31/03/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

Children in Rotherham are being offered lessons to help

them understand the dangers of Child Sexual Exploitation.

An estimated fourteen hundred children were abused over a sixteen

year period in the town - and it's hoped the training

will help to prevent a repeat of the scandal.

Our Home Affairs Correspondent Spencer Stokes - has been given

exclusive access to one of the sessions.

Child sex exploitation, grooming, abuse - words that in 2014 became

It's a reputation the borough is desperate to shake off,

so it is actively working to prevent a repeat of the scandal that saw

For 18 months now, experts from the children's charity

Barnardo's have been going into schools and talking

openly about the dangers of being groomed.

This group at Wales High in Kiveton have had several lessons.

We have done CSE since year seven, cos it's such a big issue.

You have to be able to know how to keep yourself

Without the education of it, you don't know what you are doing.

You don't know what you could get yourself into sometimes.

Could you have been at risk, do you think?

So this really has made a difference?

A decade ago in Rotherham, knives and guns and gangs

Child sex exploitation wasn't even on the agenda.

Today it is firmly part of the school curriculum.

Watching the latest session at Wales High, CSE victim, Emma.

She was groomed whilst visiting Meadowhall as a teenager.

She says with education, she would have worked

I would have recognised that grooming process quite early

on and I would have raised that with somebody, my mum or my dad,

somebody in school and they would have known that is not right.

And at that point, I could have walked away from that situation

unharmed, and that would have changed my life.

For us, we wanted to make sure that it is open, it is honest,

that we are addressing it and actually confronting it

and saying that we are not prepared to accept anything that has happened

in the past and we're going to make sure we deal with it head-on.

That's the polar opposite of what happened in Rotherham

a shameful chapter this town is trying to put behind it.

A woman has appeared in court charged with abducting

23-years-old Jade Mellars from Beeston

is alleged to have snatched the child from its mother

She denies the offence and will appear in Crown Court next month.

A cyclist from North Yorkshire has been killed during

Mike Hall, who was from Harrogate, was competing in the Indian Pacific

in a crash with a car in the early hours of this morning.

The event was cancelled after the crash.

Organisers say his death is a "great loss to the global

Dozens of classic Minis formed a procession today at the funeral

of a teenager who was a big fan of the cars.

18-year-old Bradley Parish died of a heart

The cars drove past his coffin at St Luke's Church

Many were driven by mini enthusiasts who didn't know Bradley but read

Millions of us have grown up with his illustrations

Now an extensive collection of the work of Sir Quentin Blake

is on show at the Artworks gallery in Halifax.

They conjure up the innocence and exuberance of childhood,

But the seemingly simple drawings probe some pretty

The artist is 84 now and is increasingly

interested in using art to improve health.

That is why he is exhibiting here at the Artworks

Gallery, because it also holds workshops for

I put on a show for something called the Nightingale

Project in London, which works in hospitals.

That started me off and I did some drawings for an

elderly people's ward and mental health patients' ward.

In this overwhelmingly digital age, his methods are decidedly low-tech -

In his hands, the lines he draws speaks volumes.

I just feel I'm doing it and it comes like that.

I like scratchy nibs and things where you can feel the

It's not just the process of drawing that can be therapeutic,

These colourful paintings of children and

aliens was created for a children's hospital,

designed to comfort children uprooted in strange surroundings.

These paintings were made for a unit treating

You go into that situation and you think, what is

What would be suitable and what would help them?

Having some picture on the wall of a hospital at all helps somebody

It means it's not just a health factory.

The paintings are on show for three months.

True inspiration for illustrators everywhere.

We are big fans in our house. That is great, isn't it?

In Superleague Leeds Rhinos were at home to Wigan Warriors tonight.

At half time the Rhinos were just ahead.

Then in the second half they were on a roll.

Carl Ablett was named man of the match.

Elsewhere, Castleford Tigers' brilliant start to the season

continued tonight with a win over Huddersfield Giants.

Now let's take a look at what the weekend weather has in store. How is

it looking? Not too bad. Showers tomorrow. April the 1st tomorrow, so

April showers is the order of the day. A bit of a mixture. It is not

going to be a wash-out. One to the showers can be quite strong and

involve a rumble of thunder. Saturday will be the better day of

the weekend. A ridge of high pressure building in from the

south-west. -- Sunday. It will feel pleasant on Saturday in those sunny

spells. A couple of showers out there at the moment. Most of the

region will be confined to the hills. Dry and cool in the morning.

Temperatures back into single figures. Eight or nine Celsius.

Tomorrow, a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. The showers may

be slow moving with a light breeze. They will tend to ease later on in

the afternoon. Not quite as mild as it has been. Largely dry on Sunday.

Hello. There the weekend is here and Sunday looks like being the better

day of the two. We're going to start the weekend, a new month, with

sunshine and April showers. Those fade away overnight. Saturday night

could be chilly. It points to a fine day on Sunday. This picture was

taken by a weather watcher to end the day in Dundee. This one is

probably my favourite of the day. This was taken at Yarmouth in the

Isle of Wight. Here we could catch showers overnight. Probably going to

be dry in Dundee. You can see where the wet weather is, in the

south-west and into Wales. That could be heavier eier at times.

Clearer skies for Eastern parts of England. Not as warm as last night.

Not cold by any means. Tomorrow we start the day with sunshine and

showers for Wales and