:00:09. > :00:11.Now the Latest from the Look North Newsroom
:00:12. > :00:14.Protesters target a meeting of bosses from the largest power
:00:15. > :00:31.And on. Are they try and paint themselves as our biomass company
:00:32. > :00:32.but they are not. Half their power comes from coal which is not
:00:33. > :00:34.sustainable. The RMT defends a decision to strike
:00:35. > :00:37.when passengers will be heading There's anger in Skegness
:00:38. > :00:40.about a national newspaper front page which criticises the town over
:00:41. > :00:44.Brexit. The Easter weekend is nearly here,
:00:45. > :00:59.full forecast shortly. Protesters targeted
:01:00. > :01:02.a meeting of senior bosses from Drax Power Station
:01:03. > :01:04.near Goole today. They say the company is spending
:01:05. > :01:07.public money to produce energy in a way which is damaging
:01:08. > :01:09.to the environment. The plant burns coal and wood
:01:10. > :01:14.pellets - known as biomass - and Drax officials say this has
:01:15. > :01:17.helped to reduce the amount If you want to get your message
:01:18. > :01:27.to the top of a company, this is the The Drax AGM taking place in this
:01:28. > :01:35.hotel in York is the biggest event in the
:01:36. > :01:37.company's calendar. Today, these protesters came to ask
:01:38. > :01:39.Drax to rethink how it They don't like the
:01:40. > :01:42.negative publicity. They try and place themselves
:01:43. > :01:44.as a biomass only company. Half their energy comes from coal
:01:45. > :01:50.and nobody think that's sustainable. Drax operates the UK's largest power
:01:51. > :01:53.station, supplying about 8% The wood pellets come
:01:54. > :02:04.from trees chopped down in the US, a process Drax
:02:05. > :02:09.argues is sustainable because it constantly replaces those
:02:10. > :02:13.trees it has cut down. The company claims since
:02:14. > :02:16.moving to biomass, it now makes carbon savings of more
:02:17. > :02:21.than 80% compared to coal. In fact, the operation
:02:22. > :02:23.is so huge here that they're producing 16%
:02:24. > :02:32.of all of the UK's renewable energy. For these campaigners,
:02:33. > :02:36.it may maybe a renewable energy, but it is
:02:37. > :02:38.damaging the environment. They want to see Government
:02:39. > :02:43.money spent on what they call real renewables,
:02:44. > :02:46.like solar or wind. Can protests like this seriously
:02:47. > :02:49.make a difference and make a company like Drax
:02:50. > :02:52.stop what it's doing? Well, hopefully we
:02:53. > :02:54.will build from here. ?541 million money is
:02:55. > :03:00.coming out of electricity bills and we are saying,
:03:01. > :03:03.we do want that to be spent on things that
:03:04. > :03:05.are genuine solutions It may have been a relatively small
:03:06. > :03:12.protest to fight the might of the UK's largest power station,
:03:13. > :03:16.but for these people today, it certainly wasn't a waste
:03:17. > :03:24.of their energy. It's emerged that the bodies
:03:25. > :03:27.of a couple discovered at a house in Lutton near Spalding
:03:28. > :03:30.were found two days apart. Police say the man who they believe
:03:31. > :03:32.was Lawrence Williams His wife's body was found two days
:03:33. > :03:37.later after extensive searches were carried out at the property
:03:38. > :03:39.on Colley's Gate. A file is now being
:03:40. > :03:45.prepared for the coroner. The RMT has cold a 48 hour strike
:03:46. > :03:49.for workers on Virgin East Coast trains from April 28th
:03:50. > :04:00.which coincides with the start The Union is unhappy
:04:01. > :04:03.with the changes to working practices,which,
:04:04. > :04:05.they say, compromise safety. Virgin say the action is pointless
:04:06. > :04:08.and the changes don't put anyone Earlier I spoke to Sean
:04:09. > :04:11.McGowan from the RMT and asked him if striking
:04:12. > :04:14.on a Bank Holiday was mean If we were to strike
:04:15. > :04:19.on a Monday to Thursday, we'd get accused of hitting
:04:20. > :04:22.the regular commuter. There is never a good
:04:23. > :04:24.time to strike. But the travelling public are behind
:04:25. > :04:30.us 100%, they know this is all about their safety
:04:31. > :04:33.and nothing else. Virgin say the changes will have
:04:34. > :04:35.no impact on safety, They wrote to us
:04:36. > :04:43.before March the 31st changes to say their managers had
:04:44. > :04:49.had 100% training that they needed but they had to write following
:04:50. > :04:52.talks on April seven to say, we admit we got that wrong and
:04:53. > :04:57.the managers have had zero training. But it is not in the
:04:58. > :05:00.interest of virgin Why should passengers
:05:01. > :05:02.believe the RMT It is not in the interest
:05:03. > :05:09.of Virgin but Virgin only own 10% of the franchise,
:05:10. > :05:14.Stagecoach own 90%. It's an open secret they have spoken
:05:15. > :05:19.to the Treasury and said we cannot afford to pay you what we
:05:20. > :05:23.said, can we pay you less? Virgin said last week
:05:24. > :05:27.that they have had the second highest customer
:05:28. > :05:30.satisfaction since taking over the franchise, so obviously
:05:31. > :05:33.the customers are happy? I think you need to ask
:05:34. > :05:37.the customers again since Passenger complaints have soared
:05:38. > :05:49.and the company blaming our members on an official Twitter
