19/04/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

Tonight - two former party leaders say they're ready to fight

Former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will stand again in Sheffield,

Labour's Ed Miliband wants to stay in Doncaster.

The generation gap - we'll ask Yorkshire's youngest

and older voters what they want from the election campaign.

Join me for that live updated forecast.

Two of Yorkshire's political heavyweights have told

Look North they will stand for re-election in June.

As MPs backed the Prime Minister's call for a snap general election,

former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and ex-Labour

leader Ed Miliband said they would defend their seats

James Vincent has been speaking to Mr Clegg,

who admitted he gave his decision a lot of thought.

Our Liberal Conservative government will take Britain

Seven years ago, Nick Clegg was in a posh garden.

It was Downing Street, and he was the new Deputy Prime Minister.

Cut to 2017, and he is in a lovely, but more modest garden in Sheffield

to tell us whether he is standing or not in this surprise

Once you knew there was going to be a general election,

the next decision was whether you would stand.

I thought about it, as everyone should either way.

It is a great honour and one should never be flippant

It is a very solemn thing to do, to put yourself before thousands

of your fellow citizens and say I want to try and represent your

I have always taken that duty very seriously in Parliament.

There have been some ups and downs for Nick Clegg.

He had all the best hashtags and he also had the support

of students, because he made a promise on tuition fees.

He paid for it when, in the eyes of the students,

There were some furious rewriting of placards

Politically, Sheffield Hallam is the only bit of yellow

Do people here still agree with Nick?

He promised they would not increase fees at all,

I don't know who will believe in him.

I am excited to hear what kind of policies he will bring,

what kind of things can be done for the EU and Brexit.

With what he said about students last time, and how he sold them out,

But looking at the choices we have got, better the devil you know.

Well, it is the third big election in three years.

Nick Clegg has a majority of over 2000 in Sheffield Hallam.

It was cut significantly last time, but in an area where it is estimated

more people voted to remain in the EU than leave,

he will be hoping to get votes from both Labour

The last time we all voted was in the EU referendum.

Then, many younger people voted to remain in the European Union,

while more older people voted to leave.

So will there be a generation gap this time?

In a moment Abi Jaeyola reports from the Conservative stronghold

of Thirsk and Malton, but first Heidi Tomlinson has been

speak to first-time voters in Labour's safest seat in West

Sixth form politics students on the cusp of A-levels,

and their first vote in a general election.

What issues came to the forefront of your mind?

I think I am excited about being able to vote for the first time.

I am glad to have a chance to vote now I am 18.

I am shocked because she said she would not hold one.

I'm quite excited to have a vote and state my opinion.

So, if we start about the thought of being a first-time voter...

I couldn't vote for Brexit though, so now it is my

There is the chance, but also the fact

that it is kind of a shock election, usually you would have five years to

decide who you are voting for and we have got seven weeks.

Are you going to make the effort to vote?

It is important that young people turn out because this is a chance

for us now to pick up where we may have not got what we wanted

I was not happy with the Brexit result, so now it's my chance

The election has been called not only to build on the Conservative

majority in the House of Commons, but also to ensure that

Your first vote, can account in this election,

I think it is the first time many people our age will be voting,

this is a new generation that has been punished particularly badly

We have had strangled youth mental health services,

the coalition hurt us with tuition fees, and this is the first time

I am going to put you all on the spot now and ask you will vote for.

In seven weeks' time, shoppers here will be

making what might be a more difficult choice.

What colour political party to vote for.

I am sick to death of hearing about it already.

What should they be talking about in this election?

For potential voters here, there is one issue they expect

55% of people in this area voted in favour of leaving the EU.

This is an area that is a traditional safe Conservative

seat, but there is still a range of views about what people

would like to see from the next government.

On this occasion, I am hoping that there will be a bit more power

to whoever is in government to sort out the NHS.

I would like to see something done about the ?13 billion, ever

We have to look at low pay and housing.

If you have low pay, you can't afford your housing.

There is one issue that everyone here is agreed on.

Who will vote in the general election?

One question you've asked us today - with just seven weeks left

until the election - is how do you actually

First of all remind us what turnout was like at the last election? Last

time a lot of people than usual, just over 66%, more than any time in

the last 20 years since the Blair Labour landslide still nothing on

the EU referendum which was 72% of people voting which got people of

their suppers engaging in politics. It is a younger vote, the under 25

is now putting as much. How do you register to vote? All you do is sign

up online, it takes five minutes. You will need your National

Insurance number and if you have already registered to vote in the

upcoming local elections you won't need to reregister but you will need

to if you have no ties and are in a new constituency. The all-important

question, the deadline? The 22nd of May, so not long. Thank you.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder

Derbyshire Police were called to a collision between a motorbike

The incident took place near the Boot and Shoe Inn

in Grassmoor, near Chesterfield, and police said an altercation

A 74-year-old man was taken to hospital, where he later died.

Sheffield's Jess Ennis-Hill has been made a Dame today,

The Olympic gold medal-winning heptathlete received the honour

She's been recognised for services to athletics.

Now, will the weather forecast to be a winner? I think it will be pretty

quiet. Mild tomorrow. This was a real winner on the evening news

tonight, the picture from Scarborough. A beautiful sunrise

taken at the roundabout 6am. Thank you for sending that ten. Over the

next few days I'm not sure there will be too much sunshine. A lot of

cloud. Tomorrow is mostly cloudy but mild, a little warm front bringing

warm conditions. Friday night into Saturday this brings brighter

one front again on Sunday victims one front again on Sunday victims

cloud. Throughout pressure is high and that means very little in the

way of potential rain. Tonight we have got the weak front which will

bring patchy light rain and drizzle from the north-west. Listing is over

the Pennines. Lowest temperatures around six or seven. Cloudy and damp

on Thursday morning but any rain and drizzle slips upwards. Mr Lutz and

it might brighten up in Eastern and south-eastern parts of Yorkshire.

Temperatures higher than today, 15 Celsius. Through this evening and

Thursday evening into Thursday night, another week weather front

will bring patchy rain down but small amounts. A good deal of dry

weather. By first light on Friday morning some breaks in the cloud

particularly across eastern Yorkshire. Friday looks rather

cloudy but mostly dry with a few brighter spells. Brighter but cooler

on Saturday. Sunshine. More cloud on Sunday but mostly dry. But as that

from us. I will leave you with the summary.

going into the weekend as well. A similar story across the UK. Thomas

matter has that story. Good evening, before we get to the

forecast, I want to show you a map which depicts how dry it has been

during the course of April. Brown is below average rainfall, blue is

above average. You can see how Brown the map is. Some areas in the south,

some counties have only seen a few percent so