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the windscreen first thing in the morning. That is all | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Good evening, welcome to Monday's Look North. On the programme | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
tonight: The York man seeking controversial | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
stem cell treatment abroad in a last`ditch attempt to slow the | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
progress of Parkinson's disease. I just feel that this is his last hope | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
and it is what he wants. We'll be asking a stem cell expert | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
just what the chances of success could be. | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
Also tonight: warnings that fracking in Yorkshire | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
could have disastrous consequences for tourism and farming. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
And it's all happening in Sheffield tonight. 6,000 Yorkshire | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
schoolchildren at the Sheffield Arena, along with the one and only | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Stacey Solomon. I will be talking her shortly. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
What a beautiful day it has been, but note the fog in Hathersage | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Valley this afternoon, that will become more widespread across the | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
region tonight. Join me for that detailed forecast. | :00:53. | :01:08. | |
A man from York with a form of Parkinson's Disease is planning to | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
travel to Ukraine for a controversial treatment using stem | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
cells. James DeLittle has slurred speech, poor balance and | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
difficulties controlling his limbs and this is his last`ditch attempt | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
to slow down the progress of the disease. | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
The clinic in Kiev hasn't performed clinical trials on its techniques | :01:25. | :01:32. | |
but claims to have good results. Experts here, though, say stem cell | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
science isn't yet sufficiently advanced to treat Parkinson's | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
patients. In a moment, we'll hear from James himself, but first our | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
health correspondent Jamie Coulson reports. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
49`year`old James DeLittle has a form of Parkinson's disease called | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Parkinson's`plus. For ten years, it has gradually eaten away at his | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
quality of life, as his movement and speech have become increasingly | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
difficult. You see people with their families and kids and things and... | :01:58. | :02:10. | |
I will never have that. James used to be a soldier in the British Army | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
and a long`distance lorry driver, but now he sometimes struggles to | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
leave the house. His condition is degenerative, so before things get | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
worse, he has decided to embark on a radical and controversial approach | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
to treatment. NARRATOR: Ukraine was the first | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
place where unique methods of human foetal stem cell therapy was | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
invented. James is is planning to travel to a clinic in Kiev in | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Ukraine for stem cell therapy. For just over ?6,000, doctors there say | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
they will inject him with stem cells harvested from aborted foetuses. | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
They claim to see improvements in 75% of cases, but there have been no | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
clinical trials or published scientific evidence. Stem cells are | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
the building blocks of the human body, and those found in embryos can | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
reproduce themselves and transform into any cell found in the human | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
body, including the heart, lungs and the brain. Those found in adults are | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
more limited, but it is this ability to replace damaged cells that make | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
experts believe they can one day lead to medical breakthroughs. But | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
they also warned that the science isn't yet that advanced for | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Parkinson's. We don't know enough about how stem cells work and | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
potentially what the problems are, what the side`effects are, to be | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
able to carry out human trials, particularly for Parkinson's. There | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
are some human trials ongoing for conditions such as heart disease, | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
eye disease and even multiple sclerosis, but we really need to | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
find out much more about how stem cells work before we can move on to | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
do some clinical trials for Parkinson's. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
NARRATOR: The key to our treatment is our cell suspensions. The clinic | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
in Kiev says it is fully licensed and the treatments they offer with | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
foetal stem cells are legal and approved in Ukraine. James, medicine | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
time. James and his family say they are aware of the concerns but feel | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
it is a risk worth taking. Although it is very unknown, this treatment, | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
we have got nothing to lose at this point. So, yes, he is going to go | :04:10. | :04:18. | |
and he will go with my blessing. I dare say there are people who have | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
got their reservations, but they haven't got Parkinson's, they don't | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
know what it is like to live with it. `` there are objections. James | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
will fly out to Ukraine at the end of this month. What is not known is | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
whether his visit will provide anything more than hope. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
James and his mother Rosemary join us now in the studio. In Ipswich, | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
stem cell expert Professor Brendon Noble. | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
James, there are obvious concerns about this treatment, there have | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
been no clinical trials yet. While you putting yourself through it? I | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
have had Parkinson's ten years now, and the breakthroughs in many cases | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
has been too slow for me, I can't wait another ten years, so it is | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
just frustration, ready. Explain what it is like living with | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Parkinson's. It is infuriating. My whole body feels like it has got | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
cramp. I balance goes, `` my balance goes, I produce too much saliva and | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
in the last two months, I have broken my thumb, two ribs and my | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
