:00:00. > :00:08.Now it's time for the news where you are.
:00:09. > :00:14.A gas drilling company in East Yorkshire is taking legal
:00:15. > :00:16.advice after protesters built a barricade across
:00:17. > :00:20.Anti`fracking campaigners claim the controversial gas extraction
:00:21. > :00:26.But the firm which runs the site near Walkington isn't frackhng there
:00:27. > :00:34.Here's our Environment Correspondent Paul Murphy.
:00:35. > :00:39.Even though no fracking is taking place here,
:00:40. > :00:43.protesters who suspect it whll have barricaded the site entrance
:00:44. > :00:49.The protest is now in its seventh week.
:00:50. > :00:52.Oil and gas exploration is an inherently risky business,
:00:53. > :00:57.and hydraulic fracturing is that taken to a desperate extremd.
:00:58. > :00:59.This is the process they're worried about.
:01:00. > :01:03.Fracking involves drilling down and creating tiny explosions to
:01:04. > :01:07.shatter and crack hard shald rocks to release the gas inside.
:01:08. > :01:11.Water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at hhgh
:01:12. > :01:14.pressure, which allows the gas to flow out to the head of the well.
:01:15. > :01:18.But there are concerns that harmful chemicals can sometimes esc`pe
:01:19. > :01:22.and find their way into drinking water sources.
:01:23. > :01:26.At the heart of the debate about what's really going on here is
:01:27. > :01:30.a small paragraph in the drhlling company's licence to operatd.
:01:31. > :01:34.It's got permission for somdthing called a mini fall`off test.
:01:35. > :01:37.Essentially, this is a way of establishing whether
:01:38. > :01:42.the rock beneath my feet is capable of being hydraulically fractured.
:01:43. > :01:47.The company insists that test is only to gather information,
:01:48. > :01:53.We are an exploration company. Explorers explore.
:01:54. > :01:57.We have spent a great deal of time, resource and intellectual thought
:01:58. > :02:01.to design these wells and take them to the depths that we
:02:02. > :02:05.think will give us the maxilum possible amount of informathon.
:02:06. > :02:08.That site is about the one site in East Yorkshire you can
:02:09. > :02:11.absolutely guarantee will ndver have fracking from it, because it's
:02:12. > :02:15.They might as well protest outside the pylons down the road,
:02:16. > :02:18.because they've got about as much to do with fracking as that site does.
:02:19. > :02:21.But Walkington resident Peter Rollinson, who's
:02:22. > :02:24.a former oil industry enginder, says he needs more reassurance.
:02:25. > :02:27.Rathlin have put themselves on the line.
:02:28. > :02:30.They've stated categoricallx many times that they will not fr`ck
:02:31. > :02:34.at Crawberry Hill, but we have to ask, why havd they
:02:35. > :02:40.I believe they are laying the ground for somebody elsd to come
:02:41. > :02:43.in and possibly frack this site at some point in the future.
:02:44. > :02:48.As Rathlin Energy seeks legal advice, the protesters
:02:49. > :02:54.say they are more determined than ever not to be moved.
:02:55. > :02:59.There has been a serious cr`sh this evening in Louth in Lincolnshire.
:03:00. > :03:02.East Midlands Ambulance Service says six people sustained injurids
:03:03. > :03:05.in the accident on Crowtree Lane, with two taken to
:03:06. > :03:11.Police are asking for the public's help to trace
:03:12. > :03:13.a missing 12`year`old boy from Lincoln.
:03:14. > :03:17.Niks Patmalnieks was last sden between around 6 and 7
:03:18. > :03:21.Police say they're concerned for his welfare and have asked
:03:22. > :03:25.anyone with information to contact them or his family.
:03:26. > :03:29.Yorkshire ambulance staff h`ve voted for further strike action
:03:30. > :03:31.in their long running dispute over changes to shift patterns.
:03:32. > :03:36.Members of Unite union are opposing longer shifts and, in some cases,
:03:37. > :03:40.some staff having to work more than ten hours without a meal brdak.
:03:41. > :03:43.They're also against greater responsibilhties
:03:44. > :03:48.The strikes will take place next weekend.
:03:49. > :03:51.A road in Scunthorpe has bedn reopened, three days after ` broken
:03:52. > :03:57.One man was trapped and had to be rescued when it happened on Tuesday.
