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tonight fighting extradition to Britain after they took their

And then, you have no idea what are all putting into your lungs.

Emily's family want answers, at the inquest into her death.

100 transplant patients show their appreciation to

And this heart attack victil thanks HIS lifesavers, as he prepares to

In Teamtalk, With football's transfer window

about to slam shut, we've the latest on who's in and who's out.

And as Carlisle's Graham Kavanagh becomes our first managerial

casualty of the season, we look back at a frustrating and winless weekend

A chemical linked to a serious lung disease `

that's what a BBC investigation found in an e`cigarette liqtid

Tonight's Inside Out progralme on BBC1 reveals the product,

which is made by one of the biggest e`cigarette companies in

Last week, the World Health Organisation called

And here in the North East ` where smoking related deaths are

among the highest in the cotntry ` opinion is divided.

Some health campaigners argte e`cigs help smokers switch from

Today, 15 local smokers will die. For every

one who dies, another 20 out there suffering from awful diseasds.

This is still a really big problem for us which is why Fresh is open

They are as yet unentirely unregulatdd.

That is going to change, so at the moment if you go out on to the

streets and buy an e`cigarette you have no idea and I have no hdea what

Now you don't need a doctor to tell you that doesn t

But just how harmful are e`cigarettes?

I'm at the local market to buy some e`liquid.

Well I'll try the chocolate then, at 18mls of nicotine please.

I've bought two different brands of e`liquid from the market,

plus I've got a couple of others from shops nearby.

But I'm not going on a massive vaping binge,

I'm taking these to a lab to find out exactly what's in them.

We tested four different br`nds in total at this lab in Leeds.

Three were fine ` but one e`liquid contained diacetyl,

a chemical which is safe to eat but is not safe to inhale.

It is linked to a serious lung disease.

Well, that particular chemical is associated with an unusual but

established lung condition called popcorn workers lung and it has been

inhaled in significant quantities in people who worked in popcorn

factories and in those individuals it;s caused very serious lung

condition, serious enough to warrant lung transplantation.

We bought the e`liquid cont`ining diacetyl ` the butterscotch flavour

here in the VIP shop in Gateshead's Metro Centre.

VIP is one of the UK's biggest e`cigarette brands.

They told us they did know about this issue, after discovering

the chemical through their own testing procedures.

We're very disappointed that you were able to buy one

as we had done a withdrawal of the product a week or so beforehand

Sadly, in the store where you purchased it from there had been

a change in store management, and we've implemented that now

and the product has been colpletely withdrawn.

Because of the small amount the vaper would consume as such it

was deemed in the short terl there would be no health concerns.

Long term, yes, there could well be however we decided it was

a withdrawal rather than a recall of the product, and that

If we can't rely on you to withdraw a product

successfully how can we relx on you when you tell us how safe it is

You can certainly rely on it, because we're part of Ecita.

Ecita do spot checks and audits on us constantly.

This is our very very first issue in five years and we actually sell

We are very sorry its happened we're investigating how

its happened and we're taking it exceedingly seriously.

You happened to find that p`rticular chemical in that particular product

but there are thousands of products out there and hdck knows

VIP Butterscotch e`liquid is no longer available to buy.

Are there actually any controls on the contents of e`cigarettes

There is a consensus that e`cigarettes are bound to bd less

harmful than tobacco, but there is real concern about their qu`lity `

Even the UK trade body for e`cigarette manufacturers, Dcita,

wants proper regulation to give the industry greater credibilitx and in

fact by 2016 all nicotine`containing products will be regulated

However there is still some doubt about their safety.

As I mentioned in the report, the World Health Organisation is

calling for E`cigarettes to be banned indoors

It's the start of a new serhes of Inside Out.

What other issues will you be tackling?

We're putting illegal tanning salons under the spotlight, I get tp close

and personal with plutonium at Sellafield, we'll be telling the

story of a footballing legend who changed the rules of the gale, and

if you're saving for a penshon, will you still be working

And the first in the new series of Inside Out is on tonight at 7.3 pm.

Cumbra Fire Service, Cumbri` Police and the Health and Safety Executive

have spent the day investig`ting a fireworks blaze near Winddrmere

A shed ` containing fireworks ` caught fire on Saturday aftdrnoon

in the grounds of a large house in Ecclerigg near Brockhole

as around 70 guests attended a wedding reception.

When the fire was put out, two bodies were found.

It's thought they were a man and a woman,

An inquest has opened into the death of a teenager who fell from

a window in a Gateshead tower block, eight years ago.

17 year`old Emily Mather fell 9 feet after drinking with frhends

Stephanie Cleasby reports from the inquest in Gateshe`d.

Emily Mather died after falling from a window on the ninth floor

On that fateful night, the teenager had been out drinking beford taking

a taxi with a female friend to the flat in Eslington Court.

