:00:05. > :00:08.North. Tonight's headlines: As the North bids to be a world leader in
:00:08. > :00:18.organ transplants, one man, who lost his wife and daughter, tells
:00:18. > :00:23.
:00:23. > :00:31.us why he decided to donate their organs. It seems like not much of a
:00:31. > :00:34.memory. But I've never questioned my decision. Also tonight: a cancer
:00:34. > :00:38.patient who protested on the web over his treatment takes his fight
:00:38. > :00:41.to the street. In his own words. A Rothbury villager turns reporter to
:00:41. > :00:46.tell what life was like - after Raoul Moat. And caught on camera.
:00:46. > :00:50.Puffins - as you've never seen them before And in sport - climbing
:00:50. > :00:53.every mountain. We speak to the former rugby player who's not only
:00:53. > :01:03.beaten a life-threatening injury but has just climbed the highest
:01:03. > :01:07.
:01:07. > :01:10.mountain in Africa. The North's bid to become a world leader in organ
:01:10. > :01:13.transplants has moved a step closer. The Freeman Hospital's �30 million
:01:14. > :01:18.Institute of Transplantation will be taking its first patients by the
:01:18. > :01:22.end of September. And for the start of our coverage of "Transplant
:01:22. > :01:25.Week", we've had an exclusive look around the new hi-tech unit - which
:01:25. > :01:33.of course, it's hoped, will help save more lives. Our Health
:01:33. > :01:37.reporter Sharon Barbour is live for us tonight outside the centre.
:01:37. > :01:46.we are outside the Freeman Hospital - where a New Transplant Hospital
:01:46. > :01:51.has been built and is set to open in two months time. As you can tell,
:01:51. > :01:56.it is still being built. We're going to have a sneak preview in a
:01:56. > :02:00.moment. And we are going to hear from Amman who donated the organs
:02:01. > :02:06.of his daughter and his wife who were tragically killed in and car
:02:06. > :02:16.accident. But they remain you what transpired week is all about, it is
:02:16. > :02:16.
:02:16. > :02:25.about getting more people to have one of these, at Dornoch card. -- a
:02:25. > :02:29.donor card. Hundreds of people across the North East and Cumbria
:02:29. > :02:33.are waiting for a vital organ - to have a future. Across the country
:02:33. > :02:37.8,000 people are waiting. And every day three people die - waiting. Now
:02:37. > :02:43.though - a world first - let's take an exclusive look inside the new
:02:43. > :02:52.transplantation centre. It is a one-stop shop for transplantation.
:02:52. > :03:00.And the only one of its kind in Great Britain. With exclusive
:03:00. > :03:06.access, this is what it looks like. A �30 million centre of excellence
:03:06. > :03:14.- designed to save lives. There are four large operating theatres, a
:03:14. > :03:17.30-bed ward. A critical care unit with 22 beds. The state of the art
:03:17. > :03:26.unit here has blink screens between emergency bays. The very latest
:03:26. > :03:30.high-tech equipment in the operating theatres. And because
:03:30. > :03:38.music is often on during operations they have even been fitted with an
:03:38. > :03:43.iPod dock. One of the things that I am impressed with his the iPod dock.
:03:43. > :03:51.One of the few things I can understand. What are you most
:03:51. > :04:01.impressed with? The quality of the construction. Italy does show that
:04:01. > :04:03.
:04:03. > :04:06.we can match the best in the world. -- it really does show. And the
:04:06. > :04:09.doctors here won't only be undertaking all kinds of
:04:09. > :04:16.transplants - but teaching others how to as well. In this theatre,
:04:16. > :04:20.operations will be watched live by trainee surgeons. Inspired by a
:04:20. > :04:26.need to increase the number of transplant operations undertaken,
:04:26. > :04:31.here, the my should increase by as much as their to %. People should
:04:31. > :04:37.be in a strong position to have facilities set aside 24 hours a day,
:04:37. > :04:45.to meet those requirements. first patients will be seen when it
:04:45. > :04:49.officially opens in September. It's not just about high tech kit - and
:04:49. > :04:53.saving lives - sometimes it's about those times when lives can't be
:04:53. > :04:59.saved. To begin Transplant Week we have the moving story of Ian
:04:59. > :05:03.Richardson. Last August, the car his family was in was hit by
:05:03. > :05:07.another car - which on the wrong side of the road. His wife Joanne
:05:07. > :05:11.and daughter Mya both died. When he knew they couldn't be saved, Ian
:05:11. > :05:15.made the decision to donate their organs. At the time, so many
:05:15. > :05:23.emotions were running round. Disbelief, as well, at the
:05:23. > :05:27.situation. It was a bit of a dreamlike state I was in. It was
:05:27. > :05:37.like, this is not right, it is not happening, this is a nightmare,
:05:37. > :05:41.
