:00:06. > :00:09.Tonight on Look North: Compensation for alleged victims of abuse. But
:00:09. > :00:18.disappointment that the police say they cannot prosecute staff at a
:00:18. > :00:23.care centre in Doncaster. We want the people who have abused my
:00:23. > :00:29.sister and other vulnerable people brought to justice, named and
:00:29. > :00:32.shamed, some guilt hung over the heads. Also tonight: University of
:00:32. > :00:42.life. That's where and this Leeds millionaire went, but he says
:00:42. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:49.working-class kids should aim for the real thing. And the new world
:00:49. > :00:55.record holder for the biggest number of dialects. It has been a
:00:55. > :01:05.fantastic weather day across the region, is there more like this on
:01:05. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:14.the way tomorrow? Join me later. Good evening. An NHS trust in
:01:14. > :01:19.Yorkshire has paid compensation to two mental health patients because
:01:19. > :01:23.they suffered abuse at the hands of their carers but it has emerged
:01:23. > :01:33.that there will not be a criminal trial because of the lack of
:01:33. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:38.evidence. Far reaching abuse was described. It includes physical
:01:38. > :01:47.abuse, the hitting of patients and tipping them out of wheelchairs.
:01:47. > :01:51.There was mental abuse including a humiliation and force-feeding. We
:01:51. > :01:57.will speak to a solicitor representing a number of the
:01:57. > :02:05.mentally disabled people but first he does a were reporter with more.
:02:05. > :02:08.St Katharine's Hospital looks after people with mental health problems.
:02:08. > :02:15.Inside it is a day centre for people with mental health
:02:15. > :02:19.difficulties, the Solar Centre. It is alleged that between 2005 and
:02:19. > :02:28.2007 some members of staff abused and number of patients there. I
:02:28. > :02:36.have been speaking do the relative of one of the abused people.
:02:36. > :02:41.were visiting the Solar Centre the centre which allows her to have
:02:41. > :02:51.different outlets, activities, meeting new people. What happened
:02:51. > :02:52.
:02:52. > :02:58.to her? When she was visiting the it twice a week the staff, one
:02:58. > :03:02.staff member in particular, was repeatedly abusing her. It was very
:03:02. > :03:07.difficult. We did not find out until the abuse had actually
:03:07. > :03:12.finished. We could not do anything because the police were
:03:12. > :03:17.investigating it. It went on for a few years and we were trying to
:03:17. > :03:23.find out exactly what had happened. What do you think of the way the
:03:23. > :03:29.case has been handled so far? think the police should have gone
:03:29. > :03:35.to the family members who had a bit more understanding about the people
:03:35. > :03:39.who had been abused and what had happened. The patients came home
:03:39. > :03:45.with marks on their body. At the time we did not know what was going
:03:45. > :03:51.on because no one had been told but there were definite clues about the
:03:51. > :03:57.people being abused. We want the people who were abusing my sister
:03:57. > :04:07.and other vulnerable people named and shamed and some guilt hung over
:04:07. > :04:07.
:04:07. > :04:14.their heads. The trust says two cases have been concluded and some
:04:14. > :04:24.others are still in progress so they cannot comment. Because it is
:04:24. > :04:34.more than five years since the alleged abuse took place it is very
:04:34. > :04:35.
:04:35. > :04:39.hard to get evidence. Earlier I spoke to a solicitor who represents
:04:39. > :04:47.several of the families. I asked him for his reaction to the news
:04:47. > :04:53.that the case had been dropped. am surprised and disappointed. My
:04:53. > :04:57.clients will be really disappointed to hear that there will be no
:04:57. > :05:03.opposite of the case. They are interested in bringing the
:05:03. > :05:11.perpetrators to justice. This way it appears that the abusers will
:05:11. > :05:16.escape justice. Even the police officers, the statement from the
:05:16. > :05:22.police says they tried to put together a strong case, they
:05:22. > :05:28.understand the disappointment, that suggests they went for it. Yes, the
:05:28. > :05:31.police were content that the case should go forward. I will be doing
:05:31. > :05:35.everything I can to persuade the Crown Prosecution Service to change
:05:36. > :05:43.their minds and realise the perpetrators here really should
:05:43. > :05:49.face a court. Nevertheless, the CPS are experts in this field and are
:05:49. > :05:59.saying there is insufficient evidence. That is correct. It does
:05:59. > :05:59.
