03/01/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

some of the policemen told the ambulance to get down as quickly as

possible to the incident took place. It looked like somebody needed

urgent help. He's been named as 27-year-old

Yasser Yaqub, who came from the Crossland Moor

area of Huddersfield. Police say the incident was linked

to possession of an illegal firearm. We look at the gun crime figures

and ask, how dangerous is Yorkshire? And in other news: The Government

says South Yorkshire's delayed tram train project is taking too long

to deliver - it won't be And all the sports news

on the day the Bradford Bulls Plus we'll hear from the man who

guided the Leeds Diving Olympians to victory as he heads off

to a new challenge down under. After an overcast day, hopefully

some sunshine on offer tomorrow and Thursday. I'll be back with the

weather forecast. Tonight, we're live

from Huddersfield where a man has been shot dead by police

in what they called It was just behind me

here on the M62. Both sides of the roads have

j been closed all day The shooting happened yesterday

evening when police stopped a car Around the same time,

two further arrests were made when a vehicle was stopped

in the Chain Bar area near Bradford, Police say the operations followed

information relating to criminal Witnesses described the sight

of officers "swarming" around a group of vehicles,

as Phil Bodmer reports. The slip road weary weight Audi was

forced to stop by police last night -- were a white Audi. You can see

bullet holes on the windscreen. Today, forensics teams and

investigators were working behind screens on the carriageway which was

shut for 24 hours. When I looked over, everything had stood still, it

was like surreal. I didn't hear the shooting and didn't see the

shooting, but I did the car boxed in and then I saw some big policemen

and some police with black outfits. The man who died is 28-year-old

Yassar Yaqub, a father of two from Huddersfield. This afternoon,

flowers were taken to the family home by relatives and friends who

asked for their privacy to be respected. One witness caught up in

the drama last night described what he saw. There were rapid response

vehicles pulling up then a couple of ambulances. As soon as the

ambulances turned up, some of the policemen told them to get down as

quickly to the incident had taken place. It looked like somebody

needed urgent medical help. Three people were arrested at the scene of

the incident. Two more were detained at chain bar near Bradford.

Information received about a criminal possession of a firearm has

been updated to the Chief Constable. Well fatal shootings are rear, there

have been 22 in England and Wales over the last decade and this is the

first involving West Yorkshire Police since 2010. With the

investigation in the hands of the Independent Police Complaints

Commission, West Yorkshire Police say it would be inappropriate to

make any further comment at this time.

Yassar Yaqub is a 28-day-old father from Huddersfield. Friends have been

paying tribute on social media, describing him as a diamond, the

life and soul of the party. One people wrote comedy were no angel,

but you still of the good guys. But we also know that yesterday Yassar

Yaqub appeared in court in 2010 on two charges of attempted murder and

one of possessing a fireman -- firearm with intent to endanger

life. He was found not guilty on all counts. A statement through the

family lawyer, they say they are in shock and ask the media to respect

their privacy at what they describe as the very difficult time. Whenever

a firearm is discharged by the police, there is an automatic

investigation but there has been one important development this

afternoon. In the last hour, the Independent police completes

commission have said, a nonpolice issue firearm was discovered in a

vehicle in which Yassar Yaqub was travelling and that is now being

examined, subject to further investigation, and we know that a

postmortem is due to take place tomorrow. you mentioned in your

report the use of firearms by police.

Well, in the last eight years there have been 40 incidents

where police have fired weapons at people.

The police maintain it's always a last resort and they only shoot

when they believe they or other members of the public

Our reporter Spencer Stokes has been speaking to a former firearms

Police firing at and killing members of the public is something that

The armed officers involved in last night's events will have attended

many such incidents that have ended peacefully.

Their job is to protect the detectives and the general public.

The decision to fire last night would have been made

Nick Rothwell is a former firearms commander with West Yorkshire Police

and knows the pressures the highly trained officers are under.

How quickly do decisions have to be made?

