13/01/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

On the programme tonight: and on BBC One we now join the BBC's

Storm surge as high tides and ferocious winds batter

We'll be live in Scarborough with the latest.

Yorkshire's hospitals under severe pressure.

We reveal how one elderly man has had to spend 11 weeks on a ward

because there wasn't anywhere else to care for him.

With him not being able to get into a care home or a nursing home,

he's had to block a bed here at Scarborough Hospital

where there are so many people needing these beds.

And into the decisive second half of the championship season already,

Leeds United, tonight's Dari and three other Yorkshire teams are in

the top eight. We will discuss all of that tonight outside Elland Road.

The pensioner who ran 75 marathons in 75 days.

We'll hear about his latest fundraising milestone.

And a cold site on the cards with a warning for ice. Saying Chile into

tomorrow but milder for Sunday. I will be back later in the programme

with all the details. it was forecast and this morning

there was a sigh of relief. But now a clean up operation

is under way after a tidal surge left properties flooded

on the east coast. This afternoon's high tide

at around a quarter to five was the one everyone was watching,

including Phil Bodmer, who's been in Scarborough

for the last 24 hours. Phil, can you tell us what happened

this afternoon? Well, I think we can safely say the worst of the weather

is over. The tide is now on the way out, but just have a look at the

devastation. This is simply tossed aside as that storm surge came over

the foreshore Road. You can see the degree and the sand on the

carriageway is here. I think it was more spectacular than it was causing

damage because were not aware of any major property flooding during the

high tide of the storm surge but the waves looked spectacular with lots

of people coming out to watch what was happening. It started around...

