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Hello and welcome to Monday's Look North on the 100th anniversary of

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Communities commemorate the men who left to fight,

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We revisit the mile`long munitions factory on the Tyne which stpplied

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And we journey back in time to 914, to learn about the lives of those

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In other news, Norman Cornish, the coalminer who painted

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the pit communities of County Durham, has died, aged 94.

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In sport, as we say goodbye to the Commonwealth Games, we look back at

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another unforgettable golden weekend for our region's athletes.

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tonight, it'll be 100 years to the minute since Britain declared

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Commemoration events started at the weekend.

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And today, communities across the region have marked the centenary

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We have a series of reports coming up from Teesside,

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Meanwhile, on Tyneside at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, a seven`metre

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high chandelier, comprised of 60 huge poppies was unvehled

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Minster, followed by the release of racing pigeons to symbolise

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the vital war work by these birds, carrying messages to and

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Meanwhile, on Tyneside at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, a seven`metre

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high chandelier, comprised of 60 huge poppies was unvehled

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A religious service there w`s attended by the Bishop of Durham.

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Around 100 people took part in a short service at the War Memorial

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in the grounds of Saint Andrew's Church in Penrith this mornhng.

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It was the first of a number of events held there throughout

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the day to commemorate the start of the First World War.

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It is really commemorating the generation of youth who lost

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I am always reminded, reading the poetry of 1914, the vision of hope

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That wonderful future was never going to be theirs.

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100 years on, the names of the fallen reminded the congregation

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A book was opened for peopld to record the names of family and

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What we have now is gained from those brave soldiers,

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Who gave their lives so we could be free.

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When you visit the battlefidlds and see the stuff very fought

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Today's service wasn't about the glorification of war but

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remembering those who died to give us freedom and hope for the future.

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The sunflower, it comes into full bloom at the end of the summer.

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But 1,245 of them, grown all across Stockton, have been cut down early,

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cut down in their prime, and brought here to the Parish Church gardens.

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Each one represents a townsman lost in the Great War.

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Almost within minutes of cutting them down they start to wilt. It is

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that sudden, instant loss of life that we are trying to reflect.

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The sunflower also reflects the vibrancy

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and youthful splendour of the men of Stockton who never returned and are

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1,245 individual stories of sacrifice, bravery, fear,

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Private Thomas Hughes's maybe the most poignant.

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A last letter to his wife, tossed overboard mid`channel in a bottle.

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Thomas Hughes was going off to war to fight, he sent a love letter to

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his wife and wanted it to be his wife and wanted it to be

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delivered. Two days later, he was killed. It wasn't until 1988

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delivered. Two days later, he was killed. It wasn't until 1989 that

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killed. It wasn't until 1988 that the letter got delivered to his

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family. I am here with my brothers

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and sisters, Continuing with our World War One

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coverage and all this week on Look North we have a series of reports

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looking at the contribution of But following the German invasion

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of Belgium, Britain declared war Tonight, remembrance campaigners are

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hoping people will mark the exact 100th anniversary of the outbreak

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of war in a special, symbolic, way. Gerry Jackson is on the

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Tyne Quayside to explain. Dawn, Britain's Foreign Secretary

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was Sir Edward Grey, a Northumberland native who would have

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preferred to have been up hdre. Instead he tried to prevent a

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European war. The story goes that as piece ebbed away, he looked out of

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the window and saw gas lamps being extinguished, he

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we will not see the lights `gain in our lifetime. They are asking now

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for us all to turn our lights off at ten out of respect. When it came to

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making weapons and munitions, there were few places more vital to that

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than one narrow strip of land close to the Tyne.

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It was the biggest privatelx owned arms company on the planet.

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Vast enough in 2014, but in the Great War, these works

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on the Tyne stretched for more than a mile along the river.

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It was the legacy of the Northeast's greatest industrialist.

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William Armstrong built a crane making plant here, hn 1 47,

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by 1900 Lord Armstrong controlled a shipbuilding

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He laid the groundwork. It was his incredible ambition and divhsion.

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He laid the groundwork. It was his incredible ambition and division. He

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incredible ambition and divhsion. He was an extraordinary man, an

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inventor, scientists, visionary. There was an arms race years

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before the Great War. Armstrongs built advanced w`rships

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and the huge guns But by the time hostilities broke

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out in 1914, the company was ready Within a year,

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this had become total war. The war is unprecedented in almost

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every aspect. Particularly in the every aspect. Particularly in the

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scale of production. This is really central in the national and

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international picture. The whole empire was looking at Britahn and

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empire was looking at Britain and what we could do in our armhng the

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what we could do in our arming the Empire. Later in the war, t`nks

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ships and aircraft were all made here.

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By 1918 nearly 80,000 people worked on ships, arms and munitions,

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It was well paid, but production quotas were relentless.

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Absolutely, you had a very fierce shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off.

