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be some rain around on Sunday. Thank That is all from | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Hello and welcome to Wednesday's Look North. Tonight: The Casualty | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
actor Clive Mantle tells a court how his ear was bitten off in a | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Newcastle hotel. We quit! The entire governing body | :00:17. | :00:24. | |
of a big secondary school resigns. Further management to be so | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
dysfunctional or whatever has concerned, we don't know why this | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
has happened, and we are very worried, as are many other parents. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Stranded ` the community cut off after floods damage this bridge. And | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
there's no prospect of repairs. And how Middlesbrough footballer Kei | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
Kamara is doing his bit to help those experiencing the horrors of | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
life in his homeland. In sport, a big night for Carlisle | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
as they ease their relegation fears after not quite being sent to | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Coventry. And rugby's Mr Patient ` a home debut at last for Gonzalo ` | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
three months after signing for the Falcons. | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
First tonight, the television actor Clive Mantle has been telling a jury | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
how a large part of his ear was bitten off during an attack in a | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
Newcastle hotel. Two men from Hamilton in Scotland have denied a | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
charge of causing grievous bodily harm with intent at the city's Crown | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
Court. Mr Mantle, who starred in the BBC hospital drama Casualty told the | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
court the attack was like two hyenas bringing down an old water buffalo. | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Jonathan Swingler has this report. The trial has heard how Clive Mantle | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
was staying at the Hotel the 24th of March last year. The 56`year`old | :01:52. | :02:01. | |
actor, best known in the medical drama Casualty, had been appearing | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
at the theatre. At 4:30am in the morning, he heard shouting outside. | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
What happened next was the series of events that ended up with his ear | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
being cut off. He had asked the two men to be quiet. The actor denied | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
losing his temper and that he said Will you shut up, please. The jury | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
heard that Clive Mantle felt he was treated as a figure of fun. He said | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
he was going to get security and he described being attacked and being | :02:39. | :02:48. | |
attacked and being punched up to 16 times by the two men. They were very | :02:49. | :02:56. | |
drunk, he said. The actor said it was like two hyenas bringing down a | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
water often. Both men deny wounding with intent. The trial continues. | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
Parents in a North Yorkshire town are demanding answers after it | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
emerged that the entire governing body of one of the county's largest | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
secondary schools has resigned. They say the decision of governors at | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Richmond School and Sixth Form to quit en masse has led to speculation | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
and concern about what might lie behind the move. So far, none of the | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
governors have explained why they stepped down but the council insist | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
the education of pupils won't be affected. Our reporter Luke Walton | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
has been speaking to people in Richmond and joins us from our | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Middlesbrough newsroom now. Luke, just how unusual is this kind of | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
mass resignation and what do we know about it? It is highly unusual and | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
even more unusual is that the governors themselves have issued no | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
statement as to why they have decided to step down. We know that | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
the governors make their decision to resign en masse after a meeting with | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
council officers on Thursday. The council issued a statement, the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
governors have not been contactable. The council have issued | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
a statement, though, and it said the reasons behind the resignation were | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
confidential that no safeguarding issues were involved, in other | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
words, there is no risk to pupils. But that message hasn't entirely | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
reassured parents. We are very concerned for our daughter's | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
education. For the management of the school to be so dysfunctional or | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
whatever has occurred, we don't know what it is, we don't know why this | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
has happened, and we are very worried, as are many other parents, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
and we have seen this on social media recently where parents are | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
speculating as to what has gone on. What is particularly strange about | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
this is that it is, on the face of it, a very successful school. That | :05:04. | :05:11. | |
is white. It was judged a good school and gets above average exam | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
results but there have been some grumbles. I am told there has been | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
recent months, a reduction in the lunch break to half an hour. We | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
don't know if that controversy was in any way linked to the | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
resignation. What I am told is that there was a difference of it `` | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
opinion about the direction of the school between the governing body | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
headteacher and the governors felt that the council had come down in | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
favour of the head, hence the decision they had no other choice | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
but to resign. The local councillor representing Richmond says Disney's | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
be cleared up. It is everywhere for an entirely governing body to leave. | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
