:00:02. > :00:05.Hello, welcome to Friday's Look North.
:00:05. > :00:08.Tonight, the row over the Government's welfare reforms. The
:00:08. > :00:15.man from Chesterfield found to be fit to work despite having to be
:00:15. > :00:22.offered emergency treatment during his assessment.
:00:22. > :00:26.I cannot stand for very long, I cannot walk very far, I am in agony.
:00:26. > :00:34.Also tonight, 12 arrests in Yorkshire in a series of Home Office
:00:34. > :00:37.raids to find illegal workers. And, the ashes are only halfway
:00:37. > :00:43.through, this call holidays have barely begun, but here we are, the
:00:43. > :00:48.start of the football season. It has been another warm day today, we
:00:48. > :00:58.reached 27 degrees. It is colder but still pleasant over
:00:58. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:02.the weekend. I will have the full First tonight, a man from
:01:03. > :01:06.Chesterfield has spoken to Look North about being told he must
:01:06. > :01:10.return to work despite being offered an ambulance after being taken ill
:01:10. > :01:12.during his disability assessment. People across the country are having
:01:12. > :01:15.their health-related unemployment benefits reassessed by a company
:01:15. > :01:21.called Atos health care as part of welfare changes brought in by the
:01:21. > :01:26.Government. In Yorkshire, around 80,000 people have been assessed.
:01:26. > :01:30.30% of them have been found fit to go to work straightaway. A further
:01:30. > :01:33.39% are expected to go back to work in the future. And 32% of people
:01:33. > :01:38.were found to be entitled to long-term financial support due to a
:01:38. > :01:41.health condition. One of those who was reassessed and found fit to work
:01:41. > :01:46.was John Flanagan. He's had a brain haemorrhage and multiple heart
:01:46. > :01:56.attacks and also has a collapsed spine. He was actually taken ill
:01:56. > :02:00.
:02:01. > :02:05.Just reliving the experience is too much. John's assessment left him on
:02:05. > :02:12.the verge of collapse. Something that was all too clear to the doctor
:02:12. > :02:15.carrying it out. He said, the only thing I can do is ringed by 99.
:02:15. > :02:20.took one look and said, I think we will finish this assessment here,
:02:20. > :02:24.because you need to go. For the couple, it was traumatic, that they
:02:24. > :02:32.were sure they could only be one outcome. We received a letter, and
:02:32. > :02:40.said he had not got the incapacity. He did not think his life is worth
:02:40. > :02:49.living. That means he said he was fit to work? Yes. It is rubbish.
:02:49. > :02:59.With my back, I cannot stand for very long, I cannot walk very far, I
:02:59. > :02:59.
:02:59. > :03:04.am in pain, I am in agony. I am not a shirker. I have worked all my
:03:04. > :03:09.life. I have worked hard all my life. It is cases like this that
:03:09. > :03:12.have made the welfare changes so controversial. Incapacity benefit
:03:12. > :03:18.are being replaced by the Employment Support Allowance. Protesters have
:03:18. > :03:28.claimed disabled people were. To work and that many will pay with
:03:28. > :03:30.
:03:30. > :03:40.their lives. If I went back to work, they would find me down there.
:03:40. > :03:59.
:03:59. > :04:06.experience. He would not let us explain the conditions that I am
:04:07. > :04:12.having. All he could say was yes or no. His GP has signed him off for
:04:12. > :04:21.now. But his next step is a tribunal. An experience choice says
:04:21. > :04:28.could finish him off. He said, I cannot face those people. To have to
:04:28. > :04:35.beg, because I am alive. Now let's talk to the Conservative
:04:35. > :04:39.MP for the Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker. Most people would say, if
:04:39. > :04:46.you are not entitled, there is no problem, but when you see something
:04:46. > :04:56.like that, the government comes over as callous. Unfortunately, that
:04:56. > :04:56.
:04:56. > :05:01.peace was biased and one-sided. We do not know what the decision, how
:05:01. > :05:07.it was taken, what it was. One person that can find out is his MP,
:05:07. > :05:13.so I would suggest he contacts his MP to see with the assessment is
:05:13. > :05:19.fair. But there is a fact, 40% of Atos decisions are overturned.
