31/10/2011 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Welcome to Monday's Look North. In the headlines. Jobs promise. 8,500

jobs and millionles of pounds pledged the boost the region's

economy. Under pressure, a leading heart surgeon talks ability the

reality of working in the children's heart unit. Left high

and dry for the winter. Concern as one of Teesside's best known

museums closes for five months and the gunpowder plot is given a scary

Dr Who make over. And Newcastle could go third in the Premier

League if they beat Stoke and Steve Bruce thanks his lucky stars they

stopped Bent and rescued a point 8,500 jobs. That is how in the

Government claims will be created in the North East alone, thanks to

a multi-million pound pay out. 93 million will be invested in a

number of companies and projects in our region, from the latest round

of the regional growth. It was set up to off set the demise of the

Regional Development Agencies. Ian Reeve reports. This is great news.

I have received the e-mail from them and I have been notetyed

Darchem have been awarded a �1 million funded grant. There was

good news in Graham pale pain's inbox this morning. His Teesside

engineering business has been given �1 million of Government cash. It

is part of the Regional Growth Fund, the second round of money that has

been distributed from a 1.4 billion pot. It is supposeed to create job,

especially where the public sector has take an hammering N the North

East alone the Government will hand out �93 million. That will cover 50

companys or projects. And it will help to create 8,500 direct job,

and 17,000 indirectly. Here at Darchem, the money will go towards

an �million investment, to supply parts and services to the nuclear

industry. Without this grant it would have made life very difficult.

I don't believe it would have gone ahead, it would have been very

difficult and marginal, so it has been a great bit of news today and

a great bit of news for the company and the plie employees. Other

winner who were skewed towards Teesside include the own over the

Tees and Hartlepool ports. It has big plans to build a new container

facility but the Government has given cash to a Scarborough company

that wants to sin accuse new potash mine. No doubt salivating at the

thought of a promised 50 years work and 1,000 jobs. Just the sort of

project the Deputy Prime Minister, in the region last week, said he

wants to support. The key thing about all this, you know, is that

we are providing money, public money through the Regional Growth

Fund to companies like this, who create jobs that last, because what

went wrong in the past was, that the North East and indeed or

regions in the country were too dependent on hand outs from

Whitehall that created jobs one day and lost them the next. And that

sort of thinking has seen Cumbria benefit too. Four projects will get

money, including Pirelli's tyre factory on Dalston Road in Carlisle.

It will spend its share of funding on less carbon intensive car tyres.

Ian is in our BBC Tees news room. 8,500 jobs for the North East 5

loan. It sound good but there are still critics Yes there are,

principally Labour calls it a fiasco, that relates to round one

of the jobs that were allocated six months ago, 14 of them in the North

East, 45 across the country, 45 kingfisherent -- different projects

promises 45 million. They were announced six months ago. After of

a couple of weeks oing only two companies had the cheques in their

hand, got the cash from that. Another criticism relates to the

companies that are getting money, so in round one we saw in the North

East Nissan got money, we saw SSI that owns the blast furnace at

Redcar, we saw Proctor and gamble getting 14 million and that is a

multi-billion pound turn over company and the question has to be

asked, would they not have invested 13 or 14 million if they hadn't got

that cash from the Government? The answer is they probably still would

have gone ahead there is another criticism of the threshold. You

have to mange a bid of �1 million that. Precludes lots of small

businesses entering and and getting the cash. Some criticisms there

Geoff. Thank you. We think of them as superheroes. The men and women

who perform children's heart surgery saving young lives. But

what is it like working in a specialist field under the present

system? Tonight on the BBC One's Inside Out programme a surgeon

talks for the first time on television about the pressures that

meant he had to stop working on children. He speaks as a shake-up

of children's heart surgery is considered which could lead to the

closure of the unit at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital. The fund would go.

I would get a tack card ya. Leslie Hamilton led heart surgery at the

free man for 15 years but he had to stop. I couldn't do it any more.

