01/07/2011

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:00:04. > :00:06.Good evening and welcome to Look North. The headlines this Friday

:00:06. > :00:11.evening: Incompetent police and killers that

:00:11. > :00:14.got away with murder. James Kamara was shot and killed on

:00:14. > :00:19.the streets of Sheffield two years ago and today his mother condemns

:00:19. > :00:24.the police investigation. Sometimes I dream about him and when I wake

:00:24. > :00:27.up it is like I do not want to break up and I want to go back into

:00:27. > :00:31.my dream. Also tonight:

:00:31. > :00:34.D-Day for campaigners. It is the final day of public

:00:34. > :00:36.consultation over plans that could see the closure of Leeds Children's

:00:36. > :00:41.Heart Unit. And a lot of money for a lottery

:00:41. > :00:47.winner, the Barnsley boy who has come into money. And joining me for

:00:47. > :00:57.the weather. Will the sunshine last? I will have the full forecast

:00:57. > :01:00.

:01:00. > :01:03.later. Two years ago James Kamara died

:01:03. > :01:06.after a drive by shooting in Sheffield. Arrests were made but no

:01:06. > :01:08.one was found guilty of his murder. Today his mother has made an

:01:08. > :01:11.official complaint to South Yorkshire Police branding them

:01:11. > :01:14.incompetent in the handling of the investigation into James's death

:01:14. > :01:24.and other shootings in the city. We can hear more from our

:01:24. > :01:26.

:01:27. > :01:31.correspondent in Sheffield. This is Brunswick Street and people have

:01:31. > :01:37.been leaving flowers here because this is where James Kamara died. He

:01:37. > :01:42.was sat in a car when another car came down the street and someone

:01:42. > :01:47.opened fire and James received a fatal injuries. The police

:01:47. > :01:51.commander at the time said that justice would be done but two years

:01:51. > :01:58.on the reality could not be more different. So times I dream about

:01:58. > :02:05.him. When I wake up I do not want to wake up. I want to go back into

:02:05. > :02:10.my dream and I can and must feel him there. His mother is still

:02:10. > :02:14.grieving and asking why her family has not seen justice done. Her

:02:14. > :02:22.sense of loss is compounded by a feeling of it being let down by the

:02:23. > :02:29.police investigation. They know that something went wrong. I do not

:02:29. > :02:33.think that they are going to accept that. I think they are incompetent.

:02:33. > :02:37.Police quickly made five arrests and will last year four men were

:02:37. > :02:41.tried for murder. They were found not guilty and there has been

:02:42. > :02:47.virtually no progress since then. They thought I would shut up then

:02:47. > :02:53.and let them get on with their job. If they would have done it correct

:02:53. > :02:55.in the first place I would not have to. She has contacted the

:02:55. > :03:01.Independent Police Complaints Commission and his filing an

:03:01. > :03:06.independent complaint with South torture police. They have now just

:03:06. > :03:11.decided to get in touch with me. What does that say about them?

:03:11. > :03:16.other fatal shootings have led to high profile court cases here but

:03:16. > :03:22.there had been no convictions. A suspect in an earlier case was

:03:22. > :03:26.acquitted after a retrial. After another man was killed another

:03:26. > :03:36.trial collapsed after all on the evidence was what Ron. This is now

:03:36. > :03:43.being investigated by the I PPC. -- evidence was withdrawn. There have

:03:43. > :03:48.been shootings and stabbings. Shootings are not a good sign.

:03:48. > :03:57.James's mother is determined to fight on for justice. I will not

:03:57. > :04:02.have James back but they have got away with murder. And now one for

:04:02. > :04:08.the development. We have discovered that the officer who investigated

:04:08. > :04:13.two of these aforementioned murder inquiries have now -- has now been

:04:13. > :04:20.moved away to a different role. South Yorkshire police and will not

:04:20. > :04:23.speak to us about this but they have issued a statement.

:04:23. > :04:25.They say: "A review of the investigation was undertaken by a

:04:25. > :04:27.senior detective superintendent and no significant other lines of

:04:27. > :04:30.enquiry were identified. There was no suggestion that this

:04:30. > :04:33.investigation had been pursued less vigorously because the victim had

:04:33. > :04:38.himself been a gang member. The case remains open and is regularly

:04:38. > :04:40.monitored and reviewed by the Force's Major Incident Team."

