:00:12. > :00:15.North. On the programme tonight, after ten years of campaigning -
:00:15. > :00:18.Pickering will get new flood defences The two million pound
:00:18. > :00:20.scheme brings comfort to the people whose town has flooded five times in
:00:20. > :00:28.eight years... Also tonight... The hidden problem
:00:28. > :00:32.of alcoholism amongst the over 50s. You are ashamed, a lady of my age
:00:32. > :00:35.should not have done something like this. We are meant to be a role
:00:35. > :00:38.model. And we know they can swim, cycle and
:00:38. > :00:43.run, but what about their writing? We catch up with the world
:00:43. > :00:50.conquering Brownlee brothers, as they launch their new book.
:00:50. > :01:00.It has been another glorious day. Take a look out there this
:01:00. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:10.afternoon. Although tomorrow will be Good evening and welcome to Look
:01:10. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:15.North. A �2 million scheme to protect the town of Pickering in
:01:15. > :01:18.North Yorkshire has finally been given the go ahead by councillors.
:01:18. > :01:21.Pickering was devastated by major floods in 2007 and residents live in
:01:21. > :01:23.fear of the same thing happening again. Campaigners have spent more
:01:23. > :01:26.than a decade lobbying the government and Environment Agency
:01:26. > :01:29.for improved defences. They've been asking for a special dam to be built
:01:29. > :01:34.to protect them. After much argument the project was finally given
:01:34. > :01:42.planning permission today. Ian White's spent the day in Pickering.
:01:42. > :01:47.It was actually up to here, the water. As bad as that?The house
:01:47. > :01:53.inside, everything. It may have been six years ago but the memory of the
:01:53. > :01:57.last major flood in Pickering is very fresh in her mind. You can
:01:57. > :02:05.imagine what it was like inside, it was just lying, filth, dirty water
:02:05. > :02:11.everywhere. These were the scenes in 2007, it was described as a one in
:02:11. > :02:15.25 year events, the impact was devastating for residents and
:02:15. > :02:21.businesses. For this pensioner it was terrifying. Sadly, she passed
:02:21. > :02:25.away in 2000 and nine at her daughter lives in the old house and
:02:25. > :02:32.lives with the fear of flooding. had water right up to the front
:02:32. > :02:38.door, it was a nightmare. The family have been heavily involved in
:02:38. > :02:42.campaigning against the flood levels. Now a dam has been
:02:42. > :02:49.constructed -- will be sited on this land about a mile and a half
:02:49. > :02:54.upstream. Mike Porter explained how it works. There is an off a lot of
:02:54. > :02:57.water going through Pickering, but only just enough not to flood the
:02:57. > :03:05.time. All the water which would have flooded the town, is being held
:03:05. > :03:14.behind the dam here. This damp will turn these fields into a flood
:03:15. > :03:21.plain. It would have given the people who live in Pickering
:03:21. > :03:24.downstream vital time to prepare. This lady is no longer around to you
:03:24. > :03:30.the news about construction work but her daughter summed up how she
:03:30. > :03:36.field. She would be absolutely delighted it has finally come, at
:03:36. > :03:40.least we hope so. She would be over the moon. Very good news for
:03:40. > :03:45.Pickering that and it will be a blueprint for other areas.
:03:45. > :03:47.We all know how much of a problem it Next tonight; a very personal story
:03:47. > :03:51.of a woman recovering from alcoholism. Dawn Butcher from
:03:51. > :03:59.Barnsley is in her late fifties. Changes in her life led her to drink
:03:59. > :04:01.- and eventually to a drink problem. This week a 24 million pound
:04:02. > :04:04.investment's been announced for a project to help older people
:04:04. > :04:07.struggling with alcohol misuse. It's described as a silent problem, which
:04:07. > :04:11.goes largely unrecognised - whilst young binge drinkers are targeted by
:04:11. > :04:18.prevention programmes. Tom Ingall has the story.
