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Welcome to Look North. Tonight: Turbulence ahead. Fierce

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for the future of Durham Tees Valley Airport as it's put up for

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sale. Alcan emergency. A power cut halts

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most production at the aluminium smelter. Workers are battling to

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restart it. Winter hits the high ground.

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Hundreds of home without electricity and schools closed too.

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And what's this time of year really all about? Look North goes in

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search of the true spirit of Christmas.

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It is all about endurance tonight in sport. We the radio commentator

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gearing up for his 1 thousth match and Sharon planning to take on the

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The future of Durham tease valley airport is in serious doubt after

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its owners, Peel Airports, announced they were putting it up

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for sale. The airport's seen a big fall in passengers. There are

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concerns today's announcement could see it close. Our Political Editor

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Richard Moss is at the airport now. You can see the problem here at

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Durham Tees Valley Airport. I haven't seen hide nor hair of a

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passier for a good hour now. There have been times today where there

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have been more journalists than passengers here. You can put it

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down to the economy struggling, airport taxs have gone up. Even you

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pay a �6 fee for limited facilities here. But the company had a runs

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this airport is not doing enough business and it's put it up for

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sale. There were some passengers checking

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in here today. But the simple fact is there's not enough of them. For

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that reason, Peel Airports is puting it up for sale. We are at a

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scale which doesn't feet part of the Peel Airports portfolio going

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forward. We feel there will be a different owner who will have the

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capability to turn this airport around and take it back to where it

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should be. Crunching the statistics shows this is an airport suffering

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more than most. Newcastle Airport has had a relatively gentle descent

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in passenger numbers to around 4.3 million today. For Durham Tees

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Valley, it has been more of a nose dive from 900,000 in 2006 to just

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200,000 this year. But some do want to see this

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airport survive and revive for the sake of the region's economy.

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Ultimately, the question is what might replace it? We wouldn't want

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to see it become an industrial estate or housing estate. Not just

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because of the impact on the economy but impact on nearby

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communities who have a live with the airport and wouldn't want to

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see further housing, more traffic. Isn't this yet further evidence

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that the loss of infrastructure and jobs in the North East, that this

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Government's economic plan is a catastrophic failure? The key thing

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about the future of Durham tease airport is not necessarily who owns

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it but is it being invested in, expanded, is it working well? That

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is the key question and the one I know the Transport Secretary easing

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at N stkpwhrl is the prospect of finding a buyer realistic? We have

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officially told the public we are selling today. Already we've been

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talking to a few interested parties who have express add keen interest

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to look at the options of acquiring this business. There is interest

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out there. Some hope. But there's no doubt something needs to be done

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here to pre vent decline becoming, if you forgive the pun, terminal!

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What flights there are from Durham tease airport will continue while

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they attempt to try to find a buyer. It is not the news the 100 staff

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here wanted just before Christmas. The good news is they do find a

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buyer they may invest in here, bring it back to somewhere where it

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was before. It is a tough market out there at the moment. If there

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isn't a buyer, the future for Durham Tees Valley Airport looks

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pretty bleak. Part of the Alcan aluminium smelter

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at Lynemouth in Northumberland has been put out of action after a mass

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yir power cut. Electricity went off in part of the plant this morning.

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It still has not been restored. It is the latest blow for workers at

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the facty. The owners want to close the smelter next year with the loss

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of 500 jobs. It has its own power station but

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ironically power is what this place desperately needs tonight. Own e

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Rio Tinto Alcan say parts of this place have been without electricity

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today. Why has this had such a big impact? Power went off at the plant

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just before midnight. Aluminium's produced in pots inside the factory.

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Production needs to happen at very high temperatures. But when the

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power was cut, part of the plant started to cool making aluminium

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production impossible. It is a major operational problem. It needs

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a continuous supply of electricity. When the electricity is loss it is

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a major incident. We didn't suffer any injuries. No environmental

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incidents as a result. Our priority now is to restore the site as soon

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as possible. All of this is happening at

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possibly the worst time. Last month, the factory owners announced they

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wanted to close the smelter with the loss of 500 jobs. There have

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been campaigns to find a buyer. Could the big power kout finish

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this place off? It is too soon to consider the long-term impact. We

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need to restore power as quickly as possible in the safest way.

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Tonight, Alcan managers say part of the factory still has no power. The

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other is running at reduced capacity. They are still

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investigating the cause of the power cut.

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It is not clear if last night's weather had anything to do with the

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Alcan power cut. But the gales and snow left thousands of people

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across Cumbria without power this morning. Cabe bls came town in and

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around Alston. Mark Macal indone reports from the worst-hit area in

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the north pin Ian's. In.$$TRANSMIT -- North Pennines.

