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Hello, and welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight - two very

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different Christmas presents. They beat up a teenager, now

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Magistrates have relaxed their curfew order so that they can go to

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a football match. And Christmas cheer for Sir Bobby's

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foundation as a major donation boosts his cancer research goal.

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Also tonight - You can stop now! Sharon breaks all the records as

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her treadmill marathon reaches a triumphant conclusion.

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And lost in translation - how the French cast of a hit play about

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Sunderland are trying to cope with the language problem. Howay? What

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is howay? In sport, we'll look ahead to this

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evening's big Premier League matches at both ends of the table.

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And what's gone wrong at Hartlepool - and can the new caretaker boss

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Two men who beat up a teenager have had their curfew orders changed by

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a court so they can attend a football match. Karl Smith and

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Jeffrey Burton will now be on their way to St James' Park to watch

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Newcastle United play West Bromwich Albion tonight. They were told by

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Magistrates that the decision was in the spirit of Christmas, but

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it's a decision a national victims' charity says is astonishing.

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This is Karl Smith who is 22, and this is his friend, Jeffrey Burton

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who is 32, on a Friday night during the summer and they attacked an 18-

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year-old and were arrested. It happened outside a bar in Newcastle

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and they were charged for the salt, occasioning actual bodily harm

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which can carry up to five years in jail. When the matter came to court,

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the men were made the subject of a curfew which would be measured by

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an electronic tag. They are not allowed to leave their homes

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between 9pm and 6am. Then they bought tickets for tonight's

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Newcastle match which kicks off tonight. They came back to ask for

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the curfew to be relaxed so they can go. It was relaxed, the

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chairman of the bench described it as a Christmas present. As seasonal

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spirit in which not everyone has welcomed. Here are two criminals

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being let off in the Christmas spirit to go to a football match.

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At the same time, other criminals up and down the country will be

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planning to commit further offences over the Christmas period because

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they think people will be easy victims. There will be homes fall

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of valuables, people will be out and leaving things in the house. At

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a time when criminals are showing precious little sympathy for

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victims, it does not feel right the criminal-justice system is doing

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that. The judicial office says courts does have the discretion to

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vary curfew orders. The men could not be contacted.

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Now here's a story about a more uplifting kind of Christmas present.

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When Sir Bobby Robson set up his Foundation to raise money for a

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cancer research trials centre he had a target of half a million

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pounds. Now, his charity has raised almost eight times that. The latest

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boost came from a special online auction. That brought in more than

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�100,000 and today the money was handed across to his widow, Lady

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Elsie. Lady Elsie Robson chats to Frances

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Sheeran at the Cancer Trials Research Centre named after her

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late husband. All the patients here at the unit in Newcastle's Freeman

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Hospital have terminal cancer. Frances is a primary school teacher

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and has been coming here since August.

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If it wasn't for Sir Bobby Robson I wouldn't be getting on this special

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trial. Without this, I don't know what would have happened. It has

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given new hope? Definitely. Kerry Browne is from Carlisle. The mother

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of two has secondary cancer in her lungs. She's been having treatment

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every fortnight since January, made possible by the Sir Bobby Robson

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Foundation. I am like a front line guinea pig, but happy to be it. If

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it was not doing me good, it could be doing other people. But there is

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no guarantee it will work for you because cancer has a mind of its

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own. It is working for me and I am lucky I have been given the chance.

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Just two patients who've been given hope. Hope financed by public

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donations. The latest cheque was handed across today. More than

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�100,000 raised from an online auction of items donated by famous

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people. Including Jose Mourinho's World Coach of the Year award,

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which fetched �26,000. He was a deer family friend and it seemed a

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fitting thing to do for an amazing man. He was so liked throughout the

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world, to do an online auction. However, we thought it would be

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quite small and it became an incredible global success.

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Bobby aimed to raise �500,000 and in about three years they've

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actually got �3.9 million. It is beyond our wildest dreams, it is an

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enormous amount of money. What would your father thing of people

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having donated so much? I don't know, I think he would be astounded,

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he would be embarrassed. Extraordinarily thankful. I don't

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think he would believe it really. He was always very careful with his

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money and to get in nearly �4 million is incredible. I cannot

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thank people enough, it is Cumbria police have announced the

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sale and closure of up to a dozen local stations in an attempt to

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help meet multi-million-pound savings targets. The force says the

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stations, including several in west Cumbria, are out of date and simply

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not needed. Senior officers say it could raise as much as �3 million.

