:00:07. > :00:10.Good evening. Tonight on Look North: Remembering Michaela. Police,
:00:10. > :00:18.family and friends appeal for new information ten years after her
:00:18. > :00:23.murder in Sheffield remains unsolved. The hardest thing I have
:00:23. > :00:28.ever had to do was to tell my son that his mum were dead.
:00:28. > :00:35.Also on Look North - getting ready for the ice. We look at plans to
:00:35. > :00:40.prevent a repeat of these scenes this winter.
:00:41. > :00:45.And I am at the 25th Leeds International Film Festival, which
:00:45. > :00:49.features the Yorkshire Premier of the classic Wuthering Heights,
:00:49. > :00:54.introducing three first time Yorkshire actors and these are just
:00:54. > :00:58.two of them. The skies were fairly overcast only
:00:58. > :01:08.this afternoon and it looks as though there is more rain to come
:01:08. > :01:09.
:01:09. > :01:12.in the next 24 hours. The latest is Good evening. The partner of a
:01:12. > :01:16.Sheffield woman murdered ten years ago has made a dramatic plea, in a
:01:16. > :01:19.bid to find her killer. Michaela Hague had been working as a
:01:19. > :01:24.prostitute to fund her heroin addiction, when she was stabbed at
:01:24. > :01:28.least 19 times. Look North has been speaking to some prostitutes in the
:01:28. > :01:35.city, who knew Michaela and say they still fear for their safety.
:01:35. > :01:39.Our reporter Emma Blackburn is in Sheffield.
:01:39. > :01:44.The murder happened on Bonfire Night ten years ago just outside
:01:44. > :01:49.Sheffield city centre but the crime remains unresolved. Today
:01:49. > :01:59.detectives brought the case back to public attention, asking people to
:01:59. > :01:59.
:01:59. > :02:03.remember what they were doing on fifth November 2001. The hardest
:02:03. > :02:12.thing I have ever had to do was to tell my son his mum were dead and
:02:12. > :02:18.would not be coming home. Sorry... My son never got to be brought up
:02:18. > :02:24.by his mum. One minute she was setting off, the next minute she
:02:24. > :02:28.will go on forever. For the first time, Michaela Hague's partner
:02:28. > :02:32.meets the policeman who ten years ago tip down her dying words and
:02:33. > :02:39.wrote them on his hand. She was able to give me a description of
:02:39. > :02:46.her killer. She described him as a white man, about 38 years old. He
:02:46. > :02:53.was 6 ft tall, he wore glasses. He was wearing a blue fleece and she
:02:53. > :02:58.believed he had a wedding ring. All this information she gave to me
:02:58. > :03:03.while I was talking to her at the scene and also well we travelled to
:03:04. > :03:09.the ambulance to the hospital. place where Michaela Hague was
:03:09. > :03:11.murdered has long been hidden by the development of a Sheffield ring
:03:11. > :03:17.road but detectives are determined her killer would be hidden from
:03:17. > :03:23.them for too much longer. An aerial view of hospital fields looked then,
:03:23. > :03:27.close to the murder spot. The killer's car was seen on CCTV.
:03:27. > :03:33.may think that ten years ago you would not be able to remember what
:03:33. > :03:40.happened but it was not just ten years ago, it was Bonfire Night,
:03:40. > :03:44.November fifth, Monday night. Cut your minds back. I want this person
:03:45. > :03:54.caught. I want someone to come forward and help the police. Give
:03:54. > :04:02.him up. He is it killer. Heath says Michaela's elect destroyed him, her
:04:02. > :04:08.son and the family -- killer destroyed him. Prosecution exists
:04:08. > :04:12.in -- prostitution exists in Sheffield and I went out with a
:04:12. > :04:17.voluntary organisation that goes out in an unmarked van offering
:04:17. > :04:22.advice for women working in the street. They say the streets are as
:04:22. > :04:26.dangerous as ever and from speaking to women that night, they told me
:04:26. > :04:33.they work in fear. A weekday night in Sheffield and the working women
:04:33. > :04:39.support that has come across jazz. Wandering the streets, crying. She
:04:39. > :04:43.knew Michaela Hague and despite the unsolved murder, she is back on the
:04:43. > :04:50.streets after eight years away. Most it is a drugs basically, drug
:04:50. > :04:56.money, that's, basically just keeping myself afloat. How does it
:04:56. > :05:01.feel being hit quiz night it makes me feel sick -- stick to my stomach.
