:00:00. > :00:10.We talk to the man behind a multi`million pound plan
:00:11. > :00:12.for a co`operative colliery in West Yorkshire.
:00:13. > :00:17.The truly inspirational story of a Leeds Rhinos fan.
:00:18. > :00:21.How a young man's passion for rugby has helped him rebuild his life
:00:22. > :00:39.And find out how this wee beastie cant help solve a problem like that.
:00:40. > :00:46.And it's been a cool, breezy day today. I'll be back later with all
:00:47. > :00:53.the details of the bank holiday weather.
:00:54. > :00:56.Ask almost anyone about coal mining in Yorkshire and most would describe
:00:57. > :01:04.While other collieries are closing, he plans to open one.
:01:05. > :01:07.He knows there's coal at Crofton near Wakefield, because British Coal
:01:08. > :01:14.We'll hear from him in a moment, but first Cathy Killick's been
:01:15. > :01:20.Here's a man who plans to open the first coal mine in Yorkshire
:01:21. > :01:25.Jonathan Clarke has a business plan and now planning
:01:26. > :01:28.permission to sink a drift mine here in Crofton near Wakefield.
:01:29. > :01:32.So is his mining plan mad or visionary?
:01:33. > :01:35.The history of coal mining in Yorkshire is chequered to say
:01:36. > :01:41.Scrollback a half`century and Yorkshire's mines led
:01:42. > :01:47.the industry with world beating engineering and innovation.
:01:48. > :01:50.A completely up to date system, this installation shows how
:01:51. > :01:53.the miner of today is becoming an engineer in his own right.
:01:54. > :01:55.For decades the miners ruled the roost, with the country
:01:56. > :02:00.And they have promised support saying that among other things they
:02:01. > :02:04.will continue the newly`initiated Saturday morning shifts.
:02:05. > :02:07.But the industry was riven by conflict and poor industrial
:02:08. > :02:11.relations culminating in the miners' strikes in the 1980s.
:02:12. > :02:15.That was followed by the pit closure programme that saw numbers
:02:16. > :02:19.of pits decline from 56, employing thousands in Yorkshire, to just two
:02:20. > :02:27.Jonathan Clarke says it's time to start again.
:02:28. > :02:30.We're a cooperative so the mine will be owned by the workers.
:02:31. > :02:34.We should have about 60 people working there who own the business
:02:35. > :02:39.themselves, so you won't see this management`worker problems that
:02:40. > :02:44.His optimism is in sharp contrast to the mood at Kellingley colliery,
:02:45. > :02:48.facing closure and deemed unviable by the governmen.
:02:49. > :02:51.To be frank, to keep this open on the long`term requires very
:02:52. > :02:56.large government subsidies that we're not in the position to do.
:02:57. > :03:00.In Crofton, though, the Co`op plan has mollified residents.
:03:01. > :03:02.Planning permission was granted in seven months,
:03:03. > :03:10.I think it's a good idea to bring employment again.
:03:11. > :03:13.If it's going to bring jobs, fair enough,
:03:14. > :03:19.About 80% of it is going to be put on the railway, so it means
:03:20. > :03:24.we're not going to have big heavy trucks going through anywhere.
:03:25. > :03:27.But will the plam prove too idealistic or
:03:28. > :03:30.will it be a workable vision of a fairer way of doing things?
:03:31. > :03:36.At the very least it is an interesting experiment that
:03:37. > :03:43.could make Crofton the birthplace of a revolution.
:03:44. > :03:46.So does Jonathan Clarke agree that he's taking a big risk by planning
:03:47. > :03:52.to open a new mine when virtually all the others have closed down?
:03:53. > :04:05.Not really. We are a drift mine. We generally go down about 150, metres.
:04:06. > :04:09.Other man's a much deeper. From an engineering standpoint we don't have
:04:10. > :04:15.those challenges. Also the site was earmarked by British Coal opencast
:04:16. > :04:24.work. We know exactly where the coal is. So it will cost around ?30
:04:25. > :04:33.million. Who's paying for that? Mine finance. We're talking about a tiny
:04:34. > :04:36.amount of money. In effect, the value of the coal underground we
:04:37. > :04:45.have permission to take is around ?300 million. The government has
:04:46. > :04:51.today dismissed every view of securing a long`term future for
:04:52. > :04:59.Kellingley pit. They are not interested in cold surely? Currently
:05:00. > :05:02.we use 60 million tonnes of coal a year in this country. Were going to
:05:03. > :05:09.be barely get for at least another ten years. Logically, I think we
:05:10. > :05:13.should use local mines with local people rather than importing it.
