18/10/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Hello, and welcome to Tuesday's Look North.

Police investigate the murddr of this young woman

I would appeal to anybody in the area who knows

who was responsible, or those individuals themselves

More patients taken to hosphtal by ambulance face long delaxs before

Hundreds of children across the north are taught how

Conkers under threat from pests and disease.

How you can help to safeguard their future.

And, the former teacher who's worked tirelessly to help sick and injured

animals is recognised with a special award.

In sport, good news for golf fans with the announcement that ` Major

And, back in the spotlight , the young goalkeeper hoping to keep

Her family say they have no idea why anyone would take her life.

But tonight an investigation's underway after a woman was `ttacked

in a busy street in broad d`ylight by a large gang of men.

27-year-old Jodie Wilkinson died after being stabbed

near Newcastle city centre, and the police are urgently trying

Our correspondent Peter Harris is at

Carroll, if you picture the scene here yesterday afternoon, it was ten

to fall, there were children walking home from school, and this happens.

The police say in the build,up there was some kind of dispute and it

ended in the most extreme and very public violence.

Jodie had been walking in the middle of the afternoon.

Then there was shouting, and what looked like a largd fight.

This is a live and fast moving inquiry.

There is more people involved in this incident,

I would appeal to anybody in the area who knows

who was responsible, or those individuals themselves

to come forward as soon as possible so we can move this inquiry forward

Scenes Of Crime officers have been at work all day.

A 25-year-old man with Jodie was also stabbed

The fact it's all happened in mid-afternoon is what shocks

There were children coming home from school at that time,

It was a sociable time of the day, really, in broad daylight.

I think that's what made it even more shocking, just the amotnt

of people that were around and saw what happened.

And very saddened for the community here.

And we want to do our best to support the community.

Our building is open, we're open, we're available to talk

to anybody who wants to talk over this.

Because obviously it will have a big impact on pdople.

Jodie Wilkinson's family have left tributes at the scene here.

They say she was a devoted `untie and a loving sister who would do

They say they've no idea whx anybody would want to take her life.

Extra patrols are in the arda to reassure the public.

The police stress what happdned to Jodie was not a random attack.

At this stage, we do not have a weapons or weapons.

Again, the appeal today is not just for information

about who was responsible, it's about potentially

People coming home last night potentially covered in blood,

That will certainly help thhs investigation, if we can recover

As the Jodie, she is somebody who turned her life around. Fivd years

ago, the Chronicle newspaper gave her a young achiever award. Tonight

the police are urging for anybody who knows anything to contact

Crimestoppers. And there is a reward for information. Thank you, Peter.

More and more patients are having to wait in ambulances outside

the region's hospitals becatse space can't be found for

Figures published today show the problem has worsened ovdr

the last year, and in one c`se an ambulance waited outside

Hospitals can be fined by NHS England if they don't admit

Well, our News Correspondent Mark Denten is outside

This is an issue, a knotty problem, if you like, that the NHS h`s been

wrestling with some time. It boils down essentially to this - xou call

for an ambulance, the ambul`nce arrives, the patient is takdn to

hospital, but then they wait again, in some cases for over an hour,

because there is not space `vailable in the hospital. That is a worry for

patience. But us look no fotnd out as far back as two years ago when we

covered the story, there is also concerned. -- as Look North found

out. We're tied up, so the emergdncies

are stacking up, waiting for us It is frustrating, you know,

especially when your patient is not So what are the latest

figures, Mark? Well, these figures have cole to

light through a Freedom of Information Request that was

submitted either Labour Party. Let's take a look at them. We start with

the north-east service trust. The figures for patients waiting over an

hour in ambulances outside hospitals in that region, 1314 in 2013 to 14

by 20 14. That figure had increased to 2042, a 55% increase. Taking a

look at the North West Ambulance Service trust, a massive arda, it

covers Cumbria in our region. A fourfold increase in the nulber of

people waiting over an hour outside hospital in ambulances, the 15, 00

patients. And Yorkshire, thd Yorkshire ambulance trust, this of

course includes North Yorkshire a fourfold increase their wealth. This

includes 5000. For the reaction in the North East Ambulance Service

trust, we've been getting the thoughts of all of a surge from that

particular organisation. -- Paul Liversedge.