:05:19. > :05:24.seems to suggest that maybe the system is not working. It is 40% of
:05:24. > :05:33.those who appeal. I can give you an example of my constituency, I have
:05:33. > :05:38.had three dozen cases that we have stood for, and challenged Atos. It
:05:39. > :05:44.is not very often that they get it wrong, if I am being honest. They do
:05:45. > :05:51.get it wrong, I am not saying they have not got it wrong in this case,
:05:51. > :05:56.but in the majority, the assessment they do, in my experience, are
:05:56. > :06:05.correct. Is it purely about getting money? Are you so broke that you
:06:05. > :06:11.have to resort to this tactic? Not at all. Lots of people say to me,
:06:11. > :06:20.look, we are on incapacity benefit, we want to work, we cannot work
:06:20. > :06:23.full-time, but the benefit is an inhibitor. When you are working, it
:06:23. > :06:32.builds self-esteem, it gives you confidence, it gives you more
:06:32. > :06:35.freedom. That is why the government are going down this line.
:06:35. > :06:38.12 people have been arrested in a series of raids across Yorkshire,
:06:38. > :06:41.aimed at illegal workers and businesses employing staff who are
:06:41. > :06:43.living in the UK without permission. Premises in Leeds, Bradford,
:06:43. > :06:53.Wakefield and Sheffield were targeted in the Home Office
:06:53. > :06:56.
:06:56. > :07:00.Early evening in Sheffield centre, and a curry house is about to
:07:00. > :07:04.receive a surprise visit from the Home Office. This is one of a series
:07:04. > :07:10.of raids taking place across the country as part of a national day of
:07:10. > :07:15.action targeting suspected illegal workers. We have secured the
:07:15. > :07:21.premises, we are executing the warrant. We have looked around to
:07:21. > :07:25.see if any people have hidden away, which happens quite regularly. We
:07:25. > :07:28.are in the process of going through the people, looking at their IDE. It
:07:28. > :07:33.has been more than half an hour since officers entered the
:07:33. > :07:36.restaurant. They have been carrying out detailed checks, looking at
:07:36. > :07:40.passport records and using mobile fingerprint scanners to see if
:07:40. > :07:47.everyone working inside is legally allowed to be here. Looks like they
:07:47. > :07:50.could be some arrests. This operation is the result of months of
:07:50. > :07:55.intelligence gathering and was one of more than a dozen raids taking
:07:55. > :07:58.place across Yorkshire over 24 hours. Five arrests were made here,
:07:58. > :08:02.three of those on suspicion of living and working in the UK
:08:02. > :08:10.illegally. Two others on suspicion of knowingly implying illegal
:08:10. > :08:16.workers. They are very often paying low wages to people, they are also
:08:16. > :08:21.not paying tax, national insurance, things that legitimate companies
:08:21. > :08:26.would pay. So they have a better chance of survival when other people
:08:26. > :08:32.who are doing things legitimately are struggling, and they cost the
:08:32. > :08:36.taxpayer a lot of money. 140 arrests were made across the UK yesterday,
:08:36. > :08:40.12 of them in Yorkshire. It is not yet known how will you people will
:08:40. > :08:46.be charged, but those who are will face tough penalties or even be
:08:46. > :08:49.deported. Later on Look North. A warning that
:08:49. > :08:57.could save lives. Experts say stroke victims in Sheffield are waiting too
:08:57. > :08:59.long before calling for help. In other news, hundreds of former
:08:59. > :09:03.miners have been told they'll lose their concessionary fuel allowances
:09:03. > :09:06.as part of changes to their pensions. The National Union of
:09:06. > :09:08.Mineworkers is fighting the changes brought in after the company that
:09:08. > :09:14.runs Kellingley Colliery near Pontefract, UK Coal, underwent a
:09:14. > :09:18.restructuring. Pensioners had been entitled to a cash payment or up to
:09:18. > :09:21.four tonnes of coal under the old agreement.
:09:21. > :09:24.A West Yorkshire mother who says her four-year-old daughter would have
:09:24. > :09:27.died without a blood transfusion is appealing for more people to
:09:28. > :09:30.register as donors. Candice Flynn's daughter Lucy, who's registered
:09:31. > :09:36.blind, needed multiple transfusions after she was diagnosed with a rare
:09:36. > :09:46.form of cancer. Candice hopes the Summer Superhero Road Show in Leeds
:09:46. > :09:47.
