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Hello. Tonight: 130 firefighters to go and three stations to close in a | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
bid to save money. It is quite a devastating day. Being the chief | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
fire officer, you accept that you lead the organisation, but it still | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
does not make this job any easier. It is a sad day for our fire | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
service. How thousands of families could be | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
missing out on a ?135 discount on their energy bills. | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
A leading expert on gas and oil exploration warns fracking could | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
have disastrous consequences. If you look at your tourism and farming | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
industries in Yorkshire, they could suffer very badly as a result of | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
fracking. And more than 50 new CCTV cameras for Cumbria in the fight | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
against crime. In sport, plenty to mull over, | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
including a first victory of the year for Newcastle United, and a | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
draw that felt like a win for Sunderland as they come back from | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
two goals down to stay afloat in the relegation battle. | :01:13. | :01:23. | |
Tyne Wear's chief fire officer has described it as a devastating day. | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
131 fire fighters and six fire engines are to go to help the | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
brigade balance the books. Three fire stations, sports, Wallsend and | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Sunderland Central, will also shut in a bid to save more than ?5 | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
million. A new station at Benton will be opened. Unions are warning | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
the cuts will put firefighters and the public at risk. Our reporter is | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
live. This is Sunderland Central Station. | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
They proposed to close this and that was three months ago. Since then | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
there has been a public consultation. The unions believe | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
these cuts are dangerous. They gathered thousands of signatures for | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
a petition and presented their case to the fire authorities. It was then | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
that they found out whether it would make any difference at all to the | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
scale of the cuts. They gathered in force, Tyne | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
Wear's firefighters determined to press for a rethink on planned cuts. | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
After three months of campaigning they were hopeful of a change of | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
heart. And they did get to hear fire authority members bemoan and | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
question the cuts, but when it came to the vote, they pressed ahead. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Despite union protests, one in five firefighters, one in five fire | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
engines and three fire stations will be gone within three years. Initial | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
reaction is one of astonishment. I am genuinely stunned. It is not what | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
we thought would happen. We have spent an awful lot of time in the | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
last three months consulting with members of the fire service, | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
speaking to politicians, involving the public. They have gone for the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
nuclear option and it is worse than we ever thought. It is a very sad, | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
depressing day. Many members said they made the decision to press | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
ahead with a heavy heart. The chief fire officer called it a devastating | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
day, and he insisted there will be no compromise on safety. We are not | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
going to endanger firefighters or the community. I am a trained | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
firefighter. I have rated and worked on a fire engine. The proposals will | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
be incremented in a safe and progressive manner to make sure we | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
are not endangering anybody's life. Tyne Wear is not the only brigade | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
facing tough choices and protests. People in Penrith were upset at | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
plans to remove a fire engine from their town. In all, Cumbria is | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
looking to cut five engines and close one station. Cleveland could | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
shed 60 firefighters and a station. Durham and North Yorkshire are also | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
losing firefighters. Unions in Tyne losing firefighters. Unions in Tyne | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
Wear is a industrial action is an option. We will have to look at | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
trade disputes. Safety has been put at risk because of this decision. | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Cuts, now, though beginning. But it might not be the last time we see | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
firefighters together to register their opposition. | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
I understand the big unions do not want these cuts to happen but do the | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
brigade really have any choice? The union was arguing today that the | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
Tyne Wear brigade could use its reserves to stop these cuts | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
happening but the authorities said that would just be postponing the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
inevitable. They looked at whether they could raise council tax but | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
they worked out they would need to raise it up to 15% a year for the | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
next three years to replace this money they need to save. ?8.8 | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
million. So this ?5.4 million does not even save all of that. So they | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
will do things differently. The chief fire officer says they will go | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
to some lower level calls more slowly, possibly with two engines, | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
but that will allow engines to get to the major incidents in the same | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
time. The unions do not buy that. They seemed now to be on a collision | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
course with their managers. A man has been jailed for life for | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
murdering his partner in a hairdressing salon in North | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
