25/09/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Welcome to Thursday's Look North. so it's goodbye from me,

Tonight, on the rampage ` a man who caused hundreds of

Anger from campaigners fighting for Yorkshire's only Childrens' Heart

Surgery Unit. Why hasn't a significant report on the issue

being published? We have a special investigation and hear from families

affected. Also tonight `

remembering a remarkable lady. Books of condolence are opened

for those who want to pay tribute to the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire,

who died yesterday. We are at Doncaster's Robin Hood

airport were the last Vulcan in the world is about to take off on a

special flight to commemorate the end of the Cold War.

It has been a pleasant enough day, despite the cloud, what abott the

weekend? Don't forget to john me for the details, which are lookhng quite

promising. When the Leeds Childrens' Hdart

Surgery Unit was dramatically closed in March of last year, therd were

calls of foul play by campahgners. Just 24 hours earlier,

they had overturned governmdnt plans to shut the unit as part

of a national review. The NHS said there were

a "constellation" But 18 months on, a report which

should go some way to explahning the Campaigners

for the unit say it?s a distraction and hindrance, as a second national

review of surgery is now underway. Here's our health

correspondent Jamie Coulson. For baby Julia, the first couple of

years of life have been difficult. Born with a defective heart,

she almost died in March But when it was time to go to

a specialist heart unit in Leeds, she found herself caught up

a storm of claim and counterclaim. Surgery at the children's hdart

unit in Leeds is suspended. Instead of travelling

from hospital in Hull to Ledds, We were scared when we heard this

and where they told us they might transfer her much further from home,

we were scared all the time. We are thrilled that the unfair

and flawed decision... Children's heart surgery in Leeds

was suspended after campaigners won a High Court battle stopping the NHS

decision to close the unit. Bruce Keogh said he took action

because a constellation of reasons, including high death rates

and concerns raised by doctors. NHS England commissioned three

reports to investigate the tnits. The first report investigatdd all

deaths in the units between 200 It found that services were safe

and running well. The second report looked

at how some families were c`red for and found shortcomings

in the treatment of 16 families A third reports looking at concerns

raised by doctors from other hospitals about the care on offer in

Leeds has still not been published. When we have chased NHS England

about the report, they initially told us they were

anticipating publishing it hn May. That didn't materialise and we asked

again and they told us they were Now, almost 18 months

into the suspension of heart It's taken a year and a half now

and we still see no report `nd no There is still a very unfair sense

that there are questions th`t still need to be answered,

when actually the report th`t came out about the suspension made it

clear that the Leeds Childrdn's The third report should invdstigate

concerns initially raised bx Newcastle's surgeon with thd NHS

Medical Director Bruce Keogh. We have obtained e`mails under the

Freedom of Information Act where he has referred to eight right of

clinical problems that he h`d to deal with. Today, Newcastle

hospital's NHS Foundation Trust said the action they took was appropriate

under the given circumstancds. Michele Elliott, 1 of the p`rents

whose case is being investigated over the care given to her daughter,

she feels the process has not been handled well. I cannot understand

why this isn't happening. What is happening with the report? Why are

families not been kept in the loop? Until early last week, we h`ve no

clue. NHS England say they `re dealing with a competition `cross to

trusts and once the report hs written they had to address detailed

comments from both. They sax they will now contact all parents

involved and organisations before publication. Baby Julia is now

having her follow`up treatmdnt in Leeds at a unit still waiting for

the line to be drawn under the suspension of surgery.

Joining us now are Amelie Brown and her mum, Lois.

Amelie was born with half a heart and is awaiting

Thank you for coming in. Hello, and Molly. Lois, if I can ask you a

question. Concerns from doctors about the

level of care. That must be quite worrying for you as a parent. We

have been fortunate, we havd had excellent care in Leeds and a great

experience. We are in the know, though, and having newborn babies

coming in, it must be worryhng to have those concerns, you will have

doubts, it is naturally you aren't reassured. Do you not have `ny

concerns about the allegations? No, none at all. I am loyal to the unit,

but I'm all loyal to my child, I do my facts and finding out. It has

been excellent for us from our point of view, we could not have `sked for

better care. Do you suspect that there m`y be

some kind of conspiracy theory here? Hats the NHS by leaving it this long

are hoping that you will go away and it will be swept under the carpet?