:04:18. > :04:22.Three years ago Dawn Butcher's daughter left for university and her
:04:22. > :04:27.beloved pet died and her husband was working long hours. She retreated
:04:27. > :04:34.into drink. A glass of wine with an evening meal became one or two
:04:34. > :04:40.bottles a night. I feel like it took over me. You find your drink another
:04:40. > :04:47.half of glass, which leads to a full glass and another bottle. It moved
:04:47. > :04:51.on like that, when she it has got you, you cannot live without it. --
:04:51. > :04:56.once it has got you. He cannot carry on day-to-day life without that
:04:56. > :05:03.drink to help you. Was a shock to realise you had become an
:05:03. > :05:09.alcoholic? It was a massive shock. To my family, friends, neighbours,
:05:09. > :05:14.my daughter, husband. I have had to go through some really hard times
:05:14. > :05:21.with it but never have they left my side. The popular image of alcohol
:05:21. > :05:25.abuse, and people heading from pubs to clubs late into the night. �25
:05:25. > :05:30.million from the national lottery was given this week to a health
:05:30. > :05:36.problem project aimed at dealing with older drinkers. This is part of
:05:36. > :05:42.a national charity which helps recovering addicts. They older
:05:42. > :05:46.generation are not used to being supported, there is a stigma
:05:46. > :05:53.attached to it. The results were personal stigma, the sense that they
:05:53. > :05:58.are the people getting support. are ashamed, a lady of my age should
:05:58. > :06:04.not do such a thing. We are meant to be a role model to the youngsters.
:06:04. > :06:13.Sometimes, it is a lot to ask of an older person, to be perfect. To be a
:06:13. > :06:17.perfect mother and wife. Dawn has not had a drink for eight months.
:06:17. > :06:24.She now runs support groups for others recovering from alcohol
:06:24. > :06:32.addiction. It was a path accidentally taken at a crossroads
:06:32. > :06:35.and she's determined others will see the sign before she did.
:06:35. > :06:40.You're watching Tuesday's Look North, Later on the programme - a
:06:40. > :06:44.big day for a little girl from York... All my friends are really
:06:44. > :06:46.jealous and they say they wish they were going. Bailey Smith goes to the
:06:46. > :06:49.Palace to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Queen's
:06:49. > :06:51.Coronation An inquest has opened in Harrogate into the deaths of a
:06:51. > :06:54.millionaire businessman and his wife, killed when their helicopter
:06:54. > :06:56.crashed in the grounds of a luxury hotel.
:06:57. > :07:00.And inquest has opened in how they get into the deaths of the
:07:00. > :07:03.millionaire businessman and his wife when their helicopter crashed. Paul
:07:03. > :07:07.and Linda Spencer died instantly in the accident at Rudding Park in
:07:07. > :07:13.January 2008. Eyewitnesses described how they saw the Gazelle helicopter
:07:13. > :07:20.spinning tail first into the ground. Peter Lugg reports.
:07:20. > :07:25.It was on the 26th of January 2008 at halting millionaire businessman
:07:25. > :07:28.Paul Spencer crashed his brand-new helicopter while attempting to land
:07:28. > :07:34.in the grounds of Rudding Park, a luxury hotel to the south of
:07:34. > :07:42.Harrogate. Also killed in the accident was his wife, Linda, both
:07:42. > :07:47.are said to have -- to have died from multiple injuries. Rudding Park
:07:47. > :07:53.was one of their favourite venues, with top restaurants and golf
:07:53. > :07:58.stars. It's used by heads of states, pop stars and millionaires.
:07:58. > :08:02.The inquest will be to establish the cause of death. On the day of the
:08:02. > :08:10.accident, wind conditions were said to be gusty. Eyewitness accounts
:08:10. > :08:13.talk about their helicopter spinning and falling to the ground. One woman
:08:13. > :08:18.who considered going up with the Spencers was one of the first people
:08:18. > :08:22.at the scene of the crash. She could do nothing to help and was helped --
:08:22. > :08:28.forced back with a strong smell of aviation fuel. An enquiry has
:08:29. > :08:33.already determined that the cause of the crash was due in part to the
:08:33. > :08:38.inexperience of Mr Spencer and probable training inadequacies. In
:08:38. > :08:42.February this year his flying instructor to was jailed for
:08:42. > :08:51.falsifying Mr Spencer's flight records. His blog was described as a
:08:51. > :08:54.work of fiction. Inquest is expected to last for four days. -- his log.
