28/12/2016 Look North (Yorkshire)

Good evening from Look North. One is at 10:30.

Leeds Teaching Hospital's NHS Trust has made almost ?80,000

in car parking fines over the last year, according to new figures.

The data, gathered by the Press Association,

asked 120 trusts across England to give figures

Hospitals across the country are making more money than ever before

from car park charges and they are also making money from

Of the 27 NHS Trusts that responded to freedom of information

requests, one of Yorkshire's Trusts was top of that list.

Leeds Teaching Hospital's NHS Trust received over ?78,000

Parking is always at a premium around a hospital

is a case in point, right in the city centre.

In fact, the Trust says it received over half of its fines

If you pay to park all day it is ?100 per week.

I think if you come to visit people who are ill in

hospital or you have an appointment, sometimes you need a bit of

Which is why we have parked a way away.

If you are in labour for two days, you are

going to end up being bankrupt with charges!

Over the last four years, the Trust has received over ?400,000

In a statement, Leeds Teaching Hospital's NHS Trust

has told us that overall the Trust has over 5,000 car parking spaces,

across six hospital sites, including

We have over 1.6 million vehicles on site each year.

These figures about income from parking fines we issue should be

Hospital parking in Wales and Scotland is largely free

but in England you do have to pay for it.

The national charity the Patients' Association has said that is unfair.

A 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder

in Scarborough after another man was found dead.

Police made the discovery at a house in St Johns Avenue last night.

The victim, a local man in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene.

One of two men arrested on suspicion of murder following a woman's death

in Bradford has been released without charge.

The woman, who's thought to be in her 30s,

was found dead at an address in the Holmewood area

A postmortem examination is due to take place today.

A second man aged 42 remains in police custody.

A 35-year-old man from Rotherham has been interviewed under caution

following the death of a seven month old baby.

The child died at a house in York, on the 3rd of November.

Sheffield-based 'Playtime Beds' has issued a safety warning

on its website stating that its made to measure beds could lead to risks

of strangulation or crushing and shouldn't be used.

Both Trading Standards and police are investigating.

The infant's cause of death hasn't been confirmed.

The body of 73-year-old man whose been missing for nearly

a month has been found in a canal near Wakefield.

William Metcalfe's body was discovered yesterday morning

Anti-Fracking protestors have set up a camp in North Yorkshire

near the site which is expected to be the first in the

They say they'll use it as a base to stop lorries delivering equipment

needed to build the new well head in the next few weeks.

Our political editor Len Tingle reports.

Today's roadside protests are, according to the anti-fractures,

They have set up a camp a mile or so from the camp

at Kirby Misperton north Yorkshire where

planning permission has been granted to start the first commercial

extraction of gas using the controversial technique of fracking.

Failing everything we have tried in the last two years,

It has come down to boots on the ground, direct action.

We're hoping after Christmas many of our

friends and community members will come to this big field

where we're going to create a big camp that is

going to stop this industry before it gets started.

Gas has been extracted using conventional drilling on the same

North Yorkshire County Council granted planning permission the same

production company earlier this year to sink

a new well alongside for fracking, pumping highly pressurised water

and sand to free gas trapped deep underground in beds of shale.

A last-ditch legal attempt to stop it by campaign

groups on safety and environmental grounds was thrown out by the High

The HGV traffic has to come this way and we will do

our utmost to peacefully and slow walk the traffic making its way

to be site and to make it as difficult as possible

The gas production company Third Energy has

maintained through two years of planning and legal processes that

It says fracking poses no potential dangers

and intends to start preparing for production in the near future.

People here say they should not be called protesters,

they are protectors of the environment against a political

and a legal system that they say has failed and they will be

In a statement the gas production company told us:

Thanks to Andrew Robertson who sent in this weather picture

Topcliffe in North Yorkshire was actually the coldest place

in England last night at minus 7.2 celsius.

Let's get the forecast from Jennifer Bartrum.

Clear skies to take us into the evening

That means it is going to be another cold night,

quite frosty and with some patches of mist and fog.

The Met office has a yellow weather warning in force

It could prove some tricky driving conditions if you are out first

Clear spells and we are going to see a widespread hard

frost by tomorrow morning, indicated by the blue tinge on the map.

Temperatures through the night, dropping down to freezing in towns

Many spots will see the figures dipping down to -1 or minus

Thursday looks like a foggy start to the date but another

We have those patches of mist and fog

It should lift and break and we will see some sunny spells

and isolated spots where that fog lingers through much of the

Tomorrow's top temperature reaching a high of three

Where you hang onto that mist, it will feel like

As we go through the rest of the week

then, as for Friday looks like another fairly settled day.

That wind is going to increase as we head

through New Year's Eve and gradually by New Year's Day, things will turn

That is all we have time for for now. We are back at 10:40pm. Have a

great night. Good evening, the weather is proving

hazardous and the fog now becoming more extensive and causing

disruption overnight tonight. There is a warning from the Met office and

you can stay in touch on the website with all the latest details. For the

most part the Northern Isles of Scotland escaping but not a pretty

picture further south. This is eight o'clock in the morning, not everyone

when he up to that sunshine. The