23/01/2012 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to Monday's Look North. On the

programme tonight: A grisly task. Police prepare to

exhume the remains of a mystery woman whose body was found dumped

in North Yorkshire 30 years ago. We'll be live from the churchyard.

Also tonight: Visions of China. It's enter the

dragon as Leeds gets ready to welcome the Chinese Olympic team.

And it's the $6 million question for dozens of woolly mums to be as

Thwack how do you know if their moms are having babies? Two or

three, or one? There could be a spell of the sleet

or snow to come in the morning. A seven-hour police operation to

exhume a body begins at midnight tonight in a North Yorkshire

cemetery. Detectives hope it will enable them to identify the remains

of a woman's body found 30 years ago.

The body was dumped close to Sutton Bank in 1981, but who the woman was

and how she died has remained a mystery ever since. Now police have

taken this usual step to try solve the mystery. Our crime

correspondent John Cundy reports. Hidden in undergrowth near the side

of a minor road, the woman's body may have weighed there for over two

years. An anonymous phone call led police to the grim discovery. In

extending the body, detectives hope that advances in DNA science will

enable them to identify the woman and he she died. We have been

reviewing the original investigation and we had been

contacted by two members of the public in relation to whether it is

a member of their family. We have made an application to the coroner,

for the exhibition of the body. the initial investigation, a three-

dimensional works reconstruction was made of the woman's head. It is

believed she had been in a her late thirties and the mother of up to

three children. We have always maintained it is keen that we

identify individuals so that families can know how their loved

ones died. Again, as you have pointed, we have to ascertain

whether a crime has been committed here. Gravediggers, watched by

police, built worked in a late- night to extend the body. -- will

work through the night tonight to eggs and that the body. -- exhume

the body. John joins us now from Malton

Cemetery. We had from the man leading the

investigation. A most unusual thing to do. Presumably very expensive.

How do you justify it for someone that died 30 years ago? This case

has 31 years old and clearly it is a complex investigation. If we can

identify a food woman is, we will be able to ascertain if a criminal

offence has been committed and there are also may be a family

waiting for closure. The key to this investigation is the identity

of the woman. If we can do that, it will lead to lines of investigation.

So you it gets in the next day or so, you will get the results of the

DNA test. What does that lead you den? What we can then do is

reviewed the original lines of investigation. We can do familial

work with those who think they have lost a family member and we can do

work with the DNA database. Briefly, what about this anonymous caller?

The man who originally alerted police. We have no idea who he is,

do be? What I would ask is if that person now is no position to come

forward, that the to come flawed, because they might have information

that is valuable to the investigation. It will take

something like seven hours, starting at midnight. It will take

most of tonight and just before dawn, we hope to have completed the

process and the body will be taken to all local mortuary. That is the

scene this evening. The exhibition will begin in something like 6.5

hours time. -- the exhumation. Later on Look North:

Against the odds. The young Sheffield figure skater who has

overcome career-threatening injury to make it onto the British team.

The Prime Minister says there is a businessman or woman in all of us

and today he came to Yorkshire to launch the Government's latest

initiative to get the economy moving again.

David Cameron wants spare Government offices to be offered at

cheap rents to start up businesses. Is this a token gesture or will it

have a significant impact? Len Tingle put those questions to the

Prime Minister. Until a few months ago, civil

servants work in these offices in Leeds. Public sector cutbacks have

left them empty. Today, the Prime Minister used in to launch an

initiative which he will be converted to smaller units and let

to anyone wanting space to set up new businesses. But will that be

enough in Yorkshire and the North where unemployment has been rising

at a faster rate than in the south of England? It is an important

start. We need a private sector led recovery. In terms of the North-

South divide, you can see that this government is putting a lot of

money into infrastructure. The Autumn Statement last year saw or

hundred and �54 million in infrastructure projects

specifically to help the Yorkshire area. We're committed to making

sure we have the infrastructure to deal with that they have died.

business start-ups in you ought to have been flagging. Around 20,000

were launched in 2007. The latest figures show it is down to 16.5000.

16,500. For this woman, a young mum as well as a businesswoman, off the

space was an important factor. Other hurdles were much more

difficult to overcome. He has to address the basic issue of funding

and money and the banks' lending for my personal point of view. Any

attempt to address this problem that faces many of the families in

the country. While most of the Yorkshire entrepreneur has that the

Prime Minister met today welcomed his initiative, most said it is a

help rather than an answer. We have also learnt that Yorkshire-

based Asda is to spend �500 million this year creating 5,000 new jobs

around the country. Our correspondent Alan Whitehouse joins

me now. Alan, what will the region get out of these two announcements

today? The honest answer is that we do not

know right now. It would be to know is that it revolves around it

opening 25 brand new stores and refurbishing 40 more. We heard

about that a plan for a brand new ASDA store and we went to get

reactions from the locals. They could just as easily bring in

outside people to do those jobs if they are recruiting from out of

town. Even the we have a massive unemployment programme -- problem,

no one is forced to employ local people. More at jobs. I need a job.

