:00:07. > :00:11.Welcome to Look North. Coming up: 30 or 20? After another child's
:00:11. > :00:15.death, the campaign for lower speed limits in residential areas grows.
:00:15. > :00:19.When I have talked to people about the petition and why, I have had
:00:20. > :00:24.mothers cry on me, I have had lollipop ladies cry on me.
:00:24. > :00:29.The pub facing ruin because its customers can't reach it.
:00:29. > :00:31.The crowds turn out for Prince Edward as he opens a new arts
:00:31. > :00:36.attraction. The school prom phenomenon that's
:00:36. > :00:40.burning a hole in parents' pockets. In sport: Crocked in Kansas,
:00:40. > :00:44.another of our Premier League stars finds his pre-season tour cut short.
:00:45. > :00:54.Why this football legend is pulling on a Middlesbrough shirt again at
:00:55. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:10.The campaign for more 20 mile an hour speed limits in built-up areas
:01:10. > :01:15.is growing. We featured Karen Hylton last night who lost her son
:01:15. > :01:19.when he was knocked down in a 30 mile an hour zone. She is backing
:01:19. > :01:25.BRAKE's call for more 20 mile an hour zones. Now a whole community
:01:25. > :01:35.is getting together with the same mission. Nine-year-old Brandon
:01:35. > :01:37.
:01:37. > :01:42.Maggs died last week while crossing a road on his scooter.
:01:42. > :01:48.For nine-year-old Brandon's family, the days since the accident have
:01:48. > :01:52.been unbearable. It's been horrible. Every day gets more real and it
:01:53. > :01:57.becomes more of a nightmare. After the first day, you think he is
:01:57. > :02:03.going to walk through the door and he will be coming back and he will
:02:03. > :02:10.settle down for his tea. He's not coming back. Amid the outpouring of
:02:10. > :02:15.grief, a 1,000 hch name petition has been gathered -- 1,000-name
:02:15. > :02:20.petition has been gathered. When I have talked to people about the
:02:20. > :02:26.petition and why, I have had mothers cry on me, I have had
:02:26. > :02:33.lollipop ladies cry on me. People are just so devastated. When I had
:02:33. > :02:37.heard what had happened it was like my heart had stopped. It is just
:02:37. > :02:41.painful. It is extremely painful. Everybody is feeling this loss.
:02:41. > :02:46.This area where Brandon died is a 30 zone, now the accident is still
:02:46. > :02:50.being investigated so we don't know whether speed was a factor. But
:02:50. > :02:56.this issue of reducing speed limits to 20 is becoming very topical.
:02:56. > :03:02.Yesterday, BRAKE urged drivers to reduce their speed to 20 in built-
:03:02. > :03:07.up areas. It is an idea that is taking root. Nearby Middlesbrough
:03:07. > :03:14.plans many more 20 zones in the years ahead. By reducing the speed
:03:14. > :03:18.limit, there is less fatalities and less injuries. In Oxford they have
:03:18. > :03:22.looked to introduce a 20 mile an hour limit without the speed humps
:03:22. > :03:28.which are so unpopular and they have found the speed has come down
:03:28. > :03:33.without putting in the humps and bumps. Brandon Maggs' family say
:03:33. > :03:37.their lives will never be the same. Stockton Council says it must await
:03:37. > :03:47.the end of the accident investigation before considering
:03:47. > :03:49.
:03:49. > :03:54.Nissan has announced up to 200 new jobs for its Sunderland plant. The
:03:54. > :03:57.roles will be mainly for engineers and maintenance technicians and
:03:57. > :04:01.will concentrate on developing the forthcoming electric Leaf car and
:04:01. > :04:06.the new Qashqai model. A bridge which collapsed in a
:04:06. > :04:10.Cumbrian village will have to be completely rebuilt. Stoneybeck
:04:10. > :04:16.Bridge was destroyed on Sunday. The County Council says a temporary
:04:16. > :04:20.road bridge will be built just as soon as possible.
:04:20. > :04:25.And talking of bridges, a bridge repair that's now threatening the
:04:25. > :04:29.future of one of our country pubs. It is the Dyke Neuk Inn at Meldon,
:04:29. > :04:34.a village not far from Morpeth in Northumberland. Chris Stewart is
:04:34. > :04:39.there. I can see that you are not outside the pub at all.
