Browse content similar to 11/11/2011. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
BUGLER PLAYS THE LAST POST. Welcome to Look North. On an day, when | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
silence spoke a word of an words. The dead remembered, as Armistice | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
:00:32. | :00:33. | ||
Day ceremonies take place across the region. Fears that hospital | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
wards may close because of an overspent by one of come here's | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
health trusts. At the ADT robust that is starring in the Lord | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
Mayor's Parade in London, after a remarkable restoration project. In | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
sport, the magic of the FA Cup starts here. Four of this that | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
teams are in action, some of them holding to two pool of a giant- | :00:57. | :01:07. | |
:01:07. | :01:10. | ||
killing, and others, hoping to avoid a shock. -- hoping to pull | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
off. We did remember them. At 11 o'clock this morning, across the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
length and breadth of our region, people came to a silent standstill | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
- to remember all those members of our Armed Forces, killed in action. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
From the very young, to the very old, the two-minute silence was | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
impeccably respected. We have reports and pictures coming up, | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
starting with Damian O'Neil in Sunderland. Sunderland has a new | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
memorial. Conceived of by Brothers in Arms, a group of five local | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
families who have lost loved ones, and paid for by the people of the | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
city, this granite wall is dedicated to the servicemen and | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
woman from Sunderland who've died since World War II. Tom and Carla | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Cuthbertson's son Nathan was killed in Afghanistan in 2008, when he was | :01:51. | :02:00. | |
19. Seeing the wall finally in place means everything to them. | :02:00. | :02:09. | |
has been two or Muir's of hard work. It is good to see the wall in his | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
glory, with the names on it. Does it help? Be it does, when you see | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
all the support and everything now, that is a big, massive help. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Everybody is so competent. Obviously the memories and the | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
grieving process is always going on. Not just on Remembrance Sunday. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
have a younger son who 17 whose passing out with the Parachute | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Regiment on frigate. And he could be posted to have Ghana stand. And | :02:42. | :02:52. | |
:02:52. | :03:01. | ||
I hope that I never have to put his name on the wall. -- to Afghanistan. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
The has been some debate recently about who should and should not | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
wear poppies. When you meet families like these, you wonder | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
whether the right to remember should avert be questioned by | :03:12. | :03:22. | |
:03:22. | :03:24. | ||
anybody. -- should ever be questioned. They gathered beside | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
the memorial. The family of Lance Corporal Kyle Marshall. For them | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
today was especially poignant. Kyle was killed in action in February. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
His mum Olwyn, placing flowers on a plaque created in his honour. | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
really hard, unbearable at times. But life goes on. He loved the job | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
he was doing and he would have been proud to be out there, fighting for | :03:47. | :03:54. | |
what he believed was right. Kyle was killed and Afghanistan on St | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
Valentine's Day. He had been due to marry his fiancee, hairy, at the | :04:01. | :04:11. | |
:04:11. | :04:13. | ||
end of the tour. That was a bit of a nightmare for the whole family -- | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
Hailey. He had been a member of the Parachute Regiment. The family of | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
John LEY alec, from North Shields, was also there, and Lance Corporal | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
Johnnie Rowe, who was killed in Afghanistan and 2008. The service | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
was witnessed by local children. am pleased that the children have | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
come along. It shows the history, and those people who have fallen, | :04:41. | :04:51. | |
:04:51. | :04:53. | ||
and paid the ultimate price, and that they will never be forgotten. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Some of the ceremonies were formal - some, less so. What they all | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
shared was the desire of people, here in the North, to make a public | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
:05:10. | :05:10. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds | :05:10. | :05:55. | |
show of respect. Here are just a Children at West Denton Primary | :05:55. | :06:02. | |
School in Newcastle were among many youngsters marking Armistice Day. | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
They placed crosses in the school's new Garden of Remembrance, to | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
commemorate each one of the troops killed in Afghanistan since last | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
year's Armistice Day. Red and white balloons were released, in honour | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
of those killed in action and those currently serving in the Armed | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
Forces. It means a lot to me, because it remembers those soldiers | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
were brave enough to give their lives and protect us. If they did | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
not do that we would not have the lives that we have now. I have had | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
a great band -- big granddad to died in the war, and that has had | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
an effect on my family as well. soldiers who have died, I just want | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
to thank them that they helped us, and they say at the world. | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
whole school cares about Remembrance Day. Not many kids | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
nowadays do care. For one school in Cumbria, this year marks a | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
