26/01/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

North Yorkshire Police is investigating after a confrontation

between a huntsman and a protestor at the Middleton Hunt

Charles Carter, from Birdsall near York, was caught on camera

making sexual comments to Linda Hoggard, when she

He has now resigned his position as a Conservative

district councillor. John Cundy reports.

Excuse me, did you know hunting was banned?

The moment when Linda Hoggard approached Charles Carter to

The hunt protester challenges Mr Carter and he starts filming her.

I would quite like to shoot you, actually.

Charles Carter has been a district councillor in

Norfolk for five years but he resigned overnight

after the revelations of his conduct.

His council leader said he was appalled.

In June 2015 Charles Carter, as master of the west Norfolk fox

hounds, was interviewed about the ban on fox hunting.

Having to look over one's shoulder all the time in fear of

breaching bad law is not what the country should be about.

But Charles Carter has now moved his home near York and

the Middleton Hunt, with whom he now rides,

is described as one of the most historic in north

Yorkshire, going back more than 200 years.

Now Charles Carter's comments have bought controversy to

I don't know if it has been blown out of proportion.

He has definitely stepped over the line.

That's not relevant to the situation at all.

It is now understood that Mr Carter has

now phoned Linda Hoggard to apologise for his behaviour.

We hear of a number of reports of people who are abused

and spat at, harrassed, intimidated, this is a

problem that is seemingly getting out of control,

one of the problems is that the hunt lobby organisation has

refused pointedly to condemn or to apologise

for these incidents and they are getting worse and worse.

North Yorkshire Police have confirmed they are

Andrew Bell was the first person from the UK to undergo

treatment that he hopes will help him walk again.

Andrew, who's from County Durham, was left paralysed after a motorbike

Doctors told him he would never walk again.

But he's just returned from a second trip to Thailand

where doctors say he's moving towards a point where he'll

become the first patient with complete spinal injury

Our health reporter Sharon Barbour has this exclusive report.

Standing is a remarkable achievement for Andrew Bell.

Indescribable to look at myself in the mirror pretty

Andrew from County Durham was paralysed from the waist down

after a motorbike incident and told he would never walk,

But a former fighter, he wasn't ever going to give up trying.

He went out to Bangkok where doctors injected millions of embryonic chord

stem cells and an electrical stimulator was fitted

For the last three months he's been back in Thailand

And here he's been learning to walk again.

And for his mother, earlier this month, a birthday message,

Hi, Mum, I just wanted to say - hope you have a fantastic birthday,

sorry I can't be there but

Having been told 18 months ago round a hospital bed that

he was paralysed, be able to stand or walk again, and then to see

on my birthday there is Andrew in Thailand standing,

Yes, I couldn't wish for anything more.

When we last filmed Andrew, he was starting to move his feet

His progress, according to a stem cell professor

Phenomenal to say the least, the fact he can stand for an hour

with relatively little aid, little support, after such

What we think is going on is that the injected stem cells

were capable of providing what we call growth factors

and other chemicals that induced the stem cells which already exist

in Andrew's body to regenerate themselves.

The doctors in Thailand now believe he may become the first patient

with complete spinal chord injury to be able to walk again.

Andrew hopes for even more than that.

extremely fit and I've done the Great North Run so

my ultimate goal is to do the Great North Run again.

A court's heard claims that a man would rather be convicted

of a horrendous murder than reveal details

Gareth Dack, who's 33, is accused of strangling 79-year-old

Norma Bell before setting fire to her house in

Dack denies murdering the pensioner and today he told the court

he couldn't be convicted of something he didn't do.

Gareth Dack described Norma Bell as a wonderful woman who he knew

well, but at a cross-examination by the prosecution he was today

accused of trying to hoodwink the court, telling lies and bending

the truth as he tried to account for his movements before her death.

The night before Norma Bell's body was discovered at her home

in Hartlepool, Gareth Dack said he had been selling drugs

Standing in the witness box, the prosecution said

credibility that he said who he sold cocaine to.

Dack replied he could not give those names because some of the people

he sold drugs to were solicitors and police community

The prosecution said those people could provide him with an alibi

and he would rather be convicted of this horrendous murder

To that he replied he could not be convicted

Gareth Dack said he visited Norma Bell to fix her gate the night

before her body was discovered and he said she was

He said his DNA was found in the pensioner's house

The Conservatives have revealed their candidate

Last week, Labour named Gillian Troughton and UKIP named Fiona Mills

Rebecca Hanson is contesting the seat for the Liberal Democrats.

The by-election, caused by the resignation

of Labour's Jamie Reed, will take place on February 23rd.

You can see a full list of candidates on the BBC News website.

The only bar in Teesside which caters for people who don't

drink alcohol enjoyed a successful opening tonight.

The owners claim it offers a night out with a difference,

serving food and soft drinks, whilst supporting people

Phil Chapman sent this report from the venue.

Dry January might be coming to an end for people trying

to detox after the excesses of the festive season.

But for those struggling with real drink problems,

Bar Zero will provide a much-needed venue where they can

My name's Miranda and I've been in recovery for nearly four years now.

I think it's a great place to come, a nice safe environment.

It's a place I'll bring my little boy to on a Saturday afternoon,

watch the footy, something to eat, bring my family.

It's just nice not to be in a rowdy bar or have temptation

It's about recovery, shall we say, instead of being drawn

into the dysfunctional behaviours that drugs and alcohol

I'm a drug and alcohol treatment worker here in Middlesbrough

and what our clients are feeding back to us is that after recovery,

after we've been through treatment, there's no social activities.

So to have a place to come to where it's actually quite

a friendly atmosphere and it's a great community environment

for people to stay in treatment and in recovery.

After the official launch tonight, Bar Zero will be open every Friday

One thing they didn't need there tonight was any ice in those drinks.

It's going to be another cold one tonight. Temperatures sub zero

widely. Some patchy cloud around and clear spells. -2, minus three

Celsius. The air coming up of the continent is so cold and dry. You

probably won't see that much in the way of frost forming, the error is

to drive. Tomorrow a cold cold start with sunny spells in the morning

before the Clydesdale to increase from south-west through the day and

most of us will end the afternoon and a fairly cloudy note.

Temperatures up on today, making two or three Celsius. Some in Penrith

might not four or 5 degrees. We will get a weather front coming in from

the west over the next few days bringing rain, also introduces a

south-westerly wind, temperatures should start to recover. This

frontal system on Sunday, not sure exactly how far north that rain will

stretch. Saturday, after overnight rain, cloudy skies, showery

outbreaks of rain and with that south-westerly breeze, the

temperatures should make seven or eight Celsius despite the cloud.

Sunday, most places dry and bright, again at seven or eight Celsius at

best with lighter winds. Some thicker cloud and the odd spot of

rain in southern area later in the day. I will leave you with the

summary for tomorrow for the north-east and Cumbria.

weekend. It's swings and roundabouts, higher temperatures but

some rain as well. Good evening. It's been dry so far

this January but as it draws to a close it looks like we will see some

rain at last. It's been an interesting today a bitterly cold in

Norfolk, way we kept the grey cloud all day and the grey cloud gave a

dusting of snow in places. This is a lovely picture sent in from Sutton

Coldfield. Rob Wales and much of Scotland it's been a beautiful day,