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later on the programme. Good evening and welcome to Look | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
North. Figures obtained by the BBC revealed that almost 1,000 people | :00:06. | :00:12. | |
in Yorkshire have managed to escape a driving ban despite having 12 or | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
more panty points on their licence. According to the DVLA, some drivers | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
in our region are still on the roads with as many as 28 points. It | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
is because of the leniency of the courts. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
If you have been snapped by a speed camera or caught using your mobile | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
at the wheel, you have probably got penalty points on your licence. The | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
law says that drivers who get to 12 should face a ban but we have | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
discovered that is not always happen in. In Yorkshire, 964 | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
drivers are on the road with 12 or more points. These figures have | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
come from the DVLA's database and they are broken down into postcode | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
areas. Here is something you might find surprising. Some of the areas | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
where drivers have more than 20 points on their licences. We have | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
discovered two drivers who are still on the road with 25 penalty | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
points. As you can see from these postcodes, they live in Bradford | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
and Wakefield. Finally, the driver with the highest number of penalty | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
points on their licence in Yorkshire and lives here, in the | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Chapeltown area of Leeds. How are some people getting away | :01:33. | :01:40. | |
with it? This solicitor has become famous for defending celebrity | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
drivers in court. Once you get to 12 points, the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
court have to disqualify you for a minimum of six months. The | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
exception is if the defendant can prove exceptional hard fit -- | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
hardship. There are extreme circumstances where people argue | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
several exceptional hardships. The norm would be two. | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
Bradford is one area where hundreds of drivers have successfully argued | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
hardship in courts. I have a friend with 24 points, all | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
for speeding offences, but he runs an antique firm where he employs | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
eight people who rely on him being able to drive, so every time he | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
goes to court he gets away with it. If I had more than 11 or 12 I would | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
go to court and do the same. It is shocking and completely | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
unacceptable that there are drivers with up to 28 points on their | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
licence in Leeds. At 12 you should have a ban and these drivers are | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
repeatedly breaking the law. Now the Magistrates' Association | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
has agreed that some of these cases need further investigation. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Thank you. I am joined now by Chris Hunt Cooke, the chair of the | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Magistrates' Association Road Traffic Committee. An awful lot of | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
drivers with more than 12 points still on the roads. Doesn't it make | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
a mockery of the system? I don't think it does necessarily. What I | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
am surprised about is the number with 20 or 28 points. That really | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
should not happen. But the system is that once you get 12 points you | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
have to go to court. If you can convince the court that | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
disqualifying you would cause exceptional hardship to you or to | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
other people, the court may decide not to disqualify you. But you | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
can't use that same argument more than once every three years. Why | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
people are getting up to 20 points, I think, is not anything to do with | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
exceptional hardship or leniency by the courts, it indicates something | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
has gone wrong in the system. have heard from somebody who has 28 | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
points on their licence. That is incredible, isn't it? It is. It is | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
an indication that something has gone wrong. Getting to 12 points, | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
it gives you another chance but it does not give you a Get Out Of jail | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Free card if you go on doing that. Isn't the Road Traffic Committee | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
there to make sure that persistent bad drivers are not on our roads? | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
We have to obey the law. People can argue that they have exceptional | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
hardship, but they can't use that argument more than once in every | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
three years, so they should not be getting up to that number of points. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
I suspect that what is happening is that something has gone wrong in | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
the system and they are not been correctly identified to the court. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
If the court does not have the information available at the time | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the person appears, they are not going to be able to dispose of them | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
appropriately. As ever, we want to know what you | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
think. Should drivers be allowed on the road with more than 12 points? | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
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You can leave for comment on our Police are warning parents to make | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
sure that tablets are securely locked away after a two-year-old | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
boy in Yorkshire died when he swallowed his mother's anti- | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
depressants. Today Sophie George was spared a prison term after | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
admitting child neglect. The judge said it was something all parents | :05:36. | :05:46. | |