nose. Rosemary, you care for your son James. You get a real sense that | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
this is the last chance, not just for James to have a quality of life, | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
but for you to also have that. Yes. I have watched James deteriorate the | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
last ten years and it is soul destroying and this is what James | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
wants to do and this I want him to have some hope. Let me bring in | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Professor Noble. Thank you the joining us. Do you appreciate the | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
kind of situation that James and his Mum are in at the moment? You | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
understand why they are trying this? I completely understand why they | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
would wish to consider this sort of thing, not least because, of course, | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
there is a lot of advance in cell therapy and stem cell `based | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
medicine, so I completely understand why they would consider it. Of | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
course, they do also need to take on board that if it has not been | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
tested, that there are concerns, shall we say? We know, obviously, | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
that you need to test these things, not only to see whether they work, | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
whether they do something useful, but also that they are safe. You | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
think there is any likelihood that James could see improvements? I know | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
that as far as you are concerned, you know nothing about the Kiev | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
clinic at all, you don't know whether their claims are even | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
remotely true, is that right? I don't know much about the company, I | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
wouldn't wish to comment to directly. What I do know is it is | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
very important that when you produce cells, from stem cells or elsewhere, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
that you prove they may actually do something useful, that they are | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
maintained in the body and you know which part of the body you have to | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
put them into, because just squirting them into the blood | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
system, for example, doesn't mean to say they will go to the correct | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
place and do something good. Isn't that the point, Professor Noble? I | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
will put that to you Rosemary, you heard the risks from the expert. | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
Yes, but he hasn't said yet that it will do him any harm. If it doesn't | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
work, well, I don't think we have lost anything. And what if it | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
doesn't work as what is next? We will just keep hoping someone | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
produces something in this country. His consultants did say to him once | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
that they hadn't gone down the surgical route. I don't quite know | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
what that means, but when James next goes to his consultant, I will go | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
with him and seek what else is available. James, the best of luck | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
with it and do come back and let us know how it all goes. I will. And | :08:19. | :08:31. | |
back row one, thank you joining us. The two drivers involved in the M62 | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
motorway crash which killed an 18`year`old girl on her way to a hen | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
party have appeared in court charged with causing her death by dangerous | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
driving. James Johnson, from Wyke, near Bradford, and Kevin Ollerhead, | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
from St Helens, will have their cases heard at a Crown Court. Our | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
Crime Correspondent John Cundy reports. | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
The horrific crash on the westbound carriageway of the M62 near | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
Castleford on April 26th last year, in which Beth Jones died. Beth Jones | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
was in a group all in a minibus on the way to a hen party in Liverpool. | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
It was in a collision with a lorry. Nine months on, 63`year`old James | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
Johnson, the minibus driver appeared in court for the first time together | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
with the lorry driver, Kevin Ollerhead. Both are accused of | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
causing Beth Jones's death by dangerous driving. 12 other | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
passengers, including the bride`to`be and the driver himself, | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
were badly injured. Today is the first court hearing since the tragic | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
crash. James Johnson and Kevin Ollerhead appeared for just four | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
minutes at Wakefield Magistrates' Court. They heard that their case | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
can only be heard by a Crown Court, so it will appear at Leeds next | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
month. Neither Mr Johnson nor Mr Ollerhead spoke as they left court | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
with their families and lawyers after the short hearing. | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
Later on Look North: the fans appeared on Look North on Friday and | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
there were Vital wins for Barnsley and Doncaster Rovers in the | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
Championship. And a point apiece for Sheffield | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
United and Bradford in League One's Yorkshire derby. | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
A former police officer from Doncaster who offered to supply | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
cocaine has been spared jail. PC Sarah Greaves, who's 29, offered to | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
supply the Class A drug to a friend in text messages but no drugs were | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
exchanged. She was given a 12`month prison sentence, suspended for two | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
years, and 200 hours of community service. Reporting restrictions | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
prevent us showing any images of her. | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
West Yorkshire Police are being investigated over their handling of | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
the Hamzah Khan case. The body of the four`year`old was found at his | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
home in Bradford in 2011, almost two years after he'd died. Last October, | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
his mother was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 15 | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
years. Allegations of neglect had been made to police and other | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
agencies before his body was found. The Independent Police Complaints | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
Commission will examine what action the force took and why the case | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
wasn't referred to them in 2011. 35`year`old woman's appeared in | :11:16. | :11:17. | |
