:00:06. > :00:11.Good evening. Traffic chaos as the weather causes morning misery on
:00:11. > :00:21.Yorkshire roads. Lorries jack-knife and dozens crash as black ice takes
:00:21. > :00:24.
:00:24. > :00:27.its toll on the A1. I am beside the busy A1 with the
:00:27. > :00:30.latest on the traffic situation. Also, they survived the might of
:00:30. > :00:33.the Soviet empire. Inmates of the notorious Russian Gulags are
:00:33. > :00:36.awarded the Siberian Cross in Bradford.
:00:36. > :00:46.And the bedbugs bite in Yorkshire as infestations increase by as much
:00:46. > :00:47.
:00:48. > :00:53.as 40%. This merry scene in Sheffield was common across the
:00:53. > :01:01.whole of Yorkshire -- this snowy scene. There will be plenty of
:01:01. > :01:04.frost and ice this week. Join me later.
:01:04. > :01:08.Good evening. The A1 became the most dangerous road in the country
:01:08. > :01:10.this morning after black ice caused scores of accidents. A 25-mile
:01:10. > :01:15.stretch of the road in North Yorkshire was closed as cars
:01:15. > :01:17.skidded off the road and lorries jack-knifed. The chaos between
:01:17. > :01:22.Catterick and Allerton Park was caused by rain falling on the
:01:22. > :01:25.freezing road surface. In a moment, we'll be talking to our transport
:01:25. > :01:35.correspondent about what tonight and tomorrow holds for traffic on
:01:35. > :01:36.
:01:36. > :01:41.our roads. First, Ian White joins us from the A1 in North Yorkshire.
:01:41. > :01:48.I am glad to say that things have got back to normal on the A1 after
:01:48. > :01:54.a miserable morning. Tonight, the journey home is better. Things went
:01:54. > :02:00.wrong at about 2am when rain fell on the road that had already been
:02:00. > :02:05.gritted. Temperatures froze. Almost-nine degrees in some parts.
:02:05. > :02:11.Instead of being free-flowing, it was more of a car-park.
:02:11. > :02:15.Off the road and in a ditch, one of more than 50 accidents on the A1 as
:02:15. > :02:24.lorries jack-knifed and car skidded off the road on black eyes.
:02:24. > :02:31.Temperatures plummeted to-nine degrees, -- crisis. Miraculously,
:02:31. > :02:36.nobody was seriously injured. The red had to be closed between
:02:36. > :02:44.Weatherby and Catterick. It became frustrating as drivers tried to
:02:44. > :02:49.find alternative routes. We have rain, it hit the cold road surface.
:02:49. > :02:57.It washed the sort of solution off. It froze. We had a phenomenon
:02:57. > :03:01.called black ice. Our guys were out there and gritting the roads again.
:03:01. > :03:09.And there was nothing motorists could do but wait, or have a
:03:09. > :03:17.cigarette. You are looking at four hours. Just past the Weatherby
:03:18. > :03:22.services. It has been a nightmare. AE 150 miles to go. For the
:03:22. > :03:28.emergency services, the biggest problem has been recovering crashed
:03:28. > :03:33.cars and lorries. A lot of time has been spent checking ditches for
:03:33. > :03:39.cars and possible casualties. Councils were out in force,
:03:39. > :03:43.gritting town centres in the early hours. It was too late for some
:03:43. > :03:49.unlucky drivers. It followed a weekend of disruption caused by the
:03:50. > :03:56.snow. This was the centre of Sheffield. And this was the
:03:56. > :04:03.motorway at Leeds on Saturday night. In some places, Yorkshire resembled
:04:03. > :04:07.a picture postcard. Some people enjoyed it. They are good time was
:04:08. > :04:13.had by some over the weekend. A much happier drive home this
:04:13. > :04:19.evening. A1 flowing freely. It has been a headache for the emergency
:04:19. > :04:24.services. The road reopened at 11:30am. That was after a nightmare
:04:24. > :04:31.having to deal with the congestion and frustration motorists suffered.
