:00:00. > :00:00.Use the drug in one part of the North, you'll
:00:00. > :00:11.In another, the police will come knocking.
:00:12. > :00:13.You feel that pain and it goes through you.
:00:14. > :00:17.If I had any hair left, I'd tear it out.
:00:18. > :00:22.Has the Northern Power has run out of steam?
:00:23. > :00:27.The big goal here is to try and turn around something that has blighted
:00:28. > :00:30.our country for 100 years which is the North-South divide
:00:31. > :00:36.Ken Loach's gritty new film about life
:00:37. > :00:39.on benefits puts Newcastle in the global spotlight,
:00:40. > :00:42.but will the city be cast in the right light?
:00:43. > :00:48.In the film, the people are warm-hearted,
:00:49. > :00:56.generous spirited, show solhdarity for the people in trouble.
:00:57. > :01:09.I'm Chris Jackson and this is Inside Out.
:01:10. > :01:12.Cannabis users in the North say they re facing a legal muddle.
:01:13. > :01:15.Can they can use the drug untroubled by police
:01:16. > :01:20.The Police Commissioner in County Durham says his officers
:01:21. > :01:22.have better things to do with their time
:01:23. > :01:27.His opponents say they wish he d shut up.
:01:28. > :01:34.The marijuana debate has reached a new high.
:01:35. > :01:37.The law says cannabis has no medicinal value.
:01:38. > :01:39.Possessing, growing, distributing or selling it
:01:40. > :01:49.But sometimes, it's not as simple as that.
:01:50. > :01:53.Trevor Coleman prepares to face the day by rolling a joint.
:01:54. > :02:00.Pains through my back and right down my thigh.
:02:01. > :02:03.Trevor used to work as a cable installer about back problels
:02:04. > :02:06.and depression meant he had to give up work.
:02:07. > :02:12.It can last for hours on end where I want to cry at times.
:02:13. > :02:15.If I had any hair left, I'd tear it out.
:02:16. > :02:17.After taking cannabis oil on a piece of bread
:02:18. > :02:21.and smoking a joint, Trevor says the pain is almost gone.
:02:22. > :02:28.I can move around quite freely, quite happily.
:02:29. > :02:30.I mean, I can still feel it, don't get us wrong.
:02:31. > :02:34.The tension is right to my waist and back, but...
:02:35. > :02:37.You know, everything just fdels far more relaxed.
:02:38. > :02:42.I'm miserable on what I get from the doctors.
:02:43. > :02:44.Mark, who is married with two kids,
:02:45. > :02:49.has been using cannabis medicinally for around ten xears.
:02:50. > :02:51.I suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
:02:52. > :02:56.I was a witness to domestic abuse when I was a child.
:02:57. > :02:59.I've had every prescription under the sun thrown at us,
:03:00. > :03:02.in all honesty, over the ye`rs, and nothing seemed to work.
:03:03. > :03:06.But he says cannabis does what prescription drugs can't do.
:03:07. > :03:12.Stopped my mind racing so that I could rationalise things more where
:03:13. > :03:16.It did seem to work better than a lot
:03:17. > :03:18.of the conventional medicines I'd been given
:03:19. > :03:21.by the doctors over the years.
:03:22. > :03:24.But what Mark and Trevor are doing is illegal.
:03:25. > :03:27.Recently, an all-party parlhamentary group called
:03:28. > :03:31.for controlled medicinal usd of raw cabinets to be legalised.
:03:32. > :03:34.8 million people in this country suffer
:03:35. > :03:39.It based its call on the findings of a research review by
:03:40. > :03:42.Newcastle-based neurologist and campaigner Professor Mike B`rnes.
:03:43. > :03:44.I'm here at Westminster to make the case
:03:45. > :03:48.The Government is saying it has no medicinal value.
:03:49. > :03:54.Chronic pain, anxiety, nausea and vomiting after
:03:55. > :03:59.chemotherapy and the managelent of spasticity, painful muscle spasm.
:04:00. > :04:02.And I think it is time now to legalise the drug
:04:03. > :04:05.so that tens of thousands of people to be conservative should be
:04:06. > :04:08.helped by prescription of this drug with proper safeguards,
:04:09. > :04:12.An argument rejected by opponents who say using
:04:13. > :04:19.We stand along with the world health organisation report on it in 19 7
:04:20. > :04:22.which said it was seriously mentally harmful.
