10/01/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

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Less Welcome to Friday's Look North. Our top stories tonight: The

schoolchildren running on empty. The country's first ever food bank

arrives at a community college in Sheffield after it's discovered one

student hadn't eaten for three days. We ask how it can happen in this day

and age. Also tonight:

Round`the`clock police presence at the so`called Sheffield slave house

after a series of revenge attacks on the property. People are going to

feel, sorry, forgive the word, bloody angry at what they have done

and they can't get at the family because they are all imprisoned, so

the nearest thing is to get rid of the property, get rid of that

memory. And Sheffield's Jessica Ennis`Hill

announces she is pregnant. But what will it mean for the future of her

athletics career? This is definitely not the forecast

for the next couple of days. We will be looking back at 30 years of

whether presenting here on the clause, plus I love that detailed

weather forecast `` of the weather being presented here on Look North.

Plus I will have that detailed weather forecast.

Thank you be joining us. A school in Sheffield has set up its own food

bank after discovering one of its students hadn't eaten for three

days. The head teacher of Handsworth Grange Community Sports College

fears many more families in the area can't afford to feed their children

and that youngsters are turning up for lessons starving.

In a moment, we'll hear from Matt Cameron from the Trussell Trust,

which runs a network of food banks. But first, Ian White's been to the

school in Handsworth. It's not just exercise books and PE

kit these students take to school, now they are bringing tins, jars and

packets to donate to a local food bank. It is after their headteacher

made a shocking discovery. We have always tried to help families but

before Christmas, a child came into us and said to us she hadn't

eaten... It was a Monday morning and she hadn't eaten since Friday

lunchtime. And it shocked us, really, to the core, and we decided

we had to really extend the help we give to our children and our

families. People our age shouldn't be worrying about whether they are

going to eat or not, they should be worrying about their education and

whether or not they are going to pass their studies. Items collected

by the children here are sent to the main food bank in Handsworth, for

redistribution to families who need them most. The situation is

this isn't a particularly deprived area of Sheffield, so this shouldn't

be happening. The growing levels of poverty in Sheffield has already

been raised in Parliament. They had a non`uniform day to help Children

In Need just before Christmas, and a couple of young girls came to the

head and said, "Sorry, Miss, don't have the day, because we have no

other clothes but our uniforms". The school helped them out, but, again,

what a terrible state of affairs, to have girls in that position. In an

area like this, with students coming in and not having food, it is really

strange. It shouldn't be happening, especially not in these current

times. By doing the food bank, it really makes people realise that

some people are less fortunate than us and that we really are lucky to

have what we have got. There are about 1,500 items that have been

collected in three days. They are on their way to the Handsworth food

bank. One positive thing to come out of this story is the fact that so

many of these youngsters here at the school really, really do care about

people who are less well`off than themselves. I think that really came

out in your report. Matt Cameron works for the Trussell Trust, which

runs a number of food banks. It is not pupils arriving hungry, it is

starving. It is ridiculous. It is concerning that anyone in the UK

would be going out without food, let alone children, so we as a network

of food banks encourage all about projects to partner with schools to

make sure that those who need the short`term food, get it, they can

access it. We have seen what is happening there at that school in

Sheffield, is it happening elsewhere in Yorkshire? Since April 2013, the

food banks in Yorkshire and Humber have helped 22,000 people and just

over a third have been children under 16, so it is certainly a

growing issue and one that we are obviously working hard to address to

make sure that people can get access to food if they needed. Good on

Sheffield Council for doing what they are doing but is it really the

responsibility of schools, which I am sure have enough on their plate,

sorry to use that particular expression, is it really their job

to deal with this? Certainly, they have a duty of care to their pupils

and we say they are very well placed to identify need, and that is why

they can... Like in Handsworth, they can work closely with the local food

bank in donating food, which is fantastic to see, the pupils

donating food and giving back. They really cared, didn't they? And that

is what we are seeing, food banks are running the media a lot and we

are seeing the community and making sure their neighbours are not going

hungry, and that is one of the positive things to come out of this

dreadful situation. Matt Cameron, thank you be joining us.

