14/07/2011 Look North (Yorkshire)

Thank you for joining us tonight. �650 million and counting. 20 years

on, is the legacy of Sheffield student Games worth the debts that

remain? Also, the personal and moving story of a family from York

who may share a deadly cancer gene. And an animal in formaldehyde,

Damien Hirst's creations are back in town.

And the detailed weather forecast Good evening. Now it was supposed

to have cost council tax payers in Sheffield �150 million. Today the

projected bill stands at a whopping �658 million. 20 years on from the

World Student Games and the arguments about whether it was

worth it rage on. Opinions differ, but what's certain is that it will

take years fortd sit tkwroi pay it off.

Legacy, it was a corner stone of the bid for 2012, the

infrastructure and the promise to inspire future generations. The

World Student Games left a legacy of sporting facilities in Sheffield,

but was it a debt worth paying for? The Games opened on July 14, 1991.

It was spectacular and dramatic. It came at a price. World class venues

at -- that the taxpayer is paying for. We didn't need facilities of

this quality for the student Games. It was about a long-term investment

to transform the city. I personally think it has done. I think it would

be a much sadder place without the facilities. The loan to pay for the

venues has been renegotiated over the years. And the Council has

borrowed against the value of the new facilities to fund other things

bringing the final price tag to �658 million. 297 million has been

paid off, leaving �25 million a year to be paid off until 2024.

anyone heard of it since 1991? Has it ever appeared on television? Yes

Commonwealth would have been something. We didn't get support

from Government, not like Manchester, who got funding from

the lottery and the government. World class facilities like ponds

forge has produced world class talent. Ever since I started diving,

I've been surround by Olympians and it's been a motivation. Without

this, I would not be a diver. Because of the facilities, the

Games brought the English Institute of Sport was built in Sheffield and

now hosts Olympic athletes. But has the legacy of the Games and the

debt its brought done anything for the people of Sheffield left paying

it off? I think it raises our profile. It keeps us as a city

that's quite important and has a part to play in sport. I'd say it's

worth it but in the times that we're in, we could have done with a

bit of saving. I've not got a problem with. It I know it's a lot

of money, but things cost. facilities that we've got are

pretty good, but I don't think they're used to the extent that

they could be probably. No I don't think it's worth it. For better or

worse, the World Student Games of 1991 have certainly left their mark.

Even before the Games opened, there had been reservation abouts whether

they would be a good long-term investment for the city. Now this

BBC report was filmed in November 1989, 18 months before that

ceremonial opening we've just seen. The massive construction project

was under way to built the arena and the ponds forge swimming flex.

The reporter then is now the BBC's political editor for Yorkshire.

ARCHIVE: For Sheffield this is more than building Britain's biggest

swimming pool. The World Student Games are �150 million gamble. If

they win, it could attract inward investment from industry and

business. But if they lose, the people of Sheffield could be left

with a financial million stone for years to come. And Len joins us now

from the Don Valley Stadium, 21 years on. You got it right, was it

destined to be a failure? Well, I said they could be left with a

financial million stone around their necks, I didn't realise it

would be such a big mill stone. When this was a construction site

we reckon today would cost around �120 million just to bield all the

swimming pools and the stadiums and arenas. Another �30 million to

stage the Games. �150 million in total. Since then, it ballooned up

to over �650 million at one time and even now, after 20 years of pay

back, you're still talking about the thick end of �300 million owing

and it could take many years yet and I think it's a bit optimistic

that it will be paid off by 2014, which is what, 2024, which is

projected here. People talk about the legacy. Sheffield is the city

of sport, hasn't it been worth it for that? I think that that's where

the, where really the debate is on. I remember this part of Sheffield

at that time in the 80s and before that in the 70s, what you got here

was the biggest piece of industrial dereliction anywhere in Western

Europe. Clear ago way that, and holding the student games was a

gamble to be able to have a new beginning. From that points of view,

yes, it's worked. But the cost was probably more than was expected.

can remember being part of the Games. There was a fantastic

atmosphere within the city for two weeks or so, do you think anything

like this will ever happen on this scale again in Yorkshire? Well,

it's highly unlikely that you'd do it for the World Student Games.

This wasn't the Commonwealth Games, not the Olympics, it was the World

Student Games. It didn't quite get the profile that was expected.

Thank you. A family from York have allowed BBC cameras to follow them

as they face the possibility that a breast cancer gene may have been

passed from a mother to her daughters. Now Julia Booth hit the

headlines in the 1990s with the emotional story of deciding to have

a double massectomy. Now her daughters are facing up to the

possibility that they may have the gene. We'll speak to Julia and one

of her daughters in a moment. First this story.

