:00:10. > :00:15.Good evening. On the programme tonight, bobbies
:00:15. > :00:19.off the beat - civilians to tackle crime. Anger over South Yorkshire
:00:19. > :00:24.plans to have community support officers as the frontline on the
:00:24. > :00:28.streets. If we are not careful, we will know that the days for the
:00:28. > :00:32.uniformed police are in cars and a detached from what is going on in
:00:32. > :00:37.the immediate community and only dealing with serious and Emergency
:00:37. > :00:40.crimes. We will be speaking to the Chief
:00:40. > :00:46.Constable of rent -- bind those plans.
:00:46. > :00:49.Also, the cost of ceremonial mayors. How much I be costing us every
:00:49. > :00:54.year? And the so far that has been
:00:54. > :00:59.offered as a home from home in York city centre -- the sofa.
:00:59. > :01:09.A and it has been another showery day. They are more showers to come
:01:09. > :01:15.
:01:15. > :01:19.tomorrow. Good evening. First, he has only
:01:19. > :01:22.been in office for a few days, but the new Chief Constable of South
:01:22. > :01:28.Yorkshire says he wants to get rid of bobbies on the beat. He wants to
:01:28. > :01:31.replace him with community support officers. It would involve saving
:01:31. > :01:35.policemen are far more serious incidents, with civilian police
:01:35. > :01:43.staff becoming the first port of call for members of the public. It
:01:43. > :01:48.is already attracting criticism. Good evening. David Crompton has
:01:48. > :01:52.only been in post for one week. But tomorrow, he is going to police
:01:52. > :01:57.authority meeting where he will give them the suggestion that beat
:01:57. > :02:00.bobbies should come off the beat and be replaced by police community
:02:00. > :02:08.officers. They would need to have more training and they could
:02:08. > :02:11.ultimately, controversially, have the power of arrest.
:02:11. > :02:16.These police community support officers are familiar faces around
:02:16. > :02:20.the city centre. We do a very different job to the police
:02:20. > :02:25.officers. We spend a lot of time in the community and have that time to
:02:25. > :02:30.spend in the community. At the moment, these officers are
:02:30. > :02:34.employed by the police but her civilian workers. They have so-
:02:34. > :02:40.called warranted powers and can take on various roles. They do not
:02:40. > :02:45.work later than 10:00pm, but a police officer works at 24-hour,
:02:45. > :02:50.seven-day-a-week pattern. They can make citizen's arrests, and also
:02:50. > :02:55.issue some fixed penalty tickets. A police officer, though, can arrest
:02:55. > :03:03.and detain people. There is some criticism of these plans to beef up
:03:03. > :03:08.the roles of these officers. There is a police end -- there is a
:03:08. > :03:11.police in South Yorkshire police for these officers, but a bit him
:03:11. > :03:16.on the front line we will have to train them and there is a cost to
:03:16. > :03:20.that training. Sheffield MP David Blunkett was the
:03:20. > :03:25.Home Secretary who first introduced police community officers. He said
:03:25. > :03:28.they were never intended to be used on the front line. They were
:03:28. > :03:34.supposed to be part of a neighbour who team, not left to it as the
:03:34. > :03:37.only ones left on the beat. If we are not careful, we will go back to
:03:37. > :03:42.the day's wear the uniform police themselves were in cars, they were
:03:42. > :03:47.detached from what was going on in the immediate community. It is
:03:47. > :03:54.better to have proper policemen on the streets, really. Police
:03:54. > :03:57.community support officers might be able to assessed. I think it is a
:03:57. > :04:03.good idea, the more support the best to even though they have not
:04:03. > :04:10.had full training. As the police face Budget cuts, the
:04:10. > :04:13.public say this is another example of FNGetting even thinner.
:04:13. > :04:18.Earlier today I did speak to David Crompton and he said that this was
:04:18. > :04:22.something that he wanted to try out. He said that if it doesn't work,
:04:22. > :04:30.the maybe considerate then the line. Those criticisms, from David
:04:30. > :04:34.Blunkett and the Police Federation, were worth asking about. I think it
:04:34. > :04:39.is reasonable that they are seen in many ways as the sort of glue that
:04:39. > :04:42.sticks together at the policing. All this is, actually, is about
:04:42. > :04:46.trying to match people's powers better to the sorts of roles that
:04:46. > :04:51.they have. What will that mean in real terms?
:04:51. > :04:55.Will you be looking to get them more training and more powers? So
:04:55. > :05:04.that in an ideal world, would be be able to make an arrest, for
:05:04. > :05:10.example? As you are perhaps aware, the police support officers here do
:05:10. > :05:13.not have the power of detention. However in some other forces they
:05:13. > :05:18.do. That is something that we are actively looking at, to see if we
:05:18. > :05:22.want to change that are not. It is something we are thinking about.