Tyneside. Lisa Banks was 46 and worked at the Sole`O barber shop in | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
South Shields. `` North Shields. Robert Tiffin, who pleaded guilty to | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
murder, was told by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court he would serve | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
a minimum of 23 years. A 15`year`old boy has been arrested and charged | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
with a public order offence following a protest by pupils at | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
Redcar Academy. It came following claims that one of | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
its pupils, 14`year`old Mia Flood, had been suspended after shaving her | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
head to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. In a statement, the | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
school said they agreed with Mia's family on arrangements for her | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
education should she choose to shave her head, and it did not plan to | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
suspend her. Thousands of families could be | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
missing out on the Warm Home Discount, which knocks ?135 off | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
energy bills for people who are in fuel poverty. Inside Out has found | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
out that in County Durham alone, thousands of families may not yet | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
have claimed it. County Durham is the black spot in | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
the North for people who struggle to pay their fuel bills. Sharon gets | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
?71 a week jobseeker's allowance over and ?22 of that goes on fuel. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
You are either cold or you are hungry. Hope ground floor flat is an | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
insulated. An infrared camera shows the heat leaking through the walls. | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
That is the red and yellow. I do not know what to say. It is shocking. | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
Sharon probably qualifies for Warm Home Discount, ?135 a year off her | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
electricity bills. Vulnerable pensioners get it automatically. | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
People like Sharon must apply for it. But she has never heard of it. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
How does it make you feel that you did not know about this? Stupid. | :07:46. | :07:55. | |
Most of those we spoke to in County Durham who may qualify had heard for | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
it either. The energy companies who were supposed to pay it were not | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
much help. They have little idea how many qualified. We asked the big six | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
how many customers in Durham were eligible to claim. Only one, NPower, | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
had figures. It estimates between 6.5 and 9.5 thousand customers are | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
part of the broader group eligible for WHD. But just over 1000 claim | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
it. If that is typical for energy companies, then between 19000 and | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
30,000 households in Durham could be missing out. It is claimed the | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Government could solve this problem. Why not give it | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
automatically to those who qualify, rather than those who qualify having | :08:37. | :08:50. | |
to find out? Site pensioners `` pensioners automatically get it. But | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
we are trying to make it as simple as possible. The Government has a | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
target to eliminate fuel poverty by 2016. Critics say as energy prices | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
rise, that target will not be reached. We will soon find out. | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
And if you are keen to know how you can save money on your energy bills, | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
what Inside Out tonight on BBC One at 7:30pm, at two families from | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Tyneside and Cumbria go head`to`head to try to save cash without changing | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
their energy supplier. Still on energy matters, a leading | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
expert on gas and oil exploration is warning any move towards fracking in | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Yorkshire could have disastrous consequences for tourism and | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
farming. Test drilling is already taking place on one site in the | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
Yorkshire and there have been expressions of interest in other | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
sites. It looks innocuous but this is great | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Yorkshire's had its first brush with the fracking industry. Samples from | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
deep underground have been taken for further analysis to see if lucrative | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
shale gas can be extracted from this site near Pickering. It is expected | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
to be the first of many such sites, with the shale gas stretching right | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
across the region and the Government offering councils cash incentives in | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
the form of business rates. There has been much resistance amid fears | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
of water pollution and earthquakes, and one oil and gas expert fears it | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
will harm the countryside. If you look at your tourism and farming | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
industries in Yorkshire, they could suffer very badly as a result of | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
fracking. And so consequently, you are left with a legacy of thousands | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
of gas wells abandoned, leaking, agriculture destroyed and tourism | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
wrecked. What is fracking? It works pipe drilling deep underground, | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
getting water, sand and chemicals into the rock and collecting the gas | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
that escapes. We are just beginning to look at the potential value of | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
shale gas. In America it has brought down gas prices, but there is | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
growing evidence that in some cases, fracking has had major health | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
indications, a situation companies wanting to do fracking in the UK say | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
could not happen here because of tight regulations. There has been | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
evidence of some contamination caused because the gas well has not | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
been constricted properly, and there is absolutely no evidence it could | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