:04:31. > :04:36.Also, an accident and road works meant another road was reduced to
:04:36. > :04:41.one lane for part of the morning. Some people had tailbacks of three
:04:41. > :04:46.hours' travelling east and west on the M62 motorway. What went wrong
:04:46. > :04:52.with the road network today? Our correspondent is at the Highways
:04:52. > :04:58.Agency operation centre. It is not every morning you wake up
:04:58. > :05:03.and 25 miles of the A1 is closed. It meant hours of misery and a poor
:05:03. > :05:11.start to the working week. Two questions. What went wrong and what
:05:11. > :05:15.is it looking like for tomorrow? the M62 motorway, we had road works
:05:15. > :05:24.planned. But there was an incident, which meant it had to be closed for
:05:24. > :05:30.three hours. It ran into the peak hour this morning. We apologise we
:05:30. > :05:34.could not open it until it was safe. On the A1, we had freezing rain.
:05:34. > :05:41.There were jack-knifed lorries. We have to close it until it could be
:05:41. > :05:48.made safe. Could you have created the A1? Regretted both routes. We
:05:48. > :05:53.are gritting all of the time. -- we gritted. A bigger overnight
:05:53. > :06:00.operation to keep things save? Absolutely. We will be back
:06:00. > :06:06.throughout the night. It will be very cold tonight. Can you keep us
:06:06. > :06:11.moving tomorrow? We are doing everything we can. We are out there,
:06:11. > :06:18.gritting. We are asking drivers to help pass and be mindful of the
:06:18. > :06:24.conditions. Freezing rain, we cannot predict it. We ask drivers
:06:24. > :06:29.to help by driving to the conditions. The usual advice. If
:06:29. > :06:35.you are commuting tomorrow, leave a lot of time, drive safely and
:06:35. > :06:41.hopefully, you will arrive safely. Good advice. We will keep you
:06:41. > :06:46.across what is happening. Join us at 8:00pm and ten o'clock for the
:06:46. > :06:50.latest. Thank you for the images you centres on how the weather
:06:50. > :06:55.affected your part of the region. Please keep them coming. We will
:06:55. > :07:05.show them later in the programme. You can post them on the Facebook
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:07:07. > :07:11.page. You can send an e-mail. You can also use Twitter. Of course, we
:07:11. > :07:13.will have the weather forecast at the end of the programme.
:07:13. > :07:19.They endured unbelievable hardship and terror during World War Two,
:07:19. > :07:21.but their story barely features in the history books. I'm talking
:07:21. > :07:24.about nearly two million Poles who were forcibly transported to
:07:24. > :07:29.Siberia by the Soviets in February 1940. Around half died. The others
:07:29. > :07:32.ended up scattered round the globe. Some now live in Bradford. Today
:07:32. > :07:39.they were awarded medals in recognition of their suffering and
:07:39. > :07:45.bravery. It could be a school reunion. In
:07:45. > :07:50.fact, the history shared by a these diners is dark and barely known.
:07:50. > :07:55.They are here to remember and on of these survivors of mass deportation
:07:55. > :08:00.of Polish people during World War Two by the Soviet Union. Families
:08:00. > :08:05.were sent on cattle trains to Siberia and forced to build their
:08:05. > :08:11.own prisons in temperatures of -50 degrees. Their reward was 400 grams
:08:11. > :08:15.of bread. Thousands died in the conditions. This man was nine years
:08:15. > :08:23.old when his family was given 20 minutes to board the train and
:08:23. > :08:33.leave their home. Anybody that guided, they were disposed of by
:08:33. > :08:34.
:08:34. > :08:38.the Russians. The train carried on. 22 survivors, including this man
:08:38. > :08:43.were awarded the Siberian Cross today in recognition of their
:08:43. > :08:48.suffering. Their story was suppressed by the Soviets. Only
:08:48. > :08:58.with independence could Poland town is history. Christina was three
:08:58. > :08:58.
