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Hello and welcome to Thursday's Look North. In tonight's headlines: | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
Art attack - the great and good descend on Tyneside for the | :00:05. | :00:09. | |
prestigious Turner Prize. It is hoped it will bring millions into | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
the region's economy. Electric shock. A nasty surprise | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
for a farming couple from their energy company - a bill for �26,000. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Home at last. A terminally ill grandmother, who was the victim of | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
a hospital bed shortage, is moved closer to her loved ones. | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Getting set for the Olympics - but find out why hundreds of our | :00:30. | :00:39. | |
schools could be missing out on free tickets. We do not want them | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
to miss out on this! In sport, we're on the look-out for | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
talented youngsters for our Sports Kids series - details of that, | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
later. And after taking a while to find | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
their rhythm this season, find out why Carlisle United are suddenly | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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Damien Hirst's bisected cow. Tracey Emin's ummade bed. There's nothing | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
quite like the Turner Prize for sparking public debate on what is | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
art. Nevertheless, it is one of the most prestigious events in the art | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
world. And this year, it is being hosted by Baltic in Gateshead - the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
first time it's been held by an organisation other than the Tate | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Gallery. Well, it opens to the public tomorrow, but today, the | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
artists have been showing off their work in a special preview. Our arts | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
and entertainment reporter, Sharuna Sagar, is outside Baltic now. So, | :01:28. | :01:38. | |
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Sharuna, what's it like? That would be telling ex-miner more on that in | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
a moment, it is very interesting. There's a real buzz here at the | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Baltic this evening. Ordinarily, there's a huge appetite for | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
contemporary art in the North East - the Baltic itself gets about half | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
a million visitors a year - and that's without the added attraction | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
of such household name like the Turner Prize, which will attract | :01:55. | :02:04. | |
many more. Tonight, this is the place to be. More than a thousand | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
invited guests are expected here for a preview. Earlier today, when | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
things were a bit quieter, I got a chance to take a look. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Not one of the shortlist, putting on their final touches, but a quick | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
paint job by maintenance to complete the preparations. It has | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
been a long time coming, but the Turner Prize is finally here at the | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Baltic. It has taken two years to turn a jury's decision into an | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
exhibition. And as befits such a prestigious event, it is attracting | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
lots of media interest. Us this is an incredibly exciting | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
day. The Turner Prize is so prestigious, it is internationally | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
we wound. It has a 27 year history and this is the first time it has | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
been presented beyond the Tate Gallery, so for Baltic to be | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
selected as the first place to organise it is astonishing, it is | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
fantastic. What's more, irrespective of | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
whether you actually appreciate this sort of art, it's not just the | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
artist who wins - in this case, �25,000 and international prestige | :03:09. | :03:17. | |
- but the local area. It is a very big deal. We have been | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
on a journey of transformation and regeneration for a long time, and | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
art has played a big part of that, and Baltic. I hope a lot of people | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
will come to the region to benefit the local economy. They have | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
already started arriving. Amongst them, the four nominees | :03:34. | :03:44. | |
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themselves. Is really fantastic,, Baltic has a | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
really great history. And that spirals out and has a ripple effect | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
through the city, the area and the regions. And for fellow artist | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
Hilary Lloyd, it is a return home. She is a Newcastle Poly graduate. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
As such, the setting has given the whole experience an added poignancy. | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
It feels brilliant to be nominated. I was very excited it was in | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Newcastle because I love Newcastle, and I loved the bridges. And when I | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
decided to come here to study, it was because of the bridges. | :04:21. | :04:29. | |
feats of structural Engineering aside, we are here to see the | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
offerings of the country's next great contemporary artist. Now, | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
today, the great and the good got their chance to see the art, but | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
tomorrow, the Great Public get to see it for the first time. Let the | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
judging commence! And it is not easy to judge. We | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
have a painter, at a sculptor, at a video maker and an installation | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
artist all vying to be crowned there were not on 5th December. But | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
back to now, and tomorrow, these doors will be open to the harshest | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
critics of all, the general public. And I will be back here to find out | :05:06. | :05:16. | |
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what they think of the Turner Prize A former and serving officer from | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