Now he operates only o adults. Today he is performing a heart

bypass and valve replacement. The stress was caused by working in a

very small team and by the unique nature of children's heart surgery

Every operation is different of. You have to tailor it so the

individual child. You spend a lot of time thinking about it. You

would be lying awake, thinking about the operation, going over the

centre there is a lot more mental pressure on children's heart sublgs,

and there is a lot more to cope with. Surgeons because you don't do

the operations so often you don't get into a comfortable phase of

doing the same operation regularly, so there is more tension round each

operation, I was fortunate my colleagues recognised I was feeling

the pressure, they came to me and said you are not enjoying it any

more and let us see how we can change things, I was fortunate that

was possible. For me it was a question of confidence and rather

than operating about. The there are many examples of surgeons who like

Leslie Hamilton have given up children's heart surgery. It is

believed the present system is a major cause. It boils down to

numbers, there are 11 centres in England employing 30 surgeons. It

is argued the cases spread too thinly on the ground. Not enough

cases are coming through to develop a surgeon's skills and provide the

best results. That is why a review is considering cutting the number

of children's heart surgeon -- surgery units to six or seven. With

bigger teams and more cases coming through, it should reduce the

pressure on surgeons. But some centre also have to close, and it

is possible the free man's unit could be among them. Leslie

Hamilton believes the review must be implemented. We believe the best

way forward is to have fewer, bigger centres and if the decision

is made to close any particular unit, we would have to live with

that. An announcement on which centres are to close is expected in

the next few months. And Inside Out has more on that story tonight at

7.30 here on BBC One. A Darlington pensioner blouz wife has dementia

claims the cost of care has risen by more than 500% in less than 1

months. Evelyn Wiffen spends one afternoon a week at the town's

centre for which the family are charged more than �50. Her husband

Peter claims they are being victimised because they have

savings. 52 years of happy marriage. And then the kind of tragedy that

could happen to any one of us. Four years ago Evelyn Wiffen was struck

down by vascular dementia, and a couple who had been independent and

thrifty all their lives were suddenly forced to rely on social

care. For one afternoon a week, Evelyn is taken to the St Hilda's

day centre. Peter can't speak too highly of the care his wife

receives here, Evelyn gets stimulation and gets a break. The

cost of a session when they first came last August were �10. By April

this year they had risen to over 2 and this October they are �50.7.

Bordering on the unaffordable. National Health service was

instituted on the basis of need and not according to how well thi or

otherwise you were, multi- millionaires can go and get

National Health drugs if they are over 65, the same as people who

have very little money, so it is just to say it is down to fact you

have some money, is just an unfair system. It is not a level playing

field. Costs have risen at St Hilda's because the Primary Care

Trust which partially funds the centre which Darlington council has

decided to redirect its resources, to other mental Health Services.

People are classed as self funding, and it is unfortunate in Mr and Mrs

Wiffen's case they are right they have got savings, and they will

have enough money that makes it look against our means test they

can afford -- afford to pay. Evelyn's condition continues to

deteriorate and the family won't contemplate any less a care she

gets at the moment. There is plenty more to come tonight including the

latest from the Magpies ahead of tonight's game at Stoke plus a

familiar face on stage soon in Sunderland:join me Su Pollard to

find out why I am still happy to be Miss Hannigan, the Harry Dan! Wa

and what horrid nastyness does the weather have in store. Join me for

the full Hallowe'en forecast. They are turning their back on the

town's most famous son. That is the claim after the closure of one of

Teesside's best known tourist attraction. The captain cook ma

seem closed for five months but concerns have been raised the move

could be made permanent. The timing could not be worse. Nine million

pound is being spent giving Stuart Park a makeover. Now, the

centrepiece of that park the Captain Cook museum has closed. It

is a temporary closure for now but many are angry, and fearing the

worst. Devastating I think for so many people, because this is what

puts Middlesbrough on the map round the world. You only have to look in

the book up stair, the visitors book, people come from all over.

is landmark for the history of the area as was James cook. I think it

would be a sad loss We came to take the dog for a walk. We fed the

animals and now we are having lunch. It's a lovely day, we would have

gone in the museum. Supporters claim it has been unfairly targeted.

They say the institute for modern art received �1.2 million a year

from the council. The cap cane -- Captain Cook museum gets less. In

terms of value the gallery costs �10 while Captain Cook costs round

�3. Middlesbrough council has been hit with some of the highest cuts

in the North East, I feel that it could have been spread among the

other attractions in the town. council says it had no option but

to close the museum during the winter months because of the budget

cut. It has been asked to save �50 million over the next five years.

But it says I does intend to re- open the museum next spring. But no

date has been finalised. Now, the artiste formally known as Peggy is

returning to the region next month repiezing her role as the dastardly

Miss Han -- Hanagan in Annie. She has played it on six tours in the

last decade, with two venues left her days at Sunderland Empire will

be among her last in the show. # Little girls, little girls

# Night and day I eat sleep and breathe them

# Sh Annie, the smash hit musical, a West End cast and on a sixth tour

and over the last decade, Su Pollard making the role of Miss

Hannigan her very own It is a great part. Get lovely songs to do. As I

say, you get some fun out of her. She is not always naff and awful to

the kids. I get a bit of physical fun out of it. I am chatting any

man up that I see. But this December she is leaving the show

behind. Looking back, I will probably think I did enjoy that,

what fantastic show that was to do, and so I suppose you feel a bit oh,

never doing it again, but that is the thing, you can't be playing her

until I am 96. It was my big chance! I hope you don't blame me.