:05:59. > :06:04.not mean that I agree DIS or that the victim's family are agree.
:06:04. > :06:09.case that you are bringing is not a criminal case but a case in the
:06:09. > :06:13.civil law, what do you hope to achieve the air? Quite apart from
:06:13. > :06:19.the prosecution aspect which is to do with the police and Crown
:06:19. > :06:24.Prosecution Service, my clients are interested in seeking some form of
:06:24. > :06:30.compensation payments to help the victims with extra therapy that
:06:30. > :06:35.they will need to regain the levels of trust that they had in their
:06:35. > :06:41.carers prior to all this. So that case continues and we will keep in
:06:41. > :06:45.touch with you. Also tonight, the West Yorkshire music teacher
:06:45. > :06:54.accused of killing his fiancee and then putting her body in a suitcase
:06:54. > :07:04.will not be going into the witness box will stop he admits the
:07:04. > :07:11.
:07:11. > :07:17.manslaughter of Moody-Stuart but denies murder. -- Marie Stewart. He
:07:17. > :07:27.is accused of murdering her at their home, he said they had an
:07:27. > :07:28.
:07:28. > :07:34.argument and he "lost it". Police have tapes in which she talks about
:07:34. > :07:38.the sequence of the 10 -- events, he said his fiancee had an argument
:07:38. > :07:43.with them during which she started waving her arms around and hitting
:07:43. > :07:47.him. He grabbed hold of her arms and then the situation snowballed.
:07:47. > :07:53.He said it was like a nightmare, I just grabbed hold of her throat and
:07:53. > :07:59.started squeezing. Everything happened so fast it was weird. He
:07:59. > :08:05.is then said to have hit her over the head with a children's cheer
:08:05. > :08:13.and stabbed her. He then put her body into a suitcase and put it in
:08:13. > :08:17.the garage. The prosecution are calling no evidence? We expected to
:08:17. > :08:25.hear from the defence but his barrister said we call no evidence.
:08:25. > :08:35.The judge asked the barrister of what the jury might thin fare from
:08:35. > :08:44.that. He said we have advised the man, verbally and in writing. The
:08:44. > :08:50.accused sat impassively in the dock. There was more evidence from the
:08:50. > :08:56.tapes that I was talking about, he described in the police interview
:08:56. > :09:01.how he tried to clean the carpet in the bedroom. He then put a ruck
:09:01. > :09:06.over the carpet. He returned a few days later and talked about how the
:09:06. > :09:12.bloodstain had not gone and all this time his fiancee's body was in
:09:12. > :09:18.the garage. He said he was not thinking about it. He did not have
:09:18. > :09:28.to see her so he was not thinking about it any more. His family --
:09:28. > :09:34.her family told about how she was a beloved mother and sister. She was
:09:34. > :09:44.said to be utterly in love with him. Mr Linda O'Boyle denies murder but
:09:44. > :09:46.
:09:46. > :09:50.has admitted manslaughter. -- Mr Lindo. Also tonight, a woman
:09:50. > :09:58.paralysed by a stroke tells us how she recovered to be there for her
:09:58. > :10:02.kids. The talk of many conversations, rising tuition fees
:10:02. > :10:07.and high youth unemployment. It is becoming difficult for youngsters
:10:07. > :10:13.of today to know what they should do when they have to leave school.
