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Welcome to Wednesday's Look North. On the programme tonight: failing

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our pupils? Yorkshire's first regional Ofsted report reveals

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attainment levels in our primary schools are the lowest in England.

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It is a poverty of expectation. It is a poverty of aspiration for

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children and young people who attend schools in our most deprived But

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we'll be talking to a former education chief who says Ofsted is

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wrong. Ministers. Also tonight: A man's arrested after

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his pregnant girlfriend dies following an attack by their dogs,

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believed to be illegal pit bulls. And after the storm surge, it is not

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just pulled `` building and people that have been affected, animals

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have become victims too. The best of the sunshine has been over the

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hills. The forecast follows later. For the first time the schools

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watchdog Ofsted has published a report into educational standards

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across our region. And it's not easy reading. Last year, children leaving

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primary schools in Yorkshire had the lowest attainment levels in England.

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At secondary level, there are big variations. In Barnsley, Doncaster

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and Bradford, more than half of schools require improvement or are

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inadequate. In fact in Barnsley 78% of pupils attend schools which are

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not yet good. But York is singled out as performing well with 9% of

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schools good or outstanding. This season football fans in Barnsley

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know what it is like to be marooned at the bottom of the league table.

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That worry about what it means the future. Should parents feel the same

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sense of frustration about the quality of education available in

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town? The report says 78% of pupils in Barnsley go to high school that

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are inadequate or require improvement. Horizon community

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college is a new school that hasn't been inspected yet. The principal

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says the league tables only tell half the story. Barnsley has for

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many years been the bottom of league tables. That is now changing. If I

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was a parent, I would be confident in sending my children to Barnsley

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schools. What we are doing is working together to make sure

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wherever that young people live in Barnsley, they go to their local

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school and it is a good or outstanding school. Barnsley isn't

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the only authority where there is a lack of good or outstanding high

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schools. Towns with economic problems are sitting at the foot of

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the England league table. Yorkshire authorities are at the bottom of the

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league tables for secondary schools. Bradford, Doncaster and Barnsley.

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Bradford in 138th placed, Doncaster 143rd and Barnsley, 149 out of 150.

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The reasons for the high number of schools that are not yet good live

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mainly in the expectations from local authorities, from school

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leaders, Academy chains, as to what they expect pupils can achieve. Her

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Majesty's inspectors will be in schools that are not yet good. I

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will authorise sending in inspectors to take a look at Doncaster,

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Barnsley and Bradford. Is there too much inspection? One Yorkshire beat

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thinks that is the problem. Often raising questions that `` but not

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providing answers. They tell you about the problems but don't stay

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around saying this is the way to put it right. That is a real weakness of

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our education system at the moment. On the ground, the expertise to say

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it is tough, you must feel demoralised having this Ofsted

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report. Let us see what positive things you can do to put your house

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in order and give these children the education they deserve. In Barnsley,

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the future is looking brighter because primary schools are showing

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improvements. Next year, the Ofsted spotlight may have switched to

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another time and town. Chris Edwards is a former Ofsted inspector and

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former Chief Executive of Education Leeds. He's now an education

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consultant based in York. Some say inspection doesn't work. Will it

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scare teaching staff? We have created a monster. There is fear of

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Ofsted. They have a commanding control and bullying approach that

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is actually meaning that we are getting mediocre instead of

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outstanding. What we have got to do, like Finland and Singapore and

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Canada, stop this nonsense about constantly measuring and weighing

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the pig and recognise it doesn't give you a better pic. Ofsed says

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poverty of expectation, poverty of aspiration. I have spoken to

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colleagues and they are appalled. It is insulting to argue. I spoke to

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one head and he said of the 100 or so staff, he would say 90% of those

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people had expectations that were incredibly high of the children and

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aspirations for those children. They are working hard to get them on

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apprenticeships and get them into the world of work and give them the

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skills they need. I think it is deeply worrying that we have got

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this culture in education where we are creating something which is

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unhelpful. Those teachers have to turn up tomorrow in their schools

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and you have just said, 78% of them are not good enough. There has to be

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solutions on how to put that right. Ofsted is a British tuition because

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many other countries may not have that kind of inspection. Barnsley

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say they are doing good work. They shouldn't be too discouraged, is

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that what you are saying? We have some models that we carry. We have

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had the London challenge, education Leeds, the city of York schools

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learn together. They talked about a co`operative approach where schools

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share. We ought to flip the thing and start saying, where is the

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brilliant practice in Barnsley? Where is the brilliant practice in

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Bradford? How do we make that commonplace? How do we do that? It

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takes time. In Leeds, we took results from below 40% to 80% in

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five years. I think you have got to take time. When you read the

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research, it talks about sustained leadership, focus on teaching and

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focus on a culture which isn't the destructive and hopeful thing that

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cost 250 million. How quickly could you do that? There is success that

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we could celebrate and share and move forward. It took us five years

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in Leeds to do that. That could be done in each of those authorities.

