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A woman who saved the life of her husband is now calling for | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
compulsory CPR training in all schools and workplaces. | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
Why most of us are facing cuts in public services and a 5% rise | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
The London Ritz tells its namesake in Brighouse to change its name, | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
The idea that rich people think it will be confused is ridiculous. It's | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
just that we have got something they want. And Calder Valley furniture | :00:50. | :01:03. | |
the go-ahead for plans to make it flood-proof. | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
and I will have a full forecast shortly. Thank you for joining us. | :01:07. | :01:15. | |
First tonight, health advice, street cleaning and highways maintenance - | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
these are just some of the services that will be cut in Yorkshire | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
in the coming months - even though Council Tax is set | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
This week four of our authorities are setting their budgets | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
for the year ahead, and it looks like all of us are going to be | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
Out of our eleven councils, only Doncaster, North Yorkshire and York | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
have said they want to raise council tax by under 4% next year. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
Every other council in our region says they want council bills | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
This means if you live in a Band D council tax property, | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
that's a typical family home, you can expect to see your bill | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
The reason why it's increasing so much this year is because our | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
population is getting older and our councils need to raise extra | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
Here's our social affairs correspondent Spencer Stokes. | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
After seven years old council cuts we do you find yet more savings? In | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
Wakefield the street cleaning team is being targeted. It costs ?4.6 | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
million annually but from April bins will be emptied less often and staff | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
reduced. The council will save money but local residents will pay more. | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
That council tax rising by 4.9 . The council leader says it is the | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
maximum people can stomach. I've heard no one say that they would be | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
prepared to buy anything higher but interestingly we have consulted on | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
the budget and people have said to us that they now recognise that | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
there is no part of the servers that can be protected but also recognise | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
that setting the level at 4.99 is something very supportive of. | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Historically this level is at the upper end of council tax rises. That | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
figure can be divided into two, 1.4% for basic council services like | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
highways maintenance and street cleaning and swimming pools and 3% | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
for adult social care. And that adult social care is making this it | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
was my cries feel particularly large. -- making Visio's rise. This | :03:28. | :03:37. | |
3% will not solve the social funding care issue. It is expected they will | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
still be an overspend in Yorkshire of ?36 million but at this | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Huddersfield care home the extra cash is welcome. The vast majority | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
of our residents are funded by the council and the additional funding | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
will allow us to develop staff, spend money on training and | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
development of the team, to increase care delivery and it will also | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
provide us with the means to add additional beds. Every council is | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
facing the same issue, deciding what is essential and what can be | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
reduced. In Rotherham, 73% of people are overweight but the town's | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Institute of obesity is under review. The total amount of weight | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
loss has exceeded 30 tonnes so the population of Rotherham would have | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
been 30 tonnes heavier, had we not existed! Councils have been cutting | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
for seven years and no taxes are rising to new levels to finance | :04:36. | :04:45. | |
social care. This is not a one-off. More such decisions will be | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
necessary in the years ahead. Spencer Stokes, BBC Look North. That | :04:48. | :04:48. | |
doesn't sound good, does it? Tony Travers is a professor | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
in the government department He says our local councils | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
face a real challenge There is no doubt councils have been | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
pretty good at managing budgets better in the years since so-called | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
austerity began, seven or eight years now. The difficulty is that | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
although councils are putting up the council tax now with the | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
government's encouragement, to help fund social care for older people | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
than grants from central government are going down. So if you add up the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
overall effect on services other than adult care, spending on those | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
kinds of services will now fall again next year and Bill still be a | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
bit of a squeeze, quite a significant one, an adult care as | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
well. The government says it's putting billions into social care, | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
3% ring fenced from this rising tax for social care, will not solve the | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
problem? I don't think so. I think the government privately knows this. | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Their own figures show local government spending falling by about | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