:05:14. > :05:17.Most of the imports come from Colombia, Russia and America. It
:05:18. > :05:26.seems sensible to take it from local sources. Are you hoping to take some
:05:27. > :05:32.business right? In terms of the market the 60 million tonnes use,
:05:33. > :05:40.we're going to produce 200 a year. Where tiny fish in a big pond.
:05:41. > :05:45.You've got planning permission? Would you not made by just by
:05:46. > :05:49.selling the land? Absolutely, but we didn't set up this project to do
:05:50. > :05:53.that. We started it to reinvest most of the money back into the local
:05:54. > :05:58.area to create a better community and environment for everybody. Some
:05:59. > :06:05.people said to us, are you going to sell? We said no. They thought we
:06:06. > :06:10.were mad. Best of luck with the project.
:06:11. > :06:12.Now the remarkable story of one Leeds Rhinos fan who'll be
:06:13. > :06:14.at Wembley for the Challenge Cup final on Saturday.
:06:15. > :06:17.Nine years ago Joel McBrinn, who's now 26,
:06:18. > :06:21.came back from the very brink of death after he was savagely attacked
:06:22. > :06:25.Now our crime correspondent John Cundy, who reported the story
:06:26. > :06:30.His exclusive interview is a story of courage
:06:31. > :06:37.Nine years on Joel McBrinn can remember little of the brutal attack
:06:38. > :06:46.Nothing whatsoever, just what I've been told about the attack.
:06:47. > :06:55.I remember bits of the year after I was in hospital.
:06:56. > :06:58.Joel's injuries were massively life`threatening.
:06:59. > :07:01.He suffered a broken arm, abroken jaw, broken cheekbones but,
:07:02. > :07:07.Doctors had to cut away part of his skull to relieve swelling
:07:08. > :07:13.I'd like to thank my family and my friends, especially
:07:14. > :07:20.Amazingly, Joel had pulled through, his recovery gradual.
:07:21. > :07:25.Even today his power of recall is still impaired.
:07:26. > :07:29.When I'm watching a rugby game, the sport that I love,
:07:30. > :07:34.I remember certain standout bits of the game but if someone asked me,
:07:35. > :07:51.I used to be a healthy rugby player, a social person.
:07:52. > :07:55.Now my health is not as good and I'm not as sociable as I used to be so
:07:56. > :08:04.I've not got a girlfriend of kids are anything like that.
:08:05. > :08:09.Rugby is something I can put my focus into.
:08:10. > :08:12.Now it is all about Saturday and Wembley.
:08:13. > :08:21.I'm hoping it's different to years gone by when I've gone down there
:08:22. > :08:27.I've turned up and they've underperformed.
:08:28. > :08:32.I'm thinking this year, I'm predicting a classic, actually.
:08:33. > :08:39.Nobody will step out more proudly on Saturday than Joel McBrinn.
:08:40. > :08:50.His brave recovery a truly remarkable story.
:08:51. > :08:53.And we'll have more on the build`up to the Challenge Cup
:08:54. > :09:01.We hear from the first student to benefit from a
:09:02. > :09:11.new partnership between the region's forensic unit and a university.
:09:12. > :09:15.Comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown has been fined after he was caught driving
:09:16. > :09:17.while reading a newspaper in North Yorkshire.
:09:18. > :09:21.The 69`year`old, whose real name is Royston Vasey, was spotted holding
:09:22. > :09:24.the paper in front of his steering wheel as he passed a
:09:25. > :09:30.The comic, who had a top ten single in 1995 with a
:09:31. > :09:34.cover of Living Next Door to Alice, will have to pay ?30 and has been
:09:35. > :09:41.Hoax calls are costing Yorkshires' fire services hundreds
:09:42. > :09:44.of thousands of pounds, according to the latest figures.
:09:45. > :09:47.In the past year more than 360 bogus calls were made to West Yorkshire
:09:48. > :09:51.fire and rescue, the most of any service in our region.
:09:52. > :09:56.The fire service says it's a drain on resources
:09:57. > :10:03.Every time we send a fire appliance to a hoax call, the firefighters are
:10:04. > :10:08.Effectively you're putting the fire engine in the wrong place.
