:00:06. > :00:09.Good evening and welcome to Wednesday's Look North. Tonight: At
:00:09. > :00:13.raising awareness - a mother's personal campaign to save other
:00:13. > :00:21.young women from the devastating effects of cervical cancer.
:00:21. > :00:25.Also: Or two firms are fined �75,000 after a Barnsley man was
:00:26. > :00:29.dragged through a machine. And you saw them here first - we
:00:29. > :00:35.introduce you to the hot new talent playing at Leeds Festival next
:00:35. > :00:43.month. And join me at English Institute of
:00:43. > :00:46.Sport in Sheffield where we are looking ahead to London 2012.
:00:46. > :00:56.Another cloudy seen across the South Yorkshire. It looks like
:00:56. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:05.there will be more breaks in the Welcome to Look North. A mother
:01:05. > :01:09.from Huddersfield has launched a campaign to save other young women
:01:09. > :01:13.from the devastating effects of cervical cancer. Natassja Hall was
:01:13. > :01:18.only 23 when she got the early symptoms of the disease. She would
:01:18. > :01:23.not have been given routine screening tests until she was 25
:01:23. > :01:27.and she now wants that age limit lowered.
:01:27. > :01:31.A mother of two and full-time office manager. But Natassja Hall
:01:31. > :01:35.is now campaigning to change government policy. She wants women
:01:35. > :01:41.to be screened for the signs of cervical cancer from a much younger
:01:41. > :01:49.age. Last year aged 23, two years before she was due to have a smear
:01:49. > :01:57.test, she started suffering from prolonged bleeding. It was severe
:01:57. > :02:03.and the abnormal cells could have turned into cancer if untreated.
:02:03. > :02:06.was made to feel like a was may sting -- like I was wasting their
:02:06. > :02:11.time. At the end of the day, you know your own body. They didn't
:02:11. > :02:15.have much of a choice at the end because I said I would not move and
:02:15. > :02:22.likely to test. In England, cervical cancer screening starts
:02:22. > :02:26.aged 25. It is 20 in Scotland and Wales. That is what Natassja Hall
:02:26. > :02:30.wants to change. The number of women being diagnosed with abnormal
:02:31. > :02:34.cells is increasing. The most recent figures show there were
:02:34. > :02:43.27,500 cases in England and almost 2000 of them were in women under
:02:43. > :02:47.the age of 25. There could be many more who have abnormal cells but
:02:47. > :02:53.you're not been tested. Two years ago the celebrity Jade goody died
:02:53. > :03:02.from cervical cancer. All I could think was me in her shoes, thinking,
:03:02. > :03:07.this could happen to me. Me leaving my children. I was thinking of
:03:07. > :03:11.letters I would write to them. has now been given the all-clear
:03:11. > :03:15.but her ordeal has made a determined to lower the screening
:03:15. > :03:19.age. The NHS does not share her view. It says this is not a cost
:03:19. > :03:23.issue but screening and a 25 could do more harm than good. But
:03:23. > :03:28.Natassja does not agree and has now launched a petition online and in
:03:28. > :03:37.her home town of Huddersfield. will keep fighting until the Prime
:03:37. > :03:40.Minister turned around and says we will have to lower it.
:03:40. > :03:45.What would the effect the of lowering the age at which women can
:03:45. > :03:50.be tested the cervical cancer? We are joined by Sam Saidi, a Leeds-
:03:50. > :03:56.based consultant gynaecologist. In Scotland, they can be tested at 20.
:03:56. > :04:01.Have they got it right? I know how we came to this decision in England,
:04:01. > :04:07.I don't know about Scotland. Here, it has been based on evidence and
:04:07. > :04:11.statistics, which was clear. Since the age was raised to 25, there has
:04:11. > :04:20.been no increase in the incidents of cervical cancer in that age
:04:21. > :04:26.group of the under 20 fives. -- the under 25s. There is no benefit and
:04:26. > :04:30.it does potentially cause harm. The reason is that under the age of 25,
:04:30. > :04:36.as opposed to all the than that, the chance you will get an abnormal
:04:36. > :04:40.smear is one in three. That causes a lot of distress and over
:04:40. > :04:43.treatment which can cause women problems in the future. So you are
:04:43. > :04:53.saying you are happy with 25? We have had a lot of discussion on
:04:53. > :04:54.
