06/09/2011 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight. The ferry that

found a needle in a haystack. An amazing rescue story after a woman

falls overboard in the middle of the night.

In the Raoul Moat inquest, Moat's brother claims he could have kept

him alive. Police explain why they kept him away from the fatal stand-

off. Decision day for a controversial

Tesco application. And the small town which could end up with six

superstores. And an SOS goes out, after three

baby miniature goats are stolen from their mother. In sport - we

meet the former Falcons duo hoping to coach a university to rugby

glory. And Olympic dreams. The Cumbrian

eventer hoping to make the team for It's being called a miracle rescue.

Last night, A 23-year-old woman fell overboard into the North Sea

on a ferry crossing from North Shields to the Netherlands. She

spent up to 30 minutes in the water, in the pitch black - yet the DFDS

Princess Seaways was able to turn around and find her. She was

airlifted to hospital and has now been discharged, as Damian O'Neil

reports. If you've ever made an overnight

ferry crossing and looked down at the blackness of the churning,

bitterly cold North Sea, you can imagine the utter horror of going

overboard. If the fall doesn't knock you unconscious, you have

very little time. There's widespread amazement that the 23-

year-old woman from Hertfordshire who fell in last night is still

alive. We sake time and again how people lucky when we have dealt

with incidents but it does not apply any more than to this

incident. She has been particularly lucky, with the time of day and how

far off a short it was. The ferry was absolutely fantastic in their

actions. They immediately reversed course and spotted her fairly

quickly and launched a fast rescue craft from the ferry itself and

pick up. Experts who teach people how to survive in the sea say the

woman's life expectancy was measured in minutes. Within half an

hour you are really suffering. And now you're incapable of swimming,

your hands have given up and that is when you would really start

taking in water and probably drown. So it's little surprise that the

helicopter crew who airlifted her off the ship feared the worst.

we heard in the situation, in the end should been in the water for

half an hour and chances of survival normally of fairly minimal

so lucky to have got out what seems like fairly unscathed. The ferry

had some very good drills to get out of the water in the time that

they did because you cannot imagine how hard it is to find a small head

bobbing around in the Black Sea. They did extremely well to get her

out in time and someone was looking favourably on her today. Despite

all this, the woman is now recovering at home, but is very

possibly aware that if she has nine lives, at least eight of them have

been used up. Police have charged Graeme Jarman

with the murder of a pensioner in Northumberland last month. Judith

Richardson, who was 77, was found bludgeoned to death at her home in

Hexham. After a nationwide hunt, Jarman - who's 47 and from Consett

in County Durham - was arrested in North Yorkshire on Saturday. He'll

appear before Newcastle magistrates tomorrow morning.

The police have been explaining why they chose to turn down an offer of

help from Raoul Moat's brother, as they tried to persuade the gunman

to give himself up. Moat was cornered by the police after

shooting and injuring his former girlfriend, shooting dead her new

partner, and shooting and blinding a police officer. Then, after a

six-hour stand-off on the riverbank at Rothbury in Northumberland, Moat

turned his gun on himself. Chris Stewart has been at day two of the

inquest into Moat's death. Chris - we know, don't we, that Moat's

brother Angus wanted to help? Yes, and we heard that today

shortly after we heard about a taped message from Raoul Moat to

the police in which he said he would rather take a shoot-out then

go back to jail. Angus thought that if he had been taken to Rothbury he

could have helped. The police thought that could make things even

worse. Angus Moat on his way into the hearing. Same mother as Raoul

Moat. Different father. And the brothers drifted apart in 1996. So

much so, that by the time of the Rothbury stand-off - seen for the

first time from these police helicopter pictures - they hadn't

had any contact for seven or eight years. When the police cornered the

fugitive, they did so in the knowledge that a dictaphone message

he'd left for them said he wanted to go on killing police officers -

and was ready for a shoot-out. But he'd also stated on that tape that

he was massively estranged from his family. The inquest was told that

that, allied with everything they knew about Raoul Moat, persuaded

the police that introducing Angus to the stand-off might have

inflamed the situation. When Angus was asked the satiny whether his

comments about wanting to help were principally motivated by guilt

about there being no close contact with his brother for so long, he

replied, at not principally, it is a factor, but not principally. Also

giving evidence, this man. Peter Blake, nearest the camera, says

he's Raoul Moat's biological father - but had never known him. The

coroner asked whether he was in any position to know how Moat would

react. Who would know how anyone would react in these circumstances,

he replied. And then he was asked to stand down.

