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Good evening, and welcome to Look North. | :00:04. | :00:12. | |
On the programme tonight - fighting to stay in their homes... | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Residents living on a deserted estate are told they must move out | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
to make way for new housing. have a right to live on your own | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
land and live a peaceful life. Also on the programme tonight: | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
think they're setting fire to something to attract our attention. | :00:37. | :00:44. | |
The stranded people who set fire to their map to attract attention. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
This shop has had help from a TV makeover expert. | :00:49. | :00:59. | |
These were the bright skies over Nidderdale. Is there a chance for | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
more bright skies? I'll have the forecast later. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Good evening. Tonight, the families who want to | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
keep their homes versus the council who wants to redevelop. Only three | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
houses are now lived in on the Gurnhill Estate in Featherstone, a | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
once thriving mining community. The families say they'll never leave. | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
But today Wakefield Council issued compulsory purchase orders, saying | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
they were blocking regeneration and making the area a target for | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
vandals. Emma Glasbey reports on the latest twist in this long | :01:23. | :01:33. | |
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running battle. Taking my house off me to give it | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
to a private developer to sell it to somebodyes. It was the news they | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
didn't want to wake up to, compulsory orders being handed out | :01:43. | :01:51. | |
to to the three remaining homeowners on a deserted estate in | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Featherstone. I am devastated. They have been threatening for three | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
years, but we're going to take it to a judicial review. The families | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
have gradually agreed to move out, leaving their homes to be | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
demolished. There used to be more than 170 houses here. Today they're | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
gone, and just three are still lived in. One lady who didn't want | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
to be identified says she's determined to stay. This is where I | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
am going to spend the rest of my life here, but to say the council | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
can just come and take it away from you - no way. Even if I lose, I can | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
walk away with my head held high and say I fought for that. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
Wakefield Council wants there to be a brand new housing development and | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
says it's offered generous relocation deals. The package we | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
have put in place would enable them to buy property in the area, and | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
we'll compensate them for the loss of the property. Most of the estate | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
has now been demolished. We do have a developer partner who is ready to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
move and develop the estate, so I think there are benefits to the | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
local economy and local people in Featherstone who want to have a | :02:57. | :03:04. | |
home. Over the years, as houses are boarded up, many of them are set on | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
fire. Anti-social behaviour has been a serious problem. Wakefield | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
Council says it wants to regenerate the area. | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
A developer has been given planning permission to build more than 230 | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
homes here. The first part of the project would be to construct a | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
brand new road, but the homes behind me would need to go. | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
The council doesn't want the estate to remain like this any longer, but | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
the people who own these homes say they won't be forced out. A legal | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
battle will almost certainly follow. Emma, thank you. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
So what legal rights do the families have? In the past half an | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
hour we've spoken to their solicitor who's been explaining | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
what will happen next. We have a period of time now to | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
either adopt a judicial review approach or go down the public | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
inquiry route, and the acquisition of land act. My advice to my | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
clients has been to go down the judicial review route, so within | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
the next three months as of this morning, we have to issue in the | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
High Court an application for judicial review for a judge to now | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
review the actions taken by the council that leads up to this point | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
when the order has been made. tonight: a pair of walkers stranded | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
after dark in the Peak District were rescued by South Yorkshire's | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
police helicopter after they set fire to a map to attract attention. | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
The chopper faces the axe due to Government plans to make forces | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
share helicopters, but Mark Larden and his girlfriend say they owe | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
their lives to it. They're just setting fire to some | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
stuff at the moment to attract our attention. Stuck in the snow in | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
complete darkness - two walkers stranded set fire to their map to | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
get the attention of the police helicopter. Being stuck up there, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
not knowing whether you would live or die is pretty scary. It didn't | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
hit home until I got back to the base how lucky we were to be alive. | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
Lucky and grateful too. Today Mark met the crew who rescued him and | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
his girlfriend. We put Lisa here and you sat opposite. I remember. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
It was quite difficult. Like I said, we were searching for a good 40 | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
minutes with a thermal camera before we found them. When we | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
landed, it was quite deep snow,ed a the temperature was about minus six | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
degrees. The crew picked them up and flew them back to their base. | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
The incident had a happy ending. The future for the helicopter isn't | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
