:00:09. > :00:11.Good evening. On Look North tonight: He made history as the
:00:11. > :00:15.first black Heathcliff. Today, Yorkshire actor James Howson admits
:00:15. > :00:21.racially abusing his girlfriend. Also on Look North tonight:
:00:21. > :00:25.Sheffield residents are set to get bin collections once a fortnight.
:00:25. > :00:29.Dismay in the steel city as the council announces it is looking to
:00:29. > :00:34.cut rubbish collection rounds. And I meet up with old friends for
:00:34. > :00:38.a cup of tea with a difference. This dramatic sun set filmed a
:00:38. > :00:48.couple of hours ago in Leeds heralds a different type of weather
:00:48. > :00:51.
:00:51. > :00:55.as we head into the weekend. Join me later.
:00:55. > :01:00.And I'm here at a stables near Northallerton with one of our
:01:00. > :01:07.Olympic hopefuls. This is Opposition Buzz. Meet him and his
:01:07. > :01:10.rider, Nicola Wilson, later in the programme. Do you want a carrot?
:01:10. > :01:13.Heidi, thank you. Tonight, the story of a young man from Leeds who
:01:13. > :01:15.went from the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival to Leeds
:01:15. > :01:18.Magistrates' Court today. James Howson was plucked from obscurity
:01:18. > :01:21.to become the first black person to play Heathcliff in an international
:01:21. > :01:24.film version of Wuthering Heights. The unemployed brickie was spotted
:01:24. > :01:26.in a Jobcentre and propelled to stardom. Today, he admitted
:01:26. > :01:35.racially aggravated harassment against his former partner. Here's
:01:35. > :01:40.our crime correspondent, John Cundy. Last November and for James Howson
:01:40. > :01:43.and others in the cast the bright lights and the red carpet in Venice
:01:43. > :01:49.for the premiere of Wuthering Heights. And, as the first black
:01:49. > :01:54.man to play Heathcliff, the compare as soon as for James Howson are
:01:54. > :01:57.uncanny. A boy rescued from the streets bay Yorkshire family.
:01:57. > :02:03.Howson was selected from obscurity and a troubled background in Leeds
:02:03. > :02:09.to play the starring role of Heathcliff. Sent from a Jobcentre
:02:09. > :02:16.to an audition Howson was selected from hundreds of hopefuls. A great
:02:16. > :02:21.Honor, a marvellous Honor. It's been an adventure, in truth. Was it
:02:21. > :02:25.tough? Very tough and gruelling. But rewarding. But fame was
:02:25. > :02:28.fleeting. Just three months on Howson is back living in inner city
:02:28. > :02:34.Leeds and today once more in trouble with the law as in his
:02:34. > :02:38.youth. This time accused of racially aggravated harassment
:02:38. > :02:43.against the mother of his young daughter. The three-year
:02:43. > :02:50.relationship between James Howson and Shakira was said to have been
:02:50. > :02:53.largely fine until she fell pregnant. Arguments then began,
:02:53. > :02:57.culminating in an incident at Shakira's home in Leeds last
:02:57. > :03:02.November, when Howson banged on the window and shouted racist threats
:03:02. > :03:05.to kill. Howson had little to say after admitting in court the
:03:05. > :03:11.harassment. I haven't heard the investigate yet, to be honest.
:03:11. > :03:15.but you pleaded guilty. Yeah, I know. Although his defence said
:03:15. > :03:20.Howson had never intended to carry out his wild and idle threats, he
:03:20. > :03:29.will be sentenced next month, after probation reports. And the
:03:29. > :03:34.magistrates said that could mean cost dump dump custody for his
:03:34. > :03:36.serious -- could mean custody for his serious threats.
:03:36. > :03:39.Next tonight, there's controversy over plans to scrap weekly
:03:39. > :03:42.collections of wheelie bins for people living in Sheffield. The
:03:42. > :03:45.city's council says the move will save more than �6 million over two
:03:45. > :03:48.years. But it's opposed by unions, who are worried about job losses,
:03:48. > :03:50.and also by some residents. It means Sheffield joins nearly all
:03:50. > :03:53.the other councils in Yorkshire, which already have fortnightly
:03:53. > :03:55.collections for rubbish that can't be recycled. Bradford bucks the
:03:55. > :03:58.trend. It still has weekly collections. And so does Leeds,
:03:58. > :04:00.though it's planning to trial fortnightly collections in part of
:04:00. > :04:03.the city. And people across the Harrogate Council district will
:04:03. > :04:09.make the switch from weekly to fortnightly in the summer. Emma
:04:09. > :04:16.Glasbey has this report. Another weekly bin collection in Sheffield.
