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Hello. Good evening, welcome to Look North. | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
Tonight, the care system in crisis in Yorkshire. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Holm's face closure across a region, we get reaction to today's review | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
into care for the elderly. And,... | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
You have worked all your life, and it is the only bit of capital you | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
have got. No way. We asked the shadow health | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
secretary if the elderly will no longer have to sell their homes to | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
pay for their care. Also, no holiday on the buses at, | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
rival companies go head-to-head to provide the same route for | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
customers. And, the Doncaster-based jet that | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
wowed them at Waddington over the weekend. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
It was fine and warm wind these shots were taken today, but there | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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Hello. Tonight, we are looking in depth at | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
the rising cost of caring for the elderly peer in Yorkshire. A review | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
for the Government is recommended that no one in England in the | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
future will have to pay more than �35,000 for the cost of their care. | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
With more of us living longer, what impact will this have? Several | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
homes are already struggling to stay open, and this is the | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
situation around our region at the moment. Leeds has already announced | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
a consultation to close six of its council-run homes. A further six | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
will be turned into acute care centres. Sheffield is considering | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
closing two, though they could be a U-turn. In Bradford, the council | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
has announced three of their homes will close in September. In North | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
Yorkshire, there are plans for longer term restructuring, but no | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
homes are earmarked for closure. The biggest numbers, in the private | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
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sector. 62 Southern Cross homes are facing an uncertain future. | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
How do we care for the elderly? Cyril is a war veteran who served | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
his country, being shot 35 times in France against the Germans. His son | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
hoped he would slip through the winter years of his life gently, | :02:25. | :02:32. | |
cared for by professionals. That is why they chose the stability of a | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
council run nursing home, stability that has been shattered with the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
news that the home will close. thought he had security. You never | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
know what will happen to private companies, but something involving | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
the state, you think it is secured. I say to the people at the council, | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
I hope you can sleep at night. When you move elderly people, the stress | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
and trauma, some people do not survive. The council say the | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
facility needs upgrading, and these essential works will cost millions. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
They understand the concerns, but they feel it is better in the long | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
term to secure funding for new homes, and so it comes to money, | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
how to fund care for the elderly. The savings -- civil's savings have | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
paid for his care here. The focus on care has been made on the report. | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
But nothing ever happens. This is the sad part. These people are held | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
to ransom. My father pays to be in this home, and it will cost him | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
�27,000 to go into another home. That is coming out of what little | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
money he has. Increasingly, being a pensioner is becoming a little more | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
than a numbers game, with more losers than winners. Today, a new | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
report tried to the address that. It recommends a cap at �35,000 to | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
be set on the amount pensioners can be asked to pay. And raising the | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
threshold, meaning they can keep up to �100,000 in assets, so fewer | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
people will be forced to save that matter to sell their homes. Here, | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
pensioners are not convinced. of them have worked through the war. | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
They have worked from the war, bringing the country back from its | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
knees, and now they are being targeted. Why should you have to | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
sell your house, when you have worked all your life? It is the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
only bit of capital you have got. No way. It is not fair when people | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
have worked all their lives, they pick on the pensioners. For sale, | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
the debate is more hot-air. Come September, he will move. The | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
question for his son, his private the more or less risky option? | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
We know the private-sector is under similar pressure, the difficulty | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
faced by Southern Cross does not bode well. We have been to | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
Scarborough, a town with one of the biggest elderly populations in our | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
region. It is solid red-brick, and it | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
inspires confidence. In this care home, it has been looking after | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
vulnerable old people for more than 50 years. I found out what the next | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
50 years might look like. It is privately run but nearly half its | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
residents are paid for by the local authority. The first problem facing | :05:29. | :05:36. | |
the home is the rate the county council will pay. We are paid just | :05:36. | :05:43. | |
under �380 a week for somebody with dementia, so in our view, that is | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
not sufficient. We want to make sure we are giving people quality | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
care. And also, staff deserve to be paid more than they get paid. We | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
want to attract more people, we want to give better training up. We | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
cannot do that. How or why did? I bet it is warm under there! All of | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
the residents have dementia. The care provided his personal and of a | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
very high standard. With funding the pressure, how can the level of | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
care be maintained? This woman's mother is a resident. Having | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
struggled to get funding for her mother's care, she is hope for the | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
report will help in future. welcomed the new report. I think it | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
is a step in the right direction. I am a bit cynical. My mother is | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
funded under NHS continuing care, and they question what is going to | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
give as a result of this new report. The biggest failure would be that | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