Were having a few problems there. Reaching Phil Bodman so let's move

on to our next Tory. Next to a real example of how

the winter pressures on the NHS and the crisis in adult social care

is impacting on the people A pensioner with dementia has

spent nearly three months in hospital in Scarborough

because a place at a care home couldn't be found

even though the funding It comes as latest figures

released by NHS England show that four hospital trusts

in our region declared Leeds Teaching and Mid Yorkshire

Hospitals Trusts said they were operating at a level three

alert every day between January the 3rd and 8th

meaning bed shortages, and emergency departments

becoming unable to cope. In Harrogate and District,

and York Teaching Hospitals, which covers Scarborough,

they too experienced serious problems on three and four

days during that period. This kind of pressure also

impacts on social care and Corinne Wheatley spoke to one

couple who've been stuck We're going to

Bridlington on Monday. Every day for the last

11 weeks, Margaret Lister has been coming here

to Scarborough Hospital He has Parkinson's disease

and was admitted When he was ready to be

discharged, Margaret couldn't find a nursing home that could give

him the right kind of care. Because of him not

being able to get into a care home or a nursing home,

he's had to block a bed here at Scarborough Hospital where there's

so many people needing these beds. I just get so aggravated

with everything at the moment I can't cope with the

situation, it's just out of hand. The trust that runs hospital says it

has to make sure patients are discharged safely and are able

to recover in the right place. The latest figures on bed

blocking sure there were over a thousand patients

waiting in hospital Well, we asked North Yorkshire

County Council about this. That's the authority responsible

for adult social care. They couldn't comment

on the specifics of this case, butt they did say that between 2011

and 2020, they will have to have saved

?174 million from their budget and they also pointed out that they have

tried to protect spending in this area to a greater extent than many

other councils and that they spent They added that without additional

funding for adult social care from the Government, they could see

intense pressure And some in the care

sector warn it's already We've been warning for at least

a decade that pressures are mounting, so if you cut

funding on social care, all that does is build

pressure in the NHS. As things stand, Martin will be

moving to a care home on Monday, nearly 40 miles

away near Bridlington. It's an hour and a half by public

transport, depriving I know it's a terrible thing to say,

but how much longer am I going I married him, for better for worse,

for sickness and in health and those are vows

that I wish to keep. Well, earlier I spoke

to their local MP Robert Goodwill and asked him what he made

of the difficulties they've faced. Well, I mean, this is a sort

of classic case of bed blocking where someone's in hospital

and is in need of discharge and where we couldn't

get a good place in a care home that I thought it was about money,

but the money is there and finally, thank goodness,

we have found a care home in Bridlington which is not perfect

because Mrs Lister does not drive, but I know that we hope we can find

somewhere a little bit closer. It's not an isolated

case though, is it? When you look at the data on

so-called bed blocking in hospitals, the wait for a nursing home

placement appears to be one of the key contributing factors,

so what can be done to tackle it? Well, exactly, that's

why the Government are putting more money into social

care, why we are trying to get more coordination because previously,

the social care sector and the health sector did

not talk to each other but we do need to use the money that

has been made available to ensure that this does not happen

in cases like this. Four hospital trusts in Yorkshire

stated major alert at the beginning of January so surely

they need more cash, don't they? That's why the Government

have announced that there will be another

10 billion per year going into the health service by the end

of this Parliament. I mean, in this case,

the money was available for the care package, it was just that there

was not a suitable place available. We've got some absolutely fantastic

care homes in Scarborough, some fantastic nursing homes,

but the particular needs with Mr Lister did require weren't

actually available at that time. You say it's not about money,

but North Yorkshire County Council have repeatedly expressed concerns

about not having enough money to deal with the pressure

on adult social care. And they've asked the Government

to give more cash, so do you accept that councils need

more money to help Well, the Government have made

available ?900 million over two years and, of course, we've given

councils more flexibility to increase the council tax should

they wish to fund that, so we've given them those tools,

but as I say, in this case, It was that there just wasn't a care

home available, or the nursing home available, with the type of services

that Mr Lister needed. OK, Robert Goodwill,

thank you very much for joining us. Will this get

the customers flocking in? Find out why these sheep could help

a Yorkshire business cope Earlier, we were reporting on the

tidal surge affecting the east coast. We lost sound from Phil but

we can now go back to him hopefully! Fell, you showed us some devastation

that happened there this afternoon. Remind us what the conditions were

like? It looked spectacular. Look at the damage here. This is what the

water throughout. Toss these bins and seafarers are a side. It looked

spectacular but I'm pleased to say that it did not cause any lasting

damage a flood defence is pretty much did their job. We saw sand

bagging yesterday and those metal shutters which are really have

defended properties but lots of people came out to see the

spectacular sight so I think people to knight generally in Scarborough

are breathing a sigh of relief. Some amazing pictures there. Was it

similar to 2013? I don't think it was. I think 2013 was worse than

what we saw a few hours ago. The reason is because this tidal surge

wasn't quite on the same scale. Of course, the surges caused by a storm

which spoils the water into the South Bay a century but it has to

coincide with extremely strong winds, a high spring tide and, of

course, that did not coincide so that is why the surge perhaps was

not as bad as we saw in 2013 when a number of properties were flooded.

