:00:08. > :00:17.Look North. On tonight's programme: The 999 call handler on sick leave
:00:17. > :00:21.who was tracked by a private detective hired by her bosses.
:00:21. > :00:27.Totally unbelievable. I am a normal person. We ask who is monitoring
:00:27. > :00:33.who. Also tonight: We're on patrol with South Yorkshire police as they
:00:33. > :00:38.a report a record low in road fatalities.
:00:38. > :00:46.And will a giant steel man ever gaze over the M1 at Tinsley? Or has a
:00:46. > :00:50.multi-million pound art project stalled? This was the view this
:00:50. > :01:00.afternoon. A fair amount of cloud in the sky but it was a good day. I
:01:00. > :01:19.
:01:19. > :01:23.will be back later in the programme their lowest number of road deaths
:01:23. > :01:26.since records began. Last year half as many people were killed on the
:01:26. > :01:28.county's roads compared with ten years ago. But, when Our
:01:29. > :01:31.Correspondent John Cundy was given exclusive access to follow one
:01:32. > :01:40.traffic officer's day, there was a dramatic reminder of how suddenly
:01:40. > :01:47.danger can strike. Speed enforcement in Barnsley. Some days can be more
:01:47. > :01:53.dramatic than others. Five vehicles have collided on the A1 near
:01:53. > :02:01.Doncaster. This high -- Steve's high-speed driving skills take us
:02:01. > :02:05.there. It seems to be getting their area -- narrower. We look at the
:02:05. > :02:13.severity of the casualties and it will dictate the emergency services
:02:13. > :02:21.response. It will appear to be a five vehicle collision that has
:02:21. > :02:25.brought this problem. The gentleman here has substantial whiplash.
:02:25. > :02:30.nasty incident but the roads of South Yorkshire are officially
:02:30. > :02:36.getting safer. Ten years ago there were 65 deaths on the county's robes
:02:36. > :02:42.and that was cut by half in 2011 and last year, 29 deaths, the lowest on
:02:43. > :02:46.record. It is about education people and for them to take responsibility
:02:46. > :02:50.on the roads. We do have people killed on the roads and by taking
:02:50. > :02:56.your eye off the ball and not maintaining your car, you might
:02:56. > :03:06.contribute to that in the future. The daily moves on where on the hard
:03:06. > :03:09.
:03:09. > :03:13.shoulder of the M, south of Rotherham. There are rules about how
:03:13. > :03:17.much load they can carry, how many hours their drivers can drive and we
:03:17. > :03:26.are here to make sure everybody is abiding by the rules and keeping
:03:26. > :03:32.everybody safe. That includes a motorist with a punctured tyre.
:03:32. > :03:35.gentleman can't change his wheel which leads him vulnerable. He is on
:03:35. > :03:40.to the recovery agent and we will see how we can get him off the
:03:40. > :03:50.motorway. The figures are showing the roads are getting safer but on
:03:50. > :03:58.
:03:58. > :04:01.this road, it is a reminder that there is never room for complacency.
:04:01. > :04:04.Residents living in a flood hit village in the Calder Valley say
:04:04. > :04:08.they fear it may become impossible to get flood insurance in future.
:04:08. > :04:11.Last week, 90 homes in Walsden, near Todmorden, were inundated after a
:04:11. > :04:18.culvert burst following heavy rain. The deluge ripped up the road and
:04:18. > :04:22.submerged the main Leeds to Manchester rail line. They were
:04:22. > :04:31.still claiming their homes eight days after the flood water engulfed
:04:31. > :04:38.properties. It is just starting to buckle the floor over this area. You
:04:39. > :04:44.can see the sludge. It is Earth from the garden across the road.
:04:44. > :04:52.Richard's house was swamped. The ground floor was covered in a coffee
:04:52. > :05:00.covered silt. He is happy to move out. Minimum, six months, maximum,
:05:00. > :05:05.nine months. What has got to be done? The floorboards outs,
:05:05. > :05:11.plasterboard is up. All the doors ripped out. Kitchen, nearly
:05:11. > :05:20.everything new downstairs. Further down the street, Hadley faces
:05:20. > :05:29.devastation. All of the carpets have been ripped out. It is dirty, wet
:05:29. > :05:34.and smelly. We have the towels here that have soaked up the water.
