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Welcomed to look north. Tonight: Decision day. The scramble for | :00:08. | :00:14. | |
places begins, as thousands of students receive A-level results. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
The search continues at a farm where a brother and sister went | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
missing. We have the latest. Praise for Cumbria's doctors and | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
nurses from the Prime Minister but unions say they are struggling to | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
cope. And the vandals who went on a | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
shooting spree in a Gateshead Community. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
We meet some of the new faces at the Newcastle Falcons, and the | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
Magpies insist that their goalkeeper Steve Harper still has a | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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future at the club as the Wear Tyne It's the day the region's A Level | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
students have been waiting for. But for some, the anxiety is far from | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
over. Those who failed to get the grades they wanted face a scramble | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
for the remaining places at our universities. Vacancies are | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
disappearing fast as students try and avoid next year's hike in | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
tuition fees. Some are having to rewrite their plans completely. Our | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
Political Editor Richard Moss reports on a day of delight and | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
despair. It was a long night with little | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
sleep for many students. Doors opened at 8:30am at Whickham School | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
in Gateshead, but will the pupils get the news they wanted? I needed | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
a B and two C's, and I have got them. I am over the moon. Walking | :01:40. | :01:48. | |
on Sunshine. I needed three A's to get to Glasgow, so I am there and I | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
am really pleased. Two A's and Kobi, so I am off to study medicine at | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Aberdeen, which I am over the moon about. Happy days. Results were not | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
significantly but for the staff, the priority was to help those who | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
did not get what they wanted. are spending a lot of time, | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
supporting students, ringing admissions tutors, making sure they | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
have computers available to get on to the clearing website, if it is | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
working, to make sure we can get students on to a university, even | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
if it is not their first choice. There were certainly lots of | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
worried students calling hotlines like this one at Northumbria | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
University, scrambling to snap up any available places. The phones | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
have been frantic here since first thing this morning with students | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
trying to find out if they can get a place. Elsewhere, some local | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
students have come in and they are queuing up the stairs to find out | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
how the land lies. The advice is to get in quick because many vacancies | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
will be filled by this evening and all of them by some time tomorrow | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
afternoon. In some cases, we can do something with people who have | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
missed by one or two grades, but in areas where we have too many | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
applications it will not be possible. For one aspiring | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
architects to student, an agonising wait. I did not get exactly what I | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
wanted, just missed out by one grade. So I am trying to see if | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
they were let me in any way. They have said they will decide this | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
afternoon. I will wait and see. There may be alternatives. Colleges | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
like Gateshead say they can offer degrees and other options for | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
students struggling to find a university place. We have a | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
fantastic team of people who can work with students to determine | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
what is best for them. I am sure there is something we can offer | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
them, whether it be an apprenticeship, a high-level | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
programme, something which can eventually lead them back to their | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
chosen path. And Laura has decided to stay local and remain at the | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
college after A-levels. I had the option to go somewhere else, but I | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
know all the teachers here and they are great teachers and I enjoy my | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
time here. Some students can now plan for the future, but for others | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
the worry is far from over. Richard is with me in the studio. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
What is the situation tonight? Are there many places left? Ever- | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
diminishing number. Newcastle and York said they have no places left. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Sunderland say they have limited places. Teessiders say there are a | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
handful of vacancies. Cumbria say it is waiting list only. They had | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
500 calls on their line by 3pm last year, 1000 by the same time this | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
year. If you have not got a place, hope may be beginning to dwindle. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Students face a tough choice, whether to abandon their plans are | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
going to the job market, which is not easy, look at further education | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
colleges, like Gateshead, or do they face up to maybe resitting | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
exams and facing a hike in tuition fees? The universities are saying, | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
take your time. There will be bursaries available next year. Do | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
not rush into a decision. Some students will be able to celebrate | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
