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Tonight, why are the dole queues growing here more than anywhere | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
else. The latest figures show another 51,000 people out of work | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
here- more than twice the increase in any other part of Britain. Back | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
on the picket line for teachers that are opposed to their school | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
becoming an academy. And the York band back in the | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
studio and back on tour 15 years after the height of their fame. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
Sky is everywhere will be brighter as we head through tomorrow. Join | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
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Good evening. Tonight, more than one in 10 people in Yorkshire are | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
out of work. The latest figures show that number is increasing | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
faster here than anywhere else in Britain. Between two -- July and | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
August, there were 274,000 jobless in Yorkshire and the Humber, up | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
51,000. The unemployment rate stands at 10.3%. Compared to a year | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
ago, there were 236,000 people registered unemployed. It rocketed | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
again last month and again today. There is now intense competition | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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for the few jobs that are available. It is not glamorous work. Targets | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
components supply it computer parts. They have been growing fast and | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
have been recruiting for the past few years. Until recently, they | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
have struggled to fill vacancies. Not any more as they had a | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
recruitment day to fill 10 jobs. We have just bought some purchasing | :02:16. | :02:23. | |
jobs in the Jobcentre. We have got 13 applications, which we wouldn't | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
have seen two or three years ago. As jobs have become scarcer, the | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
same thing is happening all the time. Another at fault -- another | :02:34. | :02:41. | |
advert for two positions had to be pulled as 45 people applied. One of | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
their recent recruits has FM Milap -- familiar story. It is an ever- | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
decreasing circle. You get depressed keep looking for jobs. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
You can get disheartened by all. The only thing to do is pick | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
yourself up and keep looking. Filling vacant jobs isn't plain | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
sailing. They say they have had problems finding the right person | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
for the job. Experts say it is a common problem. | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
There are many facing the same problem. When they are not many | :03:15. | :03:22. | |
vacancies about, people tend to scattergun approach to applications | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
rather than thinking about a quality approach. Until recently, | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
figures for unemployment have been up and down. Now they are on an | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
upward trend. There is a message from all of this. If you are out of | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
the employment market, it will be increasingly hard for you to get | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
back in. Nationally, youth unemployment | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
topped 1 million in the national figures. In Yorkshire and the | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
Humber, it was 82,000, 19% of our 16-24 get old. | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
One organisation responsible for ensuring local youngsters get the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
first bite of construction jobs says it is not getting enough | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
applicants. Construction Yorkshire wants to give jobs to young people | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
but they are underwhelmed break -- by the response. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Building sites in Leeds are once again becoming a hive of activity. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Now it is claimed not enough young people in the City are applying to | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
work on projects like this. Over the next four years in Yorkshire | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
and the Humber, it is estimated more than 2500 people will be | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
needed to join the construction industry every year. Recently, to | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
apprenticeships were advertised locally by Construction Yorkshire | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
and they received just for applications. That is why this | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
event is being held in Beeston. It is organised by Construction | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
Yorkshire, and bake sure developers give jobs to young people living | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
close to site like the Leeds Arena. When they don't get enough | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
applications locally, they have to advertise to everyone. We have been | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
surprised by how few applicants we have had. We want people to | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
register with us said that when we have these opportunities, we need | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
to get them to sign up so we can make sure local people have access | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
to those opportunities. They don't know why so few young people in | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Leeds are applying for these apprenticeships. Possibly because | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
they don't realise the jobs are there. This man is studying at | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
college. I am in a class of 11 and only three of us have got | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
employment. Events like this are giving Iain people hope. Another is | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
being held in that little London next week, a stone's throw from one | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
of the biggest construction projects Leeds has seen. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
Why is it that our region has been so hard hit with youth | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
unemployment? Liz Navin Jones is a recruitment specialist. Why is it | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
