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Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look North. Tonight: Arrested on | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
suspicion of assault, the policeman shot and blinded by gunman Raoul | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
Moat. The stolen taxi that crashed into | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
15 cars a while an elderly passenger sat in the back seat. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
We visit the school with a 99% pass rate in the GCSE exams. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
And the Flood victim who is getting on a bike to help stop this | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
happening again. In sport, Joey Barton mulls over a | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
move to QPR, and can Newcastle drone Middlesbrough in the third | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
round of the Carling Cup after Barrow win for the fifth to run in | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
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a row? -- can they joined David Rathband, the Northumbria | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Police officer who sprang to world wide attention following the Raoul | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
Moat shootings, has been arrested on suspicion of support -- assault, | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
following an alleged late-night incident at his home this week. A | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
year ago he was shot and blinded by Raoul Moat, who then went on the | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
run. David Rathband, an ordinary copper | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
until one night in July last year. As he sat in his patrol car in | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Newcastle, the fugitive Raoul Moat crept up and blasted him with a | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
shotgun. He says he did not expect to survive and he was left | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
completely blind. I have still got the same circle of friends and I | :01:37. | :01:43. | |
have obviously gained some people as a result of what happened. | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
an understatement. In reality, he had turned himself from victim into | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
he wrote, swearing that one day he would return to duty, and then | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
launching a charity to raise money for a mother -- other emergency | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
services personnel injured at work. Although he is on long-term sick | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
leave, David Rathband remains an employee of Northumbria Police, so | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
when they took a called just before midnight on Tuesday, reporting an | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
assault, when they were given an address they knew who would find | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
there. They also knew that because of David Rathband's prominence and | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
place in the hearts of the British public, this would be an incredibly | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
sensitive issue for them to deal with. All the force was so today | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
was that officers were called to a residential address in | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Northumberland and that a 43-year- old man was arrested on suspicion | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
of assault, and that inquiries are ongoing. The spokesperson for PC | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Rathband said no allegations had been made concerning his conduct | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
and that his family had asked that their privacy be respected. A 14 | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
year-old youth faces dangerous driving charges after stealing a | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
taxi and causing mayhem in a supermarket car-park. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
The taxi collided with 15 cars in the incident, which happened | :03:01. | :03:10. | |
outside the Tesco store at Newton Aycliffe in Durham. | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
For Newton Aycliffe taxi driver Trudie it was just a routine call, | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
to pick up two elderly shoppers at the local Tesco's superstore and | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
take them home. The customer got in the car. Her husband was taking the | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
trolley back. I went to shut the boot and spoke to another taxi | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
driver behind me. I turned around and the taxi was gone. A youth had | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
jumped into the front seat. He sped off around his car park. The police | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
say he collided with 15 cars, causing serious damage, and all | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
this with an elderly woman passenger sat in the back seat. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
saw him hit a car and then I heard people screaming. He hit another | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
car. I remember Rennie after the taxi. I did not know what to do. | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
one was hurt in the incident but the stolen taxi is now a write-off. | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
The damage he had done was unbelievable. The front wheels were | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
bent in. Durham Police say a 14 year-old youth has been arrested in | :04:18. | :04:28. | |
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connection with the incident and The mother of murdered teenager | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Ashleigh Hall is to take legal action against four police forces | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
who failed to apprehend her daughter's killer. Ashleigh was | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
kidnapped, raped and murdered by registered sex offender Peter | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Chapman, after meeting him on Facebook. Her mother, Andrea, has | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
now received two independent reports highlighting mistakes by | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
the Merseyside force, and failures to track Chapman's car by the | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
Cleveland, Durham and North Yorkshire forces. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Northumbria Police have released pictures of a handbag which led to | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
the discovery of a pensioner killed in her own home. Judith Richardson, | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
77, was found dead in the hallway of her house in Hexham on Friday. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
She had been attacked with a hammer. Her shoulder bag was found in a bin | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
