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One, it's time for the news where you | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Good evening. North East Conservative MEP Martin | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
Callanan has failed in his campaign to prevent the European Parliament | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
banning refillable electronic cigarettes. Some physicians claim | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
the cigarettes are as harmful as tobacco, but Mr Callanan says the | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
move would just force many smokers back to traditional ways of smoking. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
However MEPs voted in favour of tighter restrictions this morning. | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
Our Political Editor, Richard Moss, reports. | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Meet the Heseltines. Christena, Ron and Kirsteen are all what's known as | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
vapers. They swapped tobacco for electronic cigarettes and think it's | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
the best thing they've ever done. They get a nicotine hit but none of | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
the toxins that kill. But many of these devices will now become | :00:51. | :00:58. | |
illegal. Medical conditions are improved and everything is improved. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
Being a female, one of the best things that has improved is that do | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
not have nicotine on the walls any more. The European parliament today | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
decided to regulate the industry. Only low nicotine, unrefillable | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
e`cigarettes will remain available. Adverts like this, which opponents | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
say could make smoking sexy again will also be banned. We want to see | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
that they are even better quality, that there are safety standards to | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
them. At the moment, we are concerned about children getting | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
their hands on them. Some have very high levels of nicotine. Some may | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
not have any. You might be being totally ripped off. From a consumer | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
perspective, this is a step in the right erections. But the growing | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
community of e`cigarette vapers think the decision is disastrous, | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
with many likely to take up smoking again. And one North East MEP | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
agrees. They have the ability to convert thousands of people from | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
smoking tobacco cigarettes to smoking electronic cigarettes. That | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
is 1000 times safer than smoking tobacco. On a harm reduction | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
measure, we should be encouraging people to take up these cigarettes, | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
not making them more difficult to obtain. It is a bad day for public | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
health in the region. The Heseltines, though, are determined | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
to continue to vape. Ron has terminal cancer. Smoking may have | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
caused it. The last thing they want to do is to go back to tobacco. | :02:14. | :02:25. | |
He runs one of the leading tourist attractions in the North East but | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
he's been threatened with closure by his County Council just as the | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
tourist season is starting. Mark French, who runs Falconry Days in | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Northumberland, has been told he must pay a ?2,000 licence under the | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
Zoo Licensing Act. He's refusing and says he'll see the County Council in | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
court. Adrian Pitches reports. Rowland the Red Kite is the latest | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
addition to Mark French's collection. He has 75 eagles, hawks, | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
falcons and owls which he flies at country shows or which people can | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
fly for themselves on 'experience days'. But he's having a bad | :02:52. | :03:01. | |
experience with the County Council which says he must pay for a zoo | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
licence or face closure. We're not a zoo because we're not involved in | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
breeding and conservation. We do not keep animals in the closers | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
continually. Birds are flown daily. Every bird that we buy, we buy at | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
with the intention to train it to perform tricks and manoeuvres. The | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
County Council said, we are working with this business to resolve the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
situation. But they have taken advice from DEFRA who have told them | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
that in this case, the zoo licence is required. Falconry Days is rated | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
highly by visitors. It's the number one tourist attraction in | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
Northumberland on Trip Advisor, ahead of Cragside and the Farne | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Islands. But it could be closed by red tape. The correct answer to the | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
question 'When is a zoo not a zoo?' now looks likely to be given by a | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
judge. The alleged victim in the rape trial | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
of former Newcastle United striker, Nile Ranger, has told the court she | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
was too intoxicated to consent to anything. The jury at Newcastle | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
Crown Court heard how she'd exchanged messages with the | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
footballer the next day, describing how drunk she'd been. Nile Ranger | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
denies the charge and the trial continues. | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
A play park in Carlisle which was due to have its equipment removed | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
because the City Council said it couldn't afford to maintain it, has | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
been saved. More than a thousand people signed a petition to save | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
Belah Park. And today the council said it would continue to inspect | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
and insure it if the community raised funds to buy new kit and | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
improve existing items. Whitby's once`great fishing fleet is | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
down to its last trawler. Just one boat now puts out to sea from the | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
North Yorkshire port, looking for white fish. The handful of other | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
boats now trawl for crabs or prawns, a situation that's blamed on | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
European fishing quotas. Our Business Correspondent Ian Reeve | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
reports. It seems incredible, but this is | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Whitby's last boat that trawls for fish. The port's other boats have | :05:06. | :05:13. | |
turned to crabs and prawns. Some trawlermen tried their hand at | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
scholar dredging. `` scallop. Richard is Copious' skipper, the | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
last of a line that goes back centuries. We have a vibrant fishing | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
industry up and down the coast. Whitby was renowned for catching | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
cod, haddock and waiting. The Fisher declined so much that we are the | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
last fishing vessel working from Whitby. `` the fish industry | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
declined. Richard blames tight fishing quotas imposed by Europe | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
that have forced Whitby's fishermen out of business. Needed, says | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Europe, to protect dwindling stocks. The stocks have recovered. There are | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
plenty of fish to be caught in the area we fish. But we are not allowed | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
to touch them because the quotas are so low. Whatever the merits of the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
respective arguments, what's inarguable is that Whitby is down to | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
its last fishing trawler. A far cry from the 50 or so that were here in | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
the 1980s when European quotas were first imposed. For once, the cliche | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
is probably true. This feels like the end of an era. Richard, the last | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
guardian of a heritage forged by thousands of Whitby trawlermen | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
before him who once put to sea. Before we catch up on the weather, | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
let's find out what it has two throw at us locally. It is dry but that | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
will not last long. There is a band of cloud and rain | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
spreading in from the west. Heavy rain through the course of the | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
night. By the end of the night, as the wind turns westerly, the rain | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
will begin to become more intermittent. Temperatures no lower | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
than four. First thing tomorrow morning, the rain continues to move | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
eastwards. By nine o'clock, it is history and it will be a dry and | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
bright picture for most. Just the odd shower through the middle part | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
of the day. Temperatures will peak at eight or nine Celsius. Still a | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
brisk wind moving in from a North West direction. Tomorrow wondered to | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Friday, low pressure running across the south of the country bringing | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
the risk of hill snow. An early warning for that's tonight. And | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
cool, showery conditions continue as we head into the weekend. I'll | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
breeze blowing as well. Tricky into the weekend. And now we have the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
national forecast. the weekend. And now we have the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
Good evening. We know it has been a wet winter but it has also been mild | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
and across England and Wales, lacking in snow. The last day of the | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
season which we measure on | :07:52. | :07:52. |