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Hello, welcome to Thursday's Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Damage and destruction as Storm Doris rips | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
No children were in there, nobody was harmed, | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
It came right out from the roots as well. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
We'll report from around the region and we have the latest | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
The South Yorkshire pensioner, brutally beaten | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
by a gang of robbers - could this new CCTV footage | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
A Look North investigation - why hundreds of Yorkshire motorists | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
are still behind the wheel, despite having more than 12 | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Passing with flying colours - the young cadets graduating | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
after a year's military training in Harrogate. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
It's been a lousy day today with those particularly strong winds | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
across South Yorkshire into the North Midlands. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
I'm pleased to tell you that I can offer you something | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
Wind speeds of almost 90mph have battered Yorkshire. | :00:55. | :01:12. | |
Storm Doris caused traffic disruption, brought down trees | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
and has left thousands of people without power. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
In Halifax, a woman had a lucky escape after a tree crushed her car. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
We'll have a report from West Yorkshire in a moment and get | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
But first, Alasdair Gill reports from the South Yorkshire village | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
which had the strongest winds in our region. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
The first named storm of the year, and also a day for shorts. | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
They make them tough in South Yorkshire. | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
In High Bradfield, even wind speeds of up to 87mph haven't stopped | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Although, for the local brewery, it does pose some problems. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Power cuts, telephones going out, Wi-Fi going out, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
so we can't phone out, people can't phone in. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Ah, the Peak District, the perfect place for a winter's walk. | :01:59. | :02:08. | |
Strangely though, I seem to be the only person here today. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
Perhaps that's something to do with the 70mph winds. | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
A post-walk pub lunch is usually in order on a day like this - | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Not at this inn, though, candlelit sandwiches only today. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
It's more than halved our business today. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
Usually we're averaging around 200 meals a day. | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
As you can tell, it's had a massive impact on the business. | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
In this area of Sheffield, power problems were more widespread. | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
800 properties affected for several hours. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
There are a lot of old people who live on the estate, | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
So if anything happens in an emergency, and they fall, | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
they're not going to be able to get contact. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
I think this have their own power system, actually. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
One woman had a lucky escape near Chatsworth in north Derbyshire, | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
Others were downed in Sheffield, like here. | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
The council has been dealing with numerous fallen trees. | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
But the worst of Doris now looks to be over. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
That maybe it for this winter, or is Storm Ewan still to come? | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
The wind wasn't as fierce in West Yorkshire, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
but it still caused problems for travellers. | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
Yes, there were rail delays and difficult driving conditions. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
And anyone flying had a bumpy landing at Leeds Bradford Airport. | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
Look away now if you're a nervous flyer. There was a bit of a bumpy | :03:38. | :03:52. | |
ride for some passengers at Leeds Bradford Airport today. But the | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
destruction was relatively minimal to. Not so if you are travelling by | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
train. Some burgeon east coast and trans-Pennine express services | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
through the region were heavily affected. | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
We regret the disruption caused to passengers today. We do everything | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
we can, we look at all the experience of previous events and | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
plan for those. We've done that today, but magazines exceptional | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
events. We all have to admit defeat in the | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
face of mother nature at times. When it comes to treat versus car, the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
car usually comes off worst. This woman was visiting a museum in | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
Halifax was some children from a holiday camp when she emerged to | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
find this. As I said to the insurance company, | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
it's a big tree on my little car. At first, it was laughable, because we | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
thought, has this really happen to us? And then, I think shortcake den, | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
and some of the Jordan got a little upset. But I kept saying, it's OK. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
No children been hurt, we're also OK. | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
You may not have had the most fearsome sounding name, but Doris | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
showed Yorkshire she can do some real damage. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Dramatic pictures there, I reporters at Sheffield Railway Station | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
tonight. What's the litter situation? | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
It's not been a good day to get around the country, especially not | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
travelling from north to south or vice versa. We're heard from East | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
Midlands Trains this afternoon, who at one point suspended all services | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
