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Welcome. Coming up, laid to rest. The funeral of a soldier killed in

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Afghanistan. Councils are shedding jobs to make

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savings. How has this one saved money without redundancies?

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Zapped and angry bull stock communities hit by a power surge

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that has caused thousands of pounds of damage. I thought I was being

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burgled. There was so much noise. It sounded like doors slamming.

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And a hero's welcome for the Chilean mine has sharing his story

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with these children. -- Chilean miner. In sport, we

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catch up with the latest. And a teenager who turned his life around

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Mourners lined the streets of Whitby to pay their respects to a

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soldier killed in Afghanistan. Craftsman Andrew Found of the Royal

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Mechanical and Electrical Engineers lost his life and leaves a wife and

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two children. Even though we are in pain now, we

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will remember the fun, the laughter and the love he brought. Those are

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the words of his family. Mourners filled the church and line to a

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neighbouring street where the service was relayed through

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loudspeakers. Your heart can be empty because you cannot see him,

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or it can be filled because of what you shared. You can remember and

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true and that he has gone, or you can cherish his memory and let it

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live on. The traditional military funeral

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was punctuated by modern music. It included a Snow Patrol. His unit is

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still serving in Afghanistan. But his colleague did attend. They

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called him a gentle giant. They said he had a huge heart and smile.

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He was not larger than life, he was quiet and unassuming. Any task you

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gave him, you knew he would completed 100%. He was a loving

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father and husband. He was buried in a private ceremony at Whitby

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cemetery. A 17-year-old has been jailed for

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three years by a judge at Leeds Crown Court after admitting killing

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a student outside a takeaway in North Yorkshire. Thomas Watson from

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his brow punched Daniel Crowther in Stokesley in an unprovoked attack.

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Daniel was 17. Thomas Watson admitted manslaughter. The victim's

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family said it was incomprehensible that he would be free in a

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relatively short period of time while they have to spend the rest

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of their lives coming to terms with his death.

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Councils have been warning for months about the impact of

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government cuts on services. Tonight we can reveal the impact on

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jobs. A survey for the shame macro found 3300 people have been made

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redundant -- for the Politics Show. Five out of six job losses were

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achieved through voluntary redundancies. In Gateshead, 967

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redundancies. In Gateshead, 967 redundancies. In Middlesbrough, 287.

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Carlisle council have made just 34. Carlisle council have made just 34.

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But one of the council says that while it is cutting millions from

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the budget it is not making redundancies. Our political

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correspondent reports. Sunderland Council, in many ways

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typical of local government these days. �39 million needs to be saved

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from the Budget. But, nobody has lost their job in that building.

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Not a single compulsory redundancy and not a single voluntary

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redundancy. In these parts, they call it the Sunderland way. How

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does it work? If your job disappeared we would try to match

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you with another post in the council, even maybe in an

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organisation if that is possible. If that is impossible, we would

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employ year in a switch it team. You would find gainful employment

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in another department some bad. is like a jobs waiting room.

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somewhere. 200 or waiting for a permanent job. Simon is typical.

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His job in the finance department was threatened. Now, he runs the

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canteen. To be sitting at a desk to where I am now, walking around,

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looking at customers and what they need. Getting to know what the cafe

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brings to the public and workers. Opposition councillors are not

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convinced this new strategy will save enough money. The worry is for

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the work force. Whether the adjustment in public spending will

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be put forward as sustainable way. Sunderland Council say they are on

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target with making savings. And the policy will continue until 2014.

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NPs will discuss the job cuts on A man has been in court charged

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with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after a woman

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was attacked with a hammer inside a Tyneside primary school. The 21-

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year-old, who works at Burradon Primary suffered head injuries. She

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was discharged from hospital today. 23-year-old Habidur Rahman from

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Newcastle appeared before magistrates. No plea was entered

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and the case was sent Crown Court. 80 staff at Cramlington based HA

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Interiors were told they had lost their jobs today. The news came two

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weeks after their German parent company was declared insolvent.