:04:23. > :04:25.There is nothing since 1997 that really affects that.
:04:26. > :04:28.The by-products of cannabis, they affect
:04:29. > :04:30.the brain in mature adults, they affect
:04:31. > :04:32.the brain in teenagers and they affect
:04:33. > :04:37.But there is no disagreement that cannabis users are breaking the law
:04:38. > :04:41.as it stands and they'll be punished if they are caught.
:04:42. > :04:48.It's not illegal to possess cannabis seeds.
:04:49. > :04:51.Growing cannabis is illegal yet in public
:04:52. > :04:53.places across the region, there are large numbers
:04:54. > :04:59.We've been told that people take the seeds, they drop them in
:05:00. > :05:04.the ground and then a few months later, they come back and they can
:05:05. > :05:09.Now, the chances of catching somebody who does something
:05:10. > :05:19.American police destroyed the "loco weed" as they call it in 938.
:05:20. > :05:23.Whereever the butt of a marhjuana cigarette is thrown, plants grow up
:05:24. > :05:25.from the seeds and if not properly checked, the plants becomes
:05:26. > :05:31.For more than a year, Durham Police have been loud and
:05:32. > :05:34.saying they're not going after small-time personal users
:05:35. > :05:40.Date of release to the BBC tnder the Freedom of Information @ct
:05:41. > :05:43.shows that over the last four years charges
:05:44. > :05:45.for cannabis possession in Durham
:05:46. > :05:52.Durham's Police and Crime Commissioner, Ron Hogg,
:05:53. > :05:56.has called for medicinal usd of cannabis to be legalised.
:05:57. > :06:03.I mean, he represents all of those people in Durh`m.
:06:04. > :06:07.Not all of those people will want cannabis moralise and legalhsed
:06:08. > :06:10.A lot of your viewers will know somebody who has been
:06:11. > :06:13.damaged by cannabis and I don't think they'll be with him.
:06:14. > :06:15.Drugs use is cultural, so when a Chief Constable
:06:16. > :06:17.speaks about legalising a drug,
:06:18. > :06:18.or normalising a drug, or the
:06:19. > :06:21.Police and Crime Commissiondr speaks about it, they effect the ctlture
:06:22. > :06:25.and I think they act improperly when they do that.
:06:26. > :06:28.The National Drug Prevention Alliance would like you
:06:29. > :06:37.That doesn't mean to say that I should be silent.
:06:38. > :06:39.I think I'm representing vidws of many, many people
:06:40. > :06:42.in our communities and as I say, I've had no adverse
:06:43. > :06:45.reaction from members of our community.
:06:46. > :06:48.Has the Government asked yot to shut up on this?
:06:49. > :06:51.They may actually be very h`ppy if I didn't speak out.
:06:52. > :06:55.I did get some support from my Police and
:06:56. > :06:57.Crime Commissioner colleaguds across the country.
:06:58. > :06:59.One of them said, quite categorically, do you want to
:07:00. > :07:04.concentrate on tackling cannabis users or child sexual abuse?
:07:05. > :07:11.Across the region, it's a confused picture.
:07:12. > :07:13.In the Cumbria, Northumbria and North Yorkshire Police
:07:14. > :07:19.possession fell by 66% in the last four years.
:07:20. > :07:22.Cautions fell by 67%, more than in Durham.
:07:23. > :07:32.But in Cleveland, charges rose by 110% and cautions by 53%.
:07:33. > :07:35.So there are forces in the region that are even more
:07:36. > :07:38.hands off than Durham and others that are clamping down.
:07:39. > :07:40.Recreational and medicinal users like Michael say
:07:41. > :07:45.Depending on what area you live in depends
:07:46. > :07:47.on whether your door's going in or not.
:07:48. > :07:51.Just a joint in your hand could result in a fine, a c`ution or
:07:52. > :07:54.it might result in nothing `part from the joint being ticked off you,
:07:55. > :07:57.or they turn a blind eye and just look the other way and walk away.
:07:58. > :08:01.Just depending on the area xou live in and that police force and that
:08:02. > :08:03.police officer that's going to be stopping you.
:08:04. > :08:05.Some drug users tell as you've left them in limbo now.
:08:06. > :08:08.How many drugs are arrested on a Friday and Saturday night?
:08:09. > :08:10.The police do not arrest every drunk.
:08:11. > :08:13.We couldn't arrest everyone who is actually smoking cannabis.
