15/08/2011 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Welcome to Monday's Look North. Tonight, police search a farm in

the hunt for two missing Polish farm workers. Danuta Domagalska

hasn't been seen for a week. Detectives are also searching for

her brother. She was popular, friendly and hard-working. She is a

loving mother. And it is important that we find out what has happened

to her. Also tonight, melting away the profits. Demands from one of

Europe's biggest ice cream makers to cut the cost of sugar. Work

begins to replace Workington's Northside bridge - which was washed

away in the floods two years ago. Work begins to replace Workington's

Northside bridge - which was washed away in the floods two years ago.

And Norse code. How it's hoped a message from the Vikings could help

prevent this happening in future. And in the first Teamtalk of the

football season - plenty to chew over. There's never a dull moment

when Joey Barton's around - and we've got that debut wonder goal at

A major police investigation's underway in Darlington tonight for

two missing farm workers. Danuta Domagalska hasn't been since

Saturday 6th August. Detectives want to speak to her brother -

Piotr Lawniczak - about the disappearance. But he's also gone

missing. They both worked and lived at New Moor dairy farm in Walworth

on the outskirts of Darlington. Our reporter, Peter Harris, is there

for us tonight. Peter. The police activity at the farm is probably

the last thing you would expect in a rural location like this. Tonight,

strictly speaking, this remains a missing from home inquiry, but the

police stress they are now very concerned for the welfare of this

young, missing Polish mother. Tonight, police continued to search

the remote farm for clues. A vehicle could be seen being towed

away. They had been called to investigate the disappearance of

27-year-old Polish worker, Sue Duke. She lived in a cottage with her

brother. -- Danuta Dolmagalska. She and her brother have both gone

missing and the police want to speak to him. He might be able to

tell us where she might be or what has happened to her. We appeal to

any members of the public are might know his whereabouts who could help

us trace him, to help us on this matter. We're very concerned. She

has been missing since the 6th August. She has not phoned her

mother, which was a normal weekly event. And nobody has seen her at

all. We have had no sightings. No information that she has made any

bank transactions or anything, so we're very concerned. Danuta Had

been working at the SFA, which makes a scheme, for five years. Her

son, five years old, is back in Poland, being cared for by his

grandmother. Police believe that her brother, Piotr, could have a

vital information. County Durham police aren't contact with the

family back in Poland. The key thing tonight is that they might

want to speak to her brother, and say they need to talk to him and

ask him to contact any police station in England. It's the

biggest ice cream company in the country, employs hundreds of

workers, but it's struggling with the high cost of sugar. R&R Ice

Cream at Leeming Bar in North Yorkshire says a shortage of the

product will mean the cost of its ice creams could rocket next year.

It's asking for European sugar quotas to be abolished or we'll all

feel the effect in our pockets. Our Business Correspondent Ian Reeve

reports. Two litres is the standard product. We make those for all of

the supermarkets. Almost 40 million packs. A figures are staggering.

This company makes more than 70% of supermarket ice-cream sold in this

country. Not surprising, then, that it is worried about the rising cost

of sugar. We find ourselves with a big increase in prize, 60%, because

of what is happening in the world, and we're looking at, in 2012, not

been able to buy enough sugar. could be �850 a tonne from

September. The problem is that sugar factories inaccurate are

closing, he stunned by the EU subsidies to reduce sugar levels.

On the factory floor here everyone knows that that is a serious matter.

The volume is tremendous nowadays, about 50 tonnes a day, averaging

250 tonnes a week. The company is lobbying the EU to increase sugar

quotas. Anything with lots of sugar in like fizzy drinks and ice cream,

we'll look -- looking at between 12-20% increases in their prices.

