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Welcome to Tuesday's Look North. In tonight's headlines: On the eve of | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
the fire strike, our brigades prepare for the walk—out. The union | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
raises concern about the plan to use volunteers. The Windscale Chimney | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Demolition begins at the site of Britain's worst nuclear disaster. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
Ray Mallon's stepping down. But will Middlesbrough decide it's had enough | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
of elected mayors? And TV's Starsky treads the boards, playing the | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
father of some rather headstrong daughters. In sport, we are live at | :00:31. | :00:42. | |
the Stadium of Light ahead of Sunderland's first match since the | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
sacking of Paolo Di Canio. Tomorrow is the day when the | :00:44. | :00:57. | |
country's firefighters go out on strike. For four hours emergency | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
call outs will be handled by volunteers. In Teesside, with its | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
heavy industry and chemical plant, there is real concern. Cleveland | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
Fire Brigade says all its near 50 volunteer firefighters and drivers | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
are trained up and prepared to work during the strike, called after a | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
two year dispute over pensions. But the Fire Brigades Union says that | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
will have its risks. The daily check of the fire engines | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
at the Grangetown Station in Middlesbrough. Tomorrow, though, | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
routine will be disrupted. Between midday and four o' clock many of the | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
Cleveland Brigade's firefighters will be on strike. To provide cover, | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
nearly 50 members of the public have been recruited. We would be really | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
worried about the level of that cover, and the training that those | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
people have received, and the dangerous situations that they are | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
potentially going to be in. However, the man in charge of the brigade | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
says the auxiliaries are prepared, and ready to work alongside | :02:01. | :02:09. | |
non—striking firefighters. Obviously firefighting from outside of a | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
building, playing a supportive role to the professional firefighters | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
that are there. We have trained them in health and safety, how to be | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
safe, how to make sure they are safe and their colleagues are safe, and | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
how to do the job that we have asked them to do so they are ready in | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
relation to taking up that limited role. That preparedness aside, all | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
of our region's brigades are asking us to take greater care around the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
home. Tyne and Wear has even posted these warnings online. | :02:34. | :02:43. | |
The message to the public, to be honest, is that it is a different | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
day. There will be a limited response available in the Tyne and | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
Wear area. At the public can help. Please be extra vigilant. Make sure | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
you have a working smoke alarm on each level of your property. If you | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
are a business, please review your risk assessment to make sure things | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
are safe. But it's on Teesside where tomorrow's focus will surely be. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
That's thanks to the recruitment of these volunteers, here on a training | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
exercise, rather than bringing retired firefighters back to duty or | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
offering a reduced service, as our region's other brigades are planning | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
on doing. Well, Ian is in our Tees newsroom | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
now. Ian, while people may be concerned about firefighters being | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
on strike, the timing of it could have been worse, couldn't it? Yes, | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
it could. The unions picked just four hours between midday and four | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
o'clock. It is outside of the rush hour and it is also in term time, | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
which reduces the risk of hoax calls. The chief fire officer told | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
me that during the 2002 straight, fire calls dropped by 80% because | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
people were being extra vigilant. Is there a concern on Teeside because | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
of the high number of hazardous sites? We would think it would pose | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
a greater risk on Teeside because it is so industrialised. There are 41 | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
hazardous sites, but they have struck a deal with the unions and in | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the event of a major incident they will leave picket lines and attend | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
to it. Thank you. A lorry driver was taken to hospital | :04:13. | :04:22. | |
after his vehicle tipped over on the A66 in Cumbria this morning. It | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
happened near the village of Troutbeck, between Penrith and | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Keswick. Police say the HGV rolled over after manoeuvring to allow an | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
emergency vehicle to pass. The 43—year—old driver is not thought to | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
be suffering from life—threatening injuries. | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
It was Britain's worst nuclear disaster. The fire in Windscale Pile | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
Number 1 scattered radioactive debris across Cumbria in October | :04:45. | :04:51. | |
1957. Nearly 60 years after the event, demolition of the 400 foot | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
tall chimney has finally started. Adrian Pitches has this exclusive | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
report from Sellafield. The twin chimneys at Windscale were | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
a symbol of Britain's post—war nuclear confidence. But the fire in | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
Reactor Number 1 in 1957 shattered that dream. This is a replica of the | :05:09. | :05:21. | |
fuel rods used in the reactor in pale number one. One it was in full | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
operation, there would be 70,000 of these, stacked inside these groups, | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
fuelling the reactor. It was designed to produce plutonium for | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