in Newcastle earlier that day. Detectives have also released | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
pictures of a hammer similar to the one found in an Aldi carrier bag in | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
the street near her house. A man and a woman, aged 84 and 78, were | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
arrested on Monday. They have been released on bail. It is thought | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
robbery could have been the killer's motive. | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
Robbery may well be a motive. That is a line of inquiry we are | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
pursuing. We believe the handbag was stolen from the house in the | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
Hexham area and whoever committed the murder took the hand back to | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Newcastle where they discarded it in a rubbish bin. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
SELLACOPS Police guarding the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
are to be allowed to carry guns. The Civil Nuclear Constabulary says | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
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it is stepping up its training to The wait is finally over for | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
thousands of students across the North. The GCSE results came out | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
today, and just under 70 per cent of students were awarded grade C | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
and above. Adele Robinson has been to one school where they achieved a | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
99% pass rate. Nervous faces and the sound of | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
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whipping envelopes... I got all A* grades. And a great day in English. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
For most here at Emmanuel College in Gateshead, it will be A-levels | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
next and then university. I am going to go to sixth form and then | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
go to university to study biology. Probably astrophysics or something | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
like that, at university. But the prospect of the Hyatt tuition fees | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
mean some are looking at other options. Why go to university and | :07:02. | :07:07. | |
get a degree when I could just go and get a job straight away? It | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
does put you off. A 3, 2, 1! billions were released, symbolic of | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
the 99% pass rate here at the college, up like national rates for | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
the 23rd year in a road. 69.8 % across the UK have achieved at | :07:29. | :07:37. | |
least five grades A to grades C. Art exams becoming easier? There is | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
a right time for looking at that question. The universities need to | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
examine the exam papers and making that judgment, but the right time | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
to do that is not now. Right now the students are celebrating what | :07:50. | :07:59. | |
they have done. Also to celebrate their success here, 99 of these | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
ice-creams were given out. Of course, behind the GCSE | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
statistics today, there are countless stories of individual | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
successes. As we have heard, many have scored star grades but many | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
others have had a nail-biting day wondering whether their exam | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
results are good enough to see them realise their dreams. Our political | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
correspondent, Mark Denten, has spent the day with one student from | :08:25. | :08:34. | |
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County Durham. Toast made but not eaten. | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
Butterflies in the tummy. GCSE results day. Laura wants to be a | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
paramedic, but it is all about the grades. I am looking for or a C | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
grades. I am hoping that I will get all C grades. I do not want any B | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
grades. Law and her classmates are waiting for those crucial envelopes. | :08:57. | :09:05. | |
-- Laura. I have done quite well. You got the great that you needed, | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
the crucial secret? I did. When Europe looked more closely, she has | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
not passed her maths, so will her Grace really be enough to get her | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
into college? In the main hall, she meets a careers adviser. We leave | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
them to have a long chat. What is effectively happening here is a | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
giant jigsaw puzzle. Lots of students, lots of courses and an | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
effort by the college to fit them altogether. But this year there is | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
an additional piece of the jigsaw, money. This year the students will | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
not get education maintenance allowance. The college is trying to | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
bridge the gap through its own scheme but they still say the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
students will be put off. It is naive for anyone to think that the | :09:52. | :09:58. | |
abolition of a DNA is not going to have an impact. -- the abolition of | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
EMA. There is little evidence that EMA encouraged students to stay in | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
education you would not have otherwise done so. There is other | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
targeted support. How did she get on? She is in. I will be studying | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
here for two years now. I feel relieved. One student, or one day, | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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Still to come: Thursday's sports desk, plus... We talk to a man who | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
has been in the headlines for the last 25 years. | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
And the chances of Bank Holiday sunshine. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Her home, like many others, was wrecked by floods in 2009. Now | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
Jenny Benson from Cockermouth in Cumbria is taking part in a major | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
charity event to raise cash for flood defences in the town. The | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
work will cost �5 million and the local community needs to contribute | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
