28/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Good evening and welcome to BBC Look North.

The headlines tonight: Sad and immoral - thieves blasted over

Another attack on a war memorial to thousands of

The they are lacking in some intelligence, lacking in morals,

belief in what people have done for them in the past. I will be wired

here were local people say they are disgusted but they will step in to

replace what has been lost. -- I will be live.

The potholes that councils say they can't afford to fix -

millions of pounds is needed to sort out our crumbling roads.

Years ago when we went on holiday to Europe the roads were awful and

awards were perfect and now it is the opposite. They will not get any

better if you just leave them. The arcade owner who says

the new pound coin will cost him thousands -

and wants the Government Free travel jabs and gluten-free

food may stop as the NHS cuts back on prescriptions that cost

it millions. The East Yorkshire village that's

becoming a safe haven For the detailed five day forecast

join me in 15 minutes. It's a tribute to 55,000 dead

airmen of Bomber Command - the RAF crews that many credit

with shortening So tonight there's a furious

reaction to a series of thefts from their memorial

at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincoln,

which is still under construction. Among the items stolen -

a flag pole and its union flag. Simon Spark is at the memorial,

what else has been taken? I think what has angered second day

but the most is this has not does -- is not the first time, it is the

second time in a fortnight thieves have struck. Or at the weekend a

flag and flag and flagpole and two weeks before that donation boxes,

generators, over ?2000 worth of equipment was stolen, even a blue

wreath left at the bottom of the spire like a family in an act of

remembrance was found shredded. The International Bomber Command Centre

is being built to honour all those involved with Bomber Command and

will commemorate more than 55,000 Bomber Command aircrew who died

during the Second World War, the majority of the bombing raid set of

Lincolnshire and actions are credited with a dramatically

changing the outcome of World War II. Recently the construction of the

memorial has been -- become a target for thieves and vandals. At some

point over the weekend a five metre white flagpole similar to this one

was stolen from here. Along with the union Jack flag flying on it. They

are sad people, they are lacking in some intelligence, certainly lacking

in morals, concern and commitment and belief in what people have done

for them in the past. People like 90 pupil wears who was one of just two

survivors were his plane was shot down -- 90-year-old fought back. He

then became a prisoner of war. I am horrified and angry people could be

faced monuments to people who gave their lives for this country. There

are men up there, several that I knew personally there are names are

up there. And to think of somebody going there and destroying things, a

lot of vandals and goes on up there and it shatters me, I see no reason

for it. Police today said... Meanwhile, staff at the

International Bomber Command centres say security will now be improved

but CCTV systems would simply be too expensive.

There's been a big response from the public following

Children at the William Alvey Primary School in Sleaford have

already offered to replace the flag that was stolen.

A security firm has also come forward to offer extra

Earlier today, I spoke to Tony Worth, the chairman

of the International Bomber Command Centre.

I asked him what he made of the response.

The public have been most supportive and been fantastic in the way

Can you put into words what you think about the people

who are doing this, who have done this?

I think they are totally disrespectful, they are totally

mindless and here we are trying to do good things both

for the county and also to memorialise those people

who during the war gave their lives and gave their all to

It is all charity work and the money has come from veterans,

it has come from individuals and from grant bodies,

and for that to have happened now when we are most of the way

through getting things finished is absolutely appalling.

You are doing all this good work and here we are having this

conversation and even a security firm has offered to help.

What we have to do is to increase the security, but everything we do

in increasing security and everything else

And it is money which is being given to us by other people,

it is not our money, and we have got to look after it

and as it is we've got to raise quite a lot of money to get

the thing finished, something in the region

There is a very good chance the person or persons who have done

Just say to them what you think and your message to them.

Actually, I would quite like to meet them because I would

like to understand what it is that makes them do these things.

It is totally mindless, does not make any sense at all,

I cannot understand why anybody would take a flag or a flagpole

or even break into our shed and take all of the snacks and things

which we were going to give to the people who came to our open

I do wish you well, we'll follow the story.

