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Good evening and welcome to Look North. The headlines this Friday

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evening: Incompetent police and killers that

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got away with murder. James Kamara was shot and killed on

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the streets of Sheffield two years ago and today his mother condemns

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the police investigation. Sometimes I dream about him and when I wake

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up it is like I do not want to break up and I want to go back into

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my dream. Also tonight:

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D-Day for campaigners. It is the final day of public

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consultation over plans that could see the closure of Leeds Children's

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Heart Unit. And a lot of money for a lottery

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winner, the Barnsley boy who has come into money. And joining me for

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the weather. Will the sunshine last? I will have the full forecast

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later. Two years ago James Kamara died

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after a drive by shooting in Sheffield. Arrests were made but no

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one was found guilty of his murder. Today his mother has made an

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official complaint to South Yorkshire Police branding them

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incompetent in the handling of the investigation into James's death

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and other shootings in the city. We can hear more from our

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correspondent in Sheffield. This is Brunswick Street and people have

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been leaving flowers here because this is where James Kamara died. He

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was sat in a car when another car came down the street and someone

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opened fire and James received a fatal injuries. The police

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commander at the time said that justice would be done but two years

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on the reality could not be more different. So times I dream about

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him. When I wake up I do not want to wake up. I want to go back into

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my dream and I can and must feel him there. His mother is still

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grieving and asking why her family has not seen justice done. Her

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sense of loss is compounded by a feeling of it being let down by the

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police investigation. They know that something went wrong. I do not

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think that they are going to accept that. I think they are incompetent.

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Police quickly made five arrests and will last year four men were

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tried for murder. They were found not guilty and there has been

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virtually no progress since then. They thought I would shut up then

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and let them get on with their job. If they would have done it correct

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in the first place I would not have to. She has contacted the

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Independent Police Complaints Commission and his filing an

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independent complaint with South torture police. They have now just

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decided to get in touch with me. What does that say about them?

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other fatal shootings have led to high profile court cases here but

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there had been no convictions. A suspect in an earlier case was

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acquitted after a retrial. After another man was killed another

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trial collapsed after all on the evidence was what Ron. This is now

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being investigated by the I PPC. -- evidence was withdrawn. There have

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been shootings and stabbings. Shootings are not a good sign.

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James's mother is determined to fight on for justice. I will not

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have James back but they have got away with murder. And now one for

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the development. We have discovered that the officer who investigated

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two of these aforementioned murder inquiries have now -- has now been

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moved away to a different role. South Yorkshire police and will not

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speak to us about this but they have issued a statement.

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They say: "A review of the investigation was undertaken by a

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senior detective superintendent and no significant other lines of

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enquiry were identified. There was no suggestion that this

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investigation had been pursued less vigorously because the victim had

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himself been a gang member. The case remains open and is regularly

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monitored and reviewed by the Force's Major Incident Team."

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The National Audit Office has savaged the last government's

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project of building nine new super fire control centres, including the

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one in Wakefield. The coalition has now scrapped the scheme. But a

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report today reveals the project has cost nearly half-a-billion

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pounds. Taxpayers in Yorkshire alone are having to fund a monthly

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rent bill of �100,000. It was supposed to have saved money and

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increased security against terrorists. The centre would have

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served al four fire raids across the Yorkshire and Humberside but

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now it is a building that will not be used. -- al four fire brigade.

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In last year's election campaign, David Cameron talked to a fire

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fighter about saving money. It is now costing �420 million. We have

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to stop that in its tracks. Ministers soon identified problems

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in the current issue presenters. This is worrying. Today, a

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firefighters Union has agreed that the scheme had been flawed from the

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beginning. They have been settled with a massive bill and the rent

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goes on for the next 20 years. The money could have been better spent

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defending frontline emergency services. It involves �469 million

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at least of a wasted taxpayers' money. No new IT system was

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delivered after seven years. It is a comprehensive failure. Wakefield

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and eight out of nine of the other Super fire control centres across

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England now stand idle and unwanted. There are costing money and no one

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seems to know what to do with them. -- a day are costing money.

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Coming up later in the programme: What is geo-caching and how did it

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lead to these scenes in Wetherby this afternoon?