I think actually it's a reflection of the pressures that the NHS

I think handover delays is something that's occurring in most hospitals.

I think, in a sense, it doesn't necessarily relate

to ambulance activity, but certainly demand

on hospitals is far greater now than what it's ever been.

You have more detail on the picture at one of our hospital trusts? It

runs a hospital in Durham and this one here in Darlington. It was a

separate Freedom of Information Request basically asking thd same

question but saying basically that the amount of time the numbdr of

patients waited over an hour for ambulances outside this hospital in

the six months to the end of 20 5 was 430, the longest waits there

were well over three hours. This Trust was actually find by NHS

England over ?7,000 for that. The trust says it has put matters in

place to improve that service on behalf of patients and their safety.

Thank you, Mark. 13 people have been arrested

across the North East on suspicion of trafficking people into the UK

for exploitation and Five addresses were searched

in the Cowgate area of Newc`stle this morning, as well as properties

in Houghton-le-Spring and Consett Eight men and five women

are in custody, and ten people, who are believed to be

the victims of exploitation, An inquest's heard a man

from West Cumbria died after being ferociously att`cked

by his pet dog. Stephen Hodgson suffered injuries

to his neck and head at a house His teenage daughters tried

to save him from the dog. The Staffordshire pitbull-cross died

after police were forced to use More than 1,500 people who've signed

a petition opposing plans for a pedestrian crossing ottside

Carlisle Castle are being told it The crossing, on Castle Way,

was approved by the council's Development and Control Comlittee

last month. But some people say it'll bd

dangerous and the plans shotld be Hundreds of children

across the region have been learning In an event called

Restart A Heart Day, North East Ambulance Servicd staff

and dozens of volunteers have been going into schools to teach

the children basic CPR - or, to give its correct title,

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. It can often double someone's

chances of survival if performed Jim Knight's been to see how junior

school children at Mowden P`rk Junior School in Darlington

are embracing their roles And of course, at this age,

even learning something as potentially critical

as lifesaving skills just And, unlike many adults,

the children come to weightx matters like heart massage

and mouth-to-mouth resussit`tion I enjoyed it, because now I know how

to save somebody's life in case they collapse. And my favourite part was

when you pumped them. What was the best bit today? Mouth-to-motth. You

like that, did you? Yeah. How important do you think it is to have

a go and try it out? Really. Because it could save somebody's life. You

could be a hero. And that would be cool? Yeah, I would be like

Superman! Of course, if you've ever tried to do CPR yourself yot will

know it is physically demanding And although some of these small

children might not be able to do it all themselves, the idea is that

they instruct from the sidelines. Hurry-up Jim, you have to gdt to 30!

See what I mean! They are 88 years old, although they probably don t

have the strength to save a life themselves, they have the knowledge

that they can grab an adult and talk them through how to save solebody's

life, that's brilliant. If we can save somebody's life by makhng our

children knowledgeable, that's got to be a good thing. A lot of fear is

put into CPR, they are going to hurt somebody or kill somebody or get

sued. By coming into schools and working with communities, you can

pass on that message that what they are doing is going to save

somebody's life, potentiallx. And they are not going to hurt them

They've been so excited. Thd feedback, the big smiley faces, they

all, and wait to get their hands on the mannequins. And they've

absolutely loved it by the feedback that we've had. And of course, they

might have taken something `way which could save somebody's life.

That would be the ultimate goal wouldn't it was Mike if we can just

save one person's life by train these children today, that would be

amazing. Good to see them mdaning business.

They're a favourite in playgrounds around this time of year,

but scientists say conkers could vanish as a result

To help tackle the problem, an academic from Newcastle

University's set up a speci`l project to encourage the public

to collect records of the pdsts endangering our conkers.

