06/09/2011 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to Look North. On tonight's programme:

lucky to be alive - the woman plucked to safety after falling off

a ferry off the Scarborough coast after 30 minutes in the freezing

North Sea. Also on tonight's programme:

Trousers only for schoolgirls - pupils are told skirts are banned

as hemlines rise. Girls should then be flaunting

themselves at a young age. They shouldn't ban them but they should

be a limit on the height. And after years of wrangling

Harrogate looks set to become the final postcode in mainland Britain

to get a Tesco superstore. It has been a very windy day. Gales

A 23-year-old woman is safe and well despite falling from a ferry

into the North cease -- north-east off the coast of Scarborough.

She was lucky to survive 30 minutes. She was eventually rescued by a

lifeboat. It is cold and very windy here in

Scarborough but just imagine what it would have been like for this

woman at stranded 20 miles of this coast. We don't know how she fell

into the sea and we don't know her name. What we do know is she is

very lucky to be alive. It was dark, cold and she was alone in the water

for over 20 minutes. An RAF Sea King moves in. The helicopter's

night camera shows crew members on board and friends. They guided a

lifeboat to rescue the woman. The rescuer is winched down onto the

deck. Cold and wet, she is laid out on to the floor. You can make out

her face at the bottom of the stretcher. Once the rescue team

talk to her, she is then slowly lifted away from the ferry. They

must have had some slick drills to get her out of the water. You can't

underestimate how difficult it is to find a small head bobbing around

in a Black Sea. They did extremely well to get out. Minutes after she

fell off the ferry, the captain turned back and launched a rescue

boat. Coastguards say it was this quick thinking that saved her life.

She has been extremely lucky, particularly the time of day.

woman was taken to Scarborough Hospital as a per Paul Cooke -- as

a precaution. Despite swimming the North Sea, she has been allowed

home to recover. We understand his foreman left Scarborough Hospital

at 4am this morning. We think she is back home in Hertfordshire. What

is amazing is after nearly half-an- hour at sea, she is only suffering

from the effects of cold and taking in too much salt -- sea water.

A school in Leeds has become the latest to them girls wearing skirts.

The head of Guiseley School, Paul Morrissey, says it is to stop

pupils raising their hands and turning them into mini-skirts.

The controversial move comes after a year in Harrogate introduced the

same banner. A new term, new books and at

Guiseley School, a new uniform, one that forces girls to wear trousers

rather than scares. 15-year-olds Han that... Are having to wear

trousers. We look the same as boys. When boys have their underpants on

display, it hasn't been mentioned as much. Last term, at the school

allowed skirts that were knee- length but girls have been breaking

the rules. Governors and teachers felt students were being influenced

by popular culture and wrote to parents saying a ban would be

introduced. We want to introduce the conflict between pupils and

staff by taking away the skirts. We can focus on teaching and learning.

We feel skirts encourage the second -- centralisation of children. We

want to stick with trousers. ban will not be enforced until

January but 11 year olds that started this morning are already in

trousers. In the town centre, they support. If they can't keep them at

that length, they should have trousers on. They shouldn't be

flaunting themselves at a young age. She is only seven and she pulls her

skirt up. She is not allowed to do that, there is rules and you should

stick to them. Ham and Laura say they will stick to the rules.

Trousers will be warned it reluctantly. I think it is the

wrong focus for the school. They could be focusing on many other

things like motivating people and getting them engaged in ways that

are not to do with the uniform. School staff will be hoping

students won't find a way of flouting the new trousers only rule.

Joining as his Dennis Richards, the head teacher at St changes -- St

Paignton Zoo Church of England School in Harrogate. He introduced

this ban last year. -- St Aidan's school. It was a routine a staff

meeting but we talked about and forcing the school uniform policy.

We were getting to the stage where were weary and to a certain extent,

we were trying to enforce the and forcible. He was a fairly routine

meeting. In these delicate times, the worst accusation that could be

and posed against you at the time and others is that this is sexist.

