:00:09. > :00:11.Welcome to Look North. On the programme tonight: Is this
:00:12. > :00:15.Yorkshire's most dangerous village? There have already been 14 `ccidents
:00:16. > :00:18.here since the start of the year. Residents fear nothing will be done
:00:19. > :00:21.until someone is killed. Also tonight: Accused of making
:00:22. > :00:23.money from motorists ` York City Council makes more than
:00:24. > :00:31.half`a`million pounds from drivers crossing Lendal Bridge. We have
:00:32. > :00:39.ended up finding a lot more people than we initially anticipatdd. Join
:00:40. > :00:46.me later to find out what I'm doing here in Yorkshire! It is bedn
:00:47. > :00:48.another right day. What abott tomorrow and the weekend? Join me
:00:49. > :01:00.for the forecast coming up shortly. Tonight, is this one of the most
:01:01. > :01:05.dangerous rural villages in Yorkshire? There have been 04
:01:06. > :01:10.crashes in nearly as many wdeks in the village of Nether Haugh near
:01:11. > :01:13.Rotherham. One house has bedn hit three times this year alone and in
:01:14. > :01:18.the latest incident, walls hnside the house were cracked. At ` second
:01:19. > :01:21.property, a wall has also bden crashed into and partially knocked
:01:22. > :01:25.down four times. Cars are rdgularly crashing through hedgerows `nd ended
:01:26. > :01:28.up in the fields. Villagers have now started recording the crashds in
:01:29. > :01:32.their fight to get something done. They fear it is only a mattdr of
:01:33. > :01:41.time before someone is killdd. Ian White reports.
:01:42. > :01:45.Traffic thunders along the dasy route three Nether Haugh. The people
:01:46. > :01:50.who live here say they think there as is the most dangerous village in
:01:51. > :01:55.Yorkshire. They are fed up with all the crashes. 14 accidents hdre since
:01:56. > :01:59.the start of the year. Their battered homes and Gardens bare all
:02:00. > :02:08.discards. Ted Grayson showed me the damage in his garden. I am nervous.
:02:09. > :02:14.This garden is a no go area. You just don't dare use it. You can see
:02:15. > :02:20.behind me what happens, and it is a regular thing. Two times whdn they
:02:21. > :02:25.have done it, I was very ne`r it! I have had a few near misses. I have
:02:26. > :02:28.been nearly wiped out a few times. The house across the road h`s been
:02:29. > :02:34.struck out vehicles three thmes since January. We got a phone call
:02:35. > :02:37.from one of the neighbours saying another vehicle had collided with
:02:38. > :02:46.the house and we came back to this, basically. It ran square on into the
:02:47. > :02:49.side of the building. This hs just one of the measures that thd council
:02:50. > :02:54.has put in place to try and slow the traffic. No one from the highways
:02:55. > :02:58.department would talk to us today, but in a statement they said they
:02:59. > :03:02.were aware of the high numbdr of accidents and are monitoring the
:03:03. > :03:06.situation closely. When you travel through the visit is like a ghost
:03:07. > :03:10.town. People would rather drive to the neighbours then use the
:03:11. > :03:17.pavement. Campaigners want ` speed camera and a 20 mile an hour limit.
:03:18. > :03:20.The highways department quoting the totality is and serious injtries
:03:21. > :03:26.before anything will be dond. How does that make you feel? Frtstrated
:03:27. > :03:32.doesn't even come into it. Ht is shocking! Some say you only get
:03:33. > :03:36.dangerous drivers, not roads. Perhaps here it is a combin`tion of
:03:37. > :03:39.both. Well, police say they're monitoring
:03:40. > :03:42.the situation and Rotherham Council now say they will undertake an
:03:43. > :03:45.immediate survey of the road to assess the conditions. Ed Morrow
:03:46. > :03:53.from the road safety charitx Brake joins us now.
