15/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

And we will ask why so many more people over the age of 65 are

getting married these Good evening and welcome

to the late Look North. The young brain tumour

patients from Yorkshire who campaigners say are being

short-changed by a lack And police and the council are told

to change the way they deal with people protesting

against tree-felling in Sheffield. And it's been another mild and sunny

day across the region, but there are a few changes to

come through tomorrow, and it does look unsettled

from Friday onwards. I'll be back later in the programme

with all the details. Campaigners from Yorkshire

who are calling for more money to be invested in brain cancer research

have taken their case They're angry that just 1%

of the national spend on cancer research is allocated

to the disease, yet they say brain tumours kill more children

and adults under the age of 40 Emma Glasbey has been to meet

two women who have been Aaron was a 20-year-old university

student when he discovered A lot of his friends would describe

him as the life of the party. One day, without warning,

Aaron had a seizure After surgery and radiotherapy,

his brain tumour disappeared, but two years later

Aaron's tumour came back. He died in December

at the age of 24. because you've got your 24-year-old

son and all he wants He wanted nothing more than to be

able to go to London and live with his friends from uni,

and it was all taken away from him. Aaron had been frustrated

by the lack of funding He donated his brain

to medical research. A 24-year-old in this

day and age should not lose his life to something that,

if they have the right kind of funding, if they have enough

funding, they can research The latest figures show 404 people

in Yorkshire were diagnosed That's a 13% increase on the year

before, so the problem is growing and, although it's the biggest

cancer killer of those under 40, just 1% of national cancer research

spending has been allocated Lisa has a tumour

growing into her brain. She's been told it

cannot be removed. Tonight, Lisa has been

at Westminster to join the campaign for more funding

for brain tumour research. I've lost a lot of friends that

I have met through this process with brain tumours,

and we're all like a little gang. But we keep losing people

on the way, so we really do need Lisa has recently undergone

radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Later this week she'll have a scan

to see if the treatment has Emma Glasbey,

BBC Look North, Baildon. South Yorkshire Police

and Sheffield Council have been told to change the way they deal

with protests against The multi-million-pound scheme

to replace trees and repair pavements has been controversial

and led to arrests. Now, South Yorkshire's

Police Commissioner Dr Alan Billings has said the whole issue

is being handled badly. We will have legal reaction

in a minute, but, first,

this report from John Cundy. By night and day across Sheffield,

trees deemed to be dangerous Are you proud of your city?

