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Oood evening and welcome to Thursday's Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
On the programme tonight, a double helping of good news | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
1700 jobs at Tata Steel factories are saved as an Indian company does | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
We'll hear the details of the agreement and what it means | :00:13. | :00:20. | |
Racing car manufacturers McLaren choose Rotherham | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
for a new ?50 million factory creating 200 jobs. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Hundreds of mourners pay their respects as a teenage girl | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
stabbed to death in Rotherham is laid to rest. | :00:35. | :00:43. | |
Sing the song of Yorkshire from the Humber to the tease. Of horses, | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
terriers, pudding and a cheese. Well, the cold weather | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
looks set to continue. The risk of some snow for the hills | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
into Saturday morning. Good evening - and it's not often | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
that we can start the programme The luxury super car manufacturer | :01:01. | :01:15. | |
McLaren is creating a ?50 million Meanwhile Tata Steel | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
is selling its speciality steel business for ?100 million | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
to Liberty House, which will safeguard | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
the sites in Rotherham, Let's cross first to our political | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
editor, Len Tingle, who's in Rotherham with the latest on this | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Tata Steel announcement. Well, this is the old plant here in | :01:38. | :01:52. | |
Rotherham. You can see the Tata sign behind me. That will change to | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Liberty House in the next couple of months. The same will happen just | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
down the road at rings worth and at Stockbridge eight about 50 miles | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
away. There was so much concern for the future of these plants that the | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
local community and trade unions held protest marches through the | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
summer because they wanted these plants to be sold. Tata said they | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
did not want to continue but there was concern that no buyer would be | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
found. The concern was that they were unprofitable because of | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
international competition, unfair international competition, | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
particularly dumping from China. Today's sale has certainly lifted | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
the clouds over these plants. That was certainly the reaction that I | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
got from Chris Williamson, the senior convenor for the trade unions | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
here. I spoke to him a couple of hours ago. | :02:43. | :02:43. | |
Given the right investment and given our product that we make | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
we should be able to be fit for the future and | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
move on and be great for this area because without this steel industry, | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
So, the unions seem positive. What is the future for the plants? Well, | :02:53. | :03:07. | |
these are specialist steels, high steels. They are in the market of | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
automotive, aerospace, the offshore oil and gas industry. High-quality | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
steels that have a market. There is an international competition for | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
them but the understanding is that Liberty House, which now becomes the | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
biggest steel-maker in the UK, will find markets for these, put more | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
investment in hand hopefully increase the output. Reaction from | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Tata was that because the workforce and the management at these three | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
plants have worked very well over the past few months and last couple | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
of years to be able to turn these businesses around, that is what has | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
attracted the new buyer and the new investment and certainly when I | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
spoke to Leanne deeming from Tarter -- from Tata earlier today, her view | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
was it was down to the workforce. I think what it is is about a credit | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
to the employees and trade unions and the management here is being | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
about pulling together and really finding something which will make us | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
a fit for the future through that transformation plan and focusing | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
on the value-added product such as aerospace and others, which take us | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
forward for the future. Well, I understand there are still a | :04:18. | :04:29. | |
few little things to sort out but it is thought that the final deal will | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
he find within the next couple of months and that is when these signs | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
will be shifted and the new ones will go up. Ron here in Rotherham, | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
back to you in the studio. Next tonight, and the luxury super | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
car manufacturer McLaren is going to build a ?50 million | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
chassis factory, creating Well, the Liberty House group | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
is buying the Speciality steel business from | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Tata for ?100 million. So what does that | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
mean for its future? Jon Bolton, the Chief Executive | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
Officer of Liberty Steel UK Plates, told us why he was optimistic | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
for the future. I think it is a very positive | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
reinforcement of the strength of the plants in South Yorkshire | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
and indeed in the Midlands We strongly believe in the future | :05:00. | :05:01. | |
for these businesses. They have got a very positive | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
and strong product range and they are a technically competent | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
and capable workforce so we think the money that pays for this | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
business is very good value. There is always uncertainty | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
when the business changes hands. Can you guarantee that jobs | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
are going to be saved, I think a major positive | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
of the announcement they made today is to remove that uncertainty over | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
jobs and yes, we are saying that we will maintain the same | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
jobs in this business as there are at the moment | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
and indeed we will look for ways to actually build this business | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