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Cumbria police must save more than �20 million by 2016 - a fifth of

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its budget. It must do it while continuing to patrol a vast,

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largely rural county. The plan to shut some stations, say officials -

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makes sense. We have to put police officers were they are required.

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The way the new neighbourhood policing teams work will ensure

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that. We will make sure the people of this county get the best

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possible service they can with the money we have available. West

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Cumbria will see the bulk of the sales and closures. Police stations

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in Cleator Moor, Cockermouth, Keswick, Aspatria, Silloth and

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Wigton will be sold. In some places, new offices will be found, in

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others the police will share with the fire service, such as Egremont

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near Whitehaven. But one of the county's top officers says it will

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actually mean better policing. have to take 20% out of the Budget.

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We could have 20% less police officers. I think the community

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would be up in arms about that. We have tried to use every means

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possible to keep the numbers of police officers and staff high.

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Cumbria's wide open spaces, maintaining a police presence has

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always been a challenge. But the force insists on modern technology

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offices -- offers help the old buildings could not.

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Cumbria's chief constable, Craig Mackey, has been appointed Deputy

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Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He replaces Tim Godwin, who

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retired in November. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, says Mr

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Mackey has a "strong track record in public order, and will bring a

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new dynamism". The Thai steel company SSI has

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delayed restarting iron and steel making at its Redcar site. The

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blast furnace had been due to be fired up on 6th January. The

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company says a combination of bad weather, industrial action and

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unforeseen work has delayed the process to an unspecified date in

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the New Year. The Mayor of Hartlepool, Stuart

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Drummond, has been appointed as the new Chair of Cleveland Police

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Authority. Mr Drummond has been its Vice Chair since July last year.

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His election to his new role follows the resignation of Peter

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Race last week. Last winter's heavy snow forced

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some midwives at Hexham General to hitch a lift to work by tractor! So

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to keep their community nurses mobile in the worst weather,

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Northumbria Healthcare Trust has taken delivery of 30 four wheel

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drive Minis. The trust has the biggest geographical spread of any

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in England and staff visit 2,000 people in their own homes every day.

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Not quite Thelma and Louise. This is Lorraine and Louise taking

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delivery of the new four wheel drive Minis. The last two harsh

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winters have been very challenging for health visitors in rural

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Northumberland. And these new cars will be a lifeline in future.

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year's Severe weather conditions and made delivery of services very

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difficult. A lot of the calls we have to deal on fought and we have

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to rely on the goodwill of patients, their relatives and neighbours. We

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had a neighbour who was a nurse who helped us with the administration

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of insulin. We have to use the fire service to help get to those

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patients who are the least accessible, even on a good day. So

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last year was very, very difficult. Community nurses, midwives and

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physiotherapists cover thousands of miles in Northumberland every day.

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The new cars should help them reach their patients in all weathers.

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deliver over 2000 health visits the day. It is important we keep our

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patience healthy and safe in their own homes. The last thing we want

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to do is have them come into hospital. The fleet of Mini's it

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will be distributed to hospitals in Hexham, Berwick and out in the

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wiles of Northumberland. They replace the existing fleet of

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saloon cars. All the staff need now is a wintry weather to put them

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through their paces. Much needed, I was caught in that

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weather heavily pregnant. Campaigners have won their battle

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to reopen a remote petrol station in Northumberland nearly four years

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after it was closed. People living in and around Kielder Village have

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had to make a 35 mile round trip to fill up. A �90,000 project to

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reopen the business will start in the New Year.

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A 16 year-old from County Durham is celebrating Christmas with the

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perfect gift - his first job. Jack Richardson from Crook has been

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employed as an apprentice green keeper at the Mount Oswald Manor

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and Golf Course in Durham City. He's among 130 youngsters being

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offered apprenticeships as part of a council-run scheme to get young

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people into work. It looks like church bells will be

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ringing to celebrate the opening of the Olympic Games after all.

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Yesterday we told you how Church bell ringers in North Shields said

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they and other ringers around the country couldn't go along with the

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plans for July 27th. But now they've reached agreement with the

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national organisers about how to organise the peel - and the bells

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will be ringing out. It was an incredible mental feat as

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well as an extreme physical challenge. The Guisborough

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ultrarunner, Sharon Gayter, today became the world treadmill champion

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- shattering both the previous male and female records by miles. Sharon

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has been pounding away in a fitness suite at Teesside University for

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the last seven days. And while the rest of us have been working and

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sleeping she clocked up an incredible 517 miles.