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Get rid of Oxford `` Ofsted? Yes. Thank you. A mother of four who's

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also understood to have been pregnant has died after being

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attacked by her two dogs in Leeds. 27`year`old Emma Bennett suffered

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serious injuries on Monday afternoon as we reported on Look North that

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night. Police believe the dogs are American pit bull terriers which are

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illegal in this country. A man's now been arrested on suspicion of

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offences relating to the Dangerous Dogs Act.

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She was a mother of four with another child on the right way. Here

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we see the moments just after Emma Bennett had been subject to the

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horrific dog attack. It will cost her her life. Police guarding the

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alley and one of her dogs standing still. Soon the police moved in.

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Seven officers first dropping the dog then restraining it with

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specialist equipment. It was here at the back of the house that those

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photographs were taken. Please came to the property after panicked phone

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calls from neighbours. They had heard a woman screaming coming from

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inside the house. Cries of, no, no, no. What they were hearing was Emma

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Bennett being attacked by dogs and receiving horrific injuries that

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would ultimately cost her her life. This morning, neighbours were trying

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to comprehend the news. Not a nice way to go. I do feel sorry for the

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girl. It is not nice at all. I don't think people should be allowed to

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keep dogs like that. They need licenses. That may prove to be the

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case. Police Brive they are prohibited American put bills ``

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police believe they are prohibited American pit bulls. They lived with

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the dogs for some time but why would they suddenly turn? One expert has a

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theory. A dog could buy it because it is stressed out by fireworks

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going off or something that is totally unnatural to that dog. In

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this case, I had heard that the lady suffered with epileptic fits. It

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could have been where she was having a fit. The dogs would have been

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spooked out by what it had seen and I think that is what has happened.

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In a statement, the family said: That support was evident outside the

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house today as police began their investigations into how and why Emma

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lost her life. Later on Look North: The true cost

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of the clear`up. ?1 million worth of repair works begins in Scarborough

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following last week's tidal surge. A 14`year`old boy who was knocked

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down outside a Sheffield school has died from his injuries. Lawrence

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Moorhouse was hit by a car close to Sheffield Park Academy. The school

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paid tribute saying they were deeply saddened by his loss. His family

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have said Lawrence was well liked and had lots of friends.

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Marks and Spencer have announced that 300 jobs will be created at a

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new distribution centre in South Yorkshire but it will mean job

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losses in Bradford. The Bradford depot opened in 2010 but just over a

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third of the workforce there will be affected by the plans for the new

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centre in Sheffield. M say they're in consultation with around 100

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employees and efforts will be made to find them alternative jobs.

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It's been confirmed today that the damage caused by last week's tidal

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surge in Scarborough will cost around ?1 million to put right.

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That's just the bill expected for council properties. It's not yet

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known how much repairs to private properties will be. We also found

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out today that it wasn't just buildings and people displaced by

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the storm. A number of seals have also had to be re`housed. Phil

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Bodmer reports. The waters may have receded but

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almost a week on from the North Sea storm surge, workers were still

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clear in terms of silt from the road today. They estimate the cost of

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damage caused by the storm surge will run into at least ?1 million

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and that is just for council property alone. It is now going to

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ask the government for financial support to help pay for that

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clean`up. We can't afford to pay for all of it and we need that

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government assistance. A scheme was set up by the government to help

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local authorities to cover the cost of catastrophic civil emergencies

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such as the flooding that we experienced last week. The Newcastle

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packet on Scarborough Sand side was one of a number of properties

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engulfed last week. The water was up to the eighth step there and it

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covered me. It was unbelievable. Cat has run the pub for many years and

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has never witnessed anything like it. The damage here runs into

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thousands of pounds but Kath says she needs to reopen as soon as

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possible. We have never been affected by sea water. Rainwater,

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yes, but never sea water. We have got to be opened the Christmas. Up

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here, it isn't too bad. If we don't have a carpet down, so be it. As

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long as we can get the seller 100%, I can get my beer back on and my

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customers back. At the Sea life Centre, they have taken in seals and

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otters from Norfolk after storm surge damage shutdown their

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Hunstanton enclosure. There has been very little beach around here where

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they can come out on. The ones we are seeing are generally right at

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the tide line and a very tired. Work has begun on repairing parts of the

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sea wall. The physical clear up should be complete in the next few

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weeks. Recovery financially, however, may take longer.