�300,000 towards the scheme. Jenny Benson's children love their new | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
garden. Its new flood defence looks like any other wall. During the | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
floods of 2009 it was very different, the garden and the | :11:17. | :11:25. | |
ground floor of their home taken over by the River Derwent. It took | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
nine months of work to make it habitable once more. Although | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
Jenny's home is back to normal, she wants to help pay for even more | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
flood defences in the town. So Jenny is doing a 40 mile sponsored | :11:39. | :11:49. | |
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bike race. The area has been defended but nothing would protect | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
against 2009, but there is an opportunity now for flood defences | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
for the rest of the town and it seems like a good way of giving | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
back a lot of support we received from neighbours and people around | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
the town. It seems like a good thing to do for Cockermouth in the | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
future. The defences at the back of the house have been completed but | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
more homes in the town are still vulnerable. The Environment Agency | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
plans to spend around �5 million more on defences in Cockermouth. | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
The community needs to raise �300,000 to get the remainder of | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
the funding from the Government. �100,000 has already been | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
contributed by the Cumbria Community Fund, which set up the | :12:28. | :12:38. | |
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ride Jenny is taking part in. was personally affected and the | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
money she raises will help the group but it also shines a light | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
and the valuable work this event has been raising money for local | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
charities. During the ride Jenny will come across here. It is one of | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
a number of flood damaged bridges to feature in the Jennings Rivers | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Ride. As part of the event, hundreds of cyclists will follow | :13:01. | :13:11. | |
routes up to 80mph long. All the entrance fees paid will go to good | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
causes across the county. The Hexham MP Guy Opperman has | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
recovered from a brain tumour and is now walking the Hadrian's Wall | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
trail. It is to raise money for the hospital which treated him. Mr | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Opperman collapsed at the House of Commons in April. He is now | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
recuperating with a six-day hike and a series of public meetings en | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
route. Adrian Pitches caught up with him at Newburn, alongside the | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
River Tyne. Guy Opperman and friends putting | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
their best foot forward along Hadrian's Way this morning. Mr | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
Opperman is walking the 80mph route in six days, just 100 days after he | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
collapsed at Westminster with a benign brain tumour that had to be | :13:51. | :14:01. | |
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surgically removed. Although I look absolutely fine now, it was scary | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
at the time, and the NHS was wonderful. I was discharged in May | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
and have been slowly working my way back to full fitness. I have been | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
full-time for the last three or four weeks and I thought it would | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
be a really good idea to use the time when Parliament is not sitting | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
to come down here back to the constituency, made a lot of people | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
but also support the local tourist business and the key tourist | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
attraction for this area is Hadrian's Wall. Before setting off | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
yesterday, he visited another hospital, the Freeman in Newcastle, | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
to lend his support to the children's heart unit. But he is | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
fundraising for two other institutions. I am supporting two | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
particular charities, the National neurological Hospital in London, | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
which saved my life. The National brain appeal. And locally, Tyne | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
Dail Hospice, which does an amazing amount of work looking after people. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
We are raising several thousands of pounds. I already have pledges from | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
several businesses. It is also a great chance to meet a lot of local | :15:07. | :15:12. | |
people and along the way we are having a series of meetings, a | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
public hall meetings every night. Is the Prime Minister keeping tags | :15:16. | :15:24. | |
and your progress? -- keeping tabs on your progress? He has sent me a | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
message and rang me up a couple of months ago as well. He is broadly | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
supportive but has a few other things to worry about right now. | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
Good luck. The Academy Award winning actress | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
Vanessa Redgrave has been taking time off set to visit Durham | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Johnston School and to rename their drama studio. This summer, scenes | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
for the new British comedy A Song For Marion are being filmed there. | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
And today the star unveiled a dedication plaque for the newly | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
named Redgrave Studio, honouring the school's links with the actress. | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
She shared a joke about the theatre her father opened, which closed | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
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after ten years. It is a lovely plaque. It is the | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
first Theatre Studio that I have ever had named after me. I am so | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