You do have that concern. It was very rule when it happened `t the

time. If it was real concern is called you understand that, but it

has been found out there were no concerns that they were talking

about the risks to children. The question is why not publish the

report, because there should not be anything to hide. Let's movd on with

a new review. We should ask you what you think.

You spend a lot of time there, don't you there? What you think of the

doctors and nurses there? They are good. Are they? Do you have a

favourite? Who's your favourite nurse? Rachel. She's clearlx doing

very well. She loves her solething. She loves her something. Shd's doing

very well. She has a lot less oxygen than a normal child going around her

body. She has defied all thd arts, really. The next operation will

hopefully give even better puality of life. And I guess you want

clarity where whether reviewers Yes, the new review that is going

on, I cannot emphasise how luch NHS and England has done a great job,

was `` NHS England. Thank you, both. Our health correspondent

Jamie Coulson joins us now. Jamie, this report is not

the final stage when it comds to No, because as low as mentioned

there is now a new review of heart surgery across England. That is a

new review being taken by NHS England and replaces the old review

which was torpedoed by the Health Secretary as it was not fit for

purpose. This new review by NHS England, there is a consult`tion

going on now. People can have their say on the shape of the service and

they can do that online. NHS England will regulate all that information

together and hope to make a decision about how the service should look

there are still a long way to go. `` there is still.

A man who went on the rampage with a mechanical digger causing

?400,000 of criminal damage has been jailed for three years.

Trevor Lewis was working at the waste recycling plant at Todmorden

Bradford Crown Court heard he'd been suffering from depresshon.

Our Crime Correspondent, John Cundy, reports.

The summertime scene of the carnage at a recycling plant.

Locking himself in the compound worker Trevor Lewis set fird to

a cabin and commandeered a digger, and wrecking the entire sitd.

He finally stopped and handdd the keys of the digger to the police.

Today, Bradford Crown Court was told that months of depression

and pain from a knee injury had caused Trevor to build up

He caused a scene of utter destruction.

There was extensive damage on the site,

including lampposts being knocked down, they fell like skittlds.

There was a Portakabin with flames licking the trees.

In 30 years of service, I h`ve never experienced anything like this.

The judge said it gave him no pleasure to have to jail

But he said he would be failing in his public duty if he didn't

impose the three`year sentence because of the enormous cost

and disruption caused by Lewis' preplanned destruction of the site.

And that only months after ?600,000 had been spent

Everything is having to be restored at great cost.

The site is completely flattened now.

And it will be out of use until November this year,

so it is a real inconvenience to the people who use this fachlity.

All caused by a morning of madness in July that led to

Two men have been arrested hn Leeds after a tonne of cocaine was found

The yacht was stopped by thd Irish navy as it was making its w`y to

Three men on board, who're all believed to have links to

West Yorkshire, have been detained for questioning.

The seizure's thought to be one of the biggest at sea in Europe

Councillors in York are meeting this evening to decide whether to back

proposals that would see thd biggest changes to the city in a generation.

The so`called Local Plan wotld see 17,000 new homes built, along with

new schools and infrastructtre, as the local authority tries to

If the Cabinet backs the pl`n, there'll then be a consultation

and a final decision won't be made until next year.

The big hole in the centre of Bradford has finally been filled

as work on the first stage of the Westfield Shopping Cdntre

The framework for the delayed building has been

completed and builders are now starting to clad the structtre.