It would be good for me. It is near the school for the children. It is

just easier than going all the way up to Morrisons. It is just a very

welcome. It is what we need. market struggles to start with. If

we get an ASDA as well, it will be the end of the market.

We have heard Prime Minister talking today about help for small

businesses. Writing off government offices essentially to help start

new businesses. You're getting the same story now

from all levels of business and it is that the banks are not lending.

They are not lending to enough companies and when the do, dear not

lending enough money. I was talking to a small but since then last week

who employs nine people. He thinks he could be employing 60 people

have only the banks would fund the expansion.

A also bad news today. He is a fashion chain -- a fashion

chain set in a -- based in Huddersfield making job losses. The

headquarters are here in Yorkshire. Thieves have used a stolen digger

to rip a cash machine off the wall of a supermarket in a North

Yorkshire market town. It happened at the Co-op on Park Street in

Masham at around 3am this morning. The cash machine was then put onto

a flat bed trailer and driven off. Two men have been arrested this

afternoon. Lesley Musgrave owns the newsagents opposite the Co-op. She

watched it happen from her bedroom window. I walk up a bit TM this

morning to lot of noise, alarms going off, bleeping sounds and they

look that of the window and my husband said other Co-op was being

run raided. Cheery enough, there was a wall warder at just running

and then it pulled the ATM into the middle of the road, on to a pick-up

and away. The Sheffield Wednesday chairman,

Milan Mandaric, has appeared in court in London to face charges of

tax evasion. Mr Mandaric, seen here in the middle, appeared alongside

the Tottenham manager, Harry Redknapp. The charges relate to the

time the pair worked together at Portsmouth, both deny any wrong

doing. The trial is due to last two weeks.

A man has admitted attempting to murder his ex-partner and her

mother at a house in Leeds. Leslie Cunningham, who is 40 and from

Gildersome, repeatedly stabbed Stephanie Gardener and her mum

Angela at their home in Garforth last August. He has pleaded guilty

to two counts of attempted murder and is due to be sentenced later.

Mountain Rescue teams are still searching for a North Yorkshire

climber who went missing in the Scottish Highlands on Thursday.

Grant Cunliffe, from Skipton, is an experienced climber. He went hill

walking in the Cairngorms at the end of last week. The alarm was

raised on Saturday when Mr. Cunliffe, who is 51, failed to

check into his hotel. All-day drinking events for

students at The University of Sheffield have been stopped after a

drunken teenage girl was run over by a double decker bus. The

teenager suffered serious injuries after leaving Bar One at the end of

half term in December. Students' union managers have decided all

events will be suspended after the union's licence was reviewed.

There has been a protest outside the Sheffield office of DVLA today.

The branch, just off Ecclesall Road, is listed for closure along with 38

other regional offices. The PCS union organised the protest today

against the changes to the service. Today marks the start of the

Chinese Year of the Dragon. It is also six months until the Chinese

Olympic athletes arrive here in Yorkshire to start their training.

300 sportsmen and woman and their back-up team will spend a month at

the universities in Leeds. But how much has it cost Yorkshire to get

them here and will the investment The traditional moodier Lights and

the dance welcoming in Year of the Dragon. -- New Year and lion dance.

Leeds has a large Chinese population and in July, the eyes of

more than a billion people will be on Yorkshire, bringing the Olympic

team to train here is a real coup for Leeds and it is hoped the hard

work will reap rewards for generations to come. This was the

video that won them over. Among the sports stars heading to Leeds will

be the gold-medal winning table tennis team, as well as the

country's track and field athletes. Leeds already has a 5,000 strong

Chinese community and that this traditional gathering, the guests

said they were certain the Olympic athletes would bring prosperity.

any team to pick Leeds is an honour for the City of Leeds, and they

will bring tourism. In Leeds, already lots of Chinese tourists

come. It will help the local Chinese businesses as well,

restaurants, Chinese supermarkets. Today, neither welcome to Yorkshire

or Leeds City Council could say how much had been spent on trips abroad

and hospitality to secured the Chinese Olympic training, but this

is what we do know. Signing up the Chinese was the culmination of more

than four years of work. 300 athletes, coaches and cooks are

coming here, representing at least 11 sport. Welcome to Yorkshire says

last year it secured the equivalent of �4.5 million of advertising from

the Chinese media. The Chinese will pay for all of the facilities, food,

accommodation and transport, so there is a real direct benefit for

the economy. It is the longer term benefits we are hoping to see and

we have had interest from the Chinese media, we have website set

up -- set up that feature lead and one of those was recently set up

and had 3 million hits. The Chinese Olympic Games and their officials

arriving just over six months. The initial financial benefit to lead

is going to be at quarter of a million pounds. -- to Leeds. In the

long term, everybody is hoping it is much, much more.

