:00:05. > :00:11.Good evening, welcome to Look North. The world famous Yorkshire Business
:00:11. > :00:14.Convention gets ready for its last hurrah. Clinton, Gorbachev and Bush
:00:14. > :00:18.Senior - just three of the global figures to appear on its stage over
:00:18. > :00:21.the years We look at its rise and fall.
:00:21. > :00:24.Also, it's a special day for lovers of the countryside - we're in the
:00:24. > :00:34.Peak District to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the momentous
:00:34. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:52.And relishing his new role - former Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis
:00:52. > :00:55.
:00:55. > :01:05.joins us to talk about Kay Mellor's And a wet and windy day tomorrow.
:01:05. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:18.Good evening. Another casualty of the tough economic times. The
:01:18. > :01:23.Yorkshire International Business Convention has had as 17 year
:01:23. > :01:26.history of attracting the best speakers in the world. Today its
:01:26. > :01:33.organisers have announced this year will be the last in its current
:01:33. > :01:39.form. Past American presidents have been on the guest-list. But such
:01:39. > :01:43.starry company is proving too expensive to sustain. In a moment,
:01:43. > :01:50.we will hear from the man who founded the convention. For the
:01:50. > :01:54.past 17 years, Yorkshire's business leaders have scoffed, quaffed and
:01:54. > :02:01.listened attentively at the Yorkshire Business Convention. They
:02:01. > :02:06.had been attracted by a stellar list of guest speakers. The heyday
:02:06. > :02:16.came in the early part of the century with Bill Clinton visiting.
:02:16. > :02:22.Hot on his heels came up Mikhail Gorbachev. I have been in politics
:02:22. > :02:30.for almost 50 years. Four years later, and George Bush Senior
:02:30. > :02:37.turned up in Harrogate. His visit was hijacked by an anti- war
:02:37. > :02:44.campaigner. But's response was cryptic. I am a for peace. I might
:02:44. > :02:49.join them. Good. The convention always had big ideas about its
:02:49. > :02:54.status. Ambitious from day one, its first guest was Dr Henry Kissinger.
:02:54. > :02:59.The list of achievers that follows reads like a roll-call of power and
:02:59. > :03:04.influence. Having set the bar so high, the organisers acknowledge it
:03:04. > :03:12.is hard to maintain the standards set. Even so, rescind years have
:03:12. > :03:17.continued to attract A-list stars. Bob Geldof appeared in 2007 with an
:03:17. > :03:23.impassioned plea for investment in Africa. He was followed by model
:03:23. > :03:30.Elle MacPherson. She added glamour to the politics. My knickers have
:03:30. > :03:36.changed my life. The company expanded to two venues. The
:03:36. > :03:39.speakers shuttled between the two. Last year it was cricketer Andrew
:03:39. > :03:46.Strauss and some -- Sirte Tim Berners-Lee were dressed the
:03:46. > :03:51.delegates. The convention will continue in Bridlington on a
:03:51. > :03:56.smaller scale. The last Leeds Convention will take place in June.
:03:56. > :04:06.The keynote speaker will be the Dalai Lama. He will provide what
:04:06. > :04:09.
:04:09. > :04:15.organisers hope will be a fitting Some big names there. Let speak to
:04:15. > :04:22.the founder and organiser, Mike Firth. What is the basic problem?
:04:22. > :04:27.think we have had 17 fantastic years. We have had incredible names.
:04:27. > :04:34.World-class names. They cost a lot of money. We are in a recession.
:04:34. > :04:38.There is not be spent to justified that sort of speaker. We have built
:04:38. > :04:46.up Kalaba the Vics based -- expectation and Leeds. We do not
:04:46. > :04:53.want to go backwards. I think is a good time to bow out. Not bad to
:04:53. > :04:59.start on Dr Henry Kissinger. Shall we start with that?! A I was
:04:59. > :05:03.terrified but found him a fascinating. These were not 10 bob
:05:03. > :05:10.speakers. There was talk of hundreds of thousands of pounds?
:05:10. > :05:16.Yes. Clinton was $200,000. And he is getting more these days. He is
:05:16. > :05:20.more in demand now than he was then. He lost the presidency and doubled
:05:21. > :05:30.his feet. If you want to talk to someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger,
:05:31. > :05:31.
:05:31. > :05:38.the starting's is $200,000. Hasn't it been bypassed by technology?
