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Commons has been cleared of rape and other sex charges. Goodbye. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
First tonight, a brief stay of execution for Kellingley and | :00:00. | :01:15. | |
Thoresby pits. But the Government's offer of a ?10 million loan comes | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
with conditions, agree to their closure in autumn 2015 or the deal | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
is off. The announcement, which means the phased shutdown of two of | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
the UK's last remaining deep mines and the eventual loss of 1,400 jobs, | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
came from the Energy Minister Michael Fallon. We'll hear from him | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
in a moment but first let's go to Phil Bodmer who's at Kellingley | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Colliery. It has been a tough day all round. | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
Absolutely. That is perhaps an understatement. Just over my right | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
shoulder, you can hap seek the cooling towers of the power station. | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
You can see the Kellingley colliery there. And then there is the washer | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
Irie. Coming further left, you can see the steam coming off the cooling | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
towers off another power station. That is the proximity of the pits to | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
the power station. Every year, they produce 2.1 million tonnes of coal | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
out of here. Tonight, it seems Kellingley was Mac days could be | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
numbered. A fully laden train rumbles by | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Kellingley colliery on its way to the power station, loaded with | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
imported coal. Around 40% of our energy needs still come from cheap | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
foreign coal. And that is part of the problem. The company which runs | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
Kellingley and Thoresby colliery in Nottinghamshire says it has found | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
trading conditions extremely tough. So, how did we get here? On 29th of | :02:45. | :02:54. | |
March, UK call heels of financial help `` UK Coal appeal for financial | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
help. Then the unions called for the industry to be re`nationalised. | :03:02. | :03:12. | |
Crisis talks followed. Yesterday the Prime Minister said he would do what | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
he could. Today, the government offered a ?10 million loan to allow | :03:18. | :03:18. | |
for a phased shutdown of both pits. offered a ?10 million loan to allow | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
for a It's not a good deal. It results in the closure of two | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
collieries in the loss of 2000 jobs. It is a managed closure, which is | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
not what we were led to believe that David Cameron was looking at, which | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
was a survival plan. And this plan is valid, we believe, and | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
unfortunately, it has fallen on deaf ears. UK Coal says that this offers | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
the company the best outcome. But as one miner told me, it is a stark | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
choice. Face losing your life now or in 18 months' time. So, from | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
difficult decisions `` so, difficult decisions. There is another meeting | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
scheduled for Sunday afternoon. Whatever happens, whatever the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
outcome, we could be witnessing the death of the once mighty UK Coal | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
industry. Earlier, I asked the Energy Minister | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
Michael Fallon whether conditions attached to the loan meant miners | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
were being asked to sign their own death warrants. We've been asked to | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
help save the mines which would otherwise have the prospect of going | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
into immediate insolvency and closing either tomorrow or next | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
week. We've been asked to help and we are going to help. But why do | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
both need to close by 2015? They are saying they've got enough coal to | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
sustain over the next 20 years. Well, there is nobody prepared to | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
invest in these mines. The company operating these mines sees no | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
long`term future in them. They have looked to find other private sector | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
partners who might come in and help. There is no other interest in | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
prolonging the life of these mines beyond 2015. It's not a viable | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
proposition. What we've been asked to do is to prevent the immediate | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
closure of the mines. And, very unusually, that is what government | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
has agreed to do. If you close these two mines, Hatfield will be the only | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
one left in the UK. Why are you so hell`bent on destroying the UK | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
mining industry? We're not destroying the UK mining industry. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
The coal mines have had a great deal of help from taxpayers over the | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
years. But these mines have now become unviable. And there is no | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
value for money, taxpayer case for subsidising them any further when | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
the private sector is not able to do so. Well, the government bailed out | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
the banks to the tune of millions of pounds. They were a private | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
business. Why are you not doing the same for the coal industry? Well, | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
the mines have had taxpayer support over the years. But we can only put | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
taxpayer money in where there is good value for money. And we can be | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
sure there is a proper economic case. There isn't here. And no | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
private sector operator thinks these mines have any viable future beyond | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
2015. What was really important was to avoid an immediate shut down and | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
immediate insolvency. And that we have agreed to do by offering a loan | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
