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by Islamist extremists. That's all from the BBC News at Six. So it's

goodbye from will come to look North. Tributes to

a South Yorkshire toddler. She died after being rescued from a house

fire in Conisbrough. She played with all the other kids at the toddler

group. Lovely kid. Also tonight: Train travel in the future. Plans

for the Yorkshire leg of the High Speed two railway line go on show in

Leeds. The first York marathon is round the corner ` so we see how our

Harry is getting on. And it has been a cloudy day, but we have the

promise of milder and brighter things for tomorrow. Good evening

and welcome to Look North, a two`year`old girl has died following

a house fire in Conisbrough near Doncaster last night. Libby`Jayne

Hornsby was rescued by firefighters from a bedroom window but died later

in hospital. A number of other children in the house at the time

were rescued. Dan Johnson is at the scene. What is the latest? It has

been an awful day for people here in this quiet terrorist cul`de`sac as

they try to get their heads around the enormity of what has happened

last night. There may not appear to be much damage on the exterior of

the house, but the fire service have confirmed that it was in that front

first floor bedroom that the fire started amongst some bedding. We

have heard from lots of people who have been coming to pay tribute and

lay flowers. It was a very fierce fire, and we understand there were

question people in the house at the time. Three of them made it out

alive, but the toddler sleep upstairs did not. Libby`Jayne

Hornsby, a toddler just two years old. This is where she lived in

Conisbrough, where the fire started in an upstairs bedroom just before

eight o'clock last night. The initial fire crews that arrived

entered the building with breathing apparatus that enabled them to

search quickly in small properties like this on entering the

first`floor bedroom. The young girl was found within there, and quickly

removed from the property. She was taken to hospital but did not

survive. Investigators have been at the house working out how the fire

started. It is not that the two`year`old will appear with her

mother and older brother. It is not clear exactly who else was at home

at the time. Family, friends and neighbours have been coming all day

to leave flowers. We are devastated. We know that the little girl has

died. So, yes, it has really affected us, to be fair. They got

the little girl out a few minutes after I got there. It was not very

nice. The little girl, Libby, she was a little diamond. She loved to

play with all the other kids at the toddler group. We are going to miss

her. Our prayers are out for all the family at the moment. We understand

that the family rented property. The fire service say that it appears

that smoke alarms were not fitted. We would emphasise that these are

crucial piece of equipment that give early warning to residents at the

early stages of a fire. It is a close community, where people look

out for each other. They are raising cash to help the family and to put

towards the funeral that will mark the sudden end of a life that had

only just begun. The fire service say that it is too early to be

precise about exactly what sparked this fire. They have not ruled out

the possibility that it could have started deliberately, although it

appears that that is unlikely. There has been a suggestion that

Libby`Jayne Hornsby's mother was not in the house, what she is part of

the family and the community left reeling after this awful fire. For

the first time today supporters and opponents of the proposed high speed

rail link from Yorkshire to London got to see plans, drawings and

details of just what the route will look like if it's built. Official

consultation on the proposals to develop the 225 mile per hour

railway began at a hotel in Leeds ` and there will be other sessions

across the county. In a moment we'll be speaking to the Chief Executive

of HS2 Limited, but first here's Spencer Stokes. Railways are

supposed to run on straight, flat lines, but it has been a

roller`coaster year for HS2. At you up, but quite a lot of downs. Today

the formal consultation got under way in Leeds, the first of eight

sessions around Yorkshire. This one attracted interest from businesses

in the city, many of whom Asim pathetic. There was the issue about

the costs and benefits but I think we should stand back from it and

look at the size and scale of the project and how we get the most out

of this on the basis that it should happen and hopefully will happen.

The proposed route to Yorkshire in the north`west were revealed in

January. Within weeks, strong opposition began to emerge. In May,

and National Audit Office report said there was no evidence that it

would help regional cities. The date it costs rose from 36 billion up to

42 billion, followed by the Institute of directors, in August,

calling the project won grand folly. But the Government felt back. It

argued that HS2 with this capacity, not just speed. All that in just

nine months. Still 20 years to wait until trains arriving Yorkshire. But

you can hear what they will sound like passing through one village

near Barnsley. HS2 would not allow us to replay the noise, but

supporters think it is quiet, Welsh opponents disagree. It is a gentle

rumble. It continues for a long, long time. It is a low rumble, and

like anything, you would get used to, but when you buy a house you do

not choose to live next door to a low rumble. How do you feel when you

see the detail? It is going to be a 60 foot concrete viaduct going

through our farm, it will shut down our business. It pushes the case

that HS2 should look for an alternative route. HS2

representatives all your thoughts on the line and, like a roller`coaster,

it could yet swing in an unexpected direction. Joining us now is the

Chief Executive of HS2 Limited, Alison Munro. Lots of views are

there. How much will you take those into consideration? We will take all

the responses we have to the consultation into consideration.

