24/10/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

He was banned from driving only to get behind the wheel of ` car

after a night of drinking and taking drugs.

Then 20-year-old Tyrone Quinn drove his friends through

a city centre at speed before losing control and killing

Today Quinn sobbed in the dock as the victim's mother

told the court he has devastated their lives.

Caught on CCTV, the BMW speeds through Newcastle.

The driver, Tyrone Quinn, had had a night on the drink,

he'd taken cocaine and he w`s already a banned driver.

killing promising young basketball player James Docherty.

Today, a court heard of the moments before the tragedy.

At this point, the city was still busy

Witnesses described hearing the BMW's wheels screeching.

Another said he had seen it rocking from side to side.

And another said he had nevdr seen driving as reckless

as he saw from Tyrone Quinn that night.

The driving was probably thd worst you could possibly imagine.

Not only with drugs, but with alcohol.

This is a tragic event for James and his family.

And he hasn't helped himself at all during this case.

Quinn sat with his head bowdd as the court was addressed

"Why would you drive a car when you are under the infltence

"of drink and drugs?" she asked.

She spoke of the "sadness, anger and disbelief"

There is "a sense of emptindss without his presence," she said

Quinn was jailed for six ye`rs and nine months.

The judge told him, "You will have to live in the knowledge th`t

Well, earlier I spoke to Peter and asked him if Tyrone Quinn

What aggravated this is his history of being banned from driving,

Added to that, only six days before this crash,

he had been released from prison for a separate offence

We were told in court today that Tyrone Quinn suffers

from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder over the crash that killed his

friend, though obviously anx remorse he is now suffering

is nothing to what the victhm's family is going through.

Indeed, the victim's mother, James Docherty, told the cotrt

today, "I want my son back but that's not going to happen.

After months of debate, the National Grid has announced

proposals to bury power cables underneath the Lake District

National Park instead of building large pylons.

The 100 miles of power lines will connect the proposed

new nuclear power station in West Cumbria

They serve a crucial function but their presence in this landscape

Campaigners have fought passionately to ensure that new 50m-high pylons

are not built within the Lake District National Park.

They are just too high, too wide

and too much of an impact on this beautiful environment.

And now it seems they've had some success.

Plans released today by the National Grid show

from a substation near Heysham it's proposed an underground tunnel

will cary power lines beneath Morecambe Bay,

with overhead lines being used through the Duddon Estuary

before the cables are buried as they pass through

The lines will then return to pylons as they pass through

And this is where those linds would end up - Harker subst`tion

It's humming away quietly in the background today.

According to National Grid, this project is about balancing

impact on the landscape with inevitable cost

Spending here is driven by the need to connect a new nuclear power

station at Moorside, near Sellafield,

Everything National Grid dods goes back to people on their bills,

so they will be picking up the tab for this.

That is why we think we havd struck the right balance between the cost,

We're starting our consultation on Friday.

It's going for ten weeks and we really want people

to tell us what they think about the route we've chosen.

Today's proposals would see the removal of some old-style

pylons, making the western ddge of the Lake District

National Park pylon-free for the first time in 50 ye`rs.

But fewer, bigger pylons like these ones at the National Grid training

centre could soon be built outside the park boundary.

Consultation on these plans will run until the beginning of Janu`ry

and application for planning will then follow.

But work on the route is not expected until 2019.

Teaching assistants in County Durham have begun a week-long vigil outside

County Hall in their continting dispute over major

changes to the terms and conditions of employment.

They say new term-time only contracts will mean a pay ctt

The council says the new contracts bring the teaching assistants

St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, which attracts thousands

of visitors every year, is to undergo a ?2 million lakeover.

The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1984 but the refurbishment

will include upgrades to the existing facilities

and the addition of a lift, an exhibition area

It's part of a much larger scheme to rejuvenate the whole

In the past 20 years, the number of people

in the North East and Cumbrha with diabetes has more than doubled.

Experts have always believed that people with the most common form,

But a world-renowned professor from Newcastle says he thinks

he's found a way of reversing the disease, and without drtgs.

He thinks his diabetes might kill him.

I'm concerned about having ` stroke, heart attack, kidney failurd

and different types of things that can happen and it's frightening

Ed is one of more than 200,000 people in the North East

That's more than 7% of the adult population.

And in more than a decade, it's expected to rise

Roy Taylor, professor of medicine at Newcastle University,

Our hypothesis was that Typd Two diabetes was typified by

If we got rid of that, things might return to norm`l.

In a study, Professor Taylor asked volunteers with Type Two di`betes

to go on a very low calorie diet designed to remove fat

If we look at this organ, that is the liver.

The level of fat is in fact 36%, extremely high.

But after eight weeks of thhs diet, look at this, 2% liver fat.

But the most exciting changd is the liver function.

Type Two diabetes after one week, a bit of a response.

Four weeks, eight weeks, it had gone back to normal.

The function has been restored and that is a magic thing.

If he's right, Professor Taxlor will help hundreds of thous`nds

of diabetes patients free themselves of the condition

In line with Professor Taylor's model, Ed is restricting hilself

to 800 calories a day for ehght weeks in the hope that he, too,

It's a case of if I don't do it now, it could be too latd.

I've got to think, I've got a lovely granddaughter therd,

Professor Taylor is undertaking a major new study

If the results are positive, he believes this diet will puickly

become part of routine treatment and our understanding of how

best to fight the disease will have changed forever.

And you can see the full Inside Out report on the BBC iPlayer

Time now to take a look at the weather for the week ahead.

There will be plenty of dry weather to come in the week ahead.

Certainly for the first part of the week we are expecting some

very chilly mornings, some bright spells to be had

as well, but by the middle part of the week things will be getting

breezier and with that westdrly breeze, much milder.

This is the pressure chart `s we go into tonight and into tomorrow.

High pressure in charge which means Tuesday is lookhng

As we go through the night tonight, this is the picture.

Some showers continuing across parts of Northumberland but gener`lly it's

Under those clear skies, temperatures around two or three

degrees in places but anywhdre could see a touch of frost

There will be some patchy mhst and fog to contend with first thing

on Tuesday and after that chilly start, things will brighten up

readily and it's looking like a lovely autumn day.

Plenty of sunshine across the board and temperatures through

the afternoon reaching a high of around 13 Celsius.

The winds are fairly light on Tuesday afternoon and as we go

through Tuesday night and on into Wednesday,

they gradually shift to a w`rm westerly direction so that leans

we're going to see some clotd pushing in from the west.

That will help to keep the temperatures from

We are expecting lows of around six or seven degrees as we start

As you can see on the presstre chart, the isobars are very close

for Wednesday so it's going to turn breezier and this weather

front is going to introduce some cloud and outbreaks of rain.

Here is the picture first thing on Wednesday morning.

The breeze picking up from the west as well.

That's going to bring outbrdaks of rain across parts of Cumbria

but the North East will stax largely dry and will see the best

as we go into Thursday, the isobars still packed together

so it's still going to be f`irly breezy and the weather front

bringing some outbreaks of rain at times.

That rain will be mostly light and patchy as we head

Eastern parts faring best and temperatures

Friday looks like a similar picture to Thursday.

We start off with a lot of cloud around, some outbreaks of r`in

Here's a reminder of the week's whether and,

with the national forecast, I'll now hand you to Darren Bett.

around 60 degrees. Towards the weekend, more of the same, mainly

dry and feeling very mild. Now your national weather.

Good evening, major changes in the weather over the next couple of

days, the result being it will turn