so bad here? I'm guessing it has something to do with us being | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
reliant on the public sector and it taking a while to filter through. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
wish I had the answer to that. It is very difficult to say it | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
specifically why it is. The fact is, it is bad. It is easy to say that | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
they used to be so many public sector jobs that are being cut back | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
on. It is easy to say that the construction business has hit bad | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
times. It is a complicated facts and the effect is, it is a sad fact, | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
terrible. These figures are appalling. Vince Cable said what | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
was required was practical measures and Brinda ships. Are these | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
apprenticeships the right measures? It is a start. As the young people | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
of this region are the ones that have been most hard hit with this | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
lack of employment, it is important because apprenticeships | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
traditionally of focused at him people. It is very important not to | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
neglect that whole strata of society. They need help to get into | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
the workplace. If there was more collaboration between Government, | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
unions and employers, they could find a way of creating | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
apprenticeships which are so worthwhile, that in people think it | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
is called to be honoured an apprenticeship. They are a way of | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
getting into the workplace. Having a skill whilst they are at work and | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
being paid for it. We highlighted the problem of and applications | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
sometimes. The construction industry complain they are not | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
getting the right recruits. The type of training has to be right. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
It has to attract the right people. That is what it is not doing. It is | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
not attracting the right people because everybody thinks it is not | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
cool for young people to be going on to apprenticeships. If I might | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
say, if you want to go to university and carry on through the | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
education system, you have a whole structure in place that will find | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
you every different avenue to go to which over university you choose to | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
go to. If you want to do an apprenticeship, where do you go? | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
There is no structure in place. They need to form a structure | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
whereby you can have a central application to do apprenticeships | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
of all sorts and will different areas. Thank you very much. | :08:59. | :09:09. | |
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We always want to hear what you think. I will be speaking to a | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
leading and -- unemployment experts. That is at 10:25pm. | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
Coming up: Students in Harrogate are worried about a rising tuition | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
fees and get a chance to give questions to a panel of experts. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
Teachers at a West Yorkshire school have gone on strike for a second | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
day of protest over plans to turn it into an academy. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
A Prince Henry's Grammar School in Otley will receive more money from | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
the Government if it breaks away from the Leeds council and becomes | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
an academy. Staff fear pay and conditions could be changed. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Prince Henry's is shuttled to convert to an academy on 1st | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
December. Staff will no longer be employed by Leeds City Council. | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
Teaching jobs could go. For the second time, 40 teachers, supported | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
by students and parents were on strike. We have been promised that | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
our terms and conditions won't change. I don't think staff believe | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
that is going to happen and are confident that is the result of | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
what is going to happen. Hundreds of schools have already become | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
academies and Prince Henry's says making the move now will not County | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
money for their only high-school. We have no intention of changing | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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the terms of pay. The school will get better value for money from its | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
funding and we will improve the job security for the teachers. That was | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
one of the main reasons that governors voted to convert to | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
academy status. That vote was controversial with school governors | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
split over the issue. To become an academy, a majority of the | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
governors must back the decision. That did happen here but it was a | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
majority of one vote. Those nine governors who said no, quit the | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
governing body. Two of them spoke to us arguing that just over | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
�400,000, the extra funding have promised, is inadequate. They will | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
be no financial gain for the school. This doesn't take into account | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
things like employment of a finance director, the cost of the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Chippendale swimming pool and other costs. Teachers plan to strike | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
again tomorrow before the two sides will sit down and talk on Friday. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
It is thought the unions will call for parents to get a vote on | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
becoming an academy. If there is no agreement, three more strikes are | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
