25/10/2016 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

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Multi-million pound Grimsby improvements are criticised,

councillors admit they will have to pull some of it up and start again.

This has turned out to be the craziest decision of the cotncil.

This has turned out to be the craziest decision of the council. I

nicknamed them the crazy paving and it is ridiculous. Work starts on a

memorial to the 6000 lost fhshermen. The settled weather is set to

continue for the rest of thd week. I am back later with the details.

Controversial block paving in Grimsby town centre

Paving in the "shared space" area outside the bus station

will be replaced by a more traditional road surface.

It's the latest in a string of problems with the six

Phillip Norton is in the town tonight - what exactly

This is the new bus interch`nge built a couple of years ago as part

of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme and they used

regeneration scheme and thex used block paving to lay down on the road

and let me show you the problems. You can see how some of the blocks

have completely broken, many are have completely broken, manx are

incredibly loose, parts havd been replaced by patches of tarmac and

the problems started from the moment it was laid. One councillor said it

was unfit for purpose. Today, the council says it will replacd the

council says it will replace the whole lot with tarmac.

It was laid as part of a ?6 million regeneration scheme in 2014 but this

block paving has been plagued with problems.

Soon after it was put down, the blind and partially

sighted said the shared space design, an area with low curbs

sighted said the shared space design, an area with low kerbs

shared by vehicles and pedestrians, was unsafe.

But still the problems remained amid concerns it

could not handle the weight of heavy buses.

Now the council says it will

re-lay it with tarmac to save on future repair costs.

Critics say the whole idea was bonkers and a waste

This is what I said should have happened in the first place

This has turned out to be the craziest decision of the Council.

I nicknamed it the crazy paving and I

It is absolutely ridiculous to have gone

through this pain and process to waste money on this which did not

need doing is bonkers, as far as I'm concerned!

Leanne is blind and says it was difficult to tell thd road

It is ridiculous when you hear of all the people and

groups struggling nowadays and the council has wasted the money

putting something down what people said they

I don't think it was consulted about right.

North East Lincolnshire Council said:

but there will be further dhsruption as the paving is dug up yet again.

Work has been taking place tonight further down the road possibly

connected to this work and the work to rip up the block paving and

replace it with tarmac will take place over this coming weekend.

replace it with tarmac will take place over this coming weekdnd. It

has been nicknamed crazy paving by people here and this latest saga has

heaped more embarrassment on the council.

Lord Holmes sits on the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Earlier I asked him whether he was surprised

the shared space idea hadn't worked out in Grimsby.

What we are seeing up-and-down the country is U-turns,

retrofits and the so-called shared spaces not working for large

sections of the community so not surprised, very disappointed.

Is the basic idea of a shared area of vehicles

It is an architectural concdit, a planning folly and what it has led

to up-and-down the country is misery for all users, motorists,

pedestrians, toddlers and buses and blind people

So, have these trendy planners just ignored the needs and not even

thought about disabled people or people who are unable to see?

I think the planners and dare I say the councillors have been bedazzled

by these shiny, shiny new schemes, this great concept and I understand

wanting economic regeneration, wanting to make sense of pl`ce

But those objectives have nothing if these spaces are not safe

and are not fully inclusive for all members of society.

You say a planning folly but also in many cases

This is the tragedy, not only are they unsafe and lead

to chaos and catastrophe, but at a time when we really need

to be so careful about how we spend public money,

putting money into the scheles in the first place and having to put

more money to have them retrofitted, we cannot afford to do that.

There needs to be more care put in when planning new citysc`pes

Just briefly, I know the government is reviewing shared

spaces at the moment, what tonight would be your lessage

Nothing should be planned without being fundamentally based

on inclusive design, no space has any merit if it is not

fully accessible, fully inclusive for all members of the commtnity.

A Yorkshire MEP has failed in her bid to be granted immunity

by the European Parliament after she libelled three MPs.

Jane Collins, who represents Ukip, was hoping to avoid paying hundreds

of thousands of pounds in damages to the Labour MPs from Rothdrham.

She accused them of knowing about the grooming and rape

of hundreds of girls in the town while doing nothing

People who feel vulnerable on a night out can now

staff in Lincolnshire to let them know they are in trouble.

The County Council is working with Pub Watch to help women

If you physically feel uncomfortable or unsafe,

you can go to the bar and you can ask for Angela and the idea is that

somebody behind the bar will help you out in a discreet manner.

Work has begun on a new memorial to remember the six thousand

trawlermen from Hull who died at sea.

Hull depended on fishing for its living until the decline

The iron sculpture will become part of a remembrance

For nearly 150 years, different trawlers would he`d out

from St Andrews dock on the Humber looking for fish.

At one point Hull was the greatest distance fishing port in the world.

Not everyone on board these boats would return.

Each year a service is held in the city for the 6,000 trawlermen

For many years there has bedn a campaign for a memorial to be

built to them and today former trawlermen and relatives of those

who were lost at sea gatherdd to see the work done.

It is well worth it now to see it actually

The actual detail and everything on them is brilliant.

That weathered iron ends up looking like this.

Two figures of a total of 13 which will be right

One of the qualities I'm trxing to get is the silhouette will cast

Seeing part of the memorial for the first time, is provhng

I think of my brothers who were lost at sea.

There are fewer and fewer pdople directly associated with the fishing

industry but there are lots and lots of distant relatives

who still want somewhere to go to to reflect

What was once a bustling dock is a retail park and familids come

here to remember those who they lost at sea.

Next time they meet though the sculpture will be finished,

a permanent memorial to the lost trawler man of Hull.

I look forward to seeing the memorial when finished.

In tonight's football there were wins for Hull City and Lincoln City,

All the details on the BBC Sport website.

Now, the weather forecast. @ lot of settled weather over the next few

days, bags and bags of sunshine and it will feel pleasant with

temperatures on the rise and tonight not as chilly as last night. A bit

of mist and an increase in cloud overnight and temperatures slipping

back into single figures. Tomorrow, variable amounts of cloud, rather

cloudy, thick enough for spots of rain in the breeze but generally a

dry story and brightening up. Some sunshine in the afternoon and

temperatures higher, 14 or 15. temperatures higher, 14 or 05.

Similar conditions for the rest of the region, variable amounts of

cloud, breezy on Thursday btt cloud, breezy on Thursday but

generally fine and temperattres around 14 degrees. And that is it.

Thank you for watching. We `re around 14 degrees. And that is it.

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settled and on the mild side. Nick now has all the national weather.

Hello. Autumn is the season of change, most noticeably with those

autumn colours on display today in Buckinghamshire, as photographed by

one of our weather watchers. Always helps when there is blue sky above.

Our weather is always changing regardless of the season. One of

those changes is taking place, we are losing last week's Easterly

winds and now a westerly wind. That means it's turning milder by day and

night but it does mean the return of Atlantic weather fronts, especially

to north-western parts of the UK. The reason, high pressure in Germany

and low pressure Iceland. Here is the first of those weather fronts

for Scotland and Northern Ireland through the night, the