:00:00. > :00:00.Ukrainians in crime era, as the high-level talks to resume the
:00:00. > :00:10.crisis continue. Good evening and welcome to BBC Look
:00:11. > :00:13.North. The headlines tonight: Three months on, flood`hit residents say
:00:14. > :00:21.they're frustrated after repair work is put on hold.
:00:22. > :00:27.Within that first week, thex took our furniture, the kit Ching and the
:00:28. > :00:30.floorboards. That was it. Claims lives are being put `t risk
:00:31. > :00:35.after speed cameras in Lincolnshire come under attack.
:00:36. > :00:46.The first puffins of Spring arrive on the East Yorkshire coast. And
:00:47. > :00:58.some lovely weather on the way next week.
:00:59. > :01:02.Three months after the worst tidal surge on the East Coast for 60 years
:01:03. > :01:05.flooded hundreds of properthes some people have been told it cotld be
:01:06. > :01:09.months before they can return to their homes. Insurers say the sheer
:01:10. > :01:12.scale of flooding across thd country means there is a backlog in
:01:13. > :01:17.processing claims and getting homes back to normal. Residents s`y that's
:01:18. > :01:21.left them in limbo and living in temporary accommodation. Our
:01:22. > :01:28.political editor Tim Iredald joins me now. Why is it taking so long to
:01:29. > :01:32.get people back in their holes? Well that's what some peopld are
:01:33. > :01:35.asking as the battle to get back to normal continues. The tidal surge of
:01:36. > :01:38.fifth December left flood w`ter in over a thousand homes in
:01:39. > :01:41.Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire 275 homes were flooded in Hull, where
:01:42. > :01:47.the tidal barrier protected tens of thousands more properties. Hn
:01:48. > :01:52.Northern Lincolnshire 320 properties were flooded. In a moment wd'll hear
:01:53. > :01:55.from the people of South Ferriby, one of the worst affected areas But
:01:56. > :02:07.first Linsey Smith has been to Boston where 600 homes were affected
:02:08. > :02:14.by the tidal surge three months ago. This was my sitting room. The water
:02:15. > :02:19.may have receded, but the chaos remains. Three months on, this woman
:02:20. > :02:28.says insurance renovations on her home are frustrating. They took our
:02:29. > :02:33.furniture, the floorboards, the kitchen. We were put into
:02:34. > :02:47.accommodation and that was ht. They have done nothing since then. In
:02:48. > :02:58.Boston seems like this met residents. Seems a ?100 million
:02:59. > :03:05.tidal barrier should stop h`ppening again, but that is not planned until
:03:06. > :03:11.2017. If we had that tidal barrier, those homes would not have hn
:03:12. > :03:17.affected. The damage here from the 5th of December is plain to see The
:03:18. > :03:22.love people have bought this place is clear to see. We had a rdal
:03:23. > :03:30.Dunkirk spirit at the beginning with people pitching in. Tony just wants
:03:31. > :03:41.her family and pets to return home, but that could be another three
:03:42. > :03:48.months away. Here, a villagd surrounded by water. Wrote ht was
:03:49. > :03:55.about that high. Three months on, Michelle and their family `` and her
:03:56. > :04:06.family are returning home. They have lost everything. I have not really
:04:07. > :04:15.cried. This is the first tile she has cried since it happened. Part of
:04:16. > :04:24.me wants to come back and the rest doesn't. It is such a mess. Many are
:04:25. > :04:30.still living in caravans. Skips are overflowing and there are claims
:04:31. > :04:35.homes have been looted. This parish councillor patrols the area. She has
:04:36. > :04:41.set up an appeal fund to improve flood defences and help loc`l
:04:42. > :04:47.residents and businesses. Pdople are still angry. They are worridd about
:04:48. > :04:52.money and their jobs. Some local businesses have no business. There
:04:53. > :04:58.is a lot of anxiety about and fear for the future. Is the a lot of work
:04:59. > :05:09.to do and some uncertain tiles ahead by those affect by the blogs in
:05:10. > :05:12.December. Why are the floods still causing political debate?
:05:13. > :05:15.Of course, much attention rdcently has been focused on floods hn the
:05:16. > :05:18.south of England. Tomorrow people living on the Somerset Levels will
:05:19. > :05:21.ask the government directly for ?100 million for flood protection, even
:05:22. > :05:24.though far fewer homes were affected. Some Labour MPs claims
:05:25. > :05:27.there's been a north`south divide to the Government's response to the
:05:28. > :05:34.floods, but local Conservathves insist that's not the case. I am
:05:35. > :05:38.satisfied there will be extra funding coming for the rest of the
:05:39. > :05:45.country. Obviously my first responsibility is to make stre that
:05:46. > :05:48.comes to Northern Lincolnshhre and when the Environment Agency have put
:05:49. > :05:52.forward their capital progr`mme I will be lobbying very hard.
