:00:02. > :00:06.Good evening and welcome to Look North. On tonight's programme:
:00:06. > :00:09.lucky to be alive - the woman plucked to safety after falling off
:00:09. > :00:11.a ferry off the Scarborough coast after 30 minutes in the freezing
:00:11. > :00:15.North Sea. Also on tonight's programme:
:00:15. > :00:24.Trousers only for schoolgirls - pupils are told skirts are banned
:00:24. > :00:27.as hemlines rise. Girls should then be flaunting
:00:27. > :00:31.themselves at a young age. They shouldn't ban them but they should
:00:31. > :00:34.be a limit on the height. And after years of wrangling
:00:34. > :00:42.Harrogate looks set to become the final postcode in mainland Britain
:00:42. > :00:52.to get a Tesco superstore. It has been a very windy day. Gales
:00:52. > :00:57.
:00:57. > :01:02.A 23-year-old woman is safe and well despite falling from a ferry
:01:02. > :01:10.into the North cease -- north-east off the coast of Scarborough.
:01:10. > :01:13.She was lucky to survive 30 minutes. She was eventually rescued by a
:01:13. > :01:18.lifeboat. It is cold and very windy here in
:01:18. > :01:22.Scarborough but just imagine what it would have been like for this
:01:22. > :01:27.woman at stranded 20 miles of this coast. We don't know how she fell
:01:27. > :01:33.into the sea and we don't know her name. What we do know is she is
:01:33. > :01:43.very lucky to be alive. It was dark, cold and she was alone in the water
:01:43. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:54.for over 20 minutes. An RAF Sea King moves in. The helicopter's
:01:54. > :01:58.night camera shows crew members on board and friends. They guided a
:01:58. > :02:06.lifeboat to rescue the woman. The rescuer is winched down onto the
:02:06. > :02:11.deck. Cold and wet, she is laid out on to the floor. You can make out
:02:11. > :02:17.her face at the bottom of the stretcher. Once the rescue team
:02:17. > :02:23.talk to her, she is then slowly lifted away from the ferry. They
:02:23. > :02:27.must have had some slick drills to get her out of the water. You can't
:02:27. > :02:32.underestimate how difficult it is to find a small head bobbing around
:02:32. > :02:36.in a Black Sea. They did extremely well to get out. Minutes after she
:02:36. > :02:41.fell off the ferry, the captain turned back and launched a rescue
:02:41. > :02:48.boat. Coastguards say it was this quick thinking that saved her life.
:02:48. > :02:53.She has been extremely lucky, particularly the time of day.
:02:53. > :02:56.woman was taken to Scarborough Hospital as a per Paul Cooke -- as
:02:56. > :03:01.a precaution. Despite swimming the North Sea, she has been allowed
:03:01. > :03:07.home to recover. We understand his foreman left Scarborough Hospital
:03:07. > :03:12.at 4am this morning. We think she is back home in Hertfordshire. What
:03:12. > :03:20.is amazing is after nearly half-an- hour at sea, she is only suffering
:03:20. > :03:25.from the effects of cold and taking in too much salt -- sea water.
:03:25. > :03:30.A school in Leeds has become the latest to them girls wearing skirts.
:03:30. > :03:33.The head of Guiseley School, Paul Morrissey, says it is to stop
:03:33. > :03:37.pupils raising their hands and turning them into mini-skirts.
:03:37. > :03:43.The controversial move comes after a year in Harrogate introduced the
:03:43. > :03:46.same banner. A new term, new books and at
:03:46. > :03:56.Guiseley School, a new uniform, one that forces girls to wear trousers
:03:56. > :03:58.
:03:58. > :04:07.rather than scares. 15-year-olds Han that... Are having to wear
:04:07. > :04:12.trousers. We look the same as boys. When boys have their underpants on
:04:12. > :04:16.display, it hasn't been mentioned as much. Last term, at the school
:04:16. > :04:22.allowed skirts that were knee- length but girls have been breaking
:04:22. > :04:25.the rules. Governors and teachers felt students were being influenced
:04:25. > :04:31.by popular culture and wrote to parents saying a ban would be
:04:31. > :04:36.introduced. We want to introduce the conflict between pupils and
:04:36. > :04:45.staff by taking away the skirts. We can focus on teaching and learning.
