22/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

Now the latest from the Look North newsroom.

A local MP caught up in the terror attack at Westminster says

The democratic process will not be ported by a terrorist attack.

Worries that a ban on using wheat in petrol could lead to job

And schools in some of the most deprived parts of East Yorkshire

and Lincolnshire lose out under new government funding plans.

I will use a lot of fine weather on the way, join me for the updated

forecast. The MP for Cleethorpes says that

"democratic process will not be "thwarted" by terrorism

after today's attack Martin Vickers was one of many

members of parliament who were Five people, including a police

officer were killed, 40 others were injured.

Laura Foster joins me now. Laura, what has Martin Vickers

been talking about? Martin Vickers was one of the MPs

who ended up being trapped outside of the parliament buildings once

Westminster went into lockdown. He had been walking from his office to

the main parliament chamber in order to take part in a vote when he heard

gunshots. He and his colleagues began to ran

and security quickly ordered them He said parliament and public

buildings are always likely to be would not be cowed

by acts of terrorism. Obviously, you are shocked when

these sorts of incidents happen, and it makes you likely to be more

apprehensive. But we know we are taking risks. That is one of the

prices you pay for being in public life. The important thing is that

the democratic process will not be thwarted by a terrorist attack.

During the attack, many people at the House of Commons were told

to run further inside to get away from the attacker.

The MP for Brigg and Goole, Andrew Percy, barricaded himself

in his office along with his staff and a number of other people.

My staff were just leaving, so I shouted at them

to get back in the office. We have been trained in all of this.

"Get in the office, turn your phones, switch the lights off,

"draw the curtains and barricade the doors," which they did.

I took the seven people into my other office, just opposite.

One in particular saw the whole thing unfold.

They had seen the police officer getting stabbed,

That is when they bumped into me and I said, "come to my office,"

because they were obviously fairly panic-stricken, and with

because they were obviously fairly panic-stricken.

Tomorrow, Holy Trinity Church in Hull is going to be holding

an extra long service for those caught up in today's tragedy.

Back in Westminster, Parliament is going to sit as normal

tomorrow and over the next few days, more police officers will be

It's important to note that the current threat

for terrorism in the UK is at severe, it has been for some

time and no doubt will continue to remain there given

A man has appeared before Magistrates charged with aggravated

36-year-old Clinton Sentance was arrested

in connection with an incident on Portland Terrace on Sunday night.

He'll appear at Lincoln Crown Court on the 19th of April.

Detectives are continuing to investigate two similar crimes

involving elderly victims in the Gainsborough area.

The trust which runs hospitals in Grimsby,

Scunthorpe and Goole has been put into financial special measures.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust has been

struggling to cope with how much it's been spending,

and is set to be ?30 million in debt by the end of the month.

It says it's determined to reduce its deficit while maintaining

More than a hundred jobs could be lost in East Yorkshire

if the government changes the rules on green fuel for cars.

The petrol we buy contains bioethanol, a chemical made

from wheat, and much of it is made at Saltend near Hull.

But under new proposals, the Government could ban the use

Our Rural Affairs Correspondent Linsey Smith has more.

Food or fuel? And what is the cost of clean air?

Some of the questions around the use of wheat to make green energy.

John Holtby sells all of his crops to Vivergo,

his nearby bioethanol plant. A welcome market for his business.

We try sometimes to grow wheat for bread, but because this area

is quite high yielding, we tend not to get the quality,

so it is a bit of a trade-off between quality and yield.

Because we're high yielding, we just can't get the quality

And this is where John's crops are used to make bioethanol.

It's been called the biggest brewery in the north.

Bioethanol is like triple-strength vodka.

It is blended with the petrol we buy at the forecourt, making it more

The government wants us to increase green energy in transport to 10%.

Electric cars are one of their big focuses and developing alternative

But they want to limit the amount of green energy

that is made from crops - or even ban it altogether.

If the government were to cap the crop at zero, I don't have any

feedstock that I could produce the bioethanol or high-protein

animal feed, so that would mean we would have to shut

and the industry in the UK most likely would go with it.

We employ 150 people, highly skilled engineers, on this site.

If we were to close, clearly those jobs would be lost.

We believe that using crops to their word for fuel

It is simply not sensible for the priority of increasing food

In a statement, the Department of Transport says: Responses that

In a statement, the Department of Transport says:

Responses that Vivergo staff eagerly await.

Linsey is with me here in the studio.

What do Vivergo plan to do now with this impending change?

They are not just sitting back, but actually campaigning to double the

amount of Vivergobioethanol in petrol. -- ethanol in petrol. They

being met at the moment and that the being met at the moment and that the

transport of the worst in the area. They say in their own words that the

government is scoring a huge own goal by not embracing bioethanol

more, because all the structure is there to produce it. Such

infrastructure does not exist, for example, with electric cars, so they

are tackling the government had on, shall we say, on this. They say it

is not only to protect those jobs, but also to help the environment.

Thank you. There's a warning that pupils

in some of the most deprived parts of our area will lose out

in the shake-up of how Grimsby and Cleethorpes look set

to be the biggest losers in the government's proposed

new funding formula, but many schools in rural areas

will get MORE money. Here's our Political

Editor, Tim Iredale. How many quarters do we need

to make a whole one? School budgets have been the subject

of fierce debate for decades, but the latest proposed shake-up

of the way schools are funded has prompted many to ask the government

to look again at its sums. It is having a deleterious

impact across all schools, Schools in rural areas have long

argued they don't get as much money per pupil as those in urban areas,

but we dressing the balance per pupil as those in urban areas,

but redressing the balance According to education researchers,

Lincolnshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Hull

will all have a greater number of schools that

gain from the proposed But North Lincolnshire

and North East Lincolnshire have more schools that will lose funding

compared to the number That has prompted the North East

Lincolnshire councillor who is in charge of children's

services to write to the government, warning that local schools will lose

?1 million next year, and it is the most deprived

areas that will suffer. This Academy,

which has 2,200 students, Cleethorpes, our other secondary

academy in this area, by a ?30,000 cut, and our primary

by the equivalent of about 40,000, Earlier before today's tragedy

at Westminster and folded, Earlier before today's tragedy

at Westminster unfolded, the Prime Minister defended the need

to look again at the way There has been a general acceptance

that the current funding formula That is why this government

is looking to find a formula, The proposals have been open

to consultation, which ended today. Some hope the government will now

go back to the drawing board. Let's get the forecast now. A lot of

fine weather on the way across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

Increasingly sunny tomorrow, though will be pretty windy. There is a

chart we all enjoy. Lots of sunshine this weekend, although there could

be frost at night. We have got some patchy outbreaks of rain to push

across our part of the world. Largely clearing later on. We will

see those temperatures around 4-5 . Cloud first thing, the odd spot of

rain possible, otherwise, dry and increasingly bright. Dry air coming

in from the North Sea, so lots of sunshine throughout Thursday. Quite

the key in north-east wind. Top temperatures, 11th Celsius. Friday

and the weekend, more sunshine to come. That is the forecast. And

that is it from us tonight. Thank you for watching. We are back in the

morning and tomorrow night at half past six. Join us if you can. Good

night. decent day. Saturday could be a much

better day, with some