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the north and west. That's all from the BBC news at six. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening, welcome to Monday's Look North. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
On the programme tonight: a new era for electricity generation in | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
Yorkshire. Plans for a ?2 billion clean power station at Drax, | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
creating 2000 jobs with a revolutionary system to stop carbon | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
dioxide polluting the air. You can see this is a breakthrough | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
technology which would transform the UK's energy system, but also the | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
world's. But will it keep the lights on and | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
the bills down? We investigate. Also tonight: Britain's cheapest | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
supermarket. 500 families in Barnsley can buy top class foods at | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
a third of the price on normal shop shelves. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Find out what happened when Russell the crow was given the chance to fly | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
back into the wild after being nursed back to health in | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
Huddersfield. We'll be presenting the BBC | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Yorkshire Sports Unsung Hero Award to the winner. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
And many of you saw this sunset in Sheffield yesterday. Join me later | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
for the forecast. First tonight: the new era for | :01:03. | :01:20. | |
electricity generated here in Yorkshire. Plans have been announced | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
today for a new power station at Drax, fired by coal but with | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
advanced technology used to remove the harmful carbon dioxide gas. The | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
plant, which will be built on the same Drax site near Selby,will cost | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
?2 billion. It will provide clean electricity to more than 630,000 | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
homes. Carbon dioxide will be captured on site and piped to the | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
North Sea. It could also lead to 2,000 jobs. | :01:43. | :01:59. | |
Drax was once one of Europe's's biggest polluters but it is only | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
mission to go green. Some other methods may surprise you. Rather | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
than abandon coal completely, it is investing its potential future. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
Today the Government announced that it was backing those plans. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
We're looking forward to developing this storage demonstration plant at | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
Drax but it is part of a longer`term solution. It is all designed along | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
the Humber Valley. We are creating the curb the network to be able to | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
extract that carbon and deliver it to storage offshore. | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
The brand`new coal `fired power station will be using the latest | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
carbon capture technology. Emissions will be sent underground through a | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
tunnel and to the North Sea. Instead of the CO2 going into the | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
atmosphere, 90% of the gas will be tunnelled out of the East Coast and | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
trapped beneath the sea bed. If we can capture the carbon | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
emissions from coal plants and store them safely, then we are not adding | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
to the climate change problem and it gives called a future. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
But not everyone is convinced. They are false solutions because we | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
know that this will not deliver the reductions that we need to. We need | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
an investment in energy efficiency. And Drax itself is moving away from | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
coal. It has converted half of its generators to burn renewable fuel. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
This is what all the fuss is about. This is biomass. It is like sawdust | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
squeezed into pellets. Millions has been spent on the project, which | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
uses leftovers from the forestry industry and is sustainable. But are | :04:02. | :04:10. | |
these advances going to cost more? All of the costs are already | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
factored into people's bills. There are no extra costs here. | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
What is for sure is that once it is complete, this will make Drax the | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
biggest renewable generator in Europe. | :04:27. | :04:34. | |
What implications could this have for Yorkshire's Caulfield? | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
As you heard, if this carbon capture technology storage works, it does | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
mean that Cole has a future. That can only be good news for the | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
coalfields. We now know that a lot of energy is generated by coal. Some | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
of that is coming from as far afield as Colombia and Russia. That is | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
because it is expensive. Today I spoke to UK coal. He has set that he | :05:14. | :05:25. | |
welcomes decarbonisation. The company are worried that we need to | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
stop and think. The pipeline that they are talking about which will | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
take the emissions to the North Sea will be built at the specifications | :05:38. | :05:45. | |
much bigger than they first thought. This means that big polluters could | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
tap into the pipeline and this will help them to get rid of their | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
emissions also. That is good news. I am sure it is not the last we will | :06:03. | :06:13. | |
hear of this. A supermarket that's said to be the | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
cheapest in Britain has opened in South Yorkshire today. It's called | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
'Community Shop' and the first store is in Goldthorpe, near Barnsley. | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
It's aimed at low`income households and the shop will be stocked with | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
cut`price food that other stores have thrown out. Shoppers will have | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
to have membership cards, which are only being issued to 500 poor | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
