:00:06. > :00:09.Welcome to Friday's Look North. In tonight's headlines.
:00:09. > :00:13.The police and council investigation is under way into the
:00:13. > :00:16.running of two children's nurseries. One week on, police state to the
:00:16. > :00:21.streets to discover who murdered a pensioner from Hexham.
:00:21. > :00:26.Why a country show whose future was threatened by legal action is back
:00:26. > :00:30.on the back Colin Callander. And why t another Jules is flavour
:00:30. > :00:33.of the month. In sport, Joey Barton tells us why
:00:33. > :00:37.he has left Tyneside for west London.
:00:37. > :00:47.The Magpie squad Barton has left behind Marilyn made it through to
:00:47. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:59.the third round of the Carling Cup. Two children's nurseries in York
:00:59. > :01:02.are under investigation by the City Council and police. A number of
:01:02. > :01:06.staff at she would house in Melrosegate and Little Joes in
:01:06. > :01:10.Fishergate have been temporarily suspended. The council will not
:01:10. > :01:13.explain the allegations, nor will the police. The owner says she is
:01:13. > :01:19.in the dark, she is horrified, and it is having a devastating effect
:01:19. > :01:23.on her business. She what has nurse recalled
:01:23. > :01:27.satisfactory in Ofsted inspection in May. Little Joes inspected three
:01:27. > :01:31.years ago - children up to the age of eight described as relaxed and
:01:31. > :01:35.confident. The inquiry into the two nurseries
:01:35. > :01:40.began two days ago. Since then the number of staff have been suspended
:01:40. > :01:46.by their employer. No details have been revealed, but any question of
:01:46. > :01:51.sexual abuse against children has been ruled out. We appreciated that
:01:51. > :01:55.this is going to cause anxiety to parents. I am a parent and I can
:01:55. > :01:59.appreciate just how much anxiety it would cause, what I would say is
:01:59. > :02:04.that clearly what jobs into parents' mind when you talk about
:02:04. > :02:08.allegations relating to nurseries is the more recent high-profile
:02:08. > :02:13.case in the south of England. We are not talking about the same kind
:02:13. > :02:18.of investigation, we are not talking about sexual up base --
:02:18. > :02:21.sexual abuse. The owner of the nursery's question what the council
:02:21. > :02:28.said about suspensions. She is horrified about the allegations
:02:29. > :02:35.being made. I have asked several goals if they will be strong, they
:02:35. > :02:40.are resilient, I am behind them 110%, but if they could just stay
:02:40. > :02:44.at home until I find out what is happening and the situation gets
:02:44. > :02:49.resolved. I am distraught to be honest - complete shock. Appalled
:02:49. > :02:54.at the way things have gone and what happened. I realise complaints
:02:54. > :02:58.have been made but I have no idea where from, I do not know the
:02:58. > :03:03.extent of the complaints. A lot of people have withdrawn their
:03:03. > :03:08.children and it has had a bad effect on my business. Some parents
:03:08. > :03:12.have posted messages on the website supporting the staff. The majority
:03:12. > :03:17.have worked for me for years and they are superb at what they do.
:03:17. > :03:19.They genuinely love these children. York council and the police say
:03:19. > :03:27.they do not know how long their investigations into the nurseries
:03:27. > :03:29.will take. One week on from the murder of 77-
:03:30. > :03:34.year-old Judith Richardson, and police say they will find her
:03:34. > :03:40.killer. She was beaten to death with a hammer at her home in Hexham.
:03:40. > :03:46.Her bag was found that day in Newcastle. When police returned it,
:03:46. > :03:52.they found her body. Her brother and sister aged 74 and 68 have been
:03:52. > :03:56.released on bail. The flowers lies some way distant,
:03:56. > :04:00.because the house is still being examined by scientists. On the
:04:00. > :04:04.window, signs of a search for fingerprints, and everyone walking
:04:04. > :04:09.or driving through the street is afternoon invited to have a
:04:09. > :04:12.friendly chat. This is all about people's habits -
:04:12. > :04:17.if they are at this afternoon there is a good chance they were out last
:04:17. > :04:22.week, and if they were, did they see something which could help the
:04:22. > :04:28.police find whoever is responsible? An interruption, but nobody minded.
