10/02/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Tonight: "Outrageous and rigged against Newcastle."

Some of the angry reaction to the news that the child heart

surgery unit will have to move across the city to

It looks to me like this is designed to shift decision-making from the

technical issues involved to the political issues which of course is

something very different and I think very, very wrong.

Also tonight: Jailed for more than two years.

The internet troll who sent death threats to an MP.

We're live at the River Wear where the centrepiece

of Sunderland's new bridge is being lifted into position.

York minster's very own police force is to be given the same powers

Why there are sometimes more important things

But when tomorrow's games do kick off can our Premier League

24 hours after Look North revealed the future of child heart surgery

in Newcastle is in jeopardy, there's been an angry reaction

In order to continue, NHS England has said

the Freeman Hospital will have to bring ALL its specialist

Currently some are provided three miles across the city,

in the Great North Children's Hospital at the Royal

Well our health reporter, Sharon Barbour broke

the story and she's outside the Freeman Hospital now.

The reaction to the news has been one of shock.

Two Newcastle MPs are planning to raise the issue with

Here at the Freeman, they say they have to move

children's heart surgery to the RVI is a huge and complex task that

If they plan the house to work to secure the future of child heart

surgery in the north-east. Rachel in Middlesbrough knows how

difficult it is to watch your own Her son Theo has

needed it three times. We owe them everything, we really

do, they are just outstanding. And an outstanding team and we still

have contact with them, now, Theo goes... On a three yearly basis,

now, a fantastic thing which we would never thought we would see.

He's is one of more than 2,000 heart and lung transplants have been

performed in both children and adults, at the Freeman Hospital

But BBC Look North has revealed for the Freeman Hospital to be able

to continue its life saving complex child heart surgery ..

NHS England says it needs to be on the same site as other specialist

Today Newcastle Hospitals confirmed it was drawing up plans

to move everything across to

NHS England have made it very clear that they really do wish us to move.

What services would go across? We would need to re-equipped to

operating theatres, we would need what's a cardiac catheterisation

laboratory, a large, dedicated children's intensive care area, a

high dependency area, ward beds, and outpatient clinic. Where will the

room come in the great north to the hospital do move all of these

things? I can't answer that at the minute, specifically, but the trust

is having a long, hard look at various options which will

inevitably means some building. And new construction at the Royal

Victoria Infirmary site. Who will pay for that? The great NHS will

have to fund it, but I can't answer that specifically at this moment in

time but there is no firm promises anywhere. We will have to look and

see what is possible first. Because you don't have an option, do you? We

are not seeming to be given an option by NHS England, so....

The move will be a huge challenge and will cost

many millions of pounds, NHS England say Newcastle

Hospitals will have to find that money themselves:

The news has drawn strong criticism from Newcastle Mps; Chi Onwurah

is writing to the Health Secretary asking "whether forcing it to move

across the city is really in the interests of children."

Nick Brown MP was also shocked to hear the news.

I think it's outrageous. The issue here is a rational argument, and the

weight of evidence is clearly a Newcastle by backside, first

political decision-making, and there of course we come down to be

secretary of state, Jeremy Hunt, so we will both be putting pressure on

the secretary of state to at least they fare. -- Playfair.

the secretary of state to at least they -- fare.

NHS England say Newcastle will have extra time

for to draw up their plans, The Hospital trust say the actual

move could mean building a new heart and transplant uni on the RVI site,

and the whole process could take years..

NHS England have recognised the exceptional work of the hospital -

especially around transplant - the only child heart transplant

The medical teams here welcome that endorsement.

But to survive, to continue in the future they have the packed up and

move across the city. An internet troll who made

anti-Semitic death threats to a Labour MP has been jailed

for 27 months. John Nimmo who's 28

and from South Shields faced nine charges which included two relating

to emails he sent to In one he said she would

'get it like Jo Cox', He appeared via video-link

at Newcastle Crown Court, The judge said his need for

notoriety greatly outweighed his concern for others and that he

terrified his victims from his home where he thought he could remain

anonymous. Today, the 28-year-old from South Shields was deigned for

nine charges related to threatening an offensive messages sent to a

number of victims via the Internet. In July last day he sent death

threats via e-mail to Liverpool way victory MP, as just weeks after her

fellow MP Jo Cox was bad and shot at her constituency office. In one

e-mail to miss Berger Khmer sheep would get its like Jo Cox,

accompanied by a picture of a knife. In an other come

he was also sentenced for threatening to blow up a mosque,

saying death will come to all Muslims. In a statement read in

court today, from miss Berger, the big concern was not knowing who this

was. He could have been residing next door to me and it left me

feeling physically sick. In mitigation, his barrister is said he

had Asperger's syndrome and lived an isolated life. He said it was

unlikely that he wouldn't offend again without therapy due to

psychological problems. It isn't the first time he has been convicted for

this type of offence, in 2014 was jailed for tweets to MP. He was told

his actions had been cowardly and caused fear, misery and paranoia

amongst his victims. He also said it was a great concern that he had

thought it was fun to get reactions from people whilst abusing them

anonymously. And that is need for recognition had stopped any remorse.