:08:54. > :08:57.In other news, investigators examining how a pensioner died after
:08:57. > :09:00.he was hit by a runaway police van, have asked for witnesses to come
:09:00. > :09:03.forward. 83-year-old Donald Bennett was struck by the unattended vehicle
:09:03. > :09:06.in Pudsey Park on Saturday after police had been called to reports of
:09:06. > :09:08.a disturbance. One officer's police driving permit has now been
:09:08. > :09:15.suspended pending the result of the investigation by the Independent
:09:15. > :09:19.Police Complaints Commission. Yorkshire has been awarded a million
:09:19. > :09:23.pound Arts Council grant towards a 100 day cultural festival in the run
:09:23. > :09:27.up to the Tour de France. The county of course celebrated when it won the
:09:27. > :09:37.bid to host the first stages of the Tour next July, and it'll be the
:09:37. > :09:41.
:09:41. > :09:42.first time such an event's been held director for the festival and for a
:09:42. > :09:45.further million pounds of match funding.
:09:45. > :09:48.Plans to extend the boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales and Lake
:09:48. > :09:50.District National Parks are being considered at a Public Inquiry in
:09:50. > :09:54.Cumbria. The Campaign to Protect Rural England claims the parks
:09:54. > :10:02.should be expanded to cover areas left out when they were created in
:10:02. > :10:08.the 1950s. A recent public consultation revealed that90% of
:10:08. > :10:12.people in the areas are in favour of the expansion.
:10:12. > :10:14.As you may have seen on the news during the day, the Queen's been
:10:14. > :10:16.remembering her coronation at a spectacular anniversary service in
:10:16. > :10:20.Westminster Abbey. Among the guests was six-year-old Bailey Smith, who's
:10:20. > :10:24.from York. She was given special permission to take the place of her
:10:24. > :10:28.grandfather Bev Jones, who's too ill to go. Cathy Killick has the story.
:10:28. > :10:34.The coronation was an extraordinary occasion, not only for the Queen but
:10:34. > :10:38.for everyone watching will stop thousands took part in the event,
:10:38. > :10:44.one was Bev Jones, he was head collars to at York Minster and sang
:10:44. > :10:54.at the coronation. The voice you can hear now is his when he was 13 and
:10:54. > :10:54.
:10:54. > :10:58.had been chosen to sing for the Queen. He went on to gain for music
:10:58. > :11:04.degrees and staged around 500 shows around the world and especially in
:11:04. > :11:09.your work. Sadly he now has dementia, but he relished that
:11:09. > :11:14.precious day. He can remember that day, right from the were woken in
:11:14. > :11:19.the morning at four o'clock to get ready. They were given very little
:11:19. > :11:29.breakfast because of the fear is that they would throw up during the
:11:29. > :11:30.
:11:30. > :11:35.day. One of the boys smuggled apples. Beth was unable to go to the
:11:35. > :11:39.anniversary but allowed his granddaughter to go instead. She
:11:39. > :11:44.also hopes to be a chorister, with her name joining his on the honours
:11:44. > :11:48.board. She is thrilled to have taken his place at the Abbey today.
:11:48. > :11:53.told most of my friends and they are all really jealous and said, he
:11:53. > :12:03.wished they were going. They are all really proud I got to go and see the
:12:03. > :12:06.
:12:06. > :12:10.Queen. 2000 people were invited to the
:12:10. > :12:15.anniversary celebration and while it was on him potent occasion for the
:12:15. > :12:24.Royal family, it was moving for the Jones family from York, thinking of
:12:24. > :12:27.Bev Jones and the part he played 60 years ago.