:03:54. > :04:03.Does there have to be a death before the authorities do anything? I would
:04:04. > :04:10.hope not. At Brake we are contacted often by communities like this, and
:04:11. > :04:14.the communities have to campaign tirelessly to get action taken.
:04:15. > :04:18.Convention is a lot better than cure. We would like to see
:04:19. > :04:22.prevention is taken before there is a serious injury. This is also about
:04:23. > :04:27.stopping people being scared. We have a situation where lots of
:04:28. > :04:33.people are saying they are scared to go out of their homes! They should
:04:34. > :04:39.be able to do that. It sounds as if they are doing everything they can.
:04:40. > :04:44.Can you offer any further advice? This is a case to go is right to the
:04:45. > :04:52.heart of our campaign for whdespread 20 mile `` for widespread 20 mile an
:04:53. > :04:59.hour speed limits or people live. It is critical. It has been proven to
:05:00. > :05:01.reduce casualties, and get lore people I walking and cycling. They
:05:02. > :05:07.are completely right to ask for a speed camera and reduce the speed
:05:08. > :05:13.limit. We would encourage them to keep campaigning, to keep engaging
:05:14. > :05:18.strongly with the local authority, `` get their MP involved, if they
:05:19. > :05:23.haven't already. We have had successes. I will be contacting the
:05:24. > :05:30.campaigners to see what we can do to help.
:05:31. > :05:34.Next tonight, a burglar frol Rotherham has been sentenced to life
:05:35. > :05:38.in prison and will serve a linimum of 24 years for murdering a father
:05:39. > :05:40.from Barnsley who was trying to defend his family and his property.
:05:41. > :05:44.Dean Armitage disturbed Davhd Sindall as he attempted to steal his
:05:45. > :05:46.Range Rover from outside his house in Hoyland last summer. The
:05:47. > :05:48.49`year`old suffered fatal head injuries and never regained
:05:49. > :05:57.consciousness, as Kate Bradbrook reports. Dean Armitage was ` father
:05:58. > :06:01.of from Barnsley. He balked last summer after hearing noises outside
:06:02. > :06:07.his home. What he finds when he ventured out was David Sind`ll, he
:06:08. > :06:10.had already burgled his house, attempting to steal his car. Mr
:06:11. > :06:18.Armitage was struck on the head following on concrete. It w`s brutal
:06:19. > :06:24.in the fact that once Dean was unconscious on the floor, the
:06:25. > :06:29.offender carried on punching and kicking him, swearing at hil before
:06:30. > :06:34.running off. He had no regard for him lying on the floor. That was the
:06:35. > :06:38.last time that Dean Armitagd was awake. He died three weeks later in
:06:39. > :06:52.hospital. The family of Dean Armitage say:
:06:53. > :07:04.the judge told him that when Dean Armitage built a home and btsiness
:07:05. > :07:11.through hard work, you got xours to stealing. You did intend to cause
:07:12. > :07:17.him grievous bodily harm. Ndighbours were left shocked by the killing. I
:07:18. > :07:23.felt dreadful today. It is absolutely horrible. It shotldn t
:07:24. > :07:28.happen. David Sindall, he h`s history of burglary and violence
:07:29. > :07:31.offences, will serve a minilum of 24 years in prison.
:07:32. > :07:35.Later on Look North: The relarkable story of a World War I test pilot
:07:36. > :07:37.from Leeds. Descendants havd described Roly as an Edwardhan
:07:38. > :07:46.adrenaline junkie. Find out why later on Look North.
:07:47. > :07:50.City of York Council has revealed the results of its controversial
:07:51. > :07:53.six`month trial closure of Lendal Bridge. Since September last year,
:07:54. > :07:56.the bridge has been closed to traffic between 10.30am and 5.0 pm.
:07:57. > :07:59.In that time, more than 40,000 penalty charge notices have been
:08:00. > :08:02.issued to drivers who've usdd the bridge during restricted hotrs.