in principle if everybody else can agreed terms on it. Finally, Mr | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Fallon, what do you have to say of the 1,400 people who will be losing | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
their jobs? Well, I hope the managed closure will allow the closure to | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
take place in an orderly fashion. So they will be able to take advantage | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
of the retraining package and the help that is going to be available | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
rather than being put out of work next week. There will be another | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
year and a half during which miners themselves will be able to seek a | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
different future. Mr Fallon, thank you. | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
With us now is Andrew Mackintosh from UK Coal and Yvette Cooper, the | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
Labour MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, whose constituency | :06:55. | :07:03. | |
includes the pit. If we can start with you, Yvette Cooper, shouldn't | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
labour be taking some responsibility here? After `` under the last | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
government more mines closed and under this coalition. We had worked | :07:13. | :07:27. | |
very hard to keep pits open. Kellingley is the same, we need to | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
do everything to keep it open. This is grim news. This is a closure | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
deal, closing in 2015. And I am worried they seem to be completely | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
running off the table any option to try to keep it open. That is what we | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
are still campaigning for. We should not be turning our backs on this pit | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
now. Why didn't Labour do more? What about investing in clean coal | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
technology? Labour at aside money for that but we don't know what is | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
happening to that money and that investment. We are worried that | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
might be siphoned off. You need the environmental conditions, but you | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
also need to recognise we don't want to be in the `` to be dependent on | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
imported coal from Russia, where there is instability as well. There | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
was a rise in imported coal when Labour were in power. That's right, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
but we need a deep mine coal industry not to lose it all | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
together, and not to lose the hundreds of jobs and businesses that | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
have contracts with it. I was worried by your report and the idea | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
that ministers seem to be making it a condition of going ahead with this | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
deal that the union should stop campaigning to keep these pits open. | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
All of us in our communities want to keep doing everything we can with | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Europe, with private investors, with anybody to try to find a deal and | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
the government should be doing that. Why is it that the coal industry is | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
whacked all the time? Lets be honest, at Kellingley, there is coal | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
for 20 years. Yes, it has been an extremely difficult time for coal | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
and the irony is that coal is 40% of our energy. A lot of it is imported | :09:13. | :09:21. | |
and we have decades ahead of us. The unions have to accept this otherwise | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
the deal is off. The unions are in the same position as the | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
management. 2000 jobs in an area that can't afford to lose 2000 jobs! | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
2000 jobs, and the choices padlocks going on mixed week, everybody out, | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
or, and I will have a heavy heart when we have the 18 month option, so | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
everyone will get redundancy, our suppliers will get paid, and | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
everyone will get the coal they need. These are the two solutions. | :09:55. | :10:00. | |
Thank you both for joining us. It is a debate we will be returning to, I | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
am sure. The parents of sisters Sarah and | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Victoria Hicks, two of the 96 Liverpool football fans killed in | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in 1989, have been paying tributes to | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
their girls at the new inquests in Warrington. Today would have been | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
Sarah's 44th birthday. Her father Trevor Hicks and his former wife | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
Jenni have been reading their family impact statements to the coroners' | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
jury. Our Correspondent John Cundy is in Warrington. I am sure it must | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
have been a very emotional day today. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
It was and for all the other families who have had impact | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
statements read today. One by one, 96 family descriptions are being | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
read those loved ones they lost at Hillsborough, they are being read to | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
a jury in a hushed coroners court room here. Today it was the turn of | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
Keighley businessman Trevor Hicks and his former wife Jenni to talk of | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
their two beloved daughters they lost on the overcrowded terraces of | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
Hillsborough back in 1989. The graves of Sarah and Victoria | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
Hicks lie in a cemetery in Liverpool. Today would have been | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
Sarah's 44th birthday. A poignant day for their father and mother to | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
be talking to the Hillsborough inquest at the loss of their loved | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
ones. You asked three Mac what was today about? We are doing our job as | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
parents, not as officers of a group. And all we can do it our best. It is | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
a privilege and honour to be able to talk about each individual because | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
45 years we have been part of a number of 96. All the families have. | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
It has given a salt of the people who died. In the impact statement, | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
the sisters were said to have defended each other in life, and, | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
tragically, together in death. The loss of a child is one of the worst | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
