:00:37. > :00:41.Find out what happened when Prince Charles had a chat with the world's
:00:41. > :00:47.most famous umpire. We'll have live reaction here in
:00:47. > :00:52.Sheffield at the city's Millennium Gallery. The
:00:52. > :00:56.And 90 years old and still going strong - the historic picture house
:00:56. > :00:59.that's been given a new lease of life.
:00:59. > :01:09.A damp, misty night to come, but at least tomorrow should be a good
:01:09. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:16.deal milder. The details coming up shortly.
:01:16. > :01:20.Good evening. There will be no police action against four
:01:20. > :01:25.children's nursery assistants in York arrested last estAugust.
:01:25. > :01:28.Concern had been concerned about the quality of care at a nursery in
:01:28. > :01:31.the city. Both police and council investigators were called in.
:01:32. > :01:35.However, now the Crown Prosecution Service has advised no action
:01:35. > :01:39.should be taken against the assistants. In a moment we'll be
:01:39. > :01:44.hearing from the solicitor who is representing the owner of the
:01:44. > :01:52.nurseries, but first, Kathy Killic reports.
:01:52. > :01:57.It was in August last year that two nurseries fell into the spotlight
:01:57. > :02:02.as six staff members were arrested. The allegations were not made
:02:02. > :02:09.public, though police made clear it was not a case of sexual abuse. In
:02:09. > :02:19.October two staff members were told they'd face no further action. The
:02:19. > :02:20.
:02:20. > :02:25.other four remained on bail. In November they were asked to tighten
:02:25. > :02:29.up. That has been done. Parents today reacted with relief for the
:02:29. > :02:34.staff and some criticism of police and council's investigation.
:02:34. > :02:38.I think it's appalling the way it has been handled as parents. We're
:02:38. > :02:42.totally in the dark as to what's happened. I think for the staff
:02:42. > :02:49.it's absolutely dreadful. It's such a relief to know everything has
:02:49. > :02:55.been dropped. There was anything in any of our minds anything had gone
:02:55. > :02:59.on. The children were always happy and playing. Mollie just wants to
:02:59. > :03:03.stay and play with everyone. They're brilliant. They have been
:03:03. > :03:07.second to none. It has been a difficult six months for the
:03:07. > :03:11.nurseries. As a business, they have been badly affected by the cloud of
:03:11. > :03:14.suspicion cast over them. The owner backed her staff from day one and
:03:14. > :03:20.cooperated with the inquiry, but the authorities' duty to
:03:20. > :03:27.investigate has come at a price to her business and her accused staff.
:03:27. > :03:32.Joining us now is Mark Byrne, the solicitor for the owner of the
:03:32. > :03:38.nurseries. First and foremost, the welfare of children in nurseries is
:03:38. > :03:45.the first priority, isn't it? course, absolutely paramount. Lynne
:03:45. > :03:52.has made her business the success it was by giving top-quality care
:03:52. > :03:56.for 25-30 years now. She built her businesses on loving children.
:03:56. > :04:01.Something has gone wrong. Indeed. I think Lynne would say she still
:04:01. > :04:04.doesn't know. We don't know. Unfortunately, as it is, the
:04:04. > :04:07.authorities can still maintain their silence. For Lynne it has
:04:07. > :04:12.been the worst six months of her life trying to understand.
:04:12. > :04:17.sorry to interrupt. Are you saying, then, the owner of the nurseries
:04:17. > :04:20.and the four staff who remain suspended have no idea what they're
:04:20. > :04:24.potentially being investigated for? No. Certainly Lynne does not
:04:24. > :04:29.because I have spoken to her on a number of occasions. We were not,
:04:29. > :04:33.it was agreed, to contact the four staff members, but I understand
:04:33. > :04:37.when they have seen Lynne, they were questioned. No specific
:04:37. > :04:41.allegations or detail was put to them. Do you find that incredible
:04:41. > :04:49.as a solicitor? I do. I appreciate the police have a very difficult
:04:49. > :04:54.role and a very difficult task whether any allegations are against
:04:54. > :04:56.them with young children. That has to be paramount, but the
:04:56. > :05:00.repercussions elsewhere has to be significant for Lynne, for all the
:05:00. > :05:03.staff. I have attended a number of meetings. They have been in tears,
:05:03. > :05:07.and the children - it has been a lot of disruption for the children,
:05:08. > :05:12.which has been far from ideal. are those repercussions? I am
:05:12. > :05:14.presuming she's lost a lot of children at the nurseries.
