22/11/2011 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening. Welcome to the programme. Tonight, downsize or

stay dilapidated, the choice facing Yorkshire schools desperately in

need of a rebuild. Also on Look North tonight:

Laid to rest, the funeral of the young soldier, Private Matthew

Haseldin, from Settle, shot in Afghanistan.

The campaign to save the Yorkshire Anthem reaches the Houses of

We have got some dull conditions. This was Leeds at around about

3:30pm, heralding a much brighter Good evening. Look North has

learned that a wave of schools in Yorkshire hoping for millions of

pounds of funding to rebuild dilapidated facilities will have to

make do with smaller buildings. Under the Government's Priority

School Building Programme, schools can apply for funding to modernise

buildings. But there are strings attached. In Yorkshire, 31 schools

But the new schools could be up to 20% smaller. They'll also have to

pay an annual fee for 27 years. And in Bradford, that's led to eight

primary schools turning their back on the scheme and continuing to use

their old buildings. Here's Spencer At this primary-school in Bradford,

lessons take place in the cloakroom because of a lack of space. The

boiler keeps breaking down so fan heaters keep classrooms warm. A

leaky roof is bracing itself for the onset of winter. This school

should be a prime candidate for the Priority School Building but the

head teacher isn't going to apply because she says the new school

building would shrink by 20%. doesn't make sense for the school

building to be smaller when, actually, we are about to take in

more children needing more resources, needing more teachers,

needing more learning support assistance. That size reduction

would seek a special room for autistic children removed, a maths

support area scrapped, and a reduced dining area, but the school

would also have to pay �90,000 every year for 27 years to the

private company that builds new schools. The only way we would have

considered meeting those costs would have been to say, well, we

all have to get rid of three members of stuffed. It is not the

only school not applying for the funds. We had eight primary-school

is on this list and it was a decision by each governing body,

and they all came in turn to the same decision and that the offer of

accommodation was very restricted, but more to the point, the costs of

having to pay for this financial arrangement would be too great and

would actually damage the education of the children. Many schools

across Yorkshire have been rebuilt in recent years as part of the last

programme. Large, airy buildings became the order of the day. They

were expensive so the scheme was scrapped. The Department of

Education says new skills -- new schools will have a good for

purpose-designed and will cost less. Three schools have applied in

Bradford. In one of them, children are taught in a shed. They just

missed out on a new building two years ago and cannot keep up with

the constant need for maintenance. It is not ideal but the current

amount of money we are spending on maintaining the building, the

governors and myself decided it would be the best option.

schools wanting and rebuilt, a difficult choice. Apply for a

smaller building and finished paying for it when these children

are in their 30s, or stick with what you have got and watch the

maintenance bills mount up. Well, Craig Whittaker is the

Conservative MP for Calder Valley. He is also on the Education Select

Committee. So what incentive would schools have to take part in this

new programme? Well, let's make this clear. This

isn't the failed programme we had with the previous government. We're

not talking about atrium auteur the Mexican spaces, but off-the-peg

schools, and for the most dilapidated schools in the country,

like my own school, just did not qualify under the old system. I am

not sure where it comes from that they will lose the 20% of space

because the schools that have applied have only will dent a four

or five-page pro-forma, no business case and we are a long way off the

final decisions. The head teacher of that primary-school that we saw

said to us that she has seen the plan and that she is going to lose

20% and cost them �90,000. The Department of Education told us the

average loss of space is going to be 15%. School spaces will be

reduced compared to what we have been looking at the last programme.

We are not talking about took atriums and all that type of thing

in their. There has to be an economy of scale. I am not sure

what the plans she has seen because they are not available yet. Your

own closest primary-school, they say they have no alternative

because they have dilapidated classrooms. They have been forced

into this situation. This is the only game in town and it has been

going through B f five. The Chancellor announced there is going

to be a full review of it to make it much more transparent, open and

cheaper, so it is a way that our schools potentially are going to

get the money to rebuild this much- needed schools that, quite frankly,

is costing a fortune for councils to repair and maintain. You talk

about costing a fortune. �90,000 the 27 years, that might be all

right for a private school. They haven't even announced what the

process will be apart from the fact they are going to be renegotiated,

they will be much cheaper and transparent and much more open than

the latest -- than the other schemes which were expensive. It is

a way forward of getting those through. If it is an academy, they

will get the extra cash to pay that Bill, but if they are not, that

money will come from local authority is anyway. Thank you for

joining us. Hundreds of mourners lined the

streets of the North Yorkshire town to pay their respects to a young

soldier. Private Matthew Haseldin died in November. He was caught in

a gunfight in Afghanistan and his funeral and burial was held today

in his home village. It is only a small town but

hundreds lined Settle's pavements in silence. Private Matthew

Haseldin was 21 and had been a soldier for less than a year.

very moving. Very moving indeed. They are giving their lives, aren't

they, for us? It was a decent thing that everybody stopped for silence.

