:00:09. > :00:13.Thank you. Thank you for joining us on the programme tonight. On
:00:13. > :00:15.tonight's Look North: Crash for cash. Bradford and Keighley are
:00:15. > :00:18.some of the worst places in the country for drivers deliberately
:00:18. > :00:21.causing accidents for compensation. A grieving father from Batley
:00:21. > :00:25.campaigns for women to be told if their partners have a previous
:00:25. > :00:32.history of violence. And a happy ending for Barnsley's
:00:32. > :00:42.search for a Pantomime Dame. By day and I am an activities co-ordinator,
:00:42. > :00:46.but this evening, you will find out more about our pantomime! And in
:00:46. > :00:51.the weather, it was a bright day today, there was some sunshine, but
:00:51. > :00:56.it looks to be cloudy tomorrow, we will have the four core cast
:00:56. > :01:03.featuring the programme. -- the full forecast later in the
:01:03. > :01:08.programme. This evening. The top story tonight,
:01:08. > :01:14.claims that drivers in Bradford and Keighley are crashing their cars on
:01:14. > :01:21.purpose to make fraudulent insurance claims.
:01:21. > :01:29.It is called Crash for cash and it is costing millions in fraudulent
:01:29. > :01:34.claims every year. The major hot spots are here in the country.
:01:34. > :01:41.Watch the lead car, its words are left, the second slams on its
:01:41. > :01:48.brakes, the delivery van crashes, but this was no accident. It was a
:01:48. > :01:51.fraud to claim compensation and it is a big problem in Yorkshire.
:01:51. > :01:56.Derek investigates these kinds of cases for the insurance companies,
:01:56. > :02:01.and he recently exposed an incident like this. Begin to the roundabout
:02:01. > :02:07.and slammed on the brakes, and the driver went into the back of the
:02:07. > :02:10.car. Nothing accidental about that? No, a witness came and said they
:02:10. > :02:15.saw the same saloon car driving to the roundabout and slam the brakes
:02:15. > :02:20.and go around the roundabout and to which three times. The fourth time,
:02:21. > :02:25.the female driver hit it in the back. Few places have it as bad as
:02:25. > :02:31.part of West Yorkshire. Bradford and Keighley are where they have
:02:31. > :02:37.the highest concentration of so- called crashers for cash. This is
:02:37. > :02:40.one of the hot spots. The insurance company says when you're involved
:02:40. > :02:44.in an accident, especially when there is some place like this,
:02:44. > :02:48.there are some things you should always do, no down the number of
:02:48. > :02:53.people in the other car and get all of the details but you can. -- take
:02:53. > :02:57.a note of the number of people. If you can, get photographs, because
:02:57. > :03:00.it could be crucial in stopping you becoming a victim of an insurance
:03:00. > :03:05.scam. It will not stop us all becoming the victims of higher
:03:05. > :03:09.premiums. If people are deterred from higher ownership because of
:03:10. > :03:15.the insurance premiums. The cannot afford road insurance, so you
:03:15. > :03:19.forget about your car or you have to drive illegally. In the end, you
:03:19. > :03:25.have no car. The need to do something about this, definitely.
