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A reminder of our main story. Thousands of protest to remain | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Friday's Look North. Our top stories tonight. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
A charge, more arrests and more vulnerable women victims coming | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
forward. We've a live update on the Tyneside sex investigation Operation | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Sanctuary. Brave Abbie says catch whoever did | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
this to me, after a glass bottle thrown at her Grandmas's car scars | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
her for life. A new Bishop but an old fight! The | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Right Reverend Paul Butler says Government policies are causing | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
widespread hardship. There are changes that might be needed, but | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
there when working is not working. Robot wars breaks out in Durham ` | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
kids have a smashing time but apparently they're learning | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
something too. In sport, what difference will the return of | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
strikers made to the season finale is of Sunderland and Newcastle? And | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
the biggest rugby match. Police investigating the sexual | :01:00. | :01:12. | |
exploitation of girls and young women on Tyneside have charged a man | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
with rape and he's been remanded in custody. He's the first person to be | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
charged in a wide`ranging investigation called Operation | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
Sanctuary that has resulted in nearly 50 arrests. Our news | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
correspondent, Adrian Pitches, is at Northumbria Police headquarters now. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Adrian, what are the latest developments? What we have learned | :01:32. | :01:42. | |
this evening is that indeed one person has been charged under | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Operation Sanctuary. He appeared before Newcastle magistrates on | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
Wednesday, charged with rape of a girl under 16. He is 21`year`old | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
Abdul Jelilou Ouro Kefia from the East End of Newcastle. He was | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
remanded in custody. We also learned that a number of people arrested in | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
connection with Operation Sanctuary, this wide`ranging | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
operation, the number has risen to 46. 44 men and two women. Two weeks | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
ago it was just 30. This investigation has led to the arrest | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
in Newcastle and Gateshead. The police have enlisted people and | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
businesses across Tyneside to assist with Operation Sanctuary haven't | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
they? That is right. They are asking people to be vigilant. We saw a | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
couple weeks ago that they visited businesses, taxi drivers and take | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
aways, because they are asking people to look out for things that | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
are wrong. If it looks wrong, it probably is wrong. If you see young | :02:53. | :03:00. | |
girls look in the whistle where with older men `` looking the worse for | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
wear. Abdul Jelilou Ouro Kefia will appear before Newcastle Crown Court | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
on March the 5th. A nine`year`old girl almost blinded | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
a week ago when a beer bottle was thrown through a car windscreen has | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
been talking to Look North this afternoon about her ordeal. Abbie | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
Keers was a front seat passenger in her grandmother's car on the A693 at | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
Stanley in County Durham when somebody threw the bottle from the | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
entrance to a pedestrian subway. The police say it's time the culprit | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
came forward ` or was turned in. Our Chief Reporter Chris Stewart has the | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
story. This was Abbey a week ago. | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
This was Abbie a week ago. Scarred physically, but not mentally. | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Because this was Abbie this afternoon. We were just driving | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
along and I was playing. I dozed off. I turned my iPod off. Then the | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
bottle came through the window. I thought a tyre had popped. It was | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
more a barren than a glass breaking. We could see there was glass and her | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
face. We couldn't do anything. We had to watch her bleed. Once that | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
was sorted, then you think how will this affect her mentally. Will she | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
get back in a car? Will she get back on her grandmother's car? Well I | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
have to change my car? She has been super. What did your friends think? | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
They said it was disgusting. She is a very brave girl. It has been a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
traumatic experience. It's thought whoever was responsible was probably | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
here with others, which means there were witnesses. The police are | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
working their way through CCTV material, including a number of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
tapes which have been taken from local off`licences. It wasn't the | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
beer bottle itself which could Abbey, it was the glass from the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
broken windscreen. Had been the beer say please, then this crime could | :05:12. | :05:18. | |
have been more serious. Do you want to tell people what you did two days | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
after? I went to a competition. A gymnastics competition. I've | :05:27. | :05:33. | |
finished second. What did you get? A silver medal. Had it been a bravery | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
competition, she would have won gold. | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
The new Bishop of Durham has hit out at the Coalition Government's | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