Starting with the information event here in Leeds, we want as many

people as possible to come along and respond to the consultation. We have

announced the initial boos, but those are subject to consultation

and we will take concerns seriously. Alexander says, since railways are

owned by the private sector, why public funds being used to a private

sector project? Although the companies that run railways are in

the private sector, the Government was a lot of money into the railways

already and it is right that the Government tries to find the best

way of spending taxpayers money. It has looked at the problems we will

face a head, with Skype at `` with capacity becoming scarce on the

railways, and it has concluded that HS2 is the best value for the

taxpayer to provide the capacity that we need in the longer term, and

to provide opportunities for cities in the north, bringing them closer

together, so it is a good use of taxpayers money for the longer term.

Lots of comments on our Facebook page. Elizabeth says, would this not

be better spent on established news that mean repairing, and

good`quality services to enhance the Yorkshire area? That is a good

point, to get services sorted out up here first. There was a lot of

investment going on on the railways, roads and buses, so this is not the

only thing that the Government is putting money into. HS2 is dealing

with a particular issue around the increasing problems we face on

long`distance travel. We have seen a number of people using long`distance

journeys, that number doubling in the past 15 years and that is

continuing. That is what we're trying to tackle that HS2, and it is

best way to tackle that problem, for future generations. Many people

would say it is better to start in the North and work south. The reason

that they are starting in the South is because of that capacity issue.

The south end of the West Coast mainline is coming under pressure

but in due course, the East Coast Main line will also become crowded,

so we want to get on as quickly as possible, but the crunch issue in

the first place is at the southern end. There will be many more

questions to answer, but for now, thank you very much. The first train

will be in 2042, or whatever. Later on Look North: Unearthing a missing

chapel. After more than a decade searching ` a long lost chapel built

by Richard III is found. An inquest into the death of four year old

Hamzah Khan opened today with the Coroner releasing his body so that

funeral arrangements can be made. His mummified remains were found in

squalid conditions at a house in Bradford in 2011. He'd been dead for

almost two years. Earlier this month, his mother Amanda Hutton was

convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 15 years. Police found Hamzah

Khan's decomposing body in a cot in an upstairs bedroom in the heating

district of Bradford. He died because of severe malnutrition but

remained undiscovered in swallowed `` squalid conditions for 21 months,

until police raided the house, after concerns raised by a police

community support officer. Today the inquest heard from a senior

investigator who some that how four`year`old Hamzah Khan had been

found in the house wearing a baby grow for an instant a spitting 6`9

months. His mother, Amanda Hutton was jailed for 15 years for

manslaughter earlier this month. Her eldest son received a two`year jail

sentence suspended for two years, presenting the burial of Hamzah

Khan. Unusually, the coroner did not return a verdict. During the brief

hearing, he said that all relevant facts had been made public by the

court case involving Amanda Hutton. He then released the body of Hamzah

Khan so that a funeral can take place. Turning to the father of

Hamzah Khan, the coroner 's best sympathy and put them, he would now

finally be able to lay his son to rest. Mr Khan Left the court without

making any comment to waiting reporters. In other news now, and a

man has appeared in court charged with murdering a shopkeeper in a

machete attack in Rotherham. Parvaiz Iqbal was found dead at his shop on

Grosvenor Road, Eastwood, on Tuesday. He had suffered multiple

stab wounds. Naeem Mehmood from Rotherham, appeared at the town's

magistrates' court charged with murder and attempted murder. He was

remanded in custody to appear at Sheffield Crown Court in November.

The strike by firefighters which was due to take place tomorrow night has

been called off. The national dispute had already seen crews walk

out of fire stations across our region. In September there was a

four`hour strike. The Fire Brigades' Union says progess has been made in

talks with the Government over plans to change pensions. Record figures

for tourists coming to York have been announced at a conference. So

far in 2013, visits to attractions in the city are up by 16% on last

year. The tourism agency Visit York is putting the good news down to

events like the Railway Museum's Great Gathering exhibition and the

good weather over the summer. Archaeologists from York University

say they've discovered the lost remains of a chapel built by Richard

III. The Towton chapel was built in the 15th century on Richard's orders

to commemorate one of the most brutal episodes in our history.

