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Good evening and welcome to Thursday's Look North. Our top story | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
tonight: Why some people with mental illness in Yorkshire are waiting | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
months for therapy. We speak to one teenager who says | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
she's been waiting since January for effective treatment for chronic | :00:14. | :00:20. | |
anxiety. I think it is disgusting, really, how long you have to wait | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
for treatment that can be life changing. | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
Also tonight, watch the footwork by the woman in pink. She and her male | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
partner in crime are part of a steep rise in baggage theft on Yorkshire's | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
rail network. And we are live in Sheffield as the | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
city hosts the British transplant games. We will be hearing some of | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
the amazing stories of those taking part. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
These were the skies today. It has been a mild day for all of us. What | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
is in store for tomorrow? I'll be back later in the programme with all | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
the details. First tonight, it's thought that one | :00:57. | :01:08. | |
in four of us will suffer some sort of mental illness in the course of a | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
year, so why are so many patients here in Yorkshire having to wait | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
months to access the right treatment? Latest figures show that | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
thousands of people in the region are waiting longer than the | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
government's target time to access therapy. Look North's been contacted | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
by one 19—year—old from North Yorkshire with chronic anxiety. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
She's been waiting months for the right treatment. Her GP has now | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
questioned whether she could go privately to avoid the wait. Here's | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
our health correspondent Jamie Coulson. | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
19—year—old Emma from Selby has suffered with Melton helped Dutch | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
mental health problems throughout July. Last Christmas anxiety and | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
depression are to panic attacks and she was unable to leave the house or | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
go to college. I got really tearful at times. It can just come on... And | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
it can sometimes take over, even if I'm feeling on top of the world, it | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
can sometimes get on top of me and bring me right back down. And I was | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
referred by her GP for therapy in January but she had to wait seven | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
weeks before she was offered treatment. When that began was | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
immediately identified as needing more intensive support. Months | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
later, she's still waiting for that to begin and her GP has questioned | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
whether she go privately. I think it is quite disgusting how long you | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
have to wait for treatment that can be life changing. Anna's case of | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
trying to find the right help in the right time is not unique. Latest | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
figures suggest that even once someone has been referred, there can | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
be a wait for treatment. In the first three months of this year, | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
over 259,000 people in England were referred the psychological therapy. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
In Yorkshire, that figure was over 25,000. At the same time, over | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
13,000 had to wait longer than the target time of 28 days to target | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
care. If somebody is identified as needing help and is offered help, | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
and then there is a long wait, the critical window of time can be | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
missed when they can be helped before the depression becomes may be | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
a very disabling and crippling illness. The NHS Trust responsible | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
for Emma's care says it has increased referrals and waiting | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
times have become longer than they would wish. In a statement, they | :03:34. | :03:52. | |
For now, Emma's wait for the right care continues, with no real | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
indication of how long it could take. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
The chief executive of the York branch of the mental health charity | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
Mind says the problem is widespread. It is. Across the whole country and | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
in particular in Yorkshire and Humber. The waiting times for | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
psychological problems is much higher. We have always accepted, I | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
think, the mental problem is something that has not been done | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
fairly. There is a stigma to it. It should be on a parity with other | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
illnesses, shouldn't it? It should. One of the most reassuring things | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
we've seen from the last government and this government and the NHS is | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
to put mental health and physical health on parity. Within the new NHS | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Constitution, it is written in that mental and physical should be | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
treated with parity. It is easy to say GPs are giving out Prozac. Are | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
they not concerned, too, that the delay is such that they've got to | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
give something to give short—term relief, whether that is the right or | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
wrong thing to do? There is a huge pressure on GPs to give patients | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
something when they come to surgery. What we do know is that talking | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
therapies work and often they much better than drug therapies. | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
