:00:00. > :00:11.Good evening. Welcome to Tuesday's Look North. Tonight: The search
:00:12. > :00:15.continues for a missing student. 20`year`old Megan Roberts has been
:00:16. > :00:18.missing since a night out in York on Thursday. Specialist police teams
:00:19. > :00:21.have been scouring the area by the River Ouse where Megan was last
:00:22. > :00:24.seen. We'll be live in York this evening.
:00:25. > :00:28.Also tonight: After a two`year`old girl died falling from a city centre
:00:29. > :00:34.balcony, a court hears from her mother.
:00:35. > :00:38.Take a look at this ` skills on show at the South Yorkshire School Games
:00:39. > :00:42.trampoline final! And the labour of love which has
:00:43. > :00:45.restored a 1950s motor to its full glory.
:00:46. > :00:49.It's certainly been weather for ducks today, but what are the next
:00:50. > :01:00.few days looking like? Join me for the forecast.
:01:01. > :01:05.Good evening and welcome to the programme. Police are continuing
:01:06. > :01:08.their search for a York student who has been missing for five days.
:01:09. > :01:14.Megan Roberts, who is 20, was last seen on a night out with friends on
:01:15. > :01:17.Thursday. Police divers have spent the day carrying out underwater
:01:18. > :01:21.searches along the river. So what do we know about her last movements?
:01:22. > :01:24.Megan had been to Popworld Nightclub on George Hudson Street in the city
:01:25. > :01:28.centre. She left there in the early hours of the morning and was last
:01:29. > :01:32.seen with friends on the corner of Rougier Street near Lendal Bridge at
:01:33. > :01:36.about 2:20am. The group were spotted a short time later at the other side
:01:37. > :01:41.of Lendal Bridge, on Museum Street, but Megan wasn't with them. Today, a
:01:42. > :01:44.search of the River Ouse has started, with police divers looking
:01:45. > :01:49.underwater and other teams searching the river bank. In a moment we'll
:01:50. > :01:55.get the latest from the scene, but first our reporter Cathy Killick has
:01:56. > :01:59.spent the day in York. The search for Megan Roberts has moved to the
:02:00. > :02:02.River Ouse. 30 officers are working on the case ` all still hoping the
:02:03. > :02:10.20`year`old student turns up safe and well. She hasn't been seen since
:02:11. > :02:14.around 2am on Thursday morning. She'd been for a night out with
:02:15. > :02:17.friends and this nightclub ` Popworld in York City centre. It's
:02:18. > :02:19.near the river, and that's where today's searches have been
:02:20. > :02:22.concentrated. The underwater search teams have been here for most of the
:02:23. > :02:28.afternoon, painstakingly searching the river bank. As you can see, the
:02:29. > :02:32.water is very murky, making that job very difficult. The reason they're
:02:33. > :02:37.here is that this was the last place Megan Roberts was seen before she
:02:38. > :02:40.disappeared. Police say CCTV footage shows Megan leaving the nightclub
:02:41. > :02:46.and walking with a group of friends to the south side of Lendal Bridge.
:02:47. > :02:51.Then, at 2:20am, the trail goes cold. She was with a group of
:02:52. > :02:57.people, on the corner of Rougier Street, near to Lendal Bridge, at
:02:58. > :03:01.around 2:20am. This group were then seen a short time later on the other
:03:02. > :03:08.side of the bridge, but Megan was not with them. Students in York have
:03:09. > :03:13.been quick to get the word out. Ben is head of news at University Radio
:03:14. > :03:19.York. We've been sharing stories on Facebook and putting stuff on our
:03:20. > :03:29.blog. We're trying to make students as aware as possible. It could
:03:30. > :03:33.trigger somebody's memory. Megan is studying fine art at York St John
:03:34. > :03:37.University. She also had a job at The Lamb Lion in Petergate.
:03:38. > :03:42.Colleagues there can only wait and hope. The police are doing all they
:03:43. > :03:49.can and we're doing everything we can on Facebook. We're trying to
:03:50. > :03:52.make everyone aware. Megan's disappearance has triggered painful
:03:53. > :03:57.memories for Peter Lawrence, who says his thoughts are very much with
:03:58. > :04:03.Megan's family. His daughter Claudia went missing in York in 2009 and
:04:04. > :04:08.still hasn't been traced. You've got to keep your hopes up, in the early
:04:09. > :04:16.stages certainly. She could be anywhere. Let's not fear the worst.