from here. This address is improving, because they're nursing | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
they're running a limited service. A similar message from Virgin Trains | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
on the east coat line. At one point they counselled all services from | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Doncaster. They're nursing severe disruption, a lot of services still | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
cancelled, some delayed by up to 1.5 hours. Looking at the roads, not too | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
bad, although junction 34 of the' one, closed to high sided vehicles | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
this afternoon, those restrictions lifted now. Not just flooding | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
causing problems, the rain too. Flooding at junction 35, not such a | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
bad situation on the roads, but the train certainly affected. | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
Hundreds of homes without power this evening, what more can you tell us? | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
There have been a number of minor power cuts, but especially this | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
evening in Huddersfield and surrounding areas, 2000 people don't | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
have power at the moment. Normal -- the power grid is a not too long to | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
wait for restoration. There were 900 homes affected in Sheffield. | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
Northern Power Grid said they've counselled all routine work, and | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
want anyone who spots damaged power lines to report it but remain away. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
Thank you so much. Have exceptional had been today? | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
The wins haven't been widespread across the region, but what we | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
thought last night, the areas of interest were in the southern areas. | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
From that point of view, pinpoint accuracy. Earlier this afternoon, we | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
had accuracy. Earlier this afternoon, we | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
many observations across North many observations across North | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
Yorkshire, but view extrapolated to Lincolnshire, some areas have had | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
70mph. Why are we now naming storms, white | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
It's a bone of contention, the Met It's a bone of contention, the Met | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
Office decided to raise awareness of the storms, but can be seen as | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
trivialising it. 93mph was the recorded observation at High | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
Bradfield last month. The Met office said that didn't constitute a storm. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
They're technically correct, but if you're stuck in the middle of that, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
it is a storm. So it raises for me more questions than answers, it's | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
quite confusing, and expect the Met Office will take another look one | :08:12. | :08:12. | |
storm season is over. We'll have the latest | :08:13. | :08:13. | |
on our late programme as part Police have released CCTV footage | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
they hope will help them catch the killers of a pensioner | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
who was attacked and robbed of his life savings at his home | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
in Maltby near Rotherham. Tommy Ward died in hospital | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
a year ago, four months His injuries were horrific, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
and his family fear those Just a warning that you may | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
find some of the images This is what the vicious robbers did | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
to 80-year-old Tommy Ward. The gang stole his | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
?30,000 life savings. Tommy's daughter Jackie | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
is desperate his killers are caught. In his younger days, her dad had | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
been a soldier, later a miner. He loved his Irish jokes, loved | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
the time of day, with everybody. It is every day you | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
are thinking about it. How come they haven't | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
come forward, anybody? Because somebody must | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
be shielding them. But now, a possible | :09:12. | :09:12. | |
CCTV breakthrough. The movements of this Saab '93 car, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
almost certainly carrying the robbers, outside Tommy's home | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
in Salisbury Road in Maltby, narrow the likely time of the attack | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
to between 5am and 6am I just need anybody to come | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
forward who knew a friend, a family member or an associate | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
who had that type of car, whatever colour, whatever year, | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
to tell the police There is still a ?10,000 reward | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
from Crimestoppers leading to the arrest and conviction | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
of these people who A clear message for help | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
from Tommy Ward's family. Find it in your hearts to come | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
forward and tell us who has done it. You've got to think | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
of everybody else. They didn't bother about my dad | :09:59. | :09:59. | |
that night, or morning, So they need to find it | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
in their hearts to come forward Let us know for my dad | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
to rest completely. Tommy Ward's family say they can't | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
rest until those responsible for his violent death | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
are hunted down. Is this the best | :10:20. | :10:26. | |
teacher in the country? Find out why Vicky Close | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
from Huddersfield could win Look North has discovered that more | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
than 900 people are legally driving on Yorkshire's | :10:35. | :10:47. | |
roads with 12 points or One driver in West | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
Yorkshire has 62 points and is still allowed behind | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
the wheel, despite being caught 12 points normally means a ban, | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
so how is this happening? Well, courts can choose not | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
to disqualify drivers if it The Government says in most cases | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
motorists are disqualified, but road safety charity Brake | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
says it's appalled. Here's our data | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