half a billion next year across the country and a share of that will be | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
born in councils in the north. But beyond that, the pressure on adult | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
social care comes because of rising numbers of needing social care, at a | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
time when spending has been held flat in cash, falling in real terms | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
for several years. Privately the government knows this and this is an | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
attempt by them with the extra money from the extra council tax to put on | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
a sticking plaster this why they think of a better solution two or | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
three years. So should we get used to paying more for less? I'm afraid | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
as far as local services are concerned yes is the answer. Council | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
tax will go up in the years to come, it's a very visible tax, everyone | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
knows what they pay because of the bill that comes through the door | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
every year. We'll councils and be able to spend much more money? No, | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
just a little more than they otherwise would -- will councils be | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
Next tonight, it's been a landmark in the town for eighty years but now | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
the Ritz Ballroom in Brighouse may have to close its doors | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Lawyers representing the world-famous Ritz in London says | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
the name is theirs and shouldn't be used by anyone else. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
But changing the name could cost the Yorkshire business | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
Glitter balls and sequinned dresses. This is the Ritz in Brighouse, it | :07:05. | :07:19. | |
has been used as a cinema and a bingo hall but in 1981 it became a | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
ballroom and for years the Ritz has been home to Northern Soul. But not | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
for much longer. The Ritz hotel in London says it must change its name. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
The actual losing of the name which is very saddening for such an iconic | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
building is maybe not terminal but the ability to be able to mark it, a | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
new name that no one knows, without any Internet connection whatsoever, | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
is a massive task, a massive rebrand which is not going to be cheap. The | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
sound of Bon Jovi will be here on Saturday with big crowds expecteds | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
will this be the final curtain for the Ritz as we know it? It's a | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
really good local theatre. It needs to stay in Brighouse. Nobody from | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
London wants to come here and nobody from here will be going to the Ritz | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
in London so I don't see the problem. It is part of Brighouse's | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
culture, where people meet. I think we should be able to keep the name. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
Not the first time a venue has been challenged about the name Ritz, in | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
2012 conference Centre in Desborough was threatened with legal action. | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
They changed the Internet address but managed to keep the name. But | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
what's in a name? It's not all about the names, if it was a simple we | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
would buy a new sign and put it up and make new posters. It's the | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
domain names which are an important factor, without them, so we can't | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
link to the website we will have to change our name and be virtually | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Internet invisible. This year the Ritz in Brighouse celebrates its | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
80th anniversary yet it also marks the end of an era. It has until next | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
Tuesday to remove all its signs. Meanwhile its London namesake | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
declined to comment. Surely Henry, BBC Look North, Brighouse. Would you | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
be likely to book the Ritz in Brighouse and end up in London? I | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
don't know! I wondered about the crackers, will they have to stop | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
making those? Oh, yes! Crackers decision! There we go. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
We'll have more on this story on our late programme as part | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
I'll be speaking to a legal expert about whether the Ritz | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
It's scary, really scary. I'm scared. | :09:39. | :09:50. | |
she's calling for compulsory CPR training in all schools | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
They've been hit by devastating floods twice, and forced to scrap | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
But the owners of Mytholmroyd's Russell Dean furniture store have | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
refused to let it force them out of the village they've called home | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
Instead, they came up with ambitious plans to rebuild | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
the store on STILTS - to protect it from future floods. | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
Mytholmroyd in Hebden Bridge, Boxing Day, 2015. | :10:18. | :10:29. | |
Homes and businesses on the flood front line hit by 1.5 metres | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
A couple of days later this was what I found | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
was left behind at this furniture store that had been | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
trading in Mytholmroyd for almost half a century. | :10:42. | :10:43. | |
Well, today all that mud has gone and | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
furniture is back here on the showroom floor but this | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
is only a temporary solution because | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
time-consuming decisions have had to be made. | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
Do you rebuild on the same site, and if so, can that building be | :10:53. | :11:00. | |
so flood-proof that here can gain something that it has not had since | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
