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The Good evening. The counchl buying That is all from the BBC News | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
The Good evening. The counchl buying up in desirable residences. Local | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
people are not happy. ?1 million paid out two men abused as | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
teenagers. 500 victims have contacted police. Swansong `t the | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Sage. Director Anthony Sargdnt is to leave, after a decade at thd | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
region's foremost musical vdnue And the Goths gather for their favourite | :00:37. | :00:50. | |
weekend. Gus Poyet says thex needed a miracle to stay in the Prdmier | :00:51. | :01:07. | |
League. Good evening. "Underhand" and | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
"dishonest behaviour". That's the accusation faced by one of our | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
councils tonight after it sdcretly bought houses in leafy suburbs to | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
turn into residential homes for troubled children. The vendors were | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
asked to sign confidentiality clauses. Stockton Council s`ys it | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
has bought three houses and the move will save millions of pounds because | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
it means vulnerable children won't be sent elsewhere to receivd care. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
But local residents aren't happy, as Stuart Whincup reports. | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
Crammed inside a Stockton school hall, emotions were running high. | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
Your consultation process should start before the property is bought. | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
The first most people knew `bout it was when they got an anonymous | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
letter to tell us what was going on. This was their first chance to raise | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
concerns, but the deal, manx said, was already done. | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
We need compensation payabld to be high so that you would ensure there | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
were no problems, whether that damage, graffiti, noise, ASBOs, etc. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
But not everyone here was against the home. | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
If I were to leave Heartburn, it would not be because of this home, | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
which I think is a wonderful idea, and I supported thoroughly. It would | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
be because suddenly I don't want to love among the people who are saying | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
these things. And this is the house in He`rtburn | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
Stockton Council has bought. It would be run by a private company, | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
providing home to five vulndrable children. Similar houses in | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
Thorpefield and Stillington have already been bought. | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
There is a perception, and puite rightly, that it will devalte the | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
properties in very close vicinity to the children's home. | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
But if the whole scheme is to go ahead, it needs final approval. | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
That's another cause for concern. People here say it's wrong that the | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
council are spending large sums of money on big houses like thhs one, | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
and that they are the ones who will decide to grant themselves planning | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
permission, changing its usd from a domestic property to a residential | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
Jordan's home. Campaigners say the council is hardly likely to tell | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
itself no. Some in the hall said children should be helped and not | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
demonised. The council says it would not have been able to buy the house | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
had it gone public, and the move will save it millions of potnds | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
There won't be loads of trotble This will work. These children will | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
be happy, they will be back in the borough, they will have a mtch | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
better chance of the future, and it is good to see the cancel a lot of | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
money. That isn't the driver though, the driver is excellent card, linked | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
to the fact that it is saving money. The home, it was said, would not | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
destroy this leafy suburb, ht would create jobs, and some of thd area's | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
most vulnerable children will no longer be sent to other parts of the | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
country away from their famhlies and friends. Stewart Whincup, BBC Look | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
North, Stockton. And Stuart joins me from BBC Tees | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
now. That was a passionate leeting you were at. Is there anythhng that | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
opponents can do to prevent the change of use from private homes to | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
council children's homes? Time and time again people `sked the | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
question, was this a done ddal, was there anything they could do. The | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
answer that came back the council was not very clear. There is the | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
planning process that can bd challenged, but people were not very | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
hopeful there. The council has three properties and says it is looking | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
for a fourth property. It h`s been in the market for some time looking | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
at a number of areas. They `sked which areas they were looking at, | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
but there were no clear answers I think we will see more of these | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
meetings in the months ahead. Thank you Stewart. | :04:41. | :04:49. | |
The Government has paid out more than a million pounds in out of | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
court settlements to people abused at a former County Durham ddtention | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
centre. Police recently announced they're investigating the | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
possibility of more than 500 victims of abuse at the Medomsley ddtention | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
centre in the 1970s and 1980s. Now we can reveal that the Ministry of | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Justice has already made out of court settlements to more than | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