:05:34. > :05:41.also runs a local gym and that was all so flooded. He has got his
:05:41. > :05:45.business running again. We haven't come to a total figure yet but we
:05:45. > :05:50.are looking at hitting the thousands. The problem we have at
:05:50. > :05:56.the minute is whether the landlord's insurance will cover
:05:56. > :06:00.everything. It is heartbreaking to see some of the damage but people
:06:00. > :06:07.here have told us that they fear wrangling over who is responsible
:06:07. > :06:11.for the flooding here will cause delays to insurance pay-outs.
:06:11. > :06:16.happy to talk to people with issues they are having. In terms of the
:06:16. > :06:20.work here, what we are doing is making sure we know what the best
:06:20. > :06:26.solutions are so we can not only repair the damage but minimise the
:06:26. > :06:36.chances of it happening again. repairs will take time and
:06:36. > :06:44.
:06:44. > :06:49.need. Later, fighting for the right to
:06:49. > :06:59.die. A 22-year-old man facing a terminal illness joins the campaign
:06:59. > :07:01.
:07:01. > :07:04.to change the law on assisted dying. West Yorkshire Fire Service has paid
:07:04. > :07:08.�11,000 compensation to one of its staff who found a tracking device
:07:08. > :07:11.had been secretly fitted to her private car. The device had been put
:07:11. > :07:15.there by a private investigator who had been hired to check out whether
:07:15. > :07:22.she should have on been on sick leave. Trade unions and civil
:07:22. > :07:26.liberties organisations say the Fire Service's actions were outrageous.
:07:26. > :07:35.Anthea got a shock when she checked under her car. What she found wasn't
:07:35. > :07:43.put there by the manufacturer. track fell down. This wallet was
:07:43. > :07:48.stuck by magnets. What was inside? The GPS units. This is a tracker
:07:48. > :07:54.device and by adding to it this Sim card, remotely come whoever put it
:07:54. > :07:58.there, can find out where this car has been and when. At the time,
:07:58. > :08:03.Anthea was on sick leave from West Yorkshire Fire Service rescue
:08:03. > :08:07.service near Bradford. When challenged, managers admitted the
:08:07. > :08:17.truck had been put there by private investigators hired to see if she
:08:17. > :08:24.really was ill. It sounds like James Bond. Totally disproportionate,
:08:24. > :08:30.unbelievable. I am a normal person and I can't believe, not that they
:08:30. > :08:40.would stoop so low, but the fact that it was authorised. It is not
:08:40. > :08:45.
:08:45. > :08:53.right. Anthea believes this is why her car was bugged. She runs a
:08:53. > :08:57.business on the sideline for party balloons. They shouldn't be allowed
:08:57. > :09:04.to look at your life like that. If they ask the question, they are
:09:04. > :09:10.likely to get the fans are you looking for. She has now left the
:09:10. > :09:14.fire service with �11,000 compensation but no apology. We know
:09:14. > :09:21.of at least one other occurrence that has happened. The individual is
:09:21. > :09:25.going to an employment tribunal over this same issue of being
:09:25. > :09:29.investigated by a private investigator. West Yorkshire Fire
:09:29. > :09:36.Service queue service refused to comment on the use of private
:09:36. > :09:46.investigators or tracker devices. They are clearly concerned this is
:09:46. > :09:49.
:09:49. > :09:52.an issue that is not going to go away.
:09:52. > :09:55.Well Big Brother Watch is an organisation which campaigns to
:09:55. > :10:02.defend civil liberties and protect privacy. Its director Nick Pickles
:10:02. > :10:08.joins us now from Westminster. People will be shocked to hear that
:10:08. > :10:12.a fire authority with using these powers to monitor one of their own
:10:12. > :10:17.staff. It is a disproportionate use of these powers and frankly a
:10:17. > :10:22.reminder that the law needs changing to stop this abuse happening.
