:00:11. > :00:17.Welcome to Wednesday's BBC Look North.
:00:17. > :00:19.Cleared of rape - the police officer and former Mr Gay UK is
:00:19. > :00:26.cleared of accusations of sexual assault.
:00:26. > :00:29.The father who may not have died if his 999 call had been -- if his
:00:29. > :00:34.family's 999 call had been dealt with better.
:00:34. > :00:41.And combine with me - we film the North's first secret supper club.
:00:41. > :00:51.Shower clouds in the distance in Bradford. More of those to come
:00:51. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:57.Some breaking news which is just coming in. Dozens of North
:00:57. > :01:00.Yorkshire police officers are at this very moment searching for a
:01:00. > :01:06.missing 11-year-old schoolboy on the outskirts of York. The boy, who
:01:06. > :01:10.was last seen at young -- at lunchtime, is described by the
:01:10. > :01:15.police as vulnerable. Danny joins us from the newsroom. What more can
:01:15. > :01:25.you tell us at this stage? As you say, he is an 11-year-old boy. His
:01:25. > :01:30.name is Daniel Cozens. He is described as a bomber boy -- as a
:01:30. > :01:33.vulnerable youngster. He was last seen at lunchtime wearing his
:01:33. > :01:38.school uniform. The police have initiated a massive search
:01:38. > :01:46.operation. Over 36 officers are currently looking in areas where a
:01:46. > :01:50.child might hide to see if they can locate the missing youngster.
:01:50. > :01:56.Police would like anyone with any information to come forward. Light
:01:56. > :02:01.is on their sides, it is not expected to be dark until after
:02:01. > :02:04.10pm. It is very important that Daniel is finders bet -- as quickly
:02:04. > :02:07.as possible. His safety is paramount and Yorkshire police say
:02:07. > :02:11.that, if you know anything, you should get in touch.
:02:11. > :02:19.Thank you very much. We hope to bring you an update on that story
:02:20. > :02:24.later in the programme. A 28-year-old police constable with
:02:24. > :02:31.the West Yorkshire force has been cleared by a jury in Leeds of two
:02:31. > :02:38.charges of male rape. PC Mark Carter, a former Mr Gay UK, was
:02:38. > :02:42.also acquitted of sexual assaults on men during a pre-Christmas party
:02:42. > :02:47.in 2009. Our crime correspondent has this
:02:47. > :02:50.story. For the past two weeks, Constable
:02:50. > :02:55.Mark Carter has been facing a court jury deciding on charges against
:02:55. > :03:00.him following a police pre- Christmas party in Leeds in
:03:00. > :03:03.December 2009. He has been suspended from the West Yorkshire
:03:03. > :03:09.force where he has served in Huddersfield ever since the
:03:09. > :03:13.accusations were made against him. They are related to a ledge and
:03:13. > :03:16.sexual assaults on two men in this leads restaurant and a third that
:03:16. > :03:21.the city centre nightclub. It had been alleged that, later that
:03:21. > :03:25.December night, PC Carter had twice raped a man in a bedroom at this
:03:25. > :03:30.hotel in Leeds. Today he was cleared of those rape charges and
:03:30. > :03:33.two of the three alleges that sexual assaults. PC Carter had
:03:33. > :03:38.admitted being stupidly drunk that night but denied all the
:03:38. > :03:47.accusations against him. There was loud applause and cheering from a
:03:48. > :03:51.packed public gallery as the jury acquitted PC Mark Carter of two
:03:51. > :03:56.charges of male rape and two charges of sexual assault. PC
:03:56. > :04:02.Carter broke out in floods of tears and, outside the court and, he was
:04:03. > :04:08.hugged by his supporters. PC Mark Carter, a former Mr Gay UK,
:04:08. > :04:12.said during his trial that police colleagues were aware of his clear
:04:12. > :04:18.sexuality and were supportive. He said the charges against him had
:04:18. > :04:23.been a living nightmare. He knows that legal proceedings may still
:04:23. > :04:27.not be over. Let us now go to our crime
:04:27. > :04:34.correspondent who is at Leeds Crown Court. John, is there like -- are
:04:34. > :04:38.there likely to be any more legal proceedings Mr against PC Carter?