:05:01. > :05:07.Years ago I was left and dumped in the moors and beaten up. But you
:05:07. > :05:12.are still here? I have only just come out and if I didn't have to I
:05:12. > :05:16.wouldn't have to. The support team give her a hot drink, some food and
:05:16. > :05:21.tell her to visit the centre of the next day. The aim is to provide
:05:21. > :05:25.this kind of support and give out sexual health advice. The service
:05:25. > :05:32.has been running would 20 years and in that Times, they have not seen
:05:32. > :05:38.things getting any safer. I was working on a night Michaela was
:05:38. > :05:44.murdered. Women became very scared and following all sexual assaults,
:05:44. > :05:49.women become very aware of the dangers but sometimes they have to
:05:49. > :05:53.sublimate them some way to enable them to do what they are doing.
:05:53. > :05:59.Rebecca has been working the streets chintz she was 15. She also
:05:59. > :06:04.knew Michaela and she is geared but it is not enough to take her away.
:06:04. > :06:08.It is a habit and I know I am risking my life and I know if I
:06:08. > :06:14.love my children, I would keep my felt safe but they meet things and
:06:14. > :06:21.I won't go home until I have got 100 quid. But Michaela, yet, she
:06:21. > :06:25.did love her kids. The women on the streets say they are here out of
:06:25. > :06:31.necessity and despite the unsolved murder of a friend, that if there
:06:31. > :06:37.that he remains an soda street prostitution, with all of its
:06:37. > :06:40.dangers --. The women in that report told me
:06:40. > :06:45.they see two or three women die each year in Sheffield and says
:06:45. > :06:48.that this still remains a very dangerous way of life. Ten years on
:06:48. > :06:55.from the murder of Michaela Hague, it is hoped this fresh appeal will
:06:55. > :07:05.finally find her killer. Later - a dreadful night for Leeds.
:07:05. > :07:06.
:07:06. > :07:14.The whites are given a sound thrashing at Elland Road. A blow
:07:14. > :07:17.for the phone Emmys -- energy plants in Yorkshire. Ministers say
:07:17. > :07:19.they want to halve the amount paid for electric power generated by
:07:19. > :07:23.rooftop solar panels. Councils in Barnsley, Chesterfield and Leeds
:07:23. > :07:25.all say big solar power schemes might now not go ahead. In
:07:25. > :07:33.Castleford, officials say a five- year upgrade could now take 20
:07:33. > :07:37.years. Our correspondent Alan Whitehouse has been investigating.
:07:37. > :07:42.Rachel and Martin are moving house today but they are not heaving
:07:42. > :07:46.furniture around. Instead they are having a lesson in how to use their
:07:46. > :07:51.new energy-efficient home in Castleford. Solar panels will cut
:07:51. > :07:55.their power bills and insulation will keep them warm. My eight-year-
:07:55. > :08:00.old had been known about sustainable homes at school and
:08:00. > :08:06.this came up online, sustainable home, so we thought we would apply
:08:06. > :08:11.for it. It is brilliant. It will save us a lot of money in the long
:08:11. > :08:17.run because the energy that we saved is about 40%, which is quite
:08:17. > :08:21.a lot. This house and company wants to do more of the same but now it
:08:21. > :08:26.is in doubt because of the government proposals to cut the
:08:27. > :08:33.amount paid for each unit of solar power will. Researchers say it
:08:34. > :08:37.undermines so economics. We are going to invest in 10,000
:08:37. > :08:42.properties to have the alternative heat technology, so the technology,
:08:42. > :08:47.to reduce heating bills and we were hoping to do that within five years.