:05:22. > :05:27.The low point of all of this is that people out there, in their
:05:27. > :05:35.neighbour EDS, will still have the same number of police officers and
:05:35. > :05:39.the same number of police community support officers as before. There
:05:39. > :05:43.will still be the same number of officers as they always have had.
:05:43. > :05:49.In due course, we will see how all this works and I am hopeful that
:05:49. > :05:53.this will be a roaring success. But actually, if we look at it in a
:05:53. > :06:00.year's time and we think, we needed wicket a little bit, then we will
:06:00. > :06:05.do that. Do you remember the previous Chief
:06:05. > :06:10.Constable of South Yorkshire? He was against plans to beef up the
:06:10. > :06:18.powers that police community support officers have. He could
:06:18. > :06:27.find himself on the up -- on the shortlist for her the Labour
:06:27. > :06:30.candidate for their police commissioner.
:06:30. > :06:36.Preparations for one of Europe's biggest ever military training
:06:36. > :06:39.exercises had been taking place today at RAF Leeming. The Army,
:06:39. > :06:45.Navy and Air Force were all involved, as well as invited Allied
:06:45. > :06:54.nations including forces from France.
:06:54. > :07:02.At RAF Leeming today, the Hawk jets based here were taking off on their
:07:02. > :07:06.normal routine flights. But these teams were working together for a
:07:06. > :07:14.project which starts next week. They are cultural differences,
:07:14. > :07:24.clearly, but when we worked together her own we can work off
:07:24. > :07:26.
:07:26. > :07:30.each other's capabilities perfectly filled much -- perfectly.
:07:30. > :07:34.They both basically have the same role, they are aggressive squadrons
:07:34. > :07:38.from different their forces. That basically means that for the sake
:07:38. > :07:43.of this forthcoming exercise they are the baddies. It is not the
:07:43. > :07:47.first time the squadrons have flown together. But it follows an
:07:47. > :07:52.agreement between -- between Britain and France two years ago,
:07:52. > :07:59.which pledged closer military co- operation and sharing of resources.
:07:59. > :08:08.We have to play the bad guys during this exercise. We are going to try
:08:08. > :08:14.to gamble -- we are going to be always the aggressors. We will wait
:08:14. > :08:19.for their their team and to try to recognise them.
:08:19. > :08:23.It is about having a contingency capability, to react quickly to an
:08:23. > :08:29.unfolding crisis - something which has not been practised much in
:08:29. > :08:33.recent years because of ongoing military commitments in Afghanistan.
:08:33. > :08:37.Coming up later on the programme, one of a -- one of the true heroes
:08:37. > :08:41.of the most famous shipping disaster ever. We look at the
:08:41. > :08:47.Dewsbury connection of the man who insisted that the band played on as
:08:47. > :08:50.the Titanic sank. Next tonight, just how much should
:08:50. > :08:54.be spent on a were ceremonial me years? They have been around for
:08:54. > :08:59.centuries, but can we afford the role when every council in the
:08:59. > :09:03.country is having to cut back? Using the freedom of information
:09:03. > :09:04.act, we have uncovered big deviations on just how much
:09:04. > :09:11.Yorkshire councils are spending on them.
:09:11. > :09:16.The figures given us -- given to us for 2010 and 2011 sure as that in
:09:16. > :09:22.Leeds, the cost of the Lord Mayor was �308,000 for the year. In
:09:22. > :09:28.Bradford, it was to and �92,000, but that does not include food,
:09:28. > :09:33.hospitality or ceremonial events. Harrogate's civil mayor was a lot -
:09:33. > :09:41.- was among the cheapest, just 84,000 pounds for the year. Just
:09:41. > :09:46.how is this money being spent? For hundreds of years there had
:09:46. > :09:50.been -- they have been figureheads for our towns and cities. Large
:09:50. > :09:55.mayors and civic mayors are purely ceremonial, unlike the elected
:09:55. > :09:59.mayors many of us will vote on next month will stop but with ceremony
:09:59. > :10:05.comes expense, and Yorkshire council is spending the money very
:10:05. > :10:09.differently. From 2010 and 2011, Look North has discovered that the
:10:09. > :10:18.clothes bill for the look not -- for their office in Leeds, was
:10:18. > :10:24.�8,000. In Barnsley, it cost �46,000. But in Scarborough, the
:10:24. > :10:29.bill was 12000p. The official car and petrol in Calder deal cost
:10:29. > :10:36.�25,000 for the year, but in Doncaster, the cost was 1,600
:10:36. > :10:43.pounds. But the biggest expense is staff in the Lord Mayor's office.
