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Welcome to Thursday's Look North. Tonight, is the party city | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
suffering a massive hangover? The �160 annual billion bill for | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Newcastle problem. How thousands of pasheant face delays when arriving | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
at hospital by ambulance. Farewell to one of our oldest soldiers, the | :00:21. | :00:28. | |
funeral takes place of Tommy Sivell who has died aged 105. And icon of | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
the Tyne. Our bridge reaches its tenth anniversary and why hundreds | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
of sheepdogs have converged on a Cumbrian town. In sport a fight for | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
the Falcons two matches into the new season and why Jean's Genies | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
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are planning to take the Great Not long ago it was known at as the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
party city but knewsicalsle could be suffering from a massive | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
hangover, a new report says drink- related problems are thought to | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
costing the city as much as �160 million a year. Alcohol is | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
shortening live, fuelling violent crime and causing a strain on NHS | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
resources. But, at the same time, it concedes that booze is also | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
boosting the local economy and providing vital jobs. Our political | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
editor has been studying the report's findings and is in | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Newcastle now. Yes, round this time the pubs are starting to warm up. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
But this report produced for Newcastle City Council paints a | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
sobering impact of drink on Newcastle. Three out of every | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
adults have a drink but it is the amount they are drinking. One in | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
ten drink more than twice the safe amount of units a week. Some as | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
many as 50. One in three admit binge drinking and then there is | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
the age. Seven% of 11-year-olds have had a drink in the last week. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
13% of 14-15-year-olds say they drink more than the maximum number | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
of units for an adult each week. All that drinking is taking a heavy | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
toll. It is estimated men in Newcastle lose 13-and-a-half months | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
off their lifespan because of alcohol abuse, women lose round | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
five months. The city has 50% more alcohol admissions to hospital than | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
the national average. All of -- half of all violent crimes involve | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
drinkers and half of the deliberate fires set are caused by drinkers. | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
This report talks about the change in drinking habits. Something | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
called preloading, where instead of people going into a pub and having | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
their first drink there, they buy cheap booze from supermarkets, get | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
drunk at home and then come out in the evening. That is concerning the | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
council. The leader says something needs to be done about it. We need | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
people to drink less but we need to tackle this particular phenomenon. | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
People drinking at home before they go into town. We can tackle that | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
through minimum pricing, by cracking down on some of the cut | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
price supermarket deals and the subsidies that supermarkets put | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
into their cheap alcohol. It is clear, we need to do some work | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
round this. So talk about a minimum price perunit, perhaps 50 pence | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
that might help. But are we already living with this legacy already. | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
Colin is from a group called Balance. Here is what he had to say. | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
We have constantly seen average age lifespans getting older, my worry | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
is that my children's generation will die at a younger age than we | :03:39. | :03:44. | |
do. It is that serious. We will see more children under 18, there are | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
children under 18, getting specialist treatment for alcohol | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
problems. We will see more people in that situation. We will spend | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
more and more money on treating people, we will spend more money on | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
police keeping a lid on problem, and we can't afford do that. | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
there is an obvious down site, but the report talks about how | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
lucrative the pubs and clubs are for the city. Doesn't it? | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Absolutely. The party city does generate money. I mean it helps to | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
bring about 100,000 people into the city centre, each Friday night. | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
That earns Newcastle 360 million a year. It sustained more than 7,000 | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
jobs. The licencees say they would favour a minimum price for alcohol | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
because they believer their business is suffering because | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
people are buying from supermarkets. Not coming into town until later. | :04:31. | :04:40. | |
Spending less when they get there. This is Bob Senior. We can't | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
reinvest in pub, we can't make a profit because we are come piste | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
Peteing with the supermarket. We should have a quality drink. | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Newcastle eighth in the world for a party night out. You can't have a | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
party without a drink but it should be a quality drink. The problem is | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Newcastle sets a minimum price, people would go to Gateshead or | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