:04:38. > :04:42.We do not know. In relation to that one charge on which the jury could
:04:42. > :04:52.not reach a verdict despite retiring for more than five-and-a-
:04:52. > :04:53.
:04:53. > :04:57.half bars, that is the one of a leg just -- of alleged sexual assault,
:04:57. > :05:04.the prosecutor was asked if she would be pursuing that in light of
:05:04. > :05:08.the other charges. She took some advice, came back to court and said
:05:08. > :05:11.she could not be certain about that. The CPS will have to make a
:05:12. > :05:21.decision within the next seven days on whether to pursue a retrial on
:05:22. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:26.that matter. The appearance of Mark Carter and whether he will continue
:05:26. > :05:30.with West Yorkshire Police or not cannot yet be decided. It is not
:05:30. > :05:36.yet over. Later on BBC Look North: Palmer to
:05:36. > :05:41.the people - plans to build huge wind turbines that would look more
:05:41. > :05:49.over York were unexpectedly turned down today. -- which would loom
:05:49. > :05:53.over York. The family of a man who died after
:05:53. > :05:59.his 999 call was not properly handled by a West Yorkshire
:05:59. > :06:05.Ambulance Service... Perez is -- Pervez Iqbal died after paramedics
:06:05. > :06:09.took more than quarter-of-an-hour to get him.
:06:09. > :06:11.It was found that the Kohl Handel did not support the family
:06:11. > :06:19.adequately as they try to revive him.
:06:19. > :06:23.It is a harrowing listen. He is not breathing. OK, try and come down
:06:23. > :06:27.for me. A recording of the final moments of
:06:27. > :06:32.Pervez Iqbal's life from the emergency call into the ambulance
:06:32. > :06:40.control room. His eldest son is being instructed on how to carry it
:06:40. > :06:47.CPR by a call handler. Tell him to shout out in fours. That is too
:06:47. > :06:57.fast. Listen to me, one, two, three, four.
:06:57. > :06:57.
:06:57. > :07:00.The crew can be held -- heard calling for more back-up. Do you
:07:00. > :07:10.have another pair of hands for this detail? I will let him know that
:07:10. > :07:11.
:07:11. > :07:17.you need somebody. Mr Iqbal was 59. He died at home 40
:07:17. > :07:21.minutes after the 999 call was made. It was 13 minutes of CPR. Which
:07:21. > :07:26.your brother had never done before? He had never done it before, he did
:07:26. > :07:31.not have the expedience. He still blames himself, he thinks he did
:07:31. > :07:35.not do it the right way. The ambulance service have accepted
:07:35. > :07:41.the family's criticisms of the call handler. He did not, they say,
:07:41. > :07:47.managed to call in support of way. We have done a some reflect of work
:07:47. > :07:51.with the call handler involved and some additional training has been
:07:51. > :07:56.provided to ensure that he can manage such calls better in the
:07:56. > :08:02.future. He should have sympathised towards the situation. There was no
:08:02. > :08:06.sympathising, no encouragement like, you are doing well, carry on. I
:08:06. > :08:12.could have done that call. The family say their language has
:08:12. > :08:20.been made worse by their proximity to Bradford's main ambulance
:08:20. > :08:25.station and the Royal Infirmary. The family want to make other
:08:25. > :08:29.families aware of the risks in dialling 999. It could be someone
:08:29. > :08:35.else's husband, wife, son, daughter. Tomorrow, they might go through the
:08:35. > :08:38.same thing. I would just like to stop that, hoping that they do not
:08:38. > :08:41.go through what we went through, because it is a horrible thing to
:08:41. > :08:46.live with. Our health correspondent joins us
:08:46. > :08:49.now. What has been the response? For the ambulance service had given
:08:49. > :08:56.as a statement in which they apologised to the family of Mr
:08:56. > :09:00.Iqbal for the distress caused and pass on their condolences. They
:09:00. > :09:04.have addressed some of the issues raised. They say they would like to
:09:04. > :09:13.assure members of the public that patient care is their utmost
:09:13. > :09:18.priority and the aim to -- their aim is to provide a high-quality
:09:18. > :09:23.service. The ambulance service was formed in
:09:23. > :09:28.2006 from the merger of three services. It covers a huge area. It
:09:28. > :09:31.has been marked as poor run at least three occasions. The new
:09:31. > :09:38.health care regulator, the Care Quality Commission, imposed a
:09:38. > :09:41.condition on it last year. Based at -- they said they had to get to 75%
:09:41. > :09:46.of life-threatening calls within eight minutes. In September, they
:09:46. > :09:51.said that the ambulance service had achieved that. They have actually
:09:51. > :09:54.got to 76% of those emergency calls within eight minutes. Obviously,
:09:54. > :09:58.their performance continues to be monitored.