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A public consultation into the future of children's heart surgery

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in Yorkshire ends today. The unit at the Leeds General Infirmary

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could close as part of plans to pool resources in fewer, larger

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centres. Half a million people have signed a petition opposing the

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plans to shut the Leeds unit. At the moment it has three surgeons

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performing heart surgery on children from Yorkshire. They carry

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out approximately 350 operations a year but that is likely to increase

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in the future. The unit can serve a large population as it's within a

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This is where children in Yorkshire needing heart surgery come and this

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is what surgeries -- families have been coming to save. We now wait

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for a decision on whether operations will continue here. We

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will be hearing from people who had been fighting in Leeds corner but

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

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passionate fight but now the battle to protect the future of children's

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heart surgery in Leeds is out of their hands. There are currently 11

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units in England but a review has recommended that number is cut said

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that expertise can be pulled in larger centres. -- so that

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expertise can be pulled. Some families will be forced to travel

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to Liverpool or Newcastle instead. Last week campaigners handed over a

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petition signed by half a million people to Downing Street. It is

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thought to be the biggest ever regional petition. Now families and

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the surgeons can only wait for the final decision. Let me introduce

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you to Vicky and baby Imogen. Can you tell me what happened with

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Imogen? 10 years ago we came into casualty. She was diagnosed with a

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heart condition which means that one of the four chambers of the

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hard was covered with a membrane and she was rushed to emergency

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care and had to have a life-saving operation. She is doing

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fantastically well now. Why is it so important for you both that the

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Leeds unit stays open with a heart surgery for children? For Imogen is

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it -- it is a case of having no other option. Without Leeds she

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would not be here. It saved her life. Trying to go to Newcastle in

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the commission she was in his out of the question. Thank you both.

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Let's speak to Kevin's who is one of the senior surgeons here. What

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happens now? Now we await. The committee that makes this decision

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will go through all of the documents that had been sent

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through the consultation period over the last few months and then

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we'll come to some recommendation of which centres -- then it will,

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to some recommendation of which centres will go closed. I have no

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idea what the committee in their wisdom will recommend. If his unit

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in Leeds is to stay open the one in Newcastle would have to close but

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there has been a campaign there as well. Surgeons have said that

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Newcastle can offer complete chaos at -- complete care. We can only

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wait to hear what the people making the final decision think of the

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documents. Two Sheffield care homes that were

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threatened with closure could now remain open. Woodland View and

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Birch Avenue provide long term care for people with Alzheimers and

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dementia. NHS Sheffield had said it could no longer afford the �2.8

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million in funding. But after consultation its board is being

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advised to back a plan to keep the homes open for people with dementia.

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A verdict of suicide has been recorded at the inquest into the

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death of a man from Sowerby Bridge. Stephen Lumb died alongside a woman

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he had met on the internet. The 35- year-old travelled 200 miles to

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meet Joanne Lee in a suicide pact. They were found dead in a car on an

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industrial estate in Essex last September. A new mobile police

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caravan has been on Yorkshire's roads for the first time today. It

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has been introduced after 20 bikers and died on the county's wrote last

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year. It will be at 15 different sites over the next year.

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Ventura, which operates call centres in West Yorkshire, has been

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bought by the Capita Group for �65 million. Capita says it has bought

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the company for its client base and to expand its customer management

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services. Ventura made an operating profit of �8 million last year.

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A new musical which will be one of the opening shows at the newly

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refurbished Leeds' City Varities later this year has been unveiled

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today. Big Society, written by a member of Leeds band Chumbawumba

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and comedian Phil Jupitus, will be a critique of government policy set

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to music. I think that the historical Association of doing a

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play about things that happened is just too powerful a cultural magnet

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to resist. Sheffield rock bank Arctic Monkeys

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have been nominated for two music awards. The band, who performed two

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sell out gigs at the city's Don Valley Bowl last month, have been

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nominated in the MOJO Honours awards. Their single Don't Sit Down

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Because I Have Moved Your Chair is up for best song, while Suck It And

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See is nominated for best album. Police sealed off the centre of

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Wetherby this lunchtime after a cafe owner reported a suspect

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package just outside his premises. Bomb disposal experts were called

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in and a controlled explosion was carried out on what turned out to

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be so called treasure. A bit is an internet hobby practised by

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millions around the world. It is essentially a website treasure hunt.

