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Louise, thank you. That's all from the BBC | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look North. | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
Tonight: A warning over HIV. Leeds has one of the highest rates | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
in the country. Now more people are being urged to | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
come forward to get themselves tested. We know that more than one | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
in 500 people in Leeds is living with HIV so we want to promote | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
testing as much as we can to try and prevent late diagnosis and | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
transmission of infection. Also tonight: Phil Bodmer's live in | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Sheffield with the story of a very special delivery. | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
Yes, meet baby Jonathan. He is less than a week old and snug as a bug in | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
a rug. He was so keen to arrive that he did not wait for the paramedics. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
We will have the full story later on. | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
And it's right next to the railway line but it's suddenly become a very | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
desirable property. Overcast skies. This was this | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
morning but it looks like a lot of sunshine to come tomorrow. The | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
details are coming up shortly. Thank you for joining us. Tonight | :01:07. | :01:20. | |
our top story: One in 500 people in Leeds has been diagnosed with HIV. | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
It's one of the highest figures in the country, and it's thought there | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
are many more people with the virus, they just don't know it. A Leeds | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
charity is now urging people to get tested at special clinics which are | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
taking place around the city this week. Cathy Killick reports. What I | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
do is take a bit of blood from your finger. When you take an HIV test | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
these days you can get the results in as little as 20 minutes. All week | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
tests are being offered across the country thanks to this leads | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
charity. It can take a while to get enough blood, especially when your | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
hands are a bit cold. Yorkshire Mesmac came up with the idea of the | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
testing week and it has helped to normalise the idea of getting HIV | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
tested. Statistics show that is important. At this centre for sexual | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
health it shows that Leeds has one of the highest rates of HIV in the | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
country. People are very nervous about testing, especially if it is | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
the first time they have taken the test. It is very straightforward and | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
people have a lot of support around that as well. If they have a | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
positive diagnosis and it happens in the community we can see them very | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
quickly. HIV is no longer the death sentence it was 30 years ago but it | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
still carries a stigma which is why this man prepared to talk to me | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
anonymously. He takes a pill a day and leads a normal, healthy life. He | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
tested only. The quicker that HIV is treated, the better the prognosis | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
for patients. I would say get tested. It doesn't cost anything. | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
You can get it done from the clinic. It might just save your | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
life, as dramatic as that sounds. Living with HIV won't kill you but | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
if you have it and you do not know, that is when it might get | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
complicated. There is now a danger that has become a threat to us | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
all... High`profile, high sensation health films of the 1980s put HIV | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
and AIDS at the forefront of minds. As the threat to life has | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
diminished, so has the profile of the disease. A week dedicated to | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
testing aims to catch cases early and make people think about safe sex | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
because it is still possible to die of ignorance. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Brad Smith from the charity Yorkshire Mesmac is with us now. You | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
started this testing week, it was taken up across Britain and now | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Europe's joining in. This will make a huge difference won't it? Yes, it | :03:50. | :03:57. | |
has been really picked up this week through social media sites and | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
things like that. The message is getting out there and the response | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
has been fantastic. The message is to get tested early. Yes, get to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
know your status. Everyone has an HIV status and get to know yours. | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Treatments are a lot better and there has never been a better time | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
to access treatment. Is it being ignored. We saw in the report that | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the significant campaign in the 1990s had an impact on all of us. Do | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
you need something like that to get us back to understand the importance | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
of this? Yes, the campaigns in the 1990s had value at that time but | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
what is needed is up to date because it has moved on a lot. The stigma | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
around HIV and the belief around it just has not moved with the times. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Do you think that campaign scared people as opposed to making them | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
come forward? Yes, it was a scary campaign and it also may have acted | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
as a barrier for people to come forward and get tested. Now HIV has | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
moved along and the treatment has never been better so there is still | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
the Sigma and the fear behind the campaigns that we remember. `` there | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
is still the stigma. The Huddersfield`born footballer | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Delroy Facey has been arrested as part of an investigation into | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
alleged match`fixing. The player`turned`agent is one of seven | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
people being questioned by the National Crime Agency following an | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
