:00:08. > :00:12.Welcome to Thursday's Look North. Here are the headlines: Say no to
:00:12. > :00:18.three jobs, no money for three years. How the Government plans to
:00:18. > :00:25.get the region's jobless back into work. I have been out of work for
:00:25. > :00:28.that long that I am on the scrapheap. Also tonight - and the
:00:28. > :00:31.Durham officer who fired the shot which killed this man gives
:00:31. > :00:36.evidence at the inquest into his death.
:00:36. > :00:41.Table returned. Historic furniture stolen from a North Yorkshire
:00:41. > :00:48.stately home turns up in a garage. And living proof that checks do
:00:48. > :00:53.save lives. Radio Cumbria's Val lent her support to the campaign.
:00:53. > :01:03.The Wembley dream is over but not without a fight. This is the goal
:01:03. > :01:12.
:01:12. > :01:16.that set up yet another thriller Turn down at three jobs and will
:01:16. > :01:19.lose benefits for three years. That is the stark message from the
:01:19. > :01:24.Government as it carries out the biggest shake-up in the welfare
:01:24. > :01:29.system for 60 years. Unemployment in our region currently stands at
:01:29. > :01:38.11 %. Campaigners have condemned the get-tough approach, but others
:01:38. > :01:43.see these plans are already showing results. Here is our reporter.
:01:43. > :01:51.Breakfast time for Clare and her son. Clare is 24 and lives in North
:01:51. > :01:56.Tyneside and she has never worked. Because her son is now five -- you
:01:56. > :02:02.look for jobs and there is nothing on the computers. Because her son
:02:02. > :02:07.is now five the Government wants to treat her differently. Ministers
:02:07. > :02:15.want to move along pavements off income support and on to
:02:15. > :02:21.jobseeker's allowance. If you do not full-out the full former the
:02:21. > :02:28.sanction new money. -- if you do not complete the full former they
:02:28. > :02:33.sanction at you. The Government says that change is not about
:02:33. > :02:40.putting undue pressure on to Clare, rather about giving people the best
:02:40. > :02:45.chance to find work. If a claimant turns down one job offer they face
:02:45. > :02:50.a cut in benefits of three months. If they turn down another, benefit
:02:50. > :02:54.would be cut for six months. With the job refusals a claimant would
:02:54. > :02:58.have their benefit stopped for three years.
:02:58. > :03:06.That is worrying this man. He regularly applied the 20 jobs every
:03:06. > :03:13.week and fears he will get caught by the new rules. I am terrified.
:03:13. > :03:18.You benefits could get stopped for three years. Some people would say
:03:18. > :03:27.it why would I have the motivation to go to work for five days. I have
:03:27. > :03:35.been out of work that long that I am no on the scrap heap. Along with
:03:35. > :03:45.the strict approach the government is also using back strategy. One of
:03:45. > :03:45.
:03:45. > :03:51.the key parts of the strategy is showing success right here. This
:03:51. > :03:57.former drug user now has a permanent job because of something
:03:57. > :04:02.called their Work Programme. The government pays money to people --
:04:03. > :04:11.to firms to keep people in work. are not looking for quick fixes. We
:04:11. > :04:16.right job. That is a benefit to them both socially and financially.
:04:16. > :04:22.For this man his life has been transformed by at job. It is
:04:22. > :04:30.getting better. If you look for the right support then you will get
:04:30. > :04:36.there. One success story, one life changed, but thousands more in this
:04:36. > :04:40.region are wanting the same. That is the latest in our series
:04:40. > :04:45.looking at changes in the benefits system.
:04:45. > :04:48.One last night's programme we heard from this family. They get �500 per
:04:48. > :04:55.week in benefits and say their family would struggle to survive if
:04:55. > :05:02.those benefits were cut. We have had a large response to this. Our
:05:03. > :05:08.reporter is back to tell us more. What are people saying? One person
:05:08. > :05:15.says: I cannot believe that people cannot survive on �500 per week. I
:05:15. > :05:19.work in a stressful job and only get �250 per week. I manage, I pay
:05:19. > :05:24.my mortgage. Another person said, I am very
:05:24. > :05:30.angry. Most of us go to work for less than that. We have to pay
:05:31. > :05:35.mortgages. Child benefit alone is �60, which is more than myself and
:05:35. > :05:41.my husband have left each week for food.
