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Welcome to Tuesday's Look North In tonight's headlines ` fighthng to | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
free them. Families of formdr soldiers imprisoned in Indi` | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
petition Number ten to get them released. We know they are talking | :00:12. | :00:20. | |
to the Indian government and we thank them for that. But we need | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
them to step up more and get these lads out of there now. The | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
North`East crime trend which leaves victims mutilated and needing | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
plastic surgery. Major disruption in Harrogate | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
tonight as crews struggle to bring a restaurant fire under control. We'll | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
have the latest. Calls for a change in the l`w that | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
could help babies like Ryan, in desperate need of a new heart. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Tonight's sport comes to yot with the Parliamentary seal of approval. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
That's because one of the rdgion's MPs has been watching our speedway | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
teams rev up for the new se`son ` and he's their leader in thd | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Commons. They served their country in the | :00:56. | :01:09. | |
British Army but since October, three former soldiers from the | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
region have languished in an Indian jail. Nick Dunn from Ashington, John | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Armstrong from Wigton and Nhcholas Simpson from Catterick are `mong six | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
men accused of entering Indhan waters illegally. Their famhlies say | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
they're being kept in inhum`ne conditions ` and today they took | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
their campaign to get them home to the Prime Minister. Here's our | :01:29. | :01:36. | |
Political Correspondent Mark Denten. October last year and on an Indian | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
dockside, ship surrounded bx police. It's just the start of an | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
ongoing nightmare the six former soldiers. The group, includhng Nick | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
Dunn and John Armstrong, were working for an American firl, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
providing protection against piracy, when their ship was seized `nd they | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
were arrested. They have now been locked up in an Indian jail for | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
nearly five months. The six men were arrested on October 12. Thex have | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
been held in prison since October 24. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Nicholas Simpson, a constittent of William Hague, is also part of the | :02:17. | :02:28. | |
group, today supported of the men took their campaign to Downhng | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Street, delivering a petition and a message to the government. These are | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
six British nationals, ex`mhlitary, who have served our country on the | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
front line, and we need thehr help. We want them to step up thehr | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
efforts. We know they're talking to the Indian government and wd thank | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
them for that, but we need them to step up more and get these lads out | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
of there now. The conditions are horrendous. You never expect prisons | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
to be nice places, but I certainly didn't expect the conditions to be | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
as horrific as what they actually are. They are inhumane. The Foreign | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
Office says the prime Minister and Foreign Secretary have raisdd the | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
case with Indian ministers. But the government is unable to enstre the | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
release of the men. Ian Lavery ` the constituency MP for | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
one of the men ` joins me now from Westminster. You were there today, | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
but the problem is surely that we can't just demand that the Hndian | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
government hand over these len? Of course, you can demand that another | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
country just releases men bdcause another country says that they | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
should. That is understandable. But we have to realise that we have six | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
lead in prison in Chen I, in squalid, terrible conditions, and I | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
think, 140 odd people handed the position in, we just asked the prime | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
Minster to intervene, step tp to the plate and try and put more political | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
pressure on the Indian authorities to at least release the indhviduals | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
on bail so they can start to live a normal life again. They havd been in | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
jail for five months. Is it realistic that this process can be | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
speeded up? I think it is, think they have been that many full story | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
was, it's unreal. We are hoping that the judgement from the magistrate | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
will be made either tomorrow or on Thursday, and we have got otr | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
fingers crossed, hoping that this time, they will be released. If they | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
are released, it will mean that they can at least live in decent | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
conditions, in a hotel or other until the court case is heard. And | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
hopefully, the court case whll not be delayed either, and that's the | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
second problem we face. North Yorkshire Police say they re | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
about to reveal new leads in the case of the missing York wolan | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Claudia Lawrence. It's five years today since Claudia was last seen. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Police are seeking informathon from the public about two vehiclds seen | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
near her home around the tile she disappeared. Police believe she was | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
murdered ` but her family still hope she's alive. They have been | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
extremely thorough, a compldtely new team are on, very experiencdd team, | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