:10:13. > :10:20.Today 100 school pupils from Leeds got the chance to meet a real life
:10:20. > :10:23.million Mayor to get some top tips. He said he regrets not going to
:10:23. > :10:30.university at all and he thinks more people will benefit from
:10:30. > :10:34.having an academic background. He is now a millionaire and owns 13
:10:34. > :10:40.businesses. He says he really regrets the fact he never went to
:10:40. > :10:44.university. I went to university of life which is what I like to save.
:10:44. > :10:50.I know people who have been to university and a much better than
:10:50. > :10:55.me and I have learned a lot from them. He came from the backstreets
:10:55. > :10:59.of reeds and today he was here to tell schoolchildren they could be
:10:59. > :11:06.successful to if they went to university. With universities
:11:06. > :11:11.charging fees of up to �9,000 per year, should this millionaire be
:11:11. > :11:18.encouraging working-class youngsters to run up big bets?
:11:18. > :11:24.run up debts doing whatever you do in life, I would rather see people
:11:24. > :11:31.do it by getting an education. he has told me today, I would
:11:32. > :11:38.rather go to university now. These trainees are some of the best in
:11:38. > :11:42.the country. They have been taking part in the finals of a competition.
:11:42. > :11:49.They decided against university and say a practical qualification
:11:49. > :11:55.rather than an academic one is far better for them. I need to go out
:11:55. > :12:00.and work in the real world, I think you get more experience doing a
:12:00. > :12:05.trade rather than university. have got to trade that hopefully I
:12:05. > :12:10.can go on and do for the rest of my life. I believe youngsters should
:12:10. > :12:15.get a trade behind them. Not just because I have that experience of
:12:15. > :12:20.doing well. Once you have got to trade, no one can take that away
:12:20. > :12:25.from you. Everyone wants a job with good prospects. Whether they decide
:12:25. > :12:30.to go to university or not, these youngsters now know that hard work
:12:30. > :12:33.In other news, Rotherham Hospital says they've made improvements to
:12:33. > :12:37.patient safety after the death of a baby in their care. Grace Houghton
:12:37. > :12:40.died two years ago from a virus that damaged her heart when she was
:12:40. > :12:42.seven days old. An inquest heard that vital tests on Grace were not
:12:42. > :12:44.done quickly enough, despite her mother raising concerns. The
:12:44. > :12:52.coroner at Grace's inquest recommended the Trust improve
:12:52. > :12:57.procedures. First and foremost, a take parents seriously when they
:12:57. > :13:00.say there is something wrong with their chat. Do not just pass it on
:13:00. > :13:07.as everything is all right because they look OK. Parents do their
:13:07. > :13:11.children better than anyone in the world. And I would also like an
:13:11. > :13:17.apology. Police have named a woman found dead in Sheffield last Friday
:13:17. > :13:20.morning. She was Ildiko Dohany, a 34 year-old Hungarian who'd been
:13:20. > :13:23.living in Britain for three years. Her body was found at a property on
:13:23. > :13:25.Claywood Road. Three people have been questioned by police and
:13:25. > :13:28.released on police bail. Hundreds more midwives are needed in
:13:28. > :13:32.Yorkshire to cope with the rapid rise in the birthrate, according to
:13:32. > :13:35.the Royal College of Midwives. The region has seen a 20% increase in
:13:35. > :13:37.births since 2001, up to nearly 77,000 last year. The RCM says
:13:37. > :13:47.because of more complex births, at least 370 additional midwives are
:13:47. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:53.needed. A pregnant shire horse had to be rescued from a cesspit in
:13:53. > :13:55.Doncaster after it fell through a concrete cover. The horse, called
:13:55. > :14:02.Izzy, was sedated before being lifted out of the seven-foot deep
:14:02. > :14:10.pit by firefighters. She was reunited with its owners after
:14:10. > :14:17.being trapped for a whole night. That is awful! It was a happy
:14:17. > :14:20.ending. No, she is fine. This is a truly amazing story about a woman
:14:20. > :14:22.from South Yorkshire who defied medial opinion and made a full
:14:22. > :14:25.recovery from a condition known as locked-in syndrome. Kate Allatt
:14:25. > :14:28.from Sheffield could only move her eyelids after she was paralysed
:14:28. > :14:35.from a stroke. She has written a book about her experiences. Stuart
:14:35. > :14:38.Whincup has her story. Kate and it was fit and healthy when she
:14:38. > :14:47.collapsed at home. The next thing she remembers, she was in a
:14:47. > :14:54.hospital bed for three days later. I will cope with tubes in my face.