:05:41. > :05:48.please wake me from it. I remember back, and I know that when I was
:05:48. > :05:55.asked, there was only going to be one outcome, one choice. It is one
:05:55. > :06:04.decision I have never questioned. The way I see it is that my wife
:06:04. > :06:10.and my daughter lives on. And those other families get to have another
:06:10. > :06:13.but they, or anniversary, something that we cannot have, so that
:06:13. > :06:21.somebody else gets some positivity out of the most horrendous
:06:21. > :06:31.situation imaginable. It is the only thing that is positive that
:06:31. > :06:31.
:06:31. > :06:34.has come out of this. A difficult decision for Ian - but one that
:06:34. > :06:39.saved many lives. And throughout Transplant Week we will have
:06:39. > :06:42.stories from the surgeons and patients. And the story of a little
:06:42. > :06:48.boy called Travis who is waiting for a heart. His remarkable story
:06:48. > :06:52.and many others - all this week on Look North. Thanks Sharon. And if
:06:52. > :07:02.you're interested in becoming a donor and would like to put your
:07:02. > :07:03.
:07:03. > :07:06.name on the NHS Organ Donor The rest of the day's news now, and
:07:06. > :07:09.a man's appeared in court accused of attempting to murder a 78 year-
:07:10. > :07:13.old tourist near York Minster. Paul Knipe appeared at York Magistrates
:07:13. > :07:16.Court, accused of the attack on South African Lyle Thole near the
:07:16. > :07:20.Minster on Friday. Mr Thole was taken to hospital for treatment to
:07:20. > :07:23.a serious head injury. Knipe, who's 43 and from North Yorkshire, was
:07:23. > :07:30.remanded in custody to appear before York Crown Court on July
:07:30. > :07:36.11th. A man who died after jumping from a bridge in Carlisle following
:07:36. > :07:39.a head-on crash has been named by the police. He was 30 year-old
:07:39. > :07:42.Joseph Gilheaney from Workington. Mr Gilheaney died at the Royal
:07:42. > :07:45.Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle yesterday. On Friday night, several
:07:45. > :07:48.people were injured when a car drove the wrong way along Castle
:07:48. > :07:57.Way in Carlisle. It collided with two cars before stopping. The
:07:57. > :07:59.driver then jumped off a nearby bridge. A cancer patient, who was
:07:59. > :08:03.threatened with legal action after he wrote an internet blog
:08:03. > :08:05.criticising his treatment, has held a protest at the hospital involved.
:08:05. > :08:08.Daniel Sencier was joined by supporters outside the Cumberland
:08:08. > :08:12.Infirmary in Carlisle earlier today. He says the hospital has failed to
:08:12. > :08:15.address the concerns he has about the speed at which his treatment
:08:15. > :08:21.progressed. He wants to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else.
:08:21. > :08:24.Alison Freeman reports. It was a small but well-publicised protest.