:10:43. > :10:47.In Bradford, it was �262,000, that paid for 10 workers including a
:10:47. > :10:50.housekeeper, two chauffeurs and his secretary.
:10:51. > :10:56.Lord Mayors are kept busy, they help promote their towns and cities
:10:56. > :11:01.at home and abroad and help raise money for charity. 1 Scarborough
:11:01. > :11:06.councillor who used to be Meier says that the roles important. --
:11:06. > :11:11.Meier. It is very important and people remember them from their
:11:12. > :11:19.childhood. Eimear takes pride in what the day and children
:11:19. > :11:23.especially you remember it. If they come to the town hall and have at
:11:23. > :11:28.tour and you the history of the media.
:11:28. > :11:34.As spending cuts bite, some say ceremonial mayors are too expensive.
:11:34. > :11:38.It is a view held by Doncaster's elected mayor. A I do not see why
:11:38. > :11:43.these expenses should be paid. As far as clothing and food is
:11:44. > :11:49.concerned it is ludicrous. I am in favour of the idea of the Civic
:11:49. > :11:55.Meir as a historic -- of -- as a historical relic. But we do not
:11:55. > :11:59.need a flash car for thence. This is unsustainable.
:11:59. > :12:08.Councillors in the Archers say that people have affection for
:12:08. > :12:12.ceremonial meals, -- ceremonial Nears, but their future is in doubt.
:12:12. > :12:16.A woman who claimed she was raped by the Sheffield United striker
:12:16. > :12:21.Ched Evans and another footballer has been -- has told police that
:12:21. > :12:28.she cannot remember the attack and thinks that her drink was spiked.
:12:28. > :12:32.Ched Evans and Clayton McDonald deny raping her. The women says she
:12:32. > :12:37.has no memory of what happened. Both men have admitted having sex
:12:37. > :12:42.for power, but the prosecution claims that the women was too drunk
:12:42. > :12:49.to consent to sexual intercourse. Plans for immediate link road in
:12:49. > :12:59.Doncaster, which could be vital to the locker -- to the local economy,
:12:59. > :13:02.
:13:02. > :13:06.could go and -- could go ahead. A decision is expected in June.
:13:06. > :13:11.Six Liverpool fans had begun a charity run between Hillsborough
:13:11. > :13:15.and Anfield. This is ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the
:13:15. > :13:18.Hillsborough disaster. The group began by laying a wreath at the
:13:18. > :13:23.Hillsborough ground to remember the 96 that were killed there be for
:13:23. > :13:25.their three-day ban. They are raising money for their
:13:25. > :13:29.Hillsborough Families Support Group and the Hillsborough Justice
:13:29. > :13:34.Campaign. Labour leader Ed Miliband is in
:13:34. > :13:39.Bradford tonight, the very first time since his party's shock defeat
:13:39. > :13:43.by a George Galloway in the Bradford West by-election.
:13:43. > :13:47.The Respect Party is targeting a Bradford again, this time in the
:13:47. > :13:52.local elections. I have just come I to the meeting
:13:52. > :13:58.that Ed Miliband was end. He told find Ella, they have just stopped
:13:58. > :14:02.for a cup of tea and he is going to start again. He says he is here for
:14:02. > :14:08.lessons, but they do not have much time to learn them. The council
:14:08. > :14:13.elections is in just three weeks's time. I have been having a look in
:14:13. > :14:18.one of those words will respect his standing. -- de Respect Party is
:14:18. > :14:22.standing. A week ago, this man would never
:14:22. > :14:29.have dreamt of standing as a counsellor. Now, the political
:14:29. > :14:33.future of Bradford could be in his hands. This man is the candidate
:14:33. > :14:37.for the Respect Party in Little Horton. This is a real opportunity
:14:37. > :14:41.to have a change and to bring about a change. That is what has inspired
:14:41. > :14:46.me and a lot of other people who are a first-time voters or who have
:14:46. > :14:54.just got involved in politics. The 43-year-old youth worker had
:14:54. > :14:58.previously not even been a member of a political party. The political
:14:58. > :15:06.climate, which was dark clouds over Bradford for a number of years, has
:15:06. > :15:11.now been swept away. At his victory rally, George
:15:11. > :15:19.Galloway said that the Respect Party would flood brand -- flood
:15:19. > :15:24.Bradford with candidates. In fact, there are just 12 standing.
:15:24. > :15:29.This Labour councillor is defending his seat in Little Horton. Labour
:15:29. > :15:33.is just one short of an outright majority.
