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Good evening and welcome to Friday's Look North. On the | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
programme tonight: Incredible escape. Could cable | :00:04. | :00:07. | |
thieves be behind an explosion which ripped through homes in | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
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Castleford? Also tonight: Forget more reasons | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
now there are more opportunity. Why a Yorkshire-based supermarket is | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
going back to the street corner. And packed with history: We get a | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
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taste of Nestle's new confectionary The growing scourge of copper cable | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
theft may have caused the fire and explosion which ripped through six | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
terrace houses in Castleford. No one was seriously hurt, but 30 | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
people had to be moved out of their houses, and at least two families | :01:13. | :01:20. | |
have been left homeless. The wreckage of Rhodes Street, a | :01:20. | :01:29. | |
huge hole punched through the roof of number 53. Deborah Newsome and | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
her partner were inside a number 49. I have lost everything. I have got | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
nothing on me. My whole house, everything,... Sorry. I got the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
house in December, and have been decorating it for seven months. We | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
put so much work into it, and everything I own is in it. It was | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
my birthday yesterday, and I was supposed to have my house-warming | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
party tomorrow. Neighbour Darren Taylor awoken from | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
his bed at 2am and videoed the scene from his mobile. The roof | :02:15. | :02:25. | |
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came off. Just a big flame. At 2am, there was an explosion to the | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
Middle two properties. Queued to the quick thinking of the crews, | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
they were able to evacuate the occupiers. | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
It has been considered a miracle that no one was killed or seriously | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
injured in this fire and explosion which ripped through numbers 47-56 | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
Rhodes Street. It is known that someone nearby had cut an overhead | :02:53. | :03:01. | |
electricity cable, attempting to steal copper. In its epidemic | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
proportions, we are adding 46 incidents a day. They are risking | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
not only their lives, but the lives of other people. I don't have a | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
house and it has got a massive hole in it. That is it basically. | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
Tonight, the investigations at Rhodes Street go one. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
The explosion is thought to have been caused by someone trying to | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
steal electrical wire. According to CE Electric UK, which covers | :03:37. | :03:46. | |
Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, and the North East. In 2009, they dealt | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
with three London 47 cases of metal theft. This year's total will be | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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much higher. -- 347. Let us talk to the Head of Safety at CE Electric | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
UK. Why is it such a massive problem. This problem has grown. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
People are risking everything to gain of just a few pounds from | :04:15. | :04:23. | |
stealing copper, in particular around the West Yorkshire area. | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
People have lost their lives. Other people have been seriously injured. | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
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They are dicing with death, aren't they? Indeed they are. A young lad | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
of 16 was there. People cannot interfere with electricity, but if | :04:45. | :04:55. | |
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you touch it, you are likely to be dead. The suggestion that along the | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
line, policing this is almost impossible. I am sure it is very | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
difficult. One of the areas hit last year was South Yorkshire. The | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
problem appears to have moved further north into West Yorkshire. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
We would like the public to help us. We believe our best opportunity to | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
reduce this problem is get the public on our side, a report | :05:24. | :05:31. | |
suspicious circumstances. And report back to the police or to us. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
What about people who buy copper? It and somebody comes in with �3 | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
worth of wire, it must be suspicious. One it would think so. | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
We would like that to be investigated, and drawn to a close. | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
I thought they were talking about big sums of money here, but we're | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
not talking about big sums of money, are we? That is right. Normally, a | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
small amount of copper is stolen, and it is worth just a few pounds. | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
It is an important message, and we hope people heed the warning. | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
A six-year-old boy from Wakefield killed by a hit-and-run driver has | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
been laid to rest. Owen Wightman was knocked down in a Wakefield | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
last month. His family were keen for today's funeral service to be a | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
celebration of his life. A white horse drawn carriage led | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
the procession this morning to St Hilda's Church. Friends and family | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
followed on silently. Over 100 people turned out to celebrate the | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
life of Owen Wightman. For the family, it is a tragic loss. But | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
also, when you get something like this, the community feels like they | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
have lost something themselves. They have to find ways of | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
expressing that. Owen Wightman was killed by a hit- | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