A set of circumstances will present themselves,

where and when to stop a vehicle, and something will then can

-- occur and the officers probably have about half a second to make

a decision as to whether to fire a weapon or not.

It's the first time since 2010 that West Yorkshire Police have shot

Come to the door and speak to the officers,

Alistair Bell was fatally injured after he fired at police

from his home in Kirkheaton in December 2010, and in 2009,

Bartholomew Buckley was shot by the force in Brickhouse.

Across England and Wales in the last eight years,

police forces have used firearms on 40 separate occasions,

that's five shootings every year on average.

At its most extreme, it is possibly who pulls the trigger

Quick decisions have to be made and these are reflected over a long

period of time but the officers have probably less than a second to make

to make these life-changing and perhaps career-changing decisions.

Last night's incident was related to desertion of a firearm and gun

crime across West Yorkshire is the fourth highest

In 2014 and 15, there were 221 gun related offences.

That's a 12% fall over the previous five years.

Yasser Yaqoub now joins a list of 22 other fatal police shooting is over

the last decade in England and Wales, a shooting that

for the officers involved is always a last resort.

More information will be revealed over the next few hours. Behind me,

feel -- vehicle recovery vehicles have arrived. There is speculation

as to when this junction will open by the investigation will continue

and we will let you know that as soon as we possibly can. For the

moment, back to the studio. Well, in other news,

the pioneering Tram Train project in South Yorkshire won't be up

and running until the summer of 2018 They say they're having to create

new ways of powering the vehicles. Last year we revealed how

a series of hold-ups meant the service wouldn't begin this

month as planned. And now the transport minister

Andrew Jones says the pilot has Tom Ingall has this

exclusive report. By the light of the winter sun,

a transport revolution is taking shape, albeit much

slower than expected. At the terminus, just like elsewhere

along this new line, The platform is half-built,

the rails have been laid but by now I should be able to step off a tram

train and head to the shopping centre over there but I can't

because there have been delays. They've been caused by problems

with how to build the overhead line These masts will carry

the power lines. The trams work at one voltage

but if one day mainline electric trains need to run here,

their power requirements To avoid spending money on something

that could become redundant, new ideas are being tried out

and that's what's taking time. There's a pilot and solutions that

are needed for this project. That's why we've got a view to come

up with new solutions and we have a plan to implement it

over the next few months and years. The new vehicles for the project

were built in Spain and have now There are seven in total

and they will supplement the existing tram fleet but the tram

trains will mean, for the many first time, this service can

break out of Sheffield. They will run on conventional tram

tracks and switch to train mode It promises what is called

the seamless commute with other It has taken far too long to deliver

and I'm extremely frustrated by it. We have seen a lot of new vehicles

arrive and are being tested now and Network Rail are busy building

the infrastructure but we have been talking about this project

in Yorkshire for a long time and I'm looking forward for when it finally

opens and we get people Proving the concept of trams

and trains sharing tracks It will only be a short extension

but the possibilities are clear - first, though, Network Rail need

to overcome repeated The good Samaritan who abandoned his

Everest attempt to save another climber's life gets another go.

Police have named the man whose body was found in the River Ouse

He's been identified as 42-year-old Craig Batters, who was from York.

Detectives are now trying to piece together his last movements before

he was found by a member of the public in the river

A help line for people affected by domestic abuse in South Yorkshire

More than 2,000 people called Sheffield Domestic Abuse last year.

It's funded by Sheffield City Council.

It'll now be open from eight in the morning until eight

We don't know yet whether or not we need to go to 24 hours,

that's why we're doing it a bit at a time, so hopefully

by making the service, extending the hours,

it will mean that more people feel able to contact us.

An aristocrat has denied dangerous driving following a crash at a busy

76-year-old Lady Susan Zetland, of Aske Hall near Richmond,

appeared at Teesside Crown Court for a brief hearing.