:05:14. > :05:18.Understandably. Parents would decide very quickly, I am sure,
:05:18. > :05:23.that the welfare of their child was paramount. Those who, I suspect,
:05:23. > :05:26.had not had good-standing links with Lynne and the nurseries would
:05:26. > :05:32.be inclined to appreciate that perhaps they would have to move.
:05:32. > :05:36.You have heard from a number of parents, many who have stayed loyal,
:05:36. > :05:41.many who have been with Lynne for many years and appreciate the
:05:41. > :05:46.quality of service. It has been devastating for the service. There
:05:46. > :05:49.is still an investigation going on - education experts - isn't there?
:05:49. > :05:55.I understand there is scheduled to be a meeting on February 1
:05:55. > :05:58.effectively now to oversee and summarise. Certainly at this moment
:05:58. > :06:02.in time we do not expect any further significant action
:06:02. > :06:05.whatsoever. On that basis, sadly, despite what's happened, the
:06:05. > :06:09.quality of service Lynne has always provided we believe will be
:06:09. > :06:14.vindicated. Having said that, this has gone on for months and months.
:06:14. > :06:20.It has, and unfortunately, like it or not, because of the regulations,
:06:20. > :06:25.because of the difficulties, everybody has had to get their
:06:25. > :06:30.heads down, try and get on with it in the autumn with what I term a
:06:30. > :06:34.sword of Damocles hanging over them. That has been tragic for everybody.
:06:34. > :06:38.Next, were you in Barnsley for the Prince Charles' visit? If so, get
:06:38. > :06:42.ready to spot yourself. There was a lot of flag waving in
:06:42. > :06:51.Barnsley. There was. A damp day, but a lot of fun. It has certainly
:06:51. > :06:56.been a day to remember. After dropping off to the offices of the
:06:56. > :07:02.local newspaper, he met the legendary Dicky Bird himself. He
:07:02. > :07:07.began in West Yorkshire with a rather steamy encounter.
:07:07. > :07:12.An arrival in style - almost. No- one could ever say the Wakefield
:07:12. > :07:19.station was fit for a Prince, but nonetheless it's where the heir to
:07:19. > :07:24.the throne began his visit. One of the engine's first sad duties was
:07:24. > :07:32.to pull the Prince Charles's funeral train for the South Wales's
:07:32. > :07:39.grandfather. His first duty was to rededicate the train, built in 1951,
:07:39. > :07:43.recently returned to steem, it has a new name for the Golden Jubilee
:07:43. > :07:46.year. There are some famous faces involved in the restoration. It's
:07:46. > :07:50.unbelievable. This was thought to be unreparable. This has been done
:07:50. > :07:54.by young people. We had 30 apprentices on this job. It's a
:07:54. > :08:02.win-win for everyone, very exciting. Then it was on to South Yorkshire,
:08:02. > :08:05.but on roads. After meeting the staff at Barnsley's local paper,
:08:05. > :08:12.His Royal Highness made time to meet the many who waited patiently
:08:12. > :08:15.to greet him. What did he say? He said he's sorry
:08:16. > :08:22.he hasn't been to Barnsley before. I was around the corner, and I had
:08:22. > :08:28.to walk all over this place. I shook his hand. Ooh, wow! I am
:08:28. > :08:32.feeling laibt nervous, and this is worse than waiting to go out and
:08:32. > :08:38.start a test march. There was one particular son of the town waiting
:08:38. > :08:44.to be bowled over - the legendary cricket umpire Dicky Bird waiting
:08:44. > :08:49.under his statue. It has been a great pleasure for me to meet the
:08:49. > :08:54.Prince again, Prince Charles. Is he a cricket fan? Yes. He said
:08:54. > :08:58.to me, "I would like to see England do a lot better in this Test
:08:58. > :09:02.series." I said I would as well. ease with young and old, there was
:09:02. > :09:05.time for more hand shakes and waves before an engagement at the
:09:05. > :09:09.university. Here his charity hopes to fund projects to get young
:09:09. > :09:14.people into training or work. It's hard to believe it's his first ever
:09:14. > :09:18.visit to Barnsley. It's had heritage, architecture, now
:09:18. > :09:28.gardening - all subjects we know are close to his Har. Perhaps the
:09:28. > :09:30.
