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That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC

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One we now Hello, welcome to Look North. In the

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programme tonight. Is this a healthy way to smoke?

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North East campaigners claim EU restrictions on electronic

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cigarettes will force smokers back on to the real thing.

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When is a zoo not a zoo? The row that could lead to the closure of

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one of Northumberland's most popular attractions.

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The revolutionary heat`saving device that's breaking into the American

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market. But what exactly's on the other end of this?

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And stirring the Devil's Porridge. The story of the women who worked in

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the biggest explosives factory in the world.

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In sport, we continue our build`up to Sunderland's Wembley final with a

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song for Gus ` in Spanish. And I've been asking this man ` a

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cup winning legend with both the Black Cats and Manchester City `

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who'll be lifting this piece of silverware on Sunday? Sorry about a

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few technical problems are there. Some say they're saving thousands of

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lives in our region. Others believe they're as dangerous as tobacco. But

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a decision taken by the European Parliament today will mean

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electronic cigarettes face tough restrictions. That's angered North

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East campaigners who fear the decision will drive some people back

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to smoking. But as our Political Editor Richard Moss reports, others

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think it's a sensible move. Meet the Heseltines. Christena, Ron

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and Kirsteen are all what's known as vapers. They swapped tobacco for

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electronic cigarettes and think it's the best thing they've ever done.

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They get a nicotine hit but none of the toxins that kill. Medical

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conditions have improved. Being a female, one of the best things which

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hasn't proved is that I don't have withdraws anymore. But many of these

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devices will now become illegal. The European Parliament today decided to

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regulate the industry. Only low nicotine, unrefillable e`cigarettes

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will remain available. Adverts like this, which opponents say could make

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smoking sexy again will also be banned. Health campaigners say

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that's sensible. What we want to see is that there are better quality. At

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the moment we are concerned about children get in a hands on them.

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Some may have high levels of nicotine, some may have none. You

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may be being ripped off. From a consumer perspective this is a step

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in the right direction. But the growing community of e`cigarette

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vapers think the decision is disastrous, with many likely to take

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up smoking again. And one North East MEP agrees. They have the ability to

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convert thousands of people from smoking tobacco cigarettes to

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vapour. We should be encouraging people to take a e`cigarettes, not

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making them more difficult to obtain. It is a bad day for public

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across the region. The Heseltines, though, are determined to continue

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to vape. Ron has terminal cancer. Smoking may have caused it. The last

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thing they want to do is to go back to tobacco. If I want to continue

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using this, I'm breaking the law and the common criminal. I will have to

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go black market. That is scary, because it now means that if I buy

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nicotine off the black market, I don't know what it is. I don't know

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what it contains. The new regulations will take a few years to

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come in, but the days are numbered for at least some of these

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electronic alternatives to tobacco. He runs one of the leading tourist

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attractions in the North East ` but he's been threatened with closure by

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his County Council just as the tourist season is starting. Mark

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French, who runs Falconry Days in Northumberland, has been told he

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must pay a ?2000 licence under the Zoo Licensing Act. He's refusing and

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says he'll see the County Council in court. Adrian Pitches reports.

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Rowland the Red Kite is the latest addition to Mark French's

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collection. He has 75 eagles, hawks, falcons and owls which he flies at

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country shows or which people can fly for themselves on 'experience

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days'. But he's having a bad experience with the County Council,

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which says he must pay for a zoo licence ` or face closure. We are

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not a zoo because we are not involved in breeding. We don't keep

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animals in closures for 12 months of the year. Our birds flown on a daily

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basis. Every animal, every bird we buy, we buy it for the sole

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intention to train that bird to perform tricks and manoeuvres. Under

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the act, people are exempt, and those animals are trained to do

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manoeuvres. The Zoo Licensing Act states that a zoo is an

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establishment where wild animals are kept for exhibition to the public.

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The only other bird of prey centre in Northumberland ` at Kielder `

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does pay the licence. But Mark is adamant that his business is exempt.

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Northumberland County Council say we are resolving this issue. We have

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taken advice from Defra and they have said, in this case, the zoo

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licence is required. Falconry Days is rated highly by visitors. It's

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the number one tourist attraction in Northumberland on Trip Advisor,

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ahead of Cragside and the Farne Islands. But it could be closed by

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red tape. The correct answer to the question, When is a zoo not a zoo,

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now looks likely to be given by a judge.

