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Good evening and welcome to Monday's Look North. On the programme

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tonight: Fighting for the right to die. The paralysed man from Leeds at

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Britain's highest court in the land, demanding the right for a doctor to

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end his life. We'll have the latest from the Supreme Court on Paul

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Lamb's case. Also tonight: The last of the movie

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hellraisers. We trace the Yorkshire roots of Hollywood legend Peter

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O'Toole, who died at the weekend. And find out how a host of heroes

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saved the life of this South Yorkshire miner after an accident a

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mile underground. And she may not have won, but Hannah

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Cockroft stole the show. We'll have all the highlights from last night's

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Sports Personality of the Year Awards in Leeds.

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There was a bit of sunshine. But what about the weekend forecast?

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Join me for that later in the programme.

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But first tonight, a man from Leeds, who wants to change the law and make

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it legal for a doctor to help end his life, has taken his case to the

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highest court in the land. Paul Lamb, who was severely paralysed in

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a road accident, wants the Supreme Court to rule that disabled people

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should have the right to be helped to die with dignity. Spencer Stokes

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has been inside the court in London today. He joins us now. Spencer,

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what's happened today? Paul Lamb was in London today, aiming to continue

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his legal fight to change the law on assisted suicide. He wants doctors

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to help patients and their lives if the patient feels that life is no

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longer worth living. That is incredibly controversial and

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something that has already been rejected by the Court of Appeal, but

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the final decision of that rests with the Supreme Court. Paul Lamb

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travelled down from Leeds yesterday. I'm not up with him this morning and

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he explain to me that many people have been getting in touch with him.

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Since I took this case on, I have had letters, e`mails from so many

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people who have said their partner or friend would still be alive now

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if this law was in place because a lot of people have actually ended up

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taking their lives because they do want to wait where they are in a

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position where they can't take their own lives. Perl is not the first

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person from Yorkshire to challenge the law on assisted suicide. In

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2009, Debbie Purdy made legal history after forcing clarification

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on whether her husband would be prosecuted for helping her to die.

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Paul's legal case goes a step further in the want a doctor to

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assist him. He took up the challenge previously mounted by Tony Nick

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Levenson. That case has already been rejected by the Court of Appeal and

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today, the legal journey, involving Tony and Paul, reached the Supreme

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Court. Paralysed from the neck down following a car crash in 1990, Paul

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Lamb suffers with chronic pain. He has described his life as a

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monotonous existence and has spent much of last year in bed with carers

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on hand 24 hours a day, providing the drugs he needs to treat his

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pain. I cannot respect anybody who would willingly want me to go

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through more pain and suffering than I can enjoy. If the time comes, and

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it is getting harder as I am getting older, I will know. And I want that

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respect. Earlier this year, three appeal Court judges rejected his bid

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to change the law. Today he came to the Supreme Court, the highest in

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England and Wales. At his side, Jane, whose husband Tony had been

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campaigning for assisted suicide up until his death in 2012. If the

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court were to rule in his favour, in the future, a doctor would be able

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to help a patient take their life or provided machine that would

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administer a drug or drink that would also bring about the death of

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patient. Do people have a right to end their lives? And to do so with

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dignity? In court, the arguments in favour were set up by Paul Lamb's

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lawyers, who are seeking to reassure the nine judges for every single

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case would still be subject to legal proceedings. If Parliament were to

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legislate, the law would be available to everybody, but the way

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we are suggesting it is a much safer process because the courts would tap

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to consider each case and decide on it. Arguments and counter arguments

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will be considered for four days. Any change to the law would be

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highly significant but Paul says, adding human level, it would give

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him peace mind. What happens next? There are nine judges involved in

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this case rather than the usual five, so that shows how seriously

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this has been taken and demonstrates that a depth and breadth of legal

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knowledge is needed before any decision is reached. The court will

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sit for four days and we are expecting a decision early next

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year, perhaps eight or ten weeks from now.

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He's one of the last of the generation of actors who could

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rightly call themselves hellraisers. Peter O'Toole, who grew up in Leeds,

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died at the weekend, aged 81. He shot to fame as the star of Lawrence

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of Arabia and was nominated eight times for an Oscar. Charlotte

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Leeming looks back at his Yorkshire roots.