So... It was just a sad day. Such a waste. Heart of gold. Really,

really nice lad. At St Alkelda's church in Giggleswick, Private

Matthew Haseldin's body was finally carried home. He was the only child

of his parents. He died when he was caught in gunfire in Helmand. His

commanding officer said he stood firm in the face of editor and

enemy. He gave everything, whatever task, he did it with a smile on his

face, and that was the best thing about him. Nothing was too hard. He

was happy to work hard. We are also proud of Matthew. Even though he

joined the Army just nine months ago, she had -- he has achieved so

much. Selfless commitment, respect for others. Loyalty, integrity,

discipline, and courage. Carried by his friends, Private Matthew

Haseldin was buried privately in Giggleswick's churchyard, sheltered

by the crags this young Yorkshireman called home.

A sad day in the Dales today. Later on Look North:

In remission and looking forward. We catch up with Lauren Hards who's

recovering from a rare form of leukaemia.

A railway worker in charge of one of the busiest level crossings in

Europe near Wakefield has been jailed for three months for being

in a drunken stupor whilst he was working. A district judge said 29-

year-old Peter Singleton had been guilty of a gross breach of duty

because he had the lives of hundreds of people in his hands.

Here's Our Crime Correspondent John Cundy. Peter Singleton's friends

and family did the best to hide him from the cameras as he arrived at

the magistrates' court this afternoon. He had been warned to

expect jail for what happened on 18th October at the crossing in

Crofton. The court heard it is the second busiest crossing in Europe

and that night, he was in a drunken stupor instead of attending the

manually at -- the manual crossing. Today, it was being operated

properly. A very different situation to that night. He was

found passed out in his cabin when he should have been manning is busy

local crossing with 65 trains passing every day, and a passenger

train was stranded up the line when he was found slumped in the chair

in the cabin. He admitted he had drunk 3 pints of cider, putting him

eight times over the limit allowed by Network Rail for anyone on duty.

In a statement today, British Peter Singleton, who had worked for

Network Rail for seven years, was said to have been at a recovering

alcoholic but the judge said his offence was so serious, jail was

inevitable. For what happened at the Crofton crossing, Peter

Singleton Would be dismissed from his job after a disciplinary

hearing. In other news now, and the GMB

Union says it's seriously concerned about the future of 21 care homes

in South Yorkshire which are run by the company Four Seasons. Four of

the care homes used to be operated by Southern Cross but were taken

over when it hit financial difficulties. But the Union say

Four Seasons are now also in trouble after seeing a report by

the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services. Four Seasons

From the GMB perspective, we have a professional obligation to look

after the members of staff that there India, but also a moral

obligation to look after the old and vulnerable in fair. All this

does is caused further concern when both the staff and their residents

thought we were over that. One in four of Yorkshire's young

people have got in a car with someone who'd been drinking or

taking drugs. That is according to the road safety charity Brake, who

are calling for tougher restrictions on new drivers to cut

the number of accidents. It comes at the start of Road Safety Week

and a series of hard hitting road shows aimed at highlighting the

risks of dangerous driving. A young refugee who has been living

in Sheffield for five years has finally won his fight to stay in

the UK. Reza Yousefi was born in Iran after his family fled the

Taliban in Afghanistan. He was refused asylum when he turned 18

and was going to be deported to Afghanistan where he has never

lived. But now a court has given him leave to remain here for five

years. Yorkshire Museum has launched an

appeal to try to keep a pair of 2,000 year old gold bracelets. They

are the only pieces of Iron Age gold jewellery ever found in the

North of England. The museum has four months to raise the money

needed otherwise they will be offered for private sale.

A public meeting is taking place in Sheffield tonight as part of South

Yorkshire Fire Authority's consultation on proposals to cut

jobs and close stations. A reduction in Government funding

could see the loss of 140 fire fighters jobs along with four fire

stations. The authority says it is not backing the plans and will

listen carefully to what the public has to say.

I'll bring you the latest from that meeting on Look North at 10:25pm.

We will get the Fire Service response to union claims that the

cuts will affect their ability to save lives.

Before 7pm: Still to come, we'll have the

weather. And find out why this well-loved

# On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. # On Ilkla

Now, you remember the story of Lauren Hards, who contracted a rare

form of leukaemia as a teenager. We followed her intensive treatment

over several months. Well, it is a year since she had her bone marrow

transplant. And the great news is that she is

now in remission and has come back to speak to us. But first, our

health correspondent Penny Bustin can remind us of Lauren's journey.

We first met Lauren last November. I had been told that I might die.

Her rare Whitney had not responded to drugs. A transplant was the only

hope. I would say that the chances would be around 70%. I am very

hopeful that we're on the Pat way to success. The first step was a

week of intensive chemotherapy, followed by intense body

radiotherapy. Then, looking just like an ordinary bank of what, the

precious bone marrow donated by a stranger arrived. I am nervous and

excited. Somebody's sell to you. -- somebody said it smells like sweet

corn. There was no smell. In just over two hours, the transponder was

complete. Then the effects of the radiation and chemotherapy began to

take their toll. It did not realise my mouth would be this bad. I have

been moved on to liquidate and they are hard to swallow, as well as the

it tabloid ones. That has anti- sickness and a morphine. Weeks and

isolation followed, but she still managed to pick up an infection.

The drugs that she had to tackle that made her sick and very low.