welfare reforms. He says they're causing widespread hardship and | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
leaving society's most vulnerable people in poverty. The Right | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
Reverend Paul Butler has spoken out on the eve of his enthronement at | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
today's traditional Falchion ceremony in Darlington. He says that | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
like his predecessor Justin Welby, now the Archbishop of Canterbury, | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
he'll continue to fight for the people of the northeast. Phil | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
Connell reports. It as a custom which has taken place | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
here for a thousand years. The first official welcome for the Bishop with | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
The Right Reverend Paul Butler today approaching his new dieses from the | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
south side of the River Tees. These days it is the Mayor of Darlington | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
who makes the official greeting, present the Bishop with the sword. | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
It was a weapon according to legend used to slay an evil dragon. The | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
Bishop's welcome may be marked with ancient tradition, but he arrives | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
here with new and challenging ideas, division which has already put him | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
at odds with the Prime Minister and the Coalition Government. This week | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
is one of 27 bishops and he has condemned the Prime Minister's | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
welfare reforms, accusing the coalition of creating hunger and | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
hardship. I have met too many parish priests and people who work in the | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
food banks, not just here but where I was before, you are meeting people | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
who are struggling to make ends's meter, whose children are not | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
getting fed or living in cold conditions. David Cameron has | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
described these conditions as a moral mission. He says it needs | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
changing. The raw changes. The way they are working at the minute is | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
not working well. He is the latest in a controversial line`up bishops | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
appointed in Durham. In the 1980s, David Jenkins caused outrage with | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
his comments on the resurrection. Justin Welby also spoke out about | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
poverty, raising concerns about payday loan companies. Now, | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Durham's latest Bishop is set on a similar path. Politics and religion. | :08:03. | :08:10. | |
Are they to things which mix well? Religion has always had an impact on | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
how people live privately and publicly. They do mix. BNF Royal | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Mint takes place at Durham Cathedral tomorrow. `` it takes place | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
tomorrow. Well, while the Bishop of Durham was | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
arguing on one side of the welfare debate, a few miles away in | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
Middlesbrough the mayor, Ray Mallon suggested that too many unemployed | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
people either didn't bother to apply for jobs in the town or have the | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
necessary skills. Our correspondent Peter Harris is in our Teesside | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
newsroom now. Peter, what exactly did the mayor say? This feeds into a | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
very topical issue of how we tackle what some would call a benefit | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
culture. The mayor says there often is work, but people won't or can't | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
get it. We are producing the drops. People aren't applying to them. Out | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
of an 88,000 working population, over 20,000 people on benefits, some | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
of them need to be on benefits, some don't. Not a novel people in a | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
position to get good education to apply for it `` enough people. Here | :09:29. | :09:41. | |
is Amy, who is a single mother. She is restricted in our shooters. She | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
says there is no incentive to go to work. Am I going to be able to pay | :09:47. | :09:55. | |
this? Can I do this job? If you can't I get fired you're not | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
entitled to any money. I understand why a lot of people don't want to | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
take themselves out of their safety net into the big bad world, and not | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
be able to manage and not to be able to pay the bills. You get in more | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
debt and more stress as a result. It is a bit of a vicious cycle. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
Jobcentre plus says there are 20,000 vacancies in a 40 mile radius of | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
Middlesbrough. The difficulty is that can be get them. That is a key | :10:29. | :10:39. | |
issue as to how he in centre influence people. So, I'm joined now | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
by our Political Editor Richard Moss. Who is right in this | :10:45. | :11:00. | |
situation? In Middlesbrough, the last figures we have available | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
suggested there were 15 people chasing every vacancy in the | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Jobcentre. That can't marry up. There was a significant drop in | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
claimant in bottles for last year. 19% fall. There was not a rise in | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
employment. Not all of those people ended up in work. Ray Mallon has a | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
point on education. 10% of people have no qualification. In | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
Middlesbrough, that a 17%. While 34% have a degree in England, it is 21% | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
in Middlesbrough. Longer term solution needed. The Bishop of | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
Durham is one to sign an open letter talking of a national crisis. The | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
church seems in a collision with the government. Will that bother the | :11:45. | :11:54. | |
politicians? The bishops have repeatedly clashed with the | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