:08:03. > :08:18.That's brought in more than ?1. million pounds. But the council says
:08:19. > :08:23.it is only half`a`million pounds once costs have been deductdd. Cathy
:08:24. > :08:27.Killick has the details. Lendal Bridge is one of thrde
:08:28. > :08:32.bridges crossing the river of news. River views. But the last shx months
:08:33. > :08:37.it has been closed by the vdhicles during the day. It has meant long
:08:38. > :08:41.detours for motorists and accusations that the council would
:08:42. > :08:50.simply like to make money. Some businesses are very against it. This
:08:51. > :08:55.business's carers make 600 calls a week to vulnerable people in the
:08:56. > :09:00.city. And I spent more time in their cars than they do with clients.
:09:01. > :09:04.Normally you could say it would take 1015 minutes to get from ond client
:09:05. > :09:10.to another. It could not be up to three quarters of an time Mhcro
:09:11. > :09:16.That is a big problem if yot have clients who have medication they
:09:17. > :09:20.need to take a set times. The bus companies support the closure. The
:09:21. > :09:23.bridges open to them and bus passengers have seen a markdd
:09:24. > :09:29.improvement in the service `s a result. I could have guaranteed that
:09:30. > :09:33.I would've been sitting in this bus in stationary traffic. As you can
:09:34. > :09:40.see, we have just sealed ovdr the bridge. We have seen across the
:09:41. > :09:44.network services are about 4% more punctual than they were before the
:09:45. > :09:50.trial. The 11 million custolers who use buses every year will bdnefit
:09:51. > :09:55.from that just because they can have more certainty that the busds will
:09:56. > :09:59.turn up. That improvement h`s seen 15,000 people a week getting on the
:10:00. > :10:03.buses in your home exactly what the council wanted. There is no doubt
:10:04. > :10:07.that Lendal Bridge is much lore pleasant for pedestrians. Over the
:10:08. > :10:13.last few decades, cars have been pushed out of York, each st`ge has
:10:14. > :10:16.proved difficult and controversial. Is this latest closure just
:10:17. > :10:19.something we will get used to, or will the inconvenience provd a
:10:20. > :10:26.bridge too far? Councillors will have to decide in the coming weeks.
:10:27. > :10:29.We should know their decision by the beginning of April.
:10:30. > :10:33.Well, the man in charge of the Lendal Bridge Project is Cotncillor
:10:34. > :10:39.Dave Merrett. He came to sed us to defend the scheme. If our albition
:10:40. > :10:44.of getting a much better and reliable bus service works `nd we
:10:45. > :10:47.are able to increase frequencies, increased reliability is an extended
:10:48. > :10:53.services over the years, we will get a lot or people on the servhces
:10:54. > :10:58.unless cards on road and it should ease things. At the moment ht is
:10:59. > :11:02.only four minutes extra in terms of getting from the West side of the
:11:03. > :11:14.city centre to the East sidd. How many? On average, four minutes. I am
:11:15. > :11:21.saying rubbish to you! It is much more than four minutes. You must be
:11:22. > :11:23.going at midnight. That is the average for the period of the day
:11:24. > :11:30.that the bridge is closed mdasured from metal gate to the hosphtal I
:11:31. > :11:38.accept your view on that. A lot of people might not. Go down Ldeman
:11:39. > :11:41.Road, watch the potholes because there are a lot of those, as the
:11:42. > :11:50.people who live in those hotses about the congestion. Try the inner
:11:51. > :11:54.ring road. There has been some redistribution of traffic. The
:11:55. > :11:57.traffic rigours on Leeman Road at the same as they were beford, but
:11:58. > :12:03.there is more queueing at the north end in terms of vehicles turning
:12:04. > :12:07.right onto what end. We are looking at what further measures we can do
:12:08. > :12:14.to mitigate that. I come back to the main point, we are a growing city,
:12:15. > :12:19.car ownership is increasing and over the next 15 years the best lodelling
:12:20. > :12:24.work suggests that we will double or treble congestion in the city. It is
:12:25. > :12:28.absolutely essential that wd get a better, more reliable bus sdrvice
:12:29. > :12:33.and get more people to use the buses if we are to avoid that. Yot have
:12:34. > :12:40.made a lot of money. Hundreds of thousands of pounds. You must be
:12:41. > :12:46.delighted at the way that h`s gone? No, I'm not. We have find a lot more
:12:47. > :12:53.people than we anticipated. I'm not happy. Where does the money go? We
:12:54. > :13:03.have to spend it on the highways and transport issues. There is the
:13:04. > :13:10.potential for a shuttle bus across the city centre so people c`n park
:13:11. > :13:15.on one side and gets to the shops on the other side. Thank you vdry much
:13:16. > :13:18.for answering our questions. The workforce at a military base in
:13:19. > :13:21.North Yorkshire is to be significantly reduced over the next
:13:22. > :13:25.two years. Around 2,200 staff work at RAF Menwith Hill near Harrogate.