investigation by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Two of those, from | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Singapore, have been charged within the last hour with conspiracy to | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
defraud. Olivia Richwald is in Huddersfield. Olivia, what can you | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
tell us. Well, I am standing outside what we | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
believe to be Delroy Facey's house in Huddersfield. Neighbours have | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
confirmed they know him and people have been coming and going all day | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
from the house but we do not believe any of them have been Delroy Facey | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
and no one has wanted to speak to us. I can tell you a bit of | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
information about him. He was born in 1980 and he played for his local | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
team as a youngster. He is a popular figure here in the town. He moved | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
from Huddersfield Town to play for the Premier league side Bolton | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Wanderers in 2002 but he was beset by injuries. He did not stay long at | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Bolton before he was transferred to Bradford City and there he descended | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
through the football ranks, playing for 14 different clubs in his 16 | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
year career. Three years ago he was playing for Lincoln City and we have | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
some shots of him in goal`scoring form but one year after that his | :06:33. | :06:44. | |
career ended at Hereford United. He now plays for a non`league side in | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Bradford and is reported also to have developed a sideline as a | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
football agent. It is important to say that there is no suggestion that | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
any of the clubs I mention are involved in the allegations. Delroy | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Facey was arrested by the National Crime Agency, as one of seven | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
people, and the suspicion is of an Asian betting scheme, betting on | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
non`league matches. It came as a result of Daily Telegraph newspaper | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
recordings of conversations between fixers. Two people have been | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
arrested on conspiracy to do fraudster night but neither of them | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
is Delroy Facey. Thank you very much indeed. | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Later on Look North: Stuart Maconie will give us a totally unbiased view | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
of his fellow Northerners. We are always city faced Pittman or urchins | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
kicking a ball in the Street or sparking clogs. We are good`hearted | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
simple folk, work`shy, brassy, women of easy virtue. You are right there! | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
In the rest of the day's news energy giant npower has confirmed plans to | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
cut 80 jobs in Leeds as part of a major restructure of its customer | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
service department. The firm, which employs 800 people | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
across the city, said the redundancies would be made at its | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
offices in Seacroft. It has started a consultation with staff over the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
plans, which would see nearly 1,500 jobs lost across the country. Npower | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
said customers would continue to be served on the phone by people based | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
in UK call centres, with back`office functions outsourced to India. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Police say a 40`year`old woman and her 18`year`old son were among the | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
victims of a head`on crash in North Yorkshire yesterday morning. A | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
47`year`old man also died in the crash between a Ford Focus and a | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Citroen van on the B1248 near Wharram Percy. All three were Polish | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
nationals living in Hull. Two other men are still in hospital, one with | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
critical and the other with serious injuries. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
Four men have been convicted for the murder of 21`year`old Jordan | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Stapleton at his home in Meanwood in Leeds last April. Mr Stapleton was | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
shot dead in his bathroom as his four`year`old son was sleeping in | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
the next room. He's thought to have been murdered by four gang members | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
after they accused him of grassing to police about drugs offences. The | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
four convicted, Cyrus Hanley, Colin Webster, Luke Toner and Jake Looby, | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
are due to be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court tomorrow. | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
The government has confirmed there will be a public inquiry next year | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
into a planned ?250,000 trolleybus system in Leeds. Leeds City Council | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
says the electric bus project will significantly improve journey times | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
and cut congestion. But concerns have been raised about value for | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
money and plans to demolish 20 buildings between Headingley and the | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
city centre to make way for the scheme. | :09:28. | :09:40. | |
A 2,000`year`old gold Torc bracelet can now stay on display at the | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Yorkshire Museum thanks to donations from the public. The bracelet is one | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
of two found near Tadcaster a couple of years ago. They were the first | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
pieces of gold Iron Age jewelry to be discovered in the North. The | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
museum already owned one and has now raised ?30,000 to keep the other. | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Most of the money came from anonymous donations. | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
A transsexual man who was born female and fled India to escape | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
violence and harassment is facing deportation. Sameer Neelam now lives | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
in Bradford after being outed by the Indian media. He's seeking asylum, | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
fearing he'll have to live life as a woman and wear a sari if he is made | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
to go back. Sameer's been telling his story exclusively to Look | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
North's Ian White. Sameer Neelam is a man trapped | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
inside a woman's body. As a transsexual he was forced to leave | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
India after suffering harassment and violence. He has lived in Yorkshire | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
