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Hello and welcome to Tuesday's Look North. Tonight: | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
A family's anger after learning there will be no criminal charges | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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following the death of their son. He was loved to delay. I just hope | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
it does not happen to anybody else. I would hate to think that anybody | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
else had to go through what we have gone through. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
The school bus stowaway. How a man, desperate to reach the UK, hid | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
under this coach for 60 terrifying miles. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
We're with a wartime hero as he celebrates his 90th birthday. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
And why a wedding cake made especially for William and Kate has | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
a new owner in Cumbria. In sport - Magpies manager talks | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
frankly about this summer's transfers. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Putting in the hard yards - it's back to training for Hartlepool and | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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He'd just returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan. But a few | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
hours later, he was in a Teesside hospital fighting for his life. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Sadly, 22-year-old David Grout did not survive after he was attacked | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
outside a pub in Eston. Today, at an inquest into his death, the | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
coroner said he suffered a fractured skull and brain injuries | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
when his head hit the pavement. And tonight his family say they're | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
angry that no-one will face criminal charges following the | :01:29. | :01:39. | |
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attack. Stuart Whincup was at the inquest and joins us now. Stuart. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
This was always going to be a difficult day for his family. They | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
had to listen to detailed accounts of his last moments and share a | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
court room with the man who is accused of causing his death. He | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
says he was acting in self-defence. Solider David Grout was excited | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
about seeing his wife and young son Harley. He was celebrating his | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
homecoming with family and friends in Eston when he left the group to | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
call Kerry. A few seconds later he was attacked. He never recovered | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
from his injuries. It has been really hard, especially now my son | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
is getting older. My it front room has a tribute to him and my son | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
looks at it and says he misses his daddy. When he sees someone in an | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
army uniform he runs up to them thinking he is Daddy. Witnesses say | :02:36. | :02:44. | |
David was having an argument with another man outside a pub. The | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
inquest heard that he was punched and then fell backwards. As he lay | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
in the street, the other man ran off. One passer-by said that he was | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
amazed that despite so many people being outside, no one else came to | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
his aid. And this is the man who assaulted David. Paul Gibson told | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
the inquest he acted in self defence, believing the soldier was | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
going to attack him. There was no CCTV images, witness statments were | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
inconclusive. The Crown Prosecution Service said there was no realistic | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
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chance of bringing criminal charges. Had they said why he died... I | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
would had been able to put it to rest, but I still it is not over | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
yet. I just hope it does not happen to anybody else. I would hate to | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
think that anybody else has to go through what we have had to go | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
through. David's family say in one moment they lost a loving son, | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
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husband and father. And still they say don't know why. The family said | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
after the inquest and after they heard this line about self-defence | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
-- self-defence, they still do not know why he felt in danger or why | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
he felt he needed to defend himself. The coroner had told the family | :04:09. | :04:15. | |
that its focus would be very narrow. It was not about attributing blame, | :04:15. | :04:25. | |
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it was simply about deciding the cause of David's death. A separate | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
inquest - into the death of a bomb disposal expert from Middlesbrough | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
who was killed in Afghanistan - has heard he "always strived to achieve | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
the highest standards." 34-year-old Sergeant Major Charlie Wood died | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
instantly in a blast on December the 28th last year. He was leading | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
the clearance of a route through an area of the Helmand river valley. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
The inquest, in Trowbridge in Wiltshire, was told his death was | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
the first British fatality after Christmas. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
The centre of a County Durham village has been cordoned off for | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
several hours this afternoon following the discovery of a | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
suspicious package. It's thought it was found at a bookmakers in | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Annfield Plain. Bomb disposal experts from Catterick were called | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
to the scene. For the latest, let's join our reporter Damian O'Neil | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
who's live on the phone from Annfield Plain now. Damian, what | :05:07. | :05:17. | |
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can you tell us? It is a small village in a remote | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
location. Each of the roads have been cordoned off. When we arrived, | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
we could see police at the end of the road past the cordon. Large | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
