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By heart patients across Britain could benefit from research carried

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out in Yorkshire. And the gymnast whose career was

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also up -- almost ended by injury. What a #ColourWhite and miserable

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day. -- wet. Your Christmas And join me live in a Sheffield pub

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where we are live with any festive tradition with a twist. Festive

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carols, up with the words unique to Sheffield. We will have a Christmas

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song in 25 minutes. A city councillor has been jailed

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for what was described as unimaginable cruelty to cats and

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kittens at his home in Keighley. Police found appalling scenes, with

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cancer butchered and there remains scattered around Robert Payne's

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house. Payne, who last week resigned from Bradford City Council,

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will serve six months. 36-year-old Robert Payne, a man

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with a drink problem and a past conviction for tax fraud. His

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excuse for his bestial behaviour to cats, I am so angry about something.

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When police and RSPCA officials went to his house in Keighley, they

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were met with a scene of unimaginable cruelty and horror.

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They could not tell exactly how many caps Payne had butchered but

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some had been dreadfully dismembered and three kittens were

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found dead in his fridge. In the past eight years, Chris has rescued

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and we home to more than 1,300 cats and kittens at her charity Nikkei

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three. -- are given homes too. It is absolutely abhorrent to me. I

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will never understand wilful cruelty to an animal. It is just

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totally unacceptable. Robert Payne had represented the Keith Lee West

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ward on Bradford City Council for more than three years. Average in

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the a conservative, he left the group in September last year after

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being found guilty every tax fraud. He finally quit the council

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altogether last week. The way he has behaved is absolutely

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outrageous. Such obvious, deliberate and malicious cruelty to

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animals that can't defend themselves is, in my view,

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extremely sick and is certainly not the behaviour we would expect from

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anybody in public life. What should he have done, given his history, as

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far as the council is concerned? The day he was convicted of fraud,

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he should have resigned from the council. Robert Payne will be

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banned for life from keeping pets, after a judge said the public would

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be revolted by the former councillor's behaviour. Meanwhile,

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cats like these are only too grateful that their stories of

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abandonment have had a much happier ending.

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Medical research carried out in Leeds could change the way heart

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patients are treated across the NHS. A major five-year trial by Leeds

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University has shown that an ordinary MRI scan is more accurate

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and less invasive as a way to diagnose cardiac problems than the

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methods currently in use. Heart disease is the leading cause of

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death and disability. OK, let me show you your heart. You

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can see the muscles contracting and thickening. This man gets a close-

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up of his heart from the outside in. He was one of the 750 people

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recruited to the Leeds trial when he arrived at hospital with chest

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pains. He first had an MRI scan for comparison, and then the commonly

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used in nuclear scan and then an angiogram. He starts, curiously,

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with a tube being inserted in your groin which works its way through

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your body. The MRI scan is really nothing. You lay down on a

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comfortable bed, you are rolled into a machine which makes noises

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and that is it. I would imagine that pretty much anybody would

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prefer to be in an MRI machine than have an angiogram. An M R Wright -

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a magnetic resonance image - uses a he's strong magnetic field to

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measure water content and the body's tissues. It is much safer

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than the ionising radiation involved in current testing methods.

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The study has shown that magnetic resonance imaging is a very

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accurate rate of diagnosing patients with heart disease. It is

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actually better than the standard test of nuclear perfusion imaging,

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so this would translate, potentially, into saving some

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patients having invasive tests that they might not actually need. The

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patient benefit if they don't need an internal invasive test. But also,

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if we can avoid doing that test, it is very good value for money for

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the NHS, because during invasive angiogram tests is very expensive.

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The other benefit is that the tests can be carried out on the standard

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MRI scanner already found in most hospitals.