And where else was effected this afternoon? Whitby of course. The

pure ropes are some flooding. We know a number of properties in the

harbour area were inundated with water. Not maybe as bad as they

perhaps had feared their cousin Whitby around that part of the town

is a hotspot because generally once again people in Whitby on the pure

road will be breathing a sigh of relief as well. Generally, there is

a general feeling that we perhaps got away with it. OK, fell bottom

live in Scarborough for us today, battling with the elements, thank

you very much. The Shadow Minister in charge

of Labour's national devolution policy has called for a single mayor

to be elected to represent Jon Trickett, who's the MP

for Hemsworth, says unless radical

action is taken now on the tens of millions

of pounds of extra cash But it's causing a massive political

row because some parts of Yorkshire had already agreed

a deal, and the Tories say that having one mayor for the region

would have to be legislated for Our political editor Len Tingle

tries to unravel what's happening. Behind the closed doors of this

trade union centre in Wakefield today, Labour councillors gathered

to hear the party's most influential figure on devolution add his voice

to the pressure to see the whole of Yorkshire form a single

region with just one We all agreed, something

that has to happen. Now, exactly how we do it, I think

we're beginning to get towards a solution and

I've put my idea forward. It a personal idea and I think

it's won people to it. Other people said it

was already their idea and one or two people have said

we need to know more details. Look, we've started

a debate and I want to hear the views of ordinary Yorkshire

folk as well, by the way. Devolution for South

Yorkshire, the Sheffield city region run by an elected mayor

with extra powers and money has already been signed and was due

to be launched in four months' time. But last week, it was postponed

for a year so does I don't think the Sheffield city

region is dead at all. This is about an overarching deal

that can actually bring more It's a Yorkshire voice that we're

talking about here today and therefore we're behind it,

but I'm here for Doncaster, making sure the residents are supported

and businesses because that's how we will continue

growing that economy. Well, the Government

appears to be quite clear. If negotiations start again,

devolution, whatever form it takes in Yorkshire, could be delayed

for years if it happens at all. If they choose to walk

away from this deal, as has happened in the case

of the leaders in the north-east of England, then the Government will be

forced to take that deal off the table and then we have to start

the whole thing from scratch, if indeed we have any appetite to do

that having gone ?1 billion of funding

for South Yorkshire. I say to South Yorkshire leaders,

do not turn your back on that. Food for thought as half a dozen

other newly formed devolved regions across the country prepare

to elect their first executive mayors later this year and to gain

the promised extra cash One in every hole of Yorkshire, will

it happen? Never rule it out but remember it from the Government's

point of view, it's rather unlikely. These are two separate things. A

whole Yorkshire deal, that would be a region that would be politically

very powerful as the previous Labour governments fault when they decided

they wanted to set up regional assemblies. But would it do the

trick in the modern form of devolution? That is meant to be

similar clusters of local councils coming together with similar sorts

of economies that can help each other out and improve their

economies. It whole Yorkshire deal would not do that so it unlikely

that the Government would allow it to go ahead. Thank you. Just to mark

your cart, there'll be more about devolution

in Yorkshire on the Sunday Politics at 11 o'clock on Sunday

morning on BBC1. The teenage girl accused

of murdering seven-year-old Katie Rough in York,

has appeared in Crown Court Katie died after being found

with severe cuts to her neck and chest on a playing

