20/02/2012 Look North (Yorkshire)

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

programme tonight: Easy pickings. The so-called

security locks which can be broken by burglars in a matter of seconds.

Also tonight. The comeback kid. Sacked by Leeds

United, Simon Grayson is now the new manager of Huddersfield Town.

But can he unite the Terriers? just think he is a lead manager

through and through and white be welcome. He is a good choice, Leeds

United were wrong to sack him. And friend to the stars. The

Scarborough man who's made it his life's work to collect the

autographs of the rich and famous. For all you youngsters, I have met

Matt Frei, J L S Mini Alexandra Burke and Brian Vickers.

At a mild week to come across Yorkshire, will forecast coming

shortage. Good evening and welcome to Look

North. Tonight, the crime epidemic that's

sweeping Yorkshire. It's called lock-snapping and it's used by

criminals to break into homes. The technique was first developed in

Bradford, but has quickly spread and now a quarter of all house

break-ins in West Yorkshire involve the technique. That's put West

Yorkshire at the top of the league for the highest numbers of

burglaries in the entire country. In a moment, we'll be speaking to a

crime prevention expert who can help you protect your home, but

first Ian White has this. At a man breaks into a house in

Leeds, using tools and a bit of know-how, he can snap the euro

cylinder lock on the front door to get in. Fortunately, this was not

for real, but a demonstration for the BBC's Inside Out programme. The

team discovered it took less than a minute. Very surprised how easy it

was. That seller no broke Copper so easy and so all I had to do was

take the mechanism that -- that cylinder broke off. There are

thousands a properties across Yorkshire that are fitted with

euro-cylinder locks. Burglars can easily snap them and get into

properties. It is a technique developed in Bradford but as

quickly spread across West Yorkshire, pushing up the county's

crime figures. Rebecca from Wodehouse knows what it is like to

be burgled. She had no idea just how vulnerable the locks on her

door were and found out the hard way. A policeman came around this

morning and had a look at the lock. He's explained it was a more old-

fashioned type of Loch and he recommended we had the new style of

lock put in. A we are on a very typical street here, aren't we?

we are and 80% of the doors are you PVC, which at the vulnerable euro

cylinder lock, which is very easily accessed by a burglar, which can

gain access to the locking system. We have actually upgraded the

luckier. The burglar will know that, because they will identify the

high-security cell under to what is a basic cylinder. The police and

crime -- crime-prevention colleagues are now aiming to raise

standards on locks. They should make life tougher for the burglars.

Chris Adams is a crime prevention expert from the CASAC organisation,

which works with West Yorkshire Police in Leeds.

Why is this a West Yorkshire problem? It originated in Bradford,

as mentioned on the report, and one of the problems with the locks is

they can be snapped. I have brought in some examples of the vulnerable

kind of locks. What kind of price of we talking about that you buy

these for? These can range from anything above the 75p and they are

fitted on... So people could have spent a lot of money on their doors,

but they find themselves with a very cheap lock, which is the cause

of this problem? That is right. What we do at CASAC is a free

security assessment and people living in West Yorkshire can

Corless -- call us and we can go out and supply a completely free,

no obligation assessment to check if they have this kind of locks.

if you were to buy a decent lock, what would it cost? We fit ones

that are �75 for the first lock and there are 50 panned for any extra

locks. Bath �50. We have worked with a local manufacturer to

develop one to withstand the kind of attacks we are seeing. This is a

snap lock, this is what can happen to the cheap cylinder locks. And it

is very easy to do. I won't show you but it is very easy.

industry standards have got to help in some shape or form. We always

asked about the kind of locks we have on our home. Will they now ask

for different kinds? The we hope so. We are working with West Yorkshire

Police de develop new standards to eradicate these vulnerable kind of

locks -- to develop. Hopefully when that his plays, we will see

burglary dropping. So your advice will be for everybody to have a

quick look at their locks and contact them expert? People are

welcome to give us a call or visit the website and, at CASAC, for a

load of information and we will do a free assessment. Thank you for

joining us. On Inside Out later, you can see

just how easy it is to break into a home which is secured using the

euro cylinder locks. That's Inside Out tonight on BBC One at 7:30pm.

Friends and teachers of the murdered school girl Casey Kearney

have remembered her at a special assembly this morning. The 13-year-

old was stabbed at a park in Doncaster last week.

This morning saw her classmates return to McAuley Catholic High

School, after the half-term break. Her head teacher said she will be

missed by everyone. Tom Ingall reports.