so bright. The Government wants police forces to save money by | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
sharing helicopters, and under the current plans, this chopper would | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
go. This base would close, and South Yorkshire would share the | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
helicopters currently based in Wakefield and in Ripley in | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Derbyshire, but there has been strong opposition. I think it's a | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
disgrace. It's a vital service to South Yorkshire. They need to keep | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
it based in South Yorkshire. If the North Midland unit had come rescue | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
me there, there would have been a lot longer, and who knows what | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
might have happened. The future of the helicopter is being discussed | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
by the police authority this Friday. Mark says the experience won't | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
deter him or his girlfriend from heading out on to the hills in | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
future. They're planning a charity hike for this summer. Of course, | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
that's after they have bought a new map! | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
I love that line about buying a new map - great. Nice one, Dan! | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
Later on Look North: The American dive team are in | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Sheffield. Find out how they have been making friends as well as | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
training in the Steel City ahead of the Olympics. | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Nine Yorkshire MPs are calling on the Government to reduce the | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
subsidies paid to wind farms. They say it's leading to too many | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
applications for turbines and that local people risk being brow-beaten | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
by developers. In North Yorkshire alone, there are currently eight | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
planning applications for large wind farms and hundreds more for | :07:04. | :07:12. | |
smaller individual turbines, as Cathy Killick reports. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
Built four years ago, the eight turbines near Harrogate were | :07:16. | :07:23. | |
fiercely opposed by local residents, but N power won the battle and now | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
gets an estimated �2 million a year in subsidies from the Government | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
for developing and operating these turbines, so it's not surprising | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
that other developers are looking to follow suit. Keder Water | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
Services has erected a testing mast on land it owns nearby and | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
anticipates putting in a planning application for up to two dozen | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
turbines there. It's all a part of a plan to use wind to reduce | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Yorkshire's whopping �45 million annual electricity bill. The energy | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
that's created from developments such as these will be put back into | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
the Yorkshire water electricity to power pumping stations, treatment | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
works and really offset the need to buy that electricity from the Grid. | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
But opponents of wind farms are suspicious. Hello. Peter rigby and | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
Howard Ferguson are fighting the planned wind farms. They think the | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
subsidies are skewing the market, leading to far too many | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
applications. Once they're in, they will enevitably plan for some more | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
because the amount of money to be made from the subsidy is so huge. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Once you let a wind farm in, others follow, and once the door is open, | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
in they go, and they keep following it up. In North Yorkshire alone, | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
there are currently eight application for major wind farms | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
with varying numbers of turbine, but this doesn't include hundreds | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
of applications for smaller individual turbines peppered across | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
the county. Not all the planning applications will result in wind | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
farms, but some will, and they will divide opinion. For some, they're a | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
beneficial addition to the landscape. To others, they're an | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
inefficient blot. But with the Government subsidising them to the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
tune of millions, we should all expect to see more springing up | :09:15. | :09:23. | |
around us. Altogether, more than a hundred | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
Conservative MPs have written to the Prime Minister urging him to | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
cut subsidies for wind turbines. That's at a time when the | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Government wants renewable sources such as wind to provide 15% of the | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
UK's energy supply by 2015. Earlier I asked the MP for Selby Nigel | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Adams why he's supporting this campaign. What we'd like to see is | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
a realignment and rebalancing of where that subsidy is spent. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
Onshore wind we'd like to see the subsidy reduced and taxpayers money | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
- which is effectively what the subsidy is - used on renewable | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
technologies that actually work, for example, like biomass. Are you | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
saying onshore wind turbines aren't effective? They aren't. Even the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
Government's own website says they're effective 60-70% of the | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
time. Why have we got so many? Because they're easy to get through | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
the planning system currently. There is a heck of a lot of money | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
if you're a wind farm developer or a landowner that has been | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
approached. If we cut subsidies, what are the opportunities for the | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
companies to be able to invest in renewables? I would like to refocus | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
the taxpayers' money into a technology that's actually | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
effective. In my own constituency, the power station would like to | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
convert to biomass fuel, which is a renewable technology, but you're | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
able to control the amount of power as and when you need it, which you | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
can't do when the wind doesn't blow, for example. We'll have to leave it | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
there. Thank you. In other news, the Catholic Church | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
has begun an inquiry into how a priest was allowed to be ordained | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