things that can happen to a loving parent. Loss of all your children is | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
devastating. It is not the two that is twice as bad. It is that you lose | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
everything. The present, the future, and any purpose. We are justifiably | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
proud of Sarah and Vicky. They lived together. They died together. | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
Supporting the team they loved. They are buried together. Need I say | :12:29. | :12:37. | |
more? Sarah and Vicky, you word two bright, beautiful, innocent young | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
women. `` you word two bright. I left you at a football ground. And a | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
few hours later, you were dead. This evening, Trevor and Jenny Hicks | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
would taking time to visit the graves of their beloveds daughters. | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
April ten, 2014, the days Sarah should have been 44. | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
The inquests have been adjourned until the week after Easter. They | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
wouldn't have been sitting next to it because next week is the 25th | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. But when they do resume | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
after Easter, more of those very poignant and sad family impact | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
statements will continue to be read to the jury. | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
An emotional tribute from Trevor and Jenni. | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
Later on Look North. The latest TV series from Kay Mellor. Hello, watch | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
me later on Look North and find out why I am in Leeds filming a new | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
drama in a hospital. Or is at a hospital? You will have to wait to | :13:45. | :13:46. | |
find out. A public meeting is under way this | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
evening over concerns about a company that provides GP services to | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
thousands of people in and around Chesterfield. The Holywell Medical | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
Group runs GP practices across the Chesterfield area. Last year, the | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
regulator said there were problems with two of those surgeries. The | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
Grange in Chesterfield and the Rectory Road surgery in Staveley | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
were criticised by the Care Quality Commission. Inspectors found that | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
some patients struggled to access appointments. Their privacy and | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
dignity were not being respected, while others complained they could | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
never see the same GP. Jamie Coulson reports. Didn't it hurt a lot? Yes. | :14:22. | :14:30. | |
Edward Baker can still remember the agony of suffering a burst appendix. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
Last Christmas, the four`year`old had to be rushed in for emergency | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
surgery after days of sickness and pain. His parents believe his | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
condition should have been picked up sooner by local GPs who thought he | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
only had a stomach bug. We feel extremely let down because, at the | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
end of the day, we, as parents, knew how ill Edward was. We took him to | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
the doctors not once but twice. The second time, he should definitely | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
have been sent to hospital. Edward was seen by two different doctors at | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
two different surgeries that are both part of the Holywell Medical | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Group. His case is one of a number being highlighted by local MP Toby | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
Perkins. It's become clear over several months that there are real | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
significant problems primarily with access to services there. But also | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
because, I think, all of the demand that there is, it's also going over | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
into the quality of clinical care. In February, BBC Look North also | :15:24. | :15:33. | |
featured the case of Vicky Liggett who died after her breast cancer | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
returned. Her family believe the illness should have been spotted by | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
GPs who has seen her on at least five occasions over a six`month | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
period with a persistent cough. NHS England say they are investigating | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
both of these cases along with eight others. They also point out they are | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
working with the company to improve services and increase the number of | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
GPs. And that while good progress has been made, there is still some | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
work to be done. Meanwhile, the Hollywell Medical Group say they are | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
happy that improvements are being made. We have increased the number | :16:07. | :16:20. | |
of appointments by 200 extra GP appointments per week. We've | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
employed a full`time extra nurse practitioner. There are now | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
telephone consultations, online appointments can be booked as well. | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
Tonight, Edward's parents will be taking part in a meeting organised | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
by Toby Perkins to discuss their concerns and hear those of others. | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
Police are hunting a man who carried out a serious sex attack on a | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
10`year old girl in Bradford. It happened as she was walking in Saint | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
Matthews field in Saint Matthews Fielding Allerton on March 25. Her | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
attacker, whose face was covered with a scarf, is described as Asian, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
in his 40s, about 5"9' tall and of large build. He was wearing light | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
blue trousers and a black hooded waterproof jacket. | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
Massimo Cellino has been cleared to become a director of Leeds United by | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
the Football League today. Mr Cellino completed his takeover of | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
the club on Monday night after winning an appeal against the | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
League's decision to bar him after failing the fit and proper persons | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
test following a court case in Italy. | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
