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Welcome to Look North. Tonight: The region's unenviable binge drinking | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
culture is in the spotlight. The Prime Minister promises action to | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
tackle public drunkenness. Republicans say the blame lies with | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
supermarkets. They are, in many incidences, socially irresponsible. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
-- pub landlords. It is not push us who are at fault, it is | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
supermarkets. Little relief in the latest | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
unemployment figures, but it is boom time for the hotel sector. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
More breathing space for Darlington Football Club - but the prize for | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
saving it stands at �750,000. And the countdown to the Kielder | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Marathon begins, but this year the organisers will be keeping a | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
special eye open for bus passengers! We might just have a | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
word with bus drivers and say that if anyone is wearing a number and | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
asks the bus to stop, unless they are hurt, please don't stop! | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
have will have the best of the football action from last night | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
with Middlesbrough's bid back on track. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
And on his bike for Sir Bobby - why Robbie is cycling all the way from | :01:10. | :01:20. | |
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Good evening. Newcastle used to be proud of its party city tag. Then | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
when pictures of drunken revellers began to circulate, that image was | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
played down. But today the Prime Minister used a Newcastle hospital | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
to launch an attack on a binge boozing hospital blighting British | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
cities. He said he wants to curb public drunkenness, not just to | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
improve health but to save the NHS the cost of treating alcohol abuse. | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Our political correspondent Mark Denten joins us. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
This is where the Prime Minister has been today - the RVI in | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Newcastle. Like many hospitals in our region, it deals with the fall- | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
out of problems with alcohol. The fights that break out on Saturday | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
nights or people with liver disease for a lifetime spent drinking. The | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Prime Minister was touring the wards, meeting staff and patients | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
to try to get some detail about the picture here. Let's be clear - we | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
have an unenviable record in terms of alcohol figures. It has got | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
worse over the last 20 years. In 1991, there were 170 deaths through | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
alcohol in the north-east. Look at the figure by 2010. The figure | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
rockets to 469. There is particular concern about deaths of men. Male | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
deaths from alcohol are 40% above the UK alcohol -- the UK average. | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
So no wonder perhaps that David Cameron was here today, | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
particularly concerned about those issues. He said he had learned some | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
new information from coming here. have been impressed in this | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
hospital, where there is a police officer on duty on Thursday, Friday | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
and Saturday nights. I want to make sure local councils have the powers | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
to close down bars of they need to and that the police can set -- step | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
in. It is against the law to sell to people who are under-aged and | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
you can close down bars. We also need to look at the issue of | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
pricing and how we handle alcohol in our hospitals. We will take | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
action right across the board. This is a national problem. Although the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
government and members of the health professions are at daggers | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
drawn over changes to the health service, on this issue they seem | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
pretty United. And particularly over the issue of a minimum price | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
for alcohol. A liver specialist in Newcastle told us this. Alcohol has | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
got progressively cheaper. It is 140% more puff - at more affordable | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
than it was 30 years ago. That means it is being sold for a third | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
of the price. With that, consumption has escalated and has | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
gone up 2 1/2 will fold. Alcohol- related harm has escalated in the | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
same ratio. David Cameron faced criticism today, didn't he? Yes, he | :04:16. | :04:22. | |
did. Although Labour also want to see a minimum price for alcohol, I | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
have been talking to the Labour MP for Blaydon who says that is a's | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
announcement by David Cameron was just a diversionary tactic. -- are | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
today's announcement. He will not solve the problem by just setting a | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
minimum price but by having programmes in place that involve | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
people in the care side of things, giving people education. What we | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
are doing is drawing support for those projects that have actually | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
been helping people. David Cameron coming here to talk about alcohol | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
problems with the figures that we have puts Newcastle in the | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
spotlight. Although there have been attempts to shed the city's image | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
as a party city, tourism is still important. My colleague has been | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
talking to the tourism industry hearing Newcastle and also took | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
publicans who want a minimum price for alcohol, who put to the blame | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
at the door of the supermarkets. Newcastle has thrived on its | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
reputation as one of the world's best party cities - and a | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
reputation earned from its hundreds of clubs and pubs. But by selling | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
ourselves in such a way, are we now seeing a backlash? The | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
NewcastleGateshead Initiative has the job of marketing Tyneside. | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
is about a wide offer. The cultural attractions - a retail is | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
incredibly important. It is not just about coming here and getting | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
smashed. It is about that wide sector of all the bars and clubs | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
and everything else that the city has to offer. One a northern pub | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
chain supports a minimum price for alcohol and blames the supermarkets | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
