26/09/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Left for dead. at Westminster.

The teenager scarred for life after being hit by a car whhle

I don't ask for much, just please come forward. You do not know what

you have done to us. Police join Blake's family hn trying

to find the driver responsible. It's an industry worth

millions to the UK economy. Find out how Yorkshire's le`ding

the way in street food. A second set of twins

for the Barnsley couple who already Big mac plenty of blue skies for us

all. This lovely pictures sdnt in, but how is it looking for tomorrow?

Good evening and welcome to Friday's Look North.

The parents of a teenager b`dly injured by a hit and run drhver

shocking pictures of his injuries in the hope of tracing the driver.

Blake Bailey, who's 16, was walking his 15`year`old

girlfriend, Jessica Green, home after a night out when he said

His family has been talking to James Vincent.

Blake Bailey was walking his girlfriend home last week. The next

thing he remembers is hospital. The driver that hit him did not stop.

Please come forward. You don't know what you have done to others. You

have destroyed as all, both families. Just please come forward.

I don't ask for much, just please come forward. You do not know what

you have done to us. Back home after a week in hospital, it will be a

painful recovery for Blake. Aside from his head injury he has a broken

shoulder and pelvis. Blake `nd Jessica were walking around the rose

two words the village. He w`s work that mac walking desk at hole when a

car can read the corner, motnted the pavement and hit them. It could have

been a lot worse. Jessica s`ys Blake saved her life. It came up onto the

curb and towards me and Blake pushed me out of the way. It went over my

foot and straight towards Blake The driver did not stop, but police

believe it may have been a stolen car. We are particularly interested

in locating enables wagon golf with blacked out windows and a black and

silver distinctive alloy whdels We now that a beer similar to do was

sold in the area. We would like the driver or anyone with any knowledge

of this vehicle or its wherdabouts to contact us so we can elilinate it

from our enquiries. The imp`ct was so violent that Blake ended up in

the bushes by the side of the road. He is worried he is scarred for

life. I was so scared. I'm scared of showing people. Do you think you

will be how does that make xou feel? I think people are gohng to

say stuff. I just have to lhve with it for the rest of my life. He's

only 16 and has two live with these skies for the rest of his lhfe. He

has them permanently. I just want someone to come forward. We all wish

Blake very speedy recovery. In the past hour MPs have voted

in favour of British air strikes against

Islamic State extremists in Iraq. It means RAF jets could be

bombing targets by this weekend The majority

of Yorkshire MPs were in favour of military intervention except for the

Bradford West MP George Galloway. Speaking in the Commons,

he said Britain's involvement would Turkey is a NATO member,

get Turkey to bomb! The last people who should be

returning to the scene of their former crimes are Britain, France

and the United States of Amdrica! Well, the decision is being welcomed

by many Kurdish refugees who've fled Northern Iraq over the past decade

and made a life here in Yorkshire. They're worried that loved ones back

home might suffer at the hands of Islamic State if the West

doesn't intervene. Our Communities Correspondent

Jhangir Ahmed has been speaking to These are tense times for Ktrds

living in Yorkshire. They'rd worried about family and friends living in

northern Iraq. A killer by trade, he came to the UK in 2009. His family

fled to Syria. He sought asxlum in the UK. Back then, the thre`t was

from Al`Qaeda, now, it is from IS. I hope everybody from the UK try to

help in Iraq and Syria. To date stopping the IS is better for

tomorrow, because tomorrow will be too late. It has leaked sees large

parts of Iraq and Syria in recent months. It includes the behdading of

terrorists, soldiers and aid workers. The Kurdish forgers are

already devising IS on the ground in Iraq. In recent days there have been

several US led air strikes. It is a major talking point at best Kurdish

restaurant where many are answers about the future. Aged studdnt at

Sheffield University came to the UK when he was just 16. We shotld not

let terrorist organisations like Isis develop. We can't let `nother

seven /7 happen in Britain `gain. If people my age grew up they will

attack us as well. Two years ago I did not know about my sister or

ma'am. The worries about falily back home continue. But many kids ``

Kurds hope the air strikes will bring peace back to their own ``

homeland. action in Iraq. He's also c`rried

out an unscientific survey `mong his He joins us now live

from Westminster. What kind of response did you get? I

got 1500 of them responding yesterday and this morning, 70% in

favour of action, 8% don't know 22% against. It was a pretty

overwhelming view. I did not give them my view so I did not bhased it.

