16/01/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening, you're watching Monday's Look North.

On the programme tonight - breaking news...

The body of a teenage girl is found on a path near Rotherham -

police believe her death is suspicious.

Operations cancelled and long waiting times -

now claims Yorkshire's hospitals are so overcrowded

United in grief - hundreds join Katie Rough's family in York

to mark what would've been her eighth birthday.

And does body image put people off exercise?

We'll meet the woman speaking out after being mocked at her local gym.

Blue skies like leaves in Kettlewell over the weekend are certainly a

distant memory. A lot of clout and gloom. Join me for that week ahead

forecast. -- a lot of cloud. Good evening, and we start tonight

with some breaking news. Police are investigating

after the death of a teenage Police say they are treating

the death as suspicious because of the nature

of the injuries on her body. The girl's body was

discovered by members of the public on a pathway off

Lordens Hill in the Dinnington area at just before 11

o'clock this morning. Police are deploying extra patrols

in the area to reassure the public. The police say that

the investigation Tom Ingall joins us live

now from the scene. Good evening. This is the alleyway

just as Lordens Hill, quite a busy thoroughfare, over there there is a

supermarket, lots of cars coming and going and lots of police activity.

Further down the Alloway there is a lot of lights and a white forensic

tent. -- down the alleyway. A lot of work going on. I have just come from

the police briefing in Sheffield where we asked the leading detective

for some more details. There was a report of a missing

episode but only 20 minutes prior to the finding of the body, so, yes,

somebody had been reported missing but we have not been able

to formally identify the body and therefore I can't give any details

as to who the person is at this stage, and obviously we implore

and urge anybody who knows anything about this event and anybody who saw

any suspicious behaviour in the area to please come forward

and report it to the police, quoting incident 256

of the 16th of January. Tom, police are keen to reassure the

public tonight? That's right. As you said, there

will be extra police patrols in the area but they also clearly want

information. This is the early stages of the investigation, no

confirmation of the identity of the girl has been released yet but there

are conflicting reports of her age, she maybe 15 or 16. As I arrived

this evening some young girls came to try to lay flowers. Other people

have been driving in the car saying they think they know the person who

has unfortunately died, so news is circulating around Dinnington, which

is not the largest village after all. 20 more details to come and we

will pass them on as they are given to us by South Yorkshire Police. --

plenty more details. Next tonight, there are fears that

high bed-occupancy rates at hospitals across Yorkshire

could be putting Latest figures from NHS England show

that some trusts have been operating at near full

capacity, which has led to many Our health correspondent,

Jamie Coulson, reports. Anna is deaf, registered blind

and struggles with her mobility. The 41-year-old was born with a rare

genetic disorder which means benign Six weeks ago she was due

to have a long-awaited operation at Leeds General Infirmary

on her lower lip to help with her eating and speech

but it was cancelled on the day due While Anna's operation

is important to her, she admits it's not life and death

and, while frustrating, cancelling non-urgent operations

is one of the ways hospitals can The trust has apologised but says

like elsewhere in the NHS they are dealing with unprecedented

levels of demand. Hospitals try not to have bed

occupancy rates above 85%, otherwise research suggests

they can have frequent bed shortages, occasional bed

crises and an increase During the first week

of January hospital trusts in Yorkshire have an annual bed

occupancy rate of more than 94%. At the Teaching Hospital

in Leeds it was over 97%. In Sheffield it was more

than 96% and in York We already know that there

is a huge shortage of many We know that there is around 26,000

vacancies for nurses throughout the UK, therefore we are absolutely

clear that safe patient care cannot be delivered with those kind

of occupancy levels. Many hospitals say an influx

of frail elderly patients, combined with problems discharging

those who are medically fit to leave, is behind the bed

shortages and in turn Hospitals say bed shortages mean

they have to prioritise those patients whose needs

are most urgent. But that means those like Anna

must continue to wait. In a statement, NHS England have

told us it is not uncommon for there to be pressures at this time of year

but it is highly unlikely that bed occupancy levels would remain at

those levels along. Well, joining us now is Mark Dayan

from the health think-tank Is there a crisis in the NHS in

Yorkshire at the moment? Whether or not you call it a crisis it is true

that the NHS is having its usual winter pressures last extra