You are shouting. Some have been taken to court

but their cases were dropped. So far, 14 tree-felling protesters

like heritage writer Calvin Payne, All of those cases

thrown out of court. Now the police and the council

are being told they are going to have to find different ways

of solving this long-running Calvin Payne says his

fellow protesters will be I would tell them now that we will

only let you do what we decide as a community that we are going

to let you do. So if they want to do their work,

they need to come and talk to us, but we are not going to accept that

150-year-old tree is felled for Meanwhile, South Yorkshire's Police

Commissioner says the way the prosecutions have been handled

has been wasting time and money. In a sense, it is over to you,

Sheffield City Council, to find out a political solution,

but if they think that this can be resolved by the police taking action

and bringing arrests under trade union legislation,

that clearly isn't going to happen because the Crown Prosecution

Service won't allow it. There is a difference

between protesting and preventing, and the protesters,

if they are preventing the legal work and our responsibilities,

then I would ask them to consider this and stand to one

side, and allow us to South Yorkshire Police say

they acknowledge the dropping of the legal actions,

but have added... The controversial tree-felling

is due to be completed by the end of this year,

whether or not protests continue. John Cundy,

BBC Look North, Sheffield. Earlier, I spoke to James

Littlehales, a criminal barrister. I asked him what he thought

of the Police Crime Commissioner dismissing further arrests under

trade union laws. I thought all along

that they were in some difficulties arresting

and trying to prosecute people Certainly, for example, people

who were on their own private land, And I know the Crown

Prosecution Service have taken the view about it,

the various cases that there have been, and not proceeded with them,

and I can't say I'm shocked at all. Yeah, that's what they've

said, haven't they? The CPS have said they are not going

to pursue charges because they don't want to criminalise people

for peaceful protests. I think you must have the right

to protest peacefully, and it would appear lawfully,

in the circumstances now. So, the police are now placing it

back with the politicians, saying they need to take

a more active role. Will they, then,

use civil injunctions? The remedy for Sheffield

would be civil injunctions The problem there is it's

the council tax payers of Sheffield who are effectively funding any

actions against themselves. What would you say politicians

will be thinking right now, knowing that the Police

Crime Commissioner has said, I would be surprised

if they use a number Their concern must be

that they don't wish to alienate The Crown Prosecution Service has

received files from police in West Yorkshire, Derbyshire

and Nottinghamshire in relation Around 20 forces across the country

have been looking at the expenses of Conservative MPs in marginal

seats, to see if the costs of activists being bussed

in for support should have The constituencies involved

haven't been named. A fundraising page set up in memory

of a 14-year-old Sheffield boy who died following a kickboxing

fight has raised more than ?4,000. Scott Marsden died a few days

after collapsing during a kickboxing title fight in Leeds

on Saturday night. Yorkshire Ambulance Service has

responded to criticism of its response to the incident

from the president of the World Kickboxing

Association, England. It says it worked

tirelessly to save Scott. A teenager arrested in connection

with the death of a woman who was hit by a car in Doncaster

has been released on bail. 62-year-old grandmother Susan Gravel

was knocked down in Stainforth A 17-year-old boy who arrested

on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been bailed

while inquiries continue. A water pump has been unveiled

in York in honour of the scientist who first discovered that Cholera

was a waterborne disease. Dr John Snow was born

in the city in 1813. Today his descendants and academics

from the University of York gathered Dr Snow's research helped

end a cholera epidemic He was also

Queen Victoria's anaesthetist. People know about his work

on cholera perhaps more than his work on anaesthesia,

but I think his history is really, sort of, focused very

much on his London time, and his connections to York

are not very well-known, and I think it's a good thing that

we're having more prominence Now let's take a look

at the weather. It has been lovely today. Absolutely

sunny and it felt like maybe instead of March. Up to 15 Celsius. Say

goodbye to the dry and fine and sunny and mild weather, because

unsettled for Friday and the weekend. Tomorrow a transitional day

with more cloud and cooler, with a bit of rain in most places staying

dry. It has been settled but the pressure chart means lots of low

pressure and a fast moving jet stream pushing in our direction,

with several weather fronts through with several weather fronts through

Friday in the weekend. Quite blustery conditions as well with

tightly packed isobars. Some isolated miss Venus through this

evening and then generally a bit more cloud through the west

overnight. Merely for western and north-western part. Seven or eight

Celsius. The best sunshine tomorrow through the morning and away from

the hills. Gradually everywhere, a bit more cloud developing through

the day, before becoming overcast the day, before becoming overcast

during afternoon. Rain in the north-west edging down from the

deals along the Pennines and not much headway until tomorrow evening.

When it does, all this rain will fragment. Like a patchy rain later

in the day and soggy through the afternoon in the Dales. Cooler than

today with temperatures up to 11 Celsius. A cold start and touch of

frost on Friday and windy day with rain for the hills. That's it from

the late been. The outlook, rain around, if

it stays dry I will be surprised. Here is Nick with the national

headlines. For large parts of Wales and England

there was blue sky and warmth. Warmest day of the year, a clumsy

way of saying the UK had the highest temperature of the year so far.

There have been big contrasts. Some of that misty, murky weather to the

south-west is advancing across other parts of England and Wales through

the night. Ahead of that, where we have clear spells, central and

eastern England there could be fog patches developing, outbreaks of

rain