:00:00. > :00:00.Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.
:00:00. > :00:10.The clergyman selected as the next Bishop of Sheffield turns it down
:00:11. > :00:12.after a row over his views on women priests.
:00:13. > :00:14.The files showing the Thatcher government ruled out an inquiry
:00:15. > :00:21.into the actions of police during the miners strike.
:00:22. > :00:32.It has been a sunny day across Yorkshire. What about the weekend?
:00:33. > :00:37.Join me for the live update. Good evening. Thanks for joining us.
:00:38. > :00:40.The new man selected as the Bishop of Sheffield has turned down
:00:41. > :00:43.the position after a row about his views on women priests.
:00:44. > :00:45.It's the second time the Right Reverend Philip North has
:00:46. > :00:50.The Archbishop of York said tonight he was sad that people had
:00:51. > :00:52.disagreed with Philip North in a very unchristian way.
:00:53. > :00:59.A Church of England clergy man has refused to take up the post of
:01:00. > :01:03.It is not the first time the Right Reverend Philip North has
:01:04. > :01:10.Back in 2012, there was outcry when he was nominated for the
:01:11. > :01:14.Now he has announced he will not become the
:01:15. > :01:17.The problem is his view on women and his belief
:01:18. > :01:27.Although Bishop Philip is very clear he stands for equality
:01:28. > :01:30.and wants to see women flourish, and he is really clear about that, I
:01:31. > :01:33.think the very fact he will not ordain women himself has the
:01:34. > :01:35.potential to give out a really negative
:01:36. > :01:36.message that somehow the
:01:37. > :01:41.Church of England is a discriminatory organisation.
:01:42. > :01:44.Tonight, friends of Bishop Philip have defended his ideas.
:01:45. > :01:49.The largest part of Christianity still does not accept
:01:50. > :01:59.women in those kind of orders but in the Church of England we have
:02:00. > :02:04.as a family and have a conversation so both can mutually survive.
:02:05. > :02:06.Today in a statement Philip North said...
:02:07. > :02:23.It was 23 years ago that some of the first
:02:24. > :02:27.women priests were ordained at Sheffield Cathedral.
:02:28. > :02:31.More recently in 2015, clergy from all over the
:02:32. > :02:36.world came to York to witness the consecration of the first
:02:37. > :02:40.The two are friends and women who have worked
:02:41. > :02:42.with Philip North says he respects everyone.
:02:43. > :02:51.He is a man of real passion for people and loves people.
:02:52. > :02:54.By the way, in his ministry as a priest and now the
:02:55. > :02:56.Bishop in Barnsley, he has supported women
:02:57. > :02:58.to train for the Ministry as
:02:59. > :03:02.But for many, Bishop North's refusal to ordain or take communion from a
:03:03. > :03:05.Files seen by the BBC suggest Margaret Thatcher's government
:03:06. > :03:11.was reluctant to hold a public inquiry into the policing
:03:12. > :03:13.of the miners' stike for fear of a "witch hunt".
:03:14. > :03:15.Documents show the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan wanted
:03:16. > :03:20.to discourage "any form of inquiry" into police actions.
:03:21. > :03:22.Miners were disappointed last year when the Home Secretary Amber Rudd
:03:23. > :03:24.ruled out an inquiry into the so-called Battle
:03:25. > :03:32.For over 30 years, these images and what they represent have
:03:33. > :03:39.For some, these are working men, struggling to protect
:03:40. > :03:41.their jobs and communities at the so-called Battle of Orgreave,
:03:42. > :03:45.the height of the miners' strike in 1984.
:03:46. > :03:50.For others, this is the police upholding the rule of law in the
:03:51. > :03:54.Look North has seen previously classified documents that show that
:03:55. > :03:58.at the end of the strike, Home Secretary Leon Brittan
:03:59. > :04:03.governement should not encourage any form of public enquiry.
:04:04. > :04:08.The documents also show that senior officials wanted
:04:09. > :04:11.the message simply to be, the rule of law had won.
