:00:00. > :00:05.Good evening and welcome to Monday's Look North.
:00:05. > :00:07.On the programme tonight: A landmark victory.
:00:07. > :00:11.The disabled rights campaigner from Yorkshire who took a bus company to
:00:11. > :00:16.court and won, in a case which could have implications nationwide. We'll
:00:16. > :00:19.meet him in a moment. Also tonight: Honouring fallen
:00:19. > :00:23.heroes — Yorkshire artists pay their own unique tribute to the thousands
:00:23. > :00:27.of Allied troops who died storming the beaches of Normandy.
:00:27. > :00:30.And they've won most triathlons around the world, so the Brownlee
:00:30. > :00:39.brothers have decided to launch their own in Yorkshire. They're here
:00:39. > :00:43.to tell us how it went. After a sunny start, it clouded over for the
:00:43. > :00:44.course of the day, that gives us a signal of what may lie ahead this
:00:44. > :00:57.week. Join me for that forecast. Our top story tonight. A disabled
:00:57. > :01:00.man from West Yorkshire who said he was being discriminated against by
:01:00. > :01:03.his local bus company has won a landmark court case which could have
:01:03. > :01:06.implications for transport providers across the UK. Doug Paulley's been
:01:07. > :01:12.awarded £5,000 after he challenged the First Bus Group's policy on
:01:12. > :01:21.wheelchair users. Charlotte Leeming has this exclusive report.
:01:21. > :01:28.Catching the bus is something most of us take for granted, but Doug
:01:28. > :01:31.Paulley, it is something a Lottery. Getting on the bus itself is not the
:01:31. > :01:35.problem, it is the fact that all too often, the wheelchair space is not
:01:35. > :01:40.free, and an incident last February to be final straw. Coup somebody
:01:40. > :01:47.with this chair in the wheelchair space refused to move when asked by
:01:48. > :01:52.the driver. Because their baby was asleep in the pushchair and they did
:01:52. > :01:56.not want to wake up the baby. So I was unable to get on the bus and was
:01:56. > :02:03.told to get off the bus and wait for the next one. He took the company
:02:03. > :02:05.concerned to court, and the judge said their "first come, first
:02:05. > :02:09.served" policy for the disabled space was unlawful dissemination and
:02:09. > :02:19.in breach of the equality act of 2010. I approached them directly,
:02:19. > :02:25.this seemed the only way to force them to take the issue seriously,
:02:25. > :02:28.and to make adjustments so that wheelchair users can reliably take
:02:28. > :02:33.the bus. Disabled spaces on buses can often be taken up I chilled
:02:33. > :02:36.and's pushchairs and current policy means that parents do not have to
:02:36. > :02:41.make way for wheelchair users, but that will now have to change. In a
:02:41. > :02:51.statement, First Bus told us, we recognise how important it is...
:02:51. > :02:57.This case has wide reaching implications, not just for the First
:02:57. > :03:04.Bus Group, but and bus companies across the UK,
:03:04. > :03:10.operating a similar "first come, first served" practice. This is a
:03:10. > :03:13.breakthrough and it is the number one issue for every wheelchair use
:03:13. > :03:19.on public transport, there is no point in having an accessible us is
:03:19. > :03:22.the service —— if the service itself is inaccessible. There are over a
:03:22. > :03:32.million wheelchair users in the UK. First Bus Group is have six months
:03:32. > :03:35.to enforce the new ruling. The father of the four—year—old
:03:35. > :03:38.Bradford boy Hamzah Khan, who starved to death in his mother's
:03:38. > :03:42.home, has said he was barred from the house after raising concerns
:03:42. > :03:45.about the boy's welfare. Aftab Khan made an angry outburst in court
:03:45. > :03:50.today as he was giving evidence against Amanda Hutton. She denies
:03:50. > :03:54.the manslaughter of Hamzah by gross negligence. Our crime correspondent,
:03:54. > :04:03.John Cundy, reports from Bradford Crown Court.
