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Welcome to Look North. Coming up: My son, the hero - a father's pride | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
in the Marine caught in one of the fiercest firefights of the | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
Afghanistan conflict. From this to this - Nissan | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
celebrates 25 years of car making in the North East. | :00:21. | :00:31. | |
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Why today is such a special day for this little boy. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
And get your TV recorders ready - you could help track down these | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
people, snapped 30 years ago. In sport, Newcastle boss Alan | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Pardew talks about the club's failure to sign a new striker. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
And we're going wild about the new team from Aycliife, who're about to | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
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enter big-time basketball. It's been described as one of the | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
most ferocious battles of the war in Afghanistan. 14 Commandos | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
trapped and surrounded from all directions by Taliban fighters. But | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
incredibly, after a three-hour gun fight. The Commandos fought their | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
way out alive. Today the father of one of those soldiers, Lance | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
Corporal Steven Hughes from Darlington, hailed them all heroes. | :01:17. | :01:27. | |
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Stuart Whincup reports. It's been dubbed the Battle of | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
Compound 62. Surrounded from all sides, the Commandos were down to | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
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their last few rounds of ammunition. Lance Corporal Steven Hughes was | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
one of those caught up in the gunfight. His father said the | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
footage of his son's company under attack was horrifying. I was | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
absolutely mortified, and hearing my son's name being shouted, then | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
hearing his voice responding just, obviously - well, words can't | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
explain what I felt, to comprehend thinking that he could have been | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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killed at any second. Move in! Marines from Lima Company 42 | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
Commando had been on an operation clearing Nad-e-Ali of insurgents | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
when they were attacked. Forced inside a tiny compound - more than | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
30 grenades were hurled at them. They finally fought there way out | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
when an Apache helicopter provided covering fire. They're an invisible | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
enemy because when there is a firefight and things like that they | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
just throw the weapons, and they blend into the background, and they | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
appear and disappear. It's very rare that you actually see them, | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
but I do know from the phone call that I had that there were actually | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
eye-to-eye contact with these people this time. The footage from | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
the front line will for many serve as a reminder of the difficult and | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
dangerous jobs our soldiers do on a daily basis. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
It's 25 years since this bit of artistic endeavour signalled the | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
birth of car making on Wearside. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
officially opened Nissan's plant on Wearside. For many, it was life | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
changing. Today that modest operation on the site of the | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Sunderland airfield has grown into one of our most important jobs | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
providers. Well our business correspondent Ian Reeve is outside | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
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the Sunderland plant now. Ian. Yes, it was called a Doruma Doll | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
that Mrs Thatcher was painting that second I on. The cars that will | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
come off the line today, like this, the Leaf, are very different than | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
the ones 25 years ago. Back then we were paying �2 for a gallon of | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
petrol. The average house was costing us about �40,000. Joanne | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
Carter now looks back 25 years. For the region's ship-building | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
industry, 1986 was its horrible year. Smiths Docks in Middlesbrough | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
waved goodbye to its last vessel bringing an 80 year history to a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
close. It was a similar story for yards all over Tyneside and | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Wearside. In all some 2,000 people were out of work. And it wasn't | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
much better in the pits. Hordon and Peterlee were shut, closely | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
followed by Bates and Blyth. Only nine collieries were left. | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
Finding a job was hard. No wonder Jarrow marched to London, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
recreating the famous jobs crusade of fifty years ago. But it wasn't | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
all doom and gloom. The sun shone as the Tall Ships race sailed away | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
from the Tyne. The pitch at St James Park was invaded as 38,000 | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Queen fans watched the band kick off their European tour. And men | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
all over the North cursed John Hall as the Metro Centre became a mecca | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
for women who wanted to shop until they drop. In sport it was a big | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
year for Steve Cram who won gold in the 1500 metres at the European | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
Championships. Cumbrian-based jockey John Jo O'neil won the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Cheltenham Gold Cup on Dawn Run. The Boro survived being thrown out | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