What is the impact on a patient's life when the delays are | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
unacceptable or they get the wrong kind of treatment? It can be | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
devastating. Not only because that person is at —— unwell, but also for | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
their own sulphur steam, the stigma they are facing. It is almost as if | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
their condition isn't recognised. If you imagine turning up with accident | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
and emergency with a broken leg and told you have to wait 28 days. It | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
wouldn't happen. And it has an impact on the economy as well. It | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
impacts all sections of society, around employment, welfare benefits, | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
physical health, relationships, everything we touch. Thank you. | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
Next tonight, train passengers in Yorkshire are being urged to keep | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
their valuables and luggage safe as police try to cut down on an | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
unprecedented rise in thefts. More than 400 incidents have been | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
reported so far this year in our region, a 24% rise on the same | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
period last year. Phil Bodmer has been given exclusive access to an | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
undercover operation by British Transport Police. | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
Watch the pregnant woman on the left in the pink top. While the couple to | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
her right are in conversation, she moves a handbag under the screen | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
with her foot. An accomplice walks by. He turns, picks up the bag. It's | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
another example of an increasing theft on trains and stations in | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
Yorkshire. When I saw the footage, I was shocked at how slick it was and | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
how completely unaware I was of what was happening at the time. It's just | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
that moment when you realise everything 's gone, you feel | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
absolutely devastated and you're really frustrated because it has led | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
to a huge amount of work to try to sort everything out since then. And | :06:58. | :07:05. | |
it's really to try to make you aware that you've got to have your | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
belongings with you. Today, the Transport Police were out reminding | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
people to keep their belongings secure. Potential thieves are also | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
being targeted. These two passengers in front are actually undercover | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
police officers. On this train, it's not long before they spot suitcases | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
that are vulnerable to theft. There is quite a lot of luggage ear. It's | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
not trust luggage left that has been stolen, even bicycles are | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
vulnerable. Laptops, some —— smart phones up at risk, especially in the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
carriages. West Yorkshire has the highest number of thefts, 290 this | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
year, which is a 34% increase on 2012. In North Yorkshire, there were | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
59 thefts, in South Yorkshire, 65 incidents, but in Doncaster, there | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
was a reduction. 32 thefts compared with 37 last year. With the launch | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
today of operation Magnum, police are warning criminals about the | :08:08. | :08:13. | |
consequences of their actions. What I would say to thieves operating on | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
the network, it is a CCTV rich environment, we will catch you and | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
we will prosecute you. For victims, theft of personal items can be | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
traumatic. By highlighting her experience, Sarah hopes others can | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
afford —— can avoid a similar ordeal. | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
A very slick operation. Shocking! | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Later on Look North, let the party begin. | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
those who've done better than expected in this year's A—level | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
results. A pioneering broadband scheme for | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
South Yorkshire paid for with almost £100 million of public money has | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
been scrapped. The digital region was supposed to provide fast | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
broadband to hundreds of thousands of homes, but last month it emerged | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
that it was in fact serving just 3,000 customers. Here's our business | :09:00. | :09:10. | |
correspondent Danni Hewson. It was called ground—breaking, a way | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
to bring superfast broadband to South Yorkshire at a time when the | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
area was being ignored by private sector providers. And the | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
infrastructure has gone in. 350 miles of fibre—optic cable. It was | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
supposed to provide high—speed broadband to 1.3 million people. In | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
July, it emerged only 3000 people had signed up. So, councils have | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
pulled the plug but not before it cost the public purse £83 million. | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
First thing we need to say is we have 80% broadband, high—speed | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
broadband coverage across South Yorkshire, so our original | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
objectives of making the South Yorkshire economy didn't get left | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
behind was met. But it has been beset by a number of financial | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
problems, problems we will have to look into to make sure it doesn't | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
happen again. For one local company that has been using the network to | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
provide their customers with broadband, today's news has been a | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
blow. This is major news for us as a provider. Our main focus is to | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
maintain the service we provide and make sure that we can, you know, | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