:09:30. > :09:33.thing he'll be most interested to see here at Wentworth Castle is
:09:33. > :09:41.this conservatory. A fair few shook hands and met the
:09:41. > :09:47.man who will one day be King. In return, we gave the Prince a few
:09:47. > :09:52.magic memories of his own. Bye! They have just seen themselves on
:09:52. > :09:57.telly. I think Dicky had a nice day...
:09:57. > :10:04.loved it. He had a tear in his eye. I guarantee he had a few tissues.
:10:04. > :10:07.We love you lots. Still coming up. Turn up on time or face a fine -
:10:07. > :10:11.should hospitals start charging the patients who waste millions of
:10:11. > :10:14.pounds by missing their appointments?
:10:14. > :10:19.Actually this afternoon there has been bad news for the city's
:10:19. > :10:24.museums in Sheffield. They have actually missed out on �4 million
:10:24. > :10:33.worth of funding from the Arts Council, money they say was needed
:10:33. > :10:39.to make up a shortfall. Yes, Museums Sheffield will suffer
:10:39. > :10:41.a 30% reduction in its budget from April 1. Boss say large scale
:10:41. > :10:47.redundancies are now inevitable. A meeting is taking place this
:10:47. > :10:52.evening at the Millennium Gallery where staff are being told what
:10:52. > :10:55.this means. Dan, what's the mood like there? Yes, the staff are just
:10:55. > :11:00.absorbing this news tonight. They're just leaving a meeting
:11:00. > :11:05.where this news has been delivered. This is the city's Millennium
:11:05. > :11:10.Gallery. This is the exhibition of Sheffield's finest silverware of
:11:10. > :11:14.the steel city. It's exhibitions like that run across this gallery,
:11:14. > :11:21.the Graves Gallery across the road and the Western Park Museum, all
:11:21. > :11:28.run by the Sheffield Museum Trust. They were relying on a bid for �1.4
:11:28. > :11:33.billion from the Arts Council, which they have found out has been
:11:33. > :11:40.turned down. That means job losses. We're joined by Nick Dodd, the
:11:40. > :11:45.Chief Executive. Not a good day. Not a good day. We're devastated
:11:45. > :11:55.for ourselves, the people who work for us, and the citizens of
:11:55. > :11:57.
:11:57. > :12:06.Sheffield who we believe are - PROBLEM WITH SOUND
:12:06. > :12:10.More on that story at 10.25pm. Sorry about this. Slight problems
:12:10. > :12:15.at the moment. We're going to actually bring you up to date with
:12:15. > :12:19.some more of our stories which have been developing today. A 34-year-
:12:19. > :12:25.old man has been arrested after the death of a five-year-old boy in
:12:25. > :12:31.Wakefield. Police were called to a house in Aberford Road by
:12:31. > :12:35.paramedics where they were treating the boy. The child was taken to
:12:35. > :12:44.hospital but later died. Police have exhumed the remains of
:12:44. > :12:48.an unknown woman in North Yorkshire. The body is now undergoing DNA
:12:48. > :12:51.tests in the mortuary and will be reburied at the service in the
:12:51. > :13:00.cemetery tomorrow. The search for a hill warker who
:13:00. > :13:05.failed to return home to Skipton following a trip to the Cairngorms
:13:05. > :13:09.has stood done. He went missing on Thursday.
:13:09. > :13:14.Hospital bosss in Pontefract say doctors won't be used to staff
:13:14. > :13:19.accident and emergency at night. They had discussions with the Trust
:13:19. > :13:25.but say they came to nothing. The hospital has been closing at
:13:25. > :13:31.10.00pm every night because of a shortage of trained doctors.
