24/04/2012 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening, welcome to Look North. The world famous Yorkshire Business

Convention gets ready for its last hurrah. Clinton, Gorbachev and Bush

Senior - just three of the global figures to appear on its stage over

the years We look at its rise and fall.

Also, it's a special day for lovers of the countryside - we're in the

Peak District to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the momentous

And relishing his new role - former Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis

joins us to talk about Kay Mellor's And a wet and windy day tomorrow.

Good evening. Another casualty of the tough economic times. The

Yorkshire International Business Convention has had as 17 year

history of attracting the best speakers in the world. Today its

organisers have announced this year will be the last in its current

form. Past American presidents have been on the guest-list. But such

starry company is proving too expensive to sustain. In a moment,

we will hear from the man who founded the convention. For the

past 17 years, Yorkshire's business leaders have scoffed, quaffed and

listened attentively at the Yorkshire Business Convention. They

had been attracted by a stellar list of guest speakers. The heyday

came in the early part of the century with Bill Clinton visiting.

Hot on his heels came up Mikhail Gorbachev. I have been in politics

for almost 50 years. Four years later, and George Bush Senior

turned up in Harrogate. His visit was hijacked by an anti- war

campaigner. But's response was cryptic. I am a for peace. I might

join them. Good. The convention always had big ideas about its

status. Ambitious from day one, its first guest was Dr Henry Kissinger.

The list of achievers that follows reads like a roll-call of power and

influence. Having set the bar so high, the organisers acknowledge it

is hard to maintain the standards set. Even so, rescind years have

continued to attract A-list stars. Bob Geldof appeared in 2007 with an

impassioned plea for investment in Africa. He was followed by model

Elle MacPherson. She added glamour to the politics. My knickers have

changed my life. The company expanded to two venues. The

speakers shuttled between the two. Last year it was cricketer Andrew

Strauss and some -- Sirte Tim Berners-Lee were dressed the

delegates. The convention will continue in Bridlington on a

smaller scale. The last Leeds Convention will take place in June.

The keynote speaker will be the Dalai Lama. He will provide what

organisers hope will be a fitting Some big names there. Let speak to

the founder and organiser, Mike Firth. What is the basic problem?

think we have had 17 fantastic years. We have had incredible names.

World-class names. They cost a lot of money. We are in a recession.

There is not be spent to justified that sort of speaker. We have built

up Kalaba the Vics based -- expectation and Leeds. We do not

want to go backwards. I think is a good time to bow out. Not bad to

start on Dr Henry Kissinger. Shall we start with that?! A I was

terrified but found him a fascinating. These were not 10 bob

speakers. There was talk of hundreds of thousands of pounds?

Yes. Clinton was $200,000. And he is getting more these days. He is

more in demand now than he was then. He lost the presidency and doubled

his feet. If you want to talk to someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger,

the starting's is $200,000. Hasn't it been bypassed by technology?

Companies and organisations can get together over the internet. Video

conferencing is a boring! We do not do boring. You cannot beat face to

face. When you're doing business, you cannot beat getting face to

face with people. Companies just cannot afford the upfront costs for

tickets, can that they? No, they cannot. That is life. A sign of the

times. If we go on forever saying we cannot afford things and not

getting out there and promoting Yorkshire, we have got a problem.

They thought you were mad when you said, I will stick this wacky Marky

in Leeds and get people like the President of the United States of

America, or the man who brokered the peace deal in the Middle East.

I think they were probably quite right. I am very lucky that I have

these ideas and do not stop to think. I do not know if it is a

good thing or a bad thing. For me, thank you very much. Bill Clinton

is one of the highlights of my life. He was one other highlights of many

people's lives but we will not go their! An inquest has heard how and

now that the woman was suffering from a catalogue of illnesses

months -- weeks after being admitted to a care home. Molly

Darby died after a short stay at the Beeches care home in Wath upon

Dearne. Her family say she looked like a concentration camp victim.

You may be upset by some of these images. It is heartbreaking. I get

upset and angry. I try not to but I could cry. For Jim Gardai, the

pictures he took off his mother Molly are still painful. Nearly

five years have passed since her death, but he still wants answers.

