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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Yorkshire prepares for a general election - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
we'll have reaction to today's announcement by Theresa May. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
And six drug deaths in South and West Yorkshire over Easter - | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
And there was some lovely, sparkling sunshine and offer across Yorkshire | :00:17. | :00:30. | |
today. But how's tomorrow looking? Full forecast shortly. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
In just over seven weeks, we'll go to the polls | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
for another general election - and once again, Yorkshire is | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
The Prime Minister says she wants to strengthen her position ahead | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
of talks about Britain leaving the European Union. | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Parliament still has to approve the plan, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
which has been welcomed by opposition parties. | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Our data journalist David Rhodes looks at the state of play | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
Politically, we can break our region down into three distinct blocks. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
In North Yorkshire, the Conservatives are dominant. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
They hold seven out of the eight seats. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Labour's only seat is in York Central. | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
And given the strong pro-EU vote during the Brexit referendum, | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
the Liberal Democrats may look to target this seat. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
They'll probably have an eye on Harrogate as well. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
A constituency that the Lib Dems have held in the past. | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
Now, let's move to South Yorkshire and the North Midlands. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Out of 18 seats, Labour holds 17, while Nick Clegg, the former | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Deputy Prime Minister, holds one for the Liberal Democrats, | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
However, in 2015, UKIP came second in ten of the seats | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
Post-Brexit, can Ukip this time go one better. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
And let's not forget the Green Party - they came second | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
in Sheffield Central last time and the former leader of the Greens, | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Natalie Bennett, has already said she will be contesting this seat. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
But it is in West Yorkshire where we find the key | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Here there are 22 seats, 14 are held by Labour, seven | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
by the Conservatives and there is one Lib Dem. | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
Last time in Bradford East, Dewsbury and Morley and outward - | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
all the seats changed hands between the main parties. | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
One of the most high-profile moments came in Morley, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
when Labour Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls lost his seat | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
These are the ten most marginal constituencies in Yorkshire. | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
And with it looking like there'll be maybe seven weeks | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
this is where we should see the main political parties | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
These seats could also, potentially, have the biggest impact | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
We've been asking voters in one of those most marginal seats - | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Dewsbury - for their reaction to today's announcement. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
I do think it's needed to have a clearer mandate in order | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
Conservatives, they didn't do anything for the working class. | :03:03. | :03:14. | |
And I think if there was a party that was campaigning to either stop | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
the process or to come out of Brexit, I think that | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
would certainly be the party I would vote for. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
It's the first general election since I turned 18, | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
and a lot of my friends are raelly excited to vote. | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
But I have no idea which way I'm going to vote, so I'm going to have | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Meanwhile, Yorkshire MPs have been reacting to the news | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
Brexit is going to be a major part of this election, | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
We have got some serious negotiations to happen. | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
But this is also about electing a Government | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
And yes, we've got to talk about the economy and how | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
we keep on making that a stable and growing economy and how | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
that works for ordinary, working families in Yorkshire | :04:00. | :04:00. | |
This is also an opportunity for people in Leeds and Yorkshire | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
to send a message from our area, down here to Westminster, | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
that they've been treated badly by this Government. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
They've been taken for granted by this Government, and Labour can | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
offer a better future for the majority of lower | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Our political reporter James Vincent joins us now live from Sheffield. | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
James, we've got some big-name politicians in Yorkshire - | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
what do we know so far about who's standing for re-election | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
It has been a furious day of uncles, journalists wanting to know who is | :04:30. | :04:45. | |
and isn't standing. Some of the stalwarts were known, Greg | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Mulholland you heard from there, one of the two Liberal Democrats. Hilary | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Benn said he would stand again to be a Leeds MP. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Andrea Jenkins, and your MP, she is responsible for Ed Balls losing his | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
job. ASBO she is responsible for him being on Strictly Come Dancing as | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
well. But who is not standing two we have not heard anything from Ed | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Miliband, is he going to stand again? And we're hearing Nick Clegg | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
is meeting with his party in the next few hours to decide what he | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
wants to do. Is he going to decide he wants another five years of being | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Sheffield Hallam MP to get selected? Or is he going to say I've had seven | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
years been in the spotlight, I want to do something else. There are big | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