for binge drinking. They will drink at home. They may be drink more | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
than they should drink because it is so ridiculously cheap, and then | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
they may go out for an odd pint or two in the pub, by which time they | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
have had enough of. So the public tends to get the problems and the | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
supermarkets get the trade. It is not fair and it is not socially | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
responsible or even economic the correct for the government. That is | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
because the government gets less VAT from each pint sold in the | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
supermarket compared with the pub. The Wine and Spirit Trade | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Association, which represents retailers, says minimum unit | :06:43. | :06:53. | |
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Let's go back to Mark Denten at the RVI, who has been following the | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Prime Minister's visit. When can we expect more on the Government's | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
alcohol strategy? Today the noises and the general mood than the | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
government wants to make towards tackling alcohol problems have been | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
outlined by we will not get the detail until the strategy comes out. | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
We are expecting that next month. The latest unemployment figures | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
show a reversal of fortune across our region. The jobless total in | :07:30. | :07:36. | |
the north-east fell by 4,000 in the three months to December, leaving | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
143,000 out of work. In Cumbria, which recorded a fall in the last | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
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quarterly figures, the total went up by 800. During his visit, the | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Prime Minister said the government is working at reducing unemployment | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
here but still needs to do more. The government is investing in | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
enterprise zones. We are putting money into apprenticeships and | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
building infrastructure, investing in the Tyne and Wear Metro and all | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
of those projects. We need to do more to get the economy growing | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
faster so we can provide more jobs. As those figures show, things are | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
still hard for Industry and Business in the region but there is | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
one area which does not seem to be suffering. New figures suggest | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
Newcastle's hotel sector is more buoyant than anywhere else in the | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
country except London. The city is experiencing a burst of development | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
and openings, giving it the highest occupancy rates of any provincial | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
city. In the latest of his Economy Check reports, here is Ian Reeve. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
David Myers Sherrin of Newcastle's latest hotel on the city's Westgate | :08:46. | :08:55. | |
Road. An addition to a sector that is booming. -- showing off. On a | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
weekend, 86% of the rumours in the region of all. The national average | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
stands at just 65%. What explains the anomaly? Why does the City beat | :09:06. | :09:12. | |
Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham? Newcastle has got very strong | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
corporate and leisure business, and a lot of big businesses are based | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
in Newcastle. We have some top- class sports teams, at leading | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
universities, as well as a really, really vibrant evening economy. | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
a year, that all attracts 18 million visitors, spending over �1 | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
billion. Above all that shows no sign of bursting. The fat all these | :09:37. | :09:45. | |
new hotels are opening is a tremendous vote of confidence. -- | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
the fact. Hotel operators are very hard headed in the decisions they | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
make. They will not invest in a place they don't think will give | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
them a return long term. Newcastle and Gateshead's buoyancy can be | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
seen in other spots across the region. This is a five-star hotel | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
in County Durham, the sort of place you might think Ofsted times are | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
making life difficult for. -- austere times. But we are | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
apparently cutting back elsewhere. People who may have previously | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
enjoyed more overseas holidays will translate that into a mortgage | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
arrears weekend -- a more luxurious weekend. We see golf as a day out | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
increasingly, rather than just a round of golf. There will be | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
hoteliers having a much harder time but with 40,000 jobs dependent on | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
the hotel sector in the region alone, it is surely a relief that | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
so many are not. A man has been arrested on | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
suspicion of murder following the discovery of another man's body | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
after a fire at a property in Northumberland. The 30-year-old's | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
body was found at a flat in Blyford shortly before midday yesterday. A | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
20-year-old of manner has been arrested. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Part of a shopping street in Workington will remain closed until | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
tomorrow morning at least after a gas leak. Businesses and flats in | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
Murray Road were initially evacuated but all residents have | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
been allowed to go home. The majority of shops has reopened. The | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
gas company says it has fixed the first league but is ticking for a | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
second, as there are still high levels of gas in some properties. | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
It is not clear when the road will be fully reopened. | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
Darlington Football Club has been given a stay of execution until the | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
end of April. In administration since early January, a new | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
community company will try to sell shares and the club and raise | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
�750,000. Ian Reid is in our Teesside newsrooms. What is the | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
chance of this scheme working? new company has been set up | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
comprising businesses and supporters' grips with the aim of | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
raising �750,000. It wants to do that by selling 7,500 shares at | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
�100 each. The administrator has set a deadline of 30th April of for | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
that total to be raised and to to get the ball rolling, his company | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
will start by buying �500 of shares. He says if that total is reached, | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
