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Hello, welcome to Look North. In tonight's programme: | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
Jailed - the teenager who killed two of his friends after driving at | :00:04. | :00:14. | |
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speeds of up to 90 mph in a 30 mph zone. | :00:16. | :00:26. | |
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A victory... For some. Two of three Cumbrian care homes earmarked for | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
closure have been saved. Where's your party spirit? Just | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
over seven weeks to go to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, but it's | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
quiet on the street party front. And learning the ropes - essential | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
safety training for the men and women working on offshore energy | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
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installations. You've affected the lives of many. Arseng Rashid had | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
only just passed his driving test when he crashed his mother's car. | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
Joshua Stephenson and Josh Hopkins died when the Toyota people-carrier | :01:16. | :01:25. | |
overturned. Today, Arseng Rashid was sentenced to five years in | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
prison. Two promising lives, ended by their | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
friend's reckless stupidity. Joshua Stevenson was a student of | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
Electrical Installation, while Josh Hopkins studied advanced | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
engineering. But when -- but they were killed when the people-carrier | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
they were travelling in crashed. The driver had taken them, along | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
with four others, on what he called a mooch in the early hours of | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
September 11th last year. Today, the court heard how they turned | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
into a catalogue of fast and erratic driving. Arseng Rashid had | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
overtaken a taxi driver going between 85-90 miles an hour. He had | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
also taken a junction on the wrong side of the road, going at 68. | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
Eventually, the car overturned. Again, Arseng Rashid was driving | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
too fast. Today, the mother of one of the boys killed, Josh Hopkins, | :02:26. | :02:36. | |
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Today, at Teesside Crown Court, the judge told Arseng Rashid he had | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
driven deliberately dangerously. Worst of all, he said, he did so | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
intentionally. The deep and extent of pain and consequence cannot be | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
disguised. You have affected the lives of many. He sentenced Arseng | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
Rashid to five years in prison, and banned him for driving for five | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
years or so. It is a decision that has taken | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
some people by surprise - two of the three care homes in West | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
Cumbria that were earmarked for closure have been saved. The | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
decision was made by county councillors at take meeting in | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
Kendal this morning. After six months of campaigning, | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
they got the result they wanted. Unexpectedly, Cumbria County | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
Council decided not to closed Richmond Park care home and Park | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
Lodge. At meetings organised by Kevin staff and the residents's | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
families, the council promised to listen to their concerns. Today, it | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
was apparent they had. But there was one casualty. We have decided | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
to close at Woodlands care home. We have decided that is not fit for | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
purpose. But we have also decided to put a huge investment into | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
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improving our current facilities. Some tough decisions this morning. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Iris was delighted that Park Lodge would be kept open, and made part | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
of a hub of provision for the elderly. Her mother-in-law has | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
lived here all her life, and Barratts feared a move could have | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
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made her lose the will to live. Fantastic! Are delighted! Relieved! | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
The residents were also delighted. Absolutely elated. We have been | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
given the opportunity to work with the county, who have proved | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
themselves to be a listening organisation, to take forward the | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
strengths of Richmond Park, and develop the future of adult social | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
care. Cumbria County Council says the way people are cared for will | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
change, with the ageing population, there will be more care at home. | :05:19. | :05:28. | |
That, they say, is what today's decision is all about. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
Sunday politics will be reporting on the decision, this Sunday, at | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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Doctors and nurses are back up their day jobs after undertaking | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
extraordinary work in India. These patients can see again, but that | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
was not all - the team transformed and saved the lives of more than | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
150 patients in one of the poorest parts of the world. But doctors | :05:58. | :06:06. | |
filmed their work exclusively for Look North. | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
It is a long way from Tyneside. This part of India is one of the | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
poorest places in the world, end it was here when the team of doctors a | :06:16. | :06:21. | |
right to treat ill patients. They arrived from miles around, and | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
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queued all day for surgery. first day we arrived, the patience | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
heard of us and arrived. We felt under enormous pressure to get | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
through so many operations. This is the doctor's seventh trip. In just | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
