:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening welcome to Monday's Look North.
:00:00. > :00:00.On the programme tonight, a high`speed rail line to lhnk
:00:07. > :00:13.HS3 could slash journey timds and bring ?6 billion into the economy
:00:14. > :00:20.We'll hear from the Prime Mhnister and investigate how easy it is to
:00:21. > :00:26.Why funding cuts are making the thin blue line even thinner
:00:27. > :00:29.And why is Alan Bennett back at the BBC?
:00:30. > :00:43.This was the coast on Sundax but what about this week? Join le for
:00:44. > :00:52.the detailed forecast later. But first tonight to
:00:53. > :00:54.the plans announced by the Chancellor George Osborne for
:00:55. > :00:57.a third high`speed rail link ` this The link would be based
:00:58. > :01:01.on the existing rail route, but with new tunnels and infrastructtre,
:01:02. > :01:04.and the idea is to connect northern cities to counteract London's
:01:05. > :01:06.dominance of the economy. It would effectively reduce journey
:01:07. > :01:09.times between Leeds and Manchester That would lead to the creation
:01:10. > :01:17.of 30,000 jobs and generate nearly ?7 billhon
:01:18. > :01:19.for the economy on both sidds of But could this become reality
:01:20. > :01:23.or is it just politics? Danni Hewson is
:01:24. > :01:35.at Leeds railway station for us now. Hi dear save commuters coming off
:01:36. > :01:40.trains here in Leeds tonight, if their journey from Manchestdr had
:01:41. > :01:44.taken 20 minutes less, they would have all been absolutely delighted.
:01:45. > :01:51.But even if today's discusshon about a high`speed rail link ever becomes
:01:52. > :01:55.reality most of the workers coming off trains here tonight will be
:01:56. > :02:00.facing retirement. So why r`ised today and is it is new and dxciting
:02:01. > :02:04.prospect as the Chancellor `nd the Prime Minister would have us
:02:05. > :02:08.believe? Hours after Chancellor George
:02:09. > :02:13.Osborne made his announcement about greater connectivity for thd North,
:02:14. > :02:19.he and the Chancellor arrivdd. They were here to look at an invdstment
:02:20. > :02:24.in Coca`Cola but the conversation kept being brought back to HS3 and
:02:25. > :02:32.whether it was a ploy to win back voters.
:02:33. > :02:37.This is a real vision to sed we have got strong economies here so let us
:02:38. > :02:41.link them together so that we rebalance our economy and country
:02:42. > :02:46.and drive growth and investlents in the north`east and the North of
:02:47. > :02:59.England. Transport was behind a major
:03:00. > :03:03.decision of Coca`Cola is to invest. If transport links are improved
:03:04. > :03:11.would that mean better things for the economy? ?
:03:12. > :03:16.I would suggest yes. Some awkward questions, it HS3 is still without a
:03:17. > :03:20.started, is HS3 more than a political carrot?
:03:21. > :03:29.I think you are going to sax they are still `` struggling in the North
:03:30. > :03:34.and this is a political thing but I could be wrong. There are 20 million
:03:35. > :03:39.people in the north and we could make a difference to the national
:03:40. > :03:43.economy if we could get connected. Others are less charitable.
:03:44. > :03:46.Especially with a lack of any kind of start date.
:03:47. > :03:52.Wanted no, we want connectivity to allow our cities to grow as we
:03:53. > :03:56.proposed in 2004. But they scrapped it. This is nothing to do it
:03:57. > :03:59.connectivity in the north. Ht is to do with As many as are of the
:04:00. > :04:07.opinion, say "aye". To the contrary, "no". In the North.
:04:08. > :04:17.What details do we know? Thdre is no start date and maimed, no btdget and
:04:18. > :04:21.there will be no, just an update of the existing track. We were told
:04:22. > :04:24.that the brink journey times down from 50 minutes to 30 minutds but
:04:25. > :04:29.the Department for Transport this afternoon told us it was actually
:04:30. > :04:31.more likely to be 38 and it is. So how much would you pay for ` 12
:04:32. > :04:37.minute quicker journey? Well, we're joined now by r`il
:04:38. > :05:08.expert Paul Salveson who regularly practice? Electrification?
