18/08/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

you might stay dry. The temperatures will still be

We are still going away on foreign holidays

and not covering ourselves up as much as they want.

We still consider it good to have a healthy suntan.

50,000 fans pay their respects

to the two Newcastle United supporters killed on flight MH17.

From the bottom of my heart, I love everybody at this moment.

to stop our pubs being turned into shops.

Now Collabro are releasing their debut album.

Meet the boys as they visit the North East and Cumbria.

In sport, our Premier League clubs can only muster

one point between them, but they are off and running.

And 11 years after that drop goal by Jonny Wilkinson,

England's women, captained by a North East teacher,

return home with the Rugby Union World Cup.

It's a wretched illness that affects just about every family.

And new figures seem to suggest the North is now falling behind the rest

for a renewed fight to beat the disease.

The number of people killed by breast, bowel, prostate

and lung cancers is down 30% across the UK, compared with 20 years ago.

But in this region, the fall is only 24%.

And more people are now dying of liver and skin cancers.

Clive was 60 when, like other men his age, he was sent

a testing kit for bowel cancer, but, feeling no symptoms, he did what

Fortunately for him, his wife had other ideas.

Wife Margaret took it from the bin, reminded me that dad died off

by bowel cancer, I did the test, it proved abnormal.

Subsequently, a colonoscopy examination.

Without any doubt, if I had not done that test,

and that early recognition, by the time I developed symptoms,

The key to Clive's survival was early detection,

but there is still much work to be done with cancer generally.

Cancer Research UK says death rates in some cancers are improving.

Things like breast cancer and bowel cancer.

But there are other forms of the disease where it says things

In Middlesborough alone, 200 new cases every year.

The message isn't getting through to many people.

We are still going away on foreign holidays and not covering

It is still considered good to have a healthy suntan.

But the main cause of whatever kind of skin cancer people can

Liver cancer death rates, often linked to drinking,

have also got worse, as has lung cancer, among women at least.

Among the answers is early detection and more research.

What we do know is the more research you do the better

the survival rate, the lower the death rates, so the more research we

can do into all the different kinds of cancer, the better.

Clive, meanwhile, is in the best of health.

Seven years after the routine test he almost ignored, he is a living

example of the benefits of better treatment and early detection.

Peter joins us live from the BBC Tees newsroom.

Clearly there's good news here about falling cancer death rates.

But our region seems to be falling behind.

Do we know why? If you live in an area with a higher proportion of

smokers, you will have a higher proportion of people dying from lung

cancer, so we have a fall of nearly 33% in mortality rates for the

biggest forms of cancer, but in this region, it is really 25%, these

figures from Cancer Research UK, and the message they want to put across

is the benefits of research, and urging the public to give money to

cancer charities, so research can continue and they can continue

making inroads into cancer deaths, and they also have a message for the

government, that they should also continue funding cancer research to

make sure these improvements in mortality rates for cancer continue.

Thank you. It was a day

when football came second. More than 50,000 fans paid

their respects to two of their own, before and during

Newcastle United's opening match of the season at an emotionally`charged

St James's Park yesterday. Liam Sweeney and John Alder died

on flight MH17, but thanks to the extraordinary

response from supporters of all Andrew Hartley was there yesterday

and he's outside the ground It was a day when so many emotions

swirled around the stadium, first and foremost of the families of John

Alder and Leon Sweeney, grief, but tumbling down from the stands came

warmth, pride and passion and from the families, another emotion,

gratitude to the club and fans for the respect shown to the memories of

their loved ones. I spent one of the day with one of those family

members, Father himself a loyal Newcastle fan.

He has made this journey season after season,

I would have been leaving here around about 2:30pm.

Me and the grandson Dylan would have been off to the club and I

would have met Liam there, then would have been off to the match.

The whole world is going to be watching Newcastle United play

I just hope, well, I know today is going to be an extra special day.

Football is going to be secondary today.

It is going to be all about emotions, all about him and John.

It is going to be all about emotions, all about Liam and John.

