:00:02. > :00:12.fostering organisation encouraging people to foster to avoid losing
:00:12. > :00:15.
:00:15. > :00:25.Housing Benefit. Before King open a no doubt I wouldn't consider foster
:00:25. > :00:26.
:00:26. > :00:29.care is simply to Perma bedroom tax. Or to avoid the bedroom tax. And the
:00:29. > :00:39.motorists putting lives at risk on the M62 by ignoring signs and
:00:39. > :00:42.
:00:42. > :00:48.driving in the wrong lane. And this allowed -- the seller rave
:00:48. > :00:52.club for toddlers in Yorkshire. It has been a cloudy day in
:00:52. > :01:02.Yorkshire. A lot have seen a fair bit of rain. Join me for the
:01:02. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:17.Good evening and welcome to Monday's Look North. On the programme
:01:17. > :01:17.
:01:17. > :01:20.tonight: Council tenants with spare rooms have seen their income reduced
:01:20. > :01:23.by at least �13 a week under government reforms. Now one
:01:23. > :01:27.organisation has sent a leaflet to homeowners, suggesting they take on
:01:27. > :01:30.a youngster in need so they can keep their full rent payments. One
:01:30. > :01:39.recipient of the leaflet has called it abhorrent. Heidi Tomlinson has
:01:39. > :01:44.this exclusive report. This is the second route which I use
:01:44. > :01:52.as a study. Under rules introduced in April, Housing benefit is caught
:01:52. > :01:55.if tenants have spare rooms. Carroll has two bedrooms in this high --
:01:56. > :02:02.high-rise flat. She has to pay next �35 per month and is currently in
:02:02. > :02:07.arrears. Carroll has received a range of advice telling her to find
:02:07. > :02:14.work for taking a larger. On this flyer from fostering organisation it
:02:14. > :02:20.says, avoid the bedroom tax, become a foster carer. That I find
:02:20. > :02:27.absolutely abhorrent. I just could not even contemplate that. I
:02:27. > :02:36.wouldn't consider foster care simply to pay my bedroom tax. Or to avoid
:02:36. > :02:43.the bedroom tax. Parallel parents are responsible for the leaflet. It
:02:43. > :02:48.is being distributed to households in Leeds. The flyer is being
:02:48. > :02:52.described as tactless marketing by another foster organisation. But
:02:52. > :02:56.parallel parents say this is just one recruitment strategy, a way of
:02:56. > :03:02.encouraging people to become foster parents. The British Association for
:03:02. > :03:06.adoption and fostering added that a carer will only be approved if they
:03:06. > :03:12.provide a child focused service. If financial game was the sole
:03:12. > :03:19.motivation, the applicant would not be approved. -- gain. Carol thinks
:03:19. > :03:26.it could draw in on suitable foster carers. Perhaps people who are
:03:26. > :03:31.desperate not to be removed from their homes, not to be evicted, they
:03:31. > :03:36.might well be the wrong sort of people. But with 9000 more foster
:03:36. > :03:40.carers needed in the UK, it seems agencies are looking for new ways to
:03:40. > :03:50.deal with the recruitment crisis. You've been in touch with your
:03:50. > :04:18.
:04:18. > :04:22.the Fostering Network, which calls itself the voice of foster care.
:04:22. > :04:26.Isn't this using children as commodities, attracting people to
:04:26. > :04:31.fostering who are not motivated by wanting to help a child but a desire
:04:32. > :04:36.to make money? Fostering services in Yorkshire and Humberside are looking
:04:36. > :04:43.for 800 people this year alone to become foster parents. That puts a
:04:43. > :04:48.massive strain on the service. say it is a recruitment strategy,
:04:48. > :04:54.but it is an insensitive one, isn't it? Fostering services have two
:04:54. > :04:59.trial a variety of different methods. This company will learn
:04:59. > :05:05.from this exercise to realise that it has in this instance created a
:05:05. > :05:13.lot of negative responses, but also it has gained local coverage in the
:05:13. > :05:19.media. Is this the right way of going about it? Fostering services,
:05:19. > :05:23.P blue enquire about fostering services, there is a rigorous
:05:23. > :05:33.process which can take six to eight months. -- people who enquire about
:05:33. > :05:39.fostering services. Will a lot of money be spent on sorting people out
:05:39. > :05:43.who are not appropriate in this circumstance? The Fostering Network
:05:43. > :05:50.does recommend the fostering -- to fostering services that they target
:05:50. > :05:53.the recruitment campaigns. So it is really important to go for the
:05:53. > :05:56.people that have the skills and qualities needed.
