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His father tells Look North how much it means to him. I didn't rdalise

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how many people loved him or knew him but there appeared all who

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didn't know him who have cole. Also:

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Also in the programme, thousands of pupils in our region pick up their

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GCSE results. And so do somd of their parents.

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After a 69`year campaign and a bit of help from the Queen, pilot Wilson

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Taylor finally gets his Wings. In sport, we'll be talking live to a

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World Cup winning captain. And, after winning no senior medals,

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two come at once for this Middlesbrough teenager.

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And, after winning no senior medals, two come at once

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It was a day when a family, a football club and a city said

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Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral

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Liam, who was 28, was the first of the ten Brhtish

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victims to be identified from the wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines

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flight MH17, which was shot out of the sky over Ukraine last month.

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Liam and fellow fan John Alder, who also died,

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were on their way to New Ze`land to watch Newcastle United play two

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they came to pay their final respects to Liam Sweeney.

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Among the mourners, a delegation from Newcastle United

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including manager Alan Parddw and captain Fabricio Colocchni.

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But so many others ` legendary former players

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Fans, friends and family, there to celebrate the life

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Exactly five weeks after thd MH 7 disaster,

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one of Newcastle's most loy`l fans ` a foot soldier of the Toon @rmy

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A Newcastle United shirt and scarf were placed

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The mourners were told Liam was a family man, a music fan,

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The Canon told the congregation that he was able kind and gentle man and

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always had a smile on his f`ce. He was an incredibly devoted Ndwcastle

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United supporter who deservds his place in Geordie mythology. "you

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regularly watched the U21s. You would fill in the gaps... " and

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prayers were said for the other Newcastle United fan killed in the

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a fantastic supporter. Not only him and John. The level of commhtment

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they showed to the club is As you saw in that report,

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the Newcastle United manager, Alan Pardew,

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was among those at Liam's ftneral. And this afternoon, at his weekly

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press conference, he took the opportunity to pay his

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own tribute. It was important for the city that

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we honoured the memory of Lham In my opinion, it was

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a great service this morning. We obviously were there to pay

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tribute to what was It's such a shame we've lost two

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of our greats, but I thought it was done in

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a very nice manner this morning and respect to everybody who was

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there. Yesterday, on the eve of thd

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funeral, his father paid his own personal tribute. A big lad, a

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It was a situation if he is looking down, you would think, wow! We had a

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good banter and it was all `bout Liam and John so it was really nice.

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It came from Clarence House so it was from royalty. It was from Prince

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Charles and it is a really nice letter. It was from the heart from

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him and his wife. It's amazhng. Liam and John have touched the hdarts of

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the whole world and when it comes from the Royals as well as the Prime

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Minister and the food will club he didn't love so much! What c`n I say?

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Absolutely tremendous. Lots of people haven't got their loved ones

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back and it is very difficult. I know how difficult it will be for

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them. If the world can becole a better place because of what

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happened to Liam and John, that would be great. There are more nice

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people then not so nice people but in Iraq, the Palestine and the UK

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body leaders have to get together and sort something. I mentioned

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those threes `` three places but there are other places in the world

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and people had to stop fighting The religious side of things isn't

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really religious. I don't rdally want to get involved in relhgion, I

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just want to make sure the two lads didn't die in vain.

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Strong words there from Barry Sweeney. We send them our vdry best

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wishes. The Teesside`born comedian,

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Roy "Chubby" Brown has been fined after he was caught reading

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a newspaper while driving. The 69`year`old from East H`rlsey

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near Northallerton, whose real name is Royston Vasey,

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was caught on camera on the A19 He pleaded guilty, by post,

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to "driving without due card He's been given four points

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on his licence. Production at Nissan'sSunderland

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plant has been temporarily stopped. Repairs are being carried ott.

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Nissan says assembly will bd resumed in the coming games `` days and they

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expect it to be a short`terl issue. The union says it is working with

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management and they hope normal production can be resumed qtickly.

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Cleveland police confirmed two of its dogs are going to be put down.

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Last month, one pensioner dhed four days after being attacked bx a

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police dog lost officers se`rched a house and last week, a membdr of

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staff was bitten on the arm. Some schools have had unpredictable

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results in this years grades. There are lots of smiles

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and perhaps the odd frown as GCSE students at Kenton School

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in Newcastle get their results. Overall the great here

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have never been better. I got two Cs in maths and English

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so good. I would have hoped

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for a few more As, but I passed I thought I was going

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to do slightly worse. Parents weren't only anxious

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about their own children, some had also taken English and Maths GCSEs

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themselves to share the expdrience Pleased with that? Yes, verx

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pleased. I got an A in my maths so I'm

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delighted. Staff were able to celebratd

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the performance of parents Any parents who would've bedn

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interested in taking GCSE m`ths or English would have been people who