She became a household maim in the 08s as peg y she was hi dihi's

yellow coat wannabe. She still remembers it fondly. When I first

got that part I was just over the moon, you know, working with people

who were already legends if you like, and knowing that I could

learn a lot for them. I had the most marvellous fun. We laughed and

laughed all those years. And always be grateful for that. It was a

fantastic piece of entertainment. But she doesn't plan to rest.

can't talk too much about this, but there is in the offing a new sitcom

about a garden centre for the BBC. Now I think I read it and it is

And with plans to tour with her own show after Annie, it is a very busy

Time for Team Talk now and before we look at the weekend action, what

about the big game tonight? Newcastle could go third in the

Premier League? Yes, it is not often you will find

Newcastle fans cheering an Arsenal goal, but I bet there were a few

jumping up and down when they stuck five past Chelsea! Amazing result.

And it means, ahead of this evening's game at Stoke, the table

looks like this... The Magpies level with Chelsea and

Tottenham - and if they avoid defeat in the Potteries they will

be right behind the two Manchester clubs.

That is easier said than done, Stoke in the Premier League and

they were thumped 4-0 there last year.

They lost at Blackburn in the Carling Cup last week, so can they

keep that unbeaten record going in the League? Danny Simpson knows it

will be a test at the Britannia. will be a big test. Everyone knows

the stalker a tough team. They have also landed some quality players

this season. We will find out shortly. It kicks

off at eight o'clock. Radio commentary, of course, on BBC

Newcastle. And striker Nile Ranger will be missing from the squad. He

was arrested again, this time for being drunk and disorderly, in

Newcastle city centre in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Of course, it was a year to the day that the Magpies won 5-1 against

another team who play in red and white.

And I am sure Sunderland fans are glad you reminded them!

They were happy enough at the weekend, coming from behind twice

to earn a point against Aston Villa. The second home game in a row that

they have given the visitors a head start. Eight million-pound man. But

he did not enjoy this brush with Emil Heskey. Craig Gordon has a

month away from fitness. Kieran Westwood is the only keeper they

will have at Manchester United on Saturday. He was beaten in the end

by Richard Dunn. Steve Bruce was thanking his lucky stars for that

late draw. Now, the big question was, what

sort of reception would the Sunderland fans give to their one-

time hero, Darren Bent, who jumped ship and moved to Villa last

January? BREWING. I think that was pretty clear and it was like that

right through the game. He was the pantomime villain. And it was a bit

like his last few months at Sunderland, he did not get many

chances. Kieron Richardson saving the day here, when Bent looked

certain to score. But he wasn't involved that much and he did not

get great service. Pulled up for a foul on Wes Brown, when he thought

he was clear. Was not very happy with that one. But you knew he

would get one good chance and this was it. 72 minutes, a lovely one-

two, only Kieren Westwood to beat - and what a save that was!

thought his name was going to be up in lights. But the goalkeeper

spread his body. I am sure Steve Bruce had told his players, you

cannot let this guy score. Yes, you did hear right. Alex

McLeish DID say Lee Westwood, there. Of course, this is Lee Westwood,

one of Britain's top golfers. Did not see him at the Stadium of Light

on Saturday. Apologies if you were there, Lee.

And this is former Carlisle goalkeeper Kieren Westwood. Not

quite as handy with a golf club, but Sunderland's number one now -

and the man who spoiled Darren Bent's day!

Middlesbrough have been brought back down to earth with a bump over

the last couple of weeks, losing first to Nottingham Forest and then

Southampton on Saturday. And at 3-0, the Saints beat Boro

convincingly as well, but they really did not help themselves,

with some pretty below par defending. And that is a dangerous

thing when there is a Brazilian like Guly do Prado around. He put

Southampton two up by the break. Boro had only conceded three goals

in their last six away games. third one here, from former

Sunderland striker David Connolly. And Nigel Adkins' side could have

had more, if it had not been for some great saves from Jason Steele.

The Boro defence all over the place at times. Boro did have some

chances. Scott MacDonald hitting the side netting just before half

time and another effort from Faris Haroun, but plenty of food for

thought for Tony Mowbray ahead of tomorrows game away at lowly

Doncaster. If there is a youngster in your

house, you will be well aware that it is Halloween tonight. But it was

all a bit scary at Brunton Park on Saturday, on and off the pitch!

