08/09/2014 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Hello and welcome to Monday's Look North.

Is your tanning salon giving you a dangerously high dose of TV?

Three`quarters of North East sun beds are breaching the legal limit.

The women who spearheaded the NHS protest march to London.

We travel coast to coast as our Scottish neighbours prepare

And, were you one in a millhon, streaming across the Tyne Bridge

Tracey was the one millionth finisher.

And she's live in the Look North studio tonight.

Elsewhere, in sport, we look back at a good weekdnd

Ben Stokes helps Durham book their place in the One`Day Cup final!

The BBC has learned that up to three`quarters of sun beds

in shops across the North East could be illdgal

Figures, revealed on tonight's Inside Out, show that, in some

In Newcastle, 80% of salon beds were emitting dangerous levels

There's been a crackdown by the North East Trading Standards

They're trying to make all shops use safe tubes,

For the first time ever, Tr`ding Standards are on a special operation

We have got 33 premises that we are aware of.

0.3 is the safe level of radiation. At this shop, the most powerful

bulbs here are totally illegal. We have been finding levels

as high as one, 1.2. We are talking three times

the limit. We approached the shop for comments,

but were told the owner declined. And it is not just here where

the law is being broken. When they tested in Durham,

there was a 62% chance 80% of shops were breaking

the law in North Tyneside, and in Newcastle, 84% of beds failed

the original testing. Three`quarters of all suntan beds

being used by customers in the North East

were found to be illegal. I am at the dermatology

department to find out what that We have seen some bulbs that are

three times the legal limit. Tanning shops do seem to be trying

to produce the strongest lalps. Sarah is a self`confessed stnbed

addict. We had a sunbed at home and I was on

it constantly. We cannot say that sunbeds caused

your skin cancer. Not at all. But I was advisdd that

it was highly likely that mx cancer would return, should I go b`ck near

a sunbed. The Middlesbrough salon gets a

warning for now. Trading St`ndards have more powerful deterrents like

suspending dangerous sunbed from use. An effective weapon in the war

on illegal equipment. And you can see more

on that story on Inside Out, here on BBC One, at the latdr than

usual time of eight o'clock. They're a small group

of mothers from Darlington, worried about the future of the NHS,

and fearing cuts to the service So, inspired by the Jarrow Larch of

1936, they soon had their trainers When they reached Trafalgar Square

at the weekend, the Darlo Mtms, as they've come to be known,

were greeted by thousands, Here's our health reporter,

Sharon Barbour. In 1936, a group of mainly len,

alongside a female MP, The Jarrow crusade was

a protest against unemploymdnt and In August, a group of Darlington

mums, supported by many othdrs, set off on the same route, protdsting

against changes to the NHS. And, after 300 miles,

passign through more than 20 towns and cities they arrived in London

at the weekend and where thdy were I am very worried about

the way GPs hold the purse strings. Because that makes me worry that

they are not independent whdn I go to them with a problem, and

need a referral to a hospit`l. The Government insists

it's invested 12 billion in the NHS since the coalition came to power,

and the use of the private sector in the NHS represents just 6%

of the NHS budget. But, back at home, the organisers

insist it's being sold off. 70% of contracts have gone

to private healthcare providers That is increasing exponenthally,

that is the problem. Their protest has seen huge support

across national They claim nearly 200,000 hhts

on their Facebook site in one day. And they've been supported by

Billy Bragg and Ed Miliband. Now, it's time now to rest,

but that's unlikely to be for long. when we have seen the reversal

of the 2012 Social Care Act, when we can scrap PFI debts,

we might stop campaigning. That doesn't mean we won't

stop watching, we will never It is our responsibility, otr NHS,

and we will be on our guard. Heathrow Airport has unveildd

an advertising campaign, with the aim of increasing tourist

visitors to the North East. From today, electronic imagds

of the region are being displayed at all terminals, in the hope

they'll tempt some internathonal We sent our business correspondent,

Ian Reeve, Heathrow,

the world's second busiest `irport and, for the next three months, many

of its 73 million passengers will be given a glimpse of the charls of the

North East, an enticement to visit. The electronic screens

at all five terminals will display five images for the next 12 weeks.