and-run driver on June 18th. It shook the whole community. 821 | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
year-old man, arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
driving, remains on police bail. The family wanted to beat about | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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celebrating Owen Wightman's life. You were loved so much, and that | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
makes me so proud. Everybody always said he would break hearts when you | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
were ordered. We never thought it would be hours. My brother was the | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
best brother ever, even when we called each other names, and we | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
used to fight, he knew I loved him. And I knew he loved me. | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
Tributes were read by friends and family. He loved ice-cream and | :08:00. | :08:10. | |
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cartoons. His father's message summed up their feelings. Like your | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
favourite saying goes, it is not fair. | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
After the service, the family left for a private ceremony, followed by | :08:24. | :08:34. | |
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a week. -- a wake. The funeral has also been held today of craftsman | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Andrew Found, who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan last month. | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Craftsman Found, from Whitby in North Yorkshire, left a wife and | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
two children. Today, hundreds of people gathered at St Hilda's | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Church in the town. During the service, Andrew's mother read a | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
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poem remembering her son. A man has been charged with the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
murder and attempted rape of a 95- year-old woman in a Bradford care | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
home. Elizabetta Pecka, who lived in a home on Shakespeare Close, was | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
the victim of an aggravated burglary in January. She died in | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
March. A 20-year-old man is due to appear before Bradford Magistrates | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
on Tuesday. South Yorkshire's Chief Constable | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
has announced he will retire this autumn. Med Hughes has lead the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
force for the last nine years. He will leave in October to pursue new | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
challenges after 32 years of police service. He has agreed to go a year | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
earlier than anticipated so a new Chief Constable can oversee the | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
introduction of an elected police commissioner. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
Revised plans for The Eastgate development in Leeds have been | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
approved. The shopping and leisure quarter, which will include a John | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Lewis Store, was put on hold during the recession. Developers say it | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
will create 10,000 jobs. There will be major changes to the north-east | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
of the city centre including pedestrianised streets and a new | :10:03. | :10:13. | |
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civic square. There will be a really good mix of contemporary | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
architects chair and fully refurbished character buildings. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
A swimming pool in Bradford which first opened in 1904 will close its | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
doors today after the council withdrew funding. 13 groups did | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
express an interest in taking over the running of Manningham Pool, and | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
two of those bids were presented to Bradford Council. But the council | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
said they weren't sufficient. The Victorian Society, who fought to | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
keep the facility open, say it will be a big blow to the local | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
community. Later on Look North: We will | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
remember them. 70 years on: A special tribute to the Canadian | :10:56. | :11:06. | |
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airmen who laid down their lives flying from Yorkshire. They opened | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
a new convenience shop in Ilkley today. But this one marks a brand | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
new departure for the Bradford- based supermarket giant, Morrisons. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
They say they are reinventing the convenience shop idea. Others say | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
they are playing catch-up with their rivals. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
More than a shop, this is an experiment: Morrisons have made | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
their name would out-of-town stores and low prices. Now they say it is | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
time for a change. Officials want to reinvent the convenience shop, | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
at the place on your street, there always has everything you are | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
looking for. Car still has are looking for great, fresh food and | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
value. -- customers. Customers are also time pressed. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
40% of the shop will be given over to fresh produce delivered twice | :12:07. | :12:16. | |
daily. But the plan hinges on the commuters switching allegiance to | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Morrisons. Analysts say some of Morrison's competitors are years | :12:20. | :12:28. | |
ahead. They are playing catch-up. Sainsbury's, Asda, and Tesco's have | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
all similar plans. Tesco's have led the way, and mannerisms are playing | :12:33. | :12:42. | |
catch-up. -- Morrisons. The convenience format is seen as a | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
way of continuing growth, and taking market share away from | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
rivals. This is not one trial but two. Morrisons are trying to crack | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
a well-heeled demographic. Secondly, the convenience store format is a | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
new idea, and with rivals like Tesco's and Sainsbury's period, it | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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will be interesting to see others experiment plays ahead. | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