:04:17. > :04:20.And for some homes it can't come soon enough. As the council looks
:04:20. > :04:24.to make further cuts it is likely this city will follow the lead of
:04:24. > :04:30.other Yorkshire councils and switch to fortunately collections. This
:04:30. > :04:35.decision is all about money, so in newspaper in Sheffield one week
:04:35. > :04:39.your household waste will be collected, the next week your
:04:39. > :04:43.recycling waste. Gardening collections have been scrad. Here
:04:43. > :04:47.everyone is talking about rubbish. Families are concerned about how
:04:47. > :04:53.they'll cope if their black bins are no longer emptied once a week.
:04:53. > :04:57.Every two weeks is not often enough. We live in a large family and the
:04:57. > :05:02.bins are full really easily. Emptying them once a fortnight with
:05:02. > :05:08.people leaving extra bags out, you will increase the rats. I recycle a
:05:08. > :05:13.lot of my things so I could empty mine once a fort nights, but
:05:13. > :05:18.families, not a hope. collections often stir up huge
:05:18. > :05:23.feelings. (BLEEP). This is Scunthorpe. Many Leeds rubbish
:05:23. > :05:28.filed up when bin collectors went on strike in a row over pay. A
:05:28. > :05:32.strike in Sheffield could be a possibility. The GMB union fears
:05:32. > :05:36.fortnightly collections could leave 40 workers without jobs. Sheffield
:05:36. > :05:40.City Council though says it needs to make savings. There may well be
:05:40. > :05:46.a negative reaction from residents, but I hope when they look at it in
:05:46. > :05:50.the round and see the scale of the cuts we are facing - �57 million
:05:50. > :05:53.this year on top of �80 million last year and �40 million next year,
:05:53. > :05:57.they will understand this is something we have to do it's the
:05:57. > :06:01.right thing. Changing collections from April could save up to �7
:06:01. > :06:11.million over the next two years. A time decision will be made by the
:06:11. > :06:16.council in March. Peter Davies from the GMB union is
:06:16. > :06:22.here. Why are you so opposed to it? It happens so often in other places.
:06:22. > :06:28.Well, we've been saying for a long time now that Sheffield is unique,
:06:28. > :06:31.in a sense, in South Yorkshire, in that there is an incinerator plant
:06:31. > :06:34.where the vast majority of the household waste is taken and burnt.
:06:34. > :06:39.From that incinerate ore all of the hot water and heating for all
:06:39. > :06:42.public sector buildings in Sheffield is provided, at a massive
:06:42. > :06:45.subsidy for Sheffield. So this isn't just a case of this happens
:06:45. > :06:48.elsewhere so it will work in Sheffield. We are not convinced
:06:48. > :06:54.that it will. The point is everybody accepts the council needs
:06:54. > :06:58.to save millions of pounds, so is there not the least painful way to
:06:58. > :07:03.do it, Peter? Well, nobody can argue with the fact that the
:07:03. > :07:08.council's budget has been decimated. Everybody is suffering, and every
:07:08. > :07:12.service is suffering. But where you look elsewhere where in that
:07:12. > :07:16.happened, cities and local authorities have invested in
:07:16. > :07:21.recycling. In Sheffield, it is clear that come April, unless we
:07:21. > :07:25.can find some alternative, come April household recycle centres, of
:07:25. > :07:29.which there are five in Sheffield, are going to close midweek. At a
:07:29. > :07:35.time when we are cutting funding in recycling it's the wrong time to go
:07:35. > :07:39.to fortnightly collections. A lot of conversation. This is a big, big
:07:39. > :07:42.problem. Would you rather close libraries or centres for young
:07:43. > :07:47.families and say OK, once a fortnight, they are still going to
:07:47. > :07:51.get emptied. We would like it more but times are tough? Well, I would
:07:51. > :07:55.rather close nothing. But Eric Pickles and his Government are
:07:55. > :07:59.behind these cuts. Nobody can argue about that. At the same time, the
:07:59. > :08:03.Government have announced there's �250 million available to support
:08:03. > :08:07.weekly collections. Where is that money? Sheffield is the fourth
:08:07. > :08:11.biggest city. Where is our share of that money? Will you strike over
:08:11. > :08:15.this? Well, we are at the beginning of consultation here. I don't want
:08:15. > :08:21.to threaten the company or the council with anything. We have to
:08:21. > :08:24.enter into a consultation process. I expect a 90-day period minimum
:08:24. > :08:28.about these changes. That will be followed by 90 days notice if they
:08:28. > :08:33.are to be imposed. Thank you for putting news the picture, Peter
:08:33. > :08:38.Davies. Later: we'll be meeting another of
:08:38. > :08:42.our Olympic hopefuls. And later on Look North I will be
:08:42. > :08:45.meeting the white knights with their shining armour and telling
:08:45. > :08:48.you how they could help save your life.
