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Good evening, welcome to a new week here on Look North. North

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Yorkshire's chief constable says sorry. But despite his disciplinary,

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he claims he's still the best man for the job. It is time this thing

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was put behind us. He's been talking exclusively to Look North.

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Also tonight: Open for business again despite a devastating fire at

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Chesterfield's hospital. And we meet the woman who keeps those big

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rugby boys in line. These puppies were sweltering in 30 degree heat.

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Join me for the forecast coming up Figures released this afternoon

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show it has cost the council tax payers of North Yorkshire almost

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�220,000 to investigate the conduct of their chief constable Grahame

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Maxwell. This is on top of �100,000 the Independent Police Complaints

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Commission spent on its investigation. Mr Mainwaring was

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found guilty of gross misconduct in helping a family member during

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their massive police recruitment drive. He avoided sacking and was

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given a written warning. Today, he spoke exclusively to our crime

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correspondent. It is time this thing was put behind us. I have got

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a force that needs to be led. Grahame Maxwell answered questions

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at the annual meeting of his police authority. But none of them

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admitted gross much cop -- misconduct Granada until afterwards

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when we approached them. Since Grahame Maxwell became the first

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chief constable in 35 years to be found guilty of misconduct, he has

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maintained a silence, except to say sorry in a brief statement. But

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today, he spoke exclusively to last. How bad has it been for you? It has

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been a traumatic period of my life. It is a period which has come to an

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end, thankfully, and it is one of those things that need to be put

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behind me. For me to move on and do the job that I love. He did issue

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an apology which is an acceptance that you did something wrong.

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didn't realise at the time I was doing something wrong, but since

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then, I realise I should have seen how other people would feel it.

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with looming financial cuts and the Maxwell affair, how his morale now

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in the Yorkshire force's to a wood except that morale is not as high

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as it was before these changes, but I think we will see the force and

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rallying. Do you regard this as being a storm

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in a teacup? Not out off. -- not at all. The force does have its

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confidence in me. I have had the support of all the officers who

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work with me and I have be continue in that way. Business as usual?

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Absolutely. After some difficult offending figures recently, Creme

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across this North Yorkshire is now enjoying sustained crime reduction.

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-- Grahame Maxwell access North Yorkshire. Despite his critics, he

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is staying put in the Chief Constable's chair.

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Well, Skipton and Ripon MP Julian Smith has been one of Mr Maxwell's

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fiercest critics. He joins us from our Millbank Studio now. What about

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the true cost? Does that make it more of a campaign? It is not a

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campaign, it is simply being transparent about how much all of

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the scandal has cost the taxpayers of North Yorkshire. Hundreds of

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thousands of pounds. The key point being that if Mr Maxwell had

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admitted his guilt several months earlier, hundreds of thousands of

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pounds would have been saved. debt a wasted time calling his

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resignation now? You're not the only MP. The forces facing problems,

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she knew at least give him a chance? I made my Commons a few

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weeks ago. Since then, the focus has been on asking the police

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authority, the police force and anybody else involved in this case

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to be transparent one the numbers. We have a situation where the

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leader of that force has now admitted serious misconduct.

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Hundreds of thousands of pounds could have been saved and that

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money could have been spent on forces and the frontline, my

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constituencies and constituencies across North Yorkshire. I wonder if

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the key issue might well be the morale of the force. Mr Maxwell

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says he has the force behind him. That must be significant if that is

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the case. What are you hearing? hearing a completely different

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story. Officers who come up to me think that myself and Nigel Adams

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had been correct to challenge the police authority and Mr Mainwaring

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on these figures and his decision to stay. -- and Mr Maxwell.

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Hundreds of pounds have been wasted when people are trying to manage

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their horse -- household budgets. Is this the end of it for you?

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pleased that tonight we have most of the figures that have been

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involved. Surely all of them? think we have most of the figures.

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It is up but others to judge, but I think, as the leader of a police

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force, it needs trust in those who serve under him and the local

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community. That has been lost. It was last month ago and I think it

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is a shame. Later in the programme: Incredible

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edibles. The green-fingered business idea that's really taking

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off. Chesterfield Royal Hospital has

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been opened for business today despite his -- devastating fire at

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the weekend which has cost millions of pounds of damage. Good evening.