and grow this business And as I understand it, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
the pension fund has How have you managed | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
to resolve that? I would not say that pensions | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
has been a stumbling This is clearly an issue that Tata | :05:58. | :05:59. | |
are dealing with at the moment We will look to honour whatever | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the employees decide they want to do through the ballot that is taking | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
place at the moment. We look forward to engaging | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
with them and consulting with them in the very near future | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
about our plans for the business. And what about the future, | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
are you in this for the long haul? This is a major strategic | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
move for liberty. This is a major strategic | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
move for Liberty. Liberty has a vision for steel | :06:25. | :06:26. | |
manufacturing and manufacturing in general in the UK, | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
which is our green steel vision where we take recycled steel | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
that is arising in the UK, melt it in the electric furnaces | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
at Rotherham and that steel is applied in the downstream | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
processes where we are These are technically advanced | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
engineered steels that, as I have said, support | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
the automotive, aerospace, oil and gas, industrial | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
engineering sectors. OK, John Bolton, thank you very much | :06:49. | :06:49. | |
for your time tonight. Next tonight, and the luxury super | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
car manufacturer McLaren is going to build a ?50 million | :06:53. | :06:58. | |
chassis factory, creating The factory will build | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
parts for the super cars at the University | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
Centre near Rotherham. Construction's due to start soon, | :07:11. | :07:11. | |
with two years of research and development work | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
ahead of production. If you like your toys, you are | :07:14. | :07:25. | |
probably familiar with McLaren's supercars. The ultimate in precision | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
engineering and pretty soon, made in Yorkshire. Well, this bit anyway. It | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
is the chassis, which up until now has been manufactured outside the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
UK. But today a deal was signed which will bring production to the | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Sheffield city region. This is a big investment for us full stop to have | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
very supportive partners makes it work. Actually because there has | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
been is kind of work in the region for a time, growing, quite a bit of | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
aerospace herewith air bus, Rolls-Royce, there are school people | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
here already in the area, so we are not starting from scratch. -- there | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
are skilled people here. The prototype will be made here at | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
Sheffield University's factory, just up the road from the advanced | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
manufacturing Park. It is that the kind of investment the region is | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
pushing for. This is a fully commercial manufacturing | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
environment. Stuff that is made in this place can do things, can fly | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
the stop the University of Sheffield was hurling supplier of the year. We | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
have eliminated the gap between ideas, research and products. We are | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
the only place to have done it in that way. The price tag on these | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
cars beans they are way outside the budget of most of us but the fact | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
that at least part of them is going to be built in the region is a | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
fantastic calling card. It is also a brilliant way to get more young | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
people interested in engineering. 200 jobs will be created here, | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
including a number of apprentice posts. The first of those has just | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
been given the good news. It is exciting. And yes, it was pretty | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
unexpected. I did not expect it to come along and iCal myself extremely | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
lucky. -- I count myself extremely lucky. To be working on machines | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
like that is ready quite something. The technical bit is the material | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
the chassis will be made from, something that will help develop | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
more electric cars going forward. Realistically, most people just like | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
the way they look for stop a lot of manufacturing and engineering. It is | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
a fascinating discipline but when this is the product that results | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
from it, you can't help getting inspired, motivated and excited and | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
it ready does work and all the people that work for us are really | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
proud of the products that we make. The first Yorkshire bill chassis | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
could be Parry off the line by summer next year. -- the first | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
Yorkshire tilt chassis. Getting the new contract | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
from Mclaren is a huge boost for the Sheffield City Region - | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
not just in terms of jobs, but also in terms of its reputation | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
for advanced manufacturing. Leigh Bramall is deputy leader | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
of Sheffield City Council Just how much of a coup is this to | :10:01. | :10:11. | |
get McLaren would you say? It is a massive coup and it tilts part of | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
wider brands for an advanced Manufacturing innovation district | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
between Sheffield and Rotherham. -- part of wider plans. We already have | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
Rolls-Royce doing research and development, so there is a good | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
track record of commitment that we can do this sort of thing but there | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
is no doubt that getting a company like McLaren relocating from | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
elsewhere in Europe back to the UK in the Sheffield on a more high-tech | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
jobs, is a huge boost to our plans. There was concern after Brexit that | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
investors would not want to invest in the UK. If that still a concern | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
