:00:15. > :00:18.Good evening from Look North. A woman whose husband was left with
:00:18. > :00:20.brain damage after being attacked in a nightclub has launched a
:00:20. > :00:23.campaign against drunken violence. Lisa Snowden, from Pontefract,
:00:23. > :00:26.wants clubs to have more bouncers and better security and she is
:00:26. > :00:31.hoping to take her cause to the House of Commons. Olivia Richwald
:00:31. > :00:35.reports. Phil Snowden was left with
:00:35. > :00:41.permanent brain damage after a violent nightclub assault. These
:00:41. > :00:47.pictures were filmed by his wife Lisa.
:00:47. > :00:51.Come on. He was just a really happy go lucky,
:00:51. > :00:58.easy-going guy who wanted to emigrate to Canada, which we were
:00:58. > :01:02.trying to do, and to have children. We were going through adoption but
:01:02. > :01:08.unfortunately it never happened. Film mack was attacked in a
:01:08. > :01:12.Wakefield nightclub in October 2010. He was so badly beaten he can still
:01:12. > :01:16.not communicate and it is unlikely he will ever truly recover. He
:01:16. > :01:20.lives in a care home and Lisa visits every day.
:01:20. > :01:25.A lot of the time you just want to run away and hide and start again
:01:25. > :01:29.but you can't. To you can't just stop loving somebody just because
:01:29. > :01:33.this has happened to him. Adam Smith from Pontefract was
:01:33. > :01:39.jailed for nine years for the attack. The court heard that Smith
:01:39. > :01:46.had been involved in several fights when he attacked film mack. Lisa is
:01:46. > :01:52.campaigning for more security inside nightclubs.
:01:52. > :01:57.It is all very well walking past if you are Lord -- you are drunk or on
:01:57. > :02:05.drugs but inside the clubs it is even worse. A Gresham can be
:02:05. > :02:10.spotted if -- before it stops. -- aggression.
:02:10. > :02:14.She wants police to have more powers to close premises where
:02:14. > :02:20.violent incidents have taken place and she is organising an online
:02:20. > :02:24.petition to try to force the government to examine the issue.
:02:24. > :02:27.A 56-year-old man has died in South Yorkshire after he was hit by a car
:02:27. > :02:30.while he was lying in the road. The driver of the unknown vehicle
:02:30. > :02:33.failed to stop after the collision in Goldthorpe yesterday evening.
:02:33. > :02:36.The man is believed to have been lying in the carriageway on Co-
:02:36. > :02:39.operative Street when the vehicle drove over him. Police are
:02:39. > :02:42.appealing for witnesses. A man who died in a house fire on
:02:42. > :02:45.Christmas Eve has been named as 40- year-old Andrew Massarella. Fire
:02:45. > :02:48.investigators believe the blaze in Cantley near Doncaster was started
:02:48. > :02:51.accidentally by smoking materials. But police say they are still
:02:51. > :02:56.treating his death as suspicious and are keeping an open mind until
:02:56. > :03:00.the results of forensic examinations are known.
:03:00. > :03:02.On to football now, and two of our teams are in action tonight. Both
:03:02. > :03:05.Huddersfield Town and Rotherham United have targeted promotion for
:03:05. > :03:15.this season but it is not quite going to plan, as Ian Bucknell
:03:15. > :03:24.
:03:25. > :03:30.In many ways, Huddersfield Town have had a first-grade half to the
:03:30. > :03:34.season. In November they set a record full games unbeaten in the
:03:34. > :03:39.Football League and they have only lost twice since then. But the
:03:39. > :03:44.problem is the league table. Charlton, MK Dons and boast -- both
:03:44. > :03:49.Sheffield sides have made even stronger starts.
:03:49. > :03:52.We are all waiting for each other to drop -- to drop a couple of
:03:52. > :03:58.points and have a little dip or whatever so it is important that
:03:58. > :04:03.you stay focused and concentrate on adding to your total and trying to
:04:03. > :04:08.win as many games as possible. Rotherham United's clear goal this
:04:08. > :04:12.season his promotion. They are currently 11th. They recently beat
:04:12. > :04:17.Wimbledon but have struggled against the top teams in their
:04:17. > :04:25.division. Tonight they hope to change that at Cheltenham and go
:04:25. > :04:35.into the new year with renewed hope. The 2011 has been a year of weather
:04:35. > :04:38.
:04:38. > :04:46.extremes, from hot to cold and It has been one of the most
:04:46. > :04:50.remarkable spells of weather since I started broadcasting. The cold
:04:50. > :04:55.snap continued into the new-year as people ventured back to work. The
:04:55. > :05:00.big thaw set him during February, one of the mildest on record. Some
:05:00. > :05:05.rivers burst their banks with severe gales to boot. This pilot
:05:05. > :05:10.needed all his skills to let -- to land safely at Leeds Bradford.
:05:10. > :05:15.April was the warmest on record and a barbecue Easter came as a welcome
:05:15. > :05:18.change, although the heat brought to thunderstorms which brought
:05:18. > :05:23.flash flooding to parts of Sheffield. This torrential rain was
:05:23. > :05:28.the exception to the rule. Spring was the dark -- driest on record,
:05:28. > :05:32.leading to concern about water restrictions. Yorkshire water
:05:32. > :05:37.remained confident that the region would be adequately supplied. A
:05:37. > :05:40.warm and sunny spring led to hopes that some would be good but again
:05:40. > :05:46.expectations were dashed. It turned out to be the coolest summer for
:05:46. > :05:51.nearly 20 years and the Leeds Festival was a washout. Autumn saw
:05:51. > :05:59.more extremes. It was the second warmest since 1653, with Yorkshire
:05:59. > :06:03.enjoying its hottest October day on record, 29 degrees Celsius at
:06:03. > :06:09.Bramham. December saw severe gales and when speeds up to 72 mph at
:06:09. > :06:12.surge Fenton, causing some disruption, but this was the
:06:12. > :06:16.exception to that rule and for a change December has been a pretty
:06:16. > :06:26.normal month in what has turned out to be an incredible year of
:06:26. > :06:40.
:06:40. > :06:45.Henry says it has rained 29 out of We are going to end the year on a
:06:45. > :06:50.very mild note. It is a pretty chilly but it is 12 degrees
:06:50. > :06:55.tomorrow with some patchy rain at times. We have this westerly to
:06:55. > :06:58.south-westerly probably through the first half of January so it is
:06:58. > :07:04.windy with more rain coming. A miserable afternoon across
:07:04. > :07:09.Yorkshire and the rain has set in on cue. It is still raining quite
:07:09. > :07:14.persistently across eastern areas. It is more fragmented further west
:07:14. > :07:21.but it is pretty miserable. Across the Pennines extensive hill fog
:07:21. > :07:26.overnight. To the east, it should become mostly dry. Temperatures of
:07:26. > :07:32.five or six degrees. New Year's Eve has a cloudy, misty start, if
:07:32. > :07:37.patchy rain and drizzle across most areas. To the east it turns
:07:37. > :07:43.brighter and very mild indeed. Just look at this for the last day in
:07:43. > :07:48.December. Exceptionally mild, 13 degrees Celsius, double-figure