:00:10. > :00:15.Welcome back. It is great to be back.
:00:15. > :00:22.Leeds students are targeted by a masked gang, seven attacks in just
:00:22. > :00:28.30 minutes. A gang of between 10 and 20 masked
:00:29. > :00:33.youths ran for about 50 yards away. Police are called in to a primary
:00:33. > :00:37.school. Parents and teachers condemn be BNP after they get
:00:37. > :00:42.involved in a sex education row. Who will win Yorkshire's biggest
:00:42. > :00:47.modern art prize? Some pleasant sunshine in Catcliffe
:00:47. > :00:56.today and it looks like as if there should be sunshine tomorrow. Your
:00:56. > :01:01.five-day forecast coming up shortly. Good evening and welcome to look
:01:01. > :01:07.north. There is concern amongst the student population in Leeds after
:01:07. > :01:10.10 young people were attacked and robbed by her -- a gang of masked
:01:10. > :01:15.men in the university area of Leeds last night.
:01:15. > :01:19.They were attacked in seven different such -- places with in
:01:19. > :01:27.half an hour. How safe is a Leeds for our students? One father has
:01:27. > :01:33.told us he is taking his son home because he fears for his safety.
:01:33. > :01:38.Ian White is live in Leeds. I think it is fair to say that this
:01:38. > :01:43.is a community in shock. I have been in the little London area of
:01:43. > :01:47.Leeds and it has been a really nice sunny day, friendly atmosphere, but
:01:47. > :01:51.they are terrified tonight, some of the students, after what happened
:01:51. > :01:55.last night. The latest attacks happened last
:01:55. > :02:00.night in the little London area not far from the leaves university
:02:00. > :02:06.campus. For a gang of men wearing balaclavas carried out violent
:02:06. > :02:10.robberies on these seven streets between 8pm and 8:30pm. Some of the
:02:10. > :02:17.victims needed hospital treatment and were too scared to be
:02:17. > :02:26.identified on camera. A gang of between 10 and 20 masked youths
:02:26. > :02:31.just ran for about 50 yards away and we got encircled. -- from about.
:02:31. > :02:37.They were asking for my phone at first and then, before I could do
:02:37. > :02:41.anything, I got hit on the back of the head and thrown to the floor.
:02:41. > :02:48.woman and another man stood there and she had come around the corner
:02:48. > :02:57.and seen them being attack -- attacked. She said she had called
:02:57. > :03:02.the police and the attackers fled. There was blood all over the man's
:03:02. > :03:04.face. One victim's father drove from Coventry this morning to
:03:04. > :03:09.demand the police and Leeds University do more to protect
:03:09. > :03:13.students. He was jumped by 20 people last
:03:13. > :03:18.night, including stamping on his head. He could have got a brain
:03:18. > :03:22.damage. I would rather he was home and safe than in this environment.
:03:22. > :03:27.It follows a spate of attacks on Bonfire Night. But police say
:03:27. > :03:32.people should not be worried. This is an isolated incident, not a
:03:32. > :03:42.nightly occurrence. Whatever reason this gang. Together, we want to
:03:42. > :03:46.find out, but this is not a nightly occurrence. -- this gang got
:03:46. > :03:50.together. With this series of attacks,
:03:50. > :03:53.obviously it was unprecedented. We enhanced security after the Bonfire
:03:53. > :03:58.Night attacks and we have enhanced it further.
:03:58. > :04:05.But students we spoke to today say they are still worried.
:04:05. > :04:10.I heard they were using screwdrivers and other implements.
:04:10. > :04:18.You can't tell people not to be worried. It is affecting people's
:04:18. > :04:24.education because they don't want to go to university and go out. It
:04:24. > :04:30.has really changed the atmosphere. I think those views sum up most of
:04:30. > :04:35.the views of the students I have spoken to today. You are the head
:04:35. > :04:43.of security at Leeds University, you have a real job on your hands.
