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Now, the latest ITV news in the calendar region with Lara Rostran and Michael Bennington. [Music] Hello there. Welcome to Tuesday night’s calendar. Yes. Thanks for joining us. Here are tonight’s main stories. A-list opposition Hollywood star Shaun Bean makes a cameo appearance as campaigners fight plans to build on green belt land in Sheffield. We’re not putting up and we’re going to uh we’re going to fight back because um we’re not pushovers. Deer in the headlights. Drivers are warned to look out for animals in the road as crash numbers reach record levels. Riding high, the junior cycling world champion who’s well on his way from his native Peak District to the summit of the sport. And I’m at an exhibition in Bradford where young people have been capturing the city through their eyes. [Music] Good evening. First tonight, campaigners in Sheffield say plans to build thousands of homes could be the biggest destruction of green belt land the city has ever seen. Those living in the Hansworth area have even got the backing of local boy turned Hollywood star Shaun Bean. Yes. The Game of Thrones and now Robin Hood actor claims the council, which has to build almost 40,000 new homes under a government directive, is targeting less wealthy areas. But he says the people of Hansworth are no pushovers and will fight back. Helen Steel reports. As summer fades to autumn, some fear this is greenery that won’t be coming back next summer. Campaigners say their green belt could be gone for good if plans to build thousands of homes in Sheffield go ahead. So this is where the houses would be. Yes, this is one of the two Hanssworth sites and uh Sheffield Council want to build 878 houses. You’ve heard of the word nimi obviously, but what would you say to that if people said that? Well, no, because we’re not anti-ousing. Um within a mile of this site, we have had the Wavely development with over 3,000 houses. Well, here in Hanssworth, Sheffield City Council’s proposing to build more than 1,700 homes spread across this area known as the Bramley site and another less than a mile away. Campaigners claim that if it goes ahead, it could overwhelm local infrastructure, which they say is already struggling. Oh, from here you can get down to Woodhouse. The Bramley site connects four communities. More than 700 objections. You you wrote one of them. What was yours based on? What did you say? Well, my one was it’s the infrastructure. It’s not being thought of. Um, we could, you know, we’re not nimbies. We could take a few houses. They would be air quality issues, uh, flooding issues. It’s all part of a government requirement to build more than 38,000 homes in Sheffield to address a growing housing crisis. Walking this way. But campaigners here say 90% of Hanssworth’s green space would be lost and more than half of the new proposed housing is in their area. So we’re just a few minutes away in Hanssworth wreck. You say this will be really the only green space left. What else will be going on here? Well, behind us there’s another site they’re looking at building 700 homes on. Campaigner Cheryl Hey secured the backing of a homegrown Hollywood superstar. Now we rule. who she interviewed during his break from filming Robin Hood. No one will ever know you or your kind existed. He claimed the council was taking from the poor to give to the rich. I suppose they thought the objections and protest against it wouldn’t be quite as viciferous as they would in there would be in other more affluent areas of Sheffield. We’re going to fight back because um we’re not pushovers of Penssworth. So Sean Bean’s been filming Robin Hood, uh, you know, been on the red carpet, yet he’s still thinking about this place. Do you think that shows how important it is? Yeah, I mean, Sean grew up here, so he spent he told us he spent many days of his childhood here. Told us that uh it helped influence him to be an actor. I mean, you know, this is the kind of benefits this green area has for our community. Yes. And that was Cheryl Lair ending that report there by Helen Steel. Well, Helen can join us now from Sheffield. And Helen, I understand that meetings are taking place this week about this so-called local plan. What do you know? Well, it is a lengthy process. We have had a period of consultation and this week there’s a series of public hearings to talk about the viability of the plan. Now, what is a local plan? Well, it’s something every council has to have. The government allocates a certain number of houses it has to build. Now, in Sheffield’s case, it’s identified 14 green belt sites. Now, we’ve heard some of the objections to those here today. Well, as for the council, it says the plan would increase the number of affordable homes. It would bring with it new investment, and much of the 38,000 homes would be built on Brownfield’s site. Um, without the plan, the council says there’d be a risk of unplanned development, which will put a strain on local services. Now, this isn’t the end. Government inspectors will now go away, discuss the plans, and we’re not expected to hear anything back until at least February next year. Okay, Helen Steel live in Sheffield for us. Thank you for bringing us up to date. Okay, let’s get some more of the day news now. And an investigation has been launched after shots were fired at a house in Sheffield. Armed police were called to the house on Blaton Road in the Pittsmore area at around 20 to 3 this morning. They found