:00:26. > :00:30.By heart patients across Britain could benefit from research carried
:00:30. > :00:35.out in Yorkshire. And the gymnast whose career was
:00:35. > :00:45.also up -- almost ended by injury. What a #ColourWhite and miserable
:00:45. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :00:58.day. -- wet. Your Christmas And join me live in a Sheffield pub
:00:58. > :01:04.where we are live with any festive tradition with a twist. Festive
:01:04. > :01:10.carols, up with the words unique to Sheffield. We will have a Christmas
:01:10. > :01:13.song in 25 minutes. A city councillor has been jailed
:01:13. > :01:19.for what was described as unimaginable cruelty to cats and
:01:19. > :01:22.kittens at his home in Keighley. Police found appalling scenes, with
:01:22. > :01:28.cancer butchered and there remains scattered around Robert Payne's
:01:28. > :01:32.house. Payne, who last week resigned from Bradford City Council,
:01:33. > :01:37.will serve six months. 36-year-old Robert Payne, a man
:01:37. > :01:45.with a drink problem and a past conviction for tax fraud. His
:01:45. > :01:48.excuse for his bestial behaviour to cats, I am so angry about something.
:01:48. > :01:53.When police and RSPCA officials went to his house in Keighley, they
:01:53. > :01:58.were met with a scene of unimaginable cruelty and horror.
:01:58. > :02:01.They could not tell exactly how many caps Payne had butchered but
:02:01. > :02:07.some had been dreadfully dismembered and three kittens were
:02:07. > :02:12.found dead in his fridge. In the past eight years, Chris has rescued
:02:12. > :02:21.and we home to more than 1,300 cats and kittens at her charity Nikkei
:02:21. > :02:27.three. -- are given homes too. It is absolutely abhorrent to me. I
:02:27. > :02:33.will never understand wilful cruelty to an animal. It is just
:02:33. > :02:38.totally unacceptable. Robert Payne had represented the Keith Lee West
:02:38. > :02:42.ward on Bradford City Council for more than three years. Average in
:02:42. > :02:49.the a conservative, he left the group in September last year after
:02:49. > :02:52.being found guilty every tax fraud. He finally quit the council
:02:52. > :02:57.altogether last week. The way he has behaved is absolutely
:02:57. > :03:00.outrageous. Such obvious, deliberate and malicious cruelty to
:03:00. > :03:06.animals that can't defend themselves is, in my view,
:03:06. > :03:12.extremely sick and is certainly not the behaviour we would expect from
:03:12. > :03:15.anybody in public life. What should he have done, given his history, as
:03:15. > :03:20.far as the council is concerned? The day he was convicted of fraud,
:03:20. > :03:24.he should have resigned from the council. Robert Payne will be
:03:24. > :03:29.banned for life from keeping pets, after a judge said the public would
:03:29. > :03:33.be revolted by the former councillor's behaviour. Meanwhile,
:03:33. > :03:42.cats like these are only too grateful that their stories of
:03:42. > :03:45.abandonment have had a much happier ending.
:03:45. > :03:50.Medical research carried out in Leeds could change the way heart
:03:50. > :03:54.patients are treated across the NHS. A major five-year trial by Leeds
:03:54. > :04:03.University has shown that an ordinary MRI scan is more accurate
:04:03. > :04:07.and less invasive as a way to diagnose cardiac problems than the
:04:07. > :04:14.methods currently in use. Heart disease is the leading cause of
:04:14. > :04:18.death and disability. OK, let me show you your heart. You
:04:18. > :04:23.can see the muscles contracting and thickening. This man gets a close-
:04:23. > :04:27.up of his heart from the outside in. He was one of the 750 people
:04:27. > :04:33.recruited to the Leeds trial when he arrived at hospital with chest
:04:33. > :04:37.pains. He first had an MRI scan for comparison, and then the commonly
:04:37. > :04:44.used in nuclear scan and then an angiogram. He starts, curiously,
:04:44. > :04:49.with a tube being inserted in your groin which works its way through
:04:49. > :04:53.your body. The MRI scan is really nothing. You lay down on a
:04:53. > :04:57.comfortable bed, you are rolled into a machine which makes noises
:04:57. > :05:04.and that is it. I would imagine that pretty much anybody would
:05:04. > :05:09.prefer to be in an MRI machine than have an angiogram. An M R Wright -
:05:09. > :05:14.a magnetic resonance image - uses a he's strong magnetic field to
:05:14. > :05:17.measure water content and the body's tissues. It is much safer
:05:17. > :05:22.than the ionising radiation involved in current testing methods.
