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Welcome to Look North. In the programme tonight: The body | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
of a County Durham man is exhumed, 11 years after he fell from a Greek | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
balcony. His family still don't know what happened to him. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
family is going through total and utter hell. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
Guilty, the woman who shouted Bangkok, at blinded police officer | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
David Rathband. In hot water. Scientists find what | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
they are looking for. - two kilometres below Newcastle. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
And calls for a public inquiry over the future of a Ford which is | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
threatened for closure. Could Durham keep it up in the | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
cricket. And whether it was four or two legs or two wheels, thousands | :00:45. | :00:55. | |
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enjoyed the north's big sporting The family of a County Durham man | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
killed after falling from a hotel balcony say they were left with no | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
choice but to have his body exhumed. Chris Rochester died in a Greek | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
hospital after a fall. His body was then returned to the UK with a | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
kidney missing. His remains have been taken for tests to find out | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
whether a kidney which was was eventually sent back was or wasn't | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
his. After dark, they gathered at the | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
cemetery. 11 years of agony had come to this. But Chris Rochester's | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
family says exhumation is worth it if it proves a Greek hospital | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
neglected him and sent back a kidney that wasn't his.-The-family | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
Is going through total and utter hell. There's no other words to | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
express it. This is just our worst nightmare. What's happening here | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
tonight, in its own way, means that Chris himself is returning. If | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Chris gives that last vital piece of evidence that is needed for the | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
Greek authorities to try and con Victor the criminals. This tragedy | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
began the night 24-year-old Chris Fell 40 feet from a hotel balcony | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
in Rhodes. His family say hospital staff neglected him and he bled to | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
death. Then, the body came back, a ked any missing. An organ was later | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
sent sent back from Greece. Family DNA tests showed it wasn't his. The | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
Greeks dispute this and forced the exhumation. Reluck tantly agreeing, | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
the family this it is the only way to prove negligent, even conspiracy. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
The fact of the matter is that kidney which is important in terms | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
of determining how he died is missing and replaced with one which | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
isn't Chris's is a key point in show ing negligence let to his | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
death. So, Chris Rochester's body is being exhumed from here. His | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
remains will be taken for DNA testing and matched against the | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
preserved kidney which was independent ly returned. An | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
independent laboratory will decide whether that kidney belongs to | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
Chris or not. As dawn neared, the remains left the cemetery. What | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
secrets they reveal could lead to fresh legal action. One Greek medic | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
has already been kin Victored of manslaughter. The family hope he | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
won't be the last. I don't think I've really grieved yet for him. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
There's not a day goes by that I don't think about him and how we've | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
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been treated and he was treated. Just impossible to comprehend. | :03:56. | :04:05. | |
A woman who shouted "Bangkok "at the police manned who was blinded | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
by Raoul Moat faces jail. She pleaded guilty to a charge of using | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
threatening and abusive behaviour. PC Rathband told us her actions | :04:17. | :04:26. | |
caused him and his family great distress. Kelsey Donkin came to | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Newcastle Magistrates' Court this morning facing trial for her public | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
order offence but changed her plea to guilty. She committed the crime | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
outside another court out, Newcastle Crown Court in March this | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
year. PC David Rathband was attending the trial of the two men | :04:42. | :04:48. | |
who assisted Raoul Moat which included the shooting and blinding | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
of PC Rathband. She shouted Bangkok while pretending to hold hold a | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
shotgun. The prosecutor outlined the case. In a statement from PC | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
Rathband he said he'd never experienced maliciousness or | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
hostility up to that point. It made him feel sick to the stomach. He | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
felt very sad and vulnerable. Echoing that, the chairman of the | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
befrpb said to Donkin, you caused horrific distress to PC Rathband, a | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
victim who was extremely vulnerable. There's no mitigation for what you | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
did. It was draid ful having spent the time -- dreadful having spent | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
the time at count court. The affect she had on me, I had to go home. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
Hopefully she'll realise one day her little joke had a devastating | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
