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Hello, welcome to Look North. In the headlines tonight: Nearly 400 | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
potential victims of the Medomsley abuse scandal come forward. Now the | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
Prime Minister promises support for the Durham Police investigation if | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
it's needed. Still defenceless. As more flooding | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
hits the South West, Morpeth's new flood scheme is running behind | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
schedule ` and millions of pounds over budget. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Just horsing around, or something more serious? Official disapproval | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
for the woman who trotted into a supermarket as part of the latest | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
online craze. And the fat of the land ` the North | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
tops a health watchdog's national league table of obesity. In sport, | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
we will be live at the Billingham Forum Leisure Centre for the | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
highlight have already. It is the BBC north`east sports awards. | :00:54. | :01:07. | |
The Prime Minister has promised Government support for the police | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
inquiry into allegations of physical and sexual abuse at a youth | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
detention centre in County Durham. More than 200 men have now come | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
forward after last week's revelations on BBC Inside Out about | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
brutality at Medomsley Detention Centre. The total of potential | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
victims now stands at close to 400. Dan Farthing reports. It is always | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
in my head. It has ruined my life, completely ruined it. | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
Since Inside Out broadcast shocking revelations about the years of abuse | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
at Medomsley, 232 potential new victims have contacted the police | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
and they believe there could be more to come. Medomsley was open for more | :01:47. | :01:56. | |
than 30 years. Potentially there is more victims out there, more people | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
to talk to us. I am delighted that they have had the confidence in | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Durham Police to come forward and tell us their story. But I am | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
saddened by the fact that so many people have had a bad experience at | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Medomsley. Kevin Champley from Teesside is one of the scores who've | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
come forward. There was physical abuse every day. You were forced to | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
fight other boys. Sort of like in gladiatorial tournaments for the | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
amusement of officers. The first time I seen a dead body was in | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Medomsley. It was in a cell. He was just 17 when he was sent to there | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
for fighting in a youth club. It had affected probably all of my life. | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Obviously you cannot turn the clock back but I feel, if there is people | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
out there who should be punished for it, they should be punished. Two men | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
have already been jailed for raping boys at the youth jail ` they've | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
both since died. But the police aren't ruling out new charges. The | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
priority is the victims. We have to give people a chance to top, and | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
work our way through the 375. My priority is them. We will be talking | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
to suspects later in the year. The jail closed in the late 1980s, | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
having been part of the controversial "short, sharp, shock" | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
programme which was meant to turn young people away from a life of | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
crime. And Medomsley took on a new political dimension today, as the | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Prime Minister guaranteed Government support for what has become Durham | :03:23. | :03:29. | |
Police's biggest ever inquiry. Some of our smallest police forces are | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
hugely capable but when they are doing large and complex | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
investigations like this, on occasion they need help and support | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
so we should make sure that is available. And that support could | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
well been needed as hard cash ` as the police inquiry will continue for | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
months to come and is expected to cost many millions. Dan Farthing, | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
BBC Look North, County Durham. The Prime Minister was speaking in | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
response to a question from North West Durham MP Pat Glass. She wanted | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
an assurance that the Durham Police Force would be given sufficient | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
resources for such a major investigation. Earlier, I asked her | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
if she's happy with the progress the police are making. It is the biggest | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
investigation Durham Constabulary has ever undertaken. And they have | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
created a very specialist team and they are determined that every | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
single victim will be seen and will be listened to. And I think part of | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
my job is to make sure that the Constabulary has the resources to | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
ensure that that team stays together until this is complete. I have been | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
contacted by victims who are telling me that they are pleased with the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
way this is happening and they think that Durham Constabulary are doing a | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
really good job. This is a big ask of a very small force but they seem | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
to be doing very well. Do you think they do need any assistance on this | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
or can they cope? At the moment, things are fine. However, this is a | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
very small force and we are not one of the big boys. It just takes one | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
major incident or a major murder and there will be pressure on the | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
specialist team, it is part of my job to ensure that I talk to the | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
Home Secretary to make sure that this team remains together and is | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
able to take this investigation to its conclusion. | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