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Bed is the End Of A hot day here at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Plenty

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of potential for temperatures to get frayed. The chief executive

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Sinhalese -- relieved that all their continued see planning had

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gone smoothly. People were arriving for their appointments as usual. It

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may look in good order, but inside, part of it are a total write-off

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and will need to be demolished. The serious fire started late on

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Saturday evening. It is a friendly welcome, but perhaps not the first

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impression a major hospital would want to give. The staff have been

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praised for the way they have got the building back in action, even

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though the main entrance is closed. It wasn't too bad at all. They are

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coping well. Everything was fine. Business as normal. Lots of people

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around helping. It is incredible to think this devastating fire was

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caused by an electrical fault in a vending machine. It started on

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Saturday night. The waiting area and main entrance were badly

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damaged and it will cost millions of pounds to repair. The A&E

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department, which was evacuated on Saturday evening, was a reopened on

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Sunday afternoon at 1pm. We were back in production then. We have

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remained open to outpatients and we are still admitting people for

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surgery. This temporary entrance might not be the most attractive

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front door for the hospital, but it means the building can stay open.

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They will be no cancellations for patients, but they have been warned

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they may need to break longer or walk to a different part of the

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building. As for the main entrance, the structural damage is so severe,

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it took -- it could take months to reopen. Right now, the priority is

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cleaning up what they can. With a long road to rebuild think ahead. -

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- rebuilding. They get the strike or ports on the building and then

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that will indicate how much money need to be spent. The chief

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executive tells us that sprinklers are not a legal requirement to be

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fitted. A long, difficult clean up for Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

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West Yorkshire Police at a pioneering scheme which names and

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shames convicted criminals. The public can now go on to the force's

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website and see photographs of offenders and a crime they have

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been jailed for. The government say they want to rule out the same idea

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across the country. Detectives are appealing big

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commission following a serious assault on to 24-year-old men in

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Sheffield city centre. The friends were badly injured in the attack on

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Sunday morning. They are now recovering in hospital and their

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condition is described a series. This is students and members of the

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public will soon be able to access the archives of Scarborough play

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right Sir Alan Ayckbourn. The University of York has bought his

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archive of State sketches and pop diagrams for �240,000. -- Stage

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sketches. Not enough cancer patients are not

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accepting a state-of-the-art radiotherapy care. At advance Radio

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Derby can minimise side-effects, but most think surgery or

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chemotherapy a better -- radiotherapy.

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Margaret is being prepared for the last of 15 sessions of radiotherapy.

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This is a linear accelerator, a very high energy state-of-the-art

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radiotherapy machine. We're just going to leave the room now.

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Watching you all the time when the camera. It used to be quite a crude

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process. Radiation burns were a side effect and have left many with

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the impression that this is that -- a treatment of last resort. Not any

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more. They have been huge advances in the last decade. Now it is

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suitable for 50 % of cancer patients, on its own or in

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combination with chemotherapy or surgery. We are much better at

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getting conform all radiotherapy were picking give high doses to

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small areas and we can preserve the natural tissue around. It starts

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with careful planning in medical physics with a pinpoint the tune

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and the radiation minutely. We can see that the brain is complete we

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sped of the radiotherapy at this point. One advantage for some

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patients might be that it is used instead of surgery and therefore

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allows preservation of the organ so that an organ does not need to be

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removed. It has just as good outcome. This woman knows all about

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good outcomes. While pregnant, she had surgery for breast cancer. Four

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weeks of radiotherapy followed in March this year when her little boy

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it was a three-month-old. You have to the fatigue and skin burn and

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things with a radiotherapy, so I was a bit apprehensive. But you

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don't feel anything. Your skin goes a bit red but you keep putting the

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cream on, and other than that it was fine. Nobody knew I had had it.

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Let's hope that for Margaret besieging the feeling is the same.

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-- this evening. An idea that started could be big

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business. Incredible Edible has taken root in 20 towns and cities

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from York to Totnes. Now they are setting about turning a new

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generation of farmers to be a can - - the Green entrepreneurs of the

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future. This was Todmorden into doubt the No 9. A ground-breaking

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idea, putting spare land into the production. All over town. Well, it

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has grown. 20 towns and cities throughout the UK have joined in.

