14/03/2012 Look North (Yorkshire)

Welcome to Wednesday's Look North. Tonight, a lasting tribute - the

statue for a soldier who died in Afghanistan trying to save his

colleague is praised by his family. It's really good. I love it because

he is there and it looks like him. Also tonight, a tribute of a

different kind. An MBE for the woman who got the law changed after

the man who sexually assaulted her won the Lottery.

And I am at eight shisha Park in Bradford to see if smokers are

aware of the risks. It has been a lovely afternoon

across many central and western parts. This shot was taken looking

across Sheffield in the last hour. Welcome to the programme. We start

tonight with the stories of two people being honoured in

recognition of their services to both community and country. One

lost his life fighting in Afghanistan. The other changed the

law, helping the victims of crime. First, Danni Hewson with the story

of Corporal Liam Riley. Among it took my breath away when I

first saw it at... It was always going to be an

emotional day. The life-sized figure of corporal Liam Riley,

firmly planted on his home soil in north Derbyshire. A statue to

commemorate his bravery - voted for by the committee he lived amongst.

-- community. I love it because he is there and it looks like him.

can't feel sad today because I can see him. He is just stood there and

I want him to talk to me. I wish he would. I wish he could. A soldier

described by his friend of Prince Harry as a legend. Just 21 years

old when he was killed, trying to save the life of a fellow soldier

in Helmand province. Today has been bittersweet with the unveiling of

the statue coming so soon after the news that five of Liam's comrades

from the Yorkshire Regiment have also lost their lives in

Afghanistan. Liam's inclusion in the portrait bench was a popular

one. The statue is joined by that of a steelworker who spent his life

campaigning for public rights, and by the likeness of boxer Clinton

Woods. They are delighted by their inclusion. Both felt today was

primarily about the man in the middle. I am honoured to be with

these people. I am really sorry that it is in this situation.

tragic story, but his family are all here today, and that is how

they will remember him. It is a poignant tribute, made more potent

by the flowers left by lance- corporal sure who died alongside

him. A reminder that today was a celebration for all families who

have known that this loss. Liam's mum Cheryl joins us now. You

went for a sneak preview, all alone, by yourself, didn't you? I actually

went with my sister. She rang me at about 6:30pm on Sunday and told me

the is that you had arrived. I had my pyjamas and my slippers on.

Quick as anything, I said I would be down in five minutes. We got in

our cars. The sun was going down. What did you think when you saw it?

We were so pleasantly surprised. They look fantastic. The time of

day - she had just got the sun going down behind him. It was a

really special moment, to see him. I am so pleased that it is so

lifelike as well. It is the same height. Your Leigham was a big lad.

Over six foot. Does it look like him? It does, and that is the most

wonderful thing about it. It so resembles him. I walked all around

him and looked at the best angle to look at him. If you look away and

look back, it is him just stood there. What will it mean to you in

the future. I know it means to you so much that the community voted

for Leigham, but what will it mean for you? It just means so much. To

be able, you know, when I am really missing him, you can look at photos

in albums that you have already got, but to go and sit on that bench and

he is there. You know, everything about him is there. And have a nice

chat with him. I don't even have to say it aloud. Just to sit. I can

tell him what happened that day, that week. Of course, he knew two

of the soldiers that died. That must have brought it all back to

you again. I know you want to send your message to their families.

do. I want to send them all my love at this time. It is such a hard

time for families, in the weeks when they have just found out about

their sons. My heart just goes out to them. The pain, the intense pain

that I know they are going through. I just want them to know that if

any time in the future they need anyone to speak to, pick up the

phone, get in touch. And as is proved in this case, the committee

does care. Yes. I am 100% sure that their communities will get behind

them in just the same way. You would not believe how much it does

help. Thank you so much, it is lovely to talk to you. You're

welcome. Next tonight, another local person

who was honoured in a different way today. Two months ago, Shirley

Woodman was living in anonymity, a retired head teacher from Leeds.

But she was also the woman who became known as Mrs A - the legal

pioneer who took the so called "Lotto Rapist" Iorworth Hoare

through the courts for compensation. Her case made legal history, and

led to a change in the law. For her efforts, she was awarded an MBE.

