08/02/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)


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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

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The wait for a bridge is over in Elland.

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After more than a year of this community being divided

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in two, Elland Bridge has reopened once more.

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The Chesterfield head-teacher doing a sponsored run because of cuts

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The cold air continues to feed in from the near continent.

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Join me for the live, updated forecast.

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There were celebrations in Elland today after its historic bridge

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finally reopened more than a year since floodwaters washed

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The grade two listed bridge was wrecked by the 2015 Boxing Day

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floods, and caused chaos for drivers and businesses in the town.

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The opening comes just a week after Tadcaster Bridge was re-opened.

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Another bridge closed by Storm Eva, Linton,

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is still a work in progress, As Charlotte Leeming reports.

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It's been a long wait for this day, so many people in Elland,

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cameras at the ready, did not want to miss it.

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With a brass band playing there was a celebratory atmosphere

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in the town as a minibus full of expectant passengers crossed

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the bridge for the first time since it was destroyed

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It has already stood 200 years, we have put resilience into it

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to make it much stronger than it was before,

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so we are delighted that we now have a bridge that should last many,

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many years and serve this community well.

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Built in 1811, the grade two listed bridge could not withstand

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storms that hit Yorkshire, flooding many nearby

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There has been a complex and careful rebuild to preserve

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All the original stone has been reused.

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But that painstaking process has tested the patience

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Andrew Firth runs a pub next to the bridge and has seen a massive

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We have two children at the top end of Elland who go to school

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and their journey time has doubled because of it.

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The business trade, obviously we lose a lot.

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Ourselves, we do a lot of passing trade, you know, people driving,

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people walking along the canal, and we have just lost that this year

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Delays, diversions, division, the closures also had a big impact

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on local charity project Colt, which recycles furniture.

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Their delivery drivers have had much longer journeys and it has been

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a logistical nightmare just to unload.

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A lot of driving around, going all over, so you know,

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We'd also forgotten how vibrant it is when there is traffic flowing.

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That vibrancy is something that people in Linton near Wetherby

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Their grade two listed bridge isn't due to reopen until the summer,

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the last of Yorkshire's flood damaged bridges to be repaired.

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But in Elland, it's been a day of celebration with long-term

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resident JJ and his mascot, gorilla George, itching

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Elland is reunited and the bridge is back.

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A historic day for Elland as the town is reunited once again

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with the reassurance this bridge will stand for at least

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Meanwhile, councillors in Leeds today increased pressure

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on the government to commit funding for new flood defences.

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Heidi Tomlinson is on the River Aire in the city centre.

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Just remind us what progress has been made to defences

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Well, this is Crown point around the dock area overlooking the River Aire

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and this is where phase one of the flood alleviation scheme is taking

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place. Work has been going on here for sometime. It is a movable weir,

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the first one to be installed in the UK and it works on a kind of

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inflatable system so that the movable weir can be inflated or

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defect is, depending on the capacity of water in the river. It should go

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a long way to protect 3000 homes and 500 businesses in this area. It has

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come at a cost of ?45 million. It is expected to be finished this summer.

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Amazing bit is there. What has happened today? Well, Leeds City

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Council executive order today and they wanted to discuss a report

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which stressed the critical need for significant further investment in

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flood defences here in Leeds. They are really concerned about phase two

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of this leads flood alleviation scheme. That will concentrate on the

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Kirkstall corridor. He can't forget those images we saw in December 20

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15th where Storm Eva turned the road into a river. Homes and businesses

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were badly damaged, some businesses never reopened. Phase two would go a

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long way to reassuring people in this area. The funding for that

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scheme is still not confirmed. This is what the council was trying to

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say to the government, that they want confirmation that funding will

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be made available. The leader of Leeds City Council Judith Blake said

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tonight that the city needs flood defences as soon as possible. It is

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the only way that people will feel reassured that everything is being

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done to reduce the chances of flooding like that ever happening

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again. The City Council will be taking this report to the

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Environment Secretary, Andrea Leadsom. Thank you very much.