tonight, but for those that did not do so well, many of the doors that | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
would have been open in previous years are now closing. Go to the | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
clearing site and back to the phones tomorrow. Tough decisions. | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
Police searching for a missing brother and sister hope to identify | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
a body found in woods this evening. 27-year-old Danuta Domagalska went | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
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missing 12 days ago from the farm where she works near Darlington. | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
Police wanted to talk to her brother but he vanished. Yesterday, | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
found the man's body hanging in woods near New Moor Farm. | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Really, there are two parts to this. First, there is the missing woman, | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
and then there is her missing brother. There are almost two | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
search sites as well. There is the farm opposite, which is where they | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
lived, and then there is this area. Through there is the woodland where | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
the body was found yesterday. Police hope to confirm tonight if | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
they can whether or not that body was indeed the missing brother, | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
Pyotr Luff Rezek. While that is going on, the search for his sister, | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
Danuta, continues. As you will see, that is a grim task for the police. | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
There is a group in this field, how for tango. Inch by inch, they will | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
search the farm Fordham looter. This is a filthy and dangerous task. | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
This is one of the slurry pits they will come to next. The job will be | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
to pump out this area. This is a dangerous area with toxic gas, | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
methane. They will have to use harnesses to protect officers when | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
they going to start pumping it out. Danuta Domagalska has been missing | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
for 12 days. Back in Poland, her family awaits news. Yesterday they | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
were told that police looking for her brother had found a body. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Officers had wanted to talk to him, believing he had vital information. | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
He had lived with Danuta and her husband, Martine, in a cottage on | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
New Moor Farm. Police are treating the husband as a witness. The case | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
of the missing brother and sister has touched the region's Polish | :07:23. | :07:32. | |
community. It was a huge shock for me so it will be a shock for the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
families. It was shocking because when we came here we thought, OK, | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
we can help to find them, the missing people. Not about finding | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
dead bodies. So it is shocking. police say the chances of finding | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
Danuta alive are slim. The grim search goes on. | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
There is a third person involved, remember, Danuta's husband, my team. | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
We are told there is a member of his family on the way across to | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
this country to help to comfort him. They are from a place south-west of | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
Warsaw. Clearly an agonising time for the family in Poland and they | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
will be hoping, even if it is simply putting them out of their | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
misery, they will hope to find out tonight whether or not the body in | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
the Woods was the brother. Hopefully we will have more on that | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
later this evening. The Prime Minister has praised the | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
NHS in Cumbria during a visit to Carlisle. Many of the Government's | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
health policy changes - including handing budgets directly to GPs - | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
were trialled in Cumbria. But unions say the local health service | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
is struggling to cope with chronic staff shortages and low morale. Our | :08:52. | :09:01. | |
Political Correspondent Mark Denten reports. A Prime Minister in the | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
kitchen, but David Cameron was not here to help to wash up, but to see | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
changes to the health service. This woman has a lung disease and its | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
regular check-ups at home in Carlisle. The Prime Minister also | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
visited a Healthwatch project, designed to give patients more say. | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
Cumbria has piloted a scheme giving GPs control of 70% of budgets. | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
have learned that commissioning by clinicians, by GPs, can work on | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
behalf of patients and cut down the bureaucracy we have seen in the | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
past and have more money going into healthcare and less on to managers | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
and paperwork and bureaucracy. it was not just about new health | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
initiatives. The Prime Minister also praised this place, the | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
Cumberland Infirmary. Speaking on Radio Cumbria, he called it a | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
classic example of a good district general hospital. The trouble is | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
that the trust that runs it needs to save �15 million this year. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
Others are also looking to run services here. And health unions | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
say that means morale inside there is at an all-time low. They are | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
struggling to have human and physical resources to deliver the | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
care that they need. I am aware that, on a regular basis, they have | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
not got enough nurses to cover shifts. They are relying on people | :10:19. | :10:26. | |
who work in an ad hoc way, maybe regularly, to try to cover shifts. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
We are putting more money into the NHS and more money into the NHS | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