:05:41. > :05:46.Somebody else says, I feel empathy for that family. For me to take out
:05:46. > :05:51.the amount the debt in benefits and would need to earn another �8,000
:05:51. > :05:57.per year. There is more on this story on The
:05:57. > :06:00.Politics Show on Sunday. We have had a lot of comment. Thank
:06:00. > :06:05.you. Do not forget you can still have
:06:05. > :06:10.your say on this and other stories by contacting us. You can also join
:06:10. > :06:19.in the debate on your local BBC radio station between 9am and 10am
:06:19. > :06:22.tomorrow morning. Detectives investigating a vicious
:06:22. > :06:30.assault at a petrol station in Carlisle have extended their search
:06:30. > :06:33.for clues to our region. They have released images of a Subaru car.
:06:33. > :06:38.The victim is in a serious condition after being hit by
:06:38. > :06:41.baseball bats yesterday morning. He had stopped at this petrol station.
:06:41. > :06:46.Police think the car may have travelled from Cleveland, Durham,
:06:46. > :06:54.or Newcastle. At potash mining company believes
:06:54. > :06:59.it has struck one of the largest scenes of the resource in the world.
:06:59. > :07:03.Potash is used to make fertiliser. An exploratory drilled suggests
:07:03. > :07:10.that the amount report - here is larger than was first thought. It
:07:10. > :07:14.could create thousands of jobs. At 12-year-old boy survived after
:07:14. > :07:18.being swept into the sea in North Tyneside last night. He had been
:07:18. > :07:24.playing at Cullercoats with his twin brother -- with his brother
:07:24. > :07:30.and friends. He was swept into the sea. He was rescued by lifeboat
:07:30. > :07:34.after 50 minutes. Rescue workers are now warning children of the
:07:34. > :07:39.dangers of so-called wave dodging. When we arrived his head was
:07:39. > :07:44.starting to go below the surface. There could have been a fatality.
:07:44. > :07:52.Wave dodging is something that we have all done but it is buried
:07:52. > :07:55.dangerous. You must treat the sea with respect. An inquest into the
:07:55. > :08:00.first person to be shot dead by Durham Police has heard from the
:08:00. > :08:04.officer who fired the fatal shot. In an unusual move the court was
:08:04. > :08:08.curtained off from the public gallery and the press so that the
:08:08. > :08:11.identity of the officer could not be revealed. He described the
:08:11. > :08:17.moment that the stand-off between 47-year-old Keith Richards and
:08:17. > :08:23.armed officers came to an end in 2009.
:08:23. > :08:27.The stand-off was here at the home of Keith Richards in Shildon.
:08:27. > :08:32.Inside the 47-year-old father-of- two was armed. So also were three
:08:32. > :08:37.policemen who took up positions overlooking a host. Now to that
:08:37. > :08:43.years later those officers are giving evidence to the coroner.
:08:43. > :08:47.Amman are known only as officer be fired the fatal shot.
:08:47. > :08:51.The coroner asked, did you take a shot at that time?
:08:51. > :08:55.No I did not. If you had a clear shot would you
:08:55. > :08:59.have hired? Yes I would have. Maybe I should
:09:00. > :09:05.have. By an armed colleagues were in grave danger. They would have
:09:05. > :09:09.relied on me to protect them. Back that time, sir, I let them down. He
:09:09. > :09:15.said it was the most frightening place he had ever been.
:09:15. > :09:20.The crossbow bolt did not hit anyone. Keith Richards was heard to
:09:20. > :09:23.say you will have to kill me. Then he lifted a second crossbow.