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Staff at the Northumberland wallpaper factory had gone seven

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weeks without a salary or work. Because they are still employed by

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HA Interiors, the company receives statutory redundancy pay. Thousands

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of pounds of damage have been caused by a power surge around

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Kielder. The energy company, NEDL, has denied liability and told

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customers they would have to sort out payment for repairs. It left

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residents angry. 5:30am on Tuesday. This piece for

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Kielder village was awoken by the sound of explosions. -- peaceable.

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I thought it was a burglary, there was so much noise, it was like

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gunshots. Sylvia lives in one of 300 properties in the area hit by

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the mystery power surge. microwave has gone. My fridge

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freezer is on the blink. My boiler went but I repaired it. My Sky Box

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has gone. She is one of many. television, washing machine, the

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telephones. Three flat-screen televisions I lost. A television,

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washing machine, to macros skyboxes. My son lost his computer. NEDL has

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sent a letter to every home denying liability. That was before they

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knew what the problem was. If I poisoned the general public it

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would be my fault. If somebody sends me electricity I do not want,

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it is their fault. If they do not know how it happened, how can they

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say they are not liable. company said they had sent

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engineers out and make sure that properties affected have had their

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wiring checked and appliances repaired. As far as replacement of

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other appliances was concerned, it was easier for customers to ensure

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this with his red this -- resolution by going through their

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own insurance. They said the fault was under investigation and they

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apologise for any inconvenience caused. But in the countryside, an

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argument is brewing with villagers meeting to see if they can put

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forward a group complained to HA They call it transplanting the

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unstransplantable. As part of the coverage of -- National week, a

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remarkable story about children who need heart transplants and he might

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have been turned away from any other hospital in the world.

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Here is our reporter. I am in hospital with three

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children he will spend another night waiting for a donor heart so

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they can have a transplant. I can introduce you. Tonight's starry is

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about Travis, and how the doctors are undertaking pioneering surgery

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to give him a future -- story. Travis is only five years old but

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has already died twice and been brought back to life. Another time,

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he was given one hour to live. He was born with a heart problem and

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fitted with a pacemaker in Birmingham when he was six months

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old. He recently went into heart failure and was flown to Newcastle.

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We came here because they said in Birmingham they could changed the

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pacemaker. We thought we would have it changed here. We have been here

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three days. But, when we got here, it was said it was no point to put

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it in, he needs a transplant. was another problem. Travis was not

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suitable for transplant. When he came, he was extremely sick. In a

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short time he was on the Berlin heart. We discovered antibodies in

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his bloodstream. Because he had surgery in the past and blood

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transfusions, he has other people's antibodies in his blood. This meant

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he was untransplantable. Rather than give up, doctors are

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pioneering a solution. Those antibodies would attack his new

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heart. And the exceptional treatment he has had his four asked

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to remove the antibodies so he can accept a heart without rejecting it

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-- for us. What we are doing is cleaning the antibodies out from

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his bloodstream so that if a heart comes up, his body will accept it.

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If he was anywhere else, he would not get the transplant. There is

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nobody else doing it in the world at the moment. At hospitals around

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the world, they are keeping a close eye on this. Travis's blood has

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been washed three times. He is now on an urgent list and his parents

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are waiting for a telephone call to say another child has died and

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their organs have been donated. That is the horrible thing. I know

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what some family has to go through for him to get there. Travis is one

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of hundreds in the North East and Cumbria waiting tonight for a

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transplant. One of thousands across the country who are waiting. 80% of

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us were on the donor register -- 18%. But now there are 27%. What

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these three want you to do is to sign the register. Don't you?

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They do. Back to the studio. It has been a week of amazing

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stories and if you are interested in becoming a donor, this is the

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Still to come, we have the sports and news and a film about

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industrial strife in 1970s North East.

