25/04/2014 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North. The headlines tonight:

Bidding for millions of pounds of help as we could have two repaired

the roads will be fantastic. Usually I have two spend ?600 to fix my car.

There is still a major problem with the potholes so they need to hurry

up. It will help, but it will not cover all the costs.

Lincolnshire County Council says that it needs ?400 million to fix

all the potholes, east riding County Council need ?200 million. And

councils who can fix the potholes in creative ways may get more money.

Lincolnshire County Council are looking at new ways of dealing

potholes and are trialling a machine which can fill in hundreds of

potholes a day, as Gemma Dawson reports.

This giant yellow machine is making its way around South Lincolnshire,

filling in hundreds of potholes every day. The machinery uses an

airflow to blow out the dust and rubble. We then inject into the road

surface, and then we apply a mix at 100 miles an hour and then this

repair can be trafficked immediately. That is good news for

motorists who often complain about the state of countryside roads. Last

year, 50,000 potholes were fixed in Lincolnshire, so it is hoped that

this machine will help. For six weeks, it has been used by

Lincolnshire County Council. It is costing the council ?1000 per day,

but can repair 300 potholes. A traditional road repair team costs

of 400 per day, but can only fill 80 potholes.

It seems to deliver what we need which is more productivity and

potentially more work done the same amount of money. What about the

impact on jobs? The County Council is to deliver surface `` services.

The most important thing that we can do is to maintain the roads. We're

not just here to employ people. This is not about replacing people with

equipment, this is about getting more jobs done, fixing the road,

getting the potholes fixed. We need to look at the best way to do that.

The County Council is now looking at whether to buy one of these machines

so that they can repair many more countryside roads.

This is always one of the controversial subjects. We will be

asking for your thoughts soon. Earlier, I spoke to Edmund King from

the AA. He says that potholes are a major problem for his members.

From all our surveys, potholes and fuel costs are the main concerns

that cause problems and they create problems for the cars and injuries

for cyclists. This amount of money might sound like a lot, but

Lincolnshire County Council say that they need to spend ?400 million

themselves to fix the potholes. It will not go very far. No, it is a

drop in the ocean. It is estimated that there is a structural

maintenance back fall of some ?12 billion. So this fund can go in to

fill some of the deepest and most dangerous holes, but it will not

address the underlying problems. Do we have to accept that there were

always be potholes, because this kind of money will not be available.

We need to have more of a proactive programme. Sometimes just filling in

the pothole actually leaves a problem in two or three week's

time. And many have too resurfaced the road or it is a economy.

People always say the same thing, they said that they paid their road

fund licence for their roads, not to have their car wrecked. Yes, in my

own card the suspension was racked, it cost me a lot of money. Our

patrol so that they are caught out more and more to punctures and

wheels damaged by potholes. It is a serious problem and perhaps it is

time that some of our fuel duty was ring fenced to going to road

maintenance, because it is the number one concern of road users.

What is your message to the government?

Our message is that this will become a political issue both nationally

and locally, because motorists are getting fed up with the state of the

roads. We would like your thoughts on this.

Should the government be praised for making more money available, or is

it just a sticking plaster that does not deal with the problem? What are

your experiences? How should we deal with potholes? Here is the contact

information. We will have some of the comments

just before 7pm. In a moment: A row about shipping

waste to Denmark from this tiny riverside haven.

Karl Turner, the MP for East Hull has apologised and cancelled a

Labour Party fundraising event following a complaint that he

misused Parliamentary facilities to organise it. He's been accused of

breaching the rules set out for MPs by the House of Commons. Sarah

Walton has been following this story. Where has this complaint come

from? It's been made by a councillor who

received a flyer inviting him to an event here at The Freedom Centre in

Hull, called the Hull and Humber Economic Summit, in May. Big name

speakers listed ` Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, Lord Prescott. But

Councillor Mike Whitehead, a Conservative Councillor from East

Yorkshire claims that information was sent from an official

Parliamentary email account while checks for the tickets were made

payable to Karl Turner. There's also a complaint that it wasn't made

clear on the flyer that this was an event aimed at raising money for the

Labour Party. An official letter has been sent to the Parliamentary

Commissioner for Standards, and it's being backed by other politicians.

People like the Shadow Chancellor and the chairman of the local

enterprise partnership need to consider whether they should be

attending and speaking at an event which has been mis`sold and which is

raising funds for the Labour Party and is being organised using

Parliamentary resources in breach of the rules. What has been the

response from Karl Turner? Well, I spoke to him a little

earlier. He doesn't want to give an interview, but we have a statement.

In the last few hours he's cancelled the event, saying it will be

rescheduled at a later date. But he also says, "I make an unreserved

apology for any oversight in allowing my Parliamentary email to

be used for a fundraising event. It was not my intention to breach rules

and I will be speaking to the relevant House of Commons

authorities and taking their advice." He wants to know what the

most appropriate course of action would be. Meanwhile, the Standards

Commissioner will now examine the complaint they've been sent before

deciding if an investigation needs to take place.