:09:23. > :09:29.Officer he spoke about the final stand-off.
:09:29. > :09:33.I saw him put a bolt into the crossbow. He started to gain. I
:09:34. > :09:38.discharge my weapon because I believe that at that time he was
:09:38. > :09:45.trying to kill me. Cross examining for the family, the
:09:45. > :09:50.challenge was booked, you're account is not true.
:09:50. > :09:59.The policeman replied, that is simply not true. He pointed a
:09:59. > :10:05.loaded crossbow at me and tried to kill me. The inquest continues.
:10:05. > :10:08.It is the time of for the hierarchy to stop ducking the issue at sort
:10:08. > :10:13.out this shambles once and for all. That is the shocking warning sent
:10:13. > :10:18.to Network Rail managers in the months before the crash in Cumbria
:10:18. > :10:24.which killed Margaret Masson. It came in an e-mail that was read to
:10:24. > :10:31.the inquest into the death today. Our reporter has more.
:10:31. > :10:34.We know that faulty points on this line were responsible for dealing
:10:34. > :10:38.this train. We know that the jack knifing of the first of nine
:10:38. > :10:43.carriages would have thrown its passengers around, including
:10:43. > :10:48.Margaret Masson who died. Today they inquest into her dead heard
:10:48. > :10:53.shocking claims that the inspection regime on the line was at breaking
:10:53. > :10:57.points. The court was told that an �11
:10:57. > :11:05.billion upgrade meant that with faster trains, there was less time
:11:05. > :11:13.to carry it inspections. It was end cuts it was said that in winter
:11:13. > :11:18.inspection staff had only two hours to cover five miles. This greatly
:11:18. > :11:23.affected the maintenance schedule. E-mails read to the inquest
:11:23. > :11:29.revealed the shocking extent of the worries some people had about the
:11:29. > :11:33.inspection system. One person said this - it is time
:11:33. > :11:43.for the hierarchy to stop ducking the issue and sort out this
:11:43. > :12:01.
:12:01. > :12:06.The inquest is likely to run until the end of next week.
:12:06. > :12:10.At table stolen in a raid on a stately home in Yorkshire has been
:12:10. > :12:16.recovered by the police and returned to its order. The table is
:12:16. > :12:20.said to have historic significance. It went missing two years ago. It
:12:20. > :12:26.was found in a garage along with other valuables. Our reporter has
:12:26. > :12:30.more. This is the stately home and
:12:30. > :12:37.tourist attraction that in its June 2009 suffered a burglary. The
:12:37. > :12:42.thieves took a table made for the house in 1775. Two years later,
:12:42. > :12:49.after extensive police investigations, that table, worth
:12:49. > :12:59.�500,000, has now been recovered. This table was commissioned to sit
:12:59. > :13:05.in his room. It is a fabulous piece of work. The detail is a stupendous.
:13:05. > :13:09.Did you expect to get it back? did not. When you lose something
:13:09. > :13:15.you expect it to be gone forever, but the police were always
:13:15. > :13:19.confident. The thieves got into the building after dark. The table was
:13:19. > :13:24.the only thing that the thieves took. The made off in a vehicle in
:13:24. > :13:32.the direction of Ripon. It was eventually recovered in a police
:13:32. > :13:37.raid on a garage in the North Yorkshire. The police escort is now
:13:37. > :13:47.working on an investigation relating to thefts from stately
:13:47. > :13:51.homes all across the nation. Whether it is antiques, drugs, fuel,
:13:51. > :13:58.I would not want to get into too much conjecture, but we are looking
:13:58. > :14:02.at organised criminals. Two men have so far been arrested in
:14:02. > :14:08.connection with the theft of the table. Enhanced security measures
:14:08. > :14:18.at a house have since been installed. Sadly my father is not
:14:18. > :14:23.
:14:23. > :14:28.Plenty more to come. Including a progress report on Val Armstrong.
:14:28. > :14:37.And a Northumberland woman who is a world leader in surf kayaking.
