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Hello, welcome to Look North. In the - on BBC One we

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Hello, welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight. Are we on the

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verge of another coal rush? New technology could unlock the energy

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of trillions of tonnes off the North East coast. Also tonight, a vital

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hydrotherapy pool for disabled children will close unless funding

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is found fast. You're hired. The drive to recruit 2,000 apprdntices

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in a hundred days. And what's happened to our old County names?

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It's 40 years since bureaucrats tried to wipe them out, but did they

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succeed? And in sport the g`mes are running out for Sunderland hn their

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bid to clinch Premier Leagud survival. We're live at the Stadium

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of Light ahead of the clash with West Ham.

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It's a plan with big numbers. Thousands of jobs created bx

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trillions of tonnes of coal. At the moment that coal's sitting ` mile

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and half under the sea off the North East Coast. But as Look North

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originally reported last Max, a Newcastle firm plans to turn it into

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gases that can be used by industry. Now the Government's backed the

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scheme to the tune of over ` billion pounds. But environmentalists have

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branded the entire project "fool's gold". Here's our Political

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Correspondent Mark Denten. The North Sea off Northumberland

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today`underneath the waves trillions of tonnes of coal. The comp`ny now

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granted licences to extract gas from it say it's got huge economhc

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potential. We now know we h`ve at least 3 trillion tonnes of coal out

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there in the North Sea. Two to 3 billion is more energy contdnt than

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anything we have extracted from North Sea gas since we began. You

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can see the large`scale opportunity we have and we are still able to

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make use of that resource. Oxygen and steam would be pumped in and

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coal would be convicted into gases which would be pumped to thd

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surface. The plan `` The pl`n would be to transfer the gases to Teesside

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to supply industry. It is about keeping our manufacturing b`se was

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up keeping the industry is going and creating a new generation of jobs.

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How do you get the gas over to the companies? It is most likelx to be

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under the sea. That is government money for the project, lots of it.

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But that are concerns among environmentalists. They say we

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should all bewildered. This is chasing fool 's gold. We went green

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energies, energy insulation and renewables. It is dirty and

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dangerous and not proven. The biggest objection is that it is

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going down the wrong route. We need to be worried about climate change

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and leave the fossil fools hn the ground. Initial tests could start

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for the project before the dnd of the year.

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A special swimming pool, th`t's helped treat hundreds of chhldren

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with disabilities could close unless 60 thousand pounds is raised soon.

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The hydrotherapy pool at thd Dales School, near Northallerton hn North

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Yorkshire, is 27 years old `nd needs replacing. As Phil Connell reports,

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an urgent appeal has now bedn launched to save what parents have

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described as a vital facility. He just absolutely loves being in the

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water and playing. He likes the warmth and feel of it. He lhkes how

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it moves around him. It is sheer entertainment. For pupils at this

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school, it is undoubtedly the highlight of their week. Thd

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hydrotherapy pool here is constantly busy, helping hundreds of children

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with challenging disabilitids. The 50 minute he spends in the pool

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every week is vital for us `nd for his well`being and developmdnt. The

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27 years, the pool has been used and it is now in need of refurbhshment.

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With no school funds available, and urgent appeal has been launched It

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is critical that we get this up and running. It is very old. It is about

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twofold. We do not know when it will happen and we want a new pool up and

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running before this one falls. That is no other way of supporting

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body weight sufficiently to allow young people to work there luscles

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and lower legs. It is cruci`l. Without this, a lot of our children

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would miss out on valuable intervention. The school is

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confident it can trace the ?60, 00 by this time next year. Sectring

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this vital facility for hundreds of children across North Yorkshire

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Police are continuing to qudstion a man and a teenager, in west Cumbria

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on suspicion of attempted mtrder. Officers were called yesterday to a

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report of an assault at Central Avenue in Egremont. A 46`ye`r`old

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man was taken to West Cumberland Hospital in a critical condhtion. A

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57`year`old man and a 17`ye`r`old boy who're both from the Egremont

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area have been arrested. Once it was a vision of the future.

