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Monday. That is all from the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Thursday's Look North. On the programme tonight. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Business is booming in Grimethorpe. The Prime Minister pays a visit to | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
the former mining village as online retail giant ASOS announces further | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
investment there. We'll hear from David Cameron but | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
also from the local MP who says long`term unemployment is rising. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
Also tonight. Jail for the man who punched a West | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Yorkshire Police horse at a football match. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
And the gamble pays off for the Dewsbury school that let Educating | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
Yorkshire's cameras in, as demand for places increases. I think it is | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
some sort of validation of the impact of the programme, that people | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
are certain fiscal could be good for them. These were the blue skies | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
today. We do have some heavy rain forecast tomorrow morning. I will be | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
back later in the programme with your full forecast. | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
Good evening and thank you for joining us. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Tonight, a ?30 million investment creating hundreds of new jobs has | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
been promised for the former pit village of Grimethorpe. This would | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
make ASOS the biggest online fashion retailer in the world. Prime | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Minister David Cameron visited the South Yorkshire company today. Len | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Tingle was there, too, to look at how far the mining community had | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
come since the days of Brassed Off. 200,000 items of fashion clothing | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
packed and despatched every day. One point two million every week. 60% of | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
it going to customers abroad. How long have you been here? Two and a | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
half years. It was another statistic that brought the Prime Minister to | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
this massive operation in Yorkshire. Jobs. What we see here is | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
a company and drawing 3200 people that a few years ago employed to | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
know one at all. It is a hopeful story. If we look across Yorkshire | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
and Humberside, we have 110,000 more people into void in the private | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
sector than three years ago. It's difficult to believe that 20 years | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
ago we would have been looking at the Grimethorpe colliery. This | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
company announced increased profits of almost a quarter of this week so | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
it's going to invest even more and expand even more. The company is | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
rapidly on the way to becoming the biggest online fashion distributor | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
in the world. The shed was here. We looked at the local workforce and we | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
saw there was capacity. ASOS is here, it's pertinent home is here. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
This is the backbone of our logistics, of our Empire, | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
effectively. And it will be four years to come. For generations, the | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
men earned their pay from coal but even when the famous colliery brass | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
band led the Pitman back to work in 1985 after that famous strike, that | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
way of life was ending. The pit was bulldozed after closure in 1993. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
It's been a struggle to fill that you're an economic gap ever since. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Even with several companies setting up, unemployment is still well above | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
the Yorkshire average. There's a particular worry over the job | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
prospects for the young. We've got to make sure everyone can be | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
included in this economic recovery, which is why all of our programmes | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
are so important, as is welfare reform to give people the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
opportunity to earn more by going out to work. Few could have | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
predicted that workers could earn their living in this way. The | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
transformation from coal to clothes is giving a long`awaited boost to an | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
area that really needs it. So, is it as rosy as the Prime Minister says? | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
Well, one of Barnsley's MPs has been keen to point out that ASOS is | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
located on a business park built during the Labour government in | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
2007. David Cameron called it a hopeful story. He's right, isn't | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
he? Vindication that government policies are working? It's fantastic | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
we have ASOS in Barnsley, in my constituency. It is a business that | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
has gone from strength to strength since 2000. This has not happened | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
overnight. This business park that ASOS are based in was built by the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
previous Labour government in 2007, the road network around there which | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
is critical in attracting ASOS to the area was something that hasn't | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
happened overnight. It is fantastic that we have so many jobs from ASOS | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
in Barnsley. Barnsley has got to have an extra 32,000 jobs across the | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
borough just to get to the national average for unemployment. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Unemployment in my constituency has gone up 88% in just the last two | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
years. So it is great we've got ASOS, we need more companies like | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
them, but we've still got a great big jobs crisis. So, how do you | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
create those jobs? We need to grow the private sector. We are | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
attracting companies like ASOS into the area. The Prime Minister talked | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
about a recovery but it doesn't feel like it for most people. The | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
economy, after flat`lining, growth is going back to where it was at the | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