:04:43. > :04:48.What are you going to do? We have increased the security force from
:04:48. > :04:53.38 up to 44 people. You saw the control room earlier. We are going
:04:53. > :05:00.to be increasing the coverage of those cameras, they currently cover
:05:00. > :05:03.the cavernous -- Campus... Will that be enough? In conjunction with
:05:03. > :05:10.the partners we have, with West Yorkshire Police, we will ensure
:05:10. > :05:14.that the actions we take will mean that we can look after our students.
:05:14. > :05:20.Jamie is a local councillor. Obviously people are very worried.
:05:20. > :05:25.Is this a very bad area? Not at all. This is not the area that we know
:05:25. > :05:30.and love and feel safe in. This is a very difficult problem we have
:05:30. > :05:34.ahead of us. We have to get around the table with the police, the
:05:34. > :05:39.council and politicians and crack this. People say they are
:05:39. > :05:43.frightened to leave their homes. Understandably everybody will be
:05:43. > :05:48.worried because this is a freak incident. I want to reassure people
:05:48. > :05:56.that things are not that bad. Be safe, be aware of what is around
:05:56. > :06:03.you and take precautions, don't go out alone. Are the measures put in
:06:03. > :06:08.place by the University enough? They are doing a fantastic job, and
:06:08. > :06:11.the police as well are making sure this does not continue for a long
:06:11. > :06:19.time. West Yorkshire Police are appealing for witnesses and
:06:19. > :06:23.information. We will bring you more on this story at 10:25pm.
:06:23. > :06:28.We will be looking ahead to an urgent meeting that has been called
:06:28. > :06:31.for tomorrow to discuss the attacks and finding out how students out
:06:31. > :06:34.and about tonight have been reacting.
:06:34. > :06:39.Police have been called to a Sheffield primary school after the
:06:39. > :06:42.far-right British National Party be -- became involved in a row about
:06:42. > :06:49.teaching sex education to children as young as four.
:06:49. > :06:53.Grenoside Primary is consulting with parents about the lessons, but
:06:53. > :06:59.the BNP has threatened to take action if the school decides it
:06:59. > :07:03.will go ahead with the lessons. A police presence at a primary
:07:03. > :07:07.school after a debate about sex education spelled out to the wider
:07:07. > :07:13.community. Grenoside Primary is thinking of offering sex and
:07:13. > :07:17.relationship lessons to all classes. Four to fight year-olds would be
:07:17. > :07:22.taught about how animals and humans and reproduce. Six to seven year-
:07:22. > :07:27.olds would learn about same-sex relationships. Some of the parents
:07:27. > :07:33.are unhappy, especially as it is not compulsory in all primary
:07:33. > :07:36.schools. Now the BNP has waded in. It has sent a letter to the
:07:36. > :07:41.headteacher given him 14 days to drop the plans for further action
:07:41. > :07:46.will be taken. Some parents are concerned it has gone too far.
:07:46. > :07:53.There are a variety of views, which is fine, but there is a right way
:07:53. > :08:00.and the wrong way to express these things. It is disgusting. I feel
:08:00. > :08:04.disgust with the BNP. I think it is all blown out of proportion. This
:08:04. > :08:08.video has been shown in other schools around Sheffield for a
:08:09. > :08:15.number of years. They need to know stuff, but does it need to be that
:08:15. > :08:24.early? The members of the BNP leaflet aimed at the school were
:08:24. > :08:29.not local. We asked to speak to their branch but they refuse to.
:08:29. > :08:33.They said that teaching said Judge patient to six-year-old was a basic
:08:33. > :08:43.agenda. They said that they would stand up for the innocence of
:08:43. > :08:46.
:08:46. > :08:52.Whilst the school and parents make a decision, South Yorkshire Police
:08:52. > :08:57.say they will continue to offer support.
