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Hello and welcome to Look North. Tonight: He was kidnapped and | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
murdered. A court is told a 77- year-old pensioner, his son and | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
grandson were responsible. She has waited two years for a | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
inquest into the death of her husband. Now she is calling for | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
reforms. I do feel I cannot move on. Price war at the pumps. The North | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
is now the cheapest in the UK for petrol. | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
On patrol, the car with cameras that will catch drivers parking | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
illegally outside schools. Hoo noo broon coo. | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
ALL: Hoo noo broon coo. And ladies from the South get | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Lessells from the locals on life in the north. | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
In sport, Sunderland's new Champions League winning defender | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
on his need for first-team football. And the ultra runner from | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
Guisborough hoping to make his -- raise money by running the | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
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First tonight, a 77-year-old grandfather accused of murder is | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
said to have instructed his son and grandson to carry out as a revenge | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
attack against a former friend suspected of stealing his life | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
savings. George Thomas senior is accused along with two other | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
members of his family of kidnapping and murdering John Newton from | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
Redcar in March. Two other men are also said to have been recruited to | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
carry out the attack and they face the same charges. We have been | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
following the case at Teesside Crown Court. | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
The prosecution said today although they accept that beat 70 fair seven | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
year-old grandfather was not present during the kidnap and | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
killing of the Redcar father, they believe he was central to the | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
operation, and that is why he faced these charges. They said he was the | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
one who got the ball rolling and instructed younger and fitter men | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
to carry out the attack. For John Newton was killed, the | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
court heard, out of revenge. He was accused of stealing the life- | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
savings of �35,000 from a friend. That friend was this man, 77-year- | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
old George Thomas senior. Unhappy with the police response, the | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
prosecution said, he asked his son and grandson to administer their | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
own punishment. Before the attack in his home, Steven Thomas had | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
already warned Newton about taking advantage of his grandfather. He | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
had head-butted him and then put a gun to his head. Days before his | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
death, the court heard, four records showed Stephen had texted | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
Newton. I have paid two people to pay you a visit when you're least | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
expecting it. When they have finished with you I will have what | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
is left. The prosecution said the three family members and two at | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
other men kidnapped the 42-year-old father from his Redcar home. He was | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
brought to this remote area of woodland away from public view, on | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
the outskirts of Middlesbrough. It is here, the prosecution said, he | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
suffered a savage assault. He was cut with a knife and so that 60 | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
separate injuries. He suffered brain damage and died in hospital | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
two days later. All defendants denied murder and the trial | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
continues. The prosecution have opened a today | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
but the jury have already been told to expect the trial to last around | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
five weeks. The court is expected to hear evidence from six witnesses. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
Last week Look North reported on the ten-month delays affecting | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
inquests on Teesside but one woman from Northumberland says she has | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
now been waiting two years for an inquest into her husband's sudden | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
death. Now Ann Pogue says enough is enough. She says the system must be | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
reformed to prevent more bereaved families suffering her agony. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Ann Pogue was a been forward to many more summers with her husband | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Colin. Even when he fell ill with stomach problems in 2009, at first | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
there seemed little danger, but then two years ago, doctors gave | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
Colin just hammers to live. It was really shocking and traumatic. I | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
struggled to come to terms with it. The death was put down to a | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
condition which cause gangrene in Colin's intestines. It was an | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
unexpected and painful end. His wife had to get more answers from | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
the inquest but two years on a date has still not been set for a | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
hearing. The wait has been stressful and all-consuming. She | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
even gave up her job. It is excruciating. Everything you do, it | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
