04/04/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

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

Tonight, human trafficking in Yorkshire.

We hear the stories of foreign workers held as slaves

as a Look North investigation reveals a rise in

We've been given exclusive access to a group that

helps those affected and we'll ask what's being done

It's just a simple procedure, really. They've matter on the wall

and I put this under her arm. How premature babies are going home

sooner thanks to a new form of care Urgent repairs after contractors

installing fibre-optic cables damage Yorkshire's double Olympic champion

Nicola Adams takes her first steps I want to be headlining

shows in Vegas, And what they are to to come over

the next few days. Join me for the very latest at the end of the

programme. There's been a significant rise

in the number of people identified as "modern slaves"

living in Yorkshire. An investigation by Look North has

found that more than three hundred potential victims were referred

for help to the The victims are being trafficked

into the country and then Here's our Home Affairs

Correspondent Spencer Stokes. Slavery and people trafficking

in Yorkshire is on the rise. In 2015, there were

283 people recorded Last year, that number

went up to 331. The most common

countries of origin are Eastern Europe,

nations like Albania, but victims have also been

trafficked from Nigeria and from Asia,

countries like Vietnam. Eight years in captivity to life

as a free man in -- and now adjusting

to life as a free man. This man was trafficked

from Poland to the UK in 2008. Through his translator,

he explained how he worked a 12 hour He earned ?130 per week

picking vegetables. Every day, nine o'clock start,

nine o'clock finish. Work, work, no money,

no money, no money. Last year, the boss of a Dewsbury

bed making firm was found He employed 30 Hungarian men

as a slave workforce at the now He paid them as little

as ?10 per day. In Boroughbridge, 14 people

were seen getting out of a Police thought it was a people

trafficking operation. Slavery survivors

are supported by the Salvation Army, who have a contract

with the Government to assist those They are trapped, often not

by keys, padlocks or Often thosse threats

being realised in Men in Leeds washing

our cars, women in Harrogate manicuring our nails full

summer of your living, we all need to be aware that it could be

happening right under our noses. Once free, former slaves later taken

to safe houses like this one in West Monica has been living

in it since last autumn. She was trafficked

from Albania and dumped next to the M1 just weeks

before giving birth. When people have been rescued

from modern-day slavery, They receive a welcome pack,

bed, fridge, and a sink. Some have been in

captivity for years. This man was freed last year

as part of a police The message from the Government

and the Salvation Army is that there are potentially

hundreds of modern slaves, often hidden

Let's talk to West Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner

He set up the West Yorkshire Anti-Trafficking Network

three years ago and is also Chair of a national network

Eight years there and we heard about. Also a woman dumped on the

M1. There could be thousands more out there. What's your reaction to

what you've just seen? The package demonstrates this is a national and

international issue. We set the West Yorkshire anti-trafficking network

in 2014 and we've taken a very proactive approach, with a dedicated

team and of course the more proactive you are, more prosecutions

and victims we help to support. This is absolutely something we need to

be working together on. None of us can happy that human beings are

being trafficked into our part of the world and abused in an awful

way. This anti-trafficking network has been running for three years

now. There has been a threefold rise in Yorkshire. That would suggest it

not working. No, I would argue the opposite. We are seen as national

leaders around the investigation team. They support to victims and

the Government have made this a priority around human trafficking

and modern slavery. I'm working at the national level as well is a

regional level to lead the way and make sure that we bring to justice

those that get involved in human trafficking and modern-day slavery.

What is behind the increase? Sadly, coming back to the piece that you

have shown, it's not just something from Europe, it's around the world.

Nigeria, Vietnam as was highlighted. It really is around, sadly, people

seeing the trafficking of human beings being more lucrative perhaps

the trafficking of drugs and illegal substances. As police and crime

commission, we know about police comebacks, cutbacks, are there

enough officers to deal with this situation and EU have enough staff

to combat these writers? We have to make tough choices around

exploitation, but I took a decision with the police constable three

years ago to become additional resources into tackling modern

slavery because there was intelligence suggesting there was a

real issue and of course we need the public, our front line police

officers and other front line workers to identify and spot the

signs of this and reported either to the bullies or through the modern

slavery helpline. We saw any film that people working in nail bars,

agriculture, washing cars are being exploited in plain sight. If people

suspect that there are others being trafficked, what should they do?

