:00:00. > :00:00.of the German flag in tribute to those who lost their lives
:00:00. > :00:16.How one family plus my course has sparked a campaign to get more men
:00:17. > :00:20.talking about mental health. We continue to look at how our
:00:21. > :00:25.communities are coping since last year's floods.
:00:26. > :00:28.And the weather in the run-up to Christmas is potentially very
:00:29. > :00:36.stormy. I'll be back later with your full live forecast.
:00:37. > :00:39.Yorkshire has the highest rate of male suicides in England
:00:40. > :00:42.and the family of a man who took his own life
:00:43. > :00:44.earlier this year are trying to get more young men
:00:45. > :00:49.Andy Roberts was one of 430 men who killed themselves
:00:50. > :00:54.His brother in law started Andy's Man Club in his memory.
:00:55. > :01:03.Andy's mum Elaine starts this report from Tanya Arnold.
:01:04. > :01:08.I was upstairs and there was a knock on the door. I thought it was a
:01:09. > :01:12.delivery man. I saw the jacket and ran to the door and it was a
:01:13. > :01:20.policeman. As soon as I for him, I knew. I knew. I said no, not Andrew,
:01:21. > :01:27.the country. He said, I'm sorry. There has been a death. He was just
:01:28. > :01:32.so full of life. I know he was having problems seeing his little
:01:33. > :01:38.girl but we would have solved it. He was talking to his sister about it
:01:39. > :01:44.in a jovial manner. She knew that he was having problems but we never
:01:45. > :01:49.knew how much it was getting to him. No idea whatsoever. In April, Andy
:01:50. > :01:53.Roberts took his own life in this wood in Halifax and on that day, his
:01:54. > :01:58.brother-in-law decided he had to try and make a difference. I realised at
:01:59. > :02:02.that point there was nothing we could do to bring Andy back. All the
:02:03. > :02:07.little things that do, having to ring people and tell people, I
:02:08. > :02:09.remember the destruction and complete devastation that has left.
:02:10. > :02:15.Luke started the campaign and the Luke started the campaign and the
:02:16. > :02:19.first club opened in Halifax five months ago. These men agreed to talk
:02:20. > :02:24.to us about why they went. I had broken up with my ex girlfriend, the
:02:25. > :02:30.mother of my son. Wasn't seeing him every day any more. My mother passed
:02:31. > :02:35.away in April this year and unexpectedly. I spoke to her at five
:02:36. > :02:39.o'clock one night. By seven o'clock, she was more or less con. I didn't
:02:40. > :02:45.have anywhere to live for about eight months. It came to about
:02:46. > :02:50.February this year and I got my own place. Just as I was settling in, if
:02:51. > :02:53.you of my friends died. They were if you have them in the space of a
:02:54. > :03:00.couple of months. It would took its toll on me. I thought I could fight
:03:01. > :03:05.it but obviously, I didn't want to speak out to anyone. It got to the
:03:06. > :03:13.point where I was going to dark places. After just a few weeks, the
:03:14. > :03:20.benefits are clear. It's had a promise -- positive effect on my
:03:21. > :03:26.life. Knowing there are 20 or 30 other men going through a similar
:03:27. > :03:34.thing, knowing the is someone who's got my back. We have 200 men now
:03:35. > :03:37.across the groups. That could be 200 brothers, dads, uncles, sons,
:03:38. > :03:45.cousins, best friends who are still here today. That is the main goal.
:03:46. > :03:47.Earlier this evening I spoke to Professor Alan White, who's
:03:48. > :03:49.an expert in men's health and well being.
:03:50. > :03:52.He says men's mental health is becoming a priority.