:09:58. > :10:01.Detectives investigating a break-in Leeds city centre in the early
:10:01. > :10:05.hours of Monday have released CCTV footage of a woman that they want
:10:05. > :10:10.to talk to. The images show her being approached by two men who
:10:10. > :10:13.appear to speak to her. She walks off and is followed for a short
:10:14. > :10:19.time by the same two men. Arrive half-an-hour later, another woman
:10:19. > :10:24.was grabbed by a group of males, dragged into a doorway and raped.
:10:25. > :10:34.Today we have come across new CCTV footage that comes from the top of
:10:35. > :10:36.
:10:36. > :10:39.the town. The images are of two young men who followed by young
:10:39. > :10:46.woman quarter of an hour before the attack. We would release like -- we
:10:46. > :10:50.would really like to speak to them. The young woman the apparently
:10:50. > :10:54.followed, we believe that she may have vital information and could
:10:54. > :10:58.tell us about these young men. Police in Sheffield are appealing
:10:58. > :11:02.for witnesses after a seven-year- old girl was hit by a car. The girl
:11:02. > :11:06.was crossing Shirland Lane in Darnall on a scooter. The driver
:11:06. > :11:09.was not hurt. The police want to hear from anyone who saw the girl
:11:09. > :11:13.and the car immediately below -- before the collision.
:11:13. > :11:16.The father of missing York chef Claudia Lawrence has been giving
:11:16. > :11:19.evidence at the Houses of Parliament. If Peter Lawrence spoke
:11:19. > :11:23.to on all-party parliamentary committee looking into the rights
:11:23. > :11:26.of relatives of people who had disappeared. He would like the
:11:26. > :11:33.government to take steps to simplify bureaucracy the stock we
:11:33. > :11:36.are not at this stage where I want to be preserving that my daughter
:11:36. > :11:40.is dead. There are a lot of people in the same position. In the
:11:40. > :11:44.meantime, you have to deal with their mortgage, insurance, their
:11:44. > :11:50.bank, their car and everything else. It seems to me to be common sense
:11:50. > :11:53.that there needs to be a procedure. Leeds City Region has picked the
:11:53. > :11:57.Leeds Aire Valley site as its choice for an enterprise zone. The
:11:57. > :12:04.Government announced plans for the zones this year to cut planning red
:12:04. > :12:10.tape and so create jobs. Officials say the Aire Valley site could
:12:10. > :12:15.create almost 10,000 jobs by 2025. A new outpatients unit at
:12:15. > :12:18.Huddersfield Royal Infirmary opened today at a cost of almost �400,000.
:12:18. > :12:22.A hospital says it will save money by grouping services together under
:12:22. > :12:29.one roof. Designers in charge of redeveloping
:12:29. > :12:33.Sheffield's Park Hill flats have incorporated an infamous line of
:12:33. > :12:37.graffiti into of work of art. The graffiti, spelling out, I love you,
:12:37. > :12:44.will you marry me, was scrawled on a bridge and became famous when a
:12:44. > :12:54.member of the band The Arctic hat - - The Arctic Monkeys wore it on his
:12:54. > :12:57.T-shirt. Whatever next (XXX) x were there was a victory for people
:12:58. > :13:03.power today. It was unexpected. Plans to place a
:13:03. > :13:10.wind mast in York have been turned down and residents in Copmanthorpe
:13:10. > :13:15.were faced with five wind turbines been erected near their homes. That
:13:15. > :13:22.prospect receded this afternoon after proposals to put up a test
:13:22. > :13:26.mast were rejected. Local residents gathered to celebrate their victory.
:13:26. > :13:32.These are the fields earmarked by developers for a wind farm. The
:13:32. > :13:36.first stage in that process was the building of one mast 70 metres high.
