:00:08. > :00:10.Good evening. Welcome to the programme. Tonight, downsize or
:00:10. > :00:13.stay dilapidated, the choice facing Yorkshire schools desperately in
:00:13. > :00:16.need of a rebuild. Also on Look North tonight:
:00:16. > :00:23.Laid to rest, the funeral of the young soldier, Private Matthew
:00:23. > :00:26.Haseldin, from Settle, shot in Afghanistan.
:00:26. > :00:36.The campaign to save the Yorkshire Anthem reaches the Houses of
:00:36. > :00:46.
:00:46. > :00:56.We have got some dull conditions. This was Leeds at around about
:00:56. > :00:59.
:00:59. > :01:02.3:30pm, heralding a much brighter Good evening. Look North has
:01:02. > :01:04.learned that a wave of schools in Yorkshire hoping for millions of
:01:04. > :01:09.pounds of funding to rebuild dilapidated facilities will have to
:01:09. > :01:11.make do with smaller buildings. Under the Government's Priority
:01:11. > :01:17.School Building Programme, schools can apply for funding to modernise
:01:17. > :01:26.buildings. But there are strings attached. In Yorkshire, 31 schools
:01:26. > :01:29.But the new schools could be up to 20% smaller. They'll also have to
:01:29. > :01:32.pay an annual fee for 27 years. And in Bradford, that's led to eight
:01:32. > :01:42.primary schools turning their back on the scheme and continuing to use
:01:42. > :01:43.
:01:43. > :01:47.their old buildings. Here's Spencer At this primary-school in Bradford,
:01:47. > :01:52.lessons take place in the cloakroom because of a lack of space. The
:01:52. > :01:56.boiler keeps breaking down so fan heaters keep classrooms warm. A
:01:56. > :02:01.leaky roof is bracing itself for the onset of winter. This school
:02:01. > :02:04.should be a prime candidate for the Priority School Building but the
:02:04. > :02:10.head teacher isn't going to apply because she says the new school
:02:10. > :02:15.building would shrink by 20%. doesn't make sense for the school
:02:15. > :02:19.building to be smaller when, actually, we are about to take in
:02:19. > :02:23.more children needing more resources, needing more teachers,
:02:23. > :02:27.needing more learning support assistance. That size reduction
:02:27. > :02:31.would seek a special room for autistic children removed, a maths
:02:31. > :02:35.support area scrapped, and a reduced dining area, but the school
:02:35. > :02:39.would also have to pay �90,000 every year for 27 years to the
:02:40. > :02:44.private company that builds new schools. The only way we would have
:02:44. > :02:54.considered meeting those costs would have been to say, well, we
:02:54. > :02:54.
:02:54. > :02:58.all have to get rid of three members of stuffed. It is not the
:02:58. > :03:01.only school not applying for the funds. We had eight primary-school
:03:01. > :03:05.is on this list and it was a decision by each governing body,
:03:05. > :03:09.and they all came in turn to the same decision and that the offer of
:03:09. > :03:13.accommodation was very restricted, but more to the point, the costs of
:03:13. > :03:18.having to pay for this financial arrangement would be too great and
:03:18. > :03:23.would actually damage the education of the children. Many schools
:03:23. > :03:27.across Yorkshire have been rebuilt in recent years as part of the last
:03:27. > :03:32.programme. Large, airy buildings became the order of the day. They
:03:32. > :03:36.were expensive so the scheme was scrapped. The Department of
:03:37. > :03:40.Education says new skills -- new schools will have a good for
:03:40. > :03:46.purpose-designed and will cost less. Three schools have applied in
:03:46. > :03:49.Bradford. In one of them, children are taught in a shed. They just
:03:50. > :03:54.missed out on a new building two years ago and cannot keep up with
:03:54. > :03:59.the constant need for maintenance. It is not ideal but the current
:03:59. > :04:05.amount of money we are spending on maintaining the building, the
:04:05. > :04:09.governors and myself decided it would be the best option.