:05:56. > :06:00.Thank you very much. A primary school teacher has
:06:00. > :06:03.admitted 23 sex offences against children in York. Richard Oldham,
:06:03. > :06:07.who's 31, had taught at several schools in the city. His offences
:06:07. > :06:17.date back a number of years. Oldham will be sentenced next month. John
:06:17. > :06:17.
:06:17. > :06:22.Cundy joins us now from Leeds Crown. What we know about Richard Oldham?
:06:22. > :06:27.We know that he taught at at least three different primary schools in
:06:27. > :06:31.York. We cannot identify them for legal reasons. He is now aged 31 but
:06:31. > :06:35.he is living in Devon, yet he had been offending in York as late as
:06:35. > :06:40.last year. Old arrived in court today under a cloud in more ways
:06:40. > :06:46.than one. -- Oldham. He then spent all morning talking to his lawyers
:06:46. > :06:55.before appearing in court this afternoon to admit to 23 offences.
:06:55. > :06:58.Can you tell us how serious these offences are? There were three cases
:06:58. > :07:04.of voyeurism. He filmed children committing what were called Private
:07:04. > :07:10.Acts for his pleasure. There were 13 charges of making indecent images or
:07:10. > :07:15.videos of children. He admitted possessing 2076 indecent images of
:07:15. > :07:25.children. He also admitted six serious sexual assault involving two
:07:25. > :07:25.
:07:25. > :07:32.boys. What did the judge say to him? The recorder at Leeds told him that
:07:32. > :07:36.when he returned for a sentencing he would face almost certain jail. He
:07:36. > :07:42.will be on the sex offenders register. He has granted him bail.
:07:43. > :07:49.As Oldham left court this afternoon, he was trying to avoid reporters and
:07:49. > :07:53.the cameras. Until he returns here on September 16 for a sentencing, he
:07:54. > :07:56.remains under an eight hour nightly curfew and will not be allowed any
:07:56. > :08:00.unsupervised connection with children at all.
:08:00. > :08:04.Later on Look North: A semi-precious stone rediscovered after seven
:08:04. > :08:14.decades - it's not the plot of a Hollywood movie, but a mystery
:08:14. > :08:14.
:08:14. > :08:18.The Highways Agency and Police say drivers are putting lives at risk,
:08:18. > :08:22.by failing to use the hard shoulder correctly on a stretch of the M62 in
:08:22. > :08:25.West Yorkshire. The new managed-motorway scheme is designed
:08:25. > :08:30.to reduce congestion, allowing drivers to use the hard shoulder at
:08:30. > :08:37.peak times. But now there's a warning that some motorists are
:08:37. > :08:41.treating it as a regular lane. Here's Ian White.
:08:41. > :08:46.As another section of the new the M62 managed motorway went live in
:08:46. > :08:52.west Yorkshire today, an appeal from the police to heed the road signs.
:08:52. > :08:58.The idea is simple. At peak times, the hard shoulder is open to traffic
:08:58. > :09:01.to ease congestion. The rest of the time it is closed to traffic. Police
:09:01. > :09:06.say some motorists are breaking the law by using the hard shoulder when
:09:06. > :09:11.they shouldn't, to jump queues. know that we will get people who
:09:11. > :09:17.will gamble with it and they will say, even though the warning is
:09:17. > :09:23.there, it is a little bit of a short cut. I will save myself a few
:09:23. > :09:28.seconds. Let me tell those people that they will not save themselves
:09:28. > :09:33.any time. They will get caught out. The police are going to catch them.