We also heard today from someone who said he was Raoul Moat's best

friend. Yes, a man called Anthony Wright.

He went to police negotiations and they spent hours picking his brains.

What would end range Raoul Moat, what would calm him down? In the

end he was taken to Rothbury but was not introduced to the

negotiations. He says he is still tortured to this day by the thought

that he might have been able to After years of wrangling, Tesco has

been given permission for a superstore in Harrogate. The

District Council agreed the plan this afternoon despite strong local

opposition. Ian White has just sent us this report.

It has taken five years to get to today but it took council has just

two hours to approve the development of the new Tesco store

which will be cited to the north of the town. It was a lively meeting

and one member of the public was asked to leave. The issue centred

around Maine the congestion for an already congested Harrogate and

also the fact that this Tesco store will be sited on an old gas works.

After the meeting I spoke to one of the objectors. We expressed the

concern of the impact on a beautiful town centre shopping

environment, the impact on our traffic and transport on the main

roads, and, most important, the risk of some disaster on the cast

think and live pipework that will remain life even when the store is

built and in operation. Let us get more reaction to the decision and I

am joined by the leader of the Council and the man from Tesco.

are certainly pleased with the decision by the committee. It was

Good To hear in the debate about the popularity of the scheme and

the fact that that area of hurried it needs a supermarket. Objectors

say they are worried by health and safety. The Highways have been gone

over by the councils and they found that the wider network of Harrogate

and the rate situation will improve. Tom MacKenzie is from Harrogate

Borough Council. Are you plays with the way things went? I thought both

sides presented their case is very well. I pulled the members of the

planning committee asked all the right questions on the debate was

of a high quality and I think in the end they have reached the right

decision. This is a commercial decision, isn't it, for the benefit

of Tesco? I do not think the two are mutually exclusive. You speak

to people around hurried and they say they just want access to a

supermarket in their area of -- in Harrogate. It is good for us but it

is also good for Harrogate. This will now be referred to the

Secretary of State for his approval. And Harrogate isn't alone. Further

east, Malton - a town with a population of just 4,000 - looks

likely to be home to SEVEN supermarkets. And many traders fear

new superstore developments could hit their businesses hard. Ian

Reeve reports. Melanie works in a butcher's

business that's been in Malton since the 1800s. But, she fears, if

any more big supermarkets come to the town her trade will suffer.

There are already four in and around Malton, three more are

planned. It is just a lovely town but it is going to get inundated

with either charity shops or supermarkets. Mainly supermarkets,

and we don't want any more. We have got enough. Melanie's not alone in

worrying for her business. A survey of traders in the town found 80%

are vehemently against the biggest proposal, on a council car park,

that locals believe is earmarked for Tesco. It brings a lot of jobs

but the loss of jobs in the other businesses that closed down will

compensate for that. The money goes out of town, it doesn't recycle,

the money that is spent by people in our shops, which pays the people

who live locally, and their wages are then spent locally again.

says it hasn't signed anything. For its part,, the council says the

critical survey doesn't represent all traders. And it's keen to

stress the benefits that a new supermarket could bring to this

market town. To have, we hope, some cheaper petrol station cruder

filling station that is also proposed, to have two hours of free

parking to do the supermarket shop and then going used the many

wonderful stores in the shop will hopefully lead to real benefit.

the council would get �5 million from the sale of its site. A lawyer

friend of Charles Dickens lived in Malton and called it the most

remarkable place of its site in England and the most beautiful.

With the plethora of supermarkets, will that opinion have to be

revised? The council, it seems, thinks not, the traders, or some of

them, say it will. And some even fear, that for them, it could be

game over. If you're looking for a job - well,

we all know times are hard. So anything you can do to, make

yourself stand out in the employment market, surely has to be

worth considering? But how many of us would go this far? Joe Busby

from Gateshead is getting his CV out there - on his back. Yes, he's

wearing it. A walking job application, if you like. Gerry

Jackson caught up with him. He is not just saying give us a job, he

is saying why you should. Joe Busby has a degree in business management

but has been looking for a job since January. I thought I have to

do something different. For Joe it means not being fussy about he sees

you were weeds all about you. The thing about the street like this is

there a lot of people who might notice joke, but also a lot of

people he could get lost among. He paid �25 for his T-shirt, quite to

some, but then all advertising is an investment. I am and management

graduate, a bit depressed at the Jobcentre. You have be very

specific about what you want to answer a your qualities. I wish him

all the best. I cannot be due seat so I have to try anything. It might

get a few looks, ready to take that it as long as one person comes in

and gives me that chance at the end. Did he hard-bitten recruitment

consultant, is this all a gimmick? He is getting off his backside and

doing it. Indeed put yourself in the eye of potential employers, and

he has done precisely that, with a slightly off the wall approach.

