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North. Tonight, Cleveland's top two police | :00:02. | :00:07. | |
officers are arrested and suspended. Sean Price and Derek Bonnard were | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
detained early this morning. We're live with the latest and ask who's | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
running the force tonight. Also tonight, aftershock. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Sellafield shuts one of its plants in the wake of the Japanese | :00:19. | :00:29. | |
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earthquake. Hundreds of workers are effected. We have people there, 600 | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
families, who will be concerned, and we need to reassure them we | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
will work on their behalf and that their talent will be redeployed. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Honoured for their gallantry. The families of two servicemen killed | :00:43. | :00:52. | |
in Afghanistan help unveil new homes for soldiers in their memory. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
And just who is the man who can't walk past a car without scratching | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
it? So far he's caused more than �50,000 worth of damage. | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
In sport, Joey Barton quotes George Washington, as the Twitter war of | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
words rages on. And what price loyalty? Thousands | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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flock to honour Hartlepool's player First, the dramatic news that's | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
rocked one of our police forces. Tonight, Cleveland's chief | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
constable and his deputy are under arrest by officers investigating | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
corruption allegations. Sean Price and Derek Bonnard are being | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
questioned at a police station in North Yorkshire. Both have been | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
suspended from duty. As you can imagine it's caused turmoil at | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
Cleveland Police. Let's cross live to the forces headquarters on | :01:45. | :01:55. | |
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Teesside and join our chief reporter, Chris Stewart. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
You say turmoil, but the arrest of these two are top officers is not | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
the whole story. We also have a woman being arrested as part of the | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
same operation. We will wait to see what happens next. | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
It's been a torrid few months for this force and it gets no easier. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Today, its two top officers under arrest. Sean Price and Derek | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Bonnard, both taken to a police station in North Yorkshire where | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
they've spent much of the day being questioned. And the offences being | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
investigated are serious. Misconduct in a public office, | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
fraud by abuse of position and corrupt practice. For three months | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
now, a number of people connected to the force here have been under | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
investigation for what has been referred to as "the manner in which | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
they've conducted business". That investigation was ordered by Her | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
Majesty's Inspectorate of Contabulary, which has asked the | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
Chief Constable of Warwickshire police to take overall command. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Today, though, Warwickshire Police had nothing to add to these latest | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
developments. Cleveland Police, too, didn't want to comment. What we do | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
know, though, is that police premises have been searched today. | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
Search teams are also understood to have visited residential addresses. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
Sean Price became Chief Constable in 2003, having previsouly served | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
in the Merseyside and Nottinghamshire forces. He's one of | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
the country's top-paid policemen understood to earn more than | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
�200,000 a year. He's already the subject of another, but completely, | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
separate inquiry. That's being carried out by the Independent | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
Police Complaints Commission, following an allegation that he | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
used his position to try to secure somebody a job with his force. He | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
denies that ever happened. Tonight, ordinary officers here have been | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
left wondering where all this will end. The Police Federation said | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
this latest news had come as a massive shock. | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
Indeed a massive shock, Chris. Do they know who's in charge tonight? | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
A very good question. Nothing is official but we understand that an | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
Assistant Chief Constable is doing the job. This investigation has | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
also involve the Cleveland Police Authority. In May, a councillor, | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
who was the chairman of the Roddick, stepped down from his position, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
having been told he could be part of it, although he said he had done | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
nothing wrong. Five months ago, Japan was rocked | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
by a massive earthquake and tsunami. Today, the ripple effect hit | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Cumbria's west coast, with news that 600 jobs are to go at the | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
Sellafield Reprocessing Plant. The so-called MOX plant makes fuel from | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
spent nuclear rods. But it's only customers were Japanese nuclear | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
power plants, many of them suffering the effects of the recent | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
earthquake. Let's cross live to our business correspondent, Ian Reeve, | :04:55. | :05:04. | |
who's at Sellafield tonight. This is the end of the MOX plant | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
and it will shut as soon as possible. We probably should have | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
seen this coming when the earthquake hit in March in Japan, | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
given that his only plant was in that country. It may have been a | :05:18. | :05:25. | |