neighbouring places so the council say it is time for action across | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
the North East but perhaps nationally to try and tackle this | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
problem. Otherwise, we will be left with an awful legacy from all this | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
drinking. Thank you. Thousands of patients across the North East face | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
delays in being handed over to hospitals when they arrive by | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
ambulance. Figures released to the BBC show that delays in | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
transferring patients from ambulances to hospital mount up to | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
thousands of hours. The North East Ambulance Service has lost over | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
30,000 hours in the last three years. Here sour health reporter | :05:33. | :05:41. | |
Sharon Barbour. Dialling 999, the flashing blue lights and siren, | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
getting a patient to hospital is often an emergency. The North East | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Ambulance Service aims to get all its critically ill patients to | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
hospital within eight minutes. But what is happening to all patients, | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
when they arrive at hospital? Well, many it appears are having to wait | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
to be seen by doctors. According to a Freedom of Information Request by | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
the BBC, many patients are facing increasing delays, in being handed | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
over to hospitals. The total delay in turn round times has increased | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
year on year for the last three years. And it is more than doubled | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
over two years. Over three years the North East Ambulance Service | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
has lost over 30thou hours to from delayed turn rounds. In a statement, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
the North East Ambulance Service says it was working with local | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
hospitals and commissioners to achieve the best turn round time | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
possible for patients. However, periods of heavy demand mean delays | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
can happen. And the NHS North of Tyne who commissioned the Ambulance | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
Service say they are monitoring the situation very closely. They have | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
performance measures in the contracts for hospitals and the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
Ambulance Services. And they say significant progress has been made | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
to improve the turn round times in the past year. They add that new | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
technology in ambulances mean paramedics can liaise with doctors | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
about arrival time. The technology identifies which A&E departments | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
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More of the day's news now and a senior officer involved in the hunt | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
for Raoul Moat was asked today if police had wanted the gunman dead. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
Chief Inspector Jo Farrell seen here in the middle told the inquest | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
into Moat's death she was determined to see him face trial | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
for his crimes and her primary objective was public safety. She | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
said the decision to use Tasers was given to give officers the chance | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
to bring him in alive. His sawn-off shotgun was passed frowned the jury | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
to examine. Man has been arrested after an incident onboard a | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Thompson jet flying holiday-makers home to the North East. It is | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
alleged a passenger tried to force an emergency door open, as it was | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
flying at 36,000 feet from Majorca to Newcastle early yesterday. He | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
was restrained by cabin crew and passengers while the plane was | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
diverted to Gatwick. A 22-year-old man from Ashington was arrested on | :08:18. | :08:24. | |
endangering suspicion of endangering an aircrat. The widow | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
of a Red Arrow pilot killed last month is taking part in the Great | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
North Run. Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging died after his plane came | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
down at Bournemouth airshow. They will fly over the start of the | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
Great North Run this Sunday, before carrying out their traditional | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
shows over the Tyne Bridge and at the finish line. Dr Emma Egging | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
will run wearing a red number four to northern her husband who flew | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
red four in the team. Shoppers and staff escaped without injury when a | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
three storey shop collapsed in County Durham this afternoon. A | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
Durham fire brigade spokeswoman said staff at the Mothercare store | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
in Bishop Auckland reported hearing a loud noise before the back of the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
building collapsed, bringing down the roof and part of a wall. Three | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
floors collapsed. No-one was hurt. Neighbouring shops have been | :09:11. | :09:20. | |
cordoned off. Now the funeral's taken place of Tommy Sivell, the | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
oldst survivor of the Green Howards regiment. Tommy died last week at | :09:23. | :09:31. | |
the age of 105. He was an accomplished accordionist and a | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
popular figure on Tyneside. Tommy Sivell accumulated many friends in | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
his 105 year, among them his former comrades in the Green Howards who | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
formed an honour guard. Draped in the flag of his renment, Tommy's | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
coffin passed before standard bearers into the chapel. He was | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
