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Welcome to Friday's Look North. Tonight, a random, cruel and | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
motiveless killing. Simon Holdsworth's family appeal for help | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
in finding the person responsible for his murder in Sheffield. | :00:11. | :00:21. | |
Has happened to Simon has devastated our lives. We are all such a close | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
family. This has left a huge hole in all of us. We'll be hearing more | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
from them in a minute. Also tonight. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Addicted to painkillers. Why thousands of people in Yorkshire | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
could be hooked on drugs prescribed by their GP. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
They're not just for laughs, but a serious business. How pantos help | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
swell the coffers of the region's theatres. | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
And, it was a cold and frosty start this morning, this was the scene | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
near Sheffield. We have got some wet and windy weather on the cards this | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
evening. I am back later in the details. | :01:02. | :01:10. | |
Good evening. The mother and partner of | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
36`year`old Simon Holdsworth, murdered as he returned home in | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Sheffield late on Monday night, have made emotional appeals today for | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
help to solve what's been called a random, cruel and motiveless | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
killing. Christine Holdsworth said Simon had been the loveliest son in | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
the world. His fiancee Carline said all the plans they'd carefully laid | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
for a wonderful wedding and honeymoon next year had been torn | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
from her and her son. Our Crime Correspondent John Cundy's report | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
contains some flash photography. He was over the moon to be getting | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
married next year. He loved his fiancee and little son so very much. | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
As much as we all loved him, too. A mother's anguish at the loss of a | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
son. You cannot tell anybody how much this hurts. I never thought I | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
would say this. But Lees, `` please, please try and help. His | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
fiancee says her plans for a happy future can be no more. We were so | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
happy as a family, with our son. It will be his fourth birthday on | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Christmas Eve. We had already done the Christmas shopping, and his | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
presence are wrapped. But he is dead, he will not be there. A | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
full`scale murder enquiry began on Tuesday, hours after the discovery | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
of Simon's body. Flowers and tributes are still being laid. This | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
has been described as one of the safest areas in Sheffield, yet late | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
on Monday night, on these playing fields, Simon Holdsworth was | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
battered to death for no apparent reason. No weapon has been found, | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
and police are desperate for any help they can get from the | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
community. They have released CCTV footage from Simon as he alighted | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
from his bus home, minutes before his killing. Who were his fellow | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
passengers? Police want to trace them. We are a cute days before | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Christmas. For the family, their Christmas has been destroyed in an | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
act of horrific violent. I do not hate the person who has done this, | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
because Simon was warmth and love. I just want to know why. I never | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
thought I would know what a broken heart felt like, but I do now. I | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
just want somebody to try and help us, just help in any way they can. | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
His family called him a loving, caring, bubbly man with a smile for | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
everyone. Taken from them at the age of 36. | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
There are warnings that thousands of people in Yorkshire could be | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
addicted to prescription drugs and painkillers. It comes as a committee | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
of MPs has suggested that up to a million and a half people across | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
Britain could be dependent on medication they were originally | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
given by doctors. Latest figures show that Yorkshire and the Humber | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
has the third`highest prescribing rates for opioid painkillers such as | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
codeine or morphine. At my worst, I was on 26 of these a | :04:24. | :04:40. | |
day, and now I am down to the one tablet. Amanda Steel was prescribed | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
morphine for chronic pain in 2009 following breast cancer surgery. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Over time, she became addicted. If she missed a dose, the withdrawal | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
would be terrible. I will never forget how horrific it was my | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
profuse sweating, feeling like I was going to pass out, a cloud over my | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
ears, so I could not hear everything, it sounded like I was | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
speaking from a bucket. She has been coming to a specialist clinic at the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
lead addiction unit, set up last year to deal with patients addicted | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
to prescription medication. Of the patients seen by the clinic in its | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
first year, 72% were addicted to opiate painkiller is a most commonly | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
codeine or tramadol. The other 28% were addicted to sleeping tablets. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Of those, nearly a quarter were getting their drugs from the GP. 15% | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
were getting them from an illicit source as well as their doctor. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Crucially, there are no detailed figures collected nationally or | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
locally that show the wider scale of the problem. We have seen a key | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