:08:57. > :09:01.How unusual is it for children of this age to be taught sex education
:09:02. > :09:08.in school? Shirldon Barthelmy is a sex education out reach worker who
:09:08. > :09:15.goes into schools to train teachers about how to talk to children. How
:09:15. > :09:19.unusual is that? It is not that unusual to talk to children as
:09:19. > :09:25.young as five and six about their bodies and how as humans we
:09:25. > :09:30.reproduce. It is not unusual at all. It is something I do all the time
:09:30. > :09:35.with children in primary school and secondary school. They would be
:09:35. > :09:42.looking at the differences between animals and humans reproduce. Can
:09:42. > :09:49.four year-olds take that in? Children are inquisitive. If they
:09:49. > :09:54.see differences they will ask about them. If you have assign, as a
:09:54. > :09:58.woman, and you go to the bathroom, and he follows you, which children
:09:58. > :10:03.often do, he will see that money has something different to what he
:10:03. > :10:10.has and he will ask questions. The simple way to answer that is, I am
:10:10. > :10:14.a boy and you are a girl. I personally do not go into in depth
:10:14. > :10:18.detail, that is not what it is supposed to be about. Sex education
:10:18. > :10:23.for children is talking to them in appropriate words for them to
:10:23. > :10:28.understand, not going into debt, talking about what sex is, it is
:10:29. > :10:33.talking about parts of the body, relationships and friendships. That
:10:33. > :10:40.is how we as humans reproduce, which is really important. They do
:10:40. > :10:44.ask, how do we get here, how does mummy have a baby? How does the
:10:44. > :10:50.baby come out? It is nothing that we don't do already, it is whether
:10:50. > :10:56.or not we decide to answer those questions or ignore them. I have to
:10:56. > :11:02.say that was very well put but this subject does cause deep division,
:11:02. > :11:06.doesn't it? It is very emotive. does. I think part of the reason is
:11:06. > :11:12.the word sex. If we took the word sex out and called it something
:11:12. > :11:15.else, I am not so sure that people would be so up in arms. That word
:11:15. > :11:19.sends people into a frenzy and makes people think, this is what
:11:19. > :11:24.you are going to be talking to my children about. When I have done
:11:24. > :11:29.talks with parents and said, this is what we are covering in terms of
:11:29. > :11:35.sex and relationship work, by the end of the sessions the parents are
:11:35. > :11:40.quite happy and OK. It is the word sex which makes people get a bit
:11:40. > :11:45.scared about what is going to be said. Thank you very much for
:11:45. > :11:50.explaining the role you have. Later on the programme...
:11:50. > :11:56.A man of the people - we get to meet the Yorkshire unsung sporting
:11:56. > :11:59.hero chosen by you. It is in common use in the States
:11:59. > :12:04.but until now it has not been available in this country. It is
:12:05. > :12:08.hoped it will improve the treatment of patients with brain tumours. New
:12:08. > :12:11.brain imaging technology has been brought to Sheffield's Royal
:12:11. > :12:16.Hallamshire Hospital thanks to the generosity of local charity,
:12:16. > :12:21.Neurocare. The charity costs more than �30,000
:12:21. > :12:31.and it measures the growth rate of brain tumours, allowing surgeons to
:12:31. > :12:31.
:12:31. > :12:36.identify any changes early. Nick has had an inoperable low-
:12:36. > :12:42.grade brain tumour for five years. When symptoms got worse in July, he
:12:42. > :12:48.had six weeks of daily radiotherapy. Today he came for an end are wry
:12:48. > :12:51.scan to see if the tumour had shrunk. Analysing the scans relies
:12:51. > :13:00.on the skill and experience of the clinical team. Until now it has
:13:00. > :13:06.been done by visual assessment, which can this subtle changes. --
:13:06. > :13:12.miss. Earlier this morning he heard his results. I am pleased to say
:13:12. > :13:20.that following the radiotherapy the tumour does seem to have shrunk
:13:20. > :13:27.down. That is unbelievable. This is the scan from July and this is the
:13:27. > :13:36.current scan. It has shrunk considerably. It is incredible. It
:13:36. > :13:46.is a dream come true. All of these years with a tumour and... I am
:13:46. > :13:51.
:13:51. > :13:56.speechless. I think I will be crying all night. Thank you so much.
