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Good evening. Tonight on Look North: Remembering Michaela. Police,

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family and friends appeal for new information ten years after her

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murder in Sheffield remains unsolved. The hardest thing I have

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ever had to do was to tell my son that his mum were dead.

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Also on Look North - getting ready for the ice. We look at plans to

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prevent a repeat of these scenes this winter.

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And I am at the 25th Leeds International Film Festival, which

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features the Yorkshire Premier of the classic Wuthering Heights,

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introducing three first time Yorkshire actors and these are just

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two of them. The skies were fairly overcast only

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this afternoon and it looks as though there is more rain to come

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in the next 24 hours. The latest is Good evening. The partner of a

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Sheffield woman murdered ten years ago has made a dramatic plea, in a

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bid to find her killer. Michaela Hague had been working as a

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prostitute to fund her heroin addiction, when she was stabbed at

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least 19 times. Look North has been speaking to some prostitutes in the

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city, who knew Michaela and say they still fear for their safety.

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Our reporter Emma Blackburn is in Sheffield.

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The murder happened on Bonfire Night ten years ago just outside

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Sheffield city centre but the crime remains unresolved. Today

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detectives brought the case back to public attention, asking people to

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remember what they were doing on fifth November 2001. The hardest

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thing I have ever had to do was to tell my son his mum were dead and

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would not be coming home. Sorry... My son never got to be brought up

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by his mum. One minute she was setting off, the next minute she

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will go on forever. For the first time, Michaela Hague's partner

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meets the policeman who ten years ago tip down her dying words and

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wrote them on his hand. She was able to give me a description of

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her killer. She described him as a white man, about 38 years old. He

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was 6 ft tall, he wore glasses. He was wearing a blue fleece and she

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believed he had a wedding ring. All this information she gave to me

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while I was talking to her at the scene and also well we travelled to

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the ambulance to the hospital. place where Michaela Hague was

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murdered has long been hidden by the development of a Sheffield ring

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road but detectives are determined her killer would be hidden from

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them for too much longer. An aerial view of hospital fields looked then,

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close to the murder spot. The killer's car was seen on CCTV.

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may think that ten years ago you would not be able to remember what

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happened but it was not just ten years ago, it was Bonfire Night,

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November fifth, Monday night. Cut your minds back. I want this person

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caught. I want someone to come forward and help the police. Give

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him up. He is it killer. Heath says Michaela's elect destroyed him, her

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son and the family -- killer destroyed him. Prosecution exists

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in -- prostitution exists in Sheffield and I went out with a

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voluntary organisation that goes out in an unmarked van offering

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advice for women working in the street. They say the streets are as

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dangerous as ever and from speaking to women that night, they told me

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they work in fear. A weekday night in Sheffield and the working women

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support that has come across jazz. Wandering the streets, crying. She

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knew Michaela Hague and despite the unsolved murder, she is back on the

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streets after eight years away. Most it is a drugs basically, drug

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money, that's, basically just keeping myself afloat. How does it

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feel being hit quiz night it makes me feel sick -- stick to my stomach.

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Years ago I was left and dumped in the moors and beaten up. But you

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are still here? I have only just come out and if I didn't have to I

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wouldn't have to. The support team give her a hot drink, some food and

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tell her to visit the centre of the next day. The aim is to provide

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this kind of support and give out sexual health advice. The service

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has been running would 20 years and in that Times, they have not seen

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things getting any safer. I was working on a night Michaela was

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murdered. Women became very scared and following all sexual assaults,

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women become very aware of the dangers but sometimes they have to

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sublimate them some way to enable them to do what they are doing.

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Rebecca has been working the streets chintz she was 15. She also

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knew Michaela and she is geared but it is not enough to take her away.

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It is a habit and I know I am risking my life and I know if I

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love my children, I would keep my felt safe but they meet things and

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I won't go home until I have got 100 quid. But Michaela, yet, she

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did love her kids. The women on the streets say they are here out of

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necessity and despite the unsolved murder of a friend, that if there

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that he remains an soda street prostitution, with all of its

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dangers --. The women in that report told me

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they see two or three women die each year in Sheffield and says

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that this still remains a very dangerous way of life. Ten years on

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from the murder of Michaela Hague, it is hoped this fresh appeal will

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finally find her killer. Later - a dreadful night for Leeds.