:08:14. > :08:17.Does that mean we are condoning cannabis use, does it mean we are
:08:18. > :08:21.It's just a matter of resources as against the ability to ddliver
:08:22. > :08:24.But isn't your approach inconsistent?
:08:25. > :08:26.Because you're targeting the dealers but you're
:08:27. > :08:29.allowing the users to continue who are then paying the dealers
:08:30. > :08:34.But we must actually face the reality of the situation.
:08:35. > :08:36.There is no way that the police service,
:08:37. > :08:39.particularly with contracting numbers and so forth, can totally
:08:40. > :08:48.For cannabis users, the medhcinal benefits of the drug are cldar.
:08:49. > :08:51.It's doing what I wanted to do so I can
:08:52. > :08:55.crack on and live a halfway reasonable life.
:08:56. > :08:57.Would you rather illegally treat yourself and be healed
:08:58. > :09:00.or would you rather be legally ill and be a strain
:09:01. > :09:07.I'm not in a perfect place, but I'm in a better place than H was.
:09:08. > :09:13.Last month, the Government said it has no plans to legalise medicinal
:09:14. > :09:19.What's your take on the cannabis debate?
:09:20. > :09:31.I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach's new film
:09:32. > :09:35.set in Newcastle goes on general release today.
:09:36. > :09:38.The award-winning film is about a carpenter struggling
:09:39. > :09:42.to claim benefits and had its premiere in Newcastle.
:09:43. > :09:45.An indictment of the benefits system or a work of fiction?
:09:46. > :09:50.I've been to meet the director to find out.
:09:51. > :10:00.Ken Loach makes a very modest entrance.
:10:01. > :10:08.Loach is here with his leading man Dave Johns for the
:10:09. > :10:12.I'm just wiring you up with a microphone.
:10:13. > :10:20.The great director appears to be impressed by Inside Ott.
:10:21. > :10:29.I, Daniel Blake is a film about a carpenter who is unemploydd after
:10:30. > :10:33.I'm afraid you must continue to look for work.
:10:34. > :10:36.Or your benefit payments will be frozen.
:10:37. > :10:38.He befriends Katie, a single mother from London.
:10:39. > :10:40.You've done nothing to be ashamed of.
:10:41. > :10:42.They come up against the benefits system.
:10:43. > :10:46.There's rules here, rules that we have to stick to, OK?
:10:47. > :10:53.Its intent is to drive people out of taking benefits.
:10:54. > :10:55.There is a conscious cruelty in the way
:10:56. > :10:58.the most vulnerable people are treated.
:10:59. > :11:00.You don't know what I've done here, do you?
:11:01. > :11:10.The Government is obviously going to turn around and
:11:11. > :11:14.say, well, we need a system that gets benefits to those that need it,
:11:15. > :11:20.I mean, people are forced to apply for jobs that they
:11:21. > :11:27.For the first time in his life, Daniel
:11:28. > :11:32.has to use a computer to apply for jobseeker's allowance.
:11:33. > :11:36.He's helped by a staff member who is stamped
:11:37. > :11:46.Actually, can I have a word now in my office, thank you?
:11:47. > :11:51.You know we've spoken about this before.
:11:52. > :11:55.You paint a pretty brutal phcture of the civil servants,
:11:56. > :11:59.I mean, do you think you're being fair to them?
:12:00. > :12:02.Well, the civil servants who work in the job centres
:12:03. > :12:06.I think are in an intolerable position and we met many,
:12:07. > :12:09.many who have left that work because of the pressure
:12:10. > :12:22.Do you mind if this young lass signs on first?
:12:23. > :12:26.Dave Johns is better known as a stand-up comedian.
:12:27. > :12:29.I got asked to come in for a couple of castings.
:12:30. > :12:32.I thought, if I keep going `nd doing these
:12:33. > :12:35.improvisations, what a story I've got that
:12:36. > :12:39.I wasn't even thinking about getting the part.
:12:40. > :12:41.You still don't get this, do you, Mr Blake?
:12:42. > :12:45.This is an agreement between you and the state.
:12:46. > :12:53.Blake falls foul of the system of punishments,
:12:54. > :12:59.You will attend if you want to proceed with
:13:00. > :13:07.Then you will be referred for a sanction.
:13:08. > :13:09.Does the Government not to have some responsibility though, have some
:13:10. > :13:13.control over how we spend otr money which we are told is limited?