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The alleged victim in the rape trial of former Newcastle United striker

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Nile Ranger has told the court she was too intoxicated to consent to

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anything. The jury at Newcastle Crown Court heard how she'd

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exchanged messages with the footballer the next day, describing

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how drunk she'd been. Nile Ranger denies the charge and the trial

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continues. A playpark has been saved after a petition signed. The

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community raised funds to buy new kids and improve existing items. The

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council wants to remove equipment from 20 playgrounds.

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Whitby's once`great fishing fleet is down to its last trawler. Just one

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boat now puts out to sea from the North Yorkshire port, looking for

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white fish. The handful of other boats now trawl for crabs or prawns

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` a situation that's blamed on European fishing quotas. Our

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Business Correspondent Ian Reeve reports.

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It seems incredible, but this is Whitby's last boat that trawls for

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fish. The port's other boats have turned to crabs and prawns. Some

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trailer men tried their hands at scholar trudging. Richard is

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Copious' skipper, the last of a line that goes back centuries. We used to

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have a vibrant fishing community. The fleet has declined that much, we

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are the last fishing vessel working from Whitby. Richard blames tight

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fishing quotas imposed by Europe that have forced Whitby's fishermen

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out of business. Needed, says Europe, to protect dwindling stocks.

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These stocks have recovered. There is plenty of fish to be caught in

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the area where we fish, but we still aren't allowed to touch them because

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the quotas are so low. Whatever the merits of the respective arguments,

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what's inarguable is that Whitby is down to its last fishing trawler. A

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far cry from the 90 that were here in the 1980s when European quotas

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were first imposed. Or from Victorian times when fishing ships

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were often so tightly packed in the harbour it was possible to use them

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to cross from one side to the other. And the man who pictured those more

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prosperous times, Frank Sutcliffe, would be left aghast at his town

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today. The fishing industry in his period was thriving, and it was part

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of Whitby's livelihood. Nowadays, it is tourism, a tourist industry. The

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fishing industry has diminished so much it is a sad state of affairs.

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He would have been really upset by it, I'm sure. For once the cliche's

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probably true. This feels like the end of an era. Richard, the last

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guardian of a heritage forged by thousands of Whitby trawlermen

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before him who once put to sea. A Cumbrian entrepreneur, who's

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developed a heat`saving device made from tough Herdwick wool, is

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expanding sales of her product to America. Sally Phillips from

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Cockermouth created the 'Chimney Sheep' to prevent the loss of warm

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air from homes and sales have gone through the roof. As Alison Freeman

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reports. You just push it in. It stays at the top of the fireplace.

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A simple idea. But it's captured the imagination of the energy`conscious.

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The chimney sheep draught`excluder was created by Sally Phillips from

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Cockermouth 18 months ago. She came up with the idea while working as a

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bat volunteer. So many times I've been called to people's houses and

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they have a bat flying around the house. The only way it could of got

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in is down the chimney. That started me looking people's Jimmy and

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realising how many are out there. `` chimney. She makes them at her

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workshop in Maryport, from the felted wool of the Lake District's

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native breed of hill sheep, the Herdwick. The average yearly energy

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bill is ?1300. Each household could be saving up to ?64 per year. I

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tried a lot of different types of wealth. A lot was too soft. This is

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perfect because it has just the right amount of stiffness do it. It

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relies on jamming into the chimney. And it's positve for Herdwick

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farmers, as the wool has become almost worthless. It seems a shame

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that a natural product, like well, doesn't have a use, and to find

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something like that then that is good news. The chimney sheep will be

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making their way from the workshop in Maryport to America this year as

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sales continue to grow. Still to come tonight: We're live

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from Durham City for the switch on of a new ` but familiar ` arts

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installation. And a Sunderland ` and Manchester City ` legend, tells us

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who he thinks will lift this trophy at Wembley, when the two clubs meet

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on Sunday. Weather`wise it is a mixed bag. Join me later in the

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programme. Time for the latest in our series

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"World War One at Home", in partnership with Imperial War

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Museums. 100 years ago, thousands of workers began producing something so

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dangerous, they christened it "The Devil's Porridge". Vast quantities

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were made in a huge establishment that was priceless to the war

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effort. But these days, would you even know where to look for it?