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dread. This is the child who found some | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
tablets in Leeds. And they were not locked away and he swallowed four | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
or five. They belonged to his mother, Sophie George. The court | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
heard she was taking an anti- depressant which helps adults sleep | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
but in children causes fits. Sophie George found the boy having a fit, | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
called an ambulance but he died in St James's Hospital. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
I would advise parents that if they are aware of their medication but | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
it is locked away or certainly out of a child's reach. That goes for | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
household things as well. Clearly the medication was accessible by | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
the child and the consequences were that the child took the medication | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
and subsequently died. The court heard evidence that so be | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
George's other child also played with the tabloids but did not | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
swallow them. The judge said that she had showed reckless | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
indifference by not putting the tabloids out of harm's way. The | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
maximum sentence for child neglect is 10 years in prison but he | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
sentenced her to a two-year community order, saying she had had | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
a difficult background as an asylum seeker and, although this may seem | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
lenient to some, she deserves a great deal of sympathy. What | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
happened to the boy, the judge said, was something that all parents | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
dread. What happened remains subject to a serious review. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
Later in the programme, Yorkshire's Olympic dreams - we will introduce | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
you to one of our leading hopes for London 2012. | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
First, Annan is in a critical condition in hospital tonight after | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
being found floating unconscious in the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. -- a man. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
The man was in his Fifties and had been cycling. The police have | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
sealed off a large part of the total of -- towpath in Leeds. What | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
do we know? I am alongside the Leeds-Liverpool | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Canal. Whatever happened was further along towards the Abbey. | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
This is a busy towpath. Thousands of people are going to and for a, | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
joggers and cyclists. Police hope that somebody saw exactly what | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
happened because at the moment they do not know whether they are | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
working on an accident or this man been the victim of an assault. They | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
have established that he was in the water, found unconscious floating | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
at 7 o'clock on Saturday evening. They say he was cycling along the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
towpath but his bicycle is now missing. I have had the underwater | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
search team end but have not been able to find it. I have just bumped | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
into one eyewitness who said it was quite a distressing scene when they | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
saw the man being pulled out of the water. He was taken to Leeds | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
General Infirmary, where he was -- where he is in a critical condition. | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
The police are seeking to reassure members of the community to use | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
this towpath. The man was 51, tall, 6 ft 2, with a bright red T-shirt | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
and a stocky build. If you saw him on Saturday evening you should get | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
in touch with police. More than 100 staff at TJ Hughes in | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Sheffield say they are looking forward to a more certain future | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
after pot of the chain has been bought out. The company went into | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
administration in June but some stores have now been sold to | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Lewis's Home Retail. A buyer has yet to be found for other stores, | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
including the Doncaster branch. A demonstration was held outside | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield today. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Protesters are angry about the closure of the last elderly care | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
ward. They fear that people will not get the treatment they need. | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust is also considering closing a | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
similar award at the Northern General, saying it will allow more | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
money to be invested into care in the community. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
Two people have been taken to hospital after being chased through | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
the streets of Leeds by a gang, one armed by -- with a machete. It | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
happened between Chapeltown Road and Leopold Street. The couple are | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
believed to be from York. Police are appealing for witnesses. | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
Mahfouz Ahmed has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for smuggling | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
heroin. The former council worker who was given money to combat drug | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
abuse in Halifax has pleaded guilty to smuggling more than �1.3 million | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
worth of the drug. A suitcase containing 50 blocks of heroin was | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
dropped by an accomplice in Halifax. People in Hebden Bridge have had | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
bad headlines about drug and alcohol abuse but now Labour | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
revamped skating facility is turning their lives around. | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
This turnout is not just for the cameras. Around 150 people use the | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
bank's here every day. But it has not always been a hub of healthy | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