field on Monday. The 15-year-old defendant, who

can't be named for legal reasons, appeared via video link

at Leeds Crown Court. She's due back there

on February the 16th. A man is in hospital with suspected

gun shot wounds after gunfire Police were called

to Scholemoor Avenue A door and window of

a house had been damaged. A 21-year-old man is in hospital

in a stable condition. A Yorkshire bed-making company

is hoping a flock of sheep can help it deal with price pressures

related to Brexit. Harrison Spinks has invested

in a flock of Wensleydales and is intending to use the wool

inside its mattresses. It's just one of the natural fibres

the firm produce themselves, and it means they can source less

from abroad and avoid rising prices. Here's our business

correspondent Danni Hewson. These are Wensleydale sheep,

bred for their fleeces. They first appeared in Yorkshire

in the early 1800s. Ironically, they've become

a rare sight as modern demands

have changed. Well, farmers nowadays are

concentrating on growing their sheep for the meat carcass,

whereas these are a wool breed primarily, so a lot

less farmers want to grow sheep for their wool because there's

not a lot of money But there is money in quality

craftsmanship and bed maker Harrison Spinks has seen demand

for their natural fibre mattresses But with the pound still subdued,

buying materials is Rearing their own sheep is just one

strategy they've brought in to For me, it's about the

confidence of the consumer. In terms of what we can do

as a business ourselves, we can only work with

the issues that we've got. We can tackle those high pressure

price points by doing as much Sourcing locally has also been

a great story for customers. Either we grow them

ourselves, or we buy them from farmers around

that area so the whole story is to do

with the localised filling, so we have everything within ten

miles of the factory. Success with other home-grown

fibres like hemp and flax were the catalysts

for this experiment. If successful, expect this rare

breed to once again become The Championship matches resume this

weekend after the FA Cup break. Surely we're going to get

at least one team promoted There are four of our teams

in the top eight right now. And one of them, Leeds United

is at home tonight in what you might call a

six pointer against Derby. Paul Ogden is there

at Elland Road for us. Yes. You can certainly say that

though there are freezing temperatures here at Elland Road

tonight, the championship play-off race is already hotting up in the

January. Leeds United are really in for. They have 14 of their last

victors but Derby, tonight's opponents, have also turned things

around after a difficult start to the season. Steve McClaren, their

manager, seven wins on the browse through November and December, Derby

up to seventh in the table ahead of what is an intriguing prospect here

tonight. You can see this being a dress rehearsal for a play-off

semifinal and though Garry Monk might deny it, there is a lot at

stake here tonight already. I think we sit here every

week and say, this is We've been saying it for months now,

so they're all big games. Nothing is going to define

the season, but what And an important

three points for both teams, so we have to

fight as hard as we can, put our best football

on the pitch to make sure

that we can be the ones We have that mindset

for every game that we play. He's really turned things around,

Gary Monk. Leeds United against Derbyshire tonight. Huddersfield

town at Sheffield Wednesday tomorrow which is a fascinating prospect to

say nothing of Barnsley's intriguing trip to Fulham. We can look forward

to it all with our guest here tonight which is the chief football

writer of the Yorkshire Post, Richard Sutcliffe, who misses

nothing in Yorkshire football. Briefly, tonight's prospectors

forage are concerned? It is a huge Uber reads. I think Derby are one or

two teams are going to make a huge bridge for the play-off. They would

go very far clear. Leads and Derby already fancying themselves rarely

the play-offs but so are Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield town? It

