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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The clergyman selected as the next Bishop of Sheffield turns it down | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
after a row over his views on women priests. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
The files showing the Thatcher government ruled out an inquiry | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
into the actions of police during the miners strike. | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
It has been a sunny day across Yorkshire. What about the weekend? | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
Join me for the live update. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
The new man selected as the Bishop of Sheffield has turned down | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
the position after a row about his views on women priests. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
It's the second time the Right Reverend Philip North has | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
The Archbishop of York said tonight he was sad that people had | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
disagreed with Philip North in a very unchristian way. | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
A Church of England clergy man has refused to take up the post of | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
It is not the first time the Right Reverend Philip North has | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Back in 2012, there was outcry when he was nominated for the | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
Now he has announced he will not become the | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
The problem is his view on women and his belief | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
Although Bishop Philip is very clear he stands for equality | :01:18. | :01:27. | |
and wants to see women flourish, and he is really clear about that, I | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
think the very fact he will not ordain women himself has the | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
potential to give out a really negative | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
message that somehow the | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
Church of England is a discriminatory organisation. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Tonight, friends of Bishop Philip have defended his ideas. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
The largest part of Christianity still does not accept | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
women in those kind of orders but in the Church of England we have | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
as a family and have a conversation so both can mutually survive. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
Today in a statement Philip North said... | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
It was 23 years ago that some of the first | :02:07. | :02:23. | |
women priests were ordained at Sheffield Cathedral. | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
More recently in 2015, clergy from all over the | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
world came to York to witness the consecration of the first | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
The two are friends and women who have worked | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
with Philip North says he respects everyone. | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
He is a man of real passion for people and loves people. | :02:43. | :02:51. | |
By the way, in his ministry as a priest and now the | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
Bishop in Barnsley, he has supported women | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
to train for the Ministry as | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
But for many, Bishop North's refusal to ordain or take communion from a | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Files seen by the BBC suggest Margaret Thatcher's government | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
was reluctant to hold a public inquiry into the policing | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
of the miners' stike for fear of a "witch hunt". | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
Documents show the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan wanted | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
to discourage "any form of inquiry" into police actions. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
Miners were disappointed last year when the Home Secretary Amber Rudd | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
ruled out an inquiry into the so-called Battle | :03:23. | :03:24. | |
For over 30 years, these images and what they represent have | :03:25. | :03:32. | |
For some, these are working men, struggling to protect | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
their jobs and communities at the so-called Battle of Orgreave, | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
the height of the miners' strike in 1984. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
For others, this is the police upholding the rule of law in the | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
Look North has seen previously classified documents that show that | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
at the end of the strike, Home Secretary Leon Brittan | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
governement should not encourage any form of public enquiry. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
The documents also show that senior officials wanted | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
the message simply to be, the rule of law had won. | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
There was no need to investigate the conduct of | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
They still have the same opinion today in 2017 as they had in 1985 - | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
For former miners, they say these documents | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
The suspicion is never going to go away that this was | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
orchestrated right from 10 Downing St to defeat the miners | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
and to use the police as a battering ram. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
burying this, you are thinking, what's next? | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
The files also detail the attitude of South Yorkshire | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
What I detect from those documents is | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
that certainly there was a degree of confidence within | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
The way the police were so dismissive | :04:54. | :05:05. | |
but it is pretty clear they believe they have the full | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
confidence of the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
These files are not only relevant to what | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
happened during the strike, five years later South Yorkshire Police | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
would be centre stage in the | :05:15. | :05:15. | |
aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster. | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
The two events, Hillsborough and Orgreave, cannot be separated. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
You cannot have the full truth about Hillsborough until we | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
also know what happened four years earlier when the same police force, | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
employed the same tactics that it was later to do | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
against the Liverpool supporters, but this time against the miners. | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
The Home Office says the police system has fundamentally changed | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
in the past 30 years and that very few lessons will be learned | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
The Home Secretary last year set out her reasons for not holding an | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
In this situation in Orgreave, there were no | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
For the miners, they say their campaign continues. | :05:51. | :05:59. | |