Archaeologists have been looking for it for well over a decade. Cathy

Killick reports. Even today, it is a bleak place. This is Towton

battlefield near Pak Castor were 30,000 men died in one of the

bloodiest battles in English history. It was during the Wars of

the Roses, importing six T1, when the Yorkists and Lancastrians were

locked for one day in bloody combat. At the end of it, the Yorkists were

victorious. That led to Richard III being crowned King. He wanted the

terrible loss of life at Towton to be remembered. He had Towton Chapel

Belt, where press could be said for the souls of the dead. It was said

to be very fine, but it had been lost centuries, until now. At secret

location near here, archaeologists think they have found it. Tim

Sutherland has bent 16 years looking for the chapel and now, with these

blocks of stone work, he has finally done it. We started to find evidence

of carved blocks in the shape of window frames and window mullions

and even some lead attached to the window mullions, and we have even

found fragments of glass, as well. So, big chunks of Richard's chapel,

basically. Two test pits in a private garden yielded 20 blocks of

stone with all of the right hallmarks. Certainly enough to make

the archaeologists confident that this was the chapel. Thank God we

found it after all this time. We were beginning to think that nothing

was left of it at all. But it does exist and more will probably be

found with further excavation. One more piece of history linking

Richard III with Yorkshire. I wonder, does that and to the

argument that his resting place should be a Yorkshire? We are a

little bit biased up here, I think! Coming up before 7pm, celebrating

the best of Yorkshire. And join me live in Leeds as final preparations

are made for the 25th annual Yorkshire walls. `` Yorkshire wards.

`` awards. This weekend, more than 6,000 runners will pound the roads

of North Yorkshire for the first ever Yorkshire Marathon. The race,

which starts in York, will pass by the Minster and go through several

local villages before ending back at the University of York. It's

expected to attract 15,000 spectators. It may provide a ?1

million boost to the local economy. And raise ?1.3 million for charity.

Harry is one of the 6,000 runners who will be taking to the streets on

Sunday. Danny Carpenter caught up with his training. It seems like a

long time ago that Yorkshire's marathon was first announced, unless

of course you were foolish enough to agree or, should I say, volunteer,

to do it. The man that we call Our 'Arry is one of those. He has been

training hard ever since. We will soon find out that it has been hard

enough to stop along with his running mate, the White Rose ladies,

there was no shortage of support for the people of Yorkshire. We are

wishing you all the best this weekend, May, on Sunday, in the

marathon. I shall be alert to start the race of all stop I don't know if

we will need any oil to rob you down or stop you halfway. I hope you do

not collapse, mate. We wish him all the best in his marathon in York.

Good luck, Harry. Good luck, Harry. I just want to wish you well for

Sunday. I have been following you on Twitter, the training schedules, it

looks like you are ready to go. Enjoy the day and have fun. Good

luck carry! `` good luck, Harry! So with all that preparation and

training, what can possibly go wrong? Well, Aileen Secker and Clare

Cockerham have been training ` or should I say suffering ` with me.

Also here is Barbara Shields, my personal trainer, who has been

putting me through my paces ` and Mike Tomlinson, whose idea it was to

stage the first ever Yorkshire marathon, in memory of his wife,

Jane. This is an incredible turnout, 6000, isn't it? It is

beyond any of our wildest dreams. When you start the project that it

is going to be successful, but this has blown the county away. How has

his training been gone `` going? He has got such determination. People

might not believe it, but he has persevered the whole way through,

right through 22 miles, even when he got lost. Fantastic. I have got the

bone to pick with you both. You lost him. You left the poor chap and

finished the run without him. He was off on his own. How did that happen?

I don't know how it happened. One minute he was there, the next minute

he had disappeared. You were going too fast! Tell me about your

personal battle. This is a remarkable battle of yours. I had

cancer, then I had a big operation and chemotherapy and a double

mastectomy. I wanted to get fit again. Then I met Barbara, and she

has got me on track from running a couple of miles to doing the full 26

miles, so it makes me feel great. I feel very well. And what inspired

you to get involved? My father died from a range when I was 19. I always

wanted to run a marathon for him. It has taken me a long time to get

round to it, but I thought, I have got to do it, and I have built it up

from two miles to 20, and it is a promise. You have been training 18

of us and some of the ladies have been battling through all kinds of

problems. We have had so many injuries. We had Fiona, who had back

trouble, people wishing splints which is very common `` people who

had shin splints. But the determination really is incredible.

