05/01/2012 Look North (Yorkshire)

Welcome to Thursday's Look North. Tonight, the strongest winds for

years. Lorries overturned and trees uprooted as gusts reached a record

93 mph. We've been out and about assessing the damage including a

lucky escape for residents in one street as part of a house roof

collapsed. Four floods in five days for one

despairing homeowner as rivers burst their banks. I am on an

emotional low. The kitchen looking Or terrible.

The son who wants lessons learnt from his mother's death due to poor

hospital staffing levels. No more rain tonight to add to the flooding

looking Valley and it will be much less windy tonight compared with

last night. All the details coming Good evening and thank you for

joining us. Yorkshire's taken another battering

from the weather with strong winds causing damage and disruption

across the county. Among the debris, overturned lorries on some of our

busiest roads. Meanwhile, uprooted trees have littered many Yorkshire

streets. And the high winds that buffeted us even managed to lift

roofs and outbuildings, dragging them across roads. That is a shed

in someone's tree. To give you an idea of the magnitude, winds in

South Yorkshire reached more than 90mph last night. Electricity firms

say they were dealing with at least 100 separate supply problems. And

tonight the Environment Agency has six flood warnings in place. In a

moment, we'll be in South Yorkshire where those especially strong winds

were recorded. But first Ian White has been speaking to people

clearing up in West Yorkshire today. The aftermath of last night's

strong winds and torrential rain Bubba. The normally busy road in

Halifax looked more like a building site after part of a Ruth was taken

off, sending a chimney crashing to the ground. The roof of number six

has blown off, has come straight over the top of the building and

this chimney, which is now in a bad state of repair is likely to

collapse. The shocked owner of the house cannot believe people were

not in should. Could have been people killed. That came down, and

that is very heavy, that is from the back. Half the chimney has come

down. That could have killed people. The chimney pots came down, a great

big things, like that. We were lucky that people were not go out.

As specialist workmen were drafted in to dismantle what was left of

the chimney, people nearby said the conditions were terrible.

weather was a horrendous. Heavy gales, sweeping rain, all the way

across the houses, rattling windows and everything like that. Quite

frightening. Very frightening, especially for somebody who has had

their house roof blown off. For the power companies, it has been a busy

day with electricity lines down in many areas. We have had

approximately 600 customers in this area affected by power and we do

apologise to all of those people that have been inconvenienced, but

we have got quickly got around to those fault. We have 22 outstanding

and we expect those customers to be back on the supply by early to

seedling. Here it is not the electricity or strong winds, but

the torrential rain that has caused the problem and 41 family, it has

been heartbreaking. It is still just coming in. Rainwater has been

pouring into Jamie's kitchen since New Year's Day and he has no idea

where it is coming from and is at a loss as to what to do about it.

will be doing it all might tonight, tomorrow, forever, Now, until

summer. I can't do it. It's terrible. I can tell you are upset.

It is dumped me in it. He is praying there will be no more rain

and you'll never forget the misery the weather has caused. -- he will

never forget. The highest wind were in higher

Bradfield West of Sheffield with gusts of 93 mph. We have been in

South Yorkshire. It is a route that takes the full

force of the weather and last night's gales proved too much for

this lorry last night. The word has been closed all day as a recovery

team got work and the strong winds continued. This small South

Yorkshire village escaped any damage last night but takes the

honour of having been the windiest place in the region. It is still

very windy in the hills above Bradford this afternoon but the

gales were much stronger last night and the amateur record a gust of 93

mph, the strongest gust in Yorkshire. At the local brewery,

they told me the winds had been extremely powerful but this village

is no stranger to strong gales. are just on the edge of the

Pennines and it blows over the hills, and we get quite blustery,

so we are used to it. In Sheffield, a brand new Tesco store ended up

with a hole in the roof when a panel blew off last night and in

Rotherham, garden fences and sheds were unable to stand the force of

the gales. Some have owners face a frustrating clean-up. Really windy,

and the rain is coming down, and it is dripping through. We had some

buckets under here this morning. It is coming straight down. The rain

that arrived left rivers swollen and banks of the reservoir looking

like a choppy ocean. As the winds ease, people will be looking

forward to a much quieter night. I think we can all say he here to

that. Policy and he will try to explain this. Is this unusual?

