:00:09. > :00:10.Good evening from Wednesday's late Look North.
:00:11. > :00:13.Anti-fracking protestors have set up a camp in North Yorkshire
:00:14. > :00:16.near the site which is expected to be the first in the
:00:17. > :00:25.They say they'll use it as a base to stop lorries delivering
:00:26. > :00:27.the equipment needed to build the new well-head
:00:28. > :00:30.Our political editor Len Tingle reports.
:00:31. > :00:32.Today's roadside protests are, according to the anti-fractures,
:00:33. > :00:36.They have set up a camp a mile or so from the camp
:00:37. > :00:38.at Kirby Misperton north Yorkshire where
:00:39. > :00:40.planning permission has been granted to start the first commercial
:00:41. > :00:46.extraction of gas using the controversial technique of fracking.
:00:47. > :00:48.Failing everything we have tried in the last two years,
:00:49. > :00:53.It has come down to boots on the ground, direct action.
:00:54. > :00:55.We're hoping after Christmas many of our
:00:56. > :01:01.friends and community members will come to this big field
:01:02. > :01:04.where we're going to create a huge camp that is
:01:05. > :01:06.going to stop this industry before it gets started.
:01:07. > :01:08.Gas has been extracted using conventional drilling on the same
:01:09. > :01:11.North Yorkshire County Council granted planning permission the same
:01:12. > :01:13.production company earlier this year to sink
:01:14. > :01:16.a new well alongside for fracking, pumping highly pressurised water
:01:17. > :01:19.and sand to free gas trapped deep underground in beds of shale.
:01:20. > :01:22.A last-ditch legal attempt to stop it by campaign
:01:23. > :01:25.groups on safety and environmental grounds was thrown out by the High
:01:26. > :01:34.The HGV traffic has to come this way and we will do
:01:35. > :01:38.our utmost to peacefully and slow walk the traffic making its way
:01:39. > :01:41.to be site and to make it as difficult as possible
:01:42. > :01:46.The gas production company Third Energy has
:01:47. > :01:49.maintained through two years of planning and legal processes that
:01:50. > :01:59.It says fracking poses no potential dangers
:02:00. > :02:02.and intends to start preparing for production in the near future.
:02:03. > :02:04.People here say they should not be called protesters,
:02:05. > :02:06.they are protectors of the environment against a political
:02:07. > :02:09.and a legal system that they say has failed and they will be
:02:10. > :02:36.In a statement the gas production company told us:
:02:37. > :02:38.A 35-year-old man from Rotherham has been interviewed under caution
:02:39. > :02:43.following the death of a seven month old baby.
:02:44. > :02:46.The child died at a house in York, on the 3rd of November.
:02:47. > :02:48.Sheffield-based 'Playtime Beds' has issued a safety warning
:02:49. > :02:52.on its website stating that its made to measure beds could lead to risks
:02:53. > :02:55.of strangulation or crushing and shouldn't be used.
:02:56. > :02:57.Both Trading Standards and police are investigating.
:02:58. > :03:04.No cause of death for the baby has been confirmed.
:03:05. > :03:06.The body of 73-year-old man whose been missing for nearly
:03:07. > :03:09.a month has been found in a canal near Wakefield.
:03:10. > :03:11.William Metcalfe's body was discovered yesterday morning
:03:12. > :03:21.Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has made almost eighty thousand
:03:22. > :03:24.pounds in car parking fines over the last year, according
:03:25. > :03:27.The Press Association, asked a hundred and twenty trusts
:03:28. > :03:34.across England to give figures on parking charges and fines.
:03:35. > :03:37.Of the 27 which responded, Leeds earned
:03:38. > :03:43.The Trust says they're one of the largest in the country,
:03:44. > :03:46.with more than 5,000 car parking spaces, and that the money
:03:47. > :03:49.is spent keeping the car parks safe and to stop people misusing spaces.
:03:50. > :03:51.This was the response from people parking in Leeds today.
:03:52. > :04:00.Which is why we are parked quite a way away and had
:04:01. > :04:06.We've been to and from the hospital over the last
:04:07. > :04:07.three, four weeks and it is just hard work.
:04:08. > :04:22.That is ?5.70 and I am probably only here ten minutes.
:04:23. > :04:26.I got a parking ticket for parking around the corner in a bay
:04:27. > :04:29.what they said was not a bay but it is clearly
:04:30. > :04:41.It is not when you need, I suppose, when you are coming to hospital.
:04:42. > :04:49.We can be here four times a week and if you pay to park all day,
:04:50. > :04:55.If you want to park here you have to pay it.
:04:56. > :04:59.Thanks to Steve Wharfe who sent in this weather picture of a frosty
:05:00. > :05:02.But it was the village of Topcliffe in North Yorkshire that was actually
:05:03. > :05:05.the coldest place in England last night at minus seven
:05:06. > :05:09.Let's get the forecast for the rest of the week from Jennifer Bartrum.
:05:10. > :05:15.Another cold and frosty night to come tonight.
:05:16. > :05:17.We are going to see some patches of mist and fog
:05:18. > :05:20.and the Met Office has a yellow weather warning in force for that
:05:21. > :05:24.fog, which could be widespread and fairly dense in some patches.
:05:25. > :05:25.Expect some tricky driving conditions
:05:26. > :05:28.through the night tonight and tomorrow morning.
:05:29. > :05:31.This is how it looks through the night tonight,
:05:32. > :05:34.clear skies giving rise to this widespread frost,
:05:35. > :05:36.as indicated by the blue tinges on the map.
:05:37. > :05:38.It will be staying dry through the night.
:05:39. > :05:40.Temperatures dropping down to -1 or -2 Celsius.
:05:41. > :05:42.It is going to be a cold start to Thursday morning.
:05:43. > :05:45.We have those patches of mist and fog first thing.
:05:46. > :05:51.Some of those could be fairly slow to clear.
:05:52. > :05:55.In fact some parts will hang on to the fog for much of the day.
:05:56. > :05:57.Temperature's won't rise much above freezing.
:05:58. > :06:00.Elsewhere, we will see some low cloud and possibly
:06:01. > :06:02.Temperatures up to three or four Celsius.
:06:03. > :06:05.Friday looks like another dry and settled day but it will be
:06:06. > :06:23.Do you take care in the fog. We will have breakfast News from 6:25am. We
:06:24. > :06:30.will have the latest travel for you. That is all we have time for from
:06:31. > :06:39.tonight. Sleep well, indeed. Goodbye.
:06:40. > :06:45.As we have seen today, the weather can be a thing of real beauty, but
:06:46. > :06:48.also a real menace. Lovely shot taken this afternoon in Berkshire,
:06:49. > :06:49.the