:00:00. > :00:10.another dull and misty day. Join me for the detailed weekend forecast to
:00:11. > :00:12.see if the sun will shame. `` shame. `` shine.
:00:13. > :00:14.Good evening and welcome to the programmd.
:00:15. > :00:17.And to start the programme, we have some breaking news.
:00:18. > :00:18.The Director of Children's Services, Joyce Thacker,
:00:19. > :00:22.She had come under increasing pressure to resign in the w`ke
:00:23. > :00:26.of a report which detailed how 1,400 children had been sextally
:00:27. > :00:38.Our reporter James Vincent hs outside Rotherham Town Hall.
:00:39. > :00:47.There is a glowing `` growing list of high`profile vacancies in South
:00:48. > :00:52.Yorkshire. Another one has been added to that list. We have had a
:00:53. > :00:58.short statement on the last hour saying that he will leave bx mutual
:00:59. > :01:04.agreement with immediate effect That does two things. It le`ves
:01:05. > :01:08.Rotherham Council without a leader. Also it is in one of the kex areas
:01:09. > :01:14.it has been criticised in the last three weeks since this report was
:01:15. > :01:20.released. The pressure to resign has been
:01:21. > :01:27.intense, has it not? Yes. There has been increashng
:01:28. > :01:33.pressure on many people to consider what their desertions are worth an
:01:34. > :01:44.Rotherham and South Yorkshire. `` to consider what their positions are. A
:01:45. > :01:46.select committee earlier thhs month asked her that she may want to
:01:47. > :01:49.resign her position. The rapists carried
:01:50. > :01:51.on raping children. Our social workers
:01:52. > :01:52.worked really hard. Did the rapist that did not get
:01:53. > :01:56.prosecuted, the perpetrators, did they not carry
:01:57. > :01:58.on raping children in Rotherham No, please, answer the question `
:01:59. > :02:25.they did or they didn?t? She is now the fourth person to
:02:26. > :02:31.stand down. She is indeed. The Labour council
:02:32. > :02:36.leader said he was stepping down also. A week or so later, Rotherham
:02:37. > :02:42.Council's Chief Executive s`id that he'd would step in `` said that he
:02:43. > :02:44.would step down. On Tuesday, the elected Police Commissioner said
:02:45. > :02:58.that he would finally steppdd down from his job as well. Tonight, the
:02:59. > :02:59.number is for. `` four. It hs a very difficult time. Where is thd
:03:00. > :03:04.leadership going to come from? There've been calls for Yorkshire to
:03:05. > :03:07.be given similar spending powers to those now being promised
:03:08. > :03:10.for the Scottish Parliament. Full independence was rejected
:03:11. > :03:14.by the Referendum Vote in Scotland. The Prime Minister has promhsed
:03:15. > :03:18.greater powers for England, So what would this mean herd
:03:19. > :03:23.in Yorkshire, which has Our political editor, Len Thngle,
:03:24. > :03:27.has been taking a look. Devolved powers, well,
:03:28. > :03:34.Yorkshire has had them. The Council of the North usdd
:03:35. > :03:36.operated from here, But it became too powerful
:03:37. > :03:39.and was abolished. By the 20th century,
:03:40. > :03:44.it was men in bowler hats m`king all the decisions on how taxpaydrs'
:03:45. > :03:47.money should be spent in Yorkshire. But that could be about to change
:03:48. > :03:51.thanks to government promisds that rejecting independence will see
:03:52. > :03:56.more powers given to Scotland. Scotland will expect these to
:03:57. > :04:01.be honoured in rapid course. So if Scotland has control over
:04:02. > :04:05.its own economy, what will that mean So it follows that the people of
:04:06. > :04:12.England, Wales and Northern Ireland And the timing could not be better
:04:13. > :04:19.for Yorkshire, with Particularly with pictures
:04:20. > :04:23.of the Tour de France on television In comparison to Scotland,
:04:24. > :04:34.the population here is about the But whatever emerges, Scotl`nd's
:04:35. > :04:37.boosted powers on spending, borrowing and possibly raishng their
:04:38. > :04:40.own taxes, they will be admhnistered So what does the public in Xorkshire
:04:41. > :04:46.want? If they give the power to the people
:04:47. > :04:57.we will see what is going on. Politicians spend too much loney
:04:58. > :04:59.at the moment anyway, so I think probably it is not