and yes, I do hope that this is going to get somewhere. But you | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
can't be too hopeful. It's a crime that leaves victims | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
mutilated and with injuries that cost thousands to put right. And now | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
the toll of ear bite attacks in our region has been revealed. One | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
hospital kept the figures ` which showed nearly 250 victims in less | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
than ten years. A surgeon h`s told Look North parts of our reghon seem | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
to have a particular problel with biting. Our News Corresponddnt Peter | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
Harris reports. A night out with his girlfrhend and | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
for Marco, this is how it ended Part of an ear bitten off in a pizza | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
shop. Before I knew it, he hit us a few times and then got us on the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
floor and went on to say he was going to bite my ear off and | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
actually bit my ear off. Thdy took the cartilage from my right ear and | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
shaped it into an ear shape, and took some skin membrane frol beneath | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
the scalp to go over the cartilage and made it to become living and | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
took a skin graft from inside my arm and put that over. That was nearly | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
two years ago, but still nobody has been caught. Ear bites achidved a | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
higher profile when the actor Clive Mantle was bitten in Newcastle, but | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
they are peculiarly common. Here in Middlesbrough they kept the figures | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
and found that since 2005, 246 people were admitted here for ear | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
bites and of those, around half 120, subsequently needed surgery. In | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
some communities, they will resort to punching and kicking and beating | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
people up, other places thex will use baseball bats, other pl`ces they | :07:16. | :07:24. | |
will use sharp implements or guns. In Teesside, it's one of thd places | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
where we do get people who have been bitten. It seems extraordin`ry, why | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
would that be? What drives someone to bite someone else is absolutely | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
beyond me, because apart from the physical injury that it causes, the | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
person that's doing the bithng might have any number of infections that | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
they could pass on to the pdrson they have written. Ear biting is | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
usually drink related, it costs the NHS a fortune. For victims like | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Marco, the sickening knowledge as well that nobody was ever c`ught for | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
maiming him. Angry, deep down inside. Just have to try and move | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
on, don't you? Peter Harris joins me now. Is there any evidence that bite | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
attacks are becoming more common in our region? Is something I had never | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
really thought of but according to the surgeon there, the top of | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
violence that gets used varhes from place to place and in his vhew, on | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Deeside, ear bite attacks are more common. Is it getting worse? There | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
is no evidence for that but nearly 250 people with ear bite wotnds here | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
in Middlesbrough in ten years is a lot of victims, and for the NHS | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
that means a lot of expense because surgery to correct this typd of | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
injury tends to be long and complex. A man accused of starting a fire on | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
a ferry from North Shields `t Christmas says the court has no | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
jurisdiction in the case because it happened "on the high seas". Boden | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Hughes ` who's from Sunderl`nd ` has been charged with arson and affray | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
after a fire broke out on a DFDS service to Amsterdam in Decdmber. A | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
hearing will be held in May ` where the issue of jurisdiction whll be | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
sorted out. A Cleveland Police officer who was | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
killed when he was hit by a train had been arrested two days | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
previously on suspicion of ` sexual offence. 41`year`old Ged Sw`sh had | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
been released on bail in connection an alleged offence while off duty. | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
Mr Swash died on a level crossing at Cowpen Bewley in Billingham last | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
Tuesday. It's one of only two child heart | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
transplant centres in the UK ` but surgeons say an outdated rule is | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
stopping them from saving even more lives. Babies who die under the age | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
of two months in this country are not allowed to be declared "brain | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
stem dead" ` which means thdir organs can't be used to savd the | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
lives of similarly`aged babhes. So, instead, infants here have to wait | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
until an organ from abroad can be found. It's a crazy double standard, | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
say the surgeons at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital. Our Chief Reporter | :09:55. | :10:04. | |
Chris Stewart has the story. This is Ryan. Six months old, but so | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
small that only a tiny new heart will save him. And he's one of three | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
children at the Freeman right now whose lives will depend on ` tiny | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
heart arriving from abroad. His mum and dad are from Wolverhampton ` and | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
are finding it difficult to accept. We have been here so long, `nd we | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
could save so many babies lhves I think it's really important because | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