A highly invasive insect is decimating our conker trdes,

What we can see, if we look at some of the leaves of this particular

These are all evidence of the horse chestnut leaf miner caterpillars.

And they basically eat along the veins of the leaf,

and so the tree invests mord of its resources into defending

itself from this insect rather than producing conkers.

This is an example of what ` normal conker should look like.

And here's a conker from a heavily infested tred.

And you can see that there is a significant

It does weaken the tree, and make it more susceptibld

to diseases such as bleeding canker, which will kill the tree.

And there is evidence that people are no longer planting horsd

So the outlook for the trees doesn't look good.

The horse chestnut leaf mindr arrived in the UK in 2002 in London.

It reached Newcastle in around about 2010.

And we're really interested in tracking its range as it moves

further north, particularly through Northumberland

Through our citizen science project called Conker Tree Science,

we're asking members of the public to record the damage to conker trees

And we've also developed sole smartphone apps as well,

where you can go to a tree, take photographs, upload th`t

photograph, and the data gets automatically put onto our database.

Plenty still to come on Tuesday's Look North.

Jeff Brown joins me shortly with tonight's sports news.

She gave up a teaching caredr to open an animal rescue centre

Now her devotion has been rdcognised with a special award.

Weather-wise, tomorrow looks like a bit of an East- West split. Find out

what is in store for the next few days shortly.

Middlesborough's Institute of Modern Art, or Mima,

is allowing the public into its store-rooms to pick rarely

It's a move that marks a new direction for the musdum

often criticised in the past for exhibitions that were too

challenging and didn't engage people on Teesside.

It's Middlesbrough's Institute of Modern Art,

but in its store-rooms, it has the rather more tradhtional.

We're looking at a Lowry painting, very famous,

Middlesbrough Town Hall madd in the 1950s.

The painting by Lowry is ond of hundreds of currently unseen works.

The collection belongs to the town, built up long before Mima.

So the institute now wants the town to tell it

what it wants to see from here in a new

They can come here, spend thme inside this space on a numbdr

of occasions, look at the work and say, oh, I like this,

I like that, can you explain me more, what is this about?

The move marks something of a change in Mima's policx.

Ten years old next year, its exhibitions have sometiles been

seen as too challenging, too obscure, not inclusive.

Art, particularly in the UK, has had a tricky time.

And the art world as we know it is not necessarily

representative of all peopld's understandings of what art hs.

And I think it's the responsibility of museums like this

one to address that, and to analyse it and reconsider it.

The first tours for the public are next month.

The final selection will thdn be made, with the rarely seen

displayed in a new collection gallery in February.

Two years ago, Alex Farmer gave up a teaching career to open an animal

Since then, she's worked seven days a week caring for thousands of sick

And today her devotion was recognised.

Alex was presented with a prestigious award in London.

She used to be a primary school teacher, but these days Alex Farmer

Here at the family's farm in Whitby, Alex has rescued thousands

of injured wild animals - sea birds, seals and foxes.

This pigeon arrived with a really badly broken leg.

The leg was actually twisted round backwards.

His leg has since been fixed with three metal pins, and he now

The latest patient, though, is a three-week-old kitten,

rescued from a building sitd on the brink of death.

When I picked him up this morning he was absolutely covered in dirt

When the guy initially found him he thought he was already ddad.

When I picked him up he was stone cold.

Alex's work has now been recognised by the International

Animal Welfare Fund, who, at the House of Lords today,

presented her with a special award - one of just ten they give ott each

year, and one that would undoubtedly be cheered by the animals

Well, I hope a lot of them would be grateful!

Although I suspect some anilals such as gulls, for example,

are very ungrateful patients, just being how they are.

The most rewarding part of all is getting them bettdr again,

getting them treated and seeing them go.

So, for thousands of animals, Broomfield Farm

is a welcome sanctuary - a place to recover and to bd

What sort of noise with that?! It's a little kitten. Based on that, I

know why she does it, but I hope she gets someone in to help her, she

deserves a holiday! Good news in sport as well.

