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issue that we all hope we will never have to face. The Yorkshire man

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paralysed for over 20 years once a doctor to be allowed to take his

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life. My wheel has gone, I am worn down, worn out. I'm not getting any

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younger. I am not convinced any doctor would want to be involved.

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I'm not sure if I would, really, to do that final act. Also, what the

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weather has done to Yorkshire because I go gardening industry. One

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West Yorkshire centre has had to dump a fifth of stock because people

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are not panting. And a proud day for teenagers as they end our stage in

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their army training in Yorkshire. Well, some ferocious wind first

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thing this morning. These wind turbines have been kept busy. What

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are the next five days looking like? take the life of someone who wants

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to die? Paul Lamb from Pudsey has been severely paralysed since a car

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crash 23 years ago. He is in constant pain and wants to change

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the law to give him the power to decide whether or not he should

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continue to live. His case goes beyond assisted suicide. His

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paralysis is so severe that he cannot take the final steps to kill

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himself. Today, right die campaigner Debbie Purdy and one Yorkshire

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Doctor have told us that his wishes go too far.

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By his own admission, it is a painful and monotonous existence.

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Paul Lamb from Leeds is confined to a wheelchair with no function in any

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of his limbs apart from a little movement in his right hand. It is a

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life he says he no longer wants to live. It's horrendous. I am scared

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to death. Of this getting worse. Of me just ending up... Dosed up to the

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eyeballs. Paul, now 57, is taking up the button of the late Tony

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McClinton, who suffered locked in syndrome after a catastrophic stroke

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in 2005. He died last August after losing his legal battle to establish

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the right to a doctor assisted death. In March, the Court of Appeal

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granted an order allowing Paul Lamb, who has waived his right to

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anonymity, to take over his claims. His case is due to be heard next

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month. My will has gone. I am not getting any younger. I would badly

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like to see the law changed. In the absence of legislation on assisted

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dying, it is hoped that the legal case will stimulate further debate.

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But one medical expert thinks that doctors might be reluctant to take

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on the responsibility. You would probably find that there are

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particular doctors that would be happy to be involved in it. They

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would have two be part of the system that happened. I'm not convinced

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every single doctor would want to be involved. I don't know if I would,

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really, to do that final act, I don't know if I could do that.

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Debbie Purdy from Bradford, who has multiple sclerosis and made legal

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history by winning her battle to have the law on assisted suicide

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clarified, says that individuals, not doctors, should be allowed to

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make their own choice. I would not make somebody else responsible for

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my death. It would have to be my decision, and also if you change

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your mind, it is much harder to suck a lethal poison up than to ask a

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doctor to inject you. And that means that you have got until the final

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possible moment to change your mind. Paul used to successfully trained

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greyhounds, enjoying life to the full. He says that his days now

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consist of being fed and watered. In England and Wales it is an offence

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to encourage or assist a suicide or suicide attempt. For Paul, any

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change to the law cannot come soon enough.

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Paul Lamb's lawyer, Saimo Chahal, also represented Debbie Purdy in her

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battle to get the law clarified. She joins us from London. Does this not

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go too far? Debbie Purdy believes it does and she has been campaigning

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for many years. Well, Paul Lamb is a different person from Debbie Purdy.

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There are many other people in Paul Lamb's situation. He feels,

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certainly, that this is something that he wants. He is not alone in

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this wish. Several people are standing behind Paul Lamb, who want

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exactly this right to be clarified and given to them. It is a lot to

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ask a doctor, to take someone's life. It goes against everything

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they stand for, doesn't it? A doctor has a number of duties, one is to

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relieve and -- unbearable pain. They have said in the past that their

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life consists of unbearable pain. It is part of the Hippocratic oath to

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relieve that pain. I take your point, but a lot of people might

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argue it sets a dangerous precedent to allow a doctor to have the power

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to kill? Only doctors who wanted to participate in such a scheme would

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have to do so. So it's not something that could be imposed on doctors

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that do not wish to participate. That is certainly the situation in

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other countries, where assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia has

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been legalised. How far are you and Paul willing to take this through

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the legal system? I act as his lawyer, I act on behalf of cases

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that want to pursue cases, it is not my personal case. Always willing to

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take it all the way. The case is currently at the Court of appeals