Nimmo was jailed for 27 months. Three men have appeared in court

in connection with a shooting A doorman was injured outside

the Tup Tup Palace club in 2015. John Henry Sayers, who's 53,

and Michael Dixon, who's 35, both from the Walker area

of the city, were remanded in custody accused of

"conspiracy to murder." A third man was bailed on a charge

of "assisting an offender Police investigating the death

of a man in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery in Sunderland yesterday morning -

say no-one else was involved. The dead man's been named

as 42-year-old Andrew Scott, Middlesbrough's Institute

of Modern Art - or MIMA - It's celebrating the milestone

with an exhibition of work And the pieces which have made

it out of the vaults and on to the gallery's walls

have been chosen by the The new exhibition is part

of Mima's aim to become Our business correspondent,

Ian Reeve, reports. So, for now, we'll just

place the Lynn Chadwicks So, for now, we'll just place

the Lynn Chadwicks on the table. The final placing

of the rarely seen. Art usually kept in the vaults,

of Middlesbrough's Museum of We put a call out in

the Gazette to ask what works with the public like to see

on permanent display and we also groups of Teeside University

students to children under the age of five to select their favourite

pieces from the collection stores. This exhibition marks

ten years of Mima, fend off criticism that

its art is too obscure, except when curated

as a one off by the former

top gear team. This is how I want to see

people of Middlesbrough... On the left there is

a Lamborghini Countach that's a Ferrari 275 GT S

and there's a Land Rover. But Mima has a new direction,

styling itself as a useful museum. We started our exhibitions

which are about things people are concerned with,

about things that are happening in the world, and we have

started to respond to what people say they would like to see

and what they would like to happen. 100,000 visitors

already come through a plainly finding it useful

enough will stop so did it become So could it become too popular?

Pandering to populism? There's nothing wrong with being

popular but equally you can be I don't think it's

a question of and... Whether it's

this or that, it's more a question of can we do a whole range of

different activities. Some people of course

will still criticise Mima, think it's not for them,

but at after a decade that has seen big arts cuts it's still here,

should they change their minds and want to see

just how useful it is. Work's been going on all day

in Sunderland, to lift the central pylon of

the new Wear Crossing into place. It's a huge feat of civil

engineering, putting the one hundred Well, it's certainly been a dramatic

day down on the river here, but it is important to remember this was

all were scheduled to be a 20 hour operation and bentonite they are

halfway through. It is also important to remember they haven't

tried a structural left on this kind of scale since they raised the

London eye nearly 20 years ago, but I am pleased to say that the

operation he is bang on track. They started at first light.

Delicate and composite operation to lift the steel monster on to his

feet, a mind boggling operation of physics and civil engineering.

Tables are attached to the crossbeam which is then attached to a back

mask which is attached to a top of a pylon, these cables then do a thing

called a strand jack which greets the cables through them very slowly,

and about six metres and our commit will take 20 hours to move the whole

thing upright. With each passing hour, this enormous steel structure

creeps higher and higher. And you get a real sense of how it's going

to transform the Sunderland skyline completely. Hundreds came down to

the banks of the river to watch the drama slowly unfold. I think it's

really cool because... Because it goes really high. When it was flat

on the barge, there can be you didn't realise how big it was, but

now it started to go up it is very, very tall. Once-in-a-lifetime for us

to see something like this happening down here, here, so yes. Quite

often, we keep track of your progress. Proud Jamaat very proud of

Sunderland. Plenty of sleepless nights and I'm

glad to say we're here today and very confident that those nights

have been worthwhile, we've had a lot of challenges along the way that

we've managed to iron them out and we're very happy to see everything

going forward according plan. Plenty more coming up;

Dawn's here with the sport, plus:

Generating new woodland We join volunteers as they plant

more than 1,400 new trees And it is a cold weekend to come

with some further wintry showers, sleet and snow.

Thought to be the oldest police force in the country,

the Minster Police have been protecting York Minster

and the people who worship there, since the 13th century.

They're one of just five similar forces worldwide.

But this week the Minster team was formally recognised,

and - within the boundaries of the cathedral -

will soon hold the same powers to arrest as normal police.