I know there will be strong feelings on this story and we will keep you

up-to-date with any developments on that.

Thousands of potholes will continue to blight roads in East Yorkshire

and Lincolnshire because councils can't afford to repair them all.

That's the finding of a new report which says millions of pounds

of extra cash is needed to fix crumbling roads.

And there's a warning some routes are so bad

Phillip Norton is here, what are our local councils

Well, local councils have been given extra Government funds in the past

year specifically to help with filling in potholes,

on top of their usual highways budgets.

The problem is, they cant keep up with the escalating problem.

It's called the Pothole Action Fund and the amount

Lincolnshire County Council was given ?1.8 million

from the kitty last year, enough to fill more than 34,000 potholes.

?87,000 - which filled just over 1600 potholes.

Today campaigners said much more needs to be spent to bring roads up

More potholes than money, that's the problem facing local

authorities, with a forecast things will only get worse.

These potholes were filmed in just one street in Hull this morning.

Years ago, when we went on holiday to Europe,

the roads were awful, yet our roads were perfect.

Now it's completely the other way around.

They are not going to get any better if you're just leaving them.

I get where they're coming from but they're not going anywhere,

they're still going to have to fix them.

It's not good for your tendons when you're bouncing up and down,

It's a problem that's already costing cash

Lincolnshire County Council says more than ?270 million has been

spent on road maintenance in the past five years.

Across the area, people have taken to social media and identified

Campaigners say there is a terminal decline in road

standards, which could lead to drastic measures.

We are creeping towards a tipping point in road condition.

One in six local roads now only have five years life left in them.

If they don't get the funding necessary to bring those up

to scratch, then the ultimate sanction for them is to

The Government is investing ?1.3 billion in roads this year.

Campaigners say that's not enough and it would take 12 years to clear

Phillip Norton, BBC Look North, Hull.

Should drivers give up on the idea of every pothole being fixed?

Are they just something we have to learn to live with?

Here is how to get in touch. Would you like to see more money put aside

for repairing potholes and would you be happy to pay more road tax to get

them repaired? Are we at the tipping point?

Your views on the potholes and we will have some on before we finish

at 7pm. An East Coast arcade

operator is calling for government compensation

following the introduction Skegness Pier says adapting its slot

machines to take the new coin is costing it ?30,000,

but the bank of England insists that the introduction will help

prevent people faking them. A new 12 sided ?1 coins in

circulation from today but already causing a headache in some of our

east Coast seaside arcades. At Skegness peer most of their 400 slot

and game machines need to be adapted to take the shape and weight of the

new money. We have around 400 machines and 300 of them need

changing. Throughout the whole winter mechanics have reprogramming

them and we had to sell a lot of. There has been no help or

compensation from the Government and I feel we are being penalised, we

have two fund the cost by ourselves. It started a couple of years ago

with the ?10 and now the ?1 and the ?10 note and then the new ?20 note.

Inside every machine is one of these, the mechanism which

determines which coin is which and for most of these that now must be

changed. The problem is not all of them will work with the all ?1 coin

as well as the new one, so for operators the question is when will

the new one be enough circulation meaning it will be right for them to

switch over? The old opponent is only legal tender until October, at

which time shops, lockers and vending machines will have had to

adapt, as will some council run parking machines, at cost to the

taxpayer. There are 75 machines across the district, 38 have been

done so far and the total cost is around ?3500. It is an expense

councils can do without? We have huge financial challenges and we

could do without it but it is something we and all authorities

have to deal with, along with private sector businesses. Why the

change? Bank of England says the new coin is ultimately far harder to

forge sewed introduction will mean the next generation grew up without

ever using the old rodents pound. -- the all round pound coin.

Still ahead tonight: Free travel jabs and gluten-free food may stop

as the NHS cuts back on prescriptions that cost it millions.

