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Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

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Scarborough's historic Futurist Theatre will be demolished

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And ?3 million of lottery cash to help restore one of Yorkshire's

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best-loved stately homes to its former glory.

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Some big changes to come this week with cold weather on the way.

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Join me for the live, updated forecast.

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It's been part of the Scarborough coastline since 1921,

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but today councillors voted to demolish the Futurist Theatre,

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Getting rid of the theatre has been described as leaving Scarborough

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And today there were lots of angry people in the council meeting.

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In its heyday, the Futurist played host to some of the biggest names

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Shirley Bassey, the Beatles and Ken Dodd have all performed.

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But today, councillors voted to demolish the iconic building,

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which has been part of Scarborough's seafront since the 1920s.

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More than 100 campaigners marched through the town ahead of today's

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meeting and one heckling protester had to be read from the balcony.

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When Scarborough Borough councillors voted in favour of demolition,

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it came as a bitter blow to those who'd fought to save it.

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Did you expect that it could have saved?

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It will cost ?4 million to knock the Futurist down and shore up

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The land will be made available for redevelopment,

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which some councillors believe is well overdue.

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People have come forward with ideas but in my opinion they have backed

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them up with a proper is this case to show that after any refurbishment

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has been done and reconfiguration has been carried out that it

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would provide a sustainable theatre to operate and make money

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The Futurist once played a huge part in Scarborough's summer season,

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attracting thousands of visitors, but in recent years audiences have

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Campaigners have fought long and hard to keep it open

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but today its fate was sealed and the curtain has finally

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An inquest has heard that a man who was found

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dead alongside his wife, who'd been stabbed, had been sent

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home from a mental health unit just days earlier.

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Martin Ashworth from Garforth died in a house fire in April 2014,

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just 13 days after he was discharged from the Becklin Centre in Leeds.

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His wife Susan suffered fatal stab wounds.

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Wakefield Coroner's Court heard Mr Ashworth was told by a nurse

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that he was being sent home because "they needed beds."

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The aftermath of the arson attack at a family home

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47-year-old Susan Ashworth was found in her burning house.

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Her husband Martin was pulled out of the fire but died a short

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An inquest heard today that Susan had been planning

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She told her mother that he emotionally abused her,

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trying to impose power and control over her and their two sons.

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Wakefield coroner's court was told that as their marriage deteriorated,

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Mr Ashworth tried to take his own life by poisoning himself with

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Following in his suicide attempt on the 22nd of March 2014,

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Martin Ashworth agreed to be admitted to the mental health unit

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Three days later, he was sectioned for 28 days under

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But only 22 days after that he was discharged.

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The inquest was told that family members were shocked by the decision

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to discharge Martin Ashworth early from the mental health unit.

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We heard that his wife Susan Ashworth felt she had no

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choice but to allow him home as he had nowhere to go.

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Martin's mother, Barbara Ashworth, said her son asked staff

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at the Becklin centre why he was being sent home

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13 days later, Martin was dead after a deliberate fire at his home,

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his wife Susan was found their stabbed to death.

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Susan Ashworth was described by her mother today has a wonderful,

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kind, loving person who was loved beyond measure.

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The inquest into the deaths continues.

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Emma Glasbey, BBC Look North, Wakefield.

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Around 50 people marched from the M62 to Huddersfield this

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evening to protest at last week's fatal shooting of 28-year-old

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The demonstration brought traffic to a standstill

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in Birkby and on the main Huddersfield ring road.

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Police intervened to move protesters on before they gathered outside

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating events

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A gun was found in the footwell of the car in which Yaqub

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200 Tesco jobs are being cut in Barlborough near Chesterfield.

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The company is closing its distribution centre

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Tesco says it'll try and help employees get jobs elsewhere

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A thousand jobs are being lost across the country

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as the supermarket changes its distribution network.

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Football now, and Leeds United safely got through their tricky FA

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Cup Third Round tie at League Two side Cambridge United this evening.

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Cambridge went ahead after 25 minutes through

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But Stuart Dallas headed an equaliser for Leeds 11 minutes

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after half-time and Alex Mowatt scored the winner seven minutes

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later to set up a fourth-round tie at either AFC Wimbledon or

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And elsewhere in tonight's Fourth Round draw,

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Huddersfield face a short trip across the Pennines to Rochdale.

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And if Barnsley win their replay against Blackpool, they'll be away

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Barnsley's historic country house Cannon Hall has won

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a lottery grant of nearly ?3 million.

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The money will be used to restore the grounds,

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clean the lakes and repair the eighteenth century ice house.

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Charlotte Leeming has been to take a look.

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It's a Georgian gem, is Cannon Hall, a country house that any Jane Austen

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Although the house is lovingly restored, time has robbed

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the grounds and gardens of its attractive period features,

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like its greenhouse built in 1700 to grow pineapples

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This is part of Cannon Hall's glorious gardens and it is famous

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for the exotic fruit it used to grow, many of which we still have

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growing in the gardens, like our pear collection that goes

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But pineapples, in particular, Cannon Hall is famous for.

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It is hoped these gardens and greenhouses will be glorious

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once more thanks to ?3 million of lottery funding.

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The Hall is owned by Barnsley council but it is helped by a team

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of volunteers who work tirelessly here, even in the pouring rain.

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We have been fundraising for 40 years basically, a long time.

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We knew the lakes needed work doing, we knew the gardens needed a lot

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A once majestic Lake is a marked for restoration.

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It contains so much silt it needs to be dredged.

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Then visitors will be able to hire rowing boats and fishing equipment

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in a throwback to popular Georgian pastimes.

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Something I used to do as a boy was play in those lakes.

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I am not going to swim again in those lakes

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Visitors will be able to see things they have never seen here before,

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such as this ice house built in 1700.

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Long before refridgerators were invented, people would go down

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to the lake in the winter months, come back with ice and snow and pack

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it inside here so it could be used during the summer.

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For 300 years this home and its gardens were owned

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by the Spencer-Stanhope family but now this is a park

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for the people of Barnsley and they are determined to restore

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it to its Georgian splendour so that others can enjoy it

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A rowing boat on a late at Cannon Hall, that would be nice, wouldn't

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it? A bit posh for me. A bit posh for Barnsley, isn't it? It has been

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well signalled, as the headline, unsettled, snow showers coming down.

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We are getting rid of the milder air. If this is correct, if the

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milder air starts to get back in, it will be the second part of the

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weekend but that is up to question at the moment. On the weather

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charts, watched the isobars that come around, from eight Westerly.

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There is likely to the showers of snow even down to lower levels.

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Interesting for a time later this week. There will be some patchy

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outbreaks of rain in the Pennines over night. East it will be dry with

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clear spells. A windy night as well. Temperatures three or four Celsius.

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A West, East split tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain on and off for the

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Pennines but further east it is dry and bright with sunshine. Cloud will

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begin in the easterly afternoon. One of two spots of rain later but

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certainly be Pennines that will be rainy tomorrow. A bit of mist over

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the hills as well. A windy day to come and top temperatures of eight

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Celsius. As we head through Tuesday evening in the Tuesday night it is

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more of the same, most of the patchy rain in the West and a weather front

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will be rain southwards by first light on Wednesday morning. Hide

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that is when we get the colder air and by the end of Wednesday the

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showers will be telling wintry over the hills. When states out is not

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looking too bad, a few showers later but that it on Friday big drop in

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temperatures. That is it from Amy and me and I

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