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still the potential. Quite nasty weather. To keep an eye

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Meanwhile, four men are arrested over the deaths and are reported

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The loss of two young people with so much promise and such good students,

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A man is seriously ill after being bitten by a snake three

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The pride of Cumbria ` we mark the tenth anniversary of the county's

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Why York has been voted one of the UK's best performing retail centres.

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In sport, as Middlesbrough prepare to kick off their new Championship

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campaign, we find out what the town's cabbies think

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The double world and Olympic champion will take part

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Friends and colleagues of two Newcastle students murdered

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in Borneo have staged a candlelit vigil on the island

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tonight amid shock and anger at the attack that cost them their lives.

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Flowers mark the spot where Neil Dalton

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Five other Tyneside medics are now preparing to fly home.

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Meanwhile, in the last few hours, one of those accused of the murder

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Our correspondent, Peter Harris, is live at Newcastle University

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I guess the observation that leaps out tonight is the speed with which

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events are moving. We have had the local police chief in Malaysia

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declaring the place solved `` the case solved. We then had a battery

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of cameras and across town the tributes being placed in memory of

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the students who died, and from Newcastle here, we have had two

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academics arriving in Borneo to work with the five remaining students who

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were part of this group who are still there, and to deal with the

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aftermath. This is the place where Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger were

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attacked. Obviously they are horribly upset. Mixed up... They

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want to go home, they want to finish off. Across town, one of the accused

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appears before a Malaysian court. If convicted, he faces death. Three

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others were also held, and yet violence of this kind is apparently

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unusual. This is very, very unusual. Most people are quite

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friendly and helpful. I believe this is the first time this thing has

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ever happened here. One Facebook page did suggest, though, that

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students had been warned about the danger of nightlife there and the

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deaths has been big news in Malaysia's media. The university's

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relationship with the far east is well`established and placements of

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this type are commonplace, which, if anything, only increases the sense

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of shock. Just awful. Everybody is so shocked. It is difficult to

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described. The loss of young people with such promise, two students so

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close to becoming doctors. It is tragic and I think everybody in the

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place feels there is just an air of silent still, and shock, in the

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medical school. The father of Aidan Brunger lives in Northumberland. His

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MP said the loss was a devastating blow. As for Aidan's friends,

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meanwhile, amid the tributes in Borneo, they are now preparing for

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the journey home. Clearly a dreadful situation for the

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remaining students who are still out there. But very important to

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remember what has been lost here once again, though, because amid all

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the news stories that have happened, let's reflect on the words of a

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friend of Aidan, who said he was the life and soul of the party, one of

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the nicest people you could meet and somebody nobody had a bad word to

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say about. This was someone, along with the other students, who would

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have become a doctor and given great service to this country and to

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medicine, and that, I am afraid, is what has been lost.

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Very sad indeed. Thank you for that. Newcastle United has announced

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a formal tribute to the two fans killed on last month's

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fatal Malaysia Airlines flight. John Alder and Liam Sweeney were

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on their way to watch the team play in New Zealand when Flight MH17 was

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shot down over Ukraine. The club has chosen

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its first home game this season, against Manchester City, for a

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minute's silence and a wreath`laying They will be accompanied

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by representatives of both men's families, and by Jimmy

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Montgomery from Sunderland Footabll Club, whose fans have helped raise

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funds and sent messages of support. Newcastle United is also creating

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a garden which will be called The Alder`Sweeney Memorial Garden,

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as well as an annual community A 44`year`old man is seriously ill

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in hospital after being bitten three times by

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an adder on the North York Moors. It happened at Dalby Forest,

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near Pickering. After treatment at the scene

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from an off`duty paramedic, the man, who's from South Yorkshire, was

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airlifted to James Cook University His condition is described

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as stable. It's the only venomous snake in

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Britain, and although not generally seen as life`threatening, bites from

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adders can kill, with 14 recorded The latest incident in

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North Yorkshire's Dalby Forest involved a 44`year`old man who was

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bitten yesterday. The man, from South Yorkshire,

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is believed to have picked the snake up before receiving three

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seperate bites. But for that to happen in a North

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Yorkshire forest is very rare. We have 400,000 visitors that

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come to Dalby every year. It is a very rare occasion to