Joe Inwood joined her. For Shirley Woodman, everything has

changed. The cards started coming, and now I can't find another

surface on which to put them. the beginning of the year, she

revealed herself as the woman who had taken the so-called "Lotto

Rapist", Iorworth Hoare, to court and won. More than that, she got

the law changed. It is fantastic. It was a prolonged legal battle

that meant victims of crime can now claim compensation, no matter how

many years have passed. For her efforts, an MBE. We are going to

the Palace. And for her, this is the real compensation for her legal

struggle. It is a journey that has eventually bought Shirley Woodman

here, to Buckingham Palace, for what she describes as the proudest

day of her life. I am absolutely elated. Elated. It was wonderful,

just wonderful. She said to me, you have had a hard time, haven't you?

I said to her, do you know that I changed the law? She said yes, I

have been reading all about it. I wouldn't say it was worth being

attacked, but it has turned a negative thing into something

positive. Not only because of the change in the law, but because I

have been given an award for it. For Shirley Woodman, it was never

about the money. That has all gone to charity, helping people with

Parkinson's. Cheers, mum. Cheers. And does she deserve that

champagne! Stay with us. Later we will be catching up with Grace the

swan. Yes, we will be finding out how far our intrepid Radio Leeds

presenters have got in their pedal for Sport Relief.

And find out how nuts, pretzels and misshapen tomatoes inspired the

work of one of Spain's most famous artists.

Latest figures show that unemployment in Yorkshire has

jumped again after a fall last month. There are now 261,000

jobless people in Yorkshire and Humber - an increase of 9000 on the

previous quarter. Yorkshire's unemployment rate is now 9.8%. It's

having a particularly hard effect on graduates beginning their

careers. Our correspondent Alan Whitehouse has been to see one job

hunter who wanted to be an investment banker. Instead, he has

just opened a corner shop. It is a busy life, but not the one

he had in mind when he started his degree course in business studies.

After he graduated, he spent a year applying for jobs around the world,

but with no luck. Instead, he did his research, and decided a corner

shop was the best way to make a living. I did apply for a lot of

jobs across all major investment banks, but I had no luck at all. I

tried with all the major places. I even tried New York and Mumbai, but

I still did not get anything. Quite often I did not hit back from any

of the companies which was a very disheartening. He says it has been

a struggle but he finally persuaded a bank to lend him the start-up

cash. I don't think I would look for a job now. If everything goes

well here, I will carry on doing this, and hopefully start a chain,

I guess. He is not the anyone having to make difficult career

decisions. The recession has hit everyone, but those with the least

experience have been hardest hit. Recent graduates are having to find

other things to do while the labour market simply is not hiring the

number of people it used to. It is an experience we sit -- see

repeated up and down the country. Recent graduates are

proportionately less likely to enter higher skilled jobs at the

moment. What has happened here is being played out hundreds of times

across the region, thousands of times across the country. The

recession mean the world of work is changing beyond all recognition,

and lots of people are going to have to change with it.

And, jobs will be a big part of a special programme coming up on

Monday presented by Richard Bilton. Our Economy - The Look North Debate,

will see politicians, bankers and business leaders put on the spot by

an invited audience. They will discuss the cost of living,

unemployment and our financial future. That's on BBC One on Monday

at 11:05pm. Police have recovered the body of a

man from Naburn Marina near York. Formal identification is still

awaited, but the family of Jordan Sullivan, who has not been seen for

a month, have been informed. A woman from Huddersfield who went

missing with a baby girl during a social services visit on Monday has

been found by police. 23-year-old Jodie Little was tracked down to an

address on Church Street this morning. The 11 month-old baby is

unharmed and in the care of the local authority. The 23-year-old

has been arrested on suspicion of kidnap.

A DVD showing some of North Yorkshire's most dangerous roads

has been released today. It is in a bid to cut down the number of

motorbike accidents. Last year, nine bikers were killed, 82 of them

seriously. The DVD shows crash hotspots and potential hazards

along each route, according to the police three-quarters of motorbike

accidents were caused by mistakes by riders.

Nominations have closed for the Bradford and West by-election. The

three main parties will all fight the seat which was held by the

Labour at the 2010 general election. The Greens, UKIP, respect,

democratic gnashers and Monster Raving Loony Party will also

contest the seat. Polling day is of a fortnight tomorrow.

Doncaster or has again failed in its bid to be granted a city. 26

towns were bidding to become cities as part of the Queen's Diamond

Jubilee celebrations. The awards were made by the Queen on the

advice of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.