I don't think I can remember, but I vaguely remember the first at | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
Morrisons was a little shop run by Mrs Morrison. This debate cessor, | :13:32. | :13:42. | |
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Canal enthusiasts are worried about what will happen to them when | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
they're handed over to a charity next spring. | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
There are fears that millions of Pounds of government subsidies will | :13:50. | :14:00. | |
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be cut. The remarkable Stanwick tunnel. | :14:00. | :14:08. | |
Just one part of a 200 mile network of Yorkshire canals. It is amazing. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
A 200-year-old structure. A remarkable achievement. | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
The tunnel's reopening a decade ago was the high point of a canal | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
revival across the country. Now the Government wants to hand everything | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
over to a charity to run. Enthusiasts are worried that this | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
new National Trust of the canals will not have enough money for the | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
enormous costs of keeping it running. Funding is the big | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
problems. There seems to be a large gap between what is being offered | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
at the moment. That funding gap is expected to occur by the Government | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
guaranteeing a fixed annual grant for the first two years of the new | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
charitable trust, but at a lower rate than it currently gives to | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
British Waterways. Going to the future, we need to put the water | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
weighs on a secure financial footing. We need to be able to plan | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
for the future. As a new charity, we will have a funding arrangement | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
which will last for 15 years a minimum. That will give us a better | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
position than we have had so far have. Volunteers adopting sections | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
of canal are expected to play a big part in reducing costs. Canal | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
enthusiasts will be lobbying for a bigger slice of subsidy before the | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
charity takes over in the spring. What lovely pictures. You can see | :15:33. | :15:41. | |
more of that story on the Politics Show at 11am on Sunday. | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
Before 7 o'clock: The getting into the swing of it. | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
We need the special Olympians bringing back gold from Athens. | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
And chocolate through the ages. We get a taste of Nestle's archive of | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
confectionery. You buy me chocolate quite a lot, | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
don't you? Almost 70 years after the end of | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
the Second World War, the contribution of airmen from | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
Yorkshire bases has now been recognised. | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
They monument was dedicated today to the sacrifice of Canadians who | :16:19. | :16:28. | |
flew bombers out of RAF Leeming and With proper ceremony, and in the | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
right place. A memorial to the men of the Royal Canadian Air Force who | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
flew in Bomber Command. Fantastic. Beautiful memorial, I am so pleased | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
they have done that. They took a lot of stick during the war, and | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
they did their part. Many were based at RAF Leeming. They are | :16:53. | :16:58. | |
remembered here. That is why those serving here now it raised the | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
money for the monument. Almost 70 years after the end of the war. | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
Long overdue. Long overdue. We are, at last, going to make some | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
acknowledgement of the services that the Canadians did during the | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
war. Good guys to fly with, generous, brave. There are other | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
memorials, simple stones standing in perfect formation in a Harrogate | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
cemetery. More than 600 Canadian airman who flew from Linton and | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
Leeming. All memorials are important otherwise you would not | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
have them. The Canadians were not overlooked, but in some ways they | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
were not venerated. The importance of the contribution of those who | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
had gone before, is rarely lost on the serving men and women of today. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Squadrons, ships, regiments, they are like families and they have | :17:58. | :18:07. | |
histories. Histories that are on it. -- honoured. | :18:07. | :18:13. | |
Last week in Athens, over 7,000 competitors were taking part in the | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
Special Olympics. It is a multi- sport events for people with | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
learning difficulties. Those from Yorkshire did rather well. | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
They returned home with five gold, three silver and four bronze medals. | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
Back on his home course and then Horner is listening his shoulders | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
for a quick practice round. Last week, the competition was for real. | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
Great shot. The very good for. dad and coach was his caddie at the | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Special Olympics in Athens. An international sports competition | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
for people with learning difficulties. He won a gold on the | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
golf course, but his dad says the benefits go beyond winning medals | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
for all stopped it is important he gets the social side of it as well. | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
There is great camaraderie between the athletes. The feeling they are | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
in the main event, that they can compete in a similar environment to | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
other people's. 7,000 athletes from 180 nations took part in last | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
week's Special Olympics. Great Britain was represented in 17 of | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