:05:09. > :05:13.That will happen and will come in by the end of 2018 and that is great
:05:14. > :05:16.and long overdue but there will still not be enough capacitx on that
:05:17. > :05:19.key section between Leeds and Manchester so we do really need to
:05:20. > :05:24.be looking for the long`terl at an additional route. The government has
:05:25. > :05:28.said there will be a study to be done by the end of the year and that
:05:29. > :05:33.is great but they need to look at all options including using some
:05:34. > :05:38.disused pieces of real way. There is a tunnel lying there which could
:05:39. > :05:43.actually form part of a cord element of the new route across the Pennines
:05:44. > :05:48.and also to the site as well. Lots of people inside your share are
:05:49. > :05:54.asking why it has been closdd down? That's right. In its heyday it was
:05:55. > :05:59.carrying lots of coal traffhc. That declined but the potential for that
:06:00. > :06:03.tunnel, which was basically a new tunnel on the belt just aftdr the
:06:04. > :06:08.Second World War, I could rdally form a key element in the route from
:06:09. > :06:11.the Mersey across to the Hulber and really provide fantastic jotrney
:06:12. > :06:15.opportunities but also taking pressure off that he transport and
:06:16. > :06:23.I'm route through Huddersfidld which can really carry more traffhc.
:06:24. > :06:26.Is this just politics? There is an element of politics but
:06:27. > :06:31.it is a game changer as well because it has big implications for the HS2
:06:32. > :06:35.scheme. You will have terminal stations at Manchester and Leeds
:06:36. > :06:41.which lots of people have argued isn't a good idea. You need to keep
:06:42. > :06:47.the trains running through. HS3 if it does happen and I very mtch hope
:06:48. > :06:50.it will, needs to be lined tp with HS2 and that means signific`nt
:06:51. > :06:54.changes in how HS2 is currently being conceived which is barely a
:06:55. > :06:59.London`centric. Well I see it happen?
:07:00. > :07:00.I hope you and me both see ht happen.
:07:01. > :07:04.I do too. Later on Look North: The trtth about
:07:05. > :07:07.drugs and Le Tour. Testing times as
:07:08. > :07:09.the elite cyclists prepare for the Grand Depart but what guarantees are
:07:10. > :07:16.there that the race will be clean? There are warnings today
:07:17. > :07:18.of a bleak future for neighbourhood The financial and staffing strains
:07:19. > :07:25.affecting the force are featured in the first part of an exclushve BBC
:07:26. > :07:29.documentary being aired tonhght Rank and file police officers voice
:07:30. > :07:32.their concerns about coping with the biggest budget
:07:33. > :07:35.cuts South Yorkshire Police have had Our Crime Correspondent John Cundy
:07:36. > :07:53.reports. In Sheffield, conflict filmdd last
:07:54. > :08:01.summer as up to 700 Roma imligrants come to part of the city whhch is
:08:02. > :08:05.mainly white and Asian. A ldase with financial and staffing constraints
:08:06. > :08:13.are coming under increasing strain `` Holy See.
:08:14. > :08:19.Nobody told us that you can expect to see an increase in familhes in an
:08:20. > :08:28.area and here are some extr` doctors and some City Council workers. That
:08:29. > :08:33.didn't come. There is a tension between communities. It is `bout
:08:34. > :08:37.cultural difficulties, poverty. Lots of people in a very small area
:08:38. > :08:41.together. There is very much a feeling that
:08:42. > :08:45.they have just run out of staff and you are going to have a sittation
:08:46. > :08:52.where you have got literallx nobody on.
:08:53. > :09:00.You need to move now. The community officer has to act.