:13:56. > :14:02.But then, using the new software, the medical physics team can look
:14:02. > :14:08.in greater depth at Nick's Sue and to demonstrate how good the news is.
:14:08. > :14:12.Her these are the images from today and these are the images from July.
:14:12. > :14:17.We have been able to subtract the images from each other and the
:14:17. > :14:22.difference, shown in blue, it represents the area of shrinkage of
:14:22. > :14:29.the tumour that we can see using this volume data. Otherwise it is
:14:29. > :14:33.much more difficult to accurately quantified. Therefore we can start
:14:33. > :14:38.some kind of treatment, either surgery or radiotherapy, earlier
:14:39. > :14:43.than perhaps we would have been able to do previously. Before his
:14:43. > :14:53.illness Nick had donated to Neurocare. His good news today may
:14:53. > :14:57.be some pain knack for their Yorkist to get another big wheel.
:14:57. > :15:01.In the last hour, the council has approved plans from the company
:15:01. > :15:04.behind the previous wheel at the National Railway Museum. The new
:15:04. > :15:07.attraction is 53 metres high and could be running in just three
:15:07. > :15:11.weeks in the gardens of the Royal York Hotel.
:15:11. > :15:15.A Tesco supermarket will be built in Harrogate after the Government
:15:15. > :15:19.decided not to review the planning application. The proposals for the
:15:19. > :15:23.site on Skipton Road were voted through by councillors in September,
:15:23. > :15:28.but have met local opposition. The Secretary of State Eric Pickles has
:15:28. > :15:32.backed the decision. A �30 million refurbishment of the
:15:32. > :15:36.Leeds Merrion Centre has been given the go-ahead. The proposals include
:15:36. > :15:41.new shops, restaurants and a revamped multi-storey car park. The
:15:41. > :15:44.project is expected to be completed in 20th March 13th and will create
:15:44. > :15:48.around 200 jobs. A group of Yorkshire war veterans
:15:48. > :15:52.has travelled to London to campaign for equal pension rights. Ex-
:15:52. > :15:56.service personnel who retired before 1975 are not currently
:15:56. > :16:00.entitled to a pension. The veterans held placards representing the
:16:00. > :16:05.number of soldiers who have died during various British conflicts.
:16:05. > :16:09.We want all pensioners to be treated equally, all ex-service
:16:09. > :16:13.pensioners to be treated equally with pro rata pensions. We want the
:16:13. > :16:20.Government to change the law so that this can happen.
:16:20. > :16:30.Coming up before seven, a feast for the eyes - we profile the finalists
:16:30. > :16:32.
:16:32. > :16:35.in this year's Northern Art Prize. We are excited about this. As part
:16:35. > :16:39.of the BBC's Sports Personality Of The Year Awards, a move we wanted
:16:39. > :16:43.to hear about the people who give up their time to get others
:16:43. > :16:46.involved in sport. This year's winner has given nearly 30 years of
:16:46. > :16:54.his life to get in young children fit while teaching them about rugby
:16:54. > :16:58.league. "Rocky" Whitehead has come into the studio with his trophy. We
:16:58. > :17:07.will hear from him in a moment. First, Ian Bucknell went to see the
:17:07. > :17:13.man in action. # I like to move it, move it. We
:17:13. > :17:18.like to move it! Give yourselves another clap. These three to five-
:17:18. > :17:21.year-old children are happy to turn up for training on a cold autumn
:17:21. > :17:31.night because Stephen "Rocky" Whitehead makes it fun. He puts a
:17:31. > :17:34.lot of his enthusiasm into his teaching. Off we go. Parents and
:17:34. > :17:42.grandparents are also here, and a treasure the work he does with
:17:42. > :17:45.their children. It seems to get them engaged. They love it. All the
:17:45. > :17:49.parents watch on the sidelines and we are amazed at how he can keep
:17:49. > :17:55.them quiet and then detained for an hour in the freezing November
:17:55. > :17:59.weather. Can everybody see how she is holding it? Rocky has coached
:17:59. > :18:04.kids at this rugby league club for 27 years. He started when his own
:18:04. > :18:08.children joined, and calls his current crop Rocky's giants.