government. The government says they are trying to create jobs and make | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
it not easy to set their on benefits and just language. They have made it | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
clear that in terms of people use in food banks, it is mistakes by | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
officials they are blaming. Bishops say they want a bit more compassion | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
for people on benefits, rather than condemnation. | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
The man arrested by police on suspicion of the murder of a | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
seven`year`old girl in Sunderland in 1992, is 43`year`old Steven | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Grieveson. The Sunderland man has now been questioned and bailed. | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
Nikki Allan was found dead in the then derelict Old Exchange Building, | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
in October, 1992. It was close to her family home in West Garth. | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
Northumbria Police recently made a fresh appeal for information on the | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
BBC's Crimewatch programme. Northumbria Police are investigating | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
a robbery in Newcastle where a woman was found tied up. It happened at | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
the Post Office in the Gosforth Shopping Centre, just off the High | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Street, at around 8.15am this morning. A man stole a large amount | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
of cash before making his way towards the nearby park. Officers | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
were called after the alarm system was triggered. The woman suffered | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
minor injuries and was left shaken. Extra officers are in the area | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
tonight. When you hear that happens in the | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
place you're living at, it is a bit of a shock. As we came through the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
centre, a gentleman said the post of us have been robbed and somebody had | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
been tied up and held hostage. What are your thoughts? Horrified. I | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
suppose in this day and age these things happen. | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
A debate has started over the identity of a whale which has been | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
washed up and has sadly died on the Cumbrian coast. It could be one of | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
two species, but either way it's one of our biggest whales and normally | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
swims in the Atlantic. Quite why it's here, and how it became | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
stranded on a remote beach, no`one knows. We sent Jim Knight to try to | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
find out more. It makes for a lonely and somehow | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
forlorn sight. One of the largest animals in the world, just lying | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
there on the sand at the northern tip of the Ravenglass estuary. | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
Locals say it came ashore three days ago, and it's slowly embedding | :14:15. | :14:17. | |
itself in the sand above the shoreline. Though it is lying miles | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
from any road or track, plenty of people are still making the effort | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
to hike along the beach just to see it. What are the circumstances | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
surrounding it? Did it die and get blown this way, or did it just lose | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
course? We go all over the place, walking, looking at the wildlife. To | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
see something that that big, you can't really recognise it really. It | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
is one big mass of blubber. It wasn't very good. You can see it's | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
teeth sticking out. It smelt really bad. There has still been no formal | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
identification of the whale, but marine experts say it is most likely | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
to be a fin or sei well. Both are monsters of the sea and would | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
usually spend their time in Atlantic feeding on plankton, crustaceans and | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
small fish. So how did it get here? The most likely scenario is that the | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
recent heavy storms battered it of course, driving it down into the | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Irish Sea and finally along the Cumbrian coast. It really is a | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
rather strange sensation to be up close to one of these monsters of | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
the sea. You can't help thinking about how it would be thundering | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
through the ocean in its prime, and yet here it is just lying on this | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
desolate beach in West Cumbria. There is something very moving about | :15:41. | :15:41. | |
it. Still to come on tonight's Look | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
North ` Mark Tulip is here to preview the weekend's football. | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
Plus. You spend hours and hours making one and then you smash it up. | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
Robot Wars comes to Durham. I will be here were full forecast for the | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
weekend. At any time, any one of us may need | :16:11. | :16:20. | |
a blood donation to save our life. Yet just 4% of the population are | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
prepared to donate it ourselves. An NHS event today held at Newcastle | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
University has found a new way of encouraging people become donors. | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
Our reporter Bob Cooper was there. It is a novel way to use a cherry | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
picker. Not picking fruit in this case, but draping this tree with | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
knitted red blobs, supposed to represent blood. And the message? | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
Blood doesn't grow on trees and we're encouraging people, | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
particlarly young people, to come forward and register as blood | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
donors. People have the perception that blood will always be there, but | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
