:00:00. > 3:59:59winning combination. And that is all from us for this
:00:00. > :00:13.evening. Now on BBC One, it First tonight, within the last
:00:14. > :00:16.couple of hours councillors in Bradford have agreed to set a budget
:00:17. > :00:19.which will see them having to save more than a quarter of what they
:00:20. > :00:23.currently spend. Earlier today councillors in Doncaster also had
:00:24. > :00:26.painful decisions to make as all our local authorities decide how much
:00:27. > :00:31.council tax we will have to pay for services. Here's Joe Inwood with the
:00:32. > :00:34.details. Thank you Harry. Well Labour`run
:00:35. > :00:39.Bradford Council have agreed to make cuts of ?115 million over the next
:00:40. > :00:42.three years. 650 jobs will go and at the same time council tax bills will
:00:43. > :00:45.go up by 1.6%. And the council leader has warned it obviously can't
:00:46. > :00:59.be done without affecting the quality of people's lives. We do
:01:00. > :01:05.need a discussion with residents that says, what do you want the
:01:06. > :01:09.council to look like? What services us to prioritise in future? If these
:01:10. > :01:14.cuts carry on we will not be able to do what we have done in the past or
:01:15. > :01:16.what we are doing now. It will totally change the whole face of
:01:17. > :01:19.local government. Meanwhile in Doncaster this
:01:20. > :01:23.afternoon councillors agreed to make cuts of a ?109 million. 1,200 jobs
:01:24. > :01:29.will be lost and council tax bills there will go up by 1.95%.
:01:30. > :01:31.Not surprisingly there were protests outside the council building from
:01:32. > :01:35.various groups concerned about the cutbacks. All seven council`run care
:01:36. > :01:38.homes will close as well as day care centres and libraries. The Mayor of
:01:39. > :01:51.Doncaster said she empathised with people upset about today's news. Of
:01:52. > :01:58.course I empathise, it could be my mum or dad or brother or sister, and
:01:59. > :02:01.I know that when it is your personal laughter and in those homes it is
:02:02. > :02:03.very, very closely emotional to your heart.
:02:04. > :02:07.The Local Government Association says all authorities are striving to
:02:08. > :02:10.keep council tax down but at the same time are grappling with the
:02:11. > :02:13.difficult task of protecting vital services. Back to you, Harry.
:02:14. > :02:16.A controversial plan that would see big changes to how children's and
:02:17. > :02:18.maternity services are provided at the Friarage Hospital in
:02:19. > :02:22.Northallerton is to go ahead. Doctors say it's the only way to
:02:23. > :02:24.provide sustainable care ` while campaigners believe it could
:02:25. > :02:35.threaten patient safety. Our health correspondent Jamie Coulson reports.
:02:36. > :02:40.In the peaceful Yorkshire Dales village there is anger brewing.
:02:41. > :02:44.These mothers who have all relied on Friday to hospital in the past are
:02:45. > :02:49.upset that plans that would see children's maternity services scale
:02:50. > :02:52.back. I had my first child and got to Northallerton, he came out and
:02:53. > :02:57.his court was round his neck and he was blue. If we have to go to James
:02:58. > :03:03.Cook the chances are he would not be here. It is scary. It is a long way
:03:04. > :03:06.to the Friday anyway and to know that you could potentially have to
:03:07. > :03:11.go even further, it is a scary situation. Local NHS managers
:03:12. > :03:15.confirmed that in the future they want the maternity unit run by
:03:16. > :03:20.midwives, not doctors. I risk births would go elsewhere. There would be
:03:21. > :03:26.an end to govern its children's care. And assessment unit would run
:03:27. > :03:30.from 10am till 10pm. The plans have been controversial and have led to
:03:31. > :03:36.protests in Northallerton. Doctors leaders argue the current services
:03:37. > :03:41.are unsustainable to few patients to support the number of doctors needed
:03:42. > :03:45.to provide safe care. The Friarage serves a population of over 120,000
:03:46. > :03:49.people, but under the changes high risk births of very privileged
:03:50. > :03:55.children would have to go to Middlesbrough, Darlington, Harrogate
:03:56. > :03:59.or York. International evidence says children should be looked after when
:04:00. > :04:04.they are very sick in big units with lots of well`trained staff who do
:04:05. > :04:08.believe emergency things everyday. So when people say they think the
:04:09. > :04:13.Friarage is a world`class service guessing it's not? It has been but
:04:14. > :04:18.does not compare any more because other services have increased their
:04:19. > :04:23.standards. People would be better going elsewhere? Yes. The local NHS
:04:24. > :04:25.hope to have an exchange is by October but campaigners say they
:04:26. > :04:28.will fight on. Three of our Bishops are among forty
:04:29. > :04:31.Christian leaders calling on the Government to end what they're
:04:32. > :04:34.calling a "hunger crisis". They claim a rising number of people now
:04:35. > :04:37.rely on food banks. The criticism of spending cuts and benefits changes
:04:38. > :04:41.which came from the Bishops of Wakefield, Sheffield and Doncaster
:04:42. > :04:44.was made in a letter to the Daily Mirror newspaper. The Government has
:04:45. > :04:47.responded saying it would be wrong not to cut waste while still
:04:48. > :04:52.providing a safety net for the most needy.