:05:22. > :05:27.The study has shown that magnetic resonance imaging is a very
:05:27. > :05:32.accurate rate of diagnosing patients with heart disease. It is
:05:32. > :05:36.actually better than the standard test of nuclear perfusion imaging,
:05:36. > :05:39.so this would translate, potentially, into saving some
:05:40. > :05:46.patients having invasive tests that they might not actually need. The
:05:46. > :05:50.patient benefit if they don't need an internal invasive test. But also,
:05:50. > :05:54.if we can avoid doing that test, it is very good value for money for
:05:54. > :05:59.the NHS, because during invasive angiogram tests is very expensive.
:05:59. > :06:06.The other benefit is that the tests can be carried out on the standard
:06:06. > :06:10.MRI scanner already found in most hospitals.
:06:10. > :06:14.Stay with us tonight. On the last Friday before Christmas, travellers
:06:14. > :06:21.are warned not to get too drunk as the ambulance service prepares for
:06:21. > :06:24.a frantic night ahead. West Yorkshire Police are
:06:24. > :06:28.continuing their search for a couple who have taken two young
:06:29. > :06:36.children. Officers say true Lankan nationals Mohammed Fayzed and
:06:36. > :06:41.Shikiri Wahab have broken a court order and unlawfully taken a nine-
:06:41. > :06:45.year-old Gil and a two-year-old boy, following a visit at a property in
:06:45. > :06:48.Leeds yesterday afternoon. Police say they need to speak to the pair
:06:48. > :06:52.urgently. A karate instructor from York has
:06:52. > :06:56.been found guilty of sex offences against a 13-year-old goal. Liam
:06:56. > :07:02.O'Grady, who is 30 and from Osbaldwick, is a former karate
:07:02. > :07:06.champion. He was found guilty of meeting a child following sexual
:07:06. > :07:09.grooming and three counts of sexual activity with the child. He will be
:07:09. > :07:13.sentenced next month. More bottles of counterfeit vodka
:07:13. > :07:17.have been seized by trading standards officers. 40 shops and
:07:17. > :07:21.Doncaster were raided early this week and more than 60 bottles of
:07:21. > :07:25.fake wines and spirits, including Drop vodka, were recovered. People
:07:26. > :07:29.are being asked not to drink it because it may be harmful.
:07:29. > :07:34.127 staff at the Yorkshire-based Barratts Priceless group have lost
:07:34. > :07:40.their jobs today as 18 stores closed for the very last time. The
:07:40. > :07:44.group is closing five Barratts and 13 Priceless shops. Workers at the
:07:44. > :07:47.Bradford headquarters have also lost their jobs. The company went
:07:47. > :07:51.into administration earlier this month, citing difficult economic
:07:51. > :07:55.circumstances. Very shocked when they were told on Saturday morning
:07:55. > :07:59.that Monday would be their last day. Very upsetting to speak to the
:07:59. > :08:03.staff this morning. Tears at this time of the year. They have had a
:08:03. > :08:05.good bond with the rest of the shops inside the centre and the
:08:05. > :08:08.staff, so they will be greatly missed.
