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Good evening and welcome to Look North. On the programme tonight: New | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
papers confirm the government did lie to striking miners in 1984. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
Documents reveal the Conservative Government had secret plans to close | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
dozens of Yorkshire mines. We knew we were being lied to at the time. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
These revelations only confirm it officially. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
We're live in Barnsley at the National Union of Mineworkers for | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
reaction. Also tonight: Is this our region's | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
most dedicated football fan? Dave Foster hasn't missed a match | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
home or away for six years. We're with him as he makes a 500 mile | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
round trip in his wheelchair. I am in the Wakefield for a brush | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
with tradition, meeting one of the best barbers in the business. 51 | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
years! This is a rainbow after a blustery | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
showers that we had today. Join me later in the programme for all of | :01:05. | :01:05. | |
the details of what is coming up. Welcome to the programme. First | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
tonight: After thirty years of denials it's been confirmed that the | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
Conservative government of the 1980s lied about secret plans to close | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
dozens of coal mines in Yorkshire and beyond. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
At the time the National Coal Board said it planned to close 20 pits. | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
That itself led to the bitter year`ong miners' strike. But miners' | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
leader Arthur Scargill insisted that there was a plot to close 75. The | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
government denied it but official papers released today show he was | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
right. They also show that ministers considered using the army to move | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
coal to power stations. James Vincent is at the National Union of | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Mineworkers Yorkshire headquarters in Barnsley. James. | :01:51. | :02:02. | |
This is the council chamber. It is full of history. It also used to be | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
full of minors. There were 54 minus in Yorkshire in 1984 and now there | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
are only two. If you talk to mind as they always said there was a plan to | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
dismantle their industry. These documents released today prove that | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
they were right. Pit workers lined up against | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
police, the defining images of the miners strike. This is rather run. | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Miners thought they were trying to save their industry but its fate was | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
already largely determined. We knew we were being lied to at the time. | :02:38. | :02:46. | |
These revelations only confirm it officially. Ian MacGregor wrote a | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
letter to me and every other minor in the June of 1984 in which he | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
said, I state categorically and solemnly that you have been misled. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
These documents were previously secret and they have been released | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
today under the 30 year rule. They were never meant to be seen during | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
the year longer sport `` dispute in 1984. Kevin Barron was in his first | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
year as an MP but later this year he will be knighted. Down into the | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
colliery for training in 1962. Right under this ground we are walking on. | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
Orgreave is where he learned his previous trade. What do you think | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
that ex`miners will say and think when they find out they were right? | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
They were right. Laid out now, they wanted to close half of the coal | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
mines in South Yorkshire. There was no regeneration or regional | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
development agency putting money into creating jobs and communities. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
It's got massive high levels of an unlit `` unemployment even when the | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
pits were open, let alone closing them. Miners were proved right and | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
the industry has disappeared but now we know that there was a plan from | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the very start to dismantle it. One former Conservative MP from | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Yorkshire or says that the government has plenty of ideas but | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
it does not mean they are going to happen. I suspect that Mrs Thatcher | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
and her ministers looked at that and said it was too much, we cannot do | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
that. I do not know, it does not say so in the notes but sometimes the | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
notes do not tell you everything. More secret government files are | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
released in the next 12 months and we will find out more of what they | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
really thought. The documents may be from 30 years ago but they still | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
reopen old wounds. If you thought this was not an issue | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
any more, one of the current MPs has called for the Conservative | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
government to apologise today for what the previous government did to | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
the minors. I am with and Scargill and Betty Cook from women against | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
pit closures. Does this prove that your former husband and the miners | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
were right? It matters. We know we were right and here we are 30 years | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
on with an energy crisis and there are thousands of tonnes of coal | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
beneath our feet and Margaret Thatcher not only ruined the | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
coalfields but she ruined our communities. You only have to look | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
in our communities now, 30 years on and we have got soup kitchens, we | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
have got food banks, there are no jobs. The only jobs that you can get | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
low paid, part`time jobs and this is her legacy that we are still | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
suffering from. Thank you. Betty, people will say it was 30 years ago | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
and does it matter that you have been proved officially right? Of | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