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You can use a smart phone and when you are in a location it will guide

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you to little stashes of treasure anywhere. If you look at mine, I am

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in Wetherby, and it is telling me there is a stash by this river. If

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I went there I would find a little plastic box filled with trinkets

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and children can swap them. So far, so harmless, but it seems that it

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could have triggered a major incident in Wetherby this afternoon.

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The centre of the town was shut down and a bomb disposal unit was

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called after a man was seen acting suspiciously outside a cafe. A

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robot was used to destroy a box under a plan to a. The cafe owner

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had never heard of geer cashing but she has now. This morning a member

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of staff told me that they had seen a man putting something under the

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plans. We were busy at the time and I thought I would come down and

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have a look. I looked at the package and it looked like a

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plastic box with duct tape on it. A couple of the customers were a bit

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nervous and the staff would arise so I called the police and -- staff

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were nervous so I called the police and told them about the man and the

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police came out and had a look and thought they did not like the look

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at it. The sergeant came out and had a look at it and they decided

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to cordon off the area. A 20-year- old man has been arrested on

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suspicion of causing a public nuisance. Meanwhile Wetherby is

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back to normal and digesting the excitement of the afternoon.

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Coming up: How Leeds is providing more than

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half of the GB diving team for the world championships.

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And the Huddersfield man walking coast-to-coast, but it's his poetry

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Now imagine what you could do with a million pounds. Well that's the

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enviable position a Bachelor from Barnsley is in. Shaun Vincent from

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Royston scooped �158,000 after reading about an unclaimed ticket

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on the internet only to discover he had the winning numbers!

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Buick more than �1 million in the bank he can afford a smile and the

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odd bottle of expose of champagne. Today he was celebrating his

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success. I am still a bit overwhelmed. The last few days have

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moved so fast. I just looked on the Barnsley website and they said

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there was an unclaimed ticket and it was what �1 million. You had no

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idea it was you? No! Ideas but I would check the ticket and I

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realised it was me. -- I just thought I would check the ticket.

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Now he has to work out how to spend the money. I will pay off my

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mortgage and buy my mother a house You are a bachelor and a single man.

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Do you think you will get more interest from the girls are now?

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You Never Can Tell. He says that becoming a millionaire has changed

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him but he is going to think about the future. I need to let it sink

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in and think about the future. lifelong Liverpool fan living in

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Barnsley, he is now planning to buy a season ticket at Enfield, and

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take a well-deserved break what his friends. A Liverpool supporter end

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Barnsley! It should be a season ticket to Oakwell. If I could have

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won monetary I always wanted an Aston -- if I could have won the

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lottery I would have always wanted an Aston Martin.

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Today's sunshine was the perfect way to greet a sell-out crowd for

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England's one-day match against Sri Lanka at Headingley. It's the only

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international cricket to come to Yorkshire this summer and those who

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took the opportunity witnessed a high scoring game. The sun was

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shining and the crowds came out and Headingley was once again a part of

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international cricket. Our own Tim at Pressman stuck -- stepped into

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attack. But the Sri Lankan batsmen tore into England. There was a late

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wicket but the damage was done and England had to chase a target of

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310. Alistair Cook started the fight back getting stuck into the

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Sri Lankan bowlers and delighting the Yorkshire crowd. His aggression

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was his undoing. England never looked like reaching their target

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and were all out for 240. Not the target that was wanted but the fall

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house shows that the counties appetite is still there for the

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game and can actually help their chances of hosting more games in

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the future. Yorkshire are in action themselves

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this evening against the only team beneath them in their Twenty20

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A not a very good day. They still - - they still can qualify despite

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not having a very good day today. Castle firm will be playing warring

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10. -- Warrington. Leeds are at half-time against Wigan. We will

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have action from the rhinos match in our bulletin at 25 past 10. If

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you want to keep up-to-date there is commentary now on BBC Radio

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Leeds. Great Britain's diving squad headed

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off today for a training camp today ahead of the world championships in

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Shanghai later this month. Of the 11 in the team, six are from the

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City of Leeds club, and if you add in Sheffield's Nick Robinson Baker,

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Yorkshire is the base for seven of the divers.

