12/08/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Companies are getting too much profit and people are

As far as the rail fare goes, I think it is completely obscene.

We hear from a passenger campaign group and

Oscar Wilde wrote them, so too did Jeffrey Archer.

We ask disgraced ex`Rotherham MP Denis Macshane whether

publishing his prison diaries is just a way of making money.

And the return to Yorkshire of a magnificent 18th century clock

with a mysterious connection to the last Queen of France.

As. `` and some sunshine in the gym or

showers. I will be back with a forecast for the week. `` some

sunshine in between the showers. First tonight,

unions and passenger groups have criticised the decision to increase

rail fares for some journeys Northern Rail is scrapping certain

off`peak tickets to raise money and admits it may put people off

travelling in the evening rush hour. Northern Rail runs some of the

busiest routes across our region. From September 8th, travelling on a

weekday between 4pm and 6.30pm will That means it'll be more expensive,

with passengers travelling within West and South Yorkshire and to some

parts of North Yorkshire, affected. A single trip between Sheffield

and Doncaster will increase by 90p. Leeds to Halifax will be ?2

more expensive per journey. brings our region

into line with most others, but many Here's our political editor

Len Tingle. Susan Scofield,

her daughter and grandchild heading back from shopping in Leeds to

Wakefield's Kirkgate Station. The cost of two adult fares on the

train they want to use today, ?8.60. From September 8th,

it will be ?11.60. When the authorities are trying to

get you to keep your cars at home and use public transport,

and then the transport is It is expensive whichever

way round you look at it. Northern, the biggest operator

of local trains across the North of England, says it will scrap off`peak

tickets between 4pm and 6:30pm The choice for customers,

pay higher`priced full fares, It has not gone well

with travellers. Not as many people travel

in the evening as they do in the day, so you're just charging

them more for no reason. That is the way everything is going,

isn't it? They are just pushing prices up

of everything. It is a way of making money, though,

by the train companies. Northern denies the extra

revenue will boost profits. It says it has the agreement of

Government to scrap off`peak late afternoon fairs so it can reduce

the public subsidy in currently It will also encourage passengers

to switch from overcrowded trains. The national passenger

watchdog is not convinced. We're disappointed that

Northern Rail and the Department of Transport have not doing more to

actually collect the fares. Many passengers tell us they're

quite frustrated and annoyed that So how much is leaking out of

the system that could be collected? Northern says it is also committed

to spending ?6 million over the next two years on improving passenger

facilities and its ticketing system. Len Tingle is at

Leeds Railway Station this evening. What have they told you about the

changes? In a series of statements, the company said they had been in

discussion with the Department for Transport for some months now and

both sides agreed that they had two reads `` raise revenue because the

services are some of the most heavily subsidised in the whole of

England. This was the best we're doing it affecting the least of

passengers. Trade unions say that there is outrageous and that there

tries a cart and horses through a categorical promise me just a few

months ago that no fare rises would be higher than the rate of inflation

for the next ten years at least. This could not have happened without

the approval of the government?, it has committed to a huge investment

in northern mill services to improve local services.

This line, where it came from had a goat comes, `` the train from Handel

Kate comms, needs that investment. `` the train from Harrowgate.

We'll meet Sohail Rehman, who's landed a dream coaching job

at Manchester United despite being confined to a wheelchair.

Investigators are trying to work out what caused a house fire in Keighley

in which a four year`old boy was killed.

The fire broke out yesterday afternoon at the property on Sunny

A second boy, who is ten, and an adult are still

Emergency services were called here at 2pm yesterday afternoon.

When they arrived, they found an adult and two children

They were treated for the effects of breathing in smoke

and then transferred to hospital, where the four`year`old later died.

The adult and the 10`year`old boy are said to be recovering.

The emergency crews who worked to save them were deeply affected.

I think a tragic incident like this always affects people that

attend it, particularly where a young child is involved.

And certainly I know that the crews who attended yesterday have been

affected by this and clearly we will provide them with the appropriate

support to make sure they are able to deal with that and carry on doing

The fire was confined to a back bedroom

Twin investigations by a West Yorkshire Fire Service

and West Yorkshire Police are now taking place into its cause.

Police have named a woman who was stabbed to death in Sheffield at the

Police were called to the house on Vickers Road in Firth Park

Three men were arrested on suspicion of the murder.

Two were released pending further inquiries.

A 42`year`old man remains in police custody.

Police have confirmed that human remains found near Brimham Rocks

last week are those of Gemma Simpson, who went missing

Gemma was 23 when she disappeared in May 2000.

She told a friend she was catching a bus from her home

in Harehills to Leeds city centre, going onto Huddersfield.

A man's been charged with Gemma's murder.

The University of Sheffield's students' union has been voted best

in the UK in the National Student Survey.

It's the third year running that the students union has won, helped by a

The National Student Survey asks students across the country

about the quality of their University courses.

It's designed to help prospective students assess their

Higher Education options, and results are published annually.

Next tonight, the disgraced former Rotherham MP Denis Macshane

He's speaking out about his time in one of the country's toughest jails.

Mr Macshane was sent to prison just before Christmas

His diaries recall how he was locked up alongside gangsters and killers,

claims and the judge said that there was no false game. Unlike some NP

friends who have made happy million pounds using taxpayers money to

speculate on the London property market, yes, I spent money

travelling, networking in Europe, the receipts were there and the

police investigated me for 20 months and cleared me and it went back to

the politicians and the Commons. I made a mistake and I have been

apologising for four or five years now. In your diary, you brought that

I am sure because of who I am, not what I did. It does not sound dated

remorseful. You are a criminal and