:12:27. > :12:34.And here are Lesley and Bailey now, still in their finery, hot off the
:12:34. > :12:41.train from London! Welcome to you both. What was the highlight?
:12:41. > :12:46.music for me, obviously. A little bit sad because I knew so much of it
:12:46. > :12:50.from the days of Bev Jones and what he had told me. He can still play
:12:50. > :12:57.all the music from that. When went to see him last night and told him
:12:57. > :13:04.about today, he sat in his bed and was playing it on the bed sheets
:13:04. > :13:08.which was just... Just a shame he could not be there. You must have
:13:08. > :13:16.been very chuffed, Bailey, DGC the Queen? Did you see the Duchess of
:13:16. > :13:26.Cambridge? What was that like? Eyelike tent when the war down the
:13:26. > :13:27.
:13:27. > :13:33.aisle. They smiled at everybody. -- I liked it. We review sitting?I was
:13:33. > :13:43.at the back and people were sitting playing the trumpet next to us.
:13:43. > :13:46.
:13:46. > :13:55.you like the big cats? I liked Kate. Of course.And the beefeaters.
:13:55. > :14:01.How long did it take you to decide what to Wear? Bearing in mind we
:14:01. > :14:06.only knew on Saturday, it was quite a task to decide quickly. But there
:14:06. > :14:16.was lots of protocol about what you could wear. Yours is rather special,
:14:16. > :14:19.
:14:19. > :14:23.your mum took you out. It is very posh, we visit from? Chanel.Most
:14:23. > :14:30.girls never in a lifetime on addition of Jack it! You have got
:14:30. > :14:37.one on no! I know Bev Jones be very sad to miss it, he had written an
:14:37. > :14:43.anthem for the occasion, had he not? He had. He finished it in
:14:43. > :14:47.2011, before his first stroke. It was complete, the coronation march,
:14:47. > :14:53.because he knew this was coming up and he was due to sing at
:14:53. > :15:03.Westminster Parliament. It is just such a shame. It is, but we're so
:15:03. > :15:07.
:15:07. > :15:09.glad you have come into shared it with us.
:15:09. > :15:13.Before seven o'clock? The Scarborough gym club who're flipping
:15:13. > :15:16.brilliant. And now they're the first team from the North to be crowned
:15:16. > :15:22.national champions... It's given them a taste for success. From the
:15:22. > :15:25.oldest ice cream van, to Yorkshire's newest ice cream man.
:15:25. > :15:28.On to sport and in superleague Huddersfield Giants have moved to
:15:28. > :15:33.within three points of league leaders Wigan Warriors. They beat St
:15:33. > :15:37.Helens at the John Smith's Stadium last night. Aaron Murphy opened the
:15:37. > :15:40.scoring for the Giants as they ran out winners by 25 points to 16. It
:15:40. > :15:47.was the team's seventh victory in their last eight Super League
:15:47. > :15:54.matches. And a reminder that if you missed last night's Super League
:15:54. > :15:56.Show. You've got the rest of the week to watch it on the BBC i-Player
:15:56. > :15:59.Our next guests don't really need an introduction.
:15:59. > :16:02.They grew up in Leeds, they're brothers and they are, of course,
:16:02. > :16:06.the best triathletes in the world. Well, now they've turned their hands
:16:06. > :16:10.to writing. Their autobiography Swim Bike Run has just come out. We
:16:10. > :16:18.caught up with them earlier - and asked them how they can top the
:16:18. > :16:25.success of last summer? I think it will be hard to top last summer,
:16:25. > :16:29.having a home Olympics. Traffic is find the Olympics males above
:16:29. > :16:37.anything else, it was from tar stick with the crowds. It will be hard to
:16:37. > :16:43.top that, but hopefully we can move on and when another gold. We can see
:16:43. > :16:46.the pictures there, what was like to see all the people out last summer?
