09/01/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

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The Futurist Theatre will be demolished.

There's anger in Scarborough as councillors vote to bulldoze

We'll have the latest live from Scarborough.

The woman found stabbed to death in her blazing home.

Questions over her husband's mental health care before the tragedy.

We'll have all the weekend's sport including the latest on the sacking

of Chesterfield boss Danny Wilson Plus Katie Ormerod,

from Brighouse, wins her first Big Air World Cup event.

Cannon Hall in Barnsley, a Georgian mansion which looks like it's

straight out of the pages of a Jane Austen novel.

Later in the programme we'll find out how they're spending

?3 million on restoring the grounds and gardens to their former glory.

And all use a much colder weather on the way with a risk of at least some

snow later this week, join me for the live, updated forecast.

It's been part of the Scarborough coastline since 1921,

but today councillors voted to demolish the Futurist Theatre,

Getting rid of the theatre has been described as leaving Scarborough

And today there were lots of angry people in the council meeting.

Phil Bodmer is in Scarborough for us.

Phil, this was a very close decision?

Yes, it was, very narrow indeed, Harry. 22 vote is 221 to knock down

the Futurist Theatre, clear the site and help stabilise the cliffs at a

cost of ?4 million. It seems the night this grand old lady's days are

finally numbered. For 96 years the Futurist Theatre has played host to

the great and good show business, the likes of Shirley Bassey, the

Beatles and Ken Dodd to name just a few but the conservative run council

cabinet says the Futurist is not sustainable as a theatrical venue

and today that narrow majority of councillors voted in favour of

demolition. This was reaction problem council after the historic

boat. People have come forward with ideas

but in my opinion they haven't backed them up with a proper

business case to show that after any refurbishment has been done

and reconfiguration had been carried out that it would provide

the sustainable Theatre to operate I have had a lot of e-mails about

the anger about this decision but a very contentious decision, wasn't

it? Yes, it was contentious. There were many people in the town who

believe that the Futurist if they still a durable and those who wanted

to keep it as a going concern marched from the railway station

down to the Townhall, attending this meeting which started at 2pm. It was

at times a bit and acrimonious meeting as they really wanted more

time to look at alternatives. After this boat today I spoke to one

particular campaigner who was very emotional and she explained her

reaction to the day's decision. Did you expect that it

could have been saved? So, you can see the effect it has on

some people. It has polarised opinion in this town as I am sure

you are aware, for those in favour of retaining it and for those who

want to see the back of it. Some say it is a blot on the landscape but

tonight it seems that the Futurist Theatre's days are finally numbered.