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Winner has well and truly arrived in the North Pennines. With it,

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downed powerlines leaving homes and businesses without electricity.

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can see the wires there, they are a small wire. With the frost and snow,

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the build-up on the wire makes the wires really heavy. It stops the

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wires. It has brought the wires down from right down the valley up

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to the top. Once we get it isolated and get permission to start we can

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knock all the ice off the wires. These men are working round the

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clock to keep people connected. The linesmen have isolated a number of

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faults in the region around Alston. They believe they can get the power

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restored. The problem is, with the weather like this, it won't be long

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before there are problems elsewhere. Later, I met had this local farmer

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who had to dig sheep out of deep drifts and move them to lower lying

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land. Electricity north-west has something like 2000 affected

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customers N Alston today, people are delighted with linesmen's

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efforts to keep power on. It's been off from 64.30 to 9.156789 both

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schools were closed. There was no heating. Had had ta to make a

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decision. A few phone calls around. The guys have worked hard to try to

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get power restored? They got it on pretty qiblg. Within four or five

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hours. The way the weather was, it was horrendous. The gritters and

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snow plou ughs they do a tremendous jobs job. This afternoon, only some

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houses around Alston and Garrigill were without power. But winter has

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Unemployment has risen again in the region. 148,000 people were without

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a job in the North East in the three-month period from August to

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October. That's a rise of 12,000 on the previous quarter. 11.7% of the

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work yors is without a job. In Cumbria, just over 8,700 people

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claimed jobseeker's allowance last month. Youth unemployment has risen.

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Which has led to many 16 to 26- year-olds looking to start their

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own business and escape the jobless ranks.

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When jewels Quinn finished her degree she refused to countenance

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unemployment. She started TeaShed from her home in Northumberland.

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Her tea-selling business is just six months old but on course to

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turn over�8,000 in its first year. Her advice to those without a job,

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follow her example. Definitely say give it a government you don't

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really need a start -up investment if you have a good idea. Buy and

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sell. Get a market stall. Sell online. You've eBay or Amazon and

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places like that. It is not always that easy, of

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course. But with another rise in youth unemployment today, it is

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becoming an option. Self-employment figures have hit a record high.

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More than four million people now work for themselves. There are

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other ways of getting a foothold in the jobs market. Since leaving

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school at 16 four years ago, Shaun has had just over one month of work.

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That was temporary Christmas work in a greetings card shop. He is

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though, doing something that should enhance his employ ability.

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Volunteer work in a furniture exchange shop in Middlesbrough.

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Since I worked last Christmas, I got a bit of experience. I'm saying

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that should, cos most shops are looking for experience. That should

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be taken into consideration. So, hopefully I have a bit of luck.

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Every time I apply for a job in the shops. Even if Shaun doesn't find a

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job soon, experience of volunteering will have been

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invaluable. It gives him the ability to work in a team of other

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workers in a similar situation. Volunteering has kept Shaun upbeat

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when applications are rejected or not even acknowledged. It has shown

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him what real work is like. I've tried my best to get one. That's

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all I can do. Try my best. Sunderland could soon have a

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record-breaking bridge. The Government is giving �8666 million

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-- �86 million. It will be the tallest bridge in England and Wales

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with the highest tower reaching more than 600 feet. If remaining

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land deals are finalised, work should start towards the end of

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necks year with the bridge completed in 20156789 another �5 56

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million has been allocated to a northern by Passat Morpeth in north

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urm eh um ber land. And Bedale in North Yorkshire.

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Peter Race has resigned after seven months in office. Mr Race announced

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his departure due to a potential conthribgt of -- conflict of

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interest. He is the second Chief Constable to resign this year.

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The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation has funded a new �600,000 hi-tech

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machine to be used for Cancer Research. The biomarker generator

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is only the second of its type in the world. It is hoped it will help

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with the diagnosis of treatment in cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

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disease. A mother whose son is being kept

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alive by regular blood transfusions is urging people to give blood.

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Leon has a rare illness which means his body cannot make red blood

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cells. He has to have transfusions every three woox. There has been a

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fall in the number of people giving blood this year.

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As a baby, Leon's parents were told he was unlikely to live jond his

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13th birthday. He was only tiny at the time. To be told he had this

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illness that they didn't have a name for it was so rare and his

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life span was expected to be 12 or 13 years, it was horrendous.

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Leon is now 23, a keen football fan, he's studying at the local college.