patients at these units, I think it is the tip of the iceberg. There | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
could be thousands of patients who might not even know that they are | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
dependent. You think because you have been prescribed it and you | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
followed all of the instructions that you were supposed to, that | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
addiction should not necessarily happen. But I was on such high doses | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
because my pain call for it, I supposed it was inevitable. She will | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
take her last morphine tablet on Christmas Eve, bringing an end to an | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
addiction spanning five years. But it is feared there are thousands of | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
others who are not getting help. Later on Look North. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
We take a look in the sewers. The damage done when you pour turkey fat | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
down the plughole. Yorkshire Water fights back. | :06:43. | :06:53. | |
Denis MacShane will have to wait until Monday to hear his sentence. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
He has already admitted criminal charges of false accounting at an | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
earlier hearing last month. Today, a judge heard arguments from | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
prosecution and defence about the level of sentencing he should | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
receive. The judge said he needed to consider his decision over the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
weekend, but that the delay gave no indication of the sentence he would | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
eventually hang down. We have been at the Old Bailey. What happened | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
today? It is a year since he resigned from the House of Commons, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
a month since he admitted to the court charges of false accounting. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
When he arrived at the Old Bailey, it was effectively for a hearing to | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
decide what sentence she should get, with arguments from prosecution | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
and defence. The prosecution claimed there was a deliberate intent to | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
deceive, because he had written 19 invoices to himself, and he had | :07:51. | :07:57. | |
misspelt his own name and his own address on them so that when he sent | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
them to officials to check at the House of Commons, it would look as | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
though he had not actually written them himself. That is the | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
prosecution, what did the defence have to say? They say he made no | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
personal profit, what happened was that, when this offence took place, | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
he had been travelling through Europe as an unpaid, an adviser to | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
the then Labour government, and he spent the money but he did not have | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
any invoices to be able to claim it back, so what he was doing, he | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
admits it was wrong, but `` but he said it was getting back money that | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
he had spent. We come back here on Monday at 10am, courtroom number | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
nine, the judge said the arguments were so complex that he needed the | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
Kintyre weekend to be able to decide what he was going to do, but he | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
warned Denis MacShane, although he was releasing him on bail, it was | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
absolutely no indication as to exactly what to expect, Monday. | :09:06. | :09:11. | |
In other news, police say they're getting increasingly worried for the | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
safety of a 15`year`old girl who's been missing from Dewsbury for ten | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
days. Levi Margison was last seen in Huddersfield on Wednesday last week. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
She was wearing an orange hooded top, blue skinny jeans, a grey | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
zip`up hooded top and lilac and white Nike trainers. She's been | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
known to go missing before, but never for so long. | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
I spoke to her mother today, she was concerned to try to get her home for | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Christmas, there are gifts waiting for her, she has an older sister, | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
they are quite close, and she is missing her desperately. | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
Emergency services were called to Goldthorpe in South Yorkshire today | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
after an explosion in a back garden. Four people have been taken to | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
hospital with minor injuries after a cylinder exploded at a property in | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
Elizabeth Street this afternoon. Fire`fighters gave first aid to the | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
casualties, who were then taken to hospital. North Yorkshire Police | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
have released video footage of a woman who overturned her car near | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
Skipton. They say it's to highlight the | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
dangers of drink driving. Deborah Anderson was more than three times | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
the legal limit when she crashed on the B6265 at Hedden in October. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Today, she was sentenced to 250 hours unpaid work and banned from | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
driving for three years. She also received a 12`month supervised | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
community order. A West Yorkshire Police officer who | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
was shot in Leeds earlier this month is said to be making good progress | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
in hospital. PC Suzanne Hudson suffered several shotgun wounds in | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
the incident in the Headingley area of the city. James Leslie, the | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
37`year`old man accused of the attempted murders of PC Hudson and | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
her colleague PC Richard Whiteley, has been told he faces trial in | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
April. A man who handed his friend in to a | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
police station while dressed as Batman has been sentenced today for | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
burglary. Stan Worby made headlines around the world earlier this year | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