:09:01. > :09:05.People are cutting facilitids back because there is no funding, it is
:09:06. > :09:08.not just people coming in to take over.
:09:09. > :09:12.As the struggle to maintain what police say is one of the mahn
:09:13. > :09:21.priorities, immunity policing, they are facing ?42 million in ctts and
:09:22. > :09:25.pastes one of the biggest crime issues in the country.
:09:26. > :09:27.Well, earlier I spoke to Deputy Chief
:09:28. > :09:30.Constable Andy Holt and I bdgan by asking him if community policing
:09:31. > :09:46.Now it has not. What we havd done thus far is take lots of savings out
:09:47. > :09:51.of what I term back office functioning. So the administration,
:09:52. > :09:56.stuff around how we answer the telephone is, I've service our
:09:57. > :09:59.vehicles. The sort of things that actually people out in the
:10:00. > :10:04.communities shouldn't noticd a difference. I would argue that up
:10:05. > :10:11.until now what we have been able to do is make the same savings without
:10:12. > :10:16.any effect on policing. Has that affected the staff? We hear
:10:17. > :10:21.lots in the documentary abott the pressure on staff. You have got an
:10:22. > :10:25.area which has got some of the worst crime figures in the countrx. How
:10:26. > :10:30.much pressure where the unddr and early still under?
:10:31. > :10:34.Obviously, when you are askhng your staff to do the same or mord for
:10:35. > :10:42.less, there is a huge amount of pressure. What we have tried to do
:10:43. > :10:48.is work smarter, more effectively but you can only do that to a
:10:49. > :10:52.limited extent. Do you think you have turned it
:10:53. > :10:57.around? We have certainly made the savings
:10:58. > :11:06.required of us thus far. We have protected and improved our
:11:07. > :11:08.performance. One of the are`s is around child sexual exploit`tion.
:11:09. > :11:15.That wasn't something that featured on any radar five or six ye`rs ago.
:11:16. > :11:21.I except maybe it should have done. But it didn't feature on anxbody's
:11:22. > :11:25.radar. But we have put millhons pounds of `` millions of potnds
:11:26. > :11:31.worth of resources into that will stop we are working very hard and
:11:32. > :11:35.have seen a change in the w`y we are operating and are concentrating on
:11:36. > :11:40.what we believe matters most to members of the public.
:11:41. > :11:45.What challenges do you face now We are halfway through the savings
:11:46. > :11:49.programme. As in any savings programme, you have a tendency to
:11:50. > :11:56.make the savings that are pdrhaps the most easily achieved early on. I
:11:57. > :12:03.think the phrase you would hear is taking the low hanging fruit. We
:12:04. > :12:05.have got a few more years to make significant savings and that will be
:12:06. > :12:09.a challenge. My name is to do that a challenge. My name is to do that
:12:10. > :12:13.without there being any detriment to the service.
:12:14. > :12:16.And you can see more on the programme Police Under Pressure
:12:17. > :12:21.Protestors have called Brithsh Transport Police heavy handdd after
:12:22. > :12:24.They came during the latest demonstration about
:12:25. > :12:44.The so`called Freedom Riders have been travelling without payhng for
:12:45. > :12:47.tickets for months. For three months, they have been
:12:48. > :12:59.travelling without tickets. They are angry about changes to concdssionary
:13:00. > :13:06.travel. There are supporters followed them to the police station.
:13:07. > :13:09.The police waded in to the crowd, pushing and shoving. They wrestled
:13:10. > :13:15.the megaphone out of my hand and bruised my arm as a result. They
:13:16. > :13:18.basically tried to intimidate the protesters into giving up otr
:13:19. > :13:21.protest. The Freedom Riders have alrdady
:13:22. > :13:27.claimed a partial victory. Disabled people have won back every travels.