We do get this now and again but this was very powerful and what

happened was we get a standing wave that sits there like it did last

night for 6-8 hours and if you are in the path of the down draft from

this new wave, you really know about it, and in the last few years

we have had numerous incidents of 70 miles an hour winds, but last

night they kept coming four hours and hours, and I thought my roof

was coming off and it was quite disturbing at times. To get a 93

mile per hour wind speed in Yorkshire is extraordinary.

It must be really bad in higher Bradfield. We were there for the

Yorkshire Symphony, and it is high and exposed, but even in some other

areas, those winds were whistling for.

We had a lid on the atmosphere that squeezed the atmosphere and the

best. When I broke up this morning, I immediately remembered from

writing about it at the Sheffield storm of 1962 when Sheffield's got

a 16 -- a 96 Not Our dust. The destruction was awful. We got away

with it. This is Sheffield in 1962. It flattened a prefabricated

housing estate. They're worth fairly flimsy

constructions back them up, but nevertheless we did have a vitality

is in 1962 and we were fairly lucky last night.

It is just luck that that massive gust hit a low populated area like

hybrid field in between Sheffield and Pedersen. It could have hit

Penistone, and we could have had 1962. Panorama did a special in

Richard Dimbleby, and it caused headlines around the world. We got

away with it last night. You will tell us later that

hopefully we will not have any more water. Have you got a clue?

We might have a half decent weekend because things are improving.

High river levels have been going on following persistent rain. There

has been some persistent flooding. We have our reporter in

Boroughbridge. There is a lot of water, isn't there?

This is what it is supposed to be the picnic area overlooking the

river but the river has burst its banks, coming out onto the grass,

leaving the benches in water. Going up some miles to a little village,

there is a caravan and camping Club and the owner said that is

completely flooded so he will not be taking bookings for some days.

There have been pockets of problems for flooding across North Yorkshire,

as we report in Skipton. A battle to prevent flooding got

under way last night. Firefighters pumped water off a road as they

attempted to keep homes dry. Winds gusted up to 70 miles per hour, and

motorists were told to make essential journeys. By dawn,

several minor roads between Skipton and Gargrave were covered with

water, 2 ft deep in places, and one motorist had a lucky escape as she

tried to make her way through this long stretch a flooded road.

managed to get out of the car, shook up by what has happened, but

is safe and well. So, the car was washed away from the road and down

into the river? As far as we believe, it is in the reverse. That

hasn't been recovered. She got out before that happened. She is safe

and well, but upset by what has happened, but safe and well. This

afternoon, of the flood plain was soaking up much of the water but

some roads were still submerged. And with further run of, it could

be several days before this drains away.

You can safely say a lot of the area is flooded. Are there any more

flood warnings operational at the moment?

Yes, there are still six flood warnings in place for North

Yorkshire tonight. Two of those are for this area, two of those are,

unsurprisingly, for the River Ouse in York. The levels are expected to

peak at around 5:00am tomorrow morning which will mean the obvious

areas like the foot pass around kings and queens days will be

flooded and the Environment Agency said this is normal level for this

time of year, so, although the storms over the last 24 hours have

felt and looked severe, the consequences in terms of flooding

should not be too serious, but if you have any concerns with flooding

in your area, do check the Environment Agency's website where

they will keep you up-to-date with the latest information.

Thank you very much, no picnics there for a while. Let's hope those

rivers will recede. Living in York, there is always

intense interest from people when the weather even slightly floods.

It was immense again this morning. People looking at it in wander, and

it happens about 20 times a year. But that is quite interesting, but

according to Paul, it will recede quickly.

Northern Powergrid say there have been 100 separate weather-related

incidents across Yorkshire, leaving a total of 861 customers without

electricity. Compared to Scotland, that is not

too bad, it is it? They put their emergency plan into operation and

are working to restore supplies. Meanwhile, hundreds of homes in

West Yorkshire have had gas for heating and cooking today for the

first time in several days. Gas supplies were cut to 1,600 homes in

Steeton, near Keighley, after strong winds damaged equipment.

Engineers needed to visit individual properties to restore

supplies. Thanks for all of your pictures

during the course of the day. We'll take a look at them at the end of

the programme. You can e-mail us, our address is [email protected].

