02/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

More criticism of South Yorkshire Police for its safeguarding

of vulnerable people and approach to neighbourhood policing.

Taking on the seagulls. The birds of prey being brought in to tackle the

growing nuisance of Yorkshire's coastal resorts.

And the extraordinary claims that the legendary Yorkshire TV

presenter Richard Whiteley was a spy for MI5!

Sunshine at a premium over the next few days.

Some very unsettled weather with some rain at times.

Join me for the very latest forecast.

Tonight, the family of a girl who died 11 years after

a botched operation by a Leeds heart surgeon has been given more

Carrie Wright's brain was starved of oxygen

during heart surgery at Leeds General Infirmary in 2003.

Her surgeon was struck off in January because of failings

Our health correspondent Jamie Coulson reports.

Carrie Wright's family say she was determined

despite suffering brain damage during an operation that made

everyday tasks like getting on a bus a major challenge.

In 2003, aged just nine, she underwent heart surgery

in Leeds but mistakes were made that left her unable to walk,

barely able to talk and with curvature of the spine

Carrie spent years rebuilding her life and in 2014,

died unexpectedly from pneumonia and sepsis, infections she was

vulnerable to because of her injuries.

Words cannot describe how much I miss that girl.

Carrie's surgery was carried out by Nihal Weerasena,

The procedure involves putting Carrie into circulatory arrest,

a technique that aids delicate surgery

by stopping blood circulation and brain function for short periods.

At the time, it was recommended for no more than 45 minutes.

Carrie spent two hours in this state,

during which time, her brain was starved of oxygen.

Whether it was arrogance, thinking that he could carry on and would

still be able to perform it safely, whether he didn't know...

Simply, we can't speculate, but it is worrying.

In January, Nihal Weerasena was struck off the medical register

as a result of failings in the care he provided to six other

patients at the Leeds General Infirmary between 2008 and 2012.

The Medical Practitioners' Tribunal Service ruled he had

shown reckless disregard for patient safety.

Leeds teaching hospitals has apologised to

Carrie's family and offered their sincere condolences.

They say they deeply regret that they fail

to offer the standard of care that she and her family

You can never compensate for losing your child

She was just everybody's world, really.

Carrie's family have received ?430,000

but say it has little meaning as the toll of losing their daughter

Next tonight, more criticism of South Yorkshire Police.

The force has been told it must make substantial improvements,

by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.

The forces in North and West Yorkshire,

South Yorkshire Police has been criticised

for its safeguarding of vulnerable people and its approach

Our home affairs correspondent Spencer Stokes

Spencer. Yes, this used to be the heart of

neighbourhood policing in this area. The old police station. It is still

used as a police base but the public can't go in there any more so it is

effectively closed. Now, there are two police community support

officers based in this area. They are dedicated to the area but they

can't work from here. During the day, they must go back up to

Barnsley. So when it comes to neighbourhood policing, many people

here say they feel as though this town has been left behind.

South Yorkshire Police is a force under pressure. The Hillsborough

disaster, Orgreave during the miners's strike, sex abuse in

Rotherham, all areas where the service has faced extreme criticism.

This latest report is about to be force as a whole. Neighbourhood

policing in towns like Penistone is singled out for criticism. Here, the

number of police officers has fallen. We don't really see that

many police, no. But generally, I would say it's still a relatively

safe place. I don't like the fact that there might be an increase in

drug crimes and that sort of thing. That is my biggest worry, that if

there is no presence there, then there is no deterrent. We are still

paying the same rates for the police, aren't we? As anyone else is

getting the police service. Say you would like to get... Re/Max of value

for money for it, yet. The report says officers are often taken out of

their local area. They also don't get to carry out problem-solving

work in individual communities and South Yorkshire Police say they

should be doing more to protect committee support officers to allow

them to get on with their job. Every police force has been given an

overall rating. Outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate.

South Yorkshire Police was told it requires improvement. And there are

three areas in particular - preventing crime, investigating

crime and protecting people. But the force did get a good rating for

tackling organised crime. My view is that the police service has become

the default service for the welfare state is generally so a lot of

things that were done by other agencies and other people are now

picked up by the police because the police are around 24 and was a day,

365 days a year. For many in South Yorkshire, the requires improvement

tag attached to the police force will come as a surprise. The

question now is how long until that improvement takes place?

