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Welcome to Look North. The main news from Yorkshire tonight. The

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music teacher who killed his wife ch a jury hears how this man was

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leading a double life and killed his partner before hiding her body

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in a suitcase. On the programme, a big increase in the number of arson

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attacks. We reveal a doubling in the number of deliberate small

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fires in Yorkshire. # Many rivers to cross #

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And the man who brought regular groi millions entertains music fans

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in Yorkshire. It has been a fairy autumnal day today. This shot was

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taken across the Peak District, with some rain to come tonight. All

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Good evening. Welcome to Look North. A court has heard that a music

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teacher killed his partner in a prolonged attack in their home in

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Holmfirth in Yorkshire last December. Andrew Lindo claims he

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want frod tect his daughter from mistreatment by her mother, her

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body was put in a suitcase in the garage and wasn't discovered for

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two months. He denies murder but admits manslaughter. Our crime

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correspondent explains. 66 Percent ver rans Place where they were

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living with their two children for nearly a year. Mr Lindo, who is 29

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contends he was a faithful loving partner, enduring abuse over a

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number of years at the hands of his 30-year-old partner. But the

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prosecution at his trial in Bradford say the vocal tutor at a

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Barnsley music centre was a liar, living a double life at the time of

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Marie Stewarts killing. They allege on December 18th last year, she was

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murdered by Mr Lindo, her body dumped in a suitcase in the garage

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and he invited his lover Angela to spend the night in his house. In a

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police interview after his arrest, Mr Lindo was said to have portrayed

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himself as brow-beaten and isolated. Yet faithful to Marie Stewart,

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despite her alleged fiscal abuse of him and her emotional abuse of

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their children. He claims he and Miss Stuart hadn't been a couple

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for some time before her killing. He his life he said was a knight

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mare. He and the children got on better when she wasn't there. There

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wasn't this oppressive atmosphere in the house. He had been faithful

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until driven to infidelty. The prosecution say he is a liar, there

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had been no abuse by Miss Stuart and no loss of control by her

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partner. The trial is expected to last about two weeks. It is back

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the school this week for thousands of pupils across Yorkshire but many

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students will be going to a new type of school. A free school.

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There are 24 such schools opening this month in England and three of

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them are right here in Yorkshire. But not even is in favour of them.

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So what is a free school? Free schools are set up by groups of

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parent, teacher, charity, businesses and religious groups in

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England. Who is paying for them? Funding comes from central

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Government. 24 schools in England will receive �130 million between

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them. So, could people confuse free schools with academies? Yes, there

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are lots of similarity, like and r an Academy it controls its budget,

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curriculum hours and holidays but unlike an academy it is set up in

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response to community demand. We report from Batley and Bradford. A

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new be binning for ballotly grammar. Founded almost 400 years ago, today

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it became one of Yorkshire's first free schools. The Government says

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the idea will help meet parental demand in areas where educational

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achievement is low. The hope is that free schools will raise

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standards through more competition. Yes, to greater diversity. Yes, to

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more choice for parents. But no to running schools for profit. Not in

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hour state-funded education system. Here at the Rainbow school staff

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are preparing for new tefrplt a week today the classroom will be

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full. But what will a free school mean for pupils and parents? We are

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obviously going to be offering longer school day, we are opening

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from 8.30 till four in the afternoon. We are giving a greater

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concentration of time to the core subs, within that school day. We

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are also offering a Saturday morning school, that will happen

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once a month, which will give opportunities for much more

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challenging activities that will open the eyes of our young people.

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Rainbow will share the buildings with the Bradford science academy,

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also a free school, but critics fee free school funding by Government

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could drain money for maintenance grey other schools. There are fears

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it could undermine community cohesion Having lived in the

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district we have seen how communities have devolved and most

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of the inner city schools are Monday no ethnic at the moment.