one week, the team of doctors and nurses performed to 150 operations | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
in India, and they did the work for free. The team was led by this man | :07:00. | :07:10. | |
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- a consultant anaesthetist. They are very poor. If somebody gets ill, | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
they find it difficult to travel. We have had children who have had | :07:19. | :07:25. | |
worm infestation. The children have been quite ill and have needed | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
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surgery. By the time they left, at 55 patients could see again. Each | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
one a huge success for the medics, who already planning to go again | :07:40. | :07:50. | |
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next year. 's less than two months ago, and we | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
are all geared up our street parties for the Queen's Diamond | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Jubilee, but Carlisle has not had a single application for a street | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
closure on the big day. If it is true, and we have our | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
reservations, then what is the reason? It could be the council. | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
Except, there are no rules. Their reality is they are paying us a | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
bigger and help them. We have got staff to make it easy for them to | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
have a celebration if that is what they wish to do. I you going to | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
have one in your street? I am not aware there is one. But did Jason | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
did want to organise a street party, at least they would know the dates | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
to go for, wouldn't they? Know like! It is not something I am | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
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focused on. It is June at the V... No! 16? Give us a clue! June! | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
actually the fourth. Oh, well done! Looking back at the coverage of | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
royal celebrations in the seventies and eighties, the scale and numbers | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
involved could take you by surprise. As can the coverage. It is now 2pm, | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
and we're getting in the party spirit. You would not catch has | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
been that nowadays, wearing daft hats, that is. But many will be | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
wearing them. Is a charity shop is just about meeting demand. It is | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
flying out. Rarely? This is Alan fourth delivery. At the craft shop, | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
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if it is royal, it is selling. online as well. Oh, get you! | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
buttons. We have got a lot of buttons and lace. So, party free | :10:07. | :10:17. | |
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zone? Not likely! The story of the lift attendant who | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
went down with the Titanic. And which are beautiful weather | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
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picture will be adorning your wall? Working in the offshore industry | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
can be dangerous work, and today, a specialised training centre was | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
officially opened on Tyneside. The centre, in North Shields, has been | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
developed because of major growth in the industry, particularly in | :10:48. | :10:58. | |
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the renewable energy sector. Rescues, rigging and simulation - | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
this training could mean the difference between life and death. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
You could be working 100 metres up on this side of the vessel, | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
suspended by ropes. We get across that safety comes first. It must be | :11:20. | :11:30. | |
terrifying! I haven't done that yet, but I thought it would be scary. | :11:30. | :11:38. | |
But it was OK in the end. And so, it recruits leave fully prepared to | :11:38. | :11:45. | |
work offshore and onshore. We are training at 2000 people. We have | :11:45. | :11:53. | |
tried to double that. The demand is there. And as this industry is no | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
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longer the preserve of men,... Take one hand-off to start with. | :12:22. | :12:32. | |
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There you go. Look, mum. No Hans! But, I still have to get down. | :12:35. | :12:43. | |
Well done! 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, a family | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
has given Look North a showing of the heirlooms belonging to a | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
relative who died on the ship. Arthur was just 18 when he took a | :12:52. | :13:02. | |
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They're worth 1,500 tragic stories on the Titanic, one for every death. | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
But Arthur is ours. The 18-year-old joined the Titanic as a lift | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
attendant. He died at his post, but some of his belongings came back to | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
Tyneside. Today, they are still held by the family. Since he died, | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
and his body was found and taken, and he was buried in Halifax. All | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
of these things were sent back to his mother. We have got his watch, | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
which is rather special, because it stopped at 2:20pm, the exact time | :13:56. | :14:03. | |
the Titanic sank. A purse, keys and pipe also returned in a bag marked | :14:03. | :14:13. | |
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to create. But at first, his mother was told Alfred had lived. No lives | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
lost. It was sent on the day the Titanic sank. Great relief for her | :14:23. | :14:31. | |
and all of the family, but that was not true. It still smells of smoke. | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
Alfred's namesake has used his pipe, a collection with his long-dead | :14:36. | :14:46. | |
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Alfred then may be at rest in Canada, but is still remembered 100 | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
years on and 4000 miles away on Tyneside. In fact his great niece | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Sandra's latest production - as principle of a theatre school - | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
makes Alfred flesh and blood again. Do you know in a place in Coney | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
Island in America... That ambition, to see America, lead to Alfred's | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