:04:03. > :04:08.For mechanic Aftab Khan, a day in the Widnes box accusing his former
:04:08. > :04:11.partner, Amanda Hutton, of neglecting their son, Hamzah in the
:04:11. > :04:16.months leading up to his death. A court has heard Hamzah Khan would be
:04:16. > :04:19.fed half a banana in the morning, half a pasty in the evening, after
:04:19. > :04:25.that he got anything that was lying around. When his mummified body was
:04:25. > :04:30.found lying in his cot in 2011, he had been dead for nearly two years.
:04:30. > :04:38.Amanda Hutton has been accused by another
:04:38. > :04:41.room with the lights off if he had been naughty. His father told the
:04:41. > :04:46.jury of his relationship with Amanda Hutton. They met as teenagers. Their
:04:46. > :04:51.relationship had once been very good, but it had got worse as Miss
:04:51. > :04:56.Hutton drank large amounts of vodka and cider. He claimed the result was
:04:56. > :05:02.a house of squalor, it stunk and was dirty. Aftab Khan became angry while
:05:02. > :05:08.being cross questioned by the defence barrister, he said, I have
:05:08. > :05:13.come to answer questions about my dead child, it is not about me. The
:05:13. > :05:18.system failed my son. Everyone knows what happened, but you still try to
:05:18. > :05:23.point the finger at me and I am not accepting it. Aftab Khan asked
:05:23. > :05:27.whether defence why he had done nothing to report the neglect, he
:05:27. > :05:33.replied no one would have believed him. The child that the trial is
:05:33. > :05:42.expected to last three weeks. The teenager from Sheffield from ——
:05:42. > :05:45.has been arrested in connection with the murder of Joe Walker, who died
:05:45. > :05:50.from a single stab wounds in the early hours of Saturday morning. The
:05:50. > :05:52.70—year—old man is being questioned by police.
:05:52. > :05:55.The Shadow Chancellor and Morley MP Ed Balls has suggested Labour may
:05:55. > :05:59.drop its support for the High Speed 2 rail link. Until now, the party
:05:59. > :06:02.had backed the multi—billion pound project. But speaking at Labour's
:06:02. > :06:10.conference, Mr Balls said it had been mismanaged and costs were
:06:10. > :06:12.spiralling. Let us be clear, in tough times,
:06:12. > :06:17.where there is less money around and a big deficit to get down, there
:06:17. > :06:20.will be no blank cheque for me as a Labour Chancellor for this project
:06:20. > :06:23.or any other. A North Yorkshire teenager is
:06:23. > :06:26.believed to have taken his own life over worries about his schoolwork.
:06:26. > :06:29.An inquest heard that 17—year—old Jake Pirie jumped in front of a
:06:29. > :06:34.train at Northallerton station last February. It was on the day he was
:06:34. > :06:38.due to return to boarding school. The coroner recorded a verdict of
:06:38. > :06:41.suicide. Plans for a 46—mile pipeline through
:06:41. > :06:44.the Yorkshire countryside have gone out to a public consultation. The
:06:44. > :06:47.proposed pipe would take carbon dioxide emissions from both Drax
:06:47. > :06:52.power station near Selby, and Hatfield near Doncaster, to the East
:06:52. > :06:58.Coast. The gas will then be stored in porous rock under the North Sea.
:06:58. > :07:01.A farmer from North Yorkshire has been told he needs planning
:07:01. > :07:05.permission for a sign placed in his field that directs traffic from the
:07:05. > :07:09.A1M motorway to the town of Masham. Masham has been without a sign from
:07:09. > :07:12.the motorway since 2009 when major roadworks began, and it was hoped
:07:12. > :07:15.that the giant homemade version would help boost trade in the town.
:07:15. > :07:24.But as Spencer Stokes reports, it's fallen foul of planning rules.