court charged with murder. Police were called to a flat at Rosemary | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Gardens, in the Ollerton area of Bradford, early on Saturday. A | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
41`year`old man was found with serious injuries and died at the | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
scene. Alexia Heckles, who's also from Rosemary Gardens, was remanded | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
in custody. Police have confirmed there were no | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a pensioner whose body | :11:36. | :11:47. | |
was found in Leeds yesterday. Edward Roberts, who was due to turn 90 | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
tomorrow, had been missing for a week. His relatives have been asked | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
to come forward. A leading expert on gas and oil | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
exploration is warning any move towards fracking in Yorkshire could | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
have disastrous consequences for tourism and farming. | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
Test drilling has already taken place at one site in North Yorkshire | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
and there have been expressions of interest in other sites near York, | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
and Bawtry, in South Yorkshire. Here's our business correspondent | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
Danni Hewson. It looks innocuous, but this is | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
where Yorkshire has had its first brush with the fracking industry. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Samples from deep underground have been taken for further analysis to | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
see if lucrative shale gas can be extracted from this site at Kirby | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Misperton, near Pickering. It is expected to be the first of many | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
such sites, with the Bowland shale stretching right across the region | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
and the Government offering councils cash incentives in the form of | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
business rates. There has been much resistance to the potential | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
industry, amid fears of water pollution and earthquakes. One oil | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
and gas expert fears it will harm the countryside. If you look at your | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
tourism industry in Yorkshire, and you look at your farming industry in | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Yorkshire, they could suffer very, very badly as a result of fracking | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
and so, consequently, you are left with a legacy of thousands of Wells | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
abandoned, leaking, agricultural industry destroyed, tourism wrecked, | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
through flaring and through trucks. So what is fracking? Well, it works | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
by drilling deep underground, jetting water, sand and chemicals | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
into the rock and collecting the gas that escapes. We are just beginning | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
to look at the potential value of shale. In America, it has brought | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
down gas prices but there is growing evidence that in some cases, | :13:29. | :13:30. | |
fracking has had major health implications. A situation companies | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
wanting to frack in the UK say couldn't happen here because of | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
tight regulations. There has been evidence of some contamination, but | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
that has been caused because the well has not been constructed | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
properly and there is absolutely no evidence that it has been caused by | :13:43. | :13:51. | |
fracking per se. But companies like IGas will be largely self`regulated | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
and we have discovered that the Health and Safety Executive will not | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
be carrying out site inspections for Wells unless there is a specific | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
cause concern. It is not possible for a health and safety inspector to | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
stand in every single corner of every single factory in this | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
country, or every single chemical plant. The onus of responsibility, | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
rightly, has to be placed on the owner or operator of that site. But | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
even if fracking becomes a reality here, not everyone is convinced it | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
will solve our energy needs. We might be lucky to get 1% out, we | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
might get 0%. We have to be realistic about this. It is quite | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
hard to imagine, you know, a big shale gas industry in the country so | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
densely populated. But companies are lining up to try. Uphill and down | :14:38. | :14:45. | |
dale. Mike Hill is an oil and gas | :14:46. | :14:52. | |
engineer. He joins us in the studio. We should probably start by saying | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
you are not against fracking as a whole, you have worked on oil rigs | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
yourself, but you are against the self`regulation. Yes, I am, that is | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
exactly the case. The companies here are entirely self`regulating, they | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
decide what is important and they tell B Health and Safety Executive, | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
they go away, they drill the Wales and they construct dams themselves, | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
sending a fax to the regulator saying it is OK `` do wells. You | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
have had the year of the Government, they have listened, but they are | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
saying you have saying too much now `` you are saying. Particularly the | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
consequences were tourism and forming. Why are they so serious | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
about this question marks they want to give a big green flag to the | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
operators in the US. There is a suggestion that it is heavily | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
regulated but it is not, the Government has done its best to | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
remove as many regulations as it can, and many other new regulations, | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
as such by the Royal Society... So you are not over egging this? If | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
anything, the opposite. There have been zero inspections in Yorkshire | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
and Lancashire. So what are your objections for Tories and farming? | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
There are a number of dangers. In terms of agriculture, if there are | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
leaks from the wells, which they do if they are not regulated properly, | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
as was said in the piece, that will get into the food chain. Once it is | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
into the food chain, the European Commission told me it would make the | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
BSE crisis we had a few years ago look like kindergarten. We would be | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