:13:31. > :13:38.David Crompton has been appointed the new Chief Constable in West
:13:38. > :13:42.Yorkshire. He replaces Med Hughes. The 2012 Leeds 10K is launched
:13:42. > :13:50.today in the city. The event which attracts thousands of runners from
:13:50. > :13:55.all over the country is organised by the Jail Tomlinson Appeal. It's
:13:55. > :14:01.now a major fixture in the sporting calendar. It is an Olympic year.
:14:01. > :14:07.Jane is an ambassador, so it's a bit poignant for us. We knew at
:14:07. > :14:16.time June was doing this she wouldn't be alive when the Olympics
:14:16. > :14:21.took place. Hopefully, we can Sorry we had some technical
:14:21. > :14:26.problems which meant that we lost our reporter in Sheffield. He was
:14:26. > :14:30.telling us about a 30% cut in funding for museums and art
:14:30. > :14:35.galleries there. We are going to hand over to you again. This is
:14:35. > :14:41.important for the city. It is. They expect cuts here. I
:14:42. > :14:46.hope they had not stopped paying the enters the bills! A 30% cut in
:14:46. > :14:50.the Budget after March - how his art gallery provision going to look
:14:50. > :14:53.different after that? It is going to be very different. We can't
:14:53. > :14:58.avoid the high levels of redundancies you have mentioned. It
:14:58. > :15:08.will mean that a lot of the exhibitions and other educational
:15:08. > :15:12.activities that we can only do will come to an end. We galleries have
:15:12. > :15:16.to close? At this moment, we hope not. But
:15:16. > :15:20.nothing is guaranteed. We are getting in touch with the Arts
:15:20. > :15:24.Council to find out what they mean when they say that there's some
:15:24. > :15:34.possible funding available to us. We don't know the rules on that yet.
:15:34. > :15:35.
:15:35. > :15:38.But it will be serious,, what way - - come what may. The people of this
:15:38. > :15:43.city would have benefited from public funding and resources which
:15:43. > :15:47.will be taken away from them. We are already extremely poorly funded
:15:47. > :15:50.as a city for arts funding. It is one of the lowest in the country.
:15:50. > :15:55.Thank you very much. As you were hearing, this is going to have a
:15:55. > :15:58.severe impact on arts funding in Sheffield. Bids for York and Leeds
:15:58. > :16:01.have been awarded today. The Arts Council are saying that Sheffield
:16:01. > :16:05.will get some money in the interim to help them adjust to these
:16:05. > :16:10.changes. Just a reminder that we hope to
:16:10. > :16:14.hear from the Arts Council at 10:25pm.
:16:14. > :16:18.Is it time to actually start charging patients who fail to turn
:16:18. > :16:23.up to their hospital appointments? Many private dentists have already
:16:23. > :16:30.begun to do that. The Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb claims that probably it
:16:30. > :16:35.is the only way to cut the massive cost to the NHS of scores of scores
:16:35. > :16:42.-- and scores off missed appointment. Each one costs �70-
:16:42. > :16:47.�100. Our health correspondent has the details.
:16:47. > :16:57.In the NHS, they are known as the end -- did not attend. It has been
:16:57. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:10.Our biggest hospitals now text or send people messages. But in
:17:10. > :17:15.Sheffield, 77,004 what to turn up. In Leeds, it was a bigger problem.
:17:15. > :17:19.In Bradford, the figure was 53,000. Nationally, young men are least
:17:19. > :17:25.likely to turn up. But in Yorkshire, it is women and the worst offenders
:17:25. > :17:30.are those in their twenties. Those in the 70s are the best attenders.
:17:30. > :17:38.But should those who fail to cancel be fined?
:17:38. > :17:41.They are wasting professionals' time. There's other people who want
:17:41. > :17:49.appointments and they can't get them. So the least they can do is
:17:49. > :17:59.turn up. And if not they should be punished? Definitely forced to
:17:59. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:08.If I do not, dentist, I'm fine. I think they should.
:18:08. > :18:14.It is wasting our time and their money. They should get fined.
:18:14. > :18:20.Clear support there in Wakefield. But what do NHS trusts are think?
:18:20. > :18:23.Fining has to be a final resort. Maybe we need to bear that in mind.
