26/01/2017 Look North (Yorkshire)

The main news from around Yorkshire today.

A Conservative councillor resigns after he's filmed making lewd

comments to a hunt protestor in North Yorkshire.

And bonding with baby - how patting and singing to your bump

A huntsman has resigned from his position as a Conservative district

councillor after being caught on a video camera making lewd

comments to a protestor during a meet of the Middleton Hunt

Charles Carter was heard making the improper comments

He's been condemned by the Conservative Party in Norfolk,

where he lived before moving recently to York.

Our Correspondent John Cundy has the story.

Hunting is banned. The moment when Linda Hoggard spoke to Charles

Carter to say it is illegal. She challenges him and he starts filming

her. Charles Carter has been a district

Councillor for five years and resigned after the revelations of

his conduct. This council leader said he was applauded, -- appalled,

so were residents. And man in that position should know so much but

Andy Woodman shouldn't be spoken like that too from anyone. He

shouldn't be representing anyone if he has those beliefs. You are very

pretty. So foxes. He rides with the group dating back 200 years. 200 --

Charles Carter was interviewed about the ban on fox hunting. Having to

look over one's shoulder all the time for fear of being a breach of

bad law is not what the country should be about. North Yorkshire

Police said they were alerted about an altercation between Charles

Carter and Linda Hoggard on Monday. They say investigations are

continuing. The prosecution case against three

people arrested by police in Sheffield for protesting

against the felling The three, included septuagenarians

Jenny Hockey and Freda Brayshaw. They were facing charges under

the Public Order Act but today Relief and delight for Jenny Hopkin

and Jenny Hockey and Freda Brayshaw after the prosecution case

against them was withdrawn at The two women were arrested

following a stand-off with police during the tree felling operation

by council contracts in the early There were cheers and applause

in a packed court one here at Sheffield Magistrates' Court

as district judge, Naomi Redhouse, told the two women the case

had been withdrawn. She awarded them ?150

cost each and told them Outside court, the two

women give their reaction I hope that if anything

good comes out of this, it is about energising

the campaign even more. Were you always confident

that the case would be dropped? No, not at all because we've

never quite understood, as in many other aspects of this

issue, we didn't know One charge, then another

charge, now it's dropped. Today's decision was

welcomed for common sense. We've had Freda, one

of the defendants, it was her birthday and she had

a great birthday present. The fact is the CPS,

together with the council, They've seen the error

of their ways and it's to be able to say to the CPS,

well done, you've The two women say a rethink

of Sheffield's tree replacement strategy is now needed and ask that

lessons be learned They are planning to celebrate

Freda's birthday and a vow to continue their campaign

against further tree felling. People in a South Yorkshire town

have started a petition after learning they'll

lose their last bank branch. HSBC announced its pulling out

of Wath-upon-Dearne. It follows last week's announcement

by Yorkshire Bank that it'll close Yorkshire Building Society has also

confirmed some closures. These banks are meant to be service

companies and they are turning their backs on customers. When the public

taxpayer stepped in to help the banking system, companies like this

when they brought the global financial system almost to its knees

seven years ago, they should be standing by the communities and

their customers now. Leeds United are up to third

in the Championship after beating When Forest failed to clear

a corner, Chris Wood But the second Leeds goal is the one

to watch time and again. Souleymane Doukara scored

this stunning 20-yard An antenatal class pioneered

in Bradford that encourages mums-to-be to talk, sing and even

massage their bumps has been shown to help strengthen

the bond between parents Researchers at Hull University found

that mums who completed the nine week Welcome to the World course saw

a significant improvement in the emotional well being

of the whole family after birth. She thinks it's partly down

to an antenatal class in Bradford which encouraged her to talk

to her bump. When we got asked to speak

to our bumps and we got asked if we do, I was like,

no, it seems a bit daft This is Family Links Welcome

To The World antenatal programme. It looks at the emotional

well-being of mum and baby We're really trying to support

the parents to be excited It really helps them to think

about it emotionally, how their life is going to change,

physically how life is going to change and it really

is there to support emotional Now researchers at Hull University

have proved that it really I think there's some anecdotal

evidence to suggest that talking to your bump is a really good way

of starting off that process. To capture it and be

able to demonstrate it through the evidence was bringing

much more clarity to the whole idea. Back in Bradford, what did Sarah

make of the classes? Because of the group in general,

it made me want to breast-feed her as well and feel closer

to her and six months and I'm still breast-feeding

and I never thought I would. Nice to know that I wasn't

being silly for talking to my bump. In the future, researchers

plan to look at how men Time now for a look at the weather.

It is fair to say it is cold today. What are you going to do about

yours? Thank you very much. We have cloud out there and wintry

showers. We see a south-westerly on Saturday. Next week looks milder.

Really cold out there. Minus two in Leeds. A blanket of cloud and you

can see nowhere above freezing. We might get one in Scarborough. That

cloud could break first time and reform. Quite a bit of fog for

trans-Pennine routes later. One or two flurries of snow. A widespread

frost and lowest temperatures at minus two Celsius. Another really

cold day to come tomorrow. Hill fog is persistent. A fee wintry showers

at first. A lot of cloud temperatures will recover a little

bit. I is temperatures of four Celsius. Friday, there is wet

outbreaks which could be clear by his Saturday morning. Saturday, a

possibility of sunshine. A much milder next week. That is the

forecast. Thank you very much indeed. We will be back at 6:30pm.

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