21/04/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

Hundreds have attended the funeral of the brother of a Leeds United

footballer who was fatally injured following a shooting

in the Harehills area of Leeds in February.

Family and friends paid their respects during a moving

service for nineteen year old Raheem Wilks.

A horse-drawn hearse carried Raheem Wilks's cough into

Outside in a chilled spring breeze, mourners comforted each other

as they waited to mark a young life lived and lost.

The 19-year-old died following a shooting

at a barbershop on nearby Gathorne Terrace in January.

He desperately wanted to be popular and was well loved

amongst his family and friends, the circles in which he moved.

The main message is really a message of love to say that God loves Raheem

and that God loves us and want us to lead lives that are filled

with love and friendship and loyalty with goodness.

During the service, the congregation heard tributes from friends

Mourners were told Raheem was fearless, funny and well liked.

A postmortem revealed the 19-year-old died as a result

of a single gunshot wound to the chest.

Two men have been charged with his murder and are due

Following this morning's service, a private service

His family have thanked the community for their support

and sympathy at what they say has been a very sad time.

A ?173 million deal to improve transport links in Leeds has been

The money will be invested in park and ride facilities,

and in creating new 'bus corridors' designed to make

Leeds Council has welcomed confirmation of the deal,

?1.5 million is being shared between three Yorkshire hospital

trusts to ease pressure on their emergency departments.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust and Doncaster

and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals have been allocated funds

The money will be used to help them meet the Government's target

of dealing with 95% of A patients within four hours.

A mile-long stretch of the River Aire in Leeds should be

a little safer from now on, after the installation

The ropes and buoyancy aids are designed to be

used in rescue attempts, and prevent rescuers

risking their own lives by entering the water.

It comes after several deaths in recent years,

with young people on a night out particularly at risk.

Each one has a unique identification number.

Simply call 999, ask for Fire and Rescue and you will be given

The Fire Rescue Service control will send our resources

It's really important we get this address.

And then the rescuer can deploy the throw line

They came in their thousands, stripped off and painted

Now the participants in the Sea of Hull are about to see the art

works they helped to create as the photographs go

Among them, dozens of people from our region who travelled over

to Hull last July to take part in the mass nude photo shoot.

Our culture correspondent Anne-Marie Tasker has more.

It was an event that put Hull on the artistic map -

3,200 naked bodies painted blue and green flooding the city streets.

If I were to frame a work in my studio,

And today the artist Spencer Tunick came back to the city to show off

the finished works to the people who helped make them.

Maybe they'll see a purpose to my madness.

It's moved a lot of people, it's wonderful.

I leave a city like Hull and I don't really know until afterwards

if they have enjoyed it or not and I think they've had

Last July at dawn, people from 20 countries stripped off to take part

in the largest nude art installation ever in the UK and tonight,

dozens of participants from across Yorkshire have come back

to Hull to see the artist and what created together.

I saw this on Facebook, but I've not seen the finished one

Once you're painted, it didn't feel like you were undressed

and as we walked through the streets in our thousands, it was quite

Everyone was full of trepidation when we were asked to strip,

but within five minutes, everyone had forgotten

We took Jane Lumley from Bradford inside to see herself naked

You never once felt self-conscious when you were doing it.

I felt it was one of the most brilliant things I've

I've never done anything like it before and probably

Sea of Hull is on show alongside great artists like Edouard Manet,

The gallery's curator stood alongside Spencer Tunick as he took

Seeing them displayed has brought back memories.

When all the people had to lie down in the street,

there was an amazing, eerie silence at that

point and you could hear the gulls cry overhead.

It made the hairs stand up in the back of my neck.

Seeing this finished work makes it all come back and it's

The show gets its big reveal tomorrow.

There's even a chance to pick your other favourite sea of blue,

naked people and if the gallery raise enough money through

Rugby League now, and in the challenge cup we have one

Doncaster lost to Leeds Rhinos 64 to 28.

It's not such a bad story for the weekend.

This weak weather front sinks to the south overnight and that

will bring us a little bit of rain, but it turns mostly

dry across Yorkshire and North Derbyshire.

Temperatures across rural parts may be down to 5

Celsius in North Yorkshire, but maybe around eight

Not a desperately cold start to Saturday, but we will feel

It'll be a good mixture tomorrow of sunny spells,

a couple of showers making their way down from the north,

a lot of bright weather around and temperatures likely to get

around 11 or 12 Celsius with a northerly breeze.

It will feel stronger across the coast.

This low pressure brings the weather front our way on Sunday.

Cloudier conditions - I think we will see some rain,

From all of us here Look North, it's goodnight.

marathon. Here is the outlook for the weather for the next few days

and Helen Willetts has the National forecast.

While unusual to see snow in May, it will be a shock to the system. We've

seen some interesting contrast. 19 degrees cost is in Scotland in the

sunshine today. In the sunshine only 11. The differences we are behind a

cold weather front. Seeing a stepped down in temperatures. The cold air

filtering sound so there will be a widespread ground frost across the

country. The week weather front still with us so we could cheat

patchy mist and fog. The best chance of seeing the meteor shower

overnight will be in those clear skies further north. A better chance

for south overnight. We start Saturday morning with the line of

cloud, the weather front from Northern Ireland through Wales, the

Midlands coming the south-east. The clear air