:04:39. > :04:43.No, I'm not. I can't get the car there. Nor can anybody else. The
:04:43. > :04:47.bridge which would take us there is currently under repair and those
:04:47. > :04:51.repairs are going on four times longer than the County Council said
:04:51. > :04:55.they would. The locals here are going round the bend. They say yes,
:04:55. > :04:59.there is a diversion, but that it is far too fiddly so rather than go
:04:59. > :05:04.out for a drink and something to eat, they simply rarely bother any
:05:04. > :05:11.more. As for visitors, they say they are getting lost and going
:05:11. > :05:16.home again. This is the pub, this is the
:05:16. > :05:20.customer and this is the problem. So this is the route she now has to
:05:20. > :05:25.follow to get there. What used to take less than a minute now
:05:25. > :05:30.involves a round trip of 17 miles. And really annoying, say the locals,
:05:30. > :05:35.is that they were told the bridge would re-open in February. But it
:05:35. > :05:40.didn't. So they were given a second date. It didn't open then either.
:05:40. > :05:45.Then came a third date. It didn't open then either. Now, they have
:05:45. > :05:49.been told it won't be fully re- opened until October. Back to the
:05:49. > :05:53.customer and finally she arrives. She's got lots of empty tables and
:05:53. > :05:59.places at the bar to choose from and that's something she isn't used
:05:59. > :06:03.to. We have come up here and the place has been buzzing, there's
:06:03. > :06:10.been loads of people. A nice sunny day, people eating outside, people
:06:10. > :06:14.eating in. You don't see that now. Obviously because they can't get
:06:14. > :06:20.over the bridge from the south side, they go to other pubs. Some still
:06:20. > :06:23.do come but the pub is �20,000 down, behind with the mortgage payments
:06:23. > :06:27.and only the financial help of friends and family is keeping the
:06:27. > :06:32.landlord from closure. He says he understands perfectly why people
:06:32. > :06:37.are staying away. Though they live close, where they would come three
:06:37. > :06:41.or four times a week for their tea, or a drink, they come once a week,
:06:41. > :06:46.or once a fortnight. They are regulars that would be here three
:06:46. > :06:51.times a week, I have never seen in nine months. Really? I have never
:06:51. > :06:56.seen them. He won't see them again until October unless of course
:06:57. > :07:00.there are further problems. Now, in fairness to Northumberland
:07:00. > :07:05.County Council these repairs were necessary and they say they hit the
:07:05. > :07:08.rotten weather of last December as well as a number of unexpected
:07:08. > :07:12.structural problems. They say they would have liked to have got this
:07:12. > :07:15.work finished on time. There is one bit of good news - the County
:07:15. > :07:25.Council says with a bit of luck, the bridge will be partially re-
:07:25. > :07:26.
:07:26. > :07:29.opened by the end of August under traffic light control.
:07:29. > :07:34.One of the North's best-known racehorse trainers could be
:07:34. > :07:38.stripped of his licence after 25 years. Howard Johnson faces doping
:07:38. > :07:43.and welfare charges including running a horse in eight races
:07:43. > :07:47.after nerves in its legs were cut so it could run through the pain
:07:47. > :07:53.barrier. The horse had to be destroyed after it pulled up with
:07:53. > :07:59.an injury. Mr Johnson said he didn't know he was breaking racing
:07:59. > :08:01.regulations. This is the horse, Striking Article, owned by Sage
:08:01. > :08:05.Software multi-millionaire Graham Wylie. Howard Johnson raced it
:08:05. > :08:09.eight times after the nerves were severed which meant it couldn't
:08:09. > :08:14.feel pain. This is Howard Johnson attending the inquiry into the de-
:08:14. > :08:18.nerving and facing charges of given banned anabolic steroids to a
:08:18. > :08:23.further three of Mr Wylie's horses. The BHA could impose a lengthy ban
:08:23. > :08:27.if they find him guilty. He doesn't deny the nerves were cut, just that
:08:27. > :08:32.he didn't know it was against racing rules. When you run it, when
:08:32. > :08:37.you ride it, anything that happens which normally would be painful
:08:37. > :08:43.such as a nail going into the foot, it won't feel a thing. Horse racing
:08:43. > :08:47.has an image problem with concerns about excessive use of the whip. It
:08:48. > :08:51.needs to be seen to be cleaning up its act. They are making a priority
:08:51. > :08:55.of this. Top trainers have been involved. Howard Johnson has been
:08:55. > :09:00.training for 25 years. So he is one of the top trainers in the country,
:09:00. > :09:04.some of the best horses in the country. They are being frank and
:09:04. > :09:09.fearless. That gives reassurance to the public. Howard Johnson hit the
:09:09. > :09:14.headlines last year when raiders tied him and his wife up and stole
:09:14. > :09:20.�100,000 from his safe. He seemed relaxed about the hearing in London.