windows and a door had been damaged. South Yorkshire police said no one was injured and they’re appealing for information. Meanwhile, firefighters in North Yorkshire have criticized drivers who’ve ignored road closures to force their way past crews tackling an incident in the village of Ostwick. It happened after a car caught fire last night. The fire service said that one car mounted the pavement to get past and another tried to drive through. A spokesperson said roads are closed for the safety of everyone, including passers by. A strike by more than 40 workers at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield has been extended by a further four weeks. The workers, who are members of the union, Unison began their walk out last month in a dispute over pay. Last week, Wakefield Council voted to stop funding the museum until the dispute is resolved. Museum bosses say they’ve offered the equivalent of a 6% pay rise, higher than other settlements in the public sector. A bit of good news for you now. If you were watching uh the program last night, well, you’ll remember that we told you how Martin House Children’s Hospice in Boston Spa had successfully hit a target to raise £360,000 in just 36 hours. Well, we can now reveal that its fundraising total has since topped, get this, £400,000. The money will support building work on a new hospice for children with lifelimiting conditions. Absolutely incredible effort by all of those funers. So good as well. That money really will go to good use, would it? Certainly will. Congratulations to them. Now to the fighting talk from the prime minister at the Labour Party conference as polls show the growing threat posed by reform. Yes, in a speech today, Karma said that Nigel Farage doesn’t like Britain as he pledged to renew the country. Well, our political correspondent Fred Dimbleby was listening to the PM speech and uh joins us now. Good evening, Fred. Now, combative words from Sakir Star there. So, how’s it gone down with Labour members in Yorkshire’s battlegrounds? Yeah, good evening from Liverpool. I think it’s gone down pretty well. There was a lot of pressure on the prime minister coming into this conference and coming into this speech. We had criticism of some of his policies and the way that they are being carried out. That potential leadership challenge from Mayor Andy Bernham, which seems for the moment to have gone away. So, this speech was really important. He needs to show that he is the man to lead this party and the man to lead the country. And I actually think he put in a pretty strong performance. I was in the conference hall. We saw lots of cheering and clapping from delegates. He seemed positive. He seemed relatively confident. And he also seemed energized by the threat posed to him and his party by Nigel Farage and Reform UK. He came out swinging as you’ll hear right now. I mean, think about it. When was the last time that you heard Nigel Farage say anything positive about Britain’s future? He can’t. He doesn’t like Britain. Doesn’t believe in Britain. Wants you to doubt it just as much as he does. So, he resorts to grievance. Well, well, Farage and Reform say that is completely nonsensical. And look, you still do get a sense here that the PM is under pressure. There is still a lot of criticism of him. and a feeling that the change that was promised hasn’t the change that was promised I should say hasn’t been delivered quickly enough. Uh this is the view of some of our local mayors. Right now all too many people in South Yorkshire see decline. They see broken public services and they see a loss of hope. And so this government certainly me as mayor the whole of this country has to be about giving people hope. They voted for change a year ago and they were sick of the 14 15 years of a Tory government that completely abandoned them and maybe they haven’t seen the change fast enough but let me tell you the change has been coming thick and fast. So Fred, plenty of questions for the prime minister, not least there from Yorkshire’s Labour mayors. What’s your feeling from speaking to our MPs about how the conference has gone? Well, there’s been a lot of talk here about renewal. In fact, the kind of slogan for the conference is the slightly awkwardly phrased uh renew Britain. But I do think from speaking to those MPs, to those mayors, to those local counselors that they feel they have more of a narrative now which they can take away. And that is the real test. When everybody leaves here tomorrow, when they go back to constituencies across our region, will that narrative, will that new story actually translate on the doorstep? Yeah, we’ll have to see, won’t we? Thank you very much, Fred Dimbleby live in Liverpool for us tonight. Okay, thanks for watching Tuesday night’s calendar. Do stay with us because still to come on the program before 6:30. Why the weather is squashing the size of this year’s pumpkin crop with the odd enormous exception. And small pumpkins, not enough rain not the case over the next few days. A bucketload of wet weather heading our way as we head towards the weekend. The full details coming up in just a bit. [Music] Well, next tonight, how amorous deer are posing a threat to road users with one location near Skunthor becoming a hot spot. Yes, there’s been a dramatic increase in the number of crashes involving deer. The AA says its members have reported more than a thousand so far this year. In fact, it’s thought that the true number could run into tens of thousands. And