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That's all from the BBC News at Six - on BBC One we now | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
That's all from the BBC News at Six Good evening and welcome to Monday's | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Look North. On the programme tonight: Could | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
there be an end to scenes like this? Rail passengers in Yorkshire are | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
promised more trains, more seats and bigger, better railway stations. | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
We look at how long it will take for improvements to be made. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Also tonight: Another day and another twist in the tale of Italian | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
businessman Massimo Cellino and Leeds United. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
And how does it feel to be stranded and drifting in the Atlantic Ocean? | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
We hear from the Wetherby rower rescued by a cargo ship. | :00:31. | :00:41. | |
Castle Howard was looking beautiful on Saturday afternoon. Will this | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
beautiful weather last? Join me for all the details. | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
More trains, more seats and bigger, better railway stations. That's the | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
promise today from Nework Rail which says its going to spend around ?5 | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
billion improving train travel across the region. Some of the | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
improvements could take up to five years to deliver but others are | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
imminent. Here's Spencer Stokes with the details. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
What Network Rail have done today is look at how much money they've got | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
and announced all the projects they want to spend that money on over the | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
next five years. We now know for certain that main Trans`Pennine | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
route through Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Leeds and York will be | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
electrified. Tracks are also being upgraded to allow 700 more trains | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
every day in the north of England. There'll be faster trains on the | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
mainlines to London from Leeds and Sheffield and four new stations are | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
going to be built in West Yorkshire. They'll be at Kirkstall Forge, | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Apperley Bridge, Low Moor and Elland. Now all of that should be | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
complete by 2019, but other improvements will go ahead in a few | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
weeks as I've been finding out this morning. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
The Trans`Pennine route through Yorkshire to the North West is | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
officially one of the most overcrowded in the country. In peak | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
hours 22% of passengers had to stand. Regular users do not need to | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
see the statistics. Jonathan experiences sardine tin conditions | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
on this three carriage train every morning. I would like them just to | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
have six carriages running all the time on this route and to staff them | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
so we can use them and relieve the pressure of it because it is quite | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
unbearable sometimes. Trans`Pennine has seen phenomenal growth in the | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
last ten years. Passenger numbers have gone up by 85% so to cope with | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
the growth there is a new timetable this May. Chris is overseeing the | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
changes. There will be five trains an hour between Leeds and Manchester | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
and 21 extra carriages being moved from Scotland to Yorkshire. From one | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
week to the next passengers in Yorkshire will feel the difference. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
The extra carriages will go into service and be used from May 18. We | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
hope passengers do not find it a surprise. Some trains are not | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
changing and other changes are getting bigger and we need to | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
encourage people to use the capacity on the trains where the extra | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
carriages are going in. The other projects announced today by Network | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Rail will take longer to deliver but in time they should allow more | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
people to travel in comfort. I think it is extremely ambitious. If you | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
take Leeds for an example, currently we get 25 million passengers through | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Leeds and in five years time we expect that number to increase by | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
five million to 30 million. In the next five years we expect to run 700 | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
more trains on every weekday, moving 44 million passengers in the North | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
and in Yorkshire on a daily basis. That is very ambitious. A day of | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
good news on the railways but there is a sting in the tail because next | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
year 18 of Trans`Pennine's new carriages will be moved south. Get a | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
seat while you can because it might not be there in 2015. | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
How significant is this announcement today? | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
That announcement about Trans`Pennine is particularly | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
significant. From May there will be 55,000 extra seats on the main line | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
so it is very significant. The shadow is hanging over the franchise | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
in that some of those trains could disappear down south in just one | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
year. Really that reflect the situation in the whole of the rail | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
network. Network Rail is investing money in tracks and stations but the | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
private rail companies who run the trains have quite sure contracts so | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
they are not willing to go out and buy the new trains that are needed | :04:38. | :04:49. | |
to operate on those tracks. There is the potential that in 2019 | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
will have a lot of new infrastructure but no new trains to | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
run on the refurbished network. ?4.2 billion is being spent in our region | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
over five years, where's all that money coming from? It is a large | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
amount of money, big investment programme, the biggest since the | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
1950s. 40% is directly granted from the government and 55% will come | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
from passengers on the rest is from other pots of money. The results | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