this report is put on the shelf, along with the others, and nothing | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
happens, because we await to the older generation to get it right, | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
because had fully we will all get hold, and we will be left with a | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
system that is not right. Such vulnerable people cannot fight | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
their own battles. Everyone working with them agrees reform is urgently | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
needed, but grasping the nettle may prove politically difficult, | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
especially when money is in short supply. | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
We are joined by John Healey, the shadow health secretary. What do | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
you think is the most significant change in the report? There are | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
some important recommendations, many of which we tried to bring | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
them when we were still in government. It is important we can | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
cap what for many of catastrophic costs of care in their old age. It | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
is important that the threshold for state help is raised in the way | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
that the report recommends. It is important there is a masterly | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
consistent system of assessing people's needs. It is important | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
that the universal disability benefits continue to pay. One of | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
those things are in the report. It is a starting point, but the real | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
question is what the government does with it. I want you to clarify | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
some think. If you had a house, say you had no savings, but your house | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
was worth 120,000, would you still be forced to sell? Yes, you would | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
be entitled to support from the state if you had assets or savings | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
in the House of up to �100,000. At the moment, it is �23,000. It is a | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
fairer system. One of our concerns has been that people with quite | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
modest savings or a smaller site of equity in their house, they could | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
lose everything. It should not be a system that protects billionaire's | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
from their inheritance, but it should be something that reflects a | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
people working hard, on modest incomes, and they are often the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
most likely to be caring for another relative, but the least | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
likely to get any help from the state. This report promises the | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
possibility of change, but it does depend on David Cameron, about | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
whether they are ready to grasp the nettle, to work as we have said, we | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
are ready to work with the government, to put politics aside, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
because the better, fairer Longton system we need requires that sort | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
of joint work and consensus. This has been kicked down the road by | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
successive governments, nobody has wanted to get hold of the problem. | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
Will the recommendations see the light of day? I hope so. We want to | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
see that happen, it is down to David Cameron and the government. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
We will talk with them to make this happen. There is also an important | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
battle to grasp by the Government, the current system is lacking in | :09:55. | :10:04. | |
funding it, and the report makes that clear, this is urgent. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
Later, we need one of our Olympic hopefuls, whose parents downsized | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
so he can achieve his kayaking dream. | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
You know the joke about waiting ages for a bus and finding three | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
coming along at once. In Wetherby, it is happening on a daily basis. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
HBOS war has broken out after two rival companies went head-to-head | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
on the same route. Three different buses now turn up at the same bus | :10:33. | :10:42. | |
stop, in the space of five minutes. There have been a few sticky | :10:42. | :10:48. | |
moments here at this bus station, not least because, several times a | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
day, both buses arrived at the same stand. I arrived at stand on the | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
five, to find that the other puzzle still there, so we had to go round | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
the block. It is getting silly, and the companies will be the first to | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
admit it. If you are a passenger, this is great news. | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
This has never seen so much action. These days, passengers travelling | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
to Harrogate are spoilt for choice. It seems every few minutes there is | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
another bus. This one arrives at two minutes past the hour. A couple | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
of minutes later, this one arrives at the same place, heading to the | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
same destination. Now, we have the 770 arriving, the third bus to | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
arrive in the last four minutes. Confused? You are not the only one. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
This man has been travelling to Harrogate on the same service for | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
25 years, but he noticed another company starting up on the same | :11:47. | :11:55. | |
There is no sense in it at all. There is no reason why three buses | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
should be leaving here with in a six-minute period. They will be | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
consequences because it cannot carry on. The original service is | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
run by Transdev but two months ago a local company loans as | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Connexionsbuses introduce their own services. The trouble is, their | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
buses were schedule to depart a few minutes ahead of the original | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
service. If they run directly in front of one of our vehicles, there | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
is a reason for that and we are going to react to it. We introduced | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
the direct service every hour and Transdev were running their service | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
every half an hour. Their reaction was to put 15 minutes in front of | :12:39. | :12:46. | |
us. It is something which they hadn't thought about until we did. | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
It takes a small company to seek a small opportunity. The original | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
Transdev bus stops at four villagers. Of the new | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Connexionsbuses takes a more direct route. Transdev responded to that | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
with their own direct service on the same route. Back at the., Tom, | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
like most other passengers, isn't too fussy about his buses. He is | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
taking the first that comes along. This time, it was a Connexionsbuses, | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
but of the competition wasn't far behind, and the Battle of the buses | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
isn't over. The latest twist in this tale is the local company, | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
Connexionsbuses, have introduced a loyalty scheme. Collect stamps as | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