We appreciate them because they add an added dimension. You can post

them on our Facebook page at BBC Look North Yorkshire. Or you can

tweet a picture to @BBCLookNorth, Stay with us as we meet a woman who

says her life has been ruined by the breast implants causing

controversy. Who should pay for putting right the surgery carried

out with the wrong type of Poor bank holiday staffing levels

on a ward at St James' hospital have been blamed for the death of a

67-year-old woman. An official report by the hospital has accepted

there were delays in ensuring Christine Lofthouse was given the

right medication. Her son is about to settle a negligence case against

the hospital, but says it's more important that lessons are learnt.

Our Health Correspondent, Penny Bustin, has this exclusive report.

Where her name and details should be recorded, there are blank spaces.

Just more than 100 errors her son highlighted in have medical records

after her death. She had been at the hospital for just three days.

It fitted with a you Rina the tract infection, her son told staff she

was on antibiotics. She was transferred to the medical

assessment unit, but no one picked upon in medication knead until it

was too late. They failed to pick it up on ward rounds twice. For 24

hours, they left her in her bed, apparently not there. There are

mistakes, documentation, Documentation missing, records not

kept, medication apparently given which were not given. Later, at an

interview I had with the Trust, they admitted that my mother had

not been given the antibiotics. Pearson's contention, accepted in

the hospital's report sets that delays happened because there were

too many patients to deal with. It was no year 2011. To realise that

initial period of time, less than three days, medical professional

people who have a care of duty, failed at every stage, I do not

know how I feel. All I know was that I do not want revenge, I want

to make sure this does not happen again. Having look through it, it

is quite damning as regard to the care your mother received. It is a

shock to see how little they did for her. There was a lack of staff.

They did not have time to read the notes that. On occasions, perhaps

they did not have time to read the notes. Had they have the time to do

that, then perhaps the outcome would have been very different.

you saying that was responsible, be under staffing, the pressure of

work, that led to her death? In my fear, yes. And that is not unusual.

That is tragic. The hospital accept that standards

of care failed, have apologised to the family and say an action plan

will ensure lessons have been learnt. They can offer their

sincere condolences to the family. You sit there and the doubt

yourself. Did I do everything possible? The answer was, yes, we

did everything we were supposed to do as carers, and the people who

did not was the people you put your trust in, the hospital.

Other news from around the region now.

A student bar in Sheffield is to keep its licence following a

controversial all-day drinking party. A student was seriously

injured after being hit by a bus outside Bar One after one of the

University Union's annual Christmas events last month. It's thought she

fell into the road after drinking heavily at the venue. Police called

for an urgent review of the licence but today councillors decided it

shouldn't be changed. Teachers and pupils have spoken of

their loss after a 13-year-old boy was found dead at his Sheffield

home. Police are not treating the death of Ritchie Allsop as

suspicious, but won't comment on reports he was found hanged. He was

a Year 9 pupil at Ecclesfield school, where the headteacher said

all there were shocked and saddened at the death of a pleasant,

cheerful and polite pupil. Anti-capitalist protestors have

voted to end their occupation of a square in Leeds city centre. The

Occupy camp has been on City Square since November. The protestors say

persistent bad weather has made it unsafe for residents. Meanwhile,

Sheffield Cathedral has said it will take legal action if

protestors don't move from their site in the city within the next

week. Rotherham Police are concerned

about this man, who disappeared earlier in the week. Mark Holland,

who's 31, left his home in Kimberworth for work early on

Tuesday morning, but never arrived. Officers say his disappearance is

completely out of character. A Leeds woman says her life has

been ruined by a breast implant that ruptured. Sherrie Vye becomes

so chronically tired, she has to use a wheelchair after silicone

from her implant leaked into her body. 40,000 British women had an

implant supplied by the French firm PIP. The implants had been filled

with the wrong type of silicone and French women can have theirs

replaced free of charge. But here, ministers are deciding what to do

after initially saying the implants need not be replaced. Earlier, I

spoke to Sherrie Vye. But first, here's Cathy Killick with a summary

of the controversy. It is silicone implants supplied by

the French firm PIP that are causing concerns. They were banned

in 2010 after being found to contain industrial cynical the gel.

Just before Christmas, the French have a Ritter's said the implants

also had a risky 5% rupture rate and advise they be removed. In the

UK, the rupture rate was found to be 1%, no riskier than other

implants. The Government cheer said removal was not necessary for the

40,000 women who had had them. The statistics are being reviewed and a

Health Secretary has said that women who while where it should be

helped by poor weather provided their implants. If any woman is

concerned, they should speak to their GP or consultant surgeon.