Cleveland Police have been arrested, on suspicion of misusing public | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
funds. Both men have been released on bail, and the serving officer | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
has returned to duty after suspension. The arrests are not | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
being linked to the ongoing investigation into alleged | :05:28. | :05:38. | |
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corruption at Cleveland Police. The Newcastle United striker Nile | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Ranger has been charged with drink driving. The 20-year-old was | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
arrested last month in an early- morning incident. He was granted | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
bail until today. He has now been charged to appear before Newcastle | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
Magistrates on November the 10th. Electricity bills are a shock for | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
most of us these days, but imagine this. A couple from North Yorkshire | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
who run a farm shop and cafe business were slapped with a bill | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
for �26,000. Karl and Mandy Alvison, from Pickering, were stunned when | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
npower said it was taking the sum out of their bank account. | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
Charlotte Leeming reports. Col's family have farmed here at | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Pickering for generations, but the recession hit this industry | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
particularly hard and so he had to think of new ways to help it | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
survive. So in 2007, Karl and Mandy Alvison decided to diversify and | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
opened this shop and cafe thinking it would make for far more viable. | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
It actually led to a financial nightmare. That was caused after a | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
new electricity meter was installed last year by energy provider npower. | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
They had been paying about �600 a month for electricity, but that | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
rose to �1,500. When he asked about the increase, npower said they had | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
been under charging him for 3.5 years and, as a result, he owed | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
them �26,000 which they would take out his account the following week. | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
I rang npower immediately and spoke to a lady and said, this must be a | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
joke, there is something wrong. And then we went into shock after that. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
There was nothing we could do apart from get a solicitor immediately | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
and stop the proceedings of trying to work out what had happened and | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
why. -- start at. We have worked hard for four years to build the | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
business and should be concentrating on that. We have no | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
concentration, no energy, it has been really difficult. I look | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
forward to hearing from you after you have spoken to the Ombudsman. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
Back then the couple received a phone call from npower. | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
customer service officer has now acknowledged my case for the first | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
time, because of the television coming. She has never seen my case | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
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previously. In a statement, the A dying Cumbrian grandmother who | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
was stranded in a Newcastle hospital has finally been found a | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
bed in her home town of Whitehaven. Carol Ritson has an inoperable | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
brain tumour, with just weeks to live, and after treatment at the | :08:28. | :08:37. | |
RVI, wanted to return home. Carol Ritson is dying and her final | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
which was to come home after treatment in Newcastle. Tonight, | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
she is, but her son says it has been a battle to get Terry hospital | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
bed in her home town. It has been difficult but she is much happier | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
she is home. But I am not satisfied with the way the hospital have | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
dealt with it. I do not see how anybody could. I do not believe the | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
people of West Cumbria are allowing this to happen to our main source | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
of care, and before we know it, it would just be an elderly care home | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
and no-one will have done anything about it. I think it is a disgrace. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
It is only a few hundred yards to the West Cumberland Hospital in | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Whitehaven from the home of Carol Ritson. Simon is delighted his | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
mother would be coming home shortly, but he says if there is to be a | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
lack of beds here, other families may end up as distraught as his | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
have been. If they are not coping now, what will they be like? We | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
only need head there so I can get the house ready for her to come | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
home so she can be in her own place and die with dignity. The West | :09:45. | :09:55. | |
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Glad it is resolved. The city of York has been celebrating the | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
contribution French and then made during World War II. More than up | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
2,000 and flying planes like this launch bombing raids from the area. | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
Today, at a war memorial was unveiled in that on at York Minster. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
Out of the stunning blue they came, one of York's most spectacular | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
flight passing years. The French and British aircraft were paying | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
tribute to the French and then stationed here during the war. They | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
left 66 years ago today, having risked their lives flying bombing | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
missions to occupied France. Around half were killed. In York Minster | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