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Six divers covering all of the disciplines and ranging in age from

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14 up to 26. The youngest and the oldest are paired together and they

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all get on pretty well. When we get back from the pool we all go in

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each other's room and just chill. Is there a difference and music

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taste and things like that? Yes! Who hates what? Becky does not

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enjoy most of our music. Alyssia may just be 14 but she is a bad run

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on the world stage compared to 16- year-old Hannah Foster up it will

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be amazing. -- had enough. It will be amazing. It must be nice that

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you will be surrounded with friends. Yes. This was really good. When I

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found out the team must I was so much more exciting. It is great

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training here with everyone because it is a great environment. There

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are a lot a world-class athletes here. 20-year-old Sarah is coming

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back from a serious injury and she is one of four bucking it out.

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are all friends. If I do not come to swim meets I have nothing to do.

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All six are looking to 2012 and beyond. These championships are a

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big step along the way to their Olympic dream. How do they do that?

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Standing on top of that board scares me. You have got to have a

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lot of bustle as well as technique. Alyssia is 14 and she has done

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Commonwealth Games are ready. Extraordinary. -- already.

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Extraordinary. School children in parts of North

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Yorkshire have had a visit from a wandering poet over the last few

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days. Huddersfield children's author Craig Bradley is in the

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middle of a 200 mile charity walk but he's making a few stops along

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the way to perform his own unique brand of poetry. Be it is morning

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and there is an unusual visitor on the football for -- field at the

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school. This poet has walked over 100 miles to pitch his 10 here and

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inside the school's main hall his audience is waiting. He has decided

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to do a coast to Coast Walk stopping at schools along the way

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to teach kids about poetry. This is a private school where Mr been used

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to go. We like to go through the bleak -- lakes and Gunnerside and

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all over the place. All the way across the room. He is taking his

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unique brand of poetry across dozens of schools on his walk

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across the country and so far the workshops are going down well.

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and loud. Sometimes the school during Craig on his walk and after

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more than a week on his feet he is glad for the company. It was hard

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for me to go across the peat bogs. You can go up to your knee in slime.

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So far so good. As well as Rainey and -- raising money for a

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children's cancer charity. When you get up early the world belongs to

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you. The sky above looks and bluer Than Blue and the grass below brand

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new. You can hear the whisper of the dancing trees. They are saying

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that every day is a doorway and you have the keys. Grab that invisibles

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be an! Stirred that big pan of poetry porridge and say, I like to

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rhyme it, write it! Creditors and not your average chap full -- Craig

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is not your average chap and he is making great progress. Just another

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75 miles to go. His walk finishes in Robin Hood's Bay this weekend.

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And if you want to find out more about Craig's poetry workshops or

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if you'd like to sponsor him his website is on the screen now. I

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like that idea. You have met him? Yes, I was lucky to meet him when

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he came into a radio show, and he has all these antidotes. He is a

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The answer now for a look at the weather. It stayed dry all day for

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the weather for that -- and now for a look at the weather. This is a

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lovely Loch at a wheat field. -- This is a lovely look at a wheat

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field. For the weekend it is looking bright and there will be

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spells of sunshine am not a bad weekend at all. Not the heat we

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sold last weekend but temperatures will rise. -- saw last weekend. We

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had a little bit of clout in places but we enjoyed plenty of sunshine.

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-- cloud in places. There are still going to be some cloud at times but

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it will remain Brogan and will allow temperatures to drop down

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into single figures. We are looking at temperatures up around eight or

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ten degrees but they could drop down lower than that by the end of

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the night. The sun will rise at 225. Here are the next high waters. --

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5:20am. There will be bits and pieces of cloud around and we are

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looking at Patti cool and a sunny spells. For most of us -- patchy

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cloud in the sunny spells. For most of us we will see temperatures

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higher than we have seen today. And I'm sure breeze on the coast. --

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and unsure of breeze on the coast. As we head over to Sunday the fine

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weather stays with us. A bit of cloud will bubble up and it will

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stay dry. It will turn a little warmer in the beginning of next

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week. A chance of a few showers on Tuesday. Think you very much. If

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