Josie is only 18 and lives in York. She knows she may be carrying a

gene that coin crease her chances of getting breast cancer by 80%.

It's just whether or not you want to risk feeling like part of your

body might kill you. There is a genetic test that can tell people

if they're carrying the gene. 14 years ago Josie's mother Julia

allowed the BBC in Yorkshire to tell her story, when she found out

she had the gene, she had a double mastectomy to prevent cancer

developing. I knew long before I had the test, that if I had the

gene I would have the surgery. My instant reaction was just get rid

of them, they can kill me. Josie's older sister is 23 and has decided

to take the test. There's somewhere between a 60% to 80% lifetime risk

for breast cancer. But at 18 is Josie too long to take the test to

find out if she has the gene? a decision, if you go and get the

test done you can never take it back. Knowing she could be carrying

the gene means Josie's health and her future are always at the back

of her mind. How much she decides to know about her future health can

only be her decision. Tonight we'll see if Josie does decide to have

the test. Mum Julia and her daughter have both had the test,

though it will not be revealed what the outcome is for Lucy until

tonight's programme. Let's join them now from their garden in York.

Julia, let me take you back many years, when you decided that you

were going to have that double mastectomy. When you look back, do

you have any regrets at all? Absolutely known. It's been a --

none. They estimate my chances of developing it have dropped from

about 85% to 4%. I don't have to worry about it any more. I don't

have this awful fear hanging over me, as I used to have that I would

die early, like my mum did at just 43 and leave my young family. I've

been able to forget about it. I've had great reconstructive surgery,

I'm pleased with how that's all gone. It's been a really good move

for me. Lucy, if I can turn to you, in the film tonight, we will see

you actually getting the results of your test and I know we're going to

leave that for those to watch tonight, why did you decide and

your younger sister still has to decide that you wanted the same

test as much? I really felt like it was something that I had to know.

The older I got the more I felt like I needed to know whether I had

it or not so that I could start to take precautions and have screening

and just make sure that everyone, that all the doctors were just

watching and looking in case something happened. I didn't want

it hanging over me for my whole life. Due get a feeling that it was

beginning to do just, that that it was constantly on your mind? It was

on my mind quite a lot. It wasn't always there, it was something that

I thought of occasionally when I saw things about it on TV or if

friends, I had a friend whose mum had breast cancer and that brought

it home a little bit. It's times like that I thought I needed to get

it sorted. With the gene, it is possible to get breast cancer as

young as 23. It's something I really needed to think about.

mum went to the extreme of having that double mastectomy, have you

thought about or did you think before you had the test what you

would do if the results were not good? I always assumed that if I

had a negative, if I had a positive result, sorry, I would get the

surgery, not immediately, the Jenette sifts will always say thaw

don't need to think about having it at 23, but yeah, I always assumed

if I had the gene I would at some point have a double mastectomy and

my oaf Riz removed. Thank you very much for talking to us. We will

follow that story. It's a fascinating documentary. It's

called My Cancer Curse, Josie's story on BBC 3 at 9pm tonight.

You'll find out then what Lucy found out about the tests and the

fact whether Josie has decided to have them as well.

Later, it's gathering momentum. A growing number of schools in

Yorkshire are becoming academies. We look at the figures. A 19-year-

old has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged

with the murder of a man in Sheffield. 30-year-old Zabi Rafiq

was found near his home in May. Hassan Khan Maruff from Hampton

Road was arrested in France and appeared before Sheffield

magistrates this morning. The Government has confirmed that

Yorkshire will continue to have a coastguard base that operates right

roubd the clock. Plans to restrict the service at Bridlington to

daytime hours have now been scrapped. The Transport Secretary

has warned that jobs may still be lost.

A haul of missing jewellery, shown on Crimewatch, after being found in

Doncaster, appears to belong to Sharon Osborne. Detectives put out

an appeal on the programme saying the stolen goods were worth �1

million. The0s borns home was raided in 2004. On Twitter Sharon's

daughter Kelly says her mum is over the moon, her mum can get her

wedding ring back. A booklet containing the earliest rules of

football has been sold at auction for an incredible, just under �1

million. The 1859 rule book prepared for Sheffield FC is the

world's only surviving copy. It's part of the club's historic archive

and is said to have been crucial in the evolution of the modern game.