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actually see an adder, We do advise that if members of the

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public are out there and they do come across an adder, it's a real

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privilege to see, and if they want to observe from a safe distance then

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we can do that, but we wouldn't expect people to be touching

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the adders at all. The injured man was flown by Air

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ambulance to James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough,

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where his condition has been Experts say the bites will be

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painful, causing medical conditions A small male adder such as this is

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quite capable of inflicting quite It's a fascinating`looking creature

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that will only actually bite if it's stepped on or if it's picked

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up by somebody who doesn't really understand the potential danger that

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they're putting themselves in. People walking in the countryside

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have been urged to be extra vigilant but experts say if left alone, this

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poisonous snake should be harmless. The sight of Air Ambulances

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in our skies is so common nowadays, it's easy to forget how lucky we

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are to have them. Today marks ten years since Cumbria

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got its own dedicated aircraft, and this helicopter alone has

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probably saved countless lives. Today,

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some of those with special reason to be grateful to the service, all

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of it funded by public donations, At close to 200 miles an hour,

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in practically any weather. She serves a population of 3.5

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million in 88,000 square miles. In this part of the world,

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the advantages of fast, direct And on this, her tenth birthday,

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her name, Pride of Cumbria, Certainly to the people gathered to

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thank the pilots, paramedics Well, to give you an idea of the

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workload, this aircraft has been out more than 500 times in the last year

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alone, and in the ten years of dedicated service, Cumbria air

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ambulances have flown more than 400,000 times `` 4000 times.

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We can't know how may lives they've saved or transformed

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by being able to reach any hospital in the North within around half

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an hour, but triathlete Alastair, who broke his neck and back

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It could have been two or three hours bumping along in an ambulance

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with my spine in a very precarious condition, so it could be the

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difference between walking and talking and making a full recovery.

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Five years ago, my son had an accident and the speed of getting

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there in the Air Ambulance from the pick`up made all the difference to

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him. I think he would have died. But this and the other two

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Great North Air Ambulances get no The Cumbria craft was grounded

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for a while for lack of money. Whether it is our salaries, the

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fuelling of the aircraft, the running of it, we depend on the

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public for our donations. And on the day Prince William

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revealed his new job as an Air Ambulance pilot,

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words of encouragement. It is just doing a job but I do know

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we do make a difference and it is very worthwhile. So far the big

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difference is not being shocked at! `` shot at! An agreement announced

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this morning will keep train services running till 2026 and will

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include services from Bradford to King's Cross and means they can

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invest in further stock. There will be car park in facilities at

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stations served by the new route. Since 2009, the council has lost two

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separate cases at the High Court over Carlisle airport. The council

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said legal costs which total around ?450,000 were unavoidable.

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Less government money is being spent on infrastructure in the north`east

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than in any other part of England. That is according to a think`tank.

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Researchers looked at spending on transport, broadband, flood defences

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and other major project and said while more than ?5,000 a head was

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spent in London, only ?223 per person was dedicated to the

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north`east, lower than any other region.

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York has been ranked the fourth`best`performing shopping

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The city came behind Surrey, Oxfordshire and Brighton,

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but ahead of parts of London, in research to find the UK's

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Here's our business correspondent, Ian Reeve.

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York's shopping scene. Amidst the city and its upmarket shops, they

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now have the title of the UK's for most healthy retail location. But

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what is meant by healthy? The company that took up the research

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has looked at how much it shoppers spend, what type of shops there are

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and how many shops are vacant. York beat parts of London. Not a surprise

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here at this department store. Leeds used to dominate and it is not doing

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that any more. We are bringing them across and bringing in some of the

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senior retailers, who have put their flagships here into Stonegate and

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bought some new restaurants, so we are seeing a lot of changes in York,

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which is what people enjoy, of course, and that stimulates

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interest, and we are seeing footfall growing. But not everybody thinks

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York is quite so free of problems. It is structurally challenged by the

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Internet. And we have been battling with the closure of an important

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bridge and the opening of the new out of town outlets where there is

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free parking. But it could be worse. Out of 128 UK areas, towns and

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cities which had their retail pulse taken, our region has plenty bumping

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along the bottom. Sunderland in 111th place. Parts of Teesside at