The other area of this report criticises South Yorkshire Police is

how perforce looks after vulnerable people, particularly those affected

by domestic abuse. South Yorkshire Police says it is now looking at is

urgently. The man whose job it is to lift the force up from being a force

that has to make improvements to one that is either good or outstanding

is the new Chief Constable, Stephen Watson. What is interesting about

him is he has come from Durham Police force, the only police force

to data that has been ranked as outstanding and I think that is a

place South Yorkshire Police would like to be at some point in the

future. Thank you. All eyes on Durham.

From Bradford to Austria. We meet the ice skating sensation about to

represent Team GB at the Special Olympics. Me, I'm holding onto this

for dear life! A man from North Yorkshire has

become only the fourth person in the world to survive a pioneering

multiple organ transplant. He is appealing for more organ

donors. Adam Alderson, from

Preston-under-Scar near Leyburn, underwent a 17-hour operation

to replace several organs, He's now recovered and is planning

a wedding and a fundraising trip I'm one of four people in the world

to have gone through this The reality of this is, sadly,

somebody has died for me to survive. And that easy to forget and we must

thank people that do this Nine Rugby League players have been

charged with a number offences The RFL is investigating after

a brawl between Fryston Warriors and Keighley Cougars

at Featherstone on Saturday. Two players were sent off

and two others sin-binned during an altercation involving

a number of players in the second half of the match,

which Keighley won 50-32. Yorkshire's double Olympic boxing

champion Nicola Adams has been awarded her OBE by the Duke

of Cambridge at Buckingham Palace. Nicola's been honoured

for a glittering career in the ring, which has also seen her win World,

European and Commonwealth titles. She'll contest her first

professional fight later this month. A jewelled cutlery set given

to a Harrogate hotelier by the last Empress of Russia

has sold for ?20,000 at auction and is to go

on display in the town. Tsarina Alexandra

gifted the set to twins who were born at Cathcart House

while she was staying there in 1894. It was bought by Harrogate Museums

for double the estimated sale price and will go on display

at the Royal Pump Room Museum Seagulls and the seaside -

they go hand in hand don't they? But over on the East Coast, they're

hoping for an amicable separation. Specialists brought in to deter

aggressive seagulls in Scarborough and Whitby have spent

the day explaining how As Ali Fortescue reports,

it involves bringing in Now, I'm not the first reporter

to walk down Scarborough Pier complaining about seagulls

and I probably won't be the last. But today, there's

good news for a lot of the people living here -

a new scheme that could get rid You don't know where

they're going to be next. They wake you up

early in the morning. There's nothing more off-putting

than when you're eating nice food and you get menaced

by what I call vermin, really. I'm bothered about them doing

something on my coat! It's fair to say relations

between Scarborough and its seagulls have taken

a turn for the worse. The number of birds here has grown

to a few thousand and with mating season on the way,

it's time for action. From next week, these birds

are going to be patrolling So birds of prey like this

hawk won't actually harm seagulls but what they will do

is intimidate them and hopefully We were in Whitby

this morning and as soon as we got the birds out,

the gulls were up and dispersed It's to sow the seeds

in their heads that The year-long trial

but also involve removing But there's also some

more basic advice. When you're finished

with your food, if you don't want it,

put it in the bin. The worst thing for me is when

young children are sat here, they're enjoying a day out, they get

harassed by one of these things and it scares them, spoils their holiday

and then people say, well, I'm not going back to Scarborough

or Whitby because of this issue. So it looks like in

the latest battle of Scarborough versus the seagulls,

it's the people But the thing is, if the gulls

by being scared away from here, Worth a try, isn't it?

