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Hello, and welcome to Look North. Coming up: | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Bangalore or South Tyneside? The Government becomes involved in the | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
row over outsourcing jobs to India. Battery-powered people - the | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
medical advance giving new hope to patients waiting for heart | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
transplants. Surf's up - with the summer | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
holidays looming, safety lessons on the beach. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
And scratching a living - he gave up his job in a pork pie factory to | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
become the ringmaster of a flea circus. | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
In Sport, some surprising departures at the Stadium of Light. | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
A surprise return to Yorkshire cricket and horses for courses. We | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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look ahead to the biggest Is it a case of the left hand not | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
knowing what the right hand is doing? In the House of Commons the | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
Prime Minister became embroiled in heated exchanges over the fate of | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
200 not these jobs due to be outsourced to India. At the same | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
time, his Communications Secretary Eric Pickles was urging Birmingham | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
city Council not to divert some of its jobs to India. | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
I am here at the Department for Work and Pensions. The Business | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
Park down the road has 200 IT workers at risk of losing their | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
jobs because the Government wants to transfer their positions to | :01:37. | :01:45. | |
India. The unions are not happy, they want the jobs to stay here. | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
Today in the Commons, the Labour MP for North Tyneside challenge David | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
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Cameron to reconsider. I have one look closely at the case she makes, | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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but a... Order! We need to encourage people on welfare to go | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
out and work. We are going to change it. So the Prime Minister | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
has promised to look at these jobs, but you might have thought he would | :02:29. | :02:39. | |
have taken a leaf out of his Kimi Nick Clegg -- out of his | :02:39. | :02:45. | |
communities Secretary's Bock. This is the new BT Centre in South | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
Shields. It was set up in partnership with the council to | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
provide business services for the community and council. Eric Pickles | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
says he would like to see Birmingham council set up shop | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
instead of sending the just to India. But it Birmingham are | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
considering this, they are not telling us. They promised a | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
statement today that did not a ripe. It is fair to say they did not | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
sound all that enthusiastic. supply a service, but it is up to | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
the council to make a decision. have spoken to Birmingham city | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Council. They have not been forthcoming. Are you disappointed | :03:26. | :03:35. | |
with that? I am. We are willing to enter a dialogue with them, but if | :03:35. | :03:45. | |
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they do not want to do that, there is not a lot we can do. It is sad. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
All councils and the public sector are subject to challenge at the | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
moment. It is not for me to criticise. We want to use the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
fantastic work force we had in the north-east who already deliver | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
great services to do more of that. We want to deliver the efficiencies | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
without losing the work to the UK. Now having call-centre staff people | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
can understand is desirable, but companies can relocate their call | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
centres to places like India and save a great deal of money and that | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
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is what will often take priority. Thanks, Damian. Staying on the jobs | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
front we have more winners and losers today. The boss of one of | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
Scarborough's largest employers is appealing for an investor to help | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
the company through its financial problems. The printing firm Pindar, | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
which employs 350 people, posted losses of around �1.9 million last | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
September. The paint and chemicals giant | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
AkzoNobel says it will invest around a �100 million in a new | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
world class manufacturing facility in the North East. It will be | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
within 25 miles of the company's existing Hammerite plant at Prudhoe | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
in Northumberland, which would be closed down by 2014. The new | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
facility would use 60% less energy and treble its current capability | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
in the region. But 49 workers have been made | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
redundant at Newcastle-based Whelan Construction. The company's gone | :05:12. | :05:22. | |
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into administration and has ceased A charity, which has helped | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
hundreds of young homeless people in Cumbria, could be forced to shut | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
down. Community Projects Carlisle says if it doesn't find �30,000 it | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
will close in October, leaving 200 of the area's most vulnerable 16 to | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
24-year-olds without a lifeline. Since 1997 the project's been | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
helping teenagers with addictions and other problems to put | :05:45. | :05:55. | |
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themselves back on the straight and narrow. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
