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Tonight: So

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Claims that just ONE hospital could be responsible for scores of serious

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The Scottish question ` how will our businesses fare if Scotland goes

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The annual Appleby invasion begins, as thousands arrive

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The only soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross on D`Day.

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The incredible heroism of Stan Hollis from Middlesbrough.

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And, the D`Day veteran whose hopes of a reunion with old comrades

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on the Normandy beaches have been dashed ` by a spelling mistake.

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In sport, an England call`up for fast bowler

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Liam Plunkett seven years after he last played in a Test match.

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And, the rugby player who'll be playing in the Premiership next

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season after coming through the ranks at Middlesbrough.

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This week on Look North, we've been asking why so many people

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in the North East who dial 999 have to wait so long for an ambulance.

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Tonight, a claim that scores of incidents may be down to problems

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Tonight, a claim that scores of incidents may be down to problems

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The North East Ambulance Service transports patients to 11 Accident

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and Emergency departments in the area it covers

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from the Border with Scotland, down to County Durham and Teesside.

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We've obtained a report which suggests that out

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of 126 serious incidents, when patients were delayed admission to

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hospitals for more than two hours, 71 happened at the University

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So, why are patients waiting, and who really is to blame?

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With this exclusive story, here's our health reporter, Sharon Barbour.

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Responding to an emergency, but the North East Ambulance Service has its

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own serious problems to deal with. Understaffed, underfunded and under

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attack for taking hours to reach patients left lying in pain. She was

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lying on the floor. It is beyond a joke and you wonder now if anything

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will happen. How long it will take. I've never called an ambulance

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before and when you want it it's not there. I feel pain for all of the

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people who suffer and I am sorry about that. I wish I could make it

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better. But our investigations into problems at the North East Ambulance

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Service have revealed something else. As patients wait for an

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ambulance to arrive, we've learned that many ambulances are being held

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up with patience sometimes for hours at Accident and Emergency centres.

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Last year, in just six months, over 10,500 delays were recorded by

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paramedics as they handed over patients to A For the paramedics,

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it means they are of the road, trapped in queues and unable to

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respond to the stacking 909 calls. We're tied up so emergencies are

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stacking up waiting for us to clear at hospital. It is frustrating,

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especially when you're patient isn't well. We've also learned the vast

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majority at `` occurred at just a few hospitals are most at the

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University Hospital of North Durham. We put an ambulance liaison officer

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in at crucial times into their emergency department to help with

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the handover of ambulance patients into the acute hospital. We've also

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seen documents that show hundreds of other patients may have been kept

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waiting outside A said in `` centres had the paramedics not

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driven away to another hospital. Most of these patients were diverted

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away from the University Hospital of North Durham. It is listed here.

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Here are some of the reasons. On the 8th of April, A is close to all

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but life`threatening can `` cases. On the night, certain patients

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cannot be taken to the hospital in Durham. Later, surgery patients are

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diverted away. On the 13th, the hospital is again forced to divert

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patients away and the list goes on and on. It shows problems with

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paramedics taking patients to a major A centre. At best, this may

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cause inconvenience for the patients and paramedics and delays in the

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whole system. At worst, could it put lives at risk?

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Joining me is Professor `` Professor Chris Gray. So, do these delays lead

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to lives being lost? Thank you for the opportunity to talk about this.

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It is important to keep this in context. There are delays in the

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system and the system is coping hard to cope with pressures. We have seen

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the response of all the emergency services to the appalling incident

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of the school bus crash. They respond when needed. Whenever a

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patient needs emergency care or resuscitation our doors are open.

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But there are peaks and pressures and we really do struggle to

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deliver. There are times we let patients down and they have an

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appalling process of care and for that we are very sorry as we do not

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aspire to that as a trust. We want to provide the best possible care.

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Our staff are working very hard and they do care. I want to thank them

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for everything they do because they work beyond their contracted hours

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as do the ambulance staff. But the numbers who present are challenging.