:09:33. > :09:38.With cameras trained on all parts of the motorway, catching offenders is
:09:38. > :09:44.easier for the police. The new system is confusing for motorists.
:09:44. > :09:48.There is a little bit of ignorance. People need to educate themselves.
:09:48. > :09:51.We have had these cameras for years but what is new is the environment
:09:52. > :09:56.in which we are using them. We are trying to get drivers to become
:09:56. > :10:00.acquainted with the system. Motoring organisations say drivers need to be
:10:00. > :10:09.made more aware -- need to be more aware of what is going on around
:10:09. > :10:13.them. We have often said there is a case for greater education. Maybe it
:10:13. > :10:18.should be linked. It is also a symptom of the sort of congestion
:10:18. > :10:23.that we are increasingly seeing on our motorways. Motorists who ignore
:10:23. > :10:27.the signs and drive on the hard shoulder risk colliding with
:10:27. > :10:31.vehicles. Offenders will be fined �60 and get three points on their
:10:31. > :10:34.licence. Police say, you have been warned.
:10:34. > :10:38.Some other news from around the Look North region now. In Sheffield,
:10:38. > :10:42.demolition work has finally begun on the grade two listed Edwardian Wing
:10:42. > :10:47.of Jessop Hospital. Campaigners had hoped the empty building could be
:10:47. > :10:51.saved. The site will be cleared to make way for a new �81 million
:10:51. > :10:55.building, which will house Sheffield University's engineering department.
:10:55. > :10:59.The number of crimes in rural areas of Yorkshire has dropped, but
:10:59. > :11:02.thieves still take over �3 million a year from the Yorkshire countryside.
:11:03. > :11:07.Quad bikes are top on the thieves' wish list in Yorkshire, while tools
:11:07. > :11:10.and agricultural machinery are also targeted. Statistics from the rural
:11:10. > :11:16.insurer NFU Mutual show the majority of rural crime is planned rather
:11:16. > :11:21.than opportunist. A multi-million pound upgrade of
:11:21. > :11:24.York's power supply is underway. Northern Powergrid is investing �7
:11:24. > :11:27.on maintenance work on underground power cables. It's part of a
:11:27. > :11:37.programme of improvements which will see �10 billion spent over five
:11:37. > :11:37.
:11:37. > :11:40.years to upgrade Yorkshire's water, Experts are warning that the world
:11:40. > :11:46.famous Selby Abbey organ will be unplayable in five years' time
:11:46. > :11:50.unless urgent restoration work is carried out. It's a specialist job
:11:50. > :11:53.that will cost hundreds of thousands of pounds, but the Abbey has a plan
:11:53. > :12:03.to raise the money involving the former organist to the Pope. Cathy
:12:03. > :12:05.
:12:05. > :12:08.Killick has the story. Stand-in Selby Abbey when the
:12:08. > :12:14.organist playing and you can feel the reverberations through your
:12:14. > :12:17.feet. It is a magnificent sand. The organ is one of the best in the
:12:17. > :12:23.world but it could fall silent in the next five years unless it is
:12:23. > :12:27.overhauled. The only reason it is this good now is because of the
:12:27. > :12:32.exceptional skill of the organist. He is having to work around a lot of
:12:32. > :12:39.problems. The organist pulling a stop out would expect to pull it out
:12:39. > :12:47.and make a sound. I can go up to the top keyboard and I can put a stop
:12:47. > :12:53.here. Try this one. Is working? No. Let's try another one. Yes. But we
:12:53. > :12:58.have no base. Around half �1 million is needed to restore the organ. It
:12:58. > :13:08.is a lot of money. There are around 300,000 in the kitty. The abbey has
:13:08. > :13:14.