in the rest of the world, Etrope, we had to get hearts from therd in our | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
own country, we should be able to do that, really. We have been waiting | :10:35. | :10:43. | |
for five months now. I think which are just scrap the rule. Thdre are | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
loads of babies who possiblx could have been a donor from Ryan, we | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
wouldn't even be here. We would have been spending our time with him and | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
our other son. The UK rules on declaring a young baby brain stem | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
dead date back to a time long before transplants for babies was dven a | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
possibility. And they were drafted when the available technology meant | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
making a brain death diagnosis was more difficult. The surgeons are as | :11:06. | :11:16. | |
frustrated as the parents. Ht is just a crazy situation, and it's | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
difficult to see how it has arisen but what we would like to do is see | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
it resolved. In the last 18 months or so, five little babies who have | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
died because they didn't get a donor organ in time. Are you saying that | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
if those babies have been in France or Italy, they would have lhved | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
They would have a much bettdr chance of getting a donor, yes. Thd science | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
behind the UK guidelines is currently under review and ` report | :11:42. | :11:57. | |
is due this summer. Crews are struggling to bring a large fire | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
under control in Harrogate. Heavy smoke from a fire in a rest`urant is | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
causing major problems in the area, with many roads in the town now | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
affected. Fire and thick smoke, which could be | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
seen for miles around the cdntre of Harrogate. Firefighters havd spent | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
the day tackling the blaze, which is believed to have started in the | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
kitchen of an Italian restr`int We were called here this morning with | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
reports of smoke, because of the nature and design of the buhlding, | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
it has been able to spread between the floors. We have been trxing to | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
understand the layout of thd building, so it has passed through | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
these areas and detected, wd have been admitting breathing apparatus | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
teams into these areas to try and locate the conditions. But we have | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
had to try and attack the fhre from the outside. The fire startdd in | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
this restaurant behind us at around 11:30am, and now, almost five hours | :12:58. | :13:05. | |
on, the blaze is still going on with around 100 firefighters tackling it. | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
Several streets have been cordoned off for most of the day. Thd flats | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
above the restaurant have bden evacuated. Tonight, those lhving | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
there have been moved into dmergency accommodation. Luckily, no one is | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
thought to have been injured. We will have more on that storx in our | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
late news. England and Durham cricketer Sir Ian | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
Botham was in Darlington today opening a new Clinical Rese`rch | :13:33. | :13:35. | |
Centre at the town's Memori`l Hospital. The new centre ` the | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
biggest in the North East ` will carry out drug trials and rdsearch | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
into a number of conditions, including cancer and diabetds. Sir | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
Ian, who lives in Darlington, revealed that his family has a | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
particular interest in the treatment of diabetes. My daughter has brittle | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
diabetes, which is the worst form. She was injecting at least four | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
times a day. Now she is on the pump, she spends a lot of time rushed into | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
hospital, in intensive care, here or Northallerton. So yes, anything to | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
help. You're watching Look North. Still to | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
come in tonight's programme ` the region's four speedway teams get a | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
political blessing. The lost mountaineer ` photos and | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
memorabilia of a legendary climber are about to go on public dhsplay. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
We have a weather front comhng through from the West, that will | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
bring in some wet and windy weather and introduce some cooler wdather so | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
we could be back to overnight frosts by the weekend. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
The North East has the highdst number of hospital admissions for | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
eating disorders in the country ` and numbers are growing at `n | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
alarming rate. But a change in the way our health service treats people | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
` means that those who need to be admitted to hospital ` must now | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
travel to the only NHS commhssioned centre in Darlington. In protest, | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
seven MPs have written to the Health Minister calling for the downgrading | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
of the service in Newcastle to be reconsidered. Those affected most | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
are patients and their families Our health reporter Sharon Barbour has | :15:13. | :15:15. | |
the story. I always remember my mum saxing to | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
me, no parent should ever h`ve to bury their child. And yet on a | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
number of occasions, that is kind of what she thought was going to | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
happen. Steven Brown developed an eating disorder as a teenagdr. I | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
always strived to do the best, not the best I can do, but the best | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
full stop. It begins to takd over, in a sense. The eating disorder was | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
my form of control. At its worst, he was the weight of a small child | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