is still hovering there in the background. And I do just feel I | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
cannot move on. I'd just cannot. I have had no closure and so we have | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
decided this has to be the closure, because I just cannot go on with | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
all this pain. And the North Northumberland -- the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Northumberland coroner was not available to comment today because | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
he is at a meeting in London. The weight here is lower than the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
national average. The coroner said the case is not a straightforward | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
one. But Ann Pogue says any system which can treat bereaved families | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
in this way has failed. It is unacceptable and unforgivable. | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
There needs to be every few of the inquest system and I would urge | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
others in my situation to come forward. -- there needs to be a | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
review. Colin would not want me to suffer any more than I already have. | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
He was the most dignified man I will ever know and I am doing this | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
for Colin. For the sake of her own health, Ann Pogue has decided not | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
to attend the inquest whenever it happens, even if she has unanswered | :06:15. | :06:23. | |
questions. A man from South Tyneside has been | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
jailed after he was caught shining a laser pen at a police helicopter. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
23-year-old Richard Oliver from sad Shiels was sentenced to six months. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
He was caught by officers in his garden after he shone his pen | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
repeatedly at a Northumbria Police helicopter. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
The cheapest petrol in the country can be bought in our region, | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
according to a new survey, at just 125.9p a litre. That is 10p or more | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
below many service stations. The low price is being offered by one | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
supermarket in Bishop Auckland. But it has upset independent retailers | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
who say they cannot afford to compete in a price war. Stephanie | :06:59. | :07:09. | |
Lloyd is in Bishop Auckland for us now. | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
Height fuel prices are having a huge impact on household budgets so | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
people in Bishop Auckland will be over the moon to hear that this | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
place is the cheapest in the country to fill up on unleaded | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
petrol. The supermarkets have slashed their prices and people | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
were queueing around the block at Sainsbury's in the town today to | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
fill up on unleaded. It is 126 pence per litre. Diesel is 131p. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
Let's have a look at how that compares around the region. | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
Carlisle is quite expensive, with petrol at 146p per litre. The | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
cheapest you can fill up his one hand and 32p. Elsewhere, prices | :07:52. | :08:00. | |
range. In York, the highest price for petrol is 138.9 pence. In | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
Teesside, in Middlesbrough, it is 138p. Newcastle is fairly high at | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
144p. Sunderland his lover at 139p. Great news for motorists. This is | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
what some of them said earlier today. It is still expensive. Even | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
if it is the cheapest in the country. That is brilliant. Long | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
may it last. Ridiculous. I am skint all the time. I did not know it was | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
cheaper around here. I will not go to Sainsbury's or anything like | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
that. I do not like petrol. REPORTER: So you would use them? | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Yes, but it was so busy today. independent retailers are being | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
undercut by the supermarkets and this for court costs drivers to | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
pounds more for some drivers than the supermarket. You are charging | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
131p got -- for unleaded. You are down 80,000 litres a week because | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
of his price war, so it is hitting you hard? Yes, and the Revenue you | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
lose from the shop sales, not getting the people in. People go to | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
Sainsbury's and Tesco's for the big saving but for the independent | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
retailers it is a disaster for the local area. You just cannot get | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
that back. We cannot compete on those prices. Can you give us some | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
figures. What are you using? We are losing �90,000 revenue a week, | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
which is a lot of money, plus what is in the shop. Quite a lot of | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
customers. For motorists, it is great news, isn't it? They think, | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
great if we can get Petra gibber. It is already too high. -- get | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
petrol cheaper. Can't you lower your prices a bit so they will come | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
to you? We cannot let them any more. We give our profit a way. At the | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
end of the day, they must be losing money because they want to get | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
people back in the shop. Thank you. The supermarkets say they are doing | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
it because the drop -- because they want to help customers save money | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
and to help them with their weekly budget. And by offering these fuel | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
promotions and lowering their prices, it gets customers through | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
the door and spending on food, which is what the supermarkets want | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