death. His application form for work on the White Star line is | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
heartbreaking. He applied, he said, to "better himself." I think he was | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
a very idealistic young man, and he wanted to be a writer, and write | :15:31. | :15:38. | |
stories. He wanted go and beat people. Being a first-class lift | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
attendant was a way of achieving that. Instead Alfred's ambition | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
ended in the cold Atlantic at his post. Listening to the strains of | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
the depleted ship's orchestra playing the hymn, Nearer My God To | :15:51. | :16:01. | |
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Thee, and maybe family and Gateshead in his thoughts. Time for | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
sport now, and there was a fair bit of rain around the North East today | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
- perfect timing for Durham's first County Championship game of the new | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
cricket season. Dawn's at Chester- le-Street - well wrapped up, I | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
would hope! It is a very chilly Chester-le- | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
Street. It would be for the first county Championship meant each of | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
the season, but first been a start by saying congratulations to | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
basketball's Newcastle Eagles. They'd already won two trophies | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
this season and last night the Eagles won the British Basketball | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
League for the fifth time in seven years after closest rivals Plymouth | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
lost to Leicester. It'll be a clean sweep for Fab Flournoy's men if | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
they can add the play-off crown next month. The championship trophy | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
will be presented tomorrow night when Newcastle host deposed | :16:49. | :16:59. | |
champions Mersey Tigers. Well Durham's Director of Cricket | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
Geoff Cook is with me now - and a typical stop/start day for the | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
first day of this county championship game with Notts, Geoff. | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
We did pretty well to start with. It was a miserable day to start | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
with, not cricket weather at all, but the groundsman today fantastic | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
job. That was pretty soggy, and we started about an hour late on a | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
decent pitch. It has gone a little bit awry at the crease. Yes, I | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
thought we bowled really well. They had two partnerships, one of 60 and | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
one of 40. We kept patient, and we bowled pretty well, but since going | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
out with the bat, three wickets down, and hope to be would lose | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
another one tonight. K the believes that this will be the 20th | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
anniversary of Durham's first first-class county match when you | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
have the likes of Dean Jones in the team. It was a really romantic time. | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
The English game has changed so much. The preparation is different | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
and the team is highly professional, and all the cricketers aspire to | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
get to that standard. In the last few years, at Durham as being good | :18:13. | :18:20. | |
at producing first-class cricketers. You have come a long way. Well, if | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
you had said 20 years ago the be would be playing a one of the best | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
grounds in the world and would have won two or three trophies, people | :18:29. | :18:39. | |
would have laughed at that. Newcastle United could well be | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
hosting European football next season but tonight they're staging | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
an international match. The England Schools Under 18s are taking on | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
their Scottish counterparts as part of the Northumberland Schools FA's | :18:46. | :18:48. | |
centenary celebrations. In the England squad are three local | :18:48. | :18:58. | |
players as Keith Akehurst reports. Final training before the biggest | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
game of their lives. These under- 18s are representing England | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
against Scotland. The oldest international at any level. But | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
this is the Schools team, not the England under-18s we usually talk | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
about. All of those players will be connected to professional clubs. | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
Our side is a schoolboy's side, and a lot of them would have been | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
rejected at 15 or 16 and have continued on at college to continue | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
their education. Tonight's match gives the teenagers a second chance | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
of a professional career. As an organisation, we have a history of | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
being one or two through each year to get a contract. Among the 18- | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
strong squad are three local players, including two strikers. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Massive Newcastle fan. I have been since I have loved football, and it | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
is going to be a privilege to play at the Stadium tomorrow. Hopefully | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
I will grab a goal and walk away but my right hand up as Alan | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
Shearer would have done. Just the thought of even training on there | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
and warming up, it is brilliant. Especially in Scotland, and we have | :19:59. | :20:09. | |
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a good rivalry with them. Kick off is at eight. There'll be top-class | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
tennis in the region tonight - and for the next four days. The | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
National Premier Tennis finals are being held in Sunderland, featuring | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
some of the best men's doubles partnerships in the country. But to | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
help launch the event, they had the help of one of our best women | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
players of all time. She once reached number five in the | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
world, and won the mixed doubles at Wimbledon. These days her knees | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
don't allow her to play as much tennis as she would like, but Jo | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