:13:14. > :13:15.Yes, the Government has a responsibility.
:13:16. > :13:19.25% of people think that there is a huge amount
:13:20. > :13:22.of fraudulent behaviour by people gaining benefits.
:13:23. > :13:32.The film is shot chronologically, in sequencd.
:13:33. > :13:34.The actors never get a complete script.
:13:35. > :13:43.All I knew is I was Daniel Blake, I was a widow
:13:44. > :13:46.and I'd been looking after her.
:13:47. > :13:50.I had a massive heart attack and I was going for
:13:51. > :13:54.And that's all I knew and each day, I would sit
:13:55. > :13:57.in the house and a little noise would come through thd
:13:58. > :14:00.letterbox and there'd be two or three pages of script whhch I'd
:14:01. > :14:04.learn and then I'd go in thd next day and we do it, you know?
:14:05. > :14:06.We try and take them through the story like
:14:07. > :14:07.characters was experienced ht in real life.
:14:08. > :14:11.And if you do it really realistically, it sounds right.
:14:12. > :14:13.We hear it, what do you mean by that?
:14:14. > :14:14.The whole scene has to work.
:14:15. > :14:18.So the people who are in shot who are
:14:19. > :14:21.supported by the reality of the scene around them, it helps,
:14:22. > :14:25.I mean, we'd never have put two lights up like
:14:26. > :14:30.Because it interferes with a sense of being in thd cafe.
:14:31. > :14:37.The lack of feedback can sometimes spook Loach's actors.
:14:38. > :14:39.I never knew how I was doing in the film.
:14:40. > :14:41.People were saying to me, he hasn't said
:14:42. > :14:43.anything to you so you're doing it right.
:14:44. > :14:48.The film has already won the Palme d'Or,
:14:49. > :14:51.the highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
:14:52. > :14:53.Johns has been tipped as a new talent.
:14:54. > :14:56.I don't know if you've seen what the LA Times has said,
:14:57. > :15:01.Apparently you've got new dramatic chops.
:15:02. > :15:09.Somebody sent me a thing and it said, have you
:15:10. > :15:17.And it's got Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks and then at 20 it's got me
:15:18. > :15:21.sandwiched between Jake Gyllenhaal and Colin F`rrell.
:15:22. > :15:26.Why particularly Newcastle in the end?
:15:27. > :15:31.Everyone knows it's a very strong, rich, well-defined character.
:15:32. > :15:39.There is a sense of dignity about the north-dast
:15:40. > :15:44.And part of the story of the film is about
:15:45. > :15:46.Daniel trying to keep his self-respect,
:15:47. > :15:56.Katie loses her benefits and goes without
:15:57. > :16:03.You said that yesterday and the day before.
:16:04. > :16:10.A key scene was shot at Newcastle's west end
:16:11. > :16:15.food bank where Loach spent time researching.
:16:16. > :16:18.One thing that really struck us they don't talk about them
:16:19. > :16:23.They talk about them doing their shopping.
:16:24. > :16:26.And I think that's a really generous way of saying,
:16:27. > :16:30.look, you're not humiliated, having to come here
:16:31. > :16:38.Real food bank staff and clhents featured in the film.
:16:39. > :16:42.It was one of the most fantastic experiences of my life.
:16:43. > :16:46.I feel that the system has let people down, absolutely.
:16:47. > :16:49.And the only way of trying to cope with that
:16:50. > :16:55.is to give people enough confidence and to make them feel worthx again
:16:56. > :17:03.Do you know how many applications they got from that
:17:04. > :17:08.But there are moments of humour in a grim story.
:17:09. > :17:12.We should all be drinking a lot more bloody coffee.
:17:13. > :17:17.I said we should all be drinking a lot more bloody coffee, then.
:17:18. > :17:20.LOACH: We've always had comedy in the film really,
:17:21. > :17:24.It's the humour of observation, how people are.
:17:25. > :17:29.And in this one, there's thd comedy of the grim comedy of bureatcracy.
:17:30. > :17:32.You know, the fatuous questions you get asked.
:17:33. > :17:34.And then you go through the whole process
:17:35. > :17:40.Did you weave any of your own gags into it?
:17:41. > :17:49.Audience reaction on that night's Newcastle premiere
:17:50. > :18:00.I think the message is the most important thing.
:18:01. > :18:03.It could be in any city in England today.