:09:20. > :09:26.Straightforward. We will get it out of the way. The hearing finishes
:09:26. > :09:30.today but Mr Johnson may not learn his fate until later.
:09:30. > :09:34.It looks as if Cumbria's smallest school could close, possibly by the
:09:34. > :09:38.end of the year. Welton Primary near Carlisle will have nine pupils
:09:38. > :09:43.at the start of the next school year making it financially unviable.
:09:43. > :09:47.Parents say education there is good but falling roles have become a
:09:48. > :09:52.real problem. Our child came here from France, he had no teaching at
:09:52. > :10:00.all in English. We couldn't have asked for a better teacher. The
:10:00. > :10:03.children in the school love it. It is a shame that it is closing.
:10:03. > :10:09.Newbiggin's new visitor attraction the maritime centre has been
:10:09. > :10:13.welcoming its first guest today. The last offshore lifeboat stob
:10:13. > :10:23.stationed at Newbiggin by the Sea is proudly -- to be stationed at
:10:23. > :10:29.Newbiggin by the Sea is proudly the new centrepiece.
:10:29. > :10:36.Prince Edward, The Earl of Wessex, visited two historic landmarks -
:10:36. > :10:42.Hexham Abbey and the Roman Army Museum on Hadrian's Wall near
:10:42. > :10:46.Haltwhistle. A brief glimpse of the Prince's
:10:46. > :10:50.helicopter overhead sparked almost as much excitement as the Royal
:10:50. > :10:54.visitor himself, a first for Allendale. They weren't
:10:54. > :11:01.disappointed as Prince Edward set off on an impromptu royal walkabout.
:11:01. > :11:08.He was very nice. What did he say to you? I said the sunshines on the
:11:08. > :11:17.righteous. He had been invited to open Allendale's brand-new Forge
:11:18. > :11:23.Arts Studio. Standing on the site of the original 18th Century
:11:23. > :11:28.blacksmiths forge, the Forge project has grown out of the
:11:28. > :11:34.success of a smaller arts cafe nearby. It provides 11 low-rent
:11:34. > :11:37.studio workshops with a cafe and Exhibition Centre and a sound
:11:37. > :11:41.recording studio. Two units have been set aside to help young
:11:41. > :11:45.entrepreneurs starting out on their first year in business. This
:11:45. > :11:51.business nearly failed when the banking industry went into meltdown.
:11:51. > :11:57.It was told to me very clearly this is a massive risk and about two
:11:57. > :12:01.days before our deadline, when we would have lost all of the funding,
:12:02. > :12:05.Charity Bank came forward. They read the business plan and agreed.
:12:05. > :12:12.After another impromptu performance for the crowd, Prince Edward
:12:12. > :12:17.declared the Forge open for business.
:12:17. > :12:23.Coming up: Our Look North Report on the eye watering cost of the end of
:12:23. > :12:26.term. We are live from Teesside and the haunt of one of our most
:12:26. > :12:36.spectacular birds of prey. Join me on a farm in Northumberland as I
:12:36. > :12:40.visit the home of one of the pioneers of weather forecasting.
:12:40. > :12:46.Now, the school holidays are just about upon us but for some parents
:12:46. > :12:50.the end of term has become rather expensive. Why? Well, blame America
:12:50. > :12:57.because the school prom has been exported from there and it's
:12:57. > :13:03.proving to be a very costly business indeed.