:04:28. > :04:32.Here his wife. I just said to the police, things
:04:32. > :04:35.like this do not happen in Hexham. But it did happen here, and the
:04:35. > :04:44.police say whoever did it could give themselves away to people who
:04:44. > :04:48.know them. If you have a friend, a colleague, or neighbour, you will
:04:48. > :04:53.notice some change or behaviour, and if you have any concerns,
:04:53. > :04:58.please contact us. Ms Richardson's bag was dumped in Clayton Street in
:04:58. > :05:04.Newcastle, so the police were talking to shoppers here today.
:05:04. > :05:06.Significant perhaps, this area has a number of second-hand shops.
:05:06. > :05:11.While the police know the bag contained a bank cards, they have
:05:11. > :05:21.not find them yet. But this they were third public's help, it isn't
:05:21. > :05:25.
:05:25. > :05:29.a matter of whether they solve the The jury has been sent home for the
:05:29. > :05:34.weekend to consider its verdict in the trial of a 77-year-old man, his
:05:34. > :05:39.son and his grandson. They are all accused of murder. John Newton who
:05:39. > :05:46.was 45 and from red card died after being bundled into a van and being
:05:46. > :05:53.badly beaten. George Thomas Senior, his son George Thomas and grandson
:05:53. > :05:56.Stephen Thomas all deny the charge -- deny the charge.
:05:56. > :06:00.The Office for Judicial Complaints has issued an investigation into
:06:00. > :06:04.the coroner for Teesside, Michael Sheffield. Last month we reported
:06:04. > :06:10.that bereaved families are having to wait ten months before inquests
:06:10. > :06:14.into the deaths of the late loved ones. Mr Sheffield says he will not
:06:14. > :06:18.resign. A new �1 million pharmacy unit is
:06:18. > :06:22.being opened in Northumberland providing chemotherapy for cancer
:06:22. > :06:27.patients. The sterile unit at Wansbeck General Hospital in
:06:27. > :06:32.Ashington was unveiled by MP Ian Lavery. The number of patients
:06:32. > :06:37.needing cancer treatment at a farm near Healthcare NHS Foundation
:06:37. > :06:43.Trust has increased by more than a third since 2007. Six new staff
:06:43. > :06:46.have been taken on, and they will prepare medicines for patience from
:06:46. > :06:51.Berwick, North Tyneside and Wansbeck hospitals. It will save
:06:51. > :06:56.people making long journeys for their treatment. When patients are
:06:56. > :07:00.having chemotherapy it is not a very nice time for them, and to
:07:00. > :07:05.have to travel long distances to get their medication, it is not
:07:05. > :07:11.something they can take and have at home, it is obviously a lot better
:07:11. > :07:16.for them to be able to be in the unit that is near where they live.
:07:16. > :07:19.Rather than having to travel 50 miles of further in some cases.
:07:19. > :07:23.A country show in Northumberland which was scrapped because the
:07:23. > :07:28.organisers were afraid of being sued returns this weekend. The
:07:28. > :07:36.annual Dyke Neuk show stopped when Bormann took legal action over an
:07:36. > :07:40.injury she says she suffered when taking part in a side show right.
:07:40. > :07:46.-- a side show ride. It has been running here for many
:07:46. > :07:49.years, it is traditional, and it is the hub of the community in the
:07:49. > :07:53.summertime. It is the sort of show you find in
:07:53. > :07:58.the little corners of the countryside, as English as Jane
:07:58. > :08:01.Seymour dancing around a May Ball, eating a Cox's Orange Pippin while
:08:01. > :08:06.a spit fire does victory rolls of a head.