course it matters and justifies everything that we did in that | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
struggle to support our communities and support the miners and the NUM. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
It was Margaret Thatcher's policy to vindicate the miners and the | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
National union of Mineworkers for the trouble they caused when they | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
brought down a former Tory government. She destroyed our basic | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
manufacturing industries and destroyed our communities and she | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
destroyed our social structure totally. Thank you very much. If you | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
are in any doubt that this is still an issue in Barnsley, just look in | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the history which has all gone now and people still blame that | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Conservative government for destroying it. Thank you very much. | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Well, we're joined now in the studio by the journalist Paul Routledge who | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
covered the miners strike and who has written a biography of Arthur | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
Scargill. Paul, obviously still a lot of | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
rancour and bitterness about the strike, Cabinet papers released | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
today show that Margaret Thatcher secretly considered bringing the | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
army into help resolve the dispute in terms of transporting coal around | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
the UK, does its pricey that the government were prepared to do | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
that? No, previous governments had used troops in industrial disputes | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
before but they have to keep alive for the nation going. What it shows | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
is that despite the resolute show on the surface, duck feet were paddling | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
very frantically below the surface. Why all the secrecy? All governments | :07:11. | :07:30. | |
lie but this was a particularly potent symbol of what was going on. | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
They said that they were not going to do it but of course we knew. The | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
menu, they grasped in the instinct that this is what was going to | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
happen, the industry was going to be butchered. Why else bringing in | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
MacGregor? That was the purpose of the dispute. Arthur Scargill was | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
worried about the closure and he said 75 pits. This is an article | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
that you published in 1982. You had a copy of the 75 pits. Yes, then it | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
was 46. Arthur Scargill invented the hit list because he needed it. It | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
was a unifying factor that would get the response from the men. Hitherto | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
pits had been closed based meal and then in Nottinghamshire would not go | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
on strike for a pit that was closing in Durham so he needed something | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
that would bring all of the men together and get them to take | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
unified action. The hit list was a stroke of genius if you like but it | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
did not work out in the end. You know Arthur Scargill's character | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
very well, will he be feeling vindicated by this? He has always | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
felt vindicated. What is vindicated tonight is the struggle of the men | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
and their families. They are vindicated in the sacrifices they | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
made to try and keep the industry going. It was not just after's | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
strike, it was the strike of all of the coalfield communities. At least | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
they now know that they knew then and they now know properly what they | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
were up again. The government was right though because Arthur Scargill | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
was a renegade holding the country to ransom, what they did was right, | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
wasn't it? The government always wanted to have this dispute because | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
they wanted to break the power of the labour movement. The NUM was the | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
strongest mood `` the strongest union and they had to do it when | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
they had the stocks prepared in the power stations. They had to take on | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
the figure out and they had to take on after and that is why they threw | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
down a gauntlet at one miners said they were closing in right away and | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
that is why the men picked up the gauntlet. We had to leave it there. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Thank you for joining us tonight. Later on Look North: The | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
two`year`old girl with disabilities, housebound after a robbery. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Audrey Frantzich needs vital medical equipment. It was stolen and now | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
she's confined to the house. Next tonight, Javaid Akhtar arrived | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
in Huddersfield from Pakistan as a boy 45 years ago, unable to speak a | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
word of English. This weekend he retires as the most senior Asian | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
police officer in the country. The Deputy Chief Constable of West | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
Yorkshire has seen the number of ethnic minority officers increase | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
during his 32 year career. But he's told Our Crime Correspondent John | :09:49. | :10:00. | |
Cundy much more needs to be done. Keeping it in the family, for his | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
final day in office, January Akhtar returned to where it all began, a | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
nostalgic patrol through the streets of Huddersfield. Proudly walking | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
with him, his 32`year`old son, the second`generation of the family to | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
join the police. When Javaid Akhtar joined the police there were very | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
few black or ethnic menorah T officers and now they account for | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
75% of the `` something like 5% of the force but there is more work to | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
be done. You are conscious that you are the only one or one or two or | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
three in the first few years. Whether it is in term of people's | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
backgrounds of the Democratic `` demographics or any other ways, the | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
