:00:00. > 3:59:59so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One, we now join the BBC's news
:00:00. > :00:11.teams Good evening and welcome to a very
:00:12. > :00:14.special edition of Look North. Tonight, we're live in Scarborough
:00:15. > :00:18.as we begin our coverage to mark the centenary of the First World War.
:00:19. > :00:21.We'll be telling you the story of the German naval attack on
:00:22. > :00:26.Scarborough in December 1914. 18 people were killed and scores of
:00:27. > :00:30.buildings were damaged. And how did the town coped with the attack and
:00:31. > :00:34.hear from the relatives of a woman who wasn't going to let it spoil her
:00:35. > :00:42.wedding day. We'll be asking a historian if more could have been
:00:43. > :00:45.done to prevent the attack. All that's coming up shortly. Amy's in
:00:46. > :00:47.the studio with the other main headlines.
:00:48. > :00:49.Thanks, Harry. Also tonight: International concert pianist John
:00:50. > :00:54.Briggs DENIES the indecent assault of five young boys. He tells a jury
:00:55. > :00:58.in Bradford he did have gay tendencies but that they NEVER
:00:59. > :01:01.involved children. We'll also be live at Hillsborough
:01:02. > :01:05.ahead of Sheffield Wednesday's FA Cup game. A win tonight puts them
:01:06. > :01:15.head to head with Sheffield United in the quarter finals.
:01:16. > :01:20.And retiring on a high. A British title win for ex`Blades midfielder
:01:21. > :01:31.Curtis Woodhouse. He's here to tell us what it means to him.
:01:32. > :01:34.It has been a lovely afternoon in Scarborough. Temperatures in double
:01:35. > :01:46.figures but the week ahead looks very changeable.
:01:47. > :01:53.Good evening and welcome to Scarborough. Tonight, we're
:01:54. > :01:59.beginning our coverage to mark the centenary of the First World War.
:02:00. > :02:01.We're concentrating on how it affected people right here in
:02:02. > :02:23.Yorkshire and on December 16th, 1914, the War arrived on our
:02:24. > :02:26.doorstep. A bombardment by the German navy killed 18 people in
:02:27. > :02:29.Scarborough and seven people in Whitby. Shells rained down from
:02:30. > :02:32.gunships about a mile out to sea. Dozens of buildings were damaged:
:02:33. > :02:35.The Grand Hotel, Scarborough Castle. And look at this footage from 100
:02:36. > :02:41.years ago, just after the lighthouse had been hit. The top part was
:02:42. > :02:46.rebuilt in 1931. It was a shocking attack on a defenceless seaside
:02:47. > :02:49.town. It left Scarborough and the whole country stunned. Deaths on
:02:50. > :03:02.British soil meant the course of the War was changed for good.
:03:03. > :03:09.Soldiers in York prepared to go to the front line. In December, 1914,
:03:10. > :03:17.Britain had been at war for four months. On the night of the 16th,
:03:18. > :03:25.the German navy headed for the Yorkshire coast. Their targets
:03:26. > :03:32.included Scarborough. A few days before Christmas, this is it. The
:03:33. > :03:37.German Navy sent three battle cruisers up the coast. They sent to
:03:38. > :03:46.the Scarborough. The last time Scarborough was they did was by
:03:47. > :03:59.bombardment started banging on ATM. `` bang on 8am. 500 shells rained
:04:00. > :04:04.down on the town. Landmark buildings, including the grand hotel
:04:05. > :04:10.and Scarborough Lighthouse were damaged, the brutal reality of the
:04:11. > :04:15.conflict had been brought to British soil. The indiscriminate nature of
:04:16. > :04:24.the bombing spared nobody, not even schoolchildren. The school took a
:04:25. > :04:29.direct hit. The clock stopped at 8:25am at December the 16th, said
:04:30. > :04:34.the shell came through the horn and caused chaos. Only two children in
:04:35. > :04:40.the school were at that point. Thank heavens for a quick thinking
:04:41. > :04:45.caretaker. There was the dash for cover. Kathy's great granddaughter
:04:46. > :04:55.picks up the story. When they got here, the Web the only pupils of the
:04:56. > :05:00.school. The bomb went off. It must've been terrifying she was only
:05:01. > :05:06.young, but for us, it's kind of like this amazing part of our family