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Gerry Jackson has the story. It's all very quiet now. To the

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outsider, just relics overdue for demolition. But without what was

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done here, the First World War couldn't have been fought, never

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mind won. Parts of this land on the England Scotland border are still

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occupied by the military. But this was a massive area, and other clues

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litter the landscape for miles around. In fact, from Eastriggs,

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through Gretna, and over the border to Longtown, nine miles of wartime

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development made this the biggest explosives complex in the world. And

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all borne out of dire emergency. Early in the war a crippling

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shortage of high explosive ammunition caused a national

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scandal. Production had to be massively expanded. A whole new

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township, centred on Gretna was created. 20,000 workers, most of

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them young women were recruited. What they making looked like this. A

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mixture of guncotton and nitro glycerine. They called it the

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Devil's Porridge. This skin of the women turned yellow with assault in

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it. The bones dried out because it is such a volatile mix. That is

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where the Devil came in. It looked like porridge and fed the hungry

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men. A few miles away this is where it was stored. Close to the main

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railway line, vast brick warehouses still survive, many surrounded by

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huge banks of earth to contain any explosion. How many people were

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getting here? Few people, I reckon. The main imperative that factories

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to get into production... We are talking about a battle of

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technologies and whoever won that battle won the war. It is

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fascinating to be in here. You could tell how southerly built these

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factories were `` solidly. All the explosives loaded onto the wagons

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come from here sent to factories. Girls were told and encouraged to

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work on regardless, but production meant everything. It worked. We saw

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a phenomenal amount of explosives produced. The government were

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secretive about the amount of casualties, but it was a constant

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problem for workers who did work year. `` here. At its height, the

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whole complex was producing nearly 1000 tonnes of explosive a week.

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Eventually, the sheer weight of artillery would break the stalemate

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on the western front and herald the end of the war. There were

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allegations that the factory was a haven, and that some people were

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going there and earning high wages while people were dying in the

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trenches. Without places like this factory, Britain would not have won

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the war. These female workers were the unsung heroes of that period.

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Unsung or not, there were no medals for the munition workers after the

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last Shell was fired. What happened a hundred years ago should have

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recognition. Without the women, where would we have been?

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And there's a World War One at Home report on Look North each evening

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this week. Tomorrow morning on your local radio station, you can hear

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another story about the impact World War One had on where you live. Go to

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www.bbc.co.uk/ww1 and follow the links to find more World War One At

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Home stories in our region. In November, the streets of Durham

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were thronged with crowds as the city was once again transformed for

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a carnival of lights. Highlights of the third Lumiere festival included

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projections of the Lindisfarne Gospels on the Cathedral. It was

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considered so good, the city is to have a permanent Lumiere artwork.

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Hannah Bayman is in Durham now, where the work's just about to be

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switched on. That is right. Welcome to the Gala Theatre where they are

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celebrating a fantastic year for the city. Thousands of visitors have

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flocked it for the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Ashes test,

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and as you say the successful Lumiere Festival. I may have an

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artist who will switch on for as a permanent reminder outside the

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theatre. A very proud moment for you. Your clock with a difference.

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Yes it is. It is on. It is very pretty. Joining us is Simon, leader

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of Durham County Council. A new artwork for the city, but more

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broadly, what can public artwork to the reading? We soldiering Lumiere

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when people swarmed the streets of Durham, bringing not just thousands

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of visitors, but millions of pounds into the local economy. We are

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seeing that with a number of different events in Durham over the

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last year. It is great to have a reminder of Lumiere right in the

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heart of Durham city. You will always be able to tell what time it

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is? It is different. Will you do a fourth Lumiere? This is funded by

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the support of a local company. One of the features of the third Lumiere

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was a greater support from businesses, which we are grateful

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for. It makes it sustainable and more likely to run that event again.

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We are still evaluating the economic impact, the amount of money at

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Broughton, but I think that'll be completed soon and we will be able

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to move on from there `` it brought in. There you have it. It is time

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for sport. It is all about Sunderland. The Sunderland striker

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Connor Wickham has joined Leeds United.