:15:33. > :15:38.I fight local elections on local issues. I was born and brought up
:15:38. > :15:42.here and have represented it for 17 years. I understand the concerns
:15:42. > :15:48.that people have, in particularly the fact that they are suffering
:15:48. > :15:52.under government cutbacks and that young people cannot get a job.
:15:52. > :15:56.Their regeneration of the district has also not need for a was a as it
:15:56. > :16:05.should do. The main parties insisted is not
:16:05. > :16:09.just a two course rates. -- a two horse race. By-election is
:16:09. > :16:14.something different, but local let election people look at the person
:16:14. > :16:19.and they want to know their local issues. I think if we offer a
:16:19. > :16:22.positive vision and continue our positive campaign, I think that the
:16:22. > :16:25.people of Little Horton will see that we are fighting for them and
:16:25. > :16:32.for Bradford. We three weeks to go before polling
:16:32. > :16:39.day, this award is likely to be a major focus of attention.
:16:39. > :16:45.A few minutes ago, I disturbed Ed Miliband in his tea break and said
:16:45. > :16:52.that the meeting was full of gloomy faces. I think you are heaving
:16:52. > :16:57.lessons about politicians not been engaged with the -- politicians not
:16:58. > :17:01.engaging with the people here in Bradford. There are concerns about
:17:01. > :17:08.regeneration in Bradford and whether Bradford is doing well. Not
:17:08. > :17:12.all of these things can be laid at the Labour Party's door.
:17:12. > :17:22.Those council elections are in three weeks's time on May 3rd, it
:17:22. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :17:27.$NEWLINE Some sports news now, and Leeds United seem to be pulling out
:17:27. > :17:30.all the stops to keep Robert Snodgrass at the club. Snodgrass,
:17:30. > :17:33.seen here scoring against Middlesbrough, has been offered a
:17:33. > :17:35.contract that would make him the best paid player at Elland Road.
:17:35. > :17:38.Manager Neil Warnock says he's asked his captain to give Leeds
:17:38. > :17:41.another year to make it into the Premier League.
:17:41. > :17:51.Now who could forget this emotional scene from the film A Night To
:17:51. > :18:12.
:18:12. > :18:15.Remember, where the band plays on Marvellous stuff. But did you know
:18:15. > :18:18.that the band leader Wallace Hartley was from Dewsbury and
:18:18. > :18:21.played with the Huddersfield Philharmonic?
:18:21. > :18:24.As the nation prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's
:18:24. > :18:34.sinking, Amy Garcia's been delving into the archives to find out more
:18:34. > :18:40.
:18:40. > :18:45.Just a line to say we have got away all right. This is a fine ship and
:18:45. > :18:49.there ought to be plenty of money on her. We have a fine band and the
:18:49. > :18:53.boys seemed nice. I shall probably be home on Sunday. With luck to all,
:18:53. > :18:57.Wallace. A letter sent from the Titanic to
:18:57. > :19:02.his parents in Jewsbury. The band master never arrived home, but
:19:02. > :19:06.stories of his bravery did. -- Dewsbury. When the White Star liner
:19:06. > :19:11.hit an iceberg, the violinist and his musicians stood by their posts
:19:11. > :19:17.playing songs to calm passengers as they entered the lifeboats.
:19:18. > :19:24.Wallace's story restores faith in human nature. There are to Minister
:19:24. > :19:29.of the stories around, but Wallace's is one of selflessness.
:19:29. > :19:34.He was born in Lancashire in 1878. But it is Yorkshire where he really
:19:34. > :19:43.flowed as a musician. At the age of 17, he moved to Huddersfield. He
:19:43. > :19:47.played violin in the Philharmonic Orchestra. He settled here in
:19:47. > :19:52.Dewsbury. This would be his final home.
:19:52. > :19:58.It is thought he worshipped and payday churches in the area,
:19:58. > :20:04.including St Mark's. By 1901 he was playing violin for a living in
:20:04. > :20:11.musicals in Yorkshire, including the Royal Hall in Harrogate.
:20:11. > :20:17.He spent the next few years playing on the Atlantic before his fateful
:20:17. > :20:21.post on the most luxurious liner of her time, Titanic.
:20:21. > :20:25.There are different ideas of what the band performed in their final
:20:25. > :20:30.moments. Cards and clippings from the time suggested was nearer My
:20:30. > :20:40.God To thee. It is a hymn that will be played across Yorkshire this
:20:40. > :20:43.
:20:43. > :20:48.week to honour the band who played Incredible, isn't it?