:04:54. > :04:59.Facebook about this. There seems to be, like in Natassja's case, the
:04:59. > :05:06.argument that women know their own bodies. So if someone present
:05:06. > :05:11.symptoms, should they not be able to say they want a test? Symptoms
:05:11. > :05:15.is different from screening. Smear tests are any designed for people
:05:15. > :05:19.that do not have any symptoms. By symptoms, I mean bleeding when you
:05:19. > :05:23.should not be bleeding. In this case, I understand there were
:05:23. > :05:26.symptoms and if you have symptoms you think are wrong, that you are
:05:26. > :05:30.bleeding when you should not be, yes, you should go to your doctor
:05:30. > :05:34.and say, I am bleeding when I should not be, please look at me
:05:35. > :05:40.and semi to a gynaecologist. Just to follow up that they spoke
:05:40. > :05:43.mention, Mandy said her daughter had abnormal cells at 23, she had
:05:43. > :05:49.the problem and so did her mother, but a 20-year-old daughter cannot
:05:49. > :05:53.be screened. That is right and it comes back to the issue of the
:05:53. > :05:58.statistics which are clear - it does not benefit women under 25 and
:05:58. > :06:02.potentially causes harm. The harm is in the treatment. But we have
:06:02. > :06:06.still not quite got the message about the injection. In years to
:06:07. > :06:11.come, the anti-virus injection between 14 and 25, do you hope that
:06:11. > :06:17.will reduce the number of all people with cervical cancer?
:06:17. > :06:22.absolutely. We think the injection, the vaccine, is great. We want
:06:22. > :06:25.everybody in the NHS group between 12 and 18 years of age to go for
:06:25. > :06:28.injections when they are called because we know that in the future
:06:28. > :06:33.it will significantly lower the chance of cervical cancer. What it
:06:33. > :06:36.will not do is eradicated. So even in the future, you will still need
:06:36. > :06:42.to go for your sneer and you will still need not ignore the message
:06:42. > :06:48.that if you're bleeding and you should not be, go to your doctor.
:06:48. > :06:52.Thank you for your advice. An engineering company from
:06:52. > :06:59.Barnsley has been fined �45,000 following an accident which left a
:06:59. > :07:03.worker with serious injuries. A man was pulled by a machine through a
:07:03. > :07:12.gap just five inches wide. Today, a court heard a vital guarding which
:07:12. > :07:18.could have been fitted was not. Matthew knows he is lucky to be
:07:18. > :07:24.alive. The company was fined thousands in health and safety
:07:24. > :07:28.rules. What matters most is the industry learns. This is what
:07:28. > :07:33.happens when you do not follow health and safety regulations. Too
:07:33. > :07:37.many people are injured in accidents at work. People need to
:07:37. > :07:40.think twice about the dangers faced in the workplace. The court heard
:07:40. > :07:48.he worked for an engineering company based in Barnsley. They had
:07:48. > :07:53.a machine installed by another firm. Neither company had made sure
:07:54. > :08:03.guarding was in place when the machine was switched on. Matthew
:08:04. > :08:06.
:08:06. > :08:09.was pulled through a gap just five inches wide. The two companies were
:08:09. > :08:12.fined �35,000.45 �1,000 respectively. The judge said the
:08:12. > :08:17.machine was designed with inadequate protection. He said it
:08:17. > :08:22.was a very foreseeable accident and this was not a politically correct
:08:22. > :08:25.breach of over-fussy guidelines, but a serious and sustained breach.
:08:25. > :08:29.His survival is remarkable that that should not subtract from the
:08:29. > :08:34.fact his life could have easily been lost because those companies
:08:34. > :08:37.ultimately failed to protect him when it mattered most.
:08:37. > :08:41.Representatives were in court and released a statement today saying
:08:41. > :08:49.they deeply regretted the accident and they have continued to support
:08:49. > :08:59.Mattie financially and redeployed in in in a role. Now, he is putting
:08:59. > :09:01.
:09:01. > :09:05.it behind him and being a father to his daughter. Plenty to come later
:09:05. > :09:10.- 12 months and counting. We catch up with the Yorkshire athlete
:09:10. > :09:13.hoping to make an impact at the Olympics.
:09:13. > :09:17.Journalists at the Doncaster Free Press and South Yorkshire Times had
:09:17. > :09:23.been out on strike for nearly two weeks in a row over job losses.
:09:23. > :09:26.What sets these strikers apart is they are on indefinite strike.
:09:26. > :09:31.Redundancies have been announced at a time when papers across the board
:09:31. > :09:38.have seen the circulation figures for.
:09:38. > :09:48.A bit of a pantomime. Don't you recognise the? I am not in disguise.
:09:48. > :09:49.