today, they were remembered, in English and in French. A memorial | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
stone to the 216 French men who died was given to the Minster and a | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
book of remembrance recording the names of the dead was carried out | :11:09. | :11:15. | |
to waiting veterans, all in their eighties and nineties. To have this | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
memorial in the cathedral is there forever now. So they are at peace | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
now. How have they been tears? Some! -- have there been any tears. | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
Some of very hard men, but they can cry if they want. And out in the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
sunshine, the five French veterans who have travelled to York gathered | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
with their Ambassador and a cheese to watch 16 aircraft fly overhead, | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
while hundreds of servicemen and women watched in tribute to -- | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
Ambassador and air Chiefs. And I think it is fantastic to see France | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
and Britain working together and remembering together what happened | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
in the Second World War. It was really important it was celebrated | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
here today, and it was lovely to see so many French people together | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
with English people. It was a day when two countries came together in | :12:14. | :12:21. | |
York to remember a shared past and celebrate the United future. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
A memorable day. They call it the Oscars of the demolition world. And | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
while their work could never be called glamorous, a firm from our | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
region is in the running for a major award - for their work in | :12:32. | :12:33. | |
knocking things down. Peter Harris reports. | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
These are big boys' toys. But the work is serious. They work by night | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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and they work fast. And we are given 16 and was out of an 18 a | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
road closure through the night on a Saturday to take the bridge, the | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
main part of the bridge down, and remove it and get the road safe to | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
reopen again with the crash barriers erected again and the road | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
swept. So good are they are at knocking | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
things down, they're off to the World Demolition Awards. Yes, they | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
really do exist. To describe it as the Oscars, | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
presumably you are not making an awful speech if you win the World | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
Demolition Awards? I do not think how will make a dreadful find his | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
speech. It will just be thank you to my eyesight team who have got us | :13:34. | :13:43. | |
where we are. Plenty more to come, including how the North's school | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
children can be missing out on free tickets to the Olympics. And In | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
Grundy's North - John takes a tour of the North's reservoirs. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
And rain is on the way for parts of the north-east and Cumbria, at I | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
will be back with the details. We all know how hard it is to get | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
your hands on tickets to the London 2012 Olympics, but schools can win | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
some of the 50,000 free tickets up for grabs if they sign up to the | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
official Olympic education programme "Get Set." Hundreds of | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
schools in our region are missing out though - with only about one in | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
eight having signed up. Stephanie Lloyd has been to a Newcastle | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
school that is getting set for the games. | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
Thing you football team admire their kicked, at a reward for | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
supporting the London Olympics -- the new football team. St George's | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Primary school has signed up to the Olympic education programme. | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
they are getting a lot out of it, working together as a team, as a | :14:45. | :14:54. | |
family. I learnt about the Olympics, about friendship, courage, respect, | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
at and, like, it is not winning that counts but just taking part. | :14:59. | :15:06. | |
We have now started a football team and it is just great! A colleague | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
said to me last year that it is very much a London's games and in | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
the north, we are not getting the benefit. And as his school, we felt | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
strongly we wanted it to be away games and we should get involved -- | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
and as a school. It is not just London's. But hundreds of schools | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
in the region could be missing out on free tickets to the games | :15:28. | :15:33. | |
because they have not become full members. In the north-east, 67% of | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
schools have registered but only 17% have followed through and | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
applied. In Cumbria, 50% have registered but only 9% have signed | :15:42. | :15:50. | |
up. This load take up compares to London schools where 50% are part | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
of the scheme -- this lower take-up. The children may be able to take | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
part in events nearby, it is chances they would not get if we | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
are not part of this network. well as free tickets, pupils will | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
be eligible to be a torch bearers. But time is running out, the | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
deadline is December 16th. It is about making sure the Olympics is | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
not just about London and corporate people going to be games, it is to | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
make sure the whole of Britain, particularly the young, get a | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
chance to be involved and understand the Olympic ideals. | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
