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Good evening and welcome to Look North. Our top story tonight: | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Fighting for the right to earn a living - disabled workers from | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
across Yorkshire protest about the threat to their jobs. | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
Also tonight: Coping with the brutal killing of a child. Ten | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
years on from the abduction and murder of her daughter, a Yorkshire | :00:17. | :00:27. | |
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mother says she will never forgive the man who did it. If you lose a | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
leg, it is still not there. Lee and is not here and I feel the same. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
And from the artist that brought us the Angel of the North, two new | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
sculptures by Antony Gormley are unveiled in Yorkshire. | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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And join me for the weather. I will have a full forecast later in the | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
programme. Protests have been taking place | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
across Yorkshire by disabled people who are worried they could lose | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
their jobs. They all work at Remploy factories, which were | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
originally set up to provide work for disabled people after the war. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
The factories lose �63 million a year. A report for the government | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
recommended cutting funding to Remploy factories. In a moment, we | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
will hear from the Conservative MP for Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker, | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
and also from a member of the GMB union, Tony Gledhill. But first, | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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Len Tingle reports. A clear message from a Remploy | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
workers who gathered outside the department of work and pensions in | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
Sheffield. They believe the factories are essential. Among them, | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
Tony from Leeds. I have got problems with my arms and knees. | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
When I came to Remploy, they recognised my strengths and | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
weaknesses. I did different training. My job now is to help | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
young people like I had a chance to give them that chance. | :02:23. | :02:33. | |
Remploy was started in 1946. Though far from exclusively for veterans, | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
its workshops and factories grew in numbers, supplying products for | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
customers ranging from Jaguar cars up to the armed forces. But | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
Remploy's workforce and trade unions have a problem. The rally | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
had moved on to a meeting by this afternoon to Wakefield Town Hall. | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
A government report published in June of challengers whether | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
employment for the disabled is appropriate in a modern society, | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
and whether an annual subsidy of �25,000 for each worker could be | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
better spent giving support to commercial companies to take on | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
more disabled people. Some people would never survive at there. They | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
would not last a day with their disability. | :03:26. | :03:32. | |
As the work is finished their rally, a statement was issued saying no | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
decision had been made on the future of the company. | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
Consultations will begin next month. Thank you very much. Joining us to | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
discuss the issue is Craig Whittaker, and Tony from the GMB | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
union. Tony, you work for Remploy. What do you think it offers | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
workers? It gives them the chance to shine at work. We give them | :04:04. | :04:14. | |
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skills. You cannot put confidence in someone, it has to come from | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
them. Becoming independence is more then it just a job. To me, the | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
product we use is commercial, and the figures we get is the training | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
vehicle for disabled people to make choices. Once they get trained up, | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
and become complement, they can -- become confident, they can make a | :04:43. | :04:52. | |
choice whether to stay at Remploy or move on. Neat, I have chosen to | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
stay at Remploy. -- me. I get respect at Remploy. The Ealing's | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
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are very high here. Will you listen to what these people have to say? | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
Absolutely. The Remploy model for employment is not a bad thing at | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
all. What we are having tonight is, is that the best model? Does it | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
offer the best opportunities for disabled people? Clearly, | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
mainstream employers are less likely to want to provide | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
facilities for people with disabilities. �63 million is not a | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
small sum of money. Is that money best serving disabled people? I do | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
not know the answer to that. The consultation will bring out the | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
best thing, I dare say. Two people in my constituency, one of them | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
would argue I am disabled. He runs his own business. He would argue | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
that the best thing for people like Stephen it is a personalised agenda. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
You are saying you could spend the money elsewhere. But let us come | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
back to you, Tony. You have worked in employment and you'd struggle to | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
cope, didn't you? A white beard. I cannot live to head the weights. -- | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
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I did. In the Remploy, I have got a chance to use my brains. I do not | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
accept the argument that the government have not made a decision. | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
We have said in his report, the government have to accept the | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