What helps to s was that we were able to castigate the boys. Your

viewers will be aware that while the focus is very much on girls'

uniform, boys' uniform, what boys are doing with their trousers is

the opposite to what girls are doing to their skirt. You are

telling but girls of but not the boys. What we are doing is we have

a sophisticated clientele in Harrogate and we have to come up

with something that is rational. Not only was it both applicable to

boys and girls come the fact that we wear and forcing a uniform

policy, this second thing was it was age related. The choice of

wearing a skirt or trousers is still open to older girls. I didn't

come on 12 months ago precisely for that reason. Way we felt that in

the end we won the day, is really because in the end we saw it as age

related. Year 11 girls have the privilege of choice. They are of an

age to make a decision and are given the right and we accept the

responsibility that goes with it. Do you feel you have one? It is not

a question of winning. We have saved the staff from intervening

three, four, five times a day. You will never win over school uniform.

In terms of reducing the stress on staff, I wouldn't like to say we

have one. The thing that worried us most was that engaging with girls

and boys over uniform can be destructive of relationships. If

they can't see a rationale behind this... We will have to stop you

there. I hope it is my last word.

No chance! Coming up, we will have expert advice for you about the

latest stage in the digital switchover.

All to play for-Yorkshire cricketers face relegation from

Division One. It is set to lose its status of

being the only postcode in mainland Britain without a Tesco superstore.

The retail giant argued it should be allowed to develop a store in

Harrogate. Others say it is well served with

the superstores as it has a Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose

and ASDA. Now a Tesco is due to be built to the north-west of the town

Good evening. It has taken Tesco five years to get approval. It took

councillors two hours to reach their decision to approve the

development to the north of Harrogate. Rather stormy in the

meeting, one member of the public had to be taken from the meeting.

The main objectors are centred around congestion in the town. It

is already very congested. Also concerns about the Tesco are being

built on the site of a former gasworks. This was the reaction of

one of the objectors. It is disappointing but not surprising.

But councillors have understandably voted for their own local

constituents interest. We asked them to take the view of a wider

community. We expressed the concern, the impact on our beautiful town

centre shopping environment, the impact on our traffic and transport

and most important of all, the risk of some disaster on the objectors.

That was the reaction. Let's see what this means for Harrogate and

for Tesco. Mark McGhee is with me, the leader of Tesco and the leader

of the council. You look like a relieved man. We are pleased that

the decision. It reflects the popularity of this scheme. A

supermarket is needed in that area of their time and we have created

300 new jobs. There was our objection to your plants. Some are

not happy and say the having of supermarkets. All our consultations

have shown that people support this application. Over 70 % of people

were in favour. What I have found his they want accessible

supermarket shopping in their area. Don, this is going to change the

face of Harrogate. One Councillor said this was the toughest decision

they have ever had to make. It was a tough decision. I don't think it

will change Harrogate. It gives us a supermarket on the north side and

gives us the facilities to shock. His six people going into the

centre of town or the south. More congestion? We spent a lot of time

looking at the Highways report. It will be a trade-off. They will be

people going to the Tesco store but there will be people who no longer

have to travel into the centre or the south to do their supermarket

shopping. If there were concerns about the gas works being there. If

something were to go wrong, what responsibility we take? We will all

take responsibility but it goes to the health unsafety executives who

are experienced in these matters. It is for them to decide if it will

go ahead or whether to refer it to the Secretary of State. This is a

commercial decision, this is for the benefit of Tesco not Harrogate.

I don't think be to our exclusive. They see that derelict sites that

we can clean up. We can provide a great store with strong

environmental features and provide 300 jobs. This isn't just about

getting that postcode. You are competitive for her. You really did

want that superstore in that post code. It has never been an issue

for us. If you speak to the people in Harrogate, they don't care about

that issue either, they just want supermarket shopping. We have spent

years on this application and we have got it absolutely right.

People are pleased we are going ahead. Thanks very much. The

Secretary of State has got to approve this. If it goes ahead, the

A Bradford man who passed himself off as having magical powers has

been jailed for nine and a half years for the rape of a 13-year-old

girl in his home. Syed Bukhari carried out the attack in an unlit

room made to look like a prayer room. A judge called the rape

appalling and wicked. It has emerged that the South

Yorkshire Police will lose its four-pack the copped it. The

government is creating a company macro. Lose its force helicopter.