:04:17. > :04:21.What would your advice be to her family? Keep your hopes up and make
:04:22. > :04:27.sure everything possible is being done. They need publicity. I know
:04:28. > :04:35.the charity, Missing People, are helping. Unlike Claudia's case,
:04:36. > :04:38.police say there's nothing to suggest there's any criminal element
:04:39. > :04:42.in Megan's dissapearance. Everyone is hoping a body isn't found, but
:04:43. > :04:45.with every passing day with no contact from Megan ` either by phone
:04:46. > :04:56.or by Facebook ` the likelihood of her turning up safe and well is
:04:57. > :05:00.fading. Well, our reporter Danny Carpenter joins us live now from the
:05:01. > :05:10.scene. Danny, what is the latest on the police investigation? We stood
:05:11. > :05:19.just a few hundred yards from the CCTV image. That was the last time
:05:20. > :05:26.Megan was seen. Our understanding is that that is not her only potential
:05:27. > :05:34.route home. She could have followed another pass across another bridge.
:05:35. > :05:40.`` another path. Alternatively she could have gone another way back to
:05:41. > :05:53.the city centre. It was early in the morning. There would have been CCTV
:05:54. > :05:57.everywhere in the city. The police are looking through lots of hours of
:05:58. > :06:06.CCTV footage in the hope of finding a glimpse of Megan. What has been
:06:07. > :06:10.the response from the community? She was only reported missing yesterday
:06:11. > :06:18.morning. The response has been good. Social media has been buzzing. After
:06:19. > :06:27.the first appeals were broadcast we had over 2 million visits on our
:06:28. > :06:30.very own Facebook page. A mother broke down in tears in
:06:31. > :06:33.court today as she described the moment she realised her two`year`old
:06:34. > :06:37.daughter had fallen from their block of flats. Ola Al Fatle was giving
:06:38. > :06:40.evidence on the first day of the manslaughter trial of 45`year`old
:06:41. > :06:43.Robert Warner, a maintenance man in the building. Ryaheen Banimuslem
:06:44. > :06:50.fell four stories through a gap in the safety barrier. Here's James
:06:51. > :06:52.Vincent. In June 2012, Ryaheen Banimuslem was playing in the
:06:53. > :07:02.communal garden with her mother, on the fourth floor of the block of
:07:03. > :07:05.flats she lived in. Her mother, Ola Al Fatle, sobbed today in court as
:07:06. > :07:08.she told how Ryaheen had only disappeared from her sight briefly.
:07:09. > :07:12.She followed her round the corner but couldn't see her ` all she found
:07:13. > :07:16.was another group of women, pointing at the floor. A glass panel from the
:07:17. > :07:22.safety barrier was missing and Ryaheen had fallen to her death. The
:07:23. > :07:25.family had moved to Sheffield from Iraq in 2011. Ryaheen's father was
:07:26. > :07:30.being sponsored by the Iraqi government to do a physics degree.
:07:31. > :07:33.Her mother explained, through an interpreter, how they always checked
:07:34. > :07:39.the glass panels because some had been broken before. On that day, one
:07:40. > :07:44.of the panels just round the corner was missing. The building's
:07:45. > :07:47.maintenance man, 45`year`old Robert Warner, seen here on the left, is
:07:48. > :07:52.accused of moving it to help fix another part of the barrier, but
:07:53. > :07:55.never replaced it. He denies one charge of manslaughter by gross
:07:56. > :08:05.negligence. The trial is expected to last three weeks.
:08:06. > :08:09.Later on Look North: The recycling firm who dumped tonnes of rubbish.
