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Good afternoon. The bodies of three women and a man | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
have been found in a house in Peterlee in County Durham. It's | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
believed they died from gunshot wounds. Our reporter is in Peterlee | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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now. All day, this normally quiet street | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
has been cordoned off. You can see there is a police investigation. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
The family in the house had been out with friends and returned just | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
before midnight. A short time later, neighbours said they heard shots | :00:39. | :00:47. | |
being fired and friends running away. At that point they called the | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
police. This morning, the task of examining the scene and removing | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
the bodies began. Police believe a man, named as Michael Atherton, | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
turned a gun on himself after shooting three women. He owned a | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
firearms licence. Friends and neighbours describe a happy and | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
friendly family. They were normal people who got on with their today | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
things. The would not think it. Their mother has always worked to | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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provide an she is lovely. It is a shop. I don't understand it at all, | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
I don't. They all seemed to be all right, you know? I just knew her to | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
talk to. They seemed like a lovely couple, they did. Three other | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
people were inside the house when the shooting started but managed to | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
escape. Once jumped out of an upstairs window. Detectives are | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
speaking to them all as they try and find out what led to the attack. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
This is a murder investigation and we have deployed a homicide | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
investigation team. Our thoughts go to the family. We have officers | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
with the family now. We need to understand what happened. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
Detectives had described the shootings as a tragedy and wild | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
horrific, they stressed this is an isolated act. They are not looking | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
for anyone else in connection with the murders. This evening, Durham | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
Police says it has a 70 officers working on the investigation. They | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
said they will not release the names of the four people who died | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
last night until of relatives have been informed. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
Tributes are being paid to a soldier from Darlington who was | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. Private John King was | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
19 and from 1st Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. He was killed | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
in a blast in Helmand Province last Friday. His family say he died | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
doing the job he adored. Mountain rescuers have been thanked | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
for their efforts in recovering the body of the a 19 year-old | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
Derbyshire man who died while climbing Scafell Pike over the | :02:58. | :03:07. | |
weekend. -- Northern Rock is now officially | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
back in the private sector. Its acquisition by Virgin money has | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
been completed in a deal worth up to �8 billion. Labour had called | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
for the deal to be put on hold while the national auditor | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
investigates whether it's good value for money. The Newcastle- | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
based bank was nationalised three years ago after a massive public | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
bail-out. In the Football League Championship | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
today, Middlesbrough lost 3-0 at Blackpool this afternoon. In League | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
One, Carlisle beat Sheffield United 3-2 at home, while Hartlepool were | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
beaten at home by Scunthorpe, 2-1. In Scottish League Division Two, | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
Berwick Rangers drew 2 - 2 at home to Montrose. | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
Meanwhile, Sunderland fans are celebrating a dramatic last-gasp | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
winner in their match against Manchester City yesterday. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
Substitute Ji Dong-Won came off the bench to score in the 4th minute of | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
injury-time, giving the Black Cats a fine start to 2012. The game | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
ended 1-0 and the result leaves Sunderland in 13th place in the | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
table, six points clear of the bottom three. | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
There is a Met Office warning for a strong wind over the next 24 hours | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
accompanied by wet weather. Most places where and windy by the end | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
of the night. Temperatures temporarily down to two or three | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Celsius. Tomorrow morning the wind turns westerly. There will be every | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
bit as strong. There will be scattered wintry showers. It was a | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
windy throughout the day. Temperatures feeling cold in the | :04:35. | :04:40. |