thirty people. Our Political Correspondent, Mark Denten, has more | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
and joins me now. These werd very disturbing events ` what's the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
background to them? This centres on boys who were held | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
at the former Medomsley detdntion centre in County Durham. After an | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
original investigation into abuse at the centre, this man was jahled in | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
2003. Leslie Johnson was also jailed in 2003. Both of those men `re now | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
dead. Last year, a fourth inmate came forward to say that he was | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
abused, and this has reopendd the investigation. Now they are looking | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
at the potential of 520 possible victims. A BBC programme earlier | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
this year revealed some horrific stories from inside that detention | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
centre in the 1980s. Boys so desperate to get away, that they | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
asked other inmates to break their legs so that they could be loved | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
elsewhere. Other stories of systematic sexual abuse and rape. It | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
was akin to a concentration camp, allegedly. So what has happdned | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
today? To date, `` to date, it has become clear that the Ministry of | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
Justice has already paid compensation to some victims. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Average payments are in the region of ?40,000 per year. The total | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
payments are in the region of ? .4 million. That is a drop in the ocean | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
for the Department, which h`s a total budget of ?9 billion. No one | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
knows how many people will eventually come forward. | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
The man in charge of Sage G`teshead has announced he is to stand down | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
after fifteen years. Anthonx Sargent has overseen the development of the | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
prestigious concert hall from drawing board to centre of | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
excellence. His departure is scheduled for April next ye`r, | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
following the venue's 10th birthday in December. To secure its long`term | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
future, The Sage has just l`unched an appeal to raise six millhon | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
pounds. Here's our arts reporter, Sharuna Sagar. | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
It is a building you could never have imagined before it was built, | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
but now it is hard to imagine the quayside without it. Since opening | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
in December 2004, Sage Gateshead has become a world`class concert hall, | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
boasting deep local roots, dntwined with an international reput`tion. | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
And now the man at the top has decided it's time to go. | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
These are big, powerful, important jobs, and I have occasionally seen | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
colleagues of mine stay past their sell`by date, and I really didn t | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
want to do that. I wanted to move at the point when I'm enormously proud | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
of it, I'm proud of the whole team here, and it's just at the loment | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
when I think it'll be excithng for someone else to come and take it on. | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
It's as simple as that, really, truly. | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
And what they will take on hs a place where people find thelselves | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
musically. I can't help but think that the last | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
ten years have been really fantastic for the Royal Northern Symphony and | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
it has been a home for us where we can develop and grow musically. | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
As a folk singer from Gateshead me and my sister are really proud to | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
have the Sage, and to always have been involved in the Sage. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
I've seen folk music here, H've seen West Side Story here, and I've also | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
seen somebody like Morrisey dancing around up there. It's becomd a | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
really valuable gem in the north`east's crown. | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
And it continues to sparkle. In a decade, it will have hosted 400 | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
performances across all genres. It will have welcomed six millhon | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
visitors. And it will have contributed ?300 million to the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
local economy. But even with the recent pressure of cuts to `rts | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
funding, its core values relain at its very heart. | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
The mission and the vision here is to produce the highest qualhty work | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
that we can, to make it accdssible to local people, and to do ` | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
learning programme that is `vailable and accessible to everybody we could | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
possibly work with. That dodsn't change. What does change is fitting | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
that vision and that mission alongside changing external economic | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
circumstances. That is the challenge. | :09:24. | :09:34. | |
And Anthony Sargent joins md now, here in the studio. Are you leaving | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
before the going gets tough? Now, I have never in my lifd done | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
that, and I won't start doing it now. The problem is, there hs a big | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
fundraising drive, you need an additional ?6 million. People will | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
be asking why you are living now? Well, we have fundraising c`mpaigns | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
all the time. This particul`r one takes advantage of the schele we're | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
every pound will be matched by 0p from the arts Council, so there is a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
very particular opportunity now And there is never a perfect molent but | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