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Our hospital at North Durham was designed to 12 years ago for 30,000

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attendances each year. We present DC 63,000 attendances every year.

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Is that why there are more delays there?

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I think it is partly that. So many patients come through the front door

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and require admission and we have pressures in the hospital. What

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happens is the ambulances back up at the front of the hospital. One of

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the big challenges we have to the ambulance service is we know there

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are ambulances waiting outside and yet still they come. Other hospitals

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have far less pressures. We need to share this workload out because our

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hospital at Durham is at maximum capacity.

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But there must be a quick fix? We have to fix it and we have clear

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pounds. This winter, we've invested in excess of ?5 million in

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additional front line staff and support services but we need to do

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more. What we intend to do is increase the capacity of our

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emergency department and increase the size of that using existing

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resources. We are looking at reallocating beds at the Durham site

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to create more capacity in what we call the back of house. We think we

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can take pressures off that way. We have to look at schemes to support

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patients so they do not have to come to hospital but support them in the

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community and to manage their own conditions. Support them in a more

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timely way when they are in our beds.

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Business leaders in the region say they are unclear what the

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uncertainty over Scotland independence could mean for them.

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Amazon were considering putting 900 jobs here but they chose to go to

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Dunfermline instead. Managers here say an independent Scotland would be

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a fierce competitor. As Edinburgh 's nearest neighbour, we will feel that

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more than most. We need to have more control over spending and more

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control over how are offering is perceived to these large occupiers

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to make sure we can remain competitive. Those concerns among

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businesses in our region are coming into sharper focus as Scotland

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prepares to vote on independence. Around 240 companies in Cumbria and

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the north`east gave their views to the BBC in a questionnaire sent out

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by the chamber of commerce to its members. 63 of them said that if an

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independent Scotland were to cut corporation tax, they might consider

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investing north of the border. But a majority of them, 176 said it would

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not make any difference. And that is the case for the Durham firm

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building this new estate in the Scottish Borders. In the last few

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weeks they bought a Scottish building firm. Whatever the result

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in September, they are confident of the future. It is a strategic

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decision to expand our his nurse. We employ 75 people in Scotland and

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maybe 100 in Cumbria. What difference should it make?

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Construction works across borders and we have international companies

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working in the UK. But the chamber of commerce in the region says the

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big problem is a lack of information ahead of the referendum. Businesses

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are holding back on making investments because they are waiting

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to see what the outcome will be. That is disappointing. To a certain

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extent, there is an inevitability but I think people on both sides of

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the debate could do more to provide clarity to enable businesses to move

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forward with clarity. There are concerns from some businesses that

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an independent Scotland could leave yawning gaps in our economy.

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A soldier who died in an accident at an army training centre

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Sergeant Mark Foley of The Light Dragoons was killed in a

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military vehicle on Warcop training area near Appleby yesterday.

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Sergeant Foley leaves a wife and two daughters.

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His Commanding Officer said he was, "A consummate professional, and his

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injured after two school buses crashed head`on in County Durham,

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will remain in hospital tonight. The children are from Tanfield

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School and include a 12`year`old boy who suffered severe facial injuries.

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They were travelling on the single`decker coach, involved in the

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The deputy Prime Minister says a factory is evidence of a revival in

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the north`east. The high`tech site makes parts for aircraft and the

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investment has secured hundreds of jobs in the firm. What you are

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seeing here is a marriage of those old, fine traditions of the

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north`east of manufacturing and designing things, making things and

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exporting them and marrying that to world beating and cutting`edge

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technology and skills. We've it here and at Nissan. We can build on that

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and be part of a rebirth of match in that `` manufacturing in the

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north`east. There were long tailbacks on the A66

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today. Police are asking drivers to be patient.