crowds of local -- of onlookers work at all of the cordons. They | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
are still searching the whole area. The main action did centre on this | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
bookmakers just off the roundabout in the middle of the area here. The | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
police have told me recently that they carried out a controlled | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
explosion on the device. On further inspection, it was not a bomb but a | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
hoax. They are treating it as a crime scene. It is an ongoing | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
investigation. The bomb disposal truck and a few police vehicles are | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
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still near the bridge make us -- bookmakers. A stowaway tied himself | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
to the axle of a coach carrying a party of schoolchildren from | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
Darlington in a desperate attempt to reach the UK. The youngsters | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
were travelling home after a school trip to France. After leaving the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
Channel Tunnel, they heard shouting and banging from beneath the bus. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
It turned out to be a man who'd clung on for 60 terrifying miles. | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
Peter Harris reports. It is a long way from Paris to London, | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
especially when you're clinging to the bottom of a coach. It was | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
roughly 60 miles outside of Folkestone that we became aware of | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
a banging noise. It was a repetitive banging noise. It took | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
us a while to figure out what it was. If you stand underneath the | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
bus here, you get an indication of what this story has been through. | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
We think he sat on the axle. A bar of the axle is a gap of about two | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
feet. He then up covered himself with a rope and sat there for at | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
least 60 miles. At least. The coach had set off from Paris and then at | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
the Channel Tunnel the driver did security checks. After the 31 mile | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
shuttle journey they drove out of their tunnel and into London. Then | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
they heard the banging. They alerted the police and this doorway | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
was arrested in Lewisham. All the while the staff and driver tried to | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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calm the frightened children. sang a loss of songs. We sang | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Always Look On the Bright Side of Life. Could you and when you are | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
singing? Not one we were singing. They were worried about his welfare | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
to. They were relieved to see him safely and tides and led away for | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
at -- by the police. It is horrible to think he was travelling all | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
those miles on that tiny area under the coach. That must be very | :08:37. | :08:46. | |
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frightening. It shows how desperate A 32-year-old Northumberland man | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
has been arrested after an incident in which 40 properties were | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
evacuated and gas and electricity supplies cut off. The drama began | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
last night, following reports that a man was threatening to harm | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
himself and blow up a flat in Myrtle Street in Ashington. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Neighbouring properties were cleared. After more than three | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
hours, a man was brought out safely. Gas engineers spent today making | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
homes safe before reconnecting supplies. | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
North Yorkshire police have revealed their new speed camera | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
helped spot 75 motorists breaking the law on its first day of use. | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
The force says the highest speed detected last Friday was a car | :09:22. | :09:28. | |
travelling at 112 miles an hour, on the A64 near Malton. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
British Transport Police say there's been an increase in anti- | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
social behaviour on trains in the region - and it blames people | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
trying to copy the drunken antics of the stars of the controversial | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
TV show Geordie Shore. Officers say they've noticed an influx of | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
parties on trains heading to Newcastle. Some of the city's clubs | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
refused to let the programme makers film on their property to protect | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
other customers. Some club owners say the show highlights the problem | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
of so-called "pre-loading" - where people get drunk before going out | :09:56. | :10:05. | |
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on the town. I think how was probably as surprised as most | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
people buy some of the antics that were shown on TV. It showed | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Newcastle as what it can be and the individuals a lot of the time were | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
drunk before they left home and I think that is the image that most | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
of this -- as in Newcastle are experiencing but hopefully that | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
will change. All this week on Look North we're | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
reporting on National Transplant Week. Last night we showed you the | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
first images of the new Institute of Transplantation, based at | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
Newcastle's Freeman hospital. It's hoped the unit will help the North | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
become a world-leader in organ transplants. Well, our health | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
reporter, Sharon Barbour, has been speaking to the man behind the idea. | :10:43. | :10:51. | |
She joins us now from the Freeman Hospital. | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
Yes I am joined here by a professor here at who is a key player in the | :10:57. | :11:05. | |
transplant unit. What you make of the new centre? It is very exciting. | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
At the same time, I am slightly apprehensive. We have done it | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