:08:24. > :08:29.Daniel Sancier believes he wasn't treated quickly enough for prostate
:08:29. > :08:33.cancer at the Cumberland Infirmary. Last month a legal letter was sent
:08:33. > :08:36.to him by the hospital trust, warning legal action could be taken
:08:36. > :08:44.if anything untrue was said in the online diary he keeps about his
:08:44. > :08:49.experiences. I am absolutely gobsmacked. If this was a high-
:08:49. > :08:52.street store, or hotel, they would have settled this with a few simple
:08:52. > :08:57.telephone calls, but this trust seems out of touch with the
:08:57. > :09:02.community. It is beyond belief that I am having to stand here in front
:09:02. > :09:07.of you today. The hospital broke its silence on the issue for the
:09:07. > :09:11.first time today. Because the trust has taken a dignified stance, that
:09:11. > :09:15.has been regarded as a negative thing, but ours have been spent
:09:15. > :09:24.looking at this to see if there are any issues that need to be taken
:09:24. > :09:28.forward. I have had periods with cancer, I deal with this every day,
:09:28. > :09:34.it is difficult to see the headlines and fuel that your coming
:09:34. > :09:39.to a unit that is not going to do the best for you. -- and to feel
:09:39. > :09:42.that. Mr Sencier agreed with police to keep protester numbers down
:09:42. > :09:45.after the hospital said it was worried the entrance would be
:09:45. > :09:48.blocked. Among them, another cancer sufferer who travelled all the way
:09:48. > :09:53.from Oxford to support him. It is outrageous that they spend money on
:09:53. > :10:00.lawyers but not on improving the services that men like us need, be
:10:00. > :10:03.in, day out. This might not be the largest protest you've seen but has
:10:04. > :10:13.had desired effect, with national coverage too, but if the trust
:10:14. > :10:17.
:10:17. > :10:20.don't listen, Daniel's vowed to keep protesting. It's a year since
:10:20. > :10:24.the former Newcastle doorman, Raoul Moat, went on his dreadful shooting
:10:25. > :10:28.spree. The people of Rothbury in Northumberland say the way their
:10:28. > :10:32.village coped, in the aftermath of the manhunt, has never really been
:10:32. > :10:35.reported. Fair enough, we said, so why don't you do it yourselves? We
:10:35. > :10:38.put a cameraman and a producer at their disposal. And here, with this
:10:38. > :10:45.special report, is Morris Adamson in his day job, the Rothbury
:10:45. > :10:53.village butcher. It is one year since this village was the centre
:10:53. > :10:57.of Britain's biggest manhunt, 160 armed officers and the world
:10:57. > :11:04.media's all year. But what did it mean to the people of the village?
:11:04. > :11:08.This is our story, told by us. Peter was in the village, he has
:11:08. > :11:13.done potting years. And on the night of the stand-off, he was
:11:13. > :11:19.really in live to Radio 5 Live, events from his front door, because
:11:19. > :11:24.he has a great vantage point back. I can see 20 armed officers
:11:24. > :11:34.pointing their weapons at Raul Moat. He has a shotgun underneath his
:11:34. > :11:35.
:11:35. > :11:42.head. It was very difficult for the first month or so, after the event.
:11:42. > :11:47.In the last six months, when I speak to people now, the issues are
:11:47. > :11:52.about the routine life of living in Rothbury, if you like. Not many
:11:52. > :11:56.people now talk about what happened to of months ago. It is a very
:11:56. > :12:01.tight-knit community that has brought together and moved on and
:12:01. > :12:08.is looking at new things it is doing, in terms of activities for
:12:08. > :12:14.youngsters, new shops are opening, it is a great place to live. The
:12:14. > :12:20.positives that have come out of it is that it now has an international
:12:20. > :12:24.profile. People saw the media coverage and if you put pottery
:12:24. > :12:31.into a Google search engine now, it will come up with more than just
:12:31. > :12:38.that incident, including the tourism side, and as a police to
:12:38. > :12:42.come and live and visit people. -- place to, and lead. You must have
:12:42. > :12:46.memories when you are back in the village. When we look at different
:12:46. > :12:54.parts of the village, particularly down by the Riverside, it brings
:12:54. > :12:58.back memories. Summer was come to the village and see what a
:12:58. > :13:02.wonderful place it is, we're still here, and people do come and want
:13:02. > :13:08.to see what happened and where it happen, and whether that is good or
:13:08. > :13:12.bad is another question, but it is a wonderful place to come. It just
:13:12. > :13:18.reflects human nature. People hear about things, might not have been
:13:18. > :13:23.there, and want to discuss it with someone who was close to the
:13:23. > :13:27.incident at the time. It is human nature. As an individual, I would
:13:27. > :13:34.have a brief conversation, but not any long detailed discussion about
:13:34. > :13:38.my personal views on it, or anything like that. I am having
:13:38. > :13:43.this combination -- conversation now, to get across, through the
:13:43. > :13:49.media, the good side of Rothbury, and the way that it is moving
:13:49. > :13:54.forward, rather than looking back. The media presence was immense, to
:13:54. > :13:59.say the least. We fielded 12 phone calls each day from different media
:14:00. > :14:09.sources, even at the New York Times clangers aren't, so it shows how
:14:09. > :14:18.much media attention the village court. -- the New York Times even
:14:18. > :14:25.rang us up. 90% of the media that we dealt with a were very courteous.