particularly special anniversary. In 1941, three of its former pupils | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
won the highest medal for bravery - the Victoria Cross. Danny Savage | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
reports from Sedbergh School. Like many schools, said there in Cumbria | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
Marks Armistice Day with great respect. But this day was special. | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
On this day 70 years ago, three of his former pupils one Britain's | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
highest military award, for bravery. Their names are on a special | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
memorial for those who were awarded the Victoria Cross. Pilot Kenneth | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
Campbell was awarded the Victoria Cross when he died, aged 23. In | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
1941, Britain was struggling in the battle of the Atlantic. Allied | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
shipping was being lost at a rapid rate. And one of the biggest | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
threats came from the battleships of the German navy. Campbell was | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
given the job of sinking one of them. To get at the ship, he and | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
his crew had to fly at mast height, whilst being fired on by hundreds | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
of guns. Against the odds, Campbell succeeded, but just after they drop | :08:12. | :08:21. | |
their torpedoes, they were shot down and killed. At this week, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
pupils who are RAF cadets from his school were given the extremely | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
rare chance of seeing and holding his Victoria Cross. It is an honour | :08:30. | :08:38. | |
to be able to hold that, when he was not able to. Just seeing it at | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
school and what the presents to us, it is phenomenal to be able to hold | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
it now. To have walked in the same corridors, as the hero, who won his | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
medal... There are 1100 old boys who served, and over 250 were | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
killed. To say nothing of those who were severely injured. That | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
casualty rate is one of the highest casualty rates in schools of this | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
:09:19. | :09:22. | ||
kind. First came that decision to sell off the naming rights to St | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
James's Park. And we were also told that Newcastle United required a | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
new shirt sponsor. But Look North has discovered another detail. That | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
this means Northern Rock has backed out of its entire sponsorship deal | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
with the club early. It'll cost the Magpies millions. The Rock says | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
it's a "purely financial" decision. The leader of Newcastle City | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Council says he's shocked it wasn't made public. Here's our Chief | :09:40. | :09:49. | |
Reporter, Chris Stewart. Happier days when St James's Park was St | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
James's Park, and the No. 9 was smiling for the sponsors. It was a | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
deal that would come to be worth �2.5 million a year, which both | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
parties said was a perfect fit. In January last year that a deal was | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
being hit for four years, with a get-out clause available to the | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
back after two years. That clause has now been exercised. The bank | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
has decided that its tie in with Newcastle United is over. We | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
understand the decision was taken in the summer. The Northern Boxer | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
is that it is to do with the change in the way that expense money on | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
marketing. But it all seems to have been kept quite quiet. Not even | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
this man knew, he is the leader of the city council, ironically on his | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
way into a meeting at the place that he refuses to acknowledge by | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
its new name. I was shocked when I found out from the BBC today that | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
this deal has ended. Vase will be horrified that a deal appears to | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
have been done behind the scenes on this. Fans will be wondering why | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
they have not been taught and what the implications are, for the club. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
Nine matches will be played during the Olympics next year, and 2012 | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
organisers said that the club as the Julie -- is legally obliged to | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
use the name, St James's Park, for those matches. So no publicity | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
there for any potentially new sponsor. We're not going to change | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
the name of the middle station or any other sign aged around St | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
James's Park. We're not in the business of giving Mr Ashley free | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
advertising. A branding company which counts Coca-Cola among his | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
clients said that the unexpected availability of the Shots | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
sponsorship could damage efforts to sell the rights to been in the | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
stadium. It has become more fashionable thing to try to link | :11:43. | :11:53. | |
:11:53. | :11:57. | ||
the stadium deal and the shirt deal. In this case would you want to take | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
over as a stadium sponsor, given the bad publicity it is getting at | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
the moment? So, potentially, the sponsor themselves might make that | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
decision for Newcastle. If the plan had been to get the club noticed, | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
well... Or of course football clubs need investment, but this is not | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
just about and mean, this is about an historic status, of St James's | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
Park. I hope that the club can find a different way forward. It has | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
been a torrid couple of days for Newcastle United. One fan staged a | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
