:00:03. > :00:08.Welcome to Wednesday's Look North. Tonight, a police station attacked.
:00:08. > :00:12.Windows were smashed, an officer hurt and a patrol car set on fire.
:00:12. > :00:16.Also tonight - I'm innocent. Cleveland's chief constable says
:00:17. > :00:20.his name will be cleared and he'll soon be back at work.
:00:20. > :00:28.Walking for the first time, thanks to a simple screw. The five-year-
:00:28. > :00:33.old whose life has been transformed by a North East doctor. If it is
:00:33. > :00:37.unbelievable. How severe he was when he was born, with hip
:00:37. > :00:42.dysplasia on both sides, and the procedures that he went through,
:00:42. > :00:45.initially we thought he would not walk.
:00:45. > :00:49.And express-o. The volunteers hoping to break the land speed
:00:49. > :00:52.record for a car powered by coffee. In sport, I've been meeting North
:00:52. > :01:02.East football's latest French import. And penalty heartache for
:01:02. > :01:08.
:01:08. > :01:15.Hartlepool, but better news for our The police say it's connected with
:01:15. > :01:19.the disorder sweeping major towns and cities across England. -- not
:01:20. > :01:23.connected. A North East police station was attacked in the early
:01:23. > :01:25.hours of this morning, which has left an officer with minor injuries
:01:25. > :01:28.and a police car completely destroyed. But tonight, Northumbria
:01:28. > :01:35.police say what happened at Washington Police Station was an
:01:35. > :01:39.isolated incident. Mark Denten is there now. What's the lastest?
:01:39. > :01:44.What we know is that around 3am this morning, a group of people
:01:44. > :01:48.gathered here outside Washington Police Station. Now, an object was
:01:48. > :01:51.thrown, breaking a window in the building, and a police officer
:01:51. > :01:58.inside the building was hit by glass. They were treated in
:01:58. > :02:02.hospital for minor injuries but have since been released. Police
:02:02. > :02:05.say six people ran away from the area after the incident and two men,
:02:05. > :02:09.a 17-year-old and 19-year-old, were arrested. They are still being
:02:09. > :02:14.questioned tonight. The police, though, are stressing categorically
:02:14. > :02:17.that this was very much an isolated incident - it was not a riot and
:02:17. > :02:22.there were no other incidents of disorder across the force region
:02:22. > :02:25.last night. In fact, local councillors I've spoken to here
:02:25. > :02:30.have stressed that crime and disorder levels here have been
:02:31. > :02:40.falling recently. So what's the mood in the town?
:02:41. > :02:44.
:02:44. > :02:48.There's been torrential rain here for much of the day. People are
:02:48. > :02:52.talking up the town. People I spoke to in the shopping centre said they
:02:52. > :03:02.were proud to live here. Just keep yourself to yourself when you're
:03:02. > :03:05.right. What to like about it? Is just a nice place. You can come
:03:05. > :03:10.here and look around the stores, and bring the children, and we've
:03:10. > :03:18.had no problems at all. It's a lovely place, if you know the right
:03:18. > :03:26.places. Why do so it's a lovely place? I guess because every where
:03:26. > :03:30.his love the way you have friends and family. And news of an online
:03:30. > :03:33.campaign against disorder? Yes, it's emerged that over 4,000
:03:33. > :03:37.people have signed up to a Facebook page backing the fact that there
:03:37. > :03:40.have been no incidents of serious disorder in the region.T his is not
:03:40. > :03:43.London, Manchester or Birmingham and the message online loud and
:03:43. > :03:46.clear tonight - let's keep it that way.
:03:46. > :03:50.In a separate incident, the police have condemned graffiti artists who
:03:50. > :03:54.blocked a rail line so they could paint a train. The vandals put
:03:54. > :03:56.wooden pallets on the Tyne and Wear metro line at Hadrian Road Station
:03:56. > :03:59.in Wallsend. When the driver stopped to investigate, the group
:03:59. > :04:02.began spray-painting the train. Another man then took a photo.