:13:03. > :13:06.I'm in Year 1 1 and I have been here since I was 11. I want to stay
:13:06. > :13:12.on because I want to become a teacher. It is the final year of
:13:12. > :13:16.school for some of Ashley's friends. Life choices, important exams
:13:16. > :13:26.adding to the load. There is another pressure and the vision for
:13:26. > :13:28.
:13:28. > :13:32.it to be perfect. Some say it is like a mini wedding but it's also
:13:32. > :13:36.unavoidably competitive. Buying designer, girls avoid wearing the
:13:36. > :13:41.same dress, with expectations high parents buffer the costs. There is
:13:41. > :13:45.a lot of talk about the prom. been about dresses, colour,
:13:45. > :13:48.everyone wants to stand out and be different. Everyone is trying to
:13:48. > :13:58.get a different colour. How they are having the hair, nails, make-up.
:13:58. > :13:59.
:13:59. > :14:04.It is a dream. I want to have a fairytale evening. It is expensive.
:14:04. > :14:12.You want them to have everything that they want. And that is the bit,
:14:12. > :14:16.where the expense comes in. But you just try and cut corners and you
:14:16. > :14:22.try and get them what they want because it's a big night. It is an
:14:22. > :14:26.expensive business, those in the know say it costs �450 for that
:14:26. > :14:31.average teenage girl's prom, in parts of the North East that figure
:14:31. > :14:39.goes up to �600, the third highest in the country. There's girls who
:14:39. > :14:45.are spending �600 on a dress and like �400 to get hair extensions.
:14:45. > :14:49.�150 for the whole thing with the limo and the suit. It is a one-off
:14:49. > :14:54.thing. It is just a nice way to end the year sort of thing. You are not
:14:54. > :15:04.going to see them when they go off to college. It is your day. You
:15:04. > :15:16.
:15:16. > :15:26.want to make your day special. You That's beautiful. It looks lovely.
:15:26. > :15:29.
:15:29. > :15:34.I think this is the one. Are you sure? I really like it. The average
:15:34. > :15:42.is �220, �250. We only sell one style to each prom. Girls like to
:15:42. > :15:52.get the first choice. The bill of �325 settled by mum, her costs now
:15:52. > :16:05.
:16:05. > :16:08.well over �600. So just a few more They have been together since
:16:08. > :16:13.three-year-old when they started nursery. They have gone right
:16:13. > :16:23.through school so tonight's really the last time that they will all be
:16:23. > :16:26.
:16:26. > :16:30.I hope they enjoy the night. Now, can you keep a secret? Here at Look
:16:30. > :16:33.North we have been doing just that ever since we learnt that one of
:16:33. > :16:37.Britain's most spectacular birds was nesting in the region. Not as
:16:37. > :16:42.you might expect out in the wild, but in the centre of a huge and
:16:42. > :16:48.noisy chemical works. To find out more, let's join Mary Askew on
:16:48. > :16:58.Teesside. I'm at Port Clarence and behind me
:16:58. > :17:00.
:17:00. > :17:05.are the Sabac Works. It's become home to a pair of peregrine falcons.
:17:05. > :17:15.They are the fastest creature on earth. When they hunt, they dive at
:17:15. > :17:23.
:17:23. > :17:26.For the last three years, staff here have enjoyed one of the best
:17:26. > :17:32.spectacles nature has to offer. But because peregrines can be a target
:17:32. > :17:42.for egg thieves, the location of this pair has been a closely
:17:42. > :17:46.guarded secret, until now. It is good fun to watch them. You should
:17:46. > :17:51.see them when they are chasing the seagulls. There's bits of bones and
:17:51. > :17:57.rings off the pigeons. Back in February, staff reported watching
:17:57. > :18:02.the birds start to nest. A nest 90 metres up one of the site's main
:18:02. > :18:06.chimneys. Ornithologist Chris Brown is one of the very few people with
:18:06. > :18:11.a licence to get close to peregrines in the wild. For him,
:18:11. > :18:16.the location was no surprise. are the same as cliffs to them, a
:18:16. > :18:19.big structure like that is perfectly safe. No-one is going to
:18:20. > :18:27.approach them apart from us when we ring the chicks, hopefully. There
:18:27. > :18:31.is plenty of pigeons around here. Chris was keen to check the nest.
:18:31. > :18:34.Fortunately, he and site technician Eric West have a head for heights.