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didn't succeed as much as they wanted to when they were at school

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and it will help to give thdm confidence and perhaps compdte with

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their own children and perh`ps competition raises standards so that

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would be great and it's worked. Her son outperformed her,

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but she'll be back for more. I hated maths

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at school with a vengeance. To sit and be taught in a rdlaxed

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environment was just good ftn. I made a lot of friends and I

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enjoyed it and I will come back So success here for

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students and parents at Kent but also some unpredictabilhty, some

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surprises because the staff here say changes in the GCSE syllabuses have

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made it harder to predict what For that reason,

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unions say it is time the government stop tinkering and allowed schools

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to get on with teaching. Who is like the government or the

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schools? The government has taken away a speaking and listening test

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that was seen as an easy wax of boosting marks and it has m`de it

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harder for schools to that people in multiple times. Some say it makes it

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more rigorous now and students know it is worth what it says on the

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paper. Schools aren't against all the changes but they say work that

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might have got an a grade l`st year went this year. So there ard

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unpredictable results which are an settling. Michael Gove, not always

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the most possible `` popular person, and there is a new Secretarx of

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State which might mean more new changes. We had an inspection rash

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and some of our schools werd found to be in the bottom two tiers. One

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in special measures saw a significant increase in its

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results. Southfield saw a bhg drop in its results and Richard Rose

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Academy saw a drop in its rdsults with 33.9%. A lot of work to do in

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those schools. Thank you.

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Coming up: How the RAF has lade Wilson Taylor'sday. And we have a

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World Cup winner. Going with the flow, how the project on a river is

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helping the environment do hts own thing.

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Plenty of showers around thhs Plenty of showers around thhs

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evening but they could be more on bank holiday weekend.

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Earlier this month, we brought you the story of wartime pilot Wilson

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Taylor. He actually qualifidd as a pilot just as the war was ending,

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which meant he didn't receive his Wings ` the pilots' Badge of Honour.

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But Wilson, who lives in Newcastle, never gave up. And after ne`rly 70

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But Wilson, who lives in Newcastle, never gave up.

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finally come true. Lara Rostron joined him at RAF Linton`on`Ouse in

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North Yorkshire, at the cerdmony he's been waiting for, for `ll those

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Yorkshire, at the ceremony he's been waiting for, for all those xears.

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Suited and booted, 89`year`old Wilson Taylor can't believe his

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luck. It's almost a dream. Ht is a dream! Today is the day he gets his

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wings retrospectively. At the time, war ended and he didn't fly another

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operational mission. Today, the clock was turned back and they were

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presented to him by the RAF second`in`command from the Linistry

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of defence. With his family close by, Wilson clearly enjoyed the

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unprecedented ceremony some 69 years overdue. It is an absolute "wow day

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for me. I have thought about this for 70 years and I was just saying

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to the Vice Marshal, that I have at least said once a day, "I whsh I got

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my wings". And that works ott at over 25,000 times that I've said it

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and today is happened. He's and today is happened. He's

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incredible. He was flying up to the age of 85. We are celebrating the

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life of someone who represents what is good about the Royal Air Force.

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What he has given back to society and the work he has done with the

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underprivileged and he strives to improve. So to give him another

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qualification, a really important badge at this stage of his life is

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a pleasure. Finally, he has his wings and it wouldn't have happened

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without the Queen'sintervention He wants to thank for answering his

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letters. I would like her to know that I've been successful in life,

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struggled to get there. No doubt the letter will get the royal sdal of

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approval even if the wings he got were those of King George VH.

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Fantastic and well done to Wilson. What is thought to be the l`rgest

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re`routing of a river in thd country has taken a major step forw`rd. It

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has been allowed to follow ` longer and more natural course. It will

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help prevent flooding furthdr down the river. Today, water started

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blowing along the new route and the fish would have an a helping hand.

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The catch of the day but thdse fish aren't for eating. They are being

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rescued from a man`made channel about to be filled in so thd river

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can be returned to its natural course. Today, the environmdnt

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agency team used and let trhck current to stun the fish. This kind

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of river, we just get the jtvenile fish like salmon and brown trout.

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Juvenile means we get Fridax which are this spring'shatching. Ht is

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important we keep them in the river system because they are our future.

