30/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

Tonight: Research in Sheffield sheds new light on the health

And the Yorkshire mother of three guilty of a terrorism offence

after retweeting an Islamic State speech.

We have had a mild day today. It will still feel pleasant in the

sunshine. I will be back with the details later in the programme.

Smokers under the age of 50 are more than eight times

as likely as nonsmokers to suffer a major heart attack,

according to research carried out in Sheffield.

The study found that all smokers are at increased risk

but younger ones are particularly vulnerable compared to those

Our health correspondent Jamie Coulson reports.

Until a couple of months ago, Trevor Rossall thought he was fit

Despite being a smoker the 39-year-old exercise, ate

But at the end of January, he developed severe chest pains,

which turned out to be a life-threatening heart attack.

I went to hospital with severe indigestion, never for one minute

thought that it was anything other than severe indigestion.

To be told that I'd had a heart attack was very scary.

Every time you smoke, blood that's thick and dirty

with toxins circulates through your body in seconds,

increasing your chances of a heart attack.

There are plenty of warnings that make it fairly clear that smoking

is bad for your health, but now researchers have been able

to quantify exactly how much of a risk smoking has

on your chances of having a heart attack.

So, this is a left coronary angiogram...

The study, which was led by Sheffield teaching hospitals,

looked at the admission data for more than 1700 patients who had

experienced a classic type of heart attack,

where one of the major arteries becomes blocked.

The information was then compared to local populations' smoking

Research has found that smokers are more than three times

as likely as nonsmokers to have a heart attack.

But in the under 50s, who tend not to have other

contributory factors, smokers were more than

However, the risk of a heart attack in ex-smokers was similar to those

I think if you're a smoker, you're at significant risk

These heart attacks are preventable, and by abstaining you can

reduce your risk to a level similar to a nonsmoker in a relatively

Trevor has now given up smoking and is starting to rebuild

A mother-of-three who was convicted of

a terrorism offence after she re-tweeted a speech

by the Islamic State has today walked free from court.

57-year-old Mary Kaya from Batley in West Yorkshire retweeted

the link to an audio clip which the judge described

She was given a 21 month prison sentence,

Here's our Home Affairs Correspondent Spencer Stokes.

Mary Kaya, seen here on the left are arriving at court

She was found guilty earlier this month of disseminating a terrorist

publication on the social media website Twitter.

That publication was a speech written by the leader of so-called

At 6:20am on 21st October 2015, police from the north-east

counterterrorism unit burst into Mary Kaya's home

They arrested her, her husband and took her three children

Then her computer was seized to find out exactly

During the four-day long trial, the court had heard that Kaya

retweeted a link to the IS speech and that her computer had also

been used to research radical Islamic preachers,

IS supporters, people who travelled to Syria and footage of explosions.

But viewing such footage is not the same as disseminating it.

And Kaya's defence had argued she hadn't been attempting

In court, Judge Peter Collier handed down a two-year

He said, "It doesn't seem to me that you pose any danger to the public.

Immediate custody would not serve any purpose."

But he warned others who did the same in the future

And that happened in Sheffield this afternoon, when a 22-year-old woman

was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to 20 months in prison after

pleading guilty to disseminating terrorist material online.

In Leeds, free to go, after sentencing, Mary Kaya was told

she must continue to attend Prevent training to stop people

Spencer Stokes, BBC Look North, Leeds.

ProfessorPaul Rogers is a global expert on the so-called Islamic

State. I asked how unusual verses. It is unusual but where they --

where do they draw the line and feel they can bring a case where there is

clear evidence of incitement. In this case they felt they could and

the end result was a custodial sentence which was put through to

suspended sentence. I suspect the evidence was not sufficiently strong

to ensure the sentence would be custodial. These are unusual cases

and there is always a problem to balance the line in whether they can

bring the case in the first place. Under what circumstances would it be

seen as encouraging terrorism? This was the second major speech of the

lead of ices. He was calling for more support but it was widely

studied and distributed. In this case, the authorities felt this was

a deliberate use of a retweeting to spread the word in terms of trying

to encourage people to take this lead. It is unusual and the end

result was almost neutral. She was sent to jail and it is now seen from

the point of view as an unusual case but not one which is unknown. Where

do we draw the line between freedom of speech and radicalisation? It is

a difficult one. The authorities are sensitive. We had the terrible

London attacks a week ago and the war on terror over which has been

going on for 15 years is no nearer to an end. The authorities are

sensitive and willing to bring cases where there has been a reasonable

chance of conviction. The people concerned with civil liberties are

worried because they think we are worried because they think we are

going too far, too often. I am not a lawyer but I am not at all sure this

balance was kept exactly right in this case. Thank you very much for

your thoughts tonight. 250 jobs could be created

at a new theme park Gullivers, who already run

a park at Matlock Bath, are behind the scheme,

which will be built on land The 250 acre development has been

given planning permission Libraries previously threatened

with closure in five North Yorkshire towns

will now be able to carry on from this weekend under

a new system called Hybrid. Volunteers will continue

to run the libraries but will have a specialist librarian

paid for by the county This evening volunteers

in Pickering, who're taking over their library,

said goodbye to three staff Residents accept it's the only way

to save a vital community service. I love the generosity of the people,

the kindness and it is a good community spirit. Take the library

away and it is scandalous. I felt very strongly about that.

A French Cold War aircraft, never before on permanent

show outside France, has arrived at Elvington

The 77 foot long Mirage nuclear bomber travelled by road

and sea in its four day journey to its new home.

It was gifted to the Yorkshire Air Museum by the French government.

It's made the journey in pieces and will be unloaded by crane before

being put back together and going on display at Elvington.

That's all from me with the news but Keeley has

We have seen 20 degrees across some sports in Yorkshire. It has not been

pleasant everywhere. There has been some damp weather across the West.

Tomorrow, we will see some sunshine. It will still feel pleasant and

temperatures above average. As we make our way through Friday, we will

see a bridge building and the showers will die away. For the

weekend, Saturday is a mix of sunshine and showers and a fine day

on Sunday. At the moment, there is a lot of cloud and we have some rain

making their way across the region. Assistant in the West and a mild

night with temperatures in double figures. Tomorrow, variable amounts

of cloud and we had patchy rain to come through the morning. That rain

will break will be a mixture of sunny spells and scattered showers.

You can see from the graphics that those showers ease as we had through

the afternoon. By tomorrow evening, it will feel quite pleasant.

Temperatures of around 16 Celsius which is a few degrees above

average. April the 1st of April showers. Sunny spells and a few

showers through the day. Some of those could be on the heavy side. On

Sunday, plenty of sunshine through the morning but cloud building and

it is a little bit overcast. A few showers on Friday and some sunshine

and showers for Saturday also. I time of year. The chance of a shower

on Saturday. Sunday will be dry. Hello, it will cool off over the

next few days but that's not unusual, given how warm it was

today. This was London. We just had the warmest March day since 2012, 20

two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in the south-east. It was much warmer

than recently in north-eastern Scotland, but in between we had a

zone of outbreaks of rain. It's pretty wet in south-west Scotland

and North West England at the moment. This was the scene earlier,

with rainy skies. There's more rain to come overnight. We