13/04/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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Protesters target the owners of the country's biggest

power station, claiming they're damaging the environment.

They don't like the negative publicity.

as a biomass-only company, but they're not.

and nobody thinks that's sustainable.

Police say the discovery of two bodies at the same house

The newspaper front page that's caused anger in Skegness.

Our sports teams head into a weekend of games that could have a huge

And the Easter weekend is nearly upon us. What's the weather doing? I

will have a full forecast shortly. It's the country's biggest

power station and today It's emerged that police spent

days searching a house in a South Lincolnshire village

before they found the body It's after the body of a man,

thought to be Lawrence Williams, was found at this house

last Friday in Lutton. Bernice Williams, weren't

found until the Sunday. Laura Foster has been

following the story. What more can you tell us

about what the police The police say that they've carried

out postmortem examinations, details of that are likely

to come out during an inquest. But for this story, you need

to go back three weeks. Bernice Williams was

a mother, a former church warden and a mentor at

a school in Holbeach. She was last seen

on the 25th of March. Two weeks later,

so that's last Friday, Lincolnshire Police found the body

of her husband, Lawrence, It's understood Mr

Williams killed himself. But it wasn't until two days

after that - the Sunday just gone - that forensic officers found

Mrs Williams' body and that was How she died - that's not

yet been established. It's also not yet been revealed how

long the couple had been dead for. Today the headteacher

at Westmere Primary School where Bernice worked,

Karyn Wiles, said they were shocked and saddened

by her death, describing her as a friendly, kind-hearted team

member who will be missed Lincolnshire Police says

it is not looking for anyone else and is passing a file

to the coroner, and an inquest could take place

as soon as next week. Humberside Police is told it has

to do more to protect children It receives millions from the public

purse every year to subsidise green electricity, but campaigners claim

of Drax power station isn't helping the environment and that is costing

us all in our energy bills. A protest against the burning of wood

pellets at its sights on your Google was held today. Our reporter Carolyn

Bilton was at that protest and she is live there now. Why is this so

controversial? They used to burn coal year. Now

they also burn wood pellets. Some may see that as a necessity to

enable us to boil our kettles, and hurl our lights. But others see it

as a huge waste of money that is damaging our environment and the

environmentalists that I spoke to today are calling for a complete we

can think. -- rethink. If you want to get your message to

the top of a company, this is the place to do it. The Drax AGM taking

place in this hotel in York is the biggest event in the company's

calendar. Today, these protesters came to ask Drax to rethink how it

produces our Alec visited. They don't like the negative publicity.

They try and place themselves as a biomass only company. But that is a

lie. Half the energy comes from coal and nobody think that's sustainable.

Drax operates the UK's largest power station, supplying about 8% of

people country's bellicosity. It burns and 30 million tonnes of wood

and 3 million tonnes of coal. The wood pellets come from trees chopped

down in the US, a process Drax argues is sustainable because it

constantly replaces those trees it has cut down. The company claims

since moving to biomass, it now makes carbon savings of more than

80% compared to coal. In fact, the operation is so huge yet there is

they're producing 16% of all of the UK's renewable energy. For these

campaigners, it may maybe a renewable energy, but it is damaging

the environment. They want to see Government money spent on what they

call real renewables, like solar or wind. Can protests like this

seriously make a difference and make a company like Drax stop what it's

doing? Well, hopefully we will build from here. It is millions of our

money. The money is coming out of a city built and we are saying, we do

people want that to be spent of things that are genuine solutions

like wind, solar, energy efficiency. It may have been a relatively small

protest to fight the might of the UK's largest power station, but for

these people today, it certainly wasn't a waste of their energy.

Well, it is worth mentioning that some have seen what is happening

here with the use of biomass as a complete reinvention of a power

station, but it has come at a price. The company's underlying profits

fell from 46 million to 21 million last year. It is also worth

mentioning that it does benefit our region. There has been significant

investment at the Humber port to bring in these wood pellets to be

Drax power station cure behind me. Biomass is a renewable energy,

Peter, but it is a controversial one.

