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Welcome to Friday's Look North. In tonight's headlines: | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
The North's biggest employer tells its staff it's raising the | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
retirement age to 66. Find our hero. Two teenagers want | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
to say thanks to the runner who helped save their lives. A big | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
thank you. Desolately. If it wasn't for him... The we'd be dead. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
Academies row. Critics say good schools are being bribed to opt out | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
of council control. And the grand design from a student | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
that's caught the attention of a prestigious theatre. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
In sport, get your diaries handy because next season football | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
fixtures are out. And striker Demba Ba is Newcastle's | :00:41. | :00:51. | |
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One in three workers in the region had a nasty surprise today. The | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
Government confirmed it intends to make people like teachers, nurses | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
and civil servants work much longer before they can claim their pension. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
At present, workers in the public sector pension scheme can retire at | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
60. This will rise to 66 within a decade to match the state pension | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
age. And, in future, it will be 68 at least for younger workers. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Adrian Pitches reports. So, when are you hoping to retire? | :01:27. | :01:35. | |
When? I think a good retirement age would be... Around about 50... 55 | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
would be nice. I don't think I'll be retiring until 70. I would like | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
to retire in my mid-50s. I'd like to retire 55 so I am young enough | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
to enjoy it. But I think financially I'm going to be older. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
60. The Government has said that, in future, public sector workers | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
who currently retire at 60 won't be able to retire until the state | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
pension age. And that age is increasing. Today, the state | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
pension age is 60 years old for equalise to 65 for both sexes. But | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
in 2020, the age will increase to 66, and future rises to even older | :02:11. | :02:19. | |
The pension changes are worse for people under the age of 34 who face | :02:19. | :02:29. | |
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working until they're 68 or beyond. I'm 32. I've seen the past -- in | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
the past, I would expect to work until I was 60. That was increased | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
to 65, and now what is potentially 68. The concern is by the time I am | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
68, will I be able to retire, or will the goalposts be moved again? | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
As a new mum, you stop thinking, will my children have to support | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
me? It is not a nice thought when your child is only four weeks old. | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
The majority of workers in the public sector, particularly in the | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
local government, are women and the average pension for a woman council | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
work is �2,800. The average pension for men and women is �4,200, so we | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
are going to see a disproportionate impact within women on this region | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
and the public sector. Public sector pensions matter in the North | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
East because a third of the work force is employed in the public | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
sector. One of the biggest employers is the Department for | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
Work and Pensions. 7,500 people work for the Department. And none | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
of them will want to see their pension age increased by six years. | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
A pair of teenagers who spent a terrifying half hour fighting for | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
their lives in the River Wear want to meet the young man who helped | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
save them. 16-year-old Jade fell backwards into the river, and her | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
best friend, Parishe, jumped in to try to save her. Their screams | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
alerted the attention of a lone jogger, who, they say, saved their | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
lives. Now they want to meet him personally to say thanks. Lyttanya | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
Shannon reports from Sunderland. It started as a leisurely stroll by | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
along Sunderland's Quayside. But it soon turned into a nightmare. | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
was sitting on the back pole, one leg either side, and I kept telling | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
her to get down because I had a horrible feeling something was | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
going to happen. She lifted her leg up to get over the other side and | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
she fell backwards. I just heard a splash and I couldn't see her. I | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
looked over the bars and I couldn't see her. When I got to the top, I | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
saw her at the top, and I was absolutely screaming. I thought I | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
was dead. Parishe, being a strong swimmer and knowing her best friend | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
suffered from asthma, was faced with a decision. There was nobody | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
about, I didn't have a phone. Jade dropped her phone in the refer. I | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
jumped in because I didn't want to see her, like, suffered by herself. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
The girls say they were left treading water for around 15 | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
minutes in what was a mid-tide. All the time screaming for help. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Eventually, it came in the form of a young man who threw them a | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
lifebelt and called the emergency services. But in the commotion of | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
the rescue, they never got to meet him. He was really calm, light, he | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
just kept looking over. He just kept talking to us, asking our | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
names. And now they just have one thing to say. A big thank you. | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
