25/04/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


25/04/2014

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Good evening. A council has been BBC News Channel.

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Good evening. A council has been branded underhand and dishonest

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after it secretly bought houses in leafy suburbs to turn into

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residential homes for troubled children. The vendors were asked to

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sign confidentiality clauses. Stockton Council says it's bought

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three houses and the move will save millions of pounds because it means

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vulnerable children won't be sent elsewhere. But local residents

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aren't happy, as Stuart Whincup reports.

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Crammed inside a Stockton school hall, emotions were running high.

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The consultation process should have started before the properties were

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bought. We got an anonymous letter to tell us what was going on. This

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was their first chance to raise concerns, but the deal had already

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been done. We need confirmation that the community will not be disrupted.

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I don't mind the children's home being there at all. This is the

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house that Stockton Council has bought. It will be run by a private

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company. Similar properties nearby have been bought. The is a

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perception that it will devalue the properties in close proximity to the

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children's home. But if the scheme is to go ahead it needs final

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approval. People say that it is wrong that after spending all this

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money, the council will effectively be granting themselves planning

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permission. Some in the Hall said the children should be helped and

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not demonised. The council said it would never have been able to buy

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the houses had it gone public and the move will save millions of

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pounds. These children will be happy and they will be back in the county.

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The council say that jobs will be created and also honourable local

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children will not be sent to other parts of the country, away from

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their family and friends. `` vulnerable local children.

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The Government's paid more than ?1 million in out of court settlements

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to people abused at a former County Durham detention centre. Police

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recently announced they're investigating the possibility of

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more than 500 victims of abuse at the Medomsley detention centre in

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the 1970s and '80s. Now we can reveal that the Ministry of Justice

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has already made out of court settlements to more than 30 people.

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Our Political Correspondent Mark Denten told me some of the

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background to the case earlier. This centres on boys who were held at the

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former Medomsley detention centre. Neville husband who work there as a

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prison officer was jailed for 12 years in 2003 four abusing some of

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the inmates. Last year after a former inmate came forward, the

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investigation was reopened. It is possible the R 520 potential victims

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of abuse. Horrific stories have been revealed about the abuse there in

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the 1970s. They were systematic abuse and rape and the detention

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centre was likened to a concentration camp. Today a firm of

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solicitors acting for some of the inmates who have come forward say

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the Ministry of Justice is paying out considerable sums of money to

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victims. In total payments could come to ?1.4 million. That is a

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financial drop in the ocean for a department with a nine be the pound

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budget. However, nobody knows how many people will come forward. ``

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nine V and pound budget. `` ?9 billion budget.

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The man in charge of Sage Gateshead has announced he is to stand down

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after 15 years. Anthony Sargent has overseen the development of the

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prestigious concert hall from drawing board to centre of

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excellence. His departure is scheduled for April next year,

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following the venue's tenth birthday in December. The Sage is at a

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critical stage in securing its long term future and has launched an

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appeal to raise ?4 million, which will attract ?2 million of match

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funding from the Arts Council. Anthony Sargent says he's not bowing

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out just as the going gets tough. It is almost like the alignment of the

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stars. We have got our attempt anniversary celebrations in

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December. We will know by this summer about our funding and we are

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just completing a ten year business plan. There are lots of important

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things that will be in place at the beginning of 2015 and that felt like

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a good time for me to leave. A teacher from Norton in Stockton

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won Mastermind tonight. Clive Dunning, who was made redundant at

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the same time as he applied for the television quiz, triumphed in the

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final tonight. His specialist subject was the life and poetry of

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Philip Larkin. Congratulations and hold it carefully. You looked

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absolutely terrified. I was petrified. My daughter and partner

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are in the audience. I think they will we more chuffed than I am.

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That's it from me for tonight, and this week, in fact. But here now is

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Hannah Bayman with some less than attractive prospects in the weather.

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Not the most springlike of headlines for Saturday, particularly in the

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North East. It will be showery and cool. First thing a band of rain

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pushes up from the south. It is widespread across Cumbria at first

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and then increasingly across the North East. Things will try out in

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the West in the afternoon with a few spells of sunshine. Highs of 215

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Celsius. Cooler though on the coast with south easterly breezes. It will

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fill chilly. `` highs of up to 15 degrees Celsius. Rain on Sunday and

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cloudy on Monday. with an outlook. We will have the

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outlook for the rest of the country. Goodbye.

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Good evening. A bit of a disappointing day. A lot of cloud

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around and we saw showery outbreaks of rain. Courtesy of this

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continental plume which arrived during the early hours and continues

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to drift further north. Into the weekend, this area of low pressure

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will influence our weather. It is already arriving bringing gusts of

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wind is to the Isles of Scilly and the south-west. Further north, and

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easterly feed are dragging more cloud, misty conditions and poor

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visibility with light rain. Overnight lows of eight to 10

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degrees. A band of persistent rain through Northern Ireland moving out

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of Wales and into the North of England and the south-east means a

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great, miserable start to Saturday. But a clearance with sunny spells

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coming through. All the time that area of low pressure to the

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south-west will keep feeding in plenty

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