:18:04. > :18:09.Decision-makers are going to be sending you a letter
:18:10. > :18:15.You want to tell the truth, don't you?
:18:16. > :18:17.I think Geordies will appreciate that.
:18:18. > :18:19.It's obvious, there's not enough jobs.
:18:20. > :18:22.Well, you'll be at the back of the queue,
:18:23. > :18:26.Can I thank you very much indeed for your time?
:18:27. > :18:31.Did you tell him off about the lighting?
:18:32. > :18:39.Ken Loach really doesn't like lights.
:18:40. > :18:42.And you can find out what all the fuss is
:18:43. > :18:43.about for yourselves, as the film
:18:44. > :18:49.has gone on general release at selected cinemas from today.
:18:50. > :18:54.George Osborne had a big idda, to help the North
:18:55. > :18:59.But in the uncertainties of the post-Brexit world,
:19:00. > :19:03.what has happened to his pl`n for a Northern powerhouse?
:19:04. > :19:07.Well, Toby Foster has been to ask the man himself.
:19:08. > :19:09.The nation's wealth was built on the graft
:19:10. > :19:16.This slick promotional video is how the Government
:19:17. > :19:26.But just what is the northern powerhouse?
:19:27. > :19:34.We cannot live in a country where we've only got
:19:35. > :19:38.There's not really anything in London to
:19:39. > :19:41.draw me away from such a beautiful place as this.
:19:42. > :19:43.The big goal here is to try and turn around
:19:44. > :19:45.something that has blighted our country
:19:46. > :19:48.for 100 years, which is the North-South divide.
:19:49. > :19:50.Since the vote to leave the EU, many aspects of
:19:51. > :19:52.life in the UK have been overshadowed by post-Brexit
:19:53. > :19:58.I've come to York, home of the Europhile.
:19:59. > :20:05.58% of the electorate here voted to to remain in the EU.
:20:06. > :20:10.Two weeks after the nation voted to leave the EU, James Wharton,
:20:11. > :20:12.the pro-Brexit minister for the northern powerhouse, came to
:20:13. > :20:15.York to visit the newly crowned best high in the country,
:20:16. > :20:21.I wanted to test the mood hdre and see what effect Brexit
:20:22. > :20:26.A Dutch flower exporter had just arrived with a
:20:27. > :20:28.delivery which had become 20% more expensive because
:20:29. > :20:35.At the moment, we only export to the UK,
:20:36. > :20:42.The shops are going to buy less quantity of flowers
:20:43. > :20:44.because they have to pay more and they are
:20:45. > :20:49.And that's bad news for florist Richard Bothamldy.
:20:50. > :20:54.It might mean that we might lose these fantastic lorries
:20:55. > :21:00.coming in with such a wonderful supply of fresh flowers.
:21:01. > :21:03.And there's no way we can grow them in England.
:21:04. > :21:06.We don't have the weather, the conditions.
:21:07. > :21:10.Next door, Lee Preston and his wife Lucy opened thd
:21:11. > :21:13.Stanley and Ramona coffee shop three years ago with the redundancy
:21:14. > :21:17.I've lived in the North my whole life pretty much.
:21:18. > :21:21.I've never seen much evidence of a northern powerhouse.
:21:22. > :21:24.Because the things that are made in the north,
:21:25. > :21:27.industry, etc, it's not there any more, really.
:21:28. > :21:30.The darkening skies seem to reflect the mood here.
:21:31. > :21:32.And as the rain began to fall, the Minister
:21:33. > :21:36.for the northern powerhouse was as unprepared for the wdather as
:21:37. > :21:41.his fellow Brexiteers seem to be for a future outside the EU.
:21:42. > :21:46.but already he is boosted the local economy because, like me,
:21:47. > :21:52.If the northern powerhouse is going to deliver,
:21:53. > :21:55.it needs to rebalance that dconomy to create growth across the north
:21:56. > :21:58.that matches the growth we've seen elsewhere in the country.
:21:59. > :22:02.That will mean more long-term investment.
:22:03. > :22:07.This is about taking it to the next level.
:22:08. > :22:09.Four months on and after George Osborne's sacking, J`mes
:22:10. > :22:12.Wharton has been moved to another department and there is a ndw
:22:13. > :22:14.minister for the northern powerhouse.