But it concurs with my view that air strikes should take place in Iraq,

but I don't think we need to see British soldiers there as prolonged

the involvement. You talk about British soldiers, they might be

supporting the idea of action, what happens when this message `` mission

creep ad ground troops do gdt involved? There is no mandate for

that, and I would not be in favour of that. It is not what is needed.

What is needed is other countries to step up to the mark, includhng the

Arab countries who have been already participating in bombing thdse

terrorists. We need to encotrage them and also offer them sole

support of our own. That is what this would does. It is a slhppery

slope. This could quickly bdcome a full`scale war. Are you confident

you will regret this decision? I'm in June with their thinking. But I

disagree that it is a slippdry slope. That mac in June there is no

need for us to get involved again or to have soldiers on the grotnd. That

is a role for the other Arab countries to sort out the mdss that

is bare. We can assist them along with the French and Americans and

others in the short term, and to actually take on this terrorist

organisation, I think it is appropriate considering what they

have been doing in recent months that we do so. Thank you very much.

And you can get more reactions here in Yorkshire on

the decision to launch military action in Iraq on Sunday Politics.

The residents who took the law into their own hands to do something

In other news now, and UK Coal has confirmed it's

secured the ?20 million it needed to carry out a managed closure

The pit near Pontefract is expected to be

The deal will also see the closure of Thoresby Colliery

The money includes a commercial loan of ?4 million from the Government.

Both the unions and the loc`l MP, Yvette Cooper, have condemndd

the deal, saying there needs to be a long term plan to save thd pits.

But UK Coal's director of communications, Andrew MacKhntosh,

In the last three years we have had disasters all through those years.

We have lost the mine in Warwickshire, the coal pricds

remained low and the pound remained strong. Extremely difficult

trading. Difficult as it is, unless we get a miracle that mac mhracle

Russian billionaire who wants to I us or more state aid, then our

future is a fairly short ond. A research

and development facility run by Tata It says its new centre

at the University of Warwick will provide a critical

mass of research excellence. More than 100 staff at the

Swindon Technology Centre are being The company says

the move will not happen ovdrnight. Councillors

in York have approved plans to build The decision was made

at a meeting last night. There'll now be

a public consultation A final decision won't be m`de

until next year. It's the first day of the UKIP

conference in Doncaster. It's being held at the town's

racecourse over the next two days. UKIP says the event will kick start

its General Election Campaign. It's chosen a traditional L`bour

area close to Ed Miliband's Its aim is to demonstrate

the party isn't only What's the state

of the road where you live? And what would it take for xou to

consider repairing it yoursdlf? People living in the villagd

of Arksey, near Doncaster, say they were so fed up with

potholes and speeding drivers that someone resurfaced the road

and installed some speed bulps. Only problem was they didn't realise

the speed bumps were the wrong height and now

the council wants them removed. It is a familiar sight across our

region. Potholes. This is a lane in the village. Residents say they have

spent years pleading with the council to improve the road. It has

always been a terrible mess. The potholes in the winter, it floods.

Eight weeks ago, as if by m`gic fresh tarmac was laid and speed

bumps put in. But it wasn't the work of the Council. Someone on the

street has taken the matter into their own hands. But, beford long,

the council had arrived to start taking the illegal speed bulps up.

Much to the anger of residents, including John Wade who captured it

all on his phone. Everybody that lives on this road was the speed

bumps to stay in place. The council have a limited budget and they would

spend the money on those portals, yet they will spend it pickhng up it

completely perfectly good spec that track section of highway. According

to good `` local farmer as the bonds are damaging to tractors. Those

speed up have been put in a legally. The second issue is damage to the

machines. Because a lot of loney and if something does happen, if there

is a break, who is liable to pay for that? Doncaster Council says that as

it didn't install the bumps it therefore has a duty to remove them.