I want them, somebody, to be held responsible for that. Somebody was

responsible. Whether anything will happen, I do not know. Today

Molly's family came to Rotherham magistrates' court to hear the

inquest into her death. The court heard she died in 2007 from natural

causes. She had no money and a weak heart. But when she was taken to

hospital from the Beeches care home, she had bedsores, muscle wasting

and matted hair. One of the main questions today was whether the

care she received at the beach as Care Home contributed towards her

death. Today the court heard different accounts of the condition

she was in when she arrived. Jim describe a woman who was sprightly

and proud. Someone who was physically well. Michelle

Birkenshaw, a carer, described a little flavour old lady. -- a

little frail old lady. The care home where Molly Darby was treated

has since changed hands. The inquest is expected to finish

tomorrow. For her family, it should not only answer the questions about

how she died but why. Do stay with us. Later, watch out

for a flash flooding. The Environment Agency warns of

possible damage as heavy rain follows a long dry spell. Sheffield

United player Ched Evans will appeal against his rape conviction,

according to his legal team. He was jailed for five years raping a 90

year-old woman at a hotel in Wales last year. -- 9 Teeny year-old

woman. Reserve-team player Connar Brown has been suspended after

posting derogatory comments about the woman on Twitter. Police blew

up by the hand grenade in Leeds this morning. It was banned in the

grounds of the Gildersome Arms pub in Gildersome. It is not known how

old the grenade was. A policeman has been cleared of causing the

death by careless driving of a student who died after being hit by

a patrol car in Sheffield 18 months ago. PC Rodney Mills was driving at

nearly twice the speed limit without his warning lights or

sirens when he hit Jamie Haslett, who ran across the road in front of

him. The trial heard the 19 year- old, and was three times over the

drink-drive limit, was returning home after a night out. It is

obviously a relief that the trial is over. Our Volz are that it is

not a day for celebration. I young man lost his life. The Mayor of

Chengdu has been in Sheffield today to help the city forge

international links with China. He visited Forgemasters factory, which

already successfully trade with China. -- trades.

You probably haven't noticed this. It has been raining for the past

few days. But the Environment Agency is warning that it is

actually the dry spell earlier in the spring which has increased the

risk of flooding in parts of Yorkshire. They say the ground has

dried out so much, sustained rainfall will run into rivers and

streams rather than draining away. This is what flash flooding looks

like. It is nothing new. Hot summer days lead to thunder storms and

torrential rain. It cannot train into the hard ground so it rushes

into water courses and floods. It is normally confined to a few short

weeks in the summer. The flooding in Helmsley and Sheffield fitted

into that category. This was Pocklington last week, the middle

of April. The recent rainfall has done nothing to soften the ground.

The Environment Agency is warning that flash floods could happen

anytime, anywhere. It is very unusual. We would not expect that

kind of flooding until June, July or August. Now we are probably

looking at the next six months which could see an increased risk.

They are spending �13 million defending top London in Yorkshire.

Small streams meet in the centre. - - Todmorden. This is where the

problems start. The hills above the town are try and sleep. Any sudden

heavy rainfall runs straight off and into town. Strange though it

seems, the best defence against this sort of flooding is several

Before 7 o'clock. Neville Longbottom comes of age.

For the Harry Potter star takes centre stage tonight he in a Kay

Mellor drama serial. And Ian reports on a booming

business. The things I'd do for Look North!

Later I will be finding out how this is turned into this and why it

is a success story for one Yorkshire business.

80 years ago today, a group of young men set out for a walk. They

headed up on to Kinder Scout and rambled over land which was a pause

to be out of bounds. That has passed into legend as the

massed red -- mass trespass. The protest pays an important part in

opening up the countryside for all of us. Tom Engel has been to a

special celebration. Behind me, the distinctive plateau

of Kinder Scout. The hills where 80 years ago history was made. The

thing I have learned about the mass trespass today is how important

rambling was as a leisure activity back in 1932. You might work five

or six days a week in the factories and Sunday was your day to get out

and about to explore. The right to roam campaign was all about a

battle between landowner's rights and ramblers the rights and the

mass trespass was not the only part of it, but it was pretty

fundamental. # I am a rambler from Manchester

way... A rousing chorus of the Ramblers unofficial anthem. To

celebrate the anniversary of the mass trespass, there is no point in

singing Happy birthday. Of course it is political. When you walk into

these mountains you were walking... Walking is a political activity.

You're walking over what was one for you by those men. As a young

boy, George followed the trespassers up Kinder Scout. At 96

he still remembers the confrontation with gamekeepers that

followed. -- with BMP -- gamekeepers. The elders warned a

sticky patch of the way. We saw most of the trouble. I was very

annoyed that some of the members -- some of the men were taken prisoner

and locked up. Five of the men went to prison. It was as much a class

struggle as it was about the right to roam. My father was 20. I do not

think they were very happy about it. A very respectable Jewish family,

they were upset to say the least to have their oldest son sent to

prison! Further protests followed, with public sympathy on the

Ramblers side. Eventually, the national parks were created and as

late as 2000, legislation was finally approved allowing walkers

to stray off the footpath. 80 years on, we set off for a stroll up

Kinder Scout without the threat of arrest -- threat to rest. But a

warning that the campaign that goes on. The simple ask -- simple act of

putting one foot in front of another is implicitly sometimes an

act of protest. I liked the idea of a campaign rambler, it is almost a

contradiction in terms. People forget that the roots of us are in

dissent. It is not all cream teas and cosiness. Which is pretty much

where we came in. The ramblers were the cause to fight and a campaign

If you want to come out for a walk in the next few days, the festival

runs from now until Sunday. There are blocks of all lengths and talks

and dances. I cannot promise to the weather, but perhaps we have got

some great ramblers in the sky looking down on us because it is

glorious. That is something to celebrate.

Thank you very much. It is something we all take for granted.

What a legend! He was one of the real forerunners.

