:00:00. > :00:00.showers in the west and south. That's all from
:00:00. > :00:11.And on Look North at 6:30pm: Hello. Welcome to Monday's Look North:
:00:12. > :00:14.Tonight, Arthur Scargill's finances under the spotlight.
:00:15. > :00:17.Why Arthur Scargill could face legal action from the union's current
:00:18. > :00:21.leadership over a disputed ?100,000. We'll have the results of a special
:00:22. > :00:27.BBC investigation. Also tonight: Controversial plans to
:00:28. > :00:39.extract gas by fracking. Could it be coming to a site near
:00:40. > :00:42.you? High expectations as more details
:00:43. > :00:47.are revealed of a major arts festival to tie in with the Tour de
:00:48. > :00:52.France. We will have all of the sport. I
:00:53. > :00:55.will be speaking to some of the country's top weightlifters in Leeds
:00:56. > :01:02.and we will have all the goals from the victory over Leeds United.
:01:03. > :01:04.There is a warning in place for ice. Join me for the detailed forecast
:01:05. > :01:16.shortly. Thank you for joining us. Our top
:01:17. > :01:19.story. And we'll also have all six goals
:01:20. > :01:21.from the Yorkshire derby between Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds.that
:01:22. > :01:24.the current leadership of the National Union of Mineworkers is
:01:25. > :01:28.threatening to sue its former leader Arthur Scargill for just over
:01:29. > :01:31.?100,000. The money was paid to cover legal bills run up by the
:01:32. > :01:33.International Energy and Miners Organisation, of which Mr Scargill
:01:34. > :01:36.is president. The investigation for tonight's
:01:37. > :01:39.Inside Out programme also found that other payments ` of more than
:01:40. > :01:46.?600,000 made over the past 30 years are also being questioned. Dan
:01:47. > :01:51.Johnson reports. Three decades on from the bitter
:01:52. > :01:56.battles of the miners strike, there are new questions about money and
:01:57. > :02:00.Arthur Scargill. You should vote for me because Margaret Thatcher and the
:02:01. > :02:03.Tories hate me and want to see me defeated! Shortly after the striking
:02:04. > :02:09.helped to setup the International Energy and Miners Organisation, key
:02:10. > :02:13.is still its president. The National union of Mineworkers, representing
:02:14. > :02:17.British miners, has played it `` paid ?20,000 a year in subscriptions
:02:18. > :02:22.but now the man who leads the union has stopped the payments in 2010.
:02:23. > :02:26.The trouble happened when I was asked to justify paying that amount
:02:27. > :02:32.of money and I asked for site of accounts from the International
:02:33. > :02:35.Energy and Miners Organisation and it was refused. Where do you think
:02:36. > :02:40.the money has been going? What has it been spent on? I have no idea and
:02:41. > :02:45.that is why I wanted to see the accounts. The International Energy
:02:46. > :02:51.and Miners Organisation spend more than ?100,000 recovering a loan of
:02:52. > :02:55.?29,500 given to Roger Windsor, the former chief executive of the
:02:56. > :02:59.National union of Mineworkers. The case dragged on and it has recently
:03:00. > :03:04.become clear it was the British miners paying the bill. Recently
:03:05. > :03:09.there was a grant of a grant of ?145,000 shortly before Arthur
:03:10. > :03:11.Scargill retired. The British committee was never consulted.
:03:12. > :03:15.Arthur Scargill said this was the equivalent of what he could have
:03:16. > :03:20.expected as a severance payment. One MP who used to be a minor is
:03:21. > :03:24.concerned. What we should be doing now is having a proper investigation
:03:25. > :03:27.about what happened. It is extraordinary to pay money into an
:03:28. > :03:34.investigator `` organisation and not know what for. It is ridiculous. The
:03:35. > :03:36.union is now preparing to sue Arthur Scargill and general secretary of
:03:37. > :03:40.International Energy and Miners Organisation which is based in Paris
:03:41. > :03:44.but we know little else about it. No accounts have been published since
:03:45. > :03:51.1993 and a journalist who once worked there could not tell us much.