:08:10. > :08:18.The waste was left at Leeds and Goole ` and two brothers are given
:08:19. > :08:21.suspended jail sentences. There's a big recruitment drive in
:08:22. > :08:25.Yorkshire to find more adoptive parents. More than 850 children in
:08:26. > :08:28.our region are waiting to be adopted and the number is predicted to
:08:29. > :08:33.increase. One group says it's because of high profile abuse cases,
:08:34. > :08:36.as Olivia Richwald reports. Let's call them Anna and James ` two young
:08:37. > :08:41.children removed from the family they were born into. Their real
:08:42. > :08:44.names and faces have been hidden. Last Spring, they were adopted by
:08:45. > :08:49.Hannah and Alistair Ronaldson from Sheffield. Hannah's own mother and
:08:50. > :08:52.brother were also adopted. To take two children out of a desperate
:08:53. > :08:56.situation and into your family... To love them and give them a new
:08:57. > :08:59.name... Make them part of your family... It's been wonderful. There
:09:00. > :09:02.have been difficulties but we feel well suited to parenthood and the
:09:03. > :09:09.children have been longing to be part of a permanent family. For us
:09:10. > :09:13.it's not a secondary option or a plan B, it's a great thing to do.
:09:14. > :09:16.We're really proud to have adopted them and we hope they'll grow up
:09:17. > :09:20.being proud that we've adopted them as well. Yorkshire is unique ` all
:09:21. > :09:24.of the local authorities here work together to try to match children
:09:25. > :09:28.with new parents. It's one of the reasons why adoptions here are
:09:29. > :09:32.increasing. In 2008, 370 children were adopted in this region. By
:09:33. > :09:39.2013, the figure had increased to 510. But the number of children
:09:40. > :09:43.needing new homes is also rising ` in part due to high profile neglect
:09:44. > :09:49.cases like that of Baby Peter, who was tortured to death in 2007. I
:09:50. > :09:54.think that gave everybody a terrible shock. As a result, social services
:09:55. > :10:02.are trying to identify those children a lot earlier. Anna and
:10:03. > :10:06.James have settled in well in their new home. But more than 850 children
:10:07. > :10:09.in this region are still waiting. A big recruitment campaign for new
:10:10. > :10:20.adoptive parents is planned in the next few months.
:10:21. > :10:23.In other news now... Two men from Leeds who drove at more than twice
:10:24. > :10:26.the maximum national speed limit have escaped a prison sentence.
:10:27. > :10:29.These shots show 21`year old Daniel Richardson and 26`year`old James
:10:30. > :10:37.Burrow driving at 144mph on a Saturday lunchtime on the A19 in
:10:38. > :10:40.North Yorkshire. Such dangerous driving could have meant a prison
:10:41. > :10:43.sentence but the men, neither of whom had any previous convictions,
:10:44. > :10:48.were given 300 hours community work and have been banned from driving
:10:49. > :10:52.for three years. Never before have we had two vehicles coming so close
:10:53. > :10:55.together on a dual carriageway. It's highly inappropriate for that road.
:10:56. > :11:12.They're putting other road users, and the passengers in their
:11:13. > :11:16.vehicles, at risk. The first set of figures for the
:11:17. > :11:19.government's Help to Buy Scheme show that more homes were bought in Leeds
:11:20. > :11:22.through the scheme than anywhere else in the country. 230 purchases
:11:23. > :11:26.were completed in the city between the launch of Help to Buy at the
:11:27. > :11:29.beginning of April and the end of December.
:11:30. > :11:42.Lifeboat volunteers rescued 1,000 people last year. Whitby had the
:11:43. > :11:46.fourth busiest in the north. Many stations were affected by the recent
:11:47. > :11:50.storms. The line up for this year's Live at
:11:51. > :11:53.Leeds Festival is due to be announced within the next hour. The
:11:54. > :11:56.band currently topping the UK singles chart, Clear Bandit, have
:11:57. > :11:59.already been confirmed on the bill. The festival takes place over the
:12:00. > :12:03.May bank holiday weekend with more than 150 bands playing at 20 venues
:12:04. > :12:06.all around the city. Now in its eighth year, the event is gaining a
:12:07. > :12:14.reputation for showcasing bands on the cusp of fame. Alumni of the
:12:15. > :12:19.festival... We've had people liked Ed Sheeran, Jake Bugg and The 1975.
