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:00:11. > :00:15.Good evening - policing across Yorkshire has been stepped up
:00:16. > :00:17.following yesterday's terrorist attack at Westminster in which four
:00:18. > :00:21.There are more armed officers on the streets
:00:22. > :00:22.at railway stations, shopping centres and
:00:23. > :00:29.In a special programme, we'll speak to those caught up
:00:30. > :00:31.in the terrifying attacks and we'll hear how Yorkshire's
:00:32. > :00:33.different communities are vowing to stand together.
:00:34. > :00:35.But first our Home Affairs Correspondent Spencer Stokes reports
:00:36. > :00:43.200 miles north of Westminster, a very visible sign that
:00:44. > :00:45.what happened at Parliament yesterday has had
:00:46. > :00:55.Armoured police on patrol in Leeds this morning and police forces
:00:56. > :01:03.across the county increasing the amount of uniformed officers.
:01:04. > :01:12.The intention is to hear share -- reassure. There is no intelligence
:01:13. > :01:16.about an imminent threat. The national security levels have been
:01:17. > :01:22.severe for some time but there is no change. It is right in the wake of
:01:23. > :01:27.such a tragic incident to provide that reassurance. In Bradford, hints
:01:28. > :01:32.that security has been beefed up, a move welcomed by some. It does
:01:33. > :01:38.benefit people more to have more security. It is important to have a
:01:39. > :01:44.safe environment for people in general so I think it is quite
:01:45. > :01:51.positive. I do not feel a bit safe, I think it is a threat all the time.
:01:52. > :01:53.Yesterday's attack was startlingly simple, the
:01:54. > :01:59.weapons a vehicle and a knife but that simplicity had been foreseen.
:02:00. > :02:03.Two weeks ago, the head of counterterrorism in Yorkshire and
:02:04. > :02:06.the North East told Look North about measures to foil this kind of
:02:07. > :02:10.Nationally right now, since 2014, our threat level has been
:02:11. > :02:12.assessed as severe which means an attack is highly likely.
:02:13. > :02:14.When we think about what has happened in
:02:15. > :02:19.Europe over the last few months in terms of the horrific
:02:20. > :02:22.attacks with the HGVs, and in terms of knife attacks
:02:23. > :02:25.broader than somebody leaving a suspicious package on public
:02:26. > :02:33.transport or something of that nature.
:02:34. > :02:39.The authorities have been preparing for the kind of terror assault we
:02:40. > :02:46.saw yesterday in London. These planters actually hide huge concrete
:02:47. > :02:50.blocks which would make it harder for a vehicle to drive into a
:02:51. > :02:53.pedestrianised area. Today has also been a date respect for those who
:02:54. > :02:54.died. at half-mast across Yorkshire
:02:55. > :03:15.and Questions have been raised about
:03:16. > :03:21.whether police should be armed. This is something which has to be
:03:22. > :03:29.addressed, it is important we expect people that we protect people. It is
:03:30. > :03:35.nearly 12 years since lives were claimed in such a manner in this
:03:36. > :03:38.country but yesterday's attack will have civil, political and community
:03:39. > :03:44.repercussions. Panic, fear, all hell
:03:45. > :03:46.breaking loose. The words of some of those caught up
:03:47. > :03:48.in yesterday's terror attack. The palace of Westminster
:03:49. > :03:51.was locked down for hours, among those trapped inside most
:03:52. > :03:53.of the regions MP's and some students from the
:03:54. > :03:55.University of Sheffield. the work of the emmergency services
:03:56. > :03:59.and vowed they will not allow Though today it's been business
:04:00. > :04:14.as usual for some this attack has I could hear a woman screaming there
:04:15. > :04:24.was a man with a gun. I ran into a cupboard with six others, they
:04:25. > :04:27.prefer from the House of Lords. I never feeling absolutely terrified.