A ?90 million out of town shopping centre opened in York this morning. | :17:23. | :17:32. | |
Shoppers queued to get into John Lewis one of three big stores at | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Monks Cross. There's been controversy, though, with city | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
centre shops fearing a loss of footfall. But the centre's created | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
hundreds of jobs. Here's our business correspondent Danni Hewson. | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
Let's hear it for the best new branch team in John Lewis. Good | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
morning, York! A last`minute pep talk for the 350 new staff who have | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
just become partners in John Lewis. Though the brand is celebrating its | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
150th birthday this year, Yorkshire has had just one store for decades. | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
A fact undoubtedly behind the excitement and the queues at Monks | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Cross this morning. So, why has it taken so long? We have been trying | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
for a long time to find another road into Yorkshire, whether it be in | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
Leeds, where we started digging on Monday, or in York. And it was just | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
about finding exactly the right location. And we're very pleased | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
with what we've got. And when we do open, customers will be genuinely | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
inspired by what they see. Certainly, the investment has been | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
welcome. The ?90 million site is also home to other big high street | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
brands, and will eventually be joined by a community sports | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
stadium. But the development's not been without controversy. And many | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
still believe that shiny new shops with free parking outside the city | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
centre can't help but pull trade within it. We welcome those stores. | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
We are not at all worried about competition. We want to be able to | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
compete on a level playing field, and therefore, it is simply about | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
parking, parking, parking. And the upkeep of centuries`old buildings is | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
an extra cost traders like Adam have to bear. Can the high`street cope? | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Does York need more shops? All valid questions and concerns. But no one | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
begrudges the jobs. Jobs that literally changed the life of one | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
York resident who thought he'd never find work. It was like winning the | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
lottery. When I got the phone call, it was amazing because... I weren't | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
expecting the call. And when I got the call, I just screamed down the | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
telephone. They knew I was excited about the job. So, yeah. Really | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
happy. If today is a barometer of the health of retail, it's set fine. | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
This week marks a significant anniversary for anyone who uses | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
trains in the Yorkshire Dales because it's 25 years since the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
government threw out plans that would have seen the Settle`Carlisle | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
railway shut down. A special train will travel the line tomorrow to | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
celebrate the anniversary. Meanwhile, passengers are using the | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
service in record numbers and as Spencer Stokes has been finding out | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
it's about to play a big part in getting heavy lorries off Dales | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
roads. It's officially recognised as one of | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
the world's greatest railway journeys. It's carrying more | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
passengers than at any point in its history and freight is coming back | :20:12. | :20:14. | |
to the line with some local industries now looking at how they | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
can use it. The Settle`Carlisle line has been a huge success story. And | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
this quarry wants to be part of that success. It's planning to build a | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
short branch line to the Settle`Carlisle so that stone can be | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
moved by trains rather than by lorries. We can only do it because | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
the railway is there. We've looked at all the different options but, | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
actually, the confidence of that Settle`Carlisle being there and | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
being there for a considerable amount of time really does give us | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
the confidence to put in what is a fairly significant investment here. | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
A firm that quarries material for the road building industry wanting | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
to connect to the railway would have been unimaginable 25 years ago. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
Throughout the 1980s, the Settle`Carlisle teetered on the | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
brink of closure. Just a politician's pen stroke away from | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
being ripped up. Former Look North correspondent Alan Whitehouse | :21:08. | :21:09. | |
covered the story when he was a reporter at the Yorkshire Post. A | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
quarter of a century on, he is a volunteer fireman on the North | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
Yorkshire Moors Railway. Right up to the 59th minutes of the 11th hour, | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
it looked as though the line was going to close. This was the first | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
time in many, many years that a big closure campaign had been thwarted | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
by a group of campaigners. Until then, BR and the government had | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
always had their way. The closure had always gone through. And this | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
time they failed. And that was great. Knowing the railway was | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
saved, campaigners began to work with the rail companies to develop | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
the route. And restore some of the original architecture. There was | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
rundown stations, broken windows in stations, Ribblehead was virtually | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