Now, no doubt we will all see programmes looking at how elaborate

gypsy weddings can be, but today Pars of Leeds came to a standstill

for the funeral of a prominent member of the travelling committee.

Kathleen had been suffering from cancer and had asked for a pink

Hundreds of people lined the roads to pay their respects to Kathleen

Lowther-Morrison. She campaigned for better relations between

travellers and none travellers. She also dedicated a lot of her time to

highlighting the problem of domestic violence within her own

community. She did a lot of work and helped a lot of people.

Everyone knows the struggle she went through with cancer. She only

had it for eight months. It is a sad loss. Time is a healer. Many of

the mourners wore pink as Kathleen had requested, matching the

limousines and the plumes on the horse's heads. Dozens of pink

balloons were also released at the cemetery. Kathleen, who was just 33,

had been suffering from cancer for several months. She leaves a

husband and young children. The British Heart Foundation has

raised concerns over the rapid spread of shisha cafes in Yorkshire.

Experts say smoking the flavoured tobacco can be as damaging as

cigarettes. In 2007, there were only two of these bars in Sheffield.

Five years on and there are now 15 of them. In Bradford, the figures

have risen from three to 17. So, what's behind their rising

popularity and what do cafe owners think about the new warning? Our

health correspondent Jamie Coulson's at Ablaze in Bradford.

When you come into the shisha lounge, it feels like you're taking

a step into the Middle East. This place has been open for seven

months and it is popular and busy tonight. That is despite the fact

that it is open air, it has to comply with smoking regulations.

And there are 16 other lounges in Bradford. Today is National Smoking

-- no Smoking Day. Shisha smoking is just as dangerous as cigarette

smoking and in fact, may be more dangerous because most of us during

a shisha session, we will smoke for an hour. And you consume the same

amount of smoke as he would in 100 cigarettes. So it's quite a big

consumption. Let's talk to the woman who runs this land. They are

saying an hour is the same as making 100 cigarettes. I disagree.

This is a smoking -- a social activity. We are not addicted to

this because there is no nicotine in it. It is very part much of our

culture. If people say to you it might be bad for your health, would

people listen to that? Probably not because it is very much part of our

culture. In India and Pakistan, and in the least, people have been

smoking shisha for centuries with no link to a lung cancer epidemic

or anything like that. A survey to two other people here tonight. Why

do you come here? I come for personal reasons, for social

reasons. We smoke shisha and have a few drinks. If people are warning

there is a genuine health risk by spreading these pipes, would you

take that seriously? It depends. I have been doing it for four years,

our ancestors have been doing it. I don't know if it would really

change anything, to be honest. about yourself? I have come to

socialise. It is a different environment and something near.

Today is National no-smoking Day. From what we have heard here, if

people are told to try and give up their shisha, it is a bit more

complex than being told to give up the habit.

Before 7pm: They're off, slowly. We catch up with our two Radio Leeds

presenters on the first day of their pedallo journey along the

Leeds Liverpool canal And Miro Miro on the wall - the

Spanish artist makes his British debut at the Yorkshire Sculpture

Football now. We had four teams in action last night. And not a single

one of them produced a victory, I'm one of them produced a victory, I'm

afraid. Yes, but Doncaster Rovers' 1-1 draw with Reading probably felt

like a win. Kyle Bennett scored first for Rovers. And though the

visitors grabbed an equalizer, it still amounts to a precious point.

Doncaster are edging ever closer to pulling out of that relegation zone.

In League One, it was the same scoreline for Sheffield United at

Colchester - one each. The Blades' goal came from Will Hoskins. But

Colchester's equalizer made it feel like a defeat. Sheffield United

remain in that crucial second spot. It makes me laugh, we are saying

that one to one can feel like a victory but also like a defeat. To

me, it is just a draw. I don't need the details!

It's been a long build up but today, they finally got underway. Radio

Leeds presenters Katherine Hannah and Adam Pope set off in their

pedalo in their bid to do the length of the Leeds Liverpool canal

for sport relief. We'll be hearing how much it hurt in a minute. First,

Olivia Richwald's been following their journey, from Liverpool

to...just outside Liverpool. It's going to be a long trip. It is

going in the wrong direction! Have you ever heard of anything quite

this bonkers coming your way? Before they could even start

pedalling, there was a radio show to present the very end of the road,

I mean the canal. From here, it is 100 would seven miles home, in this.

Grace is a swan pedalo with specially adapted BBC engineering.