:04:53. > :04:56.The girl who died after apparently falling from a window at her home in
:04:57. > :04:59.Bradford on Tuesday morning has been named as Amrita Kaur. She was
:05:00. > :05:02.twenty`two months old. The child's mother, who's 36, was found
:05:03. > :05:05.unconscious beside her daughter behind their home in West Bowling.
:05:06. > :05:07.She's been arrested on suspicion of murdering Amrita but remains
:05:08. > :05:10.critically ill in hospital. Police say they're not looking for anyone
:05:11. > :05:17.else in connection with the incident.
:05:18. > :05:20.Two men who were arrested yesterday on suspicion of murdering a car
:05:21. > :05:23.dealer from Bradford have been released on bail. Sajid Saddique
:05:24. > :05:26.hasn't been seen since he disappeared from Shipley seven years
:05:27. > :05:36.ago. The bailed men are aged forty`eight and fifty`two and are
:05:37. > :05:42.both from Bradford. Rugby league and tonight we have two sides likely to
:05:43. > :05:47.be battling it out at the front of the table. Wakefield have played the
:05:48. > :05:52.Bradford Bulls in the local derby. Radford got off to a great start
:05:53. > :05:57.with a try scored after 11 minutes. Wakefield kept in the game with a
:05:58. > :06:04.try midway in the first half, the score `` scored by Peter Fox.
:06:05. > :06:07.Crucial try came and in the Douglas Bradford winning.
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:06:12. > :06:15.of the services the BBC provides ` would you like to have a say in how
:06:16. > :06:18.it spends your licence fee? The BBC Trust is looking for people of all
:06:19. > :06:22.ages and backgrounds from Yorkshire to join its regional audience panel.
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:06:40. > :06:44.Friday the 7th of March. Time for the weather.
:06:45. > :06:52.Sunshine tomorrow but one or two showers. Sunday looks miserable,
:06:53. > :06:56.Saturday the better day. It will be easier from this point on so
:06:57. > :07:00.tomorrow there will be some sunshine around but also a few blustery
:07:01. > :07:04.showers as well and you can see the strength of the wind on the pressure
:07:05. > :07:08.chart for tomorrow. The isobars are more tightly packed and they have
:07:09. > :07:12.been and that will be a scene through the weekend. Out there this
:07:13. > :07:17.evening and overnight the odd shower but mainly bright conditions and a
:07:18. > :07:21.cooler nights than of late, a touch of frost with temperatures down to
:07:22. > :07:28.two degrees or three degrees. A chilly start to tomorrow, decent dry
:07:29. > :07:32.and bright spells out the risk of a few showers that could be heavy and
:07:33. > :07:34.somebody. Temperatures in seven degrees or its degrees. I will leave
:07:35. > :07:44.you with the summary. Good evening. You may have had the
:07:45. > :07:49.latest from the Met Office about the rainfall we have had this winter,
:07:50. > :07:53.the wettest winter on record. It is sometimes difficult to visualise the
:07:54. > :07:57.numbers. Let me explain how much rain we had. If you think about a
:07:58. > :08:02.stretch of land across the UK, we had about half a metre of rainfall
:08:03. > :08:03.falling so far this winter. That