provide continuity of service to migrate customers to a new network. | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
It will not It could take as long as the year. | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
It hoped a buyer can be found to offset the cost in the meantime. —— | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
it is hoped. All of Bradford's Respect | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
councillors have temporarily resigned the party's whip, in | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
protest at the suspension of two of their colleagues earlier this week. | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
It's after George Galloway's party refused to give a reason for the | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
action against them. The five councillors say they'll work as an | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
independent group until the matter's resolved. They want Mohammad Shabbir | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
and Ishtiaq Ahmed's suspensions revoked and they insist the pair | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
need to be publicly exonerated by Respect. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
There'll be celebrations and commiserations tonight as thousands | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
of Yorkshire's A—level students come to terms with their all—important | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
exam results. And for those who've done better than expected there's an | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
extra piece of good news this year. I remember opening that envelope! So | :11:09. | :11:20. | |
do I, that was a long time ago. That's because more of the region's | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
top universities say they'll be accepting applications for places | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
through the so—called clearing system. Clearing matches students | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
who didn't get the grades they expected with spare places. Here's | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Spencer Stokes. If the grades aren't right, A—level | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
results day can be quite deflating. That's not the case here where today | :11:34. | :11:41. | |
these pupils have got their best ever set of results. Students | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
celebrated by attaching their name, great and university destination to | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
helium filled balloons. There's something symbolic about it, flying | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
away, this is the last day, it is quite emotional. This is what | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
students hope this day would look like. The all—important results | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
which confirms that place at university, if your results are | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
right. I hoped to get three A s.Did you get them? I did. I got C s. I | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
didn't think I would get it because I found the exams very hard. It is | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
just as good for me as three A s. The students got a great and the | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
universities they wanted but if things don't go as expected, | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
students go through clearing. Traditionally, it has been used to | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
find a replacement university for those with grades lower than they | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
had hoped for but this year, restrictions on recruit —— | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
recruiting top students have been lifted so Yorkshire 's highest | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
ranked institutions, Sheffield, Leeds and York, are using clearing | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
to find students who got better than expected grades. This is a way of | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
offering better places to have —— to people who have done better than | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
they thought they were going to and giving them a chance to upgrade to a | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
different type of university. That is why you'll find that the top 24 | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
universities in the UK have gone into this process this year and | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
making places available in this way. Universities say that despite higher | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
tuition fees, applications haven't tailed off. They want the best | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
students, . Sixth formers seem keen to head off to university, wherever | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
that might be. I bet you did very well in your | :13:40. | :13:48. | |
A—levels. Two A s, two B s. How about | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Before seven o'clock, it was the longest room of its kind on earth. | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
Now, artists from around the world are heading to the Salts Mill | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
spinning Hull to pay tribute to Yorkshire's textile heritage. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
This time last year we were all enthralled by the Olympics and soon | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
after that the Paralympics, but tonight in Sheffield a very | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
different type of Games gets under way. The Transplant Games are held | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
every year across the UK with hundreds of competitors, every one | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
of whom has undergone a life—saving transplant. They compete in a range | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
of sports from running and swimming to five—a—side football and fishing. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
This year promises to be bigger than ever and our sports reporter Tanya | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
Arnold is in the centre of Sheffield for the opening parade. | :14:29. | :14:39. | |
Well, they are just parading the athletes in for the opening | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
ceremony. As you can hear, they've got the England band to add some | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
atmosphere, but these games are growing, year—on—year, going from | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
strength to strength. They started back in 1978. There are record | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
numbers of transplant athletes and supporters who have signed up for | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
this year's games. Competitor entry is up 17% to more than 670, and the | :15:01. | :15:07. | |
official supporter registration is up 10% to 1104 for the four—day | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
event. As one competitor told a colleague of | :15:15. | :15:15. | |
up 10% to 1104 for the four—day event. As one competitor told a mine | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
is that you watching people who should probably be dead. That's the | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
