26/04/2014 Look North (Yorkshire)

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Good evening from Look North. Football fans at Valley Parade have

this afternoon paid tribute to the surgeon who treated hundreds of

burns victims after the devastating fire there back in 1985 in which 56

people died. Professor David Sharpe went on to create a world`renowned

burns research unit in the city. But now he is retiring. Heidi Tomlinson

reports. A proud moment for a modest man.

Plastic surgeon David Sharpe wanted to retire quietly but the Bantams

weren't having any of it. Because he is part of their history. 29 years

ago, a fire started under the football club's main stand. It took

the lives of 56 people and injured hundreds more. Prof Sharpe led the

medical team for those burns victims.

10% of the plastic surgeons in the UK turned up to help, completely

off`the`cuff, and that meant we could organise it as a proper series

of theatres going with four teams of plastic surgeons per patient. It was

easy and I had all the credit which I don't deserve.

Matthew Wildman disagrees. One of the last fans to escape, his burns

were extensive. At Bradford Royal Infirmary, Prof Sharpe invented new

healing techniques to cope with the influx of patients. Soon after he

established Bradford Burns Research Unit, now respected worldwide.

He had to experiment, he had to be for ever inventing new ideas to cope

with so much of us all at the same time, not just for me but for other

people. From my perspective, everything he did worked and they

put me in such a great position afterwards to let me get on with my

life. A fitting tribute for a man whose

skill and innovation helped this club through its darkest day.

Football now. It's been decision day for some of our clubs. Starting in

the Championship, it's not good news about Barnsley. They've been

relegated and will be playing in the third tier of football next season

after losing 3`1 at Middlesbrough. Doncaster also lost 3`1 at home to

Reading meaning Rovers are just one place above the drop zone.

Elsewhere, a good result for Leeds United, they won 3`1 away to

Birmingham. But both Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday lost their

home matches, ending Huddersfield Town 0`2 Leicester, and Sheffield

Wednesday 1`3 Bolton. In Division One, Rotherham have a

place in the play`offs despite only managing a 2`2 draw at home against

the MK Dons. And Bradford City beat Crawley 2`1.

It's good news as well in Division Two. York's 1`0 victory against

Newport this afternoon has won them a place in the play`offs for

Division One. And of course we'll have the result from that all

important Chesterfield game tomorrow. The Spirites are hoping to

secure automatic promotion to the First Division.

And in the Conference, Halifax Kidderminster was a 5:30 kick off.

And you can see all the action from today's matches on BBC One tonight.

The Football League Show is right after Match of the Day at 11:50pm.

Rugby league now and the Leeds Rhinos have booked their place in

the Challenge Cup quarterfinals with a convincing victory against St

Helens. Leeds took the lead with this try from Zak Hardaker within

the first five minutes. Sinfield landed six goals during the match

but it was Jamie Peacock who sealed the win with just minutes to play.

It ended 32`12 to the Rhinos. Elsewhere, the Keighley Cougars beat

Swinton to also go through to the quarter finals in June. And you can

see all the action on the Superleague Show on BBC One on

Monday night. Now, just before we get the weather

forecast, spare a thought for Beefy the not so tiny spring lamb. The

lamb born at Cannon Hall Farm near Barnsley weighed in at ?15 and, as

you can see, compared to the usual size of lambs born at the farm, he's

definitely on the beefy side. Time now for the weather.

After a fairly wet day today, one or two showers will linger into the

first part of this evening but they will tend to die away tonight. Quite

a lot of cloud coming in from the east overnight. A fairly murky

evening to come. Still fairly breezy as we get into the early hours. A

generally dry start to the morning. A few showers later in the day and

some of them could be heavy with hail and thunder.

That said from us. We will be back tomorrow at around 650 PM.

Good evening. An area of low pressure has wrapped itself around

the British Isles for this weekend. There have been a number of showers

today, particularly in the south-west, and there is more to

come overnight. You can see this swirl of cloud, the centre of it in

the south-west of England. Close to the centre of that there will be

some strong winds in the south-west of England and some heavy showers as

well. There will be some big waves along the south coast as well. The

rain will affect eastern Scotland and the North East of England with

low cloud and missed. The best of the brightness on Sunday will be

Northern Ireland and the West of Scotland. But in the afternoon it is

a different story in western Scotland with the low cloud and

missed being carried through on the easterly wind. Temperature is

perhaps just eight or nine degrees. Northern Ireland escapes