world away, but the Japanese earthquake has damaged jobs in West | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
Cumbria. The plant in Tokyo is to close. In need to build a protected | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
sea wall. Japan was its only customer. The terrible events in | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
Japan have meant our first customer for fuel is no longer able to take | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
it. There have been further delays as well, and as a result, it is no | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
longer practical to continue with the plant as it is, so we had | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
decommission bit and it operations have come to an end. Although 600 | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
people will lose their jobs, it is very likely they will be redeployed | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
across the vast Sellafield site. Unions are hope for schools will | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
transfer. We have got people, 600 families, who will be concerned, | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
and we need to reassure them we will work on their behalf and tried | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
to get them redeployed and we are confident we can redeploy them. | :06:22. | :06:30. | |
Whilst this is a blow, but plant has cost a considerable sum, it is | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
not the end of the area's nuclear aspirations. There is a �300 | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
billion market in Eastern Europe that we can access. With luck, the | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
MOX plant closure is just a blip. Admittedly, though, 600 people and | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
their families might find that of little consolation tonight. | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
Jamie Reed, the Labour MP for Copeland, is here now. Are you as | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
hope as the unions that these 600 people can be redeployed? I am | :07:06. | :07:14. | |
certainly optimistic. I have spoken to the site manager and the | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
prospects for considerable redeployment there. We are working | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
very, very hard to make sure that can happen. Don't forget, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Sellafield was already in the middle of a significant job | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
recruiting process, so there will be consequences with that, too. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
we think of these people as specialist people dealing with | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
plutonium. But they are also engineers and draughtsman? | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
people at this plant a fantastically well skilled and | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
flexible. They can be deployed across a variety of projects across | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
the site and we will be working flat out starting today to make | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
sure they can be. Fingers crossed, not a hammer blow for the West | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
Cumbrian economy? No, I feel our best days are ahead of us. Thank | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
you for your time. Let's hope those 600 affected workers can find | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
alternative work on this must Sellafield site. | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
He's built his reputation on straight talking and acerbic | :08:17. | :08:25. | |
personality. A true dragon. Duncan Bannatyne, from the BBC's Dragons' | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
Den, has sounded off on a social networking site. He's offering a | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
reward for information leading to the arrest of someone threatening | :08:32. | :08:41. | |
his daughter. He first used his Twitter account to offer a reward | :08:41. | :08:49. | |
for information leading to an arrest. But he had to delete tweets | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
suggesting he'd pay double if the man was injured. Keith Akehurst | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
reports. He's the tough guy who doesn't hold | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
back. Not in his professional life. Not in his private life. So when | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Duncan Bannatyne's daughter was threatened he responded. | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
Aggressively. A man called Yuri Vasilyev sent messages to the | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Darlington multi-millionaire's Twitter site saying, "We will bring | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
hurt and pain into your life", and, "We are the men from Belarus. We do | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
not give up. Give us �35,000 or your 26-year-old daughter will be | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
hurt". Duncan Bannatyne called on his 370,000 followers. "I offer | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
�25,000 reward for the capture of the coward. Double if his arms are | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
broken first", a tweet he was forced to replace with, "OK, | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
�30,000 reward for info leading to his arrest". His reaction didn't | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
surprise his local newspaper, where he's a regular contributor. He came | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
in here to edit the paper for a date in March, and he was typically | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
brisk and abrupt. He reduced some of our hard hats to tears almost! | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
That is what has got him into a bit of difficulty here. Mr Bannatyne's | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
fortune of a reported �400 million has been amassed from businesses | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
run from here. Duncan Bannatyne declined an interview and Durham | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
Police have confirmed their conduct inquiries. We spoke to an officer | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
involved in this kind of investigation before, who says | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
police inquiries would have been easier if it had not been in the | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
public domain. A Teesside man accused with his | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
wife of selling chemicals over the internet to make drugs will be | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
extradited to America within the next month. Brian and Kerry Anne | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
Howes were accused of supplying chemicals to make crystal meth to | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
at least 70 illegal drug laboratories in the USA. The couple, | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
who recently lost their four-year appeal, against extradition have | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
always claimed they ran a legitimate business. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
It used to be one of the nicer parts of the work routine. The | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
