:00:11. > :00:19.A good evening, welcome to Look North. Our top storey, the nurse
:00:19. > :00:24.who killed four patients, was the wrongly convicted? Also tonight,
:00:24. > :00:30.after a fortnight of treetop protests, a 400-year-old tree is
:00:30. > :00:38.felled. We will be joined in the studio by this man, Tim Piggot
:00:38. > :00:48.Smith, who is in West Yorkshire to play King Lear. The weather is cold
:00:48. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :00:59.and blustery, join me for the Welcome to the programme, a former
:00:59. > :01:02.nurse who is serving a 30 year sentence for killing patients that
:01:02. > :01:09.two Yorkshire hospitals is circuit -- is seeking to overturn his
:01:09. > :01:13.conviction. Colin Norris, from Glasgow, worked at the Leeds
:01:13. > :01:19.General Infirmary and the St George's Hospital. New evidence has
:01:19. > :01:24.seen these -- could see the case sent back to the Appeal Court.
:01:24. > :01:34.He was described as an angel of death, who murdered his patients in
:01:34. > :01:34.
:01:34. > :01:44.cold blood, but Colin Norris has always protested his innocence.
:01:44. > :01:48.
:01:48. > :01:55.you know those women by a injecting After a five-month trial in 2008,
:01:55. > :02:01.he was convicted of murder, and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
:02:01. > :02:09.The strength of the case was that he was on shift when five different
:02:09. > :02:13.women suffered extremely low blood sugar. New evidence has come to
:02:13. > :02:23.light suggesting that at least four of the women could have died from
:02:23. > :02:23.
:02:23. > :02:32.natural causes. I was surprised at how Allberry, and it is in this
:02:32. > :02:41.particular group of elderly sick people. In a very detailed search
:02:42. > :02:49.by -- survey, it was up to 10 %. It is not that rare at all. I think
:02:49. > :02:56.his conviction is unsafe. The BBC has uncovered evidence of other
:02:56. > :03:02.cases of hypoglycaemia. His lawyer believes that there were serious
:03:02. > :03:09.flaws in the investigation. seems that they only looked at the
:03:09. > :03:12.cases when he was on duty. A West Yorkshire Police a spokesman said
:03:12. > :03:18.that he had been prosecuted and sentence based on the evidence
:03:18. > :03:23.presented in court. The new evidence has given Colin Norris's
:03:23. > :03:27.mother a glimmer of hope. I do believe that the system will
:03:27. > :03:35.eventually prove that there has been a miscarriage of justice. I
:03:35. > :03:39.hope he will be a free man, whether it takes two, five years, I have
:03:39. > :03:44.got to believe that that all happened. An application for a
:03:44. > :03:49.fresh appeal is to be submitted to to be Criminal Cases Review
:03:49. > :03:52.Commission. We contacted the families of
:03:52. > :03:56.patients affected, they all declined to take part in the
:03:56. > :04:02.programme. West Yorkshire police say that he had been prosecuted,
:04:02. > :04:08.and convicted based on the evidence presented in court. Our reporter
:04:08. > :04:13.joins us live from our Glasgow studio.
:04:13. > :04:23.There is an application to hear a fresh appeal, does everything stop
:04:23. > :04:24.
:04:24. > :04:33.now? No, not really. We are waiting for the Criminal Cases Review
:04:33. > :04:39.Commission. He has already gone to the Appeal Court, it was rejected.
:04:39. > :04:46.That was before he was in possession of this new evidence. A
:04:46. > :04:53.new application is going to that Commission, that application will
:04:53. > :04:59.go this week. They will take the decision, their options are to
:04:59. > :05:08.reject it, to uphold the conviction, or they can send it back to the
:05:08. > :05:18.Appeal Court. If it was to go back there, they would be a -- they
:05:18. > :05:18.
:05:18. > :05:25.would hear the case, uphold it, or quash it. Inevitably, there are
:05:25. > :05:31.compassion -- comparisons with the Stepping Hill Hospital. That
:05:31. > :05:39.suspect was released due to lack of evidence. There are similarities.
:05:39. > :05:47.We do not know the full details of that case. Alarm was raised after a
:05:47. > :05:53.higher rate of hypoglycaemia was detected. This case flags up the
:05:53. > :06:03.difficulty in investigating suspected insolent poisoning cases.
:06:03. > :06:04.
:06:04. > :06:09.-- in saloon. Jumping to conclusions is what lawyers acting
:06:09. > :06:17.for Colin Norris believe happen in this case. The victims did not take
:06:17. > :06:21.part in this, what have they had to say? Or they have been involved.
