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Campaigners say prices are rising three times faster than wages. That | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
is all from BBC Welcome to Thursday's Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Tonight, the Yorkshire teacher still in a coma nearly two years after | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
being attacked working abroad. Adam Pickles' family is paying | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
hundreds of thousands of pounds for his medical treatment because his | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
insurance didn't cover him. Now there's a warning that many other | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
people who work abroad may not be properly insured. | :00:22. | :00:29. | |
Also tonight: and enormous hole has opened up in the Peak District. | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
The authorities are looking into it. And revving up ` meet the | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
Yorkshireman who's the best in the world at motorbike racing taken to | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
extremes. It was a beautiful sunrise which has | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
heralded a lovely day across Yorkshire but what is the next few | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
days looking like? Join me later to find out. | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
Welcome to the programme. And a very happy New Year. First tonight, a | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
teacher from West Yorkshire left in a coma after being attacked in | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Thailand is starting to show small signs of recovery. Adam Pickles was | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
hit over the head with an iron bar nearly two years ago. | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
It's cost his family more than ?100,000 in medical bills and legal | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
fees because Adam's insurance didn't fully cover him. Now there's concern | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
that many other Britons working abroad may not be adequately | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
insured. More on that in a moment. First, Ian White met Adam's parents. | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
Add pickles left Yorkshire to start a new life teaching in Thailand `` | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
Adam Nichols. He had a young son out there but everything changed when he | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
was beaten over the head with an iron bar in a road rage attack. He | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
has been in a coma for two years and is looked after in a special camera | :01:50. | :01:58. | |
home recovery in Leeds. He picked my hand up at one point, and kissed it, | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
which was wonderful and a bit heartbreaking at the same time, and | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
he said mum. He made a sound. I was so shocked, I didn't quite believe | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
it. It is not just Adam's recovery that is low. The Thai legal process | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
to bring the person responsible to justice is dragging on Alsop bit is | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
16 months since it started. `` it is 16 months since it started, and we | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
are still to hear from two witnesses. It does make it | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
difficult, it makes it unpredictable. It is possible to | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
turn up and the hearing does not take place or the witness is not | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
there. It could drag on for years, we don't know. Legal fees, medical | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
care and flights for Thailand have cost them hundreds of thousands of | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
pounds. They have had to remortgage their home and want people thinking | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
of a career abroad to make sure they are properly insured. For the | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
viewers, this is something that happens to somebody else, so I would | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
urge all of the people going overseas to teach, do make sure you | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
are properly covered, because disaster can strike and it is a | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
terrible burden when it does. Adam's recovery is a huge hill to | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
climb. It is not known whether he will be able to see when he comes | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
around. His parents plan to return to Thailand in February for the | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
latest court hearing and also to visit their grandson. | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Adam did have some insurance but nowhere near enough to cover him for | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the massive medical bills needed to pay for his care. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
A bed in a Thai hospital intensive care unit was costing ?2,000 a day | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
with charges for medication and X`rays on top. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
The specialist air ambulance that brought him back to the UK cost | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
around ?68,000. In total, the Pickles needed to find around | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
?130,000 ` money they could only find by remortgaging their home. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
So what should you do when taking up a job offer overseas? Hannah | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
Beechman is an expert specialising in finances for those living and | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
working abroad. She fears it's a situation many people could find | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
themselves in. I think the biggest flag I can wave here is that you | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
have got to look to see whether you are being offered domestic cover or | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
international cover. If you are travelling, if you are from not the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
country that you are going to be working, look for international | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
cover, this is you want to ensure that all of the events that | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
surrounded an accident or illness or some kind of emergency are included | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
in the emergency policy insurance that is backing Europe. Adam thought | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
he had adequate cover from the school he worked at but it turned | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
out not to be the case. What could he have looked for. You have got to | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
look for the kind of benefits you most want in a policy and then check | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
they are included in that policy. Nobody is ever going to say they do | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
not want these benefits, it is just going to push the benefits it does | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
cover. You can look for emergency evacuation, there it is in the plan | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
and you think you're covered for being brought back home for | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
treatment is something happens such as in this particular case. Not so, | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
emergency evacuation will just get you from where you have had the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
accident to the nearest hospital, not out of the country. You have to | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
look for the benefit labelled "repatriations" to make sure you are | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