of the Football League. And there was a hero's welcome at Newcastle | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
airport for Peter Beardsley who'd helped England to the quarter | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
finals of the world cup before they were knocked out by Argentina and | :05:23. | :05:32. | |
Maradona's now infamous hand of God. So September the 8th, 1986 and | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
Nissan officially launched its Sunderland plant. These were coming | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
off the line, but compared to the plant today, it was a much more | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
modest affair. When Mrs Thatcher gave the plant the seal of approval, | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
they had no idea the importance the company would come to have in the | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
regional economy. In the first year of production, just 5,000 cars came | :05:55. | :06:03. | |
off the blind, Bluebirds made in Japan and merely assembled in | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
Sunderland. What a difference 25 years makes. Today the plant's | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
achievements are long and impressive. More than 6 million | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
cars have come out of the plant. It employs about 5,000 workers, | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
supports a long supply chain and has seen investments of nearly �3.5 | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
billion. To celebrate that all and the plant's 25th birthday, a time | :06:27. | :06:34. | |
capsule was planted today, a ceremony that was held when the | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
company first started. The first car we produced in September 25 | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
years ago was a tremendous memory for me. More recently, I think, the | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
allocation of the Nissan Leaf, the new electric vehicle. 130 workers | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
from that first day still work at the plant. Bob Sanderson filled in | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
the very first application form. has certainly been an experience | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
I'll never forget over 25 years. We have seen some highs and lows, but | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
one thing that has been continuous is the push to make sure that we | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
make good, quality cars. Over those 25 years, Nissan has embedded | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
itself in the regional economy, and only with the odd blip some | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
redundancies. A bookie in 1992 criticising the working culture | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
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here. And the Cane Gang had a Dart That apart, Nissan has only | :07:41. | :07:48. | |
attracted growing accolade, but as a story of staggering success, how | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
could it have done anything else? word about the time capsules. Back | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
in 1984, one of the thing that is buried was a Sunderland football | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
club shirt and a bottle of whiskey. Today they put that shirt in but a | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
manifesto from the Chamber of Commerce and Gateshead's annual | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
review. I think the people that find it in the future, I think | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
they're in for a less-than-riveting read. Depends who they are. Thank | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
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you very much. The inquest into the death of the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
gunman Raoul Moat has been told this afternoon that he asked a | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
police marksman to shoot him. Moat was found in Rothbury in | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
Northumberland after murdering one man, shooting and injuring his | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
former girlfriend and shooting and blinding a policeman. Our chief | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
reporter Chris Stuart has been listening to the evidence. The | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
firearms officer has been allowed to give evidence anonymously? | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
so will the other officers. You'll remember they drafted in help from | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
all around the country. And this evidence giving evidence in court, | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
only referred to as "Officer E-15" is actually from the West Yorkshire | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
force. These pictures were filmed shortly after the standoff began. | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
One of the officers here - we don't know which one - is E-15. He said | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
when he spotted Raoul Moat and approached from behind, the | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
fugitive put his sawn-off shotgun to his head, turned around and said, | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
"Shoot me". The coroner asked what he would have done if he turned the | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
gun towards him. He rePlaid, "I'd have shot him, sir." As for the | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
negotiations, they seemed to be going no-where, and Moat gave no | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
indication he had anything to live for. Look North viewer Peter | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Aveston filmed those pictures, which were shown to the jury today. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
His house overlooks the river bank. The jury were told he had gone on | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
to BBC Radio to tell what was happening. There has been a | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
shooting? Yes, from what I can see, he laid down and shot himself. | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
you see this? Yes, I am looking at it now. The paramedics look as | :10:15. | :10:23. | |
though they're leaning over the man, and the cordon of police around and | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
that's about as much as I can see. They've lit up the whole of the | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
area very bright. He told the inquest today that from what he saw, | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
the police behaved thoroughly professionally. | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
What's also worth mentioning is today we heard a tape recording of | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
parts of the negotiation process, and we heard how Moat was | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
repeatedly told he should stay alive for the sake of his children. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
But at one point, he says, "It's too late." | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