So, still more people coming forward with disturbing stories about | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
Medomsley. There is a helpline for anyone who has been affected by the | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
issues raised. Call the BBC Action line on 08000 566 065, or go to the | :05:21. | :05:36. | |
website. Bbc.co.uk/actionline. It's been the South West's turn to | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
experience severe flooding this winter. But Look North can reveal | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
one of the biggest flood defence projects in our region is millions | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
over budget ` and running late. It's now five years since Morpeth, in | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
Northumberland, was deluged and 1,000 homes were flooded. The town | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
won a battle for new defences ` but residents are angry that the project | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
is overspent by ?3 million. And they fear they could be flooded again | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
before the work is finished. Sharon Barbour has tonight's Look North | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
report. Paul Gillie's B and B in Morpeth has | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
been flooded twice ` in 2008 and again in 2012. It is nonsense. These | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
flood defences should have been built two years ago. He's among | :06:13. | :06:27. | |
residents here fed`up that a flood defence scheme to protect his home | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
still hasn't been completed. They need to be pulling their finger out | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
and getting on with it. There is no excuse for them being this late | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
over. I don't accept any of their excuses for why they are not | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
finished. In 2008, when the river Wansbeck here in Morpeth flooded, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
the water rose so high that it went right over the top of the bridge a | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
thousand homes were flooded. A much needed flood`defence project is well | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
under way, but there's anger that defence walls like this one, at High | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
Stanners, are not finished. People don't sleep at night if times `` at | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
times if there is heavy rain. You see floods in the south of England | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
and think, what would happen if it was here? We should have been | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
protected by now. We have had some delays in building the walls in the | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
town. So in terms of the flood defence scheme, are they working? By | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
the autumn, by November we are expecting them to be complete. The | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
delays are not the only thing worrying residents. They are | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
concerned about the cost, which has gone up from ?21 million to ?24 | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
million. Money the cash`strapped Northumberland County Council and | :07:30. | :07:37. | |
Environment Agency has to find. Costs are likely to be higher than | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
originally planned, but how much, we don't know. A few percent in the | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
overall budget at the start. Three million on top of 21 million is | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
closer to 10% extra cost. It is. It is a very complex project and when | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
you see the size of the reservoir that we are constructing, it is | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
absolutely enormous. And a small change in the height of that | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
reservoir means a considerable amount of material that we need to | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
put in to top up the dam. The main message for the people of Morpeth is | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
that the scheme will not be stopped. As far as anger is concerned, if I | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
were to let out how I felt it would not be pretty, in all honesty. Rain | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
is forecast for the next several days. Without full protection from | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
flooding in place, residents like Paul can only hope history isn't | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
repeated. The rules are simple. Film yourself | :08:25. | :08:38. | |
downing an alcoholic drink while doing something unusual. Post a | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
video online, and nominate two more people to take up the challenge. It | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
is a new craze which apparently originated in Australia. But when | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
this young lady arrived in her local supermarket on a horse, and downed a | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
fizzy drink, official disapproval quickly followed. Jonathan Swingler | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
reports. 21`year`old `` this 21`year`old | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
women ready to a supermarket as part of the game. Friends nominate each | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
other to do a challenge and down a drink. Normally it is alcoholic but | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
in this case it was a Coca`Cola. The people at Tesco head office give us | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
a statement saying they are aware of the incident. The women in question | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
did not want to be interviewed and told her that her parents are not | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
happy with all of the attention this has generated. The police want to | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
have a word with her. How stupid this could be. What could have gone | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
wrong? The horse is actually sliding on the polished floor. I think | :09:40. | :09:46. | |
someone goes past with a pushchair. If the horse had fallen over, the | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
writer could have entrapped. There is all sorts of things that could | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
have gone wrong. The craze has spread but with some tragic | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
consequences. One man drowned in Ireland. This woman made a video | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
drinking tea. I have never heard anything catch on so quickly in all | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
the years I have been here. It is a bit hot so I cannot let it. Some of | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
them are really funny but my concern is that younger people. `` I cannot | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
neck it. I did not drink a pint of beer but if they are drinking pints | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
of spirits, they don't realise what it is doing to their bodies. It can | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
be fatal. There is concern that teenagers under 18 in our region | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
could be taking part in this craze. Just a passing craze, or a potential | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
threat to life? You can join the debate on our Look North Facebook | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