intensity building up over the last few years. Looking back at NHS

England's statistics, getting on for a third of the trusts in England are

saying that the pressures are impacting on patient flow. Bed

occupancy levels are very high and the performance statistics are not

looking good. Yet this has been a fairly mild winter so far. Heaven

knows what the situation would have been with a heavy one. These things

are affected by different variables, norovirus and blue have been

relatively high this year but nowhere near the all-time highs. --

and blue. -- and influenza. We have an ageing and growing population

meaning that each winter the several years more and more patients are

coming through the door. We heard from Anna, a vulnerable

lady, her operation has been cancelled. At what point do the NHS

say, we have to shelve an operation because we can't cope? That would

usually reflect a serious bed shortage. Nobody would want to make

that decision but winters do see an increase in cancelled operations.

That is often because the bed for the patient to recover in might be

needed for emergency patients coming into A Is this just about finding

a reshuffling things in social care as well? -- funding. It is all of

those things, increasing funding, having enough doctors and keys

specialities, having the funding so that people who leave hospital --

who need to leave hospital can do so and also we need better community

services to keep people out of hospital. It is a knotty problem but

much can be traced back to the NHS having relatively low funding by

European standards in recent years. And there's more on the pressures

facing the NHS in the new series of Inside Out, which starts tonight

on BBC One at 7.30. Next tonight, hundreds of people

gathered to release balloons near the school that Katie Rough

went to in York on what would have Katie died after being

found with serious A 15-year-old girl's been

charged with her murder. Her family wanted every colour

of the rainbow to represent the exuberance of their little Katie

and balloons to mark what would have An invitation on Facebook

for anyone to attend touched hundreds of people,

who waited quietly in Westfield Park to write a balloon message for Katie

with thoughts and prayers or sign a book, not for condolences

but to celebrate her life. I was asked if I would consider

supplying and filling 200 balloons and I immediately said,

yes, I will. I have never stopped

thinking about the family and their situation and,

yes, I was moved by it I think it's nice how

the community have come together. I think we need to...everybody show

support in circumstances like this and just celebrate

Katie's life, really. Especially being a young lass

from our area, you don't expect stuff like that to happen

in your own area. And I've got a son who's a year

older and it just makes you think. Katie was found with knife wounds

near a playing field Just two days later her family had

the terrible ordeal of seeing a 15-year-old girl charged

with Katie's murder. At the spot where she died hundreds

of flowers have been laid in an expression of the empathy

and concern of the wider York community, who supported

the family again today. Katie's parents Alison

and Paul Rough were comforted by the Archbishop of York,

who accompanied them. As hundreds of balloons were let

go it made a spectacle of extreme poignancy,

expressing so much more An inquest has heard that a gunman

who killed 38 tourists on a beach in Tunisia, including

a couple from Yorkshire, could have Sharon and Christopher Bell

from Killingbeck in Leeds were among 30 British holidaymakers who died

in the attack in Sousse in 2015. The inquest, which began in London

today, was told that local security units "deliberately

and unjustifiably" delayed A 78-year-old man has been jailed

for 26 years for historic sex abuse Terence O'Reilly from

South Elmsall pleaded guilty to 17 sexual offences against two

girls, including six of rape. His crimes took place from the late

'60s to the late '90s but it wasn't until 2015 that one

of his victims told police. For many of us a New Year means

a new start, a chance to get fitter, healthier and feel

good about ourselves. But when Sarah Stanley

from Harrogate tried to do just that she got laughed at by two young

men at her local gym. The gym's owner was so shocked

by their reaction he said he would ban them, and he's taken it

upon himself to oversee Well, we'll speak to Sarah

and her gym instructor, But first, do you

remember this advert? trainers and This Girl Can took the

nation by storm. Why haven't attitudes changed? Sarah, what

happened? I went on the Monday, determined but really nervous. I

went in my black jogging bottoms and lack T-shirt, not very bright, and I

had my induction and two guys nudged each other and pointed and laughed

at me. How did that make you feel? After the induction I went out and

nearly started crying, I was mortified. I felt really belittled,

because I am actually going to the gym to do something about my health

and vigour. James, why did it annoy you so much? -- my health and

figure. First of all, this is a very isolated incident.