those floods of the back-end of 2015, and that's | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
The plan, a brand-new ?3 million store but this time high up | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
But wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper to simply pack up | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
We've had good success here, we have enjoyed retail | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
it is our responsibility to put something back into the village, not | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
just to abandon it because it doesn't matter where you build, | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
We could have used the money that we are going to use | :11:35. | :11:44. | |
for here and built on a flat level, good piece of | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
ground away from a river, it wouldn't have been in the Calder | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Valley but it's not necessarily a straight economic decision. | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
We are trying to put something back into | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
Today the local planners at nearby Halifax Town Hall | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
gave the ambitious rebuild the thumbs-up. | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
With planning permission out of the way, the diggers will move | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
on to the site in the next few weeks. | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
The plan is that the new iconic furniture store on the site | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
will open on Boxing Day, that's exactly two years to the day | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
A man from Doncaster who repeatedly sexually assaulted a teenage girl, | :12:14. | :12:27. | |
resulting in her becoming pregnant, has been jailed today. | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
43-year-old Glen Sambrook pleaded guilty to 11 offences | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
The abuse took place over thirteen months. | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
Sambrook was sentenced to nine years in prison. | :12:42. | :12:43. | |
A school in the Yorkshire Dales which has just 12 pupils | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
Councillors have made a final decision to shut down | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
Horton-in-Ribblesdale Primary School at the end of the academic year. | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
They're concerned about its financial viability, | :12:52. | :12:53. | |
with pupil numbers set to fall even further. | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
Campaigners say the closure will be hugely damaging | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Work has begun in Brighouse on the construction | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
of the UK's highest man-made outdoor climbing wall. | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
Higher than both the Tower of London and the Angel of the North, | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
the wall at ROKT climbing centre in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
will see people reach heights of 36 metres. | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
It's costing ?75,000 and should open in the spring. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Huddersfield Town's FA Cup replay against Manchester City has been | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
The teams drew 0-0 at the John Smith's | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
The game at the Etihad Stadium will kick off at 7.45 and you'll be able | :13:33. | :13:44. | |
Awaiting the winner - a quarter final match | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
If a loved one collapsed in front of you, would you know what to do? | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
Luckily Carolyn Bjelan, who's from Harrogate, did. | :13:55. | :13:56. | |
She'd had training in CPR and saved her husband's life. | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
What's more, the drama was caught on camera by a film crew | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
with the air ambulance that came to help. | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
We'll be hearing from Carolyn in a moment, but first here's | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
what the film crew saw, and you may find some of the footage | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
Jovan Bjelan is 55, he was working on wiring when he collapsed and fell | :14:10. | :14:25. | |
six feet. Jovan is semiconscious, agitated, the result of his brain | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
being starved of oxygen. This daughter is trying to help calm him | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
down. He's had a cardiac event of some kind. There's a lump on the | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
back of his head. Right. If it was not for his wife's | :14:37. | :14:48. | |
knowledge of first aid he would be dead. I was upstairs drying my hair | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
and I heard a bang and I thought something had just fallen. By the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
time I got downstairs he wasn't breathing. I was able to administer | :14:58. | :15:07. | |
CPR. Jovan is continuing to struggle with his rescuers. It has been a | :15:08. | :15:18. | |
traumatic experience for his wife but it is clear she has saved his | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
life. I didn't want to be hanging over them bothering them, I wanted | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
to stand back and let them do their job because that is what they need | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
to do, they don't want some of the whimpering because it is | :15:32. | :15:40. | |
frightening, it's really scary. It sounds like you saved his life so | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
well done, a lot of people can't deal with that situation. He's | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
asleep no, this is doing his breathing for him. Would you follow? | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
Will follow. He's not allergic to anything. We'll look after him. And | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
you will, I'm confident you will. Well, Carolyn Bjelan joins us now, | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
along with Dr Jez Pinnell and Matt Syrat, one | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
of the paramedics we saw there. You were struggling to watch that, | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
Carolyn. Clearly a traumatic experience for you and your husband. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
How are you both know? We're fine, we are absolutely fine. He is | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
fighting fit, loving life. Tell us what happened, you heard a bang, | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
came downstairs, so your husband not breathing and what next? I realised | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
he'd had an accident but I thought he's fallen off a ladder or | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
something in the room. He was unconscious. So it didn't take long | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
