20/03/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Welcome to Look North. Tonight ` so it's goodbye from me

Welcome to Look North. Tonight ` wanting to know why: The

reconstruction of the last known movements of Simon Holdsworth, which

his mother hopes will lead to finding his killer. He did not just

die, he was battered to death brutally. We'll have more reaction

to last night's Crimewatch appeal. Also tonight, a milestone for

Sheffield as the city marks 20 years of Supertram. Feeling the pain ` we

catch up with Harry and Amy after the most gruelling part of their

Tandem Tour of Yorkshire. It started off nicely enough but after that

things went dramatically downhill. Join me for a detailed forecast. Our

top story tonight ` the mother of a South Yorkshire man who was murdered

just before Christmas has made an emotional appeal for help to find

his killer. Simon Holdsworth was walking home from work across

playing fields in the Hackenthorpe area of Sheffield when he was

attacked. Last night his story appeared on the BBC's Crimewatch

programme and the police have released new CCTV pictures of a car

and a person they want to trace. Olivia Richwald has been speaking to

Simon's mother, Christine Holdsworth. A lovely young man in

every way. Happy, bubbly, friendly. He was always outgoing, forthcoming

with conversation and chatting, and very loving and caring in every way.

It's been three months since Christine Holdsworth's son was

murdered, attacked and left in a field to be discovered the next

morning. His killer or killers have not been found. It can't be put into

words, the way we are feeling now. It's just a great big hole that will

never, ever heal. Last night, his story featured on the BBC's

Crimewatch programme. Simon left home to go to work. He never came

home. After finishing work he caught the bus home and just after 11pm he

was attacked as he crossed this field. Now, new CCTV has emerged.

This grainy footage captures one single car which parked up at the

side of the field where Simon was found. A figure can be seen walking

into the field. Two minutes after this was filmed, Simon's bus

arrived. Police now wanted to trace that dark`coloured hatchback. They

say it is likely to be a Ford Escort Mark Six or Seven or a Vauxhall

Astra Mark Four. Police always want to know what happened to his gold

chain and is no care for them. `` and what happened to his Nokia

phone. He didn't just die, he was brutally murdered. He would not have

hurt anyone. Detectives say there was a good response from last

night's appeal, and their investigations continue. Whoever did

this to Simon Lock away and left them there all night in the field.

How could anybody do that and live with themselves? Next tonight to

another case featured on Crimewatch. Peter Lawrence, the father of

missing York University chef Claudia, has welcomed the dramatic

new information about his daughter's case revealed by police on the BBC

programme. But he said today it should have been known five years

ago when Claudia vanished. Our crime correspondent John Cundy has the

latest. Two men into cars seen near Claudia's on. Is this the clearest

evidence so far? This could be hugely significant. This is from a

witness who says that on the morning of Claudia's disappearance at

6:45am, he saw a male described as 55 to 65, with grey hair,

mid`length, and he was wearing a three`quarters length a

sandy`coloured mac. And there are appeals that police want to find a

different man who Claudia opened her door to the previous week. It was

about 5:42am in the morning when she would have been walking to work.

That vehicle is believed to be a light hatchback, possibly a Ford

Focus, and it breaks unexpectedly, we think, near her house. What I

want to know is why that vehicle brake, who was in it, and did it

stop to give her a lift to work? Claudia's father, Peter, watched

last night revelations, and he has his criticisms. I hope it jogs

somebody's memory, but it's a pity we did not see five years ago. If

any of that links to someone coming forward with even the tiniest bit of

information, that gives us hope. I feel that there have been such

thoroughness, they are going to make progress, and that is what the

family need. It is very critical to the family? It is. It is affecting

us. 50 new jobs are being created at a bus`building company in

Scarborough. National Express West Midlands has signed a deal for 600

vehicles to be built at Alexander Dennis sites in Scarborough, Surrey

and Falkirk. The firm says the deal will also help secure 600 existing

jobs at the Scarborough site. 25`year`old Dale McLean from

Huddersfield has admitted killing a Rugby Union player in a nightclub in

Halifax last month. Andrew Feather, who played for Halifax, died after

being punched during a match celebration in the Liquid nightclub.

McLean, who admitted his manslaughter when he appeared at

Bradford Crown Court, will be sentenced next month. Plans to turn

Bradford's former Odeon cinema into a sports facility have been

withdrawn. Bradford Council, which owns the building, had received

three expressions of interest for the site. A group wanted to develop

a swimming, diving and athletics centre there, but they've pulled out

of the process. The remaining two bids are to turn the building into

either a cultural centre or live music venue. Tributes have been paid

in Parliament to the former Labour MP for Chesterfield Tony Benn, who

died last week. Mr Benn was at the forefront of left`wing politics for

more than 50 years. During today's debate MPs from all parties paid

tribute to Mr Benn, including the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