for you? It remains to be seen what happens with that. There is a lot of | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
uncertainty around Brexit and it depends what kind of ultimate deal | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
and exit we have but certainly speaking to McLaren, they have | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
considered all the factors before making this investment and they | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
still believe that the expertise that they will have access to in | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
research and development that can undertake in Sheffield and Rotherham | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
more than makes up for any negatives. They are happy to go | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
forward with the investment. McLaren is good news but Tata is also great | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
news. That news might have a knock-on effect for other businesses | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
as well. Both announcements have a knock on effects were other | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
businesses because they will both invest in the supply chain and keep | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
complete in the area going and gain business for them. A confident these | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
as well. A massive confidence boost. We debate the final outcome for the | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
jobs because that is unclear looking at some of the announcements that | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
have come through the day, so a cautious welcome my thing but | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
overall a fantastic day for Sheffield, Rotherham, Sheffield city | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
region, it shows what we can do when we work together. Not a bad day for | :11:52. | :11:53. | |
the Council. Get, fantastic. Looking ahead to the | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
start of Super League. Tanya rounds up what's in store | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
for the region's teams this season and we've got Big Eorl Crabtree | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
in the studio as well. Hundreds of mourners have attended | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
the funeral of 16-year-old school girl Leonne Weeks, | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
who was stabbed to death last Her family thanked the community | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
for their support and say "their beautiful daughter is loved | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
and sadly missed" as A horse-drawn hearse | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
carried Leonne's Coffin. Hundreds followed in | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
procession through the town Those unable to squeeze inside stood | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
silent in the bitter cold outside, heads bowed in poignant reflection | :12:34. | :12:43. | |
at a young life lived and lost. She was a lively 16-year-old but now | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
it's grief and the sense on the one hand wanting to remember | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
Leonne with thankfulness but also the terrible loss that | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
so many people have suffered. Leonne's body was discovered on a | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
pathway in Dinnington on January 15. An 18-year-old man has been | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
charged with her murder. Leonne was such a good | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
friend to us all. Words cannot describe how much | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
we love and miss her. The congregation heard | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
how Leonne was growing One of her school friends | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
sang during the service. # Oh, I hope you're dancing | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
in the sky # And I hope you're singing | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
in the angel's choir There were so many flowers | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
they had to be carried Among scores of messages, | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
one from her brother Levi, which read "words cannot describe | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
how I feel. Today will be the | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
hardest of my life. Leonne's family have asked to be | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
left to grieve in peace. After the service, mourners left | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
for a private burial. Phil Bodmer, BBC Look | :14:06. | :14:07. | |
North, Dinnington. The dispute over train guards has | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
spread to Northern Rail, which runs The RMT Union is to ballot | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
conductors on strike action. It wants assurances about their | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
future role on the network. The union is already involved | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
in a long-running dispute Arriva North, which operates | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
the service, has called the ballot Latest figures show that | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
all the hospital trusts in our region failed to meet | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
the government's A target in December with the exception | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
of Sheffield Children's Hospital. Guidelines say that 95% of patients | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
should be dealt with in four hours. The figures released by NHS England | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
show that the Mid Yorkshire Trust only managed 77% of patients in that | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
time, while Leeds Teaching Controversial plans for a new waste | :14:52. | :15:08. | |
incinerator at weight have been approved by councillors in Bradford. | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
People who live near the site say the new plans will be a blot on the | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
landscape and affect the value of their homes. They are also worried | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
about possible links to health. But councillors believe the benefits of | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
the proposal outweigh any potential harm. | :15:23. | :15:23. | |
Now, on Monday we featured the story of Ann Bardsley who had been stuck | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
in St James's Hospital in Leeds for three months despite being | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
medically fit to leave because her family couldn't find | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
The 74-year old, who has dementia, had been rejected more than ten | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
times because of problems with her behaviour before being put | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
Anyway, we're happy to report that after seeing our programme, | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
a care home in Pudsey contacted Ann's family and have now | :15:47. | :15:48. | |
Somehow it seems apt that we've had the odd little flurry | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
of snow to herald the start of the new Super League Season. | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
Tanya here's to look ahead to the next 8 months! | :16:00. | :16:10. | |
It's a big year for Rugby league with the World Cup at the end of it, | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
but there are few domestic issues up for grabs before we get to that. | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
Eorl Crabtee will give us his thoughts on the new season | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
in a moment, but first let's hear from our four Super League coaches. | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