Durie still keeps a close eye on the British scene. They are always | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
up and coming juniors, and it is just a case of getting them on the | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
tour. The women are doing OK. We have a couple in the top 100, and a | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
couple of youngsters chasing them. The youngsters we hope can do | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
better, but not through lack of trying! Last night Jo was at the | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
Virgin Active club in Sunderland's Doxford Park. She was giving her | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
blessing to a national men's doubles team tournament, which is | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
the brainchild of Teessider Mike Dixon. It's brought the likes of | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
British Davis Cup star Dan Evans to Wearside - and the host club are | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
hoping to make it to Sunday's final. Everyone thinks tennis is Wimbledon | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
for two weeks of the year. There are lots of tournaments going on | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
throughout the world. We have a number of British tennis players | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
playing here, Dan Evans being one. They are travelling the world tried | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
to earn a living, so events like this help them. Not every one is | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
going to be a champion, but it would be good have better | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
participation in the sport, and this is a wonderful event will be | :21:38. | :21:48. | |
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good currency and what is all about. In reply to not 164, Durham are 54- | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
Thanks Dawn, Time for the weather now, and time to unveil our latest | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
weather calendar winner too, Hannah? It's hard to believe we've | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
Hannah? It's hard to believe we've had snow since then! But the warm | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
spell of weather we had last month broke records for March at some of | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
our weather stations. It also got you out with your cameras, meaning | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
a bumper crop of weather pictures to judge. This month we asked | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
photographers from Ashington Co-op Camera Club to choose our winner. I | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
met them at their new exhibition. Woodhorn Colliery. A former pit in | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
Northumberland and now a museum of the region's industrial past. This | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
spring it's also hosting a photography show - The Spirit of | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Northumberland. Pictures by local photographers celebrating a culture | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
of pipers, fell runners and pigeon fanciers. I just wanted to capture | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
this man's hard-working hands, the rough hands along with the fragile | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
rough hands along with the fragile pigeon in his hands, and how caring | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
hears with his offbeat. Plus, the fact that pigeon racing is dying | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
out in Northumberland. Today Ashington photographers are | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
choosing our best viewer's picture from March. Runner up is this | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
lambkin full of the joys of spring, taken by Rachel Foster at Danby | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Wiske in North Yorkshire. Second prize goes to Alex Bell for his | :23:15. | :23:25. | |
chunky rainbow at Seaton Sluice on the North East coast. The rainbow | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
is really really powerful, and with the white buildings in the four | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
Grand, it is an absolutely beautiful image. And the winner is: | :23:33. | :23:35. | |
Graeme Robinson, with his red squirrel in the flowers in | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Cockermouth. We were just setting the spring flowers, and we had a | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
shallow depth of field which made the squirrel stand out. We really | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
enjoyed that one. We will be seeing a lot of it. Graeme's shot will now | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
become the March page in next year's calendar, sold in aid of | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
year's calendar, sold in aid of Children in Need. | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
And a big well done to Graham Robinson. They have also said that | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Graham's image will appear at their exhibition at Woodhorn Colliery. | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
Well worth a visit. Another great weather picture to start of this | :24:14. | :24:22. | |
evening's forecast. Thank you to Lawrence. A cow in Hexham. | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
Tomorrow's headline... It will be cold with a strong north wind. | :24:29. | :24:37. | |
Shell was 10 to die away -- showers tend to die away. In the north and | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
west, the map is tinged with blue. A touch of frost on the grass. It | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
is not a bad start to the day though, it will be chilly, but lots | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
of sunshine in North Yorkshire and the North East and parts of Cumbria | :24:54. | :25:02. | |
as well. The son of course will get stronger every day, and the showers | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
are not far behind. One or two of them will be snow wreaked on top of | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
the North Pennines and the Cumbrian fells. The winds will be over 20 | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
mph, which will make it feel even colder. Temperatures between 8 and | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
ten Celsius. Just below the average for this time in mid-April. It is | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
the low 50s in Fahrenheit. But made to feel colder in the strong | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
northerly breeze. One or two showers around in the afternoon, | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
and it stays that way over the next few days as well. Cold air spilling | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
into these conference, and chilling things over the weekend. One or two | :25:46. | :25:55. | |
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showers macro on Saturday. The showers could be wintry. Don't | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
switch your central heating on -- of just yet! A look at the | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
of just yet! A look at the headlines. A fragile ceasefire in | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
Syria seems to be holding. Eight Teesside teenager has been jailed | :26:10. | :26:15. |