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116th. No doubt both would happily swap places with retail`healthy

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York. Now, the North Yorkshire town of Knaresborough might not be the

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most obvious place for a festival but they have been creating a beach

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in the middle of town. It is open to the public as part of the festival

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which runs until the 17th of August. They obviously approached the art

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and craft centre and asked us to host it here, which goes to show all

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the different ideas they have. The festival is always changing and

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bringing new things to Knaresborough. Obviously we are a

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happy to host this event and think it is really incredible. It will

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bring an awful lot of fun here. Still to come on

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Thursday's Look North, tonight's And I will be here with a fall

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weather forecast, with details of how Hurricane Bertha could affect

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our weather. 100 years ago,

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at the start of the First World War, The conscientious objectors,

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who refused to fight on the grounds In North Yorkshire,

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one group of these men became known In the fourth in our series

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of special reports commemorating the start of war, Phil Connell

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investigates their story. It is watched over Richmond for

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almost a thousand years. `` it has. An imposing castle. At the start of

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the First World War, the cells here at Richmond Castle housed a group of

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men that many recorded in Britain as cowards. Conscientious objectors who

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became known as the Richmond 16. They simply would not do anything.

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They maintained an utterly rigid stance over any action that could be

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seen to further the war effort. So what was it that drove these men?

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What were their beliefs? For the majority of us just conviction. That

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they should not in any way participate in the harm of other

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human beings. One of the best`known members was Norman Gordy, a keen

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sportsman who played cricket and football for both Darlington and

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Sunderland. Sport was very important. It was a very important

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part of his life. They weren't really any other entertainment for

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young men in those days. `` there weren't. His daughter`in`law says he

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refused to fight on religious beliefs and as a Quaker family, it

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is still a view they support. He was absolutely certain in his own mind

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that he was not going to fight. I think it was the courage of his

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convictions that he felt there was no other way.

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At the start of the war, a national campaign was launched to recruit

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thousands of volunteers to the war effort. Later, conscription

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followed, though the conscientious objectors still refuse to serve

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their country as soldiers. The Richmond 16 were held in the cells

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for just several weeks. Today it is part of a castle that is not open to

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the public. The reason being to preserve the historical graffiti

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scratched onto the walls here by the men who refused to fight. This is

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one of the cells, tiny. Not necessarily any heating. A very

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plain bed. But in this cell Norman was held and here we have a more

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sketch of a classic sort of late Victorian`Edwardian lady. As

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casualties rose on the battlefield, the actions of the Richmond 16 were

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seen as unacceptable. They were sent to France to be court`martialed and

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executed, though the orders were overturned at the 11th hour. The men

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returned to Britain as social outcasts, there lies never quite the

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same again. After he was released from prison, he found it very hard

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to get any work. People did not want to employ someone who had been,

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according to them, a coward. 100 years on, the sketches and writings

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of these 16 men are now part of history. For them, a different kind

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of war fought on the grounds of religious or political beliefs.

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Amazing story. Now, working for military

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intelligence might sound like But right now, the Army is looking

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for around 90 new recruits who'll They'll end up joining

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the reserves in Gateshead. Special agent Jonathan Swingler

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reports. Think of military intelligence

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and images of the Cold War spring to mind,

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and of course, all the fun gadgets. So we were surprised to be invited

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here to this building in Gateshead but I am a bit disappointed

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it is not a glamorous secret base. I'm just going to have a look

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inside to see what is going on. Some parts of the military are being

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cut but here they are looking In this area we intend to expand

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from a detachment of 12 to Tonight's new recruits are being

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taught about intelligence cells. The fictional scenario involves

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investigating drug dealing For the people starting out

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in military intelligence, what Of course James Bond! It doesn't

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matter, if you ask anyone, if someone says, no, that is not what I

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thought of, they are probably lying. I imagined going down the outside of

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the building, smashing through a window ` all that good stuff! Emily

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has just finished her maths degree. Hidden underground with all this

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information, people running around, quite secretive. That is the image

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in my head! To be involved in the action and to be responsible with

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safeguarding the territory of the UK, quite a responsibility but I

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feel I can do it. So who is the ideal candidate for this kind of

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work? We have had firemen,

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astrophysicists, policewoman. Really we are a very, very broad church.