But, we don't know the timescale yet. There are developers, branding

the land has looked at ideas to put a roller-coaster in place. Without

I'm likely to see the bulldozers on site any time before after the

summer, in the autumn. Thank you. Some really big names through those

doors over the years. An inquest has heard

that a man who was found dead alongside his wife,

who'd been stabbed, had been sent home from a mental health

unit just days earlier. Martin Ashworth from Garforth died

in a house fire in April 2014 just 13 days after he was discharged

from the Becklin Centre in Leeds. His wife Susan suffered

fatal stab wounds. Wakefield Coroner's Court heard

Mr Ashworth was told by a nurse that he was being sent home

because "they needed beds." The aftermath of the arson

attack at a family home 47-year-old Susan Ashworth was found

in her burning house. Her husband Martin was pulled out

of the fire but died a short An inquest heard today that

Susan had been planning She told her mother

that he emotionally abused her, trying to impose power and control

over her and their two sons. Wakefield coroner's court was told

that as their marriage deteriorated, Mr Ashworth tried to take his own

life by poisoning himself with Following in his suicide attempt

on the 22nd of March 2014, Martin Ashworth agreed to be

admitted to the mental health unit Three days later, he was

sectioned for 28 days under But only 22 days after

that he was discharged. The inquest was told that family

members were shocked by the decision to discharge Martin Ashworth early

from the mental health unit. We heard that his wife

Susan Ashworth felt she had no choice but to allow him home

as he had nowhere to go. Martin's mother, Barbara Ashworth,

said her son asked staff at the centre why he was being sent

home and was told by a nurse 13 days later, Martin was dead

after a deliberate fire at his home, his wife Susan was found

their stabbed to death. Susan Ashworth was described

by her mother today has a wonderful, kind, loving person

who was loved beyond measure. The inquest into

the deaths continues. Emma Glasbey, BBC

Look North, Wakefield. How about a gentle bike

ride round the park? This is what some of the country's

top competitors came up against when the British cyclo-cross

championships came to Bradford. A fitness to practice hearing has

heard allegations that there were failings in the care given to seven

patients by a former children's heart surgeon from Leeds. The case

has been brought by the General medical Council against Nihal

Weerasena in relation to operations carried out over a four year period

on six children and one adult. The surgeon has claimed he has been made

a scapegoat. Our health correspondent Jamie Coulson reports.

Nihal Weerasena was a consultant plastic surgeon at Leeds General

Infirmary. He specialised operating on children and adults born with

heart defects. In March 2013 he agreed to stop operating when the

trust began investigating concerns about his work. The referral to the

General medical Council followed and despite remaining in the paid

employment of the hospital until last year, hasn't operated since.

Today Nihal Weerasena's case came before a fitness to practice hearing

here. It is alleged between March 2008 and 2012 there were failings in

the care given to seven patients. In one case, patient B, it is alleged

failure to decompress part of the child's heart at a crucial phase in

the operation... In another, patient L it is alleged

Nihal Weerasena fail to use a bypass which is used to take over the

function of the heart and lungs. One experts admitted that in his view

the conduct of this operation was negligent. Nihal Weerasena stop

operating in Leeds just ball days before an intense media spotlight

was turned on the heart unit. First campaigners won a High Court battle

against its closure but then the very next day, surgery was suspended

in a row over death rates. The unit was eventually declared safe. But

the surgeon has faced repeated questions about his work. Last year,

Leeds teaching hospitals apologised to the family of 11-year-olds

Radley, who died after undergoing three operations on two days. His

family spoke about their anguish after the trust admitted errors were

made. We said to each other, we are going to lose him, aren't we? We got

back and that was it. We got back and they said he has had a massive

lead on the brain. Nihal Weerasena did not appear before the tribunal

today but said in a letter he was being made a scapegoat for

departmental failings. The trust when Colin specifically about his

case but there they have absolute confidence in the congenital heart

service. -- the trust will not comment specifically about his case.

In other news now and 200 Tesco jobs are going

The company is closing its distribution centre

The company says it'll try and help employees get jobs elsewhere

1000 jobs are being lost across the country as the supermarket

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating

South Yorkshire Police following the death

by a marked police car in Sheffield this weekend.

The accident happened in the Hillsborough area

The man, who died at the scene, has not yet been named by police.

It's thought he'd been walking to meet his family at the dog track

to celebrate his grandaughter's 21st birthday.

Doncaster Coroner's Court's heard how a transgender woman being held

at a male prison died after being found

Forty nine year old Jenny Swift was being held on remand

at Doncaster Prison, charged with attemped murder.

Prison officers attempted to resuscitate her but she was

Meanwhile the inquest has also opened into the death

of 26-year-old Eric Flanagan, the man Ms Swift was

His inquest was adjourned until July.

Family and friends of Yasser Yakoob - the 28-year-old man who was shot

dead by police on a slip road off the M62 in Huddersfield have

gathered at the scene of the incident tonight.

Around fifty people met at junction 23 of the M62 to march

There was some traffic disruption as the march took over the road.

It's exactly a week since Mr Yuqub lost his life after shots were fired

through his windscreen in a planned police operation.

A wanted man who taunted police by posing as the character

Where's Wally, has handed himself in live on social media.