:05:00. > :05:03.a good idea to set up anothdr I think there might be some scope
:05:04. > :05:07.for some kind of local bodids to the taxation and raise taxation locally
:05:08. > :05:16.for local needs by local le`ders. But
:05:17. > :05:18.if there is to be no new assembly, Just one Council
:05:19. > :05:24.of the North 350 years ago. Today,
:05:25. > :05:25.at least four different Yorkshire bodies might have chunks of power in
:05:26. > :05:29.any town or city across the county. The local council, the city region,
:05:30. > :05:34.one of the new clusters of combined local authorities, or the btsiness
:05:35. > :05:39.led local enterprise partnerships. We have lots and lots of laxers
:05:40. > :05:43.of local government. And how do we get that a bit more
:05:44. > :05:51.streamlined and how do we gdt people working between the different parts
:05:52. > :05:54.of Yorkshire much more closdly? The government has promised that now
:05:55. > :05:56.that the count is over, they will start negotiating with
:05:57. > :06:00.the Scottish Parliament tod`y. There must be plenty of voices
:06:01. > :06:02.in Yorkshire seeing So what could further powers
:06:03. > :06:13.for Yorkshire look like? To discuss this,
:06:14. > :06:15.we're joined by Peter Box, And Stewart Arnold,
:06:16. > :06:20.Deputy Leader of Yorkshire First. He goes a step further, with
:06:21. > :06:32.calls for a regional parlialent The Prime Minister has promhsed
:06:33. > :06:37.those these extra powers. What form could take a? The first thing is to
:06:38. > :06:42.say that I do not believe the creation of an English parlhament as
:06:43. > :06:45.devolution. It has TB devolttion down to our regions. I did not also
:06:46. > :06:50.think that the people want lore politicians. That is the last thing
:06:51. > :06:53.that most people want. What do they want? What they want is mord power
:06:54. > :07:02.to local people, using existing structures. It should be devolved.
:07:03. > :07:08.They want a Yorkshire assembly, that is what Stewart says. The evidence
:07:09. > :07:12.seems to be that they do want that. Where polls are carried out, people
:07:13. > :07:18.rather like the idea of an assembly. What powers would you
:07:19. > :07:24.have, that is what I want to know? Would you have the rates, which you
:07:25. > :07:28.sort out what has a lot to do? In Scotland, the looking to get high
:07:29. > :07:33.levels of devolution. I would go for that. Anything other than foreign
:07:34. > :07:36.policy and macroeconomic policy Make the deficient `` bring the
:07:37. > :07:41.decision`making much closer to home. That is absolutely normal appetite
:07:42. > :07:46.for `` there was no appetitd Yorkshire Parliament ten ye`rs ago.
:07:47. > :07:50.Has that changed? I think it has. Assemblies have become the common
:07:51. > :07:55.currency of how we do our devolution. If it was put to the
:07:56. > :07:59.people of Yorkshire, it may be a different result. It makes no sense
:08:00. > :08:03.to have it make you manage from a desk in Whitehall Peter dis`grees
:08:04. > :08:07.with that. I do not think hd understands what people really
:08:08. > :08:11.think. They do not want mord politicians, more bureaucracy. Let
:08:12. > :08:18.us try to work with what we have got. It is working so far. We have a
:08:19. > :08:22.huge ambition for Yorkshire. What is needed as a huge ambition for
:08:23. > :08:26.Yorkshire. What is needed as it turned that at least would give a
:08:27. > :08:33.voice to whatever decision xou came up with. The more our funding is
:08:34. > :08:37.cut, obviously people do not get interested, do not get involved My
:08:38. > :08:41.argument is that the more power you give us, the more finding ndw
:08:42. > :08:46.covers, the more people eng`ged At the end of the day, they can turn us
:08:47. > :08:53.out. Is it more power, or more money? We want more power.
:08:54. > :08:57.Specifically, what power. Over skills, transport and econolic ``
:08:58. > :09:01.remuneration. We are sure that we can do things smarter and cheaper.
:09:02. > :09:08.You want to take the money `nd decide how it is spent. Yes. There
:09:09. > :09:12.has to be a national strategy for transport, for example, but once it
:09:13. > :09:16.has been made, give it to others and we can decide. That is not `n offer.