:04:45. > :04:49.We feel skirts encourage the second -- centralisation of children. We
:04:49. > :04:53.want to stick with trousers. ban will not be enforced until
:04:53. > :05:00.January but 11 year olds that started this morning are already in
:05:00. > :05:03.trousers. In the town centre, they support. If they can't keep them at
:05:03. > :05:09.that length, they should have trousers on. They shouldn't be
:05:09. > :05:15.flaunting themselves at a young age. She is only seven and she pulls her
:05:15. > :05:21.skirt up. She is not allowed to do that, there is rules and you should
:05:21. > :05:25.stick to them. Ham and Laura say they will stick to the rules.
:05:25. > :05:29.Trousers will be warned it reluctantly. I think it is the
:05:29. > :05:34.wrong focus for the school. They could be focusing on many other
:05:34. > :05:38.things like motivating people and getting them engaged in ways that
:05:38. > :05:47.are not to do with the uniform. School staff will be hoping
:05:47. > :05:53.students won't find a way of flouting the new trousers only rule.
:05:53. > :05:55.Joining as his Dennis Richards, the head teacher at St changes -- St
:05:55. > :06:05.Paignton Zoo Church of England School in Harrogate. He introduced
:06:05. > :06:07.
:06:07. > :06:11.this ban last year. -- St Aidan's school. It was a routine a staff
:06:11. > :06:18.meeting but we talked about and forcing the school uniform policy.
:06:18. > :06:23.We were getting to the stage where were weary and to a certain extent,
:06:23. > :06:28.we were trying to enforce the and forcible. He was a fairly routine
:06:28. > :06:35.meeting. In these delicate times, the worst accusation that could be
:06:35. > :06:43.and posed against you at the time and others is that this is sexist.
:06:43. > :06:50.What helps to s was that we were able to castigate the boys. Your
:06:50. > :06:54.viewers will be aware that while the focus is very much on girls'
:06:54. > :07:02.uniform, boys' uniform, what boys are doing with their trousers is
:07:02. > :07:11.the opposite to what girls are doing to their skirt. You are
:07:11. > :07:15.telling but girls of but not the boys. What we are doing is we have
:07:15. > :07:18.a sophisticated clientele in Harrogate and we have to come up
:07:19. > :07:22.with something that is rational. Not only was it both applicable to
:07:22. > :07:27.boys and girls come the fact that we wear and forcing a uniform
:07:27. > :07:32.policy, this second thing was it was age related. The choice of
:07:32. > :07:41.wearing a skirt or trousers is still open to older girls. I didn't
:07:41. > :07:47.come on 12 months ago precisely for that reason. Way we felt that in
:07:47. > :07:51.the end we won the day, is really because in the end we saw it as age
:07:52. > :07:55.related. Year 11 girls have the privilege of choice. They are of an
:07:55. > :08:01.age to make a decision and are given the right and we accept the
:08:01. > :08:06.responsibility that goes with it. Do you feel you have one? It is not
:08:06. > :08:16.a question of winning. We have saved the staff from intervening
:08:16. > :08:16.
:08:16. > :08:22.three, four, five times a day. You will never win over school uniform.
:08:22. > :08:28.In terms of reducing the stress on staff, I wouldn't like to say we
:08:28. > :08:33.have one. The thing that worried us most was that engaging with girls
:08:33. > :08:41.and boys over uniform can be destructive of relationships. If
:08:41. > :08:48.they can't see a rationale behind this... We will have to stop you
:08:48. > :08:54.there. I hope it is my last word.
:08:54. > :08:55.No chance! Coming up, we will have expert advice for you about the
:08:55. > :09:02.latest stage in the digital switchover.
:09:02. > :09:10.All to play for-Yorkshire cricketers face relegation from
:09:10. > :09:15.Division One. It is set to lose its status of
:09:15. > :09:22.being the only postcode in mainland Britain without a Tesco superstore.
