:00:10. > :00:13.Welcome to Friday's Look North. Rainfall records broken, flash
:00:13. > :00:18.floods across Yorkshire as rivers struggle to cope with the rising
:00:18. > :00:22.levels of water. I am lied s brought Borough
:00:22. > :00:29.alongside the River Don where all day today people have been mopping
:00:29. > :00:33.We will get the full detail on rainfall levels a little later.
:00:33. > :00:38.The police search for a man suspected of killing two people
:00:38. > :00:41.moves to Scarborough. Detectives investigating the death of Julie
:00:41. > :00:46.Davison in which police say he stayed in Scarborough on the night
:00:46. > :00:51.of her murder. A loss of two lives does not get any more catastrophic
:00:51. > :00:56.and we must find James Allen as soon as possible. And 70 years
:00:56. > :01:01.after the York Blitz, we speak to one of those in Bomber Command the
:01:01. > :01:05.night nearly 100 people were killed. There is a lot of rain to come
:01:05. > :01:15.later this weekend. The Met Office have an early warning in force for
:01:15. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:27.Our main story, it has been confirmed tonight in parts of
:01:27. > :01:31.Yorkshire it is now the wettest April since records began in 1882.
:01:31. > :01:35.Today the rain has continued to cause problems across the region.
:01:35. > :01:40.There are currently nine flood warnings in place although the
:01:40. > :01:50.situation keeps changing. Today warnings have been issued on these
:01:50. > :01:51.
:01:51. > :01:55.rivers. The latest information can be found on the Environment Agency
:01:55. > :01:59.website, but Nick galleries is close to the River Don in
:01:59. > :02:04.Sprotbrough. Just a few weeks ago I was speaking
:02:04. > :02:09.to you live from a very different place, a dry riverbed in North
:02:09. > :02:15.Yorkshire. I was standing on the river bed without any water. What a
:02:15. > :02:20.difference a few weeks makes. The Rev I don is as you have never seen
:02:20. > :02:25.it before, it is many years since it has been as high as this. People
:02:25. > :02:30.here have been mopping up as their homes, farms and businesses have
:02:30. > :02:36.been flooded. What is happening around the rest of your chair?
:02:36. > :02:41.It had been expected and today it arrived. From the air you can see
:02:41. > :02:45.just how swollen up the River Ouse near York has become. The city
:02:45. > :02:52.relies on palms to shift flood water away, but this morning half
:02:52. > :02:58.of them broke. We are running through about 30 or 40 bath loads
:02:58. > :03:02.of water a seconds. We lost half of that for him because half the palms
:03:02. > :03:06.went down, so that makes a difference. Quick action saved
:03:06. > :03:12.hundreds of homes from the misery of flooding. Others were not so
:03:12. > :03:17.lucky, but many of those affected are well prepared. In this pub in
:03:17. > :03:21.Stamford Bridge they have stone floors. We are used to it by now.
:03:21. > :03:26.As soon as the pump start, the water is corn and wheat clean-up in
:03:26. > :03:32.a couple of hours and are back to normal. The problem was water
:03:32. > :03:36.backing up from the drains. The pub is the lowest point in the village.
:03:36. > :03:41.More heavy rain is on its way over the weekend.
:03:41. > :03:47.This would normally be a busy stretch of road, but at the moment
:03:47. > :03:51.with the flood water it is impassable to all but four by for
:03:51. > :03:55.cars. This garage owner moved his cars to
:03:55. > :03:59.higher ground days ago, but they still wrecked his workshop. I am
:03:59. > :04:03.devastated because the Environment Agency does not give you enough
:04:03. > :04:08.warning and it has been going on for years and they have not done
:04:08. > :04:13.anything about it. It has got to be cleaned up and we have to start
:04:13. > :04:18.again. Next to a Lisa and her daughter were stranded by rising
:04:18. > :04:25.water. She cannot get to school today and we are just stuck and we
:04:25. > :04:30.are waiting for it to go. Unless it does not go. This field is often
:04:30. > :04:36.flooded to say Castleford from rising rivers. Today that happened
:04:36. > :04:40.faster than anticipated. Work was under way to rescue these horses.
:04:40. > :04:45.It is hard to encourage the Highland cattle on to dry land,
:04:45. > :04:50.though. A few weeks ago fire crews across
:04:50. > :04:55.Yorkshire were being called out on an almost daily basis to grass
:04:55. > :04:59.fires and more fires. The residents in one town in South Yorkshire S8
:04:59. > :05:07.it has been a miserable day and fire crews have been called in to
:05:07. > :05:12.help them pump out water from flooded basements. What fun.