There is no threat to the 450 jobs here, but, if the EU listens, then

A teenager's appeared before magistrates, charged in connection

with the attack on a Wearside police station last week. A window

was smashed and a car set on fire at Washington police station on

Wednesday. An officer inside was injured by flying glass. Sunderland

magistrates remanded the 17 year- old in custody, to appear at

Newcastle Crown Court on Friday. Work has begun replacing the bridge

in West Cumbria, which collapsed in the floods two years ago - leading

to the death of PC Bill Barker. The Northside Bridge in Workington was

washed away by the swollen river Derwent in November, 2009. A new

replacement footbridge, which was also destroyed in the floods, was

put in place at the weekend - as Alison Freeman reports. The Suez a

computer-generated image of how the new working to Northside Bridge

should look. Work started today on making that vision a reality. It is

hoped that the new road bridge will be ready by next spring. The foot

and psychopath Bridge was also damaged beyond repair. Yesterday,

hundreds stood on the banks of the River Derwent, keen to see the

replacement lock into place, almost two years on. It was a vital link

between Seaforth and Workington. Next year, the north side Bridge

goes into position. The people of Workington can start then to put it

behind them. This should have been the first bridge that should have

gone up, it should have been done a long time ago. I have been

housebound for quite a long time because of this. It is a good

queuing to see the bridge in their today and hopefully it is a bridge

the community will be very proud of. It is nice to hear people say that

it is a nice-looking bridge and they are looking for work to using

it. The bridge is a key route into the town centre for many people

living on North Side. Pedestrians and cyclists are looking forward to

opening next month. The University of York's been awarded more than �2

million to help fund ground- breaking research into prostate

cancer. Researchers hope to find the missing link in prostate cancer

stem cells. They also plan to make new drugs to target the disease.

Yorkshire Cancer Research has provided the five-year funding. It

was sold six years ago, and looked set to become a major new

development in York, but Terry's chocolate factory remains locked up

and empty. The iconic listed buildings have been attacked by

vandals, and as it overlooks York racecourse, 90,000 racegoers will

see its dilapidation when they come to the prestigious Ebor meeting

this week. Cathy Killick has the story. It is a landmark building

that has been part of the skyline of York for almost a century. Take

a closer look and the recent past is far too obvious. The listed

buildings are deteriorating after standing empty since 2005. It is in

contrast to its smart neighbour. York racecourse hosts 90,000

racegoers this week. Vandalism and graffiti on the doorstep is not a

great welcome. It is important that we do not see this site deteriorate.

It is a nobody's interest, developers, counsel, to local

community and local residents, to see this site fall into disrepair

and become derelict. refurbishment of the office block

shows what the buildings could become, but it is slow progress. It

is six years as the factory closed in 2005. BG has let it was sold for

�26 million. The first development plan was thrown out by your council

in 2008, new plans were submitted in 2009 and approved in 2010. 18

months on, where are we now? We asked the developers for a comment

on the state of the site, but we were told that both companies could

not be contacted for the next few weeks. We were also told that no

one else from the company could talk to us. It is a far cry from

the glory days when royalty visited and hundreds work here. The

redevelopment, with planned hotels, houses and businesses, could

provide much-needed jobs, but these are difficult days for developers.

What the council does not want to see his stalled plans and fodder

their election -- further dereliction. You're watching

Monday's Look North. Still to come, Team Talk returns for another

season, and Hannah's been out with Teesside's colony of harbour seals,

which has grown to its largest every size. We have more gorgeous

pictures of those harbour seals to show you, and I will also be giving

you the full weather forecast. it won't be long until we're

thinking about how we're going to pay our winter fuel bills. And when

we talk about the rising cost of energy, most people think of

electricity and gas. But it's a fact that in rural areas, most

homes are heated by oil. Faced with price rises of more than 100% in

three years, oil consumers have discovered its cheaper to band

together and use their purchasing power to buy in bulk. Peter Lugg

reports on the rise of the oil co- operative in North Yorkshire.

Piping hot water in the kitchen of the Cross family cottage in

Osmotherley.If you live in a rural community like this it's almost

certain you'll be on oil or solid fuel and in recent years the rise

in prices has been frightening. Any it is a huge amount. �100 per month

on oil, and in comparison to electricity which is �45 a month,

it is a huge part of the Budget. In 2009, the bills for oil were about

�300 for after that, so now we're looking at �600, so it has gone up

a massive amount. But since last winter the family have been part of

an oil buying co-operative and Osmotherley's bulk order has

produced remarkable savings. Every two months, we get an e-mail asking

us if we want to order, and that helps them negotiate on price, so

we're looking at a very good saving. It is around 5p a litre each time.

North Yorkshire now has some of the most successful oil co-operatives

in Britain. They started off with 40 members, starting off with a

presentation to know more about it, and we have got 80 members now.

