:00:08. > :00:15.Welcome to Thursday's Look North. Tonight, another scandal at one of
:00:15. > :00:18.our care homes. Inspectors found appalling levels of hygiene. One
:00:18. > :00:23.the residents have been given an overdose and one had not been fed
:00:23. > :00:31.properly. We have given for warning notices and Middleton Lodge are now
:00:31. > :00:36.required to meet several targets very quickly. Guilty of this
:00:36. > :00:44.conduct - the police officer who used his position to have
:00:44. > :00:51.relationships with women. Torrential rain put a stop to one
:00:51. > :00:57.of hour annual shows. And a campaign to honour one of the
:00:57. > :01:07.country's first MPs. And Alan Pardew heads towards the new season
:01:07. > :01:11.
:01:11. > :01:17.of one man down as Jose Enrique it makes his way to Liverpool.
:01:17. > :01:21.Appalling levels of cleanliness and hygiene. One of residence seriously
:01:21. > :01:30.underweight and poor administration of medicines. Just some of the
:01:30. > :01:38.findings from the inspector and -- inspection of a care home.
:01:38. > :01:48.Middleton Lodge was given for warnings by the care home quality
:01:48. > :01:53.
:01:53. > :01:59.commission. Behind this door, regulators found
:01:59. > :02:09.a mountain of problems. It is home to people with mental health
:02:09. > :02:18.
:02:18. > :02:28.More alarmingly, won a resident was not getting enough to eat and the
:02:28. > :02:32.
:02:32. > :02:36.regulators had to call in medical help. No-one knew Pete nutritional
:02:36. > :02:40.intake of people and it was not being monitored properly. In the
:02:40. > :02:44.case of the person who had been lowered body mass index weighting,
:02:44. > :02:50.we sought immediate medical help to make sure they were not at risk of
:02:50. > :02:55.further harm. Since the inspection in June, the home has become
:02:55. > :03:00.compliant with one of the four warning notice. It immediately
:03:00. > :03:04.improve its cleanliness and hygiene. Another inspection is imminent to
:03:04. > :03:10.see whether it the other matters have improved. The owner of
:03:10. > :03:14.Middleton large is a Merseyside based company. It has 11 more homes
:03:14. > :03:23.in our region as well as to care centres. It says it cares for the
:03:23. > :03:29.highest standards at all times. -- it strives. And if you have a
:03:29. > :03:37.relative their lives in Middleton Lodge, please get in contact with
:03:37. > :03:43.us. -- that lives. A police officer faces a possible jail sentence
:03:43. > :03:47.after being found guilty of abusing his position to meet women for sex.
:03:47. > :03:56.Detective Constable Mark Fisher access complete -- police computers
:03:56. > :04:00.to find details about women he'd targeted. He tried to pay off the
:04:00. > :04:05.drug debt of one of the women he targeted. He will be sentenced
:04:05. > :04:10.tomorrow. Detective Constable Mark Fisher had
:04:10. > :04:15.been in a position of trust and today a jury decided he had abused
:04:15. > :04:19.that trust by using police time and equipment to get in contact with
:04:19. > :04:24.vulnerable women, some of whom he went on to have sexual
:04:24. > :04:28.relationships with. The father of two had been accused of nine
:04:28. > :04:32.charges of misconduct in a public office. The jury of nine men and
:04:32. > :04:38.three women at Carlisle Crown Court found him guilty of five of those
:04:38. > :04:44.charges. They related to Detective Constable Fisher showing an assault
:04:44. > :04:54.victim and a photograph of her alleged attacker, potentially
:04:54. > :05:02.
:05:02. > :05:12.He was found not guilty of a 4th charge relating to using the data
:05:12. > :05:26.
:05:26. > :05:30.The five women that came forward were extremely brave and I am
:05:30. > :05:36.grateful they have spoken to us in the first place and Stockwood ask
:05:36. > :05:42.right the way through to court. He has definitely gone on to be wrong
:05:42. > :05:48.side. He has lost perspective and has let the organisation down, his
:05:48. > :05:52.colleagues down and the public. After the five guilty verdicts were
:05:52. > :05:56.returned, the judge remanded Detective Constable Fisher in
:05:56. > :06:00.custody. He told the officer there was only one sentence he would be
:06:00. > :06:10.considering an that would be a custodial one. That sentence will
:06:10. > :06:21.
:06:21. > :06:27.Torrential rain and flood warnings. Not that whether we want and to
:06:27. > :06:31.date came the first major casualty. In its 150 year history the Slaley
:06:31. > :06:35.Show has only been called off because of war and the full turnout
:06:35. > :06:45.disease, Until now that is. Organisers say the relentless rain
:06:45. > :06:45.