despite being sacked for abusing boys. He worked at St Williams Home | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
in Market Wheaton. He was sacked in 1965. St Williams has been involved | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
in a long-standing investigation dating back 50 years. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
A former cage fighter from Huddersfield has been jailed for | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
life for killing two men linked to a IRA gang. Thomas Hay will serve | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
30 years for shooting down two men on a remote Cornish farm. The | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
prosecution said he murdered the men because they were demanding he | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
go to Brazil to bring back cocaine. A funding plan has been discussed | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
to try to keep Sheffield's museums open for the next six months. | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
Officials have met with the Arts Council after missing out on �4 | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
million putting 45 jobs at risk. It's hoped transitional funding | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
could be available for Millennium, Graves Gallery and Western Park | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Museum while restructuring takes place. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Proposals have been announced in West Yorkshire which could see the | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
biggest shape-up in local Government in decades. Plans have | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
been drawn up to split Kirklees into two areas and renew | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
Calderdale's boundaries. The three authorities will be joined by a | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
single management group. The plans are put forward by the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Conservatives. They say it's meant to be better value for money, but | :12:31. | :12:35. | |
critics say sharing services could lead to job cuts. | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
Officials at Harrogate Council have objected to plans to build a waste | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
incinerator near Nesborough. There were protesters outside the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
planning meeting. They were delighted with the decision. North | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Yorkshire Council will make the final decision. | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
My family have run their own business for years, and although it | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
can be fun, it can be very stressful. As we're about to hear, | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
if it's underperforming, that can be a stressful time. What if the | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
younger members of the family have very different area ideas of how | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
the firm should operate? That's exactly the situation Leeds-based | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
firm Ketlers found itself in, so in caste came a TV presenter to try to | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
fix things. No-one said it would be easy. The programme son BBC Two | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
tonight. Watchit, and here's a sneak preview. Good afternoon, | :13:31. | :13:41. | |
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Kettley's. When you lay like that, you'll just | :13:42. | :13:49. | |
have him as your man serve amount! Kettley's was a traditional shop. | :13:49. | :13:59. | |
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It still is to this day. Madrid? nutmeg. My goodness, gracious me. | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
The overwhelming impression is acres of baik. It just keeps on | :14:05. | :14:13. | |
getting uglier. Honestly, you don't see shops like this anymore. It's a | :14:13. | :14:23. | |
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kind of museum piece. She's a bit harsh. So how did the makeover go? | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Well, Ian White's at the store now. You want to see changes? Come with | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
me. Can you believe this was the same store that was featured on | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
that programme. When she first walked into that store, it looked | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
nothing like this. But wow, what a transformation. I don't want to | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
steal Alex's thunder tonight on BBC Two, but let's talk to one of the | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
owners. David, what a roller coaster few weeks you have had. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Definitely. It has been very stressful. I don't think I would do | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
it again. It was that bad? It was that bad, but I think it's going to | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
be worth it. As you can see, the shop looks so much better. I was | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
going to say, all that stress, but at the end of it, you have a | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
fantastic-looking shop, haven't you? It looks so much better. If | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
you watch the show tonight, you'll see the biggest transformation | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
between the carpet and the various other things. You know, Alex | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
certainly had a lot of things to say about the shop. Yeah. You said | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
you were very proud particularly of the carpet. That's made such a | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
difference, hasn't it, but tell us about some of the other little | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
things you have perhaps changed as you have gone around. Well, the | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
partitions, they're different and just - something simple - a bit of | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
wallpaper on there. Again, it's all the same furniture. It's just a | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
completely different lay-out. It's very interesting to see what type | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
of furniture you can put with something else and make it look so | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
much different and more appealing to the eye. There was quite a lot | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
of emotional stuff with your dad, of course, who has been involved in | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
the store for so long. He was reluctant for a few of the changes, | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
wasn't he? Definitely. I can understand where he is coming from. | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
He has been here 33 years. He was quite nervous about it, you know, | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
especially somebody coming in telling him... Did Alex sort him | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
out? Definitely. I don't think you can win with Alex. She's a woman | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
not to be argued with, which reminds me of someone else back in | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
the studio! Let me get to Harry. You're one of the salesmen and also | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
part own the business. You have been here a long time. What do you | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
make of it all? I think it's really good. The transformation is | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
fantastic. It has been stressful. Yes, at times, a lot of blood, | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
sweat and tears, but it was worth it. Do you think you were set in | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