:09:22. > :09:25.The retail giant argued it should be allowed to develop a store in
:09:25. > :09:28.Harrogate. Others say it is well served with
:09:28. > :09:33.the superstores as it has a Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose
:09:33. > :09:43.and ASDA. Now a Tesco is due to be built to the north-west of the town
:09:43. > :09:46.Good evening. It has taken Tesco five years to get approval. It took
:09:46. > :09:51.councillors two hours to reach their decision to approve the
:09:51. > :09:57.development to the north of Harrogate. Rather stormy in the
:09:57. > :10:01.meeting, one member of the public had to be taken from the meeting.
:10:01. > :10:07.The main objectors are centred around congestion in the town. It
:10:07. > :10:10.is already very congested. Also concerns about the Tesco are being
:10:10. > :10:17.built on the site of a former gasworks. This was the reaction of
:10:17. > :10:22.one of the objectors. It is disappointing but not surprising.
:10:22. > :10:26.But councillors have understandably voted for their own local
:10:26. > :10:31.constituents interest. We asked them to take the view of a wider
:10:31. > :10:36.community. We expressed the concern, the impact on our beautiful town
:10:36. > :10:46.centre shopping environment, the impact on our traffic and transport
:10:46. > :10:46.
:10:46. > :10:50.and most important of all, the risk of some disaster on the objectors.
:10:50. > :10:57.That was the reaction. Let's see what this means for Harrogate and
:10:57. > :11:02.for Tesco. Mark McGhee is with me, the leader of Tesco and the leader
:11:02. > :11:07.of the council. You look like a relieved man. We are pleased that
:11:07. > :11:11.the decision. It reflects the popularity of this scheme. A
:11:11. > :11:15.supermarket is needed in that area of their time and we have created
:11:15. > :11:21.300 new jobs. There was our objection to your plants. Some are
:11:21. > :11:26.not happy and say the having of supermarkets. All our consultations
:11:26. > :11:32.have shown that people support this application. Over 70 % of people
:11:32. > :11:38.were in favour. What I have found his they want accessible
:11:38. > :11:42.supermarket shopping in their area. Don, this is going to change the
:11:42. > :11:48.face of Harrogate. One Councillor said this was the toughest decision
:11:48. > :11:52.they have ever had to make. It was a tough decision. I don't think it
:11:52. > :11:57.will change Harrogate. It gives us a supermarket on the north side and
:11:57. > :12:04.gives us the facilities to shock. His six people going into the
:12:04. > :12:08.centre of town or the south. More congestion? We spent a lot of time
:12:08. > :12:13.looking at the Highways report. It will be a trade-off. They will be
:12:13. > :12:17.people going to the Tesco store but there will be people who no longer
:12:17. > :12:22.have to travel into the centre or the south to do their supermarket
:12:22. > :12:27.shopping. If there were concerns about the gas works being there. If
:12:27. > :12:32.something were to go wrong, what responsibility we take? We will all
:12:32. > :12:38.take responsibility but it goes to the health unsafety executives who
:12:38. > :12:44.are experienced in these matters. It is for them to decide if it will
:12:44. > :12:48.go ahead or whether to refer it to the Secretary of State. This is a
:12:48. > :12:56.commercial decision, this is for the benefit of Tesco not Harrogate.
:12:56. > :13:00.I don't think be to our exclusive. They see that derelict sites that
:13:00. > :13:06.we can clean up. We can provide a great store with strong
:13:06. > :13:13.environmental features and provide 300 jobs. This isn't just about
:13:13. > :13:17.getting that postcode. You are competitive for her. You really did
:13:17. > :13:23.want that superstore in that post code. It has never been an issue
:13:23. > :13:28.for us. If you speak to the people in Harrogate, they don't care about
:13:28. > :13:31.that issue either, they just want supermarket shopping. We have spent
:13:31. > :13:35.years on this application and we have got it absolutely right.
:13:35. > :13:41.People are pleased we are going ahead. Thanks very much. The
:13:41. > :13:50.Secretary of State has got to approve this. If it goes ahead, the
:13:50. > :13:54.A Bradford man who passed himself off as having magical powers has
:13:54. > :13:58.been jailed for nine and a half years for the rape of a 13-year-old
:13:58. > :14:02.girl in his home. Syed Bukhari carried out the attack in an unlit
:14:02. > :14:06.room made to look like a prayer room. A judge called the rape
:14:06. > :14:09.appalling and wicked. It has emerged that the South
:14:09. > :14:19.Yorkshire Police will lose its four-pack the copped it. The
:14:19. > :14:21.