today are `` the announcements today are interesting because we have | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
heard these before. Network Rail are saying that these are the definite | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
projects they will carry out in the next five years and in the next few | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
months we should start to see shovels it in the ground. | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
Many thanks for explaining that. Next tonight, new inquests have | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
begun today into the deaths of 96 Liverpool football supporters, | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
including three from Yorkshire, who died in the Hillsborough stadium | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
disaster in 1989. The hearing in Warrington is expected to last up to | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
a year. It's being held because the original verdicts of accidental | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
death were quashed last year after family pressure and the Hillsborough | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
scrutiny panel report. Our Correspondent John Cundy is there | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
for us now. John what's happened there today? | :05:52. | :06:00. | |
In the months leading up to this historic enquiry, hundreds of people | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
in the Warrington area have been answering questionnaires, are they | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
suitable and are they able to sit through this marathon enquiry? From | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
that list 25 were short listed and from that 11 potential jurors have | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
been chosen, with ten reserves. They were asked several questions this | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
morning, are they supporters of Sheffield Wednesday warned Liverpool | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
or Nottingham Forest? They also had to look through a marathon list of | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
witnesses who are going to be called over the coming months. | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
What will happen next? Starting perhaps tomorrow, but | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
certainly some time next week, we will go into a fortnight of family | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
/victim impact statements. These will include one on behalf of Tony | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Bland, the 22`year`old from Keighley who was the last to die after the | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
disaster nearly four years later when a feeding tube that had been | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
keeping him alive was finally removed. There will also be an | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
impact statement from the family of Sarah Hicks, the 19`year`old and her | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
15`year`old sister Victoria who was the youngest female to die in this | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
disaster. Their father is Trevor Hicks who has been a leading | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
campaigner in this case and he is also president of the Hillsborough | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
Family Support Group and he spoke to reporters briefly as he arrived this | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
morning. You cannot underestimate just how difficult this is going to | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
be for everybody. All we can do is do our best and trust in the judge | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
and everything else. Tomorrow morning after the jewellery are | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
finally sworn in, the coroner will begin his impact statement, or | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
rather his opening statement to the court, and that is expected to take | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
probably the whole of tomorrow. `` after the jury finally sworn in. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Later on Look North: The hidden art going back on show in Wakefield. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
This work depicts the fallen of No Man's Land in World War I but it | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
urgently needs an expensive restoration. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Next tonight, around 100 campaigners took part in a protest in South | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
Yorkshire today. Pensioners and people with disabilities are unhappy | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
about changes to the rules on when they can use their free travel | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
passes. Now the Sheffield Citizen's Advice Bureau has written to the | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
transport executive saying they don't think the changes are legal. | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
It could even apply for a judicial review. Tom Ingall was at the | :08:29. | :08:37. | |
protest. Just who should get a ticket to ride? It is not many times | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
that transport police are required that transport police are required | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
to accompany pensioners onto a train but today they want to make a | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
point. For us in Barnsley travel on the trains is much more practical in | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
many cases than travel on the buses. Getting to Meadowhall or Sheffield | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
is much more effective on the train. From today in South Yorkshire bus | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
passes will only be valid after 9:30am and they will not be accepted | :09:03. | :09:12. | |
at all on trains. The changes to the system also affect passengers with | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
disabilities. We go to various hospitals for our different eye | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
conditions. Sheffield is a teaching hospital and we need a carer with | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
us. At Meadowhall, groups converge for a rally. Some had not been | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
challenged for tickets at all. The Sheffield citizens advice bureau | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
have written to the South Yorkshire transport passenger executive saying | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
that the changes do not comply with their duties under equality laws. We | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
have sent a formal letter saying why we think their decision is unlawful | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
and warning them that if they are not prepared to change it then we | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
will consider applying to the High Court for a judicial review of their | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
decision. In a statement the transport executive said the cuts | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
came because of cuts in government funding. | :10:00. | :10:12. | |
The campaign is now say that they will repeat their demonstration next | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
Monday. Let us get some other news in brief: | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
A father who was convicted of the manslaughter of his son has handed | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
himself in after three weeks on the run. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
Shaun Stewart's son Brent Campbell was killed by a massive electric | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
shock while the pair were trying to steal overhead wiring in a field | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
