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Louise, thank you. That's all from the BBC

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Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look North.

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Tonight: A warning over HIV. Leeds has one of the highest rates

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in the country. Now more people are being urged to

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come forward to get themselves tested. We know that more than one

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in 500 people in Leeds is living with HIV so we want to promote

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testing as much as we can to try and prevent late diagnosis and

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transmission of infection. Also tonight: Phil Bodmer's live in

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Sheffield with the story of a very special delivery.

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Yes, meet baby Jonathan. He is less than a week old and snug as a bug in

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a rug. He was so keen to arrive that he did not wait for the paramedics.

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We will have the full story later on.

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And it's right next to the railway line but it's suddenly become a very

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desirable property. Overcast skies. This was this

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morning but it looks like a lot of sunshine to come tomorrow. The

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details are coming up shortly. Thank you for joining us. Tonight

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our top story: One in 500 people in Leeds has been diagnosed with HIV.

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It's one of the highest figures in the country, and it's thought there

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are many more people with the virus, they just don't know it. A Leeds

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charity is now urging people to get tested at special clinics which are

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taking place around the city this week. Cathy Killick reports. What I

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do is take a bit of blood from your finger. When you take an HIV test

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these days you can get the results in as little as 20 minutes. All week

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tests are being offered across the country thanks to this leads

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charity. It can take a while to get enough blood, especially when your

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hands are a bit cold. Yorkshire Mesmac came up with the idea of the

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testing week and it has helped to normalise the idea of getting HIV

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tested. Statistics show that is important. At this centre for sexual

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health it shows that Leeds has one of the highest rates of HIV in the

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country. People are very nervous about testing, especially if it is

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the first time they have taken the test. It is very straightforward and

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people have a lot of support around that as well. If they have a

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positive diagnosis and it happens in the community we can see them very

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quickly. HIV is no longer the death sentence it was 30 years ago but it

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still carries a stigma which is why this man prepared to talk to me

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anonymously. He takes a pill a day and leads a normal, healthy life. He

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tested only. The quicker that HIV is treated, the better the prognosis

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for patients. I would say get tested. It doesn't cost anything.

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You can get it done from the clinic. It might just save your

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life, as dramatic as that sounds. Living with HIV won't kill you but

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if you have it and you do not know, that is when it might get

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complicated. There is now a danger that has become a threat to us

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all... High`profile, high sensation health films of the 1980s put HIV

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and AIDS at the forefront of minds. As the threat to life has

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diminished, so has the profile of the disease. A week dedicated to

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testing aims to catch cases early and make people think about safe sex

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because it is still possible to die of ignorance.

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Brad Smith from the charity Yorkshire Mesmac is with us now. You

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started this testing week, it was taken up across Britain and now

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Europe's joining in. This will make a huge difference won't it? Yes, it

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has been really picked up this week through social media sites and

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things like that. The message is getting out there and the response

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has been fantastic. The message is to get tested early. Yes, get to

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know your status. Everyone has an HIV status and get to know yours.

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Treatments are a lot better and there has never been a better time

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to access treatment. Is it being ignored. We saw in the report that

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the significant campaign in the 1990s had an impact on all of us. Do

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you need something like that to get us back to understand the importance

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of this? Yes, the campaigns in the 1990s had value at that time but

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what is needed is up to date because it has moved on a lot. The stigma

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around HIV and the belief around it just has not moved with the times.

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Do you think that campaign scared people as opposed to making them

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come forward? Yes, it was a scary campaign and it also may have acted

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as a barrier for people to come forward and get tested. Now HIV has

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moved along and the treatment has never been better so there is still

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the Sigma and the fear behind the campaigns that we remember. `` there

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is still the stigma. The Huddersfield`born footballer

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Delroy Facey has been arrested as part of an investigation into

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alleged match`fixing. The player`turned`agent is one of seven

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people being questioned by the National Crime Agency following an

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investigation by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Two of those, from

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Singapore, have been charged within the last hour with conspiracy to

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defraud. Olivia Richwald is in Huddersfield. Olivia, what can you