:04:09. > :04:13.schools wanting and rebuilt, a difficult choice. Apply for a
:04:13. > :04:18.smaller building and finished paying for it when these children
:04:18. > :04:21.are in their 30s, or stick with what you have got and watch the
:04:21. > :04:24.maintenance bills mount up. Well, Craig Whittaker is the
:04:24. > :04:27.Conservative MP for Calder Valley. He is also on the Education Select
:04:27. > :04:34.Committee. So what incentive would schools have to take part in this
:04:34. > :04:37.new programme? Well, let's make this clear. This
:04:37. > :04:43.isn't the failed programme we had with the previous government. We're
:04:43. > :04:48.not talking about atrium auteur the Mexican spaces, but off-the-peg
:04:48. > :04:53.schools, and for the most dilapidated schools in the country,
:04:53. > :04:58.like my own school, just did not qualify under the old system. I am
:04:58. > :05:04.not sure where it comes from that they will lose the 20% of space
:05:04. > :05:09.because the schools that have applied have only will dent a four
:05:09. > :05:14.or five-page pro-forma, no business case and we are a long way off the
:05:14. > :05:18.final decisions. The head teacher of that primary-school that we saw
:05:18. > :05:25.said to us that she has seen the plan and that she is going to lose
:05:25. > :05:30.20% and cost them �90,000. The Department of Education told us the
:05:30. > :05:33.average loss of space is going to be 15%. School spaces will be
:05:33. > :05:38.reduced compared to what we have been looking at the last programme.
:05:38. > :05:44.We are not talking about took atriums and all that type of thing
:05:44. > :05:51.in their. There has to be an economy of scale. I am not sure
:05:51. > :05:53.what the plans she has seen because they are not available yet. Your
:05:54. > :05:58.own closest primary-school, they say they have no alternative
:05:58. > :06:03.because they have dilapidated classrooms. They have been forced
:06:04. > :06:09.into this situation. This is the only game in town and it has been
:06:09. > :06:13.going through B f five. The Chancellor announced there is going
:06:13. > :06:19.to be a full review of it to make it much more transparent, open and
:06:19. > :06:24.cheaper, so it is a way that our schools potentially are going to
:06:24. > :06:30.get the money to rebuild this much- needed schools that, quite frankly,
:06:30. > :06:35.is costing a fortune for councils to repair and maintain. You talk
:06:35. > :06:41.about costing a fortune. �90,000 the 27 years, that might be all
:06:41. > :06:45.right for a private school. They haven't even announced what the
:06:45. > :06:49.process will be apart from the fact they are going to be renegotiated,
:06:49. > :06:54.they will be much cheaper and transparent and much more open than
:06:54. > :06:58.the latest -- than the other schemes which were expensive. It is
:06:58. > :07:02.a way forward of getting those through. If it is an academy, they
:07:02. > :07:06.will get the extra cash to pay that Bill, but if they are not, that
:07:06. > :07:13.money will come from local authority is anyway. Thank you for
:07:14. > :07:18.joining us. Hundreds of mourners lined the
:07:18. > :07:26.streets of the North Yorkshire town to pay their respects to a young
:07:26. > :07:30.soldier. Private Matthew Haseldin died in November. He was caught in
:07:30. > :07:36.a gunfight in Afghanistan and his funeral and burial was held today
:07:36. > :07:46.in his home village. It is only a small town but
:07:46. > :07:47.
:07:47. > :07:55.hundreds lined Settle's pavements in silence. Private Matthew
:07:55. > :08:00.Haseldin was 21 and had been a soldier for less than a year.
:08:00. > :08:06.very moving. Very moving indeed. They are giving their lives, aren't
:08:07. > :08:16.they, for us? It was a decent thing that everybody stopped for silence.