:04:40. > :04:43.The National Audit Office has savaged the last government's

:04:43. > :04:46.project of building nine new super fire control centres, including the

:04:46. > :04:48.one in Wakefield. The coalition has now scrapped the scheme. But a

:04:48. > :04:51.report today reveals the project has cost nearly half-a-billion

:04:51. > :05:01.pounds. Taxpayers in Yorkshire alone are having to fund a monthly

:05:01. > :05:08.

:05:08. > :05:13.rent bill of �100,000. It was supposed to have saved money and

:05:13. > :05:16.increased security against terrorists. The centre would have

:05:16. > :05:23.served al four fire raids across the Yorkshire and Humberside but

:05:23. > :05:30.now it is a building that will not be used. -- al four fire brigade.

:05:31. > :05:36.In last year's election campaign, David Cameron talked to a fire

:05:36. > :05:45.fighter about saving money. It is now costing �420 million. We have

:05:45. > :05:55.to stop that in its tracks. Ministers soon identified problems

:05:55. > :05:59.

:05:59. > :06:02.in the current issue presenters. This is worrying. Today, a

:06:02. > :06:08.firefighters Union has agreed that the scheme had been flawed from the

:06:08. > :06:15.beginning. They have been settled with a massive bill and the rent

:06:15. > :06:20.goes on for the next 20 years. The money could have been better spent

:06:20. > :06:29.defending frontline emergency services. It involves �469 million

:06:29. > :06:34.at least of a wasted taxpayers' money. No new IT system was

:06:34. > :06:39.delivered after seven years. It is a comprehensive failure. Wakefield

:06:39. > :06:44.and eight out of nine of the other Super fire control centres across

:06:44. > :06:51.England now stand idle and unwanted. There are costing money and no one

:06:51. > :06:54.seems to know what to do with them. -- a day are costing money.

:06:54. > :06:57.Coming up later in the programme: What is geo-caching and how did it

:06:57. > :06:59.lead to these scenes in Wetherby this afternoon?

:06:59. > :07:02.A public consultation into the future of children's heart surgery

:07:02. > :07:05.in Yorkshire ends today. The unit at the Leeds General Infirmary

:07:05. > :07:08.could close as part of plans to pool resources in fewer, larger

:07:08. > :07:11.centres. Half a million people have signed a petition opposing the

:07:11. > :07:13.plans to shut the Leeds unit. At the moment it has three surgeons

:07:13. > :07:16.performing heart surgery on children from Yorkshire. They carry

:07:16. > :07:20.out approximately 350 operations a year but that is likely to increase

:07:20. > :07:30.in the future. The unit can serve a large population as it's within a

:07:30. > :07:39.

:07:40. > :07:47.This is where children in Yorkshire needing heart surgery come and this

:07:47. > :07:51.is what surgeries -- families have been coming to save. We now wait

:07:51. > :07:56.for a decision on whether operations will continue here. We

:07:56. > :08:03.will be hearing from people who had been fighting in Leeds corner but

:08:03. > :08:08.let's look at how we got to this point. It has been a public and

:08:08. > :08:14.passionate fight but now the battle to protect the future of children's

:08:14. > :08:18.heart surgery in Leeds is out of their hands. There are currently 11

:08:18. > :08:24.units in England but a review has recommended that number is cut said

:08:24. > :08:31.that expertise can be pulled in larger centres. -- so that

:08:31. > :08:37.expertise can be pulled. Some families will be forced to travel

:08:37. > :08:41.to Liverpool or Newcastle instead. Last week campaigners handed over a

:08:41. > :08:45.petition signed by half a million people to Downing Street. It is

:08:45. > :08:53.thought to be the biggest ever regional petition. Now families and

:08:53. > :08:58.the surgeons can only wait for the final decision. Let me introduce

:08:58. > :09:06.you to Vicky and baby Imogen. Can you tell me what happened with

:09:06. > :09:11.Imogen? 10 years ago we came into casualty. She was diagnosed with a

:09:11. > :09:16.heart condition which means that one of the four chambers of the

:09:16. > :09:20.hard was covered with a membrane and she was rushed to emergency

:09:20. > :09:25.care and had to have a life-saving operation. She is doing

:09:25. > :09:31.fantastically well now. Why is it so important for you both that the

:09:31. > :09:35.Leeds unit stays open with a heart surgery for children? For Imogen is

:09:35. > :09:41.it -- it is a case of having no other option. Without Leeds she

:09:41. > :09:49.would not be here. It saved her life. Trying to go to Newcastle in

:09:49. > :09:54.the commission she was in his out of the question. Thank you both.