:04:02. > :04:05.Northumbria Police say there was no danger to passengers, but the
:04:05. > :04:09.vandals were risking their lives by trespassing on the line. They've
:04:09. > :04:16.released a CCTV image of a suspect they want to question about the
:04:16. > :04:19.incident. The Chief Constable of Cleveland -
:04:19. > :04:24.arrested on suspicion of fraud and corruption - said today he's
:04:24. > :04:27."completely innocent of any crime." In a statement released through his
:04:27. > :04:34.solicitors, Sean Price says his name will be cleared, and he'll
:04:34. > :04:38.soon be back at work. Chris Stewart has the story.
:04:38. > :04:41.Arrested seven days ago, today he had something to say on behalf of
:04:41. > :04:45.himself and his Deputy Chief Constable, Derek Bonnard - who was
:04:45. > :04:49.arrested at the same time. He says he's, "deeply saddened by the way I
:04:49. > :04:53.have been treated." That he was interviewed four times - and "no
:04:53. > :04:56.evidence or allegation of wrongdoing" was put to him. And
:04:56. > :04:59.that there are "serious questions to be answered about justification"
:04:59. > :05:02.for what's happened to him. Mr Price and Mr Bonnard were arrested
:05:02. > :05:05.along with the former solicitor to the Chief Constable, Caroline
:05:05. > :05:07.Llewellyn. It followed an investigation ordered by Her
:05:07. > :05:10.Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, which will say only
:05:10. > :05:20.that it concerns the way some people connected to Cleveland
:05:20. > :05:23.
:05:23. > :05:28.Police may have conducted business. We did speak to Mr Price but his
:05:28. > :05:33.lawyers have advised him not go on camera. He says the officers
:05:33. > :05:37.running this force in his absence are dedicated and able and deserves
:05:37. > :05:42.everybody's support. He says he looks forward to returning soon to
:05:42. > :05:46.leading what he says is the best police force in the country. The
:05:46. > :05:49.jury in the case of a detective accused of using a police computer
:05:49. > :05:52.to find information about women he wanted to get to know, has gone
:05:52. > :05:56.home for the night. 49-year-old father-of-two Mark Fisher, from
:05:56. > :05:59.Cockermouth, denies nine charges of misconduct in public office. It's
:05:59. > :06:03.alleged he used the force's Sleuth computer to obtain personal details,
:06:03. > :06:07.including phone numbers, of several women, some of who he went on to
:06:07. > :06:12.have sexual relationships with. The jury retired to consider its
:06:12. > :06:16.verdicts earlier today. There's more good news on the jobs
:06:16. > :06:19.front on Teesside. Between 500 and 700 construction workers will be
:06:19. > :06:22.taken on, to build a renewable energy plant near Billingham. Air
:06:22. > :06:27.Products plans to convert landfill waste into hydrogen gas, and
:06:27. > :06:34.generate enough electricity to power 50,000 homes. 50 permanent
:06:34. > :06:37.jobs will be created, once the facility is up and running.
:06:37. > :06:41.A North Yorkshire surgeon who was found guilty of dishonesty and
:06:41. > :06:44.misconduct has been sacked by Scarborough Hospital. Naif El-
:06:44. > :06:48.Barghouti was suspended for a year by the General Medical Council last
:06:48. > :06:51.month after he botched a series of operations, leading to the death of
:06:51. > :07:01.a patient, and then lied about it. He'd worked at Scarborough hospital
:07:01. > :07:04.for 15 years. Five-year-old Thomas Meadows, from Redcar in Cleveland,
:07:04. > :07:08.was born without properly formed hips. It's meant he's undergone
:07:08. > :07:12.numerous operations. But now, he's surprised doctors and his parents
:07:12. > :07:14.by walking. It's thanks to a special hip screw, designed by a
:07:14. > :07:21.doctor at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. Thomas's
:07:21. > :07:25.parents say it's transformed his life. Stephanie Lloyd reports.