Westfield say the ?260 million project has created

When it opens, it'll be home to Marks and Spencer,

I dare say that as a great relief to people living in Bradford. `` that

is a . UKIP have chosen to hold

their annual party conference in Doncaster, calling it thd

Labour Party's own back yard! Around 2000 visitors are expected

at the conference, which starts tomorrow at thd town's

racecourse, just a stone's throw from Labour leader Ed Milib`nd's

Doncaster North constituencx. Our political editor Len Tingle is

there for the final preparations. A decade ago, when I covered

conferences for UKIP, 300 pdople turned up, today it is digitally

fingerprinted media presses and behind me 2000 seeds laid ott for

tomorrow's opening. `` seat Put up this is in Ed Miliband's

backyard. On what is likely to be the most important speeches ever

made at a conference, I askdd Nigel Farage why he brought his p`rty to

Doncaster. There have been too many in the BBC

and the rest of the media who say Actually, as well you know from the

Barnsley election onwards wd have increasingly been taken somd quite

big chunks out of the Labour vote in northern England, so we are going to

Ed Miliband's constituency to have our conference and said people

in the North of England, if you are traditional Labotr voter,

your party is not standing tp I did the sums after the Barnsley

and Rotherham by`elections, the Conservative vote went down, the

Liberal Democrat votes disappeared, but largely Labour held on, you were

taking votes, but not from Labour. What has skewed the by`election

results is the political corruption that we have had from the one`party

state , the one`party Labour state in the north, with a postal voting

system that would shame manx parts On the night at Barnsley and

Rotherham and looking at thd votes coming in, you would see th`t there

were chunks out of the Labotr vote. Rotherham is up the road,

what sort of effect you think you will have on the political scene and

your chances in particular having A Labour`controlled health

service regime that has failed. And failed dramatically with one of

the most disgusting scandals I have And yet Labour are saying,

"We mustn't be political about Should you be using this

as political collateral? Your candidate

in Rotherham dubbed Labour That was the choice

of words that Jane Collins tsed it is not the choice

of words that I would have tsed But do not underestimate how people

like Jane Collins and mothers in particular feel really angry

about what happened. Very briefly, let's change tack

a bit ` after the Scotland referendum vote, do you think places

like Yorkshire have got a f`ir deal England hasn't got a fair ddal,

so in turn Yorkshire doesn't. We need

a completely new constitutional We need to revisit the formtla

by which more money goes north For the people

in Yorkshire to now be paying tuition fees at university, for that

to have happened because of the vote of Scottish MPs in Westminster is

wrong and it must be changed. Finally, give us a forecast,

how many seats will UKIP have in Labour's heartlands of South

and West Yorkshire We topped the poll in many parts of

Yorkshire in the European Elections, Quite how it looks numerically,

I don't know, but something very Thank you very much.

Thank you. What will be the first strength of

their `` test of their strength The consequences of what happendd in

Rotherham is that there is ` vacancy for the Police and Crime

Commissioner there. The by`dlection is at the end of the month. Labour

and UKIP have picked their candidate, it is likely to be a 2

horse race. It will be a very tough campaign. It would be a major test

to see how UKIP is doing. Before seven o'clock `

taking to the skies. The last Vulcan Bomber flies over

Yorkshire to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall

of the Berlin Wall. Books of condolence have opdned

on the Chatsworth Estate today following the death of the

Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. And her son the Duke has announced

that her funeral will take place next Thursday at noon at

St Peter's Church in Edensor. Today, more tributes have bden paid

to the Duchess, who was the driving force behind the transformation of

Chatsworth into one of the country's A quiet moments to remember one of

England's exceptional women. Books of condolence for the Dowagdr

Duchess of Devonshire have `ttracted a steady stream of contributors from

every walk of life. Prince Charles issued a statement saying...

It says a lot for her that the Royal was joined by a socialist in paying

tribute. Her kindness to people picking children up to a fallen down

in Chatsworth estate, pulling in one day to make sure I got my dog back

when one of my dogs had run away. The ability to relate to evdryone

and anyone, whatever their background or class or wealth and

privilege. At the gates of Chatsworth, flowers are being left

by people whose lives she touched, perhaps without even knowing it She

was very loved. After her rdally busy life, she gave to charhties and

mankind, really, she was thd best. Did you ever meet her? I met her

walking around. John Oliver was born on the estate and became its

controller, working hand in glove with the then Dutch for ten years. A

unit it is almost like losing our mother. `` the Duchess. She was a

hard worker. She was up early every day and knew exactly what w`s going

on. She knew all the staff, despite the fact there were 600, shd knew

all the ones that had been there over a year. Although it is tempting

to talk about the end of an era in truth Deborah Cavendish was a

moderniser, ushering in a ndw era of the stately home as big bushness.

This is her legacy, thriving, admired and preserved for all the

other new years to come. `` new yours.

A major new international cxcle race for Yorkshire has been confhrmed

by the sport's world governhng body, the UCI.

It's seen as a lasting legacy after the Tour de France coling

It's been provisionally titled the Tour de Yorkshire

and will take place from May the first to the third

There's also plans to have a women's race.

Football now and Sheffield Wednesday were thrashed 7`0 last night

by Manchester City in the Capital One Cup.

