27/03/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Hello and welcome to Monday's Look North.

In tonight's headlines - tributes paid to two teenagers

who died after falling from cliffs in East Cleveland.

I can't wrap my head around it, they were too young, not even 18.

struggle to find new homes as a council-run centre closes.

And the breathtaking gallop through British history -

known as Kynren - returns to County Durham.

My responsibility is to teach 400 volunteers how to look good with a

In sport - we'll round up the weekend football,

with a young man and a slightly older one

A thumbs up from Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery, as his hero -

Jermain Defoe - makes a goal-scoring return to the England team.

A minute's silence has been held in memory of two teenage boys

who died after falling from cliffs in Saltburn.

The tribute was paid at their former school today where pupils and staff

Harry Watson and Alex Yeoman were found on Friday night

Phil Connell is live for us tonight in Saltburn.

Exact details of what happened here on Friday night remains something of

a mystery. The classier at Saltburn are a well-known tourist attraction,

popular with thousands of walkers. For the last three days in the

cliffs have been the focus of this unexplained tragedy.

It's a place of great beauty, but a place marked today

Since Friday, flowers have been left in several places along the cliffs

at Saltburn in memory of the two teenagers both described as

Harry Watson and Alex Yeoman were 17.

Harry, an aspiring actor, was studying drama and Alex had

Today friends were at a loss as to why or

I can't wrap my head around it, they're too young, not even 18.

His birthday was in a couple of weeks.

They were so kind, they'd do anything for you, honestly.

Kind-hearted people and I'm going to miss them

Both teenagers lived in Loftus, and today at their

former school, a minute's silence was held in their memory.

They had been pupils here for five years, both of

them characters described by teachers as popular and bright.

They were fantastic, they were full of

life and one of the last things Harry did was featured in the

performance of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

Both he and Alex were good friends in school and

we have lots of very happy memories of them.

Very positive role models for other students and really valued

The circumstances of the teenagers' deaths tonight remains a mystery.

Two young lives lost in what appears to be a tragic accident.

This evening Alex's stepsister has been looking attributes on the

beach. She was telling me she is working to organise a sponsored walk

in memory of Alex on the 18th of April, the day he would have been

18. It is a great loss, no one knows what has gone on why they were up

there and it is really a whole and everyone's heart. Mum is beside

herself with being Mother's Day yesterday. Cleveland 's police have

again said they are not treating the death as suspicious. A report from

the coroner has been compiled and it may be that no more facts will be

complete until and quests are completed.

A woman's still in a critical condition - after falling out

of a moving car on Saturday, on the A69 in Northumberland.

Police say the car was travelling at around 60 miles

an hour at the time - when she ended up by the roadside

The vehicle was believed to be a black

The Government's being urged to review its handling of benefit

claims after a disabled man from the North East

had to undergo a face-to-face assessment for Employment

and Support Allowance, despite doctors warning

he was suffering from mental illness.

Labour's Helen Goodman, raised the case in the Commons

with the Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green.

Could the Secretary of State please ensure that when doctors say that

people with mental health conditions should not have face-to-face

assessments, they do not have face-to-face assessments?

The Minister expressed his sincere sympathy to the man's family.

He said the Government was investing more in mental health services.

We know have more clinical expertise available to assessors who can look

at the individual cases and those who have conditions which can only

stay the same market worse, we have no ended reassessment so we are

taking steps to try and minimise those effects.

Around 50 small business owners are having to look for new premises

after a council decided to close the centre they were based in.

Middlesbrough Council said it was losing up to two hundred

thousand pounds a year by supporting the Southlands Business Centre.

It says it will help those affected, but some business

Dave Brown has been running his window design and repair company

from the Southlands Centre for eight years.

There are, he says, no huge profits in his work and his room

Where do people go who haven't got funds off their parents to set up

businesses in a town like Middlesbrough?

There's loads of people like that and I was one of

Where did you go now to try to start a business when you have low

rents, easy in and out, you have support?

Middlesbrough Council says it sympathises with the businesses

inside the old school, but it all comes down to money.

The council says the business centre is costing ?200,000 a year in

On top of that, it says it spends another ?600,000 on essential

The 48 small businesses here have been told they

It's fine getting the big companies in here,

area but don't ignore the little companies.

