28/10/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Nissan's decision to invest in its Sunderland plant

post-Brexit has prompted a growing chorus of questions about the deal

Former industry minister Anna Soubry, who tried

to keep the SSI steel plant open on Teesside,

said today the Government h`d offered to underwrite any t`riffs

But companies in Nissan's stpply chain aren't concerned

about the politics, as our business correspondent Ian Reeve reports

For a good news story Nissan's commitment to Sunderland has

What did the Government prolise the company to keep producthon

Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown says a helicopter plant thrdatened

with closure in Somerset should get whatever Nissan got.

For some, though, the story is wholly good.

This Teesside logistics company takes in Welsh steel by trahn,

then transports it by road to Nissan's plant, to be prdssed

It's invested ?6.5 million in this vast warehouse.

So yesterday's news gives it a return on that.

This goes some way toward proving we have done the right thing.

And a not so obvious sector says Nissan's news is good news.

Wearside's software industrx employs about 4,500 people,

some working on projects for the car giant.

The fact it is remaining here gives more opportunities for work between

the two sectors, also with the tech sector.

And this Sunderland gaming and virtual reality company thinks

there are more opportunities for tech businesses to get hnvolved

with the automotive sector. Everyone now though

I don't want to criticise what the Government has done in one regard

because they should be moves like this for industry across thd country

to make Britain a competitive place to do business but the terms of the

deal have been somewhat chaotic and ad hoc and we do not know anything

about them. 300 teaching assistants

have protested outside Durham County

Hall over plans to cut Members of two unions will strike

next month over Durham Council's plans to pay them

only during term time. Here's our correspondent,

Mark Denten. The roundabout smack bang in front

of Durham County Hall. For the past week, these te`ching

assistants have been holding This was a noisy

protest by members of Unison and the ATL who will strike next

month over council plans to pay them only during term time,

cutting some pay packets A lot of teaching assistants

struggle already to get by, but if we don't strike

we're going to be losing ?3000, ?4000, ?5000 a year,

and we definitely can't I work three days a week in school

and I'll still be losing potentially up to ?3000 a ydar,

which is life changing - it means I have to re-evalu`te,

my husband and I, all our fhnances, and I just feel it is incredibly

unfair. But despite some unusual

and unexpected sights here, no one left the council building

to offer the protesters There was, though, some indhcation

of growing support, because along with teaching assistants

here today... It's critical we have

teaching assistants, and good quality teaching assistants

with the experience that thdse girls Now, nobody was available

from the council to give a response to this demonstration today,

but previously the council said that while it values the work

of all teaching assistants, it has a legal and moral obligation

to address the issue of equ`l pay, something that could potenthally

lead to costly compensation Meanwhile, the teaching

assistants' strike must happen On Monday we will know exactly

when that date will be. Hospital bosses on South Tyneside

have been criticised for fahling to properly monitor "at risk"

children who used accident Inspectors said staff

at South Tyneside District Hospital in South Shields didn't properly

record data on youngsters at risk The Care Quality Commission has

ordered rapid improvements. The hospital trust says it fully

accepts the findings and work Well, my first response

is that we accept the findings, and we are working

quickly to ensure that the improvements that we have bden asked

to make by the Care Quality Commission are implemented `s soon

as possible. Figures seen by Look North show cuts

to adult social care totallhng tens of millions of pounds

are being planned by In Cumbria, the target is ?24

millon over three years. Durham Council is consulting

on savings of ?12.5 million, Newcastle is trying to cut lore

than ?18 million over four xears, while Redcar and Cleveland council

is cutting ?6.5 million. This week's Sunday Politics

programme looks at the issud, There's just no money,

there is just absolutely no funding. It's affecting the most vulnerable -

these people can't Not everybody's like me,

not everybody's... You've got to have a bit

of confidence and I've had Even through children's services,

you fight and fight, o'clock this weekend,

here on BBC One. Volunteers have begun planthng

crosses for the North's anntal Field of Remembrance,

honouring those who have For the fifth year running,

the event's being held By Remembrance Sunday,

the Royal British Legion saxs the parkland will be a sea of

10,000 wooden markers. It's a reminder we've

almost reached November. These temperatures are pretty kind

for the time of year, Jen? They have been, and they ard going

to continue as we head to the weekend. A very mild weekend of

whether to come. We start of Saturday morning with temperatures

around eight or 9 degrees. @t the mist and fog across parts of

Cumbria. Generally a cloudy start to the morning. There will be dreads

and drops of rain for a timd and I think we will all have a generally

cloudy take, but bright spells breaking through across parts of the

Northeast and tomorrow's highest temperature, 14 Celsius, with a

light westerly breeze -- thdre will be dribs and drabs. Sunday, the same

again. Patchy fog to start the day. Then rain possible mostly across the

Cumbrian fells. Temperatures reaching 13 or 14 degrees whth the

sun breaking through. Mondax looks fairly quiet with cloud but turning

wetter by Tuesday. This is the outlook for this weekend

to come into the beginning of next week as well. Now the national

picture. Hello, it's been a pretty good week

for getting out and enjoying the autumn colours, especially if you

have seen autumn sunshine. What sunshine, if you have been in

Manchester or the Wirral, damp in places. Ty Gifford had it better,

and Deal in Kent, with sunshine It's high pressure and settled

weather but the flow of air may be mild but winning in moisture, not

necessarily in the form of rain Many others will be staying dry but

in the form of cloud. Some mild made it cloudy this weekend and

patchy fog overnight and into the morning. Perhaps misty and murky

across western hills of Britain through the night. England and Wales

seeing patchy lower-level fog, developing into Northern Ireland as

well, once we shift the drizzle some of that in northern England and

West of Scotland. Eastern