:00:09. > :00:14.Welcome. Coming up, laid to rest. The funeral of a soldier killed in
:00:14. > :00:20.Afghanistan. Councils are shedding jobs to make
:00:20. > :00:24.savings. How has this one saved money without redundancies?
:00:24. > :00:29.Zapped and angry bull stock communities hit by a power surge
:00:29. > :00:35.that has caused thousands of pounds of damage. I thought I was being
:00:35. > :00:40.burgled. There was so much noise. It sounded like doors slamming.
:00:40. > :00:46.And a hero's welcome for the Chilean mine has sharing his story
:00:46. > :00:50.with these children. -- Chilean miner. In sport, we
:00:50. > :01:00.catch up with the latest. And a teenager who turned his life around
:01:00. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:12.Mourners lined the streets of Whitby to pay their respects to a
:01:12. > :01:20.soldier killed in Afghanistan. Craftsman Andrew Found of the Royal
:01:20. > :01:24.Mechanical and Electrical Engineers lost his life and leaves a wife and
:01:24. > :01:33.two children. Even though we are in pain now, we
:01:33. > :01:39.will remember the fun, the laughter and the love he brought. Those are
:01:39. > :01:41.the words of his family. Mourners filled the church and line to a
:01:41. > :01:49.neighbouring street where the service was relayed through
:01:49. > :01:53.loudspeakers. Your heart can be empty because you cannot see him,
:01:53. > :01:59.or it can be filled because of what you shared. You can remember and
:01:59. > :02:03.true and that he has gone, or you can cherish his memory and let it
:02:03. > :02:11.live on. The traditional military funeral
:02:11. > :02:20.was punctuated by modern music. It included a Snow Patrol. His unit is
:02:20. > :02:28.still serving in Afghanistan. But his colleague did attend. They
:02:28. > :02:34.called him a gentle giant. They said he had a huge heart and smile.
:02:34. > :02:40.He was not larger than life, he was quiet and unassuming. Any task you
:02:40. > :02:46.gave him, you knew he would completed 100%. He was a loving
:02:46. > :02:55.father and husband. He was buried in a private ceremony at Whitby
:02:55. > :02:59.cemetery. A 17-year-old has been jailed for
:02:59. > :03:05.three years by a judge at Leeds Crown Court after admitting killing
:03:05. > :03:09.a student outside a takeaway in North Yorkshire. Thomas Watson from
:03:09. > :03:15.his brow punched Daniel Crowther in Stokesley in an unprovoked attack.
:03:15. > :03:19.Daniel was 17. Thomas Watson admitted manslaughter. The victim's
:03:19. > :03:23.family said it was incomprehensible that he would be free in a
:03:23. > :03:27.relatively short period of time while they have to spend the rest
:03:27. > :03:30.of their lives coming to terms with his death.
:03:30. > :03:34.Councils have been warning for months about the impact of
:03:34. > :03:40.government cuts on services. Tonight we can reveal the impact on
:03:40. > :03:46.jobs. A survey for the shame macro found 3300 people have been made
:03:46. > :03:50.redundant -- for the Politics Show. Five out of six job losses were
:03:50. > :03:55.achieved through voluntary redundancies. In Gateshead, 967
:03:55. > :04:00.redundancies. In Gateshead, 967 redundancies. In Middlesbrough, 287.
:04:00. > :04:02.Carlisle council have made just 34. Carlisle council have made just 34.
:04:02. > :04:06.But one of the council says that while it is cutting millions from
:04:06. > :04:12.the budget it is not making redundancies. Our political
:04:12. > :04:17.correspondent reports. Sunderland Council, in many ways
:04:17. > :04:23.typical of local government these days. �39 million needs to be saved
:04:23. > :04:28.from the Budget. But, nobody has lost their job in that building.