:09:47. > :09:53.city centre will encourage more I would like to be able to say to
:09:53. > :09:57.people, can you put your arm out, put your needle in, give some blood
:09:57. > :10:00.and help little ones like Lucy? If she did not have the blood, she
:10:00. > :10:03.would not be here now. An investigation's under way after a
:10:03. > :10:06.plane was forced to make an emergency landing at Leeds Bradford
:10:06. > :10:09.Airport this morning. The Jet2 flight had to turn back shortly
:10:09. > :10:12.after taking off for Amsterdam. Jet2 says the aircraft experienced a
:10:12. > :10:17.technical issue. The plane landed safely and all passengers were flown
:10:17. > :10:20.out on an alternative aircraft. Investigations are under way into
:10:20. > :10:23.the cause of a large mill fire in Slaithwaite in West Yorkshire. It
:10:23. > :10:27.started at around 8:30pm last night, and at one stage 50 fire-fighters
:10:27. > :10:31.were at the derelict building. The fire is now out, and no-one was
:10:31. > :10:35.hurt. Experts say they are concerned that
:10:35. > :10:38.patients in Sheffield are waiting too long to call for help when
:10:38. > :10:42.having a stroke. Every minute, around two million brain cells are
:10:42. > :10:45.lost, and any delay in treatment can lead to life-changing injury.
:10:45. > :10:47.Figures suggest that many more people in Sheffield could be
:10:47. > :10:57.considered for specialist clot-busting drugs if only they
:10:57. > :11:01.
:11:01. > :11:05.We are just going to take your blood pressure. Stuart Dodson is making a
:11:05. > :11:08.good recovery after suffering a stroke on Easter Sunday. His wife
:11:08. > :11:13.called an ambulance after recognising the warning signs, and
:11:13. > :11:17.within half an hour, he was receiving life-saving treatment. By
:11:17. > :11:23.acting quickly, he limited the damage to his brain. It could have
:11:23. > :11:30.been a lot worse. I could be in a wheelchair, my wife taking me to the
:11:30. > :11:36.toilet, bringing me back from the toilet, and looking after me.
:11:36. > :11:40.hold of my hand and pull back. has now retrained most of his
:11:40. > :11:43.function, but not everyone takes the right action. In Sheffield, experts
:11:43. > :11:48.are concerned that a particular problem with people not acting
:11:48. > :11:54.quickly enough exist. The number of people in Sheffield who have a
:11:54. > :11:58.stroke is in line with the national average. 935 patients were admitted
:11:58. > :12:04.to hospital in the last 12 months. 150 might normally qualify for a
:12:04. > :12:08.treatment called thrombolysis, the clotbusting drugs that could make
:12:08. > :12:12.the difference between long-term disability or death. But last year,
:12:12. > :12:17.only 60 patients in Sheffield received it. That is because there
:12:17. > :12:23.is a cut-off time of four and a half hours for the safe use of the drugs.
:12:23. > :12:29.If people do not get to hospital in time, they cannot have it. People in
:12:29. > :12:32.Sheffield are stoic, they think things will get better, and by
:12:32. > :12:37.soldiering on and being stoic, they are preventing themselves from
:12:37. > :12:41.getting life changing treatment. When a stroke strikes, it spreads
:12:41. > :12:46.like a fire in the brain. warning signs include whether the
:12:46. > :12:49.person's face has fallen on one side, and they still smile, can they
:12:49. > :12:58.raised both arms and keep them there, and is their speech slurred?
:12:58. > :13:01.It is time to call 909. For Stuart, his prompt action should mean a good
:13:01. > :13:04.recovery. But there are others who are not so lucky.
:13:05. > :13:07.Car dismantlers say hundreds of jobs are at risk across Yorkshire because
:13:08. > :13:12.they have been unfairly dragged into the Government's fight against metal
:13:12. > :13:22.thieves. They say new laws will add to their costs, drive away business
:13:22. > :13:25.