remembered as a modest God fearing man.. He was a loyal friend. And he | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
kept many a party going, many a party with his accordion playing. | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
The last count he had about 14 accordions. He was great fun really | :10:12. | :10:20. | |
for 105, he made other people, especially me feel older than him. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
He was very fright sli. The end of a legend. Tommy was a much loved | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
veteran of the regiment which marked his 100th birthday with a | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
special celebration and there were cards from not one but two monarch, | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
the Queen and King Harald of Norway. Tommy joined up in the '20s and | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
left in 1932 but he signed up again on the outbreak of World War II and | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
fought throughout the six year campaign. The comradeship of the | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
regiment sustained him throughout the rest of his very long life. | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
see, I class all my pals in the regiment as brothers. You know, it | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
is like, like a brotherhood, you know. And you think of all the good | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
things. Tommy's other passion was the accordion and he was a member | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
of the Liberal Party for more than 70 years. The last time he really | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
appeared at a political event was in the general election last year. | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
He came to our head quarters to see how we were getting on and see if | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
he could help stuff a few envelopes. He apologised for not being able to | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
canvas. He said the secret of his long life was be kind to people | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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perhaps we should all take a leaf Funeral of Tommy Sivell today. | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Plans to move Cumbria's fire control room out of the county were | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
agreed by County Councillors today. It means emergency calls will be | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
answered in Warrington, there has been concern over a loss of local | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
knowledge and handling fire calls but councillors agreed to move, | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
saying it won't compromise safety. The Princess Royal has been | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
continuing her tour of our region today. This morning she arrived at | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
a new million pound training centre for apprentices at System Training | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
near Carlisle. The Princess was welcomed by local children before | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
taking a toufr the site. A piece of art put on eBay by Newcastle City | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
Council has been bought for more than �1200. The so-called Lego Men | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
artwork used to stand in Haymarket but was taken down in 2009. One of | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
them was put up for auction, with the money raised benefiting city | :12:37. | :12:46. | |
You're watching Look North. Still to come, Thursday's sports desk, | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
plus: Penrith plays host to the world sheepdog trials - bringing | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
sights like this. I will be here with a full forecast for the north | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
east and Cumbria and a look forward This weekend sees the 10th | :13:05. | :13:14. | |
anniversary of the Millennium Bridge over the River Tyne. The �22 | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
million structure opened to the public on September the 17th 2001, | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
and it's become a much loved icon. For tonight's Look North Report, | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Keith Akehurst's been looking back on the Millennium Bridge's first | :13:23. | :13:33. | |
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It was constructed six miles down river. A short, arduous journey, | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
carried by the world's second largest floating item. 105 metres | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
long. Not any room for error. It was perfect in every way. After | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
four years of planning, the bridge was slotted into place at the | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
margin of error was just one millimetre. It was one piece of a | :13:59. | :14:06. | |
jigsaw plans to transform the area. This was part of linking these | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
areas, Gateshead and Newcastle. And the wonderful things we do down | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
here. We have got his Golden Mile, as I call it, between the swing | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
bridge and this bridge. brilliant bridge is very simple. | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
The arch and the curved deck, connected by thin wires. It had to | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
complement the Tyne Bridge and not detract. Six teams were competing | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
to win this particular project. The brief was quite constraining. We | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
had to build the link from one site to the other and could not build | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
anything on The Quayside. We had to have clearance in the middle of at | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
least five metres. It was difficult to get over in a straight line. We | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
had to have 25 metres high clearance for shipping and 30 | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
metres wide. We were on to something special. When it took its | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
place, the Millennium Bridge became an icon. Loved by locals and | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
visitors alike. Fantastic. Very good. Lovely. I really like it. | :15:12. | :15:20. | |
Really nice. Do you like it? You like it when it goes off, did you? | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
He has lived here as long as the bridge has. We have got a lot of | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
family and friends visiting. This is one of the places we love to | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
take them. We were talking about a little boy I brought here about | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
eight years ago from Venice. He came running down the hill and look | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