:20:48. > :20:55.De four finals in the Titanic, I think only three of them worked. --
:20:55. > :21:00.the four finals. There is a group in Halifax who are
:21:00. > :21:05.planning the musical of Titanic, and this week, as the real Titanic
:21:05. > :21:10.would have sunk, so their performance should will go down.
:21:10. > :21:14.Really? It is good, that.
:21:14. > :21:16.Three students from York have been invited to take part in the London
:21:16. > :21:20.Olympics. Nothing unusual in that, you might think. But Sarah Kay,
:21:20. > :21:23.Carys Cooke and Chris Ward will be packing a pink two-seater sofa and
:21:23. > :21:25.plenty of tea and cake for their trip South this summer. It might
:21:25. > :21:35.seem a bizarre shopping list for the world's biggest sporting
:21:35. > :21:39.
:21:39. > :21:45.celebration, but not when you find Meet you at York Minster, I said.
:21:45. > :21:55.It will be good training. And so they did. Sarah, Carys, Chris and
:21:55. > :21:58.
:21:58. > :22:03.They have just been invited to take part in London 2012, representing
:22:03. > :22:13.Great Britain in the street entertainment division.
:22:13. > :22:14.
:22:14. > :22:17.Have a cake! Do sit down. The university students founded
:22:17. > :22:21.their community theatre company in October last year. Their mission is
:22:21. > :22:27.to carry out random acts of kindness.
:22:27. > :22:33.A really great idea! I think it is wonderful. When it says it is free,
:22:33. > :22:37.you wonder. But no, they are genuine.
:22:37. > :22:47.We really want to bring people back together, to have them talk to each
:22:47. > :22:52.other instead of been rushing around. -- instead of them rushing
:22:52. > :22:57.around. It is so they can reconnect. It is all very well come into your,
:22:57. > :23:03.but people aren't so friendly in London. I love London. Hopefully
:23:03. > :23:10.with the Olympics, people might be friendly. Hopefully they will take
:23:10. > :23:20.it how it has been received here. The three friends graduate this
:23:20. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:26.summer, but after the Olympics, who That is the kind of place Yorkist -
:23:26. > :23:31.friendly. If Paul Hutton were here, he would
:23:31. > :23:35.If Paul Hutton were here, he would be saying I will have that so far.
:23:35. > :23:44.You have got a beautiful tub, but no sunshine today.
:23:44. > :23:53.Very lucky if you managed to enjoy today's weather. Look at these
:23:53. > :24:01.fantastic thunderstorms. This is hell covering Bernard's gardener.
:24:01. > :24:04.Finally, this one. Keep your photos coming. We have got some heavy
:24:04. > :24:07.thunderstorms around Sheffield at the moment. We are going to see
:24:07. > :24:11.showers continue through the day tomorrow. But hopefully they should
:24:11. > :24:15.not turn out to be thundery as we head through the day. You can see
:24:15. > :24:19.on the chart that low-pressure is in charge, keeping the weather
:24:19. > :24:23.unsettled. It is going to turn cooler as we head through the
:24:23. > :24:28.weekend, which may turn the showers into sleep and snow. Back to today,
:24:28. > :24:34.you can see on the satellite picture where the clouds are. That
:24:34. > :24:37.is where the showers have been heaviest. We have got some heavy
:24:37. > :24:40.showers in South Yorkshire. As we head through the evening, the
:24:40. > :24:46.showers will continue. As we head through the night, they are going
:24:46. > :24:52.to become lighter, fewer and further between. The skies are
:24:52. > :24:55.going to clear to the north. Temperatures will be down to two or
:24:55. > :25:05.three degrees, but where we keep the cloud and showers, four or five
:25:05. > :25:10.
:25:10. > :25:14.degrees. This is the sun rise and high water times. Tomorrow is going
:25:14. > :25:18.to be a cloudy start for West and South Yorkshire, with one or two
:25:18. > :25:27.showers. The cloud is going to break up and we see some sunshine
:25:27. > :25:36.returning. The cloud will be more frequent through the day, and the
:25:36. > :25:42.showers will not be as heavy as today. We are still struggling
:25:42. > :25:47.temperature-wise, with eight degrees along the coast. Ten
:25:47. > :25:53.Celsius in York. The showers will retreat back to the coast into
:25:53. > :26:01.Saturday, but they will concede to affect the case. -- continue to
:26:01. > :26:05.affect the coast. Saturday is wintry. Sunday, most of the showers
:26:05. > :26:07.will be to the coast. The best of the sunshine will be towards the
:26:07. > :26:13.the sunshine will be towards the Pennines. But it is going to be
:26:13. > :26:16.cold, just nine degrees. Have we been broadcasting -- had we