looking at widespread bans of UK produce for maybe three decades, not | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
three years. The Government says it is safe, yet you experience some of | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
those potential dangers in Blackpool? Yes, we had to | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
earthquakes in Blackpool. Earthquakes? Proper earthquakes? | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
Proper earthquakes, and the reason to not dismiss them is because those | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
earthquakes damaged that well near Blackpool over a very large | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
interval, they crushed the casing, which means Cuadrilla have had to | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
abandon it. When you crush the casing colour you move it away from | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
cement and methane and radon gas fracking influence can migrate into | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
the agriculture, and studies coming out of the United States, | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
independent studies, are saying that if you are planning to start a | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
family, don't live within 1.5 miles of fracking. You say you are not | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
against it but you're making a very good case against it? It needs | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
regulating, and we do not have that. So if it was regulated, you would be | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
happy? Yes, coupled with strict enforcement, like the Royal Society | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
says, then yes, but in its present form, it damages our unborn | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
children, it increases cancer rate and is extremely dangerous to the | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
general public. And you can see more on this story | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
on Inside Out tonight on BBC One at 7:30pm. | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
Before seven o'clock: We've got your weekend sport | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
highlights plus: Charging forward. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
We talk to the new Bradford Bulls owner about his plans to keep the | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
club afloat. And why schoolchildren in Sheffield | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
have got the X`Factor tonight, singing live with Stacey Solomon. | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
Football now, and it was a good weekend for both Barnsley and | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Doncaster Rovers, but both remain in the Championship relegation zone. | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
Doncaster were very impressive. And there was also a hotly contested | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Yorkshire derby in League One. Shamir Masri can tell you more. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
There were good results for our lower`placed clubs in the | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
Championship, although Barnsley remain bottom, despite a win against | :18:33. | :18:33. | |
Blackpool. Shamir Masri can tell you more. | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
There were good Chris O'Grady with both goals for Danny Wilson's first | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
win back as manager and their first league win at Oakwell since October. | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
Doncaster Rovers also won, but, like Barnsley, are still in the bottom | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
three due to teams around them also picking up points. Chris Brown | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
scored goals either side of James Coppinger's sneaky effort to record | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
an impressive 3`0 win against Wigan, their first at the Keepmoat | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
since November. After their goal bonanza against | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday fought for a well`earned point away at | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
Burnley. They came from behind. Chris Maguire's goal giving the Owls | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
a well earned 1`1 draw. In the capital, Huddersfield lost | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
2`1 to Queens Park Rangers, but new signing Nakhi Wells scored his | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
second in two games since joining the Terriers from Bradford city. | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
Leeds United, who had conceded ten in the last three league games, were | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
much improved for the visit of Leicester. However, the chances came | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
and went and it allowed the Foxes to snatch a 1`0 win late on at Elland | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
Road. In the Yorkshire derby at Bramall | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
Lane, Sheffield United made the perfect start and goals from Jamie | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
Murphy and Harry Maguire gave the Blades a comfortable lead at | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
half`time. But Bradford launched a second`half fightback. Goals from | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
Gary Jones and the ever`present James Hansen saw it finish level at | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
2`2. If you missed any of the action from | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
the weekend, the Football League Show is now available on the BBC's | :20:09. | :20:09. | |
iPlayer. You were there at the weekend. | :20:10. | :20:21. | |
I was at Doncaster. There was more excitement on off the pitch. One of | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
One Direction was there. Did you know who it was? | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
No. Now, the rugby league season doesn't | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
start until next month but it already looks like being a long and | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
difficult campaign for one of our Super League sides. | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
The chairman and soon`to`be owner of Bradford Bulls says the next few | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
months are vital to the club's future. Mark Moore spoke exclusively | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
to our reporter Ian Bucknell. Gathering for the squad photo, | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
Bradford Bulls were in good spirits today. That is partly relief that | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
the club has got this far. Last month, it was revealed they had to | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
make savings of ?400,000, and, when a takeover deal fell through, the | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
chairman and two directors resigned. That takeover has now been agreed, | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
but there are still tough times ahead. We are not out of the woods | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
yet, there is still a lot that we have to deal with and all I would | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
say is just be patient for the next three to six months. We are hoping | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
that with the plans we have in place, that within the next three | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
months, we will be in a much better place than we are now. As I say, we | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
are still in the woods. Last season, the Bulls finished outside | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
the play`offs. They will do well to better that this time around. I | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
don't think the club is in a position to bring anyone in. I'm | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
really happy that we have got to the photoshoot with the squad that we | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