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It was the role that made him an overnight star. In 1962, Peter

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O'Toole was cast as the lead in Lawrence of Arabia. This unknown

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actor had become part of Hollywood history. Peter O'Toole was born in

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1932. It's not known whether his birthplace was Ireland all leads.

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But we definitely know his upbringing was here in Leeds. He was

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part of an Irish expat community here. He went to the local Catholic

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primary school, but at the age of 15, he renounced religion and got

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into all sorts of scrapes and fights on the streets of Leeds. He was an

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amazingly brave and generous man and took me to where he was brought up,

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in the back streets of Leeds, when we were on tour. He showed me when

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he learned to play rugby and fight. His working life began at the

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Yorkshire evening news. The paper 's editor told him, you will never make

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a reporter. It was then he switched to drama. He had charisma and star

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quality and shone through the screen. It was luminous, it

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incandescent, in century. Off`screen, he was known as a

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hell`raiser, one of a generation of hard drinking stars who gloried in

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their wild exploits. He was nominated for an Oscar eight times,

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but it wasn't until 2003 that he collected an honorary Academy award.

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You have given me this delightful shock! Good night and God bless you.

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This Leeds lad from humble beginnings was now an international

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superstar. He said he bid the profession a dry eyed and profoundly

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grateful farewell last year. Later on Look North: Showing they

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care. We go behind the scenes at a dedicated dementia support centre in

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South Yorkshire. Some other news from around

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Yorkshire now and police searching for a sex offender who went missing

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in West Yorkshire have arrested a 46`year`old man on suspicion of his

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murder. These CCTV images show the last known sighting of 46`year`old

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Robert Hind on the right. He vanished from Dewsbury last

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Wednesday. Police this afternoon found suspected human remains in the

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River Colne in Milnsbridge. There's a warning that a North

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Yorkshire power station could CLOSE because of a lack of Government

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support. Ministers have said they're unlikely to give Eggborough the

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money that's needed to convert it from burning coal to green energy.

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MP for Selby and Ainsty Nigel Adams says he's been working with both

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Drax and Eggborough on their biomass plans and this is a real blow to

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Eggborough. I have been working with Edinburgh for over a year on this

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project and I don't want to see a ?750 million project go to waste, so

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I will be rattling a lot of cages in government to ensure this project

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goes ahead. Businesses in Sheffield's Lower Don

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Valley have voted in favour of contributing towards the cost of a

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flood defence programme. Thousands of homes and businesses in the area

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were severely damaged by flooding six years ago. An ?8 million scheme

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has been designed to stop it happening again. 89 companies voted

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in a ballot with 73 in favour. They'll be asked to contribute ?1.4

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million towards the scheme. Train operator East Coast is

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freezing more than half of its fares to and from London from two January.

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The company says the move is a commercial decision to try and

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encourage more passengers. As well as fares to and from London, East

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Coast is also freezing fares on 43% of ALL journeys made. There will be

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an overall increase in fares of just over 1%, but the company says the

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freeze means there's actually a cut in the cost of a rail ticket. Times

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are tough. While the economy is recovering, businesses and

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individuals are struggling. We would help to make ourselves more

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attractive relative to our competitors. We thinks it's

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commercially right for our business, too.

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Now to a man who owes his life to his workmates, air ambulance

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paramedics and doctors after a horrific mining accident. Richard

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Hodgkinson was just 20 minutes away from finishing his shift at Hatfield

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Colliery when he suffered injuries so severe he had to have nine major

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operations. He was hit by a high`pressure hydraulic hose at the

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coalface a mile underground. We'll talk to Richard in a moment, but

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first, let's take a look at what happened.

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Mine are Richard Hodgkinson was hit by a high`pressure hose which

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fractured 3000 feet underground. Richard was one of the most

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critically injured patients for a paramedic. When he was brought up,

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he genuinely looked like a dead man. He was critically ill in fighting

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for his life. I looked at him and looked in his eyes, and for that

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split second, I could tell he was a man pleading. But against the odds,

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and after weeks in intensive care, Richard is finally allowed home.