most. Earlier I spoke to Paul Watters | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
from the AA, who welcomed the news of lower prices at the pumps. | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
certainly does have to be good news and it is good news. We have seen | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
prices creeping back up to where they were before the supermarkets | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
started a price war about a month ago, when the strategic reserves of | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
oil were put on to the market at lower prices. Since then we have | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
seen the 2p that came off their back on to fuel, so the fact that | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
this fuel is selling almost 10p a litre cheaper than the UK national | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
average is brilliant for drivers. The smaller retailers are saying | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
they cannot compete. They cannot by the petrol for the price that the | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
big supermarkets are selling it out. Does that caused a problem? It does | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
in the longer term. This is the problem of the big muscle of the | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
supermarkets, who put three huge volumes of fuel through their | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
forecourts. So they can afford to buy and sell cheap to entice people | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
into the stores. It puts the independent retailers at a youth | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
problem because they cannot compete with those sort of prices. That is | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
why we have seen the numbers of filling stations in the UK go from | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
about 20,000 down to 9,000 now. They are finding it so hard to make | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
ends meet and to stay in business, competing against prices like this. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Thank you. Still to come: Tuesday's sports | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
desk. Plus a step back in time, the motor car nostalgia show coming to | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
the North. And it is the school holidays but | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
it does not feel like so much for much of the North East. The | :12:25. | :12:34. | |
forecast after the news. Now, you could be in for a nasty | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
shock if you are caught parking where you shouldn't in North | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
Tyneside. The local council has unveiled its latest tactic to stop | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
motorists parking outside schools. A CCTV car using numberplate | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
recognition will patrol the area and catch offending drivers in the | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
act. They could then face a �70 fine. The council says the new | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
system is designed to improve safety rather than raise money. Our | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
correspondent Mark Denten reports. The schools are closed. The | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
holidays are here. But do not be fooled by the quiet. On North | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
Tyneside, beware. The local council's secret weapon is coming. | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
It may be small but it packs a punch. This is a CCTV camera car, | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
designed to stop motorists parking where they shouldn't outside | :13:19. | :13:29. | |
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schools. We receive regular complaints from head teachers, from | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
the general public, of people parking indiscriminately outside | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
schools, creating a dangerous environment. We also received | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
complaints from bus operators, people parking in bus lay-bys and | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
in loading bays, so generally there is a problem of people parking | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
where they should not park. Inside, the car is packed with numberplate | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
recognition technology. So how does it work? It is an in-built computer | :13:54. | :14:04. | |
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with a camera on the top. You can move the camera on the top to focus | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
in on an illegally parked car. We pick up any vehicles in parking | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
restricted areas. Isn't this all a bit big brother? Where you are | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
supposed to park, it is for a limited time period during the day. | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Really is it so necessary? It is chaotic in the morning so yes, | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
sensible. REPORTER: Not intrusive? | :14:30. | :14:36. | |
particularly. It is fine. I do not think there is a major problem. I | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
do not think the council needs to invest huge amounts of car -- many | :14:40. | :14:50. | |
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putting that car that. -- money putting that car there. A road | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
safety grant will pay for the project for one year. The camera | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
car will start its work for real when the new school term begins in | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
September. The region's biggest police force | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
is to use what some officers say is a jobs lottery as part of its | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
efforts to save money. Northumbria Police is currently reorganising | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
the way it deploys its detectives to help make savings of �57 million. | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
It is asking those officers to state their preferences about the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
roles they would like. But roles that are oversubscribed will be | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
decided by a random selection process, with are those not | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
selected joining the uniformed ranks instead. Here is our chief | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
reporter. The bobby on the beat. It is what | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
senior officers call visible policing. And they want to protect | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