It seems that way. Thank you very much indeed, Carolyn Bilton outside

Drax power station. Two men have been charged after

two firefighters were attacked and threatened with an imitation

firearm in Spalding. It happened on Monday evening

after they were called Both needed treatment

for their injuries. The Fire Brigades Union has

condemned the attack. It's an utterly disgraceful act

to attack somebody that For instance, attending a house fire

to try and rescue somebody or try to rescue them

from entrapment in cars and firefighters, police officers

and ambulance staff do dangerous enough jobs as it is without having

to undergo attacks whilst trying to,

you know, commit their duty. Staff on Virgin Trains East Coast

are to stage a 48-hour strike at the end of the month

in a row over jobs Members of the Rail,

Maritime and Transport union will walk out on April

28th and 29th, the first two days of

the Tour de Yorkshire cycle race. If we were to strike

on a Monday to Thursday, we'd get accused of hitting

the regular commuter. There is never a good

time to strike. Our members lose money,

but both ourselves and the travelling public know

this is all about their safety The announcement of a 48-hour

strike, others a bit later on at half past ten, I will be talking to

a member of the RMT union at have. Offensive, patronising

and insulting. Those are just some of the words

used to describe a pro-EU The New European uses an image

of the famous Jolly Fisherman in its latest edition,

which claims the town could be But the town's MP and mayor

have led criticism of the article, which the editor has

described as "satire." More from our political

editor Tim Iredale. For more than a century, the image

of the Jolly Fisherman has been used to promote Skegness. But some in the

town were shocked today when they saw the resort's mascot on the front

of a newspaper on an article questioning why many in Skegness

voted for Brexit. I think it's awful! I mean, the Jolly Fisherman,

it's dreadful. The New European is a newspaper designed to appeal to the

40% of voters who wanted to remain in the European Union in last June's

referendum. The toll of the article has rankled many here which seems to

suggest that Skegness is a town that could be hit hard by Brexit. If you

look around here, you will see that that image is totally not based on

reality at all. There is massive investment taking place in the town.

The town is busy, we are the fourth or fifth most visited resort in the

country. This is to drum up publicity for the publication

itself. A London PR firm hired by the publishers even suggested

Skegness was the seaside resort that Brexit could close down and added

the addition would start up some controversy locally. They were

right. I think the problem is that it is just deeply patronising. This

idea that voters who wanted to leave the European Union did so for

simplistic reasons that kind of want to return the country to the 1950s

is just not what anyone really understands. If they talk to voters

across Lincolnshire who had a very comprehensive understanding of the

issues at play. Even one of the pro-EU contributors to the article

said he was not happy. In discussing Brexit, portraying people as being

extremely rude, crude and hostile in the way it is portrayed in that

caricature on the front page is very regrettable. I deplore it. Speaking

about this front page, the editor said, I hope more people will be

broad shouldered enough to laugh at us poking fun at one of the most

iconic images of British poster design. Perhaps some in Skegness may

reflect on the famous quotes that day's news is tomorrow's fish and

chip paper. We made several requests for

an interview with The New European, but they didn't want to come

on the programme. You might have a view

on the story though. If you live in Skegness,

what do you make of the town You've seen the front page, what do

you think of it? Your views whether you are for Brexit or four remain.

Could Skegness close down as Tim mentioned there in the report?

A vital game for The Tigers as they look to stay out

of the relegation zone in the Premier League.

And Kofi will be here with a round up of the week ahead

Keep your photos coming in. We sure one every night. Tonight's was taken

by Archie and it is the Humber Bridge taken from

Barton-upon-Humber. Thank you very much. Another picture tomorrow.

An extra picture for you tonight. An e-mail from Bruce says my

granddaughter won first prize at her school with his egg presentation

today. It is a Peter Leavey egg. We think it is a very good likeness.

It's brilliant! The one thing I would say is the hair colour, did

they run out of great? I it needs more grey.

If anyone laughing? They are laughing.

I'm just saying! A brilliant likeness, it looks very much like

you. As is you, I will let you get away

with it. Hello. It is merely the Easter

weekend of many of us, that means an extended weekend. Lucky things if

you are offering extra couple of days. I will get to that in just a

second. Good Friday will be a bit of a cloudy start. Patchy rain as well.