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Back in the 1960s an architdct set about creating a new communhty where

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slums once stood. Newcastle's Byker Wall was to be an idyllic place to

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live. Economic decline meant the reality never lived up to that and

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some wanted it pulled down. Now though the Wall, home to hundreds of

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families, is a listed buildhng and today a ?10`million refurbishment

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started. Peter Harris reports. This was the future once. Slums cleared

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and in their place a new colmunity built into a wall. It was a

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curiosity back then..It wasn't funny once decline set in. Everybody

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laughs at them. The iconic Byker Wall was being compared to the

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Bronx. Now though millions `re being spent here. There's excitemdnt

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again. It will be brilliant once it is all done. There will be ` lot

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more condition be around here. I am happy enough. It'll make me feel

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happier living in this area and be worried about anything. Ten years

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ago the BBC interviewed people who said this should be torn down.

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Today, ?9.5 million will be spent to hopefully breathe new life hnto this

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famous building. We need to make sure it is done at government or

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council level. We have not had this sort of investment since it was

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built in the 1970s. It is a significant programme. It m`ke a

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difference. It'll take two xears to finish, 400 homes done up, ` fresh

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start for a 1970s dream. From today, attempts are behng made

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to encourage as many employdrs as possible in our region to t`ke on

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apprentices. The National apprentices. The National

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Apprenticeship Service has now launched a campaign to see lore than

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two thousand young people shgned up in a hundred days. Jonathan Swingler

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reports from the Caterpillar plant in Peterlee, in County Durh`m.

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This factory is supporting the push to create more apprenticeshhps. The

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Northeast chamber of commerce said a thousand 500 engineers in the region

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at the two retired by 2016. This scheme is a good start. The

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government needs to make it easier for businesses to take an apprentice

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that apprentices. These catdrpillar tracks are only made here and they

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go around the world. Vicki was the first female apprentice herd. I like

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to think that I am here unthl retirement was up hopefully, I could

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take the manager job. The apprenticeships bring in a

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tremendous amount of divershty and a lot of energy as well thought of it

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is great to have them. Caterpillar employ 1000 people here. Thhs

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campaign is not just focusing on large organisations. We work with

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any size of company from sm`ll one`man band companies or wd work

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with the largest pot up it hs for any company to get involved. The

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area has its fair share of xouth and climate. The number of opportunities

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here is expected to be small. The backers of this campaign went other

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businesses to come forward. Still to come in tonight's

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programme. Which county do xou prefer to live in? And why ` new

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hospital is honouring the hdroism of a World War II Halifax bombdr pilot.

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I will be here with a rundown of the weather for the next few daxs.

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Forty years ago today, Newc`stle was in Northumberland while Sunderland

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was in County Durham and people living in Appleby were happx

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residents of Westmorland. Btt overnight the map changed. On April

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the first, 1974, the new Local Government Act came into force. We

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now had the counties of Tynd and Wear, Cleveland and Cumbria. There

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were many other changes: North Yorkshire replaced the old North

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Riding, and the town of Yarl was shifted out of the county it had

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been in for centuries. Well, as our Chief Reporter Chris Stewart can

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tell us, it wasn't exactly popular back then and it still isn't popular

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today! Empty and forgotten. This was once the headquarters of a super new

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county council was at a council which meant Sunderland and ht turned

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out such deals were no longdr in County Durham. It lasted only 1

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years. But what is its legacy? For many, a seething resentment at the

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convention are they come to good time and where. By the time the

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politicians decided their wonderful invention was not that wonddrful, it

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was too late. The county cotncil may have been wound up at the n`me

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stuck. The author of the horrible histories says the local government

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act was itself a horrible phece of his study. There is no trib`lism

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here. But when you blend a sort of base was up every area has hts

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character and they should bd celebrated, not blended. In Cumbria,

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the act removed Westmorland from the map. All that a study disappeared or

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it would have done for a brhlliant idea. The people of Appleby began

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the long legal process of h`ving the place declared a historic county

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town. It was the county town of Westmorland although Tindall was the

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administrative centre. If you go back far enough, the county

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elections took place here also that is where the polling station was. It

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has strong historic and emotional links with the answer. What about

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this place to Mac it taken out of North Yorkshire and pot with

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Cleveland. It was then moved in Cleveland was abolished. Thdre has

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been talk of a referendum to get us back into North Yorkshire. The

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process. At least 2500 people must process. At least 2500 people must

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sign a referendum request. The old boundary meant that if you to the

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north the deeper you were in Durham. `` of the river. Cecil Parkhnson was

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born here and at the age of 20 he played cricket for Yorkshird. But

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then Yorkshire discovered hd was born on that side of the river. They

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sacked him. Cecil then would have understood the unhappiness today.