:03:53. > :04:01.Historically, we haven't recognised men's health needs. If you look back
:04:02. > :04:05.to the war period, when men were returning with shell-shocked or post
:04:06. > :04:08.traumatic stress, it wasn't seen as traumatic stress, it wasn't seen as
:04:09. > :04:13.important. They were seen as strange. As we have gone on to the
:04:14. > :04:17.time, the last decade or two, we've recognised that men's mental health
:04:18. > :04:21.is important. Not everyone has caught on to that but certainly in
:04:22. > :04:26.terms of the suicide figures, people are now sitting up and saying, hang
:04:27. > :04:31.on the second, safely is going on here. These club started as one
:04:32. > :04:38.group known -- five months ago. There are now five groups across the
:04:39. > :04:42.country. Is it that simple, men talking to men, rather than
:04:43. > :04:45.one-on-one? If men talking a group situation and they feel confident
:04:46. > :04:49.and safe, it's amazing what they will share. Some of these guys are
:04:50. > :04:52.now talking about things they've never spoken about to anyone. They
:04:53. > :04:56.wouldn't want to bother their families, their wives or partners.
:04:57. > :04:59.Sometimes they don't have anyone to talk to. And of course an
:05:00. > :05:05.opportunity to talk safely, yes, they are taking it and we've seen
:05:06. > :05:09.this with these groups and clubs that have been set up around the
:05:10. > :05:13.country. For someone watching at home, if they feel they would like
:05:14. > :05:25.to talk to someone, what should I do? If they are at crisis point, the
:05:26. > :05:30.Samaritans are always there. 116123. That is the number if you are not
:05:31. > :05:31.desperate point. The BBC action line website has information as well.
:05:32. > :05:34.Thank you for your time. Thank you. A brief look at some
:05:35. > :05:37.of the day's other stories. Campaigners from North Yorkshire
:05:38. > :05:39.have lost a legal challenge against one of the first planning
:05:40. > :05:41.applications to carry out They held a peaceful demonstration
:05:42. > :05:44.outside Ryedale Council's offices The High Court has dismissed
:05:45. > :05:49.an application for a judicial review of a decision to allow the company,
:05:50. > :05:54.Third Energy, to frack for shale gas The county council welcomed
:05:55. > :06:09.the decision but campaigners said We fought long and hard to try and
:06:10. > :06:11.stop fracking in Ryedale. We feel it will damage our air, water and
:06:12. > :06:19.environment and health as well. A strike by baggage handlers
:06:20. > :06:22.at Leeds Bradford and Doncaster Workers had been due to walk out
:06:23. > :06:26.in the run up to Christmas as part Today the Unite union
:06:27. > :06:30.announced industrial action Now to the second of our special
:06:31. > :06:33.reports looking at the legacy Tonight we're in York where 600
:06:34. > :06:40.properties were flooded. The damage was so severe
:06:41. > :06:45.because the Foss Barrier, which manages York's
:06:46. > :06:57.two rivers, went wrong. This barrier is placed where you
:06:58. > :06:59.walk's two rivers meet. It's basically a big door, a plug that
:07:00. > :07:03.stops this river when it's getting stops this river when it's getting
:07:04. > :07:08.too high from flowing the wrong way and flooding the city centre. Last
:07:09. > :07:11.year it was basically doing its job very well, until water started
:07:12. > :07:15.getting into the control centre, coming up through the floor. Very
:07:16. > :07:22.quickly, a decision needed to be made. Do they keep the barrier in
:07:23. > :07:28.place and leave York vulnerable or do they raise the Faria and leave
:07:29. > :07:31.York vulnerable to flooding from the other river?