:03:52. > :03:53.When did you last write a story about the International Energy and
:03:54. > :03:57.Miners Organisation? Identify have ever written a story about it since
:03:58. > :04:01.the strike. When did you last read a story about the International Energy
:04:02. > :04:04.and Miners Organisation? I cannot remember. Is there any evidence in
:04:05. > :04:08.the last 20 years that this organisation has done anything
:04:09. > :04:13.productive? You should ask somebody who is working for it or who is
:04:14. > :04:19.affiliated to it. We went to see what we could find out at its
:04:20. > :04:22.registered office. I was taken up to the sixth floor to the offices of
:04:23. > :04:26.the International Energy and Miners Organisation and I met the secretary
:04:27. > :04:30.of the general secretary who is also his wife. She said there is only one
:04:31. > :04:33.other person who works for the organisation who writes the
:04:34. > :04:37.journal. She said there were no other officers or staff because they
:04:38. > :04:41.have no money. She would answer no more questions and said we had to
:04:42. > :04:45.put any further points to Arthur Scargill. Questioning his integrity
:04:46. > :04:57.is unthinkable to some who consider Arthur Scargill hero for the way he
:04:58. > :04:59.took on the coal board and Margaret Thatcher's government. Cabinet
:05:00. > :05:02.papers last week showed that he was right when he said there was a
:05:03. > :05:05.secret plan to shut 75 pits and that had always been denied. Now some
:05:06. > :05:08.former miners have lost faith in the man they once followed. The people I
:05:09. > :05:11.speak to are glad to see the back of him. We were all falls and we all
:05:12. > :05:16.had the wool pulled over our eyes and will not happen again. He made
:05:17. > :05:18.his name in taking on the establishment but increasingly
:05:19. > :05:28.Arthur Scargill faces tough questions from those he to lead.
:05:29. > :05:32.We have had a response from him but he would not appear on camera. He
:05:33. > :05:38.sent us quite a long and detailed letter denying there is anything
:05:39. > :05:40.inappropriate. On the legal bill you said the ?29,500 that the
:05:41. > :05:44.International Energy and Miners Organisation got from Roger Windsor
:05:45. > :05:46.has been paid back to the National union of Mineworkers and if the
:05:47. > :05:52.organisation is able to recover costs it will pay more back. It says
:05:53. > :05:55.the NUM has breached its conference decision in stopping the payments to
:05:56. > :06:02.the International Energy and Miners Organisation and the organisation
:06:03. > :06:04.has always presented its accounts in accordance with its congress. Arthur
:06:05. > :06:08.Scargill's flat in London has also raised questions. Yes, there was a
:06:09. > :06:12.court case when it became clear that the NUM was still playing `` paying
:06:13. > :06:17.the rent on that flat even after Arthur Scargill had retired from the
:06:18. > :06:20.union. When it came to court Arthur Scargill actually lost but a couple
:06:21. > :06:25.of documents came out during the case, one of them a letter written
:06:26. > :06:28.by the vice president of the union that Arthur Scargill produced. It
:06:29. > :06:34.was questioned in court whether that letter had been written by the vice
:06:35. > :06:38.president because he was very ill at the time and the judge said he could
:06:39. > :06:41.not accept the evidence from Arthur Scargill about that letter but
:06:42. > :06:45.Arthur Scargill says he stands by his evidence. He added that the
:06:46. > :06:50.judge had ignored other evidence in the case that the man was awake,
:06:51. > :06:55.alert and orientated at the time the letter was written. It has also
:06:56. > :06:59.emerged that Arthur Scargill was trying to buy the flat from the
:07:00. > :07:07.Corporation of London. It is a very nice council flat. He was trying to
:07:08. > :07:09.use the right to buy legislation from Margaret Thatcher and if he had
:07:10. > :07:12.been successful he said he would have transferred the flat back to
:07:13. > :07:16.the National union of Mineworkers and they would have then had an
:07:17. > :07:20.asset. As you may have seen on the national
:07:21. > :07:23.news, the Prime Minister has today told local councils that they'll get
:07:24. > :07:27.extra funds if they approve fracking for shale gas. In a moment we'll
:07:28. > :07:29.explain what fracking is, who the companies involved are, and whether
:07:30. > :07:33.our councils are indeed considering it. But first here's what David
:07:34. > :07:36.Cameron said during a visit to a gas plant near Bassetlaw, where a French
:07:37. > :07:41.energy company has become the first large firm to invest in fracking in
:07:42. > :07:45.the UK. This is part of our long`term economic plan, to bring
:07:46. > :07:50.jobs and investment and to make sure that we have secure and affordable
:07:51. > :07:54.supplies of energy. I have been very impressed by what I have seen and
:07:55. > :08:00.overall there could be 74,000 jobs in this brand`new gas industry. The
:08:01. > :08:04.announcements you may today, some environmentalists say it is a bribe
:08:05. > :08:08.commie or bribing local councils and communities, what is your response?