:05:53. > :05:56.Tonight the government says we can expect ministerial visits to our
:05:57. > :05:59.area over the next few weeks where further plans will be outlined to
:06:00. > :06:08.prevent further flooding on the Humber and Lincolnshire coast.
:06:09. > :06:15.In a moment on the programmd batch I will be asking the head of
:06:16. > :06:18.TransPennine Express why thdy are sending some of their trains to the
:06:19. > :06:22.south of England. ?100 million has been spent in
:06:23. > :06:25.Lincolnshire in the past fotr years fixing speed cameras that h`ve been
:06:26. > :06:30.attacked. Since January four cameras have been targeted, costing the
:06:31. > :06:33.taxpayer more than ?100,000. Road safety officials say the money could
:06:34. > :06:36.have been better spent educ`ting drivers and that the problel in
:06:37. > :06:44.Lincolnshire is one of the worst in the country.
:06:45. > :06:49.This is a relatively common sight in Linconshire these days. Somdone has
:06:50. > :06:53.been charged in connection with this vandalism. But the problem hs
:06:54. > :06:56.costing the people of lincolnshire dearly Over the past four ydars the
:06:57. > :07:01.cost of repairing speed camdras in Lincolnshire has been significant.
:07:02. > :07:17.This camera is going to cost over 30,000 pounds to repair. It puts the
:07:18. > :07:21.drivers of Lincolnshire at risk In the Humber area they have only been
:07:22. > :07:25.a handful of attacks on spedd cameras in the last decade, so why
:07:26. > :07:41.is it such a problem in Lincolnshire. Most of our c`meras
:07:42. > :07:55.are in poor locations. Over the last few years, the cost of repahring
:07:56. > :08:05.speed cameras have risen. . So are motorists surprised at the scale of
:08:06. > :08:09.the problem? They are a nuisance, but if they are stopping accidents,
:08:10. > :08:16.we have to live with it. I then think vandalising them is the thing
:08:17. > :08:21.to do. More police on patrol or a camera with a camera showing the
:08:22. > :08:25.person who has on it. The most common form of vandalism on cameras
:08:26. > :08:27.is arson. This footage shows one in grantham set alight. Lincolnshire
:08:28. > :08:30.Road Safety Partnership says it s getting better at catching Those
:08:31. > :08:33.responsible. And the punishlent is severe. Ashley Rowland and @nthony
:08:34. > :08:37.Luty were both jailed in 2002 for attacking this camera in Helswell.
:08:38. > :08:47.But despite that deterrent, this is a problem that doesn't seem to be
:08:48. > :08:50.going away. Earlier I spoke to Independdnt MEP
:08:51. > :08:53.Godfrey Bloom who campaigns on behalf of the driver's union. I
:08:54. > :09:02.started by asking him if he likes speed cameras. No, I don't. Identity
:09:03. > :09:08.they work and they take mondy away from genuine road safety problems
:09:09. > :09:14.and cameras don't actually work But of all the sites in Lincolnshire
:09:15. > :09:19.where they have been speed cameras, there has been a 42% reducthon in
:09:20. > :09:25.speed cameras. They are not interpreting the statistics
:09:26. > :09:29.properly. They are not lookhng at things like the Simpsons paradox.
:09:30. > :09:37.Those statistics are put together by people who want to sell spedd
:09:38. > :09:51.cameras. At the road safety charity 's `` but the road safety charity 's
:09:52. > :09:54.do not want to sell speed c`meras. These charities are lay
:09:55. > :10:07.organisations without a gre`t deal of expertise. What you need to look
:10:08. > :10:15.at is the actual statistics here. They don't prove anything at all. In
:10:16. > :10:21.a survey, 79% of people thotght that speed cameras should be used to
:10:22. > :10:33.reduce road casualties. That is because they are not aware of the
:10:34. > :10:41.real situation. Even if we see a camera, we slow down. It shows they
:10:42. > :10:46.work. You do slow down, but maybe you hit the brakes it rationally and
:10:47. > :10:57.someone runs into the back of you. We have too many speed cameras and
:10:58. > :11:00.the reason people are getting frustrated is because of thd fines
:11:01. > :11:08.and that is why they are vandalising them, even though I don't condone
:11:09. > :11:11.that. Please let us don't your thoughts on speed cameras. Do you
:11:12. > :11:39.agree with them? Concern is growing for the safety of
:11:40. > :11:42.a missing woman in Revesby. 52`year`old Denise Gray hasn't been
:11:43. > :11:46.seen since Monday afternoon when she went for a walk. Lincolnshire Police
:11:47. > :11:51.and volunteers are continuing to search the area south of Horncastle
:11:52. > :12:00.for the American tourist. Pdople living close by are being asked to
:12:01. > :12:03.check sheds and farm buildings. We are really concerned. When someone
:12:04. > :12:10.leaves under these circumst`nces and they don't return, it is worrying.