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stage. It may go back to the High Court to decide on the fact and it

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may go to the Supreme Court if necessary. I think that Paul is

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willing to go all the way, even to the European Court, to get the law

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clarified. Thank you very much. Breaking news about children's heart

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surgery at Leeds General Infirmary. The NHS plans to appeal a High Court

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ruling that the decision was unlawful. Jamie Coulson joins us

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now. Another twist in this saga. Can you explain where we are? Three

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weeks ago, a High Court judge quashed a decision that would have

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seen children's heart surgery come to an end in Leeds, Leicester and

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the Royal Brompton. She identified problems that she said went beyond

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the technical and were fundamental. She refused leave to appeal, saying

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she did not think there was a realistic prospect of success. That

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is not the end of the process and there are other avenues available to

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appeal the decision, and that is where we find ourselves today. NHS

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England have said it's important to deliver change as quickly as

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possible. They say they want to keep all of their options open, which

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includes waiting for details of an independent report that is due to

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come out at the end of this month. But they have also been advised that

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there are good grounds for an appeal and this application has now been

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submitted to the Court of Appeal. We have had some reaction from Stuart

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Andrew, the MP for Pudsey, a staunch campaigner to keep the unit open. He

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says he's very disappointed to learn that NHS England have decided to

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appeal a High Court judgement and he says he hopes he will have an early

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resolution to the dispute with minimal cost to the taxpayer. What

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NHS England are doing is seeking leave to appeal. There is no

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guarantee they will be allowed to do it. Coming up on look North, Harry

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has been finding out how gardeners can cope with the late spring.

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is how I get dressed up when I am gardening, which explains why I am

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not very good X! . Our expert will tell us why we should not get

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worried, just get cracking. Insurance company Aviva, which has a

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base in York, has announced 2000 jobs are to go. Most of the

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redundancies will be in the UK within the next six months. It is

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about 6% of the workforce. It is unclear how many posts in York are

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under threat. The company also says that from next year, redundancy pay

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will be reduced. A man found dead in Leeds on Tuesday died just metres

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from where his son lay sleeping. 21-year-old Jordan Stapleton was

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killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest in what is thought to have

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been a targeted killing. Police have also released a 999 call reporting

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the shooting made from a phone box who know Jordan and could give us a

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bit about his background and his family and friends. Anybody that has

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any grievances against him, anyone that would want to harm him. I feel

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like the answer would probably be on this estate somewhere. North

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Yorkshire police have selected a new chief constable. Dave Jones is

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currently an assistant chief constable in Northern Ireland. He

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will replace Grahame Maxwell, who retired last year. He is the first

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appointment of Commissioner Julia Mulligan. It must be approved by the

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police and crime panel next Thursday. Dave Jones is currently

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serving in Northern Ireland. As you can probably imagine, in Northern

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Ireland they have a real focus on community policing. I wanted to make

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sure that we had somebody like that. He served in Greater

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Manchester as head of crime, so he has a vast amount of experience in

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dealing with serious crimes. strong winds have been causing

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problems across Yorkshire. Some flights were affected at Leeds

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Bradford airport. It was a wobbly landing for one aircraft earlier

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today. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. Police have had to cope not part of

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Leeds city centre at the part of the Plaza hotel was damaged.

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The Rugby football league has expressed surprise over plans to

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bring speedway back to Odsal Stadium. In its heyday, Bradford

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attracted big crowds. But racing stopped their 16 years ago. A

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planning application has been submitted to the council to bring it

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back. The RFL, which owns the ground, says it had no contact from

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anyone about the scheme. A jury has heard how severely

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disabled patients were assaulted, abused and tormented by staff at a

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day centre near Doncaster. Former co-workers from the Solar Centre

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have gone on trial today. There are more than 50 charges relating to

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incidents involving 17 different patients. Our crime correspondent

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has this. At the Solar Centre in Doncaster,

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two years of alleged ill-treatment of daycare patients by three former

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care assistants and a physiotherapist. They were said to

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have an atmosphere of intimidation and bullying, which upset other

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staff who felt unable to speak out. On trial, James Hynes, with 22

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charges, Susan Murphy with 20 two, physiotherapist Michael Barnard with

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seven accusations and Julie Burch, three charges. All of the charges

