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In tonight's headlines - Durham council decides not to demand

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back a cricket club loan - as teaching assistants back strike

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Deprived of a dignified death - the terminal cancer patient

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at the centre of a hospital investigation.

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Disappointment for campaigners fighting to keep consultant,led

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maternity services in West Cumbria - after the Prime Minister

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Schoolchildren get a sneak preview of a new home

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In sport, Newcastle are top of the Championship this evening

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after they win and their nearest rivals slip up - we'll

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And we'll find out why thesd top rugby players were being given

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It needs to make savings of more than ?33 million

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Yet today, Durham Council agreed a rescue package to deal

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with the debt of almost ?4 million owed to it by the troubled

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Councillors have decided they'll convert the ?3.7 million

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to secure its future with no timetable for

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This comes on the day teachhng assistants voted for strike action -

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as Durham council plans to cut their pay.

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Our correspondent Mark Denten joins us now from outside County Hall

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Durham County Cricket club has been teetering on the financial brink for

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some time. Well, today, councillors meeting here decided to give the

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meeting here decided to givd the club a substantial helping hand.

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meeting here decided to give the club a substantial helping hand The

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club a substantial helping hand. The 2700 teaching assistant in this

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county may also be cricket fans, but county may also be cricket fans, but

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they say rather than a helphng hand, they have been shown something more

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like a clenched fist. We will have more unnaturally, but first Ian

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Reeve reports on the financial help the council is giving to Durham

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Cricket club. After more than 20 years

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as a first-class county, Durham is a Durham County Council

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is owed 3.7 million with no prospect of repayment, and so today,

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the council voted to turn and it I ask that everybody

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is in agreement with So the council has allowed

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the cricket club to live and hopes to be repaid at some

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stage in the future. Restricting service

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to the old and the young. And I don't think Joe

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public out there is The council claims the cricket club

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brings millions into the economy, It brings an important

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profile, not just for the county of Durham but for

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the whole of the North East. And this is just one

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business that cashes in on It's the local economy,

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Chesley Street and So when the guests come

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from national and international and local, they don't just spend

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money here in the hotel. They spend it around the local area,

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which is fantastic. But is there much appetite

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amongst local council I would probably go against it, but

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that's my belief in all companies If they go bust, to me

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they half deserved it. If they have the problem,

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why give us the Because if the council is bailing

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them out, it's going to impact on the residents of

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the county. The County Durham and the cricket

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club, help them out The council deal

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suggested by cricket's governing body, the ECB,

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based here at Lord's It relegated Durham

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for their financial dealings. It's been getting it

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in the neck for doing so. But it too has been lenient over

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money that Durham owes it. So the ECB has written off

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?2 million worth of debt. It has paid off a loan comp`ny

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that was owed about ?800,000 by Durham, and it

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won't vigorously pursue another ?1.8 And thanks to that, and the council,

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Durham will live to play on. And, Mark, Durham Council is also

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at the centre of news today It is. While the council by back

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cabinet was meeting here to decide what to do about Durham County

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Cricket club, at the very s`me time Cricket club, at the very same time

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the votes were being counted in a Unison industrial action ballot of

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teaching assistant in this county. Around 2pm this afternoon, the

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result came through. A huge majority for strike action.

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You could view the anger when they gathered for a rally in Durham

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recently. But words are about gathered for a rally in Durham

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recently. But words are abott to turn into action, action which could

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turn into action, action whhch could have an impact on schools, teachers

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and parents across the county. Unison members have voted for 92% to

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Unison members have voted for 9 % to strike. This show is absolutely the

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strength of feeling amongst our Unison teaching assistant about the

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weight they are being treated by weight they are being treated by

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Durham County Council. We know that there was a strong solidarity

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amongst our membership and we hope that the council now sit up and

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listen and come back to the negotiating table. The strike is

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over plans by Durham council to reduce the teaching assistant's paid

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just to turn time. Members have backed a concession deal, but

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workers who plan to strike say they have been left with little choice.

