03/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Women across Yorkshire say they're losing tens of thousands of pounds

because they have to wait longer than they expected to receive

Many now reaching the age of 60 will have to wait another six years.

They are angry that the changes are happening faster and sooner

than they expected and are planning to demonstrate outside parliament.

Our Political Editor Len Tingle has been meeting some of them.

Helen worries she could lose the home in Huddersfield

Susan, also from Huddersfield, is angry she now has

to rely entirely on her older husband's pension.

Both say news of having to wait another six years for their state

I just want to get my pension because I've paid into it.

If you'd paid into a private pension, they couldn't turn

round and say, all right, you're not getting any money.

And they would have informed you of the changes.

You can't plan your life based on what you don't know.

I remember watching George Osborne stand up

in Parliament and give a speech about the new retirement age.

I was so shocked I thought, that can't be right,

that's a mistake, they'll look at that again and then in a couple

of weeks' time he'll be making a different statement,

Traditionally, pension age for a women was 60,

By next year, it will be 66 for both.

That affects 2.6 million women in particular who'll lose up

Many until very recently had relied on that to help their retirement.

They've now joined a protest movement of thousands

They've held rallies and handed in petitions.

They say they're victims of a broken promise made as far back

as the 1940s when national insurance funded pensions were

Insured from the cradle to the grave, that is the purpose

But in a statement, the Department for Work

But the women say they won't give up.

Another rally is planned outside Parliament on budget day next week.

There were severe delays to train services across Yorkshire tonight

following a police incident just after 7pm

Train services across Leeds, Sheffield and

Disruption is expected until the end of the day.

A teenager is to serve a minimum of 17 years

in prison after he admitted murdering his girlfriend.

Morgan Banks attacked Sophie Smith at a house in Beeston last October.

Their new baby was there at the time.

Banks, who's 18, was jailed for life at Leeds Crown Court.

A Sheffield Hospital is to become the UK centre for pioneering robotic

brain surgery which could change the lives of thousands of patients.

Rosa the Robot uses a GPS-like system to map the human brain

and carry out neuro surgery with the kind of pinpoint accuracy,

It'll be based at the Royal Hallamshire and today

a fundraising drive was launched to cover its running costs.

Leanne Hall started suffering from epileptic seizures

after developing a brain tumour as a child.

Despite having three open brain surgery operations,

Depending which seizure I've had depends on what I can do that today.

Because I'm not allowed to go out the house my own

And if I do too much, I get too tired and then I end up

But there is hope for Leanne in the form of a robot which carries out

The Royal Hallamshire in Sheffield is the first NHS hospital

Now, I know it sounds like science fiction

It's incredibly clever, it makes a 3-D map of a person's

brain and then can pinpoint extremely accurately

It's much less invasive and it means that recovery times are sped up.

If there is a way we can do complicated brain operations

without having to open the head, without having to send the patient

to intensive care post-operatively, without having to do a general

On top of that, if you add that we can get better quality,

more precise information as well, then it's a bonus.

But they need a quarter of a million pounds to keep

So today a fundraising campaign's been launched

It means Leanne can be treated by the robot,

When I went to Sheffield, they've kind of given me a light

at the end of the tunnel and I've never had the chance to say that

And I just found that amazing, that something can do that.

In football, Leeds United travelled to Birmingham City

looking for a victory to help their promotion hopes.

Chris Wood scored twice and Alfonzo Pedraza

The win puts them just one point behind Huddersfield

A successful night in Superleague too with a victory for

Wakefield battled through the rain and won 16-12,

Tries and conversions came from Caton-Brown and Williams.

Now, let's take a look at the weather. It has been very wet today,

hasn't it? It has and that wet weather is set to continue overnight

and night. An area of low pressure to the south of Ireland is bringing

us a weather front from the Atlantic. It is tracking up from the

north through this evening and overnight. Yes, very heavy and

persistent if we look at the graphic. There could be summed as

well. But it will clear off to the north and we will be left with a

cloudy night but a cloudy start to the day tomorrow. No risk of any

frost first thing. Quite a cloudy start. We could see one or two

outbreaks of light drizzle for parts of north Yorkshire but then the

cloud should start again and break through the course of the day and we

should see some decent sunny spells through the afternoon. The bridges

will get up to nine or 10 Celsius. It could feel even warm if we see

some decent spells of sunshine. Sunday may start on a dry and right

note but we will see a band of rain track in from the south-west heading

up to the north-west. That will be heavy and persistent and will

probably last for much of the afternoon. On Monday or Tuesday we

could see rain at any time. If you are going out grab your umbrella but

things are set to get milder from Tuesday onwards but the rest of the

week does look unsettled. That's or we have got time for. I will leave

you with your Good evening, mixed fortunes this

weekend. Today we saw a fair share of rain. This is the view one of our

weather watchers in Doncaster. Not particularly inspiring. This weekend

there will be some rain, but some of us will get away with a dry start.

This is the satellite and a lovely day in northern Scotland. But cloud

and rain and thunder and lightning in this area. Our main area of rain

is stuck across Northern Ireland and Scotland. Some snow over higher

ground. And windy. Four or five degrees in Glasgow and Belfast.

Seven or eight for Cardiff and London. In the morning a miserable

start in the east of Scotland with a cold wind. A lot of cloud and rain.

And there will be some snow over higher ground. Some