They spent a couple of hours there with two other male friends `

but Emily fell to her death in the early hours of Saturday 1 July.

The first witness called was Emily's best friend. The inpuest

heard that Emily's former boyfriend was in the flat and night she died

and that an argument had broken out between them after they had had sex.

Loren said that Emily was upset and cut her hand after smashing a cup.

She went to check on Emily hn the bedroom and she found she w`s not

there. When they look out of the window they saw her lying on the

ground nine floors below. A post`mortem examination found

cocaine in Emily's system. Her death was investigated hn 2 06,

where there were found to bd Emily's family raised questhons

about the police investigathon, although the Independent Police

Complaints Commission has ruled Northumbria

Police conducted it approprhately. The inquest is expected

to last two weeks. The new Chief Constable of

Cumbria Police says officer numbers will be reduced, in order to meet

a ?10 million budget cut by 201 . Gerry Graham said he was faced

with tough choices ` but axhng Our reporter Alison Freeman joins

us from our Carlisle studio now Jerry Graham was clear therd were

many difficult choices ahead because of funding cuts

by central government. The force has already made ?16

million of savings and with 75% of the budget tied up in salaries,

he said it's inevitable that the further ?10 million would come

in the form of fewer staff. Since the cuts began in 2010,

the force has lost Gerry Graham said today that he d be

very surprised if in two to three years time there'd

be anywhere near that number. I have to reduce the front line

because I have reduced the back line, there is nothing else to look

at. As a police buildings, stations or officers, what type police

officer I'm going to lose, hs going to be uniformed officers or`te the

CSO, or a CID officer? ?1 mhllion equals roughly 35 offices. H have

got ?10 million to find. Yot can perhaps see the size of the

challenge when you put thesd numbers together.

One decision that has been lade is to reduce the number

of neighbourhood policing tdams from ten to three.

This would cut management but not officers on the grotnd.

The Police and Crime Commissioner Richard Rhodes pointed out that the

Inspectorate of Constabularhes named Cumbria as one of 18 forces it says

it has concerns about their ability to "withstand further reductions".

He's consulting with the public and says he hopes

the police will be able to keep up with their expectations.

If they have to ring 999 how quickly will the policeman turn up? That is

what they want to know, and there is pressure on the constabularx to

deliver that. And we hope that using technology and new vehicles and

better allocation of manpowdr and more flexible geographical

boundaries, that we should be able to deliver what people find is an

acceptable service and the circumstances.

Both Mr Rhodes and Mr Grahal say they do not want to see

the cuts force the constabulary into a merger in the future, Jeff.

Its critics call it "the bedroom tax."

The Government says it's the "under`occupancy penaltx."

Either way, thousands of people across our region are paying it

But if they moved to Scotland, they wouldn't have to.

Even if Scots vote "No" in this month's independence

referendum, the policy is about to be abolished there.

One disabled Teesside man s`ys this is an abuse of his human rights

Here's our Political Correspondent, Mark Denten.

Peter's bones are slowly cr`wling. For the last few months just getting

around his home in building has been a struggle. The level of pahn is

like walking around permanently with a washing machine strapped to your

back or stop because he has a third bedroom he has to pay ?630 per year

for the under`occupancy pen`lty called the bedroom tax by government

critics. If he lived in Scotland, he soon would not have to. If Scotland

votes no in the independencd referendum this month, the

government has given Scottish Parliament the power to set a cap on

discretionary housing benefht, effectively ending the so`c`lled

bedroom tax north of the border I am disgusted about it. Becatse it

should go right across the board. I am sure that it has got somd kind of

human rights violation. It hs one paying it and another one not,

although you are attached to the same country, it will not bd a

United Kingdom at all, becatse if it was, it would be one prize `cross

the board. Coalition supporters say that keeping the under`occupancy

penalty in England but not hn Scotland is fair. It depends whether

or not you believe in devolttion and localism. At the end of the day the

Scottish parliament will have to make choices. It is not an dxtra ?50

million that is being used, they have to find savings elsewhdre, so

they have to make the choicd that they think is right for Scotland.

The Department for Work and Pensions stead that ending the spare room

subsidy was necessary in order to get the housing benefit bill under

control. And we have a special progr`mme

on Wednesday night looking `t what would happen in the North E`st and

Cumbria ` depending on the outcome Carol Malia and our Politic`l

Editor, Richard Moss, will be joined That's "Scotland and Us"

here on BBC One at 10.35pm. They came from across the North East

and Cumbria ` 100 heart transplant patients

gathered in Newcastle, to witness the release

of a hundred red balloons. Inside each one was

a personal letter of thanks Here's our health reporter,

Sharon Barbour. There was a cheer,

but then silence. A reflection

of what they'd been through. Inside each balloon,

a letter of thanks to those who saved their lives through

a heart transplant. It means a lot, because it hs hard.

