17/03/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Good evening. for the news where you are.

A man who was caught standing up in a car

and waving out of the sunroof whilst driving has been given

Adam Elliott, who's six foot six, had told police he'd done nothing

wrong and was simply too tall for the car.

But today at Newcastle Crown Court he was described as a "buffoon"

who put other people at risk, and was told to "grow up."

He's either standing up or he's sitting on the back

of the seat of the soft top convertible and trying

Another driver on Gateshead's Felling Bypass was so concerned

And today dangerous driver Adam Elliott

Despite pleading guilty, this was how he explained himself

I wasn't standing up in the car. That obviously didn't happen. I was

that cause a distraction to other that cause a distraction to other

road users. That is wrong, isn't it? The Judge said that

was total nonsense. Even in the words of Elliott's own

barrister, this was an act of complete buffoonery. The judge said

it was the kind of thing someone might try one of the loan on a farm,

certainly not on a dual carriageway. This is the first time I've ever

come across something I guess. It's very unusual. The fact that he is

tied to say that we are picking on him and he's too tall to dry the

vehicle, it's a complete lie. You can see from the photograph, is a

Elliott was less keen to speak to the media afterwards -

sprinting from the court where he'd been given a nine month prison

sentence, suspended for 18 months and disqualified for two years.About

time, the judge said, for the giant bad driver to grow up.

An inquest has heard an elderly driver may have been

suffering from fatigue, moments before a crash that

Hayley Murdoch, who was 29, and Sheila Dixon, who was 71,

died at the scene on the A595 near Carlisle in February last year.

Hayley's three-year-old son also suffered serious injuries.

Jonah Dixon was driving his wife Sheila, granddaughter Hayley

and great-grandson Logan home to Carlisle from a day

Four miles west of Carlisle though, at Newby Cross, Jonah's car drifted

across the carriageway and into the path of a Transit van.

Today, an inquest found that Hayley Murdoch died

from serious head injuries, Sheila Dixon from multiple injuries.

It's an incident that's had a profound impact

Hayley's then three-year-old son Logan also suffered serious

injuries, while Jonah Dixon now relies on a wheelchair.

The van driver said he saw Mr Dixon's Kia on the wrong

side of the road several hundred yards away.

He said it was a split-second decision to veer to his right

to try to avoid the car, but the collision followed.

PC Craig Irving, a crash investigator, told the hearing

it was impossible to say what exactly had caused the crash.

But, he said, fatigue and momentary distraction may have

affected Jonah Dixon, who has no recollection of events.

"We continue to support both Jonah and Logan in their recovery.

"We are a close family, and now the inquest is over

"we will support each other in trying to move our lives forward."

Coroner Kally Cheema concluded that both women died as a result

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after reports

of a teenager being stabbed inside a supermarket in Newcastle.

The 15-year-old boy was taken to hospital with serious -

but not life-threatening - injuries after the stabbing in

the Aldi store on Edgefield Avenue in Fawdon last night.

Northumbria Police said they believed the teenagers knew

each other and want to hear from two men who intervened.

An investigation is underway after the body of a puppy

was found in Newcastle, wrapped in a bin bag

The dog was found in woods behind Mead Walk, in the Walker area.

It's thought the animal was dead before the bag was set alight.

The dog is believed to be a male Shih Tzu crossbreed,

and had a microchip which gave no information other

Police and the RSPCA are appealing for anyone with any

Two trainee doctors from Newcastle are back home after setting

up the first clinic of its kind in Bangladesh.

The project, to help amputees, involves making plastic legs

There are thought to be at least 40 million amputees throughout

Matt Walton and Zaamin Hussain kept a video diary for

Matt and Zaamin set up their clinic for amputees at a hospital run

by a British charity in the north of Bangladesh.

One of their patients had to be carried in by his father.

Shiblu is a 16-year-old boy that was born without a leg.

He was a very small boy, and this is because he hasn't had

the stimulation from being able to walk around.

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The trainee doctors saw dozens of patients during their trip.

Being an amputee in that kind of environment is extremely

difficult, and a lot of the people have very hard lives.

We're just scraping the surface of this problem.

Overall, in the entire country, there are thousands and thousands

of people who are in need of a service like this.

Back on Tyneside, the pair raised thousands of pounds to pay

Five months later, the moment they'd worked so hard for.

Now we're manufacturing these limbs, it brings a huge amount

It is a massive thing for us to be able to deliver to people,

and will make an enormous difference to their lives.

And you can see more on that story on Monday night's Inside Out,

That's it from me this evening, Sharuna Sagar will be back

here tomorrow tea-time with your late news,

but I'll leave you now with the weekend weather with Paul

Still some gusty winds around, still some outbreaks of rain

tonight, but as we head to the early hours of

the morning, the rain will

Mostly it will dry up and the winds will ease as

We are seeing lows of roundabout five Celsius.

The best of any brightness in the East.

The cloud will increase from the West throughout the day.

That thicker cloud will bring some outbreaks of range of the afternoon.

More especially for Cumbria, the rain nowhere near as heavy or as

Temperatures are up as well, with lighter winds,

we will see highs tomorrow around about 12 Celsius.

I'll leave you with tomorrow's summery for our region

and the national forcast is on the way.

it is rather breezy. Now for the national outlook.

It was quite a wet day across many northern and western parts of the

UK. This was the view