:06:21. > :06:29.They were invited to take part, they declined. It is a sensitive
:06:29. > :06:33.case. I can understand why they did Thank you very much. If you have
:06:33. > :06:43.that FreeSat, or Sky Television, you can watch Sovereign Grant Bill
:06:43. > :06:47.
:06:47. > :06:53.tonight's at 10:35pm. The picture behind me gives you a
:06:53. > :06:58.clue of what has happened. The five-year battle to say that tree
:06:58. > :07:03.has ended with the trees being felled. The council said it was
:07:03. > :07:07.causing damage to nearby drains, and needed to come down.
:07:07. > :07:14.Campaigners had occupied the tree in an effort to save it, there were
:07:14. > :07:20.emotional scenes as it began to fall.
:07:20. > :07:29.As you can see, there is a gaping hole where the 100-year-old tree
:07:29. > :07:34.once stood. Many protesters could not watch as it fell. One protester,
:07:34. > :07:41.17-year-old, Nikki Welch, it was the end of a four year -- a four-
:07:41. > :07:47.day ordeal. The council ride this morning to
:07:47. > :07:57.erect a fence around the tree. Nikki Welch prepared herself for
:07:57. > :08:01.
:08:01. > :08:07.After speaking to a council official, she decided to end her
:08:07. > :08:10.four day protest. She was tired and emotional. I think we have to
:08:10. > :08:18.accept that there is not anything more we can do for this particular
:08:18. > :08:24.tree. They will be other things to do in the future to ensure that it
:08:24. > :08:33.will be positive for more trees. She was one of five protesters to
:08:33. > :08:43.occupy the tree. This man spent four nights there. He was then
:08:43. > :08:46.
:08:46. > :08:51.replaced for three nights, Vicky spent four nights there. It was not
:08:51. > :08:55.the end back campaigners had hoped for. Within minutes, the
:08:55. > :09:04.contractors moved in and the branches frail -- branches fell,
:09:04. > :09:11.protesters wept. It has been six years of campaigning. We have got a
:09:11. > :09:17.lot of people's use. It is the heart of the village, it has been
:09:17. > :09:21.removed, it is heartbreaking. What can you do?
:09:21. > :09:27.The tree surgeons worked tirelessly. After removing the canopy brunch by
:09:27. > :09:34.a branch, they started on the trunk. Justo Turk -- just over one hour
:09:34. > :09:44.ago, the tree hit the ground. A five-year legal battle costing over
:09:44. > :09:46.
:09:46. > :09:54.a quarter of bn-Pounds was finally over. -- to London �50,000. There
:09:54. > :10:00.are plans to turn the trunk into a memorial. They have started a fund
:10:00. > :10:05.to paper any legal fees for any future campaigners. -- pay for any
:10:05. > :10:09.legal fees. I do not think we have heard the
:10:09. > :10:17.last of that. Coming up, surging foreign unsung
:10:17. > :10:23.hero, after race shaky start, this person went on to become a world
:10:23. > :10:28.champion trapper lead. He will be telling us about his sporting hero.
:10:28. > :10:31.It appears it is not a good time to be a builder in Yorkshire. The
:10:31. > :10:35.latest figures from the construction industry are not good
:10:35. > :10:42.at all. Builders say their workloads have been falling for
:10:42. > :10:50.four years. Many small builders are on a cliff-edge. They are hoping
:10:50. > :10:55.for an upturn, he was our correspondent.
:10:55. > :11:04.Hammering home the point. This house may go over is one of Chris
:11:04. > :11:08.Smith's last jobs. After this he will join the ranks of building
:11:08. > :11:16.firms struggling for survival. not know where the next job is
:11:16. > :11:20.coming from. Who knows where I am going? I keep advertising, but the
:11:20. > :11:27.phone calls are not coming. If it does not turn round, what is going
:11:27. > :11:32.to happen to you? I cannot say, it does not look good. He is far from
:11:32. > :11:39.alone, workloads have been falling for four ears. There is no sign of
:11:39. > :11:48.any let up. He used to have an apprentice, the that is now are to
:11:48. > :11:54.be questioned. The workloads are getting smaller. Not only that, but
:11:54. > :11:58.one-third of our members are saying they are going down even further.