Chris, thank you. Proposals to move Cumbria's fire | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
and rescue control centre to Warrington in Lancashire are back | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
on the table. The original plan to relocate from Cockermouth to | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
Warrington were dropped. The 12 emergency call handlers who work in | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Cockermouth were told not to speak to the press by the council, but | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
Look North is told they're a deeply concerned their detailed knowledge | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
of the area would be lost, but it said a new centre would bring | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
technological benefits. technology that'll be provided with | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
this system will be state of the art and clearly allow us to | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
identify where calls have been made from. It shouldn't be underplayed | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
the skill of the fire control operators plays a big part in | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
understanding the best way to get to those incidents and the type of | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
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resources required. The woman who fell into the sea from an overnight | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
ferry from North Shields to Amsterdam has been speaking about | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
her amazing escape. Jeni Anderson, who's 23 and a graduate of | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
Northumbria University, survived in the North Sea for almost half an | :12:12. | :12:21. | |
hour before she was rescued. Jeni Anderson is winched to rescue after | :12:21. | :12:31. | |
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being ferried in. She had been with friends when she plunged overboard | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
60 feet. I remember feeling like I was going to die. That was a bit of | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
a shock, but I just kept thinking that wasn't the way I wanted to go, | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
just fighting for my life, doing everything I could to Ensure if | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
they were look for me, they could find me. I remember trying to swim | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
after the boat which obviously I knew wasn't really a realistic | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
thing that was going to happen, but just at least that was something | :13:00. | :13:06. | |
for me to follow and just shouting and screaming so they could hear me. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
But how did she fall into the sea? I just remember being up on deck | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
with two of my friends. I don't remember exactly what happened. I | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
just remember the feeling of going over the side. Apparently, I held | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
on for a bit. My friend saw me hold on to the railings, and then | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
obviously I couldn't hold on for much longer, and then obviously | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
fell into the sea. How lucky does she feel she was? The captain said | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
that in 20 years of experience of him being a captain of a ferry, | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
he's never known anybody to be found having gone overboard. I am | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
very lucky. A lot of people have said I should put a lottery ticket | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
on this weekend. I might do that. That's one lucky girl. | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Coming up: have your TV recorders ready. You could be one of these | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
people snapped 30 years ago a photographer wants to track down. | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
It looks decent tomorrow before things turn blustery for the | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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weekend. I'll have all the details shortly. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
When Robbie Jones was a year old he was struck down by meningitis and | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
lost both legs. He was given just a 5% chance of survival. Well, he's | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
beaten the odds - and he's making the most of it. Robbie, who's now | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
four, has learned to use prosthetic legs, raised thousands of pounds | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
for his future and walked his mum down the aisle on her wedding day. | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
Today, he reached another major milestone as Stephanie Lloyd | :14:42. | :14:51. | |
reports. Excited for your big day? You'll see all your friends again. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
A child's first day at school is a moving day for any parent, but you | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
just have to look at Robbie Jones's mum's face to see how significant | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
today is for the family. Yeah, I am really emotional. It's more proud | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
than anything because we're over the moon. He's going just like any | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
normal kid, you know? He's look forward to it, aren't you? Yeah, | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
looking forward to seeing all his friends again. I've just got a big | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
lump here. I have got the tissues ready. Are you excited, nervous or | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
what? Excited. Despite losing both legs to meningitis, Robbie is doing | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
his best to lead a normal life. He walked his mum down the aisle at | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
his parents' wedding two years ago. So now for the next challenge - | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
with news proat the timeic legs and hair spiked by dad, Robbie takes | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
his first steps into the classroom. You're looking very smart. Robbie | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
is delightful in school. He's really captured all the hearts of | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
all the staff. He really is determined to take part with all | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
the other children. To help him out, a new toilet and cloakrooms are | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
being built at this end of the school to make everything more | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
accessible for Robbie, changes that'll hopefully make a big | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
difference to his school life and make it as positive an experience | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
as possible for a little boy who just wants to be treated like any | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