affect not only on me but my wife and my children. To make Kelsey | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Donkin's crime even more upsetting for PC wrath band, her court case | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
comes days before the anniversary of Raoul Moat's attacks. It is a | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
difficult time for my wife. I try my best not to think about it and | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
get on with what I'm trying to achieve with my charity. My wife's | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
having difficulty at the moment trying to deal with the memories of | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
what I did the day, the week before. We'll get there. You have a book | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
coming out, is that right? Yeah, I think it is out on 4th. It is my | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
opportunity to tell my story. There's been lots of comen eighters | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
trying to tell me story. But this is my story. I'm grateful I've had | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
the opportunity to get the story out. That's the end of it for me. I | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
have to start looking forward, if you'll pardon the pun. How do you | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
feel buying forward? It is tough. I have bad days. Hopefully, when I'm | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
busy doing my chair itable work, going to schools, it replaces some | :06:49. | :06:58. | |
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Look North has learned a team of specialist doctors have walked out | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
of their jobs. It is unclear why the dermatologists left their jobs | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
at County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust. The medical team, including | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
consultants, were based at Sunderland Royal hospital but | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
served over a million people across South Tyneside, Wearside, County | :07:21. | :07:28. | |
Durham and darplg ton. Sharon, do we know why they left? We don't | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
know why they've left. There are a lot of stories. I understand | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
there's been a dispute at Sunderland Royal over how the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
dermatology service was being developed. There's a great deal of | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
change at the NHS throughout the NHS at the minute. A lot of talk | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
about centralising specialist services. We don't not sure why | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
they've walked out. They were not just treating patients at | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
Sunderland Royal hospital? No, the dermatology team were treating | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
patients across Sunderland. Over a million patients, South Tyneside, | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Wearside, County Durham and University of north Durham hospital. | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
How important is this dermatology service here? Other doctors say | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
dermatology is a vital service to hospitals. These doctors treat | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
patients with anything from skin cancer, inflamed skin and numerous | :08:23. | :08:29. | |
skin diseases. What are the trust saying? The trust provided me with | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
a statement saying the services provided by the trusts. It is very | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
unfortunate some members of the dermatology department in | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Sunderland have decided to leave the service. We're confident we | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
have arrangements in place to ensure it is business as uerpbl for | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
our patients and they will continue to get the high quality care that | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
they need and expect. They also say, they've written to inform GPs about | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
the issue and are writing to patients now whose appointments are | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
being affected. So, they've lost four people. Who will replace them. | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
We also found out today, this job add vert izment has come into the | :09:07. | :09:15. | |
system. -- advertisement. It is for four dermatologists with a salary | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
of up to �100,000 each. The start date is as soon as possible. | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
Thank you. Figures released this afternoon show it has cost the | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
council tax payers lplgs �220,000 to investigate the condict of North | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
Yorkshire Chief Constable Graham Maxwell. That's on top of the | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
�100,000 the police complaints investigation spent on its | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
investigation. Grahame Maxwell avoided sacking and was given a | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
final written warning. I didn't realise at the time I was doing | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
anything wrong. I should have seen how other people would view it. | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
Aapologised for that. Charles Hendry has been in Hartlepool | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
looking at the potential for the town took a centre for renewable | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
energy y. He was told that companies will not be making big | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
investments until the Government gives reassurances they'll get | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
returns on it. The Government's commitment to reduce carbon | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
emissions is not thought to be a big enough incentive. If you're | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
making a multimillion investment you have to know there's a market | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
there for many years. We've said stop talking about Twenty20, let's | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
talks about what we need tor for 2030 and 2040 so investors know | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
there will be a 20 or 30 years outlook which is important. | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
Scientists in Newcastle have made a major breakthrough in an am bix | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
quest to find a different source of energy. A borehole has finally | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
