:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to Tuesday's late Look North.
:00:00. > :00:08.South Yorkshire's former Chief Constable is in court,
:00:09. > :00:13.as a judicial review begins in to his suspension.
:00:14. > :00:15.Causing misery for motorists and costing Yorkshire's
:00:16. > :00:24.A new report reveals the staggering cost of fixing potholes.
:00:25. > :00:29.We're going to see temperatures rise over the next few days. It will be
:00:30. > :00:36.cloudy. A bit of rain as well. All the details shortly.
:00:37. > :00:40.The High Court in London has heard there was insufficient evidence
:00:41. > :00:43.to suspend the former South Yorkshire Police Chief David
:00:44. > :00:48.Crompton for controversial remarks he made in the wake
:00:49. > :00:52.A judicial review into the decision by the county's police and crime
:00:53. > :00:56.commissioner to ask him to resign from his post began today.
:00:57. > :01:02.Our reporter David Rhodes has been in court.
:01:03. > :01:07.This whole High Court hearing stems back to what happened in the
:01:08. > :01:10.immediate aftermath of the Hillsborough inquest last year, when
:01:11. > :01:14.96 Liverpool football fans were found to have been unlawfully
:01:15. > :01:18.killed. It is what happened in the immediate aftermath of that inquest
:01:19. > :01:22.that is at the heart of this case, because the then Chief Constable of
:01:23. > :01:25.South Yorkshire Police, David Crompton, issued two press
:01:26. > :01:28.statements. The second was controversial because some people
:01:29. > :01:32.interpreted it to mine that South Yorkshire Police was still trying to
:01:33. > :01:36.blame the Liverpool fans for causing the disaster. David Crompton denies
:01:37. > :01:43.that was the case. But one of those people to interpret it in that
:01:44. > :01:46.manner was Dr Allen Billings, the Police and Crime Commissioner for
:01:47. > :01:49.South Yorkshire Police. Upon hearing and seeing the statement, he
:01:50. > :01:53.requested that David Crompton immediately retired or resigned from
:01:54. > :01:58.office. Effectively he sacked him. That is what the High Court has been
:01:59. > :02:03.ruling on. David Crompton has come to the court and is asking the High
:02:04. > :02:07.Court to rule if that decision to effectively sack him was unlawful.
:02:08. > :02:13.We heard today from David Crompton's lawyers. They were making the case
:02:14. > :02:19.that this was an unlawful decision. Tomorrow Dr Billings will be making
:02:20. > :02:23.his case. His lawyers will say there was no way David Crompton could stay
:02:24. > :02:27.in post because public confidence was fatally undermind by David
:02:28. > :02:30.Crompton's actions in the immediate aftermath of the Hillsborough
:02:31. > :02:36.inquest last year. Let's be clear, there is no claim here that David
:02:37. > :02:38.Crompton is going to come back as Chief Constable of South Yorkshire
:02:39. > :02:45.Police. That is not the essence of this case. The essence of this case
:02:46. > :02:46.is that did Alan Billings have the legal mandate to make the decision
:02:47. > :02:50.that he did. This case tomorrow will that he did. This case tomorrow will
:02:51. > :02:53.conclude here at the High Court. Yorkshire's roads are in terminal
:02:54. > :02:56.decline, with more than ?1 billion needed to put them back
:02:57. > :02:58.into a reasonable condition, The Asphalt Industry Alliance has
:02:59. > :03:02.found that more than 177,000 potholes were filled in,
:03:03. > :03:07.in our region last year. In that time, our councils have paid
:03:08. > :03:09.out more than ?750,000 in compensation claims for vehicle
:03:10. > :03:15.damage caused by potholes. And the report says the list
:03:16. > :03:18.of roads needing repairs has soared so much that it would take
:03:19. > :03:21.?1.6 billion - and 12 years - The issue is said to have been