:09:49. > :09:59.I am your ex-employer E! Characters and journalists are on the picket-
:09:59. > :10:04.line. Donna is a devoted mother that she has now -- who is worried
:10:04. > :10:08.that she does not know when she will return to work. Frightened,
:10:08. > :10:13.scared, you do not know what is going to happen in the future. If I
:10:13. > :10:17.could go back to work, I would. and her husband have a mortgage and
:10:17. > :10:22.bills. But she insists there is so much at stake that the strike is
:10:22. > :10:26.worth it. I feel like we have to fight for our rights, for the
:10:26. > :10:30.quality of the newspaper. We feel like if we don't fight now, if the
:10:30. > :10:34.union does not fight now, in the long run it will affect our jobs,
:10:34. > :10:43.our jobs could be on the line. Striking was once the main weapon
:10:43. > :10:47.for disgruntled workers. Indefinite strikes were common. In the 1980s
:10:47. > :10:55.we lost about 30 million days a year to strike action. Last year,
:10:55. > :11:00.that figure was a tiny fraction - around 360,000. What has changed?
:11:00. > :11:04.The world has changed, the economy has changed. 70 % of people own
:11:04. > :11:07.their own homes now, people have mortgages and credit card debt. So
:11:07. > :11:12.the thought of not being paid for a week is a much bigger financial
:11:12. > :11:15.risk the people. The Doncaster Free Press and South Yorkshire times are
:11:15. > :11:22.still coming out each week on the picket-line. They are not ready to
:11:22. > :11:26.give up yet. And Look North did approach
:11:27. > :11:32.Johnston Press who owned those two papers. They refused to talk to us
:11:32. > :11:36.tonight. Two women who appeared in court had
:11:36. > :11:43.been charged with part of a conspiracy to deal class A drugs.
:11:43. > :11:49.And Liz Stephens -- Angela Stevens and Jade Dutton are accused of
:11:49. > :11:53.planning to deal cocaine and heroin. Jayde Dutton is also charged with
:11:53. > :12:02.conspiring to pervert the course of justice. They were bailed until the
:12:03. > :12:07.Part of Leeds market could be closed. An independent body could
:12:07. > :12:12.also be set up to run it. Campaigners have accused the
:12:12. > :12:18.council damaging small traders. The council claimed that the plans that
:12:18. > :12:22.will secure the future of the historic market. The decision today
:12:22. > :12:28.means we can move ahead and plan for the future. It gives us the
:12:28. > :12:33.opportunity to gain funding from external sources. Also, to plan and
:12:33. > :12:42.guarantee the future of the market. It also helps plan for the future
:12:42. > :12:52.development of the area, with the East Gate development. That is
:12:52. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :13:01.where Marks and Spencer's started. Still to come, Katie Price attends
:13:01. > :13:11.a world record book-signing in Leeds. And we signed -- we find out
:13:11. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:18.which bans will be playing at this year's Leeds Festival. It's a year
:13:18. > :13:21.to go until the Olympics opening ceremony in London when the flame
:13:21. > :13:24.will be lit. Here in Yorkshire in the run-up to the Games we'll be
:13:24. > :13:28.playing to host to athletes from around the world as they prepare.
:13:28. > :13:30.But we've also got our fair share of home-grown athletes. Tanya's
:13:30. > :13:37.spent the day at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield,
:13:37. > :13:47.finding out how it's helping in the pursuit of Olympic glory. Tanya, is
:13:47. > :13:51.there a sense that we're into the home straight now? Yes and No.
:13:51. > :13:55.There are a few hurdles they need to get over before they are
:13:55. > :14:02.guaranteed of being out London 20 Prague and computing, which is the
:14:02. > :14:12.dream for so many of the athletes based here -- the London 2012
:14:12. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:17.Olympics. How big gold medal hope, Jennifer Ellis trained here. It
:14:17. > :14:27.takes an awful lot of people today to get that sports star to the
:14:27. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:37.starting line. Sport is all about getting the most from yourself. It
:14:37. > :14:42.is not just guff -- a training facility here. There are no
:14:42. > :14:46.boundaries to what we can investigate and how we can bring it
:14:46. > :14:54.to to the coach and the athlete, giving an opinion of what is
:14:54. > :15:01.causing their injury, whether we can modify training. It gives us a
:15:01. > :15:09.bit of an edge. This die there is just back from the World
:15:09. > :15:17.Championships in Shanghai -- this diver. We train day-in, day-out.
:15:17. > :15:27.The Body wears and tears and this is fantastic. It is really
:15:27. > :15:28.