Sarah's not alone - according to England Athletics

a third of British women have been harassed while out running alone.

I just got talking to Sarah through normal interaction. I was horrified

by what happened, but to see the physical effects of that, the way

she was trembling in her voice, it is something you don't want to see.

If she had never come back I would have been devastated. You have both

put this experience on Facebook and you had quite a response, didn't

you? Huge. What were people saying? It is all positive, we have had no

negative comments at all. James posted something on Facebook and it

got shared over 500 times. 700 times. What have you got lined up

for Sarah? The post got over 2000 likes. We got reaction up and down

the country, from Spain, Australia, comments coming in, but the common

do nominate was that people have a fear of the gym. This is something

we didn't think about, but if you have a fear of intimidation about

your fitness, we train people with all kinds of things, diabetes,

depression and lymphoedema, sciatica, all of these different

things we can treat for. If people are intimidated we need to do

something. You speak very well. Good luck and keep us posted.

Now, a school in Sheffield is setting the pace

Phillimore Primary School has just won a national award after getting

90% of its Year Four children to swim a length.

That's well above the national average -

the school says it's down to getting the whole community involved.

With a lot of encouragement and enthusiastic coaching, these

children from Phillimore Primary School really get the most out of

The teachers constantly praise their pupils and

To start with, specially for these guys, it's

about getting them in, getting them used to having

A lot of children don't even like to put their face in the water.

What makes Phillimore stand out is their progress.

They've received a national award from the Amateur

Swimming Association after ensuring the majority of their year four

On the whole probably 90% of the time

everybody is well up for it but any new children,

we have a lot of Roman Slovak children who have arrived

recently in this country, there is a bit of fear

and reluctance, and what we do then is invite parents onto

the bus to the swimming pool so they can see what is going on.

I have learned how to swim better and better and then I got better and

better. When I started I was scared and I didn't like it but once I have

been doing it is nice. Today's lesson might be over but the skills

they have learnt will keep them safe around water for the rest of their

lives. Tanya's here now with all

the weekend's sport and we've been hearing from the new co-owner

of Leeds United. Yes, very much a sense of calm at

Leeds United, a surprise after recent times. He spoke on Saturday

morning and sat alongside Massimo Cellino as he saw his side beat

Derby County 1-0. A really good performance and they are now third

in the chap macro. He talked about supporting Garry Monk, not upsetting

things, about wanting perhaps to buy back Elland Road that no promises.