And here it comes, just waiting in the wings. Light and patchy. You can

see spits and spots here. Generally speaking, by the time this gets to

us across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, it loses a lot of its

strength. Loads of seven or eight Celsius with the breeze picking up

overnight. High waters for tomorrow. Hull, if I look carefully, the old

guys are going. The sun rises at 6:03am. Back to the forecast for

tomorrow, a cloudy, grey start. We will see some brightness especially

across parts of Lincolnshire. The rain will keep piling in from the

West, but it looks like a lots of blue here on my graphics. That said,

there will be plenty of dry weather around in between the showers and a

lot of what you are seeing here will be right, patchy rain. 12 or 13

Celsius just about does it as far as top temperatures go. That breeze

will pick up. Let's look at the weekend. Saturday, I think that'll

be our best day. A ridge of high pressure, if I moved out of the way,

keeping things generally speaking quite settled on Saturday. A change

on Sunday. Here comes a weather fronts to introduce thicker cloud

and also more in the way of patchy rain. The old heavy shower as well.

I think as far as the Easter weekend is go, Sunday will be cloudy,

largely dry by the time we get to Monday but turning a fair bit

colder. Temperatures dip as we import air coming up from the kind

of North West. I will let you get away with it. You

can try birds out of the trees! Have a nice Easter weekend.

Thank you, Peter. There is a heated pool opening

tomorrow for its longest ever season in Pennington 's bar.

Humberside Police have been told they must do more to protect

That's the view of the police watchdog after a recent inspection.

The HMIC says the forces call handling teams need more training

and officers need to improve the way they handle cases

Behind closed doors, or on the streets,

some young people are at risk of abuse.

But today, inspectors said Humberside Police hasn't been

protecting vulnerable children well enough.

They said some good work is being done,

Just some concerns highlighted were records not being kept properly,

not sharing information it found with others who need to know,

and that police weren't doing enough to help children at risk

For example, understanding the link between them going missing

This requires accurate intelligence collection of information and

crucially sharing that information with partners. We saw good

partnership working across Humberside, but again, more needs to

be done. The impact of young

people being sexually exploited has been highlighted by cases

in Rochdale, Rotherham and Oxford. A national charity says it's vital

police do understand the signs. It's really important that people

spot the signs of child sexual abuse early so that we can get in there

and help to disrupt activity around children and keep them safe. One

expert says police face a huge and complex task combating sexual abuse

on the Internet. I'm working with the cyber crime unit of Humberside

Police and I have seen excellent work. We need to focus on this area

because we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg Ruby. So we need to

put more resources into this. Humberside Police says it's

already made improvements, introducing staff training

and bringing in specialists. My reassurance to the public is that

we have taken significant steps to make the improvements that we have

been given to make sure it is consistent. We welcome the

recommendations and have acted upon them, but actually we are not being

complacent and will make sure that we continue to act on them. Do you

accept that you have been getting it wrong with some children,

particularly when serious cases of child exploitation? We absolutely

accept this and we have found that ourselves, we haven't got it right

every single time. We have reinvested in training our staff,

recruited additional specialist officers and have ?1 million worth

of resources going into our department and it's also why it

remains our number one priority. Failures over child protection

were a major reason Justine Curran was asked to quit as Chief

Constable in Feburary. Humberside Police says it has

now started to look out You've been getting in touch

with us about trams. 70 years since trams last ran

on the streets of Hull, councillors have discussed plans

which would see a new tram network, using existing

railway lines and roads. Many people said that they would

like to see trolleybuses back, so thank you for all of the e-mails,

texts and tweets. John says "Running the trams down

Newland Avenue would be a huge joke. Traffic can barely get down

there now for parked cars." I think Martin is a bit of an expert

on the subject of trams! Thank you very much for those and everyone who

wants to see the return of trolleybuses.

It's one of sport's busiest weekends with many of our teams playing

The results could have a big impact on where our football teams finish

Our sports reporter Simon Clark is here.

Lincoln City could take a giant stride towards the Football League

as the National League draws to a conclusion.

But we'll start in the Premier League where Hull City try and win

just their second away game this season which, if they do,

Last time out, this Manchester City victory halted Hull City's momentum.