covered for that. There are so many different policies, just some quick | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
advice if you could on how to work your way through that minefield. | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
Draw up a list about what you want covered, because no policy is the | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
same, no two policies are the same, no two countries run the same | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
schemes. Each one is completely individual, so put some thought into | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
it. If you start with a list of what you want covered and then ensure | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
that those on the list are in the policies that you can research. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Hannah, thank you for that great advice. | :05:58. | :05:58. | |
Next tonight: Police are warning drivers a | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
clamp`down on anti`social behaviour behind the wheel will continue. The | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
advice follows a spate of serious collisions over the festive season | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
here in Yorkshire. In one incident, a little girl was badly injured | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
after being knocked over by a suspected drink`driver. The number | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
of breath tests carried out following collisions has risen over | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the last three years. In 2010, almost 24,000 were carried out in | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
the UK during December. The following year, that had risen | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
to just short of 25,000. And in 2012, that had increased to | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
more than 26,500. This year's figures are due out in the next | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
week. Police here in Yorkshire say there | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
are four things which significantly increase drivers becoming involved | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
in a serious collision. This report contains strobe lighting. | :06:41. | :06:50. | |
A high`speed drive to hospital under a police escort, an ambulance | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
rushing a critically injured man to Leeds General infirmary. And here is | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
the reason why. A car has smashed into a concrete wall on a slip road | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
to the M 621. More emergency services arrived to free the | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
victims. He is being stabilised, he's probably going to be seriously | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
injured, so the fire service will cut the roof so the paramedics can | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
assess him. We are struggling for witnesses so we will not know much | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
more until the roof comes off and we can assess how the chap in the car | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
is doing. West Yorkshire police say the four main causes of death on the | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
road speed, drink or drug driving, failing to wear a seat belt, or | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
being distracted while at the wheel. A few miles away in Bradford, | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
officers are dealing with another collision. A drunk driver has run | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
into the back`up of a BMW. The victim in this case has had a lucky | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
escape. The weather is getting a lot colder, the roads are very icy and | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
people don't realise how dangerous it is, particularly at this time of | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
year. Not only that, and having a drink as well, it is important you | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
don't drink and drive. As paramedics and fire crews battle to free the | :08:01. | :08:10. | |
trapped driver on the M621, investigators say he may not have | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
been wearing a seat belt, and all familiar to seem `` and all to seem | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
`` and altered racing. Offers a the clamp`down will continue, they say | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
this scene is one of those on a daily basis and it takes one second | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
of a lapse of concentration and the consequences can be catastrophic. | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
With the worst of the winter still to come, police are reminding all | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
motorists of their responsibility behind the wheel if they wish to | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
avoid scenes like this. Stay with us, because later... | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
Tanya is in Sheffield. I will be talking to the world's | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
no`one squash player, we are in his home club in Sheffield. We will be | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
reflecting on 20 13 and looking ahead to 2014, and talking about | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
some of the talent on show at the British Junior open. | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
Walkers are being asked to stay away from a huge sinkhole that's appeared | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
in the Peak District. The hole formed over Christmas beside an old | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
lead mine near the village of Foolow, near Hathersage. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
The chasm is at least 160 feet wide and is getting bigger. Cathy Killick | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
reports. The Peak District, in all its | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
spectacular glory, looks like ageless least solid ground, but over | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
the last week also, huge sinkhole has appeared between the villages of | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
Foolow and Breton. The shale is prone to this kind of substance but | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
this particular hole is unusually large. The landowners stressed this | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
ground is very unstable. I am only here having been escorted under | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
strict supervision. It is extremely waterlogged and the sides of the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
whole still very crumbly. I have seen soil cascading in since I have | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
been here. It is going to take a lot of work to make it safe. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
A footpath that runs alongside the hole has been closed the walk in | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
case more land gives way and preparations are being made to try | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
and then I is the slippage, using loads of stone, but first monitoring | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
needs to be done to establish the cause of the subsidised. It is known | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
currently as to what caused it. Is it just the fact that it is an old | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
mine and it has collapsed because of the history of it and it is failed, | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
or is it related to the water issue, or is it related to the underground | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
mining? We just don't know, we have the research. Dean Smith is a local | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
resident who has been checking the sinkhole daily. Around here, it is | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
not actually limestone, it is shale, it is like an egg timer when it sets | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
of running. It is naturally unstable. There are always holes | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