reached hot water. The plan is to camtuer -- capture it and heats | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
local buildings. Frplt It is a rare sight in a city centre and it's | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
hard work. For four months, this drill has gone deeper and deeper | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
into the earth's crust passing fossils over 300 million years old. | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
Now, it's hit the jackpot. Steaming hot water has finally been found. | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
The scientists are thrilled. Absolutely over the moon. It's been | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
a long time coming. It is as low carbon as it can get. The carbon | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
footprint of this operation ends the day the drilling finished s. | :11:42. | :11:50. | |
The drill carries on to 2000 metres below Newcastle. After sandstone, | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
the borehole reaches water up to 80 degrees Celsius it. Will then be | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
pufrpbed back to the surface. It is an ambitious project which has | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
captured the imagination of local schoolchildren. Coal's not a | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
renewable substance. Back there is because they can get water from the | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
core of the earth which is really hot. REPORTER: What do you think of | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
that? It is good. I'm really interested in science. And history. | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
It is look like puting it together. It is really good. Once the | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
university has heated one of its own buildings, hundreds of local | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
homes and some businesses could follow. But first, scientists must | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
test the sandstone which insulates the water underground. That work | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
will be finished by September. Has to be the way ahead. | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Theatre students and the public will be able to access the archives | :12:44. | :12:50. | |
of skr borough playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn. Hs work has been | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
translated into 30 languages. It will make all his work accessible | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
to the public. A group of primary school children | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
had an extended day trip today when they were cut off by the sea. They | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
were visited St Mary's Island when there seems to have been a mix-up | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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over the tide tables. It s worth reminding ourselves St Mary's | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
Island is accessible via a causeway. It is clear at the moment. Until | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
just after 3.00 this afternoon, it was completely covered by North Sea. | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
It is not entirely clear what went on today. There are several | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
versions of events here depending on who you ask. North Tyneside | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
Council says the tide came in later than expected meaning the school | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
children could not leave at the anticipated time. The coastguard | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
says the children were stuck on the island. Blyth coastguard were on | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
patrol. There was a group of children on the island. The tide | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
was on its way in. Spoke to the school group. Were able to take | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
some of the group off. It was deemed the safest thing to do was | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
leave the rest of the group on the island. We've had lifeguards from | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
the lifeguard base at Whitley Bay come along. They've gone on to the | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
island and kept the kids calm. Everyone has been perfectly safe | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
and happy. We've been able to walk them off when the tide refreeted | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
enough. When were they planning to come off. There was some confusion | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
about high tide time. They thought they would be able to get off at | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
1.00 which was high water was 1.30. Any time between 12 and 3, the | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
causeway was unpassable. North Tyneside Council sent a | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
representative to the scene. He refused to say anything at all as | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
did the head teacher of the school who may or may not have been | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
expected to turn up anyway. It is worth pointing out regarding this | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
claim the tide came in later than expected, the tides are regulated | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
by the moon. They are predictable and are used to predict timetables. | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
On which it is printed in British Summer Time you need to add an hour | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
to the printed time. More news and the sport still to | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
come: Too much to bare-the- roadworks which have brought one | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
town to breaking point. And as the heat wave, gives way to | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
fresh fresher weather, I'll have a full weather forecast later in the | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
programme. The future of a Ford that's an | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
important short cut for people in Weardale could be decided at a | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
public inquiry. Stanhope Ford was temporarily closed three years ago | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
after 23 incidents in ten years involving drivers who tried to | :15:59. | :16:09. | |
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cross it when water levels were too high. Closures to make it perm nand | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
-- talks to make the closure permanent have not gone down well. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
It is said you shouldn't cross when the stepping stones are under water. | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