I think that was the year of the tiger when I was born.

By think I was a rabbit. I am pretty sure. -- I think.

Before seven o'clock: Great expectations - its an "un-

ewe-sually" tense time for a group of mums-to-be as they await the

results of their first ever scans. And join me in a few minutes' time

from Yorkshire's highest pub, where last night they had a spectacular

view of the Northern Lights. Will they we appear again this evening?

-- reappear. It is time the sport and Tanya,

what weight you? I have a nasty suspicion I might be

a rat. I'll have to chat -- check. Sweet and fluffy, that's what it

means. Shall we move on to the sport

before we lose the plot?! The European Figure Skating

Championships are taking place in Sheffield all week and one man

delighted to be taking part is local skater Jason Thompson. He's

overcome a major injury to be selected for the competition. Tom

Ingall caught up with him backstage. This is the press conference centre

where backstage at the European Figure Skating Championships, held

at Sheffield Arena, a tremendous coup to have this event in the city,

all eyes are on our next guest, Jason Thompson, who is 22, trained

in Sheffield and you are carrying the British hopes. I definitely am.

So it is the first round of qualifying and then what happens?

It is qualifying later tonight and then when I get through to that, I

compete in another short programme on Thursday and we will say where

it goes. You must be as thrilled as we are to see this event in your

home city? It is a great honour to skate in the Europeans in the first

place but for it to be in my home town... Does it give you advantage?

I wouldn't say so, but it is good for the city and people of

Sheffield who want to watch it and it saves me travelling! It wasn't

so long ago you were battling back from what could have been a career-

threatening injury. Definitely, I have had two quite serious injuries

on my right knee and I was lucky to come back in third. It was quite

mental stress as well as physical, so I have done well to get back

into it. Good luck tonight, we will let you get into the zone for

getting out on the ice and we will let you know how Jason did on the

lake Bolton tonight. They have some of the world's best

skaters then there -- later button. On to football now and the battle

for League One promotion took another twist this weekend. But

first, Leeds United finished a difficult week with a win at home

to Ipswich in the Championship as Ian Bucknell reports.

More protests outside Elland Road in the week that Leeds United sold

their captain. Chance against the chairman continued inside --

chanting. On the pitch, the turning point was the sending-off of the

Ipswich goalkeeper Alex McCarthy for handling outside the area.

Leeds needed that bit of luck, going on to win 3-1, Luciano

Becchio oh completing the scoring. Darius Henderson did the damage

against Barnsley, at getting a hat- trick against -- at Oakwell.

Habib Beye was sent off for Doncaster for the stomp -- two-

footed lunge and the Rovers remain in the bottom three.

Ask any of the sites near the top of League One and they will tell

you that Charlton are running away -- besides. Sheffield United lost

to them this week. Others failed fought back from being two down

against Brentford. 2-2 at half-time, so step forward by highest scorer

in English football. Jordan roads got his 29th of the season and the

wind. Look at this fantastic solo effort

from Sheffield Wednesday's Jermain Johnson. His run from the halfway

line ended in a goal. But they conceded late on for the match to

end in a draw. And could this be the start of

Chesterfield's revival. Josh Thompson and the spy writer their

first win since September. -- earned Chesterfield.

On-loan defender Andrew Davis placed his free-kick beyond the

button keeper as Bradford group 1-1. And there were -- move away from

the wind tunnel can't happen quickly enough. Port Vale winning

it, making it 2 home defeat in a road for the Millers.

-- two. And you can see much more football

on tonight's Late Kick Off. John Hendrie and Briane Deane are

alongside Guy Mowbray. It's on at 11:05pm here on BBC One.

And in Badminton, Leeds' Jenny Wallwork won the Swedish

International with partner Nathan Robertson to boost their hopes of

qualifying for the Olympics. That is it from me. And Olympic

Dreams, if you missed it... Can we had a shot of that? -- Can

we have. I am very sorry, he has just destroyed the studio.

Welcome to live television! Olympic Dreams, as I was saying it, is

available on the iPlayer. We had just checked your date of birth, I

am a rabbit, you are not a rat, you are a rooster.

I am a rooster! I am not saying anything. Which you prefer?

I think Ristic is preferable. Tanya Thank you, we are just going

to rebuild the studio. We just add a couple of items first.

Now, any expectant mums out there will relate to this.

Have you lasted? It was all going so well. -- lost

it. That special moment during pregnancy - the first scan. Well,

there's been an entire barn of nervous females at Cannon Hall Farm

near Barnsley all waiting for scan results.

