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Hello, and welcome to Look North. Coming up:

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Bangalore or South Tyneside? The Government becomes involved in the

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row over outsourcing jobs to India. Battery-powered people - the

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medical advance giving new hope to patients waiting for heart

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transplants. Surf's up - with the summer

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holidays looming, safety lessons on the beach.

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And scratching a living - he gave up his job in a pork pie factory to

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become the ringmaster of a flea circus.

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In Sport, some surprising departures at the Stadium of Light.

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A surprise return to Yorkshire cricket and horses for courses. We

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look ahead to the biggest Is it a case of the left hand not

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knowing what the right hand is doing? In the House of Commons the

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Prime Minister became embroiled in heated exchanges over the fate of

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200 not these jobs due to be outsourced to India. At the same

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time, his Communications Secretary Eric Pickles was urging Birmingham

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city Council not to divert some of its jobs to India.

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I am here at the Department for Work and Pensions. The Business

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Park down the road has 200 IT workers at risk of losing their

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jobs because the Government wants to transfer their positions to

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India. The unions are not happy, they want the jobs to stay here.

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Today in the Commons, the Labour MP for North Tyneside challenge David

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Cameron to reconsider. I have one look closely at the case she makes,

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but a... Order! We need to encourage people on welfare to go

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out and work. We are going to change it. So the Prime Minister

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has promised to look at these jobs, but you might have thought he would

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have taken a leaf out of his Kimi Nick Clegg -- out of his

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communities Secretary's Bock. This is the new BT Centre in South

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Shields. It was set up in partnership with the council to

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provide business services for the community and council. Eric Pickles

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says he would like to see Birmingham council set up shop

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instead of sending the just to India. But it Birmingham are

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considering this, they are not telling us. They promised a

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statement today that did not a ripe. It is fair to say they did not

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sound all that enthusiastic. supply a service, but it is up to

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the council to make a decision. have spoken to Birmingham city

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Council. They have not been forthcoming. Are you disappointed

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with that? I am. We are willing to enter a dialogue with them, but if

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they do not want to do that, there is not a lot we can do. It is sad.

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All councils and the public sector are subject to challenge at the

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moment. It is not for me to criticise. We want to use the

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fantastic work force we had in the north-east who already deliver

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great services to do more of that. We want to deliver the efficiencies

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without losing the work to the UK. Now having call-centre staff people

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can understand is desirable, but companies can relocate their call

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centres to places like India and save a great deal of money and that

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is what will often take priority. Thanks, Damian. Staying on the jobs

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front we have more winners and losers today. The boss of one of

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Scarborough's largest employers is appealing for an investor to help

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the company through its financial problems. The printing firm Pindar,

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which employs 350 people, posted losses of around �1.9 million last

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September. The paint and chemicals giant

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AkzoNobel says it will invest around a �100 million in a new

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world class manufacturing facility in the North East. It will be

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within 25 miles of the company's existing Hammerite plant at Prudhoe

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in Northumberland, which would be closed down by 2014. The new

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facility would use 60% less energy and treble its current capability

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in the region. But 49 workers have been made

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redundant at Newcastle-based Whelan Construction. The company's gone

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into administration and has ceased A charity, which has helped

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hundreds of young homeless people in Cumbria, could be forced to shut

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down. Community Projects Carlisle says if it doesn't find �30,000 it

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will close in October, leaving 200 of the area's most vulnerable 16 to

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24-year-olds without a lifeline. Since 1997 the project's been

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helping teenagers with addictions and other problems to put

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themselves back on the straight and narrow.

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It is a struggle just to make sure the young people who come here for

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help are eating properly. Things like these food parcels are

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becoming impossible to feel as the prices rise and the grants that

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keep the project running are drying up. She is worried at what will

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happen to the young people she helps if they are forced to close.

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One young person became 26 which means he can no longer use the

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service. What he did to try and find suitable accommodation was to

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steal something in the hope that he would go to prison. Community Links

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Carlisle helps homeless youth to get a roof over their head. Staff

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who walked -- work behind this door can be helping up to 200 young

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people at any one time stay on the straight and narrow. The young

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people themselves say they do not know what they would do without

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them. They have told me and lot. I had mental health problems. I did

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not recognise it at first. I spoke to them and they held me to get

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better. So they have been a huge support to you? They have. The if

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you have got nowhere to live, they were helping to sort something out.

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It doesn't matter what it is, they will help you. How does it make you

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feel to know you have got that? makes me happy. Without them I

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wouldn't be able to do anything. came here because I was homeless

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and they helped me to get somewhere to live. How is your life now that

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you have been coming here? I am a lot happier. If �30,000 is not

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found before October, the project will shot, closing down a valuable

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lifeline to young people in the area.

