:00:11. > :00:15.Look North viewers debate what could be the biggest change to
:00:15. > :00:20.Yorkshire cities for generations. Voters in Bradford, Leeds,
:00:20. > :00:26.Sheffield and Wakefield decide whether to elect their own Mayor.
:00:26. > :00:33.Also tonight: A childhood destroyed - a man sexually abused by his
:00:33. > :00:40.adoptive father says social services ignored his cry for help.
:00:40. > :00:44.I had finger marks all over my neck here. She never believed what were
:00:44. > :00:48.going on. A suspended jail sentence for a
:00:48. > :00:53.widower who used his dead wife's name to avoid getting points for
:00:53. > :00:58.speeding. I'm in Doncaster for a brand-new
:00:58. > :01:03.exhibition which has an elephant carved out of 35 tonnes of sand.
:01:03. > :01:09.Find out why and what it doesn't want you to forget!
:01:09. > :01:19.The blossom on the tree outside York Minster added a splash of
:01:19. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:29.colour today. Your five-day Welcome to Look North. First, the
:01:29. > :01:33.candid account of a young man who told this programme how his
:01:33. > :01:38.childhood cries for help were ignored by one of our biggest local
:01:38. > :01:43.authorities leaving him to be physically and sexually abused. The
:01:43. > :01:51.law grants victim of abuse anonymity but Andy Cannon has
:01:51. > :02:01.waived this right to tell his story. He feels his local council failed
:02:01. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:07.him. When he got violent, he were nasty.
:02:07. > :02:12.After it happened like six or seven month I just shut off from it.
:02:12. > :02:16.Cannon is struggling to come to terms with an appalling childhood.
:02:16. > :02:21.He says he was sexually and physically abused by his adoptive
:02:21. > :02:30.father and his boyfriend. When he sought help, his complaints were
:02:31. > :02:36.ignored or not investigated properly. I remember saying, "My
:02:36. > :02:40.dad's abusing me." I had finger marks on my neck. She never
:02:40. > :02:43.believed what were going off. is a report carried out by an
:02:43. > :02:52.independent expert in child welfare who was employed by Andy's
:02:52. > :02:56.solicitor. It is a review of his case notes. It claims there were 14
:02:56. > :03:01.significant failings where his care fell below what you would expect
:03:02. > :03:06.from a competent local authority. The report claims that social
:03:06. > :03:10.services failed to make detailed enquiries into allegations of
:03:11. > :03:15.serious past domestic violence by his adoptive father in 2004 and
:03:15. > :03:22.failed to investigate allegations of sexual impropriety against his
:03:22. > :03:27.father's boyfriend on two occasions in June and August of 2004. David
:03:27. > :03:31.Greenwood believes if some of the earlier complaints had been
:03:31. > :03:34.investigated, some of his later suffering might have been avoided.
:03:34. > :03:41.The social work Department of Wakefield Council have failed
:03:41. > :03:48.Andrew fairly seriously. The social workers supervising Andrew failed
:03:48. > :03:53.to spot risks to him and failed to heed his complaints. In 2006,
:03:53. > :03:57.Andy's adoptive father and his boyfriend were convicted of a range
:03:57. > :04:00.of sexual offences here at Sheffield Crown Court. They were
:04:01. > :04:06.sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison although both had claimed
:04:06. > :04:16.it had been a one-off offence. Neither of the men wanted to speak
:04:16. > :04:31.
:04:31. > :04:36.to BBC Look North. Wakefield I wish they had listened. I don't
:04:36. > :04:42.know myself. I just wish they had listened. I wished they would have
:04:42. > :04:46.done something about it. Andy was awarded �25,000 by Wakefield
:04:46. > :04:52.Council. He is now hoping to build a better future whilst still coming
:04:52. > :04:57.to terms with the past. A widower who used his dead wife's
:04:57. > :05:01.name to avoid getting points on his driving licence for speeding has
:05:01. > :05:05.escaped a jail sentence today. Christopher Bingley's wife
:05:05. > :05:11.committed suicide after suffering from postnatal depression. He said
:05:11. > :05:15.the trauma he went through after her death meant he filled in forms
:05:15. > :05:19.which claimed she was the driver of the speeding vehicle.
