18/12/2016 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Two people have been arrested news at 11.00pm.

after a man was murdered, in what police are describing

The man, in his late 20s, was tied up

He was found dead in the bedroom of a property at Grange Villa,

A small village at the centre of a major police investigation.

As we were filming armed officers and police dogs

were called into a house close to where the man's body was found.

Detectives believe the victim knew his attackers.

Upon entering the property they found a man who was tied up and who

had been savagely beaten. As a result of that he was identified as

dead straightaway. The attack is extremely severe. The crime scene

would have been shopping for anybody including police officers. -- would

have been shocking for anybody. a 25-year-old local man

on suspicion of murder. Detectives remain convinced that

somebody in this community knows more about what happened and has yet

to come forward. This afternoon a second person, a 19-year-old woman

was arrested on suspicion of murder and is now being questioned by

police. Detectives say they're expecting

to make more arrests Police in North Yorkshire are urging

motorists not to drive There's been a 70% increase

in the number of motorists arrested for drink and drug driving already

this festive period - and another surge in

arrests this weekend. This woman's husband was killed by a

drunk driver last year. Yorkshire police released disappointing

figures this weekend just before Christmas. The off his bike

frightens me. The front wheel was disintegrated. The central hub of

the real have come apart from the main hub of it. When you looked at

the car, there was a big hole in the windscreen. I was thinking, he must

have hurt him with so much force, how fast was he going? There was a

70% increase in arrests. There have been 18 arrests in Highgate, ten in

York, 22 in Scarborough. If I can stop one drunk driver from getting

into their car and driving home and possibly killing somebody, and

causing the devastation that happens to me and my family, I will be

happy. Police are investigating a rape

which happened on bonfire Officers say the victim has only

just felt able to come The 21-year-old says she was

attacked by a man on Bath Terrace. He's described as in his early 20s

with a ginger beard. Police say the victim

bit her attacker on the cheek and the man is likely to have had

a mark on his face afterwards. Prospects for the North East economy

after Brexit are more rosy than many expected -

according to the Government. Immigration Minister

and North Yorkshire MP Robert Goodwill told the BBC's

Sunday Politics that It looks a lot more rosy than many

people forecast. The good news we have had incidentally that is as

much down to the people working in that factory producing cars as

efficiently as anywhere in the world why that investment is coming to

Sunderland. Jobs are coming to the region but we do need to ensure the

best possible deal that we can secure.

Government policy on Brexit was leading to uncertainty

what business want is certainty and what business want is certainty and

as far as the Nissan deal is concerned I am over the moon that it

is going ahead. But that is it the same deal for pharmaceuticals and

train building? What is possibly the region's

most well known tree has been named England's

Tree of the Year. The Sycamore Gap tree

on Hadrian's Wall is one of the most And in 1991 it featured in the

Hollywood blockbuster of Robin Hood. The competition's run

by the Woodland Trust. Here is the weather. Not a bad day

today. Whilst we have seen lots of cloud we have seen some greatness.

This evening and overnight we will stick with much of that cloud. It

will slowly thicken up from the West. One or two patches of hill fog

developing. As we move into tomorrow, a cloudy start to the day.

One or two breaks the further East you go. If few bright intervals but

patches of like train into the patches of like train into the

afternoon. Temperatures not too bad. Tuesday, a similar story. Plenty of

cloud, the chance of chisel, but things will turn more unsettled as

we move into midweek. -- the Hello. Exactly a week to Christmas

but it did not feel that way in north-east Scotland today with

temperatures as high as 13 Celsius in Aberdeenshire. This is one

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