:14:38. > :14:42.I will have the rest of your half- term where there. -- weather.
:14:42. > :14:47.We have been following the story of BBC Radio Cumbria presenter, Val
:14:47. > :14:52.Armstrong, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. She is
:14:52. > :14:57.backing a campaign which encourages people to look out for the early
:14:58. > :15:03.signs of the disease. She beat the disease for the second time.
:15:03. > :15:08.I was a good nine years away from being caught by the regular
:15:08. > :15:11.screening programme so if I had not taken notice of my symptoms I would
:15:11. > :15:15.not be here. She is a well-known voice on the
:15:15. > :15:19.radio in Cumbria and now she is the face of a campaign to help people
:15:19. > :15:24.catch cancer early. Is there was something wrong with your car, you
:15:24. > :15:28.would not think twice about popping to the garage so why would you
:15:28. > :15:34.think twice about having your body checked. I have been caught twice
:15:34. > :15:39.early and I am so lucky. We need to stop unnecessary deaths from people
:15:39. > :15:45.who wait too long to get checked. I'll has been very open about her
:15:45. > :15:52.fight with cancer through her blog and audio diaries. She recorded
:15:52. > :15:57.painful details about losing her hair and her double mastectomy and
:15:57. > :16:03.she felt this could help others. The women at her breast cancer
:16:03. > :16:07.support group nominated her to be the ambassador for the Be Clear on
:16:08. > :16:13.Cancer campaign. She has advised that everyone listens to and she
:16:13. > :16:19.has a very good sense of humour. She knows what she's talking about.
:16:19. > :16:25.She is an inspiration to anyone who is suffering. People know that she
:16:25. > :16:29.knows what she's talking about. People listen. Fal is a keen walker
:16:29. > :16:37.but since undergoing treatment, side effects have made it hard for
:16:37. > :16:44.her to get back to full health -- Roma I think I have forgotten what
:16:44. > :16:52.normal is. I think I have forgotten what pre-cancerous foul was like.
:16:52. > :16:57.You have to change. I have changed physically -- Val Armstrong. I have
:16:57. > :17:03.changed physically and I have battled to get myself to look
:17:03. > :17:08.similar to the person I was before cancer. I'm getting there slowly.
:17:08. > :17:18.But, in the meantime, she hopes she can continue to raise awareness and
:17:18. > :17:21.
:17:21. > :17:25.You are looking good. You don't look any different.
:17:25. > :17:29.She is a lovely lady. I met her at Wembley last year.
:17:29. > :17:32.Excellent. Have you got more Wembley news?
:17:33. > :17:36.I have. Another Wembley dream shattered and the end of an
:17:36. > :17:40.unbeaten record. But there was so much more to Newcastle's Carling
:17:40. > :17:43.Cup defeat. You can't really blame the Magpies' fans who switched the
:17:43. > :17:46.radio off last night with their side 2-0 down deep into stoppage
:17:46. > :17:48.time. Only a soothsayer could have predicted the extra-time thriller
:17:48. > :17:51.which unfolded. As suspected, Newcastle put out a
:17:51. > :18:00.strong team with a quarter-final place at stake. Five changes,
:18:00. > :18:03.Premier League but their early goal was out of the top drawer. The
:18:03. > :18:07.Magpies were strangley flat in the opening half, although Demba Ba was
:18:07. > :18:10.denied. Tim Krul was the busier of the two keepers as Newcastle
:18:10. > :18:13.continued to spurn what half chances came their way. Then, with
:18:13. > :18:16.just over an hour gone, controversy. The visitors denied what looked a
:18:16. > :18:20.stonewall penalty and while the Toon Army were still voicing their
:18:20. > :18:23.displeasure, Blackburn were - seconds later - awarded their own.
:18:23. > :18:29.A decision which could have gone either way. Former Boro striker
:18:29. > :18:33.Yakubu made it 2-0. Surely game over. But as the game seemed to be
:18:33. > :18:37.peetering out, a stoppage time sensation first from Danny Guthrie.