:10:22. > :10:28.this day and age, employers monitor staff through computers and phones.
:10:28. > :10:32.Workers don't expect privacy any more, do they? People appreciate
:10:32. > :10:36.there is a barrier. If people are concerned about why some money off
:10:36. > :10:41.sick, they can ask them and talk to them and use occupational health. It
:10:41. > :10:46.is overstepping the mark for putting private detectives and tracking
:10:46. > :10:49.devices under people's cars. If the FBI have to go to court to get a
:10:49. > :10:55.warrant to do this in America, it is laughable that the fire authorities
:10:55. > :11:05.in Britain don't have to go through any cheque. Letters talk about the
:11:05. > :11:10.law. It is a grey area, to say the least. -- let us talk about law.
:11:10. > :11:16.They haven't made a change for fire authorities to get a warrant. We
:11:16. > :11:19.have to put greater checks in place to make sure any public authority
:11:19. > :11:26.wanting to use private investigators, covert surveillance
:11:26. > :11:30.or tracking, needs to get a court warrant before they can do it.
:11:30. > :11:35.company is monitoring rather than managing staff? We did some research
:11:35. > :11:38.and there is a trend through more public sector organisations using
:11:38. > :11:43.private detectives and we are seeing a trend of private companies using
:11:43. > :11:46.things like Facebook and Internet marketing on their staff. Employment
:11:46. > :11:51.law needs to catch up otherwise we'll have a lot of companies
:11:51. > :12:01.whenever you want to work there and the stat that do the work there feel
:12:01. > :12:05.under surveillance. -- staff. have Facebook and Twitter. This is
:12:05. > :12:09.why we have to have an honest conversation with your staff. I
:12:09. > :12:17.don't know why any private company would dream of using these tactics
:12:17. > :12:22.because it would look so bad on them and it would really make their staff
:12:22. > :12:26.and comfortable. They need to take this responsibly and say rather than
:12:26. > :12:34.intruding on their staff's privity, they should have an honest dialogue
:12:34. > :12:37.with staff first. Meanwhile, a draft plan on how to
:12:37. > :12:40.manage the risk of flooding in Sheffield has been published by the
:12:40. > :12:43.council. It was developed after the city suffered badly from flooding in
:12:43. > :12:47.2007. The new strategy, developed alongside the Environment Agency,
:12:47. > :12:51.sets out how incidents would be handled across the city. The council
:12:51. > :12:56.is now asking people for their views before the plan goes for approval in
:12:56. > :12:58.November. In other news, a 38-year-old woman
:12:58. > :13:03.is recovering in Sheffield after being mistakenly attacked by a
:13:04. > :13:07.police dog. It happened on Sunday afternoon on Fife Street in
:13:07. > :13:12.Wincobank. Police were called there after reports of teenagers fighting.
:13:12. > :13:14.During a chase the woman was bitten on the arm by the dog. Her injuries
:13:14. > :13:18.are described as serious. Meanwhile, police are investigating
:13:18. > :13:20.an incident in Rawmarsh where a 2-year-old girl was bitten by a
:13:20. > :13:23.Rottweiler. The toddler was taken to Rotherham General Hospital suffering
:13:23. > :13:27.from serious injuries to her head and leg. She's since been
:13:27. > :13:31.transferred to Sheffield Children's Hospital. The dog is believed to be
:13:31. > :13:34.a family pet. Plans for a multi-million pound
:13:34. > :13:38.leisure and retail complex in Catterick Garrison have got the
:13:38. > :13:41.go-ahead. 700 jobs could be created with the construction of new shops,
:13:41. > :13:46.a cinema, cafes, restaurants and a hotel on a former sports ground on
:13:46. > :13:52.Gough Road. But Richmondshire District Council says the plans are
:13:52. > :13:55.still subject to certain commitments from the developers.