:04:28. > :04:32.Not a single compulsory redundancy and not a single voluntary
:04:32. > :04:39.redundancy. In these parts, they call it the Sunderland way. How
:04:39. > :04:44.does it work? If your job disappeared we would try to match
:04:45. > :04:49.you with another post in the council, even maybe in an
:04:49. > :04:55.organisation if that is possible. If that is impossible, we would
:04:55. > :05:00.employ year in a switch it team. You would find gainful employment
:05:00. > :05:09.in another department some bad. is like a jobs waiting room.
:05:09. > :05:14.somewhere. 200 or waiting for a permanent job. Simon is typical.
:05:14. > :05:20.His job in the finance department was threatened. Now, he runs the
:05:20. > :05:25.canteen. To be sitting at a desk to where I am now, walking around,
:05:25. > :05:31.looking at customers and what they need. Getting to know what the cafe
:05:31. > :05:35.brings to the public and workers. Opposition councillors are not
:05:35. > :05:39.convinced this new strategy will save enough money. The worry is for
:05:39. > :05:49.the work force. Whether the adjustment in public spending will
:05:49. > :05:52.
:05:52. > :06:00.be put forward as sustainable way. Sunderland Council say they are on
:06:00. > :06:10.target with making savings. And the policy will continue until 2014.
:06:10. > :06:15.
:06:15. > :06:19.NPs will discuss the job cuts on A man has been in court charged
:06:19. > :06:24.with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after a woman
:06:24. > :06:28.was attacked with a hammer inside a Tyneside primary school. The 21-
:06:28. > :06:34.year-old, who works at Burradon Primary suffered head injuries. She
:06:34. > :06:39.was discharged from hospital today. 23-year-old Habidur Rahman from
:06:39. > :06:44.Newcastle appeared before magistrates. No plea was entered
:06:44. > :06:49.and the case was sent Crown Court. 80 staff at Cramlington based HA
:06:49. > :06:54.Interiors were told they had lost their jobs today. The news came two
:06:54. > :06:57.weeks after their German parent company was declared insolvent.
:06:57. > :07:02.Staff at the Northumberland wallpaper factory had gone seven
:07:02. > :07:11.weeks without a salary or work. Because they are still employed by
:07:11. > :07:17.HA Interiors, the company receives statutory redundancy pay. Thousands
:07:17. > :07:24.of pounds of damage have been caused by a power surge around
:07:24. > :07:29.Kielder. The energy company, NEDL, has denied liability and told
:07:29. > :07:35.customers they would have to sort out payment for repairs. It left
:07:36. > :07:41.residents angry. 5:30am on Tuesday. This piece for
:07:41. > :07:47.Kielder village was awoken by the sound of explosions. -- peaceable.
:07:47. > :07:53.I thought it was a burglary, there was so much noise, it was like
:07:53. > :07:57.gunshots. Sylvia lives in one of 300 properties in the area hit by
:07:57. > :08:04.the mystery power surge. microwave has gone. My fridge
:08:04. > :08:12.freezer is on the blink. My boiler went but I repaired it. My Sky Box
:08:12. > :08:19.has gone. She is one of many. television, washing machine, the
:08:19. > :08:29.telephones. Three flat-screen televisions I lost. A television,
:08:29. > :08:31.
:08:31. > :08:36.washing machine, to macros skyboxes. My son lost his computer. NEDL has
:08:37. > :08:43.sent a letter to every home denying liability. That was before they
:08:43. > :08:47.knew what the problem was. If I poisoned the general public it
:08:47. > :08:52.would be my fault. If somebody sends me electricity I do not want,
:08:52. > :08:57.it is their fault. If they do not know how it happened, how can they
:08:57. > :09:01.say they are not liable. company said they had sent
:09:01. > :09:06.engineers out and make sure that properties affected have had their
:09:06. > :09:10.wiring checked and appliances repaired. As far as replacement of
:09:10. > :09:15.other appliances was concerned, it was easier for customers to ensure
:09:15. > :09:21.this with his red this -- resolution by going through their
:09:21. > :09:25.own insurance. They said the fault was under investigation and they
:09:25. > :09:30.apologise for any inconvenience caused. But in the countryside, an
:09:30. > :09:40.argument is brewing with villagers meeting to see if they can put
:09:40. > :09:45.