recommendations. Everyone will beat offered compulsory redundancy at | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
the same time. We have heard a lot. We will continue to look at this | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
issue in depth. Thank you to both of you. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
The mother of a teenager who was strangled to death after being | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
abducted says she will never forgive her daughter's killer. The | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
murder of 16-year-old Leanne Tiernan, from Bramley near Leeds, | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
sparked one of the largest enquiries ever mounted by West | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Yorkshire Police. This weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
discovery of her body in woodland near Otley. Today, Leanne's mother | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
told Look North the pain of losing a loving daughter will never go | :07:27. | :07:37. | |
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away. She was a normal, fun-loving | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
teenager. She was acquired at times and could be shive. -- quiet at | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
times. A decade may have passed since the | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
body of Leanne Tiernan was discovered, but for her mother, the | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
emotion of that date is still raw. If you imagine losing a leg, it | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
does not matter if it was yesterday or 10 years later, it is still not | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
there. You learn to deal with things better, but it is still | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
there. Lehane is not here, and I still feel the same. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
Cool disappeared after taking a short cut through Bramley. Her body | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
was found eight months later near Otley. She had been strangled. | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
Police suspected the killer was a local. Detectives identified a man | :08:30. | :08:40. | |
who lived nearby. Samples of her blood was found on the floor boards. | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
John Taylor was sentence for Leanne Tiernan's murder. Can you forgive | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
them? No. He has tested need to breaking point. I do not understand | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
how people can ask me how I can forgive him. | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
The people were able to link him to other unsolved crimes. The police | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
never gave up, but were you grateful for their efforts? I was | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
very grateful, yes. They would not have got the person that did it. At | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
least he will not be able to do it to anyone else. | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
A mugger's killer may be behind bars, but the mother feels she has | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
been given a life sentence. -- Leanne Tiernan's killer. | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
Later on tonight: All the sport. I can confirm that England's have | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
the Aussies on the ropes. The over- sixties Ashes series, that is. | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
A 40-year-old man has appeared at Leeds Magistrates Court charged | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
with two counts of attempted murder following a double stabbing in | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Garforth. Leslie Cunningham was arrested on Wednesday following an | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
attack on a mother and daughter on Bar Lane on August 2nd. A 55-year- | :10:02. | :10:05. | |
old woman remains in hospital while her 25-year-old daughter was | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
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released earlier this week. A businessman who died after | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
falling from his Segway scooter has left an estate to his family. He | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
made his fortune in equipment used to protect soldiers serving in | :10:27. | :10:33. | |
Afghanistan and Iraq. The foam of minor donated millions of pounds to | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
charity. -- former miner. Next tonight, an extraordinary | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
story of one family's history. In her mid thirties, Felicity Davis | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
from Scarborough transformed her life by studying to become a | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
teacher. But as a child, she had suffered physical and psychological | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
abuse by her grandmother. Her own mother seemed powerless to | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
intervene. She wanted to find out why and researched her family tree. | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
The remarkable result has just been turned into a book, Guard A Silver | :10:56. | :11:05. | |
Sixpence. Tom Ingall met Felicity to find out more. | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
In a few weeks' time, Felicity will have a new class of the year seven | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
students. But it is not so long since she was a pupil in | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Scarborough in this very room. She was a single mother of three with | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
two failed marriages and absolutely broke. Then she went back to school. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
A fight always felt I needed to do something more. They were talking | :11:32. | :11:40. | |
about access courses for people like myself. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
A degree, Career Success, and a head teaching qualification later, | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
her life could not have changed more. | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
The there were three houses on there? Yes, there were. The she | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
took me to quarry Mount in Scarborough. | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
Every night, she would suffer abuse at the hands of her grandmother. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Her own mother seemingly powerless to intervene. She would make me say | :12:13. | :12:22. | |
the Lord's Prayer after hitting a. I was in trouble when I did not get | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
it right. That is the memory I took from those years. | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
She decided to research her family story, and what lay behind that | :12:32. | :12:39. | |
chartered. Her research letter to Barnsley. It | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
led her to events almost as many years ago. George Square was packed | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
tightly packed with terraced houses, and it was here Felicity's great | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
grandmother lived. She was married to an abusive husband. But she also | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
had a younger lover. Tired of witnessing the beatings, he | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