because by fracking per se. But companies like IGas will be largely | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
self regulated and we have discovered that the health and | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
safety executive will not be carrying out site visits to inspect | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
the gas wells unless there is specific cause for concern. It is | :11:31. | :11:36. | |
not possible for an inspector to stand in the corner of every single | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
factory in this country, or in every single chemical plant. The onus of | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
responsibility rightly have to be based on the owner and operator of | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
that site. But even if fracking becomes a reality here, not everyone | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
is convinced it will solve our energy needs. We might be lucky to | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
get 1% at. It might be 0%. We have to be realistic. It is hard to | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
imagine a big shale gas injures three `` industry in a country so | :12:07. | :12:18. | |
densely populated. This board shortly and also still to | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
come, fighting crime, how more than 50 new CCTV cameras are to go up in | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Cumbria. And a weather warning in the forecast. | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
Tune in later to see the areas which will be affected. | :12:32. | :12:42. | |
Roadworks lasting 30 weeks got under way in team Valley in Gateshead this | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
morning. The scheme by Gateshead Council will see the road widened to | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
accommodate bus lanes. It will be completed just before other | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
roadworks by the highways agency will start in August, and last a | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
year and a half. ?1 million will be spent on CCTV cameras in Cumbria. | :13:04. | :13:10. | |
Many are no longer be teeny monitored `` no longer routinely | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
monitored. More than half ?1 million will come from a home office grant | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
which will be added to funding from the councils themselves. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
We are all used to them, keeping watch and helping to fight crime, | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
but many CCTV cameras have fallen victim to cancel budget cuts. Now a | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
?500,000 home office grant will update and in some cases start the | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
camera network. If you can bring people to justice, this is a tool | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
that is a good step in the right direction. We know it is a difficult | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
time for authorities but we have to penalised those who commit crime and | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
surely that is money well spent. 54 cameras will be provided across the | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
county at a total cost of ?1 million. The Home Office is giving | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
more than half ?1 million towards it, and Cumbria assessment six | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
district councils will plug the remaining funding gap. About a year | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
ago I made grants for ?100,000 for anti`social behaviour to each of the | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
six district councils. Depends on what they spent it on in their | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
applications to this office, but we are now in a situation where | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
district councils will have to make a contribution of some form to the | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
capital but the running costs will be borne by the constabulary. In | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
Carlisle, cameras only record now. Real`time monitoring was stopped to | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
save money. A one`off payment from the council of ?89,000 will get them | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
a brand`new set of cameras. The output of the cameras will be | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
monitored by the police. That will be at their headquarters in Penrith. | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
The high`tech system will be able to send the images seen there to the | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
hand`held devices of officers working on the ground. The cameras | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
should be up and running by the end of the year. | :15:10. | :15:18. | |
If you like shoes, you'll have heard of a company called Pavers. They're | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
based in York but now they have plans to expand in India. The | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
company is already the first foreign manufacturer allowed to have wholly | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
owned operations in the country, but now it wants to massively increase | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
its chain of stores there. Our business correspondent, Ian Reeve, | :15:32. | :15:32. | |
reports. York shoe company Pavers does rather | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
well in this country. It sells up to three million pairs of branded shoes | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
a year. But it has big aspirations here. In India, Pavers has 45 stores | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
and 120 concessions. But it wants to build up to a combination of 5,000 | :15:51. | :15:59. | |
over the next 15 years. We always thought the retail was quite poor | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
and disorganised in India, so we thought we might have a chance of | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
giving a good job there. The potential is really unlimited. We | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
measure it against China, where we have had a relationship with a | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
company from 20 odd years ago, when we had a small factory to now where | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
we have 18,000 shoe shops. In India, the union flag adorns the shoes. | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
This very English brand even makes the news. So after this must haves | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
in your wardrobe, get set to give your shoe collection a twist. The | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
Englishness of Pavers appeals in India, especially to the young. 70% | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
of its population is under 30. The union Jack is a very obvious symbol, | :16:53. | :16:59. | |
distinguishing us clearly from what is offered locally in India. It is | :17:00. | :17:07. | |
the Government's aim to double trade with India by 2016 and exports grew | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
by 20% last year, growth that can at least in part be traced to this | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
company. On to sport now, and on a Monday | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
night that means it's time for Team Talk. | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
Well, Newcastle are enjoying a sunshine break in Abu Dhabi ` reward | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
