28/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Welcome to Tuesday's late Look North.

South Yorkshire's former Chief Constable is in court,

as a judicial review begins in to his suspension.

Causing misery for motorists and costing Yorkshire's

A new report reveals the staggering cost of fixing potholes.

We're going to see temperatures rise over the next few days. It will be

cloudy. A bit of rain as well. All the details shortly.

The High Court in London has heard there was insufficient evidence

to suspend the former South Yorkshire Police Chief David

Crompton for controversial remarks he made in the wake

A judicial review into the decision by the county's police and crime

commissioner to ask him to resign from his post began today.

Our reporter David Rhodes has been in court.

This whole High Court hearing stems back to what happened in the

immediate aftermath of the Hillsborough inquest last year, when

96 Liverpool football fans were found to have been unlawfully

killed. It is what happened in the immediate aftermath of that inquest

that is at the heart of this case, because the then Chief Constable of

South Yorkshire Police, David Crompton, issued two press

statements. The second was controversial because some people

interpreted it to mine that South Yorkshire Police was still trying to

blame the Liverpool fans for causing the disaster. David Crompton denies

that was the case. But one of those people to interpret it in that

manner was Dr Allen Billings, the Police and Crime Commissioner for

South Yorkshire Police. Upon hearing and seeing the statement, he

requested that David Crompton immediately retired or resigned from

office. Effectively he sacked him. That is what the High Court has been

ruling on. David Crompton has come to the court and is asking the High

Court to rule if that decision to effectively sack him was unlawful.

We heard today from David Crompton's lawyers. They were making the case

that this was an unlawful decision. Tomorrow Dr Billings will be making

his case. His lawyers will say there was no way David Crompton could stay

in post because public confidence was fatally undermind by David

Crompton's actions in the immediate aftermath of the Hillsborough

inquest last year. Let's be clear, there is no claim here that David

Crompton is going to come back as Chief Constable of South Yorkshire

Police. That is not the essence of this case. The essence of this case

is that did Alan Billings have the legal mandate to make the decision

that he did. This case tomorrow will that he did. This case tomorrow will

conclude here at the High Court. Yorkshire's roads are in terminal

decline, with more than ?1 billion needed to put them back

into a reasonable condition, The Asphalt Industry Alliance has

found that more than 177,000 potholes were filled in,

in our region last year. In that time, our councils have paid

out more than ?750,000 in compensation claims for vehicle

damage caused by potholes. And the report says the list

of roads needing repairs has soared so much that it would take

?1.6 billion - and 12 years - The issue is said to have been

caused by increased traffic, wetter If you've ever driven round

Sheffield you'll have done it slowly, making sure your nice, new

wheels don't fall into the clutches of the city's long time scourge, pot

holes. It's stuff like this that people in Sheffield have been

driving on for ages, a patch work of decaying Tarmac. It plays havoc with

your car, it's not very safe either. But we're told that at least here in

Sheffield, this will soon be a distant, but bumpy memory. Hot,

fresh, steaming road. Sheffield did a deal with a private company five

years ago, a contract of over ?1 billion that promised to sort out

Sheffield's roads for good. The company AME have got until the end

of this year to make Sheffield's roads better, then they'll maintain

them for the next 25 years. We've had a few hiccups, which you'd

expect on a project this size. Out of the 600 miles we've done so far,

about two miles of that have prematurely failed mainly because of

soft clay underneath the road. We're totally redoing those. But we're

doing them to a deeper depth with better foundations. We were known as

pothole city. We had some of the worst roads in the country. That is

not the case any more. Certainly won't be the case by December. I

would say we probably will have the best roads in the country by the end

of the year. That's the stuff Simon Williams from York can only dream

of. He runs a courier company in the city and repairs to his vans are

costing thousands of pounds. We've had six wind screens replaced in the

past year. Again, all caused by vehicles either hitting pot holes or

being struck by stones. There we are, pot holes on this road here.

