11/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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A review finds missed opportunities to protect a four-year-old who died

after being given drugs by her mother.

Poultry farmers in Lincolnshire say they're losing millions of pounds

from the recent outbreak of bird flu.

We must limit all movement on and off farm that isn't essential

and we must try and tackle this disease.

The junction near Grimsby that caught out three car drivers

The shops making spending a penny a bit easier in Boston.

The classical composer from Hull who filled the Hollywood Bowl.

With more disturbed weather on the way join me for a detailed weather

forecast. She was only four years

old and she was fed drugs by her own mother, who was supposed

to be looking after her. Now a new report out today shows

there were several missed opportunities by social services,

health services and the police, to protect Poppy Widdison

from Grimsby before she died. Laura Foster's been

following this case. Three and a half years ago Poppy

was found at her home What caused her death is still not

known, but tests showed Poppy had ingested a cocktail of drugs for up

to six months before her death - including heroin, sedatives,

methadone and ketamine. Last month Poppy's mother

Michala Pyke and Pyke's ex partner John Ritting were found guilty

of child cruelty after feeding Poppy illicit drugs

at Ritting's home in Grimsby. Poppy's grandmother

spoke outside court. She was just beautiful, she really

was. You couldn't wish for a better little girl. She was beautiful.

Toulouse are so suddenly and so cruelly, I hope they get a long

sentence. She is everything to us. She really was. That is a big hole

that nobody can fail. -- fill. Today the Serious Case Review

into Poppy's death's been released. These happen whenever a child's died

and it's thought there's some degree This report criticises

services designed to protect Poppy and help her mother

with her drug use. It uses phrases like 'ineffective',

'lacked clarity and focus', history of drug use'.

for the entrenched Proper assessments weren't carried

out putting Poppy at 'serious risk of harm' and that professionals

were often 'misled' Rtting's drug abuse was known

about but noone knew Pyke and Rytting were in a relationship

and that Poppy live with both Despite the evidence,

no-one knew what Poppy's life was like or the harm and risk

she was exposed to every day. Dr Peter Sidebotham says

Serious Case Reviews mean lessons can be learned from what happened -

but there are no guarantees something similar

won't happen again. Some children are harmed by their

appearance and that will continue to be the case. There is no way we can

accurately predict this in severe cases and therefore we have to

costly carry a difficult balance between supporting families and not

wanting to intervene too much and yet at the same time recognising

when there are risks. Tonight the charity,

NSPCC has called the review deeply worrying and say that effective

oversight and improved intervention Meanwhile, Pyke and Rytting are both

due to be sentenced next week. Last month the judge told them

to expect substantial prison are still combing through this

report and trying to and how so many people could have

let down this little girl. We wanted to interview

North East Lincolnshire Local But we were told that no one

would speak to us on camera. It has said that it accepts

the reports findings but says significant changes have already

been made since Poppy's death. It goes on to say all agencies

in North East Lincolnshire are doing their best to continually

improve to keep children safe. In a moment: Protestors celebrate

as councillors turn down plans to drill for oil in North

Lincolnshire. A flood warning is in place

on the north bank of the Humber this evening, meaning

flooding is expected. The Environment Agency says a high

tide and strong winds could cause some overtopping at Hessle Foreshore

with more warnings over Precautions are also

being taken by the emergency Jo Makel is live on the banks

of the Humber Estuary for us, That is that combination of strong

winds and high tides. You can see the water levels behind me here are

quite high. But they are not expecting the same repeat of 2013

weather was a tidal surge almost weekly and the banks of the Humber

will breach. A flood warning is in place

on the North Bank of the Humber this evening, meaning

flooding is expected. They are expecting trouble over the

next two to three days. They have been checking tidal defences and

floodgates across cross-linked of course.

Precautions are also being taken along the Lincolnshire Coast,

where flood defences have been checked and tidal gates have been

closed ahead of another high tide on Friday morning.

Emergency services say they are monitoring the situation,

closed ahead of another high tide on Friday morning.