That is right and I think we all just need to think about the types

of things that are happening in our neighbourhood whether it could be a

carwash, lots of people coming and going at certain properties on a

street. If you have any suspicions, please report back to the police. Or

also to the modern slavery helpline, which is a dedicated helpline. Berry

briefly, the police take these allegations seriously do they? Yes,

they work with a lot of third sector organisations to provide those safe

houses and real special support that is there for the people who are

freed. Thank you for coming in tonight.

An experimental form of care at St James's hospital in Leeds has

had a dramatic effect on the health of premature babies.

Jimmy's was the first neonatal unit in the country

to introduce what's known as family integrated care -

where parents, rather than nurses, are in charge of all aspects

Nicola Rees has had exclusive access to the unit.

Baby Lola's in the special care unit at Saint James' or Jimmy's hospital.

Born at 23 weeks, Lola's chances of survival were slim.

During labour, one of the neonatal consultant came

to see us, he painted a really bad picture that no, she

In the intensive care unit, it was terrifying.

It's something that very few people get

She had wires coming out of everywhere.

She did actually have a twin brother but,

She's given us something positive to focus on.

I don't know how we would have survived if

As soon as she left intensive care, mum Anna

One of the jobs we have to do is take her

temperature, maybe every three or four hours.

It's quite a simple procedure, really.

Just a monitor on the wall and then just a case of going in

Saint James' Hospital was the first in the UK to

introduce what is called family integrated care.

Family integrated care aims to get the parent at the

very centre of the team caring for the baby.

Parents are taught to pass nasogastric tubes and

Basically everything but the most complex

And do you know what you're looking for here then?

Yeah, it's got to be within a certain range.

Family integrated care was introduced in

the former Soviet Union in the 1970s.

Then, it was a solution to a shortage of nurses.

Be honest, were you ever concerned that it was a

No, because I think, initially, it is not a

cost-cutting measure because it takes a lot

more time to get the

The problems of having a premature baby are well known.

The bonding process is much harder to establish.

There's also a financial impact, with car parking, meals and

loss of earnings, an average stay in a neonatal unit costs

Then there's the psychological impact.

Parents of premature babies are twice as likely

It is such a straightforward thing to do, to allow

The fact is that families are going home more confident

and more able to care for their babies,

For Anna, it meant bringing her baby home weeks earlier than

What a lovely moment at the end there.

And to see a longer version of that item which was made

for the Victoria Derbyshire programme,

Find out what's managed to get a group of Yorkshire school

Interesting, gripping and I've been on the edge of my seat watching it.

Tests on the UK's first ever tram train vehicle are now well

The supertram, which will come into service next

year will connect Sheffield city centre to Rotherham via tram lines

and the traditional rail network for the first time.

It was originally scheduled to begin in January 2016,

then January this year - but the BBC understands it

will now not be operational until summer next year.

A newborn baby whose body was found by workers at a waste

management plant in Shipley has not been identified,

An inquest in Bradford heard today how two pathologists

and a specialist could not confirm the cause of her death

after her body was found at the Associated Waste Management

The coroner recorded an open verdict, calling it

In an age when we rely so much on the internet,

from uploading the latest films to paying our bills,

broadband speed plays a crucial part in our day to day lives.

