06/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

Tonight: Researchers in Yorkshire find evidence that poor air quality

doesn't just increase the risk of asthma , but can cause it.

The murdered MP's family gather for an event in Yorkshire.

Changeable week to come across Yorkshire, but there will be

some decent days Tuesday and Thursday, for example.

Join me for that week-ahead forecast.

Scientists from the University of Leeds have found emissions

from diesel vehicles don't just aggravate asthma,

It's been revealed as the BBC launches "so I can breathe" -

It's worrying for residents living in a number of our cities

where pollution levels are particularly high.

Our health correspondent, Jamie Coulson, reports.

You can barely see it, but polluted air may be

That's why scientists from Leeds and Barcelona are in Bradford,

looking at the link between childhood asthma

and the kind of pollution levels they've been measuring

When you see it there, over 100,000, is that bad for us?

That is bad for us because these are the particles that kind of go

The other thing I notice about this is you only need a bus to go

past and look at that - it jumps right up.

Isaac has had asthma since he was two.

You just think asthma is brought on by something else,

Nobody's ever said to me that his asthma is linked to pollution.

If somebody did tell me that, obviously I would be up in arms.

At Leeds University, a researcher has fed

This is an air pollution map in Bradford that shows the red

as the highest and the blue as the lowest.

You can overlay these maps with locations of interest,

like all residents' addresses for children you have

Effectively show how much risk someone is exposed to.

The project is not yet complete, but early findings suggest emissions

Nitrogen dioxide and black carbon are significantly linked.

A child could not have got asthma if they were not

exposed, and that has a lot of implications, obviously.

The research is already proving useful.

Bradford, along with West Yorkshire's other councils,

have agreed a low emissions strategy and it includes turning some

of the county's most polluted hotspots into clean air zones.

And this bit makes particularly interesting reading.

There's a commitment to convert the entire fleet

of West Yorkshire buses to meet low emissions standards.

The research from here in Bradford suggests that could prevent around

No consolation for those already affected.

If something could be done about it, that would be fantastic.

The man charged with thwarting terrorist activity here in Yorkshire

has called on people to act on their instincts and report

anything they believe could be linked with a terror plot.

This government video has been released to advise people

on what to do if they suspect an attack is imminent.

The head of the North East Counter Terror Unit told Look North he wants

to root out all forms of radicalisation that

could lead to an individual or a group carrying an attack.

It is about the general public acting on their suspicions on things

Is there a danger we create a climate of fear where everyone

That's certainly not what we intend to do.

There is a balance to be struck between the two.

We would always welcome a call, well intended, from the public.

Dr Afshin Shahi is a terrorism expert at Bradford University.

I asked him if this type of campaign was necessary.

There are less terrorism activities taking place in 2017

But that doesn't mean terrorism is more irrelevant.

When you think about it, actually, the number one security issue

that is really facing everybody, not just Yorkshire but in the rest

of the world, is environment, food security, water security.

Although terrorism is very important and we all have

to be vigilant about it, we should refrain from panicking.

I don't see any harm to ask people to be vigilant,

but we're dealing with a very multifaceted and

Radicalisation is a very, very complex process.

It requires a complex and multifaceted and more

In my opinion, it would be very simplistic to only rely

on the security establishment to resolve this problem.

This is a sociological, cultural, economic and political problem

and requires a more comprehensive approach if you really

Is there a bigger risk of terrorism here in Yorkshire compared

When you do look at the terrorism map of Britain, if I can use such

a term, Yorkshire is not basically listed as a number one destination.

There are more problematic areas in this country than Yorkshire.

They are quite keen to stress that it's not just

That's a change of course for them, isn't it?

Islamic terrorism constitutes only a fraction of terrorism,

the type of terrorism we are facing in the 21st century.

If you genuinely want to address extremism, if you genuinely

want to address terrorism, you need to have the wider picture

and I think it's extremely unhelpful to only focus on one

A man is being questioned for a second time over the murder

of a West Yorkshire schoolgirl more than 50 years ago.

14-year-old Elsie Frost was discovered stabbed to death

confirmed they've re-arrested a 79-year-old man in Berkshire

He's also being questioned about a separate offence

Detectives have launched a murder investigation after a body

Officers were called to York railway station in the early hours of this

morning following reports of a man acting strangely,

A body of a man in his 50s was discovered later

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident

A fundraising event has been held in Cleckheaton in memory of Jo Cox,

the Batley Spen MP who was murdered in her

The Jo Cox Foundation was set up to raise funds

Harry was there - he spoke to the chairman

of Huddersfield Town, Dean Hoyle, and Jo's mum.

We always ask ourselves, "What would Jo do?"

Whatever we attend, whatever we go to, we say,

And to look around tonight, see the lovely people

from all sides of the community, she would have absolutely loved it.

And hopefully we're carrying on Jo's legacy of more in common.

That's what she truly believed, that we have more in common

And hopefully we'll do Jo proud tonight.

Dean, from your point of view, chairman of Huddersfield Town,

why did you want to get yourself involved?

But also with the football club being in the centre

of the community, to bring cohesion together, we want to play our part.

Football is a sport everybody likes and as a football club we can really

We want to support a wonderful thing, but it's more a case

of we know the family really well and we'd like to be a part of this.

We've coped, I think, Harry, because as Kim has always said,

you can shut yourself away and be miserable.

Like I said before, what would Jo want us to do?

And whatever we've done, we've done in Jo's name and we just

hope she'd be proud of us, and I'm sure she will.

You've done something right, lass, I'll tell you that.

You've got a special challenge for our weather

If Paul will wear this piece of art tonight,

we'll make a big donation to the charity.

If Paul wears this tonight, we'll make a big donation and happy days.

Lovely to talk to you, enjoy the evening, thank you very

As a big Bradford City fan, that would hurt.

Did you do it? Have a look at this. Well done, you look slightly

traumatised, but you're a good sport. I wore it for 30 seconds and

to let Bradford City fans know, it's now in

cool, it will be windy at times as well and still rather unsettled with

some blustery showers around. That's the London forecast and now for the

National forecast, over to Nick Miller.

North-west France and Plymouth were miles apart weather-wise. This

southern flank in north-west France there was a wind gusts of 120 mph

which we just dodged. That area of low pressure continues to move

quickly south-eastwards so that by tomorrow it is in Italy on its

southern flank, stormy in Sardinia and around it strong winds blowing

through south-east France. We've got a little bump in the ice bars with

lighter winds, a brief ridge of high pressure, things briefly settled

going into tomorrow, overnight there are some showers around moving

through western Scotland and north-west England and the Midlands,

clearing Wales, one or two in the east, the North Sea tip of high

pressure, things briefly settled