21/12/2016 Look North (Yorkshire)


21/12/2016

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Good evening, and welcome to the late Look North.

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Tonight - is a ?900 million windfall for South Yorkshire under threat?

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Plans for an elected mayor for the region face delays

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after a row with Derbyshire over which areas will be part of it.

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We're in Calderdale a year on from the devastating floods -

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residents say they still live in fear of it happening again.

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With news of potentially severe gales over the Christmas weekend,

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join me for that live updated forecast.

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A leading expert on local government has told Look North that elections

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for a South Yorkshire mayor next year are now looking unlikely.

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The plans - which would lead to almost a billion

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pounds of new funding - were thrown into disarray

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because of a tug-of-war about Chesterfield.

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The town was due to join Sheffield City Region -

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but Derbyshire County Council challenged it in the High Court.

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Christmas. It is full of decisions, like who gets what? Take

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Chesterfield itself... Geographically it is firmly in zero

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option but political leaders here think that an invitation to join the

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new Sheffield economic region was too good a gift to refuse and today

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they still do. It is about investment and economic

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opportunities. Not about geography but about administrative boundaries.

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Getting economic activity devolved from government to the local

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decision-makers of which I am one. And ensuring it is used in the best

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place for Chesterfield residents. Devolution of power was meant to be

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a gift from government to the regions. The then Chancellor George

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Osborne promised more cash as long as a mayor was elected.

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He was keen to glad handed local politicians as a deal for the region

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was signed. It should have been straightforward, Sheffield,

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Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster at its heart. Derbyshire Dales, and

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North Derbyshire councils were invited to join in.

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Bassetlaw and Chesterfield wanted to become members with full voting

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rights but Derbyshire County Council say that it cannot be claimed just

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like that. They went to the High Court and the judge agreed that the

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consultation undertaken to establish a new region was unlawful. I've had

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more contact from people in Chesterfield about this issue than

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anything else in the last three years.

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People were very alarmed they did not know about it and concerned they

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had no chance to say what they thought about it either. So far

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there is no sign of the government taking their gift back to the shop.

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In a statement after today's ruling,...

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I think given that the combined authorities are saying it is going

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to review the judgment carefully, it suggests there has to be a further

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consultation if they want to hold together these authorities. It is

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hard, as of now, to see a mayoral election going ahead next May. As

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2016 draws to a close, Chesterfield is no closer to answering the

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question of whether it looks north towards Sheffield or does it lean

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spire and county council offices at spire and county council offices at

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Matlock. We've asked Sheffield region for an

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interview numerous times today but we ain't given a statement saying

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that they are considering a statement and will announce their

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next steps in due course. We were meant to be electing our

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next mayor in May but tonight, that timetable looks, at best, ambitious.

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Tom English, BBC Look North. John Mann is the MP

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for Bassetlaw which - like Chesterfield -

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is affected by today's ruling. Well, it will delay things, I'm

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sure. But I do not think that Judges should be sticking their noses into

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local democracy. We have elected councillors, politicians, doing

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that. I'm a bit disappointed that judges think that it is their role

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to be dictating what should and should not be happening. Don't you

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think it makes a mockery of local government, to have a dispute like

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this in the first place? Well, you have a county council in Derbyshire,

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this is all about their jobs as councillors and their power. And

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what they want to exercise. This is a ridiculous step back but we can

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overcome it. Our economic future means working with our neighbours

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where our buses, trains, most of our cars go. That is where we need

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transport improvements. It is the Sheffield Universitys that I want to

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see working with my businesses to help them grow and the more they do

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it, the sooner they do it, the more it, the sooner they do it, the more

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we get that money to do it, the better. Are you saying that support

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lies with Sheffield rather than Nottingham in Bassetlaw? Of course.

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Because we are in error. It's where more people work and more businesses

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do their business. I've got nothing against Nottingham but the idea it

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was Nottingham and Derby that they proposed, I don't even know the way

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to Derby! For us, it is our economy. The airport we use. It's Robin Hood

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airport. The airline we've got. East Coast mainline.

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That is where our linkages and when it comes to the economy, and it

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comes to transport, and it comes to health, that is where we are and

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where we need to be. We need to stop messing around with this and just

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get on with it. John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw speaking there.

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A man who claims he was abused at a children's home in Yorkshire

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has been awarded thousands of pounds of compensation.