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And it is raining on the BBC roof in Newcastle. What will the

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forecast before the weekend? I will be back with the details after the

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rest of the news. One of the 33 Chilean miners

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trapped underground is in the North East. He made the journey as a

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guest of the National Union of miners. He spent some time at rose

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macro in County Durham to talk to It was a joyful time when the

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miners came out one by one after their ordeal last year, and for the

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children at Roseberry Primary school, having one of the miners in

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their building this morning was an extraordinary experience. Carlos

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Bigueno was the 23rd to be rescued, and today he spoke of his

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experiences to a very attentive audience. Afterwards he said it had

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been a great experience to come to a part of England with such a

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strong mining history. Very good. A what has he been doing at the

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TRANSLATION: I have been a thanking the children for the work they have

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done, their projects. For some of the children, meeting Carlos was an

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experience they'll never forget. I felt pleased to see him. We have

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been doing loads of work about him. We watched him come out of the mind.

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How did it feel? Meeting him? Incredible. Really exciting.

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day they were rescued was incredible. The children were

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pretending to do literacy and numeracy lessons but they were

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watching, as every one of the miners came out. Now Carlos has

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come to the school, we think the head teacher would not be cross now.

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It's worth noting that while Carlos is being treated as a special guest

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today, back at home he's still a man who has to earn a living, and

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he's due to go back down the mine in the near future.

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What a brave man. Now we're staying on a mining theme. Because a new

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film about life in Ashington will receive its gala showing near the

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town tonight. The problem is, all the cinemas in Ashington are gone.

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So the film, by local lad Andy Mark Simpson, will be screened at a

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former colliery. And as Chris Storey found out, it's proving an

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inspiration to young actors in the town.

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It's not the Ritz or the Rialto, but Woodhorn Colliery Museum near

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Ashington is getting ready to lay on the red carpet. For the folk of

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Ashington were keen to see an-award winning film made by one of their

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own, and the local picture houses have all shut down. Watch out, lads.

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Young Hearts Run Free is a coming of age movie, set during the 1974

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Miners' Strike. Much of it was filmed in the town. Was it

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difficult? Not really. The crew were making jokes St Ia did not

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shoot a modern film. The it would have cost a fortune. Despite its

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budget of just �10,000, the film has won awards on three continents,

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and has taken off from Houston and New York. The pit men painters, New

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York, Billy Elliott, a massive success. There is a history we can

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tie into and celebrate our region and get it out around the world.

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Ahead of tonight's screening, pupils from local school attended a

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workshop run by Andy. I enjoyed it because it wasn't what I was

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expecting. It is opened gates for me. He is local and he is making

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films which is what I want to do. While the road to the pits may be

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closed for good, the children have been told the road to Hollywood may

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still be open. While there is Good luck to them. An interesting

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project. You may think you have heard this story before but there

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is another new arrival at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland have

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completed their ninth signing of the summer. Welsh international

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midfielder David Vaughan has joined on a three-year deal for an

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undisclosed fee from Blackpool. And Middlesbrough's Kris Boyd has

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followed Andrew Taylor out of the Riverside - moving to Turkish club

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Eskisehirspor after his Boro contract cancelled by mutual

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agreement. Meanwhile, Fabricio Coloccini has been named

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Newcastle's new captain, replacing Kevin Nolan, who left the club for

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West Ham last month. No doubt we will hear that song

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even more. Thrills, spills, brilliant fielding and power

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hitting were all seen on one of our cricket pitches today. But it

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wasn't Durham or Yorkshire slugging it out at 20-20. It was primary

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school kids from across our region trying to make it through to the

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national finals of the Kwik Cricket competition. Mark McAlindon was at

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Edenside, home of Carlisle Cricket Club.

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Kwik Cricket, a scheme to give a generation of children a chance to

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get interested. There was excitement aplenty. Much from kids

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who had little contact with the game. When you get a catch or

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somebody out. I play other sports. When we started playing cricket, I

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did not think I was interested but now it is fun. For us, it is the

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key thing that links cricket in the school and bring it into clubs. It

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can be rolled out in a P E session and easy to administrate and run.