activity. There have been tales of drug and alcohol abuse and the | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
meeting point was the old skate park. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
People were coming down and getting wrecked. There were more people | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
drinking than skating. People did not want to come and skate for that | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
reason. It did not look very good. Skaters and volunteers took their | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
case to the council. Improve the skate park, improve the area. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
This was a positive piece of work by young people. Young people worry | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
about anti-social behaviour, drinking, all sorts of things, and | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
I hope that this will contribute to showing that kids are good! | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
Good at working money as well. They helped secure more than �180,000 of | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
funding people have something to do now instead of just taking drugs | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
and drinking. It has definitely helped. Getting | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
everybody together has raised the money. Everybody was working | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
together and they saw that there was more to do. | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
It is good to meet everybody. Everybody comes and chills out. | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
There of people who skated and then started to drink but they have come | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
back to skating. Until recently the park could only | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
hold eight to 10 skaters and bikers but now it can hold up to 80. It is | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
hoped that more people spend their time experimenting here will mean | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
less spending their time on the Now, over the next 12 months we'll | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
be following some of Yorkshire's finest sportspeople as they try to | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
achieve their Olympic dreams. Sarah Stevenson from Bentley near | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Doncaster is hoping to pick up Gold in Taekwondo. Neil Smallburn went | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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to meet her and asked how she was A I think it will be the same as | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
every other year preparing for a big competition like a European or | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
world. We will not do anything different. We will get better each | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
time we compete anyway. If we look at it like that, but winning is | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
better than anything else. That is the biggest difference. She is a | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
fighter. Both her parents were diagnosed with cancer and since the | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
interview was recorded, her father passed away. It has changed me a | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
lot. The way you focus, sometimes you get less patient. It is | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
difficult to try to remember other people are not going through what | :13:44. | :13:53. | |
you're going through. What will you do this year? Just keep going to | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
whatever competition with the same mentality and focus. And hopefully | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
that will be enough for golden 2012. She is a lovely lady. You can | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
follow it the fortunes of our athletes on the radio. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
Stay with us, what will life be like in Wakefield without John | :14:18. | :14:28. | |
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Kear? The best of the rugby action. And on Yorkshire Day we bring you a | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
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little of the symphony for Quite right to have a fanfare, What | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
could be more appropriate on Yorkshire Day than a lad born in | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Pontefract, who went to Castleford High School and today played the | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
match of his life? We're talking of course about Yorkshire cricketer | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
Tim Bresnan who was instrumental in England's victory against India. | :14:55. | :15:05. | |
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Tim was brilliant, astonishing, so confident, a far cry from the young | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
man called up five years ago for his first Test. It didn't sink in | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
it for a couple of hours. I sat there thinking, I wonder what it | :15:20. | :15:27. | |
will be like, that is when you get the butterflies and nerves. And he | :15:27. | :15:34. | |
was all right today on his way to 90 glorious runs. Then, he was | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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sensational, his first wickets nicely caught. The next ball, plum | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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lbw. Enjoy it. And his 5th wicket, a higher Bijan to seal a remarkable | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
personal performance and England are the best Test team in the world. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
Stuart Broad and Tim Bresnan leave the arena with a wicket each as a | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
souvenir. Just fantastic. Well done to him and the England team. Let's | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
stay with sport and an eventful day in Super League yesterday with a | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
return to form for Huddersfield Giants but disappointment for | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
Castleford Tigers. Harry starts his round up though in Wakefield where | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
their day of celebrations on maintaining their super league | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
status didn't quite turn out the way it should have done. Not helped | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
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by the announcement that coach John John Kear, a few days ago, happy | :16:38. | :16:44. | |
with the future. As were his team, a chance to celebrate Super League | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
status. Yesterday's a lamentable display made a mockery of weak | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
fields survival. It sent a message the loss of John Kear as their | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
coach was a hard one to bear. Look at this try it from the Crusaders, | :16:59. | :17:07. | |
nothing to play for, a beauty. John James started with this drive. And | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
this was the most appropriate of them all, scored by Elliott Becchio. | :17:14. | :17:24. | |