before but we have tried it something very new and occasionally | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
you hit on something that really works and we hope that is what we | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
appear. It will rely on lots of people to buy into it. I am looking | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
forward to the day it opens. As a transplant surgeon, I am sure you | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
have highs and lows. I wonder if you can run us through some of | :11:38. | :11:47. | |
those. Transplant is only about one-third of what we do day-to-day. | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
It takes up a lot of our time. Because patients are usually pretty | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
sick, they require lots of input at consultant level. When they do well, | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
especially if they do unexpectedly well, you feel really elated by | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
that. Sometimes you have lows where things do not go as well, but in | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
general, transplant is a very good, positive speciality. Let us have a | :12:19. | :12:25. | |
look at you at work. I think you are doing a liver transplant. | :12:25. | :12:35. | |
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first scrub of the day has to be Can we start? The problem now is a | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
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lot of the scans... There is a lot of action on the table. Something | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
is preventing me getting this right! It is a bit like a Meccano | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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set. We are now going to proceed to the operation. A pretty exciting | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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operation. How is the patient? is good. I have just seen him. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
is transplant Week and there is a shortage of organs. Please tell us | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
what you think the key thing we can do is to improve the situation. | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
think people need to top to each other to know what people want. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Signed up to the organ Donor Register, it does help families | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
understand what the deceased ones. I do think people need to think | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
about live donation because of changing organ type and the | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
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shortage is that we have. Thank you RFU are interested in becoming a | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
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door, call the number on the screen. -- donor. Coming up - we meet the | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
maker of this cake specially made for Kate and William. Andy your | :14:27. | :14:37. | |
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A war hero who was on board the HMS Kelly during the Battle of Norway | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
has celebrated his 90th birthday. Ralph Scorer was just a teenager | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
during World War II. He was almost sunk by the Germans. Children at St | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
Oswald's primary school sang Happy birthday to Ralph Scorer. He was | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
one of the youngest of the HMS Kelly crew when it was torpedoed | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
and rammed by a German U-boat in 1940. That day he won the lifelong | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
friendship of the captain, Lord Mountbatten. | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
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We became very good friends. As soon as the boat left the | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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harbour, we could never understand when the boat was torpedoed. But we | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
all stayed behind. It took 90 hours to tow the boat to | :15:53. | :16:01. | |
shore. German aircraft were fought off all the way. The HMS Kelly was | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
met by a tearful crowd at one's home. | :16:07. | :16:16. | |
No more war. They are no good for anybody. | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
Lord Mountbatten kept in touch with Ralph Scorer until his death. Today | :16:22. | :16:31. | |
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it was his great nephew Prince Charles who got in touch. | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
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I was so pleased to hear you are We marched across a graver with 31 | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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bodies inside. -- grave. The crew were all here. We all said goodbye. | :17:07. | :17:15. | |
An amazing story. The marriage of William and Kate grabbed at the | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
World's attention. It left many keen to get a hold of a memento | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
from the day. A woman in Cumbria has managed to do just that. | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
Alexandra Sharp paid hundreds of pounds in an online auction to own | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
a wedding cake especially made for the royal couple. You can buy | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
pretty much anything over the Internet and Alexandra Sharp has | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
managed to get herself a piece of royal history. She paid �500 for a | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
cake commissioned by William and Kate especially for their wedding | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
day. It is amazing. It is the first time | :17:56. | :18:06. | |
I have seen it out of the boxes. I just love it. To see it on display | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
is amazing. It is an amazing cake. I think it is quite a coup to get a | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
hold of her royal wedding cake intact. | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
The cake was made by the Welsh National Culinary Team. It was then | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
auctioned for the homeless charity, Centre Point, which Prince William | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
is the patron of. Today was the first viewing for the press only at | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
a hotel in Cumbria. I am having aid case made for it | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
and will display it for charities around Cumbria. Or wherever the | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
cake takes me. I have had some inquiries from all four of the | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
world. The response has been amazing. | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
There have been offers to buy the cake from as far away as America. | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
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Do you think she will ever eat it? We had a special guest yesterday. | :19:17. | :19:27. | |
Yes, Alan Pardew was speaking frankly about Newcastle's transfer | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
activity this summer. He explained why Kevin and no one was sold and | :19:31. | :19:40. | |