:08:09. > :08:12.I do not accept that for one minute. It is right that local
:08:13. > :08:17.communities should share in the benefit of having shale gas
:08:18. > :08:22.exploration. That is ?100,000 when a well is dark and then up to ?10
:08:23. > :08:25.million over the life about well. It is right that local communities
:08:26. > :08:30.should share in it but it is good for the whole country as well. How
:08:31. > :08:31.you convince the people of Lincolnshire this is a safe
:08:32. > :08:34.practice? Tim Iredale was asking the questions
:08:35. > :08:38.there. So how could fracking affect us here in Yorkshire?
:08:39. > :08:43.Ian White has been to the city of York, which has been identified as a
:08:44. > :08:50.potential site. It is controversial and could be coming to a place near
:08:51. > :08:53.you. Fracking, short for Hydro on `` hydraulic fracturing involves
:08:54. > :08:57.digging deep underground and explosions fracture the shale,
:08:58. > :09:02.high`pressure mix of sand and water and chemicals are released and crack
:09:03. > :09:07.the rocks and force `` release the gas inside. More than half of the UK
:09:08. > :09:11.could be suitable for fracking. All types of places could be affected,
:09:12. > :09:15.built`up areas as well as rural ones. This is a coming York and I
:09:16. > :09:23.wonder how many people know what it is and whether they are for or
:09:24. > :09:29.against it? Fracking. No. Mining of shale gas. Is it on the computer,
:09:30. > :09:31.fracking and causing problems? Rumblings in the ground and
:09:32. > :09:35.earthquakes and that sort of thing. I do not know how true it is.
:09:36. > :09:39.Environmentalists have long been concerned about the technique. One
:09:40. > :09:45.campaigner says that people living in York do not realise it could
:09:46. > :09:50.affect them. Even if there was a well outside the town the boreholes
:09:51. > :09:54.can go many kilometres under the ground and that borehole could be
:09:55. > :10:00.under your house. Our children and grandchildren are going to have a
:10:01. > :10:04.rough time if we do this gas `` dashboard ghats. Local authorities
:10:05. > :10:08.could benefit from the business rate income so for local councils
:10:09. > :10:11.deciding what is for the best is difficult. The country `` companies
:10:12. > :10:16.have been approaching us about fracking in the west of York so we
:10:17. > :10:23.will be having the discussion. The Prime Minister has been talking
:10:24. > :10:25.about business rates coming forward from those developments but I take
:10:26. > :10:27.that with a pinch of salt because the government promised us more
:10:28. > :10:30.money with business rates before and it ended up being diminished and
:10:31. > :10:33.dwindles. Both sides of the argument say that information is key and they
:10:34. > :10:37.want people to know what fracking is all about because it could be coming
:10:38. > :10:41.to your town or city sooner rather than later.
:10:42. > :10:44.That sets the scene. So who are the companies involved in
:10:45. > :10:47.fracking, and how have the rest of our local authorities reacted? Our
:10:48. > :10:53.political editor Len Tingle has more detail.
:10:54. > :10:56.Well, York is far from the only place in our region suitable for
:10:57. > :10:59.fracking. This is a map produced by the British Geological Survey last
:11:00. > :11:03.year. It includes York and Harrogate and a great swathe across the North
:11:04. > :11:07.York Moors to the East Coast. And it even more widespread than that. West
:11:08. > :11:11.Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and into the North Midlands. It makes the UK,
:11:12. > :11:14.Yorkshire and the North in particular, one of the richest
:11:15. > :11:20.sources of shale gas in Europe with the potential to provide a quarter
:11:21. > :11:24.of the UK's needs. So its not surprising that the big
:11:25. > :11:29.international energy giants like the French company Total are now homing
:11:30. > :11:36.in. They will pump money into the smaller companies who have already
:11:37. > :11:38.been granted licences to explore. But the Government licence isn't
:11:39. > :11:43.enough. They need local council planning permission as well.