:09:45. > :09:54.forward a group complained to HA They call it transplanting the
:09:54. > :10:00.unstransplantable. As part of the coverage of -- National week, a
:10:00. > :10:04.remarkable story about children who need heart transplants and he might
:10:04. > :10:09.have been turned away from any other hospital in the world.
:10:09. > :10:16.Here is our reporter. I am in hospital with three
:10:16. > :10:26.children he will spend another night waiting for a donor heart so
:10:26. > :10:27.
:10:27. > :10:31.they can have a transplant. I can introduce you. Tonight's starry is
:10:31. > :10:39.about Travis, and how the doctors are undertaking pioneering surgery
:10:39. > :10:43.to give him a future -- story. Travis is only five years old but
:10:43. > :10:51.has already died twice and been brought back to life. Another time,
:10:51. > :10:54.he was given one hour to live. He was born with a heart problem and
:10:54. > :11:00.fitted with a pacemaker in Birmingham when he was six months
:11:00. > :11:05.old. He recently went into heart failure and was flown to Newcastle.
:11:05. > :11:10.We came here because they said in Birmingham they could changed the
:11:10. > :11:19.pacemaker. We thought we would have it changed here. We have been here
:11:19. > :11:25.three days. But, when we got here, it was said it was no point to put
:11:25. > :11:31.it in, he needs a transplant. was another problem. Travis was not
:11:32. > :11:37.suitable for transplant. When he came, he was extremely sick. In a
:11:37. > :11:41.short time he was on the Berlin heart. We discovered antibodies in
:11:41. > :11:46.his bloodstream. Because he had surgery in the past and blood
:11:46. > :11:51.transfusions, he has other people's antibodies in his blood. This meant
:11:51. > :11:56.he was untransplantable. Rather than give up, doctors are
:11:56. > :12:03.pioneering a solution. Those antibodies would attack his new
:12:03. > :12:09.heart. And the exceptional treatment he has had his four asked
:12:09. > :12:14.to remove the antibodies so he can accept a heart without rejecting it
:12:15. > :12:22.-- for us. What we are doing is cleaning the antibodies out from
:12:22. > :12:26.his bloodstream so that if a heart comes up, his body will accept it.
:12:27. > :12:31.If he was anywhere else, he would not get the transplant. There is
:12:31. > :12:40.nobody else doing it in the world at the moment. At hospitals around
:12:40. > :12:45.the world, they are keeping a close eye on this. Travis's blood has
:12:45. > :12:49.been washed three times. He is now on an urgent list and his parents
:12:50. > :12:55.are waiting for a telephone call to say another child has died and
:12:55. > :13:02.their organs have been donated. That is the horrible thing. I know
:13:03. > :13:07.what some family has to go through for him to get there. Travis is one
:13:07. > :13:16.of hundreds in the North East and Cumbria waiting tonight for a
:13:16. > :13:25.transplant. One of thousands across the country who are waiting. 80% of
:13:25. > :13:32.us were on the donor register -- 18%. But now there are 27%. What
:13:32. > :13:40.these three want you to do is to sign the register. Don't you?
:13:40. > :13:45.They do. Back to the studio. It has been a week of amazing
:13:45. > :13:55.stories and if you are interested in becoming a donor, this is the
:13:55. > :13:57.
:13:57. > :14:05.Still to come, we have the sports and news and a film about
:14:05. > :14:10.industrial strife in 1970s North East.