For the latest flooding information, visit the Environment Agency website

Or keep listening to your local BBC Radio station for updates.

Not just tonight but tomorrow and Friday as well.

A P ship steward accused of conspiring to smuggle cocaine

into Hull has been told he was lucky to have had a "disastrous meeting"

with Liverpudlian criminals in Rotterdam.

two years ago Edward Tron was hoping to channel drugs back into the UK,

for the first time since the arrest of another crew member.

But jurors heard the meeting fell through when he was

The 51-year-old from Gateshead told the court that if "I've

got no drugs, then I've done nothing wrong.".

Mr Tron, along with P cook Mark Quilliam and Mr Tron's wife

Susan deny the charges against them, and the case continues.

An East Yorkshire councillor who made offensive remarks

about the late MP Jo Cox has been told to step down by fellow

Dominic Peacock was thrown out of the East Riding's

ruling Conservative group and cautioned by the police

A motion by the council calling for his immediate resignation

Council Peacock had previously stated his intent to stay

Poultry farmers in Lincolnshire say they are losing millions of pounds

due to the recent outbreak of bird flu.

Restrictions mean they are banned from exporting products to some

countries including China - where the sale of chickens

feet for use in soups is particularly lucrative.

Our Rural Affairs Correspondent Linsey Smith reports.

From Lincolnshire to Lanzhou, where chicken feet are a common delicacy.

Many are bought from the 19 million birds raised

But with exports to China banned due to bird flu -

Charles has 16,000 free range chickens.

His flock doesn't have bird flu, but we had

to meet him away from them - due to biosecurity rules.

It is a worry but unfortunately it is going to be a constant issue for

the industry. And so we must respond by being positive.

We must limit all movement on and off farm that isn't essential

and we must try and tackle this disease head-on.

5,000 turkeys died in December after catching the H5N8

strain of Avian Flu on this farm in Louth.

Since then, there has been an outbreak in a backyard

The big producers are following strict guidelines set

But the fear is, if people who have just a few birds as pets

don't follow the advice - particularly keeping them housed -

At Bishop Burton College, birds are being fed indoors.

But experts warn wild birds are not solely to blame.

We need to make sure that if you have pet birds at home and a wild

bird comes into the garden, like a sparrow, that we

don't suddenly think, those birds have bird flu and we need to get our

birds in. At the end of the day, we need to be careful,

rather than making wild birds scapegoats, when it only

While the risk to people is very low, this is

a disease that is deadly to birds and highly contagious

One reason why there's a ?5,000 fine for anyone who fails

Linsey Smith, BBC Look North, South Cave.

Toilets inside shops and businesses could be opened up

A number of locations including St Botolphs Church say they'll

make their facilities available for people to use.

Councillors say it will make it more attractive for people

Boston has three public toilets at Kirkham Park entry and into other

places. But they missed to double this number by using automated

teller skin. If the plan goes ahead businesses such as the new shopping

centre will all have public use of their tireless with council

providing cleaning until the two supplies. One of the best ways is if

there can be in agreement with shops etc. If shops want our business why

can't we use their facilities? Irrespective if we spend any money

in the shop are not. It is a good idea businesses open their doors. A

lot better. Is that not a danger the public toilets can not be -- can be

closed because of her love tireless Christmas that is not a risk at all.

What we're looking for its community toddlers that anybody can use that

will be identified and signposted. According to a BBC investigation

last year almost 1800 public toilets close across the UK in the last

decade. But it is also not always that easy to get a community scheme

alternative to work. Any tales and so when you need to have the floors

cleaned and have baby change beds waiting cleaned. It is management.

Running tireless is like running another part of your business and

has to be cared for looked after audible become messy and smelly and

that is not what we want. We have no concerns about people coming into

years of silence at all and we have people on here all the times we

believe we can monitor those facilities and them nice and clean.

Boston town area committee members have been discussing whether the

community pilot scheme will go ahead as we speak.

We want to hear from you on this story?

Do you think more places should do what Boston are trying to do?