:08:08. > :08:12.While most of us are looking forward to a break from work, spare
:08:12. > :08:16.a thought for the emergency services who do not get the time
:08:16. > :08:19.off. And if we are talking about the ambulance service, it is the
:08:19. > :08:24.busiest time of the year for them. Tonight is what they commonly
:08:24. > :08:27.called Mad Friday. It has already been a really busy week. In the
:08:27. > :08:32.last seven days, the Yorkshire Ambulance Service has dealt with
:08:32. > :08:36.more than 14,000 emergency incidents. Compared with a typical
:08:36. > :08:40.winter week, that is over 1000 more incidents than usual. In fact, it
:08:40. > :08:44.is an increase in their workload of just over 9%. To tell us why they
:08:44. > :08:48.are not looking forward to tonight is the associate medical director
:08:48. > :08:52.for the Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Dr David Macklin. This is not a
:08:52. > :08:56.good night for the ambulance service, is it? No, it will be
:08:56. > :09:01.extremely busy for us tonight. Mad Friday is one of the busiest nights
:09:01. > :09:03.of the year Fonda and services across the country. Many people
:09:03. > :09:09.have finished work and will be going out enjoying themselves,
:09:09. > :09:13.having a drink, and while we want people to have a drink and and joy
:09:13. > :09:17.themselves -- enjoy themselves, we would ask them to drink sensibly.
:09:17. > :09:22.You guys do a fantastic drop but then you are subjected in many
:09:22. > :09:28.cases to violence. So you need the police to protect you? -- do a
:09:28. > :09:31.fantastic job. Alcohol-fuelled incidents that result in violence
:09:31. > :09:36.and aggression to our staff are much more common in these times. We
:09:36. > :09:46.have a zero-tolerance approach to violence against a staff and always
:09:46. > :09:48.involve police. We have innovative ways of dealing with it now. What
:09:48. > :09:53.police officers come with paramedics in response cars which
:09:54. > :09:58.allows them to respond to incidence more easily. Imagine the scene -
:09:58. > :10:03.you are driving, do have had a busy year, the conditions in the pouring
:10:03. > :10:07.rain at have been shocking and there are lots of little accidents,
:10:07. > :10:12.and you are tired. That is when other accidents happen. That is
:10:12. > :10:16.true. The heavy rain on the motorways is a significant problem.
:10:16. > :10:19.People may be travelling long distances and have been working all
:10:19. > :10:25.week and it is really important that they take regular breaks if
:10:25. > :10:31.they are driving, and pay extra attention - in particular when the
:10:31. > :10:35.roads are wet. What types of injuries are typical of what might
:10:35. > :10:41.happen tonight? The most common injuries we will see tonight will
:10:41. > :10:45.be people who have fallen, who have head injuries, once. Unfortunately,
:10:45. > :10:50.in city centres, you will get episodes of violence and aggression
:10:50. > :10:55.which result in glass injuries. They're often alcohol-related
:10:55. > :10:59.injuries. I was asking you about this earlier and you told me that
:10:59. > :11:03.that shocked me. If you have been out tonight and finished drinking
:11:03. > :11:07.at 12 o'clock, and you have maybe had six glasses of wine or four
:11:07. > :11:10.points, tell me when it is safe to drive again the following day.
:11:10. > :11:14.Realistically, it is difficult to say exactly when it is safe to
:11:14. > :11:17.drive, but what most people need to remember is that the amount of time
:11:17. > :11:21.taken for that are called to get out of their system is often
:11:21. > :11:27.greater than seven or eight in the morning. If he will have been out
:11:27. > :11:30.the night before and are getting up to go Christmas shopping tomorrow,
:11:30. > :11:36.they need to bear in mind that they may still be over the legal limit
:11:36. > :11:39.for driving. And you say, to be safe - 12 or 1 o'clock in the
:11:39. > :11:42.afternoon. People should really wait until the afternoon it to go
:11:42. > :11:50.at him because of they have been drinking the night before. That
:11:50. > :11:57.goes for everybody who has been up late, too. -- what wait until the
:11:57. > :11:59.afternoon to go out in their cars. Wakefield Cathedral has been
:11:59. > :12:04.harnessing an angel to be triumphantly proclaim its fund-
:12:04. > :12:10.raising campaign. Details later. And we are live at a pub in
:12:10. > :12:18.Sheffield. Have you ever heard of these carols? There is one about
:12:18. > :12:28.attire. We only sing them in Sheffield. Join us shortly if the
:12:28. > :12:47.