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The whites are given a sound thrashing at Elland Road. A blow

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for the phone Emmys -- energy plants in Yorkshire. Ministers say

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they want to halve the amount paid for electric power generated by

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rooftop solar panels. Councils in Barnsley, Chesterfield and Leeds

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all say big solar power schemes might now not go ahead. In

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Castleford, officials say a five- year upgrade could now take 20

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years. Our correspondent Alan Whitehouse has been investigating.

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Rachel and Martin are moving house today but they are not heaving

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furniture around. Instead they are having a lesson in how to use their

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new energy-efficient home in Castleford. Solar panels will cut

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their power bills and insulation will keep them warm. My eight-year-

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old had been known about sustainable homes at school and

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this came up online, sustainable home, so we thought we would apply

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for it. It is brilliant. It will save us a lot of money in the long

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run because the energy that we saved is about 40%, which is quite

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a lot. This house and company wants to do more of the same but now it

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is in doubt because of the government proposals to cut the

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amount paid for each unit of solar power will. Researchers say it

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undermines so economics. We are going to invest in 10,000

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properties to have the alternative heat technology, so the technology,

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to reduce heating bills and we were hoping to do that within five years.

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It's now might mean that it might take 20 years to achieve the same

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objective. Every unit of electricity generated by one of

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these panels is worth 43p but the government proposal is to more than

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half that down to just 21p and it is that loss of income that is

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throwing the financial projections of organisations like this into

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chaos. The government says the cost of solar power has fallen so the

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rate paid for the electricity it generates should come down, too. It

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is an argument that money except but critics say the government is

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going too far too fast and that will delay and derail lots of green

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housing projects. Other news now from around the

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region. Budget airline Ryanair has

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announced it will be flying six new routes from Leeds Bradford Airport

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next year. A third aircraft will be based at the airport, creating up

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to 60 jobs, with new flights to Corfu, Crete, Kos, Tenerife, Milan

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and Northern France. The airport says the new flights will also help

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attract more visitors to Yorkshire. A charity's been set up to raise

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money for the young children of a murdered policewoman from York.

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Heather Cooper was found dead in woodland last month close to her

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home in West Sussex. Surrey Police Federation is asking for donations

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to help her young family. Heather's partner, Peter Foster, has been

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charged with murder and goes on trial next year.

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Last winter, Yorkshire's accident and emergency departments were

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inundated with people who had broken their bones falling on snow

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and ice. Nationally the problem costs the NHS millions of pounds. A

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new initiative in one part of West Yorkshire hopes to reduce the

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problem. Ian White has more. Winter 2010, the worst December in

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Yorkshire since 1890, with temperatures falling to -19 Celsius.

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The snow and ice brought chaos, and getting from A to B was almost

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impossible. Remember this picture of people having to crawl across

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roads? When the weather is that bad, something as simple as the trip to

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the shops is almost impossible but hopefully this device could be the

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answer to everybody's problems. Pamela is a volunteer at the drop

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in community centre near Huddersfield. She has been helping

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kit out 60 pensioners in the area with the metal grips to stop them

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falling on icy paths if we have another cold patch. There you have

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bestow its that grip the snow and stop you from skidding. A gentleman

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who lives near me, he fell on the ice, broke his leg in three places

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and to this state he is still having treatment for it. So what do

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people make of the grips that should prevent slipping? When you

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get older, you want to go but your legs don't want to go with you. You

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have to make them. What difference will this make? I will be able to

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get to the shops, go for a bus, anything. Independence. It gives

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you your independence a bit. It is good because I will be able to go

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out to the shop. When a similar scheme was launched in America, the

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number of people ending up in hospital fell by 45%. If successful

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here, it could be rolled out across the whole of the Kirk lease

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district. Coming up:

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Emily Bronte's classic tale opens the Leeds Film Festival with lots

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Let's turn to football now. Oggy is here with me in the studio and this

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might be a good time for us to warn Leeds United fans to look away.

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Yes, a 5-0 defeat at home to Blackpool was an utter catastrophe

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for Leeds, especially for manager Simon Grayson against his old club.

