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Good evening. The inquest into the deaths of three men, who were trying | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
to kayak down the River Tyne, was told today all three were | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
"relatively inexperienced" at the sport. Two brothers and their cousin | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
died as they tried to paddle through heavy flood water last Sunday. Their | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
bodies were recovered the next day. The inquest was opened and adjourned | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
for a full hearing at a later date. Here's our Chief Reporter, Chris | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
Stewart. Three days after the emergency services pulled the bodies | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
of the men from the water and now the formal enquiry into their deaths | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
begins. Brothers Darren and Mark Thorpe were aged 41 and 39 and were | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
phoned South Shields. They'd gone on the trip with their cousin Gavin | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Bradley, 36, also from South Shields. He is pictured here. The | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
police say the men had planned to paddle from Hexham to Wylam along | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
water is swollen by heavy rain. They were found on a stretch of the River | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Tyne between Corbridge and Riding Mill. The coroner 's court here in | :01:14. | :01:19. | |
North Shields heard all three men had only recently taken up the | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
sport. The British Canoe union says more than 1 million people take to | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
the water in canoes and kayaks in this country every year. While it | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
may seem inevitable that this hearing will eventually find that | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
the men died as the result of an accident, that's not the sole | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
purpose of the inquest. The coroner will want to examine all the | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
evidence to see if there is something there that might present | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
similar tragedies in the future. The full hearing is scheduled for July. | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Joan Lawrence, the mother of missing York chef, Claudia Lawrence, has | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
spoken of the emotional turmoil she's been thrown into by this | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
week's developments. Police investigating the case have been | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
continuing their forensic examinations at two houses in York | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
and North Shields. Both properties are linked to 59`year`old Michael | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Snelling, who was arrested on Tuesday and released on police bail | :02:10. | :02:19. | |
last night. Cathy Killick reports. The house in then grow in York | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
remains the focus of police activity in searches today. Three days after | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
the arrest of a 59`year`old man on suspicion of murder. He has been | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
released on conditional bail. The house is half a mile from Claudia | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Lawrence's. The 35`year`old chef disappeared without trace in March | :02:40. | :02:45. | |
2009. Her family have campaigned tirelessly for the last five years | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
to keep Claudia's disappearance in the public eye, hoping for a | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
breakthrough in the case. This morning, her mother Jones said it | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
has all taken an emotional toll. This is the first time there has | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
been an arrest in five years. This has come totally out of the blue. I | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
had absolutely no warning, not even an inkling that this was going to | :03:11. | :03:19. | |
happen. It was like shell`shocked. When the police walked in and | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
informed me quite early in the morning that this was going to take | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
place and they did informally before it went out to the media. I just | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
couldn't believe it. While the rest may feel like a break though it is | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
worth stressing that no one has been charged and Mrs Lawrence is wary of | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
people jumping to conclusions. I just need to sit and think about it, | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
say my prayers and get through the day. At the bottom of all this, I am | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
concerned about this person because this person might be totally | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
innocent. I am concerned about, both my daughter and my ``. Meanwhile, | :04:08. | :04:23. | |
And the search goes on for 19`year`old student Luke Pearce, who | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
went missing at the weekend after a night out in Durham. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
Luke hasn't been seen since the early hours of Sunday morning, when | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
he left his friends after visiting "Jimmy Allen's" nightclub. He was | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
last seen heading in the direction of Maiden Castle. | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
For the first time since the original left South Tyneside as a | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
gift for the Pope in the Eighth Century, a copy of a bible written | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
by Bede in his Monkwearmouth`Jarrow Monastery can be seen in our region. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
The only full`sized replica of Codex Amiatinus is being unveiled at | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
Bede's World in Jarrow this Sunday. Julie Smith's been to have a look. | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
The work and word of the need for the first time back home with this | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
replica. He'd created the original Codex in 692 as a president for the | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
Pope in Italy. 2060 pages show up calligraphy and binding from the | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
period. It was a book used for celebration and once believed to be | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
lost. You think of this is a replica it is a good chance for all that | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
want to study medieval time. And calligraphy. They can come here and | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
learn so it is a great event. The original was housed at a monastery | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
in Italy for 1000 years. It is a place now twinned with South | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
Shields. We are working together to promote cultural links. And to try | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
and encourage tourism to the two areas. This is said to be one of the | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
biggest bucks in the world and each page measures 70 centimetres by 52. | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
It is twice the size of the Lindisfarne Gospels. It is the core | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
of what we are about. Having it here give his as but extra gravitas. We | :06:15. | :06:24. | |
are thrilled. The bug will be unveiled to the public this Sunday. | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
And it's well worth a visit, if you can get along. That's all from me. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Time, now, to look ahead to the weekend weather with Paul Mooney. | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
A decent day today here in the North. Temperatures up to 18 | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
Celsius. Tonight it stays dry with broken spells cloud. Temperatures | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
shouldn't drop below eight or nine degrees. Tomorrow looks like another | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
decent day. Any early mist will lift and clear. We will see Sunny spells | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
developing through the latter part of the morning and the early part of | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
the afternoon. Temperatures through the afternoon in the mid teens. In | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
the east we should easily be today's figures. 21 in Sunderland easily | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
achievable. As we had through the weekend the high`pressure hangs on. | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
Temperatures still nudge into the low 20s. As tomorrow's | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
prospect for the weekend, which shows we keep it fine, dry and warm. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
And we can leave you with the national picture. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
More warm weather on the way, today almost felt like June across the | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
country. Temperatures did hover around 22 degrees, the average for | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
June. | :07:49. | :07:51. |