18/10/2011 Look North (Yorkshire)

An investigation is under way after a stunt pilot from West Yorkshire

dies when his plane crashes in Switzerland. We have dramatic

footage of a previous crash involving the same pilot.

The victims of bullies, a mother takes her four children out-of-

school after fears they are being targeted.

A brand new book comes out on Ernie Wise, we chat to the writer and his

widow. A number of heavy showers around

An investigation is under way into the cost of a plane crash involving

a 29 year-old pilot from. His plane came down in Switzerland. He had

appeared on helicopter he was after the plane he was flying then

crashed into the River Derwent. Sipan Osman filming himself over

the Yorkshire Dales. Although not an experienced pilot, Mr Osman had

got a reputation of an adventure. He was an also -- he was also a

keen acrobatics. He was well known to instructors here. They were

killed on Friday morning after their plane crashed shortly after

leaving Columbia in Switzerland. It is understood the Leeds University

student made the same journey a month ago. This vintage taken by a

friend and posted on the Internet shows Mr Osman performing aerial

stunts. The 29 year-old recently appeared on the BBC's Helicopter

Heroes after he escaped serious injuries when his plane crashed

into a rubber. We had engine failure. I tried to start the

engine. I switched everything off. An investigation into Friday's

accident is under way. A mother has taken the unusual step

of taking her four children out-of- school over fears they are being

bullied. Stacey Winfindale says her eldest son has been targeted again

after he was awarded compensation for an earlier assault. His brother

and sisters are now being abused. Stacey is teaching them at home and

says they will not go back to warm until they are safe. The schools

involved deny there is a problem. It might appear an extreme case of

home schooling. Stacey Winfindale feels she has no alternative. She

has taken her children out of school. The kids are going to

school and they're so downhearted because they do not want -- know

what to expect when they get there. My son's first incident was 12

months ago. He was injured when he was attacked by another pupil. The

family say the abuse has continued and now and done a daughter is

being at it abuse. I have been shouted at. This is

where the children went to school. It is also or where he was

assaulted last year. The academy has said they have clear policies

in place to deal with these instances and they have been in

regular contact with his family. They say there has been two

allegations. The other two children have been taken out of the Junior

and infants school. We're trying to get a five-year-old through the

school gates into school and we are met with verbal abuse. Rotherham

council say they have not received an official complaint about those

allegations. Stacey says the situation needs to change and she

will continue to teach the children from home until it does.

We're joined by a representative of a teachers' union. You have not

been directly involved but you are involved in similar cases. There

must be absolute rules laid down for a these cases? That is right.

All schools are obliged to have an anti-bullying policy. All teachers

in school take any allegations of bullying seriously and will

investigate it. Any allegation has to be investigated for the evidence

behind it. Of those allegations turn out to be founded, is it usual

for people to go back to the school? It is important to identify

the precise circumstances around the individual case. The priority

would be to protect the victim of bullying but also to identify the

Boulez and correct the behaviour. That would be monitored carefully.

It is tough for a patient -- parent whether to report it? It seems that

bullying can get worse after a report. Any secondary believing

needs to be subject to investigation as well and if it

involves the wider community, the police must be engaged. It is

difficult for a parent to make a complaint but important that they

do and that they nor the complaint will be followed up. You talk about

secondary bullying. Another secondary bullying is that this

parent feels her younger children are also at risk. Should there be

communication between senior and junior schools? That is tricky

because whilst the evidence is there after-school, the transparent

data is very sensitive. If it was clear that there was systematic

bullying, it would be appropriate to contact the school and make sure

the individual was not being bullied as a result of a previous

case. I repeat, everything needs to be evidence based. If the school

does not find evidence, there is little they can do at that stage.

Apart from talking to Ernie Wise's widow, we will have lots of other

things. The inspiration for the latest

exhibition at the Hepworth. The Yorkshire landscape takes centre

stage. Police in Surrey have been given

another 36 hours to question a man suspected of murdering his partner

who is a policeman. Her body was found in woodland in West Sussex on

Sunday. We're still waiting for a formal

identification but locally, the victim has been named as Heather

Cooper. Police were called to her home in search some woodlands

nearby and they found the body. A post-mortem was due this afternoon

but we have not had the results. The police say and 35-year-old man

is in custody. They have been given 36 hours to question him. That

investigation is still ongoing. What do we know all about this

woman? At we believe Heather Cooper was from Yorkshire and her parents

live in your work. -- your work. We were told she had a baby just a few

months ago. Her friends were leaving flowers that the house.

Many were too upset to talk. Neighbours are all very shocked by

what has happened. She seemed a nice lady. The police have been

given more time to question a man who is in custody. We are appealing

for more information. Yes. Forensic teams have been at the house today.

