16/06/2011 Look North (Yorkshire)

Welcome to Wednesday's BBC Look North.

Cleared of rape - the police officer and former Mr Gay UK is

cleared of accusations of sexual assault.

The father who may not have died if his 999 call had been -- if his

family's 999 call had been dealt with better.

And combine with me - we film the North's first secret supper club.

Shower clouds in the distance in Bradford. More of those to come

Some breaking news which is just coming in. Dozens of North

Yorkshire police officers are at this very moment searching for a

missing 11-year-old schoolboy on the outskirts of York. The boy, who

was last seen at young -- at lunchtime, is described by the

police as vulnerable. Danny joins us from the newsroom. What more can

you tell us at this stage? As you say, he is an 11-year-old boy. His

name is Daniel Cozens. He is described as a bomber boy -- as a

vulnerable youngster. He was last seen at lunchtime wearing his

school uniform. The police have initiated a massive search

operation. Over 36 officers are currently looking in areas where a

child might hide to see if they can locate the missing youngster.

Police would like anyone with any information to come forward. Light

is on their sides, it is not expected to be dark until after

10pm. It is very important that Daniel is finders bet -- as quickly

as possible. His safety is paramount and Yorkshire police say

that, if you know anything, you should get in touch.

Thank you very much. We hope to bring you an update on that story

later in the programme. A 28-year-old police constable with

the West Yorkshire force has been cleared by a jury in Leeds of two

charges of male rape. PC Mark Carter, a former Mr Gay UK, was

also acquitted of sexual assaults on men during a pre-Christmas party

in 2009. Our crime correspondent has this

story. For the past two weeks, Constable

Mark Carter has been facing a court jury deciding on charges against

him following a police pre- Christmas party in Leeds in

December 2009. He has been suspended from the West Yorkshire

force where he has served in Huddersfield ever since the

accusations were made against him. They are related to a ledge and

sexual assaults on two men in this leads restaurant and a third that

the city centre nightclub. It had been alleged that, later that

December night, PC Carter had twice raped a man in a bedroom at this

hotel in Leeds. Today he was cleared of those rape charges and

two of the three alleges that sexual assaults. PC Carter had

admitted being stupidly drunk that night but denied all the

accusations against him. There was loud applause and cheering from a

packed public gallery as the jury acquitted PC Mark Carter of two

charges of male rape and two charges of sexual assault. PC

Carter broke out in floods of tears and, outside the court and, he was

hugged by his supporters. PC Mark Carter, a former Mr Gay UK,

said during his trial that police colleagues were aware of his clear

sexuality and were supportive. He said the charges against him had

been a living nightmare. He knows that legal proceedings may still

not be over. Let us now go to our crime

correspondent who is at Leeds Crown Court. John, is there like -- are

there likely to be any more legal proceedings Mr against PC Carter?

We do not know. In relation to that one charge on which the jury could

not reach a verdict despite retiring for more than five-and-a-

half bars, that is the one of a leg just -- of alleged sexual assault,

the prosecutor was asked if she would be pursuing that in light of

the other charges. She took some advice, came back to court and said

she could not be certain about that. The CPS will have to make a

decision within the next seven days on whether to pursue a retrial on

that matter. The appearance of Mark Carter and whether he will continue

with West Yorkshire Police or not cannot yet be decided. It is not

yet over. Later on BBC Look North: Palmer to

the people - plans to build huge wind turbines that would look more

over York were unexpectedly turned down today. -- which would loom

over York. The family of a man who died after

his 999 call was not properly handled by a West Yorkshire

Ambulance Service... Perez is -- Pervez Iqbal died after paramedics

took more than quarter-of-an-hour to get him.

It was found that the Kohl Handel did not support the family

adequately as they try to revive him.

It is a harrowing listen. He is not breathing. OK, try and come down

for me. A recording of the final moments of

Pervez Iqbal's life from the emergency call into the ambulance

control room. His eldest son is being instructed on how to carry it

CPR by a call handler. Tell him to shout out in fours. That is too

fast. Listen to me, one, two, three, four.