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Or maybe that depends on exactly who you point the finger at.

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For Leeds United fans to book their own players off the pitch, at half-

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time Lowles, things have to be bad. And last night's 5-0 defeat was the

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heaviest at Elland Road since the 1980s. Who do you blame? Did none

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of the Leeds midfielders notice Shelvey galloping behind them for

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the opening goal? Should be keeper have held this? Lua Lua pounced and

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the keeper's night was about to get -- get worse. This spilled lead to

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a penalty award. 2-0 from the spot and it was clear, if you listen

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carefully, that the shouts of, off, were from the Leeds fans. The

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keeper was replaced at half-time, but not before another Paris

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instead of a sage and catch for 3-0 for blacks -- blackboard. The new

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Leeds United keeper was 18-year-old Alex Cairns. The cheers of his

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early contributions pointed clearly towards whom Leeds fans blamed for

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the disastrous opening. But there were still two goals to come.

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Shelvey completed his hat-trick. 5- 0 to Blackpool. Simon Grayson's

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reunion with the club he personally steered into the Championship was

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one to forget. He has some tough decisions to make now.

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The keeper was obviously the scapegoat, but what about the

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manager? Simon Grayson will take a lot of

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responsibility for that, but so does everybody in the Leeds team.

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They did not score, which is not Rachubka's fault. Grayson needs to

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show that he can act, bring a new keeper in and coach the rest of the

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team. The Leeds Film Festival opens

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tonight with a new version of Wuthering Heights. It is the 25th

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time the city has hosted the festival. And the organisers have

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chosen a film with a particular Yorkshire feel to kick off the

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festival. Christa is on the red carpet tonight. There is not much

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that she does not know about the Bronte Sisters. Let me tell you

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something about the young man who has been chosen to play Heathcliff.

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He has never acted before in his life. He got the part because he

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was taking a mate to the audition. The director took one look at him

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and said, you are my new Heathcliff. It was a rather nervous young man

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who gave us his first interview on the steps a few minutes ago.

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It is agreed on. It has been an adventure. Was it tough? Very tough

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and gruelling but rewarding. It is the first time ever and there have

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been literally hundreds of adaptations of Wuthering Heights

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that the film-maker has chosen a black actor to play Heathcliff.

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Does it have any historical merit? Heathcliff has been played time and

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again in numerous productions. Laurence Olivier was a famous one.

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Successive versions betray him as very definitely white. -- portrait.

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But the book refers to his dark complexion and foreign origins so

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the new film has cast him as black. An outlandish idea? Not for bronc -

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- Bonnie Greer, the President of the Bronte Society. He is dark, he

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could have been Romagna, he could have been Irish he could have been

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of African descent. - Mikey could have been a Roman the.

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Could Emily Bronte have had a black character in mind when she created

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Heathcliff? Possibly. Her father Patrick campaigned against the

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slave trade and was sponsored through university by William

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Wilberforce. There is evidence, like this painting, of black people

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living in Yorkshire at the time that bothering Hawkes -- Wuthering

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Heights was written. This man is stud earring black history in

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Yorkshire. -- studying. It is all part of a hidden history waiting to

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be rediscovered. There is lots of documented evidence describing the

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lives of African people here in Yorkshire at the time when Emily

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Bronte was writing Wuthering Heights. She would have seen

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perhaps many abolitionists, African American abolitionists who would

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visit Yorkshire and give talks about abolition. At this film has

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sparked a debate that will run and run. It sent me back to my

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annotated copy of Wuthering Heights from a level. It has given me a new

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way to read it and in my book that is a great thing.

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The character of Catherine Earnshaw is one of my favourites from

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literature and the young girl who has been chosen to play young Cathy,

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for it is a dream come true. Like James, she has never acted before.

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By days Shannon Beer is an ordinary Sheffield schoolgirl. Tonight she

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will once again turn into a star on the red carpet. Plucked from

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obscurity at 13, without an acting lesson in her life, she plays the

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young Catherine Earnshaw. The moors are her home. He has gone.

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It is a Shannon's innocence that caught the eye of the director.

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She said, just be yourself. We went to watch the film and Andrea wanted

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it to be different so she did not tell us about the story. We did not

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get a full script in case it confused us.