glad it is in a school and I am deeply glad it is being Durham | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
Johnston School. I want to say a big thank you to the school | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
especially for having made it possible for us. | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
Now for the last in our Headliners series, and it is the first of a | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
two-part interview, because the gentleman in question has been in | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
the headlines for the best part of the past 25 years! Sir John Hall is, | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
of course, the man behind the Gateshead Metro Centre and he also | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
revolutionised Newcastle United Football Club. Last year he was | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer, but he's looking good, at | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
79. And he was in top form when I went to meet him at his home - | :16:55. | :17:04. | |
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Wynyard Hall, on Teesside. How are you? I am fine. The cancer | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
is under control. The side effects from the drug affect me but I am | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
still good. There are worst cancers. But I am working hard, looking | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
forward to new projects. Looking forward to the team playing a game. | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
Kevin Keegan era, that must have been the most enjoyable time? | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
were moments, probably, but we will always remember. Hopefully they | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
will be recaptured in the years to come. Kevin was looking to find us | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
and we were looking to find Kevin. Nobody could motivate people as | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
well as Kevin could. He got the best out of them and gave them the | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
licence to play football. Had we won the league it would have given | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
the club the big impetus. It was an exciting team and after that it did | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
not work out to a degree and Kevin left and after that we had a | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
succession of managers. Some who are would not even give a job again, | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
some of them quite useless. The pundits have today tell us about | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
football. They should ask the Geordie fans! The exception, of | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
course, was Bobby Robson - who turned down Sir John's initial | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
approach, to stay loyal to Barcelona. He did very well when he | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
came but can you imagine when he was at the peak of his power and | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
his marriage and skills? Imagine where we would have been -- the | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
peak of his power and his management skills. And, no telling | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
where the club might have been without Sir John. But four years | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
later he made the break - selling his majority shareholding to Mike | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
Ashley. We were local millionaires. There was a passion from the heart | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
and we were investing in something we loved. And today that has gone. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
The moment Abramovich came in, in my view, it destroyed the game. I | :19:12. | :19:21. | |
feel angry at time ask -- I feel angry at times about the way the | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
press handled all this. He is an excellent businessman with a lot of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
money but I do not think he understood the Geordie mentality. | :19:30. | :19:39. | |
We have been very close to the fans. At the end of the day it was him | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
and them. It was repeated. I think he generally means well and I hope | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
he can basically now decide what he is going to do an hour they get it | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
right or move on. So that's Newcastle, but did you know he used | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
to be a season ticket holder at Roker Park? Purely business, of | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
course! I had two tickets, for Douglas and myself. We used to do | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
go one week to Sunderland and the next week back to Newcastle. I am a | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Geordie and I was taken to Newcastle when I was eight. You can | :20:16. | :20:23. | |
never get that out of your blood but I felt I had to do it, but my | :20:23. | :20:33. | |
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heart has always been north of the water. | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
And there'll be more from Sir John tomorrow, including news of his | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
plans for a major tourist attraction for Teesside. So he | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
still watches Newcastle, who are in Carling Cup action tonight, Dawn? | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
Let's start with the Carling Cup, and Carlisle United have missed out | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
on a glamour tie after West Ham's surprise defeat at home to | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Aldershot last night. The League Two club will now host the | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Cumbrians in a delayed second round tie next Tuesday. Well, already | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
through to Saturday's third round draw are in-form Middlesbrough. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
Mark Tulip rounds up the action. Hosts Peterborough had scored seven | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
in their last home match but few teams are in as confident a mood as | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
talent Joe Bennett set up the trusty right foot of Barry Robson | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
whose precise finish gave adventurous Boro the lead. Summer | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
signing Malaury Martin tried his luck, as did Tony McMahon, but a | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
back-post free header from Seb Hines did double the lead as the | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
visitors took control and they'd been out of sight if their effort | :21:22. | :21:32. | |
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from Martin had squeezed in. In the second half, Danny Coyne was at his | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
sharpest in the Boro goal as Peterborough rallied,this double | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