:04:12. > :04:14.There was no need to investigate the conduct of
:04:15. > :04:18.They still have the same opinion today in 2017 as they had in 1985 -
:04:19. > :04:23.For former miners, they say these documents
:04:24. > :04:30.The suspicion is never going to go away that this was
:04:31. > :04:33.orchestrated right from 10 Downing St to defeat the miners
:04:34. > :04:35.and to use the police as a battering ram.
:04:36. > :04:42.burying this, you are thinking, what's next?
:04:43. > :04:44.The files also detail the attitude of South Yorkshire
:04:45. > :04:50.What I detect from those documents is
:04:51. > :04:53.that certainly there was a degree of confidence within
:04:54. > :05:05.The way the police were so dismissive
:05:06. > :05:08.but it is pretty clear they believe they have the full
:05:09. > :05:10.confidence of the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
:05:11. > :05:12.These files are not only relevant to what
:05:13. > :05:14.happened during the strike, five years later South Yorkshire Police
:05:15. > :05:15.would be centre stage in the
:05:16. > :05:17.aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster.
:05:18. > :05:19.The two events, Hillsborough and Orgreave, cannot be separated.
:05:20. > :05:23.You cannot have the full truth about Hillsborough until we
:05:24. > :05:30.also know what happened four years earlier when the same police force,
:05:31. > :05:33.employed the same tactics that it was later to do
:05:34. > :05:35.against the Liverpool supporters, but this time against the miners.
:05:36. > :05:38.The Home Office says the police system has fundamentally changed
:05:39. > :05:42.in the past 30 years and that very few lessons will be learned
:05:43. > :05:46.The Home Secretary last year set out her reasons for not holding an
:05:47. > :05:50.In this situation in Orgreave, there were no
:05:51. > :05:59.For the miners, they say their campaign continues.
:06:00. > :06:03.Apart from the files held by the Home Office,
:06:04. > :06:06.65 files are also being held by South Yorkshire Police.
:06:07. > :06:10.I asked Yvette Cooper - the Pontefract and Castleford Labour
:06:11. > :06:13.MP who is the Chairwoman of the House of Commons Home Affairs
:06:14. > :06:18.Committee when she thought they might be released.
:06:19. > :06:21.We are still pressing the police, not just South Yorkshire, but North
:06:22. > :06:23.Yorkshire and the Met, and a lot of other forces
:06:24. > :06:31.the day to tell us what information they still have
:06:32. > :06:34.now to make sure that publicly available.
:06:35. > :06:37.I think people across the coalfield communities and across the country
:06:38. > :06:39.want to know the truth about what has happened.
:06:40. > :06:41.I know that you have been working quite hard
:06:42. > :06:50.that? of these files, have you privy to
:06:51. > :06:52.No, I have not seen any of the files.
:06:53. > :06:55.The Government files that came out today, that is the first I
:06:56. > :06:59.What we have been trying to do with the select
:07:00. > :07:00.committee is just keep pressing all these different organisations
:07:01. > :07:05.It is not about giving a secret access to the files, that
:07:06. > :07:08.I want everybody to be able to see them, particularly
:07:09. > :07:10.the campaigners and those who have been arguing
:07:11. > :07:12.for justice for Orgreave for so many years.
:07:13. > :07:15.In the South Yorkshire Police files, what is it you expect
:07:16. > :07:17.we might seee in them when, and if, they are released?
:07:18. > :07:20.We do not know that is why it is so important they
:07:21. > :07:23.In the Government files that we saw today,
:07:24. > :07:27.it shows that there been a hostility to a public enquiry or to getting
:07:28. > :07:28.the truth about Orgreave from the very start
:07:29. > :07:40.We have just got to put an end to that,
:07:41. > :07:46.There are real concerns across the coalfields
:07:47. > :07:49.about what happened at Orgreave, about the way the police responded,
:07:50. > :07:51.about what happened afterwards, taking people through the courts,
:07:52. > :07:53.all of those things, we need to have
:07:54. > :07:56.all of those information out in the public so that
:07:57. > :07:59.You have done really well to get this far, Yvette.