Most people would welcome a faster more efficient

People living in the Southbank area of York

say their pavements have become an eyesore after Virgin Media dug

Now the company is having to employ a new contractor to put

In this award-winning suburb of York is better known for having the best

parade of shops in Britain. It has the cheek parties and welcome detour

to France. Now resident in the Bishopthorpe Road area of

celebrating another victory. -- Tour de France. Virgin media have agreed

to improve the pavement after a catalogue of complaints about its

contract work. Gill Mackay has one or two letters of complaint. They

dug up a private road without permission. Then I head information

about Internet connections, ironically, being cut off. --

connection. Complaints came about how they were dumb area has been

left quite tatty from the work. And complaints kept coming. After laying

hundreds of metres of new Internet cables, the contractors working for

virgin media left uneven and broken paving stones, failing concrete and

messy brickwork. I take the dog twice a day down the street in

various ways and it's a shame to see that... Well, these deeds were

lovely and there are now left in a very poor state. I don't think

anyone as convergent media to come in in the first instance, but the

work is not up to standard. They have a statutory duty to make sure

the work is done properly. They had to sort out the mess they have left

behind. Rachel invited virgin media to inspect the work and come as a

result, the company agreed to hire a new contractor. They say it was

aware of some concerns bigger residents and had already begun to

take steps forward to resolve the issues. York residents can now rest

assured that, while improvements are being made to the Internet highway,

the pagans also been care of. -- pavements. Yes, funny how the

Internet is important, as important as gas or electricity. It is not, it

is not. It is when you haven't got it.

Next tonight, she's one of Yorkshire's biggest sporting stars.

A double Olympic champion with an infectious smile

Boxer Nicola Adams will take part in her first

professional fight on Saturday, against Argentina's

I spoke to Nicola earlier and we'll be hearing

from her in just a moment, but first Dave Edwards looks back

This does contain some flash photography.

Gold medallist and Olympic champion, representing Great Britain, Nicola

From a council estate to the biggest stage in sport.

Nicola Adams won Olympic gold in London in 2012,

She's a European, Commonwealth and world

She's a European, Commonwealth and world

It's a journey that began as a 12-year-old and Berman Toft

As an average, Nicola was funded by UK

As a professional, she'll be paid for every fight she takes part

But she's had to leave the GB boxing training

she'll have to adjust to longer flights and competing without a head

Can she emulate her hero Muhammad Ali by

following Olympic gold with world professional titles?

I'm really excited, really looking forward to

It's my first time, making my debut in the

It is actually the first time in a long

I haven't boxed in the UK since London 2012.

Now, there are some subtle differences, undercover between

Very different in terms of technique, learning

better and sitting down on my punches more for power, I'm learning

Of course you've done so much as an amateur, what do you want to

I want to box and compete, and win titles at multiple

I want to be headlining shows in Vegas, headlining shows in Leeds.

Now, talking of Leeds, is it difficult to concentrate

on this particular fight when you've got one coming up at the Arena?

Because you've made no secret of the fact you're desperate to

get home to home turf and fight in the Arena.

Is it difficult to concentrate on this one?

No, I always take it one step at a time

but I'm really excited about getting into the Leeds Arena, home crowd.

I haven't boxed in Leeds since I was 13 years

old, which was my first ever amateur boxing fight.

I've seen the noise of the crowds in the

Leeds Arena, so I know everybody's going to be doing the absolute most

Now, you've been working with promoter

He has famously said he doesn't think very much of

I was actually the person that changed his

I guess it just shows the level of women's boxing

I'm hoping now that we're able to take women's

Your mum is probably your biggest fan and

My mum will be at ringside watching the fight.

Nicola, as always, it is lovely to talk to you.

she's lovely, isn't she? She is. Best of luck to her as well.

Could there be another twist in the tale of the Championship

The Owls have dropped out of the play-off places

for the moment, ahead of tonight's derby at Rotherham.

But as long as they cut those mistakes out, there's still plenty

positive, or if it is possible to get in sixth position, so we don't

Of course, we must win the games and he must

We have a lot of players out and it is

And we'll bring you news of tonight's matches in the late

Look North as part of the BBC News at Ten.

It's a year to go until the Commonwealth Games get underway

in Australia and Sheffield diver Freddie Woodward is working hard

The Games in Glasgow were his breakthrough

event and he won bronze in the three metre synchro.

He followed that by going to the Olympics last year,

but knows he faces a battle to get to the Gold Coast.

Glasgow was an unbelievable competition for me.

It was my first year as a senior athlete.