:11:44. > :11:47.And these companies are offering some tempting financial inducements.
:11:48. > :11:49.They will pay ?100,000 up front for every wellhead given planning
:11:50. > :11:54.permission by a local council and for the lifetime of the well, 1% of
:11:55. > :11:59.the revenue. That could add up to a hefty ?10
:12:00. > :12:03.million over the lifetime of a well. Today the Government showed how
:12:04. > :12:08.anxious it is to kick start the industry. Councils will be able to
:12:09. > :12:11.keep every penny of local business rates for each site, worth and
:12:12. > :12:24.estimated ?1.7 over the lifetime of each wellhead. So will that persuade
:12:25. > :12:30.the politicians? The concerns here are, is the water supply going to be
:12:31. > :12:34.affected? Are they going to be too many lorry movements? I think that
:12:35. > :12:39.is manageable. Will we get a share of the profits? We have had fracking
:12:40. > :12:43.for 50 years and has not bothered anybody. As long as we get a share
:12:44. > :12:48.of the profits and there are proper controls over water pollution, this
:12:49. > :12:53.community will, in my view, be happy. Will Yorkshire councils
:12:54. > :13:01.welcome fracking? We contacted all of them today and most said that the
:13:02. > :13:04.extra financial incentives revealed today are clearly interesting but it
:13:05. > :13:07.is far too early to come to have you. Only Sheffield, a self
:13:08. > :13:09.proclaimed city of green technology, said it would absolutely oppose
:13:10. > :13:13.fracking gas extraction on environmental grounds.
:13:14. > :13:14.Thank you, we will keep across that of course.
:13:15. > :13:17.Later on Look North: Fighting back against cancer.
:13:18. > :13:19.The book that tells the personal story of a family's long battle with
:13:20. > :13:31.the disease. Photo `` first, let us have some
:13:32. > :13:34.news in brief: A 28`year`old man has appeared before Leeds magistrates
:13:35. > :13:37.charged with murder. Bakhtiyar Muhsin Omar from the
:13:38. > :13:40.Harehills area of the city was remanded in custody.
:13:41. > :13:44.It comes after a 24`year`old man was found lying in the road in the
:13:45. > :13:50.Lincoln Green area early on Saturday morning. He was taken to Leeds
:13:51. > :13:51.General Infirmary and died soon after.
:13:52. > :13:55.A cake`making company in Barnsley has been given a ?20 million boost
:13:56. > :13:59.today by Premier Foods. The cash will lead to a new production and
:14:00. > :14:02.packing line at the site in Carlton which makes Mr Kipling cakes. The
:14:03. > :14:04.investment will take 12 months to complete.
:14:05. > :14:10.Work to build new homes on the site of the old Terry's chocolate factory
:14:11. > :14:15.in York began today. The landmark building has been empty since the
:14:16. > :14:18.factory closed in 2005. The developers plan to build hundreds of
:14:19. > :14:22.houses and a business park. A wife and mother whose husband died
:14:23. > :14:25.of prostate cancer has today fulfilled an ambition which she's
:14:26. > :14:30.held for ten years, since he was first diagnosed.