There's to be a four fold increase in the number of schools in our

area that becomes academies. That means they will take funding

directly from the Government with local input. It is a controversial

subject, given the amount of schools taking up the option. When

the new school year began last September, there were 18 academies

in Yorkshire. Between then and now, 26 more have opened their doors.

That momentum's increasing, as we head towards the new school year in

September. 56 more schools applied to become academies, seven of those

just in the last two weeks. It's expected by the time the new school

year begins, the number of academies in Yorkshire will have

shot up to 100. That's five times more than we started with. In terms

of the total number of schools in Yorkshire, that's a relatively

small number about 5%. Exactly what is an academy and why are more

schools deciding to become one? More -- this college in

Huddersfield isn't an academy, not for seven weeks. It's just one of

Yorkshire schools taking up the academy to have more independent

control. This school's announced standing school so why change a

winning formula. In a school you're trying to work threical endarz, the

academic year, the financial year, as an academy the financial year

becomes the same as the academic year. For us to plan the same way

we plan for the students learning and progress say major advantage.

So, fairly straightforward and after a consultation with parents,

it's a decision that's been widely supported here. Now, this isn't a

new idea. Think back to Tony Blair, take a short hop to Bradford and

you'll find an example of why the new Government's so keen on the

plan. Here they took a failing school in 2007 and made Tay a

success. In our case we took over a very challenging situation and have

clearly demonstrated we've been successful. The academy element was

an important feature. Don't think this is a panacea or without

controversy. Plans to convert a similarly failing school in

mexborough has been met with diplace. The clearly the argument

that academies can improve standards faster than the

equivalent state school is unfounded. There's no independent

evidence for that. The way that it's being promulgated and

perpetuated by this Government is clearly unfair. Parents, worried

about academy status for another outstanding school, this one in

Sheffield, share those concerns. don't see any positives in having

schools run as businesses and compete against each other. I think

schools need to work together. I think they need to work in the

interests of children. If they're working as competing business units,

they're going to take their eye off the ball when it comeles to the

teaching and learning of children. An evenly weighted argument, an

age-old problem yet to be solved to everyone's satisfaction.

Some fighting talk - Curtis Woodhouse is pulling no punches

ahead of a title fight on Saturday. We take cover.

And it looks like a restaurant, but it is, in fact, art, Damien Hirst

style in Leeds. You wish. I know. I've been going

on about them, but this Yorkshire side has so much rich potential. It

was on show this morning. For the second time in two days, Harry has

been to Scarborough cricket ground to watch this time a vital win.

It's only the second of the season in the championship.

No finer sight, a beautiful day to watch the young guns. New cap

Johnny Besto giving Richardson the treatment. Next ball a grubber. It

wasn't easy this morning. Joe Root is a class act. And with Berstow a

winning partnership developed. Root has so much promise, quality that

underlines how good the academy is in producing young promising

players. Only one wicket this morning. 143 balls, patient, that's

why some of us remain so excited about him and the future. He showed

his quality in a pressurised situation. He kept calm, very

assured. He's done that throughout the summer. He's a very good first

season. I think hopefully he'll go on and be a top-class player.

That's why there was a great reception for young Root. Excellent

21 points two, deducted for a slow overrate. Hope that won't hurt us

at the end of the season. The thoughts go to Lord's and the first

Test against India. Every time I step out at Lord's, there's a rush

of pride over yourself. It's a very, you get the continuingles down the

spine. It's a very nice feeling, specially when it's a packed house.

It will be a well supported Test series. There's nothing much better

in cricket, apart from the Ashes, but that's what every kid dreams of.

We're delighted you're back in the In golf, Worksop's Lee Westwood

struggled in the first round at the Open. Not so North Yorkshire's

Simon Dyson, who's two under and Sheffield's Danny Willett. He's

teed off in the opening group and went round in one under par.

Getting up at 4am is a bit of a shock to the system. Then you get a

bit of adren clin. The best part of my game was the putting today. You

can have some long puts, so it was key around here. Two Sheffield

football clubs have announced a sponsorship deal. Westfield Health

and Gilder Group will jointly sponsor Sheffield Wednesday and

Sheffield United. It's a bolt move for the two rival clubs. But

they're stressing that the collaboration will not go at all

beyond the sponsorship deal. I'm sure it won't!

Now Sheffield United footballer turned professional boxer, Curtis

Woodhouse, faces the biggest fight of his career on Saturday. He takes

on the former amateur world champion, Frankie Gavin. It's for

the intercontinental welter weight title. It's a contest that's turned

ugly well before the fight. In amongst the maze of punch bags

in this Sheffield gym, is a man preparing for the fight of his life.