They get a simple spreadsheet with all the orders and addresses on it

and it means the vehicle mileage for them has greatly reduced

because they only need to come wants to fill out the old village.

None of the oil supply as we approached today were appeared to

be interviewed. But while they appreciate the economies of scale

one deliveries, none of them is keen to talk about the possible

reduction in their margins. 30,000 more overseas tourists holidayed in

the North East in 2010, compared to the year before. Figures from

Newcastle Gateshead Initiative shows a total of 460,000 overseas

visitors last year. Music tourism, like the Evolution Festival,

contributed an estimated �35 million to the regional economy.

Meanwhile, The Lake District is one of the areas being targeted by the

budget hotel chain, Travelodge. Its property team is looking for

suitable locations - including Grasmere. The company wants to open

37 new hotels in and around the UK's 15 national parks - at a cost

of �135 million. Viking raiders returned to Lindisfarne today at

the start of a week of events bringing to life their bloody

impact on the island over 1,000 years ago. But this time they had a

more helpful message for visitors, with a warning not to get caught

out by the tide on the Holy Island causeway. Despite all the publicity,

there's been a sharp rise in the number of people becoming trapped

this year, as Chris Storey reports. The Vikings are back. Looting and

pillaging, and handing out important road safety tips. Not

quite the Green Cross Code perhaps, but the Norse Code aims to stop

visitors to this week's Viking Festival at Holy Island becoming

trapped on the Causeway. These are the tide timetables and they tell

you when you are not going to get stuck in the 5 ft of water out

there. And you would think the number of incidents would be going

down with all the warnings. But these CCTV pictures from a nearby

cafe record of different, sorry cider. All these, this year, could

have been avoided. People are ignorant of the fact that the

causeway closes and the tide comes in, or they are under the misguided

fact that they can cross the North Sea. But these CCTV pictures

captured by the camera on the nearby Barn at Beal cafe record a

different sorry saga. To hammer home their point about safe

navigation, The Vikings brought with them a replica longship. The

message to visitors is come and see the Vikings, and don't let the tide

put the tin hat on things. Don't get stuck on the causeway. It was

never a concern for the Vikings at the time and it shouldn't be this

weekend, either. We are here all weekend, so come and join us, but

check the tight timetable. Time now for the first "Team Talk of the new

season - is is that time already? And I can't recall a better weekend

in terms of results, Dawn? Amazing really. Of the nine teams we cover

- including the Blue Square Premier - none of them lost! We had six

wins and three draws. Which we'll talk about in a moment - but this

afternoon the Football Association charged both Newcastle and Arsenal

with failing to control their players in Saturday's goalless draw.

Newcastle deny the charge. And where would we be without Joey

Barton? There is never a dull moment when he is on the pitch. He

had a right to be unhappy about this. Alexander song stamping on

the back of his leg, but it looks like the myth that he did not see

it. He has been charged. And this is what the Joey Barton said on

He decided that Gervinho had dived and he yanked him up. The referee

had his back to the incident. There was that of handbags. Gervinho got

a red card, and Joey Barton got a yellow card. This is what he had to

say on Radio 5 Live last night. Having seen the numerous replays, I

caught him blatantly a cheat. I thought he had died. There was

minimal contact. For my point of view, he is still looking for the

penalty. He is going in hoping for the penalty, and from my point of

view I should not have got involved, and I did go down too easily, but

did -- that does not make it OK for him to slap me, because it is me.

Of course, with Kevin Nolan gone, you've got to wonder who's going to

keep Joey Barton in check - no one to give him that all important pre-

match hug! On the plus side he did help police apprehend a burglar at

the weekend so he's had an action packed weekend all round - again.

Another quiet weekend for Joey Barton, then! Kieran Richardson

made a mistake and try to make up for it. There was some contact. Was

he heading away from goal? Liverpool fans start that he should

have been sent off, but the referee said that he was going round to the

site. And the penalty, the yellow card for Kieran Richardson when he

might have got a red, and the penalty, it could not have been hit

any further over the bar. It was like Chris Waddle's for England!