police officers are delivering the surface `` service and they reflect | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
the community we are serving. The 5% does not reflect the community of | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
West Yorkshire. As well as the second most senior officer in West | :11:00. | :11:08. | |
Yorkshire he has taken the leading counterterrorism in recent years. | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
Keeping people safe whatever the threat to those people may be, | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
whether it is from terrorism of violence or other types of crime, I | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
think the police had to focus on all of those things. As Javaid Akhtar | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
bowels out his son will retain his father's force number. I know the | :11:24. | :11:32. | |
police number will stay with our family for hopefully another 65 | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
years and it is a nice reminder of my dad whenever I put my uniform | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
worn and I have the numbers on my shoulder. Javaid Akhtar, the boy who | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
arrived in Huddersfield speaking only Punjabi and Urdu leaves the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
force this weekend as one of Britain's's true Asian police | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
pioneers. Detectives investigating the murder | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
of a man from Sheffield are hoping that a missing piece of jewellery | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
could help catch his killer. Police say Simon Holdsworth's gold chain, | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
which he's seen wearing here, was never found following the discovery | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
of his body in Hackethorpe more than two weeks ago. His black Nokia | :12:07. | :12:19. | |
mobile phone is also missing. Police are appealing for anyone who knows | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
the whereabouts of the chain or phone to get in touch. | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
A failing school for boys with serious behaviour and social | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
problems in North Yorkshire is to be run by an independent provider, not | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
the County Council. Foremost School near Harrogate cost ?11 million to | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
build and opened two years ago. It was placed in special measures by | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Ofsted due to poor leadership, inadequate teaching, and a high | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
number of pupil attacks on staff. Now North Yorkshire County Council | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
has admitted the school would be better managed by another | :12:45. | :12:45. | |
organisation. TV presenter Richard Hammond has | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
described his experience of recovering from a head injury after | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
he crashed in a jet`powered car in North Yorkshire whilst filming Top | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Gear. Hammond was put into an induced coma and kept in hospital | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
for five weeks following the accident at Elvington Airfield near | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
York in 2006. His comments come after Formula 1 driver Michael | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
Schumacher suffered a brain injury in a skiing accident over Christmas. | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
Speaking on Radio Five Live Mr Hammond said although he's now | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
recovered, the crash still affects his life. Does it influence me? Yes, | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
but so did passing 40 and so did having two daughters and so does | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
being short. These are significant things in all of our lives and | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
eventually, if a person is lucky, then a head injury can be filed away | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
amongst them. A severely disabled child from | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
Baildon near Bradford has been left house`bound after thieves stole her | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
parents' car containing vital medical equipment. Two`year`old | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
Audrey Frantzich suffers from a rare condition and can only travel when | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
there are oxygen canisters and a special seat in the vehicle. The car | :13:48. | :13:57. | |
has now been recovered following the theft, but police haven't tracked | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
down the equipment. Here's Spencer Stokes. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Looking after Little Audrey is a round`the`clock task for Louise and | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
her husband Herman. Their daughter cannot breathe on her own, feeds | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
naturally or sit up without support. Their home is full of equipment that | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
helps Audrey to lead a more normal life. Until last weekend there are | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
also contained ?500 worth of similar items. The car was stolen and now | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
Audrey cannot leave the house. It has just ruined our Christmas Time | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
now for us because we have not been able to take Audrey out and she has | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
been very restless. You cannot believe that people can be so | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
heartless as to take things which they would have realised were for a | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
disabled child. Audrey is one of only ten children in the country | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
with this fault with her chromosomes. She has defied | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
predictions that she would not make her first birthday but hast to be | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
fed through a tube and relies on a machine to help her breathe. It is | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
just a random occurrence so we take as she is. She has a lot of love to | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
give. We deal with the oxygen, we are used to it, we deal with the | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
feeds and the vomiting and the suctioning. Your car is your | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
lifeline and it is nice to get out and about in the car and take Audrey | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
out and keep her happy. You just feel really defenceless. You cannot | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
do much, can you? It changes your everyday life with her and she | :15:26. | :15:36. | |
cannot be as happy. Police have now arrested and bailed a man in | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
connection with the theft of the car but the specialist equipment has not | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
been recovered and until it is found and replaced Audrey will remain | :15:43. | :15:43. | |
effectively housebound. Before 7.00pm: Have we found the | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
country's most dedicated football fan? | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Being wheelchair bound hasn't stopped Dave Foster from seeing | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
every Chesterfield match in six years. | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