:14:31. > :14:34.Julie and Joe Romani were told he could only have between two and five
:14:35. > :14:39.years to live. But after a lot of research into alternative therapies,
:14:40. > :14:47.Joe survived for seven. Today is the third anniversary of his death and
:14:48. > :14:49.the day her book is published. Julie and their consultant, cancer
:14:50. > :15:00.specialist Professor Tim Oliver join us now. Tell us why you went into
:15:01. > :15:05.automotive therapies when your husband got the diagnosis? He was
:15:06. > :15:11.diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only two years to live. I had
:15:12. > :15:15.read previously about people curing themselves of cancer using
:15:16. > :15:20.alternative therapies so, therefore, I started the research
:15:21. > :15:25.right from the date of diagnosis and I actually managed to keep him free
:15:26. > :15:32.from cancer for three years using alternative therapies only. Let me
:15:33. > :15:38.ask you at this point, what did you think of these alternative
:15:39. > :15:45.therapies? Having been one of the first cancer specialists to
:15:46. > :15:51.demonstrate the occurrence of spontaneous regression of cancer in
:15:52. > :15:55.kidney cancers, I am always aware that there is something more to
:15:56. > :16:01.cancer than just what is conventionally known and therefore,
:16:02. > :16:06.I am always academically interested. Now, the big thing about
:16:07. > :16:10.alternatives `` alternative therapies is that they are not
:16:11. > :16:15.properly assessed and the key thing about this I think is the education
:16:16. > :16:25.of the patient. Did you properly assessed and? Well, with every
:16:26. > :16:30.treatment, medical practices practising and improving your
:16:31. > :16:33.knowledge. Learning to judge whether there is an early indication that
:16:34. > :16:38.the patient is benefiting is the first priority with a terminal
:16:39. > :16:44.cancer patient. So what sort of things were you trying? Many things.
:16:45. > :16:54.One of the things that I used to give him on a daily basis was a
:16:55. > :17:07.green drink. He didn't like it but it was organic green grasses and
:17:08. > :17:11.salts and sprouts. It's is because many Al`Qaeda `` many cancer
:17:12. > :17:16.patients are very acidic and the cancer thrives in acidic conditions
:17:17. > :17:20.so this neutralises that. Another drink came from Peru which I found
:17:21. > :17:26.in the Internet and that stabilise the cancer for 12 months. It is very
:17:27. > :17:29.cheap so none of these things are extremely expensive. A lot more in
:17:30. > :17:32.your book. Sorry we have run out of time.
:17:33. > :17:34.Yes, we could talk a lot longer about that.
:17:35. > :17:37.Before 7:00pm: Meet the weightlifting stars of the future.
:17:38. > :17:45.We'll hear why Leeds is becoming a real hotbed for the sport.
:17:46. > :17:47.No doubting what the big story was in Yorkshire football at the
:17:48. > :17:50.weekend. Sheffield Wednesday, who are without a permanent manager and
:17:51. > :17:53.sit just above the relegation places, demolished playoff hopefuls
:17:54. > :17:57.Leeds United 6`0. Ian Bucknell has all the goals from
:17:58. > :18:06.that game and a debut to remember at Huddersfield Town.
:18:07. > :18:11.It started when Reda Johnson was given the freedom of Hillsborough by
:18:12. > :18:16.the Leeds defence. He takes the goal well and then Kieran Lee broke three
:18:17. > :18:20.to make it 2`0 at half`time. That was when Matt Smith came on for
:18:21. > :18:25.Leeds, but not long. He clobbered Johnson right in front of the rest
:18:26. > :18:31.and got sent off. A procession of goals followed and Connor Wickham,
:18:32. > :18:36.Chris Maguire and two well taken efforts from Caolan Lavery.
:18:37. > :18:40.Sheffield Wednesday had only won once in the league when there
:18:41. > :18:44.caretaker arrived and he has now led the team to four wins and he thinks
:18:45. > :18:47.he should get the job permanently. From the outside looking in you
:18:48. > :18:53.would think I would get the job but the chairman and I are in dialogue,
:18:54. > :18:57.we speak on a regular basis and for some reason he has decided not to
:18:58. > :19:02.give me the job at this moment in time. A sight for sore Bradford City
:19:03. > :19:07.eyes now as their one`time hero makes debut for Huddersfield. Wells
:19:08. > :19:11.did not disappoint his new followers. This well`controlled
:19:12. > :19:15.finish was enough for a win against Millwall. We had a lot of possession
:19:16. > :19:19.but we did not create enough in front of goal and then that was a
:19:20. > :19:27.real poachers finish at the end. This penalty save for Rotherham kept
:19:28. > :19:30.the score at 2`2 against Crewe. The keeper's hard work paid off when
:19:31. > :19:36.they were kept in front and it was a 4`2 win. The goal of the day was 25
:19:37. > :19:42.yards for Chesterfield as the team made light work of Bari. They stay
:19:43. > :19:45.in the promotion places. York have turned their fortunes around
:19:46. > :19:51.dramatically. Ryan Bowman had a header that looped over the. After a
:19:52. > :19:57.foul Wes Fletcher scored from the spot for 2`0 as York climb to 14.
