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Good evening. They're supposed to improve choice for parents. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
But opponents of free schools, state`funded but free | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
of council control, claim they're a waste of taxpayer's money. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
And they claim two of our free schools prove their argument. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
New figures show free schools in Stockton | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
and Durham have filled fewer than two thirds of their places. | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
Supporters insist they're both on course for success. | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
It doesn't yet seem an obvious spot for education. | :00:33. | :00:41. | |
But this metal shed on an industrial estate is being | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
converted into the temporarx home of the region's latest free school, | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Over in that far corner, another classroom... | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
It had planned for 120 pupils in its first year. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
It will actually start with fewer than two thirds that number. | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
That worries the school's critics but dods not | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
I think a lot of people are waiting to sed is it | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
really going to open, what will be the quality of provision? | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
It's my opportunity with my staff to show them it's going to | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
This is an artist's impresshon of what the free school will | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
The council says the project will waste millhons | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
That money could have been far better spent in schools that already | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
This government has got a scheme which local residents | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
and parents will be able to engage with, which will deliver wh`t we | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
need, it will mean a brand`new, new`build secondary school. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
Work is due to start on a pdrmanent building by the end of this year. | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
The pupils and staff are expected to move in about 12 months later. | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
But the wider debate about the cost and the impact | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
of free schools across our region will go on much longer. | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
This is Durham free school which opened last September, | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
aiming for what it describes as a traditional Christian dthos. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
It is on a temporary site and has struggled to attract pupils | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
with numbers around 60% of the predicted figure. | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
Is it good value to be investing millions of pounds in half dmpty | :02:10. | :02:34. | |
schools when other schools `re crying out for investment? | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
Ministers believe the schools give parents better choice and qtality. | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
But critics say the policy still has not achieved | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
The police say the body found in a waste dump on Wearside was | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
But tonight, they say they're not yet treating his death as mtrder. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
From Washington, here's our Chief Reporter Chris Stewart. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
For the worker who made the discovery, a dreadful shock | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
How had the man ended up here and how had he died? | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
This afternoon, the police said they had not formally identified him | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
He was 26`year`old John Sumner from Lincoln Street in Sunddrland. | :03:15. | :03:24. | |
Detectives want to find out what he was doing in the days leading to | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
his death and they ask anyone with any information to contact them | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
This is a waste transfer station run by a | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
What's brought here comes from household bins, mainly from | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
Once here, the rubbish is sdparated for landfill, | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
We have been told that it w`s during this process that | :03:47. | :04:00. | |
We understand the body bore the marks of several injurids. | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
The police will say this is suspicious but have been careful | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
The site remains closed while investigation continuds. | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
?1 million worth of drugs have been taken to an | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
Cleveland Police's Drug Enforcement Team recovered them over | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
Their efforts have been prahsed by drugs workers. | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
But they say more still needs to be done. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
Recovered in raids, dumped and destroyed. | :04:25. | :04:34. | |
There's ?1 million worth of drugs here, bags and boxds packed | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
This was all seized because local people reportdd drug | :04:38. | :04:51. | |
Today really is a thank you to the public for all the information | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
and intelligence we get frol them that allows us to take action to | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
My unit is not just about taking the main dealers off, | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
it is also about the anti`social drug dealing that goes on in front | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
People on this Stockton est`te say the drug dealers and users have | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
Drugs are easy to get hold of here and a local support group | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
says it knows of children as young as 14 taking cocaine. | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
I think it's excellent that the public are now standing up, | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
ringing in, giving the police the inforlation | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
There's more drugs on the streets now, it's coling in | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
via the Internet, they're t`rgeting younger and younger people. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
As well as recovering all of this, Cleveland's newly formed | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Drug Enforcment Team has made around 200 arrests. | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
The depressing reality though is that on estates like this, the | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
problem doesn't seem to be going away and some days the war on drugs | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will perform | :05:59. | :06:09. | |
at the Great North Run Millhon Opening Ceremony later this year. | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
It's being staged on Saturday the 7th Septembdr to | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
mark the millionth finish at this year's Bupa Great North Run. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
Over the years, Knopfler's Local Hero track has | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
Good evening. At the amount of dry weather over the next few d`ys. Some | :06:22. | :06:47. | |
rain around tonight, the cloud producing some drizzly rain. | :06:48. | :06:55. | |
Temperatures in towns staying in double figures. A cloudy and damp | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
start in the West, but that range should become more showery during | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
the day. Eventually, at most places becoming dry. It will stay cool on | :07:05. | :07:15. | |
the North Eastern coast. As we headed through Friday and into the | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
weekend, still a lot of clotd around. But mostly dry. Most of the | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
rain will stay to the south of us. The National forecast now. Good | :07:28. | :07:28. | |
night. afternoon. It does turn more | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
unsettled and there would be heavy and thundery downpours around. Good | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
evening. A little bit later than usual. The weather over the next | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
couple of days will change. Let me show you the satellite picture. You | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
can see the cloud streaming across the Atlantic. This weather front | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
Weller upset the weather across -- will upset the weather in the | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
south-west. As | :08:05. | :08:05. |