:08:06. > :08:10.But darkness fell over the Dyke Neuk fare when in 2007 a woman
:08:10. > :08:15.allegedly grazed her bottom as she was being pulled by a tractor
:08:15. > :08:19.across a field on a sheet of tarpaulin. Two years later a lawyer
:08:19. > :08:23.said the woman was suing the show, and that meant the end. The
:08:23. > :08:30.committee could not afford to buy better liability insurance for
:08:30. > :08:34.future events, but now, they can. It was cancelled in 2010, and as a
:08:34. > :08:42.result we had to form a new committee to get the show on this
:08:42. > :08:47.year. We did everything from simple things like domino nights to the
:08:47. > :08:51.royal wedding parties, and that sort of thing, and raffles and Tom
:08:51. > :08:56.boilers. Local people gathered round and made sure that we made
:08:56. > :09:02.enough cash. They is even more good news for the village of Melbourne.
:09:02. > :09:12.Dyke Neuk pop lost a huge amount of trade because of a road closure.
:09:12. > :09:15.
:09:15. > :09:21.Now it is opened again and the sun is shining. It was a busy a Sunday.
:09:21. > :09:28.-- a busier Sunday. It is a bit busier now. We have parties here
:09:28. > :09:35.most of the time. Dyke Neuk show is this Sunday.
:09:35. > :09:38.Good news, and coming up next, Sir John Hall talks about his plans for
:09:38. > :09:42.a new tourist attraction on Teesside.
:09:42. > :09:47.Olympic he returned adventurer James Cracknell takes on a coast-
:09:47. > :09:55.to-coast challenge. And in your forecast, will we be
:09:56. > :10:00.walking on Sunshine was still singing in the rain?
:10:00. > :10:04.Now for the second part in a look in the Life and Times of Sir John
:10:04. > :10:09.Hall who first head hit the headlines in the early 80s. It was
:10:09. > :10:13.1986 when he opened the gate had said MetroCentre, the first major
:10:13. > :10:17.out-of-town shopping centre in the country. Twenty-five years later he
:10:17. > :10:21.is in his 80th year, fighting cancer, but still looking to the
:10:21. > :10:27.future. Britain had never seen anything
:10:27. > :10:30.like it. 120 acres of industrial waste land transformed into an
:10:30. > :10:36.American-style shopper's paradise, all springing from a winter's day
:10:36. > :10:39.out in Newcastle. I had always remembered walking up
:10:39. > :10:47.Northumberland Street in the snow, and the cold. I thought there has
:10:47. > :10:52.got to be something better than this, and it was from the idea of
:10:52. > :10:56.America, I tried to get it started. It was difficult to get the local
:10:56. > :11:01.authorities to give permission, because most of them, Newcastle
:11:01. > :11:06.City Council had a half share in building developments. They did not
:11:06. > :11:11.want any can petition, so they did their best to stop these out of-
:11:11. > :11:16.town schemes. -- competition. This is now one of the most successful
:11:16. > :11:20.shopping centres in Europe, still used by 25 million people a year,
:11:20. > :11:26.and loved by the people in the North East. Do you go there
:11:26. > :11:30.yourself? Yes, I sit and have a coffee and read the papers. Around
:11:30. > :11:37.the time the MetroCentre was opening, so John and his wife were
:11:37. > :11:44.moving house to the fabulous Wynyard Hall. Not bad for a miner's
:11:44. > :11:53.son from Ashington. My father said Teesside, what are you doing down
:11:53. > :11:58.there? We came through in the Range Rover, and I said, that is it. How
:11:58. > :12:03.will I clean it! By Hall's still live at Wynyard, which they turned
:12:03. > :12:11.into a hotel three years ago. In October, there will be a book to
:12:11. > :12:14.celebrate the site. But so John has even bigger plans. The hotel has
:12:15. > :12:22.now become probably the most successful wedding venue in the
:12:22. > :12:30.North East, and this year we will do 200 weddings, the bedrooms are
:12:30. > :12:36.90% occupancy. My wife and I are leaving a last legacy in the walled
:12:36. > :12:41.garden, the biggest rose garden in Europe. English Heritage say they
:12:41. > :12:45.like the scheme so hopefully by the end of the year it will become a
:12:45. > :12:50.great tourist attraction for Tees Valley, and a lot of people will
:12:50. > :12:58.enjoy it. You never sit still, do you! Has there ever been a time
:12:58. > :13:03.when you have rested? No, my generation were taught to get out
:13:03. > :13:13.of your background. I have such wonderful memories of the area, it
:13:13. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:21.is my home. You come back to it, and shopping centres are still
:13:21. > :13:26.recognised. I have contributed a lot, I have worked hard, made a lot
:13:26. > :13:31.of money, but I have worked hard for it. I have never inherited a
:13:31. > :13:37.penny, times have been tough, but there is a lasting legacy, and I
:13:38. > :13:44.hope my grandchildren, and there is more coming into the family now,
:13:44. > :13:51.will carry on the business. I have still got one or two good schemes
:13:51. > :13:55.coming through! It has been a wonderful life.
