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weather. Not a wash-out but stay tuned for the details.

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It's made me reconsider whether there it is time to find another

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job. We hear from both sides

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in the debate over public sector pay The Queen is presented with

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a hamper of Derbyshire produce as crowds turn out to welcome

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Her Majesty to the county. This is something I'm told is called

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Peg agility and I'm told I will have to have a go at it before the end of

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the show. Join us later. It has been a glorious day but spare

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a thought for the course where it has been wet and windy. The forecast

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later. Good evening and welcome

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to Thursday's Look North. There's been disruption

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across Yorkshire today. According to unions,

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around 100,000 public sector workers walked out on strike in

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a dispute over pay and conditions. Dinner ladies, refuse collectors,

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librarians, firefighters The biggest disruption has been

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to schools as hundreds were In North Yorkshire 88 schools

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were closed or partially closed. And in West Yorkshire 390

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schools had to close. Well, in a moment we'll hear the

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views from a union representative and a Conservative MP, but first

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Cathy Killick has our top story. Marching outside the town hall in

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Sheffield, there was no messing this thousands strong rally. Around half

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a dozen public sector unions took part, there were similar scenes in

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Leeds. This is just one of the rallies

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taking place across the region, the message very clear. These employees

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have had enough of the cuts. Government remains committed to

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austerity and maintains that the strike is causing little disruption.

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The abandoned bin lorries told a different story. This depot would

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normally be empty with all the lorries on their rounds, not today.

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Firefighters were also on strike, angry at changes to pensions. Dozens

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of leisure centres were closed or offering limited services. Hundreds

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of schools closed their doors. Teachers and support staff refused

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to work. Typing struggling as it is. I work

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for 39 hours a week. I'm here to support everybody else and I think

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we deserved the pay rise. We are just keeping head above

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water, to be honest. With the cuts it will be very

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difficult. Everything is going up but wages are. It is plain to see by

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anybody that we need a pay rise. Do the strikers have the support of

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the Yorkshire public? That depends who you talk to.

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I got sympathy with them but I think when they are in a job like that

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they do have responsibility to the public so, I'm sorry, I'm not in

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full agreement with the strike. For me, it is the inconvenience of

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it because I got a child that is in school that has to take the day of

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today. Apart from that I am for it. People should get a decent wage.

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The government have missed the government have missed about enough

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with peoples pensions. We work all our lives for it. You will get there

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is, huge pensions, but not these people.

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This is the unions, let's be honest. Whenever you go they want more for

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the workers, understandably, but it disrupts everybody else.

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Once it notes to the day, despite their teacher's absence, these

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children from Seacroft who have 100% attendance records got their

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promised trip to a way of life Park, taken by the headteacher who

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couldn't let them down. Well,

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joining us now are Alec Shelbrooke, the Conservative MP for Rothwell and

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Elmet, and Chris Jenkinson, Unison's At 29% turnout, does that give a

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fair representation of what workers want?

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I don't recognise those figures. The turnout has been fantastic. We think

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150,000 public sector workers have been on strike today.

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in industrial action is why it is being done. This is a political

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strike, nothing more, nothing less. Even the fact that ?23 million has

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been donated to the Labour Party, even though that Ed Miliband has

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said these strikes were wrong. People in the private sector has

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seen not just pay freezes but pay cuts. I have had lots of

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correspondence today from people complaining about the strikes

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because even though it has a 1% pay rise which in real terms as a pay

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cut, that is the situation this country has found itself in after a

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disastrous time for the economy. You are still on a final salary

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scheme. You are not leading by example, are you?

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I completely understand that and pension scheme is changing in next

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Parliament. But why not lead on that.

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It is being done. It will be the same as the rest of the public

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sector pension scheme so that is happening. The fact of the matter is

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that we talk about pension schemes in the public sector. These are

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still excellent schemes when we put them into context. There are many

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people working in that area and 24 million people who are not. What

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particularly distresses me is the attitude of the NUT compared to the

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NUS you'd be other union 's. It is upsetting to see members of one

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union beating the others. `` goading the others. There are plenty of

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people out there who have lost a day's pay and they cannot dream of

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having pay and pensions of that nature.

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Briefly, are we likely to see a repeat of this action?