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Now, they have got this in Todmorden. A full-scale market

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garden. But it is not just about food production. It is also about

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We are planning to teach kids business skills and support them

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with new ventures so that as the food becomes economic Leeward while,

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maybe part-time businesses that might be growing herbs the

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restaurants turn into a full-time businesses that grow potatoes for

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the whole town. These girls are tomorrow's growers. The local high

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school runs qualifications in farming and land management. As

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food prices rise, there are business opportunities for growers.

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Food prices are going up and people want to grow their own things so

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they can sell them to other people. It is something more people should

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get into, because this business is getting bigger and it is raising

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more awareness. If more things like that has started, more attention

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will be paid to it. This will be part of next year's curriculum.

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Some of those who left last year will be back on Modern

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apprenticeship schemes. From little acorns grow great oaks. Something

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Coming up: The volunteer who keeps rugby players in line. And ways to

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keep cool as Yorkshire's temperatures soar to the hottest in

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five years. Time to look at the sport and there

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has been a nice little spat between boxers on Twitter. Before the fight,

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Kell's opponent was being questioned. He was like, come on,

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let us get it on. It all went a bit quiet after that!

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Well, 14,000 fans packed Hillsborough Leisure Centre for

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Kell's home-coming, which is just across the road from his home, and

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he actually walked to the fight! He was up against the tough South

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African Lovemore N'dou, who had never been stopped in his 62-fight

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career. Kell did have him in trouble a couple of times, with

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N'dou holding on towards the end. It was Brook's first 12 rounder,

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and a solid performance saw him win by a majority decision, winning the

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WBA Intercontinental Welterweight belt in the process.

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In cricket, Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan has been added to England's one day

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squad. Bresnan's been out of action with a calf injury, but is now fit

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again and played for Yorkshire yesterday. His call-up follows

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England's heavy defeat to Sri-Lanka in a one off Twenty20 match.

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Otley's Lizzie Armitstead has won her first British National

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Championship road race. The 64-mile race in Northumberland came down to

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a sprint finish, with Armitstead holding off Olympic champion Nicole

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Cooke. And after back-to-back wins in the

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world series, Leeds's Alistair Brownlee beat brother Jonny to the

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European triathlon title. He did it despite getting a puncture in the

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cycling, and pulled clear of the field in the run. Nice to see some

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brotherly love! And it was quite a weekend for

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Leeds kayaker Claire O'Hara, who won two world titles this weekend

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in Germany. She came out on top in both the squirt boat and freestyle

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kayak competitions. Now, Hilda Hardy made national

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headlines recently when she saved a Super League game from being called

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off. The kit lady abandoned her gardening to dig out a spare strip

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when opposing teams both turned up in white. Well, our reporter Ian

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Bucknell caught up with Hilda yesterday and discovered that she's

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always been a bit of a hero. Morning, lads! Are you all right?

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Hilda is much more than a kick lady at this rugby league club. She is a

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motivational speaker, and self- confessed mother hen who won't

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stand for it when she hears one of the lads burping. It was you,

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wasn't it, James? Yes it was! definitely wasn't me. Hilda has

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been keeping the boys in check for over 30 years. She was introduced

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to the club by her husband, on the left in this picture. When he was

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alive, they looked after the kit and the players together. We had a

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good working relationship. We were like two bookends. We just worked

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together. It kept me sane at the end of the day. I had somewhere to

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go in the morning. And nobody to The under 23s game is under way,

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and Halifax score first in front of their number one fan. Hilda's next

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job is in the hospitality area, serving drinks and a warm welcome.

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She does not get much of the chance to watch the game, and when she

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does, the senior Halifax team are struggling. Big game heads towards

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defeat for Halifax. Long after most of their fans had gone home, Hilda

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will clear away the empty, and then start on washing the kit. It is a

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12 hour day for which she is paid nothing. She does it for the love

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of the club and the memory of What a legend.