:14:54. > :14:58.And an Abbey on. As I lay there, I thought that nothing moved. I then
:14:58. > :15:03.tried to scream and nothing came out. I was just trapped in my body.
:15:03. > :15:07.Help us. Eight months later, she and his doctors by making a full
:15:07. > :15:10.recovery. She accepts that every case of locked-in syndrome is
:15:10. > :15:14.different but believes a mixture of early intensive therapy and a
:15:14. > :15:21.feeling of anger that her life was being written off inspired her
:15:21. > :15:24.fight. I wanted to do that for my kids. They are only six, 9 and 11.
:15:24. > :15:33.I did not want to be in a nursing home, shut away and seeing them
:15:33. > :15:41.once a week. It was that raged that fuelled me. It was a got rage, damn
:15:41. > :15:44.you! I will be home! I will prove too bloody wrong! Kate has become
:15:44. > :15:53.an author and founded a charity. It helps other family is going through
:15:53. > :15:58.the same ordeal. -- families. That is a really inspirational story. It
:15:58. > :16:01.is. The fighting spirit. Before 7pm. Battle of Britain. Hundreds gather
:16:01. > :16:10.at South Yorkshire's airport to remember the defeat of the
:16:10. > :16:20.Luftwaffe. And meet the man with the biggest collection of Daleks in
:16:20. > :16:22.
:16:22. > :16:27.the world. And his very tolerant wife! Do you collect anything
:16:27. > :16:30.strange? I cannot say on the programme! All this week,
:16:30. > :16:33.scientists from all over the world have been in Bradford for the 150th
:16:33. > :16:35.British Science Festival. The guest of honour on the final day was
:16:35. > :16:42.Professor Lord Winston, the world- renowned fertility expert,
:16:42. > :16:44.presenter and author. This afternoon, I caught up with him and
:16:44. > :16:54.asked why science and, in particular, the festival is so
:16:54. > :16:59.important. Yorkshire has a real need to develop its technological
:16:59. > :17:04.industries. And what has done so, it has made a substantial
:17:04. > :17:08.difference to the local economy, in Leeds and Sheffield. And elsewhere.
:17:08. > :17:15.It is important, certainly. important is it that the public at
:17:15. > :17:21.large engages with science? All the problems is that we have separated
:17:21. > :17:26.science from the cultural humanities and in my view, science
:17:26. > :17:30.has been funded at the expense of the arts. That is a pyrrhic victory
:17:30. > :17:35.because in the long term, these things are cultural. Science as
:17:35. > :17:44.well. And if we see it like that, that is its best hope. It is
:17:44. > :17:48.bizarre. If I told you I had never read, it, you would think something
:17:48. > :17:53.of that but if I said I did not know what a randomised trial was,
:17:53. > :17:58.you would think, well, why should you? That is a longer acceptable,
:17:58. > :18:02.it should be embedded in culture. How important is it that the
:18:02. > :18:08.science community engages with policy makers and the press and the
:18:08. > :18:13.public in order to explain ideas and lose this general mistrust?