2010 general election, but on average families in Yorkshire are | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
?1700 a year worse off every year. Too many people are still in | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
part`time jobs, they can't get enough hours. And, of course, wages | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
aren't going up as fast as prices in 39 of the 14 months that David | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Cameron has been Prime Minister. We still do have a jobs crisis | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
throughout Yorkshire. We've got a cost of living prices as well, and | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
another one of the big energy giants is whacking up their prices as well. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
David Cameron has done nothing about that. | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
Next tonight, a football fan who punched a police horse after his | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
team lost to their arch rivals has been jailed for 12 months. Thank you | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
very much. The court heard Barry Rogerson was drunk when he attacked | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
the animal from West Yorkshire's mounted division. Trouble flared | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
when Newcastle lost to Sunderland at home in April. Ironically, the same | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
police horse, Bud, will be back on duty this weekend, when the two | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
teams play again. Anna Crossley reports. Caught on camera, the | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
moment this football fan Barry Rogerson punched police force in the | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
face. Today, 45`year`old Barry Rogerson was sentenced to 12 months | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
in prison for his part in the ugly scenes after the game between | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Newcastle and Sunderland. The footage of Rogerson squaring up to | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
the animal and punching it on the head was seen on the Internet and | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
television by millions and caused outrage. He claimed he was acting in | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
self defence. The course was coming at me. I panicked. It was an instant | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
reaction. I didn't intend to hurt the horse. I don't think I did hurt | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
the horse. It wasn't intent, it just happened. Bud, who has been with the | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
mounted section with the police for eight years, what an injured in the | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
attack, seemingly taking it all in his stride. He was fine, he was used | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
to it. It is traumatic for us as individuals, but in terms of Bud, he | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
was fine with it, he's used to that. He gets the next day off. A couple | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
of days later, he's back to his normal routine, doing what he does | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
on a daily basis. After that, we got well wishes from all over the world, | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
from New Zealand, Australia, America, lots of letters of | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
appreciation, asking how Bud was getting on. It was incredible. | :07:55. | :08:03. | |
Today, West Yorkshire Police's mounted division, including Bud, | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
were preparing to go back on duty in the north`east this weekend when | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Sunderland host Newcastle at the Stadium of Light. | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
Coming up on Look North. It was a huge fire that destroyed | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
most of its factory. But the business is already getting back on | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
its feet. We go back to Airedale Air Conditioning to find out what | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
happened after the fire was out. In other news, around Yorkshire a | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
review of all hospitals in the country has put Leeds Teaching | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
Hospitals into the highest risk category regarding the quality of | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
its services. The Care Quality Commission has identified concerns | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
including the number of cases of the bug C. Difficile. It's also raised | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
issues relating to whistle`blowing. The Trust say they're aware of the | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
risks identified in the report and that action has been taken. Leeds | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
General Infirmary and St James' Hospital will now be in the next | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
wave of Trusts to undergo a full inspection. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
A 47`year`old man from Sheffield has been jailed after shooting a friend | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
in the head with an air rifle while drunk and high on cannabis. Russell | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Fairchild had already admitted the manslaughter of 24`year`old Chris | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Humphreys. Today he was sentenced to three years in prison. The court | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
heard he'd been waving the gun around believing it to be unloaded. | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
The pellet penetrated his friend's brain. | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Jimmy Savile's former flatmate and chauffeur has been arrested over | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
fresh allegations of historic sex abuse against children. 71`year`old | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
Ray Teret was re`arrested when he answered bail. Police say the | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
accusations were not linked to the national inquiry into abuse by | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
disgraced broadcaster Savile. The level of homelessness in one of | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Yorkshire's most prosperous towns has been described as "staggering" | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
by a local charity. Harrogate Homeless Project says more than 150 | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
people have been referred to a scheme which aims to make sure those | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
sleeping rough never have to do it again. It's now being rolled out | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
across the whole of North Yorkshire. Essential work to strengthen the | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Woodhouse Tunnel in Leeds has been given the go`ahead. If not carried | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
out, the council says the Inner Ring Road would close within five years | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
for safety reasons. The Department for Transport has approved ?16 | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
million worth of funding for the project. Overnight work will begin | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
next month and is expected to last two years. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
The Home Secretary says a new tougher watchdog to investigate the | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