:13:36. > :13:40.It was planning permission for that but councillor's roundly refused to
:13:40. > :13:48.give at their meeting this afternoon. They voted against it 8-
:13:48. > :13:53.Cheers of jubilation as Copmanthorpe residents celebrated a
:13:53. > :13:57.victory they did not think they would see. They packed the chamber
:13:57. > :14:03.as councillors debated whether to allow a 17 metre mast to be built
:14:03. > :14:08.near their homes. It is York Minster that dominates the skyline
:14:08. > :14:12.around here. Its tallest tower is around 70 metres high. The test
:14:12. > :14:18.mast would have been a similar height. Any others would have been
:14:18. > :14:22.a maximum of 145 metres. Totally inappropriate in the Green Belt,
:14:22. > :14:26.according to the residents. And the council has agreed.
:14:26. > :14:30.The listens to what I think was a reasonable debate from the action
:14:30. > :14:33.group and the residents. The arguments that were put forward,
:14:33. > :14:40.they have taken on board the intrusion into the green belt,
:14:40. > :14:43.which is so important. It is a great privilege to have been in the
:14:43. > :14:46.meeting to see the council's response to such a horrible thing
:14:46. > :14:56.that would have happened to the green belt. We were expecting not
:14:56. > :14:59.
:14:59. > :15:04.They were unable to convince the councillors. The rejection of the
:15:04. > :15:08.mast, left alone at turbines, is a bitter blow for them. We don't have
:15:08. > :15:12.a decision yet as to what we will do. We have to take stock of the
:15:12. > :15:17.council's decision, look at the refusal reasons, and inform people
:15:17. > :15:22.at the right time as to what we will do. So the green fields of
:15:22. > :15:28.Copmanthorpe are safe for now. But absolute security, the residents
:15:28. > :15:32.must wait for the official response. This has been a highly organised
:15:32. > :15:36.fight by Copmanthorpe residents. Nearly 600 letters of objection
:15:36. > :15:40.were written, with just 12 in support of the windfarm. They
:15:40. > :15:48.haven't said so, but the developers could appeal. It just depends
:15:48. > :15:53.whether they have the stomach for another bite. -- fight.
:15:53. > :15:59.Before 7pm, Yorkshire warm-up for their roses 2020 encounter with the
:15:59. > :16:05.old enemy at Headingley tomorrow. And they are invited but you don't
:16:05. > :16:10.know any of them. But the dinner guests breeding as much of a
:16:10. > :16:20.surprise to the hostess asked to each other. -- proving.
:16:20. > :16:25.We turned to football now. The fixture lists for next season
:16:25. > :16:30.aren't published until tomorrow. But we do know already who our
:16:30. > :16:39.teams will be facing in the Carling teams will be facing in the Carling
:16:39. > :16:41.A Super League player who crashed his car during a high-speed police
:16:41. > :16:44.chase has been jailed for four months. Castleford Tigers' Martin
:16:44. > :16:47.Aspinwall was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court, following arrest near
:16:47. > :16:49.his home in Wigan. The sentence comes just four months after the
:16:49. > :16:58.former Huddersfield and Great Britain player received a suspended
:16:58. > :17:02.eight-month jail term for punching a man in Wigan Town centre.
:17:02. > :17:05.This time tomorrow, Yorkshire will take on the old enemy Lancashire at
:17:05. > :17:08.Headingley, looking to do the double over them in the Twenty20
:17:08. > :17:13.Cup. Having started the competition
:17:13. > :17:23.Pauley, Yorkshire are back in it, thanks to tight victories including
:17:23. > :17:31.
:17:31. > :17:35.There is a bit of confidence after winning two games in a row. Ed
:17:35. > :17:41.gives us a bit of momentum, gives us a bit of a buzz. Hopefully we
:17:41. > :17:46.can take that into tomorrow night. How was it for you lot at Old
:17:46. > :17:51.Trafford? It was nail-biting. My heart was beating, but it was good
:17:51. > :17:55.at the end, jumping out of the dug- out, the lads jumping around.