:18:13. > :18:18.science engagement thing is a key to a modern go ahead Society and
:18:18. > :18:23.without that, we do not understand science and will run into serious
:18:24. > :18:27.problems. Is there enough emphasis on science in education? Michael
:18:27. > :18:33.Gove suggests that chemistry, physics and biology should be
:18:33. > :18:38.taught again as separate subjects? Science isn't unintelligible, it is
:18:38. > :18:43.very interesting. And it is as interesting as any other enjoyable
:18:43. > :18:48.procedure without necessarily being very hard. I think we make a
:18:48. > :18:53.mistake when some teachers argue that science is very hard and
:18:53. > :19:00.actually science is no harder than studying French or English. Are you
:19:00. > :19:04.optimistic for the future? I am. And I wrote my book in the spirit
:19:04. > :19:09.of optimism but there is a very dark side. If we are not clear
:19:09. > :19:17.about the ethics of what we do, there will be a very serious time
:19:17. > :19:22.for humanity. If not for the planet. He is an important man. And very,
:19:22. > :19:26.very clever! Indeed. Hundreds of people have gathered at Robin Hood
:19:26. > :19:29.Airport this evening to mark Battle of Britain Day. This year the
:19:29. > :19:34.service is taking place near the Vulcan Bomber, which came to the
:19:34. > :19:38.airport earlier this year. And the service has just got underway. Emma
:19:38. > :19:48.Blackburn is there for us. It sounds like it has been quite an
:19:48. > :19:51.
:19:51. > :19:55.event. Yes, the service has started and you can here the first song. It
:19:55. > :20:02.is the first time a memorial has been held in this location,
:20:02. > :20:05.opposite the hangar where the Vulcan Bomber lies. Earlier today,
:20:05. > :20:10.people got to see the Vulcan Bomber up close and I spoke to the
:20:10. > :20:15.organiser, who put this together. It isn't often you associate the
:20:15. > :20:18.Vulcan Bomber with tea and cake but today, we remember the Battle of
:20:18. > :20:23.Britain in the unusual surroundings of the Falcon hangar at Robin Hood
:20:23. > :20:27.airport. Organising this is Tony Hunter. You do not often associate
:20:27. > :20:32.the Vulcan Bomber with the Battle of Britain. Yes and No. A lot of
:20:32. > :20:37.people do not realise at the Lancaster bomber, which played that
:20:37. > :20:41.pivotal role, flew 11 years before the first flight of the Vulcan
:20:41. > :20:48.Bomber. What we're doing is looking at the evolution of British
:20:48. > :20:53.aviation technology. But we are now celebrating this gentlemen who flew
:20:53. > :20:58.this aircraft and preserved the freedom of the country. Thank you.
:20:58. > :21:01.Let me introduce you to 98 year-old Eric Clarke, he was working in
:21:02. > :21:08.Doncaster during the Battle of Britain. Thank you for joining us.
:21:08. > :21:17.How important is today? Vitally important to everyone, young and
:21:17. > :21:23.old. In the climate we are living in, we must remember what the
:21:23. > :21:30.climate was years ago and at no time to be glorified war in any
:21:30. > :21:36.respect what we do pay homage to those who served. That is what
:21:36. > :21:45.today is about. Marking 71 years since the Battle of Britain for all
:21:45. > :21:48.generations to remember today. Thank you very much. It looks
:21:48. > :21:51.really interesting. A man from South Yorkshire has broken the
:21:51. > :22:01.world record for the largest collection of Daleks. I kid you
:22:01. > :22:04.
:22:04. > :22:09.not! He has hundreds of them, began large. You quite like then? I said
:22:09. > :22:13.Tom was a strange creation. But compared to that! The Davros of
:22:13. > :22:17.Doncaster, Rob Hull, first appeared on Look North in 2007 when he had
:22:17. > :22:22.243 Daleks in his collection. Four years on, he's made it into the
:22:22. > :22:32.Guinness Book of Records. How many do you think he has now? We dragged
:22:32. > :22:33.
:22:33. > :22:43.Olivia Richwald out from her hiding place behind the sofa to find out.
:22:43. > :22:47.
:22:47. > :22:56.Exterminate! If you had the time and the inclination, if you counted
:22:56. > :23:00.every one, you would get 590. 590 unique Gallic replicas. The huge
:23:00. > :23:10.one is a prized possession but each one is loved and cherished. Daleks
:23:10. > :23:11.
