will bring some patchy rain. Quite a windy night to come and we will see
:18:00. > :18:29.lowest temperatures down to five or six. Any overnight patchy rain soon
:18:30. > :18:34.sinks away. There will be a keen in the ring north`westerly and the
:18:35. > :18:46.chance of the odd shower. You generally dry day. It will feel a
:18:47. > :19:03.lot colder. The sunshine will cheer us up. It is not looking too bad. A
:19:04. > :19:05.little patchy rain Saturday night, otherwise the weekend is looking
:19:06. > :19:27.fine. Sounded a bit uppity. That is the
:19:28. > :19:31.weather office where you get lots of Lisa Gallagher and Julie Donovan?
:19:32. > :19:33.Yes. Hull's City of Culture team
:19:34. > :19:36.travelled to Londonderry in Northern Ireland today as they look to
:19:37. > :19:40.impress the judging panel which will decide who will win the coveted
:19:41. > :19:43.title of City of Culture for 2017. The team will present their case in
:19:44. > :19:49.Derry tomorrow and will then be vigorously quizzed on what they
:19:50. > :19:56.would do if Hull was successful. Paul Murphy is in Londonderry at the
:19:57. > :20:02.moment. How difficult is the task ahead of them? At the risk of
:20:03. > :20:07.sounding like a racing tipster, the word on the ground here is that Hull
:20:08. > :20:12.and Leicester at the hot favourites. The judges have been keeping a close
:20:13. > :20:15.eye on all of the cities, but they are attaching a great deal of weight
:20:16. > :20:20.and how they perform tomorrow. Fossett is like Hull, who believe
:20:21. > :20:26.they got so much to gain from getting this title, the pressure is
:20:27. > :20:28.really on to perform. As they set off this morning, the bridge team
:20:29. > :20:33.could be forgiven for looking a little nervous. They take with them
:20:34. > :20:42.not just a presentation for the City of Culture judges, was the hopes of
:20:43. > :20:47.an entire city. Hull's hunger for this title is difficult to hide.
:20:48. > :20:55.Hull needs it, wanted, and is ready to deliver. The city has really got
:20:56. > :20:58.behind the bid. Here in Derry, they are coming to odds the end of what
:20:59. > :21:02.many believe has been a transformational year. The community
:21:03. > :21:07.notorious for division has been brought together by arts and
:21:08. > :21:13.culture. It is easy to see the transformation that has happened. It
:21:14. > :21:17.is genuinely transformative. Huge excitement for Hull and the other
:21:18. > :21:22.cities short listed. Delegates from Hull, Leicester, Swansea and Dundee
:21:23. > :21:27.are heading for the city, all striving to convince a panel of
:21:28. > :21:32.judges that they should be crowned City of Culture 2017. The interviews
:21:33. > :21:38.for the competing cities take place in this arts and cultural over the
:21:39. > :21:43.next 48 hours. This is more than a cosy chat over tea and biscuits.
:21:44. > :21:47.There will be tough questions about finance, community impact and
:21:48. > :21:54.legacy. A place cannot produce poems, it can only not prevent
:21:55. > :21:58.them. Hull's newly released film lays bare the city Bozman passion
:21:59. > :22:04.and hunger for the coveted culture cycle. Mission accomplished of
:22:05. > :22:08.Mission impossible? We will know that by next Wednesday, when the
:22:09. > :22:14.government announces the winner. The delegates arriving in a rainy Derry
:22:15. > :22:18.tonight, and at about lunchtime tomorrow the Hull table toddle up
:22:19. > :22:23.the hill and go into that room for a couple of hours to have their bid
:22:24. > :22:33.heavily scrutinised by the judging panel. The hopes and expectations of
:22:34. > :22:36.an entire city around their shoulders. There could be a few
:22:37. > :22:42.sleepless nights tonight. I suspect there will be.