The crew can be held -- heard calling for more back-up. Do you

have another pair of hands for this detail? I will let him know that

you need somebody. Mr Iqbal was 59. He died at home 40

minutes after the 999 call was made. It was 13 minutes of CPR. Which

your brother had never done before? He had never done it before, he did

not have the expedience. He still blames himself, he thinks he did

not do it the right way. The ambulance service have accepted

the family's criticisms of the call handler. He did not, they say,

managed to call in support of way. We have done a some reflect of work

with the call handler involved and some additional training has been

provided to ensure that he can manage such calls better in the

future. He should have sympathised towards the situation. There was no

sympathising, no encouragement like, you are doing well, carry on. I

could have done that call. The family say their language has

been made worse by their proximity to Bradford's main ambulance

station and the Royal Infirmary. The family want to make other

families aware of the risks in dialling 999. It could be someone

else's husband, wife, son, daughter. Tomorrow, they might go through the

same thing. I would just like to stop that, hoping that they do not

go through what we went through, because it is a horrible thing to

live with. Our health correspondent joins us

now. What has been the response? For the ambulance service had given

as a statement in which they apologised to the family of Mr

Iqbal for the distress caused and pass on their condolences. They

have addressed some of the issues raised. They say they would like to

assure members of the public that patient care is their utmost

priority and the aim to -- their aim is to provide a high-quality

service. The ambulance service was formed in

2006 from the merger of three services. It covers a huge area. It

has been marked as poor run at least three occasions. The new

health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission, imposed a

condition on it last year. Based at -- they said they had to get to 75%

of life-threatening calls within eight minutes. In September, they

said that the ambulance service had achieved that. They have actually

got to 76% of those emergency calls within eight minutes. Obviously,

their performance continues to be monitored.

Detectives investigating a break-in Leeds city centre in the early

hours of Monday have released CCTV footage of a woman that they want

to talk to. The images show her being approached by two men who

appear to speak to her. She walks off and is followed for a short

time by the same two men. Arrive half-an-hour later, another woman

was grabbed by a group of males, dragged into a doorway and raped.

Today we have come across new CCTV footage that comes from the top of

the town. The images are of two young men who followed by young

woman quarter of an hour before the attack. We would release like -- we

would really like to speak to them. The young woman the apparently

followed, we believe that she may have vital information and could

tell us about these young men. Police in Sheffield are appealing

for witnesses after a seven-year- old girl was hit by a car. The girl

was crossing Shirland Lane in Darnall on a scooter. The driver

was not hurt. The police want to hear from anyone who saw the girl

and the car immediately below -- before the collision.

The father of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence has been giving

evidence at the Houses of Parliament. If Peter Lawrence spoke

to on all-party parliamentary committee looking into the rights

of relatives of people who had disappeared. He would like the

government to take steps to simplify bureaucracy the stock we

are not at this stage where I want to be preserving that my daughter

is dead. There are a lot of people in the same position. In the

meantime, you have to deal with their mortgage, insurance, their

bank, their car and everything else. It seems to me to be common sense

that there needs to be a procedure. Leeds City Region has picked the

Leeds Aire Valley site as its choice for an enterprise zone. The

Government announced plans for the zones this year to cut planning red

tape and so create jobs. Officials say the Aire Valley site could

create almost 10,000 jobs by 2025. A new outpatients unit at

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary opened today at a cost of almost �400,000.

A hospital says it will save money by grouping services together under

one roof. Designers in charge of redeveloping

Sheffield's Park Hill flats have incorporated an infamous line of

graffiti into of work of art. The graffiti, spelling out, I love you,

will you marry me, was scrawled on a bridge and became famous when a

member of the band The Arctic hat - - The Arctic Monkeys wore it on his

T-shirt. Whatever next (XXX) x were there was a victory for people

power today. It was unexpected. Plans to place a

wind mast in York have been turned down and residents in Copmanthorpe

were faced with five wind turbines been erected near their homes. That

prospect receded this afternoon after proposals to put up a test

mast were rejected. Local residents gathered to celebrate their victory.

These are the fields earmarked by developers for a wind farm. The

first stage in that process was the building of one mast 70 metres high.

