tv We are Bradford BBC News March 10, 2019 5:45pm-6:00pm GMT
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this is bbc news, i'm shaun ley. the headlines at 6pm. a passenger plane crashes in ethiopia, killing things like that, views all 157 people on board, about migrants or people including seven british citizens. from different backgrounds living the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, here, so i think shared warns mps that if they get crucial stories are powerful. votes wrong this week they risk losing brexit. having spaces where people can come cars are crushed by scaffolding together to hear stories. and a supermarket roof is ripped off to understand, where are you from, as strong winds batter what makes you tick, southern england and wales. how do you celebrate that part of your religion? i was quite struck, being from outside bradford, that quite quickly, looking at the work we have already been doing here, it is a very rich and mixed group good evening. viewers on bbc one will be joining us in a moment, of people in bradford. there is a notion of that, maybe from outside bradford, bradford is basically either muslim
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or white, that is kind of it. is there a way of a kind of reflecting on the depth of the many different groups of people who live in bradford? on the quieter side of the room. the type of things, different cultures have brought to bradford in terms of food, music, arts, social and community work, health work, things like that. if you look at the sort of community events that go on in bradford, there's quite a lot, more than might think. some areas might be quite segregated, an area that is predominantly asian and the next one predominantly caribbean, one predominantly white, which is an area i grew up in, to be fair. but then there are events that bring all these people together, and barriers in terms of racism and stereotypes and stuff, are sort of broken down because people are coming together to do something they enjoy. they are able to mix with each other. you love being in bradford
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because you can be yourself, you can express yourself and you have spaces where you can articulate how you feel. do you feel that in bradford, you can be yourself, and you express your sexuality, your identity without fear? in bradford, it is a bit of a taboo that does need to be broken that you can be whoever you want. but i think i would only be safe to speak about my own problems in a safe space. i think there needs to be more of that in bradford. even though we kind of boast this multicultural and diverse society we are in, when it goes to things like the lgbt+ community, we kind of shoo that away and focus on the ethnicity and things like that. there are very few cities in the uk where lgbtq people feel safe walking the streets openly, which is an issue i need to tackle. so i feel very proud to come from a city where they council themselves are spearheading opening the doors to those conversations and sing, these events are going on and these people are doing serious, credible work
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to help the people of bradford. and so, although i know that people do struggle, and there is a loud voice coming from the people in power saying, be out and proud. my granddad came to this country in the 705, and he was the first asian man to buy a house in keighley. he was the first asian man to own a business in keighley. he had his windows bashed in while trying to keep his business afloat. then white people started to move out because asian families moved in. the reason was because they wanted to be close to people that they were related
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to our friends with, so the community built and then people said they wanted to go and live with their friends. that is why we have these pockets, and i do not think you will have to mix a bit more. i just don't think that is the way forward, i think you let people live where they want to live. my mum always talks about how there used to be a white lady living across the street, then she moved to go and live with her family. and now it is predominantly asian. but people from different origins play with each other and nobody says they cannot. just a few months ago, i had a racist abuse from a ten—year—old going past me on a bike, because i was wearing an asian outfit. my identity changes every day depending on where i am and where i am at. so when i am in london, i am a true northerner. when i'm in bradford, you know, the identity changes. you do not have to have one fixed identity, because depending on your group of people, you are setting, that identity changes, and it is ok to do that. when you think about public services, education,
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health, in bradford, do you think positive, or that is a real problem? i think of the nhs, i think of my gp. we live in the city, and so many of us within the city, too much, so each gp is now overflowing the amount of people they have. so you go for a gp appointment and you can wait for an hour. it is hard to get one, then when you want to try and go somewhere else outside the gp and access another place that may be able to help you better, get nothing. there are negatives, but i think that is going to be in every city as well. because if we are talking the nhs, we are talking the uk, but there is small places. my gp, when i can book ahead. i have got nerve damage to my feet for three years. and although the nhs has been very... it has been as supportive as it can be, but i was at hospital last year, and i could notice the gaps but the nhs staff filled the gaps in. they made it as pleasant as possible.
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i chair a patients group for a large practice, and i know the challenges the practice has in terms of recruiting gps and training staff. so if we're talking about bradford, the district is difficulties around attracting new teachers, new gps, people working in health, in different services that we have got. so if you're thinking of a single story idea, you are editing some bbc news programme, what would be the one story from bradford you would like us to do? i think i would want someone to focus on all of the ways in which people in bradford are taking control of the narrative of the city, because we have talked about a lot of different problems in bradford today, but for each of those issues, there is a group of people that it's taking back control, and doing something to solve the issue.
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whether that is a speakers' corner, doing things about youth and mental health, whether that is taking control of buildings because no one else is investing, just like the people who are taking control of things. i think where northerners who like to complain about the weather, i am not much older than scout, but there are young people here in the future. i think i would like to see more integration with the people of bradford, and especially the youth. i think it is really important,
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because we are doing so much and there is so much talent that is not known about that could... it is such a big deal, and also the creativity side of it. i think the focus would be the identity, and especially young people, so young people being true to themselves, and whether that is having safe spaces like speakers' corner where you can be yourself without being judged, that would be good. i would really love for the bbc to focus on the architecture and the beautiful, superb buildings we have got in this city. right from the houses to salt mills to the town hall, public spaces like the park, voted as one of the best parts in the north, i would like that kind of feature, which will make people outside of bradford to say, i want to go and visit bradford.
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good evening. who would have thought we would be waking up to a picture postcard setting, several centimetres of snow and a beautiful picture sent in from kinross. for england and wales, plenty of sunshine but we had gale force gusts of winds throughout the day. gusts in excess of 60 to 70 mph across england and wales and that was strong enough to bring down some trees. plenty of isobars and the front that brought the rain, sleet and snow moved into the north sea with a trail of wintry showers lingering in the far north—west. still a mixture of rain, sleet and snow overnight. the winds will ease down a touch but it will be a blustery night right across the
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country. with clear skies elsewhere, it is going to be cool as well. noticeable wind but temperatures into low, single figures so in a few spots we could see a touch of light frost as well. so it could be a chilly start to monday morning, blustery start to monday morning but also a sunny one. monday is shaping up also a sunny one. monday is shaping up to bea also a sunny one. monday is shaping up to be a lovely day. fools gold perhaps the sunshine because it is all change on tuesday. make the most of it. monday will be breezy but plenty of sunshine. the hides across england and wales with 11 degrees, it will be slightly warmer. at the cloud is gathering into the far west and low pressure moving on from the atla ntic and low pressure moving on from the atlantic and plenty of isobars associated with it. the spell of heavy rain, perhaps an inch in places as it moves steadily south and east and we will see gale force gusts of wind. the rainbow push its way into eastern england and
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south—east england by tuesday lunchtime. behind it, sunny spells and scattered showers but the winds will remain a feature particularly into the far north—west. up to 8 degrees in scotland and eight to ten further south. it is on the southern flank of the slow as it tracks eastwards into the north sea we could see the damaging gusts of wind. perhaps severe gales on exposed places. something to keep a close eye on. severe gales around with heavy rain and there will also be drier, brighter interludes also.
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