:08:59. > :09:05.years old when she was sent to side -- Siberia. Her father was thrown
:09:05. > :09:15.from the train. She also lost her mother and sister. I get upset. It
:09:15. > :09:16.
:09:16. > :09:26.reminds me of my family, of my mother, my sister, who died. It is
:09:26. > :09:26.
:09:26. > :09:31.an honour to get a medal from that from the President of Poland.
:09:31. > :09:41.guests shared a Polish meal in memory of those who died. It is a
:09:41. > :09:44.normality restored, but the past is not far from their minds. Later in
:09:44. > :09:47.the programme. Millions of pounds are secured to
:09:47. > :09:54.keep Yorkshire on the movie map. The company that funds screen gems
:09:54. > :09:57.is handed an EU lifeline. Police are investigating claims of
:09:57. > :10:02.racist abuse against the Archbishop of York following comments he made
:10:02. > :10:06.about gay marriage. Dr John Sentamu said in the Daily Telegraph that
:10:06. > :10:09.marriage must remain between a man and a woman. The Archbishop's
:10:09. > :10:13.office said he had received a small number of abusive and threatening
:10:13. > :10:18.emails of a racist nature. North Yorkshire Police are treating the
:10:18. > :10:21.emails as hate crimes. The former Chief Constable of South
:10:21. > :10:23.Yorkshire Police, Med Hughes, has told the BBC that he will seek the
:10:23. > :10:27.Labour nomination to be the county's elected Police
:10:27. > :10:35.Commissioner. Mr Hughes stood down from his job last October. The new
:10:35. > :10:41.commissioners will be elected in November. Investigations are
:10:41. > :10:47.continuing after a gas explosion at the weekend. 10 homes were
:10:47. > :10:50.evacuated after the blast caused damage to a house. Two people were
:10:50. > :10:53.taken to hospital. The country's most famous chip shop,
:10:53. > :10:57.Harry Ramsden's in Guiseley, West Yorkshire, is being saved from
:10:57. > :11:00.closure. The site is being bought and refurbished by the people
:11:00. > :11:05.behind the Wetherby Whaler chain. Work is expected to cost half a
:11:05. > :11:08.million pounds and be finished by the summer.
:11:08. > :11:10.The first place in the world to produce stainless steel cutlery
:11:10. > :11:14.could be sold off unless campaigners raise a quarter of a
:11:14. > :11:19.million pounds to buy it themselves. Portland Works in Sheffield was
:11:19. > :11:22.built in the 1870s and is still a workspace for specialist trades.
:11:22. > :11:31.But the owner now wants to sell it. It means local businesses will have
:11:31. > :11:39.to move out, unless they raise enough money to run it themselves.
:11:39. > :11:42.Stewart has been making knives here for 27 years. It is part of his
:11:43. > :11:47.family business and part of history. The first stainless steel knife to
:11:47. > :11:53.be produced in the world came from this workshop. The prospect of it
:11:53. > :11:57.being sold sparked concern. I have spent my working life here. It is
:11:57. > :12:04.important. Also for my customers. The history of the building is
:12:04. > :12:10.important for them, as well. There are 20 businesses based at this
:12:10. > :12:14.grade 2 listed building. They are engravers, craft workers, and even
:12:14. > :12:19.artists and musicians use the space. To stop it being sold, campaigners
:12:19. > :12:26.want people to buy it with them and turn Portland Works into a
:12:26. > :12:32.community enterprise. If we have people who donate �5, �10. Quite a
:12:32. > :12:37.lot of people who are not well off, they have put in the minimum �100
:12:37. > :12:44.shareholding. They say it is worth it to save a bit of Sheffield.