:06:45. > :06:50.has put a stop to the show. Our correspondent is at the Showground.
:06:50. > :06:56.When you stand in a wet field in a middle of August for several hours,
:06:56. > :07:02.it prompts several questions. One, is it really augurs and not
:07:02. > :07:08.November? Is this really summer? And just how wet can a Look North
:07:08. > :07:12.reporter get? The organisers of the Slaley Show also asked themselves
:07:12. > :07:18.questions. The marquees are but nobody is coming this year because
:07:18. > :07:23.it is closed. It is augurs and it is an English summer. You might
:07:23. > :07:31.need a reminder of what August should look like. We are shown
:07:31. > :07:38.renewed these pictures of August. Think of it as a handy reference
:07:38. > :07:44.guide. Wonderful, warm and summary. And this year, a complete washout.
:07:44. > :07:54.It is absolutely coming down in buckets. It is 14 Celsius and
:07:54. > :08:03.
:08:03. > :08:08.somewhere, probably, is an object we know as the sun. This is Slaley
:08:08. > :08:12.Show's ground. We studied the weather forecasts for this week and
:08:12. > :08:19.were horrified to see that it is going to rain all week. There is an
:08:20. > :08:23.awful lot to do between Tuesday and Saturday, the day of the show. We
:08:23. > :08:27.consider the conditions were too serious to allow people on to the
:08:27. > :08:32.show ground and to be able to hold the show it safely and in good
:08:32. > :08:37.order. The event has been running for over 150 years. They even
:08:37. > :08:43.managed to organise one in the First World War in 1916, but not
:08:43. > :08:50.this time. It is probably more disappointing for the committee who
:08:50. > :08:54.had pulled in nearly 11 months were setting the show on its way, and
:08:54. > :09:04.financially, obviously we have some insurance to cover a work major
:09:04. > :09:07.
:09:07. > :09:12.costs, but we will be out of pocket. So, 150 years of the Slaley Show,
:09:12. > :09:18.but not this one. They are confident, weather permitting, they
:09:18. > :09:21.will be back next year. Back to the studio.
:09:21. > :09:24.A man has admitted raping a pensioner 30 years after he was
:09:24. > :09:26.acquitted of the crime. It's thought to be the first time
:09:26. > :09:29.Northumbria Police has secured a conviction using the recent change
:09:29. > :09:32.in the law relating to double jeopardy, where someone can be
:09:32. > :09:37.tried twice for the same offence. John Renner Dillon, who's now 45,
:09:37. > :09:42.stood trial in 1983 for the rape of a 63-year-old woman. He was
:09:42. > :09:46.acquitted and she died in 1992. He was jailed in 2008 for the rape of
:09:46. > :09:50.a 15 year-old girl. Following a positive DNA match, he appeared at
:09:50. > :09:55.Newcastle Crown Court yesterday and admitted the rape of the pensioner.
:09:55. > :09:59.He'll be sentenced in six weeks. Five more men have been arrested,
:09:59. > :10:02.after a police car was set alight in Washington. The window of a
:10:02. > :10:05.police station was also smashed in the attack early on Wednesday
:10:06. > :10:09.morning. Two people were arrested at the time,they are still in
:10:09. > :10:11.custody. Northumbria Police insisted the incident was not
:10:11. > :10:21.linked to this week's riots elsewhere, but they have praised
:10:21. > :10:27.
:10:27. > :10:34.people in the area for remaining calm over recent days. The
:10:34. > :10:41.territorial army will soon make up 30 % of soldier numbers. Well TAs
:10:41. > :10:45.from the 4th Battalion and, the Yorkshire government are completing
:10:45. > :10:48.their training before going to Afghanistan.
:10:48. > :10:51.The possibility of active service is now a reality for these
:10:52. > :11:01.volunteer soldiers and the nerves are growing as they reach the end
:11:02. > :11:02.
:11:02. > :11:08.of their training. We are on our final exercises. I am looking
:11:08. > :11:12.forward to it. We are training hard and a lot of guys are looking
:11:12. > :11:18.forward to using their skills on the ground. Now their deployment
:11:18. > :11:21.has been confirmed, their training has been stepped up. By the end of
:11:21. > :11:30.October at the soldiers will be doing this for real in Afghanistan.