families. Dawn Robinson lost her job three | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
months ago. She is currently unemployed and the weekly | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
supermarket shop eats into her meagre income. Community Shop's | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
arrival in Goldthorpe is helping her get by at an expensive time of year. | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
When it comes to Christmas and pantomimes and things like that, and | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
the children want to go on trips, that money has to come out of that | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
?70 a week, so it's a tight budget. And the kids have to live on beans | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
on toast for the rest of the week. With these prices, they can still | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
eat fruit and have proper meals every day and go on the pantomime | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
trip too. Community Shop will buy heavily | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
discounted goods that the big retailers normally have to pay to | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
dump. The food is in`date, but might be discontinued or labelled up | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
wrongly. So food that would have ended up rotting in a landfill site | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
is now being bought by Community Shop's 500 new customers at around a | :07:28. | :07:37. | |
third of the original cost. These chocolate is art in`date, but | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
supermarkets do not want to sell them any more. These yoghurts simply | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
have a printing error. Each customer is a member of the | :07:46. | :07:58. | |
shop, allowed to join because they are struggling financially. | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
This is a very proud community, but one that has found life very tough, | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
really since the pit closures. For instance, we have some young mums | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
holding down two jobs. That's really tough, juggling childcare and work | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
and still not breaking above the poverty line. Products will change | :08:15. | :08:35. | |
every week. I would not have imagined they would sell things like | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
this. Community Shop want to open 20 | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
stores nationwide, all providing cheap, quality food in deprived | :08:43. | :08:57. | |
towns. That is a brilliant idea. Later on Look North: the allotment | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
holders threatening legal action against the council's planned rent | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
increases. A woman's in hospital with serious | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
dog bite injuries after police were called to a property in Leeds. One | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
dog was captured and another removed from the house in Osmondthorpe. Joe | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
Inwood reports. It was just after 220 this afternoon | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
that police were brought to this property in Leeds. Reports of a | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
woman being attacked by her own dogs. I spoke to the neighbourhood | :09:34. | :09:45. | |
maybe 999: . `` need the 999 call. She is still pretty shaken up. She | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
said the police arrived quickly. Some of the police had guns. They | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
were tackling the dock at the back of the property and one was at the | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
front. I would not have them in my house. | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
They are vicious animals. I am horrified that someone was attacked. | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
The woman is 27 years old and is called Emma. The dog bite injuries | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
are serious. Teachers have been protesting | :10:28. | :10:37. | |
outside this special school. The effectiveness of the school was | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
found to be inadequate and trade unions feel there will be | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
redundancies at the school. I have worked here for several years | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
and it is a fantastic school. The staff are fantastic and it would be | :10:56. | :10:56. | |
a tragedy if it was closed. One of the stations for the new | :10:57. | :11:17. | |
Crossrail project in London is being built at a factory near Worksop. | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
Work is currently under way in the capital, building the new rail | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
transport system at a cost of ?14.8 billion. It'll have 38 stations and | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
link up Heathrow, the West End, City and Docklands. Large sections of one | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
station will be built at Laing O'Rourke's factory in Steetley then | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
transported more than 130 miles to East London and assembled on site. | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
Of the ?14.8 billion that's been spent to build Crossrail, some 97% | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
of it is with UK industries. We're very keen to see other parts of the | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
UK getting the benefit from that work. That will also be very | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
important for us when we come to build HS2. | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
Rail journey times between Sheffield and London have been cut from this | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
morning. The track has been improved so that trains can go faster. It's | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
cost ?70 million. And it will cut seven minutes off the average | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
journey time. The quickest train now takes two hours. | :12:09. | :12:15. | |
A school that lost part of its roof in Doncaster in high winds last week | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
remained closed today. The Head of Hayfield School in Auckley says | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
further assessments were due to take place today to identify the extent | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
of the damage. The school will stay closed for Years seven, eight, nine | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
and ten all week. But it's hoped parts of the site for Years 11, 12 | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
and 13 will open from Wednesday. Campaigners against Sea Defences | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
near Scarborough's Spa Complex say they still don't want them after | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Thursday's tidal surge. Cafes, pubs and shops were flooded in | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
Scarborough and Whitby after gale force winds and a spring tide | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
combined to create huge waves. The Borough Council wants to put rock | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
