25/03/2017 Look North (North East and Cumbria)


25/03/2017

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Good evening. for the

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As you may have seen on the national news,

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two 17-year-old boys have been found dead at cliffs at Saltburn

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Police were called to Huntcliff last night and a major

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The families of the boys are being supported by specialist officers.

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Cleveland Police say their thoughts are with them

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Hundreds of teaching assistants and their supporters marched

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through Durham today as part of an ongoing dispute

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The plans could mean a substantial pay cut for thousands of staff

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A show of solidarity in the sunshine.

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Hundreds came to join this latest effort in the march

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for fair contracts for Durham's teaching assistants.

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They were going to make us do the same hours on 23% less pay

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or work more hours for 10% less pay and expect us to carry on doing

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the same job with the same dedication we have always shown,

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and we just weren't prepared to accept that.

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The contract changes were supposed to happen in January,

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but following industrial action that plan has been suspended

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until September and negotiations are continuing.

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There is positive progress being made between Unison,

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the teaching assistants and Durham Council.

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We are really keen to get a resolution to this dispute quickly

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It has been a very stressful time for them.

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More than 2000 teaching assistants will be affected

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Today support for them came from across the country.

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All you are asking for ultimately in this life is a living wage and

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They are already low paid, and in the context of an attack

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where salaries were being slashed by up to 23%, I really felt

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it was incumbent on me to make the journey up and show support

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Durham County Council this week said notable progress had been made

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on the contract review and it is hopeful a positive

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Police are investigating the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Newcastle.

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It happened in Exhibition Park last night.

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They say she left the area with a male member of the group

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who she did not know at which point she was raped.

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An investigation has been launched to identify the person responsible

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and specialist officers are currently supporting

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Details of Nissan's demands from the Government when the future

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of the carmaker's Sunderland plant was in doubt have been revealed.

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But the BBC's Newsnight programme says a "smoking gun" letter over

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what ministers and the firm agreed over Brexit has been kept secret.

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They papers do reveal that the Government agreed several

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other measures Nissan lobbied for last November, including tax

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incentives for people to buy electric cars.

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The firm allayed fears over Wearside last year by agreeing

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Two sisters have marked the anniversary of their mother's

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Lisa Atkinson and Louise Bircham have raised thousands

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for Brain Tumour Research since losing their mum

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Lisa ran the Tokyo Marathon last month and today the sisters took

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part in the park run at Saltwell Park in Gateshead.

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Everybody in the north-east knew and loved my mum.

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We just want to keep her memory alive and raise as much

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money as we possibly can for Brain Tumour Research,

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Only 1% of all government funding goes to brain tumour research,

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so that is why we want to keep doing this.

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And we are both runners as well, so this was

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Blackpool 2-1 Hartlepool, Carlisle 0-2 Crewe.

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In the National League, York lost at Dagenham,

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Let's get the weather now with Abbie Dewhurst.

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After a gorgeous day across the north-east and Cumbria,

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I think overnight we are going to see largely clear skies.

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Things will remain nice and dry, but I think temperatures will drop

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off certainly rurally, right down to the minus figures.

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We could see a touch of frost forming once again

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and some patches of mist, some fog, some low cloud around

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dawn, so maybe a bit of a cloudy picture when we wake

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Remember these are temperatures in towns and in cities.

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We will start the day tomorrow, yes, with a bit of frost,

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a bit of fog as well, but this should soon lift

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Cloudy conditions through the afternoon with temperatures

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There's all the region's political news on Sunday Politics -

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that's tomorrow morning at 11am on BBC One.

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Good evening. What a belter of a day it has been. If you missed out on

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the sunshine, don't

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