:07:25. > :07:28.Walking like any other little boy his age. After numerous operations,
:07:28. > :07:38.five-year-old Thomas Meadows can now walk unaided, thanks to a
:07:38. > :07:38.
:07:38. > :07:44.revolutionary hip screw. unbelievable, how severe he was
:07:44. > :07:46.when he was born, with hip dysplasia on both sides, and the
:07:46. > :07:52.procedures he went to, conditionally we definitely thought
:07:52. > :07:56.he would have a limp and even the doctors said so. But it seems to be
:07:56. > :08:00.that the hip screw has changed all that. Thomas suffered from birth
:08:00. > :08:04.with severe problems with his hips and legs. When he was 14 months old,
:08:04. > :08:09.the Montgomery hip screw was put in place during an operation to
:08:09. > :08:12.realign his hips. Leaving him in a double leg cast for several months.
:08:13. > :08:22.The screw was removed a year later and since then he's never looked
:08:23. > :08:26.
:08:26. > :08:34.back. Minute... And now can you run as fast as your friends? Yes, but
:08:34. > :08:41.not as fast as Ashton! I did have my legs chopped open. You did.
:08:41. > :08:46.then I got the scars. This is the device that transformed his life.
:08:46. > :08:50.It kept the hipbones aligned correctly. The man who designed it
:08:50. > :08:53.is Richard Montgomerie. It is a very pleasing result and this is
:08:53. > :08:57.the sort of result we are looking for were nineties on this, because
:08:57. > :09:02.were looking for a good clinical result and the lowest possible
:09:02. > :09:05.complication rate. Thomas may need a hip replacement in the future.
:09:05. > :09:10.But for now, his family are enjoying time with their happy
:09:10. > :09:14.little boy. And there's no stopping him!
:09:14. > :09:18.There's plenty more still ahead on tonight's Look North - sport and
:09:18. > :09:22.weather and a car powered by coffee! Plus - jumping from cliffs
:09:22. > :09:32.into water the safe way. We've a special report on what's called
:09:32. > :09:41."coasteering." And, in your forecast, so far, so bad! But how
:09:41. > :09:44.is the weekend shaping up? I'm Now, it may sound quaint and a
:09:44. > :09:47.hangover from more rural times, but rustling is alive and well in the
:09:47. > :09:50.region - and hitting our farmers hard. North Yorkshire's been
:09:50. > :09:59.particularly badly affected. As Danny Carpenter reports, at one
:09:59. > :10:03.farm in Pickering, the thieves came back for a second helping.
:10:03. > :10:08.It may be a bit like locking the stable door after the horse has
:10:08. > :10:13.bolted, but Andrew Russell has to do something. He has been targeted
:10:13. > :10:18.by games to have stolen his sheep. Twice. I would say it was very
:10:18. > :10:22.organised. They knew what they had come for the new head to get them.
:10:22. > :10:26.The rustlers used dogs to round up the sheet, they had a lorry to take
:10:26. > :10:32.them away and some way of getting the meat, illegally, into the food
:10:32. > :10:34.supply. It is very distressing. Even more so now when you are
:10:35. > :10:40.thinking about replacing them with prices double what they were this
:10:40. > :10:45.time last year. Stealing livestock is on the rise, a significant
:10:45. > :10:49.factor in a 17% increase in rural crime last year. Insurers who
:10:49. > :10:53.specialise in farming so they have no doubt why it is happening.
:10:53. > :10:58.economy cannot help at the moment where people are going to find it
:10:58. > :11:01.difficult and those people who what in the industry of taking other
:11:01. > :11:06.people's property I going to sit there and say it is this a target
:11:06. > :11:10.that we could next go to? There are Farm Watch schemes and the police
:11:10. > :11:17.have promised greater visibility but it is the countryside. There
:11:17. > :11:20.are many outbuildings, and many more animals, and very few people.