page ` the address is on your screen now. | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
A man presumed dead after falling overboard from a cruise ship in the | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
South Atlantic has been identified as Wearside journalist Bob Horn. Mr | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Horn, who was 69, was for decades the Houghton`le`Spring reporter for | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
the Sunderland Echo. He fell from the ship shortly after it left the | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. It's one of our most famous | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
landmarks. But now there are plans to build five giant wind turbines | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
close to Roseberry Topping near Guisborough in east Cleveland. The | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
developers say the wind farm will benefit the community, and has today | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
announced a scheme to offer local people ?5,000 each to help them find | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
a job. But many are not convinced, as Stuart Whincup discovered. | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
Distinctive and iconic. Roseberry Topping provides amazing views | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
across Teesside and North Yorkshire. A patchwork of fields, villages and | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
towns. But this is how protestors claim it will look if the new wind | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
farm development is approved. Anita Johnson has lived in Mount Pleasant | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
for 36 years. The turbines would be built at the back of her house. It | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
would be like having your heart ripped out. I am being serious. I | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
just don't like them at all. Even on a grey day the views from Roseberry | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Topping are impressive. And protestors say huge, ugly wind | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
turbines would destroy all this. They are going to loom over | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
Guisborough for 25 years. They will destroy the tourism revenue and | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
probably the house prices will fall in the area. The developer, Banks | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
Renewables, says the views from Roseberry Topping already show wind | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
farms and Teesside heavy industry. `` Teeside's heavy industry. They | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
also say it will bring jobs and investment. And it's offering grants | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
of up to ?5,000 to help local people get jobs. If you want to become a | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
chef and can't afford your Chef outfit, you can get a ?300 grant for | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
that. Or if you get an apprenticeship with a local employer | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
wanting to take on a young person, up to ?5,000 can be put towards that | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
salary. The developers know they are in for | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
a battle. The National Trust are also opposed in the wind farm. A | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
final decision will be made by the council and that is expected in | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
April. Coming up next, the health survey | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
that labels most of the region the fattest in England. | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
And we're live from the BBC North East Sports Awards. Plus: Should | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
there be an end to toys for boys ` and girls? One of our MPs claims | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
they reinforce gender stereotypes and could even influence the future | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
careers of young girls. It was another at Lanting low that | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
brought windy weather today. I can offer you something quieter | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
tomorrow. Join me later for your full regional forecast. `` it was | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
another wet and windy low. Our region, it's claimed, contains | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
the fattest of the fat. The health watchdog Public Health England has | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
produced league tables of obesity levels throughout England. And we're | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
top of all three. Copeland, in Cumbria, is the local authority with | :13:53. | :13:55. | |
the most overweight people. Cumbria itself is the fattest County in | :13:56. | :14:04. | |
England. And the North East is the most obese region in the country. | :14:05. | :14:07. | |
Surprised? Well, some people think the way the figures have been | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
collated is flawed. Alison Freeman reports. | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
A couple of years ago, this man would have found this task | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
impossible. But he is now `` he has now lost more than half of his body | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
weight. I realised that when your vehicle is overweight, you ruined | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
your tires. My joints were beginning to go. My health was beginning to | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
go. I had to do something. He has got down from 31 stone to just 14 | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
stone. Apparently bucking the trend in the county today named the | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
fattest in England. Cumbria's rugged coastline and abundance of trails to | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
what and keep fit on, it has come as a surprise to many that it is the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
fattest county. Add to that the fact that only a hundred people out of a | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
population of half a million were asked to give their weight and | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
height, some people are questioning the validity of the figures. It is | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
biological implausibility, if you look around you, does that seem to | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
fit? Are 75% of the people walking down the street fact? The answer is | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
no. There are other ways of getting this information. One possibility | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
was through GPs but at the moment we don't have the system in place to do | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
that. The people that GPs measure are not necessarily representative | :15:31. | :15:32. | |
of the whole population. At the moment, we do not have the best way | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
of looking at that data. Deprivation and poverty were blamed for the | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
north`east being labelled the fattest region. And Copland being | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
home to the highest number of overweight people. I am in town | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
every day. I don't see any obese people. There is not that many fat | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
people around here. The data may not be accurate but Public Health | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
