21/12/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


21/12/2016

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Copeland MP Jamie Reed, a leading critic of Jeremy Corbyn,

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But Mr Reed says he's leaving to take a job at Sellafield,

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and not because of any disillusionment with

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It does though trigger a tricky by-election for his party.

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Jamie Reed's majority in Copeland was just 2,564.

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Here's our Political Editor Richard Moss.

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It's not the Christmas present Labour would have wanted.

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Jamie Reed's resignation will lead to a bruising

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The Copeland MP is quitting Parliament to take up a job

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at Sellafield as the nuclear site's head of Development

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Reed has been a big supporter of the nuclear industry

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and was a press officer at Sellafield before becoming

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He was soon seen as a man with the potential to

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The US Embassy invited him to observe the 2008 Presidential

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election as they saw him as a future UK political leader,

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As well as his backing for nuclear power, health has been an important

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He served as a Shadow Health Minister, and has been

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at the forefront of the campaign to protect services

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at the West Cumberland Hospital in his constituency.

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But he's had his own health problems, spending time in that

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very hospital in 2010 after being diagnosed with diabetes.

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And it's not the first time a Jamie Reed resignation has caused

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He quit as a Shadow Minister just seconds into Mr Corbyn's

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Since then he's been a fierce critic of a man he sees as leading Labour

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Jeremy is not suited to lead Labour, not suited to be a potential,

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Jeremy Corbyn is making life difficult for people who need

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But he insists today's resignation isn't about the leadership

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or direction of the party - simply about serving the community

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He says it's the most difficult decision he's ever made.

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It will now be down to someone else to defend a Labour majority

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in Copeland over the Conservatives of just over 2,500.

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Well earlier I spoke to Richard and I asked him whether the labour

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party had paid tribute to Jamie Reed, despite the MP not

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seeing eye-to-eye with leader Jeremy Corbyn.

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Yes, the Labour leader put out a statement saying Jamie Reed

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was a powerful voice for rural communities and served

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And people we spoke to in Whitehaven his constituency today,

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He's actually personally helped me out in the past.

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And he's been there as a local MP when people needed help.

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He's the only one who fight for us in Parliament really.

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That last question is going to be at the forefront

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The timing of this is dictated by the availability

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Jamie Reed knows it's awkward timing for Jeremy Corbyn

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Certainly the Conservatives are already eyeing this

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He hasn't actually taken a seat as a labour opposition

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from a Conservative government since 1982.

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I think there are opportunities for my party in this election.

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I think it is important we get a good candidate who is pro-nuclear,

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wants to see Cumbria grow, expand and develop and I will

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Ukip might fancy their chances in a seat where 60% of people voted

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for Brexit and over the border is Tim Farron, an army of Lib Dems

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who might come into trying and mop up the Remain vote.

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So it will be crucial for Labour to find the right candidate.

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More famous for his Foxtrott these days than his politics,

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but they are likely to pick someone who is local because the key

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to this campaign could be the West Cumberland hospital.

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A teenager's appeared in court charged with the murder of a man

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The body of 29 year-old Mark Shaw was found in an upstairs bedroom

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Kieran Adey, who's 18 and from Queen Street

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in the village, appeared at Peterlee Magistrates' Court

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A man who's served over 15 years in prison for a murder he didn't

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commit has been freed by the Appeal Court.

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Jonathan Embleton, who is now 42, always denied being involved

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The 67 year-old was attacked by a group of men he caught

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trying to steal from him at his Middlesbrough home in 1999.

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Mr Embleton's defence team said the emergence of a police report,

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cast doubt on the reliability of a witness.

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Two men found guilty of the murder at the same time remain convicted.

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A man who claims he was abused at a Children's home has

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been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation.

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Hundreds of men are suing the Catholic Church over historical

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abuse at the St Williams approved school in East Yorkshire,

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which was owned by the Diocese of Middlesbrough.

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Three other men today lost their case for compensation

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at the High Court in Leeds and another will be

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Diocese of Middlesbrough, we say shame on you.

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Desperate to get their voices heard, for these men, today's

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High Court judgment wasn't just about compensation.

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It was thr proof they needed that after 30 years they had

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I still have to live the nightmares of all this.