:13:28. > :13:33.And about half`price travel for over 65 is. But they say they won't give
:13:34. > :13:40.up. We will be lobbying and carrying on
:13:41. > :13:43.our protest and encourage everybody who is affected by these cuts and
:13:44. > :13:46.travel to join us. In a statement, British Transport
:13:47. > :14:01.Police said... The first arrests shocked the
:14:02. > :14:03.protesters but at the travel again without tickets they may not be the
:14:04. > :14:09.last. A woman from west Yorkshire who led
:14:10. > :14:12.a successful campaign to get a bone cancer drug made avahlable
:14:13. > :14:14.on the NHS has died. Jacky Pickles, Janice Wrigglesworth
:14:15. > :14:17.and Marie Morton all sufferdd They became known as the Velcade
:14:18. > :14:25.three after they challenged NICE's decision not to make the drtg
:14:26. > :14:31.available to NHS patients in 20 6. Jacky passed away early on Saturday
:14:32. > :14:38.morning at Manorlands Hospice Police in Sheffield have naled
:14:39. > :14:40.the 23`year`old man who was shot Grant Bodell died after being
:14:41. > :14:44.fatally injured on waste ground Extra officers are patrolling
:14:45. > :14:49.the area, although detectivds say this was most likely
:14:50. > :14:51.a targeted attack and are rdassuring the public there's no need to be
:14:52. > :14:54.concerned for their safety. The online fashion retailer Asos has
:14:55. > :14:56.begun taking orders again today after a fire damaged
:14:57. > :15:00.its distribution centre The blaze, on Friday night,
:15:01. > :15:04.destroyed about 20% of the company's The company suspended its
:15:05. > :15:11.business but say that the clean up process has progressed quickly and
:15:12. > :15:14.they have reopened for business Ambitious plans to convert
:15:15. > :15:17.an old railway tunnel that tsed to link Bradford with Halifax hnto an
:15:18. > :15:19.underground cycleway have bden seen Transport minister Robert Goodwill,
:15:20. > :15:25.who's also the Scarborough LP, visited Queensbury Tunnel to see
:15:26. > :15:28.if the idea is possible. The mile
:15:29. > :15:30.and a half long tunnel would be the longest underground cycleway
:15:31. > :15:33.in the UK and would allow pdople to bike between Halifax and Br`dford on
:15:34. > :15:37.the route of the old Great Northern The ideal way
:15:38. > :15:43.of combining the excitement of going through a long tunnel and
:15:44. > :15:47.we have had tunnels like thhs in the They have been phenomenally
:15:48. > :15:51.successful in attracting people to enjoy the
:15:52. > :15:55.route which is no longer as steep. And of course that brings money to
:15:56. > :15:59.the local economy through tourism. We need to see what the pricetag
:16:00. > :16:03.would be for putting it back into use and how that could then
:16:04. > :16:06.really ensure that we have ` long Harrogate got a new artefact today.
:16:07. > :16:18.No, not me, the window. The stained glass monument
:16:19. > :16:21.celebrates Le Tour and was designed It's been sited at the top
:16:22. > :16:25.of Montpellier Hill to be a permanent reminder of Harrogate
:16:26. > :16:36.hosting the two days of the Tour. And staying with Le Tour, it's now
:16:37. > :16:40.12 days to go until the Grand Depart and only a week until the rhders
:16:41. > :16:43.start to arrive in our region. Sadly, as ever one
:16:44. > :16:45.of the big topics for conversation Our Tour de France correspondent
:16:46. > :16:50.Matt Slater looks at the sport's troubled past
:16:51. > :17:06.and asks, can we really belheve Born into a mining family in Durham,
:17:07. > :17:15.raised on the Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire border, he struck gold.
:17:16. > :17:22.But he had a secret. He dopdd. He paid for it, dying on his bhke. You
:17:23. > :17:26.might have thought that would have shocked the sport into cleaning up
:17:27. > :17:31.its act but it didn't. When Lance Armstrong won his record seventh
:17:32. > :17:38.title decades later, all th`t had changed was that the drugs got
:17:39. > :17:40.better. Did you ever take drugs to hmprove
:17:41. > :17:48.your performance? In all seven of your victorhes did
:17:49. > :17:54.you ever take banned substances Yes.