:05:38. > :05:43.Companies and organisations can get together over the internet. Video
:05:43. > :05:49.conferencing is a boring! We do not do boring. You cannot beat face to
:05:49. > :05:55.face. When you're doing business, you cannot beat getting face to
:05:55. > :06:01.face with people. Companies just cannot afford the upfront costs for
:06:01. > :06:07.tickets, can that they? No, they cannot. That is life. A sign of the
:06:07. > :06:11.times. If we go on forever saying we cannot afford things and not
:06:11. > :06:18.getting out there and promoting Yorkshire, we have got a problem.
:06:18. > :06:21.They thought you were mad when you said, I will stick this wacky Marky
:06:21. > :06:28.in Leeds and get people like the President of the United States of
:06:28. > :06:32.America, or the man who brokered the peace deal in the Middle East.
:06:32. > :06:37.I think they were probably quite right. I am very lucky that I have
:06:37. > :06:42.these ideas and do not stop to think. I do not know if it is a
:06:42. > :06:47.good thing or a bad thing. For me, thank you very much. Bill Clinton
:06:47. > :06:52.is one of the highlights of my life. He was one other highlights of many
:06:52. > :06:55.people's lives but we will not go their! An inquest has heard how and
:06:56. > :07:00.now that the woman was suffering from a catalogue of illnesses
:07:00. > :07:05.months -- weeks after being admitted to a care home. Molly
:07:05. > :07:09.Darby died after a short stay at the Beeches care home in Wath upon
:07:09. > :07:18.Dearne. Her family say she looked like a concentration camp victim.
:07:18. > :07:25.You may be upset by some of these images. It is heartbreaking. I get
:07:25. > :07:32.upset and angry. I try not to but I could cry. For Jim Gardai, the
:07:32. > :07:37.pictures he took off his mother Molly are still painful. Nearly
:07:37. > :07:43.five years have passed since her death, but he still wants answers.
:07:43. > :07:50.I want them, somebody, to be held responsible for that. Somebody was
:07:51. > :07:54.responsible. Whether anything will happen, I do not know. Today
:07:54. > :07:59.Molly's family came to Rotherham magistrates' court to hear the
:07:59. > :08:05.inquest into her death. The court heard she died in 2007 from natural
:08:05. > :08:10.causes. She had no money and a weak heart. But when she was taken to
:08:10. > :08:14.hospital from the Beeches care home, she had bedsores, muscle wasting
:08:14. > :08:18.and matted hair. One of the main questions today was whether the
:08:18. > :08:23.care she received at the beach as Care Home contributed towards her
:08:23. > :08:29.death. Today the court heard different accounts of the condition
:08:29. > :08:35.she was in when she arrived. Jim describe a woman who was sprightly
:08:35. > :08:41.and proud. Someone who was physically well. Michelle
:08:41. > :08:47.Birkenshaw, a carer, described a little flavour old lady. -- a
:08:47. > :08:52.little frail old lady. The care home where Molly Darby was treated
:08:53. > :08:56.has since changed hands. The inquest is expected to finish
:08:56. > :09:06.tomorrow. For her family, it should not only answer the questions about
:09:06. > :09:07.
:09:07. > :09:11.how she died but why. Do stay with us. Later, watch out
:09:11. > :09:19.for a flash flooding. The Environment Agency warns of
:09:19. > :09:23.possible damage as heavy rain follows a long dry spell. Sheffield
:09:23. > :09:28.United player Ched Evans will appeal against his rape conviction,
:09:28. > :09:33.according to his legal team. He was jailed for five years raping a 90
:09:33. > :09:38.year-old woman at a hotel in Wales last year. -- 9 Teeny year-old
:09:38. > :09:42.woman. Reserve-team player Connar Brown has been suspended after
:09:42. > :09:46.posting derogatory comments about the woman on Twitter. Police blew
:09:46. > :09:52.up by the hand grenade in Leeds this morning. It was banned in the
:09:52. > :09:56.grounds of the Gildersome Arms pub in Gildersome. It is not known how
:09:56. > :10:00.old the grenade was. A policeman has been cleared of causing the
:10:00. > :10:07.death by careless driving of a student who died after being hit by
:10:07. > :10:11.a patrol car in Sheffield 18 months ago. PC Rodney Mills was driving at
:10:11. > :10:15.nearly twice the speed limit without his warning lights or
:10:15. > :10:20.sirens when he hit Jamie Haslett, who ran across the road in front of
:10:20. > :10:25.him. The trial heard the 19 year- old, and was three times over the
:10:25. > :10:30.drink-drive limit, was returning home after a night out. It is
:10:30. > :10:36.obviously a relief that the trial is over. Our Volz are that it is
:10:36. > :10:40.not a day for celebration. I young man lost his life. The Mayor of
:10:40. > :10:46.Chengdu has been in Sheffield today to help the city forge
:10:46. > :10:54.international links with China. He visited Forgemasters factory, which
:10:54. > :10:58.already successfully trade with China. -- trades.