it is almost like the alignlent of the stars, and a lot of things do | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
line up. We have our 10th anniversary celebrations, and we | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
will know by this summer whdther we are getting funding for 2018, we are | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
just completing a business plan There are a lot of really ilportant | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
foundations of Sage Gateshe`d that will be in place, and that felt like | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
a great moment to make a move to me. I am sorry to document the funding, | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
but obviously you get a lot of funding, and the arts sector has | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
been particularly squeeze, `s you know. Is the centre in debt? No we | :10:57. | :11:10. | |
earn 75% of our money. It is the normal British mixed economx. There | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
is a small proportion of subsidy, but what this enables us to do is to | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
go out and earn the rest of the money. He condemns us to brhng great | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
international artists `` it enables us to bring. It is the norm`l mixed | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
economy. Is it getting worsd? Well, these are tough times for everybody. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
In any part of British life that is supported by the public sector, they | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
are all having a toff time. We all want to see the stage left hn good | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
shape. But what about you? For the next year I will be at Sage | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
Gateshead. My board have known that I am leaving for quite a whhle. I am | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
not committed to staying in this country. I have had some | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
conversations about working abroad. But the only thing that mothvates me | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
to get out of bed in the morning is working somewhere where I fdel that | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
the energy I have got can m`ke something that I care about can | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
happen. What I am looking at in the next six months, is we're c`n my | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
skills and experience make something I care about happen. This is what | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
the last 15 years have all been about. Thank you very much. | :12:27. | :12:37. | |
Work officially started tod`y on a new Teesside energy plant that will | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
burn non`recyclable rubbish. Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude broke | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
the ground at the Port Clardnce scheme. He also confirmed a deal | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
that will see the government buy all of the new plant's electrichty for | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
20 years. It will be used to heat and light Whitehall offices. Our | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
Business Correspondent Ian Reeve reports. | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
Teeside's getting a reputathon for this sort of business. What will be | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
here is a plant that burns household and business waste and turns it into | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
electricity. It will join a similar one next door still being btilt And | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
not far away is a facility that burns all of Tyneside's household | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
waste. And there could be more. We are hoping that, if we c`n prove | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
that this model which we thhnk has a lot of benefits versus prevhous | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
disposal of waste, if we can prove this model then others might want to | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
follow in her footsteps. This scheme got a ministeri`l seal | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
of approval today, not least because the government has struck a deal to | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
take all of its power for 20 years, the electricity being used by | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
government departments. Well, it provides us with | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
fixed`price power, which is a benefit for the taxpayer, and that's | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
good news. We're getting a luch better deal for the taxpayer because | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
we're buying on behalf of the hall of the public sector. | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
When this plant is up and rtnning about 350,000 tonnes of rubbish will | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
be burnt every year. Rubbish that would otherwise have been dtmped in | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
landfill sites. Ian Reeve, BBC Look North, Teeside. | :13:51. | :13:59. | |
You're watching Look North. Still to come, Jeff has the weekend sport and | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
we're live in Whitby for thd Goth Weekend plus: Tales from thd river | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
bank. The otter survey from Tyne to Tees that will reveal just how | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
numerous these creatures have become. It is almost the wedkend, | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
what will the weather holds? I will be here with the full forec`st. | :14:19. | :14:27. | |
It's a festival started by ` group of pen pals twenty years ago and has | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
ended up as a major event attracting thousands of visitors. And today the | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Whitby Goth Festival got underway bringing fashion and music to the | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
seaside town. Over the years it s evolved into a celebration of | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
alternative lifestyles. Well, Peter Harris is in Whitby now. Anx sign of | :14:42. | :14:56. | |
Dracula through all that mist? If Dracula does emerge throtgh the | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
mist, he will find most of the Goths are hiding from the weather. He will | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
also find this is a festival that brings out some surprising people. | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Pam and Chris came to Whitbx on holiday once. It was Goths weekend. | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
Now look at what has happendd. We looked in the Goths shops and spot, | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
all. You go on holiday and come back a Goths. Everybody it accepts | :15:23. | :15:31. | |
everybody. You can be as outlandish as you like. There is no | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
condescension, no nastiness. Most people are hiding from this | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
appalling weather, but it is mostly about fashion, and drinking, and a | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
celebration of alternative lifestyles. We just like behng part | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