their run-out 281 days to go until the Olympic days. -- there are now. | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
These children may live miles from the action, but they are determined | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
to be part of it. And, as Steph said, the deadline | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
for signing up to the official education programme, "Get Set," is | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
December 16th. December 16th! You can find out more online. | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
Britain's best-selling cookery writer, Delia Smith CBE, is | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
becoming a patron of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation. Delia, who is | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
also a joint majority share holder in Norwich City Football Club, will | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
attend Sir Bobby's Breakthrough Auction and Ball in Newcastle | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
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tonight. Good to have her on board! Indeed. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
You are not starting with Newcastle? Not today, Alan Pardew | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
is in the studio, at back to that in a minute. Back in March, they | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
won a Wembley Cup Final. Seven months on, they're targeting a | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
promotion play-off place. And the next two matches will be a | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
barometer of Carlisle's prospects. Away at the leaders Charlton on | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Saturday, followed by a home clash with third-placed Sheffield | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
Wednesday three days later. Mark Tulip reports. | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
Now part of every football league club manager's job these days is to | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
be a good networker because you never know who you will bump into. | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
Take Carlisle boss Greg about hobnobbing with Roberto Mancini, | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
manager of Manchester City, had a northern sports writer's event. Any | :17:56. | :18:03. | |
deals? We asked about Tevez etc, I just learned what door is in | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
Italian! That was Italian! The evening is invaluable to talk about | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
the plight -- to talk about players and talk to these people, they find | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
out what you are like as an individual and get more trust about | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
whether to send people to you, so that was the key to mix with | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
everybody and if we do get a chance to get any players, we know what | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
type of people we are dealing with, which is excellent. Alone factor | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
could be a key element as Carlisle looked a punch above their weight | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
against the League's big spenders. I dare not say it but we are | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
seeming to find consistency, but I do not want to say it too loud | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
click because football kicks you in the teeth when you think you have | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
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cracked it. What a morale-booster it could be if they win this | :18:57. | :19:03. | |
weekend. If we do well against this team, we can now really believe in | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
ourselves because we know we have the quality and capacity of the | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
greatest team. It is a real test for the team. We need this game for | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
the future. Newcastle United manager Alan | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
Pardew is live on BBC Newcastle's Total Sport programme tonight. | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
He'll be taking fans' questions until 7:30. And with the Magpies | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
4th in the Premier League and still unbeaten, there'll be plenty to | :19:29. | :19:30. | |
talk about. Meanwhile, at this afternoon's | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
press conference, the United boss said defender Danny Simpson does | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
have a future at St James' Park. This follows the player's comments | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
in court yesterday, when he told magistrates he expected to be | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
transferred, and so needed a car to visit potential new clubs, after he | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
admitted a speeding charge but claimed "exceptional hardship," | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
explaining his premature baby daughter's ill-health meant regular | :19:48. | :19:58. | |
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dashes to hospital. I think he had some bad advice and | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
unfortunately at the moment, because of his child, he is in a | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
stressful situation. His wife and the baby have had a real battle and | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
it looks like they have come through the other side of that, | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
which is great news. The baby is doing great. And even though he | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
feels a little bit let down in himself really, it was nice that he | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
has got his home life getting back on an even keel and he has been a | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
great player for us. And he will be going forward as well. He wants a | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
new contract and if he keeps playing like he is, there is a good | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
chance he will get one. More from Alan Pardew on the late | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
news. Now, if you have a sports-mad child | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
in the family, you might like to know that, once again, we're on the | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
look-out for youngsters for this year's Sports Kids series. Last | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
year, we featured 11-year-old mountain biker Jack, from | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
Guisborough, who's hoping to be World Champion one day. And we also | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
met a couple of karate experts, Anna and Ester from Haltwhistle - | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
just eight and nine years old respectively, and already black | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
belts. So if you know a youngster with a passion and a talent for a | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
particular sport, why not drop us a line at Sports Kids, BBC Look North, | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