that will be enough to take Darlington out of administration | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
and to give it enough cash to successfully trade on. He does say, | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
though, that the club will remain in administration until the end of | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
the season, which will give the caretaker manager some problems. | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
am delighted that we have still got a football club to fight for. We | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
are still surviving, only just, but there is a lot of work to go on | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
behind the scenes to get us through this. The downside of it is that we | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
will still be in administration for the rest of the season. Backed up | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
will enable us to make do with a small squad but we have got. | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
exactly euphoric. The administrator acknowledged that there is along | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
way to go. He also said that the crowds need to turn up at the Arena | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
to support Darlington. But he took heart from the fact that Wrexham | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Football Club has carried out a similar scheme and carried it out | :13:20. | :13:30. | |
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Do your children or grandchildren have braces to straighten their | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
teeth and give them a perfect smile? Orthodontic treatment on the | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
NHS is free to and ratings and thousands of children benefit from | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
it. We revealed that dental contracts with the service were | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
being put out to tender, raising the prospect that young patients | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
could be transferred to another dentist, possibly many miles away. | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
Those contracts were awarded this week. The longest established | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
orthodontist practice in Newcastle has been dropped. What now for | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
patients? What it be said to? May have be in saying that they are | :14:11. | :14:20. | |
shocked and saddened. -- they have been saying. Everyone | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
agrees that the NHS provides value for money. They had been put out to | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
tender, those contracts. At the same time, you have to think about | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
patient care, about continuity. I spoke to the mother of a 13-year- | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
old about other daughter cheap treatment. -- about orthodontic | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
treatment. You have to have a relationship with the dentist. If | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
that dentist then loses the contract to continue that work, I | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
provides drama. I had braces and Mike teenage years, I know how | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
traumatic it can be. What do the commissioner say? They have said | :14:59. | :15:05. | |
that they are hoping to provide continuity of care that can | :15:05. | :15:15. | |
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reassure patients. They are making a commitment. | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
Ali working too hard? Also, preparations under way for the | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
Kielder Marathon and the promise that everyone will do it on foot | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
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this year. And coming up, how long This week, we are asking the big | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
question - are we working too hard? The region still has the highest | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
unemployment in the country. Are we really working as hard as we could | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
be if we are lucky enough to have a job? Six days, surfing the internet, | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
cigarette breaks. They'll make a dent in working hours. Some firms | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
have responded by changing the way they do business. They have been in | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
business for over a century. This engineering firm in South Shields | :16:06. | :16:15. | |
has had to change to survive it is not only the machines they are | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
getting more from. Workers and managers both agreed to could have | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
drastic cuts in stick -- drastic cuts in sick pay. There is no sick | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
pay for the first two weeks you're L. We introduced a profit share | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
scheme. As sick pay goes down, profit-share goes up. It is dog- | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
eat-dog. If we are late delivering to a customer, because we have | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
people off sick, we have to do something about it because simply | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
the customer will go elsewhere. This firm and Middlesbrough has | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
also changed things. They now work a four-day week, taking every | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
single Friday off. We get better productivity from the four days we | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
are here but also people are more refreshed when they come back from | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
the weekend. Go to get the chance to properly unwind in the three | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
days. But people like Graham, there is a double benefit. He gets to | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
work from home two days per week. A five-day commute from Newcastle has | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
turned into a much more economic goal today journey. The few of us | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
from Newcastle have managed to car share. We have saved a lot of money | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
that way. Whether you work on Friday or not, the chances you will | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
spend a fair chunk of your working week surfing the internet. Should I | :17:36. | :17:46. | |
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feel guilty? Apparently not. Dr Berry is an expert on social media | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
and the net. She says surfing is not necessarily skiving. The | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
ability to take a couple of minutes out of your day to do something | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
that satisfy is an immediate purge, be that checking that the poor | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
scores, or hitting a send button on at Tesco shop, could be of | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
significant value to bosses because it means they have a more settled | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
and productive workforce. Whilst some of us may be taking time out | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
to surf inside the office, others are still nipping out of the operas | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
for a quick fag. -- the office. Anyone who gives up cigarettes for | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
a year here gets �1,000. Once people realise that it has cost | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
them an awful lot of money, and I am also prepared to be my own money | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
towards it, a cash prize to help them along with their motivation, | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
we found that a couple of people actually stopped. This is an extra | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
bonus. It is fantastic! He is so kind for doing that. But I would | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
not start smoking again. The places where we work have changed out of | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
all recognition. It is not just about changing technology. The way | :19:01. | :19:10. | |