:03:25. > :03:30.It is an average �44 every year to the average premium, but you are in
:03:30. > :03:37.a hot spot terrier-like Yorkshire, so that has 10 % of the top 100
:03:37. > :03:41.locations. -- Hot Spot area like Yorkshire. This has been felt in
:03:41. > :03:48.parts of the region with record insurance costs. It is a fraud we
:03:48. > :03:55.all end up paying for. The Liberal Democrat MP for
:03:55. > :03:58.Bradford East, David Ward, held a summit on car insurance fraud two
:03:58. > :04:02.months ago after a party Bradford was blacklisted by insurance
:04:02. > :04:08.companies. I asked if the industry was doing enough to crack down on
:04:08. > :04:14.fraud? There would be a new fraud unit set up on January first of
:04:14. > :04:18.next year. It will be funded by the industry. �9 million, 35 dedicated
:04:18. > :04:22.officers, they will tackle one part of this problem which is organised
:04:22. > :04:26.crime. This is what we call opportunist fraud that is taking
:04:26. > :04:30.place. There are many other measures we need to look at,
:04:30. > :04:34.referral fees, they had been banned by the Government. That adds to the
:04:34. > :04:39.cost of claims. We need to tackle personal injury claims, the number
:04:39. > :04:44.of those and the value of there was, the legal costs that are often put
:04:44. > :04:49.on to insurance claims, there are many aspects to it and we're
:04:49. > :04:54.looking at them now. Some viewers have written to us on our Facebook
:04:54. > :05:02.Page, insurance is up by a scandal as demand, the only thing is to
:05:02. > :05:07.take the vehicles up off the roads. One of the recess these are
:05:07. > :05:10.happening in specific areas, why do the police not to target areas like
:05:10. > :05:15.in Keighley that has been identified as a hot spot for this
:05:15. > :05:21.crime. In terms of the police, it is impressive, the work that they
:05:21. > :05:24.do, I went out with the police at 7am to try and catch some of the
:05:24. > :05:30.uninsured drivers and we caught one within one hour, using the new
:05:31. > :05:35.technology they have on board the police vehicle. Within 30 minutes,
:05:35. > :05:39.they had identified an uninsured driver, the car was towed away and
:05:39. > :05:45.within one week, unless insurance was produced, the car would be
:05:45. > :05:51.crushed. 2,000 vehicles are being taken by the police in the Bradford
:05:51. > :05:57.area per year, so action is being taken, but we are not relenting, we
:05:57. > :06:01.are determined to say this monster. Thank you.
:06:01. > :06:05.Incredible figures in the last few years that one and four women will
:06:05. > :06:09.suffer from domestic violence, but one man has a new campaign. He said
:06:09. > :06:13.women should have the right in the future to be told if their partner
:06:13. > :06:18.has had a history of violence against women. That is thanks to
:06:18. > :06:22.the campaign by the father from Batley, Michael Brown. His daughter,
:06:22. > :06:27.Claire Ward was murdered by her abusive partner who unbeknown to
:06:27. > :06:32.her had a long history of abuse against women and had served a jail
:06:32. > :06:37.term for domestic violence. We will speak to Mr Brown shortly about his
:06:37. > :06:41.calls for a new legislation called Claire's Law. First, our crime
:06:41. > :06:45.correspondent as the background to this terrible case.
:06:45. > :06:50.In February 2009, 36-year-old Claire Wood who had a young
:06:50. > :06:54.daughter was strangled and her body was set on fire. The man
:06:54. > :06:59.responsible, her ex-boyfriend, George Appleton. He went on the run
:06:59. > :07:03.before killing himself six days later in a derelict pub in Salford.
:07:03. > :07:08.The two had met on Facebook but there was unaware of his appalling
:07:08. > :07:11.his straight of violence against women. The Independent Police
:07:12. > :07:16.Complaints Commission ruled that Claire Wood had been badly let down
:07:16. > :07:21.by the police and called for widespread policy changes. Her
:07:21. > :07:26.father attended the inquest looking to try to prevent any future for
:07:26. > :07:31.such tragedy. The coroner said that she would ask the Government to
:07:31. > :07:35.make it law for those at risk to be told about a partner's abusive past.
:07:35. > :07:39.The Home Secretary is to consult on such a scheme with three options,
:07:39. > :07:43.do nothing new under existing law, have a right to ask the police
:07:43. > :07:48.about a violent history, or have a right to know, where police would
:07:48. > :07:52.be made to disclose the information. Claire Wood had no such recourse
:07:52. > :07:58.when things went so tragically wrong for her at their hands of
:07:58. > :08:03.George Appleton. In future, other people may have.