it. Which means changes elsewhere. Including a more centralised CID | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
instead of teams spread around the force area. Four out of five | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
detectives will keep their jobs. Some will get new roles. But when | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
the posts start to run out, the selection which some have | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
criticised comes in. The top detective in this force says the | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
criticism is not fair. We are giving every single person affected | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
by this change the good choice of where they want to work and in what | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
particular function. The lottery element, or the random deselection, | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
only applies where we have oversubscription for certain parts | :16:11. | :16:19. | |
of the business. It will be those small numbers that are deselected | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
randomly to ensure absolute fairness, to get us to the levels | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
within the new model that we need. Because they are Crown appointments, | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
police officers cannot be made redundant. Which makes police | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
numbers difficult to manage. The body which represents rank and file | :16:33. | :16:41. | |
officers says it understands. -- says cuts do have to be made some | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
had. The chief constable is restructuring Northumberland police | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
to accommodate this and the role of the federation is to make sure that | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
is done in an honest, fair and legal process. We firmly believe | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
that that has been done. 92 police jobs will go altogether, achieved | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
through natural wastage. A process which cannot accommodate the 450 | :17:02. | :17:11. | |
civilian jobs which will also disappear. | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
Now, nostalgia weekends are fast becoming a feature of the English | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
summer. And one of the biggest is being planned for the Croft Racing | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
Circuit near Darlington in a couple of weeks' time. Peter Lugg it took | :17:23. | :17:33. | |
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a spin down memory lane to find out Yes, it is retro motor heaven. If | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
you can drive it, wear it or play it and it was made before, say, | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
1970, you will be welcome at Croft's motoring nostalgia weekend, | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
coming up in a couple of weeks' time. Today was a chance for | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
drivers like Geoff Maxwell to get to know the circuit. | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
It was designed and built in 1951 yet it still has that really | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
desirable shape. It is all Kurds, like a female. -- curves. The wife | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
will not let you drive it over 50mph? No, she is a built in | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
speedometer. What was it they used to say about the Yanks? Overpaid, | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
over something and over here. Still, today apparently everyone is | :18:23. | :18:32. | |
welcome. Everybody has their old interpretation -- their own | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
interpretation of an old car. But for me it is the 1930s stuff. And | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
the post war stuff and the wartime stuff as well. OK, so what is it to | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
be for me? The Jag, the Merc or the Bentley? No, they said, for you it | :18:47. | :18:57. | |
has to be a real classic. A bridge Master bus. I went to school on | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
these for about ten years. This is from 1963. I never thought I would | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
be driving one. The only problem is, you have to keep stopping. Move on, | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
please! Well, if it was good enough for Sir Cliff... The nostalgia | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
weekend, by the way, is over the 6th and 7th August. | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Now, what happens when you take four posh ladies from the South of | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
England and move them into one of the North's most deprived areas? | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
Well, we are about to find out because a new series studying the | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
life and culture of the Geordies start on BBC Three tonight. Geordie | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
Finishing School For Girls follows four privileged young ladies who | :19:39. | :19:49. | |
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swap their affluent lives for ten days of living on the breadline. | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
Being forced to survive and jobseeker's allowance has made the | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
girls result to a packed lunch, Geordie style. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
REPORTER: It is their first time up North, and it is a lesson on what | :20:06. | :20:16. | |
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to eat. Before the four from the South learn how to speak. ALL: | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
noo broon coo. To kick off Geordie Finishing School For Girls, | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
tonight's episode films the posh southerners as they move into a | :20:28. | :20:36. | |
house in Walker where they will be met by four local women. Helping | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
her to show the posh girls around Newcastle are four young women who | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
have grown up on some of the most disadvantaged streets in the city... | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
How do you think they will feel when they arrive in Newcastle? What | :20:49. | :20:56. | |
do you think if they start calling you things like... I am proud to be | :20:56. | :21:05. | |
one! Now it is time to see and go out on the town. This is a great | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
way to do it! PRESENTER: They discovered Geordie guys are eager | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
to chat with them. We talked to some men. They were all from it. So | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
the accent was even harder to understand. -- they were all drunk. | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