:11:20. > :11:24.The first section of a new bypass linking parts of west Cumbria to
:11:24. > :11:27.Scotland opened this lunchtime. This part of the Carlisle Northern
:11:27. > :11:31.Development Route links junction 44 of the M6 with the industrial units
:11:31. > :11:37.at Kingmoor Park. The whole project's a private finance
:11:37. > :11:40.initiative, costing �176 million. It's been in the planning for more
:11:40. > :11:48.than a decade. And it'll bring benefits to both the city and to
:11:49. > :11:54.west Cumbria. 10 years in the making, a fantastic achievement,
:11:54. > :11:58.working in partnership with up partners. We on schedule and on
:11:58. > :12:00.budget, it's a fantastic achievement. It early part of it,
:12:00. > :12:04.but it will benefit Carlisle and Cumbria.
:12:04. > :12:07.Test samples have revealed high levels of toxins in a lake where
:12:07. > :12:10.three dogs died suddenly. The water at Burton Riggs nature reserve, at
:12:10. > :12:13.Crossgates near Scaborough, tested positive for blue green algae,
:12:13. > :12:17.which can kill cattle and other animals if it's ingested. Yorkshire
:12:17. > :12:22.Wildlife Trust, which owns the reserve, is warning people to stay
:12:22. > :12:26.out of the water and keep their dogs away.
:12:26. > :12:29.It's killed 14 people in the last five years and badly injured dozens
:12:29. > :12:33.more. But "tombstoning" is still claiming new victims. Jumping into
:12:33. > :12:37.water from high cliffs might seem like madness. But a Northumberland
:12:37. > :12:41.company says it can be done safely as part of an organised group. They
:12:41. > :12:45.call it "coasteering." But what message does this send out? Does it
:12:45. > :12:47.encourage people to leap into the unknown whenever they feel like it?
:12:48. > :12:53.Damian O'Neil joined a coasteering group for tonight's Look North
:12:53. > :12:56.report. It starts with small steps - this
:12:56. > :13:06.is the North Sea, not the Med The jumpers then move to progressively
:13:06. > :13:08.
:13:08. > :13:11.You won't hear anyone talking about tombstoning. We bring people down
:13:12. > :13:17.and introduce them at close quarters to the coastline. We have
:13:17. > :13:20.a look and what is on the coastline, in the rock pools, in the sea.
:13:20. > :13:28.Which is the mother what sector, about the GLC and history of the
:13:28. > :13:32.area. It stars with small steps. This is the North Sea, not the Med.
:13:32. > :13:37.I have got a cold shock. I'm thinking about these people who go
:13:37. > :13:43.tombstoning. He be jumping, you get this and you're in trouble already,
:13:43. > :13:47.whether or not you hit anything. Absolutely, it is that cold-water
:13:47. > :13:54.shock that you get. Your stunned momentarily in the water. Yes, it
:13:54. > :13:58.is quite a shock. The jumpers move to progressively higher platforms.
:13:58. > :14:01.They're all clear on one thing - that they'd never do this on their
:14:01. > :14:03.own The instructors say that far from encouraging tombstoning, an
:14:03. > :14:13.organised session like this will deter people from doing it
:14:13. > :14:21.unsupervised. The kids already understand the issues of
:14:21. > :14:26.tombstoning. Very dangerous. You up here pressured into doing it.
:14:26. > :14:28.instructors say that far from encouraging tombstoning, and
:14:28. > :14:32.organise social like this will deter people from doing it
:14:32. > :14:39.unsupervised. Before every outing, they check in with the coastguard,
:14:39. > :14:43.and they claim intimate knowledge of the local shores. We come down
:14:43. > :14:47.each spring in low water and map out what is there. Could there has
:14:47. > :14:54.been a store, we do it again to see what has moved. After a final
:14:54. > :14:59.safety briefing, the group moves on to the highest platforms of the day.
:14:59. > :15:03.This is about the limit of what we would take people off. This is what
:15:03. > :15:08.people rope regard as tombstoning. Yes, but if they are doing
:15:08. > :15:12.tombstoning, we would not condone it in any shape of form. QC they
:15:12. > :15:22.have not checked at the height of the conditions or the sea. Stepping
:15:22. > :15:24.