:08:47. > :08:52.It's now might mean that it might take 20 years to achieve the same
:08:52. > :08:56.objective. Every unit of electricity generated by one of
:08:56. > :09:02.these panels is worth 43p but the government proposal is to more than
:09:02. > :09:05.half that down to just 21p and it is that loss of income that is
:09:05. > :09:10.throwing the financial projections of organisations like this into
:09:10. > :09:16.chaos. The government says the cost of solar power has fallen so the
:09:16. > :09:20.rate paid for the electricity it generates should come down, too. It
:09:20. > :09:24.is an argument that money except but critics say the government is
:09:24. > :09:31.going too far too fast and that will delay and derail lots of green
:09:31. > :09:33.housing projects. Other news now from around the
:09:33. > :09:36.region. Budget airline Ryanair has
:09:36. > :09:39.announced it will be flying six new routes from Leeds Bradford Airport
:09:39. > :09:42.next year. A third aircraft will be based at the airport, creating up
:09:42. > :09:46.to 60 jobs, with new flights to Corfu, Crete, Kos, Tenerife, Milan
:09:46. > :09:50.and Northern France. The airport says the new flights will also help
:09:50. > :09:54.attract more visitors to Yorkshire. A charity's been set up to raise
:09:54. > :09:57.money for the young children of a murdered policewoman from York.
:09:57. > :10:00.Heather Cooper was found dead in woodland last month close to her
:10:00. > :10:04.home in West Sussex. Surrey Police Federation is asking for donations
:10:04. > :10:09.to help her young family. Heather's partner, Peter Foster, has been
:10:09. > :10:11.charged with murder and goes on trial next year.
:10:11. > :10:13.Last winter, Yorkshire's accident and emergency departments were
:10:13. > :10:20.inundated with people who had broken their bones falling on snow
:10:20. > :10:23.and ice. Nationally the problem costs the NHS millions of pounds. A
:10:23. > :10:32.new initiative in one part of West Yorkshire hopes to reduce the
:10:32. > :10:37.problem. Ian White has more. Winter 2010, the worst December in
:10:37. > :10:42.Yorkshire since 1890, with temperatures falling to -19 Celsius.
:10:42. > :10:46.The snow and ice brought chaos, and getting from A to B was almost
:10:46. > :10:51.impossible. Remember this picture of people having to crawl across
:10:51. > :10:55.roads? When the weather is that bad, something as simple as the trip to
:10:55. > :11:02.the shops is almost impossible but hopefully this device could be the
:11:02. > :11:05.answer to everybody's problems. Pamela is a volunteer at the drop
:11:06. > :11:10.in community centre near Huddersfield. She has been helping
:11:10. > :11:17.kit out 60 pensioners in the area with the metal grips to stop them
:11:17. > :11:23.falling on icy paths if we have another cold patch. There you have
:11:23. > :11:31.bestow its that grip the snow and stop you from skidding. A gentleman
:11:31. > :11:35.who lives near me, he fell on the ice, broke his leg in three places
:11:35. > :11:39.and to this state he is still having treatment for it. So what do
:11:39. > :11:45.people make of the grips that should prevent slipping? When you
:11:45. > :11:49.get older, you want to go but your legs don't want to go with you. You
:11:49. > :11:56.have to make them. What difference will this make? I will be able to
:11:56. > :12:00.get to the shops, go for a bus, anything. Independence. It gives
:12:00. > :12:05.you your independence a bit. It is good because I will be able to go
:12:05. > :12:11.out to the shop. When a similar scheme was launched in America, the
:12:11. > :12:16.number of people ending up in hospital fell by 45%. If successful
:12:16. > :12:19.here, it could be rolled out across the whole of the Kirk lease
:12:19. > :12:21.district. Coming up:
:12:21. > :12:31.Emily Bronte's classic tale opens the Leeds Film Festival with lots
:12:31. > :12:34.
:12:34. > :12:39.Let's turn to football now. Oggy is here with me in the studio and this
:12:40. > :12:42.might be a good time for us to warn Leeds United fans to look away.
:12:43. > :12:46.Yes, a 5-0 defeat at home to Blackpool was an utter catastrophe
:12:46. > :12:56.for Leeds, especially for manager Simon Grayson against his old club.
