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Hello. Welcome Wednesday's Look North. A poignant warning from a | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
young bride with breast cancer, who has just days to live. Please, if | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
you do notice something, just get it checked. It will take half an | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
hour at the doctor. Cut off from the outside world, how people | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
without phone lines, for up to five weeks, fear lives could be at risk. | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
It's an espresso, the car powered by coffee attempts a world speed | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
record. Where is Henry, my great granddad? How Chatty Man, Alan Carr, | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
uncovered his northern roots. In football, misery for Sunderland, | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
but a win for Carlisle United. Our top basketball team goes for glory | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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again, after its first season First tonight, a poignant warning | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
from a young bride, who's been told she has just days to live, after | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
being diagnosed with breast cancer - don't iing nort symptoms, if you | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
think you might have the disease. Kelly Bainbridge-Flor is just 27 | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
and doctors initially believed she was too young to have breast cancer, | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
but now it's spread to her brain. It's her dying wish that by telling | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
her story, the lives of other women will be saved. | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
It's a big day for Kelly from Sunderland. Just 27, she should | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
have everything to live for. But she's been given just a week to | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
live. Three years ago, while living in Portugal, she found a lump. | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Doctors initially thought she was too young to have breast cancer, | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
but she did. Completely shocked. I accepted it pretty quickly, after | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
speaking to my aunties and thinking at that point that I was going to | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
be fine. It was 13cms in total. It felt not small, but medium. I | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
thought oh, we'll just get this cut out, I'll be fine. Now it's spread | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
to her brain and she has just days to live. | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Determined to make the most of her short life, when she heard she was | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
going to die, she married her Portuguese boyfriend. Her father at | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
her side. We were talking about getting married next May, when we | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
got the diagnosis, I only had a week to live, we brought forward. | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
Luckily that was two weeks ago, so survived an extra week. Although | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
she's now unable to save her own life. She's determined to help save | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
others and has this warning: If you feel something, and you know, even | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
if it's tiny, whatever the size may be, this is my mistake, I refused | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
to listen. When he said you haven't got cancer, I thought "Oh, great." | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in the UK. It will | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
affect one in eight women. And each year, 47,000 women are diagnosed | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
with it. But Kelly's case is rare because 80% of those diagnosed are | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
over 50. But more than ever before, women are surviving breast cancer, | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
especially if they're diagnosed early. And they're the ones Kelly | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
wants to reach. Please, if you do notice something, just get it | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
checked. It will take half an hour at the doctor. Or if you're scared, | :03:31. | :03:41. | |
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People living in one of the remotest parts of North Yorkshire | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
say an unreliable phone service is putting their lives in danger. Some | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
homes in Rosedale have had their phones cut off for up to five weeks. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
Others suffer constant noise on the line and intermittent interruptions. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
Peter Lugg joins us from there now, fortunately he has a satellite link. | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
Rosedale is one of those Picture Post card areas of the country. I'm | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
sure no-one around here would mind me saying tgz a bit of a | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
communications black hole. We are right in the middle of the moors | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
here. Now I can speak to you because of this lot up here on top | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
of the truck. But if I take out my mobile phone, yeah no network | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
coverage. If you think that's frustrating, what about having no | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
land line? Spare a thought for some of these people I spoke to earlier | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
in the day. Nestling in the moors north of Pickering, the Rosedale | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
valley. At its head the scattering of properties that make up Rosedale | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
east. School row, a terrace of 15 former miners cottages is where | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
phone services are most problematic. Look North viewer Steve Martin's | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
parents live here. The family would normally be in touch every couple | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
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of days, but recently that's not been possible. Hello! Stephen sends | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
his love. He says he's sorry to not get through for ten days.. That's | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
right. This is the phone is it? That's the phone. The phone's been | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
off for five weeks, more than just an inconvenience for vulnerable | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
pensioners. If there was an emergency, we wouldn't be able to | :05:24. | :05:34. | |
call the doctor. I'd have to get in the car and go and drive. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
presumably you're still paying your billles? Oh, yes, the bills have | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
been deducted every month from our bank account. Mobiles? They work | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
