30/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

The mother of three guilty of a terrorism

offence after retweeting an Islamic State speech.

A major new theme park for Rotherham,

as the scheme clears the final planning hurdle.

Find out how the breathtaking skies above Australia suddenly became

How tempting treats helped to give the city of York

the sweet smell of success over the centuries.

Temperatures have reached 18 Celsius in places. Will this lovely weather

last into the weekend? Join me for the detailed forecast.

A mother-of-three who was convicted of a terrorism offence

after she retweeted a speech by the Islamic State has today

57-year-old Mary Kaya, from Batley in West Yorkshire,

retweeted the link to an audio clip, which the judge called

She was today handed a 21 month prison sentence

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Spencer Stokes.

Mary Kaya, seen here on the left are arriving at court

She was found guilty earlier this month of disseminating a terrorist

publication on the social media website Twitter.

That publication was a speech written by the leader of so-called

At 6:20am on 21st October 2015, police from the north-east

counterterrorism unit burst into Mary Kaya's home

They arrested her, her husband and took her three children

Then her computer was seized to find out exactly

During the four-day long trial, the court had heard that Kaya

retweeted a link to the IS speech and that her computer had also

been used to research radical Islamic preachers,

IS supporters, people who travelled to Syria and footage of explosions.

But viewing such footage is not the same as disseminating it.

And Kaya's defence had argued she hadn't been attempting

In court, Judge Peter Collier handed down a two-year

He said, "It doesn't seem to me that you pose any danger to the public.

Immediate custody would not serve any purpose."

But he warned others who did the same in the future

And that happened in Sheffield this afternoon, when a 22-year-old woman

was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to 20 months in prison after

pleading guilty to disseminating terrorist material online.

In Leeds, free to go, after sentencing, Mary Kaya was told

she must continue to attend Prevent training to stop people

Spencer Stokes, BBC Look North, Leeds.

Well, earlier I spoke to Nick Robinson, a Social Media

Radicalisation expert at the University of Leeds.

I asked him how the police could prove that the women

were intending to encourage terrorism.

There are two fundamental questions, I guess.

One is, what is the nature of the content itself?

And is that content seem to be highly damaging,

ethically problematic, excessively violent or what have you?

And is also the very act of using social media in and of

Quite often at the moment in the conversation about

social media, we see social media not just as a place in which

information is exchanged, but as a place where

people come together and

create communities, which build affinities for certain kinds of

viewpoints, and that is where the conversation about social media

Where do we draw the line between radicalisation

That I think is the fundamentally thorniest question of all.

With social media at the moment, I think we've decided that it's

So, in other words, it's free to move material around

and the post office, or the postal service,

isn't responsible for what that material is.

That, I think, is the position we're at at the moment,

but it raises incredibly complicated ethical and moral questions.

So, is the message then, think before you tweet?

Or are you putting the onus on the actual company,

Well, on a purely personal level, I do think there is a balance here.

At the moment your viewers may well be aware that the Government has

introduced law in December 2016 to put an onus on the Internet

service providers to retain records of all of our social media

So that the police can get access to that. They are very unhappy about

that. But I do think at the moment it is absolutely imperative that

people do take responsibility for their own behaviour. I mean, if you

were to shout or at tax on the industry, you could be prosecuted

for that. So to shout or attack somebody on social media could be

seen as exactly the same kind of action. OK, Nick Robinson, thank you

very much for your time this evening.

Smokers under the age of 50 are more than eight times as likely

as non-smokers to suffer a major heart attack, according to research

The study found that all smokers are at increased risk

but younger ones are particularly vulnerable compared to those

Our health correspondent Jamie Coulson reports.

Until a couple of months ago, Trevor Rossall thought he was fit

and reasonably healthy, despite being a smoker

the 39-year-old exercise, ate healthily and drink in moderation.

But at the end of January, he developed severe chest pains,

which turned out to be a life-threatening heart attack.

I went to hospital with severe indigestion, never for one minute

thought that it was anything other than severe indigestion.

To be told that I'd had a heart attack was very scary.

Every time you smoke, blood that's thick and dirty

with toxins circulates through your body in seconds,

increasing your chances of a heart attack.

There are plenty of warnings that make it fairly clear that smoking

is bad for your health, but now researchers have been able

to quantify exactly how much of a risk smoking has

on your chances of having a heart attack.

So, this is a left coronary angiogram...

The study, which was led by Sheffield teaching hospitals,

looked at the admission data for more than 1700 patients who had

experienced a classic type of heart attack,

where one of the major arteries becomes blocked.