:05:12. > :05:16.Despite his positive attitude it has been a miserable 24 hours. He
:05:16. > :05:23.has been fighting a losing battle against floodwater sense yesterday
:05:23. > :05:28.afternoon. The seller is this high with water. Luckily it has not come
:05:28. > :05:35.to the second floor, but everything is ruined. I feel like sitting down
:05:35. > :05:38.and crying. I will put a brave face on and carry on. Colin's office is
:05:38. > :05:45.under six feet of water and it is a similar picture for the House next
:05:45. > :05:50.door. I have been up all night literally from 2 o'clock and I set
:05:50. > :05:53.the alarm. Like many parts of Yorkshire the ground is completely
:05:53. > :05:58.saturated after days of torrential rain and snow the water is forcing
:05:58. > :06:03.its way up through the tyre. There's water has been seeping out
:06:03. > :06:07.of the pavement and flooding down the road since yesterday afternoon.
:06:07. > :06:13.The fire crews have lined up sandbags along the road to channel
:06:13. > :06:19.the water into this train. There is a burst to somewhere. We do not
:06:19. > :06:22.know if it is from a natural supply or a water main. The council and
:06:22. > :06:28.the water authorities have been out and at the moment they are trying
:06:28. > :06:32.to decide whose responsibility it is. Yorkshire Water's say they are
:06:32. > :06:37.still investigating the cause of the flooding and this afternoon
:06:37. > :06:41.engineers from Barnsley council have been on site. But it is little
:06:41. > :06:44.comfort to the residents of Manchester Road. They are preparing
:06:44. > :06:49.their barricades for another uncertain night.
:06:49. > :06:55.It is worth pointing out that there is not a flood alert on the River
:06:55. > :06:58.Don, but what a spectacle this is. On that central area there are
:06:58. > :07:03.normally people walking and picnicking. It is an extraordinary
:07:04. > :07:10.scene. It looks precarious on that plank.
:07:10. > :07:15.That is without a flood warning. You have been going on about the
:07:15. > :07:19.amount of rainfall. This is your field. I thought we would break the
:07:19. > :07:28.record on Sunday, but last night it was so heavy we have got three
:07:28. > :07:35.records. The best one is in Sheffield. It has the most data in
:07:35. > :07:45.the country. The average for April is 63 mm. The record was previously
:07:45. > :07:45.
:07:45. > :07:55.set in 2000. Already we have beaten it. There is probably another inch
:07:55. > :08:01.to come on Sunday and those records go back to 1882. Is it 18 82 it was
:08:01. > :08:06.wetter? And normally in those records we have about 40 years. But
:08:06. > :08:15.this site has been there for 132 years and it is a significant
:08:15. > :08:21.weather event. It has been the most significant for all those years.
:08:21. > :08:25.The Environment Agency will be rightly concerned. There are fresh
:08:25. > :08:30.revelations about a man on the run up to two horrendous murders.
:08:30. > :08:34.Police told us this afternoon that James Allen booked into a
:08:34. > :08:39.Scarborough hotel the night of the killing of a 50 year-old charity
:08:39. > :08:46.worker from Whitby. Police have warned the public not to report the
:08:46. > :08:52.man. Our reporter Andy Smythe spoke to us from which to beat.
:08:52. > :08:58.It is as quiet town and this area is a very quiet area. It is full of
:08:58. > :09:03.bed-and-breakfasts which are full of tourists. Earlier I was trying
:09:03. > :09:08.to gauge the mood of the tourists and the locals and there is fear.
:09:08. > :09:12.People are scared. They are trying to keep it in proportion and are
:09:12. > :09:18.keeping normal precautions might locking their doors. Today I heard
:09:18. > :09:23.a lot more about the lady who died, Julie Davison. She was 50 and had
:09:23. > :09:28.only recently moved back to the area. She has been described as
:09:28. > :09:32.being well liked and a very charitable person. She did a lot of
:09:32. > :09:37.work for local charities. Earlier I spoke to a childhood friend and
:09:37. > :09:42.this is what he had to say about the mood of the community. Whitby
:09:42. > :09:47.is often described as being the biggest village in the world.