When we've looked at other business centres, they are a lot

more expensive plus we have to pay VAT which we don't have to here

which is another 20% on top of the costs we have to find.

The council says it's not turning its back on small business

There is a package of money, ?100,000, to help the transition,

things like moving costs, even talking about paying off debt,

things like transitional rents, if friends are slightly higher, so

there is no intention to close the doors on these people.

So Dave and Mike now have until September to find a new home

They are captains of industry and leaders of some of the region's

most important organisations, but for one night next month over

twenty North East bosses will sleep rough.

the problem of homelessness in our region by exchanging

comfy executive beds for Durham Cathedral's

hard stone floors - and in the process

raising thousands of pounds for charity.

You run multi-million pound organisations, employ hundreds of

people but someone will one day ask you to claim inside a sleeping bag

in front of TV cameras. The tricky task isn't a good cause because

these bosses are among over 20 movers and shakers highlighting

issue of homelessness, doing so by sleeping rough at Durham Cathedral

raising money for the charity CEO sleep-out. Mata tries to make

awareness of a massive issue and connect people with the community

because often they can live sheltered and comfortable lives not

confronted with big issues and at events like this they are confronted

with an issue and sometimes meet people who are homeless and share

experiences and everyone benefits from that. This is where the bosses

will lay their weary heads, the stone floors of the cathedral

cloisters. On a professional level, the men that I look after, a number

of them homeless or with issues of homelessness related to the crime

they caused, it is important to raise the profile. Almost this is

certainly a barrier to someone rehabilitating suffer someone coming

out of prison, not having an address is a barrier to gaining implement

some of you are filling in a job application what is the employer

going to think of that application? Young people and rough sleepers are

a real problem because they are putting themselves at risk so when I

heard about the charity I thought it was a no-brainer, a main

inconvenience for one night just to put the charity on the map so I was

delighted but I wasn't that is delighted but I will be delighted to

take part. I couldn't even get his to work on the sleeping bag. The

event takes place on the April the 24th and aims to raise money for

homeless projects across the region. A French Cold War aircraft began

its journey to Yorkshire today. The Mirage Four nuclear bomber

is being taken from Paris to More than seventy years after French

airmen based at Elvington during World War Two brought

Halifax Bombers home to France, the French Government is now gifting

the Mirage Four to the base. The French Government is gifting

another bomber back to Elvington We have the Mirage Three

which is the fighter variant, but the Mirage Four is very symbolic

because it represents the bombers that were taken

from Elvington to France. It is a very exciting time coming

up, this unique gifting of a nuclear capable aircraft to not just another

country but an independent A special Service of Thanksgiving

is being held at Carlisle cathedral, to acknowledge and pay tribute

to the work of staff and volunteers The event features readings

and stories from patients at Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary,

and the West Cumberland Not Cumbria University Hospital NHS

trust has had a troubled history and considered with Ypres reputation and

a number of areas. Today is about the people who do good things and

his efforts aren't always recognised. We decided to hold a

thanksgiving service for the acts of kindness that go on every day and

the hospital perpetrated by the stats and volunteers. Officer in

what is going on in a big cost little and sometimes people forget

to be real hard work at people on the ground do and we simply want to

say thank you. People see our negative headlines and we are trying

to do more good news stories, the worker staff do on a day-to-day

basis that make patients safe and happy any hospital. Among them are

patients being treated at the hospitals and who have made their

journey today to express their gratitude. I'm a timber floor

expectations but I can't speak highly enough of all the stuff that

I encountered. Are really dedicated and I put that on the note that they

sent round for me to fill in. A doctor can round and thanked me for

that. The trust would be the first to admit that some of the headlines

in recent years have been less than flattering but today is all about

human endeavour of which was on the hospitals and which we don't often

get to hear about and there is an awful lot of appreciation and

gratitude going on in the Cathedral today. ...

Plenty more to come - including those moving pictures

of Bradley Lowery's day out at Wembley with his

favourite footballer - Plus - driving school.

A group of teenagers are taking their car design

After a glorious weekend, something more changeable.

The Romans, Vikings and Winston Churchill

all make an appearance - but even more key figures

from British history will star in this year's Kynren.