:07:24. > :07:29.The sign that must not be seen, originally placed next to be able ——
:07:29. > :07:32.the A1M, this work of art has been ruled to be illegal because it does
:07:32. > :07:36.not have planning permission. It was put next to the motorway to boost
:07:36. > :07:41.tourism but has had to be towed out of sight. They said people were
:07:41. > :07:46.distracted by the sign. It is a nice sign. I cannot see any reason why it
:07:46. > :07:51.should be removed, it is bureaucracy gone mad. The original road sign
:07:51. > :07:55.went when the A1M was upgraded. The cost of anyone has been put at
:07:55. > :07:58.£30,000 and Masham was told it would have two peoples of the Council is
:07:58. > :08:02.calling for the Government to fund a brown tourist signed by the does not
:08:03. > :08:06.like the home—made version, saying it is visually intrusive and out of
:08:06. > :08:13.keeping with its rural surroundings. 11 miles away in Masham, businesses
:08:13. > :08:16.say trade has fallen by 30% and a petition to keep the new sign has
:08:16. > :08:22.attracted or than 3000 signatures. Some of those have signed were
:08:22. > :08:26.wedding guests who could not find Masham. You like the number of
:08:27. > :08:31.people who were inconvenienced, having missed the sign, some of them
:08:31. > :08:34.missed the ceremonies, what does that mean for the rest of the
:08:34. > :08:38.Akcakale there must be many people dissing the junction. With the Tour
:08:39. > :08:43.de France heading here next summer, Masham says it needs a sign, either
:08:43. > :08:50.this one or something a bit more operational and a lot more
:08:50. > :08:56.expensive. I had a hard time getting to Masham
:08:56. > :09:05.recently. I was sent several miles past the town so I can see why that
:09:05. > :09:08.sign might be crucial. But first, it was one of the
:09:08. > :09:11.decisive moments of the Second World War. 150,000 Allied troops storming
:09:11. > :09:13.the beaches of Normandy. But D—Day came at a terrible cost. Thousands
:09:13. > :09:20.fell in on one of the French beaches where
:09:20. > :09:22.they died. Joe Inwood was there to see a unique project by artists from
:09:22. > :09:43.Yorkshire, honouring the fallen. The Normandy beaches, everywhere,
:09:43. > :09:50.reminders of the 9000 who died on DJ. This weekend, —— on D—Day, their
:09:50. > :09:54.sacrifice was a member by volunteers, led by two artists from
:09:54. > :09:59.Bradford. All around us, there are the relics of the Second World War,
:09:59. > :10:03.but the one thing that is missing is the people that actually died. This
:10:03. > :10:11.is the sacrifice and the loss that you have when you have these
:10:11. > :10:16.conflicts. To represent those sacrifices, 9000 silhouettes, each
:10:16. > :10:19.one raked by volunteers, including Monica from Bradford. She has
:10:19. > :10:24.experienced the cost of war first—hand when her son was killed
:10:24. > :10:30.in Afghanistan. It has been very emotional. Just watching everyone
:10:30. > :10:36.take part in it, I took part myself and it really hit home. Also on the
:10:36. > :10:46.beach this weekend, two men who experienced DJ itself. —— D—Day.
:10:46. > :10:53.George was a British servicemen who helped take the beaches, as
:10:53. > :10:57.watched from the town. Coup you can talk about 100 people dead, 500,
:10:57. > :11:00.1000, 2000, 50,000, but what does it mean? Nothing. Because you cannot
:11:00. > :11:18.visualise it. I do not think anyone who sees it
:11:18. > :11:34.will be under any illusion of what happened on that day.
:11:34. > :11:40.People came not just from France and Britain but all across Europe, right
:11:40. > :11:44.around the world. To take part in something global, subbing
:11:44. > :11:46.representing peace, and to create something spectacular. —— something
:11:46. > :12:18.representing peace. You have made a very big statement.
:12:18. > :12:24.It is there, right before you. That is about 9000 people. I was kind of
:12:24. > :12:30.holding it together, and a plain flew past, which we did not know
:12:30. > :12:40.about, and it kind of just... Broke me.
:12:40. > :12:50.It is quite emotional, there are six of mine on the beach and I have
:12:51. > :13:10.waited for the water to come and wash them away. Lets hope to god it
:13:10. > :13:17.never happens again. It must not happen again. And that was the
:13:17. > :13:23.message of this work, 9000 figures representing 9000 lives. Fleeting,
:13:23. > :13:32.precious and as quickly as they had appeared, lost to the waves.