Britain's independent nuclear deterrent. When fire broke out in | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
leading 57, heroic workers used scaffolding poles to shove the polls | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
out and try to dump the fire down. It will be a century after the fire | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
before the clean—up is finally complete. We commenced the | :05:46. | :05:55. | |
decommissioning in 2008. It goes right the way through to 2050. The | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
fuel will be the first to come out of the reactor. But there is also | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the whole infrastructure around us that needs to be removed and taken | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
back. That will take us to 2050. This is the 400 foot tall chimney | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
for pound of one. Demolition work has finally got underway. It will be | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
brought down, stage by stage, so that one of the last landmarks of | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
will finally disappear. At the top of the 400 foot chimney, demolition | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
work is underway as men cut chunks of concrete by hand. But why does | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
the chimney have to come down? It is an old structure, 70 years old. It | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
is not required any more. It requires an awful lot of care and | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
maintenance which, financially, is not test value for money. We can | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
remove this in a good time scale and that will save a lot of money for | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
the site. Therefore, we are removing a hazard as well. By 2020 the last | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
Windscale chimney will be gone and with it the last visual reminder of | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Britain's worst nuclear disaster. It was one of the big political hot | :06:57. | :07:12. | |
potatoes — elected mayors. In Middlesbrough, they voted | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
overwhelmingly in favour of having one. But, 11 years on, they're about | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
to decide whether to keep the role, or go back to the old—style set up | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
with elected councillors running the show. Down the road in Hartlepool, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
they voted to get rid of the mayoral office earlier this year. So will | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
the Boro follow suit? Gerry Jackson's been hearing from both | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
camp, and from the colourful incumbent who'll be stepping down | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
whatever happens. Every day, Middlesbrough's first | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
elected mayor gets a reminder of the town's first ever mayor. But which | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
model do the people want now? It's almost 12 years since Ray Mallon was | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
elected with the strongest mandate of all the region's mayoral | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
elections. He's standing down in 2015 and this week the town will | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
decide whether that will mark the end of the experiment. So, what can | :07:56. | :08:08. | |
a mayor do? Among his powers, to decide the size of the council | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
cabinet and who sits on it. To set the budget and make strategic | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
decisions. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, to be a highly visible | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
figurehead, a central motivating force to inspire regeneration and | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
redevelopment, for example. So, who might want to fill his shoes of the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
people don't abolish the office first? Middlesbrough is a great town | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
with some big challenges. It needs a single point person who is | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
completely accountable so people can hire the right person for the job or | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
fire them if they are not happy. They council based system we will | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
not get that accountability or results. The alternative, the ruling | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
party having all the power the way it was and the way it still is in | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
many parts of the region. In a place like Middlesbrough, that almost | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
certainly means Labour. One—man, with a large personality, can't do | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
all the work by himself. The mayor that we have got now does cooperate | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
with the rest of the council, not just the Labour group, and I think | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
that works. For the future, there are dangers in the system and we | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
need to go back to the leader in cabinet system for Middlesbrough. | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
I'm still undecided. It is cost, really. I think it's going to be | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
more expensive than just having one man as mayor. I'll be voting to say | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
we go back to the way we were. Why? I think it's probably a bit more | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
democratic. And, from the man himself, no recommendation either | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
way. One of the things that frustrates me is when you find | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
senior politicians that retired a decade earlier and they are still | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
commentating. Back—seat drivers? Exactly. You won't get any more of | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
that from me. You might not get any more interviews from the year 2018. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
North Yorkshire Police have announced plans to build new | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
multi—million pound headquarters in Thirsk. They say the current site, | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
in a grade two listed building in Newby Wiske, is too expensive and | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
difficult to maintain. There are problems with the power supply and | :10:08. | :10:16. | |
parts of the site are empty. It costs us over £1 million per year to | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
maintain. Some of that money needs to be better invested. It's probably | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
a better like owning a classic car. You love them, they are very | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
expensive to maintain and at some point you need to spend your money | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
on a new car, which comes with a better efficiency and a better way | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
of doing business. Thousands of teenagers from across | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
the North have converged on Tyneside for a big jobs and training fair. A | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
range of skills, from snake handling to crime scene investigation, is | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