:13:55. > :14:01.A semi professional rugby player from Huddersfield is the youngest
:14:01. > :14:04.person to join a campaign to change the law on assisted dying.
:14:04. > :14:08.22-year-old Josh Cook has inherited a faulty gene which means he'll
:14:08. > :14:17.develop Huntington's Disease in the future. He says he may want to be
:14:17. > :14:24.able to end his life if his suffering becomes unbearable.
:14:24. > :14:28.He is fit and active as you would expect from a 22-year-old. Josh is a
:14:28. > :14:33.semiprofessional rugby player but in around 30 years time, he will lose
:14:33. > :14:37.the ability to walk and talk. He has tested positive for the inherited
:14:37. > :14:45.gene that causes Huntington's Disease. I should have until I am 50
:14:45. > :14:53.years old for the symptoms to stop that range from muscle spasms to not
:14:53. > :15:00.being able to remember who anybody else is. I will not be able to walk,
:15:00. > :15:06.be incontinent and not be able to do the simple things like know my
:15:06. > :15:15.mum's name, my birthday and my name. Huntington's Disease is very rare
:15:15. > :15:21.and it affects the person's muscle control, their thoughts and other
:15:21. > :15:25.things. Josh's mum knows she will develop Huntington's Disease. Lisa
:15:25. > :15:31.wants assisted dying made illegal in Britain and now Josh has become the
:15:31. > :15:35.youngest person to join the campaign. I would rather be able to
:15:35. > :15:40.die peacefully than any other way. You have the courage and the self
:15:40. > :15:45.belief to go through that and go through your illness to its end. For
:15:45. > :15:50.me, I can't do that. I have always been active and out having a laugh
:15:50. > :15:57.and I want that be the way I will be remembered not stuck in a house and
:15:57. > :16:03.choking. Today, a Sheffield GP is warning against a change in the law
:16:03. > :16:07.saying they should be more focus on palliative care. Health care is
:16:07. > :16:12.about caring and loving people and finding a way through. There is the
:16:12. > :16:18.important sites that polity -- palliative care is developing all
:16:18. > :16:21.the time and it needs more funding. For now, Josh is focusing on staying
:16:21. > :16:25.healthy and living his life to the fore with a little help from his
:16:25. > :16:28.friends. Before seven o'clock: Another
:16:28. > :16:38.Sheffield sporting star? Meet Mukhtar Mohammed - the latest
:16:38. > :16:43.
:16:43. > :16:50.athlete from the steel city training Valley, where not one, but two
:16:50. > :16:53.pieces of art work are planned. One is a giant sculpture of a man
:16:53. > :16:57.sitting on a tower, fashioned out of stainless steel gazing over the
:16:57. > :17:00.motorway. The other was planned as a legacy to
:17:00. > :17:03.the demolished Tinsley cooling towers and was being promoted by the
:17:03. > :17:08.city council as a �4 million development. However, Look North
:17:08. > :17:17.understands that plan will now be scaled back. Tom Ingall is there for
:17:17. > :17:21.us live this evening. It is hard to believe that it is
:17:21. > :17:27.five years since the cooling towers were blown up on August bank holiday
:17:27. > :17:31.night. This area doesn't pause to breathe because there is another
:17:31. > :17:38.power station under construction on the far side of the motorway. 20
:17:38. > :17:45.years from now, right above my head would be where HS2 will be zooming
:17:45. > :17:50.off to Leeds. This area is planning to be home to public work. The first
:17:50. > :17:58.is supposed to be on that hill over there gazing out across the Don
:17:58. > :18:02.Valley, a gigantic man of steel. This is a scale model. This piece of
:18:02. > :18:07.sculpture on display is already four metres tall. The finished product
:18:07. > :18:14.will be more than 30 metres tall. You have that black tower that you
:18:14. > :18:18.will be able to climb out and look out. The people behind this project
:18:18. > :18:23.say it will connect with the heritage but it will have
:18:23. > :18:26.educational benefit and it will bring in around �9 million to the
:18:26. > :18:35.economy every year. I asked the project manager how he was getting
:18:35. > :18:38.on. The engineering and the modelling has been done. We have
:18:38. > :18:45.�800,000 of material support and resourcing and what we need to do is
:18:45. > :18:53.focus on the fundraising. How much money do you need to find? Overall
:18:53. > :18:59.�3 million. We have interest from companies and we are considering
:18:59. > :19:05.another application. It will be delivered through the private
:19:06. > :19:09.sector. It is not a burden on the ratepayer. That is the man of steel.