we work is changing too. I do nothing my boss is going to pay for | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
me to go 10 score shopping. -- I do not think my boss will pay | :19:16. | :19:24. | |
for me to shop online. Kielder Marathon last year was overshadowed | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
when Rob Sloan was of a ship -- was disqualified for cheating. But the | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
publicity has given a marathon a boost. The marathon runner who ran | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
out of steam, jumped on a bus and then rejoined the race. Rob Sloan | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
still denies cheating but he will not be welcomed back. He jumped on | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
a bus for spectators and we will be keeping those buses in place. It is | :19:49. | :19:56. | |
to move spectators from one viewing point to another. We might have a | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
word with the bus drivers and say that if anyone is winning a number, | :19:59. | :20:07. | |
do not stop. -- waving a number. It might be that Mr Sloan's bus trip | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
has done the event a favour. It might be no bad thing. They're | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
hoping to expand this event this year, possibly doubling the number | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
of entrants. Even illegitimate runners can see how he might have | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
helped. Every time it was on the television, I was in the background. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
I had a lot of people saying, I see on television again. People saying, | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
is that the race he won? When I tried to explain it to people | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
otherwise, the people don't understand. It almost felt a bit. | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
The real sales pitch remains the duty of the course. Being at the | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
front right at from the start, with no one took the shares, they gave | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
us time to lift my head up and have all about. -- no one to push me. It | :21:02. | :21:11. | |
is a beautiful marathon and it is lovely looking back across the lake. | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
This year's Kielder Marathon is on October 7th. You could always join | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
the spectators - on the bus, of course! It went round the world, | :21:22. | :21:31. | |
didn't it! It is going to run and run! You have to say it! A mixed | :21:31. | :21:40. | |
bag of results. Middlesbrough got their first win in the Championship | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
since Boxing Day. Tony Mowbray had claimed there was no panic and | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Middlesbrough. But he will be mightily relieved with this. They | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
had to wait until stoppage time in the first have before taking the | :21:53. | :22:02. | |
lead. Marvin Emnes scored. 1-0 up at the interval and it was 2-0 just | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
after the restart. It looked like game over. Nottingham Forest pulled | :22:06. | :22:16. | |
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a goal back when a free-kick from Andy Reed was flicked in. Kevin | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
Thomson was sent off for two yellow cards. They held on for a win that | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
takes them to within one point of the play-offs. Hartlepool's five- | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
match unbeaten run came to an end at Preston. Be dominated the game | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
but fell behind to a fabulous strike. Despite a frantic scramble | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
near the end, they could not quite force an equaliser. They dropped to | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
14 to the table. Gateshead and York are through to the next stage of | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
the FA Trophy whilst Derek drew 2-2 at Clyde. -- whilst Berwick Rangers | :22:58. | :23:05. | |
drew 2-2. Robbie Elliott played under Kevin Keegan and Kenny | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
Dalglish at Newcastle but it is his association with another Magpies | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
boss, Bobby Robson, which has inspired his toughest challenge yet. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
As a player and later a fitness coach, left-back Robbie Elliott | :23:18. | :23:25. | |
enjoys these bells -- enjoyed three spells at Newcastle. Today, he | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
wants to a charitable foundation in his name. He has to cycle 3,500 | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
miles, starting in Lisbon, going through Barcelona, Eindhoven, | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
Craven Cottage, Wembley Stadium and Ipswich before arriving in | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
Newcastle, hope will a match day. The group pays homage to their | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
clubs managed by the late Sir Bobby Robson. The Sir Bobby Robson | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
foundation will be one of their first beneficiaries, as well as | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Breakthrough Breast Cancer. The PFA have been brilliant at backing me. | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
The first event had to be a big event. Hopefully this is one that | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
will attract the attention it deserves. Who knows what will | :24:09. | :24:17. | |
happen in the future. For this time, it is a big ride. I have thought | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
about the distances involved. To travel right from Lisbon to | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
Barcelona as a long, long way. De Gaulle from Barcelona are right up | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
through France into Holland, that is even further. Stephen Tomkinson | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
is amongst their celebrities backing Robbie. He has just | :24:39. | :24:46. | |
finished filming at British detective movie. Because Arthur | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
also represented Great Britain at discus and shot it, -- and shot | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
putt, I thought I should make the effort to get a little bit run. | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
Robbie dreamt up a fitness programme that I kept up and said | :25:01. | :25:11. | |
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Africa. -- in South Africa. Here is the weather. It was very mild | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
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A cameraman got some warm and glowing pictures this afternoon. | :25:27. | :25:37. | |
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Thank you for that. We have a matching gold in colour here. | :25:41. | :25:47. | |
Beautiful flowers, making us feel very very likely are coming into | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
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spring. -- a very light we are. This weather front is going to | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
start collapsing. This cold front is coming down. There will be some | :26:01. | :26:08. | |
rain. It will be slow to clear on Friday morning. By Saturday, that | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
rain will be sending away. -- fading away. We could see some ice | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
on Sunday morning. As you can see, it looks like a good end to the | :26:23. | :26:31. | |
weekend. Plenty to look forward to. Tonight, a lot of cloud. One or two | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
clear spells in the North East. Enough of a breeze to keep | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
temperatures above zero. Free of frost in the region. Enter tomorrow, | :26:44. | :26:52. | |
we have a cloudy start. It will be dry to start with, but cloudy later | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
on. Some rain will come in from the north-west. It will be lighter and | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
more patchy as it hits the Pennines. There will be some heavier | :27:04. | :27:14. | |
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outbreaks. Top temperatures, a mild tomorrow. Through the rest of the | :27:16. | :27:21. |