:18:37. > :18:40.And then another gem from Yohan Cabaye's free-kick collection.
:18:40. > :18:45.Going into extra-time the momentum seemed to have swung Newcastle's
:18:45. > :18:51.way until Pederson's deflected free-kick made it 3-2. But there
:18:51. > :18:54.was another twist. A tug on Peter Lovenkrands's shirt was spotted.
:18:54. > :18:57.Lovenkrands himself kept that Wembley dream alive only for the
:18:57. > :19:02.cruellest finale as Givet stooped to conquer with United running on
:19:02. > :19:06.empty after a gallant display. Alan Pardew was proud of his team but
:19:06. > :19:12.knows they'll be in for an ever harder war of attrition at Stoke on
:19:12. > :19:15.Non-league Workington Reds Football Club have rejected a second and
:19:15. > :19:20.final takeover bid. The London- based property developer Baron
:19:20. > :19:25.Bloom had made a reported offer of just over �150,000. The Reds board
:19:25. > :19:28.said that wasn't enough. Mr Bloom says he'll now look to invest in
:19:28. > :19:32.other clubs. A schoolteacher from Northumberland
:19:32. > :19:35.has just returned from America with the top title in surf kayaking.
:19:35. > :19:38.It's taken just six years for Tamsin Green to go from novice to
:19:39. > :19:48.World Champion, with many hours spent practising in the surf off
:19:49. > :19:54.
:19:54. > :19:58.Six years ago, Tamsin Green's husband bought her a surf kayak,
:19:58. > :20:04.and since then she's hardly been out of the sea, come sun, rain, or
:20:04. > :20:07.snow. The North Sea is not what you'd call warm and inviting but it
:20:07. > :20:11.hasn't deterred her from putting in the hours necessary to become World
:20:11. > :20:20.Champion. She came home from the finals in North Carolina with the
:20:20. > :20:27.one trophy she didn't have in her cabinet. It was the any major
:20:27. > :20:32.women's serve title I have and one and it was the one the two previous
:20:32. > :20:36.times I have gone out in the semi- finals. I don't think I did my best
:20:36. > :20:41.in those competitions so it was the one that was really important for
:20:41. > :20:47.me and it is the biggest competition for surf kayaking. That
:20:47. > :20:50.was really good as well. Practicing off the North East coast prepared
:20:50. > :20:54.Tamsin for the seven foot waves she encountered in America, but she
:20:54. > :21:00.almost didn't make it at all after her kayak was damaged and she had
:21:00. > :21:04.to literally hold it together with bits of tape. The cracks go right
:21:04. > :21:11.the way through my boat. That was the morning of the final when I
:21:11. > :21:16.went out for a practice. I hit the beach very heavily so it was a
:21:16. > :21:21.quick the key take a job and my husband stripped the padding out of
:21:21. > :21:24.his boat so why could put it in mind if I needed to.
:21:24. > :21:34.Tamsin's now taking a rest from surf kayaking but will be back to
:21:34. > :21:38.defend her title in Australia in We are very lucky here in the North
:21:38. > :21:41.to have so many fine ruins which has to mean it's time for Grundy's
:21:41. > :21:45.North! I think I should have rephrased that!
:21:45. > :21:47.This week John's visiting one of his favourite ruins of all, Jervaux
:21:47. > :21:57.Abbey between Middleham and Bedale in North Yorkshire, where he's
:21:57. > :22:05.