it wasn't for him, we'd be dead. was the fire service and RLNI who | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
rescued the girls from the river, but even the professionals have | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
praise for this unknown good Samaritan. No doubt, or without him, | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
the girls, given the -- giving seek emergency services and accurate | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
location, it would have been a totally different outcome. As it | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
stands, the girls are fine. But if they've taken anything from this, | :06:08. | :06:18. | |
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it's a hard lesson on how to be The inquest into the death of | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
gunman Raoul Moat is set to focus on the time he was contained by the | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
police in the Northumberland village of Rothbury to the moment | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
he was declared dead. The details were revealed during a pre-inquest | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
review at Newcastle Civic Centre. The hearing in September is due to | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
last around four weeks. The brother of the Sunderland | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
footballer, Titus Bramble, has been found guilty of raping a teenager | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
at this Newcastle hotel. Tesfaye Bramble, who's 30 and a former | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
professional footballer, was convicted at Leeds Crown Court of | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
raping a 19-year-old woman in the Vermont Hotel in Newcastle | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
following a night out. He's been warned he faces jail. He'll be | :06:56. | :07:00. | |
sentenced in August. Teachers running the North's newest | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
academy schools believe pupils will receive more funding by opting out | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
of local authority control. Yesterday, the Government announced | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
plans for up to 16 failing primary schools to become academies across | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
the North East and Cumbria. A lot of successful schools have already | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
chosen to become academies. Critics say schools are being "bribed" to | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
take part, and that pupils at other schools which choose not to become | :07:22. | :07:28. | |
academies could lose out. Emily Unia reports. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Lunchtime at Seaton Academy in Workington. Last September, it was | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
the first school in Cumbria to take-up the government's offer for | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
outstanding schools to leave local authority control and convert to | :07:37. | :07:43. | |
academy status. For pupils there, there's a new name and new uniforms, | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
but for those running the school, it means no more queuing for | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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handouts. Primarily, for us, it was about freedom and independence. | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Money was a factor. When we converted, one of the first things | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
we did, because we were then in full control of our funds, was to | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
carry out some essential and a long awaited repair us. By this autumn, | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
dozens more schools in the north east and Cumbria will have chosen | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
to become academies and it seems money is a motive, but critics say | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
the system's divisive. Academies will continue to divide opinion, | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
but one thing's certain - the government wants more of them. | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
is trying to bribe schools, the better schools into becoming | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
Academies. It doesn't make sense. It is like robbing Peter to pay | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
Paul, which isn't a moral stance, because you then think, I am -- I | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
am all right, Jack, it is just our school. But if you look wider and | :08:40. | :08:49. | |
have properly funded education throughout, that is much better. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
The government wants more of these kinds of Academies. | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
And MPs will be debating the new academies on the Politics Show, | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
that's this Sunday, at noon, here on BBC One. | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
A North East Euro MP says 80 workers at a Northumberland factory | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
have been left in limbo without work or pay. Liberal Democrat Fiona | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Hall says staff at HA Interiors in Cramlington haven't been paid for | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
May and it's feared they won't be paid for June as well. She says | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
she's asked the German parent company for answers. No-one from | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
the firm was available for comment. 26 jobs are to go at Newcastle's | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Evening Chronicle, as printing of the newspaper is moved out of the | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
city. The Chronicle will now be produced in Middlesbrough at the | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Teesside Gazette print works. 15 print jobs will go, while 11 | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
editorial posts will disappear. The Chronicle, currently printed mid- | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
morning, is to move to a single edition, meaning the paper will be | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
available in shops two to three hours earlier. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
A �750,000 footbridge installed as part of Carlisle's controversial | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
Millennium scheme has shut. And it's likely to be closed for some | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
time. The Irishgate Bridge was designed to reunite the city's | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
walls with the castle. But corrosion, caused by winter ice, | :10:00. | :10:08. | |
has forced it to close on safety grounds. Mark McAlindon reports. | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
The installation of Irishgate Bridge one spring night 11 years | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
ago was the centrepiece of what was a controversial Millennium scheme. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
It was designed to help get people to and from the city centre and the | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
historic castle, but now stands shut. There was some concerns | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
raised about a point where the bridge was connected to the main | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