What was your message? I am just slightly thankful, every dax. Your

message? Thank you for the gift of life. To Stephen, for his incredible

gift, which has allowed me to watch my incredibly beautiful and talented

daughter grow up to be a very strong and healthy adult. The reaction of

the patient's was amazing. Xou saw them cheering and then therd was

complete silence, and the alount of emotion, I had not seen that for a

long time. There are two thhngs to celebrate. The first thing hs the

success of transplanting to adults with heart disease, and the second

is the fantastic donors and their families who allowed us to tse their

hearts. But

the NHS continues its review of all We are meeting demand, and we are

going from strength to strength In six days time it is, of course,

the Great North Run ` and this year the one millionth runner will cross

the finishing line in South Shields. Among the thousands taking

part will be someone who's Last summer,

Durham cricket coach Geoff Cook suffered a heart attack, just

as he left the Chester`le`Street Luckily for him, paramedics

were instantly on the scene. This week, we gave Geoff

the chance to say thanks to How are you? It is good to see you.

One year on, fantastic, all the better for seeing you. Thank you.

Thank you so much. You are very welcome. You are life`savers, thank

you. I would say, any time, but .. ! Luck was on his side when hd

suffered a cardiac arrest, `nd he knows it. You are 20 seconds, if

that, away. Any further and it would have been a bit of a battle.

Absolutely, absolutely. It was in your favour. Absolutely amazing the

sequence of events. Jeff's heart had actually stopped beating. K`ren and

Sarah got that going again. Less than 40 minutes after he collapsed

he was in hospital. One year on and he really is up and running. You're

going on to do the great North run. I have not done it yet but H am

going to try and do it. The hospital people where very reassuring. They

said that there was no damage to my heart, and just a crack on with

things. I have always been ` glutton for a bit of exercise. And H do not

want to Mr great North run, if I can get in. And it will be good to make

a donation and I am thankful that I am able to do that. And you will

have a bit of company on thd run. My wife gets worried when I go jogging

now. She said, I don't mind you doing it if you have companx, so my

son is going to do it. He h`s done a couple of half marathons and

marathons, if he has got thd patience to stay with me, it will be

good. How good was it to sed him again today? It is amazing. You

rarely get to follow it through Examples of jobs like this, where

people have been incredibly unwell, you do not often get to see them

afterwards. To think that hd is doing the great North run this year,

it is absolutely amazing. The combination of the thing he is

doing, it is spectacular. Bdtter than us. What about meeting the

girls again? Fantastic. Sadly I have no recollection of the serids of

events before that. And I h`ve no recall at all. But it is lovely to

see them. It brings tears to your rise. Without them, I would not be

here, quite literally. `` to your eyes.

And we're staying with sport, because it's time for Team Talk

Now, normally, on transfer deadline day,

all the talk would be about which clubs are looking at which players `

but Carlisle United, I'm afraid are looking for a new managdr.

Yes, the club announced this morning they'd sacked

Graham Kavanagh, with the Ctmbrians third`bottom of League Two, and

The Irishman had been in ch`rge for just under a year, having at first

been caretaker boss when Grdg Abbott left the club, last September.

The club issued a statement saying Saturday's 5`0 hammering

You have to feel sorry for Kavanagh, though ` couldn't save them from

relegation last season ` not much money to work with but he tried to

Club captain Paul Thirlwell and goalkeeping coach Tony Caig

will pick the team for tomorrow s Johnstone's Paint Trophy tid

This is what a few of their fans had to say.

He has had a go, he has brotght his own players in, and a displ`y on

Saturday was probably too mtch. It will give us some hope for the

following season. He has trhed his best with the team and the loney he

has got, I suppose you cannot do much else, can he? They could do

with someone with more experience or something like that.

The likes of Sean O'Driscoll, Colin Calderwood and Gary W`ddock

lead the early betting for Graham Kavanagh's replacement.

Interesting ` but what about transfer deadline day?

Mark Tulip is in our newsroom and he's monitoring

the situation, right now ` Lark what's been happening?

Let's start with a player NOT returning to Sunderland `

Head coach Gus Poyet had bedn hoping at the very least to arrangd another

season`long loan from Liverpool but QPR now looks to be

Instead we believe Poyet's close to tying up loan deals for

Liverpool's Uruguayan defender Sebastian Coates and the Inter

Elsewhere Middlesbrough havd completed the signing of Belgium

striker Jelle Vossen on a season`long loan from

And young Dutch winger Yanic Wildschut has provisionally

signed a two year contract from Heerenveen.

Defender Modibo Diakite, has left Sunderland by mutual consent.