income Priya, specifically with the West Cumberland Hospital. We are | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
putting and �90 million to make sure it has new facilities. North | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Cumbria NHS Trust say their services are safely staffed and | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
nursing levels are monitored on a daily basis. | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Police are looking for a gang of vandals who drove around shooting | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
windows out of cars last night. It happened in Gateshead, with as many | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
as 20 cars damaged in two streets. Some of it was caught on CCTV. | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
Cruising along the street at 3:30am, shooting out windows with an airgun. | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
And every damaged car has a story. This one, a cancelled day trip for | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
the kids. And this one, this car which was supplied under Burke | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
mobility scheme to a woman with cerebral palsy. Until this is | :11:28. | :11:34. | |
repaired, she is stuck in the house. And this one belongs to a junior | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
doctor who has not been able to get to work today. And until we hold -- | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
told her, she did not know it was somebody with a gun. Was it? Oh, | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
this might be the man who is coming to fix it. Hello. That is great. | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
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Are you coming? That is grand. I will be here. See you in a bit. I | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
am sorry. Are you going to work tomorrow? Yes, I will get in | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
tomorrow. What has it meant to you today? Stuck in the house. | :12:12. | :12:22. | |
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Obviously, inconvenient. And �50 out of pocket. The police say | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
anyone who can help to find who did this should contact them as soon as | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
possible. A popular Lake District tourist | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
attraction is facing closure after magistrates found it had been | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
operating illegally. The deviation root of the Via Ferrata at the | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Honister slate mine, which features a 120 ft zip wire, was installed | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
without proper permission. The owners admitted the root damage | :12:51. | :12:58. | |
vegetation and they must now pay nearly �30,000 in fines and costs. | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
This is the classic Via Ferrata at Honister, which is unaffected by | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
today's court case at Workington magistrates. But an offshoot with a | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
zip wire further up will close in November after Natural England | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
brought a case against the owners saying it is operating illegally. | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
The firm must now pay fines and costs. Natural England have a | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
statutory responsibility to look after sites of special scientific | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
interest, in other words to ensure people comply with the law when | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
they use them. It is very disappointing when Natural England | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
do have to resort to legal recourse. We try to protect the environment. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
In passing sentence, the chairman of the bench said they accepted | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
there was no intention to destroy vegetation, but the construction of | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
the Via Ferrata deviation was deliberate and was gone for | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
financial gain. The deviation group was put in by former owner Mark | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Weir, who died in a helicopter crash in March. Today, his long- | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
term partner said it was an attempt to bring adventure and excitement | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
to the Lake District. We have to listen to the magistrates, go | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
forward and find a compromise that all bodies are happy with, to | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
retain the jaw in our crown. I will endeavour to do that. -- the Jule | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
in our crown. Plenty more to come: | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
We hear from a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
at just 19 years old. We meet the volunteers helping to | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
build a future for a young Mexican family. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
Heavy rain fall on the radar has already caused flooding today in | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
the south-west and it is now splashing to our region. I will | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
give you the details in the weather forecast. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Post traumatic stress disorder. These days we know far more about | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
it then we used to, but it seems a lot of former military personnel | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
are suffering in silence. In a region that recruits many | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
servicemen and women, that is worrying. Now, a local organisation | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
says there has been a sharp rise in demand for its help. | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
To find yourself talking to an ex soldier and combat veteran is all | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
the more sobering when he tells you he is still only 19 and was | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
fighting the Taliban at barely 18. They do not want you to think that | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
you have got post-traumatic stress disorder. They just want your mind | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
focused on fighting. Jordan's first tour of Afghanistan was his last. | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
He only escaped with his own life because the land mine he stood on | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
did not explode. He was discharged and then diagnosed with post- | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
traumatic stress disorder. Now he is being held by someone who went | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
through it a generation earlier. Gary Cameron set up a company | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
called military mentor health. For Jordan, just getting this far is an | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
achievement. Because they cover their problems, do not talk to | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