:10:09. > :10:12.That can put people at greater risk because if there is
:10:13. > :10:17.another incident somewhere else they are simply not available to us.
:10:18. > :10:20.Thousands of grave stones in Yorkshire have failed health
:10:21. > :10:23.and safety tests and been deemed unstable.
:10:24. > :10:25.Some councils have been securing headstones with wooden posts
:10:26. > :10:29.and plastic tape until they can be repaired.
:10:30. > :10:32.But families of some people buried in a Normanton
:10:33. > :10:35.cemetery say they feel the work has been disrespectful.
:10:36. > :10:38.Wakefield council says it acknowledges the distress
:10:39. > :10:44.GCSE results were out today and in Yorkshire and the Humber the numbers
:10:45. > :10:49.of students getting grade C or above has gone up slightly to 64.9%.
:10:50. > :10:52.But across the UK more than two in three students achieve
:10:53. > :10:55.a C or above, so students here are still lagging behind.
:10:56. > :10:58.The Government says changes to the way pupils are tested,
:10:59. > :11:02.including final exams, no resits and less coursework,
:11:03. > :11:05.were necessary to correct a system that had worked against the best
:11:06. > :11:12.But the changes have been criticised by a Sheffield headteacher.
:11:13. > :11:16.The difficulty has been that things changed very suddenly
:11:17. > :11:22.When people move the goal posts mid`way through the match it's an
:11:23. > :11:30.We've done our very best and we've got results that have shown that.
:11:31. > :11:32.Detailed plans for the new Queens Park Sports Centre in
:11:33. > :11:37.Sport England has given the council ?2 million to build
:11:38. > :11:42.The new centre will be built on the Queen's Park Annexe.
:11:43. > :11:45.It will replace the current 1960s facilities.
:11:46. > :11:50.Work will begin next month and it should be finished in 2016.
:11:51. > :11:53.We are going to get a new facility which is far better
:11:54. > :11:58.It will be up to date and a lot more accessible to the whole community.
:11:59. > :12:02.In general, it will just be a great facility that Chesterfield and the
:12:03. > :12:06.Music fans have been arriving at Bramham Park today
:12:07. > :12:11.Now in its 16th year, the event will feature over 200
:12:12. > :12:15.bands with headliners including Blink`182 and the Arctic Monkeys.
:12:16. > :12:22.Around 70,000 music fans are expected there over the weekend.
:12:23. > :12:24.The great thing about this weekend in Yorkshire that
:12:25. > :12:30.It's back here and we've got amazing bands
:12:31. > :12:32.for the weekend, topped on Sunday by the Arctic Monkeys, a Yorkshire
:12:33. > :12:37.Their last gig in the UK for a long time.
:12:38. > :12:47.A new partnership between the region's police forces and
:12:48. > :12:50.Huddersfield University is helping one forensic science student gain
:12:51. > :12:56.Miranda Blackburn will spend 10 months learning on the job
:12:57. > :12:59.at the new police regional forensic services department.
:13:00. > :13:01.The experience will help towards her final mark.
:13:02. > :13:16.I wonder if you've ever seen one of these part near a crime. All the
:13:17. > :13:19.evidence is gathered and brought back here to the new state of the
:13:20. > :13:26.art synergies at Wakefield. It all start at the scene of the crime.
:13:27. > :13:37.There is a team of CSI is covering the four police forces in Yorkshire
:13:38. > :13:41.and the Humber. It covers all areas. Evidence gathered is sent to
:13:42. > :13:46.Wakefield for analysis. The latest technology has helped speed up the
:13:47. > :13:52.detection protest. I've seen a spur move from forensics to corroborate
:13:53. > :13:59.investigations that we traditionally saw. The science is now gone to such
:14:00. > :14:06.an extent that it is now almost completely reversed the forensics
:14:07. > :14:09.are right front end. The comebacks in Wakefield brings together
:14:10. > :14:12.investigators and scientists under one roof. It means there is no time
:14:13. > :14:18.wasted travelling to labs miles away. What I'm doing here is looking
:14:19. > :14:26.that fingerprint that you can't see with the naked eye. Miranda is the
:14:27. > :14:29.department's latest recruit. She is the latest didn't get the ten month
:14:30. > :14:34.work placement as part of her course at Huddersfield University. I just
:14:35. > :14:42.want to help solving crimes. I've always wanted to do it.