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First Annan it has brought confidence and a new-found sense of

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purpose. -- for Shannon. I thought I would get bad grades and go on

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benefits but now I have done this I know I can do a lot of other stuff.

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They are perhaps the most famous lines in any novel, not -- lines

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which may have changed her life. is not because he is handsome and

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rich but because he is more myself than I am. I am Heathcliff. They

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filmgoers are literally flooding in and I have to tell you, one of the

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most moving moments was to meet the young boy who plays the young

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Heathcliff. Solomon stood on these steps in floods of tears. For him

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it has been an emotional roller- coaster. It feels so big. I never

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thought I would be sitting in front of the camera, BBC as well, just

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talking about Wuthering Heights. It was like a massive thing for me,

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when I was explaining it over in Venice. I started crying at the

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same time. It is very emotional and I always thought when I was younger

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I wanted to be a singer or an actor but I thought, is it going to come

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true? But now it has. How does it feel to see yourself on the big

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screen? You are a lad from Sheffield it feels like it is not

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true. It is like it has not sink in yet. -- sunk in. It is shocking to

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see yourself on the big screen. I had to shut my eyes a few times, is

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it true? Is it true? But I thought, it has to be true. I was not

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dreaming. It feels pretty normal but kind of shocking. Shannon has

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said that she wants to be an actress. I am presuming by the

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passion you have described, you want to be an actor. 100 %. I just

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love it. 01 to be an actor or a singer. We will stay in touch with

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you because something tells me you could be pretty big.

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Is about a fantastic smile from the yum Solomon? -- isn't that. His

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entire family have just arrived. You are here from the Leeds Film

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Festival. It does not get much more Yorkshire than this? We are

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delighted to be opening with this film and it has taken a leading

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British Film Festival -- film-maker to come to her Yorkshire to make a

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new version of this film. To see young people embracing this passion

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is very moving. It is, and Andrea Arnold is amazing at casting

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unknowns. She has done a terrific job with these local actors and it

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is a film to be seen. We will see some clips of the film now. It is

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very dark, very moody, it will not to be -- not be to everybody's

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taste. No, but period films need to change to move on, and Andrea

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Arnold has done that. It is all about the sounds and sights of

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nature and people should see it for themselves. The moors are as much a

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character to Emily Bronte as any character she put on a page. Yes,

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and this brings out the moors more than any film of Wuthering Heights

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I have seen. It is quite dark, but those were quite dark days. We have

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talked about abolition, the Poor Law. Life expectancy was not very

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high. This is not a Laurence Olivier cliche, is it? Absolutely

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not. It shows what it must have been like in those days really well.

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It is a completely different version to what people have seen

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before and I think they should try to see it. I have seen bits of it.

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I am going to go in. I loved Wuthering Heights, and I go on to

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be disappointed? No, just expect something different and you will be

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amazed. Do you promise? Yes. Three Yorkshire it is a big thing. The

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Bronte sisters never lose their charm but the film festival is

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really taking off, isn't it? Yes, Wuthering Heights is a big example

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of what is happening in this region. A new version is a great start to

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this new era in Yorkshire. Thank you. That is about it from us but -

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- because the film is starting. Paul, she is behind you.

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What can we do now she is not If you have pictures from any part

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It is a very unsettled picture. Over the next 24 hours we are

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seeing perhaps showers, perhaps longer spells of rain. Possibly the

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odd thunderclap the if thunder. -- clap of thunder. At the moment, the

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closest area of thunderstorms is coming into the Wash in

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Lincolnshire. They are not affecting us and most parts of

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Yorkshire are dry. Most of us start the evening on a dry note. The

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cloud will come and go, the risk of showers but the main risk will be

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towards the end of the night, with potentially some heavy showers

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moving in. Temperatures very mild, 11 Celsius. The sun will rise at

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7:12am and said that for 27 p and. -- set at 4:27pm. A whisker of the

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odd clap of thunder tomorrow, it will not rain all day but there

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will be plenty of wet weather around. Possibly some brighter

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spots in between the cloud. The breeze will be a light south to

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south-easterly. Highs of 14 degrees. By the end of the day perhaps a

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