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He needs blood transfusions every three weeks as his condition

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deteriorates and he becomes lethargic. But he's living a full

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life. I need people to give blood to keep me alive. If people don't

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give blood, I would not be here today. I'm trying to get that

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message across today to them. Keep me alive. The NHS says just 4% of

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the eligible population are blood donors. Every Christmas, blood

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stocks go down. Already 15tkhous fewer people have given blood this

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year. A lot of people think blood in the blood bank is just there

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constantly. We'll never run out of it and it's mainly for people

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who've had an accident or surgical procedure. It isn't. For Leon and

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other people with different illnesses, blood is their lifeline.

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Leon literally is dependn't on their donation of their blood to

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stay alive. Still to come: We go in seven of

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the real spirit of Christmas. And, a seasonal warning from the rescue

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teams who don't want to find you stuck on the Fells in conditions

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like these. As December continues to dish up

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that wintry mix, the frosty nights could cause us problems. A warning

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tonight for ice I roads and pavements. I'll have a full

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forecast shortly. Hundreds of cancer survivors

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gathered at Newcastle Civic Centre today to pay tribute to a surgeon

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and his team from the St's RVI Hospital. The oesophagus and

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gastric unit is the biggest in Europe. Our region has among the

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highest rates in the world of these types of disease.

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We have to remember they have had the bravery, sprepbgt and

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determination to get through that. It is a huge feeling of

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satisfaction to see so many people so well and so grateful. Today is a

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wonderful day for all of us. Everybody involved in our unit this

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provides that help to these patients. I had stomach cancer. I

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would not be here if it wasn't for him and his team. It is wonderful.

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We're his surviving team. I've met grandchildren I wouldn't have met.

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I have met great grandchildren I wouldn't have met. The day before

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yesterday was my 15th birthday. I'm just a slip of a girl really,

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aren't I? We've already seen winter's certainly arrived on the

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high ground at least. Rescue teams in the Lake District are renewing

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warnings to people planning on going walking over the holiday

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season. If He may look like just another walker but this man is the

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eyes and ears for thousands of people who take to the hills of the

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Lake District in winter. Starting here in Glenridding. Going up...

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Every day, wherever the weather., a fell top assessor heads for the top

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of Helvellyn. We measure the wind speeds, wind chill and temperatures.

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A wind sensor could do that but it can't look at the snow, feel it.

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What is this snow like? Soft, powdery, solid? A human can do that

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and put it on the website. It is down to minus 12 wind chill.

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hours later, in severe winter conditions, John is at the summit,

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just over 3,000 feet above sea level. When you gets up into these

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beautiful snow-covered mountains, it is easy to see why so many

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people are attracted to this scenery here to go for a walk at

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this time of year. But Mountain Rescue in Cumbria say still too

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many people are heading into the hills ill-equipped and then end up

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needing their help. People go out with their sat navs from their cars,

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holding it in their hands. People will print out from their sat navs.

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They will not have a map. It is very easy to get to the top of the

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a mountain. Once you get to the top in mist, there are 36 0 ways off.

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John is now on the return leg from assessing conditions on the

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mountain tops. Tomorrow, he'll head upwards again with the aim of

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keeping people safe in this beautiful national park.

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Ten days to gorbgs are you fed up with Christmas already? Or are you

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really looking forward to the big day? For some, shopping and

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presents are what it is all about. For others, the festive season

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means something else altogether. We are are trying to look for the true

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meaning of Christmas. Here's Peter Harris with the first

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This is what it's all about, the shopping, the crowds, the garish

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lights. You can't beat the lights. This truly is the spirit of

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Christmas. Or maybe not! You see, the trouble with Christmas is it

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too often seems to be more trouble than it's worth. Family rows,

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boozing, all the debt which we are still paying off when next

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Christmas comes around. We on Look North will find the true spirit of

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Christmas. I don't like Christmas. That's a

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bad start. Getting drunk! That's worse. Good will really, bringing

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society together. That's better. Generally family. That's the spirit

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of Christmas for me. This lad has it right. You've probably seen the

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advert. Here's the punchline coming Not sure that would actually happen

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in real life. But maybe it's the real Christmas spirit. He he just

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twoopbts give to other people. Some spend their Christmas actually

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doing just that. We have people who take foreign students away from

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home, take them home at Christmas time. We have various Carol

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services in which we ask people to bring little gifts for children who

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are less fortunate. We have the scouts and scanned snaifian society.

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Different people joining together. -- Scandinavian society. These

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people are students in Newcastle. We've raised lots of money, gone

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out and got shoeboxs and made up gifts for under-prif lijed children.

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Its as been really good getting people involved, giving money and

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gifts.. We've made a start. The real spirit of Christmas is out

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there. And the lights and the shops can just fade away.

