13/02/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening. A man's been jailed for the rest of his natural life for

what a court was told was the savage and sadistic murder of a

four`year`old boy as he slept in his bed at home near Keighley. Former

soldier Anwar Rosser, admitted killing Riley Turner. In court he

was described as a psycopath and a bullying alcoholic. Our crime

correspondent John Cundy reports. Of the much loved little boy. He was

murdered in his bed by a neighbour the family had taken in. Anwar

Rosser had been allowed by his family to sleep downstairs. In the

early hours he went upstairs to where Riley Turner was sleeping. He

stabbed the boy 30 times, cut his throat, strangled, and sexually

molested him. The prosecution gave details of the

appalling attack. There was sobbing and crying from the public gallery.

A police officer described the feelings of the family.

We will never come to terms with what has happened. We will always

feel hurt at the way that Riley Turner was so cruelly taken from

us. The judge said:

as abuse was shouted at Anwar Rosser. He was told he would never

be released from jail as the law stands now.

Last night we saw the worst winds of the winter ` tomorrow we're

expecting torrential rain. But today has been about picking up the

pieces. We saw a top wind speed of 92 miles per hour at High Bradfield

in South Yorkshire. Across the region emergency services were

called out to more than 600 incidents. And at the height of the

gales 56,300 people were without power in Yorkshire ` 1,300 of whom

are still waiting to be re`connected. Cathy Killick reports.

Just one of scores of fallen trees uprooted either power of the wind.

It's blocked a major commuter route into Leeds. It fell during last

nights rush hour miraculously missing the traffic. It was a busy

night for emergency services. The work continues today. We have had

teams working through the night in atrocious conditions to get supplies

back on. We want to thank our customers for their patients while

we have managed to restore supplies.

If you imagine this replicated a dozen times across the region you

get some idea of what the engineers at up against. We are one mile from

the nudist road. Yields are very wet. `` one mile from the closest

road. The power cut lasted 16 hours. It

was freezing this morning when we got up I got both the fires on. We

were able to have a T. 30 residents in a care home were moved to safety

when the roof off. While we were talking we heard a crash.

Lorries were no match for the ferocious gasps. `` ferocious winds.

With high winds, rain and possible flooding to come it us candles at

the ready. So that was the wind but with yet

more rain on the way it's an anxious time for householders living close

to our rivers. We've been lucky so far. We've just got four flood

warnings in place in our region at the moment.

There are two on the River Ouse in York and one for the River Ouse

again at Naburn Lock as well as one for the River Ure at Roecliffe

Caravan Park. And this was a very swollen River

Wharfe at Tadcaster earlier today. So how have we managed to get away

with it? Adrian Gill is the Area Flood Risk

Manager with the Environment Agency. He says they're keeping a very close

eye on things. We have had a lot of persistent rain

in the last month. Down rain the persistent `` downsized it has been

exceptional. We have been lucky in our area. Riverside had a chance to

recover. But we do have saturated catchments. If we get intense

downpours there is the risk of flooding. If the rain continues in

this persistent nature we may start to have problems. Are we on the

edge? Is it a fine dividing line? We may see some flood alerts. At the

moment we not expecting see properties flooding. The line

between flooding and not flooding is sometimes quite small. We will

continue to monitor the weather around the clock we will keep people

informed as the situation changes. We have seen farmland completely

flooded. How quickly will our areas?

Land will get wet in the wetter months of the year and then try out.

We do not have the same issues that they have on the Somerset levels

which will take many months to dry out. What we have at the moment is

within tolerances. Meanwhile ` Yorkshire businesses and

farmers have been helping those affected by the severe flooding down

south. Leeds based Hesco have been supplying their world renowned

Bastion barrier, where it's been deployed in place of traditional

less effective sandbags. While our region's farmers have arrived in

Somerset with bales of hay to help their colleagues on the Levels who

are struggling to feed their animals.

Here is the weather. How bad is this winter in your opinion which?

1915 was the worst on record. I think we will beat that across

England as a whole. That shows how lucky we have been. There is more

reading to come. There is hell snow. There is a yellow warning in

place for the Pennines. `` there is more snow. Turning wet and windy.

Another weather system coming in from the Southwest. This is

Saturday's chart. Sunday is the pick of the weekend. Dry with some

sunshine. Another weather system is coming in on Sunday night. It will

be very unsettled on Monday. We still have a few showers in Western

and Northern areas. Watch out for icy patches on and heated surfaces.

Tomorrow a promising start. Dry and bright. Clyde will begin. Rain into

South Yorkshire. Showers sweep back up from the Southwest. Strong winds

along the coast. More heavy showers Friday night. Saturday cloudy. Best

of the dry weather in East. Sunday looks dry and sunny.

Hello, in this winter of perpetual autumn, it seems we're never more

than a day away from a storm so we must be due another one and as

you've just heard, here it comes, deepening in the Atlantic Trio

heading for us. Overall for the UK, we're not expecting this to be as

severe as the storm yesterday that there will be some significant

impact, particularly where the Met Office has weather warnings in force

and that means more rain will serve to heighten the floods. All the

while, the wind is picking up, reaching its peak tomorrow night in

southern England. This is