:09:17. > :09:20.We need far more powers to come to Yorkshire than the sort of thing is
:09:21. > :09:23.that Peter wants. We want ftll devolution as far as possible, let
:09:24. > :09:29.Yorkshire people decide thehr own fate. A lively debate. Thank you for
:09:30. > :09:31.joining us. As the calls begin for further
:09:32. > :09:33.devolution for Yorkshire, there are questions about how
:09:34. > :09:36.the economy could be better run to Our business correspondent
:09:37. > :09:39.Dani Hewson has been looking at the impact that new powers
:09:40. > :09:50.for Scotland could have herd. You may wonder why a cleaning
:09:51. > :09:55.product manufacturer in Bradford has been so concerned about Scotland's
:09:56. > :09:58.decision. Look front and centre on their labels and you begin to
:09:59. > :10:03.understand. The union flag hs a major selling point for thel,
:10:04. > :10:07.particularly in places like Taiwan and China. Losing it was
:10:08. > :10:13.unthinkable. This is obviously massively `` this has obviotsly
:10:14. > :10:15.helped our export trade. Thd perception of British manuf`ctured
:10:16. > :10:21.products is still in many m`rkets proceed as high`quality, as
:10:22. > :10:27.something that is more premhum to what have locally. I would not like
:10:28. > :10:34.to even think what sort of hmpact that would have had. Sigh of relief
:10:35. > :10:37.from many for now. But what next? Over in Leeds, as they celebrate the
:10:38. > :10:45.opening of a new manufacturhng plant, there was concern. Hd will
:10:46. > :10:50.meet the decisions in the ftture, it devolution becomes a realitx here.
:10:51. > :10:55.There's this is not like uncertainty `` uncertainty. And well Scottish
:10:56. > :10:58.question has been settled, lany more questions remain unanswered. What
:10:59. > :11:02.they hope is that we keep this in simple. If we add layers of
:11:03. > :11:05.complexity in to our way of operations, without that is
:11:06. > :11:09.regional, taxation, or other issues that come in, that can make life
:11:10. > :11:18.very difficult for a business to manage. What better place to
:11:19. > :11:23.speculate on the future than the trading for? Certainly, there will
:11:24. > :11:28.be greater autonomy, but as I say, with greater democracy comes greater
:11:29. > :11:37.cost, so could actually everybody be peeing more tax to Mac that is one
:11:38. > :11:41.question that we want answered. `` trade we all be paying more tax
:11:42. > :11:42.That this one question that we want answered.
:11:43. > :11:45.More reaction to what the outcome could mean for Xorkshire
:11:46. > :11:47.on Sunday Politics, this Sunday from 11am on BBC One.
:11:48. > :11:50.Another big night of boxing for Sheffield.
:11:51. > :11:52.Kid Galahad has his sights set on becoming the fifth world
:11:53. > :11:58.In other news now, and a man has admitted killhng two
:11:59. > :12:01.Austin Brayford, who's 33, pleaded guilty to murdering Helen D`wson and
:12:02. > :12:08.Police found their bodies in a house near the city centre
:12:09. > :12:13.Brayford will be sentenced `t Leeds Crown Court in October.
:12:14. > :12:16.A former Huddersfield Town footballer has appeared
:12:17. > :12:18.in court after being charged for allegedly match`fixing.
:12:19. > :12:21.Delroy Facey, seen here in training while he was
:12:22. > :12:25.at Rotherham United, was ch`rged with conspiracy to commit bribery
:12:26. > :12:29.earlier this month following a National Crime Agency inqtiry
:12:30. > :12:32.He was at Birmingham Crown Court for a brief hearing and is due back
:12:33. > :12:38.More public money is to be spent to finish off a highly crithcised
:12:39. > :12:41.scheme to bring high speed broadband to South Yorkshird.
:12:42. > :12:45.The Digital Region project, which collapsed last year,
:12:46. > :12:51.Now a new deal has been signed with BT and the project will be run
:12:52. > :12:55.South Yorkshire will pay another ?7 million to try and achieve hts
:12:56. > :13:03.original aim of getting 98% of homes fibre broadband by the end of 2 17.
:13:04. > :13:05.Well, I think it has put us in a good position.
:13:06. > :13:08.Without that investment, we wouldn't be where we are today.
:13:09. > :13:09.Historically, South Yorkshire has always lagged behind.
:13:10. > :13:12.We are always at the bottom of peoples' lists when it comes to
:13:13. > :13:16.investment and infrastructure and what Digital Region did was drag
:13:17. > :13:25.Shop owners in Bakewell say trade is down by 60% since major road
:13:26. > :13:29.Gas mains are being replaced in the town centre and people have
:13:30. > :13:33.been put off going there because of the queues into the town.
:13:34. > :13:35.The National Grid says the work is essential and once it's
:13:36. > :13:40.completed, it won't have to be done again for another 80 years.
:13:41. > :13:44.We are at least 60% down on figures from last year's takings.
:13:45. > :13:51.This is the time of year whdn the kids go back to school, the older
:13:52. > :13:54.generation go on holiday and we can carry on with a good season well up
:13:55. > :13:58.until Christmas to try and lake some money so that if we do have bad
:13:59. > :14:01.weather January, February, we all got a bit of money in the b`nk.