I need to understand why they have gone, from their point of view, from | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
the school's pointedly, what brought us to this situation, so we can | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
mention nothing like this happens again and we can guarantee that the | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
school flourishes. Where do we go from here? Next week, I understand | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
the school and the council will be writing to parents, saying the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
day`to`day education of the children and the standard of education will | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
not be affected by any of this. They also say they will be appointing an | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
interim executive board to take over the governorship of the school, to | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
pave the way for the appointment of a new governing body. It'll be | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
interesting to see how many parents volunteered to be governors until a | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
line is put under this issue and at this moment, that seems some | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
distance away. Structural engineers have continued | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
to monitor homes in Ripon after a sinkhole opened up in the North | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Yorkshire city. Three homes had to be evacuated after a 25ft`wide | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
sinkhole opened in Magdalens Close on Monday evening. No`one was hurt | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
and firefighters rescued a dog from a damaged 100`year`old detached | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
house that has developed a huge crack. | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Meanwhile, a flood`damaged bridge in Loftus in East Cleveland has left a | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
small community cut off from the rest of their town. Residents on | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
Gaskell Lane relied on the bridge to get in and out of their street, but | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
violent flooding last year has meant it's no longer safe to use, and | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
there's no prospect of it being repaired. Our business correspondent | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Ian Reeve reports. The consequence of hundreds of | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
thousands of gallons of water rushing down this beck in East | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Cleveland. Pent up beneath the bridge by fallen trees, but then | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
bursting violently free. And in its path Kath and Alan's home. Hit by a | :07:44. | :07:55. | |
5ft`high wall of water. I was fighting to close the door. | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
Absolutely unbelievable, the force of it. A carb parked in front was | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
just whisked away, the power of it was unbelievable, it was higher than | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
the date. Nobody who had been in it could have survived. Five months on | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
and the loss adjusters are still here, assessing, examining. And the | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
small cluster of houses here below the town of Loftus remains cut off. | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
There's no road access, the only way out of this hidden woody dale by a | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
long uphill hike. And the bridge, it's been discovered, belongs to one | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
of the residents here. They can't afford to reinstate it, but then | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
neither can Redcar and Cleveland council. For Kathryn and her | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
neighbours, escape looks a long way off. Because the council had | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
resurfaced it and prepared it in the past, we assumed it was their | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
responsibility. They are now saying that one was that it owns that | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
bridge, which were totally unaware of the time, and so they are backing | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
off and saying it is not their responsibility. So shopping must be | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
done with a wheelbarrow. Oil supplies for central heating have | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
long run out. The Fire Service has made it down here though, to install | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
extra smoke alarms. A move, residents say, that shows how much | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
the brigade wants to avoid any incident here and not be able to | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
reach it. Unemployment has fallen in the North | :09:13. | :09:22. | |
East, according to the latest figures published today. The number | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
of jobless people is down by 3,000 to 130,000. That's an unemployment | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
rate of 10%, which remains the highest in the country. The number | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
of people claiming job seekers allowance in Cumbria rose between | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
December and January. There are now 6,642 claimants ` that's a rise of | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
279. The County Council says it reflects the end of seasonal | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
Christmas jobs. But 250 new jobs are being created at a Hartlepool | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
shipyard. Engineers are being taken on by Heerema Fabrication Group to | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
work on the Cygnus North Sea project, providing gas to one and a | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
half million homes. Richard Moss joins us live from the yard now. | :10:00. | :10:16. | |
They make some pretty big gear here. Sections of platforms for the oil | :10:17. | :10:23. | |
and gas industry. Alan Lloyd is the director here. Good news, obviously. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
What do you put this affects down to? It shows you the quality of the | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
product we reduce it is down to the people that work here. The workforce | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
is very reliable and conscientious about the product that would produce | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
for the marketplace. Hartlepool is an area that does need more jobs. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
How significant is this for the local area and what does it generate | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
a locally? This is tremendous for the local area. The local economy | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
will benefit from personal economy down to the local paper shop. The | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
guys pick up milk and paper, daily. The whole infrastructure benefits. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Not only the wind `` the yard, but the wider world as well. There has | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