Yes, some nice costumes. All part of the Football League Family

Festival and it was a bit of a horror show when the game against

Oldham started. Carlisle were 3-0 down before they

had even blinked! Well, inside the first 33 minutes, anyway. But what

a comeback. Started by Lee Miller, it was important they got one back

before half-time. Then on came Francois Zoko. Lovely finish, this

one. That was 3-2 just a few minutes into the second-half. But

they had to wait until the 95th minute for the equaliser.

Goalkeeper Adam Collin up for the corner, a bit like Jimmy Glass, but

it was Zoko who backheeled it in! Looks like he was going for the big

celebration, but he didn't get the chance.

Last week, of course, Carlisle were thumped 4-0 by Charlton. This time,

the leaders did the same to Hartlepool. But if you are a Pools

fan, we are going to spare you! Just a couple of Charlton goals

here, but that was bad enough. Both Hartlepool and Carlisle

featured in yesterday's FA Cup first round draw. The Cumbrians are

on their way to Alfreton or Lincoln, Pools are at home to Stevenage.

But the regional tie of the round would be Blyth Spartans against

Gateshead, if Blyth win their replay against Drolysden.

Managerless Darlington also have a replay, after drawing with Hinckley.

So that is the football. Not much joy on the rugby front?

Yes, no-one expected Newcastle Falcons to win at Franklins Gardens

- and they didn't! Newcastle stay rooted to the bottom of rugby's

Premiership, after losing to Northampton on Saturday. The Saints,

back to full strength following the return of their World Cup players,

scored no fewer than six tries. And wouldn't you know it, it was former

Falcons favourite Tom May who scored the first two. The result

heaps even more pressure on Newcastle to beat rivals Worcester

on Friday night to avoid being cast Next tonight, we are off to York,

the Merchant Adventurer's Hall, to be precise. And because it is

Halloween, you just know there will be something ghostly going on.

Some very lucky school children went time travelling this morning,

back to the year 1605. They became the first people to try out a brand

new Doctor Who computer game called The Gunpowder Plot. It is not every

day you come face-to-face with someone involved in the Gunpowder

Plot. While the doctor could not be in your kid himself, he had written

some young companions into an adventure they would not forget in

a hurry. Uncover the secrets of the Gunpowder Plot in the very birth

place of Guy Fawkes and their reward, be the first to try out in

new Doctor Who computer game. is the great joy of the adventure

game. You are part of the story, but along the way, you are learning

things about the Gunpowder Plot. There are beauty of this is giving

the kids a great adventure, but also inspiring them to learn a

little bet a it was really good fun, but very hard. The is the the first

game to be made by a in Sheffield company and will be available for

download from tonight. But it is not just the children who can have

fun. Can I have a go at it? I used to hide behind their so far when

doctor who was on. And speaking of scary, here is some rather scary

All around the region, everything is taking a spooky turn. These

people are taking the first ghost walk through Newcastle. Steve

Taylor from alone in the dark is here. Steve, how often do you do

these? We are doing them and a weekly basis. A what is the chance

of them seen a ghost? All, you never know. These ladies are going

to set off any few minutes on the first-ever ghost walk. No, it is

time for that spooky forecast. Today's headlines say you may need

a water proof Kate if you are out Trek and or treating tonight. There

is rain spreading and from the West as we head through the evening and

into the night time. There are some heavy burst in amongst it,

especially over the high ground in Cumbria. Temperatures just stepping

into single figures. As we head towards the end of the night, the

rain starts to clear away East and tomorrow, you would have to be up

early to catch the last of it. It will push out into the North Sea in

the morning and it will brighten up nicely behind that. There might be

in us cloud to produce the odd shower, but most places will stay

dry. The best of the sunshine in the North East. It was quite mild

today, but tomorrow afternoon, 14 degrees Celsius, of which is not

bad for the first day in November. All in all, not feeling too bad at

all if you are out and about tomorrow. You can see the pressure

pattern here. There is the image of low pressure pushing and from the

Atlantic. The outlook tells us that Tuesday and Wednesday will be

mostly dry and bright, but by Thursday, a wet and windy weather

for many of us. But again, still pretty mild. It is back to you in

the studio. You can take that ski mask off now.

Time now for a look at tonight's headlines. After days of protests

there has been another high-profile resignation at St Paul's. Dean

Graeme Knowles says criticism of the cathedral made his position