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Good evening from Look North. Miners club turned out to be a stalemate. | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
Good evening from Look North. Miners at Kellingley Colliery have voted | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
overwhelmingly to accept a managed closure of the pit. UK Coal sent a | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
postal ballot to more than 700 miners to seek their views. Nearly | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
80% of them voted in favour of closing the pit. The deal will see | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
gradual job losses over an 18`month period, with the site finally | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
closing in December 2015. Spencer Stokes reports. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
For many miners here at Kellingley, it didn't seem like much of a | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
choice. Work to help shut the pit down over 18 months ` or face it | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
closing in a matter of weeks. Today, the results of the ballot were | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
announced with nearly 80% choosing what for miners is the lesser of two | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
evils ` a gradual rundown. The decision was welcomed by UK Coal. | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Two options that everybody faced here and across the business were | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
either close in 18 months or close immediately. By having the 18`month | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
option we will now be able to make sure our suppliers are paid, | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
redundancies are paid, so a much better option. Some of the miners | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
will now work until December 2015. Others could lose their jobs before. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
But the NUM hope the economic circumstances change and by the end | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
of next year a way is found to keep this deep mine operating. While | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
Kellingley and Thoresby are open there is hope that common sense will | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
prevail and the government will decide to have a constructive | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
dialogue with the unions, with the employers, and they will see that | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
there is common sense for keeping Kellingley and Thoresby open. The | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
country needs coal to generate an affordable, secure supply of energy | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
and that will be the case for many years to come. UK Coal says it will | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
now move on to the legal stage of closing Kellingley. That could be | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
signed off within the next two weeks. | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
The local and European elections are being held next month, and over the | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
next few weeks we'll be speaking to the party leaders. Today the UK | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Independence Party's leader Nigel Farage was in Sheffield after | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
choosing it as the venue for his national campaign launch. Our | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
political editor Len Tingle was at the launch, and he joins us now. Why | :02:18. | :02:27. | |
did he choose Sheffield? This was not by accident. It is a traditional | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Labour heartland and the party has to show it is right or centre, anti | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
immigration policies are going to attract more than disaffected | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
Tories. It reckons it can do that in South Yorkshire, based on two | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
by`elections in which it came second in both. It was an issue that I put | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
a Nigel Farage this afternoon. We will transform and change the | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
whole national debate in this country, particularly here in | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
Yorkshire. Let's remember the majority of seats in Westminster | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
here are held by Labour MPs. At the moment Miliband is holding a | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
position where he is saying if he becomes prime minister he won't give | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
us a referendum and we're going to put maximum pressure on Labour in | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
this part of the world. UKIP is traditionally seen as right of | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
centre, anti`immigration. It has to broaden its appeal, hasn't it? It | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
has to clean up its act and make sure there are not outspoken views | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
put forward. Godfrey Bloom has been its one elected member here in | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Yorkshire for the last ten years. He has parted company with the parties | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
ably because he went one step too far. He started talking about Bongo | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Bongo Land and things like that, so he had to go. You saw in there he | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
reacted rather badly when he was confronted by a journalist on that, | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
so that was really the end of him. Something I put a Nigel Farage. It | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
was on unfortunate thing. I was very sorry that happened, but | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
that's life, we move on. We've got Jane Collins at the top of the list, | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
who first became known in the Barnsley by`election where from | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
nowhere she came second. We've got an Asian businessman Amjad Bashir | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
second. A guy that grew up in Bradford, has been successful in | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
life and is very passionate about our cause. I think we are putting | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
forward a good team of people. There was another reason for launching in | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
South Yorkshire and that was by looking at somebody in the crowd, | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Paul Sykes, the multimillionaire Barnsley businessman, who has put | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
his millions behind UKIP, largely he has paid for this national car `` | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
this national poster campaign. He made his money at Meadowhall, so it | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
is fitting they launched their campaign in Sheffield. | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
Care workers in Doncaster are to stage a further two`week strike in a | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
row over pay and conditions. Unison members will walk out in May for 14 | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
days after talks ended without an agreement being reached. It's the | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
latest in a series of strikes. The workers claim their employer, Care | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
UK, wants to cut wages by up to ?7,000 a year. Care UK says it's | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
pledged to protect the basic levels of pay. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
With just over a couple of months to go until the Tour de France starts | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
here in Yorkshire, some of the world's best cyclists have been | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
getting a taste of the route. One of teams to watch is Giant`Shimano. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
Their riders have been cycling the second stage today ` and seemed | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
rather worried by what they saw. I think the roads are in some parts | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
very dangerous for a peloton of the Tour de France. On the descent. I | :05:22. | :05:29. | |
mean, just when you ride through the more lonely roads in the middle of | :05:30. | :05:37. | |
nowhere. I mean, they are very narrow and very small with stone | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
walls on both sides. If a very nervous Tour de France peloton | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
fighting for the yellow jersey passes by there, then there can be | :05:45. | :05:54. | |
very dangerous situations. Penge reach `` very dangerous on a | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
tandem, I tell you. Keighley, they haven't been through there yet. I | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
wonder if they will go on my alternative route through Keighley. | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
The scenic route! Lovely weather for the training today. Lets hope it is | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
better in July. the training today. Lets hope it is | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
It looks pretty good for the credit against Northamptonshire tomorrow. A | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
great start in the morning but the sun will break through the clouds | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
and temperatures very respectable, around 16 or 17 degrees. This was a | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
front will hold off probably until tomorrow evening and tomorrow | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
night. An isolated heavy shower tomorrow afternoon but most of us | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
will be fine. It is a bit grotty out there low cloud, one or two showers | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
drifting up from the south. We will see lowest temperatures at about | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
eight or nine degrees Celsius. A slow start on Wednesday morning, the | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
odd light shower clearing. Otherwise drought. `` otherwise dry. The mist | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
will break up and the sun will come out and the afternoon is pleasant, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
fine, bright and warm. As we get up to about 16 Celsius that might be | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
the trigger for isolated but heavy showers. Very hit and miss. The | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
emphasis on dry weather. Top temperatures 16 or 17 Celsius. It | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
does turn wet on Wednesday night. Thursday, a cloudy, damp start. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Patchy rain will clear by the middle of the day and Friday, foggy at | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
start, brighter later. The weekend is unsettled. I will leave you with | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
the summary of is unsettled. I will leave you with | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
is not looking too bad. That's weather front. | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
It is never too early to think about next weekend and I will be doing | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
that in a couple of minutes. But we have a sizeable chunk of this | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
week's whether to go first. There are more showers, but there will be | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
spells of warm sunshine around as well, so there will be no frost at | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
night. Bands of showers across the western side of the UK and | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Scotland's passing through overnight. Another heavy burst | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
coming into the south-west later on in the night. This rain band slowly | :08:12. | :08:18. | |
comes in from the South West and this is how Wednesday starts at | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
eight o'clock in the morning. It will turn out to be a warmer day in | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Scotland, but misty low cloud in the North East and that will impact on | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
the temperature. There will be a few bright spells punching through this | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
cloud and a sunny day | :08:37. | :08:37. |