been a small drop in and implement in the north`east today, it is still | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
too high, in the country, or to companies like yours need to have | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
success and create more jobs? I think it is the food chain we are | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
in, we are in the middle of it and the government needs to exist the | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
expiration people in finding new fields so they can manufacture and | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
produce the sort of project that we build. presumably, manufacturing is | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
crucial. It is and we need the food chain to supply to the | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
manufacturers. Without that, there is no project to build. It needs the | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
food chain involvement from the government to make sure that | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
exploration continues and that we can choose the sorts of projects for | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the North Sea. More jobs being created here, more jobs needed, and | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
in the south east, the own planet is down to 5%, which is half as much as | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
it is in the north`east. `` the unemployment is down. | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
There's been gridlock in a County Durham town after a free half`term | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
attraction pulled in hundreds of carloads of visitors. Locomotion, | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
the National Rail Museum at Shildon, is hosting the Great Goodbye until | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
Sunday. It's brought together all six surviving A4 class steam | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
locomotives, including the world speed record holder, Mallard, which | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
will return to the USA after this event. All six locos were previously | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
at the National Rail Museum in York. Well worth seeing. | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
His country and its people have been blighted by war and poverty. And the | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
story of his own journey from Sierra Leone to professional football in | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
England is itself quite remarkable. But now Middlesbrough striker Kei | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Kamara is doing his bit to help those still experiencing the horrors | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
of life in his homeland. Today he went to meet one charity providing | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
aid on the ground, in the hope of raising awareness. Bob Cooper has | :13:03. | :13:16. | |
this report. We know him for this. But this is the environment Kei | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Kamara grew up in. The bloody civil war that engulfed Sierra Leone for | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
11 years began when he was just six years old. It is tough to grow up in | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
a war`torn country but that the same time, it may be the person I am | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
today, put a lot more smiles on my face, made me a man today. His | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
mother is kept to America. my mother was gone for 15, 18 years, before I | :13:46. | :13:54. | |
found her. It is a pretty long time. It was tough, it was tough, but she | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
did well, she would talk `` call and talk to us and send us pictures here | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
and there. At the same time, it was pretty amazing. She kept good | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
contact with us. When he finally got to the US, he was able to kick off | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
his football career. Now, he is trying to help those who haven't | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
been so lucky. Today at Middlesbrough's training ground, he | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
met someone from his hometown who works for a charity which is doing | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
relief work in the country with a helper funding from a Catholic aid | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
agency. He hopes his profile will help boost donations. the fact that | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
people have great passion for football in Sierra Leone, I think | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
for them, he is an icon, to start off with. I think they will listen | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
to him. You have to raise the consciousness of the people. Why are | :14:51. | :14:58. | |
they living in such poverty stricken communities. He may have been away | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
for a long time but Kei Kamara hasn't forgotten who his people. `` | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
who his people are. You're watching Wednesday's Look | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
North. Mark Tulip joins me shortly for tonight's sports news. Also | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
still to come: Could ditching these in favour of...these really boost a | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
city's economy by an estimated ?20 million and bring more jobs? | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
And I will be here with a look at the weather for the next few days to | :15:30. | :15:38. | |
come. A landowner in North Yorkshire has | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
caused controversy by advertising a plot of land for use by a traveller | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
family. As with most similar cases, there've been lots of local | :15:48. | :15:49. | |
objections, and the local council rejected plans to turn the plot into | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
a traveller site. But that decision has recently been overturned by a | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
planning inspector on appeal, partly because there's a need for more | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
traveller or gypsy sites in the area. So now the triumphant owner is | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
on the look`out for a single travelling family to move in. Phil | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
Chapman has been to see the site near Northallerton. Come on in. This | :16:09. | :16:22. | |
is being used as you leisure site so people could have a caravan here. It | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
is not your average estate agent sales pitch. This humble strip of | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
land has been at the heart of a major controversy here. The | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
landowner had wanted to build a house on a plot but then when that | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
was refused, he switched to the travelling site idea. He didn't want | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
to appear personally on the TV but was happy to have the estate agency | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
take up the story on his behalf. it went to an appeal and the planning | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