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We have taken this action whth a We have taken this action with a

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heavy heart. We absolutely understand the impact of thd

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understand the impact of the disruption this will have four

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schools, for families, for children, but we also know that we have no

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choice, the long-term impact on the long-term disruption to those

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families and schools and children families and schools and chhldren

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will be far, far greater if those professional dedicated experienced

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staff are forced out of thehr jobs staff are forced out of their jobs

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because they can't afford to live. The council says it is disappointed

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about the planned strike action. There was a significant risk of an

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equal pay claim. We had to do what we have done thus far and of course

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two of the unions have accepted the compensatory offer. The council has

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made. But clearly or priority now is to work with school leaders,

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governors and headteachers to minimise the impact on our children.

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Their education is our prime concern Their education is our prime concern

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at this time. Unison say whhle there at this time. Unison say whhle there

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are no dates yet for strikes, they will definitely take place before

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Christmas. 150 miles to the south in the city

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of Derby, teaching assistants are on strike for the same issue. To

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schools will be closed tomorrow. More will be an half-day working and

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others will have classes cancelled. Will that happen here? We should

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know the answer to that question before Christmas. Back to you,

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Carol. Thank you, Mark. A sixth man is being questioned over

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the death of a woman in a street 27-year-old Jodie Wilkinson

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was stabbed on Monday Today a 43-year-old man

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was arrested, while five others previously detained

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remain in custody. Officers are continuing

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to search for a weapon A 20-year-old man's died in a road

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crash on the A69 in Northumberland. It happened shortly

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after one o'clock this morning near the Bridge End

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roundabout at Hexham. A 27-year-old man and a wom`n aged

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21 have been arrested on suspicion of causing death

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by dangerous driving. Unemployment's fallen

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across the region, according to the latest

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figures published today. 88,000 people were without ` job

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in the North East in the three months to August ,

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that's down 9,000 on There were falls too in Cumbria

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where 4,445 people are claiming Job Seekers' Allowance,

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and in North Yorkshire An investigation's underway

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at a district hospital after a dying woman was moved twice in thd last

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half hour of her life. Her family say she was 'shunted

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around like rolling stock' Harrogate hospital has apologised

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for what happened to Irene Simister It is just five days since the death

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of his mother, Irene, and David It is just five days since the death

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of his mother, Irene, and D`vid is of his mother, Irene, and D`vid is

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at her flat to start sorting out her affairs. His grief is still very

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blog and it is compounded bx affairs. His grief is still very

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blog and it is compounded bx the manner of his mother's death at

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Harrogate hospital. In her dying moments, a clinical bed man`ger

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insisted Irene was moved to make way for another patient. It was very

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upsetting because we have prepared ourselves for our mother to pass

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away in the room she had bedn in ourselves for our mother to pass

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away in the room she had been in for away in the room she had been in for

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almost a week. She was comfortable there. She was settled there. She

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had cards from well-wishers there. She had flowers and she had a

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photograph of her and my father on their wedding date on the table in

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front of her. In the melee that was moving her, that got knocked over,

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some of her son was left in the corridor and we were left with her

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mother dead in another room that was totally alien to us. What was

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mother dead in another room that was totally alien to us. What w`s the

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totally alien to us. What was the reaction of the nurses when they

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were told they had to move your were told they had to move xour

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mother? It was very clear that they were doing it under sufferance and

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when my mother did die, the nurses were crying. These are nurses who

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were crying. These are nursds who see dead on a daily basis and they

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are used to it. And they were not used to this particular death. Irene

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Simister's family had been impressed by the Coward the hospital gave

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their mother until the last half-hour. But those highly

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emotional and precious final minute after them forever tainted by what

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happened. The hospital has apologised for moving her. In a

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apologised for moving her. Hn a statement, it said:

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I want to ensure that what happened to my mother and what myself and my

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family are experiencing does not happen to anybody else. It hs cold

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dying with dignity. It is cold dying well." Lifecare, which we dhd not

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well." Lifecare, which we did not experience in the last moments of my

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mother's life. For David, that means seeing protocols are establhshed to

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seeing protocols are established to ensure patients are not movdd

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seeing protocols are establhshed to ensure patients are not moved in

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future and are granted the dignity of dying in peace.

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The man behind an ?18 million pound project to build a power st`tion

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near a Stockton village says it will have no impact whatsoever

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Statera Energy Limited want to build a battery storage power station -

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like this one at High Middlefield Farm.

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The scheme had been recommended for approval -

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but this afternoon Stockon councillors deferred

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a decision following concerns about the number of vehicles

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going through the village during construction.

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It's nearly a mile away from the village.

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There is no noise, there is no traffic.