:13:25. > :13:29.and destroy years of advances in the Another of the 1.5 million cars
:13:29. > :13:35.scrapped every year in England is dragged into a breakers yard near
:13:35. > :13:38.Leeds. Over 80% of each vehicle will be recycled, and what is left
:13:38. > :13:43.disposed of safely under strict environmental controls. But there is
:13:43. > :13:47.concern that new laws could unwittingly lead to a huge leap in
:13:47. > :13:52.dumped vehicles. The new laws are aimed at destroying the market for
:13:52. > :13:56.the theft of copper cables, usually from the rail network, that that can
:13:56. > :14:01.often have highly dangerous consequences. Everybody agreed that
:14:01. > :14:05.the law had to be tightened up to weed out these cowboy scrap metal
:14:05. > :14:12.dealers who were buying this illegally acquired copper wire. But
:14:12. > :14:15.from October, the law is widened even further for the first time,
:14:15. > :14:19.dismantle as part of the regulations. They have to identify
:14:19. > :14:28.and record every person who wants to sell them a car, and if they
:14:28. > :14:34.purchase that car for cash, that becomes illegal. We are not scrap
:14:34. > :14:41.metal dealers. We purchase cars. We will go to a customer and pay in
:14:41. > :14:45.cash. They will not accept a chat, they need the cash to buy a car or
:14:45. > :14:51.do whatever. With the cash incentives gone, the odds like this
:14:51. > :15:01.fear being bypassed. That threatens jobs. Here, one of over 40 in Leeds
:15:01. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:05.alone, this is typical. It is a family business. It will be very
:15:05. > :15:10.sad, because at the end of the day, we will not get the cars that we
:15:10. > :15:14.need, because they will not sell them by check, and the street trader
:15:14. > :15:19.will take them without being the polluted, and scrap them. The Home
:15:19. > :15:25.Office insists that, as part of every vehicle becoming a scrap
:15:25. > :15:30.metal, the jobs are buying scrap metal, and the regulations are
:15:30. > :15:33.applicable. Everybody agrees the thefts must be stopped, but by
:15:33. > :15:40.dragging in this mantle is into the regulations, it is possible that
:15:40. > :15:45.they might be throwing the baby out with the bath water.
:15:45. > :15:48.Coming up, getting behind the wheel of some magnificent machines.
:15:48. > :15:54.Classic cars take to the track at Croft Circuit for a nostalgic
:15:54. > :15:57.weekend. Now, it's high summer, yesterday
:15:57. > :16:01.temperatures were in the 30s, and England and Australia's cricketers
:16:01. > :16:04.are battling it out for the Ashes on the other side of the Pennines. But
:16:04. > :16:14.believe it or not, the football season actually kicks off in about
:16:14. > :16:16.
:16:16. > :16:19.This is the oldest professional football ground in the world, in
:16:19. > :16:25.what is the oldest professional football league in the world. What
:16:25. > :16:29.could be more fitting in its 125th anniversary season than the big
:16:29. > :16:35.kick-off being between founder members Sheffield United and Notts
:16:35. > :16:39.County? This season is kicking Gough 12 days early. The reason, so that
:16:39. > :16:43.every team can have one extra home match on Saturday. It has been
:16:43. > :16:51.glorious here today, and David Weir is hoping that whatever the weather
:16:51. > :16:56.does, his team will sparkle. The numbers that have come out and
:16:56. > :17:02.have supported us, they have been great, and we want to continue that,
:17:02. > :17:07.we want to give them a team that is successful, something they can look
:17:07. > :17:12.forward to watching on a Saturday afternoon.
:17:12. > :17:17.We might be 12 days early, but there are at least two teams who cannot
:17:17. > :17:24.wait, what and Bradford came up last season, and they are raring to go.
:17:24. > :17:34.-- rather rum and Bradford. It is too late to say that times are
:17:34. > :17:39.changing. They already have done. After winning automatic promotion,
:17:39. > :17:42.Rotherham fans have been yearning for the next season to start. The
:17:42. > :17:52.likes of Coventry City and Preston North End had better be ready to
:17:52. > :17:53.