It is a struggle just to make sure the young people who come here for | :06:00. | :06:08. | |
help are eating properly. Things like these food parcels are | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
becoming impossible to feel as the prices rise and the grants that | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
keep the project running are drying up. She is worried at what will | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
happen to the young people she helps if they are forced to close. | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
One young person became 26 which means he can no longer use the | :06:26. | :06:36. | |
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service. What he did to try and find suitable accommodation was to | :06:38. | :06:48. | |
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steal something in the hope that he would go to prison. Community Links | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
Carlisle helps homeless youth to get a roof over their head. Staff | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
who walked -- work behind this door can be helping up to 200 young | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
people at any one time stay on the straight and narrow. The young | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
people themselves say they do not know what they would do without | :07:10. | :07:18. | |
them. They have told me and lot. I had mental health problems. I did | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
not recognise it at first. I spoke to them and they held me to get | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
better. So they have been a huge support to you? They have. The if | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
you have got nowhere to live, they were helping to sort something out. | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
It doesn't matter what it is, they will help you. How does it make you | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
feel to know you have got that? makes me happy. Without them I | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
wouldn't be able to do anything. came here because I was homeless | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
and they helped me to get somewhere to live. How is your life now that | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
you have been coming here? I am a lot happier. If �30,000 is not | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
found before October, the project will shot, closing down a valuable | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
lifeline to young people in the area. | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
A Cumbrian woman's been charged with neglect after the police had | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
to release three young children from a baking hot car.The police | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
say the children, aged between two and eight, were left in the car for | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
three quarters of an hour as the temperature inside reached 40 | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
degrees Celsius. That's more than 100 degrees fahrenheit. Passers-by | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
were alerted when the children started sounding the car's horn. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a suspect | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
package discovered in a County Durham village. Police carried out | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
a controlled explosion after the package was found at Coral Betting | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
on Front Street in Annfield Plain yesterday afternoon. Police say it | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
wasn't a bomb and there's no evidence it was linked to any | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
extremist organisation. They have no heartbeat and to stay | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
alive their hearts must be plugged into the mains electricity, or | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
connected to a battery. They are the recipients of the latest | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
technology in the transplant world. Tonight, as our coverage to mark | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Transplant Week continues, we meet two patients whose hearts are | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
electric. As our health reporter Sharon Barbour reports, Stephen | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
from Sunderland and Louise from Ashington in Northumberland both | :09:16. | :09:24. | |
now rely on a power supply to stay alive. | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
To stay alive, Stephen's heart has to be plugged in. He has no | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
heartbeat, no pulse, just a humming noise. Inside his chest is a | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
mechanical heart keeping him alive after his failed. I could not walk | :09:42. | :09:50. | |
very far. I was constantly out of breath. They put me on the heart | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
transplant lists, but there are no guarantees. Now I have a mechanical | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
pump. When he goes out, he takes his battery kit. Today he is | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
meeting Louise. She has also just had a mechanical heart fitted. They | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
are among the first patients in the world to have them. It happened | :10:20. | :10:27. | |
quite rapidly. I went on the transplant list. My whole life has | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
been taken away. Two people with a shoulder bag supply and the power | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
to keep them alive. For stephen macro and Louise their time was | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
running out. The call never came and both were rapidly deteriorating. | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
Without this new device they would not have survived. My heart was so | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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poorly, I couldn't care less. I could not fight it any more. | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
devices they are fitted with are the latest cutting-edge technology. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
If the patients are deteriorating on the waiting list, in the past | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
they would die. They would die whilst waiting for the appropriate | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
organ to come along. This has now changed significantly. These pumps | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
are available and these patients have developed a very good quality | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
of life and they can wait at home with their families until the | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
appropriate organ comes around. new machine has brought them more | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
time, but still on the waiting lists, in order to have a future, | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
what of the weeds and stephen macro really need is a call to say they | :11:45. | :11:55. | |