:13:14. > :13:19.a cunning plan to raise the rest. The Abbey's hopes lie with this man.
:13:19. > :13:26.He was a huge star in the 1960s. He was the Pope's organist and came to
:13:26. > :13:36.Selby to play the organ. The Abbey has rediscovered the recordings he
:13:36. > :13:43.
:13:43. > :13:48.made there and is releasing them on sandwich makes it different. That is
:13:48. > :13:55.why people love it. It is wonderful. Now, unfortunately, it is
:13:55. > :14:00.struggling. Pulling out the stops still sounds good. It should sound
:14:00. > :14:07.better. In CD sales will ensure the organ regains its true voice. When
:14:07. > :14:10.it does, stand back. It sounds fantastic. Otherwise it
:14:10. > :14:13.would sound like me playing, the right notes in the wrong order.
:14:14. > :14:17.Before seven o'clock, we're joined by the Leeds diver who's made quite
:14:17. > :14:23.a splash at the first high diving competition at the World Aquatics
:14:23. > :14:28.Championships. A 68-year search for deposits of a
:14:28. > :14:32.rare stone in the Peak District, has finally come to an end. The lost
:14:32. > :14:34.vein of Blue John stone was reported by a miner working underground near
:14:35. > :14:41.Castleton in 1945, but he died before passing on the exact
:14:41. > :14:45.location. Now the semi-precious metal - which is used to make
:14:45. > :14:48.ornaments and jewellery - has been rediscovered. It's a relief for
:14:48. > :14:58.Peter Harrison, who was given that tip-off as a young man. Danny
:14:58. > :15:01.
:15:01. > :15:09.Carpenter has been to meet him. They are minors, these three. Miners
:15:09. > :15:14.of Blue John. 50 years ago, this was how they got Blue John. And 50 years
:15:14. > :15:21.ago, they were searching for a missing seem. A scene described to
:15:21. > :15:28.Peter Harrison by the previous owner. He founded but died before he
:15:28. > :15:32.could show where it was. For the next 70 years, it stayed hidden. And
:15:32. > :15:39.if you are wondering how something so sought after could remain so
:15:39. > :15:44.hidden for so long, there are two reasons. The first is, it's not
:15:44. > :15:47.exactly accessible. And the second is, the man who made the original
:15:47. > :15:54.discovery made absolutely sure that nobody else would be stealing his
:15:54. > :15:58.find. John Rees had a ritual of hiding his veins, or hiding his work
:15:58. > :16:06.at the end of the day. I couldn't sneak up on the middle of the night
:16:06. > :16:13.and hack is a vein out and sell it in the village for ale. -- his vein
:16:13. > :16:19.out. We did find a few iron bars, some wood and a carpet. And we found
:16:19. > :16:25.bigger rocks on that concealing the vein. John is now mining the scene.
:16:25. > :16:30.With luck, he will still be added. -- when it is his time to retire.
:16:31. > :16:37.His brand is delighted. We had looked for it for years and years,
:16:37. > :16:47.and then John stumbled across it under an old carpet and would. I was
:16:47. > :16:51.amazed. Absolutely amazed. And it produces some very nice Blue John.
:16:51. > :16:56.It is such good quality that Peter is hopeful it can be worked into the
:16:56. > :17:04.coveted larger items, like goblets and vases, which themselves have not
:17:04. > :17:07.been produced for many long years. Now, it all got under way again at
:17:07. > :17:12.the weekend - the new football season has started. You can see all
:17:12. > :17:14.the action on the BBC website. We're going to look at some of the talking
:17:14. > :17:19.points and celebrate our three winning sides.
