27/02/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)


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The headlines from BBC Look North this Monday night.

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Payment problems continue as some schools say they had enough

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over botched pay packets and admin errors.

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This butler was crushed to death by a faulty lift -

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now the trust that runs Burghley House is fined more

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And don't forget to join me for that updated weekend forecast. It follows

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shortly. A school in Lincolnshire says it had

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to step in to stop one of its staff being paid one and a half

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five million pounds last month by the company

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in charge of payments. Serco has been handling finances

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for Lincolnshire County Council In that time there have been

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hundreds of mistakes reported. Serco says it's improving,

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but some schools have had enough. At Monks Abbey Primary School

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in Lincoln, they expect pupils to make the odd mistake

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as they learn. But a catalogue of errors

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by SERCO, the company that handles their payroll,

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has exhausted the school's patience. I have seen some improvements but

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the payroll error still exists, it is not an improvement that would

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allow us to stay with Serco and this month we had an example where one

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employee was nearly paid ?1.5 million, which fortunately I spotted

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that when I was working over the In April 2015 Serco

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began a ?70m contract with Lincolnshire County Council

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to provide a number of financial Just eight months later,

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the company apologised following a catalogue

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of errors with payments. In May 2016, at the end

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of the first year, the council imposed a one million pound

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penalty on Serco. Then in November 2016,

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an independent report found Lincolnshire County Council had

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rushed into handing over the contract to SERCO

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who weren't ready to do the job This county council report shows

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that serco received 221 payroll received in Aug 2016,

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some of those queries have yet to be resolved and it appears that Serco

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still hasn't managed to produce its empolyee pay

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statements for the year 2015/16. Serco are still failing

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to hit their targets. Although the overall situation has

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improved the council admits that it is because they have

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changed the way that success is SERCO told

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BBC Look North these We do contract bigger

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than this elsewhere and do them well

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to We are committed to delivering this

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contract and quality services. Meanwhile the primary school is one

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of 13 in the county who have decided to end the contract with Serco and

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unless the problems can be resolved some of the other 186 schools may

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decide to follow their lead. the headteacher says there have been

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so many problems they'd like to use We saw her briefly there

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in the report, Abi Tierney is a director of Serco and I asked

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her if they were up to the job. We have 13 schools that have

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chosen to go with our that have decided to stay with us,

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because they've seen the So we still run the payroll

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for the majority of schools Today, Monk's Abbott Primary

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School says a member of staff was almost paid 1.5 million

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last month before the error was This is basic Janet

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and John stuff that you We would have spotted

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the error as well. We have exception

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reports that would have picked up anything that was

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significantly higher than the So how did this get as far

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as the school then? When you are running a complex

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payroll with 16,000, there will always be

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a small number of errors, but the internal control was put

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in place to make sure they And they do include

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the school checking payroll. We are committed, we will be

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there until at least 2020 When these problems

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going to be solved? much as I love having queue

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on the programme, you coming on and saying sorry is

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getting a bit much. I'm sure you don't enjoy

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the experience either. The staff have worked

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incredibly hard over the last You can see that in the numbers

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and we will continue to do that. The trust that runs Burghley House

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near Stamford has been fined more than a quarter of a million pounds

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after a butler was crushed Arthur Mellar died in July

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2014 from head injuries. The Burghley House Preservation

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Trust had already pleaded guilty to a breach of Health Safety

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before today's sentencing Victoria Holland is

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outside the house now. Bred today marks the end of a long

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process for the deceased's family. He was killed in 2014 when a lift

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crushed him here at Burghley. The left have been installed in the

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1950s are not serviced since. The trust have now been ordered to pay

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this hefty fine. Today I spoke to offer's civil partner and he says

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that money goes nowhere to reflecting the loss of his other

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half. Described by his friends

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as generous and kind, Arthur Miller died

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in Today, his civil partner

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spoke about the hole I don't know how to

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carry on without him It's been so difficult

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since he's gone. Arthur Miller had been

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a butler at Burghley He died when he tried to free

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luggage which had got There was no safety

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mechanism in place and it Today, the judge ordered the charity

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that runs it to pay a fine of ?266,000 for breaching

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Health Safety laws. In a statement, the Burghley

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House Preservation Trust Gerwin says he is grateful

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to the trust for admitting they were

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guilty of breaching Health Safety laws,

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but he said it will not

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bring his true love back. There's no amount of money that

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will replace Arthur anyway, or his life, it will not

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bring him back. hefty is because it reflects the

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value of the assets of the trust and it could've been higher, ran half a

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million. However, the judge took into account the fact the trust had

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admitted guilt in terms of breaching Health Safety laws. They will have

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28 days to pay that fine and that money goes to the Treasury and they

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must also cover ?17,000 worth of costs. But the judge said that fine

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did not reflect the value of Mr Millerlife as well as his civil

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partner, his brother and sister were in court also and said they were

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pleased it was over. Thank you. The body of a man has

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been found at a house Fire crews were called to a property

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on Main Road in Stickney just before Police say an elderly

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man was found inside. The actor Colin McFarlane wants

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all street lights in Lincolnshire to be upgraded to use LED bulbs that

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use less energy. He thinks that will mean

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the lights can stay on all Councillors have been turning off

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thousands of lights to save money If I was a counsellor I would say,

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why don't you go to Nottinghamshire where

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they have the lights on? And they're saving money

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and helping the environment. Go there and have a

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look at what they're Herefordshire are doing the same

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thing, your council are doing the same thing, so it doesn't

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have to be this way. BBC Radio to was the latest national

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broadcaster to make Hull their home today reflecting the City of Culture

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status The Jeremy Vine show

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was presented by Paddy O Connell from the Punch Hotel

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in the city centre. Plenty of Hull's big names

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were guests on the show Now for the weather. Conditions look

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set to be changeable over the next few days. But there is a warning of

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ice issued, particularly tonight. That sets us up for a dry and bright

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morning tomorrow. Low pressure in charge. You can see this big area of

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it with weather fronts and showers spinning around from the south-west.

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It is a week of showers or longer spells of rain, but there will also

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be sunshine. Quite a bit of rain earlier. That has now moved out of

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the way. Most of us are dry with clear spells. One or two Micro

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showers, the breeze will pick up and the main issue will be highs on

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untreated surfaces. Temperatures in countryside close to freezing. Dry

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in the morning. Bright with sunshine. In the afternoon, there is

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the risk of showers spreading him from the West. They will push

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eastwards into the evening. Afternoon temperatures, quite cold,

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fairly fresh westerly wind and highs of seven. Showery rain clears and

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Wednesday dry with sunshine. Uncertainty for the latter half of

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the week. That is the forecast. That is it from us. We return tomorrow

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morning at 630. Good night. John Hammond has the weather for the

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rest of the country. According to one man-made

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definition, spring begins in a couple of days, but in reality

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weather does it own thing at its own pace. This was taken in Midlothian,

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a funny old day, some lovely rainbows, downpours, burst of

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sunshine, and out

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