:14:10. > :14:14.And it is raining on the BBC roof in Newcastle. What will the
:14:14. > :14:23.forecast before the weekend? I will be back with the details after the
:14:23. > :14:28.rest of the news. One of the 33 Chilean miners
:14:28. > :14:34.trapped underground is in the North East. He made the journey as a
:14:34. > :14:43.guest of the National Union of miners. He spent some time at rose
:14:43. > :14:46.macro in County Durham to talk to It was a joyful time when the
:14:46. > :14:49.miners came out one by one after their ordeal last year, and for the
:14:49. > :14:51.children at Roseberry Primary school, having one of the miners in
:14:51. > :14:54.their building this morning was an extraordinary experience. Carlos
:14:54. > :14:57.Bigueno was the 23rd to be rescued, and today he spoke of his
:14:57. > :15:01.experiences to a very attentive audience. Afterwards he said it had
:15:01. > :15:03.been a great experience to come to a part of England with such a
:15:03. > :15:13.strong mining history. Very good. A what has he been doing at the
:15:13. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:19.TRANSLATION: I have been a thanking the children for the work they have
:15:19. > :15:24.done, their projects. For some of the children, meeting Carlos was an
:15:24. > :15:31.experience they'll never forget. I felt pleased to see him. We have
:15:32. > :15:41.been doing loads of work about him. We watched him come out of the mind.
:15:42. > :15:43.
:15:43. > :15:47.How did it feel? Meeting him? Incredible. Really exciting.
:15:47. > :15:50.day they were rescued was incredible. The children were
:15:50. > :15:56.pretending to do literacy and numeracy lessons but they were
:15:56. > :16:00.watching, as every one of the miners came out. Now Carlos has
:16:00. > :16:03.come to the school, we think the head teacher would not be cross now.
:16:03. > :16:07.It's worth noting that while Carlos is being treated as a special guest
:16:07. > :16:16.today, back at home he's still a man who has to earn a living, and
:16:16. > :16:20.he's due to go back down the mine in the near future.
:16:20. > :16:23.What a brave man. Now we're staying on a mining theme. Because a new
:16:23. > :16:26.film about life in Ashington will receive its gala showing near the
:16:26. > :16:29.town tonight. The problem is, all the cinemas in Ashington are gone.
:16:30. > :16:32.So the film, by local lad Andy Mark Simpson, will be screened at a
:16:32. > :16:35.former colliery. And as Chris Storey found out, it's proving an
:16:35. > :16:38.inspiration to young actors in the town.
:16:38. > :16:46.It's not the Ritz or the Rialto, but Woodhorn Colliery Museum near
:16:46. > :16:49.Ashington is getting ready to lay on the red carpet. For the folk of
:16:49. > :16:57.Ashington were keen to see an-award winning film made by one of their
:16:58. > :17:01.own, and the local picture houses have all shut down. Watch out, lads.
:17:01. > :17:09.Young Hearts Run Free is a coming of age movie, set during the 1974
:17:09. > :17:17.Miners' Strike. Much of it was filmed in the town. Was it
:17:17. > :17:23.difficult? Not really. The crew were making jokes St Ia did not
:17:23. > :17:26.shoot a modern film. The it would have cost a fortune. Despite its
:17:26. > :17:31.budget of just �10,000, the film has won awards on three continents,
:17:32. > :17:37.and has taken off from Houston and New York. The pit men painters, New
:17:37. > :17:41.York, Billy Elliott, a massive success. There is a history we can
:17:41. > :17:44.tie into and celebrate our region and get it out around the world.
:17:44. > :17:51.Ahead of tonight's screening, pupils from local school attended a
:17:51. > :17:58.workshop run by Andy. I enjoyed it because it wasn't what I was
:17:58. > :18:04.expecting. It is opened gates for me. He is local and he is making
:18:04. > :18:08.films which is what I want to do. While the road to the pits may be
:18:08. > :18:18.closed for good, the children have been told the road to Hollywood may
:18:18. > :18:24.