:15:24. > :15:27.up to make the leap is harder than you might think. But afterwards
:15:27. > :15:32.you're rewarded with a huge adrenalin rush, as you realise
:15:32. > :15:35.you're still in one piece. This is why people go tombstoning, but some
:15:35. > :15:44.of the group admit that doing it under supervision has put them
:15:44. > :15:49.right off doing it alone. Everybody here is tone the Lions then there
:15:49. > :15:54.would never do it. Be honest, would you? I've seen it done and I've
:15:54. > :15:57.seen what can happen, and a not particularly up for it. I think the
:15:57. > :16:02.way we doing it here, where you know it's safe and you can have a
:16:02. > :16:07.great time doing it is a better way of doing it. I've seen people doing
:16:07. > :16:10.it and just stared back, it's not for me. That was a really
:16:10. > :16:14.interesting taste of the experienced but even in these very
:16:14. > :16:17.controlled circumstances are still far like a real challenge and the
:16:17. > :16:21.thought of jumping off some word like that when you do not know what
:16:21. > :16:30.you're doing and landing somewhere like that, it makes your blood run
:16:30. > :16:36.cold. You don't want to do it. Even in so carers, I would not
:16:36. > :16:40.fancy that! Time for the sport. Football season just started.
:16:40. > :16:42.In the first round of the Carling Cup, there was a comfortable
:16:42. > :16:45.victory for Middlesbrough last night, with the games involving
:16:45. > :16:49.Carlisle and Hartlepool both going to a penalty shoot-out. And only
:16:49. > :16:52.one of them came out on top. Here's the best of the action.
:16:52. > :16:56.A much-changed Middlesbrough side - due in part to international call-
:16:56. > :17:00.ups. But 600 travelling Boro fans at least saw their team's first win
:17:00. > :17:04.of the new season. Their cause was helped by an early red card for
:17:04. > :17:07.Walsall's Adam Chambers. And it was that man Marvin Emnes, fresh from
:17:07. > :17:10.his contract extension, who popped up with a first hat-trick for the
:17:10. > :17:14.club at Walsall. A tougher test awaits at Elland Road this weekend,
:17:14. > :17:18.but a potential banana skin has been side-stepped by Tony Mowbray's
:17:18. > :17:21.men. Also through are Carlisle United, although they had to come
:17:21. > :17:27.from behind and force a penalty shoot-out before getting past North
:17:27. > :17:30.West rivals Oldham. The home side went in front from the spot. But a
:17:30. > :17:34.tactical switch saw the improving visitors equalise, with summer
:17:34. > :17:37.signing Jon-Paul McGoven's expertly taken free-kick. After Carlisle
:17:37. > :17:40.keeper Adam Collin had made two vital saves in the shoot-out, the
:17:40. > :17:45.Cumbrians finally made sure of their second round place, banishing
:17:45. > :17:48.some of the memories of the shocking opening day league defeat.
:17:48. > :17:52.A power cut before kick-off at Victoria Park meant the mid-evening
:17:52. > :17:57.sunshine was appreciated by some more than others. Hartlepool were
:17:57. > :18:00.up against former boss Danny Wilson. Pools also came from behind against
:18:00. > :18:04.newly relegated Sheffield United. Stephen Quinn gave the Blades the
:18:04. > :18:07.lead but Pools levelled thanks to Anthony Sweeney's goal. That game
:18:07. > :18:11.went to sudden death penalties, with Pools missing two of theirs to
:18:11. > :18:19.allow Danny Philliskirk the chance to seal a 5-4 penalty victory for
:18:20. > :18:23.the men from South Yorkshire. Less than three days to go before
:18:23. > :18:26.the scheduled start of the new Premier League season. A decision
:18:27. > :18:29.will be made tomorrow on whether games will go ahead despite the
:18:29. > :18:32.England-wide riots. Today, defender George McCartney has left
:18:32. > :18:35.Sunderland to join his former club, West Ham, on a season-long loan.