had before Christmas, because it was looking like we were going to lose | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
players, so that is a big relief. So the short`term aim is survival but, | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
in the long`term, Moore wants to bring the glory days back to the | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Bulls. That will take time, it will be a tough year, but we are now | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel, which a few months | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
ago, we didn't know we could get a light. At the start of the season, | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
the Bulls are here and raring to go. If they are talking about | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
performances and not financial problems by the end of it, that | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
would count as a success. Now there are some very giddy | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
youngsters in Sheffield tonight. In fact, 24,000 of them will fill the | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Motorpoint Arena over the next few days as part of the nationwide Young | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
Voices tour. Young Voices is the world's largest | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
children's choir and is led by X Factor finalist Stacey Solomon. And | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
we've sent our very own songbird Ian White to Sheffield to tread the | :22:28. | :22:28. | |
boards. # We're halfway there. | :22:29. | :22:45. | |
# Living on a prayer. # Take my hand, will make it I | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
swear. # World, living on a prayer. | :22:50. | :22:57. | |
I have found the star of the show, Stacey Solomon. Welcome to | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Yorkshire. Thank you by having me! What is a girl like you doing in a | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
place like this crash and Mark singing with thousands of children. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
You have children of your own, so this must be so exciting for them. | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
They are so excited, thinking of my kids and me as a child, I would have | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
loved to have done this, said to be a part of it is incredible. What are | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
you doing in the show? I'm singing some tracks from a new album, which | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
I am excited about, and a couple of covers for the parents, and just | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
having fun. # The only man who could ever reach | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
me. # Was the son of a preacher man. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
The only boy who could ever reach me. | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
# Was the son of a preacher man. # Oh, yes he was. We did a song, and | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
a bitter dancing, and then Stacey Solomon came on stage. Have you been | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
singing with Stacey Solomon? # Oh, he was. | :24:00. | :24:15. | |
# What an incredible atmosphere. Come on, sing us a song! | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
This is what it is like right now, live in Sheffield. Look at the | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
kids, they are so excited, they are from all over Yorkshire, in and | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
around Yorkshire, they have been here all day rehearsing and, behind | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
us, all of the mums and dads, who are waiting. They are really | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
excited. Let's talk to the guy behind this, something that gets | :24:39. | :24:44. | |
bigger and better. Absolutely, we have over 100,000 children taking | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
part and here tonight, we have 5,000, who have been practising for | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
for months and you can see they are pretty excited. What do they get out | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
of it? So much confidence and self belief, the chance to perform in a | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
major arena in front of their parents with incredible artists like | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
Stacey Solomon and the others we have with us. It is a pretty big | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
deal for them. We hope it goes really well, thank you for having | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
us, and Stacey Solomon will be on this very stage very, very soon. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
We would have loved more on that but we are pushed the time. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
Get on with it. A few pictures which are beautiful, the first when you | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
saw at the top of the programme, it gives you a hint of what is in store | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
for tomorrow. The next picture, this was taken last night, this is just | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
outside Huddersfield and we will quickly move on to the next one, | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
this was a very frosty looking adding, and the last one, my | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
favourite, not biased, of course, the outskirts of Howarth, looking | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
down on a beautifully clear valley. Keep the pictures coming in. Right, | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
the warning of fog will become fairly widespread by dawn tomorrow | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
morning and any sunshine will probably be restricted to the coast | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
and over the tops of the hills and then this weather front will bring | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
rain, perhaps a short spell of snow, about above 1,000 feet over the | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Pennines, it won't cause any problems. This afternoon, it was | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
lovely, we had eight degrees at Bingley, 800 feet up in the Pennines | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
and as we had through this evening and overnight, mist and fog | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
gradually developing. Before the end to the night, make a note that under | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
widespread frost, temperatures in room rolled areas as low as minus | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
three Celsius. `` rue role. So with the exception of the coast | :26:26. | :26:34. | |
and the top of the hills, it is a grotty start. That fog is quite | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
dense in places, particularly the Vale of York and the Trent Valley, | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
lifting but only into low cloud, so the many others, a different feel to | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
the weather tomorrow and then rain comes in through tomorrow evening | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
and tomorrow night, a short spell of sleet and snow over the highest | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
ground of our region. The top temperatures, the average is seven, | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
so it will feel pretty chilly, particularly well fog persists, four | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
or five Celsius if you are lucky. 41 Fahrenheit. A wet Tuesday night, | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Wednesday looks cloudy with rain at first, slowly clearing. Thursday | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
improves, Friday looks fine, but rain after dark again and a bit of | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
snow right above the tops. Thank you, it has been lovely today. | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
A very nice winter's day. That is it from us, I will be back at 10:25pm, | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
alongside Paul. Good night. | :27:26. | :27:27. |