:14:25. > :14:29.I much prefer the quiet life now, yes! So there we are. 12 months on,
:14:29. > :14:39.we hope that nothing like that ever happens again in this lovely little
:14:39. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:54.The people of Rothbury, in their own words. It was billed as a top-
:14:54. > :14:58.of-the-range luxury hotel. To stay there would cost you up to �200 a
:14:58. > :15:01.night. There was only one problem. It was a scam. The hotel was, in
:15:01. > :15:05.fact, a part-empty office block in Darlington. But it was being
:15:05. > :15:08.advertised on the internet as a plush hotel, as a way of tricking
:15:08. > :15:12.people into providing their bank and credit card details. Stuart
:15:12. > :15:22.Whincup reports. The write-up and the reality couldn't be more
:15:22. > :15:26.
:15:26. > :15:31.different. Luxury suites. Beautiful landscaped grounds. Peace and
:15:31. > :15:35.tranquillity. Alan Todd has owned the property for 36 years, and for
:15:35. > :15:45.all that time, has been unaware of its tourist appeal. This is the
:15:45. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:56.view of the beach and the palm trees! There we are. I am baffled.
:15:56. > :16:06.All I can think is that it is an inroad into deviously obtain
:16:06. > :16:09.people's credit card details well stocked -- credit card details..
:16:09. > :16:12.The signs were there. The website offered three premier locations -
:16:12. > :16:15.London, Durham and Bolton. But one internet market researcher said the
:16:15. > :16:23.website was very credible. They have managed to get ahead of some
:16:23. > :16:33.big, genuine companies who have put financial effort and time in to get
:16:33. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:38.this website, as a peaceable money- making website. -- feasible. People
:16:38. > :16:41.are again being warned to use official travel sites when booking
:16:41. > :16:44.accommodation. But for now at least, Alan says there's no sign of the
:16:44. > :16:54.eager travellers flocking to sample Darlington's luxury suites and sea-
:16:54. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:01.views. You have been warned! A CCTV camera has been installed on a
:17:01. > :17:06.Northumberland island - giving a new insight into the behaviour of
:17:06. > :17:09.puffins. The camera has actually been placed underground in a puffin
:17:09. > :17:13.burrow on Coquet Island - and the footage has been beamed back one
:17:13. > :17:20.mile to the seabird centre on Amble quayside. Adrian Pitches joins us
:17:20. > :17:26.now live from the island to tell us more. Welcome to Coquet Island. We
:17:26. > :17:36.are broadcasting live from offshore, and look at those wonderful puffins
:17:36. > :17:38.
:17:38. > :17:43.- 20,000 pairs, we are surrounded by terns, as well, some of which
:17:43. > :17:50.are the only English colony. You cannot land on this island, but
:17:50. > :17:54.there are boat trips. We are here, not only is there CCTV footage
:17:54. > :18:02.being beamed back to the mainland from the island, but they have gone
:18:02. > :18:06.one step further, and put a camera down a Puffin burrow. Usually they
:18:06. > :18:16.do big business premises and hospitals, and now the CCTV company
:18:16. > :18:17.