:05:19. > :05:24.For two years, Christopher Bingley has dedicated his life to finding
:05:24. > :05:28.out if his wife was let down by the NHS. After giving birth to Emily in
:05:28. > :05:32.2010, Joanne Bingley suffered with postnatal depression and took her
:05:32. > :05:39.own life. Last October, Christopher Bingley spoke to Look North about
:05:39. > :05:43.how he believed the NHS kept him in the dark about his wife's illness.
:05:43. > :05:47.I was never given any information. I wasn't given anything to
:05:47. > :05:50.understand what was happening. Whilst setting up a website in
:05:50. > :05:55.memory of Joanne, Christopher Bingley used his wife's name to pay
:05:55. > :05:58.off three speeding offences that he had committed. After a fourth
:05:58. > :06:02.offence police realised Joanne Bingley couldn't be the driver. In
:06:02. > :06:07.court he pleaded guilty. Before sentencing, he explained his
:06:07. > :06:11.actions. I was stupid and I was concentrating on what I believed
:06:11. > :06:17.was the priority, which was my daughter, which was what happened
:06:17. > :06:20.to Jo and trying to protect other people from suffering like I have
:06:20. > :06:26.suffered. Handing down the suspended prison sentence, the
:06:26. > :06:29.judge said, "You were acting in a state of confusion, but I don't
:06:29. > :06:34.accept that. I have grave reservations about whether I am
:06:34. > :06:39.doing the right thing." The only reason he didn't send Christopher
:06:39. > :06:43.Bingley to prison immediately is because he had his daughter to care
:06:43. > :06:48.for. He was given a four-month curfew. He was banned from driving
:06:48. > :06:53.for nine months. I did not think I would be walking out of court today.
:06:53. > :06:58.I thought I would be in a van. I am just so relieved. Christopher
:06:58. > :07:02.Bingley has stepped down from the Joanne Bingley Memorial Foundation.
:07:02. > :07:10.He is out of work and facing eviction from his home. After two
:07:10. > :07:17.years of trauma, he will start rebuilding his life.
:07:17. > :07:27.Later on Look North: Why this lady's flying east.
:07:27. > :07:34.
:07:34. > :07:37.I am bidding to make it to the London Games.
:07:37. > :07:40.The emergency services in South Yorkshire have recovered the body
:07:40. > :07:43.of a man from the River Don. The body was first sighted on Sunday in
:07:43. > :07:46.Sprotbrough but police have been unable to recover it because of
:07:46. > :07:48.dangerous conditions. A helicopter has been brought in to help
:07:48. > :07:51.retrieve the body. An investigation's under way after
:07:51. > :07:54.a teenage boy was found dead in woodland in Barnsley. The emergency
:07:54. > :07:56.services were called to an area off Millhouses Street in Elsecar last
:07:56. > :07:59.night. Police haven't revealed how the 15-year-old died, but say it's
:07:59. > :08:02.not being treated as suspicious. Five men and four women have been
:08:02. > :08:05.arrested by North Wales Police as part of their investigation into
:08:05. > :08:08.the naming on Twitter of a rape victim. The Sheffield United and
:08:08. > :08:11.Wales footballer, Ched Evans, was jailed last month for the attack.
:08:11. > :08:13.Three men were arrested in South Yorkshire last week and later
:08:13. > :08:19.released on bail. A Hawker Hurricane fighter has gone
:08:19. > :08:22.on show in the centre of York. The Yorkshire Air Museum is displaying
:08:22. > :08:25.the aircraft in the city for the next week. The Hurricane played a
:08:25. > :08:33.vital role in protecting York during the Second World War after
:08:33. > :08:36.Hitler ordered that all heritage cities should be attacked.