:14:02. > :14:13.The parents of two young people who drowned
:14:14. > :14:16.on nights out in York are hdlping to launch a new safety camp`ign
:14:17. > :14:19.Megan Roberts and Tyler Pearson died in the River Ouse earlier this year.
:14:20. > :14:21.Megan's mother and Tyler's father are supporting
:14:22. > :14:23.the campaign in the hope th`t it'll help prevent future tragedids.
:14:24. > :14:26.Ian White is in York by the banks of the River Ouse.
:14:27. > :14:39.Ian, the authorities are taking this very seriously?
:14:40. > :14:47.Yes, they certainly are. Thdy had been encouraged to do so by the
:14:48. > :14:51.families. In the last 15 ye`rs, 24 people have lost their lives in the
:14:52. > :14:54.rivers of York and now the families of those people the authorities
:14:55. > :15:00.think it is time that something is done. It is six months sincd this
:15:01. > :15:04.woman defendant Howard daughter had died at the falling into thhs
:15:05. > :15:09.wrapper. She had been on a night out with a student friends when she went
:15:10. > :15:15.missing close to this pledgd. It was several weeks before her body was
:15:16. > :15:19.discovered. She just got confused as it is such and Arcadia, and stumbled
:15:20. > :15:23.into the water. She would not have stood a chance. There was nothing to
:15:24. > :15:28.warn her of virtuous queen. She would not have had a clue. On the
:15:29. > :15:38.day that her body was found, another young man went missing. His body was
:15:39. > :15:46.to scuppered later. `` his body was discovered later.
:15:47. > :15:55.There is a need for barriers at certain points. Something to warn
:15:56. > :16:08.people. I bought on the rivdr would be brilliant. `` a vessel on the
:16:09. > :16:17.wrapper would be cleaned. `` on the river would be brilliant. It is part
:16:18. > :16:25.of a solution. We are looking at education across the city, with
:16:26. > :16:30.visitors and people that live here. It is about planning their day, the
:16:31. > :16:35.daily home and that is really important to us. It has comd today,
:16:36. > :16:41.there are swans swimming on it. In the winter, it is fast `` f`st
:16:42. > :16:48.flowing and extremely cold. People need to steer clear at all costs.
:16:49. > :16:58.Although this is too late for Megan, but her mother hopes that it will
:16:59. > :17:02.make a difference. It is about remaining people to be award of
:17:03. > :17:09.their own safety. And very brave lady beer. It is only six months
:17:10. > :17:18.since her daughter's body w`s found. `` and very brave lady.
:17:19. > :17:24.This is also about people doing something called PU Wooding,
:17:25. > :17:28.drinking a lot before they come into town. It means that they ard
:17:29. > :17:38.paralytic before they arrivd in town. We will put on our Facebook
:17:39. > :17:39.page details of how you can watch the safety films that have been
:17:40. > :17:42.produced. The new exhibition that takds its
:17:43. > :17:50.inspiration from military h`rdware. Sport now and the Lancashird batsman
:17:51. > :17:53.who it's alleged was racially abused by the Yorkshire captain, Andrew
:17:54. > :18:08.Gale, has spoken for the first time. What is he stressed is that he does
:18:09. > :18:13.not feel that there was a r`cial element to the abuse that hd
:18:14. > :18:19.received. This happened durhng her rosy skin. They came togethdr, there
:18:20. > :18:24.were some words spoken, somd fairly industrial wind which used between
:18:25. > :18:36.the two. He is alleged to h`ve said it called back to your country. ``
:18:37. > :18:45.call back to your country. `` `` go back. Today he has said that the way
:18:46. > :18:56.he was approached was what offended him. He did not think it was a
:18:57. > :19:01.racial slur. He is stressing that he did not think it was racist but also
:19:02. > :19:10.that he `` that it is not tdn that has made the complaint. `` ht is not
:19:11. > :19:25.hemmer that has made the colplaint. `` it is not heaven. It is not him.
:19:26. > :19:28.On to boxing, and one of Shdffield's top fighters is looking to take
:19:29. > :19:31.another step towards his ambition of becoming a world champion.
:19:32. > :19:34.Abdul`Barri Awad, also known as Kid Galahad,
:19:35. > :19:37.steps in to the ring tomorrow night to face Latin America's chalpion
:19:38. > :19:40.in one of the toughest weight divisions in the world.
:19:41. > :19:48.At the age of 24, Sheffield boxer Kid Galahad has
:19:49. > :19:51.already won the British, European and Commonwealth thtles
:19:52. > :20:00.He's from the Ingle gym, which has so far produced four
:20:01. > :20:05.world champions, most recently Kell Brook and Galahad is confident
:20:06. > :20:09.The super bantamweight is in a tough domestic division that
:20:10. > :20:13.includes world champion Scott Quigg Belfast's Carl Frampton.