:10:58. > :11:03.You probably haven't noticed this. It has been raining for the past
:11:03. > :11:06.few days. But the Environment Agency is warning that it is
:11:06. > :11:11.actually the dry spell earlier in the spring which has increased the
:11:11. > :11:15.risk of flooding in parts of Yorkshire. They say the ground has
:11:15. > :11:22.dried out so much, sustained rainfall will run into rivers and
:11:22. > :11:27.streams rather than draining away. This is what flash flooding looks
:11:27. > :11:32.like. It is nothing new. Hot summer days lead to thunder storms and
:11:32. > :11:36.torrential rain. It cannot train into the hard ground so it rushes
:11:36. > :11:41.into water courses and floods. It is normally confined to a few short
:11:41. > :11:46.weeks in the summer. The flooding in Helmsley and Sheffield fitted
:11:46. > :11:52.into that category. This was Pocklington last week, the middle
:11:52. > :11:55.of April. The recent rainfall has done nothing to soften the ground.
:11:55. > :12:00.The Environment Agency is warning that flash floods could happen
:12:00. > :12:05.anytime, anywhere. It is very unusual. We would not expect that
:12:05. > :12:12.kind of flooding until June, July or August. Now we are probably
:12:12. > :12:20.looking at the next six months which could see an increased risk.
:12:20. > :12:25.They are spending �13 million defending top London in Yorkshire.
:12:25. > :12:31.Small streams meet in the centre. - - Todmorden. This is where the
:12:31. > :12:34.problems start. The hills above the town are try and sleep. Any sudden
:12:35. > :12:39.heavy rainfall runs straight off and into town. Strange though it
:12:39. > :12:49.seems, the best defence against this sort of flooding is several
:12:49. > :12:51.
:12:51. > :12:55.Before 7 o'clock. Neville Longbottom comes of age.
:12:55. > :12:59.For the Harry Potter star takes centre stage tonight he in a Kay
:12:59. > :13:03.Mellor drama serial. And Ian reports on a booming
:13:03. > :13:08.business. The things I'd do for Look North!
:13:08. > :13:15.Later I will be finding out how this is turned into this and why it
:13:15. > :13:21.is a success story for one Yorkshire business.
:13:21. > :13:25.80 years ago today, a group of young men set out for a walk. They
:13:25. > :13:30.headed up on to Kinder Scout and rambled over land which was a pause
:13:30. > :13:35.to be out of bounds. That has passed into legend as the
:13:35. > :13:40.massed red -- mass trespass. The protest pays an important part in
:13:40. > :13:49.opening up the countryside for all of us. Tom Engel has been to a
:13:49. > :13:54.special celebration. Behind me, the distinctive plateau
:13:54. > :13:58.of Kinder Scout. The hills where 80 years ago history was made. The
:13:58. > :14:03.thing I have learned about the mass trespass today is how important
:14:03. > :14:07.rambling was as a leisure activity back in 1932. You might work five
:14:07. > :14:12.or six days a week in the factories and Sunday was your day to get out
:14:12. > :14:16.and about to explore. The right to roam campaign was all about a
:14:16. > :14:19.battle between landowner's rights and ramblers the rights and the
:14:19. > :14:25.mass trespass was not the only part of it, but it was pretty
:14:26. > :14:33.fundamental. # I am a rambler from Manchester
:14:33. > :14:37.way... A rousing chorus of the Ramblers unofficial anthem. To
:14:37. > :14:41.celebrate the anniversary of the mass trespass, there is no point in
:14:41. > :14:45.singing Happy birthday. Of course it is political. When you walk into
:14:45. > :14:50.these mountains you were walking... Walking is a political activity.