annual pay rise. But not, it seems, any longer. With private businesses | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
and the public sector both tightening their belts, three | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
quarters of workers in the North aren't getting a pay rise. It's the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
highest figure in the country. Our political correspondent, Mark | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
Denten, reports. It's one of the warmest days of the | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
year so far, with soaring temperatures. Now, it is a shirt | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
sleeves to weather today, but do not be fooled. We are in the middle | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
of a big freeze. What's frozen is our pay. A survey by the Chartered | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
Institute of Personnel Development suggests three quarters of workers | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
in the North East have had a pay freeze. That compares to just 56% | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
in London and the South East. Have you had a pay rise? No. Not for the | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
last three years, I think. I have only just started my job so not yet. | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
10p! Binman Mick Dobson hasn't even had that much. His pay's been | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
frozen two years, and like many public sector workers, he's angry. | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
The likes of holidays, you can forget about that, but even your | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
day-to-day living, with fuel, petrol and food prices going up, it | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
is becoming harder to feed ourselves. But at this engineering | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
firm in South Shields, they've had a pay freeze for even longer - | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
three years. They said they could not afford it on the basis that we | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
could not pass on the rises to customers. Managers say there was | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
no alternative. And workers like Carl say "better no rise than no | :12:30. | :12:37. | |
job". Things are now moving on. They have told us we can be winning | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
new orders left right and centre. Summer's here, but for many bosses | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
in the North, it seems the time is not yet right to give the rest of | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
us a rise. Still making huge losses, but | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
things are on the mend. That was the message from the Northern Rock | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
today, as it announced it might make a profit next year. Half-year | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
results show it lost �78 million to the end of June, but that's much | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
less than the �140 million losses at this stage last year. And the | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
bank thinks it might be back in the black in 2012. Voluntary groups in | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
the region, however, fear they'll be plunged into crisis when the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
bank is sold off. The Rock's charity arm has given millions to | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
good causes. Now there are fears the cash will dry up under new | :13:15. | :13:25. | |
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owners, as Peter Harris explains for tonight's Look North report. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
To them, this means everything, but soon they might be forced it to | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
stop? -- forced to stop. Why? Because the charity from Northern | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Rock might have nothing left to give them. The funding has been | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
crucial. They would be absolutely devastated if they lost their | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
funding. It is a very big part of their lives and something that | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
affects their lives, but also they do a lot of work with younger | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
disabled people, so it is really important there is that role of | :14:00. | :14:09. | |
people. It is good because you can throw whatever you have got in your | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
own life away and become somebody else. Basically, we are like a | :14:14. | :14:23. | |
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family. I had this ambition since I was five to do something with drama. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
And now it has come to fruition. When you were singing, how do you | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
feel? Like a superstar. This is whether banking crisis hits the | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
most vulnerable. Part of Northern Rock's profits were given to his | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
charity arm, even when the Bank was nationalised, and the Government | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
agreed to keep funding good causes like this. But the bank is due to | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
be privatised again, and what if the new owner decides it does not | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
want to pay for this kind of thing? That means they are gone. Some MPs | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
have urged the Government de force the next owner to keep the charity | :15:00. | :15:08. | |
on going. In 13 years, the foundation has made 3,700 grants to | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
nearly 2000 groups. The total given away is put at �87 million. -- �187 | :15:16. | :15:22. | |
million. At South Shields, they help from and homelessness. | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
would be a massive blow and I would urge the Government that whatever | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
the future of the Northern Rock bank, there are safeguards or sum | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
contributions made to the Northern Rock Foundation, to safeguard the | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
work going on around the region, which is excellent. Jenny and James | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
live at the project's house. would be homeless if this was not | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
available. It is a nice place to get on your own feet and give us a | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
sense of general independence. have been able to improve myself | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
confidence. To find my own way to get my own place. The collapse of | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
the Northern Rock was never going to be painless. If the foundation | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
does appears, though, it is the most vulnerable who might suffer | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
the most. Still plenty more ahead in | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
tonight's Look North, including the latest on Joey Barton's situation | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
