08/05/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

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Good evening and welcome to the late Look North.

Thanking the community - the parents of seven-year-old

Katie Rough give their first interview since her death in York.

And Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn will debate with a Yorkshire

audience just days before the election,

A lot of dry weather to come again this week,

but the hint of something different into the weekend.

Join me for that live, updated forecast.

The parents of Katie Rough, the seven-year-old who died

after being found with severe injuries on a playing field

in York in January, have given their first interview.

Paul and Alison Rough have also thanked the community

for its support, and said they couldn't have coped without it.

We've got each other, and we've got a good family network...

Work helps a bit, doesn't it, going back to work?

Yeah, work is keeping you busy as well.

And the bond between you is a strength, isn't it?

Some people might say, why did you feel the need

to do this interview, Alison?

We are doing this to promote a fun day at the Acorn Rugby Club

that we are holding on the 9th of June from 5pm.

Most of it's free - the majority of it's free.

It is a thank you to the people of York for all of their support.

We have had support from the local community,

but also all over the world, hundreds of letters and messages.

People have just been so kind and we just wanted to say thank you.

We get a lot of people, we don't know them, and they'll come up

and introduce themselves and they have got sad stories

themselves, or they just give us a cuddle.

We go to York City Church, and we've had a lot of support from them.

They cooked our meals for the first month and a half.

They fed us for the first few weeks, and if it weren't for them

But they came with meals and things...

And obviously the Archbishop has been...

Aye, he was a rock, wasn't he? He was great.

He has been visiting and kept in touch,

Tell us something about your little girl.

Katie, she was... Amazing.

Shy at first, but then once she knew you, she...

Yeah, she was shy, out, you know, with other people,

She was just your typical seven-year-old girl, you know...

She liked to snuggle up in bed at night.

She used to sneak in our bed nearly every night -

even though she was seven, she was still sneaking

The pink bunny has been with Katie since she was 12 days old.

Every week when he got her pocket money on the Friday,

But she always went back to this one.

This was the original and this was the one she always went back to.

The pink rabbit stayed with her while she was

in the funeral home, and it stayed with her

until the very last minute, and then came back to us.

Where do you think you'll get your strength over the weeks ahead?

We bounce off each other, so, when one's struggling,

Yes, we just have each other, don't we?

Paul and Alison Rough speaking to Harry.

A teenage girl is due to stand trial for Katie's murder in July.

York has been chosen to host a special election TV programme

featuring the Prime Minister and the Labour leader.

In the Question Time special, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn

will answer questions from an invited audience.

At the last general election in 2015, Leeds was the venue

Here's our political reporter James Vincent.

Two years ago, Question Time came to Leeds.

Three party leaders got it in the neck from Yorkshire voters

who weren't standing for any flannel.

The question I asked you, I asked you why on earth I should

trust the Chancellor - if he worked in the corporate world

he would have been fired, and he would not be allowed back

You're refusing to give specifics, I find that very, very difficult...

Let me answer that. ..very difficult to understand.

Your promise on student loans has destroyed your reputation -

why would we ever believe anything else you say?

Theresa May is being criticised for filling her election events

I'm taking part in debates up and down the country,

actually taking questions from people, meeting people,

getting out and about, and ensuring that I'm talking

We chose York for a whole load of reasons.

We like to spread these programmes around the country,

and York has been a Conservative city and a Labour city over

the years, so it felt like a really good opportunity to come to Europe,

and we know that we'll get a really good audience.

We always do when we bring debate programmes to the north of England.

This won't be a debate between the two leaders.

They will be onstage separately, with a microphone,

face-to-face with the bolshie Yorkshire public.

So, if you got the chance to ask Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn

I'd ask about the NHS, and what state it's in.

Not just immigration, which is, sort of, the biggest

issue on the agenda, but how to tackle

the problems we've got facing the young people today.

How do we minimise the negative effects of Brexit?

What's the plan for the NHS? Yeah?

I think I know what the answer's going to be,

So, no debate between the parties, but there will be no escaping

the tough questions from the Yorkshire public.