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The kids know the rules and the games are short. It generates a lot

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of enthusiasm with boys and girls. Inner-city schools competed with

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rural ones. Cumbria only have 48 pupils but they displayed

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sportsmanship. And the winners were Stanwix, of Carlisle, who travel to

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the national finals in Derby, later this month.

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The rain is spawning the first Twenty20 derby between Derby and

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Yorkshire. Yorkshire won the toss. So far, there has been no play.

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Boxing has for decades been a sport where young lads who're sometimes

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in trouble can change their lives around. And that's what's happened

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for a Newcastle teenager. Now, Akash Hussein is a professional

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boxer. Known as "Cash" he's had special thousand dollar bills

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printed with his face on both sides and when he arrives in the ring

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fans throw them up in the air. Keith Akehurst's been to meet him.

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Akash Hussein trains in a friend's gym. From the west end of Newcastle

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he was an inner city kid who'd got into bother. I was 14 and I got in

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fights all the time. Friends would be silly and I used to do what they

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told me because when you're young you are immature. His worried

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family took Cash to Glenn McCrory and asked the former world cruiser

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weight champion to sort him out. had been in trouble for fighting, a

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bit headstrong. A big kid who could handle himself and was using that

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in the wrong way. I saw qualities and potential problems, the sort of

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things I had that could have led me the wrong way. Boxing was my

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salvation. I thought he was worthy enough of my time and effort to try

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it and save. He is a likeable kid. He his son and my best friend.

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Cash came under McCrory's wing at 15. A year later he was junior

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national champion and boxed for young England. It has given me

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discipline, made me a better person. It is given me again. At 18 Cash

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turned professional and he's had 2 fights. He's won one and lost one.

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He aims to be the second world champion from the North East after

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Glenn, who believes he's got a great future. He is a good young

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man, he is great with his family, well respected. They all love him

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and they're all behind him. He has tremendous fan base. That's because

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there's only been two Asian boxers who've made the grade before - Amir

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Khan and Naseem Hamed. The young generation in the Asian

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community look up to me. They are getting into boxing because of me.

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There would teach them discipline and to take them away from the

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drugs, cigarettes and the other Good luck to him. We have picked up

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the rubbish of the floor! The dollar bills.

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The Mouth of the Tyne festival kicks off tonight in Tynemouth with

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a concert by X Factor winner Alexandra Burke and soul singer

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Beverley Knight. It's a three-day festival with live music, street

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theatre, a children's pageant and other events - starting tonight

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with the first outdoor concert at Tynemouth Priory and Castle. Other

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acts over the festival weekend include The Buzzcocks and Scouting

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for Girls. But what will the weather be like for them? I have a

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horrible feeling... It is not looking great, another day of

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thundery showers across the north- east in Cumbria. Dark skies behind

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me on the BBC roof and we're expecting it to be wet as the

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artists take to the stage. It has improved over the weekend but the

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headline is not fantastic. More heavy showers to come on Saturday.

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Through this evening, we expect showers to continue, the showers

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will be heavy and intense in places. We had lightning activity in the

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Cumbria earlier, 12 lightning strikes and we're expecting more

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this evening and overnight. It is quite mild first thing but the

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showers continue. Saturday, a very mixed, bright spells but heavy

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showers. As we head towards the later part of the day and afternoon

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and evening, the pressure rises, the showers should start to ease.

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Eight Thunder risk tomorrow, let us look at the next three days. The

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sky it brightens on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Cumbria, one or two

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showers around but lighter and we don't expect Thunder after Saturday.

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The pressure rises and the weather settles down. In the north-east,

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similar picture. No more thunderstorms, the temperatures

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start to rise here as well. One or two showers but not enough to spoil

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the day. They do not last long. That is the next few days, loads

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going on over the weekend. The Durham miners' Gala, bright spells

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in between the showers, temperatures at 17 Celsius. Over

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the next couple of days, or the midnight walk in the early hours of

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Sunday morning, by that time this guys should have cleared so we are

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forecasting a starry skies for the walker is celebrating the 25th

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birthday of St Oswald's Hospice. The weather will improve.

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