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Absolutely, you had a very fierce shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off You

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shifts. 12 hour shifts. One off. You certainly had to produce. The whole

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thing was targets. It opened a lot of opportunities, there was a

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positive side. It was also very challenging, there was a fear of

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accidents and attack. Factories were plunged into darkness somethmes

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because of Zeppelin raids. I was because of Zeppelin raids. I was

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only there two nights when H because of Zeppelin raids. H was

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only there two nights when H bent down and caught my hair in the

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machine. Everybody was all out to get the job done and they worked all

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out. Another consequence

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of this expanded workforce: a sense of common purpose that we'd

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never seen the like of before. The nature of this war is that the

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well. Everybody is fighting the war well. Everybody is fighting the war

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when they are in khaki or in a factory.

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Eventually, the might of empire, allies and ammunition would prevail.

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The weight of the Armstrong Whitworth contribttion,

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But the ghosts of a century ago would scarcely recognise

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A mile downstream, brickwork fragments of a crucible of war.

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This is the last surviving bit of the works. That is rather poignant

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when you think what it was like There has been a lot about the

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military in the world war. I think military in the world war. I think

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we should give more emphasis to what was happening on home territory,

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we should give more emphasis to what was happening on home territory it

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was happening on home territory, it was a social revolution, thd

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beginning of the modern world. I don't think any event has had as

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much of an effect on the world as the First World War. There are

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the First World War. There `re places in the world that have a

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profound impact on that wall, no more place than here. Tonight, we

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are all being asked to turn off our lights to mark that last hotr of

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lights to mark that last hour of peace in August 1914. From ten until

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11pm, the organisers are asking us to light a candle instead. There are

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places up and down the region, where ceremonial switch off is taking

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Do you share your pictures of via Do you share your pictures of via

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social media. We'll see the lights going out in our latest news at

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10:30pm tonight. The First World War claimed nearly 1 million British and

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Commonwealth lives, there wdre nine Commonwealth lives, there wdre nine

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or ten million killed around the world. It is no surprise th`t it

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world. It is no surprise that it still has such an emotional poll for

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us all. Practically every f`mily in us all. Practically every f`mily in

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Britain was affected. Ceremonies of remembrance began over the weekend.

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We try to speech the social history, how it affected the country. Massive

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social change. We are basic`lly social change. We are basic`lly

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civilians in uniforms. The volunteers weren't soldiers, there

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were just men doing the job because they felt it was right. A sense

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were just men doing the job because they felt it was right. A sdnse of

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duty and packages. We are doing it as homage to them. `` duty and

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as homage to them. `` duty `nd patriotism.

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Still to come, Dawn has all the action from the closing weekend

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Plus Norman Cornish, the mine r who painted the scenes he saw

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There is sand and sun here `t the North East's nudist beach resort,

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join me for the weather fordcast. North East's nudist beach rdsort,

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join me for the weather forecast. `` newest beach.

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Returning to the World War One commemoration.

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And perhaps the place where it's possible to imagine what life really

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was like in 1914, is Beamish Museum in County Durham.

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The reconstructed town and pit village date back to that period,

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and today volunteers recreated a day from 1914 for museum visitors.

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If you had been shot in the arm, so that he could still move his arm...

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Their great`great`grandfathers fought in the First World W`r,

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at Beamish today, families got a brief idea of what

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Possibly all those things, maybe worried?

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To commemorate the start of the First World War, Bealish is

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evoking poignant memories, displays and exhibitions taking us back 100

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Here, this group of women were knitting

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for the Allied forces, in 1814 on the front line there was a desperate

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You just have to read some of the letters that came home from the

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front about how grateful thd men were shortage of socks and mittens.

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Things like socks or mittens or something like that to make life

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At 11 o'clock, the last post was played,

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Marking the day that Britain declared war on Germany.

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It changed dramatically everyone's lives to families,

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In the North East, like a lot of other areas, we suffered.

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100 years on, and memories of the great War still

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A new generation today learning to stop and think.

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Tributes have been paid to the County Durham artist Norman Cornish,

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who has died at the age of 84. Norman Cornish was a miner for 33

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years and spent his life pahnting images of the pit communities around

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his home town of Spennymoor, with the paintings selling for thousands

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of pounds. Sharuna Sagar looks back at his life.

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Norman Cornish won his first drawing competition

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at the age of four and went on to spend the next 7 decades capturing

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He said all humanity was here, and he spent his life drawing it.

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These people are not interested in me, they are not posing for me.

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It is enormously difficult, a talent,

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Like his father and grandfather before him, Norman Cornish went

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down the mine at 14 and continued working there until he was 47.

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Considering that he spent 33 years working in the mines, he was still

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able to do his 12, 14 hour shift, walk four hours a day to and

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Then later, continue to support his wife and children.

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He gradually received recognition from other galleries and museums.