One level below world title standard against an opponent who is

a fast rising star. But Curtis Woodhouse has a plan. I've trained

really hard for this fight. The plan is just to stick it on him

straight from the off. Throw plenty of punches, get in his face and

upset his rhythm and knock him out. There's no love loss between Curtis

and his opponent Frankie Gavin. can't beat me. I'm bringing bigger

punches than Curtis Woodhouse. He can only think of knocking me out.

He can't knock me out. There's nothing unusual in pre-fight verbal

blows. What's intensified this rivalry is a fight before the fight

about weight. They had agreed to go into the ring weighing no more than

ten stone four. When Gavin weighed in above that at ten stone seven,

the rules were changed. Curtis is particularly unhappy with his

promotor. I signed the contract, I said if I had rang Frank Warren up

saying is there any chance we can change the fight to ten stone seven,

do you think Frank would have given me the Leeway. I know what Frank

Warren would have told me - no chance. I'm waiting for him to ask

if I'll wear a blind fold for the fight. It's not going to affect the

result of the fight. Trainer Glynn Rhodes has been in professional

boxing for more than 30 years and thought he'd seen it all before.

What's the point in signing a contract at ten stone four if a

week before the fight you want it at ten stone seven. That means the

contract you signed it's not worth the paper it's wrote on. Curtis is

going into the fight already hurting. Whilst he's down, he's not

out. To beat the man you've got to beat man. In my division he's the

man. When I take him out on Saturday night, that makes me the

man. I'm trying to read his tattoos, he

has a book on his back. Good luck to him. I didn't look that closely

to be honest. He grew up on the streets of Leeds and the only

subjected that interested him at school was drawing. His dreams of

becoming an artist were seemingly dashed when he was rejected by

Leeds college of art and design. But Damien Hirst has become one of

the richest and most controversial artists in the world. Now his home

town is to honour him with the first dedicated exhibition of his

work. We got a sneak preview this

He's regarded as one of the most innuen shall artists of his

generation and has created some of the world's most famous images and

exhibits. From tomorrow Damien Hirst is coming thom Yorkshire.

-- home to Yorkshire. This is perhaps his most famous

works, the iconic Away from the Flock. For three months visitors

here will be able to enjoy some of the artist's most famous exhibits.

Nigel is the curator of the art gallery. How important is this?

It's a great opportunity. He's not shown in any depth here in the past.

His formative artistic life started here as a student, before he went

on to London. What's Hirst her trying to say with these exhibits?

He's trying to reveal certain ideas that have always fascinated him,

medicine, being the modern religion, in which people have perhaps a

mistaken total faith, the fact that it can cure all evils, and death is

another taboo subject he looks at. This is my favourite part of the

exhibition, this is a recreation of Damien Hirst's famous 1998

collaboration, a restaurant called Pharmacy. Pt He's always been very

interested in eating and dining. In this case he worked with three

others to develop a concept of a restaurant that would have that

minimalist, clinical aura of a pharmacy. Hirst likes to challenge

our ways of thinking, artist room certainly does that. The exhibition

runs until October. Different as ever! Indeed very

controversial. Talking of controversial, Mr Hudson, I've been

reading your blog and it's a shock. Yeah that is controversial.

predict rain from now until the end of July. How do you do that?

Certainly the second half of July looks, well the atmosphere is

getting locked into a ruck, so there's a lot of low pressure. If

you want to read more I'll give you the address. First this picture was

Last night we had a ground frost across the Yorkshire Dales which is

Let's enjoy what warmth we've got tomorrow. There will be some

sunshine around. It will tend to cloud over, but apart from one or

two showers, most places stay dry until the end of the day, before

low pressure sweeps in for the weekend. It is a pleasant end to

the day. That line of cloud continues to thicken. It could

bring one or two light showers across some parts of our region.

Very much the exception to the rule. Most places dry and by the end of

the night it's chilly but not as There should be some sunshine for

most of us tomorrow. The cloud comes and goes, could produce one

or two showers in the morning. But most places will be dry. Through

the afternoon, slowly cloud thickens from the west. Again a

chance of a shower. We'll have to wait until late in the afternoon,

probably tomorrow evening, before we get patchy rain spreading in

from the westerly point. A quick look at temperatures, warm, 22 in

Rotherham, that's 72 Fahrenheit. Similar values towards the East

Coast. For the weekend, showers, longer spells of rain, perhaps

longer spells of rain, perhaps heavy, especially at first on