:08:16. > :08:25.So... It was just a sad day. Such a waste. Heart of gold. Really,
:08:25. > :08:30.really nice lad. At St Alkelda's church in Giggleswick, Private
:08:30. > :08:36.Matthew Haseldin's body was finally carried home. He was the only child
:08:36. > :08:40.of his parents. He died when he was caught in gunfire in Helmand. His
:08:40. > :08:45.commanding officer said he stood firm in the face of editor and
:08:45. > :08:50.enemy. He gave everything, whatever task, he did it with a smile on his
:08:50. > :08:57.face, and that was the best thing about him. Nothing was too hard. He
:08:57. > :09:01.was happy to work hard. We are also proud of Matthew. Even though he
:09:01. > :09:08.joined the Army just nine months ago, she had -- he has achieved so
:09:08. > :09:14.much. Selfless commitment, respect for others. Loyalty, integrity,
:09:14. > :09:20.discipline, and courage. Carried by his friends, Private Matthew
:09:20. > :09:27.Haseldin was buried privately in Giggleswick's churchyard, sheltered
:09:27. > :09:31.by the crags this young Yorkshireman called home.
:09:31. > :09:34.A sad day in the Dales today. Later on Look North:
:09:34. > :09:39.In remission and looking forward. We catch up with Lauren Hards who's
:09:39. > :09:42.recovering from a rare form of leukaemia.
:09:42. > :09:45.A railway worker in charge of one of the busiest level crossings in
:09:45. > :09:51.Europe near Wakefield has been jailed for three months for being
:09:51. > :09:54.in a drunken stupor whilst he was working. A district judge said 29-
:09:54. > :10:02.year-old Peter Singleton had been guilty of a gross breach of duty
:10:02. > :10:08.because he had the lives of hundreds of people in his hands.
:10:08. > :10:13.Here's Our Crime Correspondent John Cundy. Peter Singleton's friends
:10:13. > :10:17.and family did the best to hide him from the cameras as he arrived at
:10:17. > :10:23.the magistrates' court this afternoon. He had been warned to
:10:23. > :10:27.expect jail for what happened on 18th October at the crossing in
:10:27. > :10:32.Crofton. The court heard it is the second busiest crossing in Europe
:10:32. > :10:37.and that night, he was in a drunken stupor instead of attending the
:10:37. > :10:42.manually at -- the manual crossing. Today, it was being operated
:10:42. > :10:47.properly. A very different situation to that night. He was
:10:47. > :10:53.found passed out in his cabin when he should have been manning is busy
:10:53. > :10:57.local crossing with 65 trains passing every day, and a passenger
:10:57. > :11:02.train was stranded up the line when he was found slumped in the chair
:11:03. > :11:08.in the cabin. He admitted he had drunk 3 pints of cider, putting him
:11:08. > :11:18.eight times over the limit allowed by Network Rail for anyone on duty.
:11:18. > :11:29.
:11:29. > :11:32.In a statement today, British Peter Singleton, who had worked for
:11:33. > :11:37.Network Rail for seven years, was said to have been at a recovering
:11:37. > :11:41.alcoholic but the judge said his offence was so serious, jail was
:11:41. > :11:45.inevitable. For what happened at the Crofton crossing, Peter
:11:45. > :11:51.Singleton Would be dismissed from his job after a disciplinary
:11:51. > :11:53.hearing. In other news now, and the GMB
:11:53. > :11:57.Union says it's seriously concerned about the future of 21 care homes
:11:57. > :12:00.in South Yorkshire which are run by the company Four Seasons. Four of
:12:00. > :12:04.the care homes used to be operated by Southern Cross but were taken
:12:04. > :12:07.over when it hit financial difficulties. But the Union say
:12:07. > :12:09.Four Seasons are now also in trouble after seeing a report by
:12:09. > :12:19.the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services. Four Seasons
:12:19. > :12:23.
