22/04/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)


22/04/2014

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Good evening from Look North. Miners club turned out to be a stalemate.

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Good evening from Look North. Miners at Kellingley Colliery have voted

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overwhelmingly to accept a managed closure of the pit. UK Coal sent a

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postal ballot to more than 700 miners to seek their views. Nearly

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80% of them voted in favour of closing the pit. The deal will see

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gradual job losses over an 18`month period, with the site finally

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closing in December 2015. Spencer Stokes reports.

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For many miners here at Kellingley, it didn't seem like much of a

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choice. Work to help shut the pit down over 18 months ` or face it

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closing in a matter of weeks. Today, the results of the ballot were

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announced with nearly 80% choosing what for miners is the lesser of two

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evils ` a gradual rundown. The decision was welcomed by UK Coal.

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Two options that everybody faced here and across the business were

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either close in 18 months or close immediately. By having the 18`month

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option we will now be able to make sure our suppliers are paid,

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redundancies are paid, so a much better option. Some of the miners

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will now work until December 2015. Others could lose their jobs before.

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But the NUM hope the economic circumstances change and by the end

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of next year a way is found to keep this deep mine operating. While

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Kellingley and Thoresby are open there is hope that common sense will

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prevail and the government will decide to have a constructive

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dialogue with the unions, with the employers, and they will see that

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there is common sense for keeping Kellingley and Thoresby open. The

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country needs coal to generate an affordable, secure supply of energy

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and that will be the case for many years to come. UK Coal says it will

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now move on to the legal stage of closing Kellingley. That could be

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signed off within the next two weeks.

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The local and European elections are being held next month, and over the

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next few weeks we'll be speaking to the party leaders. Today the UK

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Independence Party's leader Nigel Farage was in Sheffield after

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choosing it as the venue for his national campaign launch. Our

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political editor Len Tingle was at the launch, and he joins us now. Why

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did he choose Sheffield? This was not by accident. It is a traditional

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Labour heartland and the party has to show it is right or centre, anti

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immigration policies are going to attract more than disaffected

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Tories. It reckons it can do that in South Yorkshire, based on two

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by`elections in which it came second in both. It was an issue that I put

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a Nigel Farage this afternoon. We will transform and change the

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whole national debate in this country, particularly here in

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Yorkshire. Let's remember the majority of seats in Westminster

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here are held by Labour MPs. At the moment Miliband is holding a

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position where he is saying if he becomes prime minister he won't give

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us a referendum and we're going to put maximum pressure on Labour in

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this part of the world. UKIP is traditionally seen as right of

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centre, anti`immigration. It has to broaden its appeal, hasn't it? It

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has to clean up its act and make sure there are not outspoken views

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put forward. Godfrey Bloom has been its one elected member here in

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Yorkshire for the last ten years. He has parted company with the parties

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ably because he went one step too far. He started talking about Bongo

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Bongo Land and things like that, so he had to go. You saw in there he

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reacted rather badly when he was confronted by a journalist on that,

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so that was really the end of him. Something I put a Nigel Farage. It

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was on unfortunate thing. I was very sorry that happened, but

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that's life, we move on. We've got Jane Collins at the top of the list,

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who first became known in the Barnsley by`election where from

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nowhere she came second. We've got an Asian businessman Amjad Bashir

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second. A guy that grew up in Bradford, has been successful in

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life and is very passionate about our cause. I think we are putting

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forward a good team of people. There was another reason for launching in

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South Yorkshire and that was by looking at somebody in the crowd,

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Paul Sykes, the multimillionaire Barnsley businessman, who has put

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his millions behind UKIP, largely he has paid for this national car ``

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this national poster campaign. He made his money at Meadowhall, so it

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is fitting they launched their campaign in Sheffield.

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Care workers in Doncaster are to stage a further two`week strike in a

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row over pay and conditions. Unison members will walk out in May for 14

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days after talks ended without an agreement being reached. It's the

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latest in a series of strikes. The workers claim their employer, Care

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UK, wants to cut wages by up to ?7,000 a year. Care UK says it's

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pledged to protect the basic levels of pay.

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With just over a couple of months to go until the Tour de France starts

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here in Yorkshire, some of the world's best cyclists have been

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getting a taste of the route. One of teams to watch is Giant`Shimano.

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Their riders have been cycling the second stage today ` and seemed

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rather worried by what they saw. I think the roads are in some parts

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very dangerous for a peloton of the Tour de France. On the descent. I

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mean, just when you ride through the more lonely roads in the middle of

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nowhere. I mean, they are very narrow and very small with stone

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walls on both sides. If a very nervous Tour de France peloton

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fighting for the yellow jersey passes by there, then there can be

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very dangerous situations. Penge reach `` very dangerous on a

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tandem, I tell you. Keighley, they haven't been through there yet. I

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wonder if they will go on my alternative route through Keighley.

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The scenic route! Lovely weather for the training today. Lets hope it is

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better in July. the training today. Lets hope it is

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It looks pretty good for the credit against Northamptonshire tomorrow. A

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great start in the morning but the sun will break through the clouds

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and temperatures very respectable, around 16 or 17 degrees. This was a

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front will hold off probably until tomorrow evening and tomorrow

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night. An isolated heavy shower tomorrow afternoon but most of us

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will be fine. It is a bit grotty out there low cloud, one or two showers

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drifting up from the south. We will see lowest temperatures at about

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eight or nine degrees Celsius. A slow start on Wednesday morning, the

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odd light shower clearing. Otherwise drought. `` otherwise dry. The mist

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will break up and the sun will come out and the afternoon is pleasant,

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fine, bright and warm. As we get up to about 16 Celsius that might be

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the trigger for isolated but heavy showers. Very hit and miss. The

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emphasis on dry weather. Top temperatures 16 or 17 Celsius. It

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does turn wet on Wednesday night. Thursday, a cloudy, damp start.

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Patchy rain will clear by the middle of the day and Friday, foggy at

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start, brighter later. The weekend is unsettled. I will leave you with

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the summary of is unsettled. I will leave you with

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is not looking too bad. That's weather front.

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It is never too early to think about next weekend and I will be doing

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that in a couple of minutes. But we have a sizeable chunk of this

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week's whether to go first. There are more showers, but there will be

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spells of warm sunshine around as well, so there will be no frost at

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night. Bands of showers across the western side of the UK and

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Scotland's passing through overnight. Another heavy burst

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coming into the south-west later on in the night. This rain band slowly

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comes in from the South West and this is how Wednesday starts at

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eight o'clock in the morning. It will turn out to be a warmer day in

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Scotland, but misty low cloud in the North East and that will impact on

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the temperature. There will be a few bright spells punching through this

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cloud and a sunny day

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