This was the first league match since the disaster

of MH17 took the lives of two of Newcastle's most fervent fans.

Exactly one month on from the tragedy, flowers laid

I had done pretty well up until now, but I was actually numb.

I knew what I was wanting to do, but my legs were not doing

the same that as my head was doing, but it was amazing.

All the people that were here and all the respect they were

You could feel the atmosphere and the passion of everybody.

And, on the 17th minute, the fans paid another tribute.

The applause in memory of Liam Sweeney and John Elder.

I could not believe there were that many nice people in the world.

He would not have wanted the fuss particularly,

but on the other hand, he would have been well impressed it was for him.

I thank Newcastle United again, both for everything they have done

They have been absolutely magnificent.

I will still be quite happy with my seat in the East Stand.

Happy and sad at the same time, but proud to be his dad.

The flowers you saw in the centre circle have been placed at the foot

of this Bobby Robson is that you just behind me, including a floral

tribute by the former Sunderland goalkeeper, Jimmy Montgomery, on

behalf of all Sunderland fans, a gesture appreciated by Barry Sweeney

and his family and they are planning a trip to the Stadium of Light to

say thank you for all their support, Liam's funeral is on Thursday, but

no one, least of all badly Sweeney, has forgotten that the body of John

Alder has still to come home. Andrew, thank you.

An inquest has opened into the death of two Newcastle

University medical students, who were murdered in Borneo.

The bodies of Neil Dalton and Aidan Brunger,

who were both aged 22, were returned to the UK last week, and formally

During a short hearing at Derby Coroner's Court, it was

confirmed that both students had been stabbed, following an incident

The inquest was adjourned until the 30th of September.

The pub campaign group, Camra, is calling for new laws to protect

pubs from being bought up and turned into shops.

It says many suburbs and villages in Yorkshire are losing a vital

The Government says there's already adequate protection.

Cathy Killick's been to Harrogate, where at least three pubs have

already changed and another's in the pipeline.

You can tell just by looking at it

that this Sainsbury's in Harrogate used to be a pub.

Just down the road, there's a Morrison's.

With five pubs in the North closing every week, conversions

like this one are becoming a pretty common occurrence and some are now

saying that pubs need greater protection from change of use.

Campaign group Camra even wants the law to change,

so planning permission is needed for a pub to become anything else.

It is a backroad for the supermarkets, for pawnbrokers, for

other developers, really, because they don't require change of use

for these facilities, and normally, as you know, pubs are on very large

plots, so they can get their hands on these plots very easily without

change of use and, overnight without gauging their community's

Permission to change its use would have helped these residents trying

It is set to become a Co`op, despite their opposition.

It has been the hub of the community and to lose it all of a sudden was

In a statement to Look North, the Communities Minister said...

It is just a question of local people being aware of the tools

Many communities don't know how to protect their pubs

until it is too late, because it has already been sold.

The message from Camra is list your favourite

That way, consultation will be needed to change it.

Still to come on Monday's Look North...

Mark Tulip joins me for tonight's sport.

Plus we meet the operatic boyband Collabro

on a whistle stop tour of our region.

And I have the forecast that the end of the rest of the news.

The supermarket Morrison's has apologised after it put a baguette

over the Kindle of the North, saying it did not have permission to do

that. `` Angel of the North. When a World War Two bomb hit

Middlesbrough railway station, James Now in his eighties,

he believes he could be the last survivor of that tragic day

back on the 3rd August, 1942. James remembers the devastation it

caused, as if it was only yesterday. It happened as he

and his brother waved off their James Henwood retraces the steps he

made on that fateful day, just a young lad when the explosion

happened. There was no ban, it was just like that, `` now buying. Then

the whole place just collapsed. There was glass, iron, everything

flying about. James, on the left, with his older brother, were waving

their and Sally off when her train was hit. They thought the worst.