:08:37. > :08:42.In less than 48 hours, people in our four biggest cities will vote
:08:42. > :08:44.on whether to elect their own mayor to run their councils. It would be
:08:44. > :08:48.the biggest change in decades. Referenda are taking place in
:08:48. > :08:52.Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield and Wakefield. In Doncaster, residents
:08:52. > :08:59.will vote on whether to keep an elected mayor. All three national
:08:59. > :09:02.party leaders support elected mayors. But here in Yorkshire,
:09:02. > :09:05.opinion among local politicians is much more divided. This afternoon,
:09:05. > :09:15.we invited the "yes" and "no" campaigns to make their case; and
:09:15. > :09:15.
:09:15. > :09:21.four Look North viewers to put them on the spot. We will be hearing
:09:21. > :09:26.from Kevin Marr representing the "yes" campaign and a representative
:09:26. > :09:36.from the "no" campaign. And also from four Look North viewers. If
:09:36. > :10:06.
:10:06. > :10:10.you vote "no" councillors will If the voters decide in favour of
:10:10. > :10:20.an Elected Mayor, these elections will be held in November.
:10:20. > :10:21.
:10:21. > :10:26.We are joined by someone who is in favour. 30 seconds to sell us the
:10:26. > :10:33.idea of an Elected Mayor? I think this is about four things. I think
:10:33. > :10:40.it is about greater leadership locally. I think it is about having
:10:40. > :10:44.strengthened accountability. I think it is also about how we
:10:44. > :10:47.position on the local and international stage. It is about
:10:47. > :10:53.having a strong voice for the city to get things done locally, to bang
:10:53. > :10:58.the drum a lot louder for Sheffield and other cities. That was 30
:10:59. > :11:04.seconds. 30 seconds for the "no" campaigners? I would say if it
:11:04. > :11:09.ain't bust, it don't need fixing. We have a good system in Leeds. We
:11:09. > :11:14.have ethnic minorities, good female representation. We do a good job.
:11:14. > :11:18.The devil is in the detail. If you don't see what is happening on the
:11:18. > :11:22.ground, then you take decisions that crush people. So I want to
:11:22. > :11:31.stay with the existing system with democratic elections and elected
:11:31. > :11:37.leader. Kate, you are from Doncaster. Your Mayor has rattled a
:11:37. > :11:41.few cages. You are in favour of him. Why? I'm in favour of the Mayor in
:11:41. > :11:47.a town like Doncaster because it's worked. We have had a Mayor for
:11:47. > :11:50.over ten years. It's a system that people are used to. The Mayor, the
:11:50. > :11:54.mayoral position has become an ambassador for the town. It's
:11:55. > :12:00.provided - it's put the town on the map. It's provided inward
:12:00. > :12:09.investment. It has hurried on quite a few decisions for the town that
:12:09. > :12:16.would otherwise have taken a long time. You don't want one, do you?
:12:16. > :12:19.I'm very concerned. I thought it sounded like a nice, sexy idea.
:12:20. > :12:24.Then the more I thought about it and the more I thought about how
:12:24. > :12:29.that person is going to be elected, it seems like it is a democracy,
:12:29. > :12:36.every voter has a right to say. That person is there for four years.
:12:36. > :12:40.How can they be removed? How can I do something about it? At the
:12:40. > :12:44.moment, we have a leader of the council who does a fair job. He is
:12:44. > :12:49.elected by the other councillors. He is accountable to them. That is
:12:49. > :12:54.very important. Neil, you have heard some of the arguments from
:12:54. > :12:59.Chris. Valid arguments? They are. That is for Leeds. Where I'm from,
:12:59. > :13:04.Bradford, Bradford has become a stagnant city. Largely due to the
:13:04. > :13:10.current leadership and cabinet system that we current I will have.