I decided not to study, I thought I'd focus full time

on my training, try and make the Commonwealth Games.

I managed to do that, qualify for two competitions

That was incredibly special and it gave me a huge amount of

And that obviously then propelled you into getting to Rio.

Even with the Commonwealth success, it still felt

Commonwealth is great but the Olympics is obviously

I thought, well, I'll just see what I can do.

There was lots of hoops to go through but, if I can make it

through all them, we'll what happens.

2016 went amazingly well and I found myself out in Rio.

Having done the Olympic games, you are having

to regroup to get to the

Commonwealth Games, let alone get to Tokyo.

I've tried to get bigger, stronger, learn

I've been trying some of those at this year.

I've been working on more difficult ones that my scoring potential may

be bigger, so hopefully I can guarantee myself

but not only that, pushing for more medals as well.

Because of my successes in Glasgow, that

will give me confidence and that give me excitement looking for the

I thought that was you on the board there, Phil. No, I think you'll find

I'm more toned than that. Now you may not think school

children are big opera fans - but pupils in Leeds have

had their first taste of it with a special performance

of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel Now a group of year five pupils

are getting creative and composing their own

with a project called Opera Quest. Would you bring a nine-year-old

to see an opera? Nearly 1000 children from diverse

skills in Leeds have invited Well, it wasn't quite

what they had expected. I didn't think it

would be like that. Interesting, gripping,

I've been on the edge Enough watching, now it's time

for them to have a go I think the mixture

of singing, dancing, singing again, turning

an idea for a story into a song and the fact

that the children are now seeing it

written as a manuscript and will perform it, it's kind

of the whole package in one. I was shocked but I liked it

because it wasn't expected. Opera isn't just singing high notes,

it's fun, actually. It's just an incredible

world, the world of opera and I think coming

to see a performance live helps children

to realise that, actually,

opera isn't necessarily the elitist, It's so much more exciting

and approachable, So, with a bit of help from opera

north end, they have performed their own version

of Hansel and Gretel. Who knows, this could be

the making of some of When you are a fan of operatic? Not

really, but I am a big end of the budding fan. I have all his greatest

hits. -- Engelbert Humperdink. Astonishing, gripping, on the edge

of his seat, was he talking about your forecast? You have gone from an

accomplished meteorologist to reading a autocue. Let me show you a

couple of photos that have come in in the last half-hour. Would this

one sent in by Jerry. The second picture is a sunrise over what we.

You can see the mountains in the distance there. That was sent in by

Steve. Keep the judges, pictures coming in. Right, let's have a look

at the headline for the next 24 hours. Settled with cloud at times.

Some sunshine. Running the sequins, high pressure dominating things well

into the outlook. In fact, over the weekend, the wind softly goes down

to the west and you will see less cloud and more anyway have sunshine.

You probably heard yesterday that the polling card is unusually high.

That is the tree pollen levels, and usually - this of year. A beautiful

and through the day, Yorkshire has kept the cloud, as well as

Nottinghamshire. Pushing southwards. Very quiet conditions this evening

and overnight. Largely sunny to start the evening with overnight

cloud filtering down to the north-west. They can for an odd

light, drizzly shallow. Elsewhere, it is fine. You see those

temperatures down to 4-5 C, five Celsius 41 Fahrenheit. Sun rises at

6:41am, the next eye watering skiver -- Scarborough at 23... I didn't

catch that, 2000. One to light showers across the Pennines, quite

dry. A lot of sunshine coming through. The sun will melt away any

potential flaws. A few hours of cloudy conditions through the middle

of the day. Top temperatures not bad, very close to average is not

above. 12-13 C. More of the same into the weekend, a lot of fine,

settled weather on the way. Keeley, back to you and fill. Maybe you

should have the autocue. The autocue? Thank you very much. If you

want me to be like a performing seal, very well. You can do the

programme then. That's it. Good night!

LAUGHTER HORN BEEPS

That car. John, John, you've got mud all over

your pants. Come here. I've got spit on them now,

haven't I?