Certainly is. Next tonight extraordinary claims

that the Yorkshire TV presenter We all remember Richard

as the presenter of Calendar and Countdown but now the actor

Ricky Tomlinson claims he worked for the security

services in the 1970s, something his family

say is ridiculous. In a moment we'll hear

from his partner. First, John Cundy

with the background. Could Richard Whiteley really have

been part of a security services Whiteley was famous for his

reporting, both serious and whimsical, on Yorkshire

Television's Calendar programme and presenting Countdown

on Channel 4. Hello, good evening,

and as the countdown to a brand-new channel ends,

a brand-new Countdown begins. Ricky Tomlinson is now most well

known for his part But in the early 70s,

Tomlinson was a young union militant accused of inciting

violence in the national Tomlinson says there was

a Government conspiracy against him. He claims a Yorkshire TV documentary

about the strike fronted by Richard Whiteley helped jail him and that

Whiteley was part of the plot. Ricky Tomlinson has declined

to comment further today on his Richard Whiteley's family

and friends have described I've been speaking to Richard's

partner, Kathryn Apanowicz. She thinks the whole

thing is hilarious. This sort of bumbling quizmaster

that you saw, might have actually been 007

underneath all of that. Maybe he went round and said,

the main's Whiteley, Maybe that was all to do

with it, do you think? Well, what I've said

before is, do you remember that sequence that he did in front

of the Scarborough hotel If you watch the last

James Bond film, when he was running and all that building

was collapsing behind him, I don't think I'd have liked

to have seen Richard coming out of the ocean

in trunks. But let's just presume

this could have happened. I had an uncle who was

a colonel in the Army, I mean, honestly,

Ricky Tomlinson, I think he needs to take more water

with it, quite frankly. I mean, this thing was

that he couldn't have run away from anywhere because he would have

needed his asthma inhaler. In the 1970s, there

was no Aston Martin. I said, why do you drive a

Ford Escort? He used to say, yes,

but it is a gear. It was a gear, you know,

which was the posh Ford Escort. So, I mean, you know,

Richard was an open book. He was the worst person

in the world to be... Although, maybe he would have

been a fantastic spy. I don't understand what Ricky

Tomlinson's motives are really behind all this, but it's

been some fantastic fun that we've all had in the midst

of all the Brexit and all the Trump What a flipping laugh

we've had and all I can think is that he's up there with

Terry Wogan and David Frost and they're laughing

their heads off. Now, if only we could have stopped

the Etihad Stadium clock ten minutes in, we might have

been celebrating today. But as the saying goes,

ALL of our football teams can now Yes, our one remaining hope

in the FA Cup was Huddersfield Town. But last night they lost

their replay at Manchester City, A first ever Etihad experience

for Huddersfield Town and even with head coach David Wagner

barred from the touchline, his players made sure of a nice

souvenir from early in their visit to modern

Manchester City. And now they've got

the Premier League side rattled. Manchester City, zero,

Huddersfield Town, one. The reality was Man City's

upgraded selection for the replay included many

Champions League players. Having threatened even

before Bunn's stunner, Germany star Sane

with the equaliser. Soon after, a penalty conceded

and turned into a 2-1 lead He then helped his compatriot

Zabaleta to make it 3-1 to the Premier League side as the contest

was nearly over before half-time. I think we were not

at our best today. We have shown too much

respect, in my opinion, Huddersfield's toil

continued, but so Man City's Two more goals secured them a 5-1

win and a quarterfinal That first ten minutes,

it was worth it for that experience, but at the end

of the day, five, all right, Man City were a much better team

than us but the fans gave it their all and it was a nice

atmosphere to be in, wasn't it? Up next for Huddersfield Town,

Newcastle United. Both teams could be visiting

Man City next Premier League season. A 20-year-old from Skipton

who is deaf and has learning difficulties,

is to represent Great Britain in this year's special

Winter Olympics in Austria. Jenny Lee's parents were told

she might never walk, but she took up figure skating

five years ago and is now At Bradford ice arena,

the 20-year-old is in training for the Winter

Special Olympics in Austria. Jenny is deaf and has

a learning disability, but later this month,

sh'll be the first person from Yorkshire to represent Great Britain

as a figure skater, a staggering feat considering that

at birth her parents were told she might not

even be able to walk. When she arrived in the world,

we'd be something wasn't We never thought that

she'd be able to do all this. To start off with, she wouldn't

even managed to stand on She's made some many friends

here and developed so many life skills that she otherwise

wouldn't have had. Getting the bus or a learning

to tie her shoelaces because she had to learn

to tie her skates. Come around here and make sure we've

got a nice, long spiral. Jenny got into ice skating five

years ago and in that time, her confidence has soared

both on and off the ice. She wears hearing implants

but the acoustics of an ice rink can be difficult,

so her and coach Adrian need lots of patience and hard work

to get the training right. Sometimes she doesn't get it

first time, but gets it second time, so you've just got

to be a little more patient. Yeah, and understand

her needs as well as hopefully she is understanding

what I'm wanting from her as well. I can show off my personality

and just be myself. What medal would you

like to get in Austria? It's a dream come

true for Jenny and a proud moment

for her family. A young woman who was told

she might never walk is now Well done, Jenny. Good luck.