with mating season just at the moment, drivers are being warned that the animals are more likely to wander into the roads looking for a mate. Kevin Ashford reports. The deer population in this country is thought to be the biggest it’s been for a thousand years. And that’s increased the likelihood of a deer being involved in an accident on the road. It means places like Lorton Forest in Lincolnshire have become deer collision hotspots. Deer numbers in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire are on the rise as they are in a lot of different places. Um, predominantly we see Montjack and and row in this area. They are a territorial species and therefore live uh mainly on their own. We see that they also are very comfortable living in close proximity to people which obviously in this area where there are a lot of people uh we see that they thrive very well up here. It’s an issue that seems to be getting worse. In figures seen exclusively by ITV, the AA says its members alone reported more than a thousand deer collisions in 2021. But by last year, that figure had risen to more than 1,400. And already this year, reported collisions have topped a thousand. Worryingly, it seems many motorists are not aware of the dangers. We know from our own research that around 50% of drivers say that they ignore deer warning signs. So that’s a clear indicator that there is some work there to be done on driver behavior around acknowledging how serious it is. And at this time of year when we know because of deer’s mating patterns that there are more of them out there are they are more active. You’re more likely to come across them on the roads. It’s even more important than ever to pay attention to those signs. If you see one, there’s sometimes two or three or four or a whole herd which will come out. Tony Lowry knows only too well how serious the consequences of a collision with the deer can be. He’s a volunteer with the police and he’s called out to the scene of accidents involving deer. In most cases, Tony has to humanely destroy the deer because of the animals injuries. If you hit a deer and it does go through your windscreen, that can be catastrophic. hitting an animal at 60 70 mph that weighs 150 lb plus um that that can be quite quite something going through your windscreen. So yeah, it’s a danger and also swerving to miss dear. So you should never swerve, just break responsibly and steadily really. Now when you have an animal the size of a deer involved in a collision, the consequences can be pretty dramatic. Tony shared a photo of a collision he was called out to. As you can see, the damage was, to say the least, extensive. Motorists are not legally required to report hitting a deer, but the advice is to call the police if the animal involved is on or near the carriageway. Kevin Ashford, ITV News. You certainly know if you’ve hit a deer, don’t you? Certainly do some damage. Now, the ITV Evening News continues at 6:30 with more on that speech from the Prime Minister and what else is happening. Here’s Charlotte Hawkins. Coming up, decency over division. Starmmer promises a Britain built for all and strikes out at Nigel Farage. Trump gives Hamas a deadline to make a deal. We’ll have the latest. He’s been a prime minister, detective, and a wizard. Now, Sir Gary Oldman takes on the role of a lifetime as a knight. Join me for those stories and more at 6:30. Thank you, Charlotte. Now to a unique exhibition in Bradford where photographs taken by a group of young people aimed to show the city through their very eyes. Yes, the exhibition at the Bradford City FC Community Foundation has come about in collaboration with acclaimed local photographer Shai Burhan. Well, our reporter Amelia Beckett is there for us now. Amelia Michael, this exhibition has come about because eight young people from across the city have had the chance to explore this wonderful place for the for 10 weeks over summer, find different locations that speak to them or mean something to them and learn different techniques to take photographs that they think represent Bradford for them. And I’m joined by one of them now, Ikra. Um, hi, thank you so much for joining us. Firstly, how did you get involved with this exhibition? Um, so my involvement in this exhibition was actually through a previous project that was uh happening at Bradford City Community Foundation. So there’s always something going off at the foundation and this particular project was actually funded by Northern Northern Rail. So big thank you to them and done under the kind of guidance of our wonderful photographer Shai who is absolutely exceptional at what she does and yeah she’s kind of guided us on the journey as well as Pav as well. So big thank you to all those guys. And these are your photos. Can you tell me about what inspired them? Yes. So, you can see from my sort of photos, they’re all uh pictures of landscape, scenery, that kind of thing. And so, for me, I think personally, it’s just that kind of attachment to nature just because sometimes, you know, you can kind of get so caught up in life, so busy, uh things can get quite intense. So, just, you know, you don’t have to go far. Even in Bradford, there’s such beautiful places. And yeah, just going on this journey kind of connecting with the heritage, culture, scenery just through this photography course. It’s been, you know, eye opening and brilliant. So yeah, they’re brilliant. Thank you so much for sharing them with us. And you can see all the different