derelict. We were handed really a baton. We have saved it, now you | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
make it a success. And, I think, collectively, we can pretty much sit | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
back and say we've done that. Without that last`minute decision 25 | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
years ago, the Settle` Carlisle would have shut within weeks. And | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
history shows once railways are lost, they are difficult to | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
resurrect. This line didn't only survive. It went on to thrive. | :22:20. | :22:33. | |
Did you notice how clean his clothes were shovelling that coal? | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
I think he will invoice is for that appearance as well! | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
She's one of television's most successful drama writers and she's | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
been at it again. Yorkshire's very own Kay Mellor is already well known | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
for her ratings winners which include Band of Gold, Fat Friends | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
and The Syndicate. Now filming is under way in Leeds for her latest | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
series called In The Club. It follows six very different families | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
who bond at the local Parent Craft class and, as you'd expect, there's | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
a twist! Ian White's been on set to find out more. | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Kay Mellor lurks in the shadows as her new drama In The Club is filmed | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
in Leeds. She says this six parter is a bit of a cross between the TV | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
shows One Born Every Minute and Call The Midwife. We see somebody give | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
birth each episode. And it's like, who is that person going to be? | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
Because they're all big, they are all in their last trimester of their | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
pregnancy. So it is kind of guessing, half of it. Which one is | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
going to give birth tonight? And sometimes it's not who you think it | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
is going to be. The magic of television. If you look this way, | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
this is basically a warehouse. But if you walk this way, this is Leeds' | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
brand`new maternity department. Here is the neo`natal unit, and inside | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
here, some very, very poorly babies. But not everything is as it seems. | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
This one, of course, is not real. Just as well. It's a great set. | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
There is no acting required here. Sometimes you go on sets, sometimes | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
there is only two or three walls. So you have a big space or a camera | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
crew. This really is... Like an active working hospital. We've got | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
delivery suites, we've got two huge wards out there. We've got nurses | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
stations. We've got corridors. This, of course, is the delivery room. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
We've got two of these. On set today, actors Will Mellor and Sacha | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Dhawan who both play expectant fathers. And who love their roles. | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
Being able to come back home and working with a Northern crew and a | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Northern production team, it's... We are like a big family. When you've | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
got your own kids, everybody knows anything to do with children, you | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
watch. You just end up crying your eyes out because kids, you know, | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
they weaken you. And they are my world, my children. It means a lot. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
And this series, I think, a lot of people are going to have a lot of | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
things that they can see in their own lives that's happened with our | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
storylines. Kay compares creating a new drama to giving birth. It's | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
hoped In The Club will be shown on BBC One later in the year. | :24:58. | :25:07. | |
I am getting clucky just looking at all those babies! | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
Ian White is that a parent craft class tonight. | :25:14. | :25:14. | |
Don't trust him with your newborn! Let's have a look at the pictures | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
that have come in over the last 24 hours. | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
Superb part of our Yorkshire coastline. Keep them coming in. OK, | :25:34. | :25:41. | |
the headline for the next 24 rows is not a bad one. It looks like there | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
will be plenty of sunshine around, and all parts will be dry tomorrow, | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
courtesy of an area of high pressure. The weekend is looking to | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
bad. This weak front might have thick cloud, a little patchy light | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
rain in the West possible. The best of the weather always towards the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
coast. All of that area having a reasonable time of it. We had 16 | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
degrees this morning at Ashford. The cals Bob did build in. `` the clouds | :26:12. | :26:20. | |
did build in, so we might see some light rain spreading south | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
eastwards, but not a great deal, dampening the ground is loaded. | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
Behind it, clearing skies with a touch of ground frost possible. So, | :26:29. | :26:42. | |
a clear into the night. `` end to the night. A beautiful start to the | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
day. Dry, mainly sunny skies across much of Yorkshire. Then, as | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
temperatures rise, we will see some clouds, so, turning cloudy, but it | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
remains bright with further spells of sunshine, so a like chance of | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
catching a shower. Let's have a look at the top temperatures. Just a | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
light breeze, perhaps an onshore breeze along the coast. 13 inland. | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
Saturday, a bright start with Bob cloud later. Much of Sunday and | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Monday dry, variable cloud with some sunshine. | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
I guess you will be out of practice with newborns as well. | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
It is my daughter's ninth birthday tomorrow. | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
So, you won't be going on the golf course? | :27:43. | :27:46. | |
Definitely not. See you soon. | :27:47. | :27:51. |