:05:07. > :05:15.history. Both children survived, and Lucy, this was our first ever visit
:05:16. > :05:19.to the seller. Our evidence comes from the headmistress and her
:05:20. > :05:24.account in the school logbook. When she looked at all, first of all, she
:05:25. > :05:31.found a shell had gone through the glass roof and classroom number four
:05:32. > :05:38.had been damaged and the clock had stopped at a 20 5am. She made a
:05:39. > :05:43.comment in the school logbook to say had it had been later, the score
:05:44. > :05:51.would have been assembled underneath that glass ceiling for prayers. The
:05:52. > :05:58.bombardment lasted half an hour but the Kaiser's fleet still hadn't
:05:59. > :06:08.finished. Whitney then came under fire. Attacks on this `` undefended
:06:09. > :06:13.seaside resorts shocked the country. There is a conspiracy theory. The
:06:14. > :06:20.Royal Navy were waiting for the Germans 70 miles off the coast. They
:06:21. > :06:24.were supposed to ambush them. That raises the question, did they know
:06:25. > :06:27.that there would be an attack on Scarborough and could they have
:06:28. > :06:37.prevented the loss of 18 lives? Well, joining me now is Dr Robb
:06:38. > :06:41.Robinson from Hull University. I walked 15 yards from here. People
:06:42. > :06:46.say the attack should not have happened and the government knew
:06:47. > :06:49.about it. In part, they knew because they had intelligence and attack
:06:50. > :06:56.would take place but they didn't know exactly where and when. But
:06:57. > :07:04.they were engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the German
:07:05. > :07:15.fleets. What about Scarborough as a choice of this attack? It was an
:07:16. > :07:21.unusual place to choose, but in actual fact, if you were coming
:07:22. > :07:28.across the North Sea, this was ideal to hit. Most of the battle fleet was
:07:29. > :07:31.up in Scarborough. Some people tell me there was a signal station here
:07:32. > :07:40.that could have been a target for the German Navy. The Germans did
:07:41. > :07:44.tried to justify the attack that there were military installations
:07:45. > :07:50.there, but it really was a remarkable thing. It was a watershed
:07:51. > :08:00.in the great War. Why didn't the Royal Navy managed to capture the
:08:01. > :08:06.German battle cruisers as they left? The weather was bad, they lost
:08:07. > :08:10.contact with them, they got away. It was remarkable but did lead to a
:08:11. > :08:15.readjustment of where the fleets and vessels were kept afterwards. Give
:08:16. > :08:22.me a perspective of what this attack meant for the war effort in this
:08:23. > :08:26.country. It was an enormously watershed event. You didn't expect
:08:27. > :08:38.this to happen. This had never happened before. This gave the moral
:08:39. > :08:42.high ground to quit `` to Britain and meant many people thought the
:08:43. > :08:48.British cause was justified and right. Many families, if they look
:08:49. > :08:52.back in their history, they will notice a lot of people joined up
:08:53. > :09:01.after this event because it is so inflamed the public. Try and tell us
:09:02. > :09:07.the kind of conditions that were here on December 16, 1914. The
:09:08. > :09:15.weather conditions were crucial. A lot of missed and Stratus over the
:09:16. > :09:20.North Sea. That helped to camouflage the war boats. The first thing the
:09:21. > :09:28.residents knew were shells exploding across the town. As we have just
:09:29. > :09:34.heard, the weather conditions deteriorated further, helping the
:09:35. > :09:43.German warships getaway. An accurate forecast from Poole, 100 years on!
:09:44. > :09:46.The internationally renowned concert pianist John Briggs has today denied
:09:47. > :09:51.accusations of indecent assaults on five boys going back to the 1960s.
:09:52. > :09:54.He told his trial in Bradford that although he was happily married, he
:09:55. > :10:06.had gay tendencies but they'd never involved children.
:10:07. > :10:15.John Briggs, who denies sexually assaulting five boys, admitted to a
:10:16. > :10:19.jewellery he had kept legal gay pornographic material in his home.