:12:20. > :12:23.We had The 1975 at The Cockpit last year. There were thousands of people
:12:24. > :12:27.running up the road to see them. It's always been a great thing to
:12:28. > :12:39.see small bands perform before they break and become the biggest ones
:12:40. > :12:42.about at the moment. Police stopped a motorist for
:12:43. > :12:45.speeding on the M62 in West Yorkshire, only to discover that she
:12:46. > :12:48.was a learner driver accompanied only by her pet parrot. Drivers with
:12:49. > :12:51.a provisional licence are, of course, only allowed to drive if
:12:52. > :12:54.they are accompanied by a qualified motorist and are banned from
:12:55. > :13:12.motorways. The female driver was pulled over by officers near
:13:13. > :13:14.Junction 22 of the motorway. Next tonight, the former directors
:13:15. > :13:17.of Leeds Paper Recycling have received suspended jail sentences
:13:18. > :13:20.for illegally storing thousands of bales of waste. Instead of recycling
:13:21. > :13:23.the rubbish, Thomas and Jamie Todd dumped it at warehouses in Leeds,
:13:24. > :13:26.and on the dockside in Goole. Neighbours complained about an
:13:27. > :13:30.infestation of flies and pungent smells given off by the waste. Joe
:13:31. > :13:36.Inwood was in court. Stinking. Covered in flies. It was less than
:13:37. > :13:42.100 metres from businesses and homes. They told their customers
:13:43. > :13:49.this rubbish was being recycled. In reality, it was filling up two
:13:50. > :13:58.warehouses in Leeds and another location in Goole. In Goole, they
:13:59. > :14:04.talked about a plague of flies. People in Leeds said you could smell
:14:05. > :14:15.it from these apartments. It hung around. For days on end. It was
:14:16. > :14:18.putrid. Horrible. The Environment Agency were already investigating.
:14:19. > :14:27.When he first visited the warehouse in January 20 12th of just a few
:14:28. > :14:33.hundred bales of rubbish. `` 2012. By the end of the year over 10,000
:14:34. > :14:37.were being stored there. Soon after, Thomas Todd and Jamie Todd were
:14:38. > :14:41.charged. Both men pleaded guilty. They are suspended jail terms. They
:14:42. > :14:48.have been ordered to do community service. The judge said he had been
:14:49. > :15:02.caught in the horns of a dilemma. `` they had been. They had a business
:15:03. > :15:09.base thought they had to run. But they wouldn't do things properly.
:15:10. > :15:13.The land they were renting is now owned by the canal and River trust.
:15:14. > :15:22.Clearing out to feel warehouses of rubbish cost them more than ?1.4
:15:23. > :15:29.million. As for the company, it went into administration last year. Many
:15:30. > :15:31.jobs were however say. A family business destroyed by two people who
:15:32. > :15:40.thought that breaking the law would say that. `` save it.
:15:41. > :15:45.Before 7pm, a touch of star dust... Hi, I'm Denise van Outen. Join me
:15:46. > :15:54.later on Look North, to find out why I'm in Yorkshire! And a Barnsley
:15:55. > :15:58.garage is the unlikely home of a gleaming 1950s car.
:15:59. > :16:02.Trampolining is something many of us have had a go at some time or
:16:03. > :16:12.another ` but messing around in the back garden is a far cry from the
:16:13. > :16:15.Olympic Sport it's become. Today in Sheffield, 130 youngsters were
:16:16. > :16:19.taking part in the South Yorkshire School Games Trampoline Final and
:16:20. > :16:32.they also got to see one of the best in action. There were a range of
:16:33. > :16:36.ages and abilities, and a couple of world champions to boot ` all taking
:16:37. > :16:42.part in a sport growing massively in popularity. It keeps me active and
:16:43. > :16:52.occupied. It's good to keep you sporty. I love doing this sport `
:16:53. > :16:58.you get used to it and better at bouncing. I like it because it's
:16:59. > :17:05.different and nobody else does it. It's fun. You learn new skills. It's
:17:06. > :17:10.unique and not many people do it so it's exciting to improve. How
:17:11. > :17:13.important is a day like today for trampolining? Exceptionally. These
:17:14. > :17:18.events create awareness and interest. From that you get people
:17:19. > :17:28.taking part outside of school, and hopefully in squads in the future.