:14:50. > :14:55.You're walking over what was one for you by those men. As a young
:14:55. > :14:58.boy, George followed the trespassers up Kinder Scout. At 96
:14:58. > :15:04.he still remembers the confrontation with gamekeepers that
:15:04. > :15:12.followed. -- with BMP -- gamekeepers. The elders warned a
:15:12. > :15:18.sticky patch of the way. We saw most of the trouble. I was very
:15:18. > :15:24.annoyed that some of the members -- some of the men were taken prisoner
:15:24. > :15:29.and locked up. Five of the men went to prison. It was as much a class
:15:29. > :15:38.struggle as it was about the right to roam. My father was 20. I do not
:15:38. > :15:41.think they were very happy about it. A very respectable Jewish family,
:15:42. > :15:49.they were upset to say the least to have their oldest son sent to
:15:49. > :15:53.prison! Further protests followed, with public sympathy on the
:15:53. > :15:58.Ramblers side. Eventually, the national parks were created and as
:15:58. > :16:04.late as 2000, legislation was finally approved allowing walkers
:16:04. > :16:09.to stray off the footpath. 80 years on, we set off for a stroll up
:16:09. > :16:16.Kinder Scout without the threat of arrest -- threat to rest. But a
:16:16. > :16:20.warning that the campaign that goes on. The simple ask -- simple act of
:16:20. > :16:26.putting one foot in front of another is implicitly sometimes an
:16:26. > :16:31.act of protest. I liked the idea of a campaign rambler, it is almost a
:16:31. > :16:37.contradiction in terms. People forget that the roots of us are in
:16:37. > :16:41.dissent. It is not all cream teas and cosiness. Which is pretty much
:16:41. > :16:51.where we came in. The ramblers were the cause to fight and a campaign
:16:51. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :16:59.If you want to come out for a walk in the next few days, the festival
:16:59. > :17:06.runs from now until Sunday. There are blocks of all lengths and talks
:17:06. > :17:09.and dances. I cannot promise to the weather, but perhaps we have got
:17:09. > :17:13.some great ramblers in the sky looking down on us because it is
:17:13. > :17:19.glorious. That is something to celebrate.
:17:19. > :17:22.Thank you very much. It is something we all take for granted.
:17:22. > :17:29.What a legend! He was one of the real forerunners.
:17:29. > :17:34.He was. Football now. You could say that
:17:34. > :17:39.Barnsley have had a very little to celebrate recently. Until today. We
:17:39. > :17:45.can say happy anniversary. It is the 100th anniversary of are
:17:45. > :17:50.so's only FA Cup final triumph. It happened just a few days after the
:17:50. > :17:58.sinking of the Titanic. They beat West Brom at Sheffield United's
:17:58. > :18:05.Bramall Lane. My father and my grandfather were
:18:05. > :18:12.both together here in 1912 behind the goal. It is the story of the
:18:12. > :18:17.passing of the coins. If my father ever heard anyone putting coins in
:18:17. > :18:25.boxes, he would say it reminded him of 1912.
:18:25. > :18:31.Some nice memories. If you have been gripped by Vic Kay
:18:31. > :18:35.Mellor drama series The Syndicate on BBC One -- Kay Mellor drama
:18:35. > :18:40.series on BBC One, you have just a few hours to go before finding out
:18:40. > :18:46.what happens. It stars Matthew Lewis who plays a
:18:46. > :18:51.bad boy. He joins us in the studio. You, unlike 11 million of us
:18:51. > :18:58.tonight, will not be watching the episode, will you? Know. I find it
:18:58. > :19:03.difficult to watch the things I have been in. Why? I have always
:19:03. > :19:06.been quite critical of my acting. It is one of those things that
:19:06. > :19:16.you're always learning and growing end and you never consider yourself
:19:16. > :19:19.
:19:19. > :19:29.the perfect actor. We have got a call it now. -- club now.
:19:29. > :19:47.
:19:47. > :19:52.I would not ask you if I was a Hello Jamie. Decided to take a
:19:52. > :19:57.little detour, did you? I want to grant of you or make your back.
:19:57. > :20:03.have not got your ear. Looks like we're going for a little right.
:20:03. > :20:07.You really did look away! It makes me really uncomfortable. My parents
:20:07. > :20:13.watch it and they have got all the Harry Potter DVDs, but I just do
:20:13. > :20:18.not have any of them. There is no more of it, so do not worry. Well
:20:18. > :20:26.there is. But we will warn you. genie is a very dark character,
:20:26. > :20:35.isn't he? Absolutely. But the thing about Jamie is that as bad as he is,
:20:35. > :20:38.he is a bit of a pretender. He has got this facade, this brashness and
:20:39. > :20:47.arrogance that has brought about by the money, but deep down he is just
:20:47. > :20:53.like a lost little boy. His brothers always looked out for him.
:20:53. > :20:58.He is pretending to be in this big man's world. Kay Mellor just right
:20:58. > :21:08.things. It must be beautiful to read her lines. But you are in an
:21:08. > :21:11.
:21:11. > :21:17.indie film again a player in a Leeds lad. -- plea end. Wasteland.
:21:17. > :21:25.I would describe it as Stand By Me meets Trainspotting. Without a
:21:25. > :21:30.Glasgow accent! It is about four boys who, or one of them has been
:21:30. > :21:33.framed for possession, and while he is in prison he is thinking of ways
:21:33. > :21:39.that he can get revenge and he employs the help of his three
:21:39. > :21:43.friends. I am one of them. They decide that either they are going
:21:43. > :21:49.to do it without me or they will do it and succeed and we will move to
:21:49. > :21:54.Amsterdam. The all rallied together and it is about friendship. Do you
:21:54. > :22:00.get fed up with people let us say end, what about Harry Potter?
