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Thank you. That is all from us for this evening. It is | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Welcome to Look North. First tonight, the UKIP leader, Nigel | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
Farage, has said he will be targeting seats in Yorkshire in next | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
year's general election. It follows his party's triumph in the European | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
elections both here and across the rest of the UK. UKIP topped the poll | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
in the Yorkshire and Humber region and took three of the region's six | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
seats. Labour won two and the Conservatives one. UKIP took 31% of | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
the vote. It was a bad night for the Liberal Democrats, who came fifth. | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
Some party members are now calling for Nick Clegg to stand down. We | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
will be speaking to our political editor Len Tingle in a moment but, | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
first, here he is with all the details. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
UK Independence Party, UKIP, 403,630. This was the point where it | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
was clear that UKIP had made political history in Yorkshire, | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
three new MEPs on their weight to the European Parliament. With UKIP | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
topping the poll they were allocated three of Yorkshire and the Humber's | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
six seats, with Labour getting two and the Conservatives getting one. | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
The votes were counted council by counsel and UKIP came top of the | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
poll in some surprising places, including York and Castor and | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Rotherham, all in the past the heartland of Labour. It shows there | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
is a deep mistrust of the European Parliament and the European Union | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
and they want some eyes and ears over there, some common, straight | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
talking people. If you look at the overall vote we have done much | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
better than we have in many European elections since 1999 so we have | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
doubled our representation, so, yes, I think it is a satisfactory | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
result. The Conservatives amassed enough votes for veteran MP Timothy | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
Kirkhope to keep his seat at they were distant third. The Lib Dems | :02:09. | :02:20. | |
came far`off the running. In my opinion we would probably be bit `` | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
be higher if Nick Clegg was not our leader. Given what I hear from | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
people on the doorstep, I think that is fair. Of the three UKIP winners, | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
they say the first thing they are going to do is have a drink with | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
Nigel. It has been a mentis 48 hours of | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
reporting for you. Where has this surge UKIP from? These are not new | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
voters, once you have never voted before. The turnout is exactly the | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
same as it was five years ago so clearly UKIP took votes from Labour, | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
probably more from the Conservatives and the Lib Dems and the BNP vote | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
dissolved. The key is not so much grabbing votes this time around but | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
keeping them for the more important vote, the general election next | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
year. We went Rotherham where there was a surge for UKIP and we asked | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
them people if they would vote for them next year? | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
We want them to close the borders, that is it, and they've promised | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
that they would do that. That is it. And would you vote for them in a | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
general election? Yes, for definite, no more Conservative. No more. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
I don't want to be in Europe. Costs us too much money, .. I don't want | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
to be in Europe. And next year when it's the general election when we're | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
choosing a prime minister what will you do? UKIP. Cut immigration. | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
There's too many. I'm not racist but there's too many. | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Depending on what the other issues are, I might vote for them again. I | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
just thought that UKIP might be a better one to vote for for us this | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
time. Just going to see what happens this | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
year first, see what things come up about what's happening before I make | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
a decision. Do that later in the year. So maybe UKIP next year? Yeah, | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
maybe. It's a maybe. Where do Nick Clegg and his party go | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
from here? You saw the Lib Dem candidate from Harrogate, one of the | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
key seats you would hope that back road they would have hoped to take | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
in. The candidate was basically saying she would have a better | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
chance of winning if Nick Clegg was not the leader and others are saying | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
the same kind of thing. At the moment that is not grabbing a huge | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
head of steam through the party but clearly if you are getting those | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
kind of whispers it is not good. It is only a year to go before the | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
general election, will they switch or stick? We did that exercise of | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
talking to people on the streets of Rotherham after the local election | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
and we got exactly the reverse answers. It is up to UKIP now, they | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