:11:58. > :12:02.The they want government help. They are not impressed with the
:12:02. > :12:09.Chancellor of Exchequer's plan to prop up small businesses. It is far
:12:09. > :12:18.wider than that. We need to give people confidence to spend. We need
:12:18. > :12:28.to see the Bat decreased. This graph shows what is going wrong. --
:12:28. > :12:35.
:12:35. > :12:45.Bat. Many businesses are finding it difficult to bridge the gap. In
:12:45. > :12:46.
:12:46. > :12:52.Yorkshire, the index its banding at minus 30. Some cite some
:12:52. > :12:59.mothballing waiting for better times. There are little signs of
:12:59. > :13:02.A prisoner has pleaded guilty to killing an inmate at a prison near
:13:02. > :13:05.York. Damien Fowkes strangled child killer Colin Hatch at Full Sutton
:13:05. > :13:09.prison in February. At Hull Crown Court he admitted the manslaughter
:13:09. > :13:13.charge. He also admitted the attempted murder of the Soham
:13:14. > :13:17.killer Ian Huntley at Frankland prison in County Durham.
:13:17. > :13:20.Only two people have applied for the job of Chief Constable of South
:13:20. > :13:24.Yorkshire Police. The current man in charge, Med Hughes, is due to
:13:24. > :13:30.step down this week. His deputy Bob Dyson will temporarily step in but
:13:30. > :13:34.the police authority is due to re- advertise the role. Plans to fill
:13:34. > :13:37.in a disused quarry in Derbyshire are dividing a local community.
:13:37. > :13:42.15-year-old Ryan Walker drowned at Fall Gate Quarry at Ashover in the
:13:42. > :13:45.summer of 2009. His mother supports the idea but local people say,
:13:45. > :13:55.while they sympathise with her, filling in the quarry is a knee
:13:55. > :13:58.
:13:58. > :14:02.jerk reaction. Tom Ingall has spent the day in the village.
:14:02. > :14:09.On a day like today, it is hard to believe this place has ever been
:14:09. > :14:13.called the Blue Lagoon. Fall Gate Quarry does not look inviting. Two
:14:13. > :14:19.years ago, friends of 15-year-old Ryan Walker were here paying
:14:19. > :14:23.tribute. He drowned, dented by the water on a hot summer's day. The
:14:23. > :14:27.plans to build a quarry with waste have been put forward by a local
:14:27. > :14:33.company and his mother supports the idea. Not a day goes by when I
:14:33. > :14:39.don't think about him, and when the pain comes back it really hurts. If
:14:39. > :14:44.another tragedy happens there, kids are still going up there. We know
:14:44. > :14:48.that the safest thing to do is to fill it in. These are the gates at
:14:48. > :14:51.Fall Gate Quarry, and they have not been opened to traffic for decades.
:14:51. > :14:56.According to this planning notice, this is where the thousands of
:14:56. > :15:00.tonnes of waste will arrive, perhaps using 18 lorries a day in
:15:00. > :15:03.an operation lasting up to 30 months. Local people are objecting
:15:03. > :15:08.to the plans because, they say, there is going to be problems with
:15:08. > :15:11.his safety on the narrow roads and dead and noise, or that they do
:15:11. > :15:16.sympathise with the Walker family. Keith is among many people who have
:15:16. > :15:20.objected to the plans, describing them as a knee-jerk reaction.
:15:20. > :15:24.not the responsibility of the lonely -- local planning authority
:15:24. > :15:28.to sanitise the countryside. It is our responsibility to make sure
:15:28. > :15:33.that we teach our young people about the hazards of quarries.
:15:33. > :15:38.Educate them. It is the land owners responsibility to ensure that the
:15:38. > :15:42.quarry is sufficiently fenced and sufficient side exists. We must
:15:42. > :15:45.respect private property. planning application has been put
:15:45. > :15:49.in by a local company who don't wish to comment, and there is not a
:15:49. > :15:53.date for when the council will decide on the matter. Both sides in
:15:53. > :15:57.this debate recognise the other's point of view, but the death two
:15:57. > :16:04.years ago could as yet have a bearing on what happens to the
:16:04. > :16:08.quarry. If you have got any stories going
:16:08. > :16:11.on in your area, we always want to hear from you. Before 7pm: A young
:16:12. > :16:17.head for numbers - we'll meet the schoolboy studying for his Maths A-
:16:17. > :16:20.level who's just eight. And, one of Shakespeare's greatest
:16:20. > :16:30.tragedies comes to Yorkshire. We'll meet the man who's playing King
:16:30. > :16:33.