And the East Yorkshire villagers who will welcome dozens of hedgehogs

tonight's photograph is taken by John Clarke and it is by coincidence

of Skegness. I think that is the sunrise, Peter. Jack says, is Paul

trying to change his image with the open neck shirt, trying to look

younger? If so, it is not working. The Saturday night Fever look, we do

not think it is working? Or too tight on, please, oh and put you to

shame. Maybe I should try a to and fake tan, do you think that will

work? For the next 24 hours it is looking

mild, some brightness the Lincolnshire coast on Thursday is

looking promising because we drag some warm air from the new

continent. -- near continent. The weekend is looking unsettled,

especially Saturday. It has brightens up nicely, a very pleasant

and Hull England sweep -- Hull and Grimsby. Through this evening it

will tend to cloud over and we will see patchy rain developed across

Lincolnshire, persistent bursts here, a mild nights. Moderate

south-west winds. The sun rises in the morning, here are the times. A

cloudy and damp start in places, patchy rain, otherwise it soon

becomes a dry. Brightness coming through, rain never far away but the

fair amount of fair in Lincolnshire in particular. As I say, there will

be good dry periods and certainly mild air from the Atlantic. Not bad

at temperatures for the end of March. Well above average, which is

10 Celsius. First the start cloudy and damp brightening up later. --

Thursday starts cloudy and damp. Sap at the cool with heavy showers. That

is the forecast. -- Saturday looks cool.

I am looking for a good lawyer, after that remark!

As the NHS looks to save millions of pounds

some things prescribed by doctors could be stopped.

That includes gluten-free bread, paracetamol and sun cream.

Already in parts of this area patients are being urged

to buy their own paracetamol - which are a few pence

in a shop but end up costing the NHS much more.

Our health correspondent, Vicky Johnson reports.

The NHS has never been under such financial pressure and so health

officials looking how to cut costs and prescription charges is one key

area. And treatments like these are all currently available on

prescription but NHS England is going to consult on whether products

that are freely available over-the-counter should still be

offered by GPs. What we need is to make sure that is a balance between

people being able to buy the product they want from the supermarket and

make sure children and people who might not have the ability to pay

for those products are given support through the NHS. It is important

people are treated as individuals rather than a blanket ban for all

these products for everybody. This woman has coeliac disease which is

caused by Clinton. Her family's cafe sells some gluten-free products but

she thinks it is vital basic foods remain free on prescription. For

somebody who may have been poorly for a while and is not sure what to

eat what to have it and give them that natural first step with what to

start with and then they can move onto other pastors. It is vital for

everybody. Paracetamol can be purchased for as

little as 19p per packet but it cost the NHS over ?10 per packet. Last

year the NHS and Hull spent over ?500,000 on these what national it

was over 87 million. Many health groups have restricted prescription

for paracetamol and most of the people we spoke to agree this was

the right thing to do. I think if you need them then buy them, that is

my perception. Paracetamol is so cheap but I do not think there is

any need to have that on prescription. You can just buy it

yourself since it is so cheap. Doctors and pharmacists are faced

with a dilemma of making sure patients get the most appropriate

treatment while asking some of them to bear some of the cost.

Will local health officials be watching this closely

after their comments on paracetamol last year?

They certainly will. We were told last year paracetamol bill for the

NHS in Lincolnshire was ?1 million and East Riding it was more than 1.5

million. Health bosses then said it was not an effective use of

resources and they started to restrict the prescription use of

paracetamol. Since they started doing so in East Riding they already

save 1.3 million and expect those savings to increase for the rest of

the year. This is the background to why the NHS has confirmed this

preview of what will be available and not available on prescription.

We do not know how long this review will take, it starts next month, we

do not know when they will come up with a decision. Thank you. This is

another story you might want to comment on. We will talk more and I

walked up to the pharmaceutical. -- pharmaceutical Society emulate Look

North at 10:30pm. -- on the late Look North.

A man who couldn't read or write until the age of 32,

when he found out he was dyslexic, is speaking out, with the hope

of helping other people in the same situation.