girder, a supporting structure, and the concern was what I had got into | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
the girder, causing it to rust, and earlier on in the winter when we | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
had a cold winter, we think some of the water froze, expanded and did | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
some damage to the metalwork of the bridge frame. There is no doubt | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
this caused an awful lot of controversy when this bridge was | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
opened. It was installed at a cost of �750,000 and it wasn't popular. | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
The Civic Trust criticised it for being too modern and out of | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
character. It seems people here want to see it reopened and | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
reopened quickly. It is a path away from here across to the castle. | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
need this Bridge Road and because all the buses coming in with | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
tourists, they find it difficult to access the city. But it could be | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
some time. We need to do some calculations on the load-bearing | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
effect on the bridge, where there is worry about the structural | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
integrity of the bridge. And until we have done that, it is difficult | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
to say what repairs need to be done, therefore it is difficult to say | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
how long it will take. Three quarters of a million pounds | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
has been donated by the Enid Blyton Trust for Children to Seven Stories, | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
the National Centre for Children's Books in Newcastle. Last year, the | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
centre bought the rare and original typescripts of some of her best- | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
known work, like the Famous Five, Secret Seven and Noddy series, | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
founding the only publicly accessible archive of Enid Blyton. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
The Trust has now decided to donate all its assets to support the work | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
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of Seven Stories. The man who has taken thousands of people to the | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Farne Islands including the Queen Mother has died in hospital | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
Newcastle. He has been -- he had been conducting the boat trips for | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
more than 60 years. He was what -- he was awarded an MBE in 19 in | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
other news, the Lake District is the setting for another great North | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
event. I in a North Northumberland coast | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
and I will be back at the end with They are only ten centimetres high, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
but their antics below the floorboards have captivated | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
children for decades. Ever since the author Mary Norton introduced | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
them in 1952. They are, of course, The Borrowers, and the sets were | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
beautifully scaled-up for TV and film. Well, now you can see them | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
again, painstakingly recreated by a young design student at Cleveland | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
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College in Hartlepool. Peter Lugg You'll remember the Borrowers from | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
children's television in the 1980s. Say -- based on the books by Mary | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Norton, it told of a world below the floorboards. Little people who | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
lived their lives separate from humans, but who got by by borrowing | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
and adapting things they found in the big house. Well, here they are, | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
brought back to life through the imagination of designer Nicholas | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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Hope. I love the story, I loved the idea of the small people, taking | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
things. And utilising them to build a home and learning to survive, and | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
this is what I have made, a borrowed home to human scale. | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
impressive are Nick's borrowed creations that Newcastle's Theatre | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
Royal will be using them as sets for a new children's place. -- | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
children's play. It is about a little girl who, through a personal | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
crisis, she wishes the ground would open up and swallow her. Next thing, | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
she has fallen through the floorboards, sitting in dust, and | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
is in a place where their promising things for around her. -- where | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
there are missing things. And Nick isn't the only student whose work | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
has caught the eye at Cleveland College's graduation show. This lot | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
could be coming to a theme park near you. The guests will go and | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
interact, that is the idea, interaction. At moving dinosaurs, | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
riding a gold river at the end of it. And if you feel the need for | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
some artistic inspiration, the exhibition remains open until | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
tomorrow afternoon. They are slow, noisy, not very good | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
at going up hills, and some of them are held together with bits of | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
string. But the an Volkswagen -- Volkswagen Campervan remains as | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
popular as ever. This weekend, VWs of all shapes and sizes are | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
expected at Druridge Bay in Northumberland, for the annual | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
Mighty Dubfest. So why do people love these old relics? Our reporter, | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
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Damian O'Neil, has been finding out. I first need to decline and I am | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
not an impartial reporter. -- to declare. I am mad about the | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
Campervan. This is mine, in Riviera, imported from America, and it is 34 | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
years old, about the same age as me. What I really like is the fact this | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