:10:20. > :10:25.He said it had been just to look occasionally. He told Bradford Crown
:10:26. > :10:32.Court he has been happily married to his wife for the past 25 years but
:10:33. > :10:41.in the past ten years, he discovered homosexual tendencies and acquired
:10:42. > :10:45.the DVDs. The international concert pianist denies he indecently
:10:46. > :10:51.assaulted two boys who gave private lessons to and three members of the
:10:52. > :11:09.Sea cadets. Giving evidence in his defence today:
:11:10. > :11:15.In cross`examination, John Briggs was asked if he could think of any
:11:16. > :11:21.reason why the boys would have said things that weren't true. He claimed
:11:22. > :11:24.the allegations were made up in a vicious conspiracy against him and
:11:25. > :11:33.there was not a scrap of truth in them. The trial of John Briggs
:11:34. > :11:36.continues tomorrow. A new report claims that many of
:11:37. > :11:40.Jimmy Savile's victims were ignored or laughed at when they first
:11:41. > :11:46.revealed they'd been abused by the star. 26 victims were interviewed by
:11:47. > :11:51.the NSPCC as part of the research to find out why they felt unable to
:11:52. > :11:54.report the abuse at the time. The report also found that some have
:11:55. > :11:58.suffered mental illness or turned to drink and drugs as a result of what
:11:59. > :12:01.happened. A prisoner has been re`arrested by
:12:02. > :12:06.police after absconding while on day release from jail. Paul Maxwell
:12:07. > :12:10.escaped during a visit to Rochdale town centre on Friday but was found
:12:11. > :12:13.late last night in Salford. He's serving life for the murder of
:12:14. > :12:20.85`year`old Joe Smailes, seen here on the left, in Wakefield in 1996.
:12:21. > :12:22.A vote takes place tonight over Calderdale Council's budget after
:12:23. > :12:25.Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors joined together to put
:12:26. > :12:32.forward alternative ways of saving money to those proposed by Labour.
:12:33. > :12:38.The council must save ?12 million next year. The Labour party want to
:12:39. > :12:40.freeze council tax and save money on contracts but the new coalition's
:12:41. > :12:43.alternative plan suggests changes including employing more street
:12:44. > :12:49.sweepers, cutting sick pay and reversing car parking costs.
:12:50. > :12:52.And shoppers at Meadowhall got something of a surprise when a line
:12:53. > :12:56.of Brownies started dancing through the centre today. More than 200
:12:57. > :13:00.Brownies from across South Yorkshire, led by the 11th Rotherham
:13:01. > :13:03.Brownie Pack, did the Conga as part of a series of challenges the
:13:04. > :13:11.movement is doing to celebrate its centenary.
:13:12. > :13:14.Now for the sport, here's Tanya. Let's start with football and all
:13:15. > :13:18.eyes are on Sheffield Wednesday tonight as they take on Charlton in
:13:19. > :13:22.the fifth round of the FA Cup. A win will put them head to head with
:13:23. > :13:26.their city rivals, Sheffield United, and guarantee one of them a trip to
:13:27. > :13:37.Wembley. Spencer Stokes is at Hillsborough for us now. A big night
:13:38. > :13:43.for Sheffield Wednesday and a big night for Sheffield because if
:13:44. > :13:46.Wednesday beat Charlton, they meet in the quarterfinals, guaranteeing
:13:47. > :13:52.one of the Sheffield clubs will go through to the semifinals. Wednesday
:13:53. > :14:02.are quietly confident following their victory. It lifts them up the
:14:03. > :14:07.table and that's the kind of performance Stuart Bray would like
:14:08. > :14:11.to see tonight. He is focusing on being shot in game rather than
:14:12. > :14:21.thinking too far ahead to a possible tie. We spoke to the manager. Since
:14:22. > :14:27.the draw came out, while everybody talked about was a Sheffield derby.
:14:28. > :14:32.But Charlton have had a great result today. Most important thing, we have
:14:33. > :14:41.got to get the crowd right behind us. But then there's the price to
:14:42. > :14:46.get through that one. It would be great for the city and both football
:14:47. > :14:58.clubs, but Charlton have got some way to go. Kick`off here is at
:14:59. > :15:03.7:45pm. I will be back here live at 10:25pm when we should know for
:15:04. > :15:06.certain whether or not Sheffield Wednesday are meeting Sheffield
:15:07. > :15:09.United in the quarterfinals. So Sheffield Wednesday enjoyed a
:15:10. > :15:12.derby win over Huddersfield but what about the rest of the weekend's
:15:13. > :15:20.football? Well, our League One sides were in fine form and there was
:15:21. > :15:30.finally a win for Barnsley. A searching pass from Martin Crane
:15:31. > :15:38.found Jim O'Brien's run. That was enough for a 1`0 win. On the pitch,
:15:39. > :15:43.the story for Leeds United was an impressive debut for Jack but lived.