That viewers will be hoping the politicians do not budge their

answers, they often get criticised for that sort of thing on this kind

of TV event, and the world's media will be here, never mind Yorkshire's

media. Theresa May has made it clear she does not want to do a TV debate

will Beyonce separately, Theresa May will Beyonce separately, Theresa May

and then Jeremy Corbyn, answering questions from people in York. --

they will be onstage separately. We do not know where it will be held

yet, there will be plenty places which want to have that. People

waving around to see if they can ask a question themselves.

James, this will put York at the centre of the election campaign,

just days before we go to the polls. Absolutely, York used to be the

centre of northern England. Not so much any more but it is the centre

of one of the most election -- interesting election battles. North

Yorkshire is all conservative, all blue, apart from here, where Labour

were elected. The Labour MP has a majority of around 7000, but it is a

microcosm of the election campaign, because Labour want to hold onto it

but the Conservatives want to make it from them. It'll be interesting

to see how Labour performed, and what how will it affect how people

vote week later. The Fire Service says a fire

at a recycling centre in Rotherham is now under control,

but residents are still being urged Up to 500 tonnes of plastic went up

in flames at Universal Recycling People were told to stay inside

and keep windows and doors closed. The emergency services handed

out facemasks at nearby They just popped in and out to make

sure we were all right. They have been and escorted parents

down to the church when the roads They have escorted children down

into nursery, put masks on They have been really,

really good and gave We have switched from using foam

to water, and we are using copious amounts of water to try to get

into the heart of the fire, but it's going to be some time

before we get this concluded. One of Yorkshire's Ukip MEPs,

Jane Collins, could face bankruptcy after failing to pay hundreds

of thousands of pounds in damages She was ordered to pay more

than ?350,000 in February after losing a long-running legal

battle, but a court heard today that she'd failed to meet

a 21-day payment deadline. Ms Collins had been sued for libel

by three south Yorkshire MPs, after claiming they'd known

about child abuse in Rotherham. Now, if you don't have a head

for heights, then turn away now! That's because the UK's highest

climbing wall is opening It's taller than the Tower of London

and the Angel of the North. Just 18 months ago, it was under

eight feet of water, but now this former grain silo

will soon be training Now let's take a look

at the weather. One athlete who does not have long

enough legs for that activity joins me in the studio.

I am exhausted... Your legs are not longer.

I have legs are similar to a sparrow.

For the next 24 hours, cloudy but quiet. The wind will ease, Warner to

come over Wednesday and Thursday. Let me show you what will happen.

High pressure for much of the week, doesn't look as bad as across Spain

and Portugal over the next days. Weather Bush is a crossover Friday,

heavy showers and some gardens out there will be very pleased if that

materialises. Could be unsettled. Quiet out there with a brisk

northerly, and perhaps thicker cloud for the odd light shower, but

otherwise dry and with temperatures of about five Celsius. 41

Fahrenheit. Elsewhere, bright and sunny, a lot of cloud in general,

but as that Breeze continues to use, becoming light and variable later,

in the way of cloud breaks... It might be tomorrow evening when we

see the best sunshine and blue sky. Temperatures around 13 Celsius. It

will be promising late tomorrow afternoon, into tomorrow evening,

not bad at all. Tuesday night into Wednesday, a lot of cloud melts

away. Buying your first light Wednesday morning, and a light

breeze on Wednesday, looking very nice. 16 or 17 Celsius. A fine on

Thursday. Uncertain but potential for some rain later on Friday.

That's it from me. I leave you with the summary.

will become drier and feel warm. Now the National forecast.

Good evening. A quiet day on the weather front but we still managed

to have some huge contrasts in the weather. This was a beautiful

picture from Cumbria, blue skies and crystal clear blue skies in Argyll

and Bute but closer to the north coast, it sends shivers down your

spine! Chilly and cloudy all along that cost this bank of cloud that

sliced the country in half, cool and cloudy to the east and to the West

had sunshine. But it still been dry and it will stay that way for most

of the week. As we get into Friday, there is some rain on the way. In

the short-term, not much happening in the next few hours, quite a bit

of cloud in most of England and Wales but many northern and