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so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
teams Good evening and welcome to a very | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
special edition of Look North. Tonight, we're live in Scarborough | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
as we begin our coverage to mark the centenary of the First World War. | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
We'll be telling you the story of the German naval attack on | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Scarborough in December 1914. 18 people were killed and scores of | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
buildings were damaged. And how did the town coped with the attack and | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
hear from the relatives of a woman who wasn't going to let it spoil her | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
wedding day. We'll be asking a historian if more could have been | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
done to prevent the attack. All that's coming up shortly. Amy's in | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
the studio with the other main headlines. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
Thanks, Harry. Also tonight: International concert pianist John | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Briggs DENIES the indecent assault of five young boys. He tells a jury | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
in Bradford he did have gay tendencies but that they NEVER | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
involved children. We'll also be live at Hillsborough | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
ahead of Sheffield Wednesday's FA Cup game. A win tonight puts them | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
head to head with Sheffield United in the quarter finals. | :01:06. | :01:15. | |
And retiring on a high. A British title win for ex`Blades midfielder | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Curtis Woodhouse. He's here to tell us what it means to him. | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
It has been a lovely afternoon in Scarborough. Temperatures in double | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
figures but the week ahead looks very changeable. | :01:35. | :01:46. | |
Good evening and welcome to Scarborough. Tonight, we're | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
beginning our coverage to mark the centenary of the First World War. | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
We're concentrating on how it affected people right here in | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Yorkshire and on December 16th, 1914, the War arrived on our | :02:02. | :02:23. | |
doorstep. A bombardment by the German navy killed 18 people in | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Scarborough and seven people in Whitby. Shells rained down from | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
gunships about a mile out to sea. Dozens of buildings were damaged: | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
The Grand Hotel, Scarborough Castle. And look at this footage from 100 | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
years ago, just after the lighthouse had been hit. The top part was | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
rebuilt in 1931. It was a shocking attack on a defenceless seaside | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
town. It left Scarborough and the whole country stunned. Deaths on | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
British soil meant the course of the War was changed for good. | :02:50. | :03:02. | |
Soldiers in York prepared to go to the front line. In December, 1914, | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
Britain had been at war for four months. On the night of the 16th, | :03:10. | :03:17. | |
the German navy headed for the Yorkshire coast. Their targets | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
included Scarborough. A few days before Christmas, this is it. The | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
German Navy sent three battle cruisers up the coast. They sent to | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
the Scarborough. The last time Scarborough was they did was by | :03:38. | :03:46. | |
bombardment started banging on ATM. `` bang on 8am. 500 shells rained | :03:47. | :03:59. | |
down on the town. Landmark buildings, including the grand hotel | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
and Scarborough Lighthouse were damaged, the brutal reality of the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
conflict had been brought to British soil. The indiscriminate nature of | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
the bombing spared nobody, not even schoolchildren. The school took a | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
direct hit. The clock stopped at 8:25am at December the 16th, said | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
the shell came through the horn and caused chaos. Only two children in | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
the school were at that point. Thank heavens for a quick thinking | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
caretaker. There was the dash for cover. Kathy's great granddaughter | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
picks up the story. When they got here, the Web the only pupils of the | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
school. The bomb went off. It must've been terrifying she was only | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
young, but for us, it's kind of like this amazing part of our family | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
history. Both children survived, and Lucy, this was our first ever visit | :05:07. | :05:15. | |
to the seller. Our evidence comes from the headmistress and her | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
account in the school logbook. When she looked at all, first of all, she | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
found a shell had gone through the glass roof and classroom number four | :05:25. | :05:31. | |
had been damaged and the clock had stopped at a 20 5am. She made a | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
comment in the school logbook to say had it had been later, the score | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
would have been assembled underneath that glass ceiling for prayers. The | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
bombardment lasted half an hour but the Kaiser's fleet still hadn't | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
finished. Whitney then came under fire. Attacks on this `` undefended | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
seaside resorts shocked the country. There is a conspiracy theory. The | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
Royal Navy were waiting for the Germans 70 miles off the coast. They | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
were supposed to ambush them. That raises the question, did they know | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
that there would be an attack on Scarborough and could they have | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
prevented the loss of 18 lives? Well, joining me now is Dr Robb | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
Robinson from Hull University. I walked 15 yards from here. People | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
say the attack should not have happened and the government knew | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