:13:55. > :14:00.At the Dell with a difference. Jules always dreamed of starting
:14:00. > :14:05.her own business, and her new venture was supplied tea to London
:14:05. > :14:13.fashion Week. She launched her business the day after she
:14:13. > :14:19.graduated in fashion marketing from Northumbria University.
:14:19. > :14:23.From freshly graduated to freshly brewed. Jules has made it her
:14:23. > :14:29.business to fashion tea with design. Fashion does not have to be just
:14:29. > :14:35.clothes, there is so many different forms of fashion, and t is a type
:14:35. > :14:40.of fashion. So it proves that he is a trend, and have made a
:14:40. > :14:45.fashionable tea company. As a budding entrepreneur, Jules
:14:45. > :14:53.imports tea bags from Sri Lanka. She read packages it into
:14:53. > :14:59.recyclable paper cups and even throws fun into the mix. I did this
:14:59. > :15:06.for charity, it has got moustaches on it. And then there is like
:15:06. > :15:13.little cups and saucers, and I did Space invaders inside. So when you
:15:13. > :15:18.finish your cup of tea, you say, I woke up -- I will have another one.
:15:18. > :15:28.Now she is taking her cubs to London fashion Week. She has been
:15:28. > :16:02.
:16:02. > :16:08.invited by the organiser to supply The Olympic gold medal-winning hero
:16:08. > :16:13.turned adventurer James Cracknell has set out today on a crawling
:16:13. > :16:20.four Day challenge to cross our region. He is around 100
:16:21. > :16:25.competitors competing by kayak, open water and on foot.
:16:25. > :16:31.You can feel the excitement as the competitors gather for action.
:16:31. > :16:36.Among them is James Cracknell, eager to get going. It is a great
:16:36. > :16:44.race as a multi-sport event. Some of them are done way you go from
:16:44. > :16:49.eight to the, whether it be running, cycling, but you best way you want
:16:49. > :16:54.over four or five days, whether this is -- while this is done in
:16:54. > :17:02.stages, so you race between 5 and 10 hours a day but there is a bit
:17:02. > :17:06.of time of 3 in the evening. First up is a 12 kilometre or kayak
:17:06. > :17:11.along the West Cumbrian coast. For these competitors arriving, this is
:17:11. > :17:18.the first stage of what promises to be a four-day trial of endurance.
:17:18. > :17:21.They will compete at 200 miles on foot, in open water and using their
:17:22. > :17:25.bicycles before they reached a Bay on the east coast some time on
:17:25. > :17:31.Monday. Competitors come from everywhere,
:17:31. > :17:37.including our region. This man is on his own, doing every part of the
:17:37. > :17:42.race himself. It is just a small part of our challenge. A lot of
:17:42. > :17:51.people enjoy this for a fitness challenge, and also for social
:17:51. > :17:59.banter. Ultimately, it is just an amazing journey.
:17:59. > :18:05.Staying with sport, Jilly Barton has left Newcastle United. What
:18:05. > :18:10.will we talk about now? The saga is finally over.