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Richard joins us now with Dave Appleby, who was one of the

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paramedics on duty that day. Richard, you're incredibly lucky to

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be alive. I know is the first time you've seen that film. How do you

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feel when you watch that? It's very difficult to describe. Shock. What

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about me? It's unbelievable. Can you actually remember what happened that

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day? I can remember everything. Once I reached accident and emergency,

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nothing. I was away for three weeks. Tell me about the hose itself. It

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was roughly about 2`3 inch diameter hose and it just burst. It whipped

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across and cut inside me. It hit me on the chest, took a chunk out of my

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arm. We have got shots of you. This is terrible. This hydraulic hose is

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used to lifting 20 tonnes of weight. This hits the main supports on the

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coalface. One of the paramedics described you as a dead man with his

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eyes open. I am shocked to hear that! Dave, you are a professional

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and used to covering bad injuries. This must've been the most severe

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challenges of your career. It was. He had two or three separate

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injuries, each one of them could have killed him. So what do you do?

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You stabilise him as best you can. Someone as critically injured as he

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was needs to be in the hospital with the major trauma unit who can assess

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him and get down to the surgeons. As paramedics, we need to get there

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quickly, do the best stabilise and trying get him recovered if we can,

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but in Richard 's case, it was a case of keeping him alive. It was a

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ten minute flight which, realistically, could have taken the

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best part of an hour. So he could have been dead? Yes. He could have

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easily not made it. ?10,000 a day to keep the air ambulance up there.

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Every penny well spent, and you are doing your bit? Yes, my brother

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organised a charity event after being released from hospital. But

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you don't like flying? Absolutely petrified! At the end of the day,

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these boys here... These boys put a big chunk into saving my life. Let

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me shake your hand. Well done. And you can see Richard's story on

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Helicopter Heroes tomorrow 11:30am on BBC One.

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Barnsley's first dedicated dementia support centre opened today, which

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means that people with the illness and their carers can access support

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and activities from one place. The centre was funded by an appeal which

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saw ?36,000 raised in just eight months. It will also open between

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Christmas and the New Year, a time that can be lonely for many.

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After 50 years of marriage, Sandra is no longer just Jim's wife but his

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full`time carer. He has vascular dementia. It was a local charity

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that came to the rescue. The charity saved our marriage and our

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relationship and turned around. They are a marvellous team. Dancing,

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dominoes, drawing. Everything to occupy the mind. And everybody gets

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on well. The charity achieved a long`held ambition, to open their

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own centre in the town. Now they can offer all their support under one

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roof. They have helped hundreds of couples, not only Sandra and Jim,

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but Les and Pamela, too. There is nothing like this in one place. It's

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the concept of it. There's so much for me, as a carer, and for my

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husband. It's absolutely bless. If you are caring for someone who has

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cancer, you can talk to them and asked them what they want and get

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their input. With a person with dementia, you take on responsibility

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for them 100%. A conversation might seem a simple manifesto, but for

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people with dementia, they are often what matters most. Everyone has a

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personal journey, but the charity are determined to demonstrate no one

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needs to undertake alone. Before seven o'clock: We'll have a

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full football round`up, with Sheffield Wednesday's stand`in boss

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making a big claim for the job full`time.

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And there was sport and a lot of personalities. We look back on the

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night one of the biggest events in British sport came to Leeds.

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Now for the sport, here's Tanya. Milan Mandaric said, before the

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weekend, the ideal situation would be that Stuart Gray proved he was

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the right man to be the Sheffield Wednesday manager through results.

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Well, he steered them to their first away win at the weekend and they're

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now a point from safety in the Championship.

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A moment of brilliance was enough to give Sheffield Wednesday the three

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points at Watford. The chairman has asked me to take charge. To come

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here and get a win in front face fantastic support. The 3`0 scoreline

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flattered Leeds at Doncaster, but Doncaster but they equalised. It was

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controversially ruled offside. Why the linesman took as long to put his

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flag up, I don't know. Somewhat against the run of play, the game

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was put out of reach. Barnsley needed a win that had to circle for

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a draw against Yeovilton. The bottom of the Championship doesn't make for

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pleasant reading. In league one, rather run made it three league

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wins. The first goal was OK, but there was nothing lucky about the

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second. It finished two ` one. Sheffield United are two points

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clear of the relegation zone after a 1`0 win over Swindon. Chesterfield

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got a win over Plymouth and remained second in league two.