:09:54. > :10:04.Let's speak to Kevin's who is one of the senior surgeons here. What

:10:04. > :10:05.

:10:05. > :10:09.happens now? Now we await. The committee that makes this decision

:10:09. > :10:13.will go through all of the documents that had been sent

:10:13. > :10:20.through the consultation period over the last few months and then

:10:20. > :10:26.we'll come to some recommendation of which centres -- then it will,

:10:26. > :10:31.to some recommendation of which centres will go closed. I have no

:10:31. > :10:35.idea what the committee in their wisdom will recommend. If his unit

:10:35. > :10:41.in Leeds is to stay open the one in Newcastle would have to close but

:10:41. > :10:49.there has been a campaign there as well. Surgeons have said that

:10:49. > :10:53.Newcastle can offer complete chaos at -- complete care. We can only

:10:53. > :10:58.wait to hear what the people making the final decision think of the

:10:58. > :11:00.documents. Two Sheffield care homes that were

:11:00. > :11:03.threatened with closure could now remain open. Woodland View and

:11:03. > :11:06.Birch Avenue provide long term care for people with Alzheimers and

:11:06. > :11:08.dementia. NHS Sheffield had said it could no longer afford the �2.8

:11:08. > :11:18.million in funding. But after consultation its board is being

:11:18. > :11:21.advised to back a plan to keep the homes open for people with dementia.

:11:21. > :11:24.A verdict of suicide has been recorded at the inquest into the

:11:24. > :11:27.death of a man from Sowerby Bridge. Stephen Lumb died alongside a woman

:11:27. > :11:31.he had met on the internet. The 35- year-old travelled 200 miles to

:11:31. > :11:38.meet Joanne Lee in a suicide pact. They were found dead in a car on an

:11:38. > :11:42.industrial estate in Essex last September. A new mobile police

:11:43. > :11:48.caravan has been on Yorkshire's roads for the first time today. It

:11:48. > :11:54.has been introduced after 20 bikers and died on the county's wrote last

:11:54. > :11:56.year. It will be at 15 different sites over the next year.

:11:56. > :12:00.Ventura, which operates call centres in West Yorkshire, has been

:12:00. > :12:03.bought by the Capita Group for �65 million. Capita says it has bought

:12:03. > :12:07.the company for its client base and to expand its customer management

:12:07. > :12:11.services. Ventura made an operating profit of �8 million last year.

:12:11. > :12:13.A new musical which will be one of the opening shows at the newly

:12:13. > :12:16.refurbished Leeds' City Varities later this year has been unveiled

:12:16. > :12:19.today. Big Society, written by a member of Leeds band Chumbawumba

:12:19. > :12:29.and comedian Phil Jupitus, will be a critique of government policy set

:12:29. > :12:33.

:12:33. > :12:40.to music. I think that the historical Association of doing a

:12:40. > :12:43.play about things that happened is just too powerful a cultural magnet

:12:43. > :12:46.to resist. Sheffield rock bank Arctic Monkeys

:12:46. > :12:49.have been nominated for two music awards. The band, who performed two

:12:49. > :12:52.sell out gigs at the city's Don Valley Bowl last month, have been

:12:52. > :12:56.nominated in the MOJO Honours awards. Their single Don't Sit Down

:12:56. > :13:03.Because I Have Moved Your Chair is up for best song, while Suck It And

:13:03. > :13:05.See is nominated for best album. Police sealed off the centre of

:13:05. > :13:08.Wetherby this lunchtime after a cafe owner reported a suspect

:13:08. > :13:11.package just outside his premises. Bomb disposal experts were called

:13:11. > :13:21.in and a controlled explosion was carried out on what turned out to

:13:21. > :13:23.