about it. In part, they knew because they had intelligence and attack | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
would take place but they didn't know exactly where and when. But | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
they were engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the German | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
fleets. What about Scarborough as a choice of this attack? It was an | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
unusual place to choose, but in actual fact, if you were coming | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
across the North Sea, this was ideal to hit. Most of the battle fleet was | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
up in Scarborough. Some people tell me there was a signal station here | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
that could have been a target for the German Navy. The Germans did | :07:32. | :07:40. | |
tried to justify the attack that there were military installations | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
there, but it really was a remarkable thing. It was a watershed | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
in the great War. Why didn't the Royal Navy managed to capture the | :07:51. | :08:00. | |
German battle cruisers as they left? The weather was bad, they lost | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
contact with them, they got away. It was remarkable but did lead to a | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
readjustment of where the fleets and vessels were kept afterwards. Give | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
me a perspective of what this attack meant for the war effort in this | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
country. It was an enormously watershed event. You didn't expect | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
this to happen. This had never happened before. This gave the moral | :08:27. | :08:38. | |
high ground to quit `` to Britain and meant many people thought the | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
British cause was justified and right. Many families, if they look | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
back in their history, they will notice a lot of people joined up | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
after this event because it is so inflamed the public. Try and tell us | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
the kind of conditions that were here on December 16, 1914. The | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
weather conditions were crucial. A lot of missed and Stratus over the | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
North Sea. That helped to camouflage the war boats. The first thing the | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
residents knew were shells exploding across the town. As we have just | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
heard, the weather conditions deteriorated further, helping the | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
German warships getaway. An accurate forecast from Poole, 100 years on! | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
The internationally renowned concert pianist John Briggs has today denied | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
accusations of indecent assaults on five boys going back to the 1960s. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
He told his trial in Bradford that although he was happily married, he | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
had gay tendencies but they'd never involved children. | :09:55. | :10:06. | |
John Briggs, who denies sexually assaulting five boys, admitted to a | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
jewellery he had kept legal gay pornographic material in his home. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
He said it had been just to look occasionally. He told Bradford Crown | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
Court he has been happily married to his wife for the past 25 years but | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
in the past ten years, he discovered homosexual tendencies and acquired | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
the DVDs. The international concert pianist denies he indecently | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
assaulted two boys who gave private lessons to and three members of the | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
Sea cadets. Giving evidence in his defence today: | :10:52. | :11:09. | |
In cross`examination, John Briggs was asked if he could think of any | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
reason why the boys would have said things that weren't true. He claimed | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
the allegations were made up in a vicious conspiracy against him and | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
there was not a scrap of truth in them. The trial of John Briggs | :11:25. | :11:33. | |
continues tomorrow. A new report claims that many of | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Jimmy Savile's victims were ignored or laughed at when they first | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
revealed they'd been abused by the star. 26 victims were interviewed by | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
the NSPCC as part of the research to find out why they felt unable to | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
report the abuse at the time. The report also found that some have | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
suffered mental illness or turned to drink and drugs as a result of what | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
happened. A prisoner has been re`arrested by | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
police after absconding while on day release from jail. Paul Maxwell | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
escaped during a visit to Rochdale town centre on Friday but was found | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
late last night in Salford. He's serving life for the murder of | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
85`year`old Joe Smailes, seen here on the left, in Wakefield in 1996. | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
A vote takes place tonight over Calderdale Council's budget after | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors joined together to put | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
forward alternative ways of saving money to those proposed by Labour. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
The council must save ?12 million next year. The Labour party want to | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
freeze council tax and save money on contracts but the new coalition's | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
alternative plan suggests changes including employing more street | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
sweepers, cutting sick pay and reversing car parking costs. | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
And shoppers at Meadowhall got something of a surprise when a line | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
of Brownies started dancing through the centre today. More than 200 | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
Brownies from across South Yorkshire, led by the 11th Rotherham | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
Brownie Pack, did the Conga as part of a series of challenges the | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
movement is doing to celebrate its centenary. | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