They are keen for anyone who lives locally if they saw a silver BMW

being moved between 11 and the morning and evening. They say that

could prove vital to this inquiry. A 15-year-old boy who was injured

and an attack in York last month has been discharged from hospital.

The 15-year-old was assaulted near the entrance to the racecourse. Two

teenagers are on bail in relation to the attack. Police want to hear

from anyone who saw what happened. Three young men wanted police

wanted to speak to about a barn fire in which a two-year-old girl

died have come for word. They were photographed near Hessle Farm near

Wragby while the barn was burning. The Independent Police Complaints

Commission will look into port possible conduct after the collapse

of a murder trial. The case against six men was thrown out last year.

The judge criticised the police for not disclosing evidence.

A month-long exhibition celebrating Black History Month has opened in

Sheffield. The event includes photos of Frank Bruno. Admission is

free. I want to inspire younger people to

break out of their situation. There are more opportunities now than

there ever was. Or, Luc! It is not just us feeling the economic pinch.

Some creatures need new homes after Artis pet sanctuary in Balby will

be forced to close at the end of the month because donations from

the public have dried up. It seems they are the latest

victims of the struggling economy. At the moment they live at Artis

pet sanctuary in Doncaster but the charity has run out of money. Now

around 60 animals still need new homes. But many of them are so

unusual that they are not wanted. Some of them have been here for a

long time because they get overlooked. They are bought as the

children's pets and a few months down the line they get fed up with

them and they end up back with the rescue places. These are children's

pets but unfortunately children are not the best ones to have pets, not

unless they have got the full backing of parents. Vicky will be

keeping some of the animals because she knows they will never find new

homes. Take this bird, for example. She has a damaged wing and cannot

fly. But that does not stop her trying. And then they are the

tortoises bought from sailors decades ago. Their owners are in

nursing homes so they will carry on living with Vicky even when the

century closes. This charity relied on donations from visitors but now

it seems people in Doncaster would prefer to visit the Yorkshire

Wildlife Park. Who wants to see a little guinea-pig when they can go

and see a great big liar? That had a knock-on effect as well but also

I think people just do not have the money. These animals have gone into

school classes and even been used on TV shows that all that has come

to an end. With so few visitors, the sanctuary has no choice but to

close by the end of the month. When we ran the story at lunch time,

a lot of people phoned to offer help.

Were their offers to help hissing cockroaches?

No, but I think we have an offer on the tortoise is. If you want to

contact the Artis pet sanctuary, please give them a ring. If you can

re-home any of the animals. Before 7pm. We will be talking to

Ernie Wise's widow, Doreen, as this book hits the shelves. We will look

back at the life of the comic genius from Leeds.

Before then, the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield is on its way to

setting a record for the number of visitors to a new gallery. They are

hoping its newest exhibition will attract even more. Three of the

galleries have been given over to a brand new young artist, a painter,

asked to visit two well-known Yorkshire site, Ilkley Moor and

Brimham Rocks. And to make some paintings there. The results are

striking. It is a landscape that has drawn

artists and visitors for centuries. Attracted by the atmosphere created

by Brimham Rocks. They form natural sculptures in a spectacular setting.

No wonder they have inspired so many artists in the past. Clare

Woods is the latest. She has taken around 500 photographs that she has

made into a collage. That is then the basis for some spectacular

paintings. There is a definite anxiety. I have been here a few

times on my own very early in the morning and it is not a relaxing

place. It is not about, look at this beautiful view. It is all

about the history and the folklore and the stories that are embedded

in it, and that is why I first came here. And here is what she came up

with. Glass and enamel paint on aluminium panels on a huge scale.

This work is ten metres long. I like about these paintings is

that close up they are incredibly sumptuous and incredibly vivid, and

very abstract whereas if you step away from them, there is a moment

when suddenly, there it is. A landscape appears. And having just

come from Brimham Rocks, I completely recognise them. There

they are. I think there is really something extremely a motive in

these paintings. People enjoy it seemed something on a very large,

ambitious scale. They are sumptuous to look at but psychologically they

are fascinating, too. It is almost part of a love poem to the

landscape but also with a sense of grind of trepidation and fear in

them, too, and that is what makes the word -- work so intriguing.

This painting was inspired by one of the rocks. Others are still in

the prices of being hunk, no easy task as six metres high. The

exhibition opens on Saturday and it is free, but be warned. It may make

you see Yorkshire in a whole new light.

Talking about the best of Yorkshire, this man was one half of one of the

most famous comedy double acts ever. He was the best. Ernie Wise from

Leeds was the all-round entertainer who became a household name,

alongside, of course, Eric Morecambe. Stars of stage and

screen queued up to be on their famous Christmas shows. Sadly, many

died in 1999 but his official biography has just been published.

