26/02/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


26/02/2014

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One, it's time for the news where you

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Good evening. North East Conservative MEP Martin

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Callanan has failed in his campaign to prevent the European Parliament

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banning refillable electronic cigarettes. Some physicians claim

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the cigarettes are as harmful as tobacco, but Mr Callanan says the

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move would just force many smokers back to traditional ways of smoking.

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However MEPs voted in favour of tighter restrictions this morning.

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Our Political Editor, Richard Moss, reports.

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Meet the Heseltines. Christena, Ron and Kirsteen are all what's known as

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vapers. They swapped tobacco for electronic cigarettes and think it's

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the best thing they've ever done. They get a nicotine hit but none of

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the toxins that kill. But many of these devices will now become

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illegal. Medical conditions are improved and everything is improved.

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Being a female, one of the best things that has improved is that do

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not have nicotine on the walls any more. The European parliament today

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decided to regulate the industry. Only low nicotine, unrefillable

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e`cigarettes will remain available. Adverts like this, which opponents

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say could make smoking sexy again will also be banned. We want to see

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that they are even better quality, that there are safety standards to

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them. At the moment, we are concerned about children getting

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their hands on them. Some have very high levels of nicotine. Some may

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not have any. You might be being totally ripped off. From a consumer

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perspective, this is a step in the right erections. But the growing

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community of e`cigarette vapers think the decision is disastrous,

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with many likely to take up smoking again. And one North East MEP

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agrees. They have the ability to convert thousands of people from

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smoking tobacco cigarettes to smoking electronic cigarettes. That

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is 1000 times safer than smoking tobacco. On a harm reduction

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measure, we should be encouraging people to take up these cigarettes,

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not making them more difficult to obtain. It is a bad day for public

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health in the region. The Heseltines, though, are determined

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to continue to vape. Ron has terminal cancer. Smoking may have

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caused it. The last thing they want to do is to go back to tobacco.

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He runs one of the leading tourist attractions in the North East but

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he's been threatened with closure by his County Council just as the

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tourist season is starting. Mark French, who runs Falconry Days in

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Northumberland, has been told he must pay a ?2,000 licence under the

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Zoo Licensing Act. He's refusing and says he'll see the County Council in

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court. Adrian Pitches reports. Rowland the Red Kite is the latest

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addition to Mark French's collection. He has 75 eagles, hawks,

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falcons and owls which he flies at country shows or which people can

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fly for themselves on 'experience days'. But he's having a bad

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experience with the County Council which says he must pay for a zoo

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licence or face closure. We're not a zoo because we're not involved in

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breeding and conservation. We do not keep animals in the closers

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continually. Birds are flown daily. Every bird that we buy, we buy at

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with the intention to train it to perform tricks and manoeuvres. The

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County Council said, we are working with this business to resolve the

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situation. But they have taken advice from DEFRA who have told them

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that in this case, the zoo licence is required. Falconry Days is rated

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highly by visitors. It's the number one tourist attraction in

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Northumberland on Trip Advisor, ahead of Cragside and the Farne

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Islands. But it could be closed by red tape. The correct answer to the

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question 'When is a zoo not a zoo?' now looks likely to be given by a

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judge. The alleged victim in the rape trial

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of former Newcastle United striker, Nile Ranger, has told the court she

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was too intoxicated to consent to anything. The jury at Newcastle

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Crown Court heard how she'd exchanged messages with the

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footballer the next day, describing how drunk she'd been. Nile Ranger

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denies the charge and the trial continues.

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A play park in Carlisle which was due to have its equipment removed

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because the City Council said it couldn't afford to maintain it, has

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been saved. More than a thousand people signed a petition to save

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Belah Park. And today the council said it would continue to inspect

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and insure it if the community raised funds to buy new kit and

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improve existing items. Whitby's once`great fishing fleet is

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down to its last trawler. Just one boat now puts out to sea from the

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North Yorkshire port, looking for white fish. The handful of other

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boats now trawl for crabs or prawns, a situation that's blamed on

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European fishing quotas. Our Business Correspondent Ian Reeve

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reports. It seems incredible, but this is

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Whitby's last boat that trawls for fish. The port's other boats have

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turned to crabs and prawns. Some trawlermen tried their hand at

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scholar dredging. `` scallop. Richard is Copious' skipper, the

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last of a line that goes back centuries. We have a vibrant fishing

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industry up and down the coast. Whitby was renowned for catching

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cod, haddock and waiting. The Fisher declined so much that we are the

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last fishing vessel working from Whitby. `` the fish industry

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declined. Richard blames tight fishing quotas imposed by Europe

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that have forced Whitby's fishermen out of business. Needed, says

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Europe, to protect dwindling stocks. The stocks have recovered. There are

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plenty of fish to be caught in the area we fish. But we are not allowed

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to touch them because the quotas are so low. Whatever the merits of the

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respective arguments, what's inarguable is that Whitby is down to

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its last fishing trawler. A far cry from the 50 or so that were here in

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the 1980s when European quotas were first imposed. For once, the cliche

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is 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. Before we catch up on the weather,

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let's find out what it has two throw at us locally. It is dry but that

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will not last long. There is a band of cloud and rain

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spreading in from the west. Heavy rain through the course of the

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night. By the end of the night, as the wind turns westerly, the rain

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will begin to become more intermittent. Temperatures no lower

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than four. First thing tomorrow morning, the rain continues to move

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eastwards. By nine o'clock, it is history and it will be a dry and

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bright picture for most. Just the odd shower through the middle part

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of the day. Temperatures will peak at eight or nine Celsius. Still a

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brisk wind moving in from a North West direction. Tomorrow wondered to

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Friday, low pressure running across the south of the country bringing

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the risk of hill snow. An early warning for that's tonight. And

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cool, showery conditions continue as we head into the weekend. I'll

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breeze blowing as well. Tricky into the weekend. And now we have the

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national forecast. the weekend. And now we have the

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Good evening. We know it has been a wet winter but it has also been mild

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and across England and Wales, lacking in snow. The last day of the

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season which we measure on

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