armour along a stretch of the South Bay to bolster defences. It says the | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
current sea wall there is deteriorating. | :12:51. | :13:08. | |
A group of allotment holders in Leeds have started legal action | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
against the council over planned increases to their rent. The Leeds | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
and District Allotment Gardeners' Federation operates allotments | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
across the city with members also providing produce to local charities | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
for free. The council says it will defend any legal action. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
Michaela is 74. For the past 14 years, she's been growing her own | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
organic vegetables on this plot in Gledhow, in Leeds. But over the next | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
three years, her rent will almost double. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
I do feel angry because if the rents go up I might have to think | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
seriously about giving up my piece of the allotment. | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
Right now, allotment owners across Leeds with a full plot will pay | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
?38.50 a year. In 2014 that will rise to ?58 a year. By 2016, that | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
will increase to ?72. The City Council says it needs to | :13:57. | :14:07. | |
put up the rent because of budget cuts imposed by the Government. But | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
the allotment owners are planning to take their fight to the High Court. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
One of our members said last week: "I'm doing this for pennies. I'm on | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
benefits. I can't afford for the rents to go up." You've also got | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
people who legitimately cannot afford the rise because of other | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
commitments, for instance we have people on this site with young | :14:29. | :14:38. | |
families. Leeds City Council have told us they are disappointed by | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
this action and argued that there is no merit in taking this action and | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
it is likely to cost the public purse. The council says the increase | :14:46. | :15:04. | |
in rents is modest, but lawyers have put in an application for a judicial | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
review in the High Court, though the allotment owners say they would | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
still like to negotiate with the council and try to avoid a legal | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
battle. Still to come: we find out who's won | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. | :15:20. | :15:29. | |
Sport now: only our Championship teams were in league action because | :15:30. | :15:43. | |
of second round FA Cup fixtures. We start our round`up at Elland Road, | :15:44. | :15:44. | |
for what was a thrilling match. Leeds may have thought it wasn't | :15:45. | :15:54. | |
their day, finding themselves 2`0 down at half`time against Watford. | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
But Elland Road came to life thanks to goals from Danny Pugh and Matt | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Smith. Ross McCormack made it 3`2 to Leeds, but Watford equalised in the | :16:02. | :16:03. | |
dying minutes and it finished 3`3. Huddersfield striker James Vaughan | :16:04. | :16:16. | |
should've given his team the lead against Ipswich twice. Danny Wood | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
put the Terriers one`up and Adam Hamill came close to making it two. | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
But Ipswich scored twice to claim all three points. | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
Doncaster Rovers slipped closer to the relegation zone. Bongani Khumalo | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
came close for Donny but Bolton finished up 3`0 winners. | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
A single goal was enough to give Nottingham Forest a win at Sheffield | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
Wednesday. The Owls remain joint`bottom. Caretaker manager | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Stuart Gray is expected to remain in charge for their next game. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Barnsley should still have caretaker boss, Mickey Mellon, in charge at | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
the weekend. Table`toppers Burnley took the lead. The Tykes nearly | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
snatched a point but Tomasz Cywka's free kick was saved. Barnsley prop | :17:02. | :17:02. | |
up the Championship table. Meanwhile in the FA Cup, Sheffield | :17:03. | :17:20. | |
United overcame a potential banana skin at non`league Cambridge United | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
yesterday. An early goal was what they needed and they got it when | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Jose Baxter turned in Ryan Flynn's cross. The game was settled by a | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
fine solo effort in the second half from Jamie Murphy. He cut inside the | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
Cambridge defence and found the perfect finish to complete a 2`0 | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
victory. That meant Sheffield United were our | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
only lower league side in the draw for the third round and they've been | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
rewarded with a trip to Premier League Aston Villa. Our Championship | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
sides are also in there but none have drawn top`flight opposition. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Now for a Yorkshireman who's on top of the world. Sheffield's Nick | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
Matthew is once again ranked number one in squash after victory in the | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Hong Kong Open yesterday. Matthew first topped the world rankings in | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
2010 and has now won 27 career titles. | :18:15. | :18:28. | |
Next Sunday the BBC will host the BBC personality of the year. | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Now we have a very special presentation to make on tonight's | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
programme to a man who's gone beyond the call of duty to put his sport | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
firmly on the map. Ian Watson from Castleford knew he | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
was in the running for the BBC Yorkshire Sports Unsung Hero Award, | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
but tonight we've got some good news for him: his tireless work at the | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
City of Leeds Synchronised Swimming Club has won him the award. | :18:54. | :19:05. | |
For 28 years, Ian Watson has been helping budding synchronised | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
swimmers in Yorkshire. He taught himself the techniques and created | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