when he took his friend to a police station in Bradford. Mr Worby was | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
charged with burglary when police stopped a vehicle containing stolen | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
property. Now, he's been given a 12`month suspended sentence of six | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
months in prison, ordered to complete 200 hours of community | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
service and pay ?80 to the victim. North Yorkshire Police's | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Commissioner has said she won't be taking legal action against former | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Chief Constable Grahame Maxwell and his once deputy Adam Briggs to claim | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
back ?100,000 in allowances she says they shouldn't have received. Julia | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
Mulligan said the Police Authority, which she replaced last year, made | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
the payments in good faith. But a report has confirmed the payments | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
were not within the authority's legal powers. The Commissioner said | :11:50. | :11:58. | |
trying to recover the money through the courts would be too costly. | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Meanwhile, North Yorkshire Police has agreed to buy an 8.4 acre site | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
in South Kilvington, near Thirsk, to build its new headquarters. The | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
existing HQ is a listed building in Newby Wiske, near Northallerton. | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
Police Commissioner Julia Mulligan says it's costly to run, difficult | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
to access and not suited to modern policing. Work is under way on the | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
design of the new building. Former Halifax and Leeds rugby | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
league player Graham Holroyd is to stand trial in March on four rape | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
charges dating back more than 20 years. The 38`year`old from Halifax | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
pleaded not guilty to the charges, which are alleged to have involved a | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
boy and a girl, when he appeared at Bradford Crown Court today. The | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
allegations date back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. He's been | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
granted bail until the trial hearing in March. | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
The Yorkshire Ambulance Service is preparing for one of its busiest | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
nights of the year. The last Friday before Christmas, also known as Mad | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
Friday, usually sees a sharp rise in the number of calls made to the | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
emergency services. On the same night last year, the Yorkshire | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
Ambulance Service received over 260 extra calls. That's 30% more than a | :13:03. | :13:16. | |
typical night. They're urging people to drink | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
responsibly and only call 999 in a serious or life`threatening | :13:21. | :13:21. | |
emergency. Next tonight, Yorkshire Water is | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
using a revolutionary new system to clear blocked sewers. The problem is | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
particularly bad at this time of year, because so much cooking fat is | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
discarded down sewers, where it solidifies. The new device can clear | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
blockages in a fraction of the time taken by conventional methods. | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
As revolutionary inventions go, it looks fairly unremarkable, but this | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
kit can clean three kilometres of blocked sewer with no roadworks and | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
no chemicals. It simply uses the power of air. What is happening is | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
that the air is being spun inside the pipe, and it creates lots of air | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
currents and a vortex, and that scours the inside of the sewer, | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
cleaning it in a very short space of time. There is a sewage pipe running | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
under the treatment works here, that has been blocked for 18 months. | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
Conventional high pressure water jets would take three weeks to clear | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
it. After just two hours, effectively sending a whirlwind down | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
the pipe, this is the result. Mortgage cleared. We have | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
international patents on the technology that we are using, it has | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
never been used outside Yorkshire so far, so this is a first. It seems to | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
be working very well at the moment, we are optimistic. This shows the | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
gunk that can accumulate in Silvers, it is always worse in | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
winter. Yorkshire Water hope blockages like these will be cleared | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
much more easily in future. The water slowly eats away at the | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
crease. It completely cleans the Silver, down to the base metal. The | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
benefit of it, they are more effective, and it will drastically | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
reduce the amount of flooding we have. There are 20,000 miles of | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
Silvers Underground in Yorkshire, plenty to keep the clean a busy. But | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
with no roadworks and it unobtrusive design, you may never know it has | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
been. Underground, it will be as clean as a whistle. | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
From Buckingham Palace to underground! The glamour! | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
Before 7pm. Preparing for their first Yorkshire | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
Christmas, the former Gurkha soldiers who've made their homes in | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
Catterick learn about a traditional Yuletide in Britain. | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
And, oh, no, they don't, oh, yes, they do. Christmas pantos come to | :15:53. | :15:53. | |
the rescue of the region's theatres. Next tonight, the York Army Museum | :15:54. | :16:05. | |
has been given ?1 million of Lottery money so it can undergo a complete | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
redesign. Since it opened 30 years ago, the museum has told the stories | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
of our region's soldiers and the wars they fought in. The lottery | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