There is only so much pimping of a pedalo there can be done but they

have done their best. With 60 master put a low before bed, they

were off. We are still tied to the Grace almost sank on her maiden

voyage but as the day started, things were looking up and four

miles into the trip, Roger Roberts had been waiting in his garden for

three hours for a glimpse of Grace. What have we got? Thank you. The it

is the kindest thing. That is perfect, thank you very much.

was a cheque, I made a donation. My friends in league have already made

a donation. So, new friends made but some of the natives less than

impressed by their new neighbour. That is how a swan... That Swan

went further than our Swan, I think. Let's ask Bolivia. Are they going

to make it? Yes, they're going to make it. They're not here yet. This

is best to be their final destination and they should have

been here at 4:30pm tonight. But they are not, as you can sit.

they OK? Yes, about an hour ago, we took a little drive down the canal

and we saw them about three-and a- half miles away. They were looking

absolutely shattered. Adam is sitting I've pile of towels this

high. Katherine is whiter as a sheet. They are not slacking by any

means. This is sheer hard work. If you need any more motivation to

sponsor them, let this be it. They should have been here at 4:30pm and

it is 7 o'clock and they are still pedalling. I feel really sorry for

them. I feared the worst. They do deserve our help. If you want to

donate, then simply text Swan to donate, then simply text Swan to

donate, then simply text Swan to 70011. Texts cost �1 plus your

standard network message charge and the whole �1 goes to Sport Relief.

If you would rather send a cheque - made payable to Sport Relief -

please address it to: BBC Yorkshire, Leeds, LS9 8AH

A huge new exhibition opens at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on

Saturday featuring the work of Joan Miro. The Spanish artist features

in collections all over the world so getting large numbers of items

together for an exhibition is difficult and rare. The artist's

family describe the show as unique and have come to Yorkshire to

oversee the setting of the work and make last-minute adjustments. Cathy

Killick's been to see it. It is Born in Barcelona in 1893, Joan

Miro became an internationally famous artist with a mission, he

said, to assess meditating. His strange so real work sells for

millions. Gathering so much of it at the Yorkshire sculpture Park is

a great coup that has taken years of work. Miro is my the great

artists of the last century. He made some the most iconic paintings.

If you go to Barcelona, Miro is everywhere. But people are not

battle where otter sculpture. He didn't start making sculpture until

he was in his fifties. We are giving this other side of Miro.

This is the first time there has been an exhibition of Miro on this

scale, in terms of his sculpture. Miro's grandson is giving a final

inspection of the work. He is expecting lots of reaction.

thing that he liked was provocation. I am sure they are able to provoke.

Some people will hate these sculptures. Some of them were

scared people and it is fantastic. 99 sculptors and around 30 graphic

works are on show, making this the most extensive exhibition of Miro's

sculpture ever shown in the UK. What is so appealing about this

exhibition is you can really see how the sculptures a bolt from

everyday objects. This is an Almont and a pebble that were lying around

in Miro's studio and from that, he has made these scaled up plaster

models. And then he can see that a figure can evolve and there it is,

the first incarnation in plaster. And he we are, with the finished

article in bronze. The Pebble and the nut are still there but only if

you know what you're looking for. Everyday objects are transformed

into creatures with a personality of their own. He felt living

objects breathed like humans. He Park really lets them grieve. You

get plenty of time to get to know them. The exhibition is on until

January. It is a big old space. And that -- that little man is 14 signs

-- times the size of Paul Hobson. -- times the size of Paul Hobson.

We all saw that coming a mile off. Here, pictures of daffodil. Keep

Many areas have had a glorious afternoon. Just the more recent

side but you she has not had any brightness the tour. Tomorrow, a

similar story. A grey start but it'll brighten up. The high-

pressure is moving away and we will see some decent rainfall on Friday

night and an unsettled weekend will follow. Watch the satellite picture,

how the sun breaks through the cloud across the Pennines and in

those bricks, it pushes eastwards. The cloud should be Clearing

coastal areas. There and then, that that feels that in with cloud and

we are back to square one. A few spots of drizzle and a touch of

ground frost is possible. These are the high water times. Many of us

off to a grey start. A few holes and at cloud but generally overcast.

Through the day, the cloud will break up and the sunshine will come

through. A better day for eastern parts. Eventually, the cloud should

clear a little bit more quickly -- quickly than it has done today.