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tell us. Well, I am standing outside what we

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believe to be Delroy Facey's house in Huddersfield. Neighbours have

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confirmed they know him and people have been coming and going all day

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from the house but we do not believe any of them have been Delroy Facey

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and no one has wanted to speak to us. I can tell you a bit of

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information about him. He was born in 1980 and he played for his local

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team as a youngster. He is a popular figure here in the town. He moved

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from Huddersfield Town to play for the Premier league side Bolton

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Wanderers in 2002 but he was beset by injuries. He did not stay long at

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Bolton before he was transferred to Bradford City and there he descended

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through the football ranks, playing for 14 different clubs in his 16

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year career. Three years ago he was playing for Lincoln City and we have

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some shots of him in goal`scoring form but one year after that his

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career ended at Hereford United. He now plays for a non`league side in

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Bradford and is reported also to have developed a sideline as a

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football agent. It is important to say that there is no suggestion that

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any of the clubs I mention are involved in the allegations. Delroy

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Facey was arrested by the National Crime Agency, as one of seven

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people, and the suspicion is of an Asian betting scheme, betting on

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non`league matches. It came as a result of Daily Telegraph newspaper

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recordings of conversations between fixers. Two people have been

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arrested on conspiracy to do fraudster night but neither of them

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is Delroy Facey. Thank you very much indeed.

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Later on Look North: Stuart Maconie will give us a totally unbiased view

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of his fellow Northerners. We are always city faced Pittman or urchins

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kicking a ball in the Street or sparking clogs. We are good`hearted

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simple folk, work`shy, brassy, women of easy virtue. You are right there!

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In the rest of the day's news energy giant npower has confirmed plans to

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cut 80 jobs in Leeds as part of a major restructure of its customer

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service department. The firm, which employs 800 people

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across the city, said the redundancies would be made at its

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offices in Seacroft. It has started a consultation with staff over the

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plans, which would see nearly 1,500 jobs lost across the country. Npower

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said customers would continue to be served on the phone by people based

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in UK call centres, with back`office functions outsourced to India.

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Police say a 40`year`old woman and her 18`year`old son were among the

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victims of a head`on crash in North Yorkshire yesterday morning. A

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47`year`old man also died in the crash between a Ford Focus and a

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Citroen van on the B1248 near Wharram Percy. All three were Polish

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nationals living in Hull. Two other men are still in hospital, one with

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critical and the other with serious injuries.

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Four men have been convicted for the murder of 21`year`old Jordan

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Stapleton at his home in Meanwood in Leeds last April. Mr Stapleton was

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shot dead in his bathroom as his four`year`old son was sleeping in

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the next room. He's thought to have been murdered by four gang members

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after they accused him of grassing to police about drugs offences. The

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four convicted, Cyrus Hanley, Colin Webster, Luke Toner and Jake Looby,

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are due to be sentenced at Leeds Crown Court tomorrow.

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The government has confirmed there will be a public inquiry next year

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into a planned ?250,000 trolleybus system in Leeds. Leeds City Council

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says the electric bus project will significantly improve journey times

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and cut congestion. But concerns have been raised about value for

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money and plans to demolish 20 buildings between Headingley and the

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city centre to make way for the scheme.

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A 2,000`year`old gold Torc bracelet can now stay on display at the

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Yorkshire Museum thanks to donations from the public. The bracelet is one

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of two found near Tadcaster a couple of years ago. They were the first

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pieces of gold Iron Age jewelry to be discovered in the North. The

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museum already owned one and has now raised ?30,000 to keep the other.

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Most of the money came from anonymous donations.