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Stay with us tonight. On the last Friday before Christmas, travellers

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are warned not to get too drunk as the ambulance service prepares for

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a frantic night ahead. West Yorkshire Police are

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continuing their search for a couple who have taken two young

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children. Officers say true Lankan nationals Mohammed Fayzed and

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Shikiri Wahab have broken a court order and unlawfully taken a nine-

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year-old Gil and a two-year-old boy, following a visit at a property in

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Leeds yesterday afternoon. Police say they need to speak to the pair

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urgently. A karate instructor from York has

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been found guilty of sex offences against a 13-year-old goal. Liam

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O'Grady, who is 30 and from Osbaldwick, is a former karate

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champion. He was found guilty of meeting a child following sexual

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grooming and three counts of sexual activity with the child. He will be

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sentenced next month. More bottles of counterfeit vodka

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have been seized by trading standards officers. 40 shops and

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Doncaster were raided early this week and more than 60 bottles of

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fake wines and spirits, including Drop vodka, were recovered. People

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are being asked not to drink it because it may be harmful.

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127 staff at the Yorkshire-based Barratts Priceless group have lost

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their jobs today as 18 stores closed for the very last time. The

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group is closing five Barratts and 13 Priceless shops. Workers at the

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Bradford headquarters have also lost their jobs. The company went

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into administration earlier this month, citing difficult economic

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circumstances. Very shocked when they were told on Saturday morning

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that Monday would be their last day. Very upsetting to speak to the

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staff this morning. Tears at this time of the year. They have had a

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good bond with the rest of the shops inside the centre and the

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staff, so they will be greatly missed.

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While most of us are looking forward to a break from work, spare

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a thought for the emergency services who do not get the time

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off. And if we are talking about the ambulance service, it is the

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busiest time of the year for them. Tonight is what they commonly

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called Mad Friday. It has already been a really busy week. In the

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last seven days, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service has dealt with

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more than 14,000 emergency incidents. Compared with a typical

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winter week, that is over 1000 more incidents than usual. In fact, it

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is an increase in their workload of just over 9%. To tell us why they

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are not looking forward to tonight is the associate medical director

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for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Dr David Macklin. This is not a

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good night for the ambulance service, is it? No, it will be

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extremely busy for us tonight. Mad Friday is one of the busiest nights

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of the year Fonda and services across the country. Many people

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have finished work and will be going out enjoying themselves,

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having a drink, and while we want people to have a drink and and joy

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themselves -- enjoy themselves, we would ask them to drink sensibly.

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You guys do a fantastic drop but then you are subjected in many

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cases to violence. So you need the police to protect you? -- do a

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fantastic job. Alcohol-fuelled incidents that result in violence

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and aggression to our staff are much more common in these times. We

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have a zero-tolerance approach to violence against a staff and always

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involve police. We have innovative ways of dealing with it now. What

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police officers come with paramedics in response cars which

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allows them to respond to incidence more easily. Imagine the scene -

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you are driving, do have had a busy year, the conditions in the pouring

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rain at have been shocking and there are lots of little accidents,

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and you are tired. That is when other accidents happen. That is

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true. The heavy rain on the motorways is a significant problem.

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People may be travelling long distances and have been working all

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week and it is really important that they take regular breaks if

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they are driving, and pay extra attention - in particular when the

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roads are wet. What types of injuries are typical of what might

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happen tonight? The most common injuries we will see tonight will

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be people who have fallen, who have head injuries, once. Unfortunately,

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in city centres, you will get episodes of violence and aggression

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which result in glass injuries. They're often alcohol-related

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injuries. I was asking you about this earlier and you told me that

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that shocked me. If you have been out tonight and finished drinking

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at 12 o'clock, and you have maybe had six glasses of wine or four

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points, tell me when it is safe to drive again the following day.

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Realistically, it is difficult to say exactly when it is safe to

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drive, but what most people need to remember is that the amount of time

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taken for that are called to get out of their system is often

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greater than seven or eight in the morning. If he will have been out

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the night before and are getting up to go Christmas shopping tomorrow,

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they need to bear in mind that they may still be over the legal limit

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for driving. And you say, to be safe - 12 or 1 o'clock in the

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afternoon. People should really wait until the afternoon it to go

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at him because of they have been drinking the night before. That

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goes for everybody who has been up late, too. -- what wait until the

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afternoon to go out in their cars. Wakefield Cathedral has been

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harnessing an angel to be triumphantly proclaim its fund-

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raising campaign. Details later. And we are live at a pub in

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Sheffield. Have you ever heard of these carols? There is one about

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attire. We only sing them in Sheffield. Join us shortly if the

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El Hajdi Diouf will sign a new 18- month contract at Doncaster Rovers.