And the Middlesbrough-Leeds' game ended up 10 against nine. This was

never a yellow card. That was 10 aside. Then in the second half, it

was a strange incident. Marvin Emnes. For diving. He goes over to

the linesman. Yes, he consulted a linesman, and ended up sending off

journey house in, the Leeds captain. So it was 10 against nine. And a

robust challenge here. -- Jonny Howson. Hartlepool have decided not

to appeal against that red card for Neath and Ruskin. -- Nathan Ruskin.

Shall we have a look at some goals now? Just before we do - the Stats

of the Day. Two lots stand out. We're talking the total number of

shots. Leeds 7, Middlesbrough 17. Encouraging for Tony Mowbray - but

it was 10 men against nine. True! But what about this from Sunderland

- they had more shots than Liverpool at Anfield. Which you

mightn't have guessed from watching Match of the Day. We've already

seen the penalty Suarez put over the bar. But, then, he gave them

the lead. Then Andy Carroll got the ball and the net but it was

disallowed for a push. And this was a great one by Stuart Downing. But

this was the goal of the day. He will not forget that in a hurry.

Marvin Emnes Only scored five goals for Middlesbrough last season, and

he has scored five this season already. And a 2-0 victory for

Carlisle United. Lee Noble with the second goal there. Scott Flinders

Gordon last home game of the season for Hartlepool United. And he did

it again. 1-0 down to Warsaw. He gets his toe on that just at the

end, and he will claim that. -- to Walsall. A couple of interesting

characters at St James's Park on Saturday. Newcastle fans might have

thought the match was Maxine double when the teams came out at the

start of the game. He was the match-day mascot, a living year-old

Charlie Kohl, from Essex. But the biggest cheer was for Mark Allison,

back from his epic run which took him 3100 miles across the Gate

Estates for charity. And one last jog round St James's Park for good

measure - I don't know how he had the energy! Just before the weather,

Hanna is here with news of an unusual summer baby boom. Yes,

we're talking about harbour seals. The population is then -- in the

North East is bigger than it has ever been. I went to see the new

arrivals at Seaton Carew. Playing on the mudflats, this harbour seal

pup is newly weaned from his mother and growing fast. I think it is a

real success story. People would have said that industry and nature

conservation cannot flourish alongside each other, but this

shows you that they can, to see sales thriving with all this in the

background, it is fantastic and unique. Seals left Teesside after

industrialisation meant that the water was too polluted to support

the fish they needed to survive. Environmental quality improved

through the 70s and 80s, and now the seals have reappeared. Water

quality, sediment quality, is now good. And there is food for seals

and other wildlife. C White has a good quality environment now, and

that is well represented by the number of seals and salmon we have.

The seal colony in T Smith is important because it is the only

place in Europe where sales have come back after a river has been

cleaned or pollution. Soon we're going to get the best view yet of

these fantastic creatures. By next spring, does it has will be able to

watch the seals from a viewing platform, and a 40,000 -- �40,000

project funded by Pat Astle. -- by Tata Steel. It is not just seals

that were enjoying the summer. The quayside in Gateshead has been

transformed into a tropical paradise. We had 90 Celsius for

much of the north-east, and 18 Celsius in the West today. But this

fine weather, you guessed it, does Rain sweeping in from the West,

drive for a time, then the rain will head eastwards through the

night and into the early hours of the morning. It is a washout once

again. Fairly mild with temperatures into double figures.

Again Tuesday morning, a horrible walk to work. Wet, misty and muggy

with lots of hill fort for big Pennines and the Cumbrian fells. --

Hill fog. Parts of the north-east will see a fair few showers and it

will be cooler in the West. Most places in Cumbria will be dry by

teatime. A wet day to come, then a brighter forecast for the next few

days. Here is how it looks. Not bad at all in Cumbria for Wednesday,

Thursday and Friday. Mostly dry, not high-pressure, but just an

absence of weather systems. Temperatures pending to be in the

high teens in Celsius. Just a little bit below the average all

this time of year. This time last week it felt more like August, and

less like autumn. For the rest of this week, it is looking like

Friday should be the pick of this week's weather. It is going to be

showery in the North East on Wednesday and Thursday, but Friday

should be very pleasant indeed with temperatures into the low twenties.

Showers will tend to be light and isolated, not lasting long enough

to spoil the day. Some better summer holiday weather to come over

the next few days. If you are out and about, you know where to send