:17:19. > :17:23.You have got to feel it for Wednesday. That was a blatant
:17:24. > :17:29.penalty. It is obvious. Barton should possibly have had a yellow
:17:29. > :17:39.card, possibly a read. Look for the referee is. He can see it. Why did
:17:39. > :17:45.he not give a penalty? It seems a bit unfair. Dave Jones was a bit
:17:45. > :17:51.cheesed off. He cannot miss that. And then to book him I just think is
:17:51. > :17:54.absolutely crazy. Something has to be done. I don't know what league
:17:54. > :18:02.they can send him down to, but he should not be refereeing at this
:18:02. > :18:08.level. 34,000 at Elland Road. McCormack's
:18:08. > :18:14.finish was pure class. Then into the last ten seconds and Luke Murphy
:18:14. > :18:20.rounded off a great debut with this goal. Handball in the build-up?
:18:20. > :18:24.Probably. The performance suggests money well spent. We are in the
:18:24. > :18:29.results business. The performance was good and deserved a result.
:18:29. > :18:35.Brighton played well. They are a good side. But our result is very
:18:35. > :18:42.important. Chesterfield had a good away win. This goal came from
:18:42. > :18:48.O'Shea. Look at the angle. Brilliant finish. He scored six goals last
:18:48. > :18:55.season. Chesterfield's second goal was a beauty. Great save from their
:18:55. > :19:02.goalkeeper. And then a fluent counterattack. The rest belongs to
:19:02. > :19:10.Mark Richards. He scored 13 times last season. If he plays like this,
:19:10. > :19:16.there could be a bag full frame as well. Another winner, York city.
:19:16. > :19:20.Ryan Jarvis sending them to the top. A little overreaction. But
:19:20. > :19:30.after last season, perhaps they deserve it.
:19:30. > :19:33.
:19:33. > :19:39.In Super League, Huddersfield Giants dominated Salford. Lovely try. The
:19:39. > :19:44.second try is even better. A reverse pass. Huddersfield Giants top of the
:19:44. > :19:47.league. Can they stay there. --? And you can see all the weekends action
:19:47. > :19:53.on tonight's Superleague Show at 11.20. And in the cricket, Yorkshire
:19:53. > :19:56.were saved by the weather - their game with Warwickshire was drawn.
:19:56. > :19:59.Our next guest likes nothing more than hurling himself from great
:19:59. > :20:02.heights. You may remember that last week we showed you some amazing
:20:02. > :20:05.footage of the World High Diving Championships in Barcelona. Matt
:20:05. > :20:11.Cowen from Keighley was among the competitors jumping from 27 metres
:20:11. > :20:21.up in the air. We'll speak to Matt in a moment. First, let's see him in
:20:21. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :21:03.Unbelievable. 27 metres, that is the equivalent of six double-decker
:21:03. > :21:07.buses. You're hitting the water at 70 mph. How does that feel?
:21:07. > :21:14.depends how you land! If you land well on your feet, you feel the
:21:14. > :21:17.impact through your whole body. These are some pictures of you
:21:17. > :21:24.performing around the world. They only show part of it. The view is
:21:24. > :21:28.incredible. From the top of that platform, when you are inside cities
:21:28. > :21:37.or in a beautiful piece of countryside, the view that you get
:21:37. > :21:40.is spectacular. You don't have much time for admiring the view. Let's
:21:40. > :21:46.talk about the nerves. What goes through your mind and how do you
:21:46. > :21:54.focus? Everybody has their own way of dealing with it. I get really
:21:54. > :21:58.nervous and energy. My mind is going 1 million miles an hour. About two
:21:58. > :22:05.minutes before the dive I am quite calm and blank. I am ready to go. I
:22:05. > :22:10.just get on with it. When there are people down there to help with the
:22:10. > :22:16.divers, they are there presumably... Have you got it wrong
:22:16. > :22:21.spectacularly? Touchwood, no major injuries so far. I have been around
:22:21. > :22:31.guys who are not themselves out or worse. The safety divers are
:22:31. > :22:31.
:22:31. > :22:36.brilliant. Where train in Yorkshire? I train at the John Charles Centre.
:22:37. > :22:42.We have only got ten metres there. I usually train the first half of the
:22:42. > :22:49.dive and the second half, then stick them together at competition.