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A Cumbrian woman's been charged with neglect after the police had

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to release three young children from a baking hot car.The police

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say the children, aged between two and eight, were left in the car for

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three quarters of an hour as the temperature inside reached 40

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degrees Celsius. That's more than 100 degrees fahrenheit. Passers-by

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were alerted when the children started sounding the car's horn.

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A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a suspect

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package discovered in a County Durham village. Police carried out

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a controlled explosion after the package was found at Coral Betting

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on Front Street in Annfield Plain yesterday afternoon. Police say it

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wasn't a bomb and there's no evidence it was linked to any

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extremist organisation. They have no heartbeat and to stay

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alive their hearts must be plugged into the mains electricity, or

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connected to a battery. They are the recipients of the latest

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technology in the transplant world. Tonight, as our coverage to mark

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Transplant Week continues, we meet two patients whose hearts are

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electric. As our health reporter Sharon Barbour reports, Stephen

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from Sunderland and Louise from Ashington in Northumberland both

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now rely on a power supply to stay alive.

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To stay alive, Stephen's heart has to be plugged in. He has no

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heartbeat, no pulse, just a humming noise. Inside his chest is a

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mechanical heart keeping him alive after his failed. I could not walk

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very far. I was constantly out of breath. They put me on the heart

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transplant lists, but there are no guarantees. Now I have a mechanical

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pump. When he goes out, he takes his battery kit. Today he is

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meeting Louise. She has also just had a mechanical heart fitted. They

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are among the first patients in the world to have them. It happened

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quite rapidly. I went on the transplant list. My whole life has

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been taken away. Two people with a shoulder bag supply and the power

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to keep them alive. For stephen macro and Louise their time was

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running out. The call never came and both were rapidly deteriorating.

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Without this new device they would not have survived. My heart was so

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poorly, I couldn't care less. I could not fight it any more.

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devices they are fitted with are the latest cutting-edge technology.

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If the patients are deteriorating on the waiting list, in the past

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they would die. They would die whilst waiting for the appropriate

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organ to come along. This has now changed significantly. These pumps

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are available and these patients have developed a very good quality

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of life and they can wait at home with their families until the

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appropriate organ comes around. new machine has brought them more

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time, but still on the waiting lists, in order to have a future,

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what of the weeds and stephen macro really need is a call to say they

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can have a new heart. -- what Stephen and Louise really need.

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long as I lived to see my Grand children, I will be happy -- as

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long as I live to see my grandchildren, I will be happy.

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Still to come tonight - boy and girl racers. Youngsters design

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their own racing cars and get to try them out on a real circuit.

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With heavy thunder showers affecting the region, I will be

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here with afford forecast and the winner of our tuna whether

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competition. -- here with a fall of forecast and the winner of Allah

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tune up whether competition. Schoolchildren are being trained

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how to become a rocky lifeguards. It is all part of a planned to help

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them to stay safe in the water. For one day only be schoolbooks were

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ditched in favour of surf boards. Unsurprisingly, there has been no

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shortage of students for the sea safety classes. Are you ready? Go!

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Organisers say that as well as increasing the children's fitness

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levels, it teaches them important lessons for the future. Prior to

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the summer holidays, or the idea is to educate the children. Let them

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know where it is safe to swim and offer some safety tips for the

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beach. Last year Hartlepool's life boat crews were the busiest in

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England. They had 67 call-outs that when children who had got into

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difficulty. Educating children about the dangers is crucial.

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best bit was definitely be surfing. It was great being on the board.

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More than 100 pupils will take part in these sessions which will

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hopefully reduce the number of call-out incidence and keep them

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safe. It did look a bit cold in there.

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Time for sport now. We understand there is big news at the Stadium of

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Light. Yes, we've learned that late this

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afternoon Chief Executive Steve Walton and Marketing and Commercial

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Director Lesley Callaghan who's been at Sunderland for almost 20

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years have both left the club. It's understood the club secretary

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Margaret Byrne will take on a more senior role. There's been no

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official comment but we expect to hear more tomorrow. Meanwhle on the

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pitch Sunderland midfielder Cristian Riveros has joined Turkish

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side Kayserispor on a season-long loan. The 28-year-old Paraguayan

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international, who joined the Black Cats last summer, failed to make

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much of an impact at the Stadium of Light, scoring just once in 14

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appearances. Cricket, and cash strapped

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Yorkshire who are struggling in the County Championship have been

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boosted by news that one of their most prolific batsmen Jacques

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Rudolph is returning to the club. The South African, who scored more

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than 8,500 runs in his four years at Headingley, including a century

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against Durham last season, was released from the final year of his

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contract last September to return home. But Yorkshire announced this

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afternoon that he's rejoining the county later this month until the

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end of the season. Hyatt has been very helpful in terms of finances.