:18:17. > :18:21.is showing us the secrets of puffins. There was no power. It is
:18:21. > :18:25.a very harsh marine environment. We deliver the successful camera which
:18:25. > :18:32.allows them on the mainland to study birdlife in a way that has
:18:32. > :18:37.never been done before. It presents unique challenges. It is extremely
:18:37. > :18:45.dark and we're a mile out in the North Sea. It was very challenging,
:18:45. > :18:53.but the results have indicated the technical effort we have put into
:18:53. > :18:57.the concept. What have we learnt from this CCTV footage? This
:18:57. > :19:01.unprecedented to teach. We have seen a Puffin feeding alive sand
:19:01. > :19:08.eels to its young, not regurgitating food, like other
:19:08. > :19:13.seabirds through. The man grinning from ear to ear is a warden, Paul
:19:14. > :19:19.Morrison. It seems like you have had a good season. This is the best
:19:19. > :19:26.yet. Absolutely superb. I have been here for 25 years. The sand eels
:19:27. > :19:32.are coming in, the birds are having a bumper time. A few secrets have
:19:32. > :19:37.been revealed, haven't they? knew that puffins nested
:19:37. > :19:43.underground but we did not know what they got up to. By the evening
:19:43. > :19:48.there was a path in in that borrow. The next morning there was an egg.
:19:48. > :19:53.I have never known that to happen so quickly. I gather that the young
:19:53. > :19:59.Puffin has a good way of keeping the camera clean. It is very
:19:59. > :20:09.obliging. It comes out of the little borrow, and uses its tail
:20:09. > :20:16.feathers to clean the lens of the camera for us. -- burrow. You can
:20:16. > :20:26.see this footage at the Selly Centre on the quayside. For now,
:20:26. > :20:31.
:20:31. > :20:34.back to the studio. -- at the Sea Life Centre. Sports news now. Ten
:20:34. > :20:37.years ago, former Newcastle Falcons player Andy Blyth from Hexham in
:20:37. > :20:41.Northumberland was just learning to walk again. An injury on the rugby
:20:41. > :20:44.field while playing for Sale almost killed him. As it was, the damage
:20:44. > :20:47.to his spine left him paralysed from the neck down, but his
:20:47. > :20:50.indomitable spirit and determination saw him defy the odds
:20:50. > :20:55.- and now he's done it again after successfully climbing Mount
:20:55. > :20:59.Kilimanjaro. When I first met Andy Blyth, he was on crutches just
:20:59. > :21:02.beginning to put one foot in front of the other. After ten months in
:21:02. > :21:06.hospital and hundreds of hours of gruelling physiotherapy he was on
:21:06. > :21:10.the road to recovery - but this was not the only mountain Andy was to
:21:10. > :21:13.climb The rugby players' union, the RPA, had been a constant source of
:21:13. > :21:17.help and support so when chairman David Barnes suggested they attempt
:21:17. > :21:21.Kilmanjaro together to raise funds it was one of those things that
:21:21. > :21:24.seemed like a good idea at the time. He claimed Mount Kilimanjaro a
:21:25. > :21:29.couple of years before, and said he was thinking of doing a joint
:21:29. > :21:34.keeping with Help For Heroes. It seemed like a great idea and that I
:21:34. > :21:39.would manage it no problem. Bearing in mind at the time that I could
:21:39. > :21:46.barely walk about a mile, I thought yes, just four miles, straight up
:21:46. > :21:49.in the air, it will be fine! So a year later after intensive training
:21:49. > :21:52.in the gym and practise walks up Cheviot Andy found himself in
:21:52. > :21:55.Tanzania preparing to climb Africas highest mountain. Kilimanjaro is 5,
:21:55. > :21:58.895 metres high. Andy's team took seven days to complete the
:21:58. > :22:02.challenge. And it's a risky business - more than half of those
:22:02. > :22:07.who set out don't make it. Altitude sickness is one of the big things
:22:07. > :22:11.that gets to people on this. I refused to succumb to that, but one
:22:11. > :22:15.or two of them had to be raced off the mountain and into hospital on
:22:16. > :22:19.drips for a few days. While Andy didn't suffer from altitude - his
:22:19. > :22:24.lack of balance meant a lot of falls. It felt like I had been