:22:43. > :22:45.Thanks, Paul. The announcement will be made next Wednesday. Now,
:22:46. > :22:54.remember yesterday when we showed you this? Let me tell you something
:22:55. > :22:58.about this city. All of us, we are all just passing through. It's the
:22:59. > :23:00.film for the City of Culture presentation. Well, since going
:23:01. > :23:08.online yesterday, it's been watched more than 30,000 times. Amazing. If
:23:09. > :23:18.you have not seen it, you must watch it. 30,024 hours, or thereabouts ` `
:23:19. > :23:20.30,000 views in 24 hours. Lincolnshire Olympian and former
:23:21. > :23:23.European champion Lizzie Simmonds has lost her funding from British
:23:24. > :23:27.swimming. Money for the sport was cut after it failed to reach its
:23:28. > :23:29.medal target at the 2012 Olympics, where Simmonds finished fourth in
:23:30. > :23:32.the backstroke event. Three primary school children from
:23:33. > :23:36.East Yorkshire won a trip to Florida at an awards ceremony last night.
:23:37. > :23:38.Evie, Latisha and Rebecca from Wilberfoss near Pocklington took
:23:39. > :23:46.part in Humberside Police's Lifestyle awards. They painted a
:23:47. > :23:53.mural and planted a wildlife garden around a new table tennis table in
:23:54. > :23:55.their village. Some tattoo parlours in East
:23:56. > :24:01.Yorkshire and Lincolnshire say almost half of their customers are
:24:02. > :24:05.now over 60. This is the BBC's David Dimbleby ` aged 75 ` getting a
:24:06. > :24:20.scorpion tattoo on his back. Our reporter Simon Spark asks why people
:24:21. > :24:24.are "getting inked" later in life. I have got an anchor. I just really
:24:25. > :24:32.like it. I have got one on my back and on my neck. It just helps me
:24:33. > :24:36.feel connected to the wild and trees and nature. Whatever your reason for
:24:37. > :24:41.having a tad too, we have all heard the warnings that you may regret
:24:42. > :24:46.them when you are older. David Dimbleby has waited until the tender
:24:47. > :24:49.age of 75 before becoming a Scorpion King. It seems he is just part of a
:24:50. > :24:56.recent trend of those new territories for the over 60s. The
:24:57. > :25:12.oldest person I have tattooed is 74. She was a great client. Ken is a
:25:13. > :25:14.typical example. 16 years old, he waited until retirement before
:25:15. > :25:22.getting the inky always wanted. I just think, I am of an age now, I
:25:23. > :25:28.can have the freedom. It is something that when I was younger, I
:25:29. > :25:34.would award about it. Now, I don't care. As we put this theory of the
:25:35. > :25:39.more mature returning to their rebellious youth to the test? This
:25:40. > :25:44.bunch will do. I would not like one, thank you, let it was a butterfly on
:25:45. > :25:51.my ankle. Tatties are not for me. I just don't care for them. I used to
:25:52. > :25:59.hate them. But now I think they look quite nice. There will be looking
:26:00. > :26:05.at? See what you have started, Mr Dimbleby? A tad too uprising in
:26:06. > :26:13.Hull, almost. He wants to grow up at his age. One bit of news you did not
:26:14. > :26:18.know. No, just a joke. Let's get a recap of the national
:26:19. > :26:20.and regional headlines. The Bank of England says the economy will grow
:26:21. > :26:23.sooner than expected. Protesters delight as a plan to
:26:24. > :26:24.breed dogs for animal testing is rejected after thousands of
:26:25. > :26:42.objections. After talking to Alan Hardwick, big
:26:43. > :26:47.response on that. Liz said, Alan Hardwick should be congratulated for
:26:48. > :26:52.preventing GeForce is taking over. Tony says, what a joke, the only
:26:53. > :26:56.thing this man is known for his messing everything up, alienating
:26:57. > :27:04.his chief and then eating humble pie. Marguerite says, I suggest hen
:27:05. > :27:10.'s teeth would be more accurately describing policing and
:27:11. > :27:14.Lincolnshire. Another one says lower the amount of paperwork they have to
:27:15. > :27:20.do and get them on the streets. My husband is a police officer and
:27:21. > :27:23.hardly finishes on time because of numerous, pointless forms. John
:27:24. > :27:30.says, I am a former Lincolnshire officer, and in my opinion, he is
:27:31. > :27:39.clueless and his reckless suspension of Neil Rhodes has made the police a
:27:40. > :27:42.laughing stock. Thank you for those. Thank you for watching. Have a good
:27:43. > :27:44.evening. Goodbye.