But with nearest rivals Swansea also losing,

it means the bottom of the Premier League

sees Hull City eyeing possible survival.

Well, there's no doubt about it that the

green, green grass of home has represented huge success

He is unbeaten in the East Riding, but go away,

They've not won on their travels since August.

But this game against Stoke represents a great opportunity

Even if the result is not the best, we played against very good teams

In some moments, I feel maybe we deserved a little bit more.

The others, not so much, but it's football.

Of course, we need and we want to improve the results

In the National League, it's looking good

for Lincoln City as they continue to top the table with Tranmere Rovers

Easter sees the Imps facing Torquay United

A great opportunity to stake a place back in the league.

If you are the best that you can be, day in, day out,

then ultimately you can't have done any more.

So whatever happens come the 29th of April, we'll know that we'll

And for me, that's pretty liberating.

If the Imps go up, the chances are they'll be

This is Grimsby Town's Blundell Park, where tomorrow,

Russell Slade retakes his first steps as manager second time around.

that they've got from getting that promotion.

We've got to ensure we've got the resources to do that.

We're going to ensure that, you know, that the detail in terms

of the structure on and off the field

and in the game plan and the identity are

we give ourselves every possible chance of being successful.

The weekend could also see Scunthorpe United

They have games against MK Dons and Chesterfield.

With Hull Kingston Rovers out of Super League,

Hull FC's Boxing Day opponents are in their other great rivals,

Leeds, with the Black and Whites needing to bounce back

from this unexpected defeat against Salford.

Most of the defensive, good things you do start

You know, it's fair to say we've acknowledged that and done

Hull follow the game against Leeds with a trip to Leigh.

And there's an interesting weekend ahead for championship leaders

Hull Kingston Rovers who face a tricky home match

against Featherstone Rovers tomorrow before climbing on a place to face

another of the frontrunners, Olympic Toulouse.

A Humberside Police dog could be named among the UK's best,

Belgian Shepherd Evo and her handler PC Adrian Noble

have got through to the national Police Dog trials

They came first in the regional competition last month.

Good luck to them, no doubt we will have some pictures in the not too

distant future. As we head into the bank holiday

weekend, Kofi Smiles here as the city of culture

year continues. Here's what you can

get up to this week Come to King Edward Square

to get a closer look But they're only here

until Tuesday, so you'd better be

blooming quick. Photography From Hull

And Beyond started as a Facebook group with the aim

of sharing photos connected to Hull. is at Burton

Constable Hall until May 4th. The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

returns to the Hull City Hall on the 20th of April for

a concert which includes music by Elgar, Walton and Debussy's

sea-inspired symphony, La Mer. And finally, here's three

family friendly From now until Sunday,

there's an Easter egg hunt Plus, a new attraction called

Bugtopia has just opened. On Saturday, come to Edinburgh

Street Community Centre to find out all about Bantu culture, including

crafts, food, music and dance. And The Wind In The

Willows Musical is coming to Bridlington Spa

on Wednesday and Thursday. There's been a fantastic review in

for Flood. has lots more including highlights

of the first three months and other BBC programmes from Hull

for this special year. Let's get a recap of the national

and regional headlines: Syria's president says the recent

chemical attack on a rebel town was completely made up

and he blames the Americans. Protesters target a meeting

of bosses of the country's biggest power station saying they're

damaging the environment. Cloudy with showery

outbreaks of rain, 13 is 55 Fahrenheit. Now, a big

response on that new European paper with their Skegness Brexit

FrontPage. Gordon says The New European has done what it said today

by getting people talking. More stirring about Brexit, which

very few people take any notice. Mark says the longest the Brexit

situation goes on the more convinced I am that the EU is a gang of

bullies that we are better off without. And Sarah says I think the

article is accurate, even if it is satire. Lincolnshire people are even

hostile to British people who hail from anywhere but Lincolnshire.

Sarah, thank you for that (!) surely copyright rules have been broken

here with Jolly Fisherman. Stop moaning and start suing! John says,

why all the fuss? It is a accurate portrayal of voters who cannot see

further than at the end of their noses. Brexit will bite back, says

John. This weekend. See later. Goodbye for now.