:11:30. > :11:36.The emphasis now is on helping the Afghan people. We will continue to
:11:36. > :11:43.provide security in those three key areas of Helmand province. We will
:11:43. > :11:46.also be helping the Afghan army take control. So in a recreate it
:11:47. > :11:56.Afghan village they practise securing the area and all the time
:11:56. > :12:00.working alongside the Afghan national army and police. We would
:12:00. > :12:05.get in with the population and try to get them on our side a bit more
:12:05. > :12:10.and then hopefully it sort out the bigger picture. The MoD recently
:12:10. > :12:15.announced a bigger role for the Territorial Army in the wake of
:12:15. > :12:20.cuts to the regular Army. This battalion are already training with
:12:20. > :12:26.regulars and will serve alongside each other in Helmand. Their
:12:26. > :12:30.performance on the grounds and therefore Foreman's -- on the
:12:30. > :12:34.ground and their performance in general has been exceptional.
:12:34. > :12:44.the end of next month they will be heading to the front line in
:12:44. > :12:49.
:12:49. > :12:52.Afghanistan. The best of luck to them. You are watching Look North.
:12:52. > :12:58.Coming up - Alan Shearer as you have never and it's seen him before.
:12:58. > :13:02.And somewhere in our region it was the wettest place in England this
:13:02. > :13:05.week. Join me for the forecast later.
:13:05. > :13:08.She was a left wing firebrand they dubbed Red Ellen. Now, more than 60
:13:08. > :13:12.years after her death, there are calls for a proper memorial to
:13:12. > :13:15.Ellen Wilkinson in the town which first elected her. She was one of
:13:15. > :13:18.the trailblazers for women in politics when she became MP for
:13:18. > :13:28.Middlesbrough East in 1924. But some feel the town has forgotten
:13:28. > :13:31.
:13:31. > :13:41.her. Daughter of a cotton worker, Ellen
:13:41. > :13:46.Wilkinson died a Cabinet minister. Ellen had been a fighter all her
:13:46. > :13:52.life. A fighter baulk the common people. But Ellen Wilkinson's
:13:52. > :13:57.journey to the stop started here in Middlesbrough. In 1924 the only
:13:57. > :14:06.women who had the vote were those with a property all over the age of
:14:07. > :14:14.30. It was thought that by then they would be more mature. Against
:14:14. > :14:19.that backdrop, Ellen Wilkinson was elected as an MP. She has been
:14:19. > :14:21.overlooked for too long. We need to recognise the importance of Ellen
:14:21. > :14:27.Wilkinson in the history of Middlesbrough, the History of
:14:27. > :14:30.Parliament and the history of the North East. It is a great story.
:14:30. > :14:36.That stories are Ellen Wilkinson become MP for Middlesbrough of
:14:36. > :14:41.seven years. She had been part of the suffragette movement and was a
:14:41. > :14:48.leader of the Jarrow March. She was also an education minister, but
:14:48. > :14:53.many have not heard of her. Wilkinson? Aren't they the company
:14:53. > :14:56.that makes thoughts? I don't know what she has done for the town.
:14:57. > :15:00.Ellen Wilkinson remains a significant figure in British
:15:00. > :15:08.political history, even if Middlesbrough it seems to have
:15:08. > :15:18.forgotten. Farewell, Ellen. Great creative soul. We will carry on
:15:18. > :15:18.
:15:18. > :15:22.your work. An amazing woman. Vandals are often to blame, but it
:15:22. > :15:24.was rats chewing through cables at the side of the East Coast main
:15:24. > :15:27.line that caused chaos for railway commuters this morning. Some
:15:27. > :15:30.services were cancelled and many other trains were delayed while
:15:30. > :15:32.repairs were carried out to signals at Morpeth. The timetable is back
:15:32. > :15:35.to normal now. Borrowers have stacked up hundreds
:15:35. > :15:38.of thousands of pounds in unpaid library fines across the North East
:15:38. > :15:43.and North Yorkshire. Using the Freedom of Information Act, the BBC
:15:43. > :15:52.has discovered nearly �400,000 is owed to libraries in the region.
:15:52. > :15:55.�180,000 of that was in North Yorkshire. The largest amount owed
:15:55. > :16:05.by an individual was in Gateshead where one borrower owes more than
:16:05. > :16:05.
:16:05. > :16:15.�500 in fines. John Grundy has been to Nenthead Mines Heritage Centre,
:16:15. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:22.up on the border of Cumbria and Durham.