brilliant match look forward to a Telstra. Absently. I'm covering that

game as well and it will be a cracker. It will tell us a lot about

both sides amending both of them can stay in the race for the play-offs

but tomorrow will be a big eyed. Today, very important date worst

Wednesday who have signed Barnsley's striker. He has been a big part of

their success this season and last but what a bargain. They will have

to take some stopping. Do you think Barnsley will break up

now? I hope not. They did not last season and they got the success in

the play-offs through a lot of low needs a survey had to change the

side this summer. They've done a brilliant job at idols who either

can't do it again. You certainly would have devoured all the stops to

keep them going. Richard, thank you. Enjoy the game tonight. Really

positive news I think to finish on as well for the moment and that is

that Paul worn, is going to stay on as caretaker manager to try and get

Rotherham United out of relegation trouble. Let's hope he can between

now and the end of the season. Meanwhile the Rugby Football League

has agreed a deal that will see a new club set up in Bradford

for the start of the season. The old Bradford Bulls

was liquidated earlier this month. Four bids to revive

the club were received The new club will remain

in the Kingstone Press Championship and play at Odsal,

but will start the new season Now the Yorkshire Wolds

are one of the hidden gems of this part of the world

and tonight a much bigger audience will be able to enjoy

the delights of the trail which runs from Hessle

on the Humber Estuary The Yorkshire Wolds Way

is a two-part series presented by Paul Rose,

a man who can be found diving in the world's deepest oceans

or leading expeditions in some but first a taste of

tonight's programme. I'm taking a hike

through one of the least travelled parts of the UK,

a land of big skies This is the Yorkshire Wolds,

a swathe of rolling chalk hills in the eastern part

of God's own county. It's a tranquil corner

of England that's well off But I've heard the Wolds

are full of surprises. Paul, we've just been

watching those images. Why did you choose

the Yorkshire Wolds? Well, I think it's a place

that's often overlooked. It is overlooked by

the Pennines and the Yorkshire moors and this thing

that we all have, we want to go to We forget about these

home-grown treasures so Any standout in particular

that you found? The standout moments for me

was of course crossing the Humber. That's how we started,

in the old way, rolling The Humber Bridge,

who can forget how Moving in a way when you

think of all those men I love all that and then,

of course, the surprises. Around every corner,

there is a surprise. There's a lovely dry valley,

or a vineyard or, you know what? It hard to pick a favourite,

but it has to be I mean, have you ever

ridden a Penny Farthing? Most people just go

to the museum and see them, They don't actually get

on top of the thing. I did, and it was one

of the most gripping things. I mean, here's a man who's

worked in Antarctica, I've dived under the North

Pole, I've done all these challenging things and that

morning, I woke up in the bed and breakfast and I was bolt

upright in the bed going, I'm going to write

a Penny Farthing today! Just take you back to

the Yorkshire Wolds, which obviously is on tonight at 7:30pm,

do you have to be an Uber hiker? You can do the whole thing

in a week or do it slowly and do it in ten days, it's so beautiful

and the joy of it is it's incredibly beautiful for a little bit

of effort, you get massive awards so for me, normally doing all these

big physical and mental challenges things for this was

complete freedom and joy. And you can see the Yorkshire Wolds

Way on BBC One tonight at 7.30pm. How did you celebrate

your last birthday? Well, one Rotherham man marked

turning 75 by running Ray Matthews was aiming

to raise money for charity and today he presented his final

donation to a local special school. After running nearly 2000 miles, Ray

crossed the finish line at Snyman school in September. Today, he is

back to beat the people who inspired his challenge. What I've seen since

I've been involved with the school is just amazing. These children, all

I ever see when I walk in here is joy on your faces. The only thing

that's a bit disappointing as far as I'm concerned is that this amount

isn't ?75,000. They may be disappointed with the total, nearly

?30,000, but no one else is. I don't know how he's done it. I wouldn't be

able to do it. I don't know how he's done it. I really grateful for what

he's done. A big massive thank you. And I just want to... He's like a

big zero. I cannot thank him enough for the money. And I wish I could be

like him. But not doing all those 75 marathons though! The money raised

will help pay for new outdoor play equipment for pupils with

disabilities. Today, Ray seemed overwhelmed by the gratitude and the

attention. It's incredible but what's happening is happening to me.

It's not me, if you know what I mean. I'm just this guy that goes

out and runs marathons. But this is totally in another league, isn't it?

I think Ray is amazing. We can't thank you enough.

Wonderful. You hear to that. You could follow in his footsteps for

sports relief! The surge was right last night. Yes,

and the risk has now moved away. The tides were at their highest this

evening and the storm surge will now move away and of course, the winds

are also easing down at the moment. Living forward with the forecast, we

sadly for cows with a warning of ice. We have seen some coastal

showers today and there is still a little lying snow from last night

and we could get a little fresh milk across the Peak District this coming

night. By Sunday, after a very chilly start, a chilly day tomorrow,

temperatures at two or three degrees, it will become much milder

by Sunday. This moving in from the West Prce apps preceded by an little

bit of snow but that'll be a transient thing and then it will be

milder through Sunday was less cold, should I say! You can say on the

satellite picture the shower clouds pushing down from the north. They

have been affecting the coastline through today and we will see some

more overnight. Otherwise, mostly dry and clear that you will notice a

few sleet and snow shower was making their way across the Peak District

and into part of South Yorkshire. It widespread frost that will quickly

become frosty this evening. By the end of the night, temperatures lower

than this out in the countryside. The sun will rise in the morning at

70 minute pass eight setting again as the only quarter past four in the

afternoon. Here are the high water lights. So tomorrow, a widespread

frost. Icy stretches and we will continue to see some showers being

pushed in a long because. Still a brisk wind though not as windy as

today. Winds lighter elsewhere, plenty of sunshine, if crisp, cold

winters's date that temperature is really struggling. It will still

feel very cold across the causeway. Breezy conditions with temperatures

struggling at three or 4 degrees. Around two, three or 4 degrees in

Llandysul a very cold day too, but fine and dry. There will be a good

deal of sunshine. Apart from perhaps the odd hostels shower. Living

through Saturday evening, clad amounts will increase every Sunday,

our picks of rain and drizzle will increase. It may just be that as

that ring initially approach is from the west, it could bring a little

bit of sleet or snow right to the very highest peaks but it does not

look like a pleasant day on Sunday. Lots of clouds, rain, drizzle, but

it will be less cold. To start next week, it does look like there will

be a lot of cloud and a bit of drizzle on the hills.

And of course a half marathon in Europe on Sundays so I think there

will be some rain. We will update you with the latest in Scarbrough in

our late bulletin. Thank you very much for watching and

have a good weekend.