being showcased at the fair in Newcastle. It's hoped the event will | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
inspire the youngsters aged 14 to 19 as they prepare for the world of | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
work. Snake handling? Unite A new breast cancer drug which has been | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
trialled here in the North has been approved by the NHS and is being | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
launched. The manufacturers of the injection form of Herceptin say it | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
could save the health service £20 millio. It's for patients with an | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
aggressive form of the disease. The new injection is less invasive and | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
drastically cuts patient treatment time. | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
A senior North East Labour MP says his party should scrap plans for a | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
new high speed rail line. Former North East minister Nick Brown says | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
Labour would be better off investing in the existing East Coast line | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
rather than spending £50 billion on the HS2 line. Our Political Editor | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
Richard Moss is at the Labour conference in Brighton where the | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
future of our railways has been discussed. Earlier I asked him for | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
more details.. You will remember yesterday that Ed | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
Balls casts some doubt on labour's commitment to the high—speed rail | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
line. They said they would still support it but there would not be a | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
blank cheque. At the moment it is costing £50 million. The Shadow | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Transport Secretary came out with a similar line yesterday. But Nick | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
Brown, former Minister for the north—east, said the party should go | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
further and scrap the high—speed rail line. I think we should cancel | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
it. I think High Speed Two is costing far too much money for what | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
it is. My fear is that it will eat is out of all rail investment and | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
other important items of expenditure will not just happen. I am | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
particularly anxious about the East Coast mainline, which is our rail | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
connectivity with the rest of the country. It also requires | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
investment. It would be better to spend money on that. Well, that was | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
Nick Brown. With me now is Ian Wright, the shadow industry minister | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
and MP for Hartlepool. He has a point, doesn't he? £50 million, you | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
could have a Teeside Metro, improve the A1, should Labour scrapped? I | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
always listen to a man I think his approach is sound. But I think we | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
are right, we should not have a blank cheque. It always portrayed as | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
cutting the journey time from Birmingham to London. It should be | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
about increasing capacity across the network. We could have trains being | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
built here, that could feed HS2, so that we could have a proper | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
industrial benefit. Ed Miliband's speech, she went out of his way to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
talk about fracking, a bit of an open goal when some of them referred | :13:20. | :13:29. | |
to the north—east being desolate. Every MP in the north—east knows | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
that their communities doing the right thing and struggling. What the | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
speech said today was that it doesn't have to be like this, | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
Britain could do a lot better. We listen to you, we hear your concerns | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
and we need to put in place processes... How is he going to | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
create jobs? Things like high touchy bringing investment, giving people | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
more confidence and pay in their pocket will drive the economy. We | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
have great strengths in the region. We are an exporting, outward looking | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
region. One more day of conference to go. Here, the talk is of energy | :14:01. | :14:09. | |
freezers and that rail line. Plenty more to come in tonight's programme. | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
A star from a '70s cop show takes to the stage. We hear from one half of | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
Starsky and Hutch. And pat therapy. Why ponies are on the guest list at | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
a County Durham nursing home. Don't hold your breath waiting for the sun | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
to come out tomorrow, although it should brighten up again later in | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
the week. Join me shortly for the details. | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Now, four—legged friends aren't what you'd normally expected to find in a | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
care home, but one in County Durham is welcoming animals at visiting | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
time. Miniature ponies are the latest guests at Hollie Hill Nursing | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
Home in Stanley. It's part of a therapy programme to promote well | :14:47. | :14:59. | |
being. Meets the most unusual visitors to | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Hollie Hill Nursing Home so far. They bring with them a raft of | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
psychological benefits. For some of them it is the very basic seeing | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
something unusual going on in their living room. For others, it is | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
possibly a reminder of something they did in the past. Some residents | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
kept horses themselves. The American miniature horses are from a centre | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
in Darlington, which have seen a rise in the number of care homes | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
signing up for visits. It's one of those ideas that many people thought | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
was mad and would not work. And it is just, from day one, is absolutely | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
snowballing. Welcomed by all residents, particularly former | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
blacksmith Cyril. The one you were stroking, did you like it? Was it | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
bringing back memories? Beautiful, wasn't he? It is very brave of you | :15:49. | :15:56. | |
to bring him in. Supposing he does a wee? It is wonderful. It must be | :15:56. | :16:08. | |