:18:35. > :18:39.Meanwhile, his manager, Steve Bruce, was a guest on BBC Newcastle's
:18:39. > :18:49.Total Sport radio show last night. He fielded questions on a host of
:18:49. > :18:51.
:18:51. > :18:55.talking points. The big for me was persuading John O'Shea a Sunday
:18:55. > :18:58.like Wes Brown to come to the club. That is where the club for me has
:18:58. > :19:03.progress. Perhaps three or four years ago would not be possible to
:19:03. > :19:08.get to players of their colour but to try and get through the door.
:19:08. > :19:13.They certainly got the hell of her reputation and people think they
:19:13. > :19:16.had been bit-part players. John O'Shea has played 35 off 40 game to
:19:16. > :19:20.season for Manchester United for the last 10 years, which is
:19:20. > :19:26.remarkable achievement, so I'm sure that will add something to us. We
:19:26. > :19:31.could still play with our -- he could still play in a youth team if
:19:32. > :19:37.he wanted to. He has fantastic potential so we must protect him.
:19:37. > :19:44.He will be a fantastic addition to the team and a wonderful footballer.
:19:44. > :19:47.Just briefly upon Jamie Maclean. is raw, he is hungry, he has a huge
:19:48. > :19:55.desire to succeed and I hope he does. If he comes into the squad
:19:55. > :20:00.and the next 12 months, fantastic. Can you ask Steve what the story
:20:00. > :20:04.was with Darron Gibson? We make him a really good offer and stuck with
:20:04. > :20:09.it but unfortunately Darren and his adviser did not see it that way.
:20:09. > :20:14.There has been a bit of a stalemate on it. Who knows? There's still a
:20:14. > :20:17.month to go on it or whatever, but there still seems to be stalemate
:20:17. > :20:20.for stock Newcastle United striker Shola Ameobi has signed a contract
:20:20. > :20:24.extension to keep him at the club until 2014. The 29-year-old has
:20:24. > :20:27.played more than 300 games for the Magpies, scoring 70 goals since he
:20:27. > :20:30.made his debut 11 years ago. Meanwhile, the club's newest
:20:30. > :20:40.signing, Gabriel Obertan, has been telling us about his move from Old
:20:40. > :20:46.
:20:46. > :20:49.Trafford and the new French It's so good to have a better
:20:50. > :20:53.chance of regular first team football. That was the main reason
:20:53. > :20:59.the pacy Paris-born winger Gabriel Obertan was persuaded to swap the
:20:59. > :21:03.champions Manchester United for Newcastle. I couldn't see myself
:21:03. > :21:07.doing another season like last season because it is frustrating
:21:07. > :21:12.just to be under benches and to play with the reserves. At some
:21:12. > :21:16.point you need to play. I spoke to some of my friends in England and
:21:16. > :21:22.this had Newcastle is quite amazing, the city is good, the fans are
:21:22. > :21:26.crazy about football. I'm just excited, I would like to see that
:21:26. > :21:28.first came up against Arsenal. The atmosphere will be electric.
:21:29. > :21:38.Obertan, who's 22, joins the growing French-speaking contingent
:21:39. > :21:41.
:21:41. > :21:47.at St James's Park. We played together for three years in France.
:21:47. > :21:54.And another player as well from Paris. We will bring some other
:21:54. > :21:59.French players, anyway! In cricket, four wickets for
:21:59. > :22:04.Yorkshire's Tim Bresnan in the test match and a good day for his county
:22:05. > :22:12.in the 40 over competition. They won by 22 runs in an match that
:22:12. > :22:20.started early on police advice. Meanwhile, will rain to Israel
:22:20. > :22:24.Durham's hopes of a third title in four years, we've reported on a few
:22:24. > :22:30.world record attempts over the years, but nothing quite like this.