:12:23. > :12:28.From the GMB perspective, we have a professional obligation to look
:12:28. > :12:33.after the members of staff that there India, but also a moral
:12:33. > :12:36.obligation to look after the old and vulnerable in fair. All this
:12:36. > :12:39.does is caused further concern when both the staff and their residents
:12:39. > :12:42.thought we were over that. One in four of Yorkshire's young
:12:43. > :12:45.people have got in a car with someone who'd been drinking or
:12:46. > :12:48.taking drugs. That is according to the road safety charity Brake, who
:12:48. > :12:51.are calling for tougher restrictions on new drivers to cut
:12:51. > :12:54.the number of accidents. It comes at the start of Road Safety Week
:12:54. > :13:01.and a series of hard hitting road shows aimed at highlighting the
:13:01. > :13:05.risks of dangerous driving. A young refugee who has been living
:13:05. > :13:08.in Sheffield for five years has finally won his fight to stay in
:13:08. > :13:11.the UK. Reza Yousefi was born in Iran after his family fled the
:13:11. > :13:14.Taliban in Afghanistan. He was refused asylum when he turned 18
:13:14. > :13:18.and was going to be deported to Afghanistan where he has never
:13:18. > :13:23.lived. But now a court has given him leave to remain here for five
:13:23. > :13:27.years. Yorkshire Museum has launched an
:13:27. > :13:30.appeal to try to keep a pair of 2,000 year old gold bracelets. They
:13:30. > :13:33.are the only pieces of Iron Age gold jewellery ever found in the
:13:33. > :13:39.North of England. The museum has four months to raise the money
:13:39. > :13:42.needed otherwise they will be offered for private sale.
:13:42. > :13:44.A public meeting is taking place in Sheffield tonight as part of South
:13:44. > :13:46.Yorkshire Fire Authority's consultation on proposals to cut
:13:46. > :13:50.jobs and close stations. A reduction in Government funding
:13:50. > :13:54.could see the loss of 140 fire fighters jobs along with four fire
:13:54. > :14:01.stations. The authority says it is not backing the plans and will
:14:01. > :14:04.listen carefully to what the public has to say.
:14:04. > :14:07.I'll bring you the latest from that meeting on Look North at 10:25pm.
:14:07. > :14:11.We will get the Fire Service response to union claims that the
:14:11. > :14:14.cuts will affect their ability to save lives.
:14:14. > :14:15.Before 7pm: Still to come, we'll have the
:14:15. > :14:25.weather. And find out why this well-loved
:14:25. > :14:42.
:14:42. > :14:52.# On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. # On Ilkla
:14:52. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:04.Now, you remember the story of Lauren Hards, who contracted a rare
:15:04. > :15:09.form of leukaemia as a teenager. We followed her intensive treatment
:15:09. > :15:15.over several months. Well, it is a year since she had her bone marrow
:15:15. > :15:18.transplant. And the great news is that she is
:15:18. > :15:27.now in remission and has come back to speak to us. But first, our
:15:27. > :15:35.health correspondent Penny Bustin can remind us of Lauren's journey.
:15:35. > :15:39.We first met Lauren last November. I had been told that I might die.
:15:39. > :15:46.Her rare Whitney had not responded to drugs. A transplant was the only
:15:46. > :15:50.hope. I would say that the chances would be around 70%. I am very
:15:51. > :15:55.hopeful that we're on the Pat way to success. The first step was a
:15:55. > :16:04.week of intensive chemotherapy, followed by intense body
:16:05. > :16:09.radiotherapy. Then, looking just like an ordinary bank of what, the
:16:09. > :16:18.precious bone marrow donated by a stranger arrived. I am nervous and
:16:18. > :16:24.excited. Somebody's sell to you. -- somebody said it smells like sweet
:16:24. > :16:28.corn. There was no smell. In just over two hours, the transponder was
:16:28. > :16:36.complete. Then the effects of the radiation and chemotherapy began to
:16:36. > :16:42.take their toll. It did not realise my mouth would be this bad. I have
:16:42. > :16:50.been moved on to liquidate and they are hard to swallow, as well as the
:16:50. > :16:53.it tabloid ones. That has anti- sickness and a morphine. Weeks and
:16:53. > :17:00.isolation followed, but she still managed to pick up an infection.
:17:01. > :17:04.The drugs that she had to tackle that made her sick and very low.