:12:47. > :12:49.El Hajdi Diouf will sign a new 18- month contract at Doncaster Rovers.
:12:49. > :12:54.The former African Footballer of the Year joined on an initial
:12:54. > :12:56.three-month deal in October. He had been linked with moves to Russian
:12:56. > :12:59.and American teams, but manager Dean Saunders says he's enjoying
:13:00. > :13:06.his football at the Keepmoat. The club is also confident of keeping
:13:06. > :13:09.Pascal Chimbonda and Herita Ilunga until the end of the season.
:13:09. > :13:12.While most of us are eating and drinking too much over the next few
:13:12. > :13:15.days, the footballers will be working hard. Rotherham United have
:13:15. > :13:23.a fair bit of travelling to do over their busy Christmas period, but
:13:23. > :13:27.with their results having picked up, they don't mind too much. We gave
:13:27. > :13:37.ourselves a great chance over the past couple of weeks. We have got
:13:37. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:46.good games coming up. We have turned the corner as a club. We are
:13:46. > :13:49.looking for to the Christmas period. 2011 has seen another year full of
:13:49. > :13:52.medals for a young Yorkshire gymnast who is surely going all the
:13:52. > :13:55.way to the top. 15-year-old Nile Wilson from Leeds is the reigning
:13:55. > :13:58.English champion in four disciplines. And he's just won even
:13:58. > :14:01.more accolades at his final international event of the year in
:14:01. > :14:11.Switzerland. But it's also been a year which nearly spelt the end of
:14:11. > :14:15.
:14:15. > :14:22.Nile's career altogether. Nile Wilson it is still a student.
:14:22. > :14:27.His promise as a future gymnast carried on into 2011. He backed
:14:27. > :14:32.four gold, and two silver medals. But all the time, his back had been
:14:32. > :14:42.twinging a bed, and then it started to hurt even more. An occupational
:14:42. > :14:47.hazard for a gymnast, surely? He decided to have a proper MRI scan.
:14:47. > :14:55.Diagnosis - a double fracture of the back. They told me if I did not
:14:55. > :15:01.rest, I could have broken my back. That was a very difficult
:15:01. > :15:08.conversation, and we did not know how to handle it. Telling him about
:15:09. > :15:14.the injury and how serious it was was terrible. From his routine of
:15:14. > :15:18.six-night go weak at the gym, Nile Wilson went four months away from
:15:18. > :15:23.gymnastics altogether. He even a dog to the habits of a normal
:15:24. > :15:33.teenager! That time, for me, was good for school. I saw my friends a
:15:34. > :15:34.
:15:34. > :15:37.lot more, which was good in a way of. I came every night. All I
:15:37. > :15:44.really want to do is gymnastics, though. We have worked hard
:15:44. > :15:47.together, and we found out a lot about him as well. His commitment
:15:47. > :15:53.to gymnastics has been at the truly tested this year, and he has come
:15:53. > :16:00.out the other side. And that is a good for a Christmas present as any
:16:00. > :16:03.family could wish for, surely? And hats off to the Sheffield
:16:03. > :16:05.Steelers who have come up with a novel way of promoting their
:16:05. > :16:15.matches this Christmas. It's a rather unique rendition of the
:16:15. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:40.Nickelback song, Rockstar, and it's You have to see it in its entirety
:16:40. > :16:43.to appreciated. I will look at it in its entirety! There are beds are
:16:43. > :16:48.that there were interesting. You should probably have a look. I do
:16:48. > :16:54.not want to get myself into trouble. My father always said, compliments
:16:54. > :16:57.of the season to you. And we will see you in the New Year, 2012, the
:16:57. > :17:00.Olympic year! Christmas came early to Wakefield
:17:00. > :17:03.Cathedral today with a gift from a local businessman. As the Cathedral
:17:03. > :17:06.tries to raise �4 million for a major refurbishment programme, a
:17:06. > :17:16.special angel arrived to help keep passers-by up-to-date with how the
:17:16. > :17:22.