:22:15. > :22:17.As somebody who is from the North, a northerner, I have always argued
:22:18. > :22:19.that we make better decisions for ourselves and we
:22:20. > :22:22.require a mayor as part of that because we expect there to be a
:22:23. > :22:28.Following on from London's layor, there are going to be votes for
:22:29. > :22:32.so-called metro mayors in Manchester, Liverpool, Tees Valley
:22:33. > :22:34.and right here in Sheffield, where just four years ago
:22:35. > :22:38.in a referendum, voters rejected the idea
:22:39. > :22:43.Critics fear the Government will use devolution
:22:44. > :22:46.of power to shift the blame to local governments
:22:47. > :22:49.for the deep cuts in services.
:22:50. > :22:52.But the think tank Centre For Cities is more positive
:22:53. > :22:55.about the idea of devolving financial powers through
:22:56. > :23:00.There's a big debate about whether devolution is about
:23:01. > :23:02.managing cuts or if it's about making sure you can make
:23:03. > :23:07.So what we're doing to devolution is giving places the chance
:23:08. > :23:10.to take their own decisions about what works.
:23:11. > :23:13.People in Whitehall don't know what's going to work best
:23:14. > :23:21.250 civil service jobs in Sheffield at the Department for
:23:22. > :23:24.Business, Innovation and Skills are being cut.
:23:25. > :23:26.Many staff working on the concept
:23:27. > :23:29.of the northern powerhouse face losing their jobs
:23:30. > :23:33.The irony of this isn't lost on them.
:23:34. > :23:36.They moved their departments out of Whitehall.
:23:37. > :23:40.The Government are looking in the wrong direction with
:23:41. > :23:44.Nearby in Rotherham, private sector jobs are being
:23:45. > :23:57.created, but this has nothing to do with the northern powerhousd.
:23:58. > :24:03.On education and the nearby centre to trade sentences. If you're going
:24:04. > :24:07.to keep our brightest and bdst in the north, we need to make sure they
:24:08. > :24:14.are well-paid, skilled jobs to keep them away from the of London. I m on
:24:15. > :24:17.my way to meet a man who, whth a first-class masters and doctorate in
:24:18. > :24:22.physics from Oxford Univershty, could have had his pick of high tech
:24:23. > :24:26.jobs anywhere in the countrx. Most of my friends are from Oxford and
:24:27. > :24:31.went off to London. Or other major cities around the world. But Richard
:24:32. > :24:39.found work here in his home in the Lake District. He is working on the
:24:40. > :24:42.prototype cable that will h`ve a 30 year life span three miles beneath
:24:43. > :24:47.the sea and plugs that can handle the output of a small nucle`r power
:24:48. > :24:51.station. I was afraid that H might have to get a job in the sotth-east
:24:52. > :24:55.if I wanted to work in rese`rch and development, so I was delighted when
:24:56. > :24:59.I had the opportunity to cole up and do some high-tech work in the
:25:00. > :25:05.north-west. Even within this company, there is enough varied work
:25:06. > :25:08.to keep you going on a long career. I mean, I have been here for four
:25:09. > :25:13.years now and I have had thd chance to work on brand-new research. I
:25:14. > :25:15.have been able to do mechanhcal design, Electrical design, testing
:25:16. > :25:19.of components that I have spent so long working on. But for
:25:20. > :25:23.it's not all about the job. This is it's not all about the job. This is
:25:24. > :25:27.the landscape that is around him on his commute to work. So as xou cycle
:25:28. > :25:31.to work through all of this every morning, do you ever wonder what the
:25:32. > :25:36.rather it would be like? I prefer not to. I prefer to just enjoy the
:25:37. > :25:39.ride into work and on a day like today enjoyed the sunshine `nd the
:25:40. > :25:45.peace and quiet. There's not really anything in London to strongly away
:25:46. > :25:48.from such a beautiful place as this. But Richard's employer is Gdrman and
:25:49. > :25:52.investment is key if the northern powerhouse is going to work. They
:25:53. > :25:57.have already invested heavily in the North including this wind ttrbine
:25:58. > :26:02.blade factory in Hull. Now they say Brexit threatens such investment in
:26:03. > :26:06.the future. Short-term, in terms of any investment decisions yot might
:26:07. > :26:12.want to make here, especially those which result in exporting to the
:26:13. > :26:18.European Union, they will bd on ice. There is no question about that