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It wasn't easy travelling on sections of the road around Appleby

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today. Where the road narrows, queues built up as traditional

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caravans made their way to the festival. This isn't an organised

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event but it is a happening. We have very little control over the numbers

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coming here. It is a traditional event and they come to meet their

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families and socialise. Our main issues are around road safety and

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people coming in and giving the right advice about being safe around

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fast horses. Old friends were meeting up after another 12 months.

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The horse fair here may have been writing `` Manning for hundreds of

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years but the police say there is no sign of it slowing up. More people

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seem to want to come here for the fair. It is the best fare in

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England. It is a brilliant fare. That is why we come. I love to see

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the way the horses ran down the hill. I always kept horses, Welsh

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cobs, and it is quite a holiday for me. But with recent rainfall there

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were concerns about river levels and the washing of horses. This is the

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deepest I have seen the river in five or six years and there is a

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health and safety concern about horses going in, for horses which

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are small mainly. We don't want the horses going in if the river get any

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higher. We will have to monitor it. All front line police officers in

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there are to be equipped with body cameras. They will be given to

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special constables as well and community support officers. It is

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argued that they ring criminals to justice more quickly. Domestic

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violence incidents is something that have benefited from officers being

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at the scene recording the impact on the victim and for those victims who

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don't want to go to court, we can take the suspect to court on the

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back of the evidence we get. He should have been in Normandy to

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mark the 70th anniversary of the D`Day landing but Jim Peaks has

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missed out because of a spelling mistake on a form. 91`year`old Jim

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has had to stay at home in County Durham.

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A Northampton boy who married a Durham girl and became a war hero.

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Let us see what he has to say about D`Day. D`Day was... A funny day.

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Don't let his reticence fool you. He lied about his age to enlist and

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fought through Sicily and Italy and in the Desert rats. He then came to

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England to prepare for the D`Day landings. When his passport renewal

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form went in, his son`in`law misspelt his name.

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When you got the invitation to go to Normandy, where you going to go?

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Yes, I was. I wanted to go back and see the beaches where we landed. I

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also wanted, if possible, to seek anybody that I knew. If I could see

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somebody and say, hello, mate. How are you doing? I knew I couldn't but

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I was hoping. That would have been lovely. I was the baby of the

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squadron. They were older than me so we are talking about men now four or

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five years older than me. Say 9697. I knew there was not a lot of

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possibilities, but if I had seen one it would have been worth going.

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What a shame. This chap was there too. In France

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he is a hero but in Middlesbrough he is largely forgotten. Stan Hollis

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was the only soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross on D`Day. The

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campaign to raise enough money for a permanent memorial in Middlesbrough

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is still ?10,000 short but his granddaughter says a fitting tribute

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is long overdue. Here is the first of two special features on this

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extraordinary soldier. On June the 6th 1944, Allied forces

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assaulted the Normandy coast line. It was the biggest seaborne invasion

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in history. Amongst the soldier was Company Sergeant Major 's Dan

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Hollis. This unassuming Middlesbrough man became the only

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soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross on D`Day. Today, his

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granddaughter is on the beach at the very spot and at the same time he

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fought his way ashore 70 years ago. What is going through your mind? How

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desolate it is and how much open ground there is to cross. It is a

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long way to get across when they are firing at you and the chaos going

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on. I'd bet they just wanted to get off the beach and out of the way,

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sort of thing. Stan's war began before he left his

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landing craft. It was a glimpse of the fighting spirit that would earn

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him the Victoria Cross and see him through the rest of the war. Stan

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noticed a pillbox on the high water mark on the beach and he grabbed a

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machine gun, took it to the lip of the landing craft and fired a long

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burst at it. But the building wasn't a pillbox. In fact, it was a small

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railway stop and until a few years ago it had the bullet marks on the

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wall from his machine gun. The men who made it off the beach faced the

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task of advancing inland against lethal German resistance. Stan and

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his men were told to head for the house with a secular Drive, shown in

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this Spitfire reconnaissance photographs, which is still standing

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today. As they approached they were pinned down by German machine`gun

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fire. His company advanced up and across the fields and across the

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road. When they reached the line of the hedgerow behind us they came

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under fire from the pillbox which their commander identified. He said

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to Stan, " there is a pillbox there". He showed a disregard for

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his own safety. He grabbed his Sten gun and charged across open ground,

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hosepipe being the pillbox ahead of him. In this rare archive recording,

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Stan can be heard describing his actions in his self`effacing manner.