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A transsexual man who was born female and fled India to escape

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violence and harassment is facing deportation. Sameer Neelam now lives

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in Bradford after being outed by the Indian media. He's seeking asylum,

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fearing he'll have to live life as a woman and wear a sari if he is made

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to go back. Sameer's been telling his story exclusively to Look

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North's Ian White. Sameer Neelam is a man trapped

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inside a woman's body. As a transsexual he was forced to leave

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India after suffering harassment and violence. He has lived in Yorkshire

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for two years. Here I am considered as what I am. In India I cannot

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dress like this. Nobody counts me as a man. If I put trade myself and

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open myself as a man in India I will be looked down, tortured,

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discriminated, eliminated. In India Sameer lived a double life. In

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public he was a prominent female local official but in private he

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lived in secret as a man with another woman. But things went wrong

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when he was outed by a TV show and he had to flee to the UK. I have

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three girlfriends also. He is seeking asylum in the UK but the

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Home Office wants him to return to India and if he goes back he will be

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forced to live as a woman and where a sari. I just wanted to kill

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myself, end my life, I tried. Sameer has been supported by this

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professor, an expert in equality law and himself a transsexual. He says

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he's not surprised that the Home Office does not want Sameer in the

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UK. I am sure for the Home Office, one of the things that they fear it

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Sameer gets to stay in the country is the principle of opening the

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floodgates, that somehow a lot of other transgender people come to

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Britain. It is a false perception on the part of the Home Office and it

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is a lack of understanding of the community. The Home Office would not

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comment on this case. Meanwhile Sameer is being supported by other

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members of the transgender community. He says living in

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Bradford has changed his life. My life as a man... My original life, I

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am enjoying. If somebody calls me Mr something, someone calls me he, I

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feel really energetic. Sameer should find out his fate in the next few

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days. Let's go to Sheffield now to hear

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from two mums with a special bond. One's just given birth to a tiny

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baby boy and her friend helped deliver him in rather unusual

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circumstances. When Pache Mbombo went into labour unexpectedly, she

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called 999 for an ambulance, but her baby had other ideas and arrived

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before the paramedics, face down with his umbilical cord wrapped

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around his neck! It Our reporter Phil Bodmer's with the the family

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and the neighbour Sherene Barden who helped with the special delivery. Is

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every mother's worst nightmare. I see you have a tiny little bundle

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there. Isn't he gorgeous? Baby Jonathan is out for the count. He

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had a feed about half an hour ago and he will problem not wake up for

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a while. Richard Gere, his dad, is nursing him but his arrival was

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anything but normal. This is ma'am, Pache, it was all a bit complicated,

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wasn't it? It certainly was. It was really complicated. I could not

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believe he came so quickly. You were on the phone to the emergency

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services because you could not get to the hospital. I was too early at

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the time of delivery so I called 999 when it started at 5:55am and after

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that I was delivering and talking with emergency services. I was

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speaking to the ambulance and the paramedic but I was talking to a

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police officer. Tell me about this young lady. She is just three years

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old and she helped, didn't you? , she is looking at herself on the

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television. What is your brother like? He is beautiful! That is what

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you told me early on. You helped your ma'am, what did she do, she

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rubbed your shoulders and helped to suit you? Yes, she was rubbing my

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back and she got me a dressing gown and she got everything ready and

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made sure I was fine and relaxed so she kept me company all the way

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through. That shows great presence of mind for some solo `` suck `` one

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are so young. Well done! Now this is the friend. You were coming by the

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property and you heard Pache in distress. I heard her screaming and

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I came to the front door and they let me end. She shouted that her

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baby was coming. I ran in and I saw that the baby had come already and I

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said he was here and she had done it but I noticed he was face down on

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the sofa and something White was around his neck which I realised was

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the umbilical cord so I unhooked that over his head and I turned him

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over to make sure he was breathing which he was and then he let out a

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cry. I just thought it was wonderful and it was super that everything was

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all right. You must be so proud. You must be real happy with the work of

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your friend because it could have been awful. Anything could have

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happened to him if she did not come in and if my daughter did not open

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the door to her. It is such a miracle, she is a hero so I am

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really grateful. And this young lady also, pretty impressive as well. It

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is such a lovely story and such a lovely family and thank you for

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allowing us into your home and as you can see, baby Jonathan is...

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All, I wanted another look at that tiny little baby.

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He is doing very well! Are thank you. It makes me want

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another, the boss will be pleased! Before 7:00pm: They're coming to

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Yorkshire for the first time in more than 400 years.

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Find out where you can see these world`famous dancing horses.