:19:58. > :20:02.You can see highlights from all of our teams on the football league
:20:03. > :20:05./now available on the iPlayer. Now for the rest of the sport,
:20:06. > :20:07.Tanya's with some of our Commonwealth hopefuls.
:20:08. > :20:11.Yorkshire's Katherine Brunt took the final wicket as England's women beat
:20:12. > :20:12.Australia in the Ashes test match in Perth.
:20:13. > :20:16.This is the British weightlifting performance Centre here in Leeds and
:20:17. > :20:20.we have some of the top players in the country. Rebecca Tyler is a
:20:21. > :20:23.familiar face to our viewers because the last time we saw at was when she
:20:24. > :20:30.was nominated for the young Sports Personality Of The Year. How much
:20:31. > :20:35.does that way? 65. How much do you way? 65. So that is your own body
:20:36. > :20:39.weight? Yes. We spoke to you when you were nominated for the young
:20:40. > :20:43.Sports Personality Of The Year, have you had a lot of people recognising
:20:44. > :20:49.you? My sport is being promoted more so that is a good thing. What is it
:20:50. > :20:52.like training here? You train with the senior squad. Yes, it is good to
:20:53. > :21:07.train with people who are older than me and better than me, it is a good
:21:08. > :21:09.opportunity. This was not the only award, you were weightlifting 's
:21:10. > :21:12.young athlete of the year as well. Yes. This year is big with the
:21:13. > :21:15.Commonwealth Games. It will be a big experience competing with people who
:21:16. > :21:18.are better than me. And grown`ups! Happy birthday, today is your 15th
:21:19. > :21:22.birthday! You will be up against seniors, wait you? Yes. What do you
:21:23. > :21:27.think it will be like? I think it will be really good. I cannot wait.
:21:28. > :21:31.For you it is a great experience but the two behind you both British
:21:32. > :21:35.champions, Sarah Davies and Jack Oliver will help to pick up medals
:21:36. > :21:40.at the event. The Commonwealth Games will be massive for you. Yes, for us
:21:41. > :21:47.to both get gold medals would be perfect. I should say... Come in
:21:48. > :21:51.Jack you are being shy! You live together and train together, what is
:21:52. > :21:56.it like watching each other complete? Awful. There is no other
:21:57. > :22:02.word for it, you get so nervous. I you competitive against each other?
:22:03. > :22:06.Well, we are competitive against everyone to be honest so each other
:22:07. > :22:11.included! Sarah, you are a bit different in this because you are a
:22:12. > :22:14.former Miss Leeds and Miss England and you also organise glamour
:22:15. > :22:20.contests here, how do the two worlds marry up? Well, they are not to you
:22:21. > :22:24.would put together normally but it does give weightlifting in new side
:22:25. > :22:28.to it that most would not expect so it breaks the stereotypes of both.
:22:29. > :22:32.Do you feel you are breaking down barriers? I like to think so. If you
:22:33. > :22:34.tell people you are a weightlifter they say you are not big enough or
:22:35. > :22:39.tall enough and you don't look like a weightlifter but who says what you
:22:40. > :22:42.should look like? Watching you guys I am suitably impressed. Another bit
:22:43. > :22:45.of news to bring you is that Yorkshire's Katherine Brunt took the
:22:46. > :22:48.final wicket as England's women beat Australia in the Ashes test match in
:22:49. > :22:52.Perth. Brunt clean bowled Sarah Elliott with a great delivery to
:22:53. > :22:55.wrap up the 61 run victory. The win earns them six points in the
:22:56. > :23:07.multi`format series. They only need to win two of the six limited`overs
:23:08. > :23:12.games to keep the trophy. I know you were keen for me to have
:23:13. > :23:16.a go at this weightlifting but I may only just be able to lift up the bar
:23:17. > :23:19.even without the weights on! Come on, don't be shy! Either you
:23:20. > :23:26.are fit! Do you think you could live to 65
:23:27. > :23:29.kilograms? I could do that, easily! Now, it's less than six months till
:23:30. > :23:34.the Tour de France comes to Yorkshire. To help celebrate the
:23:35. > :23:37.world's greatest cycle race, a major arts festival is being planned.