murdered Emily's husband. But she was found guilty as well for not | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
preventing the telling. Rough justice by today's standards, but | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
it was a case that went all the way to the gallows. | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
Emily was the only woman to be executed in Leeds. Her daughter | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
would grow up to be Felicity's abusive grand mother. Today, Emily | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
is buried outside the prison walls. Felicity believes the effect on her | :13:35. | :13:42. | |
was profound. I cried. It hit my heart straight away. I have a very | :13:42. | :13:48. | |
mixed picture of the grand mother that terrorised me as a child. | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
The past dealt with, she has turned the story into a book. Its job is | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
to start the family a course in future. You want to pass on to your | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
children: But these are the lessons of the past. Do not make the same | :14:06. | :14:16. | |
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mistakes I did. Making a noise to ban a steel bands | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
from the Leeds Carnival. And new arrivals in Yorkshire from the | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
sculptor of the Angel of the North. The weekend is here and we can have | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
some sport now. The Ashes is taking place in Leeds tonight. You have to | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
be over 60 to be in the team. Somebody very young is there for | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
I thought you were suggesting I was old enough to play in the team! And | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
what a start to the sporting weekend. England have beaten | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
Australia by 135 runs. The Australian over-sixties were bowled | :15:03. | :15:10. | |
out for 149. This is the first of a three-match series. We will find | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
out about the over-sixties shortly. Now, football. After three matches | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
of the league season, South Yorkshire is the place to be with | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
Rotherham United top of League Two. Sheffield United are second in | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
League One and looking difficult to beat. | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
That special night on Tuesday against Walsall what made it up | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
three wins out of three for Sheffield United. You could say it | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
was one in the eye for those who made the manager less than welcome | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
when he was appointed in the summer on account of his Sheffield | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
Wednesday allegiances. He will not bear a grudge about that. Or the | :15:49. | :15:55. | |
fact he took over an essentially relegated team. It get sued know | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
where, looking back all the time. - they get you nowhere. You have to | :16:02. | :16:10. | |
look forward. We have to turn the team into a team that can win games. | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
We have had a good start. Hopefully that will continue and people will | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
forget where the manager was previously. He is here and | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
committed to this club, like we all are. He wants the best that | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
Sheffield United. Their reward for the three wins is a place in the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
top two and a few days by the riverside. The River Mersey, that | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
is. Everton next week in the League Cup. Tomorrow at Tranmere is higher | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
on the agenda. We need to win games. If it means a bruising battle, it | :16:47. | :16:54. | |
will have to be that way. Gone are the cries of "Wilson out!". He is | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
very much in at around Bramall Lane Bizet's. | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
Was there some fall-out -- these days. Was there some fall-out at | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
Huddersfield Town after a press conference today? Yes. The manager | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
took the opportunity to make criticism of his own of the media | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
who he accused of stirring up a Hornet's nest and of the fans who | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
had been criticising him on Tuesday during the draw against Hartlepool. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
It illustrates the expectation levels that he is working under at | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
Huddersfield Town. They have not lost yet, but they have not won | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
either. They will hope for better things tomorrow. It should be a | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
good day for Yorkshire at Scarborough. Sussex created a lead | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
Scarborough. Sussex created a lead of 136 and runs. Well done to Joe | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
of 136 and runs. Well done to Joe Root who finished with 160. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Speaking of cricket, or we can talk to an Australian friend. This is | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
the tour organiser of the over sixties Australian team. Feeling | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
sorry for yourself because you have been beaten? Not really. It was a | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
first test and it really was a test for the boys. England played well. | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
The Australian boys are getting it together. We have come out of our | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
winter season. We only had a couple of matches leading up to this. | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
is a three-match series. You start in Yorkshire. I assume that is | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
because it is a good night out in Leeds! We started in Chester. | :18:39. | :18:46. | |
Yorkshire is a great place to be. Great hospitality. It is | :18:46. | :18:55. | |
sensational here in Leeds. We can talk to the Yorkshire manager. This | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
is a prestigious home of the Yorkshire Academy. How difficult | :18:59. | :19:09. | |
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was it to organise? When they said they wanted a Test match in Leeds I | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
asked if they could arrange a match here. This is a big community of | :19:15. | :19:24. | |
players, the over-sixties. We are looking for good players who want | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
to play at 60 years old. You are using Look North as a recruitment | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
platform! There are two Yorkshire- based player's in the team today. | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
They move on to Wales for the next match. I fear that the Australians | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
will conquer the sporting world one day, maybe even at soccer against | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