:08:48. > :08:51.A man has died following a house fire in Bradford. Fire crews called
:08:51. > :08:54.police to the property in the Undercliffe area this afternoon
:08:54. > :08:57.after the discovery of a body. Police are treating it as
:08:57. > :09:00.suspicious. A man has been taken to hospital
:09:00. > :09:03.after his van was in a collision with a Fire Service vehicle in
:09:03. > :09:06.South Yorkshire this afternoon. The accident happened on the A61 at
:09:06. > :09:09.Tankersley, near Barnsley. A heavy duty pump vehicle was on its way
:09:09. > :09:13.back to base after a training exercise when it collided with a
:09:13. > :09:15.van. A report commissioned into securing
:09:15. > :09:19.the long-term future of Leeds' Kirkgate market has suggested
:09:19. > :09:22.cutting the size of the market by a quarter. It also says the newer
:09:22. > :09:28.parts of the market should be given a facelift. Leeds City Council will
:09:28. > :09:31.discuss the report's findings next month.
:09:31. > :09:34.Firefighters in South Yorkshire are still trying to put out a large
:09:34. > :09:37.fire at a wood yard which started in the early hours of this morning.
:09:37. > :09:40.Around 1,000 tonnes of wooden pallets are still burning at the
:09:40. > :09:48.site in Rossington near Doncaster and the smoke has caused some
:09:48. > :09:50.disruption on the M18. Sheffield Cathedral has today begun
:09:50. > :09:54.legal proceedings to move the Occupy protesters to an alternative
:09:54. > :09:57.site. But the campaigners who have camped outside the Cathedral since
:09:57. > :10:07.November don't want to budge - claiming they need a public
:10:07. > :10:12.presence close to financial institutions and high street stores.
:10:12. > :10:16.I'm sad that it has come to that, because this is my church, my
:10:16. > :10:20.Cathedral. I was, I had been hoping from the beginning we could co-
:10:20. > :10:25.operate. We've had to do this because we are building this year.
:10:25. > :10:32.We were completely renewing the inside of the Cathedral at the end
:10:32. > :10:37.of 2012. We need the whole of the forecourt, the whole of the area
:10:37. > :10:46.that the Occupy protest is to be a stone yard and builders' yard in
:10:46. > :10:49.order to do the building. The Welcome to Yorkshire tourism
:10:49. > :10:52.campaign has won an award for the second year running. It beat the
:10:52. > :10:58.likes of Brazil, India and Visit London to the World Travel Award at
:10:58. > :11:01.a ceremony in Qatar last night. Yorkshire to go up against
:11:01. > :11:06.countries with budgets hundreds of times bigger than ours and to still
:11:06. > :11:11.win is a great shot in the arm for the tourism industry across
:11:11. > :11:16.Yorkshire and throughout Yorkshire. Today we've had literally hundreds
:11:16. > :11:20.of well-wishers from around the world, an outpouring of love for
:11:20. > :11:24.Yorkshire. Really fantastic. Congratulations to Gary and his
:11:24. > :11:28.team. It's hoped a baby girl found dead
:11:28. > :11:30.at a waste disposal site in Shipley in May last year will soon be laid
:11:30. > :11:34.to rest. Despite a long and complex police investigation police have
:11:34. > :11:40.never been able to trace her mother. Today there are new appeals to find
:11:40. > :11:45.her. Olivia Richwald reports. It was the early hours of the morning
:11:45. > :11:50.when a worker at this site made the tesh discovery. Police soon
:11:50. > :11:54.confirmed they had found the body of a newborn girl. Staff here, many
:11:54. > :11:57.of them parents themselves, were traumatised, while they started
:11:57. > :12:01.fundraising the police tried to find the mother. In trying to
:12:01. > :12:05.identify the mother of this baby, West Yorkshire Police had a
:12:05. > :12:10.difficult and complex task. Every day 500 tonnes of waste is brought
:12:10. > :12:15.here. That's rubbish from 50 ,000 households. Detectives were worried
:12:15. > :12:20.the child's mother might be in an emotional and vulnerable state.