And Ian White meets the Wakefield barber who's been in the business so | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
long he's now part of a museum exhibition. | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
It is only a matter of time before... | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
Yes, it has been said! Now for sport. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
Now if I say I'm looking forward to the potential all`Yorkshire clash | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
between the Jammie Dodger and Scotty Too Hotty, you'll of course know I'm | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
talking darts! Scott Waites returns to the Lakeside stage tomorrow to | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
start the defence of his BDO World Championship title, but standing in | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
his way could be his good friend, James Wilson. I caught up with them | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
practising in Linthwaite near Huddersfield. Double 16 for the | :16:37. | :16:50. | |
title! Scott Waites! When you hit the winning double, everything | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
drains out of you and you think `` you think, God, I have done it! To | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
win the World Championship, every darts player, that is what they want | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
to do, that is what they want to win. To win it is amazing. It is one | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
of the best feelings you can have. Roll forward 12 months and Scott is | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
practising rather hard at Linthwaite Bowls club. For me it has not really | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
changed me as a person but it has changed everybody else. You get | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
recognised a bit more when you are doing your shopping. In the local | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
supermarket and stuff. People now come up to you and know my name and | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
it is like everyone is my best friend even though I have never met | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
them in my life. Practising alongside him is James Wilson, aka | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
Jammie Dodger. A roofer by trade he took a few years out from darts but | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
now he is back and I love the title. When I went down last year I | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
told him I would be back. I only just qualified last year and this | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
year I am seeded number two and I have just got a masters under my | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
belt so I am really confident. Scots played a big part three Jones back | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
to the sport but it will count for nothing at the lakeside. What will | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
it be like if you face each other in the quarterfinals? Fun. It will be | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
fun. There will be an element of the fact that we are mates and | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
everything else but at the end of the day you are there and you want | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
to win the game. It don't matter about me, James will want to get up | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
there and win. I want to get up there and win. It is all about | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
winning. That is for the future, they have got to get to the | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
quarterfinals first. In Football this weekend the FA Cup | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
takes centre stage. It's the third round, meaning the big boys join in | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
and there are a few of our clubs hoping to avoid being at the wrong | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
end of an upset as they face lower league teams. Sheffield United | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
though will be hoping they can upset the applecart and catch Premier | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
League Aston Villa off`guard. We take it very seriously and we are | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
looking forward to it. It is a good draw for us but a very difficult | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
one. I think a lot of people talk about being devalued these days but | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
it is not here at Sheffield United. That will be reflected in the sport | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
with `` support we take to Villa Park tomorrow. | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
With a whole heap of football fixtures over the festive season, | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
it's hard for fans to get to all their team's matches. But Dave | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
Foster hasn't missed a Chesterfield game for nearly six years. His | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
dedication is all the more remarkable as he's a wheelchair user | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
and getting around lower league grounds is no easy matter. Our | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
reporter Ian Bucknell went with Dave to a recent match, a mere 500 mile | :19:34. | :19:43. | |
round trip to Exeter. Dave Foster is the definition of a | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
die`hard fan. Even a Friday night game just before Christmas at the | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
other end of the country will not stop him following is lobbied | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Chesterfield. It is now my fifth season without missing a game home | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
or away which is pretty good in a wheelchair. It is something like 230 | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
consecutive games. After a car crash 30 years ago Dave lost the use of | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
his legs. When he arrives in Exeter the next challenge is to cross the | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
city to the football ground which is one mile and a half away. It is one | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
of the busiest nights of the year so he has to push. I can't get a taxi | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
and it is killing me but I will get there. We will get there. They were | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
installed without us. It takes more than half an hour of hard work to | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
reach the football ground. We are here eventually, just in time for | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
the kick`off. 138 Chesterfield fans have made the trip by just one of | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
them is in a wheelchair. The weather takes a turn for the worse just | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
before kick`off, not an easy night to play all watch. At half`time it | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
is 0`0 and a refreshment stand is at the top of the terrorists so Dave | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
has to rely on others to get a hot drink. There you are, make the most | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
of it. You get what you are given in this life, don't you? They teach you | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
in the spinal unit that you can either sink or swim. A second goal | :21:09. | :21:23. | |
ensures a win for Chesterfield. We are top of the league! We are top of | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
the league! As he gets older it is getting harder for Dave to maintain | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