:17:29. > :17:31.The School Games is a multi`sport event that runs throughout the year
:17:32. > :17:34.with a couple of big finals. But today was trampolining's day. A
:17:35. > :17:43.local World Champion dropped in to give an idea of what you can
:17:44. > :17:47.achieve. These are different to outdoor trampolines. These are much
:17:48. > :17:50.bouncier and higher. When you're under instructions from your coach,
:17:51. > :17:58.it's a lot safer and you can progress faster. Also in action was
:17:59. > :18:03.Lucy Horan who recently became World Synchronised Champion in the 11`12
:18:04. > :18:11.range. So what got her into the sport? It was on Look North! I
:18:12. > :18:14.thought I might as well have a go as I do gymnastics! So just think,
:18:15. > :18:30.there might be a future World Champion watching right now! Look
:18:31. > :18:35.North can make dreams come true! They make it look so easy!
:18:36. > :18:39.She's shimmied in Strictly, presented on prime time and trod the
:18:40. > :18:43.boards in the West End. Now Denise Van Outen has turned her hand to
:18:44. > :18:47.writing and is in Yorkshire for the opening of her one`woman show. Some
:18:48. > :18:50.Girl I Used to Know is a romantic comedy featuring tunes from the 80s
:18:51. > :18:53.and 90s. Stephanie Canworth is a successful businesswoman who begins
:18:54. > :18:56.to question her marriage when she receives a message from her first
:18:57. > :19:07.love on Facebook. The show premieres at the West Yorkshire Playhouse on
:19:08. > :19:11.Thursday. You've decided to debut here. Is there any particular reason
:19:12. > :19:16.why you chose this venue? I love Leeds! It's a really cool place.
:19:17. > :19:20.People are really warm. It felt like the right place to start ` because
:19:21. > :19:24.I'm on my own, I felt I needed an audience who would almost cuddle me!
:19:25. > :19:27.So it's a one`woman show. It's a brave move doing that? It's scary
:19:28. > :19:31.and it's the most petrifying thing, but at the same time I think once
:19:32. > :19:35.I'm on stage it's fine. After five minutes I settle into it. Is there
:19:36. > :19:39.added pressure, not just being on stage on your own, but also having
:19:40. > :19:43.co`written it? It's very scary and I'm very passionate about it because
:19:44. > :19:47.it's my piece. I think that makes it more daunting, because there's
:19:48. > :19:51.nobody else to blame. How much of it is taken from personal experience,
:19:52. > :19:55.and relationships? The character is fictional but the heart of the show
:19:56. > :19:59.is me. It's everything I've experienced as a woman ` I've been
:20:00. > :20:04.in love and out of love... Heartbroken... I've had to pick
:20:05. > :20:07.myself up off the floor. All of those emotions are channelled into
:20:08. > :20:11.the character. The nice thing about the show is that because she starts
:20:12. > :20:14.talking to the audience in a Shirley Valentine style, she starts
:20:15. > :20:18.reminiscing about the 80s and the 90s. And you've got lots of 80s and
:20:19. > :20:34.90s songs in there ` some classics! Music is a big part of my life. I
:20:35. > :20:38.love pop songs. Some people think they're too cheesy to be cool, but
:20:39. > :20:44.when you strip them down and listen to the lyrics and melodies, some of
:20:45. > :20:47.them are beautiful. A lot of our viewers will know you from being on
:20:48. > :20:54.Strictly, what was that like? Amazing. It's the best thing ever. I
:20:55. > :21:00.hadn't danced since I was a kid. It's a brilliant feeling. I came to
:21:01. > :21:04.Leeds to do the tour and I had a brilliant time, although I have to
:21:05. > :21:07.say it was very different to my one`woman show because there was a
:21:08. > :21:12.big group of us. There were after parties as well! That won't be
:21:13. > :21:16.happening! What's been the highlight of your career so far? This, because
:21:17. > :21:19.it's something I feel really passionate about. I love performing
:21:20. > :21:37.it. Hopefully I'll be able to write this down as one of my highlights in
:21:38. > :21:50.years to come. A talented lady! She is good on a bike! She's done a 350
:21:51. > :22:01.mile ride for charity. She said to wear two pairs of padded cycling
:22:02. > :22:05.shorts. Thanks for that! Finally today, a story of a labour
:22:06. > :22:09.of love from Barnsley. Graham Wall has spent the last year and several
:22:10. > :22:14.thousand pounds restoring a vintage car in his garage. Built in 1955, it
:22:15. > :22:18.is the oldest Morris Isis on the road. And it had been languishing in
:22:19. > :22:23.the back of his garage for over a decade. Our reporter Tom Ingall went
:22:24. > :22:35.along for a ride. Life's mission statement ` every man
:22:36. > :22:37.should have something vintage in his garage, and if you're going to
:22:38. > :22:40.tinker... Tinker with something worthwhile! Graham, I'm really
:22:41. > :22:43.excited you've invited me for a trip out. Fire her up and let's see where
:22:44. > :22:55.the road takes us! That was incredible, thank you!