:23:11. > :23:21.were the ultimate sci-fi baddies, terrifying children since the 1960s.
:23:21. > :23:23.
:23:23. > :23:30.Stop it! We are the Daleks! This man's obsession started as a boy.
:23:30. > :23:34.When I was seven years old, my mother would not by me this Gallic.
:23:34. > :23:39.And I remember standing there with my fists clenched, saying what I
:23:39. > :23:43.get older, and will get my own. he has one very big collection and
:23:43. > :23:49.perhaps the most understanding wife in the world. I just don't like
:23:49. > :23:54.them. Now you have an army of them in your living room and a world
:23:54. > :24:00.record holder for a husband. Does he make a clean them? I do that. It
:24:00. > :24:04.takes me half of the day, dusting each of them individually. Oh, well.
:24:04. > :24:14.At least he is in the famous book, he keeps good company. I have the
:24:14. > :24:18.
:24:18. > :24:25.world record for the longest tongue. The size of my natural Afro. The
:24:25. > :24:30.last time, it was 16 inches. That one makes Davros look quite normal.
:24:30. > :24:35.I have always been a fan of the Guinness Book of Records. We have
:24:35. > :24:44.always bought it for our children. But I wonder, will all this make it
:24:44. > :24:52.worse? I said it would be a divorce if he had another one the size. He
:24:52. > :25:01.says it's lonely! Exterminate! think he will be lonely very soon
:25:01. > :25:11.if he gets another! Was that Hong real?! Yes, of course! That was
:25:11. > :25:16.I know you have been working inside but it has been fantastic outside.
:25:16. > :25:22.It makes a change! Look at these pictures. This will cheer up
:25:22. > :25:27.Christopher. Farndell, looking beautiful. And the tower just
:25:27. > :25:34.sticking out in the valley. Mellow fruitfulness. And the third one,
:25:34. > :25:42.looking towards Sheffield, the ski village at 6:15am. Very nice, keep
:25:42. > :25:46.them coming. You can also read my blog. Let's look at the rooftop
:25:46. > :25:51.camera. It has been stunning today, the sun is setting in the West but
:25:51. > :25:56.you can see it is beautiful, temperatures of 17 degrees but
:25:56. > :26:03.ground frost last night. The first of the season. And things are going
:26:03. > :26:07.downhill. Tomorrow, more unsettled, cloudy with showers or even some
:26:07. > :26:12.longer spells of rain. As that Atlantic system comes in from the
:26:12. > :26:16.West and the weekend is looking very unsettled. You can see the
:26:16. > :26:20.satellite, there is a great, big gap of sunshine across us but we
:26:20. > :26:25.are looking down the Midlands, cloud beginning to Norwich from the
:26:25. > :26:28.south so a roundabout 10 minutes left of the sunshine and after a
:26:28. > :26:35.clear start tomorrow, the cloud will increase and it could thicken
:26:35. > :26:41.to produce the odd spot of drizzle. Most of us will be dry and we can
:26:41. > :26:47.see temperatures at eight to grace, that is 46 Fahrenheit. The sun
:26:47. > :26:52.rising in the morning at 6:41am. And these are the high water
:26:52. > :26:55.times... Off to a very cloudy start, summed dealt is in the air but it
:26:55. > :27:00.could be a dry start but not for long. The show us quickly moved
:27:00. > :27:03.from the south-west, could be heavy ones and through the afternoon an
:27:03. > :27:07.attempt at some dry and bright weather. And then the showers could
:27:07. > :27:13.push back and it could be a wet end to the day. Showers and long spells
:27:13. > :27:17.of rain, that just about sums it up. Quite chilly in Scarborough, 14
:27:17. > :27:22.degrees and pushing across West Yorkshire, 15 and possibly 16
:27:23. > :27:27.Celsius in Leeds. Perhaps 17 across eastern parts of South Yorkshire.
:27:27. > :27:34.The weekend, sunshine and showers, some of which will be heavy. And