The Minster police have been on duty a very long time. For more than 700

years, they have guarded the piece here at York Minster, protecting the

building and everyone in it on a daily basis. Specialist training for

North Yorkshire Police means they will still hold the same powers of

arrest as regular constables. From time to time, people have had a bit

too much to drink or maybe just a little bit of disorder that has to

be dealt with, and we have to be realistic that there could be a

crime, so police officers are now trained to recognise that and how to

deal with it appropriately and the right level. Cathedral constables

were on the beach well before the police force was actually

established in 1829. Since the 13th century they have held a vital role

in securing York here, and that another few cathedrals like Chester

and Lancashire. Last year they were professionally trained for the eight

strong team he had the Minster. From disruptive visitors to serious

criminals the team are now equipped for every situation but their

central role remains to inform and advise the public. It has given us

the tools to do the job, more proficiently. Should we encounter a

situation we will know what to do, and we will have the confidence to

carry out those actions. This week, North Yorkshire Police and the Dean

of York signed a memorandum formally recognising their new role. The

powers will come into force in May. Volunteers have spent the day

planting thousands of trees across the Lake District to help

restore woodland and provide some The National Trust's first mass

planting will also help boost Mark McAlindon joined volunteers

above the village of Braithwaite. On a winter morning perfect

for planting trees, an army of volunteers marched up

Coledale near Keswick to continue the task of restoring

some natural tree and scrubland Over the course of this winter

we've been planting This valley, along with lots in

the Lake District, would have been wooded at one time,

but for various reasons, farming, and there's

a massive mine up there, one of the last

working mines in the Lake District, so they would have cut

down the trees for props, etc. Just about a mile down

the back there's a village called Braithwaite, which

last year unfortunately got really badly hit in the flood

so trees will help to stabilise the soil and hopefully

prevent these landslips from In all, across four lake

district sites, 1,400 trees were being planted today alone,

attracting volunteers keen If you live in such

a beautiful place and enjoy the hills

as much as I do, it just day a week just to

help maintain them. Paths and walls and trees,

just everything. The slopes of Coledale as you can

see are extremely wet and boggy, so it's a question of what type

of tree will thrive in these Well, this is aspen,

alongside willow, volunteers

planting hundreds of these because these types of tree

will grow quite happily in wet soil. Aspen and willow grow quickly too,

it won't be long before this valley, Just before the sport,

Bradley Lowery, the five year-old Sunderland football fan who's

terminally ill with cancer, has had some special

visitors in hospital. The Black Cats' top scorer,

Jermain Defoe, and goalkeeper Vito Mannone popped in to see

Bradley, along with midfielder A photo of Bradley falling asleep

cuddling Defoe has been liked by almost 60,000 people

on social media. Yes, very moving -

some things really are more important that football even

when you're bottom of the league. Something I asked Sunderland boss

David Moyes about at this afternoon's pre-match media

conference. Footballers are actually

good people, they do Sometimes the things that you hear

about driving fast cars But our thoughts are with Bradley

and his family all the time, But I'd just say that, you know,

it does put things in perspective. Maybe it's good for the players

to get away, get away from the constant sort of strain

and pressure of being in here and then you actually see what it's

really like in the real life, and as I said it was good

on the players, but we'll just keep hoping and praying that

Bradley keeps well. On the pitch Sunderland's surprise

4-0 victory at Crystal Palace last weekend has given the players

and the manager a much needed confidence boost ahead of tomorrow's

Premier League clash with Southampton at

the Stadium of Light. No one knows how much last

week's win will affect the final outcome in May,

but it's given renewed hope. With just two points

separating the bottom six, a victory or two can make a huge

difference. It can, and we've been

in this position once or We've got to make sure we do,

this time, and again, we're running out of games, so we've got

to probably have a different mindset than maybe we

have had in the past. The level of the performance

at Crystal Palace was greater than I think it was very hard not to say

that the majority of players played some of their best

games, some of the best performances, and will

need to do it again. Jordan Rhodes has been training this

week but medics are insisting the keeper completes his rehab

after a knee injury so he wont be I find it hard to

actually understand and he's jumping and

is getting but yeah, and he's jumping and

is kicking but yeah, his time is probably

after this weekend, so what I will say

is he's very close to playing now. With no game next week David Moyes

is taking his squad for a break, not for a spot of sunshine,

but some team bonding in New York. I've done it for myself,

and I know it's worked and know how it works

for the group and also Some of them will get

a chance to see some really important sites

go and see some things, and we've got basketball games lined up,

so we'll probably keep it on a sporty

Well the Middlesbrough first team squad have just come home

from their Benidorm warm-weather training camp ahead of a home game

against in-form Everton, managed by the former Southampton

With the Teessiders hovering just one point above the relegation zone,

Many Boro fans arriving for tomorrow's crucial home game

will no doubt have been envious of their team's mid-winter Spanish

break, but will the change of scene improve the club's fortunes

you're working hard is still away from home,

you're working hard is still away from home, but it's the change

Sometimes that's the desired effect and am hoping they come back

re-energised and are ready for Saturday was like a game.