opening up, left, right and centre. At the end of the day, the Peak | :10:45. | :10:53. | |
District is a mining area. It moves a lot of stuff. The local wildlife | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
can get the best view. This kestrel was taking advantage of the upheaval | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
below to hunt, but although it is tempting to take pictures, the | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
sinkhole is on private land and the police and county council are urging | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
sightseers to stick to public roads, where it is safe. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
In other news, a reward of up to ?5,000 is being offered by | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
Crimestoppers for information about the murder of a father in Sheffield. | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
36`year`old Simon Holdsworth, who had a young son and was due to get | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
married in August, was found battered to death in the | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Hackenthorpe area on December the 17th. | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
Police say they won't give up their search for a missing mother`of`three | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
who's believed to have been murdered. 25`year`old Rania Alayed, | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
from Manchester, vanished in June. Detectives believe her body was | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
buried in land off the A19 near Thirsk, in North Yorkshire. Today, | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
they showed her uncle Ali Aydi around the fields close to a lay`by | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
where they've been looking for her. Rail fares have gone up today, to | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
pay for more trains and improvements to stations. Northern Rail, East | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
Midlands Trains and First Transpennine Express have increased | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
prices by more than 2%. Meanwhile, East Coast Trains says prices are up | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
1% on average, but more than half of its fares to and from London will be | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
frozen. The Magna Centre in Rotherham is | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
likely to remain closed for much of January. It's after part of the roof | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
of the attraction was ripped off in high winds. It has been temporarily | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
fixed, but it'll be several weeks before it's open for business again. | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
We have had a crane in, which has levered the roof back over to stop | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
all of the water getting in. It is a temporary fix and the roof is | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
starting on the 13th of January. They will come in, there is a lot of | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
scaffolding to build up, it is 100 feet up in the air, and they will | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
take two to three weeks to repair it and we can reopen the attraction. | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
The granddaughter of a Yorkshire couple who died within hours of each | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
other over Christmas has told Look North they've left a living legacy | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
which has brought pleasure to millions. | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
Tom Salmon was the founder of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
his wife Erica is also credited with much of its success. Joe Inwood has | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
been to speak to their family. It is a familiar, iconic site, | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
snaking through some of our region's most picturesque | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
countryside. North Yorkshire Moors Railway. But it would not exist | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
without this man, Tom Salmon, seen here signing the contract at its | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
inception and here celebrating its 40th birthday. At his side, his wife | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
of 66 years, Erica. The whole project was his idea and a huge part | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
of their lives. From the 1960s until the end of their lives, it played a | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
big part in their lives. My grandad, it was his vision to save the | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
railway from the Doctor Beeching cuts. My Nan was the greatest | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
support to him and he always said that, so both of them, it was | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
extremely important. Important as well for this part of Yorkshire. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
Tom's vision eventually turned into the UK's most successful heritage | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
railway, carrying hundreds of thousands of passengers and | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
contributing millions to the local economy. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
Tom's legacy is the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and the effect he has | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
had on thousands of peoples lives. It will never die. Tom will always | :14:21. | :14:27. | |
be with us. Tom and Erica passed away over Christmas, less than 24 | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
hours apart. Without them, this railway would not exist. To honour | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
that, these red reads, a final tribute to the man they called the | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
father of the railway `` red wreaths. | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
A great couple, brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
They have, and you couldn't imagine North Yorkshire without the North | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Yorkshire Moors Railway. But before seven o'clock, the | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
rough`and`tumble of extreme Enduro, one of the toughest things to do on | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
two wheels. Sport now. 2014 should be another | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
big year for Sheffield's Nick Matthew. | :15:12. | :15:13. | |
He starts it as squash's world number one after a blistering end to | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
2013. Tanya's with him at the Hallamshire Club now. Can you. | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
`` Tanya. Yes, not only is it Nick's home club, it is caught, | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
named after him, and the young kids here, the British Junior open, have | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
you seen some new Nick Matthews coming through? I have seen some | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
great battles. There is a lull in the proceedings there, some practice | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
in between matches but it is just the first day, it goes on for five | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
days. There are kids from 36 countries and this is the 19th year | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
it has been in Sheffield, which makes me feel old, because I was | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
part of it 19 years ago, I played in the under 16s, so it shows you how | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
long and prestigious the tournament has been. Are you a bit sad to see | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
the back of 2013 pleasure it was good view on the court and special | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
of the court. It was a great year, I didn't want to drain. I married, got | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
the title back, world number one, so 2014 has a lot to live up to. But a | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