:03:22. > :03:42.caused by increased traffic, wetter If you've ever driven round
:03:43. > :03:46.Sheffield you'll have done it slowly, making sure your nice, new
:03:47. > :03:51.wheels don't fall into the clutches of the city's long time scourge, pot
:03:52. > :03:56.holes. It's stuff like this that people in Sheffield have been
:03:57. > :03:59.driving on for ages, a patch work of decaying Tarmac. It plays havoc with
:04:00. > :04:07.your car, it's not very safe either. But we're told that at least here in
:04:08. > :04:10.Sheffield, this will soon be a distant, but bumpy memory. Hot,
:04:11. > :04:15.fresh, steaming road. Sheffield did a deal with a private company five
:04:16. > :04:20.years ago, a contract of over ?1 billion that promised to sort out
:04:21. > :04:24.Sheffield's roads for good. The company AME have got until the end
:04:25. > :04:29.of this year to make Sheffield's roads better, then they'll maintain
:04:30. > :04:34.them for the next 25 years. We've had a few hiccups, which you'd
:04:35. > :04:39.expect on a project this size. Out of the 600 miles we've done so far,
:04:40. > :04:42.about two miles of that have prematurely failed mainly because of
:04:43. > :04:46.soft clay underneath the road. We're totally redoing those. But we're
:04:47. > :04:50.doing them to a deeper depth with better foundations. We were known as
:04:51. > :04:53.pothole city. We had some of the worst roads in the country. That is
:04:54. > :04:57.not the case any more. Certainly won't be the case by December. I
:04:58. > :05:02.would say we probably will have the best roads in the country by the end
:05:03. > :05:06.of the year. That's the stuff Simon Williams from York can only dream
:05:07. > :05:11.of. He runs a courier company in the city and repairs to his vans are
:05:12. > :05:18.costing thousands of pounds. We've had six wind screens replaced in the
:05:19. > :05:23.past year. Again, all caused by vehicles either hitting pot holes or
:05:24. > :05:27.being struck by stones. There we are, pot holes on this road here.
:05:28. > :05:31.They're only small pot holes, but they're expanding all the time. The
:05:32. > :05:36.Department for Transport is stumping up some more money. Today is says it
:05:37. > :05:40.will give Yorkshire more than ?100 million so we can fix our roads this
:05:41. > :05:44.year. Even in Sheffield, where things are already being smoothed
:05:45. > :05:48.out, for most people, it doesn't matter how big the pot of money is,
:05:49. > :05:52.they still think there will be holes.
:05:53. > :05:54.A brief look at some of the day's other stories.
:05:55. > :05:56.A man's been arrested on suspicion of the murder
:05:57. > :06:01.Jordan Hill was found with serious injures in his flat
:06:02. > :06:06.He was taken to hospital but later died.
:06:07. > :06:11.The 29-year-old man arrested remains in police custody.
:06:12. > :06:14.A woman's body has been found in a park in Leeds.
:06:15. > :06:18.The Fire Service recovered the body from Waterloo Lake
:06:19. > :06:22.Detectives believe she got into the lake sometime between last
:06:23. > :06:25.night and early this morning, but they can't be sure
:06:26. > :06:31.A former music teacher at an independent school
:06:32. > :06:33.in North Yorkshire has been sentenced to 28 months in prison,
:06:34. > :06:36.after pleading guilty to having sex with a pupil.
:06:37. > :06:38.Dara De Cogan was charged with ten counts of sexual activity
:06:39. > :06:41.with a female boarder at Ampleforth College.
:06:42. > :06:47.The judge said he'd taken advantage of her innocence.
:06:48. > :06:50.The future of international cricket and rugby league
:06:51. > :06:53.at Headingley could be secured, thanks to a ?35 million deal
:06:54. > :06:59.The money is needed to redevelop stands on both sides of the ground
:07:00. > :07:01.to enable it to continue to host big matches.