Not women of course, but sheep. So will it be twins, triplets or just

one lamb? A little reluctant, this pregnant

ewe is gently -- gently encouraged into the pen for a scan. The latest

in antenatal care for sheep. I put this on the window, the tiny part

this on the window, the tiny part of skin under the stomach. I can

see the body and their head, there is a body there. The black gap

is a body there. The black gap above it, I scan through there and

I say the body. So it is Twins. The scanned information is used for. If

the lamb grows too big, it can lead to a complicated birth. By giving

us this information, it enables them to feed them properly.

Occasionally, they will need some help, but if the lamb is presented

properly, they will always usually give birth on their own. It is the

first time the flock have been scanned so children from a nearby

school were invited to watch. Any Questions? Yes! Why are the sheep

going to have babies? Why are they going to? So we have some lambs to

look at in the spring, that will be really nice. How do you know that

babies are going to be in their tummies? A -- how long. They are

going to be born in April. How many babies, two, three or one? And the

inquisitive mind kept probing. Families can go along to watch the

scans and even see the lambs being born in April. Until then, but

rather plump ewes will keep on eating for two, or even three.

Lovely. Can I just say something, they are

telling me what sign he is in the Chinese now a year. It is an

interesting sign. We will find out shortly, will we?

We will. Now before we hand over to Paul for

the latest weather forecast, some of our more eagle-eyed viewers may

have noticed a spectacular phenomenon in the skies last night.

Yes, the Northern Lights were visible in large parts of rural

Yorkshire. Will they make a repeat performance tonight? I would love

to see these, absolutely love it. Danny Savage is in Swaledale in

North Yorkshire with the answer. Can you see them?

Not yet, but the conditions are perfect. I know you will be talking

to Paul about the weather, but the men -- wind-chill factor is a red

minus six at the moment. We have seen shooting Stars, satellite, but

we haven't seen that Northern Lights, although we could well do

this evening. Let me step out of this evening. Let me step out of

shot, this is what it looked like last night. A long exposure on this

picture taken by Paul Keen step shows the Northern light perfectly.

You can see the green hue of the Northern Lights on the left-hand

side of the picture and the orange tinge in the right-hand side, he

has really captured those of pictures of the Northern Lights. It

is a very rare phenomenon be as far is a very rare phenomenon be as far

south. We are much -- used to it happening at latitude much further

north. We should hopefully see them again tonight. Lots of people were

talking about it on Twitter and the internet today, having taken their

own pictures. Basically, from Yorkshire -- Yorkshire northwards.

One expert says that the solar storm that has caused the Northern

Lights was so strong last night, the residue of it should be seen

this evening and we will stay out here to see if we can see it.

Fantastic. You s, great.

Have you got some more pictures? I have. I had never seen it before

and it is standing. Not quite as good as that, but not bad.

This was Scarborough, you can just see again on the northern horizon.

So for those lucky few who saw that, So for those lucky few who saw that,

at... That is one of my ambitions. You

can keep those pictures coming in if you see it tonight. If he wanted

to see that picture again, you can go to my website.

go to my website. It is all happening at the moment.

We will start the forecast with the warning of some snow, an early

warning of rain, sleet and snow, which will push in during a

critical time of the morning, between 6am and 9 am, a short spell

but nevertheless, we could have accumulated and not just over the

hills but at lower levels for a short time, courtesy of a warm

front which will eventually bring it milder air from the south-west.

One or two showers running through south and west in Yorkshire for a

time today but they are almost gone, so the forecast is clear. If you

want to try and get a glimpse of the Northern Lights, there will be

widespread frost. There is the first of the rain, sleet and snow

into more western areas towards dawn, the lowest temperatures down

to minus two or 3C. The sun will rise at 80 6:00am, setting at

We will have the band of rain preceded by sleet and snow over the

hills and that low levels for a time but it is moving fairly

quickly and that snow will turn back to rain and that will peter

out through the cause of the day. There will be a lot of a fog over

the hills and we will be left with drizzle and further bits and pieces

of light rain. Eventually, we will see top temperatures of a five or

six degrees but it will be a slow process getting that mild air in

from the West. Then it is back to milder stuff on Wednesday, quite a

lot of cloud around, there will be afresh South West wind,

temperatures around about 10 degrees by the end of Wednesday.

Some rain starting to push in from the north-west, clearing on

Wednesday night. Thursday, it looks colder with sunny intervals and

some scattered showers, and Friday, a few share was towards the coast

but mostly dry with some sunshine. -- showers. So a warning in place

for a bit of snow for tomorrow morning in places.

So when we you born? 1971, Pisces.

1971, Pisces. In the Chinese science, I am