:00:00. > 3:59:59You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.
:00:00. > :00:09.Good afternoon. A consultathon That's all from me,
:00:10. > :00:12.Good afternoon. A consultathon starts today on plans to knock down
:00:13. > :00:18.Wakefield's market hall and replace it with a cinema complex. It cost ?3
:00:19. > :00:21.million to build just six ydars ago, but the council says footfall is
:00:22. > :00:32.low. Dave Edwards has been `t the market for us this morning. Saturday
:00:33. > :00:42.at the market and traders are doing their best to make it busindss as
:00:43. > :00:46.usual. This market hall onlx opened a few years ago and it faces
:00:47. > :00:58.closure. The council says it does not get enough footfall. It is
:00:59. > :01:05.literally going to go ahead? All this is going to be taken away from
:01:06. > :01:13.us. We would not be here if it was not making money. I feel as if I am
:01:14. > :01:20.in limbo at the moment. The consultation will run from today
:01:21. > :01:27.until the end of April. The council says it will make an informdd
:01:28. > :01:37.decision. These stallholders do not want to go anywhere else.
:01:38. > :01:40.One person's been airlifted to hospital this morning following an
:01:41. > :01:43.accident in South Yorkshire. Wentworth Road in Swinton w`s closed
:01:44. > :01:46.by police while the emergency service dealt with the incident
:01:47. > :01:50.It's thought a car overturndd after colliding with a tree. Two people
:01:51. > :01:57.were trapped in the vehicle. The Air Ambulance transported one of the
:01:58. > :02:00.casualties to hospital. Church leaders in Yorkshire have
:02:01. > :02:03.voted overwhelmingly in favour of allowing women to become bishops.
:02:04. > :02:07.The Diocese of Ripon and Ledds Synod met Harrogate this morning. Only one
:02:08. > :02:10.person voted against the motion to allow women to become bishops. If
:02:11. > :02:13.the legislation is passed at the General Synod, the first felale
:02:14. > :02:16.bishops could be in post by the end of the year.
:02:17. > :02:19.Leeds Rhinos kept up their winning start by beating the Catalan Dragons
:02:20. > :02:22.40`12 in Perpignan. Leeds trailed 6`0 after the opening 20 minutes,
:02:23. > :02:26.but hit back with three trids to lead 18`6 at half`time. Joel Moon,
:02:27. > :02:29.Brett Delaney and Tom Briscoe all went over, before early second`half
:02:30. > :02:34.tries for Carl Ablett and Rxan Hall put the Rhinos in control.
:02:35. > :02:37.It was a good night for Castleford as well. They continued thehr
:02:38. > :02:44.winning streak with a 10`3 win over Hull KR. But the Huddersfield Giants
:02:45. > :02:48.lost to Widnes 22`20. A bad result for them having been 20`12 tp at one
:02:49. > :02:51.stage. A major exhibition of royal
:02:52. > :02:54.portraits has opened at a stately home in North Yorkshire. Thd art has
:02:55. > :02:57.been loaned to Beningbrough Hall from the National Portrait Gallery.
:02:58. > :03:00.It includes works by Mario Testino and Andy Warhol and features the
:03:01. > :03:11.Queen, Prince William and H`rry and baby Prince George. The exhhbition
:03:12. > :03:16.runs until November. Not a bad day out there.
:03:17. > :03:26.Today is the first day of meteorological spring. We h`ve some
:03:27. > :03:33.great and that `` sunny spells and the possibility of a few showers
:03:34. > :03:38.further east. The winds are fairly light from the south`west.
:03:39. > :03:41.Overnight, some clear spells and temperatures falling away qtickly.
:03:42. > :03:48.This band of rain were spre`ding from the west and that could bring
:03:49. > :03:54.some hill snow for a time. With that rain overnight, watch out for ice
:03:55. > :03:55.first thing on Sunday morning. Lots of cloud turning wet and windy
:03:56. > :04:02.later. That's all for now. Our next update
:04:03. > :04:12.is later this evening at 6.05pm Good afternoon.
:04:13. > :04:19.March, and quite a wintry chill to the first thing, but conditions have
:04:20. > :04:21.improved a lot, a lot of sunshine have there, so