:26:19. > :26:20.Doctor Craig Berry is a polhtical economist at Sheffield Univdrsity
:26:21. > :26:25.specialising in the Northern economy. He fears Brexit poses a
:26:26. > :26:29.major threat to the success of the northern powerhouse. The Brdxit vote
:26:30. > :26:33.was a vote to take back control but it actually undermines the `bility
:26:34. > :26:36.of the North to take back control, primarily because the citrus addict
:26:37. > :26:40.effect of the investment fund is being withdrawn from the region and
:26:41. > :26:44.the North was in receipt of several billions of pounds over sevdn years
:26:45. > :26:48.up to 2020 from these funds from the EU and it is quite uncertain how
:26:49. > :26:53.much of that will actually now end up in the region. What Goodxear
:26:54. > :26:57.factory on investment and jobs? For example in Sunderland? This is a one
:26:58. > :26:58.reading time. They will be `t risk reading time. They will be `t risk
:26:59. > :27:03.even if a big investor like Nissan even if a big investor like Nissan
:27:04. > :27:08.be taken up by other firms picking be taken up by other firms picking
:27:09. > :27:12.up the pieces of the industry. Since leaving office, former Chancellor
:27:13. > :27:15.George Osborne has set up the Institute for the northern
:27:16. > :27:20.powerhouse and has defended his legacy. The northern powerhouse
:27:21. > :27:25.isn't just a slogan. And it's not just saying everything in North is
:27:26. > :27:29.great. Some Northerners havd failed to look is you as the champhon of
:27:30. > :27:32.the North when you saw the cuts Can you really be a chaplain of the
:27:33. > :27:36.North after being in charge of the austerity budget? When I became
:27:37. > :27:39.Chancellor, people were being laid off, unemployed was rising,
:27:40. > :27:42.investment was coming to thd north of England. The big goal here is to
:27:43. > :27:47.try to turn around something which has our country for 100 years which
:27:48. > :27:50.is the North-South divide and it can't be done overnight. Now post
:27:51. > :27:53.Brexit, we have already heard from Siemens and Nissan that thex are
:27:54. > :27:57.north on hold and they know what is north on hold and they know what is
:27:58. > :28:02.happening. This is a reliant on investment, isn't it? In thd
:28:03. > :28:06.post-Brexit world, it's important that the North sells itself around
:28:07. > :28:10.the world and I was with thd leaders of the different cities, we went to
:28:11. > :28:13.China and as a result, Chindse investment has started to flow into
:28:14. > :28:17.Manchester and Sheffield and Leeds it is an example of how collectively
:28:18. > :28:23.the North can punch above its weight. There are still major
:28:24. > :28:26.obstacles to realising the vision of a northern powerhouse. Vital
:28:27. > :28:30.overdue and the success of George overdue and the success of George
:28:31. > :28:36.Osborne's big ideas will largely come down to one thing, mondy. Will
:28:37. > :28:40.there be enough? That if tonight. And you can catch up with us again
:28:41. > :28:46.in just a few day's time. Wd are back to our regular on Mond`ys. When
:28:47. > :28:50.we will reveal by a north-e`st doctor believes he has found a
:28:51. > :28:56.revolutionary way to combat one form of diabetes. I'll see you ndxt week.
:28:57. > :29:03.Until then, from South Shields, good night.
:29:04. > :29:05.Hello, I'm Elaine Dunkley with your 90-second update.
:29:06. > :29:08.Silence to remember the Aberfan disaster.
:29:09. > :29:12.50 years ago today, a mountain of coal waste engulfed a village,
:29:13. > :29:17.144 people were killed - most of them were children.
:29:18. > :29:22.A chemical incident at London's City Airport.
:29:23. > :29:24.He was a policeman and a scout leader.
:29:25. > :29:26.Today, Allan Richards was found guilty of 40 offences,
:29:27. > :29:29.including rape and sexual assault against boys as young as eight.
:29:30. > :29:36.He had carried out the attacks over 30 years.
:29:37. > :29:37.A chemical incident at London's City Airport.
:29:38. > :29:42.Passengers were evacuated and all flights grounded.
:29:43. > :29:45.26 people have been treated for breathing problems and two
:29:46. > :29:48.The scene in the English Channel earlier.
:29:49. > :29:52.This is a Russian aircraft carrier heading to Syria.
:29:53. > :30:00.The ship was monitored by the Royal Navy
:30:01. > :30:03.Hello, I'm Nisha Joshi with the latest from Look North