other four-year-old. He pushes himself and really wants | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
to try and do thing, which is encouraging for us because you | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
don't want him to be sitting in the background out of the way of it. | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
You want him to get amongst everything, like every other kid. | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
Robbie's family have raised over �160,000 so far for his future, all | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
for a boy whose courage is in a class of its own. | :16:50. | :17:00. | |
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I bet he's tired now. We've already taken a trip back to 1986 tonight. | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
But can you think back to 1981 - the year the Yorkshire Ripper was | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
captured - Lady Di and Prince Charles got married - What were you | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
up to back then? Perhaps you're of the hundred people who were snapped | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
by a Tyneside photographer who's now trying get back in touch. He | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
wants to find out what's happened since and recreate the images 30 | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
years on. If you can record this next item, do it now, because we'll | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
be showing a quick montage of the originals for you to look at in | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
your own time. As Chris Jackson explains, this is one man, on a | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
mission that he's determined won't prove impossible Adrian Pitches | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
reports: In Newcastle's West End, Chris is | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
retracing his footsteps of three decades ago when he worked on a | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
community project. He's trying to put names to faces | :17:45. | :17:52. | |
and is asking anyone who he thinks can help. | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
I know his face. I think he's still around. Guess a name. I'm not sure. | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
I don't know if it's a John, but I know he's fierce. That can be | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
really helpful because somebody else can say John makes sense. It's | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
hard to imagine how people might look with another 30 years of life | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
etched into their faces, but Chris is determined to find as many as he | :18:17. | :18:27. | |
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see how it's gone for them. I know from that end people who are very | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
sparky individuals, and I wonder what some of those kids ended up | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
doing. # Oh, what happened to you? | :18:35. | :18:42. | |
# Whatever happened to me? # The pictures are self-portraits. He | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
set up a photo booth in the park and asked any lads and lasses to go | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
in. We had, to my eternal regret, a nasty little chair, but we had a | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
chair here. We kept people out of the way so there was privacy. I | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
would say, here's a rubber bulb. When you squeeze that, that camera | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
will take a picture. # Oh, what happened to you? | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
# Whatever happened to me? # No names were ever taken, but the | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
images have been put on a website for everyone to see, and Chris is | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
enlisting everyone he can to help spread the word. She looks so much | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
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like her. That's interesting. Dave, so I wonder if I can give you some | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
posters and you can get them around? Will he find his 100 | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
people? Make it's you who holds the I can just about remember 1981, if | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
only. Jeff, you have been sidetracked a bit recently by news, | :19:53. | :20:00. | |
so today was the first time you got to meet Allen Pardew. Yes, very | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
interesting, it was, yes. Just over a week it was since the close of | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
the transfer window, and the Newcastle manager has been facing | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
the media today. He had said he was hoping to bring in a top-line | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
striker. That didn't happen, and it's not just the fans who are | :20:17. | :20:24. | |
disappointed. The Magpies did bring in seven players over the summer, | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
but the Managing Director said there would be no knee-jerk | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
decisions at the last minute. The fact is the club banked �35 million | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
from the sale of front-man Andy Carroll back in January. | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
criticism that's going to come from not getting a striker over has some | :20:40. | :20:46. | |
validation to it because it's a long time, but you know, I know | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
that I can only say from my point of view we put the targets in front | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
of the board, and then it comes down to a financial decision. It's | :20:57. | :21:05. | |
obvious that our fans and me, the manager and the players would like | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
to see another striker here. We're going to the unknown to a certain | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
degree because a lot of the goals created last year are no longer in | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
the team. One of those is Joey Barton, of course. Instead, he'll | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
be lining up against them in Queens park. At least they'll have a | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
quieter life without him. It's never a quiet football club, | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
especially Newcastle, but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed my time with Joey. | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
He's a challenging personality, but you know, he's engaging and | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
entertaining as well as he is difficult, so we miss him in some | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
ways. I am sure they do. Now you may remember us telling you that | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
there's a new kid on the block in the top flight of British | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
basketball. L the county council- backed Durham Wildcats - mostly | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