perfectly, so long as you're standing at the top of the bank | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
there. E-mail, Broadband? Not a chance. No, the only communications | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
that the Martins have is the village phone box, two miles away. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
And thankfully, that's still working. The unreliable phone | :06:03. | :06:11. | |
service is most frustrating for those like guest house owner Colin | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Sample. It started off with all the crackling. You could hardly hear | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
any conversation from people phoning in at all, nothing. Then | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
we've got in touch with them through loads of friends. They | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
contacted BT from daughters, sons, everywhere. They phoned into BT to | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
tell them that our line was shattered, no go. The fault appears | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
to lie either with the lines or with the local exchange. Either way, | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
despite being told by BT that their case is a priority, while they pay | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
their bills, subscribers' phone problems continue. | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
So Peter, what have BT had to say about this? Have they got engineers | :06:56. | :07:02. | |
working on it? Well, BT say they would like to apologise first to | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
all those people particularly in Rosedale east who have been without | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
services for so long. They have discovered what the problem is. It | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
lies in an underground cable fault, which so far has involved four | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
separate excavations. They hope and promise to have all services | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
restored by the end of tomorrow. Thank you very much. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Now there's been a big rise in unemployment in the north-east. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
It's up by 18,000 in the three months to July, more than 10% of | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
people are currently without work, the highest rate in the UK. In | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
Cumbria, the number of people claiming jobseeker's allowance rose | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
by 233 last month. That's up to 8,729. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
A mother's hit out, after hospital staff failed to spot a piece of | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
plastic, the size of a two pence piece, down her baby's throat. | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
Vanessa Ramshaw rang 999 when nine -month-old Leo started choking at | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
home. A doctor at South Tyneside District Hospital said he had | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
tonsillitis and discharged him. Two hours later, she found the plastic | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
and pull today out. They made me believe that he actually had | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
tonsillitis. I really thought he did have that. They give us Nurofen | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
and told us to dose him on that and paracetamol. That would have been | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
giving my child stuff that he didn't even need. Had I put him to | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
bed that night, I don't think I would have had him now. South | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
Tyneside District Hospital said they were unaware of Miss Ramshaw's | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
concerns and would be happy to discuss them with her. A spokesman | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
said they weren't made aware that Leo may have swallowed anything and | :08:39. | :08:47. | |
hoped he was making good progress. Two Tasers were fired at the | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
fugitive gunman Raoul Moat. One missed an the other had no effect. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
That's what an inquest into Moat's death has been told this afternoon. | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
It's day eight of the hearing at Newcastle Crown Court. Chris | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
Stewart joins us from there now. Chris, we've waited a long time for | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
this particular evidence. Yes, ever since that night in July last year, | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
two Taser rounds were fired at Moat, and as you say, one officer has | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
told us today that his missed. Another officer said his had no | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
effect whatsoever. This Taser weapon not seen before in this | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
country, a weapon both those officers said they were confident | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
in using, despite having only a five-minute briefing on how it | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
worked. When Raoul Moat was found after a | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
huge man hunt, the plan was to take him alive. So on the river bank, | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
where he was surrounded, negotiators tried to get him to | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
give himself up. To help achieve that aim, the police had a new | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
weapon, the X12 Taser shot gun, designed to deliver an electric | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
shock via an X-rep projectile. The team who fired them that night had | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
never used nor seen one before. Tango 21, the team leader told the | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
Coroner today, "I did raise the issue that myself and the other | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
four officers were not trained." The reply was, "You are shot gun | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
trained and you are Taser trained." This is the scene the morning after, | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
tango 21 and an officer with the Taser had been positioned by this | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
car, about 15 metres from Moat. Hours earlier, in torrential rain, | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Moat was heard to say, "It's going to end in this field tonight." He | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
then raised his gun to his head, tango 21 said one of the Tasers was | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
then fired at Moat. "I became aware of a bang over to my left. Moat let | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
out a yelp, as though he'd been struck by something. "A second | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
Taser was fired but it missed. Moat shot himself then before officers | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
rushed forward. And this is Moat's sawn-off shot | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
gun lying in the rain-soaked grass. We already know that the X12 and X- | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
rep were not licensed for use by the Home Office. The police say | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
they did use it because it still represented their best chance of | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