Good on him. Aren't sure it will lead to something. If you want to

win the lottery, you have to buy a ticket, and this is my ticket to

potentially getting that one-in-a- million chance of a dream job.

never know. Still to come, we'll be meeting

another of our Olympic hopefuls dreaming of a place in the London

Games. And I'll be welcoming back to the studio sofa someone we

haven't seen for quite a while. I will be here with a full weather

forecast as well as revealing which winning weather picture could be

hanging on your wall next August. Thieves have stolen three pigmy

goat kids from a visitor attraction in North Yorkshire. Staff at the

Maize Maze near Easingwold say the kids will certainly die in a few

days if they can't get their mother's milk. They've made an

appeal for the animals to be returned immediately. Here's Peter

Lugg. For much of the summer they have

been one of the star attractions at the Maise Maze children's farm near

Easingwold. Now it seems these pygmy goat kids hold such a

fascination that someone has made off with three of them. They went

missing on Sunday night. They were all right when a winter 7pm and a

work about 8am and they were not there, these three. I think they

have climbed over two fences and through some rough grass. The at

Mays has now closed for the summer and the remaining animals and move

to a safe location. Daisy, the mother whose kids have been stolen,

is full of milk and widely pining for her offspring. She is terribly

distressed, pleating all the time. They will not live for more than

three days alas they are fed milk. If the people do not know what

they're doing, they will staff. farm has appealed to anyone who has

the goats, just to drop them back in the field when they got them

from. That was a sad story. Time for

sport. It only seems to minutes since we were down at Wembley with

Carlisle and another big night of them.

Carlisle United begin their defence of the Johnstone's Paint trophy

tonight with a trip to Accrington Stanley. The Cumbrians have

featured in the last two finals and could have Wembley hero Peter

Murphy back in the team to face the League Two club.

Unlike Premier League footballers, Premiership rugby players are

rarely millionaires when they stop playing. So what does life after

rugby mean for two former Newcastle Falcons, Hall Charlton and Andy

Buist? Well, it's back to University for the pair who have

teamed up to become the latest coaching partnership at Northumbria.

In the shadow of Kingston Park, where they plied their trade in

rugby's Premiership, Andy Buist and Hall Charlton are the new driving

force behind Northumbria's rugby at club and student level. Rugby's

model pros are now hoping to make their mark behind the scenes,

making Team Northumbria and the university side a force to be

reckoned with. Hall's 13-year playing career at the Falcons ended

just four months ago - coaching is a whole new ball game and there's a

steep learning curve ahead. In the coaches winning all the time he

probably thinks is the world's best coach and will want to continue,

and vice versa, if I was to lose all the games are would beat the

world's worst coach. But it think it is whether we make that

progression. As long as we are making progress, that is the main

thing. Andy Buist's made huge progress since his rugby career was

cruelly cut short by injury two years ago at the age of 25, but it

could be a blessing in disguise. is sad that I have to retire John,

it has been done it be a young coach. A lot of my mates when they

retire, by the time I'd and that age, I should outdo them at

coaching experience. England manager one day? I'm keeping in

touch with all my friends to play at high levels are there when they

get a job they can give me an assistant job!

As the Olympic games draws closer, we're following a number of

competitors from our region, and Cumbrian event rider Ruth Edge is

one of those with dreams of making it to London 2012. The 32-year-old

from Brampton was a reserve for the Beijing Olympics, but an injury to

her horse forced their withdrawal. She's hoping next year could be her

year, as Katie Gornall reports. The Olympics is everything for

writers, trained as owners, it is the peak of what you want Ritchie.

C is an incredibly hard worker. am really hoping that next year

could be my chance. As an eight- year-old girl, Ruth Edge would

dream of becoming an event rider - now she dreams of competing for

Team GB at the Olympics. Her hopes of making it to 2012 are pinned on

a horse called Nick of Thyme. a really exciting prospect. He is

good at his dress such. The cross country comes next and he is very

good at that difficult fences. The final phase, the show jumping, he

is a really careful jumper and he does not often have a fence down.