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can have a new heart. -- what Stephen and Louise really need. | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
long as I lived to see my Grand children, I will be happy -- as | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
long as I live to see my grandchildren, I will be happy. | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
Still to come tonight - boy and girl racers. Youngsters design | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
their own racing cars and get to try them out on a real circuit. | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
With heavy thunder showers affecting the region, I will be | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
here with afford forecast and the winner of our tuna whether | :12:30. | :12:38. | |
competition. -- here with a fall of forecast and the winner of Allah | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
tune up whether competition. Schoolchildren are being trained | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
how to become a rocky lifeguards. It is all part of a planned to help | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
them to stay safe in the water. For one day only be schoolbooks were | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
ditched in favour of surf boards. Unsurprisingly, there has been no | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
shortage of students for the sea safety classes. Are you ready? Go! | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
Organisers say that as well as increasing the children's fitness | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
levels, it teaches them important lessons for the future. Prior to | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
the summer holidays, or the idea is to educate the children. Let them | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
know where it is safe to swim and offer some safety tips for the | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
beach. Last year Hartlepool's life boat crews were the busiest in | :13:39. | :13:47. | |
England. They had 67 call-outs that when children who had got into | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
difficulty. Educating children about the dangers is crucial. | :13:55. | :14:05. | |
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best bit was definitely be surfing. It was great being on the board. | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
More than 100 pupils will take part in these sessions which will | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
hopefully reduce the number of call-out incidence and keep them | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
safe. It did look a bit cold in there. | :14:26. | :14:35. | |
Time for sport now. We understand there is big news at the Stadium of | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Light. Yes, we've learned that late this | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
afternoon Chief Executive Steve Walton and Marketing and Commercial | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
Director Lesley Callaghan who's been at Sunderland for almost 20 | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
years have both left the club. It's understood the club secretary | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
Margaret Byrne will take on a more senior role. There's been no | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
official comment but we expect to hear more tomorrow. Meanwhle on the | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
pitch Sunderland midfielder Cristian Riveros has joined Turkish | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
side Kayserispor on a season-long loan. The 28-year-old Paraguayan | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
international, who joined the Black Cats last summer, failed to make | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
much of an impact at the Stadium of Light, scoring just once in 14 | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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appearances. Cricket, and cash strapped | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
Yorkshire who are struggling in the County Championship have been | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
boosted by news that one of their most prolific batsmen Jacques | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
Rudolph is returning to the club. The South African, who scored more | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
than 8,500 runs in his four years at Headingley, including a century | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
against Durham last season, was released from the final year of his | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
contract last September to return home. But Yorkshire announced this | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
afternoon that he's rejoining the county later this month until the | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
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end of the season. Hyatt has been very helpful in terms of finances. | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
-- Jack. We feel it is worth that effort and spend because the bottom | :16:04. | :16:14. | |
line is we are in ape relegations situation. -- in a relegation | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
situation. It's expected to be the biggest | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
equestrian event ever seen in the north east. A thousand competitors | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
and ten thousand spectators are expected for the Burgham Horse | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Trials in Northumberland later this month. And a brand new cross | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
country course is being developed by an internationally renowned | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
designer who comes from Cumbria. Now, it's not quite Formula One, | :16:36. | :16:46. | |
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but children from across the region We have struggled for a while now | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
with people having to travel to Scotland and the Midlands. We hope | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
there will be an opportunity for none equestrian enthusiasts to get | :17:10. | :17:19. | |
involved. Last July some of the top riders attend it -- attended and | :17:19. | :17:29. | |
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another star studded cast is expected. You need a superb venue | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
like this. It is fantastic. It is so accessible. I gather a lot of | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
competitors are coming up to enjoy it. The three-day event takes place | :17:49. | :17:59. | |
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in a fortnight and prize-money tops �25,000. It's not quite Formula One, | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
but children from across the region have been fighting it out on the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
racetrack today. And they went one better than the likes of Lewis | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
Hamilton because they actually built the cars themselves. The | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
event at Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire hopes to inspire a new | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
generation of engineers, as well as spotting a few potential racing | :18:22. | :18:32. | |