:18:08. > :18:16.would not do it if he did not enjoy it. It is for the well-being of the
:18:16. > :18:20.kids. And I enjoy it that much that I will be here till the end.
:18:20. > :18:25.training sessions always finish with him handing out trophies. So
:18:25. > :18:32.it seems only fitting that now it is his turn to pick up an award.
:18:32. > :18:40."Rocky", how did you get that name? It will be in the book at a later
:18:40. > :18:46.date. You do remind me of Sylvester Stallone. Yeah. And how it doesn't
:18:46. > :18:56.look like a television presenter. What do you mean? Lovely to have
:18:56. > :19:02.you back. You involve yourself with three-year-olds. Three, four and
:19:02. > :19:10.five-year-olds. How quickly can you notice if you have a potential good
:19:10. > :19:15.one? That usually comes a bit later. All I am interested in at three,
:19:15. > :19:20.four and five is a bit of hand-eye co-ordination, enjoying it, self-
:19:20. > :19:25.esteem and being part of a team. When they get older, that is for
:19:25. > :19:29.the coaches above me. I just want to see a big smile on their face
:19:29. > :19:38.and see them enjoying themselves. I want them to come back the week
:19:38. > :19:48.after. You are probably wearing the club tie and the club blazer.
:19:48. > :19:50.
:19:50. > :19:56.It is part of my life. You are very trendy. It is just about enjoyment.
:19:56. > :20:01.Kids are very honest. They see through you. If you genuinely like
:20:01. > :20:10.the kids and they can see it, that is when they come back the week
:20:10. > :20:15.after. Keep up with the times. is a grey area for rugby league.
:20:15. > :20:21.Actually, we are a mile from Castleford and a mile from Leeds
:20:21. > :20:26.and a mile from my club, Trinity Wildcats. So we welcome anybody to
:20:26. > :20:33.come. There are four lads playing in Superleague now that started
:20:33. > :20:37.with us. You must be tough, because you are called Rocky. What did your
:20:37. > :20:44.wife say to you before you came on the telly tonight? She said,
:20:44. > :20:53.whatever you do, make sure your classes are clean. -- your glasses
:20:53. > :20:59.are clean. The make-up lady cleaned them. And you promised to waver.
:20:59. > :21:07.must wave to the kids. Guys, that is for you. When is your next
:21:07. > :21:13.training session? Next Monday. We train on a Monday evening. And by
:21:13. > :21:17.coach football on a Tuesday with my grandson. Cricket on a Wednesday.
:21:17. > :21:25.hope you do well on the Sports Personality Of The Year Awards.
:21:26. > :21:29.December 22nd. Lovely to meet you. Thank you for your support.
:21:29. > :21:34.It is loan transfer deadline today and among the movers, James Beattie
:21:34. > :21:37.has rejoined Sheffield United on a short-term deal until mid-January.
:21:37. > :21:41.Defender Alex bridge has moved from Leeds Utd to Huddersfield on a two-
:21:41. > :21:46.month loan. And Doncaster Rovers have brought in another Premier
:21:46. > :21:49.League player. They have completed the signing of West Brom striker
:21:49. > :21:54.Marc-Antoine Fortune. He will move to the key motor until January 1st.
:21:54. > :21:58.The opening of the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield has put Yorkshire on
:21:58. > :22:00.the international artistic map, and the region get another boost
:22:00. > :22:06.tomorrow, then the Northern Art Prize Show opens at Leeds City Art
:22:06. > :22:10.Gallery. The prize is in its fifth year, and four artists have been
:22:10. > :22:20.shortlisted. We will concentrate on two of them tonight and the
:22:20. > :22:24.