All the goals came in the sdcond half as the cup holders produced

But more than 5,000 noisy Owls fans still got plenty out of their

And, even after such a heavx defeat, they stayed philosophical.

It's been one of the strangdst games I've ever watched,

because we?re coming away and I have enjoed watching the side lose 7`0.

I suppose it is lovely just to get a touch of that quality of football.

Second half, just blown away by a great site .

7`0, it's a bit of a shame, four, maybe.

Shame we couldn?t give them a goal to cheer about,

which was a bit disappointing, but I can only praise them, because

the supporters were still shnging away, not many would still be

Well, our only team to make it through to the fourth

In the cricket ` Somerset are still in front for once!

On Day three of the final m`tch Somerset were eventually all out

But their first innings lead of 184 had been reduced to just 36

runs, when bad light caused an early finish.

Going into the very last dax of the season tomorrow, Yorkshire's

There are no second chances for Castleford tonight

when they take on Warrington in the Super League playoffs.

They were heavily beaten by St Helen's last week,

but their fourth placed finhsh meant they get a second chance thhs week.

Win tonight and they're just a game away from the Grand Final.

And there's full match commdntary on the game on BBC Radio Ledds.

The former Castleford captahn, Andrew Henderson,

And congratulations to Olivdr Lines, who started off his professhonal

snooker career in incredibld fashion, beating the World number 1!

The 19 year old from Leeds, seen here practicing, beat Mark Selby 6`4

Well done to him. That is brilliant. Pretty

impressive. It was a war that had no

apparent casualties. But numerous men and women were

involved in the so`called Cold War, the political and military tension

that developed after World War Two. Our skies were patrolled

by nuclear deterrent aircraft known Today, in salute to the manx

airforce teams who protected us the last flying example of the V`Force,

` the Vulcan, took to the skies A piece of living history m`rking

history at Robin Hood airport. The only surviving flying Vulcan bomber

in the world embarked on a special trip to commemorate the end of the

Cold War 25 years ago. Once a vital part of the UK's

nuclear deterrent, the Vulc`n's airmen were ready to fly to the east

with just 90 seconds notice, knowing there may not be a United Khngdom to

fly home to. There were perhods of extreme tension. They did think

there could be an attack. The crews had to take their job very

seriously. They were sitting by these aircraft armed with ntclear

weapons. Technicians and volunteers were early this morning, getting

this 54`year`old aircraft rdady for its last flight of the season. We

keep it under cover as much as possible, she is well looked after.

We tend to look after her more now than when she was in servicd. The

two`hour journey to gain ten current and former RAF bases. Just `long the

road from the airport, hundreds of people have turned out to gdt a

glimpse of the Vulcan when ht returns to Doncaster. Peopld say

there have never been crowds like this here before. The Vulcan crew

circled the aircraft over the runway several times, giving patient

onlookers a spectacular display Amazing. It is beautiful. Absolutely

epic, out of this world. I `m in love with that aeroplane. The

charity that owns the plane hopes it will not be the last flight.

Wow. What a spectacle. That rumble sends a shudder down your spine

The noise is phenomenal. Nice clear skies?

As forecast. I will show you some picturds. The

first one is from Helen Brown. Keep the pictures coming in.

Tomorrow, the warning will be cloudy. `` morning. The find weather

courtesy of this cold front which were clear through the middle of the

day amid high pressure, that means another fine weekend. There is

Saturday's chart, the weaker warm front may bring more cloud on

Sunday, particularly to the Pennines, but Saturday looks

beautiful with lots of sunshine want any fog clears. Despite the cloud,

we have managed 18 Celsius `cross eastern parts of our region. I think

this evening, apart from sole patchy rain and drizzle, it will bd mild,

dry and breezy, exceptionally mild for a late September evening. 1 or

15 Celsius of the low. in the morning at 6:58am.

But of early brightness tow`rds the coast, otherwise it is a cloudy

morning, it week, cold front will ring cloud and drizzle and ht sinks

eastwards and followed by a clearance. `` brainpower. The

afternoon looks beautiful, lild sunny and breezy. `` bring cloud.

Look at the temperatures, 17 in Scarborough, 18 in West Yorkshire. A

lovely weekend to follow, particularly on Saturday, btt Sunday

should be mostly dry and mild, too. What is El Ni?o?

You can log onto my blog to find out.

I will be back at 10:25pm.