:22:24. > :22:28.playing again, so it brought back some of those good memories. It
:22:28. > :22:33.brought back my competitive side which I had missed out on over the
:22:33. > :22:39.last 10 years. The final push to the summit was beyond anything we
:22:39. > :22:46.had done prior to that. We had a couple of bad days. My leg was
:22:46. > :22:54.giving me gyp. It was something physical that had let me down and
:22:54. > :22:59.it annoyed me, but I had always been in a worse place. I have all
:22:59. > :23:05.this court that to draw on. I look over my shoulder and think, I was
:23:05. > :23:15.as bad as that, I don't have a lot to complain about. We got to this
:23:15. > :23:21.bridge, and the sun was coming up, we were all flagging, and it was
:23:21. > :23:30.slightly emotional. I just collapsed holding or on to the
:23:30. > :23:36.banner at the top. There were a lot of squeaking voices. Yes. I was a
:23:36. > :23:42.big girl, and cried! After falling at my bed and learning to walk
:23:42. > :23:47.again in the first place, it was by hardest -- by far, the hardest
:23:47. > :23:52.thing I have ever done. Andy and the team raised more than �100,000
:23:52. > :23:54.but he admits he wont be rushing back to Kilimanjaro in a hurry. In
:23:54. > :23:57.football, Newcastle United announced a pre season game against
:23:57. > :24:03.Italian Serie A side Fiorentina as the players returned to pre-season
:24:03. > :24:08.training today. And the manager Alan Pardew has been at BBC
:24:08. > :24:11.Newcastle. He's been the guest of Total Sport, which returned tonight
:24:11. > :24:19.after its own summer break. He answered questions from listeners
:24:19. > :24:26.about the club's dealings in the transfer market. And speculation
:24:26. > :24:31.about Jose Enrique. No-one is more keen than me for him to stay, but
:24:31. > :24:35.he has one year to one in his contract, and his desire to play
:24:35. > :24:39.Champions League football, it is going to be difficult to keep in it.
:24:39. > :24:49.It is one of those situations where we have to keep watching and hope
:24:49. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:56.that it falls our way. Time for the weather forecast now with Hannah.
:24:56. > :25:02.There is a change in the weather on the way. It is a bright start, but
:25:02. > :25:07.it soon becomes cloudy with rain spreading from the West. Some
:25:07. > :25:14.evening sunshine at first, then or one-eyed, staying dry and clear
:25:14. > :25:21.across the region. Another mild night, for kicking off the duvet,
:25:21. > :25:26.with temperatures around 14 Celsius for many places. Under clear skies,
:25:26. > :25:31.temperatures still staying into double figures. Heading through the
:25:31. > :25:39.day tomorrow, some lovely spills of sunshine, then becoming cloudy and
:25:39. > :25:44.wet from the West, in the afternoon, with rain spreading his words. That
:25:44. > :25:49.rain sets over the Pennines. Many parts in the east, stain dry.
:25:49. > :25:55.Temperatures not quite as high yesterday, but still fairly mild.
:25:55. > :25:59.The top temperature in the east, but cooler in the west, where it
:25:59. > :26:03.will be cloudier. It will remain unsettled over the next few days.
:26:03. > :26:09.We're going to have some heavy showers. Some of those are likely
:26:09. > :26:13.to be thundery. Then more widespread rainfall on Friday. In
:26:13. > :26:18.the north-east, a similar story, sunshine and showers for the rest
:26:18. > :26:24.of this week, and on Thursday, some of those showers could have a real
:26:24. > :26:28.kick to them with thunder and lightning. Things becoming much
:26:28. > :26:37.more unsettled, although still some bright skies and decent
:26:37. > :26:40.temperatures. Now, a final look at tonight's headlines. A British
:26:40. > :26:43.soldier has gone missing in Afghanistan. He's said to have left
:26:43. > :26:47.a base in central Helmand alone. A massive air and ground search is
:26:47. > :26:50.underway. His family has been told. And the North's bid to become the
:26:50. > :26:53.world leader in organ transplants has moved a step closer. Medical