:13:10. > :13:13.How can a Mayor improve that? will be a lot easier for
:13:13. > :13:17.accountability. You will have one person who will say, "This is what
:13:17. > :13:24.I am going to do." You can hold that person to account in four
:13:24. > :13:29.years' time. We have a lot of problems in Bradford. We have a big
:13:29. > :13:37.hole that's become a tourist attraction. We have got the new
:13:38. > :13:41.city park which cost �25 million. They are also talking about closing
:13:41. > :13:45.council-run care homes because they can't afford the upgrades.
:13:45. > :13:48.think a Mayor would change that? would be good to have clear
:13:48. > :13:58.leadership. You have had a few problems in Wakefield as well with
:13:58. > :14:00.
:14:00. > :14:07.one or two building problems. My main concern about an elected
:14:07. > :14:12.mayor is the cost. We have the vote for the mayor, if it goes ahead,
:14:12. > :14:19.another �250,000. We have a salary for the mayor, whoever might be
:14:19. > :14:24.elected. When the ordinary man and the state is having their services
:14:24. > :14:29.cut and people being made redundant, they want money spent on services
:14:29. > :14:34.and cannot see how it can be justified at this time. Will it
:14:34. > :14:38.necessarily cost more to have a mayor? I do not think the cost of
:14:38. > :14:47.these referenda, which is a once in a century decision - we do not get
:14:47. > :14:51.asked as the general public. -- often. In the grand scale of what
:14:51. > :14:55.local authorities Benz, as Sheffield spends one and a half
:14:55. > :14:58.billion pounds a year. What will happen with an elected mayor is
:14:59. > :15:03.they will replace the existing council leader role and the
:15:03. > :15:08.existing Chief Executive role will change as well. As we are only
:15:08. > :15:13.speaking of one at elected person, that is only one job. You would say
:15:13. > :15:18.that you council leader does the work of a mare anyway? He does it
:15:18. > :15:23.successfully to. Does anyone know who he is? Do they need to? Is it
:15:23. > :15:28.not more important he does a good job and he is very sensitive and
:15:28. > :15:35.listens to and put -- to opinions. I bet you know who the mayor of
:15:35. > :15:38.Doncaster is? Yes indeed, but does he do a good job? We have heard
:15:38. > :15:43.from -- we have heard some librarians that he has not done
:15:43. > :15:47.such a good job. Doncaster had a referendum to see if they will
:15:47. > :15:53.carry on with an elected mayor on Thursday and we will just be
:15:53. > :15:57.discussing it if it goes against Peter Davis. If it goes against him,
:15:57. > :16:02.fair enough. He is still on the position for another year twiddling
:16:03. > :16:07.his thumbs even Neil Doncaster voted against him. Liverpool and
:16:07. > :16:13.votes on Thursday for a mayor without having a referendum in the
:16:13. > :16:19.first place. It is differed -- different for each area. I think it
:16:19. > :16:22.would be a good thing for Bradford. We have got a lot of problems and
:16:22. > :16:28.by having one central person or rather than a plethora of people
:16:29. > :16:33.who we do not know who they are or what they do. Thank you very much.
:16:33. > :16:38.Some might say that a whole issue for many people, the detail is not
:16:38. > :16:43.there but we hope we have helped a little today. There is a special
:16:43. > :16:47.election 2012 programme which begins at 11:35pm on Thursday.
:16:47. > :16:54.We'll have all the resorts throughout the day on Friday.
:16:54. > :17:00.Before 7pm - we're confronting the big issues like the elephant in the
:17:00. > :17:08.room. No, really, the elephant in the room. Carved out of 35 tons of
:17:08. > :17:12.sand and on display in Doncaster. Leeds boxer Michael Adams has been
:17:12. > :17:18.described as Britain's best hope for a gold medal at the London
:17:18. > :17:21.Olympics. -- Nicola Adams. There is a small matter of qualifying first.