cash will help it mark the centenary of the First World War next year. | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
From Victorian heroes to Victoria crosses. The battle of balaclava to | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
the ball more. These York Army Museum documents over 300 years of | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
our region's military history. Many of the artefacts are of | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
international significance. But the museum admits experience feels a bit | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
dated. It is old`fashioned, we have got poor lighting and storage, and | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
none of the articles are particularly accessible. We have got | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
an eclectic collection, but it does not really convey the stories behind | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
them. That is the wonderful thing that the new design will be able to | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
deliver. Funded by ?1 million from the National Lottery Hero, it will | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
bring this historic collection to a modern audience. More open spaces, a | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
focus on education, and a move from forced to the men who fought and | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
died. Trying to uncover the ethos that makes soldiers do things that | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
they do not want to do, the story of the infantry and the story of the | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
cavalry, those events have been mutually supporting, and today, we | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
can make them mutually supporting within the collection and tell that | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
story. The timing of this is no accident, next year is the centenary | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
of the Great War. Something not just to remember, but to learn from. It | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
is important that our folk understand how we got to where we | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
are, and the telling of the story allows us to educate another | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
generation and future generations of people in that history. The museum | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
says their focus will now be on bringing that history to a new | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
audience. All in time for the centenary of the war they once said | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
would end all wars. We will keep you posted as to how | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
that develops. Let's have a look at some football | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
now, and Danny Wilson takes charge of Barnsley for the first time since | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
his return to the club, and it's a nice, juicy derby with Leeds United. | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
Wilson rejoined as manager on Tuesday, nearly 20 years after | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
taking on the job last time around. His job is to keep them in the | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Championship, and he can't wait for tomorrow. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
It could not be better, a derby game, anything can happen, as we | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
know. To go there in front of 30,000 plus, taking a lot of our fans down, | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
they will be well heard, it promises to be a cracking game. I know him | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
really well, he is a friend, he went there before, he did a really good | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
job, I am sure he will do well. Yorkshire's Joe Root says the | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
England team still has plenty to play for despite losing the Ashes | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
down under. Root and a couple of team`mates were enjoying a day off | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
from cricket as they took to the racetrack. But they'll be ready for | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
action when the fourth Test starts in Melbourne on Boxing Day. | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
You have got to front up, we have been beaten like a side that has | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
played better, and we have got to put that right in these last two | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
test matches. We can do that on Boxing Day, we have got to come out | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
fighting and make a statement. I would have thought that Jonny | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
Bairstow deserves a go, Matt Prior has not been playing well. | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
And, one other piece of cricket news. Yorkshire's second`team coach, | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
Paul Farbrace, has left to become the head coach of Sri Lanka. The | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
club paid tribute to the huge impact he's made in his two years with | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
them. He is a great coach, Sri Lanka have | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
a gem. They've gained a reputation as brave | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
and fearless soldiers, but now the former Gurkhas who've made their | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
homes in Catterick have been showing their softer side. The men and their | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
families are part of a growing Nepalese community in North | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
Yorkshire, and this year many are looking forward to their first | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
traditional Christmas. A big one for the top, little ones | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
to go around. New beginnings, and for many, a new experience of | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
Christmas. The army town of Catterick is now home to one of | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
Britain's biggest Nepalese communities, many of them former | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
Gurkha soldiers who, through community projects this year, have | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
had their first real taste of a traditional British Christmas. | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
Christmas is not celebrated in Nepal in a big way, so it is different, | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
but it is important because they are becoming part of the community and | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
most of the people here have children and grandchildren, so they | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
are learning all of this. Myself and my family, Christmas and New Year, | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
we like it. Very happy. It was 2009 when Gurkhas got the right to live | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
in Britain, following a high`profile campaign by the actress Joanna | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Lumley. Since then, thousands, like Sandip Wright, have chosen to stay. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Attracted to Catterick and its connections to the Army. People feel | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