:12:11. > :12:15.It has been very cold over the last couple of nights. If she is out
:12:16. > :12:21.there, it is not ideal. We `re really worried.
:12:22. > :12:24.Weeks earlier than usual thd first Puffin has been spotted on the East
:12:25. > :12:27.Yorkshire coast. There had been worries the winter storms h`d harmed
:12:28. > :12:31.sea bird colonies, but bird`watchers at Bempton Cliffs say the e`rly
:12:32. > :12:35.return is a sign that all is well on the coast.
:12:36. > :12:42.A beautiful day at Bempton Cliffs. Blue skies, a light breeze, perfect
:12:43. > :12:46.conditions it seems for a ptffin. It's very rare for them to be seen
:12:47. > :12:53.here this early in the year, but there's already been another. It was
:12:54. > :13:00.just the one. We had it on our CCTV camera. Things are happening. The
:13:01. > :13:04.season is on its way. Good news Especially after a winter of strong
:13:05. > :13:12.winds, which have lead to worries that many wont have survived. They
:13:13. > :13:14.usually stay out on the open seas during the winter. Their major food
:13:15. > :13:37.source is fish. Some of them died through
:13:38. > :13:40.starvation. And that's just what has happened elsewhere. In the last
:13:41. > :13:44.month over two thousand sea birds have been washed up dead on beaches
:13:45. > :13:47.in the south. But the RSPB dstimates twenty`eight thousand have been
:13:48. > :13:53.killed. Little sign of that at Bempton today, a relief to lany
:13:54. > :14:01.visitors. We did not expect to see much. The storms in December would
:14:02. > :14:09.have caused a lot of damage. This is the first time we have been back
:14:10. > :14:17.this year. It is nice to sed them. It is early days before the effects
:14:18. > :14:27.on wildlife is fully known, but things are looking good.
:14:28. > :14:33.Still ahead ` the unique restoration job for a team from Lincoln. It was
:14:34. > :14:48.created to look like the footholds of the Swiss Alps, which in itself
:14:49. > :15:06.is unique. Tonight's picturd is of the red arrows.
:15:07. > :15:30.Several people are asking about the onesie. It is actually a baby grow.
:15:31. > :15:34.Let us take a look at the wdather. The emphasis is on dry weather. The
:15:35. > :15:40.breeze coming from the South means the temperatures will the above
:15:41. > :15:46.average. Whether France will clear and high pressure will develop over
:15:47. > :15:49.the weekend and for the first time since the first week in Decdmber,
:15:50. > :15:54.high pressure will dominate our weather next week. That means a lot
:15:55. > :16:00.of fine weather on the way. In the short term, we do have a cotple of
:16:01. > :16:06.whether France. Today we have 1 degrees, which is not bad for this
:16:07. > :16:13.time of the year. Overnight there will be a lot of clouds comhng in
:16:14. > :16:19.from the west. We should only have a few spots of rain and there will be
:16:20. > :16:32.no frost. Temperatures down to seven Celsius. The sun will rise `t around
:16:33. > :16:43.6:40am. Most the cloudy skids tomorrow. `` mostly cloudy skies
:16:44. > :16:51.tomorrow. Many parts will bd dry. Skies may brighten at times. The
:16:52. > :17:00.breeze a moderate south`westerly. Highs of ten or 11 Celsius. Friday,
:17:01. > :17:05.cloudy with some patchy rain in the morning. It will become dry in the
:17:06. > :17:11.afternoon. High pressure to the weekend. Quite a bit of clotds,
:17:12. > :17:27.especially on Saturday. Next week looks fine and settled. We look
:17:28. > :17:34.forward to getting the picttre from your wife or view in your onesie.
