28/02/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Tonight: Staff at Northern Rail are to go on strike -

in a row over who opens the train doors.

And in an emotional interview, Jo Cox's sister talks

about the effect her murder has had on their family.

I have known emotions that I've never known.

I've never been scared in my life - and I'm scared.

Last night was a cold one but what's in store? I'll have the live

forecast, later in the programme. Passengers on some of Yorkshire's

busiest commuter lines are facing disruption,

after staff working for Northern Rail announced strike

action in a dispute over who opens Drivers and guards who belong

to the RMT union voted overwhelmingly in favour

of industrial action. They'll walk out for 24

hours on March the 13th. Our reporter Ali Fortescue

is at Leeds station tonight. The big question, the question

that's been causing commuter misery elsewhere in the country, should

train drivers be the ones opening and closing train doors. The RMT

safety at risk, but Northern say safety at risk, but Northern say

they hope a constructive resolution can be reached. There will be a lot

of disgruntled commuters if the strike goes ahead next month.

STATION ANNOUNCEMENT: No trains on some routes and...

A different county but it's the same issue.

For Southern passengers scenes like these have become grimly common

in a long and bitter dispute over driver only operated trains.

Today, members of the RMT union, who work for Northern, voted to walk

We want to provide some assurance to passengers.

We're working very hard to look at our contingency arrangements

to keep as many people on the move on the 13th of March.

But between now and then we'll work hard to get the RMT round the table,

continue those discussions so we can work together to shape the future

Northern operates 2500 services a day across the North,

linking places like Barnsley and Sheffield, York,

Harrogate and Leeds, along with Bradford and the Calder

Strike action could cause commuter misery.

I've been on a few trains recently and things got a little bit hectic.

I think if they can increase the police presence at the train

station, they can at least put a guard on the train.

I don't think they need guards on trains personally.

I'm quite comfortable with the way the systems have

operated in the past, where there are no

I understand there's a need for a strike,

but it is very inconvenient for the general everyday person.

When the franchise changed hands last April, Northern promised

to invest ?500,000 on new rolling stock to be introduced next year.

The doors on those trains could be closed by a driver

rather than a guard, but the RMT union claims that's

unsafe, as many of Yorkshire's stations are unmanned.

The vast majority of train services actually have a second safety person

It leads to a more secure train and actually more accessible railway

Northern says it hopes to provide a good service when staff

strike on March the 13th, but there's no doubt this

is an issue that could be on track to cause big disruption on some

A brief look at some of the day's other stories.

Lifeboat crews and a rescue helicopter have helped a woman swept

The coastguard was called just before 6pm this evening.

The woman was trying to rescue a dog.

Both were brought to shore, cold and shocked, but otherwise unharmed.

Parliament has tonight discussed measures which delay some operations

for obese people or smokers in North Yorkshire.

In the Commons, the York Central MP Rachael Maskel described the Vale of

York Clinical Commissioning Group's policy as rationing.

The idea is to get people healthier before having surgery.

While York is the worst example of rationing,

every clinician knows that this is wrong and contravenes

I am blowing the whistle on this today, Madam Deputy Speaker,

because this policy is directly discriminatory, clinically

contra-indicated and financial perverse.

I think that it is right that clinicians make decisions

on an individual basis about what are the right treatment

options for their patients as they present, and in some cases

that may involve a direct route to surgery.

And in other cases it may involve some other intervention.

Work has begun on a new holiday park near Unstone in

The ?400 million development near Chesterfield will include

log cabins and hostels, and will create over 1000 jobs.

The complex has been planned for 30 years and developers are hoping

great access to the great outdoors will bring in the visitors.

It's absolutely fantastic news for Chesterfield and the wider area,

because the Peak Resort is going to be a gateway

Chesterfield crooked spire is less than two miles that way,

so we expect visitors will come and stay here,

The sister of the late MP Jo Cox has spoken about the impact her death

In her first in-depth interview since her older sister was killed,

Kim Leadbeater told Look North that she's still adjusting

The Batley and Spen MP was murdered in Birstall last June.

Harry went to meet Kim at her home in Cleckheaton.