you make a journey. Get 20 Tam -- 20 stamps, and get three Marks & | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
Spencers vouchers. Just an example of how they are willing to draw | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
customers on board. There is a serious issue. We have been in | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
touch with the competition commissioner who say they are aware | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
of the situation and they are looking into it as part of a wider | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
investigation into bus routes across the UK. They say that | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
although in general they are in favour of competition like this, | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
went two companies go head-to-head like this, it can only ever end up | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
with one going out of business, so if you are a passenger, most -- | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
make the most of it while it lasts. In other news now, and a man's | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of an elderly | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
tourist in York. Paul Knipe is accused of attacking 78-year-old | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
South African Lyle Thole near York Minster on Friday. Police said Mr | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
Thole was hit repeatedly over the head with a rock. He's now been | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
released from hospital. Sheffield City Council has issued | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
compulsory purchase orders so it can complete the Sevenstone retail | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
project. The Council took out a �10 million loan to buy up property to | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
get the scheme back on track. 24 orders have been issued. More than | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
100 more will be needed over the next two years. | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
A Leeds man who's accused of going on a wrecking spree with a JCB | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
digger in Nottinghamshire has been remanded in custody. Steven Regan | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
faces nine charges, including criminal damage to headstones. He | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
appeared before magistrates in Mansfield and his case has now been | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
sent to Crown Court. It's a crime that's estimated to | :15:06. | :15:13. | |
cost its victims �2.5 billion a year. And now a campaigner from | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
Chesterfield has written to the Prime Minister asking for him to | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
tackle the problem of mail scams. Marylin Baldwin from Chesterfield | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
set up the charity Think Jessica in memory of her mother. She lost tens | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
of thousands of pounds to criminals. Marylin's appearing in a special | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
edition of Panorama tonight, as Tom Ingall reports. | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
Do you think you have won? I know why have won it. How sure are you? | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
100%. For five years, Jessica was targeted by conmen using the post | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
and was persuaded to part with thousands of pounds by criminals. | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
She ended up on a suckers list, her name and address traded around the | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
world as an easy target. So, these are just some of the letters she | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
received? They are very hard hitting, aren't they? That right. | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
Claim now. It is that psychology of, you must respond. Jessica died four | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
years ago and now her daughter norman mac runs a charity in her | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
memory to prevent other people being targeted. -- Marylin Baldwin | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
runs a charity. We couldn't redirect their Mail, and I knew | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
this would be happening to other people so I set up Think Jessica to | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
give those people a base, somewhere they could go to, because nobody | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
helped me when I was struggling. Fake lotteries, bogus | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
clairvoyance... Tonight, her story features in Panorama which exposes | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
the scale of the problem. These comes cost UK victims almost �2.5 | :16:54. | :17:01. | |
that beyond her own campaign, it is time for the government to get | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
involved. People are not understanding the suffering of the | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
victim is a going through. They are watching organised criminal gangs | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
mugged them daily and they cannot intervene. It is giving these | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
relatives and victims a voice. has asked the Prime Minister to | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
change the law to prevent lives being blighted in future. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
And you can see more on this story on Panorama tonight, on BBC One at | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
8:30pm. Still to come: | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
Before 7 o'clock, one of aviation's great spectacles. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
The Yorkshire-based jet that stole the show at Waddington air show | :17:41. | :17:51. | |
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Now, the sport. Your first story is how far would you go to make sure | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
your child succeeds? There are various different ways. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
My dad banned me from playing sport so he wasn't interested. He said, | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
you're not good enough! Stop wasting your time! But this guy | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
isn't. Now, how far would you go to help | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
your child achieve their ambitions? Well, how about two parents from | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Leeds, who have sold their house to give their son the chance to become | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
the best in the world at his sport. Ian Bucknell reports. | :18:32. | :18:38. | |
It is a sport that demands strength and agility. The power to paddle | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
through torrents, and the likeness to pirouette around a pole. Joe | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
Mollie is the British under 23 slalom kayak champion and the | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
second best in Britain at any age. Pleased with that? It was good, | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
yeah. Watching him train is his dad to is also a keen paddler. Kim and | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
his wife farmed much of Joe's training and over the years, they | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
have driven him to competitions all over Europe. That level of | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
dedication is nothing compared to how they sold their house in Leeds | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
so they could buy one for Joan Mir where he trains in Nottingham. | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
was a hard sacrifice. But you do it for your family. It has proved | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
dividends, I believe. We struggled last year, for sure. Joe drove half | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
the way round Europe emit a 1998 Volvo. But it is worth it. -- in a. | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
You have got to be down here if you want to be anywhere in the sport. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
There is no facilities anywhere else in the country, even in London | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
with the new White Water Sports Centre, that doesn't run all the | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
time. The short-term goal is to win gold at the under 23 European | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Championships in Bosnia next week. Beyond that, there is Olympic | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
qualification, but whatever he achieves in the future, the first | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
people he will thank will be mum and dad. The support they have | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