:05:50. > :05:52.feed saying it is down to staff If you ask anyone travelling
:05:53. > :05:55.since March the 31st, since the implementation of these
:05:56. > :05:58.new working practices, it is a Do you not accept that roles
:05:59. > :06:02.and duties in every job Absolutely, we accept new technology
:06:03. > :06:12.can be introduced and it can be safe but we say
:06:13. > :06:14.in this case, saying talk to us and we can
:06:15. > :06:16.have Virgin say they are going
:06:17. > :06:19.to run a near normal service so you have
:06:20. > :06:20.achieved nothing? Virgin said the same when we took
:06:21. > :06:23.industrial action on Virgin are in receipt
:06:24. > :06:36.of communiations from the office of Rail Regulator regarding serious
:06:37. > :06:37.safety problems as a result of them running
:06:38. > :06:40.services which were unsafe on that Good to talk to you,
:06:41. > :06:44.thank you very much indeed. Two men have been charged after two
:06:45. > :06:49.firefighters were attacked and threatened with an imitation
:06:50. > :06:56.firearm in Spalding. happened on Monday evening
:06:57. > :07:00.after they were cold to a house fire Both needed treatment
:07:01. > :07:03.for their injuries. The Fire Brigades Union has
:07:04. > :07:04.condemned the attack. Firefighters, police officers
:07:05. > :07:06.and ambulance staff do dangerous enough jobs as it is without having
:07:07. > :07:09.to undergo attacks whilst trying to,
:07:10. > :07:13.you know, commit their duty. A national newspaper has angered
:07:14. > :07:16.people in Skegness with a front page that has been described
:07:17. > :07:20.as patronising and insulting. The New European used an image
:07:21. > :07:24.of the town's Jolly Fisherman to suggest that the town could be
:07:25. > :07:29.badly affected by Brexit. The editor says the image is satire,
:07:30. > :07:32.but the resort's MP has Our Political Editor
:07:33. > :07:36.Tim Iredale reports. For more than a century, the image
:07:37. > :07:40.of the Jolly Fisherman has been used But some in the town
:07:41. > :07:44.were shocked today when they saw the resort's mascot on the front
:07:45. > :07:47.of a newspaper on an article questioning why many
:07:48. > :07:50.in Skegness voted for Brexit. I mean, the Jolly Fisherman,
:07:51. > :07:57.it's dreadful. The New European is a newspaper
:07:58. > :08:02.designed to appeal to the 48% of voters who wanted to remain
:08:03. > :08:05.in the European Union in last June's The tone of the article has rankled
:08:06. > :08:11.many here which seems to suggest that Skegness is a town that
:08:12. > :08:15.could be hit hard by Brexit. If you look around here,
:08:16. > :08:18.you will see that that image is totally not
:08:19. > :08:22.based on reality at all. There is massive investment
:08:23. > :08:26.taking place in the town. The town is busy, we
:08:27. > :08:28.are the fourth or fifth This article is to drum up
:08:29. > :08:32.publicity for the publication A London PR firm hired
:08:33. > :08:40.by the publishers even suggested Skegness was the seaside resort that
:08:41. > :08:43.Brexit could close down and added the edition would start up some
:08:44. > :08:45.controversy locally. I think the problem is that it is
:08:46. > :08:50.just deeply patronising. This idea that voters
:08:51. > :08:54.who wanted to leave the European Union did so for
:08:55. > :08:57.simplistic reasons that kind of want to return the country to the 1950s
:08:58. > :09:00.is just not what anyone really If they talk to voters
:09:01. > :09:07.across Lincolnshire who had a very comprehensive understanding
:09:08. > :09:10.of the issues at play. Even one of the pro-EU
:09:11. > :09:12.contributors to the article In discussing Brexit,
:09:13. > :09:19.portraying people as being extremely rude, crude and hostile
:09:20. > :09:24.in the way it is portrayed in that caricature on the front page
:09:25. > :09:28.is very regrettable. Speaking about this
:09:29. > :09:33.front page, the editor said, I hope more people will be
:09:34. > :09:38.broad shouldered enough to laugh at us poking fun at one of the most
:09:39. > :09:41.iconic images of British poster Perhaps some in Skegness may reflect
:09:42. > :09:48.on the famous quote that day's news is tomorrow's
:09:49. > :09:50.fish and chip paper. Tim Iredale, BBC
:09:51. > :09:56.Look North, Skegness. You know the weather
:09:57. > :10:04.forecast over the next few days for Easter
:10:05. > :10:06.weekend isn't too bad. Tonight we will see thicker cloud,
:10:07. > :10:08.build from the west, flirting with us,
:10:09. > :10:14.introducing light rain. It will be breezy, lows
:10:15. > :10:17.tonight of 7 degrees, not Tomorrow morning starts
:10:18. > :10:30.grey and cloudy, further outbreaks of rain at times
:10:31. > :10:32.but there will be dry Take a brolly if you're out
:10:33. > :10:36.and about, 12 or 13 Celsius. Saturday the best
:10:37. > :10:39.day of the weekend. A warm front moves towards us
:10:40. > :10:44.on Sunday, bringing some rain, it That's it from us. A very happy
:10:45. > :10:58.Easter and have a great weekend. A very happy Easter
:10:59. > :11:05.and have a great weekend. spot of light rain from that cloud.
:11:06. > :11:09.We will keep you updated. Now with the National Outlook, Tomasz
:11:10. > :11:14.Schafernaker. Good evening. It's not exactly
:11:15. > :11:15.cracking whether this Easter. I think