And it is raining heavily there, we will soon have the weather forecast

for elsewhere. A company proposing to ship waste to

Denmark is facing fierce opposition from people who live near the

proposed export site in North Lincolnshire. Last year, Old Ferry

Wharf Ltd, who are based in Barrow Haven, had to stop handling refuse

after locals complained of flies and the smell. But now the firm wants to

re`start operations using a new product, which it claims is

odourless. Crispin Rolfe reports. They chose to live next door, but

insist they'd never have moved to Barrow Haven if they'd known their

timber yard neighbours were going to handle waste. Last year, Old Ferry

Wharf Ltd stopped operations after complaints about the smell. Now

James Thurlow and Kathy MacDonald are worried by new plans by the

company to ship another waste product, despite claims it's

odourless. It is a real shame, because this is

a beautiful place. It is a nature reserve here, you have residential

property is extremely close to the wharf and it is at the end of a tiny

road. There are much more appropriate facilities, and I know

that this waste is being handled elsewhere more readily.

This is where Barrow Haven lies on the shores of the Humber's South

Bank, just miles from Immingham Docks. And that's solid recovered

fuel ` dry rubbish which, as the company explained at a public

meeting, would be recycled and sent from Barrow Haven to a Denmark power

plant. It is a government approved

business. What about the smell? We are told that it is more or less

odourless. A lot of the staff who work there live near the wharf,

there is no way that we really want to be involved in bringing cargoes

that are unsuitable. I do not have a problem with what they are doing, it

is how they are doing it. I want to make sure that there are

no flies and no smell and It'll be up to the Environment Agency to

grant a permit here, once plans are submitted.

That it is well contained. But if it does, the Agency will also have to

allay local fears that last year's smells won't reoccur, or the company

turn to alternative products. But what's termed refuse`derived

fuel is something we're all likely to see more of, with Yorkshire's

Ferrybridge Power Station soon to embrace energy from waste systems.

The question then for people on the shores of the Humber is where it's

appropriate to ship this refuse to and from.

A man from Hull has been told he'll have to wait until June to leave

India ` eight months after his arrest. Ray Tindall was working for

a security company providing anti`piracy protection. He was

detained with the rest of the crew because of concerns about paperwork

for their weapons. He says the charges have been dropped, but the

court won't reconvene until June. Hull has one of the highest rates of

dog bites, according to new figures. Hospital admissions for dog bites

are three times higher in the most deprived areas of the country,

according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre. A animal

charity in Hull that educates children about dog behaviour says

owners are to blame if a dog attacks.

It's understanding how dogs behave. I've just got a puppy and it is so

much hard work, unbelievably hard work and tiring, and you have got to

be patient and be a pack leader. People don't always understand that,

they let their dogs do what they like. Some people train their dogs

to be aggressive. A lot are in Hull, as a lot of people getting them for

that reason. Still ahead tonight: Air men and

women from RAF Waddington exercise their freedom of Lincoln.

And art on roundabouts ` a sign of things to come.

Please keep your photographs coming in. Here is the one tonight.

Typhoon Jet at RAF Coningsby, taken by Paul Linton who lives near

Beverley. Why am I worried about the paper in

your hand? It is an e`mail, saying that my nine`year`old son always

says your favourite weather girl is on, dad, whenever you are on.

I bet Steve's wife loves you as well. But I have not yet said his

surname. It will be mixed weather throughout

the weekend. It will be rain tomorrow, but then

brightening through the afternoon. Low pressure still persists until

the middle of next week. On Sunday, it will pick up from the east, a

lots more cloud. It will be like today but without the heavy rain. We

have had heavy rain throughout the afternoon. You can see the cloud

moving up from the south and as we head through this evening, further

rain will move northwards. You can see that there will be some heavy

rain spells through there. It will move north throughout the night,

leaving drier conditions later. Temperatures at eight or nine

degrees. The sun will rise at eight 30s `` 5:37am tomorrow. Here are the

tides. Tomorrow will have a lot of the dry weather, but then another

band of rain will move in from the South West. A wet morning, with a

breeze, but it will move to the North. Brighter spells, sunny spells

throughout the day. It will remain cloudy for the longest in the

north`east, but it will even get brighter that later. But if you

sharp showers through the afternoon. Temperature wise, not as warm as it

was earlier this week, but the highest should be 13 degrees. On a

Sunday, a lot of cloud around, quiet on Monday, then more unsettled

weather later in the week. I am sure that the boy is enjoying

that. They've served their country in

warzones around the world, but today RAF staff from Lincolnshire were

thanked by people living on their doorstep. Service personnel from RAF

Waddington marched through Lincoln to mark the anniversary of being

given the freedom of the city. Simon Spark reports.

The sky may have been grey and wet, but the city of Lincoln was a vision

of RAF blue today. Almost 150 men and women from two armed flights

marched with bayonets fixed, flags flying and drums beating.

I think it is important for the area, because RAF Waddington is part

of the area. We are very proud of them. It makes me proud to watch

them. My son is marching with them, so we have come to see the parade. I

wish it would have been better weather.