And central defender Mapou Xanga Mbwia is expected to complete

a move from Newcastle United to Roma in the next few hours.

Toronto's England and ex Sptrs striker Jermaine Defoe has been

But I think it would be a m`jor surprise if he ended up on Tyneside.

Now there is a reason why both our Premier League clubs are looking for

a striker ` as you might know, if you watched them at the weekend,

with both still looking for their first three points of the sdason.

Yes ` although Newcastle scored their first three League go`ls, none

of them came from a forward And this one, from full`back Daryl

Janmaat, is a contender for scrappiest Goal of the Season!

And this young lad has come from Jamaica through Bristol, he's from

the Academy and he has scordd some great goals in preseason, and he set

up this one for Mike Willialson Sunderland could do with sole goals

from Steven Fletcher. Not qtite back to the form that he had last season.

Not since his injury. And even Vito Mannone went up against QPR trying

to get a last`minute equaliser. Those are the problems we h`ve got

`` they have got up front. Good effort from Tim Krul, he cotld not

quite wrap quickly enough to that shot from Dwight Gayle. Jack Colback

should have closed down quicker there. The defence is as sh`ky as

the front line. The skull w`s the equaliser, seven minutes into injury

time. Neil Warnock, jubilant. And Mike Ashley looking sick because

he's doing to have to spend more money. Charlie Austin hammering that

one home for QPR against Sunderland. Both clubs on the lookout for new

players. We have a few things lined up, but a couple of 1's two weeks

ago, and we will need to waht and get over the line. Will you be glad

when midnight strikes on Monday Yes, it is not an ideal sittation as

I have repeated many times. How exciting talent is he to manage for

you at the moment? He is a player with tremendous self belief, he has

tremendous pace. He has a great future at this put all club. We have

been lucky to get him through the system. I am sure that he whll get

plenty of games. He has almost forced his way in.

So Middlesbrough have brought in a number of signings and they need

Well if boss Aitor Karanka had been in any doubt about whether his squad

Reading will have convinced him Simon Cox put Reading in front after

just 7 minutes lobbing keepdr Tomas Mejias into the bargain. Boro did

have plenty of chances in the game though ` Adam Clayton, Kite and

Albert Adomah all coming close but perhaps the nearest they cale to

levelling the score was when Reading defender Chris Gunther almost netted

an own goal. Karanka said hd'd be working until the last second to

bring in players so we could see more new faces at the Riverside

feeling the pressure after his side went down to a late goal at

Cheltenham. Koby Arthur strtck in injury time to take all thrde points

in a defeat Cooper said was hard to take. Pools still with only one win

And York City aren't doing ` whole lot better ` Nigel Worthington's

side still without a win ` they picked up their fifth draw of the

season against Wycombe. Wanderers manager Gareth Ainsworth sahd it was

a "terrible game on a terrible pitch". Plans for York's new

ground at Monk's Cross have gone on display at Bootham Crescent today `

it should be finished by 2006. Thankfully Gateshead gave us

something to cheer about after Jamie Chandler's late goal saw thdm come

from behind to beat Chester 2`1 in the Conference ` they're now 6th in

A window glass. They had to wait a long time for it. Not having to wait

any longer for the weather. `` a win at last.

Autumn is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, very nhce. Will

it live up to that billing? It should stay fairly quiet with high

pressure dominating things. Thanks to Daniel for that background, with

a mellow shot of Weston Park in Stockton. Overnight, Cloud will tend

to become more broken. Under those clear skies we might see sole mist

patches forming with temper`tures dipping into single figures, as low

as seven Celsius in some pl`ces Tomorrow morning, mist patches Will

Claye quickly. Mostly dry d`y, with good, sunny spells as we he`d

through the morning. It is not going to be unbroken sunshine by `ny

means, but it should stay dry in most places and bright as wdll. A

range of temperatures, the wind fairly light, but averages hn the

mid`teens, come to the west and get some shelter from the breezd, and we

could see high temperatures in Carlisle of 21 Celsius. Somd high

pressure at the start of thd forecast. It is centred over

Scandinavia, dominating the weather over the next few days. Most weather

fronts keeping out of the w`y as far as we are concerned. It is not going

to be unbroken sunshine, but it means that nothing is going to

change quickly over the comhng few days. If you are out and about

tomorrow, Wednesday is very similar. Some cloud around, any breaks in the

cloud allowing temperatures to break 20 Celsius. Towards the end of the

working week, on Thursday and Friday, more of the same. The

breeze, coming from an eastdrly direction. And overnight, those

breaks in the cloud could ghve us some mist and fog to watch out for.

Overall, it is going to be puiet over the next few days. Keep your

September weather pictures coming. That is all that now. Mark will be

monitoring of the football News You can catch that on the late bulletin

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