near Barnsley. Stewart, who's 53, absconded during his trial at | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Sheffield Crown Court and was found guilty and jailed for five years in | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
his absence. He gave himself up to police this morning. | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
Two prisoners have been found guilty of threatening to kill a prison | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
officer at Full Sutton jail near York. Feroz Khan and Fooad Awalee | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
were accused of holding the officer hostage in May last year. At the Old | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Bailey the men were cleared of false imprisonment. However Khan, here on | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
the left, was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm on | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
the officer and both Khan and Awalee, on the right, were convicted | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
of making threats to kill him. They will be sentenced next week. | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
Now we know more of us are living longer, in fact the number of people | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
reaching 100 has increased by 73% in the last decade. That means a | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
spiralling care bill and now a private care group in North | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
Yorkshire is campaigning for a change to the tax system to allow | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
them to adapt to the growing market. That's because at the moment they | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
have to pay VAT on overheads but they can't claim it back and they | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
can't charge it to their customers. Our business correspondent Danni | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Hewson has this. It is a game of numbers. More people | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
need care, there is no magic pot of cash to pay for it so how could tax | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
be the solution? Unlike most businesses the care sector is VAT | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
exempt. In a nutshell, they do not charge tax for services that they | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
can't claim them back. If that were to change the boss of this | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Scarborough home believes it could free up millions of pounds. I am not | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
talking about us charging it, I am talking about is reclaiming it. I | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
think many people that I have spoken to do not realise that, so it costs | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
us all. Telephone bills, everything. Why not change it so that we can | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
deliver better services to the public, that is what we are asking | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
for. It is not about us creaming off additional profit. It is what's | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
called zero rating and it's already been used as a carrot to get people | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
to redevelop empty buildings. For the most part pensioners here are | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
supportive. Money is very tight at the moment and we just haven't got | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
it to do things with. These kind of places tend to get washed under the | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
table, don't they? I should want to know a lot more about that. That's | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
an open`ended question, isn't it? The scepticism is well placed, there | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
would be a cost that the taxpayer would have to fund. He is hoping | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
that he can have his cake and eat it in a way. Certainly when we put the | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
case to Norman Lamb he was very sympathetic and a decision will be | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
made by the Treasury and you know how difficult they are to be | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
persuaded to be giving up any of their tax revenue. It has not been | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
ruled out and could be a less painful way of funding extra costs | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
which providers say are inevitable. The government and everybody's | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
expecting the quality of care to go up. Quite rightly, and I do not have | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
any objection to that. But, in fact, they don't seem to be able to pay | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
for it. VAT might not be the answer but it could be a starting point. | :13:34. | :13:44. | |
Sports now. Another Wembley final for | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
Chesterfield but unfortunately it ended up being a frustrating match | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
for the Spireites. Another day, another chapter in the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
saga that is Leeds United. Massimo Cellino, the colouful Italian | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
businessman hoping to take over the club, has been appealing against the | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
Football League's decision to turn down his bid. They decided he didn't | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
pass their fit and proper person test after a conviction for tax | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
evasion in his home country. Tanya's here now. What's happened now? | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
It will keep going. The appeal has been heard but the judgement has | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
been reserved by the independent QC that is hearing it so the wait goes | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
on. You will remember that he failed this test after being found guilty | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
of tax evasion for failing to pay import duty on a yacht he was taking | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
into Italy. Some of our viewers tonight will | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
wonder why it is important. At the end of last week Leeds | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
appeared to run out of money. They could not pay the players `` players | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
and the players agreed to pay `` defer part of their wages. There was | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
a stand`off between the people who are currently running the club as to | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
who would pay the wages. Basically Massimo Cellino has been bankrolling | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
the club since his bid to buy a 75% stake was accepted in January and | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
everyone is wondering if he does not get the club whether they have any | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
money to keep running it. He has been making his feelings | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
known about the club, hasn't he? He has. He was rung up by a fan and | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
engaged in a conversation which was recorded but he did not know it was | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
being recorded and it has been put on the Internet. The word colourful | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
as one to use. It was forthright language that you would not wish to | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
use at 6:30pm on BBC One. He spoke in a fourth run `` forthright way | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
about the current MD of the club and have a team were doing and also | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
about the past owner. By the end of listening to that conversation one | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