There was a soldier fetching her out of the carriage, because she

finished up on the railway lines, because the carriage was almost

destroyed. She was alive and in shock. Just kidding me she had put

her hat. She was just seeing that she wanted her hat. And the soldier

went back and find it perched under rubbish, which you would have

thought was man`made. It was just uncanny to see it. Others were less

lucky, seven men and an 11`year`old boy were killed. James knows he is

lucky he was not amongst the debt. It is more vivid now. More than when

it happened. `` amongst the dead. But I would not like to go through

it again. And thankfully, they will never have to.

Now, they're an operatic boyband who beat ten other acts to win

And two members of Collabro are actually

Well, today the band were in Carlisle, signing copies

They won the nation's hearts with their first audition.

Collabro are a five`piece boyband with a difference.

There was a buzz of excitement in the Lanes Shopping Centre

in Carlisle this morning as Collabro arrived to promote

The bank may have only been together a few months, but they have built up

a major fan base, we cannot wait to get their hands on the first album

stop `` the band. Very excited. High much do you love them? 100%! More

than my family. I find out they came from Carlisle and try to find out

more about them. What do you think about this? Taint of expected it. ``

kind of expected it. They are all beautiful!

Friends Matt Pagan and Jamie Lambert formed Collabro,

and it's been a whirlwind few months.

It has been incredible, only getting together in January and everything

seems to be quick. We probably only had one week of rehearsal before

BGP, then the recorded the album in ten days. `` BGT.

For Matt, signing copies of his first album in his home city

Really exciting to start in Carlisle. And friends and family

coming to this? Yes! Hopefully they are outside.

With a six`figure record deal with Simon Cowell's label,

and a UK tour kicking off in Carlisle in January, the boys

Time for sport, and the first weekend

of the new Premier League season means the return of Team Talk.

But despite that, we're not kicking off with football!

Partly because our teams couldn't manage a win between them,

But also because we have World champions to celebrate, Mark?

Remember Newcastle's Jonny Wilkinson kicking England's men to glory

in the Rugby Union World Cup final of 2003?

Well, yesterday, in Paris, Katy McLean from South Shields led

England's women to the World title, beating Canada by 21`9.

They'd lost the last three finals, and hadn't won the title since 1994.

Katy arrived back in England this afternoon,

with the others including Darlington Mowden Park team`mate Tamara Taylor,

and England vice`captain Sarah Hunter, who's from Newcastle.

Soon teacher Katy and the team will be back to their day jobs.

I got an e`mail today saying, we have a meeting

at ten o'clock tomorrow at school and I was like, actually,

I am still in Paris and that is no chance I am going to be there now.

But a couple of weeks, I go back to school, the girls go back to work,

and this is something that is not going to change how we are, the

English side are world champions, and that is going to be with us for

the rest of lives, something we have built together,

So well done to England's women and also to another team

The men from Great Britain's sprint relay team.

Which included, of course, Gateshead Harrier Richard Kilty

Just a couple of weeks after helping England win

a silver in the 4x100m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Kilty

ran the third leg at the European Championships in Zurich yesterday.

And he handed over to our new sprint sensation Adam

Gemili, who raced away to clinch one of Britain's 12 gold medals.

That's a record for the nation in this competition.

Good indeed. And another medal to talk about.

More success today for Teesside swimmer Aimee Wilmott.

Earlier this evening, the 21`year`old won bronze in

the 400m individual medley in the European championships in Berlin.

It's been a great year for Aimee, who also won two silvers

and a bronze in last month's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

I'm tempted to say "that's the end of the good news",

as we turn to the football, but it wasn't all bad, Mark?

On Saturday, Sunderland started the campaign with a point at West Brom.

Like Newcastle, they've made a few changes over the summer.

But this is Gus Poyet's first full season in charge.

And that should make a difference, Jeff, especially

if he can get a couple more new faces before the transfer deadline.

Yes, leak at all getting some advice to the new boy there. `` Lee

Cattermole. And some good ones there, surely that should have been

a penalty? That should be about consistency, especially for the

fans. The two new signings set up the new father. And some great

showman. Gus Poyet at least happy with half of the game.

Well, I hope that we can talk every week

You know, the control going forward, trying to create chances,

being aggressive, good deliveries, opportunities,

We need to make sure we do it every week.