journalist David Rhodes. From speeding to drink-driving, | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
failing to have insurance or causing a collision | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
on the road, penalty points are given to motorists | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
when they break the law. Figures obtained by the BBC though | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
show that just over 900 drivers in Yorkshire are still on the roads | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
despite having 12 or The fewest are found | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
in North Yorkshire, whilst South Yorkshire has more than 200 | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
drivers who, in theory, But in West Yorkshire, | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
there are over 500 motorists still driving despite having 12 | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
or more active penalty points. One driver in West Yorkshire | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
is still on the road despite having The law doesn't seem to be | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
working at the moment. We have people being caught | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
and going through the justice system, but at this point | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
the justice system seems to be Drivers are getting away | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
with repeatedly breaking the law. Motorists with 12 points can appeal | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
to a Magistrates' Court, such as this one in Bradford, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
and claim a driving ban would bring exceptional hardship, | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
meaning they would lose their job or be unable to care | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
for their family. There is no definition | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
in law though as to So one magistrate may decide that | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
if a driving ban would cause someone to lose their job, | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
that is exceptional hardship. Another magistrate | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
may decide it isn't. Every ban is considered | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
on a case-by-case basis. I wouldn't consider losing | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
a licence in London, maybe, There's plenty of ways | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
to get around London. You look at a rural community, | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
and that may be more The Government says the vast | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
majority of drivers with more than 12 points are automatically | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
disqualified, and only in exceptional circumstances can | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
judges decide not to issue a ban. I've been speaking to lawyer | :13:12. | :13:21. | |
Nick Freeman, who specialises I asked him if he was surprised | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
a driver with more than 60 points It's not something | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
I've ever heard of. It's an anomaly, but I don't think | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
that figure by itself should be alowed to distort the general | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
situation in which the law works, I think, very fairly | :13:35. | :13:37. | |
and very effectively. Of course, when the 12 | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
points was introduced, Do you think the law | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
needs to catch up with And 12 points, perhaps, | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
is not enough? I think there'll be a lot of people | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
who have a great deal of support for that argument, | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
because if you have a motorist travelling around 50,000 miles | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
per year, and he goes through a camera at 36mph, | :14:03. | :14:04. | |
four times a year, he's Magistrates have this | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
flexibilty, don't they, to allow a driver to continue | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
in exceptional circumstances. But that seems rather | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
ambiguous, doesn't it? The law is very straightforward, | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
get 12 points, you're off the road However, if you can establish | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
on the balance of probability that exceptional hardship - | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
and it has to be exceptional hardship, not inconvenience | :14:32. | :14:33. | |
and not hardship - but if exceptional hardship would be | :14:34. | :14:35. | |
caused as a consequence of the disqualification | :14:36. | :14:37. | |
either to you, or more persuasively, to other people, then the courts | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
have the discretion. If you're a taxi driver or a bus | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
driver, then you're probably not earning vast amounts of money, | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
and you probably wouldn't be able to afford a driver, | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
and you would probably succeed Providing, of course, | :14:55. | :14:56. | |
that you didn't live If you are a bus driver and are | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
disqualified and you reach 12 points, the courts want to know | :15:01. | :15:10. | |
where you live, who looks after you? Well, I live with my mum and dad, | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
they provide food for me, a roof over my head, | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
the courts undoubtedly would say, sorry, you're | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
going to lose your job, that's going to be tough, but that's | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
not an exceptional hardship. There are more than 10,000 drivers | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
in the UK driving around The road charity Brake says | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
they're appalled by this. There aren't millions | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
and millions of people who drive There are millions and millions | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
of people who drive So 10,000 is a significant number, | :15:36. | :15:37. | |
but it represents a tiny percentage We don't want a situation, do we, | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
where we have robotical courts. Where we simply say, | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
12 points, off the road, I don't care whose life | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
is going to fall apart We want the courts to use | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
their brains, to have a discretion in certain, | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
limited circumstances, so that justice can be dealt to that | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
particular scenario. And that's what we're | :16:04. | :16:05. | |
talking about here, A year ago, we featured a group | :16:06. | :16:07. | |
of teenage cadets who'd They were beginning their training | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
at the Foundation College in Harrogate - the only place | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