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So this is simply about construction traffic, which by

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the way is a nonmaterial pl`nning consideration, so I'm not entirely

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sure they have deferred it on that basis, but there we are.

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The Prime Minister has refused to intervene in plans

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which could see services drastically downgraded at the West

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Proposals to remove consultant-led maternity services from Whitehaven

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are included as part of a m`jor overhaul of Cumbria's

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A multi million pound consultation programme is ongoing

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but local people say their views are being ignordd.

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The future of health care in West Cumbria has long been the stbject of

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Cumbria has long been the subject of fierce debate. Today, the fhght went

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fierce debate. Today, the fight went to Westminster. We'll be Prhme

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to Westminster. We'll be Prime Minister please commit todax to

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visiting my constituency to see what the effect of this decision will be

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upon West Cumbrian families, women and children? The point of the way

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in which we are approaching this is that decisions are taken and

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generated from the local level. It is that the local area that they

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will be looking at the services that will be looking at the services that

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are necessary for people to ensure that they are able to provide the

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services that are needed. The Prime Minister's responds perhaps no

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surprise, but nevertheless let with surprise, but nevertheless met with

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direct anger in Whitehaven. I would say to her I am bewildered at your

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lack of care. And compassion. About what is happening in our

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communities. There is major concern here about proposals to transfer

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West Cumbrian mums in Labour 40 plus miles to Carlisle. Extremely

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concerned. This has to be everybody's number one priority

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right now in fighting these changes because it is going to cost lives. I

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have worked in West Cumberl`nd since have worked in West Cumberl`nd since

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1978. The parents that we have got 1978. The parents that we h`ve got

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coming through, they can't believe that we would lose the services.

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coming through, they can't believe that we would lose the servhces We

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that we would lose the services. We are a lifeline to people, wd really

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are a lifeline to people, we really are. In a letter to local MP Jamie

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Reed, the Prime Minister once again reiterates her support for the

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locally run regime's preferred options, options which would see

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downgrading, but still we are pulled no decision has been made. Ht

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certainly is not a done deal and we have got another two and a half

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months or so of confrontation to go. After which, there will be ` long

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After which, there will be a long period of reflection. Vinyl

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decisions will be announced next spring. Until then, the campaign

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continues, the strength of public feeling showing no sign of dying

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down. Strong images, are thdy? Plenty more to come

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in tonight's programme. Plus - we speak to comedian

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David Baddiel about the latest And weather-wise, what is in store?

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Join me for your full midwedk Join me for your full midweek

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forecast. Proposed changes to military housing

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have prompted a warning Berwick MP Anne Marie Trevelyan says

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they could put off new recrtits The Government says it wants to give

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service personnel a greater choice But the MP told a Westminster debate

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this afternoon that planned reforms will drive families away

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from military bases into privately-rented homes,

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increasing isolation Our political correspondent

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Luke Walton reports. They defend a nation

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and want somewhere to call home in return,

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but proposed changes to armed forces It's feared they mean fewer military

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families able to live in subsidised housing in and around

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bases like Catterick. A former Royal engineer,

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now manager of a charity for veterans, is one of

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those who is worried. Kosovo, he was grateful his wife

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and children could stay in larried It's really, really

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important to be part of the military community, to be able to go

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on operations and know that your family are around people who can

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give them peer support. Close to barracks, able

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to find out what is The Ministry of Defence

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says it wants to widen choice and end discrimination

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against groups like unmarridd It is looking at providing

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cash for personnel to But the Berwick MP fears that

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will mean some facing long commutes to work and isolation,

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with And we risk with this model, whilst

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it's flexible in theory, actually driving families into much more

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isolated living conditions `nd many, many families have been

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saying to me this could be would leave and we are

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on demand as we are. We cannot afford to lose our highly

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trained, incredibly passionate and dedicated

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Armed Forces. What's going to happen is that

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families will be given a rental allowance and they will be `ble

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to choose where they live up to 45 minutes to 60 minutes away

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and that is obviously all dependent on how

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many In Parliament this afternoon,

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those points were put direct to I am receiving daily

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correspondence from families deeply anxious about

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the future accommodation deeply anxious about the future

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accommodation model, the FAM as The Defence Minister insistdd

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he was listening, with the As our troops return

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from Germany and we look to rationalise our estate,