can only assume that if he does get charge of Leeds United you can | :15:40. | :15:41. | |
expect fireworks. We will wait and see. | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Well, it doesn't get any better for Leeds United on the pitch where they | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
lost for the fifth time in six matches. David Cotterill was given | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
all the time in the world to shoot Doncaster Rovers into the lead. It | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
got even better for Donny when Billy Sharp showed strength and balance | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
before making it 2`0 just before half time. A goal from top scorer | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
Ross McCormack wasn't enough for Leeds. They continue to slip down | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
the table as Doncaster climb away from the relegation places. | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
So a good win for Doncaster and they weren't our only side to pick up an | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
important victory at the weekend. Barnsley crushed fellow strugglers | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
Yeovil while Rotherham's march towards promotion seems unstoppable. | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
But we start the round`up with yesterday's cup final at the home of | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
football. Could Chesterfield win the Johnstone's Paints Trophy for the | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
second time in three seasons? Ian Bucknell reports. | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
Chesterfield fans gathered in the Wembley Sun in high spirits. The | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
odds were against their Cheam as they were taking on a strong side | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
from a higher division but the magic of the cup can do mysterious things. | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
The game itself soon took a mysterious turn and the referee | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
failed to give Chesterfield the penalty for what looks like a clear | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
foul on Owen Doyle. Moments later Peterborough took the lead and by | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
half`time they were 2`0 up. Chesterfield hit back but their | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
opponents won a soft penalty of their own and won the Game three ` | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
one. Everyone is so disappointed but we have two move to the remaining | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
league games and trying get promoted. Football is about | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
decisions and we got a couple today and we missed `` wish Peter Ball the | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
best. In the championship Chris O'Grady put Barnsley ahead at | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Yeovilton. The same player kept his cool and scored a second as they | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
went on to win 4`1. Still in the relegation zone, but only on goal | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
difference. A fantastic strike now from Rotherham defender James | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
Taverna. It was only ever going in. Bristol City pulled one back but he | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
was not done and his free kick meant it finished 2`1 to the Millers. They | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
sit pretty in the league one play`off zone. Bradford City have | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
found wins hard to come by this year but this finish from a corner was | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
enough to see of Leyton orient 1`0. You can watch the highlights from | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
all of our team is on tonight's Late Kick Off on BBC One at 11:25pm. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Following that we have the super league show. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
It's been hidden away for more than two decades, but today a powerful | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
work of art depicting the fallen of No Man's Land has gone back on | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
display at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield. The plaster frieze by | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Yorkshire artist Charles Sargeant Jagger was part of the design | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
process behind a bronze cast in the Tate London. It will now form part | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
of the Hepworth's World War One commemorations and they've launched | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
an appeal to help restore it. Danny Carpenter reports. | :18:44. | :18:58. | |
The battle that it commemorates was almost one century ago. The work | :18:59. | :19:06. | |
itself has not been seen for decades. The depiction is striking, | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
Stark, uncompromising, but its condition is as fragile as the | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
message is strong. It is a block of plaster and the only reinforcement | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
is a wooden frame rock from behind but if you look closely there are a | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
lot of stress cracks within the structure because of how it is made | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
and this is and is now part of the work that it will deteriorate over | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
time. Charles Sargeant Jagger was born near Rotherham. He was not a | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
pacifist observer of the conflict from afar, he was a participant. He | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
was wounded at Gallipoli on the Western front and he was awarded a | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
military Cross. When you look at this work you can really see his | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
first`hand experiences coming through. This was not an official | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
commission, it is actually very much his own response to battle. That | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
response included an inscription on this work, a line from a poem, or | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
little mighty force that stood for England, that with your bodies for a | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
living shield guarded her slow awaking. Controversial at the time, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
provocative. No one knows whether this piece was ever intended to be | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
seen. Certainly the inscription with its brutal irony does not feature on | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
the finished bronze that is in Tate Britain. This, however, was | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
certainly never intended for public view, but it does highlight just how | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
fragile, how delicate this piece now is. It will cost many thousands of | :20:39. | :20:51. | |
pounds to conserve this piece in its present state. A decision is yet to | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
be made on whether to restore it but somehow it seems right just the way | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
it is, worn, battered, damaged. Next tonight a tale of sheer | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
tenacity in the face of adversity. When Lauren Morton from Wetherby | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
entered the Talisker Transatlantic Rowing Challenge last December she | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
and her friend expected to be home and dry by the middle of January. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Three months later though they were left drifting after a series of | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