:15:44. > :15:53.He kept his side in it when the match finished 0`0. The football
:15:54. > :15:56.league is expected to decide soon whether he is expected to decide
:15:57. > :16:02.soon whether he's a fit and proper person to only Leeds United. In
:16:03. > :16:10.league one, slapstick defending from Carlisle allowed Wes Thomas to put
:16:11. > :16:17.Rotherham in front. In injury time, the winner was scored. Comedy
:16:18. > :16:25.goalkeeping of the day goes to MK dons. Fair play to James Hansen for
:16:26. > :16:31.putting him under pressure and scoring the only goal. Sheffield
:16:32. > :16:38.United continued their improvement. John Brayford put the Blades ahead.
:16:39. > :16:48.Next up, Ryan Flynn with a considered right foot finish. You
:16:49. > :16:52.can see highlights from all of our teams on the football league show.
:16:53. > :16:55.In rugby league, it is a little early in the season, but
:16:56. > :16:58.nonetheless, Castleford Tigers are the leaders of Superleague. A hat
:16:59. > :17:03.trick of tries from winger Justin Carney helped see off Catalan
:17:04. > :17:07.Dragons 32`6. On the back of last week's win at Bradford, Castleford
:17:08. > :17:10.are top of the table on points difference.
:17:11. > :17:13.And you can see all the weekend's highlights on tonight's Super League
:17:14. > :17:17.Show, where my guests include Jamie Peacock. That's on BBC One at
:17:18. > :17:21.11:50pm. In boxing, it was a great night for
:17:22. > :17:24.a couple of our fighters on Saturday night with two winning British
:17:25. > :17:27.titles. Gavin McDonnell, twin brother of former world champion
:17:28. > :17:31.Jamie, stopped Leigh Wood in what was a dramatic sixth round.
:17:32. > :17:33.McDonnell, from Hatfield near Doncaster, won the British
:17:34. > :17:35.super`bantamweight belt but some experts had him behind on the
:17:36. > :17:45.judge's scorecards before that stoppage.
:17:46. > :17:47.But the story of the night was a British title win for former
:17:48. > :17:51.Sheffield United midfielder Curtis Woodhouse. He went in to his fight
:17:52. > :17:55.against British champion Darren Hamilton saying he would retire, win
:17:56. > :17:58.or lose. To put even more pressure on himself, he'd promised his
:17:59. > :18:10.father, on his death bed, that he'd win that belt title and he did just
:18:11. > :18:18.that. Has it started to sink in yet? Unbelievable. I still have to
:18:19. > :18:22.keep checking the belt. I sat and watched it. You are so much the
:18:23. > :18:30.underdog. How did you get yourself through that fight? He was 6`1 on
:18:31. > :18:37.favourites to win but I whispered if I could get him in a fight, I would
:18:38. > :18:43.win. Do you think he was in expecting you to fight the way you
:18:44. > :18:47.for? He was mocking me for having no game plan. I always said the best
:18:48. > :18:53.game plan you have is you have no game plan. You couldn't pick a
:18:54. > :19:03.winner. It could have gone either way. Was that moment, when they
:19:04. > :19:08.announced your name? The best feeling I have ever had in my life.
:19:09. > :19:19.I bet you are thinking about your father when they said that. It gave
:19:20. > :19:25.me motivation to make that promise to my dad a reality. I took it to
:19:26. > :19:30.his grave on Sunday morning and it was one of the proudest moments of
:19:31. > :19:37.my life. Is that when it started to sink in? Definitely. It has always
:19:38. > :19:46.been in the back of my mind. To do it, I felt pressure had come off my
:19:47. > :19:52.shoulders. People keep saying to me it's like a Rocky movie, but the
:19:53. > :19:59.Rocky movies aren't real. This is. You've done football and boxing. Are
:20:00. > :20:04.you going to retire? I wanted to go out on a high and that is what I aim
:20:05. > :20:09.to do. But it would be so difficult. I don't want to stop. But
:20:10. > :20:25.I know now is the right time to bow out.