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They have been like this for the last 20 years. The Local Authority

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and the powers that be do not seem to have done anything about this

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issue. At Batley grammar parents we spoke to this morning not

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surprisingly were enthusiastic about the free school concept.

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is good for the kids and the parents. Being able to send their

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kinds to a, you know, better higher standard school. This school

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because it is already running, and already, the structure is there, so

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I think it would be successful. will see how things change.

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Hopefully, I don't think it is going to change too much, but we

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will wait and see. These youngsters may have got their first lessons

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out of the way, but for those behind the free school concept, the

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learning curve is just beginning. Joining us from Westminster is

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David Ward the Liberal Democrat Democrat for Bradford east. You

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should be championling these schools shouldn't you? I champion

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all schools as best I can. I do that particularly within the

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maintained sector by telling people what good work is being done there.

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Not in effect rubbishing them by saying we need something else,

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because they are fail, which is really what the story is behind

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this proposal. The idea of course and the background to the coalition

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government's education policy is surely to encourage schools and

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areas of social deprivation and to offer parents a real alternative to

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mainstream schools. Now those boxes are surely ticked by these schools.

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What is it that these schools are going to do? That other schools

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cannot? Why cannot these proposers get really heavily involved in

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supporting some of the other schools? Some of the classroom

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numbers will be small as well. That has to be a good thing. We know

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that Bradford has had prop problems? OK, let us look at that

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as an issue. If this is going to be a school with smaller class size,

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who will afor that. These will be effectively private schools which

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will be publicly funded. That has to come from somewhere and it has

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to come from other schools. accept that, you saying there might

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be inferior or will they be better school that, the parents can say at

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least we have had a choice and we are choosing to go there is this.

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You just brushed aside the fact that they are expensive. We are,

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within the coalition government, we are telling people, quite rightly

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we are in the middle of a economic crisis. We are also saying to

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school, because of that there is a limit to the fund that we can biv

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to our maintained schools. On the same time, we are turning round,

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and lo and behold finding �130 million to promote what is really

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Michael Gove's pet project. So fact they are going to drive up

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standards is something that Bradford needs, it is something

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they have been lagging behind for so long. Where is the evidence?

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Where is the evidence they will drive up standards? Look, the

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secret to a good effective school is not so hard the find. Quality

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head teacher, quality teaching, quality management, teaching and

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learning taking place, that can happen in any school in any

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structure, what is the fear? What is it about these schools that will

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make them so special? Other than a lot of more additional funding. If

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we gave ta tho other schools they could perform equally. Thank you

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very much for joining us. Coming up. We are meant to be a nation of

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animal lover, so why has the number of abandoned dos in Yorkshire hit

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an 11 year high? And another accolade. We speak to the doctor

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who has -- boxer who has added the bantamweight title to his other

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belts. School holidays may be ore for many but figures show there is

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a worrying number of ar sop attacks in the summer. The Fire Service say

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the number has doubled here, Dan Johnson is in Sheffield this

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evening. What is behind this? this is the kind of place that the

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Fire Service have been back to time and Genk over the summer. It's a

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derelict club and there is loads of rubbish dumped round here. It is

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the kind of place for some who like to start fires there is too much

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temptation. So across South Yorkshire there has been a big

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increase in maul fires that don't involve risk to life. I have been

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out with a fire crew in Sheffield, seeing how they deal with this

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problem. It is Saturday night, and green watch at elm lane fire

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station are called into action. They deal with a lot of small fires,

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started deliberately and they have had a busy time over the summer

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holidays. It is half past nine and this the first call out. A car on

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fire, in a residential street, one of the Sheffield estates. This is

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typical of the sort of fire they have been dealing with all summer.

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Some places get repeatedly targeted. This derelict working mens' club is

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a hotspot for kids setting fires. Steve's an arson reduction officer.