:08:03. > :08:07.I can tell you that day 12 the consultation has now begun by the
:08:07. > :08:11.Home Office after Michael Brown has met with their Home Secretary. This
:08:11. > :08:17.could become a reality, this law? Sooner than I anticipated, there
:08:17. > :08:24.has been at tremendous groundswell of Natalie sympathy, but I would
:08:24. > :08:27.say, common sense. -- not only sympathy. A sale I had a new
:08:27. > :08:32.boyfriend, you do not want me to be able to ring the police and say
:08:32. > :08:37.what has he done in the past, it is only if he becomes abusive. That is
:08:37. > :08:41.what you want? Yes, if my daughter has that information, I do not
:08:41. > :08:46.think she would have stayed too long and she certainly would not
:08:47. > :08:51.have taken my granddaughter into circumstances like that. In other
:08:51. > :08:55.words, when the person that starts to be violent towards her had
:08:55. > :08:59.started, you think she would have rung the police and if Claire's Law
:08:59. > :09:05.had been in place and said has he done this before, that is the only
:09:05. > :09:11.knowledge you want to be given? that is correct. Women, I say,
:09:11. > :09:17.excuse me, there has been women and men subjected to domestic violence
:09:17. > :09:21.and I would like them to find out, once they have got an investigation
:09:21. > :09:25.under way, if they were investigated previously as being
:09:25. > :09:30.abused, they should be able to ask the police Effie has done this in
:09:30. > :09:34.the past? You asked the police why your daughter was not told when
:09:34. > :09:41.rugby's a partner was being violent on a continuous basis, and what did
:09:41. > :09:45.they say to you? Firstly, it was data protection and human rights.
:09:45. > :09:51.They cannot divulge that information. That is the law that
:09:51. > :09:56.she wants changed? Yes, that is the one. Tell me about your daughter.
:09:56. > :10:04.This is driving the one on behalf of Clare, what with the law mean to
:10:04. > :10:09.you? Strangely enough, when it was first designated as Claire's Law,
:10:09. > :10:15.by the coroner in Bolton, they would have been delighted, had it
:10:15. > :10:18.been Claire's Law. But I got to the stage Riddick and call it anything
:10:18. > :10:24.they like, what they knew about domestic violence two-and-a-half
:10:24. > :10:29.years ago, you could have written on my thumbnail. -- when I go to
:10:29. > :10:34.the stage that they could call it anything they like. Men and women,
:10:34. > :10:40.there are 130 to 140 people killed every year, and because it is
:10:40. > :10:43.pocketed around the UK, it does not show up as a statistic. He met the
:10:43. > :10:47.Home Secretary and the consultation has begun within a week of that
:10:47. > :10:54.meeting, and I am sure he will come back to tell us more when it
:10:54. > :10:58.becomes a reality. I do hope so. Thank you for joining us.
:10:58. > :11:05.Coming up later: Banning of the blighters, sea gulls the reign
:11:05. > :11:09.supreme in coastal towns, MPs art debating in the Commons about it.
:11:09. > :11:13.Improving treatment for people that suffer strokes is hopefully about
:11:13. > :11:17.to get easier because of the technology being introduced into
:11:17. > :11:21.hospitals across the region. Strokes leave thousands of people
:11:21. > :11:25.severely disabled every year, but soon, Yorkshire patients will not
:11:25. > :11:31.even have to see a doctor in person, expert opinions will be available
:11:31. > :11:36.24 hours a day via the computer screen with an exclusive report,
:11:36. > :11:41.our health correspondent. If you were suspected of having a
:11:41. > :11:46.stroke, there is a saying among medics, time his brain. There is a
:11:46. > :11:52.4 1/2 our window to ensure that brain cells do not die. That could
:11:52. > :11:57.make a vital difference to the outcome. Our volunteers suspected
:11:57. > :12:04.of having a stroke. She is having a brain scan, but the consultant that
:12:04. > :12:08.can analyse it is not in accident emergency. -- accident and
:12:08. > :12:12.emergency. We think this lady is having a stroke and we need your
:12:12. > :12:18.expert opinion to know if we need to thrombolysis her. What are you
:12:18. > :12:24.doing when this happened? I was hoovering in the living room.