:13:26. > :13:28.Two`thirds of those are American and the rest are British. 500 Alerican
:13:29. > :13:32.military and civilian posithons will be phased out by 2016 as a result of
:13:33. > :13:36.defence cuts being made by the US. The Ministry of Defence says some
:13:37. > :13:38.British posts are likely to be cut as a result, but it's not ydt clear
:13:39. > :13:48.how many. Family and friends are remelbering
:13:49. > :13:51.missing York woman Claudia Lawrence on what would have been her 40th
:13:52. > :13:54.birthday. It is almost five years since Claudia was reported lissing.
:13:55. > :13:57.Despite a high`profile police investigation involving up to 1 0
:13:58. > :13:59.officers, no trace of her h`s been found. Detectives believe she was
:14:00. > :14:10.murdered, but Claudia's mother and father remain convinced she's still
:14:11. > :14:13.alive. Remember this? Well, that w`s
:14:14. > :14:16.obviously the excited footb`ll fans at Doncaster Rovers last night. Yes,
:14:17. > :14:23.they were all there to see the team's new player make his debut `
:14:24. > :14:26.One Direction star Louis Tollinson. They had come from all over the
:14:27. > :14:30.place and queued for hours for a chance to get close to him. Rovers
:14:31. > :14:33.fan Tomlinson, who won two Brit Awards earlier this month, came on
:14:34. > :14:36.as a second`half substitute in the fixture against Rotherham. Ht was
:14:37. > :14:38.part of a joint partnership with local charity Bluebell Wood
:14:39. > :14:41.Children's Hospice. Tomlinson's 65th`minute arrival at right`back
:14:42. > :14:44.was greeted by a deafening ovation from the bumper 5,333 crowd. The
:14:45. > :14:57.game ended in a goalless dr`w, So did he enjoy it? It is such an
:14:58. > :15:02.honour to be false in a club where I spent most of my childhood to watch
:15:03. > :15:11.the games. To put on the shhrt is my boyhood dream. Before 7.00pl: I ll
:15:12. > :15:14.be chatting to Paul Michael Glaser, better known as Detective D`vid
:15:15. > :15:17.Starsky, but he's playing a totally different role this time, and
:15:18. > :15:43.getting to dance and sing, `t the Bradford Alhambra. Join me later on
:15:44. > :15:47.Look North to hear my excithng news. Now to the latest in our World War
:15:48. > :15:50.One at Home Series. All this week, to mark the centenary of thd First
:15:51. > :15:53.World War, we're running stories about how the war affected people
:15:54. > :16:00.here in Yorkshire. Tonight we have the story of test pilot Rowland Ding
:16:01. > :16:03.from Leeds. The pilot was a well known character, flying arotnd the
:16:04. > :16:05.Yorkshire skies with 'DING' emblazoned on his aircraft. But his
:16:06. > :16:10.passion for airbourne acrob`tics ended in disaster. Made frol wood
:16:11. > :16:16.and cloth, with a machine gtn fixed to the wing. These are replhcas at
:16:17. > :16:26.the Yorkshire air Museum and they show how basic the early aeroplanes
:16:27. > :16:30.were. Testing new fabrics and designs right on the cutting edge.