great start to see these kids and great to see them inspired and they | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
inspire me, hopefully they will be the same when they watch me | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
practice. 2014, one of the big tournaments a year is the | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Commonwealth Games. It is because squash, we saw the elation on your | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
face when you won the gold medals back in Delhi. Yes, for squash, it | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
is our Olympic Games and it transcends more globally. I got a | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
lot more coverage for winning a medal than for getting to world | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
number one, for example. It is a very strong sport at Commonwealth | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
level. We might not have the Egyptians or the French but you have | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
a strong field, half of the top 20 in the world, so it will be one of | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
the strongest sports in Glasgow. And for you, when did you start your | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
season? I started training in the last couple of days, working off the | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
Christmas puddings. I had one to mince pies too many and I started in | :17:06. | :17:13. | |
New York at the Tournament Of Champions, , a fantastic venue, that | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
will be the 17th of January. And everyone will be after you. Yes, I | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
have that big X on my back, the world, one is just a bonus, though, | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
and I'm looking forward to the new challenges. All of the very best. If | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
he is smiling extra, it is because he is also a Sheffield Wednesday | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
fan. If one club has had a good Christmas and started 2014 well, it | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
is Sheffield Wednesday. A few others didn't enjoy New Year's Day quite so | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
much. Paul Ogden reports. Sheffield Wednesday found themselves | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
in some emergency gardening to play Blackpool, but it was worth it. | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
Connor Wickham pounds to put Wednesday ahead and then took on the | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
role of supplier. A 2`0 victory lifted them out of the relegation | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
zone. A perfect start to 2014. Replacing them in the bottom three | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
than our Doncaster Rovers, for whom striker Theo Robinson opened the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
scoring at QPR. But the Londoners hit back to win 2`1. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Barnsley are still bottom but now but thanks to this curling free kick | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
from Jacob Melas, they managed a 1`1 draw at Birmingham. | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
Martin Paterson's could prevent a 3`2 defeat at Burnley and red | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
triumphed over White at Elland Road, with Leeds losing to Blackburn. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
Lives got their goal through Matt Smith. | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
In league one, Rotherham took the lead against Coventry but the | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
referee then decided that this foul was inside the box. Yes, I know. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Commentary scored from the penalty and Rotherham missed one of their | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
own in a 3`1 defeat. Sheffield United's Chris Porter | :18:58. | :18:59. | |
provided the only bright spot in their loss to Walsall. | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
Bradford lost 3`0 at struggling Notts County. | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
And Chesterfield were rained off, but York city bagged a precious win | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
to give themselves hope for the New Year. Ryan Jarvis was the scorer in | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
a 1`0 success against Morecambe. And finally, a bit of cricket. Joe | :19:18. | :19:29. | |
Sayer has announced his retirement from the game today and also Gary | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Ballance is expected to make his test debut for England down under in | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
the Ashes, alongside Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root and possibly Tim Bresnan as | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
well. Fingers crossed England can end the Ashes on a high, because | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
they needed. Thank you very much `` they need it. | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Well, we're going to continue the sports theme ` an extreme sport this | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
time. Off`road biking. I don't know if you fancy yourself | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
on this one. They're made for rough terrain, but powerful enough to go | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
uphill and clear whatever's in their way. The sport, extreme Enduro, is | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
one of the toughest things you can do on two wheels. We are not | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
insured, don't touch it. It's about timing. The fastest | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
competitor round the course wins. But it's carried out on different | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
types of surfaces, with gruelling courses that in some cases can take | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
days to complete, with a range of natural or man`made obstacles on its | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
route. It's still quite a young sport, it | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
began in 1998. And the best in the world is Graham Jarvis from Ripon. | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
We borrowed his bike to get a closer look. But over the holidays, Nick | :20:31. | :20:40. | |
Gemzoe went to see him in action. People have raced motorcycles of | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
road for over 100 years. `` off Road. But over the last few years, | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
organisers have been creating events so tough that only a handful can | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
finish them. You get professional riders against amateurs, they can | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
ride against their heroes. It has taken me to new places, like | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
Australia, South Africa. Every event is different every year. They make a | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
new course, C don't know what is ahead of you. Graham Jarvis keeps | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
winning extreme Enduros, like Red Bull events. But as new races are | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
created and the going gets tough to come he's more determined than ever | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
to keep winning. The year has really been good for me, I have at `` won | :21:25. | :21:33. | |
every event at least once. That comes from new riders coming into a | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
new competition and new events, so a lot to look forward to and I have | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
got to keep working hard and maybe harder than I ever have done to keep | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
up with the youngsters. When a careers adviser at school at Graham | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
what he wanted to be when he grew up, he said, " I'm going to be a | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
professional motorcycle rider". Now the second seasonal, proving the | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