save probably the pick of the bunch. Tony Mowbray's men were denied a | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
third but at the final whistle it was mission accomplished - five | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
wins in a row. Will this be enough to entice a really big crowd back | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
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to the Riverside for Coventry's The Newcastle midfielder Joey | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
Barton is still thinking over a move to QPR. The 28-year-old was at | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
their training ground today to undergo the second part of a | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
medical but left London without signing a contract. He treated this | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
afternoon that he needs to think before clinching a deal. He was | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
told he could leave United after falling out over transfer policy. | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
He was always going to be rested by Newcastle fought their trip to | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
Scunthorpe tonight. There will also be without Steve Harper. He did not | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
trouble with the squad, after picking up a slight knock to his | :22:35. | :22:45. | |
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knee. If you feel you are strong enough to attack the Cup, and | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
attack the Premier League with the squad you have got, then of course | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
it is a target. For us, you only had to look at our bench on | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Saturday and the players who did not make the bench like Alan Smith, | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
to note that a week are much stronger as a squad this year. To | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
attack this competition and the FA Cup. | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
There was disappointment for South Sheilds' Sarah Clark today at the | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
World Judo Championships. The Edinburgh-based athlete was knocked | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
out in second round in Paris after being unable to overcome the | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
reigning European champion and World number two, Gevrise Emane. | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
No doubt I will fight her in the next few months, which will be | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
great in the lead-up to London. She's one of the top players in the | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
world that I need to compete against. I can take the environment, | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
the noise and burrs, which will be the same in London. But the most | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
important thing is to take that tiny bit against that opponent. | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Cricket. Congratulations to Scott Borthwick and Ben Stokes. Today | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
they became the sixth and seventh Durham players to make their | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
England debuts, in the one-day game against Ireland. Stokes, who later | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
took a good catch, was dismissed for just three but his county | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
teammate Borthwick at least hit a six during his short innings. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
England won by 11 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis system. Meanwhile, | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
a big set-back for Yorkshire in their fight against relegation. | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
They suffered an innings defeat against Warwickshire this afternoon. | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
Not good news for them. And not cricket weather this | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
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It turned out nice again for most of us today. It is improving all | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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You can see the iconic Cale are here in the photograph. Also at the | :24:43. | :24:53. | |
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Although we will have sunny spells this weekend there will also be a | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
good deal of the showers, and quite blustery as well. High wind. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
Tomorrow, this rain creeping up the eastern side are region. For | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
Saturday, the wind does start to pick up. For Sunday, really quite | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
close, a strong wind. Showers moving away for the bulk of | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
Saturday for Sunday. By its bank holiday Monday things look settled. | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
The wind is dying down. Although not everywhere will be bright | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
sunshine from morning to night, it will not be throwing it down for | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Bank Holiday Monday, which makes a very nice change indeed. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
This evening, a fair few showers around but they are melting away | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
now. A mostly dry night ahead of us. Light wind overnight so a touch of | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
mist and fog in places. Overnight lows dip down to about ten Celsius | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
for many of us. Friday will be a little bit like today in the | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
morning, with the cloud coming up from the South and the rain edging | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
up the eastern coast. Not as intense as this morning but it will | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
make its presence felt in the East in particular through the day. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
Fragments of rain pushing in leant towards the West but again, like | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
today, Cumbria very best with dry skies and brightness. | :26:27. | :26:37. | |
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Tom temperatures tomorrow no great Air reminder of the weekend. For | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
Cumbria, some fairly hefty showers on Saturday. This is not snow. It | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
is Hale. For Sunday, the showers make a bit of a comeback. On a | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
Sunday and Monday the temperatures do not pick up. For the North East, | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
not dissimilar. The showers to continue over the weekend, a bit | :27:05. | :27:15. | |
A last look at the headlines: Libya's Colonel Gaddafi is on the | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
run but has issued another call to arms to his supporters, telling | :27:19. | :27:25. |