problems but were still determined to finish. It was only when they ran | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
out of food that they threw in the towel and were rescued by a cargo | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
ship. Well, Lauren finally made it back to Yorkshire yesterday and she | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
joins us now. Have you got your land legs back | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
yet? Just about. Just getting there but I am a bit wobbly. Hopefully the | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
next couple of days. It is an extraordinary thing to do. You rode | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
across the Atlantic, white? The inspiration was really easy. In May | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
2012 we lost a friend to cervical cancer who was just 23. That was the | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
starter to the whole challenge. Hannah, my rowing partner, wanted to | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
do it since you are 16 and when Eleanor died it was a kick`start and | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
we'd decided to go ahead and do it. You really were plagued with | :22:01. | :22:02. | |
problems from the word go, won't you? It was just problem after | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
problem. We can see a head wound there. That was during a capsize. | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
About 6am in the morning the boats did a 360 roll and my head was | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
knocked on the metal rim of the cabin. There was a seven centimetres | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
split in my head. That is a fire on board, one of our batteries quarter | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
light and burned through our charts. This is a fairly small vessel, how | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
do you do things like sleep on an ocean with 30 foot waves? Not very | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
easily and not very comfortably but there is a cabin which is about 1.5 | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
metres in length and we would cram in there with our legs up to our | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
chests and it was the only way we could fit in so it was not the best | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
nights sleep. Were there times when you thought you would have to give | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
up because everything was against you? There were loads of times. | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
Every time something happened we thought we would have to stop but | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
you learn to try and get over that so every setback you have initially | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
seems like the worst thing in the world and then you learn that you do | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
not actually need that in comparison to being able to carry on. What is | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
your contact with civilisation? You have communications on`board so how | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
do you communicate with the outside world? We had a satellite phone | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
which works like a mobile except that it is ?1 50 a minute and is | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
really only meant to be used in emergency circumstances. Contact was | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
very minimal. I rang my parents on Christmas Day and birthdays and | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
stuff. You had to eventually give up which was difficult because you | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
thought of your friend but what made you have to get onto that cargoes | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
ship? Our rudder broke on day 51 and we had drifted them for 44 days | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
trying to get it fixed but we waited for 26 days for the support vessel | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
to get out to us but when it arrived the new router that they brought did | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
not fit our boat, it was made for a six`man boat so we waited for | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
it done. Final question, would you it done. Final question, would you | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
do it again? Absolutely. 100%. You are going to finish it this time? | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
Yes, we are going to finish it. Good for you. | :24:21. | :24:21. | |
Now, from the tenacity... Now, from the | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
I think we have got the next challenge for Harry and Amy, haven't | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
we! Let me show you three pictures that have come in over the last 36 | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
hours. Keep the pictures coming in. Air | :24:39. | :25:00. | |
pollution levels in Leeds have been above the EU safe limits for the | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
last 48 hours. Air pollution levels will come down a bit in the next 24 | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
hours but they will remain quite high which is an unusual warning. A | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
grey start tomorrow which turns brighter later but it is a slack | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
setup. You may have noticed some dust on your car which has come up | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
from North Africa, Saharan dust in the last 24 and was and there could | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
be more of that. An active weather system is coming through Wales right | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
now and it will give us boundary rain later. It is mostly fine at the | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
moment with a few showers in the West. Towards midnight we will see | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
outbreaks of rain pushing up from the south`west. Heavy bursts and the | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
odd clap of thunder. Highest rainfall totals in the West with | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
less rainfall to the east. The lowest temperatures will come in at | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
seven degrees. A grey start, there may be patchy | :25:49. | :26:06. | |
rain across North and West Yorkshire bursting. It will soon clear away to | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
the North. Low cloud and mist and fog. In the morning the skies will | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
brighten and there will be sunshine in the afternoon with just a few | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
showers. Many places tomorrow will be dry and bright. After the slow | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
start it should not be too bad. The wind will be light and variable | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
indirection. Top temperatures not bad. Highs of 14 degrees. There may | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
be a few spots in South Yorkshire, Sheffield and Rotherham could nudge | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
15 degrees tomorrow afternoon. The weather outlook tomorrow is similar | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
with a grey start and drizzle in places. It will brighten up later | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
and some places towards the coast will stay dry and grey. Thursday is | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
a cloudy start but it brightens up. Friday will have patchy rain at | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
first and then brighter later. That is the forecast. Thank you so much. | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
96 days at sea and then, in a studio with us lot, how are you feeling? | :27:06. | :27:13. | |
That is all from us, back at 10:25pm. Good night. | :27:14. | :27:15. |