:00:00. > :00:11.Tonight, a former Barnsley teacher becomes one of the youngest people
:00:12. > :00:12.to die from dementia, aged just 40.
:00:13. > :00:15.The BBC understands detectives are questioning the Yorkshire Ripper
:00:16. > :00:20.And a decent enough day across Yorkshire today.
:00:21. > :00:35.Five years ago, Gareth Wilmot was living a full, active life
:00:36. > :00:39.He was pursuing his dream of becoming an actor.
:00:40. > :00:43.Aged just 35, his life changed forever when he was
:00:44. > :00:52.He's thought to be one of youngest people to die from the condition.
:00:53. > :00:58.His family have spoken to our reporter Ali Fortescue.
:00:59. > :01:00.Very outgoing, very bubbly, larger-than-life.
:01:01. > :01:04.A person that lit up a room when he walked into it.
:01:05. > :01:11.This was Gareth shortly after his diagnosis five years ago.
:01:12. > :01:14.At first, doctors said he had depression because he was so young.
:01:15. > :01:17.But as his condition deteriorated, he was diagnosed
:01:18. > :01:18.with frontotemporal dementia, and aggressive and rapidly
:01:19. > :01:25.There were times when it was absolutely frightening from seeing
:01:26. > :01:29.Gareth on one day to seeing him the next, it was a different person
:01:30. > :01:31.and that was the illness taking more away from him.
:01:32. > :01:35.If we went he would want to sit and hold your hand all the time
:01:36. > :01:39.As a mum that was quite nice to know that those little
:01:40. > :01:46.Last week at just 40, Gareth passed away, becoming one
:01:47. > :01:49.of the youngest people ever to die from dementia.
:01:50. > :01:52.Dementia affects a huge number of people.
:01:53. > :01:55.There are currently 850,000 people with the illness here in the UK
:01:56. > :01:58.and one in six over the age of 80 have dementia.
:01:59. > :02:00.And for younger people, the figures are lower.
:02:01. > :02:01.Only 4% of dementia sufferers are under 65.
:02:02. > :02:04.It is incredibly rare for somebody to die so young.
:02:05. > :02:06.Young onset dementia isn't very well understood within the media,
:02:07. > :02:18.We estimate currently there are 42,000 people living
:02:19. > :02:23.Parts of Gareth's body have now been donated to Alzheimer's research
:02:24. > :02:26.and his family will carry on campaigning to raise awareness.
:02:27. > :02:29.They've asked guests at his funeral on Thursday to wear any colour
:02:30. > :02:32.but black and remember their eldest son as the fun loving young man
:02:33. > :02:44.And that's really going to be difficult for all of us,
:02:45. > :02:48.not just us, but for his brother and sister as well.
:02:49. > :02:52.That is an ending, isn't it, you know, but it's not for those
:02:53. > :03:06.Ali Fortescue reporting there from Barnsely.
:03:07. > :03:09.Next tonight new powers to tackle paedophiles who target children
:03:10. > :03:12.on social media have been welcomed by police in Yorkshire.
:03:13. > :03:16.In the last five years, there were almost 3,000 recorded
:03:17. > :03:19.offences of adults meeting a child after grooming them.
:03:20. > :03:23.Of those, 220 were in Yorkshire - and it's becoming more common.
:03:24. > :03:29.Five years ago, 23 offences were recorded
:03:30. > :03:36.But there have been concerns police are unable to intervene early
:03:37. > :03:40.enough in many cases - now it's hoped new powers
:03:41. > :03:45.will change that, as Charlotte Leeming reports.
:03:46. > :03:47.For parents, this may well be a familiar sight.
:03:48. > :03:51.A generation growing up in a world of mobile phones and social media.
:03:52. > :03:53.But that virtual world can be extremely dangerous
:03:54. > :03:58.With online grooming on the rise, the law is still playing catch
:03:59. > :04:05.But a new law has come into force today which will give police
:04:06. > :04:08.greater power to crack down on groomers sooner.
