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