:17:55. > :18:00.was a bit nerve-racking, but you try and keep a philosophical view
:18:00. > :18:06.on things, stay as calm as possible. It was quite tense, the last couple
:18:06. > :18:13.of wins, but the thing is, it is getting into the habit of winning,
:18:13. > :18:19.and hopefully the momentum is with us. Yorkshire's young guns are
:18:19. > :18:22.starting to fire. Azeem Rafiq was the one who held his nerve to see
:18:22. > :18:25.Yorkshire home at Old Trafford, he's looking forward to doing the
:18:25. > :18:31.same infront of his own crowd. you wake up in the morning, you get
:18:31. > :18:36.excited to come to the ground, you know you will get people there, the
:18:36. > :18:41.last few years, everyone has enjoyed the 2020, you can just ride
:18:41. > :18:45.on the atmosphere, the pressure of the situation. It is good playing
:18:45. > :18:50.in front of a big crowd. Often county cricketers played to
:18:50. > :18:55.galleries as empty as this one, but not tomorrow, they are hoping for a
:18:55. > :18:59.full house. They have sold 10,000 tickets. All they need now is for
:18:59. > :19:02.the whether to play ball. That is probably going to be the
:19:02. > :19:08.crucial factor. Looking at the National weather forecast, it looks
:19:08. > :19:15.like it will be a bit rainy. But Yorkshire, playing well. Hopefully
:19:15. > :19:20.they will turn a Lancashire over tomorrow.
:19:20. > :19:24.I think they seem pretty confident. You can never be that confident, it
:19:24. > :19:27.is a bit of a smash, bang, wallop sort of cricket come but we will
:19:27. > :19:31.see. The latest trendy way to eat has
:19:31. > :19:34.finally arrived in Yorkshire. Secret, or underground supper clubs
:19:34. > :19:39.have been popular in New York and London for a long time.
:19:39. > :19:43.You could actually running your own, because I want the deal is to know,
:19:43. > :19:47.you have bought some culinary equipment but I wouldn't associate
:19:47. > :19:52.with you! I have a bread-making machine. I
:19:52. > :20:00.have not opened it yet, but I'm going to have a go at it soon. You
:20:00. > :20:04.will be the first guinea pig! Actually, the secret supper-club is
:20:04. > :20:08.an interesting concept. It means that you put out a message saying,
:20:08. > :20:12.come to dinner, but you don't know who your guests are going to be. A
:20:12. > :20:18.lawyer from North Yorkshire has launched her own in a remote
:20:18. > :20:22.farmhouse near Harrogate. She enjoys cooking for people she has
:20:22. > :20:27.never met. Charlotte prepares for her dinner
:20:27. > :20:30.party by averaging elderflower in rural North Yorkshire. Tomorrow she
:20:30. > :20:35.is cooking a three-course meal in her own home for eight people she
:20:35. > :20:39.has never met. The guests have booked online. It is called a
:20:39. > :20:44.secret, or underground supper-club, a trend which developed in New York
:20:44. > :20:49.and has now arrived in Yorkshire. We do it for fun. It is all about
:20:49. > :20:54.meeting new people, it is something where I can be quite creative. I
:20:54. > :21:02.really love to meet the different people that come. Seven days a pm
:21:02. > :21:08.on a Saturday evening. -- 7:30pm. Now, the guests are here. The theme
:21:08. > :21:18.is a Midsummer's night. So here are the guests. I am from Headingley. A
:21:18. > :21:22.
:21:22. > :21:27.I'm from Halifax. We are from Leeds. I am Martin, this is Suzanne.
:21:27. > :21:32.time to sit down for starters. Charlotte calls herself the cooking
:21:32. > :21:36.very, and runs a website with tips and reviews. The guests don't pay
:21:36. > :21:40.for their meal, but make a donation to cover the costs of the
:21:40. > :21:44.ingredients. The main course is a chicken with what she called in
:21:44. > :21:48.Moonbeam salad. It was quite stressful at the beginning, because
:21:48. > :21:53.we had to deal with the elderflower fritters. People were getting lost,
:21:53. > :21:58.so that was quite stressful. But yes, it is good. Everybody seems to
:21:58. > :22:05.be having fun. This is the 4th underground restaurant I have been
:22:05. > :22:12.to, and it is the first one in Leeds, and in the north. Good food,
:22:12. > :22:17.good conversation. It is not something I would normally ever do,
:22:17. > :22:22.I am meeting new people. Really good. Definitely do it again, a
:22:22. > :22:26.very good indeed. I think it has gone really well, it has been good
:22:26. > :22:32.fun, everyone seems to have enjoyed the food, which is the first thing.
