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Thank you. Thank you for joining us on the programme tonight. On

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tonight's Look North: Crash for cash. Bradford and Keighley are

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some of the worst places in the country for drivers deliberately

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causing accidents for compensation. A grieving father from Batley

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campaigns for women to be told if their partners have a previous

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history of violence. And a happy ending for Barnsley's

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search for a Pantomime Dame. By day and I am an activities co-ordinator,

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but this evening, you will find out more about our pantomime! And in

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the weather, it was a bright day today, there was some sunshine, but

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it looks to be cloudy tomorrow, we will have the four core cast

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featuring the programme. -- the full forecast later in the

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programme. This evening. The top story tonight,

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claims that drivers in Bradford and Keighley are crashing their cars on

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purpose to make fraudulent insurance claims.

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It is called Crash for cash and it is costing millions in fraudulent

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claims every year. The major hot spots are here in the country.

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Watch the lead car, its words are left, the second slams on its

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brakes, the delivery van crashes, but this was no accident. It was a

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fraud to claim compensation and it is a big problem in Yorkshire.

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Derek investigates these kinds of cases for the insurance companies,

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and he recently exposed an incident like this. Begin to the roundabout

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and slammed on the brakes, and the driver went into the back of the

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car. Nothing accidental about that? No, a witness came and said they

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saw the same saloon car driving to the roundabout and slam the brakes

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and go around the roundabout and to which three times. The fourth time,

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the female driver hit it in the back. Few places have it as bad as

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part of West Yorkshire. Bradford and Keighley are where they have

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the highest concentration of so- called crashers for cash. This is

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one of the hot spots. The insurance company says when you're involved

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in an accident, especially when there is some place like this,

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there are some things you should always do, no down the number of

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people in the other car and get all of the details but you can. -- take

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a note of the number of people. If you can, get photographs, because

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it could be crucial in stopping you becoming a victim of an insurance

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scam. It will not stop us all becoming the victims of higher

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premiums. If people are deterred from higher ownership because of

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the insurance premiums. The cannot afford road insurance, so you

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forget about your car or you have to drive illegally. In the end, you

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have no car. The need to do something about this, definitely.

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It is an average �44 every year to the average premium, but you are in

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a hot spot terrier-like Yorkshire, so that has 10 % of the top 100

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locations. -- Hot Spot area like Yorkshire. This has been felt in

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parts of the region with record insurance costs. It is a fraud we

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all end up paying for. The Liberal Democrat MP for

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Bradford East, David Ward, held a summit on car insurance fraud two

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months ago after a party Bradford was blacklisted by insurance

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companies. I asked if the industry was doing enough to crack down on

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fraud? There would be a new fraud unit set up on January first of

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next year. It will be funded by the industry. �9 million, 35 dedicated

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officers, they will tackle one part of this problem which is organised

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crime. This is what we call opportunist fraud that is taking

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place. There are many other measures we need to look at,

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referral fees, they had been banned by the Government. That adds to the

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cost of claims. We need to tackle personal injury claims, the number

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of those and the value of there was, the legal costs that are often put

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on to insurance claims, there are many aspects to it and we're

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looking at them now. Some viewers have written to us on our Facebook

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Page, insurance is up by a scandal as demand, the only thing is to

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take the vehicles up off the roads. One of the recess these are

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happening in specific areas, why do the police not to target areas like

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in Keighley that has been identified as a hot spot for this

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crime. In terms of the police, it is impressive, the work that they

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do, I went out with the police at 7am to try and catch some of the

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uninsured drivers and we caught one within one hour, using the new

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technology they have on board the police vehicle. Within 30 minutes,

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they had identified an uninsured driver, the car was towed away and

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within one week, unless insurance was produced, the car would be

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crushed. 2,000 vehicles are being taken by the police in the Bradford

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area per year, so action is being taken, but we are not relenting, we

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are determined to say this monster. Thank you.

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Incredible figures in the last few years that one and four women will

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suffer from domestic violence, but one man has a new campaign. He said

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women should have the right in the future to be told if their partner

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has had a history of violence against women. That is thanks to

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the campaign by the father from Batley, Michael Brown. His daughter,

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Claire Ward was murdered by her abusive partner who unbeknown to

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her had a long history of abuse against women and had served a jail

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term for domestic violence. We will speak to Mr Brown shortly about his

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calls for a new legislation called Claire's Law. First, our crime

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correspondent as the background to this terrible case.