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planned for next week. A soldier attached to the 1st | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
Battalion at the Yorkshire Regiment has been killed by an improvised | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
bomb in Afghanistan. The soldier who has not yet been named as a -- | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
for serving in Helmand province, providing security. It follows the | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
death of Private Matthew Thornton who was from Barnsley and the | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
repatriation of Private Matthew Haseldin from settled. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Police have charged a driver in connection with an alleged hit-and- | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
run incident in which a six year- old boy was killed. Owen Wightman | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
was struck by a car while playing with a friend close to his home in | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
Wakefield on 18th June. The 21 year-old man from Huddersfield has | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
been charged with causing death by dangerous driving and failing to | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
stop at the scene and failing to report an accident. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Serious crime's including rapes and murders in West and North Yorkshire | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
have been a best -- could be investigated by a single joint | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
police team. Talks are at an early stage but the forces are looking | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
for major savings as they are faced with a combined budget deficit of | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
�125 million. A West Yorkshire police support | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
worker is accused of causing her mother's death by neglect. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
The death of Eileen Pearson from Tranmere Park in Guiseley was | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
reported to police in May. Her daughter, Angela, has been | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
suspended from her job. Last if you vote in to us saying | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
they wanted this. Leeds could get a permanent tribute to Sir Jimmy | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
Savile. He died at his home at last month aged 84 and was buried in | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
Scarborough at a 45 degree angle overlooking the sea. | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
A classic car and motorcycle auction has taken place today in | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Harrogate. Among the high alert -- highlights was a Bentley Special | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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roadster built in 1953. It sold for Students worried about the rising | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
cost of university tuition fees have had the chance to grill | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
experts on a BBC Radio Four programme. The Money Box team was | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
at Harrogate Grammar Academy today. They had been invited to broadcast | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
from there after so many youngsters said they were concerned they | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
couldn't afford a university education. Ian White was there. | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
This is the lecture theatre, where the Money Box programme was | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
broadcast today. The production team came north after concerns from | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
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students about tuition fees. Paul Lewis welcomes Radio 4 listeners to | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
Money Box Live. The main worry? Tuition fees. It is one of the | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
topics Money Box does on a regular basis. We thought, let us take all | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
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these questions on board. Deraa 500 sixth-formers at this school. -- | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
there are. Many of these will be the first to pay university fees of | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
up to �9,000. That some of these students, they are thinking, should | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
I study at all? I think it is brilliant. It is really nice they | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
have chosen our school. I think it is great our students are able to | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
ask the questions we would like to know, because the university fees | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
will affect us. On air, the questions came thick and fast. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
struggling to understand how we apply for the grants and loans. | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
am more concerned about the management of my money. There is no | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
one who will tell you exactly how much you will need. A so do the | :16:26. | :16:36. | |
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experts think higher fees will put students of going to university? | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
think students should think, this is a graduate tax. I will have to | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
pay an extra 9%, but if you're on 25,000 average pay, it is not nice, | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
but it is double. If you have time off or you have kids, then you pay | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
nothing. You can listen to the Money Box programme by logging on | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
to the BBC website, all like a tuning in. | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Before seven o'clock: The return of Shed Seven - the legendary York | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
band are back on the road and recording again. | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
Now to the story of a young man from Sheffield who has turned his | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
life around. Ashraf Youssef was 16 when he was convicted of robbery | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
and jailed for three years in the Wetherby Young Offenders | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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Institution. While there, he took part in a scheme funded by Children | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
in Need to help teenage prisoners by getting them out into the | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
community. Ashraf was released earlier this year and is on his way | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
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My name is Ashraf Youssef. I was convicted for a robbery. Next thing | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
you know, I was sitting in a police cell. I got sentenced to three | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
