23/02/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

Damage and disruption as Storm Doris rips

And why hundreds of Yorkshire motorists are still behind

the wheel, despite having more than 12 points on their licence.

most of us are happy to see the back most of us are happy to see the back

of Storm Doris. Strong winds to come tonight, full

forecast shortly. Wind speeds of almost 90mph

have battered Yorkshire. Storm Doris caused traffic

disruption, brought down trees and left thousands

of people without power. In Halifax, a woman had a lucky

escape after a tree crushed her car. Fortunately, the owner of this car

with safe inside the museum, showing a group of children around, when

Storm Doris came to Halifax. She emerged to find an uprooted tree had

pressed down onto the roof of her parked car.

As I said to the insurance company, it's a big tree on my little car. At

first, it was laughable, because we thought, has this really happened to

us? And then I think shortcake then, some of the children got upset. I

kept saying, it's OK, Nolan has been hurt, we're OK.

Those travelling in the air were OK, despite expensing tricking landings.

Pilots flying into Leeds Bradford Airport are used to windy

conditions, but today Doris posed a real challenge. Most fights went

ahead though. It was a very different situation with rail

travel. Virgin East Coast and trans-Pennine express services was a

really disrupted. Passengers from Doncaster, Leeds and York were

severely disrupted. Services from Sheffield station were severely

disrupted. All trains to London some Pancras were cancelled. The

situation has improved, and passengers have been told if they

couldn't travel today, there are tickets are valid for tomorrow.

It's regrettable so much disruption has been caused today. We look all

experience of previous events and plan for those, and we've plan that

today, but we have seen exceptional events.

Wind speeds peaked at High Bradfield, reaching 87mph. A power

cut left hundreds without light. No hot food on the menu at this pub,

just candlelit sandwiches. It's more than half of business

today. Normally we're around 200 meals a day. Today, we're lucky it's

30. It's had a massive impact. As a winds raged through from the

west, there were more fallen trees and blocked roads. The council

worked to clear the trail of destruction. There's leave

tomorrow's forecast is clear and bright.

Owain is with us, Doris made her presence known today?