:17:55. > :18:01.When the man who had defeatdd cancer to win the Tour de France w`s
:18:02. > :18:07.revealed as a drugs cheat, people lost faith.
:18:08. > :18:12.He was an inspiration to so many people and felt such a degrde. We
:18:13. > :18:17.have to ask what can we learn from that, all be better an antidote
:18:18. > :18:32.movement and can we protect the young riders `` anti`` doping.
:18:33. > :18:34.As the current champion, thd British star is adamant that the sport has
:18:35. > :18:38.learned this lesson. It would be great for peopld to
:18:39. > :18:46.understand just the level of testing we are exposed to. To know that 365
:18:47. > :18:51.days a year, the authorities now where we are sleeping. If wd are not
:18:52. > :18:54.wear we say we are, we get penalised for it.
:18:55. > :18:58.Cycling is cleaner now than it ever has been that it will take ` long
:18:59. > :19:03.time for the dates to disappear That may be a good thing. I'd the
:19:04. > :19:13.only way to say that we won't get full again. `` fooled again.
:19:14. > :19:22.Why have there been so many scandals over the ydars
:19:23. > :19:29.The riders were already using stimulants and painkillers to cope
:19:30. > :19:34.with the demands many years ago One famous rider was asked if hd doped
:19:35. > :19:38.and he said only when it was absolutely necessary and whdn asked
:19:39. > :19:47.when that was he said most of the time. What's changed in the 90s was
:19:48. > :19:53.that drugs got a lot more effective and the tour became an arms race. If
:19:54. > :19:58.you were unwilling to take part you were simply outgunned. That is the
:19:59. > :20:08.culture that created Lance Armstrong.
:20:09. > :20:13.Is it cleaner than ever? I hope so. Lance Armstrong was
:20:14. > :20:17.caught not by the testers btt by former team`mates who had h`d enough
:20:18. > :20:26.of the lies. The other thing to say is that testing is much better now.
:20:27. > :20:32.How many tests do they have? The best weapon is the biological
:20:33. > :20:37.passport which cycling was the first to take on. That means that you are
:20:38. > :20:45.permanently assessed. So thdy stopped looking for the drug you are
:20:46. > :20:52.taking but for differences hn your physiological make up. So if Chris
:20:53. > :20:59.Froome is in the yellow jersey every day, he gets tested every d`y.
:21:00. > :21:03.The sports can't take anothdr big cat, can it?
:21:04. > :21:06.It is teetering. We can't afford another storm.
:21:07. > :21:09.Before seven o'clock, we'll have a round`up of your weekend sport.
:21:10. > :21:12.And Alan Bennett's back at the BBC but who's the mystery artist
:21:13. > :21:22.Onto sport and a winding up petition against Leeds United has bedn
:21:23. > :21:27.The club paid back the ?958,000 loan it owed to Sport Capital,
:21:28. > :21:31.a company associated with former managing director David Haigh.
:21:32. > :21:34.It means the club's bank account can now be unfrozen.
:21:35. > :21:37.In Super League, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats pulled off a shock win
:21:38. > :21:42.The Lancastrians went into the match as league le`ders.
:21:43. > :21:48.But they were knocked off the top after Reece Lynn barged
:21:49. > :21:50.over in the corner to compldte the Wildcat's 36`28 victory.
:21:51. > :21:53.They've now won both their games under new coach
:21:54. > :21:57.James Webster and move further away from the relegation places.
:21:58. > :22:00.You can see more from that latch and all the weekend's highlhghts on
:22:01. > :22:09.the Super League Show tonight or on the iPlayer from tomorrow morning.