:07:32. > :07:35.They decided to raise the barrier. This is what happens when the
:07:36. > :07:41.barrier fails. Home after home wrecked. Businesses and lives
:07:42. > :07:45.disrupted. As Price your account to pay last Christmas. No one wants to
:07:46. > :07:50.see it happen again so the barrier has been improved. Eight new pumps
:07:51. > :07:53.arrived in September. They can shift nearly double the water of the old
:07:54. > :07:57.ones. They've been tested and the Environment Agency are keen to show
:07:58. > :08:01.off what they can do. The pumping station now works to a higher
:08:02. > :08:04.capacity than it did. Knowing it can handle the sort of floods we had
:08:05. > :08:11.last year, that should give people a great sense of relief coming up to
:08:12. > :08:14.the anniversary. Certainly, within five years, when we've finished the
:08:15. > :08:19.works in Yorks, I would have thought York would be one of the best
:08:20. > :08:24.protected cities in the country. Emergency power generators have also
:08:25. > :08:28.been stalled and raised out of the watermark. York has been given ?45
:08:29. > :08:33.million of government money to make further defences. It is reassuring
:08:34. > :08:38.news for people living on Huntington Road, who are just about returning
:08:39. > :08:42.to normal. Back in March, Tony was making new skirting boards while his
:08:43. > :08:45.home dried out. Now, the decorating is done but he is not sitting
:08:46. > :08:52.comfortably yet. What he has been through will stay with him. It's
:08:53. > :08:58.going to be a quiet Christmas because the forecast for the weather
:08:59. > :09:01.is reasonable and they forgot the new pumps, show we should be all
:09:02. > :09:05.right this Christmas. It's the Christmas after that the one after
:09:06. > :09:12.that, until the flood defences for the whole of York and the river have
:09:13. > :09:19.been implemented, then we are all on borrowed time. York is old and it
:09:20. > :09:23.needs to note -- it knows how to look after itself. It has survived
:09:24. > :09:27.for centuries. The undercroft of this hall was inundated by the meaty
:09:28. > :09:30.waters of the river. It is now dry but is damaged and needs
:09:31. > :09:35.restoration. In the meantime, the venue is open for weddings and
:09:36. > :09:42.events. The flood for now it's part of the halls, -- Hall's very long
:09:43. > :09:49.history. I will leave you now with the weather.
:09:50. > :09:56.I know all this talk of storms over the next few days will have people
:09:57. > :09:59.very nervous. We are concerned about the wind, the strength of the wind
:10:00. > :10:04.in these storms over the next few days, rather than the rain. But it's
:10:05. > :10:08.going to be rather unsettled in the run up to Christmas. Tomorrow, some
:10:09. > :10:12.sunshine to the morning and towards the end of the day. Then, shall we
:10:13. > :10:19.through the middle part of the day. Quite breezy, too. This is Friday's
:10:20. > :10:23.pressure chart. This is storm Barbra which will bring some very strong
:10:24. > :10:28.winds across the UK. At the moment, a yellow warning. It is cold at the
:10:29. > :10:32.moment. They forced this evening but more cloudy overnight. Patchy rain
:10:33. > :10:36.is sinking south-eastwards. Dry by the end of the night when
:10:37. > :10:39.temperatures will be 4 degrees. Some sunshine to start the day tomorrow
:10:40. > :10:42.but we are going to see clouds gather with a small band of rain
:10:43. > :10:48.whizzing through during the middle part of the day. There will be some
:10:49. > :10:53.showery rain. Quite brisk winds, too. Drier and brighter through the
:10:54. > :10:57.afternoon. Temperatures at seven or 8 degrees. He very windy day on
:10:58. > :11:00.Friday. Take care if you are travelling. Keep up-to-date with a
:11:01. > :11:02.forecast because there may be some changes. That's it.
:11:03. > :11:05.country it's worth knowing the national forecast. Over now to
:11:06. > :11:11.country it's worth knowing the Tomasz.
:11:12. > :11:14.So, the weather's going to blow a few cobwebs away in the coming days
:11:15. > :11:19.and maybe a few other things, as well. How stormy is it going to get?
:11:20. > :11:24.For most of us probably not too terrible. It is, however, going to
:11:25. > :11:32.be very nasty across parts of Scotland on Friday. The clouds are
:11:33. > :11:36.racing across the Atlantic and we will see a storm by the time we get
:11:37. > :11:39.to around about Friday and then Friday night.
:11:40. > :11:42.At the moment we have a weather front crossing the country, we have
:11:43. > :11:44.had dreadful weather in the north-west, it was cold and raining
:11:45. > :11:47.in Northern Ireland and western Scotland. This band of rain will be
:11:48. > :11:55.somewhere here by the end of the night. Behind it a shot of cooler
:11:56. > :11:56.air, colder air and frequent showers. This is what