It was planning permission for that but councillor's roundly refused to

give at their meeting this afternoon. They voted against it 8-

Cheers of jubilation as Copmanthorpe residents celebrated a

victory they did not think they would see. They packed the chamber

as councillors debated whether to allow a 17 metre mast to be built

near their homes. It is York Minster that dominates the skyline

around here. Its tallest tower is around 70 metres high. The test

mast would have been a similar height. Any others would have been

a maximum of 145 metres. Totally inappropriate in the Green Belt,

according to the residents. And the council has agreed.

The listens to what I think was a reasonable debate from the action

group and the residents. The arguments that were put forward,

they have taken on board the intrusion into the green belt,

which is so important. It is a great privilege to have been in the

meeting to see the council's response to such a horrible thing

that would have happened to the green belt. We were expecting not

They were unable to convince the councillors. The rejection of the

mast, left alone at turbines, is a bitter blow for them. We don't have

a decision yet as to what we will do. We have to take stock of the

council's decision, look at the refusal reasons, and inform people

at the right time as to what we will do. So the green fields of

Copmanthorpe are safe for now. But absolute security, the residents

must wait for the official response. This has been a highly organised

fight by Copmanthorpe residents. Nearly 600 letters of objection

were written, with just 12 in support of the windfarm. They

haven't said so, but the developers could appeal. It just depends

whether they have the stomach for another bite. -- fight.

Before 7pm, Yorkshire warm-up for their roses 2020 encounter with the

old enemy at Headingley tomorrow. And they are invited but you don't

know any of them. But the dinner guests breeding as much of a

surprise to the hostess asked to each other. -- proving.

We turned to football now. The fixture lists for next season

aren't published until tomorrow. But we do know already who our

teams will be facing in the Carling teams will be facing in the Carling

A Super League player who crashed his car during a high-speed police

chase has been jailed for four months. Castleford Tigers' Martin

Aspinwall was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court, following arrest near

his home in Wigan. The sentence comes just four months after the

former Huddersfield and Great Britain player received a suspended

eight-month jail term for punching a man in Wigan Town centre.

This time tomorrow, Yorkshire will take on the old enemy Lancashire at

Headingley, looking to do the double over them in the Twenty20

Cup. Having started the competition

Pauley, Yorkshire are back in it, thanks to tight victories including

There is a bit of confidence after winning two games in a row. Ed

gives us a bit of momentum, gives us a bit of a buzz. Hopefully we

can take that into tomorrow night. How was it for you lot at Old

Trafford? It was nail-biting. My heart was beating, but it was good

at the end, jumping out of the dug- out, the lads jumping around.

was a bit nerve-racking, but you try and keep a philosophical view

on things, stay as calm as possible. It was quite tense, the last couple

of wins, but the thing is, it is getting into the habit of winning,

and hopefully the momentum is with us. Yorkshire's young guns are

starting to fire. Azeem Rafiq was the one who held his nerve to see

Yorkshire home at Old Trafford, he's looking forward to doing the

same infront of his own crowd. you wake up in the morning, you get

excited to come to the ground, you know you will get people there, the

last few years, everyone has enjoyed the 2020, you can just ride

on the atmosphere, the pressure of the situation. It is good playing

in front of a big crowd. Often county cricketers played to

galleries as empty as this one, but not tomorrow, they are hoping for a

full house. They have sold 10,000 tickets. All they need now is for

the whether to play ball. That is probably going to be the

crucial factor. Looking at the National weather forecast, it looks

like it will be a bit rainy. But Yorkshire, playing well. Hopefully

they will turn a Lancashire over tomorrow.

I think they seem pretty confident. You can never be that confident, it

is a bit of a smash, bang, wallop sort of cricket come but we will

see. The latest trendy way to eat has

finally arrived in Yorkshire. Secret, or underground supper clubs

have been popular in New York and London for a long time.

