26/01/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

The headlines from BBC Look North this Thursday lunchtime.

East Yorkshire ambulances are given longer to reach patients

Plans for a new Spurn Point visitor centre will be considered again

And a new, faster lifeboat is on its way to Skegness

It's a step change in technology, a step change in safety

The Yorkshire Ambulance Service says paramedics will no longer get

to call-outs within their eight minute target unless

The National Audit Office has warned that some ambulance trusts

are unable to cope with demand for their services and it's hoped

Call handlers will be given more time to assess individual cases

before deciding whether to send an ambulance or not.

Our correspondent, Leanne Brown, is here.

If you find yourself having to call 999 and ambulance will automatically

the dispatched within 60 seconds and calls classed as very serious will

need to be responded to in eight minutes but NHS managers say because

of this system several ambulances often get sent to the same address

and some get stood down en route once it becomes apparent then not

needed. Under this pilot call handlers would have up to four

minutes to assess the situation and they would be no time frame for when

the ambulance might arrive it is -- if it is not life threatening, these

are like Burns, if you are suffering from chest pains. If someone is not

breathing or having a heart attack and ambulance was still be

dispatched straightaway. It is no secret ambulances across England

have been struggling with their response times. You get here

represent paramedics and the call handlers say this will help a little

bit but it is not the answer as there are major problems across the

service. It will help in the little way,

but it's not the answer. You can't look at the Ambulance

Service in isolation. Even if we quicken the service up,

and they get to A quicker, unless we make sure that A can

receive the patients, they are just going to sit in the back

of the ambulances at A Unless we can clear

the beds in the hospital, when they do get in A,

they will just sit in A Unless we can get the community

sorted, they will sit So the whole chain

needs to be looked at. This is also being tested by the

South Westerns Ambulance Service and West Midland Ambulance Service.

If it's seen as a success it will be rolled out across the country.

There will be no investigation into potential police misconduct

in relation to the 1985 Bradford City fire disaster.

56 football fans died, including two Lincoln City supporters.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission says there is no

indication of potential misconduct by individual police officers.

It's after West Yorkshire Police voluntarily referred

Controversial proposals for a visitor centre on land

near to the Spurn peninsula are being discussed

by East Riding Council later this afternoon.

It's the second time the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has

sought approval for its plans after its initial

There have been more than 700 objections from local residents

Here's our environment correspondent, Paul Murphy.

It is more than three years since Yorkshire Wildlife Trust first

mooted plans for a visitor centre on land to the south of Kilnsea.

It's hoped the ?900,000 project will open up the area to more

visitors and interpret and explain this unique landscape.

But the Spurn visitor centre proposal has met

with strong local opposition, concerns that it will have

a detrimental impact on the local environment,

suggestions that using existing buildings for the centre

East Riding Council has already rejected an application

by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, that was last summer.

Councillors were concerned about flood risk to the proposed

centre and also the visual impact it might have in an area renowned

This afternoon councillors are considering a second application

but many local people have criticised that too, claiming it's

A councillor who was expelled from the Conservative Party

after posting an offensive tweet following the death of MP

Jo Cox says he has no intention of resigning.

Dominic Peacock has written to the chief executive

of East Riding Council saying that he has received overwhelming

support from ward residents and has described his critics

Last month a council committee said he should stand

Hull City can make it to only their second major

cup final if they beat Manchester United tonight.

They'll face Southampton in the EFL Cup if they overcome a two-goal

deficit from the first leg of the semifinal.

City head coach Marco Silva admits it will be difficult.

They scored the last goal, I think, in the last five minutes

because if they come with 1-0 it is different for them, sure.

It's a strong team, a fantastic coach.

Sure we have problems but we will try to put

A brand new lifeboat is on its way to Skegness after tests

It's faster, more agile and can travel further to rescues

than the 26-year-old vessel it's replacing.

In the first of two special reports, Phillip Norton looks at how

a ?1.5 million donation from a lifeboat family brought

It has been a saviour on the seas around Skegness for more than 25

years. I have rescued 195 people and the lives of 38 was saved because of

this vessel. A brand-new lifeboat will arrive here on Saturday, thanks

to a Skegness family. For almost 160 years descendants of the family

served continuously with the lifeboat here. That continuous

service ended in 1984 when one of the family retired. But when he died

in 2011, he left money for the lifeboat and along with a donation

from his cousin, April, the family has gifted ?1.5 million. It was a

surprise, really. We were gathered in the crew room and April was in

their and nobody knew what was going on. She announced there is a legacy

being left to secure the future of funding for the station here in

Skegness and introduced this new lifeboat. This is the purpose-built

lifeboat manufacturing centre in Poole. Wet every year six brand-new

shunning class lifeboats are born. The latest being the -- the new

Skegness lifeboat which was constructed here. They are very

fast, very manoeuvrable for the crew. Getting alongside a casualty,

getting close to any precarious edges. It is welcome knowing that

the brave volunteers in the background willing to get into one

of these. Here she is emerging from the freezing fog, the new Skegness

lifeboat. The family connection will help save lives for many years to

come. Phillip Norton, the BC Look North,. You can see the second

report from Philip tomorrow. Now a look at the weather

forecast with Paul Hudson. The coldest winter day

of the season so far. At least it is generally dry and

there is a big change on the way. You can see on Saturday the wind

coming from the south-west, that sets the scene for a much

milder week next week. It is certainly not

mild at the moment. Temperatures in Lincoln, for

example, are still only minus one.. That cloud could be thick enough

for one or two light snow flurries but essentially it is dry and just

look at these top temperatures, one Celsius, that is 34 Fahrenheit,

with a significant wind-chill if you add in the effect

of the south-east breeze. As we head through this

evening and overnight, we will get take a few cloud breaks

coming from the south-east. They may well be later in the night,

the cloud fills back in again, the risk of one or two light wintry

showers and a widespread frost. Another grey day to come tomorrow,

a few wet wintry at first. There might be some bright sunny

intervals but essentially it looks like another cloudy one with a bit

of rain towards the end of the day Eventually a little milder

although still feeling cold, Friday night looks wet,

Saturday morning, that overnight rain soon clearing then

it is brighter. Sunday looks mostly dry, much milder

as we had into next week. Thank you. That brings you up to

date this lunchtime. We will have more view tonight at 6:30pm. Have a

lovely afternoon. Goodbye. TV: He's not your father.

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