:04:28. > :04:29.I was upstairs in the refreshments and I saw our body. Someone was
:04:30. > :04:34.talking about as shooting. A security guard ran in and said get
:04:35. > :04:42.away from the glass, that was really frightening. After that it was just
:04:43. > :04:48.we had people stealing out of the window, there seem to be chaos, we
:04:49. > :04:53.saw officers running everywhere -- everywhere. We were told to get to
:04:54. > :05:00.another part of a building. As soon as we all got together, I think we
:05:01. > :05:05.knew we were all going to be fine. All this security services and the
:05:06. > :05:09.emergency services did such a great job at keeping us calm and
:05:10. > :05:13.collected. They did not know what was going on either and they were
:05:14. > :05:18.really good at feeding back information about the situation as
:05:19. > :05:27.it unfolded. We shall no observe a minute's silence. The fact we were
:05:28. > :05:34.all back in Parliament today sums up we will not be deterred by this kind
:05:35. > :05:37.of action. It was very sombre. Killing a lot of sadness about the
:05:38. > :05:44.deaths, not only the police officer but the people on the bridges as
:05:45. > :05:49.well. Yesterday an act of terrorism tried to silence our democracy but
:05:50. > :05:53.today we meet as normal. It was very sombre, people were quite and
:05:54. > :05:57.respectful but we are going about our business. We had a fantastic
:05:58. > :06:03.statement from the Prime Minister and tributes to the fallen from
:06:04. > :06:09.colleagues today. Terror, these lunatics will not defeat democracy
:06:10. > :06:12.and I am glad to day business is as usual in the Commons. Those who
:06:13. > :06:17.attack us hate our freedom. So much sorrow for the people who died and
:06:18. > :06:23.were injured. People are all struggling with the death of the
:06:24. > :06:29.police officer. The police are phenomenal. Nigel Evans said today,
:06:30. > :06:34.we see them checking identification and we seek taking selfies with
:06:35. > :06:38.them, they are just amazing, they go beyond the call of duty everyday and
:06:39. > :06:47.to think he died protecting us, it is really hard to accept. The quick
:06:48. > :06:50.thinking of another Yorkshire MP saved thousands of innocent
:06:51. > :06:54.bystanders from being caught up in the terror attack yesterday.
:06:55. > :06:57.Mary Creagh - the Labour MP for Wakefield was on her way to vote
:06:58. > :06:59.in the Commons when she heard the shots outside.
:07:00. > :07:02.She immediately ran to shut down Westminster tube station -
:07:03. > :07:04.not knowing whether the attacker was still at large.
:07:05. > :07:17.It is good to say you are well, what was going through your mind when you
:07:18. > :07:22.heard the shots? I was just on my way to go and vote in parliament.
:07:23. > :07:27.People were running towards me seeing someone had fired shots, that
:07:28. > :07:32.is a shooter outside. When people say things like that, you do not
:07:33. > :07:38.wait to be told a second time. There was only one exit out of the
:07:39. > :07:41.building, into the tube. The contrast between the chaos and fear
:07:42. > :07:44.I had left behind and the tranquillity of Westminster Tube
:07:45. > :07:49.station, with tourists and people milling around, I just thought, we
:07:50. > :07:54.have to tell the control room that something bad has happened and they
:07:55. > :07:59.have to get everyone out of you as quickly as possible and not out into
:08:00. > :08:04.a very violent incident which was still unfolding. It was very quick
:08:05. > :08:11.thinking. Today, 24 hours or one, has it sunk in what you did? Not
:08:12. > :08:18.really. I was Shadow Transport Secretary for a while and I have
:08:19. > :08:23.some experience, I visited security control centres for Transport for
:08:24. > :08:27.London, I have talked to police and transport workers about improvements
:08:28. > :08:32.Putin after the bomb attacks 12 years ago so I knew there was a good
:08:33. > :08:35.security response that would be in place but what I wondered about was
:08:36. > :08:41.whether they knew what was happening. In an incident like that,
:08:42. > :08:45.my instinct was to try and go and help somebody or do something, that
:08:46. > :08:50.was the only thing I could think of which was useful to do. Once I had
:08:51. > :08:55.done that, I went outside and joined my colleagues, we were just standing
:08:56. > :09:00.around. I remembered that new Scotland Yard had just opened 100
:09:01. > :09:04.metres down the road and I suggested that we went to the police station
:09:05. > :09:09.which would be the safest place for us so we walked down the embankment,
:09:10. > :09:12.totally unaware of what happened on the bridge and banged on the windows
:09:13. > :09:18.to get the police officers to let us in. Thankfully you were then safe.
:09:19. > :09:24.How important was for the house to sit as usual today and for business
:09:25. > :09:29.to go on as normal? I think what we saw yesterday was an attempted
:09:30. > :09:33.attack on our democracy. It is an attack that the police, medical and
:09:34. > :09:38.emergency services had planned for but it is an attack we always pray
:09:39. > :09:42.does not come. That attack was defeated and we showed how it was
:09:43. > :09:47.defeated by standing together across the country and across our great
:09:48. > :09:52.capital city by our parliament meeting as usual and debating a wide
:09:53. > :09:58.range of issues and debates that go on as normal, I think there was a
:09:59. > :10:03.debate on the site of an incinerator today. As I was leaving today, that
:10:04. > :10:07.was going on. We needed to stand together and as a family of
:10:08. > :10:11.Parliament, we needed to come together and show our solidarity
:10:12. > :10:16.with the family of the-year-old police officer PC Keith Palmer who
:10:17. > :10:23.ran towards the attacker as we were running outside the building. Our
:10:24. > :10:29.thoughts are with the little girl who will be left without her father.