Tonight is an historic night for television... Surrey, BT the retail

consultant Mary Portas has been meeting shopkeepers in Rotherham as

part of a vague review into British high streets. They want to

encourage retailers to offer something different from out of

town shopping centres. I see a great energy that says that we are

going to we do this. I have seen some excellent retell practice. I

am actually saying that there is up I believe a future for a real

personal service, going back to some of the service traditions that

we had possibly in the Fifties and Sixties.

Now it is a historic for television hearing Yorkshire tonight. 4

million of us get our television from the Emley Moor transmitter but

overnight its BBC Two signal will be switched off.

From tomorrow, we will need to be watching digital television. If you

have a digital TV, you will have to retune your set-top box to keep

watching the tunnels you currently have.

Digital UK, the company who is managing this, is with me now. This

is complicated even for us involved intelligent. If you have an old-

fashioned analogue TV which relies on an aerial, explain, what

happens? The first thing to say is that they are not many of them left.

We have done some tracking which shows that over 90% of people have

got the equipment and are ready to go. There are still some people

watching Anelog, but largely, not because they haven't got the

equipment, but because their local transmitter has not converted and

that is what is happening overnight. To tune in York equipment, or

retune it, to get the new services in the morning. It you have eight

per Freeview or BT Vision, what happens tomorrow? Overnight, the

services go off and all the new high-powered digital services for

BBC start up. Everybody should be able to receive those. You need to

tune in ought retune once the service starts up again. Emley Moor

should be back up and running by 6am. The local relays may take a

little bit longer. If you do not get services straight away, try a

bit later. If you have not got anything by teatime, tell us.

what on satellite, stage by stage, what happens? If you have free sack

or Sky or a cable viewer, you do not need to do anything -- free

sacked. But some people have other televisions in the house and they

will need to be retuned. What time does this all come into being

tomorrow? As I say, Emley Moor should be back on by 6am. There

will be trouble for me if it is not! Later on, be very as relays,

there are 50 of them across the region, if you are watching from a

local relay and currently can only get analogue, it may take a bit

longer because the engineers have to go out and sort them manually.

Thank you very much. If you are confused, there is help at hand,

either from Digital UK or if you are over 75, registered blind or

partially sighted, all of entitled to certain disability benefits,

You can also see someone in person at a help., there are many around

the regions. Coming up, putting the final touches to St Leger Festival

Football now and in the League One, Sheffield Wednesday had a good hot

1-1 draw at Charlton last night. The Owls made a poor start falling

behind to a Bradley Wright- Phillips's shot at it just three

minutes. But substitute Clinton Morrison levelled the scores 10

minutes after the break with a close-range header from a corner.

Tomorrow is the first day of the St Leger Festival at Doncaster

racecourse. It is Britain's final classic of the Flat race season.

About 60,000 people are expected to attend over the four-day festival.

Racegoers will be able to eat anything from travels to burgers

and over the four days, almost 8000 bottles of champagne will also be

drunk. Spare a thought for the laundry staff because every evening

more than 600 uniforms a need to be washed and ironed.

Olivia Richwald has been took Town Moor to find out help preparations

Despite the rain, the going at Doncaster is good to firm. Last

year 60,000 people came here to watch and almost a million tuned in

on television. Be racing industry is facing severe financial

challenges but all that will be forgotten for the next four days.

The prize-money for the four days at St Leger Festival is just short

of �2 million. The St Leger Festival race itself is... I think

it is the richest race in Europe. I do not think you are going to get

anybody whingeing about prize-money. A highlight of the day tomorrow

will be the charity race. Guest of honour is the most successful

female jockey of all time. She gave up a place on the American version

of I and a celebrity to be here. The whole place seems Horse Crazy

which for me makes me happy. Riding this race, it is probably one of

the most exciting things I have done since giving birth to my child.