But they were very friendly. programme starts on BBC Three | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
tonight at 9pm. I'd better they had great fun! | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Sport now. He won just about everything there is to win in his | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
15 years at Manchester United but Sunderland's new signing Wes Brown | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
says it was a lack of first team football that led him to Wearside. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
The 31 year-old Champions League winner played only seven times in | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
the top flight last season, and felt the time was right for him to | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
leave the only club he has ever played for. Brown says the number | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
of former United players at Sunderland, including boss Steve | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
Bruce, was also a big factor in his decision. | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
I have watched Sunderland over the years, anyway. We have always had | :22:15. | :22:25. | |
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some sort of connection. I spoke to Steve and I knew this was where I | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
wanted to come. Obviously, there are the players he has signed as | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
well. It is perfect. And Wes Brown will make his debut for Sunderland | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
in tomorrow's friendly at Kilmarnock after recovering from a | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
hip problem. Meanwhile, the BBC understands that | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Newcastle defender Jose Enrique has been fined for his outburst on | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
Twitter. The Spaniard criticised the club's transfer policy and | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
accused the board of lying about his new contract offer. He is, | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
however, still in the squad for tonight's game with Columbus Crew, | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
as the Magpies wrap up their pre- season tour of America. | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
Elsewhere, Carlisle host Middlesbrough tonight in a friendly | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
at Brunton Park. Kick-off is at 7:30pm and full coverage is on BBC | :23:05. | :23:12. | |
Tees and BBC Radio Cumbria. Now to an athlete who makes pre- | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
season training look like a walk in the park. Sharon Gayter is an ultra | :23:16. | :23:25. | |
runner. After being out of action for a year, she broke a national | :23:25. | :23:32. | |
record in her comeback race. To do that, she ran 750km, and finished | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
120km a head of the first man. Keith Akehurst's been to meet her. | :23:36. | :23:38. | |
Training at Teesside University where she works as a lecturer. | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
Sharon Gayter from Guisborough is an ultra runner and ranked number | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
one in the world for running six days. I'd do stop every now and | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
then and have a break and sleep for a couple of others. But last year, | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
a cyst was found in Sharon's ankle. She had to have an operation which | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
involved stem cells and a bone graft. She was out of action for | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
almost a year. To recover, Sharon has used the uni's hydrotherapy | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
pools, which has an underwater treadmill. It is like running on | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
air. There is no impact on the bones and joints. I could run all | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
day. Sharon, who is in her forties, was able to exercise earlier and | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
longer because the water takes 70 per cent of the body's weight. Her | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
recovery amazed surgeons. There are only three like this in Britain. | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
The others are at Manchester United and Chelsea. Not only is it used | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
for recovering from industry, but for strength and conditioning work | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
as well, so it can help you maintain a level of fitness or | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
indeed enhance it. Sharon has run 1000 ultra races in her career and | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
50 this year since her injury. Her next challenge, 135 miles through | :24:46. | :24:55. | |
the Himalayas. Only one guy has ever finished this race, it took | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
express how tough it is. Everyone else has ended up in hospital. And | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
just a fraction worried! And if you have a sports injury and want to | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
use the Teesside Uni's special hydrotherapy pool, you can, but | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
there is a charge. What an unbelievable lady! Will she | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
have some good whether to run in, Not bad. It looks mostly dry for | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
the next few days. A gloomy day today. This was the scene at the | :25:30. | :25:40. | |
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weekend. A lovely shot. The romance More beautiful scenes to come over | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
the Cumbrian lakes in the next few days. Here were the top | :25:48. | :25:57. | |
temperatures today. Keswick is the warmest spot in the North of | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
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England. The North East coast is That is because of a blanket of | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
cloud. Tomorrow it does get better, spells of sunshine for all of us, | :26:16. | :26:22. | |
particularly in the West. Generally, a cloudy night denied in the East. | :26:22. | :26:29. | |
The possibility of one or two spots of drizzle on the coast. It will be | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
a much brighter day. Another lovely day in Cumbria and the sunshine | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
breaks out across the North East as well. Just a little more cloudy on | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
the coast and here the temperatures will be a little lower. More in the | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
wake of sunshine than we had today. Temperatures back up. Another very | :26:53. | :27:02. | |
pleasant summer's date to be had in Cumbria. The next few days, a | :27:02. | :27:08. |