24/04/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening. A 15`year`old boy from Bradford has gathered almost 2,000

signatures on a petition over fears about the future of a local medical

centre. James Slater began his campaign after it was announced that

the company which offers surgery and diagnostic services at the

Eccleshill Treatment Centre hadn't had its contract renewed.

I am coming around with a position that petition. I wonder if you would

sign it. James is just 15 years old but has taken it upon himself to

fight for the treatment centre. In just over a week, his raised over

2000 signatures on a petition to try to keep services at the site. My

grandma has had a lot of treatment at the centre and she has been happy

with the service she is received. Alternatively, if she couldn't have

treatment there, should have to go a long way. ` she would have to go a

long way. The centre is run by a private company and employs more

than 80 staff. It aims to cut NHS waiting times by offering minor

surgery and diagnostic services. But the company's contract runs out in

July and wasn't renewed in a recent tendering process when none of the

bids were successful. The local NHS says it is working on plans to find

a new provider for some of the services that are housed on this

site. That could mean one company or a range of companies taking over

those services but they will be given the option of using this

building. I am really sad. The people of Bradford are coming here

to be treated and they are happy. I haven't found one who says this is

rubbish. On the contrary. They will have nice words for the centre and

the people who work there. James will now deliver his petition to the

NHS. Thank you. Meanwhile, patients will be seen as that ` as normal at

the centre until July. Well, James joined us earlier and I

asked him why he was so passionate about saving the centre. My grandma

has had treatment there on numerous occasions and she's been happy with

the treatment she is received at the centre. It is off the back of that.

Why are they wanting to close thing down that is working and people are

happy with? And also because of the public response of the outcry

wanting to save the centre. We've all been stopped in the street to

sign a petition. How have people been reacting to you, young man? A

lot of people this morning were shocked that I was going at them in

the seat. Mainly, the response has been that they want is saved. I

don't think they are bothered about who was collecting signatures, just

that somebody is doing something positive. And you want more

signatures. Yes, we want more signatures. If people want to sign

the position that petition, they can go online and sign the petition.

There are other ways, including the local MP. What are you going to do

with all these names on signatures? Are you going to use it as a threat

or are you going to go to your local MP? We have been calling on David

Ward for his support on this. I'm hoping to meet with the

commissioning group at some point to hamper signatures in. It is also

being used as a threat as well. It shows the sheer amount of people

that support this. They might just take you seriously. Well done. Thank

you. Police have named a man and woman

found dead at a house in Worksop. The bodies of Leszek Dantes and his

wife Malgorzata Dantes, both aged 54, were discovered at a house in

Hardwick Road East on Monday morning. A postmortem examination

concluded that they both died from stab wounds. A 28`year`old man

arrested on suspicion of murder remains in hospital.

Yorkshire's Wildlife Trust is warning that one our best`loved

birds is in desperate decline. The loss of habitat and nest site has

been hitting our barn owls for years. But, in 2013, they suffered

their worst year on record, in face of the bitterly cold spring.

If you can only name a handful of birds, the chances are this is one

of them, a barn owl. It's ghostly grace, synonymous with summer

meadows, but numbers in Yorkshire have crashed. To severe winters and

a wash`out summer took their toll. Last year was better but they were

very few birds left to breed. Barn owls are not a long`lived bird list

of three or four years old is a good age for a barn owl. You only need

two seasons without breeding and those adult birds... You can easily

get a drop`off. No one can change the weather but open grasslands can

be managed. Man`made boxes can replace last ` natural nest sites.

This artist has put up 150 boxes. Last year, they were empty. I saw

the aisles here, courting end hunting together as a pair. It was

such a disappointment. All I can do is come down here and feed these

owls, to see if it works. It has worked on six eggs. She is

probably... I think she will double clutch this year. That is only part

of the battle. Of the eggs hatch, then the young owls will need

somewhere to go, somewhere to hunt, somewhere to nest or we could be

just one more bad summer away from disaster.

Finally, Todmorden's been getting ready to celebrate the arrival of

the Tour de France in Yorkshire. Dozens of bikes, scooters and prams

have been transformed for a colourful parade, taking place this

Saturday. It's part of the Yorkshire Festival, marking a hundred days of

art and culture ahead of the Tour's start in July.

Some rain on the way tomorrow. Cloudy and cruel as well. Some of

the rain later might turn out to be a bit heavy and thundery. A lot of

instability around and on Saturday, this weather front will bring

further showery rain upon the south`west. We've already got low

cloud and fog towards the coast. That will push all the way inland.

One or two showers at the moment will fizzle out. It's a grey end to

the night. A bit misty in places. Damp as well with drizzle.

Temperatures down to seven or eight Celsius. For tomorrow, grey and damp

in places. A bit patchy rain developing as we had to the morning.

It is later on that that patchy rain may become heavier and locally

thundery, especially across central and western areas. It will turn wet

through the course of the day. Temperatures, lying along the coast.

11 or 12 inland. Some drier brighter spells as well. That is it from me.

11 or 12 inland. Some drier brighter spells as well. That is it from me.

on. Sunday might be brighter. Now over to Louise Lear for the national

weather. Good evening. Today has been a day

of sunny spells and a few scattered showers, but where we see the

sunshine, we have also seen some warmth, with temperatures in the

high teens. A slightly disappointing story across the far north-east of

Scotland. We keep that easterly feed through the night to night, but

looking out into the Atlantic, we also start to pick up the

south-westerly circulate in, and area of low pressure bringing in

some blustery winds for the start of the weekend. Tonight it stays mostly

dry, with some fog around. And we pick up the risk of a few showers in

the far south-east. Clearer skies at the the South West, and