:17:35. > :17:36.See you tomorrow. There are fears that the rahl
:17:37. > :17:39.operator TransPennine Express running trains between Hull and
:17:40. > :17:43.Manchester may face a reduction in services. The operator will see nine
:17:44. > :17:46.of its seventy trains go to a company in the South East. The
:17:47. > :17:51.decision was put to David C`meron during Prime Minister's Questions
:17:52. > :17:56.earlier today. Does the prile ministers share my astonishlent at a
:17:57. > :18:01.decision announced yesterdax that TransPennine Express, which covers
:18:02. > :18:07.the North of England, is to lose one the North of England, is to lose one
:18:08. > :18:13.in eight of its trains which are to be transferred to Chilton r`il for
:18:14. > :18:18.the greater comfort and convenience of commuters in the south of
:18:19. > :18:22.England? We have plans to electrified the TransPennind Express
:18:23. > :18:26.and we are going ahead with the northern half, which will m`ke a
:18:27. > :18:36.difference. These are big steps forward. I have the managing
:18:37. > :18:44.director of TransPennine Express with me. Are you disappointdd with
:18:45. > :18:49.this situation? We are disappointed. In just a few weeks, we will
:18:50. > :18:56.increase the capacity across our net work by about 30%. That includes
:18:57. > :19:04.through places like Grimsby, whole and Selby. But you will be losing
:19:05. > :19:10.13% of your fleet in a year. You just can't go out tomorrow `nd by
:19:11. > :19:16.nine trains. That is correct. Our franchise ends in a year, so we
:19:17. > :19:38.don't have any commitments. We are talking to the Department for
:19:39. > :19:43.Transport about our new franchise. If you cannot find those nine trains
:19:44. > :19:47.by this time next year, won't it be impossible to run the service you
:19:48. > :19:52.are running at the moment Rtshton Mark it will be a challenge and that
:19:53. > :19:58.is why we are trying to find trains elsewhere. It will be a challenge.
:19:59. > :20:08.Somewhere there is a risk of capacity reductions. Bob Crow from
:20:09. > :20:13.the RMT has said, this move is nothing short of a scandal. Once
:20:14. > :20:16.again the North loses and wdll passengers have nothing to look
:20:17. > :20:22.forward to apart from overcrowding and chaos. Nothing short of a
:20:23. > :20:30.scandal. It is not a great situation. We are talking urgently
:20:31. > :20:39.with the Department for Transport in terms of securing rolling stock back
:20:40. > :20:44.into this operation. We need to sustain the capacity increase. Is
:20:45. > :20:54.the North the poor relation when it comes to train travel? Having said
:20:55. > :21:00.that, there is ?1 billion worth of investment coming to the North of
:21:01. > :21:07.England for electrification and capacity improvement. We ard excited
:21:08. > :21:13.about that. It is quite frustrating that the rolling stock capacity is
:21:14. > :21:21.squeezed against that. Is there someone you can call up and ask for
:21:22. > :21:28.nine trains? Berries, but it will take awhile to them. Thank xou for
:21:29. > :21:37.speaking to us. Nick Donovan there, the manager of TransPennine Express.
:21:38. > :21:47.Please let us know your thotghts on the train service you receive in
:21:48. > :21:53.your area. A member of the clergy in North East Lincolnshire is going
:21:54. > :22:01.without food for 40 years to `` for 40 years to raise awareness about
:22:02. > :22:07.the poverty. He will live off fruit juice, vitamins and water for the
:22:08. > :22:14.duration of Lent. When I am hungry and I smell food, I am going to
:22:15. > :22:19.think, I am finding this difficult, but other people are doing this
:22:20. > :22:23.anyway and it is not a choice they have made. I am very fortun`te. I
:22:24. > :22:30.have friends and family who look out for me.
:22:31. > :22:34.Hull City vice chairman Ehab Allam has written an open letter to fans
:22:35. > :22:38.of the club explaining why he and his father want the club to be known
:22:39. > :22:41.as Hull Tigers. Mr Allam explained that with only seven per cent of
:22:42. > :22:44.income coming from gate recdipts, they needed to exploit forehgn
:22:45. > :22:48.markets. Fans group, City Thll We Die, said the letter didn't add
:22:49. > :22:51.anything to what they already knew. Rugby League's Player of thd Year
:22:52. > :22:55.award is going to be named `fter former Hull FC player Steve Prescott
:22:56. > :22:58.for his charity work. Steve lost a long battle with stomach cancer last
:22:59. > :23:02.year and the award will now be known as the Steve Prescott Man of Steel
:23:03. > :23:04.award after a campaign by Rtgby league fans.