Officers were searching Leyburn in North Yorkshire over the weekend

for JJ McMenamin using the force helicopter and sniffer dogs.

The 30-year-old had failed to turn up for a court hearing

This morning he filmed himself going to Harrogate police station

A West Yorkshire truck driver who led a campaign to help

the family of a man killed in the Berlin terrorist attack has

been personally thanked by the Polish Ambassador.

Lukasz Urban's lorry was hi-jacked by the attacker who then drove it

into a Christmas Market, killing twelve people.

David Duncan has raised nearly two hundred thousand pounds

for Mr Urban's family and today his achievements were

He told us about his extraordinary day.

Well, I was collected at home this morning by one of the embassy cars,

driven down to London, had a bit of a ceremony

It was a real shindig I'm told, come on, tell us about it!

I was too busy being interviewed by the TV to partake in any of that!

I think you've been a bit shell-shocked, haven't you,

about the response that you had to all of this money

Yeah, it has been quite, I mean, this I never expected to raise

so much money I started this, I never really thought

of the implications for British and Polish people and it has been

Why did you start the campaign in the first place?

Just because I felt empathy with Lukasz and the situation he had

been put in and the fact that it was so near to Christmas,

he was probably on his way home to his family.

He had been delayed in Berlin, he was there, didn't want to be

there and this the everybody knows of the tragedy that happened

afterwards that took his life and I just felt that I wanted to do

something to help his family in any small way I could.

As we know, you truckers are very exposed.

Is there any lessons that can be learned from this

Well, this the truckers try and make everything as safe as they can

when they have the daily rest and the need to have their sleep

but you know, parking is obviously a massive problem,

Good, secure parking, it doesn't cost an arm

and a leg and it's just, you know, you are always at risk,

while you are parked up your always going to be at risk.

So, ?200,000 you have raised four Mr Urban's family.

I met them at the funeral for the first time and I have exchanged

Obviously they are very humble, gracious people, very unassuming.

Obviously they are devastated by what happened to Lukasz

and they have had small conversations with me,

just thanking me for what I have done and thanking everybody

Thank you very much for joining us this evening and get

Onto the sport now and Tanya another manager has lost his job,

this time it's Danny Wilson gone from Chesterfield.

Yes, he had had just over one year, which is almost a long time for some

managers but they really top job, Chesterfield, because they don't

have the budget that some of the League 1 clubs have and they are up

against Bradford city, a good side, and they had a bigger budget. Let us

have a look at the fours that defeated them. Here is Mark Marshall

with the first one. There were chances for Chesterfield, Chad Evans

in particular, but it is quite a young squad. They have had the

budget cutback and it is hard to know who they are going to go for

now. They say they don't want to be on the managerial merry-go-round, an

interesting thing to say when you have only given a manager a year,

but that is what they have said and this is who they think they want

next. We're looking for somebody

that is maybe a young, enthusiastic, somebody who is obviously familiar

with League 1 who can come in and hit the ground running

but we are looking for somebody you also have some enthusiasm

about them and some fire, wanting to go forward,

take this club forward and can immediately come

in and make an impact. They want in patent and fire,

something Sheffield United seem to have at the moment? They certainly

have that, Sheffield United are top and going extremely well. They beat

Southend 4-2 and it looked really, ready comfortable. Four golf and Lee

Sharpe, who has been in credible and not score any of them. That is their

first goal. Really good goals. The setup, the way they play in, a lot

of patience and confidence. Chris has talked about changing the whole

environment around Sheffield Wednesday and are playing some

really great football and the goals coming from a whole host of

different people. They are ball points clear at the top ahead of

Scunthorpe, six points clear of Bolton in third and I don't like to

make predictions but they are going up, I bet? I think so, yes.