your ways before? I think the shop has certainly been stuck in its | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
ways to some respect, and it needed the kick up the back side to move | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
things on, really, yes. It looks pretty smart, I have to say. This | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
is one of the labels. Look. They have even had big discussions and | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
arguments what they should look like. They have completely | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
rebranded, but this store is still selling the products it's famous | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
for, things like the highchair. I know, David, you were telling me | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
you managed to sell a chair that you have had for quite a long time. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Yeah, I sold a chair the other day that I believe we had on the shop | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
floor for three-and-a-half years. LAUGHTER | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
So once that had gone home, I cracked open a bottle of bubbly and | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
celebrated we had got rid of it. Business has picked up? Definitely, | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
yes. The things we have taken onboard, they have worked. Very | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
good. I wish you success. We'll see on BBC Two at 8.00pm tonight how | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
you got on. I think I'll sit back and watch the rest of the programme. | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Thank you very much. Take it away. Oh, this is the life! | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
They do look good, those chairs. If they have any old stock of those | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
chairs, I'll have one. Before 7.00pm: still catching the | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
eye - they took Hollywood by storm. Now the story of the Calendar Girls | :17:55. | :18:05. | |
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is taken on by amateur drama groups. Now, as you all know, it's a rather | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
special day today for happy couples around Yorkshire. And Harry reckons | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
he's got the perfect gift. Isn't that right, Harry? Absolutely. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
Picture the scene - it's Valentine's night. Your lady, or | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
gent, awaits a romantic evening. You open the present, and there you | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
have it - two tickets for Galpharm for Huddersfield Town against | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
Sheffield United - priceless. And this is what it is all about. | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Forget Charlton. They are probably promoted already. But who'll get | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
that second automatic spot? We might know a bit more after the | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
clash of the year so far when the Blades go to the Yorkshire club. So | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
let's hear from the managers. In a moment, Danny Wilson. But first, | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
Lee Clark. The local derby and two teams pushing for automatic | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
promotion, so it will be close. It will be a full hour, I would have | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
thought. So the atmosphere will be terrific. The stadium will be | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
rocking, what I call a proper football match. It's going to be a | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
cracking contest. It's going to be two teams that are going into the | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
game on good form. Both very attack-minded, so in that respect, | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
I would expect it to have some goals in it. That's Danny Wilson. | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
The best way to follow the match - two of the best radio stations | :19:18. | :19:28. | |
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The Sheffield Steelers can take another step towards retaining the | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
big league title tonight. They play Nottingham at the arena with the | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
winners moving into second, but the Steelers have had a difficult time | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
against the Panthers. This is their only victory against them in six | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
meetings. World number two golfer Lee | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
Westwood is to be given the freedom of his home. He's to be the first | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
person to be an honourary member of Bassettlaw. He'll have a ceremony | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
at Retford town hall in March. He deserves it. A fantastic player. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
There are just 164 days to go until the Olympics and this week the USA | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
diving team is in Sheffield, which will be their base for the Games. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
It's the ideal preparation as they head to London next week for the | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
World Cup event at the aquatics centre, and as Tanya's been finding | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
out, they're certainly making friends in their new home. | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Under the watchful eye of the United States diving team, some | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
young Sheffield divers are put through their paces. This isn't a | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
team that's just here for the water. It's always great to come to a | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
place and actually be able to do more than just go to the pool, dive | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
and go back to the hotel again. It has been great wandering around the | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
city. We're excited to work with the kids here. It's good to get | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
some of the culture of the place we visit. Over the years, he has been | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
to Sheffield on numerous occasions to compete. For him and the team it | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
has been an ideal team to compete. I love this place, the lighting, | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
the people, roaming around the streets from the hotels to even | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
meeting the Lord Mayor - she was great. This place is so welcoming. | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
It's like home. It's like a dress rehearsal for the Olympic games. We | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
love the venue here. We're going to the World Cup, the test event, next | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
week. It's just perfect to come to Sheffield, get everything right, | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
make sure there is nothing we need to improve on, then when we come | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
back for the Olympic Games, it will be smooth running. The USA diving | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
team will be based in Sheffield for the Olympic games. There will be | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
more to be announced. The city spent about �1 million on the | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
Olympics and say it's money well spent. We have done some work on | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
this and know that Sheffield has already had at least �19 million | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