second wasn't a fluke. By the age of 16, Graham had been semiprofessional | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
for five years. By 1993, he had reached fourth in the world trials | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
ranking. Ten years later, he had won nine Scots trials and for British | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Championships. And at the age of 32, he considered calling it a day. | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Then, just for fun, he had a go at a new time of writing `` a new type of | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
riding, extreme Enduro. But success comes at a cost. It is hard being | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
away from your family and home for long periods. But at the end of the | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
day, it is a job as well, so I go out there to win. Graham is moving | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
to a new sponsor for 2014, and he is ready to take on the challenge of | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
winning anything that extreme `` extreme Enduro can throw at him. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Can you imagine yourself on two wheels like that? | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
Not like that. Two wheels going very slowly... | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
We said we will go out with him next time. | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
I think we should. We can do it on one bike, who is going on the back? | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
Carry on! I don't know what presents you | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
received this Christmas. Did you get mine? | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
I didn't, is it in the post? Few people had a surprise quite like Zoe | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Averianov. Amongst her gifts on Christmas | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
morning was a letter in strange handwriting. | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
More than two decades ago Zoe, from Hebden Bridge, dropped a message in | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
a bottle into the sea off Hull. The letter was to tell her it had | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
finally turned up hundreds of miles away. Stuart Flinders takes up the | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
story. Zoe Averianov was ten years old when | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
she headed off on a family holiday to Germany in 1990, on`board a North | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
Sea. As the ship left Hull, when nobody was looking, she popped a | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
letter into a bottle and threw it overboard. I probably would `` it | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
probably would have been quite late when I threw it over, knowing we | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
weren't supposed to do those sorts of things. Zoe had forgotten all | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
about it until, on Christmas Day, her father handed her a letter with | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
a foreign postmark that had arrived at her old home. Initially, I was a | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
little bit quiet, just looking at it, and they all expectantly looking | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
at me, thinking what is it? It contained the very letter she had | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
written 23 years ago. My name is Zoe, please will you | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
write to me, I like it a lot. I enjoy ballet, playing the piano, I | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
have a hamster and fish. The message in a bottle had | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
travelled about 350 miles to the Netherlands. Dear Zoe, yesterday on | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
one of my many walks with my wife, looking among the debris thrown by | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
the sea on the embankment, I found a little plastic bottle containing a | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
message. Your message, dated September the 12th 1990. The real | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
surprise, how it took so long to get there. It doesn't seem to have gone | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
that far. Perhaps it has been there and back a few times. Maybe. | :25:10. | :25:19. | |
What a heart`warming story. So I wonder where my present is... | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
Let's move on, shall we? Where'd all? Wet tonight, the first | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
tentative signs of something a bit more settled until the middle of | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
January. Let's have a look at some of the pictures you sent me over the | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
Christmas period. Bridlington at high tide yesterday afternoon. The | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
next one, a fantastic cumulonimbus cloud photographed over | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Huddersfield. And this is the River Ouse in York this afternoon, it is | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
quite high. The River wharf was quite high as well when I drove past | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
Tadcaster this afternoon. So the Environment Agency will keep their | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
eye on that one. This is the address if you want to send pictures. More | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
rain tonight, tomorrow is windy with scattered showers, but you can see | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
there is another deep area of low pressure, bringing bands of rain | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
in. That is the overnight weather front, that feature bringing | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
prolonged showers on Saturday and the one behind will bring wet and | :26:18. | :26:19. | |
windy weather on Sunday, so unsettled. It has been beautiful | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
today, lots of sunshine around and we looked into the south`west, | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
MacLeod is no thickening and that will soon bring rain onto the | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
Pennines. `` the cloud. After a fine start, rain is spreading eastwards, | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
fairly fragmented and moving quickly, clear of all parts by 2am | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
or 3am. The wind will strengthen and we'll see the lowest temperatures | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
down to four or five Celsius, 39 Fahrenheit. So the sun will rise at | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
8:24am. The next high water time will be 5:22am in Filey. A very | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
windy day, the strong westerly wind well touch galeforce at times of | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
exposed parts of the Pennines. A scattering of showers, but the | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
further east, the dry it may be. Some places towards the coast may be | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
having a dry day but at times, the showers are frequent. A strong wind | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
making it feel cold despite the fact that temperatures are closer to | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
average for early January, around seven Celsius, 45 Fahrenheit. A very | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
unsettled weekend to follow, showers could become prolonged and possibly | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
wintry over the hills and it turns wet and windy through the course of | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
Sunday. That is the forecast. Oh, dear. It is good to be back out | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
that Christmas break, back to the routine. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
I shall be back late with Paul at 10:25pm. We will see them. | :27:40. | :27:41. | |
Goodbye. Good night. | :27:42. | :27:46. |