She was charged after her 4x4 was involved in a collision

on the A66 at the Melsonby crossroads in July.

Well, onto sport, and the Bradford Bulls have been put into liquidation

after administrators failed to find a new buyer.

All the staff and players have been made redundant.

However, the four-time Super League champions can still compete

in the championship if a new owner can be found.

The club has been an administration for 50 days and there have been a

number of interested parties and a couple of deals that we thought

could get over the line. A real shock shock to everybody involved

that the deal didn't go through and players were called in and told that

the club was folding and ceased to exist. One of the problem is not

just the debts but the debts they think will be coming. It is a huge

shortfall in the projected profits in terms of spending too much money

already saw one of the things they can do is cut back on staff but also

trimmed the playing squad. In a lot of players have already joined new

clubs. The general manager says they haven't been living within their

means. It's very disappointing. We thought

after last time it was going to take the club forward and we could choose

the deemed to promotion. Another previous owner didn't invest enough

and the club has suffered and not winning the million pound game a

couple of years ago was probably the last nail in the coffin.

That is very little money coming in to funds but most people in rugby

league want to see funding coming in.

Better news for Yorkshire's football clubs, though -

could 2017 be a very big year for them?

After yesterday's games, both Sheffield United

and Doncaster Rovers are top of their respective divisions,

while four of our other teams are in the playoff places.

We haven't had a Premier League side in the region for ten years now,

but fans are daring to dream that might be about to change.

The gloom of going down - this was Sheffield United's

delegation from the Premier League in 2007.

Now though, almost all of Yorkshire's football clubs find

themselves at the right end of the table.

Huddersfield are the highest, fourth in the championship

after Nakhi Wells scored the only goal of the game at Wigan yesterday.

In sixth, Sheffield Wednesday who escaped Wolves'

Mounting an unlikely play-off challenge for Barnsley,

In the Yorkshire derby, Leeds had a 3-0 win over Rotherham.

One coach in bullish mood about the transfer window,

the other still watching the car park.

We're here to keep all our players and to build something,

It will only be incoming as no one will be leaving in this window.

The chairman has asked me to keep going, and that could be ten

years or ten minutes, but there's no exciting news that

Ron Atkinson is pulling into the car park or anything.

I always check for cars on my way to work every day.

That leaves Leeds fifth, in the middle of a Yorkshire

Wembley looks a good place to be in May.

Hoping to avoid the play-offs is Sheffield United,

top of league one after a 3-1 win at Bury.

There was an own goal and a late tap in.

Bradford grabbed a first win in five.

His cross was finished off as the Bantams beat

It's looking good at the top, the Blades now ten to one to go up,

less so at the bottom after Chesterfield's

And Doncaster dominated against Stevenage and a late

own goal was enough for the three points.

It could well be a very happy New Year.

Adrian Hinchliffe is the coach who guided Jack Laugher

and Chris Mears to win Great Britain's first

Working for the council, he's been key to making

performance centre in the country, but after 24 years he's leaving.

Despite what he's achieved he's only been employed

as a consultant by British Diving, so he's heading to Australia's

We'll hear from him shortly, but first here's some of those

He has taken me from a boy with a lot of teams to a man able to

achieve his dreams with his dedication, his organisation and

professionalism. Easy Macbeth" and a great person to have in my career.

We've got the Olympic medallists in Great Britain, Junior champions,

World Cup champions, the success is just unbelievable and that all

started from his vision. It is a massive shame from the bottom of my

heart to say he is leaving us. He has his reasons and to be honest,

he's been forced to leave. The hard work he's put in and what he has

sacrificed to create a brilliant training environment with amazing

divers who have achieved more than anyone has ever achieved in

Britain, it feels like an insult to his legacy. I think the performance

director have overlooked how much of a key role he plays. I wish his

family the best but it's just a fact that he's going... I can't get used

to it. What's it like listening to that?