-- they are now third in the championship. He talked about

stability and sustainability. His key aim is to make the club stable

and move forward. The goal is to be sustainable and

stay in the Championship. It is not an easy league to belong, so my job

is to find a good balance between making the club progressing and

improving infrastructure but at the same time don't sacrifice too much

competitiveness on the pitch. In the Yorkshire derby,

Sheffield Wednesday beat Huddersfield Town

2-0 at Hillsborough. Both are still in the playoffs

in the Championship. Elsewhere, Rotherham

and Chesterfield both got much-needed wins in their efforts

to beat the drop in the Championship And Doncaster stay top of League

2 after another win. Little to get too excited

about at Hillsborough between Sheffield Wednesday and

Huddersfield. Chris Lowe's free kick

for the Terriers the highlight. That was until Ross Wallace produced

this screamer from 30 yards. The Terriers tried to bite

back but weren't helped Into added time, Fernando Forestieri

made the game safe for Wednesday. Against one of in my opinion

the strongest sides in this competition, because really

they are a good team. I think we've seen a good football

match from two strong sides. At the New York Stadium,

Jerry Yates tapped home to make it Norwich did equalise but the Millers

won it through Tom Adeyemi's header. Rotherham now nine points off safety

and in with a small chance Barnsley went down

2-0 away at Fulham. In League 1, Dan Gardner

scored this belter to give Chesterfield a much-needed win

against fellow strugglers Coventry. In the shock result of the day

the Blades were cut to pieces away at Walsall - Sheffield United's

six-game winning streak ended Bradford went down 1-0

away at Shrewsbury. And in League 2 Doncaster beat

Barnet 3-1, James Coppinger Rovers stay four points clear

at the top of the table. It's a been one of the most

remarkable losing streaks in sport, Pontefract's James Willstrop has

lost 19 times over that period to his big Yorkshire rival,

Sheffield's Nick Matthew, but yesterday in New

York he finally won. It took him 73 minutes,

and he had to come from two games to one down to do it,

but he is through to the third round There was no punching

the air or anything, but he did say afterwards

he was pleased. A fantastic achievement.

Obviously they are both from our patch so I am very neutral but I am

very pleased for James. Fingers crossed he goes on to win the

tournament. Now, in case you didn't realise

today is supposed to be the most Well, we decided we wouldn't

let this get us down, so we sent our happiness reporter,

Phil Bodmer, to find out how people They were banging out the big tunes

at the bus station in Huddersfield today. No Blue Monday here. We have

had loads of people dancing and happy, we have given people free CDs

and they have smiled a lot and that is all we wanted, make the world are

happier place. Doctor Cliff Arnold calculated the equation by a formula

of six factors, weather, debt, times since -- time since Christmas, time

since failing our New Year resolutions and are in need to take

action. I think it is hype. It is a PR company which asked the doctor to

create an equation, which day is the gloomiest in January, so that

holiday companies can sell us holidays. You are in debt anyway,

why would you want to buy a holiday? On the subject of travel, what did

our bemused commuters think of the attempts to cheer them up. I am

probably in a better mood than I was. I imagine it cheered up some

people, not all. If they woke up cheerful they will be cheerful for

the rest of the day and vice versa. I think it is quite jolly. It is

nice to see. Heaven knows, if you are still miserable now, here is a

suggestion to clear the mind. Yun Yoga helps in a lot of ways, we

connect through the breath and we clear the mind. At the end of a good

Yoga practice the mind state has shifted and the things that were

agitating at the beginning of the practice have shifted and

diminished. From banishing the winter blues at least some of us

managed to shift this grey miserable day.

Me and Amy are on lates tonight, I am always happy when that happens.

This picture shows the intensity of the sea. That is from one of our

former weathermen. This one was taken on Saturday when

there was still snow across the Pennines.

A lot of cloud this week despite the high pressure in charge. Becoming

dry by mid week and a lot of cloud Thursday and Friday, a few breaks

and mist and patchy fog and places. High pressure very dominant across

Yorkshire this week and it looks like next week, the end of January

into early February, we get the Atlantic back so it will be milder

but rain at times. We have a slow-moving weather front bringing

rain and drizzle across Yorkshire today and that continues to bring

dreary weather across Yorkshire this evening and overnight, mist and fog

will be shrouding the top of the Pennines. With all of this cloud

around there is no chance of a frost, lows of four Celsius. The sun

rises at 8:40am, -- at 8:14am. It is a damp and dreary start, light rain

and drizzle all day, fog continuing to affect high-level routes. Another

whether the brunt will introduced -- weather front will introduce rain

and South Yorkshire. Temperatures will not really recover from the

overnight values, we are looking at something like six, perhaps seven in

Leeds and Sheffield. The boring weather continues, Wednesday looks

dry, perhaps a bit of brightness Wednesday afternoon, Thursday and

Friday, where the cloud breaks there will be some mist and fog which we

will struggle to ship and we keep that fine weather through next

weekend. That is it from us.

We will of course keep you up-to-date with that story from

Dinnington. Paul and Amy will be back with the late news.

Let me see them hands up. Let's do this.

Glastonbury! Make some noise!

How you doing, Big Weekend? Get ready.

Go solo, Hyde Park. Don't believe you.