bringing moat in alive. -- Moat in alive. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
The Princess Royal's been touring the north-east today, with visits | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
to Durham's county hall and Newcastle University. Hundreds | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
lined the streets as Princess Anne started her tour in Stockton for | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
the official opening for the George Hardwick Foundation carers centre. | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
�500,000 has been spent on state- of-the-art facilities for carers | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
and their families, with everything from a creche to a spa. | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
You're watching Look North, still to come: The sports desk, plus, how | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
comedian Alan Carr uncovered his northern roots for The Who who | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
programme. And the forecast - the winds may be dying down but we | :12:04. | :12:14. | |
could have a touch of frost in Last night, we featured the story | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
of Gary Parkinson, the former Middlesbrough footballer who is | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
battling to recover from a major stroke, that's left him paralysed. | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
The condition known as locked in syndrome means he's awake, but | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
can't move his body or speak. Tonight, we meet a woman who Gary's | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
family say is their inspiration. Last year Kate Allatt defied | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
medical opinion to make a full recovery from the condition. We | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
mentioned her in yesterday's story. Kate was young, fit and healthy, | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
when she collapsed at home. The next thing she remembers is being | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
in a hospital bed three days later. I woke up with tubes and all sorts | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
in my face, arms a nappy on. As I lay there, I thought I was checking | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
my body and realised very quickly nothing moved. I tried to scream, | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
nothing came out. Just trapped in my own body, helpless. Just eight | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
months later, she amazed doctors by making a full recovery. She accepts | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
every case of Locked In Syndrome is different, but she believes a | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
mixture of early intensive therapy and a feeling of anger that her | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
life was written off inspired her fight. I wanted to come back for my | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
kids. They were only six, nine and 11 at the time. I didn't want to be | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
in a nursing home shut away from them and seeing them once a week. | :13:35. | :13:44. | |
It was that rage that fuelled my -- me, a rage that where "Damn you, I | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
will be home. I'll prove you all bloody wrong." Kate has already | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
visited Gary in hospital and says as a professional athlete he | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
already has the strength and focus needed for the fight ahead. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
commitment from the medical team around him to really want to try | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
everything to improve his situation. At the same time, though, I think | :14:06. | :14:13. | |
he needs the emotional support and needs to carry him through to wroit | :14:13. | :14:19. | |
a book, to write your memoirs, to coach from the sidelines, in the | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
same way Matt Hanson does, or Christopher Reeves. A year after | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
leaving hospital Kate has become an author and founded the charity | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Fighting Strokes to help families facing the same ordeal. | :14:36. | :14:43. | |
Amazing story. Now the comedian, Alan Carr, has surprisingly strong | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
links with the tonight. Tonight he discovers a whole new side to his | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
family as the spotlight falls to him in the Who Do You Think You Are | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
programme. I remember when I had to tell my | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
dad that I wasn't going to become a footballer. Oh, my God. This is the | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Alan Carr we all know, splendidly over the top, a highly defined | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
sense of the absurd, reduces interviewers to helpless giggles. | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
He said "Why are you doing this to me?" I don't know. I can show you | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
through expressive dance. Like so many people featured on the | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
BBC's family tree show, he found there were parts of their history | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
he knew very little or nothing about. The strange circumstances of | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
the name change of great grandparents after an incident in | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
the trenches. His family's involvement in a pit disaster and | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
of course, football. Anyone who's seen his act knows about his dad's | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
career in the game. Tonight Alan hears about another sportsman in | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
the family, his granddad. Who better to ask than dad? Did you | :15:54. | :16:00. | |
ever see granddad play? No, no. He went to West Brom, hoping for a | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
better opportunity and he had a spell at West Brom where he had a | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
knee injury and that finished him. Then it was back to the mines, | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
which was the only thing to do in those days. He was there till he | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
was 65. You're talking from 35 years in the pits. Who Do You Think | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
You Are with Alan Carr tonight on BBC One at 9pm. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
Definitely watching that one. Now a car powered entirely by old coffee | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
beans was involved in an attempt to break a land speed record today. | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
The old Rover was modified by a team from Teesdale and sent out | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
onto a track in York. Back at Elvington airfield, the | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
coffee-powered car, the Carpaccino. It had a dry run in August. Today | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
it's trying to break a land speed record. The record for vehicles | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
powered by gassification, basically burnt waste. Dried pellets of | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