given me is fantastic and I could not have done it without them. I | :20:11. | :20:17. | |
will never be able to repay them fully. But I will try. All the very | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
best to the family. In Super League, it's been | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
announced this afternoon that Castleford coach Terry Matterson is | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
to quit at the end of the season. The Australian has been in charge | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
at Wheldon Road for six years since leaving the London Broncos. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Although they were relegated in his first season, the Tigers fortunes | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
have gradually improved and they're currently in the play-off places. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
And if you didn't catch it last night, the latest edition of the | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
Super League Show can now be seen on the BBC iPlayer. | :20:44. | :20:49. | |
How could you have missed that? I didn't miss it. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
I watched it. Actually, we're going to mention a | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
subject now. The cricket. They played the latest 2020 match, | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Yorkshire, and they lost with Nottinghamshire. It is looking | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
impossible for them to qualify. And they are not doing great in the | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
County Championship. No, they are second from bottom. | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
They have got a lot of young players coming through showing a | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
lot of promise, but it could be a tricky season for Yorkshire. I | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
think they should give me a trial. You deduce to play, didn't you? | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
Yes, and I played yesterday as well. I have had my hair cut recently, | :21:37. | :21:45. | |
but I was a rocker. We are going off on a tension. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Now, the last flying Vulcan bomber appeared in front of the crowds | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
this weekend at Waddington Airshow in Lincolnshire. The plane is now | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
based at Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster, and our reporter Dan | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
Johnson has been behind the scenes with the team getting ready for the | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
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In size and shape made it a Cold War icon but keeping a 50-year-old | :22:09. | :22:18. | |
bomber in the air needs a lot of TLC. The aircraft has got to be | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
100% serviceable. There is quite a lot of pressure when especially at | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
an airshow like Waddington. It is a big effort. We do not want to let | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
everybody down. It is a professional team, mostly ex RAF | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
engineers that worked on Vulcans in service. The mission objective has | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
changed, but the job is largely the same. But Ulcombe, the | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
revolutionary bomber goes into service... Back then, the falcon | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
carried nuclear bombs, ready to retaliate if Russian missiles ever | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
came our way. Nowadays, the Bombay is filled with the names of people | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
that have donated money. It costs �2 million a year to run so a | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
bigger show like Waddington is a big event. 140,000 visitors this | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
weekend came to the show, and many of them wanted to get close to it. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
We try to show what it is capable of. It makes lots of noise. It | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
manoeuvres well. But everybody is out there on the crowd line, | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
waiting for us to go. The final few cheques for the ground crew. And | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
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then it is time for the throttle. It is absolutely fantastic to see | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
this... It is like a prehistoric bird. It brought tears to my eyes. | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
We used to see it as kids. It is good to see it again. A perfect | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
flight. A delighted crowd. And the team will do it all again for | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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Now, we interviewed him many times. A special plaque has been unveiled | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
in Barnsley today in memory of the local comedy legend, Charlie | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
Williams. Friends and family gathered outside the Civic Hall to | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
pay tribute to the Royston-born man who started out as a professional | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
footballer before becoming the first black comedian to make the | :24:27. | :24:31. | |
big time on British TV. He died in 2006. Many well-known comic faces | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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turned out to mark the day. He was absolutely unique and people | :24:41. | :24:47. | |
love to him. God bless you, Charlie. Yorkshire, born and bred. He would | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
have turned around and said, quite rightly so! But he would be very | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
proud. That is really lovely. Wonderful | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
tribute. I have been a way, just for a week. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
We have missed you. That is irrelevant. I come back, | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
looked through Facebook, and people were saying you said it was going | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
to be a wet July. June. | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
We are not yet been to the whole of July... But June was wet. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
July you say? Yes, June was wet. The early part | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
of July looks unsettled. My editor asked me to ask you this. | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
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Read more on my blog. I am sure you Now, some famous pictures through | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
Yorkshire. That is Scarborough, a beautiful day. Looking very green | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
after the rainfall in June. And this is Ingleborough. If you want | :25:58. | :26:06. | |
to read more about it, go to my block. Or you come to greet me. | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
Tomorrow, a bright start with rain later. | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
This feature will sit across us probably into next week's so | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
unsettled weather is one away. In the short term, it has been quite | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
knows. Skipton looks as though it has been the warmest place in | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
Yorkshire. 25 this afternoon. Enjoy this lovely, bright, warm evening | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
because it may be some time before we get another one. The night time | :26:37. | :26:46. | |
period will be dry. Temperatures drifting back to around 12. Light | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
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It looks quite pleasant through the morning. There will be some | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
sunshine around and everywhere should be dry, but through the | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
afternoon, cloud will build through the West with some rain on the | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Pennines. It will be a slow-moving feature, not reaching the coast | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
until tomorrow evening and Eastern areas will see the best of the | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
temperatures during tomorrow. 18 a high, and 23 in York before the | :27:20. | :27:28. | |
rain arrives. We will have a wet spell further West. Unsettled after | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
tomorrow evening. You are a bit touchy, aren't you? | :27:31. | :27:37. |