:18:23. > :18:28.A lot of trusts are doing a lot of different things to try to
:18:28. > :18:31.encourage people to remember when they have to attend. They also have
:18:31. > :18:34.to think about when we schedule appointments and how we make sure
:18:34. > :18:38.that people have all the information they need about why it
:18:39. > :18:45.is important for them to get back to the hospital and let them know
:18:45. > :18:51.if they cannot attend. But in the last instance, probably hospitals
:18:51. > :18:55.have to bear fining in mind as a last resort. I have just had a text,
:18:55. > :19:03.dentist to remind me about my point But on Thursday. Andrew, I will be
:19:03. > :19:13.there. -- my appointment. Plenty of the have been with touch
:19:13. > :19:35.
:19:35. > :19:38.Thank you very much for your comments. Before 7pm: Jetting off
:19:38. > :19:42.in search of the Northern Lights - we join a planeload of Yorkshire
:19:42. > :19:46.sightseers hoping for a spectacular show.
:19:46. > :19:49.Steeped in history, it has a pass to be proud of and a future to look
:19:49. > :19:59.forward to. Find out which a Picture House I have been visiting
:19:59. > :20:00.
:20:00. > :20:04.A quick look at the sport. Doncaster Rovers' job of trying to
:20:04. > :20:07.avoid relegation has been made more difficult. It has emerged that
:20:07. > :20:11.James Coppinger is likely to miss the rest of the season because of
:20:11. > :20:21.this incident at Bristol City. Yannick Bolasie is challenge has
:20:21. > :20:26.
:20:26. > :20:31.It is incredible. He would have thought that a silent movie, The
:20:31. > :20:36.Artist, it has had a lot of nominations and not a word spoken.
:20:36. > :20:39.I hear that people have been asking for their money back in some places.
:20:39. > :20:44.Let's take to now to a Picture House which was actually built at
:20:44. > :20:48.the time when there was no such thing as talking pictures. It is
:20:48. > :20:54.the heart of the Silent Movie Industry. For 90 years, the Picture
:20:54. > :20:58.House her struggle to keep up with the times. A lack have -- of
:20:58. > :21:04.funding has been it has missed out. It is all happening in Hebden
:21:04. > :21:14.Bridge. The council has just taken ownership of the cinema. It means
:21:14. > :21:21.
:21:21. > :21:26.the local community will get The 1960s boom in British cinema,
:21:26. > :21:31.and every reason to celebrate in Sheffield as a state-of-the-art ABC
:21:31. > :21:34.opened in the city. Sadly these scenes were short lived. It was
:21:34. > :21:38.demolished in the 1980s, gone forever, like so many cinemas
:21:38. > :21:45.across Yorkshire. Now, one that has survived the good times and the bad
:21:45. > :21:49.is here in Hebden Bridge. But it has not been without its own drama.
:21:49. > :21:53.The council-run Picture House first opened its doors in 1921, and has
:21:53. > :21:59.been used as a cinema ever since. But over the years, it has
:21:59. > :22:03.struggled to keep up with the times as technology advanced and meant
:22:03. > :22:07.that a lack of funding kept the cinema in the past.
:22:07. > :22:10.It has been upside down. People are not sure about their jobs and the
:22:11. > :22:16.future of the Picture House. It is a close family. They want the
:22:16. > :22:20.Picture House to run. And now things are looking up. The
:22:20. > :22:24.town council took the step of taking over the cinema from the
:22:24. > :22:27.district council. It has taken 12 months, but they are now
:22:27. > :22:31.responsible for its future, mean they can do their own fund raided -
:22:31. > :22:35.- fund raising to bring it into the 21st century.
:22:35. > :22:39.It has been hard work in the past 12 months, all the meetings and
:22:39. > :22:44.negotiations. But at the end of the day, the Picture House has come
:22:44. > :22:49.back to its rightful owner, the town council. We are going to
:22:49. > :22:56.preserve it for generations to come. And work on improvements has
:22:56. > :23:00.already done. One of these projects will stay, but the cinema would
:23:00. > :23:10.become digitised so modern films can be shown. It is hoped it will
:23:10. > :23:12.