:16:47. > :16:51.The homecoming was incredible, we were surprised how many people
:16:51. > :16:56.turned up. It was amazing to come back to Leeds to see thousands of
:16:56. > :17:00.people there in the square. It was incredible. You're just back from
:17:00. > :17:08.Madrid and a great win, you have both had injury problems, what was
:17:08. > :17:13.Madrid like? Madrid was great. I1 which was great. It is a good
:17:13. > :17:21.course, it is like Yorkshire with some hills. I enjoyed it, I was
:17:21. > :17:27.pleased to win. I was injured so did not know if I would read a lot. I
:17:27. > :17:34.raised in Japan and Madrid and have won both. You are signing your book
:17:34. > :17:39.today. I know you both write a section each -- each, you both write
:17:39. > :17:46.how hard the swimming is, is that the worst part of it? To train for,
:17:46. > :17:52.it definitely is. You go to the same pool D in, day out, it is very hard
:17:52. > :18:00.mentally. Computer cycling when you can be outside in the scenery and
:18:00. > :18:05.talking to your friends. -- compared to cycling. It's hard for ordinary
:18:05. > :18:11.people like us to understand how was athletes, team-mates and brothers,
:18:11. > :18:16.that is rivalry, how does that get on? We train together and push each
:18:16. > :18:22.other. We work together as a team in races with tact ticks. We feed off
:18:22. > :18:28.each other. It is an interesting dynamic, one we try and explain more
:18:28. > :18:33.in the book. A decade ago, many people did not know what a triathlon
:18:33. > :18:39.is, it has now become the fastest-growing Olympic sport, U2
:18:39. > :18:45.had credit for that, don't you? it has changed massively in ten
:18:45. > :18:52.years. When we were young kids, people asked what was a triathlon.
:18:52. > :18:57.It is definitely a complete change since the Olympics. We like the
:18:57. > :19:05.sport and hope other people do. us about the Yorkshire tree after
:19:05. > :19:11.one. We are organising our own events. -- Yorkshire triathlon. It
:19:11. > :19:15.will be on the 21st of September in Yorkshire, just a short one, just a
:19:15. > :19:22.short one, ten K bike ride and a swim. We are encouraging people to
:19:22. > :19:28.take part. Have you ever beaten Alastair? I have been asked that a
:19:28. > :19:35.few times today. I have beaten him twice, but every time I do, he says
:19:35. > :19:43.he has something wrong with them, years L U has a bike crash. -- he
:19:43. > :19:50.says he is ill or has had a bike crash. Who is getting gold and
:19:50. > :19:56.silver at the Commonwealth Games? will both take the chance to win
:19:56. > :20:05.there. Obviously I would like to win the gold. I ensure your parents a
:20:05. > :20:09.nightmare! They do. Best of luck. Thank you. Lovely to see you.
:20:09. > :20:12.We're used to Yorkshire success by now. We won more golds at the
:20:12. > :20:15.Olympics than many other countries. And now a gym club in Yorkshire is
:20:15. > :20:18.enjoying its own taste of success. The Scarborough Gymnastics Academy
:20:18. > :20:28.took not one - but two golds at the British Team Gymnastics
:20:28. > :20:28.
:20:28. > :20:35.Championships. We sent Joe Inwood along to discover their secret.
:20:35. > :20:45.It is a sport that requires strength, speed, balance, timing and
:20:45. > :20:47.
:20:47. > :20:51.teamwork. The people here, over a decade of dedication, have seen it
:20:51. > :20:56.all pay off when they became the first ever group, not just from
:20:56. > :21:02.Yorkshire, but from the hall in the north, to take gold at the women's
:21:02. > :21:05.junior team gym. It was a really big surprise we have been practising for
:21:05. > :21:11.so long. We didn't think we would win. We couldn't believe it at
:21:11. > :21:21.first. I don't think we have believed it yet. It makes us really
:21:21. > :21:21.
:21:22. > :21:31.happy. We started out so small and we never expected it to grow to the
:21:32. > :21:32.
:21:32. > :21:37.size. It is amazing, we have all worked hard to get here. I was
:21:37. > :21:44.emotional at the competition when the team got gold. For the team, it
:21:44. > :21:54.was a chance to emulate their own Olympic icons. He does what I want
:21:54. > :21:56.