:17:21. > :17:25.She heads to China this week for the World Championships. A semi-
:17:25. > :17:30.final spot will guarantee her a place and the chance to be part of
:17:30. > :17:40.history as one in box at the Olympics for the very first time. -
:17:40. > :17:47.- women. When I was 12 years old before work
:17:47. > :17:51.boxing was even an Olympic sport, I still dreamed of being like the top
:17:51. > :17:58.fighters like Muhammad Ali who all went to the Olympics and got gold
:17:58. > :18:01.medals. I thought, I want that to be me. I am turning my silvers and
:18:01. > :18:06.two golds just now and putting my foot down and putting in a hard
:18:06. > :18:10.work and hard training. It is looking good for me and we have a
:18:11. > :18:16.good team behind me. I am concentrating on getting in the in
:18:16. > :18:23.and performing. I get nervous but I channel my nurse into something
:18:23. > :18:32.else. In the ring, the it nerves turn into energy and get me to move
:18:32. > :18:37.around faster and be a lot sharper. It all helps. Everything I have
:18:37. > :18:41.trained for, all the ups and downs and the injuries and the tears, it
:18:41. > :18:51.will be like I am able to sit back and think this is what I have been
:18:51. > :18:57.fighting for. This is the thing I have been waiting for all my life.
:18:57. > :19:06.I am always going for gold. I never go for anything less. This Olympics
:19:06. > :19:13.as well, it has to be called for me, in London, 2012. It has to be gold.
:19:13. > :19:19.A girl with a golden smile. Scarborough - whether very
:19:19. > :19:24.important. Sunny, I heatwave almost certainly. Are you lead to watch
:19:24. > :19:28.cricket? I wonder who will join you in that hallowed ground will think
:19:28. > :19:33.of this news because it is interesting, to say the least.
:19:33. > :19:38.Yorkshire have agreed to let Bola Ajmal Shazad lead the club. That is
:19:38. > :19:41.either on a permanent basis or on loan until the end of the season.
:19:41. > :19:47.The 26-year-old became the first British-born Asian to play for
:19:47. > :19:53.Yorkshire when he made his debut in 2004. A statement said both parties
:19:53. > :19:56.agree it is no player's best interests that he moves on. He had
:19:56. > :19:59.the world at his feet, didn't he? Weather has not stopped Sheffield
:19:59. > :20:03.Wednesday fans turning it in their numbers to the as an extra 6000
:20:03. > :20:07.tickets went on sale for the weekend's match against Wycombe
:20:07. > :20:13.Wanderers. A win for the Isles will see them promoted to the
:20:13. > :20:17.championship. There will be 20,000 Sheffield Wednesday fans at
:20:17. > :20:24.Hillsborough up at the weekend. The draw for the Rugby League
:20:24. > :20:29.Challenge Cup quarter-finals was made today. Leeds Rhinos had been
:20:29. > :20:36.drawn away to the team who beat them, de. Huddersfield Giants at
:20:36. > :20:44.home to London Broncos. The quarter-finals are played on the
:20:44. > :20:49.weekend at of the 12th and 13th May. It weighs 35 tons and has taken 53
:20:49. > :20:52.bags of sand to complete. Tomorrow, a huge sand sculpture opens to the
:20:52. > :20:56.public in Doncaster. Never let it be said Look North
:20:56. > :21:04.does not bring you varied stories because they aim here is to
:21:04. > :21:06.recreate a lost Victorian gem which made the town rather famous. Our
:21:06. > :21:11.reporter is at The Point Gallery where the exhibition officially
:21:11. > :21:16.opens tonight. Tell us about the elephant in the room!
:21:16. > :21:21.Take a look at this beast. Even if you're about hand at Scarborough
:21:21. > :21:25.beach, I bet you have never got something like that. 35 tons of
:21:25. > :21:31.sand have gone into this magnificent and literal elephant in
:21:31. > :21:36.the room. It is the creation of local artists Jamie Wardley. That
:21:36. > :21:42.looks like a phenomenally difficult thing to create. You have to bring
:21:42. > :21:49.everything through this little door. It was 40 tons of sand originally.