with Newcastle United. Plus, a rest from the Nuclear | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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fallout. Youngsters from Chernobyl enjoy a month on Teesside. | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
And two big changes in the weather by the weekend. See what it means | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
what your plans later on. They were killed serving their | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
country and today their sacrifice was remembered. Two new | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
accommodation wings at Catterick Garrison were officially named | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
after two young soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The Brownson and | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
Brelsford Blocks, as they're to be known, will stand as an inspiration | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
to future trainees at Catterick. Peter Lugg reports. | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
A simple naming ceremony to remember two young soldiers who | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
lost their lives in Afghanistan and whose names will now be an | :17:05. | :17:12. | |
inspiration to generations of recruits to come. Corporal Lee | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
Brownson, from Bishop Auckland, and Sergeant Craig Brelsford, from | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
Nottingham. Both cut down on the battlefield, both awarded medals | :17:20. | :17:30. | |
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for bravery. To be killed in action is a great... An act of great | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
honour on behalf of their friends, regiment and country. These two | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
young men not only were killed in action, they were killed during | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
axed -- extraordinary acts of valour, and that is why it is | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
important they are represented here. The accommodation wings, which now | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
bear the soldiers' names, are part of the ongoing transformation of | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
facilities at Catterick. This dormitory is typical of the type of | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
accommodation you get here, and which the two soldiers would have | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
had if they were starting now. A typical bed with pin ups and | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
posters of loved ones, and there will be 392 places for soldiers in | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
these new buildings. Lee Brownson's family believe the buildings are a | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
fitting tribute to their son's outstanding military career. This | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
is like Butlins. And they deserve it. This is what they need. | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
general said your son had helped make the world a safer place. Do | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
you feel that? Definitely. Tens of thousands of pounds worth | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
of damage has been done to cars belonging to people living near | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
Whitehaven. A serial car scratcher has made repeated attacks on | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
vehicles in several roads over a number of years. Today a man was | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
arrested in connection with the damage, as Alison Freeman reports. | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
Do you know this man? In the past two years, he's caused �56,000 of | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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damage, just by scratching more than 100 cars in Hensingham. These | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
scratches have been caused over the last 18 months or so. All by the | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
same person. It is not mindless vandalism like a drunk coming out | :19:16. | :19:25. | |
of town. It is just the frustration of, again, you know... The damage | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
has not been repaired because there is no point until it stops. | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
suspect appears to follow a route up Hensingham Road and into | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
Hensingham main street. The chip shop owner and his staff have all | :19:37. | :19:44. | |
had their cars vandalised. You just look at the car and you feel sick | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
that it has been scratched again. Once, where we have the car | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
scratched, we to kit into get repaired and I bought it out at 4pm | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
and at 7pm, it was scratched again, the same day. You will know the | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
emotional impact it has and then the financial impact, the excess, | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
the policy. I think it is a wicked, selfish act. The police reckon the | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
vandal has been at work for two years, but some victims reckon | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
their cars have been attacked as far back as eight years ago. Now | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
they just want a solution - something that will stop them | :20:21. | :20:31. | |
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spending thousands of pounds on car repairs every year. Today, a man | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
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was arrested and is being questioned by police. | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
On to the sport, and one high- profile departure. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Yesterday he was quoting George Orwell. Today Joey Barton chose the | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
words of George Washington, as the midfielder hinted he might stay at | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Newcastle despite not being wanted by the club. In any case, with | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
Liverpool targeting full-back Jose Enrique, Barton may not be the | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
first out of the door anyway. Here's Katie Gornall. | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
Whatever you think about Newcastle's "persona non grata", | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
he's certainly not afraid to speak his mind. Despite being put on the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
transfer list and made to train alone after criticising the club's | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
hierarchy, Joey Barton today hinted that he might run down his contract | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
at United. The 28-year-old said on Twitter, "Just because you're told | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
to jump, it does not necessarily mean you have to. I may choose to | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
stand perfectly still. It's my right. Just a thought". Questions | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
about Barton were off limits at last night's friendly at Gateshead. | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Meanwhile, the odds have shortened on left-back Jose Enrique leaving | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