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And they have watched her in all weathers, pounding away on the

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treadmill for seven days and seven nights. Sharon's normal domain is

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the great outdoors where she has set up numerous records. Today, all

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her supporters and several of the charities that will benefit from

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her extraordinary efforts were there to cheer her home. I know she

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is looking down on us today and watching with pride and bringing

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lots of magic to Sharon. awareness of what Sharon is doing

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is great for the hospice and other great causes like leukaemia

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research. You cannot put a figure on that. The loneliness of long-

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distance is about to come to an end. She has been running for about a

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week and hopefully we can have a word with her.

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3-2-1... That was the moment at midday when

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Sharon finally stopped. She had covered an incredible 517.3 miles.

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50 miles further than the previous male record, let alone the women.

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came here to do a seven-day race. You don't stop early. You come here

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to break the record and put it as far as you can. I beat the men this

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year. To break a man's's world record is fantastic.

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achievement is believed to be the first time a world record has been

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broken on Teesside. Coming up: We have a report on the

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runaway success of the French play about Sunderland.

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And looking for the real spirit of Christmas.

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It might be nearly Christmas but it does not feel like the bleak

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midwinter. I will be back with the weather at the end of the news.

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In the second of our reports on the French played Sunderland, we take a

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closer look at how the actors get their heads around the city they

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have never visited. The reduction is set in a Sunderland but his

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playing in Paris. It is so successful it won at the theatre

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has been doubled. The Parisian stereotypes, one of

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romance. There are similarities with Sunderland! The gay way to the

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Champs-Elysees. The monuments, The Sunderland Empire, packing them

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in. And then, there is this, bridging the difference.

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TRANSLATION: Graham Shaw 50% of people want to see the play. They

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have no idea it is a city in England. They think it is the play

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of words. Sunderland was full of rain. The main actors don't have

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his advantage, they have never been to Sunderland. For them it is a

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case of imagination. So strange, every night you talk

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about this city. We talk about at Newcastle, we talk about Glasgow

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and we have never been there. That is my next voyage.

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It was the same for Vincent, who plays the boyfriend of the main

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character, Sally, and the football club he has never heard of. In the

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play I hate Newcastle. I says some bad things about Newcastle. I say

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some bad things about Alan Shearer. I don't know this man. You don't

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know Alan Shearer? I don't. And the French equivalent of a Sunderland

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accent? There isn't one. Abu heard there is a different accent? A lot,

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in French we don't have a lot of accents like you have. If you do it

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in England, I will be happy to see it. Why don't you try and says

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something. Howay? What is howay? from the glitz and glamour of Paris,

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to the streets of Sunderland and its critics. Apparently he worked

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for Nissan and fell in love with Sunderland. It shows the Parisians

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have a sense of humour. Totally amazed, I did not think it would go

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down in Paris. Why not? Sunderland is completely different isn't it?

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The wind in Sunderland is better than Paris. Really? Well, you know?

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Paris is not the last stop for this play, theatres in Spain, Russia and

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Germany are interested and I am told it could be heading to the

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North East of England. As far as similarities go between Sunderland

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and Paris, SHE SPEAKS FRENCH. We had just heard Sunderland has

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been confirmed for a five-month tour of France.

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A student at Newcastle University who is scheme to the South Pole is

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taking a day off while celebrating her 21st birthday. Bryony and her

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five-strong team hope to read the North Pole by January. We are

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having a rest day today. I know there is a party plans for me later.

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I have sneaked a bit of Bailey's. There is a rumour that there is a

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drop of whisky left as well. And nice, quiet celebration tomorrow

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but obviously we have to keep skiing tomorrow. I will have a

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party when I get home. With the big day just five days

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away, many will be catching up with last minute shopping or heading off

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to spend time with relatives. But want Teesside charity is preparing

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food and offering a bed to asylum- seekers and refugees who are

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homeless. These are people whose application has been refused but

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the Home Office is unable to remove them to their home countries. We

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are now looking at the true spirit of Christmas.