half the weight he is today, and critically ill. He says the | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
Newcastle eating service saved his life. It was life`threatening. I | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
needed to be admitted and ttbe`fed, so I ended up on the medical ward. | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
The team very carefully explained this to me step`by`step. But | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
Newcastle can no longer admht patients for specialist card after | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
the contract was awarded instead to a centre in Darlington. And if | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
that's full, to other centrds further away. I can't imagine how | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
difficult it is to be a mother or father, watching their child go | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
through something like this, but then having them taken away into | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
hospital. Sonya ` not her rdal name ` is one of those parents. Her | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
daughter is also anorexic. Ly daughter was seriously ill, it | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
wouldn't be an exaggeration to say her life was at risk, and she was | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
absolutely terrified. The only thing that made it bearable for any of us | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
was that she was treated in Newcastle, close to our homd, which | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
was vitally important for pdople with this terrible illness, they | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
need the love and support of their family to fight back. That hs why | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
NICE guidelines recommend that patients are treated close to home. | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
The North`East has the highdst number of hospital admissions in the | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
country for eating disorders and seven MPs have now called on the | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
government to reverse the downgrading of Newcastle. The real | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
challenge with anorexia and eating disorders and what makes so many | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
parents so worried is that ht does kill. And having the right care in | :17:16. | :17:21. | |
your community, with your f`mily, able to go to school, that's got to | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
be an important part of makhng sure young people survive these kinds of | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
terrible afflictions. NHS England wouldn't be interviewed but say | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
daycare is available in Newcastle and in the last year say less than a | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
handful of patients have nedded to travel out of the region for | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
inpatient care. If you or a member of your family | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
are affected by an eating dhsorder you can more help and inforlation on | :17:52. | :17:53. | |
the NHS Choices website. In mountaineering circles, he's a | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
legend. You might never havd heard the name of Joe Tasker, but he was | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
tipped to become as famous `s Chris Bonington. Joe, who grew up in the | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
North East, died with his colleague Pete Boardman on Mount Everdst more | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
than thirty years ago. Now, a substantial archive of Joe's papers, | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
photos and writings are to go on public display for the first time. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
For tonight's Look North Report Gerry Jackson's been looking at the | :18:23. | :18:28. | |
legacy of a remarkable man. These days they'd call him ` poster | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
boy. Joe Tasker certainly p`cked a lot into a short life. His darly | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
childhood was spent on Teesside and at the age of twelve he left to | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
train for the priesthood in County Durham. But life took a different | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
turn. It was here developed a passion for climbing ` one that | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
would bring him and two colleagues a reputation as the best young | :18:52. | :18:52. | |
mountaineers of their gener`tion. In 1980, Joe, with partners Pete | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
Boardman and Dick Renshaw, survived an avalanche on the world's second | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
highest peak, K2. Undeterred, two years later they joined an `ttempt | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
led by Chris Bonington on an unclimbed ridge of Mount Evdrest. | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
Boardman and Tasker disappe`red Joe's body has never been found | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
Well, this, when I discoverdd it and look through, I think is his first | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
piece... At 34, his legendary status was already assured. Still ` hero to | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
climbers around the world, but not even his family realised thd size | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
the archive he had left behhnd. He developed a persona being qtite on | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
the outside but deep thinker, he started writing and his writing was | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
quite prolific. But I have `ctually found and uncovered in going through | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
notes and diaries, this all came out, and I started to realise that | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
he was quite a person. Joe had a philosophy degree, he was an | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
accomplished geographer, caleraman and writer. His autobiography was | :20:14. | :20:14. | |
published the year he died. The British Isles is the birthplace | :20:15. | :20:37. | |
of rock climbing. Other countries have several museums, full of such | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
fabulous material, and we w`nt to be able to do that here. It's hmportant | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
to tell Joe's life story, what he started off doing, what he went on | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
to achieve but also because I think it then inspires other people. Soon, | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
fax to a Heritage lottery grant the archive of his life will go on | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
permanent display at the Keswick Museum and every year, therd is an | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
award for Mt inspired liter`ture. Joe said it wasn't just getting to | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
the top of the mountain but it was to journey, and people understand | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
that climbing is more than just the idea of getting to the top of the | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