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The countdown's continuing to Sunderland's first major Cup Final

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in more than two decades. Today Gus Poyet put the lads through their

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paces ahead of Sunday's showdown with Man City, and later admitted

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they'd been practising penalties just in case. But who's going to

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lift the Capital One Cup at Wembley? Who better to ask than Dennis Tueart

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` a cup winner with both clubs. He popped in a little earlier.

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You were a hero in red and white and in sky blue. Does that mean your

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loyalties will be divided? I think I'll be sitting on my hands for the

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whole game. I have respect of both clubs. I have much more respect for

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the supporters of both teams. Manchester City have broken their

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duck with trophies for some Sunderland are still waiting, so it

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would be nice to give them a chance. You won the FA Cup with

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Sunderland in 1973 and the league cup with Manchester City in 1976.

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Which one is special to you pressure Mark they are equally special. In

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1973, it showed we were competing at the highest level. 1976 prove I

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could deal with the big boys, and again against my hometown team,

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Newcastle United. Nobody expected Sunderland to beat Leeds United in

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1973. You think they have a tether challenge now, even though

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Manchester City are in the same league? `` tougher. I think Madison

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is the `` Manchester City will want to get that trophy. Sunderland will

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have a team ethic and hunger. How much do you think the outcome of the

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game will affect their season? That is my concern. Gus Poyet will have

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to look at that and say, no matter what happens on Sunday, I will

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regroup the team I get planning for the next Premier League game. It

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will be a fantastic weekend for the fans? The it will. It will. I

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remember in 1976 when replayed Newcastle, it was known as the

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people's final. Who do you think will win? I have done a lot of

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analysis. I will be sitting on my hands, but I think Manchester City

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will shade it. There are just four days left until

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the big match ` and the excitement among Sunderland fans is reaching

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fever pitch across the city. At one school, pupils are performing a

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specially written song in Spanish, wishing Black Cat's manager Gus

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Poyet good luck in his native tongue. We sent Andrew Hartley to

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hear for himself. He might have expected a Mexican

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Wave. Afterall, Gus Poyet is from South America But this Latino

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actually hails from Montevideo, in Uruguay, where the native tongue is

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Spanish. Cue some very excited Year four pupils at Grangetown Primary in

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Sunderland. THEY SING IN SPANISH it is something different in Spanish

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lessons to promote football. It is incredible how they love football.

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In a couple of days they can learn songs I'm just because they love

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football. It is really good. It is about saying well done to Gus Poyet.

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Sunderland have a good manager. We are saying well done. Well done for

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going to Wembley. There will be loads of people there. But if you

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thought all that youthful goodwill extended to their Black and White

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amigos down the road, think again. Do you want Newcastle to be at

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Wembley? No. Now, do you have views about the

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BBC, its programmes and services? If you do, the BBC Trust's Audience

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Council England is looking for people to join its regional audience

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panel. It's keen to hear from people of all ages and backgrounds. The

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panel meets three times a year. It isn't paid but you do get expenses

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and the opportunity to say what you think. To find out more, and to get

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an application pack, go to the website: bbc.co.uk/ace. If you don't

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have internet access, call 0800 092 6030. The closing date is Friday,

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seventh March 2014. Calls are free from landlines but there will be a

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charge if you call from a mobile number. It is time for the weather

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forecast. Thanks for these photos we have had. As winter changes to

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spring we have a bit of everything. Wet and windy weather tonight,

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brighter tomorrow. Risk of snow towards the end of the week. Tonight

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will see these showers going away, leaving us with a dry spell. As we

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head towards midnight we see wet and windy weather coming back. The rain

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cleared away and it becomes scattered later on. Images will be

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at three or four Celsius `` temperatures. We have some good

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sunny spells tomorrow. One of two passing showers. Most places will

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miss them. Ten bidders will peak at eight or nine Celsius ``

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temperatures. As we head into the end of the week, there will be a bit

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of uncertainty as to how the weather will be. We do have an early warning

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from The Met office but some hail snow, especially in the Pennine

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district on Thursday and into Friday morning. It is worth bearing that in

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mind if you are out and about. Overall, not too bad. Drier and

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brighter the most of us by the weekend. That is it from us. Good

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night.

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