protest, hoping for a return to the name, St James's Park. Another took | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
a picture of a sign which might not be there, too much longer. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Newcastle are certainly making the headlines over renaming the stadium. | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
But Sunderland Football Club has told the BBC that, in principle, it | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
has no objections to renaming the Stadium of Light if it would help | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
maximise its revenues. Watch this space. Wards at hospitals in | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
Carlisle and Whitehaven in west Cumbria, may have to close to cope | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
with a cash crisis at the Trust that runs them. A leaked e-mail | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
from Dr Neil Goodwin, the chief executive of the North Cumbria | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Trust, says it was overspent by �1.3 million in October. From the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
beginning of December, wards could close, locum consultants no longer | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
be used and short-term staff contracts end. The trust says any | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
changes will be risk assessed first. But the Copeland MP, Jamie Reed, | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
says the Trust isn't being honest with the public, while unions are | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
concerned about patient care. totally disagree that patient care | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
is not being compromised. We know from our members that the pressure | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
they are under and the lack of staffing and the inappropriate | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
skill mix, patients are at risk in this hospital ship -- today, and | :13:47. | :13:53. | |
have been for some pan. A care worker has been found guilty of | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
ill-treating two dementia patients at the Amathea care home in | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
Workington. Carlisle Crown Court had heard that 24 year-old | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
Kimberley Walker put a pillow over the face of one elderly woman, and | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
pulled a fleece very tightly over another woman's face. Walker will | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
be sentenced in December. Robin Garbutt, the man convicted of | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
murdering his wife at their post office in North Yorkshire, is to | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
appeal. Diana Garbutt was found dead at the couple's home in | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
Melsonby in March last year. Her husband - who had pleaded not | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
guilty - was sentenced to life imprisonment. Levels of fuel | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
poverty in the North East are double those in the South of | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
England. Officially, it means you spend more than 10% of your | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
household income on fuel. Rising gas, oil and electricity bills are | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
largely to blame. And a new report, commissioned by the government, | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
estimates 2,700 people across England and Wales will die this | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
winter - because they can't afford to heat their homes. Here's our | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
:14:48. | :14:50. | ||
Political Correspondent, Mark Denten. In a community centre in | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
Chopwell, a group of pensioners playing a game- with a difference. | :14:53. | :15:01. | |
Welcome to the wonderful world of energy efficiency bingo. The bingo | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
players are finding it hard to pay their bills. Energy firms aren't | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
exactly popular. I am absolutely disgusted about it, all the profits | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
that they are making, and they are putting prices up, for everybody. | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
They are making enormous profits, so surely they could pass something | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
on to the consumer. The charity organising this event says the | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
government isn't doing enough to tackle rising fuel bills. | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
Government is committed to trying to eradicate fuel poverty by 2016. | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
The way we're going at the moment, that is simply not going to happen. | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
The bee's family who lived near Rothwell can only use oil as fuel, | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
and the bills have gone up by 50%. You have no alternative but to buy | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
more oil, at a high price. It is difficult the budget over the | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
winter. His energy companies are paying the majority of the cost to | :15:59. | :16:06. | |
insulate these houses, and why? Because they have the Government | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
are telling them to. We have carried about �1 million worth of | :16:11. | :16:17. | |
insulation improvements. Energy companies are funded -- have funded | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
more than �700,000 of that. people who live here will have a | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
warmer winter, but in just five years the Government wants to end | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
fuel poverty for everyone, it is an ambitious target, and some people | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
are questioning whether it will be achieved at all. So what do the | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
politicians have to say about this? Find out on Sunday with The | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
Politics Show, here on BBC1 at the later time of 3:10pm. A Yorkshire | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
Tiger is making its first journey in decades this weekend - at the | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
Lord Mayor's Parade in London. The 82 year-old Leyland Tiger bus was | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
offered a starring role by the new Lord Mayor, who happens to be a | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
Yorkshireman. But it's taken staff and apprentices at Scarborough's | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Bluebird Vehicles two years to get it up and running. Carla Fowler | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
reports. The final touches to a labour of love. When it arrived at | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Bluebird vehicles in Scarborough, this 82 year old boss was a shell | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