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He is trying to put a stop the problem. At least once a week and

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some time, consecutive nights we are coming down here, it stops us,

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dealing with really -- real emergencies where people's lives

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are at risk. It is piles of rubbish set alight. Matches thrown on the

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dry grass. When you look at the fig yours can see just how busy they

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have been. In July and August last yore, there were 653 deliberate

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secondary fires. For the same period this year, that has doubled

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to more than 1300. That means they are dealing with 20 fires every day.

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At the moment we have a dry spell, we see an increase in number of

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small anti-social behaviour fires. Rubbish fire, grass fire, that type

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of incident. They stop us attending life-threatening or property

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threatening incidents. So Steve is also out regularly talking to young

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people. Trying to divert them away from starting fires. Do you know

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anything about fires that are set here? Activities are available to

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keep them off the streets. Football, or computer games. We ask them

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questions. Get them on our side. Make them aware of the problems we

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have with little fires that we have. The anti-social behaviour fires.

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the meantime, the crew have put out the car fire. But it probably won't

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be long before they are called out again. Well even since we filmed

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here on Friday there have been two more fires over the weekend. The

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Fire Service back here Saturday and Sunday. Now they are blaming this

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increase on the long dry spell that we have had this summer. They are

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warning that the time they spend dealing with the small nuisance

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fires could mean delays to them getting to more important possibly

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Investigations are continuing in York after a man was hit and killed

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by taxi. They'd happened on Museum Street in the city centre. The man

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and a woman he was with were trapped under the car. Police have

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arrested a third person on suspicion of murdering a man in

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Leeds. Jason Hall died of head injuries in Temple Newsam after

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what police said was a sustained assault. Police are still appealing

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for witnesses. An MP has called for an urgent meeting with the health

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secretary after -- about the future of the children's heart unit in

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Leeds. Campaigners have fought for months to says the unit. Rachel

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Reeves once the meeting with Andrew Lansley. I think that we need to

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sit down with Andrew Lansley and make it clear to him the strength

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of local opinion, because every time I am talking to patients and

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give families in Leeds, I am more and more certain that it should be

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kept open for children and families in our region. The number of stray

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and abandoned yacht -- dogs in Yorkshire are at its highest for

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more than a decade according to a report by the Dogs Trust. More than

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500 were put down because no homes to be found for them. We have been

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to a dog charity. This is just one section of the kennels. These are

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the lucky ones. They have been re- homed. 580 dogs in West Yorkshire

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were not that Lucker -- lucky. With me is the director of the Dogs

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Trust. We are constantly full. Another dog always comes in to take

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his place. The straight kennels bring us constantly for help.

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thing there has been a big increase this year? The economy takes a part

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in it. People do not have as much money, they work longer hours, and

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they have not told about the commitment involved, and some

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people view them as it stick -- disposable I can its -- disposable

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items. These people will be taking this dog home. I saw it advertised

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on the TV, and I wanted to take a dog home from here that needs a

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home. Everyone seemed to take puppies, but I'll doctors need

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homes as well. -- old dog's Mead home. They are so many beautiful

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dogs. These guys take their dock home on Saturday. But there are

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more docks here. A lot of dogs have been fitted with microchips, which

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reduce their chances of becoming stray dogs in future. You can make

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an appointment to get your dog micro chip it for free. -- your dog

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fitted with a microchip. Join us later in the programme as we meet a

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reggae legend. I don't know what you got a glimpse of this at the

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weekend, but what a win for Doncaster's Jamie McDonald. He won

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the World Bantam while -- bantamweight title. He won on a

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unanimous points decision. He came into the studio earlier with his

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belt. It was a really tough night. As you can see, I have the marks to

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prove it! You got worst buys than I have! A how tough was it? Did you

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always have confidence to win that fight? I was 100 % confident. I

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knew if I had got caught, he could have knocked me out, and others

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worried about that, but we had our gain clan -- game-plan. I am the

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European champions. I thought he would start fading a bit sooner

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than when he did. It was a really tough fight. What do you do now

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after this 10th week intensive training camp? A holiday? Yes. I

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have my holiday booked! I have Doncaster or races but, and then I

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am going on holiday with my girlfriend in Turkey. I am thinking

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that I will fight again next summer. I think there will be two more

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European defences. Then there will maybe be a fight for an eliminator.

