:00:00. > 3:59:59the Turner Prize in 1999. Christie's said it had been bought by an
:00:00. > :00:11.anonymous Hello and welcome to
:00:12. > :00:14.a later than usual Look North. It's now just four days to
:00:15. > :00:17.the start of the Tour de France Earlier,
:00:18. > :00:20.Ilkley was shut off for the town's Elsewhere, the French are due to get
:00:21. > :00:24.a taste of home with this huge wooden replica of the Eiffel Tower
:00:25. > :00:30.in Burley`in`Wharfedale. And just look
:00:31. > :00:33.at this incredible wall in Ripley. So there's no doubt that excitement
:00:34. > :00:35.is building, but will it be enough to make a
:00:36. > :00:39.difference once the weekend's over? Are more people going to get out
:00:40. > :00:41.on their bikes? Matt Slater, our Tour de France
:00:42. > :00:44.correspondent, has been looking We have bikes, would be Wiggos,
:00:45. > :00:54.trainee Armitsteads, let's race. That seems to be the message in
:00:55. > :00:57.Yorkshire where just about everybody agrees we would all ride a lot more
:00:58. > :01:01.if only the roads were a bit safer. It is a great way to keep fit, it
:01:02. > :01:05.gets them out into the fresh air, gets them out of the bedroom, so I
:01:06. > :01:10.think it is a really good thing. She goes with me
:01:11. > :01:12.and her little sister. I would not be happy
:01:13. > :01:15.for her to go on her own. Obviously the kids have learned,
:01:16. > :01:20.it is the adults that need to learn Well, if Leeds' staging of the Tour
:01:21. > :01:22.is going to have a positive impact in terms of
:01:23. > :01:25.getting people to ride again, this This is the
:01:26. > :01:29.Leeds Schools Cycle Challenge ` 550 youngsters from around the city
:01:30. > :01:32.riding in a fun, safe environment. This is the hill climb and
:01:33. > :01:35.as you can see, they really have Safe was the keyword there,
:01:36. > :01:40.which is not something we can say about many roads,
:01:41. > :01:45.as this commuter is about to learn. He was able to pick him
:01:46. > :01:49.self up eventually, but a poll for the BBC has revealed that two thirds
:01:50. > :01:52.of adults in Britain think our roads are dangerous, while only a
:01:53. > :01:55.third think their employer has done The demand is there though,
:01:56. > :02:01.a quarter of you want to ride more Persuading them it is safe to do
:02:02. > :02:07.so is the challenge and where better British cycling hero Chris Boardman
:02:08. > :02:11.would like to turn the Leeds thoroughfare into a playground
:02:12. > :02:13.for pedestrians and pedallers. Fundamentally it is less is more,
:02:14. > :02:23.so this whole scape here would be a boulevard style, so we would
:02:24. > :02:26.change it to a paving sort We would take out all
:02:27. > :02:30.of the street furniture so all those barriers would go and
:02:31. > :02:33.we would bring the default speed If you ask anybody who is walking
:02:34. > :02:38.past us now, which is I can almost guarantee you there
:02:39. > :02:42.will be a high level of cycling If the Tour is to inspire more
:02:43. > :02:47.queens of the mountains, it is time to build an Amsterdam`upon`Aire,
:02:48. > :02:49.a Copenhagen`by`Calderdale. In the meantime,
:02:50. > :02:52.the message to the world is clear. And if you want more information
:02:53. > :03:08.about the Tour de France and you use Twitter, you can search
:03:09. > :03:11.for @BBCtdf for all the latest on the Tour in Yorkshire, and also
:03:12. > :03:17.let us know how you're preparing. A report into the quality of care
:03:18. > :03:26.at Leeds Teaching Hospitals has The Care Quality Commission carried
:03:27. > :03:29.out an inspection in March at hospitals including
:03:30. > :03:31.Leeds General Infirmary and St James's and raised concerns
:03:32. > :03:33.about a number of areas including Our health correspondent
:03:34. > :03:40.Jamie Coulson reports. Around 70 inspectors from the
:03:41. > :03:42.Care Quality Commission spent four days in March looking at all areas