His son and Leeds MP Hilary Benn received a round of applause in the

Commons as he spoke about his father. He was barred from entry to

the chamber on the instructions of the Speaker because his blood was

blue. His blood was never blue, it was the deepest red throughout. He

will be remembered as a dedicated constituency member of Parliament

and a diarist. A burglar from Rotherham's been jailed after

sending a "selfie" to his victim's colleagues by mistake. Ashley Keast

took this picture using a mobile phone SIM card he stole during a

break`in at a house in Brinsworth last year. The victim's colleagues

reported the picture to police after he sent it to them by mistake. Keast

was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. Before seven

o'clock: In search of European glory ` one of Sheffield's brightest

boxing talents gears up for a fight hoping to add to the British title

he already holds. Harry and Amy face their toughest challenge yet on the

penultimate day of their Tandom Tour of Yorkshire. But first, Sheffield's

Supertram is 20 years old this week, but Look North has discovered that

people in South Yorkshire will still be paying for its construction for

another ten years. March 1994 saw the first tram link between the city

centre and Meadowhall. There had been plans to widen the network to

Barnsley and Doncaster, but that never happened. The project cost

?240 million and completely transformed the city centre. Now

it's preparing to make its debut in Rotherham. James Vincent reports.

Sheffield was one of the last places to get rid of its original trams, in

1960. There were state`of`the`art designs for the new ones. Super tram

arrived in 1994 but low passenger numbers mean that it got off to a

slow start but no Supertram has 15 million passenger journeys per year.

`` now Supertram has 15 million passenger journeys. I do not have a

car so I need to get around somehow so I use the tram. I did not realise

it was 20 years. It is not as much fun as the old trams. The best tram

stop? The one where we have to get off. When Supertram first came to

Sheffield, it was deemed a failure at 20 years on the sound of the bell

and the sight of people coming into the city centre would be something

that Sheffield would feel strange without. There are plans to run the

trams along rail lines to Rotherham. People work and live between the two

areas and constantly travel between them. We have had a crazy system

where transport links have not been as good as it should be. Trams are

an important part of addressing that. Confirmation today that the

?240 million bill still has not been cleared. 20 years after the first

started running, it will take another ten years to pay for

Supertram. I remember living in Sheffield at the time that it was

ill and the hideous construction that went on for months and years

and got everybody really angry. Some sports news now, and the managing

director of Leeds United has been pushing for the football authorities

to make a decision today about the long`awaited takeover of the club.

David Haigh has arranged for legal letters to be sent to the Football

League, asking it to rule on Italian businessman Massimo Cellino's

proposal to buy a controlling stake in the club. Mr Haigh says the delay

is harming the club's ability to move forward ` describing it as

unprecedented and unfair. Boxing now, and this weekend, one of

Sheffield's brightest talents is hoping to add to the British title

he already holds. Barry Awad, also known as Kid Galahad, is fighting

for the European title on Saturday night. Shamir Masri reports. Last

time out, Barry Awad won the British title, in what was just his 15th

professional fight. On Saturday, he is hoping to add the European belt

to his collection. If he is successful, the winner will come to

decades after his fellow countryman Prince Naseem picked up his European

title, at the very same venue, Sheffield's Forge. I'm going to do

it 20 years later. It is going to become believable. I can't win to

win the title back, show it to Brendan, show it to everyone in the

gym, and it will be unbelievable. Prince Naseem's trainer is shared by

Kid Galahad. But the similarities between the two end there. He's

never going to be another Naseem, another Johnny Nelson or whoever. He

will define his own style. They all find their own unique style, and

people latch onto that, and it is exciting to watch. Barry Awad faces

former Spanish champion Sergio Prado for the belt. He is confident he can

come out on top and be crowned European Champion. I've been trained

since I was 14, two or three hours each day at least. It is only

starting to pay off now ten years later. Now it's day seven of Look

North's Tandem Tour de Yorkshire. Just to remind you, our intrepid

presenters Harry and Amy are cycling all 250 miles of the Yorkshire

stages of the Tour de France on a bicycle made for two. They're doing

it in aid of Sport Relief, and they've already raised more than

?53,000. Today's route started in Elland. They climbed up to Ainley

Top, then on through Huddersfield, Honley and Holmfirth. Then the

dreaded Holme Moss climb up to the wet and windy heights of the

Pennines. Well the weather up there has been absolutely atrocious ` so

they've now driven on to Langsett to take shelter for the night ` a total

of 222 miles into their epic journey ` and they're now facing an early

start tomorrow to complete the last bit of this stage. A pretty rotten

day for you guys. How are you doing? We are all right, nice and warm now

in the part. The fire is rolling and the bunting is out. Sadly we did not

make it down onto wheels as we hoped. Today has been the hardest.

We have been battling high wind speeds and torrential rain but we

made it to the top all 500 metres up and we have the T`shirt to prove it.

Everyone is dead here. Wake up everybody. The forecast was

incredibly accurate today. At 1:45pm the rain started and got heavier and

heavier and the wind got worse and worse and worse. It was all smiles

at the start. Helped by Yorkshire's Olympic golden boy Ed Clancy. What

is your advice for getting these hills because we are dreading that?

