08/07/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

for the patients of the future. That's all from us. Now on BBC One

Good evening. It's an investigation that has seen detectives spdak to

But eight months after three`year`old Danny Wake was

hit and killed by a van in Darlington, the police s`y they

Today, at the inquest into the toddler's death, the coroner

said the problem was that nobody saw the exact moment he was killed.

That's how Danny's family described him.

They'd all been out to help the toddler,

seen here in the green jackdt, choose his Christmas presents.

Moments later, he was hit by a van and killed.

His family appealed for the driver to come forw`rd.

Words can only describe how we as a family are feeling since the

Instead of looking forward to planning our Christmas as a family,

we are now facing the devastating task of planning Danny's funeral.

Eight months on, and after a major police investigation, an

Danny was walking along here a few yards behind

his family when the police believe he lost sight of his mother for

Now at that exact moment, an eyewitness told

the police that he saw a white van coming along thhs road.

He said he saw something behng lifted into the air

The eyewitness told the polhce that the van then went over the body

But a pathologist said Dannx's injuries did not fit with someone

being thrown into the air and driven over.

Crucially, nobody saw the moment the toddler was hit.

We are confident that we have examined every relevant piece

of evidence in our attempts to trace the driver of the vehhcle

We are and will continue to follow any new

Danny's family continue to `ppeal to anyone with information to

The coroner recorded a verdhct of accidental death.

And despite thousands of hotrs of police investigation,

and more than 300 interviews, it is still not known who w`s

Flash flooding caused chaos across parts of the region this morning.

Heavy rain in parts of Tyneside hit roads and public servicds.

In South Shields a school w`s closed and a hospital had to shut hts

This was the Tyne Dock area in South Shields.

Roads were closed and services on the Tyne and Wear metro were

South and North Tyneside bore the brunt.

And at this hospital, there was chaos for staff in the accident

and emergency department whdn part of their building flooded.

Floodwater came through the main entrances, accident and emergency,

and also, there was leakage into our waiting room through the fl`t roof,

so that meant for a time we couldn't take emergency patients where they

were meant to be taken, and we had to move patients out

Radiology, where we do all of our main x`rays

etc, that was also affected with leakage from the roof and also with

This evening services at thd hospital are back to normal but the

Durham Crown Court was hit by lightning.

All of a sudden there was a mighty bang, I've never hdard

I looked out, and there was smoke coming out.

The lady came to the front door I don't think she knew what had

But she came to the front door and she was in shock, you could tell.

Tonight it seems a repeat of these scenes is unlikely.

Weather forecasters say the risk of further heavy showers is receding.

The new Bishop of Durham has said the Government's

inquiry into sexual abuse whthin the country's institutions hs both

The Right Reverend Paul Butler has become one of the leading voices

on the issue, and says he hopes the victils of

such abuse have the strength to come forward and tell their storhes.

We need to look at instituthonal abuse across`the`board.

So government institutions but also the church, schools and so on.

The issue is why is it that abusers manage to get into instituthons

work with each other, perhaps, across institutions?

And root out that institutional abuse.

A campaign to tackle underage drinking in County Durham h`s

The North East has the highest number of under`ge

drinkers in the UK and the highest number of alcohol`related hospital

Recently, a few cases of underage drinking here h`ve hit

the headlines including a nine year`old girl who was rushed

to hospital after drinking vodka, and a 12 year`old admitted

Police will now be targetting areas of underage drinking

But enforcement is only part of the plan.

Education in schools, education by parents, and for parents, they

Very often there is a need to provide what we c`ll

diversionary activities, that means providing young people

with something else to do other than go out in the parks and drink.

So in different places, all of those things will form part of the

toolkit that's necessary to address this real blight on our sochety

The death of a man who escaped from a police car and was found

at the bottom of cliffs in South Tyneside, will not be dealt

with by the Independent Polhce Complaints Commission.

Karl Carson had been arrestdd following a fight in the car park

of Marsden Grotto in South Shields on Sunday night.

The incident was referred to the IPCC, but it has decided th`t the

investigation into what happened will remain with Northumbri` Police.

A community group which failed to buy Blencathra

near Keswick last week may still be able to purchase it after all.

The Friends of Blencathra l`st night applied to Eden District Cotncil to

have the mountain listed as a community asset, and were stccesful.

The successful purchaser of Blencathra, and the agredd

That's it from me this evenhng but let's see now

if the weather's going to c`use any more problems, with Paul Mooney

It is certainly dry over thd next 24 hours, dry overnight tonight. Broken

cloud, clear spells, one or two mist patches inland. Temperatures in one

or two places in single figtres `` double figures. Dry spells tomorrow,

patchy cloud. Quite warm in places especially in the West, temperatures

peaking at about 22 or 23 ddgrees. Feeling cooler near the north`east

coast with quite a brisk Northwind and a cloud thickening up. @ weather

front comes in from the east which will be with us on Thursday

producing cloud and add bre`dth of rain especially in the east, further

west, dry, bright and warm. The full national forecast shortly.

Good evening, the rain in Rio is matching the mood, I suspect, this

evening. Here, we will take a day off from the rain tomorrow, at least

most of us. There will be sunshine around. The showers will be back for

the end of the week. Dry over night virtually everywhere. Winds easing

down in many places except towards the North Sea coasts. The south west

will keep a breeze going. Not a cold night, temperatures holding 12- 4

degrees typically. A dry day virtually everywhere tomorrow. Cloud

breaking up to allow good spells of sunshine coming through,

particularly to Scotland, northern England, Wales and