:18:35. > :18:38.Chris and Eric have taken one of these up with them, a wildlife
:18:38. > :18:42.camera trap that will record a short film of the nest every hour
:18:42. > :18:46.in the coming weeks. Hopefully, it will mean that we will get some
:18:46. > :18:51.good pictures of the birds, their eggs and maybe their chicks without
:18:51. > :18:56.disturbing them at this crucial time. And still they climbed.
:18:56. > :19:00.Finally, ten gruelling minutes later, their reward - a nest with a
:19:00. > :19:06.view. It was a tiring climb. I didn't realise how tiring it is
:19:06. > :19:13.going up a straight ladder. When you got to the top, it was
:19:13. > :19:18.exhilarating. One of the best experiences I have ever had. They
:19:18. > :19:22.have a vista of Teesside, the whole of Cleveland, really. It was
:19:22. > :19:31.brilliant. I will go up there again tomorrow! By the time Chris and
:19:31. > :19:36.Eric were back on the ground, both of the birds were back on the nest.
:19:36. > :19:41.And wonderfully, our camera trap got its first shot.
:19:41. > :19:44.Well, that was back in March. So what happened next? Did our
:19:44. > :19:48.peregrines successfully raise some chicks? Did we manage to film them?
:19:48. > :19:54.All will be revealed in tomorrow's Look North.
:19:54. > :19:57.Some good news for peregrines. Not such good news for a certain
:19:57. > :20:01.Magpie? That's right. Particularly a player who has only recovered
:20:01. > :20:05.from a broken leg. Hatem Ben Arfa will miss the remainder of
:20:05. > :20:09.Newcastle United's US Tour. That is after the player was taken to
:20:09. > :20:15.hospital during the goalless draw against Sporting Kansas. He was
:20:15. > :20:21.stretchered off and is flying home to have an ankle injury assessed.
:20:21. > :20:29.Now, some have hailed it the greatest Premier League game ever -
:20:30. > :20:38.Liverpool's 4-3 of Newcastle at Anfield in 1996. Now, there is a
:20:38. > :20:43.chance to see the tables turned. Remember this? If you are a
:20:43. > :20:48.Newcastle fan, you will never forget it and neither will this man.
:20:48. > :20:54.The iconic image of Keegan slumped over the hording summed up that
:20:55. > :21:04.game. Maybe now it is time for some payback. Keegan is on board for a
:21:04. > :21:08.re-match with more players signing up all the time. We have John
:21:08. > :21:14.Beresford, he was very popular, does a lot of work in the North
:21:14. > :21:18.East. Rob Lee, Kevin persuaded that Newcastle was closer to London than
:21:18. > :21:26.Middlesbrough. He said he would walk over broken glass to play in
:21:27. > :21:34.this game. Lee Clark. Keegan's team will be known as The Entertainers.
:21:34. > :21:39.They will be up against Ian Rush, Jason McAteer and Mark Wright. Joe
:21:39. > :21:46.Allen says the rematch honours the legacy left by Kevin Keegan. Me and
:21:46. > :21:49.Paul Gascoigne were cleaning the boots at St James' Park and he just
:21:49. > :21:54.transformed the whole North East and such a legend and such an icon.
:21:54. > :22:00.There has been a little bit of a cloud with his relationship with
:22:00. > :22:06.the hierarchy at the moment. Kevin Keegan will be a legend always at
:22:06. > :22:12.Newcastle. Proceeds will go to charity.
:22:12. > :22:19.Tickets went on sale today. Talking of golden oldies, Juninho will pull
:22:19. > :22:24.on a Boro shirt next Friday. Voted Boro's finest post-war player, the
:22:24. > :22:27.38-year-old will feature in the pre-season friendly against PSV
:22:27. > :22:31.Eindhoven. Cricket: On day one of their County
:22:31. > :22:39.Championship match against Somerset, Durham won the toss and chose to
:22:39. > :22:48.field first. A big "CENORITA" Churchry from Marcus Trescothick
:22:48. > :22:51.has put the home side in control. - - a big century from Marcus
:22:51. > :22:54.Trescothick has put the home side in control.