They returned from a holiday is like no other. And undoubtedly

difficult day for everyone at McAuley Catholic High School as

they went back to lessons without their friend, 13-year-old Casey

Kearney. There has been essential - - special assembly, with prayers

being said for the popular girl and her family and friends. In a

statement, the head teacher fact everybody who has offered sympathy

for all of the students, staff and a whole community. Casey was on her

way to meet a friend at the Doncaster Park last Tuesday when

she was fatally stabbed. A 26-year- old woman has already been charged

with her murder. The police investigation continues, as do

their efforts to reassure the community. I think the community is

still in shock. It was completely unprovoked, random and tragic. The

death of any child is tragic, but the circumstances were particularly

poignant. We are working closely to try and make it as bearable as

possible for the children. Some of the cards and Tributes left in the

park have now been removed, to be displayed at Casey's funeral,

although there is no date yet set. Hare class mates are also being

offered support and counselling. -- her classmates.

Later on Look North: a we are making a splash.

I am here at the test event at the Olympic aquatic Centre, West

Yorkshire's 2012 Olympic hopefuls are taking part in this week's

World Cup. Two weeks ago, Simon Grayson was

manager of Leeds United. Then he was sacked by Ken Bates. A few days

ago, Lee Clark was manager of Huddersfield Town. He was dismissed

on Valentine's night by chairman Dean Hoyle.

So today comes the news that Simon Grayson is to be Huddersfield's new

boss. A whirlwind time especially with Neil Warnock now at Leeds. I

can't remember a time quite like this. Ian Bucknall is at the

Galpharm for us. Indeed, it is another week and

another managerial change in Yorkshire football. We heard

yesterday that the bookmakers were no longer taking bets on Simon

Grayson taking over at the Galpharm. That was a big clue and it has been

confirmed today that he is the new manager at Huddersfield Town. That

is hot on the heels of him losing his job at Leeds United, and on

Saturday, they confirmed that Neil Warnock is their new manager. He

arrived at Elland Road and was mobbed by photographers and fans.

We understand he got stuck straight into his job at Leeds United. They

work two 2-0 down against Doncaster Rovers and we understand he went

into the changing room at half-time and spoke to the players and a

much-improved performance saw them go on to win the game. There was a

time when we thought it might be a straight swap between Huddersfield

and Leeds United for their managers and Lee Clark might get the job at

Leeds United. That half of the equation didn't work out but we did

find out today that Simon Grayson has got the job at Huddersfield

Town. Out of a job one minute and back in

one the next. That seems to be the case with Simon Grayson, who was

sacked by Leeds United three weeks ago but is now lined up to take

over at Huddersfield Town. The Terriers are desperate for

promotion from League One. Defeat at home to rival Sheffield United

last week left them trailing in the promotion race and manager Lee

Clark was sacked. Simon Grayson will be expected to get them back

on track. But when we spoke to Huddersfield fans yesterday, they

had mixed feelings about taking on a manager so strongly associated

with their West Yorkshire rivals Leeds United. I think he is a Leeds

United manager through and through, and he would be welcome. I don't

really want him. -- he won't be welcome. He didn't improve the

defence at Leeds United. He is a good choice, I think Leeds United

were wrong to sack him. They have been selling all of their star

players and he did a very good job. He didn't get the full support from

the chairman, but Dean Hoyle will give him the support. Simon Grayson

has twice led teams into the Championship from League One. His

first club blackball and then Leeds United. All of those that

Huddersfield Town will hope he can make it a hat-trick at their club -

- Blackpool. Is that the end of it all can we

expect more? -- or can we.

You wouldn't bet they're being bad bet against there being other

managerial changes in Yorkshire. It seems to me that what happens at

this stage of the season is that chairman see it has one last throw

of the dice. Neither Huddersfield Town or Leeds United were failing

massively in what they were doing, they were just a little bit behind

their targets. Huddersfield are not in an automatic promotion spot,

Leeds United not in a play-off spot in the Championship. The chairman

see this as one last push, one final go -- Chair men. They hope

that changing the manager will push Betty a man and Baghdad slight bit

of difference that could make the huge difference at the end of the

season. More news from around Yorkshire and

police have been called in to investigate fraud claims that the

Sheffield-based company A4e. The firm runs part of the Government's

work programme which aims to get long-term unemployed people into

jobs. It says the issue involves a small number of ex employees and

was reported to the police by the company itself. Back row company

was recently criticised by MPs for paying its directors handsomely --

A4e. All in all, it doesn't look good -- good value for money and

when we learned last week that there may be evidence of fraud, I

think that the Baby P ought to seriously consider suspending his

Education bosses in York have begun talks to close one of the city's

secondary schools. Burnholme Community College has recently

celebrated its best ever GCSE results, but falling pupil numbers

means the school is now being forced to consider a phased closure.