Will value all the way. One of the most respected

and revered artists has chosen Yorkshire to display

a lifetime's work. Sculptor Sir Tony Cragg

opens his exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park

this week. His skills and designs have featured

in shows around the world, he was awarded the prestigious

Turner Prize in the eighties, and last year was knighted

for his services to visual arts. A bald and imposing, light

reflecting sculpture in pride of place at the park. Signalling a new

exhibition from world renowned sculptor Tony Cragg. This piece is

called Caldera. It means volcanic crater. It looks like an eroded

natural thing, doesn't it? ISight glinting as I drove into day and

reminded me of a gold capped pools too. Lots of our models. A ram, an

elephant, even a camel from the humps. The artist would say it

depicts the thoughts between two people. You might be able to make up

the profile of two people. You've got a chin, enough and angels and on

the sculpture you can actually step inside. You can see a different

thing every time you look, to be honest, but there you might see

another profile of someone and then looked down and it forms a really

unusual framework for the landscape. It is not scenery that excites Tony

Cragg though. He draws inspiration from what can't be seen. Art is a

rare category of things. It is a new experience. It is like meeting the

alien. It extends our vocabulary of experience so you don't have to

worry about what people get from it. There is no message there. Working

with man-made materials like plywood and bronze, Tony stacks and layers

shapes often in columns. He likes order and categories. This is a very

long piece of wood. The exhibition displays years of his designs and

techniques. It starts with the drawing. A windscreen wiper like

drawing and in this first one is cut out from the centre and this one is,

I think, it goes through the whole of the work. Some of them do. And

then I just add on one side and add on the other side. That sculpture,

really. It's quite easy! He is a master of materials. The fluidity

and beauty of his sculptures is mesmerising.

Now, if you haven't yet seen it on social media,

my colleague here has won yet another award.

Last night in London he was named Regional Presenter of the Year

The award recognised his work throughout 2016,

including his Three Counties on Three Legs' challenge with Paul

which raised more than a quarter of a million pounds

It means he's won this national award TWICE!

I'm not a young lad any more. I'm coming towards the end of a career,

not the start of it. So to win this means so much of them to say such

nice things really is quite emotional for me.

Oh, Harry! Well done. Thank you very much. The credit goes

to every person I work with. They are fantastic and they make me a lot

better than I am, I can assure you. You would agree with that, wouldn't

you? We deserve an award for putting up

with him. Let's look at the weather headlines.

Right! Let me show you to make pictures before we get onto the

weather forecast. This was taken this morning at quick rich.

Beautiful sunrise there. The second one is burned so there weather

worsens showers was morning. Keep the pictures coming in.

The forecast is not looking too clever. Tomorrow looks mostly

cloudy. Just about dry in the morning but rain spreading from the

south through the course of the afternoon and it is quite an

unpleasant looking chart with low pressure in charge and I think over

the next few days, I can summarise it by saying there will be showers.

Sunshine at a premium. Lots of cloud to come. It week by the front

bringing patchy rain into the Dells at moment. Elsewhere, quite windy.

That will ease overnight. More parts becoming dry. If we skip to the end

of the sequence, we can look at the lowest temperatures. Ground frost,

two Celsius. Low cloud in places. That's 36 in Fahrenheit. The sun

rises at 6:51am. Here are the high water times. So, some low cloud and

drizzle over the hills but generally speaking it looks mostly dry but

brightness towards the coast and the South. Rain showing its face in the

North Midlands in the late morning and that spreads northwards slowly

through the afternoon. By the end of the day, pretty wet, overcast, Mr

developing over the hills. Let's look at the top temperatures.

Feeling fairly chilly. Highs of seven Celsius. That is 45

Fahrenheit. It wet Friday night. The rain might ease off on Saturday

before returning especially in eastern areas and on Sunday and

Monday, a little brighter. Some sunshine around the further rain

will never be far away. Back to the cult figure of Harry!

Thank you to my weatherman. I feel we are not worthy to be near

you now. I am not ready to work with you. We

have an update at eight and then the ten o'clock news. Goodbye.

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