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As much of Teesside prepares for their beds, for one group, the

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night shift is about to start. Hello, welcome. This charity runs a

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shelter for asylum-seekers and refugees left homeless. They are

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left with almost a living ghost, no right to work, no access to

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statutory provision, no roof over their head and left on the streets

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homeless. We want to befriend them and give them a roof over their

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heads and give them some kind of basic decency, a safe place to

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sleep that night. So far, six churches across Middlesbrough are

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opening their doors providing shelters and it is hoped more will

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follow. The opened a charity runs aid across Teesside. But they

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cannot help anyone. It is difficult for me when they asked me questions,

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even before the night shelter starts. They asked me, if you have

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no place, where shall I go to night? That is the hardest one

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because I have no answers. They are not allowed to work, they have no

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normal life and they don't have any access to public funding. Many of

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them are forced into illegal jobs. The charity provides help and

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support for more than 100 asylum- seekers but says this evening many

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more will remain homeless, sleeping on floors and sofas of friends.

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We will have more on the spirit of Christmas tomorrow.

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Now the sport. Big gains ahead for the Premier League tonight.

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Sunderland are at Queen's Park Rangers knowing they are too close

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to the danger zone but come back. Newcastle are at the other end but

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feel they are overdue a victory. They are at home to West Bromwich

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Albion. It is five games about a win the

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Newcastle after the stalemate on Saturday against Swansea. Hardly a

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crisis, and they are holding on to 7th place. Our best team can

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compete with any team in his Premier League. We have a strong

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enough squad to keep consistently in the top seven or year. We have a

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nice margin over the rest. It is about as best we can try, stay with

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the pack. You are talking about a very strong pack of top runners.

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Tottenham, Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea,

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way above us in terms of budget. We are doing fabulous. Things are not

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so rosy for Sunderland, they go to Loftus Road just one point and a

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place above the relegation zone. The new boss says he knows he

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cannot take too much time to settle in. Absolutely, it is the bottom

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line of everything, to get ourselves into a decent position.

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We have to start picking up points. I am the first one to say, there is

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plenty of time, of course. Each game ticks along and it is another

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one gone. As long as we get points on the board, we did well against

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Blackburn. Our efforts against Tottenham is terrific and we need

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to repeat that. Both games are on Match Of the Day

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tonight. Hartlepool have two away games over

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Christmas and New Year. They have lost their last eight home games, a

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run which saw the head coach lose his job.

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Now they need to show mental strength if they are to hit their

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play-off target. Nicky Baron has known the glory

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days with Hartlepool, captaining them to League One promotion in

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2007. But he had to watch at the weekend as they went than to their

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8th successive defeat at Victoria Park. What has gone wrong? It is

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one of them runs we cannot put a finger on. We are desperate, of

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course we are. We want to entertain the fans but we have not been able

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to do that. We are working ever so hard to put it right, but so far we

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cannot seem to put the ball in the net. Us they were trying to put

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that right with shooting practice in the training session. But the

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longer this run goes on, the players believe they cannot win at

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home. It gets into the players' minds, and as they are about to

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score they might snatch at it. It is our job to get them mentally

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prepared for the Games as well as physically. Tried to get them

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confident to go and score goals. Home gates are down as well. But

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Hartlepool are 14th and their away form is good so with trips to a

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Oldham and Sheffield United, you think they would be happy to spend

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Christmas on the road. I would rather be an home -- at home to try

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to end the bad run of form. If anybody said at the beginning of

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the season this is where we would become I think we would be happy.

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People are disappointed, but rightly so but we are determined to

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get some results. Articled to a change of luck. I was

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boring Geoff about my story of being too warm in bed!

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It is the winter solstice tomorrow the shortest day. Seven hours and

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10 minutes of daylight. It is not feeling much like winter at the

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Overnight it is mostly dry in the east. Cloudy in the West with rain

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and it is foggy over the hills. Mild everywhere and the low

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temperature no less than around nine Celsius. Just to put that into

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context, higher than the average daytime maximum temperature for

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mid-to-late December. Once again we will be warm, and it is a mild day

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to come tomorrow. Bright spells in the east, particular for the North

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Yorkshire coast and up the north coast as well. In the West it is

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gloomy and grey. 12 Celsius is the top temperature of. It is more like

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an October. We expect more six or seven. As we go West, it is a wet

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for much of Cumbria by teatime. It is mild into Friday and a spell of

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wet weather crosses the regions. It clears first thing on Christmas

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leave and it is bright and fine for much of the North East and

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particularly for parts of North Yorkshire, it will be very pleasant

:26:55.:26:59.

for those last-minute Christmas shopping trips. As we get to the

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big day itself, it is not going to be a white Christmas. Not white

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with snow, it could be white with cloud. Christmas Day is very mild.

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It could be breezy. Definitely, no Snow for Christmas Day this year.

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