:09:47. > :09:56.Everybody rallies around. The family of duly are coveted by the
:09:56. > :10:03.amount of nice words and things people have said. I know until late
:10:03. > :10:08.this afternoon this man had been in two places, Whitby and
:10:08. > :10:14.Middlesbrough. But this afternoon the search move to another coastal
:10:14. > :10:20.resort town. Yes, the focus is now on the town of Scarborough further
:10:20. > :10:24.down the coast. James Allen, the man the police are looking for, in
:10:24. > :10:30.connection with the murder of Julie Davison and also of Colin Dunford
:10:30. > :10:35.in Middlesbrough, that he checked into a hotel in Scarborough on
:10:35. > :10:40.Wednesday night just up to Julie Davison was killed. He booked in
:10:40. > :10:45.for two nights, but only stayed for one. It is where he went after that
:10:45. > :10:50.that the police are trying to get to grips with. They sectioned off
:10:50. > :10:55.the street in Middlesbrough as well. It was a street where he has
:10:55. > :10:58.reportedly been living, but he was not there. Cleveland police
:10:58. > :11:03.arranged a press conference this afternoon and this is what the lead
:11:03. > :11:07.investigator had to say. The loss of two lives does not get any more
:11:07. > :11:12.catastrophic and that is why we must find James Allen as soon as
:11:12. > :11:18.possible. He represents a threat and we have a massive police
:11:18. > :11:24.operation that will not cease until we catch him. As I said earlier,
:11:24. > :11:28.the investigation is now centring on Scarborough and the hotel which
:11:29. > :11:32.was the last place where he was cited.
:11:32. > :11:38.Thank you for bringing us up to date.
:11:38. > :11:41.We will have a look ahead to the weekend's sport. Including
:11:41. > :11:48.Sheffield's big two are battling it out for the final, automatic
:11:48. > :11:52.promotion place in League One. Now more of today's news and
:11:52. > :11:57.hundreds of people lined the streets of St Annes for the funeral
:11:57. > :12:00.of Sergeant Nigel Coupe, a soldier killed while serving with the
:12:00. > :12:06.Yorkshire Regiment in Afghanistan. He died with five other soldiers
:12:06. > :12:10.from the regiment in an explosion last month. He was 33 and leaves
:12:10. > :12:16.behind a wife and two children. He was described by those who loved
:12:16. > :12:20.him and worked with him as a man of great character. He was an
:12:20. > :12:25.exceptional individual. Not only was he a highly professional
:12:25. > :12:29.soldier, he was a diligent individual, exceptionally
:12:29. > :12:35.professional, experienced, knowledgeable about his job, but he
:12:35. > :12:41.was also a very loving, family man. A former leader of the Union of
:12:41. > :12:45.Democratic Mineworkers has been jailed for stealing �150,000 from a
:12:45. > :12:50.charity. 61 year-old Neil Greatrex spent the money on a new kitchen
:12:50. > :12:53.and hope improvements for himself and another official.
:12:53. > :12:57.Three men arrested in the investigation into the naming on
:12:57. > :13:02.Twitter of the victim in the Sheffield United football at Ched
:13:02. > :13:05.Evans rape case have been released on bail today. He was jailed last
:13:05. > :13:10.week or five years for raping a woman in North Wales.
:13:10. > :13:15.70 years ago this weekend saw a terrible night in York's long
:13:15. > :13:19.history. The City was bombed by the German air force. Dozens of
:13:20. > :13:23.buildings were flattened and nearly 100 people were killed or died as a
:13:23. > :13:29.result of their injuries. This weekend they will commemorate
:13:29. > :13:33.what has become known as the Baedecker raid. It was believed the
:13:33. > :13:37.Luftwaffe and used the tourist guides of the same name to target
:13:37. > :13:43.England's historic cities. Research has revealed the city was probably
:13:43. > :13:49.targeted because of its railings. Cathy Killick looks back on a night
:13:49. > :13:56.that many can still remember. It is not Hull or Coventry, but
:13:56. > :14:02.Europe, bombed for around two hours on the night of 29th April, 1942.
:14:02. > :14:08.It is thought around 80 tons of explosives were dropped on the city.
:14:08. > :14:12.The rate was seen at the time as a revenge attack. Whatever the motor,
:14:13. > :14:17.factories and houses were destroyed and the station clearly targeted.