`` for joining us. Now to new developments on the

shocking story earlier this week about the man treated like a slave

in Sheffield. The garage he was held in has been torched overnight.

And it's emerged that the victim's adoptive father was a leading

campaigner against slavery ` at one time heading the UK's Human

Trafficking Centre. Cathy Killick has the update.

They are pictures that have shocked and distressed all right`minded

people. The sustained and systematic abuse of a vulnerable man by a

family of bullies. David, Donna and James Rooke were jailed this week

for keeping their victim, Craig Kinsella, like a slave, forced to

sleep in this garage with a bucket for a toilet. Today, this is how it

looks. Set alight last night, a sign of the disgust and anger locally.

Having seen what we have seen, people are going to feel ` sorry,

forgive the word ` bloody angry at what they have done. And they can't

get at the family, because they are all in prison, so the nearest thing

is to get rid of the property, get rid of that memory. Campaigns

against slavery and trafficking highlight how it is happening,

hidden all around us, and it emerged today that the victim's adoptive

father was a leading campaigner against enslavement. He spoke to

Look North in 2008. His words then painfully prescient now. The general

public have a role to play. A key role. They need to understand that

trafficking is not something remote. Interviewed by the Daily Mirror

about his adopted son's treatment, he said:

It is hard to understand how this level of violence could have

happened under the noses of family and neighbours, but it did, right

here in this ordinary street. And it is devastating to everyone around.

If there is any message, I'd like to say I am sorry. If I had known, I

would have loved to help you. Neighbour James Cutts ending that

report from Sheffield. Later on Look North, ten years on

and still waiting. The Yorkshire thalidomide victim still fighting

for compensation decades after the drug was banned.

Elderly residents at care homes across Calderdale and Huddersfield

can now get expert medical advice 24 hours a day thanks to a video`link

direct to hospital. A pilot project will run at 18 homes

as part of plans to try and reduce hospital admissions and the strain

on A Our Health Correspondent Jamie Coulson reports.

We have Eileen Richardson this morning. Good morning, do you prefer

Eileen or Mrs Richardson? If 85`year`old Eileen Richardson

becomes unwell or needs medical attention, she can be seen

immediately by a specialist nurse or doctor who is at the other end of a

computer screen, rather than going to hospital. It is nice not going to

outside, isn't it? Oh, yes. Not having to go to hospital. I just

wanted to ask you some questions about your breathing. 18 homes

across Calderdale and Huddersfield are taking part in a project which

provides elderly residents with a secure video link to specially

trained staff at Airedale Hospital. Care homes with the highest rates of

hospital admissions were selected to take part in the project and it is

hoped that by using this technology, they can reduce the strain on local

hospitals and A departments. They don't have to travel, they don't

have to sit in an A department or be seen by a clinician, it can be

done there and then at their bedside. For us, it is fantastic and

it is putting the patient first. We have used it for chest infections,

back pains, minor fits, suspected strokes. We are straight onto the

hub and we take guidance from them. From what you have told us, I don't

think we need to see you again. The pilot project, which has been funded

by the local hospital trust, will run for 12 months, offering patients

like Eileen expert advice at the click of a button.

Some news in brief, and police in Sheffield say the murder victim,

Simon Holdsworth, may have known his killer. Mr Holdsworth, who was due

to get married in August, was found battered to death in the

Hackenthorpe area last month. Detectives now say his murder was

unlikely to have been a random attack by a complete stranger. They

say Mr Holdsworth's friends, family and colleagues may hold key

information which could lead them to his killer, and have urged anyone

who knew him to come forward. A man has died after he was found

with serious head injuries in Skipton. The 68`year`old man, who

has not been named, was found at the bottom of steps in the Gas Street

car park last night. He died later at Airedale Hospital. Police are

treating the man's death as unexplained and have urged anyone

with information to come forward. A thalidomide victim from Yorkshire

has been in Brussels for talks with the European health commissioner

over his long running fight for compensation. Guy Tweedy wants

pressure to be put on the German pharmaceutical company which made

the drug. It was given to pregnant women in the late 1950s and early

'60s to combat morning sickness, but was withdrawn after it was linked to

limb deformities in newborn babies. Anna Crossley has the story.