:04:09. > :04:11.Up until now, they could not arrest someone until they'd physically
:04:12. > :04:14.met up with a child, but this new legislation means that
:04:15. > :04:18.anyone contacting a child or sending them sexually explicit messages
:04:19. > :04:26.Adele Goldman is an expert on safeguarding children and works
:04:27. > :04:29.with schools and councils to highlight the risks of grooming.
:04:30. > :04:32.She worries that there is still not enough awareness of the problem.
:04:33. > :04:34.I don't think as a country members of the public,
:04:35. > :04:39.parents understand quite how big an issue it is.
:04:40. > :04:43.There is not a single case I deal with involving child sex abuse that
:04:44. > :04:49.has not started with some contact or grooming online beforehand.
:04:50. > :04:52.Offenders face two years in prison for any sexual messages sent
:04:53. > :04:55.to under-16s and they will be put on the sex offenders register.
:04:56. > :05:00.It will give police a lot more power to stop abusers.
:05:01. > :05:04.We lead a lot of our lives on social media and perpetrators see that
:05:05. > :05:08.as an opportunity to groom young people, so this piece of legislation
:05:09. > :05:11.It will certainly help protect young people.
:05:12. > :05:15.Friends Sam, Ollie and Harry are like most modern teenagers,
:05:16. > :05:18.spending a lot of their time online, especially in the school holidays.
:05:19. > :05:22.The new law will help to protect them, although they are pretty savvy
:05:23. > :05:25.when it comes to looking after themselves online.
:05:26. > :05:28.Did you know about the dangers of someone you didn't
:05:29. > :05:31.know being able to get through to your chats?
:05:32. > :05:34.Yes, because I have seen stuff on YouTube before about it,
:05:35. > :05:48.Yes, but you can still get in touch, they can still request to follow
:05:49. > :05:50.you, it's juts you have to accept it or not.
:05:51. > :05:53.What would you do if someone you did not know tried
:05:54. > :06:01.If it did get to the point where they were sending me stuff
:06:02. > :06:03.that was inappropriate I would tell my mum or report them.
:06:04. > :06:07.This new law has been welcomed by children's charities fighting
:06:08. > :06:12.There has been criticism that it has taken two years for the government
:06:13. > :06:15.to trigger the legislation, but now it is here, there is real
:06:16. > :06:19.hope that our children can be as safe online as they are off-line.
:06:20. > :06:28.It's understood detectives are questioning the Yorkshire Ripper
:06:29. > :06:35.The Sun newspaper claims a team of police officers have visited
:06:36. > :06:37.the 70-year-old serial killer in prison, where he has agreed
:06:38. > :06:42.There is some flash photography in this report from our home affairs
:06:43. > :06:45.Peter Sutcliffe, one of the most notorious killers
:06:46. > :06:51.For almost six years, the lorry driver from Bradford held whole
:06:52. > :06:57.He murdered 13 women and tried to kill seven others.
:06:58. > :07:01.Most of his victims were prostitutes.
:07:02. > :07:05.He was eventually jailed in 1981 but it's understood he's
:07:06. > :07:08.being quizzed by detectives investigating 17 further
:07:09. > :07:14.Mo Lea was hit over the head with a hammer near Leeds University
:07:15. > :07:17.in 1980 and is almost certain she's one of Sutcliffe's
:07:18. > :07:28.99.9% of me knows it was him, because I saw him,
:07:29. > :07:32.but what the West Yorkshire Police have left me with is a very toxic
:07:33. > :07:39.0.1%, which makes you think well, if he didn't do it, who did?
:07:40. > :07:41.West Yorkshire Police say they have taken statements from women
:07:42. > :07:44.who may have been attacked by the Yorkshire Ripper and these
:07:45. > :07:48.offences form part of the historic cases being reviewed by the force.
:07:49. > :07:51.What's clear is that more than 35 years after he was jailed,
:07:52. > :07:53.Peter Sutcliffe still occupies large amounts of police time.
:07:54. > :07:55.Sutcliffe, who's now 70, is currently in Frankland prison
:07:56. > :07:57.in Durham having been moved from Broadmoor secure
:07:58. > :08:13.And you can hear more from Maureen Lea who featured
:08:14. > :08:15.in Spencer's report on BBC Radio Leeds' breakfast
:08:16. > :08:22.A brief look at some of the day's other stories.