:14:17. > :14:23.Across the city more than 80 people died. The damage was extensive,
:14:23. > :14:28.although arriving in York today you would have no idea. There are signs
:14:28. > :14:33.of that off on night. You just have to know where to look. Remembered
:14:33. > :14:39.here is well you Milner, a station foremen and St John Ambulance a
:14:39. > :14:44.volunteer. He was on night duty and he was persuading passengers from a
:14:44. > :14:50.train that had just come in to go down into the passageways
:14:50. > :14:55.underneath for safety. He then realised he would need some first
:14:55. > :14:59.aid equipment and went back to collect it. Sadly there were in
:14:59. > :15:06.century bombs by that time and the building collapsed on him. He never
:15:07. > :15:10.came out. That is when I first joined in 1940. Colin was working
:15:10. > :15:17.at Bomber Command in Europe when the bombs started to fall. It was
:15:17. > :15:27.horrendous. You have seen it in the movies, but it is worse because you
:15:27. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:32.can feel the ground as well. The Minster always dominates the city,
:15:32. > :15:37.and buildings were on fire. raids will be remembered this
:15:37. > :15:42.weekend, but some of the City's school children have already done
:15:42. > :15:47.their research finding out about wartime fireman after one pupil
:15:47. > :15:52.discovered what happened to her great, great uncle. He was a
:15:52. > :15:57.fireman and he was very brave because a bomb could have dropped
:15:57. > :16:02.any time and a man called Frank Fox sent him back to check the
:16:02. > :16:08.connection between the hose and the fire engine. A bomb dropped and he
:16:08. > :16:13.got blown to bits. The loss of life was sobering, but gave rise to a
:16:13. > :16:21.determination to carry on business as usual. The station reopened the
:16:21. > :16:24.next day, but the rate was never Well, two people with dramatic
:16:24. > :16:29.stories to tell are brother and sister, Christopher Backhouse and
:16:29. > :16:32.Jane Whitworth. They were buried in their house in York during the
:16:33. > :16:41.Blitz 70 years ago. Christopher has vivid memories of what happened to
:16:41. > :16:46.him and his family. I have indeed. It is my first conscious memory. I
:16:46. > :16:52.remember the sound of the air raid sirens. We got used to them over
:16:52. > :17:02.the years. The noise of the bombs got closer and closer, the whistle,
:17:02. > :17:03.
:17:04. > :17:10.followed by the boom. You were a baby. You do not have those
:17:10. > :17:17.memories. But, people have told you about the shock and the tremors and
:17:17. > :17:25.buildings collapsing. Yes, the local butcher was walking down the
:17:25. > :17:31.street. He was devastated with what had happened. Suddenly, from the
:17:31. > :17:41.rubble there was a baby crying and he realised there was somebody a
:17:41. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:53.live, then my father had to go to the steps of York Minster to look.
:17:53. > :17:53.
:17:53. > :17:57.There was nothing left. Many other people will remember it as well.
:17:57. > :18:03.don't suppose there is that many people who are still around. I am
:18:03. > :18:11.fortunate to be almost 75. My sister was a baby and his younger.
:18:11. > :18:17.But that is embedded in my memory. I will be honest with you, I did
:18:17. > :18:27.not relies so many lives were lost in that glorious city of yore.
:18:27. > :18:37.to be precise, spread all over the city. -- City of York. The
:18:37. > :18:37.
:18:37. > :18:47.Baedecker Raid iss were in revenge for Allied raids on the city of
:18:47. > :18:57.Lubeck. They were aiming for the railway, but the wind was blowing
:18:57. > :19:00.
:19:00. > :19:05.the bombs on to residential areas. Thank you for sharing that with us.
:19:05. > :19:15.My brother was his life to me. you get the milk from the steps of
:19:15. > :19:16.
:19:16. > :19:23.the Minster? I believe that I did and I am here now! We have got an
:19:23. > :19:30.absolute ruler at Featherstone tonight in the sport -- thriller.
:19:30. > :19:35.Can they do it? All the logic and the World says No But what they did
:19:35. > :19:45.in the last round, and it has been wet, which will help them, and on
:19:45. > :19:45.