At the time, it was deemed a wonder drug, but these days, it is

synonymous with one of the biggest pharmaceutical disasters this

country has ever seen. Thalidomide was prescribed to pregnant women in

the '50s to ease morning sickness, but it was withdrawn in 1962 after

thousands of children were born with crippling defects. The UK's first

memorial to thalidomide victims is here in Harrogate. This tree was

planted just over a year ago to mark the 50th anniversary of the pill's

withdrawal from the market. This plaque commemorates the babies and

the families whose lives were devastated by the drug. The memorial

was paid for by thalidomide victim Guy Tweedy, seen here with Elmet and

Rothwell MP Alec Shelbrooke. Guy spent the last decade trying to get

Gruenenthal, the German company who made the drug, to compensate

victims. Today, he has been in Brussels to try to broker talks

between the German government and Gruenenthal. It is very sad that I

am still fighting after ten years of campaigning, but what we are looking

for from Gruenenthal is a meaningful and proper apology, as well as a

financial settlement to make the last third of the lives of

thalidomiders a bit more comfortable. Guy's fight for

compensation has been supported by Alec Shelbrooke, who is also chair

of the All`Parliamentary Group for Thalidomide. Gruenenthal do have a

moral responsibility to help with those funds, because we sometimes

forget that people who are victims of thalidomide are now moving into a

later stage of life and, actually, it is not the fact that they were

born without arms and legs, it is the fact now that they have had to

use their mouths for much of their lives, their jaws are starting to

crumble. So there are other issues now that are coming to the fore.

Guy's says today's meeting with the EU Health Commissioner was positive

and hopes thatm half a century on, victims could be moving closer to

receiving the compensation they feel they deserve.

Before seven o'clock. Does this ring a bell?

Our Harry has a go at the ancient art. But will he be able to knock

out a tune? Or even pick one up! And who's this fresh`faced

meteorologist? Oh, dear. We celebrate six decades of forecasting

at the BBC. He looks like a 12`year`old. In his

grandad's suit. My favourite sports personality of

all time has to be a young lady who is celebrating things.

She has some big news, she is celebrating.

Yes, and she's not talking about Nakhi Wells going to Huddersfield.

Which has happened! Sheffield's Olympic Champion

heptathlete Jessica Ennis`Hill has announced she is expecting a baby.

But it does mean she'll miss this year's Commonwealth Games in

Glasgow. In a statement, she said she and her husband were completely

overwhelmed with excitement. She plans to return to full`time

athletics and defend her Olympic gold medal in Rio in 2016, but

should be back competing a lot sooner. Shamir Masri has more.

Here is heptathlete Jessica Ennis`Hill, with her husband Andy,

arriving for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards in

December, in Leeds. It is highly likely the couple would have known

Jess was pregnant, but it wasn't until this morning they shared the

news with the world. I haven't spoken to them today, I will leave

them be, but of course, they will be delighted. As is any couple with

this news. In a statement, Jess said:

I think now, taking this period of time, might actually lengthen her

career. We have the World Championships in

London in 2017, the Commonwealth Games will be on the Gold Coast in

2018. There is always a championship year. 27`year`old Jess has not

competed in a major championships since winning Olympic gold at London

2012. She will still train during her pregnancy, and experts say it

will actually help. We know from doing training studies that it is

actually aerobic fitness that declines most, rather than strength

and speed, and in pregnancy, what she will be looking to do is try and

maintain that strength and speed. She can do that through various

means of low intensity weight`training ` circuit training,

for example. The first two months after birth, I think, is when you

sort of have to be a little bit careful, and then we will build back

up into a training plan and will be looking at the European indoors as a

real possibility. But certainly, the World Championships in Beijing would

be the main target we would look at and then onwards to Rio. There is

disappointment Sheffield's golden girl will not be competing in

Glasgow this summer, but she said she will be watching at home,

waiting for the arrival of a little Ennis`Hill.