The information was then compared to local populations' smoking

Research has found that smokers are more than three times

as likely as nonsmokers to have a heart attack.

At in the under 50s, who tend not to have other

contributory factors, smokers were more than

However, the risk of a heart attack in ex-smokers was similar to those

I think if you're a smoker, you're at significant risk

These heart attacks are preventable, and by abstaining you can

reduce your risk to a level similar to a nonsmoker in a relatively

Trevor has now given up smoking and is starting to rebuild

70 years on, we look back at the nationalisation

The MP for Dewsbury has said she's "appalled and heartbroken" by recent

reports that schoolgirls in Leeds are playing truant because they

The issue was raised by Paula Sheriff in the House

of Commons this afternoon, and this morning, tens of thousands

of packs of sanitary towels were donated to a charity to hand

A delivery of essentials, over 1000 boxes of sanitary towels for girls

who can't afford them, donated by a charity and delivered to a food

distribution centre in Leeds, they will be sent out to schools along

with cereal for breakfast clubs. So these are sample packs, most of them

that have been delivered. This is just one day's worth. It's going to

make a huge difference, I think, to the girls who need it. Obviously not

all girls need it, people can afford sanitary protection. But the ones

who don't, can't afford it or are struggling, we can now supply them,

and that's great. The donation was prompted after some teenagers in

Leeds admitted staying at home when they had a period because they

didn't have or couldn't afford sanitary products. Their stories

were first reported by radio Leeds and then Radio 4's women's hour.

I wrapped a sock around my underwear just to stop the bleeding,

because I didn't want to get shouted at.

And I wrapped a whole tissue roll around my underwear just

to keep my underwear dry til I got home.

They can be expensive. For a pack like this, you're looking at about

?1. The prices vary enormously and I just been checking online and you

can get a supermarket own brand for just 30p, so it is possible to do it

cheaper. But whichever way you look at it, if you have a couple of

daughters in one family, the monthly bill will add up. This afternoon the

MP for Dewsbury raised the issue in the House of Commons. I would urge

the government to raise the question of how period poverty can be tackled

in schools, including education and looking at the possibility of

providing eligibility for free school meals to provide sanitary

towels to young girls. Now, this batch of donated sanitary ware will

go some way to helping those in need.

A North Yorkshire care home has been fined ?50,000

following the death of one of its residents who jumped

Dora Strickland, who was 90, took her own life at the red lodge

The owners of the home - the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust -

were found guilty of failing to adequately asses

Since 2011, we have implemented a robust risk assessment related

to windows in our care homes, and will learn any lessons from this

case to ensure we continue to put residents and their safety

and well-being at the heart of what we do.

We want to reassure our residents and families in all our care homes

that they are safe and will continue to receive high-quality care.

A man has appeared in court in Leeds denying owning a dog that attacked

and killed another man in Huddersfield last year.

David Ellam died in hospital last August after being bitten

as he was out walking his own dog in Sheepridge.

Aaron Joseph told the court that the dog which attacked

He was released on conditional bail and a provisional trial date

The Government's being urged to introduce tougher sentences

for drink-drivers, after the death of a teenager from West Yorkshire.

19-year-old Callum Wark from Swillington was killed three

years ago when his car was hit by a lorry driven by a man three

The MP for Elmet and Rothwell, Alec Shelbrooke, told the Commons

the man responsible will soon be freed from jail.

Those who cause death by drink-driving should face a

manslaughter charge rather than the current charge which carries a

maximum sentence of ten years. Callum's killer just got seven years

and will serve only three and a half years before returning to his home

country of Bulgarian, where he will be free to drive unrestricted once

again. Hundreds of jobs could be

created at a new theme park Gulliver's, who already run

a park at Matlock Bath, It will be built on land

near the Rother Valley country park, And Ian White can tell us about it

now. Soon a theme park similar to this one will be up and running in

South Yorkshire. Eight site next to the Rother Valley country Park near

Rotherham has been identified and after much toing and froing been

given planning permission to be home to the new Gulliver's Kingdom. We've

been looking for a site where we can bring all the best bits of Gulliver

's together in one site and for that we need area. 250 acres in Rother

Valley have allowed us to do that. Many of Rotherham's traditional

industries are long gone, so a new theme park will bring around 250 two

jobs to an area which desperately needs them. It's a classic example

of the private sector and public sector working hand in glove. We

have a tanning team that are very focused on delivery and we work very

closely with the company to make this project come to fruition. The

company promises a wide range of jobs, with the chance for young

people to make a real career in the industry. People like Scott who

works in the leisure, legs at Matlock Bath. I didn't realise there

would be such a variety of careers and such a chance to progress within

the company. I came with the chance to earn some money over the summer

antennae as late I have worked my way up. We really believe in growing

organically. We will start relatively small and as people get

used to us and we see what the reaction is, we will then keep

increasing and putting that money back into the same project and

increasing it as we have done for the last 40 years. With signatures

barely dry on all the documentation, there have already been 300

inquiries for local people looking to work at the new leisure Park.