-- sadly, Ernie Wise died in 1999. We will talk to his widow in a

moment. He was the entertainer with short,

fat, hairy legs, who brought sunshine into everyone's lives. He

went to thought Junior and Infant School in Leeds and lives -- lived

around the East Ardsley area. was admitted to the primary school

on 2nd July 1934. There is his father's then, and where he lived.

Ernie's father encouraged the young boy to take to the state and a

showbusiness career was born. He first met Eric Morecambe in 1940

and after the war they became a double act. They were regulars on

the BBC and ITV and their Christmas shows are legendary. Good evening

and welcome to the show. But they also played the clubs, and there is

none bigger than the world famous Frontier Club in Batley. They

played here many times over the years. The stage now is as it was

then. Unfortunately, the last time they played here, Eric had his

first heart attack and was rushed to hospital. After Eric's death in

1984, Ernie began a solo career. He died in 1999. Last year his widow,

Doreen, unveiled a permanent tribute, a statue in Morley, the

town where he first took to the stage as a child. He was dressed in

top hat and tails. She said, well, actually, it was -- would be better

if she was trapped -- she said it would be better if he was dressed

in a straw boater and bow-tie. gone but not forgotten, Leeds' mat

-- very much loved Ernie. This is a thrill for me, because I

did actually meet him when I was on the other side. During us now is

James Hogg who has written this book. And also drawing, his widow.

You are smiling a lot now but if he was known as the Series one of the

two. He was not really serious but he had to be serious. They used to

call him the thin line of sanity. But he had a great sense of fun.

did, yes. He had very subtle humour. Did he mind being a stooge? No, if

he got half the money. That was very rough. James, you have written

this book. 28 million viewers bought those Christmas specials but

he was almost forced to go on stage? Yes, a kind of slavery

almost. He was supporting his family financially from the age of

seven and then taken to London at the age of 13 and left to defend

for himself because his father had to go back and look after his wife

and siblings. And that was it. He went down that same night he was

thrown on to a West End stage. That would not happen these days. There

would be social services everywhere, but he did it. And survived. Doreen,

I have been talking to you, as ladies do, about jury. -- Jes.

proposed at side the Star Cinema, which must have been pulled down by

now. In York Road in Leeds. When they were in pantomime in Dewsbury,

that is where he bought the engagement ring. It was two weeks'

salary from the pantomime, and he bore the engagement ring. James,

there is a great here from the book which sums of the changing

character. Sir Michael Parkinson, and it was not just a foil to Eric.

He was much more than that, a maypole around which Eric dance.

And he was, but the thing with Ernie, Ernie had no effect, or very

little ego. Had he had a similarly eager to Eric Morecambe, they would

never have been Morecambe and Wise. But there was a change in his

character. In the late 60s. Yes, that is when Ernie really came into

his own. He was fantastic and that is my favourite part of Morecambe

and Wise, the place what I wrote. They were fantastic. It has taken a

long time to write his book, James. Doreen, you must be mingled with a

bit of sadness because you have been without him for so long, but

enormously proud. I am very proud of it and he used to love that

character because he liked to model himself on Jack Benny, he thought

that was great. He was a very generous person but he thought it

was terrific being Terra River Nene. I must ask you one of the great

questions in modern showbusiness. Was it a week or wasn't it?

never wore a week. His hair grew like a lunatic because when they

filled he had to have it could every day. He, too has, is one of

Yorkshire's legends. I knew he loved his Yorkshire roots. And you

were touched today when you saw some of those all places. And yes.

All of the buses. I know he bought you one or two engagement rings

since the first one in Dewsbury. It has been learned to speak to you.

James, made the book do really well. It has been a pleasure. That is

really lovely. That has really been the story over

the last 24 hours, heavy showers, some hail, but thankfully the

shares are on their way out by Tomorrow is cold with plenty of

sunshine but there will be showers, especially across South Yorkshire

in the morning. A little ridge of high pressure means a bit of a

ground frost tonight but perhaps an air frost first thing Thursday

morning before milder air tries to get backing from the South West on

Friday. So very changeable indeed. You can see the white clouds. Those

are the heavy showers. Torrential downpours across the Pennines. We

have had reports of Hale and the odd clap of thunder. Those showers

will keep going for much of the night. There could be a bit of

wintery stuff in there. It will not cause problems elsewhere. If you

have shelter from the wind, they It will be a cold start to the day.

A lovely day across North Yorkshire, lots of sunshine and generally dry.

Quite showery in the Pennine areas and South Yorkshire. By the

afternoon it will be pleasant. Generally dry with some sunshine.

Still a significant wind chill. Call for the time of year. The

average is 14. A touch of air frost Thursday morning, otherwise fine