:16:31. > :16:37.They didn't have the test f`cilities that he had in later days. Ht was
:16:38. > :16:44.very much a question of getting in and seeing if it would fly. It
:16:45. > :16:51.certainly took some gaps William Ding was one such man, test pilot
:16:52. > :17:00.for Blackburn aircraft manufacturers in Leeds. He was well known around
:17:01. > :17:09.Yorkshire. This is a big shot of him just after a crash landing. Julian
:17:10. > :17:27.Ding describes his late grandfather has an adrenaline junkie. It was the
:17:28. > :17:36.second loop the loop that broke his wing. It certainly wasn't written
:17:37. > :17:41.into the script for that dax 's flight. He was playing to the crowd.
:17:42. > :17:53.It was one stunt too many. He crashed to the ground to thd horror
:17:54. > :17:57.of respect haters Eric was there. Eric told his grandson that he used
:17:58. > :18:08.the pestered the pilot for `go in his blame. As a new durable, to
:18:09. > :18:12.witness something like that, and to witness the death of your hdro, it
:18:13. > :18:19.made a massive impression. Looking at the spot where he died, Ding s
:18:20. > :18:25.descendants of pride of his courage and skill. You not only through
:18:26. > :18:32.planes, but built one out of scraps discarded at the Blackburn factory.
:18:33. > :18:36.It was the white Falk. It'd be like going into a skip today and getting
:18:37. > :18:42.a bin lid and a bicycle and making her the rally out of it. It was
:18:43. > :18:44.fantastic but he did. Willi`m Rowland Ding, daring pilot, skilled
:18:45. > :19:01.engineer, performer. The BBC has been working with
:19:02. > :19:09.Imperial War Museums on the project. To be able to see all these features
:19:10. > :19:12.in one place then go to the website. Tomorrow we're revisiting a story we
:19:13. > :19:16.first brought you last Novelber about dozens of World War I love
:19:17. > :19:18.letters that were found in `n attic in Huddersfield. Well, have a listen
:19:19. > :19:35.to this. MUSIC.
:19:36. > :19:38.BBC Radio Leeds asked two Wdst Yorkshire musicians to put the
:19:39. > :19:41.letters to music and you can hear their song and the love story of
:19:42. > :19:54.Henry Coulter and Lucy Towndnd on Look North tomorrow. They wdre the
:19:55. > :20:00.biggest US Cop duo to hit otr screens in the 70s. Starskex and
:20:01. > :20:11.Hutch became action pin`ups of the time with their good looks `nd fast
:20:12. > :20:15.cars. Well, Paul Michael Gl`ser has sped into Yorkshire for his latest
:20:16. > :20:18.role as Tivyer in the UK totr of Fiddler On The Roof. I met him at
:20:19. > :20:29.Bradford Alhambra to talk about the highs and lows of the last 35 years.
:20:30. > :20:33.You are best known for playhng star ski. That was so huge in thd 19 0s.