police will start looking into complaints next year. It follows | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
allegations of a cover`up over the police's handling of the | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Hillsborough disaster. 96 football fans were crushed to death at the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
stadium in Sheffield in 1989. Theresa May says the Independent | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
Police Complaints Commission needed to be beefed up. The events of last | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
year proved over men `` overwhelmingly that we need to beef | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
up the IPCC. Where it has needed new powers, for instance in its | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
investigation in Hillsborough, we have legislated to provide them. And | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
the evidence of the past week shows we need to go further, and we will | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
do so. Staff at a factory in Leeds involved | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
in a massive fire say they're optimistic about the future after | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
production re`started there. A large part of the Airedale Air | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
Conditioning plant in Rawdon was affected and it was feared staff | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
could lose their jobs. Now, though, less than two months after the fire, | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
production is slowly increasing in make`shift facilities. Ian White's | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
been back to see how everyone's coping. | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
It was one of the biggest incidents West Yorkshire Fire crews have had | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
to deal with in recent years. What had been a normal working day ended | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
in devastation at the Airedale Air Conditioning when a massive fire | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
broke out. Those pictures were filmed on six September and you can | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
see the impact the fire had. It's too dangerous to go inside but, | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
incredibly, even though two months has barely passed, production has | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
restarted. The managing director showed me the burnt out factory and | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
told me how difficult things had been. You get through the first | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
couple of weeks our buy our. It is seven weeks now and we all feel | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
extremely optimistic. Basically, we've still got the products and | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
people, we've still got the orders and we will come back to a | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
world`class facility. No full`time ends of staff have lost their jobs | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
but it has been an uncertain time. This former rugby player works on | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
the shop floor. The first thing is you think about your job. I knew | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
going to have a job, how bad was the devastation? `` are you going to | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
have a job? But we came down to start work. Work dried up the casual | :12:41. | :12:46. | |
staff and 40 people remain on full pay at home. In the temperate office | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
block, it has been an interesting time. It is quite an adventure, | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
really. We are all squashed up in this small office but it's quite | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
fun. It's a change, a break to the routine. The company has found | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
temporary facilities elsewhere to increase production. Eventually, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
they will move back to a purpose`built facility. We are | :13:09. | :13:18. | |
relocating our main plant which will be fully operational at the end of | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
November, when we will be up to about 90% capacity. Is that the fire | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
alarm? No! Good job it wasn't a fire alarm. We | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
went to the fire some weeks ago. We filmed those shots. I think at the | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
time there was a fear that the whole thing had gone up. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
A positive attitude and a bit of Yorkshire grit has got them through. | :13:48. | :13:48. | |
Before seven o'clock. Hoping for a hat trick. Sheffield's | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
Nick Matthew prepares for the world championships, could he retain the | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
title for a third time? And reaping the rewards of fame, | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
what next for the school that let the cameras in? | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
A great`grandfather who was unable to speak properly for more than two | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
years has got his voice back. Retired miner James Sykes from | :14:12. | :14:13. | |
Barnsley caught a virus which paralysed his vocal cords. Now, | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
after months of silence, he says he's enjoying being able to argue | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
with his family, and hopes to start singing again. Kate Bradbrook | :14:22. | :14:32. | |
reports. James Sykes is much like any other pension. He loves to spend | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
time with his family. Earlier this year, James lost something many of | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
us take for granted. His voice. It was a two`year period when it | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
happened. It gradually got worse. I couldn't use the phone. Things like | :14:49. | 0:07:54 | |
that. James, a former miner, contracted the virus which paralysed | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
his vocal chords. There were doubts about whether anything could be done | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
until his daughter found a specialist surgeon online. My dad | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
said straightaway, ring him, let's try to get him. I didn't know | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
whether he would because the procedure is a needle in the neck | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
and I thought he might not want it. He said straight away, go for it. I | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
want to try it. Within weeks, he underwent treatment at the Queen | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, a procedure funded by the hospital's | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
charity. I was able to inject the vocal cord and push it across. In | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
order to get the voice sounding clear, you have to close of the air | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
between the vocal cords so the injection moves the vocal cord a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
little bit too. James wasn't allowed to talk for the first few days, but | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
according to his family he is now unstoppable. For the first couple of | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
days, I got fed up of him ringing me up! But it is just lovely to want to | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