of the alternative scene, not just Goths, but also punks. Raid the | :15:53. | :16:02. | |
actual time `` the actual town of Whitby has always been so wdlcoming | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
and to warm to us. I think lost of us treated like a second hole. The | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
Goth festival originally cale to Whitby because of its connections to | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Dracula. In return, the bring traded to the town as well as fashhon and a | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
splash of colour. Some new colours creeping. I thought it was just | :16:25. | :16:35. | |
black. Now, purple, sometimds green, sometimes rents. As they | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
huddle from the weather, a Goth singsong broke out. Nothing wrong | :16:41. | :16:52. | |
with Kylie and Jason. Now there are two festivals in Whitby these is, | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
one in them, and one in sprhng. Because at this time of year, we | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
have the weather. We are a bit disappointed, `ren t | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
we? Can't Sunderland come b`ck from the brink, that is the question | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
tonight. The focus this weekend is on the | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
Stadium of Light ` a high noon shoot`out with relegation rhvals | :17:24. | :17:25. | |
Cardiff City at mid`day on Sunday. Ten days ago, most fans thotght | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
their team would be dead and buried by now. Even the Head Coach seemed | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
to be resigned to a spell in the Championship. Then they drew at | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
Manchester City and won at Chelsea. Gus Poyet said it himself. @fter | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
that 5`1 hammering at Tottenham it would take "a miracle" to kdep them | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
up. But the Black Cats have finally found themselves a goal`scorer ` and | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
a bit of self`belief. I was believing, I was using the word | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
miracle. What it means in mx world is that something very spechal and | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
unique is going to happen. We needed something really special, and I | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
think that what we have dond in the last week is really special. There | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
have been one or two special performance from Sunderland this | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
season, not least when they clawed their way back from 2`0 down to | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
pinch a point at Cardiff back in December. But too many times ` | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
especially in front of their own fans ` they've had the chance to | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
move out of trouble, and blown it. There won't be too many mord. The | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
idea is that we had too manx chances, we have been in thhs | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
situation many times. I say to myself, come on. Don't wait for | :18:34. | :18:45. | |
another one, take this one. When we go away from home, there is not as | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
much pressure on. Sunderland leaves gaps, and weak kick up the | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
advantage. What we have to do now, is handled the pressure. Thdre is a | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
tremendous atmosphere. We h`ve an easy game, hopefully, I head against | :19:00. | :19:11. | |
Manchester United. Elsewhere, Newcastle don't play | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
until Monday night. Having served his ban for headbutting Hull's David | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
Meyler, manager Alan Pardew will be back on the touchline for the trip | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
to Arsenal. And in the Championship, Middlesbrough are at home to | :19:22. | :19:23. | |
second`bottom Barnsley. Full radio commentary, as usual, on BBC Tees. | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
In League One, these are testing times for the Carlisle Unitdd | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
manager Graham Kavanagh. He has three games to rescue the Blues from | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
the brink of relegation, st`rting with tomorrow's home game against | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
Oldham. It could be on`loan striker Gary Madine's last appearance due to | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
his 7pm curfew under the terms of his release from prison. As for the | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
manager, he remains determined to engineer another of the club's | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
famous great escapes. We've got to believe that wd are | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
still more than capable of staying in the league, and with the extra | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
game in hand, if we can man`ge to win against Oldham, we'll gdt | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
ourselves a fighting chance. Of course it was relief all round | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
for Hartlepool United on Easter Monday. They guaranteed thehr | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
Football League survival after halting a losing streak at home to | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
Morecambe. The manager's pldased for everyone associated with thd club, | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
although he insists he never feared relegation. He did, though, praise | :20:09. | :20:11. | |
Pools' "siege mentality". Wd had an extra 1500 on the crowd with the ?5 | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
ticket deal. We had a man sdnt off after an hour. We were 1`0 down And | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
the whole thing just galvanhsed and it was us against the world, it was | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
a brilliant feeling, and we've allayed any fears of relegation | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
But, by the same token, I w`nt to see puff our chests out and really | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
give Plymouth a good game and give her away fans, who have been | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
fantastic, something to smile about on what is a heck of a long journey | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
back, and I understand international rescue are on the way. Just 14 | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
months after playing their first rugby union match at the Northern | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Echo Arena ` originally built as a football stadium ` Darlington Mowden | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
Park are hosting what could prove to be a promotion decider. The men s | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
senior team hope that if thdy can beat Macclesfield and other results | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
go their way, they'll win attomatic promotion from National North Two. | :20:58. | :20:59. | |
Kick`off's at three tomorrow afternoon and a family Open Day at | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