:23:38. > :23:40.It'll last 100 days, and more details of at it'll involve have
:23:41. > :23:42.been revealed this morning. Cathy Killick reports.
:23:43. > :23:47.Deep in Bronte country, just outside how worth, the powers that be have
:23:48. > :23:52.laid on a helicopter and that immediately shows you they have got
:23:53. > :23:57.something to shout about. This spectacular scenery is part of the
:23:58. > :24:01.route for the Tour de France. It is fantastic to see this great reason
:24:02. > :24:07.of hours from the sky. A different angle really makes you appreciate
:24:08. > :24:11.what we have got here. In July three .5 billion cycling fans are going to
:24:12. > :24:20.see all of this as well. The problem is, what, if you are not interested
:24:21. > :24:24.in bikes? The answer is this, the first`ever Yorkshire Festival which
:24:25. > :24:28.promises 100 days of art and culture to celebrate and work in the Tour de
:24:29. > :24:32.France. It is about celebrating the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire,
:24:33. > :24:36.not about the Tour de France itself. The best way I have heard
:24:37. > :24:42.expressed is to say that the festival is about ideas and if your
:24:43. > :24:46.idea does not want to wear lycra it does not have too. A lot of it, some
:24:47. > :24:50.of the things will have a bicycle connection but by no means all,
:24:51. > :24:54.there will be a wide range of things. ?2 million has been raised
:24:55. > :25:00.to pay for the festival, 1 million from the arts Council and 500,000
:25:01. > :25:04.from local councils and another 500,000 from Yorkshire water. We are
:25:05. > :25:22.delighted to sponsor the festival. The ride passes through so much of
:25:23. > :25:25.our land and we have been approached by so many people in the local
:25:26. > :25:27.community that it is a no`brainer to be involved in sponsoring the event.
:25:28. > :25:30.Yorkshire really knows how to put on a show which is partly why the Tour
:25:31. > :25:33.de France is coming. The details of the festival will be revealed at the
:25:34. > :25:35.end of the month and expect a spectacle.
:25:36. > :25:37.What a nice day to be up in a chopper!
:25:38. > :25:40.Absolutely. And tomorrow will be nice as well if you fancy that sort
:25:41. > :25:43.of thing but there is a warning in place from The Met office. Dawn
:25:44. > :25:45.tomorrow will have a nice as well if you fancy that sort of thing but
:25:46. > :25:48.there is a warning in place from The Met office. Dawn tomorrow will have
:25:49. > :25:50.ice on untreated circumstance `` surfaces. Tomorrow will be another
:25:51. > :25:52.day with excellent visibility right across Yorkshire. A little ridge of
:25:53. > :25:54.high pressure but this trough will bring showers tonight. The weather
:25:55. > :25:58.system will bring more raining from the South West on Tuesday night and
:25:59. > :26:02.on Wednesday morning. You can see the first frost coming into the
:26:03. > :26:06.West. It has brought some lively showers through Birmingham and they
:26:07. > :26:10.are coming into the south`west of our area and they will push through
:26:11. > :26:13.all parts erratically. There will be sleet and snow across the tops of
:26:14. > :26:22.their bills and they will not cause any problems. As they clear through
:26:23. > :26:25.later in the night skies were clear and we will see fog and ice on
:26:26. > :26:36.untreated circumstances and the temperatures drop down to freezing.
:26:37. > :26:45.These are the high water times. Great start on the top of the hills
:26:46. > :26:48.and low cloud over the Pennines. Icy patches will clear for the morning
:26:49. > :26:53.commute and then it will be a lovely day with bright sunshine. Cloud will
:26:54. > :26:57.increase from the west and then you can see the rain for tomorrow night
:26:58. > :27:03.lurking in the Irish Sea. These are the top temperatures. The average
:27:04. > :27:10.for this time of year is seven and we are looking at highs of about six
:27:11. > :27:14.or even as low as four. Looking further ahead, wet start to
:27:15. > :27:17.Wednesday with a wet end in between. A lot of clout but a lot of dry
:27:18. > :27:22.weather on Wednesday. Thursday looks quite nice. Another fine day with
:27:23. > :27:25.some sunshine. We will be back at 10:25pm. See you
:27:26. > :27:31.tomorrow night. Good night.