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

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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.

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