of its former self, and had even been used as a makeshift homes were | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
summoned. But staff here have been a coach building or half a century, | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
and set about restoring it. We did it as a refurbishment project, to | :17:27. | :17:34. | |
help teach old skills to Modern apprentices. But this Tiger's glory | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
days were in the 1930s, and there was only way to get it right, by | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
bringing a former coach maker out of retirement. He started the 1959 | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
and remembers some of the craft skills needed back then. Wood | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
machinists made a lot of it all by hand, the patterns, starting afresh. | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
It has been exciting. It has been very hard at times. At team of | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
apprentices has been on board to get the bus ready for its starring | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
role in the Lord Mayor's Parade in the capital. I have been doing bits | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
and bobs Foster it has been quite hectic. But it would have been dead | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
and buried, when we bought it. It is incredible how much it has | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
turned round. When the bus takes to the road this weekend, more than 2 | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
million people will be watching, and some of Yorkshire's finest | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
:18:39. | :18:41. | ||
crafts men will be on board. Sports news now. And it is all about the | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
Cup. Yes four of our teams are in FA Cup first round action this | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
weekend. That's the stage of the competition when Football League | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
clubs get involved. First up for us, though, a North-East derby between | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
famous non-league giant-killers Blyth Spartans and full-timers | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
Gateshead. Mark Tulip looks ahead. Blyth Spartans are rather partial | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
to the FA Cup. Who - of a certain vintage - could forget the | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Northumberland part-timers reaching a fifth round replay at the stadium | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
formerly known as St James's back in 1978? More recently, Big Sam was | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
given a scare when Premier League Blackburn could only win 1-0 at | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
Croft Park in the third round. The �350,000 net profit from that cup | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
run came in very useful. That did pay off all the debts that had been | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
alone to the club by various parties. We invested in the stand | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
covering at Cropp Park, and we reallocated the budget for the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
former -- the next couple of years, to balance the money, to make sure | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
that we could move the team on, on the pitch. Reaching the first round | :19:44. | :19:46. | |
proper, Spartans - currently propping up Conference North, won | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
the right to take on Gateshead of the Conference Premier with victory | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
over Droylsden. The new boss has a link to a Sunderland triumph over a | :19:56. | :20:04. | |
century ago. Yes, my ancestor played for Sunderland in the Cup | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
final in 19 Turpin. Even though my family is all from Wallsend, Full- | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
timers Gateshead are chasing promotion back to the Football | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
League for the first time in more than 50 years. This is the big game | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
of the day in the North East. We're looking forward to it. It is an | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
opportunity for both clubs to progress to the second round proper, | :20:25. | :20:35. | |
:20:35. | :20:39. | ||
so there is a great day to be had. Hoping to fire the visitors to | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
victory, a striker with 18 goals in his last 19 matches. You cannot let | :20:42. | :20:51. | |
it get to you, the pressure. Blyth fans can still buy tickets tomorrow | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
morning. Gateshead fans need to go to the International Stadium before | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
8 tonight or Gateshead Civic Centre tomorrow. Timings on the screen. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
For Carlisle it's a trip to Conference side Alfreton Town where | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
Hartlepool Manager Mick Wadsworth played as a winger in the 1970's. | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
His team though take on fellow League One side Stevenage. | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
Hartlepool have had a decent start to the season but have clearly | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
missed their Peruvian veteran, Nobby Solano. With just one victory | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
during his absence in October, they're hoping he'll be fit enough | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
to play tomorrow in what would be his first appearance in the first | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
round of the FA Cup. He has brought to us at a if it includes a number | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
one else, great experience, and he is not playing, it does not | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
strengthen the team. If he is available, he will be a welcome | :21:35. | :21:42. | |
return. There should be no surprises for Pools. Stevenage may | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
be League One new boys, but they are seventh, and proving to be a | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
tough nut to crack. Stevenage have had a fantastic start to their time | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
in this division. We had a tough 2- 2 draw with them and where in the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
season and that now looks like a good result. But the loan drawer as | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
important, and we have got to put a great show on for our fans because | :22:03. | :22:10. | |
they is ever. Carlisle's away form's been pretty good this season | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
too and tomorrows opponents Alfreton Town are finding life | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
tough in their first season in the Conference - lying second from | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