:18:24. > :18:29.still be open. While there is Good luck to them. An interesting
:18:29. > :18:32.project. You may think you have heard this story before but there
:18:32. > :18:34.is another new arrival at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland have
:18:34. > :18:37.completed their ninth signing of the summer. Welsh international
:18:37. > :18:40.midfielder David Vaughan has joined on a three-year deal for an
:18:40. > :18:43.undisclosed fee from Blackpool. And Middlesbrough's Kris Boyd has
:18:43. > :18:45.followed Andrew Taylor out of the Riverside - moving to Turkish club
:18:45. > :18:49.Eskisehirspor after his Boro contract cancelled by mutual
:18:49. > :18:51.agreement. Meanwhile, Fabricio Coloccini has been named
:18:51. > :19:01.Newcastle's new captain, replacing Kevin Nolan, who left the club for
:19:01. > :19:03.West Ham last month. No doubt we will hear that song
:19:03. > :19:08.even more. Thrills, spills, brilliant fielding and power
:19:08. > :19:11.hitting were all seen on one of our cricket pitches today. But it
:19:11. > :19:14.wasn't Durham or Yorkshire slugging it out at 20-20. It was primary
:19:14. > :19:18.school kids from across our region trying to make it through to the
:19:18. > :19:25.national finals of the Kwik Cricket competition. Mark McAlindon was at
:19:25. > :19:31.Edenside, home of Carlisle Cricket Club.
:19:31. > :19:36.Kwik Cricket, a scheme to give a generation of children a chance to
:19:36. > :19:42.get interested. There was excitement aplenty. Much from kids
:19:42. > :19:49.who had little contact with the game. When you get a catch or
:19:49. > :19:56.somebody out. I play other sports. When we started playing cricket, I
:19:56. > :20:00.did not think I was interested but now it is fun. For us, it is the
:20:00. > :20:06.key thing that links cricket in the school and bring it into clubs. It
:20:06. > :20:11.can be rolled out in a P E session and easy to administrate and run.
:20:11. > :20:16.The kids know the rules and the games are short. It generates a lot
:20:16. > :20:24.of enthusiasm with boys and girls. Inner-city schools competed with
:20:24. > :20:28.rural ones. Cumbria only have 48 pupils but they displayed
:20:28. > :20:38.sportsmanship. And the winners were Stanwix, of Carlisle, who travel to
:20:38. > :20:42.the national finals in Derby, later this month.
:20:43. > :20:48.The rain is spawning the first Twenty20 derby between Derby and
:20:48. > :20:51.Yorkshire. Yorkshire won the toss. So far, there has been no play.
:20:51. > :20:53.Boxing has for decades been a sport where young lads who're sometimes
:20:53. > :20:56.in trouble can change their lives around. And that's what's happened
:20:57. > :21:01.for a Newcastle teenager. Now, Akash Hussein is a professional
:21:01. > :21:05.boxer. Known as "Cash" he's had special thousand dollar bills
:21:05. > :21:15.printed with his face on both sides and when he arrives in the ring
:21:15. > :21:19.
:21:19. > :21:22.fans throw them up in the air. Keith Akehurst's been to meet him.
:21:22. > :21:30.Akash Hussein trains in a friend's gym. From the west end of Newcastle
:21:30. > :21:36.he was an inner city kid who'd got into bother. I was 14 and I got in
:21:36. > :21:39.fights all the time. Friends would be silly and I used to do what they
:21:39. > :21:42.told me because when you're young you are immature. His worried
:21:42. > :21:49.family took Cash to Glenn McCrory and asked the former world cruiser
:21:49. > :21:54.weight champion to sort him out. had been in trouble for fighting, a
:21:54. > :22:01.bit headstrong. A big kid who could handle himself and was using that
:22:01. > :22:05.in the wrong way. I saw qualities and potential problems, the sort of
:22:05. > :22:10.things I had that could have led me the wrong way. Boxing was my
:22:11. > :22:18.salvation. I thought he was worthy enough of my time and effort to try
:22:18. > :22:23.it and save. He is a likeable kid. He his son and my best friend.
