29/01/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)

Northumbria Police have charged a man with murder

after 32 year old Michael Thompson was found dying from head injuries,

It follows an incident in the early hours of Saturday morning

outside the Studio Sports Bar on Priestpopple.

Mr Thompson, from Hexham, was found lying in the street.

25 year old Archie Henderson,has been

The Labour Party is claiming the Government's new industrial

strategy is a clear admission that they failed to save

Shadow Cabinet Minister, and Middlesbrough MP,

Andy McDonald told BBC's Sunday Politics that the Government

obviously didn't have a clear strategy for steel

This is a stark admission that the government didn't respond

They could have stepped in, the Italian

government did, German, and French governments did.

Those jobs could have been saved and there could've been a much more

But the Conservative Peer, Martin Callanan, said it

wasn't viable to bail out the steel industry.

And he said the Government's new industrial strategy,

offered a way forward for areas like Teesside.

The strategy is not just based on steel, of course not,

there are many other industries and areas which will

?20 million has been allocated to the Local Enterprise

It will be up to them to decide how they can spend it.

Cumbria needs to rethink the way it bids for Government funding,

according to one of the team responsible for stimulating

The county was recently awarded just seven and a half percent

That included proposals for 25 million to

The government says the County has already received many millions

of pounds for defences through other schemes.

The Local Enterprise Partnership says it's disappointed.

This is an small change these should be figured that would make

significant differences to Cumbria and its economic opportunities in

the future. Thousands of people gathered

in Newcastle's Chinatown today celebrate

the Chinese New Year. The crowds enjoyed

traditional Dragon Dances and firecracker displays to mark

the year of the Rooster, The weather was kind to today's

celebrations and it perhaps helped bring out a healthy sized crowd

to watch the parade. The Chinese new year

is a very different affair In China there are 12 animals just

like the Zodiac in the Western world. This year if the year of the

Rooster. It is very like home. I feel very God. Does it make you

homesick? Yes. -- I feel very good. But the mix of people watching

went far beyond those There's nothing like this in

Carlisle so we have come across to celebrate this today.

The weather now and it looks like we're heading for a bit

Hello good evening. Most of us saw some sunshine but not much of it to

come this week. A lot of low-pressure with more at Atlantic

influence. We will feed in these weather front from West East. Back

to normal. This evening, a cloudy picture, the further north you head

you could see some clear spells and some frost and ice. Elsewhere,

patchy Frost and Bob. Overnight temperatures dropping down to around

zero or one Celsius. At macro Frost and bog.

It will very gradually myths and. Clever spells but part of Cumbria

and North Yorkshire. A largely dry one with temperatures getting up to

seven or eight Celsius. The rest of the week looks mild there, it'll pan

slowly less cold. This is the outlook for the north-east, cloudy,

not as much rain. Quite typical, the not as much rain. Quite typical, the

weather comes from the West. The Cumbria, more wet weather. By the

time we reach the end of the week there might be some gales, severe

gales. I hope you caught some nice sunshine. We will be back with