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Copeland MP Jamie Reed, a leading critic of Jeremy Corbyn, | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
But Mr Reed says he's leaving to take a job at Sellafield, | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
and not because of any disillusionment with | :00:20. | :00:20. | |
It does though trigger a tricky by-election for his party. | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
Jamie Reed's majority in Copeland was just 2,564. | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Here's our Political Editor Richard Moss. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
It's not the Christmas present Labour would have wanted. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Jamie Reed's resignation will lead to a bruising | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
The Copeland MP is quitting Parliament to take up a job | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
at Sellafield as the nuclear site's head of Development | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Reed has been a big supporter of the nuclear industry | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
and was a press officer at Sellafield before becoming | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
He was soon seen as a man with the potential to | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
The US Embassy invited him to observe the 2008 Presidential | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
election as they saw him as a future UK political leader, | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
As well as his backing for nuclear power, health has been an important | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
He served as a Shadow Health Minister, and has been | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
at the forefront of the campaign to protect services | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
at the West Cumberland Hospital in his constituency. | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
But he's had his own health problems, spending time in that | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
very hospital in 2010 after being diagnosed with diabetes. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
And it's not the first time a Jamie Reed resignation has caused | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
He quit as a Shadow Minister just seconds into Mr Corbyn's | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
Since then he's been a fierce critic of a man he sees as leading Labour | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Jeremy is not suited to lead Labour, not suited to be a potential, | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is making life difficult for people who need | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
But he insists today's resignation isn't about the leadership | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
or direction of the party - simply about serving the community | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
He says it's the most difficult decision he's ever made. | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
It will now be down to someone else to defend a Labour majority | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
in Copeland over the Conservatives of just over 2,500. | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
Well earlier I spoke to Richard and I asked him whether the labour | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
party had paid tribute to Jamie Reed, despite the MP not | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
seeing eye-to-eye with leader Jeremy Corbyn. | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
Yes, the Labour leader put out a statement saying Jamie Reed | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
was a powerful voice for rural communities and served | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
And people we spoke to in Whitehaven his constituency today, | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
He's actually personally helped me out in the past. | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
And he's been there as a local MP when people needed help. | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
He's the only one who fight for us in Parliament really. | :02:48. | :02:54. | |
That last question is going to be at the forefront | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
The timing of this is dictated by the availability | :03:04. | :03:13. | |
Jamie Reed knows it's awkward timing for Jeremy Corbyn | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
Certainly the Conservatives are already eyeing this | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
He hasn't actually taken a seat as a labour opposition | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
from a Conservative government since 1982. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
I think there are opportunities for my party in this election. | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
I think it is important we get a good candidate who is pro-nuclear, | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
wants to see Cumbria grow, expand and develop and I will | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
Ukip might fancy their chances in a seat where 60% of people voted | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
for Brexit and over the border is Tim Farron, an army of Lib Dems | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
who might come into trying and mop up the Remain vote. | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
So it will be crucial for Labour to find the right candidate. | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
More famous for his Foxtrott these days than his politics, | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
but they are likely to pick someone who is local because the key | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
to this campaign could be the West Cumberland hospital. | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
A teenager's appeared in court charged with the murder of a man | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
The body of 29 year-old Mark Shaw was found in an upstairs bedroom | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Kieran Adey, who's 18 and from Queen Street | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
in the village, appeared at Peterlee Magistrates' Court | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
A man who's served over 15 years in prison for a murder he didn't | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
commit has been freed by the Appeal Court. | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
Jonathan Embleton, who is now 42, always denied being involved | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
The 67 year-old was attacked by a group of men he caught | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
trying to steal from him at his Middlesbrough home in 1999. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
Mr Embleton's defence team said the emergence of a police report, | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
cast doubt on the reliability of a witness. | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Two men found guilty of the murder at the same time remain convicted. | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
A man who claims he was abused at a Children's home has | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
been awarded thousands of pounds in compensation. | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
Hundreds of men are suing the Catholic Church over historical | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
abuse at the St Williams approved school in East Yorkshire, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
which was owned by the Diocese of Middlesbrough. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Three other men today lost their case for compensation | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
at the High Court in Leeds and another will be | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
Diocese of Middlesbrough, we say shame on you. | :05:10. | :05:19. | |
Desperate to get their voices heard, for these men, today's | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
High Court judgment wasn't just about compensation. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
It was thr proof they needed that after 30 years they had | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
I still have to live the nightmares of all this. | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
It's the worst feeling you can have, to be called a liar | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
As boys, they were delinquents who were sent to the Catholic-run St | :05:40. | :05:48. | |