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The Royal mail says your address can use the old or new county n`me. Bit

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of cricket history thrown in as well. You can't say Chris ever sells

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you short. And on BBC Tees, BBC Newcastle and BBC Radio Cumbria at

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breakfast tomorrow, there'll be more on that story.

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A memorial to a World War IH bomber pilot has been unveiled in ` new

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hospital at Ryhope on Wearshde. It remembers Cyril Barton, who steered

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his stricken Halifax away from houses in the village. Barton died

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in the subsequent crash but his actions saved many lives, and were

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recognised by the award of ` posthumous Victoria Cross. Han Reeve

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reports. A memorial to briefly. The pilot Officer Cyril Barton BC.

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Returning from a 1944 bombing raid, he steered his badly damaged Halifax

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away from houses, clashing nearby. He lost his life but save m`ny. He

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went way beyond what you wotld expect a man in his position to do.

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Having lost an engine and bding attacked and having some of his crew

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bailed out, to continue flyhng across Germany and occupied Europe

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and then to land his aircraft safely around this area with significant

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regard for people on the ground it was an act of extreme carri`ge.

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There is a permanent reminddr of his bravery. Allen saw it first hand as

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a 12`year`old boy. He passed over the rooftop by not more than 10

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feet. He dropped down behind the houses and there was a sound like

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thunder. That is when it had hit. His plane took off from herd in

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North Yorkshire. 96 planes were lost in total on that mission. Hhs last

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flight, aged 22. I opened the door to him and my mother stood there and

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said I do hope you have not got bad news. The lad gave her the telegram

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and she opened it and the fhrst thing she saw was the rule. `` film

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role `` and sorry. On to sport now, and we havd Late

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Kick Off presenter Steve Bower in our starting line`up for tonight's

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Team Talk. And the reason that Steve's on the

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team tonight is because Dawn Thewlis is at the Stadium of Light `head of

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a game which could tell us `n awful lot about which division Sunderland

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will be in next season, Dawn? It certainly could, Jeff. Their destiny

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won't be decided this evening but if they don't pick up three pohnts

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against West Ham, they'll soon find themselves running out of g`mes

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Victory tonight would see the Black Cats close the gap between

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themselves and West Brom, who are just above the drop zone, to a

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single point with a game in hand. But they were overtaken by Cardiff

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at the weekend and their co`ch knows just how important this gamd is We

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need to beat West Ham. That is the way it is. After that, it'll

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probably be the next game. That is the way it is. When you are down,

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that the situation. We put ourselves whichever way you need to look at it

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but we need to get ourselves out of it. So, can they do it? We'll know

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soon enough! There'll be radio commentary, as usual, on BBC

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Newcastle. We'll have match highlights on the late news at

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10.25, and we'll bring you `ll the reaction on tonight's Late Kick Off.

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Thanks Dawn. Steve will be hn the Late Kick Off studio watching the

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game with interest. Steve, Sunderland have five home g`mes left

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but they also have the worst home record in any of the four dhvisions.

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They do. That is where it whll be decided. They still have to play the

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big boys like Chelsea and M`nchester city. They have been to Livdrpool.

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They have to start scoring `t home. This game against Crystal P`lace was

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an opportunity lost. Tonight, they cannot be looking back at

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opportunities lost. They have two when did give their fight. Rival a

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springboard. On to Newcastld now. "Woeful, shameful and pathetic" Just

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some of the words used to ddscribe their horror show at Southalpton.

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Manager Alan Pardew's first game back after his three`match stadium

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ban. Still not allowed on the touchline, I bet he was glad he was

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sitting behind owner Mike Ashley, and not next to him! Newcastle did

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not show any site or pride. They are in danger. They have had a couple of

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bad defeats against Everton and Southampton. They play Manchester

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United at the weekend. If they lose that, they really are on thd

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downward spiral. The supporters deserve better and they need to see

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some reaction from the team. It is just not good enough for us.

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Newcastle United should think seriously about reimbursing fans for

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travelling many miles. It w`s shambolic and shocking. I h`ve been

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commenting for over 20 years and on the way back yesterday I was

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thinking to myself, have I dver seen anything worse? I honestly don't

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think I have. I know him well. For him to say that, he does not say it

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lightly. It encompasses the whole thing for Newcastle.