:12:44. > :12:50.Rather than have it converted into flats or offices. �150,000 of
:12:50. > :12:54.shares have been sold. The committee says they need another
:12:54. > :12:59.250,000 to seal The Deal. The owner says he will be making a
:12:59. > :13:03.substantial loss if he sells to Portland Works committee. He is
:13:03. > :13:07.prepared to do that if they reach their target. If the money is
:13:07. > :13:11.raised, the committee will want to carry out repair work before
:13:11. > :13:16.opening new businesses and education programmes. If they
:13:16. > :13:24.cannot get the funds, it will be sold to an outside buyer and this
:13:24. > :13:27.part of history will be lost. The organisation that put Yorkshire on
:13:27. > :13:33.the cinematic map has sealed a deal to keep itself in business for the
:13:33. > :13:36.next three years. Screen Yorkshire which has helped Bafta and Oscar
:13:37. > :13:46.productions to be made here was in danger of being closed because of
:13:47. > :13:50.
:13:50. > :13:57.It is pretty and realistic, shot largely on housing estates in at
:13:57. > :14:04.Leeds and Wakefield. It has already won awards and is tipped for
:14:04. > :14:08.success at a prestigious after awards. This is Tyrannosaur,
:14:08. > :14:12.released last year to great acclaim and out on DVD today. But it would
:14:12. > :14:17.not have been made without financial support from this
:14:17. > :14:21.organisation in Leeds. With public spending cuts it is possible but
:14:21. > :14:27.Screen Yorkshire could have seen his long list of successful
:14:27. > :14:33.productions coming to an end. But today's news of European money has
:14:33. > :14:38.reversed all that. This fund means everything. Pygmy to huge amount to
:14:38. > :14:44.us as a company. More importantly, it is a huge investment in
:14:44. > :14:48.production creation in Yorkshire and Humber. But to create more in
:14:48. > :14:52.Yorkshire a cinema successes there is another part of this European
:14:52. > :14:56.funding equation. Private investors have to be persuaded to match the
:14:56. > :15:02.European cash. In a deal that has not been struck anywhere else in
:15:02. > :15:12.the UK, Screen Yorkshire says it has convinced the European
:15:12. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:19.authorities that it can raise that much money.
:15:19. > :15:22.Before seven o'clock. We'll be rounding up the weekend's sport.
:15:22. > :15:27.And at managerless Leeds, the caretaker lets the performance do
:15:27. > :15:30.the talking as the Whites cruise home to a comfortable win.
:15:30. > :15:34.There's been a boom in the number of bed bug infestations across
:15:34. > :15:37.Yorkshire, with experts saying the rise is as high as 40%. Researchers
:15:37. > :15:40.at the University of Sheffield are trying to control the tiny
:15:40. > :15:50.creatures, but say their resistance to modern pesticides is growing.
:15:50. > :15:52.
:15:52. > :15:57.Lucy Hester reports. In a terrorist house in Leeds, Ryan
:15:57. > :16:03.at Bedingfield is on the hunt for some unwelcome deserters. These
:16:03. > :16:07.tiny pests hiding from the light up bedbugs. Once almost eliminated
:16:07. > :16:12.from our homes, numbers are soaring again, and this house is crawling
:16:12. > :16:16.with them. These bedbugs have been feeding on the students in this
:16:16. > :16:26.house, sucking their blood and leaving them with nasty Swarland
:16:26. > :16:31.bite marks. My play was solemn and you concede marks here. They are
:16:31. > :16:35.extremely tricky to get rid of. They could hide in the most minute
:16:35. > :16:43.places which makes it extremely hard for us to point where they are
:16:43. > :16:48.and to destroy them. Cities are the favourite home of the bedbugs. On
:16:49. > :16:53.luggage, cloaking, public transport, they can hitch a lift into cafes,
:16:53. > :16:57.hotels, work places and ultimately into your home. Sheffield
:16:57. > :17:02.University is a leading bed but research centre. They have been
:17:02. > :17:08.keeping thousands of them here for years. Their work shows that
:17:08. > :17:15.bedbugs are developing a resistance to pesticides. We keep some strains
:17:15. > :17:18.that are being culture for 30 or 40 years which resist the -- which
:17:18. > :17:23.predate the pesticides. We can compare these with one's collected
:17:23. > :17:31.in London recently and we find that these are thousands of times more
:17:31. > :17:38.resistant. It is a gloomy outlook. Now, more than ever, the advice for
:17:38. > :17:42.good night is to sleep tight and hope that the bedbugs do not bite!