:22:10. > :22:11.In cricket, Yorkshire have built a healthy lead in their County
:22:12. > :22:29.Sheffield golfer Matt Fitzp`trick earned his first pay cheque
:22:30. > :22:33.as a professional for finishing in the top 30 at the Irish Open
:22:34. > :22:36.The 19`year`old was leading amateur at last year's Open Championship
:22:37. > :22:42.He turned professional earlher this month and yesterday won 17,400 euros
:22:43. > :22:48.for finishing 29th at the European Tour event in Cork.
:22:49. > :22:53.Defending World Superbike championship Tom Sykes enjoxed
:22:54. > :22:55.a double victory in Italy this weekend.
:22:56. > :22:57.The Huddersfield rider qualhfied fastest to take pole position
:22:58. > :23:01.and won both of yesterday's races in Mis`no.
:23:02. > :23:04.The 28`year`old has now opened up a 39 point lead
:23:05. > :23:21.The Yorkshire playwright Alan Bennett has appeared
:23:22. > :23:24.in graffiti in Leeds after `rtistic images of the writer were mhstakenly
:23:25. > :23:28.He joins other Yorkshire artists pictured along the route of the Tour
:23:29. > :23:29.de France, as Cathy Killick explains.
:23:30. > :23:33.When famous Yorkshire folk started appearing in graffiti
:23:34. > :23:39.around the route of the Tour de France it startdd a hunt
:23:40. > :23:45.A street artist name Stewy owned up and explained he had permission
:23:46. > :23:48.from owners to spray their walls and all were happy with the result.
:23:49. > :23:51.But there has been a problel with his image of Alan Benndtt.
:23:52. > :23:54.He was inadvertently boarded`up and the hoarding he was
:23:55. > :24:01.Now Alan is back after BBC Radio Leeds offered Stewy a BBC
:24:02. > :24:10.This morning, Stewy, who prefers to remain anonylous
:24:11. > :24:14.used intricate stencils to put the playwright into position.
:24:15. > :24:34.It will stay there for at least the duration of thd Tour.
:24:35. > :24:44.We were at the hotly cycling festival. How did I get this on my
:24:45. > :24:50.leg? It is a family show so I am not
:24:51. > :24:54.looking. You are going to Glastonburx on
:24:55. > :25:13.Friday, argy? That was taken on Friday evdning
:25:14. > :25:21.just before the summer solstice That is taken in Scarborough on
:25:22. > :25:29.Sunday. Stunning conditions. Keep the pictures coming in.
:25:30. > :25:41.A change in prospect tomorrow. They cold weather front is brought in.
:25:42. > :25:49.There is that cold front. You really weak affair but it will bring some
:25:50. > :25:53.drizzle leading wet and stax, Thursday and possibly Fridax and
:25:54. > :25:58.next weekend try with some sunshine although there are some
:25:59. > :26:01.uncertainties. Some showers developing this afternoon through
:26:02. > :26:09.the North Midlands but the rest of us have been dry. Most of us are
:26:10. > :26:17.fine this evening. Just one or two sharp showers breaking out `gain.
:26:18. > :26:30.Later tonight, the risk of one or two on the coast but most of us will
:26:31. > :26:38.be dry. The sun rises in thd morning at 4:36am. It should be a fhne and
:26:39. > :26:42.bright start with some sunshine but cloud will thicken through the
:26:43. > :26:50.morning. There is that weak cold front ringing patchy rain and
:26:51. > :26:57.drizzle. Then behind that the sky is bright and once again with just one
:26:58. > :27:10.or two more showers. Cool and fresh air along the coast. Highs of 1 or
:27:11. > :27:15.15 Celsius. A chilly nights to come on Tuesday night but that ldaves wet
:27:16. > :27:21.and stay dry with some sunshine There are still there is uncertainty
:27:22. > :27:28.about Friday but the weather front is expected to push in from the west
:27:29. > :27:34.that should be to the south of us. It should be fine next weekdnd as
:27:35. > :27:37.well. I'm devastated I can't make
:27:38. > :27:42.Glastonbury this year but the build`up to the Tour de France is
:27:43. > :27:47.more important. That is it from us. Goodbye.