the sports, and there was more than one the Yorkshire competitor to | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
return in triumph. Lynn Williams from Harrogate is another gold | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
medallist. She is a power lifter and this that competition was | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
important because it was a first appearance in an international | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
event. I kept looking as to everybody. I kept thinking, who is | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
my opposition? That was trying to think who it would be. That | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
competitive edge helped her to three medals. | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
Back on the golf course, and this young man is making it look easy. | :20:08. | :20:15. | |
You should have a few lessons! In cricket, Yorkshire are due to be | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
playing at Durham in the Twenty20 competition. They won the toss and | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
chose to field, but rain stopped play before a ball could be bought. | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
-- bowled. We all know that York has been at | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
the centre of chocolate production for more than a century. It was | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
back in 1862 that Henry Rowntree founded his very first factory. It | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
was taken over by Nestle UK in the 1980s, and the company is proud of | :20:48. | :20:55. | |
its history. The state-of-the-art - - state of the art archive has been | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
set up at Nestle headquarters. 1932 and the Factory girls were in | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
full chin as they packed chocolate boxes here at Rowntree in York. It | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
is this rich history captured on film that Nestle are keen to | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
cherish on the new archives. It is great to have this in one place in | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
the York. We can use it for research and take it out into the | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
community. The state-of-the-art facility is packed with history | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
from Auld catalogues and packaging to these quirky characters. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
Take a look at these egg moulds. It dates back to the 1920s were life | :21:41. | :21:51. | |
:21:51. | :21:54. | ||
was lived to excess and no expense Big and bold, a romantic gestures | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
made here in the York with love. Rowntree has actually travelled far | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
and wide. This is a tin of cocoa that was | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
with Scott of the Antarctic when he died. Seven or eight months after | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
he passed away, a rescue party went to find him and his precious | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
diaries. They brought them back along with this tin. Back to those | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
films, and another home-grown treasures. It is not just the | :22:24. | :22:31. | |
chocolate that looks familiar here. Hello and welcome to the special | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
programme for everyone in the business. 1991, a vintage year. The | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
archive gives us a flavour of the changing tastes of our chocolate | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
loving society. These products of the past can be enjoyed for many | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
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You looked a right Bobby Dazzler their! | :22:56. | :23:06. | |
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Was that your hair? I think there is likely to be a few | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
showers around for the Great Yorkshire Show. The a organisers | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
should be fairly optimistic that there will be some sunshine. | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
It has been very topical today. We have had torrential downpours, | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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thunderstorms, hailstones, the lot. This is Sheffield. A massive cloud, | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
look at the size of that one. This was taken as a storm was | :23:42. | :23:49. | |
approaching from the south. This one was taken at last night. That | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
is beautiful, keep it that pictures coming in. We have had two | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
torrential downpours in Leeds in the last couple of hours. The | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
shower that we have just had it has cleared, but the clouds are still | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
looking fairly ominous. I feel the showers are going to keep going for | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
some time to come. They may last all night across more western parts | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
of our region. Tomorrow we started a slow improvement. There will be | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
showers around, especially in the mornings. We will see increasing | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
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amounts of sunshine throughout the day. You can see the size of the | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
thunderstorm cells that had been a rotating around an area of low | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
pressure. That is going to push across most parts as it trundles | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
off into the North Sea. Further heavy showers and local | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
thunderstorms could lead to localised flooding. Eastern areas | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
should dry up a little bit and those showers keep going further | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
west. Lowest temperatures around 11 Celsius. The son rises in the | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
morning, and sets at 9:45pm. There will be a few sunny spells around | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
in the morning, but generally we are looking at a cloudy picture. | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
Watch the sequence, a watch through the afternoon, the showers tend to | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
fizzle out and we see more in the way of sunshine. The evening looks | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
quite pleasant. Most places drive by that time. Temperatures in the | :25:32. | :25:42. | |
summer, not bad, about average. 20 Celsius in York for the races. Then | :25:42. | :25:47. | |
for Sunday, a sunny start with a few heavy showers in the afternoon. | :25:47. | :25:55. | |
few heavy showers in the afternoon. Some some breaking news, we are | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
hearing a little girl has been crushed by a van. | :26:00. | :26:07. | |
We understand that the accident happened just after 5pm. The little | :26:07. | :26:11. |