Today she was sharing some tips with students at the big racing

college and said it was an honour to raise at the St Leger Festival.

It is one of the oldest most classic races at that and I have

only seen it on television. And I am looking forward to it and the

only other thing that would be good is to win it?

You can still get a ticket if you want to watch her attempt back.

Fantastic festival of racing. How many of those champagne bottles

will you be drinking? Nine this year.

Now cricket. It is a big week for Yorkshire and rather complicated. I

want you to keep the mass simple. They have got one game to go. Quite

simply, Yorkshire must win against Somerset starting tomorrow to have

any chance of staying in division one. Yorkshire might be looking to

the heavens this week, not just for a bit of sunshine but some divine

intervention. The odds are heavily stacked against them staying up.

Where there is life, there is hope. It is important we try to win this

game and then put pressure on the other teams. Obviously, we have got

it all against us but we fought hard last week at Edgbaston and I

expect us to do the same this week. We have not really deserve to stay

in this division with the cricket we have played, if I'm being honest.

We have ourselves to blame. I will see what happens this week. They

need to win, preferably with maximum bonus points and hope that

one of the other teams lose their matches and get few bonus points.

It is quite frankly, unlikely. have got a conundrum of points

calculation and all kinds of different possibilities in the next

week or so. Really, the challenge has been dealing with the ball in

front of us, the cricket in front of us and trying to win the

sessions. If they have been plus points to the season, the emergence

of two talents and the improvement of others. But the captain is clear,

this is where it has gone wrong. have not performed well enough, in

the Indira -- individually or as a team. We have at times have the

opportunity to win but we have not taken the game. Our stats are not

good enough, our performance is not good enough. His is probably down

to a bit of concentration, immaturity within the group, not

being ruthless enough, I guess. nothing else, they want to end the

season on a positive note. You might just need your tin hat on.

You have got to believe in the boys. Finally, we have a share bid dog

story -- we have a shaggy-dog story. Doncaster has the only officially

licensed bust in dog in the country. Egypt attracts all of the attention

while his owner plays the guitar. He has become such a popular

fixture that the council gave him a permit. This is South Yorkshire's

Snoop Doggy Dog. He is big, hairy and cute and the

dog isn't bad either! As busking double acts go, this couple have

not got a leg to stand on, they have got six. He is beautiful!

of them ropes in the crowd, the other knocks out the tunes. It

seems right that both parties are fully licensed tour bus. He drags

me out on Saturday mornings. He is the one getting all the fuss!

the talented one, I'm not a bad guitarist, but nobody cares. He's a

beauty. When you have got a boot performance planet, you must have

friends in high places. -- pooch performance permit. Occasionally,

he wants and barks and that is better than some of the other

buskers so I thought we would give him a licence. He is contributing

to the Act. He is talking to passers-by, nodding to people, what

more could you ask? He is very popular. Not bad for a bit of the

other funds. He certainly enjoys his share of the profits. He takes

them in steak pies. After a hard day's session on the street, the

proud -- crowd treat them both to a massive round of applause. I will

just go. His singing is almost as good as

yours last night. The moving on to beat weather.

There are going to be stoppages but it does not look like a washed out.

I have never heard of that. Now they headlines for tomorrow. Sunny

intervals and blustery showers. A West-East split. Mobile westerlies,

that feature may well bring a more prolonged it ought rain late in the

day to western areas. This is the satellite picture, the cold front

that brought a quite a bit of rain and strong winds. 53 mile an hour

bus in the last hour, a very windy evening and night with local gales.

Blustery showers, especially across the Pennines. A few of those will

get across to the east coast. Temperatures down to 11 degrees.

The sun rises in the morning at 6:25am... It will be unsettled if

you live across western areas. Started to -- scattered showers at

times. Further east, the showers will be more isolated and there

will be some sunshine in between the showers. Generally cloud will

increase later in the day. It could be a wet end to the day across the

top of the Pennines. * winds everywhere, gusts up to possibly 50

miles an hour. Top temperatures fairly academic with that strength

of wind. A blustery afternoon that Headingley. Thursday, a West-East