:17:42. > :17:47.I did not enjoy the story! And you can see more on this, on
:17:47. > :17:53.Inside Out, tonight at 7.30 on BBC One.
:17:53. > :18:00.How long did it take back from Huddersfield on Saturday? No snow
:18:00. > :18:05.at all until I hit the motorway. The conditions were very bad indeed.
:18:05. > :18:10.And Paul Hodson cottagers to bear right with his predictions. I was
:18:10. > :18:13.following him on twitter and help people out to have broken down.
:18:13. > :18:16.There's a lot of speculation still going on about who will take over
:18:16. > :18:22.at Leeds. Some people might have thought this would be resolved
:18:22. > :18:25.quite quickly. Yes, even myself last week, has boasted when I saw
:18:25. > :18:30.the statement when they said there were only 18 games left in the
:18:30. > :18:34.season, I thought they would appoint one someone pretty quickly.
:18:34. > :18:38.But perhaps Nel Redfearn getting the win has made Ken Bates think
:18:38. > :18:45.again and think perhaps this guy knows the players. They have all
:18:45. > :18:51.come out about him over the weekend. He is a smashing chap. And there
:18:51. > :18:56.are a few other new names come into the odds. Neil Warnock and Lee
:18:56. > :19:02.Clark were being bandied about. Coming up now we have David James
:19:02. > :19:09.and also Billy Davies, who was at Derby and Nottingham Forest. Neil
:19:09. > :19:15.Redfearn with some bookies is the third favourite. But to put it in
:19:15. > :19:20.perspective, Gianfranco Zola is the 4th favourite! There would be
:19:20. > :19:26.really interesting. Unigate to every player that Ken Bates has
:19:26. > :19:29.were without Chelsi?! Yes, there are a lot of Chelsea players there.
:19:29. > :19:33.That is the obvious place to start with the round-up from this weekend
:19:33. > :19:36.with the trip by Leeds to Bristol City.
:19:36. > :19:40.The aim of Neil Redfearn had to be a win for Leeds after being
:19:40. > :19:46.appointed caretaker boss. It took Leeds until just before half-time
:19:46. > :19:52.to score, the finish from Robert Snodgrass. Bristol had a man sent
:19:52. > :19:56.off either side of half-time. Ross McCormack scored his 15th of the
:19:56. > :20:01.season and Luciano Becchio got the third in injury time. It was their
:20:01. > :20:08.first win in five thought Leeds. Huddersfield manager Lee Clark has
:20:08. > :20:14.been linked with Leeds. His side were pegged back by MK Dons.
:20:14. > :20:18.worked extremely hard at what I do. Whoever employs us knows they will
:20:18. > :20:27.go 100% from us, they will get total commitment and total focus.
:20:27. > :20:32.That is what I bring to this club every single day. And late goal was
:20:32. > :20:37.enough to grate a tense finish. Back in League One, Sheffield
:20:37. > :20:46.Wednesday fell behind against Yeovil but a brilliant strike from
:20:46. > :20:51.Johnstone pulled it back. Wednesday are up to second. Chesterfield had
:20:51. > :20:57.a disappointing end to do week in which they reached a Wembley final.
:20:57. > :21:02.Despite taking the lead, they lost 2-One, and a bottom of League One.
:21:02. > :21:07.He probably grazed his knees, it was that cold! That looked quite
:21:07. > :21:13.painful. All these football fixtures were called off but none
:21:13. > :21:18.of the rugby league. Bradford Bulls possibly regretting it. Volunteers
:21:18. > :21:22.cleared the pitch and the stands and they got thoroughly beaten. It
:21:22. > :21:27.leads us on to the Super League Show, which has a new presenter
:21:27. > :21:31.tonight. We will give you a little bit of a taste. We will give you
:21:31. > :21:36.all of the weekend's action. Probably the pick of the wind was
:21:36. > :21:42.Huddersfield beating Wigan. This is a prop forward, what a turn of
:21:42. > :21:47.pace! We have a new feature called the eggs chasers, which Castleford
:21:47. > :21:51.take on the challenge this week. And we have a disgustingly talented
:21:51. > :21:56.young man by the name of Brian Hall, one of the best winners in the
:21:57. > :22:02.world, also plays several music in shreds and can do the rebukes tube
:22:02. > :22:10.in 50 seconds. Wayne Rooney is a fan of rugby league at he supports
:22:10. > :22:13.the Leeds Rhinos. How did that happen? That is remarkable turnover.
