04/03/2017 Look North (East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire)

against Spain's Fernando Verdasco, but recovered to win

A woman from Hull could become one of the first in the country

to undergo brain surgery performed by a robot.

That's if enough money can be raised to keep the machine

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

and carry out neuro-surgery with an accuracy previously

A fundraising campaign is now under way 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 her life is severely restricted.

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

I am not allowed to go out the house on my own,

If I do too much I get too tired and then I end up having

But there is hope for Leanne in the form of a

robot which carries out the most challenging brain surgery.

The Royal Hallamshire in Sheffield is the first

I know it sounds like science fiction but it

This is the ROSA robot, it's incredibly clever.

It makes a 3-D map of a person's brain and then

can pinpoint extremely accurately where to do the surgery.

It is much less invasive and it means the

If there is a way we can do complicated

brain operations without having to send the patient to intensive care

post operatively without being a general anaesthetic, these reduce

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

precise information as well, Ihope then it is a bonus.

But they need a quarter of ?1 million to keep the

So a fundraising campaign has been launched and ?50,000 was donated.

It means Leanne can be treated by the

robot which will hopefully be her cure.

When I went to Sheffield they can kind of give

the tunnel and I have never had the kind of chance to say

I just find that amazing that something can do that.

Leanne Hall ending that report by Mark Ansell.

Humberside Police are reassuring the public, after a spate of car

jackings across Hull and East Yorkshire.They're

investigating several aggravated vehicle thefts that took place

yesterday morning, including an attempted one in Hedon.

A 23-year-old arrested yesterday remains in police custody.

Whilst we do have one outstanding suspect,

there is no ongoing threat to the public.

We have put those reassurance patrols in place.

Again, thank you again for the public response we did have

The incidence of this nature are rare and I are pleased

to say that we did respond to that and bring it to a safe conclusion.

Public safety is our ultimate responsibility.

Tonnes of rubbish ended up on the beach after

Today around 30 volunteers spent several hours clearing up things

such as polystyrene, plastic and fishing wire.

It's been a bad afternoon for Hull City.

The Tigers have lost away to fellow strugglers Leicester.

The final score was three goals to one.

Hull remain second from bottom in the Premier League.

And our other teams have been in action too.

Grimsby Town lost at home to Wycombe by two goals to one.

And in the National League, Lincoln City had a goalless

And North Ferriby United beat Woking by two goals to one.

And now the weather with Lisa Gallagher.

A chance of seeing a few showers to end the day but tomorrow it

is going to turn out to be rather wet.

I think it will be the worst day of the two over the weekend so

we have seen some distant light of sunshine today but a few showers

will push on from the West led to this evening.

Overnight may be a few clipping western parts per for

most will be a dry night with clear spells and temperatures down to four

For tomorrow it will be a fine start to the day the

cloud is going to increase in the south as we go to the day

and will be outbreaks of rain pushing across.

Some will be heavy at times but there will still be some

Cooler than today at seven degrees or eight degrees.

Hello. I could have put almost anything in this sphere today such

was the variety. Some of you saw showers but the cloud is sitting

lower in the atmosphere. It was nice enough this morning across the

Midlands, not just here in Birmingham, but in that slot, it

filled in disappointingly, the showers were always there in Wales

and the South West and they crept further into the yeast, and further

into the North. All of that is driven by this low pressure, we have

had wind rain and snow in Scotland which becomes confined to the

Shetland Islands overnight making room for another band of weather in

the South West and in between, a touch of frost and perhaps a bit of

fog. This is how we start the day on Sunday, the rain and wind confined

to the Shetland Islands, elsewhere the good news story in Scotland,

Northern Ireland and the north of England is that you will get to see

some shots -- sunshine. A much improved day than