:12:24. > :12:30.this technology and the nurse, the doctor can see the scans. We can
:12:30. > :12:34.see there is a clot in the middle artery. Diagnosis - stroke. She
:12:34. > :12:38.needs a clot-busting drug quickly. As long as the consultant has
:12:38. > :12:43.access to a laptop and broadband, diagnoses can happen anywhere, from
:12:43. > :12:47.the Office, from home, or from another clinic. The strategic
:12:47. > :12:50.health authority has funded equipment across the region. In
:12:50. > :12:57.theory at could do the same interview with a patient in
:12:57. > :13:01.Wakefield, Sheffield, or anywhere. We're looking at the 24 hour
:13:01. > :13:05.service, currently we do not have that, so we could have thrombolysis
:13:05. > :13:10.24 hours a seven-day week. We will hopefully have this availability
:13:10. > :13:14.increased in the next number of months. We know thrombolysis
:13:14. > :13:19.increases you're chance of walking out of hospital free of disability.
:13:19. > :13:23.It is not a guarantee, but it increases your chance of that.
:13:23. > :13:29.do not be too surprised if they come and a manager greets you in
:13:29. > :13:32.the local hospital. -- if a manager and a camera greets you. This
:13:32. > :13:36.technology could be used in the future.
:13:36. > :13:40.The rest have been used in the region, a verdict of accidental
:13:40. > :13:44.death has been recorded on a West Yorkshire woman that died on a
:13:44. > :13:48.camping holiday in Norfolk. 30- year-old Hazel Woodhams from
:13:48. > :13:53.Huddersfield who was filmed by Look North a few weeks before she died
:13:53. > :13:58.was overcome by poisonous fumes. It charcoal barbecue had been left
:13:58. > :14:03.smoking inside the tent on a site in Great Yarmouth in July. Her
:14:03. > :14:09.boyfriend that was also in the tent said he was lucky to be alive.
:14:09. > :14:13.A lorry driver arrested for the death of a police man on a
:14:13. > :14:18.Yorkshire motorway. PC Mark Goodlad was killed by a lorry while helping
:14:18. > :14:28.a woman whose car had broken down on the M1 near Wakefield. The man
:14:28. > :14:30.
:14:30. > :14:33.was arrested on suspicion of MPs have urged the BBC to stop
:14:33. > :14:36.planned cuts to local radio. The proposals will see a reduction in
:14:36. > :14:38.locally made programmes at 40 local radio stations in England,
:14:38. > :14:41.including Radio Leeds, Radio Sheffield and Radio York. The
:14:41. > :14:43.Conservative MP for the Colne Valley, Jason McCartney, used to be
:14:43. > :14:53.a broadcaster with ITV. He is especially concerned about local
:14:53. > :14:55.
:14:55. > :14:57.sport. The BBC must really revisit this decision and think about
:14:58. > :15:06.priorities instead of the hundreds of Glastonbury and the copycat
:15:06. > :15:11.programming that is produced of hundreds of other broadcasters.
:15:11. > :15:15.of the Honourable Members have at views on what should be done. It is
:15:15. > :15:25.certainly not my job to order the BBC to close down a particular
:15:25. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:32.service or to save another service. That is a job for BBC management.
:15:32. > :15:37.We have reported many times about the problems of seagulls and many
:15:37. > :15:44.of our coastal towns and now it seems that MPs are worried about
:15:44. > :15:50.the mess, the smell and more importantly the financial impact of
:15:50. > :15:57.seagulls in our coastal cities. We have spent the day at Scarborough.
:15:57. > :16:00.If you have come to the coast and Ben pestered for your chips you
:16:00. > :16:05.might think it was a small annoyance but if you live here it
:16:05. > :16:11.can be a real problem. They used to follow the trawlers and now they
:16:11. > :16:20.follow the tourists. The seagulls have flourished and now many see
:16:20. > :16:24.them as pests. Years ago we had all of the people who went on the
:16:24. > :16:30.clifftops and they could remove the eggs so they would go through the
:16:30. > :16:34.nesting process and move on. That management needs to be taken on
:16:34. > :16:39.board. It is a serious problem. People are not accepting that there
:16:39. > :16:43.is a problem. They are like rats and we need to manage them. It is
:16:43. > :16:52.nothing new. We have reported on tourists having their food stolen
:16:52. > :17:01.in Whitby and erosion being caused to Scarborough Town Hall and also a
:17:01. > :17:07.mess of netting on a hotel. This is one chink in the armour in the --
:17:07. > :17:17.admits the highlight, the rest. You cannot that the whole town, and
:17:17. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:34.anyway, how do you really keep away I have come to see how they have
:17:34. > :17:40.got on three years later. Join me later in the programme. You will be
:17:40. > :17:50.shocked. Pantomime every night on Look North, that is what I say.
