28/12/2016 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening from Wednesday's late Look North.

Anti-fracking protestors have set up a camp in North Yorkshire

near the site which is expected to be the first in the

They say they'll use it as a base to stop lorries delivering

the equipment needed to build the new well-head

Our political editor Len Tingle reports.

Today's roadside protests are, according to the anti-fractures,

They have set up a camp a mile or so from the camp

at Kirby Misperton north Yorkshire where

planning permission has been granted to start the first commercial

extraction of gas using the controversial technique of fracking.

Failing everything we have tried in the last two years,

It has come down to boots on the ground, direct action.

We're hoping after Christmas many of our

friends and community members will come to this big field

where we're going to create a huge camp that is

going to stop this industry before it gets started.

Gas has been extracted using conventional drilling on the same

North Yorkshire County Council granted planning permission the same

production company earlier this year to sink

a new well alongside for fracking, pumping highly pressurised water

and sand to free gas trapped deep underground in beds of shale.

A last-ditch legal attempt to stop it by campaign

groups on safety and environmental grounds was thrown out by the High

The HGV traffic has to come this way and we will do

our utmost to peacefully and slow walk the traffic making its way

to be site and to make it as difficult as possible

The gas production company Third Energy has

maintained through two years of planning and legal processes that

It says fracking poses no potential dangers

and intends to start preparing for production in the near future.

People here say they should not be called protesters,

they are protectors of the environment against a political

and a legal system that they say has failed and they will be

In a statement the gas production company told us:

A 35-year-old man from Rotherham has been interviewed under caution

following the death of a seven month old baby.

The child died at a house in York, on the 3rd of November.

Sheffield-based 'Playtime Beds' has issued a safety warning

on its website stating that its made to measure beds could lead to risks

of strangulation or crushing and shouldn't be used.

Both Trading Standards and police are investigating.

No cause of death for the baby has been confirmed.

The body of 73-year-old man whose been missing for nearly

a month has been found in a canal near Wakefield.

William Metcalfe's body was discovered yesterday morning

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has made almost eighty thousand

pounds in car parking fines over the last year, according

The Press Association, asked a hundred and twenty trusts

across England to give figures on parking charges and fines.

Of the 27 which responded, Leeds earned

The Trust says they're one of the largest in the country,

with more than 5,000 car parking spaces, and that the money

is spent keeping the car parks safe and to stop people misusing spaces.

This was the response from people parking in Leeds today.

Which is why we are parked quite a way away and had

We've been to and from the hospital over the last

three, four weeks and it is just hard work.

That is ?5.70 and I am probably only here ten minutes.

I got a parking ticket for parking around the corner in a bay

what they said was not a bay but it is clearly

It is not when you need, I suppose, when you are coming to hospital.

We can be here four times a week and if you pay to park all day,

If you want to park here you have to pay it.

Thanks to Steve Wharfe who sent in this weather picture of a frosty

But it was the village of Topcliffe in North Yorkshire that was actually

the coldest place in England last night at minus seven

Let's get the forecast for the rest of the week from Jennifer Bartrum.

Another cold and frosty night to come tonight.

We are going to see some patches of mist and fog

and the Met Office has a yellow weather warning in force for that

fog, which could be widespread and fairly dense in some patches.

Expect some tricky driving conditions

through the night tonight and tomorrow morning.

This is how it looks through the night tonight,

clear skies giving rise to this widespread frost,

as indicated by the blue tinges on the map.

It will be staying dry through the night.

Temperatures dropping down to -1 or -2 Celsius.

It is going to be a cold start to Thursday morning.

We have those patches of mist and fog first thing.

Some of those could be fairly slow to clear.

In fact some parts will hang on to the fog for much of the day.

Temperature's won't rise much above freezing.

Elsewhere, we will see some low cloud and possibly

Temperatures up to three or four Celsius.

Friday looks like another dry and settled day but it will be

Do you take care in the fog. We will have breakfast News from 6:25am. We

will have the latest travel for you. That is all we have time for from

tonight. Sleep well, indeed. Goodbye.

As we have seen today, the weather can be a thing of real beauty, but

also a real menace. Lovely shot taken this afternoon in Berkshire,

the