:12:20. > :12:24.They sent 40,000 letters to homes across West Yorkshire, but eight
:12:24. > :12:28.months on they are still looking. The company which owns the site,
:12:28. > :12:36.and a local residents association, have named the baby Katharine. They
:12:36. > :12:41.hope to give her a funeral and put up a memorial toe place they --
:12:41. > :12:45.memorial at the place she was found. What we would like to see happen is
:12:45. > :12:49.to reach closure on the matter so that we can place a plaque on the
:12:49. > :12:54.wall at the depot, just to commemorate the sad loss of the
:12:54. > :12:57.child that evening in May last year. Today West Yorkshire Police said
:12:57. > :13:01.that inquiries to find the mother are still ongoing. They believe the
:13:01. > :13:11.answer to finding her lies within the communities of West Yorkshire
:13:11. > :13:14.and today they've renewed their appeals.
:13:14. > :13:18.Imagine the situation. It's the middle of the night and a seriously
:13:18. > :13:20.ill person needs an urgent blood test but the nearest lab is forty
:13:20. > :13:24.miles away. The hospital has no transport and relying on taxis
:13:24. > :13:28.costs the NHS thousands of pounds. In parts of Yorkshire there is an
:13:28. > :13:32.alternative that doesn't cost the NHS a penny. Whiteknights is a
:13:32. > :13:34.charity set up by a former patient and provides a free of charge
:13:34. > :13:44.emergency transport service for hospitals. Ian White has been to
:13:44. > :13:53.
:13:53. > :14:01.Another call for the volunteer blood bike riders in West Yorkshire.
:14:01. > :14:07.A blood sample needs to be taken quickly to lapse in Leeds. It is
:14:07. > :14:17.serviced 365 days per year by a team of keen motorcyclists. It was
:14:17. > :14:22.set up by a former patient. I had heard of blood bikes and there was
:14:22. > :14:29.not one in Yorkshire so I set it up. That was about four years ago and I
:14:29. > :14:39.am thrilled to bits, I am very proud. Thousands of pounds was
:14:39. > :14:43.
:14:43. > :14:51.being spent by the NHS to transfer lad by taxes but this organisation
:14:51. > :14:57.does it all by donations. It is usually for critical patients who
:14:57. > :15:03.need blood products transferring immediately. There are four bikes
:15:03. > :15:09.in this fleet, they are already 10 years old, in a former life they
:15:09. > :15:14.were police bikes, these ones will soon need replacing. You will need
:15:14. > :15:20.to find dream you're -- the renewable models. While they are
:15:20. > :15:25.very serviceable now they will come to the end of their life. We need
:15:25. > :15:30.sponsorship from local businesses. They are allowed to use flashing
:15:30. > :15:36.lights to get through the traffic. One of the riders was once an NHS
:15:36. > :15:41.director. NHS budgets are under increasing pressure and this gives
:15:41. > :15:46.us the opportunity to make a small difference to those budgets.
:15:46. > :15:51.Another sample safely arrives in Leeds. The work across West and
:15:51. > :15:56.North Yorkshire and hoped to expand to South Yorkshire soon. You never
:15:56. > :16:04.know when they could help to save your life. Lots of comments tonight
:16:04. > :16:11.on our Facebook page about this. Scores of you are contacting us.