for their victory at West Ham which ended a run of four defeats in a | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
row. Yes, their first win of the New Year | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
came against former Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce ` never a | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
favourite with the Magpies fans, and having a torrid time this season. He | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
could really do with Andy Carroll back to full fitness. The former | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Newcastle striker did get a bit of a run`out later, though. But Newcastle | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
were totally dominant in the first half, Yoan Gouffran setting up star | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
man Yohan Cabaye ` lovely control there to put them ahead. In fact, | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Newcastle had no fewer than 12 shots on goal. Sissoko unfortunate not to | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
score there, but a fabulous cross to set up Loic Remy for his 11th goal | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
of the season, a year to the day that he scored his first Premier | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
League goal for Queens Park Rangers against...West Ham! The Hammers got | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
themselves back into the game on the stroke of half time against the run | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
of play ` a lucky deflection for Carlton Cole and unlucky for Mike | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Williamson who got the last touch. Big Sam wont worry about that but he | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
will worry about misses like this. Andy Carroll at least has an excuse | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
having just come back after eight months out. But it was the big | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Geordie who gave away the free kick that lead to Cabaye's second goal in | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
the fourth minute of stoppage time ` and he's a master at this isn't he? | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
A hugely important part of Newcastle's success and with eleven | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
days to go Alan Pardew must be praying he can keep Cabaye in this | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
transfer window ` but ultimately delighted to get back to winning | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
ways. In the first half I do not think we | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
could have played any better. We were really kicking ourselves at | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
half`time to only have one goal in it. They had a lot of quality on the | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
bench, Morrison coming off the bench, so we had to show another | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
side to us in the second half. 36 points is a fantastic total and we | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
look forward to the second half of the season. | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
Well, Newcastle did their neighbours a huge favour with that win over | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
West Ham ` Sunderland now level on points, down at the bottom, with the | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
Hammers and Cardiff City. But they had to work hard to escape what | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
looked like being a damaging home defeat by Southampton. That's right | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
` Gus Poyet out of his seat for most of a dreadful first`half. It was a | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
12.45 kick`off ` and the early start seemed to catch Sunderland half | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
asleep. An awful kick out. Very nearly got caught out by that one. | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
And poor marking for this corner meant there was a second for the | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
Saints. But within 90 seconds Sunderland were back in it. That was | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
the beginning of the fightback. It all in the second half as well. | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
Gardiner here set up Adam Johnson. He suddenly started scoring goals, | :20:16. | :20:24. | |
and with his right foot, as well. But Gaston Ramirez, not on two feet. | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
Lucky not to get a red card. Not so lucky, though, was Wes Brown's | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
former team`mate Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic, sent off at | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
Chelsea yesterday, which means he'll miss the Capital One League Cup | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
semifinal second leg with Sunderland on Wednesday night. | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
And Sunderland tonight confirmed they've signed Argentinian defender | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
Santiago Vergini on loan for the rest of the season. | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
Now, in the Championship, Middlesbrough are just five points | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
off the play`offs, Dawn? Yes, that's five wins out of the | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
last six League games. And it was largely thanks to on`loan keeper | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
Shay Given that Boro didn't drop two vital points at the very end, | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
against struggling Charlton. Boro's Spanish boss, Aitor Karanka, has | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
certainly made a difference at the Riverside, but he admitted his side | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
didn't play well. An early lead always helps, though, and players | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
like Emmanuel Ledesma are never afraid to try their luck from | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
distance ` the bounce deceiving the keeper there. | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
And he was making his debut for Chalrton, as well. Yohann | :21:20. | :21:21. | |
Thuram`Ulien ` but he did make amends, with two saves here from | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
Muzzy Carayol. That second killer goal wouldn't come. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Charlton felt a bit hard done by. They didn't think Simon Church had | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
fouled Shay Given in the box. And they weren't happy at the straight | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
red card for Rhoys Wiggins for his foul on Dean Whitehead ` but the | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
referee in no doubt. And with the last play of the game, | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
Given made this great double save ` no parrying into the path of the | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
opposition, catching the ball and smothering it, great technique to | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
hang onto victory! I'm sure Aitor Karanka will want to hang onto him | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
if he can. Worrying times for Graham Kavanagh | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
at Carlisle. Two points off the drop zone now. It's not that his side | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
didn't create chances against Colchester. They should have taken | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