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Before seven o'clock: What would we do without the internet?

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Meet the city`centre residents who complain they'd get a faster

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broadband speed in the middle of the Dales.

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And the Yuletide pub singers keeping Christmas traditions alive in

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Sheffield. I have been trying to remember when

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I first used the internet, but it has been around for over 40 years,

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so it was probably about 1980s when broadband was a reference to my

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trousers! And speeds were just snail like.

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Well it's much faster now for most of us, but hundreds of people on a

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new estate just four miles from the centre of Leeds are getting

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painfully slow speeds, with damaging effects on their lives.

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This week they've won a partial success in their campaign for better

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broadband. Here's our Business Correspondent Danni Hewson.

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Karl Thomas works from home on the new Forest Village estate in

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Middleton. He is in IT so a decent broadband connection is essential.

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Far too often he just has too sit and wait. I was at the stage when I

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was looking into renting office space so I could work from home

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because it was no longer viable. Paul is deaf and relies on Internet

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to communicate by sign language with his family and friends. Slow

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broadband can make that impossible, cutting him off from the outside

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world. They receive speeds of 1.3 megabits per second, that is lower

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than the 2 megabits per second class as a basic broadband connection. The

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national average is 14.7. What are the main reasons? Poor

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infrastructure, particularly the Long distance between here and the

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local telephone exchange. Last year residents started the campaign for

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superfast fibre`optic broadband. The tea said it would cost too much and

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demand would be too low. `` BT. I think they have got their assessment

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wrong. The evidence for that is clear because they looked at the

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area and thought there wouldn't be a lot of demand. There was a huge

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amount of demand. Earlier this week after two years of campaigning,

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there was success as BT upgraded this cabinet to superfast broadband.

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It means Paul and Carl's problems should soon disappear but others

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nearby are not so lucky. BT is connecting two thirds of British

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homes to superfast broadband. Two other cabinets on this estate are

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not included. We have many invested billions. We are working with

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government to get superfast broadband out to West Yorkshire.

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People will have to rely on the subsidised government scheme that is

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only just getting started. Cole says the campaign will go on until

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everyone on the state gets an Internet connection fit for the

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21st`century. People cower `` people power can

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work sometimes. Football now and we could soon be making plans to follow

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Chesterfield all the way to Wembley again!

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We'll need The Spireites to beat Fleetwood home and away over two

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legs in February, in the Northern Area JP Trophy Final. Chesterfield

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are still in with a great shout, after last night's penalty shoot`out

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win against Oldham, in a match that finished 1`1 in normal time. But

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Fleetwood are still in it at the expense of Rotherham United, whose

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poor keeper Adam Collin let in this howler over in Lancashire last

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night. Nuah Dicko scored for the Millers in a 2`1 defeat.

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The BBC's annual celebration of sport comes to Leeds this weekend.

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It's the first time the city has hosted the Sports Personality of the

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Year Awards, but the ceremony itself is marking its 60th anniversary.

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A special programme on BBC One tonight looks back at the history of

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the show. But we thought we'd get in first to remind you of how the best

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in Yorkshire sport have been honoured in the past. Ian Bucknell

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reports. There is nothing that captures the

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imagination in the way that sport does in the UK. We love sport, that

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is why we do. `` who better to say what it means so much. He has been

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on a three times. `` he has been honoured three times. The first

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Yorkshire winner was also the first woman to become top sports

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personality. Anita Lanesborough was Olympic, Commonwealth medallist.

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Dorothy Hyman was second in 1962 but a year later, in recognition of a

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host of international medals, she went one better. It is the icing on

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the cake. You want to do well in your own event but it is... I think

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it is the pinnacle of all awards. Mainly because it is a public vote.

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1969, leaves United won the fit `` football league title with a record

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number of points. Their boss became sports manager of the year. The only

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time that award was given. 2002, it was back to the theme of strong

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Yorkshire woman as Jane Tomlinson was recognised for her tireless work

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for charity as she fought cancer. This year, it is time for Hannah

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Cockroft. Is a Paralympian, it is something that I don't think has

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ever happened before. Yorkshire will play a part this year as host but

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will we also have another white rose winner? We will find out on Sunday.