talk `` to get to talk to him and for him to reply. There's one more | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
goal he wants to achieve. I'd like to get my singing voice back. That | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
is what I'd like. Can't think of anything worse than not being not | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
able to talk. You can think of anything better, can you? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
The Squash World Championships take place next week, and one man from | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Sheffield is hoping to take the title for the third time. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
33`year`old Nick Matthew became the first Englishman ever to win the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
world championship back in 2010. Well, he won the title again last | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
year. And now he's hoping for a hat trick. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
It gives me a massive thrill to see that trophy. With squash and not | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
being the Olympic sport, that is the biggest trophy in our sport. We've | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
got a couple of smaller replicas in my home, so it would be nice to | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
complete a hat`trick this week. It is some career you've had. Getting | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
your hands on it in 2010, the first Englishman to do so, retaining it, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
and now you are ranked pretty high. I am forth in the world, apparently. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
The guy from Egypt is coming in favourite. He is unbeaten for a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
year. So he is the hot favourite coming in. But no reason with the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
home crowd behind us that we can't do well. You grew up in Sheffield. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Your dad was a pig teacher. Was that a help or a hindrance? It was a bit | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
of both! I got a bit of stick in my `` from my friends. It helped me in | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
some ways. I was into sport from a young age. He made you captain the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
cricket and football team as well. The football was probably | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
favouritism, the cricket was OK. When did you stop playing squash? I | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
started playing tennis, and I saw squash when I was getting past. I | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
tried it, swapped sports and the rest went on from there. So, the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
world Championships next week, it is on the wrong side of the Pennines, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
but we not mentioning that. That shows it is growing in popularity | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
because it is also being broadcast on the BBC. Me and James, we have a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
great rivalry, we are both from Yorkshire, and we can't meet until | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
the finals. So that is the dream final. There is no love lost between | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
you. He's described you as pretentious and vicious. I've got my | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
own book out right now, so I'm not saying I've got my own back, but we | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
do have contrasting personalities, and when there is adrenaline and we | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
want the same thing, it boils onto the court. Where did we go from | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
here? The book is out next week, the Championships to play for, it's a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
busy time for you. Hopefully I've got the right people working on the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
book behind the scene so I can concentrate on playing, because that | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
is the most important thing. It is a good time to launch the book now. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Hopefully it will go down well. You confident? Yes. I got the final of | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
the US Open last week, I didn't win, but hopefully one step further next | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
week. What is the title of your book? Sweating To Death. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Did mentioned the book at all? ! Sheffield boxer Kell Brook is | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
preparing to face his toughest opponent yet. He'll fight Devon | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Alexander at the Arena on Saturday. And, as Tanya Arnold found out, he's | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
focused on victory, and a shot at the world title. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Focused. Determined. And, dare I say it, a bit more grown`up? Kell Brook | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
understands the sacrifices he has to make to get to the top. There is | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
still that young kid in me, that'll never go. When we are in the gym, we | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
have a good crack with the lads. But I know what needs to be done. And it | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
does get done, the hard work, the hard training, up early, cold | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
mornings, I am a at the crack of dawn training. It's been a tough | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
year for him. He was set to fight Devon Alexander three times and | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
three times injuries got in the way. The worst thing I've ever had to go | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
through my boxing career. But now I am enjoying boxing. I've enjoyed | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
every single session of this training camp. I've enjoyed the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
diet, everything about it. It's reignited to me. When you're giving | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
a kid a bag of candy, you put it in front of him and take it away, it is | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
a massive disappointment. That's what it is for boxers. You give him | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
a world title fight, big payday, big exposure, then somebody sweeps it | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
away and it is a massive downer for the fighter and everybody involved. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
So it has made him realise you can't take these things for granted. Kell | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Brook believes his opponent, former world champion is the toughest he | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
has ever faced. There is no room for error. I've got to look spectacular | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
in this fight with Shevchenko and move on to that world title fight. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
It is a massive fight. There is big talks going on. I want to be on the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
top table with elite fighters. Before goes to plan, he could | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
finally have that world title fight next spring. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Good luck to him. Now, would you want to live in a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