:17:50. > :17:51.
:17:51. > :17:56.Time for sport. Expecting there to be a -- I am expecting there to be
:17:56. > :18:01.a wealth of Huddersfield Town news. Nearly one-third of the football
:18:01. > :18:05.season is over. But the numbers will get very interesting soon.
:18:05. > :18:10.There are three big teams clustered together in the League One
:18:10. > :18:15.promotion race. Last night's matches gave us lots of action to
:18:15. > :18:20.look at. In a season already dominated by
:18:20. > :18:30.statistics, Huddersfield Town's number today is 40. Their draw at
:18:30. > :18:36.Scunthorpe last night singled out one hero, at the goalkeeper. He
:18:36. > :18:42.managed not one, but two penalty saves. There were four great goals.
:18:42. > :18:47.The first one was by score dope -- Scunthorpe which was equalised.
:18:47. > :18:57.After the penalty saves, a volley made it 2 - One with four minutes
:18:57. > :18:58.
:18:58. > :19:08.left, cancelled immediately by a scan bar. A neat finish. -- by
:19:08. > :19:14.Scunthorpe. Here are Sheffield Wednesday, who stay third in the
:19:14. > :19:19.League One table despite a defeat at Carlisle. There was a half-time
:19:19. > :19:25.lead but then Carlisle got three quick strikes. Even worse,
:19:25. > :19:31.Wednesday's goal machine was sent off before Rob Jones headed in a
:19:31. > :19:37.late second. Chesterfield are still in the relegation zone. In League
:19:37. > :19:46.Two, Rotherham United fans could be forgiven for going home early. If
:19:46. > :19:55.but they would have missed a fantastic comeback for a trough. --
:19:55. > :20:00.Does this look like a penalty to you? The referee at Macclesfield
:20:00. > :20:08.thought so, and he gave it. Bradford remain just one. Abroad
:20:08. > :20:14.over the relegation zone after their loss. -- Bradford remain just
:20:14. > :20:22.one point over the relegation zone after their last.
:20:22. > :20:26.40 considered every team matches, but that is not the biggest
:20:26. > :20:35.statistic, because Nottingham Forest were bigger than that in the
:20:35. > :20:45.70s and Arsenal continued -- did even more than that in 2009. But
:20:45. > :20:48.
:20:48. > :20:52.domestically, yes, it would be Huddersfield Town.
:20:52. > :20:55.Horse racing now. North Yorkshire jockey Paul Hanagan is the
:20:55. > :20:58.favourite to win the Jockey's Championship this year. Based at
:20:58. > :21:01.Malton, Hanagan took the title for the first time last year in a nail-
:21:01. > :21:05.biting final day at Doncaster. Now this year his lead is small, but
:21:05. > :21:12.his pace is relentless. And we spent the day with him yesterday at
:21:12. > :21:19.Catterick. And OK, number three, you have an
:21:19. > :21:24.orange cap. Today, in Catterick, he is in eight
:21:24. > :21:31.races. There are fewer than two weeks to go and every bride counts.
:21:31. > :21:36.Every winner brings him closer to being a champion jockey. -- every
:21:36. > :21:40.ride counts. This has never been done by a northern jockey in the
:21:40. > :21:45.championships. Competition is fierce but the rivalry is a
:21:45. > :21:50.friendly. I get the mickey-taking. Everyone calls me champ and they
:21:51. > :21:58.take the Mick. I have been riding with these lads for nearly 14 years
:21:58. > :22:04.and they are my best mates. Paul has no large in the first -- love
:22:04. > :22:10.in the first race and the title goes to another northern jockey.