:17:22. > :17:25.Two days before Christmas, and the angels have arrived at Wakefield
:17:25. > :17:29.Cathedral. These little ones are preparing for their nativity
:17:29. > :17:35.tomorrow night, but their surroundings are rather bleak this
:17:35. > :17:39.midwinter, and in need of improvement. But they cost money.
:17:39. > :17:49.�4 million to be exact. The pews will be ripped out and replaced by
:17:49. > :17:50.
:17:50. > :17:55.chairs. We are getting rid of the pews. So did Gilbert Scott in 1846.
:17:55. > :17:59.Before those pews, there were no pews, so it was used as a
:18:00. > :18:05.marketplace and gathering place in Wakefield. Outside the cathedral,
:18:05. > :18:10.in the rain, the arrival of a new angel. Workmen were busy erecting a
:18:10. > :18:15.ladder to show passers by how the campaign is going. My friend has it
:18:15. > :18:22.brought me up to meet the Angel for myself. They are up to �2 million
:18:22. > :18:26.already. Just another �2 million to go, though.
:18:26. > :18:29.The Special Angel has been donated by a local businessman who used to
:18:29. > :18:39.be in the cathedral choir. Rather than have a thermometer, which
:18:39. > :18:44.people tend to do, we had an angel blowing up the ladder. The clouds
:18:44. > :18:51.are there, and as you go nearer to the top, you get nearer to heaven.
:18:51. > :18:57.I am glad to see it is straight and in the middle! They have done a
:18:57. > :19:01.good -- they have done a good job, so yes. Those of us of a certain
:19:01. > :19:06.age were brought up with blue Peter. We thought we would do something
:19:06. > :19:14.with a biblical theme, so we decided on an angel, and it seems
:19:14. > :19:24.very appropriate. Our own way killed Angel has just arrived.
:19:24. > :19:28.if you are passing by, cast an eye to the sky.
:19:28. > :19:33.That refurbishment is worth every single penny. But controversial
:19:34. > :19:36.getting rid of the pews, though? Christmas can be a difficult time
:19:36. > :19:39.of year for our troops serving in Afghanistan. They miss their
:19:39. > :19:41.families and their families miss them. But soldiers from the 1st
:19:42. > :19:44.Battallion The Yorkshire Regiment are doing their best to keep
:19:45. > :19:48.smiling through the festive season. They have sent us some photos of
:19:49. > :19:54.their very own Nativity Panto now being performed in Helmand. Now
:19:54. > :20:04.take a look at these: They don't have much in the way of costumes,
:20:04. > :20:05.
:20:05. > :20:08.but tin foil and a Santa hat goes a long way! But Angel Gabriel wins
:20:08. > :20:11.the prize for best costume. That is Lance Corporal Peter Langley who,
:20:11. > :20:20.according to the communications team, is the star of the show due
:20:21. > :20:24.to his complete lack of acting ability! And there's not much in
:20:24. > :20:27.the way of scenery, but they have still managed to conjure up a
:20:27. > :20:31.stable complete with ox. Mary, who looks like she might be giving
:20:31. > :20:37.birth, is played by Company Sergeant Major Carl Brookes. He was
:20:37. > :20:40.the first to volunteer for a part. And here's the big ensemble number,
:20:40. > :20:45.but take a closer look at that piano. I don't think they will be
:20:45. > :20:50.getting much sweet music out of that! We wish them well. Halfway
:20:50. > :20:54.through a six-month tour, let's hope for their safe return.