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Work on what is thought to be the largest re`routing of a rivdr in the

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country has been going on hdre for two months. In June, before work

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started, it looked very different. To protect farmland, it has been

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forced along a 400 metres stretch which needs maintaining. Thd new

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route will see it meander more naturally over one owner half

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kilometres and the river will then be able to look after its sdlf. It

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is over three times as long as the original channel. It will h`ve

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wooded corridors like wildlhfe corridors effectively, new woodlands

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and it connects the river to its flood plains. There will be stalked

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gravels in the new channels which will help for flood Liebman. ``

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flood alleviation. There is still plenty of work to be done including

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reseeding and replanting but it is hoped that by spring nature will

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have done her staff and the evidence of man's intervention will no longer

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be here. Time for sport now. We have a very

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special guest. There is no doubt that the profile

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of women's sport has come on in leaps and rounds in the last couple

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of years. London 2012 have `n increased media coverage has started

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to make some of the stars household names so what impact will women s

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rugby club team winning the World Cup `` have? I'm delighted to say,

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Katie is here. Well done. Losing finalist 12 months ago. Has it sank

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in four days on? Two as it has been a whirlwind four days. Sund`y we

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lifted the trophy and now wd are here and we've done so much in

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between. Your feet have hardly touched the ground. Tell us about

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your media whirlwind. We arrived back on Monday into Heathrow after

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having great celebrations and going to a rest Conference at Twickenham,

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speaking to a lot of nation`l papers. There is the trophy. It has

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been endless. It is fantasthc for our sport. Your vice captain is from

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Tyneside and one of your te`m`mates so no homesickness. What can thing

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like this do for the club? The North has always been tremendouslx

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supportive so hopefully it will get more goals involved. More ghrls

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playing senior rugby too. Wd will playing senior rugby too. Wd will

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come down to the club and hopefully be more part of it and go on to win

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a World Cup. It will massivdly help our sport in terms of sevens and put

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it out there in terms of getting money into the sport. In just over

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two weeks, you are a primarx is Gould teacher and you have some

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catching up to do. I've had so much support from everyone at school All

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the girls and the family. I can t wait to get back and show them this.

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Here is the medal. You also won the MBE and you picked that up `t the

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Palace. They are very different. 20 win ``

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years of not winning a World Cup and now we have one. I know... Xou are

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out this weekend so try to get some rest. Thank you.

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It was breaking news last nhght the Middlesbrough teenager winnhng

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bronze in the athletics Championships in Swansea. She

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eventually had to settle for third place. It is a stepping stone. It

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really helps to tell me what I need to do over 12 months to get me ready

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for the world Championships and then reopen. It really does help. I went

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into the season not having `ny senior medal so to have two, I'm

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really happy. Her fans must wish they could turn back the clocks

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In the last five `` fortnight we have seen a football team dtbbed out

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of the capital one. But all of the table, no goals and no points and to

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make matters worse, their brightest prospect wants to leave.

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Luke handed a transfer requdst in and we acknowledged that. I had a

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conversation with him and hd did himself credit in the match on

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Tuesday. That is something H will have two SS. My job is to try and

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find some players who will boost numbers and give us extra qtality to

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give us a chance to get our seizing up and running.

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He has just resigned the Middlesbrough striker, Charlie

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Cooper. And one person returning is,

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possibly, Gazza? Yes, he could be lacing his boots up

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in Dorset after a chance encounter with a taxi driver who also manages

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another team. It is ten years since he last played professional

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football. I will believe it when I sed it

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Time for the weather now. It has been cold today, yes. It will

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be cool over the next few d`ys to come back here is a beautiftl image

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to start us off on our forecast It should be a pleasant sunset

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tomorrow across most of the lake. Cloudy and showery in the

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north`east, though. This evdning, more showers across the north`east

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and some of them will be he`vy. Slowly dying away through the night.

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Underneath clearing skies, temperatures will slip into single

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figures. A chilly field to tomorrow. `` eight chilly feel.

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Lots of sunshine to come tolorrow morning first thing, especi`lly in

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Northumbria and Cumbria `` Northumbria.

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If you showers around tomorrow afternoon.

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Less of a chance of a shower but brisk breezes from the north`west

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tomorrow and for much of thd next few days. A week weather system

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brings showers late tomorrow and possibly through Saturday as well

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but then pressure starts to rise and it starts to dominate through

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Saturday and Sunday so a fine middle part of the bank holiday wedkend

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before lower pressure allows the system to sweep in from the West

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which brings strong breezes and heavy rain through bank holhday

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Monday. Try and find on Saturday and clear

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skies overnight could mean dight chilly start to Sunday and possibly

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a touch of grass frost in the countryside first thing on Sunday.

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But the weather system starts to arrive from the west and it will

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cloud over in the afternoon with a grain overnight on Sunday. Londay is

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self will be a mixture of stnshine and showers full is. One or two

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showers possible on Saturdax in the north`east.

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New details have emerged about the death of the American journ`list in

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Syria who was held captive by three British Jihad ease.

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The funeral took place todax of Liam Sweeney who was the first of ten Vic

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Tims to be identified from LH 1 `` first of the ten victims.

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We've got factory boys and butchers' apprentices and office clerks

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Don't stop moving! If you go back you'll die!

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Make the most of your bank holiday, wherever you are.

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Use the BBC Weather app to stay one step ahead of the weather.

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