people, do not come forward, do not have a point of contact, I am that | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
point of contact in the north-east. I served in the forces for nine | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
years. I came out with a few problems. I have worn the T-shirt. | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
The company is fronted by a number of bodies fire the Business Link | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
organisation. Here, his briefing them, NHS trusts, local authorities | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
and charities that offer help. There is no shortage of demand. An | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
MoD report estimated that one in five service or ex service | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
personnel deployed since 2003 will have some degree of post traumatic | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
stress. Veterans like this, especially single males, show | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
higher levels of drug and alcohol abuse, are more susceptible to | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
depression, more likely to be in trouble with the law, and more | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
likely to shut themselves away and not seek help. Jordan is one of | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
nearly 200,000 military veterans in the north-east. His life, he says, | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
is back on track. There are people you can turn to and talk to. You | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
should not be ashamed to talk to people. Five months ago I was | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
always down and did not want to do anything, talk to anybody. Now, I | :17:10. | :17:18. | |
am on my feet, doing what I want to Thousands of teenagers in the | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
region are taking it easy after the stress of exams. But a group of | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
young people from Northumberland and Tyne side have chosen to have a | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
more strenuous summer. They volunteered to build a house for a | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
young family in Mexico in one of the country's more deprived | :17:34. | :17:44. | |
neighbourhoods. Ensenada, north-west Mexico, just | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
90 minutes on the border with the USA. Colourful and friendly, this | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
port city is one of the country's most affluent. But a short drive to | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
the outskirts reveals a different type of neighbourhood, the type | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
that the north-east teenagers have only ever seen on TV screens. | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
really derelict. There are open sewers everywhere. It is just not | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
so nice. I am a bit moved by it. All built on top of each other. It | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
is a bit scary. Barbed-wire fences. You don't really imagine kids | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
growing up here. They are here to build a house for a young family | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
and have been training for the experience for the last year with a | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
Tyneside based company. It is through a housing project run by | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
the Christian charity Youth With A Mission, and their skills are | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
finally being put to use. problem in Mexico is that you build | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
a house as you get money. You have to have a really good job to get a | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
loan. It is so hard. That is why many houses are unfinished. It | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
gives them the ability to start. This time it is a 22-year-old who | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
will benefit. He and his wife had spent the first four years of their | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
marriage living with his parents in cramped conditions. Me, my wife, | :19:10. | :19:20. | |
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Stephanie, and my granddaughter. Six people. | :19:21. | :19:27. | |
They have three rooms for six people. At home, we have 10 to 12 | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
rooms for five of us. It is amazing how they survive and we always | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
complain that we do not have enough room, do not have enough things. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
Actually, we have so much more than everyone here. I will now be much | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
more grateful for what I have. is a big step for the young couple. | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Both of them work six days a week but still found themselves in debt | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
after funding the medical costs for their baby son, who tragically died | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
from a heart defect. It is a new home and a new start. | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
TRANSLATION: We had a son and our son died. I think that is why this | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
is so important for us. It is going to give us hope and it is so good | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
to know that we will have our own place and our daughter can grave in | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
this new house. There is a huge sense of achievement because after | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
16 hours of hard work, in temperatures of up to 34 degrees, | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
the team are very nearly at the end of the building. Just a few | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
finishing touches left and very soon the family who this has been | :20:31. | :20:38. | |
in aid of will get the keys to their new home. That has to be one | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
of the most rewarding experiences I have had in my life and I will | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
remember it all ways. The young people may have helped this family | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
with their new home, but in turn the family have left them with an | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
experience they will remember for a lifetime. | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Fantastic work! Time for the sport, and we are just | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
one week into the Premier League season but we have a Derby already. | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
Yes, there is still a slim chance we might get some movement in the | :21:11. | :21:16. | |
transfer market before then, too. Yes, we are less than 48 hours from | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
the start of the Wear Tyne derby and Alan Pardew has said that Steve | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Harper is still very much in his plans, despite the club being | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
linked with Charlton keeper Rob Elliott. He will be on the bench | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