:23:05. > :23:07.A team from the University of Lincoln is carrying out a unique
:23:08. > :23:13.restoration job on a 19th cdntury Swiss cottage. It was built by a
:23:14. > :23:16.rich landowner in Bedfordshhre to remind him of his holidays hn
:23:17. > :23:20.Switzerland but nearly two hundred years on it was in need of some
:23:21. > :23:30.expert repairs. Gemma Dawson has been to see the work.
:23:31. > :23:34.The quiet of the Swiss Garddn in Bedfordshire is being interrupted.
:23:35. > :23:36.Covered in scaffolding, a tdam from the University of Lincoln are
:23:37. > :23:50.carefully restoring this cottage's rustic porch using twigs and pine
:23:51. > :23:56.cones. We have removed the old 0s decoration. It had degraded and
:23:57. > :24:03.stood out against the rest of the declaration. We are trying to smooth
:24:04. > :24:08.the surface to put on new decoration. The cottage and its
:24:09. > :24:15.grounds were created by Lord Ongley in the 1820s. And this is now a rare
:24:16. > :24:18.example of a Regency`style garden. It was created to look like the
:24:19. > :24:25.footholds of the Swiss Alps, which is in itself unique, although at the
:24:26. > :24:29.time, which is when Jane Austin was writing about everyone being in
:24:30. > :24:34.Switzerland on their grand Tours, it was the in thing to bring b`ck ideas
:24:35. > :24:37.from that area. In the main room of the cottage ` conservators `re now
:24:38. > :24:41.cleaning and retouching the decoration... And they think they've
:24:42. > :24:45.made a big discovery. The tdam believes much of this interhor was
:24:46. > :24:52.salvaged from a Swiss cottage in Regents Park which was demolished in
:24:53. > :24:58.1875, just two years before work took place here. The team from
:24:59. > :25:03.Lincoln think this illustration proves their theory. You can see the
:25:04. > :25:09.similarities between the Chdvron designs. There are lots of dlements
:25:10. > :25:14.in the interior where you c`n see that it has been chopped up and
:25:15. > :25:21.created to fit this space. What we really could do with is a ptrchase
:25:22. > :25:25.order or something in the archives. A lot of work has been done, but as
:25:26. > :25:36.yet, we cannot find that absolute proof. The team from Lincoln think
:25:37. > :25:39.this illustration of the Regents Park cottage proves their theory...
:25:40. > :25:43.They'll now have to wait to see if their suspicions will elevate this
:25:44. > :25:46.iconic cottage ` to become ` Grade one listed building. But we leave
:25:47. > :25:50.the team from Lincoln pondering a problem How to attach the phne cones
:25:51. > :25:58.to the porch's ceiling to rdstore this cottage to it's former glory.
:25:59. > :26:03.Arica on the main regional `nd national headlines. Russia `nd
:26:04. > :26:13.America meet for the first time since the Ukraine crisis began.
:26:14. > :26:17.Three months on from Decembdr's flooding, some people are told it
:26:18. > :26:19.could be the summer before they can return to their homes. Tomorrow
:26:20. > :26:31.cloudy with some rain possible. Most places will remain dry. Temperatures
:26:32. > :26:35.up to 11 Celsius. Let's get back to the discussion about speed cameras.
:26:36. > :26:42.Ditch the speed cameras and get more police out on the roads pulling
:26:43. > :26:46.people over. John says, Lincolnshire Road safety partnership shotld stop
:26:47. > :26:53.using its 1970s technology cameras and invest in new ones. Thex will
:26:54. > :26:59.drastically reduce speeding and speed related accidents in the
:27:00. > :27:02.county. Marie says, speed c`meras do improve the roads as they slow
:27:03. > :27:07.people down and prevent acchdents. If they were not there, the roads
:27:08. > :27:14.would be more dangerous. Russell says, speed cameras don't c`tch
:27:15. > :27:25.drink drivers or careless drivers. Finally, Marie says, I have never
:27:26. > :27:29.been so incensed as I have hn watching the discussion on speed
:27:30. > :27:36.cameras. I live in a villagd and neighbours and I regularly see
:27:37. > :27:44.vehicles going over the 30 lph speed limit. It is a speed limit for a
:27:45. > :27:48.reason and that is safety. That is it for now. Have a good evening