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The last few hours have been spent looking at maps and charts. Sadly,

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there weren't any car chases and not a single explosion!

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Still looked like fun, didn't it? Time for the sport now, and a few

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big names have already been announced for the Great North Run.

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What is one of them? Yes! Mo Farah will be pounding the route for a

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second year running. He has taken part in a number of events over the

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past few years but last year was his first attempt at the famous half

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marathon itself, where he was beaten into second place. He pulled out of

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the Commonwealth Games after not recovering in time from an illness.

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He is currently preparing for the 10000 and 5000 metres double. Lord

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Coe will play a key role in the celebrations. That is after the

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Great North Run becomes the first running event in the world to record

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its 1,000,000th runner. In football, Al Hatch bar has joined

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Bastille on loan. The Black Cats have confirmed another loan deal for

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Argentinian centre back Santiago Regine E has been done. Also

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returning to the region is Stephen Elliott, who has just signed a

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one`year deal with Carlisle United of League Two.

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The football league season kicks off in less than 48 hours time, with

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Middlesbrough ready for their first full season with their head coach.

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The Spaniard has made a nub of changes over the summer but what do

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the fans make of it all? The best way of finding out what the public

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is thinking is to ask a cabbie! I've got a good feeling about this

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season. The players coming in. The players out of international duty.

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Definitely a good opening in the right direction.

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There is a feeling of optimism in Teesside. You can feel it in the

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air. To be honest, excited with the punters. They get in the car and

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talk about it. They have signed goalkeeper from Real Madrid. I think

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that is quite exciting, isn't it? They seem well optimistic about it.

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Exciting changes. Possibly a defined kind of football this year. A lot of

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attacking. Some tough teams in the

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championship. I think I would be happy with a play`off place. Not

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being too, like, optimistic. Much of the optimism stems from

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their head coach, who is enjoying his first full pre`season and has

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made some low`key but useful looking acquisitions. We won six in the last

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eight, we keep a clean sheet at the end and this is the way to build the

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team now. We're improving the squad with new players and every day we

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have to improve. I would like to have two or three more new players

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before the finish. He has taken the club forward

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because in the past it has lingered because in the past it has

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back on where it was and had a few back on where it was and had a few

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bad seasons and gone through thick and thin. I think he is taking the

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club in the right direction. Fingers crossed! We will have more

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football tomorrow. I had the sun cream out this

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morning. Briefly but it was hot! Absolutely. Lovely weather in

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Cumbria but a different story tomorrow. The headline to go with

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this photo, heavy showers, particularly for the coast and

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Cumbria. Sunshine with the sun not sitting until just before 9pm. Any

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isolated showers will dry up overnight. A cooler night than last

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night for many parts. Clear skies allowing temperatures to fall to

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around ten degrees by morning. First thing tomorrow, we are expecting

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more sunshine but it does not last. A weather warning in place from 10am

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for heavy, slow moving showers. So, first thing tomorrow, sunny in

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Cumbria with a lovely start to the day. But soon, the weather starts to

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turn in North Yorkshire, with those heavy showers spilling in from the

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south. That is late morning into the afternoon. Some of those showers are

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thundery. This isn't exactly where the lightning will strike. Just an

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indication of quite how unsettled tomorrow's weather could be. Many

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parts will avoid the showers as they are slow`moving, and places should

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be bright with temperatures up to 22. But the showers will be heavy

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and persistent in the West and this weather warning here is out till

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8pm. The north`east has no weather warning but there could still be

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heavy showers. This is the satellite image over the next few days. The

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pressure is low but that will clear on Friday and we expect a dry,

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bright day for most parts on Saturday. This system in the South

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is what will be left of ex`hurricane Bertha. She works her way north and

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east words through the end of the weekend and into Monday, so for us,

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that means heavy, prolonged showers, possibly thundery through

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the later part of Sunday, especially for the north`east coast. Even

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Monday, notice although the rain has cleared the north`east, it is still

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raining for much of Cumbria and the winds are likely to be strong. A

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real dartboard look to the pressure chart! Those winds are whirling

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around. Thank you very much. The girls are

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on duty tonight and tomorrow as well. Thank you for watching.

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Goodbye.

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