for two years. Here I am considered as what I am. In India I cannot | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
dress like this. Nobody counts me as a man. If I put trade myself and | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
open myself as a man in India I will be looked down, tortured, | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
discriminated, eliminated. In India Sameer lived a double life. In | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
public he was a prominent female local official but in private he | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
lived in secret as a man with another woman. But things went wrong | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
when he was outed by a TV show and he had to flee to the UK. I have | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
three girlfriends also. He is seeking asylum in the UK but the | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
Home Office wants him to return to India and if he goes back he will be | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
forced to live as a woman and where a sari. I just wanted to kill | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
myself, end my life, I tried. Sameer has been supported by this | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
professor, an expert in equality law and himself a transsexual. He says | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
he's not surprised that the Home Office does not want Sameer in the | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
UK. I am sure for the Home Office, one of the things that they fear it | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
Sameer gets to stay in the country is the principle of opening the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
floodgates, that somehow a lot of other transgender people come to | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Britain. It is a false perception on the part of the Home Office and it | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
is a lack of understanding of the community. The Home Office would not | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
comment on this case. Meanwhile Sameer is being supported by other | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
members of the transgender community. He says living in | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
Bradford has changed his life. My life as a man... My original life, I | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
am enjoying. If somebody calls me Mr something, someone calls me he, I | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
feel really energetic. Sameer should find out his fate in the next few | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
days. Let's go to Sheffield now to hear | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
from two mums with a special bond. One's just given birth to a tiny | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
baby boy and her friend helped deliver him in rather unusual | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
circumstances. When Pache Mbombo went into labour unexpectedly, she | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
called 999 for an ambulance, but her baby had other ideas and arrived | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
before the paramedics, face down with his umbilical cord wrapped | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
around his neck! It Our reporter Phil Bodmer's with the the family | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
and the neighbour Sherene Barden who helped with the special delivery. Is | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
every mother's worst nightmare. I see you have a tiny little bundle | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
there. Isn't he gorgeous? Baby Jonathan is out for the count. He | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
had a feed about half an hour ago and he will problem not wake up for | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
a while. Richard Gere, his dad, is nursing him but his arrival was | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
anything but normal. This is ma'am, Pache, it was all a bit complicated, | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
wasn't it? It certainly was. It was really complicated. I could not | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
believe he came so quickly. You were on the phone to the emergency | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
services because you could not get to the hospital. I was too early at | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
the time of delivery so I called 999 when it started at 5:55am and after | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
that I was delivering and talking with emergency services. I was | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
speaking to the ambulance and the paramedic but I was talking to a | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
police officer. Tell me about this young lady. She is just three years | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
old and she helped, didn't you? , she is looking at herself on the | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
television. What is your brother like? He is beautiful! That is what | :14:13. | :14:18. | |
you told me early on. You helped your ma'am, what did she do, she | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
rubbed your shoulders and helped to suit you? Yes, she was rubbing my | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
back and she got me a dressing gown and she got everything ready and | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
made sure I was fine and relaxed so she kept me company all the way | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
through. That shows great presence of mind for some solo `` suck `` one | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
are so young. Well done! Now this is the friend. You were coming by the | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
property and you heard Pache in distress. I heard her screaming and | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
I came to the front door and they let me end. She shouted that her | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
baby was coming. I ran in and I saw that the baby had come already and I | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
said he was here and she had done it but I noticed he was face down on | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
the sofa and something White was around his neck which I realised was | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
the umbilical cord so I unhooked that over his head and I turned him | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
over to make sure he was breathing which he was and then he let out a | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
cry. I just thought it was wonderful and it was super that everything was | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
all right. You must be so proud. You must be real happy with the work of | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
your friend because it could have been awful. Anything could have | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
happened to him if she did not come in and if my daughter did not open | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
the door to her. It is such a miracle, she is a hero so I am | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
really grateful. And this young lady also, pretty impressive as well. It | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
is such a lovely story and such a lovely family and thank you for | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
allowing us into your home and as you can see, baby Jonathan is... | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
All, I wanted another look at that tiny little baby. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
He is doing very well! Are thank you. It makes me want | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
another, the boss will be pleased! Before 7:00pm: They're coming to | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Yorkshire for the first time in more than 400 years. | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