:22:56. > :23:01.Let's be honest, it is persisting down, shall we say, today. This car
:23:02. > :23:05.isn't licenced for the road, and the only track we could take it on has
:23:06. > :23:08.turned into a quagmire. Besides, vintage cars weren't made for
:23:09. > :23:14.driving in the rain, you know! It has taken Graham around a year to
:23:15. > :23:18.rebuild this Morris Isis. Dating from a decade when we've never had
:23:19. > :23:21.it so good, it would have cost around ?1,000 originally. I'd pay
:23:22. > :23:25.that just to look at it today! We've replaced the rear wings... The front
:23:26. > :23:28.wings have had to be repaired up. There's been rechroming. It's also
:23:29. > :23:36.been made to run on unleaded. It's a classic ` a British classic.
:23:37. > :23:44.Everybody knows Morris Oxford but not so many about Morris Isis. These
:23:45. > :23:49.are photographs of the two variants ` the saloon and the estate. Without
:23:50. > :23:53.dancing around the subject, Sandy Hamilton is very much a Morris man.
:23:54. > :23:57.Were they a successful car? I'm guessing maybe not, because you
:23:58. > :24:01.don't hear much about them? No. They were built for a period of three
:24:02. > :24:10.years and there were probably just under 12,000 built in total. There
:24:11. > :24:14.are fewer than 50 surviving now. It's the oldest one on the roads.
:24:15. > :24:20.It's probably about the 500th one that was built. Even the onboard
:24:21. > :24:27.entertainment is vintage ` the radio takes a whole trip across town to
:24:28. > :24:31.warm up. By which point, it's time to go back to the garage. You
:24:32. > :24:40.wouldn't want to spoil it, would you!? Incredible. My first card was
:24:41. > :24:58.Ford Anglia! Now time for the weather. Here are
:24:59. > :25:18.some of your photos. Holme Moss here. This is from a few days ago.
:25:19. > :25:40.Keep the pictures coming in. It will be cloudy for the next 24
:25:41. > :25:50.hours. More rain around. A temporary cold snap. It will turn colder.
:25:51. > :25:54.There will be a few showers on Thursday but the rain will be back
:25:55. > :26:00.in permanently on Friday. You can see the atmosphere spinning around.
:26:01. > :26:06.There have been some outbreaks of rain. It is more of the same for
:26:07. > :26:10.this evening. Showers, and sometimes longer outbreaks of rain. Some dry
:26:11. > :26:15.periods and their but not for very long. `` in there. Temperatures down
:26:16. > :26:37.to three or four Celsius. Tomorrow is another cloudy day and
:26:38. > :26:42.that will be a scattering of showers. They could well emerge to
:26:43. > :26:50.give longer outbreaks of rain. It could turn out that wintry over
:26:51. > :26:53.higher ground. `` turn a bit. At times tried by tomorrow evening.
:26:54. > :27:06.Eastern areas may be dry in the afternoon. Temperatures coming in at
:27:07. > :27:09.around five or six Celsius. Already a warning in place for Wednesday
:27:10. > :27:15.night and that is for ice and that this for as unforced. Thursday looks
:27:16. > :27:19.likely to quiet day. A lot of cloud and it could be thick enough for a
:27:20. > :27:28.few showers but more towards the coast. Friday has a dry start but
:27:29. > :27:37.the winds coming later on. The weekend looks unsettled. That is the
:27:38. > :27:42.forecast. Thank you. For our scenic ride, it's going to be raining!
:27:43. > :27:47.Enjoy your evening. Goodbye.