:00:00. > :00:00.Here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:07.Good evening, and welcome to the late Look North.
:00:08. > :00:10.Police investigate after a Conservative councillor was caught
:00:11. > :00:12.on camera making lewd comments to a hunt protestor.
:00:13. > :00:15.And the Bradford woman who made it home to cook tea after narrowly
:00:16. > :00:30.And after a bitterly cold day today, with subzero temperatures across the
:00:31. > :00:33.boards, they are going to rise as we head towards the weekend. I'll be
:00:34. > :00:38.back later in the programme with all the details.
:00:39. > :00:43.Police are investigating an altercation between
:00:44. > :00:45.a Conservative councillor and a protestor at a hunt
:00:46. > :00:48.Charles Carter - from Birdsall, near York -
:00:49. > :00:51.was caught on camera making sexual comments to Linda Hoggard
:00:52. > :00:53.when she confronted him about fox hunting.
:00:54. > :00:56.He's since resigned his position as a district councillor in Norfolk.
:00:57. > :01:00.Our correspondent John Cundy takes up the story.
:01:01. > :01:02.Excuse me, didn't you know that hunting was banned?
:01:03. > :01:05.The moment when Linda Hoggard approached Charles Carter
:01:06. > :01:10.The hunt protester challenges Mr Carter,
:01:11. > :01:27.Charles Carter has been a district councillor
:01:28. > :01:29.in Norfolk for five years, but he resigned overnight after
:01:30. > :01:34.His council leader said he was appalled.
:01:35. > :01:38.In June 2015, Charles Carter, as Master of the West Norfolk
:01:39. > :01:43.Foxhounds, was interviewed about the ban on fox hunting.
:01:44. > :01:45.Having to look over one's shoulder, all the time, for fear
:01:46. > :01:49.of being in breach of bad law, is not what the country
:01:50. > :01:54.But Charles Carter has now moved his home to Birdsall, near York.
:01:55. > :01:58.And the Middleton Hunt with whom he now rides
:01:59. > :02:01.is described as one of the most historic in North Yorkshire,
:02:02. > :02:06.Now Charles Carter's comments have brought
:02:07. > :02:12.I don't know if it's been blown out of proportion or not.
:02:13. > :02:13.He's defninitely stepped over the line.
:02:14. > :02:17.He made some sexual comments to her...
:02:18. > :02:21.That's not relevant to the situation at all, is it?
:02:22. > :02:27.It's understood Mr Carter has now phoned Mrs Hoggard
:02:28. > :02:33.I know he contacted the protester to apologise to the husband and make
:02:34. > :02:37.it clear it was meant in no way to be rude.
:02:38. > :02:41.This is a problem that is seemingly getting out of control.
:02:42. > :02:44.The problem is that the hunt's lobby organisations refuse pointedly
:02:45. > :02:47.to condemn or apologise for these incidents,
:02:48. > :02:49.and they're just getting worse and worse.
:02:50. > :02:58.North Yorkshire Police have confirmed they are
:02:59. > :03:06.Figures out today reveal the chaos unfolding in prisons in Yorkshire.
:03:07. > :03:10.The number of fights, serious assaults on officers
:03:11. > :03:12.and the number of prisoners self-harming are now
:03:13. > :03:17.In Doncaster, Leeds and Wakefield, the number of fights
:03:18. > :03:20.has more than trebled, climbing from over
:03:21. > :03:24.300 in 2010 to stand now at over a thousand.
:03:25. > :03:27.And five years ago, 11 prison officers were seriously injured.
:03:28. > :03:30.That figure has now more than doubled.
:03:31. > :03:33.And the number of prisoners self-harming has reached
:03:34. > :03:40.I sliced my neck, chopped me ear off.
:03:41. > :03:45.Obviously, at the time, they weren't really
:03:46. > :03:50.John Bedford has been out of prison for almost a year now.
:03:51. > :03:54.He spent most of the previous eight inside.
:03:55. > :03:56.His medical notes detail his mental health struggles during his
:03:57. > :04:03.Page upon page of self-harm incidents and suicide attempts.
:04:04. > :04:09.Nobody was visiting me, I had nothing, do you know what I mean?
:04:10. > :04:12.I was just a little boy stuck in something
:04:13. > :04:18.Were you trying to kill yourself, John?
:04:19. > :04:27.John was often in conflict with prison staff, frustrated
:04:28. > :04:30.by the lack of help and a spell in isolation.
:04:31. > :04:33.This footage from inside HMP Leeds shows an example
:04:34. > :04:41.John bit a member of staff while he was being restrained.
:04:42. > :04:44.He says he'd been denied exercise for two weeks.
:04:45. > :04:47.John is far from being the only prisoner to try
:04:48. > :04:51.There were more than 400 incidents of self-harm at HMP Leeds
:04:52. > :04:55.alone in the last year, and also four suicides.
:04:56. > :04:58.That's the highest the figure has been for almost a decade.
:04:59. > :05:00.It's a problem right across Yorkshire.
:05:01. > :05:03.The most high-profile deaths over the last 18 months,
:05:04. > :05:10.Jenny Swift at Doncaster prison and Vikki Thompson at HMP Leeds.
:05:11. > :05:12.The Ministry of Justice admits that violence,
:05:13. > :05:16.self-harm and deaths in prisons are too high.
:05:17. > :05:20.We're investing ?100 million in appointing new officers,
:05:21. > :05:24.2500 officers across the estate, so that offenders have both
:05:25. > :05:30.the support and the challenge, but also safety in place.
:05:31. > :05:33.John says he knows he deserved to be in prison.
:05:34. > :05:36.What he wanted was to break the cycle of reoffending.
:05:37. > :05:38.He says he has now, but it's despite,
:05:39. > :05:46.not because of, his treatment inside.