terrible if every day is the same. Additional funding has been secured | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
by the home, so activities like pet therapy can continue. It is hoped | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
this will not be the only time residents hear the pitter patter of | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
tiny hooves. One of the stars of the Seventies | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
cop show Starsky and Hutch is appearing in the musical Fiddler On | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
The Roof at Theatre Royal in Newcastle over the next five nights. | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
Paul Michael Glaser is playing the lead role in the show which has been | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
directed by Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood. | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
Rehearsing for his latest starring role, Paul Michael Glaser has grown | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
a beard for the part of Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof. When I decided | :16:49. | :17:00. | |
to do this, I thought, that is a good excuse not to shave. It is a | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
classic, probably one of the most beautifully written musicals in | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
theatre. The actor is of course best known for playing David Starsky, one | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
half of the detective duo in the '70s TV series Starsky and Hutch. | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
It's a character he looks back on fondly. He just had Sony levels to | :17:18. | :17:28. | |
him. Let's say I had the freedom in the role to play all of those | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
levels. That is what made it enjoyable. What do you remember most | :17:33. | :17:42. | |
about that time? Being younger. You know, we all tend to look back on | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
the past, and the nostalgia makes it all very lovely. There were good | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
times and bad times. It was a real roller—coaster ride. Fiddler On The | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
Roof has been choreographed and directed by Strictly Come Dancing | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
judge Craig Revel Horwood. Paul plays a Jewish father whose | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
headstrong daughters want to choose their own husbands, breaking with | :18:00. | :18:08. | |
tradition. Obviously Craig Revel Horwood is known here as a judge on | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
Strictly Come Dancing. It can be quite mean to contestants. Has he | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
ever been mean to you? What is he like as a director? No. He's very | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
good as a director, very creative and supportive. Great. Newcastle's | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Theatre Royal is the third stop in a UK tour of more than 20 cities. The | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
show runs until Saturday. Good to see him happy! Time for | :18:28. | :18:41. | |
sport now and, less than 48 hours after sacking Paolo Di Canio, | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
Sunderland are back in action at the Stadium of Light. I don't know if | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
Jeff is going for the top job, but he is there for us tonight. Thanks | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
Carol an intriguing night ahead of us here and we're not just talking | :18:54. | :19:02. | |
about what happens on the pitch. Peter Brown managed by Sir Alex | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
Ferguson's son, and at stake is a place in the Capital One Cup. It | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
will be interesting to see the fans reaction to the sacking of Paolo Di | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
Canio. He was forced out by player power, despite being popular with a | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
lot of supporters for his hardline approach, his charisma and the fact | :19:20. | :19:25. | |
that they beat Newcastle 3—0. Here is what Alan Pardew had to say about | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
him this afternoon. With my union hat on, I was disappointed. Because | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
he has attacked the job with his passion and enthusiasm. It hasn't | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
worked out. So, there is some sympathy for him and the club. I'm | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
not going to throw any criticism on what he did in Sunderland. He | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
entered that with good faith. He did an honest job, one that he thought | :19:55. | :20:03. | |
was right. I am sad to see him go. Someone who saw every ball kicked | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
under the regime is Sunderland correspondent Nick Barnes. Margaret | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Byrne said that it became obvious it was not working. Is that fair | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
enough? Anything, it was an understatement. I think it was clear | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
two three weeks ago. The public criticism of John O'Shea, of all | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
people, who has been under Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford, I think | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
that underlined that the cracks were appearing. They gradually got wider | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
and this weekend it all fell apart. Former coach Kevin Ball is in | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
charge, still a popular figure. Is there anything he could do to get | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
the job, and would he wanted? I am not sure he would want it. He has | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
been here a lot of years, since he was a player. He's been in charge | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
before as a player. He denied Manchester United title at Old | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
Trafford. He won against Fulham. I don't think he will want the job in | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
the long run, but it is in safe hands for the time being. Gus Poyet | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
is odds—on with a lot of the bookies. What do they need? I think | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
they need a manager with steel. Somebody that can inject a bit of | :21:17. | :21:23. | |
grit into the side. They have the fight against relegation, even after | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
five games. The list of games coming up, they need a bit of steel. I | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
think they need that sort of manager. His name has been | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
mentioned, there is talk of him being offered the job already, but I | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
believe that is nonsense. They will take their time. It may be the | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
weekend before an appointment is made. I will let you get into the | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
commentary position for tonight 's game. Changing sports, and on onto | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
basketball. We looked ahead to the start of the season of the Durham | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Wildcats. Tonight it is the return of the most successful club in | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
British basketball history. Newcastle Eagles have won the title | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