:20:14. > :20:21.I personally believe I am above both of them.
:20:22. > :20:25.I personally believe that I have the skill and the ability to beat
:20:26. > :20:31.both of them and we have two world champions in the UK and this weight
:20:32. > :20:37.For now he is concentrating on Latin American champion Adeilson Dos
:20:38. > :20:43.Santos, who he takes on tomorrow night for the IBF World Youth title.
:20:44. > :20:47.A win will move him a step closer to a chance of boxing
:20:48. > :20:52.This is going to be my toughest test yet.
:20:53. > :20:56.He's tall, he's rangy, he's undefeated, he can punch.
:20:57. > :20:59.It is going to be a tough fhght on Saturday night.
:21:00. > :21:02.Kids come in here, they see the history, they see the fhghters
:21:03. > :21:05.that have gone before them `nd they think they can achieve that.
:21:06. > :21:07.That is a motivating factor and it was a motivating factor
:21:08. > :21:24.Also in action are Sheffield prospects Adam Etches and
:21:25. > :21:27.But at the top of the bill, the Brazilian champion is expecting
:21:28. > :21:30.It certainly will provide another tough test
:21:31. > :21:32.for the Yemeni fighter who hs looking to seal the 18th straight
:21:33. > :21:43.There is something special `bout that gem, isn't there?
:21:44. > :21:45.Yes. There's a new exhibition opdning
:21:46. > :21:48.at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park this weekend and it features
:21:49. > :21:50.an ambitious technical feat. It involves getting the movhng
:21:51. > :21:52.blades of a Chinook helicopter It's the work of the artist
:21:53. > :22:06.Fiona Banner and Cathy Killhck's The ceiling is usually the last
:22:07. > :22:15.place you would work in a g`llery. But there is no missing this one.
:22:16. > :22:21.The blades interlocked perfdctly, but that does not stop the feeling
:22:22. > :22:25.that your entries from catastrophe. The blades are starting to speed up
:22:26. > :22:29.now and it is unnerving to be underneath them. I know it hs
:22:30. > :22:37.perfectly safe, but it does not feel like that, there is a downdraught,
:22:38. > :22:38.and the School of drama, although clinical and controlled. It is a bit
:22:39. > :23:00.like the military. This helicopter was the inspiration
:23:01. > :23:06.for the artist. She is drawn to them, and admires them, but cannot
:23:07. > :23:12.help heating the conflict they are utilised in. It just embodids so
:23:13. > :23:18.many contradictions. It just embodies so many contradicthons
:23:19. > :23:21.There's, but also associated with saving people. I think it incredibly
:23:22. > :23:28.beautiful and I find it grip on it. I find them terrifying but somehow
:23:29. > :23:33.the inspired soul `` some khnd of affection. The exhibition also
:23:34. > :23:37.features films that explore our fascination with military ahrcraft.
:23:38. > :23:46.In one of them, the artist `ttempts to stack are pale of military
:23:47. > :23:50.encyclopaedias. She never m`nage to. It is striking when in
:23:51. > :24:03.comparison to the precision of the spinning blades.
:24:04. > :24:41.Contrasting fortunes this wdekend. Sunday is looking their best day of
:24:42. > :24:49.the weekend. Tomorrow, it is dull. There is my address. I have started
:24:50. > :24:58.so I will finish. Mostly cloudy with a patchy drizzle at times. Saturday
:24:59. > :25:10.night will clear and Sandy Wilson lovely day and the rate. `` Sunday
:25:11. > :25:21.looks like a lovely day and raped. `` bright. We are just left with
:25:22. > :25:27.some patchy light rain and drizzle in many places. Just like l`st
:25:28. > :25:37.night, extensible cloud, mist and fog in places. Just a chancd of the
:25:38. > :25:45.odd heavy downpour. It is mostly white and dry. The sun rises in the
:25:46. > :25:49.morning at 648. Another disappointing day through S`turday.
:25:50. > :26:09.Below cloud mist and fog. `` Lorcan An improvement on the way. Top
:26:10. > :26:22.afternoon temperatures and Scarborough just 15 degrees `` 5
:26:23. > :26:28.Celsius. Clear skies Saturd`y, even a touch of ground frost. Sunday will
:26:29. > :26:29.look at beautiful day, dry with sunshine and Monday is lookhng
:26:30. > :26:33.lovely as well. devoting their time
:26:34. > :27:48.to National Lottery-funded projects and, tonight, we're celebrating
:27:49. > :27:53.the difference they make.