:22:49. > :22:53.are you next? Boston.Lovely place. Enjoy it. Not Boston, Lincolnshire.
:22:53. > :22:57.A toddler group with a difference has sprung up in West Yorkshire -
:22:57. > :22:59.and it's a proving a massive hit. It's called Baby Rave, and it's a
:23:00. > :23:03.little bit more energetic than the usual playgroups. The events are
:23:03. > :23:11.ticket only and sell out every time. Anna Crossley's been finding out
:23:11. > :23:15.more. As soon as you walk in, it is
:23:15. > :23:19.clear. This is no ordinary toddler group. It is held in a nightclub
:23:20. > :23:27.rather than a church hall. The babies are waving glow sticks, not
:23:27. > :23:33.rattles. Baby Rave was set up by fake any because she was bored with
:23:33. > :23:38.the usual baby groups. She wanted something a little bit livelier.
:23:38. > :23:43.found the other classes good for the children. There were the same kind
:23:43. > :23:47.of nursery rhymes you hear every single time. We do sing nursery
:23:47. > :23:56.rhymes here. We'll also like to sing popular songs as well and dance at
:23:56. > :24:02.the same time. It may only be just after two o'clock in the afternoon,
:24:02. > :24:08.but this is the second sold-out Baby Rave of the day. By the looks of it,
:24:09. > :24:12.not everybody can take the pace. The music isn't too loud to protect
:24:12. > :24:18.delicate ears. There are plenty of other things to do as well as dance.
:24:18. > :24:24.The first Baby Rave was in April. Each one since has been a sell-out.
:24:24. > :24:29.Such is the demand, the event is now held in a large nightclub. We meet
:24:29. > :24:36.friends and we have singing and dancing. It is something special. I
:24:36. > :24:40.was taken today off work. He is running around, playing around,
:24:40. > :24:50.having a dance in between. Slept her way through but that did not seem to
:24:50. > :24:54.
:24:54. > :24:57.bother him. They love the music. you have a nice time? Yes.The next
:24:57. > :25:07.event is taking place in September. Although they are proving so
:25:07. > :25:08.
:25:08. > :25:17.popular, there is now talk of a It makes a change from head,
:25:18. > :25:23.shoulders, knees and toes. Now the weather. I have got some lovely
:25:23. > :25:27.pictures for you this evening. The first one we have got is from Ben
:25:27. > :25:36.Harrison. He sent this picture of lightning in Rossington in Doncaster
:25:36. > :25:45.on Friday night. The second picture is a double rainbow. This is from
:25:45. > :25:55.Linda in North Derbyshire. The third has to be my favourite. Harry, there
:25:55. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:14.he is, at the York 10K. 66 minutes. are going to see some bits and
:26:14. > :26:22.pieces of rain but it promises to be drier and brighter tomorrow. We have
:26:22. > :26:26.this high ridge of pressure. It will give us more settled conditions. We
:26:26. > :26:30.are continuing to have some heavy rain. It will gradually dry up from
:26:30. > :26:35.the West and skies were clear. Overnight it will feel fresher than
:26:35. > :26:41.it has done. Temperatures down to 11 or 12 degrees. Perhaps a little bit
:26:41. > :26:47.easier to get to sleep tonight. Tomorrow the sun will rise at
:26:47. > :26:52.5:28am. Those are your high water times. Thanks to that high pressure
:26:52. > :26:55.tomorrow, we are set for a much calmer and quieter day. Starting off
:26:55. > :27:04.quite nicely. Good spells of sunshine along the coast. Cloud will
:27:04. > :27:07.bubble up through the day. Perhaps the light shower the Pennines. But
:27:07. > :27:15.generally the theme of dry and fine weather will continue. A bit warmer
:27:15. > :27:18.tomorrow than it was today. Highs of around 20. As we go through the
:27:18. > :27:26.outlook for the next couple of days, it looks like we will see some good
:27:26. > :27:30.spells of sunshine. Highs of 19 degrees on Wednesday.