in five of the last eight seasons and twice they have done the clean | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
sweep. Last season, they finished up with nothing and hat to watch | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
Leicester take the honours. My expectation of them is greatness. | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
The words of Eagles player—coach Fab Flournoy, who spent a long, hot | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
summer brooding over his side's failure to win any trophies — | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
although many clubs would have been delighted with three runners—up | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
finishes. This is why the New Yorker can afford to raise the bar so high | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
for his troops. The Eagles have won the league five times, in addition | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
to five play—off titles, five BBL Trophies and two BBL Cup triumphs. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
That's 17 trophies in the last nine seasons. Here's Flournoy unveiled a | :22:34. | :22:44. | |
new team name and his squad for the coming season, with several of the | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
new faces former Eagles players. We know the history of The Eagles, | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
historically they are the best team in the British league. Losing is not | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
acceptable here. It was not acceptable when I was here, and I am | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
sure it is not going to be acceptable. I was disappointed, but | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
not disheartened. At times, you need that. I am take into my comics and | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
superheroes. With every great superhero you have to have the great | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
villain. Without The Joker, Batman cannot be great. We have do have the | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
lens and teams out there. After a season playing in Slovakia, what is | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
the best thing about returning to Tyneside? I know I will get my money | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
on time! The worst thing about coming back to Tyneside? It's cold | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
here. The weather is just... You don't notice it when you are here, | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
but it is likely to be rain and cold. | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
Durham may have already claimed this year's County Championship title but | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
they still have to play Sussex in the final game of the competition. | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
After picking up their third County Championship title in six years | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
against Notts in front of a home crowd at Chester—Le—Street last week | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
they've found it tough going at Hove. Local lads Mark Stoneman and | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
Scott Borthwick both reached the milestone of a thousand Championship | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
runs this summer though as Durham struggled to 164. | :24:06. | :24:24. | |
That's all from the Stadium of Light. There is full match | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
commentary on BBC Newcastle. We will have the best of the action on | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
tomorrow's Look North. Did you hear that Eagles player | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
saying it is usually wet and cold? We haven't had heart to tell him | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
that this is better than it has been for a long time, this summer. You | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
would be culled as well, if you run about in your vest and pants. —— | :24:50. | :24:52. | |
cold. We saw temperatures peak at 20 in | :24:52. | :25:03. | |
Keswick. This just about sums up the weather, a lot of drizzle clinging | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
to the dandelions. Tomorrow, mostly the same. Cloudy for many. A cheap | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
rain and drizzle around. Generally fairly misty conditions. You can see | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
that blanket of cloud over the top of us today. You can see the blue on | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
the radar indicated where the rain and drizzle was. It wasn't | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
particularly heavy, but there was a damp feeling to things, especially | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
across Northumberland. We hold onto that patchy drizzle as we go through | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
the evening. A lot of cloud, misty conditions. When the cloud does | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
break, we will see fog patches forming. The upside is, once again, | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
fairly mild. The temperatures stay in double figures, 12 Celsius, 54 | :25:43. | :25:50. | |
Fahrenheit. A great start for most of us. There will be patchy rain and | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
drizzle around. It is mostly in the east. The West, Cumbria is seeing | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
some breaks. The breaks will be few and far between, but where the sun | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
does come out we will see highs of about 18 or 19 Celsius. That is the | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
mid—60s Fahrenheit. Cooler across those thicker areas, the thicker | :26:10. | :26:21. | |
cloud in the East. So, that is the picture for tomorrow. This weather | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
front is what is producing the thickest cloud and the patchy rain | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
and drizzle. It hovers around for the next day or so. By the end of | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
the working week and into the first half of the weekend, things start to | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
brighten up. By the second half of the weekend, this could be heading | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
our way. In the meantime, a lot of cloud around. Thursday sees the | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
cloud begin to broken places. Temperatures are typically in the | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
mid teens. Friday and Saturday, largely dry. There will be gaps and | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
some blue skies and sunshine. Where the sun comes out for any length of | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
time, could see 18 or 19 Celsius. Keep your weather pictures coming, | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
send them to the usual address or check out the website. | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
Thanks Paul. Finally tonight a look at tonight's main news. Ed Miliband | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
has promised Labour will freeze gas and electricity prices for 20 months | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
if it wins the next election. And the north's fire brigades are | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
preparing for tomorrow's four—hour strike. The Fire Brigades Union says | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
plans to use volunteers during the walk—out are risky. | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
That is it from us tonight. We will be back at 10:25. See you then. | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
Goodbye. | :27:39. | :27:40. |