:08:00. > :08:08.Why did you not do it when Labour were in power for 13?
:08:09. > :08:12.I think that was a fair challenge to us.
:08:13. > :08:14.I think much more should have been done.
:08:15. > :08:18.More information has come out drip by drip and once we see
:08:19. > :08:20.more of the information, particularly some of the information
:08:21. > :08:24.that came out of the Hillsborough enquiry,
:08:25. > :08:27.that really revealed some of the
:08:28. > :08:32.problems within South Yorkshire Police, with every year that has
:08:33. > :08:34.gone by there has been more information that said, look,
:08:35. > :08:36.we really need a proper investigation
:08:37. > :08:38.and a proper, thorough approach to get all of the
:08:39. > :08:41.Yvette Cooper, thank you very much your time.
:08:42. > :08:43.Police are to ask the Crown Prosecution Service to consider
:08:44. > :08:46.a murder charge over the death of a 14-year-old girl in Wakefield
:08:47. > :08:51.A 79-year-old man who was re-arrested earlier this week
:08:52. > :08:54.on the suspicion of her murder has been granted police bail.
:08:55. > :09:00.West Yorkshire Police are sending a file of evidence to the CPS.
:09:01. > :09:02.Barnsley Council is spending a total of a hundred and twenty million
:09:03. > :09:04.pounds on the redevelopment of the town centre.
:09:05. > :09:06.'The Glass Works' in the centre of Barnsley
:09:07. > :09:09.will include a cinema, bowling alley, market and library.
:09:10. > :09:11.If the scheme gets planning permission, it'll be completed
:09:12. > :09:13.in three years' time and will create around eight hundred
:09:14. > :09:32.Let's catch up with the weather. What a stunning day it was. Is it
:09:33. > :09:39.going to stay that way for the weekend? I am afraid not, more cloud
:09:40. > :09:45.around. Much more cloud as the warm front pushes in from the west. Less
:09:46. > :09:52.windy and dry. High pressure is Remain in charge at the moment. That
:09:53. > :09:58.week warm front. The next cold front bringing patchy rain. That gets
:09:59. > :10:04.stuck in eastern areas on Saturday. Sunday morning, a bit of a mess with
:10:05. > :10:08.patchy rain in places. Some drier and brighter spells. A complicated
:10:09. > :10:13.outlook. It will be a quiet night out there. Largely clear at the
:10:14. > :10:22.moment. Cloud will push in to Western areas, not preventing frost.
:10:23. > :10:32.Down to one Celsius in countryside. Hazy sunshine and that warm front
:10:33. > :10:39.comes in and spots of rain. Pretty trivial. Mist a cross of the
:10:40. > :10:44.Yorkshire Dales. Top temperatures 11 Celsius. Fairly nondescriptive into
:10:45. > :10:49.Friday. We keep that sheet of cloud on Friday night into Saturday
:10:50. > :10:54.morning. It is going to be frost free. Saturday is cloudy. There is
:10:55. > :10:59.that cold front bringing patchy rain on Saturday afternoon. Sunday,
:11:00. > :11:01.patchy rain. Monday looks like a clear, blue sky day. I will leave
:11:02. > :11:02.you day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe
:11:03. > :11:14.spots of rain. Good evening, in the spring sunshine
:11:15. > :11:18.we saw temperatures as high as 17.5 Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on
:11:19. > :11:22.Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled weather in the forecast for the next
:11:23. > :11:26.few days. This was the sunset captured by one of our Weather
:11:27. > :11:29.Watchers. Clear skies there. We have had increasing amounts of cloud
:11:30. > :11:33.moving in from the West. Through the remainder of tonight we will
:11:34. > :11:34.continue to see that cloud across the south-west