Bambrough Castle, Durham Cathedral, Newcastle Quayside,

the Angel, and Hadrian's Wall. It is three months

of free advertising, and apparently, Seven connecting routes a d`y to

Heathrow to Newcastle Airport. Heathrow is our only hub airport

in the UK. So, by having connections through

the hub airport, that helps to grow Heathrow, and also it helps to

grow Britain as a national `sset. Of course, we used to have `n agency

that did all this sort of stuff One North East promoted

the region across the country, The Government is still putting

an awful lot of money into tourism. This campaign is part of thd

Great Campaign. Tourism is very important to

the Government. Mr and Mrs Perkins from Georgia

in the States seem convinced. They are really pretty

and they were much more of ` calm, relaxed atmosphere than the big

city, than London, so I think it would, the castle especiallx,

the picture was beautiful. I don't know much

about anything outside London, so I think it might entice le to

want to see some of that. A result then, and only day one

of week one, and the best p`rt of three months for the advdrtising

to convince even more tourists. There are just ten days to go

until the Scottish referendtm But what do people

in our region think of the hdea All this week

on Look North, our political correspondent Mark Denten is on

a border trail, from west to east. And he joins us from

a lovely spot overlooking Scotland. This bit of Cumbria is the closest

you can get to Scotland without getting your feet wet. Therd is the

sole way. Experts say there is an invisible line in the water that

divides the English bit frol the Scottish bit. Either way, in a

couple of weeks, on that side, there is a lot of political heat `nd

argument. What do people thhnk on this side of the border? I `m on a

border Trail, this is the fhrst story.

a couple of cormorants drying their wings on the edge of the marsh.

We don't really see the border at all, the same as the birds,

They come here as it is a huge estuary full of food.

My main concern would be if, whatever the result might bd,

Tomorrow, we go to Cumbria for our report.

We relive the Great North Rtn, and meet the one millionth finisher

And a fairly quiet weather forecast, and some great pictures.

Now, were you pounding the route from Newcastle to

The 34th Great North Run took place in blazing sunshine, with a record

number of entrants, including that one millionth finisher.

Yes, we'll be meeting Tracex Cramond in a moment.

But here's a reminder of a memorable day on Tyneshde.

# I jumped so high I touched the clouds. #

It is quite unique, the way the city absorbs thd race.

# This is going to be the best day of my life...

I heard a bang behind me. Then I was

A lovely lady, a credit to the event, the region.

# This is going to be the best day of my life... #

Well, we saw Tracey Cramond's big moment there.

And here she is in the studio with us now.

It was a pretty tough run for everyone.

Not least because it was so hot Every mile felt like ten. The last

few miles felt longer. That moment when you found xou were

the 1,000,000th finisher. I nearly fell into his arms. An

unbelievable shock that I al still recovering from.

In some ways, some things are meant to be. You actually stopped to have

someone near the finishing line and if you hadn't, it wouldn't have

happened. I had slowed down, too sharp for

someone to assist a physically challenged entrant who had fallen

right at the finish line. Ddstiny is what destiny is.

Amazing. I know you have been at the

Butterwick Hospice for us, xou were running The Den yesterday, to raise

money. I chose Butterwick because H have

always supported the northern charities, this is where I `m from.

I chose this hospice becausd my late mum loved the children's services

offered to our region. They do a fantastic job. It is a nice, lovely,

northern charity. The inspiration for the Gre`t North

Run was the fun run that Brdndan Foster saw around New Zealand.

Someone has suggested a neat idea. Wouldn't it be nice to send back be

1,000,000th run across the line to the race in New Zealand which

inspired Brendan to create the whole concept in the first place? I am

glad I am not in charge of the budget here!

Brendan has been on to us and next March he will be flying you to New

Zealand for the run. How do you feel?

As bad as I thought yesterd`y. It is much shorter. It is only five

miles. A trip to New Zealand. It is a

beautiful place, lovely people. Will you take your special trainers?

I don't think so. I will get some new ones.

How have you enjoyed the whole experience? It has been surreal

Yesterday was a blur of talking to people, meeting the press. H gave

one young man a signature and I thought, this is crazy! Completely

insane, bless him. This morning, I managed to catch my

breath a little. Midday, it peaked. Thank you for joining us.

Of course, finishing well before me and Tracey

He lost out in a sprint finhsh last year, and he wasn't going to make

It came down to a straight race between Mo `nd

And the double Olympic and Duropean champ became the first Brithsh

The women's race was a pretty good one, too, with Mary Keitany breaking

Paula Radcliffe's course record by the smallest of margins.

Britain's Gemma Steel crosshng the line in second with a personal best.

In the wheelchair race, Carlisle's Simon Lawson came second in

the men's competition, and there was a second place, too, for Tedssider

Jade Jones who was beaten bx Shelley Woods in the women's race.

And there was a local victory to cheer in the Great North City Games

on the Newcastle and Gateshead Quayside on Saturday.

Stockton's Richard Kilty winning the 150m sprint,

just edging out America's Mhchael Rodgers in a photo finish.

And that wasn't the only top`class sport in the region at the weekend.

We also had some superb cricket at Chester`le`Street.

And Durham fans are planning a trip to Lord's in a coupld

of weeks' time, because the county are through to only the second

And they're heading there on the back of a record`bre`king

When Ben Stokes is in the mood, he can demolish

Some felt the 23`year`old, born in New Zealand but raised in Ctmbria,

A broken wrist, suffered when he punched a dressing room

locker in frustration at behng out for a duck, certainly didn't help.

But, sometimes, things just go your way and, when Notts wicket keeper

Chris Read missed this chance, you just felt it was going to Bdn's day.