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Away from the Premier Leagud. After one win in their previous 12 games,

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victory for Middlesbrough at Brighton. It's not been an dasy

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start for Aitor Karanka as Head Coach, Steve? They needed this. This

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penalty must be one of the worst ever seen excellent mission Mark ``

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ever seen! Carlisle are plaxing your team? Kavanagh will be happx with

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the point. He was obviously fatigued and tired. He believes he whll score

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in every game and they get themselves into positions. His

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workrate was excellent. He has not played for as much as he wotld have

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liked. Elsewhere, a missed opportunity for York City after six

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wins in a row, Steve? A terrific run. It is difficult to keep it

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going. They were able to kedp a clean sheet. Button up therd with

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him. Not so much for Hartlepool but Iraq they are trying to stax in

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there. But this was a disappointing result. Gateshead are in thd

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play`off positions now. West Auckland had a draw. Yes and the

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goalless draw at Bootham Crdscent, I'm afraid, saw them slip ott of the

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League Two play`off places, although Burton probably came closest to

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scoring. And talking of Gatdshead, we'll have an in`depth interview

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with chairman Graham Wood on Late Kick Off tonight and my studio

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guests at 11.25 will includd midfielder John Oster. It w`s hailed

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as an historic night for North East boxing. The first time two fighters

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from the region had fought dach other for a world title. Thd IBF

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bantamweight champion, Darlhngton's Stuart Hall, was taking on Durham's

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Martin Ward at the Newcastld Arena. But the so`called "Clash of the

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Clans" was brought to an abrupt end by a clash of heads. Mark Ttlip was

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at ringside. World champions from boxing and football. Glenn LcCrory

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was invited to go fishing whth Jack Charlton and invited the 1966 legend

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to come to the boxing. For Big Jack a big fight night on his doorstep at

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last. You go to Manchester `nd you can see big fights. You see them in

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Birmingham but you cannot sde them in Leeds and Newcastle. Did you do

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any sparring with him? He ptt me through my paces. Sadly the evening

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was to end in total anti`clhmax Late in the first round, thd

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confident`looking champion Stuie Hall, and Martin Ward were hnvolved

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in an accidental clash of hdads The result, a nasty gash above Ward s

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right eye and the fight stopped early in the second, a technical

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draw. But a huge let`down. The crowd have been robbed of a great fight.

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It is one of those things in boxing. Everyone knew he was the stronger

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lad and he showed it early on. It was starting to gel nicely. A

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re`match may be scuppered bx Hall's need to defend his title ag`in

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before the end of June. Earlier Durham`born Tynesider Jon`Ldwis

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Dickinson retained his Brithsh Cruiserweight title for the third

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time and now gets to keep hhs Lonsdale belt. Mark Tulip, BBC Look

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North. In rugby union, Newc`stle Falcons will spend the rest of the

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season looking nervously ovdr their shoulder after defeat by thd

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Premiership's bottom club, Worcester, at Kingston Park. This

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late try from the Warriors clinched a 17`12 win which cuts the gap

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between the two clubs to just nine points. But, in basketball, a narrow

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four`point victory for Newc`stle Eagles at neighbours Durham Wildcats

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keeps Fab Flournoy's men at the top of the BBL table. On to the weather

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now. It was warm in London `t the weekend that I had to happen extra

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warm duvet when I came home. Thank you very much for sending in

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this picture. Showery and mhssed the first thing tomorrow. Things will

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brighten up to ring the aftdrnoon. Through this evening and ovdrnight,

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a band of showers pushing up from the South and West through the early

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hours. It is misty as well once again for the north`east and for

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much of the northern hills. Temperatures generally fallhng no

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lower than Celsius. `` six Celsius. A gloomy start with showers

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lingering over the hills for a time. Into lunchtime, most part should

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start to become dry. The Northeast coast could hang on to low cloud.

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Part of North Yorkshire will be dry and warmer than today. Contrast that

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with the Northumberland coast. Easterly breezes drawing in low

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cloud. Westwards, a fine and to the day for much of Lakeland. Btt quite

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as mild as it has been todax. Not bad for the time of year. Pressure

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is low over the next few daxs. We are expecting further easterly

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breezes as the wind wheels `round the low pressure to the west.

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Through Wednesday, low cloud and Thursday possibly a longer spell of

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rain lasting into Friday as well. The best of any great weathdr will

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be to the West side. In the north`east, grey and gloomy and

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overcast. That is how the wdather looks. Best in the West. Th`nks

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Hannah. It is a busy night hn the studio. Join us if you can later.

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