04/03/2014 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

not shared the further east you go into the Russian speaking areas.

Good evening. A row over a patch of land on the banks of the Humber

could jeopardise the creation of thousands of new jobs. That's the

warning from Able UK, which has planning permission to develop a

multi`million pound wind energy park near to Immingham. Rival port

operator ABP is objecting to the plans because they have their own

ideas about how the land should be used. Now the Government has been

asked to step in. Here's our business correspondent, Paul Murphy.

Marked in blue on the photo, this patch of land is known as the

Killingholme Triangle, and Able UK has been given special powers to buy

it. It needs the land to access a proposed jetty in the river, but the

fields are owned by rival operator ABP, and they are now objecting to

the Able UK plan, and say they want to use the area for their own

riverside development. Anything that frustrates the development, and

everything that slows progress, is really only going to play into the

hands of our continental competitors. We need to be ready,

certainly in 2018, possibly 2017, and delays now could be potentially

fatal. Able submitted its planning application back in December 2011.

The Government approved the plans just before Christmas 2013.

Yesterday was the closing date for final objections, and ABP sent two

petitions to the Government. It all comes as the Humber is trying to set

itself up as the go`to place for wind turbine manufacture, and there

is worry that this plan could all now unravel. The renewable sector is

marching on. We want to make the Humber the centre of the renewables.

That is the determined policy of the Government. I want to do all I can

to assist that, and any delay is unhelpful. ABP of course has every

right to object, but it is in danger of becoming a lone voice on the

Humber. The local enterprise partnership has described ABP's move

as "disappointing", and has urged it to reconsider its position. We're

actually engaging with Able. We are trying to reach a compromise,

because if we can do that, then this procedure can be dropped, and we can

all move forward. But it is important that we both compromise.

The Government will now decide whether ABP's objection is a valid

one. But if that decision takes too long, then Able UK's plans for this

estuary and the jobs it is promising may start to look a little less

likely. A teenager has been taken to

hospital after an assault in Grimsby. Humberside Police say the

16`year`old boy ` who is not thought to be from the area ` has serious

injuries to his back, hand, and head after the incident on Macaulay

Street in the early hours of the morning. He's in a critical but

stable condition in hospital. A Lincoln man who attacked a

21`year`old, leaving a claw hammer embedded in his skull, has been

convicted of attempted murder. Birmingham Crown Court heard how

Matthew Probert, who's from Scunthorpe, had to be treated in two

hospitals after the assault outside a bar in Lincoln last year.

23`year`old Kris Bradley was found guilty of attempted murder and will

be sentenced at a later hearing. An inquest into the death of a

Lincolnshire man has heard concerns about the care he received while at

Lincoln County Hospital. Ray Law, who was 60, died two days after an

operation for prostate cancer in 2010. Today, Professor Andrew

Bradbury, who had prepared a report for the coroner, said he was

surprised and concerned that Mr Law was not transferred to a high`

dependency unit after surgery. People in Revesby near Horncastle

are being asked to check their outbuildings as concern grows for a

vulnerable woman who has been reported missing. 52`year`old Denise

Gray, who's American, disappeared yesterday afternoon. Police teams

searched through the night with dogs and heat`seeking equipment in

freezing conditions. She led the campaign to scrap Humber

Bridge tolls for hospital patients ` but Jenny Walton, from Kirmington in

North Lincolnshire, has lost her 20`year battle with cancer. Her

husband has told BBC Look North he's proud of the legacy she's left

behind ` and that lowering the tolls "wouldn't even have been dreamt

about" without Jenny's work. Anne`Marie Tasker reports.

Jenny Walton had cancer for more than 20 years, and regularly crossed

the Humber to hospitals in Hull. Travelling from her home in North

Lincolnshire, she knew first`hand just how expensive it could be to

get life`saving care. Her husband, Trevor, says that is why she started

the campaign to scrap the Humber Bridge tolls back in 1999. That

campaign actually started in this room that we are in now. It would

not have happened without Jenny sticking her heels in in the first

place. It would not have even been dreamt about. Regardless of how long

it took her, or what she had to do, she was going to make it happen, and

she did. Jenny Walton won the support of council leaders and MPs

for her campaign. She organised protests, and set out the case to

abolish the tolls at a public inquiry. Jenny Walton campaigned for

13 years before she saw Humber Bridge tolls halved. When they were

reduced in 2012, a pledge was made that hospital patients in the South

Bank would be able to cross the bridge for treatment for free. But

that is something they are still waiting to see happen. The Humber

Bridge Board has told us it continues to review its

concessionary arrangements on a regular basis, and hasn't confirmed

or ruled out any changes to these. But Janet Sanderson, who worked

alongside Jenny supporting cancer patients in Northern Lincolnshire,

says scrapping tolls for patients is still something they would like to

see done. Once Jenny got hold of something, she wasn't going to let

go until she got what she wanted, and halving the Bridge tolls was an

incredible achievement. She always wanted to get it down to no Bridge

tolls, and hopefully, we can pick that up on her behalf and carry it

on into the future. That is something Jenny's husband also wants

to see achieved in her memory. Time for a look at the weather with

Paul Hudson. Good evening. Another pleasant day

to come tomorrow for most of us. Sunshine at first. It will tend to

cloud over later. With the south`westerly breeze, we could have

temperatures up to 11 degrees. Fine tonight. Long, clear periods. That

means we're in for a widespread ground frost, even a tough of air

frost in one or two places. There will be some mist and fog in places.

There is a look at tonight's towns and cities temperatures. Rurally,

the temperatures around freezing. A grey start in places tomorrow

morning. Otherwise, it is fine and bright with some sunshine, and fog

patches soon lifting. Through the afternoon, cloud will generally tend

to increase from the west, but apart from the odd spot of rain, it should

stay dry. Highest temperatures around 11 degrees Celsius. Thursday

looks dry. Brighter at times. Always a lot of cloud. That's the forecast.

That's all from the late team. And with more on that, here is the

National forecast. Good evening. The skies across

England and Wales are clearing. It will turn cold once again. A

different story for Scotland and Northern Ireland. But ahead of that,

the skies