:22:13. > :22:19.He tweeted about the Super Bowl that he was enjoying a but
:22:20. > :22:22.preferred rugby Dick. All the Leeds United fans to support the Ramphal
:22:22. > :22:27.be delighted. We were singing your praises
:22:27. > :22:32.because she was spot-on. What was hilarious was that Harry was
:22:32. > :22:40.tweeting from Huddersfield St there was snow and then three years later
:22:40. > :22:44.he has stuck in a snowdrift on the A 64! We have had lots of pictures
:22:44. > :22:54.of the weather conditions. You'll see more after the forecast. This
:22:54. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:10.was taken at dusk this evening. I tweet the forecast and the latest
:23:10. > :23:15.If you want more snow in the next couple of days you're going to be
:23:15. > :23:20.sadly disappointed. Other than a little bit late on Thursday, should
:23:20. > :23:30.not amount to much and it will be a predominantly try a week, but a
:23:30. > :23:34.
:23:34. > :23:38.cold one with Frost, ice and Fokker has it at times. -- and fork.
:23:39. > :23:45.Currently we have minus six with freezing fog. I think we could
:23:45. > :23:50.match the minus nine that we got last night. Tomorrow, some sunshine
:23:50. > :23:55.at first and the fog should lift as cloud pushes in from there North
:23:55. > :24:05.Sea. High pressure over the Scandinavia or keep the feet of
:24:05. > :24:08.cold air. It is a messy picture at the moment. We have fog reforming
:24:08. > :24:13.in the Vale of York. That weather front has brought one a to whether
:24:13. > :24:19.showers down from the north. That is adding to moisture on already
:24:19. > :24:27.wet roads. So ice is the main issue this evening and overnight. Then we
:24:27. > :24:32.will see the freezing fog. Generally, temperatures down to
:24:32. > :24:38.minus three or minus four. One small, rural parts of the Vale of
:24:38. > :24:48.York could be down to minus nine. But we had minus 19th last winter,
:24:48. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:57.so we are not down to those levels just yet. A bit of a mixed picture
:24:57. > :25:01.first in the morning. Bright and frosty in western areas. Freezing
:25:01. > :25:06.fog in the Vale of Pickering. Then we get the cloud cover pushing him
:25:06. > :25:11.from the North Sea. They could be one or two wintery showers but it
:25:11. > :25:17.looks essential like a band of cloud. It means the sunshine will
:25:17. > :25:27.go away from the Pennines and it turns grey and Chile. These cloud
:25:27. > :25:30.sheet should act to help lift the freezing fog pouches. -- patches.
:25:30. > :25:39.Top temperatures are still struggling. The average for
:25:39. > :25:42.February is around seven degrees. High temperatures of four Celsius
:25:42. > :25:47.across the Pennines were the sunshine is out first thing in the
:25:47. > :25:53.morning. Tuesday night, we are back in the cold continental air so
:25:53. > :25:57.there will be a sharp frost. Bright with some sunshine in western areas.
:25:57. > :26:02.We will have a week weather front pushing down from the north on
:26:02. > :26:07.Thursday. It is not expected to cause too many problems. Gradually
:26:07. > :26:17.the hint is that temperatures Cradley recover into the weekend.
:26:17. > :26:20.
:26:20. > :26:24.Basically it is predominantly dry The snow may have caused some
:26:24. > :26:27.disruption but we should not forget that lots of you love it how could