:22:00. > :22:07.sometimes still, a higher --, Neville. It is not something that I
:22:07. > :22:10.am upset about. It was a great role for me. I started at 11 and did it
:22:10. > :22:16.for ten years. There can be worse things that stay with you for the
:22:16. > :22:21.rest of your life! It is not that! Just to calm you down, if you are
:22:21. > :22:26.going to watch tonight, our next story is about popcorn, so you were
:22:26. > :22:32.good tonight. Take that with you, sit on the sofa and watch yourself
:22:33. > :22:36.on the television! Thank you very much.
:22:36. > :22:41.Accompanying Bardsley is helping fuel the UK's highest ever demand
:22:41. > :22:46.for popcorn. So great is that demand that and 2011, sales
:22:46. > :22:51.rocketed by 300% and Tesco sold an incredible 7 million more packets
:22:51. > :22:58.than it did in 2010. We're eating it all afternoon!
:22:58. > :23:08.The company may soon have to expand to cope with the demand. Ian White
:23:08. > :23:14.
:23:14. > :23:19.It has been a popular snack in America for decades, but pop
:23:19. > :23:24.concert really only caught on in the UK in the 1970s. Now has sales
:23:24. > :23:29.have gone through the roof and a Barnsley farm is cashing in. We are
:23:29. > :23:34.trading ten men at -- ten million turnover. We started from zero and
:23:34. > :23:38.it is a great success story. A in the recession, many people have
:23:38. > :23:43.opted to stay at home with a DVD rather than go to the cinema. So
:23:43. > :23:51.supermarket sales of popcorn have increased. Popcorn is a brilliant
:23:51. > :23:57.product. It has called the fibre in it. It is packed with antioxidants.
:23:57. > :24:02.It is half the calories and have the fat of a packet of crisps.
:24:02. > :24:07.the 60 people who work here, popcorn has become their life. When
:24:07. > :24:15.you go one night now, but you have a bad of popcorn? I have probably
:24:15. > :24:22.had enough! When I fall asleep account popcorn! You do not Wass --
:24:22. > :24:31.waste any time. The key is that no one talks to you! If there are any
:24:31. > :24:39.bad backs in here, it is your fault. It is time for the taste test. Let
:24:39. > :24:46.us see what this young gentleman thinks. Dickie! Popcorn. Do you
:24:46. > :24:50.like it? Marvellous. Made in Barnsley. Tremendous. It reminds me
:24:50. > :24:55.of the day for when I was a young lad sat in the back row of the
:24:55. > :25:05.cinema. It also reminds me of when my mother took me to Scarborough.
:25:05. > :25:07.
:25:07. > :25:14.It is marvellous. Made in Barnsley! Get it down you. Marvellous!
:25:14. > :25:24.If it is good enough for Dickie, it is good enough for me!
:25:24. > :25:31.
:25:31. > :25:40.This one has got top-lit on it. Let us take a look at the pictures.
:25:40. > :25:46.This is a picture of a rainbow. It is a double rainbow. It is nice.
:25:46. > :25:53.This one is a dark skies. That is from Martin. This one is not
:25:53. > :26:01.whether related but I could not resist!
:26:01. > :26:06.-- weather. A rather dismal 24 hours.
:26:06. > :26:13.Tomorrow's forecast is a wet and windy one. A lot of rain. It is all
:26:13. > :26:18.down to this pressure system. An area of low pressure is pursuing
:26:18. > :26:24.eastwards. Unpleasant conditions for tomorrow. Today has not been
:26:24. > :26:29.too bad. Lots of people have been saying that it is a pleasant end to
:26:29. > :26:39.the day. One or two showers which will fade through the night. Mostly
:26:39. > :26:39.
:26:39. > :26:42.dry. A tendency for cloud to increase the read the night.
:26:42. > :26:50.Temperatures in more rural spots dropping back to around four or
:26:50. > :27:00.five degrees. Early tomorrow morning, it may well start of dry.
:27:00. > :27:03.
:27:03. > :27:09.-- start off dry. Quickly, we will see outbreaks of rain spreading
:27:09. > :27:14.from the south-west. By the end of the morning everywhere will be wet.
:27:14. > :27:22.It will feel cold. The breeze will be coming from the east.
:27:22. > :27:27.Temperatures struggling. Tomorrow we will be getting up to around
:27:27. > :27:37.eight or nine degrees. Throughout the rest of the week, sunny spells