09/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

The clergyman selected as the next Bishop of Sheffield turns it down

after a row over his views on women priests.

The files showing the Thatcher government ruled out an inquiry

into the actions of police during the miners strike.

It has been a sunny day across Yorkshire. What about the weekend?

Join me for the live update. Good evening. Thanks for joining us.

The new man selected as the Bishop of Sheffield has turned down

the position after a row about his views on women priests.

It's the second time the Right Reverend Philip North has

The Archbishop of York said tonight he was sad that people had

disagreed with Philip North in a very unchristian way.

A Church of England clergy man has refused to take up the post of

It is not the first time the Right Reverend Philip North has

Back in 2012, there was outcry when he was nominated for the

Now he has announced he will not become the

The problem is his view on women and his belief

Although Bishop Philip is very clear he stands for equality

and wants to see women flourish, and he is really clear about that, I

think the very fact he will not ordain women himself has the

potential to give out a really negative

message that somehow the

Church of England is a discriminatory organisation.

Tonight, friends of Bishop Philip have defended his ideas.

The largest part of Christianity still does not accept

women in those kind of orders but in the Church of England we have

as a family and have a conversation so both can mutually survive.

Today in a statement Philip North said...

It was 23 years ago that some of the first

women priests were ordained at Sheffield Cathedral.

More recently in 2015, clergy from all over the

world came to York to witness the consecration of the first

The two are friends and women who have worked

with Philip North says he respects everyone.

He is a man of real passion for people and loves people.

By the way, in his ministry as a priest and now the

Bishop in Barnsley, he has supported women

to train for the Ministry as

But for many, Bishop North's refusal to ordain or take communion from a

Files seen by the BBC suggest Margaret Thatcher's government

was reluctant to hold a public inquiry into the policing

of the miners' stike for fear of a "witch hunt".

Documents show the then Home Secretary Leon Brittan wanted

to discourage "any form of inquiry" into police actions.

Miners were disappointed last year when the Home Secretary Amber Rudd

ruled out an inquiry into the so-called Battle

For over 30 years, these images and what they represent have

For some, these are working men, struggling to protect

their jobs and communities at the so-called Battle of Orgreave,

the height of the miners' strike in 1984.

For others, this is the police upholding the rule of law in the

Look North has seen previously classified documents that show that

at the end of the strike, Home Secretary Leon Brittan

governement should not encourage any form of public enquiry.

The documents also show that senior officials wanted

the message simply to be, the rule of law had won.

There was no need to investigate the conduct of

They still have the same opinion today in 2017 as they had in 1985 -

For former miners, they say these documents

The suspicion is never going to go away that this was

orchestrated right from 10 Downing St to defeat the miners

and to use the police as a battering ram.

burying this, you are thinking, what's next?

The files also detail the attitude of South Yorkshire

What I detect from those documents is

that certainly there was a degree of confidence within

The way the police were so dismissive

but it is pretty clear they believe they have the full

confidence of the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

These files are not only relevant to what

happened during the strike, five years later South Yorkshire Police

would be centre stage in the

aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster.

The two events, Hillsborough and Orgreave, cannot be separated.

You cannot have the full truth about Hillsborough until we

also know what happened four years earlier when the same police force,

employed the same tactics that it was later to do

against the Liverpool supporters, but this time against the miners.

The Home Office says the police system has fundamentally changed

in the past 30 years and that very few lessons will be learned

The Home Secretary last year set out her reasons for not holding an

In this situation in Orgreave, there were no

For the miners, they say their campaign continues.

Apart from the files held by the Home Office,

65 files are also being held by South Yorkshire Police.

I asked Yvette Cooper - the Pontefract and Castleford Labour

MP who is the Chairwoman of the House of Commons Home Affairs

Committee when she thought they might be released.

We are still pressing the police, not just South Yorkshire, but North

Yorkshire and the Met, and a lot of other forces

the day to tell us what information they still have

now to make sure that publicly available.

I think people across the coalfield communities and across the country

want to know the truth about what has happened.

I know that you have been working quite hard

that? of these files, have you privy to

No, I have not seen any of the files.

The Government files that came out today, that is the first I

What we have been trying to do with the select

committee is just keep pressing all these different organisations

It is not about giving a secret access to the files, that

I want everybody to be able to see them, particularly

the campaigners and those who have been arguing

for justice for Orgreave for so many years.

In the South Yorkshire Police files, what is it you expect

we might seee in them when, and if, they are released?

We do not know that is why it is so important they

In the Government files that we saw today,

it shows that there been a hostility to a public enquiry or to getting

the truth about Orgreave from the very start

We have just got to put an end to that,

There are real concerns across the coalfields

about what happened at Orgreave, about the way the police responded,

about what happened afterwards, taking people through the courts,

all of those things, we need to have

all of those information out in the public so that

You have done really well to get this far, Yvette.

Why did you not do it when Labour were in power for 13?

I think that was a fair challenge to us.

I think much more should have been done.

More information has come out drip by drip and once we see

more of the information, particularly some of the information

that came out of the Hillsborough enquiry,

that really revealed some of the

problems within South Yorkshire Police, with every year that has

gone by there has been more information that said, look,

we really need a proper investigation

and a proper, thorough approach to get all of the

Yvette Cooper, thank you very much your time.

Police are to ask the Crown Prosecution Service to consider

a murder charge over the death of a 14-year-old girl in Wakefield

A 79-year-old man who was re-arrested earlier this week

on the suspicion of her murder has been granted police bail.

West Yorkshire Police are sending a file of evidence to the CPS.

Barnsley Council is spending a total of a hundred and twenty million

pounds on the redevelopment of the town centre.

'The Glass Works' in the centre of Barnsley

will include a cinema, bowling alley, market and library.

If the scheme gets planning permission, it'll be completed

in three years' time and will create around eight hundred

Let's catch up with the weather. What a stunning day it was. Is it

going to stay that way for the weekend? I am afraid not, more cloud

around. Much more cloud as the warm front pushes in from the west. Less

windy and dry. High pressure is Remain in charge at the moment. That

week warm front. The next cold front bringing patchy rain. That gets

stuck in eastern areas on Saturday. Sunday morning, a bit of a mess with

patchy rain in places. Some drier and brighter spells. A complicated

outlook. It will be a quiet night out there. Largely clear at the

moment. Cloud will push in to Western areas, not preventing frost.

Down to one Celsius in countryside. Hazy sunshine and that warm front

comes in and spots of rain. Pretty trivial. Mist a cross of the

Yorkshire Dales. Top temperatures 11 Celsius. Fairly nondescriptive into

Friday. We keep that sheet of cloud on Friday night into Saturday

morning. It is going to be frost free. Saturday is cloudy. There is

that cold front bringing patchy rain on Saturday afternoon. Sunday,

patchy rain. Monday looks like a clear, blue sky day. I will leave

you day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe

spots of rain. Good evening, in the spring sunshine

we saw temperatures as high as 17.5 Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on

Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled weather in the forecast for the next

few days. This was the sunset captured by one of our Weather

Watchers. Clear skies there. We have had increasing amounts of cloud

moving in from the West. Through the remainder of tonight we will

continue to see that cloud across the south-west