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Good evening. A council has been BBC News Channel. | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Good evening. A council has been branded underhand and dishonest | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
after it secretly bought houses in leafy suburbs to turn into | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
residential homes for troubled children. The vendors were asked to | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
sign confidentiality clauses. Stockton Council says it's bought | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
three houses and the move will save millions of pounds because it means | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
vulnerable children won't be sent elsewhere. But local residents | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
aren't happy, as Stuart Whincup reports. | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
Crammed inside a Stockton school hall, emotions were running high. | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
The consultation process should have started before the properties were | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
bought. We got an anonymous letter to tell us what was going on. This | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
was their first chance to raise concerns, but the deal had already | :01:02. | :01:19. | |
been done. We need confirmation that the community will not be disrupted. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
I don't mind the children's home being there at all. This is the | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
house that Stockton Council has bought. It will be run by a private | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
company. Similar properties nearby have been bought. The is a | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
perception that it will devalue the properties in close proximity to the | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
children's home. But if the scheme is to go ahead it needs final | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
approval. People say that it is wrong that after spending all this | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
money, the council will effectively be granting themselves planning | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
permission. Some in the Hall said the children should be helped and | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
not demonised. The council said it would never have been able to buy | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
the houses had it gone public and the move will save millions of | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
pounds. These children will be happy and they will be back in the county. | :02:32. | :02:45. | |
The council say that jobs will be created and also honourable local | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
children will not be sent to other parts of the country, away from | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
their family and friends. `` vulnerable local children. | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
The Government's paid more than ?1 million in out of court settlements | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
to people abused at a former County Durham detention centre. Police | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
recently announced they're investigating the possibility of | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
more than 500 victims of abuse at the Medomsley detention centre in | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
the 1970s and '80s. Now we can reveal that the Ministry of Justice | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
has already made out of court settlements to more than 30 people. | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Our Political Correspondent Mark Denten told me some of the | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
background to the case earlier. This centres on boys who were held at the | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
former Medomsley detention centre. Neville husband who work there as a | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
prison officer was jailed for 12 years in 2003 four abusing some of | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
the inmates. Last year after a former inmate came forward, the | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
investigation was reopened. It is possible the R 520 potential victims | :03:57. | :04:09. | |
of abuse. Horrific stories have been revealed about the abuse there in | :04:10. | :04:19. | |
the 1970s. They were systematic abuse and rape and the detention | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
centre was likened to a concentration camp. Today a firm of | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
solicitors acting for some of the inmates who have come forward say | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
the Ministry of Justice is paying out considerable sums of money to | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
victims. In total payments could come to ?1.4 million. That is a | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
financial drop in the ocean for a department with a nine be the pound | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
budget. However, nobody knows how many people will come forward. `` | :04:56. | :05:06. | |
nine V and pound budget. `` ?9 billion budget. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
The man in charge of Sage Gateshead has announced he is to stand down | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
after 15 years. Anthony Sargent has overseen the development of the | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
prestigious concert hall from drawing board to centre of | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
excellence. His departure is scheduled for April next year, | :05:19. | :05:21. | |
following the venue's tenth birthday in December. The Sage is at a | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
critical stage in securing its long term future and has launched an | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
appeal to raise ?4 million, which will attract ?2 million of match | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
funding from the Arts Council. Anthony Sargent says he's not bowing | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
out just as the going gets tough. It is almost like the alignment of the | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
stars. We have got our attempt anniversary celebrations in | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
December. We will know by this summer about our funding and we are | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
just completing a ten year business plan. There are lots of important | :05:46. | :05:53. | |
things that will be in place at the beginning of 2015 and that felt like | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
a good time for me to leave. A teacher from Norton in Stockton | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
won Mastermind tonight. Clive Dunning, who was made redundant at | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
the same time as he applied for the television quiz, triumphed in the | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
final tonight. His specialist subject was the life and poetry of | :06:06. | :06:13. | |
Philip Larkin. Congratulations and hold it carefully. You looked | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
absolutely terrified. I was petrified. My daughter and partner | :06:21. | :06:30. | |
are in the audience. I think they will we more chuffed than I am. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
That's it from me for tonight, and this week, in fact. But here now is | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
Hannah Bayman with some less than attractive prospects in the weather. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
Not the most springlike of headlines for Saturday, particularly in the | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
North East. It will be showery and cool. First thing a band of rain | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
pushes up from the south. It is widespread across Cumbria at first | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
and then increasingly across the North East. Things will try out in | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
the West in the afternoon with a few spells of sunshine. Highs of 215 | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
Celsius. Cooler though on the coast with south easterly breezes. It will | :07:11. | :07:22. | |
fill chilly. `` highs of up to 15 degrees Celsius. Rain on Sunday and | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
cloudy on Monday. with an outlook. We will have the | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
outlook for the rest of the country. Goodbye. | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
Good evening. A bit of a disappointing day. A lot of cloud | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
around and we saw showery outbreaks of rain. Courtesy of this | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
continental plume which arrived during the early hours and continues | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
to drift further north. Into the weekend, this area of low pressure | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
will influence our weather. It is already arriving bringing gusts of | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
wind is to the Isles of Scilly and the south-west. Further north, and | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
easterly feed are dragging more cloud, misty conditions and poor | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
visibility with light rain. Overnight lows of eight to 10 | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
degrees. A band of persistent rain through Northern Ireland moving out | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
of Wales and into the North of England and the south-east means a | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
great, miserable start to Saturday. But a clearance with sunny spells | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
coming through. All the time that area of low pressure to the | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
south-west will keep feeding in plenty | :08:37. | :08:37. |