How important do you think public toilets are, we've heard 1800 have

Here is how to be in touch. Experiences where you are. If you

want to e-mail and we will have some before the end of the programme.

A family are calling for safety improvements to a junction

in Healing near Grimsby following three accidents

Three vehicles skidded on ice outside their home -

one crashed through a fence and another hit a tree.

North East Lincolnshire Council say they are investigating the issue.

This is a quiet residential road in the healing area of Grimsby.

This is Oak Road and the junction here

joined with the Avenue and disjunction has become notorious

because the last six years, this house has been crashed into six

times and last week, it happened three times in the space of 20

This family says more needs to be done to

The fact we come out here in the morning to get

the car and my parents visit and park in this tightly, it could

easily have been one of them that got hit.

I could have come out the front door and got head.

It is the fact they happened so close together.

The impact is on the wider community to use this

stretch of road and it needs addressing.

We're going to look at this and see if we can come up with

There is possibly a problem with the service.

There are remedial measures we can put in place to hopefully address

Serious damage was prevented by this tree.

You can see where one of the vehicles crashed

This metal fence was damaged and this gatepost will cost

The family says that's nothing compared to what

could have happened because this road is

often used by children on

their way to school and the family often play

in the Strand carton and

they say if anyone had been passing at the time of these crashes, it

The classical composer from Hull who filled the Hollywood Bowl.

Mervyn Page took this photo from the North Bank looking

at the contrails at sunset at the Bridge.

I was just going to make the point that we've only had to wait four

days since the last Humber Bridge picture. The headline for the next

two hours is a fairly wild one. Let me show you what will happen because

the coast will bear the brunt of very strong winds on Friday. That is

tomorrow's headline. That is the risk of a little bit of rain in the

far side of our region. We have had very strong winds today courtesy of

this pressure. Watch the system which might get into the extreme

south of Lincolnshire tomorrow afternoon Bridlington reign of

potentially some snow. Look at the number of Isa buyers. We could well

see stomp forced ten winds across Yorkshire and literature course on

Friday morning. The high water time in Holland will be half past six in

the morning which will coincide with an extremely strong wind. -- Hull.

The is wind moderating as we speak after some high gusts today. --

Hull. Eyes expect many of us will be dry tonight with clear periods. Very

windy with that wind, just easing off a little later and still gusts

of 40 miles an hour later night. Icy patches and tinges of two Celsius.

The sun rises at about 40 minutes past eight and next high water time

at Burlington is at three Minister for the morning. A bright start with

some sunshine and will be some showers getting into the West. For

many of us it will be dry until this feature edges in and pushes

eastwards. You can see there could be some rain and a bit of snow in

the extreme south of Lincolnshire into North Norfolk. By north and

look set to be was the driver just one to be mostly dry which is

moderately wintry showers for -- said to be dry. Stormy winds coming

in from the coast on Friday. A company that wants to recover

millions of barrels of oil in North Lincolnshire has

had its plans rejected Councillors voted against the plans

put forward by Egdon Resources because they felt they had

'insufficient information The company has previously carried

out tests at its well in Wressle - I thought it would go the other way

and I'm delighted how has gone. We give our heartfelt thanks to

planning committee for making a sane decision on behalf of local

amenities and that planet as a whole. The concerns expressed are

those about the impact of the local infrastructure and their impact on

the water courses known locally particularly the one that would

impact on British Steel which is a major employee virus in -- a major

employer for us in North Lincolnshire.

A cancer patient from North Lincolnshire has said

he was all ready for surgery and outside the operating

theatre when his procedure was cancelled at the last minute.