12 teams are hitting the long and winding road to Old Trafford, | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
with the hope of picking up the Super League trophy | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
The departure of Castleford's Denny Solomona might have captured | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
all the headlines but they have strengthened well to add to the | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
Many are tipping them to pick up silverware this season. | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
I think we are capable of challenging on all fronts this year. | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
I have felt that way for a few years but for whatever reason it | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
hasn't quite happened at the end of competitions. | :16:59. | :17:00. | |
This year, I think we've got a great chance but you can talk | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
as much as you want, pre-season has been fantastic, | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
now it is about delivering on what we think we can do. | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
COMMENTATOR: Here's Danny Brough with a 1-pointer! | :17:09. | :17:09. | |
A Danny Brough dropped goal saved Huddersfield | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
The message this season is simple, must do better. | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
Hopefully a little bit more composure in attack. | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
A little bit more resolved, defensively, you know, | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
we let in far too many points last year and some soft points, really. | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
We leaked 25 points a game on average I think | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
if we are going to compete against the top sides, we need to be | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
A wretched season for Leeds in 2016 picked up with | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
He got homesick though, so Matt Purcell replaces him. | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
The Rhinos have resisted wholesale changes. | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
The year before we had a fantastic year. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
12 months later we find ourselves, you know, at a certain time | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
where we were swimming around the bottom of the league. | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
It wasn't because they became poor players overnight. | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
You know, the answer is not always changing players. | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
Under coach Chris Chester, Wakefield climbed into | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
They have held onto their young talent and | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
They are looking to keep climbing that ladder. | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
We have spoken about improving on last year. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
We certainly feel the top six is achievable this year, | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
that is a goal we have set and we weren't far away last year | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Will the trophy head back to West Yorkshire? | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
If it does, who will be taking it home? | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
Well, I have got my biggest shoes on to deal with my guest, Eorl | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
Crabtree. Is it strange to be talking to me here rather than | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
preparing this weekend to play with the Giants? You would think I would | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
be used to it now but I know what you mean, that sensation of being | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
able to walk out onto the field with the rest of the lads, that is going | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
to hurt the little bit. That is the bit I worried about, all of this | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
preseason I haven't missed it, but that is because I have seen the boys | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
training, training really hard. How will they do without you this | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
season? It is tough to say. Last season was really bad pass. | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
Finishing bottom of the league just wasn't acceptable. We have some good | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
players, Rick Stone is a great coach, working so hard at the | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
moment. I think top eight is where we want to be and competing. Leads | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
had a tough season. -- Leeds had a tough season. They get under way | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
tonight. Everybody is saying they surely can't go badly again? I agree | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
with that. They have not recruited that many players stop does that | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
surprise you? It does. After the year they had I thought they would | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
go for a view more high profile names but they are good bring | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
youngsters through and that is what they have relied on in the past. | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
That's how they have won trophies. I expect them to be better but that is | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
a tough start as in Helen 's. I look forward to watching that. In that | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
warm, not out in the cold! Wakefield did fantastically. Their manager is | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
saying they are aiming for top six. Is that realistic? I think so. They | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
have had fantastic recruitment. They have got them all on board. Ultimate | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
professionals. Scott has that experience and also ability to bring | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
the team together. Grateful back and he will add a lot to them. New | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
dimension to the side. They will go well, I think. Castleford, a lot of | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
people saying this could be their year, away from the big one is are | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
used to seeing. Could it be them? I think so. They are the most exciting | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
team at the moment. They will be the ones everyone is watching and I hope | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
their performances at what we expect. I think it will be a big | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
year. If you are going to pick a team at this point, I noticed a long | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
way to Old Trafford, who would it be? To get to the final, apart from | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
the Giants, I think Wigan are always going to be the favourite but | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
looking at that Castleford side, the Likud upset a few team. -- they | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
could upset a few teams. We have a before and after shot beaut capacity | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
when you were last here. You have had your nose done! It is a little | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
bit straighter. I spoke to my surgeon a couple of weeks ago, he | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
said it would take 18 months to go down. I hope it takes a bit longer | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
to go down. I am used to having the big, broken nose. At least it is a | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