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We are going to think about that but what we're saying is that we want

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employers to come round the table and negotiate with us, with ACAS if

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necessary, and we do not want the public disrupted anymore than they

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have to be. Police have arrested a man

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on suspicion of the murder of a 23`year`old woman who went

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missing in Leeds 14 years ago. Gemma Simpson was catching a bus

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from Harehills when she disappeared. A man was arrested in Scarborough

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on Tuesday evening. Our Crime Correspondent John Cundy

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has the story. Gemma Simpson from the Harehills

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district of Leeds vanished on May 3, It's believed she told

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a friend she was catching a bus to Leeds city centre

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and was going on to Huddersfield. Two days ago,

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a man was arrested in Scarborough in It is understood the 44`year`old man

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had handed himself in at Scarborough Police have thoroughly searched

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the arrested man's home Here in St Leonard's Crescent in the

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Barrowcliff district of Scarborough. They have since boarded it up

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while the man him self has been taken back to Leeds

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for questioning by detectives. Next`door neighbour Michael says

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the man, a taxi driver, had lived You only saw him on a night`time

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when he went to work in his taxi. He used to start at nine

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at night and come in As news spread of the arrest,

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police say Gemma's family have been Further news is expected soon,

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meanwhile, the house that may provide vital clues to the

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disappearance of Gemma 14 years ago Hundreds gather in York to mark 70

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years since the battle in India The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

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have been visiting Chatsworth House It was their first visit to the

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Stately Home for over ten years. They were greeted by the Duke

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and Duchess of Devonshire The Queen arrived at Chatsworth to

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be greeted by sunshine and crowds. Dressed in summary blue

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and carrying pink roses, she was accompanied by Prince Philip

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and the Duke of Devonshire. One of the first things to catch

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her eye was a hamper of food. It was fantastic and showcased

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what we do, our local produce. To be able to show

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the Queen that this was She asked the question if she could

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fit it in her helicopter to take There were private presentations

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including Ken Sloan, the dog handler with the

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Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team. It really does mean a lot

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because all the long, long years that most people do, they don't get

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to see anybody like the Queen. And, as ever, there were also

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plenty of well`wishers. I've never seen the Queen before so

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it has been a real life experience. She is smaller than I

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thought she would be. I live in Sheffield but last time I

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met the Queen was in I just went to catch a train

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and the Queen happened to be there that day and I didn't have any

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flowers to give her so I thought She left as she arrived,

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in glorious sunshine, No`one is telling

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whether she managed to sneak In other news now,

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and there's been a call in the House of Commons for the man responsible

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for the Grand Depart in Yorkshire to The Shipley MP said that the head

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of the county's tourist organisation, Welcome to Yorkshire,

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should be made a Sir. The Commons leader described

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the suggestion He should be recognised perhaps with

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a knighthood. The Prime Minister has came the coming to listen to my

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message and hopefully he will have that message ringing in his ears.

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Congratulations to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, which has been

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The open`air gallery near Wakefield won the ?100,000 Art Fund Prize

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It was hailed by judges as a "truly outstanding museum with a

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Last year was the park's busiest ever, with 350,000 visitors.

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Hundreds have gathered in York today to mark 70 years since the Battle

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Many of the troops who fought and died were based in York and

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it's where a museum commemorating their sacrifice is housed.

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British and Indian forces won the battle against the Japanese

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But it was a turning point in Second World War in the Far East.

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Olivia Richwald reports now from today's moving ceremony.

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It was a battle on a remote mountain ridge in a far`flung corner of the

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world 70 years ago but the memories of the Battle of call him a ``

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Battle of Kohima our Tour offer made to describe. `` are too rugged for

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many to describe. The battle was a decisive Allied

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victory. The Japanese were prevented from invading India but the

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conditions for the soldiers were horrendous. Fought over maintenance,

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and jungles, through monsoons, heat, starvation and disease.

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11,000 people died. We got to the top of big Alice in hell and it was

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shelled to PCs. Dead bodies lying everywhere. It was terrible.

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70 years on, there are just a few veterans left who are able to come

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to the service and that makes their memories even more precious. Today,

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each of them led a region in memory of lost friends.

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I've been here many years before but today a special as the 70th year and

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it will probably be my last. One of the best services there have

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been. It's very emotional. A museum dedicated to the battle is

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raised at the barracks. In education trust is based in India and aims to

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repay the debt owed by Britain to the people of India who helped drive

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back the Japanese and when the Second World War.

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Making cycling safer ` the legacy of Le Grand Depart which should make

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And trying not to make a pig's ear of it ` the rather

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bizarre animal contest in the ring at the Great Yorkshire Show.

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A Leeds schoolgirl is today celebrating the 5th anniversary

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of the heart transplant that saved her life.

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Gabrysia Filarowski from Horsforth was born with a rare heart defect.

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As a baby she was put at the top of the UK transplant list.

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Now she's a happy and healthy six`year`old.

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Dancing and dressing up are her hobbies.

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She's like any other six`year`old girl.

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But Gabrysia Filarowski from Horsforth has a remarkable story.

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As a baby she went straight to the top of the UK transplant list.

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Born with a rare heart condition, doctors feared she had just months

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In 2009, I filmed Gabrysia and her family at

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the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle as they went through agonising tests.

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There always seems to be a setback somewhere.