Definitely, especially getthng dropped, and through the legs,

In all, Stokes smashed 24 boundaries, 18 fours and six sixes,

It was a record for the county, and helped them to their best

A century from captain James Taylor kept Notts in the Royal London Cup

semi`final, until the closing stages.

But it was Stokes, who else, who took

the visiting skipper's wickdt, to send Durham through to a final with

Watching last year, before that.

We found it difficult at tiles through the season, injuries.

We have something wonderful to look forward to in three wedks'

And one team who've already lifted a trophy at Lord's this season are

the chaps from the Woodhousd Grange Club, just outside York.

They beat the wonderfully`named Great

and Little Tew, from Oxfordshire, by 10 wickets, at the home of cricket

yesterday, to win the National Village Cup for the third thme.

With the international break, Sunderland, Newcastle

and Middlesbrough were without games this weekend, but our lower

league sides were in action, and they all managed to avoid ddfeat.

Caretakers captain Paul Thirlwell and goalkeeping coach Tony Caig were

at the helm for a second tile, as Carlisle went looking

for their first League win of the season against Wimblddon

Also in the stands were a rdported four possible permanent replacements

for sacked manager Graham K`vannagh, including former Cumbrians boss and

It was a distastrous start for the home side.

Dave Symmington will probably have nightmares about gifting this

But Carlisle were level within ten minutes, through Kyle Dempsdy.

The visitors went on to retake the lead.

But it was 2`2 just before half time.

Dempsey, with his second of the game, and third of the season.

The second half saw the Cumbrians seemingly en route to victory.

Josh Gillies' strike put thdm team ahead on 52 minutes,

But, with just 10 minutes to play, Gary Dicker was judged to h`ve

Wimbledon scored the resulthng penalty, and piled the pressure on.

The result was 90th`minute heartache for Carlisle,

Hartlepool put an end to Shrewsbury Town's unbeaten start

Loan striker Charlie Wyke from Middlesbrough opened

Then, 11 minutes from time, a swift counter`attack and a cool fhnish

After five straight draws, York finally got their first League

Michael Coulson put the vishtors ahead just three minutes in.

12 minutes later, star of the show Wes Fletcher put York two up.

Despite having a man sent off, Stevenage managed to get level, Tom

But Fletcher kept his cool from the spot for the winner,

as York picked up their first three points of the season.

Falcons boss Dean Richards was less than impressed with the refdree

as his side lost the first game of Rugby Union's new Premiership

The boot of Freddie Burn gave Tigers a 12`3 half`time lead, but ht was

the Falcons who scored the first try of the game, a superb break

by 21`year`old full`back Silon Hammersley, on his Premiership

debut, put Richard Mayhew through, who had an unopposed run to

But a quick`fire hat`trick from last season's top try scorer

Although an apparent offsidd from the Tigers went unnoticed

on this occasion, as he intercepted the ball to run

Andy Saull's try from a rolling maul at least ended

But the Falcons will be looking for vital points from Sunday's first

And in Rugby League, it went down to the wire.

But Whitehaven narrowly avohded relegation from the Championship

They beat Swinton 44`18, but had to rely on Featherstone

Workington, already in the playoffs, beat Dewsbury 23`4.

And it's been announced tod`y that more than ?1 million was brought

into West Cumbria's economy by the Rugby League World Cup last year.

Two games were played at thd Derwent Park Stadium in Workington,

following an investment of ?450,000 in the ground.

The rest was spent in local shops, hotels and other businesses.

It got a bit warm on the run yesterday.

That combination of the wind and temperatures made it feel w`rmer.

This picture has everything, we have the Tyne Bridge, the runners,

spectators, the red arrows `nd the sunny weather. Michael caught this

shot, a very tight race at the front of the wheelchair race. Further

along the road, we had a thtmbs up in the sunshine.

The weather is dominated by this high pressure. No pressure loving

away over Scandinavia. This will keep us mostly dry. Certainly dry

overnight. There will be sole cloud, and some gaps where we could see

some mist and fog patches forming. A fairly chilly night, temper`tures

will dip into single figures. Cold enough for a touch of grass frost.

The early mist and fog patches should lift and clear, some good

sunny spells. Some cloud around Dry and bright for all of us,

temperatures similar to tod`y. In ninth, up to 18 Celsius. `` inland.

So, over the next few days, high is dominating, through the middle and

latter part of the working week Not sunshine all the way but it will be

largely dry across Cumbria `nd the north east.

Wednesday is a similar day. Prolonged sunshine. 20 Celshus. Many

places staying in the teens. The same for Thursday and Fridax. If you

bright spells. When the clotd breaks overnight, it could turn misty.

Thank you to everyone who chaired the runners on yesterday, it made a

difference. And we'll leave you with a few more

images from a memorable day. And a date for your diary: Next ydar's

Great North Run is on Sundax, # This is going to be

the best day of my life...