Hopefully automatically, too. In the FA Cup, Huddersfield Town

are our only team sure of a place The Terriers beat Port Vale 4-0

on Saturday, while Barnsley face a replay and both Rotherham

and Sheffield Wednesday went out. There have been plenty of cheers

at Huddersfield town this season. Their fourth in the league, but this

was David Wagner's first cup win since joining the Terriers

14 months ago. This move was typical of the playing

style he's brought to the club. Neat passing out from the back,

Jack Payne finishing well. Palmer's deflected

shot doubled the lead. Harry Bon made it three nil and pain

had a somewhat easier finish to round off nicely

for a happy head coach. We have to speed up the game,

accelerate in every situation where you can and we scored some

wonderful goals and it was The cup proved the briefest

of distractions from Rotherham's relegation worries,

despite Lewis Price's penalty save and Danny Ward's powerful

strike, the Millers lost 3-2 Hemmings scored the winner and then

set about destroying I wonder if they've

sent him the bill? Sheffield Wednesday had the toughest

test, away at Premier League 0-0 at half-time, the signs

were good until Grant Seconds later, Fernando Forestieri

burst through but Daniel Ayala had no intention of letting him

reach the ball. Surely Wednesday's chances

would improve against ten men? But keeper Joe Wilde Smith's mistake

put Boro out of sight. And once the captain Colin Houlihan

had two good chances to win it late on against Blackpool

but they will replay next Tuesday Hopefully a few more

people will turn up. Leeds United are away

at Cambridge tonight, and the fourth round draw is live

over on BBC Two at 7pm. The Rugby Football League has

received four official bids to start a new club in Bradford

after the Bulls were put The four bids will now be assessed

by the RFL executive who will then recommend a preferred bidder

to the board as soon as possible. Snowboarder Katie Ormerod

from Brighouse has won a World Cup The nineteen year old pipped

Austria's Anna Gasser to claim her Big Air victory

in extreme minus twenty nine degree The competition makes its Olympic

debut in South Korea next year. I've always wanted to win

a World Cup and I'm really happy that I want it here and I'm hoping

there's more to come. I'd love to get another podium

and hopefully win it in Qu bec as well so I'll just keep pushing

through and try to get Yorkshire's first big cycling event

of the year brought fans and riders from across the UK to the City

of Bradford this weekend, for the Amongst the winners was Tom Pidcock

a young Yorkshireman with a real chance of becoming world Junior

Champion before Anyone arriving at Peel Park

for their weekend walk will have found the place rather less peaceful

and much muddier than usual. As well as suddenly showing off some

very colourful bobble hat fashion, to host the best in British

cyclo-cross it was surely Fans and riders came from far

away to be part of it. We've really enjoyed the stunning

scenery around here. Don't know Yorkshire very well,

so it's a really good excuse They've got new media outlets

which seem to be showing a lot more cyclo-cross on the TV

and the Internet now so it is great Bradford's Peel Park is a fixture

on the cyclo-cross calendar. Its natural slopes and Yorkshire mud

make it famously tricky, even for the best British riders,

whether on or off their bikes, or trying a bit of both

to get round the circuit. Amongst the weekend winners, adopted

Yorkshireman Ian Field regained Women's under 23 world champion

E=vie Richards successfully defended her British title

and Yorkshire teenager Tom Pidcock became national junior champion

with an outstanding control performance in front of the home

crowd, complete with Superman style celebration as he crossed

the finish line. It was pretty hard and

it is a hard course. The mud is just heavier

than anywhere else you ride. It just makes it much stickier,

you know, sloggier. There's amazing crowds here,

it's like a mini Belgium and the course was really muddy and

pretty slippery, so it was great. Elite British cyclo-cross should be

back in Yorkshire in December with a round of next season's

National Trophy series. Until then, Peel Park can go back

to doing what parks do best, apart from muddy bike

racing, that is. Paul Ogden, BBC

Look North, Bradford. And congratulations

to Yorkshire's Joe Root and his fiance Carrie on the birth

of their son at the weekend. He'll now link up with the England

squad for their one So are you going to give cyclo-cross

they go? I can see you do that. Are you going to do the Superman finish?