:17:53. > :17:58.face the modern-day millers. We know the size of the task, if we into
:17:58. > :18:03.mid-table, that would be a realistic objective. The ambition is to break
:18:03. > :18:11.into the top group. If we can do that, if we can surprise HQ, there
:18:11. > :18:17.will be a play-off race. The engines are stillborn on Bradford City's
:18:17. > :18:21.open top bus. They earned the right to play in league one in a Wembley
:18:21. > :18:25.play-off final against Northampton. After a season of why spend
:18:25. > :18:30.humiliating Premier League teams on their run to the league cup final,
:18:30. > :18:35.we should not be too surprised that the confidence is that they will
:18:35. > :18:41.have much of what is required to play at the higher level. When I
:18:41. > :18:50.bump into supporters, they say, really have a go. We will see where
:18:50. > :18:53.that takes us. Our job is to get the absolute maximum out of ourselves.
:18:54. > :18:58.And to maximise the potential we have in the squad. Where that will
:18:58. > :19:08.take us, I could not tell you. will have the answer in 46 matches
:19:08. > :19:15.
:19:15. > :19:19.With me is a lifelong Sheffield United fan. How weird is it, being
:19:19. > :19:23.here on August the 2nd? It is crazy, I was reading through
:19:23. > :19:28.Twitter, I read a tweet from somebody that said they could not
:19:28. > :19:32.believe the football season was finally back, but I cannot believe
:19:32. > :19:37.it feels like a matter of weeks. short time since we were watching
:19:37. > :19:42.the play-offs, it is incredible. time is just long enough for the
:19:42. > :19:46.disappointment to soak away a bit, but only just. Football fans are the
:19:46. > :19:50.only people on the planet who are capable of being optimists and
:19:50. > :19:55.pessimists at the same time. What your feelings, coming in here
:19:55. > :20:01.tonight, the first game, new season? I was thinking about this
:20:01. > :20:05.today. Every journey of misery starts with a single step. In that
:20:05. > :20:14.respect, we need to be here! The expectoration, yet again, is
:20:14. > :20:17.incredible. I am the same as every fan, I am never surprised by
:20:17. > :20:20.disappointment, but constantly hoping it will not happen again.
:20:20. > :20:28.is a surprise how many big names are in this league. How difficult will
:20:28. > :20:34.it be? For a long while, we were in the Championship, people say it was
:20:34. > :20:39.a great vision, but this league seems to be heading the same way.
:20:39. > :20:44.There are some huge teams in there. It will be harder this year than it
:20:44. > :20:47.should have been last year. Wolverhampton will be a threat, a
:20:47. > :20:51.lot of other big teams, but everybody thinks they have got a
:20:51. > :20:58.chance. Yeovil Town are the perfect example from last year. You ought to
:20:58. > :21:08.be a pundit! Kick-off at about 8pm, about an hour away. The new season
:21:08. > :21:09.
:21:09. > :21:12.gets under way on August the 2nd. We will have the result in our late
:21:12. > :21:16.news at 10:25pm. Good luck to Sheffield United and all of our
:21:16. > :21:19.sides in the respectively. And in cricket, top-of-the-table
:21:19. > :21:28.Yorkshire are taking on Warwickshire in the County Championship at
:21:28. > :21:36.Headingley. It looks to have been a hard day. Gary Ballance trapped
:21:36. > :21:39.though BW. Worth going along to Headingley tomorrow.
:21:39. > :21:42.In Super League, the Leeds Rhinos scored their third straight win last
:21:42. > :21:46.night. The Rhinos beat London Broncos 30-18. This brilliant try
:21:46. > :21:48.from Ben Jones-Bishop put the Rhinos 12-0 up. Captain Kevin Sinfield was
:21:49. > :21:58.making his 500th professional appearance, and converted all five
:21:59. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:03.team. Sheffield's Jessica Ennis-Hill will
:22:03. > :22:06.be out of action for three or four months because of an Achilles
:22:06. > :22:10.injury. She took part in the London Anniversary Games last weekend and
:22:10. > :22:13.was hoping to go to Moscow for the World Championships later this
:22:13. > :22:19.month, but had to pull out. She says it's now time to stop chasing
:22:19. > :22:27.fitness and try to cure the problem. We wish her the best of luck.
:22:27. > :22:35.Now for a bit of World War II nostalgia. '40s fashions, the music
:22:35. > :22:40.of George Formby and Glenn Miller, classic cars and military vehicles.