inspector said there was a need for the sites in the area, it is in a | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
perfect situation, handy for Northallerton, on a good road, it is | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
private, it is sustainable and he basically said yes, it is exactly | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
what we are looking for so it has passed. The council doesn't run any | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
travelling site itself but there are two run under the authority of | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
another County Council nearby. Both have 16 pitches and now, after the | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
recent appeal, there is this single family plot near Northallerton. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
There is a little bit of a knot in my backyard situation but the way I | :17:36. | :17:37. | |
look at it, we are talking about human beings, they have a right to | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
live here as much as anybody. For some neighbours living near this | :17:46. | :17:47. | |
plot, they are more concerned about what they feel to be inconsistencies | :17:48. | :17:55. | |
in planning decisions. Here I am looking at this with the potential | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
business, I had an extra ?100,000 a `` a year in income and I implored | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
`` employed staff and it was removed. It is so OK, it is | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
unbelievable. Whatever works others might have with local planning | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
decisions, the local authority's authority was overruled. I | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
sympathise with the residents who are close by but we have a process | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
to go through. There is a need for Gypsy pitches which has been | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
identified within Hambleton and we are going some way towards this. On | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
this particular site, it wasn't sustainable and that is the reason | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
the planning committee refused it. The landlord went to appeal and he | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
won it. Hence I understand the site is now being marketed for a single | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
Gypsy pitch. Science for people on both sides of the fence, the next | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
chapter in the story is likely to involve a travelling family moving | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
in. It's been claimed today that | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
Newcastle will become one of the UK's first super`connected cities | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
within 18 months. A ?10 million scheme has been launched to install | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
super`fast fibre broadband throughout the city, as Andrew | :19:17. | :19:17. | |
Hartley reports. It's made to look like child's play. | :19:18. | :19:27. | |
But this is serious business. The Go Digital Newcastle scheme launched | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
today will cost ?10 million and boost the city's economy by millions | :19:31. | :19:41. | |
more. Most broadband here today is delivered over copper wires. The | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
next generation will be over fibre`optic cable which will allow | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
much greater speed and much greater reliability. Engineers are removing | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
answered this to be replaced by this. Fibre`optic cable, barely | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
wider than a strand of hair and yet able to deliver information at a | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
million times the speed. The message here is faster broadband is good | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
news for jobs. What it is going to give us and our customers is the | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
speed, the capacity to deal with much larger, much more capable | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
systems. And they can serve up great stuff to their customers in turn so | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
they can attract more this news. One in three residents in Newcastle | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
still don't use the internet and it's hoped this will change that. We | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
haven't even begun to see the difference it can make, the how `` | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
how it can save money, but to do that, we need everyone online and | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
for it not to be a minority activity. But if you live or work | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
elsewhere, you won't be missing out. This is a national roll`out of | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
superfast broadband which will see similar schemes up and running right | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
round the region. Let's start with last night's | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
football action. And a pretty satisfying evening for two of our | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
clubs. Hartlepool picked up a hard`earned away point in their | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
quest for a League Two play`off place. Meanwhile, Carlisle made up | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
for lost time after the postponement of their previous game. Victory at | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
Coventry's temporary home moves them six points clear of the League One | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
relegation zone. Away teams aren't sent to Coventry | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
these days. The famous Sky Blues have to play their home matches at | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
Northampton's Sixfields ground because of a stadium dispute. | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
Mid`table Coventry did take the lead last night, courtesy of Franck | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
Moussa's 14th goal of the season. Conceding a second goal would have | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
been disastrous for the Cumbrians, just as well Jason Pickford was at | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
his most athletic as the Carlisle defence just about held firm. | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Moussa's 14th goal of the season. Conceding a second goal The visitors | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
equalised when successive lay`offs found an unmarked Liam Noble early | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
in the second half. And the comeback was complete when Sam Byrne, on loan | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
from Manchester United, finished in style to take Carlisle up to 14th. | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Hartlepool slipped a place in League Two despite a battling draw at | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
play`off rivals Southend. Barry Corr gave the home side the lead just | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
before half`time. And it could have been worse for Pools had keeper | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Scott Flinders been found wanting but a defensive blunder allowed | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