Absolutely, as we sign the peace, there were high winds and outbreaks

of rain. I think when people hear about named storms coming, a lot of

the time you expect the storm to bring the same sort of thing, heavy

rain, perhaps thunder and lightning. But as we saw there, the issues

today with the strong winds. The forecast is stronger as we head

through the next 24 hours. Quite blustery across eastern coastal

parts. Ice more of a risk now, but I'll have the full forecast in a few

minutes. Look North has discovered that more

than 900 people are legally driving on Yorkshire's roads with 12

points or more on their licence. One driver in West Yorkshire has 62

points and is still allowed behind the wheel, despite being caught

speeding dozens of times. Courts can choose not to disqualify

drivers if it would cause The Government says in most cases

motorists are disqualified, but road safety charity Brake

says it's appalled. Here's our data

journalist, David Rhodes. From speeding to drink-driving,

failing to have insurance or causing a collision

on the road, penalty points are given to motorists

when they break the law. Keep blowing, keep

blowing, that's it. Figures obtained by the BBC though

show that just over 900 drivers in Yorkshire are still on the roads

despite having 12 or The fewest are found

in North Yorkshire, whilst South Yorkshire has more than 200

drivers who, in theory, But in West Yorkshire,

there are over 500 motorists still driving despite having 12

or more active penalty points. One driver in West Yorkshire

is still on the road despite having The law doesn't seem to be

working at the moment. We have people being caught

and going through the justice system, but this points system seems

to be making a mockery of that. Drivers are getting away

with repeatedly breaking the law. Motorists with 12 points or more can

appeal to a Magistrates' Court, such as this one in Bradford,

and claim a driving ban would bring exceptional hardship,

meaning they would lose their job or be unable to care

for their family. There is no definition

in law, though, as to So one magistrate may decide that

if a driving ban would cause someone to lose their job,

that is exceptional hardship. Another magistrate

may decide it isn't. Every ban is considered

on a case-by-case basis. If you can establish

on the balance of probability that exceptional hardship -

and it has to be exceptional hardship, not inconvenience

and not hardship - but if exceptional hardship would be

caused as a consequence of the disqualification

either to you, or more persuasively, to other people, then

the courts have a discretion. And it's obviously up to them how

they exercise that discretion. The Government says the vast

majority of drivers with 12 points are automatically disqualified,

and only in exceptional circumstances can judges

decide not to issue a ban. A year ago, frail pensioner

Tommy Ward died in hospital, four months after being viciously

attacked and robbed in his home But now detectives have released

CCTV footage from outside his home They think it could help them

finally find his killers. You may find some pictures

in John Cundy's report upsetting. This is what the vicious robbers did

to 80-year-old Tommy Ward. The gang stole his

?30,000 life savings. Tommy's daughter Jackie

is desperate his killers are caught. In his younger days, her dad had

been a soldier, later a miner. He loved his Irish jokes, loved

the time of day, with everybody. It is every day you

are thinking about it. How come they haven't

come forward, anybody? Because somebody must

be shielding them. But now, a possible

CCTV breakthrough. The movements of this Saab '93 car,

almost certainly carrying the robbers, outside Tommy's home

in Salisbury Road in Maltby, narrow the likely time of the attack

to between 5am and 6am I just need anybody to come

forward who knew a friend, a family member or an associate

who had that type of car, whatever colour, whatever year,

to tell the police There is still a ?10,000 reward

from Crimestoppers leading to the arrest and conviction

of these people who A clear message for help

from Tommy Ward's family. Find it in your hearts to come

forward and tell us who has done it. You've got to think

of everybody else. They didn't bother about my dad

that night, or morning, So they need to find it

in their hearts to come forward Let us know for my dad

to rest completely. Tommy Ward's family say they can't

rest until those responsible for his violent death

are hunted down. A man has been arrested in Sheffield

in connection with bribery offences linked to international

cricket match spot-fixing. Officers from The National Crime

Agency arrested the man - who's in his 30s -

this morning as part of a joint investigation

with the cricket authorities. He's been bailed pending

further inquiries. Council tax in Bradford

is to go up by almost 5%. Councillors voted through a budget

this evening which also includes It means bills for those living

in a typical family home will go up Meanwhile, York Council has agreed

to increase its bills by 3.7%. Let's get to Owain again. Looking,

for the next few days? It is. Witty severe today across

southern parts of Yorkshire. Our breaks of rain as well. This is the

pressure charts, Storm Doris has moved away from us now, but we are

still feeling the effects of the low pressure in the form of these

isobars. Strong winds across coastal parts now. Those will ease,

prompting the Met Office to issue a yellow warning for ice across parts

of South Yorkshire. Because under clear skies, with light winds, some

of this rain will freeze on the ground overnight. Things do turn

largely dry, there clear spells will clear there's kick in in early

hours. Take it easy first thing in the morning, you could see some of

that ice. Blustery winds on the coast and nights, they will ease

throughout the day tomorrow, and what a difference 24 hours makes.

The map is looking clear, lots of sunny spells, and the wind is

picking up a little later in the day, temperatures around eight

Celsius tomorrow. A much better story compared to today. Let's look

to the weekend, everybody wants to know about the weekend. Saturday,

this weather fronts makes its way towards us. Here come the white

lines, close together there. Blustery at times, but nothing like

what we've seen over the past 24 hours. These weather fronts on

Sunday moved towards us, further outbreaks of rain, but thinks and it

will be mostly dry, some higher temperatures to look

be much milder. I will leave you with Thomas Shelter.

Good evening. It was quite a day for some of us. We get these sort of

storms every couple of years also. Difficult to give an exact number,

but it was certainly a nasty one. It's