:22:23. > :22:28.Cash came under McCrory's wing at 15. A year later he was junior
:22:28. > :22:33.national champion and boxed for young England. It has given me
:22:33. > :22:36.discipline, made me a better person. It is given me again. At 18 Cash
:22:36. > :22:40.turned professional and he's had 2 fights. He's won one and lost one.
:22:40. > :22:47.He aims to be the second world champion from the North East after
:22:47. > :22:53.Glenn, who believes he's got a great future. He is a good young
:22:53. > :22:58.man, he is great with his family, well respected. They all love him
:22:58. > :23:01.and they're all behind him. He has tremendous fan base. That's because
:23:01. > :23:08.there's only been two Asian boxers who've made the grade before - Amir
:23:08. > :23:13.Khan and Naseem Hamed. The young generation in the Asian
:23:13. > :23:17.community look up to me. They are getting into boxing because of me.
:23:17. > :23:27.There would teach them discipline and to take them away from the
:23:27. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:32.drugs, cigarettes and the other Good luck to him. We have picked up
:23:32. > :23:35.the rubbish of the floor! The dollar bills.
:23:35. > :23:37.The Mouth of the Tyne festival kicks off tonight in Tynemouth with
:23:38. > :23:40.a concert by X Factor winner Alexandra Burke and soul singer
:23:40. > :23:42.Beverley Knight. It's a three-day festival with live music, street
:23:43. > :23:48.theatre, a children's pageant and other events - starting tonight
:23:48. > :23:50.with the first outdoor concert at Tynemouth Priory and Castle. Other
:23:50. > :23:59.acts over the festival weekend include The Buzzcocks and Scouting
:23:59. > :24:07.for Girls. But what will the weather be like for them? I have a
:24:07. > :24:13.horrible feeling... It is not looking great, another day of
:24:13. > :24:16.thundery showers across the north- east in Cumbria. Dark skies behind
:24:16. > :24:21.me on the BBC roof and we're expecting it to be wet as the
:24:21. > :24:25.artists take to the stage. It has improved over the weekend but the
:24:26. > :24:30.headline is not fantastic. More heavy showers to come on Saturday.
:24:30. > :24:35.Through this evening, we expect showers to continue, the showers
:24:36. > :24:40.will be heavy and intense in places. We had lightning activity in the
:24:40. > :24:44.Cumbria earlier, 12 lightning strikes and we're expecting more
:24:44. > :24:49.this evening and overnight. It is quite mild first thing but the
:24:49. > :24:54.showers continue. Saturday, a very mixed, bright spells but heavy
:24:54. > :24:59.showers. As we head towards the later part of the day and afternoon
:24:59. > :25:05.and evening, the pressure rises, the showers should start to ease.
:25:05. > :25:09.Eight Thunder risk tomorrow, let us look at the next three days. The
:25:09. > :25:14.sky it brightens on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday in Cumbria, one or two
:25:14. > :25:19.showers around but lighter and we don't expect Thunder after Saturday.
:25:19. > :25:23.The pressure rises and the weather settles down. In the north-east,
:25:24. > :25:28.similar picture. No more thunderstorms, the temperatures
:25:28. > :25:34.start to rise here as well. One or two showers but not enough to spoil
:25:34. > :25:43.the day. They do not last long. That is the next few days, loads
:25:43. > :25:48.going on over the weekend. The Durham miners' Gala, bright spells
:25:48. > :25:53.in between the showers, temperatures at 17 Celsius. Over
:25:53. > :25:57.the next couple of days, or the midnight walk in the early hours of
:25:57. > :26:03.Sunday morning, by that time this guys should have cleared so we are
:26:03. > :26:08.forecasting a starry skies for the walker is celebrating the 25th
:26:08. > :26:12.birthday of St Oswald's Hospice. The weather will improve.