She will be able to double that smile soon. Congratulations from all

of us. Loads of transfer activity in the last few hours, it is the

January transfer window and it is getting very busy. Sheffield United

have made a move to add more goals to the team. The Blades have brought

in Billy Paynter, on loan from Doncaster Rovers. Rotherham United

have signed QPR striker Tom Hitchcock on loan. And a major

transaction competed in the last ten minutes, I kid you not. Nakhi Wells

has moved from Bradford city to Huddersfield town. It is a port of

`` 4`.5`year deal, and a club record fee for Huddersfield, in excess of

?120 million. Wells will play at home to Millwall tomorrow. `` ?1.2

million. In football this weekend, there's yet another clash of the

Yorkshire neighbours, Sheffield Wednesday host Leeds United at

Hillsborough. And you get the feeling that both clubs are on the

brink of change. Sheffield Wednesday have spent a lot

of time recently asking themselves some uncomfortable questions. How on

earth they have spent most of the season in the relegation zone, for

example. But now they are out of it, thanks to the effort of the still

temporary Andre Villas`Boas one. He wants to stay in the job the good

but the chairman is keeping him waiting `` of the still temporary

manager, Stuart Gray. It is dragging on a bit but it will probably be

after Saturday's game, that is what chairman quoted. Do you think the

game will influence it? I have no idea, you'll have to ask the

chairman. Their opponents, Leeds, RNA different situation. New

investment has already triggered new signings, like Cameron Stewart. The

championship table suggests they are right in the play`off race, but the

limp FA Cup defeat at Rochdale last Saturday was widely criticised by

fans and having steered Leeds to eighth in the table, the demands on

bright `` Brian McDermott are relentless. To go there and do that,

that is not what we are about, that is an apology more than anything. I

have had nothing but supportive. At both Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds

United, you will hear about yearning for the Premier League and a return

to glory days, but both can appreciate what they have got to

know and build for the future. It should be a good one, 12 15 pm.

Darts, and Huddersfield's James Wilson is potentially just five sets

away from the World Championships semifinal. James, known as the jammy

dodger, is up against Alan Norris in the best of nine sets. You can watch

it on the BBC red button or catch the highlights on BBC Two. I hope

that Paul Hudson is still speaking to me at the Huddersfield signed

striker Nakhi Wells. Charlotte, I apologise, because I use one of your

lipsticks to write down "4`.5 years" .

It is not mine! Now, think of music in Yorkshire and

I'm sure brass bands will be near the top of your list.But what about

this? Hand bells. Well they've been around

for centuries, as Harry found out last night. But was he any good at

it?! Ding Dong, Charlotte!

The men are a small number of the team in Melbourne, learning how to

ring handbells. Australia 1956, but the home of bell`ringing is in

Yorkshire, none more so than in Huddersfield. You have the base one

there, the tenor in the middle, the treble, and just like a brass band.

They were obviously more manoeuvrable in the handbell bands.

Where you had them, you had brass bands, and that sort of added to the

decline. This is the biggest one, everyone gets impressed by them.

About five kilos each. It is the same around the table, larger to

smaller. Then to the tribal area, they are smaller bells, and we keep

the rhythm. So a lot of the tunes, we keep the rhythm. And it is laid

out like a piano, flats and sharps at the top, and the normal keys at

the bottom. So you can instantly get used to where they are, they are

always in the same place. Where the ladies really have a job one, you

can see the bells, they have trouble occurred. They have three octave is

`` they have a trip look at. They have notes on one line and higher up

the line in music. So how difficult is handbell ringing? I'm going to

have a go myself to find out. One, two, three, four.