:13:23. > :13:28.be so called treasure. A bit is an internet hobby practised by

:13:28. > :13:33.millions around the world. It is essentially a website treasure hunt.

:13:33. > :13:39.You can use a smart phone and when you are in a location it will guide

:13:39. > :13:43.you to little stashes of treasure anywhere. If you look at mine, I am

:13:43. > :13:47.in Wetherby, and it is telling me there is a stash by this river. If

:13:47. > :13:56.I went there I would find a little plastic box filled with trinkets

:13:56. > :14:00.and children can swap them. So far, so harmless, but it seems that it

:14:00. > :14:04.could have triggered a major incident in Wetherby this afternoon.

:14:04. > :14:09.The centre of the town was shut down and a bomb disposal unit was

:14:09. > :14:16.called after a man was seen acting suspiciously outside a cafe. A

:14:16. > :14:24.robot was used to destroy a box under a plan to a. The cafe owner

:14:24. > :14:29.had never heard of geer cashing but she has now. This morning a member

:14:29. > :14:32.of staff told me that they had seen a man putting something under the

:14:32. > :14:36.plans. We were busy at the time and I thought I would come down and

:14:36. > :14:42.have a look. I looked at the package and it looked like a

:14:42. > :14:49.plastic box with duct tape on it. A couple of the customers were a bit

:14:49. > :14:53.nervous and the staff would arise so I called the police and -- staff

:14:53. > :14:57.were nervous so I called the police and told them about the man and the

:14:57. > :15:01.police came out and had a look and thought they did not like the look

:15:01. > :15:10.at it. The sergeant came out and had a look at it and they decided

:15:10. > :15:14.to cordon off the area. A 20-year- old man has been arrested on

:15:14. > :15:20.suspicion of causing a public nuisance. Meanwhile Wetherby is

:15:20. > :15:23.back to normal and digesting the excitement of the afternoon.

:15:23. > :15:30.Coming up: How Leeds is providing more than

:15:30. > :15:33.half of the GB diving team for the world championships.

:15:33. > :15:43.And the Huddersfield man walking coast-to-coast, but it's his poetry

:15:43. > :15:49.

:15:49. > :15:52.Now imagine what you could do with a million pounds. Well that's the

:15:52. > :15:54.enviable position a Bachelor from Barnsley is in. Shaun Vincent from

:15:54. > :16:04.Royston scooped �158,000 after reading about an unclaimed ticket

:16:04. > :16:11.

:16:11. > :16:16.on the internet only to discover he had the winning numbers!

:16:16. > :16:21.Buick more than �1 million in the bank he can afford a smile and the

:16:21. > :16:28.odd bottle of expose of champagne. Today he was celebrating his

:16:28. > :16:34.success. I am still a bit overwhelmed. The last few days have

:16:34. > :16:38.moved so fast. I just looked on the Barnsley website and they said

:16:38. > :16:45.there was an unclaimed ticket and it was what �1 million. You had no

:16:45. > :16:52.idea it was you? No! Ideas but I would check the ticket and I

:16:52. > :16:57.realised it was me. -- I just thought I would check the ticket.

:16:57. > :17:07.Now he has to work out how to spend the money. I will pay off my

:17:07. > :17:11.

:17:11. > :17:15.mortgage and buy my mother a house You are a bachelor and a single man.

:17:15. > :17:21.Do you think you will get more interest from the girls are now?

:17:21. > :17:25.You Never Can Tell. He says that becoming a millionaire has changed

:17:25. > :17:32.him but he is going to think about the future. I need to let it sink

:17:32. > :17:39.in and think about the future. lifelong Liverpool fan living in

:17:39. > :17:49.Barnsley, he is now planning to buy a season ticket at Enfield, and

:17:49. > :17:50.

:17:50. > :17:56.take a well-deserved break what his friends. A Liverpool supporter end

:17:56. > :18:03.Barnsley! It should be a season ticket to Oakwell. If I could have

:18:03. > :18:13.won monetary I always wanted an Aston -- if I could have won the

:18:13. > :18:14.

