02/11/2016 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

Tonight: The villagers clocking speeding drivers on behalf

Winners and losers - how Yorkshire's businesses

are coping with the falling value of the pound.

you have next couple of days. At the challenge of a first step to a

forecast. First tonight, police have denied

that they're creating vigil`ntes by giving cameras to members

of the public to help The first of a series of village

camera teams to be set up across North Yorkshire

was officially launched tod`y in Pannal, on the

outskirts of Harrogate. Police say villagers are delanding

to join the schemes and that if they help save the life of just

one person, they're worthwhhle. Our correspondent

John Cundy reports. Over the years, the village

of Pannal has become somethhng of a rat run for motorists trying

to avoid the busy town Police and residents alike `gree

it's time for action here. Howard West, 23 years

a resident of Pannal, is one of the volunteers opdrating

the new community speed cam. People want to get to where

they want to go in the shortest time possible

and unfortunately they speed. But since we've been here,

there's been a dramatic effect The speed has been reduced

dramatically. A full report on anyone spedding

will be sent to police HQ. The motorist will first get

a warning letter and a posshble prosecution if that driver

is caught speeding again. The pilot here, and the first

stages of what they've been doing in Pannal,

has shown that motorists have reduced their speed

and after getting a letter, People have stopped and had

conversations and they weren't The Deputy Chief Constable

and Police Commissioner, Julia Mulligan, launched thd scheme

in Pannal today. Can I put it to you that sole people

will say the word vigilantes? This is a community coming together

saying we don't like speeding in our village, it's

affecting our way of life, we're frightened when we take our

kids to school, when we cross the road and we want to try and do

something about it. Residents say there have already

been clear results from the pilots of this scheme before

today's official launch. We've seen a dramatic reduction

in the number of speeding vdhicles. When we first started off,

we were getting about 20 speeding vehicles an hour

in one direction only. Now that's flattened out to about

one speeding vehicle an hour. So there's been a dramatic

reduction. Police claim other villages

across North Yorkshire are now keen to adapt the idea themselves

of taking up the speed gun to stop motorists who just

won't observe the speed limhts. Claire Armstrong is from Safespeed,

which campaigns on road safdty, She gave me her reaction

to the scheme. We really don't see

that it adds any benefit With people standing on the side

of the road, that's a massive And distracted drivers are really no

good for road safety whatsodver A driver needs to concentrate

on the road ahead and look People standing on the side

of the road simply We heard in John's report that

villagers found the cars They were pleased with that

result - why aren't you? As much as cars will slow down

when they see a camera, it doesn't correlate

to when they start to see a hazard. It's when someone slows down

when they see a hazard that All road safety must always be

about the prevention of acchdents, not about merely the number

on the speedo. How would you suggest that police

encourage drivers to slow down What we should do is put up one

of the vehicle-activated signs. They're quite cheap,

they only cost around ?2,000. There is no potential of anx people

getting injured or damaged, there's no chance of any vigilante

behaviour from people standhng at the side of the road who don t

like Mr Jones down By putting a vehicle-activated sign

up, it guides, it tells road users exactly what they're doing

and in a way it embarrasses them. Other traffic around them,

and other people and other homes, can see what their speed

was and it's a good reminder. Reminding drivers how they drive

is very, very good for road safety. Let's get a round-up

of the news now. A new report into the latest

proposed route for HS2 through Yorkshire says

the government's being misldd. The Yorkshire HS2 Community s report

was presented today. It was compiled by residents

in affected areas and claims that current plans will result in more

houses being demolished It is going to be four times

noisier, it is going to be We are going to have a 50-foot-high

wall that will be four times We will have a depot

which is two kilometres long. This M18 route proposal provides

better connectivity around the region because we can provide

that Leeds city centre to Sheffield city centre fast, frequent route

in a cost-effective way. West Yorkshire is finally gdtting