:19:09. > :19:15.The next step is to wage and the millions of pounds needed to build
:19:15. > :19:19.it. The other project, two years ago on the north we revealed Sheffield
:19:19. > :19:24.City Council plans to spend �4 million on a significant piece of
:19:24. > :19:28.regeneration. Their plans were different to the man of steel. They
:19:28. > :19:33.envisaged smaller sculptures strode around the top half of the lower Don
:19:33. > :19:39.Valley linked by a mini sculpture Trail. There is money in the pot for
:19:39. > :19:46.that project, half �1 million. It was a legacy when they blew up the
:19:46. > :19:53.towers. That money remains unspent and artists haven't been invited to
:19:53. > :19:57.submit ideas to this project. We asked them what is going on? They
:19:58. > :20:02.said they are still committed to it and in these difficult times they
:20:02. > :20:06.want to deliver a project that is affordable and deliverable. We
:20:06. > :20:12.understand this project will be scaled back and won't cost �4
:20:12. > :20:16.million. They will probably spend half �1 million. Sheffield City
:20:16. > :20:21.Council wants to talk to artists and communities about what they want to
:20:21. > :20:26.see here. If they happen, you will have something to look at as you go
:20:26. > :20:29.whizzing past on HS2. Some sport now, and three Yorkshire
:20:29. > :20:32.players have been selected for England ahead of the women's Ashes
:20:32. > :20:36.series which gets underway on Sunday. Barnsley's Katherine Brunt
:20:36. > :20:43.returns to the squad after a spell out with injury. Danielle Hazell and
:20:43. > :20:46.Lauren Winfield are also picked. There'll be one test, three one day
:20:46. > :20:49.games and three twenty over matches against Australia.
:20:49. > :20:52.The head coach of British swimming says Ponds Forge in Sheffield isn't
:20:52. > :20:55.a suitable venue for the national trials. Bill Furniss claims the
:20:55. > :21:00.Olympic sized pool is too fast, and swimmers get times they can't match
:21:00. > :21:05.elsewhere. Trials are regularly held at Ponds Forge but Furniss says that
:21:05. > :21:13.should change. They'll take place in Glasgow ahead of next year's
:21:13. > :21:17.Commonwealth Games but no decision has been taken beyond that.
:21:18. > :21:20.Why is it faster there? Bizarre. In football, Bradford City are back in
:21:20. > :21:23.Capital One Cup action following last season's heroics which saw them
:21:23. > :21:26.beat three Premier League teams before eventually losing to Swansea
:21:26. > :21:31.in the final. They take on Huddersfield in a tasty West
:21:31. > :21:36.Yorkshire derby in Round One tonight. Full match commentary on
:21:36. > :21:39.Radio Leeds. Meanwhile Radio Sheffield will have commentary on
:21:39. > :21:43.another derby - Rotherham against Sheffield Wednesday. And we'll bring
:21:43. > :21:45.you the results from all the ties involving our teams on our late
:21:45. > :21:48.bulletin at 10.25. Meanwhile Bradford City's mascot
:21:49. > :21:52.City Gent has lost his job after nearly two decades because he's not
:21:53. > :21:58.fat enough. Lenny Berry has been dressing as the character based on a
:21:58. > :22:05.former chairman since 1994. He lost seven stone after being diagnosed
:22:05. > :22:10.with diabetes. The club says his physical appearance has become an
:22:10. > :22:14.issue because it's so different from the original concept. City offered
:22:14. > :22:18.him a sumo-style suit to get round the problem, but Lenny has refused.
