13/01/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

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The 15-year-old girl accused of the murder of seven-year-old

Katie Rough in York on Monday has made her first appearance

Members of Katie's family watched the short proceedings.

Katie Rough was found lying on a playing field

She'd suffered severe lacerations to her neck and chest

An arrest soon followed after Katie was found on the field.

The hearing lasted just five minutes at Leeds Crown Court.

The 15-year-old girl appeared to court five

by video link, flanked by her solicitor

who confirmed her identity on her behalf.

The judge, the recorder of Leeds Peter Collier and

the prosecuting and defending barrister is all appeared in court

without their traditional wigs and gowns.

There was no application to build a girl who was remanded into

There will be a further court hearing in

Leeds next month for pre-trial preparations.

A big clean up operation is underway along the North Yorkshire coast

tonight after a tidal surge hit Scarborough and Whitby.

High tide came at a quarter to five with many residents and business

Fortunately tonight though people are breathing a sigh of relief.

Carla Fowler reports now from Scarborough.

Well, here in Scarborough early this afternoon the tidal surge did hit as

expected, creating dramatic scenes here on the foreshore Road,

uplifting concrete bins and splashing the dwindle. But overall,

it seems the preparations that were put in place worked. It was around

half past four today, the high tidal surge hit the east coast. In Whitby,

Filey and Scarborough, some roads were closed but that did not stop

everyone from taking a closer look. It is thought to people were injured

after being hit by waves in beta and it was incensed and that is around

seven properties were inundated with floodwater. But in Scarborough, the

flood door seem to have done their job. The gale force winds created

powerful waves which picked up concrete bins and tossed them across

the foreshore Road but so far at least, the homes and businesses here

seem to have escaped serious damage. Harbour doors and Scarborough were

flung open to prevent them being battered down. They're are a degree

true extent of any damage will be true extent of any damage will be

known tomorrow. Well, I'm joined now by Lisa Dixon, one of the directors

at Scarborough Council. You've been in server command all day today. How

has the operation to protect people and property gone? Bearing in mind

there are 500 properties within the original warning area that we were

given, we have worked hard with our multi agency colleagues to ensure we

have done everything we can to protect property and also to prevent

risk to life and we've also been grateful for the support we have had

from the public and working with us on that and we are quite content

with the results of our work. We have however seen some pictures to

date of wave dodging, wave watching. There have been risk-taking on the

seafront. What is your view? Has been incredibly frustrating for us

to see the pictures of these people doing this. I don't think people

fully realise just how they are putting themselves at risk all those

people that are working hard to prevent risk to property and also

bearing in mind a lot of these people are volunteers, it really is

unacceptable and I don't think people fully appreciate just how

dangerous the situation has been today. Do we still have any concerns

about tomorrow morning's high tide? I am aware that there are two fodder

works for tomorrow, one for Foreshore Road and also won for its

end, but bearing in mind that the winds have decreased, we are not

expecting anything like the wave overtopping and high tides we have

had to date so although we will be working with our colleagues to

oversee the conditions, we're not expecting anything like today. It is

still bitterly cold here in still bitterly cold here in

Scarborough, but fingers crossed it is hoped that the worst is over.

The Shadow Minister in charge of Labour's national devolution

policy has called for a single mayor to be elected to represent

Jon Trickett, who's the MP for Hemsworth, says unless radical

action is taken now, Yorkshire will miss out on the tens

of millions of pounds of extra cash on offer for devolved regions.

Should Yorkshire fall out amongst itself so that we become warring

factions while London sits there with its arms folded, smiling

complacently because Yorkshire doesn't have a single voice.

That's the single question, I think and the

second question for Yorkshire is this - do we really want to sit

quiet with no voice at all at the moment while Manchester,

Liverpool, Birmingham, London, are all getting

Leeds at home to Derby in the championship.

The Rugby Football League has agreed a deal that will see a new club

set up in Bradford for the start of the season.

The old Bradford Bulls was liquidated earlier this month.

Four bids to revive the club were received

The new club will remain in the Kingstone Press Championship

and play at Odsal, but will start the new season with

Just before the weather with Keeley, we've been taking a look at some

of the videos you've been posting on social media tonight

Some incredibly dramatic pictures there. Fortunately it does not seem

to have been too bad in the end. Any more to come?

No, it is moving away so much quieter we can to come. Having said

that, it will not be totally trouble-free. We have a warning for

icy stretches into tomorrow. We have had a few showers around today and

across parts of the Peak District we could see a little bit of fresh snow

overnight. One or two centimetres. A cold, frosty night, temperatures are

ready below freezing. We will see a few showers skirting impasse parts

of the Peak District which could give a light covering their by

morning and with a widespread frost we're looking at the risk of icy

stretches. Some places across Yorkshire still have a little bit of

lying snow from last night, temperatures dropping below

freezing. Tomorrow, a few wintry showers across the course with the

breeze will have eased down but still brisk there. Hold but plenty

of sunshine inland. That's it from of sunshine inland. That's it from

5-6 is the best we will have. It stays cold into the beginning of

5-6 is the best we will have. It next week as well

stop Good evening, a cold, icy night, but some others have other

concerns. This was the scene earlier today, huge waves crashing on to the

shoreline at Whitley Bay. We still have the peak of the high tide to

come in other parts. This is the flood line number. It's if you have

any concerns. The worst of the wind slowly comes -- subsiding. Wintry

showers across the North of Scotland and some filtering well inland

across the Midlands, giving a light dusting in some places. An icy

night, temperatures widely close to or below freezing, particularly

where you have snow cover. Tomorrow starts cold. A large chunk of the UK

will have a fine, crisp, sunny day, from