:13:32. > :13:36.We saw him briefly in that report, now let's talk to Andy Moss, one of
:13:36. > :13:40.the sand artists behind that D—Day work. Getting something like that
:13:40. > :13:46.right is very difficult. How codgers were you you had to do it? Obviously
:13:46. > :13:49.we did a lot of preparation, but one thing we could not anticipate was
:13:49. > :13:54.how many people would turn up. We took a coachload of people from
:13:54. > :14:01.Bradford, and another we could rely on another 20 to 30 people. But look
:14:01. > :14:05.how many people did. This is what was so moving about it, because
:14:05. > :14:10.people came from all other the world, people from Germany, America,
:14:10. > :14:14.Australia. People from Israel. For everyone to work together on a piece
:14:14. > :14:20.that looks like it is about a tribute about people that died in
:14:20. > :14:26.war, but the great thing about this piece is that it is about peace, it
:14:26. > :14:29.says, it is a strong statement about peace because it shows what happens
:14:29. > :14:39.in the absence of these. That is why we did it on world peace Day. It is
:14:39. > :14:44.an amazing achievement and I imagine that the timing must have been
:14:44. > :14:49.crucial, to get 9000 stencils down on the sand before the tide came in,
:14:49. > :14:53.how difficult was that? The irony is, it is one of the easiest jobs,
:14:53. > :15:02.practically speaking, that I have worked on. It feels great but it
:15:02. > :15:06.does not —— the film is great, but it does not speak enough about the
:15:06. > :15:11.emotion, unless you were there, it is hard to explain how special it
:15:11. > :15:15.was for people. The idea of a group of people who specifically wanted to
:15:15. > :15:20.say something about peace and produce a strong message, coming
:15:20. > :15:24.together and achieving that, it is incredible. Briefly, anything else
:15:24. > :15:33.in the pipeline for you? We have drawn attention to September the
:15:33. > :15:39.21st, world peace Day, it has been going since 1999, so next year we
:15:39. > :15:53.ought to do something else. Lets have some sport news now.
:15:53. > :15:56.Yorkshire's Gary Ballance has been called up to England's test squad
:15:56. > :15:59.for this winter's Ashes series in Australia. Ballance has played just
:15:59. > :16:02.a single one—day international so far for England, but joins his
:16:02. > :16:06.team—mates, Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root in the squad. Tim Bresnan will
:16:06. > :16:08.travel with them as he continues his recovery from a back injury. The
:16:09. > :16:12.Chairman of selectors said today that Ballance's inclusion shouldn't
:16:12. > :16:14.come as a surprise. But what was the reaction of the man himself?
:16:14. > :16:17.Mainly shock, just a massive surprise. I was not really expecting
:16:17. > :16:20.it. But it was a great feeling. Now let's turn to football, and
:16:20. > :16:23.three managers in South Yorkshire who are under the cosh. Our two
:16:23. > :16:27.Sheffield clubs and Barnsley have all made poor starts to the season
:16:27. > :16:34.and the men in charge are having to answer difficult questions about
:16:34. > :16:44.their future. Ian Bucknell reports. On loan Jesse Lingard got them
:16:44. > :16:47.started and eat do not stop. It ended in awe—1 defeat to Sheffield
:16:47. > :16:52.Wednesday. Dave Jones says it is not right to question his position. It
:16:52. > :16:56.is hard to swallow, but you have to take it. You have to big and you
:16:56. > :17:02.have to be strong. We owe our supporters something from today's
:17:02. > :17:07.performance. Across the city, Sheffield United lost 1—0 at home to
:17:07. > :17:12.Preston. That is their fifth defeat in a row, manager David Weir says he
:17:12. > :17:19.is still the right man to lead the club. I have been doing a lot of
:17:19. > :17:22.things right. But we keep fighting, we keep believing in what we are
:17:22. > :17:29.doing. We keep looking for the answers. So, that continues to be
:17:29. > :17:34.the message. Barnsley's habit of getting hammered continued with a
:17:34. > :17:39.5—1 defeat to Watford. Their boss wants to make changes. It is a group
:17:39. > :17:44.of players I have trusted for several months, and they have let us
:17:44. > :17:48.down, they have let us down as a club and as a group. I am not in
:17:48. > :17:52.denial, I will not accept complacency, which I said from day
:17:52. > :17:56.one. Today was a complacent performance. But we did have two
:17:56. > :18:03.winners at the weekend, Bradford beating Gillingham and Chesterfield
:18:03. > :18:09.are still unbeaten and clear at the top of League Two after this goal
:18:09. > :18:14.was enough to beat Oxford. You can watch the highlights of all our
:18:14. > :18:17.teams on the Football League Show. We know the line—up for the Super
:18:17. > :18:20.League semi—finals after the controversial club call actually
:18:20. > :18:23.threw up a story. Warrington got to choose their opponents after being
:18:23. > :18:26.the highest placed team straight through to the semi—finals. Despite
:18:26. > :18:30.labelling it a gimmick, they became the first team not to just go with
:18:30. > :18:33.the lowest placed league finisher as their opponent. They picked table
:18:33. > :18:38.toppers Huddersfield, leaving Leeds to go to Wigan.