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Largely self taught, his artistic education began

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at the age of 15 at the Spennymoor Settlement, a sketching club

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His sketches and paintings `re a unique record of a time

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The ordinary becomes unusual as time passes.

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It happened that it seems I have recorded a bit of human history.

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An amazing client who will be very sadly mist. Mark, like me, you

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An amazing client who will be very sadly mist. Mark, like me, xou got

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sadly mist. Mark, like me, you got up to Glasgow. It was a gre`t

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up to Glasgow. It was a great Commonwealth Games wasn't it? Yes,

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not least because we won some not least because we won sole

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medals. Well the Commonwealth Games finally

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drew to a close at But before they did,

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the medals kept on coming for our region another seven over the final

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weekend, including two gold medals. Hartlepool's Savannah Marshall has

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had her trials and tribulathons But she put her Olympic

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disappointment and ten months of injury troubles behind her to become

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the first women's middleweight It took a split decision victory

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over Canada's Ariane Fortin but The conversation over the dinner

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table might have been a bit strained It was a lot closer than I thought

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it would be, but I am happy. There are a lot of people who camd that I

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are a lot of people who came that I didn't know were there. Somd of my

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friends came and stood outside. didn't know were there. Some of my

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friends came and stood outshde. They friends came and stood outside. They

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didn't have tickets and stood outside in the rain. They c`me up

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from Hartlepool just to be there? Yes, they got here and realised the

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Yes, they got here and realhsed the price of the tickets. We can afford

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it so stood outside. The conversation over the dinner

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table might have been a bit strained had they lost, but Paul Drinkhall

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from Loftus in East Cleveland did leave Glasgow with a table tennis

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gold medal after he and his wife Joanna beat

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their England teammates Liam Pitchford and Tin Tin Ho in five

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tense sets in the mixed doubles. Danny Reed, from Hutton Rudby ,

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who first met Paul at the Ormesby club in Middlesbrough,

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made it an England clean`swdep with Stockton's Richard Kilty helped

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secured Silver for England, in the 4 by 100 metres relay, he ran the

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third leg in what was a tight race And there were two bronze medals

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for Carlisle's Lauren Smith in the badminton doubles,

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and Harrogate's James Willstrop Earlier Harrogate's Jenny Dtcalf

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helped singles runner`up Laura And the North Yorkshire spa town is

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still revelling in the diving success of Jack Laugher, with

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his two gold medals, while ht seems a lifetime ago that South Shields

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hailed Sarah Clark's judo gold at the start of a games which will be

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fondly remembered for years to come. I haven't done the maths, but I

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think it was one of our region's best medal hauls. Look wherd we

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finished on the table, 11th. There were three for ex`pupils of a school

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in Carlisle. Equal 20th in our table. Sunderland are close to

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signing Jack Rodwell from Manchester city.

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Newcastle United put the disappointment of losing to

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Malaga in the Shalke Cup on Saturday behind them last night as they beat

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Shalke, who came third in the Bundesliga last season,

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were without a number of players and Newcastle took the lead when

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Rolando Aarons whipped in a cross for Emmanual Riviere to score.

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18`year`old Aarons, who's originally from Jamaica came

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to the club as a 16`year`old and was the star of the show

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as he scored one of his own after the break, he might have had a bit

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of luck on his side but brilliant whether he meant it or not.

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And Newcastle sealed victory 20 minutes from time when new signing

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Facundo Ferreyra put the ball through to Remy Cabella to

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Undefeated and top of the group the Falcons go through undefeated to

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the finals at Twickenham Stoop on Friday where they hope to repeat

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Cumbria, but here a little cloudier. It will cloud over more generally in

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the West as the weather front approaches. Showers break out across

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approaches. Showers break ott across the West Coast of Cumbria, spilling

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inland into the evening. For the north`east and North Yorkshhre, it

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north`east and North Yorkshire, it stays dry, with highs of 22 Celsius.

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The big picture now, our prdssure The big picture now, our pressure

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sequence. We pick it up tomorrow evening, the low`pressure sxstem

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evening, the low`pressure system that brings those showers to Cumbria

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continues. Showers or longer spells of rain across the north`east and

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Cumbria. A ridge of high prdssure on Cumbria. A ridge of high pressure on

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Thursday, settling things for the day. On Friday, a week when the

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system could bring a few more showers from the south. Let's take a

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look at what that will mean in detail around our towns, cities and

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villages. In Cumbria, Wednesday is a wash out. Things settle on Thursday,

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bright skies are back. Any North East, very similar as well,

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Wednesday is Shari all day. Showers clear later. `` showers all day.

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clear later. `` showers all day Friday, bright spells and showers.

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That is the forecast here at the quayside, some weather for playing

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outdoors. Back to you, Dawn. She might make the team yet. I will be

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back with the latest news at 10:25pm, goodbye.

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