:07:02. > :07:12.Archive: Here at Leeds they lost the touch. In spite of 63 in an hour,
:07:13. > :07:15.they lost the match. Headingley is steeped in international history,
:07:16. > :07:18.both in cricket and rugby league. The physical link between the two
:07:19. > :07:23.grounds is part of what makes it special. But it hasn't always made
:07:24. > :07:27.life easy. For years, both sides have known the shared stand needed
:07:28. > :07:31.replacing. Coming up with the deal to do it has taken them to the
:07:32. > :07:35.brink. Today the council announced what it hopes will be the way
:07:36. > :07:40.forward. We've spoken to private investors in London, who are
:07:41. > :07:45.prepared to put up ?35 million, subject to us, the three of us
:07:46. > :07:48.coming together and working out a lease arrangement. We're very
:07:49. > :07:52.confident that we can now move this forward. This is what the new stand
:07:53. > :07:56.will look like. Without it, Yorkshire will lose its status as a
:07:57. > :07:59.Test Match venue in the future. With the World Cup here in 2019, they
:08:00. > :08:06.have to start work on it by September. In Yorkshire we have over
:08:07. > :08:09.770 cricket clubs. 12% of all recreational cricket in this
:08:10. > :08:15.country. It's part of the DNA of Yorkshire. I know that the ECB want
:08:16. > :08:19.to bring cricket here as often as they can, but we have to provide the
:08:20. > :08:23.right facilities. Over on the rugby side, they also need a new south
:08:24. > :08:27.stand. It's iconic. It's atmospheric. It's the place people
:08:28. > :08:33.want to be, but it's 86 years old. It's not much different now to what
:08:34. > :08:38.it was then in 1930. Yeah, it has been condemned. It needs to be
:08:39. > :08:41.replaced. Without this deal, what happens to this? We would have a
:08:42. > :08:44.problem. We would have to do something with it. We'd have to do
:08:45. > :08:50.something with it, so what we do want to do is replace it with a
:08:51. > :08:53.magnificent new facility that retains the terrace and the
:08:54. > :08:57.uniqueness of it. If this deal doesn't go ahead... Yeah, then we've
:08:58. > :09:01.got a huge problem. This deal is not yet done. For all three sides, there
:09:02. > :09:04.are still hurdles to clear. But they are all working together with the
:09:05. > :09:05.common aim to retain international common aim to retain international
:09:06. > :09:10.sport here. Football and there's one
:09:11. > :09:12.result to bring you. In League One, Sheffield United have
:09:13. > :09:24.taken another step towards promotion That's it from me, fully up to date
:09:25. > :09:29.with the news. Now to Owen with the weather. It's been a real mixed bag
:09:30. > :09:34.today. My coat has been on and off. Absolutely! A lot of us woke up this
:09:35. > :09:39.morning and thought what on earth is going on - grey and cloudy. Look at
:09:40. > :09:43.these scenes in York first thing. However we transitioned into
:09:44. > :09:47.something brighter. Many of us seeing blue skies overhead.
:09:48. > :09:54.Here's the satellite from earlier. Can you see plenty of gaps in the
:09:55. > :09:59.cloud. This band of cloud here brought something a bit less settled
:10:00. > :10:02.really. Overnight, yes, we have got some rain. The rain sticks around
:10:03. > :10:06.over the next few days. But not everyone's seeing it. It's not going
:10:07. > :10:09.to be a washout. The heaviest of the rain across high ground to the west.
:10:10. > :10:14.Look at the temperatures. Nine or ten Celsius, that's mild by night.
:10:15. > :10:17.Tomorrow morning then, it's a grey start to your day. Maybe brightness
:10:18. > :10:24.across Eastern parts. Further bits and bobs of rain drift in from the
:10:25. > :10:30.west. Again, those temperatures at 14 or 15 Celsius, way above average.
:10:31. > :10:33.Pretty breezy as well. South-westerly winds picking up.
:10:34. > :10:37.Yes, further damp, cloudy conditions move in from the west. It's a
:10:38. > :10:41.pipeline, which continues to feed these murky conditions over the next
:10:42. > :10:46.few days. We will see brightness on Thursday. Low pressure to the west.
:10:47. > :10:55.We will see milder air flood up from the south over the next few days.
:10:56. > :11:03.Often cloudy, still breezy, but we will see brightness as well.
:11:04. > :11:06.times, but fairly mild for the time of year. This stay tuned for the
:11:07. > :11:11.national weather forecasts with John Hammond.
:11:12. > :11:14.Good evening. Your parents might have told you once that life 's not
:11:15. > :11:15.fair and they were