kind of stories you've got here. Kate has been following one former | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
competitor for the last year. This is the picture of the | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
Transplant Games. Paul Johnson is no stranger to the Transplant Games. | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
He's taken part several times over the years, including in Sheffield in | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
1995. But he will not be going this year. I come to this hospital, I | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
come here three times a week for the liars —— dialysis treatment. I can't | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
drink very much, and I've got a very severely restricted lifestyle. And | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
I've got a restricted diet as well. It is quite traumatic at times, it's | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
not something you'd wish on your worst enemy, but, hopefully, if I | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
can get a transplant later this year, I can put it behind me. Three | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
months on, and what will be pulled's third kidney transplant is | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
now imminent. You've got to put your trust in the surgeons. They've done | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
it many times before and it is almost routine. It is an early start | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital and it is almost time for | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Paul to go down to surgery. If all goes well, today his 14 months on | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
dialysis could be over. Even though I've had 20 operations myself, it | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
never gets any easier. But once I get down there, they put me to | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
sleep. And when I wake up, fingers crossed, be OK and I'll look forward | :16:55. | :17:02. | |
to a new life. It is now two weeks since Paul had his transplant. | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
Things haven't been easy. The operation itself took eight hours | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
due to complications. And he's now on a cocktail of drugs to prevent | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
his body from rejecting the new organ. When I wake up, I feel well. | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
When I opened my eyes, I just feel well. So just to live a normal life, | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
that's all I've ever wanted, and to be healthy. It is a struggle to get | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
there. As the Transplant Games begin in Sheffield today, Paul's only wish | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
is that more people like him are able to receive new organs. There is | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
a greater need in this country for more people to be organ donors and | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
to come forward and join the register. We need the government to | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
step up to the mark and get more people signed up. It is not good | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
enough for them to do nothing, people are dying every week. | :17:54. | :18:02. | |
These games are about everybody, young and old, taking part in a | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
range of different events. Let's hear some —— from some children who | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
have had to learn young about the donor registration scheme. | :18:12. | :18:23. | |
Organs are very important to people like me. Donors need to be with a | :18:23. | :18:36. | |
donor card. If I didn't have that kidney, I wouldn't be here right | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
now. And that is really good because I'm allowed to do lots of things. | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
And stuff. I'm not allowed to do contact sports. The liver doctor | :18:49. | :19:01. | |
said I needed a transplant so I was put on the transplant list. And I | :19:01. | :19:09. | |
don't know how many days later, but months later I got it. It was | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
amazing. Seeing what he could do and what he couldn't do before, the | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
transplant team are going to the games as well. We have made friends | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
with them. Not just here but other places as well. I can do a lot more | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
outside and I just have a lot more fun. If we didn't have Bethany, | :19:34. | :19:42. | |
there would be a piece missing forever. I feel very lucky. If I | :19:42. | :19:51. | |
didn't have my transplant, I'd be dead. | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
Let's hear from a couple more of the competitors this weekend and from | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
the team manager. I've got Charlie Dyson and Nick. Tell us your story | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
today. My stories started this time around ten months ago, October 23, I | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
received a kidney from my father. After going into renal failure for | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
the second time last year, my first transplant lasted 18 years, but I | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
got another one of my father. It has been a good road. Nick, what has | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
your journey been? It started in 1983, born with 40 kidneys. I was on | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
the list for ten years, on dialysis, and now in December be | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
celebrating my 20th anniversary of my transplant. That is my big | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
journey. How important is it for you to compete in these games? It's | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
massive. You see these people, they've all got their own story, | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
like me, like Charlie, they've all had a life—saving operation and we | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
need more people on the register so more people can live. How big a | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
focus was it being here as you are going through your process? The day | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
after I had my transplant, my focus was on these Transplant Games, to | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
get back on the golf course, to get practising and to compete, it was | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
the best focus I could have. It is related to be here. Lynn is the team | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
manager for Great Britain. These guys put in a lot of time and | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
effort, but there is a big message behind these games, isn't there? | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
Without their donors, they wouldn't be competing. These games celebrate | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
life, and hopefully get people talking about their wishes for their | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