Now for the sport, here's Tanya. Let's start with football and all | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
eyes are on Sheffield Wednesday tonight as they take on Charlton in | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the fifth round of the FA Cup. A win will put them head to head with | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
their city rivals, Sheffield United, and guarantee one of them a trip to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
Wembley. Spencer Stokes is at Hillsborough for us now. A big night | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
for Sheffield Wednesday and a big night for Sheffield because if | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Wednesday beat Charlton, they meet in the quarterfinals, guaranteeing | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
one of the Sheffield clubs will go through to the semifinals. Wednesday | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
are quietly confident following their victory. It lifts them up the | :13:53. | :14:02. | |
table and that's the kind of performance Stuart Bray would like | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
to see tonight. He is focusing on being shot in game rather than | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
thinking too far ahead to a possible tie. We spoke to the manager. Since | :14:12. | :14:21. | |
the draw came out, while everybody talked about was a Sheffield derby. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
But Charlton have had a great result today. Most important thing, we have | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
got to get the crowd right behind us. But then there's the price to | :14:33. | :14:41. | |
get through that one. It would be great for the city and both football | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
clubs, but Charlton have got some way to go. Kick`off here is at | :14:47. | :14:58. | |
7:45pm. I will be back here live at 10:25pm when we should know for | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
certain whether or not Sheffield Wednesday are meeting Sheffield | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
United in the quarterfinals. So Sheffield Wednesday enjoyed a | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
derby win over Huddersfield but what about the rest of the weekend's | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
football? Well, our League One sides were in fine form and there was | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
finally a win for Barnsley. A searching pass from Martin Crane | :15:21. | :15:30. | |
found Jim O'Brien's run. That was enough for a 1`0 win. On the pitch, | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
the story for Leeds United was an impressive debut for Jack but lived. | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
He kept his side in it when the match finished 0`0. The football | :15:44. | :15:53. | |
league is expected to decide soon whether he is expected to decide | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
soon whether he's a fit and proper person to only Leeds United. In | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
league one, slapstick defending from Carlisle allowed Wes Thomas to put | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
Rotherham in front. In injury time, the winner was scored. Comedy | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
goalkeeping of the day goes to MK dons. Fair play to James Hansen for | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
putting him under pressure and scoring the only goal. Sheffield | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
United continued their improvement. John Brayford put the Blades ahead. | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
Next up, Ryan Flynn with a considered right foot finish. You | :16:39. | :16:48. | |
can see highlights from all of our teams on the football league show. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
In rugby league, it is a little early in the season, but | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
nonetheless, Castleford Tigers are the leaders of Superleague. A hat | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
trick of tries from winger Justin Carney helped see off Catalan | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Dragons 32`6. On the back of last week's win at Bradford, Castleford | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
are top of the table on points difference. | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
And you can see all the weekend's highlights on tonight's Super League | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Show, where my guests include Jamie Peacock. That's on BBC One at | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
11:50pm. In boxing, it was a great night for | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
a couple of our fighters on Saturday night with two winning British | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
titles. Gavin McDonnell, twin brother of former world champion | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
Jamie, stopped Leigh Wood in what was a dramatic sixth round. | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
McDonnell, from Hatfield near Doncaster, won the British | :17:32. | :17:33. | |
super`bantamweight belt but some experts had him behind on the | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
judge's scorecards before that stoppage. | :17:36. | :17:45. | |
But the story of the night was a British title win for former | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
Sheffield United midfielder Curtis Woodhouse. He went in to his fight | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
against British champion Darren Hamilton saying he would retire, win | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
or lose. To put even more pressure on himself, he'd promised his | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
father, on his death bed, that he'd win that belt title and he did just | :17:59. | :18:10. | |
that. Has it started to sink in yet? Unbelievable. I still have to | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
keep checking the belt. I sat and watched it. You are so much the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
underdog. How did you get yourself through that fight? He was 6`1 on | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
favourites to win but I whispered if I could get him in a fight, I would | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
win. Do you think he was in expecting you to fight the way you | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
for? He was mocking me for having no game plan. I always said the best | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
game plan you have is you have no game plan. You couldn't pick a | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
winner. It could have gone either way. Was that moment, when they | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
announced your name? The best feeling I have ever had in my life. | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
I bet you are thinking about your father when they said that. It gave | :19:09. | :19:19. | |
me motivation to make that promise to my dad a reality. I took it to | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
his grave on Sunday morning and it was one of the proudest moments of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
my life. Is that when it started to sink in? Definitely. It has always | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
been in the back of my mind. To do it, I felt pressure had come off my | :19:38. | :19:46. | |