:22:24. > :22:30.remaining two next week. The Northern Art Prize is our
:22:30. > :22:33.region's answer to the Turner Prize. �20,000 is at stake, and the
:22:33. > :22:38.winning artist will be announced in January. I have had a quick scoot
:22:38. > :22:46.around. Some of it is beautiful, some of it is baffling. None of it
:22:46. > :22:50.is boring. Let's take a closer look. This is the work of an artist from
:22:50. > :22:54.Huddersfield. Her work starts with an idea or emotion which she then
:22:54. > :23:00.tries to express visually. The starting point for these pieces was
:23:00. > :23:05.loss. It is about that moment when you don't have something any more.
:23:05. > :23:11.You have either got rid of it or lost it or mislaid it. And it is
:23:11. > :23:17.that moment when you remember. I would like people to come away
:23:17. > :23:21.asking questions. This piece was inspired by Victorian sampling,
:23:21. > :23:26.made by a woman called Elizabeth. It is a confessional. In it, she
:23:26. > :23:33.describes herself as a miserable object. Here is a modern reworking
:23:33. > :23:38.made of wax. It is called Miserable Object. James is the first painter
:23:38. > :23:46.to make the shortlist. His abstracts may look random, but they
:23:46. > :23:51.are anything but. He prods them rigidly in a notebook first. -- he
:23:51. > :23:58.plods them. If you can imagine a composer writing a score for a
:23:58. > :24:03.piece of music, it is similar to that. In this notebook, I write
:24:03. > :24:09.down all the different positions that the colours will go. I do not
:24:09. > :24:16.know exactly what it will look like at all. But I follow a precise
:24:16. > :24:21.method. You just have to marvel at these. Each one takes a year to May,
:24:21. > :24:31.and consists of 55,000 precise strokes of colour. The exhibition
:24:31. > :24:35.is free and open to all. Prepare to stretch your mind.
:24:35. > :24:39.Paul, you have got your ally back. I have been fighting this battle
:24:39. > :24:43.for two and a half months while you have been away. I have not said a
:24:43. > :24:52.bad word. You have been well behaved. Did you get the red carpet
:24:52. > :25:01.vacuum at? I did. And the champagne you promised me. You look ten years
:25:01. > :25:11.I have two nice pictures for you. One is of Harry's favourite place,
:25:11. > :25:24.
:25:24. > :25:29.Scarborough. And this is the second The headline for tomorrow is that
:25:29. > :25:34.there will be a colder feel in the air, but plenty of sunshine and a
:25:34. > :25:38.few showers following in from the West. It is a big change compared
:25:38. > :25:44.with what we have had through November. This system is likely to
:25:44. > :25:49.bring gales on Sunday. It is winding itself up for a traditional
:25:49. > :25:53.windy spell of weather. Next week will turn colder. There could be
:25:53. > :25:58.snow over the tops of the hills in the next few days, but in the short
:25:58. > :26:01.term, it is quite mild. This weatherfront will bring rain in
:26:02. > :26:10.from the West later tonight. Ahead of it, the wind will strengthen
:26:10. > :26:14.further. There is a strong and gusty south-westerly wind. The
:26:14. > :26:24.outbreaks of rain should be out of the way by first thing tomorrow
:26:24. > :26:28.
:26:28. > :26:33.morning. Temperatures will be quite chilly. It looks like it will be a
:26:33. > :26:38.beautiful start to the day. Lots of blue sky and unbroken sunshine. But
:26:38. > :26:41.by the end of the morning, there is a band of showers pushing him from
:26:41. > :26:51.the north-west to the south-east. As they move across us, they will
:26:51. > :26:53.
:26:53. > :26:58.tend to fizzle out. The breeze will feel colder tomorrow. These
:26:58. > :27:03.temperatures are average for the time of year. It will be a windy
:27:03. > :27:09.weekend, with patchy rain across the Dales on Saturday. Otherwise,
:27:09. > :27:15.mostly dry. A lot of fine weather on Sunday. He must have been
:27:15. > :27:21.missing you, because he bought me a cup of tea one day.
:27:21. > :27:25.Thank you to all Look North viewers. You have been fantastic. And to you.
:27:25. > :27:30.I only thought the operation went wrong when Paul was there just
:27:30. > :27:37.after I woke up from my anaesthetic. But to everyone at St James's