If I were a resident I would love to keep the traffic calming me`sures.

But it is not just about thd size of the bumps, it is about having

adequate lighting, signage `nd the consultation must come first. You

could say it has been a bumpy few months for the people of artsy. The

council is now hoping to look at other improvements to try and smooth

things out. Plenty of you have been getting

in touch with us on Facebook. If you have a story you'd lhke us to

cover here's how you get in touch. Before 7pm we're live at He`dingley

for the last match of the sdason. How bringing

on young players has transformed Yorkshire County Cricket Cltb's

performance in just a few ydars The Barnsley parents having to cope

with a second set of twins in less than a year plus

their other children. 25 of the best traders in Etrope

have gathered in Leeds for ` weekend They've set up their stalls

in Millennium Square and ond will It's an industry that's booling

in Yorkshire and Leeds has been if you thought street food was all

about dodgy burgers and fish and chips, well think again. Here in

Leeds, 25 of the top street food retailers in the whole of Etrope

have gathered to show off their wares. Leeds has become the centre

of street food for the North. We are talking to the council about

establishing Leeds as a homd for an academy for street food. It made

sense to come. We are the mhddle of the country on these are thd British

street food awards. We can just constantly hang out in London. There

is so much going on here and it just made sense. In the top 25 h`s great

food vendors in Europe are three foreign weeds, all selling very

different, high`quality meals from some very creatively thought out

stories. What is great about street food and you don't get so mtch of in

a normal retail environment is that sense of theatre, that thesd types

of units are unique in its own way, has its own story and it is all part

of the food that we are tryhng to make look are as look like ` beach

hut. It is all part of tellhng that story. The kind of crowd th`t you

get is into trying new things. They come over because they want to know

what it is. They don't need to limit or go through it, and then we talk

them through it and it is ftn for them to learn about a new ctisine.

We have come to Leeds to give people the opportunity to try it bdcause if

you get it in London you want to get it anywhere in the north. I bought

it about six months ago and I converted it from a blue horsebox

into a place Jews serve Indhan street food. I go to festiv`ls, all

over the UK. You have all wdekend to sample the street food and the

winner of the best British street food vendor will be announcdd on

Sunday. I don't fancy using anything out of the back of a horsebox.

Well, what an amazing end to Yorkshire's cricket season.

They were already crowned County Champions before going

Let's cross live to Paul Ogden at Headingley.

It has been nail`biting. Yot would think there was something at stake

today. That champions chip victory has been in the bag for a couple of

weeks now. Today we saw Yorkshire almost snatched victory frol the

jaws of defeat. Over my shotlder you might be able to pick out the

Yorkshire players who don't want to leave the field, even though the

match has been drawn in the past 20 minutes against Somerset. Yorkshire

were all out. A target of 182 and from 62`1 they were reduced from 130

odds for nine. Yorkshire trhes to stay still out but couldn't quite

make it. A really emotional welcome home for the Yorkshire squad. Coach

Jason Gillespie by a sizeable crowd here. It could best to the dnd, he

really wanted that victory on the final day. We showed why we are

champions today with that comeback. Somerset were in a pretty good

position when they played rdally good cricket this year. We found a

way to come back for an unlhkely win, so really pleased for the boys.

I don't know about you, but I've been asking myself a lot about what

infrastructure league lies behind Yorkshire's success.

Yorkshire's emphatic capturd of the County Championship leans

they can simply enjoy today's play, but how have they managed to do

so well just three years after the team was relegated?

The secret seems to be in the benefits of growing your own.

It is late September and on a soggy afternoon Yorkshire's Acadely side

As with the seniors, it has been a successful ond.

They won the Yorkshire Premher League and cup and five of the squad

made the England and U19s tdam which thrashed South Africa this summer.

They grew up together and become really good friends.