:14:21. > :14:27.government is creating a company macro. Lose its force helicopter.
:14:27. > :14:29.Tonight is an historic night for television... Surrey, BT the retail
:14:30. > :14:37.consultant Mary Portas has been meeting shopkeepers in Rotherham as
:14:37. > :14:40.part of a vague review into British high streets. They want to
:14:40. > :14:44.encourage retailers to offer something different from out of
:14:44. > :14:49.town shopping centres. I see a great energy that says that we are
:14:49. > :14:56.going to we do this. I have seen some excellent retell practice. I
:14:56. > :15:00.am actually saying that there is up I believe a future for a real
:15:00. > :15:04.personal service, going back to some of the service traditions that
:15:04. > :15:07.we had possibly in the Fifties and Sixties.
:15:07. > :15:11.Now it is a historic for television hearing Yorkshire tonight. 4
:15:12. > :15:15.million of us get our television from the Emley Moor transmitter but
:15:15. > :15:22.overnight its BBC Two signal will be switched off.
:15:22. > :15:27.From tomorrow, we will need to be watching digital television. If you
:15:27. > :15:29.have a digital TV, you will have to retune your set-top box to keep
:15:29. > :15:35.watching the tunnels you currently have.
:15:35. > :15:39.Digital UK, the company who is managing this, is with me now. This
:15:39. > :15:43.is complicated even for us involved intelligent. If you have an old-
:15:43. > :15:47.fashioned analogue TV which relies on an aerial, explain, what
:15:47. > :15:50.happens? The first thing to say is that they are not many of them left.
:15:51. > :15:55.We have done some tracking which shows that over 90% of people have
:15:55. > :15:58.got the equipment and are ready to go. There are still some people
:15:58. > :16:02.watching Anelog, but largely, not because they haven't got the
:16:02. > :16:07.equipment, but because their local transmitter has not converted and
:16:07. > :16:14.that is what is happening overnight. To tune in York equipment, or
:16:14. > :16:20.retune it, to get the new services in the morning. It you have eight
:16:20. > :16:25.per Freeview or BT Vision, what happens tomorrow? Overnight, the
:16:25. > :16:30.services go off and all the new high-powered digital services for
:16:30. > :16:34.BBC start up. Everybody should be able to receive those. You need to
:16:34. > :16:37.tune in ought retune once the service starts up again. Emley Moor
:16:37. > :16:41.should be back up and running by 6am. The local relays may take a
:16:41. > :16:46.little bit longer. If you do not get services straight away, try a
:16:46. > :16:55.bit later. If you have not got anything by teatime, tell us.
:16:55. > :17:00.what on satellite, stage by stage, what happens? If you have free sack
:17:00. > :17:05.or Sky or a cable viewer, you do not need to do anything -- free
:17:05. > :17:09.sacked. But some people have other televisions in the house and they
:17:09. > :17:14.will need to be retuned. What time does this all come into being
:17:14. > :17:18.tomorrow? As I say, Emley Moor should be back on by 6am. There
:17:18. > :17:23.will be trouble for me if it is not! Later on, be very as relays,
:17:23. > :17:27.there are 50 of them across the region, if you are watching from a
:17:27. > :17:34.local relay and currently can only get analogue, it may take a bit
:17:34. > :17:40.longer because the engineers have to go out and sort them manually.
:17:40. > :17:46.Thank you very much. If you are confused, there is help at hand,
:17:46. > :17:50.either from Digital UK or if you are over 75, registered blind or
:17:50. > :18:00.partially sighted, all of entitled to certain disability benefits,
:18:00. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:08.You can also see someone in person at a help., there are many around
:18:08. > :18:17.the regions. Coming up, putting the final touches to St Leger Festival
:18:17. > :18:24.Football now and in the League One, Sheffield Wednesday had a good hot
:18:24. > :18:27.1-1 draw at Charlton last night. The Owls made a poor start falling
:18:27. > :18:31.behind to a Bradley Wright- Phillips's shot at it just three
:18:31. > :18:37.minutes. But substitute Clinton Morrison levelled the scores 10
:18:37. > :18:40.minutes after the break with a close-range header from a corner.