:16:11. > :16:17.Someone said the do a fine job, they kept my mum alive. Another man
:16:17. > :16:22.added they do a brilliant and vital job, my daughter had over 100 blood
:16:22. > :16:28.transfusions. She had cancer but is now doing OK and is looking forward
:16:28. > :16:36.to the future. Someone else said that due to them all but why are
:16:36. > :16:42.the volunteers, why at the not paid? Do stay with us. Before 7
:16:42. > :16:50.o'clock tonight. We meet up with the top horsewoman Nicola Wilson at
:16:50. > :17:00.her North Yorkshire yard. And we sample an unusual new teashop near
:17:00. > :17:02.Skipton with a little help from An appeal for �60,000 to help keep
:17:02. > :17:06.two of Yorkshire's most precious objects has raised just �1,000 and
:17:06. > :17:10.time is running out. The Yorkshire Museum in York needs to come up
:17:10. > :17:20.with nearly half that sum by the end of the month or lose one of the
:17:20. > :17:20.
:17:20. > :17:27.Iron Age gold bracelets found near Tadcaster. These are the artifacts
:17:27. > :17:34.that tell us how Yorkshire people lived in the Iron Age. The stuff of
:17:35. > :17:43.the VED life but from more than 2000 years ago. -- the VED life.
:17:43. > :17:51.They are fantastic objects. But they are not gold. These are bold.
:17:51. > :17:58.They are very high status jewellery. Evidence of Keynes in the North of
:17:58. > :18:05.England. �60,000 is needed to keep them here. So far just �1,000 has
:18:05. > :18:15.been raised. It would be a real disappointment not to have them
:18:15. > :18:15.
:18:15. > :18:19.here. They are the first Iron Age gold found in the whole of England.
:18:19. > :18:26.Even our heritage could be lost to recession, the economy is being
:18:26. > :18:29.blamed. Some boxing now and Sheffield's Ryan Rhodes will step
:18:29. > :18:33.into the ring in March in an attempt to reclaim his former
:18:33. > :18:37.European title belt. Rhodes, a who was stripped of the title due to
:18:37. > :18:41.injury over a year ago will face a Bell-a-Russian in his home town on
:18:41. > :18:51.24th March at ponds Forge. Despite turning 35 towards the end of last
:18:51. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :19:00.year, he believes he still has what it takes to beat the best. I am
:19:00. > :19:08.fighting a good kid. He has had 19 fights, he has won 19 and knocked
:19:08. > :19:12.14 out but he has boxed nobody like me. One of Yorkshire's Olympic
:19:12. > :19:16.hopefuls says to compete in London 2012 will be a childhood dream come
:19:16. > :19:20.true. Nicola Wilson started riding when she was three at her parents'
:19:20. > :19:25.farm near Northallerton. She is now one of the best event riders in the
:19:25. > :19:35.world. She was ranked 15th at the World Equestrian Games in 2010.
:19:35. > :19:35.
:19:35. > :19:41.Heidi Tomlinson is with her at her Northallerton stables now. There
:19:41. > :19:45.are three disciplines within event riding, cross country, a dressage
:19:45. > :19:54.and showjumping. Inside this stable is one of the horses we are hoping
:19:54. > :19:59.will shine for as. He is gorgeous and his rider at Nicola Wilson. He
:19:59. > :20:05.is a fantastic horse to look at, what is he liked to ride? He always
:20:05. > :20:09.tries very hard and he loves his job. He loves his sport and in
:20:09. > :20:14.particular going cross-country. have had a lot of success together
:20:14. > :20:21.particularly in the last few years? We have had a lot of fun over the
:20:22. > :20:29.years, he has taken me to places I have never been before. He is a joy
:20:29. > :20:35.to ride. You call him Dodi, why is that? That is his stable name. That
:20:35. > :20:41.is what he is known as. What preparations are you making this
:20:41. > :20:46.year? It must be a very nerve- racking time of year for you.