why he thinks a jury barked and will still signed a new contract. - | :19:40. | :19:50. | |
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- Kevin Nolan. -- Joey Barton. I would definitely have kept Kevin | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
for the next two keels but he did not have a contract he felt kept | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
him happy. -- two years. Another contract wrangle involves a | :20:08. | :20:18. | |
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journey Barton. -- Joey. | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
Who is to say we cannot agree a contract? He needs to see success | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
on the pitch and if we can give that to him I think he will stay. | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
That could depend on the new signings are identified by the | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
chief scout. We put together videos and edited | :20:42. | :20:52. | |
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them down and then watch them. I checked them out of there alive. -- | :20:53. | :21:03. | |
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thoroughly. But we will still have to manage and we are aware of that. | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
But they're great players who will do well for Oz. Graham Carter | :21:11. | :21:20. | |
watched them for two to years. We thought we had lost 1 to Liverpool. | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
But I am pretty confident that the three players will be a success. | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
The supporters will hope he is correct. | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
It was back to pre-season training for Hartlepool United. With Mick | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Wadsworth in charge for another season they have kept their best | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
players and made impressive signings, including Newcastle | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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legend, Nobby Solano. What can you do about the price of | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
football? It is not the conventional way to | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
get supporters to buy tickets but never underestimate the power of | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
mass... The monkey. F has singing it does not persuade due, then | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
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perhaps the signing of Nobby Solano well. -- Hangus the Monkey. The | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
arrival of the former Peruvian international should work on a few | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
fronts. It is a real coup for the club. | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
It puts down a marker that we want to do well and can attract a player | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
with his pedigree and background. His ability to cross and pass and | :22:51. | :23:01. | |
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his dead-ball kicking have been a world class. A lot of those | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
qualities remain with him. At 36 years old, Nobby Solano knows | :23:08. | :23:14. | |
she will have to call upon all his ability and intelligence. | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
It is very difficult to run all over the pitch but my game is | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
always trying -- my game is about using my brain. | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
And with Colin Nish also signing from Hibernian, sights are set high. | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
I want to win the league but being realistic if we can just be better | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
than we wear our then that is progress. | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
Back to the story about that controlled explosion. A suspicious | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
package was found earlier today. We have just received at these | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
pictures from the scene. The package was discovered in Annfield | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Plain. Police sealed off the A rare and bomb disposal experts were | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
called out. The police were called to the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
newsagents and it was brought to the attention of staff that a note | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
had been left on the premises potentially identifying a | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
suspicious device. The property was then searched by police officers | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
and be found the device in a room. As a consequence we conducted an | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
immediate evacuation of premises in the vicinity. We then placed a | :24:34. | :24:42. | |
cordon to create a zone of safety. We will update you on that on the | :24:42. | :24:52. | |
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We have had a three-night stays but today we are back to the normal | :24:52. | :25:01. | |
unsettled pictures. -- three nice days. The high pressure of the | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
weekend has been replaced by this Atlantic Wall pressure. Various | :25:06. | :25:16. | |
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weather systems are being pushed our way. -- low pressure. Lots of | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
cloud overnight, quite heavy in eastern areas. Less rain further | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
west. A very mild night with the generally plenty of cloud and the | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
South easterly breeze keeping temperatures around about 13 | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
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Celsius. A wet start in the morning. The most persistent rain will be | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
confined to Northumberland before scattered showers arrived and the | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
heavier rain clears to ward Scotland. Things will feel fresher | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
by Wednesday evening in a south- westerly breeze. Sunshine in | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
between the showers. First day, still some showers around but | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
bright spells in between. You will be lucky to miss the show was | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
completely however, some are at risk of turning heavy and thundery. | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
Temperatures, typically, 17 Celsius. Not a great deal of change over the | :26:32. | :26:42. | |
weekend. Showers with glimpses of sunshine and temperatures typically | :26:42. | :26:50. | |
around 17, 18 Celsius. You will be wondering what happened to our | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
picture winner for June - details over the next few evenings. In the | :26:55. | :27:05. | |
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meantime here is a contribution for July. Keep them coming. News of the | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
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Thank you. The closing headlines - in the News of the world phone | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
hacking scandal detectives have contacted the parents of Horley | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
Wells and Jessica Chapman, the moderate schoolgirls. And how eight | :27:29. | :27:34. |