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are denied. Sheffield Crown Court has heard allegations of beatings,

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punching, hitting, rough treatment and, in one case, allegedly a

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patient being locked in a cupboard. 52 charges in all. The accusations

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dated back to a period between January 2005 and March 2007. The

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Solar Centre, here in the grounds of Saint Catherine 's Hospital, caters

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for people with severe mental and physical disabilities. 17 of them,

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some blind and all unable to have given evidence or to have stood up

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to their alleged aggressors, were listed as the victims. It had been,

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according to the prosecution, two years of physical assaults, threats

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and degrading treatment by the former co- accused. James Hynes is

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alleged to have boasted about giving one patient a good hiding because he

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had been aggressive. Susan Murphy, to have hit a 51-year-old woman for

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ripping up a magazine. After the opening of the prosecution case at

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Sheffield Crown Court, witnesses had delayed spring have proved

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devastating for the gardening industry in Yorkshire. There has

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been almost a drop of 50% in sales of outdoor plants. One of the

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country's largest suppliers in North Yorkshire has told look North that

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customers simply are not buying. They have seen sales fall by 60%

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compared to last year and another nursery in West Yorkshire has had to

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throw away 20% of its stock. These are plants that would normally fly

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off the shelves. Danny Carpenter has the story.

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In gardening terms, we are already into late spring. The early flowers

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have come and gone, but these have only gone to the compost heap. They

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are among thousands of unsold plants in a 13 month cycle of bad weather.

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According to records kept up this nursery, just four dry weekends in

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12 months. Two of those were in December. We have been battling

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mother nature for almost a year. It is a good question, how much longer

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can it go on? Luckily, we don't have the level of debt that some

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horticultural as Mrs do. We should be able to ride the storm, but we

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are desperate for customers to come back out. It's the same story all

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over Yorkshire. In Richmond, this nursery is one of the biggest. It

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supplies to garden centres all over the UK. The customers are not

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selling, so they are not selling. Trade is down by 60%. It has never

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been as bad as this. The last time that march was not a very good month

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would be in 2005. Certainly not since then. People have been saying

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they are desperate to get out and start doing anything in their

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greenhouses and garden. And they can't with snow on the ground.

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and his team can still produce plenty of stock. 100,000 flowers in

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a normal year. The problem is, nobody has been able to plant. The

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soil is soaking, the nights are cold. A washout summer followed by a

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freezing winter. The gardeners have stayed indoors. Every time the

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weather does take a turn, it takes a turn for the worse. This is the

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damage from last night's wind. More stock ruined. It's the third time

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this week. Professional growers are eternal optimists. But turnover is

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�100,000 down. Sales of firewood and pet food are keeping them going. But

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without a bit of help from the What about gardeners themselves?

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Gary has been to see Radio Leeds's gardening guru to see if he can

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help. I know that you are an expert gardener, have you had any problems

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this year? Everybody says that we are weak spine. Is that the case?

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Are probably three weeks. -- weeks behind. We have to try and get that

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weather right in May. Things like potatoes, they should have gone in

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on Good Friday, traditional potato planting day. Could not do it

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because the weather was so bad. I nipped into the greenhouse and put a

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view into pots. I got them growing, I'm going to plant them next week.

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I'll be in front. So you can be in front as well. This is the edible

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cherry. They were clever enough not to flower in March. They are going

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to probably flower next week. an advantage? Yes. Hopefully next

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week we will not have frost so we should have a good crop. Flowering

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plants, people didn't want to plant them during that cold period. There

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was nothing to stop them planting things like pansies. A wonderful

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primrose. Things like peas, they are just germinating. I didn't want to

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sew them outside. That is how they would have been now, but you've done

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it inside? We have done it inside. We would normally be having rhubarb

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pies. They are just beginning to grow. With a bit of luck, rhubarb

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and custard. People say you put the money on your rhubarb. You do, but I

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prefer custard estimation -- manure. Onions, get them in now. Get

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cracking. The sun is shining, it's a bit windy, but the soil is right.