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The former African Footballer of the Year joined on an initial

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three-month deal in October. He had been linked with moves to Russian

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and American teams, but manager Dean Saunders says he's enjoying

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his football at the Keepmoat. The club is also confident of keeping

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Pascal Chimbonda and Herita Ilunga until the end of the season.

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While most of us are eating and drinking too much over the next few

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days, the footballers will be working hard. Rotherham United have

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a fair bit of travelling to do over their busy Christmas period, but

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with their results having picked up, they don't mind too much. We gave

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ourselves a great chance over the past couple of weeks. We have got

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good games coming up. We have turned the corner as a club. We are

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looking for to the Christmas period. 2011 has seen another year full of

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medals for a young Yorkshire gymnast who is surely going all the

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way to the top. 15-year-old Nile Wilson from Leeds is the reigning

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English champion in four disciplines. And he's just won even

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more accolades at his final international event of the year in

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Switzerland. But it's also been a year which nearly spelt the end of

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Nile's career altogether. Nile Wilson it is still a student.

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His promise as a future gymnast carried on into 2011. He backed

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four gold, and two silver medals. But all the time, his back had been

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twinging a bed, and then it started to hurt even more. An occupational

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hazard for a gymnast, surely? He decided to have a proper MRI scan.

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Diagnosis - a double fracture of the back. They told me if I did not

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rest, I could have broken my back. That was a very difficult

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conversation, and we did not know how to handle it. Telling him about

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the injury and how serious it was was terrible. From his routine of

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six-night go weak at the gym, Nile Wilson went four months away from

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gymnastics altogether. He even a dog to the habits of a normal

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teenager! That time, for me, was good for school. I saw my friends a

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lot more, which was good in a way of. I came every night. All I

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really want to do is gymnastics, though. We have worked hard

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together, and we found out a lot about him as well. His commitment

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to gymnastics has been at the truly tested this year, and he has come

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out the other side. And that is a good for a Christmas present as any

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family could wish for, surely? And hats off to the Sheffield

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Steelers who have come up with a novel way of promoting their

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matches this Christmas. It's a rather unique rendition of the

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Nickelback song, Rockstar, and it's You have to see it in its entirety

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to appreciated. I will look at it in its entirety! There are beds are

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that there were interesting. You should probably have a look. I do

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not want to get myself into trouble. My father always said, compliments

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of the season to you. And we will see you in the New Year, 2012, the

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Olympic year! Christmas came early to Wakefield

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Cathedral today with a gift from a local businessman. As the Cathedral

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tries to raise �4 million for a major refurbishment programme, a

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special angel arrived to help keep passers-by up-to-date with how the

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Two days before Christmas, and the angels have arrived at Wakefield

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Cathedral. These little ones are preparing for their nativity

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tomorrow night, but their surroundings are rather bleak this

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midwinter, and in need of improvement. But they cost money.

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�4 million to be exact. The pews will be ripped out and replaced by

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chairs. We are getting rid of the pews. So did Gilbert Scott in 1846.

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Before those pews, there were no pews, so it was used as a

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marketplace and gathering place in Wakefield. Outside the cathedral,

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in the rain, the arrival of a new angel. Workmen were busy erecting a

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ladder to show passers by how the campaign is going. My friend has it

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brought me up to meet the Angel for myself. They are up to �2 million

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already. Just another �2 million to go, though.

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The Special Angel has been donated by a local businessman who used to

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be in the cathedral choir. Rather than have a thermometer, which

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people tend to do, we had an angel blowing up the ladder. The clouds

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are there, and as you go nearer to the top, you get nearer to heaven.