shoulders. People keep saying to me it's like a Rocky movie, but the | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
Rocky movies aren't real. This is. You've done football and boxing. Are | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
you going to retire? I wanted to go out on a high and that is what I aim | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
to do. But it would be so difficult. I don't want to stop. But | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
I know now is the right time to bow out. | :20:10. | :20:25. | |
Thanks, Tanya, and that is about it from us here in the studio. I'll be | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
back with our late bulletin at 10:25 with that all`important Sheffield | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
Wednesday result. For now, though, it's time to go back to Harry in | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
Scarborough. Welcome back to Scarborough. Now, | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
the attack on the town in December 1914 came as a shock to the whole | :20:38. | :20:57. | |
country. It was a seaside town and totally undefended. Many people | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
decided to leave Scarborough but others stayed and were determined | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
that life would go on. That meant rebuilding the tourism industry and, | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
for one couple, going ahead with their special day just hours after | :21:07. | :21:07. | |
the attack. On the day of the bombardment, my | :21:08. | :21:26. | |
mother came here for holy Communion at 8am. During the Communion | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
service, the bombardment started and the church was one of the first to | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
be hit. The shelling left a large role in the roof and as hundreds of | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
visitors and residents fled the seaside town, one winner and decided | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
to stay as she had an important engagement to keep. My parents were | :21:53. | :22:00. | |
to be married in the church later on and after the bombardment, she went | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
round and picked up a piece of shrapnel, which we still have, had a | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
discussion with the vicar and they decided the wedding would go ahead. | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
This attitude that life must go one prevailed in Scarborough. Now people | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
weren't coming to the seaside town for fresh air and fun. They were | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
coming to survey the damage. It's difficult to imagine. We had one of | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
the major postcard producers in Scarborough. There were also ceramic | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
souvenirs. There's a lovely one we have which is the lighthouse with a | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
hole blown through it and I have not seen many examples of that. There | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
were pieces of shell that were not just circulated but so does well and | :22:57. | :23:03. | |
mounted on blocks of wood and metal. There's one legacy of the | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
bombardment in Scarborough which is still attracting attention. This | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
street was badly hit. This house may have a macabre history, but people | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
are still interested in its past. I have had quite a few people on a | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
regular basis. Every year, everyone enquires about whether I knew about | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
the house and whether I understood the pictures. A lot of them even | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
bring books and pictures with them to show me what went on. It took | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
years for the town to recover. Compensation for the damage was slow | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
in coming so residents had to rally round and do the best they could | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
with a little money they could. But slowly and surely, Scarborough made | :23:52. | :24:08. | |
a comeback. What is this in your hand? This is a | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
foghorn, hit by a shell in the bombardment. It's from the | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
signalling station. It's amazing how many of these things have emerged. | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
This is a spoon. That spoon was in Caitlin 's tea room, underneath the | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
grand hotel. That spoon with the casualty! This is the one that might | :24:40. | :24:49. | |
reflect, because it's behind a glass case, this is a Charles Dickens book | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
with a piece of shrapnel embedded in it. There was a library which was | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
hit by ten shelves. The post man and made were hit. Several books still | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
exist with pieces of shell in it. It has been fascinating to look at | :25:12. | :25:12. | |
these items. It could have been a lot worse here | :25:13. | :25:28. | |
in Scarborough. It could have been snowing and gale force winds but is | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
it actually been very mild. It looks like we should get double`figure | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
temperatures tomorrow. It's a familiar pressure chart. A number of | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
isobars and a weather front just about to push in from the West, | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
meaning more rain to come, although by the time that weather front gets | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
it, not much left on it at all. This evening, fine here in Scarborough, | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
but cloud will increase overnight. Rain will spread north eastwards. I | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
don't think there will be a great deal here in Scarborough. Another | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
mild one as well. Frost free. Five or six Celsius in the West. A windy | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
night to come. A cloudy, damp start in some places. We will all see | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
sunshine developing. Showers pushing into western areas through the | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
afternoon. One or two could be heavy. I suspect on the coast, it | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
will stay dry. We will see temperatures around 10 Celsius. | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
Wednesday is looking promising. We will be in between weather systems. | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
Again, along the coast, a nice day. More rain to come Wednesday night. | :26:55. | :27:13. | |
We will leave you tonight with our tribute to the 18 people who lost | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
their lives 100 years ago. | :27:17. | :27:22. |