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we realise there is an unprdcedented An opportunity to give

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them greater stability. Politicians may be keen to talk

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about supporting the Armed Forces, but at a time of rising

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housing costs and public austerity, actually

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delivering the homes that military families need

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is a trip to the library was often

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for many youngsters regarded as a bit of a boring way

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to fill a rainy afternoon. In South Shields, however,

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that's all about to change. A new super library called the Word,

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which is a National Centre for the Written Word,

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opens on Saturday. It means children will now be

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getting a 21st Century experience Today's ceremony gave everyone

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who has the supported The National Centre

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for the Written Word a chance to have a look around

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before its doors open With authors like Anne Clevds

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and David Baddiel here too - this new library in South Shields

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has the backing of the It is a beautiful building and also

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it really exhibits and promote storytelling in all its different

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forms, so it is really like a library 3.0. It is an upgraded

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library that has stuff about film and interactive and 3-D printing and

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immersive areas for children. It is about the best place I have ever

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seen for promoting storytelling In a time of austerity

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when most authority's to spend sixteen million pounds

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building a new one shows re`l vision One of the growth sectors in our

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region is the Digital econoly and I region is the Digital econoly and I

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want to make sure that children really are able to have a h`nds on

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experience of that whole sector, so experience of that whole sector, so

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that they can perhaps develop their skills and perhaps gain employment

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in that sector in the future. skills and perhaps gain employment

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in that sector in the futurd. It has in that sector in the future. It has

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got really nice books and it is just really exciting because we have been

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waiting for it for a long thme. There is loads of local that we can

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use to build and then it has wires that can connect to the robots using

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Wi-Fi and it is really good for a new library. You have different

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technology like tablets and it is really cool for us to get to play

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with them. Cool. Probably a very good 21st-century word to describe

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good 21st-century word to ddscribe the Word. I want to go there. Looks

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the Word. I want to go therd. Looks great.

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Time for sport and Newcastle fans are enjoying life

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in the Championship, Dawn?!

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Yes, and why wouldn't they be - the table makes very happy

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After a less than convincing start to the Championship

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are now top of the league after beating Barnsley last night.

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And striker Dwight Gayle will be a happy man as well -

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the division's top scorer ndtted two second half goals to take his tally

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Oakwell hasn't been a particularly happy hunting ground for Newcastle

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in the past and Barnsley kept the Magpies at bay in

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a scrappy first half - although this acrobatic effort

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from Gayle was a sign of things to come.

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Just four minutes after the break, Barnsley failed to clear a corner

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and when the ball fell to the United striker he simply couldn't liss

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Gayle doubled Newcastle's ldad when he got to Matt Ritchie's long

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ball before Barnsley keeper Adam Davies allowing him to send

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Almost 6,000 travelling Newcastle fans were hoping to see a h`ttrick

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but Gayle was denied his third of the night by a pretty sm`rt save,

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but he's still the Championship s top scorer, and a slip up by Norwich

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who allowed their two goal advantage to be clawed back by Fulham

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at Craven Cottage means Rafa Benitez and his men are top of the league

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Good luck to Gateshead tonight they'll host Newport County

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If they can beat Alfreton in their final qualifying

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round replay at the International Stadium.

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Rugby League's showpiece event Magic Weekend

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is returning to St James' Park for a third year running.

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Newcastle first hosted the event in 2015

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and it was so successful it returned this year when almost 70,000 fans

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attended the two-day event - more than ever before

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in Magic Weekend's history - all the more remarkable

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as the region isn't a hotbed of rugby league.

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Next year's event, in which all 12 Superleague teams play

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across a weekend, will take place on May 20th and 21st.

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Well, the region's also plaxing host to the inaugural Ultimate Strongman

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And three of the planet's btrliest blokes popped along to the home of

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Newcastle Falcons Rugby Union Club to launch the event.

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As it turned out, members of the Premiership side's

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first team squad are some of their biggest fans,

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They're more used to disciplines such as the legendary

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Atlas Stones, Monster Tyre Flip and Deadlift Challenge,

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but it was good old fashiondd Tug of War today at Kingston Park

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for the UK and European Chalpions and four time World's Strongest Man

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as they swapped training tips with Falcons first teamers.

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The trio will be among 12 of the biggest stars in Strongman

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at Newcastle's Arena in December reviving memories of much

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loved TV sports from the seventies and eighties.