for me to jump in and think, I need to do CPR, I need to start some sort | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
of CPR. Because he just wasn't breathing. So I was very concerned | :16:46. | :16:58. | |
about that. He... I know it's difficult to talk about. It is | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
difficult to talk about, more so than I expected it to be. He wasn't | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
breathing and also I was very concerned that he had a head injury. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
Initially I thought, I need to start my CPR and then I thought I need to | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
ring my Navan as well. I didn't realise how I would do that because | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
I needed to continue CPR so I put my phone on Speaker, dialled 909, | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
talked to the speaker and the paramedics came along and | :17:24. | :17:36. | |
took over. But they didn't take cover straightaway, I kept the CPR | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
going. Without my CPR training I would not have had the confidence to | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
administer that. It was a difficult situation. Where did you learn these | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
skills? I had done Brownies for years. It was part of the training. | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
I had to have the stage training. Because that had run out I thought I | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
needed to go on a refresher course so luckily I went on one just a few | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
weeks before I needed to use it. Matt, how critical was the CPR, | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
would the situation had been very difficult if she hadn't known what | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
to do? She did a fantastic job, without her life saving intervention | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
and her husband and out would have died that day. We can't stress | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
enough how important it is for people to learn how to do it. | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
Carolyn did a great job. Dr Jez Pinnell, you probably see these | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
incidents all the time in your job as a doctor, how hard is it to get | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
the training? It's very simple. It is often given in workplaces, a | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
number of organisations run courses for people, you can go online and | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
get some basic information from websites so it's not difficult at | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
all. Should people be afraid, because there is a tendency to | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
preview could do more harm than good. Is the opposite, you will do | :18:52. | :19:01. | |
more harm by doing nothing then doing something. Carolyn, you are | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
passionate about wanting schoolchildren to do something to | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
learn that this school. - this skill. The reason I'm here today | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
wanting to speak about it is that I am passionate about it and I would | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
like to see it as part of the National Curriculum. Children from | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
the age of 12 can do CPR. A lot of kids are available through the | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
British Heart Foundation that are accessible to schools. I think it's | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
just getting the message out there, how important it is to be CPR | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
trained, and to have the confidence to be able to administer it as well. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
But there are lots of different ways of learning it, lots of people can | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
get involved within that as well. But I think for schoolchildren, | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
especially at the moment with the as it is, I would like to say that the | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
LGI and the National health service that we have in the UK is amazing, | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
the LGI were incredible and I would like to give a really good thank you | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
to all the nurses and doctors who helped that day. We would like to | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
thank you all for coming in, sorry to interrupt but we have to stop | :20:06. | :20:06. | |
there. Thank you for coming in. A year ago Will Roberts | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
from Sheffield was overweight, out of shape and fond | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
of a few beers. But watching his mum suffer | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
from debilitating multiple sclerosis made him determined to get up | :20:16. | :20:17. | |
off the sofa. In that short space of time he's | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
become running-obsessed. Now he's about to take part | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
in the 150 mile Ice Ultra race in the sub-zero temperatures | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
of arctic Sweden to raise Mark Ansell's been to | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
see him in training. Will Roberts may look like | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
a seasoned athlete, but until very A little over a year ago | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
Will struggled to run just a couple He was drinking heavily | :20:43. | :20:51. | |
and out of shape. But now Will's got so into running | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
that he is taking on the Ice Ultra, a 150-mile | :20:55. | :21:04. | |
run in the Arctic. I was known for somebody | :21:05. | :21:06. | |
who could tuck away nine pints and a kebab | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
on a week night and still make day but not someone who could run | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
say, nine kilometres, let alone 230 which is what I'm going to have | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
to do in a couple of weeks' time. Well, it's a bleak day | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
here in the Peak District, minus two degrees, | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
bone chillingly cold, but it is nothing compared | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
to the conditions that Will will face | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
in north Sweden, where the temperatures will drop to -15 | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
degrees and so these snowshoes will When he isn't training | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
or at work Will visits his She is confined to her bed | :21:47. | :22:00. | |
because of the debilitating As part of the challenge | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Will is raising thousands of pounds | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