have those elected MEPs and councillors, they have to prove they | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
can do the job and do it properly. A number of properties in Rotherham | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
were evacuated this morning after a fire at a derelict house. Fire | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
officers were called to Rawmarsh Hill in Parkgate just after 2:30am. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Part of the building was demolished because of fears it would collapse. | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Rawmarsh Hill was closed for several hours. | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
More than 5000 people have signed a petition calling for improved road | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
safety following the death of a teenager in a hit`and`run crash in | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Sheffield. 14`year`old Jasmyn Chan died when she was struck by a | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
vehicle at Normanton Hill more than two weeks ago. A 32`year`old man | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
arrested in connection with her death has been released on bail. | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
Campaigners say they have enough signatures to force a council debate | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
on road safety. One of the tallest maypoles in | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
England was erected at a festival in the village of Barwick near Leeds | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
today. The celebrations included local primary school children | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
dancing around the 90`foot`tall pole, a street market, brass band | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
and procession. The event, which is held every three years, concluded | :06:06. | :06:14. | |
with a volunteer climbing the pole. Rather them than me! | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
Now, Rotherham woke up this morning to having a side in football's | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Championship. The Millers won the League One play`off final yesterday | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
in the most dramatic way possible ` a penalty shoot out at Wembley. That | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
means back`to`back promotions for the Millers, as Ian Bucknell | :06:28. | :06:28. | |
reports. Somewhere in that hard are the two | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
men who intend to take Rotherham to the top, Tommy Stewart and Steve | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
Evans. Yesterday they shared their greatest achievement so far, with | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
players and fans on the turf. We are going to do it today! Morale was | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
high going into the game. Most Rotherham supporters sensed victory | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
to make up for the dark times of the recent past, two administrations and | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
a temporary move out of Rotherham. It is the third time I have been to | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
Wembley to see Rotherham and hopefully we will see them in the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Channel next year. It was Leyton Orient who took the lead with a | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
wonder strike by mode `` Moses Odubajo. Five minutes later it got | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
worse for them when Moses Odubajo set up his team`mate Cox. But Mark | :07:30. | :07:44. | |
Greville scored once and what followed was magnificent. He may | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
never score a better goal than the second. It went to penalties. | :07:48. | :08:03. | |
I was a bit disappointed I did not get closer to the first one, I went | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
to the wrong direction, but I did my job in the end. This is an | :08:09. | :08:19. | |
unbelievable experience. The adventure goes on in the | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
Championship. In football we can always dream. The Millers are going | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
up and Tony and Steve are already plotting the next ascent. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Well, the Millers will be having a victory parade through Rotherham | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
tomorrow evening and we will have full coverage on Look North. I can't | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
wait for that, it looks great. On to cricket, and Yorkshire are | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
taking on the old enemy, Lancashire, in the County Championship. | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Lancashire were 325 all out and in reply Yorkshire have made a solid | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
start ` they are 29 without loss at the close of play. | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
It looks blooming awful for the rest of the week, a lot of rain, drying | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
up through Friday and the weekend. Tomorrow we start with unsettled | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
weather, spells of rain spreading from the south`east. We have a fair | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
few showers, they will fizzle through the evening. A lot of cloud | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
over night. The rain sets in from the southeastern later on, heavy | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
spells towards dawn. Temperatures falling back to around ten or 11 | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
degrees. Tomorrow a cool and cloudy day. It will not be raining all day | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
long but we will continue to see the app rakes of rain feeding in from | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
the south`east and some very heavy spells at times. Temperatures of 13 | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
or 14 tomorrow. Another miserable day on Wednesday, the rain light and | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
patchy on Thursday. Good evening. If I were to conduct a | :09:55. | :10:14. | |
straw poll about the weather events today, I suspect we would get a | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
split decision. There were significant differences around, we | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
have sunshine and some warmth, but also this cloud and rain coming up | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
through the Channel into the north of England. On top of that, some | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
showers in the north-west, some of them thundery from Northern Ireland | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
and Scotland, so a real eclectic mix. This will drift away over the | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
next few hours, we will keep the cloud overnight, and we will see | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
more | :10:47. | :10:47. |