his devotion but as long as he can he will be there for his team. | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Incredible. Finally from me, the first lot of | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
places for this year's Yorkshire's marathon sold out in just five hours | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
this morning. But fear not, if you're desperate to follow in | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
Harry's footsteps there are a few places left which will go on general | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
sale at 9.00am on Monday morning. Yutu have been sitting there ever | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
since the dark space. I've come up with Tania the Tigris. | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
Pitt, the super flick, he has a fantastic flick. | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
That is too long for a walk on. What will his music be? | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
It is Friday and here is something for the weekend. | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
A barber from Wakefield is celebrating an amazing 51 years in | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
the business. David Grice still works the way he was taught and is | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
keeping tradition well and truly alive. | :22:23. | :22:23. | |
Many of his stories and the artefacts he's collected over the | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
decades are forming part of an exhibition at Wakefield Museum. Ian | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
White popped into his saloon to meet him and get a quick tidy up. It is | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
not a salon! Tucked away on a corner of Northgate | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
stand a barber 's shop that is a piece of living history. Good | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
morning and thank you for coming. Please come in. David Grice is a | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
well`known character and has been keeping the city's gentleman smart | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
and ID for five decades. I have no idea what I want but I need | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
something doing. His saloon is a step back in time but he is | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
convinced that the old ways are the best. This is a professional comb, | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
these are professional scissors. There is not a machine anywhere in | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
the world that will cut your hair. With this I can come in and go out | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
and go up and go down. The tiny barbershop is crammed full of old | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
brushes, bottles, pots and potions. Some have even found their way to | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
Wakefield Museum, all preserved by a man who simply loves his | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
profession. I work with application, dedication and a pride in the | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
profession I am in. I ensure the way that I can look and serve my | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
customers. There have been tens of thousands of haircuts over the years | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
and some people in his chair have been more memorable than others. I | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
have had the experience of cutting Mr Harold Shipman's hair and beard. | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
No way! I have, he sat in this chair here. I have always tried to welcome | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
people, I have always tried to say, please have faith in me, let me show | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
you what I can do. I will take care of you, I will dress you and I will | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
agree new and if you like my service, then please call again. | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
Thank you. David Grice is the name, find barbering the name. When you | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
are smart you are smart enough. And I feel very smart. | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
That reminds me I need a short back and sides. It was more like an air | :24:44. | :24:56. | |
cut than a haircut, wasn't it? We try to come out with a darts name | :24:57. | :25:07. | |
for you. How about a year Cluj in? Before we start I have a few | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
pictures for you. This is a shot of staves in North Yorkshire. Just look | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
at it. It is beautiful. It is the sunshine before the showers. The | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
second picture is from Sandy and it is diddly reservoir. | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
If you have any weather pictures you can send them to us. | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
This evening it is quite windy out and about with gusty wind but it | :25:45. | :25:53. | |
will ease down and the showers will also die out. Overnight it will be | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
largely dry. You can see there is a real mess. This front will bring a | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
risk of rain and snow but not as windy until the next front comes in | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
from the Atlantic on Sunday. It will give another spell of wet and windy | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
weather so it will stay unsettled this weekend. This evening we still | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
have showers around. The showers are likely to be heavy at times and | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
giving us hail over the tops and they will possibly be wintry but | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
they will is allowed. The breeze will ease down and become moderate | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
overnight. Temperatures will get down to about two degrees. We could | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
see a touch of frost tomorrow morning and a risk of icy stretches. | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
A cold and frosty start to tomorrow morning. If you are heading out | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
watch out for ice. A fine start but we have a yellow warning of snow | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
specifically for North Yorkshire as we will have a band of rain coming | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
up from the south and it will fall as snow over the tops over 150 | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
metres. The range ranks up from the south and the snow falls from 150 | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
metres with one `` a couple of centimetres being possible. A lot of | :27:12. | :27:14. | |
us will be dried by the end of the day. Temperatures will be a little | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
bit lower than today. Robbie get into seven degrees in Scarborough. | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
The breeze will be a lot lighter from the south`west. Not as breezy | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
day tomorrow. On Sunday it is wet and windy. It stays unsettled | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
through the day and next week there is the risk of gales on Monday. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
It is a real mess, is that meteorological term? | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
Yes, that's what I learned at whether school! | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
I went to approved school. I think you need to go back. | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
Good back `` good night! | :27:47. | :27:51. |