for the MS Society. And hoping that will go | :22:08. | :22:08. | |
towards, for them to try to That's how I've ended | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
up where I am, in bed all the time, because I've | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
lost the use of my legs. When Will is going through | :22:23. | :22:24. | |
five days of complete Sweden, he will be thinking of his | :22:25. | :22:37. | |
mum, who is his inspiration. If I can be half as tough as she has been | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
one I am on the ice I might just get there. BBC Look North, the Peak | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
District. That looks challenging. Well done to him, it's a lot to take | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
on. We wish him well. Finally tonight. | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
Meerkats are always popular with their mischievous | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
antics but could they also have therapeutic benefits? | :22:57. | :22:57. | |
Well it seems the answer is yes - so much so that one man | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
from North Yorkshire has been taking them into care homes | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
across the county and the results have been rather heartwarming, | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
Mia and Kat go into care homes to make | :23:07. | :23:19. | |
Today they are near York, at a care home for adults | :23:20. | :23:31. | |
Meerkat therapy is something Joe has just started | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
I've lived with animals all my life and to come | :23:35. | :23:46. | |
into a home where they only see animals occasionally but they have | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
never seen meerkats before, some of the residents | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
can't take their eyes off the meerkats. | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
This is the first time we've actually had the meerkat | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
therapy and judging by the smiles on everyone's faces, | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
I think it's been a really positive experience for them, | :23:59. | :24:00. | |
something they will remember for quite a long time. | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
With some people you can actually see that they are a | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
lot more animated and a lot more focused and they are actually | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
And getting enjoyment out of what they are watching. | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
Mia and Kat also go to visit nursing homes and dementia care homes. | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
They always stay in their pen on their | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
After a bit of a run around and lots of | :24:17. | :24:35. | |
excitement, the meerkats are returned safely to their pen. | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
Kat is the pack leader. Led the escape! And it won't be the last, | :24:43. | :24:51. | |
because they know how to get out now! | :24:52. | :24:53. | |
Mia and Kat are not the only visitors | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
Joe takes all kinds of animals into North Yorkshire care | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
But there is something strangely relaxing about watching meerkats and | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
their antics, meerkat therapy could be the next big thing. | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
They argued, aren't they! Our own little meerkat is here. I thought | :25:07. | :25:22. | |
they would be taller than that. They were quite small. And they are fast | :25:23. | :25:23. | |
as well. Let's look at some of your pictures, | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
thank you for sending them in. Some lovely ones today, some clear skies | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
this morning, a bit of blue sky, some are a bit cloudy, let's look at | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the next one. We are starting to see weather Watchers's pictures pointing | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
down now, flowers there, I think there's might be crocuses. You can | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
get in touch of calls and send your pictures in. Let me know if you | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
think those are crocuses. I'm on Twitter! Today it turned pretty | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
cloudy with outbreaks of rain and tomorrow we will hang on to some of | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
that rain first thing and the cloud. But it will brighten as we had | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
through the day. This weather front continuing to pile in from the West, | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
is heavy spells of rain across North Yorkshire, west Yorkshire and South | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Yorkshire, we think if it moves towards the east it will fizzle out | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
and this is the boundary between mild air that we've seen today and | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
cold are reflected in the overnight low temperatures down to about five | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Celsius across northern areas. Tomorrow, high water at Scarborough, | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
at 710, it's getting earlier. Behind that band of rain will welcome | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
something brighter, we will see more in the way of sunshine, it will be a | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
bit colder tomorrow, though, I think the freshening breeze, taking the | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
edge of the temperatures but I think it will probably get to nine or 10 | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
Celsius. In the more prolonged spells of sunshine, maybe something | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
a bit higher than that but if you are out and about certainly feeling | :27:03. | :27:12. | |
cooler than it has felt in the last few days. OK, there's a lot of talk | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
about Storm Doris. Here it comes, the next named storm coming in from | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
the West and affecting us across Yorkshire by Thursday. The air | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
spinning around low pressure in an anticlockwise fashion pulling in | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
cold air from the north, strong winds and heavy rain, snow on high | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
ground, on the website we have some weather warnings in force so it | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
could be pretty nasty, guys. Doris isn't good. When did the quest | :27:36. | :27:44. | |
comeback! It suits you. Gives you height. That's as far as we go, have | :27:45. | :27:46. | |
a good evening. Bye bye. Nawal El Saadawi, | :27:47. | :27:55. | |
the world-renowned Egyptian author A fearless feminist | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
facing a world in turmoil. Imagine... | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
She Spoke The Unspeakable. | :28:08. | :28:11. |