:18:14. > :18:17.lottery I would have always wanted an Aston Martin.

:18:17. > :18:20.Today's sunshine was the perfect way to greet a sell-out crowd for

:18:20. > :18:22.England's one-day match against Sri Lanka at Headingley. It's the only

:18:23. > :18:25.international cricket to come to Yorkshire this summer and those who

:18:25. > :18:30.took the opportunity witnessed a high scoring game. The sun was

:18:30. > :18:36.shining and the crowds came out and Headingley was once again a part of

:18:36. > :18:45.international cricket. Our own Tim at Pressman stuck -- stepped into

:18:45. > :18:49.attack. But the Sri Lankan batsmen tore into England. There was a late

:18:49. > :18:54.wicket but the damage was done and England had to chase a target of

:18:54. > :19:00.310. Alistair Cook started the fight back getting stuck into the

:19:00. > :19:03.Sri Lankan bowlers and delighting the Yorkshire crowd. His aggression

:19:03. > :19:09.was his undoing. England never looked like reaching their target

:19:09. > :19:13.and were all out for 240. Not the target that was wanted but the fall

:19:13. > :19:16.house shows that the counties appetite is still there for the

:19:16. > :19:19.game and can actually help their chances of hosting more games in

:19:19. > :19:21.the future. Yorkshire are in action themselves

:19:21. > :19:31.this evening against the only team beneath them in their Twenty20

:19:31. > :19:45.

:19:45. > :19:52.A not a very good day. They still - - they still can qualify despite

:19:52. > :20:02.not having a very good day today. Castle firm will be playing warring

:20:02. > :20:04.

:20:04. > :20:10.10. -- Warrington. Leeds are at half-time against Wigan. We will

:20:10. > :20:14.have action from the rhinos match in our bulletin at 25 past 10. If

:20:14. > :20:18.you want to keep up-to-date there is commentary now on BBC Radio

:20:18. > :20:21.Leeds. Great Britain's diving squad headed

:20:21. > :20:25.off today for a training camp today ahead of the world championships in

:20:25. > :20:28.Shanghai later this month. Of the 11 in the team, six are from the

:20:28. > :20:38.City of Leeds club, and if you add in Sheffield's Nick Robinson Baker,

:20:38. > :20:40.

:20:40. > :20:45.Yorkshire is the base for seven of the divers.

:20:45. > :20:50.Six divers covering all of the disciplines and ranging in age from

:20:50. > :20:56.14 up to 26. The youngest and the oldest are paired together and they

:20:56. > :21:00.all get on pretty well. When we get back from the pool we all go in

:21:00. > :21:08.each other's room and just chill. Is there a difference and music

:21:08. > :21:15.taste and things like that? Yes! Who hates what? Becky does not

:21:15. > :21:20.enjoy most of our music. Alyssia may just be 14 but she is a bad run

:21:21. > :21:29.on the world stage compared to 16- year-old Hannah Foster up it will

:21:29. > :21:35.be amazing. -- had enough. It will be amazing. It must be nice that

:21:36. > :21:41.you will be surrounded with friends. Yes. This was really good. When I

:21:41. > :21:45.found out the team must I was so much more exciting. It is great

:21:45. > :21:51.training here with everyone because it is a great environment. There

:21:51. > :21:56.are a lot a world-class athletes here. 20-year-old Sarah is coming

:21:56. > :22:06.back from a serious injury and she is one of four bucking it out.

:22:06. > :22:07.

:22:07. > :22:13.are all friends. If I do not come to swim meets I have nothing to do.

:22:13. > :22:22.All six are looking to 2012 and beyond. These championships are a

:22:22. > :22:27.big step along the way to their Olympic dream. How do they do that?

:22:27. > :22:32.Standing on top of that board scares me. You have got to have a

:22:32. > :22:41.lot of bustle as well as technique. Alyssia is 14 and she has done

:22:41. > :22:43.Commonwealth Games are ready. Extraordinary. -- already.