:20:54. > :20:56.Well, that's pretty much it for us this year, but it wouldn't be
:20:56. > :20:59.Christmas without something suitably festive to finish on.
:20:59. > :21:02.We've been looking for something a little more unusual this year, and
:21:02. > :21:06.we think we've found it in Sheffield. A group of carol singers
:21:06. > :21:10.are keeping a folk tradition alive with songs you will only hear in
:21:10. > :21:20.the steel city. Tom Ingall has been imbibing the festive spirit at a
:21:20. > :21:44.
:21:44. > :21:49.This is a quiet you do not care every time of year. This is a
:21:49. > :21:55.fantastic sound of these Stewart filled singers, because carols are
:21:55. > :22:01.unique to Sheffield. -- Sheffield singers. You will not take them
:22:01. > :22:07.anywhere else. We will hear from a local historian. How long have
:22:08. > :22:17.these carols been sung in this part of the year? -- in this part of the
:22:18. > :22:19.
:22:19. > :22:27.country? And pill the 1850 is. People did not want people enjoying
:22:27. > :22:32.themselves in church. At that point, they stay in the smaller, local
:22:32. > :22:38.chapels, and went to the pubs. Where do the words come from?
:22:38. > :22:46.have been written from local people. Some have even come from America.
:22:46. > :22:53.But the words are often much older than the tunes, so we would have a
:22:53. > :22:59.local tune put to an older Carol. So you might recognise the tune,
:22:59. > :23:06.but not the words? Sometimes, you would know the words, and not the
:23:06. > :23:13.tune, in the way it was sung. In particular,... Let us look at this
:23:13. > :23:19.picture of. This is from 1906. It is a local band. They were in
:23:19. > :23:22.existence from about 1860 through until just after the Second World
:23:22. > :23:29.War. That reflects part of the continued to this, because people
:23:30. > :23:39.in this room can point to people in this picture, and say, that is one
:23:39. > :23:47.of my ancestors! They have unusual names these carols. Back lane...
:23:47. > :23:57.Every village has a back lane. This song is written by Isaac Watts,
:23:57. > :24:00.around 1,700. We will hear her somewhat the lovely singing.
:24:00. > :24:10.Andrew's granddad is over here. That is how long this has been
:24:10. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:37.We have got another chance to go back a little bit later on. That is
:24:37. > :24:54.
:24:54. > :25:04.Last December, this was the revolt brews. It is difficult to believe
:25:04. > :25:05.
:25:05. > :25:11.that was only 12 months ago. That is Clarence Dock. Since 1653, it
:25:11. > :25:18.turned out to be the second coldest December. We are looking now for
:25:18. > :25:24.one of the mildest Christmas days for many a year. A chilly wind
:25:24. > :25:30.tomorrow. There will be some reindeer over the Pennines! It
:25:30. > :25:34.looks set to be dry and bright. They could be local gales on
:25:34. > :25:41.Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Good news third Weatherby races - no
:25:41. > :25:47.disruption there. We have had a miserable day to day. We still have
:25:47. > :25:57.patchy at rain in places. But it is getting its act together. With all
:25:57. > :25:58.
:25:58. > :26:06.this moisture around, they could be icy patches as well. That the sun
:26:06. > :26:11.will rise in the morning at 8:23am. Those are your high water times. It
:26:11. > :26:21.is a better start. Bright with some sunshine, but cloud will increase
:26:21. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:27.on the West, and then dry and bright in the east. There is a risk
:26:27. > :26:36.of rain or drizzle, particularly over the Pennines. Further east, it
:26:36. > :26:41.should be generally dry. It will feel pretty chilly, with a brisk,
:26:41. > :26:47.south-westerly wind. Generally around seven degrees. Christmas Day
:26:47. > :26:55.and Boxing Day, mild and when the. There is something missing here,