We will keep you updated as that story progresses over the weeks and

months ahead. It's been 70 years since

the nationalisation of the coal industry and we've had a sneak peak

at a new exhibition "By the People For the People" opens

at the National Coal The subject of nationalisation has

long been a political hot potato and the curators say this

exhitibiton is already Our correspondent Danni Hewson

has been for a look. These are key men in Britain's key

industry. The Second World War was over and Britain was trying to get

back on its feet. Coal meant power and power meant progress. So the

struggling mining industry was brought into public ownership. The

output that was needed to rebuild Britain couldn't have happened under

private ownership. So nationalisation allowed that massive

influx of investment to be made and it certainly wrought huge, positive

changes. These changes deliberately romanticise the newly nationalised

coal industry. They are a snapshot of history. But even in the present,

debates about the pros and cons of nationalisation keep recurring. And

this exhibition seeks to provoke debate. There's even a fantasy

Question Time panel featuring figures who have impacted one way or

another on industries from coal to rail. For the artist, it's been a

unique challenge. It's trying to get under the skin of them as well. And

understand the road evasion or the stories behind even the famous

people, I think, and show maybe a bit of a hidden if possible. Here,

it was hard not to go too far on Margaret Thatcher.

CHUCKLES There's no way you can push politics

aside here. While clearly nationalisation wasn't a panacea,

many former miners say it brought the kind of security that vanished

when the industry returned to private hands. The problem we had

over the last 20 years is that we didn't have the security that we had

before and people were for ever looking over their shoulder and

wondering when was their job going to go next? Whereas when I first

started in 1971, you didn't have that problem. You went to the pit,

you had a job for life. Deep mining's story may be over but this

chapter at least is being remembered.

Four lucky schoolgirls from Wakefield were chosen to do

some intercontinental star-spotting on the BBC's Stargazing Live

Wakefield, did you know this, is one of the most light-polluted

But the girls were able to access the pristine dark skies

of Australia and New Mexico using the latest online technology.

It meant that they could remotely access huge eye telescopes

to get some amazing views, like this, of the night sky.

Before I start talking to you, I just have to show you where I am.

The roof opened up just a couple of minutes ago for you,

So, have you decided which object you're going to try

We've had a look at the Horsehead nebula, the Tarantula nebula

and the Orion nebula, and we think we're going to go

I feel like I should challenge you to try that one!

Well, I tell you something, they have come down to earth with a bunch

tonight, because the girls are here the night! Georgia, Francoise, Emma

and Himaja. It was a great experience for us, we learned so

much. In the run-up to taking the images, we were very fortunate we

had some training from Doctor Christian and that was really good

because he explained to us how the telescopes work. Himaja, this was

one of the most explains -- space amazing week spirits is you could

have come how come you were chosen to do it? We were all brilliant

wristed in physics at school and enjoy the lessons and we were

interested in astronomy as well, there is astronomy club, which we

attended. Emma, let me ask you first of all, there's always this great

hope that you might just find something new out there. What is the

main thing that you were looking for last night or hoped to find, really?