England says it is the first time it has been able to get a snapshot of | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
each area's weight problems. Now time for a toy story. This one | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
doesn't have Buzz Lightyear in it ` but MPs in Parliament. Newcastle MP | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Chi Onwurah says gender specific toys, like dolls for girls, could | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
limit children's future career options. She thinks the issue's so | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
important she raised it in the House of Commons this afternoon. Here's | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
our Political Correspondent Mark, Denten. | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
This place may well bring back a few memories for you. The excitement of | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
walking into a toy shop, that feeling of wondering what to play | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
with, whether you can touch it and more importantly, whether through | :16:37. | :16:38. | |
persuasion, smiles or tantrum, you can persuade your mum or dad to | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
shell out for it. But in this toy shop, still a bit of the pink/blue | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
divide. Toys for girls, and toys for boys. But have we got our toy | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
choices right? Should girls always be presented with cute little baby | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
dolls or boys with rockets? Or should toys be more like this one, | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
targeted at both girls and boys? Today, one local MP called for a big | :17:06. | :17:18. | |
change. Children and parents are not being allowed to choose what toys | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
they want to play with for themselves because they are being | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
told that certain toys are for girls, certain toys are for boys and | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
in particular, girls toys have to be pink. The kind of toys that children | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
play with does influence what carriers they choose. Joanne, the | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
owner of this toy shop, is not convinced. I still believe people | :17:36. | :17:41. | |
will still go towards the toys they want to get, which will be gender | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
specific. And Ray, looking for a toy aeroplane for his great`grandson, is | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
not worried about the gender politics of toys. It is a waste of | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
time. And I think that even at 18 months, he knows exactly what he | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
wants. He does not have to be guided, really. But here is | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
geneticist Theresa looking for something for her son. She is more | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
supportive. You can be attracted to certain sort of toys. We are looking | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
for super heroes because that is what my son is interested in at the | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
moment. But the pink Lego that they have at the moment, my daughter will | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
not touch. 354 million toys were sold last year and whether gender | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
specific or not, we spent nearly ?3 billion on them. | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Time for sport now. And the team are out and about tonight. And with the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Winter Olympics about to get under way, how fitting that we found our | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
own Jeff Brown in an ice`rink. Jeff, what on earth are you doing there? | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
Yes, it is a very good question. You have the Winter Olympics, it is the | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
perfect setting. We are at the Billingham Forum Leisure Centre. It | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
is the 2013 BBC North East Sports Awards. We have athletes and | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
gymnasts won the Academy behind us entertaining the crowd. When the | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
presentation starts, it will be in the middle of the ice rink. The team | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
here, we are all very well wrapped up. I am wearing a vest. We have | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
been looking back at what was a terrific year of sport in the | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
north`east. Some fantastic performances and occasions. We even | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
found ourselves a new world champion. He is about to take part | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
in a prehistoric night`night in Tyneside. | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Suited and booted. On the left, ex`Darlington roofer Stuie Hall, IBF | :19:25. | :19:26. | |
world bantamweight boxing champion since four days before Christmas. `` | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
take part in a historic site night in Tyneside. `` a historic fight | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
night. His opponent at the Newcastle Arena on March the 29th is the new | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
Commonwealth Champion Martin Ward, from West Rainton, near Durham. An | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
all North`East affair ` the first for a World boxing title. | :19:50. | :19:52. | |
The line`up for next month's Clash of the Clans includes an impressive | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
undercard, featuring two of the region's best known fighters, | :19:56. | :19:57. | |
Bradley Saunders from Sedgefield, and Birtley's Jon Lewis Dickinson. | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
But it's the top of the bill clash that's most exciting to the likes of | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
1989 world cruiserweight champion Glenn McCrory. Stuie Hall | :20:04. | :20:12. | |
Stuart Hall is the man who has swapped a wild party lifestyle in | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Ibiza for a return to professional boxing. His opponent is seeking to | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
become the first world champ from it has been coming for a long, long | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
time. The fact that it is a world title fight makes it so much more | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
worth the wait. Mark Tulip, BBC Look North. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
With me is a man who was once the region's only world boxing | :20:47. | :20:48. | |
champion. Did you ever think you would see the day went to | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
north`eastern fighters would fight for a world title? I did not. Dreams | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
have come true. Stuart Hall wins the world title, it has been 25 years. I | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
have always wished that someone would do it and I am glad that | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
Stewart did. Never in his first event it is even better, he is going | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
to fight a north`east boxer so north`east boxing is back in the big | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
time. It is great for the region. We are going to have a lot of local | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
boxers on. It is going to be a massive event. It is nearly 25 years | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