:12:56. > :13:00.Or maybe that depends on exactly who you point the finger at.
:13:00. > :13:06.For Leeds United fans to book their own players off the pitch, at half-
:13:06. > :13:12.time Lowles, things have to be bad. And last night's 5-0 defeat was the
:13:12. > :13:19.heaviest at Elland Road since the 1980s. Who do you blame? Did none
:13:19. > :13:27.of the Leeds midfielders notice Shelvey galloping behind them for
:13:27. > :13:33.the opening goal? Should be keeper have held this? Lua Lua pounced and
:13:33. > :13:40.the keeper's night was about to get -- get worse. This spilled lead to
:13:40. > :13:49.a penalty award. 2-0 from the spot and it was clear, if you listen
:13:49. > :13:54.carefully, that the shouts of, off, were from the Leeds fans. The
:13:54. > :14:04.keeper was replaced at half-time, but not before another Paris
:14:04. > :14:08.
:14:08. > :14:14.instead of a sage and catch for 3-0 for blacks -- blackboard. The new
:14:14. > :14:18.Leeds United keeper was 18-year-old Alex Cairns. The cheers of his
:14:18. > :14:24.early contributions pointed clearly towards whom Leeds fans blamed for
:14:24. > :14:30.the disastrous opening. But there were still two goals to come.
:14:30. > :14:34.Shelvey completed his hat-trick. 5- 0 to Blackpool. Simon Grayson's
:14:35. > :14:42.reunion with the club he personally steered into the Championship was
:14:42. > :14:47.one to forget. He has some tough decisions to make now.
:14:47. > :14:51.The keeper was obviously the scapegoat, but what about the
:14:51. > :14:54.manager? Simon Grayson will take a lot of
:14:54. > :15:02.responsibility for that, but so does everybody in the Leeds team.
:15:02. > :15:09.They did not score, which is not Rachubka's fault. Grayson needs to
:15:09. > :15:12.show that he can act, bring a new keeper in and coach the rest of the
:15:12. > :15:15.team. The Leeds Film Festival opens
:15:15. > :15:18.tonight with a new version of Wuthering Heights. It is the 25th
:15:18. > :15:21.time the city has hosted the festival. And the organisers have
:15:21. > :15:28.chosen a film with a particular Yorkshire feel to kick off the
:15:28. > :15:37.festival. Christa is on the red carpet tonight. There is not much
:15:38. > :15:42.that she does not know about the Bronte Sisters. Let me tell you
:15:42. > :15:46.something about the young man who has been chosen to play Heathcliff.
:15:46. > :15:51.He has never acted before in his life. He got the part because he
:15:51. > :15:57.was taking a mate to the audition. The director took one look at him
:15:57. > :16:03.and said, you are my new Heathcliff. It was a rather nervous young man
:16:04. > :16:13.who gave us his first interview on the steps a few minutes ago.
:16:13. > :16:22.It is agreed on. It has been an adventure. Was it tough? Very tough
:16:22. > :16:28.and gruelling but rewarding. It is the first time ever and there have
:16:28. > :16:31.been literally hundreds of adaptations of Wuthering Heights
:16:31. > :16:40.that the film-maker has chosen a black actor to play Heathcliff.
:16:40. > :16:45.Does it have any historical merit? Heathcliff has been played time and
:16:45. > :16:52.again in numerous productions. Laurence Olivier was a famous one.
:16:52. > :16:56.Successive versions betray him as very definitely white. -- portrait.
:16:57. > :17:03.But the book refers to his dark complexion and foreign origins so
:17:03. > :17:10.the new film has cast him as black. An outlandish idea? Not for bronc -
:17:10. > :17:15.- Bonnie Greer, the President of the Bronte Society. He is dark, he
:17:15. > :17:25.could have been Romagna, he could have been Irish he could have been
:17:25. > :17:26.
:17:26. > :17:31.of African descent. - Mikey could have been a Roman the.