The open air arena show, which it's hoped will turn

a County Durham market town into an international

tourism destination, opens in just over three months.

Our arts reporter Sharuna Sagar's gone behind the scenes

Kynren brings 2,000 years of British history to life.

And it's hoping to bring 136,000 visitors

Opening night for the second season is the 1st July

My responsibility is to teach 400 volunteers how to look good with a

And have you had any injuries so far?

Two sword related injuries, one was a graze knuckle and the other

was someone cleaning it, it wasn't even combat related.

So far so good for the staging of this epic tale of England

which has been reimagined for the humans and the horses!

What new things are you bringing to the show?

The audience will see this year, top of the show, a new

It is going to be a very exciting gallop, and

What also makes this year different from last year

is that there are 1,500 volunteers, that's 400 more, taking part in 17

shows over the summer, and in every show, each of the 25

scenes has been completely overhauled for overhauled

So confidence for Kynren 2017 are high.

We have been doing things humans do on a regular basis like

old-fashioned dancing, it is really cool. I've learned how to dance and

use a sword that has been really cool. We came to see the show last

year and I thought I had to do this. I thought it would be fun to do it

this year. I thought it would be a great idea and it would be such a

great thing to be involved in and it would help towards the town. It's

not every day you can see you've been on a show like Kynren.

Now the plan is to make it a must see annual event.

After all, the regeneration of Bishop Auckland is

No Premier League or Championship football,

because of the internationals - but the man of the moment was very

Back in the England line-up for the first time in three years,

the 34 year-old was given the honour of leading out the national

team at Wembley - alongside five year-old

Not the first time the young Sunderland fan has

accompanied his hero - who then went on to score

the opening goal in yesterday's 2-0 win over Lithuania

Manager Gareth Southgate said he'd have "put his

house" on Defoe scoring - but the former Middlesbrough boss

also hinted the striker's hopes of making next year's World Cup

finals in Russia - should England get there -

could depend on him leaving Wearside, if the Black Cats

The ideal world for all the players is that they are playing at a high

The flipside of that is we don't have a huge pool

So his performances this season and his goal-scoring form

are the things that have got him here for sure.

Defoe's Sunderland team-mate, John O'Shea, thinks he was lucky

to escape a broken leg, after a reckless challenge

by Gareth Bale in a feisty goalless draw between the Republic

The Real Madrid star launched into a tackle

on the 35-year-old centre-back, who'll now miss tomorrow's

Bale was shown a yellow card - which could easily

Elsewhere, Newcastle striker Alexander Mitrovic

was on target for Serbia, in a 3-1 win over Georgia which has

taken them above Ireland to the top of the qualifying group.

Of course the international break gave our lower league and leading

non-league clubs more of the spotlight.

Sadly none could really take advantage.

The most damaging result was arguably Carlisle's latest defeat -

It saw the Blues drop out of the League Two play-off places,

having spent so much of the season in the top three.

Carlisle boss Keith Curle says he won't lose belief in himself

after some fans questioned whether he was capable of stopping

Carlisle United's dramatic slump in form.

who've lost six out of their last 7 games and gone more than 11

hours without a goal, dropped out of the top seven

for the first time since early in the season after Saturday's

One down at half-time, Carlisle played with 10 men

for most of the second half after Shaun Miller was sent off.

Crewe made sure of the points with an hour gone.

The Blues were still licking their wounds yesterday.

