17/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Bin collections could move to every three weeks

The council is considering several options to save money

Every Friday is bin day in this part of Grimsby.

North East Lincolnshire still has weekly refuse collections.

Recycling is collected every fortnight.

So nine options have now been put forward which could save hundreds

The options include a fortnightly collection of both waste

and recycling which would save ?430,000 a year through to one

option which would see a collection of waste every three weeks,

possibly even reducing the size of the bin.

The option to keep things as they are now is not on the table.

A number of the proposals would see collections of the main bin go

It's an idea that has not gone down well with residence.

I could maybe do once a fortnight, possibly, cos I live on my own.

But most families, you fairly fill your bin up.

For large families it is very difficult.

Particularly in the summer, the bins are full with waste.

I do not know where they get the cheek from, they just treat us

I mean, it's not as if when they make a decision,

it's right, it's always wrong, that's what annoys you.

While the idea sounds a drastic change some parts

Fife Council in Scotland is trialling a once-a-month

In North Wales, 10,000 households in Conwy have their bins

And in Oldham, the council has changed its bin

collection from fortnightly to every three weeks.

The disposal costs for recycling are cheaper than landfill

or incineration and by diverting waste into the recycling

streams or food waste collections, they save money

But even those passionate about the environment say councils

have to be realistic and supermarkets need

Let's try to reduce the amount of waste we produce altogether.

The council should be collecting waste from us,

but we should also take a responsible approach

North East Lincolnshire Council says no decisions have yet been made

and the options will be discussed at a meeting next week.

Humberside Police are being held up as an example of how to reform

The force is among several in Yorkshire that have seen

a decline in arrest rates for women over a 12-month period.

But Lincolnshire Police are among others that have seen an increase

When women are empowered and they have an opportunity

to work in the community, to keep those contacts

with the family, the outcomes are really, really good

and Humberside are a case in point of what can be achieved.

These are sensible, practical, easy steps that

We did pilot a similar project with men.

Firstly, the volume is far, far higher, and the resources

that we can actually refer them onto are fewer.

The other reason is that men commit different types of offences

for different types of reasons, and what we found is

that the interventions that we've got through the various charities

and schemes are actually more effective with women than men.

People living in a Lincolnshire village have been promised

super-fast broadband by the end of the year.

Residents in Maltby le Marsh near Mablethorpe spoke to BBC

Look North last September about the impact slow internet

The County Council says the village should be

upgraded by the end of 2017, but admits there are still thousands

of homes still waiting for faster internet.

For years, villagers in Maltby le Marsh have

We filmed with parish councillor Philip Baildon last year,

Since you were here last September we've had a broadband forum.

He tells me they've now been promised superfast broadband

At the moment, most people have a speed which is lower

It will make a difference to the local farmers

to submit their orders, also the local caravan site

in the village requires high-speed broadband for their customers.

It is great news because this constituency is going to get nearly

a quarter of the new funding, which means 540 postcodes

within the constituency will have superfast broadband within a year.

The County Council estimates around 93% of homes and businesses

in Lincolnshire should have access to superfast broadband

That's just short of the Government's target of 95%.

But in Mavis Enderby, near Horncastle, villagers

say they'd like fast, never mind superfast broadband!

We've got a daughter-in-law, two grandchildren and communicating

The picture is crashing all the time, the voices are broken up.

Because we're rural doesn't mean we're in the last century.

We also pay the same as somebody that's in the middle of the city.

The County Council says it is trying to find a solution.

We think that we will probably have to look at alternative technology,

which is probably going to be fixed wireless.

We are looking at that at the moment.

Mavis Enderby, as it sits today, sitting in that 3% that remain,

unfortunately that 3% that will remain is a run of about 10,500

It's not a small number, but certainly we are looking

But it could be more than a year before that work takes place,

while the OnLincolnshire Partnership between the Council and BT continues

to extend the county's superfast coverage.

Hull FC have been in action in the Super League.

They beat Widnes 32 points to 12 at the KCOM Stadium.

Now the weather forecast with Keeley Donovan.

Saturday looks like the best day of the weekend.

Still some uncertainty about Sunday, but we are looking

Most of the rain is to the west of us now to this evening.

It's still quite windy out there, but that will ease down overnight.

Fairly cloudy, but temperatures down to seven or eight Celsius.

Having said that, there will be brighter skies for a time.

It will be largely dry, but a bit of blue on the graphic,

so there will be a bit of patchy rain through the afternoon,

the odd spot, but most places are dry tomorrow.

It'll be quite breezy with temperatures of 13 or 14 Celsius.

At the moment it looks like windy with rain.

That's all from us for now. We're back tomorrow tea-time. Good