loo? An old toilet block in Leeds has been sold at auction today for | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
just under ?40,000. I lived somewhere quite grotty when I was a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
student, it wasn't quite a toilet. The derelict building in Morley town | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
centre was put on the market by Leeds City Council with a guide | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
price of ?10,000. The successful bidder spent quite a few pennies in | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
the auction, the final price, ?37,000. He intends to turn it into | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
shops and an apartment. That is some outlay. No bog`standard stories | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
here. Tantrums, tellings`off, and tired | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
out teachers. For eight weeks now, we've been getting a fly`on`the`wall | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
view of life in a Dewsbury high school. The show, Educating | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Yorkshire, has been a huge hit for Channel 4 with close on five million | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
viewers tuning in to see what it's like to grow up or work in high | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
school. Pupil applications are up and more staff are applying to work | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
there. Spencer Stokes has been back to Thornhill to see how staff and | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
students have been coping with their new found fame. The school that | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
lifted the lid on what goes on inside. For one term, Channel 4 | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
filmed this school with cameras and microphones. The headteacher made | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
the decision to take part in the series something he thought long and | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
hard about. So, Mr Mitchell, here we are, two months on, are you glad you | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
did Educating Yorkshire? Very much so. I think it has been a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
roller`coaster ride but it not has `` it hasn't been negative. Largely | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
it's been 95% positive, I would say. One of the early stars was Bailey, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
instantly famous for having shaved off her eyebrows. My eyebrows, I | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
shaved them all off. I shaved all my eyebrows off. That comment came | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
something of a catchphrase and outside of school, Bailey has been | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
getting used to lots of extra attention. As soon as they see me, | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
they stopped to talk about me. Then they ask me about my eyebrows. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Others are remembered for different reasons, like this man. You're at | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
school, do maths! Somebody shouted one I was coming out of a bank from | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
50 metres away, " do maths!" That mini explosion didn't impress | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
everybody but opinions changed a few weeks later when the programme | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
showed him struggling on despite being ill. Each episode has dealt | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
with a multitude of different issues. Tonight's looks at her | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
student who struggles with his speaking. He has suffered with a | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
stammer. But he is a great kid. What is going on inside your head when | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
the words don't come out? It feels like... | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
It's probably our own version of the King 's speech. It is a fabulous | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
watch and I'm very proud of it. It's my favourite. With the camera is | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
gone, life here is getting back to normal. Staff and students hope | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
their eight weeks in the spotlight has provided a snapshot of what it | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
is like educating and being educated in this corner of Yorkshire. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
It has been a fascinating series. I think I know them all, do you | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
know? Let's check out the weather | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
prospects. Lots of areas of low pressure on Monday, more on that in | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
just a second. We had a lovely day, plenty of | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
sunshine, more unsubtle tomorrow, particularly tomorrow morning when | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
we have some rain on the cards, clearing away to the North, but it | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
will remain blustery through the deck. Our weather is being dominated | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
by this low pressure. This front is pushing tomorrow morning, and on | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Saturday, we have another waiting in the wings. It has been very pleasant | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
today, plenty of sunshine. It is very nice out there. This cloud in | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
the south`west pushes northwards through this evening and overnight. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Clear spells, at first it's fine. The breeze will strengthen, the | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
cloud will thicken and increase, and by the end of the night, there will | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
be some rain. With the cloud, it is going to be a mild night and | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
temperatures stay in double figures. So, the sunrise. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Tomorrow morning's rush hour is going to be grotty. There will be | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
strong winds and surface water and heavy rain through the morning hours | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
but we will see an improvement with the rain clearing away to the North. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
We see the odd shower through the afternoon and a few showers perhaps | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
returning to the Dales later on in the day. It is going to be a rather | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
blustery day, a fresh and gusty wind from the south`west but Bridges will | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
be fairly respectful, getting to about 17. We have an early warning | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
potential for a very nasty storm to track across the UK. A lot of | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
uncertainty in its track, intensity and timing. It doesn't go on top of | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
us but that could change. Keep tuned to that. I don't think temperatures | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
can be respectful, I meant respectable! | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
What did you think of Bailey's eyebrows? | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
Better than yours! I'm not sure I want to know. Good | 0:07:55 | 0:07:54 | |
night. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:55 |