years. I did one idea and two months. I felt sad and angry at | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
myself. I regretted it, but did not realise the consequences of it | :18:32. | :18:41. | |
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until I got sentenced. I thought, I have got to turn my life around and | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
do something which is better. tends to be lads towards the end of | :18:52. | :18:58. | |
the sentence they behave. Not every lad will be able to get out and do | :18:58. | :19:08. | |
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this work, so it is important that they enjoyed. When I was doing old | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
people's Gardens, I was thinking that I am here one minute, but the | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
next, I will be back to where I will be. It would make me think | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
about what I did, and think that I want to feel like this ever, feel | :19:25. | :19:33. | |
free for ever. -- this for ever. They are children, when you think | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
about it. You have got to give everybody a chance, and the need | :19:39. | :19:47. | |
that chance. How will they get it otherwise? I regret what I did. I | :19:47. | :19:57. | |
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look back and think, it was when I was a little cared. -- kid. This | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
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used to be my home. I was here for a year and two months. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
And on Friday, of course, we will be looking at the fun you've been | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
having to raise money for Children in Need. Amy Garcia and Keeley | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Donovan will be live in Pudsey. And if you've been fundraising and | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
would like to bring your cheques along, get in touch. The number and | :20:24. | :20:34. | |
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email address to contact us are on Congratulations now to the | :20:37. | :20:45. | |
organisers of the Tramlines music festival in Sheffield. The festival | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
has won a top national award. This summer, the free event attracted | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
crowds of 175,000, and last night, it was named Best Metropolitan | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
Festival at the UK Festival Awards in London. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
I'm sure a lot of people would second that! Let's move onto York's | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
music scene now and their home- grown band, Shed Seven. They hit | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
the big time with an album written in a potato factory. Now they're | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
about to start a nationwide tour. They have also recorded an EP - the | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
first time they have recorded together in almost a decade. We'll | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
talk to Rick and Paul from the band in a moment, but first, let's | :21:26. | :21:36. | |
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remind ourselves of some of their You have toured before, haven't | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
you? And you also had to add a date in York. Yes we did. We put a new | :22:21. | :22:28. | |
one on. I think it is the 21st. We are also playing Leeds and | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
Sheffield. For some reason, we seem to have a good, strong fan base. | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
wasn't always the case though, was it? You failed twice in the Evening | :22:39. | :22:49. | |
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Press battle of the band awards. once put posters around. The first | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
time we did it, we came second. The second time, we came third, so we | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
thought we would not bother again. I you still cool? Musically, of | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
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course you are! It has changed a lot. It has. We are concentrating | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
on a particular album. It is quite scary when you think, 15 years ago, | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
when we look back, it seems to have gone up like that. We have had | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
children sense. But the kids look at us like we are no bodies. | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
make me feel very old! You are kind of sticking to the singles, or | :23:44. | :23:52. | |
tracks, from that album? We will play from the majority of that | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
album. There will also be all the other hits that people want. | :23:57. | :24:06. | |
you remember all the words? all! Good luck. We will hear you a | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
little bit later after we turned to that are old, trendy, but ever so | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
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Let me show you two pictures. That sums things up. And this was the | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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day before, when the sun came out. An unusual, but fantastic sunset. | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
The good news is, tomorrow should see a big improvement. It might get | :24:46. | :24:52. | |
a to a cloudy start, but plenty of sunshine coming through. The breeze | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
will be in the south-west, which has a rare event this month so far. | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
Atlantic weather systems tried to getting from the south-west, but | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
there will be a lot of low cloud. The weekend it looks generally dry. | :25:08. | :25:17. | |
Today, you can see M awful lot of cloud. The best place for cloud | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
over the Yorkshire Dales. -- an awful lot. That weather front the | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
show is in from the south-west bringing rain and drizzle. In the | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
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east, it looks set to be low temperatures. The sun will rise at | :25:44. | :25:51. | |
7:36am. It might be grey and damp at dawn, but quickly, as a south- | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
westerly breeze picks up, we will see skies at Brighton in. A good | :25:56. | :26:06. | |
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deal of blue-sky. Plenty of sunshine. -- seat skies brightening. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
Top temperatures of 12 Celsius. Even the Pennines will be much | :26:11. | :26:21. | |
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brighter tomorrow. Friday it looks cloudy, windy and mild. And then | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
the weekend, bearable but large amounts of cloud, but it will be | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 41 seconds | :26:41. | :27:22. |