an amateur swimming club at Kippax Pool. He now volunteers six days a | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
week six days a week and is Chair of two clubs in Leeds. He's also | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
developed the city's Synchronised Swimming Club, where the most | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
promising young people can flourish. Ian Watson is a man who is dedicated | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
to what he does. When he was suffering with cancer, | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
he still tried to come to training as much as possible. When he | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
couldn't drive, he got on public transport to make sure that he came | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
to the sessions still. He works tirelessly in volunteering, being | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
part of committees to facilitate synchronised swimming in this area. | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
I really think that without Ian and his vision, synchronised swimming | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
would not be where it is today in the North. | :19:49. | :19:50. | |
Ian has helped hundreds of people to learn the art and even financed | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
equipment at the club at his own expense. | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
I'm not out to produce a champion, I just want to produce the best that | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
the swimmer can be, irrespective of whether it is somebody who doesn't | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
get anywhere but enjoys it or somebody who gets an Olympic gold | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
medal. It doesn't make any difference to me. | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
Those he has helped say he is the best coach ever. | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
He doesn't tell you off if you do something wrong. | :20:17. | :20:18. | |
He's always helping us improve and he's always really friendly to us. | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
He likes to have a laugh! Ian is a man admired and respected | :20:21. | :20:34. | |
by those he works with and a man much loved by his sporting | :20:35. | :20:35. | |
community. We have actually invited Ian into | :20:36. | :20:49. | |
the studio tonight. We would like to give you this very special alert and | :20:50. | :21:05. | |
say congratulations! Now that we have sprung a surprise on you, how | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
does it feel? I am honoured to have received such | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
an award. We saw in the film that you | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
volunteer six days a week and you have paid for equipment and stop | :21:20. | :21:28. | |
what keeps you doing this? Just to see the children develop to | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
the best of their abilities. To see them enjoy the sport and some have | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
Olympic potential. You spent a long time and were | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
critically ill in hospital. To devote all this time to this sport, | :21:43. | :21:54. | |
Friday June want to do that? `` why did you want to do that? | :21:55. | :22:06. | |
It gave me something to do of an evening and it kept me going. | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
What kind of teacher is he? He is really good. He does not just | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
tell you what to do, but he has a sense of humour! | :22:20. | :22:30. | |
What does even's what mean to those who take part in synchronised | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
swimming? I have seen a massive change in my | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
daughter. She used to dance and then Ian spotted her potential at the | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
swimming pool. And now she is a synchronised swimmer. But he always | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
endeavours to develop every child who is there. He gives them | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
confidence and nurtures them. Thank you very much. You had better get a | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
taxi to! `` a tuxedo. When the producer rang me this | :23:12. | :23:35. | |
morning and mentioned that my story involved Russell Crowe, you can | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
imagine how excited I was. But as more details were revealed, it | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
became clear I wasn't going to film the Hollywood A`lister, I was going | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
to film Russell the crow, here in Huddersfield! | :23:46. | :23:58. | |
And this bird's story is nearly as dramatic anything his film star | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
namesake has starred in. He was found badly injured in the road last | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
year. Luckily, those who discovered him were students from an animal | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
care centre. They took him in, named him Russell and he has spent the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
last 12 months in rehabilitation. He was a little fledgling so he | :24:16. | :24:18. | |
couldn't feed himself, he had broken wing feathers and I knew that if we | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
rescued him, we'd have to keep him a whole year. His flight feathers came | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
back in nicely but he developed cataracts in his eyes, so I couldn't | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
release him. The team here have cared for Russell | :24:29. | :24:41. | |
but pushed themselves not to get too attached, knowing he was destined to | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
go back into the wild. Trying to get hold of Russell to check that he is | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
fit enough to fly is a difficult task! | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
MUSIC: "Fly Away" ` Lenny Kravitz. So then the moment of truth. The | :24:54. | :25:15. | |
aviary was opened, but would Russell fly to freedom? | :25:16. | :25:26. | |
Russell the crow rose to the occasion and the staff here will be | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
hoping his story has a Hollywood ending. | :25:33. | :25:42. | |
I am sure it will have a happy ending. From one bird brain to the | :25:43. | :25:54. | |
weather forecast. Look at these magnificent | :25:55. | :25:55. | |
photographs. A fairly quiet spell of weather is | :25:56. | :26:31. | |
upon us. Some cloudy intervals. On Wednesday we will see some subtle | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
changes. The cloud will reluctantly clear. A little bit of sunshine | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
might come through. Overnight it will be dry with variable cloud, | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
perhaps even a touch of ground frost. The sun will rise in the | :26:51. | :27:07. | |
morning at 8:12am. Tomorrow will be a dry day. A south`westerly breeze | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
should help to break up the cloud. Some mist and fog first thing on | :27:13. | :27:38. | |
Thursday morning. That will clear. There is a risk of rain on Thursday | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
night into Friday. | :27:41. | :27:42. |