:18:10. > :18:15.His spat with the news cockle -- Newcastle board have been played
:18:15. > :18:20.out on Twitter, but he has decided that he will join QPR on a four
:18:20. > :18:24.year deal. As I looked at his last week, he
:18:24. > :18:30.says, I will always have a special relationship with the Geordie
:18:30. > :18:33.nation, but sadly they are not the decision-makers.
:18:33. > :18:40.The managing director has thanked the jury buttoned for his
:18:40. > :18:47.contribution on the pitch. -- Barton.
:18:47. > :18:52.He could make his debut against Newcastle.
:18:52. > :18:57.Newcastle manager Alan part you must be disappointed tonight. They
:18:57. > :19:02.survived a scare to reach the third round of the eight -- third round
:19:02. > :19:06.of the Carling Cup. Barton it did not play last night, and now the
:19:06. > :19:10.club will have to adjust to life without him.
:19:10. > :19:16.Even this morning, the manager was holding out hope that Barton it
:19:16. > :19:21.would decide against a move to QPR. I inherited some history, and I
:19:21. > :19:28.have tried to get a situation where he might stay at the club. Have you
:19:28. > :19:33.spoken to him today? I have had some contact, and hopefully this is
:19:33. > :19:39.the last question. He has to make the decision for himself, and he
:19:39. > :19:44.will. But he will be happy if he decides not to go? Yes. If a but it
:19:44. > :19:48.was not to be. Not entirely surprising. He has not been happy,
:19:48. > :19:53.and I do not think he has been treated well by the club. The he
:19:53. > :19:58.would have been quite happy to stay, they would not give them a contract
:19:58. > :20:04.because he is an outspoken person. He should not have had a go at the
:20:04. > :20:10.club on the internet. Good luck to him. I have enjoyed watching him
:20:10. > :20:17.play, but I do not think it is as big a deal as everyone is saying.
:20:17. > :20:24.He was not available to provide a spark against Scunthorpe. In the
:20:24. > :20:29.first half, the home side dominated. If it had not been for their
:20:29. > :20:36.goalkeeper, Newcastle would have been out. But it was a rejuvenated
:20:36. > :20:42.side who came out after the break. Leon best's effort was offside.
:20:42. > :20:48.Brian Taylor hit a trademark goal to take the tie into extra-time.
:20:48. > :20:52.But as the time ticked down, the substitute made it a night to
:20:52. > :20:56.remember, bursting through to score the winner.
:20:56. > :21:01.I just remember cutting on to my right foot and thinking I might as
:21:01. > :21:06.well hit it. As soon as I did, I thought it was going in. It was
:21:06. > :21:12.excellent. Definitely one for the future, but now it is about the
:21:12. > :21:17.present, without bottom. After a derby defeat and a Carling
:21:17. > :21:22.Cup exit, Sunderland could probably do without their first Premiership
:21:22. > :21:28.trip outside England. It will be their first match at newly-promoted
:21:28. > :21:34.Swansea City's new stadium for stopper you have to go back to 1983
:21:34. > :21:40.for the first meeting between the two clubs, and 20 years further for
:21:40. > :21:43.Sunderland's last win at Swansea. But Steve Bruce is more concerned
:21:43. > :21:53.at the media mauling he feels he is suffering.
:21:53. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :22:02.I do not think it is fair. We have played a two against -- two games,
:22:02. > :22:07.since we are true at Anfield. It is something you have to live with.
:22:07. > :22:12.Thankfully, the chairman and the owner see it better than most of
:22:13. > :22:18.the journalists, I have to say. If we beat Swansea tomorrow, it is
:22:18. > :22:23.four points from a three games. A difficult start, with Chelsea round
:22:23. > :22:26.the corner, and we will settle with that. We have bought players for
:22:27. > :22:33.the future of the club, and we must give them time to adapt and settled
:22:33. > :22:41.and be ready for the Premier League. There are not many 18 year-olds,
:22:41. > :22:45.and the South Korean that is only 20 himself. We are down the line
:22:45. > :22:49.with two or three things, and we hope we can sort something out in
:22:49. > :22:53.the next few days, and see where we go from there.