:16:33. > :16:36.This year, the BBC Sports Personality of Year Awards are in
:16:36. > :16:43.Salford and one of the prizes handed out will be the Unsung Hero
:16:43. > :16:47.award and we need your help to find Yorkshire's hero. The winner here
:16:47. > :16:52.will be put forward for the national award - details of how to
:16:52. > :16:55.nominate in a moment. But, to give you an idea of the kind of person
:16:55. > :17:05.we're looking for, we asked triathletes Alistair and Jonathan
:17:05. > :17:05.
:17:05. > :17:14.Brownlee to tell us about their Unsung Hero. Here's Neil Smallburn.
:17:14. > :17:19.A great start for both the Brownlee brothers. They are both in the top
:17:19. > :17:24.10 as they sprint... Even the greatest have to start somewhere.
:17:24. > :17:29.Alistair Brownlee, he can start to celebrate! Towards the finishing
:17:29. > :17:35.line, to successfully defend his world title, is Jonathan Brownlee.
:17:35. > :17:41.And, for the Brownlie brothers it was here near Haworth. I think I
:17:41. > :17:46.first raised here was as a 12-year- old. It was cold, very cold. It is
:17:46. > :17:50.a great place to race. It is somewhere special. It has got grass
:17:50. > :17:54.and it is muddy. When I was young I used to love getting covered in mud.
:17:54. > :17:58.And the man who organise those races is Dave Woodhead. He has
:17:58. > :18:02.still got his cheeky smile, he can get away with murder. It is just
:18:03. > :18:07.the way he is. Jonathan is more serious. He has got a more serious
:18:07. > :18:12.head on him. And they were like that as kids? A yes, very much so.
:18:13. > :18:17.For over 30 years, Dave has been organising these races across the
:18:17. > :18:21.age groups. David is a great organiser, and he is an
:18:21. > :18:26.enthusiastic person. He is one of the most enthusiastic people I have
:18:26. > :18:29.ever met. I love to turn up to his races. Is he responsible for
:18:30. > :18:33.getting you where you are? Yes, definitely. He just showed me that
:18:33. > :18:37.fund of racing and the enjoyment you can get from sport. The fact
:18:37. > :18:44.you can do it in different places and in different environments, have
:18:44. > :18:49.fun and meet people. We have grown up with them. Watching them on TV
:18:49. > :18:52.and seeing them grow into that has the people now is what makes you
:18:52. > :18:58.carry on and think the next gig that runs could go on and be
:18:59. > :19:02.another Alastair. -- next kit. So, that's the Brownlee's unsung hero,
:19:02. > :19:05.but what about yours? You can download a nomination form online
:19:05. > :19:08.from our website. You can also get a form by ringing 0845 308 8000.
:19:08. > :19:11.Calls cost up to 5p a minute minimum from most landlines. Calls
:19:11. > :19:21.from mobiles may cost considerably more. Nominations close on Sunday
:19:21. > :19:31.
:19:31. > :19:41.King Lear is widely thought by many to be the best Shakespeare tragedy
:19:41. > :19:43.
:19:43. > :19:45.of all time. I did it at A-level, so I might disagree! It has all the
:19:45. > :19:48.hallmarks of a blockbuster - madness, sibling rivalry and a
:19:48. > :19:50.fraught relationship between a father and his daughters. It's
:19:50. > :19:53.currently playing at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, to
:19:53. > :19:56.much acclaim. The film, television and stage actor, Tim Piggot Smith,
:19:56. > :19:58.is playing the title role. We caught up with him earlier, ahead
:19:58. > :20:05.of tonight's performance and asked him whether the three hour
:20:05. > :20:10.performance is a tough sell. We have made it quite easy for
:20:10. > :20:14.people because we have cut about 700 lines, so it is shorter than it
:20:14. > :20:18.could be. It is never going to be an easy play, but I think it is
:20:18. > :20:23.probably Shakespeare's greatest play, even greater than Hamlet. It
:20:23. > :20:28.is the sort of Hammett for older people. I loved it. I loved the
:20:28. > :20:32.madness, the arguments, the sibling rivalry. But I was reading reviews,
:20:32. > :20:36.and you told me that you don't read them. No, I have never read a
:20:36. > :20:40.review that makes the performance any better. If you go on thinking,
:20:40. > :20:43.I am terribly good in this bit, you are in trouble. If you go on
:20:43. > :20:47.thinking, I am really bad in this, then you can't do it at all. I
:20:47. > :20:51.really don't read them. I may look at them afterwards when the show
:20:51. > :20:55.has closed. I won't tell you, but they are all really rather good.