Nine weeks after the transplant, she was allowed home. She was back

in with pneumonia over the summer and a susceptibility to illness

lingers on. But thanks to the kind donation by a stranger, she is now

officially in remission. Well, a little earlier, fresh from

another short stay in St James's, Lauren came into the studio. There

was one burning question on our lips.

The first question is, how are you now? I have been doing really well

I have had a few trips to hospital. I had pneumonia a few months ago

and I thought I would die from that. I was in hospital this weekend,

with a bit of a stomach bug. Apart from that, I feel really well.

is you one year ago. Does it seem like a long time ago? It does feel

like a long time ago. I cannot believe the difference. I have

gotten so used to feeling ill all the time, I had forgotten what it

feels like to be normal. You are also making plans for the future.

The do wanted to be a nurse before you are sick and you are still

planning to do that. I want to do that more than ever now. After

having everyone looked after me for so long and I have always wanted to

look after other people. I just want to help other people. You are

doing voluntary work already. With young people? It is a mixture with

people with learning disabilities. I had started doing that once a

week. Even that takes all my energy at the moment. I do not want to

overdo it. You have a lot more decisions to make in the future,

not least of all you want to have a family. Obviously, the radiation

will make that difficult for you. What does that word remission sound

like to you? It does not feel real because I have not had a lot of

good happens -- things happen in my life and date have to pinch myself.

I am just really, really happy for estoppel we saw in the film that

this was an anonymous donor. I am sure they will remain anonymous,

but if they were out there, what would you say to them to back the

have given me the best present anyone could ever give me and I

would like to get in touch with them and meet up with them at some

point. It is in the lesson for us is to

donate if you were well enough because you can make someone else

well, like you. If someone isn't a car crash or a fire, you try and

help them. I think people should try and help if people need blood

or bone marrow. It is quite a simple procedure to get on The

Register and you can save someone's life. You are looking so well.

Thank you for letting us follow your story. We will continue to do

A man in the supermarket said to me that I never brought into use, well,

there you are. Let's turn to sport now.

The Super League season might only just be over, but there is already

an important date for us to put in the diary for next year, whichever

team you support. It has been confirmed that the

World Club Challenge between Leeds Rhinos and Manly, the Aussie

Champions, will take place in this country. And Leeds will have home

advantage, at Headingley, no less. It should be quite a clash, on

Friday 17th February. But what it definitely will not be is a

practice game. We would be regarded as the best club side in the world.

By no in the past, both from experience and just watching it,

that so much join clubs come over and tried to play it down, talking

about it being a warm-up game. Don't let them cagey. They want to

win it. We have seen them dressing up to play it down, but I had seen

the look in their eyes when they have lost.

Rotherham's World Cup final referee, Howard Webb, is now Dr Webb. He has

been given an honorary doctorate by Sheffield Hallam University. He has

close links with the staff there, who helped him in the run up to the

2010 World Cup final. I am a sports psychologist -- the sports

psychologist that works with all the Premier League refugee --

referees works here. He has been very helpful. There was also some

acclimatisation work that we did here.

Ball is coming very soon. Yes, that was Sam! -- Paul is coming. That

was him! If I asked you what was Yorkshire's

musical anthem what would you say? On Ilkley Moor Bah'tat, of course!

You may say so, but it seems many youngsters simply have not heard of

it. So now a Leeds MP is backing a campaign to get the song taught to

children in Yorkshire's schools. Greg Mulholland tabled a motion in

the house of Commons today. Ian White's been to Ilkley to see just

how well know the song is. -- known. # Wheear 'ast tha bin sin' ah saw

thee, ah saw thee? # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at.

Forgot his hat. It is a song about a courting cuppa -- it is a song

about a courting couple and the man who forgot his hat. It is in danger

of dying out, but there is a campaign to preserve it. This music

teacher once the song tot at all schools in Yorkshire as a matter of

course. Young people that I tore it did not know the tune or the words

to it. -- that I tot. -- taught. The campaign has grown, with even

the local MP backing it. I think the song or encapsulates that sense

of Yorkshire. It has everything in there. I think it is just just

really important that we keep the traditions alive. At this school in

Leeds today, students have a chance to learn the song. # Wheear 'ast

tha bin sin' ah saw thee, ah saw thee?

# On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. So how well to the people of Ilkley

actually know the song? I have come here to get Ilkley singing. We are

from Brazil, on holiday. So you do not bother song? Knoll, we do not.

-- no, we don't. # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. # On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at.

# On Ilkla Mooar baht 'at. A big round of applause!

We have been singing it in the office.

There is frost tonight and a lovely This was son said just outside

Otley. -- sunset. A bit of a shock to the system tonight. Seasonal

frost and then tomorrow looks much brighter with sunshine. Next week

looks more cold. Right now, he saw that sunset in Leeds right at the

top of the programme. It is largely career -- clear across parts of

Yorkshire. Long, clear periods with some mistiness across eastern

periods which will not last. The sun rises at 747 -- 7:47am. Bright

and breezy tomorrow. At times, the Pennines might cloud over and

certainly the Yorkshire Dales could be at risk of some rain. There will