moment. moment. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Have important you think Yorkshire is going to be in the selection? | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
Really important. If we had the personality is the last time, like | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
people like Ed Miliband and make lab, we have the places this time. | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
-- and Nick Clegg. We've got the ones that given the polls and the | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
amount of support the Conservatives seem to have, we have places like | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
York, Aniston and Stocksbridge that may become, because of the polling, | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
become modules themselves. There will be some interesting fights to | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
be had. -- become marginals themselves. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
And will thus become a Brexit election? | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
It will be very interesting and very quickly to see where the parties | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
placed themselves. To see what Ukip think about the referendum. The way | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
that the Tories and the Labour Party is frame their policies around exit | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
and how they pitch it to voters will be very interesting. And how the | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
bounds sending of that Brexit policy news with the other stuff that we | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
normally expect to see. It will be very interesting indeed. | :06:49. | :06:49. | |
Thank you much. Police have issued a warning to drug | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
users in South and West Yorkshire to use caution following six deaths | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
over the Easter weekend. Detectives haven't officially | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
linked the deaths, but say they are considering | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
whether a strong or contaminated Our health correspondent | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
Jamie Coulson reports. Highly addictive | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
and highly dangerous. For the those who are hooked | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
on heroin, the prospect of withdrawal can | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
outweigh the risk of a potentially Junior, who did not | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
want to be identified, I do heroin and crack | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
cocaine together. Some days you don't really | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
want to exist, so I'm not There have been six deaths | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
across South and West Yorkshire over the Easter weekend which police | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
believe are related to class A drugs, and while those deaths | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
haven't been officially linked, Police in both forces have urged | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
drug users to use caution. Four people died in | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
the Barnsley area on Friday. Police are awaiting test results, | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
but believe the deaths There were two more deaths | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
in West Yorkshire the following day. Police are continuing | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
to investigate but believe these deaths are related | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
to class A drugs. Drug users often have their own | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
medical history which could But there is also the possibility | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
of unusually strong drug supply in the market and also potentially | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
something that's been added to the drugs to cut it | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
and make it go further. Two people arrested | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
in South Yorkshire on suspicion of supplying drugs have been | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
released under investigation, while four people arrested | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
in West Yorkshire have been released Despite the warnings, | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Junior says he has little choice but to carry on, | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
feeding an addiction he describes A missing 14-year-old girl | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
from Huddersfield has been West Yorkshire Police say | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
Alicia Moran, who disappeared on Sunday, was located in Bristol | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
and is on her way home. A man has been arrested | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
on suspicion of child abduction. Controversial plans to build | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
a new school on a former landfill site in Sheffield have been given | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
the go-ahead by councillors. The council says the three-storey | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
building is needed in Millhouses because demand for school places | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
in southwest Sheffield is growing. Objectors say building on landfill | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
could be dangerous and that local roads would struggle to cope | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
with increased traffic. Time to check out the weather with | :09:16. | :09:28. | |
Owain. Thanks very much, safe to say it was | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
a lovely day in Yorkshire. Wherever you work, you saw some blue skies. | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Doncaster looking good first thing this morning. A little later on | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
there a couple of clouds around. The cloud tended to build, if we switch | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
over to the satellite image. You can see the clouds increases throughout | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
the day. We do tend to continue with that trend tonight. It will be | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
chilly, mostly dry, maybe some drizzle and light rain across | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
northern and western parts. Lows in towns of five Celsius. We could see | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
some frost tomorrow morning. In parts of South Yorkshire, heading | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
towards the north and east, it's a good start. Bright sunshine getting | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
cloudier from the Norse. Again, the odd spot of drivel -- spot of | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
drizzle. A light breeze. High-pressure still in charge. We | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
will see a settled night. Still cloudy, low cloud and mist perhaps | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
on the Pennines. Just the odd chance of drizzle. There is a high | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
pressure, you can see this front here, getting towards us towards the | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
end of the week. We can do is about breaks of rain with it, but light | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
and patchy generally speaking. If you like the dry weather, good news, | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
not so much if you want rain for your gardens. A settled story, but | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
cloudy. | :11:03. | :11:04. |