:22:10. > :22:20.got one back on me but he was the favourite. There is still one day
:22:20. > :22:26.to go. Over the past 10 days, Paul has been too many different races,
:22:26. > :22:33.working double shifts, barely sleeping. So far we have had five
:22:33. > :22:39.out of the eight races. The sun has come out but blog has not. -- but
:22:39. > :22:47.luck has not. Finally, in the 7th race of the
:22:47. > :22:51.day... A score for Paul Hanagan! Paul wins and he is chuffed. It has
:22:51. > :22:55.been a long day. It was a testing ground out their. A lot of horses
:22:55. > :23:02.today that have not liked it out there today. Fortunately that one
:23:02. > :23:08.bit. Today, Paul was in Scotland, and tomorrow he will head south for
:23:08. > :23:14.afternoon and evening meetings. He will eventually rest in November,
:23:14. > :23:19.hopefully a champion. I still have not overcome my fear
:23:19. > :23:29.of horses but I am working on it. Would you right mind -- bride mind
:23:29. > :23:36.A few weeks back we brought you the story of the panto in Barnsley that
:23:36. > :23:44.was struggling to find someone to play the part of the Dame. And nine
:23:44. > :23:50.brave men came forward to audition. We can explain what happened next.
:23:50. > :23:54.This ear's planned sale is Dick Whittington -- this year's planned
:23:54. > :24:01.sale is a Dick Whittington but there is no one to play the Dame.
:24:01. > :24:04.So we have scoured the streets looking, with no joy. This has not
:24:04. > :24:10.been easy so I have come back to the Playhouse to find out whether
:24:10. > :24:16.there has been any look. I had been told that the end to Look North
:24:16. > :24:22.they have found their Dame. My name is Christian and I will be the Dame
:24:22. > :24:30.this year. I work at a care home in Barnsley. We will start up with a
:24:30. > :24:35.little singalong! After the usual morning singalong, Christian went
:24:35. > :24:45.for a costume change so he could try out his new character. Hello,
:24:45. > :24:55.everybody! Hello! Nice to see you! Hello, Liliane! Do you think I look
:24:55. > :24:59.
:24:59. > :25:09.nice? You could do with bigger boobs! # We will meet again # Next
:25:09. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:19.Wednesday, half past 10. # Waggish! -- rubbish! I went for the audition
:25:19. > :25:24.and now I am just as this lovely person. I would love to sing a
:25:24. > :25:28.famous Dolly Parton song. We needed to make sure that we had the right
:25:28. > :25:37.person in the job and I am sure that be will do it thanks to Look
:25:38. > :25:45.North. I am going to say goodbye and farewell. Goodbye! That is the
:25:45. > :25:53.best they they have had in that all peoples,! -- in that old people's
:25:53. > :26:02.Now for a look at the weather. We have received so many beautiful
:26:02. > :26:08.pictures today. It was a gorgeous day. Here is a castle. And this one
:26:08. > :26:14.was not taking today but it is from the top of Simon's Seat. Keep those
:26:14. > :26:18.pictures coming in. Looking at some cloudy skies as we go through the
:26:18. > :26:22.day tomorrow. The pressure charts there's -- shows we have a weather
:26:22. > :26:31.front that will work 0 words through the course of the day and
:26:31. > :26:35.bring some rain. -- will work North words. There will be lots of
:26:35. > :26:40.showers around parts of North Yorkshire. They will fade away.
:26:40. > :26:47.This evening will be dry with clear spells but the cloud will increase
:26:47. > :26:52.from the south. By dawn we will see outbreaks of rain. The wind will be
:26:52. > :26:59.gentle and will push the temperatures into single figures.
:26:59. > :27:05.Looking at the San times across the region, it rises tomorrow at 7:56am.
:27:05. > :27:10.-- looking at the Times Of sunrise. It will be cloudy tomorrow with
:27:10. > :27:16.outbreaks of rain working their way north through the morning. The rain
:27:16. > :27:21.will be dry and patchy and we are looking at cloudy skies. The rain
:27:21. > :27:26.will turn heavier through the afternoon. Temperatures are
:27:26. > :27:32.struggling for this time of year. We are looking at highs of only
:27:32. > :27:37.about 11 or 12 degrees. This rain will clear away overnight until