for the Magpies on Saturday, and Alan Pardew had hoped to have a | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
replacement for Jose Enrique at left-back before the trip, but | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
Brian Taylor looks certain to deputise. The big match comes just | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
one week into the season. It is a big fixture in the calendar. | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
The team is not fixed. No Premiership side is going to be | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
nailed down, with the exception of the teams in the Europa Cup. It is | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
a case of finding out what we are, and what qualities we have this | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
year which are different to last year. We had some debuts last week | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
which were encouraging and one or two players will have understood | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
that the Premiership is a level up from any division. They will adjust | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
to that. I cannot remember being involved with a club and your first | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
game is the local derby. But it is upon us. If I am honest, I would | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
have liked it in four months, because it is something everybody | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
looks forward to. It is very early. Can we produce a performance like | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
the second half at Anfield? If we do, we will be OK. We will hear | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
from Sunderland and Newcastle on tomorrow's look north in our | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
special preview of the Derby. Belgian international Ferris Haroun | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
has completed his move to Middlesbrough today after a | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
successful trial. He joins on a three-year deal and he could make | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
his debut against Birmingham on Sunday. | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
Not one new face, but 14 for Newcastle Falcons, who are taking | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
on Leeds in their only home a pre- season friendly tomorrow. With so | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
many new players, we thought we would introduce some of them. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
Ashley Wells, ran short Lunt, Richard Mayhew. While some are | :23:27. | :23:34. | |
clearly uncomfortable in front of camera, not a part-time model. But | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
how did he get such an exotic name. My mother decided that my father | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
could name me. I am not 100% sure where the name comes from, I think | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
it is Spanish or something. He is half Spanish, half Swedish, and my | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
step dad is Italian. With a name like that, up here it is inevitable | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
you are going to be called Geordie. Yes, it has already happened and I | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
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am sure it will not stop. Three team-mates are reunited. We first | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
met at a high-school. He was captain and I was vice captain. We | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
have been friends ever since then. We moved apart, and he moved to the | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
other side of the world and I followed him and we are back to do | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
battle again. It will certainly be a battle tomorrow night against | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Leeds, after the Falcons beat them to Premiership survival on points | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
on the last day of the season. need to prove that we deserve to be | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
here and that the right team went down. And winning breeds of winning. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
This is an opportunity to get a taste of winning again. The game | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
kicks off at 7:30pm tomorrow. It has been better than we expected | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
today. Just a bit but that is all set to | :24:59. | :25:08. | |
Tonight, heavy showers for the north-east, but much drier in | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Cumbria. This is the rainfall that caused the flooding you may have | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
heard about in the south-west. That is heading across our region. This | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
is the picture tonight and into the early hours. Very heavy, some of | :25:20. | :25:30. | |
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those showers. We are expecting anything up to 30 mm of rain, one | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
inch or more in the north-east. Much clearer in Cumbria. Another | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
chance, in the West, to see the International Space Station. More | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
details later. Showers overnight with the risk of localised flooding. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
It will be a chilly start to the morning in the West, but milder in | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
the east, and for all of us tomorrow will be a better day. | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
Showers should clear. Lovely spells of sunshine into the afternoon. | :26:02. | :26:09. | |
Through the afternoon, it is fine and dry. As we move west, it has | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
already started to cloud over again. The start of, yes, you guessed it, | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
another weather system coming from the West. Expected to cloud over | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
across the North-East, with showers spilling across from the West | :26:22. | :26:32. | |
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tomorrow evening and overnight. The weather is staying very unsettled | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
over the next few days. This is the picture for Saturday and Sunday. | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
Rain or showers at times, so a gloomy forecast for the Wear Tyne | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
derby. We are forecasting gloomy skies. This is the picture last | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
night. It is the International Space Station captured by Stephen | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
Jenkins in County Durham. This is when you can see it tonight over | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
Cumbria. Three minutes past midnight. | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
The headlines: Students are scrambling for | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
university places after A-level results were published today. There | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
has been a rush for clearing places because tuition fees increase next | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
year. A police searching for a missing | :27:24. | :27:27. |