:22:32. > :22:40.So, a big success. But the real hero is Charlotte's partner, who
:22:40. > :22:43.was washed up for 10 people. absolute angel!
:22:43. > :22:52.Thousands of people including us have been hugging each other in
:22:52. > :22:54.Leeds today to mark National Carers Week. 70,000 people in different
:22:54. > :22:57.places across the city hugged each other. Each hug represents the
:22:57. > :23:02.emotional support carers provide to the people they care for. The event
:23:02. > :23:05.was organised by Age UK. Dozens of North Yorkshire police
:23:05. > :23:10.officers are searching for a missing 11-year-old schoolboy on
:23:10. > :23:14.the outskirts of York. Daniel Cousins was last seen at
:23:14. > :23:20.lunchtime at school. He was described by police as being
:23:20. > :23:24.vulnerable. Our reporter has the latest. What can you tell us?
:23:24. > :23:30.this is a big operation by North Yorkshire police, some 36 officers
:23:30. > :23:36.are now involved, 20 or so are regrouping in the school behind me
:23:36. > :23:41.to work out a strategy. Sergeant Paul, how concerned are you by the
:23:41. > :23:47.disappearance of this young Paul -- boy? I am very concerned. He is
:23:47. > :23:52.aged 11. We have a picture of him here. This is Daniel. This school
:23:52. > :23:59.uniform is not quite right, he is wearing a black blazer, white shirt,
:23:59. > :24:04.and a green sage tide. He suffers from autism, and he has been
:24:04. > :24:10.missing since 12:15pm today. We haven't had any sightings since
:24:10. > :24:12.then have this young lad. So we are very concerned about his welfare.
:24:12. > :24:16.believe you're enlisting air support and a search and rescue
:24:16. > :24:23.team as well. I have asked for extra resources to come into the
:24:23. > :24:28.city, to help search for this young lad. What I would like to do is ask
:24:28. > :24:35.for the citizens of York took court in if they see Daniel. -- to call
:24:35. > :24:39.him. He is 5 ft tall, slim build. Slightly protruding front teeth. He
:24:39. > :24:44.is wearing it the Joseph Rowntree school uniform. Because of his
:24:44. > :24:48.condition, he will run, and he will not communicate with people. So it
:24:48. > :24:54.is imperative we do find him as soon as we possibly can. If you
:24:54. > :24:58.have seen him, please call North Yorkshire police. If you have seen
:24:58. > :25:05.Daniel tonight, as the officer says, get in touch with North Yorkshire
:25:05. > :25:09.police. That search will continue this evening, hopefully there will
:25:09. > :25:14.be a good conclusion to this story. Please get in touch with North
:25:15. > :25:18.Yorkshire police if you have seen of this young man. He is called
:25:18. > :25:28.Daniel, and he does have problems, but we hope he is safe.
:25:28. > :25:37.
:25:37. > :25:41.Time at but the weather. -- time A spectacular sunset last night.
:25:41. > :25:45.But you did not to be any pictures of the lunar eclipse, I don't think
:25:45. > :25:50.many people saw it, a bit of a disappointment. An untitled picture
:25:50. > :25:55.over the next few days. It will last for much of the next week as
:25:55. > :26:05.well. It looks more like October or November with that active weather
:26:05. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:14.system. Hopefully it will clear through Saturday morning. A lot of
:26:14. > :26:21.sunshine around, but that much of north and west Yorkshire should be
:26:21. > :26:31.dry. Any showers that are around in the next few hours should to sort
:26:31. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:43.out. -- should fizzle out. The sun will rise in the morning at 4:34am,
:26:43. > :26:50.most of us off to a dry, bright start, especially in the east. But
:26:50. > :26:53.one or two showers from the world - - from the word go. Slowly it will
:26:53. > :27:01.cloud over, those showers could will merge to give longer spells of
:27:01. > :27:07.rain. By tomorrow evening, most places will be wet. By the end of
:27:07. > :27:16.the afternoon, we will see temperatures at around 17 or 18
:27:16. > :27:20.degrees with a moderate south or South easterly wind. 10 or 15 mm of
:27:20. > :27:30.rain, great news for farmers. Saturday morning get off to a wet
:27:30. > :27:31.