They should be responsible for delivering them reassurance,

information and if necessary, providing a scam. We will provide

for NHS patients access to their medical records, access to more

advice and if they wanted or needed, access to a spell of four further

digresses. The a further announcement is expected from the

Government tomorrow. You know all too well the problems

of the company macro implants. You arrive cheer in a wheelchair. How

has the leaking affected sue? completely devastating. Everything

has changed. I cannot go out with my family. Everything has gone.

used to be very athletic. How would you describe your health now?

lucky if I go out twice a week. I am bed-bound quite often and in a

wheelchair. You have been to the NHS. They have offered to remove

that one of the implants. Why did you say no? I did not want to be

left with one in and one out. I do not think it would look right. I do

not think it would do myself any good a missionary. I have had of

them left in. What you would really be asking for is for both of them

out on some kind of reconstruction. What would you say to those who

said that she went privately, it should be those that you pay to

sort your problems have now? When I went privately, I went as a healthy

person. Because of the implants, I have become and healthy and have

medical conditions which need NHS treatment. You seem very calm about

it, but I know that you feel your life is in tatters. I am just tired

of it all. It has been going on for so long. When be in plans started

leaking, how were you aware that you were becoming ill? I started

with a bit of City, pain in my chest, tingling, I found some less

-- I found some lambs in my chest and went to my doctor. What you see

your future? It is just taking it day by day. Hopefully, they will

find something and they will sort me out. But just day-by-day. In the

meantime, every day is a struggle. Definitely. Not just for me, for my

family. How has it impacted on them? I have four children. Two of

them have been more or less my carers. By to have a centre for his

disabled. It has turned my children into full-time carers. They do not

get out and have found. They do not do what the other children do.

you wish you had ever hit the world -- the word, breast implant? If I

could go back, I would. You've all getting in touch with us

all day to send in your pictures of the aftermath of the stormy weather.

Amanda Harper has been taking a look at some of the pictures you've

sent us during the day. motorways were risky places to be

last night. But this morning, two lanes of this carriageway were

blocked. This than a crash down on the side of the motorway. Trees

have been uprooted by the sheer force of the gales. In Bradford, we

were said this picture of iron railings crumpled under the weight

of the tree. This was the mess of that residents of one st on

Huddersfield were cut to this morning. Proved have have been

causing plenty of damage. This was the result of one house in

Doncaster. This shows the force of the gales. A garden shed scooped up

in the storm and lodged in nearby trees. We had this photo of a

child's trampoline. But the work to clear up now begins.

We have just received this video. FIFA did was taken on a road near

Skipton. But he was obviously driving. He was carrying on and

tell apparently he emerged unscathed. Keep your footage coming

in. That is very bad. If what is in store for us for the

I have got one more light-hearted picture to show you. That is the

weather station at Craven. That is a weather station? Did you not do

that at school? I did not. It could not withstand the gave. -- the gale.

Keep the pictures coming in. I had numerous updates on Twitter as to

the weather conditions yesterday. Let's have a quick look at last

night's wind speeds without extraordinary one in South

Yorkshire. I bet the pilot did not fancy landing in the airport there.

That was a powerful one. Thankfully, things will quieten down in the

next 12 hours. Tomorrow is not looking too bad. This weather front

will bring some patchy rain into western areas late in the day. It

has been a lovely afternoon. Lots of sunshine. There is still a gusty

wind. It is forced six along the Yorkshire coast. Overnight, the

winds will continue to ease. Nowhere near as bad as it was last

night. If you have got shelter from the wind, they could be a touch of

frost with temperatures down to minus one degrees Celsius. It could

be I say. The sun will rise in the morning at 8:23am. It is a

beautiful start. A bit of frost, a bit of eyes, there should be a lot

of blue skies, a lot of sunshine. Very pleasant indeed. Cloud will

increase from the West and being -- the afternoon looks cloudy. Patchy

rain developing, but further east, it should stay dry during daylight

hours. A moderate breeze from the south-west. That is a welcome

change. Top temperatures roundabout nine Celsius. A bit of patchy rain

on Friday night and the weekend will be reasonable. A good deal of