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And why this tiny Yorkshire building has just won nationwide recognition.

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I remember one of my friends saying he was posher than me because he

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read the New Statesman. Posher than Harry! A thinking man's

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magazine, he said, as I discarded the rugby leaguer! Well, that

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magazine has been doing some thinking and has dedicated its

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latest issue just to us in the North, to show once and for all that

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the north/south divide should be no more.

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All the old cliche's about living up t'north should be ignored, it says,

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and we spoke to author and DJ Stuart McConi,e a Lancastrian, but we won't

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dwell on that, about the stereotype phrases often used in the south to

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describe us up here! Well, I should say that I am not taking the Mickey

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out of the north, I am taking the Mickey out of people who cliche and

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characterise the north. That was the idea of it. They came to me and

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asked me to write a piece about how to write about the North which of

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course is really how not to write about the North. It is how the

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southern `based journalists always do it. They always resort to cliche

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and we are city faced Pittman or urchins kicking a ball in the street

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or sparking clogs. We are work`shy, brassy, women of easy virtue. We are

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comedians when we are not criminals. What I wanted to say is that I am

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not angry about it, I am not angry and banging my fist on the table but

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it bores me and oppresses me a little bit how we are all seen in

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just one way. We are always good at football and pop music and fighting

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and we are funny. We are also, by the way, we split the atom. If you

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dare to speak up for the North of England, you have a chip on your

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shoulder. As I say, we split the atom, we invented the computer.

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Vegetarianism grew out of the North, feminism, Communism. We write

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great poetry and plays. We have the best landscape in Britain and we are

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a lot more than Britain's court jesters. Why is the New Statesman

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out today down south are not released until tomorrow, is it

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something to do with carrier pigeons? Welcome you know, I used to

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think that. When my whole world revolved about getting the NME in

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Wigan and I used to find out that it came out earlier in London and I

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don't know why. I suppose it takes time to filter down through the

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pigeon network. Rest assured it will be there on your breakfast tables in

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the morning. So, what are the benefits of Yorkshire? You are

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asking a Lancastrian! Well, we have this opinion about each other. You

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think we are soft and a bit silly and we think you are miserable and

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tight with your money. There is a bit of truth in each of those. I say

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to London when they speak about Arsenal and Chelsea having a

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rivalry. I say that Lancashire and Yorkshire 's arrival. Are you

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familiar of the Battle of Towton. This is a proper rivalry! At heart,

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when we talk about southerners, we really mean Londoners. I don't think

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either of us have anything against people from Cornwall... Do you think

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there is a divide there, is the North /South divide still there?

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Massively but it is North and London divide. People in the North have a

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lot of time for south Wales and Cornwall and Devon but I do think

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they get very knocked about the fact that a handful of postal districts

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around and W one set the agenda for the whole of the country and they

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feel they are doing us a favour by coming up and mixing with us. It has

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been lovely to talk to you but that is a southern softy shirt that you

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are wearing. We are all aspirational and we can lift ourselves up. We

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don't have to be unsophisticated, you know! We can mix with the best

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of them sartorially! Thank you very much.

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He is a sharp chap! Well, staying on the theme of

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culture in the north what do you know about Spanish riding?

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430 years of tradition, the school in Vienna cultivates classical

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equitation in the Renaissance tradition of the haute ecole! You

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see I do read the New Statesman! What you mean is dancing horses.

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Well, they are coming to Yorkshire for the first time. Next year

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they'll be in Sheffield with special guests from TeamGB. Danny Carpenter

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has this. This is Britain's Lee Pearson, a

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Paralympic gold medallist. The discipline is dressage, horse rider

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in perfect harmony. This is dressage with bells on!

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The world`famous Spanish Riding School and its Sally ends. 400 years

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of training and tradition and horsemanship. It is awe`inspiring.