:22:30. > :22:34.This one involves a car powered purely by coffee. Yes, and it'll be
:22:34. > :22:38.attempting a land speed record in York next month. Ian Reeve was at
:22:38. > :22:47.its Elvington test run today. See how many of his dreadful coffee
:22:47. > :22:52.puns you can spot. Coffee's energizing effect was
:22:52. > :22:56.supposedly discovered by a 9th century Ethiopian goatherd. Martin
:22:56. > :23:06.Bacon has happened upon another. Dried coffee pellets in the burner
:23:06. > :23:09.will power his car...a carpaccino, if you will. Gasification is
:23:10. > :23:14.burning fuel would limited oxygen so you're getting that flammable
:23:14. > :23:18.gas coming off. But this test - a prelude to trying to break the land
:23:18. > :23:24.speed record for a car powered by gasification - has the mochas put
:23:24. > :23:29.on it. We are going to tear it off and see we can get it going like
:23:29. > :23:32.that. The battery is running low. tow can't get it going. Playing
:23:32. > :23:42.along with the coffee jokes, the car actually needs its filters
:23:42. > :23:45.
:23:45. > :23:49.changing. We just flush the system out, as you can see! This second
:23:49. > :23:59.effort gets yards before it grinds to a halt...weaker than a double
:23:59. > :24:10.
:24:10. > :24:18.decaff. But then, au lait, the speed builds. Come on, baby!
:24:18. > :24:27.Perhaps it's the caffeine talking, but Martin's buzzing. 45 mph!
:24:27. > :24:31.Gasification. It's the future. have power stations in this country
:24:31. > :24:35.now that burka gasification. In the second-world-war used to have
:24:35. > :24:40.vehicles and run on gasification. If it is a teacher is coming in
:24:40. > :24:44.smoking fits and starts. We have stood around for three or four
:24:44. > :24:48.hours and the rain and seen three of four passes of the track. Would
:24:48. > :24:53.it be too cheesy to suggest it is time to go home for a nice cup of
:24:54. > :25:03.coffee! A thing what was missing was the
:25:04. > :25:05.
:25:06. > :25:12.chocolate biscuits! Time for the It is extremely wet, looking very
:25:12. > :25:16.little light summer. We start at South Shields pier where some
:25:16. > :25:23.hopeful people going off on a cruise hoping for better weather.
:25:23. > :25:31.Closer to home, the river will be more than P the coloured and there
:25:31. > :25:35.will be a lot more water coming through in the next day or so. We
:25:35. > :25:41.start with an Met Office warning of more heavy rain. It will continue
:25:41. > :25:45.through the night and into tomorrow. On the map you can see it as
:25:45. > :25:52.Cumbria and Northumberland best place to catch most of the rain.
:25:52. > :25:59.Some places catching double the 50 mm by the end of tomorrow.
:25:59. > :26:05.Everywhere getting a good soaking overnight. 14-15 Celsius, quite
:26:05. > :26:08.mild overnight. Tomorrow, we still have the cloud and rain. Not much
:26:08. > :26:13.different to today but in the afternoon he will start to see the
:26:13. > :26:18.rain for breaking up a bit. Parts of Cumbria and into North Yorkshire,
:26:18. > :26:23.you will start to dry out a little bit. It will make a difference to
:26:23. > :26:28.the temperatures in the south. Picking up to about 20 Celsius in
:26:28. > :26:33.the brighter parts later on. That is some cause for celebration, even
:26:33. > :26:38.if it is only for a few of us. For the rest of the week we see more
:26:38. > :26:43.front pushing in from the West. Even into the weekend, although
:26:43. > :26:49.most of the fronts of through, which took its and showers behind.
:26:49. > :26:54.Both that they and Sunday prone to if you throw me at pricks. So,
:26:54. > :27:04.Thursday and Friday pretty much water war cloud and a lot of rain
:27:04. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:13.Before we go, tonight's main news again, and After a fourth night of
:27:13. > :27:16.violence in cities across England, Prime Minister David Cameron has
:27:16. > :27:20.said police have now been authorised to use water cannons if
:27:20. > :27:23.needed, as well as plastic bullets, to stop the disorder. And a police
:27:23. > :27:27.station in Washington in Tyne and Wear has been attacked by a gang of