Bradley Walker to earned a point with a long`range volley to leave | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
his side ninth, six points off a play`off spot. It could have been | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
worse. Last`ditch defending here. It could have been even better. But the | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
signs are looking good for a late promotion push. | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
Now, picture the scene. You sign an Argentina rugby union international | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
who then immediately suffers a serious hamstring injury before he's | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
even played a club game. Well, Gonzalo Tiesi has now played two | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
Premiership away matches for Newcastle Falcons and on Sunday, the | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
ex`Harlequins and London Irish centre, who's now 28, hopes to | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
sample the Kingston Park atmosphere for the first time when league | :22:53. | :23:03. | |
leaders Northampton come calling. All these sleek, very frustrating, | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
having signed and knowing I was coming. `` obviously very | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
frustrating. I have spent two months on the sidelines, working on my | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
rehab. Fortunately, I am back playing now. Northampton are a | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
strong side, they will play well. Obviously, we have a bit of | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
confidence from those Games we played well, and hopefully, this | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
time playing well, it'll be a tough game but we will post it and win it. | :23:38. | :23:42. | |
There will be full commentary on that on BBC Newcastle. | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
And if Gonazalo has had to be patient, what about County | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
Durham`born bobsleigh driver John Jackson at the Winter Olympics? | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
Britain's number one has to wait until the final weekend in Sochi for | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
the four`man bob competition. He's just glad to be in Russia after | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
snapping his achilles in pre`season ` requiring pioneering surgery ` | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
and, of course, four years ago in Vancouver, his Olympic chances were | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
derailed by this crash. So, how's the 36`year`old feeling three days | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
ahead of competing? Qualifying for an Olympic Games is a major thing in | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
itself but with the injury that I have had and only being selected for | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
the team exactly six months after my operation, I know I can hold my head | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
up high and I have achieved something special, no matter what | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
results we get. Good luck to John and the lads. Right, time for the | :24:34. | :24:40. | |
weather. It was quite nice but while today but these things have a habit | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
of not lasting. Give us the worst. Well, things are going to turn for | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
the worst overnight tonight but first, a clear night behind us. The | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
Angel of the North and Star trails, thank you to Christian took this | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
picture. The night, no stars in the sky, rain, but it will be mild, no | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
chance of frost, temperatures do not drop love enough. `` love enough. It | :25:10. | :25:17. | |
will be misty across the region. Temperatures falling no lower than | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
six to five Celsius for most spots. Notice the brisk breezes from the | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
South West which starts to pick up overnight. More showers through the | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
morning rush hour but they will start to become more patchy and | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
light. Sunshine breaks out from North Yorkshire, in particular, the | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
North Yorkshire coast best favoured tomorrow and late on `` later run. | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
The temperatures will go higher than today through the afternoon. The | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
highest today was nine Celsius, so feeling particularly mild. But | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
tempered just a little bit by the brisk south`westerly winds which | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
continued his great strong just across the region, the gusts lasting | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
a few seconds could be even stronger. Sunshine for the Cumbrian | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
coast and a fine afternoon here as well. We leave the details seen | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
there. Let's have another big picture. Thursday tea`time, the area | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
of low pressure sweeps away to the east, but there is another way `` | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
another one behind it. Friday Saturday, some showers. Notice the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
isobars taxis wheezed, strong winds, and on Sunday, things turn | :26:34. | :26:38. | |
wet once again, generally from the west, but for the East as well as in | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
Cumbria. What does that mean for the detail? Let's take a look at the | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
picture across the north`east. Too bad on Friday and Saturday. White | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
cloudy at times. All the while, it is likely to be breezy. And it is | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
the West that we are expecting to see the worst of the showers in | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
through Friday and Saturday, heavy at times, ready hammering down | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
through Friday and on Sunday, everywhere is likely to be wet and | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
windy, still, so low`pressure continuing to dominate this winter. | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
Thanks Hannah. Now for a last look at tonight's headlines: At least 26 | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
people have been killed in violent clashes between protesters and | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
police in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. | :27:24. | :27:25. | |
Here, the Casualty actor Clive Mantle has described in court the | :27:26. | :27:28. | |
moment he was attacked in a hotel and part of his ear was bitten off. | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
That is it from us tonight. We are back with a late news at 10:25pm. | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Until then, have a good evening, goodbye. Goodbye. | :27:43. | :27:45. |