:05:47. > :05:48.I've been speaking to Dave Todd from the Prison Officers Association.
:05:49. > :05:53.He believes many of the inmates simply shouldn't be in prison.
:05:54. > :05:56.There are limited spaces within secure units in the mental
:05:57. > :06:01.health setting, so unfortunately, prison officers get prisoners
:06:02. > :06:06.They should have better care from mental health
:06:07. > :06:11.Prison officers are very, very good at what they do,
:06:12. > :06:14.and they control a lot of issues, they control a lot of
:06:15. > :06:20.They have small bits of training, but, unfortunately, we are not those
:06:21. > :06:26.The Government, of course, has set out plans to put billions
:06:27. > :06:28.more pounds into this to try and help to get
:06:29. > :06:36.It will help, but, unfortunately, what the Government are proposing
:06:37. > :06:39.at the minute is only to try and stem the flow.
:06:40. > :06:45.Those staff with experience are leaving in their hordes
:06:46. > :06:50.Your prison officers have a role to play within this, don't they?
:06:51. > :06:54.It's difficult for them, their working conditions, but equally,
:06:55. > :06:57.it's difficult for the prisoners inside.
:06:58. > :07:00.Could they perhaps deal with the prisoners in a better,
:07:01. > :07:06.Unfortunately, when you've got learned behaviour
:07:07. > :07:10.in problem-solving, you use violence.
:07:11. > :07:15.You can have two prison officers in charge of upwards of 100
:07:16. > :07:19.prisoners on one landing, or on two landings.
:07:20. > :07:23.I don't know how anybody would expect two prison officers
:07:24. > :07:25.to be able to control that amount of prisoners.
:07:26. > :07:28.Do you think there's some kind of resistance
:07:29. > :07:34.Prison officers want to create a rehabilitative culture.
:07:35. > :07:37.They take pride in not seeing a prisoner come back into prison.
:07:38. > :07:42.But, fortunate, the way the Government and Noms have left
:07:43. > :07:47.prison officers in the absolute mire, prisons at the minute
:07:48. > :07:54.The prosecution case against three people arrested
:07:55. > :07:57.by police in Sheffield for protesting against the felling
:07:58. > :08:03.The three included Jenny Hockey and Freda Brayshaw, a retired
:08:04. > :08:08.They were arrested after a dawn tree-felling operation last year,
:08:09. > :08:12.and were facing charges under the Public Order Act.
:08:13. > :08:16.The Independent Police Complaints Commission says it's found
:08:17. > :08:23."no indication" of potential misconduct by police officers during
:08:24. > :08:28.West Yorkshire Police referred itself to the watchdog
:08:29. > :08:30.following claims that there were a number of fires at businesses
:08:31. > :08:35.The IPPC today confirmed it won't launch a fresh
:08:36. > :08:40.inquiry into the blaze, which killed 56 people in 1985.
:08:41. > :08:43.A woman from Bradford had a very lucky escape this week,
:08:44. > :08:47.surviving what could have been an horrific car crash.
:08:48. > :08:51.CCTV captured the moment Helen Wilson was hit by a car,
:08:52. > :08:55.which lost control in icy conditions on Old Road in Horton Bank Top.
:08:56. > :09:03.Amazingly, she walked away without any injuries.
:09:04. > :09:15.No cuts, no bruises, just my lower back is sore. Down my side and both
:09:16. > :09:18.elbows. I can't even see any bruising at the minute. It must be
:09:19. > :09:23.there somewhere. You tend to go back and think, if I had just been sat
:09:24. > :09:29.there for a few minutes with the car door open, it could have taken my
:09:30. > :09:33.legs of, anything. That's frightening, thinking about stuff
:09:34. > :09:36.like that. I don't, try and focus on the good side, that I'm here.
:09:37. > :09:46.Very lucky woman. Well, will there be icy conditions tonight?
:09:47. > :09:52.There will be, some drizzle, so there could be a frost tomorrow.
:09:53. > :09:58.Temperatures stayed subzero right through today. Maxton temperatures
:09:59. > :10:02.at 3pm today, remarkable for this time of year. Temperatures are going
:10:03. > :10:08.to recover through tomorrow and then through the weekend too. A band of
:10:09. > :10:12.rain, Friday into Saturday, opening the doors for Atlantic weather as we
:10:13. > :10:17.head through the weekend and into the early parts of February. Clear
:10:18. > :10:24.spells in the east, and then thicker cloud across the hills. Possibly the
:10:25. > :10:28.odd winter flurry, some frozen drizzle, and with the widespread
:10:29. > :10:35.frost once again, we're looking at icy stretches. A cold start to the
:10:36. > :10:40.day, in the morning, it will recover in the afternoon. Doug surprised if
:10:41. > :10:46.we get further drizzle through the afternoon. It will feel cold across
:10:47. > :10:52.at Pennine chain. Temperatures a bit higher tomorrow afternoon, but it.
:10:53. > :10:56.Feel pretty cold. Into the weekends, a band of rain Friday night into
:10:57. > :11:02.Saturday, as a wet start to Saturday, drier in the afternoon.
:11:03. > :11:03.Sunday could see rain for a time, then milder into the start of
:11:04. > :11:16.February. That's it for the Good evening. It's been dry so far
:11:17. > :11:22.this January but as it draws to a close it looks like we will see some
:11:23. > :11:25.rain at last. It's been an interesting today a bitterly cold in
:11:26. > :11:32.Norfolk, way we kept the grey cloud all day and the grey cloud gave a
:11:33. > :11:36.dusting of snow in places. This is a lovely picture sent in from Sutton
:11:37. > :11:38.Coldfield. Rob Wales and much of Scotland it's been a beautiful day,