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I am glad to see it is straight and in the middle! They have done a

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good -- they have done a good job, so yes. Those of us of a certain

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age were brought up with blue Peter. We thought we would do something

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with a biblical theme, so we decided on an angel, and it seems

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very appropriate. Our own way killed Angel has just arrived.

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if you are passing by, cast an eye to the sky.

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That refurbishment is worth every single penny. But controversial

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getting rid of the pews, though? Christmas can be a difficult time

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of year for our troops serving in Afghanistan. They miss their

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families and their families miss them. But soldiers from the 1st

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Battallion The Yorkshire Regiment are doing their best to keep

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smiling through the festive season. They have sent us some photos of

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their very own Nativity Panto now being performed in Helmand. Now

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take a look at these: They don't have much in the way of costumes,

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but tin foil and a Santa hat goes a long way! But Angel Gabriel wins

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the prize for best costume. That is Lance Corporal Peter Langley who,

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according to the communications team, is the star of the show due

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to his complete lack of acting ability! And there's not much in

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the way of scenery, but they have still managed to conjure up a

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stable complete with ox. Mary, who looks like she might be giving

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birth, is played by Company Sergeant Major Carl Brookes. He was

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the first to volunteer for a part. And here's the big ensemble number,

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but take a closer look at that piano. I don't think they will be

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getting much sweet music out of that! We wish them well. Halfway

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through a six-month tour, let's hope for their safe return.

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Well, that's pretty much it for us this year, but it wouldn't be

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Christmas without something suitably festive to finish on.

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We've been looking for something a little more unusual this year, and

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we think we've found it in Sheffield. A group of carol singers

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are keeping a folk tradition alive with songs you will only hear in

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the steel city. Tom Ingall has been imbibing the festive spirit at a

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This is a quiet you do not care every time of year. This is a

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fantastic sound of these Stewart filled singers, because carols are

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unique to Sheffield. -- Sheffield singers. You will not take them

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anywhere else. We will hear from a local historian. How long have

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these carols been sung in this part of the year? -- in this part of the

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country? And pill the 1850 is. People did not want people enjoying

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themselves in church. At that point, they stay in the smaller, local

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chapels, and went to the pubs. Where do the words come from?

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have been written from local people. Some have even come from America.

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But the words are often much older than the tunes, so we would have a

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local tune put to an older Carol. So you might recognise the tune,

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but not the words? Sometimes, you would know the words, and not the

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tune, in the way it was sung. In particular,... Let us look at this

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picture of. This is from 1906. It is a local band. They were in

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existence from about 1860 through until just after the Second World

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War. That reflects part of the continued to this, because people

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in this room can point to people in this picture, and say, that is one

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of my ancestors! They have unusual names these carols. Back lane...

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Every village has a back lane. This song is written by Isaac Watts,

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around 1,700. We will hear her somewhat the lovely singing.

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Andrew's granddad is over here. That is how long this has been

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We have got another chance to go back a little bit later on. That is

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Last December, this was the revolt brews. It is difficult to believe

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that was only 12 months ago. That is Clarence Dock. Since 1653, it

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turned out to be the second coldest December. We are looking now for

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one of the mildest Christmas days for many a year. A chilly wind

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tomorrow. There will be some reindeer over the Pennines! It

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looks set to be dry and bright. They could be local gales on

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Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Good news third Weatherby races - no

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disruption there. We have had a miserable day to day. We still have

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patchy at rain in places. But it is getting its act together. With all

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this moisture around, they could be icy patches as well. That the sun

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will rise in the morning at 8:23am. Those are your high water times. It

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is a better start. Bright with some sunshine, but cloud will increase

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on the West, and then dry and bright in the east. There is a risk

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of rain or drizzle, particularly over the Pennines. Further east, it

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should be generally dry. It will feel pretty chilly, with a brisk,

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south-westerly wind. Generally around seven degrees. Christmas Day

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and Boxing Day, mild and when the. There is something missing here,

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