Ex-Boro player Maddison says Boro need to set their sights higher

And some of the games we've played this

season we've takien draws inside of wins

the possession of football we've had we dominated games at times and yet

It's about earning teams, it's about scoring goals and

winning games, and you don't get no points for playing pretty football,

you get points for putting the ball in the back of the net.

Ominously for Boro Everton and star striker Romelu Lukaku arrive

Four goals in his last game, he's just scoring

goals for fun and that's someone we need, really.

Unsettled but hugely talented midfielder Gaston Ramirez,

who wanted to join champions Leicester last month,

He's going to play now till the end of the season and if he

does really well he can get his move at the end

of the season but he is

an important player for us, he needs to perform for us.

Championship leaders Newcastle United don't have fond

memories of their first league meeting with Wolves this season.

A surprise 2-0 home defeat back in September, which later saw

Jonjo Shelvey pick up a five-match ban after being found guilty

The influential midfielder will have to keep his cool at Molineux

tomorrow tea-time in a game which comes a bit too early

for striker Dwight Gayle, nearing a return from injury.

The Magpies' boss, meanwhile, concedes that it won't be easy

for the top two to pull further clear of the chasing pack.

Some teams are doing well, they are on form and everyone can

lose points and then it is important to just

concentrate on one game can see what happened,

but I'm sure that other teams they will be pushing and

pushing and as I said before April could be a crucial place because you

have so many games and there will be a distance between teams that is not

In League Two, Carlisle United will be looking to build

on their first win of 2017 last week when they host mid-table

You can listen to commentary of that game on BBC Radio Cumbria and BBC

Tees will have all the action from Hartlepool's tough away trip

Yorkshire's Joe Root and Durham's Ben Stokes

have met with Director of Cricket Andrew Strauss as England

continue their search for a new captain.

Alastair Cook stepped down on Monday after a record 59 Tests in charge.

Root who was vice-captain, is favourite to take over

but Strauss has so far refused to "rule anyone in or out".

The new skipper will be appointed before England's tour

Finally good luck to Darlington Mowden Park Sharks Lock

forward Tamara Taylor who'll win her 100th cap for England

when they take on Wales in the Women's Six Nations

She made her debut in 2005. Congratulations to her! Time that

the weather now. It's a bit cold out there. Yes,

really cold, Jeff. We have same some snow showers as well. Some

photographs to show you first of all, this trip taken by James 's

afternoon, leaden skies across Wearside, but blazing sunshine for a

time elsewhere. Some snow as well, this taken in Teesdale, and our

Weather Watchers have sent these end. This weekend, further wintry

showers, a cold wind blowing, and lots of great cloud in the forecast

as well, so quite a miserable weekend. Tonight a weather warning

for snow, valid until ten o'clock tomorrow morning. How that pans out,

through the evening and overnight, a lot of clear skies, but gradually

for the north-east, showers return, falling as snow, even down to low

levels, but we could even see three to six centimetres. Temperatures

overnight down at freezing, perhaps above in a fuse box. A cold start

tomorrow, quite a great start with continued showers pushing in, and

the difference is the north-easterly and easterly wind feeling stronger,

so that will add a wind chill factor through Saturday. Cumbria,

especially western parts, do best with the dry weather, the tops of

the Pennines and students will see snow, as the show was come through.

So lower levels, it falls as rain. Temperatures around for five but add

on the strength of that wind and it will be feeling bitterly cold.

Showers continue to Saturday night into Sunday, falling snow again,

ever higher ground, but because they are showers they went the scene by

all. Temperatures drop around freezing. Sunday, Breeze coming in

from the east, a cold direction, and if you brighter spells especially

across Cumbria on Sunday but we see some further showers pushing in

again over higher ground, some centimetres, down to lower levels,

falling asleep not snow. Temperatures on Sunday about 45

degrees, adding on the strength of the wind again and it will feel much

colder than that. Pretty, cold, windy, wet over the weekend, what

about the start of next week? It will look quite cool on Monday and

Tuesday, only a gradual change to something a little bit milder, if

you more wintry showers on Monday, one to sunny spells, balmy 8 degrees

by Tuesday. A bit party over the weekend,

though. A little bit of snow! Have a great weekend, we will see you on

Monday.