:10:30. > :10:34.Absolutely, our thoughts are with them. In what way will yesterday's
:10:35. > :10:39.events change the way you work as an MP? We have had a lot more security
:10:40. > :10:48.adviser upgrades since the terrorist murder Jo Cox last June. So we feel
:10:49. > :10:51.better protected in our constituencies and our homes and
:10:52. > :10:57.Parliament has seen huge security upgrades in the last 12 years, much
:10:58. > :11:04.better alarm systems Putin. There will be a review but that is a
:11:05. > :11:09.discussion for another day. But we have to keep our parliament, which
:11:10. > :11:13.is the home of human rights, free speech and our fundamental freedoms,
:11:14. > :11:18.open to our constituents, schoolchildren and the people who
:11:19. > :11:22.live and work there to show that we are open and functioning democracy.
:11:23. > :11:26.Thank you so much for your time tonight. We will have to leave it
:11:27. > :11:31.there. We will have more on top story later in the programme.
:11:32. > :11:33.West Yorkshire Police have charged 29 people with a number
:11:34. > :11:37.The offences are alleged to have happened in the Huddersfield area
:11:38. > :11:40.Our reporter David Rhodes joins us now from Huddersfield.
:11:41. > :11:56.29 people have been charged by West Yorkshire Police, 27 of them are
:11:57. > :12:00.believed to be male. Two are believed to be female. They have
:12:01. > :12:06.been charged this afternoon with a range of alleged historical offences
:12:07. > :12:10.which include the rape and sexual exploitation of children. The
:12:11. > :12:15.possession and supply of class a drugs as well as child abduction and
:12:16. > :12:22.the distribution and intention to make indecent images of children.
:12:23. > :12:28.What we know about the victims? Very few details from the police. We know
:12:29. > :12:32.there are 18 alleged victims, all of them are alleged to have lived in
:12:33. > :12:37.the Huddersfield area when these offences were supposed to be
:12:38. > :12:43.committed. The police have told us the victims were aged between 11 and
:12:44. > :12:47.17 at the time. All of those charged by the police will appear at
:12:48. > :12:52.Huddersfield's magistrates Court on the 12th of April. Thank you very
:12:53. > :12:54.much. Other news from around our region.
:12:55. > :12:57.Nat West has announced a number of high street branch
:12:58. > :13:00.The bank says people are choosing to do business in different ways.
:13:01. > :13:03.Almost a dozen branches mainly in North and West
:13:04. > :13:05.Between 2010 and 2015, online transactions increased
:13:06. > :13:07.by more than 400% and mobile transactions by more
:13:08. > :13:14.A pregnant woman from Leeds has appeared in court in Rwanda -
:13:15. > :13:16.on charges of spreading state secrets to undermine President Paul
:13:17. > :13:21.Violett Uwamahoro, a Rwandan-British youth
:13:22. > :13:25.Her husband - who is an opposition activist -
:13:26. > :13:29.He and her two sons have asked the UK government to intervene,
:13:30. > :13:39.saying they fear the trial is fixed and cannot be fair.
:13:40. > :13:41.Some of the school children who were visiting the Houses
:13:42. > :13:44.of Parliament when yesterday's terror attack happened have returned
:13:45. > :13:47.The Year five youngsters from Herringthorpe Junior School had
:13:48. > :13:53.to be taken to safety as gunshots sounded outside.
:13:54. > :13:56.Parents have had an anxious 24 hours and were relieved
:13:57. > :14:16.Back home safe and sound, to my coaches drove through the school
:14:17. > :14:20.gates this afternoon. Their school trip shortened because of the terror
:14:21. > :14:23.attack. They were in the Houses of Parliament at the time, they were
:14:24. > :14:27.just about to start their tour of the building. They were inside at
:14:28. > :14:34.the engines when they were alerted to what was happened and taking --
:14:35. > :14:38.and taken away somewhere safe. The children did not know much about
:14:39. > :14:42.what was going on outside and were kept inside parliament for three
:14:43. > :14:46.hours until the police said it was safe to leave. There are
:14:47. > :14:51.schoolchildren being escorted away from the Palace of Westminster...