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gardener wear a suit to prune the roses. My tulips have been under a

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blanket of snow. You can hear Joel on Radio Leeds. We will be joined by

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the country from Leeds who has just been crowned Young Magician of the

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Year. Today has been a landmark for 250 teenagers who have just

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completed their first six weeks in the Army. They have been training at

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the Army Foundation College in Harrogate. Today was their first

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parade in front of friends and family. After a week's lead they

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will be back to complete basic training. It is called a passing-in

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parade and gives these trainee soldiers a chance to show what they

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have learned. Their families last saw them at civilians in February.

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It is quite a transformation. Six short weeks ago these young men and

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women were raw recruits, in Army Times barely ready to lace their own

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boots let alone perform drills. But already they are starting to look

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the part. The sergeant's Poots set the mark for shine. Their families

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are impressed. It's great, absolutely great. My heart was

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thumping. It is quite difficult to contain the emotion. Very proud to

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see my son and everyone else's sons and daughters. Transformation?Can't

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see that yet, but I've heard that on the phone. In conversations we've

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heard that he's changed already. weeks is just amazing. Passing the

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parade inspection is just part of what is expected of the young

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soldiers. In their barracks, the families get to see immaculate kit

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kept just so. Really proud of him. He has lost a bit of weight, a

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little bit of weight. He's still chubby in face, he's always been

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chubby! It's just been tough. Administrating yourself. How do you

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feel you've done? I've done quite well, it's my best and that is all I

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can ask for. The reunions are also a chance to pose as families adjust to

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a soldier in their midst. They are just a few weeks away from service

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life, provided they can keep in step with the Army's expectations. A

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proud day for those guys. You will like this, but not a lot. The likes

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of Dynamo and Derren Brown have given the art of magic a new lease

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of life. Certainly a far cry from pulling rabbits out of hats. A new

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generation is breaking through as part of this revival, one of them is

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17-year-old Sebastian Walton from Leeds. He recently won the Magic

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Circle Young Magician of the Year a word and he joins us now. How did

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you come to win it? 17 entered, all begun magicians in Britain, and they

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went down to the magic circle in London. I went through to the finals

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and ended up winning it. What got you interested in this kind of

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stuff? I went on a family holiday. Before that I was interested in card

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tricks in high school, but when I saw someone else doing tricks to me

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it fooled me and I thought I liked that. All of these cards are blank,

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OK? Yeah.Grab anyone you want. Anyone? Anywhere you like.You're

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welcome. It is important that that doesn't rub off. Argue a doctor by

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any chance? If I take your card like this and spin it, it vanishes.

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look at that. To get it back you take the card and just go one, two,

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three. And it's back!I'm going to leave it under the glass. Now, I'm

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going to do the same thing with a different card. I'm going to write

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said in my -- Seb in my best handwriting. You can see that. All

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right, let's just recaptured. -- recaptured. Watch closely. I'm going

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to take the cards like this. little wiggle. Go one. How did you

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do that? That is extraordinary. Do you have to choose your victims

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carefully? I imagine you need a lot of charm and charisma. You get the

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odd person, but YouTube are brilliant. It takes you around the

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country, doesn't it? Last November I performed at the Royal Variety

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Performance after-show party. you for coming in. Here is another

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magician. Very strong winds. Use that plane at the airport. Hi

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Bradfield had a gust of 78 mph this morning, which is pretty

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exceptional. We got the sand blowing off the fields in East Yorkshire

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into North Yorkshire. You can see sand dunes in some areas. These were

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sent by the forecaster and she thought that was a beautiful cloud.

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Keep the pictures coming in. Let's have a look at those top wind speeds

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from breakfast time. Some gusts of 60 mph, that is a severe gale. It

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was a good job the trees weren't in full leaf, there would have been a

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lot of problems if we had been three or four weeks further down the line.

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Tomorrow it will be a damp start, it Saturday, dare I say a good day for

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getting in the garden. There will be some patchy rain later on. There

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will be one or two showers at the moment. They are losing their

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intensity as they cross into South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. There

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are some sunshine but still a strong wind, that will ease overnight as

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rain pushes down from the North West. The temperatures will be down

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to four degrees or five degrees across north-western parts of

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Yorkshire. The sun rises at 5:58am. A damp start, especially for South

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Yorkshire. Further north it should quickly become dry and the skies

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will brighten. The afternoon is quite pleasant, one or two showers

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are possible. There will be a cool breeze in Scarborough, highs of

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