made up of university students, post-graduates and young American | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
imports - can't wait to get started. # Wild thing | :22:07. | :22:13. | |
# You make my heart sing # Meet the young players from the | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
BBL's newest franchise. The Wildcats will play their home match | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
at Newton Learnier Centre. Obviously, I worked for a long time | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
in the north-east with the Sunderland and Newcastle team, then | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
I had a spell working with the London Leopards. I thought when I | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
finished with them in 2000 I would probably retire from the sport for | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
good. I hadn't put my feet up six months when my two boys persuaded | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
me to help with a little club they started. Out of that has come what | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
we have today. We have a pretty strong core of English players who | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
have been with me - some of them - for five or six years, and | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
obviously, with the university, with the scholarship opportunity | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
we've got, we have been able to recruit players to the university | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
who have strengthened the team, and also, we bring in three Americans | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
who I have high hopes for. One of these is a 23-year-old from the | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
North-Western Wildcats, a university team in America. Coming | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
here, it's a bit cooler, a little bit rainier, but I kind of like the | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
climate here. I am getting used to it. I actually got caught in my | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
first English rainstorm yesterday. I was a bit soaked when I got back | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
to my apartment. But it's nice. Experience comes in the form of 35- | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
year-old Ralph Butchy, a New Yorker who returned to the Mohawks last | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
year after a spell with Greece. He's looking forward to his start | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
next month. It's going to give us a good evaluation of where we're at | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
because we're pretty much going against the best team for the first | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
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Finally, two Red Car-based sports stars have been making the head | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
lines. Teenage mountain biker Danny Hart is the new downhill race world | :24:24. | :24:34. | |
champion. One of our most successful athletes, dame Tanni | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
Grey has been speaking from Trafalgar Square, asking people to | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
buy tickets for the event. We talk about London all the time, but | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
every region will be sending in a massive stack ofate let's. In the | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
north-east we have a proud athletics tradition. We have | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
amazing athletes in the area who are going to do well, and after the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
games, they'll be visiting schools, putting something back, and we want | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
to get that support. So get your tickets now. We won't have another | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
chance in our lifetime to see anything like it. You have been | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
told. It's time for the weather. I am going to exaggerate what Paul | :25:11. | :25:17. | |
just told me. Summer is here tomorrow. Funnilys enough, we'll | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
see temperatures we struggled to see during the summer, but it's not | :25:21. | :25:31. | |
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Tomorrow most are in for a decent day, into the 20s, and many of us | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
will see a bit of sunshine, but it's so changeable at the minute, | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
even now, we have lots of changeable weather to get out of | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
the way. The cloud begins to thicken up from the south-west. We | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
lose the dry weather most of us have got just now. We have seen | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
some light rain becoming more widespread through the early hours | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
of the morning. It won't be a cold night with all of that cloud and | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
rain. In the southerly breeze, we'll see temperatures staying in | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
double figures, 12C, your overnight low. That's 54 Fahrenheit. Tomorrow | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
doesn't look that promising. If you're out and about, you'll see | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
remnants of the overnight rain, but it should clear quickly. By about | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
9.00am, most places will be dry, and things will start to brighten. | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
Eastern areas see sunny spells develop. There always tends to be | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
more cloud across Cumbria. With the south-westerly wind, parts of | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
Cumbria, 16C. White haven, 61 Fahrenheit, 16C. In the east coast, | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
20-21C. That's the low 70s Fahrenheit. That's the picture for | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
tomorrow. We're in this warmation, but the cold front changes things | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
again towards the weekend. Lots of lines on the chart, a blustery old | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
weekend. I think most of us will see some showers on Saturday and | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Sunday, so gusty winds through the weekend. Temperatures still | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
reasonable, still making it into the low 20s in one or two spots. | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
It's not all bad news. Most of us will see some rain, but there will | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
be bright spells as well. That's not too bad. Thank you. | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
Now the headlines: A public inquiry says an innocent | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
Iraqi civilian, Baha Mousa, died as a result of violence by British | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
soldiers. And a Darlington soldier who | :27:28. | :27:32. |