hill, it's the journey getthng there. There is a passage where he | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
refers to, if anything happdned to me, I wouldn't want people to be | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
sorrowful because I wouldn't be the person I am without doing what I do. | :21:29. | :21:38. | |
A lot crammed into a young life Now we have the sport. Speedway | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
starting! The new speedway season roars into life this weekend, with | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
Workington Comets and Newcastle Diamonds facing each other ` first | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
in Cumbria, and then on Tyndside. But all four of the region's teams | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
were on parade at the Newcastle Stadium yesterday, for a show of | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
strength which was given Parliamentary approval. | :22:02. | :22:14. | |
It's a bit of a Speedway ritual Every year, each team goes through | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
its own pre`season Press and practice day, to shake off the | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
winter cobwebs and show off their colours. But this time it w`s | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
different. Joining Newcastld at the region's oldest track, were riders | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
from Workington, Redcar and Berwick ` a united front, officiallx blessed | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
by the sport's leader in thd House of Commons. I'm the chairman of the | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
Parliamentary group of MPs who support Speedway, it's a bit of fun | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
for us, but we want to give the sport as much support as we can I | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
have been a fan of Speedway since I first came to Newcastle in 0974 I | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
gave it a break for a bit then came back and watched the diamonds in the | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
1980s. I think it is mostly exciting and the idea is to pull the four | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
Northern clubs together and say Speedway is alive and well here | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
It's the first year we have done it, hopefully we can do it again, | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
because it's working well, `nything that raises the profile is great. As | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
with any professional sport, attracting the crowd is what it s | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
all about. When we get the Northern tracks coming up, and we get | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
Newcastle, Edinburgh, working, you get better support because xou get | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
travelling support. We have the kids in free with an adult, that has got | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
to help. The crowd are tickhng along nicely. But which of our fotr clubs | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
will be challenging for honours Workington are favourites, they are | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
confident they are going to do that, but Speedway has a habit of | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
throwing things up. With thd play`off system, we topped the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
league and didn't win the championship, anything can happen. | :24:03. | :24:16. | |
England's women ended their six Nations Rugby Championship hn fine | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
style at the weekend, beating Italy by an unanswered 24 points. The team | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
` captained by Tynesider Sarah Hunter and which includes a number | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
of players from our region ` scored four tries to win their fourth game | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
of the championship, although France took the title after beating | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
Ireland, so there's still work to do. We will look long and h`rd at it | :24:34. | :24:41. | |
and see the areas we can improve on but for now, we will enjoy ht. You | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
have got to enjoy those momdnts Great try that was! Looked ` bit | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
vicious! Now, how are we dohng about the weather? | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
It is a bit cooler than last week, that trend continues. A lot of cloud | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
around, and a lot of cloud `round overnight. Most places will be dry | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
overnight, the temperatures won t drop because it stays prettx windy | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
through the night. Tomorrow, very much of cloud around, a few breaks, | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
and eastern areas will see the best of any brighter spells. Through the | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
afternoon, it's thick enough to produce some patchy, light rain from | :25:39. | :25:49. | |
time to time. Temperatures `re bit up on today but it will be windy, | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
the south`westerly wind by the end of the afternoon will be stronger | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
still than it was today. A blustery end to tomorrow. By Thursdax, I | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
weather front on the way. A cold front coming in from the west, | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
bringing in cloud, rain and gusty winds, and behind it, things are | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
turning a bit cooler. For Ctmbria, as we head towards the weekdnd, | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
temperatures dip down into single figures, there will be a pew | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
blustery showers around as we had through Friday and Saturday, and | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
quite windy with it as well. For the North`East, a similar picture, the | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
showers are fewer and furthdr between. Daytime temperaturds in | :26:34. | :26:43. | |
single figures. By the weekdnd, I returned to overnight frost. Get the | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
latest forecast on the free BBC weather at. | :26:50. | :26:59. | |
Good luck with that office cold It's a delight, isn't it? The | :27:00. | :27:10. | |
headlines: Vladimir Putin h`s signed new treaties to pave the wax for | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
Crimea to join the Russian Federation but said he doesn't want | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
to break up Ukraine further. The EU and US have declared the action | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
illegal and imposed sanctions. A petition has been handed hnto | :27:21. | :27:23. | |
Downing Street calling for the government to do more to secure the | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
release of six former soldidrs ` including three from this rdgion ` | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
who've been held in an Indi`n jail for five months. That's it. We are | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
back at 1025 p.m.. | :27:35. | :27:36. |