:08:23. > :08:25.Part of the M621 in Leeds was closed for a time during this
:08:26. > :08:28.evening's rush hour, after a fire in a nearby scrap yard.
:08:29. > :08:31.Large plumes of smoke could be seen across the city for a time.
:08:32. > :08:34.It took 15 firefighters around an hour to get the blaze
:08:35. > :08:37.A new railway station has opened on the outskirts of Bradford.
:08:38. > :08:40.Low Moor today became the third new station
:08:41. > :08:44.to open in West Yorkshire since December 2015.
:08:45. > :08:48.It will provide hourly services to Bradford,
:08:49. > :08:54.Leeds and Halifax as well as four daily services to London.
:08:55. > :08:57.A former soldier from Yorkshire is en route to Everest for a second
:08:58. > :08:59.time after abandoning his first attempt to rescue a fellow climber.
:09:00. > :09:05.42-year-old Leslie Binns left his home in Rotherham this morning
:09:06. > :09:13.Last year he was only 500 metres from the summit when he saved
:09:14. > :09:15.the life of an Indian climber who almost fell to her death.
:09:16. > :09:18.He's planning to plant a 'Welcome to Yorkshire' flag on the summit
:09:19. > :09:33.We wish them all the very best. No white scenes in Yorkshire, right?
:09:34. > :09:38.Absolutely not! It has been pretty mild today. What a lovely day. Most
:09:39. > :09:41.of us all a bit of sunshine today. Unfortunately we are switching gears
:09:42. > :09:45.of it tonight. We have some rain tonight. That leads us to what will
:09:46. > :09:49.be a cloudy start tomorrow but however that rain will clear us
:09:50. > :09:52.pretty quickly, fingers crossed. That's have a look at the bigger
:09:53. > :09:56.picture. Very nice today but here comes that weather front from the
:09:57. > :10:00.West introducing rain and thicker cloud and it will continue to do so
:10:01. > :10:03.overnight. It looks like a fair amount of rain on the graphics but
:10:04. > :10:08.what we can see is patchy rain, quite light at a bit heavy on high
:10:09. > :10:16.ground, so in that sense the usual story, really. Lowest night of nine
:10:17. > :10:20.or 10 Celsius, so not that cold but cooler in rural areas. Tomorrow a
:10:21. > :10:23.great start across Yorkshire but West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire
:10:24. > :10:29.brightening up nicely and we can knew that trend towards eastern
:10:30. > :10:32.parts. Sunshine by 3pm in the afternoon. In the sunshine the
:10:33. > :10:37.temperatures are responding nicely at 13 or 14 Celsius. I think it will
:10:38. > :10:44.feel a little bit cooler than today with a northerly or North easterly
:10:45. > :10:48.breeze. As I mentioned, a subtle story and that is all down to the
:10:49. > :10:52.area of high pressure and actually, that sticks around over the next few
:10:53. > :10:56.days. What it does essentially is keep well if runs away, keeps low
:10:57. > :11:01.pressure away, so settled story over the next be macro days. Some sunny
:11:02. > :11:02.spells and feeling mild out there as well. I
:11:03. > :11:09.is remaining settled. It will feel fairly warm and dry as well.
:11:10. > :11:17.Good evening. Some rain spreading in across the Atlantic overnight. As it
:11:18. > :11:21.does so we will see some fresh Atlantic air following on from
:11:22. > :11:28.behind. The pollen levels will drop but the temperatures will also drop.
:11:29. > :11:32.Some rain to go with the cloud. It is moving its way from west to east.
:11:33. > :11:37.Drying up in not an island and eventually it will dry up in most of
:11:38. > :11:43.Scotland. The fresher Atlantic air is following on behind. In major
:11:44. > :11:46.towns and cities it will be five, 6 degrees. Across England and Wales
:11:47. > :11:54.there would be extensive cloud cover. It will be a pretty grey and
:11:55. > :11:59.wet start to some parts of Wales and the South West of England. Not much
:12:00. > :12:07.rain by eight o'clock in the morning. Pretty grey, misty and
:12:08. > :12:08.murky for some. Head further north and not much rain to be had.