28/02/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Lisa Burbidge was killed along with 29 other British

people in 2015. Today, the judge at the inquests into their deaths in

London, ruled they were unlawfully killed.

Lisa's best friend Jen McDine survived by locking herself in a

toilet as the killer roamed their hotel. She's been speaking to Peter

she was very loyal and hard-working. Her family were like. When the

shooting started, Lisa and her friend Jen on the sun lounges. I

thought for the sun lounge and hid behind it for some stupid reason.

Then I looked up and I saw him. Unlike its said, we have to get out

of here, we are getting shot at. That was the last time I saw. You

just ran. It was just blind panic. I've heard people say, blind panic,

but I have never actually done it. It's just, you are not seeing

anybody, you are just running and not looking where you are going.

There was gunfire in the corridor. There was a corridor behind, and it

was loud, and that was shortly after getting into the toilet. Then it

went quite quiet for a while. Then, went quite quiet for a while. Then,

somebody came in and tried to get in the the toilet. Tried to open it.

Didn't say anything, then went out, then there was no noise at all. Lisa

had hidden in an office by the indoor pool, that was where she was

cornered. It was just luck for anybody who survived, because he was

firing indiscriminately across the areas we were in. He went to see if

we were in there. So it was just really luck that, who survived and

who didn't. Jen and other friends had to go to the mortuary to

identify Lisa's body. By the time we went back in and out to try and ID

home, we finally did that about three o'clock in the morning. Lisa

is remembered here in Whickham. One of the focus of the inquest was

whether the tourists were given a proper warning about the risks in

Tunisia. Her friend, Jen, said there were not. If there was a risk of

terrorism and kidnapping on the terrorism and kidnapping on the

government website, we wouldn't have gone. How do you remember Lisa as

personal? As a lovely friend. We had some good times on holiday. She was

just a genuine person. Well, Lisa's inquest and that

of the 29 other British victims certainly helped to clarify

many of the horrific But legal questions about possible

compensation still remain As our reporter Jim Knight

told me earlier. Many of the families

were anxiously waiting to hear the coroners' findings today -

with a view to taking some kind of legal action to get compensation

for the loss of their loved ones. But though Judge Nicholas

Loraine-Smith concluded that all 38 victims had been "unlawfully killed"

- he rejected any finding of neglect Though highly critical

of the immediate response of the Tunisian police,

which he described as "at best shambolic and at worst cowardly",

he fell short of criticising He ruled that the law

regarding "neglect" could not be applied to tourists who had

"voluntarily chosen The only thing that might have made

any difference, he said, was if the hotel guards had been

armed - but given the gun law in Tunisia - he said this

was not a realistic option. Even so, it seems 22 families

have already announced their intention to take

civil proceedings against the travel firm TUI,

and i've had it confirmed tonight that Lisa Burbidge's

family is one of them. A nine-year-old boy's in a crticial

condition after he was hit It happened on Marina Way at around

a quarter to six and off-duty police officers gave him first aid before

ambulance crews arrived. He was taken by air ambulance

to James Cook Hospital Police say they think

he was with several other A senior executive of Nissan says

the company may "adjust" its business in the UK,

depending on the outcome of Brexit. The car manufacturer announced

in October that it would build two new models at Sunderland

after receiving Government assurances that EU withdrawal

would not affect But senior vice-president

Colin Lawther has told MPs that Nissan would "constantly

review" its decision. A charity for the homeless says

hundreds of young people could be CentrePoint says it'll have to close

all its hostels on Wearside because Sunderland Council plans

to end its ?900,000 Sunderland - City of Culture

candidate for 2021 - a place largely without the grim

hallmark of other large cities - But actually, 600 young people were

homeless and needed help here sleeping on friends' sofas,

moving from house to house. Night after night,

they are hugely vulnerable. And, until recently, Tom,

who's just 17, was one of them. You need to think, how am

I going to keep myself safe? And that is difficult,

even for an adult, never mind us. For the last two months Tom's been

living at a hostel famously supported

by Princess Diana. Prince William is now also a patron

and visited the charity We're working with 180

people and that number By the end of this year

there will be young people sleeping Across the city, as nine-month-old

Caden skillfully demolishes Look North's sound equipment,

his mum, Abby, who's also been homeless, reflects on how

CentrePoint's helped her too. In all honesty, I would

not have Caden today. Previously to CentrePoint I was

off the rails, I just would drink I just would not have

been very nice. But CentrePoint now faces

losing all its council That means all its centres

in the city will close. We're talking about the risk

of sexual exploitation, People are being exploited

in this city, as we speak. Sunderland Council, which needs

to save ?46 million from its budget in the next financial year, says

it's setting up a new service to help homeless people

and stop issues escalating, while moving away from hostel

or refuge-based support towards getting people back

into their own accomodation. Onto football now, and Newcastle

United took a giant stride towards promotion tonight

after they beat Brighton led for much of the game

after an early penalty But in the 81st minute Mohamed Diame

equalised for the Magpies And with just minutes to go, Perez

put Newcastle in the lead Also tonight in League 2... And in

the National League... Recipes last baked by women

during the Civil War era have been given a new lease of life by school

pupils from Northumberland. The students from Bedlingtonshire

Community High School have been given unique access to recipe

books from the Special Collections

Library at Newcastle University. The archive programme aims to bring

historical documents to life for around 400 pupils

across the north east. I want kids to enjoy making food.

That's the most important thing. I want them to look back at the

history of it and see that the foods we eat today were around in the 17th

century and earlier and that they are still relevant for them today

and still access a ball for everybody. That's it from me this

evening. Time to take a look at the weather with Paul. Good evening.

Some chilly conditions to come tonight. A mostly dry picture with a

broken cloud and fairly light winds. A touch of Frost and some icy

patches as well. Temperatures hovering around freezing in that

light, westerly breeze. Mostly fine and dry start in eastern areas

tomorrow. Some showers the West, wintry over the Cumbrian Fells and

the North Pennines, for a time. Hanging onto that sunshine in the

east in the afternoon with temperatures climbing back up to

around eight Celsius. In that westerly breeze, remaining fairly

light. A fairly quiet start to the month of March but there are some

weather fronts lingering over the next few days, bringing rain, with

the wind is picking up, so some unsettled spells as we head through

the latter part of the working week. Tomorrow, mostly dry with some

bright spells. A similar picture for Thursday, with temperatures up to

around seven Celsius at best. The wind and the cloud will be picking

up and we will see more rain at times by Friday, as we head into the

weekend. Similar temperatures but with those stronger winds, it will

feel colder if you're out and about. You can keep up-to-date with the

Good evening. We are about to head into March, the days are