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In February 2009, 36-year-old Claire Wood who had a young

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daughter was strangled and her body was set on fire. The man

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responsible, her ex-boyfriend, George Appleton. He went on the run

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before killing himself six days later in a derelict pub in Salford.

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The two had met on Facebook but there was unaware of his appalling

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his straight of violence against women. The Independent Police

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Complaints Commission ruled that Claire Wood had been badly let down

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by the police and called for widespread policy changes. Her

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father attended the inquest looking to try to prevent any future for

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such tragedy. The coroner said that she would ask the Government to

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make it law for those at risk to be told about a partner's abusive past.

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The Home Secretary is to consult on such a scheme with three options,

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do nothing new under existing law, have a right to ask the police

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about a violent history, or have a right to know, where police would

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be made to disclose the information. Claire Wood had no such recourse

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when things went so tragically wrong for her at their hands of

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George Appleton. In future, other people may have.

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I can tell you that day 12 the consultation has now begun by the

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Home Office after Michael Brown has met with their Home Secretary. This

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could become a reality, this law? Sooner than I anticipated, there

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has been at tremendous groundswell of Natalie sympathy, but I would

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say, common sense. -- not only sympathy. A sale I had a new

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boyfriend, you do not want me to be able to ring the police and say

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what has he done in the past, it is only if he becomes abusive. That is

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what you want? Yes, if my daughter has that information, I do not

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think she would have stayed too long and she certainly would not

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have taken my granddaughter into circumstances like that. In other

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words, when the person that starts to be violent towards her had

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started, you think she would have rung the police and if Claire's Law

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had been in place and said has he done this before, that is the only

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knowledge you want to be given? that is correct. Women, I say,

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excuse me, there has been women and men subjected to domestic violence

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and I would like them to find out, once they have got an investigation

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under way, if they were investigated previously as being

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abused, they should be able to ask the police Effie has done this in

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the past? You asked the police why your daughter was not told when

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rugby's a partner was being violent on a continuous basis, and what did

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they say to you? Firstly, it was data protection and human rights.

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They cannot divulge that information. That is the law that

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she wants changed? Yes, that is the one. Tell me about your daughter.

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This is driving the one on behalf of Clare, what with the law mean to

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you? Strangely enough, when it was first designated as Claire's Law,

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by the coroner in Bolton, they would have been delighted, had it

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been Claire's Law. But I got to the stage Riddick and call it anything

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they like, what they knew about domestic violence two-and-a-half

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years ago, you could have written on my thumbnail. -- when I go to

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the stage that they could call it anything they like. Men and women,

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there are 130 to 140 people killed every year, and because it is

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pocketed around the UK, it does not show up as a statistic. He met the

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Home Secretary and the consultation has begun within a week of that

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meeting, and I am sure he will come back to tell us more when it

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becomes a reality. I do hope so. Thank you for joining us.

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Coming up later: Banning of the blighters, sea gulls the reign

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supreme in coastal towns, MPs art debating in the Commons about it.

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Improving treatment for people that suffer strokes is hopefully about

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to get easier because of the technology being introduced into

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hospitals across the region. Strokes leave thousands of people

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severely disabled every year, but soon, Yorkshire patients will not

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even have to see a doctor in person, expert opinions will be available

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24 hours a day via the computer screen with an exclusive report,

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our health correspondent. If you were suspected of having a

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stroke, there is a saying among medics, time his brain. There is a

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4 1/2 our window to ensure that brain cells do not die. That could

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make a vital difference to the outcome. Our volunteers suspected

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of having a stroke. She is having a brain scan, but the consultant that

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can analyse it is not in accident emergency. -- accident and

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emergency. We think this lady is having a stroke and we need your

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expert opinion to know if we need to thrombolysis her. What are you

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doing when this happened? I was hoovering in the living room.