since you want your title. Where has the time gone? Exactly. We are still | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
alive. We have never changed. It is amazing that the north`east has had | :21:32. | :21:34. | |
to wait so long for another title. It is. There is always a wealth of | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
talent in the amateur boxing scene. Now we have got lots of hopes and | :21:42. | :21:50. | |
the promoters are coming here, the big guns, we have got good promoters | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
here as well and a good crop of good fighters. He has opened the gates | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
now, Stuart Hall. It is all going to change now. Boxing is going to be | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
here quite a bit and we are going to have a lot of champions. Thank you. | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
It is not just me here. With me now is the director of cricket. It has | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
been an amazing sporting year in the north`east. But in Durham | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
particularly and for you as well. Exactly. This time last year the | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
team was just about written off by all of the critics. We had lost a | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
few players. But the team excelled and came home fantastically well in | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
the championship. In fact, they could have won one or two other | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
trophies as well. They played well throughout the season. There was a | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
hiccup in the middle of the season. You are underplaying that a little | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
bit! You had a heart attack. Fantastic hospital people helped me | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
through it. And I was back in action to witness the last half of the | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
year. The boys really pleased for you as well. If that is the case, | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
thank you very much but they were brilliant. Lots of young cricketers | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
are moving their careers on and it is wonderful to see some people | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
representing England. That was what Durham County was all about to start | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
with. They are fulfilling their dream. I hope you have got your | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
thermals on. You will need it in there tonight. I won't tell you what | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
is underneath. There will be a full report on | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
tomorrow night's BBC Look North. And the late news as well. We will tell | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
you who has won the top award. That is the BBC North East Sports Awards. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Personality of the year. Those of you with a nervous | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
disposition might want to turn away now. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
disposition might want It was a nice day for ducks. That is | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
the rain arriving for the big gathering later in the month. As | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
well as rain today, gusty winds. The gas came in the early hours of the | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
morning but through the afternoon exposed parts hit the low 50s, | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
inland it was a little bit lighter. Over the next few days, unsettled | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
weather, tomorrow is an improvement, bigger and brighter, more rain | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
spreading up from the south tomorrow night. Things dry up on Friday. It | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
is up and down. This is the low pressure system that brought us | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
today is wet and windy weather. There is Bill outbreaks of rain as | :24:36. | :24:37. | |
we head to this evening. The shoppers will become less widespread | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
overnight but they will not die away completely although there will be | :24:41. | :24:42. | |
some drier interludes at times. Temperatures will get down to four | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
or five Celsius. Those very strong just the southeasterly winds will | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
start to ease. Still a few showers around first thing tomorrow morning. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
Especially in the Pennine areas, they will die away, some places will | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
have a drier picture for the afternoon, a few bright spells and | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
sunshine and Sunderland and Whitehaven as we head into the | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
afternoon, temperatures will peak at eight Celsius. With drier weather | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
and much lighter winds, it should feel a whole lot more pleasant | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
tomorrow but as I said, more rain on the way tomorrow night as this next | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
low comes in. That could eastwards through the course of Brady into the | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
weekend the lows just keep coming. Bringing bands of wet and windy | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
weather one after the other. If you are out and about over the next few | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
days, expect one or two early showers on Friday, it should dry up | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
through the day, more wet and windy weather on Saturday and the showers | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
are fewer and further between on Sunday. Breezy at times but the | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
winds are coming from south or westerly directions. Rain or showers | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
around in the north`east. Probably escaped the worst of the showers | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
east of the Pennines as the winds coming from a westerly direction for | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
a good part of the time. We will keep you bang up to date on the | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
local radio station. If you have got washing hanging about, it is good to | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
get it out now before the rain starts. Have a good evening. | :26:10. | :26:39. | |
NICK CLEGG: Are you in, or are you out? | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
That's the real question at stake at the European elections on May 2 nd. | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
even though that would wreck the recovery and destroy jobs. | :26:48. | :26:55. | |
The Conservatives are now openly flirting with exit, | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
and the Labour Party, well, they just don't have the courage | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
they wouldn't lift a finger to help keep Britain in the EU | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
So I'm asking you to vote for the Liberal Democrats, | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
in for the sake of British prosperity and jobs. | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
I'm in because we set the global standards | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
95% of everything we use, we eat we heat ourselves in, comes in by sea. | :27:24. | :27:29. |