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Protesters target a meeting of bosses from the largest power

And on. Are they try and paint themselves as our biomass company

but they are not. Half their power comes from coal which is not

sustainable. The RMT defends a decision to strike

when passengers will be heading There's anger in Skegness

about a national newspaper front page which criticises the town over

Brexit. The Easter weekend is nearly here,

full forecast shortly. Protesters targeted

a meeting of senior bosses from Drax Power Station

near Goole today. They say the company is spending

public money to produce energy in a way which is damaging

to the environment. The plant burns coal and wood

pellets - known as biomass - and Drax officials say this has

helped to reduce the amount If you want to get your message

to the top of a company, this is the The Drax AGM taking place in this

hotel in York is the biggest event in the

company's calendar. Today, these protesters came to ask

Drax to rethink how it They don't like the

negative publicity. They try and place themselves

as a biomass only company. Half their energy comes from coal

and nobody think that's sustainable. Drax operates the UK's largest power

station, supplying about 8% The wood pellets come

from trees chopped down in the US, a process Drax

argues is sustainable because it constantly replaces those

trees it has cut down. The company claims since

moving to biomass, it now makes carbon savings of more

than 80% compared to coal. In fact, the operation

is so huge here that they're producing 16%

of all of the UK's renewable energy. For these campaigners,

it may maybe a renewable energy, but it is

damaging the environment. They want to see Government

money spent on what they call real renewables,

like solar or wind. Can protests like this seriously

make a difference and make a company like Drax

stop what it's doing? Well, hopefully we

will build from here. ?541 million money is

coming out of electricity bills and we are saying,

we do want that to be spent on things that

are genuine solutions It may have been a relatively small

protest to fight the might of the UK's largest power station,

but for these people today, it certainly wasn't a waste

of their energy. It's emerged that the bodies

of a couple discovered at a house in Lutton near Spalding

were found two days apart. Police say the man who they believe

was Lawrence Williams His wife's body was found two days

later after extensive searches were carried out at the property

on Colley's Gate. A file is now being

prepared for the coroner. The RMT has cold a 48 hour strike

for workers on Virgin East Coast trains from April 28th

which coincides with the start The Union is unhappy

with the changes to working practices,which,

they say, compromise safety. Virgin say the action is pointless

and the changes don't put anyone Earlier I spoke to Sean

McGowan from the RMT and asked him if striking

on a Bank Holiday was mean If we were to strike

on a Monday to Thursday, we'd get accused of hitting

the regular commuter. There is never a good

time to strike. But the travelling public are behind

us 100%, they know this is all about their safety

and nothing else. Virgin say the changes will have

no impact on safety, They wrote to us

before March the 31st changes to say their managers had

had 100% training that they needed but they had to write following

talks on April seven to say, we admit we got that wrong and

the managers have had zero training. But it is not in the

interest of virgin Why should passengers

believe the RMT It is not in the interest

of Virgin but Virgin only own 10% of the franchise,

Stagecoach own 90%. It's an open secret they have spoken

to the Treasury and said we cannot afford to pay you what we

said, can we pay you less? Virgin said last week

that they have had the second highest customer

satisfaction since taking over the franchise, so obviously

the customers are happy? I think you need to ask

the customers again since Passenger complaints have soared

and the company blaming our members on an official Twitter

feed saying it is down to staff If you ask anyone travelling

since March the 31st, since the implementation of these

new working practices, it is a Do you not accept that roles

and duties in every job Absolutely, we accept new technology

can be introduced and it can be safe but we say

in this case, saying talk to us and we can

have Virgin say they are going

to run a near normal service so you have

achieved nothing? Virgin said the same when we took

industrial action on Virgin are in receipt

of communiations from the office of Rail Regulator regarding serious

safety problems as a result of them running

services which were unsafe on that Good to talk to you,

thank you very much indeed. Two men have been charged after two

firefighters were attacked and threatened with an imitation

firearm in Spalding. happened on Monday evening

after they were cold to a house fire Both needed treatment

for their injuries. The Fire Brigades Union has

condemned the attack. Firefighters, police officers

and ambulance staff do dangerous enough jobs as it is without having

to undergo attacks whilst trying to,

you know, commit their duty. A national newspaper has angered

people in Skegness with a front page that has been described

as patronising and insulting. The New European used an image

of the town's Jolly Fisherman to suggest that the town could be

badly affected by Brexit. The editor says the image is satire,

but the resort's MP has Our Political Editor

Tim Iredale reports. For more than a century, the image

of the Jolly Fisherman has been used But some in the town

were shocked today when they saw the resort's mascot on the front

of a newspaper on an article questioning why many

in Skegness voted for Brexit. I mean, the Jolly Fisherman,

it's dreadful. The New European is a newspaper

designed to appeal to the 48% of voters who wanted to remain

in the European Union in last June's The tone of the article has rankled

many here which seems to suggest that Skegness is a town that

could be hit hard by Brexit. If you look around here,

you will see that that image is totally not

based on reality at all. There is massive investment

taking place in the town. The town is busy, we

are the fourth or fifth This article is to drum up

publicity for the publication A London PR firm hired

by the publishers even suggested Skegness was the seaside resort that

Brexit could close down and added the edition would start up some

controversy locally. I think the problem is that it is

just deeply patronising. This idea that voters

who wanted to leave the European Union did so for

simplistic reasons that kind of want to return the country to the 1950s

is just not what anyone really If they talk to voters

across Lincolnshire who had a very comprehensive understanding

of the issues at play. Even one of the pro-EU

contributors to the article In discussing Brexit,

portraying people as being extremely rude, crude and hostile

in the way it is portrayed in that caricature on the front page

is very regrettable. Speaking about this

front page, the editor said, I hope more people will be

broad shouldered enough to laugh at us poking fun at one of the most

iconic images of British poster Perhaps some in Skegness may reflect

on the famous quote that day's news is tomorrow's

fish and chip paper. Tim Iredale, BBC

Look North, Skegness. You know the weather

forecast over the next few days for Easter

weekend isn't too bad. Tonight we will see thicker cloud,

build from the west, flirting with us,

introducing light rain. It will be breezy, lows

tonight of 7 degrees, not Tomorrow morning starts

grey and cloudy, further outbreaks of rain at times

but there will be dry Take a brolly if you're out

and about, 12 or 13 Celsius. Saturday the best

day of the weekend. A warm front moves towards us

on Sunday, bringing some rain, it That's it from us. A very happy

Easter and have a great weekend. A very happy Easter

and have a great weekend. spot of light rain from that cloud.

We will keep you updated. Now with the National Outlook, Tomasz

Schafernaker. Good evening. It's not exactly

cracking whether this Easter. I think