Apart from the files held by the Home Office, | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
65 files are also being held by South Yorkshire Police. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
I asked Yvette Cooper - the Pontefract and Castleford Labour | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
MP who is the Chairwoman of the House of Commons Home Affairs | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Committee when she thought they might be released. | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
We are still pressing the police, not just South Yorkshire, but North | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
Yorkshire and the Met, and a lot of other forces | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
the day to tell us what information they still have | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
now to make sure that publicly available. | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
I think people across the coalfield communities and across the country | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
want to know the truth about what has happened. | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
I know that you have been working quite hard | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
that? of these files, have you privy to | :06:42. | :06:50. | |
No, I have not seen any of the files. | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
The Government files that came out today, that is the first I | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
What we have been trying to do with the select | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
committee is just keep pressing all these different organisations | :07:00. | :07:00. | |
It is not about giving a secret access to the files, that | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
I want everybody to be able to see them, particularly | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
the campaigners and those who have been arguing | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
for justice for Orgreave for so many years. | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
In the South Yorkshire Police files, what is it you expect | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
we might seee in them when, and if, they are released? | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
We do not know that is why it is so important they | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
In the Government files that we saw today, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
it shows that there been a hostility to a public enquiry or to getting | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
the truth about Orgreave from the very start | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
We have just got to put an end to that, | :07:29. | :07:40. | |
There are real concerns across the coalfields | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
about what happened at Orgreave, about the way the police responded, | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
about what happened afterwards, taking people through the courts, | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
all of those things, we need to have | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
all of those information out in the public so that | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
You have done really well to get this far, Yvette. | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Why did you not do it when Labour were in power for 13? | :08:00. | :08:08. | |
I think that was a fair challenge to us. | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
I think much more should have been done. | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
More information has come out drip by drip and once we see | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
more of the information, particularly some of the information | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
that came out of the Hillsborough enquiry, | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
that really revealed some of the | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
problems within South Yorkshire Police, with every year that has | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
gone by there has been more information that said, look, | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
we really need a proper investigation | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
and a proper, thorough approach to get all of the | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Yvette Cooper, thank you very much your time. | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
Police are to ask the Crown Prosecution Service to consider | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
a murder charge over the death of a 14-year-old girl in Wakefield | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
A 79-year-old man who was re-arrested earlier this week | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
on the suspicion of her murder has been granted police bail. | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
West Yorkshire Police are sending a file of evidence to the CPS. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Barnsley Council is spending a total of a hundred and twenty million | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
pounds on the redevelopment of the town centre. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
'The Glass Works' in the centre of Barnsley | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
will include a cinema, bowling alley, market and library. | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
If the scheme gets planning permission, it'll be completed | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
in three years' time and will create around eight hundred | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
Let's catch up with the weather. What a stunning day it was. Is it | :09:14. | :09:32. | |
going to stay that way for the weekend? I am afraid not, more cloud | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
around. Much more cloud as the warm front pushes in from the west. Less | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
windy and dry. High pressure is Remain in charge at the moment. That | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
week warm front. The next cold front bringing patchy rain. That gets | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
stuck in eastern areas on Saturday. Sunday morning, a bit of a mess with | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
patchy rain in places. Some drier and brighter spells. A complicated | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
outlook. It will be a quiet night out there. Largely clear at the | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
moment. Cloud will push in to Western areas, not preventing frost. | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
Down to one Celsius in countryside. Hazy sunshine and that warm front | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
comes in and spots of rain. Pretty trivial. Mist a cross of the | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
Yorkshire Dales. Top temperatures 11 Celsius. Fairly nondescriptive into | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Friday. We keep that sheet of cloud on Friday night into Saturday | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
morning. It is going to be frost free. Saturday is cloudy. There is | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
that cold front bringing patchy rain on Saturday afternoon. Sunday, | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
patchy rain. Monday looks like a clear, blue sky day. I will leave | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
you day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe | :11:02. | :11:02. | |
spots of rain. Good evening, in the spring sunshine | :11:03. | :11:14. | |
we saw temperatures as high as 17.5 Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled weather in the forecast for the next | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
few days. This was the sunset captured by one of our Weather | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Watchers. Clear skies there. We have had increasing amounts of cloud | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
moving in from the West. Through the remainder of tonight we will | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
continue to see that cloud across the south-west | :11:34. | :11:34. |