:23:12. > :23:16.continue to be a crowd-pleaser for I feel nostalgic now. Did you go to
:23:17. > :23:22.your local cinema? I did, when I was a youngster. You could watch
:23:22. > :23:24.two films and stay in or come around. Those were the days.
:23:25. > :23:28.After the fantastic Northern Lights display on Sunday, heads have been
:23:28. > :23:33.turned up to the sky across Yorkshire as people try to catch
:23:33. > :23:36.another glimpse. Imagine how excited the 140 passengers were
:23:36. > :23:42.last night he got on a rather special flight from Leeds-Bradford
:23:42. > :23:47.airport. Spencer Stokes went with them in the hope that Mother Nature
:23:47. > :23:50.would put on another spectacular celestial show.
:23:50. > :23:55.On Sunday night, the Northern Lights came to Yorkshire. Last
:23:55. > :24:02.night, Yorkshire went in search of the Northern Lights. 9pm, and a
:24:02. > :24:06.specially chartered flight from Leeds-Bradford, and 140 passengers
:24:06. > :24:14.getting away from the clouds and light pollution to increase their
:24:14. > :24:18.chance of C McRae this phenomenon. These things I force of nature. We
:24:18. > :24:23.might be lucky again tonight. The lights were dimmed and the
:24:23. > :24:29.search began. Roses were presumably pressed against the windows. -- and
:24:29. > :24:33.noses. These lenses show what was seen in the distance.
:24:33. > :24:38.On the horizon, that is almost certainly be Northern Lights. We
:24:38. > :24:43.have to keep our fingers crossed in the hope that it kicks off.
:24:43. > :24:47.Last Night Mother Nature was not playing. No chance of seeing this
:24:47. > :24:51.kind of spectacular display. Not the brilliant flashes that we
:24:51. > :24:56.saw on television earlier, but we did get to see some elements that
:24:56. > :25:02.we would not have seen otherwise. A bit disappointed not to see
:25:02. > :25:08.anything spectacular. The display was not as bright as what we
:25:08. > :25:13.expected, but certainly impressive. 24 hours ago, we had a fantastic
:25:14. > :25:18.display, curtains and raised going up skyward. Tonight it was not as
:25:18. > :25:22.good as that, but you never know. Another flight leaves tonight from
:25:22. > :25:30.Doncaster, and with the solar eruption heading our way, the
:25:30. > :25:37.prediction is there will be a Now two hours a lesser weather
:25:37. > :25:47.presenter. Can I ask something stupid? How do you pronounce the
:25:47. > :25:51.Northern Lights? It has a Latin name. Experts say there's a 50%
:25:51. > :25:53.chance of seeing it tonight. But for the rest of us, it is going to
:25:53. > :26:02.for the rest of us, it is going to be overcast. No point in looking at
:26:02. > :26:12.the sky. This is how overcast it has been. This shows how low the
:26:12. > :26:13.
:26:13. > :26:16.Keep sending them in. The headline for the next 24 hours is it is
:26:17. > :26:22.cloudy but milder. Tomorrow, temperature should be in double
:26:23. > :26:31.figures. But this weather front will bring some heavy rain on
:26:31. > :26:37.Wednesday and Thursday. You can see the extent of it here. We have got
:26:37. > :26:41.extensive fog on the tops of the Pennines. Further outbreaks of rain
:26:41. > :26:50.tending to Peter out for the second part of the night. We will be left
:26:50. > :27:00.with drizzle, though. Temperatures at their lowest now, three or four.
:27:00. > :27:01.
:27:01. > :27:06.The sun rise in the morning is that 80 4:00am. -- is at four minutes
:27:06. > :27:12.past eight in the morning. Most of us will have a dry day. A few
:27:12. > :27:17.brighter spells around the middle of the day as the wind Figgins up
:27:17. > :27:21.from the south, south-west. Tomorrow evening the wind may head
:27:21. > :27:26.back to the West. Today we have struggled with temperatures.
:27:26. > :27:34.Tomorrow we are looking at 10 Celsius. As we push into West and
:27:34. > :27:38.South Yorkshire, it's a similar South Yorkshire, it's a similar