:17:04. > :17:09.Nine weeks after the transplant, she was allowed home. She was back
:17:09. > :17:15.in with pneumonia over the summer and a susceptibility to illness
:17:15. > :17:21.lingers on. But thanks to the kind donation by a stranger, she is now
:17:21. > :17:25.officially in remission. Well, a little earlier, fresh from
:17:25. > :17:31.another short stay in St James's, Lauren came into the studio. There
:17:31. > :17:39.was one burning question on our lips.
:17:39. > :17:45.The first question is, how are you now? I have been doing really well
:17:45. > :17:51.I have had a few trips to hospital. I had pneumonia a few months ago
:17:51. > :18:00.and I thought I would die from that. I was in hospital this weekend,
:18:00. > :18:04.with a bit of a stomach bug. Apart from that, I feel really well.
:18:04. > :18:08.is you one year ago. Does it seem like a long time ago? It does feel
:18:08. > :18:13.like a long time ago. I cannot believe the difference. I have
:18:13. > :18:19.gotten so used to feeling ill all the time, I had forgotten what it
:18:19. > :18:22.feels like to be normal. You are also making plans for the future.
:18:22. > :18:27.The do wanted to be a nurse before you are sick and you are still
:18:27. > :18:37.planning to do that. I want to do that more than ever now. After
:18:37. > :18:43.having everyone looked after me for so long and I have always wanted to
:18:44. > :18:51.look after other people. I just want to help other people. You are
:18:51. > :18:54.doing voluntary work already. With young people? It is a mixture with
:18:54. > :18:59.people with learning disabilities. I had started doing that once a
:18:59. > :19:03.week. Even that takes all my energy at the moment. I do not want to
:19:03. > :19:07.overdo it. You have a lot more decisions to make in the future,
:19:07. > :19:12.not least of all you want to have a family. Obviously, the radiation
:19:12. > :19:22.will make that difficult for you. What does that word remission sound
:19:22. > :19:31.like to you? It does not feel real because I have not had a lot of
:19:31. > :19:35.good happens -- things happen in my life and date have to pinch myself.
:19:35. > :19:41.I am just really, really happy for estoppel we saw in the film that
:19:41. > :19:44.this was an anonymous donor. I am sure they will remain anonymous,
:19:44. > :19:48.but if they were out there, what would you say to them to back the
:19:48. > :19:54.have given me the best present anyone could ever give me and I
:19:54. > :19:58.would like to get in touch with them and meet up with them at some
:19:58. > :20:02.point. It is in the lesson for us is to
:20:02. > :20:08.donate if you were well enough because you can make someone else
:20:08. > :20:12.well, like you. If someone isn't a car crash or a fire, you try and
:20:12. > :20:18.help them. I think people should try and help if people need blood
:20:18. > :20:25.or bone marrow. It is quite a simple procedure to get on The
:20:25. > :20:29.Register and you can save someone's life. You are looking so well.
:20:29. > :20:39.Thank you for letting us follow your story. We will continue to do
:20:39. > :20:40.
:20:40. > :20:45.A man in the supermarket said to me that I never brought into use, well,
:20:45. > :20:48.there you are. Let's turn to sport now.
:20:48. > :20:52.The Super League season might only just be over, but there is already
:20:52. > :20:54.an important date for us to put in the diary for next year, whichever
:20:54. > :20:56.team you support. It has been confirmed that the
:20:57. > :20:59.World Club Challenge between Leeds Rhinos and Manly, the Aussie
:21:00. > :21:03.Champions, will take place in this country. And Leeds will have home
:21:03. > :21:07.advantage, at Headingley, no less. It should be quite a clash, on
:21:07. > :21:14.Friday 17th February. But what it definitely will not be is a
:21:14. > :21:18.practice game. We would be regarded as the best club side in the world.
:21:18. > :21:23.By no in the past, both from experience and just watching it,
:21:23. > :21:27.that so much join clubs come over and tried to play it down, talking
:21:27. > :21:33.about it being a warm-up game. Don't let them cagey. They want to
:21:34. > :21:40.win it. We have seen them dressing up to play it down, but I had seen
:21:40. > :21:43.the look in their eyes when they have lost.