at the bridge and said, I did a project at school about that! He | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
was very excited. I like the fact it opens at predictable times. That | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
is good when we are showing visitors around. I take them down | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
here just before midday and say, would you like to see the bridge | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
open and I say, I will see what I can do! I disappear had never come | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
back. I say, it will open in five minutes and of course it does! | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
proud to be involved in this project. To see the effect it has | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
had on the area, and really, it is wider than that, the region. We | :16:19. | :16:26. | |
have had things and accolades everywhere. Who would have thought | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
we could enhance it and make it even better? Better at photographs | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
and images. People want to come here all the time and be on it, | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
look at it and get better grass. They sent the pictures around the | :16:38. | :16:48. | |
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It has been described as the Olympic Games and World Cup rolled | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
into one, with lucrative rewards for the winner. But this event has | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
nothing to do with highly paid Premiership footballers. In the | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
fields near Penrith in Cumbria, contestants from across the globe | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
are fighting it out to become the World Sheepdog Trials Champion. And | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
it's drawing in the crowds, as Mark McAlindon reports. 240 dogs from | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
around 25 countries are taking part in the World Sheepdog Trials, the | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
first time they've been held in Cumbria. Handlers from Scandinavia, | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
America, Japan and New Zealand were among those who paraded through | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
Penrith to mark the start of the event, all in boisterous mood and | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
cheered on by hundreds of locals. And today, competition began in | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
earnest on the Lowther Estate at Thrimby. It is huge. The equivalent | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
of the World Cup and the Olympics for the handlers. They must be on | :17:41. | :17:48. | |
top of their craft. The courses are set. The tests that they have are | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
very severe. We will find out any weaknesses very quickly. Is it | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
exciting? Very exciting, yes. It will be absolutely fascinating. | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
Today is likely to be the quieter event. But 40,000 people are | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
expected to come to the Lowther Estate at Thrimby this weekend. | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
BBBC will be here with a splash of celebrity colour. -- the BBC. But | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
this is what people have come to see from around the world. One is | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
former Cumbrian, Jim Wilson, now living in and competing for New | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Zealand. We have got other achievements. It would be great to | :18:29. | :18:37. | |
be world champion. But with the trials, it will be somebody's day. | :18:37. | :18:43. | |
They are all here with good people. You need the rub of the green and a | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
bit of luck. Sheepdog handling might seem homespun in Cumbria, but | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
it enjoys an internationmal following. I am from Norway and | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
this location is very nice, very nice landscape. It is a nice place. | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
I am from Holland and I am enjoying this date. The final is on Sunday - | :19:05. | :19:15. | |
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with cash prizes and huge prestige Those dogs are really clever but my | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
dog does not look like that. It is an important weekend for the | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
Premiership rugby team? Bottom of the table after two defeats and not | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
a point to their name Newcastle Falcons have had the worst possible | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
start to the new rugby union season. It means the pressure's on this | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
weekend when they face Premiership giants Leicester - although so far | :19:36. | :19:40. | |
the Tigers haven't been doing much better! There was a time not so | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
long ago when games against Leicester were a sell out but- the | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
economic squeeze and years of struggling on the pitch have put | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
paid to that. A stadium that holds more then 10,000 was on average | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
just over half full last season, and the opening day game against | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
Bath saw the Falcons lowest ever premiership crowd. It is not a | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
recipe for success. We are begging the crowds to stay. We have got to | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
get numbers. The performances on the pitch have got a lot to do with | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
the crowds we attract but there is a lot we can do off the pitch to | :20:13. | :20:20. | |
attract the crowds to the game. We are doing a lot with local clubs | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
and schools to get them to be the fans of the future. Teams you might | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
have expected to be battling with the Falcons, Worcester and Sale | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
already have ahead start. Leicester and London Irish wont stay at the | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
bottom especially once their world cup players come back but there's | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
fighting talk from the Falcons number 10. We will not be there | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
either. It has been a bit of a problem. But we will put that right | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
on Saturday and get a few boys back from the World Cup and the firing | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
as well. When we get a sniff of wedding, it will go from there. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
have got to take this opportunity. Leicester are well short of key | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