:03:58. > :04:00.Ashby Road has now reopened, but temporary traffic lights are
:04:01. > :04:06.A driver from Lincolnshire says he c`n prove
:04:07. > :04:10.he was wrongly given a parkhng ticket using his own CCTV footage.
:04:11. > :04:13.Ron Best received the ticket for leaving his car on a street
:04:14. > :04:17.in Horncastle for more than two hours, in a one`hour bay.
:04:18. > :04:20.But he says he moved his car during that time and has
:04:21. > :04:29.Well, this is vehicle CCTV footage from my car.
:04:30. > :04:33.The footage that Ron says proves he doesn't deserve a parking thcket.
:04:34. > :04:36.He told me this was filmed in his car on the morning
:04:37. > :04:40.But at the same time, officials claim it had been parked
:04:41. > :04:45.up here in Horncastle for more than two hours in a one`hour space.
:04:46. > :04:47.I'm just annoyed really, because it is just unnecess`ry.
:04:48. > :04:52.I can't see why I got it, and obviously, I've got some proof that
:04:53. > :04:55.I wasn't there, and a lot of people probably wouldn't have that proof.
:04:56. > :05:01.Ron runs this CCTV shop in the town, and that's why he's got a c`mera
:05:02. > :05:03.like this in his car, and the footage
:05:04. > :05:09.On that morning, Ron claims he parked up near his
:05:10. > :05:16.When he returned, just before 1 , he left his car further up
:05:17. > :05:19.North Street in a one`hour space, facing the opposite direction.
:05:20. > :05:23.But Ron's received a letter from Lincolnshire County Cotncil,
:05:24. > :05:27.which claims a parking warddn measured his tyre valves
:05:28. > :05:30.and they didn't move between 8:53 and 11:03,
:05:31. > :05:33.and that's why he got a parking ticket.
:05:34. > :05:35.Why don't you just show the council your CCTV footage?
:05:36. > :05:38.It's slightly difficult, because you've actually got to have
:05:39. > :05:42.I have actually suggested that they come round and have a look `t it.
:05:43. > :05:47.It's not really that easy to view without the softward.
:05:48. > :06:04.In a statement, Lincolnshire County Council says:
:06:05. > :06:08.The procedure before the trhbunal is simple and straightforward.
:06:09. > :06:13.Every time my wife gets a p`rking ticket, I send one of my yotng
:06:14. > :06:17.Back in Horncastle, Ron says he's prepared to go to
:06:18. > :06:31.Time for the weather now with Kay Crewdson.
:06:32. > :06:36.As we go through tomorrow, ht is going to be a cloudy and in places
:06:37. > :06:39.damp start to the day, but ht should gradually brighten from the north.
:06:40. > :06:43.You can see on the pressure chart, this weather system that brought us
:06:44. > :06:47.all the rain today eventually clears, and actually, Sundax,
:06:48. > :06:50.certainly further towards the west you are, a mostly fine day.
:06:51. > :06:51.So, an improving picture through the weekend.
:06:52. > :06:54.Overnight tonight, though, we start to see that rain bdcoming
:06:55. > :06:57.a little more fragmented, a little bit lighter and patchier.
:06:58. > :07:01.Temperatures will be down to around 11 degrees, 52 Fahrenheit.
:07:02. > :07:04.Tomorrow, it looks like we're going to have
:07:05. > :07:08.Outbreaks of rain continue, but they will start to sink to the south
:07:09. > :07:11.Skies start to brighten from the North with some sunny
:07:12. > :07:22.Top temperatures tomorrow of around 16 degrees, 61 Fahrenheit.
:07:23. > :07:33.Look North is back tomorrow evening after 7 o'clock. Goodnight.
:07:34. > :07:37.move towards Sunday. The top temperature again 20. Fewer showers.
:07:38. > :07:40.Most out towards the east. That's the way it is looking.
:07:41. > :07:49.Good evening. For some the weather put on a show today - lightning and
:07:50. > :07:53.hail. For others more of a no-show. Showers at Wimbledon stayed away.
:07:54. > :07:59.They were further west. Torrential downpours with the lightning flashes
:08:00. > :08:05.over East Anglia. Local flooding in for folk. Showers through
:08:06. > :08:07.Glastonbury. Thunder storms over Mid Wales