:18:38. > :18:41.And after a second consecutive golden point victory, John Kear's
:18:41. > :18:43.Batley Bulldogs are through to the Championship Final, where they'll
:18:43. > :18:53.face his old team, the Sheffield Eagles. That is it from me.
:18:53. > :18:57.Olympic triathletes Alistair and Jonny Brownlee hosted a triathlon of
:18:57. > :19:00.their own in North Yorkshire at the weekend. About 1,000 competitors
:19:00. > :19:03.took part in the running, swimming and cycling event at Fountains
:19:03. > :19:07.Abbey. The Brownlee brothers are here with us, and we'll hear from
:19:07. > :19:28.them in a moment, after this report from Shirley Henry.
:19:28. > :19:36.A triathlon born and bred in Yorkshire, this is the first ever
:19:36. > :19:40.Brownlee triathlon. It was about creating an event that would be a
:19:40. > :19:45.fantastic legacy. It will hopefully encourage people to be outside and
:19:45. > :19:50.enjoy being in these beautiful surroundings and get them into
:19:50. > :19:54.triathlon. The event at Adams Abbey began —— Fountains Abbey, began with
:19:54. > :19:59.a 400 metres swim. Followed by a ten: Otter bike ride through the
:19:59. > :20:04.medieval deer park before culminating in a 2.5 kilometre run.
:20:04. > :20:11.Competitors took part in heats, depending on their age. Because of
:20:11. > :20:20.injury, Alistair was not able to compete in all the events, but the
:20:20. > :20:26.crowds were not left disappointed. I couldn't compete, but I tested the
:20:26. > :20:31.course. You have to put a bit of a show on for the crowd. What the
:20:31. > :20:34.event that might the event attracted people from all walks of life, one
:20:34. > :20:41.couple even chose to get married after the race. Play together, stay
:20:41. > :20:42.together. The Brownlees organised this on the wedding day. What else
:20:42. > :21:03.could we do on our morning? The brothers now plan to launch more
:21:03. > :21:08.events right across the country. Well, Alistair and Jonathan are here
:21:08. > :21:12.with us now. Great success, people looked absolutely exhausted and
:21:12. > :21:16.exhilarated, what was it like two it was a fantastic day, it was all
:21:16. > :21:20.about encouraging people who had not done triathlon before and people who
:21:20. > :21:23.had just get out more and be more active and enjoy triathlon. I think
:21:23. > :21:32.most people enjoyed the experience is not the race. Why back a certain
:21:32. > :21:36.criticism that was made between you two brothers earlier, have you got
:21:36. > :21:44.over that? We have. Just about. Thanks for bringing that up! No we
:21:44. > :21:51.have got over it, we are just about talking now. The final race
:21:51. > :21:56.London, you were so close to winning, when he called you an
:21:56. > :22:03.idiot. He said he was going to give you some real stick when you got
:22:03. > :22:06.home. That London race was great, great to go back on the Olympic
:22:06. > :22:09.course again, competing in front of all those people again, but it is a
:22:09. > :22:19.shame I couldn't become World Champion. What you two have achieved
:22:19. > :22:24.is remarkable. The BBC coverage of your triathlon adventures, you have
:22:24. > :22:30.transformed the sport. You must feel rather pleased about that. I think
:22:30. > :22:35.we do. We are very proud, it is a sport we have always been passionate
:22:35. > :22:39.about. As long as we are proud of getting more coverage, I think it is
:22:39. > :22:43.fantastic, there are people who are enjoying doing triathlon and
:22:43. > :22:49.enjoying coming to watch it. It was a great day at Fountains Abbey. Over
:22:49. > :22:55.5000 people came. A fantastic legacy. What was it like to finish
:22:55. > :22:59.that on home turf in a place you know very well? Fountains Abbey is a
:22:59. > :23:04.beautiful place and to finish the season at home was perfect. It is a
:23:04. > :23:09.place we have been too many times before as kids, we had been walking
:23:09. > :23:12.around, it is a beautiful place. Finishing in Yorkshire is the best
:23:12. > :23:20.way to finish. We should talk about the great support your family give
:23:20. > :23:27.you. Absolutely. I think you have to go back for the best part of 20
:23:27. > :23:28.years when they first took us to swimming training and then running
:23:28. > :23:32.training, then a race somewhere else, Newcastle one weekend and
:23:32. > :23:38.Dover the next. Incredible support from our parents and grandparents.