:17:31. > :17:35.Could Emily Bronte have had a black character in mind when she created
:17:35. > :17:41.Heathcliff? Possibly. Her father Patrick campaigned against the
:17:41. > :17:46.slave trade and was sponsored through university by William
:17:46. > :17:51.Wilberforce. There is evidence, like this painting, of black people
:17:51. > :17:58.living in Yorkshire at the time that bothering Hawkes -- Wuthering
:17:58. > :18:02.Heights was written. This man is stud earring black history in
:18:02. > :18:09.Yorkshire. -- studying. It is all part of a hidden history waiting to
:18:09. > :18:13.be rediscovered. There is lots of documented evidence describing the
:18:13. > :18:18.lives of African people here in Yorkshire at the time when Emily
:18:18. > :18:22.Bronte was writing Wuthering Heights. She would have seen
:18:22. > :18:27.perhaps many abolitionists, African American abolitionists who would
:18:27. > :18:32.visit Yorkshire and give talks about abolition. At this film has
:18:32. > :18:38.sparked a debate that will run and run. It sent me back to my
:18:38. > :18:45.annotated copy of Wuthering Heights from a level. It has given me a new
:18:45. > :18:49.way to read it and in my book that is a great thing.
:18:49. > :18:54.The character of Catherine Earnshaw is one of my favourites from
:18:55. > :19:00.literature and the young girl who has been chosen to play young Cathy,
:19:00. > :19:06.for it is a dream come true. Like James, she has never acted before.
:19:06. > :19:12.By days Shannon Beer is an ordinary Sheffield schoolgirl. Tonight she
:19:12. > :19:16.will once again turn into a star on the red carpet. Plucked from
:19:16. > :19:26.obscurity at 13, without an acting lesson in her life, she plays the
:19:26. > :19:27.
:19:27. > :19:33.young Catherine Earnshaw. The moors are her home. He has gone.
:19:33. > :19:41.It is a Shannon's innocence that caught the eye of the director.
:19:41. > :19:46.She said, just be yourself. We went to watch the film and Andrea wanted
:19:46. > :19:51.it to be different so she did not tell us about the story. We did not
:19:51. > :19:55.get a full script in case it confused us.
:19:55. > :20:02.First Annan it has brought confidence and a new-found sense of
:20:02. > :20:06.purpose. -- for Shannon. I thought I would get bad grades and go on
:20:06. > :20:12.benefits but now I have done this I know I can do a lot of other stuff.
:20:12. > :20:22.They are perhaps the most famous lines in any novel, not -- lines
:20:22. > :20:28.which may have changed her life. is not because he is handsome and
:20:28. > :20:32.rich but because he is more myself than I am. I am Heathcliff. They
:20:32. > :20:37.filmgoers are literally flooding in and I have to tell you, one of the
:20:37. > :20:41.most moving moments was to meet the young boy who plays the young
:20:41. > :20:47.Heathcliff. Solomon stood on these steps in floods of tears. For him
:20:47. > :20:52.it has been an emotional roller- coaster. It feels so big. I never
:20:52. > :21:01.thought I would be sitting in front of the camera, BBC as well, just
:21:01. > :21:07.talking about Wuthering Heights. It was like a massive thing for me,
:21:07. > :21:15.when I was explaining it over in Venice. I started crying at the
:21:15. > :21:19.same time. It is very emotional and I always thought when I was younger
:21:20. > :21:25.I wanted to be a singer or an actor but I thought, is it going to come
:21:25. > :21:33.true? But now it has. How does it feel to see yourself on the big
:21:33. > :21:41.screen? You are a lad from Sheffield it feels like it is not
:21:41. > :21:47.true. It is like it has not sink in yet. -- sunk in. It is shocking to
:21:47. > :21:57.see yourself on the big screen. I had to shut my eyes a few times, is
:21:57. > :21:57.
:21:57. > :22:05.it true? Is it true? But I thought, it has to be true. I was not
:22:05. > :22:08.dreaming. It feels pretty normal but kind of shocking. Shannon has
:22:08. > :22:16.said that she wants to be an actress. I am presuming by the
:22:16. > :22:20.passion you have described, you want to be an actor. 100 %. I just
:22:20. > :22:27.love it. 01 to be an actor or a singer. We will stay in touch with
:22:28. > :22:34.you because something tells me you could be pretty big.