Find out where you can see these world`famous dancing horses. | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
And why this tiny Yorkshire building has just won nationwide recognition. | :16:19. | :16:27. | |
I remember one of my friends saying he was posher than me because he | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
read the New Statesman. Posher than Harry! A thinking man's | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
magazine, he said, as I discarded the rugby leaguer! Well, that | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
magazine has been doing some thinking and has dedicated its | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
latest issue just to us in the North, to show once and for all that | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
the north/south divide should be no more. | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
All the old cliche's about living up t'north should be ignored, it says, | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
and we spoke to author and DJ Stuart McConi,e a Lancastrian, but we won't | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
dwell on that, about the stereotype phrases often used in the south to | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
describe us up here! Well, I should say that I am not taking the Mickey | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
out of the north, I am taking the Mickey out of people who cliche and | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
characterise the north. That was the idea of it. They came to me and | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
asked me to write a piece about how to write about the North which of | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
course is really how not to write about the North. It is how the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
southern `based journalists always do it. They always resort to cliche | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
and we are city faced Pittman or urchins kicking a ball in the street | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
or sparking clogs. We are work`shy, brassy, women of easy virtue. We are | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
comedians when we are not criminals. What I wanted to say is that I am | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
not angry about it, I am not angry and banging my fist on the table but | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
it bores me and oppresses me a little bit how we are all seen in | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
just one way. We are always good at football and pop music and fighting | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
and we are funny. We are also, by the way, we split the atom. If you | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
dare to speak up for the North of England, you have a chip on your | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
shoulder. As I say, we split the atom, we invented the computer. | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
Vegetarianism grew out of the North, feminism, Communism. We write | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
great poetry and plays. We have the best landscape in Britain and we are | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
a lot more than Britain's court jesters. Why is the New Statesman | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
out today down south are not released until tomorrow, is it | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
something to do with carrier pigeons? Welcome you know, I used to | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
think that. When my whole world revolved about getting the NME in | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
Wigan and I used to find out that it came out earlier in London and I | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
don't know why. I suppose it takes time to filter down through the | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
pigeon network. Rest assured it will be there on your breakfast tables in | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
the morning. So, what are the benefits of Yorkshire? You are | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
asking a Lancastrian! Well, we have this opinion about each other. You | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
think we are soft and a bit silly and we think you are miserable and | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
tight with your money. There is a bit of truth in each of those. I say | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
to London when they speak about Arsenal and Chelsea having a | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
rivalry. I say that Lancashire and Yorkshire 's arrival. Are you | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
familiar of the Battle of Towton. This is a proper rivalry! At heart, | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
when we talk about southerners, we really mean Londoners. I don't think | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
either of us have anything against people from Cornwall... Do you think | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
there is a divide there, is the North /South divide still there? | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Massively but it is North and London divide. People in the North have a | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
lot of time for south Wales and Cornwall and Devon but I do think | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
they get very knocked about the fact that a handful of postal districts | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
around and W one set the agenda for the whole of the country and they | :19:57. | :20:03. | |
feel they are doing us a favour by coming up and mixing with us. It has | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
been lovely to talk to you but that is a southern softy shirt that you | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
are wearing. We are all aspirational and we can lift ourselves up. We | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
don't have to be unsophisticated, you know! We can mix with the best | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
of them sartorially! Thank you very much. | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
He is a sharp chap! Well, staying on the theme of | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
culture in the north what do you know about Spanish riding? | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
430 years of tradition, the school in Vienna cultivates classical | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
equitation in the Renaissance tradition of the haute ecole! You | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
see I do read the New Statesman! What you mean is dancing horses. | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Well, they are coming to Yorkshire for the first time. Next year | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
they'll be in Sheffield with special guests from TeamGB. Danny Carpenter | :20:42. | :20:50. | |
has this. This is Britain's Lee Pearson, a | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
Paralympic gold medallist. The discipline is dressage, horse rider | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
in perfect harmony. This is dressage with bells on! | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
The world`famous Spanish Riding School and its Sally ends. 400 years | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
of training and tradition and horsemanship. It is awe`inspiring. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
`` stallions. This is the third time I have done a display with them. I | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
remember doing it in Wembley and there were guys hiding in the corner | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
to watch me ride. It was awe`inspiring to see what they are | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
doing. They are talented people and they are very impressive to watch | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