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Now, this week, Leeds is playing host to the International Jewish

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Performing Arts Festival - the only one of its kind in Western Europe -

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which has a mix of live music, drama, film and of course, an

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abundance of comedy. The festival opened last night with

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the woman known as the Jewish Victoria Wood. In a moment, we'll

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be talking to comedienne Kate Shortt, but first here's a taste of

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her brand of humour. This is how I play my cello. People say it sounds

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so mellow. Mellow, cello, so much easier than a fellow. This is how I

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play my cello. Thinking of painting a yellow. Yellow, cello, when it

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cracks are used Sellotape. It must be difficult to get your mum and

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song at the same time. Normally Fermi the music comes first. I

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think, I like that ditty, I will see if I can come up with some

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words. Is it fundamentally Jewish humour? And not necessarily,

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although that can come into it. It is based on life experience, love,

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inner-city schoolchildren, things that annoy people. There is a song

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about things that can irritate us about people, so I get the

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audience... You are lemon juice in my it open wind, that sort of thing.

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I do something about the idea of the English National Opera going

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into inner-city schools are helping them write an opera. The idea of

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the kids writing an opera about street talk. It is a wholesome real

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dichotomy. The Victoria would label is difficult to live up to. Yes, I

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followed her and she is fantastic. I grew up watching her. You have

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strong links with Leeds. Yes, I went to music college in the

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eighties. It is a stunning new building. Be used to be in the

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burry opposite the supermarket. I was on the jazz course. So have you

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got more dates to play in this festival? Yes, tomorrow night I am

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back again. How did you find the audience? You engage with then?

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do. I get them involved and I certainly towards the end get them

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singing and playing instruments. I do a lot of audience stuff. How big

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a deal do you think the festival is these days? See it, it is to -- it

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has been going on for 11 years now. One of my favourite people his goal

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oaken. He is amazing. Hilarious, brilliant. There are some very

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funny, satirical comedians there. And you have an album out as well.

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Great, thank you! My album! Thank Keith. Good luck with that.

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There's no doubt about it, but today is a record breaker, with the

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highest temperatures for five years! Temperatures soared to 32

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degrees Centigrade - that's 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

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So while it's been as hot here as Algiers, how have you been keeping

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cool? Our camera crews have been out and about in Rotherham, Leeds,

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Scarborough and Knaresborough as # Summer time and the living is

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easy. # Fish are jumping and the cotton

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is high. # I'm walking on # Here comes the sun, little

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darling. # It's all right, it's all right.

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That a call me totally unawares! He was having his mood programme that

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there. -- is made a programme of We have to go to July 2006 the last

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time we had that temperature. It is not often we get up to the

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temperature in our region. It also goes to show how poor summers have

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been since 2006. Let us look at a couple of pictures that are coming

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in the last two days. I had to do Scarbrow again because Harry had

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gone on and on about the show in Scarborough again. Fantastic. This

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was sun rise this morning, this was outside Castleford. If you want to

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send your pictures and, e-mail them to ours. Let us have a look about

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rooftop camera. It did cloud over from the south-west. One or two

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light showers but nothing menacing at the moment which is surprising

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considering the temperature levels. Wigan have a look at that league

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table of temperatures right now. Bridlington with a sea breeze, what

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a difference that makes, 19 Celsius. Much cooler, much fresher and much

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more cloud to come tomorrow with that hot air into the south-east of

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Britain and out into the Continent. In the short-term, there was a risk

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of one or two thunderstorms pushing up from the south-west, although

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not much activity at the moment. There is every chance we will see

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one or two isolated thundery downpours. If you catch one, it

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could cause a bit of localised flooding. The highest risk area

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will be further east. By the end of the night, most of us should be

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tried. Much fresher air to the West. The sun will rise at 4:37am. Those

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are your high-water times. An awful lot more cloud to come tomorrow.

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The breeze today has been in the south, tomorrow it will be in the

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north, so it will feel a lot fresher. The best chance of some

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sun is probably in the far west and north of our region. Elsewhere, the

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cloud could be thick enough to produce one or two showers. Sea

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breeze in Scarborough, 15 degrees. Today, we got to be 82 in Doncaster,

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tomorrow, 19. That is a dramatic drop off. A few showers on

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Wednesday and Thursday, Friday looks nice. It is so what, you

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forgot your socks! Banks are Now, tomorrow along with our local

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radio stations, Look North will be broadcasting live from the Olympic

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site in London ahead of the games next year. In particular, we're

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going to be looking at what the sporting spectacular will mean to

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