coffee grounds power the car. The speed is impressive. 75. To satisfy | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
the record books two runs up and down the track have to be logged | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
and the average taken. A quick refill's needed. A quick burst of | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
caffeine, this is the second pass Martin has to do to get the land | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
speed record, only it's into the wind, so it's much more difficult. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
Sure enough, the wind slows him down, but it's still enough to | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
clinch that record. 58-and-a- halfmph. I'm over the moon, | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
obviously, it is fraught with problems, running a car on coffee, | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
it's not the easiest thing in the world by any imagination. We've had | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
some serious problems with this car. We bought a cheap, second-hand car. | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Cheap or not it wooped America's behind and it will now tour schools, | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
teaching children there could be more to coffee than a drink in a | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
cup. It's a headline writer's dream, | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
that car. Can you imagine the things you could come out with. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
good to me, I hate coffee. I didn't know that. Tea-power would be all | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
right. We start with football and we'll kick off with the news that | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
Sunderland defender Phil Barnsley has been banned for four matches. | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
The club decided not to challenge the Football Association charge of | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
violent conduct for this incident in Saturday's game with Chelsea, | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
when Barnsley appeared to stamp on the Spaniard Matter. Barnsley has | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
been suspended this season after being sent off against Newcastle. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
Bad news for Sunderland, but good for Carlisle though. After four | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
straight defeats they got back to winning ways in League One at tran | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
peer last night. It took just three minutes for the Cumbrians to take | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
the lead through Lee Miller. It's the first time they've scored in | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
the first-of a game all season. Adam Collin pulled off a good save, | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
but this is the second time they score. James Berrett stepping up to | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
smack home the penalty. Rovers pulled a goal back in the second | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
half. It looked like a foul here on the keeper. But Greg Abbott's side | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
held on to take all three points. Now for the first time in six years, | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
our most successful professional sports team is going into a new | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
basketball season without a trophy to defend. The last 12 months have | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
tested them to the limit on and off the court. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Warming up against a USA select team for the first time in six | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
years, the Eagles find themselves not defending a single trophy. | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
They've been the most successful British basketball team. Last | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
season they won nothing. We had won so much, there was an expectation | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
to win. When you won it was almost relief rather than enjoyment. Then | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
not winning was kind of, well, what's going on here. You didn't | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
know what to feel. We'd not been through it for so long. It was a | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
kind of emptiness. Emptiness too for Fab Flournoy. After almost | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
dying from pneumonia he was forced to put into perspective. The fact | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
he's on court at all is remarkable. I didn't consider retiring or | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
finishing. It was whether or not my body was making that decision for | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
me. I need the time to find out whether or not I can come back and | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
play, whether or not I will be successful, whether or not the | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
effect the pneumonia did on me and what I can and can't do. Right now | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
I don't have those answers. Andy Thomson join the squad from Mersey | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
Tigers. At 6'10" the power forward hopes to help his new side to win | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
them back. It was the first kit that someone bought me when I was a | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
kid. It was one of the perks of coming up here that I could go and | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
see some games. Normality would do just fine, even a trip home to New | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
York was problematic. We had the earthquake on the Tuesday. Than a | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
hurricane on a Saturday. Every time I go home, it seems like there's a | :21:17. | :21:26. | |
natural disaster waiting for me. Now cricket, Durham's Scott | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
Borthwick and Ben Stokes join the England squad for the two match | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
Twenty20 series against the West Indies. Durham have set | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
Worcestershire 365 to win at Chester-le-Street. The visitors go | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
into the final day of the season on 65 for two. Durham still hoping | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
they can win the championship. Warwickshire and Lancashire should | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
both win their matches, which will leave Durham in third. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Now the Countdown continues, to Sunday's Great North Run. Taking | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
part for the first time this year is 17-year-old Mathew Loftus. | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
Mathew's blind and raising money for a special youth club in | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
Newcastle that changed his life. Mathew Loftus and Peter Snowdon are | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
under starter's orders. Mathew was registered blind at the age of | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
three. This will be his first try at the event. I feel confident. I | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
feel fit enough to do it. I reckon I'll last it, just steady and it's | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