:20:46. > :20:49.That's right but we have to put it out of our minds and treat it as an
:20:50. > :20:56.ordinary year. He will do what he has done for us in previous years
:20:56. > :21:00.and hopefully that will work. you feel there is immense pressure
:21:00. > :21:08.on you? You were on the cover of horse and hounds magazine the other
:21:08. > :21:11.week. You have to be able to deal with it and put it to one side, do
:21:11. > :21:17.you preparation and homework and hope everything goes right and
:21:17. > :21:25.works on your side. What could go wrong between now and August? Sorry
:21:25. > :21:30.to ask! Everything. Obviously it is a partnership. If anything was to
:21:30. > :21:34.happen to the horse or myself then it would be scrapped. You are
:21:34. > :21:39.entered as a team, if something goes on to either of you you will
:21:39. > :21:45.not be entered? That's right. If anything was to happen somebody
:21:45. > :21:49.else would step up to the mark but the team is not selected until the
:21:49. > :21:55.end of May so we just have to keep fingers crossed that we do well
:21:55. > :22:01.enough in the spring to be selected. Only time will tell and I hope
:22:01. > :22:06.everything stays right. Will unlike most horses this one does not like
:22:06. > :22:12.mints, it would delight and a: This can it? There you go. He will get a
:22:12. > :22:16.celebration big bag of carrots if he helps Nicola get a gold medal in
:22:16. > :22:19.London this summer. Think of Skipton and what springs to mind?
:22:19. > :22:22.Gateway to the Dales of course. Middle England to a tee. Well, you
:22:22. > :22:26.are right of course, tea being the name of the game today. The town
:22:26. > :22:29.will soon be opening the first and only Russian tea room in the
:22:29. > :22:39.country. Will it work? I went along for a look with some discerning
:22:39. > :22:52.
:22:52. > :23:00.critics. All things Russian and on sale from tee to Faberge eggs. It
:23:00. > :23:04.is the tea room that really captured the imagination. We have
:23:04. > :23:10.lovely china, it is exactly what we produce. I think British people
:23:10. > :23:19.would be grateful to go back to the traditions. So what is the Russian
:23:19. > :23:29.tea like? Remember the Calendar girls? Here is this September. One
:23:29. > :23:38.
:23:38. > :23:48.lump or two? I'm this November. I will give you tea from the
:23:48. > :23:56.Russian Caravan. This is a house tea. Not too strong? Do you want it
:23:56. > :24:06.on its own or with lemon? The row over 100 different teased to sample.
:24:06. > :24:06.
:24:06. > :24:10.-- there are over 100 different cups of tea to sample. This is very
:24:10. > :24:20.different. I think I would enjoy it in the Summer Tyne sitting in my
:24:20. > :24:20.
:24:20. > :24:28.garden. With your clothes on! Summer Time. It smells beautiful.
:24:28. > :24:35.It smells as though it is doing you good. That is very delicate.
:24:35. > :24:43.absolutely love that one. It is just my colour of tea, very pale.
:24:43. > :24:53.Are you converted to the Russian tea do you think? I think we might
:24:53. > :24:57.
:24:57. > :25:03.be. Nothing like a nice cup of tea! You have been running around like a
:25:03. > :25:08.spring chicken, what is the secret in it? It has got rose-petal than
:25:08. > :25:15.this one, hasn't it? The Open in a few weeks' time. We wish them well.
:25:15. > :25:22.It will be interesting. I walked over with you from the car park and
:25:22. > :25:32.you were full of beans. He has been doing Cossack dancing! Tonight we
:25:32. > :25:53.
:25:53. > :25:59.will show you some pictures. We I am told that one was not fiddled.
:25:59. > :26:05.There are all sorts of things you can do on your computer now. There
:26:05. > :26:11.is some different weather coming upon us now. It is going to be cold,
:26:11. > :26:15.dry and settled. For those of us fed up with the strong winds we are
:26:15. > :26:21.expecting light winds. Tomorrow will be dry and cold with some
:26:21. > :26:25.sunshine. This ridge of high pressure will be with us and tell
:26:25. > :26:32.early next week, if you like the cold and wrapping up warm it is a
:26:32. > :26:38.lovely few days perhaps for walking in the hills. This afternoon has
:26:38. > :26:43.been splendid and sunny with the wind continuing to ease. A very
:26:43. > :26:47.straightforward forecast tonight. Most places will be dry and clear.
:26:47. > :26:57.Winds will ease and by the end of tonight temperatures will be down
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:27:01. > :27:10.to minus two. The sun rises at The a very different feel to the
:27:10. > :27:15.weather in the morning. You might be scraping your car windscreens.
:27:15. > :27:21.Most places will be fine with sunshine, that sunshine a bet he's
:27:21. > :27:26.dead. Yesterday we had highs of 12 Celsius but we can top that in half