STAY OFF THE PHONE

Don't be tempted to use your mobile phone while driving in the Brigg area.
Responding to a question at the Neighbourhood Policing Panel's quarterly meeting in the Angel Suite, Insp Brett Rutty made it clear that, where circumstances allowed, officers would stop and deal with drivers they saw using a phone while at the wheel.
Panel chairman, Brigg's Coun Tom Glossop (pictured), said of at-the-wheel phone use: "It's frightening - people have a total disregard."
Coun Nigel Sherwood, one of Brigg's representatives on North Lincolnshire Council, went on to ask how Brigg police vehicles had coped during the recent very bad and snowy weather. "Were four-wheel cars needed?" he asked Insp Rutty. "Would they have helped?"
The head of Brigg police replied: "These conditions are few and far between and come along every 20 or 30 years."
He praised the way his officers, and their vehicles, had coped - and went on to reveal a contingency agreement (fortunately not needed last week) under which the police would hire stand-by 4 x 4s - from an unnamed supplier - for use during severe weather.
Group Captain Paul Ryan, who administers these Brigg meetings for the Humberside Police Authority, and chairman Tom, have already confirmed the next will be at the Angel Suite on Tuesday, April 13. From 6.30pm members of the public will be able to talk, in confidence and private, to local police officers. The public forum will get under way from 7.30pm.