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`` stallions. This is the third time I have done a display with them. I

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remember doing it in Wembley and there were guys hiding in the corner

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to watch me ride. It was awe`inspiring to see what they are

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doing. They are talented people and they are very impressive to watch

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anyway so watching them with their horses is an honour. Next year will

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be the first time that the show has come to the North of England, to

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Sheffield. For people like those who work here, it is an obvious draw,

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but for presenter Nicky Chapman, it is also about inspiration. You do

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not need to have hundreds of thousands of pounds in the bank to

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become a gold medal winner. That is the most important message that

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comes through because the UK has a history of horse men and women and

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it is such a strong tradition that I think it is even more important now

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to say to people that anybody could take up riding, whatever your

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ability you can enjoy it. This may be about as far removed from pony

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trekking as you can get, but who knows what the visit of these famous

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equestrians might inspire. I actually saw those in Vienna. They

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are beautiful. Did you? I will see them in

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Sheffield! In the 1940s there were 10,000

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signal boxes in use on our railway lines. Now with new technology

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taking over, only 500 exist. Three Yorkshire boxes have today been

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given Grade II listed status, to preserve the buildings and

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mechanical workings before they become obsolete. Heidi Tomlinson

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reports. Things are done the old`fashioned

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way at Marston Moor on the York to Harrogate line. IV has worked here

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since 1978. The chimes, how cue to close the crossing gates to traffic.

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The bell goes again which means a train is imminent. Ivy then listen

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`` pull the lever to raise the signal. This was once used as a

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station and there is a platform here but in the last 40 years the trains

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have just rumbled through with the drivers relying on the mechanical

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semaphore signals. It is a simple system. If the arm is raised, it is

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effectively a green light and if lowered, red. The frame makes this

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165`year`old signal box special which is one of the reasons it has

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been given listed status along with two others in North Yorkshire. It

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deserves that status because it is truly old, but very reliable. I put

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the keys into the gate locks, I'd pull off and then the signal comes

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off. It has never failed you? It has never failed, no. I have been here

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35 years and the work is very interesting and I have loved every

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second of it. But modernisation is inevitable. In a few years time the

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Marston Moor signal box will be decommissioned. We have to move with

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the times with the increasing demand in rail services so we are moving to

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operating centres that allow us to run more trains more efficiently and

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unfortunately these signal boxes will not be used any more. Hence the

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listed status, protection for a piece of railway history.

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They are just lovely. Emily Wightman, if you are watching their

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is a message here for Paul. Every time you come on to do be whether my

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mum says, I used to put his make up on on my make`up counter!

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You are joking! Was that what you did at school?

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I am going to the pub next week so I will get some right stick.

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I'm sure I must have been very young. That is even worse!

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young. That is Let me show you a picture. This is a

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lovely picture of mist and fog in this valley bottom. This second one

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could be the Lake District. This is just outside Rotherham. Keep the

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pictures coming. The headline for tomorrow. It is not

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too bad with a bit of rain at first and then it turns funny from the

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north`west. It will turn windy with gales in coastal areas. It will be a

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cleaner north`west which brings the sunshine. There has been a lot of

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cloud around today which has been thick enough to produce a little

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drizzle. There could be breaks through the course of this evening.

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Those breaks could lead to mist and patchy fog in places. That will

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shift and as the wind picks up the cloud will thicken and rain moves in

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from the North West. These are your sunrise times. These are high water

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times. A cloudy and damp start and windy as well. The rain will pull

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away to the South East. Most places will be dry by mid`morning ``

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mid`morning. Most places will be funny in the afternoon with just a

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chance of the odd shower clipping in on the western side of the Pennines.

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It will improve and a lot of sunshine tomorrow afternoon with a

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chill wind. Gales in coastal areas tomorrow evening and highs of eight

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or nine degrees. Average for the time of year. The weekend will be

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predominantly dry. Saturday will be mainly Sunni. A chill wind. A lot

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more cloud around at times. Your lip gloss looks terrific.

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Just before we go, if you'd like to go to the BBC's Sports Personality

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Of The Year, which is being held in Leeds in a couple of weeks, there's

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still a chance. A limited number of additional tickets go on sale

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tomorrow morning at 9.00am. They're priced between ?40 and ?60. For all

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the information go online. Good luck! Enjoy the rest of your

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evening. Good night.

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