They all have reasons that they want to run this marathon. And their

motivation has been fantastic. They have inspired me. Mike, when you

watch that, there was something of a harbour in the office. It sold out

pretty quickly. People signed up for this very quickly. Yes, I said

earlier, we have got people buying season tickets for the year. The

demand is huge. The greatest thing with Harry is that I am hoping that

we will raise more money on Sunday than Jane raised in her life. It is

fantastic. Keeley Donovan is running, and Tanya is running,

although not the full thing. I will be there cheering you all on. Best

of luck to everyone running the marathon. And we will be moving on

and getting the important weather forecast for the marathon. Now, we

all know we have a lot to celebrate here in Yorkshire. And tonight, the

25th annual Yorkshire Awards are taking place at a ceremony in Leeds

tonight. The awards recognise the people who've have had a real impact

on Yorkshire, showing their affection and commitment to the

county. Kate Bradbrook is outside the Hilton Hotel in Leeds. Kate,

have they started arriving on the red carpet? Yes, welcome to the 25th

annual Yorkshire Awards in Leeds. The guests are starting to arrive.

We have got the Yorkshire Regiment band providing the entertainment.

These awards are to celebrate people in Yorkshire who have done us proud

in various categories including sport, arts and entertainment, and

was a Yorkshire man of the year, and that Yorkshire woman of the year.

One award that I can tell you about now is the community hero award.

That award has gone to a man from Borough Briggs who has gone above

and beyond in his local community. This is his story. Mike Collins has

been volunteering in his hometown of Yorkshire Awards. And since retiring

his diary has become busier than ever. Having an active life helps

keep you fit and young. And working with youngsters giving you a young

perspective on what is going on. Look how flat this not is. That

means it is not going to dig into you. Mike has been involved with the

scouts for 47 years and runs local groups as well as working with

schools in the area. And, during last year's flats, he was

instrumental in the rescue effort. This area that we're in now the

river rose considerably last September which necessitated closing

roads and manning roadblocks, helping people in the houses across

there, who, unfortunately got flooded out. As chairman of the

parish council, he has helped many local projects, like this play area,

get off the ground. And after campaigning to keep the local

library open every day, Mike is now part of a team of volunteers. If you

don't have the local facilities and the local things going on in the

community, the community stops being so much of a community and becomes a

commuter town. What you do is, by encouraging groups to run things

and, starting off newsgroups, `` new groups, the community flourishes

because there was so much going on. Back to the question on everyone's

clips ` how Mike finds so many hours in the day for all those good

causes. It is just about timetabling yourself a bit and efficiently doing

things. When you're working you do that at work anyway, and it is just

transferring those skills into the community. These are the awards

themselves. They will be handed out in the next few hours. Previous

winners have included the likes of Lord Coe, Jilly Cooper, to name but

a few. And I will have more news later on this year's winners. She

will be flying around that one. We'll he needs is gasoline on

Sunday? `` Will he need his Vaseline? If you're a finely tuned

athlete it is very important. I am only doing three miles. It will

start off with showers, but that should improve by the time you are

properly into it. A better day in prospect. It has been very cloudy

today and chilly as well with a freshening breeze from the

south`east. After that other great start, and the damp start, it has

going to gradually brighten up. Over the next few days, the weather

continues to be dominated by low pressure. You can see breezy

conditions, isobars tightly packed, with a number of fronts working

their way on Monday and Tuesday, but it is going to remain fairly mild.

Lots of cloud, as we made our way through the course of the day, and

it has been producing some patchy rain enters all. That is going to

become more extensive through this evening and overnight. Rain and

drizzle spreading from the south`west. Some heavy spells as

well, and fairly breezy. That rain will become more like an patchy

towards them. `` light and patchy. The sun will rise in the morning

just after six tomorrow morning, we have the

potential for some moderate, heavy spells of rain, but we are going to

see an improvement. Gradually, it will brighten up. Some sunshine in

the afternoon. Temperatures in the mid teens and it

will be less breezy as well. Good luck on Sunday. I will remember my

Vaseline! That's all for now. Goodbye.