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drivers. Peter Harris was on the start line. Nothing could put these | :18:37. | :18:44. | |
children of, not even the weather. We haven't had any accidents. | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
nerve-racking to drive? It is pretty scary. 26 calls were here | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
aiming for a place than the national final, but it is about | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
more than engineering. We are trying to get them into engineering | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
and we have a shortage of engineers in the UK. They have had a chance | :19:05. | :19:11. | |
to get involved and see how exciting it can be, just from | :19:11. | :19:18. | |
building a car. These are quite impressive with top speeds of 30 | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
miles an hour. This is one of the drivers here. Are you worried about | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
the conditions? A I am disappointed about the rain because I will not | :19:28. | :19:38. | |
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be able to drive so fast. -- I am. Fearless drivers and the cars are | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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quite high tech as well. They are able to download information and | :19:50. | :20:00. | |
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relay it to the driver's. -- to the drivers. | :20:11. | :20:21. | |
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The BBC recently launched its Step Up skin -- scheme which provided | :20:22. | :20:32. | |
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work experience. One of the trainees went to see Eric | :20:36. | :20:46. | |
Christoffersen who has his own flea circus. | :20:46. | :20:55. | |
I and the world's only full-time flea circus and bring master. It is | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
all I do. There are tiny little creatures who like to live in your | :21:02. | :21:11. | |
hair. I have to keep my short to stop them moving in. So what | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
previous training did Eric need? Five years ago I was working as a | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
maintenance engineer in a pork-pie factory. I had never stood in front | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
of an audience or had anything to do with entertainment at all. I | :21:27. | :21:37. | |
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have made over 83 circuses. By export them to -- I export them to | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
countries all over the world. I saw it jumping off the thing. So are | :21:49. | :21:59. | |
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they really puffins? Sometimes people are scared. -- so are they | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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really fleas? I didn't see any, but I think I might have picked up a | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
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couple of their performers. Time for the weather now. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Now, he trekked thousands of miles across Afghanistan and the Middle | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
East in his days as an author and diplomat. And now new Cumbrian MP | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Rory Stewart has walked all around his constituency of Penrith and the | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Border - in all weathers. So we thought we'd ask him to choose the | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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best of our viewers weather Rory Stuart - from Kabul to be | :23:03. | :23:13. | |
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Penrith show. It is an incredibly difficult choice. There is an | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
incredible Puffin. I almost chose Hadrian's Wall because it is | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
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fantastically bleak. In the end it had to be the curve B Steven | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
buttercups -- Kirkby Stephen buttercups. Betty Smith's image | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
will become the June page of our 2012 Callendar, which goes on sale | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
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in the autumn. And very well done. We have some great were the | :24:12. | :24:22. | |
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Now, tomorrow there will be showers were the Risk of Thunder. This was | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
the picture at 3 o'clock this afternoon. You can see that | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
thundery activity. We have got more on the way this evening and | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
overnight. Some sunshine at first, but it does not last. Throughout | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
the night the showers become more widespread. Her real drenching for | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
gardens and farms. A wet start tomorrow morning with potential for | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
more lightning. Showers will be widespread, particularly in the | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
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West. A very unsettled picture. Top temperature, 20 Celsius which is | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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about the same as today. Winds will be breezy at times. This is the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
reason for this instability - an area of low pressure sitting across | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
the UK. It will last through to the start of Saturday. By the end of | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
the weekend it what edge away and things start to quieten down. We | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
might see an area of high pressure to the far west. Here is that for | :26:01. | :26:11. | |
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cars for Cumbria for the next few Temperatures just below all round | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
about average for the time of year. In the North East, more thundery | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
showers on Friday and on Saturday, at some lightning. A fine day by | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
day at the time we get to Sunday. Temperatures rising into the late | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
20s. It will be much more pleasant by the end of the weekend. If you | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
are out and about with your camera, we would love to see your pictures. | :26:53. | :27:02. | |
Here is the address to send your photographs, or you can e-mail us. | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
Details on our website. A final look at the headlines: the Prime | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Minister has promised a public inquiry after fresh revelations | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
about the News of the world phone hacking scandal. And David Cameron | :27:16. | :27:24. |