We start with a real sporting coup for the region.

Close House in Northumberland has been chosen as the venue for next

year's British Masters golf tournament, with the course's

attached Tour professional Lee Westwood as its host.

It's being billed as the "bhggest golf event ever to have

hit the North East", and sees a dream come to frtition

for its owner and developer, Graham Wylie.

The flags on every green sax it all - next year, the biggest stars

of the European Tour will play on the colt course at Close House,

As the club's Tour professional Lee Westwood, the former Brhtish

number one and winner of thd 20 7 British Masters, was critic`l

in swinging the decision Northumberland's way.

Subject to approval, he could choose the venue.

But there was still some PR work to be done to persuade organisers

to bring the competition up north. Well, it did take some perstasion,

There were nerves about bringing it up here, there's no

And they've been here four or five times now and just

checked out the area, checked out all the facilithes.

But they're happy, we've signed the contract,

He's played all over the world on some of the greatest

And if he thinks it's good dnough, then it must be good enough.

Some changes to the course will have to be made,

The European Tour wanted a fourth pin position for the tournalent

And the back of the green hdre, originally it was sloped too much

So they've taken the actual turf off, we've levelled the gredn

and we're putting it back on now, putting the slope back on again

This is one of the two greens they're changing for the totrnament.

It'll be the biggest golf tournament the region has seen since

the Seve Trophy at Wynyard on Teesside more than ten ydars ago.

Close House has hosted the PGA Seniors Championship and a host

of pro celebrity charity gales, but with between 15 and 20,000

spectators expected to turn out for the Masters,

there are some logistical problems for the Tyne Valley course ,

farmer who's letting us rent his fields off him.

And we're talking to the Highways Commission and the police,

there'll be a good traffic management plan on the way.

There'll be a one-way system in place.

You know, easy access from the A69 and the A1.

So I think we're all geared up to have a great tournament.

There's little financial benefit to hosting the tournament.

So what's in it for the bushness entrepreneur and philanthropist

There is a kudos of actuallx staging a Major event here

But also it's more of a four or five year plan for me.

You know, leading up to the tournament, hopefullx we ll

If we bring some more peopld from the region to spend

a bit of money here, that would be great.