A public consultation will take place in the coming weeks.

Sheffield's bin men could be going on strike. They say they've not had

a pay rise for three years. But the company that employs them, Veolia

Environmental Services, has been given inflation related pay

increases by the Council. Veolia says the wages it pays bin men are

agreed on a national level. Negotiations to try to avoid a

strike will be going on all week. Obviously, the work force are

incensed. The return on the ballot to shows that. Whilst your employer

has been refusing to talk about pay, at the same time, they have been

seen their profits increase, and that is not acceptable on a public

sector service, whether it is delivered in house or outsourced.

A campaign's been launched to ask the Government to give back the VAT

Yorkshire's air ambulances have to pay on fuel, something that would

save them thousands of pounds every year. European Union rules don't

allow the tax to be waived, even though the air ambulances are run

as charities and make no charges. Our political editor Len Tingle

reports. Two launches of life-saving

emergency vehicles in Yorkshire, both entirely funded by charitable

donations or public fund-raising without a penny from the government

might. Just one of them has to pay VAT on the huge amounts of fuel

used every time they set out to save lives. Under European Union

rules, Yorkshire's two air ambulances have to pay 5% VAT on

the �10,000 worth of fuel they use every month, but another EU role

says that tractable emergency vehicles working at sea, in other

words like birds, can be tax exempt. This is the sort of muddle that the

EU gets itself into. We are not asking them to change their rules,

but we are asking to give the VAT back to the air ambulance. This man

has laid down a motion in Parliament. He wants the Government

might have a reimburse VAT. An e- petition has been launched, calling

for a House of Commons debate. have been saving all the

Government's four successive years millions of pounds. And I believe

they should be able to give them back by way of a grant of the VAT

for. The e-petitioned is really taking off. 1,000 people a day have

been signing on. 100,000 are required to trigger a debate by MPs.

Before seven o'clock: Star struck. We meet the

Scarborough man who's made it his mission to collect celebrities'

Let's move on to the sport, now, and leaving aside the managerial

merry-go-round, there was plenty of other football action this weekend.

Harry has been taking a look. Poor Smith arrived at the Reds in

the red, so it should have come as no surprise as one of their players

saw red. They had been punished for going into administration and

Barnsley rubbed salt in the wind. They scored to make it 1-0, then

again, in injury time. Minus 13 points for Pompey.

Normally when you talk of a soft penalty, and that was, it is a

criticism of the referee. Normally. Sheffield United made up for the

mess with goal number 20 of the season by this man. Goal 21 was the

opposite. Get him. From short range. They are now five points clear of

the other teams. Come here, give us The strikers could not find the

back of the net until the distance was reduced to 12 yards. Dean

Morgan scored the only goal of the game.

Rotherham hostel in with a chance of a play-off spot but they need to

be polishing of opposition like Burton Albion. Instead, they drew

thanks to a scrappy goal. After worrying about relegation for

most of the season, Bradford City are marching towards mid-table

obscurity with a prayer of grateful thanks thanks to Kyle Reid. He

scored two goals. Harry tells me that it was probably

one of the greatest ever performances by the Rhinos to

become the World Champions on Friday. By defeating Manly from

Australia, they also gave a great boost to the game as a whole in

this country because now we know, the Aussies can be beaten. Journey

has now is one of the star players, Dan Maguire. Have you come down to

earth? -- joining us now.. We had a nice celebration. And when you put

in a performance like that, you should enjoy it. It was a great

effort by all of us on Friday. We were thrilled to come off we were

there a trophy. Was that one of the highlights for you, beating the

Aussies? It was a massive game, Tekori the world champions, it is a

big feeling. We played the top team in Australia. To get a victory over

them was a great performance by all the lads. We have seen a couple of

tries there. I have to turn round and say that when I look at the

atmosphere there, it must have helped you. The 21,000 fanatical

supporters. It was unbelievable. Previous World Cup challengers have

been at Elland Road, would have been fantastic, but to have it at

our Field, with fans roaring a son, they were like the extra man for us.

It was a great atmosphere and we are thrilled with the results.

wonder, when you look back on things, I say it was one of the

best performances, and my being over-the-top? Or was it what you

needed to beat them? Our forwards were outstanding. Jamie Peacock was

at standing for. Everybody fronted up and it was one of those games

where you needed 17 men on top form, and we all played really well. The

other team travel 12,000 miles, but East will have to perform, which

read it. Your coach must be well pleased because he has had a topsy-

turvy time. A lot of people were questioning whether or not he

should be the coach at one point, but what a nine months he has had.