Howard Duckworth from Goole in East Yorkshire says

it was a relief to discover, in his words,

Howard Duckworth, who runs a hotel in Goole, struggled to read

and write until his dyslexia diagnosis at the age of 32.

Often known as a hidden disability, he described the moment he realised

When you are suddenly given a title, it's almost...

It's a relief that you aren't thick, you aren't lazy, there's just

Dyslexia is a genetic learning difficulty that affects around

It occurs regardless of gender, race, or level of intelligence

and it's recognised under the Equality Act 2010.

Despite this, the British Dyslexia Association says its seeing

an increasing number of enquiries related to discrimination issues.

To give you an example, we had somebody recently

who was working in a zoo and was taken off that job

with a job change and given a job as a dog warden.

And that would involve writing reports.

This legal expert says employers could face huge costs

Looking at the figures from '15 to '16 for the tribunals,

a normal unfair dismissal claim, not involving disability,

Looking at a disability related unfair dismissal claim, 21,000.

And looking at the biggest award for disability discrimination

You can see how that could have a massive financial

knock-on for companies who don't recognise this.

The Government is now looking to work more closley with businesses

and increase the number of disability employment

Howard meanwhile is urging others not to let dyslexia hold them back.

This is why so many dyslexics end up being self-employed.

They come up with the various different ideas and they create it.

You look at some of the big businesses and these people,

if you actually go back to the ideas, they are dyslexic.

They are looking at it from a totally different idea.

It's hoped more awareness will help to provide more

dyslexic-friendly workplaces across the region.

If you have a story you think we should know about drop me an e-mail

and give me a telephone number, also.

Portraits of famous people are going on display

They're on loan from the National Portrait Gallery.

The exhibition includes likenesses of the author JK Rowling

The National Portrait Gallery's annual portrait exhibition

is probably the most prestigious in the world, and each year

the winner is commissioned to produce a portrait

for the Portrait Gallery, and these are the ones they've

produced over the years, so it is very much

The hedgehog is an endangered species and now people in part

of East Yorkshire are to become the first hedgehog friendly

They're starting by building homes for the creatures in their gardens

in Burton Fleming, before dozens of rescued hedgehogs

This cathedral hedgehog gets star treatment. He is cared for by a team

of volunteers. -- this hedgehog gets star treatment. They could soon find

themselves in a new home 50 miles away to create the first hedgehog

friendly village in the north. 32 hedgehogs in an area with the

minimum number for a support of 50 -- support of population, another

50, will make a healthy population and United gene pool and the

hedgehog will travel up to two miles per night so it cannot be locked

into one or two gardens, it needs a large area to run around. -- healthy

gene pool. The hedgehog population in rural areas as half since 2000,

due to predators like badgers and disappearing habitat. One of

villagers trying to combat this. The residents are creating puddles for

hedgehogs move between gardens and building special bends. -- creating

tunnels. Little Mac I think future should still be brought up with

hedgehogs in the life. Apart from the ones who need medical

treatment most are hibernating ready for the big move and new lives in

their hedgehog friendly village. Let's get a recap of the national

and regional headlines: Scotland's parliament backs a second

independence referendum - that puts it on a collision course

with Westminster and Theresa May. The war memorial to

thousands of dead airmen - tonight a furious reaction

to another theft at the site. Tomorrow's weather -

rather cloudy with a little E-mails and texts on the subject of

potholes. Mike, "There is no excuse

for potholes, motorist pay a fortune In France, there is no road

tax and no potholes, Sharon,

'The roads around Lincoln It has already cost me ?600

in repairs to my alloy wheels. The Council have denied

responsibility even though I have provided photographs showing

the potholes at a depth of 5 inches. Peter,

'I think it will be better to go back to cobbled roads and forget

about thin layers of tarmac.' Alan, 'as there are millions more

cars on the roads nowadays where's the multi millions in car tax

going.' Have a nice evening join me if you

can at 1030 this is not I will see you tomorrow night at 6:30pm.

Goodbye for now.