The Cumbrian rider has been knocking on the door of Team GB's

senior eventing team for several years. She was a reserve for the

Beijing Olympics with her previous horse, Two Thyme - but was forced

to withdraw. He had run really well up one of the selection trials and

I was really hopeful and then unfortunately he had an injury from

going up the gallops, which was really cutting. We were really sad

because I thought this was could be my chance to make the senior

British team. It's the only Olympic sport where men and women compete

against each other on equal terms and it's a tough team to break into.

Ruth knows that if she can avoid injury and peak at the right time

then she's in with a chance. With eventing, so much can go wrong and

the event selectors needed could pick base of forces that could

possibly make the Olympics because horses and riders get injured so

easily. At the last Olympics at two horses went wrong at the last

minute and they called him people at the last minute and they ended

up winning medals for us. Yours at be performing at your best and you

could always get that call up. Edge has been based in Brampton in

Cumbria for the past 11 years. And since most of Ruth's competitions

take place outside the county, her and her team are often travelling -

but when you're packing for up to six horses its no ordinary road

trip. It is always a massive operation. The do well the horse

things and the news and it relies you have not put your bags in. I

had my own bedroom up there. Ruth and her team are hopeful that in 10

months time it will be parked up in Greenwich for the start of the

Olympic Eventing competition. me to just be on that team and do

the best I can, hopefully to win Britain a gold medal at the

Olympics, would be a dream come true.

We will have another Olympic hopeful tomorrow. A little book

back to summer. We are revealing the winner of last month's whether

competition and it involved a trip to the seaside for Paul Mooney.

There has been a lifeboat station here and one thing that remains

constant is the willingness of the volunteer crews to take to the

North Sea and rescue people in all weathers. So who better to choose

the winning August weather picture? These days, RNLI belies his home to

an inshore lifeboat which is in increasing demand with 20 call-outs

already this year. -- Blyth. Back on dark rye land it was down to

work. By coincidence, the shortlist included shots submitted by one man

they knew. We all liked the action shot of the lifeboat but the

picture did not really represent August. We all liked the photograph

on the grouse more because it has a really colourful landscape with the

sunset in the background. It captures August well so it made it

into a top four. This one court Arab tension, the lighthouse at St

Mary's. We like it because it is a local landmark, just down the coast.

The picture we have chosen, we have seen some of his work previously.

We have chosen this picture because it sums up a nice August sun rise

on the beach. We feel it is one of those photographs we want could

take a stroll along the beach. We would like to congratulate the

And a massive well done to last more's winner. He will be up to get

your come under for 2012 as of next month and we will give you all the

details. First, a look at how windy it has been today. A round the

region you concede that the Let us take a look at the headline

for tonight. More strong winds to Parfitt the north-east. It is

pretty breezy here on the BBC roof and across the region. It is dry

for a time in the north-east. In Cumbria, the showers will much for

a time into what longer spell of rain, blown in on the westerly

breezes. The breezes will be over 20 in mph in terms of the mean

speed. The mean speeds are sustained for five minutes or more.

It is dry for most places first thing tomorrow. It is really gusty

appear, I hope you can hear me OK! It is going to be a bully start in

the morning. Showers start a blow into the West, particularly

widespread in Cumbria. Many parts of the north-eastern North

Yorkshire will stay dry with some spells of sunshine. The top

temperature tomorrow 18 Celsius. We were buoyed the shares and get the

sunshine, and when you're sheltered from the wind, it will feel

reasonably pleasant -- avoid the showers. On Thursday the will see

that the wind finally becomes light. Bright skies, as well with just one

or two isolated showers, so at fine day to come on Thursday. Do not get

too used to that loan. On Friday, at the winds start to begin to pick

up again. It starts to cloud over, with some places seeing the cloud

thicken, particularly for North Yorkshire and then the rain later

in the day. That sets the scene for another unsettled weekend with more

Atlantic weather systems waiting in the West to bring in more wet and

windy weather. Very breezy over the Amazing how the petals managed to

stay on her flower! Before we go, a welcome back to someone you might

just remember. It's Carol! Where have you been? As if he did not

know. But been busy popping out a second baby! How has it been?

has been very busy but I had been looking forward to coming back. I'm

feeling a bit rusty, but you have done a great job. We had been

keeping the site for warmth. -- the sofa. We managed to go upstairs and

have a catch-up about work issues. At slip the luxury appeared to do

that without having somebody taking up the trouser legs. And it was a

boy, so you have one of beach. a full house. And both fit and

healthy, so we are blessed. Getting back to normal, normally tomorrow.