:21:43. > :21:49.Rotherham's World Cup final referee, Howard Webb, is now Dr Webb. He has
:21:49. > :21:52.been given an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University. He has
:21:52. > :22:02.close links with the staff there, who helped him in the run up to the
:22:02. > :22:04.
:22:04. > :22:07.2010 World Cup final. I am a sports psychologist -- the sports
:22:07. > :22:17.psychologist that works with all the Premier League refugee --
:22:17. > :22:19.
:22:19. > :22:27.referees works here. He has been very helpful. There was also some
:22:27. > :22:37.acclimatisation work that we did here.
:22:37. > :22:40.
:22:40. > :22:46.Ball is coming very soon. Yes, that was Sam! -- Paul is coming. That
:22:46. > :22:49.was him! If I asked you what was Yorkshire's
:22:49. > :22:53.musical anthem what would you say? On Ilkley Moor Bah'tat, of course!
:22:53. > :22:57.You may say so, but it seems many youngsters simply have not heard of
:22:57. > :22:59.it. So now a Leeds MP is backing a campaign to get the song taught to
:22:59. > :23:03.children in Yorkshire's schools. Greg Mulholland tabled a motion in
:23:03. > :23:13.the house of Commons today. Ian White's been to Ilkley to see just
:23:13. > :23:16.
:23:16. > :23:25.how well know the song is. -- known. # Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw
:23:25. > :23:31.thee, ah saw thee? # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at.
:23:31. > :23:34.Forgot his hat. It is a song about a courting cuppa -- it is a song
:23:34. > :23:38.about a courting couple and the man who forgot his hat. It is in danger
:23:38. > :23:46.of dying out, but there is a campaign to preserve it. This music
:23:46. > :23:51.teacher once the song tot at all schools in Yorkshire as a matter of
:23:51. > :24:01.course. Young people that I tore it did not know the tune or the words
:24:01. > :24:02.
:24:02. > :24:09.to it. -- that I tot. -- taught. The campaign has grown, with even
:24:09. > :24:14.the local MP backing it. I think the song or encapsulates that sense
:24:14. > :24:22.of Yorkshire. It has everything in there. I think it is just just
:24:22. > :24:28.really important that we keep the traditions alive. At this school in
:24:29. > :24:31.Leeds today, students have a chance to learn the song. # Wheear 'ast
:24:31. > :24:34.tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee?
:24:34. > :24:44.# On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. So how well to the people of Ilkley
:24:44. > :24:49.
:24:49. > :24:59.actually know the song? I have come here to get Ilkley singing. We are
:24:59. > :25:00.
:25:00. > :25:10.from Brazil, on holiday. So you do not bother song? Knoll, we do not.
:25:10. > :25:11.
:25:11. > :25:21.-- no, we don't. # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at.
:25:21. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:36.# On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. A big round of applause!
:25:36. > :25:38.
:25:38. > :25:48.We have been singing it in the office.
:25:48. > :25:53.
:25:54. > :26:03.There is frost tonight and a lovely This was son said just outside
:26:04. > :26:06.
:26:06. > :26:16.Otley. -- sunset. A bit of a shock to the system tonight. Seasonal
:26:16. > :26:26.frost and then tomorrow looks much brighter with sunshine. Next week
:26:26. > :26:27.
:26:27. > :26:31.looks more cold. Right now, he saw that sunset in Leeds right at the
:26:31. > :26:40.top of the programme. It is largely career -- clear across parts of
:26:40. > :26:50.Yorkshire. Long, clear periods with some mistiness across eastern
:26:50. > :27:05.
:27:05. > :27:10.periods which will not last. The sun rises at 747 -- 7:47am. Bright
:27:10. > :27:18.and breezy tomorrow. At times, the Pennines might cloud over and
:27:18. > :27:28.certainly the Yorkshire Dales could be at risk of some rain. There will
:27:28. > :27:29.