Keir Starmer warning, Leeds Festival silence and the interesting story of the carpet sweeper inventor

News headlines with Sophie Mei Lan Malin.

Transcript

00:00Hi, I'm Sophie Mayland-Millan and here are today's headlines.

00:04Expect short-term pain for long-term good. That's the words of the British Prime Minister,

00:11Keir Starmer, ahead of Parliament reconvening next week in the pre-autumn budget.

00:17He said that the country's finances are worse than he could have expected

00:22and things are only going to get worse before things can only get better.

00:29So far there's been silence from Leeds festival organisers after they were forced to close two

00:35stages due to Storm Lillian and punters have been requesting refunds. We also take a look

00:42into the life of William Frederick Mair, the Yorkshire man artist who created the carpet

00:49sweeper. Paralympian Tanni Grey-Thompson says apologies are not enough after she was forced

00:56to crawl out of the train from Leeds to London. She had got assistance onto the train at the

01:03Leeds station but then on the LNER service when it came to getting off the train in London there

01:10was no one around to help. She managed to crawl by herself off the train and get her bag as well as

01:16her wheelchair off the train. Tanni Grey-Thompson had actually been making her way to the Paralympics

01:21in Paris for the opening ceremony.

01:27That's all for today's news. Don't forget to subscribe to the Yorkshire Post

01:31online and in print. Have a great day.