came over from California and it had a life over there for 30 years. | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
And now, it has another life in the north-east, I really love that. But | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
I am far from alone in my enthusiasm. Here at the Mighty | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
Dubfest, they have been queuing all morning to get a place. It is in | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
the second year. Last year at Cosworth park. We know about | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Druridge Bay and it is a fantastic venue with its beach, its lake, so | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
we came here and it has been fantastic. Sir what is the appeal | :16:18. | :16:25. | |
of it? I have always been into them. I have had it about two years, it | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
was rusty when I bought it and cost a lot, but it is in good condition | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
now. A look around you, it is Family Fun! People think I am mad, | :16:37. | :16:45. | |
but I think they are cool. It is a social thing. You meet friends you | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
have not seen, and wait for the next weekend and you are a way | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
again! For a cool. It is the freedom, they are not as big as | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
some of the bigger things, and it is just brilliant. The Mighty | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
Dubfest Runs until Sunday. The site is full for VWs, but you can still | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
come with a tenth if you want to look. -- a tenth. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
I am jealous! I have always wanted to do that, but my luck -- but my | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
wife once too much comfort! And a big date in the football world, and | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
we have been waiting all week! Next season's football fixtures came out | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
this morning, and it has thrown up some tough opening ties for our | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Premier League teams. The one all Sunderland and Newcastle fans look | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
out for is the first derby of the season, and they won't have to wait | :17:43. | :17:44. | |
very long. After leaving Sunderland for | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Liverpool in a �20 million deal last week, Gordon Henderson will be | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
up against his old team-mate at Anfield on the first day of the new | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
season and will inspect to be -- will expect to be on the winning | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
side after a spending spree on Merseyside. And the first Derby is | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
on the second weekend of the new campaign, but the kick-off on | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
August 20th is likely to be brought forward. And at Newcastle will | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
entertain Arsenal. This was a memorable draw last season. After | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
travelling to Wearside the following week for the first Derby, | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
the reverse fixture is on March 3rd. Meanwhile in the Football League, | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
first up for Tony Mowbray and Middlesbrough is Portsmouth in the | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
Championship, he had North. Followed by a clash against Leeds | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
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at Elland Road. Carlisle begin with a tie against Notts County. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Newcastle have signed former West Ham striker again Baba -- Demba Ba | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
late this afternoon. The Senegalese international, who scored seven | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
goals in 13 appearances for the Hammers last season, has signed a | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
three-year deal for an undisclosed fee, and is Alan Pardew's second | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
summer signing after French midfielder Yohan Cabaye. His | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
arrival might go some way towards easing the disappointment of Kevin | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
Nolan's move to Upton Park. The striker himself is delighted to be | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
on Tyneside. I do not know, I cannot wait to see. | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
I am going to work harder to score goals, and after that, I have heard | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
the atmosphere is great and unbelievable, so I cannot wait to | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
get some goals to see how the fans will react. I am just happy I am | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
playing in this club where will the famous striker's place. -- all the | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
famous strikers play. Britain's biggest swimming event is | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
taking place in the Lake District this weekend. It is the Great North | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Swim, and more than 10,000 people have entered to swim across | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Windermere. Here is Richard Askam. This is where the swimmers finished, | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
after their two mile gruelling swim around Windermere. About 900 will | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
take part today. 10,000 over the weekend. People from all over the | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
country and north-east have come, and I have spoken to a lady from | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
Southend, a man from Glasgow. Different swimmers, some very good | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
swimmers and some not so good swimmers. It has really captured | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
the imagination this year. With me is event director Alex Jackson. How | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
pleased are you with how it has gone so far? They replaced, great | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
to see so many people here. -- very pleased. We have Friday, Saturday | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
and Sunday, it is Britain's biggest swimming event, fantastic. I has it | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
surprised even knew how it has taken off? It has grown to 10,000 | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
swimmers. We started with one day in 2008 and have gone up to 10,000 | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
in three days and increased the number of races, so it has been | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
phenomenal. It is get -- it is great to get people in the water | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
and exercising. Has it affected preparations that you have to | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
cancel it Austria because of algae in the water? Now we were very | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
disappointed last year but safety is paramount and so we could not go | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