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-- Jack. We feel it is worth that effort and spend because the bottom

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line is we are in ape relegations situation. -- in a relegation

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situation. It's expected to be the biggest

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equestrian event ever seen in the north east. A thousand competitors

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and ten thousand spectators are expected for the Burgham Horse

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Trials in Northumberland later this month. And a brand new cross

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country course is being developed by an internationally renowned

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designer who comes from Cumbria. Now, it's not quite Formula One,

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but children from across the region We have struggled for a while now

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with people having to travel to Scotland and the Midlands. We hope

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there will be an opportunity for none equestrian enthusiasts to get

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involved. Last July some of the top riders attend it -- attended and

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another star studded cast is expected. You need a superb venue

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like this. It is fantastic. It is so accessible. I gather a lot of

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competitors are coming up to enjoy it. The three-day event takes place

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in a fortnight and prize-money tops �25,000. It's not quite Formula One,

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but children from across the region have been fighting it out on the

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racetrack today. And they went one better than the likes of Lewis

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Hamilton because they actually built the cars themselves. The

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event at Croft Circuit in North Yorkshire hopes to inspire a new

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generation of engineers, as well as spotting a few potential racing

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drivers. Peter Harris was on the start line. Nothing could put these

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children of, not even the weather. We haven't had any accidents.

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nerve-racking to drive? It is pretty scary. 26 calls were here

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aiming for a place than the national final, but it is about

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more than engineering. We are trying to get them into engineering

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and we have a shortage of engineers in the UK. They have had a chance

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to get involved and see how exciting it can be, just from

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building a car. These are quite impressive with top speeds of 30

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miles an hour. This is one of the drivers here. Are you worried about

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the conditions? A I am disappointed about the rain because I will not

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be able to drive so fast. -- I am. Fearless drivers and the cars are

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quite high tech as well. They are able to download information and

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relay it to the driver's. -- to the drivers.

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The BBC recently launched its Step Up skin -- scheme which provided

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work experience. One of the trainees went to see Eric

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Christoffersen who has his own flea circus.

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I and the world's only full-time flea circus and bring master. It is

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all I do. There are tiny little creatures who like to live in your

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hair. I have to keep my short to stop them moving in. So what

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previous training did Eric need? Five years ago I was working as a

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maintenance engineer in a pork-pie factory. I had never stood in front

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of an audience or had anything to do with entertainment at all. I

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have made over 83 circuses. By export them to -- I export them to

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countries all over the world. I saw it jumping off the thing. So are

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they really puffins? Sometimes people are scared. -- so are they

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really fleas? I didn't see any, but I think I might have picked up a

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couple of their performers. Time for the weather now.

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Now, he trekked thousands of miles across Afghanistan and the Middle

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East in his days as an author and diplomat. And now new Cumbrian MP

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Rory Stewart has walked all around his constituency of Penrith and the

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Border - in all weathers. So we thought we'd ask him to choose the

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best of our viewers weather Rory Stuart - from Kabul to be

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Penrith show. It is an incredibly difficult choice. There is an

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incredible Puffin. I almost chose Hadrian's Wall because it is

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fantastically bleak. In the end it had to be the curve B Steven

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buttercups -- Kirkby Stephen buttercups. Betty Smith's image

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will become the June page of our 2012 Callendar, which goes on sale

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in the autumn. And very well done. We have some great were the

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Now, tomorrow there will be showers were the Risk of Thunder. This was

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the picture at 3 o'clock this afternoon. You can see that

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thundery activity. We have got more on the way this evening and

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overnight. Some sunshine at first, but it does not last. Throughout

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the night the showers become more widespread. Her real drenching for

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gardens and farms. A wet start tomorrow morning with potential for

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more lightning. Showers will be widespread, particularly in the

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West. A very unsettled picture. Top temperature, 20 Celsius which is

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about the same as today. Winds will be breezy at times. This is the

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reason for this instability - an area of low pressure sitting across

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the UK. It will last through to the start of Saturday. By the end of

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the weekend it what edge away and things start to quieten down. We

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might see an area of high pressure to the far west. Here is that for

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cars for Cumbria for the next few Temperatures just below all round

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about average for the time of year. In the North East, more thundery

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showers on Friday and on Saturday, at some lightning. A fine day by

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day at the time we get to Sunday. Temperatures rising into the late

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20s. It will be much more pleasant by the end of the weekend. If you

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are out and about with your camera, we would love to see your pictures.

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Here is the address to send your photographs, or you can e-mail us.

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Details on our website. A final look at the headlines: the Prime

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Minister has promised a public inquiry after fresh revelations

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about the News of the world phone hacking scandal. And David Cameron

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