the Arena gets underway at noon Lets hope for good weather, but I am | :21:08. | :21:18. | |
not that hopeful. We need good weather this weekend, because | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
Volunteers will be out on rhver banks from the Tyne to the Tees this | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
weekend for the biggest ever survey of otters in the North of England. | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Durham Wildlife Trust hopes to build a picture of the region's otter | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
population, which is thought to be bouncing back after they were nearly | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
wiped out by pollution. One hundred and twenty otter`spotters whll be | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
looking for signs including tracks and droppings. | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
Otters waiting for feeding time at Washington Wetlands Centre. The | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
otters that you can hear sqteaking and calling behind me are Asian | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
short clawed otters. There `re currently no native British otters | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
in captivity, and volunteers will be looking for signs of them in the | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
wild. Caught on camera here near the banks of the Weir, the native otter | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
is nocturnal and hard to spot. Have a look around at what's on the | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
other side there. Instead, the survey team will look | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
for what they leave behind. Like footprints and their distinctive | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
droppings known as spraint. It's not unpleasant, it is just | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
musty, fishy and some peopld say it like jasmine tea. I have never got | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
that one. We have all volunteered to go out | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
into the countryside and have a look for signs of otters, record that and | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
see we can get a snapshot of it over one night. So we are all just | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
learning how to spot the signs. Deborah has found a sure sign that | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
an otter has been here. It's a little bit of otter spraint. Smells | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
very distinctive. Not totally unpleasant, but it is distinctive. | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
Well done. Excellent. It's exactly what they are looking | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
for. Yeah, definitely otter sprahnt. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Anybody want to have a little sniff? This is how we spend our Saturday | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
mornings ` sniffing poo! We are in otter territory. | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
But the seasoned otter spotter needs to know their droppings. | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
No, I don't think so. I think that might be goose or duck. Yeah, it's a | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
bit green for otter. They wdre very close to extinction in the 40s, 60s, | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
and 70s due to pesticides and pollution. Since then, we h`ve | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
cleaned up our water courses fantastically. Their population has | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
been increasing and recoverhng, but I would say it is still a fragile | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
recovery. It could collapse again, if something went wrong. So we just | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
need to keep an eye on it, really. Volunteers will be out across County | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Durham this weekend, and will be hoping that the otters are too. Now | :23:29. | :23:42. | |
photograph to start us off. Thank photograph to start us off. Thank | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
you Linsley, for this beauthful shot taken in County Durham. | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
Overnight tonight, some heavy showers. These greens on thd map | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
indicating areas of heavy r`infall, really hammering down for a time | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
over the Pennines. By Don, these showers will start to move | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
northwards. Temperatures ovdrnight now lower than eight Celsius. | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
Tomorrow, a gloomy start in the West and the South. More rain will splash | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
its way across the region from the south. Through the afternoon, things | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
will start to improve in thd West, while it says gloomy east of the | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Pennines. As we take a tour, it is Shari, cool, breezy, and cloudy | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
across the north`east. You `` 1 Celsius. Feeling cooler bec`use of | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
the strong winds. Across thd Pennines, a fine end to the day in | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
Cumbria. 15 Celsius, feeling more pleasant year. `` feeling more | :24:59. | :25:07. | |
pleasant here. The low pressure will think the low pressure will sink | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
away southwards through Sattrday. Through Sunday, things stay | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
generally unsettled, with the risk of showers and low cloud in | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
particular. In the West, a better chance of brightness. On Monday low | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
pressure still dominating, but we are in between weather systdms. This | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
one will sweep in from the west bringing in more showers through | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
Tuesday possibly some stronger as well. Over the next few days, | :25:34. | :25:43. | |
largely cloudy but dry on Stnday. An increasing chance of dry brdaks in | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
that cloud on Monday. Higher temperatures next week, 17 Celsius. | :25:49. | :25:58. | |
Possibly springlike on Mond`y. Don't forget, that rain is on the way to | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
Cumbria first on Tuesday. A gloomy outlook for Sunday. Not looking good | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
for the Goths, who are expecting it to be drizzly. Possibly a lhttle bit | :26:11. | :26:24. | |
brighter on Monday. Thanks @nna That's all for now. Goodbye will | :26:25. | :26:55. | |
at the European elections on May the 22nd. | :26:56. | :27:04. | |
even though that would wreck the recovery and destroy jobs. | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
The Conservatives are now openly flirting with exit. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
they just don't have the courage of their convictions on this. | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
They wouldn't lift a finger to help keep Britain in the EU | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
So, I'm asking you to vote for the Liberal Democrats, the party of in. | :27:26. | :27:31. |