This is RAF Waddington exercising its right to the freedom of the

city, a right that was granted 55 years ago to the day. And with the

noise and spectacle that brings demonstrated today it's not

something that goes un`noticed. The rain has come down, but

everybody has been addressed so smartly. 55 years ago, RAF

Waddington was given the honour of the Freedom of Lincoln, and that is

something we are very proud of today, because we are proud of our

local community links. It is important to have that relationship

with the military, so that they support us when we are away on

operations. Many of RAF Waddington's men and

women have recently returned from operations from Afghanistan and

throughout the world, but today was a different show of strength, the

strength of its relationship with the people of Lincolnshire.

We've had a big response to new figures which show a street in

Lincolnshire has one of the slowest broadband internet speeds in the

country. People on Station Road in Swineshead have to download web

pages nearly 30 times slower than the national average. But another

part of the county ` Malvern Close in North Hykeham ` has one of the

fastest broadband speeds. Thanks for your responses on this.

Angus on Twitter says: "I live in Boston and my broadband is terrible.

But Terry in Woodhall Spa asks simply: "Did the country not

function before we had computers?" Thanks for all of those.

Hundreds of Scunthorpe United fans will be heading for the South West

this evening ahead of their vital match at Exeter. A win for United

tomorrow could be enough to earn promotion to League One. Our Sports

reporter Simon Clark is already there.

Welcome to Saint James 's. It is from here that the manager will be

controlling the team tomorrow. The scenario for Scunthorpe is simple.

If they win here, they are promoted into League One. Even a draw should

be good enough, because the goal difference is superior to their

rivals. So, how have they got to this point? Wilcox thinks it is

because of the signings of the four new players. He says that they have

been the backbone of this season's success.

Marcus Williams is another one. We have four or five players here with

great experience. You also have people who were promoted last season

from different clubs. That experience has helped the rest of

the group. This is what it is all about, this

is the hottest ticket in town. Hundreds and hundreds of fans will

be coming to look at this piece of turf here, hoping for a piece of

history. Hull City goalkeeper Alan McGregor

could be fit to play in next month's FA Cup Final. Goalkeeper Alan

McGregor ` who was injured at West Ham last month ` won't take part in

tomorrow's league game at Fulham. But he has now returned to training

and could be back for a trip to Wembley.

He is making a desperate effort to be fit for a couple of weeks' time

and I am not going to stop him. But physically he has three broken ribs

and a damaged kidney. He is doing his best to see if he can be fit.

BBC Radio Humberside will have commentary of Hull City's trip to

Fulham on FM.Coverage starts at 1:30. Scunthorpe's trip to Exeter

will be on AM and on digital and the match kicks off at three o'clock.

Grimsby Town's game at Braintree is on Digital and the website.

And Lincoln City's final game of the season against Barnet is on BBC

Radio Lincolnshire. For most of us, a roundabout is just

something we have to drive around on the way to work, but people in East

Yorkshire are about to see them in a different light. Themed art work is

being installed on roundabouts in the area to encourage civic pride.

Jill Archbold reports. If you found yourself navigating

your way to Beverley, there are a few signs you're on the right

tracks. And, as you head to the coast, a suggestion the real

shimmering blue isn't too far away. East Yorkshire council want to

improve more roundabouts like these with artworks.

It is all about pride and identifying a special area. We have

?34,000 worth of sponsorship, so the cost is cost neutral.

It is hoped that this art will give an identity to places that you drive

into. Here, windmills. But they have some way to go if they want to be

known as some of the best in Britain.

This real windmill roundabout near York was once awarded "most

beautiful in Britain" by a man who enthuses about the country's best.

It gives any local council with local pride to put a garden or a

work of art, and it would attract visitors.

But there's a knack to getting art the right way round ` this one in

West Sussex caused problems when drivers thought decorative sheep

were real. But do people in the East Riding think it's a good idea?

When we go to France on holiday, the roundabouts are amazing. It puts us

to shame. It makes the area looks much better. It brightens up the

area. It's been said some islands have an

attractive power ` it's yet to be seen if these can attract more to

visit the East Riding. If you have a story that you think

that we should know about, then contact us.

Let's get a recap of the national and regional headlines: The

government forces Royal Bank of Scotland to reduce the size of

planned bonuses to staff. All of our local councils say

they're going to bid for a share of a new multi million pound fund to

help fix potholes. Tomorrow's weather: Rain during the

morning, but brightening with sunshine and a few showers during

the day. A maximum temperature of 13 degrees Celsius.

A very big response on the subject of potholes. Margaret says, will you

please tell me where our road tax goes? We pay millions in and we get

very little out. I mentioned earlier that a lot of people say that.

Stewart says, why should those others do not own cars pay for

potholes through council tax? Increase car tax so that they can

pay for it. Another person says, councils blame the potholes on the

weather. I am sick of excuses, after all the money that we pay, and

potholes are so dangerous. And another person says, stop moaning

and look where you are going. And one more, someone says if the

government stops spending money on the high`speed rail, they could use

the money on potholes. And after neglecting the roads for years, we

now face the problems of catching up.

Thank you for watching. I will see you on Monday. Goodbye.

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