You could actually running your own, because I want the deal is to know,

you have bought some culinary equipment but I wouldn't associate

with you! I have a bread-making machine. I

have not opened it yet, but I'm going to have a go at it soon. You

will be the first guinea pig! Actually, the secret supper-club is

an interesting concept. It means that you put out a message saying,

come to dinner, but you don't know who your guests are going to be. A

lawyer from North Yorkshire has launched her own in a remote

farmhouse near Harrogate. She enjoys cooking for people she has

never met. Charlotte prepares for her dinner

party by averaging elderflower in rural North Yorkshire. Tomorrow she

is cooking a three-course meal in her own home for eight people she

has never met. The guests have booked online. It is called a

secret, or underground supper-club, a trend which developed in New York

and has now arrived in Yorkshire. We do it for fun. It is all about

meeting new people, it is something where I can be quite creative. I

really love to meet the different people that come. Seven days a pm

on a Saturday evening. -- 7:30pm. Now, the guests are here. The theme

is a Midsummer's night. So here are the guests. I am from Headingley. A

I'm from Halifax. We are from Leeds. I am Martin, this is Suzanne.

time to sit down for starters. Charlotte calls herself the cooking

very, and runs a website with tips and reviews. The guests don't pay

for their meal, but make a donation to cover the costs of the

ingredients. The main course is a chicken with what she called in

Moonbeam salad. It was quite stressful at the beginning, because

we had to deal with the elderflower fritters. People were getting lost,

so that was quite stressful. But yes, it is good. Everybody seems to

be having fun. This is the 4th underground restaurant I have been

to, and it is the first one in Leeds, and in the north. Good food,

good conversation. It is not something I would normally ever do,

I am meeting new people. Really good. Definitely do it again, a

very good indeed. I think it has gone really well, it has been good

fun, everyone seems to have enjoyed the food, which is the first thing.

So, a big success. But the real hero is Charlotte's partner, who

was washed up for 10 people. absolute angel!

Thousands of people including us have been hugging each other in

Leeds today to mark National Carers Week. 70,000 people in different

places across the city hugged each other. Each hug represents the

emotional support carers provide to the people they care for. The event

was organised by Age UK. Dozens of North Yorkshire police

officers are searching for a missing 11-year-old schoolboy on

the outskirts of York. Daniel Cousins was last seen at

lunchtime at school. He was described by police as being

vulnerable. Our reporter has the latest. What can you tell us?

this is a big operation by North Yorkshire police, some 36 officers

are now involved, 20 or so are regrouping in the school behind me

to work out a strategy. Sergeant Paul, how concerned are you by the

disappearance of this young Paul -- boy? I am very concerned. He is

aged 11. We have a picture of him here. This is Daniel. This school

uniform is not quite right, he is wearing a black blazer, white shirt,

and a green sage tide. He suffers from autism, and he has been

missing since 12:15pm today. We haven't had any sightings since

then have this young lad. So we are very concerned about his welfare.

believe you're enlisting air support and a search and rescue

team as well. I have asked for extra resources to come into the

city, to help search for this young lad. What I would like to do is ask

for the citizens of York took court in if they see Daniel. -- to call

him. He is 5 ft tall, slim build. Slightly protruding front teeth. He

is wearing it the Joseph Rowntree school uniform. Because of his

condition, he will run, and he will not communicate with people. So it

is imperative we do find him as soon as we possibly can. If you

have seen him, please call North Yorkshire police. If you have seen

Daniel tonight, as the officer says, get in touch with North Yorkshire

police. That search will continue this evening, hopefully there will

be a good conclusion to this story. Please get in touch with North

Yorkshire police if you have seen of this young man. He is called

Daniel, and he does have problems, but we hope he is safe.

Time at but the weather. -- time A spectacular sunset last night.

But you did not to be any pictures of the lunar eclipse, I don't think

many people saw it, a bit of a disappointment. An untitled picture

over the next few days. It will last for much of the next week as

well. It looks more like October or November with that active weather

system. Hopefully it will clear through Saturday morning. A lot of

sunshine around, but that much of north and west Yorkshire should be

dry. Any showers that are around in the next few hours should to sort

out. -- should fizzle out. The sun will rise in the morning at 4:34am,

most of us off to a dry, bright start, especially in the east. But

one or two showers from the world - - from the word go. Slowly it will

cloud over, those showers could will merge to give longer spells of

rain. By tomorrow evening, most places will be wet. By the end of

the afternoon, we will see temperatures at around 17 or 18

degrees with a moderate south or South easterly wind. 10 or 15 mm of

rain, great news for farmers. Saturday morning get off to a wet