:14:43. > :14:49.When this didn't come back we see a massive step change in their
:14:50. > :14:58.confidence. The main thing is experience. Also technical
:14:59. > :15:03.knowledge. As crime detection continues to rely more heavily on
:15:04. > :15:08.science will stop its expected more of these
:15:09. > :15:11.Never mind the chilly weather, there's a Caribbean flavour
:15:12. > :15:15.We find out how Leeds's West Indian carnival has got bigger,
:15:16. > :15:37.Just two days before the all Yorkshire rugby league channels
:15:38. > :15:55.final, the divided passions are no louder and clearer than here.
:15:56. > :15:57.Just two days before the all Yorkshire rugby league channels
:15:58. > :16:00.final, the divided passions are no louder and clearer than here.
:16:01. > :16:03.Ecologists have come up with a new way of trying to keep
:16:04. > :16:07.A red water weed is threatening to choke parts of the network.
:16:08. > :16:12.The answer seems to be surprisingly low tech and exceedingly small.
:16:13. > :16:31.This stuff here is the problem. And this is the solution. What is this?
:16:32. > :16:35.That is water fern. It's an invasive plant which covers the top of the
:16:36. > :16:49.water and causes problems for boats and people fishing. These are
:16:50. > :16:56.weevil. They don't like big enough to make an impact on this. Will it
:16:57. > :17:00.work? Yes. Although they look small they do breed in numbers. We are
:17:01. > :17:20.putting 4000 in there today. They will get busy eating the weed. What
:17:21. > :17:27.it then? Ducks. We're not going to situation like the Australians had
:17:28. > :17:42.with rabbits? No, not at all. Let's release them. Yes, OK.
:17:43. > :17:52.I have heard. There's one. There are tiny. You can't believe that
:17:53. > :17:58.something that tiny will have any effect on this at all. I know, it's
:17:59. > :18:01.amazing. It will help solve our problems. Brilliant. You go a little
:18:02. > :18:10.one. Now let's return to
:18:11. > :18:12.the build`up to Saturday's big Rugby League showdown, which sees
:18:13. > :18:15.Castleford Tigers take on Leeds Rhinos in the first all`Yorkshire
:18:16. > :18:26.final at Wembley for 28 years. Well, of course we need to be
:18:27. > :18:28.scrupulously impartial, so we've sent our reporter
:18:29. > :18:31.Paul Ogden to a pub in Kippax that's almost exactly half`way
:18:32. > :18:51.between the two rival clubs. It's an absolutely fantastic
:18:52. > :18:55.atmosphere. We couldn't be any more appropriate in terms of location.
:18:56. > :19:03.This village lies right between Castleford and Leeds. They go
:19:04. > :19:07.head`to`head at Wembley on Saturday. They'll have a nationwide TV
:19:08. > :19:12.audience. Locally, if you were stuck in a traffic jam today I think I
:19:13. > :19:21.have an explanation. Look at these pictures. This is the Castleford
:19:22. > :19:26.team leaving the home. You can tell they benefited from it being the
:19:27. > :19:33.school holidays. I think a lot of people left like early. And why
:19:34. > :19:43.shouldn't they? It's a long time since they went to Wembley. They
:19:44. > :19:48.last won it in 1986. That crowd was probably `` how much does it
:19:49. > :19:55.actually mean? How much does the challenge cup itself mean to the
:19:56. > :20:00.fans? Is this more important or less important than super league? To me
:20:01. > :20:08.it is more important. It's a beautiful day out. We've waited so
:20:09. > :20:12.long. It's brilliant. I've got the feeling today that Castleford is
:20:13. > :20:17.going to be very quiet on Saturday when kick`off time comes. It will be
:20:18. > :20:26.a ghost town. Were taking over 20,000 people to Wembley. Everyone
:20:27. > :20:32.will have a fantastic day. Does this team say much about their future
:20:33. > :20:36.plans in super league? Yes it does. I think we as a community in
:20:37. > :20:41.Castleford need to get behind the club and we need to look at our
:20:42. > :20:42.development. We're looking to the future and everyone needs to back
:20:43. > :20:54.us. One team that knows about
:20:55. > :21:02.development profile is Leeds. Your eye died in the wool fan. It is
:21:03. > :21:09.about time you won at Wembley isn't it? I'm sure going to walk away with
:21:10. > :21:18.it this year. Is it important enough to you? It certainly is.
:21:19. > :21:31.We are going to do it. I think will win by seven. If there is a replay,
:21:32. > :21:40.as we told you it would be at Sheffield. Other sports could learn
:21:41. > :21:50.from here, bands of both sides mingling and respecting each other.