They're only small pot holes, but they're expanding all the time. The

Department for Transport is stumping up some more money. Today is says it

will give Yorkshire more than ?100 million so we can fix our roads this

year. Even in Sheffield, where things are already being smoothed

out, for most people, it doesn't matter how big the pot of money is,

they still think there will be holes.

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

A man's been arrested on suspicion of the murder

Jordan Hill was found with serious injures in his flat

He was taken to hospital but later died.

The 29-year-old man arrested remains in police custody.

A woman's body has been found in a park in Leeds.

The Fire Service recovered the body from Waterloo Lake

Detectives believe she got into the lake sometime between last

night and early this morning, but they can't be sure

A former music teacher at an independent school

in North Yorkshire has been sentenced to 28 months in prison,

after pleading guilty to having sex with a pupil.

Dara De Cogan was charged with ten counts of sexual activity

with a female boarder at Ampleforth College.

The judge said he'd taken advantage of her innocence.

The future of international cricket and rugby league

at Headingley could be secured, thanks to a ?35 million deal

The money is needed to redevelop stands on both sides of the ground

to enable it to continue to host big matches.

Archive: Here at Leeds they lost the touch. In spite of 63 in an hour,

they lost the match. Headingley is steeped in international history,

both in cricket and rugby league. The physical link between the two

grounds is part of what makes it special. But it hasn't always made

life easy. For years, both sides have known the shared stand needed

replacing. Coming up with the deal to do it has taken them to the

brink. Today the council announced what it hopes will be the way

forward. We've spoken to private investors in London, who are

prepared to put up ?35 million, subject to us, the three of us

coming together and working out a lease arrangement. We're very

confident that we can now move this forward. This is what the new stand

will look like. Without it, Yorkshire will lose its status as a

Test Match venue in the future. With the World Cup here in 2019, they

have to start work on it by September. In Yorkshire we have over

770 cricket clubs. 12% of all recreational cricket in this

country. It's part of the DNA of Yorkshire. I know that the ECB want

to bring cricket here as often as they can, but we have to provide the

right facilities. Over on the rugby side, they also need a new south

stand. It's iconic. It's atmospheric. It's the place people

want to be, but it's 86 years old. It's not much different now to what

it was then in 1930. Yeah, it has been condemned. It needs to be

replaced. Without this deal, what happens to this? We would have a

problem. We would have to do something with it. We'd have to do

something with it, so what we do want to do is replace it with a

magnificent new facility that retains the terrace and the

uniqueness of it. If this deal doesn't go ahead... Yeah, then we've

got a huge problem. This deal is not yet done. For all three sides, there

are still hurdles to clear. But they are all working together with the

common aim to retain international common aim to retain international

sport here. Football and there's one

result to bring you. In League One, Sheffield United have

taken another step towards promotion That's it from me, fully up to date

with the news. Now to Owen with the weather. It's been a real mixed bag

today. My coat has been on and off. Absolutely! A lot of us woke up this

morning and thought what on earth is going on - grey and cloudy. Look at

these scenes in York first thing. However we transitioned into

something brighter. Many of us seeing blue skies overhead.

Here's the satellite from earlier. Can you see plenty of gaps in the

cloud. This band of cloud here brought something a bit less settled

really. Overnight, yes, we have got some rain. The rain sticks around

over the next few days. But not everyone's seeing it. It's not going

to be a washout. The heaviest of the rain across high ground to the west.

Look at the temperatures. Nine or ten Celsius, that's mild by night.

Tomorrow morning then, it's a grey start to your day. Maybe brightness

across Eastern parts. Further bits and bobs of rain drift in from the

west. Again, those temperatures at 14 or 15 Celsius, way above average.

Pretty breezy as well. South-westerly winds picking up.

Yes, further damp, cloudy conditions move in from the west. It's a

pipeline, which continues to feed these murky conditions over the next

few days. We will see brightness on Thursday. Low pressure to the west.

We will see milder air flood up from the south over the next few days.

Often cloudy, still breezy, but we will see brightness as well.

times, but fairly mild for the time of year. This stay tuned for the

national weather forecasts with John Hammond.

Good evening. Your parents might have told you once that life 's not

fair and they were