That's pretty heartbreaking. That's the side of it that has made the

decision very difficult for me. I've made some great friends in those

athletes and coaches and it's hard to look at. It has been quite

sudden. It has taken new 24 years to get there and they talk about your

legacy. We're working very hard at the moment behind the scenes to make

sure that divers like Jack and those guys use our training, Tucker. It's

important to me. -- those guys are looked after. there were strong

words from them about why you're leaving, that he had been forced

out. It's not necessarily what you want to do. I don't think anyone

wants to leave anything that they do, especially something I've been

so proud of. I loved -- I've loved being heard in Leeds. I came to

university here years ago and it's always been good to me -- here in

Leeds. There are personalities in the division at the moment that

didn't match and a very passing -- I'm very passionate about my sport

and I want to go to the next place. I've got a family and looking after

them is very important so it's been a big decision but isn't -- there is

another opportunity on the table and I have to take it. British diving

and giving you -- they are begging you to stay. It is something I have

always been passionate about. I'm a little confused but I'm not one of

those people that is going to hang on. People make decisions and they

have to make those decisions and that is why they are paid. I would

love to stay here but unfortunately this time it's not going to happen.

We're going to miss you! Well done for everything.

A former soldier from Rotherham who abandoned climbing to the very

top of Everest to help save the life of a stranger says he's

Leslie Binns was only 500 metres from the summit

when he helped Sunita Hazra, an Indian woman who'd

Now Leslie says he plans to return to Nepal in April

He said he wouldn't attempted again but 42-year-old Leslie is preparing

to climb Everest for a second time. He had to abandon the challenge last

year when he helped a woman who was close to death. She survived. Now

Leslie has decided to return and reach the summit. I decided to get

back down the mountain. There was another guy I try to rescue as well

but I can rescue them both. It makes me so proud I managed to save a life

but being so close would be on my mind for the rest of my life. The

ex-serviceman was to use the challenge to raise money for the

soldiers charity. He needs to raise ?50,000 in sponsorship first. Some

local businesses are helping out. Personal trainer Nick life is

helping out to get him fit for free. Is the ultimate challenge really. We

try to replicate positive physical and mental attributes. Also the

mental side of things as well. We put him under tests and challenges,

test how well he can make decisions while tired. Fiancee Lindsey and a

two-year-old daughter Emma are preparing for an anxious few months

back home. It's worrying but I have confidence he will do it and

hopefully he will be one of the first up. To stand on top of that

mountain is going to affect me big-time. I'll probably be in tears.

Duly big softy really -- you're a big softy, really! He hopes to start

his adventure in April. You can follow his progress on his Facebook

page. Freezing last night -

more of the same? There will be no snow. It will be as

chilly as last night. I'll put some of the pictures on the Facebook page

in the next hour. It has been a dreary day. Tomorrow is brighter

with plenty of sunshine around but it will be winding along the coast

so it will feel more here and high pressure dominates into Thursday, a

very frosty start to the day on Thursday with clear skies,

temperatures a few degrees below freezing so Thursday will feel

chilly indeed. Temperatures creeping up on Friday but that means cloud

and rain. The cloud at the moment, you can see the best of the breaks

will be in the east and you can also see the progression that cloud is

making down from the northwest, with it slightly milder air through this

evening and overnight, so no problems with frost is coming night.

There may be showers around part of South Yorkshire and eastern parts as

well and that breeze will pick up along the coast, becoming strong and

gusty later with temperatures falling to around three or four

Celsius. The sun will rise at 8:24am and settle just before 4pm and high

water over the next half hour. There may be some patchy cloud to start

the day, the odd shower but plenty of sunshine quickly spreads from the

north. Most of us tomorrow will see sunshine and the cold crisp winter's

day, if you shower was being blown in on the cost -- a few showers

being blown in on the gust and temperatures around 56 Celsius but

it will feel cooler in the wind. Inland, the breeze is like. Still a

chilly day at 56 Celsius. -- five or six Celsius.

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