bottom. So Greg Abbot's men are huge favourites and should go | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
through without too much bother. Should and the FA Cup do not go | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
together. There will be some shocks tomorrow. I have been on the end of | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
a couple of shocks. I have been on the end of a couple of giant- | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
killing acts, and it is great to be giant killer, but it is not nice to | :22:34. | :22:42. | |
be involved in at Cup shock. The FA Cup may not be what it used to be - | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
but it still means a lot to the Carlisle boss. It matters a lot, | :22:45. | :22:55. | |
:22:55. | :22:59. | ||
but two of written down, it might matter even more. -- Alfreton Town. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
Back to our top story now. And among those who paid their respects | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
to the fallen, today, was a family in Newcastle. They had come | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
together to remember their grandfather and great grandfather, | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
who fought in the First World War. George Russell Elder survived some | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
of the fiercest battles of the Great War - and wrote about his | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
experiences in six exercise books. They'd been kept in a drawer for | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
decades. Now, they've been published. Keith Akehurst reports. | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Standing in silence - paying their respects. The family of World War | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
One soldier George Russell Elder observe the two minute silence at | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
11 o'clock this morning. George, from Newcastle, was a signaller, | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
who wrote about his experiences in the trenches. He served at the | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Somme, Ypres and Passchendale amongst others. Now, his | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
recollections in six exercise books have been published. He talks about | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
going over the hill at the Battle of the Somme and how many people | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
died on that occasion and how many managed to escape the shellfire, | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
but he has no idea how. He talks about the bodies, the blood and | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
guts, it is all very graphic. The way he writes, he manages to put | :24:01. | :24:08. | |
some element of realism into it. But also some humour. Like so many | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
others in the Great War, George's heroics, such as carrying a wounded | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
comrade to safety when he himself was injured, have been unrecognised | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
until now. The memoirs were passed down through the family, to be | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
stored by his grandson. They were kept in the Tour in the bedroom. He | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
said nobody else would probably want them, so he just kept them. | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
And did you store them in any special way? We just put them in | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
the top drawer, and let them. left them. Surprisingly, George | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
didn't talk about his wartime exploits, so what he wrote came as | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
a surprise to his family. He did not speak about it to anyone. Even | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
my dad, when we met -- when they went out for a pint, he said that | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
he did not talk about it at all. George dedicated his writings to | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
his pal Teddy Watmough, who died in August 1918. His friend said that | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
he would not be there when he came back, and he wasn't. So that was | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
the reason why you woke up the story. He didn't think he was | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
:25:18. | :25:19. | ||
coming when. -- home. The book is launched tomorrow. Proceeds will go | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
to the Army Benevolent Fund. Time now for the weather forecast. | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
news of her next calendar event, taking place in Durham. I will be | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
there in the market square with Pudsey Bear, no less, so you can | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
stop me and donate to Children In Need bus-stop you can have a quick | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
cuddle and buy a calendar. Those are selling like hot cakes. Don't | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
forget, you have your usual channels to go through, if you log | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
on to the bedsit or pile up the number on the screen that. -- on | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
:26:09. | :26:09. | ||
the website or dial up the number We have to get through this evening | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
and overnight. We have a current bringing a band of rain across | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
Cumbria. It will push eastwards through the night. Eventually | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
cleaning into the North Sea by dawn, tomorrow morning. But plenty of | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
cloud behind it, the overnight low temperature is not looking too bad. | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
One or two mist and fog patches around, but a fairly light breeze. | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
As the morning goes on tomorrow, that right is bursting through, | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
particularly in northern and western parts of the region. The | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
cloud will hang on just along the North Yorkshire coast. Essentially, | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
a fine day, with plenty of brightness to go round. Feeling | :26:55. | :27:01. | |
quite mild, with a south-westerly breeze. Temperatures above average | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
for this time of year. Sunday is Remembrance Day, and it looks like | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
being a fine day, as well. It should stay dry throughout the | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
region. The best of the Sun will be in the West. The breeze becomes a | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
easterly meaning a little bit more cloud on the east coast. It will be | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
mild again, absolutely everywhere. It looks like it will be fine, | :27:25. | :27:33. |