Meanwhile prolific former striker Charlie Wyke who in January

triggered a release clause in his contract was playing

for Bradford City in their narrow defeat at League One play-off rivals

If we were under the first division Charlie would still be here, but he

has moved on and is scoring goals and it annoys me when I see on a

Saturday but we have not scored goals and we put on the teletext and

you see Charlie has scored. Hartlepool - the better side

for much of the game - took the lead at League Two play-off

hopefuls Blackpool But the Seasiders hit back

with two goals of their own, the slightly fortuitous winner

coming just ten minutes from time, leaving Pools boss Dave Jones

feeling his side are still A late goal ended National League

strugglers York City's mini-revival although they battled hard at fourth

placed Dagenham and Meanwhile promotion hopefuls

Gateshead slipped out of the play-off places

after being held to a one-all draw despite Gus Mafuta giving them

the lead at Eastleigh. And well done to Berwick

after winning at Scottish League Two leaders Forfar.In rugby union,

Newcastle Falcons boss Dean Richards cold his side's

53-17 loss to Harlequins The Falcons' 17-year

wait for a league win at the Twickenham Stoop continues -

despite them taking an early lead when scrum half Sonatane Takulua

touched down between the posts and converted his own try -

inside five minutes. But Newcastle fell apart after that,

allowing a star-studded Quins side to run in no fewer than seven tries

racking up the four-try bonus point Mark Wilson's try was nothing more

than a consolation for the Falcons who drop down to ninth -

Champions Cup rugby next season But in basketball, Newcastle Eagles

returned to winning ways with a convincing victory over

Manchester Giants. Fab Flournoy's side made a slow

start, but despite being without key man Darius Defoe, they romped home

by 96 points to 65 for their Deondre Parks top-scored with 22

points - the Eagles are still four points behind leaders

Leicester Riders, who also The 2017 Formula 1 season

started yesterday but have It's a pretty big deal and a team

of six 14 and 15 year olds from Jarrow School

in South Tyneside Paul Mooney went along

to meet team Impulso. I am a bit of an F1 fan,

it's the pinnacle of motorsport, all about teamwork, and man

and machine in perfect harmony. F1 in schools, that's

a wee bit different. It's all about engineering,

science and technology. Basically the students have

to design, make and come up with a total Formula One team

from scratch, making little models Obviously the science,

the engineering, the technology behind it, they have to learn

all that, the marketing, everything that you do for a little

mini Formula one team. Obviously it is a big recognition

for us, it is a massive competition and we have the chance

to go international. It's probably the biggest school

competition in the world actually. As far as science and

engineering is concerned. To get these drawings of the car,

we have to use CAD software and then the computer can render these

drawings for us. We put the measurements on and see

if it fits the regs or not. The regulations are

very, very strict. This one for example,

even one millimetre off of the regulations and you get

critical points taken off. Close to the competition we have

some lessons out so we can do this so we can make sure

we are all tied in nicely. And of course no modern outfit is

without its social media strategy. We have a variety of different

social media like Snapchat And with websites like that we can

reach a wide variety of people. They have already won the regional

final, and have the fastest model car and their class,

so can Jarrow School's Impulso team triumph at the national final

at Silverstone and take it I should say good luck to the other

Northern schools through to the final. Weather-wise, a spring

picture this evening, the daffodils and onto life. But the mountaintops

still have the remainder of last week's snow on the higher ground.

After the glorious weekend, a bit more changeable with more cloud and

rain and the next few days with the wind is generally from the south and

should stay reasonably mild through the week ahead. Tonight is a dry

clear evening in places but cloud will fill and through the night and

a fair amount of raw cloud and Mr Nissen around in the second half of

the night, Edison fault in a few places. Temperatures should drop any

lower than about four Celsius. Cloudy tomorrow with a few bright

spells breaking through and through the afternoon some thicker cloud

from the south-west, bringing the risk of some sherry outbreaks as we

head towards tea-time. Everyone ought to have a boss from time to

time but don't think we will miss them completely at least until

tomorrow evening. Temperatures in double figures, nor very new 18

result of the weekend but it is partly thanks to the southerly

breeze. The chat is messy over the next few days, low pressure and the

Atlantic dominating the chat, so the rain will come and go and the cloud

will come and go but it is not all bad news, it would rain all week

anywhere so I think mixed is the best way to describe it with a fair

amount of cloud at times, some patchy rain as we had through the

middle of the week against temperatures in the mid-teens, still

the risk of some rain coming and going as we had through Thursday and

Friday, perhaps some heavier showers at the end of the week but

temperatures remaining similar, 13 and 14 and generally enough cloud

and agrees to keep it frost free overnight. A mixed bag towards the

weekend, remember to keep Europe much whether pictures coming in,

check the website details are e-mail them to us. Being a Monday evening,

we will have a closer look at the weather for the week ahead of

tonight 's's look north at around 10:30pm. Thank you. This weekend was

astonishing. I washed the windows. That's it from us tonight, goodbye.