:22:43. > :22:47.Extraordinary. School children in parts of North

:22:47. > :22:49.Yorkshire have had a visit from a wandering poet over the last few

:22:49. > :22:52.days. Huddersfield children's author Craig Bradley is in the

:22:52. > :22:58.middle of a 200 mile charity walk but he's making a few stops along

:22:58. > :23:03.the way to perform his own unique brand of poetry. Be it is morning

:23:03. > :23:10.and there is an unusual visitor on the football for -- field at the

:23:10. > :23:15.school. This poet has walked over 100 miles to pitch his 10 here and

:23:15. > :23:19.inside the school's main hall his audience is waiting. He has decided

:23:19. > :23:25.to do a coast to Coast Walk stopping at schools along the way

:23:25. > :23:31.to teach kids about poetry. This is a private school where Mr been used

:23:31. > :23:41.to go. We like to go through the bleak -- lakes and Gunnerside and

:23:41. > :23:45.all over the place. All the way across the room. He is taking his

:23:45. > :23:49.unique brand of poetry across dozens of schools on his walk

:23:50. > :23:58.across the country and so far the workshops are going down well.

:23:58. > :24:05.and loud. Sometimes the school during Craig on his walk and after

:24:05. > :24:10.more than a week on his feet he is glad for the company. It was hard

:24:10. > :24:18.for me to go across the peat bogs. You can go up to your knee in slime.

:24:18. > :24:25.So far so good. As well as Rainey and -- raising money for a

:24:25. > :24:30.children's cancer charity. When you get up early the world belongs to

:24:30. > :24:35.you. The sky above looks and bluer Than Blue and the grass below brand

:24:35. > :24:44.new. You can hear the whisper of the dancing trees. They are saying

:24:44. > :24:52.that every day is a doorway and you have the keys. Grab that invisibles

:24:52. > :24:59.be an! Stirred that big pan of poetry porridge and say, I like to

:24:59. > :25:04.rhyme it, write it! Creditors and not your average chap full -- Craig

:25:04. > :25:14.is not your average chap and he is making great progress. Just another

:25:14. > :25:14.

:25:14. > :25:18.75 miles to go. His walk finishes in Robin Hood's Bay this weekend.

:25:18. > :25:28.And if you want to find out more about Craig's poetry workshops or

:25:28. > :25:32.

:25:32. > :25:39.if you'd like to sponsor him his website is on the screen now. I

:25:39. > :25:44.like that idea. You have met him? Yes, I was lucky to meet him when

:25:44. > :25:54.he came into a radio show, and he has all these antidotes. He is a

:25:54. > :25:59.

:25:59. > :26:09.The answer now for a look at the weather. It stayed dry all day for

:26:09. > :26:10.

:26:10. > :26:17.the weather for that -- and now for a look at the weather. This is a

:26:17. > :26:25.lovely Loch at a wheat field. -- This is a lovely look at a wheat

:26:25. > :26:29.field. For the weekend it is looking bright and there will be

:26:29. > :26:37.spells of sunshine am not a bad weekend at all. Not the heat we

:26:38. > :26:43.sold last weekend but temperatures will rise. -- saw last weekend. We

:26:43. > :26:50.had a little bit of clout in places but we enjoyed plenty of sunshine.

:26:50. > :26:56.-- cloud in places. There are still going to be some cloud at times but

:26:56. > :27:01.it will remain Brogan and will allow temperatures to drop down

:27:02. > :27:05.into single figures. We are looking at temperatures up around eight or

:27:05. > :27:15.ten degrees but they could drop down lower than that by the end of

:27:15. > :27:19.

:27:19. > :27:28.the night. The sun will rise at 225. Here are the next high waters. --

:27:28. > :27:33.5:20am. There will be bits and pieces of cloud around and we are

:27:33. > :27:37.looking at Patti cool and a sunny spells. For most of us -- patchy

:27:37. > :27:44.cloud in the sunny spells. For most of us we will see temperatures

:27:44. > :27:54.higher than we have seen today. And I'm sure breeze on the coast. --

:27:54. > :28:00.and unsure of breeze on the coast. As we head over to Sunday the fine

:28:00. > :28:05.weather stays with us. A bit of cloud will bubble up and it will

:28:05. > :28:11.stay dry. It will turn a little warmer in the beginning of next

:28:11. > :28:14.week. A chance of a few showers on Tuesday. Think you very much. If

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