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I can remember that Jane Tomlinson moment. I was bawling my hours ``

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bawling my eyes out! And for a full look back through the archives

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Sports Personality of the Year at 60 will be on tonight at nine o'clock.

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Let's stay on a celebration of Yorkshire sporting talent. And let

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me suggest that this club is the most successful in the country. It's

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in Wakefield and its stunning track record is this. Gold medals in six

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consecutive world championships dating back to 2003. And in the last

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few weeks Wakefield Gym Club added two more impressive titles to its

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books. Ashleigh Long and Eleanor Simpson

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became world tumbling champions, so we sent Paul Ogden who loves a

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tumble out to meet them. Thanks very much. I will put my back

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out if you don't watch it. I will not be trying this. We are looking

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at a sporting centre of excellence here in Wakefield. We will meet them

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surely, our new world champions but first, I want to illustrate exactly

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what tumbling is. We are talking about gymnastics without the

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apparatus. None better than Dan Lanagan who will illustrate the

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point for us. Ready, Dan? Take it away.

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Brilliant landing. No other people here to applaud him. He has some

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team`mates of equal if not better calibre. Congratulations Alan being

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world champion. How do you feel about it? It is a great experience

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to experience it. At 13, it is amazing. Were you emotional when he

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found out? Very emotional. All the team on `` team`mates and the

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support, it is amazing. Ashley Cole you had a real reason to be

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emotional. I broke my foot last year in the same arena so to go back and

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be in the same place, it was hard but to come out as a world champion,

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it was unbelievable. Congratulations to you both and the coach. So we

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come out as a world champion, it was unbelievable. Congratulations to you

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both and the coach. Surrey, what staggers me a was in the first ever

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Olympics but they took it out because there is not enough

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competitors in the women's section to get it back into the Olympics.

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They looking magnificent condition and drive a cart and horses through

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the theory that young people don't look after themselves. In Wakefield,

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they do. They are fine ambassadors for the sport. Harry, next time you

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go to the gym, this is what I am going to be expecting from you.

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I would do it every night, actually. Now tis the season to be merry but

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when was the last time you sang Christmas carols at the pub? I

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thought not! Well in the north of Sheffield and north Derbyshire

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there's a tradition of doing just that. These aren't your well`known

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carols though, they're Christmas songs that have been sung in these

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pubs since Victorian Times and passed down the generations. Here's

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Mark Ansell. Just another Sunday singalong at

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this pub in Sheffield or so it looks. There is something much more

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festive and much more traditional going on here. He comes back from

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Scotland every December to exercise his vocal call `` chords. It goes

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back to a time when people created music of their own. These people

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were blacksmiths, shoemakers, tailors, they were ordinary people.

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There was an absence of music in church and they created this music.

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They filled the gap. There are around 20 pubs where they sing these

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carols, including here. I have heard they belt them out in this place so

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I am going to check this out. These are songs that my grandparents

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sang and going back, we kept them alive here. In a lot of the

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country, there were local carols that have gone. I play to make sure

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I have got a chair. It is the only time I can get sat down. It is a

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really good atmosphere. The people come from miles around. I have come

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from Edinburgh for this today and I haven't been disappointed. The

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amnesty has been amazing and more than I expected. I will be back.

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There is no more room at the inn so they are spilling outside. Let us

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hope the neighbours are feeling festive.

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I want to go where they are. In the bleak midwinter, long, long

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ago. We are on day 11. Let me show you

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three pictures week `` that you have sent in.

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A big change coming through as we discussed last night. Tomorrow,

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mostly cloudy with patchy rain and then we are going to get a

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succession of weather fronts pushing in from the Atlantic. At times, it

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could become very wet and very windy indeed. No sign of any cold spell

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whatsoever. A messy day with rain at first. The weekend looks set to be

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the best time for good weather. We are expecting the breeze to pick up

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and the cloud to push on from the south`west. Eventually, that fog

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will lift into low cloud. We have a ground frost right now with

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temperatures around one Celsius. Tomorrow looks set to be a cloudy

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day. A dry start with some cloud pushing in from the west. Eastern

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areas have seen very little of that rain. Top temperatures coming in at

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nine Celsius. Friday is looking wet at times. That is the forecast.

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