It should be good. The Mastdrs will take place between September the

28th and October the 1st next year. The matches keep coming thick

and fast for Rafa Benitez Tonight, the Magpies are back

in Championship action, knowing there's a chance

of going top if results 6,000 away fans will be at Barnsley

cheering on the team. Hoping for a clean sheet will be

a young man currently at thd top Of course, every roller-coaster

has its ups and downs. Goalkeeper Karl Darlow's senior

debut as Newcastle fought an ultimately fruitless battle

against relegation was marrdd The only goal of the

game at West Brom. He more than redeemed himself

in the final weeks of the sdason. This save helping the Magpids grab

all three points. But then at the start

of the current campaign, manager Rafa Benitez

chose to make new signing Until the pendulum swung ag`in,

and Darlow was back The start of the season

was obviously tough. I mean, to go from the back end

of last year, where I played eight or nine games,

it was good experience for le And then to drop back down `nd not

be picked to start off with was obviously

a little bit frustrating. But I know it's a long season,

so I just carried on working hard, and thankfully the manager has got

faith in me now to play me. The crowd at St James' this

weekend was reportedly A sign that the fans haven't

deserted a relegated squad. The fans have stuck with us,

and obviously results But the away following that we've

had all season has been incredible. And they obviously pack

St James' out every week. And it's unbelievable,

just stay with us and hopeftlly we'll get back in the Premidr

League. Tonight's hosts, Barnsley,

have gone five games without a win The Newcastle boss, though,

knows the danger of complacdncy We have to be sure that we don't go

there with our confidence, and then we start making mistakes

and giving them the belief At the end of the day, they score

goals, and that is always d`ngerous. Full radio commentary on BBC

Newcastle with TV Gary Mills didn't enjoy the happiest

return to York City last night. His first game back in charge saw

the Minstermen lose their F@ Cup fourth qualifying round replay -1

at Curzon Ashton, who play So that left us with four tdams

in the first round draw, including Spennymoor Town,

who were 3-0 winners at Lincoln United with this goal

from former Sunderland striker David Dowson gift-wrapped bx home

keeper Mario Ziccardi. And this was their reward -

Spennymoor away to League One Massive test for us, but I lean

what an occasion, you know, All the reward for all the hard

work, and a fantastic opportunity for the supporters to travel

in their numbers and witness That'll be a good game

to watch, that one. Here's what's in store

for our four survivors - Gateshead replay at home

to Alfreton tomorrow night. There's a home tie for Hartlepool,

and Carlisle go to St Albans City, who're chasing promotion

from National League South. It's been a busy summer for Cumbrian

badminton star Lauren Smith. Fresh from a trip to Rio whdre

she took part in her first Olympics, this week Lauren was named

Carlisle Sports And she's recently joined Tdam Derby

in the National Badminton Ldague - one of seven clubs taking p`rt

in a competition which was set up only three years ago in a bhd

to lift the profile of the sport. A lot of people from back home,

I'm from Cumbria say to me, like, oh, I watched your match and I tune

in all the time to watch it. And it's really great to sed that,

because I think with badminton one of the problems is that people don't

get to see enough of And that's where the NBL has been

really important in the growth of it - because a lot

of people go and participatd, and the participation is massive,

but not a lot of people know what it looks like at the top level,

and I think that's where thd NBL will hopefully make a reallx big

difference in badminton. There you go, lots of sport tonight.

Can use either shuttlecock when they are hurting get quickly? No, not

very well. -- when they are hitting it. You need to watch the rdplay is!

How is the weather doing? There is an East - West split, the qtestion

is how it will continue the rest of the week. Today was four se`sons in

one day for some of us. First of all, Allenby on the Cumbrian coast

looking towards Scotland thdre, cloudy skies earlier on tod`y. A bit

further east in the Northumberland looking cool cross the high ground

over towards Slaley. Brightdr on the east coast. This looking tropical

earlier on with the palm trdes and blue skies, but I bet it didn't feel

tropical in the north-westerly wind. Temperatures really struggldd today

in many places, only just m`king double figures. Tomorrow thdre is an

East - West split with showdrs in eastern areas, drier further west,

the wind coming from a northerly direction. Staying on the cool side.

One or two showers around this evening, but most will die `way as

we head into the night, dry and clear for many. It will feel cold

again. Temperatures in the towns dipping down to six or seven, out in

the countryside we you are sheltered from the Greeks Breeze may be cold

enough for ground frost -- why you are sheltered from the Breeze. A

mostly fine start with sunnx spells. One or two showers in the E`st coast

through the morning, later on in the day they will spread further. Always

the best of the brightness `nd sunshine and the driest weather

reserve the Cumbria tomorrow. That is where we will see the highest

afternoon temperatures, peaking around 14 Celsius, but it whll never

feel warm in the northerly wind That is the picture for tomorrow. A

battle going on between high pressure to the west of us, low

pressure to the East of us. The way it looks at the minute, that low

pressure and is whether France will stay just about far enough south and

east that it will miss the worst of that -- and its weather fronts. We

will end up with an easterlx wind as high pressure is anchored over

Scandinavia like it did last week and the week before. Heading through

the next few days, a lot of dry weather to be had. Seeing the best

of the brightness in the West. Always a bit more cloud likdly in

the East with the risk of an order shall even as we head into the

weekend, shouldn't see much more than the odd shower eastern areas,

many places drier. The tempdrature struggle, 12 or 13 by best during

the day, western areas could be cold enough for a touch of frost now and

again. We will keep you upd`ted on your BBC local radio station.

And we're off, Frost, it's coming! Thank you very much. That's it from

us tonight, see you tomorrow. Goodbye.

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