I guess it is best just to pace yourself and it will only be three

miles of claiming. `` only three miles of climbing. We cycle to

school whenever we can and we really enjoyed it. Harry and Amy were left

to breeze into Huddersfield. There were warm welcome is there and in

the valley. There were some or slightly senior people who came

along as well. The road started to tilt up words and then got even

steeper. When the bus said that Harry and Amy were going to do a

tandem tour, the cyclist in the office said they would never do it,

not on a tandem. And guess what? They are doing it right now for

Yorkshire and for Sport Relief. You can see all the cars up there. You

have just done the most difficult bit so just keep going. Yorkshire is

right behind you. Good luck to you. But the gradient got sharper and

sharper and the weather got progressively worse. Come on, Amy

excavation work. Harry and Amy ploughed on to reach the top despite

their pain. I have never felt anything like that. It is worse than

childbirth. No need for Harry and Amy to go any further today. The

high winds made and thinkable to make it down the hill again. It

broke me. You drama queen. We had Mountain Rescue with us all the way.

We wanted to come down on the tandem and then freewheel all the way down.

You advise that we should not. The conditions were really tough to date

with such strong winds and driving rain. The wind was blowing up the

hill and it would have been dangerous to you to cycle down

because the gusts of wind would have pushed you sideways. You said it was

safe to go up earlier but did you change your mind? You have a really

strong support team with you and as long as you have those things in

place you will be safe. However when we rounded that last corner at the

top we felt the full force of the wind. Once you came round the top it

was really fierce. We had so many cars who were fantastic with their

support. Here is Paul Ogden. You know this area very well and are 18

cyclist. Where we drama queens today? No, it was very tough. I

nearly gave up myself when the heel stones were burning our cheeks. I

thought it was a bit too dangerous and I am really glad for your health

and safety but you did not go down the hill because it would have been

too dangerous. Hats off to the peer review because we know about you

having your pelvis realigned, Amy, and footballer's calves. I really

enjoyed being with you today and you deserve immense credit. She really

suffered and I started to cry and she started to cry. When you see

something like that you appreciate what the experts do and they go up,

admittedly in the summer, in about 40 seconds. They have timed it

officially and they reckoned they will get up there in about six

minutes. And that is from the middle of Huddersfield. We got there in

about 45 minutes or something like that. The conditions will be

different but it is a completely different universe that they work

in. A completely different environment. How did today compared

to other experiences you have had up there? It was frightening at times.

I got blown over on my bike and that does not happen many other places in

Europe, let alone Yorkshire. I looked over my shoulder at one time

and all I could see was a barrier which I fell into. It was genuinely

frightening but you have to get a sense of perspective. Worse things

can happen and you were raising money for a great cause and there

was a great sense of camaraderie between tolerance motorists,

ourselves and the people who were supporting us. We had people in

their 80s and 90s cheering up the hill and all of that drama today

helped raise over ?53,000. That is just incredible. Thank you so much

to everyone who has them `` donated. You can give ?1 to Sport Relief by

texting BIKE to 7001. Or go online to just giving.com/tandemtour. Or

you can send a cheque payable to Sport Relief to Tandem Tour, BBC

Yorkshire, two St Peter's Square, Leeds, LS9 8AH. The local radio

stations have been fantastic. Please continue to do so tomorrow. Tomorrow

we will be at the top of Holme Moss at 8am, and will be at Langsett by

around nine. Then it's on to High Bradfield at 11, Oughtibridge at

midday and Norwood by half past one. We will be at Meadowhall at about

330. And the whole thing finishes in Sheffield, and we'd love you to come

along. We'll be at the English Institute of Sport at six o'clock.

Please give us as much support and encouragement as you can. We are

adding an extra 11 miles onto our route tomorrow. We're talking about

38 miles tomorrow. What will the weather be like?

Some of those gusts were approaching 60 miles an hour this afternoon.

Tomorrow the weather looks a lot kinder and morning will see a lot of

sunshine around with much less wind. It will be a bit chilly and a risk

of a few showers developing through tomorrow afternoon but a massive

improvement on the dreadful conditions you had through the

course of this afternoon. Sunny spells and scattered showers will

come through during tomorrow afternoon so the morning should be

dry. It is a very unsettled picture. The spring equinox was this

afternoon when the sun was directly over the equator. I think though

that gardens will have to watch out for frosts this weekend and maybe

slate and he'll and even some snow over the hills. The cold front is

very heavy and has been accurately timed all week. The trend over night

will be for the weather to become mostly dry and we will see

temperatures around two degrees or three degrees. Watch out for a touch

of ground frost. The sun rises at six oh 7am `` 6.07 am.. From

lunchtime, the showers may be wintry but they will blow through and there

will be fine weather in between the showers. Temperatures will not be

far from normal but there will be a chill in the year. The highest

temperature will be Ken Celsius. Over the weekend that will be

sunshine and local, wintry showers. For the last week you've been

sending us your pictures of Harry and Amy's Tandem Tour. And we

thought they were so good, we're going to leave you with a few of

them now. Goodnight.