:22:34. > :22:39.Is about a fantastic smile from the yum Solomon? -- isn't that. His
:22:39. > :22:43.entire family have just arrived. You are here from the Leeds Film
:22:44. > :22:47.Festival. It does not get much more Yorkshire than this? We are
:22:47. > :22:55.delighted to be opening with this film and it has taken a leading
:22:55. > :23:00.British Film Festival -- film-maker to come to her Yorkshire to make a
:23:00. > :23:06.new version of this film. To see young people embracing this passion
:23:06. > :23:11.is very moving. It is, and Andrea Arnold is amazing at casting
:23:11. > :23:16.unknowns. She has done a terrific job with these local actors and it
:23:16. > :23:22.is a film to be seen. We will see some clips of the film now. It is
:23:22. > :23:29.very dark, very moody, it will not to be -- not be to everybody's
:23:29. > :23:32.taste. No, but period films need to change to move on, and Andrea
:23:32. > :23:40.Arnold has done that. It is all about the sounds and sights of
:23:40. > :23:44.nature and people should see it for themselves. The moors are as much a
:23:44. > :23:48.character to Emily Bronte as any character she put on a page. Yes,
:23:48. > :23:55.and this brings out the moors more than any film of Wuthering Heights
:23:55. > :24:01.I have seen. It is quite dark, but those were quite dark days. We have
:24:01. > :24:07.talked about abolition, the Poor Law. Life expectancy was not very
:24:07. > :24:11.high. This is not a Laurence Olivier cliche, is it? Absolutely
:24:12. > :24:15.not. It shows what it must have been like in those days really well.
:24:15. > :24:19.It is a completely different version to what people have seen
:24:19. > :24:24.before and I think they should try to see it. I have seen bits of it.
:24:24. > :24:28.I am going to go in. I loved Wuthering Heights, and I go on to
:24:28. > :24:37.be disappointed? No, just expect something different and you will be
:24:37. > :24:41.amazed. Do you promise? Yes. Three Yorkshire it is a big thing. The
:24:41. > :24:46.Bronte sisters never lose their charm but the film festival is
:24:46. > :24:52.really taking off, isn't it? Yes, Wuthering Heights is a big example
:24:52. > :24:59.of what is happening in this region. A new version is a great start to
:24:59. > :25:09.this new era in Yorkshire. Thank you. That is about it from us but -
:25:09. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:21.- because the film is starting. Paul, she is behind you.
:25:21. > :25:35.
:25:35. > :25:45.What can we do now she is not If you have pictures from any part
:25:45. > :25:50.
:25:50. > :25:56.It is a very unsettled picture. Over the next 24 hours we are
:25:56. > :26:06.seeing perhaps showers, perhaps longer spells of rain. Possibly the
:26:06. > :26:12.
:26:12. > :26:15.odd thunderclap the if thunder. -- clap of thunder. At the moment, the
:26:15. > :26:20.closest area of thunderstorms is coming into the Wash in
:26:20. > :26:27.Lincolnshire. They are not affecting us and most parts of
:26:27. > :26:31.Yorkshire are dry. Most of us start the evening on a dry note. The
:26:31. > :26:36.cloud will come and go, the risk of showers but the main risk will be
:26:36. > :26:45.towards the end of the night, with potentially some heavy showers
:26:45. > :26:55.moving in. Temperatures very mild, 11 Celsius. The sun will rise at
:26:55. > :26:59.
:26:59. > :27:04.7:12am and said that for 27 p and. -- set at 4:27pm. A whisker of the
:27:04. > :27:11.odd clap of thunder tomorrow, it will not rain all day but there
:27:11. > :27:18.will be plenty of wet weather around. Possibly some brighter
:27:18. > :27:24.spots in between the cloud. The breeze will be a light south to
:27:24. > :27:31.south-easterly. Highs of 14 degrees. By the end of the day perhaps a