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Up it goes. 160 kilograms. What a record! You ask anyone, and they

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will say he is a legend. He is the man who put the sport on thd

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will say he is a legend. He is the man who put the sport on the map in

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England. It has been nearly 25 years since the title has been in the UK

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and it needs another big show, and other world championship like we are

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doing to bring the sport back to life in England. Social media has

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helped a huge amount. It has really increased in popularity in the last

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few years. When I started, ht increased in popularity in the last

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few years. When I started, it was a few years. When I started, it was a

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dirty and dark area of the gym. Now you have nice equipment and you can

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do it at all certain levels and it has become a lot more accessible for

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people. Of course mobilty,

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strength and endurance aren't bad qualities

:24:01.:24:01.

for professional rugby playdrs too. Especially if you are in thd forward

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pack, everyone is into their strength training. To come down and

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meet the guys who actually do it for a sport telling us the weight that

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they lived and stuff like that is extraordinary. My brother used to

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play for the Falcons a couple of years back in Bristol so it is great

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to be on the showground tod`y years back in Bristol so it is great

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to be on the showground today and seeing the grounds where he has

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played many a battle. Espechally in played many a battle. Espechally in

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the UK, we have very strong athletes and for sure it is helping to grow

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the sport. That arena tour hit Tyneside on December the tenth. Do

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you know, I hate to say it, but they actually make the Falklands look a

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bit weedy, don't they? They do. And that is not something you say often.

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Paul is really pumped up for the weather.

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A series of weather pictures, he said, moving swiftly on. We start on

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the Cumbrian coast. A beauthful said, moving swiftly on. We start on

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the Cumbrian coast. A beautiful sky. the Cumbrian coast. A beautiful sky.

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Thanks to Jon for that shot. Moving eastwards, and other beautiful sky

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again in Northumberland. An unusual shops there from Caroline. And onto

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shops there from Caroline. @nd onto the East Coast and it is Sunderland

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with a rainbow there and fotr rainbows, you need sunshine and you

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need showers and I think th`t is need showers and I think that is

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what eastern areas will havd over what eastern areas will havd over

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the next few days. So tomorrow, there will be some showers hn

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eastern areas. Generally drher and brighter further west. Cool would

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cover it over the next couple of days. There are some showers around

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in eastern areas this evening. It will continue on and off as we head

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into the night. It will not ring all the time anywhere but certahnly

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the time anywhere but certainly western areas will tend to stay dry

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and clear. Under those clear skies, we could see some fog patchds

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we could see some fog patches forming and that is where the

:25:55.:25:56.

coldest temperatures will be as coldest temperatures will bd as

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well. In the east, down to 8-9dC. Further west, 6-7dC in the town and

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in the countryside, a touch of frost here and there. A goal start

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tomorrow but mostly dry, certainly in western areas and that is how it

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should stay for Cumbria through the day. Always a bit more cloud further

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east but it is not all bad news. Showers from time to time, but

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eastern areas should see sole eastern areas should see some

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sunshine breaking through to blue sky at times as well. Not a great

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deal to choose from. 12-13dC at best. The winds generally light from

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best. The winds generally lhght from North. Stronger at times along the

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North Yorkshire coast espechally. So North Yorkshire coast espechally. So

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the first half of this month was dominated by high pressure over

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Scandinavia and that is the pattern we get back into over the next

:26:45.:26:46.

Scandinavia and that is the pattern we get back into over the ndxt few

:26:47.:26:48.

days. High pressure up to the North East feeding in a cool comic

:26:49.:26:52.

easterly breeze as we head through the weekend. So as we head towards

:26:53.:26:57.

the weekend, Friday we will see largely dry picture. A fair amount

:26:58.:26:58.

of cloud humming in on those light of cloud humming in on those light

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winds and temperatures making the low teens. For the weekend, anywhere

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you get shelter from that e`sterly you get shelter from that easterly

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breeze, that is where you are likely to see the best of any right to

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cells in sunshine. Carlisle or York. Decent job in the east there. But

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Decent job in the east therd. But the temperature is nothing to write

:27:20.:27:23.

home about. Low teens at best and it is a similar picture as we head into

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Sunday as well. We will keep you updated on your BBC local

:27:30.:27:34.

regulation. Carol. OK, thank you. Do we have time for your fact?

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