09/02/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

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The main news from around Yorkshire today: A ?50 million factory and 200

jobs for South Yorkshire as supercar manufacturer Mclaren roll into town.

De-cluttering York's medieval streets.

The council cracks down on advertising boards on the pavements.

The luxury supercar manufacturer McLaren has officially announced

this lunchtime it's going to build a ?50 million

factory in South Yorkshire, creating 200 jobs.

The factory will build parts for the supercars at the University

Our Business Correspondent Danni Hewson reports.

These beauties behind me are exactly the

ones that here in South Yorkshire we are going to be helping make to

That is because McLaren have announced a ?50 million investment

in building chassis and I'm joined now by the Chief Executive,

We looked long and hard about where we were going to

develop this facility and Sheffield really was the obvious answer to it

Sheffield University have done a huge amount

of work on advanced lightweight structures, that is what our cars

The City Council have been amazingly supportive in putting this together.

The University, ourselves and the City Council.

There is also a great pool of skilled people here that we can

We have put the whole thing together.

Sheffield actually became the obvious answer for us.

We talked a lot in the past about engineering,

With these cars it must make a difference in

how particularly kids think about it.

I don't think there is a young person or a young

boy in the world who isn't attracted by cars like this.

I have spent 34 years in the automotive and an manufacturing

industry and I love it and it is exciting.

Particularly exciting when this is the fruit

I think it is inspirational for people.

They have amazingly already recruited their first apprentice.

An advert for more jobs will be running in the paper tomorrow

and the first prototype will be coming off the lines

The steel giant Tata Steel UK has announced that it's reached

an agreement with the Liberty House group to sell its Speciality Steels

The sale covers several South Yorkshire-based plants

including the electric arc steelworks and bar mill

at Rotherham, the steel purifying facility in Stocksbridge and a mill

The funeral is taking place this lunchtime of a 16-year

old girl who was murdered in South Yorkshire last month.

Leonne Weeks' body was found on a path in Dinnington near Rotherham.

18-year-old Peter Heeley has been charged with her murder.

The funeral service is at St Leonard's church.

The service in church I put together with Leona's family.

She loved music and that is going to be represented

strongly in the service, both by recorded music and by her friend

singing, which is I think a lovely thing for him to do.

Latest figures show that all the hospital trusts

in our region failed to meet the government's A target

in December with the exception of Sheffield Children's Hospital.

Guidelines say that 95% of patients should be

The figures released by NHS England show that the Mid Yorkshire Trust

only managed 77% of patients in that time, while Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Officers from North Yorkshire Police Road Crime team had a busy night.

They spotted a four by four with false number

plates towing this generator using a flimsy strap.

One wheel fell off, causing these sparks.

Police pursued the vehicle along the A19 at Askham when the generator

finally slipped its moorings as it went off-road.

They haven't yet arrested anyone in connection with the incident,

but are appealing for anyone with information to come forward.

Officials will discuss more than 80 recommendations made in a report

More than 600 homes and businesses were badly affected

Councillors say they've already got an action plan

and will meet later to talk about what else they

York City Council has claimed its ban on pavement

It's a year-long trial and the council says the city's

streets have seen a marked decrease in just the first week.

The ban is an attempt to de-clutter the ancient narrow streets.

But some shops owners say it could harm their trade.

Here's Ian Reeve our business correspondent.

Gillygate, home to some of York's quirkiest shops.

He advertises his gaming business with a board on the

But the council has banned them from the city.

Removing so called A boards will give pedestrians a

The first few months I was here, I'd say 90% of the people that

came into the shot came in because they saw my A board.

This street that we are on, Gillygate, is not

In a very narrow, so you wouldn't want to walk down here

unless something dragged your attention.

You know, A boards are the cheapest way to get people's

The council said the ban is a year-long trial to de-clutter

I don't think it's anti-business, at all.

I think we don't want to prevent businesses, we

We are doing lots of things in the city to

And I can see why they would say that, but the A boards can be

We're working with the planning authority purely and simply to make

sure that we help them as much as we possibly can.

For Diane, the ban has been long awaited.

As it has by York's estimated total of 6,000

When you have got limited vision, it is

Particularly in areas where there is not just

street cafes, there are binbags, there are benches.

Any number of different things that you can bump

A boards are something that we can do something about.

Thankfully, the council has decided to do that.

A week in, and the council says the ban is working.

Keep the advertising board ban, says Lee, and there will

It's happy birthday today for a very special Yorkshirewoman who's reached

Doreen Brigham wrote the words for the BBC's specially commissioned

Symphony for Yorkshire when she was only 98.

She worked with hundreds of musicians at nearly 50

locations in the county to produce a remarkable legacy of music.

Happy birthday. We were promised the beast from the east, look what has

rocked in. New suit, love? I saw the man in McLaren. It has been thick

enough to produce a few wintry flurries. This little disturbance

might make showers more frequent. Covering of snow. Rain and sleet

more likely. It is cold out there. A few flurries. Temperatures

struggling. 0 Celsius. Maximum temperature we are expecting first

short period of time. That is 37 Fahrenheit. Heading through this

evening and overnight, cloudy skies continue with a scattering of light

snow flows. A bit of sleet with them. Untreated services with

temperatures generally speaking at or below freezing point. Friday is a

broad day again. A cloudy one with a scattering of mainly like to sleet

and snow showers. The emphasis is still on a great deal of dry

weather. Those showers become more frequent. Friday night into Saturday

morning. Rain, sleet and hill snow coming into Saturday morning. Sunday

through early next week, temperatures will gradually will

ride and by the middle of next week, it should be some what milder. That

is the forecast. Lovely. Right. All is to sell a few more motors and

some patio doors. Stop it! That is it from us. Steve later.

Wales! Ireland!

The Roman Empire! CHEERING

Shirley Bassey. Tom Jones, obviously.

Jonny Wilkinson's feet. THEY ROAR

Invented the bicycle. The internet.

Telephone. Bagpipes.

Come on, Wales. THEY ROAR