He was. Football now. You could say that

Barnsley have had a very little to celebrate recently. Until today. We

can say happy anniversary. It is the 100th anniversary of are

so's only FA Cup final triumph. It happened just a few days after the

sinking of the Titanic. They beat West Brom at Sheffield United's

Bramall Lane. My father and my grandfather were

both together here in 1912 behind the goal. It is the story of the

passing of the coins. If my father ever heard anyone putting coins in

boxes, he would say it reminded him of 1912.

Some nice memories. If you have been gripped by Vic Kay

Mellor drama series The Syndicate on BBC One -- Kay Mellor drama

series on BBC One, you have just a few hours to go before finding out

what happens. It stars Matthew Lewis who plays a

bad boy. He joins us in the studio. You, unlike 11 million of us

tonight, will not be watching the episode, will you? Know. I find it

difficult to watch the things I have been in. Why? I have always

been quite critical of my acting. It is one of those things that

you're always learning and growing end and you never consider yourself

the perfect actor. We have got a call it now. -- club now.

I would not ask you if I was a Hello Jamie. Decided to take a

little detour, did you? I want to grant of you or make your back.

have not got your ear. Looks like we're going for a little right.

You really did look away! It makes me really uncomfortable. My parents

watch it and they have got all the Harry Potter DVDs, but I just do

not have any of them. There is no more of it, so do not worry. Well

there is. But we will warn you. genie is a very dark character,

isn't he? Absolutely. But the thing about Jamie is that as bad as he is,

he is a bit of a pretender. He has got this facade, this brashness and

arrogance that has brought about by the money, but deep down he is just

like a lost little boy. His brothers always looked out for him.

He is pretending to be in this big man's world. Kay Mellor just right

things. It must be beautiful to read her lines. But you are in an

indie film again a player in a Leeds lad. -- plea end. Wasteland.

I would describe it as Stand By Me meets Trainspotting. Without a

Glasgow accent! It is about four boys who, or one of them has been

framed for possession, and while he is in prison he is thinking of ways

that he can get revenge and he employs the help of his three

friends. I am one of them. They decide that either they are going

to do it without me or they will do it and succeed and we will move to

Amsterdam. The all rallied together and it is about friendship. Do you

get fed up with people let us say end, what about Harry Potter?

sometimes still, a higher --, Neville. It is not something that I

am upset about. It was a great role for me. I started at 11 and did it

for ten years. There can be worse things that stay with you for the

rest of your life! It is not that! Just to calm you down, if you are

going to watch tonight, our next story is about popcorn, so you were

good tonight. Take that with you, sit on the sofa and watch yourself

on the television! Thank you very much.

Accompanying Bardsley is helping fuel the UK's highest ever demand

for popcorn. So great is that demand that and 2011, sales

rocketed by 300% and Tesco sold an incredible 7 million more packets

than it did in 2010. We're eating it all afternoon!

The company may soon have to expand to cope with the demand. Ian White

It has been a popular snack in America for decades, but pop

concert really only caught on in the UK in the 1970s. Now has sales

have gone through the roof and a Barnsley farm is cashing in. We are

trading ten men at -- ten million turnover. We started from zero and

it is a great success story. A in the recession, many people have

opted to stay at home with a DVD rather than go to the cinema. So

supermarket sales of popcorn have increased. Popcorn is a brilliant

product. It has called the fibre in it. It is packed with antioxidants.

It is half the calories and have the fat of a packet of crisps.

the 60 people who work here, popcorn has become their life. When

you go one night now, but you have a bad of popcorn? I have probably

had enough! When I fall asleep account popcorn! You do not Wass --

waste any time. The key is that no one talks to you! If there are any

bad backs in here, it is your fault. It is time for the taste test. Let

us see what this young gentleman thinks. Dickie! Popcorn. Do you

like it? Marvellous. Made in Barnsley. Tremendous. It reminds me

of the day for when I was a young lad sat in the back row of the

cinema. It also reminds me of when my mother took me to Scarborough.

It is marvellous. Made in Barnsley! Get it down you. Marvellous!

If it is good enough for Dickie, it is good enough for me!

This one has got top-lit on it. Let us take a look at the pictures.

This is a picture of a rainbow. It is a double rainbow. It is nice.

This one is a dark skies. That is from Martin. This one is not

whether related but I could not resist!

-- weather. A rather dismal 24 hours.

Tomorrow's forecast is a wet and windy one. A lot of rain. It is all

down to this pressure system. An area of low pressure is pursuing

eastwards. Unpleasant conditions for tomorrow. Today has not been

too bad. Lots of people have been saying that it is a pleasant end to

the day. One or two showers which will fade through the night. Mostly

dry. A tendency for cloud to increase the read the night.

Temperatures in more rural spots dropping back to around four or

five degrees. Early tomorrow morning, it may well start of dry.

-- start off dry. Quickly, we will see outbreaks of rain spreading

from the south-west. By the end of the morning everywhere will be wet.

It will feel cold. The breeze will be coming from the east.

Temperatures struggling. Tomorrow we will be getting up to around

eight or nine degrees. Throughout the rest of the week, sunny spells