We were just looking for the Horsehead nebula, that was what we

want to define but we also saw the tarantula dealer and the Orion

nebula, so that has been really interesting. There is a programme

looking for the ninth planet and that is something viewers can do on

the Internet. Georgia, was this something you had looked into before

is this really a new interest? This is a new interest, I'd not really

done anything like this before. But having taken part in the programme,

I will try to get more involved in future. I've got a telescope at home

and I do my level best virtually every night to try to find a star

out there but I can't even find the bloomin Moon! Do you need a special

telescope or could someone like me actually do it? Come on, tell me. It

depends. For us, we're quite lucky, the telescopes that we used, there

was a lot of software that does it for you. See, that is not any kind

of telescope is it? We're not going to see that! These telescopes are

special because they are very big and the refraction is less, so it

will fix onto a guiding star, it will follow the turning of the

Earth. That is a lot easier than just using a manual telescope. It's

funny because Paul Hudson, our Web man, is a bit of a planned three

expert. He will be fascinated by this. I know there is a search going

on at the moment for a hidden planet, is that right? Have I got

that right? The age of the solar system. I think so, I think it is in

the Kuiper Belt. I know it well! Geld, I don't want to sound sexist

here, but isn't it more likely that boys tend to be more interested in

astronomy, or has all that changed? I think it can be seen as more of a

boys thing, but particularly at our school it's not like that and there

are plenty of girls interested in physics, so I think things are

changing for the better. Do you think this has got your duty as so

much that you will go on with this for years now? Our physics teacher

at school has really encouraged us to try to get involved, so we will

try to keep it up. Future Christmas presents, are we looking at

telescopes? Yeah! Well done, keep that enthusiasm going. It's been

lovely to talk to you. Thank you. Cue bunnies, eggs and all

things chocolatey. In York they really know a thing

or two about chocolate. The city is still the home of Nestle

and used to employ thousands in the confectionery

trade at Terry's. It's prompted the Castle Museum

to celebrate York's sweet links. Cathy Killick's been

for a look round. # And your name

# Does the same for years # By coincidence... We have indulged

our taste for sweets since the 15 hundredths, but now the Castle

Museum in York is celebrating all things sweet. Mr Joseph Rowntree and

Mr Terry established chocolate factories in York in Victorian

times. There is a new sweet shop in town full of delicious looking

goodies in but careful, these are decades old. Here is Terry 's desert

chocolate apple, the forerunner of the chocolate Orange. It wasn't

chocolate flavoured but it would be delivered to guess that the end of

the meal. This item here is his round cocoa tin Kameni took this on

an expedition to the Arctic in 1910 but brought it back I'm used. These

lozenges were stamped with little flirty messages, are you in love,

will you marry me? The lozenges can tell old tales. I want a wife... Ask

mama... Oh, you vixen! Over these dollar days we will be

demonstrating making chocolate eggs and the outlook will be able to come

in and try some of their home. I see you've been very busy, they look

great. And also some conversation lozenges. Very nice, just for us.

There's no girl like a Yorkshire girl for dexterity and quickness in

squeezing out the swirls of chocolate. At least that's what they

say! Chocolate made York rich and famous, so it's a past worth

celebrating. BBC Look North, York. Good to see I'm not nearly one who

loves you! Paul, you are fascinated by the

girls coming in and talking about astronomy. On a Friday night, you

love to look through a telescope! I do, most weekends will stop you got

a really powerful telescope, I've no idea why you can't see the stars...

Me and you could have a Saturday night together with a look at the

night sky. I can hardly wait! pictures that came in in the last

24-hour is, that is Sheffield. That is the golf course overlooking the

city. The second picture that has come in from Cannon Hall, with the

flowers looking really nice. Keep the pictures coming in. The BBC

weather Watchers website or tweet them to me. Let's have a look at the

rooftop camera because it has been an exceptional March day,

temperatures in Sheffield at five o'clock reaching 19 degrees, which

actually is the average for early June, so it has been exceptionally

warm. The next couple of days not looking too bad, a little bit

fresher but averages will still be on the warm side. Sunny spells and

scattered showers, that is the headline for Friday. Just a heads up

for the weekend, Sunday looks to be the best date and that ridge of high

pressure means all parts will be dry with some sunshine, one or two

showers on Friday but it is not that bad as we head into early April.

What a contrast north-west to south-east. Sheffield and Augusta

into Lincolnshire, temperatures 19-21 , but it has been very wet at

times across the Yorkshire Dales and continuing to see rain pulsing up

from the south-west, areas towards Leeming and Topcliffe quite wet for

a time. But that is going to push away northwards, so I suspect

eastern parts of Yorkshire will be largely dry, just one or two

showers, and certainly a very mild night to come and a breezy one with

temperatures as low as 11 Celsius. The sun rises in the morning at

6:43am. A bit of patchy rain possible in the West first thing,

that will relax away northwards. Skies will brighten and then it is a

day of variable cloud, some sunshine but always the risk of one or two

showers breaking out especially through the afternoon. One or two of

those could be on the heavy side, isolated features and then into

tomorrow evening it looks like the showers will die away and we will

all end up on a fine and sunny note. The temperature is a little down on

today's values but not to be sniffed at for the end of March, 16 Celsius

the high, that is a very pleasant 61 Fahrenheit. So, the further outlook,

Saturday a little bit of instability means we could see one or two

showers breaking out and it will be a cooler day as well but some

sunshine around. Sunday looks a nice day, dry with some sunshine. Monday

looking good too. All in all it is not looking too bad.

Sad night for us because we are saying goodbye to Lara, you've got

one more programme. Last night together, Harry. You've been

fantastic to work with and we all wish you the very best. It's been

good fun, hasn't it? Thank you very much, goodbye.

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