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Are you back at work tomorrow? I bought a new tools today!

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tough is it? How much do you have to wait? 10 stone �6. How tough

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visit to go down to that weight? is my life. Do you balloon like

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Ricky Hatton used to? I put a few extra pounds on for the last fight,

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but I put the hard work in, so it I did well. He gave all weight -- he

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will put on a stone and a half on his holiday. Congratulations to

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Featherstone who won the Championship for the third season

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Championship for the third season in a row. Huddersfield beat

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Harlequins 50-16. You can see all Superbike race. It was a

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bittersweet victory, as he learned bittersweet victory, as he learned

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he would be losing his right for next season. In football, it was a

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quieter weekend than usual, as our Championship sides today rest for

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the international break. Sheffield performance from Sheffield United.

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Their first goal was scrappy. Chris Porter with the telling touch. This

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last. How about this for a scissor Controversy as Leyton Orient's

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defender holds onto the Chesterfield player. No penalty,

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and the challenge broke Jack Rotherham are still top join the on

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Rotherham are still top join the on points. Leeds is about to play host

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Jimmy Cliff is performing in Leeds. He has not been in Yorkshire for a

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long time. He is very welcome. privileged to meet him. He has not

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been back to Yorkshire for a long time. It is a pleasure to be here.

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Not quite the Caribbean weather that you are used to. I still love

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it. What is it that you laugh about the British audience? I think the

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British audience were my first international acceptance, and so

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they gave me the push off. They have always been very receptive and

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enthusiastic about my music. Over the years, you brought reggae music

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to the rest of the world, and a lot of them have had really positive

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messages. How do you think they are still being interpreted today?

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think that is one of the things that has kept my music going,

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because it has had a positive message. Today, the way the world

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is today, especially with the economic situation and all of that,

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people need some sort of positive message to appreciate your own life,

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and want to go on and enrich your life. I think my music at least

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supplies some of that. You played at Glastonbury recently, and that

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was a very different audience in terms of age levels. It is so wide

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audience, a very eclectic audience, and a huge audience! That was great.

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You have done all sorts, from acting, to being a super start in

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the music industry. I've not done Broadway! We would love to see

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that! My first love was acting. I have not pursued by acting career.

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I did three movies. I have a lot more songster right, lots more

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touring to do, working to become a stadium act, and not to be done.

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You are going to be performing tomorrow at the Academy in Leeds.

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Give us a tune! I know they will be expecting... # Wonderful world,

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Lovely! My first love was singing. Maybe you could sing as out tonight.

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No time for pictures tonight, but an autumnal flavour in the air. It

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will be windy and very unsettled. will be windy and very unsettled.

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One Merck in this chart -- one look at this chart will tell you what is

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coming. We will have quite a bit of brain. You can see the cloud

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hurtling in from the Atlantic. There is a little bit of brightness

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around across eastern areas right now. One or two showers showing up

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on the radar picture. There will be rain in the Pennines this evening

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if there is not any them now. Later tonight, there will be some

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persistent local heavy rain on the hills. Some moderate bursts further

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east. A real autumnal flavour. Temperatures down to 11 Celsius.

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The sun will rise at 6:24am. Allow extra time with rain to get to work.

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By mid-to-late morning, it will have cleared the coast. Most of the

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showers will be in the West. Further east, it is not looking too

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bad. A fair amount of dry weather. One or two showers. The main

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feature of the weather will be strong gusts. Top temperatures in

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Scarborough of around 18 Celsius, but across the Pennines, 15 or 16

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will probably be the best we can hope for. A number of shells in the

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afternoon. That fairly chilly blast from the West. Another up windy day

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