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It's the worst feeling you can have, to be called a liar

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As boys, they were delinquents who were sent to the Catholic-run St

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William's approved school in East Yorkshire.

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He was one of the boys the former principal,

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He's been jailed three times now for physically and sexually

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The former chaplain, Anthony McCallum was jailed

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in January for abusing boys in his care.

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The home was run by the Middlesbrough dioceses

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It's these two catholic organisations that the former pupils

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249 men are carrying out this litigation,

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but it started with just five test cases.

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Judgments handed down here at the High Court in Leeds

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The judge found only in favour of one of the claimants.

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It's become a bit of a war of attrition this case and I'm

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confident the evidence that I've heard, the men crying in my office

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about their cases means we will succeed ultimately.

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One isn't good enough for me, it should have been all

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The last judgment in this case will be handed down in the New Year.

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1,400 people have now come forward to say they were abused

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at the former Medomsley detention centre near Consett.

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Durham Police's Operation Seabrook has been running for two and a half

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years and it's spoken to around 20 suspects.

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The investigation unit is looking at allegations of abuse

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Our Correspondent Mark Denten sent this report.

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That was what Medomsley Detention Centre promised.

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Boys sent here for minor offences would be given three months here,

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But many who walked in here have suffered a much longer punishment.

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It's not the sort of thing you talk about.

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It's not the sort of thing I would discuss with anybody.

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I've got a daughter, I wanted to love her,

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I wanted to hug her, I wanted to kiss her, tell how much

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It's not so much of what actually happened to you,

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This is one of the staff who abused Peter.

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Neville Husband, was convicted and he's now died.

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But Durham Police have since been contacted by 1400 people who say

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For two and a half years, officers have been painstakingly

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20 suspects have been questioned but the sheer scale of this task

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Straightaway, we are dealing with 1400 people.

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That in itself, it's straightforward trying to get

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an account of somebody, it's corroborating that account

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and then it's the difficulties of supporting them people.

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One of the challenges we have is the length of time

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We've been doing this for at least two and a half years.

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The expectations of them victims are, I want some

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But in reality, it's two and a half years later and we still haven't

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30 years on and what went on behind the security gates here is steadily

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The County Durham poet and creative writing teacher Gillian Allnutt

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will be honoured by the Queen next year after winning

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Born in the London in 1949, she spent much of her childhood

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in Newcastle before studying at Cambridge University.

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She's lived in County Durham since the 1980s where she writes

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That's it from me this evening, time now to take a look

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Doesn't look like we'll be having the white stuff this Christmas?,

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more like it will be wet and windy. Despite the winter solstice today.

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Through the night we will see showers coming in from the West,

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turning wintry over the hills. But the temperatures will dip close to

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freezing. Don't think many of us will see a frost, it's a bit too

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windy. Need to be well sheltered from that breeze to see frost first

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thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning, showers again and they will

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be wintry over high ground. Longer sunny spells for many parts. It

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won't feel warm. Seven or eight at very best with a gusty winds.

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Watching what is happening in the Atlantic, Friday sees this storm

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Barbra coming in from the West. Brings wet and windy spell of

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weather. Bit of respite on Christmas Eve. Another Atlantic low increases

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the wind again for Christmas Day itself. Met Office be aware warnings

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out for the strength of those winds on Friday and Christmas Day. Friday

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is wet and windy through the middle part of the day. Expecting the rain

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not to cause too many problems but the wind could be disruptive if you

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are out and about. Saturday, Christmas Eve is a bit quieter.

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Still windy but mostly dry before the wind and rain returns on

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good for us. Mild by the time we reach Christmas Day.

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Hello there, there is wet and very windy weather on the way in the

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run-up to Christmas. The worst of the weather to the northern half of

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the UK. We have a strengthening jet out of North America that is

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propgating across the Atlantic. Rushing our way. Picking up low

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pressure, deepening them, tracking them to the north-west of Scotland,

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hence the wind and rain. Tonight, we have gale force winds in the

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north-west of Scotland. Wintry showers here. There is still come

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rain to clear from the south-east. It will go. The skies will clear. We

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get patchy fog in the south-east of England. Chilly where skies clear,

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particularly in the countryside, not far away from freezing. Further

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north we keep the showers going through the night and into the

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morning for the rush-hour. The threat of some icy roads,

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particularly on higher

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