William's approved school in East Yorkshire. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
He was one of the boys the former principal, | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
He's been jailed three times now for physically and sexually | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
The former chaplain, Anthony McCallum was jailed | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
in January for abusing boys in his care. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
The home was run by the Middlesbrough dioceses | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
It's these two catholic organisations that the former pupils | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
249 men are carrying out this litigation, | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
but it started with just five test cases. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Judgments handed down here at the High Court in Leeds | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
The judge found only in favour of one of the claimants. | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
It's become a bit of a war of attrition this case and I'm | :06:35. | :06:42. | |
confident the evidence that I've heard, the men crying in my office | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
about their cases means we will succeed ultimately. | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
One isn't good enough for me, it should have been all | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
The last judgment in this case will be handed down in the New Year. | :06:55. | :07:05. | |
1,400 people have now come forward to say they were abused | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
at the former Medomsley detention centre near Consett. | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Durham Police's Operation Seabrook has been running for two and a half | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
years and it's spoken to around 20 suspects. | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
The investigation unit is looking at allegations of abuse | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Our Correspondent Mark Denten sent this report. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
That was what Medomsley Detention Centre promised. | :07:27. | :07:36. | |
Boys sent here for minor offences would be given three months here, | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
But many who walked in here have suffered a much longer punishment. | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
It's not the sort of thing you talk about. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
It's not the sort of thing I would discuss with anybody. | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
I've got a daughter, I wanted to love her, | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
I wanted to hug her, I wanted to kiss her, tell how much | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
It's not so much of what actually happened to you, | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
This is one of the staff who abused Peter. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Neville Husband, was convicted and he's now died. | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
But Durham Police have since been contacted by 1400 people who say | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
For two and a half years, officers have been painstakingly | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
20 suspects have been questioned but the sheer scale of this task | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Straightaway, we are dealing with 1400 people. | :08:21. | :08:32. | |
That in itself, it's straightforward trying to get | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
an account of somebody, it's corroborating that account | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
and then it's the difficulties of supporting them people. | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
One of the challenges we have is the length of time | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
We've been doing this for at least two and a half years. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
The expectations of them victims are, I want some | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
But in reality, it's two and a half years later and we still haven't | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
30 years on and what went on behind the security gates here is steadily | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
The County Durham poet and creative writing teacher Gillian Allnutt | :09:00. | :09:07. | |
will be honoured by the Queen next year after winning | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
Born in the London in 1949, she spent much of her childhood | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
in Newcastle before studying at Cambridge University. | :09:15. | :09:15. | |
She's lived in County Durham since the 1980s where she writes | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
That's it from me this evening, time now to take a look | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
Doesn't look like we'll be having the white stuff this Christmas?, | :09:28. | :09:44. | |
more like it will be wet and windy. Despite the winter solstice today. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
Through the night we will see showers coming in from the West, | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
turning wintry over the hills. But the temperatures will dip close to | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
freezing. Don't think many of us will see a frost, it's a bit too | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
windy. Need to be well sheltered from that breeze to see frost first | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning, showers again and they will | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
be wintry over high ground. Longer sunny spells for many parts. It | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
won't feel warm. Seven or eight at very best with a gusty winds. | :10:17. | :10:24. | |
Watching what is happening in the Atlantic, Friday sees this storm | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
Barbra coming in from the West. Brings wet and windy spell of | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
weather. Bit of respite on Christmas Eve. Another Atlantic low increases | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
the wind again for Christmas Day itself. Met Office be aware warnings | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
out for the strength of those winds on Friday and Christmas Day. Friday | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
is wet and windy through the middle part of the day. Expecting the rain | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
not to cause too many problems but the wind could be disruptive if you | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
are out and about. Saturday, Christmas Eve is a bit quieter. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
Still windy but mostly dry before the wind and rain returns on | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
good for us. Mild by the time we reach Christmas Day. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
Hello there, there is wet and very windy weather on the way in the | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
run-up to Christmas. The worst of the weather to the northern half of | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
the UK. We have a strengthening jet out of North America that is | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
propgating across the Atlantic. Rushing our way. Picking up low | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
pressure, deepening them, tracking them to the north-west of Scotland, | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
hence the wind and rain. Tonight, we have gale force winds in the | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
north-west of Scotland. Wintry showers here. There is still come | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
rain to clear from the south-east. It will go. The skies will clear. We | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
get patchy fog in the south-east of England. Chilly where skies clear, | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
particularly in the countryside, not far away from freezing. Further | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
north we keep the showers going through the night and into the | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
morning for the rush-hour. The threat of some icy roads, | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
particularly on higher | :11:53. | :11:54. |