:14:52. > :14:55.The Prime Minister was asked if it was safe for school trips to
:14:56. > :15:03.continue to Parliament. Showing the value of Parliament is an important
:15:04. > :15:06.part of that. I think it is important for children and to see
:15:07. > :15:12.her Parliament works and wave it is housed. After an anxious 24 hours,
:15:13. > :15:15.the children were finally reunited with their families, the relief on
:15:16. > :15:25.their faces playing to see as tonight. I am very sorry for this
:15:26. > :15:29.tragedy. Just not knowing and not being able to speak to him was the
:15:30. > :15:39.worst part of it. It has been a restless night, I am just happy that
:15:40. > :15:45.all the children are well. I have, I have given him a long hug and a kid.
:15:46. > :15:48.This was the school's first ever trip to the Houses of Parliament and
:15:49. > :15:54.it is a trip these youngsters will probably remember for the rest of
:15:55. > :15:56.their lives. Good to have them home safe and sound.
:15:57. > :15:58.So how has Yorkshire responded to the attacks
:15:59. > :16:02.Our reporter Abi Jaiyeola has spent the day on the streets of Leeds
:16:03. > :16:04.where people were determined to show solidarity.
:16:05. > :16:12.In the aftermath of the attack come calls for unity.
:16:13. > :16:14.The Muslim community in Leeds is going
:16:15. > :16:15.through the same emotions as
:16:16. > :16:17.anyone else in the country, the sense of fear, shock
:16:18. > :16:20.and repulsion but we are not afraid, we will not
:16:21. > :16:31.looking after your own, it is simply about doing
:16:32. > :16:37.It is 12 years since the 7/7 bombs in the capital.
:16:38. > :16:40.Two of the four men who orchestrated those
:16:41. > :16:45.Today people express their sadness but also a
:16:46. > :16:55.It feels like yesterday, it brought all the memory back again.
:16:56. > :16:58.I am really upset and I cried when I watched.
:16:59. > :17:00.It is not the same, people are not the same,
:17:01. > :17:13.They are saying Muslims are all the same, it is not fair for them.
:17:14. > :17:18.Communities need to stand together and get something worked out.
:17:19. > :17:20.So-called Islamic state has claimed responsibility for what
:17:21. > :17:23.In Leeds there are some fears that the
:17:24. > :17:25.attacks will cause tensions between communities.
:17:26. > :17:27.Any terrorist activity which happens anywhere in the world
:17:28. > :17:33.weather home or abroad, the Muslim community feel victims of
:17:34. > :17:35.Islamophobia that ensues straight after the terrorist attack.
:17:36. > :17:37.At this mosque in Leeds, prayers will be
:17:38. > :17:40.said for those who lost their lives in Westminster.
:17:41. > :17:42.These terrorists want to divide communities and
:17:43. > :17:49.The more we stand together - we have more in common
:17:50. > :18:00.than not and we must show that to terrorists.
:18:01. > :18:03.For one Yorkshire family, the Westminster attacks
:18:04. > :18:09.They are Brendan Cox and Kim, Jean and Gordon Leadbeater.
:18:10. > :18:13.loved one, Jo Cox MP, also died at the hands
:18:14. > :18:16.They've been giving their thoughts on how best to respond
:18:17. > :18:26.to what they've described as an 'act of evil.'
:18:27. > :18:29.Once again the flag flown by Battley Town Hall is at half-mast.
:18:30. > :18:33.The town knows how feels to lose someone to
:18:34. > :18:35.terrorism - when SNP Jo Cox was murdered
:18:36. > :18:38.the response was an outpouring of grief and love.
:18:39. > :18:40.Today Jo Cox's Husband Brendan articulated his
:18:41. > :18:42.determination to focus not on the perpetrator
:18:43. > :18:45.of the Westminster attack but on the victims.
:18:46. > :18:47.Yesterday there was one act of evil but there
:18:48. > :18:54.are thousands of acts of kindness and heroism.
:18:55. > :19:03.PC Palmer for example who put his life on the line and
:19:04. > :19:05.died defending people, to the people who are helping
:19:06. > :19:08.Jo Cox's sister and parents have also
:19:09. > :19:26.One of the reasons that people do these things
:19:27. > :19:30.is to gain notoriety, they want to make a name for themselves.
:19:31. > :19:33.One of the things we should do is make sure
:19:34. > :19:35.we keep the emphasis not on them, I do not
:19:36. > :19:40.care what is the name of the
:19:41. > :19:43.person who killed Jo, I want to remember the person I loved.
:19:44. > :19:48.Remembering this first and foremast, that impact on
:19:49. > :19:51.individual's lives should be at the forefront of our minds today.
:19:52. > :19:54.Last month the family launched plans for a
:19:55. > :19:55.community get-together in June which seems even
:19:56. > :20:14.They are inspiring words from a family that has known
:20:15. > :20:30.Pictures there of the sister and parents of Jo Cox.