:20:26. > :20:29.Thanks, Tanya, and that is about it from us here in the studio. I'll be
:20:30. > :20:31.back with our late bulletin at 10:25 with that all`important Sheffield
:20:32. > :20:34.Wednesday result. For now, though, it's time to go back to Harry in
:20:35. > :20:37.Scarborough. Welcome back to Scarborough. Now,
:20:38. > :20:57.the attack on the town in December 1914 came as a shock to the whole
:20:58. > :21:00.country. It was a seaside town and totally undefended. Many people
:21:01. > :21:03.decided to leave Scarborough but others stayed and were determined
:21:04. > :21:06.that life would go on. That meant rebuilding the tourism industry and,
:21:07. > :21:07.for one couple, going ahead with their special day just hours after
:21:08. > :21:26.the attack. On the day of the bombardment, my
:21:27. > :21:35.mother came here for holy Communion at 8am. During the Communion
:21:36. > :21:41.service, the bombardment started and the church was one of the first to
:21:42. > :21:47.be hit. The shelling left a large role in the roof and as hundreds of
:21:48. > :21:52.visitors and residents fled the seaside town, one winner and decided
:21:53. > :22:00.to stay as she had an important engagement to keep. My parents were
:22:01. > :22:05.to be married in the church later on and after the bombardment, she went
:22:06. > :22:12.round and picked up a piece of shrapnel, which we still have, had a
:22:13. > :22:17.discussion with the vicar and they decided the wedding would go ahead.
:22:18. > :22:25.This attitude that life must go one prevailed in Scarborough. Now people
:22:26. > :22:30.weren't coming to the seaside town for fresh air and fun. They were
:22:31. > :22:37.coming to survey the damage. It's difficult to imagine. We had one of
:22:38. > :22:43.the major postcard producers in Scarborough. There were also ceramic
:22:44. > :22:48.souvenirs. There's a lovely one we have which is the lighthouse with a
:22:49. > :22:56.hole blown through it and I have not seen many examples of that. There
:22:57. > :23:03.were pieces of shell that were not just circulated but so does well and
:23:04. > :23:08.mounted on blocks of wood and metal. There's one legacy of the
:23:09. > :23:15.bombardment in Scarborough which is still attracting attention. This
:23:16. > :23:21.street was badly hit. This house may have a macabre history, but people
:23:22. > :23:27.are still interested in its past. I have had quite a few people on a
:23:28. > :23:32.regular basis. Every year, everyone enquires about whether I knew about
:23:33. > :23:35.the house and whether I understood the pictures. A lot of them even
:23:36. > :23:43.bring books and pictures with them to show me what went on. It took
:23:44. > :23:47.years for the town to recover. Compensation for the damage was slow
:23:48. > :23:51.in coming so residents had to rally round and do the best they could
:23:52. > :24:08.with a little money they could. But slowly and surely, Scarborough made
:24:09. > :24:15.a comeback. What is this in your hand? This is a
:24:16. > :24:22.foghorn, hit by a shell in the bombardment. It's from the
:24:23. > :24:31.signalling station. It's amazing how many of these things have emerged.
:24:32. > :24:39.This is a spoon. That spoon was in Caitlin 's tea room, underneath the
:24:40. > :24:49.grand hotel. That spoon with the casualty! This is the one that might
:24:50. > :24:54.reflect, because it's behind a glass case, this is a Charles Dickens book
:24:55. > :25:02.with a piece of shrapnel embedded in it. There was a library which was
:25:03. > :25:11.hit by ten shelves. The post man and made were hit. Several books still
:25:12. > :25:12.exist with pieces of shell in it. It has been fascinating to look at
:25:13. > :25:28.these items. It could have been a lot worse here
:25:29. > :25:33.in Scarborough. It could have been snowing and gale force winds but is
:25:34. > :25:39.it actually been very mild. It looks like we should get double`figure
:25:40. > :25:45.temperatures tomorrow. It's a familiar pressure chart. A number of
:25:46. > :25:49.isobars and a weather front just about to push in from the West,
:25:50. > :25:54.meaning more rain to come, although by the time that weather front gets
:25:55. > :25:59.it, not much left on it at all. This evening, fine here in Scarborough,
:26:00. > :26:04.but cloud will increase overnight. Rain will spread north eastwards. I
:26:05. > :26:12.don't think there will be a great deal here in Scarborough. Another
:26:13. > :26:20.mild one as well. Frost free. Five or six Celsius in the West. A windy
:26:21. > :26:28.night to come. A cloudy, damp start in some places. We will all see
:26:29. > :26:32.sunshine developing. Showers pushing into western areas through the
:26:33. > :26:38.afternoon. One or two could be heavy. I suspect on the coast, it
:26:39. > :26:47.will stay dry. We will see temperatures around 10 Celsius.
:26:48. > :26:54.Wednesday is looking promising. We will be in between weather systems.
:26:55. > :27:13.Again, along the coast, a nice day. More rain to come Wednesday night.
:27:14. > :27:16.We will leave you tonight with our tribute to the 18 people who lost
:27:17. > :27:22.their lives 100 years ago.