:22:53. > :23:00.Middlesbrough will be hoping to continue their good start to the
:23:00. > :23:04.season against Coventry. They hope to build on that last week's crowds
:23:04. > :23:11.that have witnessed an entertaining victory against Birmingham. But the
:23:11. > :23:18.manager is concerned there is too much pressure on a summer players.
:23:18. > :23:24.Before the game on Wednesday, I realised I could not bring him off
:23:24. > :23:33.the pitch. Hopefully he can score a goal or two, and then sit down and
:23:33. > :23:41.have a rest. I fear that if we lose him, Coventry could win.
:23:41. > :23:44.Cricket, and Durham's all-rounder Ben and Stokes was today named in
:23:44. > :23:48.the squad for the one-day internationals against India.
:23:48. > :23:55.Meanwhile, another player has signed a two-year contract
:23:55. > :23:59.extension. But the county's title hopes are hanging by a thread.
:23:59. > :24:04.If a defeat against Nottinghamshire this week may have been the final
:24:04. > :24:11.straw for Durham this season. But there is still a chance on Monday
:24:11. > :24:17.eight to reach the finals of the one-day competition. You never know
:24:17. > :24:21.what could happen elsewhere. You have got a knockout competition to
:24:21. > :24:25.try and get to the final at Lord's, which will be a fantastic
:24:25. > :24:29.opportunity for the players and it's something they deserve. The
:24:29. > :24:33.meanwhile, despite an early dismissal yesterday, then a Stokes
:24:33. > :24:38.should get more chances to shine for England.
:24:38. > :24:43.It is encouraging for the club, it is encouraging for Ben, but in the
:24:43. > :24:49.short term, it is encouraging -- disappointing we do not have his
:24:49. > :24:59.services for the end of the season. Time for the weather. It is a bank
:24:59. > :25:00.
:25:00. > :25:05.holiday weekend, so we all know It will start unsettled, but there
:25:05. > :25:11.are improvements in store. We will lose the blustery showers, and for
:25:11. > :25:20.once it is looking like the best of the three days. You may get some
:25:20. > :25:24.brightness at times. The farmers will be glad they got their harvest
:25:24. > :25:32.in recently, because it has been flinging it down with rain at this
:25:33. > :25:40.afternoon. That rain is still on its way northwards, right up the
:25:40. > :25:48.eastern coast line. Part of North Tyneside and Northumberland could
:25:48. > :25:53.get a lot of rain. It will leave for just one or two fragments in
:25:53. > :25:58.the morning. A lot of cloud overnight, temperatures will just
:25:58. > :26:02.about stay in double figures. As we head into tomorrow, we are waking
:26:02. > :26:10.up to a bank holiday weekend. It should be quite bright in the
:26:10. > :26:15.morning, but once that goes the showers will pick up. Some could
:26:15. > :26:21.turn quite heavy. There will be some brightness, and the best of it
:26:21. > :26:26.will make temperatures reached about 18 Celsius. But the wind
:26:26. > :26:30.picking up could give a chilly edge to those temperatures. You may
:26:30. > :26:39.still need to wrap up. A for the rest of the weekend,
:26:39. > :26:45.Sunday looks very windy. There will be more showers, but on Monday this
:26:45. > :26:52.batch of rain will hopefully stay offshore. I think that leaves
:26:52. > :26:57.Cumbria still pretty safe for the brightest of the weather. First of
:26:57. > :27:03.all for Cumbria, a quick reminder, showers to come, but improving for
:27:03. > :27:08.Monday. For the north-east, it will be a little on the cloudy side.
:27:08. > :27:11.Thank you very much. Sporadic fighting continues in the
:27:11. > :27:15.Libyan capital of Tripoli as Libyan capital of Tripoli as
:27:15. > :27:20.supplies come up -- supply is running low. But the rebels insist
:27:20. > :27:25.they are ready to do run a government.