in the country that trains 16-year-olds | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
as members of the military. Well, today was their graduation - | :16:20. | :16:21. | |
or passing out, as it's known. This is the moment they've | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
all been waiting for. They came here a year ago from every | :16:25. | :16:38. | |
corner of the country. Now Britain's youngest army recruits | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
are passing out in style. Even Storm Doris | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
hasn't stopped them. It was freezing, but everyone | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
had the discipline We were stood there, | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
looking up at the flagpoles, trying not to look at my family, | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
because they make me laugh. At one point in the inspection at | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
the start, my legs were going numb. It's been a long time | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
coming, 11 months. It's happened now, I'm happy | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
with that, I can move on. I've enjoyed my six months here, | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
I've met a lot of good people. I'm kind of sad it | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
has come to an end. This time last year, at 16 and 17, | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
the recruits arrived, freshfaced, and their teary parents | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
waved them away. Now, one year on, they've had | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
a tough military year, academic classes as well as some | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
simple life lessons. What we do here is build them up | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
in terms of their leadership With education and sports | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
and skills in addition So when they get to this point, | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
they've developed as an individual, and it's a really rewarding | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
moment in their career. Students have studied here | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
for a year in exchange from wages And for one young man, | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
the day was extra special. Junior soldier Shaw has been chosen | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
out of everyone in the year I had a straight face, | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
but deep inside I was very nervous. Proud in a way, but also | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
wanting to stay humble. I was proud and nervous | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
at the same time. The cadets are now committed | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
to serving four years Today though is their moment | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
to celebrate and be Police have arrested three people | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
over the murder of a 23-year-old man Aseel Al-Essaie was shot in broad | :18:21. | :18:33. | |
daylight in Walkley. A 22-year-old has been arrested | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
on suspicion of his murder. A 16-year-old boy has been held | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and a 57-year-old woman | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
on suspicion of assisting offenders. A minute's silence has been held | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
to remember the four men who died in the Didcot Power Station collapse | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
a year ago. Ken Cresswell and John Shaw from | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
Rotherham were among the victims. Their families are still trying | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
to find out what happened. A world-famous brass band | :19:00. | :19:06. | |
from Yorkshire is to play The Black Dyke band will | :19:07. | :19:08. | |
join the likes of U2 and The Rolling Stones by playing | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
on the famous Pyramid Stage. They're hoping it will attract | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
a new fanbase to their music. Think it's sold-out, that personal, | :19:16. | :19:27. | |
otherwise we could have gone down! Next tonight, from | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
Afghanistan to Castleford. Five years ago, Said Jamal arrived | :19:32. | :19:32. | |
in Yorkshire aged ten, Many members of his family, | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
including his father, Now 15, he hopes to become | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
a professional rugby league player and has signed with Castleford's | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
academy, having been spotted playing The home of Dearne Valley Bulldogs | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
is tucked away in a residential area Said Jamal remembers well | :19:45. | :19:52. | |
the first time he went I came there with my | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
brother-in-law and had a chat. A sort of feeling, would | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
I be able to come here? It was a different environment | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
for me, I couldn't speak properly. And after five minutes chat, | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
my rugby coach ran over to me, He was nervous, he couldn't | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
speak a lot of English, but he seemed a really polite kid, | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
and that was the first impression. Said doesn't like to talk | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
about what happened to him and his family when the Taliban | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
invaded the small town But he has confided in his coach, | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
and was happy to let him talk They lost a lot of family members, | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
that's why they had to leave. Including his dad and a lot | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
of his older siblings, I believe it's quite a big | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
amount of his family. He come over with his mum, | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
who could speak little English, but has gone through a lot herself, | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
so it was really traumatic for him. But the kid's resilient, | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
and has a lot of goals. His talent quickly came to the fore, | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
and last season, he was signed up by Castleford Tigers | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
for their academy. For a person like me, | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
getting to this kind of level, You can do everything you want, | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
you just need self belief And I think I was lucky enough | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
to have that kind of stuff here. Last October, he was asked to carry | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
the match ball out at the To live that dream was a great | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
feeling, and I think that's something that will | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
motivate me to do my best. Alongside wanting to play rugby | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
league professionally, Said also Whatever this young man goes | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