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McLaren Supercars are to open a ?50 million factory

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in South Yorkshire, which could create

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The factory will build parts for the company's supercars

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and be based at the site of Sheffield Airport.

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The partnership between McLaren Automotive and the University

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of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre will

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The government said tonight it plans to ease restrictions that

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were imposed following a case of bird flu in Malham

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Birds have had to be kept indoors for the last two months

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and producers were concerned about the impact on their business.

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They feared that if the restrictions continued -

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they would no longer be able to sell their eggs as free-range.

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Next tonight, a headteacher from Chestefield will take part

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in the Great North Run to fundraise for his school.

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Dave Shaw from Spire Junior school - says funding cuts are threatening

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what he can provide - and this is a last resort.

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His case was raised at Prime Ministers Questions today

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by the local MP who pressed the Prime Minister about school

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Theresa May said the government was consulting on a new funding

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Dave Shaw is the headteacher of Spire Junior School.

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Later this year he'll take part in the Great North Run.

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It's his way of raising money so his year six pupils

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still have the chance to go on a modest two night residential

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This is the third most deprived area in Derbyshire.

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We have 70% of our children on free school meals and families

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I believe the actual activities are vitally important

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to their education in terms of their self-esteem

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and self-confidence, so we value our residential,

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But as funding cuts are kicking in, it's going to be one of the things

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Dave said opportunities for them will simply dry up if proposed

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Are you going to show me into your school?

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This is not the first time cameras have been

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Back in 2010, this is where Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg

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By offering more help at an early age to the most

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disadvantaged children, we will directly tackle the gaps

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in attainment that open up in the critical early years of life.

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Today, the school was back in the political spotlight, too.

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Running for cash is now the only alternative to sacking staff.

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Will she go to the finish line and tell Dave Shaw how this

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Chesterfield MP Toby Perkins raising the case at Prime

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What the government has brought forward is a consultation

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We will look at the result of that fairer funding formula

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and we will bring forward our firm proposals in due course.

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The school receives its funding from the government

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I have lost a teaching assistant and a teacher this year

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My deputy headteacher is teaching near enough full-time.

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There is literally nothing else to cut now.

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For Dave, strapping on his running shoes is not just

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Tom Ingle, BBC Look North, Chesterfield.

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Good on him. If you have been out and about the night you would have

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felt it is quite cold. Is it going to freeze overnight? It is going to,

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there could even be slow in places, particularly in the east. It is the

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headline for tomorrow, cloudy and cold with a few wintry showers.

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There could be a Cuban agents that East for the North York moors. --

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there could be accumulations further east. Subtle differences as we head

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into Sunday and early next week, you notice the winter beers around more

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to the south-east and eventually next week turned mild, -- the wind

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veers around more. A scattering now of mainly light rain showers. A

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slight dusting in eastern areas. Further west there will be a

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widespread frost. Icy patches on untreated surfaces. Tomorrow, a

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broad day. An easterly trees. Cloudy skies, a scattering of -- an

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easterly breeze. A scattering of showers. It really will feel cold.

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These are the top temperatures, just three Celsius. As we head through

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Thursday evening in the Thursday night, further scattering, mainly

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light sleet and snow showers. There will be a frost with icy patches. We

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carried at forecast through Friday and into the weekend. By the end of

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the weekend, slightly less cold. That is it from Lara and I. I

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cloudy and Ben Rich will take you through the bigger picture.

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Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we

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have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and

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not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue skies. A lot of cloud,

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there was some sunshine today across parts of west Wales, for instance.

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That lifted temperatures up to 11. But further east as you can see from

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the picture, there was a lot of cloud feeding in and that pegged

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temperatures down into single figures, because there is

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increasingly cold air heading in this direction on a cold and fairly

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strong wind. Tonight that wind will continue to deliver wintry showers,

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particularly close to the east coast, a mixture of rain and sleet

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along the coast. Inland some snowfall and wherever you are it's a

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cold night with temperatures around

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