:18:40. > :18:47.Tomorrow is the first day of the St Leger Festival at Doncaster
:18:47. > :18:51.racecourse. It is Britain's final classic of the Flat race season.
:18:51. > :18:55.About 60,000 people are expected to attend over the four-day festival.
:18:55. > :18:59.Racegoers will be able to eat anything from travels to burgers
:18:59. > :19:03.and over the four days, almost 8000 bottles of champagne will also be
:19:04. > :19:07.drunk. Spare a thought for the laundry staff because every evening
:19:08. > :19:12.more than 600 uniforms a need to be washed and ironed.
:19:12. > :19:22.Olivia Richwald has been took Town Moor to find out help preparations
:19:22. > :19:29.
:19:29. > :19:33.Despite the rain, the going at Doncaster is good to firm. Last
:19:33. > :19:38.year 60,000 people came here to watch and almost a million tuned in
:19:38. > :19:41.on television. Be racing industry is facing severe financial
:19:41. > :19:46.challenges but all that will be forgotten for the next four days.
:19:46. > :19:52.The prize-money for the four days at St Leger Festival is just short
:19:52. > :19:59.of �2 million. The St Leger Festival race itself is... I think
:19:59. > :20:02.it is the richest race in Europe. I do not think you are going to get
:20:02. > :20:08.anybody whingeing about prize-money. A highlight of the day tomorrow
:20:08. > :20:13.will be the charity race. Guest of honour is the most successful
:20:13. > :20:18.female jockey of all time. She gave up a place on the American version
:20:18. > :20:25.of I and a celebrity to be here. The whole place seems Horse Crazy
:20:25. > :20:28.which for me makes me happy. Riding this race, it is probably one of
:20:28. > :20:33.the most exciting things I have done since giving birth to my child.
:20:33. > :20:36.Today she was sharing some tips with students at the big racing
:20:36. > :20:40.college and said it was an honour to raise at the St Leger Festival.
:20:40. > :20:46.It is one of the oldest most classic races at that and I have
:20:46. > :20:50.only seen it on television. And I am looking forward to it and the
:20:50. > :20:56.only other thing that would be good is to win it?
:20:56. > :21:00.You can still get a ticket if you want to watch her attempt back.
:21:00. > :21:03.Fantastic festival of racing. How many of those champagne bottles
:21:03. > :21:08.will you be drinking? Nine this year.
:21:08. > :21:12.Now cricket. It is a big week for Yorkshire and rather complicated. I
:21:12. > :21:17.want you to keep the mass simple. They have got one game to go. Quite
:21:17. > :21:22.simply, Yorkshire must win against Somerset starting tomorrow to have
:21:22. > :21:25.any chance of staying in division one. Yorkshire might be looking to
:21:25. > :21:30.the heavens this week, not just for a bit of sunshine but some divine
:21:30. > :21:34.intervention. The odds are heavily stacked against them staying up.
:21:34. > :21:39.Where there is life, there is hope. It is important we try to win this
:21:39. > :21:42.game and then put pressure on the other teams. Obviously, we have got
:21:42. > :21:46.it all against us but we fought hard last week at Edgbaston and I
:21:47. > :21:50.expect us to do the same this week. We have not really deserve to stay
:21:50. > :21:55.in this division with the cricket we have played, if I'm being honest.
:21:55. > :22:00.We have ourselves to blame. I will see what happens this week. They
:22:00. > :22:03.need to win, preferably with maximum bonus points and hope that
:22:03. > :22:09.one of the other teams lose their matches and get few bonus points.