:22:05. > :22:11.I will let you into a very important secret about old
:22:11. > :22:15.buildings. They almost almost always take you to places which
:22:15. > :22:24.have reached scums. You didn't think it was just about
:22:24. > :22:29.architecture?! Burnett was the founder of the Cistercian order of
:22:29. > :22:34.monks. He was a great believer in the power of nature and he told his
:22:34. > :22:39.followers to seek out wild and beautiful places. Hundreds made
:22:39. > :22:47.their way to the wild and glorious valleys of Yorkshire to build their
:22:47. > :22:51.monasteries. There are places like Fountains Abbey and here, my
:22:51. > :22:56.favourite of them all, Jervaux Abbey in Wensleydale. There are all
:22:56. > :23:02.sorts of reasons why it is my favourite but the first is that it
:23:02. > :23:09.is privately owned. There is no big organisation running it so, instead
:23:09. > :23:15.of a ticket office, we get this - an honesty box. I hope we all live
:23:15. > :23:21.up to the trust. I am sure we do. How about that as a way of keeping
:23:21. > :23:26.people under control? We are so used to CCTV cameras and guard dogs,
:23:26. > :23:30.it is lovely to be in to -- in a place where they ask you not to go
:23:30. > :23:35.any further. You probably know English ministries were closed by
:23:35. > :23:39.Henry VII and became ruins but this is more ruins than most because the
:23:39. > :23:44.last abbot rebelled against the King who got his revenge by giving
:23:44. > :23:51.this place the once over. It is quite difficult to know where you
:23:51. > :23:58.are. I have a guide book and I am still struggling to know if I am in
:23:58. > :24:05.the undercroft or anywhere else. That is the great thing here. It is
:24:05. > :24:10.good fun to try and understand how it all worked, if that is your back.
:24:10. > :24:15.There is a gigantic fireplace so this room must have been really
:24:15. > :24:20.cosy so why would they call it a misery court. If you are not
:24:20. > :24:25.bothered about coins and things, you can enjoy it for its natural
:24:25. > :24:29.beauty because it is not kept pristine like it would be by
:24:29. > :24:36.English Heritage. The walls are rich in wild flowers, shrubs and
:24:36. > :24:41.trees. In spring and summer, the flowers provide the colour and
:24:42. > :24:48.Beattie. There are stones everywhere and broken carvings.
:24:48. > :24:55.Lovely fragments. It really is the nicest building. I love English
:24:55. > :24:59.Heritage ruins as well but there is something so special about this
:24:59. > :25:09.carved stone and unbridled nature. It is one of the most romantic
:25:09. > :25:15.
:25:15. > :25:20.His voice always makes me want to It is the weekend coming at but we
:25:20. > :25:25.have to get through tonight and tomorrow. Tonight could be a
:25:25. > :25:33.turnaround in the weather. The skies will Clear and we will start
:25:33. > :25:38.to see dry weather coming in. Looking like this in Newcastle. The
:25:38. > :25:43.only difference is that we may get early mist and fog along the
:25:43. > :25:47.riverbanks. When that has gone, a dry and sunny Friday to end your
:25:47. > :25:52.half-term with right the way around the region. It should look like
:25:52. > :25:59.this in Richmond tomorrow afternoon. Autumn colours highlighted by the
:25:59. > :26:05.sunshine. The rain is chased away into the
:26:05. > :26:11.North Sea and try and clear skies replaces it. Mist and fog patches
:26:11. > :26:21.forming, thickest in the Vale of York. Temperatures will plummet
:26:21. > :26:21.
:26:21. > :26:28.overnight. In the countryside, as little as two degrees Celsius so
:26:28. > :26:33.some frost here or there. Tomorrow, a dry start. A bit misty and Chile
:26:33. > :26:39.but when that evaporates, look at the sunshine! A golden day around
:26:40. > :26:45.the region. A fantastic Friday. Temperatures are not a disgrace for
:26:45. > :26:53.this time of year. Through the weekend, in the north-east, some
:26:53. > :26:59.rain on Saturday in western areas. On Sunday, it should do so kid --
:26:59. > :27:04.disappear. For the north-east, tomorrow is probably the best of
:27:04. > :27:14.the next three-day is. Some cloud on Saturday and more in the wake of
:27:14. > :27:15.
:27:15. > :27:25.wind over the weekend but mostly dry around Cumbria. -- I got back
:27:25. > :27:27.
:27:27. > :27:35.completely wrong, you will see wet Thank you. To needs to - --