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An unlikely win for the team. The Castleford were well behind St | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
Helens but fought back with passion. Dixon scoring. The high kick set it | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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Saints seal their victory with this try, Wilkins kick, Gaskell getting | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
a touch down. Both sides in the semi-finals next weekend. This was | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
much better from Huddersfield Giants. A couple of tries to savour. | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
Robinson's kick caused mayhem. A nice bit of juggling. But this is | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
my favourite. A powerhouse display. More like the giants we know. He | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
scores in the corner. It It is of course the 1st of August and that | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
means one thing - Yorkshire Day. Up and down the county people have | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
been celebrating. But in the shadow of Ilkley Moor a little bit of | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
history has been made. Tony Parker reports on a local delicacy that's | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
set to create a bit of a bang in Yorkshire and hopefully further | :18:36. | :18:45. | |
afield. It is about good products and locality, getting Yorkshire on | :18:45. | :18:55. | |
the map. With no further ado, all I have to do is open his up... | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
sizzling start to mark Yorkshire Day, the county gets its own | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
sausage. Revealed by someone who knows a thing or two about good | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
food. Cumberland Katharine sausage, Lincolnshire do and it is about | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
time Yorkshire has its own sausage. Where the largest county in the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
country. So, it's about time we had our own. | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
The winner was chosen by the public following a county-wide selection | :19:21. | :19:28. | |
campaign by an Ilkley Butcher and tourism agency. Yorkshire people | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
are conservative in their taste, they don't want anything too weird | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
or wacky. It is a good sausage of herb and spice. A nice all round | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
sausage. More than 3,000 people voted with a few friendly critics | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
on standby. It will go with Yorkshire pudding with gravy. It | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
will. I don't think it will topple Yorkshire pudding. But his | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
worldwide. There is an old saying in Yorkshire, if nobody does knout, | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
nothing ever happens. It is not happening here. The Yorkshire pork | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
sausage with its own blend of spices will soon be available in | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
one supermarket chain, the recipe is also available for others to | :20:18. | :20:25. | |
follow. But the proof, as they say, is in the eating. Quite spicy. A | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
bit of a pick. It has a little spice to it. People will love that. | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
Fantastic. The people have chosen, that is what is nice. | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
Where is our sausage? I have no idea, you have probably | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
eaten it. The hay fever has been bad. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
I am losing my voice. You will be thrilled with that. | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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The pollen count is high. Let's An iconic picture for Yorkshire Day. | :21:02. | :21:11. | |
The second, a beautiful one. Not to ignore our friends in Derbyshire. | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
The reservoir. I have covered everyone and everything. Keep your | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
pictures coming in. You can also tweet. It is overcast, temperatures | :21:24. | :21:34. | |
have been impressive despite cloud. 26 degrees at Robin Hood. 24 down | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
the Vale of York. There is a lot of cloud but it is warm and humid. | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
More brightness, the risk of one or two thundery showers. This cold | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
front trying to get in it from the West. So, you can see how much | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
cloud the Rhys. It is clearing from the south so with any luck the | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
North Midlands may brighten up. There are a few showers around, and | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
they will fizzle and then dry tonight before clouds thickens in | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
the West bringing patchy rain, prolonged rain to the top of the | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
Pennines but further east it is dry and uncomfortable for sleeping. | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
Lows of 16 Celsius. So, the sun rises in the morning: the high | :22:21. | :22:30. | |
water times: quite a bit of cloud first thing, a bright start in the | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
east, the weak weatherfront pushing eastwards breaking up, sunshine | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
coming through, it may be that we create a few sharp showers as we | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
head though the day, the rumble of thunder. Quite hit and miss. We | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
will see more sunshine than we have this afternoon. The top | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
temperatures, similar to today. 25, possibly 26. The coast not doing | :22:58. | :23:06. | |
too bad, a South easterly breeze. The hottest day will be Wednesday, | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
a high risk of catching a thunderstorm, back graphic is | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
impressive. Much cool and fresher on Thursday and into the weekend. | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
Again the or wife could hardly speak to date so you have had a | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
good day. Fantastic, peace and quiet! | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Nearly a 1000 motorists and -- had 12 points on their licence but are | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
still on the roads. Judith said 28 points, the driving is so bad they | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
should not be on the roads at all. Hardship, my foot. Charlotte said | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
her father said does it suit government have large fines rather | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
than banning people and any Melk says all drivers should resit their | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
Test if they get more than six points. It is a nonsense. Now it is | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Yorkshire Day and the perfect way to end a perfect day is to have | :24:03. | :24:06. |