:16:22. > :16:32.For nearly half of my life, probably more, fast part of the
:16:32. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:41.North have been covered by it signs of mining. Huge areas that had
:16:41. > :16:46.industrial minds of every type. But where are they now? They barely
:16:46. > :16:55.exist. It seems that the moment the mines were no longer needed, we
:16:55. > :17:05.felt the need to obliterate them. We did not need to do that with
:17:05. > :17:12.
:17:12. > :17:19.other redundant buildings of. -- buildings. However, here there are
:17:19. > :17:24.some of the old mines and I love the landscape. If I was one of the
:17:24. > :17:29.famous five I would explore down there and have spiffing adventures.
:17:29. > :17:35.I love the whole landscape. There is something desolate and
:17:35. > :17:41.magnificent about it. It is like something from the American Wild
:17:41. > :17:51.West during the Californian gold rush. All of that Stone came out of
:17:51. > :17:53.
:17:53. > :18:02.here, which is where I am going now. Wish me luck as You Wave Me Goodbye.
:18:02. > :18:11.I am down here to meet and experts on the local mines. It is a bit
:18:12. > :18:17.scary down here. It needn't be. That is fantastic. These tunnels go
:18:17. > :18:23.several miles into the hillside. They say there are over 100 miles
:18:23. > :18:29.of tunnels in the valley here. This level was dog over 200 years ago.
:18:29. > :18:34.There has probably been at mining here from Roman times. Watch your
:18:34. > :18:38.head here, John. They were following the these cracks in the
:18:38. > :18:48.rock and as they were going higher, they had to build platforms so they
:18:48. > :18:53.
:18:53. > :18:59.could reach higher. And what they were looking for was this - led off.
:18:59. > :19:09.One thing I have not said about the lead at all mining industry in is
:19:09. > :19:10.
:19:10. > :19:16.how beautiful it is. The surrounding fields are a riot of
:19:16. > :19:20.colour. I have one more thing to show you. One more piece that
:19:20. > :19:30.evidence. At the bottom of here there is a ton of five miles long
:19:30. > :19:33.
:19:33. > :19:43.and the shaft is 328 ft deep. If you want to hear how deep that is.
:19:43. > :19:49.
:19:49. > :19:52.-- that is, listen while I'd drop a virtual stone down it.
:19:53. > :19:55.And now for the sport. Another of Newcastle United's big
:19:56. > :19:58.name players is tonight on the verge of leaving the club. Spanish
:19:58. > :20:01.left-back Jose Enrique has spent the afternoon on Merseyside trying
:20:01. > :20:04.to finalise a move to Liverpool, which has been talked about all
:20:04. > :20:06.summer. But the Magpies are confident of drafting in a
:20:06. > :20:10.replacement sooner rather than later, as Mark Tulip explains.
:20:10. > :20:13.He was one of the few good things to come out of Sam Allardyce's
:20:13. > :20:17.short-lived reign as Newcastle manager. Overcoming a shaky start
:20:17. > :20:20.to become one of the first names on the team sheet in his 4 seasons on
:20:20. > :20:23.Tyneside. But after Jose Enrique rejected the offer of a new
:20:23. > :20:27.contract at St James's - it was fairly obvious that his time in the
:20:27. > :20:30.North East had come to an end. This morning as his former team mates
:20:30. > :20:40.took the training ground - the Spanish defender was already on his
:20:40. > :20:46.way to Liverpool to undergo a medical. Last year he made it clear
:20:46. > :20:50.he had no motivation to re-signed. We could not afford not to take the
:20:50. > :20:56.best price we could get and that is what has happened. Now we need to
:20:56. > :20:59.find a replacement, which is ongoing. United should get back
:21:00. > :21:03.more or less what they paid for the 25-year-old around �6 million and
:21:03. > :21:06.Alan Pardew says he will have the funds from the transfer to re-
:21:06. > :21:08.invest. The Newcastle manager hopes to bring in two or three players
:21:09. > :21:15.before the end of the transfer window. The exact number will
:21:15. > :21:20.depend on Joey Barton, who's future at the club remains unresolved.
:21:21. > :21:25.have no problem with each other and we will see what happens. I am
:21:25. > :21:35.optimistic he can still feature on Saturday and at Sunderland. If he
:21:35. > :21:37.doesn't, we will have to fight a replacement that is just as good.
:21:37. > :21:40.Meanwhile, Newcastle have announced that fans who attended the
:21:40. > :21:43.abandoned friendly against Fiorentina can claim a ticket for a
:21:43. > :21:45.selected Premier League game. The match was called off after an hour
:21:45. > :21:48.due to a heavily waterlogged pitch with the score goalless.