DING. Don't give up the day job!

It's 60 years since the first BBC TV weather presenter appeared on our

screen. Here at Look North, we've only had regional weather for around

three decades. Don't say a word, Hudson.

It feels a lot longer. But a lot has changed since the first weather

reports here in the '80s, not least in terms of the wardrobe of a

certain Paul Hudson. Cathy Booth has been exploring the archives to bring

us some highs and lows. In the early days, the regional

weather forecast was a modest affair. Although weather pictures

were still popular. This winter sky was taken by Mister Robinson. By

1988, it was read by a distinguished presenter. Sunny intervals are

likely but most of them in western parts. Later, dedicated specialists

came in. Remember Alan Darwood and Paula Robinson? Here is a young

Darren Bett engaging in some pre`weather banter. But it was all

the pro viewed to a man who came to embody Yorkshire weather presenting.

`` the Prelude. Here is Paul Hudson.

In October 1995, Look North welcomed Paul Hudson. The youngest weather

presenter in a country whose trademark jacket and ties became

more in distinctive. Lisa Gallagher joined the team in the new

millennium. One woman who's going to tell us how cold it is going to get

is Lisa. And these days, Keeley, K and Jen also bring a bit of glamour

to the weather studio. The graphics are more modern and Paul's wardrobe

has been updated, but even with the modern technology, it is sometimes

better to hedge your bets. A 50`50 chance of cold developing. In other

words, he hasn't got a clue. Has it got any better?

So, you had a make over, but we managed to find a couple of those

jackets. Those jackets are 20 years old, you can never tell.

They fit like a glove. I think they will come back. That banter we saw

with Darren was explosive. But the main thing is the forecast accuracy

has increased phenomenally. Thank you for putting the 50`50 chance of

cold on the end. Shall I show you some weather pictures? The one from

20 years ago was exciting. This one is a little bit better, taken this

morning, from Harry Robinson. And the next one, this is a lovely sky

that was taken in Harrogate, first thing this morning, the beautiful

sunlight reflecting on what looks like stratocumulus clouds. Keep the

pictures coming in. You them to make you never had that 20 years ago ``

you can tweet them to me. Tomorrow looks easily the best day of the

weekend, dry, with lots of sunshine around and a ridge of high pressure.

Sunday generally dry but a lot of low cloud and fog reluctant to

clear. Chile and grey, and this weather system will bring rain in

from the West. It has been lovely today but we are looking into the

north`west and rain is already in some areas. This weather front will

bring rain across all parts of Yorkshire. It is right at the moment

in eastern areas but those patchy outbreaks of rain will slip ever

south`east was. Not a great deal of rain and later, skies were clear

from the north and there will be a widespread frost. Watch out for icy

patches, the graters may have to get out first thing in the morning,

especially over the hills, as the morning goes on. The sun will rise

at 8:20am, setting at 4:09pm. The next high water time, fantastic day

across the coast, Scarborough, 12:48pm. Just the chance of the

isolated shower in the West but we can almost rule that out. I think

there is a lot of fine weather, quite a lot of sunshine, the best of

which will be the Vale of York eastwards, eastern parts of South

Yorkshire. A bit patchy cloud towards the Pennines but even here,

some sunshine at times. A predominantly dry day, a moderate

westerly wind and the best weather across the coast, seven Celsius is

the high, 45 Fahrenheit. Saturday night, failing rarer event for the

winter so far, a widespread frost, and fog on Sunday morning, reluctant

to clear, so grey and Chile. The site returns on Monday, highs close

to average, and more rain on Tuesday `` the sun returns.

That is the focus. You look to 12 when you first started.

Ten, probably. Look, the older you get, the more you shrink.

I was on stilts, look at that. Have a great weekend, goodbye.