:21:51. > :22:02.My producer just told me off. He has said that this is the first all
:22:03. > :22:05.Yorkshire final at Wembley for 28 years.
:22:06. > :22:08.Yorkshire's cricketers are in action in the One Day Cup this evening.
:22:09. > :22:12.They put Hampshire into bat at Southampton and bowled the home
:22:13. > :22:27.The 47th Leeds West Indian Carnival gets underway this Bank Holiday.
:22:28. > :22:31.More than 150,000 people are expected to attend the event,
:22:32. > :22:34.which organisers say is the oldest in Britain.
:22:35. > :22:38.Tomorrow a contest to select the King and Queen to lead
:22:39. > :22:40.the carnival parade will be held at West Yorkshire Playhouse
:22:41. > :22:43.A short film about the carnival's history, told through
:22:44. > :22:46.the eyes of one of its promoters Sandra Pitter, will also be shown.
:22:47. > :22:49.It starts with some of the memories of the founder
:22:50. > :22:59.We came here from the Caribbean and apart from coal we had nothing
:23:00. > :23:07.We needed something that would bind us together.
:23:08. > :23:12.One Sunday in 1964 Arthur France invited 27 people to his bedsit
:23:13. > :23:15.in Leeds to discuss what would become Europe's first ever
:23:16. > :23:24.I had a bed and one chair and 27 people.
:23:25. > :23:28.I put the idea to them on a Sunday afternoon.
:23:29. > :23:33.1967 saw the first Caribbean style carnival
:23:34. > :23:36.on the streets of Leeds, but back then making the costumes provided
:23:37. > :23:42.You need feathers to make Indian costumes
:23:43. > :23:48.We went up to Otley and bought 12 chickens
:23:49. > :23:55.We plucked the chickens and passed them out to people who would buy
:23:56. > :24:04.Carnival continued to grow in the 70s and 80s
:24:05. > :24:09.and the ambition and creativity behind the costumes grew with it.
:24:10. > :24:11.Without the costumes there is no carnival.
:24:12. > :24:16.It's important to keep the art alive in terms of the costumes and
:24:17. > :24:29.The August Bank Holiday Monday is now a special day
:24:30. > :24:40.for the whole city, but practice and preparation is a year`long process.
:24:41. > :24:43.When the eyes of the world fell on Leeds for the Grand Depart
:24:44. > :24:47.of the Tour de France, the lively, colourful rhythm of the carnival
:24:48. > :25:14.Fantastic. It's going to be brilliant on Monday. We need to
:25:15. > :25:16.share some good news from Corpus Christi school. They've received
:25:17. > :25:36.some great exam results. Let's have some decent weather now
:25:37. > :25:40.Keely. It's not going to get much warmer but it will feel warmer.
:25:41. > :25:51.Let's take a look at some photographs first. We've been
:25:52. > :25:58.getting lots of pictures of purple heather. The picture is of the peak
:25:59. > :26:14.this trip. `` Peak District. A brighter day tomorrow but we still
:26:15. > :26:18.can't rule out the odd shower especially in the east. The same
:26:19. > :26:23.could be said Saturday and Finance Sunday. Saturday and mornings will
:26:24. > :26:28.be chilly. You can make out the cloud on the satellite picture. It
:26:29. > :26:32.is still producing showery burst of rain in places and will continue to
:26:33. > :26:37.do so with brighter spells to end the day. Some clear spells will
:26:38. > :26:43.develop overnight. Still an ongoing scattering of showers. They will
:26:44. > :26:50.ease towards the end of the night. Temperatures will fall back to ten
:26:51. > :27:01.or 11 cents US. Saturday and Sunday will be very chilly indeed. The sun
:27:02. > :27:05.will rise at 5:56am. A lot of dry and bright weather to come.
:27:06. > :27:11.Breitling cloud and sunny spells. We can't rule out some showers.
:27:12. > :27:17.The breeze will be gentle from the North West and temperatures are on
:27:18. > :27:24.the disappointing side but feeling a bit warmer. Were looking at 16 or 17
:27:25. > :27:31.Celsius. Looking ahead to the Leeds Festival. There is a risk of an odd
:27:32. > :27:45.shower but generally dry. It will be chilly at night. I won't wear my hot
:27:46. > :27:46.pants. We will be at the Festival tomorrow night by the way.