:23:38. > :23:46.Even now, her parents travel quite a bit to supporters. —— to support us.
:23:46. > :23:50.They coached us at school. It has been countless numbers of people as
:23:50. > :23:54.well. We have talked a lot about triathlon taken off Tom how many
:23:54. > :24:00.people were first timers at the race? Cull about a third of all
:24:00. > :24:06.those people were first timers. Over 300, which is brilliant. Most people
:24:06. > :24:13.were locals. Cull that's really special. That is really special. We
:24:13. > :24:16.look forward to encouraging more people who have never done triathlon
:24:16. > :24:21.before to have a go. Lovely to talk to you. Let's take a look at the
:24:21. > :24:38.weather forecast. Let me show you three pictures that
:24:38. > :24:45.came in. Yesterday, 24 degrees along the Yorkshire coastline. Pretty good
:24:45. > :24:50.going for the end of September. The next one, this is Drax at sunrise,
:24:50. > :25:04.and the M62. distance. This one is fantastic,
:25:04. > :25:13.Halifax. The wane house tower just sticking up.
:25:13. > :25:20.Tomorrow looks rather cloudy, mostly dry, unfortunately, although high
:25:20. > :25:24.pressure will dominate much of the weather this week, a lot of cloud
:25:24. > :25:28.will be trapped underneath it, so sunshine is at a premium. You can
:25:28. > :25:33.see that bank of cloud nudging up from the south—west. That said,
:25:33. > :25:37.Easter and areas have seen a lot of sunshine. It has been another lovely
:25:37. > :25:42.day along the coast. That is going to change. So, I doubt this low
:25:42. > :25:47.cloud will get you, or the clear skies will fill in. Either way you
:25:47. > :25:57.look at it, it will be a great end to the day. —— grey. Temperatures
:25:57. > :26:07.down to 13 Celsius. The sun will rise in the morning at 6:55am,
:26:07. > :26:12.setting at 7:01pm. It is a grey start, Misty in places, even some
:26:12. > :26:16.dampness, especially towards the coast. Essentially, a dry, quiet,
:26:16. > :26:21.autumnal type of day. This cloud may break up in Western and Southern
:26:21. > :26:25.areas later. A bit of sunshine coming through. But most places will
:26:25. > :26:32.keep a lot of cloud. But we can't complain for the end of September.
:26:32. > :26:36.tomorrow in Scarborough. The best of that amateurs from West Yorkshire
:26:36. > :26:46.southwards, down towards the big district. Chesterfield could get 20
:26:46. > :26:50.tomorrow. A week weather front might introduce to the role patchy rain on
:26:50. > :26:51.Thursday. But a lot of dry weather this week, light winds, cloudy with
:26:51. > :27:02.some brief sunny intervals. Some breaking news. West Yorkshire
:27:02. > :27:04.Police say there are numerous road closures around Huddersfield
:27:05. > :27:07.tonight. It follows reports of an armed siege this evening. At the
:27:07. > :27:12.moment, no other details are available, but the incident is
:27:12. > :27:18.ongoing. We will have the latest in our late bulletin at 10:25pm. That's
:27:18. > :27:22.all for now, thanks to Alistair and Jonathan Johnny us. They are looking
:27:22. > :27:23.at the camera correctly now! Enjoy the rest of your evening, good
:27:23. > :27:26.night.