A point away from home not the worst way to start.

As for Newcastle, a lot of talk off the field about

media speculation concerning whether owner Mike Ashley wants to increase

That's right, because any move in that direction

could have longer term implications for his ownership of the Magpies.

Newcastle kicked`off with a 2`0 home defeat, but they were up

against the champions, Manchester City, and this was a new`look United

team with four summer signings in the starting line`up.

And two more came off the bench. They have lost the last 11, but

Manchester city have that quality. Some clinical finishing, showing the

difference between two sides. But Newcastle did not have a shot on

target, which must be why they to Alan Pardew. At the chance to be a

super substitution, but taking the ball just wide of the post. But

another, a chance for an equaliser, but it did not work.

It is fine margins in this league and I think the first goal is

crucial in games as well and they didn't really create any, you know,

big chances until the one they scored and then obviously pushing

for it towards the end and they got the goal on the counter,

but there are some positive things in there from us and we've got to

look on and keep these performances going and we will do well.

Maybe something for Newcastle to build on there.

Into the Football League, and after starting with two wins in a row,

Yes, Boro went to Elland Road full of optimism after beating Birmingham

then winning at Oldham in the Capital One Cup.

And they might have made it three in a row if this one had counted.

The referee gave it initially, but the linesman called it off. And it

could discourage the spectacular. And then a last`minute sucker punch.

And Billy Sharp shooing off his sis back. `` six`pack. Some good

applause for Savannah Marshall. Matthew Bates, look away now, you

would not want to see this. You would think this was it, but she

gets two more bytes of the cherry. But that is agony! Three defeats in

34 Carlisle. `` three defeats in three. Some fairly poor defending.

Some frustrated men afterwards, disappointing four Carlisle. And

lead against Northampton at beginning for your city. But

conceding in stoppage time. In the Conference, by the way,

it's seven points out of nine for And there've been a couple

of important cricket matches Yes, their batsmen have been doing

well for England, especially Joe Root, and Yorkshire remain on course

for the County Championship title. That's

after they completed a nine wicket But Durham in the relegation

trouble, ending in agonising defeat, the home side scraping home by just

one wicket. It will be a tough end to the season

for Durham, now for the weather. Very strong wind, up to 47 miles an

hour. A sun soaked image, though, the Greenfield ready for harvest.

Thank you for that. The headline for the next few days, sunshine,

showers, cool all the time, temperature is below average,

showers across the region, some headache this evening, but Cumbria

has showers tonight, and the North East and North Shore `` and North

Yorkshire should clear. Temperatures as low as eight or nine Celsius

tomorrow morning, cold in the countryside, so well into single

figures. A chilly start to Tuesday. Showers dying away for most

tomorrow, then sunny spells across much of the region, some light

isolated showers through the afternoon. Through Tuesday

afternoon, fine and dry for much of North Yorkshire, but temperatures

just 14 or 15 Celsius, feeling chilly with north`westerly breeze is

driving in cooler air. Some showers around, affidavit of cloud, but some

breaks, not quite as cool in Cumbria, but still the chance of

showers and fairly cloudy. Picking up the pressure sequence, still

low`pressure to the North tomorrow afternoon, weak weather systems,

cold fronts slipping across the UK for the next few days, bringing some

cooler air and showers, not as breezy as last week, the isobars

have widened, but still feeling less scorching hot than we meet wish for

as we head towards that of the `` head towards the August bank

holiday. Tomorrow, largely fine and dry, the best break this to the

East, but still quite cool. On Thursday, we expect showers or

longer spells of rain and some heavy showers. Not feeling very much like

August. In the north`east, bright and thrive on Wednesday, but the

sunshine not doing much for temperatures before rain on

Thursday. Some sunshine on Friday and a few showers as well across the

North East and Cumbria, but still no improvement in temperatures, the

average is around 18`19 Celsius, but 14 or 15 is what we expect.

So summer is all the! Almost. The days are still long. Thank you for

watching, see you the same time tomorrow. Goodbye.