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Having neutralised the first pillbox coming he then kept moving forward,

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again completely alone, until he came upon a second. Stan then

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continued to a communication trench which led to a pillbox here. By

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then, I think the Germans had had enough. Seeing him charging up was

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enough. In all there were about 30 prisoners. This action was

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enormously significant. Not only did he save the lives of many in his

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company but he also allowed the route up from the beach to be

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cleared. That was important for the success of D`Day. Having landed on

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the beach, fought his way up the hill and successfully taken on to

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German pillboxes, he had already done enough to earn himself a

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Victoria Cross. But that is only half the story.

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You are wondering where the second half is. We will have more on his

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remarkable exploits tomorrow. And there is more on the interview with

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Dan on the breakfast show at 6am. You can hear the documentary on his

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trip to Normandy with his granddaughter tomorrow morning.

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It is time for the sport now and it is all good news.

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Great news for Liam Plunkett who has been recalled to England's test side

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for the first time in seven years. The former Durham player from

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Middlesbrough thought his test play might be over. He joins Yorkshire 's

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two players in the 12 man squad. There is no place though for Ben

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Stokes or Scott Borthwick. It was a night to remember for a young rugby

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player from Middlesbrough who will be in the premiership next season.

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He came through Middlesbrough 's ranks and plays for London Welsh. He

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scored a try in the championship play`off last night and it was

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eventually given after lengthily consultation with the video refs. He

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helped his side win promotion to the top flight. Tom May lifted the

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trophy there. A number of competitors for a region

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have been named for the Commonwealth games today.

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They will represent the country. 31`year`old Dan Carter won silver at

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the Delhi games in 20 ten but hopes to do even better in Scotland this

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summer. `` 2010. I got a couple of medals in the last games so I would

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love to do similar or even better coming up. It is massive for us. The

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Commonwealth Games is really there for us and we take it extremely

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seriously. It is a pinnacle for us. Time for the weather now.

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A few weeks ago, I went in dismal weather and tried to spot the

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ospreys returning. Since then, the birds have mated, laid eggs and

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chicks have started to appear. Of the six eggs, five have hatched so

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fingers crossed for another successful year for them and it

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looks like the trout there is going down a treat.

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Better weather for most of us tomorrow. A dry and sunny day.

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Feeling warmer. One or two showers around this evening will Peter out

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as we head through the evening. A dry night. One or two missed patches

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forming. A light, southerly breeze. A fine

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and dry day tomorrow with patchy cloud around but it will be well

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broken. Most should see good sunny spells through the day.

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A mostly southerly breeze tomorrow. In between the weather systems and

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things are set to change on Saturday. This weather front coming

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in from the west will bring Shari Raine. The risk of some really heavy

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thundery downpours. By Sunday, things are quieter `` it will bring

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showery rain. The possibility of thundery rain on

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Saturday. It is something to bear in mind if you venture outdoors. They

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will probably be in Cumbria and in the morning on Saturday. A fresher

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feel to things by the time we get to Sunday. In the north`east, the risk

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of rain on Saturday and local thundery downpours. A few flashes of

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lightning but some places will probably miss this completely. Dry

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and brighter on Sunday and feeling warm through the weekend. One or two

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showers on Monday. The headlines: two days of

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ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of D`Day have begun in

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France with Prince Charles amongst thousands of visitors honouring

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those who gave their lives in the Second World War.

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A report suggests that just one hospital, the University Hospital of

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North Durham, was responsible for half of all serious delays in

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treating 909 patients in the north`east.

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