Newcastle, NE99 2NE? Or email us - [email protected]. | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
Thank you. Now, most of us don't spend too | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
much time wondering where our water comes from. In this country, it's | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
on tap, isn't it? But John Grundy has just had some major plumbing | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
done, and being an inquiring kind of man, he began to ponder just how | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
his bath gets filled. So for this week's Grundy's North, he presents | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
his Brief History of Plumbing. Do we really want to know about his | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
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waterworks?! This is my new bath. At last! It works. I have always | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
been fascinated by the weight water gets to our taps. It seems a | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
miracle of our civilisation. Originally, people will go down to | :22:20. | :22:25. | |
the nearest stream for water and carry it home, which was all right | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
while streams were still clean up. But then people looked for other | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
signs of water. We searched for it underground. As time went on, | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
sometimes wealthy and charitable people provided it white -- | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
provided fountains and piped water. By the early 19th century, all | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
towns and villages have them. But then people started to have bigger | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
ideas about how to get clean water to its. The Newcastle and Gateshead | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
Water Company was founded in 1846 and they constructed these, the | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
reservoirs, about 12 miles west of Newcastle. It was one of the first | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
really big and successful water schemes in the country. But as | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
towns grew, a lot more water was needed. This is another reservoir | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
right near the Scottish border, which began in 1894 to begin each - | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
- to bring even more water to Tyneside. It is all such wonderful | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Engineering, but this is my favourite bit. This is where they | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
allowed the river, the river Reid, to flow out through the bottom of | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
the damage. It is so romantic and powerful, atmospheric, the sort of | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
thing nuns might have built. It was Victorians who created this | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
wonderful Engineering. But even the Victorians have been put in the | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
shade by the stuff the 20th century water engineers produced. The Grand | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
daddy of reservoirs designed this place to keep the north-east in | :24:06. | :24:11. | |
water forever. It does not provide water all the time and is kept here | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
until it is needed, it when it is released and falls down. Until it | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
reaches here. This is Northumbrian Water's pumping station, just west | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
of Newcastle. When the water is needed, it is released and taken | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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out here. And then it can be pumped by these gigantic engines to | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
wherever it has to go up, but a long this County Durham water | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
system. Or, if necessary, on the 21 mile tunnel as far as Teesside. Or | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
two-minute Bath, which I am now going to run and enjoy! -- to my | :25:00. | :25:09. | |
new Bath. Do not let us disturb you, but do not take the camera! Quickly | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
the weather now! A better forecast, no frost | :25:14. | :25:24. | |
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A gorgeous weather pictures. The sun is shining. Nowhere near as | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
cold tomorrow. We were down to minus two first thing tomorrow, but | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
not tomorrow because a blanket of cloud and rain, particularly for | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
the West but also to the east. For the Northern hills, the North | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Pennines come at a wet night. Getting a real soaking. But | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
temperatures much higher than yesterday, 7, 8 Celsius to start | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
Friday morning. Strong breezes and rain in the West. And for the | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
Northern hills for a time. But sunshine into the afternoon for | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
much of the north-east, and the rain will dry out in the West. 14 | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
Celsius is the top temperature, quite a strong breeze, but still | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
feeling a lot milder than we have had. West, a bit more cloudy. | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
Patchy outbreaks of light rainfall stop some brighter spells over the | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
lakes. Temperatures around about 14, average for late October. Over the | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
next couple of days, brighter skies to come, always in the north-east. | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
Sunshine on Saturday, Teesside, Wearside and Tyneside, but in the | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
West, a bit cloudier. And on Sunday, another weather system from the | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
West will bring heavy rain for a time, but try in the north-east. If | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
you have been out and about with your camera, send us your weather | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
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And I have just seen the proofs of the 2012 for the calendar, we will | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
give you the details of how you can send off for yours in aid of | :27:09. | :27:13. | |
Children in Need. Excellent. Now for a last look at | :27:13. | :27:15. | |
tonight's headlines. There have been celebrations in Libya, after | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Colonel Gaddafi was shot dead, and graphic images of his body have | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
been broadcast around the world. And Gateshead's Baltic Art Gallery | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
is about to open its doors to the public for the Turner Prize, one of | :27:25. | :27:31. |