:20:55. > :20:59.Well I know that. People tell you that. Would they tell you that if
:20:59. > :21:08.they were bad? Then they treat you as if you have lost a relative!
:21:08. > :21:18.you have a strong track record of Shakespeare. But also you have kept
:21:18. > :21:19.
:21:19. > :21:22.your oar in in hours macro on television. Yes, but I would always
:21:22. > :21:26.choose theatre. That is really where you learn how to act. I have
:21:26. > :21:30.never learnt about acting in front of a camera. You learn in front of
:21:30. > :21:36.an audience. When I started watching The Hour at about
:21:36. > :21:40.journalism, it took a long time to get going. Then it failed like a
:21:41. > :21:47.friend. Afilaka have lost something. -- it felt like a friend. I feel
:21:47. > :21:51.like I have lost something. He has, the plot was very dense. It took a
:21:51. > :21:58.couple of weeks for people to get into it, and if they got that far,
:21:58. > :22:02.they were really in it by the end. King Lear runs until when? Until
:22:02. > :22:08.the 22nd. And you already mentioned, you are keeping your clothes on.
:22:08. > :22:14.Because King Lear traditionally takes his clothes off. Yes, but you
:22:14. > :22:19.don't have to go down to absolutely nothing. When I was talking to the
:22:19. > :22:25.director before I started, I said I did not want any nudity. It is
:22:26. > :22:33.always distracting. I also did not want any rain. It is not real, we
:22:33. > :22:41.are in the theatre. The irony is that he is more sane at the end and
:22:41. > :22:43.he was at the beginning. Thank you. Now, while most eight-
:22:43. > :22:48.year-olds are still getting to grips with simple arithmetic,
:22:48. > :22:51.Thomas Frith has already got an A* in GCSE maths. Now Thomas from
:22:51. > :22:56.Horsforth in Leeds is studying for an A-level in the subject, along
:22:56. > :23:06.with students who are more than twice his age. Thomas and his
:23:06. > :23:07.
:23:07. > :23:15.mother, Deborah Fletcher, have joined us now in the studio.
:23:15. > :23:24.Let me ask you first of all, when he did you first start to realise
:23:24. > :23:28.that Thomas was a little bit ahead of his years? When he was 18 months,
:23:28. > :23:34.his party trick was going around reading the registration plate of
:23:34. > :23:43.the cars. Let's give you a real indication of how good he is. We
:23:43. > :23:50.did this footage of him in school today. He is young Thomas Frith.
:23:50. > :24:00.to the power of three gives you ate? I have managed to fact Ariza.
:24:00. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:16.Thomas? You need to multiply everything by a five minus X.
:24:16. > :24:22.one thing wrong. But it all worked out right. Yes. Oh, Thomas. You
:24:22. > :24:26.have lost me. These are the kind of sums behind us that most eight-
:24:26. > :24:30.year-olds are doing. This is the kind of sum that you do. We are not
:24:30. > :24:37.making this up. Let's have a look at that. But there kept it in
:24:37. > :24:47.detail. Could you honestly tell me what all that is about? I got one
:24:47. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:57.thing wrong in a question. Can you do all that Wigley stuff with all
:24:57. > :25:00.the exs and why its? Yes, I can. looked at the sums for an eight-
:25:00. > :25:10.year-old, but there are all the sums as well. What is it like
:25:10. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:16.working with the older boys and girls? I have been with most people
:25:16. > :25:20.most of the time because in reception I went to year five, and
:25:20. > :25:27.in year two I went to year six, and in year three and started a GCSE
:25:27. > :25:34.course. Now I am here. Very quickly, 12 multiplied by 23. Would you know
:25:34. > :25:44.that? Not by the top of my head, but I could work it out. The one
:25:44. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:53.then. -- go on then. Oh! Too much pressure. In my head, the
:25:53. > :26:03.calculations went a bit wrong. Don't worry about it. I don't even
:26:03. > :26:04.
:26:04. > :26:08.understand what you have been Not much time on the weather
:26:08. > :26:14.tonight. It is mild and windy tomorrow. There will be a bit of
:26:14. > :26:17.patchy rain, especially over the Pennines. Leeds Bradford has only
:26:17. > :26:22.had 13 degrees this afternoon, so if you thought it was cold, you
:26:22. > :26:26.would be right. Topsy Turvey weather. 20 degrees along the coast