the lead before Sanchez Watt put the visitors in front ` awkward bounce | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
for the keeper. An own goal got the Blues back in it, but when Watt | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
scored his second, you sensed this wasn't going to be Carlisle's day. | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Kavanagh's concerned about what he called "schoolboy defending" ` the | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
crowd not impressed either. Max Ehmer made up for his earlier own | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
goal near the end, but it wasn't much consolation. You do not put the | :22:25. | :22:34. | |
ball in, like we didn't, you are going to be under pressure. Six | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
chances in the whole game and they scored four goals. We had many more | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
chances and we did not put the ball in the debt. The manner in which we | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
conceded today was extremely poor. Yes, and it didn't help that Pools | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
were down to ten men after just two minutes at Fleetwood. A horrible | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
tackle from young Jordan Richards, and off he went. No real argument, | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
and it was uphill from then on. Well, they held out for 67 minutes, | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
only for big Jon Parkin ` universally known as "The Beast" | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
because he's not the slimmest of centre`forwards ` to show he's got a | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
decent touch. Very nice finish, that one. | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
It was. And then Mikael Mandron, on`loan from Sunderland, set up | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
Fleetwood's second, just a couple of minutes later. Pools have lost three | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
in a row now, and are just five points above the relegation zone. | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
So it's a big game at Victoria Park this weekend, when they're at home | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
to York City, who were frustrated by Bristol Rovers' keeper Steve | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
Mildenhall in their goalless draw at Bootham Crescent. | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
And well done to Colin Cameron, the new Berwick Rangers boss, whose | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
first game ended in a thumping 4`0 win over Stirling. Yes ` a great | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
start for him. Basketball finally, and there was a | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
double success for Newcastle Eagles at the weekend. They were pushed all | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
the way at Sport Central on Friday night, hanging on to beat Cheshire | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
Phoenix by 103 points to 100. They followed that by winning 101`73 at | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
Essex Leopards in the BBL Trophy, to earn a home quarterfinal with either | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
London Lions or Worcester Wolves. Sadly, Durham went out of the | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
competition, losing by 90`81 at Plymouth. | :24:06. | :24:15. | |
And that is the sport. Time for the weather. | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
Another weather warning to start the forecast but first, some pictures. | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
They show the situation as it developed over Newcastle earlier | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
today. Our headline for tonight, frost and fog. A weather warning in | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
place for North Yorkshire over Newcastle earlier today. Our | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
headline for tonight, frost and fog. A weather warning in place for North | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Yorkshire overnight and clear to develop, first of all to | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
Northumberland and then to North Yorkshire. Particularly the Team | :24:46. | :24:58. | |
Valley and the Wear Valley. There could be frost on the grass, as well | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
as fog and mist first thing tomorrow morning. Really slow to clear and | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
lingering right through the morning and through until lunchtime in many | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
parts of the East of the region. Through lunchtime, things clear for | :25:14. | :25:20. | |
a time before it becomes clear later on. Chillier than today. But the fog | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
has lifted for most places. The temperatures in the high 30s, low | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
40s in Fahrenheit. It is already raining across Northumberland and | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
Cumbria, and as we move westwards across the Pennines, six or seven is | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
the high here but not feeling pleasant in brisk South easterly | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
wind, blowing in that range through tomorrow tea`time and into the | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
evening. The big picture showing that rain continuing to splash its | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
weight used with across the UK through Tuesday evening. `` splash | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
its way through to the East. On Thursday things will gradually start | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
to calm and there should be drier weather by the end of this week, | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
although still generally low pressure dominating the forecast. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
What does that mean in detail? Let's take a look at the towns and cities | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
across the few days after tomorrow. Temperatures not quite as chilly and | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
we are expecting some sunshine as well, especially on Thursday. In the | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
North East, a better chance of some sunny spells on Thursday but gloomy | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
here on Wednesday as wet weather crosses the region, brisk wind as | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
well, but not quite as cold as it will be tomorrow. So a weather | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
warning in place from tonight through until tomorrow morning for | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
fog in North Yorkshire and with those temperatures below freezing, | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
some of that frog could freeze as well. `` some of that fog. | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
The headlines: Lord Renard has been suspended from the Liberal Democrats | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
for refusing to apologise over allegations of sexual harassment | :27:04. | :27:04. | |
which he has always denied. The Tyne which he has always denied. The Tyne | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
Wear Fire Brigade has confirmed cuts of 131 firefighters and six by | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
engines. The chief fire officer said it was a | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
devastating day. That is it for now. See you then. | :27:19. | :27:21. |