There have always been those who were wary and those who weren't. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
Where we've had people twieing to cross the Ford in difficult | :16:28. | :16:34. | |
conditions when the rivers's been in flood, vehicles have been washed | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
away or people are having to manifest a rescue. We could result | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
in a death of a individual or people driving across the Ford in | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
an inappropriate time. On a warm summer's day like today, the | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
water's only a couple of inches deep. It is almost a pleasure to | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
get your feet wet. But the council says the danger of flash floods | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
sweeping from the Pennines up there is becoming not just more likely | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
but more unpredictable. But those supporting the closure plan are out | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
numbered by those opposing it. It very much stacksed up as the | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
emergency services and the council against the local people. Though, | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
even here, view are mixed. It is very dangerous. I've seen numerous | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
cars turned over and wedged in the loch. I've each seen them halfway | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
down the stream. It is basically a judgment call. If you think it is | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
too flooded you drive round. good folk of Stanhope say people | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
came from miles around just to drive through the Ford. And it is a | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
tourist atrx in its own right. There's an online campaign to save | :17:39. | :17:47. | |
it. Our proposed solution is not to close it but to have a barrier | :17:47. | :17:49. | |
system based on the speed and height of the river would allow | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
people to cross when it is safe. Councillors meet tomorrow to decide | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
whether the public inquiry should be carried out. | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Here's another problem for motorists. Roadworks. The bane of | :18:05. | :18:12. | |
the motorists' life. In one Cumbrian town, two sets are causing | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
huge tailbacks. The problem's so bad in Penrith, protests are | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
planned. Peak time in Penrith and it is nose-to-tail. Journeys that | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
should take minutes are taking ten times that. Work to complete two | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
new supermarkets in the town has caused a number of road closures. | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
Taxi drivers reckon these closures are causing a huge drop in custom. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
They are just feeling fed up with everything. Some taxis have had to | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
ask their customers to leave the taxi because they've trains to | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
catch. Taxi fairs fares are going from the minimum charge, �2.306789 | :18:51. | :18:58. | |
people are now having to pay between �7 or �8. While some shops | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
here in Brunswick Road are reporting a drop in business of 50% | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
due to a lack of pausing trade. Ullswater Road is being brought do | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
a virtual standstill frplt It is chaos trying to get round town at | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
certain times of the day. A lot of business is down in trade. You | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
wonder how long that can continue and how long we can hang on to | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
these small businesses which are the life blood of Penrith. | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Permission for the works to take place at the same time has been | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
given by Cumbria County Council. It said while some traffic disruption | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
was being called, the long-term benefits outweighed any short-term | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
inconvenience. Not everybody in Penrith agrees. A protest is being | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
led by the taxi drivers outside the town hall tomorrow afternoon. | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
Doesn't it drive you mad! It was a very busy sporting weekend | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
this weekend. Lots of big events taking place in our region. You | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
were in one. The Sunderland 10 K and you're still standing which is | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
impressive. When I saw the temperatures I was worried. I made | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
it round. Great event, great support. Wish it had been a little | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
cooler. Much more on that coming up. First, cycling. In his final outing | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
before the Tour de France on Saturday, Bradley Wiggins won the | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
National Road Race Championships in Northumberland. It was an event | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
which is sure to have increased the region's sporting profile. | :20:38. | :20:46. | |
The road to success to and from Saddam Stamford was a long win. A | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
hilly 125 mile course. Wiggins and scam Team Sky took the placings. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
The Olympic champion Nicole Cooke was undone by Lizzie Armistead who | :20:58. | :21:05. | |
won after a four woman sprent at the end of the 65 miles. The influx | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
of koch competitors, and teams changed the village life. Car | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
parking charges are helping to pay for a new church roof. Everything | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
has to happen somewhere. Why not our village. It is beautiful. Huge | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
for cyclists in the local area. Lots of people come cycling just | :21:28. | :21:36. | |
for fun, adventure. It is great. One of the biggest events in the | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
North East sporting calendar, the Northumberland Plate took place at | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
Newcastle Racecourse. Over 26,000 racegoers turned up at High | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
Gosforth Park. Many in their glad rags. Among them will have been | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