it would not be if people didn't come here to donate. Here in the NHS | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
marquee, blood donation workers are trying to get people to sign up. | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
This stuff is all good fun, but blood donation can be a very serious | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
matter indeed. It can be a matter of life and death. Just over two years | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
ago I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia cancer, | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
which is a blood cancer and needed intensive chemotherapy. I had 28 | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
units of blood and five transfusions. For one student who | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
passed by today, blood donation means literally everything. I | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
wouldn't be here if it wasn't for blood transfusion. My mum had an | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
operation before I was born, so if it wasn't for blood transfusion she | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
wouldn't be here and I wouldn't be here. He himself has given blood two | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
or three times. The NHS hopes creative projects like this will | :17:47. | :17:58. | |
encourage others to do the same. Now, Durham Cathedral is normally a | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
place of tranquillity, prayer and reflection. But today it was the | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
venue for a big fight. It's not the scene of a new action film, but an | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
educational event. Primary school children brought along robots | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
they've built and put them into battle. We sent Jonathan Swingler to | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
watch the action. It's not the kind of thing that | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
usually happens on the Palace Green outside the Cathedral. Each team of | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
Primary school children spent five weeks building them with a budget of | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
?500. They received help from staff at Durham University, only to have | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
their carefully crafted creations confronted by this monster some | :18:34. | :18:34. | |
adults built. I am very proud of you. When a robot | :18:35. | :19:07. | |
loses it fails for a specific reason. The kids realise that | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
failure is a result of something happening. They have to fix that | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
problem and it won't fail again. It might look like mucking about with | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
toys. The staff at Durham University say it is educational. A lot has | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
been learned by the kids and others. There is also artwork involved. Just | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
look at the designs. Anybody worked together as well. The kids have got | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
a lot out of it. We wanted to make sure everybody was fully engaged | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
with it, and as you can see from the children who turned up is an equal | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
split between and girls. The children didn't seem to get too | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
upset about their robots coming to an abrupt end. It has lost a wheel | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
and we have tried to fix it as best as we can. How do you feel about | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
that A bit devastated because when we start to drive it in the next | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
round it will fall off. I feel excited. I like when the robot gets | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
smashed up. The Robots Live event continues this weekend. So if | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
watching giant bits of metal hurtling towards each other is your | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
thing, you still have a chance to see it. Looks like fun. | :20:26. | :20:36. | |
Now if you're a Newcastle united fan who bought a half`season ticket for | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
the Premier League run`in, you may be feeling pretty cheesed off with | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
what you've seen so far. Four consecutive home defeats since late | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
December. Ten goals conceded and none scored in a string of results | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
that, as you can see, have been getting progressively worse. Surely | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
Aston Villa can't add to that barren run when they visit St James Park on | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
Sunday? Well Magpies boss Alan Pardew is optimistic that an upturn | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
is on the way. Six hours of football at St James | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
Park without a goal. Or a point. And ten conceded, including the latest. | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
A 4`0 defeat to Spurs ten days ago. Manager Alan Pardew told his players | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
a few home truths afterwards, and he believes it's done the trick. I | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
thought it was important to remind players of the responsibility they | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
have. No matter how uncomfortable we are in the league, there is a | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
standard at this football club we expect. We didn't reach that | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
standard. I made that clear that I won't stand for it. That'll be | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
reflected in the selection of the team, and hopefully in the result. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Newcastle are bolstered by the return of striker Loic Remy after a | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
three match ban. Other key players, defender Fabricio Collocini and | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
midfielder Check Tiote should also be available. If I am a player and I | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
look around and see those players around me. If you compare that to | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
Liverpool, it is like having free of their best players away. That is how | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
important they are. Aston Villa are on a miserable run all their own. | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
Just two wins in the last 13 league means they're not out of the | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
relegation trouble. It could be a day when the result is much more | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
important than the performance. Away from home we have been terrific. | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