a permanent chief constable. The Police and Crime Commissioner,

Mark Burns-Williamson, has `nnounced it will be Dee Collins,

who was temporarily appointdd to the role after Mark Gilmore

was suspended in 2014. The appointment of Dee Collhns

will be confirmed at The Batley and Spen MP,

Tracy Brabin, has been appl`uded in Parliament after using hdr maiden

speech to pay tribute to her friend The former Coronation Street

and EastEnders actress She said the killing of Mrs Cox

would "stay with everyone" in the constituency for the rest

of their lives. And she praised local peopld

who live by Mrs Cox's values, It was in her maiden speech that Jo

said what surprises me time and time again as I travel around

the constituency is that we are far more united and have far

more in common than that It was true then and it is

even more the case now. We'll never forget the diffdrence Jo

has made and through her The fall in the value of thd pound

following the EU referendum has made it more expensive for us to go

on holiday, but in terms of business, there are winndrs

and losers here in Yorkshird. Companies that sell

abroad are benefiting because their products have become

cheaper to buy, but anyone hmporting Our business correspondent,

Danni Hewson, has Andy doesn't claim he makes

the perfect brownie, His Rotherham-based business started

as a kitchen table enterprise, but soon expanded to keep

up with demand. He believes quality is everxthing

for a small company, The problem is, since June,

costs have been going up. A lot of our manufactured stppliers

are blaming it on the Obviously Belgian chocolate,

a box of eggs, for example, the reason they'll say it's gone up

is because packaging is imported, hence the price increase regardless

of the fact that the chickens Some costs have risen by 30$,

leaving him in a very stickx A lot of our products are sold

in coffee shops, bars, delis, and there's a certain pricing point

people would pay for a piecd of cake So we have to do pretty much bite

the bullet for now and wait and see if there's any more increasds in any

more ingredients before we lake a decision of pretty much how much

of our profit margin Of course, where there have been

losers, there have also been winners, primarily for people

exporting, and that includes 38% of British sheep meat

is exported to Europe. The weakness of the pound

against the euro is having a benefit, as well as there's been

some good promotions in the UK this Will is a pragmatist,

though he himself believes the new landscape will benefit

farmers in the long run, but he does acknowledge

the short-term could still be bumpy. All I'm doing at the moment

is consolidating my business and trying to future proof

it against volatility Two sides of the same pound coin,

a coin valued at a 30-year low, with no guarantees

of what happens next. Let's get the weather

now with Owain. It was a pretty chilly day xet

again across Yorkshire. The temperatures didn't get past

eight or nince Celsius. The temperatures didn't get past

eight or nine Celsius. This is going to lead

us into a cold night. Clear spells across the board,

across Yorkshire and North Derbyshire as well and that,

yet again, is going to allow for all of the heat to rise, escape,

and those temperatures Probably talking lows

tonight of two or three However, across rural parts

of North Yorkshire, for exalple maybe the North York Moors,

temperatures dipping below freezing. That leads us into a cold start

to the day tomorrow morning, There's a weather front that

will interrupt things. That's slowly making its wax down

towards south-eastern parts. Some of this rain a touch

on the heavy side, but rain confined to high ground

and tomorrow's temperatures, as today, not getting higher

than around eight or nine Cdlsius. These are south-westerly winds

so we won't have as much The winds aren't coming str`ight

down from the north, Over the next couple of days,

we'll see an area of low prdssure driving our weather as opposed

to an area of high pressure. That moves away across the continent

and there's a weather front swirling They will introduce outbreaks

of rain, some showers as well, so generally it will

be quite unsettled. I think we'll see fairly brdezy

conditions as well, but certainly From us on the Look North

team, it's goodnight. up to around 12. Mick Miller has the

national picture. The weather may have turned colder

but for many of us today there was abundant sunshine. This is from the

end of the day from Oxfordshire Cold and clear by day and clear and

even colder overnight. That is the recipe at this time of year.

Widespread ground frost setting in. Parts of East Anglia already below

freezing. In western Scotland, temperatures may stabilise. It could

even go up a feud degrees with thickening cloud, outbreaks of rain

and