England. At the moment, the Ashes order is restored. | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
His rod OK, did he get hit today? He looks as if he has an injury. | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Who? The gentleman behind you. Was he | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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hit by a cricket ball? Yesterday. Just playing a shot. You would do | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
it to us if we did not do it two- year! We are friends, really. | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
And a 60-year-old still coming out after being hit in the face by a | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
cricket ball! It is an excuse for a party and a | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
chance to celebrate West Indian culture in Chapeltown. And a big | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
part of the Leeds carnival is the steel drums. But this year they | :20:41. | :20:51. | |
have been banned for safety reasons. This has created controversy. | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
For many people, they are the soundtrack of the carnival. They | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
are a traditional West Indian instrument, turning old oil drums | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
into something more pleasing. And, for the past 13 years, Victoria has | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
taken hers to the Leeds Carnival. But, because of the recent unrest | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
in the area, there will be no its steel drums in the parade this year. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
I do not see any logic. The worst thing is we have been looking | :21:27. | :21:34. | |
forward to it. We have practised and we know our staff. These are | :21:34. | :21:42. | |
award-winning steel band players. But at the steel bands have been | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
deemed too risky in the current climate. Trouble in the area and an | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
arson attack on the carnival headquarters, the organisers say | :21:51. | :22:00. | |
they are being cautious. It is just one of those things, we have made | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
the decision. We will not have a steel band. In the light of the | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
disturbances we have had. The only place there will be a steel band is | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
on the stage, traditionally where Victoria's group played, but this | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
year occupied by the new world steel orchestra. For many people, | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
the sound of the steel band is synonymous with. But this year, the | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
sound will be muted. -- with Carnival. | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
That is a shame. It is. They thought about that and | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
they are very careful. The sculptor Antony Gormley is best | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
known for his iconic Angel of the North. But now he has created two | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
new works for Harewood House near Leeds. He's been at the house today | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
to see the work in situ for the first time. Made of iron that's | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
been left out in the rain to rust, the sculptures were designed | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
especially for the Terrace Gallery at Harewood. Cathy Killick's been | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
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to meet the artist and see the work. Two Estates is the title of this | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
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work. It consists of iron blocks They are clever. They look like | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
precariously stacked building blocks. When you move around them, | :23:40. | :23:48. | |
suddenly, yes, there is the human figure. It is recognisably an | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
Antony Gormley. He is famous for the Angel of the North. And, more | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
recently this sculpture on Crosby beach in Liverpool. Here, he wanted | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
to show frailty as well as strength. They weigh half a ton each, but | :24:07. | :24:15. | |
they feel, in this room, fragile. I guess what I was trying to express | :24:15. | :24:22. | |
with this work was the fact that we are towers. We are like high-rise | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
skyscrapers. At the same time, we are relatively vulnerable. Over 20 | :24:29. | :24:34. | |
years ago he proposed to build a monumental brick man in Leeds. This | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
is how it would have looked. The council turned it down. It would | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
have cost six per hundred �1,000. do not think Leeds is any less | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
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wonderful. -- �600,000. I often go past the triangle and think that | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
work should have been there. But we made the angel and I do not want to | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
make two monumental works in Britain. For many art lovers in | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
Yorkshire, that is sad news. But they can console themselves with | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
this new work. It is on display until the end of October. | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Is he suggesting people are like tower-blocks? There is a strength. | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
I am a tower of strength! Let's I am a tower of strength! Let's | :25:33. | :25:41. | |
have the weather. There will be sunshine this weekend. | :25:41. | :25:51. | |
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We can look at a night's We can look at a night's | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
photographs. We had sunshine today. photographs. We had sunshine today. | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
Keep your photographs coming in. It has clouded over throughout the | :26:04. | :26:11. | |
second part of the afternoon, but tomorrow it looks dry. Temperatures | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
around 20 degrees. The rest of Yorkshire will have sunshine. It | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
will turn cloudy as we head through the afternoon. The reason is this | :26:22. | :26:31. | |
weather front. Today, it clouded over from the West. There is a risk | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
of light rain this evening. That will continue through the night. | :26:36. | :26:45. | |
But for most, it will stay dry. Most at risk of patchy rain are the | :26:45. | :26:55. | |
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Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors. Tomorrow, | :26:58. | :27:06. | |
the sun will rise at 5:54am. Tomorrow, the cloud will break-up | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
during the morning and we will see plenty more sunshine. The best | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
sunshine will be during the morning. It is a cloudy picture for South | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
Yorkshire in the afternoon. We will see light rain. That will move | :27:24. | :27:31. |