variations. Got waterfalls here, Oxen Hope Station for those who might recognize it. And over here we’ve got Shai, the photographer who’s led this course. Firstly, Shai, how amazing has it been to see these young people flourish? So amazing. I’m so proud of them. Um they each have developed a photographers’s eye which is something that’s so unique and individual to them. I’m so proud of them. Um and how did this all come about? Um so I was commissioned by Braford City Football Club Community Foundation to come and deliver these workshops. Uh they’d had evidence that I’d worked before with some other groups I’d worked with. So they asked me to come in and deliver it with young people that they were already working with at that point and it was quite transformational actually. Um I saw how it impacted their well-being. I saw how it impacted their sense of belonging, gave me afforded them the agency to take really creative and quite compelling photographs. So yeah, it’s a great thing. And being from Bradford yourself, I’m sure it’s made you really proud as well. Thank you so much for for joining us and for sharing this with us. It is only on tonight, but Shai holds these workshops across the north of England. I think the next one’s in Barnsley or Gaul. So um you know, plenty of opportunity for people to get involved in such an amazing project. Certainly is. Amelia Beckett live in Bradford. have a front row seat there. How fabulous. Great, great pictures. Thank you very much indeed. Now, time for some sport and calendar understands that staff and players at Sheffield Wednesday won’t be paid on time again this month. It’s the fifth time in seven months that employees at the club haven’t received their full salaries on time. Some staff have been told they will get a maximum,000 with the rest paid at a later date. Owner Desan Chanseri is under increasing pressure to sell the club and said back in June that he would, but only for the right price. Former Lioness Rachel Daly has received her MBE at Windsor Castle today. The 33-year-old from Harriut was part of the England women’s side that won the Euros on home soil back in 2022. Now, Daly won 84 caps, scoring 16 goals before retiring from international duty last summer. Eight members of the winning squad were part of King Charles’s birthday honors list. Congratulations. Now, it’s been quite the few days for 18-year-old Harry Hudson. The teenage cyclist has returned to home to South Yorkshire as junior world champion after winning the cycling world championships in Rwanda. Yeah, that’s right. In doing so, he’s put his name in the history books by becoming the first Brit to win the event. Well done to him. As Araf Armed reports, he’s been straight back in the saddle. There’s no rest for Harry Hudson. back on his bike in the Peak District just days after returning home from the biggest win of his burgeoning career. Harry Hudson’s going to be a world champion. On Friday, the 18-year-old was competing at the cycling world championships in Rwanda where he won the junior men’s road race. That is so special. [Music] Harry, how does it feel to be world champion? I mean, it’s began to sink in, but yeah, it’s still pretty crazy. Um I mean you’re obviously very happy but I can’t remember honestly. You just cross the line and does it all feel like a bit of a blur then? Yeah. It all goes very fast. Yeah. I mean it’s the biggest race of the year. So to win it’s yeah a dream. The realization dawns that he’s world champion. Winning the race by 16 seconds wasn’t the only impressive feat by Harry. He also became the first Brit to win the event. I mean that’s just extra on top, isn’t it? This makes it a bit more special. Also, first one in Africa adds a bit to it. But yeah, first Brit to win the junior ends is I mean that’s special. A lot of people have come close and there’s a lot of very good riders who haven’t managed it. So yeah, it’s pretty special. Hello Harry. Morning. What have you got there? A medal. Let’s have a little look. For mom and dad, watching the race was a tense and nervy experience. And you were there, weren’t you? What was it like watching it? It was insane. I could just hear on the on the radio and it just suddenly came over. It’s like, “Oh, disaster, disaster, disaster. Uh, somebody’s gone down.” And I thought it was Harry. So, I thought he’d crash. Couldn’t believe it. But it was actually one of the chases. So, yeah. Um, so I was, you know, terrible. Change of emotions then. Oh, you’re all over the place. It was horrific. What was it like watching at home? Must have been a completely different experience. Very different experience. Quite stressful. The other two children stayed at home with me, so they were watching. Um, I was pacing and then you’re sat on the edge of your seat watching those kilometers tick away thinking they’re going to get him. They’re going to catch him. Don’t fall off. Don’t fall off. Don’t crash. And you’ve already started to um to experience the perks of being a world champion flying back. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that that was my teammate just mentioned it to one of the uh checking people and they yeah, they ended up upgrading me to business class which was pretty cool. What’s your goals and aims for your cycling career? I mean, the ultimate goal is to race world tour professionally, making my career where we’ll see. We’ll try and make that possible. So, we’ll see how it goes. Having signed up to a development team next year, the future on two wheels is looking bright for Harry. Arif Ahmed, ITV News. You know what I love about that interview is that Harry’s kit, his cycling kit, is on the washing line. Yes. But he’s not even to finish his laundry. And there’s Arif knocking at your front door. Oh, now with a month to go, you might well be starting to think about Halloween, maybe. But, uh, pumpkin growers have been getting ready for quite some time now. Yes. In fact, many started harvesting early this year, and some are noticing something well, a little different with their pumpkins. As Lauren Hall explains, at this pumpkin patch near York, they’re getting ready to welcome the crowds. grown a 100,000 pumpkins and uh we’ve got 25 different varieties of all these pumpkins. So, we hope that um that’ll really encourage people to come out onto the farm and pick the pick their pumpkin. So, we’re hoping the weather’s on our side. Pumpkin growers gear up for Halloween long before the rest of us. This year is no exception, as we found out at this wholesale pumpkin farm, which supplies businesses in Yorkshire and other parts of the UK. So, it’s been the earliest harvest we’ve ever done. So, we actually started harvest at the end of July, which is unheard of. It’s all down to the hot, dry weather, which has had quite an impact. So, this is a traditional carving pumpkin that we would expect to see in our pumpkin patches. However, this year, as you can see, they’re slightly smaller. This, for example, is a mini one, and it really should be this size. It may seem a frightful start to the Halloween season and it’s happening at many pumpkin patches, but here they say size doesn’t matter. We’re not concerned. We have got pumpkins in lots of different sizes from extra large down to, you know, the munchkins, the tiny ones. And actually, I tend to think that pumpkins are unique. They’re all different shapes and sizes. And there is a pumpkin for everyone. Someone wants the biggest and someone always wants the smallest, which is just as well this year. Exactly. For those who do like them a bit bigger, check out this very heavy load arriving into the Giant Vegetables Championship at the weekend. Now, there are some pretty portly pumpkins here, but this one is by far the biggest. It’s known as Dumbledore, and there really does seem to be some horicultural wizardry going on here. It’s got a circumference of more than 20 feet and it weighs in at well over 1,000 kg. So big it even eclipses these other superersized specimens. What’s your secret? Actually, plenty of water. And the reason why the pumpkins outside this year are small was because we haven’t had much water this year. And I know that this one’s big, but am I right in thinking you have an even bigger one at home? We have. This was a bit disappointing in weight, but still massive. But we have got a bigger one at home. So, you’re disappointed with this one? We’re always dis. We want the world records. It may not be a record breaker, but it’s bigger than most, especially this year. Lauren Hall, ITV News. Well, there you go. Big pumpkins. Well, apparently you don’t need a plump pumpkin, though. No, the smaller ones are the sweeter ones. They’re the tasty ones. iest one’s always the way, isn’t it? Here’s James for the weather. A clear start makes way for a day of ancient discoveries. TUI sponsors ITV Yorkshire weather. Hi there. Good evening. Some lovely sunshine around today. Uh maybe a bit more perhaps than we were expecting. We can thank a little bit of high pressure for that. It’s helping to keep the nasties out towards the north and the west of us. That will continue to be the case for a little while longer, but as we head towards the weekend, things do start to change. First of all, Thursday into Friday, that little soaker moves through. Another one for later on in the day on Friday. A tail on that system, meaning yet more wet weather as we head into the weekend. And all these isobars indicating it’s going to be a bit of a windy affair, too. Not the case this evening. I think we’ll see bits of cloud drifting around and about. Still got this light southerntherly breeze and the combination of enough cloud and that source of milder air from the south means it’s not going to be a chilly one. We’re looking at lows of around 12 or 13 Celsius. Pretty much double figures across the board and that should also keep the mist under control too. Tomorrow then bit like today really some good spells of sunshine or at least bright spells. Think later on we just start to see a bit of extra thicker cloud drift things. We might even get a little bit of drizzle but that’s all it’s set to be. And on the whole, if you can stay in the brighter weather, we’re looking at temperatures much like today with highs of 17 or 18 Celsius. As far as Thursday goes, similarly pretty good actually. Starting to see the breeze picking up a little bit. Uh clouding over as we head into the afternoon and then that rain pushes through overnight. That clears away. We get a bit of a break, slightly cooler, bit more cloud building once again ahead of that system for later on in the afternoon. And like I say, there’s more rain out in the wings for the weekend. Have a good evening. TUI sponsors ITV Yorkshire weather. [Music] Well, that’s just about it from calendar from us this evening. Charlotte Hawkins is up next with the national and the international headlines. I’ll be back with the late news at 10:30. Thanks for watching. Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye-bye. [Music]