:21:48. > :21:52.Well, over on Wearside Sunderland's players are preparing to line up
:21:52. > :21:55.against their former team-mate Jordan Henderson. The sale of the
:21:55. > :21:58.21-year-old to Liverpool has financed a major overhaul of the
:21:58. > :22:07.Black Cat's squad, with manager Steve Bruce brining in ten new
:22:07. > :22:12.faces to the squad, in what's been a busy summer. We hope we can get
:22:12. > :22:17.all the boys hitting the ground running and can we improve on last
:22:17. > :22:26.year? It will be difficult. If we stay up this year, it will be the
:22:26. > :22:29.first time the club has gone six years in the Premier League.
:22:29. > :22:31.Meanwhile Newcastle full back James Tavernier has joined Carlisle on a
:22:31. > :22:34.month's loan. The 19-year-old will go straight into Gregg Abbott's
:22:34. > :22:37.squad for their trip to Bury at the weekend. Tavernier spent last
:22:37. > :22:43.season on loan at Gateshead, who get their Blue Square Premier
:22:43. > :22:45.League campaign underway at Kidderminster on Saturday.
:22:45. > :22:48.Finally, sporting victims of the weather today have included the
:22:48. > :22:51.county cricket at Chester-le-Street where no play was possible between
:22:51. > :23:00.Durham and Hampshire on Day Two. Meanwhile tonight's Redcar Bears
:23:00. > :23:03.speedway meeting was postponed earlier.
:23:03. > :23:06.We're going to stay with the football theme now and a Geordie
:23:06. > :23:11.hero. As journalists, we know there's an art to making fresh news
:23:11. > :23:14.headlines, but how about making fresh art from old headlines? Well
:23:14. > :23:17.Tony Montague of Whitley Bay has done that by recycling his
:23:17. > :23:27.newspapers into a picture of Alan Shearer and prints will be sold at
:23:27. > :23:31.
:23:31. > :23:37.a charity auction tomorrow. It started off as a photograph from
:23:37. > :23:45.the Evening Chronicle. I like the man and I like the poets where he
:23:46. > :23:50.has obviously just scored a goal. He is no stranger to headlines.
:23:50. > :23:58.Alan Shearer sporting hundreds of strips of newspaper. It is headline
:23:58. > :24:08.art created by a Tony Montagu. one is text from sports pages. You
:24:08. > :24:09.
:24:09. > :24:15.get different tones depending on the texts and the size of it. The
:24:15. > :24:25.small text, like league tables, it give a great background. The first
:24:25. > :24:30.
:24:30. > :24:38.Prince will be sold at a charity. have got in be careful with my red
:24:38. > :24:45.and white vans. -- fans. When I first saw it, I thought it was
:24:45. > :24:52.fantastic. Or you going tomorrow? am not. I want to keep out of the
:24:52. > :24:59.limelight. Tony is already planning his next project. That looked
:24:59. > :25:04.fantastic, unlike the weather map. It has not stopped raining in many
:25:04. > :25:10.places, but I had been digging deep for some good news for you. More of
:25:10. > :25:18.that in a second, but one of our towns has the dubious accolade of
:25:18. > :25:24.being the wettest place in Britain. 115 mm since the start of August,
:25:24. > :25:31.which is more than we would expect through the entire month. Very wet
:25:31. > :25:35.there. When I last look -- looked, it was still raining in
:25:35. > :25:45.Northumberland. There is a ray of hope. There will
:25:45. > :25:49.
:25:49. > :25:52.be a stark blue -- slight blue of hope over the weekend. Tomorrow,
:25:52. > :25:59.mainly clear in the east, but tomorrow night the next band of
:25:59. > :26:07.rain comes through. Saturday, showers left over. Sunday, a little
:26:07. > :26:15.bit of brightness over central part of the region. This evening, the
:26:15. > :26:20.rain continues. It is working its way southwards. Many places well
:26:21. > :26:28.have a dry end to the night. It will be mild and humid with
:26:28. > :26:32.temperatures ranging between 12 and 15 Celsius. Friday morning, many
:26:32. > :26:37.places will be tried to start with, but do not be fooled. We will have
:26:37. > :26:46.some sunshine and dry weather, but later in the day that next batch of
:26:46. > :26:51.rain will come in with a vengeance. So it will be another day of
:26:51. > :27:01.reduced temperatures that this time of year. It will be 15 degrees in
:27:01. > :27:04.
:27:04. > :27:14.Newcastle and elsewhere the maximum will be 18. For the weekends, rain
:27:14. > :27:20.