:19:45. > :19:47.that little pitch. The fifth round of the challenge cup kicks of this
:19:47. > :19:50.evening with Championship side, Featherstone, taking on the holders
:19:50. > :19:53.Wigan. Rovers caused the big shock of the last round knocking out
:19:53. > :19:58.their Super League neighbours, Castleford. You can get full match
:19:58. > :20:06.commentary on the game on BBC Radio Leeds. They could do with another
:20:06. > :20:08.try, like that one. Football, and the big two in Sheffield are still
:20:08. > :20:11.fighting it out for promotion to the Championship. Wednesday have
:20:11. > :20:14.the chance to land the first blow tomorrow while United will know
:20:14. > :20:22.They need to do ahead of their evening kick-off. Paul Ogden
:20:22. > :20:26.reports. So often this season, Sheffield Wednesday have set out
:20:26. > :20:32.their stall impressively only for a Sheffield United to come and knock
:20:32. > :20:35.it over with a win of their own, restoring the status quo. With two
:20:36. > :20:40.wickets left in League One, the pressure to win and then wait and
:20:40. > :20:44.watch his on Sheffield Wednesday again. If they falter at Brentford
:20:45. > :20:51.and Saturday, United would have advance notice of the won promotion
:20:51. > :21:00.party if they can beat Stevenage in their teatime kick-off. Been second
:21:00. > :21:06.on stage has not always suitable. would say this is something we have
:21:06. > :21:12.to deal with. It plays games with both teams. But knowing what we
:21:12. > :21:15.have to do, we have got to be thankful for that. A Sheffield
:21:15. > :21:19.Wednesday are finishing the season with a flourish and have not lost a
:21:19. > :21:23.match since Dave Jones took charge in March. His experience of
:21:23. > :21:33.Sheffield football culture the shorter than Danny Wilson's, but
:21:33. > :21:38.
:21:38. > :21:43.that diplomacy is genuine. It the one thing I would say with all
:21:43. > :21:50.right -- all the rivalry, D Dunn, both sets of fans would like to be
:21:50. > :21:53.promoted. -- deep down. A but however the row over second place
:21:53. > :21:56.is resolved between United and Wednesday, BBC Sheffield will be
:21:56. > :22:06.right in the middle of its starting with tour match commentary from
:22:06. > :22:09.
:22:09. > :22:12.both teams tomorrow, one after the There are more heroics going on at
:22:12. > :22:15.the other end of League One as Chesterfield keep defying the odds
:22:15. > :22:19.to avoid the drop. The Spirites have stared relegation in the face
:22:19. > :22:24.in each of their last three games, but each time have come away with a
:22:24. > :22:28.win. Last week they came from behind to beat Rochdale and they'll
:22:28. > :22:38.have to win their last two games to have a realistic chance of staying
:22:38. > :22:47.
:22:47. > :22:49.up. On to cricket, and Yorkshire are trailing in their County
:22:49. > :22:53.Championship match at Kent. In reply to Yorkshire's 247, the hosts
:22:53. > :22:56.finished on 316 for 6 with Brendan Nash unbeaten on 114. The Yorkshire
:22:56. > :23:06.pair of Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow have been named in the Lions squad
:23:06. > :23:11.
:23:11. > :23:20.to face the West Indies next month. Purple, purple, Paul was wearing
:23:20. > :23:30.purple. Why didn't you ring me? You obviously just all run each other.
:23:30. > :23:35.On to the weather. Tell us how bad I can show you some topical
:23:35. > :23:45.pictures. This is a picture of the reviews in Europe. This is very
:23:45. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:52.impressive, High Force. And that is the view looking towards
:23:52. > :23:58.Scarborough, some brightness there. The best of the weekend weather
:23:58. > :24:02.will be a Saturday, although a lot of cloud, it should brighten up
:24:02. > :24:06.later. A nondescript looking weather chart on Saturday but we
:24:06. > :24:13.have a bigger area of low pressure in the Bay of Biscay, heavy rain
:24:13. > :24:23.pushing up from the South and there could be another inch of rain,
:24:23. > :24:24.
:24:24. > :24:30.perhaps, in places. It is a knock- split -- north-south split. North
:24:30. > :24:39.Yorkshire is in the dry. With a bit of practice in places. Further
:24:39. > :24:49.south, a little bit patchy, like rain. A patch of ground frost
:24:49. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:57.possible in the North. The Sun will rise in the morning at 5:35am. It
:24:57. > :25:03.will be a cloudy, damp start in places, especially in the soap, but
:25:03. > :25:10.on the wall, things will dry up, and into the afternoon, at least
:25:10. > :25:13.north from West Yorkshire it should become a little bit brighter. Top
:25:13. > :25:18.temperatures, chilly for the time of year, cold and Scarborough, with
:25:18. > :25:26.a moderate north-easterly wind, a little better inland, at around ten
:25:26. > :25:29.Celsius. Round about 10 in Doncaster. Then we moved on to the
:25:29. > :25:36.Met Office weather warning for Sunday for heavy rain and strong
:25:36. > :25:40.winds. Gale-force winds on the tops of the hills and along the coast.
:25:40. > :25:48.By the middle of the day, that heavy rain will pursue from the