:21:56. > :22:04.to do. He is kind of my role model. If someone is really inspiring like
:22:04. > :22:09.that, it makes you want to do it. And they did. He went one better
:22:09. > :22:19.than our Olympians, taking two gold medals, let us hope this is a taste
:22:19. > :22:21.
:22:21. > :22:27.of things to come. -- V went. Excellent stuff from them. Now for
:22:27. > :22:31.the weather. It has been glorious. the weather. It has been glorious.
:22:31. > :22:38.People have been surprised. We should not complain too much. Let me
:22:38. > :22:42.show you two nice pictures. Scarborough was fighting back after
:22:42. > :22:46.spectacular pictures from Whitby last night. If you look on the
:22:46. > :22:51.horizon, you can see the cloud which is coming in to spoil things,
:22:51. > :22:58.especially during tomorrow morning and in places, tomorrow afternoon as
:22:58. > :23:06.well. This is another glorious picture of the cliffs. Keep the
:23:06. > :23:12.pictures coming in. I will tweet that Scarborough picture tonight.
:23:12. > :23:17.Now for the headlines, disappointing tomorrow in that there will be much
:23:17. > :23:23.more cloud around. Just a temporary hack up as the sunshine will return
:23:23. > :23:27.for Thursday and certainly into the weekend. It will slowly turn
:23:27. > :23:32.brighter for many after a great start. High pressure will be in
:23:32. > :23:36.charge. It will remain in charge until the middle of next week. Some
:23:37. > :23:42.more fine weather to come. You can pick up that book of low cloud
:23:42. > :23:46.coming down from the North, it will cool inland and spread westwards
:23:46. > :23:53.over the next few hours. This patchy cloud has developed in the last
:23:53. > :23:59.couple of hours. Enjoy the sunshine inland. Low cloud follows inland and
:23:59. > :24:09.brings a little drizzle in places. Temperatures around seven or eight
:24:09. > :24:13.
:24:13. > :24:18.degrees. The sun will rise... Herd are your high water times... Are
:24:18. > :24:26.very different look to the weather tomorrow morning. Overcast skies.
:24:26. > :24:31.This cloud gradually breaks up, a slow process. Some sunshine in the
:24:31. > :24:39.West in the afternoon. Some eastern regions which -- may remain cloudy
:24:39. > :24:43.throughout the day. Take 15 layers to Wear if you are at the coast
:24:43. > :24:48.tomorrow. It brightens up for Thursday and Friday and the weekend
:24:48. > :24:55.looks fine and warm. Enjoy the sunshine.
:24:55. > :24:59.Nicola is outside. I can confirm it is still beautiful outside the BBC
:24:59. > :25:09.building and I have managed to track down an ice cream van. It is the
:25:09. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:22.oldest ice cream van not just in Yorkshire, but in the world.
:25:22. > :25:24.
:25:24. > :25:34.99? And 99 please. We will study his technique. Oh dear. I would like
:25:34. > :25:35.
:25:35. > :25:41.some nuts and top please. A few of those as well thank you. That's not
:25:41. > :25:49.too bad. Matthew Allen is the proud owner of this van which dates back
:25:49. > :25:55.to the 1970s. What do you think of his technique? Two out of ten. I
:25:55. > :26:02.think you need some practice. telling people this is the oldest
:26:02. > :26:04.ice van in the world, tell us about their history. It is the oldest type
:26:04. > :26:09.of model. It is the original of model. It is the original
:26:09. > :26:15.prototype which was built in April 1970. She takes a bit of maintaining
:26:15. > :26:23.but brings a smile to everyone's phase. We were right all weekend at
:26:23. > :26:27.the festival and probably served 3000 ice cream is. All from one fan.
:26:27. > :26:34.What do you think of the temperature to date, is it good for selling ice
:26:34. > :26:40.cream is? It is unbelievably good. It is fabulous. If it is raining, we
:26:40. > :26:47.do not bother going out. Thank you very much for letting him go out.