That mud! Barnsley's historic Cannon Hall has

won a lottery grant of nearly The money will be used

to restore the grounds, clean the lakes and repair

the eighteenth century ice house. It's a Georgian gem, Cannon Hall, a

country house that any Jane Austen Haugen with the dog. Although the

house is lovingly restored, time has robbed the grounds and gardens of

its attractive period features, like its greenhouse built in 1700 to grow

pineapples other exotic fruit. This is part of Cannon Hall's glorious

gardens and it is famous for the exotic fruit it used to grow, many

of which we still had growing in the gardens, like our power collection

that goes back over 200 years. We have grapes and all sorts. But

pineapples in particular, Cannon will is famous for. It is hoped

these gardens and greenhouses will be glorious wants more thanks to ?3

million of lottery funding. The oil is owned by the council but it is

helped by a team of volunteers who work tirelessly here, even in the

pouring rain. -- Cannon Hall is owned by the council. We have been

fundraising for 40 years basically, a long time. We knew the lakes

needed the City doing, we knew the gardens did a lot of work and it is

fantastic news. A once majestic Lake is a marked for restoration. It

contains so much still needs to be dredged. Then visitors will be able

to hire rowing boats and fishing equipment in a throwback to popular

Georgian pastime. Something I used to do as a Bubba Watson in those

lakes. I am not going to swim again in those lakes but -- something I

used to do as a young boy was swim in those lakes. Visitors will be

able to see things they have never seen here before, such as this ice

house built in 1700. Long the average rate is well invented,

people would go down to the lake in the winter months, come back with

ice and snow, packet inside here, so it could used during the summer. For

300 years this home and its gardens were owned by the Spencer Stanhope

family but now this is a part for the people of Barnsley and they are

determined to restore it to its Georgian splendour so that others

can enjoy it for many years to come. Some wonderful hills for sledging,

Paul. You think we might be able to use those this weekend? I do there

will be enough snow for sledging but there will be some, a bit of snow.

He has written the express doubt on his grip to wind me up!

Let us have a look at a couple of pictures over the last 24 hours.

Thank you for sending that one in. In the fall. That's beautiful. Keep

the pictures coming in. Here's the headline for this week.

I'm settled, it will turn much colder from midnight onwards and I

think showers of sleet and snow. There is a shot of the day. We had

some sunshine this afternoon. Close valves and the battery showers now.

Showers frequent across the Pennines. Further east it is set to

be dry with clear spells. Clear skies and scattered showers. The sun

rises in the morning at around about 8:20am. A West, East split tomorrow.

Western areas of the Pennines cloudy with patchy rain, further east it is

dry with some sunshine. It will cloudy weather across eastern areas

in the afternoon. As that weather front you can see their pushes

eastwards it fizzles out as it does so. Largely dry for eastern areas

but I think the Pennines, a poor day with intermittent rain and drizzle.

Very windy, top temperatures coming in at about eight Celsius. Gusts

could reach 40 or 50 Marvan Atapattu times. Looking further ahead, not a

bad day on Wednesday but there will be a few showers that will be wintry

and look at that drop off in temperatures. Scattered sleet, snow

and showers and there could be a covering of snow in places at the

end of the week. I am live on Facebook at 7:15pm answering

questions. Working overtime, pool, that isn't like you! That is as far

as we go, we will see you later on. Don't forget Facebook! Goodbye!

Panorama investigates the deadly terrorist attack

and should British tourists have been warned about the risks?

but it's not always the right thing for one person.

we've run at almost completely 100% capacity.

We've got lots of patients now competing. There's no beds.

I do the right thing all the time in this job,

but it's not always the right thing for one person.

I do the right thing for the hospital.

Sometimes I stop things happening, yeah.

This winter, in a ground-breaking new series,

At some point somebody will be telling us

whether we're allowed to do any work.

..to reveal how they make the toughest decisions of all.