loved ones. What is your aim is to get to the end of this tournament, | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
as well as having a successful event? What do you hope people will | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
have done? I hope to have had the conversation tonight with their | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
families and say, let them use my organs. For you guys, how important | :21:55. | :22:01. | |
is it to have the city behind you, despite the rain? It is important. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
It gets all the athletes out. That's what the main thing is. People might | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
not even be here, so they are happy to be in the rain. But do you want | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
to win? It is all about the winning! It is about taking part, but winning | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
helps. Good luck in the next couple of days. If you are in the Sheffield | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
area, they are competing at various different venues across the next few | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
days with the athletics at Don Valley on Sunday. | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
Last time they had the games in Sheffield, 25,000 people signed up | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
to the register. So, good work. Cricket, Yorkshire have had not a | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
very good season. West Yorkshire was once world—famous | :22:45. | :23:00. | |
for its expertise in the cloth industry. And to celebrate this, the | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
county's most famous mill, Salts Mill in Saltaire, is having its | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
textile past brought into the present. A huge exhibition opens | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
this weekend in what was the spinning room on the top floor of | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
the mill. It'll bring together the world's best textile artists to | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
showcase their work. Here's Cathy Killick. | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
It is not usually open to the public but on Sunday everyone will get the | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
chance to see the extraordinary space that was the spinning room of | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
Salts Mill. It's become a gallery to display the work of 23 | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
internationally known textile artist asked to make work specifically for | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
this room on a theme of cloth and memory. This is the first work that | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
greets you. It is by Peter Jacobs. It's taken from a photograph of men | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
in the Bradford will exchange in 1951. It is only when you come | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
around the back you realise it's not printed but it is in fact a | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
projection of the shadows cast by this incredibly fragile acid etched | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
cloth. It is really beautiful, like a shroud of ghosts. The artists have | :24:05. | :24:16. | |
responded to the building and the space. They've responded to the | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
history of the people who worked here. And they've also responded | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
very personally, some of them have placed very personal memories within | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
the space as well. Seven Japanese artists are showing their work. This | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
piece looks like Q1 cobwebs but it is in fact thousands of grains of | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
rice is suspended on gossamer threads. Other workplace with | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
traditional Japanese motifs, interpreted in a modern way. This is | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
by Karen Gough and who has researched the history of the women | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
who worked here from the census of 1891 and she's made these common | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
writ of plaques, if you like, out of old bobbins and cloth. You have to | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
look closely, this is incredibly delicate hand stitching. So skilful | :25:01. | :25:07. | |
and such a thoughtful memorial to the forgotten workers here. It is | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
worth seeing the spinning room let alone the yard. It's a good excuse | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
for a visit to Salts Mill. You've got until November three to catch | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
it. I had no idea that room was there in | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
Salts Mill. Find it next time you go. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
Now, we are talking A—levels. Were they A—levels in your time, | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
Harry? I'm only teasing! Core, slate board in my day. Now, | :25:35. | :25:47. | |
what did you get? I got A, B and U! I don't think I turned up for the | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
exam! We don't normally do black—and—white | :25:49. | :26:02. | |
pictures, but this one took my fancy. The canal between Skipton and | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
Keighley. The second picture, Scarborough knife—point. Heather, on | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
the North York Moors as well. Pull the weatherman —— you can tweet me | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
or send me an e—mail. We have had a mild and humid day. The butchers up | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
to 24 degrees. It is going to feel fresher tomorrow, and we will have | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
lost the humidity because the rain is approaching from the West at the | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
moment and it will be a cold front, and we will have to wait until | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
Saturday until we have another spell of rain. We had some pleasant | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
sunshine this morning. We saw more cloud develop. Through the evening, | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
that cloud thickens and we already have some rain, which will spread | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
eastwards. Later this evening and early tomorrow, early spells of | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
rain. It is breezy as well. Temperatures at around 16. So, the | :27:10. | :27:19. | |
sun will rise at 5:46am, and it will set at 8:30pm. Tomorrow, we start | :27:19. | :27:28. | |
the day with quite a lot of cloud around. The odd shower in the | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
afternoon, but we all have highs of 22. | :27:31. | :27:39. | |
A* for that. It is not the end of the world if you didn't get your | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
grades, by the way. Now, we will see at 10:25pm. Good night. | :27:45. | :27:46. |