ahead. We have brought the date forward to June this year and have | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
a safety advisory group in place. We have rigid protocols on water | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
testing. And results were clear so here we are having a great weekend. | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
The weather has not been too bad, so a link will go off on Saturday | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
and Sunday about 8:30am. -- the swimming will go off. | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
In rugby union, Newcastle Falcons have signed South African fullback | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
Greg Koussa. -- Greg Goosen. The 27 year old is a former ex-Natal | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
Sharks player, but has been playing his rugby in France for the last | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
five years with Racing Metro and La Rochelle. That was not him! He is | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
due to join up with the Falcons on July 1st. | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
The hectic schedule continues for our cricketers. Durham and | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
Yorkshire meet in the County Championship tomorrow, but tonight, | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
they are both trying to get their Twenty20 campaigns back on track. | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
Durham are away at Leicestershire's... But rain has | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
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stopped play. And in the Roses clash at Headingley, Yorkshire | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
could set a pretty decent score. It is a big weekend of motor-racing | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
for the region. Top of the bill at Croft, near Darlington, will be the | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
latest three rounds of the British Touring Car Championship. But the | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
supporting races will also catch the eye because of some famous | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
names. Mark Tulip explains. My brother is | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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the best because he is fast and will be in Formula One one-day! | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
is not easy coming out of the shadow of a successful sibling, but | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
Nicholas Hamilton is just a few races into his own motor racing | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
career three years after half brother Lewis was crowned World | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
Champion. Seven years younger than Lewis, Nick has cerebral palsy, so | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
his car has had to be modified. Not to improve spewed -- not to improve | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
speed or performance, but to enable him to compete against his more | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
able-bodied counterpart. I am going to see it as an advantage and when | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
we do finally succeed, it will be a bit more of an achievement than an | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
able-bodied person, I guess. brothers have provided inspiration | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
for each other and for each other closely. The she has come out we | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
did not see any as a family as a racer because of my legs and the | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
way everything has gone -- did not seen the. But Lewis is having to | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
sit on the sidelines and watch me! Today, were brought together for | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
the first time neck and Joshua, the son of Damien Hill and grandson of | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
legendary Graham. So was he always destined to race? And I did not get | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
into it until 15 so I was not interested in motor sport. I had a | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
go in a go-kart and quite liked it, so I asked my Dad if I could go for | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
it. We entered in the right and drive Championship and it went from | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
there. It has not been a lifelong ambition, a pretty recent career, | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
but it is going well so far off! It is a great event, we hope the | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
weather also a good for them. Fat chance! Hannah has got the | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
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Bright here at Druridge Bay for the Mighty Dubfest. I answer for up -- | :24:53. | :25:01. | |
I am surrounded by VWs, and we have good weather, but quite breezy. It | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
will be rainy on Saturday and Sunday, particularly heavy tomorrow. | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
Pretty disappointing again for June. It will cloud over in the evening | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
in the West. It will become widespread by the early hours and. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
The rain continues on Sunday temperatures no more than 16 | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
Celsius tomorrow, cooler than today. Rain will continue through the | :25:33. | :25:43. | |
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weekend. Possibly some sunshine on Sunday. For the next three days | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
after tomorrow, it start off wet and breezy on Sunday in the north- | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
east and Cumbria. It will be dry and brighter by the end of the day | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
with potential for sunshine on Father's Day. On Monday and Tuesday, | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
in the north-east and in the West, it will stay unsettled, with more | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
showers or longer spells of rain to come. So again, a disappointing | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
weekend after that very dry spring continues. A load of events this | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
weekend, of course. Not just for Mighty Dubfest, but also the Great | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
North Swim at Wind near, what we are expecting to be pretty wet, and | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
the Whitehaven Festival. -- at Swindon near. Music fans will not | :26:30. | :26:39. | |
let the weather put them off. Drizzle and rain both days. That is | :26:39. | :26:46. | |
in Whitehaven. And local folklore has it the arrival of a hopping is | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
in Newcastle will bring always sung wet weather, and this year is no | :26:52. | :27:02. | |
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different. -- The Hoppings. So very unsettled for the next few days and | :27:04. | :27:13. | |
-- next week. Now for a final look at tonight's | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
headlines. The Government has announced plans to reform public | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
sector pensions, including making people contribute more and work | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
until the age of 66. And two teenage girls, who were | :27:20. | :27:23. |