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Hundreds of men are suing the Catholic Church over historical

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abuse at the St Williams school near Pocklington,

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Three other men lost their case for compensation at the High Court

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in Leeds and another will be decided next month.

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A woman's been taken to hospital after her car ran out of control

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in Sheffield and ended up in Porter Brook.

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A number of other vehicles were damaged in the incident

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on Sylvester Street just before five o clock.

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West Yorkshire Fire Service has issued a warning to e-cigarette

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users after a man was injured by a battery exploding

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Investigators say the man was keeping batteries

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They say people should avoid storing them alongside other metal objects

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It's nearly a year since homes and businesses in Yorkshire

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This week we've been looking at the legacy

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Today we hear from the residents of Calderdale.

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Millions of pounds are being invested in a new flood

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prevention scheme - but many residents say

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they still live in fear of it happening again.

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The Calder Valley will never forget Boxing Day 2015. By 3pm, the River

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coal dollars at the highest level ever recorded. Water rampaged

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through, showing no mercy. Emergency services were at full stretch, and

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some residents had no choice but to risk their own safety to help

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others. Here, dozens of elderly people had to be rescued from their

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ground floor flats which were completely submerged. Mary, back in

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your flat at last, what is it like? Sensational. Mary King was one of

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them, the 82-year-old only moved back in a couple of weeks ago. I

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used to walk around and peep into the window and thought I can't go

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back there. No walls or doors. What a

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transformation! Others are looking for more reassurance. Cordell

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Council has ?60 million set aside for flood risk management.

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-- Calderdale. Work has already begun but the severity of the floods

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came with a financial and emotional knock.

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This man risked his lives to save others on Boxing Day and says others

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still feel vulnerable. We have to beg, steal and borrow. We have flood

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stores but nothing in them. If push comes to shove and God forbid

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there's another incident like Boxing Day, it is sounding like we can do

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very little. Here, the fear of further floods has forced some to

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move away. John and Catherine's home was destroyed last Christmas,

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Catherine was 8.5 months pregnant, and they wanted a safer place for

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their baby. We decided it was not the best place

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to bring a child up. You have the flood risk. The ever present threat

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of damage and harm hangs over many residents in the valley. Some

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experts have said it is a miracle that no one died in the Boxing Day

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floods, these communities want to know that the flood protection work

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will save them, should be heavy rains come again.

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Charlotte Leeming, BBC Look North, in the Calder Valley.

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Let's find out if bad weather is coming our way...

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What is the latest? There are strong winds to come in the next few days,

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tomorrow not looking bad, sunny spells and some showers, the jet

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stream will pile in from the West as we head towards the Christmas

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weekend. Friday, and you can see the number of ice bars there. Severe

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gales, and Christmas Day is windy as well. -- isobars. Temperatures at 13

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degrees on Christmas Day afternoon. Then we have a couple of showers

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coming in from the West. Elsewhere, dry with clearer periods, and it

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could have icy patches on untreated surfaces, temperatures close to

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freezing in countryside areas. Tomorrow is quite chilly, breezy but

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bright, plenty of sunshine about. A few scattered showers, especially in

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the north, west and eastern parts of southern Yorkshire. It should be

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dry, but feeling quite chilly. Temperatures of six or 7 degrees. On

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Thursday evening, Thursday night, a couple of showers possible, then it

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becomes dry, certainly on Friday morning, this vale of cloud comes in

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from the West. That's ahead of the next weather system that brings

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severe gales on Friday. Heavy rain on Friday afternoon. That's it from

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us, a summary of good for us. Mild by the time we

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reach Christmas Day. Hello there, there is wet and very

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windy weather on the way in the run-up to Christmas. The worst of

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the weather to the northern half of the UK. We have a strengthening jet

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out of North America that is propgating across the Atlantic.

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Rushing our way. Picking up low pressure, deepening them, tracking

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them to the north-west of Scotland, hence the wind and rain. Tonight, we

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have gale force winds in the north-west of Scotland. Wintry

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showers here. There is still come rain to clear from the south-east.

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It will go. The skies will clear. We get patchy fog in the south-east of

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England. Chilly where skies clear, particularly in the countryside, not

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far away from freezing. Further north we keep the showers going

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through the night and into the morning

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