bit straighter and apples and your daughter has got used to it? Not | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
quite but she will! I tell you one thing, I won't say it | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
is a bad job. You look beautiful! When it comes to milestones, | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
this is a quite remarkable one. Doreen Brigham from Clint | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
in North Yorkshire has reached You will, I am sure, | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
remember this wonderful lady as she wrote the words for the BBC's | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
specially commissioned Symphony for Yorkshire | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
at the tender age of 98. I had the pleasure of meeting her | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
on her 100th birthday five years ago and John Cundy has been back | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
to see her today. # Sing the song of Yorkshire | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
from the Humber to the Tees, # Of horses, wool and terriers, | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
of pudding and a cheese. # I know no other county | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
where the land is quite so fine. # It's England's lovely county, | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
and I'm proud to call it mine.# The unforgettable words | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
of Doreen Brigham at the age of 98. # When I have done my roaming | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
and when my step grows slow, # When heart and mind assure me, | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
it will soon be time to go. # Then let me rest in Yorkshire, | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
for its there I want to live # Then let me rest in Yorkshire, | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
for its there I want to lie With sun and wind and heather and a gleaming | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Yorkshire sky. But, if it had not been | :23:13. | :23:14. | |
for the Symphony for Yorkshire, Doreen's inspired words might never | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
have reached such a wide audience. This just happened to be one I had | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
written and then the paper opened this competition and I thought well, | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
I wrote a little poem once, I will send it up | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
and I completely forgot about it. On the Doreen's very special day | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
today, messages from far and wide. What does it mean to you to get | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
a card from the Queen? I send you my warm congratulations | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
and best wishes for your 105th birthday on the 9th | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
of February 2017. And a special birthday | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
message from Doreen's son. It won't be believed | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
by most of the folk. Still, well done, old girl, | :24:06. | :24:14. | |
you've made it at last. Whatever the future, | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
you've a hell of a past. I don't feel I've done | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
anything special, I've You can't do much | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
about that, can you? She is fantastic. Wonderful. Happy | :24:22. | :24:33. | |
birthday. It must be the Yorkshire air that keeps her going. Well done. | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
That is move on to the weather. Somebody said your new suits make | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
you look like a smart second-hand car salesman. Would you buy one off | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
me, Harry? I would buy anything few! I think it is a bit Saturday night | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
Fever! What do you reckon? Some of us have got to work the night but | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
the four yourself! -- speak for yourself! | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
Quite a bit of snow there as you can see in that photograph. The next | :25:05. | :25:14. | |
one, if you have not done that walk, it is absolutely beautiful. And the | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
third one, that is stunning. A beautiful sunrise. Keep the pictures | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
coming in. Let us have a look at the headline for the next 24 hours. It | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
is cloudy and grey. There will be a wintry flurry but an interesting | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
feature coming in on Friday night into Saturday morning, the showers | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
are going to become heavier and more frequent and I suspect there could | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
be several centimetres of snow over the hills, the North Yorkshire moors | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
and the Pennine drew the course of Saturday. Otherwise sleet and rain | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
is more likely. I think the night it is cloudy, damp. There will be | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
flurries in places that may cause a problem on untreated services with | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
ice a hazard. The lowest temperatures tonight around or just | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
below freezing in many areas. A moderate east north-east wind. The | :26:13. | :26:23. | |
sun rises in the morning at 7:37am. So, it is another drab day. It is | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
cloudy and there will be some brighter spells coming through but a | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
fair few wintry showers from the word go that will continue to feed | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
in from the North Sea. A slight covering on the North York moors but | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
I think once you get to the west and south of Yorkshire, very little, | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
just a few flurries here and there. The wind will eventually back off to | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
the north-east and could freshen especially along the coast and over | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
the hills. It will feel cold. Maximum temperatures, the average is | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
seven Celsius for February but we are looking at higher temperatures | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
of around three Celsius tomorrow. I think the era one or two over the | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
high ground. -- I think one or two Celsius over high ground. Friday | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
night into Saturday, that little feature comes in, so it will pack | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
the showers up. Shall we outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow. Not | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
exclusively over the hills. Sunday quietens town, slightly less cold. I | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
think next week dominantly dry and a dozen less cold. If you have any | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
questions, I will be live on Facebook at 7:05pm. Paul, the Arthur | :27:33. | :27:39. | |
Daley of weather forecasting! That is my confidence shot! Back here at | :27:40. | :27:42. | |
10pm. The later on. OK, everyone, have you got | :27:43. | :27:55. | |
your bamboo sticks? If you just paint | :27:56. | :28:02. | |
what you want to paint, I've turned around, | :28:03. | :28:04. | |
my painting washes away. ..and take on | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
The Big Painting Challenge. Remember, you're not painting | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
a pond. Before I met you, | :28:16. | :28:45. | |
I was a civilised woman. | :28:46. | :28:48. |