In the middle of last season, we were struggling. We were struggling

in the league, and a lot of people were writing us off. But we took

the Super League Trophy, and then we got the chance to play in the

World Club Championship. And we performed well on Friday. Well done.

And you can get more on that victory for Leeds Rhinos and the

rest of the Super League action on tonight's Super League Show with

Tanya at 11:35pm on BBC One. There are few things more

challenging... No, terrifying than going to the top of a diving board

and looking down. That was enough for me. But when you watch what

some of our Yorkshire divers do when they get up there, it is

astonishing. A lot of our divers are taking part in the first ever

competition to be staged at the Olympic Aquatic Centre and Shamir

Masri is there now on day two of This week's competition at the

Olympic Aquatic Centre is the test events for the Olympics venue. And

a last chance for countries to secure places at this summer's

games. Britain's top drivers are in competition for this World Cup

event, including names like Tom Daley. More than half of Britain's

competitors here have travelled down from Yorkshire. Including many

cladding, who continues her recovery after hitting her head on

a concrete platform during a died last year. It has been a tough year.

It has been a struggle to come back, but it is fantastic for me. Stacey

and I have got bosoms but for Great Britain. That was the main job.

Really good. Diving in front of a home crowd, I have never done that

well. Earlier on, Sheffield's Nick Robinson Baker and Chris Mears took

to the boards for the three metres super light competition and

qualified for tonight's final, finishing 10th out of a possible 12

places. We want to go in there, enjoy it, soak it in and put a good

performance in, and then we will be happy. Anything can happen. This is

our audition for the Olympics. The hard part has been done, we have

got through to the final. Now we need to smash it. This pair will

compete in the three-metre synchronised final from 7pm this

evening and had to give Team GB fans the practice at cheering the

successes of our athletes. Incredible.

The competition continuing throughout the evening and we'll

have the latest on our divers in our late programme at 10:25pm.

Most of us will admit to asking someone for an autograph at some

point. The first ever autograph I got was Bonnie Langford at the

Alhambra in Bradford. David Essex soon followed. I really fancied him.

Mind was... Let me give you a clue. Eric Morecambe. Did you do that to

him? No. Well, for one man in Scarborough, it has been something

of a life's work. Paul Bradley now has an astonishing collection of

over 6,000 signatures and pictures, some of which have been published

in a new book. We all have photo albums but none

like these. Paul Bradley is in nearly every shot. And so are some

of the most famous people on the planet. Sadly, we lost Amy

Winehouse. Four or youngsters out there, I have met me at Flight,

Alexandria Burke, Diana because. I am working through my pop star

collection, Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, one of the big names.

Bradley has managed to get pictures and autographs with people that

most people would never dream of meeting. Here we have an autograph

with Russell Crowe. I have a photo with him as well. I met him on his

film set in Piccadilly Circus. has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of

autism and his condition has driven his collection. There are more than

6,000 pictures. And he remembers every single one. The bodyguard

said, I am sorry, you cannot approach Steven Spielberg like that.

But then I gave them a full explanation, I apologised for my

haste in us, and he just patted me on the shoulder and said, don't

worry. As anybody who has worked with him, he puts you at ease, and

he chatted with me, he let me have a photograph, and an autograph, and

it was one of the most memorable things I have done in my entire

autograph Korea forced to part of this remarkable collection has now

been collected itself into a but. If it succeeds, may be poor will

get a taste of fame and fortune. -- maybe Paul Bradley will get a taste

of fame and fortune. Some of those are amazing. Paul

McCartney, Russell Crowe, Tom Cruise... Not one mention of any

Look North presenters. It is the way it should be.

I never thought I would say this, but you have got a bigger tan than

Let me show you some pictures. Both fabulous shots. Keep the pictures

coming in. You can e-mail or tweaked them to me. It is going to

be a mild week. Temperatures might get up to about 15. In the short

term, we are looking at variable cloud. Feeling milder. A broad run

out of West to south-westerly winds but. This winds coming up from the

tropics. Coming up, patch outbreaks of rain over the top of the

Pennines. Bits and pieces further East, but basically, I think any

rain further East will Thistle and will confer a -- and will become

confined to the Pennines. It will be frost-free with temperatures as

low as five. The sun rises and sets. A bit damp and drizzle over the top

of the Pennines. The odd spot of rain elsewhere otherwise it is dry

and rather cloudy. It should brighten up with sunny intervals

coming through, especially for areas to the East of York.

Temperatures up to 11. That is a big improvement on today. We have

only had six in places. I think everywhere, a milder feel to the

weather. That extended outlook, some rain to come on Wednesday,

should be dry and bright. 14 or 15 on Thursday.