:22:40. > :22:48.Well, add to that little cocktail the sound of high-octane race cars
:22:48. > :22:56.and you have the Nostalgia Weekend at Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire.
:22:57. > :23:01.Let's put you behind the wheel of a four military race car. Flat out at
:23:01. > :23:05.90 plus down the pit straight. Break, into third, through the
:23:05. > :23:09.chicane, accelerate away. This is motor racing as it used to be in the
:23:09. > :23:14.60s and 70s. Not a sport for the faint-hearted. You would not want to
:23:14. > :23:18.contact anything solid. You would do yourself some injury. There was no
:23:18. > :23:23.carbon fibre, there were no aluminium tubs. Fairly primitive
:23:23. > :23:27.stuff, and some pieces from road cars that you could pick up from
:23:27. > :23:34.your local garage. Some of the classic sport and saloons of
:23:34. > :23:38.yesteryear as well. The Jaguars, and a couple of Lotus Cortina 's. A
:23:38. > :23:44.great weekend for all of the family, just do not spend too long changing
:23:44. > :23:50.your brake shoes. Your daughters are looking bored. They enjoy it,
:23:50. > :23:53.actually. A passion for classic cars, I understand, but when it
:23:53. > :24:03.comes to Michu vehicles, and all of that re-enactment business, I am
:24:03. > :24:05.
:24:05. > :24:12.struggling. -- military vehicles will stop --. We set up a static
:24:13. > :24:20.defence perimeter. Somewhere within Germany, with the Soviet bloc as our
:24:20. > :24:24.enemies. This is an American jeep, built to last ten weeks, but this
:24:24. > :24:32.one is 70 years old, part of the military display. I'll put it with
:24:32. > :24:40.this bunch of slackers. Smarten up, guys! They were totally utilitarian,
:24:40. > :24:45.they could be taken to pieces and mended. This is fairly universal.
:24:45. > :24:52.Add to this, Spitfires, 40s fashions and a tank firing demonstration, and
:24:52. > :24:58.it has the makings of a splendid nest object weekend.
:24:58. > :25:07.-- Nostalgia Weekend. Thank you for the comment about how
:25:07. > :25:11.lovely the presenters are looking I am hoping it calls down this
:25:12. > :25:19.weekend! It has been another warm day today. The farmers have been
:25:19. > :25:24.making the most of the fine weather. The hay bales there. The next one, a
:25:24. > :25:30.beautiful one from sunset last night, the Scarborough spa express
:25:30. > :25:33.crossing the river. It has been a warm day today, we have reached 27
:25:33. > :25:38.degrees through North Yorkshire. Sunny spells, scattered showers
:25:38. > :25:44.tomorrow, but it feels a bit colder. The temperatures are back to average
:25:44. > :25:47.for the time of year. The south-westerly wind will give us a
:25:47. > :25:53.stream of showers at times, but there will be spelt of sunshine in
:25:54. > :25:57.between. The heavy showers and thunderstorms are these white bands
:25:57. > :26:02.of cloud, bringing a scattering of heavy showers, even occasional
:26:02. > :26:07.thunderstorms. The risk continues through the night, although the
:26:07. > :26:10.showers ease in intensity as we head towards dawn. There will be some
:26:10. > :26:20.clear spells, it will be another mile night. Uncomfortable for
:26:20. > :26:37.
:26:37. > :26:41.morning... Tomorrow, it will be a mild start, there will already be a
:26:41. > :26:46.scattering of showers in places, and we keep that risk through the day,
:26:46. > :26:50.into the afternoon, he showers. To fade from the North. South Yorkshire
:26:50. > :26:55.will pick up a cue showers, but elsewhere, it is mostly dry, with
:26:55. > :27:05.the best of the sunshine. The wind will be gentle. The temperatures are
:27:05. > :27:08.
:27:08. > :27:15.around average for the time of year, mixture of sunny spells, scattered
:27:15. > :27:19.showers. The temperatures are average. On Monday, it will turn
:27:19. > :27:23.more unsettled. We will see a band of rain pushing up from the
:27:23. > :27:33.south-west. It will be heavy at first before it turns Cheri later.
:27:33. > :27:34.
:27:34. > :27:41.But you stay, back to sunny spells, You said, it is like watching beauty