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We've always encountered another brick wall.

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That may continue but that has been the most difficult thing.

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We have learned not to expect the best because the disappointment

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And then when she was just 16 months old, Gabrysia received

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Today, she is back at the Freeman Hospital as she celebrates

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the fifth anniversary of the operation that saved her life.

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Gabrysia is here for a checkup and her first television interview.

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I was born with half a heart and I spent a long time in hospital.

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Doctors had to take out my poorly heart and give me a new one.

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Five years further on, we've got a child that learns

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like every normal child and has wonderful relationships with

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other children in her class, does everything they can do.

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It just brings us so much joy, something we'd never thought we'd

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Hospital checkups are now a world away from the checkups

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We lived hour by hour, day by day, and we saw children that had been

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transplanted that were about the age Gabrysia is now and would never dare

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Some people comment, you have to go all the way to

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Newcastle, that's such a long way, but it doesn't feel like that to us

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There is always the risk of her body rejecting the new heart.

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Gabrysia will need medication for the rest of her life.

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But this girl doesn't let anything hold her back.

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Yorkshire's County Championship match at home to Durham has ended

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But Yorkshire stay on top of the table.

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The visitors dug in for most of the final day.

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They were following on in reply to Yorkshire's first

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Adam Lyth's two wickets early in Durham's second innings gave

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But Durham managed to hang on in the final session, with two

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The Grand Depart has been and gone, but building work on one

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of the Tour de France's biggest legacy projects should get underway

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A 14 mile cycle superhighway will be built between Seacroft in East Leeds

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and Bradford city centre at a cost of ?29 million.

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A cycle lane completely segregated from other vehicles. This one is in

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Amsterdam in the Netherlands but something very similar is coming to

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west Yorkshire. Potential users have been getting

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the chance to see detailed plans for what is known as the city connect

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cycle superhighway. Currently on this road, cyclists are

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on the main highway. Once the cycle superhighway is complete, they will

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be away from the traffic and have their own dedicated route which is

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far safer. The 14 mile long highway will

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replace narrow by claims like this one the A64 which are seen as

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potentially dangerous and confusing. It will run from Seacroft to

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Bradford. This will get the Dutch style

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treatment. Currently, cyclists have to share space with other motorists.

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When the highway is complete, cyclists will get their own lane

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that cars, lorries and buses cannot stray into. The aim is to get more

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people cycling by making cycling safer. The government is pitching in

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with the rest of the money coming from Leeds and Bradford Council 's.

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At the moment, it can feel threatening sharing with vehicles.

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If you are on a separate cycle path, you know you won't be passed to

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closely and it gives you confidence. You see all kinds of rubbish cycling

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infrastructure when there was no thought for mass cycling. Now we are

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thinking we want ten or 20% of journeys to be made by Blake and we

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have to plan for that. This is totally different to what

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came before. It is addressing needs of cyclists. This will make a

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difference because people will feel safer and it will be safer to cycle

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on the road. It is a springboard for major change.

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As part of the scheme, the canal towpath between Leeds and Shipley

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will also be upgraded to make it smoother for cyclists. The

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consultation runs until the end of July and building work should start

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in the autumn. Today was the third and final day

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of the Great Yorkshire Show and didn't the weather play ball

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for the thousands of visitors who Over in the pig ring there was

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a special event drawing We sent Ian White to put his pig

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handling skills to the test. Forget one man and his dog, this is

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one man and his peg and I am not telling you porkies. `` pig. I have

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been roped into this so what I'm letting myself in for?

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It is all about getting a pig to go and take yourself where you wanted

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to go. It is not about the pig, it is about handler using the bat and

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the board to steer it round the course in the prescribed manner,

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nice and gently, and we do it on a time trial.

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Why do I get the feeling this is not going to be easy? And hundreds of

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people are looking on as well. It is the epitome of his career at

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the end of it, one of the two. That'll do.

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Use it like a brother. `` rider

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very good. She should come back and do it every

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year. I would say that as a career`high.

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I think he has found his place in life, don't you?

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Dry and bright in the West, further eastwards patchy rain first thing.

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That might get into Sheffield but only a few spots. The afternoon is

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dry and bright everywhere with sunny spells coming through. Lots of cloud

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around but it should brighten through the course of the day. A

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better day in Scarborough. The weekend is not looking too bad. Warm

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sunshine on Saturday with the rest of 12 heavy showers late in the day.

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The rest of Sunday should be bright with sunshine and one or two

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showers. Monday should be a fine start with patchy rain later.

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That's not a bad forecast for you. That's not a bad forecast

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Let's hope it is right. I shall be back at 10:25pm. Goodbye.

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with some new adventures to share with YOUR little ones.

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Please, double please. We're going to Dad's office today.

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These look really yummy. I'm so excited about going to school.

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