63-year-old Martin Bagshall was due to have his prostate removed

He's one of dozens of patients who've had their operations

postponed because of a shortage of beds at Hull and East

Thanks to everyone who's been in touch about our coverage

It is in some respects like torture. If you get to the hospital and the

ward and then they tell you it is bad enough but when you're actually

real down to theatre that was the really hard part for me. -- wheeled

down. Thanks to everyone who's been

in touch about our coverage of the closure of another care home

for elderly people. in East Yorkshire need new places

to live after the owners said It's the fifth home to announce it

will shut in this area in the last 12 months,

with companies blaming poor council funding,

staff shortages and rising wages. You will remember we talked about it

last night in detail. Liz in Hull says "Who picks up

the pieces when private When local authorities used to run

them people who lived there felt like they were part of a family,

but austerity cuts Tessa says, "I visit my gran

in a care home every week and I am in awe of the staff that provide

wonderful care for a minimum wage. The government need to pay far more

for these care places." And Daniel says: 'My mum

works in a care home and she often has to do triple,

even quadruple, shifts The result of overworked staff

is poorer care for the clients." Thank you very much indeed for all

of those. I'm sure it is a subject we will return to at a later date.

There was heartbreak for Hull City in the first leg

The Tigers were hoping to return to Hull just one goal down

after Juan Mata scored for Manchester United.

But with seconds left, Marrowan Fellar-knee made it two.

The second leg is played in Hull two-weeks tomorrow.

Lincoln City has sold out of home tickets for their FA Cup replay

Some supporters were at Sincil Bank from four o'clock this morning

hoping to buy tickets for the Imps' match.

Scunthorpe United are out of the Checkatrade trophy.

The Iron went down 4-1 at Oxford United despite taking

From David Whitfield to the Housemartins,

Hull has a rich musical heritage - but there's one woman from the city

who made big waves in the world of classical music you've probably

Ethel Leginska was famed as a pianist, composer and conductor

from the late 19th century until the 1930s.

Now, her success is being celebrated in a special concert

Our culture correspondent Anne-Marie Tasker has the story.

In her heyday Ethel Leginska was a multi-talented musician.

The first woman to ever conduct and compose her own opera.

As the first woman conductor, she packed out US concert halls -

30,000 people came to this venue - the Hollywood Bowl, to see her.

And she founded America's first women's orchestras.

But she was born in Hull as Ethel Liggins.

This was the first proper recital that she did when she was ten years

old. It is dated from 1897. Terry Broadbent spent decades

studying Leginska's life. Celebrated as Hull's little prodigy

- Ethel changed her name and moved to London,

then Europe, then America to train with the best and perform

to the biggest audiences. Until about 1930 she was regarded as

one of the top in the United States. It is such a shame that she dropped

out of history in the songs forgotten. When you came to look at

all other exploits is difficult to see why that was. But it was partly

antifemale prejudice. It was so difficult to get things put on.

Leginska's playing was captured on these reproducing piano rolls -

which recreate how she struck each note.

Now work's taking place at the University of Hull to be able

to play these recordings at concerts in March.

He lives this list of files. -- he lives this list.

Her piano rolls were recorded digitally -

The keys are not going down like they should.

So the University's technicians have re-programmed the keys

to be struck faster - to create a true Leginska experience

- without the drawbacks of using the original piano rolls.

In order to create the action this need for a better pump which sounds

a bit like an action cleaner. You're trying to fight against that. That

is also the sound of the paper as it rose to and that mechanical action

can grate a little bit and you get this rather squeaky scrapie sound

which sounds like the paper is going to tear.

Leginska's own compositions will also be perfomed at the concert -

hoping to reignite interest in an accomplished musician

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

Donald Trump says claims Russian intelligence has compromising

information about him are entirely fake.

A review finds missed opportunities to protect a four-year-old who died

after being given drugs by her mother.

Tomorrow's weather: Cold with bright or sunny

spells and occasional showers, possible wintry.

Bauer says we live in Spain and there are no public toilets. You can

go to any establishment and you're welcome to use them which are always

clean and functioning. Alan says Holderness Road is a good hike but

if you need the toilet you can sneak into McDonald's. Another

correspondent says we should encourage businesses to open the

tireless during the City of Culture. Another correspondent says it is on

a place in South Wales for shops to open their facilities in exchange

for a rate reduction. Join us if you can at half past ten.

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I believe that our country needs to work for everyone.

Not just for the rich, not just for the privileged,

not just for those who know the right people or who've got