worth of economic value from the 2012 Olympics. The pre-Games | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
contribute heavily towards that. The economics of the city have done | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
really well. These divers have taken Sheffield to its hearts. It | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
seems the feeling is mutual. community is awesome. Everyone | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
loves to see the United States here. It's neat. I wonder if they'll get | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
a similar reception down south. How did you react, then, to giving | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
those football tickets? I am working on the lates. Good job. | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
Dedication to the BBC - can't wait. We have featured these ladies lots | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
over the years. Auditions for new Calendar Girls | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
have started around Yorkshire as hundreds of drama groups prepare to | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
stage the play later this year. The story of the WI ladies has already | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
been told by Hollywood and the West End. Now the amateur rights have | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
been released for one year only. And one drama group from North | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Yorkshire has been chosen to hold the world amateur premier. Olivia | :22:45. | :22:54. | |
Richwald can explain. The Calendar Girls from Yorkshire shot to world- | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
wide fame after posing nude for charity 12 years ago. Their | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
calendar sparked a global phenomenon. A film and West End | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
play followed. Now dramatic amateur groups from around the world are | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
getting ready to tell their story. The girls' local group, the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
Grassington Players, are preparing for the world amateur premier. | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
nervous, apprehensive, a bit of adrenaline every time I think about | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
it, sleepless nights already. It is a big thing. We're already selling | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
tickets six months in advance. People are buzzing, buzzing for | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
tickets all the time. So far almost 500 amateur groups are interested | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
in putting on the play, and 250 of them have bought the rights. The | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
stage version followed this very successful film. The characters and | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
the names were fictional, but the story, so very British. It's | :23:45. | :23:55. | |
How fitting, then, that this story is finally coming home. Act two, | :23:55. | :24:02. | |
scene two, then - the church hall the following day, "All the girls | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
are on tenterhooks." The WI does not do nudity. Sod them. I knew | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
they wouldn't. But we do do charity. The story is in the deals. It all | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
began here, so I think it should start its amateur life up here. | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
It's right to do that. Yes, we shall watch it and watch it with | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
great interest to see what they make of it. It will be brilliant. | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
To date, the original Calendar Girls have raised more than �3 | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
million for leukaemia research, although none of them want to be in | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
this cast. They will be among the audience for the opening night - | :24:37. | :24:47. | |
:24:47. | :24:52. | ||
the World Amateur Premier takes We'll have the cameras there, of | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
course, strategically placed to make sure there is nothing shown. | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Do you think they'll actually go nude? I think that is the idea of | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
it. But they're not getting paid - takes place in a very appropriate | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
place. Let's have the weather, shall we? Snow around? Or is it all | :25:08. | :25:15. | |
Colder for the weekend, but for the time being, the snow is gone, which | :25:15. | :25:25. | |
:25:25. | :25:34. | ||
is great news. We have photos to Keep your photos coming in. | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
So today we have seen a fair amount of cloud. Temperatures get to 8-9 | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
Celsius through the Vale of York. Tomorrow it is going to be fairly | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
cloudy particularly to begin with, but we will see it brightening up | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
as we head into the afternoon. You can see on the satellite there is a | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
weather front that is just running down the North Sea, so that's where | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
the cloud is going to be the thickest - towards the coast. It's | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
going to be quite a breezy start to the day. Back to today, you can see | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
all the cloud we have had through the course of the day. It has given | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
us the odd light shower, but for most, a dry day. That's the way we | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
end the day, so dry, a fair bit of cloud. That is set to thicken up as | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
we go through the night to the east of the Vale of York, it may get | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
thick enough to give the odd spot of rain, but for most, a dry night, | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
a few clear spells in the west. In the west, temperatures drop the | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
lowest - maybe to 3 Celsius in the Wales, elsewhere, 4-5 Celsius. A | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
moderate north-westerly wind will become strong and gusty for a time | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
along the coastline. Let's look at the sun times it rises tomorrow - | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
7.27am, setting at a quarter past 5.00pm in the afternoon. A breezy | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
day for the afternoon tomorrow but we'll see it brightening up for | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
western areas. We'll see sunny spells developing, whilst the cloud | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
further east thickens in the afternoon, but in the afternoon it | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
brightens up. We should all see sunshine for tomorrow afternoon. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
The gusts will ease down as we go through the day. Temperatures | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
tomorrow are going to be above average for the time of year, so in | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
York, double figures - 10 Celsius - that is 50 Fahrenheit, 8-9 Celsius | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
across the Pennines and Peak District. We'll keep a fair bit of | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
cloud through Thursday and Friday, still giving Us spots of rain at | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
times as that band of rain sinks southwards on Friday. It's going to | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
bring fresher air. Frost on Saturday and just 5 Celsius on | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
Thank you very much. That's about as far as we go for this version of | :27:34. | :27:39. |