When you're faced with an event like this, how do you cope?

And I am sure people who understand what trauma

is would know more about this, but you seem to go into a bit

of a self-preservation mode, and, sort of, in the days after Jo

The police were here, sort of, all the time,

so we had the counter-terrorist unit coming round and checking

the house for security, fitting extra smoke alarms and doing

all sorts of things, and, you know, asking me where I go

And I think this is the side of things that people

You know, they wouldn't know about that.

So the impact on your day-to-day life is huge.

The Kim I've met is bouncy, bubbly, confident...

I have known emotions that I've never known.

I've never been scared in my life, and I am scared,

I've never, erm, felt like I don't know what I'm doing.

I've always been confident, and my confidence has gone, a lot.

People might misinterpret what I mean by that, and, you know,

and the reality now, with social media and what have

Once you put yourself out there, you're vulnerable -

There is a great song called Sisters, there were never

such devoted sisters, and yet you two were chalk

Interestingly, we were quite different as kids.

And Jo, bizarrely, and this is what I think people

won't realise, was very shy as a child, and really didn't

have a great deal of confidence, and so I was always the younger,

sort of, more bolshie sister, and I would take the lead in things.

But, yeah, and I would, and I've never lacked confidence,

The impact of what's happened recently is that I've doubted

myself more than I've doubted myself before.

But certainly when we were children, Jo would be, you know,

You ring up and find out what time the bus comes, and you ring up

Which is why I've got so much respect for what Jo ended up

doing with her life, because that didn't come naturally.

She had to work exceptionally hard to develop her confidence,

and work exceptionally hard to be as successful as she was.

So, yeah, we were different growing up, but then what also

happened as we got older, we became much more similar,

And I feel Jo in me, and I feel I could see me in Jo much

more as we went through our adult life than when we were kids,

You can see more of Harry's interview with Kim in tonight's

edition of Look North, which is available to watch again

Sport - and a couple of our teams were in action tonight.

In League One, Bradford City drew 2-2 against MK Dons.

While in League Two, Doncaster Rovers beat

You are up-to-date with the news. We are back at 6:25am. Now the weather.

How is it looking for tomorrow? Not too bad, meteorologically

speaking, tomorrow is the first day of spring. It might look like it but

it won't feel like it, quite a cold day. If we look at the pressure

chart, our weather is largely dominated by low pressure over the

next few days. It's looking quite unsettled and changeable. We will

see various weather fronts sinking from west to east, heading in from

the Atlantic. We'll see outbreaks of rain on and off over the next few

days. This evening and overnight, we'll see a few showers and they'll

think to the south-east. Largely dry and clear towards the end of the

night. Temperatures above take a dip. Rulli, they could go to minus

figures. It's going to be a cold start, a touch of frost first thing.

Maybe a risk of ice on untreated surfaces. A decent start the day.

Variable amounts of cloud building through the afternoon. Some fairly

nice breaks and brighter spells, though one showers and these showers

could be quite heavy temperatures 7-8 Celsius tomorrow. As we make our

way through the rest of the week, overnight into Thursday it looks as

if we could have persistent band of rain. That will track up towards the

north. Things will cloud over tomorrow afternoon from the south.

Temperatures will be cold enough to see this rainfall as snow over the

highest of grounds, parts of the Pennines. If you are heading out

over the next few days, grab a brolly, because you could see a

shower at any time. Time to say goodbye.

Good evening. We are about to head into March, the days are getting

longer, but are they getting any warmer? Not really. We will get

there in the end, but we will have to be patient, not very springlike

at the moment. Some showers scattered around across England and

Wales will tend to diminish in number, a few left behind, wintry

showers across the north of Scotland, snow at low-level is, ice

as well as temperatures fall close to freezing. A cold night with a

touch of frost in a number of places. Plenty of sunshine across

southern areas first of all, but it will not last, rain spilling from

the south, the best brightness and eventually further north across the

UK. Mostly fine afternoon to come across northern areas, Scotland,

still wintry showers across the far north, but plenty of sunshine

further south. 5-6, not feeling too bad in the sunshine. The odd shower

for Northern Ireland and northern England, brightness in between those