:22:18. > :22:21.Now Sheffield has a reputation for producing top class athletes such as
:22:21. > :22:25.Jessica Ennis-Hill and Seb Coe. Well the city's latest potential champion
:22:25. > :22:29.is middle distance runner Mukhtar Mohammed. He started life in Somalia
:22:29. > :22:39.but hopes to be the best in the world for Great Britain. Ian
:22:39. > :22:44.
:22:44. > :22:49.take the bronze. Mukhtar Mohammed announced himself as a world-class
:22:49. > :22:54.800 metre runner. Taking the bronze indoors in thrilling fashion here.
:22:54. > :22:59.He trains at Loughborough University. He is lottery funded and
:22:59. > :23:05.part of the Great Britain elite squad. His story starts in Somalia.
:23:05. > :23:13.That is where he was born and the family fled the civil war there when
:23:13. > :23:19.he was 12 years old. I just remembered gun shooting, a lot of
:23:19. > :23:26.screaming. I spoke to my mum about what happened when I was young. I
:23:26. > :23:28.used to hear her crying at night. One time I said I had had enough and
:23:28. > :23:31.One time I said I had had enough and wanted to leave. She brought us
:23:31. > :23:31.wanted to leave. She brought us came
:23:31. > :23:31.came to
:23:31. > :23:31.came to Sheffield
:23:31. > :23:38.came to Sheffield as
:23:38. > :23:48.came to Sheffield as refugees will stop he found it hard to settle into
:23:48. > :23:52.stop he found it hard to settle into his new life. I used to get bullied
:23:52. > :23:59.for being from Somalia. After a few weeks when they found out that I
:23:59. > :24:05.liked running, I played football and I was really good. Sporting wise, it
:24:05. > :24:15.changed their minds. His sporting skills earned him a third ship at
:24:15. > :24:16.
:24:16. > :24:25.Sheffield Wednesday. When he was 18, he turned his talents to athletics
:24:25. > :24:29.and hasn't looked back. He is getting better. I think he could be
:24:30. > :24:36.world class. He can definitely be world-class over 800 and 1500
:24:36. > :24:39.metres. It is crucial that it makes the next Olympic games. That is his
:24:40. > :24:45.target or so and after everything he has been through, he feels he is
:24:45. > :24:50.ready for anything that may stand in his way on the track.
:24:50. > :25:00.Want to watch for the future. Now a look at the weather. You were
:25:00. > :25:12.
:25:12. > :25:21.moaning last night that it was cold. temperatures -- at the photographs
:25:21. > :25:28.from last night. A bit cloudy there today. It was brighter when this
:25:28. > :25:38.picture was taken on the Leeds/Liverpool Canal. The cloud has
:25:38. > :25:43.
:25:43. > :25:50.quieter day today and another one on the forecast for tomorrow.
:25:50. > :25:55.Tomorrow, there could be more sunshine. Most places will stay dry.
:25:55. > :26:01.You can see that precious charge bringing us settled conditions over
:26:01. > :26:04.the next couple of days. It could start of pleasant but there is some
:26:04. > :26:09.cloud and patchy rain through the middle part of Friday.
:26:09. > :26:13.Disappointingly cloudy and you can see over the next couple of hours
:26:13. > :26:22.will be the brightest part of the day. There will be sunny spells to
:26:22. > :26:32.end the day. Quite a lot of moisture overnight. We could have some patchy
:26:32. > :26:34.
:26:34. > :26:44.mist and fog here on the coast. Another cool night on the cards.
:26:44. > :26:50.
:26:50. > :26:53.Temperatures, sorry, these are the day. Cloud will bubble up through
:26:53. > :26:58.the course of the day and there could be the odd isolated shower,
:26:58. > :27:06.particularly across the South. Most places will stay dry with variable
:27:06. > :27:16.amounts of cloud. Not a bad day. Cooler along the coast. We have a
:27:16. > :27:16.
:27:16. > :27:21.north-westerly breeze. Inland and we get up to 21 Celsius. On Thursday,