11/01/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

It continues to be very windy out there but what about the next few

days? Join me for the life and updated forecast.

Tonight, a teenager's appeared in court charged with the murder

Katie Rough was found critically injured on a playing field

A 15-year-old girl was today remanded into secure accommodation,

charged with her murder and with the possession

The family of Katie Rough at court this morning.

She died here, on Alness Drive in the Woodthorpe area of York.

The court heard today that she had suffered significant lacerations

Police investigations continued at the scene,

with a metal detector used to search nearby undergrowth.

Meanwhile the pile of floral tributes grows.

Four miles from the scene the teenage girl accused of killing

Katie appeared in court for the first time.

The accused, who was 15 years old, nodded to show that she understood

Members of Katie's family were also in court and some were visibly upset

The teenager is charged with murdering Katie Rough

on Alness Drive in York on Monday and also with possession

Outside Katie's school the feeling remains one of shock.

Just a little girl, it's really scary, I would say, you know.

And then you don't want her lose sight of any of your loved ones now.

One of my good friends is really good friends with the mum

and she has taken it really hard and so have her daughters

A fundraising page to support Katie's family has been set up York

She didn't know the family but says she wanted to help.

It isn't just me, there's people all over the UK donating.

It isn't just something I'm doing, she's in the hearts and heads

are so many people, and the family, there's so much love for them right

They already know the pain of what they have lost, but not why.

A change to legislation in memory of the missing York

chef Claudia Lawrence, which is designed to give families

greater control over the affairs of missing people,

has cleared its first hurdle in the Commons.

The bill was championed by Claudia's father, Peter.

Dubbed Claudia's Law, it was given the go-ahead in parliament

You've got to remember that it's 22 months ago that the government

committed to this bill and it's taken a private member,

Kevin Hollinrake, one of our local MPs, for Thirsk and Malton to bring

it forward himself, and at least we know it has got

But it wasn't the government that brought it forward, it was Kevin.

The MP for Batley and Spen, Tracy Brabin, has called

on Teresa May to step- in to keep open the A department

She told the Prime Minister that the on-going winter beds crisis

proved the department is vital to the local community.

Over Christmas I had constituents who were waiting 20 hours for a bed

in a facility that might not even exist next year.

Would the Prime Minister now, please, face reality and act now

to stop this vital A service from disappearing.

Decisions about services in the local area are rightly taken

by the local national health service because we believe that it's local

clinicians and also local patients and leaders who know what's best

for their area, so it's about trying to tailor the services to provide

the best possible needs for local people.

There's a bit of a row going on in the Peak District.

People in the village of Foolow aren't pleased with plans to put

The Peak Park bought the land to stop it being a permanent caravan

park, but now the Park wants a mobile park there.

This bit of prime Peak District land was going to be a caravan site

until the park authority realised it had granted planning permission

It bought the land for ?650,000 so it could protect it from being

Now, four years later, the Peak Park wants to turn it in to...

It's the Peak District's job to protect this fantastic and very

That's what the planning regulations are all about,

but here the authority is judging its own application,

something the villagers down the valley are not happy about.

It is very concerning, it's a bit like the MPs voting

Legally they are allowed to do it, it is part of their remit

to be able to do it, but when something is

as controversial as this, it really does beg into question

the independence of their planning authority.

Peter Webster has been a farmer here all his life.

He wanted to build a barn that he was told it wasn't

He says it's not fair he can't have his barn,

but the Peak District can have their caravan site.

I'm afraid you won't put it on telly what I think about it.

My barn is roughly 300-400 metres away from their caravan site

Well, I think they should throw the caravan site out.

The wording of the original planning application was wrong.

It meant that private developers could put permanent static caravans

on the site and that's why the Peak Park spent ?650,000

This new development would only be for mobile caravans.

The Peak Park Authority says it has a duty to recover as much of that

purchase price as possible and reverting it back to a green

To reclaim the money spent on stopping caravans,

Winds of more than 90 miles per hour caused problems

Trees were brought down, blocking roads and rail lines,

and flights were cancelled in and out of Leeds

For one couple in Bradford, last night's storms will take a very

long time to recover from, as Shirley Henry reports.

It is not the wake-up call it you expect first

This 80 foot beech tree smashed its way through this

bungalow in Birkenshaw after its roots were wrenched

I heard a loud bang, like a bomb had gone off.

When I looked there was rubble all down the landing and I knew

it was bad but I didn't know what it was.

We came outside and I saw it was a tree and we were very lucky

to get away with it, I think.

The bathroom has been destroyed, a lot of the internal walls

and all of the roof in the centre has been destroyed so it's had it.

In Bradford this school was shut to students after gusts

caused slates to fly from the Victorian roof.

Meanwhile in South Yorkshire high winds peeled away corrugated

sheeting in Sheffield city centre and gusts of 93 mph

Not only buildings have succumbed to the force of nature,

across West Yorkshire trees were battered.

This evening Bridgewater Place is slowly getting back to normal.

Earlier the roads were closed because of high winds,

causing traffic gridlock across parts of Leeds.

But the roads aren't the only place where there were problems.

Landing at Leeds Bradford Airport was going to be a challenge.

It took all the pilot's skills to bring this plane down safely.

Many passengers faced delays and cancellations.

The strongest wind that we recorded here to here was in excess of 50

knots which obviously is unsafe for operations so that was

the reason why we had a number of delayed departures

Nearly 40,000 homes across the North lost their power supply today.

As for the bungalow in Birkenshaw, it's unlikely the owner will be

Winds have finally started to die down, but can you believe it?

The forecast for the next few days is sleet and snow.

Well, have things calmed down tonight?

You're always full of a bit of wind, aren't you?

Iamb, but it is still blowing a gale out at high Bradfield. Letters have

a recap the highest wind speeds we have observed. Hardly surprising

that plane had time -- trouble landing. I Bradfield was the

windiest place in the country. This is tomorrow's jar this feature looks

as though it will slip to the south of us but we are looking closely at

a system that will come down coastal areas first light Friday morning.

Storm force winds and the Environment Agency are watching

that. They could be coastal flooding and rain and snow thrown in for good

measure. Showers on the radar picture, mainly of rain and

increasingly they turn wintry over the hills, certainly with icy

patches. Temperatures down to one. A cold day tomorrow, windy at first

but the wind will ease significantly. Dry apply to the east

and the showers turned increasingly to and snow. A few wintry showers

getting further east and they will tend to die away through the

afternoon. A cold one. Temperatures around 4 degrees, that is 39. It

turns cold and frosty through Thursday evening and into Thursday

night. All eyes to the door. A storm force wind includes Stork -- coastal

areas is really impressive. An area of snow was swinging through us. The

weekend looks cold and wintry showers on Saturday. This is a

start to the weekend. Time for the national weather prospects if you

are on the move. Good evening, a lot going on with

the weather in the next few days, numerous weather warnings in for so

buried in mind if you have travel plans. Lots of isobars on the chart

overnight which means it will be windy for all. The strongest winds

in Scotland, lots of wintry showers with snow getting down to

increasingly low levels and some wintry showers in Northern Ireland

and northern England. A cold night for Northern England, particularly

in more rural spots, frosty and I see for some and some of the snow

really blowing around over higher ground in Scotland. Strong wind and

further snow to take us into tomorrow. It may well make for some

tricky travelling conditions. The forecast for tomorrow in the

southern half of the UK's quite tricky. We have got mild air bumping

into colder air. The boundary between the two, it will be an ugly

mix of rain, sleet and snow developing. Mild air comes in behind

the weather front but the rain ahead of that will be mixing with the cold

air. Details are a bit elusive even at