some happy punters as the afternoon showpiece race, the Pitmen's Derby | :21:55. | :22:04. | |
was one by 25-1 outsider Tominator. There's a big day of Cumbrian sport | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
ahead tomorrow. It is Whitehaven's turn to hold -- at Wimbledon, good | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
luck to teenage star Dan Ka who was given a last minute wild card entry | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
to junior will bem done with play in the last 32. | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
It was one of the hottest days of the year so far. It didn't stop | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
nearly 2000 people from putting on their running shoes for the big | :22:35. | :22:43. | |
Sunderland 10K race. Former Olympic athlete Steve Cram stepped in to | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
create the new event. It is the sort of weather which would usually | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
have you reaching for the sun lounger. Perfect conditions for | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
spectators, less so for runners. Despite the soaring temperatures, | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
nearly 2000 people turned up ready to pound the street for the first | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
Sunderland 10K race. Fun runners and elite athletes took part taking | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
in the seafront along the way. There were fears the city would go | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
without a race after the great north 10K was moved from Sunderland | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
to Gateshead. But Olympian Steve Cram stepped in to stage the event. | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
Sunderland want to make sure they've events like this. The | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
people of the city and further beyond can come and take part. | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
We've had a junier run, the main 10K and the elite miles as well. | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
Hopefully next year we can do it all again. Maybe with a marathon | :23:41. | :23:49. | |
thrown in as well. It was a great day for the city. | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Football and Swansea City rejected Newcastle's bid for full-back Neil | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
Taylor over a wrangle about his availability. Disappointment for | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
Alex Gray, he skippered England in their 22 - 33 defeat. | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
Cricket and Durham ripped through the Lancashire batting order on day | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
one of their top of the table County Championship clash in | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
Liverpool. Callum Thorp took six wickets as the home side were | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
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bowled out for 8 runs. Di Venuto and Smith for four runs. | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
Durham firmly in control there. Time now for the weather. There | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
have been some huge thunderclaps around here and in other parts of | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
the region. If you've thunder and lightning, where do you send the | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
weatherman? Up on the roof! Are you OK? I'm fine. The | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
combination of high temperatures and high humidity levels have given | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
us fairly oppressive weather conditions. That combination | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
eventually triggered some thunderstorms. We'd temperatures of | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
27 Celsius yesterday. We beat that today in the Vale of York. 29 | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
Celsius. That's 84 Fahrenheit. We had a fair old rash of the thundery | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
showers over the north-east eh North East. Some places you may | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
have heard the thunder but some places saw some rain. Most of those | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
heavy thundery showers have moved off the east coast toin. Still | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
enough cloud to produce the odd shower. Maybe still the odd rumble | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
of thunder. Generally speaking, most place is dry through the night. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
Increasing amounts of clear skies Increasing amounts of clear skies | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
drifting in from the west. Those clearer skies will give us a | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
much fresher feel to things. Last night, most places stay in the high | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
teens, temperatures-wise. Tonight, temperatures dipping to 11 or 12 | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Celsius underneath any cloud. In the west, Carlisle could dip into | :25:56. | :26:04. | |
single figures, 7 or 8. A north- westerly breeze. Tomorrow it is a | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
bright feel. Certainly a lot of broken cloud. Some sunny spells for | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
many places. Maybe the odd shower. But few and far between. Feeling | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
much fresher. The further south and east, the more likely you are to | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
hang on to thicker cloud. Ian with sunshine, we can knock 10 degrees | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
off today's high. A high tomorrow afternoon about 19 Celsius as the | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
wind drift down from that north- westerly direction. High pressure | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
drifts in from the west and starts to dominate things as we head to | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
the outlook. For Wednesday and Thursday, a quiet spell of weather. | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
Most places having a fair amount of dry weather. With winds drifting | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
from a a north-westerly direction,- the-best temperatures a mid-to high | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
teens. On Wednesday, Scarborough reaching about 18 Celsius. So | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
things feeling much fresher as we head into the middle part of the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
week. For most of us, staying dry. Thank you, Paul. Time now for a | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
time look at tonight's headlines: A strike by teachers, civil | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
servants and other public sector works rs is set to go ahead on | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
Thursday. -- workers. And the body of a County Durham man who died in | :27:22. | :27:30. |