Tyneside before Barton, with Liverpool believed to be the | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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The spirit of performance. Just don't mention that word. It is a | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
difficult situation, but what pleased me about tonight was the | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
way the players mixed. For most important thing to me is this game | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
tonight and the way the boys are doing. | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
Now, away from the war of words on Twitter, a very different kind of | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
football story. Loyalty in the modern game does seem to be going | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
out of fashion, so it was great to see nearly 6,000 fans converge on | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
Hartlepool's Victoria Park last night to honour the man voted the | :22:30. | :22:40. | |
:22:40. | :22:44. | ||
club's Player of the 20th Century. Please welcome Ritchie Humphreys! | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
Ritchie Humphreys, Hartlepool's record appearance holder, reminded | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
older fans of the days when players would often remain at the same club | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
for ten years or more. A great reception from the home crowd and | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
sizeable away following the man who'd made the shortish trip down | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
the A19 from Sunderland for this testimonial game. On a night all | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
about veterans, it was perhaps fitting that the 36-year-old summer | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
signing Nolberto Solano should open the scoring, although that was as | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
good as it got for Pools on the night. In fact, the home side were | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
3-1 down when Humphreys was substituted. The standing ovation, | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
a fitting tribute to years of loyalty from this man of steel. | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
He's from Sheffield. At the end of the match, daughter Eliza was once | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
again called upon to share the moment, leaving even grown men a | :23:22. | :23:30. | |
little misty eyed. Being in front of the town and for me to be | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
applauded in front of our supporters, I will never forget | :23:33. | :23:40. | |
that. I want to soak up tonight and enjoy the game and a run-out, but | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
overall, the elation at the end, my family in the stands and my | :23:44. | :23:50. | |
daughter in my arms, I couldn't ask for anything else. It is a | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
remarkable achievement and it is great that he has done a turn for | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
us. I am sure he has enjoyed his night. Only Wes Brown and Seb | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Larsson of the summer signings were on show. Most of the rest will turn | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
out at Darlington tonight. Goals for Asamoah Gyan, with a hint of | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
offside, in-form youngster Jack Colback and new boy Larsson won't | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
have done the confidence any harm ahead of the league opener at | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
Liverpool. But the night belonged to one man, if not quite a national | :24:15. | :24:25. | |
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treasure yet, certainly the pride of Pools. | :24:25. | :24:32. | |
In cricket, the home side are 416 runs behind. Durham held a 90-run | :24:32. | :24:41. | |
lead over Nottingham. That is the sport. | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
It's a holiday that few will ever forget. 24 children from Belarus | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
who all suffered from the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
have been in the region today. They were in Middlesbrough as part of a | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
month-long visit around the country. Belarus received 70% of the | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
radioactive fallout from the explosion, and every year thousands | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
of children there are born with or develop cancer. Bringing them over | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
and giving them days out like this can extend their life span, because | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
all of them are suffering from the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
It looks like it has been a nice day but not much of a summer so | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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We have got the facts and figures for July, and no surprises. Much | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
cooler than average and much wetter and done as well. If you needed | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
your memory jogging, how about this from Alan Smith. Huge downpours at | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
this regatta. The surfers are fighting their way through the mist | :25:43. | :25:49. | |
here as well. And when we did get some blue-sky, what did we find? | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
Huge waves crashing over the barriers. So quite a volatile July. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
We look forward to August and it looks like we will have a turn for | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
the worse. Tomorrow looking particularly prone to rain, but for | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Friday, another change in the air. Much cooler and pressure to end the | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
week with a little bit of sunshine and well worth the wait if you | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
don't like the heat and humidity. Some nasty, thundery showers in | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
North Yorkshire, which will be dying out in the next couple of | :26:21. | :26:30. | |
hours or so. The majority of the night will be clear with dry spells, | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
but into dawn, that is when the cloud moves in with the showers. | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Temperatures into the mid- teens. In the North East, a brief, bright | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
start, but the cloud Press in East with and through the North East | :26:44. | :26:50. | |
through much of the afternoon. Things should dry and brighten up | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
by the end of the afternoon. Most should have a nice evening. | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
Temperatures are subdued compared to today. For the rest of the week, | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
on Friday, it will freshen up nicely. Feeling much cleaner with a | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
lot more sunshine and a very bright end to the week, with temperatures | :27:15. | :27:20. | |
steadily at around 20 to 21 degrees Celsius. By the weekend, a bit | :27:20. | :27:24. |