:03:43. > :03:45.of Leeds Teaching Hospitals. They found that services
:03:46. > :03:47.in Wharfedale Hospital, Chapel Allerton Hospital and Seacroft
:03:48. > :03:49.Hospital were good, but that the trust's two main sites, the Leeds
:03:50. > :03:52.General Infirmary and St James's Among their concerns were staffing
:03:53. > :03:55.shortages on elderly care, There are areas that the trust
:03:56. > :03:59.absolutely must address in order to They are really around staffing
:04:00. > :04:05.levels, staff training, particularly around safeguarding
:04:06. > :04:08.and around sharing those lessons when maybe things have not gone
:04:09. > :04:13.as well as they could have done. Inspectors acknowledged there were
:04:14. > :04:16.areas of good practice including A and maternity services,
:04:17. > :04:18.but found that overall safety needed The trust has been told to
:04:19. > :04:27.make improvements in 15 areas. Leeds Teaching Hospitals say work to
:04:28. > :04:30.address these issues is already well underway with 400 extra nurses due
:04:31. > :04:33.to start from September and plans to deal with the problems
:04:34. > :04:36.around the training and information The trust will now be inspected
:04:37. > :04:42.again at a later date to make sure A Leeds`based asylum seeker,
:04:43. > :04:55.who says he'll be killed if he's forced to return to Jamaica
:04:56. > :04:58.because he's bisexual, has lost the latest stage in his
:04:59. > :05:01.legal battle to stay in Yorkshire. Today in court
:05:02. > :05:03.a judge refused to grant Orashia Edwards permission to continue
:05:04. > :05:05.his case to a judicial review. His lawyers now plan to lodge
:05:06. > :05:10.an appeal. I would prefer to be
:05:11. > :05:13.a dead man than to go on a flight. I have nowhere to go,
:05:14. > :05:15.this is my home. I feel safe here,
:05:16. > :05:18.my family and my friends are here. The Government has turned down a bid
:05:19. > :05:32.for York to have a say in the burial York lost a legal challenge to have
:05:33. > :05:36.the King buried in the city, after his bones were discovered beneath a
:05:37. > :05:40.car park in Leicester two years ago. The York Central MP Hugh Bayley said
:05:41. > :05:42.he was promised a meeting But the Justice Minister Simon
:05:43. > :05:50.Hughes has turned him down. The television presenter
:05:51. > :05:52.Marilyn Webb has died Marilyn worked on
:05:53. > :05:55.ITV Yorkshire's Calendar programme for nearly 20 years as a reporter
:05:56. > :05:58.and presenter from the mid`1970s. The Arts Council has announced
:05:59. > :06:05.a big increase in funding It'll get an extra ?550,000,
:06:06. > :06:09.which is a rise of 23%. Meanwhile, the Yorkshire Sculpture
:06:10. > :06:11.Park near Wakefield will get ?2 million for a new gallery to
:06:12. > :06:40.display the work of Henry Moore. Tomorrow looks like a fine and dry
:06:41. > :06:44.day, warm with sunny spells and that is because high pressure dominates.
:06:45. > :06:50.Pollen levels will remain high however. As we go to the rest of the
:06:51. > :06:55.night, dry with longer and clearer spells. Temperatures in the
:06:56. > :06:59.countryside will drop back to single figures, nine or 10 degrees will
:07:00. > :07:05.stop as we go through the data model, it is going to be fine and
:07:06. > :07:10.dry with long sunny spells. Temperatures getting to 23 or 24
:07:11. > :07:16.degrees. This is the picture on Thursday, a week front pushing down
:07:17. > :07:21.so there will be some cloud around and patchy rain and places,
:07:22. > :07:26.particularly towards the West. For the Tour de France, overnight rain
:07:27. > :07:31.on Friday means it will begin wet on Saturday but it will dry up for the
:07:32. > :07:32.afternoon. For Sunday it is a fine start and there will be a few
:07:33. > :07:34.more cloud on Friday. None of this survives into the weekend, some rain
:07:35. > :07:42.around on Saturday. It's certainly been a feast of
:07:43. > :07:43.football again. The