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Tonight, you can relive what's been quite a 12 months in Rugby League

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with the Super League Review of the Year. As well as looking back at all

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the key moments, you can hear from Huddersfield Man of Steel, Danny

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Brough, who led his side to the League Leaders Shield. That's on BBC

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One at 11:20pm and it's repeated tomorrow at one o'clock on BBC Two.

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Now, there was sport with a dash of glamour last night as the BBC Sports

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Personality of the Year came to Leeds. Some of the biggest names

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across a variety of sports came to the event at the city's new arena.

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It's the second time the awards have been in Yorkshire. They were in

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Sheffield in 2009. Millions of TV viewers watched as Wimbledon

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champion Andy Murray took the top honour and there was praise for

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Leeds from an unlikely source. Start of world sport on the red

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carpet in Leeds. Among them, Yorkshire 's hope for sports

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personality of the year. I can't just come here and have a party now!

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There was plenty of support for Hannah from our elite Olympians.

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She's a good friend of mine and fellow Yorkshire person as well.

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She's from Yorkshire, so it would be great if we get a Yorkshire winner.

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Hannah also had the backing of Jessica Ennis Hill, who has come

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close to winning three times. Last year was such a big year. It was

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brilliant but I'm really looking forward to just enjoying this

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evening and watching everyone else. The show was opened by John Newman.

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Such a wonderful feeling, coming from Yorkshire. They made me a

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patron of Yorkshire. This year I look back at it and remember where I

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am from. As for the winners, a one`off Diamond award went to Sir

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Alex Ferguson. He was up for some good`natured banter. I am used to

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blowing when I come down here! To no 1's great surprise, the top award

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went to Andy Murray. But for those who were there, they approved of

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what they had seen. The crowd was brilliant. Privileged to be here. I

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love the fact this has come to Leeds and I hope it comes back again and

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more things come to Leeds. As for Hannah, she was signing autographs

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late into the night. As a Paralympic in, we have made ground`breaking

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movements just to get on that list. So another successful night for

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sporting Yorkshire. All set for the next big date in the sporting diary,

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the start of the 2014 Tour de France. I just love the atmosphere!

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You got picked out. Very embarrassing, actually. As soon as

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they mentioned your name, I said, oh, then he is. It wasn't a standing

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ovation for Sir Alex Ferguson, it was a standing O version! It was

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great to give him an award in Leeds. And it was a great night. Hannah was

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great. All the other contenders for that big award were quite nervous

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and she was all out there. If there had been purely on personality, she

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would have won it. A couple of pictures that came in

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overnight. That's beautiful. What a fantastic display.

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Keep the pictures coming in. Tomorrow, the best day of the week.

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Dry with sunshine courtesy of a ridge of high pressure, but this is

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where the system will bring rain in later on Wednesday. The isobars mean

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there is a risk of Gaels later in the day. Quite a disturbed weather

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pattern. We have had a lot of cloud today. It has struggled to break. At

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first, overnight, it could produce a few showers. But clear spells will

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eventually develop from the North. That could lead us into a widespread

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ground frost. One or two icy patches, especially over the hills.

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There could be patchy fog in some places. The sun will rise in the

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morning at 8:19am. Any fog patches soon clearing and then it is bright

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and Chile. Plenty of sunshine through the morning and the

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afternoon, although cloud may increase in southern areas. But it

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won't spoil a lovely winter 's day with just a life south`westerly

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wind. It has been exceptionally marred in the last few hours. 14

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degrees last night. Six is a high tomorrow. Then the further Outlook:

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It gets more disturbed. By the end of Wednesday, Gaels will be

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developing across much of Yorkshire. A bright start. Reigning later in

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the day. Friday, a bright start. Gaels could return by the end of

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Friday. Sitting next to these two lovely

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ladies makes me think I should be wearing a pair of shorts!

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