:22:09. > :22:13.It is quite frankly, unlikely. have got a conundrum of points
:22:13. > :22:16.calculation and all kinds of different possibilities in the next
:22:16. > :22:21.week or so. Really, the challenge has been dealing with the ball in
:22:21. > :22:25.front of us, the cricket in front of us and trying to win the
:22:26. > :22:33.sessions. If they have been plus points to the season, the emergence
:22:33. > :22:38.of two talents and the improvement of others. But the captain is clear,
:22:38. > :22:46.this is where it has gone wrong. have not performed well enough, in
:22:46. > :22:49.the Indira -- individually or as a team. We have at times have the
:22:49. > :22:54.opportunity to win but we have not taken the game. Our stats are not
:22:54. > :22:58.good enough, our performance is not good enough. His is probably down
:22:58. > :23:02.to a bit of concentration, immaturity within the group, not
:23:02. > :23:11.being ruthless enough, I guess. nothing else, they want to end the
:23:11. > :23:18.season on a positive note. You might just need your tin hat on.
:23:18. > :23:25.You have got to believe in the boys. Finally, we have a share bid dog
:23:25. > :23:29.story -- we have a shaggy-dog story. Doncaster has the only officially
:23:29. > :23:33.licensed bust in dog in the country. Egypt attracts all of the attention
:23:33. > :23:41.while his owner plays the guitar. He has become such a popular
:23:41. > :23:46.fixture that the council gave him a permit. This is South Yorkshire's
:23:46. > :23:51.Snoop Doggy Dog. He is big, hairy and cute and the
:23:51. > :24:00.dog isn't bad either! As busking double acts go, this couple have
:24:00. > :24:05.not got a leg to stand on, they have got six. He is beautiful!
:24:05. > :24:09.of them ropes in the crowd, the other knocks out the tunes. It
:24:09. > :24:15.seems right that both parties are fully licensed tour bus. He drags
:24:15. > :24:19.me out on Saturday mornings. He is the one getting all the fuss!
:24:19. > :24:25.the talented one, I'm not a bad guitarist, but nobody cares. He's a
:24:25. > :24:32.beauty. When you have got a boot performance planet, you must have
:24:32. > :24:35.friends in high places. -- pooch performance permit. Occasionally,
:24:35. > :24:39.he wants and barks and that is better than some of the other
:24:39. > :24:44.buskers so I thought we would give him a licence. He is contributing
:24:44. > :24:54.to the Act. He is talking to passers-by, nodding to people, what
:24:54. > :24:54.
:24:54. > :25:00.more could you ask? He is very popular. Not bad for a bit of the
:25:00. > :25:04.other funds. He certainly enjoys his share of the profits. He takes
:25:04. > :25:10.them in steak pies. After a hard day's session on the street, the
:25:10. > :25:15.proud -- crowd treat them both to a massive round of applause. I will
:25:15. > :25:19.just go. His singing is almost as good as
:25:19. > :25:29.yours last night. The moving on to beat weather.
:25:29. > :25:30.
:25:30. > :25:40.There are going to be stoppages but it does not look like a washed out.
:25:40. > :25:54.
:25:54. > :26:04.I have never heard of that. Now they headlines for tomorrow. Sunny
:26:04. > :26:05.
:26:05. > :26:12.intervals and blustery showers. A West-East split. Mobile westerlies,
:26:12. > :26:16.that feature may well bring a more prolonged it ought rain late in the
:26:16. > :26:22.day to western areas. This is the satellite picture, the cold front
:26:22. > :26:26.that brought a quite a bit of rain and strong winds. 53 mile an hour
:26:26. > :26:32.bus in the last hour, a very windy evening and night with local gales.
:26:32. > :26:37.Blustery showers, especially across the Pennines. A few of those will
:26:37. > :26:47.get across to the east coast. Temperatures down to 11 degrees.
:26:47. > :26:47.
:26:47. > :26:52.The sun rises in the morning at 6:25am... It will be unsettled if
:26:52. > :26:57.you live across western areas. Started to -- scattered showers at
:26:57. > :27:01.times. Further east, the showers will be more isolated and there
:27:01. > :27:06.will be some sunshine in between the showers. Generally cloud will
:27:06. > :27:13.increase later in the day. It could be a wet end to the day across the
:27:13. > :27:16.top of the Pennines. * winds everywhere, gusts up to possibly 50
:27:16. > :27:24.miles an hour. Top temperatures fairly academic with that strength
:27:24. > :27:29.of wind. A blustery afternoon that Headingley. Thursday, a West-East