:22:54. > :22:58.That is your sport. It is weather time now and, Paul,
:22:58. > :23:01.before you do the forecast, you have been tracing the footsteps of
:23:02. > :23:05.another famous weather forecaster. I have been out and about. I have
:23:05. > :23:08.been to a Northumberland farm to investigate the local roots of a
:23:09. > :23:11.man who was way ahead of his time and he changed the face of weather
:23:11. > :23:16.forecasting for good. There is an obvious connection
:23:16. > :23:21.between farming and the weather. Here there is a direct link to one
:23:21. > :23:26.of the pioneers of weather forecasting. This place was once
:23:26. > :23:36.home to Lewis Fry Richardson, one of the fathers of modern
:23:36. > :23:40.meteorology. Lewis Richardson went on to develop numerical weather
:23:40. > :23:45.forecasting techniques. These days the farm is home to a fine head of
:23:46. > :23:50.cattle, a lovely ice-cream parlour and still run by the Richardson
:23:50. > :23:57.family. Lewis Richardson was my great uncle. He was one of five
:23:57. > :24:04.brothers and he was a brilliant mathematician. I met him here about
:24:04. > :24:14.a year before he died. He came to visit my father. No, he was a
:24:14. > :24:14.
:24:14. > :24:20.remarkable man, I think. He had an original mind. He was busy with
:24:20. > :24:26.this numerical process. He took with him some of the figures from a
:24:27. > :24:32.day that he's obtained. It took him most of the war to work out what
:24:32. > :24:36.the weather was going to be the next day. He proved himself right.
:24:36. > :24:40.Richardson was way ahead of his time which brought its own problems.
:24:40. > :24:47.He worked out his weather theories around the time of the First World
:24:47. > :24:51.War when all the calculations had to be done by hand. He estimated he
:24:51. > :25:01.needed 64,000 people with slide rules to produce a one-day forecast.
:25:01. > :25:01.
:25:01. > :25:05.It wasn't until long after his death in 1953 that his theories
:25:05. > :25:10.came into practice and are still the basis of the forecast we
:25:10. > :25:13.deliver today. The world of science can be
:25:13. > :25:18.grateful that Richardson didn't satisfy himself with the more
:25:18. > :25:22.tradition at methods of forecasting the weather - cows all facing the
:25:22. > :25:30.the weather - cows all facing the same way? Looks like rain.
:25:30. > :25:36.A remarkable man. Yesterday, we had some foul weather. A dismal picture
:25:36. > :25:40.there from Rachel. Today was a whole lot better. A good HAR E-Day
:25:40. > :25:44.- see what I did there?! There are one or two showers around but they
:25:44. > :25:49.are fairly few and far between. Most places will stay dry through
:25:49. > :25:57.the night. With clear spells, it will be a bit cooler than it has
:25:57. > :26:01.been recently. So tomorrow, most places start the day dry. I
:26:01. > :26:05.wouldn't rule out the odd shower. Most places will stay dry through
:26:05. > :26:08.the day and most places will see some sunshine, some good sunny
:26:08. > :26:12.spells developing for the afternoon. Still the odd shower cloud here and
:26:12. > :26:17.there. When the sun comes out, temperatures will peak around 19
:26:17. > :26:24.Celsius. It will feel warm in the sunshine. Where it won't feel
:26:24. > :26:30.particularly warm, once again is along that North East coast.
:26:30. > :26:34.Over the next few days, we have the northerly wind tomorrow. That
:26:34. > :26:39.northerly pattern stays with us. This weather system looks as if it
:26:39. > :26:43.will stay to the Rhys of us as we head through the weekend so it does
:26:43. > :26:48.-- stay to the east of us as we head through the weekend so it does
:26:48. > :26:52.look as if we will stay dry. Tomorrow, it is a mostly try
:26:52. > :26:56.picture. Similar temperatures again on Saturday. The best of any
:26:56. > :27:02.brightness in western areas. Eastern areas seeing a fair amount
:27:02. > :27:07.of cloud. It does look as if the rain from that system stays out to
:27:07. > :27:15.the west - out to the east rather through Sunday. Most places dry and
:27:15. > :27:20.bright again. The best of the sunshine in the west. It looks as
:27:20. > :27:25.if most of us hang on to some dry weather with temperatures in the
:27:25. > :27:27.mid to high teens as we head into Monday. Keep your July weather