players. Have a taste of my medicine, you know what I mean? | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
This is what we go through as a club. We have not got the | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
superstars that Leicester have got. Perhaps that is part of the problem. | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
They have only scored three Premier League goals all season but that | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
hasn't stopped Newcastle United reaching the dizzy heights of | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
fourth ahead of Saturday's trip to Aston Villa. Much of that has been | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
down to a tight defence, which has conceded just once. And after a | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
series of injury problems, former England Under-21 captain Steven | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
Taylor is attracting many of the plaudits. He is probably playing | :21:36. | :21:40. | |
the best football of his career. I think he has got a chance of being | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
involved with England again. I think the management should come | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
and have a look because I think he is doing that well. I am not sure | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
if they had seen us this year or last year. There have been games in | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
the North East. He would be welcome, certainly. On the minus side, full- | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
back Davide Santon, who joined the Magpies last month, is having a | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
scan on the same knee he's previously had cartilege trouble | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
with. Durham's Ben Stokes is out of tomorrow's final one day | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
international against India with a recurring finger injury. And | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
despite victory in their final Division One match this afternoon - | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
Durham have had to settle for 3rd place in the county championship | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
place in the county championship behind Lancashire and Warwickshire. | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
They beat Worcestershire by 151 runs. Three wickets apiece for | :22:28. | :22:37. | |
Now one of the great features of Sunday's Great North Run will be | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
the huge proportion of the 54,000 runners raising money for charity. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Among them, three ladies calling themselves Jean's Genies. Yes, | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
inspired by their mums, the best friends are running for Cancer | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
Research - a cause very close to their hearts. So prepare to meet | :22:49. | :22:59. | |
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Justine, Bev and Jill as you've We were all actually called Jean. | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
We will all diagnosed, our mothers were diagnosed last year. My mother | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
had the all-clear. That is why we are called Jean's Genies. Justine | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
and Julian our Great North Run red veterans and know what to expect | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
but Beverley is a first-timer. is ready for it and really enjoys | :23:43. | :23:50. | |
it. It does bring you along. You cannot run at an easy pace all | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
along and take it easy and enjoy it and try not to beat the elite but | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
we might! We are just going to enjoy it for what it is. A fun day | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
but a serious effort to raise money to combat cancer. The brothers are | :24:05. | :24:11. | |
the inspiration had been with them -- will -- be mothers have been the | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
inspiration and will be with them every inch of the wave. I have | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
bought her a hat as well. She knew I was doing it. She realised I was | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
running as Jean's Genies and I know she is supporting me and she always | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
will. Whatever I have ever done, she has always been supporting me | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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It is one of the nicest things about the Great North Run, seeing | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
about the Great North Run, seeing all of the runners. Now the weather | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
have. It is not quite such a nice day tomorrow. Thank you very much | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
for these photographs. Fine weather today but not good tomorrow. It is | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
getting wet and breezy in the south and east of the region. It is clear | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
in the West. But getting cloudy in the north east tonight. We will get | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
18 showers by dawn tomorrow. In the West, a little bit colder. Seven | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
degrees Celsius. Not enough for frost but feeling a bit more like | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
autumn. Showers spreading across the region in the late morning and | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
afternoon. Heavy at times and possibly as much as one inch of | :25:51. | :25:57. | |
rain here. Friday afternoon will be wet and breezy. Picking up from the | :25:57. | :26:06. | |
house -- South East. Just 13 degrees Celsius. 55 Fahrenheit. | :26:06. | :26:13. | |
Cold, wet and breezy tomorrow. Lower pressure is in charge. It is | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
sitting across the UK this weekend and it will make it unsettled. Slow | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
moving showers on Saturday and possibly heavy enough to bring | :26:22. | :26:30. | |
thunder. On Sunday, the Great North Run, this is going towards the east. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
Wind blowing across the region and it will be a colder day for the | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
runners. A bit cold for the spectators. This is the junior | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
Great not run on Saturday forecast as well. That is the direction we | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
want the wind to be coming from but it does not. It is normally by | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
Sunday. Not really the direction that we would wish golf. -- it is | :26:58. | :27:08. | |
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going north on the Sunday. -- that Not too bad for the runners. A | :27:12. | :27:17. | |
major rescue operation is underway in Wales to free four people | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
trapped underground in Swansea. Shocking figures show the cost of | :27:22. | :27:28. |