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this technology and the nurse, the doctor can see the scans. We can

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see there is a clot in the middle artery. Diagnosis - stroke. She

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needs a clot-busting drug quickly. As long as the consultant has

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access to a laptop and broadband, diagnoses can happen anywhere, from

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the Office, from home, or from another clinic. The strategic

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health authority has funded equipment across the region. In

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theory at could do the same interview with a patient in

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Wakefield, Sheffield, or anywhere. We're looking at the 24 hour

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service, currently we do not have that, so we could have thrombolysis

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24 hours a seven-day week. We will hopefully have this availability

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increased in the next number of months. We know thrombolysis

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increases you're chance of walking out of hospital free of disability.

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It is not a guarantee, but it increases your chance of that.

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do not be too surprised if they come and a manager greets you in

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the local hospital. -- if a manager and a camera greets you. This

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technology could be used in the future.

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The rest have been used in the region, a verdict of accidental

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death has been recorded on a West Yorkshire woman that died on a

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camping holiday in Norfolk. 30- year-old Hazel Woodhams from

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Huddersfield who was filmed by Look North a few weeks before she died

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was overcome by poisonous fumes. It charcoal barbecue had been left

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smoking inside the tent on a site in Great Yarmouth in July. Her

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boyfriend that was also in the tent said he was lucky to be alive.

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A lorry driver arrested for the death of a police man on a

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Yorkshire motorway. PC Mark Goodlad was killed by a lorry while helping

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a woman whose car had broken down on the M1 near Wakefield. The man

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was arrested on suspicion of MPs have urged the BBC to stop

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planned cuts to local radio. The proposals will see a reduction in

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locally made programmes at 40 local radio stations in England,

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including Radio Leeds, Radio Sheffield and Radio York. The

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Conservative MP for the Colne Valley, Jason McCartney, used to be

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a broadcaster with ITV. He is especially concerned about local

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sport. The BBC must really revisit this decision and think about

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priorities instead of the hundreds of Glastonbury and the copycat

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programming that is produced of hundreds of other broadcasters.

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of the Honourable Members have at views on what should be done. It is

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certainly not my job to order the BBC to close down a particular

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service or to save another service. That is a job for BBC management.

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We have reported many times about the problems of seagulls and many

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of our coastal towns and now it seems that MPs are worried about

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the mess, the smell and more importantly the financial impact of

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seagulls in our coastal cities. We have spent the day at Scarborough.

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If you have come to the coast and Ben pestered for your chips you

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might think it was a small annoyance but if you live here it

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can be a real problem. They used to follow the trawlers and now they

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follow the tourists. The seagulls have flourished and now many see

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them as pests. Years ago we had all of the people who went on the

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clifftops and they could remove the eggs so they would go through the

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nesting process and move on. That management needs to be taken on

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board. It is a serious problem. People are not accepting that there

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is a problem. They are like rats and we need to manage them. It is

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nothing new. We have reported on tourists having their food stolen

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in Whitby and erosion being caused to Scarborough Town Hall and also a

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mess of netting on a hotel. This is one chink in the armour in the --

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admits the highlight, the rest. You cannot that the whole town, and

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anyway, how do you really keep away I have come to see how they have

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got on three years later. Join me later in the programme. You will be

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shocked. Pantomime every night on Look North, that is what I say.

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Time for sport. Expecting there to be a -- I am expecting there to be

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a wealth of Huddersfield Town news. Nearly one-third of the football

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season is over. But the numbers will get very interesting soon.

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There are three big teams clustered together in the League One

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promotion race. Last night's matches gave us lots of action to

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look at. In a season already dominated by

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statistics, Huddersfield Town's number today is 40. Their draw at

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Scunthorpe last night singled out one hero, at the goalkeeper. He

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managed not one, but two penalty saves. There were four great goals.

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The first one was by score dope -- Scunthorpe which was equalised.

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After the penalty saves, a volley made it 2 - One with four minutes

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left, cancelled immediately by a scan bar. A neat finish. -- by

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Scunthorpe. Here are Sheffield Wednesday, who stay third in the

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League One table despite a defeat at Carlisle. There was a half-time

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lead but then Carlisle got three quick strikes. Even worse,

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Wednesday's goal machine was sent off before Rob Jones headed in a

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late second. Chesterfield are still in the relegation zone. In League

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Two, Rotherham United fans could be forgiven for going home early. If

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but they would have missed a fantastic comeback for a trough. --

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Does this look like a penalty to you? The referee at Macclesfield

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thought so, and he gave it. Bradford remain just one. Abroad

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over the relegation zone after their loss. -- Bradford remain just

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one point over the relegation zone after their last.