like, this is our home, this is where we belong. It might be | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
difficult for some of us to adapt to the culture, though. This is their | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
home, they visit Nepal on holiday, and if England is their home, they | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
ought to know about Christmas. They have served the British army for 200 | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
years, with a loyal and fearless reputation. Today, though, a gentler | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
side was seen, learning their first Christmas song and opening their | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
first Christmas stocking. Good old Yorkshire Christmas! | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
If you're off to the theatre over the festive season, you might be | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
surprised to hear just how much Yorkshire relies on the traditional | :22:17. | :22:18. | |
Christmas pantomime. The region's panto industry actually generates | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
between a quarter and half of all the money made by Yorkshire's | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
theatres and touring companies. The giant! For many people, it would | :22:24. | :22:41. | |
not be Christmas without a trip to the pantomime. Here in Wakefield, | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
over a quarter of their annual audience will pack into the stalls | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
over a five`week period. These productions are big business, and | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
the right choice is imperative. Firstly, for many people, it is | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
their first visit to the theatre, and secondly, it is a time of year | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
when we can make as much money as we can to support the costs of the | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
theatre. In years gone by, the cost was offset by funding from the | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
public sector, but austerity has cast a cloud and Christmas has | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
become more important than ever. A lot of theatres which are supported | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
by ourselves and the local authorities are having that | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
investment, it becomes even more critical, and places become even | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
more sensitive to having a poor Christmas. Thankfully, actually, | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
sales are doing really well this Christmas. It is not just the big | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
show stoppers fighting for audiences. In Chesterfield, this | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
company has an all teary emotive, focusing on preschoolers. It is | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
important that coming to the theatre is part of the Christmas tradition, | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
families bring their children. That is our next generation of audiences. | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
It is lovely to see Father Christmas. Coming down the chute. I | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
like the present. A new generation one over, box office revenue for the | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
future. I love a good panto, I have seen one | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
of them in York. I'd urge everybody to support their local pantomime, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
the best time of the year. Oh, no, you don't! | :24:30. | :24:30. | |
Oh, yes, I do! Some photographs. It is quite a | :24:31. | :24:44. | |
stormy forecast, right the way through Christmas week. This is a | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
nice photo from yesterday. The blue skies over Knaresborough. The second | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
one, the sun set over Bolton Abbey. The third one, a wintry scene near | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
Sheffield. Is that a light snow covering? All is it a heavy | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
hoarfrost? You can keep your pictures coming in. Or you can tweet | :25:09. | :25:18. | |
me. We have got some unsettled weather like the way through next | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
week, but starting with this evening, wet and windy weather on | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
the cards. It will not be raining all day, but the showers tomorrow | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
could be really happy. Hale and Thunder mixed in. This will push | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
through tonight. Behind it, very breezy conditions. Across the | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
weekend and into next week, very blustery indeed. A warning for | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Western Hills as we go through the next few hours, a lot of rain. You | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
can see how the mass of cloud has pushed in from the north`west. After | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
pretty decent day, the cloud has the conduct, and we have outbreaks of | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
rain pushing south`east. If anything, it might wake up as it | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
pushes further east, but it could be accompanied by a gusty wind. By the | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
end of the night, the rain will have cleared away south eastwards, and it | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
will not be as cold and frosty as it was last night. The sun will rise at | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
8:22am. Tomorrow, it will be a breezy, | :26:22. | :26:35. | |
blustery day again. It will not be raining all day long, but as well as | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
having dry and bright weather, we have little bands of showers pushing | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
through on and off. They will be very heavy in nature, squalling wind | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
around, Hale, thunder, and in nature, squalling wind around, Hale, | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
Thunder, and indeed very heavy downpours, it might mean a little | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
bit of the white stuff. A bit unsettled. In the heavy showers, it | :26:55. | :27:04. | |
will track the temperature down, it will feel quite chilly and breezy. | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
Through Sunday and into the beginning of next week, on Sunday, | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
fewer showers, we still have the theme of breezy conditions, and | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
there will be a queue showers in the West, but overall, a dry picture. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Christmas Eve looks like a filthy day. Wet and windy weather sweeping | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
in from the West, hopefully it will brighten up for Christmas Day. | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
That is as far as we go. We are back with our late news after the 10pm | :27:35. | :27:43. | |
News, at 10:25pm. We are back on Monday. Have a lovely weekend, | :27:44. | :27:44. | |
goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:48. |