When that happens and you gdt into a sticky situation thex will

These guys will put serious pressure on the ones above

Some of these young players have already been given a chance

Last year Matthew Fisher became the youngest ever cricketer to play in a

Now, at the ripe old age of 16, he is balancing his studies with

learning with some of the bdst in the world at Headingley.

Once you get into that environment and you're playing with the likes

of Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Tim Bresnan and Gary Ballance, who all

played for England, obviously you're going to come on leaps and bounds

just from being around thosd sort of guys. The production lind

of talent which thrust Matthew forward has led to Yorkshird feeding

far more home`grown players than any other team in the champhonship.

Amongst most of their rivals for the title,

no more than one third of their players originate from that county.

At Yorkshire the home`grown ratio is double.

Most of those players came through the academy.

They are all brought up in the same area.

They're all brought up in the same kind of way of playing cricket.

That pride in playing for the county.

Many expect that there is f`r more to come from this generation.

It has been Yorkshire's season on the cricket field. It might still be

Yorkshire's season in super league, but we only have one candid`te

In Super League, we have just one candidate left for a Grand Final

And Huddersfield Giants need to beat Catalans tonight to keep

Castleford's season ended l`st night when they were eliminated

And their coach Daryl Powell admitted afterwards that his squad

suffered in the end from thd rigours of that run to the Challengd Cup

Ultimately we needed another 10% from everyone.

I'd recommend booking some time in front of the telly this weekend

because it's the Road Racing World Championships in Spain.

On Sunday, Team Sky's Ben Swift from Rotherham

And tomorrow could be the day that our

Commonwealth Queen Lizzie Armitstead goes to the very top of the world.

She leads Team GB's women in Ponferrada.

And the short sharp climbs on the course will be perfect

You can watch it live on BBC One and BBC Two.

let us hope the celebrations continue. The blades will h`ve more

on their celebration of thehr anniversary over this weekend of 125

years existence tomorrow. Fhngers crossed for Lizzie.

Now, my sympathies really go out to Donna Cordingley from Barnsley.

Just imagine this, Harry, she had eight`month`old twins and three

grown`up children when she went into hospital to get herself sterilised.

Only to find that she was already five`months pregnant

The chances of that happening are apparently one in 50,000.

But apart from the chaos, it makes for a military operation

Yes, this is what the weekly shop looks like.

They go through 14 loaves of bread a week, eight largd bags

of potatoes, four large joints of meat and 42 pints of milk.

And that's not to talk of the nappies.

With four children under two, they get through 210 in a wdek.

All this comes to a whopping shopping bill of ?400 a week.

Heidi Tomlinson, mother of three, spent the afternoon with thdm.

David and Don accordingly wdre getting to grips with parenting

three teenagers when fate threw them back to square one. Donna w`s

pregnant with twins. Although Olivia and James were unexpected, they

brought so much love and jox to the family, the biggest shock w`s let ``

yet to come. Georgie! Enter Isabella and George, the couple's second set

of twins in under a year. Donna remembers the day a doctor broke the

news. I looked at her face `nd she said US baby one, and here hs baby

too. It has been hard work. They are lovely and enjoyable, but the work

is a lot. Any man that has three or four little ones know exactly how I

feel. I think sometimes I c`n't do this, but you have to do it. Most

days, it is impossible to hold a conversation. Most days it hs one

long round of feeding, cleaning comforting and playing. The seven

children do not leave any mdantime, but the couple insist they wouldn't

change a thing. George now! Attempting homework can be tricky

for older sister, Hannah, who has become a second month to her cute

siblings. It is really busy and really loud. Especially at tea`time

and back time. And bedtime. And just got the great things further,

Thomas, the eldest sibling `t 2 , is now a dad himself. Baby Matthew

knee jerk toddling aunties `nd uncles.

J quick things to tell you `bout. First is the dog race tomorrow which

starts at 12pm. The other thing is especially radio programme that you

are starting on radio York on Saturday. Finders keepers, 8am until

12 noon. It is a treasure