for a good cause. I'm going to do it to get the money. Peter is | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Mathew's running guide. He's a late replacement after his First Choice | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
did his knee playing football. lot of trust is involved as well. | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
Mathew trusts the people who he's selected as guides, to make sure he | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
doesn't run into a lamppost or something else like that. And this | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
is what Mathew is doing it for, VI youth meets in an old school kich | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
anyone heaton. It organising youth clubs, outings and adventure | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
holidays for 15 blind and partially sighted young people. Without | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
regular donations, it would close down. If I didn't come here, there | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
wouldn't be much else for them to do. They can't hang around the | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
streets. They can't go on their bikes. They can't go in town | :23:14. | :23:19. | |
meeting their mates and hanging around. When you're blind or have a | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
visual impairment, life is totally different. I've been a member here | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
for over ten years. I thought it was time I started giving something | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
back. I've done climbing, canoing, paintballing and if I hadn't have | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
done them things I would never have done them by myself. | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
Good luck Mathew. Before we leave the Great North Run, you might | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
remember last night we told you about Tony Morrison from south | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Tyneside doing the run with a fridge strapped to his back. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
he's done is taken the glass shelves out. The workings are still | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
in there. We've had an e-mail from St Oswald's hospice in Newcastle to | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
say their chef Dave Taylor did that last year and is doing it again | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
this year. But he's also pushing one of their day patients, Rebecca | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
Parslow in her wheelchair. Anything you can do.... It's unbelievable! | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
You'll be able to tell the two fridge men apart. I can't believe | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
it. Great North Run fever time, the build up, is it too early to ask | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
about the weather? We have a bit of an idea. It's not looking bad for | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Sunday at the moment. Some of the runners must have been worried this | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
week if they had to battle the winds. They are dying down. Sunday | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
winds. They are dying down. Sunday doesn't look bad at all. It's | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
looking good at the moment. There is still time for it to change | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
though. Talking of the winds, I've been keeping an eye on the gusts | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
through this week. Loftus has been the windiest place. Monday the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
gusts were 70mph, yesterday 50-odd. Today dropping to 30-odd. They | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
should drop out completely tomorrow. Likewise, the weather has gone from | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
scenes like this at the normally calm water of Buttermere, there you | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
a transition like this, beautiful with the rain bows to this, plenty | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
of blue sky out and about around the region. The conkers blown off | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
the trees there. If you like the blue sky and less of a breeze, then | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
tomorrow is shaping up to be the best Dave your week. Tomorrow it's | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
one to make the most of if you want to get out and about. Let's look at | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
this evening then. The improvement is starting through the night. The | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
cloud melting away to the south, taking any showers with it. Clear, | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
dry skies overnight tonight and as the winds die down, more Autumn | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
phenomena coming to the fore. You may get mist and fog patches with a | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
light breeze overnight and maybe a touch of grass fost in rural places. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
In our major towns temperatures dipping to four or five Celsius. In | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
rural areas a touch below that. There could be a touch of frost and | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
if you have your tender plants out you may want to take them in | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
tonight. A chilly start to the day tomorrow. But a broigt and crisp | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
start. That sunshine coming through early in the day, lasting right the | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
way through. A little bit of cloud creeping in around the north-east | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
coast. But nothing to worry us tomorrow - dry, fine day and of | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
course, barely a breath of air tomorrow. Very, very light breeze | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
indeed. It all mean that's it's going to feel much warmer than it | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
has done. Highs of 16 or 17 Celsius, without that strong wind. Feeling | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
very pleasant if you're out and about tomorrow. Now through the | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
rest of the week, Friday, you'll see it turns more unsettled. | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
There's rain blowing in later in the day that. Stays for Saturday as | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
well. Can you see the lines on the charts, crowding in again. Getting | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
a little more breezy for Saturday. For Sunday, things start to calm | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
down a bit. The low pull as way. Maybe the odd shower, particularly | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
for north Northumberland but a fairly dry day for the Great North | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Run. Here's what I mean about a tail wind, it should be from the | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
north or North West, it should help you on the way to South Shields, | :27:06. | :27:11. | |
foo you're running. -- if you're running. | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
A quick word about engineering word on the Pontop Pike transmitter. | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
We're told there could be disruption for viewers on the | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
fringes of that reception area. This is part of the plan for | :27:23. | :27:27. |