anyway so watching them with their horses is an honour. Next year will | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
be the first time that the show has come to the North of England, to | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
Sheffield. For people like those who work here, it is an obvious draw, | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
but for presenter Nicky Chapman, it is also about inspiration. You do | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
not need to have hundreds of thousands of pounds in the bank to | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
become a gold medal winner. That is the most important message that | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
comes through because the UK has a history of horse men and women and | :22:11. | :22:19. | |
it is such a strong tradition that I think it is even more important now | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
to say to people that anybody could take up riding, whatever your | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
ability you can enjoy it. This may be about as far removed from pony | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
trekking as you can get, but who knows what the visit of these famous | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
equestrians might inspire. I actually saw those in Vienna. They | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
are beautiful. Did you? I will see them in | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
Sheffield! In the 1940s there were 10,000 | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
signal boxes in use on our railway lines. Now with new technology | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
taking over, only 500 exist. Three Yorkshire boxes have today been | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
given Grade II listed status, to preserve the buildings and | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
mechanical workings before they become obsolete. Heidi Tomlinson | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
reports. Things are done the old`fashioned | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
way at Marston Moor on the York to Harrogate line. IV has worked here | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
since 1978. The chimes, how cue to close the crossing gates to traffic. | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
The bell goes again which means a train is imminent. Ivy then listen | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
`` pull the lever to raise the signal. This was once used as a | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
station and there is a platform here but in the last 40 years the trains | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
have just rumbled through with the drivers relying on the mechanical | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
semaphore signals. It is a simple system. If the arm is raised, it is | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
effectively a green light and if lowered, red. The frame makes this | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
165`year`old signal box special which is one of the reasons it has | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
been given listed status along with two others in North Yorkshire. It | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
deserves that status because it is truly old, but very reliable. I put | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
the keys into the gate locks, I'd pull off and then the signal comes | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
off. It has never failed you? It has never failed, no. I have been here | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
35 years and the work is very interesting and I have loved every | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
second of it. But modernisation is inevitable. In a few years time the | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
Marston Moor signal box will be decommissioned. We have to move with | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
the times with the increasing demand in rail services so we are moving to | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
operating centres that allow us to run more trains more efficiently and | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
unfortunately these signal boxes will not be used any more. Hence the | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
listed status, protection for a piece of railway history. | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
They are just lovely. Emily Wightman, if you are watching their | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
is a message here for Paul. Every time you come on to do be whether my | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
mum says, I used to put his make up on on my make`up counter! | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
You are joking! Was that what you did at school? | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
I am going to the pub next week so I will get some right stick. | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
I'm sure I must have been very young. That is even worse! | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
young. That is Let me show you a picture. This is a | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
lovely picture of mist and fog in this valley bottom. This second one | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
could be the Lake District. This is just outside Rotherham. Keep the | :25:47. | :25:47. | |
pictures coming. The headline for tomorrow. It is not | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
too bad with a bit of rain at first and then it turns funny from the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
north`west. It will turn windy with gales in coastal areas. It will be a | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
cleaner north`west which brings the sunshine. There has been a lot of | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
cloud around today which has been thick enough to produce a little | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
drizzle. There could be breaks through the course of this evening. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Those breaks could lead to mist and patchy fog in places. That will | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
shift and as the wind picks up the cloud will thicken and rain moves in | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
from the North West. These are your sunrise times. These are high water | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
times. A cloudy and damp start and windy as well. The rain will pull | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
away to the South East. Most places will be dry by mid`morning `` | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
mid`morning. Most places will be funny in the afternoon with just a | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
chance of the odd shower clipping in on the western side of the Pennines. | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
It will improve and a lot of sunshine tomorrow afternoon with a | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
chill wind. Gales in coastal areas tomorrow evening and highs of eight | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
or nine degrees. Average for the time of year. The weekend will be | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
predominantly dry. Saturday will be mainly Sunni. A chill wind. A lot | :27:18. | :27:26. | |
more cloud around at times. Your lip gloss looks terrific. | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Just before we go, if you'd like to go to the BBC's Sports Personality | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
Of The Year, which is being held in Leeds in a couple of weeks, there's | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
still a chance. A limited number of additional tickets go on sale | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
tomorrow morning at 9.00am. They're priced between ?40 and ?60. For all | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
the information go online. Good luck! Enjoy the rest of your | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
evening. Good night. | :27:47. | :27:51. |