:20:34. > :20:39.What are your most memorabld moments. You are asking me to
:20:40. > :20:50.implement memory, which is ` mistake! It seems like was `
:20:51. > :21:04.lifetime ago. Some were back there. We seem to have had a good time we
:21:05. > :21:11.work very hard. We had a wonderful crew we had some good moments, but I
:21:12. > :21:15.can't remember them! You ard back again playing in Fiddler On The
:21:16. > :21:24.Roof. Why take this role? It is a great role. Playing the rold is a
:21:25. > :21:30.very comfortable experience. I don't think I have had a row I have got
:21:31. > :21:34.back, double incense Tarski. You are now 70, and the rule is just as
:21:35. > :21:43.physically demanding. How do you keep up? If I could bottle ht I
:21:44. > :21:49.would be a wealthy man. I don't know, I just do it. I do yet. You
:21:50. > :21:54.have had highs in your caredrs, and personally he have had some real
:21:55. > :22:03.lows. He lost daughter and wife to HIV. How do you get over solething
:22:04. > :22:08.like that? We all have to mourn I think that in my case I had an
:22:09. > :22:13.ongoing problem because I also had a son who was perfect, so I h`d to
:22:14. > :22:19.really do battle with this concept of helplessness. As much as the loss
:22:20. > :22:26.was life changing, learning what I learned was also life changhng. I
:22:27. > :22:33.learned to see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to grow. To grow
:22:34. > :22:43.spiritually, to grow in my heart, to grow as a person. I am in a place
:22:44. > :22:50.that I most likely would not have been enough I hadn't gone through
:22:51. > :22:53.that. He loves cricket, he loves
:22:54. > :22:56.Yorkshire, so its only fitthng that Dickie Bird is set to be thd new
:22:57. > :22:59.President of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He played for the
:23:00. > :23:01.county before becoming an international Test umpire, the
:23:02. > :23:05.world's greatest and since his retirement has been to just about
:23:06. > :23:14.every home match. He'll takd over from Geoffrey Boycott. Preshdent,
:23:15. > :23:22.you don't get much higher than that! I feel very humble and very proud. I
:23:23. > :23:27.am so proud. To me it is ond of the greatest honours that can bd
:23:28. > :23:36.distilled or new. Yorkshire is the greatest club in the world. You were
:23:37. > :23:43.the greatest umpire. Let's see a bit of UN action doing this! Do you ever
:23:44. > :24:00.yearn for these days? That hs an old one! Pigeons come at the Ov`l. I got
:24:01. > :24:09.head there. You have played, you have umpire, and MBE, will be, now
:24:10. > :24:14.president! What next? I don't know. When I walk through `` what through
:24:15. > :24:20.those gates at Headingley on my first practices with Yorkshhre, I
:24:21. > :24:24.never dreamt of this day whdn I would become president of Yorkshire
:24:25. > :24:30.County Cricket Club. It is `mazing. I have got to thank Colin Graves and
:24:31. > :24:36.his board members for bestowing this great honour upon me, and also the
:24:37. > :24:39.members of Yorkshire. The mdmbers of the salt of the earth and wd would
:24:40. > :24:51.have no club it wasn't for the members. We wish you all thd very
:24:52. > :25:13.best. It is your birthday tonight 's, Paul!
:25:14. > :25:30.I got a onesie! Do you have had onesie, Dickey? What is a onesie?
:25:31. > :25:34.It has been the wettest winter for 248 years in many parts of Dngland
:25:35. > :25:50.and Wales. Last night we mentioned it was the
:25:51. > :25:56.risk of brain or some hill snow but that risk has receded night.
:25:57. > :26:01.Tomorrow will start grey bubble slowly brighten up. This is the
:26:02. > :26:08.worrying weather feature, btt I think it will miss us to thd site.
:26:09. > :26:14.We entered on a lovely note. There will be some showers moving into
:26:15. > :26:30.western areas to make, but they will fizzle out. A rare thing tonight,
:26:31. > :26:38.some frost. The sun will rise in the morning at 6:58am. A great start,
:26:39. > :26:43.some fog in places, watch ott for the icy patches. Gradually, sky
:26:44. > :26:48.should brighten. There is the risk of a few showers. Hopefully brighter
:26:49. > :27:01.weather later, with temperatures coming in at around six or seven
:27:02. > :27:07.degrees. That is the broadc`st. Why have we had all this rahn? The
:27:08. > :27:11.discussion will continue after the programme. Good night!