:21:49. > :21:56.We had to Compaq that all over a day using machinery. We then had to
:21:56. > :22:01.make a replica sculpture. We have some terrific time lap shots. What
:22:01. > :22:08.is the most difficult bit, is that the detail or the overall shape?
:22:08. > :22:12.The overall shape. Replicating something almost as exact as I
:22:12. > :22:17.possibly could. As talented as you are and as wonderful as it is, it
:22:17. > :22:22.is not his creation. It is an exact replica of a statue that used to
:22:22. > :22:30.stand in Doncaster 100 years ago in a house long since demolished. This
:22:31. > :22:37.man's ancestor used to live there. You're part of this project.
:22:37. > :22:42.original building was carved from solid sandstone. It was close to
:22:42. > :22:46.Doncaster 10 century -- town-centre up to the Second World War. Where
:22:46. > :22:50.does the elephant fit into the House? Not in the House itself but
:22:50. > :22:56.there was a network of tunnels around the House. The largest and
:22:56. > :23:03.most iconic sculpture there was Elephant and Mahout. That was in
:23:03. > :23:09.the tunnels for people to go and see? Elephant and Mahout was carved
:23:09. > :23:13.into a column supporting the tunnels. Where has it gone?
:23:13. > :23:19.tunnels were filled in because of safety concerns in the 1980s but it
:23:19. > :23:24.is still underground if you cut down far enough.
:23:24. > :23:32.He is buried under a block of flats? Yes, indeed. The exhibition
:23:32. > :23:36.is open for the next two months at the The Point Gallery.
:23:36. > :23:45.There is a question we are going to ask Harriet that you have forgotten.
:23:45. > :23:50.What is it? You want to know about the cricket. For what will the
:23:50. > :23:55.weather be like for the Cricket? I think it should be okay and may
:23:55. > :24:05.even be dry. Who are they playing? And other side for the second
:24:05. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:17.Three pictures, one is very important. You do not need to be a
:24:17. > :24:21.rocket scientist to deduce that they are full. The reservoirs are
:24:21. > :24:31.98% full and the supply three- quarters of Yorkshire's drinking
:24:31. > :24:31.
:24:31. > :24:39.water. That is good news, isn't it? That is Harrogate.
:24:39. > :24:44.Pounds a park is looking beautiful as well in the sunshine yesterday.
:24:44. > :24:47.You can send your pictures to me. The weather tomorrow as rather
:24:47. > :24:52.cloudy with a bit of drizzle at first. Conditions should turn
:24:52. > :25:01.brighter with a little bit of sunshine coming through although it
:25:01. > :25:09.will be a chilly north-east wind. Generally speaking, things should
:25:09. > :25:13.surely improve. Drizzle and right - - light rain with a that a fog over
:25:13. > :25:18.the hills. That is the way of it for this evening and overnight with
:25:18. > :25:23.further patchy light rain and drizzle. Areas will become dry with
:25:23. > :25:33.a few spots of drizzle left over the top of the Pennines.
:25:33. > :25:38.
:25:38. > :25:43.Temperatures down to around six Celsius. A cloudy start and perhaps
:25:43. > :25:46.that upstart in places with a few spots of rain or drizzle. Slowly,
:25:46. > :25:52.it should become dry with the chance of one or two showers in the
:25:52. > :25:58.afternoon. Hopefully, a few sunny intervals to come and Scarborough
:25:58. > :26:03.and Yorkshire may get away with a dry day. A few jumpers for quiet if
:26:03. > :26:09.you are watching as it will be nine Celsius with a moderate north-east
:26:09. > :26:14.wind. 13 Celsius in places, a bit milder than today. Thursday, quite
:26:14. > :26:22.a lot of cloud but mostly die. Some rain to come on Friday, called a