:15:28. > :15:32.beneficial. We always say that sport science and sports medicine
:15:32. > :15:41.surrounds a plate with everything they need. Leeds boxer Mickey Adams
:15:41. > :15:45.is now based in Sheffield. -- Nicky. Women's boxing being in the games
:15:45. > :15:50.for a first time gave her a future in the sport she loves. It was
:15:50. > :15:54.amazing to think I was going to be in the Olympics. Now that I have
:15:54. > :15:59.made the team, and I could be going to the qualifiers, it is going to
:15:59. > :16:09.be absolutely amazing. And in a year, you could be walking around
:16:09. > :16:12.
:16:12. > :16:21.at the opening ceremony! Exactly. It is fantastic, what an honour.
:16:21. > :16:24.But these guys have a few events to contend with first. If I get to the
:16:24. > :16:28.world championships, I will see what happens and then stop focusing
:16:29. > :16:38.on the Olympics. But if they do get there, remember the people behind
:16:39. > :16:41.
:16:41. > :16:49.the scenes. With me is one of the men behind the scenes, Jessica
:16:49. > :16:53.Ennis's coach. We have got world indoor championships and the
:16:53. > :16:57.outdoor championships later on. is now the face of 2012. There are
:16:57. > :17:00.posters everywhere. How are you fitting that in with the training?
:17:00. > :17:05.It has affected the training a little bit because of the amount of
:17:05. > :17:09.time she has to spend and troubled time. You have to adapt the
:17:09. > :17:16.training little bit. But she is a little bit tired, you give her an
:17:16. > :17:23.extra hour in bed. How about the pressure of being the face the
:17:23. > :17:27.2012? I don't think that plays a part at this stage. When it is
:17:27. > :17:32.about three months to go, then the pressure may appear. Have you had a
:17:32. > :17:37.look or are you staying away from the Olympic Park? We are too busy
:17:37. > :17:42.training and encouraging, I haven't had the chance. Maybe closer to
:17:42. > :17:47.make time. And how has she should be up for the World Championships?
:17:47. > :17:51.Very well. Fingers crossed, we will see how things go. Let's have a
:17:51. > :18:01.quick word with some of the children who trained here. What are
:18:01. > :18:05.
:18:05. > :18:11.you hoping, are you going to watch the Olympics? For no, I do spend.
:18:11. > :18:17.The have any of you got tickets for the Olympics? So I'm going to see
:18:17. > :18:24.the heptathlon. I'm so jealous, I applied for that. What is it like
:18:24. > :18:32.for you guys to train on the same track as Jessica Ennis? It is very
:18:32. > :18:38.interesting to watch her train. it inspiring? Yes. Will it inspire
:18:38. > :18:45.you to train a bit harder? Yes. she going to get a gold medal for
:18:45. > :18:51.us? Yes. Yes, absolutely. Tony and I went for a run at lunch time. A
:18:51. > :19:00.will see on the start-line, Harry. Yes, but probably not on the
:19:00. > :19:03.Finnish! Are you saying you're quicker than Tanya? Yorkshire's
:19:03. > :19:06.cricketers are in action in the 40- over competition this evening.
:19:06. > :19:09.They're playing group A leaders Sussex at Hove and made a decent
:19:09. > :19:12.start after being asked to bowl. Ryan Sidebottom got the first
:19:12. > :19:19.wicket. Adil Rashid got in on the action as well, trapping Lou
:19:19. > :19:29.Vincent LBW with the home side on 66. But Sussex have moved into a
:19:29. > :19:32.
:19:32. > :19:35.strong position. We will bring you the result at 10:25pm. There are
:19:35. > :19:38.five weeks to go till the Leeds Festival - and we now know which
:19:38. > :19:41.bands will be taking to the stage. The festival's director says it's
:19:41. > :19:44.been the toughest year he can remember, as tickets are still
:19:44. > :19:54.available. Usually they sell out within a number of hours. Danny
:19:54. > :19:56.
:19:56. > :20:06.Carpenter reports. There among the biggest bands on
:20:06. > :20:10.
:20:10. > :20:17.the planet. But sharing the same bill, are another local band.
:20:17. > :20:27.an on-air. An honour to play. an experience, we want to enjoy the
:20:27. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:35.ride. It will be a good experience, They got their slot on the BBC
:20:35. > :20:40.introducing stage by winning a competition. They joined dozens of
:20:40. > :20:45.other local bands given their big chance on that stage. And one man
:20:45. > :20:49.takes much of the credit for it. If if new music was football, there
:20:49. > :20:55.will be all kinds of routes by which you could get spotted and
:20:55. > :21:02.then supported and helps, and put into a junior team. That doesn't
:21:02. > :21:11.exist in new music. People who were starting out opinion just as much
:21:11. > :21:15.effort. The director of best of all music is from Yorkshire and
:21:15. > :21:23.understands can you bounce. It is a real opportunity for them to say
:21:23. > :21:29.that they play on the same bill as these big bands. Young bands coming
:21:29. > :21:32.through their ranks, it's terrific. And one day, one of those bands on
:21:32. > :21:42.not be be stage could be one of the biggest on the planet. Global
:21:42. > :21:42.