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And in tomorrow's Look North, we'll meet more people who embody the

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real spirit of Christmas. In sport, we're meeting a man who's

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busier than Father Christmas. Nearly busier! It is the job many

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football-mad youngsters dream of doing. Being a commentator. This

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weekend, BBC Newcastle's Sunderland commentator nick barns will cover

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his 1 thous th math -- 1,000th match..he began with Carlisle,

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moved on to Newcastle before moving on to the Black Cats.

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COMMENTATOR: Larsson with his right foot. In The 99 9th match Nick's

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comentaited for the BBC. COMMENTATOR: Larsson's surely won

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it. He began with Carlisle United covering 335 matches with Newcastle

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United there were over 250. Sunderland, almost 400. Then,

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there's national radio as well. someone had said to me when I was a

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young boy this is what you'll do one day, I'd have felt they were

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living in fantasy world. It is more than just a one-day a

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week job. Nick's known for his meticulous planning. His big book

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of notes is looked on in awe by other journalists. You have to know

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the teams, the players. You have to edit your interviews, do them.

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Prepare a lot of stuff for sports bulletins, sports programmes.

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covered more games than I've in. Nick is a professional. Very

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knowledgeable. A gentleman. With Carlisle United I went to Wembley

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twice. With Newcastle United champion league. With Sunderland,

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it's been a rollercoaster, I conic manager, Roy Keane, Mick McCarthy,

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Steve bruise and now Martin O'Neill. Nick's 1 ,000th match will be this

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weekend. In I've always tried to be objective in the commentary. I've

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never tried to dress it up. If Carlisle, Newcastle, Sunderland

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have been playinging poorly, I don't see the point. There's not

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point trying to predend a bad game is a good game if it's not. Tell it

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as it is and you can't go far wrong. She's a world record runner. She's

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completed 900 races covering 18,000 miles. But now ultra distransrunner

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Sharon Gayter from Guisborough is atempting to break the men's

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disstance on a treadmill. Counting down to an epic challenge.

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Go on Sharon! Sharon Gayter is aiming to spend the next seven days

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on this treadmill. The existing record is 468 miles. To beat it,

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she'll have to run for 18 hours aa day. I've never run indoors. Never

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been stationary. It is because everybody means at me. The races

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are abroad. For once I'm stationary and everybody can command see me.

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Now a lecturer at Teesside University, Sharon's completed over

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300 marathons. In 2006, she ran from Land's End to John O'Groats in

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12 days. That record still stands today. She's raising money for two

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look charities, Zoe's Place and the Charlotte Wren Forget Me Not Fund.

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Sharon's making history. She's a fantastic person. I will be running

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into the sea for the Boxing Day dip on Boxing Day. That will be the

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only running I'm doing. Unbelievable the amount of miles

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and times she'll do. Can't believe it. Brilliant. This attempt may be

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different but the Guisborough's determined to add another world

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record to the list. It makes it worthwhile when the record goes.

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The idea is to aim high. Sharon's marathon of marathons willfully end

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that world record next Tuesday lunch time N Good job she's running

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indoors than out with all the indoors than out with all the

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wintry conditions. We saw proper wintry weather

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earlier on in the programme. Over the next few days, it continues to

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dish up a December mix. It will stay cold. Some snow showers at

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times. There are frosty nights which will cause most of the

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problems in the short-term. Today, we had a rash of showers. They put

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down some fresh snow on the Cumbrian Fells. Largely dying away

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this evening. As the skies clear and the winds ease, it is ice to

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watch out for. Warning for icy roads and pavements anywhere which

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hasn't been treating -- treated through the coming nights.

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Temperatures dropping away. Even with patchy cloud, temperatures

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could fall to sub-zero. Anywhere that had showers could ice

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over. Cumbrian coast escapes a frost with

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an on-shore wind. Anywhere else at risk from icy stretches. A cold

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start tomorrow morning. A few mist and fog patches to wap watch out

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for. It could take a good part of the morning to clear. Elsewhere,

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decent sunny spells before cloud thickens up again. It could produce

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more showers in western parts of Cumbria. Temperatures in the west a

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shade up on today. More like 4 or 5 Celsius east of the Pennines. With

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much lighter winds it won't feel as cold as it did today. Tomorrow

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evening and overnight, we're keeping an eye on cloud, rain and

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hill snow to the south of us. It could extend towards us. There's

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some doubt about where the low pressure area goes. It looks like

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it is clearing to the south of us. We might just see overnight sleet

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and snow tomorrow night. After that, we pick up cold northerly winds.

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For Friday and Saturday, temperatures struggle. There will

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be some wintry showers around. Final yirbgs, a look at tonight's

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main headlines: Unemployment rises to its highest level for 17 years.

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With women and young people bearing the brunt of it.

:27:17.:27:22.

The future of Durham Tees Valley Airport is in serious doubt tonight

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after its owners announced they are putting it up for sale.

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