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40 considered every team matches, but that is not the biggest

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statistic, because Nottingham Forest were bigger than that in the

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70s and Arsenal continued -- did even more than that in 2009. But

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domestically, yes, it would be Huddersfield Town.

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Horse racing now. North Yorkshire jockey Paul Hanagan is the

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favourite to win the Jockey's Championship this year. Based at

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Malton, Hanagan took the title for the first time last year in a nail-

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biting final day at Doncaster. Now this year his lead is small, but

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his pace is relentless. And we spent the day with him yesterday at

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Catterick. And OK, number three, you have an

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orange cap. Today, in Catterick, he is in eight

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races. There are fewer than two weeks to go and every bride counts.

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Every winner brings him closer to being a champion jockey. -- every

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ride counts. This has never been done by a northern jockey in the

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championships. Competition is fierce but the rivalry is a

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friendly. I get the mickey-taking. Everyone calls me champ and they

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take the Mick. I have been riding with these lads for nearly 14 years

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and they are my best mates. Paul has no large in the first -- love

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in the first race and the title goes to another northern jockey.

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got one back on me but he was the favourite. There is still one day

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to go. Over the past 10 days, Paul has been too many different races,

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working double shifts, barely sleeping. So far we have had five

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out of the eight races. The sun has come out but blog has not. -- but

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luck has not. Finally, in the 7th race of the

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day... A score for Paul Hanagan! Paul wins and he is chuffed. It has

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been a long day. It was a testing ground out their. A lot of horses

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today that have not liked it out there today. Fortunately that one

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bit. Today, Paul was in Scotland, and tomorrow he will head south for

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afternoon and evening meetings. He will eventually rest in November,

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hopefully a champion. I still have not overcome my fear

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of horses but I am working on it. Would you right mind -- bride mind

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A few weeks back we brought you the story of the panto in Barnsley that

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was struggling to find someone to play the part of the Dame. And nine

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brave men came forward to audition. We can explain what happened next.

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This ear's planned sale is Dick Whittington -- this year's planned

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sale is a Dick Whittington but there is no one to play the Dame.

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So we have scoured the streets looking, with no joy. This has not

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been easy so I have come back to the Playhouse to find out whether

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there has been any look. I had been told that the end to Look North

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they have found their Dame. My name is Christian and I will be the Dame

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this year. I work at a care home in Barnsley. We will start up with a

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little singalong! After the usual morning singalong, Christian went

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for a costume change so he could try out his new character. Hello,

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everybody! Hello! Nice to see you! Hello, Liliane! Do you think I look

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nice? You could do with bigger boobs! # We will meet again # Next

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Wednesday, half past 10. # Waggish! -- rubbish! I went for the audition

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and now I am just as this lovely person. I would love to sing a

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famous Dolly Parton song. We needed to make sure that we had the right

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person in the job and I am sure that be will do it thanks to Look

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North. I am going to say goodbye and farewell. Goodbye! That is the

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best they they have had in that all peoples,! -- in that old people's

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Now for a look at the weather. We have received so many beautiful

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pictures today. It was a gorgeous day. Here is a castle. And this one

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was not taking today but it is from the top of Simon's Seat. Keep those

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pictures coming in. Looking at some cloudy skies as we go through the

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day tomorrow. The pressure charts there's -- shows we have a weather

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front that will work 0 words through the course of the day and

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bring some rain. -- will work North words. There will be lots of

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showers around parts of North Yorkshire. They will fade away.

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This evening will be dry with clear spells but the cloud will increase

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from the south. By dawn we will see outbreaks of rain. The wind will be

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gentle and will push the temperatures into single figures.

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Looking at the San times across the region, it rises tomorrow at 7:56am.

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-- looking at the Times Of sunrise. It will be cloudy tomorrow with

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outbreaks of rain working their way north through the morning. The rain

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will be dry and patchy and we are looking at cloudy skies. The rain

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will turn heavier through the afternoon. Temperatures are

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struggling for this time of year. We are looking at highs of only

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about 11 or 12 degrees. This rain will clear away overnight until

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