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

The headlines tonight... Health bosses are told

the government must look closer at controversial plans

to cut back minor injuries units in East Yorkshire.

This strategy does not listen to what local people want

and is putting vital services too far from where people live.

The washed up rubbish that ends up on our beaches being turned

And how long can we hang onto this fine, mostly dry weather?

Hospital bosses have been told their plans to close

or downgrade minor injuries units in East Yorkshire will put

The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will now have to investigate further

after an influential group of councillors said

Tonight campaigners say they're delighted.

I'll speak to one of them in a moment.

But first Matthew Bone has this report.

These plans to close or downgrade some Minor Injuries Units have met

with fierce opposition from the start.

It would mean three new urgent care centres opening at Beverley,

Bridlington and Goole for 16 hours a day.

But Minor Injury Units at Driffield and Withernsea would become

And the MIU at Hornsea would close altogether.

Today, councillors said these plans posed a risk to health care

provision in East Riding, and referred the matter

have agreed with Sir Greg Knight and myself that it should be

referred to the Secretary of State and he will pass it

on to the independent reconfiguration panel to look

Hospital bosses say more people will have better access to a better

Campaigners disagree - but the crucial question is,

what will Jeremy Hunt and his team of experts think?

June Barton is one of those fighting to keep

the Minor Injuries Unit at Hornsea open.

Tonight, I asked her for her reaction to the news

the Health Secretary would be looking at these plans.

It's a day we didn't think would come but yes,

This gives us light at the end of the tunnel and hope that these

decisions will be reversed by the Secretary of State

How do you feel that the CCG have acted over all in this?

Well, the overwhelming opinion is that they have acted appallingly.

Right from the very beginning of this so-called consultation,

they had decided well before any of the stakeholder meetings this

is what they wanted to do, so quite frankly what's the point

of holding the consultation because we haven't been consulted.

Any suggestions we put forward were always brushed aside.

I believe you think they should resign?

Oh, yes, certainly I do think they should resign.

They haven't made a very good job of being a clinical

But they have got to save money and if, as they say,

only ten patients a day use the minor injury units

in Hornsea and Withernsea, it's a waste of money to keep

Well, do you know, the very first stakeholder meeting we had

wasn't about money and yet they were quoting ?14

They say only ten people per day use the minor injury unit,

However, what these figures do not tell you is how many people

presented themselves to the minor injury unit only to find it

And it's never been adequately staffed.

Do you feel that people in rural areas are getting

a second-class service these days for is that the perception?

I think if these plans go ahead and these areas don't

have minor injuries, well, Withernsea will get

demoted service you have to make an appointment for,

that is a second-class health service and I think

And finally, if you were sitting down tonight with Jeremy Hunt

I would say to him these read carefully all the evidence we've put

before you and let's have common sense prevailing, please,

because the people in this area deserve far better.

It's a National Health Service, it is not a collective health service.

Very good to talk to you tonight, thank you very much indeed.

The trial of a holiday park owner who was accused of mis-selling

retirement chalets near Beverley collapsed this afternoon.

William Flannigan was accused of selling holiday chalets

at Lakeminster Park without planning permission to let people live

But a judge at Hull Crown Court ruled today,

after a nine week trial, that there was no case to answer.

Plastic rubbish that ends up washed up on beaches on the East Coast

will soon be collected and converted into new bottles.

Environmental campaigners say plastic in our seas

is damaging to marine life, but that now it will

Our Environment Correspondent Paul Murphy has this report.

Here in Cleethorpes, Jez is one of the hundreds

of volunteers getting involved in Beach Clean Week.

It's never-ending task as each tide brings in more rubbish.

First of all we're trying to raise awareness of beach cleans and then

We're looking to start to involve design for social change to try

and get into people's minds to not have plastic or to recycle.

The voluntary effort like this recent clean-up is considerable,

but then so is the size of the problem.

The scientific estimates are pretty sobering.

There are now more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans

and by 2050, there will be more plastic in the seat than fish.

That's why this packaging company in Portugal is trying

Instead of using new plastic, they are using plastic waste

East Coast litter will soon be recycled in this way.

We started to wonder OK, we are making plastic bottles

ourselves, so what can we actually do to start to become part

of the solution to ocean plastic instead of being part

The Ocean Bottle Project is also an awareness raising campaign.

The design of the bottle takes its inspiration

from the plankton that are being harmed by plastic waste.

Due to the pollution of our oceans, the population of this tiny organism

is reducing dramatically and the consequence of that is that

if they disappeared, the overall marine ecosystem

Up and down the coast, dedicated volunteers

are doing their bit but longer term solutions aren't as simple.

Changing attitudes to using and reusing plastics

Paul is with me now - what difference will a few

Well, it's part practical solution and part marketing campaign. The

bottle project people want consumers to be more aware of what we are

doing with our plastic, to recycle plastic bottles more, to ensure it

does not go into landfill and out to the eventually but it is quite

telling that it is now commercially viable to harvest waste from beaches

and make them into bottles there's and make them into bottles there's

change that is effected today will change that is effected today will

make many years to feed through and have a airing on the amount of

plastic in the sea. That is the depressing part about it but the

message is that people can do message is that people can do

something about it. Teachers are being offered an extra

day off if they can't be bothered to work by a South Lincolnshire

school that says it's It's called a "duvet day"

and it's one of a series of extra incentives given

at the Long Sutton Community Primary School to try to get

people to work there. Earlier tonight I spoke to head

teacher Bill Lord who says very few I don't think anybody can

accuse our staff of slacking. It's looking after and making sure

that ultimately I've got a full staff very September,

which is so hard. Why is it so hard these days to get

teachers to come to Lincolnshire? Good salary, good place

to live, why is it so hard? Well, I mean, the major issue

is that young teachers tend to train in cities and then they want

the bright lights, they want to be able to go

and the bands at the weekends and so they are moving

to Peterborough, Nottingham and to Lincoln and it's hard to get

them to come down to But in Long Sutton,

a three-bedroom semi, Do you really need to offer more

incentives and yet another day Yeah, I mean we have offered

some fantastic jobs. We have offered interesting jobs

such as research lead, we have offered management positions

and we are averaging 0.8 And that included advertising

nationally, advertising using innovative ways including

using social media. We just can't get people to move

to our area very easily. We will have some of your responses

on that story tomorrow. Let's take a look at the weather now

with Abbie Dewhurst. Well, plenty of fine, dry weather

to be enjoyed this evening. Variable amounts of mostly low cloud

initially and then we will start to see more cloud building

from the north-west as we head Overnight temperatures ranging

from about five to seven Celsius, so a fairly chilly start

to the day tomorrow. I think we will see some initial

brightness, particularly for the far Then a cloud amounts will increase

and we could see the odd spot of light drizzle in the far west

of the region. Temperatures tomorrow will be up

at about 12 or 13 Celsius. That's it from us the night. Thank

you for watching. We are back on BBC One at breakfast from 6:25am. I will

be back on Wednesday at Look North. Take care, good night.

bit from the south, so we could get to 18 or higher on Sunday. Now the

national focus. Good evening, things are looking good in the next

few days, some pressure drifting in from the Atlantic, bringing some

finance settled with it. Just some questions about the amount of cloud

we will see under that. The cloud we saw the sea links gave rise to a

lovely sunsets are many areas. This is the view from one of our weather

watchers in Cornwall. Look at the tones in the sky in Warwickshire

this evening. Here is the satellite sequence which

shows it was pretty gloomy on the eastern side of England. Not much

rain, but a good swathe of sunshine for many early on. In the

north-west, showers. Gusty wind as well, northern Scotland seeing