06/03/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

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Police say somebody must have witnessed

the abduction of a woman and her young child,

They were forced into a car on the seafront, and driven

to a secluded lane in a nearby village, where the mother

She and the toddler were left at the side of a road nearby,

It was, say Cleveland Police, an horrific ordeal.

In broad daylight on the seafront in Redcar, a woman and her young child

were abducted by the two men around lunchtime on Friday.

They were bundled into the back of a dark blue saloon car

and driven to the nearby village of Yearby where the woman

The ordeal is said to have lasted five hours.

At a press conference, the police confirmed they were

The victim was screaming for help as she was forced into the car.

Both men did rape this woman which makes it even more

horrific which is why both these men need to be identified and caught.

Lindy O'Hare woman supports victims of rape in the

Redcar area and says the victim and her child will now receive

It was in broad daylight, they have obviously kept

That is unthinkable, the child was there and

Police have released descriptions of the two men.

The driver is described as white, in his late 20s or 30s,

with the word "love" tattooed across his knuckles.

The second man is also white, medium build with a local accent.

Police say additional officers are now patrolling the area

and warn members of the public to be extra vigilant.

Despite growing concerns, police hear tonight are trying to reassure

They say there is a possibility the victim may have

known her attackers but they say incidents of this nature are still

relatively rare and believe this to be an isolated case.

Throughout the day here that there has been a

visible police presence with more police patrolling the streets.

A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in York.

The police were called after reports of a man with blood on his hands

near the railway station in the early hours of today.

They later found the body of a man in his 50s in a flat nearby.

Durham Police say it's the only option left

to cut drugs crime - give some addicts

By the end of this year the force says it could give a small number

It says that will cut crime and save lives.

Critics say the idea will just attract addicts from across the UK.

Here's our News Correspondent Mark Denten:

Some politicians say there should be a war on drugs - but how to fight

In County Durham, both the Police And Crime Commissioner

and Chief Constable have long argued against arresting your way out

Three years ago the BBC's Inside Out programme took

Durham's Chief Constable Mike Barton to Compenhagen where legal

consumption rooms allow addicts to have free injections in a safe

In Denmark the addicts bring their own

drugs but in Durham the police would supply them.

Individuals will go to a centre and there they will inject

diamorphine and they do that with clean needles and be supervised

and there will be a wraparound package

to support those individuals, using the recovery community we have

The scheme is called heroin assisted treatment or HAT.

A heroin subsitute - Diamorphine would be

Although there are thought to be around 2,000 heroin

The scheme would be targetted at a small number of them.

We are trying to prevent crime and it is part of a treatment plan.

It is not just providing them with heroin, it is seeking to get off

heroin to improve their health and also for the wider community, so

they stop committing the crime which funds their habits.

But critics say the plans could do more harm than good.

You have an obvious consequence where it will draw in other people.

The message says you can get free drugs.

I think it is a legitimisation of the euthanasia of

I know those are strong terms but it is the

Durham Police hope to have the new scheme operating

A Hartlepool man who sold illegal internet TV boxes has been given

a 10-month suspended sentence and ordered to pay a quarter

Malcolm Mayes admitted breaching the copyright act.

He sold the modified Kodi boxes to pubs and clubs

for a thousand pounds, so they could show pay-to-view

At Teesside Crown Court he was ordered to pay a proceeds

of crime order and court costs totalling ?250,000.

Newcastle Airport is warning it could lose nearly one million

passengers a year if plans to cut air taxes in Scotland -

Figures released today suggest the change could also cost

the North East economy hundreds of millions of pounds -

Here's our Political Editor Richard Moss.

But behind the bustle, there's worry.

Next year Scotland takes control of its air taxes.

The SNP - which runs the government there -

That could offer long haul passengers like these a saving

of at least ?75 per flight north of the border.

We live in Cumbria so it is 80 miles to get here anyway

so to go a little bit further to go up to

We would consider that if there was a significant saving.

I think we would do that, it is all about

suggest if Scotland abolished air taxes, the impact would be serious.

Newcastle could lose between 500 and 900,000

passengers a year, threatening services, stalling expansion,

and taking ?44 to ?78 million out of the North East economy.

The Scottish government have signalled their intention to start

reducing the rate of tax from next year so the impact could start to

Airlines are already making their decisions about

That is why we are urging the government that now is

And there's concern in the business community too.

This airport deals with freight as well as passengers,

a trade that's grown enormously since Emirates began flights

It started in September 2007, we

were doing ?20 million worth of air

That increase in the last ten years, just shows what we can do when we

also reflects what will happen if we put it at risk.

In the past the government promised it

would make sure Newcastle Airport did not lose out.

But it says it won't now take action until we've left the European Union.

What is the point of talking about a Northern Powerhouse if you

impact on one of the most important parts of our regional

It is not good enough for the government to say

they will look at it after the event.

The government says it remains committed to supporting

But airport managers fear without action soon damage

to their business and the region is inevitable.

It's Monday, so we have weather for the week ahead.

Saw a few people caught out by the showers today, Paul.

certainly was a mixed bag. As we hear through the week, the team

remains unsettled. There will be some rain around, some of us will

get dry and bright weather and it should remain mild, after tonight.

There are few showers around tonight, most will die away in the

early hours of the morning. Clear spells and light winds which means

temperature will drop down to 2 degrees which could be ground frost

for some places. Broken cloud and sunny spells for the morning. The

afternoon sees a veil of cloud coming in from the West. Dry and

bright from most places through the afternoon. Temperatures are around

eight or 9 degrees. We might get 10 Celsius on the east coast. Cloud and

rain approach from the West tomorrow night. That comes courtesy of this

weather system. It brings in the rain and some hill snow for a time.

A wet night for most of us. Heaviest rain clears away by morning. It

remains cloudy. For Wednesday, a great start but it should be a dry

day. The Clyde should lift and break with most of us getting sunny spells

by the afternoon. It should make it into double figures for the

temperature. 12 degrees in the afternoon for your work with the

West, south-westerly breeze. That is the picture for the middle of the

week. -- for York. It remains unsettled for the tail end of the

week. Some high pressure in between those weather systems. Certainly not

all bad news. Into Thursday, mostly dry. Quite gusty winds in the North.

We should see temperatures reaching ten or 11 Celsius. Friday, workload

and a mix of rain at times. It should be drier later in the day

with highs of 10 Celsius. That's how it looks to the next few days, I'll

well and still rather unsettled with some blustery showers around. That's

the London forecast and now for the National forecast, over to Nick

Miller. North-west France and Plymouth were

miles apart weather-wise. This southern flank in north-west France

there was a wind gusts of 120 mph which we just dodged. That area of

low pressure continues to move quickly south-eastwards so that by

tomorrow it is in Italy on its southern flank, stormy in Sardinia

and around it strong winds blowing through south-east France. We've got

a little bump in the ice bars with lighter winds, a brief ridge of high

pressure, things briefly settled going into tomorrow, overnight there

are some showers around moving through western Scotland and

north-west England and the Midlands, clearing Wales, one or two in the