Nobody can bulldoze away from home. Our home phone, reform has been | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
uneasy. We need to put that right. `` home form. | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
Third bottom Sunderland will be wary of a Champions League backlash at | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
Arsenal tomorrow. The Black Cats have gone six league matches without | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
defeat but that recent record will be sorely tested at the Emirates. | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
Back in the squad after his latest injury setback is Scotland | :22:44. | :22:45. | |
international striker Steven Fletcher, who could yet be a vital | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
figure in the Wearsiders' battle against relegation. I hope during | :22:49. | :22:58. | |
this period we will rest him and give him the treatment he needs. It | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
will be better for him to be fresh. I hope it is the right decision. I | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
think it is perfect. It was planned and at the right time. We had other | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
players fit and doing well. It is good he is back and we will use as | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
much as we can. We hope he will score plenty of goals. A 20,000 plus | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
crowd's expected at the Riverside tomorrow lunchtime for | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
Middlesbrough's mid`table clash with Leeds United. It's veteran | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
goalkeeper Shay Given's last game of his loan period. Given has kept nine | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
clean sheets in 15 games since joining from Aston Villa. But Boro | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
have failed to score in the last five matches and find themselves 11 | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
points off a play`off place. The confidence now is not good, but we | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
are working this week. The most important thing is that the players | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
don't get upset with the situation. Elsewhere in the Football League, | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Carlisle will hope to build on their midweek victory by beating fifth | :24:01. | :24:02. | |
placed Rotherham in League One. Hartlepool travel to the side bottom | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
of the Football League, Northampton, while York City are at home to | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
play`off hopefuls Southend. The best coverage on your BBC local radio | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
station. A couple of big fixtures this evening. Newcastle Eagles | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
against league leaders Worcester Wolves in basketball's BBL Trophy | :24:19. | :24:21. | |
quarterfinals. Meanwhile it's just over 12 months since Darlington | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
Mowden Park hosted its first Rugby Union match inside the town's Arena, | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
where Darlington Football Club used to play ITS games. Tonight | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
international rugby arrives at the Arena. The England Counties, | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
including several North East players, will take on an Ireland | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Club Fifteen in front of a crowd in excess of 3000, the biggest yet for | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
a rugby match in the 25,000`seater stadium. | :24:43. | :24:54. | |
I hope they get some decent weather for it. There is the risk of showers | :24:55. | :25:08. | |
before kick`off. It is sunniest on Saturday. There will be sunshine | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
first thing tomorrow. It'll be showery this evening. They will be | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
wintry over higher ground. Through the night temperatures fall no lower | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
than around for Celsius. Most of us are avoiding a frost. Westerly winds | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
and tomorrow morning will be sunshine for the East, but showers | :25:38. | :25:51. | |
in the West. Let's take a tour. It is still fine and dry for most of | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
North Yorkshire. It'll stay that way. We are expecting it to cloud | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
over, but the range should stay away. It'll be wet in | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
Northumberland, with temperatures are reasonable eight or nine | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
Celsius. The edge taken off those temperatures by those brisk wind is | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
still blowing from the South West as they have done so much this winter. | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
Eight or nine Celsius in the West and raining heavily and it will | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
continue to rain across Cumbria through Saturday night and into | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
Sunday morning. Just after midnight in the early hours of Sunday, there | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
is a weather warning in place for Cumbria, not for the north`east | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Yorkshire, just for the West of our region for heavy and persistent | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
rain. Let's take a look at the forecast here in detail. We expect | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
on Sunday to be gloomy in the north`east but nowhere near as wet | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
as it will be in Cumbria. It should stay dry but just overcast and grey. | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
On Monday it will be brighter with just a few showers, but it is | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
Cumbria where the focus is for the heavy rainfall. Warning in place all | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
day Sunday and into first thing Monday. | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
A EU`mediated peace deal's been signed in the Ukraine ` opening the | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
way for an early presidential election this year ` but the | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
question now is ` is it enough to satisfy protestors? | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
Now, before we go, a quick reminder of a special series of reports next | :27:19. | :27:22. | |
week on Look North ` "World War One at Home" brings you stories of our | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
region's contribution to the war effort. We'll tell you how a County | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
Durham mother lost four sons in the conflict, but saw the fifth sent | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
home. All that and more from Monday ` here, online and on your BBC local | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
radio station. Have a good weekend. | :27:42. | :27:47. |