on to do, Dearne Valley Bulldogs will always be a special | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
place for him. This for me is a family, | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
everything come from support I've From the club, from the school, | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
the great people I have around me. It's inspiring me and | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
motivating me to do better. What a great story, good luck to | :22:00. | :22:12. | |
him. So focused,. | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Now then, Phil, can you remember as far back as school? | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
I had a couple of teachers, Harry Stone and Mr clearly were my two | :22:19. | :22:35. | |
favourite in particular. I won't go into the reasons in particular. How | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
Our drama teacher took us to say Les Our drama teacher took us to say Les | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
Miserables in London. I talked all the way through it. | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
Well, one inspirational teacher from Yorkshire is up | :22:46. | :22:47. | |
Vicky Close, from Huddersfield New College, developed | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
her own textile course, turning it into one of the most | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
She's been described as tireless, and the college's answer | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
Dave Edwards has been to meet Vicky and her pupils. | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
Today we're going to have a look at what we're going to work on | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
Vicky Close is course leader in textile design | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
She's been here since 2004, but tomorrow she could be | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
My biggest thing with teaching is making sure that not only | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
the students get the best grades, but they're set up for life | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
into what they want to do and what their careers are. | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
I always make the environment sort of stimulating and make it friendly | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
and the students become more than just my students, | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
they become my friends, and we keep in touch | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Some of those students have gone on to dream jobs | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
Still wondering why she deserves an award? | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
When I first started college I didn't want | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
Throughout college, she inspired me so much I went on to university | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
to do fashion design and marketing, so I think she deserves the award. | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
If we had any problems we could go to Vicky. | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
We were just in the classroom, it was a really good | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
environment and we all think she deserves the award. | :24:09. | :24:10. | |
Like if you are sewing your finger or anything. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Before I came to college, I never really had the intention | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
After I met Vicky, I'm going on to university and I have | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
got an unconditional to do fashion design. | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
Without Vicky, I would never have done that. | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
There is success too for the college as a whole. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
It's been shortlisted for Sixth Form College of the Year. | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
A third of our young people come from disadvantaged and deprived | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
backgrounds and an education is a way forward for them, a way | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
for them to change their future, to have a really good future. | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
So a real sense of pride that what we are doing is recognised | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
It's reason to be proud whatever happens tomorrow. | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
Could this Yorkshire college have two national awards all sewn up? | :24:58. | :25:09. | |
Thank you. Nice line at the end there. | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
Very clever, we'll let you know how they get on. | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Time for the weather, Paul, is Doris far off to the east now? | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
Yeah. You can't call her a chic, you're | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
not allowed to personalise! I've got that one wrong as well. It | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
may well be the last named storm, because climatological spring starts | :25:36. | :25:42. | |
next Wednesday, we've seen 87mph at High Bradfield, tomorrow looks a lot | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
better. Dry with sunshine. There's be strong, often to the lower | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
countries. A pressure squeeze across the protest, very windy in | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Scarborough and Whitby. Tomorrow will be quite a pleasant day. Patchy | :25:56. | :26:02. | |
rain around, mainly in the west, but some decent weather in the east. | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
There's the cloud that brought the strong winds to the southern parts | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
of our region. Showers around, gales and coastal areas, the weather | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
warning expiring at 8pm, afterwards the winds will ease considerably. | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
There maybe a touch of ground frost and icy patches are possible in | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
Pennine areas. Temperature lows of one Celsius. The sun rises at | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
7:07am, next high water time at 2:55am. A nice start to the day, | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
some icy patches, the odd shower towards the coast, but a much better | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
day, variable cloud with sunshine, most places looking drive. A light | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
westerly wind. Afternoon temperatures, close to average for | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
the end of February, eight Celsius. Into the north Midlands. Onto the | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
weekend, patchy rain around, especially in Pennine areas, very | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
little. Sunday looking fine, pleasant sunshine, temperatures | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
around 11 Celsius, Monday looking showery. Some of the service may be | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
heavy. That is the forecast. You have to work really hard for the | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
one day when there's a storm! Not a bad life. | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
That's all we have time for, the main users at 10:25pm. | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
Thank you for watching, have a good evening. Bye-bye. | :27:40. | :27:45. |