:21:42. > :21:46.superstars, headliners at Leeds. I'll be there. Hundreds of people
:21:46. > :21:49.queued for hours to meet the model and reality TV star Katie Price.
:21:49. > :21:57.She was in Leeds to attempt to break the record for the longest
:21:57. > :22:03.book signing. We went to find out how she got on. There will be some
:22:03. > :22:08.flash photography. They came in their hundreds and they queued and
:22:08. > :22:11.queued and cute. Some fans were camped outside the O2 Academy in
:22:11. > :22:16.Leeds since the early hours of the morning, determined to meet Katie
:22:16. > :22:20.Price and be part of a record- breaking event. She is a great
:22:20. > :22:25.business woman, a fabulous mother. She is brilliant. She is absolutely
:22:25. > :22:30.amazing. I have bought all her books. There is no doubting the
:22:30. > :22:36.dedication of her fans, but Katie Price will have to sign more than
:22:36. > :22:40.1951 Books if she's going to beat this year's world record. After
:22:40. > :22:44.hours of waiting, the women of the hour arrived in the building. Then
:22:44. > :22:50.she appeared. Do think he will break this record? I'm not
:22:50. > :22:59.confident. Normally I am confident. There are a lot of people here, so
:22:59. > :23:08.let's hope. In 15 years, only two people have done this. Are you a
:23:08. > :23:13.fan?! Es! She was so nice. Despite hordes of fans, there will not be
:23:13. > :23:23.enough to make his reality TV star a record breaker -- there were not
:23:23. > :23:26.
:23:26. > :23:31.enough to make this reality TV start a record-breaker. Let me show
:23:31. > :23:38.you some pictures that came in over the last 36 hours. The coast has
:23:38. > :23:48.been pretty rotten. Look how it it has transformed today. Subs this
:23:48. > :23:49.
:23:49. > :23:52.was Scarborough this afternoon. Keep the pictures coming in. You
:23:52. > :24:00.can send me a picture on Twitter. They should be more sunshine to
:24:00. > :24:05.come tomorrow. The weekend is looking quite promising. Some
:24:05. > :24:13.sunshine, it should be a bit warmer tomorrow, with high pressure trying
:24:13. > :24:17.to get in from the West. Some showers later tomorrow for the
:24:17. > :24:27.western area. And a cloudy day on Friday. But the weekend it should
:24:27. > :24:29.
:24:29. > :24:32.cheer up. There is tomorrow's weather. Some sunshine to come. It
:24:32. > :24:39.is quite a complicated picture, but it means that much of tomorrow
:24:39. > :24:47.should be OK. Variable club this evening and overnight. Beginning
:24:47. > :24:57.towards the coast -- cloud. Temperatures 11 or 12 degrees. The
:24:57. > :25:04.
:25:04. > :25:09.The sunny breaks will extend East so it becomes warm with sunny
:25:09. > :25:12.spells but then that weather front will bring some showers, especially
:25:12. > :25:20.in western parts of North Yorkshire and the Pennines later on. But
:25:20. > :25:30.before that, it should be quite warm. The winds light and variable.
:25:30. > :25:37.Inland, 23 in York, not bad at all. Equally warm in dummy. Friday looks
:25:37. > :25:46.quite cloudy. Warm with sunny spells. Harry is more bothered
:25:46. > :25:49.about whether he can play golf tomorrow. With just a year to go
:25:49. > :25:52.till the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympics, we thought it was
:25:52. > :25:54.only fitting to end the programme with the thoughts of some of
:25:54. > :25:57.Yorkshire's olympic hopefuls. them are swimmers, divers, table
:25:57. > :26:07.tennis players and high jumpers. These are just a snapshot of the
:26:07. > :26:15.
:26:16. > :26:25.competitors hoping to represent It is fantastic to be here.
:26:26. > :26:26.
:26:26. > :26:32.Hopefully I would get a medal. is the biggest racing triathlon.
:26:32. > :26:35.Since we got the Games, it has always been around, it is not till
:26:35. > :26:45.you come here and think this is where it is going to be. It's not
:26:45. > :26:57.
:26:57. > :27:07.It's such an exciting time, hopefully we can go there and a
:27:07. > :27:15.